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Setting the Stage for Disaster, Part 3 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: There is an enemy we encounter we cannot see. We
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  Speaker 1: have a very real enemy. We encounter him regularly or
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  Speaker 1: one of his emissaries. Let me add, he is real.
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  Speaker 1: He has a strategy aiming to play tricks on your
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  Speaker 1: mind and conquer you and bring you down.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever looked back on a painful season of
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  Speaker 2: your life and realize that God was doing something you
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  Speaker 2: knew absolutely nothing about, that behind the scenes, in ways
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  Speaker 2: completely invisible to you, he was permitting things to enfold
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  Speaker 2: you could never have anticipated. Today on Insight for a
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  Speaker 2: Living Jucksun Daulph continues his series Job a man of
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  Speaker 2: heroic endurance, and takes us behind the curtain into a
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  Speaker 2: scene that Job himself never witnessed, a conversation that changed everything.
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  Speaker 2: Teaching from Job chapter one, Chuck titled his message setting
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  Speaker 2: the stage for disaster.
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  Speaker 1: As Job sleeps, another scene opens to us that Job
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  Speaker 1: knows nothing about It happens in our lives as well,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not aware of it. God is carrying out
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  Speaker 1: a plan that would amaze us and on occasion, would
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  Speaker 1: shock us. He is permitting things to get under way
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  Speaker 1: that we would have never expected. Either that or he
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  Speaker 1: is not fully sovereign. This is a very important part
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  Speaker 1: of understanding Job. If it teaches nothing else, it teaches
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  Speaker 1: the absolute sovereignty of God, which is full of mystery.
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  Speaker 1: Without Job's knowing it, something is happening in the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: and we are transported from Earth to the Third Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: It is in the laser like light of the Third
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  Speaker 1: Heaven we come in verse six, and God is sitting
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  Speaker 1: in his throne room, if you will to use our terms,
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  Speaker 1: And he looks about, and he sees the sons of
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  Speaker 1: God that have come to present themselves before the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: That makes sense. They're accountable to him. They do his bidding,
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  Speaker 1: they carry out his will, They accomplish his purposes. But
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  Speaker 1: there is an intruder. There is one who is not
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  Speaker 1: among the elect angels. He is identified in the Hebrew
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  Speaker 1: text Get this the satan? What does it mean? Sometime
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  Speaker 1: in noun form it is rendered simply the adversary or
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  Speaker 1: the accuser. He accuses God's people day and night. And
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  Speaker 1: here the accuser appears among the other angels. Beginning at
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  Speaker 1: verse seven down through verse twelve, we have a dialogue
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  Speaker 1: that is the most interesting dialogue. You won't find it
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  Speaker 1: anywhere else in the Bible only here here. And in
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  Speaker 1: chapter two, the Lord said, verse seven. Satan answered verse seven,
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  Speaker 1: I should have said the Satan the accuser, the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: verse eight, The Satan answered verse nine, and verse twelve,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord said, and the Satan departed. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: dialogue back and forth. The Lord God seize the intruder
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  Speaker 1: and speaks to him from where do you come? Satan's
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  Speaker 1: answer is a brief and somewhat impudent roaming about on
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  Speaker 1: the earth and walking around on it. The Satan has
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  Speaker 1: access to this planet as well as the heavens he
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  Speaker 1: moves about, and his mnemonic forces as well. He's a
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  Speaker 1: supernatural being. He could move from Asia to America. He
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  Speaker 1: could move from Mexico to the North Pole in a
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  Speaker 1: split second of time. Those kind of things are not
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  Speaker 1: the things that restrain spiritual beings. The same will be
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  Speaker 1: true of us in our spiritual bodies. He says, I've
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  Speaker 1: been roaming about on the earth. I love the statement.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord asks, have you considered my servant job? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I fail to read the most important part of his resume,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, verse three, last sentence that man was the
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  Speaker 1: greatest of all the men of the East. No exaggeration.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, the wonderful thing about Job is that
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  Speaker 1: he was a servant. There was no celebrity about Job.
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  Speaker 1: There was no pride in Job's heart. Job is a
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  Speaker 1: servant of God. Did you observe my servant? By the way,
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  Speaker 1: if our Lord were pointing out to the enemy, you
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  Speaker 1: would he use the word servant to describe you, I
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  Speaker 1: hope so have you observed my servant Job down there?
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he adds, there is no one like him
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  Speaker 1: on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God
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  Speaker 1: and turning away from evil with the word evil. The
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  Speaker 1: original axis of evil responds interestingly, does Job fear God
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  Speaker 1: for nothing? I mean, look talk about kid glove treatment,
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  Speaker 1: penthouse perks. Look at what he has. Watch closely. Have
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  Speaker 1: you not made a hedge about him and his house
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  Speaker 1: and all that he has? Look at the categories. You
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  Speaker 1: have protected him in his body, you have protected him
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  Speaker 1: in his family, and you have protected his possessions, all
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  Speaker 1: that he owns on every side. I mean, the divine
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  Speaker 1: wall around this man's life is enviable. You have not
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  Speaker 1: only protected him, you have blessed the work of his hands,
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  Speaker 1: and his possessions have increased in the land. The accuser
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  Speaker 1: points out divine favoritism, the audacity of that you have
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  Speaker 1: built a hedge around him. You have blessed him like
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  Speaker 1: no other who wouldn't worship you. His great hope is
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  Speaker 1: to level Job. You bring him down to the dirt
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  Speaker 1: like the rest of those humans have to live, and
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  Speaker 1: you'll see what he's made of. Look and how he
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  Speaker 1: puts it. You put forth your hand Verse eleven, and
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  Speaker 1: touch all. I have marked that word in my Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Touch all that he has, and he will curse you
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  Speaker 1: to your faith. Now it's a clever plan. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: Job does not deserve that kind of treatment. Job has
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  Speaker 1: walked with God, certainly in his adult years. Job is
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  Speaker 1: now the best of the best. He is the greatest
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  Speaker 1: in the land of the East, and he is a
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  Speaker 1: servant of God. But Satan's response is, you want to
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  Speaker 1: know what he's really made of. Remove all the protection,
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  Speaker 1: strip away all the veneer of comfort, and you'll see
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  Speaker 1: deep inside he'll turn on you. He will curse you
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  Speaker 1: to your face. Satan's prediction still of treating him like
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  Speaker 1: an over indulged child, Why don't you treat him like
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  Speaker 1: anybody else on earth? Let him feel the pain of
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  Speaker 1: a disease. Let him know what it's like to suffer
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  Speaker 1: the sorrow of death of a child. Let him go
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  Speaker 1: through the loss of some of those possessions. You'll see
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  Speaker 1: what joke made of his point is that he's worshiping
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  Speaker 1: God because of what he gets out of it, not
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  Speaker 1: because the Lord is first in his life. Verse twelve
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  Speaker 1: is an amazing statement. The Lord said to Satan, behold
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  Speaker 1: all I've marked that, all that he has is in
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  Speaker 1: your power. Now that's a go any further. It's a frightening,
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  Speaker 1: frightening thought. Look at the permission slip he passes, Satan.
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  Speaker 1: All that he has is yours to deal with. He
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  Speaker 1: puts a caveat there only do not put forth your
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  Speaker 1: hand on him. Don't you touch his life. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: touch his body. Don't you touch his soul. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: touch his mind, you touch his possessions, you touch his family.
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  Speaker 1: Leave him alone. So Satan departed from the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Now I know some of you are still
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  Speaker 1: hung up on how in the world did the intruder
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  Speaker 1: get in? Right? I don't know. Now, let's go on.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of these things I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just know what's written, and I accept it. There
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  Speaker 1: was a time in my life I had answers for
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  Speaker 1: questions nobody was asking, and I philosophically meandered all around
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  Speaker 1: Robin Hood's barn, coming up with answers that I thought
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  Speaker 1: were so profound, but they had no biblical basis. We're
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  Speaker 1: never told why, oh, if you have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: commentators giving you their opinions, but they're worth nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than your opinion or mine, So why waste our time
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  Speaker 1: with opinions? The fact is Satan is allowed in, and
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  Speaker 1: Satan is allowed this moment of bargaining, and God, for
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  Speaker 1: some profound, unrevealed reason, says, I'll take you up on that.
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  Speaker 1: Does he still do that? I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I know he did it here, and I know when
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  Speaker 1: the light flash green, that's all Satan wanted. Let me
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  Speaker 1: at him. We're talking the original ground zero. In a
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  Speaker 1: matter of hours, he is reduced to a twisted mass
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  Speaker 1: of humanity. But let's leave for this period and let's
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  Speaker 1: apply what we've heard. Okay. I find four principles that
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  Speaker 1: emerge from these first twelve verses that help me today.
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  Speaker 1: At least I can say these four things from the text,
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  Speaker 1: and they seem worth mentioning and worth remembering. You may
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  Speaker 1: wish to write them down. Who knows, someday you may
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  Speaker 1: need them, just as I'm sure at this time Job
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  Speaker 1: needed someone to help him remember them when this happened.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, there is an enemy we encounter we cannot see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean to frighten you with this, but I
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  Speaker 1: need to. I do mean to educate you. There is
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  Speaker 1: an enemy we encounter we cannot see. Get past your empiricism.
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  Speaker 1: You were trained in college, You were trained to think
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  Speaker 1: deeper and not to buy into all of this superstitious stuff.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't prove it in a test tube, it
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  Speaker 1: isn't there. If you can't see it, it isn't real.
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  Speaker 1: Nonsense is my answer to that. Some of the most
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  Speaker 1: real things in life you and I will never see.
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  Speaker 1: We have a very real enemy, and we encounter him
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  Speaker 1: regularly or one of his emissaries. And let me add
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  Speaker 1: he is real. He is real. He has a strategy
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  Speaker 1: aiming to play tricks on your mind and conquer you
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  Speaker 1: and bring you down. His hope ultimately is to ruin
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  Speaker 1: your testimony and to destroy your life in the process.
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  Speaker 1: If it takes ruining your family relationships. He'll go there.
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  Speaker 1: If it takes tempting you to take cut corners in
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  Speaker 1: your business where you would not have done so, and
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  Speaker 1: earlier day, he'll go there. Whatever it takes. We encounter
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  Speaker 1: an enemy, and because we cannot see him does not
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  Speaker 1: mean he is not just as real. Second principle, trials
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  Speaker 1: we endure we do not deserve, but they are permitted.
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  Speaker 1: There are trials we endure we do not deserve. My
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  Speaker 1: imaginary lady in my early example did not deserve to
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  Speaker 1: have a husband that walked out on her. She did
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  Speaker 1: not deserve to work for a company that turned against
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  Speaker 1: the principles that she thought they believed in. She did
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  Speaker 1: not deserve that kind of a physical report. She did not.
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  Speaker 1: She was a hard working single mother trying to raise
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  Speaker 1: three kids under the age of fifteen. But it was
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  Speaker 1: all permitted. That's imaginary. Yours isn't. Do not try to
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  Speaker 1: unscrew God's inscrutability. Do not try to grasp his profound plan.
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  Speaker 1: Do not try. That's a waste. That's a waste. And
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  Speaker 1: because you will not be able to do that, you
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  Speaker 1: will become increasingly more confused, ultimately resentful. Finally, bitter, and
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  Speaker 1: then Satan will have won the day. Accept it, Accept
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  Speaker 1: the trial as permitted by God. Nothing touches my life
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  Speaker 1: that has not first passed through the hands of God. Nothing,
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  Speaker 1: nothing that's either true or He is partially sovereign, which
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  Speaker 1: is a little like saying I am almost a husband.
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  Speaker 1: He is fully sovereign, and he permits trials that we
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  Speaker 1: do not deserve. Number three. There is a plan we explore.
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  Speaker 1: We will not understand, but it is best. There is
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  Speaker 1: a plan we we explore, but we will not understand.
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  Speaker 1: It is best. It works together for good. It isn't
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  Speaker 1: all together good, It works together for good. The disease
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  Speaker 1: job went through wasn't good. It worked together for good.
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  Speaker 1: The loss of his family wasn't good. It worked together
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  Speaker 1: for good. We see in the pinpoint of time, God's
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  Speaker 1: view is panoramic. Tozer put it this way, we think
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  Speaker 1: of ourselves as inhabiting some parenthetic interval between the God
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  Speaker 1: who was and the God who will be, And in
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  Speaker 1: this ever present now we are lost in that ancient
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  Speaker 1: and cosmic loneliness. God's cosmic plan is at work now,
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't feel the need to explain it all
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  Speaker 1: to us. If he tried. Our answer would be like
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  Speaker 1: the student looking at his calculus teacher what you wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: get it, nor would I. And yes, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: add this sometime. It's the permission of demonic attack. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. It's the whole battle with good
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  Speaker 1: and evil, and it is here, and it is you
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  Speaker 1: will live with it. And my answer to you is
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  Speaker 1: to come to terms with it, acknowledge it, seek the
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  Speaker 1: power you have in the Lord Jesus. Don't try to
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  Speaker 1: understand it. Don't try to understand it. Let me say
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  Speaker 1: another word about the enemy? Can I do that? Years ago?
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  Speaker 1: In fact, for forty nine years forty nine years, Doctor
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  Speaker 1: William Henry Greene was professor of Biblical and orient literature
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  Speaker 1: at Princeton Theological Seminary eighteen fifty one to nineteen hundred,
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  Speaker 1: when he died, wrote a fine book called Conflict and Triumph.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that was the era in which the
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  Speaker 1: American Presbyterian Church was having its fight over the inerrancy
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  Speaker 1: of scripture. AA. Hodge, b. B. Warfield, Grecia, Machen, those
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  Speaker 1: names you're familiar with are should be along with them.
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  Speaker 1: This man Green, doctor William Henry Green stood with them
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  Speaker 1: for the inerrancy of scripture. Listen to what he says
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  Speaker 1: about the enemy, referring to Satan. He's not a mere
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  Speaker 1: spy traversing the earth, intent upon ferreting out all he
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  Speaker 1: can discover. He is the old spirit of malice and wickedness,
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  Speaker 1: aiming to pervert men from the right ways of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and to destroy all goodness, as far as it is
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  Speaker 1: in his power. There is a profound meaning in his
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  Speaker 1: appearing here among the sons of God before the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Don't miss this. It is designed to express his subordination
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  Speaker 1: and subjection to divine control. He cannot act at his
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  Speaker 1: own discretion. He is not at liberty to pursue his
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  Speaker 1: mischievous designs to whatever extent he may choose. There is
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  Speaker 1: a I love this. There is a superior restraint to
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  Speaker 1: which he is obliged to bow, a superior will that
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  Speaker 1: sets limits to his rage, and allows him, even within
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  Speaker 1: these limits, to act out his evil nature, only for
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  Speaker 1: the sake of some divine end which he is made
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  Speaker 1: to be instrumental in achieving. He concludes, Satan is the
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  Speaker 1: enemy of goodness and the enemy of humanity, with the
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  Speaker 1: powers of an archangel, and with the malice and subtlety
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  Speaker 1: of a fiend. He is intent on our destruction and
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  Speaker 1: hesitates at nothing by which it can be accomplished. He
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  Speaker 1: pursues his mischievous designs with sleepless vigilance, invisible to human eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He has all the advantage of secrecy and taking his
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  Speaker 1: victims at unawares. He never sleeps, he never rests, He
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  Speaker 1: never takes it easy. You're never out of the crosshairs
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  Speaker 1: of his scope. He knows you better than you will
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  Speaker 1: ever know yourself. He is permitted to do that. The
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  Speaker 1: fourth principle. There are consequences we experience we could not anticipate.
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  Speaker 1: There are consequences we experience we could not anticipate, but
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  Speaker 1: they are necessary. I know, I know some of you
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  Speaker 1: are thinking, don't quit. Well, not all of you, but
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  Speaker 1: some of you are thinking, don't quit here. We have to.
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  Speaker 1: It's enough to digest for now. I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: you find yourself, but I would be willing to wager
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  Speaker 1: that three fourths of you are going through something that
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  Speaker 1: is unfair. Knowing humanity as I do, I would wager
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  Speaker 1: most of you, most of us, are going through something
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  Speaker 1: that we don't deserve. By that, I mean generally, God
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  Speaker 1: will be deserved. We'd all be pretty hot right now.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I mean. You didn't ask for that,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't anticipate that, you didn't think it would come.
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  Speaker 1: You've done your best to do, You've kept your part,
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  Speaker 1: you've maintained your bargain of it. You've stayed by and
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  Speaker 1: look at what's happened. And I just want to say
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  Speaker 1: to you, you have moved onto Job's turf, and if
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  Speaker 1: nothing else, it has prepared you to pay close attention
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  Speaker 1: to the teaching of this book. It has something for
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  Speaker 1: us all. The whole story doesn't end with Satan departing
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  Speaker 1: from the presence of the Lord. There's a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: more here. Let's bow our heads please. I have found
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  Speaker 1: in my years in ministry that when you mention the
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  Speaker 1: enemy as much as I have, two things happen. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, people get very quiet, and I think we
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  Speaker 1: should because it's sobering. And second, he is exposed, so
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  Speaker 1: he kicks his work up a notch. I would not
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  Speaker 1: be surprised that he didn't turn on some of us
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  Speaker 1: in a more direct way, direct demonic attacks against us
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  Speaker 1: in some manner that would be a little out of
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  Speaker 1: the ordinary for our experience. Remember that last point. You
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  Speaker 1: can't anticipate what's going to happen. The good news is
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  Speaker 1: for you who know the Lord Jesus, as you have
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  Speaker 1: a power in Christ, the Lord, that no one else
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  Speaker 1: on this earth has. They are at the mercy of
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  Speaker 1: the enemy. You are not greater is he who is
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  Speaker 1: in you, that Christ, then he who is in the
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  Speaker 1: world that's Satan. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: you are able to restrain and withstand the attacks. I
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  Speaker 1: urge you to walk very sensitively with Christ this week,
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  Speaker 1: very sensitively. If you do not know the Lord Christ,
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  Speaker 1: I invite you to him today. He hangs ready for you.
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  Speaker 1: May seem a strange way to put it, but you see,
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  Speaker 1: it was the cross that opened the door between you
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  Speaker 1: and God. And it's on the cross that he hung,
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  Speaker 1: and there he died, that you might know what life
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  Speaker 1: is all about. Forgiveness, relief, power, strength to go on,
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  Speaker 1: hope when you seem when the path before you seems hopeless.
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  Speaker 1: I point you to Him today. Come by faith, use
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  Speaker 1: your own words in a prayer. Lord, I'm a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: I can't make it on my own. I come to Christ,
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  Speaker 1: who paid the penalty for my sins in full. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: you have for me, give me the strength through Christ
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  Speaker 1: to face it. We'd love to talk with you and
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  Speaker 1: help you get started in this new life. Our Father,
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  Speaker 1: we realize in setting the stage for a disaster that
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  Speaker 1: we have really spoken of a number of different people
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  Speaker 1: situations without knowing it. There's a plan underway that will
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  Speaker 1: reduce us and break us and humble us. And who
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  Speaker 1: knows why. Your plan ultimately is to prepare us to
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  Speaker 1: be like unto your son Christ. But it will hit
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  Speaker 1: us full force, and we will need your strength to
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  Speaker 1: go through this road less traveled. Help us to understand
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  Speaker 1: that a life that is difficult or a life that
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  Speaker 1: is unfair, is still orchestrated by a God who loves
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  Speaker 1: us and has our best at heart, some of it
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  Speaker 1: to discipline us, some of it to reshape us, all
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  Speaker 1: of it for his glory, for your good. Prepare us now,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone said, amen.
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  Speaker 2: Difficult or unfair, either way, it's still orchestrated by a
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  Speaker 2: That's not a sentimental statement. That's the truth that arises
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