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Job 1:6-12 - Satan Roams the Earth · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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Speaker 1: Life Audio. You are listening to The Bible Explained with
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Speaker 1: Jen Koukl, a P40 Ministries podcast. Howdy there, friends and
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Speaker 1: faithful listeners, and hi, my name is Jen. I am
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Speaker 1: the host of this podcast, and I've got my coffee
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Speaker 1: nice and ready here to discuss Job chapter one. And
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Speaker 1: today we're going to be talking about a few things. Firstly,
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Speaker 1: who are these sons of God that are mentioned in
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Speaker 1: God's throne room? Why is Satan there? And also, why
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Speaker 1: does God seem to be betting against Satan? We're going
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Speaker 1: to get into this passage. So make sure to grab
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Speaker 1: let's read Job 1, 6 through 12. As usual, I'll
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Speaker 1: be reading from the World English Bible or the WEB
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Speaker 1: this morning. So if you don't have your Bible yet,
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Speaker 1: feel free to grab the version that you prefer. You
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Speaker 1: But if you can't read your Bible right now with me,
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Speaker 1: I always recommend when you have a chance going back
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Speaker 1: and trying to read it for yourself to really see
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Speaker 1: what scripture has to say about this passage. But for now,
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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and read Job chapter one, six through
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Speaker 1: 12 together, and let's give reverence to God's word. Now
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Speaker 1: on the day when God's sons came to present themselves
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Speaker 1: before Yahweh, Satan also came among them. Yahweh said to Satan,
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Speaker 1: where have you come from? Then Satan answered Yahweh and said,
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Speaker 1: from going back and forth in the earth and from
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Speaker 1: walking up and down in it. Yahweh said to Satan,
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Speaker 1: have you considered my servant Job? For there is none
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Speaker 1: like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man,
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Speaker 1: one who fears God and turns away from evil. Then
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Speaker 1: Satan answered Yahweh and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?
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Speaker 1: Haven't you made a hedge around him and around his
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Speaker 1: house and around all that he has on every side?
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Speaker 1: You have blessed the work of his hands and his
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Speaker 1: substance is increased in the land. But stretch out your
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Speaker 1: hand now and touch all that he has and he
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Speaker 1: will renounce you to your face. Yahweh said to Satan, Behold,
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Speaker 1: all that he has is in your power. Only on
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Speaker 1: himself don't stretch out your hand. So Satan went out
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Speaker 1: from the presence of Yahweh. So on Monday, we opened
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Speaker 1: up Job by talking about who Job was, how he
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Speaker 1: lived in this land called Uz, which was very likely
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Speaker 1: the land of Edom, how he could have possibly been
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Speaker 1: actually an Edomite king, just based upon some of the
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Speaker 1: things that Job himself says. And also because of 1
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Speaker 1: Chronicles 1, that mentions an Edomite king named Jobab, who
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Speaker 1: could have been the same person as Job right here.
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Speaker 1: And we also talked about how Job was a very
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Speaker 1: righteous man. He was so righteous that he was even
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Speaker 1: concerned about the well-being of his children. So every time
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Speaker 1: his children had a party and a birthday, Job would
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Speaker 1: call each of them to the house and offer a
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Speaker 1: sacrifice for them and essentially pray for them on their
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Speaker 1: behalf to God. Because Job would say, it may be
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Speaker 1: that my sons have sinned and renounced God in their hearts.
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Speaker 1: And so Job did this all He was a very
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Speaker 1: righteous man. So now we move past who Job was
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Speaker 1: in the story and we move into what happened to
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Speaker 1: him or rather why God allowed this terrible set of
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Speaker 1: circumstances to actually happen to Job. So let's start in
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Speaker 1: our passage for today. Verse number six, it says, now
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Speaker 1: on the day when God's sons came to present themselves
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Speaker 1: before Yahweh, Satan also came among them. Yahweh said to Satan,
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Speaker 1: where have you come from? So this brings a few
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Speaker 1: questions to the forefront. Firstly, who are the sons of God? Well,
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Speaker 1: we actually talked about that yesterday, interestingly enough, in 1
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Speaker 1: Peter 3, because Peter himself mentioned these spirits that were
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Speaker 1: imprisoned all the way back from the days of Noah
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Speaker 1: and how those spirits in prison could have been the
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Speaker 1: sons of God that are mentioned in, I think it's
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Speaker 1: Genesis 5 or 6. So it's pretty cool how scripture
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Speaker 1: always ties together and how we kind of talked about
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Speaker 1: this subject yesterday. But sons of God, generally speaking, are
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Speaker 1: probably the angels. And Satan, also known as Lucifer, at
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Speaker 1: one point in time also would have been considered a
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Speaker 1: son of God because he was one of the angels. Now,
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Speaker 1: this doesn't mean that any of the angels or Satan,
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Speaker 1: for that matter, is on the same level as Jesus,
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Speaker 1: because first and foremost, Hebrews talks about how all of
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Speaker 1: the angels were That's like the first four chapters of
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Speaker 1: Hebrews is making it very clear that Jesus is above
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Speaker 1: the angels and he is supreme above them all. In fact,
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Speaker 1: that is also something we talked about in first Peter
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Speaker 1: yesterday about how Jesus stands above all of the angels
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Speaker 1: and they are under his authority, essentially. So the angels
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Speaker 1: and Jesus are not on the same level, and neither
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Speaker 1: is Satan and Jesus. There are some religions that believe
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Speaker 1: that Jesus and Satan are brothers, but that can't possibly
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Speaker 1: be true because that would mean that Satan is the
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Speaker 1: same as Jesus. And Jesus is God, which means that
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Speaker 1: if Satan was the brother of Jesus, he would be God.
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Speaker 1: And he is not God. We do not worship him
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Speaker 1: as God. He will never be God. It says specifically
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Speaker 1: in scripture that Satan desired to be like God, but
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Speaker 1: he never was. That's what made him fall, actually, was
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Speaker 1: his incredible pride, because he was the most beautiful of
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Speaker 1: all of the angels. His pride caused him to sin,
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Speaker 1: and so he fell. He was once named Lucifer, and
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Speaker 1: now he is Satan, which also means adversary. Now, some
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Speaker 1: people do question if there is one particular devil above
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Speaker 1: all of the other demons. Some people say that the
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Speaker 1: term Satan just refers to all the demons in general,
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Speaker 1: and there's not one specific like head honcho. There is
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Speaker 1: no Lucifer. But the reason I think Lucifer does exist
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Speaker 1: is because of Isaiah 14, 12 through 17, where which
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Speaker 1: says in the NIV version, how you are fallen from heaven,
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Speaker 1: O Lucifer, son of the morning, how you are cut
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Speaker 1: down to the ground, you who weakened the nations. For
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Speaker 1: you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven.
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Speaker 1: I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
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Speaker 1: I will also sit on the mount of congregation on
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Speaker 1: the farthest sides of the north, and I will ascend
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Speaker 1: above the heights of the clouds, and I will be
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Speaker 1: like the most high. Yet you shall be brought down
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Speaker 1: to shoal. And some people say that that passage is
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Speaker 1: not talking about the devil, but it's talking about one
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Speaker 1: of the kings that God was going to essentially banish
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Speaker 1: for hurting Israel. And I could see the argument for that,
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Speaker 1: except for the fact that that king was not ever
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Speaker 1: residing in heaven. And God is making it pretty clear
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Speaker 1: that whoever this Lucifer character was, was actually residing in heaven.
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Speaker 1: And Jesus confirms this in Luke 10, 18 from the
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Speaker 1: WEB version, where he says to his disciples, I saw
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Speaker 1: Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven. So I do
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Speaker 1: think based upon scripture that there is a fallen angel
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Speaker 1: who is once named Lucifer, who became kind of the
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Speaker 1: head honcho of all of the demons. And perhaps together
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Speaker 1: they are known as Satan. But I do think there's
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Speaker 1: one individual ahead of all of those fallen angels that
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Speaker 1: hates God, that wants everything that God has, and that
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Speaker 1: is causing such destruction on the earth as it currently stands.
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Speaker 1: But he will not succeed forever. So that's my argument
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Speaker 1: for whether or not Satan exists. But going back to,
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Speaker 1: is Satan the same as Jesus? No, absolutely not. He
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Speaker 1: is not a God. It is made very clear in
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Speaker 1: wanted to become like God, which shows that he was
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Speaker 1: never God. But scripture says on many, many occasions that
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Speaker 1: that Jesus is God. So Jesus and Satan cannot be
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Speaker 1: related to each other. That is impossible because that would
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Speaker 1: make Satan the same as Jesus. And Satan is certainly
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Speaker 1: not God. So he is just one of the fallen angels.
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Speaker 1: He is the adversary. So the adversary came among the
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Speaker 1: sons of God. So that brings us to the question,
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Speaker 1: why would God allow Satan into heaven? was Satan some
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Speaker 1: sort of spy that went out into all the earth
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Speaker 1: and told God all the evil things that people were
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Speaker 1: It actually says in scripture that God, his eyes roam
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Speaker 1: the earth to search for the righteous person. So I
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Speaker 1: do not think that Satan was coming forward right here
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Speaker 1: as part of the counsel of God. It sounds more
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Speaker 1: like God was bringing his counsel of angels together and
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Speaker 1: that this was an open meeting. Kind of like how,
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Speaker 1: you know, you and I could go to a town
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Speaker 1: meeting in our towns if we wanted to. Not that
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Speaker 1: but you could go Doesn't mean that you have any
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Speaker 1: kind of what it seems like is happening here. Here's
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Speaker 1: what it says in verse six. Now, on the day
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Speaker 1: when God's sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan
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Speaker 1: also came among them. And Yahweh said to Satan, where
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Speaker 1: have you come from? And Satan answers God. In verse 7,
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Speaker 1: from going back and forth in the earth and from
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Speaker 1: walking up and down in it. That's fascinating because that
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Speaker 1: is specifically what scripture warns us against about Satan, that
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Speaker 1: he walks around. If you go to 1 Peter 5, 8,
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Speaker 1: here's what it says. Be sober and self-controlled and be watchful.
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Speaker 1: Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion
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Speaker 1: seeking whom he may devour. So Satan goes around the earth,
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Speaker 1: walks around, and searches for somebody that he can devour.
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Speaker 1: That is his sole goal in life, is to devour
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Speaker 1: the people that God loves. So Satan came to this
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Speaker 1: open council meeting in God's throne room specifically to try
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Speaker 1: to devour somebody. And you don't think God knew exactly
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Speaker 1: who Satan had in mind? He absolutely knew because here's
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Speaker 1: what God says immediately to Satan. Have you considered my
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Speaker 1: servant Job? For there is no one like him in
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Speaker 1: the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who
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Speaker 1: right to the chase. He says, oh, Satan, you've seen Job, right?
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Speaker 1: And I am sure that is the one reason why
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Speaker 1: because he was going to come and try to devour Job. Now,
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Speaker 1: many of you listening now might be thinking, why would
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Speaker 1: God even allow this? Like, why would God not just
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Speaker 1: kick Satan out immediately? Why would he allow Satan to
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Speaker 1: come into his throne room? Well, the first reason I
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Speaker 1: could guess is that this might be before Satan fell
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Speaker 1: like lightning. And even though Satan had sinned and was
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Speaker 1: still may have been allowed in God's throne room because
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Speaker 1: his time to fall had not yet come. That's the
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Speaker 1: first guess. And that's all it is. I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: there's a much more obvious reason as to why Satan
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Speaker 1: Satan says after God mentions Job to Satan. He gets
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Speaker 1: right to the chase in verse nine. Does Job fear
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Speaker 1: God for nothing? Haven't you made a hedge around him
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Speaker 1: and around his house and around all that he has
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Speaker 1: on every side? You have blessed the work of his
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Speaker 1: hands and his substance is increased in the land. But
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Speaker 1: stretch out your hand now and touch all that he
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Speaker 1: has and he will renounce you to your face. Satan
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Speaker 1: was accusing two people right here. He was accusing Job
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Speaker 1: and he was accusing God. He was accusing Job of
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Speaker 1: reason Job actually worshiped God at all was because God
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Speaker 1: blessed him. And he was accusing God of being like
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Speaker 1: all the other idols in the land. That the only
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Speaker 1: reason he blesses people is because they are faithful and
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Speaker 1: that people would never ever want to worship God if
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Speaker 1: he didn't bless them abundantly. Essentially what Satan is accusing
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Speaker 1: God of right here is the prosperity gospel. which proves
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Speaker 1: without a shadow of a doubt that the prosperity gospel
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Speaker 1: is a doctrine of demons. God is worthy of being
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Speaker 1: worshiped because he gives us nice stuff. And if we
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Speaker 1: just worship him, he will give us things. If we
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Speaker 1: just have more faith, he will bless us with more health.
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Speaker 1: If we just, you know, give a little bit more
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Speaker 1: of our time, our money, if we just plant a seed,
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Speaker 1: then God will give us even more stuff. Anything that
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Speaker 1: out comes the genie. And we ask the genie for
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Speaker 1: what we want and he will give us everything that
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Speaker 1: we desire. As long as we have faith and worship
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Speaker 1: him in the right way. That is the prosperity gospel.
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Speaker 1: And it's the same as every other idolatrous religion on
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Speaker 1: the planet. Worship this thing and it will guarantee you success.
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Speaker 1: Sacrifice your child to Moloch and you will get more
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Speaker 1: children and a better harvest and a better marriage. It's
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Speaker 1: the tale as old as time. Idolatry equals some level
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Speaker 1: of success for yourself. But God is not like the
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Speaker 1: other idols. And this is something you're going to consistently
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Speaker 1: see throughout the entire Old Testament, that God always shows
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Speaker 1: himself different from the idols in this world. He shows
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Speaker 1: in this world. than all of these other gods. He
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Speaker 1: shows himself to be the one and true and only God.
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Speaker 1: So Satan presents this doctrine of demons to God. And
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Speaker 1: he says, hey, Job is only worshiping you because you
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Speaker 1: give him good stuff. And God says, okay, Satan, if
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Speaker 1: that's what you think, then take away everything Job has,
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Speaker 1: but don't lay a hand on the man himself. And
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Speaker 1: I think this is one of the most important reasons
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Speaker 1: why this book is included in the Bible. Because a
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Speaker 1: lot of people wonder, why the heck do we have
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Speaker 1: the book of Job in the Old Testament? It just
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Speaker 1: almost paints God in a negative light that he would
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Speaker 1: allow so much suffering on one of his beloved servants.
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Speaker 1: It's because the prosperity gospel has always existed. It is
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Speaker 1: from Satan himself. And God has nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: the prosperity gospel. And neither does Christianity, by the way,
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Speaker 1: true Christianity. Again, we've been going through 1 Peter. And
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Speaker 1: the first three chapters of 1 Peter are some of
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Speaker 1: the most disliked chapters in the entire Bible. Because Peter
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Speaker 1: talks about humbling yourself while showing love to other people
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Speaker 1: and possibly even putting yourself into uncomfortable and difficult and
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Speaker 1: sometimes even unbearable situations to potentially lead somebody else to Christ,
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Speaker 1: like your husband or your wife or even your slave master.
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Speaker 1: This is the kind of stuff that scripture mentions, that
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Speaker 1: life is not about the here and now. It's not
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Speaker 1: about this earth. We are not guaranteed prosperity In this life,
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Speaker 1: we are not guaranteed health or wellness. Even if we
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Speaker 1: become a Christian, we are not guaranteed these things. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Jesus tells us the opposite. He said, when you follow me,
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Speaker 1: you will be persecuted. That is the kind of stuff
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Speaker 1: that Jesus tells us. So worshiping Yahweh has nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with gaining success here on this earth. Now, sometimes
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Speaker 1: God is very merciful and he gives us success because
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Speaker 1: it says in scripture that God loves to give gifts
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Speaker 1: to his children and that every good and perfect gift
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Speaker 1: is from God himself. So everything that we have in
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Speaker 1: our lives that is good is from God the Father.
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Speaker 1: It's a gift from him, but we are not guaranteed
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Speaker 1: those gifts at any point in time in scripture because
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Speaker 1: it's not about this life. There is a life to come.
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Speaker 1: That is so much better. And that is where we
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Speaker 1: are guaranteed prosperity. That is where Jesus tells us to
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Speaker 1: lay up our treasures. He says, do not lay your
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Speaker 1: treasures up on this earth because they're going to be corrupted.
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Speaker 1: They're going to get rusty. They're going to get eaten
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Speaker 1: by moths. They're going to be stolen by greedy individuals. Instead,
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Speaker 1: lay up your treasures in heaven where you will have
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Speaker 1: them for an eternity. That's where the true prosperity comes in.
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Speaker 1: So it's important to look forward to what's to come
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Speaker 1: instead of here on earth, because if we focus only
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Speaker 1: on the things we can get here, we're going to
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Speaker 1: be miserable individuals. Have you ever noticed that people who
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Speaker 1: are very self-centered, who are very narcissistic, who really only
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Speaker 1: focus on the things that they want and what other
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Speaker 1: people can give them. They are truly some of the
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Speaker 1: most miserable people on the planet. They are never happy.
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Speaker 1: It's never enough for them. Even if they get all
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Speaker 1: of the good things in life, it's never enough. So
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Speaker 1: as Christians, we shouldn't be focusing on the earth. Now,
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Speaker 1: sometimes that's hard to do because, you know, we have
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Speaker 1: families and we go through hurts and we go through
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Speaker 1: problems and You know, scripture helps us through those times
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Speaker 1: because everybody experiences them. Everybody experiences trouble. It says in
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Speaker 1: scripture that God sends his rain on the just and
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Speaker 1: the unjust alike. So there are certain things that just
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Speaker 1: aren't going to be fun that we all have to
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Speaker 1: deal with. But you might be like, Jen, it seems
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Speaker 1: just a lot easier to not live as a Christian
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Speaker 1: and kind of focus on myself a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: And to that, I say, Yeah, it might seem that
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Speaker 1: way right now. It might seem a little bit easier
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Speaker 1: in the short term, but it is not going to
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Speaker 1: be easy or nice in the long term. So we
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Speaker 1: have to stop expecting God to bless us with all
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Speaker 1: of the things that we want. He is not a
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Speaker 1: genie here to satisfy our every whim. He is the
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Speaker 1: creator of the universe. And because of that fact alone,
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Speaker 1: he is deserving of praise. He is the only real
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Speaker 1: and true God. Now to conclude all this, I found
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Speaker 1: commentary entitled Job. So here's what he says about Job
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Speaker 1: chapter one, quote,' The way Satan is challenged by Yahweh'
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Speaker 1: and the tone and content of what he says' all
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Speaker 1: show that his intentions are evil.' He is apparently one
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Speaker 1: of the sons of God, but has no legitimate role
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Speaker 1: in the divine council. Like the serpent in Eden, he
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Speaker 1: is an intruder with ill intent. It is Job, not he,
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Speaker 1: who is Yahweh's true servant, and Satan's purpose is to
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Speaker 1: destroy him by turning Yahweh against him for no good reason.
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Speaker 1: Yahweh rightly sees this as an attack on himself as
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Speaker 1: well as Job, and a challenge that cannot go unanswered
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Speaker 1: since it strikes at the very foundation of all true religion.
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Speaker 1: If Yahweh is no better than a tyrant who bestows
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Speaker 1: favor on his followers to feed his own vanity and
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Speaker 1: shore up his shaky hold on power, then he is
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Speaker 1: not worthy of being worshiped. If Job, the best of
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Speaker 1: his servants, serves him only for the benefits he receives,
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Speaker 1: then there is no such thing as genuine piety. In
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Speaker 1: the conflict between God and Satan, good and evil, truth
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Speaker 1: and lies that follows, Job becomes the ground on which
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Speaker 1: the battle rages and on which Satan is finally vanquished.
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Speaker 1: So that's another thing I think some people forget when
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Speaker 1: reading through the book of Job is that God was
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Speaker 1: actually using Job for one of the most important things
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Speaker 1: that could ever happen. By using him to vanquish the
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Speaker 1: doctrine of demons, because we have the book of Job,
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Speaker 1: we know that the prosperity gospel An idolatry of any
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Speaker 1: kind is completely false and not of God, but of
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Speaker 1: a different kind of spirit. You know, this book really
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Speaker 1: shows how honorable Job was because if I had been
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Speaker 1: the person, you know, that God wanted to use to
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Speaker 1: vanquish Satan's doctrines, I think I would have failed the
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Speaker 1: test pretty miserably. And I know that because of the
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Speaker 1: trials I've gone through in the past where I can
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Speaker 1: promise you, I did not act like Job. I lashed
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Speaker 1: out at God because I was so angry. How dare
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Speaker 1: God force me to go through something I don't want
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Speaker 1: to go through when I have done so many nice
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Speaker 1: things for God in the past. In my heart, I
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Speaker 1: was believing that doctrine of demons, that if I do
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Speaker 1: good things for God, he better do good things for me.
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Speaker 1: But Job, on the other hand, did not do that.
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Speaker 1: So that's another thing we can look at as we
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Speaker 1: study more of Job. When we have to go through
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Speaker 1: some sort of struggle or suffering with our health or
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Speaker 1: our family or whatever it might be, how can we
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Speaker 1: be more like Job who did not curse God, even
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Speaker 1: though everything was taken away from him? We will talk
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Speaker 1: about that in the coming chapters. But on Monday, we
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Speaker 1: will finish up Job chapter one, and talk about some
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Speaker 1: of the terrible things that ends up happening to Job
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Speaker 1: and how he responds to all of it. So faithful listeners,
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Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening through a little bit
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Speaker 1: of Job chapter one with me. Before I end this podcast,
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Speaker 1: I'll see you guys bright and early tomorrow morning as
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Speaker 1: we delve more into 1 Peter chapter 4, talking about
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Speaker 1: living not with our old sins that we used to
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Speaker 1: struggle with, but moving past those things and living in
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Speaker 1: a way that really honors Jesus with our lives. We,
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Speaker 1: of course, will get into that subject tomorrow on the
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