Job Ch. 25-26 | Bible Study by Rick Burgess

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We're studying the Book of Job. My name's Rick Burgess.
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of those going on right now. But we're in the
Book of Job. We're going to actually do twenty five
and twenty six today because twenty five is really short,
and we'll get both of those done. And you can
go ahead and open your Bible to Job chapter twenty
five and we'll open in a word of prayer and
we'll jump right in. Thank you, Lord for the gifts
of rest last week. That's your example. When you became

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a man, you showed us that rest is important as
much as work. And many times our work's much more
effective if we watch your example and rest when our
body needs it. So thank you for that wonderful time
of rest and the refreshment of that. And Lord, we're
excited about the opportunity to open your Holy word again today,
and thank you for these familiar faces, and then those

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that are here for the first time with us today
inside the room, and those that are listening and watching
for the first time around the world. I know that
you made sure that every individual was here to hear
something today from you. May their hearts and their minds
be open to hear it, and your Holy name, we
pray amen. Okay, so what's going on here? If you've

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been with us, and hopefully you have been. If not,
you need to go catch up. But we have these
friends that we're supposed to show up to help Job
in his time of despair. This has not been happening
at all. And today we're gonna hear from Bill Dad,
who has been i mean really rough the other two
times that he has spoke to Joe. We're not going

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to see that today. It's interesting Bill Dad kind of
goes a different way. It's very short. He and the
others have kind of run out of things to say
that are that are new to Job when it so
far does not even get a third chance that we
can document. You know, the last time we were together,
some commentators thought he might have been involved in some
of that, but I don't think there's much to support that.

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But now the repetition has gotten you know, there's nothing
new being and even what Bill Dad said is nothing new.
So we're not going to hear any more from these
guys to this is the last thing from them. Now
we're gonna have a new fellow show up that's going
to have a lot to say, both to the friends

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and Job, but that's to come. We won't even hear
these names mentioned again till chapter forty two, the original three.
So so Bill Dad will not thankfully in his time
with the credit note, which is interesting, he really is
going to decide to look at the greatness of God.
It's almost like he just takes the time to remember

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what he knows about God. So verse one in chapter
twenty five, we've learned, haven't we since for many many
weeks that when the speaker changes, that's usually the first
verse of a new chapter during the times we're hearing
from Job and these friends, and it tells us that
now a Bill Dad the shoeite answered and said, that's

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all that's telling us is we're changing speakers. So when
we get to verse two, it's going to be. It
won't be anything critical like when Bill Dad spoke in
chapter eight verse two. He also spoke the second time
in chapter eighteen, verse two. This is going to be
kind of a welcome change from Bill Dad. In the past,
it was kind of lofty and he was kind of arrogant.

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He was like, I'm just going to tell you like
it is, and now we kind of see him more worshipful.
He's going to do that over trying to theologically tell
job all he knows. He's going to say, you know
that God rules, God reigns, God resides in the heights,
where all is peace and order. Here's what he says,

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Dominion and fear are with God. He makes peace in
his high heaven. So this is different than what we
normally hear from Bill Dad when addressing addressing job. We're
not even sure he's even addressing job. He may just
be saying these things to stop and kind of remind

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everybody that's there that can hear him that God is
in charge. God. God is the ultimate authority God. Where
he resides in the heights, and wherever God is, we
find peace and we find order, which is true, which
is the reason why Rick Donna do this again. Well,

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it's the reason why we need to be very careful,
I think, because what Bill Dad says about God is
what God has said about himself. So let's not let's
be careful. Okay, I mean, let's do it the right way.
Let's be gentle, but let's be careful embracing anything that
tells us that God is chaotic, That God isn't you know,

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like somehow God is looking to us for some help,
or he's not quite sure what he's doing, and you know,
he makes some mistakes here and he's reckless and things
like that. The problem with those kind of statements is
they're very serious because God says the opposite about himself,
So we should never say he's anything other than a
God of peace and a God of order. He's very

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clear that he's a God of peace and a God
of order. As a matter of fact, when we see chaos,
that's normally where we find the adversary. That's that's the
kind of environment that he and the demons operate him.
God does not operate in that kind of environment, as
the late Steve Farrar, God rest his soul, and I
know he is so so wonderfully happy in the presence

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of the Lord that he serves so well. He always
told us, Remember, things are not out of control, They're
actually under God's control. So so take note of that.
So in verse three, Bill Dad says, is is there
any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light
not arise? Now, this is a rhetorical question, which is

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very We're gonna get more of these from Job too,
throughout the book of Job. If you're not a if
you're not a fan of rhetorical questions, it's it's a
rough read because they're they're coming at you all the time.
But what this is to this question, and these questions
are supposed to do, is just underscore two divine attributes
of God. You're going to see that as Bill Dad goes, goes,

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goes on. God is powerful. Uh. He he is the
lord of host many armies. Second, his revelation of himself
is universal. Uh. This is this is kind of Bill
Dad saying there there's no limit to the access of
these hosts of angels that he has, and there's nowhere

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you can go that you can get away from his light.
It's universal. All this is true. We're not gonna hear
anything from Bill Dad today that is not true. Uh.
The big question is why is he he going? You know,
why why is he going down this road? Now that
that's that is a legitimate question. So and then he

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goes on next and he says, how can man be
in the right before God? Now, here's where you may
start picking up on on on his point now a
little bit. He's not directed directly at Joe, but he
is kind of talking around. Can we'd all just these
are the things you ever had, these are the things
we all agree on? Uh and uh. And he says,

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how can he who is born of a woman be pure?
He's now getting into human failure at being right. Be careful,
Bill Dad is warning correctly. Of course, he all as
we all should do, including your teacher. Right now. I
don't need to be teaching at you. I need to
be discussing this with me included. So right in here,

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Bill Dad's making a point that job needs to hear. Sure,
the other two need to hear, but he needs to
hear it too, because you've been he's been acting like
he's right a lot. And what he's saying is maybe
he's reflecting, maybe he's under conviction. He saying you know,
when I look at the imperfections of humanity compared to God,
I don't think we have a very good record of

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always being right. We're wrong a lot. Well, we also
know what the apostle Paul says, right and the wonderful
Book of Romans three twenty three, what did he say?
We all have sin and come short. We're all we
all fall short of the glory of God. None of
us are even close. Now he's going to go further
to refer to us as beautiful things like maggots and worms.

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But but I want you to also, this is an
important theological point we need to make right here. This
is where I think Bill Dad and other commentators he's
a little he's a little off in what he's assuming.
Remember this, and this is crucial. It's probably one of
the things that I was reminded of in this study
that I hadn't forgotten, but I needed to be reminded

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of it again, just because the beginning of this study
many weeks ago, tells us that Job is blameless and upright.
It does not mean he's sinless, and build Dad, I think,
is trying to make the point that he's kind of
suggesting that Job is calling himself sinless. But Job never
says that Job's not sinless, he too has fallen short

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of the glory of God. What Job is saying is,
I don't have any sin that is unresolved between me
and God. I have repented of my sin before him.
I am blameless because He has forgiven me. And I'm
not living this secret life of deliberate, perpetual sin that
y'all keep assuming because of these bad things that are
happening to me. God is called seing these bad things.

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I acknowledge that now. Job, however, he's not doing it
because I have unrepented sin. So well, Bill Dad's kind
of saying, well, I mean be careful, saying that that
a man can be good, a man can be perfect.
Job never says he's perfect. He said he's blameless. Please understand.
That's a crucial, crucial truth that you can't miss. Okay, So,

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but Bill Dad seems here to say, well, how can
he who's born of a woman be pure? But we can't.
And you're gonna see here in a minute. He goes
on to talk about about you know, the man and
the woman, not just not just the woman, because we
do know that there was. Jesus was born of a woman,
but it was a virgin birth, so you have to

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be careful with this, say Bill Dad's a little law
here too, but he doesn't know the foreshadowing of the
coming Messiah, so he has nothing to reference. He's saying,
in the times I live and the things I've seen,
every man born of a woman is born to sin. Well,
we know in order for that sin to continue, there
must be an atom, there must be the seed of Adam.

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And Jesus was born of a woman. But he remained
sinless because he was born of a virgin birth, the
miraculous birth, which means he never inherited the original sin
from Adam. But that's not what Bill Dad's talking about.
It is a cup foreshadowing, but he doesn't have any
concept of that. He just saying, if you're a human
being and you've been born like the rest of us,

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you're not perfect and got and you're not pure. So
it goes on to make that point. Now in five,
he says, you know, human beings are totally deprived. There's
depravity when being born. Sin has infected the entire race.
We're all in the same situation. And he's right about that,
and Job's never said otherwise. But I think he's suggesting,

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and so do others that Job is trying to say
that when he really isn't. But again, he's not as
arrogant and as harsh as he's been in the past.
Five same point. Really, even the moon is not bright
and and the stars are not pure in his eyes.
Even he said, even the cosmos, you know that they're
they're sinless when you talk about the legality, because they're

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not human beings. But but even the cosmos cannot truly
please God because they're just created bodies. Like everything else
he created, they fall short too. All true. Then he
gets into six and he's back to this again about
the human beings, how much less man who is a
maggot and the son of man who is a worm. Now,

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there's no way that a man can be pure. He's right,
but Job's not saying that. He says he's blameless, he
doesn't say he's sinless. So he says there's no way
a man can be pure in God's sight one hundred
percent truth. Each of us is ultimately and he seems
to understand that we're the son of Adam. So he
seems to be aware of that. Uh. And and and

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and this this is this is a this is true
true And Bill Dad goes, you know, goes a little
too far, because he's going to go as far as
to say, have you ever got on a rant and
you just kept going? And you're like and then I'll
tell you there's never been anything on the sone And
you know, Okay, now you're now you're just ranting. Now

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he's going to go too far and say that there's
no way that a human being could have any dignity
at all, there's nothing dignifying about people at all. Well,
that's not true. As a matter of fact, God has
deemed the human race to be pretty valuable to him.
He certainly doesn't worship us, and he doesn't need us,
but he of himself decided to come and put on

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our flesh and redeem us. So I think he does
find something that we're worth. Uh. And so he's trying
to go so far as saying that we're just we are.
There's no human dignity in God's eyes of any kind,
and his eyes, we're all a bunch of maggots. We're
born of a worm. Adham And where we are disgusting,

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we are hopeless. Now that's not exactly true. It is
true that we we cannot and compared to God's holiness,
which we'll get to the end of this book, and
that's gonna be the point. Compared to God, we're still
very sinful. But to say there's no redeeming quality about
human beings at all, that's not true. If that were true,

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then God would have you know, he even kept eight
one time when he killed everybody else. Okay, So so
he sees a little hope there, and and the whole
redemption plan shows that there is something valuable in his
eyes about human beings, so much so that the angels
seem to be intrigued with this whole Grace covenant because

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they didn't get that, and which also is one of
the reasons that the demons seemed to be so upset.
But anyway, so this this is gonna be kind of
a downer Bill. Dad's not being very hopeful. So the
last words of Job's friends and right here, Okay, now
we got a new friends gonna show up. I'm talking

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about these three. So now we go to to Job.
Job is gonna gonna answer sort of here reply it's
not directed directly at Bill Dad, but he's gonna he's
gonna throw a few insults out there. Uh. Then then
some observations about uh, our creator in his creation. And

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and this is going to be where Job's words more
than at any other point, by the way, uh in
scripture or in this this well, all of scripture goes this.
On the book he's in, there's gonna be another point
throughout the book of Job that that he's going to
continue to be clear on this point. He anticipates, and

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he absolutely wants he's almost demanding, you gotta be careful there.
I want a conversation with God directly, and he's really
gonna be clear about that here in these words. And
he needs God himself to impress the facts about himself

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and the truth about himself. He wants that said directly
to him. Now, why am I saying that? Let me
tell you why, because we're gonna roll through this and
you've really seen this a lot in this study. Job
seems to be very, very informed and very aware of
who God is and his attributes, and he keeps saying

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them himself. Well, if that was enough, then he would
just be done with it. But it's not enough in
this situation. He is so confused on why this is
happening based on what he knows to be the facts.
He says, I know all these things. Let me tell
you what he wants. He wants a burning bush. You
ever had those things in your life? Do you think

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God's called you this? I feel pretty good about it,
but boy, I'd love a burning bush on this one,
you know. And so just because we know something, sometimes
you just wanted to be made so clear, don't you.
It was one of the questions we had this week
in our Sunday school class. And I've been there. I
understand this question is probably when I get the most

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of people who are now being discipled and being sanctified.
Is I hear all you people throwing around God's call
on your life a lot? How do y'all know that?
Does He talked to you? Where do you get this from? And? Right?
If you're honest, that's one of those things you always go.
I hear people talking about this, It's kind of hard
to explain. You know. Have I audibly heard God's voice before? Not? Know?

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Have I heard God's voice in my spirit? Yes? Have?
Sometimes I just moved on what he's already said in
scripture and he never did add anything to it. Yeah,
that too, can I sense in my now that I
have the Holy Spirit. And this is the one we
talked about Sunday. I will tell you personally if God.
Every time God's called me to something and I delay

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or I won't do it, he makes me miserable until
I do it. And what I mean by that I
can't get a peace. I realize I'm not right with him.
I realize he's called me something I'm not doing, and
I toss in a turn, I don't sleep well, and
He'll make you miserable until you do it. And sometimes
that's how he does it. And so understand that about job.
Job is not saying I'm a little gray on God.

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I don't know that much about him. What he's saying
is I know that he's doing this. I'm good with that.
I realize there's a point here. Probably I just need
to buy faith. Say whatever you do, you do. He's
even said that a few times, but in this particular speech,
he is being very clear. I'd like to hear it
directly from you. Even the things I know i'd like

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to hear you say it have you ever heard that
happen even with something just a human being, you know,
well you know so and so you know how he
feels about you. Yeah, I'd like to hear it, though,
I'd like him to clarify that everything I think is
going on is you know, is that what happened? Yeah?
Would you trust that's what happened? Yeah, but I wouldn't
mind you just I'd like to talk to him directly

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if I could. And so that's kind of where he is.
So we get another change of speaker here, okay, and
that is in verse one, and Job began took up
his discourse and said verse two, as God lives, who
has taken away my right? Oh, I'm sorry, I'm in
twenty seven? Are twenty six? And Job answered and said,

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how you have helped me who has no power? How
you have saved the arm that has no strength? Okay?
See starts off more rhetorical questions, and this is and
you could call him exclamations if you want. There's gonna
be four of them as we roll on, and he
is letting his friends here. This is directed his friends. Okay,

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you friends have not been helpful? Have you offered me strength?
When I was weak. No, you really have it. Nobody
came to lift my arms. I've told y'all how miserable
I've been. Y'all know how bad this is. You're fully
aware of how bad this is. But have you stepped
in to help me with your words? Or have you

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even stepped in to help me physically? Help me stand up,
help me feel better? You haven't done any of that.
So three, how you have counseled me who has wisdom
and plentifully declared sound knowledge? And I love this? He goes,

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Not only have you failed me physically? Okay? Not only
have you just not helped me when I had a
hard time standing, you have failed me intellectually. I'm asking
you what wisdom have you passed along to me? Is
there anything you've passed along to me that has been helpful?
And of course the rhetorical answer is no. And he's

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making sure that they hear this and then get then
we get to then we get to to four. I'm sorry. Three,
how you have counseled him who has no wisdom and
plentifully declared and sound knowledge? And then four with those help,
with those help have you uttered words? And whose breath

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has come out of you, I'd like to know here.
So you haven't helped me physically, you haven't helped me intellectually,
and I'd like to know this. I don't know what
your source is with this approach that you've taken today.
But it's not God because there's nothing you guys have
done that was done the way it should have been done.
And your information and your actions are so lacking. I'd

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really like to know exactly where they came from. What
is your source? So he's made us, he took a
few shots of his friends. Now we're getting to five.
Now he's going to talk about God's absolute control and
this is going to go all the way through first
four team God's absolute control. What I said a minute

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ago from ferrar Job seems to abruptly launch into this.
Nobody knows why he went so quick. Uh, it's it's
really a really magnificent hymn about God, and it's it's
it sings of the actual powers of God, reminds him
you know of who God is? Now a lot of

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what you're gonna hear right here when we get to
the point where God actually faces Job, he's gonna hear
God talk about these same things. So he does get
these things you said about me were right, probably should
have applied them. How many of you have known a
lot that God said, you just didn't apply it, right.

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That's sure that it's not for lack of knowledge, is it.
It's just that application is a tough part, isn't it.
And and so so let's start with five the dead
tremble under the waters and their inhabitants. He is He
rules over not only heaven, but he also rules over

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the depths of the water. There is nowhere in creation
that God is not. Okay, so he's acknowledging that, and
you know, because we talk a lot about the heavens,
but he's also completely over the deep as well. And
keep in mind, while that's kind of a biggie, one
of the things that you notice, and we talked about

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this when we study the revelation is and there's gonna
be some of the things you see on when God
starts giving his resume. You know, one of the things,
and I know we're not saying that Job and his
friends are Hebrews, because you know they're not. But but
when you look at the Hebrews, one of the things
that you found about them is they were terrified of

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the water, terrified of the sea. It represented danger and uncertainty.
And even when they were out there, you know, fishing
and things like that. There's a reason Jesus used the
storm to tell who he was. There's a reason in
the revelation that John says he noticed, you know that
the sea was no more. Uh, there's that. That's not

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just that, there's a reason for that. The sea always
represented even if you go back before human beings were created,
there was darkness over the water, and you know, and
and all this. So it's always been kind of a
leery thing. And here's what Job is saying. Look we
we even even the dead tremble under the waters, Okay,
that their inhabitants. No matter where you are, you do this.

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And then he says, here's here's she ol again. Uh.
And of course this is that it says it's naked
before God. Now this is a badden I'm gonna I'm
gonna touch on that too. That's that's some myth, myth,
mythical beliefs of the day, has no covering. So we
we already know, which we studied over and over again.
He's saying that this place of the dead. God rules

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over that. Uh. And and he says, you know, so
we know that, uh he rules also we know over
a baden. Now keep in mind a badden is local
mythology of the day. But and we see this word
a baden also show up, uh in the Revelation when
talking about with some of this the worst demons mem

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when they were released. This this is used there again
when they are unleashed on the people, because he's going
to use mythology of the day. But the bottom line
is this we we must all give an account to God.
And this says and and and he is even above death,
and he's above destruction. You know, she ole is death,

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that's the place of the dead. And then a baden
represents destruction. Okay, so he's saying, we all got to
face these things. But let me know, let me tell
you this, God is above all this. So again these
are things he's going to be told by God himself.
But apparently he already knows it. How many of you
know the promises and the truth of God, but you

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still got to be reminded of them. Right, what do
we say anytime you go through a difficult time. We've
talked about this for years, cling to the promises of God,
cling to the things that you know, Job seems to
be doing that, but he still wants that one on one,
he wants that burning bush. Verse seven, he stretches out

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the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
Watch out, now here's some echoes of Genesis one. But
here again we're talking about pagan mythology and pagan mythology
the North, the North Mountains, we're supposed to be a
dwelling place of the little gy of gods. But Job says,

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even this sacred mountain that you Pagan's worship, it was
created by God. It wasn't created by these faults gods.
You know, you've made this Northern Mountain some big mythological
place where your gods are. Well, I got news for you.
The very mountain you're looking at was created by the
God I serve. Uh he He's even even the Pagans

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can't get away from the things that they choose to worship.
God created it. You know, even when you go to
the you know, earth worshippers and all this garbage. I mean,
they're still worshiping what God created. They're just skipping worshiping
the Creator. They're they're worshiping the created, which we all
got a little bit of that in us. Now, we

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all got a little bit of that in us. You know.
It's and I told you this, and I remember this
so vividly. When I was standing on the Continental Divide.
We had gotten in snowmobiles. And this is back when
the kids were all. You know, I had so many
kids and they're everywhere and and and you think to yourself,

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why did I take on this adventure? This is this
is this is crazy. And so we get up to
the Continental Divide and it was the It was really
the only time that I ever recalled that when I
Rick and Bubba, that Bubba and I have vacation together.
We only did that one time. Maybe there's a reason
we never did it again. I don't know, there was
so many kids and whatever, but but I remember we

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were standing there and we're looking at the Continental Divide
and we're looking off that, you know, ten thousand feet
there in the Colorado Mountains, and you know, if snow
hits it, it goes this way, you know, heads of
that part of the hemisphere, it goes that way. Just amazing,
you know, and you know this goes to the Pacific,
this goes to the Atlantic, and we're looking at this

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and I mean it's breath taking, breath taking. And I
remember that Bubba said I've never forgot it, and it
was so true. He goes and this is his throwaway.
I mean this, you ruz, we're seeing it in a
sind state. We're seeing it falling. You know, have you
ever been? I have you ever been? You know, we

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love our farm and we've been down there before and
you think, man, just look at this glorious creation. And
all of a sudden, you know, it's a mosquito bite
you you know, look, you got a tick behind your ear.
You know, you're like, okay, well this is falling. But
you know it looked it looked pretty good up to
the mosquitoes got over here, you know. And uh, but
so that keep in mind, even the beauty that we see, guys,

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this is nothing. You know, does anybody remember the first
time you watched a football game in HD, you know,
and you're like, oh wow, that that this is. This
looks a lot different, except for my dad who never
claimed it looked different and kept the TV always had
but but the uh, but I've never but you you
didn't argue with Dad on things like this. I really
don't see any difference in it. What you know, I might,

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but but the but I will say four D is
a little weird because four D I feel like I'm
actually standing in the place where these people are putting
the show on. I feel like I'm watching a play.
That's that's almost too weird. But a sporting event is
you know, you you feel like you're there. Well, I
think we've been looking at creation without HD and and

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when guys do I just want you all to know, Okay,
even when it's attempted to be described to us in
the scriptures, it just we can't do it. It's too limiting.
You remember when Jesus was trying that. The disciples tried
to push him on tell us about it, and he
just finally went, I'd have to use words you don't
even understand. I mean, the descriptive words of what we're
going to see when it's imperfection are not available to us.

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The language we have right now, it's just we don't
have a word. It's not good enough. So just know
that what you're seeing is going to be refined by fire.
What you see on its best day. The most beautiful
place you've ever been on this planet is his throwaway.
He's gonna get rid of this and gonna show you
what it was supposed to be. Like, well, what a

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day that will be. So so anyway, you see that
Job is giving God the props, no doubt about this.
And then you go to eight. He binds up the
waters and his thick clouds, and the clouds and the
cloud is not split open under them. This was really interesting.
I remember the first time read this when I was
studying over the last week or so, I was like,

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what in the world is this? Well, let me tell
you what he's talking about. It's it's pretty advanced. Uh
you know, right now James Spam will walk in and go,
I know exactly what he's talking about. I mean, it
really is some some meteorology observations. What they knew even
in that day, by this verse and others is that
the clouds hold water. They knew that, and so what

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what Job is saying. He's saying the clouds are water,
and water is heavier than a cloud, and but yet
water doesn't always fall from them. And so what he's
saying is I see these clouds and I know they're
thick with water, but they don't split open until he

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says they can't in that in that cool. I mean,
that's a pretty advanced look at how weather forms. I
know these clouds are are vapor, I know their water,
but they don't always rain. And what he's saying is
God's even in control when the first drop falls. Even
if you said, boy, that cloud really looks like it's

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full of rain, he said, well, it's not gonna drop too.
He says it's okay to He says, go ahead and drop.
And so that's a pretty advanced look at clouds. But
he's making the point God controls even when the rain
comes nine he covers the face of the full moon
and spreads over it his cloud. God is completely control,

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in control of the weather. He's completely controlled. Now, he's saying,
in the celestial phenomenon that's going on all around us, Okay,
when you look up in the cosmos and you see
the moon, that ain't any big deal. That light's nothing
compared to God, he says, When when you see all

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the phenomenon going on, and you see shooting stars and
you see all these different things and galaxies, all these
things that you see he said it is nothing to
him because he spreads over it in his cloud. And
what he's saying there is that's he's in complete control.

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And he says he can uncover the grave as well,
and that goes into verse six because he also can
cover the moon. So look at look that goes back
to six just a little bit that he's coming back
in and saying, you know that he see where it
says a baden has no covering. Now he says, he
covers the face of the full moon and he spreads

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over like a cloud. And so he's talking about when
he talked about she ole and he's talking about a baden.
He says, not only can he uncover that, he can
then turn around and cover the moon if he wants to,
which we all know that to be true. Verse ten,
he has inscribed a circle on the face of the
waters and at the boundary between light and arkness. Now

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here we go. God's gonna talk about this when when
job finally gets his meeting, which by the way, he
regrets pretty quick, okay, But when he gets his meeting
and after God tells him to show himself a man,
and then you hold what you got I'm not done.
I'm gonna keep going. Job tries to stop it pretty quick.
I don't hate to give that away, but God says, no,

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you asked for it. So I'm going to finish. And
he's going to talk about this. And here's Job already
seeming to be aware that God separates the lighted world
above the ground from the unlit world underground and water
all this is his body of work. And what does

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he tell Job in the speech if you've never read
it before, did you tell the water where to stop?
Will you feel real small with you? He goes, you
realize water could keep going. And when I said that's enough,
it stops. That's as far as you go. I put
the boundaries on the water. Can you do that? Job?

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Of course, I've never tried it, but I don't think
I can. Uh so, uh but but but this is
He's good. This is gonna come back, this very thing
that Job is saying God's going to bring back and say,
I'd like to unpack that for you. And and Job
is acknowledging that God sets these boundaries between light and darkness,

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and he sets the boundaries of the water, which is
a pretty incredible And then verse eleven, the pillars of
Heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke. Now now
here we got a little poetry going on from Job here.
This is kind of to me. Job has done better

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on his descriptions here. I was much more impressed with
his look at weather and clouds and the cosmos. This
seems to be an attempt at thunder. It's not as
impressive as the other things that he's done. Uh, he's
been a little poetic here, but you'll see in the
next few verses he's gonna take on storms completely. This
seems to be the start of it. What he's talking

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about here is you know, everything, including the weather when
you hear this thunder going on and all that that,
even these things that we're terrified of, the pillars of
heaven trembling, that's what it sounds like to us. But
they're astounded. They're more afraid of him than he is

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of that, and we're terrified at these sounds. Look to
this day, I'm not a huge fan of thunder. I'm
not a big fan of thunder. I understand how it
occurs and all this kind of stuff. I don't like thunder.
I'd rather not be I don't like that of stuff
starts kicking around like that. But he says, even that thunder,
as concerned as you may be about it, you should
be more afraid of God than the thunder, because the

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thunder answers to him. If he rebuts the thunder, guess
what it stops. Remember this now, this is so important
on the foreshadowing the member of the things that Jesus did.
These were not happenstance. Jesus didn't say I think I'll
calm a storm today and that are to be impressive. No. Remember,
these are Hebrews that are with him. They've studied all

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of this, and they know from the Old Testament. They
know that the Old Testament says that God controls the weather.
God calms a storm. Don't think that's the first time
they'd ever seen that. What Jesus was saying is who
told you about God? Do y'all remember the part about

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calming storms? Wat's this? I'm God? See he picked something
they already knew. Well, if you can calm the storm,
you must be God. Because we saw the sawmist talking
about this, We saw Job talking about this. We know

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that God controls weather and can calm a storm, and
Jesus just did it. Why do you think the first
reaction from Peter was I repent. Hut, Hey, wow, you
just you just told the storm and it stopped. Who
is this? Yeah? So so he he got the message
pretty clear there. So twelve, by his power he stilled

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the sea. There we go again, by his understanding, he
shattered Rehab. Now again, Rahab is not that's not the prostitute.
Rayhab is a mythical monster. Again that the Pagans always
talked about. It was in the city. The sea was,
you know, stirred up, and it was it was. It
was crazy, and they were it was turmoil in the sea.

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They would say, that's Rahab stirring up. To see the
sea monster out there, and uh, and you're gonna see
Leviathon kind of come into God's resume too. So they
thought that Rahab, this mythical monster, was responsible for rough
rough seas. Uh. But anyway, fake or real. Uh, this
is what he's saying. And I love this job was saying,

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I don't care if it's a real something in the
sea or it's something you made up. The scariest monster
that our minds could ever even fathom, would still answer
to God, he's still stronger than anything he would take.
If you're a monster you came up with. Rahab got

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out there and stirred up the worst storm on the sea.
God could comment like that. So he knows that. And
again Jesus did that thirteen. By his wind, the heavens
were made fair. His hand pierced the fleeing serpent. So
when he gets into thirteen, he's like, God can clear

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any weather, he can calm any sea whatsoever. And he's
also going as far as to say, if the sea
is stirring, Rahab's not causing it. God's causing it. Have
you ever thought about that? And you think, well, rick
Weather's kind of doing his own thing, now, isn't it.
I mean, didn't God kind of set all this in motion?

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This thing's falling, tornado ripping through town. God doesn't get
up every day and say tornado, hear hurricane. He didn't
do all that, does he? Well here's the thing. I
don't know about his automation, but here's what I do know.
He can certainly stop it. So for tornado hits your house,

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you think God's helpless in that situation. Lord, please don't
let this tornado hit my house. But your will be done.
That's what Jesus told me to say. And the house
is gone. So did God go. I was dealing with
a hurricane over here, and I didn't see that Calhoun
County tornado rip. I missed that one. No, you can.
You know this is that thing where human beings get

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into these ridiculous conversations. You know, God, what? What? What?
Where is God in all this and where he's right
in the middle of it, even the bad stuff. Yes, guys,
he's not. He's not working on making sure everything goes
well for us in this life. He's preparing us for
the next life. And part of the difficulties of life

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and allowing storms that he can clearly come. Part of
allowing that is preparing us for Heaven, is preparing us
for what's next, and it's refining us. It's producing steadfastness.
How about this, It's making us more reliable. God's been
turned on by us a lot. You know he's doing.

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I'm not gonna have any more people around me that
haven't been vetted. I'm not having any more people going
out representing me that haven't been tested. I'm not gonna
have anybody with me that hasn't worshiped me in a storm.
Now there's gonna be times I'll take away the storm,
but I got to see you in the storm first.

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Remember this a w tozer. There's not anyone we see
throughout scripture that God used in a mighty way that
he didn't first hurt thee. His own son was not
exempt from difficulty, and somehow we want him to exempt
us from it. Remember the Matthew seven again about the

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two people building houses on the rock and on the sand,
storm hit both. One of them just survived, the other
one didn't because it was built on Jesus, but he
still got hit by a storm. He didn't say, build
your house on the rock and there'll be no storm.
He said, built your house on the rock and you'll
survive the storm. That's a completely different statement. And so

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that's exactly what Job is talking about. He's saying, you know,
he can calm anything he wishes, but sometimes he doesn't.
But that doesn't mean he can't. So then you start
getting into the the thing that I've often wondered, and
this is the way we are. And he has changed
me on this, he really has, and it's eye opening.

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Can we stop with the we're always wanting to know
this why thing? You know? You know why? Why don't
we change that why and start going to God knowing
that he allowed something to happen, and maybe start instead
of asking him why he did that to us, why
don't we go to him and say, hey, you seem

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to be wanting to be glorified in this. Show me
what you want me to do? You know? Can I
say this, and I'm not the first person say it.
Can can we come off this? Why did this happen
to me? Can I ask you a question? Why not you?
Why not me? Have y'all all lived so good that
nothing bad should ever happened to you? I have it.

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It's God's grace and mercy that I'm much more surprised
by is how many times he hasn't allowed me to suffer? Right,
because I don't bring anything to the table. And Jobe's
gonna learn that before we're done, by the way, that
he really didn't bring anything to the table, no matter
how blameless and upright he was. Compared to other people,

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he looked pretty good, you know, so, But that's not
that's not the standard, is it? So then we get
into into fourteen behold, these are but the outskirts of
his ways. And how small a whisper do we hear
of him? But the thunder of his power? Who can understand?

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We can barely take him in? Job says, when he
speaks through thunder, When he speaks through when that's only
a whisper? Anybody hear this? Later in the Bible, Elijah,
there's all this going on that looks impressive, and Elijah's

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looking for God and all of it, and then what
do we hear? But he wouldn't in any of it.
He was allowing of it. That wasn't his voice. And
then his voice came as a whisper. Why have you
ever thought about that? Why whisper? What's much more intimate?
We see that that's pretty simple, but it's bigger than that.
All this racket that Elijah got to see was showing

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how powerful God's voice is. His voice is so powerful
even with all that going on. To be heard, all
he had to do was whisper, how many of you
can whisper over something loud enough that we would still
hear you? For God, he doesn't even need to go
full volume. He's so powerful he can whisper over a storm,

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and you still hear him. And don't forget one of
the biggest things in that moment, which is going to
happen for Job too. Everything Elijah was doing, God did
not tell him to do it. And God's question to Elijah,
you think, look at God coming in. He allowed Elijah
some rest, he gave him some food, took care of him,

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loved him. He's about to get a well done. And
what does God say to Elijah? What are you doing here?
I didn't tell you to run. I didn't tell you
to quit. You saw me destroy all these things. You
saw what I did with the prophets of bel You

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stood there in trash, talk at how powerful I am.
And then a crazy woman says she's going to kill you.
And you've run off to hide like a little kid.
You're not supposed to be here. Now, do you go
ahead and let Elijah retire? He did, but Elijah said
he wanted to retire, and God allowed it. But he

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never told Elijah run off and get up in that
mountain and hot. And so Job's gonna have a similar
experience when he finally gets to talk to God. And
I want us to ask us a question. Right now,
all of us, is there anything going on in our
lives right now? And we're crying out to God to say,

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to speak to us. I want to hear from you.
I want to hear from you. I hope that when
we cry out and say I want to hear from you,
I hope when He finally sai, that's something to us.
He doesn't say, what are you doing here? Have you
got yourself in this situation? What are you doing with her?
What are you doing at your job? What are you

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doing at the church, what are you doing out here?
What are you doing in this place? What are you
doing involved in whatever? So we're going to see that
this whisper of his power, we mortals don't seem to
be in awe of God. Job says, when creation is happening,

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we have no appreciation of its source. I've been guilty
of that. Now we'll say, there's a lot of times
that creation pushes me to God because I can see
him so clear. As Paul points out about no one
having an excuse. But you know, there was an incredible
statement in chapter thirty eight, which is still head. You're

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going to see y'ah weeh whisper to Job from a
storm it's coming. But then Isaiah fifty five, verses eight
through nine is what we're going to end on, because
Isaiah is summing up how Job feels right now. You know,
y'all know these verses are very very familiar. God speaking

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to Isaiah. My thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are
my ways your ways. As heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than yours? And my thoughts
are not your thoughts. That's what Job is reminding everybody

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who's listening, and I think reminding himself. I don't know
what's going on here, but I have to remember that
God's bigger than me. Even though he says I still
want to talk to you, I still want to hear
directly from you. I have to remember, And boy, have
you ever clung to this before? My thoughts are not
your thoughts. Your ways are not my ways. As heaven

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is higher than the earth, so are so are your ways,
Lord higher than mine? And sadly, on my best attempt
sadly on my best attempt, so many times, my thoughts
are not your thoughts because I can't. I can't with
this finite mind, I can't quite comprehend you, which is

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what we do? What do we do? And I've said
this one hundred times and it drives me most days.
I don't know everything about God. I don't. I couldn't
comprehend it. If he said, would you like for me
to tell you everything about me? I think my mind
would just start hurting and it would just start screaming

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back to me like a car that doesn't have enough horsepower.
I can't make it. However, here's what we should do.
Have just acknowledged what Isaiah said and what Joe said.
Acknowledge that is truth. But listen to me, listen to him,
listen to me. Job didn't have this. I'm holding up
a Bible for those that are just listening. He does

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not have this. This is the complete revelation we're told
at the end of this book that I'm holding. There's
nothing to add. Okay, I really believe that. I believe
that if the Lord Jesus himself walked through that door,
first of all, is there a seat for me? Yes,
I would go there because I would I would move

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remove myself from here. Okay, he has the one mic,
not me, And I really believe that if some of us,
probably I mean I could be this guy. I think
definitely like job. I think that if he sat down,
I would let Lord you've joined the Wednesday Bault study.
And he said, yeah, yeah, I'm back. I'm about to
gather the church to myself. I thought I'd stop by

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and see y'all and uh, we're like, man, this is great.
And I bet hands for some of you idiots like me,
I would have want to asked. We got questions, just
Q and a time. I believe hands might shoot up
and Jesus will say what is all this? And we say, Jesus,
you here, you are a try youn God. We're talking

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to the sun. Yes, yes, you are all authority in
hav An ether has been given to me. If you
see me, you see the Father. You know I've covered
that before, Yes you have. We have so many questions,
so many things we'd like for you to tell us.
I really believe he would if I left this here
when I was running, he would pick it up and go,
you've had this for over two thousand years. I don't

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have anything, Dad, So do you know it? I mean,
you want to have a conversation with God here it is.
You want to hear what God thinks about everything, what
his standard is. It's here. You want to know about redemption?
It's here? You want to know why you need to

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be redeemed? It's here? Do you want to know who
he is? He's revealed himself knowing that this is about
all we can comprehend. And it's a lot. But I
will tell you this from experience as a c student
from Calhoun County, Alabama, which is not a special place.
But my Lord and Savior came from a place they
said wasn't special either. It ain't about the place, But

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I know that there's things in here not an overly
educated guy can fully understand as he intended. And those
things are enough to convict me for the rest of
my days. And the things I don't understand, I just

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keep pursuing them, and because I want to know everything
that God will allow me to know, and it's made
possible for me to know. There's nothing about How y'all
can we sorry about this? Here I go by, I'm
about to bang an old gone How in the world
I'm as guilty of as anybody. How can we deem

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knowledge of anything more important than the word of God?
I know my football team forward him backward and I
don't know this, so I spent that time studying that
and spend no time. I just still have time for this.
But I've got time for all that. And I'm not
saying that this thing is bad, but it's bad if

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you don't know this, but you do know that this
is bad. If you know your hobbies more than you
know this, that's bad. Nothing wrong with knowing about your
hobbies as long as you know this. Everything that we
enjoy which is fine as long as it's not sinful,
they really can't be enjoyed if you don't have this

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right because you're always thinking to yourself, why am I
more into this than I am in the Word of God?
And you know what happens that even the gift that
can be enjoyable, you can't really enjoy it because you
keep thinking, I care more about this than I do
the Word of God. Once you learn the word of God,
you know what you I will tell you this. The
things that I used to worship other than God, they

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are actually more enjoyable to me now that I don't
worship him anymore. Still do them? Not all of them,
because I've lost interest in some of it. You know,
some of the stuff he's so overwhelming your interests for
it just goes away. But the things that I still
enjoy and are perfectly fine with God, as long as
I balance them, I enjoy them more when I stop
worshiping when it went to God to me anymore, there's

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actually a lot more enjoyable. I mean, how can anybody
let their life be ruined by the score of a
ball game, by the bass that got off the hook,
by the big buck that walked in from the left

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instead of the right, and you just got to look
at him, And that bothers us more than not being
right with God. As long as you're right with God,
that stuff will be fine, but it won't rule you.
And when it doesn't rule you, it's a blessing. A
lot of these things that we call blessings are nothing

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but distraction. So be careful move them back to a
blessing by no longer letting them be a distraction. Let's pray, Lord,
thank you, thank you for today. Thank you for these
men and how much they mean to me. Lord, there's
such an encouragement to me. I'm glad I don't have
friends like Job. I'm so thankful for them and the
encouragement that they are. Will you bless them? Lord, Please

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your hand be upon them. Thank you for all who
have come here today and made the study of your
word a priority. And Lord, thank you for how you
continue to mold me into something that I can't be
through the power of your holy Word. Forgive me for
where I fail you. I repent of all sin and
anything that has ever come between you and me. And
I thank you for the gift of your grace and

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your mercy and redemption through you, your son Jesus, who
paid the price that I should have paid. And may
he never look upon me, or us, or anybody who's
been redeemed, and never see that his grace was in vain.
We're not being obedient to try to earn redemption because
we can't do it. But may our obedience glorify you

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as a gift of gratitude for a gift that we
can't pay. In your name, we pray Amen.