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Episode 321- Rick and Elaine Discuss the Book of Job- Episode 23 · The Burros of Berea Podcast

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Welcome back to Rick and Elaine discuss the Bible
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and in particular, Job. Boy, I've, I've really
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like stirred up the hornet's nest over in Elaine's
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Spain. How are you Elaine? Well, I'm fine. Thank
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you very much. Yeah. The sun's shining. The birds
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are singing. It's good to be alive. Yeah. So
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today I called Elaine out of the blue and I was
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like, Hey, can we hurry up and do the study early?
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Cause I got to go to work next Friday, Saturday
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and Sunday, June 5th, 6th and 7th is the blade
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show Atlantis, the largest blade show in the
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world. I have been working for two particular
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companies making some stuff. I've got a really
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big important meeting with these guys This is
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a company called heretic knives. They're out
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of Florida. I've got a meeting with them at blade
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show. I know the owner Yeah, I know the owner
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and their CEO they're really really good people
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and I'm excited to see them They have some really
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cool products. If you've never heard of them
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go check out heretic knives Calm and you'll see
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they make some really really cool stuff Also
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look at Vero Engineering and look at American
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Blade Works. We're making stuff for all of these
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companies. We've been blessed, guys. I wanted
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to tell everybody because you watch us suffer
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through all of this. We've been blessed. I've
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got enough business to keep me busy. until probably
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Christmas time right now. So I'm so thankful.
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Absolutely. We're still going through this financial
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struggle. However, I had somebody come in to
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partner with me, not as a partner, but to help
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us get over this hump so that we can keep our
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building, keep our machinery and keep going.
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That has been incredibly good to us. And so all
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of this to say this is what we're going to get
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into today. And Jobe, I really The Lord let me
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go through some job style stuff so that I could
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understand some things Elaine and so I'm I'm
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thankful that you have been with me through this
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journey that you were a partner in helping me
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you and Chris helped me and my family and so
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all of these things happen like guys and You
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on the community you reached out to me. Thank
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you. I love you You know you you may be going
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through some suffering I had a brother I had
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a brother from Texas call me yesterday who listened
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to episode 13 On the podcast and he said he said
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brother He said I can't even remember what you
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said, but he said I'm going through such a hard
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time right now I thought if anybody would understand
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it's my brother Rick and so he called me and
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so we got to talk about this and everything that
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you know in job the things that I've learned
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and I was able to urge him and pray for him and
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it's just Praise God. He loves us and he works
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for us and suffering is part of it I think that's
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the thing, isn't it? It is necessary. I mean,
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again, what does he say? You know, Christ learned
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obedience by the things he suffered. Don't go
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on it, Elaine. Don't go on it. I just told you
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to turn to Hebrews chapter five before we recorded.
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You're already reading my brain. Well, that's
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exactly what goes through my head all the time.
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And that's stealing someone's thunder. Well,
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yeah, I'm sorry about that. It's just one of
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those things, isn't it? You're always right there
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with me Elaine, you're always right there with
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me. Yeah, that's one of my favorite scriptures
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that I always point out to people when they think
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they're suffering and that's why he wasn't declared
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perfect until he breathed his last breath because
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we didn't know whether he was going to remain
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perfect right the way out until the end. Obedience
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is the thing. obedience always obey obedience
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you know remain stay abide all those things in
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me is about obedience it goes back to the garden
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of Eden disobedience and only God has the right
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to turn around to say what's good and evil and
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we're obedient to him as a father yes absolutely
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now if you would Elaine's gonna be reading a
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lot today but we're not gonna get into joke yet
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I had asked no don't apologize That we're not
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we're not going to read the whole speech because
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guys you can read your own bibles and you can
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Follow along with our study just fine. We don't
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need to read it to you every time Well, the reason
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why we do is because I want to go through verse
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by verse, but it's not necessary It is necessary
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if you really want to dig in deep with what a
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lie who's saying Yes, we could do that in this
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study, but I don't think it's as important to
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do it in that light. I think what's important
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is to bring out the certain things that this
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young man who comes in like a fire brain brings
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to Job. What's really important is that there's
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a storm cloud brewing. That's actually the important
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part of this book. There's a storm cloud brewing
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after all of this wisdom argumentation and all
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this stuff that's happened and this young man
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comes in and says, let me show you something.
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There's something rolling in. Yeah, there's something
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rolling in. Yeah let me tell you what i've been
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listening to i've been listening to men talk
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about job i've been listening to job talk about
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job and i've been listening to joe talk about
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all the things that god's doing to him but the
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one thing i haven't heard out of his mouth is
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how god is good and so that is doing is your
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good that's what i haven't heard here for us.
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And that's why i was right and i hope i don't
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have to be perfect. A lie who just has to bring
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the message for the storm cloud to roll in for
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God to speak. And so that's the important it's
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like John the Baptist to Christ. It's like this
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moment where it comes in. I was, I wrote an article
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the other day, Elaine, it was a response to Jason
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Bradfield. And I had said in that, that John
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the Baptist had said, I'm not that Elijah. He
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said that with his own lips. I'm not the Elijah.
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But then Jesus post -transfiguration tells the
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three disciples Peter James and John as they're
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walking down the mountain They've done whatsoever.
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They wanted to do with him He is that Elijah
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who is to come? I think the thing is what what
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Jesus again? We have to separate now the physical
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from the spiritual, you know No, he wasn't physically
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Elijah as Elijah in the spirit Yes, he did. And
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that's why he's saying, John the Baptist may
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or may not have known everything in regard to
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what he was doing. I don't think that he did
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know. He didn't know where he was in the prophetic
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story, did he? No, but he knew that he was the
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one, the voice that was crying out in the wilderness.
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Exactly. Yeah, prophesied. But he did exactly
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what Elijah did. Elijah went to Ahab and Jezebel,
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and John the Baptist goes to Herod and Herodias,
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or whatever, and exposes their infidelities.
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And so he gets put in prison and killed. Elijah
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does not. Elijah goes up in a whirlwind. There's
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a difference. He goes up in a whirlwind. A whirlwind.
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But again, see, this is what I was saying the
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other day about rolling, about something moving
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forward. About the rolling. About Acts chapter
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one, verse 11. Yeah. What we are going to get
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into, by the way, which is a true response to
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Jason Bradfield and Gary DeMar. Yeah. When you
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read my article at the end of it, I said, now
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it's up for you to decide if I actually responded.
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And the answer is I did not. I didn't respond
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to my phone now. We're going to respond now.
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That was a little it's a little taste. And Elaine's
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got some good stuff. But Elaine, would you read
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something for me? Yep. Would you read? Hebrews
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chapter five verses five through nine That's
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five through nine. Yeah, I want you to listen
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closely guys about the suffering part But but
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also about him and the priesthood and what he
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stands for so chapter five or five through nine,
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right? It says so neither did the Messiah glorify
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himself to become high priest Rather it was the
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one who said of him you are my son Today I have
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become your father Also, as he says in another
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place, you are a priest forever to be compared
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with Melchizedek, which is the Hebrew part. During
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Yeshua's life on earth, he offered up prayers
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and petitions, crying aloud and shedding tears
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to the one who had the power to deliver him from
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death. And he was heard because of his godliness.
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Even though he was a son, he learned obedience
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through his sufferings. And after he had been
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brought to the goal of perfection, He became
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the source of eternal deliverance to all who
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obey Him. Isn't that wonderful? Yeah. Verse 10
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says, called of God and high priest after the
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order of Melchizedek. So what did he say? Though
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he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the
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things which he suffered. All right. So if that
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doesn't tell you that suffering is baked into
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the cake of salvation. Absolutely. Suffering
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is baked into the cake and also take away and
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also taking you towards the goal of completeness.
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That's right. So suffering is not only possible,
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it's absolutely necessary. And so that's what.
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We're learning in job i told you it's how to
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become a high priest it's also how to become
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a true and righteous king it's also how to know
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god and to understand who he is and what he's
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doing with you and he cry out to him in tears
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but also stay the course with him absolutely
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this is what. Adam did not do. Adam did not do
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it. Eve did not do it. Other men and women throughout
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the scriptures did not do it. And that's what
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we're going back. Again, it's always going back
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to the Garden of Delights, the Garden of Eden,
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the place where the representation was. God knows
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what's best. All the time you're obedient. You
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know he's your father. He loves you. He understands
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that you need him as a father in your life. He
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didn't make you to go independent of him. You
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need to listen to what he says. And that's the
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whole point. This is the whole lesson of mankind
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that to walk with God simply because we know
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that he has all the cards and he, at the end
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of the day, is the only one that can tell us
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the bench line for what good and bad is. Because
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I don't know. Because my body just turns around
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and says to me sometimes, uh -uh, no. But the
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spirit is going, meh. So this is it. And that's
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the whole thing. Right. We need to listen and
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obey. Yes, that's right. All right, so let's
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do this now. Let's get back into our study with
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Elihu. If you would go to chapter 33, we covered
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chapter 32. Elihu comes in hot, angry, young,
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and bringing some serious, you know, hey man,
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it's time to get real. Y 'all, you old men have
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had your moment. You sat around and talked about
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Job long enough. Now listen to me, harking unto
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me. I'm about to tell you something. Exactly.
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Yes, lend me your ears. Yeah, men. Lend me your
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ears. And so when we get into Job chapter 33,
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Elihu is still speaking and Let's see here. I
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may have you actually just read this this chapter
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actually, um, I Don't know it's 33 verses. Are
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you willing to read just Job 33 33 verses? Yep.
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All right guys listen closely. We're not gonna
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read all of this But I just we're gonna read
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all of chapter 33 Right, please bear with me
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if I get it wrong So, Job, please hear my speech.
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Listen to all my words. Look, I am opening my
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mouth. The words are on the tip of my tongue.
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I will say exactly what is on my mind, what my
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lips know. They will speak sincerely. But it
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is the Spirit of God that made me, the breath
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of Shaddai that gives me life. So refute me if
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you can. Organize your words. Take your stand.
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Look before God. I'm the same as you. I too am
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fashioned from clay. You don't need to be afraid
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of me. My pressure on you will not be heavy.
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You spoke within my hearing and I heard what
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you said. I am clean without transgression. I'm
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innocent, not guilty. Yet God finds pretext for
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accusing me. He regards me as an enemy. He puts
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my feet in the stocks and watches wherever I
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go. But in this, you are wrong. I will answer
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you. God is greater than any mortal. Why do you
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strive against him? He will not defend his words.
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God speaks once, even twice, and still the hearer
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misses the point. In a dream, in a vision at
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night, when slumber falls upon people as they
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sleep in their beds, he opens people's ears and
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seals the matter with a warning to turn a person
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away from his action. and protect a man from
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pride so that he will keep himself away from
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the pit and from perishing by the sword. He is
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also warned by pain when in bed, when all his
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bones are hurting so that he detests bread as
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well as rich food. His flesh wastes away till
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no one can stand to look. His bones protrude
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and become unsightly. His soul comes close to
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the pit and his life to those who bring death.
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If there is for him an angel, a mediator, one
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among a thousand, who can vouch for the man of
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uprightness? Then God is gracious to him and
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says, redeem him from going down to the pit.
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I have found a ransom. His flesh becomes fresher
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than of youth. It returns to the days of a child.
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He prays to God and is sceptered of him so that
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he sees God's face with joy and God repays the
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man for his righteousness. He declares before
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everyone, I sinned, I perverted what is right
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and it gained me nothing. God redeemed me from
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going into the pit and now my life sees light.
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God will accomplish all these things twice, even
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three times with a man to bring him back from
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the pit so that he can enjoy the light of the
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living. Pay attention Job, listen to me, keep
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quiet and I will keep speaking. If you have something
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to say, answer me, speak, because I want to show
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you that you are right. If not, then listen to
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me, keep quiet and I will teach you wisdom. Yeah,
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buddy. All right. So that was a mouthful, but
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he's really, he says a lot of things that Joe
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was actually asking about before, you know, when
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he talked about that, if there's a special messenger
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or a mediator. God will send him why the whole
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purpose is to keep man out of the pit. Absolutely.
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That's the whole point. Yeah. To keep you out
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of the pit. Yep. And then he uses this word and
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I love this word, ransom. Absolutely. Have you
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got ransom in yours? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ransom
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is in the King James version. He uses the word
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ransom. And so that's really interesting because
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do we know somebody that gave his life as a ransom
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for many? Do we know anybody like that? Oh, I
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wonder. Hmm. The greatest I preached ever after
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the ordom is perhaps the king of all kings. Yes,
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you are. In him was life and the life was light
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of men. He gave that life. That's right. As a
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ransom for many. And he gave that life. And again,
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what is it? I mean, if you go to Strong's, you'll
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see that pit, abyss, deep is all the same origin,
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same or all the same origin. So you've got to
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go back to Genesis once again. Darkness was over
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the face of the deep and God said, let there
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be light. so there's your ransom yes and so if
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there are dreams and visions or physical suffering
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whatever it is the purpose is what to keep you
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out of the pit that's right because god loves
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you from going down to death from going down
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to death so he has he can send a mediator absolutely
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he can also give a ransom to get you out so Elihu
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is right Elihu is not And then when Elihu gets
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to the end of this, he says, okay, Job, he's
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almost like, later God's gonna be like, gird
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up your loin, son, here I come. Absolutely, here
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it comes. Here it comes, son. But Elihu's not,
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he's like, look, you don't have to be afraid
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of me. You don't have to have terror because
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of me. Like, I'm not gonna come in heavy. Isn't
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that wonderful for such a young man to have that
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kind of humility, to be able to speak truth and
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yet still remain in that position of humility?
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I would venture to say he's the polar opposite
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of Zophar. Zophar is the one that comes in like...
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And I would turn around that's to say that's
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the opposite of the way that the Jews went to
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the ordinary people as opposed to Christ in the
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second covenant, the new covenant, to his disciples.
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That's right. A hundred percent. 100 % so I'll
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just I'll just tell everybody if you look at
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chapter 33 verse 23 This is where we talked about
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the mediator go way back when when job was asking
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about that alive who is actually saying yes Yes,
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actually God will send a messenger. He might
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eat dreams and visions. He will put you through
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physical suffering, but the point Is to bring
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you to himself the points right you out hit whatever
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this darkness this chaos this pit This place
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later on, God's going to talk about the Leviathan.
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He's going to say, this is how I redeem you from
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that. This is how I get you to you. OK, so it
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is baked into the cake of the scriptures. It's
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baked into the cake of our lives. It's baked
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into this. It's baked into the cake. Yes, it's
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a it's a love. It's a love feast, isn't it? Yes,
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it's all about love. If people. Learn anything
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from all that we're talking about. You know,
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I think that at the base of it God is drawing
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you back to himself because he loves you Yes,
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absolutely loves you and guys I'm not call me
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a liar if you want. I don't mean to but Elaine
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when you read chapter 33 just now My heart was
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just bursting. I love the way that you read the
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Bible. Oh Bless thank you. I'm gonna ask you
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to read chapter 34. I'm sorry Oh, I tell you
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what, that little carrot was dangled then, wasn't
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it, Rick? You did it. You dangled the little
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carrot across the screen for me. No, you dangled
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the carrot and expected me to bite. You can say
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no, Rick, I'm not going to, just honor your word.
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But guys, if you're listening to it, I don't
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want to shortcut you. Yes, you can read it. But
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if you want to listen. Elaine, you read it so
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beautifully and I'm not just... Oh, I don't know
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about that, Rick, but I'll do it. I just want
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to hear it. Would you read chapter... Yes, it's
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37 verses, guys. If you don't like listening
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to it, just hit the fast forward button. But
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if you want, if you're driving or if you're just
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sitting around, shut your eyes and just listen
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to what I like saying. Oh, unless you're driving,
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of course. Yeah, shut your eyes if you're driving
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too and just hope for the best. Do you want me
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to carry on, young man? Chapter 34 would you
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believe please do that now listen now he said
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job listen up Because you're right, but you're
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right, but and here it goes right Hear my words
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you sages listen to me you who are so much For
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the ear tests words and as the palate tastes
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food. Let's choose for ourselves. What is just
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let's decide among ourselves What is good for
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job says I am in the right? But God is denying
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me justice. Against justice, I am considered
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a liar. My wound is mortal, though I have committed
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no crime. Is there a man like Job, who drinks
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in scoffing light water, who keeps company with
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evildoers, and goes with wicked men, since he
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thinks it profits a person nothing to be in accord
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with God? So listen to me, you men with sense.
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Far be it from God to do anything wicked, for
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he pays people back for what they do. and sees
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that each gets what his conduct deserves. It
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is certain that God does nothing wicked, should
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I will not pervert justice. Did someone else
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put him in charge of the earth? Who else established
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the entire world? If he were to take back man's
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hearts to himself, if he gathered to himself
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his spirit and breath, all flesh would instantly
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perish. Everyone would return to the dust. If
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you have any sense, Job, hear this. Listen to
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what I am saying. Should a hater of justice be
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in control? If you wouldn't tell a king you're
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a scoundrel or nobles you are wicked men, then
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you shouldn't be condemned the just and mighty
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one. Then you shouldn't condemn the just and
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mighty one who is neither partial towards princes
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nor favors the rich over the poor, since they
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all are the work of his hands. they may die in
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a moment in the middle of the night the people
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are shaken and passed away the mighty are removed
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with human hands for he keeps watch on a person's
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ways he sees his every step there is no darkness
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no death like gloom where wrongdoers can hide
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for he doesn't give warning to people when they
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must appear before god in judgment he shutters
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the mighty without needing to investigate and
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sets up others in their place therefore aware
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of what they are doing, he overturns them by
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night and they're crushed. He strikes them as
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if they were common criminals in the open side
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of others because they turned away from following
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him and gave no thought to any of his ways, thereby
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bringing before him the cries of the poor and
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he hears the cries of the oppressed. But if God
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is silent, who can accuse him? If he hides his
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face, who can see him? If you may do this to
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nations and persons alike, so that godless men
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will not become kings and the people will not
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be lured into traps. For has anyone said to God,
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I have been chastised without offending? Teach
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me what I have failed to see, and if I have done
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wrong, I will do it no more. Must his rewards
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meet your approval? Well, you are the one who
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doesn't like them, so you, not I, should pick
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the alternative. Come on, say what you think,
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intelligent people will tell me. Every wise man
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who hears me will say, Job is speaking without
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thinking, his words like discernment. I wish
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Joe would be quiet, kept on trial forever, because
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he answers like wicked men. For now, to his sin,
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he adds rebellion. He mockingly claps his hands
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among us and keeps adding to his words against
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God. I'm so sorry about that. It just sort of
23:05
started blurring into one. It's OK. I've made
23:07
you read over 60 plus versus almost 70 versus
23:10
actually. So. I won't make you read the rest
23:14
of this, but I just I wanted to say when you're
23:16
listening to a lie who when you first starts
23:18
talking about Job and wicked men and all this,
23:21
he's he's actually addressing the three friends
23:25
like because he's trying to tell them like, all
23:27
right, you old folks, you old fogies. You sages.
23:32
He uses that. I don't know if he's being sarcastic
23:34
because because he's looking at him and he's
23:37
like, you're over here with him. You're sitting
23:41
down over here with him. Is Job really that wicked?
23:45
Are you really going to come out? Are you sitting
23:47
with him? And like, I think he's pointing that
23:49
out, but he's also getting ready. He's getting
23:51
back to Job and he's like, listen, Job, you are
23:54
in fact wrong. So you can be upright and righteous
23:57
before God's eyes, but still be wrong. Yes. That's
24:00
right. That's what grace is. Yes. This is what
24:04
grace is. Okay. So, but then he, so here's what's
24:07
here's what's the major theme. Okay. God is never
24:11
unjust. That's right. First and foremost thing
24:13
he's never discussed. And so a lie who has the
24:17
right. To challenge the growing frustration of
24:20
job that's why he's there god is never unjust
24:23
now job is working through that he's like god
24:26
is an enemy of mine he's coming against me but
24:28
that's not true. No that's not true so i was
24:32
pointing that out to job like you can't say that
24:35
you're acting like a wicked man by using those
24:38
words well that's exactly what he says there
24:40
isn't a system you are adding. Where is where
24:46
is it. I think it was towards the end. It's right.
24:49
The end, wasn't it? He said, for now, he's for
24:52
now to his sin. He has rebellion. He mockingly
24:56
claps his hands among us and keeps adding to
24:58
his words against God. There it is. So and so
25:01
is alive wrong. The answer is no, he's not wrong.
25:03
I was actually right now being a forerunner.
25:07
John the Baptist would never say something like
25:09
that about Christ. If we juxtapose this idea,
25:12
John the Baptist standing in the rivers of the
25:14
Jordan and here comes Christ and he says, wait,
25:17
I should be baptized to be not the other way
25:20
around. So it's right. Who is different. A lie.
25:23
He was acting like a prophet class to a pagan
25:25
nation. That's right. Jonah is to Nineveh. Yeah.
25:30
Like the way these things work. So he's coming
25:32
in and he's saying, actually, yeah, you're right.
25:37
Yes, I didn't do anything to deserve this. But
25:40
where you're wrong is with your lips because
25:42
you don't see that you're not justifying God
25:46
and his true justice. That's right. Once again,
25:48
he was trying to justify himself. Yes. You're
25:52
talking about Job. I'm talking about Job. We're
25:54
all talking about Job. I mean, you've only got
25:56
to go back to the Apostle Paul. He said, you
25:58
know, I was born of the tribe of Benjamin, circumcised
26:00
on the eighth day, Hebrew, Hebrews. I did all
26:02
this. And yet he was trying to justify himself
26:05
by his works. But when you realize you can never
26:08
justify yourself by words, that's when humility
26:10
sets in and you understand all these things are
26:13
right, but I can't do them. Yeah, my favorite
26:16
line of Paul after saying something like that
26:18
is, and you know what? I consider it all dung.
26:21
Dung. I consider all of those things a pile of
26:25
poo. I mean, that's what he said. I mean... That's
26:28
right. That's right. And that really goes back
26:32
to, again, a pile of poo is rolling. It's rolling
26:34
the dung away. That's right. We're going back
26:38
to Acts chapter one verse 11 again. They're rolling.
26:42
They're rolling the dung away. Those are intently
26:46
looking at Christ. That's right. And all right.
26:50
So with the light. That's another story. It is
26:51
another story. So here in chapter 34, Elihu is
26:55
basically saying, first of all, God owes no one
26:58
an explanation. Nobody. No. You can do what he
27:02
wants with mankind. He can take one of the kings
27:04
and put them aside and lift up somebody in his
27:06
place and you can't utter a word. No. While you're
27:09
either of all things and he's not and he is being
27:11
just. He is good. God cannot act wickedly. He
27:18
cannot act wickedly. Human rulers may be corrupt,
27:23
but God is not. That's what he's basically saying
27:25
here. All right. So that's right. And he watches
27:28
every move they make and he rewards them for
27:30
what they are. And that's the thing. He raises
27:31
them up for a purpose and he tears them down.
27:34
Yes, he does. So the the this chapter is beginning.
27:41
What what Eli who's doing is he's moving it.
27:44
Remember, we've been talking about this like
27:45
a courtroom drama. Yeah, absolutely. So if you
27:48
can imagine what Eli who's getting what he's
27:51
doing in this discussion is he's taking you from
27:52
the courtroom. And now he's shifting that away
27:56
to the side. And now he's bringing all of us
27:59
over here into the judge. Now we're gonna talk
28:03
about the judge. We've been talking about the
28:05
court. Let's talk about the judge, okay? So that's
28:09
what we're doing. Now it's going from the courtroom
28:10
arguments to the sovereignty of God. Job is about
28:14
the sovereignty of God. Of course it is. But
28:17
you gotta get there through the tumult. Absolutely,
28:21
it takes you back to that God is the just and
28:23
the justifier, doesn't it? Uh huh, yeah. It takes
28:26
you right back to that. Yes, there's a sentence
28:29
passed there, but at the end of the day, he knows
28:31
you can't keep it, so it really is going back
28:34
to Christ again. Elihu is bringing all these
28:37
words that are totally and utterly correct, even
28:39
though he can't keep them. Yeah. Nobody can keep
28:42
them. Right. He's just bringing it back to that,
28:45
and it's just... It just is wonderful that, like
28:47
I say, the way it opens up the way that he's
28:49
bringing in this wisdom for such a young age.
28:52
You know, this is the whole point of looking
28:54
at it as sort of like going going to Christ.
28:58
You know, the whole thing really is to do with
29:01
sort of like the opening of the flower to produce
29:05
Christ. This is what's this is what's being brought
29:07
out in the whole of Job right from start to finish.
29:10
Yes, it's yeah. How to become a high priest.
29:13
is how to become like Christ or who Christ is,
29:16
really. All right, so either A, you can read
29:20
16 more verses or I'll read them. It's up to
29:22
you, but I... Yeah, go on, because you can show
29:24
me how to do it. Ah ha ha. You see how she took
29:27
the carrot and shoved it back in the ground?
29:29
Here we go. In your face. Chapter 35. Now you
29:33
watch this. Ricky's going to do this absolutely
29:36
perfectly and blow me out of the water. With
29:38
humility, brother, I will bow to your superiority.
29:43
All right, I'm gonna read out of the Common Jewish
29:45
Bible. Elihu went on to say... What's that? Complete.
29:51
What did I say? Common. Oh, Complete Jewish Bible.
29:55
Complete. See, I already messed up. Well, there
29:58
you go. I just paid his debts with money. Just
30:01
a little bit. Carrots back up here. There we
30:03
go. Elihu went on to say, Are you so convinced
30:07
you are right that you say, I am more just than
30:10
God? For you ask what advantage it is to you.
30:14
How do I gain from not sinning? Remember when
30:17
he asked that here's my answer to you to you
30:20
and to your friends Look at the heavens and see
30:23
observe the skies high above you. If you sin,
30:26
how do you hurt him? If your crimes are many,
30:29
how do you affect him? If you are righteous,
30:32
what do you give him? What benefit does he get
30:35
from you? Yeah Mmm, your wickedness can affect
30:39
only others like you Yeah. My goodness, only
30:42
other human beings. Yeah. Who cry out from under
30:46
many oppressions. They cry for help from under
30:49
the fist of the mighty. But no one asks, where
30:53
is God my maker who causes glad songs to ring
30:56
out at night? Who teaches us more than he teaches
30:59
wild animals and makes us wiser than the birds
31:01
in the air? They may cry out, but no one answers
31:05
because of evil men's pride. For God will not
31:08
listen to empty cries To die pays no attention
31:13
to them all the more when you say that you don't
31:16
see him just be patient He's considering the
31:19
matter now. I want to stop for just a minute
31:21
guys. I think that there's a storm brewing off
31:25
on the horizon Okay, I think as a lie who's sitting
31:29
there talking as he's speaking. He says When
31:33
you say to him, you don't see him be patient
31:37
He's considering the matter knowing what's coming.
31:39
He's like there's thunder. He's considering it
31:43
guys. But now just because he doesn't get angry
31:47
and punished doesn't mean he doesn't know what
31:50
arrogance is. That's right. He's aware of everything.
31:54
Yeah. So Job is being futile when or futile when
31:59
he opens his mouth. He is piling up words without
32:03
knowledge. They'll all come back on him. Yes,
32:07
they will. Yes, they will. So. That was lovely,
32:12
by the way, Rick. Oh, was it? Very creamy and
32:15
beautiful. Yeah, very creamy. Yes. Well, thank
32:19
you. I will read. I'm going to read. I'm going
32:21
to read more. But all right, guys. So let's see
32:24
what the word creamy does. All right. So in chapter.
32:33
I just love that, you know, if you sin, how do
32:35
you hurt him? You know, if your crimes are many,
32:38
how do you affect him? I think that that is saying
32:41
it matter of factly, but I think that actually
32:44
it does have God at times. It is sad. He does
32:48
feel those things. But I think as directly, if
32:54
you're looking at it as you performing something
32:57
as a cold act of moral nature, no, it doesn't
33:02
affect him because he's God. But as we know,
33:06
further down the line when God really starts
33:08
sort of opening everything up. That love aspect.
33:13
I think a lot. Yeah, agreed. And I think what
33:15
a lie who's really pointing out here, I think
33:18
what he's saying is that, like, God's not dependent
33:21
upon. No, he's not. He's not dependent. Let's
33:23
get that right. Your sin and my sin does not
33:28
diminish God. God remains in the heavenly constant.
33:32
And righteousness doesn't even enrich God, like
33:34
it's not, he wants it, but that's not, it's not
33:36
enriching this. No, it's part of the relationship.
33:40
He wants the relationship, but the righteousness
33:42
comes from Christ. As we know that what we're
33:44
talking about is your righteousness is his filthy
33:47
rags. I mean, that's what he says in our world
33:49
to Isaiah. All right. So it really, what he did
33:54
was he just exposed the transactional theology.
33:58
That was going on between job and the friends.
34:01
All right, this transactional back -and -forth
34:03
theology. All right. All right, so now Gird up
34:06
your loins. I'm gonna read chapter 36 you All
34:10
I had to bear with me a little and I will show
34:12
you that there is more to say on God's behalf
34:14
so guys look This is where his youth is showing
34:19
he's always coming back to okay guys back to
34:22
me now Let's keep this is youth talking. You
34:26
may be right But you're still seeing the youth,
34:28
OK? I may search far and wide for my arguments
34:31
and I will ascribe righteousness to God, my maker.
34:33
That's good. For the fact is that my words are
34:36
true and have you have with you a man who whose
34:40
views are pure. That's weird. Well, the views
34:45
appear. But listen to this. Look, God, who is
34:48
powerful and despises no one powerful in his
34:51
strength of understanding, he does not preserve
34:54
the lives of the wicked. but he gives justice
34:57
to the poor. How many times have you heard me
35:02
talk about this? Guys, when I was at the Berean
35:04
Conference, I talked about this. When we even
35:06
go through the study of Job, I've been talking
35:08
about this. God hears the voice of the widow.
35:11
He pleads the widow's cause. He is the defender
35:14
of widows and orphans. But again, it goes back
35:16
to the Sermon on the Mount. Happy are the pure
35:19
in heart. Yeah. Happy are the poor. The poor
35:24
in spirit. Again, it's this spiritual aspect
35:28
of understanding God's mind on it. It's not necessarily
35:30
physical. It's spiritually discerned. If you
35:36
are poor spiritually, then you will be made rich.
35:39
And he hears those that are poor in spirit. This
35:42
is what he's talking about. This is the whole
35:44
thing that's going through. You're poor in spirit.
35:46
He hears those that are poor in spirit. Those
35:49
that actually want to become rich. He will enrich.
35:52
Yes. Amen, I love it. He does not withdraw his
35:56
eyes from the righteous, but when he sets kings
35:58
on their throne forever, they may become proud.
36:04
There's only one king that's gonna sit on the
36:06
throne forever, and guess what? It wasn't pride.
36:09
No. If then they are bound in chains held in
36:12
oppressive cords He shows them the results of
36:15
their doings the crimes caused by their pride
36:17
He sounds a warning in their ears and orders
36:20
them to repent of their evil Yeah, pay attention
36:23
and obey him. They spend their days in prosperity
36:25
their years past past pleasantly I want you to
36:28
notice something. This is post learning this
36:31
from God. Absolutely so the transactional arguments
36:36
between the men is pre God speaking. This is
36:41
right after you learn. You see how that works?
36:44
So this is once the relationship is established
36:47
and you're with God, then after you learn the
36:49
lesson from him, then these kinds of things work.
36:52
That's why God's word is true. When you're in
36:54
the wisdom theology, when you start listening
36:56
to it, it's about after the relationship is happening.
36:59
Isn't that the way it is? You know, when you
37:01
get a wise person, everybody else is sort of
37:04
like arguing and doing all that, but the wise
37:06
person stays quiet. until everybody's exhausted,
37:11
and then they look at the wise person and they
37:13
think, well, are you gonna say something? And
37:15
you think, now I speak. After you've done all
37:18
your bit, after you've done all your infighting
37:20
and squabbling, then we'll see what really the
37:24
Bible has to say, what the word of God has to
37:25
say, what humility has to say. That's what I
37:30
think, Elihu is right here, and I think that
37:33
he's... This transactional understanding of Old
37:37
Testament wisdom theology is important because
37:39
it only works if you're in relationship with
37:41
God, not pre it's post. So this is what Job is
37:45
going to learn later, but this is he's not wrong.
37:47
So first of all, but if they don't pay attention,
37:51
they perish by the sword and die without learning
37:53
their lesson. Okay. Think about in Romans, wherever
37:57
he says that God gave them over to a reprobate
38:00
mind. Why? Because they. They wanted the darkness.
38:02
They decided on the chaos. They didn't learn
38:05
anything from the suffering that they had. What
38:07
they said was, you know what, I want more of
38:09
that. Exactly. I give you over to you. Here it
38:11
is. And they never learned their lesson. And
38:14
this is what he says. They don't pay attention.
38:16
They perish by the sword and die without learning
38:18
their lesson. That's right. That's the hard part.
38:22
And this is the whole thing. You know, it's like
38:24
I've said before, you know, if you want a fruitcake,
38:26
don't use the ingredients for a Victoria's scone.
38:29
It's the same thing. You know, you cannot, people
38:32
say, why does this keep happening? Well, you're
38:35
using the wrong ingredients. You are doing it
38:37
your way. You're not doing it God's way. You
38:39
have to listen to that, that voice, that small
38:41
voice of a nighttime on your bed where you're
38:43
going to sleep. You know, it wakes you up in
38:45
the night. You've got to hear that because that
38:47
is the voice that speaks to you and tells you
38:49
the truth. It tells you the truth. You know,
38:53
you are a little bit this, or it is your fault.
38:56
They're the things that you don't want to admit.
38:58
But once you start trusting in God, and humble
39:01
yourself before God. That's when change takes
39:04
over. That's when things do alter and you think,
39:08
my gosh, it's starting to work. Well, you took
39:10
yourself out of the equation. You didn't use
39:12
the same ingredients that you normally do, which
39:14
is imperfection. Right. Take that out of the
39:16
equation. Put yourself to the bat and use godly
39:18
ingredients. And I tell you, then it will work.
39:22
Yeah, it will work. And the How do I say it?
39:30
So what you were just saying about fruitcake
39:34
to a Victoria sponge ingredient things like that.
39:37
All right. So let me get personal for just a
39:39
minute. So before I started this study of job,
39:43
I was, I went through 12 deaths in my family.
39:46
I had went through, we all went through COVID
39:48
together. My business suffered a little bit of
39:50
whatever, but we made it through it. We went
39:51
through a hurricane of lean. My business suffered.
39:53
I had to move it. It was very expensive. All
39:54
these things. We started crashing down. Then
39:56
I had I had six customers four of them were bought
40:01
out and we lost the business within two months
40:03
for in the history of my career that that's unprecedented
40:06
it's never happened. So then we begin to suffer
40:09
having to lay off people and i have a lot of
40:11
family and friends that work for me and so this
40:12
is painful is really hard financially things
40:15
start to crumble whatever then we lose our biggest
40:17
customer. And right as we're losing our biggest
40:19
customer like niece dies tragically in a car
40:22
accident and my sister -in -law is Devastated
40:26
and she is our operations manager and we're dealing
40:28
with all this together And then we start going
40:30
through this and that's whenever I start the
40:32
study of job. Okay So when I first enter into
40:36
job, I've got a pre job mindset I've got a life
40:41
experience reading it From that perspective,
40:45
begging God for help in all kinds of situations,
40:47
not only in the study of his word, but also in
40:49
my business and also in my relationship with
40:51
my wife and my loved ones and all this like,
40:53
yeah, like I've got that pre job. So as I'm going
40:57
through this, I'm getting some ingredients for
41:00
a fruitcake. That's right. I'm not, I probably
41:05
set out to make a Victoria sponge, but God ended
41:07
up giving me the ingredients for a fruitcake.
41:09
And there you go. Okay. And there you go. So
41:12
you, so, so what Elaine said was right. And that's
41:14
exactly what's going on. And that's kind of what
41:16
job is. Yeah. Job was the Victoria sponge manufacturer
41:21
and God turned him into a fruit cake manufacturer.
41:25
Exactly. That sounds so weird, but you get what
41:28
I mean. He didn't turn them into a fruit cake,
41:30
but you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. But that's
41:32
what I'm saying. You know, you, you cannot use
41:34
the same ingredients. If you want something different,
41:36
you cannot operate in, in the same manner. in
41:40
a situation or a circumstance that you've always
41:43
operated in and expect a different outcome it's
41:45
not going to happen it's always going to be the
41:47
same outcome shows the impedance and and hear
41:51
what god says maybe you have to admit something
41:53
about yourself you don't like maybe you have
41:55
to go to someone and say do you know what i was
41:57
wrong it might be very difficult let's tell you
41:59
what if you do it as difficult as it is and you
42:02
fight through and you go with the spirit of god
42:04
and you put yourself to the side You will benefit
42:07
that will be something that you will learn and
42:09
this is what's happening it's true suffering.
42:11
You know what you said with all those things
42:13
that you've gone through i'm sure there are many
42:15
people that listening to this that i've gone
42:17
through many things similar or very sort of you
42:20
know circumstances about just as much trauma.
42:24
You have to ask you so we set us like saying
42:26
all you know this why why me why me why me you
42:29
got so much a lot this is painful be with me
42:32
while i'm in this pain but help me to see what
42:34
i'm learning. How can I use this? Right. Can
42:37
I use this? Yes, I'm in pain. Yes, Joe was in
42:40
pain. But Lord, what am I supposed to learn from
42:42
this pain? Because I know you're righteous. Nothing
42:45
is bad with you. So there's obedience I have
42:49
to learn in suffering. You know, it's not all
42:51
about I'm fed up with that. You know, I don't
42:52
like that. Now I'm going to sit here and cry
42:54
because this is what you've done to me. No, it's
42:57
we go back to that scripture in Hebrews chapter
43:00
five. You know, by by suffering, he learned obedience
43:03
and being brought to the goal of completeness
43:07
and perfection then he said today you have become
43:10
my son and and that's one of the hard parts within
43:15
christianity i know people when they read that
43:16
like you mean jesus learned something i thought
43:18
he was god okay you have to understand the physical
43:22
to the spiritual and how god if you don't understand
43:25
the physical to the spiritual how god did it
43:26
you'll never understand what it means to learn
43:28
And that's what he learned through suffering
43:31
exactly obedient to god through that suffering
43:34
He became the greatest high priest and king that
43:36
ever lived exactly and the proof is that he got
43:39
up out of the grave Yeah, so all right back to
43:42
13 the godless in heart chapter 36 verse 13 The
43:48
godless and heart cherish their anger, not crying
43:50
for help when he binds them. Their soul perishes
43:53
in their youth and their life becomes depraved.
43:56
God with his affliction delivers the afflicted
44:00
and he gets their attention by pressing on them.
44:04
That's it. We're back to the Garden of Gethsemane,
44:08
squeezing out that oil. Now, this is one of the
44:13
most beautiful parts of this chapter. This verse...
44:17
And the very next verse, you're going to love
44:19
this. And anybody who has ever went through suffering
44:22
with God and persevered and through endurance
44:25
and it produced the character and character hope.
44:27
When those things begin to happen in Christian
44:29
life, you've heard this before. What I'm about
44:33
to say, you've heard this before, but listen
44:34
really close to what Elihu says. God, verse 15,
44:39
God with his affliction delivers the afflicted.
44:42
and he gets their attention by pressing them.
44:45
Indeed, Job, he is drawing you away from distress
44:50
to an untroubled open place with rich food. Amen.
44:56
You're able. Yes. So in our physical suffering,
45:01
I can look at somebody and say, you're going
45:02
through a press because God has you there. My
45:05
question to you is this. So this brother that
45:06
called me yesterday, he was like, he's like,
45:09
you know, He's like, I'm worried because I'm
45:12
older and I'm afraid I'm not gonna be able to
45:13
have this job and I'm not gonna be able to afford
45:15
things and I could possibly lose my home and
45:17
all this stuff. And I was like, bro, if you've
45:21
listened to my study, let me tell you something.
45:23
Do you wanna lose your home because God wants
45:25
you to lose your home? How about what if God
45:28
wants you to not be in that home anymore? What
45:30
if God has decided to put you in Kenya or Nairobi
45:33
or somewhere else in the world? What if what
45:36
if God has decided that this home is not for
45:39
you and that job is not for you? And that you
45:41
and your wife are to be over here because this
45:43
is what's best. Are you willing to look at your
45:46
life like that? Are you gonna continue wanting
45:48
what you want? Yeah The goal that our suffering
45:51
is is to want what God wants for us I think that
45:54
I think that's the thing and when everything
45:56
is almost when everything's sitting pretty in
45:58
your life That things start to sort of start
46:02
pressing in on you and you think oh hang on a
46:04
minute last week everything in my life was rosy
46:06
but now so much has gone wrong in this last week
46:08
what's happening it takes you back to Jesus isn't
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it those who he loves he prunes so that they
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can produce more fruit you can only produce the
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fruit of obedience then the righteousness of
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God will be upon you if you get a pruning you
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know you might be all lush and beautiful you
46:24
think you said wow i'm heavily laden here all
46:27
of a sudden the gardener comes along which is
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gone goes chop chop chop chop chop you think
46:30
hang on a minute i was looking rather lovely
46:33
then yeah Yeah. And you've just locked me off.
46:36
Ah, but then God says you wait till a year's
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time. You are going to be even more lush and
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beautiful and bear more fruit than you did this
46:43
year. So bear with me while I produce in you,
46:47
because I am the root that produces you. Yes.
46:51
So while. Yeah. All right. So this is strangely
46:55
enough. This is where I want to end. Okay. I
46:58
want to end because. That verse to this verse
47:01
is very key in a lie whose position here in chapter
47:04
36. But then when you get to verse 18, actually
47:07
17 and 18, when we get to 17 and 18 in this speech,
47:11
he begins to shift. He starts telling Job something.
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And then we get into chapter 37, which is right
47:16
before God speaks. So I don't, I don't want to
47:19
rush this part. I want to know here. We just
47:22
went through a lot of chapters. We read it all
47:24
to you, which I said we weren't going to do.
47:25
And then we did. So I'm a liar and the truth
47:27
is not any. Well, no, I don't think you're a
47:29
liar. I think you had that intention. But it's
47:31
so wonderful that you just couldn't help yourself.
47:33
The fact is, is that God's word matters more
47:35
than mine. His word matters more than my words.
47:39
Exactly. And I'd rather you hear his words than
47:41
my words. Oh, yes, I know I would rather. But
47:45
they come out of your mouth so sweetly and creamy.
47:48
Like cream of wheat. All right. So let's stop
47:50
there. Peaches of cream. So let's stop there.
47:54
OK. Want to stop here in verse 15 and 16 because
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we just showed you this now If think about the
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New Testament for just a minute Think about all
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the suffering that the apostolic generation had
48:04
to go through and then think about the wedding
48:07
feast that Jesus talked about Do you see how
48:10
he says this? It's the same thing God delivers
48:12
the affliction God afflicts them and then delivers
48:15
the afflicted But then he brings them to this
48:17
table with rich food on the table. All right,
48:20
so it's the same thing in the New Testament This
48:22
story kind of over it happens over and over again.
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How do you refine gold without smelting it? Yeah
48:29
You can't you come it's got to be heated up and
48:32
when you when there's a heat and you know I mean
48:34
when the heats on it sometimes things but afterwards
48:37
You know you get that dross off and you've got
48:40
the gold is even more pure You can't just leave
48:43
it like that because there's a bit more smelting
48:45
is needed a bit more heat So, you know at the
48:47
end of the day lucky Paul said didn't you know,
48:49
we can kill it all we consider it all joy my
48:52
brothers, you know, which trials are put upon
48:54
us because God is producing in you. Well, think
48:57
about after like Peter and John get beat by the
49:00
Sanhedrin, then they go back and they're like,
49:03
we're happy because we got beat. That was skipping
49:06
down the road. Who are these crazy people? But
49:08
see, it's because they understand it. Yeah. But
49:12
you imagine sort of having having that and and
49:14
just being able to skip and say do you know what
49:16
lord i'm counting worthy of being beaten for
49:19
you god in flesh that came here save me as a
49:22
ransom wow you can't but they're not crazy because
49:25
later on like you'll hear in revelation they'll
49:28
cry out to god and they'll say how long i know
49:30
how much longer until you're just as we know
49:32
you're just Now we're just asking about the time
49:34
frame, how long until you're just. Yeah, isn't
49:37
it wonderful that they could actually ask him
49:39
that if they turn a little bit sort of, you know,
49:42
a bit irritable, really, how long we got to.
49:44
That's how a relationship works. Exactly. And
49:48
that's the beauty of it. You're not fearful of
49:50
God, of approaching him and talking to him. But
49:54
you feel first the throne boldly when you're
49:56
in a relationship like that Exactly, because
49:58
the righteousness that this is this is so i'm,
50:02
so you glad you said that this is the perfect
50:03
way to end it Because the righteousness in which
50:06
you possess is not the righteousness of yourself
50:09
No, righteousness of christ which gives you the
50:11
access to the throne. Amen What whenever verse
50:15
17 listen carefully i'm gonna say this but the
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judgment of the wicked applies fully to you I'm
50:19
still talking to job. He said god afflicts those,
50:22
then delivers the afflicted and brings them to
50:24
the rich man's joy and his table. But the judgment
50:27
on the wicked applies fully to you. Judgment
50:29
and condemnation take hold. That is so critical.
50:33
It's not your righteousness that gets you. It's
50:34
the righteousness of Christ. It's God's right.
50:37
That brings. I mean, and again, exactly, Rick.
50:40
And you just have to learn that you actually
50:41
haven't got any of your own anyway. And if you
50:44
are righteous, it's only been given to you by
50:45
God anyway. That's right. They don't boast. So
50:49
let's end it there. Next the next time we get
50:52
together and we are doing this on a Friday. We're
50:56
sorry we had to delay. I'm so busy. I'm thankful
50:59
for all this busyness of my business that we
51:02
that I can get this stuff done. But we're going
51:05
to get back into it next week. She and I are
51:07
going to do a special study on Ax111. We're going
51:10
to actually go back into this Jason Bradfield
51:13
response stuff. And then we're going to get back
51:15
into Genesis. And then when we start closing
51:18
out the book of Job, Elaine and I are going to
51:20
announce our next study, our next big study.
51:23
And it's been cooking and we had a nice long
51:26
talk for an hour yesterday or day before yesterday.
51:28
And I think I know where we're heading. And I
51:31
don't want to say it yet, but it's going to be
51:33
pretty interesting. It's going to be multiple
51:34
books simultaneously. Absolutely. Wonderful.
51:37
I'm looking forward to it. You know, not a chapter.
51:40
You've never seen a study like this. It's multiple
51:42
books happening simultaneously and explaining
51:45
a pattern that we're beginning to see. Perfect.
51:49
So God bless all of you. Thank you for listening
51:51
Elaine. Yeah reading so much. Sorry. I told you
51:54
I wasn't gonna read but I know I'm not sorry
51:56
I love God's Word and I just want you to hear
51:58
it and so exactly I mean the thing is what I
52:00
mean is if you weren't going to work I'm sure
52:02
we would be stopped now. Oh, no, I would keep
52:04
going I would think but this is but this is a
52:07
good place to stop Absolutely, absolutely. Absolutely.
52:12
But again, like you say the Word of God I can
52:13
never get enough of it. It is like a you know
52:16
food on the dregs, isn't it? Yeah, is yeah. All
52:21
right. Well, God's blessing be upon all of you.
52:22
Grace and peace unto you, my dear brothers and
52:24
sisters. We love you so much. Thanks for being
52:26
here. Please leave any questions, comments, whatever
52:28
down there below. You know, we'll get to them.
52:31
Yeah, I think that I had some comments from before
52:33
that I didn't cover. And so now I'm beginning
52:36
to think what on earth was I doing? I didn't
52:39
actually read the comments I'm reading again.
52:42
Can you believe it? I can't believe it. Let's
52:45
read them. No, because I you see everybody out
52:46
there. I don't I never know what you're writing
52:49
is I can't get them up unless Rick reads them
52:51
out the same time you hear them as I do. Yeah.
52:54
So all right. Here's the here they are. You ready,
52:56
Heather? Wow. What a great episode today. I love
53:00
all the connections you made. It's mind blowing
53:01
to see how everything is connected and just how
53:04
much we need to know our Old Testament to understand
53:07
the new. Amen. One thing I'm definitely trying
53:10
to do now is study up on the Old Testament. I'm
53:12
so thankful to have y 'all to study this book
53:15
with. God bless. I love you, Heather. Um, it's
53:19
such a sweet thing to be a part of. It is a sweet
53:22
thing. It's beautiful. She says, I love our little
53:24
family we have built on here. It's beautiful.
53:28
it is lovely it is like just talking somebody's
53:30
front room isn't it we call i call it front room
53:32
or whatever you call it in in america i don't
53:34
know lounge what do you call it what where you
53:38
sit everybody sits there we call it a front room
53:40
or a lounge what do you call it a den a den we
53:42
just sit around yeah in the den oh okay living
53:45
room oh yes living room yeah yeah there it is
53:49
it is like we're just sitting there chatting
53:50
isn't it the whole thing well i got news for
53:53
you elaine heather and tony are coming with us
53:58
in our vehicle to the car. Yeah, you said. But
54:01
you'll get to talk to them for hours and hours.
54:04
Well, that'd be great. Yeah, the trouble is I
54:06
might tell them to be quiet. If I'm looking out
54:08
of the view, I might have to tell her and say,
54:10
can you keep quiet now? I'm just taking a view.
54:12
I've never been to America before. Yeah. Listen
54:15
to what Heather said. I loved the look on your
54:18
face, Elaine, when you realized I'm Tony's daughter.
54:20
Yeah. LOL. Rick happy early birthday. Thank you.
54:23
We're post that now also just wanted to share
54:25
that today is actually my 30th birthday That
54:28
was on the day that she read this So waking up
54:32
these comments, have you yeah? Yeah, are you
54:38
sure yeah, I Don't think so maybe I already sent
54:43
them to you and you read them Hmm carry on them.
54:47
Yeah. Yeah. I didn't read them out loud If I
54:50
did I'll go back and like whatever I love reading
54:52
your comments anyway The 30th birthday so waking
54:56
up to this was just what I wanted to do and hearing
54:59
Elaine sing so beautifully Happy birthday to
55:01
you. I just pretended like it was for me, too.
55:03
Haha Lastly Tuesday's have become very busy for
55:06
me So if I don't get to make a comment in time
55:08
know that I am here listening Well, just so you
55:10
know I waited to the end of this study to do
55:12
comments because I completely forgot sorry about
55:14
that guys and Happy belated birthday Heather
55:18
Tony Driver. Wow! Awesome study today, Rick and
55:22
Elaine. This one really felt like the book of
55:24
Job. opened up into something bigger than one
55:26
man's suffering. The connection to Israel's story,
55:30
exile, restoration, Elijah, John the Baptist,
55:32
and Christ were powerful. What stood out to me
55:35
most is how God keeps stripping away human pride
55:38
and outward wisdom so he can bring his people
55:40
to himself by grace. Elihu's sudden appearance
55:44
really does feel like a turning point, almost
55:46
like the path is being prepared for the whirlwind.
55:49
Amen. Elaine, you do sing beautifully, and yes,
55:52
Heather and Cameron the second are my children.
55:55
We have a great time discussing the Bible together.
55:57
You'll get to know them in August and I can't
55:59
wait to meet you myself. Rick, happy early birthday.
56:02
Can't wait for next week's study. You guys are
56:04
great. Bless. Thank you. I had sent you those
56:08
comments and you responded to me. Oh my, how
56:12
wonderful to have such amazing. And I posted
56:14
them on Patreon for them to read. There you go.
56:16
That's why you're thinking about it. All right.
56:18
So here's one from Alan Thompson. Hey, Alan.
56:24
Bible study gold. Great episode, my rock star
56:27
family. For some reason, I feel like this episode
56:30
brought me much closer to the two of you that
56:32
I haven't experienced before. So you got to say
56:36
something Elaine. Love y 'all. We're so close
56:44
to y 'all. You got to speak Elaine. I look like
56:48
Dame Edna Average. Oh, next time add a duet to
56:55
the close up shots because now I know both of
56:58
you have great singing voices. Wow. Um, you've
57:01
sang on here and I've sang at his church before.
57:03
Love you both and greatly appreciate your work
57:05
and insightfulness. Thank you. That's lovely.
57:08
Thank you, Alan. Thank you everyone. Thank you.
57:11
It's so lovely. I got one more. I got them. Let's
57:18
try to harmonize. We sound like some sort of,
57:23
some sort of monastery back there in sort of
57:26
like the 14th century in France. All right, hello
57:34
family, another great time in the word with the
57:37
word, capital W. Elaine, what a beautiful voice
57:40
you have, absolutely lovely. I love learning
57:44
connections all over scripture and this study
57:46
did not disappoint. You asked me for my favorite
57:48
verse and it is Zephaniah 3 17. Your God is in
57:53
your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will
57:56
be joyful over you with gladness. He will be
57:58
quiet in his love. He will rejoice over you with
58:02
joyful singing. Isn't that beautiful? She said.
58:05
That is beautiful. He's mighty to save, mighty
58:08
to save. Amen. Isn't that wonderful to know that
58:11
Yahweh sings over his children? This makes me
58:15
cry every time I read it. I have verses two that
58:20
make me cry. Like it's suddenly like it hits
58:22
me. Yes. Yeah, deep in there. Yeah. I think about
58:28
whenever, whenever Peter says, That he's about
58:31
to depart his earthly tent. And it reminds me
58:34
of whenever Jesus is walking with them on the
58:36
beach and he says, there's going to come a day
58:37
whenever you're going to go where you don't want
58:39
to go. I know. You know, and he was talking about
58:41
his death. And then Peter later on is like, you
58:43
know, this earthly tabernacle, it's temporary.
58:46
And I'm about to depart. Right. Before I do,
58:47
I want to tell you this. That always gets me.
58:50
I know. I feel like Peter because I've got a
58:52
big mouth and I do stupid stuff all the time.
58:55
I'm a burro at heart. That's what I am. Uh, well,
58:58
I think the thing is, it's just honesty and sometimes
59:00
it comes out sort of in a way that maybe you
59:02
didn't want it to, but it's, it's not done to
59:05
her. That's the thing. So my, I'm writing a book
59:08
about my experience with the bursary podcast
59:10
called the biggest jackass in the room. It's
59:14
about, it's about me. Just think he did all these
59:20
things for job to there is no one like him and
59:24
I am so in love with him talking about the Lord
59:25
you both and we love you Dina and Alan and Tony
59:28
feather and all of you that have been listening
59:30
in a while I'm gonna reach out to Tracy and see
59:33
how he's doing how is yes absolutely I'm gonna
59:35
have from in for a while Lori stone yeah Lori
59:39
stone they're all listening at times when they
59:41
can it's okay a lot of people are listening Weeks
59:45
ago cuz they're not on patreon. They're actually
59:46
just because I'm releasing them on our Bursabria
59:49
podcast in between some of my other interviews
59:52
episode 13 released yesterday and they got a
59:55
lot of Attention, which I'm thankful for they
59:58
haven't even got into you know when we get into
1:00:00
the later chapters when we really start digging
1:00:02
in hard, but So it's happening. So everybody
1:00:05
we love you so much. Thank you for all the comments
1:00:07
Sorry, I did it at the end, but if you hung out
1:00:09
you got to hear them Well, they hung out. I'm
1:00:12
sure Yeah. All right. Well, we love you guys.
1:00:14
God bless you and we'll talk to you next time.
1:00:16
All right. God bless you. Bye, y 'all. Bye, y
1:00:20
'all.