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Episode 318- Rick and Elaine Discuss the Book of Job- Episode 20 · 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 the book of Job. I've got a
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  little song for you What do you got? I know I
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  was just saying that I'll just pretend that I
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  wasn't speaking to you for five minutes. Hello
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  Rick Oh, hi. It's nice to see you. I told her
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  I was like Everything she said to me everything
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  she said to me. I was like, oh I need to record
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  like everything you said this morning was so
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  Precious. And I want you to go through with that,
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  but I'll start off with, um, how you doing? How
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  you doing? Hey, how you doing? Hey, hang on.
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  Listen, how you doing? How you doing? Mind you,
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  I think I've, I think I've gone from, um, Joey
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  to Sylvester Stallone. Yeah. Or, or the Sopranos.
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  Hey, how you doing? How you doing? How you doing?
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  How you doing? Yeah. Like the mafia. Exactly.
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  Yeah, I wanted to guys. This last the last study
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  that we did in job where I talked about leaving
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  you guys in the tension, told you guys a lot
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  about my personal stuff. I never expected the
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  outpouring. I didn't expect it. I really didn't.
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  I got some messages from people, personal stuff,
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  some of which I will share. Some of it I absolutely
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  will not because they asked me not to. But. You
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  and I were just talking, Elaine, about your conversation
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  with Chris this morning. And so just get back
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  into what you were saying. Well, again, I was
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  just saying to my husband, my husband is not
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  a Christian, bless him, but he just sort of puts
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  up with me, really. But I was just saying to
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  him this morning, the Job study that, you know,
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  we have to remember that he's our brother. You
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  know, we're peering into something that our brother
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  went through. And we're looking at it through
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  his eyes. We know the story now. We understand
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  what's gone on, but he didn't. And this is the
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  juncture, what we're going through here, like
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  we're going to do Matthew 20, Joe 28, but this
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  is the juncture where he's at. You know, like
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  I said to Rick that, you know, situations change
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  for each and every individual. Centuries come
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  and go. You know, fashions alter. Leaders rise
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  and fall. Exactly. Exactly. You know, depending
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  on the bricks that you lay there through your
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  experiences, that you end up with what you are.
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  But that is not what God wants you to be because
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  we've taken it all on board in our flesh. But
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  he says that your spirit and your flesh, even
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  though you exorcise what you are in the spirit
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  through your flesh, you know, what happens to
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  the flesh isn't what you truly are of essence.
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  Right. they can't touch that they can't touch
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  that only if you allow people to touch that and
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  impact that and that's what that's what's happening
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  you know god comes along in our lives and he
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  says that's impacted your spirit i don't want
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  you i don't want you to have it in your your
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  spirit it's a totally separate entity like i
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  say although your life and how you work it through
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  this are together God is taking away all those
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  things and this is what I was saying to my husband
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  this morning that you know we're peering into
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  we got the honor and the privilege of peering
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  into just like people you know tell different
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  aspects of their lives personal things we're
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  looking into something that that happened to
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  this man we're privy to this and everybody can
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  read the Bible and see what this man's thoughts
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  were and you know for it to be in there it has
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  to impact us in some shape or form it's there
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  for a reason you know, what are we getting out
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  of it? What bricks are we having to take down?
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  What is God showing us? What guilt do we feel
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  that we shouldn't feel? Because we've distorted,
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  we're distorted in our spirit and the experiences
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  that we've had that God says, look, darling,
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  you're my child, the Holy Spirit, the Holy, not
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  the spirits that you have in you that are, you
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  know, distorted. It's a bit like being in front
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  of a circus mirror. Yes. You know, you're there,
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  but you're all distorted, aren't you? all the
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  bits are there, but it's all and God is coming
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  along through his holy, pure, perfect spirit
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  and is taking away that and replacing it with
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  the mind of Christ. And I think this is, you
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  know, as we're looking, we're seeing Job actually
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  doing this in front of our eyes. After doing
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  that last week in Chapter 27 and bringing up
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  my personal stuff, knowing what was coming for
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  28, I sent you a massive email. You saw it. I
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  put my feet up and I had a packet of biscuits
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  and you had to because it was the longest email
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  I've ever written. But it's where I've landed
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  with 28. And I started I give glory to God for
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  unlocking this for me so that I can see. Glory
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  to God for bringing you into my life to help
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  unlock the other eyes the the spiritual overlayment
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  over the physical and seeing that and how everything's
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  starting to come to life and I'm thankful for
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  it and I'm also thankful for all of you who have
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  been listening along with us and staying with
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  us Those who are commenting and those who aren't
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  I discovered that in the metrics that there there
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  were over 1 ,250 views of our patreon video or
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  Matthew 27 one and two and guys I've only got
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  like 157 members. So these are people because
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  we're giving this out to the public. So there
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  are people from the public that are actually
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  coming in and watching this that are not a part
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  of our Patreon channel at all. And they're just
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  coming in and watching and they're not commenting
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  or anything. And so I'm very encouraged by that.
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  Well, so am I, Rick. I mean, this is the whole
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  thing. You know, these things that we talk about,
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  they are really meant to not only get to know
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  the person that we're talking about and the fact
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  that God has These things placed in there, which
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  is obviously very important to go for us to read,
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  but for us to read so that it's going to impact
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  me as well. It has to. Otherwise, it's only just
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  a storybook that has no help towards what I am
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  or what I want to become at all. It just might
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  as well be a novel. Yeah, absolutely. Well, let
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  me get to this comment. So in episode 19, I read
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  a couple of comments. But then after we did the
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  recording the following day, this comment came
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  in from another listener who I know personally.
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  I've met her a couple of times. Her name is Heather
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  Lynn Ross. And this is what she wrote. This is
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  from episode 18. She said, yeah, yeah. So while
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  y 'all have been rocking with this study, I like
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  rocking. You remember Alan causes rock stars.
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  I've been listening for a little while, but figured
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  I'd make my first comment. So thank you, Heather.
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  Lovely to have you. Yes, it is. First, I want
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  to say I absolutely love the Joey and Friends
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  reference. How you doing, Heather? How you doing?
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  Hey, how you doing? Yeah, I'm quite obsessed
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  with that show and watch it every night to go
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  to bed so that off the bat made me laugh. Listen,
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  this is what's really funny. So I don't watch
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  Friends every night. I used to. I actually watched
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  Friends every night because I go to bed to television,
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  too. My wife watches Heartland. which i cannot
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  stand but i put in my headphones and then i go
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  to sleep and then i at some point in the night
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  i wake up and take the headphone out i don't
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  know how i do it but i usually watch something
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  funny so i'll watch friends or i'll watch the
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  office or i'll watch something stupid like are
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  you watching ricky gervais you know yeah that's
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  my favorite one ricky gervais is definitely the
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  best and i like how england i like how english
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  television just gets to the point like they did
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  literally like two seasons and a couple Christmas
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  editions and got the story told where it took
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  us 10 years in America to say it. We're so long
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  -winded. Yeah. Yeah. The English just say, and
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  that's that moving on, you know. Exactly. And
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  that's it. It is what it is. Move on. Yep. That's
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  right. One could also say that you're rushing
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  through. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I mean, sometimes
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  there's a load of waffle when you don't need
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  it. That's true. That's true. All right, here
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  we go. She says, I really enjoy the way I'll
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  break things down and go through things smoothly
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  and allow feedback. Elaine, I really enjoyed
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  you giving us the information about the worm.
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  I definitely did not know. I definitely did not
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  know that. So that was awesome to have learned.
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  I love hearing your voice on my morning drives
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  to work. Oh my gosh. I tell you, I told my family
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  that and they nearly spat their coffee out like,
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  um, yeah. Yeah. I mean, that woman must be crazy.
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  Yeah. I said, well, if it shows you, it's lovely
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  to be appreciated, really. Obviously, my family
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  don't. You know what? I gave them a superior
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  look. Back in the day, people used to listen
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  to radio shows and somebody would wake you up
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  in the morning. And it was usually a man and
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  a woman or, you know, we have a very popular
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  one over here called John Boy Billy. It was really
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  big over here. You know, people wake you up in
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  the morning. She just said on her morning drive,
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  Probably tuesday morning. She likes to listen
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  to elaine talk Well, just so you know, so do
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  I oh bless. Thank you so much. This is this is
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  music to my ears Honestly, you don't know what
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  you've done to me years. I've been told shut
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  up, but it's lovely to hear that So god thinks
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  yes. It's about time you heard that so I I doff
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  my cap to you Very good. All right. She said
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  rick. All right. Here's where we go To personal
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  rick. I know from personal experience that talking
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  about physical abuse and trauma is very hard
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  to talk about, so appreciate you being vulnerable
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  or brave enough to share that. I'm so sorry you
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  had to go through that and overcome that. It
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  is hard sometimes to think about the fact that
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  God knows everything that's happened, or will
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  happen, even when it is bad things that are done
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  to us, His children. However, At the end of the
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  day, his glory is going to be shown no matter
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  what, and truly it is a beautiful thing to think
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  about. The fact that he chose us to go through
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  that and to lean on him to overcome it. For me,
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  it took years to actually face it and lean on
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  God, but oh, he held me right in his arms the
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  whole time. He does, yes. In fact, I was in his
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  arms the whole time and I just didn't know it.
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  Now that I'm on the other side of it, it's a
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  beautiful thing to know maybe someday I'll be
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  able to share and help people out in the future
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  We both would have never been able to help out
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  if it weren't for some of the stuff that we've
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  gone through in our past That's right Not neglecting
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  the fact that some things didn't deserve to happen
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  I like the way Elaine tied in Jesus I never really
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  thought about it in that way when it came to
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  that part of my past before So that was a very
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  great point and it hit home with me because Jesus
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  yes because Jesus did go through betrayal and
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  torture So he does understand what his children
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  go through and he's there for us every step of
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  the way If we choose to lean on him, which is
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  the most important thing to do and life I'm asked
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  all your worries to him because he didn't make
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  us to carry all with us No, it gave us himself.
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  That's right. This is really powerful stuff y
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  'all Bless you. Bless you. She actually says
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  this is really powerful stuff y 'all were doing.
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  I have thoroughly enjoyed this study. Heather,
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  when I read that comment, I started eyeballing.
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  The reason I balled is because, you know, as
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  well as I do, if you share your story with somebody,
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  You know how hard it is because you don't want
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  people to look at you you feel shame i'm beyond
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  the shame i'm beyond that now i've worked past
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  it but when i see others that finally and you've
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  already done it too but others who finally reach
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  out to you they're still feeling it and it just
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  it rips my heart out and you know and those things
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  that i got angry with god about. Like i'm no
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  longer angry with him i'm thankful now and that
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  sounds bizarre to people. But you have to go
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  through this and get to know the Lord like I
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  know him in order to know what I mean. That's
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  the only way you're going to know. Right. And
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  I just think, I mean, I've, I've, I've shared
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  things with you, Rick, and that, you know, there
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  are things that I've, I've gone through in my
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  life as well. And the reason that I don't share
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  them, I share them with people that are not on
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  the internet. Simply because I don't know who
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  might hear. But there are things that I can share.
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  Three times I tried to commit suicide once I
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  nearly died, if my dad didn't, but it was something
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  that happened to me as well. That's all I'll
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  say, because I care about that people are alive.
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  But it impacted me. I ended up like hitting my
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  mother. I ended up stealing from my mother and
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  my father. And it compounded what I'd gone through.
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  And I just thought that I was useless, worthless.
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  I called people trouble. I'm not worth being
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  here because all they just do is worry over me.
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  I knew why they were worrying, but I couldn't
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  tell them. And that's the thing, you know, when
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  I speak about things that I've been there. Yeah.
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  But like I said before, I recognize these were
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  things done to my flesh, not to my spirit, because
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  nobody can ever touch my spirit. you know, they
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  can't touch that. And I recognize that that is
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  what God is separating experience and situations
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  and circumstances from my spirit. Now, I can
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  take those things that I experienced, I got obviously
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  three times, my dad found me once on the floor.
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  and I went to hospitals in intensive care. So
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  I know what it feels like to be in that situation
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  where you just want to get away and there's probably
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  people out there that haven't said those sorts
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  of things to maybe their friends or their parents
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  or even admitted themselves, the whole reason
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  why. But I recognize that God came to fix me.
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  He came to fix my spirit. And he said that these
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  things have happened to you. They aren't you.
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  They are not you. And that is what I, and so
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  I, you know, you go back to that child that was
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  hurt. and you comfort them. In my head, I used
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  to cuddle that child that was me. And I used
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  to say, you have come out of this in a way that
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  you never at that particular time thought was
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  possible. God is using you because there's other
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  broken people out there that know how to, that
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  don't know how to be fixed, that want to be fixed.
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  And it's just by sharing. So I cuddled her and
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  eventually I went back to her and she, she didn't
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  exist anymore. She was incorporated into me as
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  that, that person now. that through that experience
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  in my spirit now that God had given me that was
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  free of it I could then go to other people and
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  hear them and let them know that you know that
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  experience that you went through it isn't you
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  it happened to you this but it is not who you
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  are God has washed you he's cleansed you your
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  spirit is being sort of the bricks are being
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  taken down and God is placing those others there
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  And that's why I think people like myself, like
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  you, like others, you know, I don't feel any
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  guilt or shame about anything. Nothing. All I
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  say is, Lord, this is an experience that I went
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  through. How can I help other people through
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  it? You know, and that is the bottom line. That
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  is what are you learning or taking away from
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  this experience? And God is saying, you can help
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  my other children. You can cover my other children.
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  You can share your experience and they can see
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  you. And you can speak words of love and a forgiveness
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  and a compassion and a freedom. It's free. It's
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  freeing. It is. And that's where I hope all of
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  you who are listening, even if you're not commenting,
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  that you'll understand that what Elaine and I
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  have been talking about not only in Joe, but
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  in our other studies is that there comes a time
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  in everyone's life. When they have to set the
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  books down, set the commentaries down, set all
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  of the influencers that are coming at you through
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  social media or whatever down. And you actually
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  have to go and talk to the father. Like there
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  comes a moment in everyone's life where you're
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  going to have to relate and it's not a one way
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  relationship. It doesn't, that's not how it works.
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  It might feel like it is for a lot of people,
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  but if one of the, one of the differences is,
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  is knowledge, the knowledge that works in a unique
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  way, wisdom or relationship or standing side
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  by side, wisdom with God and knowledge together,
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  the way that that works is a personal Endeavor
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  it's something that you do in prayer It's something
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  that you do when you're reading the scriptures
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  without commentary without influence when you're
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  just going to the father about it but in reality
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  It who you are matters to him because he made
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  you You have to remember that he made you and
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  so you can come to him and what we've learned
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  from job is that you can be honest and that that
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  means you can say the ugliest Awful as things
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  that happen to you and you can lay it out before
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  him. He is not surprised. He's not No, it's not
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  part of the journey that you are on your journey
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  is not my journey Elaine's journey is not Heather's
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  journey. We all have similarities in a lot of
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  ways But the reason why I brought it up and you
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  know episode 18 and in that 27 by leaving you
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  with attention is because Joe comes to this place
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  and that's what we're going to get into today.
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  I'm going to read the rest of these comments
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  that came in, but that's where we're that's what's
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  going to lead to today is because Joe comes to
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  this place and he's like, Where is wisdom to
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  be found like that? That is what that's what
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  shocked me when I and I wrote like I said I wrote
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  like I think it was like a ten page Letter to
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  Elaine the stuff that I go through. I don't even
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  know if I can get through all of 28 today I'm
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  gonna try to be Rick. I can't even remember it.
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  Oh That's great. Yeah, that's great. You read
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  it and don't remember it Great to be older This
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  is the whole point isn't it? I mean when I look
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  at it, I think oh this is new and I only read
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  it ten minutes ago That's how old I'm getting.
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  That's like me whenever I take a shower and I
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  wash my hair. And then I'm like, did I wash my
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  hair? Exactly. Yeah. It's like, it's like the
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  memory of a goldfish. That's why you go, the
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  goldfishes go like that, don't they? Yep. They
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  call them Bob. They call them Bob. You've got
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  five seconds. They go around their little bowl
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  and they go, Oh, I haven't seen this little arch
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  before. They go around and say, Hey, is that
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  new? They think their goldfish bowl is enormous,
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  you know, five -second retention. So from now
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  on, I might call, I might call you Bob. I'm Bob.
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  We're a couple of Bobs. That's right. Here we
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  go. Tony Driver. Hi, Tony. Hi, Tony. Good day,
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  y 'all. I really enjoyed the study this week.
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  The distinction between knowledge and wisdom
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  really stood out to me. How Job is speaking from
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  what he's lived through. Not just what he knows.
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  Hold on. Let me reread that. I messed up the
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  phrasing. How Job is speaking from what he's
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  lived through, not just what he knows. That sounds
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  better. That made it feel very real and personal.
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  Rick, it was great hearing about Justin Nichols.
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  I want you guys to be introduced because you're
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  both AI song generation people and this is so
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  cool. Awesome to see others making music as well.
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  Let's use AI for a great cause and keep pointing
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  people to the truth. Looking forward to next
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  week. Absolutely. Yeah. Justin has sent me a
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  couple of songs Guys go check out Tony's channel
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  again. She's put up even more songs in the job
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  study I'm so thankful that this is meant that
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  much to her don't wanted to generate and create.
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  So thank you Yeah, I love to read down to having
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  a look and sort of learning some of them Really?
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  Because it'd be nice to sing some when we came
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  over. Okay. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. All right next
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  comment So this is Heather Lynn Ross the one
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  that had commented on 18. She's coming in again.
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  Hi y 'all Hi y 'all. How y 'all doing? She's
• 21:12
  commenting here on episode 20 Another great episode
• 21:16
  today. This was in regard to episode 19 y 'all
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  make this so fun to watch. Thanks One thing I
• 21:23
  took away was how thankful I am that the Holy
• 21:26
  Spirit has opened my eyes to things and continues
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  to Can't hear what y 'all have planned for next
• 21:31
  week. Yeah Exactly, and that's what I was saying
• 21:34
  Like it's the Holy Spirit within us that that
• 21:36
  transforms us like whatever Paul says be transformed
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  by the renewing of your mind or that we're being
• 21:41
  made into the image of Christ, you know, that's
• 21:45
  exactly what's going on. Like the Holy Spirit
• 21:46
  is working through this, that fruit, like Elaine
• 21:48
  said earlier, coming through our flesh, we're
• 21:51
  experiencing it, but then we bear it out. That
• 21:54
  is exactly what it means when he says, he opened
• 21:57
  my eyes. And this is what we've always said before,
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  that you have to be open to the Holy Spirit's
• 22:02
  leading. You know, if you resist the Holy Spirit's
• 22:05
  leading, then he cannot take you forward. And
• 22:08
  this is the whole thing. This is why I say, do
• 22:10
  I know everything? No, of course I don't. But
• 22:12
  if somebody can open up my eyes to something
• 22:14
  else, I will rejoice. That's it. It's about everybody
• 22:17
  painting the picture. It's about everybody putting
• 22:20
  a part in there. I mean, sometimes you might
• 22:22
  have the picture more or less finished, but there
• 22:24
  may be just a little touch, a little scripture.
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  You think, ah, that, that's it. That seals the
• 22:28
  deal. You know, it's, it's, it's sharing things.
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  And this is, our father is so happy, not only
• 22:34
  when we share. you know, literal stuff, food
• 22:37
  or clothing or whatever, but it's when we share
• 22:40
  our spirituality, when we share what God has
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  given to us, that is real sharing because we
• 22:46
  are sustaining one another. We are feeding one
• 22:49
  another upon the word of God. It's like the Bible
• 22:50
  says, you know, God puts before us a well -oiled
• 22:53
  banquet on the drinks. You know, it's not just
• 22:56
  a bit of, you know, a bit of bread and water,
• 22:58
  isn't it? You know, stale bread and water. It's
• 23:00
  a banquet. And we can all bring it up. People
• 23:02
  say, oh, bring some food to this and we all bring
• 23:04
  it. It's huge. It's far more than you could ever
• 23:06
  take in. Well, this is what the Holy Spirit does.
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  Bring what you have and you think, my gosh, there's
• 23:11
  such an abundance of it. Yes. Yeah. It's like
• 23:14
  a, it's one of those potlucks. They call it here.
• 23:21
  Again, but you're someone you think, oh my gosh,
• 23:23
  that's amazing. I've never tasted that before.
• 23:26
  Who brought that? And that's the thing with the
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  spirit, you know, someone who brings something,
• 23:30
  you'll go, oh my gosh, I've never tasted that
• 23:32
  before. Taste and see that God is good. Yes.
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  That's crazy. I want more of that. Yes, me too.
• 23:40
  That's exactly right. What you're saying there,
• 23:42
  Heather, that's spot on. Spot on. All right.
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  This is a message. Last week we didn't get a
• 23:47
  message from Pastor Alan Thompson, but this week
• 23:48
  we did. Hi Alan, good to see you. He says, Tom
• 23:52
  got. What was that? No more spitting coffee.
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  I'd love to have been there and seen that. The
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  image in my mind I've got is amazing. Yes. Yeah.
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  Yeah. And I've done that actually. One time I
• 24:07
  spit on my keyboard, which was awful. Time got
• 24:11
  away from me last week. That episode, along with
• 24:14
  this new one, were blessings poured out into
• 24:16
  my account. Oh, bless you. Yeah, the transparency
• 24:20
  and personal suffering and the wisdom learned
• 24:22
  was more than moving. Listening to the both of
• 24:25
  you speak is like sweet music to my ears, food
• 24:28
  for my soul and movement to my heart. Love y
• 24:32
  'all and thankful for you. Oh, I love you too.
• 24:35
  And this is what, you know, this is, this is
• 24:37
  all glory to God. When we, you know, Brooke and
• 24:39
  I have said so many times, all we want to be
• 24:41
  is a channel, the conduit. We want to be given
• 24:43
  that privilege and honor. of helping our brothers
• 24:46
  and sisters you know it's not us boasting and
• 24:49
  climbing up the pyramid it's us on that same
• 24:51
  line god does doesn't favor anybody but what
• 24:54
  you have you give and and to hear the responses
• 24:57
  and to hear that you're feeding me you know this
• 25:01
  is an exchange going on here it's not it's not
• 25:04
  us going yes thank you for that it's us going
• 25:07
  lord you know i'm so humbled by the comments
• 25:10
  that it Like I said, I've never had this opportunity
• 25:13
  before in my life. I've got to my age now and
• 25:16
  I've never had that opportunity and I have and
• 25:18
  in the comments, you know, it's almost like God
• 25:20
  is pouring out upon me so much of him that I
• 25:25
  am. I don't know what to do with it. I'm literally
• 25:29
  speechless. I am and I thank you for those comments.
• 25:32
  They mean so much to me. Yes, and he's not even
• 25:35
  done. There's more. He says. Among the many things
• 25:39
  that could be said about this episode. I'll simply
• 25:42
  say that it reminded me of the quote My stupid
• 25:46
  phone. Hold on a second. He says it reminded
• 25:48
  me of the quote foolishness and weakness of God
• 25:52
  wink wink a foolishness and weakness that is
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  wiser than men and Stronger than men and a working
• 26:00
  that no one would ordinarily expect keep shining
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  my rock star brother and sister. Oh bless you
• 26:06
  Alan That's amazing. You know, you think of that,
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  you think of that scripture, you know, you're
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  talking about the foolish. Hey, Elaine, I'm sorry
• 26:12
  to interrupt you. I got somebody at my door,
• 26:14
  but talk amongst yourselves. I'll be right back.
• 26:16
  I go to my door. Yes, yes. I would carry on.
• 26:19
  At seven thirty in the morning. Who is at my
• 26:21
  door? I know it's not my family. Somebody in
• 26:24
  my family come running up in here. I'll be right
• 26:26
  back. No, I was thinking, Alan, what was I thinking?
• 26:30
  I've got a Bob moment there. Oh, I've never seen
• 26:32
  this before. Yeah. What was he saying? Oh my
• 26:37
  gosh. Oh, yes. Finally, it always comes back
• 26:42
  to me. Thank you, Lord. You know, you're talking
• 26:45
  about the foolish in wisdom, but you know, wink,
• 26:48
  wink. Thinking of that scripture where, you know,
• 26:49
  he says that God chose the foolish things of
• 26:51
  the world to put the wise to shame. You know,
• 26:54
  and it's strange really that in our foolishness
• 26:57
  that the world sees us as, that we have the wisdom
• 26:59
  of God that elevates us, you know, and that is
• 27:03
  the double foolishness of the world. that they
• 27:06
  think we're fools and they can't even see the
• 27:07
  wisdom that God has given to fools and they still
• 27:10
  see it as foolishness. You know, and you just,
• 27:15
  you have to bow your head in, I don't know, humility
• 27:20
  to the beauty of this person that we call daddy.
• 27:28
  You know, sometimes you just stop. Because there's
• 27:35
  nothing to say. Have you ever sat there and read
• 27:37
  a scripture and it's impacted you to the point
• 27:41
  where you literally are? There's no words to
• 27:44
  say. Oh, and here we have the man in blue coming
• 27:48
  back again. Was it a Jehovah's Witness, was it?
• 27:53
  It was. It was not. It was. No, it wasn't. I
• 27:57
  asked them. I said, do you know why? I'll tell
• 27:59
  you why it was like that then, reeling me in.
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  I said, do you know why Jehovah's Witnesses have
• 28:05
  inverted nipples? And they were like, what? And
• 28:07
  I said, get off my porch. That's so wrong. Who
• 28:13
  was it then? No, family. Just family. Yeah, so
• 28:16
  I live. It's okay. I've got family that live
• 28:19
  not far from here. We all like on this large
• 28:22
  plot of land. And my wife actually made me a
• 28:26
  sign that she puts on the outside of the door
• 28:28
  to remind my family whenever I'm recording. But
• 28:32
  I'm the idiot who didn't put it on the door.
• 28:34
  That's on me. Well, that's all right. They could
• 28:36
  have come in and said hello. So I get to again,
• 28:39
  whenever I edit this, I get to go back and see
• 28:41
  what Elaine said. I wish she would just sing
• 28:42
  me a song, Elaine. Oh, right. Well, let's do
• 28:45
  that one day then think of something whatever
• 28:46
  I get to think of something I I yeah, we I will
• 28:49
  do I will do one day I'll sing you a song Right.
• 28:52
  Okay. Thank you. All right. Let's get into this
• 28:55
  We've gone 30 minutes talking about comments,
• 28:56
  but it was worth every second guys, please keep
• 28:59
  commenting Yeah, those of you who are watching
• 29:01
  if look if you want to comment great if you don't
• 29:05
  we understand but also When you join in you give
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  us a list of people to pray for and we we will
• 29:11
  talk to the Lord Hi That's it, you know, that's
• 29:17
  right. Yeah. Yes, we want to build we want to
• 29:20
  build a community here We're using a tree on
• 29:22
  as as that and I don't want to get confused with
• 29:26
  money Some people get that can be people who
• 29:28
  have asked me that they wanted to help me with
• 29:30
  my content creation This is where that happens
• 29:33
  is a patreon, but it is not a requirement. I've
• 29:35
  made it very clear It is not a requirement. Some
• 29:38
  people want to give a lot. Some people don't
• 29:41
  some people can't All of you are equal. All of
• 29:45
  you here are equal. We're not charging for this.
• 29:48
  This is just something, you know, we want even
• 29:50
  just gather even just by their presence here.
• 29:53
  They're enriching me. Yes. And that's exactly
• 29:55
  what I know that God will always give you what
• 29:57
  you need to keep going. Yes, absolutely. All
• 30:01
  right. So let's set the stage for chapter 28
• 30:04
  and then we'll let Elaine read with that beautiful
• 30:07
  English accent that she's got. Oh dear, oh dear.
• 30:09
  You know, they love it. So you might as well
• 30:10
  go ahead and live in it. They love it. Oh, yes.
• 30:12
  I'll bask in the glory. Bask in the glory. Just
• 30:16
  remember, I dressed. From my head. Since you're
• 30:19
  in England, I dressed with like I didn't wear
• 30:22
  a hat. I didn't wear a sweatshirt. Like I dressed
• 30:23
  all nice. This is an English tea setting we got
• 30:26
  going on here. Well, that's very good. I'm really
• 30:28
  pleased to see the lack of the hat and the attire
• 30:32
  sort of like stepped up a notch. Next week I
• 30:36
  want a shirt and tie. Yeah. Hey, I've done it.
• 30:39
  I've done it. All right. The failure of human
• 30:44
  wisdom. Let me say it that way the failure of
• 30:47
  human wisdom up to this point All the way up
• 30:50
  to chapter 27 other than what Job is saying out
• 30:52
  loud because he's in his suffering What you have
• 30:55
  is you've got Eliphaz which is wisdom from experience.
• 30:58
  We learned that you got build that which was
• 31:00
  wisdom purely from tradition We saw that so far
• 31:04
  his wisdom was from certainty and he shut down
• 31:06
  pretty fast and Job is still just wrestling honestly
• 31:10
  with God But when we get into chapter 28, there's
• 31:14
  going to be a key transition point in about the
• 31:17
  middle of it. Okay. And I want you to listen
• 31:19
  for it. He says, where shall wisdom be found
• 31:22
  and where is the place of understanding? That
• 31:24
  is such a key thing. When you go back, do me
• 31:27
  a favor after Elaine reads this, if you want,
• 31:29
  go back and read again in chapter one and chapter
• 31:32
  two, what Job went through. Just go back to his
• 31:36
  traumatic experience. Go back to that. And then
• 31:40
  you can understand a little bit more when he's
• 31:42
  saying, where shall wisdom be found? Why is wisdom
• 31:46
  being brought up in this in regard to his trauma?
• 31:48
  Why? It's like a rhetorical question, really,
• 31:51
  isn't it? It really is. Yeah. That's a thinking
• 31:55
  question. It is. So probably something he's never
• 32:00
  really thought about before. I would say. I'm
• 32:04
  going to get into this later, but this is what's
• 32:06
  kind of weird. And I will. I'll try to break
• 32:07
  this down. We might. This might be an hour and
• 32:09
  a half long session. I'm sorry, but this is what
• 32:11
  it is. When you read the proverbs. Oh, you've
• 32:15
  been very forceful there, Rick. Yeah, sorry.
• 32:18
  The proverbs, the pro the proverbs are talking
• 32:21
  about building up to wisdom. It's building up
• 32:26
  to it. OK. But in Job, it's the opposite. It's
• 32:29
  the tearing down to it. Okay, so it's like the
• 32:33
  different ways in which you can get to wisdom,
• 32:35
  but where is it found? That tearing down bit,
• 32:38
  this is what we were speaking about, the walls
• 32:40
  that God comes, the bricks that comes, He takes
• 32:44
  them down. This is why I said to you, I'm thankful
• 32:46
  to God for you and what I've learned in the spiritual
• 32:49
  over the physical. It's so critical to understanding
• 32:51
  what the tearing down is. It is, it is. It's
• 32:55
  not a tearing down of, you know, it's tearing
• 32:58
  down of what you've built in yourself through
• 33:00
  your experiences. how you see things, the walls
• 33:03
  that you've placed around something. You think
• 33:04
  you've got it just about right. God comes along.
• 33:07
  You got to take these bricks down. That's none
• 33:09
  of me at all. I mean, what man at his best in
• 33:13
  ancient history built a ziggurat in Babel because
• 33:17
  they wanted to make a name for themselves. They
• 33:18
  wanted to be the end of the heavens. And God
• 33:21
  said no and frustrated because man's knowledge
• 33:25
  apart from God. Always leads to evil continually.
• 33:30
  That is what happens when you leave man to his
• 33:32
  own devices You were out answering the door that
• 33:35
  that ties in all this so you'll be sort of pleasantly
• 33:37
  surprised I've got to be surprised. Yeah, you
• 33:40
  and I are always on the same page some way. We
• 33:42
  are so funny All right, that's the spirit of
• 33:45
  God to lead us. So yes Yep, and we did right
• 33:48
  before we started didn't we? We did. We asked
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  the Lord to help us. Alright, Job chapter 28.
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  If you would Elaine, read the entire chapter.
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  Guys, put away your devices. If you're driving,
• 33:56
  keep your eyes on the road. Don't shut your eyes,
• 33:58
  but really listen intently. Pay close attention
• 34:00
  to where I said in verse 12, that middle point.
• 34:03
  Listen closely to what Job says here. It is remarkable.
• 34:09
  There are mines for silver and places where gold
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  is refined. Iron is extracted from the earth
• 34:16
  and copper is smelted from ore. Minders conquer
• 34:19
  the darkness and dig as far in as they can to
• 34:22
  the ore in gloom and deep darkness. There, where
• 34:27
  no one lives, they break open a shaft, the feet
• 34:30
  passing over are oblivious to them. Far from
• 34:34
  the people suspended in space, they swing to
• 34:37
  and fro while the earth is peacefully yielding
• 34:41
  bread underneath. It is being convulsed as if
• 34:44
  by fire. Its rocks have veins of sapphire and
• 34:48
  there are flecks of gold. Birds of prey don't
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  know that path. No falcon's eye has seen it.
• 34:55
  The proud beasts has never set foot on it. No
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  lion has ever passed over it. The miner attacks
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  the flint, overturns mountains at their roots
• 35:05
  and cuts out galleries in the rock. All the while
• 35:09
  watching for something of value. He damns up
• 35:13
  streams to keep them from flooding and brings
• 35:15
  what is hidden out into the light. But where
• 35:19
  can wisdom be found? Where is the source of understanding?
• 35:24
  No one knows its value and it can't be found
• 35:27
  in the land of the living. The deep says it isn't
• 35:31
  in me and the sea says it isn't with me. It can't
• 35:35
  be obtained with gold, nor can silver be weighed
• 35:37
  out to buy it. It can't be purchased with choice
• 35:40
  gold from Ophir, or with precious onyx or sapphire.
• 35:44
  Neither gold nor glass can be compared with it,
• 35:47
  nor can it be exchanged for a bowl of fine gold,
• 35:51
  let alone coral or crystal. For indeed, the price
• 35:55
  of wisdom above is that of pearls. It can't be
• 35:59
  compared with Ethiopian topaz, and it can't be
• 36:02
  valued with pure gold. So where does wisdom come
• 36:06
  from? Where is the source of understanding in
• 36:09
  as much as it is hidden from the eyes of all
• 36:12
  living and kept secret from the birds flying
• 36:15
  around in the sky? Destruction and death say
• 36:18
  we've heard a rumor about it with our ears God
• 36:22
  understands its way and he knows its place For
• 36:26
  he can see to the ends of the earth and view
• 36:29
  everything under heaven when he determined the
• 36:31
  force of the wind and parceled out water by measure
• 36:34
  when he made a law for the rain and cleared a
• 36:37
  path for the thunderbolts. Then he saw wisdom
• 36:40
  and declared it. Yes, he set it up and searched
• 36:43
  it out. And to humans being, he said, look, fear
• 36:48
  of Adonai's wisdom, shunning evil is understanding.
• 36:56
  Boy, that should sound a lot like Solomon. And
• 37:00
  it does. It sounds a lot like the Psalms, doesn't
• 37:03
  it? It sounds a lot like the Proverbs. The stove
• 37:05
  is driving down to the core of this thing driving
• 37:08
  down he's talking about mining right as soon
• 37:10
  as he kicks you know kicks in my man mine silver.
• 37:14
  Gold iron copper is able to he puts it into our
• 37:19
  goes down it creates the shafts right. The things
• 37:23
  that are hidden he goes down in he brings it
• 37:25
  out to light and and he's showing us that humanity
• 37:28
  is absolutely Incredible when it comes to discovery.
• 37:31
  It's amazing. This is amazing to me I have a
• 37:34
  feeling that Joe part of his wealth comes from
• 37:36
  being a miner. He knows this right? Remember,
• 37:39
  he's the greatest man in the East He owned all
• 37:41
  this stuff, but he was probably involved in mining
• 37:44
  too. That's how he knows this And what he's saying
• 37:48
  is that we can uncover what's buried In creation,
• 37:53
  we have that capability. Man can find everything
• 37:58
  that is hidden on the earth or possibly even
• 38:00
  in the oceans like the pearls. Then why can't
• 38:03
  he find wisdom? Right? He's showing that we are
• 38:06
  limited. We are when it comes to this. He is
• 38:11
  showing he's showing us that. And because we're
• 38:14
  reading it now with the understanding that we
• 38:16
  have, I also think that he is. using these things
• 38:20
  like the darkness, the deep, the sea, precious
• 38:26
  stones. I think that he's, again, for me, I always
• 38:30
  see things going back to the Garden of Eden.
• 38:33
  I see the air flaming swords, you know, that
• 38:37
  they're going every which way. And I think that
• 38:39
  what he's saying there, that, you know, you can
• 38:41
  mine information, wisdom, earthly, but you cannot...
• 38:47
  get that wisdom or that understanding, that spiritual
• 38:51
  state that takes you back to what the true understanding
• 38:54
  and knowledge is. I think that without him understanding
• 39:00
  or knowing that that is exactly what's happening
• 39:03
  here, I think that because we understand what's
• 39:05
  going on, I think he talks about the animals.
• 39:08
  I think he talks about the birds of prey don't
• 39:12
  know that path. I mean, you look at it like a
• 39:14
  bird. It can see but for two miles away that
• 39:18
  is incredible sight but it doesn't really understand
• 39:21
  um it talks about you know um the uh um the proud
• 39:26
  beasts they don't set eye on it you know they're
• 39:29
  not humble these proud people think they know
• 39:31
  everything and then you've got the lion you know
• 39:33
  he's he's incredibly powerful and strong you
• 39:36
  know the the leader of the jungle but he hasn't
• 39:38
  got the answer either and i think let me we talk
• 39:41
  about people being having these qualities You
• 39:43
  know, having this, this sort of this depth. I
• 39:45
  mean, how many people out there think that they
• 39:47
  have extreme wisdom? Well, they don't. It's only
• 39:50
  when that comment that I made, you know, it's
• 39:52
  only that God chose the foolish things of the
• 39:53
  world. I know that I don't know anything. And
• 39:57
  I'm not a lion. I'm not a bird of prey. I'm none
• 40:00
  of those things that look like they are. But
• 40:03
  I understand that I'm not. But in that understanding
• 40:06
  of foolishness, God gives me His wisdom and His
• 40:10
  wisdom pulls me up. I don't have any of my own.
• 40:13
  And that's what Joe was pointing them to he's
• 40:16
  gradually understanding that yes There's all
• 40:17
  these things that you can mind this you can get
• 40:19
  that flex ago go really deep down to those But
• 40:22
  you can't get it. You can't go anywhere to get
• 40:25
  it. It's barred from you. The only thing you
• 40:28
  can get it is going back. Don't be on Wisdom
• 40:32
  isn't just hidden. Wisdom's not just hidden.
• 40:35
  It's beyond the reach of human discovery. He's
• 40:38
  trying to point this out like humans cannot do
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  this. No, he's barred. Barred, just like you
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  said. Do you know what? I'm going to have to
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  sort of run and change my thing again. I mean,
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  you're going to have to have a talk amongst yourselves
• 40:52
  moments as well. Carry on as you were, Rick.
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  Because I think my I don't know what's going
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  on with my it's saying. um running out of charge
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  but oh there it is it's gone back in again so
• 41:04
  i might be all right with that it might be yeah
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  i'll have to sort of as i said if you can see
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  what i'm working with it's ridiculous but hey
• 41:10
  harry you know it needs some past look what i'm
• 41:13
  working with at least you're beautiful yeah me
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  all right so that's right all right here we go
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  so We pretty much covered all the way up to verse
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  14. That's what she just said. It's out of reach
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  of human discovery, but it's even beyond that.
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  There's even a failure of wealth involved in
• 41:32
  this verse 15 through 19. He's telling us what
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  can't be purchased. It cannot be bought with
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  gold or silver. It can't be bought. You can mine
• 41:41
  and not find it. And once you've mined it and
• 41:43
  brought it out, you can't buy it either. You
• 41:45
  can't buy the gold or silver. It's not equal
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  to onyx, sapphire, tophi's. Tofaz and the price
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  of wisdom is above pearls. Yeah, exactly. It
• 41:54
  doesn't remind you what Jesus says in Revelation
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  buy from me gold refined And you can get it free
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  you're buying it for free And it's the most perfect
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  gold in the world It's Christ It's everything
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  that he is. It's his image That's the owner.
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  It's just wonderful. That's what what what Job
• 42:15
  has mined or been torn down to or gotten to the
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  root of here is that wisdom cannot be earned.
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  It cannot be mine and it cannot be bought. So
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  whatever we're talking about here. And to be
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  honest with you, it's not in the origin of man
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  either. No, it belongs to a completely different
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  category. It's not even within the that's right.
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  All right. So what Job is saying in verse 23
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  and 24, Is that God understands the way to it?
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  He sees all the creation. He's ordered the wind,
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  the water, the rain, the lightning. Again, I
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  believe God does all of those things. He understands
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  it and it's rooted in God's ordering of creation.
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  Just like you said, it goes back to Genesis.
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  It's all rooted in God's ordering of creation.
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  He doesn't discover wisdom. God establishes wisdom.
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  There's right? Yes. A lot of people might say,
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  well, that's easy. That's easy to say about God.
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  Guys, this is really where it's at. This is where
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  it's at, not only for the book of Job, but for
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  all of creation now, forever, forever. Exactly.
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  And I just think again, it's just this echoes
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  appointed towards Christ. It said God understands
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  its way and he knows its place. And I think all
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  the scriptures are pointing to Christ. All the
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  scriptures are pointing to that moment in time
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  when he came. This is the one that understands.
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  He says, I am the way, the truth and the life.
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  This is what he's saying. I know its place. I
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  know where these things are. I can take away
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  those flaming sores and give you entry into that
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  place where wisdom resides. I can give you entry
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  into the true spirit of God that gives wisdom.
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  Become foolish so that you can become wise and
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  this is what james doing Yes And that is foolish.
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  Yeah, and and that that's what's critical and
• 44:20
  you remember I said that Looking at it through
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  the eyes of job. It's through the tearing down
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  of somebody that was great to get to the root
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  So that means that even at his greatest job didn't
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  know this job job doesn't understand this part.
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  He's learned this through his suffering That's
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  where we are so far in job. Just chapter 28 and
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  that's why I would say no matter what you're
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  going through in your life people commented What
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  are you learning through this? Right? What are
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  you getting from learning through it? And do
• 44:51
  you know from whence it comes? That's the important
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  part too Elaine would you mind doing a little
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  bit of Bible drill reading for me this morning,
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  right? Okay Proverbs chapter two, verse six.
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  Would you read that? So let's get into the wisdom
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  literature from Solomon's time. Again, you guys
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  know what I say about Job. I think that it was
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  written either by Solomon or after Solomon or
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  put back. It could have been written during Moses's
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  time because, you know, he had a conversation
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  with the Lord all the time. So who knows? But
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  this comes from the Lord. This book is from the
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  Lord. All right. So Proverbs chapter two, verse
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  six. It says for Adonai gives wisdom. From his
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  mouth comes knowledge and understanding. That's
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  right. Actually, let's go one chapter back. Go
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  to chapter one, verse seven. Right. It's going
• 45:39
  to sound a lot like what Job just said at the
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  end of 28. Listen to what he says here in Proverbs
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  one, seven. The fear of Adonai is the beginning
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  of knowledge, but fools. Keep going. All right.
• 45:54
  But fools despise wisdom and discipline. Alright
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  so the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
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  But then he speaks about wisdom being sort of
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  scoffed at okay that's proverbs is a master builder
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  he Solomon is a master builder God. Stands with
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  Solomon and he masterfully builds God's temple
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  on the earth he does exactly. what he's supposed
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  to do and God does come and visit it. Now we
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  know that God doesn't reside in houses made with
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  hands, but in that time frame, this is when God's
• 46:30
  revealing himself to Solomon, right? So think
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  of Solomon as a master builder and think of Job
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  as a guy that's been masterfully torn down. We're
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  getting back. So think of it kind of like a chiasm,
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  right? You got a chiasm where you have the top
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  and then you have the bottom and it gets to the
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  point. So from the tearing down to the building
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  up, you get to that same point. The fear of the
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  Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of
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  the Lord is wisdom. The fear of the Lord is wisdom.
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  Like you please understand what I'm saying. Do
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  you mind to go to chapter nine, verse 10? Yeah.
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  Chapter nine of verse 10. Yeah. Proverbs nine,
• 47:09
  verse 10. Proverbs, Proverbs nine, verse ten.
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  It says the fear of Adonai is the beginning of
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  wisdom and knowledge of holy ones is understanding.
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  All right. So did you notice how in chapter one,
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  verse seven, he says the fear of the Lord is
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  the beginning of knowledge and then he mentions
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  wisdom. Now, when you get to chapter nine, verse
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  ten, you notice how he reverses that the fear
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  of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and then
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  knowledge. You see how he flips those. OK, again.
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  If I could just read prior to that one about
• 47:43
  verse 10 of 9, just by the way it says, you know,
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  if you reprove a scoffer, this is verse 8 and
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  9, if you reprove a scoffer, he will hate you.
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  If you reprove a wise man, he will love you.
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  Give to a wise man and he grows still wiser.
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  Teach a righteous man and he will learn still
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  more. And then he says, the fear of Adonai is
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  the beginning of that wisdom and knowledge of
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  holy ones. is understanding. And that's the whole
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  thing, isn't it? This is, you know, this is what
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  I brought up when you were at the door, you know,
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  that God chose the foolish things of the world
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  to put the wise to shame. But it's when you become
• 48:20
  foolish, that's when you become wise. But even
• 48:22
  then, the foolish still, that consider themselves
• 48:26
  to be wise, still look at you as being foolish.
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  Yeah, it's kind of a lot of double -edged sword
• 48:32
  of the foolishness it is it is and it's kind
• 48:34
  of a cliche to say it like this So let me say
• 48:36
  it like this Elon Musk is the richest man on
• 48:40
  planet Earth when it comes to money That's true
• 48:45
  material. I feel like I'm the richest man on
• 48:47
  the earth because of everything that the Lord
• 48:49
  has been giving me in my life Amen, I'm at the
• 48:52
  lowest of the low right now That's all I can
• 48:55
  say and it's fully within the physical you are
• 48:57
  in the spiritual like he says you the gold of
• 49:01
  offer nothing What can you what you what can
• 49:03
  you buy nothing? What can you what can you give
• 49:05
  to God that he hasn't already given to you? You've
• 49:06
  got everything so that is everything when you
• 49:09
  recognize that that is that is true riches You
• 49:12
  know Jesus said dig for the tree like we're doing
• 49:14
  we're digging into Joe dig for it as you would
• 49:17
  for hidden treasure And this is it. This is hidden
• 49:19
  treasure. We and we can hold it up and we can
• 49:21
  look at it We can discuss it and we can just
• 49:23
  speak the light that's shining off it in the
• 49:25
  different facets, and you just think to yourself,
• 49:27
  my gosh, you know, this is, this is such purity,
• 49:31
  and I'm beholding it, and I'm seeing it, and
• 49:34
  I'm understanding it, it's entering my very spirit,
• 49:36
  you know. Yes, it is. Shaping us internally.
• 49:40
  I love that. These facets. Absolutely. That that's
• 49:45
  exactly what I feel like my life has been since
• 49:49
  since really since Hurricane Helene here is when
• 49:52
  it really started kicking in. But I can see a
• 49:54
  little bit before that. I can see Helene was
• 49:56
  part of it. I can see this gradual being reduced
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  to the dust and then getting to this place now
• 50:03
  where I'm at. I'm literally learning at the same
• 50:05
  time that I'm that job is learning it, which
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  is just mind boggling to me. Praise the Lord
• 50:10
  God Almighty for doing that. And thank you, Elaine
• 50:12
  and all of you guys. Yeah. If you would go to
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  song 111 song 111 we're gonna work through this
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  idea of wisdom here because this is a very important
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  thing i want all of us to get it we gotta get
• 50:23
  this i'm thankful to the lord that i'm getting
• 50:26
  it and i hope that all of you guys will along
• 50:29
  with me so song 111. Psalm one verse eleven no
• 50:34
  song 111 oh sorry i think it's on one right hang
• 50:38
  in a minute yeah well it all sounds the same
• 50:42
  song one. Yes, that's right. Psalm 111, colon
• 50:47
  10. I'd be a little bit more wise than you would
• 50:49
  have thought of that. I would have said Psalm
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  111, just to clarify. 111. Thank you. You're
• 50:55
  right. Psalm 111. Oh dear. Oh, we are funny.
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  Right. Psalm 111 verse 10. 10. The first and
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  foremost point of wisdom is the fear of Adonai.
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  All those living by it gain good common sense.
• 51:13
  His praise stands forever. Okay. So didn't he
• 51:18
  just say all? My phone is going again. I don't
• 51:21
  know what's wrong with it. Hang on people. It's
• 51:24
  okay. The Psalmist here is saying of all things,
• 51:30
  the fear of the Lord. Right? Read that one more
• 51:34
  time. The very beginning of it. The first and
• 51:37
  foremost point of wisdom is the fear of Adonai.
• 51:41
  All right. That's it. The first and foremost
• 51:46
  point of wisdom is the fear of Adonai with fear
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  of the Lord So you got it from the psalmist you
• 51:52
  got it from the writer of Proverbs Now let's
• 51:56
  continue with Solomon's thinking. Do you care
• 51:58
  to go to? Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 17 Ecclesiastes
• 52:05
  so the preacher Solomon the preacher sits down
• 52:09
  and writes vanity vanity everything is vanity
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  but Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books.
• 52:16
  It's quite, it's a very remarkable book. And
• 52:18
  I have a feeling that Elaine and I will go through
• 52:20
  that book again one day together. I would love
• 52:23
  to do that. But Ecclesiastes chapter eight, listen
• 52:26
  to the limits, the limits. He points out, this
• 52:31
  is a man that has done everything under the sun
• 52:34
  and is a master builder. Ecclesiastes 8, 17.
• 52:39
  You're probably having a problem finding it in
• 52:40
  the clean, polite Jewish Bible because it's so...
• 52:43
  I am. I am. I am. There we are. I've got it.
• 52:46
  Yeah, it's under Colette. Yeah. Chapter 8. Chapter
• 52:54
  8, verse 17. Verse 17. It says. Then on looking
• 53:05
  over all of God's work, I realized that it is
• 53:08
  impossible to grasp all the activity taking place
• 53:11
  under the sun, because even if a person works
• 53:14
  hard at searching it out, he won't grasp it.
• 53:18
  And even if a wise person thinks he knows it,
• 53:21
  he still won't be able to grasp it. To catch
• 53:25
  that really is the bottom line, isn't it? Uh
• 53:28
  huh. That's right. So what is he so so he's saying
• 53:31
  something that Again, nothing new to the Sun.
• 53:33
  He's making it very very clear that whatever
• 53:36
  it is He's talking about that he's grasping this
• 53:39
  comes from the Lord if you would go over to chapter
• 53:41
  12 in that same book I am your little sausage.
• 53:46
  I've just put it down and gone back to Joe. I've
• 53:48
  got it. I've got it Alright chapter 12 verse
• 53:51
  13. So listen to what he says is the final word
• 53:55
  on wisdom. This is the builder I do too. I do
• 53:59
  here is the final conclusion Now that you have
• 54:03
  heard everything, fear God and keep his commands.
• 54:07
  For this is what being human is all about. Catch
• 54:13
  that. Again, not only is... I do think this complete
• 54:19
  Jewish Bible really lays it out a little bit
• 54:21
  sort of more simply and more deeply somehow.
• 54:28
  Yeah, I think so. What does it say in yours,
• 54:30
  Rick? Let me go to it. Ecclesiastes chapter 12.
• 54:34
  Yep. All right. Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse
• 54:41
  13. Yeah. The conclusion when all has been heard
• 54:47
  is fear God and keep his commandments because
• 54:50
  this applies to every person. Right. Now, what
• 54:55
  was that last scripture that you read out, Rick?
• 54:58
  Well, I read out. What was it? Chapter what?
• 55:00
  Chapter eight, chapter eight, verse seven. Seventeen.
• 55:07
  Seventeen. Right. Oh, wait a minute. Was it 17?
• 55:12
  Yeah. Ecclesiastes eight. Seventeen. What was
• 55:14
  it before that? Psalm one one hundred and eleven
• 55:19
  verse ten. Well, let's look at Psalm one hundred
• 55:22
  and eleven verse ten, because I thought that
• 55:23
  there was a good point there in Psalm one hundred
• 55:26
  and eleven verse ten. I will go to Psalm 111
• 55:30
  verse 10 myself in mind. I think it's I think
• 55:35
  it's excellent here where the Psalmist says the
• 55:39
  first and foremost point of wisdom is the fear
• 55:43
  of Adonai. So that's the first and foremost point.
• 55:46
  Was that in Psalm 111? That is Psalm 111 and
• 55:50
  verse. Mine doesn't say the first and foremost.
• 55:52
  Mine just says the fear of the Lord is the beginning
• 55:54
  of wisdom. That's what mine says. No, mine says
• 55:57
  the first and foremost point of wisdom is the
• 55:59
  fear of Adonai. But here we have in Ecclesiastes,
• 56:03
  he's saying he is the final conclusion. So we've
• 56:07
  got the first point is, yeah, that's what you've
• 56:09
  got to start with. But the final conclusion,
• 56:12
  everything being heard and being, this is what
• 56:16
  human being human is about, fear God and keep
• 56:19
  his commands. And now, let's face it, what does
• 56:22
  the Lord say? What are the greatest commands?
• 56:26
  He says to love God with all your heart, soul,
• 56:28
  mind and power and to love your neighbor as yourself.
• 56:32
  Against such things, there is no law. So here
• 56:34
  we have fearing God and keeping his commands.
• 56:37
  So then we have these commands built in here.
• 56:40
  That is the final say on anything. Yes. All right.
• 56:44
  So you heard it here, folks, but listen, Elaine,
• 56:49
  Brilliant listen to this you just unlocked what
• 56:52
  was basically the whole point that i'm trying
• 56:55
  to bring in job twenty eight listen to how job
• 56:58
  says it. Remember the building up i'm gonna go
• 57:01
  to a builder i'm gonna go to bezel here in just
• 57:03
  a minute and talk about a builder who works alongside
• 57:06
  and we're gonna get to jesus but i want you to
• 57:08
  read again. And I'm going to read it in mind
• 57:11
  too, but I want you to read again. Job 28 verse
• 57:14
  28 and listen to how Job says it. Cause you said
• 57:17
  you got the first and foremost and you got the
• 57:20
  final conclusion. Yes. Listen to how Job says
• 57:23
  it. And to human beings. He said, look, fear
• 57:28
  of Adonai is wisdom. Shunning evil is understanding.
• 57:33
  The end. It's not the beginning. It's not the
• 57:36
  conclusion. Fear of the Lord is wisdom. Fear
• 57:42
  of the Lord is wisdom. Okay, so it's the beginning.
• 57:45
  It's the end. Do you know what it is, Rick? It's
• 57:47
  a state of being. Yes. It's a state of being.
• 57:51
  It is how it you guys remember me talking about
• 57:55
  heart posture, heart posture, heart posture,
• 57:58
  the heart of man. Earlier, Elaine said, if you
• 58:00
  don't resist the Holy Spirit, Guys, we have worked
• 58:06
  down to the creamy nougat of this three musketeers
• 58:08
  bar. We're in the middle here. Like, this is
• 58:10
  where it's at, guys. The fear of the Lord is
• 58:13
  the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord
• 58:15
  is wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the conclusion
• 58:17
  of it. And what does he say? Depart from evil
• 58:20
  is understanding. Do not resist the Holy Spirit,
• 58:23
  but resist the devil and he will flee from you
• 58:25
  is the way that they said it in the New Testament.
• 58:28
  Right. OK, now. If you would elate go to exodus
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  31 I want to show you. A very early on idea here
• 58:38
  okay so remember I tell you I've been telling
• 58:40
  you this is outside of the covenant. But I want
• 58:43
  you to read something about the beginning of
• 58:45
  the the heaven and earth covenant of Sinai and
• 58:47
  this is so fascinating is exodus chapter 31 verse
• 58:52
  3 I'm going to turn there to 31 verse 3. And
• 59:00
  I want you guys to do actually you just read
• 59:03
  one through three, right? Well, hold on One through
• 59:10
  five read Exodus 31 one through five. It makes
• 59:13
  more sense if you say it like this One through
• 59:18
  what five Exodus 31 one through five, right?
• 59:22
  It says Adonai said to Moshe I have singled out,
• 59:26
  but Zell ill the son of Yuri, the son of her,
• 59:31
  of the tribe of Judah. I have filled him with
• 59:35
  the spirit of God, with wisdom and understanding
• 59:39
  and knowledge concerning every kind of artisanry.
• 59:44
  He is a master designer of gold, of silver, of
• 59:49
  bronze, cutting precious stones to be set, wood
• 59:53
  carving, and every other craft. Now, can you
• 59:56
  please look up what does, you've got it, what
• 1:00:01
  is it written in yours in English? It says Bezalel,
• 1:00:05
  and I wanted to bring him up on purpose. You
• 1:00:07
  want to look up the word? Can you have a little
• 1:00:09
  look? Well, can you say what does that mean in
• 1:00:11
  Hebrew, please? Yeah, let me pull it up. Give
• 1:00:14
  me one second. So Exodus 31. So while I'm looking
• 1:00:17
  it up, I want to point something. If you guys
• 1:00:19
  didn't see it, I'd be shocked, but notice that
• 1:00:22
  the master builder of this house, do you see
• 1:00:24
  what tribe he's coming from? What tribe? Judah.
• 1:00:29
  Isn't that interesting? Somebody that's coming
• 1:00:31
  up out of Judah that's going to build a house
• 1:00:33
  and he's going to be a master builder. And I
• 1:00:37
  filled him with the spirit of God. That's interesting.
• 1:00:39
  It says I filled him. Normally the spirit rested
• 1:00:41
  on them and then left. Yes, but he filled it.
• 1:00:45
  In order to do the work, in order to do the work,
• 1:00:49
  this man had to be filled by God in order to
• 1:00:51
  do it. That's the wisdom. Listen. Verse three,
• 1:00:55
  I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom
• 1:00:58
  and in understanding and in knowledge and in
• 1:01:00
  all manner of workmanship. So God puts all of
• 1:01:03
  these together in the master builder. You guys
• 1:01:05
  are going to see this master builder later on
• 1:01:08
  in the New Testament. So Bazaliel, Bazaleel,
• 1:01:11
  Bazaleel, it means shadow of God. Well, I'll
• 1:01:17
  tell you what is obviously is a shadow and the
• 1:01:23
  The physical of what is going to come in the
• 1:01:26
  spiritual. It's only a shadow because it's the
• 1:01:28
  reality that casts a shadow. So he's picking
• 1:01:32
  up what we're laying down. Are you guys picking
• 1:01:34
  this up? All right. So in the Proverbs, wisdom
• 1:01:36
  is taught in Ecclesiastes. Wisdom is tested in
• 1:01:40
  Job. Wisdom is stripped down to its core. That's
• 1:01:45
  what's happening in Job chapter 28. All right
• 1:01:47
  now. And Proverbs 8 chapter 30 or chapter chapter
• 1:01:52
  8 verse 30 says then I was beside him like a
• 1:01:54
  master builder Let's let's go to Proverbs chapter
• 1:01:56
  8 you guys should know Proverbs 8 Proverbs 8
• 1:02:00
  pretty fascinating I might even share the script
• 1:02:04
  now. I'm not gonna serve the screen. Just get
• 1:02:05
  your Bibles guys Proverbs chapter 8 it's good
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  to get your Bibles get your Bibles out Proverbs
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  chapter 8 Do you know what I think when you read
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  that with the with the word shadow in there?
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  It says, as I said to Moses, I have singled out
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  a shadow to do all these things. And that's what
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  I'm saying. And this is why I say to people,
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  please look up words, look up what they mean
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  in Hebrew, because you will get a great idea
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  of what they're conveying to you. They're hiding
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  something that will be exposed at a later date.
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  So when you see the which is exposed, you can
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  go back and go, that's what it was. That's what
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  it meant. That's right. That's if you do anything,
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  look up the names of people. So all right. Rather
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  than we don't have time, I'm sorry, we just don't
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  have time for the study to do this. So I'm going
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  to ask you guys to do some homework. Go back
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  and read Proverbs chapter eight, because I think
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  there's like 30 verses in here or more. Let me
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  see. No, there's 36 verses and it's about wisdom.
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  And it's given the female pronoun she and that.
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  Oh, I love that. I do, too. I love that. You
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  should. You should. Absolutely. All right, guys.
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  So I'm going to move on to the study just because
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  of timing. We've already been at this for a little
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  over an hour. So if you would, I'm going to go
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  to Matthew. I'm just going to read quickly if
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  that's OK. In Matthew, chapter 12, verse 42,
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  you guys all know this one. You should know it.
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  Matthew, chapter 12, verse 42 says. The Queen
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  of the South will rise up with this generation
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  at the judgment and will condemn it because she
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  came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom
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  of Solomon and behold something greater than
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  Solomon is here. What a statement. Now, it was
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  the wisdom of Solomon that she was seeking, but
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  something greater than Solomon is here. All right.
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  I've got, but what is here now is greater than
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  Solomon. Thank you. Yeah. Let's go to John chapter
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  five, John chapter five. And I'm going to read
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  verse 19. This is where this is what the master
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  builder who builds up wisdom, who understands
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  wisdom with the first and foremost and final
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  conclusion of wisdom and what's torn down in
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  Job. This is where you end up. This is where
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  you should be. John chapter 5 verse 19. Listen
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  to what Jesus says. Therefore Jesus answered
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  and was saying to them, truly, truly I say to
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  you, the son can do nothing of himself unless
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  it is something he sees the father doing. For
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  whatever the father does, these things the son
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  also does in like manner. For the father loves
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  the son and shows him all things that he himself
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  is doing. And the father will show him greater
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  Will show him greater works than these so that
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  you will marvel So jesus is in this this posture
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  towards I only do what the father tells me How
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  important is that when it comes to wisdom john
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  chapter eight go to john chapter eight? I do
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  like the way he puts it in mine better though
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  rick. I do. Yeah chomp chapter eight You think
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  that your stuff is always better? Um Well, that's
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  not strictly true, brother. I'm just messing
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  with you, sister. No, no, I'll take that personally
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  now. I might tell her. Yeah, well, read it to
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  me. Read yours, John five. The way that John
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  five, it says John five verse 90, it says, therefore,
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  Yeshua said this to them. Yes, indeed. I tell
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  you, the son cannot do anything on his own, but
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  only what he sees the father doing. Whatever
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  the father does, the son does too. for the Father
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  loves the Son and shows him everything he does
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  and he will show him even greater things in these
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  so that you will be amazed. I think it's an ongoing
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  present that he does. Yes. You know, you said
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  doing, but he does is a present ongoing, isn't
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  it? That's right. Well, let's go over to John
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  chapter 8, verse 29. I'm going to read mine while
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  you're turning. Yep. He says, and he who sent
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  me is with me. He has not left me alone, for
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  I always do the things that are pleasing to him.
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  Yeah, I've got also the one who sent me is still
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  with me. He did not leave me to myself because
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  I always do what pleases him. OK, so this is
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  that again, heart posture. This is the moment
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  the Messiah is always doing what is pleasing
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  to the father. He is always listening to the
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  father. But isn't it going back? Isn't it, again,
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  I keep sort of going back to the beginning and
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  to the end, because Jesus is the Alpha, the Omega,
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  the first and the last, the beginning and the
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  end. You know, isn't that sort of, isn't that
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  he is the last Adam or the second Adam? Isn't
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  he the one that is showing that I always do the
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  things pleasing? I'm a son and I have obeyed
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  him. I haven't questioned. I've obeyed him and
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  this is the thing you know it goes back to being
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  in obedience and this is this is what wisdom
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  is this is what understanding is this is what
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  knowledge applies itself to that like it says
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  there to fear God and to keep his commands well
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  when you do that you're obeying him and this
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  is exactly what Christ did what Adam did in the
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  garden close us into this you know this evil
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  and good aspect that we don't even know ourselves
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  which is why we have to go back to who can show
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  us that way and it's that the state of being
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  is to have the thoughts of god the words of god
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  and the actions of god become that the bee attitudes
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  in the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom
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  and keeping his commandments adam said I'm not
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  going to keep His commandments, therefore I don't
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  fear the Lord, therefore I'm unwise, foolish
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  and now in darkness. Jesus always does what the
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  Father is doing and He reverses and redeems the
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  bride back to God. In fact, the whole of the
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  Bible is a chiasm. Yes, it is. So go to First
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  Corinthians chapter one. I mean, again, you know,
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  when you when you sort of break it all down,
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  you see it. Well, it's a story becomes incredibly
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  small, really. It's incredibly deep. but it's
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  incredibly small yes in as much as when you know
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  where everything's sort of fitting in you can
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  look at something go oh i know what you meant
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  there i know what you meant there because it's
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  you're looking at it in a totally different way
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  rather than just gaining knowledge sort of like
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  you know here i can i could sort of reel them
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  off it's not it's about the application what
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  does it mean am i thinking in my spirit lord
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  you know why did you think that why did you say
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  that How am I supposed to utilize those things
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  in myself so that I can live them out? Be them.
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  I want to be them. Like Jesus said, these are
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  the attitude. They're the attitude of being.
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  That's what it is, isn't it? It is. That's what
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  it is. And what I'm going to know what I'm going
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  to read in First Corinthians, chapter one is
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  probably what you were saying while I was away.
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  Starting a verse 22, he says, for indeed, Jews
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  ask for signs. Oh, yeah. and Greeks search for
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  wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified to Jews
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  a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,
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  but to those who are the called, both Jews and
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  Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom
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  of God. Amen. Because the foolishness of God
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  is wiser than men and the weakness of God is
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  stronger than men. So there you see that Christ
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  is the wisdom of God. Yeah, is a person wisdom
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  is a person. Of course it is it's Christ That's
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  all over you know all over the things I was fond
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  of were the sons of men It says here in mine.
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  What verse was you reading from 20? 20 21 I read
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  22 through 25 Like 22 it says it might my little
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  numbers are so tight. It's just precisely because
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  Jews ask for signs and Greeks try to find wisdom.
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  We go on proclaiming a messiah executed on a
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  stake as a criminal. To Jews this is an obstacle,
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  and to Greeks it is a nonsense. But to those
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  who are called, both Jews and Greeks, this same
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  messiah is God's power and God's wisdom. This
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  messiah, this person, is wisdom personified.
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  For God's nonsense is wiser than humanity's wisdom.
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  I know, I do. Yes, I do. You know, God's nonsense
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  is wiser than humanity's wisdom. And that's it.
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  He doesn't stop there. Go to verse 30 in that
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  same chapter, chapter one, verse 30. Listen to
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  what he says about us. Listen closely. Verse
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  30. It says, it is his doing that you are united
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  with the Messiah Yeshua. He has become wisdom
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  for us from God, and righteousness, and holiness,
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  and redemption as well. Therefore, as the law
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  says, let anyone who wants to boast, boast about
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  Adam and Eve. So not only is he wisdom, he became
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  our wisdom. Absolutely. The human being himself.
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  Mic drop moment. To be himself. To be that. and
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  this is this is what it says this is the image
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  of God that Adam lost that Christ is taking us
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  back to we need to have the mind which is to
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  think we need to after we have the mind to analyze
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  it and process it we need to speak it and then
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  once we've spoken it we need to act it out and
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  that is taking us back to the image of God and
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  that is wisdom yep that's right now I'm going
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  to close this one out in Isaiah chapter 11. All
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  right, Isaiah chapter 11 has become one of my
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  favorite chapters in all of the Bible because
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  I see it. It's everywhere in the New Testament.
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  I think that it links to Stephen and what he
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  sees in the heavens. I think it links to Jesus,
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  of course, and what I believe, of course, of
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  course it does. So in Isaiah 11, chapter one,
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  chapter 11, verse one and two, he says, then
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  a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse. and
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  a branch from his roots will bear fruit, the
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  spirit of the Lord will rest on him, the spirit
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  of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel
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  and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the
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  fear of the Lord, and he will delight in the
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  fear of the Lord. I'm going to stop there. Do
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  you hear that? Yeah, the delight. And there we
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  go. Eden is delight, the garden of delight. So
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  let's wrap this up for Jov. you couldn't make
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  it up could you yeah i mean you know people say
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  oh the bible's a load of rubbish i mean you know
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  there there's foolishness standing right in front
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  of you then isn't there yeah joe joe it's crazily
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  amazing you have to just scratch your head with
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  wonder you just i just love the spirit of god
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  i love god so much and i know you're doing yeshua
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  i mean this man i just look to him as my example
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  and i fail miserably like we all do But isn't
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  it wonderful that he says wash each other's feet.
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  You are already cleansed in your spirit I've
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  washed you in your spirit, but you're going to
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  tread in places that I don't really like you
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  need to wash each other's feet I'll wash yours.
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  You'll wash mine and we'll be clean. This is
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  forgiveness. Yes I love it. I love it too. And
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  that's guys. I hope that this has helped remember
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  remember this part Proverbs shows a master builder
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  building up to this idea. Ecclesiastes is the
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  preacher that tests it all and puts it all together
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  and then comes to the conclusion of this is what
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  it is. Then you have Job, who was the great one,
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  who didn't know it, obviously, then was torn
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  all the way down. Well, you think that ties in
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  with Christ, doesn't it? He came from above and
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  humbled himself, was brought low. And while the
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  enemy The enemy of God, the adversary that is
• 1:14:44
  in the council of God seeks to find those that
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  he can devour, but seeks those that will curse
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  God. That's what he does. That's his operation.
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  That's what he does. And that's what he believes.
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  Job got, God says this is job God chose job so
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  that he could get to 28. Amen. He used the adversary
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  to do it. He did. Just like whenever Jesus goes,
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  the spirit of God drove Christ into the wilderness.
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  If you pay close attention after his baptism,
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  it says in the spirit led him into the wilderness.
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  So God chose the sun to come to this earth, chose
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  him to go into the wilderness, to be tested by
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  that very adversary. It's identical. And you
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  know what? it is incredibly identical and again
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  you again it's even talking about that scripture
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  that we read in exodus you know he got the shadow
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  to be the uh the master to be able to put these
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  things up and you know that's christ it's just
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  it's all there everything's there you know christ
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  is stamped all over it you know every page of
• 1:15:49
  the bible you might go christ turn it over christ
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  turn it over christ turn it over christ and that's
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  the thing to look into it and see christ that
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  is to peer in to the perfect word of god is christ
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  all of this is about Christ and when you peer
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  into this Christ is everywhere and everything
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  and so now I hope you can understand when I say
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  it like this I'm thankful that God chose me to
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  put me through the suffering that he did because
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  in it he found me and I found him he found you
• 1:16:24
  that's what it's about he found me but I found
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  him simultaneously He showed me himself and I
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  come to the realization of who he is. That's
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  the that's the human experience. So I hope that
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  this study has been a good help for you, Elaine,
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  as always. Thank you so much for being with me.
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  This means the world to me. And I hope it is
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  to you guys and to you, Elaine. Just I love you
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  guys so much. And come back for twenty nine.
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  Read ahead. Read twenty nine, but also read Proverbs
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  eight about wisdom. Think about Christ when you
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  read it. Yeah. Yeah. Just just may God lead you
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  into other things that we've spoken about and
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  just just just say what what you're teaching
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  me here lord that's what i say to him treat me
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  like i'm an idiot treat me like i'm a five -year
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  -old treat me like you're just easy little words
• 1:17:06
  but there's such depth there that's all you need
• 1:17:09
  to say ask god to lead you like you just said
• 1:17:11
  there the holy spirit led him you didn't turn
• 1:17:13
  around a minute don't you know i am you know
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  he he went he followed the lead and this is the
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  same with us you know we humble ourselves and
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  we follow the lead if god says what you've been
• 1:17:23
  thinking for a long time is wrong then discard
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  it That's right. Listen to what the spirit is
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  saying. God bless you all. Thank you for listening
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  to our study. Yeah, what a great day. I enjoyed
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  this study with you, Elaine. Thanks so much.
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  Well, exactly. Well, we always have so much fun.
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  This is the whole point, you know, it's disturbing
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  to the word of God, but, you know, we're learning
• 1:17:42
  so much and yet we're bonding over just our own
• 1:17:46
  characters and personalities and experiences,
• 1:17:47
  but we're all being shaped together. And that's
• 1:17:50
  the wonderful thing. Our minds are being shaped
• 1:17:51
  at the same time. Absolutely. And I'm going to
• 1:17:55
  let me show you. I got a new way of closing and
• 1:17:57
  away we go. Now, I'll tell you what, brothers
• 1:18:03
  and sisters, the way it closes, when he stops
• 1:18:05
  it, he says, you know what, I've got to go for
• 1:18:07
  a pee. So I sit there for three minutes. Yeah,
• 1:18:09
  that's what we do at the end. I say, well, got
• 1:18:11
  to go for a pee because that's look. And I'll
• 1:18:13
  tell you another secret. He turns around and
• 1:18:15
  says, I know when the study's got our end because
• 1:18:18
  I can't hold the bladder anymore. That's how
• 1:18:20
  you know it's over. Just so we've been at this.
• 1:18:22
  That's his secret. That's the end of this study
• 1:18:24
  and I've had enough. I gotta pee. You gotta pee.
• 1:18:28
  So pee off your pop. Off your pop. I love you
• 1:18:31
  guys. We'll talk to you next time. Go read 29
• 1:18:33
  and Proverbs 8. See you next week. Bye, darlings.
• 1:18:37
  Bye bye.