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Setting the Stage for Disaster, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: M. Scott Peck began his best selling book with just
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  Speaker 1: three words, life is difficult. But Chucksmundall says the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament Book of Job takes it even further, life is unfair.
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  Speaker 1: There's a difference, isn't there. Most of us have learned
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  Speaker 1: to handle difficult, but unfair. That's far more intense today
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  Speaker 1: on Inside for Living, we're featuring message number one in
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  Speaker 1: a twenty two part biographical series.
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  Speaker 2: You're about to meet a man who had.
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  Speaker 1: Everything and was about to lose it all through no
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  Speaker 1: fault of his own.
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  Speaker 2: His name was Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck begins with pram.
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  Speaker 4: As the story unfolds from this ancient document, we are
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  Speaker 4: immediately impressed.
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  Speaker 5: With a man.
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  Speaker 4: Who was just a man, but what a man. He
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  Speaker 4: loved you, he feared you, father, and he disciplined his
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  Speaker 4: life in such a way that he had nothing to
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  Speaker 4: do with evil and the compromises of those of his day.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for the model of this man, and thank
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  Speaker 4: you for the lessons to be learned from just the
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  Speaker 4: opening words in this resume of righteousness. But our hearts
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  Speaker 4: skip a beat when we turn the page in his
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  Speaker 4: life and see the other side, and we become privy
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  Speaker 4: to something that not even job knew was taking place,
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  Speaker 4: and our interest is tweaked.
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  Speaker 5: We're intrigued. Our Father.
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  Speaker 4: We would have expected nothing but further blessing from your hand,
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  Speaker 4: and you, in your profound plan, made other arrangements that
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  Speaker 4: changed everything.
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  Speaker 5: To us, it seems unfair.
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  Speaker 4: And there are some in this place, under this roof
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  Speaker 4: today who would say, with a sigh, my situation is unfair.
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  Speaker 4: I do not deserve what I'm going through. And therefore, Lord,
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  Speaker 4: you speak in a timeless way, just as you speak
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  Speaker 4: truth to us, and we find ourselves on the edge
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  Speaker 4: of our seats, anticipating what you will say to us
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  Speaker 4: from these ancient words, even in this twenty first century.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you Father for your faithful, sovereign hand over us.
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  Speaker 4: That while you test us, you do not disgrace us,
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  Speaker 4: and while you strengthen and mature us, you are never
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  Speaker 4: cruel or dishonest.
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  Speaker 5: You have our good at heart, though your.
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  Speaker 4: Journey to get us there is sometimes shockingly surprising.
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  Speaker 5: I pray that you.
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  Speaker 4: Will give us not only ears to hear, but hearts
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  Speaker 4: to receive. These verses from the book today and the
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  Speaker 4: application from between the lines as to what this message
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  Speaker 4: means to us direct our thoughts. Give us the ability
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  Speaker 4: to concentrate. Remove from us the cares of this age,
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  Speaker 4: and the worries of our times, and the decisions at
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  Speaker 4: the office, and the needs of.
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  Speaker 5: The home, and.
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  Speaker 4: All the stuff of life, so that you have our
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  Speaker 4: full attention. Come, thou, fount of every blessing. Tune our
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  Speaker 4: hearts to sing to hear your praise.
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  Speaker 5: Lord.
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  Speaker 4: We quiet ourselves before you. Now we trust you to
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  Speaker 4: speak words of wisdom and assurance to those who lead
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  Speaker 4: us in this city, in this state, and in our government.
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  Speaker 4: We ask our Father that we might be good citizens,
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  Speaker 4: just as we are good Christians. Find us, our Father,
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  Speaker 4: actively engaged in things that matter. Deliver us from the
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  Speaker 4: enemy of passivity and the compromise sloth and laziness. And now,
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  Speaker 4: our Father, it is our privilege to look to you
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  Speaker 4: now in worship, as we reach into our wallets, and
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  Speaker 4: as we write our checks, as we give our money,
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  Speaker 4: as those in the first century did. May we first
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  Speaker 4: give ourselves and then give of our treasure. We want
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  Speaker 4: you to know how much we love you, our Father,
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  Speaker 4: And these gifts represent that we give from a pure motive,
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  Speaker 4: not to receive anything in return, but sempty to lift
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  Speaker 4: our hearts and open our purses to you and say
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  Speaker 4: you own it all. And we give joyfully, and we
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  Speaker 4: give generously because of that in the name of the
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  Speaker 4: Lord Jesus, we quiet ourselves before you, and we give.
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  Speaker 4: And all God's people said, Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Today's message setting the stage for disaster.
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  Speaker 5: Life was not only difficult.
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  Speaker 4: Life became for Job absolutely categorically unfair. You may not
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  Speaker 4: know the story of Job, and so I might be
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  Speaker 4: shooting in the dark. Allow me a few moments for
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  Speaker 4: a quick and dirty analysis. He's a man of unparalleled piety.
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  Speaker 4: He's a man of well deserved prosperity. He is a
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  Speaker 4: good and rich man, a fine husband and.
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  Speaker 5: A faithful father.
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  Speaker 4: In a quick and brutal sweep of calamities, he is
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  Speaker 4: reduced to a twisted mass of brokenness and grief. The
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  Speaker 4: extraordinary accumulation of back to back disasters are enough to
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  Speaker 4: finish off any one of us. Job is left penniless, homeless,
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  Speaker 4: helpless and childless, standing beside ten fresh graves on a
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  Speaker 4: windswept hill, his wife heaving and sobs beside him. Having
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  Speaker 4: heard him say, whether he gives or takes, we will
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  Speaker 4: follow him, she secretly whispers, just curse God and die.
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  Speaker 4: Misery and mystery are added to the insult and injury
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  Speaker 4: of his experience. As he sits there, covered with skin
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  Speaker 4: ulcers that are now erupting with pus, swelling his body
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  Speaker 4: with fever, and maddeningly giving him an itch that will
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  Speaker 4: not go away.
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  Speaker 5: There are three friends that arrive.
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  Speaker 4: They sit and stare for seven days and seven nights
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  Speaker 4: without a word.
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  Speaker 5: Just imagine.
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  Speaker 4: First they don't recognize him, which tells you something of
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  Speaker 4: the swelling and the sores all over him. And then
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  Speaker 4: they are at a loss for words. Unfortunately, they lost
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  Speaker 4: that loss for words, and when they spoke, they had
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  Speaker 4: nothing but blame. You're getting what you deserve, though they
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  Speaker 4: couch it in much more philosophical terms. That was enough,
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  Speaker 4: But the misery turns to mystery with God's silence. If
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  Speaker 4: the words of the friends were hard to hear, the
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  Speaker 4: silence of God was intolerable. Not until the thirty eighth
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  Speaker 4: chapter of the book does God Speak. The book opens
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  Speaker 4: with a wonderful resume of a good man. There was
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  Speaker 4: a man in the land of us whose name was Job.
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  Speaker 4: That man was blameless doesn't mean perfect, It means he
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  Speaker 4: he did not compromise with moral evil. He was a
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  Speaker 4: man whose business was handled with integrity. He was a
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  Speaker 4: man who was respected by those around him, whether in
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  Speaker 4: or outside the family.
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  Speaker 5: He was upright, fearing God, turning away from evil.
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  Speaker 4: And then the next most important part of him, following
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  Speaker 4: his character would be his family. He's blessed with seven
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  Speaker 4: sons three daughters that have been born to him. By
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  Speaker 4: the time the story is told us in the text.
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  Speaker 5: They're all grown.
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  Speaker 4: This is a grandfather's life at its best, if you will.
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  Speaker 4: By now, he has amassed a remarkable number of possessions.
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  Speaker 4: Possessions had to do with these seven thousand sheep. The
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  Speaker 4: wool from the animals could be woven into fabric which
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  Speaker 4: would be made into warm clothing for the cold winter days.
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  Speaker 4: The food would also be provided from them, and that
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  Speaker 4: would add to the diet. There were three thousand camels.
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  Speaker 4: There were five hundred yoke of oxen. Don't miss this.
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  Speaker 4: That means there were a thousand of them, two yoked
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  Speaker 4: together to plow the fields, to cause the crops to
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  Speaker 4: be plowed, and to be prepared the soil to be
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  Speaker 4: prepared for the growing of the food. And then there
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  Speaker 4: were five hundred female donkeys over and above. That is
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  Speaker 4: a wonderful family, all grown kids. This guy is rich
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  Speaker 4: and he's got it made, and no one is criticizing,
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  Speaker 4: because there's nothing to criticize.
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  Speaker 5: Wealthy, good, godly, but not out of touch. You will
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  Speaker 5: notice he did have his concerns.
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  Speaker 4: His son's verse four used to go and hold a
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  Speaker 4: feast in the house of each one on his day,
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  Speaker 4: and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat.
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  Speaker 5: And drink with them.
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  Speaker 4: Came about when the days of feasting had completed their cycle,
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  Speaker 4: Job would send and consecrate them, rising up early in
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  Speaker 4: the morning and offering burnt all according to the number
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  Speaker 4: of them, all offering up ten burnt offerings.
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  Speaker 5: In the name of each one of them.
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  Speaker 4: Concerned that perhaps maybe even in their hearts, there had
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  Speaker 4: been a little bit of profanity, or perhaps an off
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  Speaker 4: colored story that was told in the feasting, And Job
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  Speaker 4: was so concerned not only for his.
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  Speaker 5: Walk, but for the walk of his children Verses one
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  Speaker 5: to five. Full of good news.
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  Speaker 4: Wonderful, blessing, business, integrity, purity of heart, faithfulness of life,
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  Speaker 4: domestically blameless, professionally respected. William Clayton's hymn comes to mind
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  Speaker 4: from the nineteenth century. God's hand of love shall be
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  Speaker 4: your guide and all your need. He will provide his power,
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  Speaker 4: Shall every foe dispel all as well?
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  Speaker 5: All is well. And so it was that night Job
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  Speaker 5: went to sleep.
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  Speaker 4: As Job sleeps, another scene opens to us that Job
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  Speaker 4: knows nothing about.
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  Speaker 5: It.
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  Speaker 4: Happens in our lives as well, but we're not aware
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  Speaker 4: of it. God is carrying out a plan that would
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  Speaker 4: amaze us and.
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  Speaker 5: On occasion would shock us.
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  Speaker 4: He is permitting things to get under way that we
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  Speaker 4: would have never expected.
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  Speaker 5: Either that or he is not fully sovereign.
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  Speaker 4: This is a very important part of understanding Job. If
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  Speaker 4: it teaches nothing else, it teaches the absolute sovereignty of God,
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  Speaker 4: which is full of mystery.
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  Speaker 5: Without Job's knowing it.
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  Speaker 4: Something is happening in the heavenlyes, and we are transported
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  Speaker 4: from Earth to the third Heaven. Look at the difference
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  Speaker 4: in the opening lines of verse one and verse six.
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  Speaker 5: Look in your bible. There was a man, there was
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  Speaker 5: a day. Look at that.
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  Speaker 4: There was a man who lived on this earth. There
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  Speaker 4: was a day. In the throne room of God.
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  Speaker 5: We are moved from.
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  Speaker 4: The familiar planet of our world to the unfamiliar scene
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  Speaker 4: of the Third Heaven. The only ones comfortable there would
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  Speaker 4: be the seraphim, who filled the presence of the living
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  Speaker 4: God with the flutter.
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  Speaker 5: Of their wings.
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  Speaker 4: With six wings, two they cover their face, and with
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  Speaker 4: two they fly, with two they cover their feet.
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  Speaker 5: They are the.
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  Speaker 4: Attendants of the All Mighty. They are called in verse
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  Speaker 4: six the Sons of God. William Chalmers Smith wrote, immortal, invisible, God,
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  Speaker 4: only wise in light, inaccessible, hid from our eyes, most blessed,
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  Speaker 4: most glorious, the Ancient of days, Almighty, Victorious, Thy great
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  Speaker 4: name we praise, Great Father of Glory, Pure Father of Light.
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  Speaker 4: Thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight, all praise
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  Speaker 4: we would render. Oh, help us to see. Tis only
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  Speaker 4: the splendor of light heighteth thee. It is in the
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  Speaker 4: laser like light of the Third Heaven. We come in
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  Speaker 4: verse six. And God is sitting in this throne room,
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  Speaker 4: if you will to use our terms. And he looks about,
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  Speaker 4: and he sees the sons of God that have come
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  Speaker 4: to present themselves before the Lord.
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  Speaker 5: That makes sense. They're accountable to him.
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  Speaker 4: They do his bidding, they carry out his will, they
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  Speaker 4: accomplish his purposes. But there is an intruder. There is
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  Speaker 4: one who is not among the elect angels. He is
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  Speaker 4: identified in the Hebrew text Get this.
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  Speaker 5: The Satan has satan.
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  Speaker 4: Every time the name Satan appears in the first two chapters,
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  Speaker 4: it is has Satan, meaning the Satan. Satan sounds strange
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  Speaker 4: until you think sometime we'll use the name Judas in
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  Speaker 4: that way. If we form a company of close friends
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  Speaker 4: and we put a plan together that that is secret,
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  Speaker 4: and we hope to carry it out in the business world,
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  Speaker 4: and one of the individuals in the group turns against
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  Speaker 4: us and lets that plan be known to our to
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  Speaker 4: our opponents in business, we sometimes refer to that man
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  Speaker 4: as the Judas of the group. In this case, it
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  Speaker 4: isn't the Judas, it is the Satan. What does it mean?
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  Speaker 4: Satan is the Hebrew verb, and most often Hebrew words
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  Speaker 4: originate with the verb form soughtan means to be an adversary,
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  Speaker 4: to resist. Sometime in noun form it is rendered simply
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  Speaker 4: the adversary or the accuser. Revelation twelve, verse ten tells
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  Speaker 4: us that he is the accuser of the Brethren. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure it would include the cisterns as well. He accuses
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  Speaker 4: God's people day and night. And here the accuser appears
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  Speaker 4: among the other angels. Pause and remember, Satan is not
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  Speaker 4: a little imp with a red body and a pitchfork
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  Speaker 4: sitting on one of your shoulders whispering ugly little nothings
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  Speaker 4: in your ear. That's a medieval caricature that Satan would
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  Speaker 4: love you to believe. He is the most attractive, brilliant,
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  Speaker 4: powerful archangel that God ever created. He has not lost
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  Speaker 4: his brilliance, he has not lost his power, he has
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  Speaker 4: not lost his beauty. He is also insidious, and his
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  Speaker 4: favorite method of working is behind the scenes. Because he
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  Speaker 4: is invisible does not mean he is therefore not real.
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  Speaker 4: He is real, as we will see a little later.
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  Speaker 4: He has personality, and he is engaged in a wholesale
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  Speaker 4: commitment to destroying God's people and ruining where possible God's plan.
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  Speaker 4: So he's standing in the heaven least among the group.
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  Speaker 4: Beginning at verse seven down through verse twelve, we have
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  Speaker 4: a dialogue that is the most interesting dialogue. You won't
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  Speaker 4: find it anywhere else in the Bible, only here here.
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  Speaker 4: And in chapter two, the Lord said, verse seven, Satan
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  Speaker 4: answered verse seven, I should have said the Satan the accuser, The.
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  Speaker 5: Lord said, verse eight.
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  Speaker 4: The Satan answered verse nine, and verse twelve, the Lord said,
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  Speaker 4: and the Satan departed.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a dialogue back and forth. The Lord God seize.
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  Speaker 4: The intruder and speaks to him from Where did you
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  Speaker 4: come from? Where do you come? Please don't misread that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm always a little humored by people's reading things in
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  Speaker 4: the wrong way. For example, when the Lord came to
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  Speaker 4: the garden of Eden and he said, Adam, where are you?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it wasn't like I can't find you. Help
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  Speaker 5: me out. Where are you, Adam? Adah?
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  Speaker 4: It's not that God is omniscient, he knows everything. His
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  Speaker 4: question could be why are you where you are? What
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  Speaker 4: are you doing there? What are you doing hiding from me?
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  Speaker 4: We don't have that kind of relationship. He says to Satan,
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  Speaker 4: tell me where you've been about what's been going on.
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  Speaker 4: Satan's answer is a brief and somewhat impudent roaming about
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  Speaker 4: on the earth and walking around on it. The Satan
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  Speaker 4: has access to this planet as well as the heavens
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  Speaker 4: he moves about, and his demonic forces as well.
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  Speaker 5: If you could see the demonic.
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  Speaker 4: Forces, you would be heartsick, frightened. You may not ever
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  Speaker 4: laugh again until you also were able to see the
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  Speaker 4: angelic presence and what goes on between the two of
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  Speaker 4: those forces. But he now, Satan, remember, can only be
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  Speaker 4: one place at one time. He is not omnipresent. So
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  Speaker 4: now that he's brought himself back into this throne room,
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  Speaker 4: the Lord says to him, where have you've been? I've
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  Speaker 4: been roaming about on this earth. He has random access
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  Speaker 4: to wherever and matter and the elements of this earth
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  Speaker 4: that hold us in Czech do not affect him. He's
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  Speaker 4: a supernatural being. He could move from Asia to America.
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  Speaker 4: He could move from Mexico to the North Pole and
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  Speaker 4: it split second of time. Those kind of things are
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  Speaker 4: not the things that restrain spiritual beings. The same will
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  Speaker 4: be true of us in our spiritual bodies. He says,
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  Speaker 4: I've been roaming about on the earth. I love the statement.
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  Speaker 4: The Lord asks, have you considered my servant job?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: I failed to read the most important part of his resume,
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  Speaker 4: chapter one, verse three, last sentence, that man was the
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  Speaker 4: greatest of all the men of the east, no exaggeration.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, the wonderful thing about Job is that
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  Speaker 4: he was a servant. There was no celebrity about Job.
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  Speaker 4: There was no pride in Job's heart. Job is a
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  Speaker 4: servant of God. Did you observe my servant? By the way,
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  Speaker 4: if our Lord were pointing out to the enemy, you
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  Speaker 4: would he use the word servant to describe you, I
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  Speaker 4: hope so have you observed my servant Job down there?
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  Speaker 4: In fact, he adds, there is no one like him
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  Speaker 4: on the earth, a blameless and upright man, fearing God
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  Speaker 4: and turning away from evil with the world and evil
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  Speaker 4: the original axis of evil? Responds interestingly, does Job fear
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  Speaker 4: God for nothing? I mean, look talk about kid glove treatment,
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  Speaker 4: penthouse perks. Looking for what he has? Watch closely? Have
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  Speaker 4: you not made a hedge about him and his house
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  Speaker 4: and all that he has? Look at the categories. You
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  Speaker 4: have protected him in his body, You have protected him
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  Speaker 4: in his family, and you have protected his possessions, all.
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  Speaker 5: That he owns.
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  Speaker 4: On every side, I mean, the divine wall around this
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  Speaker 4: man's life is enviable. You have not only protected him.
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  Speaker 4: You have blessed the work of his hands, and his
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  Speaker 4: possessions have increased in the land. The accuser points out
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  Speaker 4: divine favoritism, the auDA of that you have built a
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  Speaker 4: hedge around him. You have blessed him like.
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  Speaker 5: No other who wouldn't worship you.
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  Speaker 4: I promised you a quick understanding or survey of his personality.
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  Speaker 5: We know that he has.
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  Speaker 4: An intellect because he converses with the Lord.
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  Speaker 5: We know that Satan has.
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  Speaker 4: Emotions because he is antagonistic toward Job. We know that
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  Speaker 4: he has volition because he purposes to destroy Job and
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  Speaker 4: to disgrace God.
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  Speaker 5: His great hope is to level Job.
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  Speaker 4: You bring him down to the dirt like the rest
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  Speaker 4: of those humans have to live, and you'll see what
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  Speaker 4: he's made of. Look at how he puts it. You
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  Speaker 4: put forth your hand Verse eleven, and touch all. I
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  Speaker 4: have marked that word.
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  Speaker 5: In my Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Satan was convinced that Job's faith was nothing more than
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