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Full Repentance for All the Right Reasons, Part 2 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: In a me-first generation, it's uncommon to meet someone who's
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Speaker 1: truly humble. Someone who's willing to admit, I'm wrong, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: or rarer still, I repent. When was the last time
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Speaker 1: you heard those words, or even used them yourself? Well,
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Speaker 1: the book of Job ends with a picture of outright surrender.
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Speaker 1: Job was broken, contrite, and finally at rest with his destiny.
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Speaker 1: So what brought him to this point? Today on Insight
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Speaker 1: for Living, Chuck Swindoll opens Job chapter 42 to present
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Speaker 1: a message titled, Full Repentance for All the Right Reasons.
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Speaker 2: I believe the Lord takes Job by the shoulders and
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Speaker 2: gives him a good shake. I believe he is showing
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Speaker 2: Job two animals that are at the top of the
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Speaker 2: food chain, two animals that are virtually unintimidated. They can
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Speaker 2: take care of themselves in the wild. Most every other
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Speaker 2: animal bows to them, and if they don't, they pay
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Speaker 2: a terrible price, usually their life. The behemoth represents the hippopotamus.
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Speaker 2: The leviathan is the crocodile. We'll look at the leviathan
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Speaker 2: in a moment. Now behold the hippopotamus. Isn't this an
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Speaker 2: interesting sermon? I've hippopotamus and crocodiles. I dare you to
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Speaker 2: tell anybody tomorrow at work that that's what the preacher
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Speaker 2: preached on yesterday. It may be a great opportunity for
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Speaker 2: you to share with them something else you'd like to say.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, first the hippopotamus. Verses 15 to 24, chapter 40.
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Speaker 2: I made that animal as well as you. Notice the opening.
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Speaker 2: You're both creatures, very different. It walks on all fours.
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Speaker 3: You walk erect.
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Speaker 2: It eats grass like an ox. You do not eat
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Speaker 2: that diet. He mentions his strength to begin with, his
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Speaker 2: strengths in his loins. 16 through 18 is a reference
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Speaker 2: to the strength of the hippopotamus. The power is in
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Speaker 2: his muscles. Tail is like a cedar, picture of strength.
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Speaker 2: Sinews of thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes
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Speaker 2: of bronze. This is poetry, colorful language to illustrate this.
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Speaker 2: His limbs are like bars of iron. He is first
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Speaker 2: of the ways of God. That intriguing statement probably means
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Speaker 2: he's chief or the mightiest among the animals. Other animals,
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Speaker 2: when they see him, move away from him. God has
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Speaker 2: given him an uppermost level of authority among his fellow creatures.
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Speaker 2: Surely the mountains bring him food, and all the beasts
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Speaker 2: of the field play there. Verse 23, if a river rages,
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Speaker 2: he's not alarmed. He is confident, though the Jordan rushes
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Speaker 2: to his mouth. And look at this interesting statement about
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Speaker 2: capturing the hippopotamus. Can anyone capture him when he is
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Speaker 2: on watch? It's the picture of a hunter in those days.
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Speaker 2: With barbs, it's the idea of a spear, can anyone
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Speaker 2: pierce his nose? It was believed in ancient days that
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Speaker 2: To capture one of these, you'd have to pierce the
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Speaker 2: nose or plug it up so that he'd have to
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Speaker 2: open his mouth to breathe. And when he opens his mouth,
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Speaker 2: you drive the javelin or the spear into the throat.
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Speaker 3: You're able to kill him.
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Speaker 2: But how rare that was. The task is piercing the
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Speaker 2: nose to begin with, getting there.
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Speaker 3: Job is listening.
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Speaker 2: The whole point, even one species of animal life is
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Speaker 2: enough to make you back down, Job. You're no match
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Speaker 2: against something this strong, this overpowering. If I, Yahweh, am
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Speaker 2: powerful enough to create and subdue a creature this strong
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Speaker 2: and intimidating, I'm deserving of your trust, your submission, your worship.
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Speaker 2: But before Job can digest all of that, the Lord
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Speaker 2: moves on to the Leviathan. Can you draw out Leviathan?
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Speaker 2: with a fish hook or press down his tongue with
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Speaker 2: a cord.
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Speaker 3: Now, we who love to fish.
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Speaker 2: And hunt, we remember times when we chose the size
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Speaker 2: hook depending on the size fish we wanted to catch.
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Speaker 3: Larger hook, larger fish.
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Speaker 2: Smaller hook usually meant a little smaller mouth or smaller fish.
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Speaker 2: When I did a lot of fishing my younger years,
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Speaker 2: I fished with my dad and my granddad both and
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Speaker 2: Sometime down the bays of South Texas, we would hang
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Speaker 2: a gar, old saltwater gar. You've seen pictures of them.
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Speaker 2: Some of you have even caught them or tried to.
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Speaker 2: And they tear up your tackle. I don't care how
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Speaker 2: big your hook is. Usually they'll bend the hook and
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Speaker 2: get away, or they'll tear everything up in the process.
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Speaker 3: Plus, they're no good to eat. And when you get
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Speaker 3: them there, you just throw them back in.
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Speaker 2: So my dad would say, as I thought I'd caught
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Speaker 2: the biggest trout on the planet, And the water was
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Speaker 2: swirling and had all.
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Speaker 3: The signs of a huge fish that hadn't yet surfaced.
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Speaker 3: He'd say, son, you got a guard.
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Speaker 2: Just cut the line. Just cut the line. Or he's
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Speaker 2: going to tear your rod up. He's going to tear
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Speaker 2: your pole up. Certainly going to tear up the tack.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to get him in this boat.
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Speaker 3: He'd tear us up.
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Speaker 2: So cut the line. How much more a crocodile? That's
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Speaker 2: the point as he begins. Can you draw out a
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Speaker 2: Leviathan or croc with a fish hook? Now, this is
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Speaker 2: even more fierce. Look at all the can use and
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Speaker 2: will use that follow. Can you put a rope in
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Speaker 2: its nose? Verse 3, he has a little fun with
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Speaker 2: the subject. Will he make many supplications to you? Will
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Speaker 2: he speak to you soft words? Literally, it's an absurd thought.
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Speaker 2: Will he literally speak soft and tender things? Do you
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Speaker 2: ever have a crocodile? Give you soft little words and
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Speaker 2: loving comments.
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Speaker 3: Hi. How are you? Looking great today. Makes us laugh.
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Speaker 2: There's a little humor here. Verse 4, will he make
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Speaker 2: a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant?
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Speaker 2: Will you make a pet out of it? Will you
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Speaker 2: play with him as with a bird? We all have
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Speaker 2: the parakeets or cockatiels in mind.
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Speaker 3: Will you have a little.
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Speaker 2: pet 12-foot crocodile that you've got running around the house?
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Speaker 2: Will you bind him for your maidens? It's a picture
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Speaker 2: of putting a leash around him for the daughters to
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Speaker 2: have and to take him.
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Speaker 3: To school with them. A little pet croc that they've
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Speaker 3: got makes us laugh. It's supposed to. It's ludicrous. It's absurd.
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Speaker 2: And he goes on and on and on talking about
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Speaker 2: his skin that you can hardly harpoon and the armor
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Speaker 2: of their back and the strength that's in their limbs,
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Speaker 2: verse 12. And who can strip off the armor, verse 13,
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Speaker 2: and come within his double mail. He goes on and
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Speaker 2: on and on and on until he comes to the end,
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Speaker 2: verse 33.
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Speaker 3: Nothing on earth is like him. And I control him, Job.
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Speaker 3: This creature.
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Speaker 2: Now, you know, when I use the croc, I realize
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Speaker 2: I'm working against television. Because there is on this earth
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Speaker 2: this man who swims with these suckers and thinks they're
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Speaker 2: the greatest thing on earth. Late at night he's out
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Speaker 2: in his little dinghy and he slips into the swamp
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Speaker 2: with his lantern and he says, I've lived all my
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Speaker 2: life for this moment. And he gets down in the
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Speaker 2: water and he's swimming in a swamp and he.
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Speaker 3: Says, look at their feet. They're beautiful. I look at
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Speaker 3: the feet. I think, that tear you apart get out.
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Speaker 2: Of the water now we all watch that we sit
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Speaker 2: there eating chips and sandwiches and go hey this is
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Speaker 2: really great go for it baby go get them you
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Speaker 2: know what he married a wife that likes him so
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Speaker 2: he's got a he's got this woman that just likes
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Speaker 2: to hang around him and she grabs him and hugs
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Speaker 2: him and.
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Speaker 3: He's never read Job 41 it's.
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Speaker 2: A crocodile and it's not made to be a pet
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Speaker 2: it lives in the depths and it is ferocious, it
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Speaker 2: is bloodthirsty, it is brutal, it is a killer, but.
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Speaker 3: It is submissive to God.
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Speaker 2: The crocodile cannot operate outside the realm, the parameters, the
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Speaker 2: borders that God has established for the crocodile. Never dawns
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Speaker 2: on him to do that. He does exactly what he
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Speaker 2: was built to do. He swims because God made him
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Speaker 2: to swim. And he feeds on this because God made
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Speaker 2: him to do.
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Speaker 3: He did it all. He made it all. He owns
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Speaker 3: it all.
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Speaker 2: That's verse 11. Who has given to me that I
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Speaker 2: should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
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Speaker 3: There's the shake. Job, you're mine. You're mine. You are
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Speaker 3: clay in my hands.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing a great work and Trust me in the
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Speaker 2: mystery of it all.
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Speaker 3: Remember I said that. In the mystery of it all.
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Speaker 2: Job listens, and as he gets to the end of
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Speaker 2: his second speech, verse 34, he looks on everything that
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Speaker 2: is high. He's king overall. the sons of pride. Job
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Speaker 2: may have done this.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that he did, but may have put
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Speaker 3: his hand up and said, I've got enough. I got it.
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Speaker 3: I got it.
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Speaker 2: Remember Job earlier had said, if only he would come
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Speaker 2: and talk with me, I would plead my case before him.
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Speaker 2: He owes me a hearing is the implication. He owes
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Speaker 2: me an audience. I mean, after the way I've lived
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Speaker 2: and look at my condition, at least he can present himself.
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Speaker 1: Stop, Job.
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Speaker 3: You don't give God a script.
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Speaker 2: You don't dictate the parameters of God's existence and plan.
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Speaker 3: I've got it. Look at the response. It's fabulous. He
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Speaker 3: answered and said, I know that you can do all things.
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Speaker 2: Whether it's creating and growing the hippo or the other
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Speaker 2: creatures of the forest and the jungles, or whether it's
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Speaker 2: a crocodile, or whether it's a man or a woman.
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Speaker 2: No purpose of yours can be thwarted. It's like Daniel 4.35. Listen,
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Speaker 2: listen to this. King Nebuchadnezzar, who has suffered for years
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Speaker 2: living in the field as a wild, insane man, Because
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Speaker 2: of pride. Having finished his years in the field. He
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Speaker 2: comes to his senses. And Nebuchadnezzar says. Daniel 435. All
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Speaker 2: the inhabitants of the earth are as nothing. And he
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Speaker 2: does according to his will in the army of heaven.
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Speaker 2: And among the inhabitants of the earth. And no one
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Speaker 2: can stay his hand or say unto him.
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Speaker 3: What are you doing? That's submission. Oh God.
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Speaker 2: I may be king on this earth, but you and
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Speaker 2: I know I don't even breathe without your grace giving
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Speaker 2: me breath. I can't move without your spirit giving my
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Speaker 2: muscles and my ability, my bones, my body, the ability
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Speaker 2: to locomote. All heaven and earth is yours. You own
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Speaker 2: it all and nothing of yours can be thwarted. Job asked,
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Speaker 2: who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? I have
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Speaker 2: declared that which I.
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Speaker 3: Do not understand. Things are too wonderful for me, which
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Speaker 3: I do not know.
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Speaker 2: I've come to the end of my understanding and I
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Speaker 2: leave it with that.
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Speaker 3: It's yours, oh God, it's yours.
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Speaker 2: To unravel the mystery, to handle the profound, strange events
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Speaker 2: of my life. By the way, God never in this passage,
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Speaker 2: or even later in the passage, tells him about the
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Speaker 2: deal between him and Satan. He leaves Job in the
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Speaker 2: mystery of it. And Job simply acknowledges his inability to
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Speaker 2: understand why, but there's never a fist in his words.
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Speaker 3: How dare you do this to me. There's a broken
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Speaker 3: and contrite spirit.
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Speaker 2: He says, I've heard you by the hearing of the
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Speaker 2: ear and now my eye sees you and oh, I
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Speaker 2: take back so much of what I said and I repent.
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Speaker 3: I repent.
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Speaker 2: Years ago, Cynthia and I were friends with a wonderful
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Speaker 2: family who was made up of a dad and a
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Speaker 2: mom and three sons. The son was greatly gifted intellectually
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Speaker 2: and musically, took up the violin and was a splendid
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Speaker 2: young violinist. The father had, earlier in his high school
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Speaker 2: years with the boy, had some trouble with the boy's
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Speaker 2: spirit of submission, but you know how you'll do with
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Speaker 2: your gifted children, you'll give them room or give them slack.
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Speaker 2: The boy decided when he came of college age that
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Speaker 2: he would go to school on the West Coast, chose
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Speaker 2: a renowned university. The father paid the full tuition, and
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Speaker 2: the boy began. Got with a tough crowd, continued his musicianship,
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Speaker 2: found a place in the school's orchestra, as I recall,
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Speaker 2: if not first chair, soon to be. And while he
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Speaker 2: was there, he picked up a surly, independent spirit. And
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Speaker 2: he came back home at the summertime, at the end
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Speaker 2: of his first year, and it wasn't long before mom
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Speaker 2: and dad, and by now brothers, realized they've got a real.
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Speaker 3: Hellion on their hands. He's bright. He's gifted. He's also stubborn.
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Speaker 3: He's arrogant, conceited.
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Speaker 2: The family harmony was being disrupted, and the father, late
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Speaker 2: one afternoon, had had enough. He called the boy in,
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Speaker 2: called his name, and said, sit down. He said, everything
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Speaker 2: that you have is mine. I bought every stitch of
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Speaker 2: clothing in your closet. Your car that's in our garage
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Speaker 2: is mine. The money in your pocket came from my.
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Speaker 3: Account.
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Speaker 2: I want you to leave everything in this house, and
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Speaker 2: I want you to get out. You leave the money,
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Speaker 2: you leave the car. Oh, by the way, the violin,
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Speaker 2: you leave the violin. I bought that instrument. You leave
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Speaker 2: everything that you possess. I'll let you keep the clothes
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Speaker 2: on your back and the shoes on your feet.
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Speaker 3: You get out.
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Speaker 2: When you are ready to change your mind and come
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Speaker 2: back into this place as a family member, You need
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Speaker 2: to know we accept you and would love to have
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Speaker 2: you back, but you're not the boy that I raised
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Speaker 2: and I'm putting up with it no longer. Father told
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Speaker 2: me that the boy turned on his heels, put the
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Speaker 2: money right there on the table, left everything and.
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Speaker 3: Walked out the door, took a left and got about three.
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Speaker 2: Blocks And he had a massive education between the front
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Speaker 2: door of his house and about the third block at
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Speaker 2: the curb. And he said he stood there with his
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Speaker 2: hands in his pockets, thinking through as night was falling,
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Speaker 2: the elements.
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Speaker 3: He would be facing, the street life about which he
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Speaker 3: knew nothing, and everything back home which he needed. and
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Speaker 3: longed for.
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Speaker 2: He turned around, came to the door, knocked on his
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Speaker 2: own front door. Dad opened the door with Mom standing near.
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Speaker 2: And then came the words, I'm wrong.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Arms of embracing Probably the brothers were thinking, who's going
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Speaker 2: to get his room? You know how brothers are. But
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Speaker 2: as I recall that evening, there was a dinner together
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Speaker 2: as there was a sense of the return of another
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Speaker 2: young man. I'm not through with the subject, but I
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Speaker 2: need to stop here. It is all about God. Men
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Speaker 2: and women, it is all about our God. Your business
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Speaker 2: is about our God. Your family is about our God.
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Speaker 2: Everything you say you possess, He owns. Every privilege you
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Speaker 2: enjoy is granted. None of it deserved. We don't get it.
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Speaker 2: We don't get it until we are faced with these
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Speaker 2: impossible moments.
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Speaker 3: That level us And we finally begin to emerge as
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Speaker 3: a people of God.
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Speaker 2: We don't lose any of our giftedness. We don't lose
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Speaker 2: any of our sense of ability. In fact, it's enhanced.
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Speaker 2: And the beautiful thing to witness is this still strong-hearted
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Speaker 2: person who is surrendered.
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Speaker 3: And humble with a broken heart.
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Speaker 2: And contrite spirit, entertaining no grudges, making no demands, having
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Speaker 2: no expectations, offering no conditions, anticipating no favors. We repent
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Speaker 2: before our God. And the marvelous thing, He begins to
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Speaker 2: use us in the most amazing ways because the world
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Speaker 2: doesn't see that kind of combination very often. I so
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Speaker 2: want you to be one of those people. Job finally
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Speaker 2: gets it. The result is blessing after blessing, double blessings,
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Speaker 2: double blessings.
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Speaker 3: And he dies an old man full of days the
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Speaker 3: last verse of the book says.
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Speaker 2: Let's bow our heads let's close our eyes I don't
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Speaker 2: know who's shaking your shoulders somebody probably is Think of it,
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Speaker 2: if you will, as the Lord. I'm not talking about
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Speaker 2: yielding to abuse and molestation. That's not in my subject today.
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Speaker 2: Please don't rush there. I'm talking about giving up rights
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Speaker 2: that were not your rights to begin with.
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Speaker 3: They're God's rights.
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Speaker 2: I'm not talking about defending our country. This is not
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Speaker 2: that subject. This is about a very personal relationship with
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Speaker 2: the God who made us, who is trying in every
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Speaker 2: possible way to get our attention.
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Speaker 3: To give up the fight. To learn to say, yes, sir. No, sir.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you, sir. I bow before you as
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Speaker 2: the servant. You are my master, oh God. If it
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Speaker 2: is your pleasure, use me.
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Speaker 3: If it is not, take me. If that would bring
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Speaker 3: more honor to you. I exist for you. If you've
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Speaker 3: never come to.
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Speaker 2: The Lord Jesus Christ, of course this sounds absurd to you.
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Speaker 2: It's the most impossible suggestion you could ever sit through
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Speaker 2: and endure because you've not made the first commitment of
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Speaker 2: submission that you can't save yourself. If you were to
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Speaker 2: die tonight, nothing in your person would deserve heaven or
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Speaker 2: would cause God to graciously provide you with forgiveness and
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Speaker 2: eternity with him. Your sins separate you from him and
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Speaker 2: you know it. So begin by coming first to Christ.
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Speaker 2: And because most of us have done that, I say
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Speaker 2: to all of us who remain, you may very well
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Speaker 2: be at that crossroads where it's time to say, I surrender.
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Speaker 3: I give up the fight. I repent.
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Speaker 2: I release my rights for God to do with me
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Speaker 2: however He He may be pleased to do. It's our
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Speaker 2: great desire, our Father, to live a life that is
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Speaker 2: wholly committed to you. We still are on this earth.
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Speaker 2: We still must connect with other earthlings. We still have
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Speaker 2: a life to live here for as long as you
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Speaker 2: would grant us. But we long to be your men
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Speaker 2: and women today. living and moving among this world that
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Speaker 2: has long since lost its direction. I pray that you
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Speaker 2: will use these words, halting though they have been at times,
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Speaker 2: these simple words, these examples from your book to stop
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Speaker 2: us in our track, make us realize how arrogant and
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Speaker 2: conceited we have become and how wholly dependent we are
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Speaker 2: upon you for forgiveness and for the ability to go
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Speaker 2: on with our lives. I pray that you would set
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Speaker 2: apart a handful of men and women who now truly
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Speaker 2: grasp this, change their whole direction, I pray, so that
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Speaker 2: a difference will be made where they work, where they play,
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Speaker 2: among their family members, and most importantly, in the quietness
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Speaker 2: of their own hearts. Give them a blessed relief and
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Speaker 2: release of their wills to yours. And then may we
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Speaker 2: know the joy of a renewed life, lived truly for
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Speaker 2: your greater glory. Now, our Father, I commit to you
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Speaker 2: and to your power and grace, we who have been
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Speaker 2: a part of this worship time, I pray that you
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Speaker 2: will begin the process of change in Even this day.
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Speaker 2: And may it never cease. Until we see your son
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Speaker 2: face to face. Whom having not seen we love. In
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Speaker 2: whom though now we see him not yet. Believing we
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Speaker 2: rejoice with a joy unspeakable. And full of glory. It
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Speaker 2: is great name I pray. And all God's people said.
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Speaker 3: Amen.
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Speaker 1: I'm wrong.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: I repent. Simple words, and yet so hard to say.
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Speaker 1: Maybe today, Chuck Swindoll has put his finger on a
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Speaker 1: Ever grow tired of waiting on God to settle the score?
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Speaker 1: I'm Bill Meyer. Chuck Swindoll describes a moment when justice
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