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Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. My name is Rick Burgess.
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and I'll certainly let you know that. So let's open
up in a word of prayer and then let's jump
right in to Job chapter twenty. Lord, thank you for today,
thank you for the opportunity to open your Holy Word
and glean from this incredible historic moment, learning from Job
and his friends so many things. And today Lord, I
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pray that you continue to to be with us. We
pray for those Lord, that are hurting. We have a
special prayer today, Lord, is all the men together over
the Henson family. Lord Jordie Henson, who has been such
a warrior for your kingdom. We know that he is
now getting closer and closer to stepping into your presence,
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very very close. And pray that you'll be with his
family as they are walking through the end of an
incredible earthly life, but praising your name for the eternal
life that awaits. So Lord, you have told us in
Psalm thirty four, verse eighteen, that you're near to the
broken hearted, so we know that you're with them. But
we who are redeemed, when we are laying down the
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body of those who are also redeemed, we grieve in
a different way. We grieve with the hope that only
you have provided. And it's in your holy name we
pray Amen. So let's take a look at chapter twenty
so we know that last week, if you missed it, Jobs,
it's interesting to watch his battle. He's very upset with
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the attitude of his friends. They have not been very comforting.
They're making the accusation, which sadly will continue again today,
that he has done something wicked and he just needs
to come clean about it. That's why he's in all
this misery. Job continues to say, there's nothing that is
between God and me that I have not repented of.
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I am blameless in his sight. I don't know why
this is happening. I do know he's doing it, which
to me is one of the most interesting narratives of
this entire book that at no point do we see
Job of thinking Satan is doing anything. He knows God
is fully in control of this. He just doesn't know why,
so he keeps searching for that answer. And then, you know,
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last week it was interesting to watch him just all
of a sudden, out of nowhere, start get really hopeful, saying, look,
I know that my Redeemer lives. I know that God
knows the truth, and that's good enough for me. And
then he kind of goes right back and he warns
which is taking us here today? He warns his friends,
it's you that are gonna face God about the way
you're treating me. It's you that are trying to play God,
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and you are the ones that should fear of God
more so than me, because you're the ones that are
on the wrong side of him, not me. So that
kind of set up so far, who's not thrilled with this?
The last little thing that Job has told him? Now
here's the good news on so far. We're done with him.
After this, we don't hear from him again. If you
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remember Bill Dad, which we have heard now from twice,
he's more of the bulldog I'm coming after you. I'm
really getting on you. Zo Far always likes to thrill
us with his more poetic slicing of Job, and he's
gonna do some more of that today. If you remember Bill, Dad,
he went a little more on his second speech. He
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went a little more dynamistic. And what I mean by that,
look at the universe, the universe set tell Now, God
certainly behind the universe, but God is telling you that
this theology of you know, retribution to the wicked, it's
everywhere you look. But what you're gonna see so far
to do He's going to leave the dynamistic attitude about
look at creation, look at the universe. He's going to
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go back to the divine God administers justice on the wicked. Period.
So far doesn't say anything new, but it is the
last time that we hear from him. He seems annoyed
right out of the gate with job and his criticism
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of them. So he starts there verse twenty. I mean,
I'm sorry, Chapter twenty, verse one, that's just changing speaker.
As we know then so far the Naamite answered and said,
so that we just know so far as talking now,
he says, therefore in verse two, my thoughts answer me
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because of my haste within me, you know, we say,
and I'm really bothered by what you're saying. I'm pained
by what you've said about us, and now I have
some thoughts about it. Okay, I'm these things are coming
into my mind that I want to say, and because
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of there's some haste within me. I'm angry, I'm disturbed.
I'm going to proceed now. And so look at three,
I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding,
a spirit answers me. So far is ignoring Job's affirmation
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of hope, and now is going to solely concentrate on
being dishonored by Job. Here's here's what he is saying.
Think about the last thing that Job said. Look back
up here at twenty eight and twenty nine, that that
Job is let them know that there they got problems coming.
Okay in twenty nine, especially so so Far as respond
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Remember that's just happened. So now so Far is gonna
respond to that. And what he's saying here in three
is you warn us, Oh you're warning us? What? And
so now he's just gonna start in four and go
all the way through twenty nine and and here we
go again. He's gonna say, you're gonna warn us, and
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I mean, we're we're yet to hear you dispute this
long standing theology that God punishes the wicked period, and
he starts with four, do you not know this from
of old? Since since man was placed on earth? I'd
underline since man was placed on earth. Interesting, So again
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they seem to have some idea about Adam. They seem
to understand the fall. They they've heard this from somewhere,
they are aware of it. And so he says, job,
you know this is how God works sin since it
entered the world through Adam was placed on this earth,
and at that point it is God punishing those who sin,
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just like he did when Adam and Eve sinned. He
hasn't stopped this. Now again, these men leave out all
the also documented evidence of God's mercy. They just don't
seem to know it or understand it, or even consider
that part of God too. This is the problem. Remember
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we talked about it a lot in here, where we
tend to pick and choose. I've noticed a couple of
things about the church is that we were human beings,
so we're flawed. Nothing but beggars showing other beggars where
the bread is. So we're all very flawed, And I
guess it's just human nature that we just pick our favorites.
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I've noticed, like even in denominations, even with the Trinity.
Have you ever noticed in the denominations the trinities, the
Trinity kind of gets favoritism on what part of the
Trinity the church really likes. You know, some denominations for them,
it's all about the reverence of the Father. Everything's very
stoic home home. You know, we still got the organ
and it's all about the Father. Uh. And then you
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have you know, kind of more of the denomination I'm
part of. We're all about Jesus. We're all about the Son.
We're not quite comfortable with that crazy cousin the Holy Spirit. Uh.
You know, we do have reverence for the Father, but
we pretty much just immerse ourselves in the sun. We love.
It's all about Jesus. And then you have other denominations
it's all about the Holy Spirit. Uh. And if in
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the Holy Spirit it takes the forefront. What we should
do is we should get it balanced. The Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit should all be equal. But we
do tend to pick our favorites. Well. Same things with
the characteristics of God. You know, either I'm gonna come
in here and preach for fire and brimstone, God's wrath
and judgment, or I'm gonna come in here and I'm
gonna preach his mercy and his grace and his love. Well,
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we should preach it all. I mean, all of them
work together. As I've said a thousand times. We don't
understand grace and mercy if we don't understand judgment and wrath.
We don't understand the love of God, if we don't
understand how serious he takes sin. It all works together.
And if you take any of it out, you get
a flawed version of God. And so here they are
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with a flawed version of God. Now five, here's where
it's o far. He oh, oh, I'm gonna get poetic here.
I'm just gonna thrill you with words. He says, the
exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of
the godless but for a moment. Thank you so far.
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And it's poetic, but it's just the same old stuff,
just said in kind of a fancy way. He said, Look,
God's gonna punish the wicked, and their time here is
going to be short, and there is no joy for
the godless, but just for a moment, and remember the
reason why he's getting this kind of stuff from his
friends is they know at one time they could also
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not deny that job was blessed. So they're like, well,
I guess that was. Sometimes the wicked might have a moment,
but it's not very long, and eventually God takes all
that away from the wicked. Because you're going to see here,
you know where so far is going to go today
ill gotten gains. You might have had a lot of money,
and you might have had a lot of land. You
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might have had a lot of folks working for you.
But we're starting to see you must have got that
some way other than God blessing you, because He is
taking it all away from you. So here we go
in six again, wonderful friends. Though his height mount up
to the heavens and his head reached to the clouds,
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he's saying, now, keep in mind, the reason why this
is being said is because the the state job was
once in. No matter how wonderful job one may think
they are, God punishes the wicked. If you're being punished
whatever you were trying to convince us of of how
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wonderful you, no matter how much you think you were wonderful.
Because remember their accusation is that Job is so full
of himself he's trying to declare that for him alone,
their theology should change. Of course, this is true that
God is trying to show through Job that their theology
is flawed. But they can't believe Job would suggest that.
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So you're the first one this is not true about
Remember they've been hitting that a lot. So he's saying
it again. No matter how wonderful you may think you are,
you must not be because God's punishing you. Now we
go to seven. He will perish forever like his own dung.
But we'll look at our poetic this is This sounds
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a little more like where I'm from. Okay, those who
have seen him will say, where is he? This is
pretty This is pretty crude right here. From so far,
this is where you realize he's mad. He's trying to
hold together and be so smug, but he's mad. And
he says, God is gonna wipe you out. Uh and
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and you know what, He's gonna lower you and he
has to the same level as dunk Ungodly people disappear,
and they disappear without a trace. I remember my father,
as y'all know, speaking of the book had some very
colorful statements. Uh, and my dad would ought, well, this
is what he's said, and so far is quoting my dad,
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or my dad was probably quoting him, he just didn't
know it. My dad used to say he if he
really didn't like somebody, if he saw somebody that he
thought lacked character, he would say, that person right there
is as low as well the animal dung, and that's
on the bottom of the ocean. Now he didn't say dunk,
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but I mean he uh but uh, but it was
the same word that means dunge. Okay, and uh, and
he would think that's, you know, because he's that's about
as low as you can get because it falls to
the bottom of the ocean. And uh. And so anyway,
that's really kinda I didn't include this one, that one
in the book. Uh, this one is is kind of
kind of exactly what what Zofar is saying. Okay, Like
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my dad would have interpreted that verse for us with
no problem. So so verse eight, he will fly away
like a dream, not to be found. He'll be chased
away like a vision of the night. So now you're
just gonna see him as if you ever had arrogant people.
They're smug. You got the point. And what do they do?
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They keep giving you more examples of the same thing,
and you just kind of go, I had it at
the first example, okay. And they want to show that
they have multiple examples of how to say the exactact
same thing again. You know, there's thrilling us with their
ability to come up with yet another analogy for the
exact same point. And that's all he's doing right here.
He's he's on a rant. Now you know, you're gonna
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fly away like a dream, not be found. You'll be
chased away like a vision of the night. Now what's
different from that than he will perish forever like his
own dung. Those who have seen him will say, where
is he? He? We got it right there, But now
he wants to show us that there's more. I have
more ways to say. You're gonna vanish, and I got
Now you're gonna be just You're gonna be a dream
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that is fleeting. That's you, a vision and the night
just like you. That's that's how you're gonna be gone.
Verse ten. His children, Wow, I'm trying. Verse nine. The
eye that saw him will see him. No more, nor
will his place be anymore. Behold him, same exact thing.
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All this is is more vanished stuff. Okay, it's the
same theme. The eye that saw him is not gonna
see him anymore, or his place being anymore. Behold him.
Nobody's gonna see you it. You're gonna be wiped off
the face of the earth. You are a big deal.
You're gonna be gone. God's gonna be done with you.
None of us are gonna remember you. Okay, Now we
get to ten. Uh, his children will seek the favor
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of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
Now hang on to that. Here we go ill gotten gains.
This is when he really, I guess so far, finally
thought of something that he hadn't said in a while.
He's talking about in vanishing, you must have done something.
He wears that out pretty good. How dare you question
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us and warn us? But now he wants to say,
I tell you what happens to people who got things
in a wicked way. You know, they they they got it.
But guess what God's gonna do. God's gonna take what
you have since it's ill gotten, and he's gonna return
it to those who really deserve it. And to the
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children of the wicked. Now, keep in mind, all ten
of his kids are dead. They will fall, okay, and
and and they're gonna they're gonna have to deal with
your wicked ways. If you were wicked, you're gonna dump
it on your children. Of course they're all gone, but
he says, the wicked dumping on their kids. Listen to
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this now, and what is dumped on the kids the
task of settling their father's account. Well, you brought this
on your kids, the seal gotten gains. They're they're they're
dead because of you. God's wrath came down on them,
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because of how you've lived your life. Again, can you
imagine hearing that? And you're mourning the death of not one,
not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
not seven, not eight, not nine, ten children. And one
of your so called closest friends says, you brought this
on them so so now in eleven his bones are
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full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down
with him in the dust. Now what does this mean? Now,
this is something that they believed. Again, it was really
really flawed. They thought that if you died young. This
is because you're you're at odds with God. Yeah, because
if you're not at odds with God, you lived a long, prosperous,
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a lot of prosperous life. Now, we don't know how
old Job is here, but they seem to consider him
dying now as dying relatively young. Okay, so he saying,
you're you're likely gonna die young because you are wicked.
That's that youthful vigor that they're talking about. So, you know,
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Billy Joel, they think had it backward that only the
good die young. Here they're saying, no, it's the wicked
who died young. And you're not going to live a
long life. You're God about to kill you now, So
this must mean that he is upset with you now.
Verses twelve through nineteen is a double down. God will
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certainly punish the wicked now again, so far in his
ongoing analogies. Now he's gonna pick a bunch of eating analogies,
and he's gonna wear us out with all different analogies
about eating. So here we go. Though evil is sweet
in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue.
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Now this is something that conceptually is actually true. It's
just not what job's doing. But it is true. So
far is saying, look the wicked, they're evil. Ways they
may get some enjoyment for just a little bit of time.
You know that they're having fun. It's working out for
you for a little while, but at the end will
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be the opposite result. You know, evil may seem sweet,
but in the end it never satisfies. And he's right
about that. He's right about that, but he just thinks,
so let's take that truth and go, yeah, that is true.
The problem is he's he's making an accusation and it's
the wrong person. That's not what they're doing. But that
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is true. And you know, I've dealt with this before,
even doing what I do for a living. You know,
these people that are walking around and they can't wait
to be offended, you know. And for example, take take
pet owners. You know some of my favorites, and you
know there's some weird pet people, you know, and and
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so you'll say something like, you know, people need to
control their dog, and it's you shouldn't. People shouldn't have
to deal with your dog. You know, don't have your
dog jumping on people, sticking their nose, you know, in
private places, and and and jumping on people and you
know whatever, and then somebody will email offend didn't say, well,
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my dog didn't do that, But then I wasn't talking
to you. I mean that that doesn't apply to you.
I mean, you're actually a good pet owner, and I'm
sure your dog's a pleasure. So how are you taking
that at you? You know, I don't do that. Okay,
Well then you weren't included in that, and that and that,
so that that this is kind of the opposite. This
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is a universally true concept. It just doesn't apply to Joe.
And then he gets into to thirteen, though he loathed
to let it go, and holds it in his mouth.
It is delicious, wicked. Evil sometimes can be fun for
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a moment, but it's deadly food. And when you're wicked,
you know that it's deadly, but it tastes so good
you just keep on doing it. And that's what that's
what you've done. I know none of us can relate
to that, but but it's he He is saying that
what is it the I forget what the name of
that song was, and it says the very thing, the
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very thing that's killing me, makes me feel so alive
and so fourteen, Yet his food is turned in his stomach.
It is the venom of cobras within him. Going to
get some snake analogies in here too. What the wicked
and jest will simply turn his stomach. It's not He's
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not saying it's gonna sour in his stomach. That's not
the right interpretation here, more like poison, because he's brought
in the snake here and the venom. He's not just
saying it's gonna, you know, kind of make your stomach
sour back again. He's saying, ultimately, it's gonna kill you.
And that's what God's doing right now. You know you
have ingested this stuff, you have eaten it, you thought
it was good, you like the way it tastes, but
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ultimately it's going to kill you. Fifteen. He swallows down
riches and vomits them up again again, getting a little
crude here, mister poet. But again, why is he saying
that He is suggesting once again that God is taking
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his wealth away from him. He's gonna vomit it back
up or already has. And the reason why he is
vomiting his wealth back up his riches is why it
was ill gotten that. We don't know how you got
all this stuff, but apparently you did it in some
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devious way, because it's all coming back on you now
and you're losing all of it, you're regurgitating it back up.
It must not have been from God verse sixteen, he
will suck the poison of cobras, the tongue of a
viper will kill him. Apparently he liked introducing a cobra
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up here, and he thought, I wait a minute, I'm
done with snakes. I want to do a little something
else with snakes. So we're back to poisonous snakes again.
The bottom line here, this is not something new. We
know this again from the Fall of all mankind. Snakes
have always since the fall. They equal what they stand
for evil again. I know there's some weird people that
think the snakes got bad pr you know, other than
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the downfall of the human race. I don't know what
everybody's upset with them about. And the fact that they're
one of the few officially cursed animals we have on
the planet. I just can't find myself being talked into
feeling better about a cursed animal. I mean, if the
animal has been cursed by God himself. I think that's
an uphill climb if you're going to be in the
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pr marketing for it. So anyway, snakes have always equaled evil. Seventeen.
You ever just somebody who likes snakes a little too much,
You kind of find yourself taking a note of it. Yeah,
it's all right to be maybe interested in maybe watching
a doc room documentary on them. Shouldn't have them around
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the house. You know what, if you've got terrariums full
of snakes, our friendship is never gonna work, all right,
So I can't take that kind of pressure. Somebody, somebody
forgot to shut it real good, and we're all dead.
You know, if some if your little dog gets out,
I'm sure we're gonna be fine. But that snake's a
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different deal. Seventeen. He will not look upon the rivers,
the streams flowing with honey and curds. Uh, this is
the opposite. Now, now we've talked about the venom of
snakes and poison. Now we're going the opposite. We're going
to delicious things, the opposite of venom. So not only
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are all you gonna get is venom. Let me tell
what you're not gonna get You're not gonna get honey,
you're not gonna get curds. Have you have somebody ever
had the deep fried curds? If y'all had this yet,
it's like a cheese stick, but it's curds. Hey, let
me tell you something. The guy who trains me don't
know about them, but they're great if you have not
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right to today. I got a brother Nod and he's
had them. Let me tell you the courage are good.
So anyway, so honey and curd and he says, you're wicked.
So you're not going to get those poisoned. Yes, honey
and courage. No, because you are wicked, you're not going
to look upon rivers and streams flowy. You realize right
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here what he's also alluding to. I don't think you're
going to heaven. I don't think you're going to heaven.
He's really thinking that job is bound for hell. So
eighteen he will give back the fruit of his toil
and will not swallow it down. From the profit of
his trading, he will get no enjoyment. The wicked will
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eventually any of the things they gained, any any of
the good deals you made, any of the good trading
you did, any profits you pulled off from your labor,
God's taken it all away. And I tell you why,
because you cheated people to get it. I don't know
what you did, but you did. All this success you
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had as a businessman, God's taken it all away. So
all we can think of is all this that we
thought you had done so well and you were blessed
by God must not be true, because God's taken every
bit of it. All this work you did, all these
great ideas you had, all this good business you profited from,
and He's taking it all away. So we believe that's
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telling us you did something evil nineteen For he has crushed, crushed,
and abandoned the poor. He has seized a house that
he did not build. Okay, now, this is the first
time in this diatribe that so far is going to
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get specific, going to point out a specific sin. He's
finally going to do that he's taking He's telling him
right now, there's two things. I know, benevolence that belongs
to godly people. But let me tell who's wicked, those
that steal from the poor. I'm alleging that you stole
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from the poor. I'm alleging that you took advantage of
the poor. I'm alleging that your gain was their loss.
He makes a specific allegation now, because if you were
truly benevolent, then we would see it and you would
look godly. It's obvious that you have stolen. Now, that's
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the first time that so far gives him a specific
example of what he thinks he's doing. You're maybe the
maybe he was a landlord. You know, it says you
took the house from them. That what in yours? You know,
you you manipulated the poor. So we don't know, but
he's very he's very specific on that, that one twenty
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because he knew no contentment in his belly. He will
not let anything in which he delights escape him. What
we what we saying now, you're gluttonous, you know, the
sin that none of us like to talk about. You.
You're you're never satisfied. Now he uses, you know, the
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analogy of the belly here, you know, which is one
of the forms of gluttony. There there's certainly more than
than overeating, but it is also overeating. It's not left out.
It's something that I justified for a very long time
as y'all a lot of you know, until the Lord
finally just said, I don't know when you're gonna run
out of rope on this one. But you keep justifying
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sin in your life. Uh and uh and and I'm
never gonna be able to use you the way that
I could if you would just deal with this. And
so what he's saying is, you know, now that we
look back on how much you had, you're a bit
of a glutton. Seemed like you were never satisfied. Maybe
you were too wealthy, maybe you over did well. When
was it ever enough for you? It's like you were
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never satisfied. So I tell you what I'm gonna say.
I'm going to make another accusation. I think you're greedy.
I think you over indulged. And maybe that's what God
is upset about, you know. And uh and let me
tell you this. You might have built up a lot
of stuff. This is the fate that is that awaits
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all the wicked. You might have thought you could be
so important and so wealthy and have so much that
you could somehow balue by your way out of God's punishment.
You can't do it. You manipulated the poor, You took
from the poor, and you're greedy. He had morning. You've
been pretty specific now, it was never enough for you.
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Now I want to just for a minute land there,
because I know that when you think about human beings
and job's innocent. Okay, So I'm not saying that. I
just want to talk about human beings in general, and
even myself. I'm talking about myself. Remember everything I always
comes from here. First. I just think about how disgusting
it must be for God when he looks down on me.
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And I don't know your situation in general. I think
this is true, not specific to every one of you.
You know, don't be like the woman who took every
dog real well, but that's not what I do with that.
I'm not talking to you, okay, But do you think
God just sometimes it's just nauseated by the fact that
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we just never seemed to tell him You've done plenty.
I have plenty. I'm content how many more times when
we come back to him and say, well, now, I
told you, if you just do this, I'd be at peace.
And I just don't want you to do this one
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more thing for me. If I just had this one
more thing, if I if I just had had a
little little more money, if I just had a little
bigger house, I've just had that car that I really
want instead of this one that I mean, it runs fine,
but it's not the one I wanted. You know, if
I was if I was a little more of this,
a little more that, if my business was a little
more successful. You know, we can be guilty of never
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being satisfied. It's never enough. I know that you redeem me.
I was going to hell and you went to the cross,
and thank you for that. I'm sure that was very uncomfortable,
but I want more than that. I'm not satisfied with
just redemption. I want you to do something else for
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me too. Then maybe I'll be really all in. I'm
here to tell you that if God never did another
thing other than the Cross, I mean nothing, He's done enough,
and Job did not have the attitude that nothing was enough.
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We'll find this out later. But that's one of the
things that Zo far believes about him. It thinks he
knows about him, or it must be that. But it
is a good time for us to sit back and
go Could that accusation be made about me and actually
be more accurate than it is? On Job twenty one,
there was nothing left after he had eaten. Therefore, his
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prosperity will not endure. You didn't leave anything for anybody else.
You took it all for yourself, Joe. By the way,
there's no evidence most of the people that work with
Job actually thought he was great. I mean, the indication
was is he was selfless and he did care for others,
and that he did try to take care of everybody.
But no, so far says you kept it all for yourself.
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You're just so greedy, You just so gluttonous that you
know what, You were so prosperous and left nothing for
anybody else. But let me tell you something, God's gonna
take it away from you. You have been a oppressor
and you're gonna be plunged into poverty. No food left,
riches are fleeting. You're gonna know what everybody else that
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you op press feels like God's given it back to you.
Twenty two. In the fullness of his sufficiency, he will
be in distress. The hand of everyone in misery will
come against him. Ohe all these people that you mistreated, Joe,
They're coming for you. There's gonna be the demise of
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the wealthy, but because it was ill gotten, the fall of
the powerful, the humiliation of the proud, the collapse of corporations,
the sudden death of those who proudly thought they were immortal.
He's broken you down, Joe, because of your attitude and
the way you treat your people and all those people
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you mistreated. It's payback time. They're coming for you, and
you will fall twenty three to fill his belly to
the full, God will send his burning anger against him.
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Let me tell you what you're gonna get. You're gonna
get a belly full of God's wrath. You filled your
belly and overfilled it, and you've been gluttonous with all
the things of this world, all the food, all the money,
all the land, all the wealth. Well, your belly's about
to be full of God's anger. That's what you're gonna
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be full of. Now. I just can't imagine. This is
where you have to be careful. I remember when I
was talking to John Lennox If I mentioned that before
he's he was, you know, an apologist. He's a scientist
of a scientists of mathematics mathematics at Oxford, Cambridge, and
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he went out, you know, defending the faith and taking
on some of the Remember when we had the four
Horsemen of the atheist movement, you know, it was the
first evangelical atheist we'd ever experienced, which was weird, and
and he was debating them, and we got into discussion
one time about how Galileo was removed from the church
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because he said that the earth moves around the sun.
The sun does not move around the earth, and that
was blasphemy because the church at the time said no, no,
No scripture says otherwise, and they doubled down on it.
And I think that Galileo was put back in good
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standing with the church in nineteen ninety four. Okay, So
John Lennox said, some some times when you take your
theology and you stop learning, and you stop seeking God,
and you stop learning about God, and you double down
on these things, and you don't keep seeking, you don't
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keep praying, he goes, there may come a day where
you have to go to people and say I was wrong,
the church was wrong, and Galileell was right, but they
were convinced by flawed theology that he was wrong. So
be careful, be careful for any of us to think
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you've ever gotten to the point where you figured it
all out and you know everything about God and you
know everything, and so you take that in every situation,
no matter how much God may be teaching you something different,
you will not budge. I can raise my hand how
many of you can remember early in your faith that
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you had bad theology? My hands up. You learn things
maybe when you were little, and you didn't quite understand it,
and you applied it the wrong way, and God had
to correct it and you were like, oh, and somebody
had to show you some scripture and you're like, oh,
I didn't know that was in there, you know, And oh,
I think I have that wrong. And so this is
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what's happened to these men, because this is the part
I can never get passed. Their flawed theology was so
strong that it really violated something that I thought would
always solve it what's actually happening, But it didn't work.
I mean, they're now giving a version of Job that
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at one time they would have never given. I mean,
if you walked up to them before all this suffering
and said I think Job's an oppressor, they'd be like,
are you crazy? You're talking about Job. You're talking about
one of the most respected men in our entire community.
But now they've forgotten everything that they knew about Job.
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They've forgotten about every day he lived his life. They
forgot about every single testimony about him that they knew
and others, all because they refuse to consider that the
theology might be wrong. He's not getting the benefit of
the doubt, no matter how much integrity he lived. And
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I think we've all seen it, right. I don't know.
Have you ever had somebody you had one thing that
they thought about you that was wrong, and they took
everything they knew about you and just threw it away
in a moment. My hands up. I'm dealing with some
of that now. And you find yourself going, do you
realize how many things you have to forget to believe
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this about me? Now? You can come ask me about it,
and you can let's get clarity on it. Oh no, no,
we want to ask you about it. We'll stand far
off and up on the hill and will look down
and will make these accusations. It will never come to you.
You know what's always funny when people go after you,
and they and one of the things they want you
to know is how well they know the Bible and
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the very way they're going after you violates what the
Bible says to do about this. I said, I guess
you forgot. You didn't read any of the parts about
how you handle a disagreement, how you handle an accusation,
how you handle you know you've been hurt, so all
that's thrown out, and you're still going to bring the
judgment down to person using your knowledge of the Bible
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is the reason you're going to And the very way
you're judging them, and the very way you're handling them
is exactly opposite of how the Bible said to handle it.
I usually don't put any weight whatsoever. And an accusation
from someone within the church about someone else within the church,
if the first answer to the question is have you
gone to them? If they say no, then I'm done
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until you go to them. I don't want to hear
about it, because that's what we're supposed to do. That's
what Batthew eighteen tells us to do, their first thing to do.
And so if you don't do that, then just shut
your mouth. And so right now they're throwing out everything
they've ever known about job because their theology, which is wrong.
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They will not consider seeking God for some clarity that
maybe they didn't know as much about God as they
thought they did. Twenty four. He will flee from an
iron weapon, A bron's arrow will strike him through. This
is not pleasant. He's saying, it's going to be one
disaster after another for you, the godless, the godless job.
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You know what you get. You don't just get one calamity.
You get a series of calamities. And look at twenty five.
It is drawn forth and comes out of his body.
The glittering point comes out of his gallbladder. Terrors come
upon him. The sword is is put through you, or
it could be the arrows. Then it's pulled back out
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of the body. And you know what has done now
this gallbladder here, believe it or not. The English Standard
version comes back and says, we think gallbladder. Some of
the other English translations go with the liver. But the
bottom line is that this Hebrew word is kind of
hard to find the exact organ. There's some disagreement on that,
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but it doesn't matter. The bottom line is you're going
to receive an injury that is deadly. One of your
major organs is going to be destroyed. Something that you
would not survive a mortal one does. That makes sense?
So now twenty six utter darkness is laid up for
his treasures. A fire not fanned will devour him. What
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is left in his tent will be consumed. Nothing is
going to be left Job, nothing. A fire that cannot
be put out will all time destroy everything. Now keep
in mind this reference to the tent here also is
a little bit of a fallback to what God did
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to his children, or Satan did, but God allowed. Twenty seven.
The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will
rise up against him. Look, Joe, the guilt of the wicked,
it's going to be brought into the light. By the way,
he's right about that. The Bible tells us that things
that are done in darkness will eventually be brought into
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the light. That is true. The problem is is he's
saying that Job has something that needs to be brought
into the light, and that part is not true. Again,
the concept true, the accusation against the person doesn't hold up.
Twenty eight The possessions of his house will be carried away,
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dragged off in the day of God's wrath. Now notice
this carrying away. We're getting into a flood analogy. Now, okay,
everything is going to be carried away, you know, by water, river, flooding,
and all of this, this whole flood, this destruction is
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going to be from the hand of God. Ultimately it
may be done through flooding, but God is the one
who's behind it. And when all this stuff's being taken
away from you, that is going to be by the
hand of God. God's the one doing this to you.
Job which Job agrees with it, just doesn't know why.
And they're saying, well, we know why you're wicked. Job's like,
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I'm not wicked, of course you are. Twenty nine. This
is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed
for him by God. Now Here this is interesting, and
we're getting ready to close. Notice that nowhere in these
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final verses, when so far is correctly saying that God,
his hand and his wrath is what causes all this
and the reason why this is happening is because you're wicked.
He has that part wrong. But have you noticed which
tells you that God is still teaching them about himself.
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Have any of you throughout this whole study, We're now
twenty plus weeks into this. Okay, has anybody heard any
of his friends when they talk about all they know
about God, ever mention mercy, ever mentioned grace, ever mentioned repentance.
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They've never mentioned it. Never one time when they refer
to God, which tells us what they don't know everything
about God. Apparently they know nothing about mercy and grace.
I don't know why, but I can't think of one
monologue they've done that they've mentioned, May God have mercy
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on you, May God, you know, forgive you he he
you know, God is merciful. Uh, They're talking about wrath, wrath, wrath, wrath,
and they do call job to admit it, and maybe
God all relent, relent wish, which that that's sort of
a form of repentance. But they haven't talked about God
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offering any mury mercy. Only they are just saying wrath
is coming. And where they're flawed is they're saying and
that's all the wicked can expect. Well, not if the
wicked repents, Not not if God offers mercy and God
offers grace. So you can see they have no concept
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of this part of God, and they don't have any
concept about God. Refining people through through suffering. Now here's
here's where I'll go ahead and give you because I
know some of you need this. I know what we're
all doing now because it's like watching a show. When
somebody's being wrong, we begin to scream to the TV,
don't we When when is this going to When is
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this going to come to life? When is the truth
going to be out? When are they going to be
told they've got the story wrong? Can somebody please? I
can't take much more of this misunderstanding? Right? These people
have this wrong. You're screaming that's not what happened. You
ever screamed that this is not what happened, and you're waiting.
I will go ahead and tell you that. Next week
we're not going to get all the way there because
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his friends don't listen, but I do love that. Next week,
Job is finally going to say again, he's mentioned it
in passing and they ignored it. He's going to try
again and they'll ignore it again. But he's going to
try it again. He's going to say to so far
and to his friends, but the wicked do prosper? You're
wrong about that. We see that we could people prospering
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all the time. You're you're making this real simple. Wicked
people get punished, good people get blessed. But our own
observations tell us that can't be true. They ultimately pay
a price if they don't repent. But to say that
wicked people never prosper, they do. And he's going to
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point to that next week will be ignored. But he
will point to it again next week. So let's pray, Lord,
thank you for our time together. Thank you for this ongoing,
very very intriguing study. Provocative, to say the least. Lord,
As we approach at the time this study was done live,
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we are just a few days from the declaration of
independence from when the country in which we live decided
that tyranny and unchecked power was undesirable, and as a
country desired to to govern themselves, Lord, we certainly want
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to reject the tyranny of an earthly king. But as
much as we may say that we're free in this country,
if we're not redeemed, we're not free at all. The
only true free people are those that have been freed
from the penalty of sin. These freedoms that we cling
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to and we certainly should be thankful for. And the
ability to achieve our maximum potential through maximum liberty. Certainly
fine here on earth, and it's not a bad thing.
But I can have all the liberty that a constitution
gives me. But if I don't have repentance, I got nothing.
I'm still in slavery because I'm a slave to sin.
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And ultimately, Lord, I will face the king of kings,
not face a constitutional republic. I will not face a democracy.
I will face a dictatorship. But oh, how wonderful to
be under the authority of a benevolent king. A king
that lowered himself and came to us when we could
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not come to him, A king that went to a
horrible cross and took the punishment that an earthly king
would have handed out on the people, not on himself.
May we seek true freedom and the redemption that you
provided for us and your son, Jesus, May today we
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want true freedom by turning from our sin and repenting
of our sin, and then turning away from your wrath
and judgment and to your mercy and grace, and just
ask you to forgive us. And we believe that forgiveness
is available through the sacrifice of your son. And we
believe that eternal life is available through the defeating of
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day by your son, and we beg you Lord to
forgive us. And maybe you're out there, maybe today's the
first time you've ever done that, or the first time
you ever meant it. Well, if that's the case, then God,
here's your Christ for repentance, and He through Jesus will
make you free. Indeed, in the glorious name of Jesus,
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we pray Amen.
Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. My name is Rick Burgess.
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Com in our store there probably mid to late August,
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and I'll certainly let you know that. So let's open
up in a word of prayer and then let's jump
right in to Job chapter twenty. Lord, thank you for today,
thank you for the opportunity to open your Holy Word
and glean from this incredible historic moment, learning from Job
and his friends so many things. And today Lord, I
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pray that you continue to to be with us. We
pray for those Lord, that are hurting. We have a
special prayer today, Lord, is all the men together over
the Henson family. Lord Jordie Henson, who has been such
a warrior for your kingdom. We know that he is
now getting closer and closer to stepping into your presence,
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very very close. And pray that you'll be with his
family as they are walking through the end of an
incredible earthly life, but praising your name for the eternal
life that awaits. So Lord, you have told us in
Psalm thirty four, verse eighteen, that you're near to the
broken hearted, so we know that you're with them. But
we who are redeemed, when we are laying down the
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body of those who are also redeemed, we grieve in
a different way. We grieve with the hope that only
you have provided. And it's in your holy name we
pray Amen. So let's take a look at chapter twenty
so we know that last week, if you missed it, Jobs,
it's interesting to watch his battle. He's very upset with
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the attitude of his friends. They have not been very comforting.
They're making the accusation, which sadly will continue again today,
that he has done something wicked and he just needs
to come clean about it. That's why he's in all
this misery. Job continues to say, there's nothing that is
between God and me that I have not repented of.
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I am blameless in his sight. I don't know why
this is happening. I do know he's doing it, which
to me is one of the most interesting narratives of
this entire book that at no point do we see
Job of thinking Satan is doing anything. He knows God
is fully in control of this. He just doesn't know why,
so he keeps searching for that answer. And then, you know,
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last week it was interesting to watch him just all
of a sudden, out of nowhere, start get really hopeful, saying, look,
I know that my Redeemer lives. I know that God
knows the truth, and that's good enough for me. And
then he kind of goes right back and he warns
which is taking us here today? He warns his friends,
it's you that are gonna face God about the way
you're treating me. It's you that are trying to play God,
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and you are the ones that should fear of God
more so than me, because you're the ones that are
on the wrong side of him, not me. So that
kind of set up so far, who's not thrilled with this?
The last little thing that Job has told him? Now
here's the good news on so far. We're done with him.
After this, we don't hear from him again. If you
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remember Bill Dad, which we have heard now from twice,
he's more of the bulldog I'm coming after you. I'm
really getting on you. Zo Far always likes to thrill
us with his more poetic slicing of Job, and he's
gonna do some more of that today. If you remember Bill, Dad,
he went a little more on his second speech. He
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went a little more dynamistic. And what I mean by that,
look at the universe, the universe set tell Now, God
certainly behind the universe, but God is telling you that
this theology of you know, retribution to the wicked, it's
everywhere you look. But what you're gonna see so far
to do He's going to leave the dynamistic attitude about
look at creation, look at the universe. He's going to
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go back to the divine God administers justice on the wicked. Period.
So far doesn't say anything new, but it is the
last time that we hear from him. He seems annoyed
right out of the gate with job and his criticism
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of them. So he starts there verse twenty. I mean,
I'm sorry, Chapter twenty, verse one, that's just changing speaker.
As we know then so far the Naamite answered and said,
so that we just know so far as talking now,
he says, therefore in verse two, my thoughts answer me
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because of my haste within me, you know, we say,
and I'm really bothered by what you're saying. I'm pained
by what you've said about us, and now I have
some thoughts about it. Okay, I'm these things are coming
into my mind that I want to say, and because
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of there's some haste within me. I'm angry, I'm disturbed.
I'm going to proceed now. And so look at three,
I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding,
a spirit answers me. So far is ignoring Job's affirmation
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of hope, and now is going to solely concentrate on
being dishonored by Job. Here's here's what he is saying.
Think about the last thing that Job said. Look back
up here at twenty eight and twenty nine, that that
Job is let them know that there they got problems coming.
Okay in twenty nine, especially so so Far as respond
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Remember that's just happened. So now so Far is gonna
respond to that. And what he's saying here in three
is you warn us, Oh you're warning us? What? And
so now he's just gonna start in four and go
all the way through twenty nine and and here we
go again. He's gonna say, you're gonna warn us, and
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I mean, we're we're yet to hear you dispute this
long standing theology that God punishes the wicked period, and
he starts with four, do you not know this from
of old? Since since man was placed on earth? I'd
underline since man was placed on earth. Interesting, So again
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they seem to have some idea about Adam. They seem
to understand the fall. They they've heard this from somewhere,
they are aware of it. And so he says, job,
you know this is how God works sin since it
entered the world through Adam was placed on this earth,
and at that point it is God punishing those who sin,
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just like he did when Adam and Eve sinned. He
hasn't stopped this. Now again, these men leave out all
the also documented evidence of God's mercy. They just don't
seem to know it or understand it, or even consider
that part of God too. This is the problem. Remember
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we talked about it a lot in here, where we
tend to pick and choose. I've noticed a couple of
things about the church is that we were human beings,
so we're flawed. Nothing but beggars showing other beggars where
the bread is. So we're all very flawed, And I
guess it's just human nature that we just pick our favorites.
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I've noticed, like even in denominations, even with the Trinity.
Have you ever noticed in the denominations the trinities, the
Trinity kind of gets favoritism on what part of the
Trinity the church really likes. You know, some denominations for them,
it's all about the reverence of the Father. Everything's very
stoic home home. You know, we still got the organ
and it's all about the Father. Uh. And then you
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have you know, kind of more of the denomination I'm
part of. We're all about Jesus. We're all about the Son.
We're not quite comfortable with that crazy cousin the Holy Spirit. Uh.
You know, we do have reverence for the Father, but
we pretty much just immerse ourselves in the sun. We love.
It's all about Jesus. And then you have other denominations
it's all about the Holy Spirit. Uh. And if in
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the Holy Spirit it takes the forefront. What we should
do is we should get it balanced. The Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit should all be equal. But we
do tend to pick our favorites. Well. Same things with
the characteristics of God. You know, either I'm gonna come
in here and preach for fire and brimstone, God's wrath
and judgment, or I'm gonna come in here and I'm
gonna preach his mercy and his grace and his love. Well,
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we should preach it all. I mean, all of them
work together. As I've said a thousand times. We don't
understand grace and mercy if we don't understand judgment and wrath.
We don't understand the love of God, if we don't
understand how serious he takes sin. It all works together.
And if you take any of it out, you get
a flawed version of God. And so here they are
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with a flawed version of God. Now five, here's where
it's o far. He oh, oh, I'm gonna get poetic here.
I'm just gonna thrill you with words. He says, the
exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of
the godless but for a moment. Thank you so far.
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And it's poetic, but it's just the same old stuff,
just said in kind of a fancy way. He said, Look,
God's gonna punish the wicked, and their time here is
going to be short, and there is no joy for
the godless, but just for a moment, and remember the
reason why he's getting this kind of stuff from his
friends is they know at one time they could also
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not deny that job was blessed. So they're like, well,
I guess that was. Sometimes the wicked might have a moment,
but it's not very long, and eventually God takes all
that away from the wicked. Because you're going to see here,
you know where so far is going to go today
ill gotten gains. You might have had a lot of money,
and you might have had a lot of land. You
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might have had a lot of folks working for you.
But we're starting to see you must have got that
some way other than God blessing you, because He is
taking it all away from you. So here we go
in six again, wonderful friends. Though his height mount up
to the heavens and his head reached to the clouds,
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he's saying, now, keep in mind, the reason why this
is being said is because the the state job was
once in. No matter how wonderful job one may think
they are, God punishes the wicked. If you're being punished
whatever you were trying to convince us of of how
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wonderful you, no matter how much you think you were wonderful.
Because remember their accusation is that Job is so full
of himself he's trying to declare that for him alone,
their theology should change. Of course, this is true that
God is trying to show through Job that their theology
is flawed. But they can't believe Job would suggest that.
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So you're the first one this is not true about
Remember they've been hitting that a lot. So he's saying
it again. No matter how wonderful you may think you are,
you must not be because God's punishing you. Now we
go to seven. He will perish forever like his own dung.
But we'll look at our poetic this is This sounds
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a little more like where I'm from. Okay, those who
have seen him will say, where is he? This is
pretty This is pretty crude right here. From so far,
this is where you realize he's mad. He's trying to
hold together and be so smug, but he's mad. And
he says, God is gonna wipe you out. Uh and
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and you know what, He's gonna lower you and he
has to the same level as dunk Ungodly people disappear,
and they disappear without a trace. I remember my father,
as y'all know, speaking of the book had some very
colorful statements. Uh, and my dad would ought, well, this
is what he's said, and so far is quoting my dad,
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or my dad was probably quoting him, he just didn't
know it. My dad used to say he if he
really didn't like somebody, if he saw somebody that he
thought lacked character, he would say, that person right there
is as low as well the animal dung, and that's
on the bottom of the ocean. Now he didn't say dunk,
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but I mean he uh but uh, but it was
the same word that means dunge. Okay, and uh, and
he would think that's, you know, because he's that's about
as low as you can get because it falls to
the bottom of the ocean. And uh. And so anyway,
that's really kinda I didn't include this one, that one
in the book. Uh, this one is is kind of
kind of exactly what what Zofar is saying. Okay, Like
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my dad would have interpreted that verse for us with
no problem. So so verse eight, he will fly away
like a dream, not to be found. He'll be chased
away like a vision of the night. So now you're
just gonna see him as if you ever had arrogant people.
They're smug. You got the point. And what do they do?
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They keep giving you more examples of the same thing,
and you just kind of go, I had it at
the first example, okay. And they want to show that
they have multiple examples of how to say the exactact
same thing again. You know, there's thrilling us with their
ability to come up with yet another analogy for the
exact same point. And that's all he's doing right here.
He's he's on a rant. Now you know, you're gonna
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fly away like a dream, not be found. You'll be
chased away like a vision of the night. Now what's
different from that than he will perish forever like his
own dung. Those who have seen him will say, where
is he? He? We got it right there, But now
he wants to show us that there's more. I have
more ways to say. You're gonna vanish, and I got
Now you're gonna be just You're gonna be a dream
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that is fleeting. That's you, a vision and the night
just like you. That's that's how you're gonna be gone.
Verse ten. His children, Wow, I'm trying. Verse nine. The
eye that saw him will see him. No more, nor
will his place be anymore. Behold him, same exact thing.
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All this is is more vanished stuff. Okay, it's the
same theme. The eye that saw him is not gonna
see him anymore, or his place being anymore. Behold him.
Nobody's gonna see you it. You're gonna be wiped off
the face of the earth. You are a big deal.
You're gonna be gone. God's gonna be done with you.
None of us are gonna remember you. Okay, Now we
get to ten. Uh, his children will seek the favor
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of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.
Now hang on to that. Here we go ill gotten gains.
This is when he really, I guess so far, finally
thought of something that he hadn't said in a while.
He's talking about in vanishing, you must have done something.
He wears that out pretty good. How dare you question
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us and warn us? But now he wants to say,
I tell you what happens to people who got things
in a wicked way. You know, they they they got it.
But guess what God's gonna do. God's gonna take what
you have since it's ill gotten, and he's gonna return
it to those who really deserve it. And to the
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children of the wicked. Now, keep in mind, all ten
of his kids are dead. They will fall, okay, and
and and they're gonna they're gonna have to deal with
your wicked ways. If you were wicked, you're gonna dump
it on your children. Of course they're all gone, but
he says, the wicked dumping on their kids. Listen to
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this now, and what is dumped on the kids the
task of settling their father's account. Well, you brought this
on your kids, the seal gotten gains. They're they're they're
dead because of you. God's wrath came down on them,
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because of how you've lived your life. Again, can you
imagine hearing that? And you're mourning the death of not one,
not two, not three, not four, not five, not six,
not seven, not eight, not nine, ten children. And one
of your so called closest friends says, you brought this
on them so so now in eleven his bones are
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full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down
with him in the dust. Now what does this mean? Now,
this is something that they believed. Again, it was really
really flawed. They thought that if you died young. This
is because you're you're at odds with God. Yeah, because
if you're not at odds with God, you lived a long, prosperous,
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a lot of prosperous life. Now, we don't know how
old Job is here, but they seem to consider him
dying now as dying relatively young. Okay, so he saying,
you're you're likely gonna die young because you are wicked.
That's that youthful vigor that they're talking about. So, you know,
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Billy Joel, they think had it backward that only the
good die young. Here they're saying, no, it's the wicked
who died young. And you're not going to live a
long life. You're God about to kill you now, So
this must mean that he is upset with you now.
Verses twelve through nineteen is a double down. God will
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certainly punish the wicked now again, so far in his
ongoing analogies. Now he's gonna pick a bunch of eating analogies,
and he's gonna wear us out with all different analogies
about eating. So here we go. Though evil is sweet
in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue.
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Now this is something that conceptually is actually true. It's
just not what job's doing. But it is true. So
far is saying, look the wicked, they're evil. Ways they
may get some enjoyment for just a little bit of time.
You know that they're having fun. It's working out for
you for a little while, but at the end will
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be the opposite result. You know, evil may seem sweet,
but in the end it never satisfies. And he's right
about that. He's right about that, but he just thinks,
so let's take that truth and go, yeah, that is true.
The problem is he's he's making an accusation and it's
the wrong person. That's not what they're doing. But that
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is true. And you know, I've dealt with this before,
even doing what I do for a living. You know,
these people that are walking around and they can't wait
to be offended, you know. And for example, take take
pet owners. You know some of my favorites, and you
know there's some weird pet people, you know, and and
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so you'll say something like, you know, people need to
control their dog, and it's you shouldn't. People shouldn't have
to deal with your dog. You know, don't have your
dog jumping on people, sticking their nose, you know, in
private places, and and and jumping on people and you
know whatever, and then somebody will email offend didn't say, well,
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my dog didn't do that, But then I wasn't talking
to you. I mean that that doesn't apply to you.
I mean, you're actually a good pet owner, and I'm
sure your dog's a pleasure. So how are you taking
that at you? You know, I don't do that. Okay,
Well then you weren't included in that, and that and that,
so that that this is kind of the opposite. This
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is a universally true concept. It just doesn't apply to Joe.
And then he gets into to thirteen, though he loathed
to let it go, and holds it in his mouth.
It is delicious, wicked. Evil sometimes can be fun for
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a moment, but it's deadly food. And when you're wicked,
you know that it's deadly, but it tastes so good
you just keep on doing it. And that's what that's
what you've done. I know none of us can relate
to that, but but it's he He is saying that
what is it the I forget what the name of
that song was, and it says the very thing, the
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very thing that's killing me, makes me feel so alive
and so fourteen, Yet his food is turned in his stomach.
It is the venom of cobras within him. Going to
get some snake analogies in here too. What the wicked
and jest will simply turn his stomach. It's not He's
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not saying it's gonna sour in his stomach. That's not
the right interpretation here, more like poison, because he's brought
in the snake here and the venom. He's not just
saying it's gonna, you know, kind of make your stomach
sour back again. He's saying, ultimately, it's gonna kill you.
And that's what God's doing right now. You know you
have ingested this stuff, you have eaten it, you thought
it was good, you like the way it tastes, but
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ultimately it's going to kill you. Fifteen. He swallows down
riches and vomits them up again again, getting a little
crude here, mister poet. But again, why is he saying
that He is suggesting once again that God is taking
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his wealth away from him. He's gonna vomit it back
up or already has. And the reason why he is
vomiting his wealth back up his riches is why it
was ill gotten that. We don't know how you got
all this stuff, but apparently you did it in some
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devious way, because it's all coming back on you now
and you're losing all of it, you're regurgitating it back up.
It must not have been from God verse sixteen, he
will suck the poison of cobras, the tongue of a
viper will kill him. Apparently he liked introducing a cobra
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up here, and he thought, I wait a minute, I'm
done with snakes. I want to do a little something
else with snakes. So we're back to poisonous snakes again.
The bottom line here, this is not something new. We
know this again from the Fall of all mankind. Snakes
have always since the fall. They equal what they stand
for evil again. I know there's some weird people that
think the snakes got bad pr you know, other than
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the downfall of the human race. I don't know what
everybody's upset with them about. And the fact that they're
one of the few officially cursed animals we have on
the planet. I just can't find myself being talked into
feeling better about a cursed animal. I mean, if the
animal has been cursed by God himself. I think that's
an uphill climb if you're going to be in the
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pr marketing for it. So anyway, snakes have always equaled evil. Seventeen.
You ever just somebody who likes snakes a little too much,
You kind of find yourself taking a note of it. Yeah,
it's all right to be maybe interested in maybe watching
a doc room documentary on them. Shouldn't have them around
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the house. You know what, if you've got terrariums full
of snakes, our friendship is never gonna work, all right,
So I can't take that kind of pressure. Somebody, somebody
forgot to shut it real good, and we're all dead.
You know, if some if your little dog gets out,
I'm sure we're gonna be fine. But that snake's a
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different deal. Seventeen. He will not look upon the rivers,
the streams flowing with honey and curds. Uh, this is
the opposite. Now, now we've talked about the venom of
snakes and poison. Now we're going the opposite. We're going
to delicious things, the opposite of venom. So not only
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are all you gonna get is venom. Let me tell
what you're not gonna get You're not gonna get honey,
you're not gonna get curds. Have you have somebody ever
had the deep fried curds? If y'all had this yet,
it's like a cheese stick, but it's curds. Hey, let
me tell you something. The guy who trains me don't
know about them, but they're great if you have not
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right to today. I got a brother Nod and he's
had them. Let me tell you the courage are good.
So anyway, so honey and curd and he says, you're wicked.
So you're not going to get those poisoned. Yes, honey
and courage. No, because you are wicked, you're not going
to look upon rivers and streams flowy. You realize right
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here what he's also alluding to. I don't think you're
going to heaven. I don't think you're going to heaven.
He's really thinking that job is bound for hell. So
eighteen he will give back the fruit of his toil
and will not swallow it down. From the profit of
his trading, he will get no enjoyment. The wicked will
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eventually any of the things they gained, any any of
the good deals you made, any of the good trading
you did, any profits you pulled off from your labor,
God's taken it all away. And I tell you why,
because you cheated people to get it. I don't know
what you did, but you did. All this success you
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had as a businessman, God's taken it all away. So
all we can think of is all this that we
thought you had done so well and you were blessed
by God must not be true, because God's taken every
bit of it. All this work you did, all these
great ideas you had, all this good business you profited from,
and He's taking it all away. So we believe that's
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telling us you did something evil nineteen For he has crushed, crushed,
and abandoned the poor. He has seized a house that
he did not build. Okay, now, this is the first
time in this diatribe that so far is going to
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get specific, going to point out a specific sin. He's
finally going to do that he's taking He's telling him
right now, there's two things. I know, benevolence that belongs
to godly people. But let me tell who's wicked, those
that steal from the poor. I'm alleging that you stole
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from the poor. I'm alleging that you took advantage of
the poor. I'm alleging that your gain was their loss.
He makes a specific allegation now, because if you were
truly benevolent, then we would see it and you would
look godly. It's obvious that you have stolen. Now, that's
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the first time that so far gives him a specific
example of what he thinks he's doing. You're maybe the
maybe he was a landlord. You know, it says you
took the house from them. That what in yours? You know,
you you manipulated the poor. So we don't know, but
he's very he's very specific on that, that one twenty
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because he knew no contentment in his belly. He will
not let anything in which he delights escape him. What
we what we saying now, you're gluttonous, you know, the
sin that none of us like to talk about. You.
You're you're never satisfied. Now he uses, you know, the
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analogy of the belly here, you know, which is one
of the forms of gluttony. There there's certainly more than
than overeating, but it is also overeating. It's not left out.
It's something that I justified for a very long time
as y'all a lot of you know, until the Lord
finally just said, I don't know when you're gonna run
out of rope on this one. But you keep justifying
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sin in your life. Uh and uh and and I'm
never gonna be able to use you the way that
I could if you would just deal with this. And
so what he's saying is, you know, now that we
look back on how much you had, you're a bit
of a glutton. Seemed like you were never satisfied. Maybe
you were too wealthy, maybe you over did well. When
was it ever enough for you? It's like you were
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never satisfied. So I tell you what I'm gonna say.
I'm going to make another accusation. I think you're greedy.
I think you over indulged. And maybe that's what God
is upset about, you know. And uh and let me
tell you this. You might have built up a lot
of stuff. This is the fate that is that awaits
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all the wicked. You might have thought you could be
so important and so wealthy and have so much that
you could somehow balue by your way out of God's punishment.
You can't do it. You manipulated the poor, You took
from the poor, and you're greedy. He had morning. You've
been pretty specific now, it was never enough for you.
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Now I want to just for a minute land there,
because I know that when you think about human beings
and job's innocent. Okay, So I'm not saying that. I
just want to talk about human beings in general, and
even myself. I'm talking about myself. Remember everything I always
comes from here. First. I just think about how disgusting
it must be for God when he looks down on me.
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And I don't know your situation in general. I think
this is true, not specific to every one of you.
You know, don't be like the woman who took every
dog real well, but that's not what I do with that.
I'm not talking to you, okay, But do you think
God just sometimes it's just nauseated by the fact that
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we just never seemed to tell him You've done plenty.
I have plenty. I'm content how many more times when
we come back to him and say, well, now, I
told you, if you just do this, I'd be at peace.
And I just don't want you to do this one
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more thing for me. If I just had this one
more thing, if I if I just had had a
little little more money, if I just had a little
bigger house, I've just had that car that I really
want instead of this one that I mean, it runs fine,
but it's not the one I wanted. You know, if
I was if I was a little more of this,
a little more that, if my business was a little
more successful. You know, we can be guilty of never
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being satisfied. It's never enough. I know that you redeem me.
I was going to hell and you went to the cross,
and thank you for that. I'm sure that was very uncomfortable,
but I want more than that. I'm not satisfied with
just redemption. I want you to do something else for
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me too. Then maybe I'll be really all in. I'm
here to tell you that if God never did another
thing other than the Cross, I mean nothing, He's done enough,
and Job did not have the attitude that nothing was enough.
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We'll find this out later. But that's one of the
things that Zo far believes about him. It thinks he
knows about him, or it must be that. But it
is a good time for us to sit back and
go Could that accusation be made about me and actually
be more accurate than it is? On Job twenty one,
there was nothing left after he had eaten. Therefore, his
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prosperity will not endure. You didn't leave anything for anybody else.
You took it all for yourself, Joe. By the way,
there's no evidence most of the people that work with
Job actually thought he was great. I mean, the indication
was is he was selfless and he did care for others,
and that he did try to take care of everybody.
But no, so far says you kept it all for yourself.
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You're just so greedy, You just so gluttonous that you
know what, You were so prosperous and left nothing for
anybody else. But let me tell you something, God's gonna
take it away from you. You have been a oppressor
and you're gonna be plunged into poverty. No food left,
riches are fleeting. You're gonna know what everybody else that
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you op press feels like God's given it back to you.
Twenty two. In the fullness of his sufficiency, he will
be in distress. The hand of everyone in misery will
come against him. Ohe all these people that you mistreated, Joe,
They're coming for you. There's gonna be the demise of
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the wealthy, but because it was ill gotten, the fall of
the powerful, the humiliation of the proud, the collapse of corporations,
the sudden death of those who proudly thought they were immortal.
He's broken you down, Joe, because of your attitude and
the way you treat your people and all those people
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you mistreated. It's payback time. They're coming for you, and
you will fall twenty three to fill his belly to
the full, God will send his burning anger against him.
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Let me tell you what you're gonna get. You're gonna
get a belly full of God's wrath. You filled your
belly and overfilled it, and you've been gluttonous with all
the things of this world, all the food, all the money,
all the land, all the wealth. Well, your belly's about
to be full of God's anger. That's what you're gonna
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be full of. Now. I just can't imagine. This is
where you have to be careful. I remember when I
was talking to John Lennox If I mentioned that before
he's he was, you know, an apologist. He's a scientist
of a scientists of mathematics mathematics at Oxford, Cambridge, and
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he went out, you know, defending the faith and taking
on some of the Remember when we had the four
Horsemen of the atheist movement, you know, it was the
first evangelical atheist we'd ever experienced, which was weird, and
and he was debating them, and we got into discussion
one time about how Galileo was removed from the church
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because he said that the earth moves around the sun.
The sun does not move around the earth, and that
was blasphemy because the church at the time said no, no,
No scripture says otherwise, and they doubled down on it.
And I think that Galileo was put back in good
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standing with the church in nineteen ninety four. Okay, So
John Lennox said, some some times when you take your
theology and you stop learning, and you stop seeking God,
and you stop learning about God, and you double down
on these things, and you don't keep seeking, you don't
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keep praying, he goes, there may come a day where
you have to go to people and say I was wrong,
the church was wrong, and Galileell was right, but they
were convinced by flawed theology that he was wrong. So
be careful, be careful for any of us to think
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you've ever gotten to the point where you figured it
all out and you know everything about God and you
know everything, and so you take that in every situation,
no matter how much God may be teaching you something different,
you will not budge. I can raise my hand how
many of you can remember early in your faith that
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you had bad theology? My hands up. You learn things
maybe when you were little, and you didn't quite understand it,
and you applied it the wrong way, and God had
to correct it and you were like, oh, and somebody
had to show you some scripture and you're like, oh,
I didn't know that was in there, you know, And oh,
I think I have that wrong. And so this is
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what's happened to these men, because this is the part
I can never get passed. Their flawed theology was so
strong that it really violated something that I thought would
always solve it what's actually happening, But it didn't work.
I mean, they're now giving a version of Job that
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at one time they would have never given. I mean,
if you walked up to them before all this suffering
and said I think Job's an oppressor, they'd be like,
are you crazy? You're talking about Job. You're talking about
one of the most respected men in our entire community.
But now they've forgotten everything that they knew about Job.
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They've forgotten about every day he lived his life. They
forgot about every single testimony about him that they knew
and others, all because they refuse to consider that the
theology might be wrong. He's not getting the benefit of
the doubt, no matter how much integrity he lived. And
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I think we've all seen it, right. I don't know.
Have you ever had somebody you had one thing that
they thought about you that was wrong, and they took
everything they knew about you and just threw it away
in a moment. My hands up. I'm dealing with some
of that now. And you find yourself going, do you
realize how many things you have to forget to believe
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this about me? Now? You can come ask me about it,
and you can let's get clarity on it. Oh no, no,
we want to ask you about it. We'll stand far
off and up on the hill and will look down
and will make these accusations. It will never come to you.
You know what's always funny when people go after you,
and they and one of the things they want you
to know is how well they know the Bible and
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the very way they're going after you violates what the
Bible says to do about this. I said, I guess
you forgot. You didn't read any of the parts about
how you handle a disagreement, how you handle an accusation,
how you handle you know you've been hurt, so all
that's thrown out, and you're still going to bring the
judgment down to person using your knowledge of the Bible
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is the reason you're going to And the very way
you're judging them, and the very way you're handling them
is exactly opposite of how the Bible said to handle it.
I usually don't put any weight whatsoever. And an accusation
from someone within the church about someone else within the church,
if the first answer to the question is have you
gone to them? If they say no, then I'm done
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until you go to them. I don't want to hear
about it, because that's what we're supposed to do. That's
what Batthew eighteen tells us to do, their first thing to do.
And so if you don't do that, then just shut
your mouth. And so right now they're throwing out everything
they've ever known about job because their theology, which is wrong.
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They will not consider seeking God for some clarity that
maybe they didn't know as much about God as they
thought they did. Twenty four. He will flee from an
iron weapon, A bron's arrow will strike him through. This
is not pleasant. He's saying, it's going to be one
disaster after another for you, the godless, the godless job.
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You know what you get. You don't just get one calamity.
You get a series of calamities. And look at twenty five.
It is drawn forth and comes out of his body.
The glittering point comes out of his gallbladder. Terrors come
upon him. The sword is is put through you, or
it could be the arrows. Then it's pulled back out
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of the body. And you know what has done now
this gallbladder here, believe it or not. The English Standard
version comes back and says, we think gallbladder. Some of
the other English translations go with the liver. But the
bottom line is that this Hebrew word is kind of
hard to find the exact organ. There's some disagreement on that,
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but it doesn't matter. The bottom line is you're going
to receive an injury that is deadly. One of your
major organs is going to be destroyed. Something that you
would not survive a mortal one does. That makes sense?
So now twenty six utter darkness is laid up for
his treasures. A fire not fanned will devour him. What
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is left in his tent will be consumed. Nothing is
going to be left Job, nothing. A fire that cannot
be put out will all time destroy everything. Now keep
in mind this reference to the tent here also is
a little bit of a fallback to what God did
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to his children, or Satan did, but God allowed. Twenty seven.
The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will
rise up against him. Look, Joe, the guilt of the wicked,
it's going to be brought into the light. By the way,
he's right about that. The Bible tells us that things
that are done in darkness will eventually be brought into
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the light. That is true. The problem is is he's
saying that Job has something that needs to be brought
into the light, and that part is not true. Again,
the concept true, the accusation against the person doesn't hold up.
Twenty eight The possessions of his house will be carried away,
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dragged off in the day of God's wrath. Now notice
this carrying away. We're getting into a flood analogy. Now, okay,
everything is going to be carried away, you know, by water, river, flooding,
and all of this, this whole flood, this destruction is
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going to be from the hand of God. Ultimately it
may be done through flooding, but God is the one
who's behind it. And when all this stuff's being taken
away from you, that is going to be by the
hand of God. God's the one doing this to you.
Job which Job agrees with it, just doesn't know why.
And they're saying, well, we know why you're wicked. Job's like,
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I'm not wicked, of course you are. Twenty nine. This
is the wicked man's portion from God, the heritage decreed
for him by God. Now Here this is interesting, and
we're getting ready to close. Notice that nowhere in these
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final verses, when so far is correctly saying that God,
his hand and his wrath is what causes all this
and the reason why this is happening is because you're wicked.
He has that part wrong. But have you noticed which
tells you that God is still teaching them about himself.
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Have any of you throughout this whole study, We're now
twenty plus weeks into this. Okay, has anybody heard any
of his friends when they talk about all they know
about God, ever mention mercy, ever mentioned grace, ever mentioned repentance.
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They've never mentioned it. Never one time when they refer
to God, which tells us what they don't know everything
about God. Apparently they know nothing about mercy and grace.
I don't know why, but I can't think of one
monologue they've done that they've mentioned, May God have mercy
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on you, May God, you know, forgive you he he
you know, God is merciful. Uh, They're talking about wrath, wrath, wrath, wrath,
and they do call job to admit it, and maybe
God all relent, relent wish, which that that's sort of
a form of repentance. But they haven't talked about God
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offering any mury mercy. Only they are just saying wrath
is coming. And where they're flawed is they're saying and
that's all the wicked can expect. Well, not if the
wicked repents, Not not if God offers mercy and God
offers grace. So you can see they have no concept
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of this part of God, and they don't have any
concept about God. Refining people through through suffering. Now here's
here's where I'll go ahead and give you because I
know some of you need this. I know what we're
all doing now because it's like watching a show. When
somebody's being wrong, we begin to scream to the TV,
don't we When when is this going to When is
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this going to come to life? When is the truth
going to be out? When are they going to be
told they've got the story wrong? Can somebody please? I
can't take much more of this misunderstanding? Right? These people
have this wrong. You're screaming that's not what happened. You
ever screamed that this is not what happened, and you're waiting.
I will go ahead and tell you that. Next week
we're not going to get all the way there because
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his friends don't listen, but I do love that. Next week,
Job is finally going to say again, he's mentioned it
in passing and they ignored it. He's going to try
again and they'll ignore it again. But he's going to
try it again. He's going to say to so far
and to his friends, but the wicked do prosper? You're
wrong about that. We see that we could people prospering
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all the time. You're you're making this real simple. Wicked
people get punished, good people get blessed. But our own
observations tell us that can't be true. They ultimately pay
a price if they don't repent. But to say that
wicked people never prosper, they do. And he's going to
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point to that next week will be ignored. But he
will point to it again next week. So let's pray, Lord,
thank you for our time together. Thank you for this ongoing,
very very intriguing study. Provocative, to say the least. Lord,
As we approach at the time this study was done live,
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we are just a few days from the declaration of
independence from when the country in which we live decided
that tyranny and unchecked power was undesirable, and as a
country desired to to govern themselves, Lord, we certainly want
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to reject the tyranny of an earthly king. But as
much as we may say that we're free in this country,
if we're not redeemed, we're not free at all. The
only true free people are those that have been freed
from the penalty of sin. These freedoms that we cling
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to and we certainly should be thankful for. And the
ability to achieve our maximum potential through maximum liberty. Certainly
fine here on earth, and it's not a bad thing.
But I can have all the liberty that a constitution
gives me. But if I don't have repentance, I got nothing.
I'm still in slavery because I'm a slave to sin.
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And ultimately, Lord, I will face the king of kings,
not face a constitutional republic. I will not face a democracy.
I will face a dictatorship. But oh, how wonderful to
be under the authority of a benevolent king. A king
that lowered himself and came to us when we could
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not come to him, A king that went to a
horrible cross and took the punishment that an earthly king
would have handed out on the people, not on himself.
May we seek true freedom and the redemption that you
provided for us and your son, Jesus, May today we
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want true freedom by turning from our sin and repenting
of our sin, and then turning away from your wrath
and judgment and to your mercy and grace, and just
ask you to forgive us. And we believe that forgiveness
is available through the sacrifice of your son. And we
believe that eternal life is available through the defeating of
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day by your son, and we beg you Lord to
forgive us. And maybe you're out there, maybe today's the
first time you've ever done that, or the first time
you ever meant it. Well, if that's the case, then God,
here's your Christ for repentance, and He through Jesus will
make you free. Indeed, in the glorious name of Jesus,
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we pray Amen.
Host
Rick Burgess
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