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Finally . . . Justice Rolls Down, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: We've all done it, stood in judgment of someone else,
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  Speaker 1: certain we had it right. But what happens when we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten it wrong, completely wrong? Well, on Tuesday's Insight for Living,
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  Speaker 1: we watched as justice began to roll down. Today, Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Swindoll shows us what happens next when justice converged with
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  Speaker 1: something even more surprising. It's a scene of accountability. but
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  Speaker 1: also of grace and restoration. And if you've been carrying
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  Speaker 1: guilt or waiting to be made whole, this message is
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  Speaker 1: for you. Chuck picks up our study in Job chapter 42.
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  Speaker 1: It came.
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  Speaker 2: About after the Lord had spoken these words to Job,
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  Speaker 2: verse 7, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite,
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  Speaker 2: My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends.
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  Speaker 2: Because y'all have not spoken of me what is right
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  Speaker 2: as my servant Job has. That's the reason he was angry.
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  Speaker 2: Now the reason is given here at the end of
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  Speaker 2: verse 7. And it is repeated in the very same
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  Speaker 2: words at the end of verse 8.
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  Speaker 3: Look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have not spoken of me what is right
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  Speaker 2: as my servant Job has.
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  Speaker 3: Because... Because. What does it mean?
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  Speaker 2: They had not spoken of him what was right. Well,
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  Speaker 2: one man put it this way. In their effort to
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  Speaker 2: uphold God's justice, they limited his sovereignty. It's not an
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  Speaker 2: interesting way to put it. They had insisted that human
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  Speaker 2: suffering is always the result of sinfulness. And that boxed
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  Speaker 2: God in. It's not true. It's not always the reason
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  Speaker 2: people suffer. It is a reason on occasion.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not always.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not true in the case of Job. They
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  Speaker 2: claim Job had some secret sin. They claim Job had
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  Speaker 2: wrong and transgression that was hidden. And if he would
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  Speaker 2: only come to terms with it and deal with it,
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  Speaker 2: then he'd.
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  Speaker 3: Be healed of this. That's wrong. It isn't right.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't speak of God as they should have. You
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  Speaker 2: have not spoken to me what was right as my
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  Speaker 2: servant Job had. You know what this underscores? And if
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  Speaker 2: you're a teacher, hear me well. We who are teachers,
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  Speaker 2: we who are communicators of the truth, God cares very
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  Speaker 2: much that he is presented in an accurate manner. Let's
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  Speaker 2: be sure we do our homework. Let's be sure we
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  Speaker 2: represent him accurately. The cults feed on this very wrong,
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  Speaker 2: not speaking of him.
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  Speaker 3: What is right.
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  Speaker 2: They'll give half verses or they'll give principles that can't
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  Speaker 2: be defended in the scriptures. They're notorious for this kind
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  Speaker 2: of teaching. Legalists claim that they stand on the word
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  Speaker 2: of God, and so they'll use the word of God
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  Speaker 2: to manipulate you or shame you, claiming various characteristics of
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  Speaker 2: God as the basis of.
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  Speaker 3: Their condemnation, and you live under the guilt of that
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  Speaker 3: kind of teaching.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a fair representation of the living God. These
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  Speaker 2: men have not presented me correctly. They've not said what
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  Speaker 2: is right. I have a good friend who was a
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  Speaker 2: part of a real liberal church for his growing up years.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't until he was in his mid-30s that
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  Speaker 2: began to dawn on him what he was missing as
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  Speaker 2: he was exposed to evangelical teaching. And he realized what
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  Speaker 2: he was missing. And he said to me on one occasion,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, Chuck, I realized? I realized that they
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  Speaker 2: would have loved me right into hell. What a chilling
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  Speaker 2: way to put that. I heard all about the love
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  Speaker 2: of God and the goodness of God. I never heard
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  Speaker 2: of the justice and the righteousness and the holiness of God.
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  Speaker 3: And whatever, it was okay. God's full of love.
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  Speaker 2: That's presenting him in a wrong light.
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  Speaker 3: You men have been guilty of that. Now, I also
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  Speaker 3: love the fact that the Lord does something about it.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't say, as a result, get out of my existence.
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  Speaker 3: Or go to your room. Or you're finished.
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  Speaker 2: That's not gracious. That's not merciful. There's justice rolling down.
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  Speaker 2: But notice the mercy. Now therefore, verse 8, presents the mercy.
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  Speaker 2: You have done this and it is wrong. And you
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  Speaker 2: have not done as my servant Job has done. Now therefore,
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  Speaker 2: here's what you do about it.
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  Speaker 3: Look at the plan. Take for yourselves. seven bulls, and
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  Speaker 3: seven rams. Okay, you got it?
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  Speaker 2: This is unusual teaching because it's Old Testament teaching. And
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament days, when you came to bring
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  Speaker 2: your offering of request for forgiveness, relief from your guilt
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  Speaker 2: and wrongdoing, you came with an animal. And you brought
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  Speaker 2: the animal before the Lord in various different numbers of
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  Speaker 2: animals and different kinds of animals and sometimes foul. And
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  Speaker 2: you would usually cut the throat of the animal.
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  Speaker 3: Blood would be spilled out.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes you would even place the entire carcass of
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  Speaker 2: the animal, as in this case, you would lay it
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  Speaker 2: on an altar that's blazing with fire.
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  Speaker 3: And it would consume it.
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  Speaker 2: And the smoke would come before God as a sweet
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  Speaker 2: smelling aroma. It's all very strange to us. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: live in that era. We've never seen such a thing.
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  Speaker 2: But in those days, that's how God's.
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  Speaker 3: Anger is assuaged. It's satisfied.
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  Speaker 2: You come with an offering and you place it on
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  Speaker 2: this altar and it'll be consumed and I will forgive you.
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  Speaker 2: Look at where they were to bring this. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: it was a costly offering, wasn't it? Not just seven animals,
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  Speaker 2: but seven bulls. that could be used for the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of enlarging the cattle in their fields. But no, I
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  Speaker 2: want seven bulls, and I want seven rams. He specifies,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to go to my servant Job
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  Speaker 2: and offer up a burnt offering. This word means a
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  Speaker 2: whole burnt offering, from the hoof all the way to
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  Speaker 2: the nose, the entire carcass. is to be laid on
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  Speaker 2: the altar, one after another after another. You're to go
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  Speaker 2: and do this before my servant Job. Look, the one
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  Speaker 2: who was offended receives the offering of the offender. Really,
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate offended is the Lord God himself, who had
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  Speaker 2: been misrepresented. And my servant Job will pray for you.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. The offended prays now for the offenders.
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  Speaker 3: Look closely. For I will accept him. The Hebrew says,
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  Speaker 3: I will lift his face up. Isn't that a great
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  Speaker 3: way to put it? Job will lift his face up.
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  Speaker 2: I will accept his intercession on your behalf. As you've
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  Speaker 2: offered the offerings and he prays, I will lift his
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  Speaker 2: face up that I may not do with you according
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  Speaker 2: to your folly. Meaning that I may not do for
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  Speaker 2: you what you deserve. because he repeats, you have not
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  Speaker 2: spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
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  Speaker 2: Did you miss something? I went over it rather quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Four times he calls Job his servant. What an honorable title.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 7 concludes, as my servant Job has spoken of
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  Speaker 2: what is right. Verse 8, three times, bring these bulls
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  Speaker 2: and rams and go to my servant Job, Offer the
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  Speaker 2: burnt offering, and my servant Job, and the end of
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  Speaker 2: that verse 8, my servant Job has spoken what is right.
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  Speaker 2: In ancient days, in days of the Old Testament, a
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  Speaker 2: servant is an honorable title for one who served the
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  Speaker 2: living God. It speaks of a bonding between the two.
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  Speaker 2: There's a closeness between us. He and I Have this
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  Speaker 2: relationship that is dear and near. It's a title of honor.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a good place for me to add, anytime
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  Speaker 2: you're engaged in the service of the king, you are
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  Speaker 2: engaged in an honorable work. Whatever it may be. However
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  Speaker 2: God may have you serving. Perhaps one that very few
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  Speaker 2: people would even know your name. But you serve faithfully
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  Speaker 2: there as a servant of his. You are honoring him
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  Speaker 2: in that. It's an honorable role. Now, justice has come
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  Speaker 2: rolling down. Here are these men who have been standing
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  Speaker 2: over Job as judges, now getting the animals and coming
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  Speaker 2: up before Job and offering their offering, waiting.
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  Speaker 3: For Job's prayers. Isn't this a great scene?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is Time for humble pie to be
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  Speaker 2: consumed by these three men.
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  Speaker 3: It's good for them. It's good for us to confess.
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  Speaker 2: Our wrongdoing to those we have offended and to.
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  Speaker 3: Say by our actions we have done what is right.
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  Speaker 2: Against you and our presence is here in all this
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  Speaker 2: vulnerability to say to you we trust our God to
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  Speaker 2: cleanse us from the wrong pray for me and they
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  Speaker 2: come And Job does exactly what the Lord told him
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  Speaker 2: to do. Look at Eliphaz, verse 9. Eliphaz and Bildad
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  Speaker 2: and Zophar went and did. Well, I have a feeling
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  Speaker 2: they did it rather quickly. There was no arguing. There's
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  Speaker 2: no wrestling. There's no reluctance. Because remember, when the Lord instructs,
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  Speaker 2: there's no other alternative that will bring any sense of
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  Speaker 2: peace and relief. And they did exactly as the Lord
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  Speaker 2: told them And look at this, the Lord lifted up
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  Speaker 2: the face of Job.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: It's great that Job doesn't say, okay, kneel down. Guys
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  Speaker 2: that put me through hell, I'm going to see what
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  Speaker 2: you look like when you're humbled.
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  Speaker 3: Kneel down. Now get on your faces. There's none of that.
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  Speaker 2: I think Job in this moment, having learned what he's
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  Speaker 2: learned and having repented as he's repented in verse 6,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he carried any further rancor. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think there was any sense of lingering offense. I think
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  Speaker 2: he considered himself privileged to represent the need before the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: It was part of his obedience too, wasn't it? When
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  Speaker 2: he lifted up his face. What a grand scene is here.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's happening? Sins are being washed away. That's
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  Speaker 2: the greatest moment.
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  Speaker 3: There's justice still. And there's mercy. You know what that represents?
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  Speaker 3: For all of us? The cross. The cross.
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  Speaker 2: That's why the death of Christ is called efficacious.
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  Speaker 3: That's why it is effective.
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  Speaker 2: Because God's justice against sin is satisfied in the death
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  Speaker 2: of the Lamb. And God's mercy is revealed in the
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  Speaker 2: forgiveness of Of those who trust in the Lamb.
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  Speaker 3: Frederick Faber put it this way.
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  Speaker 2: There's a wideness in God's mercy.
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  Speaker 3: As the wideness of the sea.
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  Speaker 2: There is kindness in his justice. Which is more than liberty.
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  Speaker 2: And the next generation. William Newell. wrote a song we've sung.
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  Speaker 3: Throughout our growing up years as Christians.
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  Speaker 2: Says the same thing, in other words, years I spent
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  Speaker 2: in vanity and pride, caring not my Lord was crucified.
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  Speaker 3: Knowing not it was for me. He died on Calvary.
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  Speaker 2: By God's word at last my sin I learned, and
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  Speaker 2: I trembled at the law I'd spurned, till my guilty soul, imploring,
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  Speaker 2: turned to Calvary. Oh, the love that drew salvation's plan. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: the grace that brought it down to man. Oh, the
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  Speaker 2: mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary. Mercy there
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  Speaker 2: was great and grace was free. Pardon there was multiplied
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  Speaker 2: to me. There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.
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  Speaker 3: At Calvary. Justice rolled down.
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  Speaker 2: And when it did, mercy washed over them and graciously
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  Speaker 2: got them all back on their feet.
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  Speaker 3: Wonderful, wonderful setting.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the full reward will wait till our next time,
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  Speaker 2: but just get a little peek through the tent door here.
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  Speaker 2: Look at verse 10. And the Lord restored the fortunes
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  Speaker 2: of Job when he prayed. Not until I got the
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  Speaker 2: word when circled in a bright blue in my Bible.
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  Speaker 2: When he prayed for his friends, the Lord restored the
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  Speaker 2: fortunes and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that just like him? I told you he was
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  Speaker 3: the best at justice.
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  Speaker 2: All these long, sleepless nights and restless, painful days, all
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  Speaker 2: of the sermons he's had to sit through and listen
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  Speaker 2: to from these clowns that have been acting like they're
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  Speaker 2: representing truth and their judgmental spirit. And now Job, broken
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  Speaker 2: in his own repentance, having his face lifted up on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of his friends, his friends restored because of the mercy.
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  Speaker 2: And now grace on top of grace, he looks up
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord says, hey, Job, Come here, it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be twice as good.
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  Speaker 3: Boils are gone. I mean, why not? He made us,
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  Speaker 3: so it's all it takes.
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  Speaker 2: And he blows them away, and he gets his health back,
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  Speaker 2: and he gets his home back, and he gets his
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  Speaker 2: property back, and he finally gets his family back. There's
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  Speaker 2: grace here so he doesn't get twice as many kids.
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  Speaker 2: He gets the same number of kids, 10, you know.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't want 20 kids, but he got 10 kids back.
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  Speaker 3: Remember, Job prayed.
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  Speaker 2: Not for himself, and please observe, not for his own
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  Speaker 2: restoration of fortune. It wasn't like winning the divine lottery
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  Speaker 2: where he lucked out. He has no plans. He has
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  Speaker 2: no knowledge of how the story would end. All he
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  Speaker 2: knows is is that the Lord says, you lift up
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  Speaker 2: your face before me. You pray for these friends. And
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  Speaker 2: they come in with humility and offer up their sacrifices.
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  Speaker 2: And Job prays for his friends. And the Lord is
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  Speaker 2: so pleased when it's done right. And he says, now,
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  Speaker 2: come here, Job. Let me tell you what I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do. You know what's wonderful, too?
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  Speaker 3: Where's Satan? In your face, Satan.
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  Speaker 2: His silence reveals that he has now witnessed the truth
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  Speaker 2: of what God had told him. Consider my servant Job.
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  Speaker 2: He has integrity. Though you may not kill him, you
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  Speaker 2: can touch him. And even if you touch him, he'll
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  Speaker 2: never curse me. And so the Lord blesses in that
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  Speaker 2: That's the way we're going to see the end of
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  Speaker 2: this story next time. A couple of similar sounding truths
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  Speaker 2: emerge from this study. They came to me late last night.
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  Speaker 3: And I wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 2: Quite how to end a message like this one. It's
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  Speaker 2: a little unusual.
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  Speaker 3: On justice.
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  Speaker 2: But it occurred to me that there are two things
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  Speaker 2: to be remembered First is forgiveness is worth asking for.
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  Speaker 3: It really is.
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  Speaker 2: Forgiveness is worth asking for. Always of the Lord, it's
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  Speaker 2: worth asking for. There's something that's come between you and
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  Speaker 2: your Heavenly Father. What in the world are you waiting for?
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  Speaker 2: He loves to hear the cries of his children. He
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  Speaker 2: takes delight in the humble confession of the saint.
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  Speaker 3: Just tell him.
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  Speaker 2: He'll never turn you away. Forgiveness is worth asking for.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you this second. Justice is worth waiting for.
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  Speaker 2: So you know that application. Wait for it.
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  Speaker 3: It'll come.
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  Speaker 2: If not now, later. If not later, in eternity. God
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  Speaker 2: will make it right. His fairness is part of his veracity.
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  Speaker 2: And God who has patiently allowed this experiment to run
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  Speaker 2: its course, has now come to terms with it with
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  Speaker 2: his servant, and has now dealt with it with these friends,
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  Speaker 2: and Satan is gone, again proven wrong, and the Lord
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  Speaker 2: is still enthroned above us. I don't know what your
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  Speaker 2: situation is right now. I don't know what you wrestle with.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who's wronged you. I'm sure several. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how severe it's been.
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  Speaker 3: Probably greatly severe in some cases.
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  Speaker 2: I know this, that it's my privilege to spend my
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  Speaker 2: life with some of the greatest people I've ever met.
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  Speaker 3: And I would number many of you among them.
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  Speaker 2: And I know from knowing many of your stories that
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  Speaker 2: life hasn't been easy.
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  Speaker 3: I know that it's been difficult.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously, not compared to Job, that may have been
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  Speaker 2: the worst possible of trials, but your trial has been tough.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I sense from you today a desire
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  Speaker 2: to cooperate. If forgiveness is worth asking for, I think
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  Speaker 2: you'll ask it. And if you've wronged another person, the
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  Speaker 2: most wonderful thing you can do is to make it
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  Speaker 2: right with them. Just make it right. Whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth it. It's worth asking for. Spell out what
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  Speaker 2: you've done and say it. Just let it be. Don't
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  Speaker 2: worry about your pride. Don't worry about what they're going
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  Speaker 2: to think or what somebody else thinks. You answer to God.
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  Speaker 2: And then you've had wronged another. Turn it over to him.
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  Speaker 2: Just let him handle it.
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  Speaker 3: He has a million ways, a million options.
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  Speaker 2: He will not leave his people in the lurch. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, if you've never brought your offering to the
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  Speaker 2: Lord and stood before the cross and acknowledged the Savior's
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  Speaker 2: death is for you, start there. You were in his
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  Speaker 2: sights when he said, Father, forgive them. They don't even
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  Speaker 2: know what they're doing. Let's bow our heads. It's a
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  Speaker 2: sweet moment here. You have been generous and gracious people.
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  Speaker 2: So many of you are such faithful sheep in the
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  Speaker 2: Lord's pasture. I'm not flattering you. I'm telling you the truth.
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  Speaker 2: I learned so much from so many of you. I
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  Speaker 2: want your life to be all that it could possibly be.
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  Speaker 2: as you embrace the truth that it is all about
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  Speaker 2: our God, I want you to go there and I
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  Speaker 2: want you to live there so that your whole focus.
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  Speaker 3: Is on Him. It's vertical.
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  Speaker 2: You'll be amazed at what it will do to you horizontally.
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  Speaker 2: Just be amazed. You won't be as angry. You won't
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  Speaker 2: be as irritable. You will find that you're approachable and
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  Speaker 2: you listen better.
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  Speaker 3: My goodness.
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  Speaker 2: Getting the forgiveness of someone else will relieve you of
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  Speaker 2: that guilt. And giving the forgiveness, releasing that person, will
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  Speaker 2: take the strain out. You won't have to act like God.
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  Speaker 2: You can let the Lord be the Lord. Maybe a
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  Speaker 2: member of your family. It may be one who was
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  Speaker 2: once a close personal friend. Maybe a former mate, partner.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe one of your parents. Could be a pastor or
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  Speaker 2: coach or teacher, neighbor, relative.
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  Speaker 3: Let it go. Deal with it. Let it go.
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  Speaker 2: Mercy there was great and grace was free. Pardon there
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  Speaker 2: was multiplied to me. And there my burdened soul found liberty. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I thank you that there is now comfort in the cross,
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  Speaker 2: that the bloody sacrifice has been lifted up once for all,
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  Speaker 2: and the penalty paid once for all. Now their open-armed
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  Speaker 2: invitation inviting us in to live like your Son modeled
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 3: It's a dirty and dusty world, Lord. It gets real.
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  Speaker 2: Complicated really fast, the pace we live. And it's quiet
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  Speaker 2: moments like this that help us put things into proper perspective.
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  Speaker 2: It quiets our nerves, calms our spirit.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for Job.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for his model, his honesty and his vulnerability.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for his humility.
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  Speaker 3: And obedience.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for not walking away from those three men
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  Speaker 2: who'd made such fools of themselves, but for caring about
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  Speaker 2: them too.
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  Speaker 3: We're somewhere in this story, Lord. And wherever we are,
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  Speaker 3: your arms are around us.
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  Speaker 2: And you care about the shame and the guilt that
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  Speaker 2: we've lived under long enough. I pray you'd help us
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  Speaker 2: come to terms with all these things. And as justice
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  Speaker 2: rolls down, may mercy follow quickly. Dismiss us, Lord, in
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  Speaker 2: the quietness of this moment with the reminder that you
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  Speaker 2: are faithful and you care.
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  Speaker 3: And you're good all the time. We love you, Father.
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  Speaker 3: We love you. And all God's people said, Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever you find yourself in this.
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