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Job 27:1-7 - Holding Fast to Integrity · The Bread of the Word Podcast

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  Blessed is the man
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  who walketh not in the council the ungodly
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  nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth
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  in seed of the scornful
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  but his delight is on the law of the LORD
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  and on His law
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  doth humanity day and night
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  and he shall be like a tree
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  planted by the rivers of water
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  that bringing forth his fruit and his season
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  his leaf also
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  shall not whether
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  and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
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  Welcome
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  to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
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  a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
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  and let the Bible speak to us all
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  let us, as a former generation said
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  go add fontes
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  to the fountain
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  and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
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  let's dig in together
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  hello and welcome back to the Bread of the Word podcast.
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  We go add fontes to the fountain to the Word of God
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  to be nourished and sustained by all the God is
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  as he's revealed himself to us.
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  My name is Tyler,
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  and we are continuing our March to the Book of Job,
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  verse by verse chapter by chapter moment by moment
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  and today we are coming to chapter 27,
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  reading through the first 7 verses
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  and we have. We're still dealing with the
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  statements of Job in response to Bildad
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  and he gave a brief
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  statement in chapter 26, but now he's
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  fleshing it out a little more deeply
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  and picking up in verse 1 of chapter 27.
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  It says, moreover,
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  Job continued his parable and said As God liveth
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  who hath taken away my judgment
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  and the Almighty who hath vexed my soul
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  all the while my breath is in me
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  and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
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  my lips shall not speak wickedness,
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  nor my tongue utter deceit.
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  God forbid that I should justify you
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  until I die. I will not remove my integrity from me
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  my righteousness. I hold fast and will not let it go
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  my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live
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  let my enemy be as the wicked
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  and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous
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  that's our text' today
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  and right off the bat.
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  It says that Job is speaking in parables
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  and I thought that was interesting because
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  many of us that are familiar with the New Testament
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  will sooner or later
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  pick up on this idea that Jesus speaks in parables
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  and what that essentially is
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  he speaks in a wise saying that doesn't
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  always make sense right out the gate
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  there was something
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  for people to ponder to be challenged by to
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  oftentimes be confused by
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  that Jesus spoke in a way that it made sense to some
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  and it made no sense to others
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  and Job likewise is speaking in parables
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  if you want to get into the linguistics,
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  the word that we translate is
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  parable could also be taken as proverb
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  which where we get
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  the name for the
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  book of Proverbs
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  is there a collection of wise statements
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  that need thought that need to be mold over a bit
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  and this is what Job has proven to be
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  this is why we're some 2 years in the book Job
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  because it is a
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  very long set of parables of things that
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  require a little more
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  meditation than a glance.
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  A casual glance doesn't
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  get us far enough into the meaning of these words.
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  It takes a little more.
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  Job continues his parable, and he says as God liveth
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  who hath taken away my judgment
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  and the Almighty who has vexed my soul
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  all the while
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  my breath is in me
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  and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
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  my lips shall not speak wickedness,
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  nor my tongue utter deceit.
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  That is one sentence with a lot of closet
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  that makes it really hard to break down grammatically.
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  Essentially as God liveth
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  my lips shall not utter wickedness,
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  nor my tongue speak to see
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  that's the statements
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  there's a lot of qualifiers in the middle of that
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  but that is the statement is that as God liveth
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  I will be true.
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  That is the statement of Job, and
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  we have all these additional clauses that
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  bring extra context to that extra meanings, but the
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  bare bones of the statement is that as God liveth,
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  my tongue shall not utter deceit,
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  and so as long as God lives
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  which is
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  that is a very common phrase throughout the Old.
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  Testament is as surely as the Lord liveth
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  there are some variation of that
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  not because we think God can die
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  but because God is eternal
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  and so to stake a claim in the surety of His eternality
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  is a big deal
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  to say. As. Surely as. God lives
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  knowing full well that God is eternal
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  the God does not have a birth and will not have a death
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  as surely as God exists
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  this shall come to pass.
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  That is essentially the statement here
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  and so as surely as God lives even though He says
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  it is He who has taken away my judgment
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  and it is the Almighty
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  El Shadai, the Overpowerer who hath vexed my soul.
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  Though he's done this
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  though He has put me in this place that I'm in
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  Though He has brought
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  the suffering, Though He has brought
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  everything that I'm dealing with,
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  I will be true,
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  I will endeavor endeavor
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  to be true
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  as surely as the Lord lives that is
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  the
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  conviction of Job. Here
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  it says all the while
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  this has happened all the while God has vexed my soul
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  all the while He has taken away my judgment.
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  It says the breath
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  while my breath is in me
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  and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
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  that is straight out of Genesis.
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  If we go back to Genesis
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  as even all the way to the creation account
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  1 In the beginning,
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  God created the heaven and the earth and
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  the earth was without form and void,
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  and darkness was upon the face of the deep
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  and the Spirit of God.
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  The ruaq Elohim, the great wind of God, so to speak
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  moved upon the face of the waters.
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  And if we jump ahead to chapter verse 26,
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  and God said,
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  Let us make man in our image and after our likeness,
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  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea
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  and over the fowl of the air
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  and over the cattle and over the earth
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  and over every
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  creeping thing that creep is upon the earth
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  so God created man in his own image
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  and the image of God created he them
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  male and female created he them
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  and he goes on
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  to retell this
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  it was a little more detail. A little bit later
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  in chapter 2, verse 7
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  he says god formed man of the deaths of the earth
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  and he breathed into his nostrils
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  the breath of life,
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  and man became a living soul.
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  And all this language
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  is tied to what we see in Job.
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  I mean. He says that the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
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  he is affirming
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  what we see in Genesis, though
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  it is my belief that Genesis was written later
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  there is that
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  there was likely an oral tradition
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  where these things were passed down
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  but this language comes from Jope,
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  and so they're authenticating each other
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  that this is what happened this is how it happened
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  but more on from that
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  job is reminding himself
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  that the Spirit of God is in his nostrils that
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  God is within him
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  that God has
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  breathed into him the breath of life, so to speak
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  and so, even though
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  God has brought suffering
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  though God has brought great hardship upon Job,
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  Job is reminding himself
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  that the Spirit of God has entered into his nostrils
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  there is a unique intimacy that he has with God
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  has been given to him
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  not because of his own goodness,
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  not because of his own righteousness,
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  but simply because of who God is
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  that though he may
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  not like what God is doing in this moment,
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  god has breathed into him
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  into his nostrals from his own spirit
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  and he asks Bildead a couple chapters
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  earlier from who his spirit
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  came from thee?
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  For what
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  spirit do you speak of the wisdom that you have
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  but when we come to God,
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  there's no doubt that the Spirit of God has
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  entered into his nostrils
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  this is the stark parallel, the stark contrast
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  between Bildad and God
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  as we've seen' time and time again' in this Chap--in this
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  book
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  is that job's friends have
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  shown themselves to be fools that he's called them
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  worthless counselors,
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  and yet God is not Bildad, lfaz, or Zofar.
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  That is not who he is
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  and that is not who he is to joke
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  just that as that ever famous phrase
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  from earlier on in this book, though
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  he slay me yet shall I praise him
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  that is the attitude of Job here though it is hard
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  though it is a fight for him to look to God
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  to cling to God
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  in the midst of his suffering he endeavors to do so
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  knowing that it is by God he is alive
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  even though it is the same
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  God who has brought intense suffering upon him
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  so all the while my breath is in me
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  and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils
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  my lips shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue
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  utter deceit.
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  Flip over to Psalm119.
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  Psalm one 19 has a very similar
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  outlook
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  and we're not entirely sure what the context of Psalm
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  119is.
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  I read a book by Brian Borgman a couple years ago that
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  made the case that
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  Psalm119was likely written by Daniel,
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  that this is likely a psalm written during the exile
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  and I honestly kind of agree
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  we can't nail that down
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  100 percent without
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  adding to the text in some way,
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  but just by inferring from the way it talks
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  I could see it being a psalm of someone in exile
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  but the attitude of whoever wrote Psalm119
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  says, open thou mine eyes
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  and I may behold wondrous things out of thy law
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  I am a stranger in the earth
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  hide not thy commandments for me
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  my soul breaketh
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  for the longing that hath unto thy commandments
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  at all times
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  thou hast rebuke the
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  proud that are cursed,
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  which do air from thy commandments
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  remove from me
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  reproach and contempt
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  for I have kept thy testimonies
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  princess also did sit and
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  speak against me,
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  but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes
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  thy testimonies are my delight
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  and my counsellors.
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  My soul cleaveth unto the dust,
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  quicken thou, me, make me, alive
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  according to thy word.
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  I have declared thy ways, and thou heardest me. Teach me.
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  Thy statutes,
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  make me to understand the way of thy precepts,
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  so shall I talk of thy wondrous works
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  my soul melteth for heaviness
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  strengthen me according to thy word,
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  remove from me the way of lying and grant me thy law
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  graciously. I have chosen the way of truth
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  thy judgments have I laid before me I have stuck
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  unto thy testimonies O Lord, put me not the shame
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  I will run the way of commandments of thy commandments
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  when thou shall enlarge my heart
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  and so while there's so much in someone 19
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  that is, a picture
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  is a phrase similar to I have kept thy statutes
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  I have done this. I have done that.
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  There is also this tension
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  that he does not believe he has done it well enough
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  and so he constantly balances that
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  those I have kept thy statutes with.
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  Oh Lord, teach me thy statutes.
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  Oh Lord, take lying from my heart
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  do this, do that,
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  make me pure,
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  and so while there is this tension
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  it does parallel what? We see in Job,
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  though he slay me, yet I will praise him
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  though I have endeavored to do well,
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  make me pure.
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  And so verse 4 in Joe 27.
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  My lips
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  shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue utter deceit
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  god forbid that I should justify you speaking of Bildad.
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  God forbid that I should justify you
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  in your statements
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  that I am suffering because I have sinned
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  God forbid that you are justified by my life
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  because I will not remove my integrity from me
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  my righteousness. I hold fast and will not let go
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  and as we have seen
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  previously, we have seen Job taking the
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  position in the beginning of the book as a priest
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  chapter 1, verse 1,
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  there was a man in the land of us whose name was Job,
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  and that man was perfect and upright,
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  and one that feared God and a shoot evil
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  and there were born unto him 7 sons and 3 daughters
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  his substance also was 7000 sheep and 3000 camels
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  and 500 yolk of oxen and 500
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  donkeys and great household.
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  So that this man
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  was the greatest of all the men of the East,
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  and his sons went and feasted in their houses
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  every one of his day,
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  and sent and
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  called for their 3 sisters to eat and drink with them
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  and it was so
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  when the days of their feasting were gone about
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  that Job sent and sanctified them
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  and rose up early in the.
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  Morning and offered burnt
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  burnt offerings according to the number of them all
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  for Job said, it, may be that my sons, have sinned
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  and cursed God in their hearts
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  thus did Job continually.
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  Job was in the practice of interceding
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  before God on the behalf of his sons and daughters
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  he was
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  practicing this idea that righteousness was provided
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  that righteousness was granted
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  to His children.
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  So when we read statements like this
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  my righteousness, I hold fast.
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  It is a righteousness that is provided
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  the just as that righteousness
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  and that covering was provided for his son
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  so it is provided for Job.
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  The only righteousness that Job can hold to
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  in the myths of this
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  is the fact that God has made him pure.
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  The God has called him his
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  hast thou considered my servant
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  Job?
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  No one on earth is like unto him
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  one who feareth God and issueth evil
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  that is something that God has called him
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  that is something God has made him to be,
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  and this he holds fast to
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  in the midst of his suffering in the midst of
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  all the negative, in the midst of the accusations
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  from Satan and Bildad and Elephaz and Zofar,
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  in the midst of all that
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  he holds fast to the fact that God has called him his
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  god has called Job my servant
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  and so he says I hold fast to this righteousness.
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  I will not let it go.
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  My heart shall not reproach me
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  as long as I live
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  let my enemy
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  be as the wicked and he that riseth up against me
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  as the unrighteous.
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  In other words, God is not my enemy
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  when we read statements like god has vexed my soul
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  we would think that he's saying God is going to be
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  my enemy. God is opposed to me
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  but the statement that he's using
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  to remind himself in this
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  and to rebuke the claims of Bildad
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  that God is not my enemy,
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  though he uses the name El Shadai the Overpower
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  El Shadai is not opposed to Job.
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  El Shadai is not his enemy
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  let the one I consider the enemy
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  be the wicked,
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  not the righteous.
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  That is the statement of Job,
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  let my enemy be as the wicked.
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  To quote Song of Salomon
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  my beloved is mine and I am his
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  and he feedeth me among the lilies.
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  This is the relationship he has with God.
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  God is not his enemy, god is his friend,
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  god is his defender
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  and in the Book of Job he has none else
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  he has lost possessions, he has lost family.
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  I would even contend that he has lost friends
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  because these 3
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  friends that came to comfort him have done
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  virtually nothing but accuse and condemn him
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  he has no defense but God.
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  He has no friend but God. He has no advocate
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  but God,
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  and all this
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  is modeling to us
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  to his friends, to Satan
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  that God
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  is good.
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  That God is in job's corner.
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  that just as Job
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  went to the temple to intercede for his sons
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  so that relationship has not ended
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  the statement from from Satan
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  was that when this happened that
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  Joe would curse God to his face,
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  but the reality is that Job continues praying,
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  he continues seeking God, he continues to do
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  he brings his heartache to God,
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  he brings his frustration, he brings
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  the deepest possible pain
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  and lays before God,
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  which is exactly
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  what Satan said that Job would not do
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  this right here
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  these statements to God you avex my soul
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  is pure evidence
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  and vindication
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  on the part of God.
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  God is vindicated by these statements because Satan
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  was wrong
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  because Job has continued to commune with God
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  even when that communion has caused him pain,
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  though he slay me,
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  yet will I praise him
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  all that we would have this perspective
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  on suffering on weakness.
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  My church has been going through Romans 14
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  for several weeks now.
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  We've been marching through the Book of Romans
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  for quite some time now,
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  but we've come to Romans 14,
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  which deals with the reality that there are
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  weak people in the church.
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  1 Chapter 14
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  verse 1 hymn that is weakened the faith receive ye
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  but not to doubtful disputations
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  for one believeth that he may eat at all things
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  another who is weak eat as herbs
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  the hymn let not him that eath
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  despise, him that eath not,
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  and let. Not him, Edith,
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  him that Edith not judge, him
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  that Edith for God hath received him
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  for God hath received Him,
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  and one thing that has
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  really challenged me
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  in this chapter at the last couple Sundays
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  has been that
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  God says there are weak people,
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  but He doesn't say the weak
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  weak people need to just
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  grow up and get with the program
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  he says, receive the weak people,
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  accept them for God has accepted the weak
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  and there may be a day where they become strong,
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  but as they are they are weak
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  and God has received them,
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  and he says that all that I receive I will in no way
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  I will in no wise cast out
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  and so God has received the weak.
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  He has received the strong
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  and the strong and the weak coexist together
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  in the case of job,
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  job has much weakness
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  and yet God has received him
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  the friends have not received him
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  the friends have condemned, they have
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  accused, they have
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  belittle, they, have berated
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  they have done everything that Paul would say not to do
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  with regards to a brother who is weak
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  who is suffering
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  because they don't do much to build him up
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  they do more to tear him down than anything
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  I think it was Calvin
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  that said that the wisest thing they did was
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  sit there in silence for 7 days.
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  Once they start talking it all goes downhill
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  and yet God says in Romans to Paul,
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  that when there are weak among you
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  receive them,
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  there are people like Job
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  in our churches.
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  There are people that are in a season of weakness
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  in a season
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  of deep dependence because there is none else
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  and may we be a people
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  that accept the weak that receive them
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  because God has received them?
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  And there are times where we will in turn be
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  the weak one.
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  And may we have people that will receive us
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  who will accept us because God has
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  god has received us,
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  for we are all the sheep of his pasture
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  the Lord is our Shepherd, and we shall not want
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  and all is to say
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  that we are His,
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  the strong and the weak. We are His,
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  and
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  just as Job is
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  fighting to praise God in the midst of his suffering
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  so we may be called to do likewise
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  or we may find ourselves in a position
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  where we are to come
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  alongside the Jobes
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  of that walk this earth,
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  and we may be
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  find ourselves in a place
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  where God sets us up to be an
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  encouragement to come alongside
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  those that are weak
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  and we should receive them
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  because God has received them.
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