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 I'm aware that listening to somebody speak with a different accent can be quite tiring, can't it?

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 You know, you think, oh, my ears are aching. Why don't you speak right?

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 But hey, we have the English language first.

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 And I am bilingual, so you're all right.

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 I don't have a PowerPoint, you know, because I'm a bit tech unsavvy.

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 Plus we're on holiday.

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 But we do have an outline, a listening guide rather than an outline.

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 So if you have your Bibles, which I hope you do, in whatever form you prefer, electronic or paper,

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 please turn to Job chapter 1.

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 In the Church Bibles it's page 417.

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 We are going to carry on with our study through the book of Job.

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 But before we get into this new section, I'd like to do a bit of review.

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 Not because David did a bad job last week. He did a great job.

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 But the problem is most of us is probably what?

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 It's gone.

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 Unless we're constantly looking at the Word and reading through the outline.

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 So just to remind ourselves, last week we saw a portrait of a blameless life.

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 A characterization of a man who walked close to God.

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 And we're introduced to this man in verse 1.

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 And we're told that there was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job.

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 So there's a man.

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 And this book is about a man.

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 It's a story about a man.

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 And we're introduced, first of all, to Job's testimony.

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 And it was fantastic listening to his testimony, wasn't it, last week.

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 We heard about his faith, didn't we?

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 That man was blameless, upright, one who feared God and who turned away from evil.

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 And one who was so concerned about his family, he interceded for them.

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 See, his faith, he had a strong personal faith, but it included others.

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 He prayed for his family.

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 He was concerned for his family.

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 Not only did we see his faith then, we also saw his family.

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 This man was a strong man, I believe, because he had ten children, seven sons and three daughters.

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 Well, I tell you, three daughters was enough for us.

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 But to have seven sons at the same time.

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 But you know, he had a wife.

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 And his wife isn't mentioned very often, is she?

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 In fact, she's only mentioned one, though, over in chapter 2 and verse 10,

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 where she actually says to him, curse God and die.

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 How many of us would want a wife like that?

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 We want an encouraging wife, don't we?

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 One who would stand by us in the faith.

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 But he also had other brothers and sisters.

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 And this is not brought out to us in chapter 1.

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 But if we flick over, and you can do this later to the last chapter, chapter 42,

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 we find that Job had many other acquaintances, people who ate bread in his house.

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 Now, hopefully they were friends, and not just rice friends,

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 who came to eat and enjoy his hospitality.

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 But we saw his faith, his family, and we also saw his fortune.

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 This was a rich dude.

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 I don't know if you've ever thought about that.

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 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke.

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 Now, when I was at school, 500 yoke meant 1,000, right?

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 Because to be yoked, you had one here and one here.

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 So 500 yoke speaks about 1,000 oxen and 500 female donkeys.

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 Man, he's fortune.

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 I tried to find out in my preparation how much that would be in today's money.

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 And the estimates range from 55 million to over 200 million dollars.

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 And I think David said last week we could say he was the Elon Musk or the Steve Job of that day.

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 But he had a great fortune, didn't he?

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 He also had fame, and we saw that.

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 And he had very many servants so that this man was the greatest of all the people on the earth.

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 His faith, his family, his fortune, and his fame.

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 And he had friends.

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 A man of that wealth would have friends, wouldn't he?

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 And three in particular.

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 And as you go through the book of Job, you're going to see these three friends.

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 And the best thing they did was go and sit with Job and keep quiet for a week.

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 Because as soon as they opened their mouth, things went downhill, didn't they?

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 And as you go through the book of Job, we're going to see that.

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 And for the most of the book of Job, we see that dialogue between his friends and Job.

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 And then we saw that the scene switched from there was a man to now there was a day.

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 And the scene switched to heaven, didn't it?

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 And we realize that there's a lot more going on in the book of Job than meets the eye.

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 And we're introduced now by the words that there is a day.

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 And we saw the accuser, the adversary, didn't we?

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 We saw him.

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 And we saw that he had access to God.

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 And I don't know about you, but I'm a little bit surprised.

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 How can a fallen, sinful creature have access to a holy and righteous God?

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 Well, only by God's permission to start with.

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 And I think God probably dragged Satan into his presence and said,

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 Now you give me an account of what you're doing in this world.

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 I want to know.

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 Not that God didn't know.

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 He knows everything, right?

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 But he held Satan, the adversary, the accuser of the brethren.

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 He holds him to account.

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 And he says,

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 In all your patrolling and prowling through this earth,

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 have you considered my servant Job?

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 And David said that this word considered actually means a little bit more than,

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 Hey, have you noticed Job?

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 Or have you seen Job?

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 It means have you set your heart and your mind?

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 Have you considered him?

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 Have you studied him?

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 Have you observed him?

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 Because he's different to everybody else.

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 He's blameless.

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 He's upright.

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 He fears me and he turns away from evil.

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 Now this word considered, I found out it's actually a military term.

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 And it's used of generals who stand outside a city and study that city before working out a strategy on how to go and attack.

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 Now when we think of that word considered and what God is saying to Satan,

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 he's saying, have you considered?

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 Have you seen Job and how he's built his life on the fortress, my fortress, my solid rock?

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 Have you considered him?

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 Have you observed him?

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 Have you got any strategy concerning him?

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 But God reinforces, doesn't he, Job's testimony?

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 Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, blameless, upright, fears God, and turns away from evil?

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 Now in Satan's response, we see that he affirms that he actually has been observing Job in that way.

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 He says, yes, I have.

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 And he replied with an accusation, didn't he?

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 He said, well, Job is only that way because you've built a, what, a hedge or a fence around him?

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 And you've blessed everything he does.

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 In fact, you've paid him to worship you.

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 That was the implication, wasn't it?

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 In Satan's accusation.

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 You've actually paid him.

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 You're not worthy to be worshipped.

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 You have to reward people to pay you.

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 You take away that hedge.

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 You take away his blessings.

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 And he will what?

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 Curse you to your face.

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 And so we see, although Satan has access, and he makes accusations, and this, I think, is tremendously encouraging,

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 Satan is held accountable.

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 He doesn't have free reign to do whatever he wishes.

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 He's accountable.

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 In verse 12, and the second half, he says, God says to him,

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 Behold, all that he has is in your hand.

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 Only against him do not stretch out your hand.

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 God has set boundaries, and praise the Lord for that.

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 The good news is that Satan has to ask permission.

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 The bad news is it's sometimes granted.

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 It's sometimes granted.

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 I don't know if you remember or even considered this, but our Lord Jesus, when he was talking to the Peter, Simon Peter,

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 what did he say to him?

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 He says, Simon Peter, Satan has what?

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 Asked permission to sift you like wheat.

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 But I have prayed for you.

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 Wow.

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 Satan asking permission of God so that he can have some sort of input in Peter's life.

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 And that's exactly how it is with Job here, didn't we?

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 You know, Satan, and I think David mentioned this last week,

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 Satan has some power, but he's not omnipotent.

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 He's not all-powerful.

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 Satan is, he has some knowledge, but he's not all-knowing.

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 He's present, but he has to walk around.

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 He has to patrol.

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 He has to prowl.

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 So he's present, but he's not all-present.

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 You see, Satan is not equal to God,

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 and Satan is not even opposite to God.

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 And sometimes we think that, don't we?

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 There's God who is good and Satan who is evil.

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 No.

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 God who is good,

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 Satan, a created being, is evil.

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 If you want an equal or an opposite to Satan,

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 we have to look elsewhere.

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 Maybe the archangel Michael, who's a created being.

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 Satan is not opposite or equal with God.

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 He has power, but he's not omnipotent.

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 He has knowledge, but he's not omniscient.

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 He walks about and prowls about like a lion,

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 seeking whom he may devour,

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 but he is not omnipresent.

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 Let's put him where he is.

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 He is a created being,

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 a fallen, created being.

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 But God holds Satan accountable.

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 He cannot do anything he wants.

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 He cannot do anything that God does not give him permission to do.

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 And I praise the Lord that God has set boundaries for Satan's activities.

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 Only against him do not stretch out your hand.

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 And then David, I mean, David left us last week on a cliffhanger, didn't he?

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 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord,

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 and I was sat there, and...

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 But that's my job this week.

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 You know, now it's my job to speak,

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 and it's your job to listen,

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 and if you finish before me,

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 please don't make too much noise.

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 You get that one?

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 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

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 So what happened next?

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 Well, the scene now shifts again from heaven,

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 here down to earth,

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 and we're told,

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 and if you read on your outline,

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 it's all there,

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 we see Satan's attack.

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 Satan's attack.

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 That's verses 13 through 19.

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 Now we know that Satan's intent was to what?

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 To get Job to curse God.

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 And we see that in verse 11, don't we?

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 But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has,

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 and he will curse you to your face.

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 And so in this next section,

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 we see Satan's attempt to bring about that result.

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 Satan's attempt to bring about the result of Job cursing God face to face.

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 But remember,

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 God has instructed Satan not to touch Jacob's body.

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 And what we're going to see here,

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 that Satan's attack,

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 Satan's assaults,

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 were alternately caused by human and natural forces.

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 That's what we're going to see,

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 human and natural forces.

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 First,

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 there is an attack by men.

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 Then there's fire.

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 And then there's another attack by men.

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 And then there's another,

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 then a fire.

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 Well,

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 the question that came up in my mind immediately,

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 how is Satan able to do that?

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 How can Satan influence a group of people so much that they could go and attack an innocent man

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 and rob him of his livelihood?

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 How is Satan able to influence the weather?

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 So that fire comes down,

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 so that a mighty wind comes and crashes down the house that Job's children are in.

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 Well,

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 the first thing we need to remember is that God committed Satan to move.

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 He permitted Satan to move both kinds of these causes,

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 both human and natural.

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 God permitted him to do that.

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 Without God's permission,

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 Satan could not have even touched Job at all.

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 If you're taking notes right down,

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 we're not turned here,

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 but thinking about Satan's power in the future,

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 he will work mightily again with God's permission,

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 and he will deceive nations,

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 he will deceive people groups,

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 so that they believe a lie.

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 He will even be given power to the beast and the false prophet,

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 so that fire can come down from heaven.

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 But all this is allowed,

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 permitted by God,

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 in a certain point in history.

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 Or the future,

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 one day it will be history.

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 But not only did God permit Satan to move these natural and human causes for these problems,

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 he did so with rapid and precise timing,

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 so that Job,

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 while reeling in shock from one,

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 before he even had a chance to regain his balance,

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 from the news of one shock,

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 would be hit by another one.

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 And that's how Satan worked.

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 He didn't give Job chance to breathe.

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 So not only was he given permission to do these things,

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 the timing of it was also granted to him.

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 It reminds me of the line of that hymn,

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 and I asked John if we're going to sing it this morning,

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 when peace like a river attends my soul.

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 And what's the next line?

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 We love that one, don't we?

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 What's the next line?

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 Let's say it together.

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 When sorrows like sea billows roll.

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 Have you ever been on a beach and tried to get in the water and a wave smacked you?

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 And you're just about to get up and what happens?

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 Another one hits you in the back.

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 And you're just about getting your breath and bam, another one hits you in the back.

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 I've done that in Dakar in Africa.

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 And I tell you, these were 10 foot waves.

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 And I thought I was going to die.

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 That first one came, knocked me over.

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 I was just about getting up for air and bam, bam, bam.

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 They just kept coming and coming.

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 You know what it's like when sorrows like sea billows roll.

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 So verse 13, we see the scene being set then for this new,

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 for this attack of Satan, this assault on this godly man.

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 It says, now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine

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 in their oldest brother's house.

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 The scene is set then.

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 And we know this was sort of a normal happening in the Job and Mrs. Job's household.

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 Their children would celebrate.

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 And I think it's probably talking about birthday celebrations.

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 Because in verse 4 in chapter 1, it says,

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 So it seems like they were celebrating on a special day.

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 And in my thinking, I'm thinking, birthday!

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 It's got to be a birthday celebration.

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 And so they were all gathered in the eldest brother's house for the big brother's birthday bash.

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 That should be on your outline too.

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 Now it may not have been a birthday, but I like to think it was.

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 And you know what I think is amazing too?

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 The sisters were invited.

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 Because usually in these Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, it's all about the boys.

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 But here we think about Job's family.

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 The sisters were involved too.

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 What a family.

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 But they were meeting together.

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 They were celebrating the big brother's birthday.

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 Now where was Job when all this was happening?

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 We're not told he was there with them.

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 But he wasn't there.

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 But that doesn't mean he wasn't involved, does it?

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 Because we know that as a father and as a priestly father to this family,

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 I like to think that he was praying for his family at this time.

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 Because he knew the type of things they could get up to.

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 We're told that in chapter 1, aren't we?

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 Verse 5,

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 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them.

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 And he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all.

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 So as a father, he was not there.

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 He was absent, but he was not involved.

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 He was still involved, probably in prayer.

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 And probably preparing himself for his priestly duties.

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 Because he knows that when these guys are having a celebration,

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 they may sin and upset God in their hearts.

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 And I need to get the sheep.

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 I need to get the oxen prepared so that I can sacrifice and make offerings for their sin.

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 I don't know.

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 Maybe that's conjecture.

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 But I like to think that Job, although absent, was still involved with his family.

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 It was a special day.

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 And Job, whatever he's doing, wherever he is, he's separated from his family, but still involved.

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 When the first wave crashes on him.

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 That first billow of sorrow comes and hits him.

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 Just like that.

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 Verse 14.

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 And there came a messenger to Job and said,

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 The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them.

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 And the Sabians fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword.

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 The Sabians came and carried off the oxen and the donkeys and killed all his servants.

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 That's the first wave.

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 The loss of his stock and his servants then.

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 Well, who are the Sabians?

00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:53.980
 I don't know.

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 Maybe you could ask your pastors this week.

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 Who are the Sabians?

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 I don't know.

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 Several commentators offer insights into who these people were,

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 but we don't really know.

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 They were from the south and probably,

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 if you still have your map from the listening guide last week,

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 you'll see that Uz was probably in the Arabian desert.

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 So they were probably raiders, Bedouin raiders,

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 who came and stole his livestock,

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 the oxen and the donkeys,

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 and put the sword to all his servants.

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 And then as he's taking all that in,

00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.339
 another wave comes and crashes over him and knocks him down,

00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:45.399
 verse 16.

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 And while he was yet speaking,

00:21:48.899 --> 00:21:51.579
 while that messenger was giving his message,

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 there came another messenger and said,

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 The fire of God fell from heaven,

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 burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them,

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 and I alone have escaped to tell you.

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 The loss of his oxen,

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 the loss of his donkeys,

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 and then wham!

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 Before he's even got a chance to take a breath,

00:22:14.500 --> 00:22:16.780
 he's hit with this second message.

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 Hey, you know what?

00:22:19.360 --> 00:22:21.120
 God has sent fire.

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 And he's burnt up,

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 not only burnt,

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 but consumed.

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 Your sheep and your shepherds.

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 Consumed.

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 And this message with reference to God and heaven,

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 I believe,

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 is designed to really rock Job at this time,

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 because he trusts in whom?

00:22:42.259 --> 00:22:42.799
 God.

00:22:43.959 --> 00:22:46.239
 And whether it was fire from God,

00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:47.500
 or whether it was lightning,

00:22:47.719 --> 00:22:48.939
 or a firestorm,

00:22:48.940 --> 00:22:50.620
 nobody really knows,

00:22:50.740 --> 00:22:53.480
 but just this reference to God and heaven,

00:22:53.860 --> 00:22:55.799
 I believe Satan designed that

00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:59.960
 to really bring doubt and confusion into the mix

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 with Job.

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 Anyway,

00:23:03.820 --> 00:23:06.799
 it was powerful enough not only to burn,

00:23:07.340 --> 00:23:08.960
 but also consume.

00:23:09.460 --> 00:23:10.779
 You know what consume means?

00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:14.100
 Have you seen teenagers at a meal?

00:23:14.099 --> 00:23:17.879
 They will consume that food.

00:23:18.019 --> 00:23:18.699
 Meaning what?

00:23:19.019 --> 00:23:21.279
 There's absolutely nothing left at the end.

00:23:21.459 --> 00:23:22.259
 It's devoured.

00:23:22.639 --> 00:23:23.539
 It's eaten up.

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 And that's what this fire did to the sheep and the shepherds.

00:23:29.059 --> 00:23:29.439
 Wow.

00:23:31.439 --> 00:23:32.679
 Billows of sorrow,

00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:34.959
 waves of woe,

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 and it's not stopped yet.

00:23:37.539 --> 00:23:38.419
 There's another one.

00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:41.939
 Yet another wave comes crashing on this godly man.

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 And while he was yet speaking,

00:23:44.360 --> 00:23:45.259
 verse 17,

00:23:45.420 --> 00:23:47.460
 there came another and said,

00:23:48.660 --> 00:23:50.700
 the Chaldeans formed three groups

00:23:50.700 --> 00:23:52.480
 and made a raid on the camels

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 and took them and struck down the servants

00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:56.920
 with the edge of the sword,

00:23:57.299 --> 00:24:00.200
 and I alone have escaped to tell you.

00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:00.580
 Wow.

00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:02.180
 The Chaldeans,

00:24:02.299 --> 00:24:05.420
 a little bit more sophisticated than the Sabians,

00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:08.620
 these were a warring faction,

00:24:08.619 --> 00:24:13.479
 a very fierce group of people from Mesopotamia.

00:24:14.059 --> 00:24:15.639
 Fierce marauding people.

00:24:16.179 --> 00:24:18.019
 They'd split into three groups,

00:24:18.159 --> 00:24:20.639
 and one group had taken a thousand camels,

00:24:20.739 --> 00:24:22.519
 another group had taken a thousand camels,

00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:25.519
 and another group had taken a thousand camels.

00:24:26.219 --> 00:24:28.979
 Now the loss of these camels and his servants,

00:24:29.939 --> 00:24:32.679
 this would be devastating to Job.

00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:34.779
 You know,

00:24:34.860 --> 00:24:38.620
 I looked at the average price of a camel today.

00:24:39.299 --> 00:24:40.560
 Three thousand dollars.

00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:42.400
 Three thousand dollars.

00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:46.039
 Who knows what it would have been way back then.

00:24:47.620 --> 00:24:50.420
 But they were probably his most prized possession.

00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.600
 And yet you know these billows of sorrow

00:24:55.600 --> 00:24:58.180
 that roll in have not finished yet.

00:24:58.180 --> 00:25:03.340
 You would think the loss of his oxen and donkeys,

00:25:04.299 --> 00:25:07.500
 and then the loss of his sheep and his shepherds,

00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:12.940
 and then the Chaldeans stealing his camels

00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:15.940
 would be enough, wouldn't you?

00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:19.860
 But these billows continue to roll in,

00:25:19.940 --> 00:25:20.960
 and they're not stopped yet.

00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.680
 The biggest one is yet to come.

00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:25.720
 Verse 18 and 19.

00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:28.600
 And while he was yet speaking,

00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:31.039
 while he was yet speaking,

00:25:31.160 --> 00:25:34.620
 you see the suddenness and the rapidity of these

00:25:34.620 --> 00:25:38.220
 were designed by Satan to rock the faith of this man,

00:25:38.940 --> 00:25:42.259
 to get him to curse God to his face.

00:25:42.360 --> 00:25:43.819
 While he was yet speaking,

00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:45.940
 there came another and said,

00:25:46.660 --> 00:25:49.799
 your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine

00:25:49.799 --> 00:25:51.600
 in their oldest brother's house,

00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:54.819
 and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness,

00:25:54.819 --> 00:25:57.779
 and struck the four corners of the house,

00:25:57.779 --> 00:26:00.139
 and it fell upon these young people,

00:26:00.579 --> 00:26:02.119
 and they're all dead.

00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:04.879
 I alone have escaped.

00:26:05.419 --> 00:26:07.419
 There's no message of sympathy there.

00:26:07.779 --> 00:26:08.839
 Oh, Job, I'm very sorry.

00:26:09.679 --> 00:26:12.819
 It comes like a wave that just crashes

00:26:12.819 --> 00:26:16.779
 and hits this man on top of all the other things.

00:26:16.879 --> 00:26:19.399
 A great wind collapsed the house

00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:22.040
 and crushed his sons and daughters.

00:26:24.040 --> 00:26:26.900
 And this is probably the worst of all the calamities

00:26:26.900 --> 00:26:28.320
 that came upon Job

00:26:28.320 --> 00:26:30.519
 in a matter of minutes.

00:26:32.100 --> 00:26:32.500
 Wow.

00:26:35.300 --> 00:26:36.700
 I've written on my notes here,

00:26:36.860 --> 00:26:37.880
 pause for effect.

00:26:41.100 --> 00:26:43.240
 Let's just take a minute to take that in,

00:26:43.280 --> 00:26:44.000
 and I'll have a drink.

00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:44.080
 Thank you.

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00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:53.740
 You know, we can read those things,

00:26:53.800 --> 00:26:54.300
 and we just think,

00:26:54.360 --> 00:26:54.940
 well, so what?

00:26:56.300 --> 00:26:56.900
 So what?

00:26:57.340 --> 00:26:59.540
 He's a man who lived so long ago,

00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:01.120
 it doesn't affect us.

00:27:02.120 --> 00:27:04.620
 Yet we have the Holy Spirit indwelling us.

00:27:04.900 --> 00:27:06.640
 We're able to walk in the Spirit

00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:08.180
 and be led by the Spirit.

00:27:08.840 --> 00:27:11.860
 And we know that God disciplines us as His children,

00:27:11.860 --> 00:27:15.080
 and we know that we can be persecuted for our faith.

00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:19.519
 Listen, this was a man who lived

00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.579
 when most of Europe was still in the Bronze Age, right?

00:27:23.419 --> 00:27:26.819
 He didn't have the benefits and the blessings that we had,

00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:30.039
 but he did have a relationship with God.

00:27:33.539 --> 00:27:35.859
 And we have the reader's edge, don't we?

00:27:35.879 --> 00:27:37.039
 We have the reader's edge,

00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:38.859
 as Andrew mentioned this morning.

00:27:38.939 --> 00:27:40.159
 We know what's going off.

00:27:40.539 --> 00:27:41.839
 We've listened in.

00:27:41.939 --> 00:27:43.639
 We're privy to that conversation

00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:45.400
 between God and Satan.

00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:50.259
 God granted Satan permission to touch Job,

00:27:51.560 --> 00:27:54.080
 but don't stretch out your hand against him,

00:27:54.340 --> 00:27:56.320
 but don't touch him.

00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:01.780
 We know that, but Job doesn't.

00:28:02.040 --> 00:28:04.060
 Job doesn't know what's going off.

00:28:05.100 --> 00:28:06.640
 He's there on a normal day.

00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:09.440
 His family is celebrating probably a birthday,

00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:11.480
 and all these things,

00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:13.680
 these billows of sorrow

00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:15.900
 just come rolling in and rolling in

00:28:15.900 --> 00:28:17.640
 and rolling in and rolling in.

00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:21.420
 His livestock is gone.

00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:22.660
 His servants are murdered.

00:28:24.220 --> 00:28:26.000
 His children crushed.

00:28:27.120 --> 00:28:28.580
 And all in a few minutes,

00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:30.400
 and it would seem that Job,

00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:32.240
 well, he has.

00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:35.180
 He's gone from a position of wealth and prosperity

00:28:35.180 --> 00:28:40.099
 to a place of wretchedness and pauperism.

00:28:40.299 --> 00:28:42.079
 He's got absolutely nothing.

00:28:42.120 --> 00:28:43.240
 Well, he still has his wife

00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:45.400
 and some friends,

00:28:45.859 --> 00:28:46.759
 but realistically,

00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:48.859
 he has nothing.

00:28:49.660 --> 00:28:50.579
 Now, remind us,

00:28:50.620 --> 00:28:52.200
 we need to be reminded again

00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:54.359
 of Satan's challenge,

00:28:54.579 --> 00:28:55.000
 don't we?

00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:56.420
 To keep this in perspective,

00:28:56.420 --> 00:28:58.599
 we need to realize that these things,

00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:01.339
 although they happened because of man,

00:29:01.539 --> 00:29:04.180
 and they happened because of natural causes,

00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:05.220
 acts of God,

00:29:05.339 --> 00:29:07.460
 if you want insurance speak today,

00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:08.920
 for whatever reason,

00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:10.279
 they call things acts of God

00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:12.259
 because most of them don't even believe in God,

00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:14.740
 but lightning and winds and earthquakes

00:29:14.740 --> 00:29:16.160
 are all classed as acts of God.

00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:19.259
 But these things have happened to him

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:22.940
 because of Satan's challenge.

00:29:23.220 --> 00:29:23.859
 Verse 9,

00:29:23.859 --> 00:29:25.979
 And Satan answered the Lord and said,

00:29:26.339 --> 00:29:27.439
 Does Job fear God?

00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:29.139
 Job feared God for no reason.

00:29:29.639 --> 00:29:31.379
 Have you not put a hedge around him

00:29:31.379 --> 00:29:32.019
 and his house

00:29:32.019 --> 00:29:33.259
 and all that he has

00:29:33.259 --> 00:29:34.179
 and on every side?

00:29:34.479 --> 00:29:36.299
 You have blessed the work of his hands

00:29:36.299 --> 00:29:38.559
 and his possessions have increased in the land,

00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:40.419
 but stretch out your hand

00:29:40.419 --> 00:29:42.000
 and touch all that he has

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:46.019
 and he will curse you to your face.

00:29:46.459 --> 00:29:48.059
 That's Satan's challenge.

00:29:48.500 --> 00:29:50.199
 And that was Satan's intent

00:29:50.199 --> 00:29:53.479
 to get Job to curse God.

00:29:53.859 --> 00:29:57.559
 Or would Satan be proved right?

00:29:57.979 --> 00:29:59.619
 I love a cliffhanger, don't you?

00:30:00.139 --> 00:30:01.659
 Will Satan be proved right?

00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:02.500
 You know the narrative,

00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:03.979
 the narrator that comes after.

00:30:04.139 --> 00:30:05.759
 Will Satan be proved right?

00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:09.899
 With the hedge removed

00:30:09.899 --> 00:30:11.799
 and all his earthly possessions gone,

00:30:12.139 --> 00:30:13.839
 would Job curse God?

00:30:13.839 --> 00:30:15.599
 We joke,

00:30:15.679 --> 00:30:17.299
 but this is serious, isn't it?

00:30:19.379 --> 00:30:21.699
 Would he plummet from loyalty to God

00:30:21.699 --> 00:30:24.039
 to disloyalty to God?

00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:26.699
 What would Job's reaction be?

00:30:27.619 --> 00:30:28.619
 Let me ask you a question.

00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:30.119
 Don't answer it.

00:30:30.439 --> 00:30:31.740
 What would your reaction be?

00:30:32.379 --> 00:30:33.579
 I know what mine would be.

00:30:33.579 --> 00:30:38.500
 See, Satan's intent was to get Job

00:30:38.500 --> 00:30:39.519
 to curse God,

00:30:39.639 --> 00:30:42.960
 but here we see the actual result.

00:30:43.699 --> 00:30:47.359
 The actual result that Job did not curse God,

00:30:47.419 --> 00:30:48.259
 but he did what?

00:30:48.779 --> 00:30:49.839
 He blessed God.

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.039
 He praised God.

00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:53.220
 And in that we see Job's victory.

00:30:55.220 --> 00:30:58.419
 Job's victory 20 through 22.

00:30:58.420 --> 00:31:00.880
 So tormented by adversity,

00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:04.100
 his initial response was what?

00:31:04.180 --> 00:31:06.060
 To pour out his grief.

00:31:06.660 --> 00:31:08.300
 To pour out his grief.

00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:09.920
 Verse 20.

00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:11.860
 Then Job arose,

00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:13.480
 whether he was sat down or not,

00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:15.560
 or whether this arousal is emotions,

00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:17.700
 and he tore his robe,

00:31:18.320 --> 00:31:19.360
 shaved his head,

00:31:19.740 --> 00:31:20.840
 and fell to the ground.

00:31:22.259 --> 00:31:23.600
 He was in grief.

00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:24.300
 He was in sorrow.

00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.400
 He was in terrible pain.

00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:27.340
 And we can't blame him for that, can we?

00:31:28.420 --> 00:31:31.960
 He tore his robe,

00:31:32.100 --> 00:31:32.820
 shaved his head,

00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:33.820
 fell to the ground,

00:31:34.140 --> 00:31:36.000
 and he demonstrated physically,

00:31:37.580 --> 00:31:38.140
 visibly,

00:31:38.380 --> 00:31:39.200
 and dramatically

00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.360
 the pain he was feeling inside.

00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:46.720
 Now many people,

00:31:46.800 --> 00:31:48.039
 and I find this hard to believe,

00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:49.300
 many people think

00:31:49.300 --> 00:31:50.880
 that believers,

00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:52.140
 children of God,

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.840
 shouldn't experience

00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:56.019
 or express grief.

00:31:56.019 --> 00:31:58.879
 But Job's example,

00:31:59.019 --> 00:31:59.339
 I think,

00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:00.480
 teaches us otherwise,

00:32:00.900 --> 00:32:01.420
 doesn't it?

00:32:02.339 --> 00:32:04.319
 Here was a godly man

00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:05.819
 who was also,

00:32:05.980 --> 00:32:06.139
 what,

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:07.559
 a grieving man.

00:32:08.180 --> 00:32:09.619
 A godly man is now

00:32:09.619 --> 00:32:11.160
 a grieving man.

00:32:11.819 --> 00:32:13.639
 And we get our first glimpse,

00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:14.200
 I believe,

00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:15.759
 into Job's integrity.

00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:21.519
 Because it says,

00:32:21.700 --> 00:32:22.819
 in verse 22,

00:32:24.220 --> 00:32:25.319
 in all this,

00:32:25.500 --> 00:32:27.039
 Job did not sin.

00:32:27.140 --> 00:32:27.759
 You know, folks,

00:32:28.220 --> 00:32:30.259
 it's not sin to grieve.

00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:32.660
 It's not sinful

00:32:32.660 --> 00:32:33.960
 to be sorrowful

00:32:33.960 --> 00:32:34.920
 and in pain

00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:36.879
 over some adversity

00:32:36.879 --> 00:32:37.640
 or trouble

00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:39.140
 or some things

00:32:39.140 --> 00:32:40.279
 that are happening to you.

00:32:40.339 --> 00:32:40.779
 It's not.

00:32:40.900 --> 00:32:41.720
 It's really not.

00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:41.799
 It's not.

00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:46.279
 You see,

00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:47.839
 we can have two responses

00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:48.680
 to trouble.

00:32:49.420 --> 00:32:50.579
 And I use this

00:32:50.579 --> 00:32:52.319
 simply for an example

00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:53.079
 because I know

00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:54.279
 you'll probably get into this

00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:54.859
 next week

00:32:54.859 --> 00:32:56.039
 or some other time.

00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:57.559
 Two responses

00:32:57.559 --> 00:32:58.299
 to trouble.

00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:59.140
 One,

00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:00.720
 we have Job's response

00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:01.319
 and the other,

00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:03.940
 we have Job's wife's response.

00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:04.980
 See,

00:33:05.059 --> 00:33:06.700
 Job's wife had a lot invested

00:33:06.700 --> 00:33:07.480
 in this family,

00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:08.019
 didn't she?

00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:08.700
 Man,

00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:10.059
 she'd carried 10 children

00:33:10.059 --> 00:33:10.799
 after all.

00:33:11.799 --> 00:33:13.339
 She had a lot invested.

00:33:13.339 --> 00:33:15.279
 She probably cared

00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:16.059
 for those animals

00:33:16.059 --> 00:33:16.899
 and loved them

00:33:16.899 --> 00:33:19.379
 as farmers' wives do.

00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:22.039
 But we see in verse 10

00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:23.039
 of chapter 2,

00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:24.839
 do you hold fast

00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:25.819
 to your integrity?

00:33:26.639 --> 00:33:27.779
 Curse God and die.

00:33:27.899 --> 00:33:28.079
 You see,

00:33:28.159 --> 00:33:29.059
 that's one reaction

00:33:29.059 --> 00:33:30.059
 to adversity.

00:33:33.139 --> 00:33:34.119
 I'd like to look

00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:35.500
 at another example here

00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:36.939
 and this is in 1 Samuel.

00:33:39.539 --> 00:33:41.199
 1 Samuel 30.

00:33:43.339 --> 00:33:45.519
 Two reactions

00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:48.419
 to adversity

00:33:48.419 --> 00:33:49.480
 and trouble.

00:33:50.679 --> 00:33:51.240
 Now this,

00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:52.059
 I don't know if you know

00:33:52.059 --> 00:33:52.980
 this story,

00:33:53.099 --> 00:33:54.199
 but David

00:33:54.199 --> 00:33:55.539
 in his attempt

00:33:55.539 --> 00:33:56.159
 to get away

00:33:56.159 --> 00:33:57.579
 from King Saul

00:33:57.579 --> 00:33:59.480
 has actually taken refuge

00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:00.819
 amongst the Philistines.

00:34:01.299 --> 00:34:02.119
 Can you believe that?

00:34:02.779 --> 00:34:03.959
 He's got so desperate,

00:34:04.639 --> 00:34:06.379
 he's hiding

00:34:06.379 --> 00:34:07.619
 amongst the Philistines

00:34:07.619 --> 00:34:08.840
 and the Philistines

00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:09.880
 are so taken up

00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:10.440
 with David,

00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:11.719
 they've given him a city.

00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:14.500
 Or a town

00:34:14.500 --> 00:34:15.599
 called Ziklag.

00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:20.099
 And to cut a long story short,

00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:21.500
 so David doesn't have

00:34:21.500 --> 00:34:22.959
 to fight against Israel

00:34:22.959 --> 00:34:23.599
 on the side

00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:24.899
 of the Philistines,

00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:27.299
 the king lets him off

00:34:27.299 --> 00:34:27.659
 and says,

00:34:27.739 --> 00:34:27.839
 look,

00:34:27.899 --> 00:34:28.779
 you can't do that.

00:34:28.859 --> 00:34:30.059
 We're not going to let you

00:34:30.059 --> 00:34:31.259
 come on our side

00:34:31.259 --> 00:34:32.439
 and fight your own people.

00:34:32.579 --> 00:34:33.359
 We don't trust you

00:34:33.359 --> 00:34:34.139
 enough for that.

00:34:34.659 --> 00:34:34.859
 So,

00:34:35.219 --> 00:34:36.219
 David and his men

00:34:36.219 --> 00:34:37.000
 set off

00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:38.579
 back to this town.

00:34:38.779 --> 00:34:39.139
 In verse,

00:34:39.359 --> 00:34:40.139
 chapter 30,

00:34:40.219 --> 00:34:40.719
 verse 1.

00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:42.059
 And when David

00:34:42.059 --> 00:34:42.679
 and his men

00:34:42.679 --> 00:34:43.679
 came to Ziklag

00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:44.819
 on the third day,

00:34:44.939 --> 00:34:45.879
 the Amalekites

00:34:45.879 --> 00:34:46.679
 had made a raid

00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:47.679
 against the Negev

00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:48.739
 and against Ziklag.

00:34:48.859 --> 00:34:49.939
 That's David's town.

00:34:51.179 --> 00:34:52.459
 And they had overcome

00:34:52.459 --> 00:34:53.000
 Ziklag

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:54.379
 and burnt it with fire

00:34:54.379 --> 00:34:55.379
 and taken captive

00:34:55.379 --> 00:34:55.939
 the women

00:34:55.939 --> 00:34:57.379
 and all who were in it,

00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:58.539
 both small and great.

00:34:58.939 --> 00:34:59.939
 They didn't kill them

00:34:59.939 --> 00:35:00.839
 but carried them off

00:35:00.839 --> 00:35:01.899
 and went on their way.

00:35:02.299 --> 00:35:03.019
 And when David

00:35:03.019 --> 00:35:03.679
 and his men

00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:04.699
 came to this city,

00:35:04.779 --> 00:35:05.419
 they found it

00:35:05.419 --> 00:35:06.419
 burned with fire

00:35:06.419 --> 00:35:07.500
 and their wives

00:35:07.500 --> 00:35:08.000
 and sons

00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:08.619
 and daughters

00:35:08.619 --> 00:35:09.599
 taken captive.

00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:10.079
 Okay,

00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:11.679
 adversity rolls in.

00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:13.139
 Then David

00:35:13.139 --> 00:35:13.880
 and the people

00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:14.659
 who were with him

00:35:14.659 --> 00:35:15.759
 raised their voices

00:35:15.759 --> 00:35:16.480
 and wept

00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:17.440
 until they had

00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:18.519
 no more strength

00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:19.319
 to weep.

00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:21.599
 An appropriate reaction,

00:35:21.699 --> 00:35:22.299
 wouldn't you say?

00:35:22.799 --> 00:35:23.940
 An expected reaction

00:35:23.940 --> 00:35:25.940
 to this disaster

00:35:26.819 --> 00:35:28.319
 that has taken place.

00:35:28.819 --> 00:35:29.759
 And that's what we see

00:35:29.759 --> 00:35:30.480
 Job doing.

00:35:30.739 --> 00:35:32.219
 He ripped his outer garment,

00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:33.819
 he shaved his head

00:35:33.819 --> 00:35:35.139
 and he fell down

00:35:35.139 --> 00:35:35.880
 on the ground

00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:36.819
 and he probably

00:35:36.819 --> 00:35:37.920
 wept a bucket load

00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:38.519
 of tears

00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:39.180
 and that's an

00:35:39.180 --> 00:35:40.680
 appropriate response.

00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:42.740
 But the problem is

00:35:42.740 --> 00:35:44.000
 is when we leave it there.

00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:45.760
 The problem is

00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:46.300
 when that is

00:35:46.300 --> 00:35:47.659
 our only response.

00:35:48.860 --> 00:35:49.780
 Because if we go

00:35:49.780 --> 00:35:50.760
 to verse 6

00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:52.440
 in chapter 30

00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:53.300
 it says this,

00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:54.440
 And David

00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:55.980
 was greatly distressed

00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:56.639
 for the people

00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:58.320
 spoke of stoning him

00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:59.800
 for all the people

00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:00.500
 were bitter

00:36:00.500 --> 00:36:01.880
 in soul.

00:36:02.019 --> 00:36:02.260
 You see,

00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:03.240
 that's one reaction

00:36:03.240 --> 00:36:04.059
 to adversity.

00:36:04.260 --> 00:36:05.059
 We become bitter

00:36:05.059 --> 00:36:06.380
 in our souls

00:36:06.380 --> 00:36:07.179
 and our hearts.

00:36:07.279 --> 00:36:08.119
 We start to shake

00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:09.320
 our fist at God

00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:10.380
 and those who

00:36:10.380 --> 00:36:11.440
 are causing us

00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:12.539
 so much problems

00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:13.719
 and bitterness

00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:14.699
 takes over

00:36:14.699 --> 00:36:16.480
 in our hearts.

00:36:17.179 --> 00:36:17.980
 But we see

00:36:17.980 --> 00:36:19.000
 an opposite reaction

00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:19.639
 from David,

00:36:19.779 --> 00:36:20.099
 don't we?

00:36:21.539 --> 00:36:22.440
 And David

00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:23.759
 was greatly distressed

00:36:23.759 --> 00:36:24.320
 for the people

00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:25.559
 spoke of stoning him

00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:26.840
 because all the people

00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:27.820
 were bitter in soul

00:36:27.820 --> 00:36:28.779
 each for his own

00:36:28.779 --> 00:36:29.599
 sons and daughters.

00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:30.400
 But,

00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:31.719
 and I love that word

00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:32.119
 but,

00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:32.739
 it's a word

00:36:32.739 --> 00:36:33.719
 of contrast.

00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:35.859
 It's a contrasting word.

00:36:36.579 --> 00:36:37.399
 It opens the door

00:36:37.399 --> 00:36:38.579
 to something greater.

00:36:39.319 --> 00:36:39.339
 But,

00:36:39.939 --> 00:36:40.339
 David

00:36:40.339 --> 00:36:42.299
 strengthened himself

00:36:42.299 --> 00:36:43.539
 in the Lord

00:36:43.539 --> 00:36:45.039
 his God.

00:36:45.319 --> 00:36:45.939
 Praise the Lord

00:36:45.939 --> 00:36:46.519
 for that.

00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:48.259
 That is encouraging.

00:36:49.139 --> 00:36:49.439
 You see,

00:36:49.539 --> 00:36:50.319
 we all face

00:36:50.319 --> 00:36:50.919
 adversity,

00:36:51.099 --> 00:36:51.819
 we will face

00:36:51.819 --> 00:36:52.219
 trouble

00:36:52.219 --> 00:36:53.619
 and we will

00:36:53.619 --> 00:36:54.619
 all

00:36:54.619 --> 00:36:55.459
 grieve

00:36:55.459 --> 00:36:56.259
 and sorrow.

00:36:56.839 --> 00:36:58.039
 But what after that?

00:36:58.919 --> 00:36:59.679
 Do we remain

00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:00.480
 in that grief

00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:01.099
 and sorrow

00:37:01.099 --> 00:37:01.779
 and bitterness

00:37:01.779 --> 00:37:02.599
 takes root

00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:03.319
 in our hearts?

00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:04.420
 Or do we find

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:05.159
 strength

00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:06.119
 in the Lord

00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:07.179
 our God?

00:37:07.759 --> 00:37:08.599
 Just as David

00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:09.019
 did.

00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:10.500
 Though the fig tree

00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:11.619
 does not blossom,

00:37:11.860 --> 00:37:12.639
 though there be

00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:13.400
 no what?

00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:15.159
 Do we know that one?

00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:16.019
 I can't remember it.

00:37:16.059 --> 00:37:16.799
 Let's have a look.

00:37:16.860 --> 00:37:17.579
 It's in Habakkuk.

00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:17.860
 Anyway.

00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:19.559
 Though the fig tree

00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:20.639
 does not blossom,

00:37:20.980 --> 00:37:21.500
 nor fruit

00:37:21.500 --> 00:37:22.420
 beyond the vines,

00:37:22.819 --> 00:37:23.599
 the produce

00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:24.659
 of the olive

00:37:24.659 --> 00:37:25.099
 fail,

00:37:25.179 --> 00:37:25.799
 and the fields

00:37:25.799 --> 00:37:27.360
 yield no food,

00:37:27.659 --> 00:37:28.279
 the flock

00:37:28.279 --> 00:37:28.920
 be cut off

00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:29.779
 from the fold,

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:30.659
 and there be

00:37:30.659 --> 00:37:31.279
 no herd

00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:32.000
 in the stalls,

00:37:32.160 --> 00:37:32.920
 oh woe is me.

00:37:33.720 --> 00:37:34.700
 I have absolutely

00:37:34.700 --> 00:37:35.640
 nothing left.

00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:38.580
 Yet will I rejoice

00:37:38.580 --> 00:37:39.440
 in the Lord.

00:37:39.560 --> 00:37:40.700
 I will take joy

00:37:40.700 --> 00:37:42.100
 in the God

00:37:42.100 --> 00:37:43.720
 of my salvation.

00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:45.540
 God the Lord

00:37:45.540 --> 00:37:46.780
 is my strength.

00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:47.060
 Amen?

00:37:48.060 --> 00:37:49.180
 Shall we say that together?

00:37:49.260 --> 00:37:49.860
 Let me hear you.

00:37:50.180 --> 00:37:51.519
 God the Lord

00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:53.480
 is my strength.

00:37:53.560 --> 00:37:54.000
 And again,

00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:55.340
 God the Lord

00:37:55.340 --> 00:37:57.060
 is my strength.

00:37:57.140 --> 00:37:57.940
 Do you believe that?

00:37:58.860 --> 00:37:59.560
 Do you believe it?

00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:00.880
 God the Lord

00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:00.880


00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:02.179
 Because we need

00:38:02.179 --> 00:38:03.320
 to have our hearts

00:38:03.320 --> 00:38:04.219
 and our minds

00:38:04.219 --> 00:38:05.860
 anchored on God

00:38:05.860 --> 00:38:07.500
 and His strength

00:38:07.500 --> 00:38:09.079
 for when those billows

00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:10.199
 start rolling in.

00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:12.139
 When the billows

00:38:12.139 --> 00:38:12.679
 roll in

00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:13.599
 is not the time

00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:14.599
 to start and think

00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:15.860
 about having an anchor.

00:38:16.860 --> 00:38:18.400
 It needs to be done now

00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:19.920
 when peace like a river

00:38:19.920 --> 00:38:21.619
 attends my soul.

00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:23.599
 So that when the billows

00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:24.920
 of sorrow roll in,

00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:25.700
 we can say

00:38:25.700 --> 00:38:27.220
 it is well

00:38:27.220 --> 00:38:30.019
 with my soul.

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:33.940
 You know,

00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:34.800
 for Job

00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:35.740
 it was more than

00:38:35.740 --> 00:38:36.740
 and I don't know

00:38:36.740 --> 00:38:37.400
 I like to

00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:37.880
 I think

00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:38.559
 I thought of it

00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:39.139
 like this

00:38:39.139 --> 00:38:40.019
 maybe someday

00:38:40.019 --> 00:38:41.099
 in the time of Job

00:38:41.099 --> 00:38:42.240
 had written a book

00:38:42.240 --> 00:38:43.920
 three steps

00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:45.460
 to deal with your grief.

00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:47.760
 Or maybe it's seven

00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:48.599
 I don't know.

00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:52.360
 You see,

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:53.519
 it was more than

00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:54.980
 a three step method

00:38:54.980 --> 00:38:56.739
 to end his grief.

00:38:57.199 --> 00:38:57.839
 Number one,

00:38:58.659 --> 00:38:59.539
 rip your clothes.

00:39:00.259 --> 00:39:01.179
 Number two,

00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:02.219
 shave your head.

00:39:02.279 --> 00:39:02.960
 Not a problem.

00:39:04.019 --> 00:39:04.839
 Number three,

00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:06.500
 throw yourself down

00:39:06.500 --> 00:39:07.219
 on the ground.

00:39:07.219 --> 00:39:10.639
 But don't cut yourself

00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:12.099
 and don't do any tattoos.

00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:14.599
 You find the Old Testament

00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:15.699
 speaks about that

00:39:15.699 --> 00:39:16.519
 the heathen's way

00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:17.500
 of dealing with grief.

00:39:17.839 --> 00:39:18.719
 At least Job

00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:19.699
 didn't do that.

00:39:19.819 --> 00:39:20.739
 He didn't cut himself

00:39:20.739 --> 00:39:22.079
 or get any tattoos.

00:39:27.219 --> 00:39:27.819
 You know,

00:39:27.939 --> 00:39:28.959
 the Gende people

00:39:28.959 --> 00:39:29.599
 we used to

00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:31.859
 we had a ministry with

00:39:31.859 --> 00:39:32.899
 for many years.

00:39:34.279 --> 00:39:36.059
 After somebody died,

00:39:36.439 --> 00:39:36.659
 I mean,

00:39:36.659 --> 00:39:37.359
 they would throw

00:39:37.359 --> 00:39:38.420
 themselves on the ground.

00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:39.440
 They almost followed

00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:41.199
 this three step method.

00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:43.619
 They ripped their clothes

00:39:43.619 --> 00:39:44.679
 and they didn't shave

00:39:44.679 --> 00:39:45.059
 their head

00:39:45.059 --> 00:39:46.539
 but they got clay.

00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:48.039
 The whitest

00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:48.980
 or reddest clay

00:39:48.980 --> 00:39:49.460
 and they just

00:39:49.460 --> 00:39:50.619
 rubbed it all over

00:39:50.619 --> 00:39:52.079
 and if that wasn't enough

00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:52.460
 they would

00:39:52.460 --> 00:39:53.980
 roll in the ground

00:39:53.980 --> 00:39:54.379
 in mud

00:39:54.379 --> 00:39:54.940
 until they're

00:39:54.940 --> 00:39:56.079
 absolutely covered

00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:57.199
 from head to foot

00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:57.699
 in clay

00:39:57.699 --> 00:39:58.440
 and that was a way

00:39:58.440 --> 00:39:59.500
 of showing their grief

00:39:59.500 --> 00:40:01.719
 when somebody died.

00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:02.659
 And they could do that

00:40:02.659 --> 00:40:03.519
 for three days.

00:40:05.019 --> 00:40:05.219
 You know,

00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:06.099
 after three days

00:40:06.099 --> 00:40:06.759
 they used to make

00:40:06.759 --> 00:40:07.239
 a fire.

00:40:08.619 --> 00:40:09.539
 A big fire.

00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:10.980
 And somebody would

00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:12.259
 cut a length of bamboo.

00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:12.880
 Now, you know what

00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:13.480
 bamboo is?

00:40:14.659 --> 00:40:15.219
 I mean,

00:40:15.279 --> 00:40:15.759
 we're talking

00:40:15.759 --> 00:40:16.619
 big thick stuff

00:40:16.619 --> 00:40:17.259
 like this.

00:40:18.039 --> 00:40:18.699
 And somebody would

00:40:18.699 --> 00:40:19.259
 throw that

00:40:19.259 --> 00:40:20.019
 on the fire.

00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:22.960
 Don't do it at home.

00:40:24.420 --> 00:40:25.039
 Because that

00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:27.019
 little capsule

00:40:27.019 --> 00:40:28.860
 in that bamboo

00:40:28.860 --> 00:40:29.759
 when it gets hot

00:40:29.759 --> 00:40:30.480
 will expand

00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:31.139
 and there will be

00:40:31.139 --> 00:40:32.400
 an almighty explosion.

00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:33.099
 And that's what

00:40:33.099 --> 00:40:33.660
 they were after.

00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:35.400
 And they said

00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:36.200
 that when that

00:40:36.200 --> 00:40:37.519
 bamboo exploded

00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:39.480
 their grief

00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:40.039
 was gone.

00:40:42.160 --> 00:40:43.139
 But we know

00:40:43.139 --> 00:40:44.180
 and you know

00:40:44.180 --> 00:40:45.680
 that a little bit

00:40:45.680 --> 00:40:46.200
 of bamboo

00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:47.340
 exploding on a fire

00:40:47.340 --> 00:40:48.400
 does not get rid

00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:49.019
 of grief.

00:40:51.340 --> 00:40:52.160
 And we're able

00:40:52.160 --> 00:40:52.980
 to share that

00:40:52.980 --> 00:40:53.660
 with them.

00:40:55.660 --> 00:40:56.680
 And so Job

00:40:56.680 --> 00:40:57.780
 didn't just pour

00:40:57.780 --> 00:40:59.000
 out his grief.

00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.719
 Period.

00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:03.519
 He poured out

00:41:03.519 --> 00:41:04.159
 his grief

00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:05.239
 to God.

00:41:05.980 --> 00:41:06.500
 And that's the

00:41:06.500 --> 00:41:06.980
 difference.

00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:08.460
 That's the difference.

00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:12.179
 He poured out

00:41:12.179 --> 00:41:12.880
 his grief

00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:14.199
 to God.

00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:16.059
 And in doing so

00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:16.820
 he acknowledged

00:41:16.820 --> 00:41:17.639
 the greatness

00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:18.340
 of God.

00:41:18.820 --> 00:41:19.460
 And then Job

00:41:19.460 --> 00:41:20.400
 arose and tore

00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:20.900
 his robe,

00:41:21.019 --> 00:41:21.760
 shaved his head

00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:22.619
 and he fell

00:41:22.619 --> 00:41:23.380
 to the ground

00:41:23.380 --> 00:41:24.599
 and did what?

00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:26.320
 Moaned and groaned?

00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:27.760
 Took out his

00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:28.400
 cell phone

00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:28.920
 and checked

00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:29.660
 his social

00:41:29.660 --> 00:41:30.599
 to get his

00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:31.559
 mind off things?

00:41:31.680 --> 00:41:32.039
 No.

00:41:32.820 --> 00:41:33.740
 He worshipped

00:41:33.740 --> 00:41:34.340
 God.

00:41:35.059 --> 00:41:35.480
 You see he had

00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:36.139
 a relationship

00:41:36.139 --> 00:41:37.280
 with a person.

00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:40.480
 The tearing

00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:41.240
 of the clothes,

00:41:41.340 --> 00:41:41.840
 the shaving

00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:42.780
 of the head

00:41:42.780 --> 00:41:43.800
 and the falling

00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:44.519
 on the ground

00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:45.220
 was simply

00:41:45.220 --> 00:41:46.240
 a cultural way

00:41:46.240 --> 00:41:46.920
 of expressing

00:41:46.920 --> 00:41:47.360
 grief.

00:41:47.460 --> 00:41:47.980
 But there has

00:41:47.980 --> 00:41:48.800
 to be more

00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.340
 so that bitterness

00:41:50.340 --> 00:41:51.460
 doesn't set in.

00:41:53.260 --> 00:41:54.260
 He poured

00:41:54.260 --> 00:41:54.840
 his grief

00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:55.820
 out to God

00:41:55.820 --> 00:41:57.200
 and if

00:41:57.200 --> 00:41:57.920
 pouring his

00:41:57.920 --> 00:41:58.740
 grief out

00:41:58.740 --> 00:41:59.320
 was the

00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:00.740
 expected result

00:42:00.740 --> 00:42:01.920
 then what he

00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:02.620
 did next

00:42:02.620 --> 00:42:03.340
 I would say

00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:03.920
 was the

00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:04.980
 quite unexpected

00:42:04.980 --> 00:42:05.920
 result.

00:42:06.019 --> 00:42:06.260
 Right?

00:42:07.140 --> 00:42:07.980
 He poured

00:42:07.980 --> 00:42:08.920
 out his grief

00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:10.920
 and he worshipped

00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:12.039
 God.

00:42:12.160 --> 00:42:12.680
 Wow!

00:42:13.460 --> 00:42:14.360
 Another pause

00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:15.039
 for effect.

00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:16.480
 Wow!

00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:16.580
 Wow!

00:42:16.579 --> 00:42:22.639
 He acknowledged

00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:23.360
 the greatness

00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:23.940
 of God.

00:42:25.259 --> 00:42:26.119
 He acknowledged

00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:26.759
 the greatness

00:42:26.759 --> 00:42:27.340
 of God.

00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:28.259
 He actually

00:42:28.259 --> 00:42:28.980
 worshipped

00:42:28.980 --> 00:42:29.480
 God

00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:30.539
 in his

00:42:30.539 --> 00:42:31.000
 grief.

00:42:31.139 --> 00:42:31.340
 Are you

00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:31.819
 kidding me

00:42:31.819 --> 00:42:32.159
 Job?

00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:34.739
 He's a

00:42:34.739 --> 00:42:35.159
 better man

00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:35.699
 than I am.

00:42:36.139 --> 00:42:36.719
 Probably a

00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:37.119
 better man

00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:37.519
 than you

00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:38.980
 or woman

00:42:38.980 --> 00:42:40.319
 than you

00:42:40.319 --> 00:42:40.559
 are.

00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:42.940
 not only

00:42:42.940 --> 00:42:43.239
 did he

00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:43.639
 acknowledge

00:42:43.639 --> 00:42:44.400
 the greatness

00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:45.099
 of God

00:42:45.099 --> 00:42:45.920
 he considered

00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:46.699
 the goodness

00:42:46.699 --> 00:42:47.519
 of God.

00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:48.219
 He considered

00:42:48.219 --> 00:42:48.739
 the goodness

00:42:48.739 --> 00:42:49.179
 of God

00:42:49.179 --> 00:42:49.500
 didn't he?

00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:50.239
 Verse 21

00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:51.199
 and he said

00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:52.119
 naked I came

00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:52.519
 from my

00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:53.199
 mother's womb

00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:54.099
 and naked

00:42:54.099 --> 00:42:54.639
 I shall

00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:55.219
 return

00:42:55.219 --> 00:42:56.039
 the Lord

00:42:56.039 --> 00:42:56.599
 gave

00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:57.219
 and the

00:42:57.219 --> 00:42:57.579
 Lord has

00:42:57.579 --> 00:42:58.299
 taken away

00:42:58.299 --> 00:42:58.799
 blessed

00:42:58.799 --> 00:42:59.980
 be the

00:42:59.980 --> 00:43:00.380
 name

00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:00.840
 of the

00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:01.099
 Lord.

00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:01.299
 He

00:43:01.299 --> 00:43:01.880
 recognized

00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:02.460
 that his

00:43:02.460 --> 00:43:02.860
 loss

00:43:02.860 --> 00:43:03.539
 resembled

00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:03.799
 his

00:43:03.799 --> 00:43:04.320
 birth

00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:05.960
 and also

00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:06.279
 his

00:43:06.279 --> 00:43:06.880
 death.

00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:08.139
 He had

00:43:08.139 --> 00:43:08.360
 been

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:09.000
 naked at

00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:09.299
 birth

00:43:09.299 --> 00:43:09.599
 and he

00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:09.960
 would be

00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:10.639
 naked at

00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:11.059
 death.

00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:12.800
 Similarly

00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:13.400
 now he

00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:13.720
 was

00:43:13.720 --> 00:43:15.000
 figuratively

00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:16.139
 naked.

00:43:17.340 --> 00:43:17.920
 Now I

00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:18.260
 don't know

00:43:18.260 --> 00:43:18.740
 about you

00:43:18.740 --> 00:43:19.059
 but it

00:43:19.059 --> 00:43:19.320
 says

00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:20.000
 naked I

00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:20.480
 came from

00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:20.720
 my

00:43:20.720 --> 00:43:21.159
 mother's

00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:21.440
 womb

00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:22.380
 and naked

00:43:22.380 --> 00:43:22.900
 I shall

00:43:22.900 --> 00:43:23.500
 return.

00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:23.880
 Oh we

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:24.119
 have a

00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:24.400
 problem

00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:24.679
 here

00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:24.880
 don't

00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:25.079
 we?

00:43:26.519 --> 00:43:27.220
 Is it

00:43:27.220 --> 00:43:27.639
 possible

00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:28.059
 that when

00:43:28.059 --> 00:43:28.539
 we die

00:43:28.539 --> 00:43:29.440
 we return

00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:29.880
 back to

00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:30.059
 our

00:43:30.059 --> 00:43:30.420
 mother's

00:43:30.420 --> 00:43:30.559
 womb?

00:43:30.659 --> 00:43:31.019
 Well not

00:43:31.019 --> 00:43:31.500
 physically

00:43:31.500 --> 00:43:31.900
 not

00:43:31.900 --> 00:43:32.800
 literally

00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:33.300
 no.

00:43:35.579 --> 00:43:36.539
 But actually

00:43:36.539 --> 00:43:37.659
 this phrase

00:43:37.659 --> 00:43:38.360
 naked I

00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:38.659
 shall

00:43:38.659 --> 00:43:39.340
 return

00:43:39.340 --> 00:43:41.700
 it

00:43:41.700 --> 00:43:42.400
 refers to

00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:43.220
 returning

00:43:43.220 --> 00:43:43.900
 back to

00:43:43.900 --> 00:43:44.420
 the earth

00:43:44.420 --> 00:43:44.940
 because the

00:43:44.940 --> 00:43:45.539
 earth was

00:43:45.539 --> 00:43:46.480
 often seen

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:47.300
 in these

00:43:47.300 --> 00:43:48.460
 ancient cultures

00:43:48.460 --> 00:43:49.640
 as being

00:43:49.640 --> 00:43:50.240
 mother.

00:43:50.900 --> 00:43:51.240
 I mean we

00:43:51.240 --> 00:43:51.640
 talk about

00:43:51.640 --> 00:43:52.260
 mother earth

00:43:52.260 --> 00:43:53.019
 these days.

00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:55.420
 Some

00:43:55.420 --> 00:43:56.240
 translate it

00:43:56.240 --> 00:43:57.320
 as I

00:43:57.320 --> 00:43:58.079
 will return

00:43:58.079 --> 00:43:58.500
 or I

00:43:58.500 --> 00:43:59.240
 will depart

00:43:59.240 --> 00:44:00.260
 so the

00:44:00.260 --> 00:44:00.860
 earth is

00:44:00.860 --> 00:44:01.680
 likened to

00:44:01.680 --> 00:44:02.720
 a mother's

00:44:02.720 --> 00:44:03.160
 womb.

00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:04.280
 And the

00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:04.700
 psalmist

00:44:04.700 --> 00:44:05.720
 says that

00:44:05.720 --> 00:44:06.160
 doesn't he

00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:06.500
 in Psalm

00:44:06.500 --> 00:44:07.519
 139

00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:08.219
 my frame

00:44:08.219 --> 00:44:08.659
 was not

00:44:08.659 --> 00:44:08.899
 hidden

00:44:08.899 --> 00:44:09.500
 from you

00:44:09.500 --> 00:44:10.359
 when I

00:44:10.359 --> 00:44:11.219
 was being

00:44:11.219 --> 00:44:11.859
 made in

00:44:11.859 --> 00:44:12.379
 secret

00:44:12.379 --> 00:44:13.399
 intricately

00:44:13.399 --> 00:44:13.920
 woven

00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:14.759
 in the

00:44:14.759 --> 00:44:15.219
 depths

00:44:15.219 --> 00:44:16.059
 of the

00:44:16.059 --> 00:44:16.519
 earth.

00:44:16.619 --> 00:44:16.980
 So this

00:44:16.980 --> 00:44:17.440
 mother's

00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:17.639
 womb

00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:18.239
 becomes a

00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:18.679
 picture

00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:19.779
 man is

00:44:19.779 --> 00:44:20.219
 made from

00:44:20.219 --> 00:44:20.819
 the dust

00:44:20.819 --> 00:44:21.460
 he will

00:44:21.460 --> 00:44:22.019
 return to

00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:22.399
 dust.

00:44:23.779 --> 00:44:24.139
 He's

00:44:24.139 --> 00:44:24.639
 born of

00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:25.059
 a woman

00:44:25.059 --> 00:44:25.899
 but he's

00:44:25.899 --> 00:44:26.339
 returned

00:44:26.339 --> 00:44:27.259
 back to

00:44:27.259 --> 00:44:27.960
 the earth.

00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:29.420
 So whatever

00:44:29.420 --> 00:44:29.819
 these

00:44:29.819 --> 00:44:31.480
 phrases mean

00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:32.500
 I think the

00:44:32.500 --> 00:44:33.239
 message is

00:44:33.239 --> 00:44:33.879
 clear and

00:44:33.879 --> 00:44:34.519
 plain don't

00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:34.699
 you.

00:44:36.340 --> 00:44:37.440
 We can't

00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:37.940
 take it

00:44:37.940 --> 00:44:38.380
 with us

00:44:38.380 --> 00:44:38.800
 when we

00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:39.300
 die.

00:44:39.659 --> 00:44:40.099
 If you

00:44:40.099 --> 00:44:40.380
 don't get

00:44:40.380 --> 00:44:41.079
 anything else

00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:41.539
 from this

00:44:41.539 --> 00:44:42.119
 message this

00:44:42.119 --> 00:44:42.780
 morning remember

00:44:42.780 --> 00:44:43.440
 this you

00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:44.179
 cannot take

00:44:44.179 --> 00:44:44.559
 it with

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:45.380
 you when

00:44:45.380 --> 00:44:45.880
 you die.

00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:48.119
 You know

00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:48.380
 and all

00:44:48.380 --> 00:44:49.079
 those pictures

00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:49.719
 and jokes

00:44:49.719 --> 00:44:50.719
 about U-Haul

00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:52.480
 trailers and

00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:53.460
 no trailer

00:44:53.460 --> 00:44:54.179
 hitches on

00:44:54.179 --> 00:44:54.719
 the back of

00:44:54.719 --> 00:44:56.139
 hearses and

00:44:56.139 --> 00:44:56.900
 no pockets

00:44:56.900 --> 00:44:58.199
 in shrouds.

00:44:58.659 --> 00:44:59.099
 Well there

00:44:59.099 --> 00:45:00.000
 may be jokes

00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:00.519
 and there may

00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:00.920
 be little

00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:01.579
 slogans but

00:45:01.579 --> 00:45:02.179
 they're true.

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:03.900
 We cannot

00:45:03.900 --> 00:45:04.480
 take it

00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:04.880
 with us

00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:05.660
 when we

00:45:05.660 --> 00:45:06.119
 die.

00:45:07.619 --> 00:45:08.240
 Hold on

00:45:08.240 --> 00:45:08.980
 to stuff

00:45:08.980 --> 00:45:09.980
 lightly.

00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:11.660
 Hold on

00:45:11.660 --> 00:45:11.940
 to it

00:45:11.940 --> 00:45:12.440
 lightly.

00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:14.079
 We're only

00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:15.079
 stewards after

00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:15.660
 all of

00:45:15.660 --> 00:45:16.019
 God's

00:45:16.019 --> 00:45:16.280
 goods

00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:16.900
 gifts.

00:45:19.559 --> 00:45:20.240
 Hold

00:45:20.240 --> 00:45:20.740
 what I

00:45:20.740 --> 00:45:21.460
 hold

00:45:21.460 --> 00:45:22.079
 what I

00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:22.579
 have of

00:45:22.579 --> 00:45:23.000
 God

00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:24.079
 in trust

00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:25.079
 for God.

00:45:26.780 --> 00:45:27.420
 See

00:45:27.420 --> 00:45:27.840
 everything

00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:28.840
 Job had

00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:29.920
 he knew

00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:30.240
 and he

00:45:30.240 --> 00:45:31.000
 recognized

00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:31.619
 that God

00:45:31.619 --> 00:45:32.619
 had given

00:45:32.619 --> 00:45:32.960
 him.

00:45:33.059 --> 00:45:33.440
 The Lord

00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:34.000
 gave

00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:35.579
 and the

00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:36.179
 Lord can

00:45:36.179 --> 00:45:36.859
 take away

00:45:36.859 --> 00:45:37.380
 blessed

00:45:37.380 --> 00:45:38.299
 be the

00:45:38.299 --> 00:45:38.699
 name

00:45:38.699 --> 00:45:39.500
 of the

00:45:39.500 --> 00:45:39.960
 Lord.

00:45:40.339 --> 00:45:40.679
 You see

00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:41.219
 for Job

00:45:41.219 --> 00:45:41.739
 it wasn't

00:45:41.739 --> 00:45:42.119
 oh I

00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:42.599
 have worked

00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:43.880
 so hard

00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:45.039
 and the

00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:45.980
 Sabians

00:45:45.980 --> 00:45:46.579
 have taken

00:45:46.579 --> 00:45:47.059
 away.

00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:48.759
 He didn't

00:45:48.759 --> 00:45:49.259
 even say

00:45:49.259 --> 00:45:49.819
 I've worked

00:45:49.819 --> 00:45:50.579
 so hard

00:45:50.579 --> 00:45:51.440
 and the

00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:51.980
 fire of

00:45:51.980 --> 00:45:52.480
 God has

00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:53.019
 taken it

00:45:53.019 --> 00:45:53.500
 away or

00:45:53.500 --> 00:45:53.639
 the

00:45:53.639 --> 00:45:54.440
 Chaldeans

00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:55.319
 or even

00:45:55.319 --> 00:45:55.839
 the great

00:45:55.839 --> 00:45:56.679
 wind has

00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:57.259
 taken it

00:45:57.259 --> 00:45:57.579
 away.

00:45:58.420 --> 00:45:59.079
 He didn't

00:45:59.079 --> 00:45:59.619
 even say

00:45:59.619 --> 00:46:00.139
 the Lord

00:46:00.139 --> 00:46:00.880
 gave

00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:01.719
 and the

00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:02.239
 Sabians

00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:03.059
 and Chaldeans

00:46:03.059 --> 00:46:03.599
 have taken

00:46:03.599 --> 00:46:04.159
 it away.

00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:05.079
 The fire

00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:05.400
 and the

00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:05.900
 wind have

00:46:05.900 --> 00:46:06.500
 taken it

00:46:06.500 --> 00:46:06.880
 away.

00:46:07.380 --> 00:46:07.559
 He

00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:08.380
 considered

00:46:08.380 --> 00:46:09.539
 not only

00:46:09.539 --> 00:46:10.319
 the direct

00:46:10.319 --> 00:46:11.000
 causes

00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:12.420
 the wind

00:46:12.420 --> 00:46:12.799
 and the

00:46:12.799 --> 00:46:13.239
 Sabians

00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:13.619
 and the

00:46:13.619 --> 00:46:14.099
 Chaldeans

00:46:14.099 --> 00:46:14.659
 but he

00:46:14.659 --> 00:46:15.599
 also saw

00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:16.460
 behind that

00:46:16.460 --> 00:46:17.460
 the sovereignty

00:46:17.460 --> 00:46:19.039
 and total

00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:19.719
 control

00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:20.940
 of God

00:46:20.940 --> 00:46:21.719
 in all

00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:22.519
 circumstances.

00:46:26.219 --> 00:46:26.699
 And in

00:46:26.699 --> 00:46:27.559
 this we

00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:28.099
 see that

00:46:28.099 --> 00:46:28.619
 Job

00:46:28.619 --> 00:46:29.419
 remained

00:46:29.419 --> 00:46:30.219
 blameless

00:46:30.219 --> 00:46:31.239
 before God

00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:32.259
 verse 22

00:46:32.259 --> 00:46:33.179
 in all

00:46:33.179 --> 00:46:34.119
 this Job

00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:34.919
 did not

00:46:34.919 --> 00:46:35.439
 sin.

00:46:36.699 --> 00:46:36.980
 He

00:46:36.980 --> 00:46:37.539
 maintained

00:46:37.539 --> 00:46:37.839
 his

00:46:37.839 --> 00:46:38.539
 integrity

00:46:38.539 --> 00:46:40.039
 before God

00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:40.339
 didn't

00:46:40.339 --> 00:46:40.619
 he?

00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:43.239
 In all

00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:43.579
 this

00:46:43.579 --> 00:46:44.099
 everything

00:46:44.099 --> 00:46:44.819
 he faced

00:46:44.819 --> 00:46:45.539
 and everything

00:46:45.539 --> 00:46:46.359
 he said

00:46:46.359 --> 00:46:47.000
 Job

00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:47.639
 did not

00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:48.339
 sin.

00:46:49.059 --> 00:46:49.379
 That

00:46:49.379 --> 00:46:49.819
 included

00:46:49.819 --> 00:46:50.219
 having

00:46:50.219 --> 00:46:50.859
 grief

00:46:50.859 --> 00:46:52.099
 being

00:46:52.099 --> 00:46:52.599
 grieved

00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:53.139
 and pain

00:46:53.139 --> 00:46:54.099
 for what

00:46:54.099 --> 00:46:54.699
 was happening.

00:46:55.460 --> 00:46:55.579
 You know

00:46:55.579 --> 00:46:55.939
 it kind

00:46:55.940 --> 00:46:56.519
 of reminds

00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:56.820
 me of

00:46:56.820 --> 00:46:57.000
 some

00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:57.179
 New

00:46:57.179 --> 00:46:57.559
 Testament

00:46:57.559 --> 00:46:58.139
 verses

00:46:58.139 --> 00:46:59.260
 1 Corinthians

00:46:59.260 --> 00:47:00.280
 10 31

00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:01.480
 whether you

00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:02.099
 eat or

00:47:02.099 --> 00:47:02.900
 drink or

00:47:02.900 --> 00:47:03.539
 whatever you

00:47:03.539 --> 00:47:04.039
 do

00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:04.780
 man that

00:47:04.780 --> 00:47:05.079
 covers

00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:05.559
 everything

00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:06.039
 doesn't it?

00:47:07.059 --> 00:47:07.539
 Whether you

00:47:07.539 --> 00:47:08.059
 eat or

00:47:08.059 --> 00:47:08.579
 drink or

00:47:08.579 --> 00:47:09.280
 whatever you

00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:09.700
 do

00:47:09.700 --> 00:47:10.460
 do all

00:47:10.460 --> 00:47:10.920
 to what?

00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:11.619
 To the

00:47:11.619 --> 00:47:12.240
 glory of

00:47:12.240 --> 00:47:12.619
 God.

00:47:13.720 --> 00:47:14.119
 And I

00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:14.559
 believe that's

00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:15.280
 what Job

00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:15.720
 did at

00:47:15.720 --> 00:47:16.220
 this time.

00:47:18.820 --> 00:47:19.639
 In all

00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:20.220
 this Job

00:47:20.220 --> 00:47:20.760
 did not

00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:21.039
 sin.

00:47:21.139 --> 00:47:21.320
 Whatever

00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:22.000
 you do

00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:22.460
 in word

00:47:22.460 --> 00:47:22.920
 or deed

00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:23.659
 do everything

00:47:23.659 --> 00:47:24.420
 in the

00:47:24.420 --> 00:47:24.800
 name of

00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:25.240
 the Lord

00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:26.239
 Jesus Christ

00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:26.799
 Colossians

00:47:26.799 --> 00:47:27.519
 3 17

00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:28.159
 giving

00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:28.719
 thanks to

00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:29.059
 God the

00:47:29.059 --> 00:47:29.339
 Father

00:47:29.339 --> 00:47:30.059
 through him.

00:47:30.439 --> 00:47:30.779
 So he

00:47:30.779 --> 00:47:31.279
 remained

00:47:31.279 --> 00:47:31.839
 blameless.

00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:32.579
 He maintained

00:47:32.579 --> 00:47:33.339
 his integrity

00:47:33.339 --> 00:47:34.619
 but he also

00:47:34.619 --> 00:47:35.619
 refused to

00:47:35.619 --> 00:47:36.439
 blame God.

00:47:36.539 --> 00:47:37.099
 He didn't

00:47:37.099 --> 00:47:38.099
 engage in

00:47:38.099 --> 00:47:38.819
 this blame

00:47:38.819 --> 00:47:39.439
 game.

00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:41.199
 Now many

00:47:41.199 --> 00:47:41.979
 people do

00:47:41.979 --> 00:47:43.199
 when adversity

00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:43.959
 comes.

00:47:44.559 --> 00:47:45.000
 Neither did

00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:45.679
 he blame the

00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:46.359
 Sabeans

00:47:46.359 --> 00:47:47.379
 or the

00:47:47.379 --> 00:47:48.259
 Chaldeans

00:47:48.259 --> 00:47:49.119
 and he

00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:49.619
 didn't blame

00:47:49.619 --> 00:47:50.279
 the government

00:47:50.279 --> 00:47:50.899
 because of

00:47:50.899 --> 00:47:51.379
 their lack

00:47:51.379 --> 00:47:52.099
 of concern

00:47:52.099 --> 00:47:52.979
 about climate

00:47:52.980 --> 00:47:53.719
 change

00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:54.460
 in the

00:47:54.460 --> 00:47:54.860
 fact that

00:47:54.860 --> 00:47:55.619
 fire could

00:47:55.619 --> 00:47:56.500
 come and

00:47:56.500 --> 00:47:57.179
 burn up all

00:47:57.179 --> 00:47:57.719
 his sheep

00:47:57.719 --> 00:47:58.059
 and his

00:47:58.059 --> 00:47:58.639
 shepherds

00:47:58.639 --> 00:47:59.260
 and a

00:47:59.260 --> 00:48:00.019
 massive wind

00:48:00.019 --> 00:48:00.559
 could come

00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:01.000
 like he'd

00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:01.579
 never be

00:48:01.579 --> 00:48:02.400
 seen before

00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:03.380
 and although

00:48:03.380 --> 00:48:04.059
 their house

00:48:04.059 --> 00:48:04.619
 was built

00:48:04.619 --> 00:48:05.219
 to building

00:48:05.219 --> 00:48:05.719
 codes

00:48:05.719 --> 00:48:06.480
 it still

00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:07.400
 fell down.

00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:08.880
 He didn't

00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:09.440
 play that

00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:10.260
 blame game.

00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:13.420
 He refused

00:48:13.420 --> 00:48:14.219
 to play it

00:48:14.219 --> 00:48:14.740
 it says

00:48:14.740 --> 00:48:15.900
 in all

00:48:15.900 --> 00:48:16.659
 this Job

00:48:16.659 --> 00:48:17.240
 did not

00:48:17.240 --> 00:48:18.240
 sin or

00:48:18.240 --> 00:48:19.159
 charge God

00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:20.159
 with any

00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:20.880
 wrong.

00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:23.720
 many times

00:48:23.720 --> 00:48:24.200
 we find

00:48:24.200 --> 00:48:24.640
 when we

00:48:24.640 --> 00:48:25.700
 in adversity

00:48:25.700 --> 00:48:26.519
 when those

00:48:26.519 --> 00:48:27.240
 billows of

00:48:27.240 --> 00:48:27.619
 sorrow

00:48:27.619 --> 00:48:28.360
 begin to

00:48:28.360 --> 00:48:29.700
 roll over

00:48:29.700 --> 00:48:30.140
 us we

00:48:30.140 --> 00:48:30.680
 begin to

00:48:30.680 --> 00:48:31.079
 blame

00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:31.760
 God

00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:32.240
 don't we

00:48:32.240 --> 00:48:34.140
 and blame

00:48:34.140 --> 00:48:34.619
 everything

00:48:34.619 --> 00:48:35.559
 for our

00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:36.280
 situation.

00:48:37.680 --> 00:48:38.440
 Now these

00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:38.820
 are good

00:48:38.820 --> 00:48:39.599
 examples

00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:41.440
 to us

00:48:41.440 --> 00:48:41.840
 should our

00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:42.200
 world

00:48:42.200 --> 00:48:42.960
 cave in

00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.180
 or should

00:48:45.180 --> 00:48:45.660
 we face

00:48:45.660 --> 00:48:46.340
 calamities

00:48:46.340 --> 00:48:46.920
 that are not

00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:47.920
 quite up to

00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:49.220
 this standard

00:48:49.219 --> 00:48:50.879
 but the

00:48:50.879 --> 00:48:51.899
 question still

00:48:51.899 --> 00:48:52.579
 remains

00:48:52.579 --> 00:48:53.059
 at least

00:48:53.059 --> 00:48:53.579
 in my

00:48:53.579 --> 00:48:54.099
 mind

00:48:54.099 --> 00:48:55.019
 how was

00:48:55.019 --> 00:48:55.459
 he able

00:48:55.459 --> 00:48:55.980
 to deal

00:48:55.980 --> 00:48:56.500
 with this

00:48:56.500 --> 00:48:56.799
 in the

00:48:56.799 --> 00:48:57.239
 way he

00:48:57.239 --> 00:48:57.719
 did.

00:48:58.619 --> 00:48:58.899
 We've

00:48:58.899 --> 00:48:59.099
 already

00:48:59.099 --> 00:48:59.459
 mentioned

00:48:59.459 --> 00:48:59.939
 he doesn't

00:48:59.939 --> 00:49:00.259
 have the

00:49:00.259 --> 00:49:00.899
 benefits and

00:49:00.899 --> 00:49:01.239
 blessings

00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:01.779
 that we

00:49:01.779 --> 00:49:02.239
 have.

00:49:03.299 --> 00:49:04.000
 How did

00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:04.399
 he deal

00:49:04.399 --> 00:49:04.779
 with it?

00:49:04.839 --> 00:49:05.480
 So by way

00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:06.279
 of application

00:49:06.279 --> 00:49:07.359
 I want to

00:49:07.359 --> 00:49:07.959
 think about

00:49:07.959 --> 00:49:08.459
 Job's

00:49:08.459 --> 00:49:09.019
 assurance

00:49:09.019 --> 00:49:10.059
 here and

00:49:10.059 --> 00:49:10.419
 we'll look

00:49:10.419 --> 00:49:10.799
 at three

00:49:10.799 --> 00:49:11.399
 statements

00:49:11.399 --> 00:49:12.179
 of faith

00:49:12.179 --> 00:49:13.059
 that give

00:49:13.059 --> 00:49:13.899
 us insight

00:49:13.899 --> 00:49:15.639
 into how

00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:16.339
 Job could

00:49:16.339 --> 00:49:17.199
 handle these

00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:17.759
 things.

00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:18.520
 And I

00:49:18.520 --> 00:49:18.940
 think it's

00:49:18.940 --> 00:49:19.560
 because he

00:49:19.560 --> 00:49:20.420
 knew something.

00:49:21.220 --> 00:49:21.660
 He had

00:49:21.660 --> 00:49:22.800
 knowledge about

00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:23.760
 God and he

00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:24.340
 had knowledge

00:49:24.340 --> 00:49:25.140
 about God's

00:49:25.140 --> 00:49:25.820
 ways.

00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:27.800
 And just

00:49:27.800 --> 00:49:28.440
 like us

00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:29.160
 Romans 8

00:49:29.160 --> 00:49:30.520
 28 says

00:49:30.520 --> 00:49:31.680
 and we

00:49:31.680 --> 00:49:32.400
 know

00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:34.460
 and we

00:49:34.460 --> 00:49:35.500
 know that

00:49:35.500 --> 00:49:36.160
 for those

00:49:36.160 --> 00:49:36.780
 who love

00:49:36.780 --> 00:49:37.780
 God all

00:49:37.780 --> 00:49:38.480
 things work

00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:39.520
 together for

00:49:39.520 --> 00:49:40.620
 good because

00:49:40.620 --> 00:49:41.180
 they're making

00:49:41.180 --> 00:49:41.840
 us more like

00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:42.600
 the Lord Jesus

00:49:42.600 --> 00:49:43.140
 Christ.

00:49:43.300 --> 00:49:43.760
 You see Job

00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:44.420
 knew something

00:49:44.420 --> 00:49:45.500
 we have to

00:49:45.500 --> 00:49:46.120
 know something

00:49:46.120 --> 00:49:46.540
 too.

00:49:46.539 --> 00:49:47.880
 that God

00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:48.400
 is working

00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:49.000
 things out

00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:49.440
 for our

00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:50.420
 good to

00:49:50.420 --> 00:49:50.820
 make us

00:49:50.820 --> 00:49:51.719
 more like

00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:52.159
 the Lord

00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:53.179
 Jesus Christ.

00:49:54.059 --> 00:49:54.739
 The first

00:49:54.739 --> 00:49:55.480
 statement then

00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:56.239
 and we'll just

00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:56.719
 look at these

00:49:56.719 --> 00:49:57.340
 real quickly.

00:49:57.579 --> 00:49:57.940
 We don't need

00:49:57.940 --> 00:49:58.579
 to spend much

00:49:58.579 --> 00:49:59.099
 time on them.

00:49:59.400 --> 00:49:59.820
 The first

00:49:59.820 --> 00:50:00.519
 statement of

00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:01.239
 faith is in

00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:02.079
 verse 15

00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:02.840
 of chapter

00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:03.559
 13.

00:50:05.219 --> 00:50:05.920
 Though he

00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:06.840
 slay me

00:50:06.840 --> 00:50:08.480
 yet will

00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:09.420
 I trust

00:50:09.420 --> 00:50:10.539
 in him.

00:50:11.539 --> 00:50:12.519
 Though he

00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:13.239
 slay me

00:50:13.239 --> 00:50:14.139
 yet will

00:50:14.139 --> 00:50:14.860
 I trust

00:50:14.860 --> 00:50:15.640
 in him.

00:50:15.780 --> 00:50:16.120
 I will

00:50:16.120 --> 00:50:16.599
 hope

00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:17.660
 in him.

00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:20.340
 To know

00:50:20.340 --> 00:50:20.680
 that we

00:50:20.680 --> 00:50:21.039
 have a

00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:21.340
 deep

00:50:21.340 --> 00:50:22.079
 unconditional

00:50:22.079 --> 00:50:23.400
 relationship

00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:24.420
 with the

00:50:24.420 --> 00:50:24.860
 God of

00:50:24.860 --> 00:50:25.440
 the universe

00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:26.220
 and we

00:50:26.220 --> 00:50:26.740
 can trust

00:50:26.740 --> 00:50:27.079
 him with

00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:27.820
 our lives.

00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:29.300
 That's what

00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:29.940
 got Job

00:50:29.940 --> 00:50:30.500
 through this

00:50:30.500 --> 00:50:31.140
 situation.

00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:32.599
 He

00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:33.059
 recognized.

00:50:33.260 --> 00:50:33.360
 I mean

00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:33.820
 what else

00:50:33.820 --> 00:50:34.360
 could happen

00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:34.980
 to Job?

00:50:35.240 --> 00:50:35.800
 He'd lost

00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:36.380
 everything.

00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:39.559
 His health

00:50:39.559 --> 00:50:40.340
 was gone

00:50:40.340 --> 00:50:41.860
 and yet

00:50:41.860 --> 00:50:42.240
 he could

00:50:42.240 --> 00:50:42.720
 say look

00:50:42.720 --> 00:50:43.260
 I'm trusting

00:50:43.260 --> 00:50:43.680
 God

00:50:43.680 --> 00:50:44.700
 and even

00:50:44.700 --> 00:50:45.079
 if he

00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:45.760
 slays me

00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:46.640
 I'm still

00:50:46.640 --> 00:50:47.420
 going to

00:50:47.420 --> 00:50:47.760
 keep

00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:48.400
 trusting

00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:49.000
 God.

00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:49.820
 And that's

00:50:49.820 --> 00:50:50.160
 what got

00:50:50.160 --> 00:50:50.600
 Job

00:50:50.600 --> 00:50:50.940
 through

00:50:50.940 --> 00:50:52.280
 this time

00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:52.640
 and it

00:50:52.640 --> 00:50:52.900
 will get

00:50:52.900 --> 00:50:53.460
 us through

00:50:53.460 --> 00:50:53.800
 too.

00:50:54.820 --> 00:50:55.260
 The second

00:50:55.260 --> 00:50:55.900
 statement of

00:50:55.900 --> 00:50:56.539
 faith is in

00:50:56.539 --> 00:50:57.300
 verse 19

00:50:57.300 --> 00:50:58.700
 verse 25

00:50:58.700 --> 00:50:59.740
 through 27.

00:51:01.820 --> 00:51:02.480
 And I

00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:02.840
 think these

00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:03.380
 verses are

00:51:03.380 --> 00:51:03.880
 amazing.

00:51:04.300 --> 00:51:04.860
 An amazing

00:51:04.860 --> 00:51:05.500
 statement.

00:51:06.300 --> 00:51:06.600
 And listen

00:51:06.600 --> 00:51:07.380
 Job was not

00:51:07.380 --> 00:51:08.120
 just making

00:51:08.120 --> 00:51:08.880
 a theological

00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:10.140
 statement here.

00:51:10.579 --> 00:51:11.099
 This was

00:51:11.099 --> 00:51:11.559
 from the

00:51:11.559 --> 00:51:12.099
 heart.

00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:14.599
 Job

00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:15.900
 chapter 19

00:51:15.900 --> 00:51:17.019
 verse 25

00:51:17.019 --> 00:51:17.480
 and I'm

00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:17.760
 going to

00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:18.660
 emphasize the

00:51:18.660 --> 00:51:19.700
 personal pronouns

00:51:19.700 --> 00:51:20.180
 here.

00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:21.940
 For I

00:51:21.940 --> 00:51:22.599
 know

00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:24.539
 that my

00:51:24.539 --> 00:51:25.760
 Redeemer

00:51:25.760 --> 00:51:27.059
 lives.

00:51:27.720 --> 00:51:28.160
 Wow this

00:51:28.160 --> 00:51:28.480
 is from

00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:28.880
 Job.

00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:29.500
 Right?

00:51:29.539 --> 00:51:29.900
 This is from

00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:30.360
 the book of

00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:30.740
 Job.

00:51:30.940 --> 00:51:31.360
 Not from

00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:31.660
 the New

00:51:31.660 --> 00:51:32.019
 Testament.

00:51:32.539 --> 00:51:33.440
 I know

00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:34.460
 that my

00:51:34.460 --> 00:51:35.360
 Redeemer

00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:36.200
 lives.

00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:36.539
 That's

00:51:36.539 --> 00:51:37.079
 fantastic.

00:51:37.300 --> 00:51:37.500
 Right?

00:51:37.500 --> 00:51:38.820
 And at

00:51:38.820 --> 00:51:39.460
 the last

00:51:39.460 --> 00:51:39.880
 he will

00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:40.739
 stand upon

00:51:40.739 --> 00:51:41.500
 the earth.

00:51:42.260 --> 00:51:43.219
 Yet in

00:51:43.219 --> 00:51:44.360
 my flesh

00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:45.659
 I will

00:51:45.659 --> 00:51:47.079
 see God.

00:51:48.360 --> 00:51:48.980
 See Job

00:51:48.980 --> 00:51:49.420
 had an

00:51:49.420 --> 00:51:50.199
 understanding

00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:50.980
 and knowledge

00:51:50.980 --> 00:51:51.920
 concerning the

00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:52.599
 Redeemer.

00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:53.800
 He had

00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:54.719
 knowledge and

00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:55.300
 understanding

00:51:55.300 --> 00:51:56.000
 concerning

00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:57.000
 redemption.

00:51:57.739 --> 00:51:58.199
 And he had

00:51:58.199 --> 00:51:58.760
 knowledge and

00:51:58.760 --> 00:51:59.360
 understanding

00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:00.239
 somehow about

00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:00.840
 the second

00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:01.440
 coming of

00:52:01.440 --> 00:52:01.820
 the Lord

00:52:01.820 --> 00:52:02.639
 Jesus Christ.

00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:03.159
 These are

00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:04.039
 things he

00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:04.559
 knew.

00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:05.300
 And they

00:52:05.300 --> 00:52:05.679
 made a

00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:06.400
 difference to

00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:06.800
 how he

00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:08.019
 handled this

00:52:08.019 --> 00:52:08.760
 adversity.

00:52:09.660 --> 00:52:10.460
 Whom I

00:52:10.460 --> 00:52:11.440
 shall see

00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:12.560
 for myself

00:52:12.560 --> 00:52:13.500
 and my

00:52:13.500 --> 00:52:14.120
 eyes shall

00:52:14.120 --> 00:52:14.840
 behold and

00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:15.420
 not another.

00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:16.720
 My heart

00:52:16.720 --> 00:52:17.400
 faints

00:52:17.400 --> 00:52:18.680
 within me.

00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:19.820
 So the

00:52:19.820 --> 00:52:20.480
 truth of

00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:21.140
 the Redeemer,

00:52:21.260 --> 00:52:21.860
 the redemption

00:52:21.860 --> 00:52:22.560
 of the soul,

00:52:22.640 --> 00:52:23.120
 the second

00:52:23.120 --> 00:52:23.720
 coming of

00:52:23.720 --> 00:52:24.100
 the Lord

00:52:24.100 --> 00:52:24.860
 Jesus Christ,

00:52:24.940 --> 00:52:25.320
 the end

00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:25.580
 of the

00:52:25.580 --> 00:52:26.300
 world and

00:52:26.300 --> 00:52:26.960
 the promise

00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:27.620
 of eternal

00:52:27.620 --> 00:52:28.280
 life are

00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:28.740
 what saw

00:52:28.740 --> 00:52:29.740
 Job through

00:52:29.740 --> 00:52:30.080
 this

00:52:30.080 --> 00:52:31.300
 adversity.

00:52:32.060 --> 00:52:32.240
 And you

00:52:32.240 --> 00:52:32.720
 know something,

00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:33.240
 it's truth

00:52:33.240 --> 00:52:33.980
 like this that

00:52:33.980 --> 00:52:34.720
 will see us

00:52:34.720 --> 00:52:35.860
 through those

00:52:35.860 --> 00:52:36.660
 rough times.

00:52:40.500 --> 00:52:40.980
 Though he

00:52:40.980 --> 00:52:41.700
 slay me,

00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:42.320
 yet I will

00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:42.900
 trust him.

00:52:43.240 --> 00:52:43.880
 I know

00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:44.519
 that my

00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:44.980
 Redeemer

00:52:44.980 --> 00:52:45.340
 lives.

00:52:45.780 --> 00:52:46.820
 Chapter 23

00:52:46.820 --> 00:52:48.400
 verses 8

00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:48.980
 through 10.

00:52:51.940 --> 00:52:52.720
 Job was

00:52:52.720 --> 00:52:53.860
 waiting for

00:52:53.860 --> 00:52:54.500
 God to

00:52:54.500 --> 00:52:55.180
 come down

00:52:55.180 --> 00:52:56.760
 and hear

00:52:56.760 --> 00:52:57.660
 his case.

00:52:58.620 --> 00:52:59.039
 But God

00:52:59.039 --> 00:52:59.559
 sent to be

00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:00.000
 absent.

00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:01.340
 So Job

00:53:01.340 --> 00:53:01.860
 says in

00:53:01.860 --> 00:53:02.360
 verse 8,

00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:02.800
 behold,

00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:03.519
 I go

00:53:03.519 --> 00:53:04.000
 forward,

00:53:04.200 --> 00:53:04.599
 but he

00:53:04.599 --> 00:53:04.880
 is not

00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:05.200
 there.

00:53:05.900 --> 00:53:06.380
 I go

00:53:06.380 --> 00:53:06.820
 backward,

00:53:06.980 --> 00:53:07.180
 but I

00:53:07.180 --> 00:53:07.400
 don't

00:53:07.400 --> 00:53:07.800
 perceive

00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:08.120
 him.

00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:08.740
 On the

00:53:08.740 --> 00:53:09.360
 left hand,

00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:09.960
 when he

00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:10.519
 is working,

00:53:10.640 --> 00:53:10.920
 I do

00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:11.500
 not behold

00:53:11.500 --> 00:53:11.800
 him.

00:53:12.120 --> 00:53:12.340
 He

00:53:12.340 --> 00:53:12.900
 turns to

00:53:12.900 --> 00:53:13.320
 the right

00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:13.579
 hand,

00:53:13.700 --> 00:53:14.079
 and I

00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:14.500
 do not

00:53:14.500 --> 00:53:15.099
 see him.

00:53:15.940 --> 00:53:16.380
 But,

00:53:17.260 --> 00:53:17.740
 he

00:53:17.740 --> 00:53:18.680
 knows

00:53:18.680 --> 00:53:19.539
 the way

00:53:19.539 --> 00:53:20.400
 that I

00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:21.039
 take.

00:53:22.220 --> 00:53:22.559
 Through

00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:23.000
 all this

00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:23.340
 trouble,

00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:23.940
 he didn't

00:53:23.940 --> 00:53:24.620
 know where

00:53:24.620 --> 00:53:25.380
 God was

00:53:25.380 --> 00:53:25.760
 and what

00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:26.240
 God was

00:53:26.240 --> 00:53:26.599
 doing,

00:53:26.700 --> 00:53:27.120
 but he

00:53:27.120 --> 00:53:27.720
 knew one

00:53:27.720 --> 00:53:28.200
 thing,

00:53:28.660 --> 00:53:29.059
 God

00:53:29.059 --> 00:53:29.860
 knows

00:53:29.860 --> 00:53:30.460
 me.

00:53:30.460 --> 00:53:31.860
 And he

00:53:31.860 --> 00:53:32.400
 knows what

00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:32.920
 I'm going

00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:33.199
 through.

00:53:33.599 --> 00:53:34.119
 He knows

00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:34.639
 how I

00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:35.139
 stand.

00:53:35.500 --> 00:53:36.059
 He knows

00:53:36.059 --> 00:53:36.539
 how I

00:53:36.539 --> 00:53:37.659
 am blameless

00:53:37.659 --> 00:53:38.500
 and upright.

00:53:39.019 --> 00:53:39.460
 He knows

00:53:39.460 --> 00:53:39.860
 how I

00:53:39.860 --> 00:53:40.699
 follow his

00:53:40.699 --> 00:53:41.179
 word.

00:53:43.240 --> 00:53:43.920
 And when

00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:44.280
 he's done

00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:44.699
 with me,

00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:47.139
 I will

00:53:47.139 --> 00:53:47.920
 come forth

00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:49.780
 as gold.

00:53:50.619 --> 00:53:51.159
 That's

00:53:51.159 --> 00:53:51.619
 amazing.

00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:52.059
 I don't

00:53:52.059 --> 00:53:52.400
 know if it

00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:52.840
 affects you.

00:53:53.099 --> 00:53:53.679
 It really

00:53:53.679 --> 00:53:54.320
 affects me

00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:54.920
 things like

00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:55.320
 this.

00:53:56.800 --> 00:53:57.619
 I don't

00:53:57.619 --> 00:53:58.139
 know what

00:53:58.139 --> 00:53:58.900
 God's doing.

00:53:59.039 --> 00:53:59.460
 I don't

00:53:59.460 --> 00:53:59.880
 know where

00:53:59.880 --> 00:54:00.400
 God is

00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:00.780
 in all

00:54:00.780 --> 00:54:01.039
 this,

00:54:01.180 --> 00:54:01.519
 but my

00:54:01.519 --> 00:54:02.000
 confidence

00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:02.640
 is that

00:54:02.640 --> 00:54:03.180
 he knows

00:54:03.180 --> 00:54:03.579
 me.

00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:05.019
 He knows

00:54:05.019 --> 00:54:05.579
 where I

00:54:05.579 --> 00:54:05.900
 am.

00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:06.539
 And when

00:54:06.539 --> 00:54:07.000
 all this

00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:07.579
 is over,

00:54:08.340 --> 00:54:08.780
 I'll be

00:54:08.780 --> 00:54:09.280
 like pure

00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:09.720
 gold.

00:54:10.500 --> 00:54:10.800
 Pure

00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:11.200
 gold.

00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:12.400
 Tested in

00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:12.860
 the fire

00:54:12.860 --> 00:54:13.240
 if you

00:54:13.240 --> 00:54:13.599
 wish.

00:54:16.700 --> 00:54:17.400
 Coming to

00:54:17.400 --> 00:54:17.720
 an end

00:54:17.720 --> 00:54:17.980
 here.

00:54:19.720 --> 00:54:20.200
 Let's

00:54:20.200 --> 00:54:20.480
 just go

00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:21.140
 to 42

00:54:21.140 --> 00:54:21.920
 verse 1.

00:54:22.200 --> 00:54:22.440
 Chapter

00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:22.960
 42,

00:54:23.140 --> 00:54:23.559
 the last

00:54:23.559 --> 00:54:25.119
 chapter in

00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:25.420
 the book

00:54:25.420 --> 00:54:25.880
 of Job.

00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:30.440
 And then

00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:30.700
 Job

00:54:30.700 --> 00:54:31.059
 answered

00:54:31.059 --> 00:54:31.519
 the Lord.

00:54:31.619 --> 00:54:31.880
 Remember

00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:32.900
 the Lord

00:54:32.900 --> 00:54:33.320
 actually

00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:34.240
 presents

00:54:34.240 --> 00:54:35.119
 himself and

00:54:35.119 --> 00:54:35.660
 makes his

00:54:35.660 --> 00:54:36.140
 case.

00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:37.840
 Chapter

00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:38.780
 42

00:54:38.780 --> 00:54:39.480
 verse 1,

00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:39.920
 Then Job

00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:40.579
 answered the

00:54:40.579 --> 00:54:40.980
 Lord and

00:54:40.980 --> 00:54:41.220
 said,

00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:41.940
 I know

00:54:41.940 --> 00:54:43.220
 that you

00:54:43.220 --> 00:54:43.720
 can do

00:54:43.720 --> 00:54:44.840
 all things.

00:54:45.300 --> 00:54:45.539
 Do we

00:54:45.539 --> 00:54:46.019
 know that?

00:54:46.760 --> 00:54:47.240
 God can

00:54:47.240 --> 00:54:47.599
 do all

00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:47.900
 things.

00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:49.480
 And no

00:54:49.480 --> 00:54:50.079
 purpose of

00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:50.539
 yours can

00:54:50.539 --> 00:54:51.200
 be thwarted.

00:54:52.099 --> 00:54:52.740
 You could

00:54:52.740 --> 00:54:53.220
 have stopped

00:54:53.220 --> 00:54:53.640
 all this

00:54:53.640 --> 00:54:54.200
 happening to

00:54:54.200 --> 00:54:54.340
 me,

00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:54.660
 God,

00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:55.599
 but you

00:54:55.599 --> 00:54:56.079
 allowed it

00:54:56.079 --> 00:54:56.460
 anyway.

00:54:56.460 --> 00:54:58.780
 Who is

00:54:58.780 --> 00:54:59.220
 this that

00:54:59.220 --> 00:54:59.480
 hides

00:54:59.480 --> 00:54:59.940
 counsel

00:54:59.940 --> 00:55:00.220
 without

00:55:00.220 --> 00:55:00.619
 knowledge?

00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:00.960
 Therefore

00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:01.340
 I have

00:55:01.340 --> 00:55:01.679
 uttered

00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:01.960
 what I

00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:02.300
 did not

00:55:02.300 --> 00:55:02.880
 understand,

00:55:03.300 --> 00:55:03.780
 things too

00:55:03.780 --> 00:55:04.519
 wonderful for

00:55:04.519 --> 00:55:05.119
 me which I

00:55:05.119 --> 00:55:05.579
 did not

00:55:05.579 --> 00:55:05.980
 speak.

00:55:06.340 --> 00:55:06.840
 Hear and

00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:07.159
 I will

00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:07.699
 speak and

00:55:07.699 --> 00:55:07.940
 I will

00:55:07.940 --> 00:55:08.500
 question you

00:55:08.500 --> 00:55:08.840
 and make

00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:09.199
 it known

00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:09.760
 to you.

00:55:10.139 --> 00:55:10.360
 Listen,

00:55:10.599 --> 00:55:11.039
 I have

00:55:11.039 --> 00:55:11.619
 heard of

00:55:11.619 --> 00:55:12.099
 you by

00:55:12.099 --> 00:55:12.740
 the hearing

00:55:12.740 --> 00:55:13.300
 of the

00:55:13.300 --> 00:55:13.679
 ear,

00:55:15.099 --> 00:55:16.460
 but now,

00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:18.480
 but now

00:55:18.480 --> 00:55:19.659
 I really

00:55:19.659 --> 00:55:20.159
 know you,

00:55:20.579 --> 00:55:21.179
 but now

00:55:21.179 --> 00:55:22.240
 my eyes

00:55:22.240 --> 00:55:23.260
 see you.

00:55:23.860 --> 00:55:24.480
 Last week

00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:25.099
 David asked

00:55:25.099 --> 00:55:25.699
 a question,

00:55:25.699 --> 00:55:26.659
 how did

00:55:26.659 --> 00:55:27.119
 Job and

00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:27.939
 the patriarchs

00:55:27.939 --> 00:55:28.319
 know so

00:55:28.319 --> 00:55:28.899
 much about

00:55:28.899 --> 00:55:29.259
 God?

00:55:30.059 --> 00:55:30.480
 By the

00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:31.000
 hearing of

00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:31.399
 the ear,

00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:31.859
 right?

00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:32.559
 By the

00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:33.099
 hearing of

00:55:33.099 --> 00:55:33.500
 the ear.

00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:34.519
 What Job

00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:34.960
 had gone

00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:35.619
 through here

00:55:35.619 --> 00:55:36.399
 brought him

00:55:36.399 --> 00:55:37.980
 from theoretical

00:55:37.980 --> 00:55:39.099
 understanding

00:55:39.099 --> 00:55:39.939
 of God

00:55:39.939 --> 00:55:42.179
 to experiential

00:55:42.179 --> 00:55:43.239
 understanding

00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:43.919
 of God.

00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:44.419
 He says,

00:55:44.500 --> 00:55:44.619
 yeah,

00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:45.179
 I've heard

00:55:45.179 --> 00:55:45.759
 all about

00:55:45.759 --> 00:55:46.219
 that.

00:55:46.679 --> 00:55:46.980
 It's

00:55:46.980 --> 00:55:47.500
 great,

00:55:47.939 --> 00:55:48.439
 and I've

00:55:48.439 --> 00:55:48.859
 put my

00:55:48.859 --> 00:55:49.439
 trust in

00:55:49.439 --> 00:55:49.819
 that,

00:55:50.259 --> 00:55:50.839
 but now

00:55:50.839 --> 00:55:51.719
 I really

00:55:51.719 --> 00:55:52.460
 know you

00:55:52.460 --> 00:55:53.299
 because you

00:55:53.299 --> 00:55:53.799
 brought me

00:55:53.799 --> 00:55:54.819
 through this

00:55:54.819 --> 00:55:55.519
 situation.

00:55:55.699 --> 00:55:56.159
 Listen,

00:55:56.259 --> 00:55:56.579
 I used to

00:55:56.579 --> 00:55:56.859
 know it

00:55:56.859 --> 00:55:57.299
 under this

00:55:57.299 --> 00:55:57.599
 morning.

00:55:58.879 --> 00:55:59.299
 There's

00:55:59.299 --> 00:55:59.659
 got to be

00:55:59.659 --> 00:55:59.839
 some

00:55:59.839 --> 00:56:00.419
 application

00:56:00.419 --> 00:56:00.699
 here,

00:56:00.819 --> 00:56:01.079
 weighed

00:56:01.079 --> 00:56:01.439
 down

00:56:01.439 --> 00:56:01.659
 with

00:56:01.659 --> 00:56:02.079
 trouble,

00:56:02.819 --> 00:56:03.539
 and you're

00:56:03.539 --> 00:56:03.719
 saying,

00:56:03.839 --> 00:56:04.139
 I don't

00:56:04.139 --> 00:56:04.619
 think I

00:56:04.619 --> 00:56:05.199
 can make

00:56:05.199 --> 00:56:05.319
 it.

00:56:05.379 --> 00:56:05.899
 I really

00:56:05.899 --> 00:56:06.159
 don't

00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:06.579
 think I

00:56:06.579 --> 00:56:06.980
 can make

00:56:06.980 --> 00:56:07.099
 it.

00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:07.259
 The

00:56:07.259 --> 00:56:07.759
 pressures

00:56:07.759 --> 00:56:08.819
 are too

00:56:08.819 --> 00:56:09.759
 heavy on

00:56:09.759 --> 00:56:10.119
 me.

00:56:10.899 --> 00:56:11.259
 Consider

00:56:11.259 --> 00:56:11.779
 Job.

00:56:13.460 --> 00:56:14.159
 And that's

00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:14.439
 the New

00:56:14.439 --> 00:56:14.779
 Testament

00:56:14.779 --> 00:56:15.539
 interpretation

00:56:15.539 --> 00:56:16.079
 of the

00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:16.399
 book of

00:56:16.399 --> 00:56:16.639
 Job,

00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:16.919
 isn't

00:56:16.919 --> 00:56:17.079
 it?

00:56:17.159 --> 00:56:17.539
 Consider

00:56:17.539 --> 00:56:17.819
 the

00:56:17.819 --> 00:56:18.739
 steadfastness

00:56:18.739 --> 00:56:19.439
 of Job,

00:56:19.839 --> 00:56:20.399
 how he

00:56:20.399 --> 00:56:20.659
 dealt

00:56:20.659 --> 00:56:20.919
 with

00:56:20.919 --> 00:56:21.679
 adversity,

00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:23.819
 and how

00:56:23.819 --> 00:56:24.679
 the end

00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:25.059
 was to

00:56:25.059 --> 00:56:25.519
 show that

00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:26.019
 God is

00:56:26.019 --> 00:56:28.539
 merciful and

00:56:28.539 --> 00:56:29.259
 compassionate.

00:56:31.980 --> 00:56:32.839
 Job said,

00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:33.359
 I'm going to

00:56:33.359 --> 00:56:34.199
 trust God no

00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:34.839
 matter what.

00:56:34.919 --> 00:56:35.359
 I'm going to

00:56:35.359 --> 00:56:36.099
 stand with

00:56:36.099 --> 00:56:36.659
 God no

00:56:36.659 --> 00:56:37.299
 matter what.

00:56:37.359 --> 00:56:38.079
 I know that

00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:38.839
 my Redeemer

00:56:38.839 --> 00:56:39.799
 lives and

00:56:39.799 --> 00:56:41.000
 one day I

00:56:41.000 --> 00:56:41.719
 will be with

00:56:41.719 --> 00:56:43.219
 him forever.

00:56:43.219 --> 00:56:43.459
 forever.

00:56:46.379 --> 00:56:47.039
 And really I

00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:47.759
 don't understand

00:56:47.759 --> 00:56:48.579
 what's going

00:56:48.579 --> 00:56:49.239
 on here

00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:49.819
 now,

00:56:50.619 --> 00:56:51.419
 but he's

00:56:51.419 --> 00:56:52.199
 working things

00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:52.959
 out for my

00:56:52.959 --> 00:56:53.339
 good,

00:56:53.459 --> 00:56:53.959
 making me

00:56:53.959 --> 00:56:54.579
 more like

00:56:54.579 --> 00:56:55.059
 the Lord

00:56:55.059 --> 00:56:56.119
 Jesus Christ.

00:56:56.259 --> 00:56:56.500
 You see,

00:56:56.879 --> 00:56:57.399
 and this is

00:56:57.399 --> 00:56:57.919
 what it boils

00:56:57.919 --> 00:56:58.359
 down to.

00:56:58.500 --> 00:56:59.179
 If we can

00:56:59.179 --> 00:57:00.059
 trust him

00:57:00.059 --> 00:57:00.759
 for our

00:57:00.759 --> 00:57:01.279
 eternal

00:57:01.279 --> 00:57:02.139
 destiny,

00:57:03.219 --> 00:57:04.799
 can we

00:57:04.799 --> 00:57:05.519
 trust him

00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:06.599
 with the

00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:07.000
 things that

00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:07.679
 happened to

00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:08.980
 us on

00:57:08.980 --> 00:57:09.379
 the way?

00:57:11.359 --> 00:57:12.059
 Most of

00:57:12.059 --> 00:57:12.379
 us would

00:57:12.379 --> 00:57:13.059
 say yes,

00:57:13.219 --> 00:57:14.059
 I'm saved,

00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:14.859
 I'm going to

00:57:14.859 --> 00:57:15.519
 spend eternity

00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:15.980
 with my

00:57:15.980 --> 00:57:16.399
 Lord and

00:57:16.399 --> 00:57:16.759
 Saviour,

00:57:16.879 --> 00:57:17.839
 Jesus Christ.

00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:18.619
 Praise the

00:57:18.619 --> 00:57:18.919
 Lord.

00:57:19.919 --> 00:57:20.279
 But we

00:57:20.279 --> 00:57:21.699
 stumble with

00:57:21.699 --> 00:57:22.059
 the things

00:57:22.059 --> 00:57:22.559
 that happened

00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:23.519
 to us on

00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:23.859
 the way.

00:57:23.959 --> 00:57:24.159
 And if

00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:24.619
 anything,

00:57:24.819 --> 00:57:25.179
 that's what

00:57:25.179 --> 00:57:25.639
 the message

00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:26.199
 of Job

00:57:26.199 --> 00:57:26.599
 is, and

00:57:26.599 --> 00:57:26.899
 I hope

00:57:26.899 --> 00:57:27.299
 you'll take

00:57:27.299 --> 00:57:27.779
 that away

00:57:27.779 --> 00:57:29.219
 this morning,

00:57:29.739 --> 00:57:31.480
 is that we

00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:32.039
 can trust

00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:32.899
 God for

00:57:32.899 --> 00:57:33.639
 what happens

00:57:33.639 --> 00:57:34.779
 on the

00:57:34.779 --> 00:57:35.159
 journey,

00:57:35.439 --> 00:57:36.219
 just as we

00:57:36.219 --> 00:57:36.699
 can trust

00:57:36.699 --> 00:57:37.559
 him for

00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:38.059
 the end

00:57:38.059 --> 00:57:38.839
 result where

00:57:38.839 --> 00:57:39.199
 we'll be

00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:39.779
 with him

00:57:39.779 --> 00:57:40.899
 in glory.

00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:41.219
 Let's

00:57:41.219 --> 00:57:41.439
 pray.

00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:42.960
 Heavenly

00:57:42.960 --> 00:57:43.240
 Father,

00:57:43.300 --> 00:57:43.659
 we thank

00:57:43.659 --> 00:57:43.920
 you for

00:57:43.920 --> 00:57:44.400
 your word.

00:57:45.340 --> 00:57:46.159
 We know

00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:46.760
 that these

00:57:46.760 --> 00:57:48.260
 stories and

00:57:48.260 --> 00:57:49.000
 truths are so

00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:49.840
 familiar to

00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:50.960
 us that we

00:57:50.960 --> 00:57:51.659
 can sometimes

00:57:51.659 --> 00:57:52.659
 just pass over

00:57:52.659 --> 00:57:53.579
 them or take

00:57:53.579 --> 00:57:53.960
 them for

00:57:53.960 --> 00:57:54.380
 granted.

00:57:55.340 --> 00:57:55.820
 Father,

00:57:55.900 --> 00:57:56.480
 we pray that

00:57:56.480 --> 00:57:56.900
 we would

00:57:56.900 --> 00:57:58.000
 recognize this

00:57:58.000 --> 00:57:58.579
 for what it

00:57:58.579 --> 00:57:59.519
 truly is,

00:58:00.099 --> 00:58:00.920
 your word,

00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:02.240
 the truth of

00:58:02.240 --> 00:58:02.559
 the living

00:58:02.559 --> 00:58:02.940
 God,

00:58:03.659 --> 00:58:04.260
 and that this

00:58:04.260 --> 00:58:05.139
 story is

00:58:05.139 --> 00:58:05.760
 definitely

00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:06.780
 truth,

00:58:06.780 --> 00:58:07.260
 and it

00:58:07.260 --> 00:58:08.320
 just teaches

00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:08.600
 us,

00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:08.940
 Father,

00:58:09.740 --> 00:58:10.280
 that even

00:58:10.280 --> 00:58:10.740
 when we're

00:58:10.740 --> 00:58:11.160
 going through

00:58:11.160 --> 00:58:12.019
 trials and

00:58:12.019 --> 00:58:12.740
 tribulations,

00:58:12.740 --> 00:58:13.519
 we can trust

00:58:13.519 --> 00:58:13.740
 you.

00:58:14.700 --> 00:58:15.400
 We can

00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:15.900
 trust you,

00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:16.700
 even when we

00:58:16.700 --> 00:58:17.340
 don't know

00:58:17.340 --> 00:58:18.220
 what is going

00:58:18.220 --> 00:58:19.820
 on at this

00:58:19.820 --> 00:58:20.200
 time.

00:58:20.300 --> 00:58:20.460
 So,

00:58:20.580 --> 00:58:20.740
 Father,

00:58:20.820 --> 00:58:21.480
 we pray that

00:58:21.480 --> 00:58:22.360
 our hope

00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:24.140
 that we have

00:58:24.140 --> 00:58:24.660
 in the Lord

00:58:24.660 --> 00:58:25.460
 Jesus Christ

00:58:25.460 --> 00:58:25.960
 and his

00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:27.960
 return would

00:58:27.960 --> 00:58:28.900
 also help us

00:58:28.900 --> 00:58:29.620
 to go through

00:58:29.620 --> 00:58:30.420
 the trials,

00:58:30.620 --> 00:58:31.280
 tribulations,

00:58:31.620 --> 00:58:32.240
 and sorrows,

00:58:32.400 --> 00:58:33.060
 and billows

00:58:33.060 --> 00:58:33.560
 that roll

00:58:33.560 --> 00:58:34.060
 over us

00:58:34.060 --> 00:58:35.260
 during this

00:58:35.260 --> 00:58:35.720
 life,

00:58:36.300 --> 00:58:36.500
 and we

00:58:36.500 --> 00:58:36.660
 pray,

00:58:36.840 --> 00:58:37.000
 Father,

00:58:37.080 --> 00:58:37.460
 that our

00:58:37.460 --> 00:58:38.260
 trust will

00:58:38.260 --> 00:58:38.840
 be like

00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:39.500
 Job,

00:58:39.600 --> 00:58:40.080
 who says,

00:58:40.240 --> 00:58:40.800
 even if he

00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:41.280
 kills me,

00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:42.400
 I'm going

00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:42.780
 to trust

00:58:42.780 --> 00:58:43.080
 him.

00:58:44.060 --> 00:58:44.760
 For me to

00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:45.300
 live is

00:58:45.300 --> 00:58:45.900
 Christ,

00:58:46.700 --> 00:58:47.380
 to die

00:58:47.380 --> 00:58:49.040
 is gain.

00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:50.000
 And,

00:58:50.140 --> 00:58:50.200
 Father,

00:58:50.260 --> 00:58:50.640
 we thank

00:58:50.640 --> 00:58:51.380
 you for

00:58:51.380 --> 00:58:51.840
 your word

00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:53.180
 this morning.

00:58:53.580 --> 00:58:53.840
 Amen.