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What Job Teaches Us about Ourselves, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: When the bottom drops out of life, who do you
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  Speaker 1: listen to? Sometimes the worst advice comes from the people
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  Speaker 1: who love us most. That's where we find Job today.
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  Speaker 1: He's lost nearly everything, and the counsel starts pouring in.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it sincere, some of it wrong, all of
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  Speaker 1: it well-meaning. Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll walks
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  Speaker 1: us through the lessons Job learned in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: his suffering about discernment, about sound theologies, and about the
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  Speaker 1: friends who simply show up and sit with us. We
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  Speaker 1: begin with prayer.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a busy week, Lord. We've been engaged in
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  Speaker 2: family life. We've been in.
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  Speaker 3: Touch with friends and co-workers at our employment. We've driven
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  Speaker 3: many miles. We've passed the night, some fretfully, some calmly
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  Speaker 3: and at peace. We've taught a group of students here
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  Speaker 3: at the church through the latter half of the week.
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  Speaker 3: We've encountered surprises. We've dealt with the predictable, the inevitable.
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  Speaker 3: And the week has run its course. How grateful we are.
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  Speaker 3: Free of some disaster. that could have leveled us. And
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  Speaker 3: your peace has been our habitation and the source.
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  Speaker 2: Of our comfort.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for your grace. We haven't deserved your peace,
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  Speaker 3: but you've given it. We don't deserve your favor, but
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  Speaker 3: you pour it out.
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  Speaker 2: But a few, a few have been.
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  Speaker 3: Struck deeply with surprises and sudden unexpected trials. You've been
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  Speaker 3: there through all of that too. Perhaps to them more
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  Speaker 3: than any other, this section will speak, but ultimately to
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  Speaker 3: all of us. So give us ears to hear, eyes
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  Speaker 3: to see, minds to track with you what you have
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  Speaker 3: preserved through the centuries for us. Teach us through the
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  Speaker 3: promise of your word that whatever was written in earlier
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  Speaker 3: times was written for our learning that we through patience
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  Speaker 3: and comfort in the scriptures might have hope.
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  Speaker 2: Hope. What a great thing is hope.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for those who wear the uniform and today
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  Speaker 3: and tomorrow especially we thank you for each woman and
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  Speaker 3: man each brave man soldiers, sailor, marine, aviator, those who
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  Speaker 3: serve in whatever capacity, on the seas, on the land,
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  Speaker 3: in the air, places at home and dangerous places abroad.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for our commander-in-chief. Keep him thinking clearly and courageously.
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  Speaker 3: Give him the ability to turn off counsel that ought
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  Speaker 3: to be shunned and be sensitive to wise and correct advice.
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  Speaker 3: Keep him humble, open, available, decisive, morally pure, a leader
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  Speaker 3: worth our attention and respect. Thank you for the privilege,
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  Speaker 3: our Father, of all things of our giving to you
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  Speaker 3: You teach us how to do that by giving to us.
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  Speaker 3: We do that now as you have forever done it,
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  Speaker 3: generously and.
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  Speaker 2: Graciously, joyfully.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for our fairest Lord Jesus, our beautiful Savior,
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  Speaker 3: the Lord of the nations, Son of God, Son of Man.
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  Speaker 3: We worship him, our Father. as we worship you in
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  Speaker 3: the name of the Lord Jesus. And everybody said, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Insight for Living. To dig deeper into
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  Speaker 1: Searching the Scriptures Bible Study Workbook by going to insight.org
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  Speaker 1: slash offers. Chuck titled today's message, What Job Teaches Us
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  Speaker 1: About Ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: I want us to come today to some sort of
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  Speaker 3: practical terms with what this book teaches us in a very,
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  Speaker 3: very practical way about the way we live our lives,
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  Speaker 3: what we learn about ourselves from Job, and then find
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  Speaker 3: out what it is we learn from Job about our God.
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  Speaker 3: Trust me on this one. you're going to need one
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  Speaker 3: or more of the principles sooner than you may realize.
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  Speaker 3: And while we have fun with it and have enjoyed
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  Speaker 3: ourselves on a number of occasions, today we're rolling up
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  Speaker 3: our sleeves and looking at life through Job's viewpoint and
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  Speaker 3: learning from his example. So we'll take today's talk mainly
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  Speaker 3: from the early part of Job and then next time
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  Speaker 3: we will look at the latter part chapter of the
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  Speaker 3: book and see what it says about God, but today
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  Speaker 3: about ourselves. There was a man in the land of
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  Speaker 3: Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless, upright,
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  Speaker 3: fearing God, turning away from evil. We read he had
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  Speaker 3: ten children, seven sons and three daughters, His possessions were great.
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  Speaker 3: Thousands of sheep and camels. Half a thousand of oxen
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  Speaker 3: and donkeys. In fact, the wrap-up statement in verse 3
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  Speaker 3: is that he was the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: In the East.
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  Speaker 3: There was no one better known, perhaps wealthier than Job.
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  Speaker 3: Job didn't know it, but there was a dialogue that
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  Speaker 3: took place in the invisible world of.
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  Speaker 2: Above him.
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  Speaker 3: As the Lord and the Satan had this encounter, for
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  Speaker 3: some reason Satan allowed into the Lord's presence and the
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  Speaker 3: dialogue turns on the person of Job. The Lord calls.
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  Speaker 2: Satan's attention to Job and says, have you noticed him?
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  Speaker 2: And Satan, in.
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  Speaker 3: Standard operating procedure of sarcasm, said, of course, it wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: serve you the way you've treated him. He's got penthouse treatment.
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  Speaker 3: But you touch what he owns, he'll curse you to
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  Speaker 3: your face. Which brings us to the first of seven
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  Speaker 3: lessons we learn from Job about ourselves. We never know
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  Speaker 3: ahead of time the plans God has for us. Job
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  Speaker 3: had no way of knowing this. That morning dawned like
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  Speaker 3: every other morning. The night had passed like most every
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  Speaker 3: other night. There was no early morning sky writing. There
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  Speaker 3: was no angelic visit. There was no tap at the
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  Speaker 3: window warning him that something would change.
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  Speaker 2: Or that all hell would break loose or the bottom
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  Speaker 2: would drop out of his life.
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  Speaker 3: He got up that morning like every other morning. And
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  Speaker 3: he began the day only to be interrupted by this
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  Speaker 3: messenger and that messenger and the next one and the
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  Speaker 3: next one. And before you could sneeze, it seems, the
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  Speaker 3: buildings are gone and there are carcasses on the land.
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  Speaker 3: And the servants have been taken or killed or kidnapped.
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  Speaker 3: And Job knows nothing ahead of time. You can't anticipate
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  Speaker 3: it correctly. You're unable to predict it accurately. It's impossible
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  Speaker 3: to explain it fully.
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  Speaker 2: No one can explain it.
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  Speaker 3: What you enjoy today, you may not be enjoying this
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  Speaker 3: time next year. This isn't designed to make you afraid.
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  Speaker 3: It's designed to help get you ready. I remind you
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  Speaker 3: these are principles to live with.
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  Speaker 2: And to remember.
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  Speaker 3: Job's response, verse 20, is absolutely remarkable. Job arose and
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  Speaker 3: tore his robe and shaved his head and fell.
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  Speaker 2: To the ground and worshiped.
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  Speaker 3: He said, naked I came from my mother's womb and
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  Speaker 3: naked I will return.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord gave. The Lord has taken away. Blessed be
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  Speaker 2: the name of the Lord through all this.
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  Speaker 3: We read Job did not sin, nor did he blame God.
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  Speaker 3: Lesson number two. A vertical perspective will keep us from
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  Speaker 3: horizontal panic. A vertical perspective will keep us from horizontal panic.
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  Speaker 2: Panic.
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  Speaker 3: Don't misunderstand. Job doesn't escape into denial. He faces the music,
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  Speaker 3: somber and sad that it is.
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  Speaker 2: He's overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 3: That's why he tore his robe. He's broken and saddened
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  Speaker 3: and bankrupt. That's why he shaves his head and sits
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  Speaker 3: in ashes. He refuses to escape emotionally through denial. He
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  Speaker 3: falls to the ground and worships. What a remarkable response.
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  Speaker 3: His vertical perspective is.
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  Speaker 2: Firm, clear, in place.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing horizontal will cause this man to panic.
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  Speaker 2: I had, I enjoyed, I was blessed, I've lost. They're
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  Speaker 2: no longer with me. I'm heartbroken.
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  Speaker 3: But the same God who gave is the God who
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  Speaker 3: took away.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name.
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  Speaker 3: I serve and honor and praise and walk with him.
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  Speaker 3: When things are rocking along comfortably and enjoyably and with
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  Speaker 3: good health and with a full family, my, my. How
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  Speaker 3: high is our view of God? How thrilled we are
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  Speaker 3: with those verses of Scripture. How we hang on the
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  Speaker 3: words of the sermon and we sing the songs of Zion.
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  Speaker 3: But when the bottom drops out, our song is taken
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  Speaker 3: from us.
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  Speaker 2: And we begin to wonder, was our.
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  Speaker 3: View of God here really the right view since we're
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  Speaker 3: now here? It's easy to lower one's view of God
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  Speaker 3: when hardship assaults us. That vertical perspective will save the day. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it got worse. It just got worse. Job does not
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  Speaker 3: sin or blame God, which frustrates Satan. and does not
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  Speaker 3: surprise our God who already knew Job would.
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  Speaker 2: Be a man of integrity.
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  Speaker 3: So there was another day, round two, and Satan comes
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  Speaker 3: out swinging. The Lord asks, have you noticed my servant Job?
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  Speaker 3: It must have been a great moment in that encounter
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  Speaker 3: when the Lord could point to Job and there has
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  Speaker 3: been no break in his faith or trust.
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  Speaker 2: And Satan has to face the music.
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  Speaker 3: But Satan then says, ah, you touch his.
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  Speaker 2: Life, it'll be another story. Skin for skin.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter 2, verse 4, all that a man has, he
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  Speaker 3: will give for his life. Put forth your hand now
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  Speaker 3: and touch his bone and his flesh. He'll curse you
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  Speaker 3: to your face. He repeats the charge, the warning. So
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  Speaker 3: the Lord said, he's in your power, only spare his life.
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  Speaker 3: Satan went out and smote him with boils from the
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  Speaker 3: sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
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  Speaker 2: You been sick lately? I mean really sick. Fever wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: go away. Hospitalized.
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  Speaker 3: They couldn't find the cause. Some exotic germ that has
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  Speaker 3: leveled you. It affects your job. You don't have disability
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  Speaker 3: and You could no longer work, and that's where he
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  Speaker 3: finds himself. It's horrible. He took a potsherd to scrape himself.
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  Speaker 3: The itching was maddening as he sat among the ashes.
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  Speaker 3: Verse 9, his wife said to him.
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  Speaker 2: Look closely. Do you still hold fast your integrity, Job?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, sweetheart. It's enough. Just curse God.
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  Speaker 1: Die.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? She loved him. Never doubted.
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  Speaker 3: The sickness hasn't made her love the less. Her compassion
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  Speaker 3: kicks in. And she just thinks if we could just
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  Speaker 3: pull the plug. You curse him and he'll take you.
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  Speaker 3: You and I both know this will end the suffering.
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  Speaker 3: Until you're there, don't.
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  Speaker 2: Judge his wife, okay? Until you're there.
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  Speaker 3: She's lost everything too. She too has visited the grave
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  Speaker 3: sites of ten.
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  Speaker 2: Precious lives.
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  Speaker 3: But he said to her, verse 10, you speak as
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  Speaker 3: one of the foolish women speak. Shall we indeed accept
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  Speaker 3: good from God and not accept adversity? In all this,
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  Speaker 3: Job did not sin with his lips. Lesson number three.
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  Speaker 3: Great discernment is needed to detect wrong advice from well-meaning people.
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  Speaker 2: People.
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  Speaker 3: Great discernment is needed to detect wrong advice from well-meaning people.
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  Speaker 2: That's his wife.
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  Speaker 3: This is his wife, men and women. This is his wife.
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  Speaker 3: She's loved him through ten births. She's loved him through
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  Speaker 3: the rearing of the children. She's loved him from the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the business to the final building it to
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  Speaker 3: the point where they could at last have some relief.
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  Speaker 3: And she's loved him when he was nobody and loved
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  Speaker 3: him when he became a household word in the homes
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  Speaker 3: of the East. And he has to have the courage
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  Speaker 3: to hear what is really being said and to detect
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  Speaker 3: this is wrong counsel, even though it comes from the
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  Speaker 3: lips of my well-meaning wife. By the way, lest you
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  Speaker 3: overlook it, when you look at her counsel, verse 9,
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  Speaker 3: she questions what God had admired, and she encouraged what Satan.
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  Speaker 2: Had predicted.
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  Speaker 3: God had said to Satan in verse 3, end of
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  Speaker 3: the verse, he still holds fast his integrity. And she's saying, Joe, Joe,
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  Speaker 3: do you still hold fast your integrity? Satan had said,
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  Speaker 3: verse 5, he will curse you to your face. And
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  Speaker 3: she says to the man she loves, listen, honey, just
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  Speaker 3: curse God.
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  Speaker 2: And in the presence of the nether world, the enemy
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  Speaker 2: is thinking, yes, yes, Do it!
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  Speaker 3: And you know that his demons are at work all
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  Speaker 3: about Job, weakening him, but he stands firm against it.
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  Speaker 2: He's discerning. He's courageous.
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  Speaker 3: And so must you be when in the midst of
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  Speaker 3: a trial, someone who.
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  Speaker 2: Desires your good gives you bad advice. Don't yield to.
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  Speaker 3: You go back to the scriptures, you find your direction,
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  Speaker 3: and you stand firm.
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  Speaker 2: Why? Because well-meaning people do not always have a divine viewpoint.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible always does. Job knew better. As much as
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  Speaker 2: he loved her, he couldn't follow her advice. Not this time.
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  Speaker 3: Which brings us to his response to Verse 10, he
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  Speaker 3: said to her, you speak as one of the foolish
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  Speaker 3: women speaks. Must have been hard for him to say
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  Speaker 3: to someone he loved like he loved her. But it
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  Speaker 3: needed to be said. Shall we indeed accept good from
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  Speaker 3: God and not accept adversity? What great theology. God isn't
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  Speaker 3: a divine bellhop. waiting for our phone call to fulfill
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  Speaker 3: our request for the evening. God isn't here to make
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  Speaker 3: us happy, honey. God is here to be glorified in
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  Speaker 3: our midst and in our lives, whether.
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  Speaker 2: For good or for adversity. Both come from Him. Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number four. When things turn from bad to worse.
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  Speaker 3: Sound theology helps us remain strong and stable. When things
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  Speaker 3: turn from bad to worse, sound theology helps us remain
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  Speaker 3: strong and stable. It's amazing, frankly, that Job, after suffering
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  Speaker 3: such a barrage of cataclysmic events, would be thinking so clearly,
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  Speaker 3: so correctly, without wavering.
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  Speaker 2: No uncertainty.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't even entertain her suggestion for a moment. You speak
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  Speaker 3: as a fool. Honey, don't say that. Don't even go there.
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  Speaker 3: These lips cannot curse God. Death is in his hands.
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  Speaker 3: When he's ready to take me, he'll take me. How
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  Speaker 3: could he do it? He was so grounded in his
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  Speaker 3: knowledge of God. Sound theology.
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  Speaker 2: So valuable.
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  Speaker 3: Reminds me of a cartoon I saw several years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Drawn by Charles Schulz. Titled back then, Peanuts.
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  Speaker 2: Remember?
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  Speaker 3: Linus is standing with his blanket at the picture window
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  Speaker 3: in the living room. and standing beside him is Lucy,
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  Speaker 3: who is, of course, in charge. And they're looking at
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  Speaker 3: it rain, and it is pouring down rain. You can
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  Speaker 3: hardly see the trees out in the backyard.
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  Speaker 2: From the window. The rain is pouring down. Lucy says, my,
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  Speaker 2: look at it rain.
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  Speaker 3: If this keeps up, it's going to flood the This area,
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  Speaker 3: maybe the whole world. Linus says without hesitation, that will
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  Speaker 3: never happen. It says in Genesis 9, verses 7 to 17,
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  Speaker 3: that God will never again flood the earth.
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  Speaker 2: And he's put a rainbow in the sky to prove
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  Speaker 2: that his promise is true.
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  Speaker 3: Lucy says, you've taken a big load off my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Linus looks at her and says, sound theology has a
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  Speaker 3: way of doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this took a big load off Ms. Job's mind.
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  Speaker 3: How helpful it is when the one who is suffering
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  Speaker 3: can teach the one who is well.
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  Speaker 2: Sound theology. Quick warning here.
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  Speaker 3: Be careful that you don't substitute psychological gobbledygook for good
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  Speaker 3: sound theology. Just be careful that you don't explain all
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  Speaker 3: of this around.
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  Speaker 2: Or away by double talk. Don't go there. It'll backfire.
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  Speaker 2: My birthday, I got a card, one of my favorite
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  Speaker 2: kind of cards. It's a far side card.
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  Speaker 3: There's a guy hanging by his collar on the limb
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  Speaker 3: of a tree, sort of helpless, and his camera's hanging
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  Speaker 3: around his neck, and two bears are talking about his fate.
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  Speaker 3: And one bear says to the other, his name's Bradshaw.
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  Speaker 3: He says he understands I came from a single-parent den
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  Speaker 3: with inadequate role models. He senses that my dysfunctional behavior
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  Speaker 3: is shame-based and codependent, and he urges me to let
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  Speaker 3: my inner cub heal.
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  Speaker 2: A little pause, and he concludes, I say we eat him.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just eat him alive. Stay with sound theology. Guard
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  Speaker 3: against the gobbledygook. Stay away from pop psychology. It seems
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  Speaker 3: reasonable at the moment, and then the bottom drops out
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  Speaker 3: even further, and it will not stabilize or strengthen you. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the friends show up. You may recall verse 11 says,
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  Speaker 3: Three friends heard of all this adversity that had come
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  Speaker 3: upon him, and they came each one from his own place.
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  Speaker 3: They made an appointment together to come to sympathize with
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  Speaker 3: him and comfort him. And when they lifted up their
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  Speaker 3: eyes at a distance, they did not recognize him.
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  Speaker 2: They raised their voices and wept.
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  Speaker 3: And each of them tore his robe and threw dust
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  Speaker 3: over their heads toward the sky. And they sat down
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  Speaker 3: on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights,
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  Speaker 3: with no one speaking a word to him, for they
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  Speaker 3: saw his pain was very great.
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  Speaker 2: Fifth lesson.
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  Speaker 3: Caring and sensitive friends know when to come, how to
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  Speaker 3: stay quiet, and what to say. Caring and sensitive friends
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  Speaker 3: know when to come, how to stay quiet, and what
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  Speaker 3: to say. You might add in parenthesis, if anything at all.
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  Speaker 3: I so wish that Eliphaz and Bildad and Zophar had
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  Speaker 3: simply stayed silent. Been there to fetch some water, bring
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of soup or broth just to be near.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these men qualified on the first two, didn't they?
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  Speaker 3: They came to Job, they left their homes and the
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  Speaker 3: comfort of home, and they traveled however far, we're not told.
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  Speaker 3: And when they got there, for seven days, did the
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  Speaker 3: right thing.
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  Speaker 2: They simply sat with him.
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  Speaker 3: We who have been hospitalized on occasion know the joy
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  Speaker 3: of looking across the room and just seeing the face
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  Speaker 3: of a friend. And really down deep inside, we're grateful
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  Speaker 3: they're not reading us a verse of Scripture, or giving
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  Speaker 3: us their advice, or even telling us what we're missing
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  Speaker 3: that day.
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  Speaker 2: In the news outside. They're just there.
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