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We're there to help you anyway that we can. You're
in the middle of a a Bible study on the
Book of Job. We are today in Job chapter twelve.
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If you want to turn there the Book of Job,
very provocative book of the Bible, one that sometimes is avoided.
Sometimes it's very difficult. Sometimes there's all sorts of opinions
on it. But we want to take it. And I
appreciate all your feedback, getting a lot of feedback on
this study that we're just walking through it word for word,
and we're not we're not trying to take it in
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any direction other than what the Bible actually says. There's
some deep stuff here, but that's the wonder of the
Word of God. There's nothing out there quite like it.
So we're going to continue today in Job chapter twelve.
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up Job Chapter twelve. Today, Lord, thank you for the
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opportunity to get together and to unpack your holy word.
The power of your Holy Spirit may give us the discernment.
You know, it's so amazing and supernatural. We can study
something at one point in our sanctification, go back ten
years later and see and hear things that we never
heard before. So I pray today Lord that even if
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we have an attitude of been there, done that, that
maybe we never never let that to overtake or stop
and opportunity to go back and see if maybe there's
something that we're ready for you to show us that
we weren't ready for before. And your name, we pray amen. Okay,
So we've gone through eleven chapters. We have dealt with
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quite a bit. We know that so Far last week
got his chance friend number three to talk to Job
and he go to a lot of things that the
other two friends had said. And Job is now going
to respond again this week to what SOO Far and
the others is gonna be comprehensive. I was laughing about that.
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You know, when I was in school, there was nothing
quite as fearful as hearing from your teacher that the
final would be comprehensive. It was not a good feeling.
The only thing worse was filling the blank. And I
hated filling the blank because that's what would decide whether
I really knew the material or not. And that's a
question I could grab a point here or there. Matching
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was a dream, and of course multiple choice, let's give
it a shot. But but but filling the blank comprehensive,
that's a tough ride right there. So So anyway we were,
we've been going, you know, all through this. So when
you hear Job reply to Zoe far or reply to
build Dad, or reply to any of them, he's always
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including everything he's heard, not just what he not just
what he just heard. So so one is simple. It
just that just know that Job's talking again. Uh, And
verse one says then Job answered, uh, And you're gonna
see Job, you know, you know how sometimes you're watching
somebody and you're in they're amazing person like Job and
all that he is going through and has been through,
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and you say, oh, you know what, I don't know,
maybe there's something to this, Maybe Job has got something
that I don't have. And then finally you'll see something.
You go you know what this is just a guy. Uh.
And this verse two will tell you that, because Job
replies this time and he's he's been a smart of it.
Uh and uh and I and I kind of dig that.
I was like, you know that this is this is
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a little more like if this was the book of Rick. Okay,
so instead of the book of Job. Uh. So he
he hears so far. Now keep in mind, you've heard
three friends in a row, and they're all on the
same page, and you're not on the page with any
of them. And so Job says, well, no doubt verse two,
you are the people and wisdom will die with you.
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And so what he says to them, boy, you guys
have all the wisdom. Where would the world be if
all y'all died at the same time, we would have
any wisdom left in the world. He does not mean
that he is being a smart aleck. So so he's
talking about how wise they are you three or really
something else? Where would I be without you? And where
would the world be? Uh? Without all of your wisdom?
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So then he goes into three. But I have understanding
as well as you. I am not inferior to you
who does not know such things as these. Have you
ever been there? Is there anything that disappoints you anymore
than you need something other than what you already know?
And somebody sits down and they walk you through it,
and you go, well, I know all that this was
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a complete waste of time to me. This is the
counseling version of you. Ever had a meeting that could
have been an email and you're like, well, I don't
even know why I'm here. I don't know why I
devoted the time to this. We've said nothing here that
we haven't said before. This could have been in an email. Well,
this is what job is saying. You don't when I
when y'all started to counsel me, I tell you what,
it would have been great if y'all were telling me
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something I didn't already know. I know what you know.
And that's why I'm perplexed, because this doesn't seem to
add up, and they're just sitting there regurgitating the same
thing that he already knows and doesn't understand. So he says,
y'all are not telling me anything that I don't already know.
We've all said these things. These are not new ideas.
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I'm fully aware right now everything you've said, I am
fully aware of. Okay, So now he's going into four.
I am a laughing stock to my friends, I who
called to God and he answered me, a just and
blameless man. Am a laughing stock?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Laughing stock is used twice by Job here, and so
what he's saying, and it's been a running thing, We've
hit it a lot, but he's going back again. He's saying,
it's as if all of you have forgotten my integrity.
It's as if all of you have completely forgotten the
things that you know about me. How did I go
from blameless and upright in God's eyes, in your eyes,
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and in society's eyes, and now you make a mockery
of me. I'm a laughing stock. Now everybody is ready
ready to pile on now and uh and they they
know the integrity and and they are taking you know,
you know Job And he's saying that that that you
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are seemed to be and I look, it's just bad
human nature. It's bad human nature. It's one of the
things I've talked about before, and there's no doubt that
these things can be true. But I've noticed one of
the reasons if you ever want to like get pushed
back and a sermon, or get pushed back in a
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small group or conversation, have the audacity to speak about
holiness when you do, because it's so convicting to people, immediately,
human beings will begin to tear you down, self righteous,
holier than thou. And sometimes that can be true if
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somebody has the wrong attitude. But I've noticed that many
times we will tear down someone who is talking about
something that is so convicting. We'd rather tear them down
than be convicted by what they're saying. We don't like
to be challenged by the fact that they actually may
be more devoted to the faith than I am, so
instead of just acknowledging that I have to find something
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wrong with them. And job is using language here to
suggest y'all are loving this, aren't you. Y'all probably got
tired of hearing about me being blameless and me being upright,
and deep down you might have said the right things
to me, but deep down you resented it. And this
is your moment. This is your moment to run me
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down and make me a laughing stock, and you're loving it.
Some things have been around for a long long time
and they're still just as prominent today as they airraft.
Let's be honest the world and sometimes being guilty of it.
Sometimes people convict you so much when they have a downfall,
you find yourself kind of digging it. Who thank goodness,
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they're just as flawed as I am. I was just
about to be convicted by their walk and they finally
did something stupid, And this is my time to pile
on and see they are no different the rest of us.
And so he is suggesting that that is going on here,
and he's embarrassed by the situation that he's in verse five,
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in the thought of one who is at ease, there
is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose
feet slip. And we're saying right there, see, y'all can
afford to be smug right now, because you're not in
a situation I'm in right now. Now. You're still healthy,
you're still wealthy, and so this is a great opportunity.
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It's real easy when you're living the easy life to
stand there and be smug about the misfortunes of others.
You're in a real convenient situation right now, and uh,
and y'all can afford to be smug, I've lost everything.
Uh and uh, you know I'm down, and while I'm
down right now, from a place of comfort, you're piling on. Yeah.
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I felt that way, you know, well that somebody, somebody,
there's no way that they could even comprehend the situation
that you're in. Instead of having some empathy, they just
continue to throw rocks at you or our little one
liners from a place of comfort. And they don't want
to get down there and get in the dirt with you.
They don't want to get down there and bleed with you.
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's a I remember, and I've talked about this before
and that I don't mean to be as what my
mom would say, don't be smart about this, because y'all
know that's not my nature.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
But the yeah, I struggle with that. But I can
remember when my wife and I had to had to
go to war. Uh, And it made a very difficult stand,
you know, even against our own flesh and blood, when
it came to God's standard for intimacy, marriage engender and uh.
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And so we didn't just we didn't just take attack
from our our our loved one. We were taking an
attack from the entire movement and it's an ugly, ugly,
ugly bunch, and I mean horrifying things, terrible. I mean
it was an assault on us. I mean like having
to walk in and even tell my wife, do not
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read anything on social media, turn it off, don't even
look at it, don't pay attention. I'm talking about people
saying things I don't even want to utter. They were
so wicked and so evil. And that does not reflect
everybody who disagreed with us, but but they were some
there that really this was their opportunity and they couldn't
just disagree. They had to had to just wish evil
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things on you. And it was it was rough and
and it was so rough you could kind of see
people who who loved us and people who were our
friends kind of going, I'm not so sure we want
to get into battle, but know that we're praying for you,
and uh. And I would say, they would say, well,
what can we do for you? And they were so hoping.
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I would say, just keep praying for us. Honestly, I
didn't need him to keep praying for me. I had
God on my side, I was with him. I was
perfectly fine there. What I needed was people to defend us.
I don't know about that publicly, because they knew that
if they defended us publicly, then these same people were
going after them too, And so they were kind of like,
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let's just stay here and we'll pray for you and
inside the church where we all agree on everything, we'll
talk about it there, but we're not stepping into this
arena and taking on the world. We wish you all
the best. And it was real lonely. Uh And as
we were out there, you know, getting pumbled, and I think,
right now, what what you're seeing from from Job is
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he saying, this is this is not exactly what I
was looking for. You're in a place of comfort and
you're and you're piling on me, but you're not really
trying to help me. Uh So then we get to
verse six and seven they kind of go together, he said,
and this is this is important here, This is really important.
If you want to look for things to take away
this week, this one's a big one. Some of this
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has been you're like, yeah, we've talked about this stuff before,
but this is kind of a new one because you're
gonna see the first time. It's it's you've seen some foreshadowing,
but Job himself is going to make a point right
now that is going to kind of upend their flaw theology,
because what is the theology? You act bad, God gets mad,
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you act good. God blesses you. You're right with God,
you get blessed. You're wrong with God. He gets you.
Job's about to bring up a point, and he's about
to show them. I don't see that always being true.
So he says to this, the tints of robbers are
at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who
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bring their God in their hand, those are idols seventeen.
But ask the beast and they will teach you. The
birds of heaven and they will tell you. And then
we get into eight or the bushes of the earth,
and they will teach you. And the fish of the
sea will declare to you. Now listen, look at six.
Six is big. So he looked to his friends who
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have said, this is our theology, this is what we've
been sticking with. He says, I'd like to point out something.
We all know people who are breaking the law and
they're not being punished like me. We all know pagans,
they're not being punished like me. We know idol worshipers
that literally blaspheme God with their idols, and they're not
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being punished like me. Maybe our theology is flawed. Why
isn't God doing this to them? If my suffering is
tied to sin, why aren't they suffering. It's a big moment,
you see what he's making a pretty good point here,
because they know these people too. Have you ever believed
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something and it would stand as long as no one
pointed out some things going on that you weren't paying
attention to. It's kind of like when we have theology
that works as long as you leave out about ten
eleven verses, right, and then somebody says, I'd like to
bring these verses in, and you're like, well, I don't
really like those because it really makes my theology shaky.
And what our pure theology must include all scripture. And
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so what he's saying is he's not even talking about scripture.
He said, I can observe that evil people are not
being punished like me, And it's not up to that
they're evil. I mean up to debate that they're evil.
We know they are because they're worshiping false gods. We
know they are because they they're robbers and they steal
from people. We're not guessing about them. We know they're
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in sin unlike me, but they're not being punished. So
maybe it's possible that you could go on the other end.
If it's possible that evil people seem to go unpunished
on earth, not at the judgment seat, but on earth,
if they're not being punished for being sinful, is it
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possible I'm not sinful but still being punished. You see
how he's starting to work it, and he can't figured
it out yet, but he's starting to kind of, wait
a minute, I see a flaw in our theology going
that way, so it might be flawed going the other way.
Everybody's still with me. So then he comes back and
he says, really, you know, if you look at creation
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this is seven and eight, it'll tell you that God
is bigger than anything that you can imagine. Now here's
what's gonna be wonderful. What Joe was talking about in
seven and eight God when he gives his resume, I
think we know what chapter forty is that where that starts.
You're gonna see God basically do the same thing. Take
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a look at creation. Well, job's starting to figure that out.
If we look at creation. I mean, I'm telling you
how complicated God is. The beast will teach you, The
birds of heaven will teach you. They'll tell you are
the bushes of the earth, they'll teach you. The fish
of the sea will declare to you that I'm gonna
go out on a limb. Here, three friends, I believe
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that God's bigger than you can comprehend. Creation tells me that.
So here you feel Job working all this out, and
he's trying to bring them along for the ride, because
they don't. They seem like they're gonna stick on this.
They are locked and loaded on this theology and they're immovable,
and Job is starting to chip away at it. He's
starting to chip away at it. So now we get
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to nine, who among all these does not know that
the hand of the Lord has done this. God is
not so predictable, buddies, as you claim. We all, every
one of us, human and animal, know that God is
in control of the world. And you are trying to
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simplafy something that I don't think is that simple. He's
starting to go there, He's starting to realize this. I
think God's revealing something that we haven't known about him,
and when I think about him in creation, I can't
even wrap my mind around him. And then verse ten,
if he passes through women a wrong chapter on ten
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in his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all man kind. And you know what,
he's almost doing that in a rhetorical way to them,
going right, don't we also believe that? Don't we believe
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that God is in charge? Don't we believe that God
is in control of everything? Really? He goes Steve Farrar here,
don't we believe that even God has to allow us
to breathe? Right? If you were there making your case,
do you think they're starting to go, Oh, I don't
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know about all this. So if God's in control of
all things, wouldn't he also be in control of this?
And what's happening to me? And I've already pointed out
that he's in control of these other people? You think
God doesn't know how evil they are, But he's not
doing this to them, He's doing it to me. What
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is God doing something that maybe's bigger than what we've
known about him up to this point. Well, they answered that,
of course is yes, Look at eleven, does not the
ear test words as the palette taste food. Just as
the tongue decides what is good and bad when it
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comes to our food, the ear discerns what it hears
to be true or false. And he's letting them know.
My ear is hearing, y'all, and it's discerning based on
the facts I keep making that y'all may be off.
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Do we not do that? Just to hey, Just as
you could give me something to eat, and my palett
would tell me whether I like it or not, my
ear is discerning, and I don't like what y'all are
saying because I know the truth about myself. And then
he gets into twelve. Wisdom is with the ages and
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understanding in the length of days. All right, So Bill,
Dad and elephas here. We know that they would agree
because they're older, and they keep saying, is this not
what our fathers taught us? And what job is telling
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them here? Because remember this, this is the reason why,
And be real careful with everything that you see that's written.
You've got to really spend time on it. It's the
reason why I don't like texting things that are important
or emailing things that are important. You don't know people's
tone you don't hear their rise and fall of their voice.
But here, when you really study this, what he's saying is,
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y'all believe that right. And he's going to say, I'm
not so sure y'all think just because our fathers told
us this and y'all know this, and you're older and
you're aged, that you must be right. I'm telling you,
I'm not sure I buy that, because the aged can
be just as wrong as the young if they're not
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telling the truth. So now he's going to go through
thirteen said he said, let him know about about his
about his doubt. Now thirteen through twenty five, he's going
to kind of present God's government of the world. And
this is important because he's trying to say, you're seeing
everything just from the world's standpoint. God is bigger than
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these simple narratives that we come up with. So look
at thirteen. With God, our wisdom, and might, he has
counsel and understanding all three and job agree with this
truth that God's judgment is perfect. You ever do that,
you ever re establish I've had to do this even recently.
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Let's go back to what we're not arguing about. You know,
the greatest lawyers will always come in, and what would
they say? And these facts are not up for debate. Everybody,
the defense and the prosecution, we all agree with these facts.
So what he's saying to them? Do we all agree
that God's judgment is perfect? Of course they'd be like, well, sure.
So then he says, all right, if his wisdom and
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his counsel and his understanding are perfect. Fourteen. If he
tears down, none can rebuild. If he shuts a man in,
none can open it. God can do whatever he wants,
and there's nothing we or anyone can do to stop it.
You see the case Job's building. Maybe y'all thinking y'all
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know everything about God. You can't really say that, and
you're saying that you know what God's doing and why
he's doing it, And I think that's lofty of you.
God can do whatever he wants, but he would still
be right. And he says, so, if God decides to
tear me down or anyone down, there's nothing that I
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can do to stop it. But just because I can't
stop it, and just because God's doing it doesn't mean
you know why. He's bigger than that, and whatever he's
doing is perfect. But only he really knows everything that
he's doing. Look at fifteen. If he withholds the waters,
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they dry up. If he sends them out, they overwhelm
the land. Don't you love that? I mean, this same
God can take the water and take it away from me,
and then he can flood the same place that was
just dry. And of course he runs it all drought
or flood. So notice what he's saying here. These are
two things you don't want see. They would say, well,
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everything's right if God has the water where it should be. No,
he said no, No, when it dries up or we
got too much of it, He's in that too, And
he's telling me do you agree with that? I mean,
do y'all think that God's only in the plants are
green and when we all have plenty of deed and
the water's just right and the sunlight's just right? Or
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do you think he's also in when we have famine?
You think he's also in when everything's being flooded? Is
he in those things too? And the answer is yes,
we know that. So then we get into sixteen with
him our strength and sound wisdom. The deceived and the
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deceiver are his deception. Even when there's deception. And this
is a tough one, tough pill, jagged little pell. He said,
even when you've been deceived, God allowed it because something
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he could have stopped it. He could have given you perfect,
perfect clarity, couldn't he, So he said, So he's trying
to set up even though you are saying the same
the right things. Doesn't you haven't been deceived, even by
the things you think you know about God, so he says. So,
even when there's deception, God is still there because his
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wisdom is sound. So if you were deceived, then it's
not because the lack of God's wisdom, and even the
deceiver can be used by God to accomplish something he
wants done. Lucifer, Okay, so this is he, you see, job,
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He's really all around it here seventeen. He leads counselors
away stripped and judges. He makes fools. I wonder who
he's talking about when he talks about counselors. You think
that you think that one was being pushed back, y'all
think y'all give a better counsel than God. Okay, So
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God delights in undoing what he humans have done. How
many times throughout scripture do God say, and now I'm
going to reveal to you just how stupid you really are.
And I take great pleasure and showing you how wrong
you are about what you're doing. And and so, I mean,
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how many times have we seen this? Think? I mean,
think about how quick Neba Cazar went from look at
everything I've done to eating grass and having and sleeping
out on the ground. That didn't take long. Okay, But
when when Nebukan is doing this great monologue about himself,
God's like, I'm about to show this guy what an
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idiot he really is. And he and he digs that,
and he takes great pleasure in that he dismantles human enterprise.
The best we were taught this in Scripture. The best
human wisdom I'm talking about. The most intelligent people we
got are people who think they're intelligent. Are folly compared
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to God. How silly, how pathetic. This is the smartest
human being on the planet. The distance between our wisdom
and our intelligence and God is you can't even comprehend
how vast that gap is. And from time to time
God likes to remind us of that. And so he said,
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you may think you're a great counselor. He sends them
away striped, naked. And these judges that think they have
all this power, it don't mean anything to him. Look
at eighteen. He looses the bonds of kings and binds
a wastecloth on their hips. He can remove a king.
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Scripture tells us this what I love the analogy when
we're told in scripture that like I could take my
finger and move ice around and a drink. And he said,
that's about how much effort it takes God to take
a king and remove him, take a ruler and remove him,
take a nation and be done with it. And he says,
you can be a king. And before you know it,
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not only can he remove your authority. The other one
talks about them them having judgment and their decision. He says,
he can reverse your decision just like that, I the
king rule this. And God said, and I'm more reverse
that right now. That he said, that's how much we
we the distance between us. And then he goes into nineteen.
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He's gonna talk about He's gonna talk about priest. He says,
he leads priest away stripped and overthrows the mighty. You
know the thing I love about this researching this when
you look at the language here, and he didn't fail
to put priest in there too. God has He is
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not impressed at all with titles. Well, you may not
realize I'm a high ranking priest and God is not impressed.
You may not know I'm CEO of one of the
biggest companies in this country, in the world. I am
not impressed. You know, I was elected deacon. Maybe you
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should go mop the floor. Stop being so full of yourself.
I'm an elder, elder, wisdom wise, elder of the church.
I'm the pastor. He's not impressed with any of that,
and he says what he will do eventually. We've seen it. Hey,
we've seen some pretty high as my family will say,
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high falutin folks that God made fools of even inside
the church, right, massive ministries, all the things I've done
for the kingdom. Next thing, you know, God's knocked you
down just like that, and he says he is not
impressed with any title. He deprives of speech of those
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who are trusted, and he takes away the discernment of
the elders. Whatever it is. He can silence those who
think they have so much to say that's a great one.
Those that have so much knowledge, those that are such
gifted orators to God, he could deprive speech of those
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that everybody else thinks just you know, and it always
we're human beings, we do this, don't we. We saw
this even when we were studying, you know, the letters
to the Corinthians. You remember when Paul had to come
deal with everybody because they all started these factions of
who they liked. And of course there was a group
that loved Apollos, but they loved Apollos because he was
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a gifted ortor. That was really I mean, he certainly
got it right, even though he had to have some
theology lessons there, apparently from Priscilla and Aquilo. But at
one point he immediately developed a following why he was
a good speaker, you know, and I think I have
I told you all the story about me being humbled
about some of that by the guy that worked with
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by Graham for a long long time. I was on
a flight with him. We were going to do an
event together. And I won't give his name, but he
had worked with Billy Graham for a long long time,
and he was now an older man himself, and so
we'd never met, never met, and he was talking and
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I was like, man, I want to grab some wisdom
off this guy. At least I was smart enough to
try to do that. And this has probably been twenty
years ago. And so he said, so tell me about
what you do. And I told him what to do
and all that. He said, he said, you like to speak?
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I said, yeah, yeah, I really do. I really enjoy it.
Does it come easy for you? You feel like you
you get nervous about speaking or anything? I said, no, no,
not really. No. He said, been that way all your life.
I mean, did you ever get nervous about getting it
in front of people? I said, not really. No, nervous
about being on the radio, and I said and he
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just sighed and he said, boy, and I've met a
lot of people like you, and you're always going to
be a problem. And I said, what do you mean?
He said, because it comes easy for you. And he says,
you've got a gift that you still need to continue
to work on. He said, but when I'm afraid of
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he said, it's people like you. And I've seen it
time and time again. Because you know you can pull
it off, you'll stop preparing and he said, And then
what you'll do, You'll book yourself. Well, you'll be booked
so many places, you'll have no time to prepare. You
won't even be listening for God to give you a
new message. You won't want to learn anything new. You'll
have a handful of messages as you can do just
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like that anytime, anywhere, and you know you can pull
it off. And he goes, and that's when you're going
to be less effective, he said. My advice to you
today and people like you because I've met you a
bunch of times, and you can have a great ministry
because God gave you those gifts for a reason. But
I would speak less and I would pray more. And
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I thought, wow, And I can tell you that the
times that I've overwhelmed myself twenty twenty one, that I
have overwhelmed myself, I can hear that man's voice in
the back of my head, and I'm saying, and here
I am, this is exactly what he told me not
to do. I am frantic, i am overwhelmed, and I'm
going to the next date and I'm looking in my
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notebook for that message I've done a thousand times because
I know I can do it, And a lot of
times I wouldn't even have notes. I didn't even have
a notebook because I knew I could do that message
in my sleep. There's nothing wrong with having a message
you can do well, because it can be effective. But
it is wrong if you've stopped praying over it, and
you've stopped preparing and you just know and you're thinking
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about it as you're walking up to the podium. That
is a problem. And that's what he warned me about.
And so I've tried to do better, and I can say,
you know, it still has happened, but his voice is
still there. I'm still convicted by it when I know
that I'm doing it. And so this is kind of
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what Job is talking about, all those that think they
can deliver this and do all that. God can silence
you like that, and boy he can. And if we
ever get to where we're not doing it for him,
he'll shut us up pretty quick. So next he was
talking in twenty one, he said he pours contempt on
princes and he loosens the belts of the strong. Amos
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talks about this in chapter five eight Daniel, remember we studied.
Daniel talks about this too. What he's saying here is
he disarms the mighty. Okay, if you think you're a
big deal because you're a prince, and you think you're
a big deal because you're strong, he will disarm the mighty.
Now this would include armies, military, these sort of things. Remember,
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just because you think you're a mighty nation and you
think you have all this military and you have all
this strength, and you think you can go against God.
You think I'm so powerful now, I mean, God couldn't
stop me if he wanted to. He can stop you
just like that. Twenty two. He uncovers the depths out
of darkness and brings deep darkness to light. These are
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those verses I told you about Amos and Daniel. They
get more into the light. Here, God lights up dark things.
I mean, we are serving God. That has been put
on record. He allowed himself to be put on record
for literally saying, let there be light. And what did
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the verse say after that? And there was light? And
there was He just spoke it. And so Job is
thinking about that. He must be aware of that. He
must have some knowledge of that, because he's saying, you
know what, in the situation I'm in right now, and
the darkness is all around me. The God that I
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serve and the God that I've known, he could take
this darkness and he could turn it to light just
like that. And anywhere there is darkness of any kind,
he can always bring light. Twenty three. He makes nations great,
and he destroys them. He enlarges nations, and he leads
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them away. He builds nations, he destroys nations. Something that
I think that we in the United States of America
always seem to think, Well, surely it's not us. He
does that to other nations, but we're so special. He
would never do that to us, because we've been so good.
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We've done so many good things and we've served We
even have it on our currency and God us. We
don't act like it, but it's still on the money,
you know. And then we'll do things in society that
blaspheme him and then turn right around and actually say
God bless America. And I think sometimes he would love
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to shout for the heavens based on what Why should
I bless you? Are you still leaning off your resumes,
still talking about things you've done throughout time? What are
you doing now? And then there's a lot of sin
we've had to which we've worked through in our in
our nation. But we've had we've had some good moments too.
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God's usually to do some good things. We rebelled against him,
We've done some bad things. You know, I'm not afraid.
You know, we need to tell our whole history, good,
bad and ugly. But the bigger question is, even when
we're wrong, do we correct it? Do we repent? Do
we turn from the things that we did wrong? Have
we have we put him in his proper place? Or
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are we like most human beings unto them when we're scared.
That's the problem in that with prosperity, it's all gone it.
We just can't seem to handle it. We just don't
do real good with it. You know, a lot of
times when we ask God for prosperity, the very reason
he doesn't give it to us is because it would
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destroy us. I love you too much to give you that,
you know. I look back at things that I wanted
and things that I didn't get, and I have as
I get older, I'm understanding and thanking God for not
giving it to me because I would have made a
mess of it. It would have destroyed me. I thought
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I could handle things that he knew I couldn't. And
then there's things that I didn't think I could handle,
and I couldn't, but he showed me that he could.
So twenty four. He takes away understanding from the chiefs
of the people of the earth and makes them wonder
in a pathless waste. God seize the leaders, not just
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the nations, and they're all under his control. Hmmm. Again,
that's another thing we have to think about, don't we.
So wasn't it The bad ones are under his control?
You better believe it. The Bible tells us what He
puts them all on where they are? Wait, man, he
puts the bad ones there? He does? Why would he
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do that? I can give you a simplistic point of
view on that some Calhoun County. Now it's much deeper
than this, but I can give you some Calhoun County.
I will say that he puts leaders in positions sometimes
to bless people, and he puts leaders in positions sometimes
to punish people. But he put them all there. May
or will be done. Okay, this leader was my will?
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Really would it like to have maybe run that by
what you'd run that by? Me. But usually we get
the leaders that we deserve. But there's also what there's
also other things. I don't like this. I wish it
wasn't true. I wish that the church didn't perform so
well under duress, but it does. Have you ever been
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around people that live under persecution versus us, there's so
much more solid than we are. I mean, they they
don't even breathe without thinking about Jesus. And we have
to we have to have something bad happen to even
think about it. But see, every day for them, they
don't know where, they don't know when somebody's gonna come
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in the door and arrest everybody. They don't know where
they're gonna find their next meal unless God provides it.
Can Can you imagine going into these kind one of
these churches that's planted somewhere and walking in and asking
them what their budget is. They'll be like, what we
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pray to God for for everybody to get some food
this week? You know. I mean, like you and I
were just talking about. I found it, you know, without
somebody coming along. We had a pastor. I just found
about that. We all got together and tried to help,
you know, because we're all so overly blessed. And I
remember him saying, it would have taken us twenty years
to do this, But you know what, if that's what
it would taken, they would have just done it for
twenty years. So they got what they wanted, something we
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could have and like that, and we think that we're
closer to God than they are, and we always think
that we come up into their world and think we
have so much to give them, when really they have
so much to give us, because they're the real deal.
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You know, a lot of us are still in this
situation that if God took away everything you had today,
I wonder if you continue to serve him. They've already
passed that test. If you still have everything you need,
you hadn't passed that test yet, And maybe God won't
put you to give you that test, but they already
passed it. They're already beyond. You know, I gotta I
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gotta make sure this s don't become more important to
me than God is, because it's just so gone wonderful.
They don't really have that problem. They have found God
to be better than anything they have, and they have
a joy and a peace that is supernatural because we've
become so jaded on what we think is the key
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to peace and joy, and we couldn't be more wrong.
So many things that we call blessings are obstacles and distractions.
If we went to God and said, thank you for
that blessing, he goes, oh, I didn't give that to you.
That's something you dook that's actually been an issue between
you and me. I would have never given it to you.
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And so that's the thing that he's saying. He saying,
Look at the end of it all, all of this
knowledge and all of these leaders, God either puts them
there or he takes them away. We make a bit
deal out of them. To God, he could have them
wandering around on a pathless waste, with no direction whatsoever.
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When are we gonna stop being so unimpressed with God
and so impressed with people. Job's coming to the realization,
why do we think these people are such a big deal.
But let's be honest, most people, if we said we
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got a tent set up, we gotta, we gotta you've
never heard of him, never, It has no name whatsoever.
He loves the Lord. He's coming to preach, and we're
not gonna have we're gonna we're gonna get in there
and we're just gonna worship God this Tuesday. And we
at six thirty and we're just gonna unpack the word
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of God. Are you in versus Hey, a real popular
politician is gonna be doing a banquet. Now it's gonna
cost you four hundred dollars a play to be there.
Which one would you go to? H And that's the problem.
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And and he said, we're seeing these people in the
wrong way. Do they serve a purpose? Yes? Should we participate, sure?
Should we elevate? No? But we do we here? How
many you've been around somebody that the way that they
treat someone that the world's deemed important versus someone the
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world doesn't deem important. You ever, you ever watched their
personality change? Adrian Rogers uh said it? And it's a
crazy convicting. If you want to know a man's true
character our woman, watch the way they treat people that
can't do anything for them. True. So uh next in
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twenty five they grope in the dark without light. He
makes them stagger like a drunken man. How foolish are
we to sometimes think? I bet God's impressed with me?
I bet he just since Vegas says we're bad. Well,
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there's some popular worship songs right now that seem to
suggest that that he's just enamored with us. He just
said he can't get enough of us. And so what
you're seeing here does he love us? Yeah? Yeah, sure
he's Shawn. That hasn't he? Does he worship us? No,
He's the only one worthy of worship, and we seem
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to worship everything but him. And the last analogy, Job says,
all these people were impressed with compared to God, they
just grope around in the dark without light. They stagger
like drunken men. Now you're thinking, what's the takeaway from everything?
We've hit some things that we can apply, but there's
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something bigger going on here and we're done. There's something
bigger going on here. And it really blew me away
when it hit me when I was studying this from
especially from verse thirteen on, Job has done a glowing
tribute to the majesty and the might and the wisdom
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of God. No complaint, he has an he's mad upset.
We know this. He's distraught, he doesn't know what's going on. Hey,
we're in chapter twelve, Okay, he's been at this a
while and you would think all he's mad at his friends.
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He's really mad. He's really about to go off on
God and instead in his time of despair, and he
and his friends that are giving him bad advice in
bad theology, and listen, this is takeaway. Take away. You've
heard me say. This job is doing what we should
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tell each other and people that are not here that
we know, and those of you out there, and a
time of despair when you get down to the brink
and you're like, I don't know how much longer I
can go cling to what you know about God. And
what Job just did is he rocked back and he says,
I just want to talk about the majesty, the might
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and the wisdom of God. You don't hear complaining here,
and he's reminding his friends of the same thing. So
when we have everybody's attention, and oh how I wish
it wasn't true see us Lewis, we love you, buddy.
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He said it best. He said, pain and suffering is
God's megaphone for a sleeping world. I just talked to
a guy yesterday. It was child is with the Lord,
and I said, you got everybody's attention. Glorify the Lord.
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Everybody's watching to see if you'll turn on him, to
see if you'll lose your faith. And this was a
man of faith. They're all watching like never before. I've
told you all this a thousand times, and sometimes I
have to be careful that it doesn't make me bitter,
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because I finally have got any difficulty in my life.
I finally have got it in the proper place. And
the proper place is this. Lord, forgive me that I
am so sinful that it takes this for me to
be right with you. This is on me. It's not
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on you, it's not on anybody else. This is what
you've decided it takes for me. So people always say
you get angry with God. Nope, do you get angry
with other people? Yeah? I do. But most of all,
I'm disgusted that I'm that simple, that that's what God
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deemed is necessary for me to be in the right
relationship with Him to be the most effective. And I
will tell you that been a follower of Jesus since
nineteen ninety six, I have had an opportunity to stand
in front of a lot of people, and without fail
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every person who ever comes up to encourage me and say,
you and your wife's ministry has meant a lot to me.
And there's two things that have impacted me more than
anything else. With your own flesh and blood over God's
standard and the death of your son. They never mentioned
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anything else. You know why, because when the rubber meets rode,
that's when they start looking and say, let's see if
these people are real. Now does the other stuff matter?
Of course it does, of course it does. You want
to be good teachers, you want to keep having people,
you want to keep making disciples. All that matters, and
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it's important. I'm just simply telling you that when you're
in the difficulty, they're paying attention to us more so
than any other time. And maybe sometimes we have to
do what job just did and be reminded of who
we know God is. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today,
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thank you for this incredible message, and thank you for
these men in the room and how much they've meant
to me, Lord, and what an encouragement they are. And
thanks to those men and women who take the time
every week and on a regular basis to be with
us to walk through your holy Word of God, and
they're encouraging emails and how they are there to encourage
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as well. If you're out there and today is maybe
the day for you, and you said, you know, I
just need some more information. I need to follow up
on the things I've heard. You can absolutely reach out
to me Rick at Burgessmanistries dot com and I'm happy
to help you any where I can. And if it's
something that is more in line with what my wife
can do, I'll be sure you connect connect you with
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her too. Lord. I just pray you be with us
as we leave today, and your holy name we pray
Amen
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in the middle of a a Bible study on the
Book of Job. We are today in Job chapter twelve.
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If you want to turn there the Book of Job,
very provocative book of the Bible, one that sometimes is avoided.
Sometimes it's very difficult. Sometimes there's all sorts of opinions
on it. But we want to take it. And I
appreciate all your feedback, getting a lot of feedback on
this study that we're just walking through it word for word,
and we're not we're not trying to take it in
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any direction other than what the Bible actually says. There's
some deep stuff here, but that's the wonder of the
Word of God. There's nothing out there quite like it.
So we're going to continue today in Job chapter twelve.
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themanchurch dot Com. So let's pray and then let's open
up Job Chapter twelve. Today, Lord, thank you for the
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opportunity to get together and to unpack your holy word.
The power of your Holy Spirit may give us the discernment.
You know, it's so amazing and supernatural. We can study
something at one point in our sanctification, go back ten
years later and see and hear things that we never
heard before. So I pray today Lord that even if
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we have an attitude of been there, done that, that
maybe we never never let that to overtake or stop
and opportunity to go back and see if maybe there's
something that we're ready for you to show us that
we weren't ready for before. And your name, we pray amen. Okay,
So we've gone through eleven chapters. We have dealt with
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quite a bit. We know that so Far last week
got his chance friend number three to talk to Job
and he go to a lot of things that the
other two friends had said. And Job is now going
to respond again this week to what SOO Far and
the others is gonna be comprehensive. I was laughing about that.
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You know, when I was in school, there was nothing
quite as fearful as hearing from your teacher that the
final would be comprehensive. It was not a good feeling.
The only thing worse was filling the blank. And I
hated filling the blank because that's what would decide whether
I really knew the material or not. And that's a
question I could grab a point here or there. Matching
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was a dream, and of course multiple choice, let's give
it a shot. But but but filling the blank comprehensive,
that's a tough ride right there. So So anyway we were,
we've been going, you know, all through this. So when
you hear Job reply to Zoe far or reply to
build Dad, or reply to any of them, he's always
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including everything he's heard, not just what he not just
what he just heard. So so one is simple. It
just that just know that Job's talking again. Uh, And
verse one says then Job answered, uh, And you're gonna
see Job, you know, you know how sometimes you're watching
somebody and you're in they're amazing person like Job and
all that he is going through and has been through,
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and you say, oh, you know what, I don't know,
maybe there's something to this, Maybe Job has got something
that I don't have. And then finally you'll see something.
You go you know what this is just a guy. Uh.
And this verse two will tell you that, because Job
replies this time and he's he's been a smart of it.
Uh and uh and I and I kind of dig that.
I was like, you know that this is this is
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a little more like if this was the book of Rick. Okay,
so instead of the book of Job. Uh. So he
he hears so far. Now keep in mind, you've heard
three friends in a row, and they're all on the
same page, and you're not on the page with any
of them. And so Job says, well, no doubt verse two,
you are the people and wisdom will die with you.
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And so what he says to them, boy, you guys
have all the wisdom. Where would the world be if
all y'all died at the same time, we would have
any wisdom left in the world. He does not mean
that he is being a smart aleck. So so he's
talking about how wise they are you three or really
something else? Where would I be without you? And where
would the world be? Uh? Without all of your wisdom?
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So then he goes into three. But I have understanding
as well as you. I am not inferior to you
who does not know such things as these. Have you
ever been there? Is there anything that disappoints you anymore
than you need something other than what you already know?
And somebody sits down and they walk you through it,
and you go, well, I know all that this was
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a complete waste of time to me. This is the
counseling version of you. Ever had a meeting that could
have been an email and you're like, well, I don't
even know why I'm here. I don't know why I
devoted the time to this. We've said nothing here that
we haven't said before. This could have been in an email. Well,
this is what job is saying. You don't when I
when y'all started to counsel me, I tell you what,
it would have been great if y'all were telling me
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something I didn't already know. I know what you know.
And that's why I'm perplexed, because this doesn't seem to
add up, and they're just sitting there regurgitating the same
thing that he already knows and doesn't understand. So he says,
y'all are not telling me anything that I don't already know.
We've all said these things. These are not new ideas.
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I'm fully aware right now everything you've said, I am
fully aware of. Okay, So now he's going into four.
I am a laughing stock to my friends, I who
called to God and he answered me, a just and
blameless man. Am a laughing stock?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Now?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Laughing stock is used twice by Job here, and so
what he's saying, and it's been a running thing, We've
hit it a lot, but he's going back again. He's saying,
it's as if all of you have forgotten my integrity.
It's as if all of you have completely forgotten the
things that you know about me. How did I go
from blameless and upright in God's eyes, in your eyes,
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and in society's eyes, and now you make a mockery
of me. I'm a laughing stock. Now everybody is ready
ready to pile on now and uh and they they
know the integrity and and they are taking you know,
you know Job And he's saying that that that you
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are seemed to be and I look, it's just bad
human nature. It's bad human nature. It's one of the
things I've talked about before, and there's no doubt that
these things can be true. But I've noticed one of
the reasons if you ever want to like get pushed
back and a sermon, or get pushed back in a
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small group or conversation, have the audacity to speak about
holiness when you do, because it's so convicting to people, immediately,
human beings will begin to tear you down, self righteous,
holier than thou. And sometimes that can be true if
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somebody has the wrong attitude. But I've noticed that many
times we will tear down someone who is talking about
something that is so convicting. We'd rather tear them down
than be convicted by what they're saying. We don't like
to be challenged by the fact that they actually may
be more devoted to the faith than I am, so
instead of just acknowledging that I have to find something
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wrong with them. And job is using language here to
suggest y'all are loving this, aren't you. Y'all probably got
tired of hearing about me being blameless and me being upright,
and deep down you might have said the right things
to me, but deep down you resented it. And this
is your moment. This is your moment to run me
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down and make me a laughing stock, and you're loving it.
Some things have been around for a long long time
and they're still just as prominent today as they airraft.
Let's be honest the world and sometimes being guilty of it.
Sometimes people convict you so much when they have a downfall,
you find yourself kind of digging it. Who thank goodness,
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they're just as flawed as I am. I was just
about to be convicted by their walk and they finally
did something stupid, And this is my time to pile
on and see they are no different the rest of us.
And so he is suggesting that that is going on here,
and he's embarrassed by the situation that he's in verse five,
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in the thought of one who is at ease, there
is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for those whose
feet slip. And we're saying right there, see, y'all can
afford to be smug right now, because you're not in
a situation I'm in right now. Now. You're still healthy,
you're still wealthy, and so this is a great opportunity.
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It's real easy when you're living the easy life to
stand there and be smug about the misfortunes of others.
You're in a real convenient situation right now, and uh,
and y'all can afford to be smug, I've lost everything.
Uh and uh, you know I'm down, and while I'm
down right now, from a place of comfort, you're piling on. Yeah.
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I felt that way, you know, well that somebody, somebody,
there's no way that they could even comprehend the situation
that you're in. Instead of having some empathy, they just
continue to throw rocks at you or our little one
liners from a place of comfort. And they don't want
to get down there and get in the dirt with you.
They don't want to get down there and bleed with you.
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's a I remember, and I've talked about this before
and that I don't mean to be as what my
mom would say, don't be smart about this, because y'all
know that's not my nature.
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But the yeah, I struggle with that. But I can
remember when my wife and I had to had to
go to war. Uh, And it made a very difficult stand,
you know, even against our own flesh and blood, when
it came to God's standard for intimacy, marriage engender and uh.
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And so we didn't just we didn't just take attack
from our our our loved one. We were taking an
attack from the entire movement and it's an ugly, ugly,
ugly bunch, and I mean horrifying things, terrible. I mean
it was an assault on us. I mean like having
to walk in and even tell my wife, do not
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read anything on social media, turn it off, don't even
look at it, don't pay attention. I'm talking about people
saying things I don't even want to utter. They were
so wicked and so evil. And that does not reflect
everybody who disagreed with us, but but they were some
there that really this was their opportunity and they couldn't
just disagree. They had to had to just wish evil
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things on you. And it was it was rough and
and it was so rough you could kind of see
people who who loved us and people who were our
friends kind of going, I'm not so sure we want
to get into battle, but know that we're praying for you,
and uh. And I would say, they would say, well,
what can we do for you? And they were so hoping.
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I would say, just keep praying for us. Honestly, I
didn't need him to keep praying for me. I had
God on my side, I was with him. I was
perfectly fine there. What I needed was people to defend us.
I don't know about that publicly, because they knew that
if they defended us publicly, then these same people were
going after them too, And so they were kind of like,
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let's just stay here and we'll pray for you and
inside the church where we all agree on everything, we'll
talk about it there, but we're not stepping into this
arena and taking on the world. We wish you all
the best. And it was real lonely. Uh And as
we were out there, you know, getting pumbled, and I think,
right now, what what you're seeing from from Job is
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he saying, this is this is not exactly what I
was looking for. You're in a place of comfort and
you're and you're piling on me, but you're not really
trying to help me. Uh So then we get to
verse six and seven they kind of go together, he said,
and this is this is important here, This is really important.
If you want to look for things to take away
this week, this one's a big one. Some of this
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has been you're like, yeah, we've talked about this stuff before,
but this is kind of a new one because you're
gonna see the first time. It's it's you've seen some foreshadowing,
but Job himself is going to make a point right
now that is going to kind of upend their flaw theology,
because what is the theology? You act bad, God gets mad,
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you act good. God blesses you. You're right with God,
you get blessed. You're wrong with God. He gets you.
Job's about to bring up a point, and he's about
to show them. I don't see that always being true.
So he says to this, the tints of robbers are
at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who
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bring their God in their hand, those are idols seventeen.
But ask the beast and they will teach you. The
birds of heaven and they will tell you. And then
we get into eight or the bushes of the earth,
and they will teach you. And the fish of the
sea will declare to you. Now listen, look at six.
Six is big. So he looked to his friends who
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have said, this is our theology, this is what we've
been sticking with. He says, I'd like to point out something.
We all know people who are breaking the law and
they're not being punished like me. We all know pagans,
they're not being punished like me. We know idol worshipers
that literally blaspheme God with their idols, and they're not
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being punished like me. Maybe our theology is flawed. Why
isn't God doing this to them? If my suffering is
tied to sin, why aren't they suffering. It's a big moment,
you see what he's making a pretty good point here,
because they know these people too. Have you ever believed
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something and it would stand as long as no one
pointed out some things going on that you weren't paying
attention to. It's kind of like when we have theology
that works as long as you leave out about ten
eleven verses, right, and then somebody says, I'd like to
bring these verses in, and you're like, well, I don't
really like those because it really makes my theology shaky.
And what our pure theology must include all scripture. And
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so what he's saying is he's not even talking about scripture.
He said, I can observe that evil people are not
being punished like me, And it's not up to that
they're evil. I mean up to debate that they're evil.
We know they are because they're worshiping false gods. We
know they are because they they're robbers and they steal
from people. We're not guessing about them. We know they're
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in sin unlike me, but they're not being punished. So
maybe it's possible that you could go on the other end.
If it's possible that evil people seem to go unpunished
on earth, not at the judgment seat, but on earth,
if they're not being punished for being sinful, is it
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possible I'm not sinful but still being punished. You see
how he's starting to work it, and he can't figured
it out yet, but he's starting to kind of, wait
a minute, I see a flaw in our theology going
that way, so it might be flawed going the other way.
Everybody's still with me. So then he comes back and
he says, really, you know, if you look at creation
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this is seven and eight, it'll tell you that God
is bigger than anything that you can imagine. Now here's
what's gonna be wonderful. What Joe was talking about in
seven and eight God when he gives his resume, I
think we know what chapter forty is that where that starts.
You're gonna see God basically do the same thing. Take
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a look at creation. Well, job's starting to figure that out.
If we look at creation. I mean, I'm telling you
how complicated God is. The beast will teach you, The
birds of heaven will teach you. They'll tell you are
the bushes of the earth, they'll teach you. The fish
of the sea will declare to you that I'm gonna
go out on a limb. Here, three friends, I believe
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that God's bigger than you can comprehend. Creation tells me that.
So here you feel Job working all this out, and
he's trying to bring them along for the ride, because
they don't. They seem like they're gonna stick on this.
They are locked and loaded on this theology and they're immovable,
and Job is starting to chip away at it. He's
starting to chip away at it. So now we get
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to nine, who among all these does not know that
the hand of the Lord has done this. God is
not so predictable, buddies, as you claim. We all, every
one of us, human and animal, know that God is
in control of the world. And you are trying to
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simplafy something that I don't think is that simple. He's
starting to go there, He's starting to realize this. I
think God's revealing something that we haven't known about him,
and when I think about him in creation, I can't
even wrap my mind around him. And then verse ten,
if he passes through women a wrong chapter on ten
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in his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all man kind. And you know what,
he's almost doing that in a rhetorical way to them,
going right, don't we also believe that? Don't we believe
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that God is in charge? Don't we believe that God
is in control of everything? Really? He goes Steve Farrar here,
don't we believe that even God has to allow us
to breathe? Right? If you were there making your case,
do you think they're starting to go, Oh, I don't
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know about all this. So if God's in control of
all things, wouldn't he also be in control of this?
And what's happening to me? And I've already pointed out
that he's in control of these other people? You think
God doesn't know how evil they are, But he's not
doing this to them, He's doing it to me. What
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is God doing something that maybe's bigger than what we've
known about him up to this point. Well, they answered that,
of course is yes, Look at eleven, does not the
ear test words as the palette taste food. Just as
the tongue decides what is good and bad when it
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comes to our food, the ear discerns what it hears
to be true or false. And he's letting them know.
My ear is hearing, y'all, and it's discerning based on
the facts I keep making that y'all may be off.
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Do we not do that? Just to hey, Just as
you could give me something to eat, and my palett
would tell me whether I like it or not, my
ear is discerning, and I don't like what y'all are
saying because I know the truth about myself. And then
he gets into twelve. Wisdom is with the ages and
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understanding in the length of days. All right, So Bill,
Dad and elephas here. We know that they would agree
because they're older, and they keep saying, is this not
what our fathers taught us? And what job is telling
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them here? Because remember this, this is the reason why,
And be real careful with everything that you see that's written.
You've got to really spend time on it. It's the
reason why I don't like texting things that are important
or emailing things that are important. You don't know people's
tone you don't hear their rise and fall of their voice.
But here, when you really study this, what he's saying is,
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y'all believe that right. And he's going to say, I'm
not so sure y'all think just because our fathers told
us this and y'all know this, and you're older and
you're aged, that you must be right. I'm telling you,
I'm not sure I buy that, because the aged can
be just as wrong as the young if they're not
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telling the truth. So now he's going to go through
thirteen said he said, let him know about about his
about his doubt. Now thirteen through twenty five, he's going
to kind of present God's government of the world. And
this is important because he's trying to say, you're seeing
everything just from the world's standpoint. God is bigger than
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these simple narratives that we come up with. So look
at thirteen. With God, our wisdom, and might, he has
counsel and understanding all three and job agree with this
truth that God's judgment is perfect. You ever do that,
you ever re establish I've had to do this even recently.
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Let's go back to what we're not arguing about. You know,
the greatest lawyers will always come in, and what would
they say? And these facts are not up for debate. Everybody,
the defense and the prosecution, we all agree with these facts.
So what he's saying to them? Do we all agree
that God's judgment is perfect? Of course they'd be like, well, sure.
So then he says, all right, if his wisdom and
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his counsel and his understanding are perfect. Fourteen. If he
tears down, none can rebuild. If he shuts a man in,
none can open it. God can do whatever he wants,
and there's nothing we or anyone can do to stop it.
You see the case Job's building. Maybe y'all thinking y'all
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know everything about God. You can't really say that, and
you're saying that you know what God's doing and why
he's doing it, And I think that's lofty of you.
God can do whatever he wants, but he would still
be right. And he says, so, if God decides to
tear me down or anyone down, there's nothing that I
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can do to stop it. But just because I can't
stop it, and just because God's doing it doesn't mean
you know why. He's bigger than that, and whatever he's
doing is perfect. But only he really knows everything that
he's doing. Look at fifteen. If he withholds the waters,
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they dry up. If he sends them out, they overwhelm
the land. Don't you love that? I mean, this same
God can take the water and take it away from me,
and then he can flood the same place that was
just dry. And of course he runs it all drought
or flood. So notice what he's saying here. These are
two things you don't want see. They would say, well,
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everything's right if God has the water where it should be. No,
he said no, No, when it dries up or we
got too much of it, He's in that too, And
he's telling me do you agree with that? I mean,
do y'all think that God's only in the plants are
green and when we all have plenty of deed and
the water's just right and the sunlight's just right? Or
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do you think he's also in when we have famine?
You think he's also in when everything's being flooded? Is
he in those things too? And the answer is yes,
we know that. So then we get into sixteen with
him our strength and sound wisdom. The deceived and the
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deceiver are his deception. Even when there's deception. And this
is a tough one, tough pill, jagged little pell. He said,
even when you've been deceived, God allowed it because something
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he could have stopped it. He could have given you perfect,
perfect clarity, couldn't he, So he said, So he's trying
to set up even though you are saying the same
the right things. Doesn't you haven't been deceived, even by
the things you think you know about God, so he says. So,
even when there's deception, God is still there because his
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wisdom is sound. So if you were deceived, then it's
not because the lack of God's wisdom, and even the
deceiver can be used by God to accomplish something he
wants done. Lucifer, Okay, so this is he, you see, job,
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He's really all around it here seventeen. He leads counselors
away stripped and judges. He makes fools. I wonder who
he's talking about when he talks about counselors. You think
that you think that one was being pushed back, y'all
think y'all give a better counsel than God. Okay, So
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God delights in undoing what he humans have done. How
many times throughout scripture do God say, and now I'm
going to reveal to you just how stupid you really are.
And I take great pleasure and showing you how wrong
you are about what you're doing. And and so, I mean,
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how many times have we seen this? Think? I mean,
think about how quick Neba Cazar went from look at
everything I've done to eating grass and having and sleeping
out on the ground. That didn't take long. Okay, But
when when Nebukan is doing this great monologue about himself,
God's like, I'm about to show this guy what an
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idiot he really is. And he and he digs that,
and he takes great pleasure in that he dismantles human enterprise.
The best we were taught this in Scripture. The best
human wisdom I'm talking about. The most intelligent people we
got are people who think they're intelligent. Are folly compared
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to God. How silly, how pathetic. This is the smartest
human being on the planet. The distance between our wisdom
and our intelligence and God is you can't even comprehend
how vast that gap is. And from time to time
God likes to remind us of that. And so he said,
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you may think you're a great counselor. He sends them
away striped, naked. And these judges that think they have
all this power, it don't mean anything to him. Look
at eighteen. He looses the bonds of kings and binds
a wastecloth on their hips. He can remove a king.
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Scripture tells us this what I love the analogy when
we're told in scripture that like I could take my
finger and move ice around and a drink. And he said,
that's about how much effort it takes God to take
a king and remove him, take a ruler and remove him,
take a nation and be done with it. And he says,
you can be a king. And before you know it,
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not only can he remove your authority. The other one
talks about them them having judgment and their decision. He says,
he can reverse your decision just like that, I the
king rule this. And God said, and I'm more reverse
that right now. That he said, that's how much we
we the distance between us. And then he goes into nineteen.
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He's gonna talk about He's gonna talk about priest. He says,
he leads priest away stripped and overthrows the mighty. You
know the thing I love about this researching this when
you look at the language here, and he didn't fail
to put priest in there too. God has He is
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not impressed at all with titles. Well, you may not
realize I'm a high ranking priest and God is not impressed.
You may not know I'm CEO of one of the
biggest companies in this country, in the world. I am
not impressed. You know, I was elected deacon. Maybe you
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should go mop the floor. Stop being so full of yourself.
I'm an elder, elder, wisdom wise, elder of the church.
I'm the pastor. He's not impressed with any of that,
and he says what he will do eventually. We've seen it. Hey,
we've seen some pretty high as my family will say,
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high falutin folks that God made fools of even inside
the church, right, massive ministries, all the things I've done
for the kingdom. Next thing, you know, God's knocked you
down just like that, and he says he is not
impressed with any title. He deprives of speech of those
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who are trusted, and he takes away the discernment of
the elders. Whatever it is. He can silence those who
think they have so much to say that's a great one.
Those that have so much knowledge, those that are such
gifted orators to God, he could deprive speech of those
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that everybody else thinks just you know, and it always
we're human beings, we do this, don't we. We saw
this even when we were studying, you know, the letters
to the Corinthians. You remember when Paul had to come
deal with everybody because they all started these factions of
who they liked. And of course there was a group
that loved Apollos, but they loved Apollos because he was
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a gifted ortor. That was really I mean, he certainly
got it right, even though he had to have some
theology lessons there, apparently from Priscilla and Aquilo. But at
one point he immediately developed a following why he was
a good speaker, you know, and I think I have
I told you all the story about me being humbled
about some of that by the guy that worked with
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by Graham for a long long time. I was on
a flight with him. We were going to do an
event together. And I won't give his name, but he
had worked with Billy Graham for a long long time,
and he was now an older man himself, and so
we'd never met, never met, and he was talking and
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I was like, man, I want to grab some wisdom
off this guy. At least I was smart enough to
try to do that. And this has probably been twenty
years ago. And so he said, so tell me about
what you do. And I told him what to do
and all that. He said, he said, you like to speak?
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I said, yeah, yeah, I really do. I really enjoy it.
Does it come easy for you? You feel like you
you get nervous about speaking or anything? I said, no, no,
not really. No. He said, been that way all your life.
I mean, did you ever get nervous about getting it
in front of people? I said, not really. No, nervous
about being on the radio, and I said and he
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just sighed and he said, boy, and I've met a
lot of people like you, and you're always going to
be a problem. And I said, what do you mean?
He said, because it comes easy for you. And he says,
you've got a gift that you still need to continue
to work on. He said, but when I'm afraid of
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he said, it's people like you. And I've seen it
time and time again. Because you know you can pull
it off, you'll stop preparing and he said, And then
what you'll do, You'll book yourself. Well, you'll be booked
so many places, you'll have no time to prepare. You
won't even be listening for God to give you a
new message. You won't want to learn anything new. You'll
have a handful of messages as you can do just
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like that anytime, anywhere, and you know you can pull
it off. And he goes, and that's when you're going
to be less effective, he said. My advice to you
today and people like you because I've met you a
bunch of times, and you can have a great ministry
because God gave you those gifts for a reason. But
I would speak less and I would pray more. And
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I thought, wow, And I can tell you that the
times that I've overwhelmed myself twenty twenty one, that I
have overwhelmed myself, I can hear that man's voice in
the back of my head, and I'm saying, and here
I am, this is exactly what he told me not
to do. I am frantic, i am overwhelmed, and I'm
going to the next date and I'm looking in my
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notebook for that message I've done a thousand times because
I know I can do it, And a lot of
times I wouldn't even have notes. I didn't even have
a notebook because I knew I could do that message
in my sleep. There's nothing wrong with having a message
you can do well, because it can be effective. But
it is wrong if you've stopped praying over it, and
you've stopped preparing and you just know and you're thinking
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about it as you're walking up to the podium. That
is a problem. And that's what he warned me about.
And so I've tried to do better, and I can say,
you know, it still has happened, but his voice is
still there. I'm still convicted by it when I know
that I'm doing it. And so this is kind of
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what Job is talking about, all those that think they
can deliver this and do all that. God can silence
you like that, and boy he can. And if we
ever get to where we're not doing it for him,
he'll shut us up pretty quick. So next he was
talking in twenty one, he said he pours contempt on
princes and he loosens the belts of the strong. Amos
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talks about this in chapter five eight Daniel, remember we studied.
Daniel talks about this too. What he's saying here is
he disarms the mighty. Okay, if you think you're a
big deal because you're a prince, and you think you're
a big deal because you're strong, he will disarm the mighty.
Now this would include armies, military, these sort of things. Remember,
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just because you think you're a mighty nation and you
think you have all this military and you have all
this strength, and you think you can go against God.
You think I'm so powerful now, I mean, God couldn't
stop me if he wanted to. He can stop you
just like that. Twenty two. He uncovers the depths out
of darkness and brings deep darkness to light. These are
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those verses I told you about Amos and Daniel. They
get more into the light. Here, God lights up dark things.
I mean, we are serving God. That has been put
on record. He allowed himself to be put on record
for literally saying, let there be light. And what did
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the verse say after that? And there was light? And
there was He just spoke it. And so Job is
thinking about that. He must be aware of that. He
must have some knowledge of that, because he's saying, you
know what, in the situation I'm in right now, and
the darkness is all around me. The God that I
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serve and the God that I've known, he could take
this darkness and he could turn it to light just
like that. And anywhere there is darkness of any kind,
he can always bring light. Twenty three. He makes nations great,
and he destroys them. He enlarges nations, and he leads
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them away. He builds nations, he destroys nations. Something that
I think that we in the United States of America
always seem to think, Well, surely it's not us. He
does that to other nations, but we're so special. He
would never do that to us, because we've been so good.
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We've done so many good things and we've served We
even have it on our currency and God us. We
don't act like it, but it's still on the money,
you know. And then we'll do things in society that
blaspheme him and then turn right around and actually say
God bless America. And I think sometimes he would love
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to shout for the heavens based on what Why should
I bless you? Are you still leaning off your resumes,
still talking about things you've done throughout time? What are
you doing now? And then there's a lot of sin
we've had to which we've worked through in our in
our nation. But we've had we've had some good moments too.
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God's usually to do some good things. We rebelled against him,
We've done some bad things. You know, I'm not afraid.
You know, we need to tell our whole history, good,
bad and ugly. But the bigger question is, even when
we're wrong, do we correct it? Do we repent? Do
we turn from the things that we did wrong? Have
we have we put him in his proper place? Or
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are we like most human beings unto them when we're scared.
That's the problem in that with prosperity, it's all gone it.
We just can't seem to handle it. We just don't
do real good with it. You know, a lot of
times when we ask God for prosperity, the very reason
he doesn't give it to us is because it would
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destroy us. I love you too much to give you that,
you know. I look back at things that I wanted
and things that I didn't get, and I have as
I get older, I'm understanding and thanking God for not
giving it to me because I would have made a
mess of it. It would have destroyed me. I thought
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I could handle things that he knew I couldn't. And
then there's things that I didn't think I could handle,
and I couldn't, but he showed me that he could.
So twenty four. He takes away understanding from the chiefs
of the people of the earth and makes them wonder
in a pathless waste. God seize the leaders, not just
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the nations, and they're all under his control. Hmmm. Again,
that's another thing we have to think about, don't we.
So wasn't it The bad ones are under his control?
You better believe it. The Bible tells us what He
puts them all on where they are? Wait, man, he
puts the bad ones there? He does? Why would he
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do that? I can give you a simplistic point of
view on that some Calhoun County. Now it's much deeper
than this, but I can give you some Calhoun County.
I will say that he puts leaders in positions sometimes
to bless people, and he puts leaders in positions sometimes
to punish people. But he put them all there. May
or will be done. Okay, this leader was my will?
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Really would it like to have maybe run that by
what you'd run that by? Me. But usually we get
the leaders that we deserve. But there's also what there's
also other things. I don't like this. I wish it
wasn't true. I wish that the church didn't perform so
well under duress, but it does. Have you ever been
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around people that live under persecution versus us, there's so
much more solid than we are. I mean, they they
don't even breathe without thinking about Jesus. And we have
to we have to have something bad happen to even
think about it. But see, every day for them, they
don't know where, they don't know when somebody's gonna come
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in the door and arrest everybody. They don't know where
they're gonna find their next meal unless God provides it.
Can Can you imagine going into these kind one of
these churches that's planted somewhere and walking in and asking
them what their budget is. They'll be like, what we
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pray to God for for everybody to get some food
this week? You know. I mean, like you and I
were just talking about. I found it, you know, without
somebody coming along. We had a pastor. I just found
about that. We all got together and tried to help,
you know, because we're all so overly blessed. And I
remember him saying, it would have taken us twenty years
to do this, But you know what, if that's what
it would taken, they would have just done it for
twenty years. So they got what they wanted, something we
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could have and like that, and we think that we're
closer to God than they are, and we always think
that we come up into their world and think we
have so much to give them, when really they have
so much to give us, because they're the real deal.
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You know, a lot of us are still in this
situation that if God took away everything you had today,
I wonder if you continue to serve him. They've already
passed that test. If you still have everything you need,
you hadn't passed that test yet, And maybe God won't
put you to give you that test, but they already
passed it. They're already beyond. You know, I gotta I
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gotta make sure this s don't become more important to
me than God is, because it's just so gone wonderful.
They don't really have that problem. They have found God
to be better than anything they have, and they have
a joy and a peace that is supernatural because we've
become so jaded on what we think is the key
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to peace and joy, and we couldn't be more wrong.
So many things that we call blessings are obstacles and distractions.
If we went to God and said, thank you for
that blessing, he goes, oh, I didn't give that to you.
That's something you dook that's actually been an issue between
you and me. I would have never given it to you.
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And so that's the thing that he's saying. He saying,
Look at the end of it all, all of this
knowledge and all of these leaders, God either puts them
there or he takes them away. We make a bit
deal out of them. To God, he could have them
wandering around on a pathless waste, with no direction whatsoever.
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When are we gonna stop being so unimpressed with God
and so impressed with people. Job's coming to the realization,
why do we think these people are such a big deal.
But let's be honest, most people, if we said we
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got a tent set up, we gotta, we gotta you've
never heard of him, never, It has no name whatsoever.
He loves the Lord. He's coming to preach, and we're
not gonna have we're gonna we're gonna get in there
and we're just gonna worship God this Tuesday. And we
at six thirty and we're just gonna unpack the word
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of God. Are you in versus Hey, a real popular
politician is gonna be doing a banquet. Now it's gonna
cost you four hundred dollars a play to be there.
Which one would you go to? H And that's the problem.
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And and he said, we're seeing these people in the
wrong way. Do they serve a purpose? Yes? Should we participate, sure?
Should we elevate? No? But we do we here? How
many you've been around somebody that the way that they
treat someone that the world's deemed important versus someone the
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world doesn't deem important. You ever, you ever watched their
personality change? Adrian Rogers uh said it? And it's a
crazy convicting. If you want to know a man's true
character our woman, watch the way they treat people that
can't do anything for them. True. So uh next in
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twenty five they grope in the dark without light. He
makes them stagger like a drunken man. How foolish are
we to sometimes think? I bet God's impressed with me?
I bet he just since Vegas says we're bad. Well,
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there's some popular worship songs right now that seem to
suggest that that he's just enamored with us. He just
said he can't get enough of us. And so what
you're seeing here does he love us? Yeah? Yeah, sure
he's Shawn. That hasn't he? Does he worship us? No,
He's the only one worthy of worship, and we seem
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to worship everything but him. And the last analogy, Job says,
all these people were impressed with compared to God, they
just grope around in the dark without light. They stagger
like drunken men. Now you're thinking, what's the takeaway from everything?
We've hit some things that we can apply, but there's
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something bigger going on here and we're done. There's something
bigger going on here. And it really blew me away
when it hit me when I was studying this from
especially from verse thirteen on, Job has done a glowing
tribute to the majesty and the might and the wisdom
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of God. No complaint, he has an he's mad upset.
We know this. He's distraught, he doesn't know what's going on. Hey,
we're in chapter twelve, Okay, he's been at this a
while and you would think all he's mad at his friends.
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He's really mad. He's really about to go off on
God and instead in his time of despair, and he
and his friends that are giving him bad advice in
bad theology, and listen, this is takeaway. Take away. You've
heard me say. This job is doing what we should
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tell each other and people that are not here that
we know, and those of you out there, and a
time of despair when you get down to the brink
and you're like, I don't know how much longer I
can go cling to what you know about God. And
what Job just did is he rocked back and he says,
I just want to talk about the majesty, the might
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and the wisdom of God. You don't hear complaining here,
and he's reminding his friends of the same thing. So
when we have everybody's attention, and oh how I wish
it wasn't true see us Lewis, we love you, buddy.
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He said it best. He said, pain and suffering is
God's megaphone for a sleeping world. I just talked to
a guy yesterday. It was child is with the Lord,
and I said, you got everybody's attention. Glorify the Lord.
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Everybody's watching to see if you'll turn on him, to
see if you'll lose your faith. And this was a
man of faith. They're all watching like never before. I've
told you all this a thousand times, and sometimes I
have to be careful that it doesn't make me bitter,
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because I finally have got any difficulty in my life.
I finally have got it in the proper place. And
the proper place is this. Lord, forgive me that I
am so sinful that it takes this for me to
be right with you. This is on me. It's not
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on you, it's not on anybody else. This is what
you've decided it takes for me. So people always say
you get angry with God. Nope, do you get angry
with other people? Yeah? I do. But most of all,
I'm disgusted that I'm that simple, that that's what God
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deemed is necessary for me to be in the right
relationship with Him to be the most effective. And I
will tell you that been a follower of Jesus since
nineteen ninety six, I have had an opportunity to stand
in front of a lot of people, and without fail
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every person who ever comes up to encourage me and say,
you and your wife's ministry has meant a lot to me.
And there's two things that have impacted me more than
anything else. With your own flesh and blood over God's
standard and the death of your son. They never mentioned
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anything else. You know why, because when the rubber meets rode,
that's when they start looking and say, let's see if
these people are real. Now does the other stuff matter?
Of course it does, of course it does. You want
to be good teachers, you want to keep having people,
you want to keep making disciples. All that matters, and
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it's important. I'm just simply telling you that when you're
in the difficulty, they're paying attention to us more so
than any other time. And maybe sometimes we have to
do what job just did and be reminded of who
we know God is. Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today,
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thank you for this incredible message, and thank you for
these men in the room and how much they've meant
to me, Lord, and what an encouragement they are. And
thanks to those men and women who take the time
every week and on a regular basis to be with
us to walk through your holy Word of God, and
they're encouraging emails and how they are there to encourage
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as well. If you're out there and today is maybe
the day for you, and you said, you know, I
just need some more information. I need to follow up
on the things I've heard. You can absolutely reach out
to me Rick at Burgessmanistries dot com and I'm happy
to help you any where I can. And if it's
something that is more in line with what my wife
can do, I'll be sure you connect connect you with
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her too. Lord. I just pray you be with us
as we leave today, and your holy name we pray
Amen
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Rick Burgess
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