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Reassuring Hope for the Assaulted and Abused, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: When everything is stripped away, the relationships, the reputation, the resources,
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  Speaker 1: what do you hold on to? Job had lost it all,
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  Speaker 1: and the people closest to him only made it worse.
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  Speaker 1: But somewhere beneath the rubble of his suffering, Job found something,
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  Speaker 1: a conviction so fierce, so unshakable, that he wanted it
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  Speaker 1: carved in stone for every generation to read. Today on
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  Speaker 1: Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll shows us what it looks
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  Speaker 1: like when hope refuses to die. Chuck titled his message,
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  Speaker 1: Reassuring Hope for the Assaulted and Abused.
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  Speaker 2: Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
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  Speaker 3: Faithful are the wounds, trustworthy are the bruises caused by the.
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  Speaker 2: Wounding of one who loves you.
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  Speaker 3: The Hebrew reads, trustworthy are the bruises caused by the
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  Speaker 3: wounding of one who loves you, but deceitful are the
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  Speaker 3: kisses of an enemy. You've been kissed by a deceitful
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  Speaker 3: enemy lately? Isn't pleasant. When you find out that it
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  Speaker 3: was deceitful, the kisses didn't mean anything. How much better
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  Speaker 3: to have a faithful reprover who loves us too much
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  Speaker 3: than to let us get away with wrong. Don't resist reproof,
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  Speaker 3: men and women. If the reproof comes from the right
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  Speaker 3: person in the right way for the right motive, take it.
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  Speaker 2: Be grateful for it. It's trustworthy.
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  Speaker 3: That's why growing up in the right kind of home
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  Speaker 3: is so wonderful. Your moms and dads, reprove. The best
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  Speaker 3: and most consistent reproofs many of us ever got came
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  Speaker 3: from faithful moms and dads. who corrected us when they
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  Speaker 3: saw us doing wrong and sometimes spanked us and didn't
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  Speaker 3: let us get away with being ugly or impudent or
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  Speaker 3: deceitful or brutal in our behavior. Let me show you
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  Speaker 3: how the tongue can, on the other hand, become a
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  Speaker 3: deadly thing. Look at the next book to the right,
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  Speaker 3: Psalm number 57. David is writing this as he's fleeing
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  Speaker 3: from Saul, which went on for 12 years or so.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine that. Now stay with me. We got a point
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  Speaker 3: I want to make here. Like all good preachers, it
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  Speaker 3: takes me a while to make the point. So stay
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  Speaker 3: with me there. Look at 57.4. My soul is among lions.
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  Speaker 3: I must lie among those who breathe forth fire, even
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  Speaker 3: the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows
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  Speaker 3: and their tongue a sharp Sword, sword thrusts, shoved in, twists,
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  Speaker 3: shoved in, twisted.
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  Speaker 2: That's abusive.
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  Speaker 3: That's assaulting people with our tongues. David had been the
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  Speaker 3: target of that. Look at 64, Psalm 64. Hear my voice,
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  Speaker 3: O God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from dread
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  Speaker 3: of the enemy. Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
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  Speaker 3: from the tumult.
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  Speaker 2: Of those who do iniquity. Look at their description.
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  Speaker 3: Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and they
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  Speaker 3: aimed bitter speech as their arrow to shoot.
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  Speaker 2: From concealment at the blameless.
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  Speaker 3: This hurts maybe most of all, to be attacked in secret,
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  Speaker 3: behind the scenes. Things are said against us, and not
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  Speaker 3: only do we not know, we don't even realize the
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  Speaker 3: impact that it's having on people who once believed in us.
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  Speaker 3: But the sword thrusts are going on. That's a wrong
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  Speaker 3: kind of use.
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  Speaker 2: Of the tongue. Look at Proverbs 12. One more book
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  Speaker 2: to the right.
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  Speaker 3: Proverbs 12, verse 18. There is one who speaks rashly
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  Speaker 3: like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of
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  Speaker 3: the wise brings healing. There's the difference. Good reproof brings healing.
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  Speaker 3: Initially it hurts, ultimately it heals. How good it is
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  Speaker 3: when we have friends close enough to us to put
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  Speaker 3: their arms around us and warn or correct or point
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  Speaker 3: out an area of That is getting out of control
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  Speaker 3: or out of line. I can't let you leave Proverbs
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  Speaker 3: without another quick glance. 15 for a soothing tongue is
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  Speaker 3: a tree of life, but perversion in it crushes the spirit,
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  Speaker 3: crushes the spirit. There's another proverb like apples of gold
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  Speaker 3: in settings of silver. So as a wise reprover upon
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  Speaker 3: an obedient ear, Proverbs 25, 11 and 12.
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  Speaker 2: Now, back to Job, my point.
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  Speaker 3: Bildad blamed Job because he saw Job as sinful.
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  Speaker 2: And what he was going through was the consequences of wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Job realized there was.
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  Speaker 3: No sin he hadn't confessed. So he saw what he
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  Speaker 3: was going through as a mystery. And when you add
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  Speaker 3: the silence of God and the distance from God that
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  Speaker 3: he felt, it became unbearable. which explains his, at times,
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  Speaker 3: losing control, and those men would not cut him any slack.
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  Speaker 3: In my preparation, I came across a fine little piece called,
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  Speaker 3: Are You a Builder? I saw them tearing a building down,
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  Speaker 3: a group of men in a busy town, with a
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  Speaker 3: hefty blow and a lusty yell. They swung with zest,
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  Speaker 3: and a side wall fell. Asked of the foreman, Are
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  Speaker 3: these men skilled? the kind you would hire if you
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  Speaker 3: had to build? He looked at me and laughed. No, indeed,
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  Speaker 3: unskilled labor is all I need.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: They can reckon a day or two what it has
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  Speaker 3: taken builders years to do. I asked myself as I
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  Speaker 3: went my way, which of these roles have I tried
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  Speaker 3: to play? Am I a builder with rule and square,
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  Speaker 3: measuring and constructing with skill and care? Or am I
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  Speaker 3: a wrecker who walks the town content with the business
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  Speaker 3: of tearing down?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, which are you? You a builder? You
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  Speaker 2: a builder? None of the friends of Job qualified as
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  Speaker 2: a builder. They're all wreckers.
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  Speaker 3: It's all a matter of perspective if they had only
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  Speaker 3: realized that much of the will of God is mysterious.
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  Speaker 3: If only they could have imagined there's got to be
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  Speaker 3: something that we don't grasp. Job's life lines up. This
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  Speaker 3: is not logical. There's something unusual happening here. God's up
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  Speaker 3: to something great. And we must comfort our friend as
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  Speaker 3: he goes through this great trial for whatever reason God has.
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  Speaker 3: And just admit they didn't know why. You know, just
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  Speaker 3: to be there. Just to understand.
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  Speaker 2: Just show grace.
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  Speaker 3: Cynthia and I arrived at a wedding yesterday here at
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  Speaker 3: the church. We were almost late and had a minute
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  Speaker 3: or two to get inside. On our way over, my
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  Speaker 3: coat had fallen from the back seat to the floorboard,
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  Speaker 3: and we parked back here, the back parking lot, and
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  Speaker 3: I got a little close to the curb. And so
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  Speaker 3: I'm standing on the curb, getting in the back of
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  Speaker 3: the car to get my coat, and I'm in a
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  Speaker 3: hurry because I don't want to be late. And so
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  Speaker 3: I grab the coat and boom, I stand up and
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  Speaker 3: I hit my head, right? You want to see that
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  Speaker 3: right there? There's a knot about that big right there
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  Speaker 3: on my head. And I, you know, I'm, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I tend to be a little dramatic at times. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's nobody around and my dear wife is
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  Speaker 3: standing there and And.
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  Speaker 2: I really did. I thought, man, this brought blood. I'm convinced.
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  Speaker 2: And I.
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  Speaker 3: Closed the door and she walks over and she was
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  Speaker 3: so gracious. She was just so, you know, it was wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't do this. You coming? She didn't do that.
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  Speaker 3: She walked over and time was forgotten by her. And
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  Speaker 3: it was like, I don't know why this happened, but
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  Speaker 3: what a time for it to happen. And I care
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  Speaker 3: about what happened, and I want to be here. And
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  Speaker 3: I got to tell you, that just spoke volumes to me.
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  Speaker 3: We went into the wedding, and as I watched the
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  Speaker 3: wedding and listened to the vows and saw this sweet
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  Speaker 3: couple standing here, you know, they've never been married before, okay?
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  Speaker 3: So they don't know what's coming.
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  Speaker 2: And that's good. That's good.
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  Speaker 3: They'll never be thinner or more ignorant of life than
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  Speaker 3: right then. It's innocence.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's as it ought to be. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting there. You know what?
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking, as my head is pounding, I'm thinking... I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope they really will have this kind of grace.
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  Speaker 3: Because I knew what was coming today and what Bildad
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  Speaker 3: and Zophar and Eliphaz missed by a mile. It's just
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  Speaker 3: so valuable in a marriage. Some of you are no
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  Speaker 3: longer married because you were abused by a partner. You
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  Speaker 3: were mistreated. You longed to have an understanding hug. And
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't continue as it was. Some of you are
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  Speaker 3: abusing in your marriage. I don't know who you are.
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  Speaker 3: But I know in a group this large, it's going on.
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  Speaker 2: And you say, oh, I've never laid a hand. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that.
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  Speaker 3: It's a verbal abuse. It's ugly comments. It's insults and
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  Speaker 3: slams to the mat and sarcasm, put-downs.
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  Speaker 2: You don't realize.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Bill Dadd sat on the edge of
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  Speaker 3: his bed that morning thinking, let's see, how can I
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  Speaker 3: possibly insult him more now than I did before?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it worked like that. I don't believe that.
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  Speaker 3: I think it just got worse and worse as they talked,
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  Speaker 3: like an abuser. And that's why this is preserved for us.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever is written in earlier times, Romans 15, 4 says,
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  Speaker 3: written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort
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  Speaker 3: from the scriptures might have hope.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: Bildad lives and Job lives. and they both may live
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  Speaker 3: under the same roof. Job calls it tormenting and crushing
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  Speaker 3: and insulting and wronging. He talks about the distance there
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  Speaker 3: is from God. Verse 7, I cry, violence, and I
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  Speaker 3: get no answer. I shout, help, and there's no justice.
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  Speaker 3: Heavens are brass. That great God that once talked with
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  Speaker 3: me has walled up my way that I cannot pass.
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  Speaker 3: The path is dark that once was lit. Your heart
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  Speaker 3: goes out to this man. He has stripped my honor
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  Speaker 3: from me. I was once listened to in the gate.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm sitting at the trash heap as the dogs
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  Speaker 3: root around me for food. And the excrement of this
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  Speaker 3: land is all about me.
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  Speaker 2: This is awful.
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  Speaker 3: Not only is God silent, the others who were once
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  Speaker 3: close are now absent.
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  Speaker 2: They resist me. Look at the list.
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  Speaker 3: Verse 13. My brother is far from me. My acquaintance
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  Speaker 3: is completely estranged. I don't have any real friends that
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  Speaker 3: come around. My relatives have failed. My intimate friends have
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  Speaker 3: forgotten me.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the list.
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  Speaker 3: Maid, servant, verse 17. Even my breath is offensive to
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  Speaker 3: my wife. I'm loathsome to my own brothers. Even young
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  Speaker 3: children despise me. And my associates abhor me. Those I
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  Speaker 3: love have turned against me.
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  Speaker 2: You build that.
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  Speaker 3: You, Zophar, you, Eliphaz, and before you even speak, you, Elihu,
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  Speaker 3: I've loved.
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  Speaker 2: You men, and you've turned against me. It's tragic.
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  Speaker 3: And then he pauses and says, oh, I have hope
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  Speaker 3: beyond all of this. In fact, so significant is my hope.
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  Speaker 3: Look at verse 23.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Oh, that my words were written.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that they were inscribed in a book of Better
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  Speaker 3: than that, that they, with an iron stylus and lead,
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  Speaker 3: they were engraved in the rock forever. Drilled, etched into
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  Speaker 3: granite so that people through time could read. He thought
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  Speaker 3: his words would be forgotten. When I read that, I
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  Speaker 3: thought of our 16th president. On the 19th of November, 1863,
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  Speaker 3: he stood at Gettysburg. Bloated bodies popping in the heat
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  Speaker 3: of the sun. It died by the scores at Gettysburg.
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  Speaker 3: And he stood with this simple little speech written on
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  Speaker 3: a piece of paper he had brought with him, written
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  Speaker 3: by hand. The world will little note nor long remember
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  Speaker 3: what I said here, but it can never forget what
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  Speaker 3: they did here. I thought when I read that yesterday, oh, Mr. Lincoln,
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  Speaker 3: we'll never forget what you said. Most of us can't
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  Speaker 3: remember what you did there. Soldiers, but we'll never forget
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  Speaker 3: your speech. Job, it's going in the book. Job, it's
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  Speaker 3: in the book. It's along with Psalm 23 and Romans 8.
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  Speaker 3: In Revelation 22, in Genesis 3, Job 19, 25, I
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  Speaker 3: know that my Redeemer lives, and at the.
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  Speaker 2: Last He shall stand upon this earth.
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  Speaker 3: Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh
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  Speaker 3: I shall see God. I shall see Him myself. My
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  Speaker 3: own eyes shall see Him, not another. There will be
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  Speaker 3: a resurrection. There will be a changed world.
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  Speaker 2: I will come back. Oh, that my words would be remembered.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, when Handel writes his magnum opus, he
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  Speaker 3: gives this to.
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  Speaker 2: The soprano and has her sing it.
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  Speaker 3: And every Christmas we hear it over again and again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my Redeemer lives. I know he lives.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, thank you, Lord, for preserving Job's hope
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  Speaker 3: for every generation through time. Let me tell you who
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  Speaker 3: are on the side of Job today. And your God
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  Speaker 3: is quiet and distant and silent and your friends may
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  Speaker 3: have begun to turn against you. Let me tell you,
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  Speaker 3: the end of the book has got a great chapter.
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  Speaker 2: In the end, God wins. Right rules.
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  Speaker 3: And the Zophars and the Bildads and the Eliphazes and
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  Speaker 3: the Elihus.
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  Speaker 2: Will be forgotten.
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  Speaker 3: His conclusion is eloquent. Be afraid of the sword for yourselves, friends.
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  Speaker 3: Wrath brings the punishment of the sword so that you
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  Speaker 3: may know there is judgment. After this burst of hope,
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  Speaker 3: 23 through 27, he turns to Bildad with renewed strength
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  Speaker 3: and he says, you need to know something. Judgment's not
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  Speaker 3: coming my way. It's coming yours. Two lasting lessons live
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  Speaker 3: on as I complete these two chapters today. The first
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  Speaker 3: one is about hope, and the second one is about assurance.
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  Speaker 3: There is nothing like hope. There is nothing like hope
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  Speaker 3: in the truth to clarify perspective and to keep us going.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing like hope in the truth to clarify perspective
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  Speaker 3: and to keep us going. Some of you are having
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  Speaker 3: trouble going on and continuing In your lot, I assure you,
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  Speaker 3: your embracing the truth will give you the hope you need,
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  Speaker 3: even hope that you're not getting from those closest to you.
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  Speaker 3: The second lesson is that there is nothing like lack
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  Speaker 3: of assurance to haunt our steps and make us afraid.
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  Speaker 3: If you are without the Lord Jesus Christ, let me
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  Speaker 3: tell you, your steps are being haunted.
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  Speaker 2: And when the lights are out.
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  Speaker 3: And your head has sunk into the pillow for another night,
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  Speaker 3: you hope you make it through alive. Not knowing where
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  Speaker 3: you would be if you died, let me tell you,
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  Speaker 3: that is treacherous. And the worst part, if you die
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  Speaker 3: without Christ, judgment is there. It is appointed unto us
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  Speaker 3: once to die and after death, the judgment. To have peace,
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  Speaker 3: you need to know where you're going. I have a
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  Speaker 3: thing about giving our money while we're alive. You're giving
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  Speaker 3: while you're living, then you're knowing where.
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  Speaker 2: It's going, I often say.
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  Speaker 3: Be sure you're believing right when you're living, because when
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  Speaker 3: you die, there's no second chance to decide. It's haunting
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  Speaker 3: not to be sure where you're going. Billy Graham was
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  Speaker 3: invited several years ago to speak at the elegant... Waldorf
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  Speaker 3: Astoria Hotel in New York City. I have a friend
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  Speaker 3: who was there who heard him, and he told me
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  Speaker 3: later that Graham had apparently had a little trouble getting
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  Speaker 3: there transportation-wise, and he did finally make it, I think,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit late for the meeting. And when he
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  Speaker 3: stood up to speak, he told a true story of
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  Speaker 3: Albert Einstein, who was taking a train to the big
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  Speaker 3: city and And the ticket taker came by to gather
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  Speaker 3: the tickets. And when he got to the great thinker,
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  Speaker 3: he waited for his ticket. He began to search for
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  Speaker 3: his ticket and he could not find it. And the
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  Speaker 3: ticket taker noticed who he was, this brilliant physicist. And
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  Speaker 3: he said, oh, Dr. Einstein, don't worry. We trust you.
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  Speaker 3: You have to have a ticket.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: And he left and went on. And about 20 minutes later,
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  Speaker 3: he was coming back through the car again. And he
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  Speaker 3: noticed that Einstein was on his hands and knees, still
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  Speaker 3: looking around for his ticket.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, no, please get up. He said, we
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  Speaker 2: trust you.
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  Speaker 3: And Einstein turned around and looked up and said, young man,
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  Speaker 3: This isn't a matter of trust, but direction. I'm searching
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  Speaker 3: for a ticket because I don't know where I'm going.
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  Speaker 3: Do you really know where you're going? Do you really
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  Speaker 3: know that? Is a destination guaranteed?
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Bill dad talked to the wrong man with the wrong motive. But, uh,
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  Speaker 3: He had a message for some other person, maybe you.
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  Speaker 3: And in that case, motive fits. There's reason to be concerned.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like us to bow our heads just for a
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  Speaker 3: few moments. Just sit quietly there in this comfortable place.
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  Speaker 3: No one will disturb you. You're alone with your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Job lives.
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  Speaker 3: People in tragic circumstances once stood at their kitchen window
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  Speaker 3: and thought, you know, it may not always be great
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  Speaker 3: as it is right now. And they lived to see
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  Speaker 3: the truth of their words, just as Secretary of Defense
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  Speaker 3: Rumsfeld became actually transformed into a Secretary of War, though
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  Speaker 3: his words seemed only a theoretical prediction at first.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing theoretical about....
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  Speaker 3: Life may not continue as you've known it. It just
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  Speaker 3: may be that hard times are right ahead, especially for you.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: If I knew for sure, I'd pull you aside and
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  Speaker 3: warn you. If I had known in Job's place, I
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  Speaker 3: would have told him about chapters 1 and 2. But
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  Speaker 3: the mystery unfolded, and you know the rest of the story.
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  Speaker 3: I invite you to the Lord Jesus Christ, to the
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  Speaker 3: cross where the payment was made in full for the
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  Speaker 3: sins of your life. And I must tell you that
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  Speaker 3: is the only ticket that will guarantee your destination. That's
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  Speaker 3: the only way you'll know that you're on your way
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  Speaker 3: to heaven. Not by what you have done, but by
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  Speaker 3: believing in what Christ has done.
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  Speaker 2: Your destination.
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  Speaker 1: Is assured.
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  Speaker 2: We often say, by faith alone, in Christ alone.
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  Speaker 3: This is the assurance that God has given us eternal life,
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  Speaker 3: and this life is in His Son. He who has
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  Speaker 3: the Son, S-O-N, the Son of God, has the life.
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  Speaker 3: He who does not have the Son does not have
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  Speaker 3: the life. We're grateful, our Father, for words such as
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  Speaker 3: we have heard. In many ways, they are warnings for
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  Speaker 3: us all. They are preparatory words that seem today like
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  Speaker 3: a distant prediction, but could very well in a matter
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  Speaker 3: of hours, days, become a reality. Certainly for those without Christ,
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  Speaker 3: we pray today that you will bring to them the
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  Speaker 3: all-important question of, what will I do with Jesus Christ?
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  Speaker 3: and turn them, our Father, in their hearts deep within
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  Speaker 3: to your Son and bring with them at that moment
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  Speaker 3: a peace they've never known before. Until then, I pray
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  Speaker 3: that you would continue the restlessness and the uneasiness and
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  Speaker 3: the sleepless nights and the haunting reminders that death is
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  Speaker 3: sure and judgment is real. Now unto him who is
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  Speaker 3: able to guard us from stumbling and present us who
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  Speaker 3: know him as faultless in his own presence with exceeding
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  Speaker 3: great glory to the only wise God, our Savior, be
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  Speaker 3: glory and majesty, dominion and power this day and forevermore.
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  Speaker 3: In the name of Christ, all God's people said, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Hope that refuses to die, even when everything around you
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  Speaker 1: has collapsed. That's the legacy of Job, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: message Chuck Swindoll has shared with us today on Insight
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  Speaker 1: for Living. If you're personally walking through a season of
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  Speaker 1: loss or living under the weight of words that wound,
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  Speaker 1: we hope this study has brought you genuine comfort and
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  Speaker 1: renewed confidence in the one who never forgets your name.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck titled his message, Reassuring Hope for the Assaulted and Abused.
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  Speaker 1: You've just heard Chuck walk us through one of the
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  Speaker 1: darkest seasons in the Bible. Job, assaulted, abused, abandoned. His
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  Speaker 1: friends came to comfort him and crushed him instead. God
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  Speaker 1: seemed silent. The heavens felt like brass. And yet, from
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  Speaker 1: the ash heap came these words, I know that my
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  Speaker 1: Redeemer lives. That's a man who found God when his
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  Speaker 1: world was on fire. And friend, you may be sitting
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  Speaker 1: there today in your own ash heap. Words have wounded you.
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  Speaker 1: circumstances have overwhelmed you, and God feels very, very far away.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck's book, Finding God When the World's on Fire, was
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  Speaker 1: blamed for something you didn't do? I'm Bill Meyer. Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Swindoll explains how to respond wisely when you're falsely accused. Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: on Insight for Living. The preceding message, Reassuring Hope for
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