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When Rebuke and Resistance Collide, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: Job had lost everything, his wealth, his children, his health,
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  Speaker 1: and the friends who traveled far to comfort him.
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  Speaker 2: They made everything worse. Yesterday, on Insight for a Living.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Swindaul introduced us to so Far, the third and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps harshest of Job's so called comforters, a man who
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  Speaker 1: traded sympathy for sarcasm and compassion for condemnation. In Today's study,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck continues to recount this heartrending story, picking up in
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  Speaker 1: chapters eleven through fourteen, where Job finally pushes back against
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  Speaker 1: his insensitive friends. Chuck titled his message when rebuke and
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  Speaker 1: resistance collided.
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  Speaker 3: So Far makes an error in judgment that commonly occurs
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  Speaker 3: among legalists. He does acknowledge the infinitude and greatness of God.
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  Speaker 3: That's correct. He urges Job to understand such truths and
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  Speaker 3: to realize their implications. And that's necessary. Not in this case,
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  Speaker 3: but normally it would be necessary, it could be helpful.
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  Speaker 3: But then, with veiled arrogance, he exhorts Job to fall
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  Speaker 3: in line, implying that he knows what Job won't admit.
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  Speaker 3: Men and women be awfully careful about telling other people
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  Speaker 3: they're going through what they're going through, because they're sinful,
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  Speaker 3: Be very careful about that. If you don't have the evidence,
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  Speaker 3: and if you don't have the proof, you're terribly close
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  Speaker 3: to serving as a judge. And people are sometimes implicated
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  Speaker 3: in a wrong where they themselves are innocent. Be really
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  Speaker 3: careful about generalizations yourself from taking a role of prophet
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  Speaker 3: and priest as so far does with job. Some of
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  Speaker 3: you are very intelligent. You have a great grasp of
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  Speaker 3: God's word, and I commend you for that. Prove it
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  Speaker 3: by your restraint. And by the way, if one of
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  Speaker 3: your youngsters is wayward and you're just eating your heart
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  Speaker 3: out because you raised them right and they're going wrong,
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  Speaker 3: remember the one who has done the most perfect job
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  Speaker 3: of being a.
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  Speaker 2: Parent has the most wayward kids. And that's God. Isn't
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  Speaker 2: that a relief? Remember how far?
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  Speaker 3: Remember the tether He let you have when you were
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  Speaker 3: going wrong, and when I was going wrong, and times
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  Speaker 3: in our lives. And isn't it amazing how the Lord
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  Speaker 3: in long suffering and finally one day said that's enough.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, like a dog on a clothesline runs
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  Speaker 3: out of chain and you kind of jerk's a snot
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  Speaker 3: out of him when you go, I guess I shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: run that far next time. And it's amazing how God
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  Speaker 3: can do that. Well, Job says, Okay, that's enough, Job responds,
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  Speaker 3: and we've got to admire him. By the way, it's
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  Speaker 3: a good time for me to tell you a story.
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  Speaker 3: When our older son, Kurt was in high school, he
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  Speaker 3: played flute, and the flute section set in that particular
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  Speaker 3: band in front of the trombone section. Kurt was a
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  Speaker 3: lower classman, and there was an upper classman who was
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  Speaker 3: not only further along in grave, but he was a
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  Speaker 3: bigger boy and played trombone.
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  Speaker 2: And if you know trombone, you know it.
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  Speaker 3: Has a spit valve right on the end of the slide,
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  Speaker 3: and you've got to be careful where you blow your spit, okay,
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  Speaker 3: And professionals don't just go all over unless they're in
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  Speaker 3: high school and their upper classmen. And so this fellow
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  Speaker 3: puts his finger on the spit valve and goes and
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  Speaker 3: blows the spit all over Kurt's arm.
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  Speaker 2: So Kurt tells me about it later.
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  Speaker 3: He said, So, Dad, I told him, don't do that anymore,
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  Speaker 3: don't blow the spit on me. Well, that kid couldn't
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  Speaker 3: wait to work out more spit. I mean he was
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  Speaker 3: just so he fills up his slide with it, and
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  Speaker 3: Kurt says, you know, you're gonna wish you hadn't done that.
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  Speaker 3: If you do that one more time, boyd.
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  Speaker 2: Come back next Sunday, I'll tell you what he did. No.
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  Speaker 3: The third time, the guy goes, and Kurt goes and
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  Speaker 3: hits the bell of the trombone and drives the mouthpiece
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  Speaker 3: through the teeth of the kid. And now he looks
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  Speaker 3: like the opposite of bugs bunny. You know, he goes cool,
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  Speaker 3: blood and everything. Kurt continues to play the flute.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: So the last time the kid blew a spit on
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  Speaker 3: him remarkable. I would love to go further with that story,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm gonna stop there. Chapter twelve, Job goes, come,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to keep talking to me like that,
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  Speaker 3: fellow Christian.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to me. You're not a doormat.
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  Speaker 3: Placed before the heels of every legalist that comes down
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  Speaker 3: to Pike. You are neither ignorant nor unimportant. You are
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  Speaker 3: a child of God. No one has the right to
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  Speaker 3: shave you or take advantage of you.
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  Speaker 2: No one.
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  Speaker 3: Job responds, having a little sarcasm from his friends, truly,
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  Speaker 3: then you are the people. By the way, it's plural,
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  Speaker 3: so y'all truly. Then y'all are the people. And with
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  Speaker 3: all y'all's wisdom, it's gonna die when you die.
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  Speaker 2: Oh what a shame.
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  Speaker 3: You three guys are gonna die and there won't be
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  Speaker 3: any more wisdom left.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that a great line? Truly, you are unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: As he's scratching his swords and trying to survive. Look
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  Speaker 3: at verse three. But I have intelligence as well as you,
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  Speaker 3: and I am not inferior to.
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  Speaker 2: Any one of you. I love that.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to keep blowing the spit on me,
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  Speaker 3: who does not know the things you've told me about
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  Speaker 3: the living God. Gentlemen, I am your age. I've been
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  Speaker 3: there and back, and in your eyes, I am a joke.
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  Speaker 3: Verse four called it what it was. They have the
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  Speaker 3: gall to call him what they thought of him. I
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  Speaker 3: am a joke to my friends. I am the one
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  Speaker 3: who called on God and he answered him. I am
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  Speaker 3: the just and blameless one. I am the one you
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  Speaker 3: think of as a joke.
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  Speaker 2: Are there worst.
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  Speaker 3: Insults in life than being seen in the eyes of
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  Speaker 3: another as a joke? Maybe not, probably worse than being
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  Speaker 3: seen as a pawn. It has to be seen as
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  Speaker 3: a joke. Me, the one who has talked with the
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  Speaker 3: living God, Me, the one who understands who he is
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  Speaker 3: and what he is about.
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  Speaker 2: I am a joke in your eyes.
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  Speaker 3: He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, as
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  Speaker 3: prepared for those whose feet slip. And then he goes
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  Speaker 3: into the whole subject of the control of God. And
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  Speaker 3: he asked him to visit the beast of the field,
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  Speaker 3: and the birds of the air verse seven, and the
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  Speaker 3: fish of the sea verse eight. Who among these does
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  Speaker 3: not know that the hand of the Lord has done this.
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  Speaker 2: It is of God.
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  Speaker 3: So far, and Bill, Dad and Elifaz listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: It is of God. You can't explain it. I can't
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  Speaker 2: explain it. But the beasts of the field acknowledge.
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  Speaker 3: Built within them are all of these God controls. They
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  Speaker 3: would be able if they could speak our language, to
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  Speaker 3: tell you their story. He gets into a he sort
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  Speaker 3: of gets.
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  Speaker 2: A roll on.
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  Speaker 3: If you will, beginning at verse sixteen down through twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: look carefully at the list of things with him or
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  Speaker 3: strength and sound, wisdom, the misled, and the misleader, belonged
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  Speaker 3: to him. He makes counselors walk barefoot, makes fools of judges.
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  Speaker 2: Who's in charge here? It's the living God.
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  Speaker 3: He loosens the bond of kings and binds their loins.
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  Speaker 3: He makes priests walk barefoot. He likes that word picture
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  Speaker 3: and overthrow the secure ones. He deprives the trusted ones
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  Speaker 3: of speech and takes away the discernment of the elders.
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  Speaker 3: He pours contempt on nobles and loosens the belt of
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  Speaker 3: the strong. He reveals mysteries from the darkness and brings
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  Speaker 3: the deep darkness into light.
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  Speaker 2: It is God. It is the inscrutable, almighty.
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  Speaker 3: God who is in charge of such things.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you think I know that? What a creative way
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  Speaker 2: to say it.
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  Speaker 3: The God I serve takes delight in undoing human doings
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  Speaker 3: and in dismantling human enterprises. In executing his miraculous undertakings.
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  Speaker 3: He alone is in full control. Daniel wrote, all the
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  Speaker 3: inhabitants of the earth are is nothing. He does according
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  Speaker 3: to his will in the army of heaven, and among
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  Speaker 3: the inhabitants of the earth, no one can say unto him,
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Daniel four thirty five.
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  Speaker 3: Job says, that's the one before whom I bow, and
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  Speaker 3: job implies, I'm not sure you've ever met him.
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  Speaker 2: Don't bully me.
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  Speaker 3: While I cannot answer why I'm suffering like this, I
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  Speaker 3: can tell you somehow, and in some way, the God
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  Speaker 3: of heaven, the silent God, the one who seems to
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  Speaker 3: be the absent God from my setting right now, is
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  Speaker 3: still in control. You think I'm a hollow headed dummy
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  Speaker 3: Verse one, chapter thirteen. My eye has seen all of this,
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  Speaker 3: my ear has heard and understood it.
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  Speaker 2: What you know. I also know.
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  Speaker 3: I am not inferior to you. I repeat, matter of fact.
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  Speaker 3: You are of no help to me. But I would
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  Speaker 3: speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,
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  Speaker 3: but you smear with lies. Look at his diagnosis you
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  Speaker 3: are all worthless, or his prognos you are all worthless physicians.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say that pretty well puts it on the line
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  Speaker 3: right there. Look, oh, that you would be completely silent,
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  Speaker 3: that it would become your wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: Turn to a proverb seventeen seventeen twenty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, just hold your place here and look at proverbs,
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  Speaker 3: job Psalms proverbs. There it is seventeen twenty seven. I
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  Speaker 3: want you to see the wisdom of keeping your mouths closed.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great verse seventeen twenty seven. He who restrains
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  Speaker 3: his words as knowledge, he who has a cool spirit
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  Speaker 3: I great. He who has a cool spirit is a
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  Speaker 3: man of understanding. Even a fool when he keeps silent,
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  Speaker 3: is considered wise. See why take away the question. If
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  Speaker 3: you open your mouth, they'll know. If you don't ever
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  Speaker 3: open your mouth, they'll think you're wise. When he closes
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  Speaker 3: his lips, he's considered prudent.
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  Speaker 2: There you have it. That's what job is getting at.
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  Speaker 2: Would to God that you would just stay silent.
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  Speaker 3: If you had just come to sympathize, And if you
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  Speaker 3: had just come to comfort, then your eyelas would have
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  Speaker 3: conveyed all of that and more. But you open your mouths,
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  Speaker 3: and you are such fools, though you speak as though
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  Speaker 3: you were wise, Your worthless physicians. Look at the indictment
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  Speaker 3: of verse nine. Will it be well when he examines you?
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  Speaker 2: Great question?
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  Speaker 3: Verse thirteen. Be silent before me so that I may speak.
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  Speaker 3: Then let come on me, what may though he slay me?
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  Speaker 3: Verse fifteen, I will hope in him seventeen. Listen carefully
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  Speaker 3: to my speech. Let my declaration, fill your ears. Behold
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  Speaker 3: now I have prepared my case. I know that I
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  Speaker 3: will be vindicated. Who will contend with me? For then
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  Speaker 3: I would be silent and die. With that, he closes
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  Speaker 3: his comments to the men, and he opens his words
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  Speaker 3: to the God he loves. At this point, the one
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  Speaker 3: he wishes he would get an audience with. Don't remove
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  Speaker 3: your hand from me, and don't let the dread of
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  Speaker 3: you terrify me verse twenty three. How many are my
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  Speaker 3: iniquities and sins? Make known to me my rebellion and
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  Speaker 3: my sin. Just reveal it, Lord, Just show me whatever
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  Speaker 3: it may be. Then he describes life in verse one
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  Speaker 3: of chapter fourteen, man who's born of a woman is
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  Speaker 3: short lived and full of turmoil. Living Bible says, how
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  Speaker 3: frail is man, How few his years? How full of trouble.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a good commentary on life. How frail, how few,
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  Speaker 3: and how full of trouble. He describes himself with three
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  Speaker 3: word pictures like a flower verse two, like a shadow,
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  Speaker 3: verse two, like a hired man.
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  Speaker 2: Verse six. Man is frail like.
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  Speaker 3: A flower, man is fleeting like a shadow. We humans
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  Speaker 3: are full of trouble like a hired man. This is
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  Speaker 3: a vulnerable man. This is a hurting man.
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  Speaker 2: Now he.
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  Speaker 3: Really searches an issue that plagues every person with a
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  Speaker 3: terminal illness. Job doesn't see himself getting better, and so
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  Speaker 3: he now deals with life beyond. He says in verse seven,
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  Speaker 3: and don't let your mind wander here.
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  Speaker 2: Track this.
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  Speaker 3: There is hope for a tree when it's cut down,
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  Speaker 3: that it will sprout again. Its roots will not fail.
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  Speaker 3: Though its roots grow old in the ground, its stump
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  Speaker 3: dies in the dry soil. At the scent of water,
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  Speaker 3: it will flourish and put forth springs like a plant.
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  Speaker 3: That's why when you clear a field, the old seasoned
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  Speaker 3: woodsman will say, pull him out by the stump.
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  Speaker 2: Don't leave the stump. You leave a stump.
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  Speaker 3: Soon as brain comes, the green sprouts, the tree will
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  Speaker 3: come back, the shrub will come back. That's the way
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  Speaker 3: it is with a plant with a tree. Verse ten.
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  Speaker 3: But man, man dies and lies prostrate. Man expires, and
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  Speaker 3: where is he? Job's questioning life beyond? As water evaporates
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  Speaker 3: from the sea and the river becomes parched and dried up,
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  Speaker 3: so man lies down.
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  Speaker 2: It does not rise.
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  Speaker 3: He mentions he rises later on, but understand something. This
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  Speaker 3: is an ancient book. I stay with this. This is
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  Speaker 3: an ancient book written in the probably the patriarchal era,
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  Speaker 3: when very little progress of revelation had run its course.
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  Speaker 3: Job knows very little about the doctrine of resurrection, and
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  Speaker 3: it's recorded here exactly as he thought. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: that's all there is to the subject, for we have
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  Speaker 3: a whole Bible full of further truth. The progress of
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  Speaker 3: revelation has revealed more and more, so that today we
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  Speaker 3: can pretty well describe what happens at death, immediately after death,
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  Speaker 3: and beyond even the destinies of heaven and hell. Job
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  Speaker 3: has a question mark, and he says, a man dies,
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  Speaker 3: he lies down, and he doesn't rise verse fourteen. Unlike
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  Speaker 3: a tree. If a man dies, will he live again?
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  Speaker 3: All the days of my struggle, I will wait until
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  Speaker 3: my change comes. Then the chapter ends in sort of
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  Speaker 3: a depressed whimper. The message renders it. Meanwhile, mountains wear down,
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  Speaker 3: and boulders break up, stones wear smooth, and soil and erodes.
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  Speaker 3: As you relentlessly grind down our hope, you're too much
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  Speaker 3: for us. So God, as always, you get the last word.
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  Speaker 3: We don't like it, our faces show it, but you
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  Speaker 3: send us off anyway. If our children do well for themselves,
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  Speaker 3: we never know it. If they do badly, we're spared
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  Speaker 3: the hurt body and soul. That's it for us, a
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  Speaker 3: lifetime of pain, a lifetime of sorrow. End of Job's response.
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  Speaker 3: We know now that when one dies, we live on.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus himself taught I am the resurrection in the life.
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  Speaker 3: He that believes in me, even though he may die
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  Speaker 3: on this earth, yet shall he continue to live. He
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  Speaker 3: that lives and believes in me shall never die. Fact,
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  Speaker 3: we all have eternal life. We all have eternal life,
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  Speaker 3: but the destinies are different. Some will spend eternity with
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  Speaker 3: God in heaven. Some will spend eternity without God and Hell.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the only two alternatives. And he says more
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  Speaker 3: about hell than about heaven in the scriptures. Sobering, yes, Job,
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  Speaker 3: when we die, we live again.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, we live on.
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  Speaker 3: It's always a challenge to know how to wrap up
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  Speaker 3: a message that is this broad. You've been very patient
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  Speaker 3: to sit through this and to listen to these comments.
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  Speaker 3: Let me close with three questions, all three from the text.
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  Speaker 3: Three questions. One has to do with depth, one has
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  Speaker 3: to do with discovery. One has to do with destiny
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  Speaker 3: depth Job eleven seven. Are you seeking to know the
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  Speaker 3: depths of God? Or are you just skimming the surface.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to answer. I am so busy answering for
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Swindle. I can't answer for another person here. I
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  Speaker 3: do not know you well enough to know, and we're
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  Speaker 3: all good at faking it so we can look like
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  Speaker 3: we're going to the deep things, when in fact we're
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  Speaker 3: just skating.
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  Speaker 2: So you answer, are you seeking to know the depths
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  Speaker 2: of God?
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  Speaker 3: Or are you just skimming the surface, just going to
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  Speaker 3: religious meetings, just reading religious books, learning religious language. I'm
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  Speaker 3: finishing Larry Krab's fine latest book titled The Pressure's Off,
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  Speaker 3: where he writes, as a culture, present day Christianity has
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  Speaker 3: redefined spiritual maturity. The reformers knew we were saved to
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  Speaker 3: glorify God. We moderns live to be blessed. The mature
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  Speaker 3: among us are now thought to be the successful, the happy,
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  Speaker 3: the effective, people on top of things and doing well.
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  Speaker 3: We're more attracted to sermons and books and conferences that
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  Speaker 3: reveal the secrets to fulfillment than to spiritual direction that
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  Speaker 3: leads us through affliction into the presence.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Father.
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  Speaker 3: We see more interested in managing life into a comfortable
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  Speaker 3: existence than in letting God spiritually transform us through life's hardships.
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  Speaker 2: That cuts to the quick, doesn't it. Don't run from
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  Speaker 2: the hardship.
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  Speaker 3: Don't seek a friend who'll help you get out from
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  Speaker 3: under it quickly, Stay there, stay in it. He'll get
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  Speaker 3: you through it. But he'll take you through it. Friends
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  Speaker 3: will try to get you out of it, because after all,
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  Speaker 3: we want to be blessed. He'll bless us for going
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  Speaker 3: through it. Are you seeking to know the depths of God?
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  Speaker 3: Or are you just skimming the surface? Thirteen nine? Will
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  Speaker 3: it be well when God examines your life? Or will
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  Speaker 3: it be a disappointing discovery? I can't speak for you
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  Speaker 3: because I don't know, But I do know that we
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  Speaker 3: will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, that
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  Speaker 3: each one of us may give account of the things
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  Speaker 3: done in his body, whether they were good or evil,
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  Speaker 3: even whether the motive was right or wicked, will give
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  Speaker 3: an account. Is that going to be a disappointing discovery?
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  Speaker 3: Or will it be well?
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  Speaker 2: With you probing? Isn't it haunting.
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  Speaker 3: You anticipate already the last one? Fourteen fourteen? When you die,
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  Speaker 3: where will you live again with him or away from
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  Speaker 3: His presence forever. If you know the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 3: at the time you die, you will spend forever in
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  Speaker 3: the presence of the Father in what is called Heaven.
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  Speaker 3: The bliss and the rewards of glory with him are
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  Speaker 3: almost they are beyond our imagination.
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  Speaker 2: Or if you, in this life choose not.
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  Speaker 3: To take the Lord Jesus Christ as your substitute for
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  Speaker 3: sin and placing your full confidence and trust in Him
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  Speaker 3: for forgiveness and eternal life, then at your death you are.
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  Speaker 2: In Hell forever. There is no per.
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  Speaker 3: There's no praying out of that place where you are
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  Speaker 3: temporarily for a while until enough people pay enough money or.
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  Speaker 2: Say enough prayers to get you out. You're a goner. Sobering,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. C. S.
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  Speaker 3: Lewis wrote, There's no doctrine which I would more willingly
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  Speaker 3: remove from Christianity than the doctrine of Hell if it
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  Speaker 3: lay in my power. But it has the full support
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  Speaker 3: of scripture and especially of our Lord's own words. It
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  Speaker 3: has always been held by the Christian Church, and it
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  Speaker 3: has the.
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  Speaker 2: Support of reason. C. S. Lewis was no intellectual pushover.
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  Speaker 3: Believe the Bible, your destiny is determined when you're alive,
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  Speaker 3: not after you die.
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  Speaker 2: Let's a bow together.
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  Speaker 3: I invite any one of you who has not, up
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  Speaker 3: until this time given your heart to Christ to do
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  Speaker 3: so now.
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  Speaker 2: The key word is now.
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  Speaker 3: Now. You're surrounded by those who have been so persuaded,
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  Speaker 3: and they would tell you without hesitation that they have
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  Speaker 3: never regretted the decision. You will never know peace. You
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  Speaker 3: will never know real strength when hardship becomes unbearable, like
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  Speaker 3: you can know it in Christ. Come today, believe now,
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  Speaker 3: our Father. We thank you for the searching truths of
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  Speaker 3: your word. For what seems to the passer by as
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  Speaker 3: philosophical meanderings, what we have here are dialogues of destiny,
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  Speaker 3: truths to live by, insights that prepare us for now
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  Speaker 3: and for eternity. We are frail, our years are few
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  Speaker 3: and full of trouble. They proliferate, it seems. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: for not leaving us when those problems surround us and
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  Speaker 3: we feel as though they are drowning us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for staying near.
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  Speaker 3: I pray for those who have never trusted the Lord Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: that you will bring them this very day to the cross,
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  Speaker 3: that they might know him. And have the assurance of heaven,
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  Speaker 3: and we all might be able to say it is
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  Speaker 3: well with my soul in Jesus' name. Everyone said, amen.
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  Speaker 1: It is well with my soul. Those words are easy
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  Speaker 1: to sing on a good day, but Job teaches us
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  Speaker 1: they mean something far deeper when life is hard, when
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  Speaker 1: friends disappoint, and when God seems silent. Listening to Insight
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  Speaker 1: for Living today, Chucksmundall reminds us that we may be frail,
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  Speaker 1: but we are never alone. Whatever you're facing right now,
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  Speaker 1: that truth is yours to hold on to. Chuck titled
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  Speaker 1: his message when rebuke and resistance collide. Maybe you identified
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  Speaker 1: with Job's story today. Perhaps you're the target of someone's
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  Speaker 1: harsh criticism and you can't seem to rise above it
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  Speaker 1: as Job did well. We want you to know the
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  Speaker 1: entire team at Insight for Living cares deeply for you,
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  Speaker 1: and it's our prayer that today's message from Chuck and
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  Speaker 1: this complete series on Job will provide a daily reassurance
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  Speaker 1: that God knows your story. Insight for Living has produced
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  Speaker 1: a variety of excellent resources to help you. First, Chuck
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  Speaker 1: wrote a full length book on Job. It's well over
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  Speaker 1: three hundred pages in length. Second, the brand new Searching
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  Speaker 1: a heads up on something special that's coming this fall.
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  Speaker 1: Behind the scenes, Chuck has been working on a personal memoir,
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