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907. Bible Study: Job 19 (Humility, Confusion, Crowns, Blaming the Wrong Person, JESUS and Judgement) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 19 from the book of Job. First let's pray.
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  Dear Lord, please let the Holy Spirit enlighten us as we read
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  through this chapter and learn what you want us to know from
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  this. We ask this in Jesus name Amen.
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  Then job replied. So we are in the middle of going
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  back and forth. In the prior chapter, Bildad,
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  one of Job's friends, spoke. Now Job is responding.
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  Then Job replied, How long will you torment me and crush me with
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  words? 10 times.
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  Now you have reproached me shamelessly.
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  You attack me. If it is true that I have gone
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  astray, my error remains my concern alone.
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  If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my
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  humiliation against me, then know that God has wronged me and
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  drawn His net around me. Though I cry violence, I get no
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  response. Though I call for help, there is
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  no justice. He has blocked my way, so I
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  cannot pass. He has shrouded my paths in
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  darkness. He has stripped me of my honor
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  and removed the crown from my head.
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  He tears me down on every side till I am gone.
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  He uproots my hope like a tree. His anger burns against me.
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  He counts me among his enemies. His troops advance in force.
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  They build a siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
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  He has alienated my family from me.
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  My acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
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  My relatives have gone away. My closest friends have
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  forgotten me. My guests and my female servants
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  count me as a foreigner. They look on me as a stranger.
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  I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him
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  with my own mouth. My breath is offensive to my
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  wife. I am loathsome to my own family.
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  Even the little boys scorn me when I appear.
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  They ridicule me. All my intimate friends to test
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  me, those I love have turned against me.
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  I am nothing but skin and bones. I have escaped only by the skin
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  of my teeth. Have pity on me, my friends,
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  Have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
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  Why do you pursue me as God does?
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  Will you never get enough of my flesh?
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  Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a
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  scroll, that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead and
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  engraved in rock forever. I know that my Redeemer lives
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  and that in the end he will stand on the earth and after my
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  skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
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  I myself will see him with my own eyes, eye and not another.
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  How my heart yearns within me. If you say how will if you say
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  how we will hound him, since the root of the trouble lies in him.
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  You should fear the sword yourselves, for the wrath will
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  bring punishment by the sword, and then you will know that
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  there is judgement. So there's quite a bit here.
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  Quick chapter to read but lots to talk about.
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  So I'll just go through some of my notes that I wrote when I was
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  reading this, and then I'll go into the questions and answers
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  from the study Bible. So we're seeing here that Job is
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  just feels this relentless accusation from his friends.
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  He's like, how long are you going to torment me and crush me
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  with your words? And and then he's also humble.
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  He humbles himself. Despite all the accusations from
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  his friends, Job remains humble. I'm this gives you an indication
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  of his righteousness that God saw in him that he's actually
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  remaining humble even though he's being accused.
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  He is getting upset about it, but he's more like, you guys
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  have pity on me. Stop the accusations.
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  Just understand, you know, like where I'm coming from and and
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  they're just not understanding this.
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  So he humbles himself and he says, if it is true that I've
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  gone astray. So he doesn't believe it, but
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  he's like, if it's true, my error remains my concern.
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  Like you guys don't have to add to it.
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  It this is for me. This is my problem with God.
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  That has to be worked out. And then it says if indeed you
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  would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against
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  me like they're using everything against him.
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  And he says then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net
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  around me. So just in questioning in Job,
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  questioning if my error, if it's my error, if I've gone astray.
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  And and then it's just saying, you know, God has has wronged me
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  and drawn his net around me. To me, this sounds like
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  confusion like this is just and Job is confused.
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  He has never experienced this before.
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  He doesn't understand it. That's why you keep asking God
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  why, you know, like I'm, I don't know what I've done wrong.
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  I why is this all happening to me?
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  Why is this coming upon me? And I think we can also maybe
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  learn something from this because confusion it, I've heard
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  that, you know, Satan is the author of confusion and we know
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  for sure that he is the author of this.
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  Satan is doing this to Job. And so maybe when we have a
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  clear conscience and there's all this stuff coming against us,
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  then could that perhaps be something evil and that is
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  coming against us? Is that spiritual warfare?
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  That's what Job is experiencing. And you know, we have to think
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  about when we, when there is confusion, that's not God.
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  God is very clear. So we can learn something from
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  that. He is reaching out to God.
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  I don't know why God is silent, except that maybe he.
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  That's part of the process of being tested.
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  So if you're not getting an answer about it, maybe that's
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  just part of the testing that you're going through to see how
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  you will, you know, that's testing of a person's patience.
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  And, you know, a lot of people when they get impatient and they
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  think, oh, God's not going to do anything about this, I'm going
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  to take it in my own hands, just like Abraham.
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  And, you know, he messed it up because there's this ongoing war
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  between the children that he fathered.
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  I mean, even to this day you have Ishmael and then you have
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  Isaac and and that you know, Ishmael was the son of a of a
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  servant of Sarah's or Sarah's, Sarah's and then Isaac was the
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  the promised one that God promised.
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  But Abraham actually it was it was Sarah.
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  I mean, and you know what, that's kind of interesting that
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  I just like came to mind. And I don't know why I'm going
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  to say this because I'm female, but it seems like the enemy
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  works through women and then the women convince the men.
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  So there's like this, you know, there's this maybe there's this
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  desire for men, for women, but then the women are the ones that
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  have lured and the men are supposed to be the covering over
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  the women. But, you know, look at Adam and
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  Eve. I mean, Eve was the first one
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  and then she introduced Adam to it and then they both sinned.
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  I mean, they both should be held accountable for it.
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  But it looks like the enemy comes through the the woman.
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  And maybe there's that sort of empathy, that sort of, you know,
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  nurturing side of a female that that's an easier way to get in.
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  And so we have to just think about that, like the enemy
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  coming through that way. Just something to consider.
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  Just an observation. And, you know, we see it in
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  other places, too. Like I think about Rachel, who
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  Jacob loved, and yet she was stealing idols and taking them
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  with her when they left Laban's home and went out to, you know,
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  live on their own. And so that was another one that
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  happened. And then we look at Solomon and
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  his wives, all these women that he married, they were idolatrous
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  and they worshipped other little G gods, fake gods.
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  And then he ended up building temples for them.
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  So it's kind of like we have to be careful of that.
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  Like for females, you have to be careful because we are probably
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  a target of the enemy. The enemy can work through US.
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  Look at Job's own wife. She said curse God and die.
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  Is that something, you know, from God?
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  No, look at the enemy. I mean, I'm just seeing this now
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  over and over. I mean, I didn't plan this or
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  think about this before talking. I mean, this just came to me.
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  So as women, if you know, if if it is the woman that's listening
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  to this, we have to be careful because the enemy will work
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  through us. And then as men, you have to be
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  very cautious about women you let into your life because of
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  what the enemy does, because the enemy can enter your life
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  through a woman. And there's just a whole bunch
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  of examples that just came to mind right now.
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  Oh my gosh. Here's another one too.
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  Jezebel and Ahab. Ahab was a king.
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  And Jezebel was this wicked woman who just, she ruled the
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  house. It wasn't the way that God had
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  structured a family. She was the boss.
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  She wore the pants. She bossed him around.
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  She told him what to do. She said you do this.
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  She was like, she was this domineering woman that was over
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  him. And it's just a it's amazing
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  now. I mean, like, I never thought
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  about this. But and then you look at what is
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  happening in our world, just the twisted, skewed opposite of what
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  God has taught us through the Bible, through what he has given
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  through the word of God. And then how you know something
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  good can be turned into something evil.
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  So women who are good and nurturing and have I I'm no ones
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  good, but you know who have this like empathy for other people,
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  this carrying this nature of wanting to take care of others,
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  this motherly aspect. But then and the enemy can
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  distort that and make a woman think it's a good thing to be in
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  power, to be in control, to dominate, to do all these
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  things. And, and it's praised in our
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  world today. But you can see it's the exact
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  opposite of what God teaches us through Scripture.
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  And you can see that these things cause men to fall.
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  So it's just an observation. And I'm a woman, so I think I
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  can say something like this. And it's the truth.
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  It's in the Bible. Anyway, I'm not going to dwell
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  on that much longer, but just something that came to mind as
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  I'm, I'm going through this. So then, you know, God is, God
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  is silent. Job doesn't know what's going on
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  and but he's seeing all of these like things that he said.
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  He removed the crown from my head and I did a search in
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  Scripture to see what what are the different crowns that are
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  talked about? Because you hear that Paul talks
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  about it and there's other person scripture.
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  Well, what are these crowns that and where do these people get
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  these ideas of these crowns? And so I searched crown and
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  there's like there's a warning in revelation like don't let
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  anybody take your crown. Well, what kind of crown?
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  Who's going to take a crown and what is it?
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  We could probably go into an A whole podcast study about the
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  crown, but I don't really want to go that far off the path
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  here. But it seems like sin actually
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  removes the crown, I guess Lamentations 516 That's what I
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  wrote in here on in my study Bible.
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  And I was looking at the different crowns that are
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  referenced. Second Timothy 48.
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  There's a crown of righteousness.
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  So if we, you know, that's how a crown gets removed.
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  Don't let anyone steal your crown.
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  Don't let anyone cause you to sin and lose your crown.
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  Well, the crown, what is the crown?
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  It's talked about righteousness, the crown of righteousness, the
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  crown of life in James One, verse 12.
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  It's talked about the crown of glory in first Peter chapter 5,
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  verse 4. So there's righteousness, life
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  and glory and then victory in Revelation 210.
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  So those are all the different crowns that are talked about in
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  the Bible and what they represent.
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  Righteousness, life, glory, victory.
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  Don't let anybody take those from you.
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  Righteousness, life, glory and victory.
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  And then in Revelation 12, verse one, Israel is talked is
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  referred to as jewels in the crown, which is interesting too.
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  So God's chosen people are the jewels in the crown.
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  Eventually God will do that. So very interesting if you want
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  to study more word search Crown and see all the different
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  references and read the scripture.
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  Then I'm at verse 11 now and it's Job talking about his anger
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  burns against me. Well, that's not true.
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  Again, deception by the enemy. Job doesn't have the answer.
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  This must have been the first time that mankind was tested by
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  Job, that at least it was documented.
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  Not the first and only time, but it was documented here in this
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  in this story. And so Job thinks God's anger is
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  coming against him. And that's what we can think.
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  If we are going through a period of testing, it may not be
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  because of something that we've done it.
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  And it very well could be something spiritual to test us
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  to see. Like what will we do when
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  something bad comes against us? That was Satan's whole ploy.
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  He said to God, you put a hedge of protection around him.
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  Of course he's going to, you know, worship you and love you
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  and all this stuff because you, you blessed him with all these
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  things. Take that stuff away from him
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  and watch him curse you. That's what Satan was saying was
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  that Job is superficial. He only likes you because of
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  what you've given him. But then God knew Job.
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  And, and this is my speculation, I was wondering if God maybe was
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  trying to show Satan, yeah, you were given everything, but you
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  rejected me. Job was given everything.
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  But now even if I take stuff away, Job will still love me.
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  Like God knows Job's heart. Maybe he was trying to show
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  Satan something. Satan is not like Job.
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  Satan was given everything according to what we find in
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  Scripture about him. But he that wasn't good enough
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  for him. He wanted more.
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  He wanted to be worshipped. He wanted to be God and he
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  wasn't satisfied with his position.
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  And so we have to think about that too.
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  Like that kind of a desire, you know, where is that coming from?
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  Is that from God or is that from the enemy?
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  And is it for goodness or is it for selfishness?
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  We know that really, the more I look at what sin is, Sin is
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  being selfish about things. I mean, if you really boil it
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  down, you can just, you know, like what is sinful?
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  Well, sinful is being selfish, thinking about yourself more
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  than other people. Jesus was the example of being a
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  servant, washing the feet of his disciples.
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  He was the one who is submitted to serve others.
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  He gave his life ultimately for all of us, that how much more
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  could you serve someone than to give your life as a ransom for
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  other people, to save other people?
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  Give your life. That's what Jesus did.
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  And so Jesus teaches us to not be selfish.
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  The world teaches us to be selfish.
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  We are, we can see this, this spiritual forces that are in
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  opposition to one another and that we're kind of caught in the
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  mist. We everything that we hear in
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  the world is like self focused. I mean, do you think about, I
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  don't know, the last what, 5-10 years or so with selfies, you
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  know, and just the focus on, you know, look at me, look at me,
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  look at me and, and the world that we're in.
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  And that's just the opposite of what God teaches us through his
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  word. And the further we get away from
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  the word of God, the further we fall into the pressure of the
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  world to conform to the pressure of the world and become selfish
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  people. And it's the exact opposite of a
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  child of God. A child of God is not a selfish
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  person. A child of God is a servant of
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  others. And these are things that we
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  learn from Scripture. And the only way we're going to
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  learn it from script is from Scripture because this is not
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  normal for any of us. Our life is came about from a
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  sin nature. And until we learn from God, we
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  probably don't quite get this about selfishness.
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  Also, in verse 13, it says he referring to God has alienated
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  my family from me. My acquaintances are completely
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  estranged from me. So the wrong person is blamed by
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  Job. He's confused, he doesn't know,
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  he can't understand, but he's stating a fact that somebody
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  alienated him. The problem is it's not God.
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  And so when bad things happen to us, God doesn't do that to to
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  harm a person. God is not this been he's not
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  this like mean person. He is good.
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  He is he is defined as love. So if you're defined as love,
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  are you going to go after somebody and and do all these
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  things? No, no, I mean, that's just like
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  contrary to what God's nature is, how God is revealed within
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  Scripture. So God does allow discipline.
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  He allows bad things to happen to people because we're hard
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  headed, because we don't turn to God, because we don't recognize
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  him until everything else has been stripped away from us, some
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  of us at least. And then when everything's been
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  stripped away, then you have nothing else.
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  And then you reach out to God because there's nothing else.
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  And that's not the story of everyone, but that's the story
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  of some. And this, the hard headed ones
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  and the ones who are so self absorbed, That's what happens to
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  people is when we don't turn on our own, God will let these
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  things happen. And there's love behind that.
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  There's love like if this finally happens to a person,
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  they're going to their eyes will be open because they'll have
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  nothing else and they'll have to turn to me.
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  So, and even in that, you know, people will make a choice.
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  They'll either say, wow, you let this happen to me, so I don't
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  like you anymore. That could be somebody's
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  response or somebody could humble themselves and say, yeah,
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  this happened to me. But boy, I was not living the
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  way a child of God would live. And I was far from you.
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  The sin separated from me, separated us.
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  And so I want that sin out of my life, and I want to be.
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  In union with you. So there's two different
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  reactions to some destructive thing that happens in our life.
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  Either we we blame God wrongly because we don't look at
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  ourselves, we don't humble, we don't humble, humble ourselves.
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  And if you think about it, that's one of the things that
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  God hates, pride. And so in order to humble
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  yourself, you have to get rid of pride.
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  You have to quit thinking that you're the best, that you're
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  good, that you're, you know, this amazing person.
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  And why would something so devastating happen to such a
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  wonderful, amazing person? We have to get beyond that and
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  look at the truth of who we are. And that's humbling.
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  Nobody wants to admit we all want to be good.
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  We all want to be liked, I guess.
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  And, and so if we want that, I mean, we should really want that
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  from God most of all that well, God loves us.
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  So we it's not conditional upon that.
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  So we already have that from God.
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  We don't necessarily have that from other people and not all
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  people will like us and it really kind of doesn't matter.
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  We only need God's love. And if others know God, they
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  will also because that's the way God is, because God will be in
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  them and because of God's love, we will be loved.
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  So it's like this trickle, trickle down kind of effect with
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  God that when like Jesus prayed to the Father and he said, let
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  them be one as we are one like God, one is this union.
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  And that's what I believe we receive when we become born
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  again, when we become born of the Spirit, when we receive the
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  Holy Spirit through Jesus from the Father and the Holy Spirit,
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  we give the Holy Spirit permission to start acting in
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  our life, to start guiding us and we submit.
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  So again, we have to get rid of our pride and and get rid of our
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  own way of thinking. We know the right way to go.
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  We know what to do. I don't need anybody's help.
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  We need to get rid of that and say, yeah, I don't know.
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  I've tried on my own and I haven't been so successful at
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  times. So God, I need you.
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  I need your guidance. I need the Holy Spirit to guide
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  me. And even when it's something
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  that I don't necessarily prefer, I'm going to choose your way
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  because I know who you are and I respect you.
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  And so I'm going to do it. And then every time we make that
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  choice, this is what I've found personally, is every little
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  choice that we make, every little decision that we make, we
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  then the next ones become a little bit easier.
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  And that may just be like the Holy Spirit.
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  It is the Holy Spirit working in us.
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  Because I know that if I would have looked at the way I am now
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  compared to, you know, 10 years ago, there's a huge difference.
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  And, and I, I don't know how it happened other than seeking God.
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  So anyway, and then Job in verses 14 through 20, he talks
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  about the facts of all the bad things that have happened to
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  him. So he's acknowledging these bad
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  things. It's just he blamed the wrong
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  person. He should have blamed Satan, but
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  he didn't know about that. He just blamed God.
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  But then he's asking his friends in verse 21, have pity on me, my
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  friends. And then he's saying like, why
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  do you pursue me as God does? He's he's not getting any help
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  from his friends. And then what's interesting is
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  verse 23 where you said, oh, that my words were recorded,
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  that they were written on a scroll, that they were inscribed
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  with an iron tool and lead and engraved in rock forever.
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  It's kind of interesting that he actually got his wish because
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  it's in the Bible and now people are reading this for thousands
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  and thousands of years now. This verse 25 through 27 is
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  amazing to me because this shows that Job, he somehow knows
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  Jesus. This is so interesting, This is
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  Jesus. This is like he says, I know
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  that my Redeemer lives the Redeemer's Jesus, and that in
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  the end he will stand on the earth.
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  Jesus's feet will come down to the Mount of Olives and they
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  will split. And then he says, and after my
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  skin has been destroyed, yes. So when we go to the grave, we
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  become bones. I mean, our skin goes away.
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  It becomes ashes. So after my skin has been
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  destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
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  He has some knowledge of restoration, some knowledge of
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  becoming a a new creation in the in the presence of God, I will
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  see God. And he said I myself will see
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  him with my own eyes, eye and not another.
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  How my heart yearns within me. I mean, this is so cool because
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  so I mean, this is considered, I, I heard that the book of Job
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  is like one of the oldest books and way, way, way back then,
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  somehow he knew about his Redeemer.
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  He knew that he would live again.
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  He knew that with his own eyes and in a fleshly body, but a
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  supernatural, he didn't, he didn't say supernatural, but we
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  know that that our bodies will be changed to something
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  supernatural. And and then he longs for this.
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  Of course he does because of what he's going through, the
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  distress that he's going through.
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  I just wonder, how did Job know that?
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  Was it revelation? Was it his closeness with God?
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  Did God just reveal that to him? I don't, I don't know that we'll
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  have the answers to those questions, but it's it's pretty
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  cool that he knew that. And then he gives a warning.
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  The last verses of the chapter 28 through 29, he gives a
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  warning to his friends and it is the truth.
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  And it says, if you say how we will hound him, since the root
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  of his trouble lies within him, you should feel the fear, the
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  sword yourselves, for the wrath will bring punishment by the
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  sword. And then you will know there is
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  judgement. So Job is aware of this and we
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  will find out in the end of the book of Job that God isn't angry
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  with the friends because they were not speaking.
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  They were speaking like half truths.
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  They didn't know. They were claiming to know.
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  They were claiming to be wise, but they really weren't.
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  And Joe was at least humble enough to say, I don't know, you
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  know, like, but he knew his own actions.
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  He's like, I, I'm not doing anything, but what why is all
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  this coming on me? And I know that that's what
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  happens to wicked people, but I haven't done anything and God
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  hasn't shown me. And I, I just want to know, like
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  I want to know from God what's going on here.
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  And and his friends, you know, they're automatically assuming
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  instead of, you know, relating the same way as Job and being
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  humble and saying, yeah, Job, we don't know.
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  We've never seen you be unrighteous.
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  And so we don't know why this is happening to you either.
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  They didn't say that they all of a sudden were like, well, no, we
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  know we're wise. And so God wasn't really happy
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  with that. And I think that's another thing
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  that's pride, thinking that we're smart, that we know it
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  all. So we have to look at that in
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  our lives when we start assuming that we know everything,
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  especially like Jesus said to Nicodemus, you know, one of the
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  intelligent teachers back in that time, he told him, you
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  know, like I'm trying to tell you about earthly things and
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  you're not getting it. How can I tell you about
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  spiritual things? When it gets to the spiritual
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  side of things, we really don't know very much.
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  We only know what the Bible reveals to us.
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  So, but I think the Bible reveals a lot to us.
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  And especially in this situation, I think this is
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  helpful for people to realize that, you know, to examine
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  ourselves, humble ourselves and look at what have I done?
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  Ask God to reveal, ask the Holy Spirit, tell me what I've done
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  when I experience stuff like this, like make me aware of it
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  so that I can do something about that with the help of God, of
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  course, with the help of the Holy Spirit, But don't leave me
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  in this situation. And then if it's, if it's
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  nothing that comes to mind and we are genuinely humbling
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  ourselves and open to receiving a not so good report card from
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  God, then if nothing comes back to us or we don't have guilt, I
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  think guilt is a good thing. It's like the Holy Spirit's
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  conviction of us. Then something when we feel
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  guilty about something we should say like is, is that righteous
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  guilt? We don't like people to put
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  guilt on us. But when we look at ourselves,
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  if we feel guilty, it's probably the Holy Spirit letting us know,
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  hey, you really shouldn't have done that or you really should
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  have done that, whatever it is. So we should respond to that and
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  pray about it and be willing to let God reveal things that are
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  not so pretty that we don't necessarily want to deal with,
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  but that we need to if we want to be in a good relationship
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  with God. And so anyway, that that's about
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  the end of my observations in this chapter.
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  I'm going to go through the questions and answers from the
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  Study Bible and then we will wrap this up.
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  I haven't read these before, so hopefully it doesn't contradict
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  anything that I just said. All right, so was Job keeping
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  score 10 times was an expression commonly used as a cinnamon
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  synonym for often or many. It was also sometimes used as a
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  round Number. Why is God sometimes silent when
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  we cry for help? The short answer might be that
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  God's silence can deepen our faith.
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  The long answer is that we don't know.
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  God's silence has puzzled his people from the earliest times
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  until now. God, even in his matchless love
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  for His people, sometimes allows us to wait seemingly alone.
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  Had Job worn a crown? The phrase crown from my head
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  may be a metaphor for honor. Job had fallen from a position
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  of respect in his community to that of a homeless vagrant.
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  His honor had been replaced by dishonor.
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  Some have also suggested that the crown may represent Job's
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  hair, which may have been shaved off as a symbol of great
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  humiliation. Is God responsible for Satan's
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  actions or people's sins? We know that evil exists in this
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  world. Its origins are personified in a
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  cruel being identified in the Bible as Satan the Adversary, or
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  the Devil the slanderer. But this creature's origin is
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  never tied to the Creator who made all things good.
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  Satan first appears in the creation story with no
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  explanation of how he got there or where he came from.
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  Some think the poetic imagery of Isaiah 14, which describes the
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  power and demise of the king of Babylon, alludes to Satan's
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  origins. But this is only a theological
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  speculation. You know what, I do want to
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  mention something. It says the Creator who made all
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  things good. It does say to Satan that you
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  were the you were perfection until sin was found in you,
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  until wickedness was found in you.
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  So I still think that you know, Satan was created by God.
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  God is the creator and Satan was created by him.
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  God has authority over him as God has authority over
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  everything he creates and but God gives free will and that's
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  what we are experiencing right now at this stage of the age, if
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  you want to call it that, that the free will and I guess we'll
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  always have free will not guess, but I mean it, it seems so in in
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  Scripture. But right now, this is the the
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  determination of where we will be in eternity.
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  And Satan had free will. Satan used his free will to go
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  against God. Satan thought he could outsmart
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  God, but he doesn't. We know that from what it says
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  in the Bible. So God did make all things good.
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  And if he's the creator of everything, then he had to make
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  Satan it. You know, obviously the Bible
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  doesn't specifically say that, but it does show that God is,
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  you know, Satan is under control of God because he has to answer
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  to God when he's in the counsel of God in chapter 1.
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  And God asks him, you know, where have you been?
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  God surely knows, but it's just he has to get permission from
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  God to do anything to Job. So God is over Satan.
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  OK, a cryptic scene in the drama of Job shows Satan as part of
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  the company of the angels who present themselves before God.
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  While this being being had the power to wreak havoc on Job's
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  life in an attempt to make him sin, Satan's power was also
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  limited by God's permission and prohibitions.
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  The limitation of Satan's power by God is echoed by Jesus and
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  Luke chapter 10 verses 17 to 21 in the New Testament and is
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  pictured graphically in Revelation 20 verses 7 through
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  10. We also know that the Bible does
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  not absolve human beings of their guilt for sinful choices
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  and behaviors in James 113 through 18.
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  Yes, I think we can't say like the devil made me do it.
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  The devil can influence. We see that we see the from what
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  I see in this scripture is that we see the evil 1 influencing
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  Job's friends and they start taking on the characteristics of
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  the influencer and they start accusing, condemning and not
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  being supportive and causing confusion, all these things so
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  that they are responding to an influence, a spiritual
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  influence. And we know that God allowed
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  that spiritual influence to happen to, to test Job.
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  So we see that they can, but these people, each person is
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  ultimately responsible for our own decisions.
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  God gives us free will. We can be influenced by evil,
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  but we ultimately are responsible for our decisions.
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  I think it's helpful for people when, you know, I guess we can't
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  blame every inclination to sin on Satan, but you know, we have
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  that inside of us. But why do we have that inside
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  of us that we have it as a result of sin?
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  And if we can get that sin out of us, someday we will be
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  purified and made holy and like God says, be holy because I am
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  holy. And on the day that Jesus
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  returns and we make that transition from mortal beings to
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  immortal beings, then we will be made perfect in the presence of
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  the Lord. So right now it's our testing.
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  Like, are we for or against God and where will we be in
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  eternity? That's what's happening right
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  now. We are being tested on this
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  earth right now. This is a test, and it's an
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  important test to pass because you don't want to be separated
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  from God in eternity. There's no coming back after
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  that. Right now.
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  We get, you know, we, it's kind of like you, you get a few
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  chances, however many chances God allows us, but we don't know
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  how many chances we get because sometimes God just turns us over
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  to a deprived mind. If we keep rejecting God over
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  and over and over again and he sees that it's in our heart that
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  we're just like stubborn and prideful and resistant to the
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  Holy Spirit, God can turn us over.
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  I didn't ever want that to happen because I want to be an
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  eternity with God. And so that's something that we
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  all need to think about. I'm going to wrap up a few more
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  questions, OK. Did God consider Job an enemy?
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  These are the words of feeling, not fact.
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  Job felt like an enemy of God, but God had not deserted him.
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  We have the advantage of knowing the beginning of the story, that
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  God delighted in Job, and that God's and that Job's actual
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  enemy was the accuser, Satan. Why would family and friends
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  abandoned one who suffers? Some people can't handle the
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  intense environment. They don't want to be around
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  pain and suffering. It's too uncomfortable.
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  Others have little sympathy and hear everything as whining.
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  Still others leave, perhaps because they think the sufferer
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  deserves what happened to them. It's kind of sad.
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  Why did Job want his words inscribed with an iron tool on
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  lead? The precise meaning of this
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  phrase is uncertain. Apparently, Job wanted his words
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  engraved on a monument of some sort so that his case would be
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  judged later by others whom deemed more, whom he deemed more
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  honest than his friends. Whom did Job consider his
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  Redeemer? Some say this person was human,
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  others say divine. We cannot be certain.
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  Whoever it was, Job considered himself on trial and he was sure
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  someone would come to his defence.
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  The role of Job's Redeemer is similar to that of Jesus Christ
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  in the New Testament. Job was probably Speaking of God
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  himself. What turned Job's despair into
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  hope? We aren't told.
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  After looking at the past and finding no comfort there, Job
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  decided to look to the future. His friends were poor
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  comforters, so his only recourse was to trust God for future
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  vindication. Nothing had changed out of this
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  outwardly, but by some powerful inner dynamic, he surmounted his
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  despair. This is a demonstration of
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  faith, confidence in what we hope for, and assurance about
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  what we do not see from Hebrews 11 chapter our Chapter 11 verse
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  one. What did Joe believe about the
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  afterlife? Everyone in the ancient world,
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  including Joe, believed in the resurrection of the dead and the
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  existence of an afterlife. It's uncertain, though, whether
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  he thought in terms of a bodily resurrection as taught later in
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  the New Testament. Well, I'd say hold up a minute
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  because he said his his skin was destroyed and then he talks
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  about his in his flesh, he will see God.
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  So to me it sounds like how can you get flesh back if it was
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  already destroyed? So it seems like he does know
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  what this is about. So Job merely expressed a strong
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  confidence that somehow, somewhere he would meet God face
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  to face. OK, did Job wish?
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  See, this is where sometimes I disagree with the study Bible.
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  And it's just like looking at the words and what it actually
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  says and pausing on it a minute and and maybe it's whatever
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  translation that they had looked at, but this is the NIV version
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  and it's in an NIV Bible. So I don't know why that isn't
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  more clear, but I don't know. That's why it's important to
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  just really meditate on things directly and with God, ask God
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  for revelation of things. And and because we might see
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  something that somebody else didn't and then somebody else
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  sees things that we didn't because these things that are
• 39:45
  brought up in the study Bible, they weren't things that came to
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  mind when I was reading it. So it's helpful to have that
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  additional information. Did Job wish his friends would
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  get what he got? No.
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  He was deeply hurt by their charges.
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  So in a spirit of accountability, he warned them
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  with the general principle that wrongdoers are judged.
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  In due course, they would be punished for falsely accusing
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  him. And that wraps up the entire.
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