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Responding Wisely When Falsely Accused, Part 2 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that the tongue is capable of
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Speaker 1: inflicting wounds that cut far deeper than any sword. And
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Speaker 1: when those words aren't true, the pain can feel absolutely unbearable.
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Speaker 1: Today on Insight for Living. Chuck Swindoll continues our journey
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Speaker 1: through the book of Job, arriving at a moment when Job,
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Speaker 1: already broken by unimaginable loss, must now defend himself against
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Speaker 1: a torrent of false accusations. In Job chapters 20 and 21,
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Speaker 1: Chuck draws four powerful principles straight from Job's response. Principles
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Speaker 1: you'll want close at hand the next time someone's tongue
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Speaker 1: turns against you.
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Speaker 2: Truth has a way of vindicating wrong. And I think
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Speaker 2: Job turns to it when he answers Zophar. I don't
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Speaker 2: think it's always appropriate that you just sit silently and
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Speaker 2: get beat up by the tongue of liars. Job doesn't.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you don't read, then Job answered, whatever. That's
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Speaker 2: not there. You don't see that.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Okay. No, Job answers him. Listen to what Job says.
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Speaker 2: You got to admire the guy's covered with boils. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he's sick. He's fevered. He's swollen. He's hurting. He's grieved.
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Speaker 2: He says to Zophar, look at these. Verse two, listen
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Speaker 2: carefully to my speech. So you listen for a change.
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Speaker 2: I added that for a change. Okay, that's just a
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Speaker 2: little addition there. You listen. In fact, I like the
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Speaker 2: way you put it. Let this be your way of consolation.
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Speaker 2: Since words aren't, maybe silence will be. You listen. So
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Speaker 2: listen up. Secondly, bear with me. That suggests patience. By
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Speaker 2: the way, there it is again, by the way. People
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Speaker 2: who spread lies against you aren't good listeners and they
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Speaker 2: aren't patient. And Job knows that. And he says, I
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Speaker 2: want you to do something different. I want you to listen.
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Speaker 2: And I want you to be patient as you reason
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Speaker 2: your way through what I want to tell you. That
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Speaker 2: I may speak. Then after I have spoken, you may mock.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that good? One of my sources said he called
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Speaker 2: this a sarcastic imperative in the Hebrew. That's a good
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Speaker 2: way to put it. Go ahead and mock. But at
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Speaker 2: least give me my day. Give me my moment in court.
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Speaker 2: You listen and you patiently listen. work this through and
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Speaker 2: reason your way through this and then you can mock
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Speaker 2: on as for me is my complaint to man or
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Speaker 2: why should i not be impatient and why should i
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Speaker 2: not be impatient look at me and be astonished there's
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Speaker 2: the third command look at me listen patiently bear with
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Speaker 2: me and look look in my eyes look at my
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Speaker 2: face in fact look at how he says it put
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Speaker 2: your hand over your mouth I think by now they're
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Speaker 2: sort of lecturing into space. They're not wanting to look
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Speaker 2: at him. Job says, you look at me. You say
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Speaker 2: what you have to say to my face. Which false
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Speaker 2: accusers don't do. They go around us. They go behind
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Speaker 2: our back. They go to people who are weak and
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Speaker 2: gullible and willing to listen to lies. And then they
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Speaker 2: infect them with their verbal germs. And Job says, you've talked.
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Speaker 2: Now listen. You reason with me. You look at me.
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Speaker 2: You look at me. Now what's Job going to say
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Speaker 2: to him? He's going to answer all three points. Listen carefully. First,
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Speaker 2: he's going to say, often the wicked do live long lives.
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Speaker 2: Just because a person doesn't know God doesn't mean they
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Speaker 2: die in their 20s. Or doesn't mean they go through
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Speaker 2: some horrible suffering because they're wicked. And he gives examples
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Speaker 2: of that. We'll get there. Second, he says, their pleasures
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Speaker 2: are not always temporary. Listen, some who are lost get
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Speaker 2: great jobs, earn a gob of dough. have multiple homes
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Speaker 2: and many women or many men have luxurious cars and
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Speaker 2: sleep around and live wild and don't die till they're 90.
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Speaker 2: I mean, their pleasures are not always temporary. So where
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Speaker 2: do you get off saying that so far? That's not true.
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Speaker 2: And death comes to everybody and it doesn't always fall
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Speaker 2: hard on the wicked. Some die in a pretty good
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Speaker 2: state of mind. Now, what follows is awful. But in life,
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Speaker 2: the point is, in life, the things you're saying so
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Speaker 2: far don't square with fact. So let me spit this
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Speaker 2: out in a hurry here. Look at verse 7. Why
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Speaker 2: do the wicked still live and continue on, also become
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Speaker 2: very powerful? See, he's building his case. So far, you
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Speaker 2: say that the wicked don't live long. Well, how do
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Speaker 2: you explain those that continue and become, in fact, powerful
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Speaker 2: and talk about their lifestyle? Look at that. He describes it.
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Speaker 2: Their descendants are established with them in their sight. Their
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Speaker 2: offspring before their eyes, their houses are safe from fear.
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Speaker 2: Neither is the rod of God on them. Look outside.
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Speaker 2: Even the ox mates without fail and cows calve and
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Speaker 2: they don't abort. They send forth their little ones like
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Speaker 2: the flock. Their children skip about. They sing to the
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Speaker 2: timbrel and the harp. They rejoice at the sound of
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Speaker 2: the flute. They spend their days in prosperity. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: look grim to me. In fact, you may wonder if
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Speaker 2: they really don't know God. Don't doubt it. Verse 14,
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Speaker 2: they say to God, depart from us. We do not
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Speaker 2: even desire the knowledge of your ways. And I want
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Speaker 2: you to know so far. Look at the end of
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Speaker 2: verse 16. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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Speaker 2: I'm not in that category. I'm sick. Nobody knows why
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Speaker 2: I'm sick, but I'm sick. And it's a mystery. But
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Speaker 2: I'm not wicked. And furthermore, the wicked don't necessarily die young.
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Speaker 2: Just because there's God, they don't have God in their lives,
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean that they go to an early grave. And
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Speaker 2: now that we're on the second, where's proof that they
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Speaker 2: suffer calamity? That they always suffer calamity. Verse 17, how
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Speaker 2: often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How
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Speaker 2: often does their calamity fall on them? See how he's reasoning?
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Speaker 2: Does God apportion destruction in his anger? Are they a
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Speaker 2: straw before the wind, a chaff which the storm carries away?
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Speaker 2: This is poetry, remember. You say God stores away a
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Speaker 2: man's iniquity for his sons. Let God repay him so
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Speaker 2: that he may know it. Verse 22. Can anyone teach
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Speaker 2: God knowledge in that he judged those on high? One
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Speaker 2: dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and satisfied.
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Speaker 2: And he's not eaten up with disease. His sides are
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Speaker 2: filled out with fat. Isn't that an interesting way to
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Speaker 2: put it? The marrow of his bones is moist. And then,
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Speaker 2: on the other hand, there are people who die who
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Speaker 2: are bitter of soul and never taste anything good. Together,
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Speaker 2: they lie down in the dust. Job is saying to Zophar,
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Speaker 2: your argument doesn't hold water. There are examples on the
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Speaker 2: other side. Let me show you a verse you may
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Speaker 2: have never seen before. Look at Ecclesiastes 8, 11. I
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Speaker 2: learned this verse years ago, and it often comes to
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Speaker 2: mind when I get to subjects like this. Ecclesiastes. Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes.
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Speaker 2: It's a hard book to find. Just before Song of Solomon.
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Speaker 2: Just after Proverbs. Ecclesiastes 8, 11. Look at this verse.
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Speaker 2: It's in the Old Testament. In case some of you
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Speaker 2: are not right there to take it. Because the sentence
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Speaker 2: against an evil deed is not executed quickly. Look at that.
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Speaker 2: Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly,
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Speaker 2: therefore the hearts of the sons of man among them
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Speaker 2: are given fully to do evil. Well, what does that mean?
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Speaker 2: It means because every time a person does wrong, he's
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Speaker 2: not judged or a victim of calamity, he decides, I
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Speaker 2: can do that again. I can do more of that.
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Speaker 2: Although a sinner, verse 12, does evil a hundred times
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Speaker 2: and may lengthen his life, still I know that it
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Speaker 2: will be well for those who fear God, who fear
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Speaker 2: him openly. I mean, here's a guy that does it
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Speaker 2: a hundred times, lengthens his life. We need to get
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Speaker 2: out of our mind the stereotyped picture of the lost person.
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Speaker 2: Some of the lost live better than many of us
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Speaker 2: could imagine. And they die better than any of us
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Speaker 2: could imagine. Because they're lost doesn't mean they're therefore in
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Speaker 2: this life finished. Or in a calamitous journey. That comes
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Speaker 2: after life. That comes in the ultimate. Our good news
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Speaker 2: is about life beyond. It does not mean you believe
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Speaker 2: in Christ and suddenly you're affluent. Or, ipso facto, suddenly
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Speaker 2: you've lost everything. We have it mixed up. We've got
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Speaker 2: our theology sort of screwed up around our lifestyle. Or
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Speaker 2: our preference. Or our prejudices. As if the wealthy can
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Speaker 2: never be godly. Or the poor can never be wicked.
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Speaker 2: That's Zophar's problem. I mean, look at you, Job. Look
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Speaker 2: at the condition you're in. Obviously, you've got sin in
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Speaker 2: your life. You just haven't told us. Because the wicked
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Speaker 2: live suffering. And Job says, wait a minute. It's not true.
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Speaker 2: There are times that the wicked live very prosperously. He
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Speaker 2: describes it when he talks about death. Verse 30. For
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Speaker 2: the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity. They
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Speaker 2: will be led forth in the day of fury. That's
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Speaker 2: the ultimate. Who will confront him with his actions? Who
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Speaker 2: will repay him for what he has done? Now, watch
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Speaker 2: the funeral service of the wicked. While he's carried to
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Speaker 2: the grave, men will keep watch over his tomb. The
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Speaker 2: clods of the valley will gently cover him. Moreover, all
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Speaker 2: men will follow after him while countless ones go before him.
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Speaker 2: Listen to the way Eugene Peterson paraphrases that. Have you
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Speaker 2: ever asked world travelers how they see this? Have you
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Speaker 2: not listened to their stories of evil men and women
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Speaker 2: who got off scot-free, who never had to pay for
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Speaker 2: their wickedness? Did anyone ever confront them with their crimes?
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Speaker 2: Did they ever have to face the music? Not likely.
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Speaker 2: They're given fancy funerals with all the trimmings, gently lowered
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Speaker 2: into expensive graves with everyone telling lies about how wonderful
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Speaker 2: they were. You've seen it. So far, you've missed it
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Speaker 2: with me. I'm not in that category. You've got it
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Speaker 2: simplified to the point of being simplistic. Wicked or righteous,
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Speaker 2: some die well-heeled, some die bitterly and in anguish. And
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Speaker 2: look at his final summation of Zophar's counsel, verse 34.
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Speaker 2: How then will you vainly comfort me? Your answers remain
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Speaker 2: full of falsehood. See, that's saying it straight. And I'm
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Speaker 2: suggesting that kind of truth needs to be said. to
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Speaker 2: people who are poor in falsehood in our heads. The
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Speaker 2: word falsehood, by the way, in the Hebrew means treachery
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Speaker 2: or fraud. Your answers remain full of treachery. They can't
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Speaker 2: be counted on. It's not as you have falsely accused
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Speaker 2: me of being. You need truth, and you're not hearing it,
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Speaker 2: and you're not saying it. Now, you've so patiently sat
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Speaker 2: through this. Well, most of You have sat patiently through
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Speaker 2: this and you have listened to Zophar and you've listened
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Speaker 2: to Job's answer. Now I want to talk with you.
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Speaker 2: I want to offer you four lingering principles you can
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Speaker 2: live by when you're falsely accused. Now you're talking. Some
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Speaker 2: of you are saying, where is that pen and paper?
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Speaker 2: And that's good because you will need this when, not if,
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Speaker 2: but when people ask. accuse you falsely of things. Here's
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Speaker 2: some guidelines that I learned from Job. There are four.
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Speaker 2: And following each principle is a little two-word suggestion. Okay,
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Speaker 2: here's the first principle. Listen to what is being said,
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Speaker 2: considering the character of the critic. Listen to what is
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Speaker 2: being said, considering the character of the critic. And the
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Speaker 2: two-word counsel on this, right after parenthesis, stay calm. You'll
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Speaker 2: be tempted to jump in and rashly say things that
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Speaker 2: you'll later regret. Stay calm. Listen. Listen to what is
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Speaker 2: being said, considering the character of the critic. Stay calm. Second,
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Speaker 2: respond with true facts. knowing the nature of your accuser.
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Speaker 2: Respond with true facts, knowing the nature of your accuser. Frankly,
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Speaker 2: it may be a former husband, former wife. It may
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Speaker 2: be a former boss. It may be a former employee,
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Speaker 2: maybe a neighbor, maybe a pastor. It doesn't matter who
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Speaker 2: it is. The point is, If you are being accused,
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Speaker 2: you need to have true facts. So my two-word counsel
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Speaker 2: here is speak truth. Don't just react, or you'll come
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Speaker 2: off just like the accuser. Speak truth. David prayed in
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Speaker 2: Psalm 26, Vindicate me, O Lord, according to my integrity.
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Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln was told that he needed to fire the
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Speaker 2: postmaster general back in Bethlehem. July, the letter he wrote
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Speaker 2: was dated July 18, 1864. And so he writes Secretary
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Speaker 2: Stanton this letter saying he's not going to do it
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Speaker 2: because it's based on hearsay. And then he makes this statement.
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Speaker 2: Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Isn't that good?
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Speaker 2: Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Stay with truth.
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Speaker 2: Don't exaggerate it. Don't pad it. Don't hesitate. Don't hesitate.
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Speaker 2: Respond with true facts, accurate information. Number three, use examples
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Speaker 2: that represent reality and balance. Use examples that represent reality
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Speaker 2: and balance. That's what Job did. Trusting your defense to
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Speaker 2: the Lord. Use examples that represent reality and balance. Trusting
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Speaker 2: your defense to the Lord. Parenthesis, lean on.
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Speaker 3: Hard.
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Speaker 2: I understand I have been accused of things. It has
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Speaker 2: kept me awake. It has made my stomach churn. It
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Speaker 2: has taken away my appetite. I have found myself at
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Speaker 2: times thinking I'm not going to pay any attention to it,
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Speaker 2: and that's all I can talk about. I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to pay any attention to what's being written, and I
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Speaker 2: memorize it. I'm not going to worry about it, and
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Speaker 2: I pass it on to somebody else. I am not
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Speaker 2: leaning hard. I need examples that represent reality and balance.
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Speaker 2: And then I need to lean on God to see
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Speaker 2: me through it. If truth is truth, and it is,
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Speaker 2: then he will honor it. And ultimately, truth will win out. Four,
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Speaker 2: refuse to let the accusations discourage and derail you. Refuse
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Speaker 2: to let the accusations discourage and derail you. Remembering they
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Speaker 2: are nonsense and lies. They are nonsense and lies. Parenthesis,
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Speaker 2: get tough. Remember that old line from the Revolutionary War?
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Speaker 2: Trust in God, but keep your powder dry. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you lock your door at night. You trust God, but
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Speaker 2: you turn on your alarm. You get in your car,
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Speaker 2: you lock your doors, don't you? You roll up your windows,
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Speaker 2: don't you? If you don't, you're dumb. You're playing with fire.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to trust God, but I'm going to ride
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Speaker 2: around this back alley in a convertible. Yeah. A lot
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Speaker 2: of folks are like that. There's got to be balance here.
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Speaker 2: Don't be afraid of harsh examples. Job uses some. Don't
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Speaker 2: be afraid of very specific, strongly stated examples. I read
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Speaker 2: this past week of a physician father who is in Paraguay.
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Speaker 2: Several years ago, He stood against the military regime there
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Speaker 2: that was corrupt, which was also interwoven with the law enforcement,
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Speaker 2: and he spoke on human rights abuse. And he spoke openly,
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Speaker 2: and he exposed it. Listen to what happened. The local
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Speaker 2: police took their revenge on him by arresting his teenage son,
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Speaker 2: torturing him to death. enraged, the townsfolk wanted to turn
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Speaker 2: the boy's funeral into a huge protest march. The doctor's
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Speaker 2: father said, no, we'll do something else to protest. At
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Speaker 2: the funeral, true story, the father displayed the son's body
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Speaker 2: as he had found it in the jail for all
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Speaker 2: to see, naked, scarred from the electric shocks, cigarette burns,
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Speaker 2: beatings and stabbings. All the villagers filed past the corpse,
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Speaker 2: which lay not in a coffin, but on a blood-soaked
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Speaker 2: mattress from the prison, exactly where he found the boy.
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Speaker 2: it was the strongest protest imaginable it put injustice on
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Speaker 2: grotesque display that's exactly what God did with Christ at
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Speaker 2: the cross that's exactly what he did he didn't put
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Speaker 2: a white bed sheet around him and said no no
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Speaker 2: it's too hard for you to look at that He
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Speaker 2: didn't have him crucified in a basement somewhere so people
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Speaker 2: wouldn't see. He was on a hill, hanging there, dying,
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Speaker 2: finally limp, gray, dead. And it was impacting, and that
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Speaker 2: cross is still impacting all who will look and live.
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Speaker 2: Because he used a very harsh, realistic... to convey his message.
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Speaker 2: Look at it. In your mind, picture it. Any other
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Speaker 2: kind of information is empty and full of nonsense. Let
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Speaker 2: me say to you who are going through a time
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Speaker 2: of false accusation, may God strengthen you in it. May
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Speaker 2: God hold you close through it. May God give you
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Speaker 2: wisdom In responding to it. May he become real. And
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Speaker 2: personal to you. Even giving you songs in the night.
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Speaker 2: And quiet rest. As he defends you. And let me
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Speaker 2: say to you who are spreading rumors and lies and
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Speaker 2: slander on someone else. There is nothing more treacherous you
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Speaker 2: could be doing. In the family of God than that.
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Speaker 2: You hurt the body. You disease the church. You ruin
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Speaker 2: the testimony of Christ. There's nothing the lost world loves
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Speaker 2: to hear and see more than infighting in the family.
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Speaker 2: And before we cluck our tongues at Zophar and Bildad
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Speaker 2: and Eliphaz, we better do some soul searching. Search me,
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Speaker 2: O God, says David. Try me. Know my thoughts. See
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Speaker 2: if there be any, the Hebrew says, any way of
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Speaker 2: pain within me. Isn't that good? Any way of pain.
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Speaker 2: My bringing pain to someone. And then lead me in
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Speaker 2: the way everlasting. Let's bow together. So searching time in
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Speaker 2: this old book. Job may be old, but he's certainly relevant.
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Speaker 2: For you who have been crippled by false information, and
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Speaker 2: hurt and sometime even humiliated, may God give you strength
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Speaker 2: from this message. For you who don't know Christ, may
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Speaker 2: the message of the cross minister to you personally. Right
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Speaker 2: where you're sitting, you can turn your life over to
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Speaker 2: the Savior by faith putting your hand in Him, taking
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Speaker 2: His life in place of your shame and sin and failure.
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Speaker 2: You can know what it is to be forgiven fully,
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Speaker 2: fully redeemed. Thank you, Father, that this is a place
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Speaker 2: where shame and grace can meet. Thank you for the cross.
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Speaker 2: It's still that old message that sets the captive free.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for a man who would record from his
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Speaker 2: journal even things as personal as this, such insulting comments,
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Speaker 2: such humiliating words. Thank you for his storied endurance, his courage,
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Speaker 2: his strength of character. Thank you that he didn't just
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Speaker 2: sit back and let the lies run on, but he
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Speaker 2: became your spokesman, which guides us even as late as
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Speaker 2: the 21st century in time. Now, Lord, may we be
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Speaker 2: dismissed with a reminder that you are For us and
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Speaker 2: therefore who can be against us. He who spared not
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Speaker 2: his own son but delivered him up for us all.
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Speaker 2: How shall he not with him freely give us all things.
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Speaker 3: We exalt in this your grace. In the name of
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Speaker 3: Jesus our Lord. And powerful master and savior we pray.
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Speaker 3: Everyone said.
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Speaker 2: Amen.
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Speaker 1: Romans 8 verse.
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Speaker 2: 32 says, If you're walking.
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Speaker 1: Through a season of false accusation right now, those words
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Speaker 1: are for you. Job's story reminds us that God sees
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Speaker 1: what others distort. He knows what others deny. and he
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Speaker 1: will not abandon those who trust him with the truth.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. Chuck Swindoll titled today's message,
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Speaker 1: Responding Wisely When Falsely Accused. As much as we might try,
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Speaker 1: we can't dismiss the raw authenticity of Job's story. It's
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Speaker 1: not just a distant parable, something tragic that happened to
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Speaker 1: someone else somewhere else a long, long time ago. We
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Speaker 1: know it's relevant because we've been there. We've been wounded
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Speaker 1: by friends and those we love. Their words are like
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Speaker 1: arrows that pierce our heart and destroy our confidence. Here's
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Speaker 1: what Chuck Swindoll wants you to know. Job was a
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Speaker 1: real man. His heartbreaks were real heartbreaks. And the God
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Speaker 1: who met him in the pain of it all is
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