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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. Hello, my name is
Rick Burgess. I'll be teaching again today the Book of Job.
Today will continue our study. We're in chapter twenty seven.
If you want to go ahead and turn with me
to Job chapter twenty seven. That's where we'll pick up
today as we continue to roll through this study of
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word of prayer, and then we'll jump right into Joe
chapter twenty seven. Lord, thank you for today, thank you
for the opportunity to be with the men here in
the room, and thank you for the men and women
that join us all over the country and around the
world on the archive or the live streaming. Lord, I
pray that you continue to bless us through this incredible
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and powerful historical moment of you dealing with a man
named Job, and also the things that we see in him,
and the things we see and his friends and the
things we are learning about. You help us again today
to discern this properly and be with those that are
with us on a regular basis that you know either
have you know sickness or difficulties. Lord, I pray that
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you be with them and have your hand on them
and your name we pray Amen. All right, So here
we go to Job chapter twenty seven. Job chapter twenty
seven is just going to continue from where we were
in twenty six because Job is not going to give
the floor up. Talked about this after the Bible study
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last week and even talked about it on the Daily Show.
Those who don't know I host a radio show every
Monday through Friday called the Rick Burgess Show. You can
find all that information at rickburgesshow dot com. But I
even mentioned on the show. I meant to include it
in the Bible study, and I didn't that when we
were studying twenty five where Bill Dad comes in and
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he only what we call verses, but he only talks
for a brief period of time. Some of the commentators
are suggesting that this really wasn't like Bill Dad to
be so short. That it's possible something likely, but we'll
list it with possible because I am speculating that Job
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just interrupted him. He just wasn't gonna sit there and
hear another long speech. And so this also continues going
into twenty seven because somewhere in here, if they were
keeping the same format that we've had since the Friends arrived,
we should be hearing from so far right now, and
we don't. As a matter of fact, we never hear
from him again. So some commentators think that Job is
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no longer giving the floor up to these friends, that
he's gonna take this and he's gonna roll right on,
and that's why we see him continuing to maintain his integrity.
I don't know if you've ever been there little application
I have, uh recently, Uh so have you have you
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ever been there when people were saying things about you
that weren't true and you just couldn't seem to get
the narrative changed, and you're like that that's not true
and and and people keep saying, well, you say it's
not true, but we think it is. And out there
somebody said and and somebody told me, and this isn't
that and tell you what? And uh and and sometimes
you're like, I'm not gonna let it go. Have you
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ever almost felt like that somebody was not going to stop?
And they at some point they just want you to
give in and go, Okay, that's what I did, even
even though you didn't. Now I have done that as
a as a husband, I've given in okay and uh
but okay, I guess I did. You're right, you know,
but uh but this is a little bit different than that.
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That's just so you can have a good day. But
but the you know, I'm not sure that you know
that I did take the trash outs so hell to
die on so you just kind of let it go.
But but anyway, this is very serious because these men
that he thought were his friends. We've talked about this
a lot. They've attacked his integrity and they're also when
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he explains himself, they don't believe it. And the reason
why they don't believe him is they have a flawed theology,
which God is working out through this whole process. Now
Job also is a little flawed, and God's gonna deal
with that too. But right now we're gonna we're gonna talk.
Job is going to take the floor and he is
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not going to give it back. This is going to
be the last time that he addresses his friends. He
seems to almost when we get to twenty seven. I
mean figuratively, but I wonder if not literally. It's almost
like he has his fist clenched and he's proclaiming his innocence.
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And this seems to be the most intense narrative from Job,
and we've had some pretty intense ones as far as
the defending of his integrity, and so we don't see
anything happening, you know. Verse one says, and Job again
took up his discourse and said, we see no response
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from so far as I mentioned, and he should have
been next up here, and Job just continues which is
what Verse one tells us nobody, We're not changing speakers,
We're staying with who we got. So Verse two Job says,
as God lives, who has taken away my right, and
the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter. Well, once again,
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Job does not seem to be in a gray area
over who is causing this. I know, I know, I know,
I can feel the pushback. You know, I've noticed when
dealing with this difficulty of God's character that human beings
that most that I will deal with Now, there's some
people they will not let God be involved in anything
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bad for you whatsoever. They're not gonna have it now. Unfortunately,
they seem to also be pretending that Satan is omnipotent
and omnipresent and omniscient when he's not. He's not. So.
First of all, we can just about rule out that
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we as individuals are being attacked by Satan himself. Love y'all.
I think y'all are great people, and I think you
are in this room. It is full of men of
God who have incredible integrity. But if Satan can't be
everywhere all at once like God and all the things
and people, he needs to go after and the things
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he needs to be involved in. Probably your difficulties did
not make his priority list. Now we do have a
third of the fallen angels that are demonic. Okay, now
now that I've experienced, I'm sure you have too. But
what does James tell us? Most of the time, Most
of the time, our sin struggle and our difficulty are
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broad on us by ourselves and our own behavior and
our own sin nature. You know it's I got a
question this week and I'll talk about it in the
new podcast Strange Encounters, which is only about spiritual warfare tomorrow.
And the question is can can Satan and the demons
read our mind? And the answers know they can't because
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they don't have those characteristics I just said, I think
a lot of times you think the demons can read
your mind. But all the demons have done is they've
done so much. They've watched so much film on you,
and they've watched so much film on me, and they've
been studying human beings for thousands of years, and they
know what makes us tick, so they know what plays
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to run because they've watched our nature, not because they
can read our mind. So anyway, well, I just gave
away the podcast that we're recording tomorrow, Direr, sorry about that. Uh,
but anyway, in this particular case, and then then then
I've seen people that will that will that will take
another step and they're okay, like they're gonna decide that
God allows bad things to happen. Well, you can't really
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argue against that one, because he can certainly stop it.
That there's no way to refute that God's God allows
it because he could stop it as we see here.
But the one that everybody gets a little nauseous about,
God cost it that everybody just kind of they get
a little squeamish about that job. Doesn't seem squamish about
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that at all. Uh. He's saying right here, God has
has turned aside my case. He he won't even hear
my case, okay, And he's the one that has made
me bitter. He's the one who did it. He didn't
say he allowed it. He's saying he cast it, which,
by the way, he did. Did Satan come to God
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and ask for permission? He sure did, but God gave it.
So he's saying, I want you to know that I've
been crying. I'm done with y'all, and I am trying
to cry out to God, but apparently he's just looked
at my case and said, no, thank you. Now we
know that's not going to stand, but that's how he
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feels right now. Verse three, as long as my breath
is in me and the spirit of God is in
my nostrils. So Job would rather die than compromise his
integrity by admitting to sins that he did not commit.
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If I fabricate a confession, so y'all get off my back.
So I was just talking about just to appease you.
Now that would be a sin. So y'all not going
to get it. There's no way you're gonna get me
to admit I did something that I did not do.
And have you have you ever been there? And look,
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sometimes you just have to lose a relationship over it,
you know. I told all of you this, and some
of you have adopted it because some of you are
even older than me, which that number is getting fewer
and fewer. But I can't do it anymore. Something about
when I turned sixty, I was just no longer willing
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to reason with unreasonable people. You know, if I've answered
your question and I've corrected a mistake and it doesn't
change anything. You just give me the same response again.
I'm done. I'm also not willing to continue to sit
down with people over and over again and say here's
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what you got to do. You need to do this,
this and this, and you just stop doing that and that,
and they just do the same thing again. You're saying, Rick,
now you know how God feels about you. I do,
and there's a lot of truth in that. But I'm
not God. He has he's he's slow to anger. Sometimes
I'm not. He's long suffering. Sometimes I'm not. I try
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to be, but there's always that feeling that I'm wasting
my time on this person and I could be devoted
to someone who would actually listen and and and would
make the changes and would start following the instruction right
and and you know that I will tell you. I
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will tell you that there have been times. This is
not giving up on people. I just go tell Jesus
on after this. But there have been times that I
have removed people from a group of people that were
growing together in Christ and we were all better for it.
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There's been people that have stopped coming in here, and
I'm glad they're gone. So it doesn't mean I've given
up on them praying for them, but I'm done with
them disrupting this and disrupting my life because they won't change,
and they're not here to make the place better. They're
here to cause chaos. And I think our pastor probably
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said the best statement I've ever heard said about church
discipline and about the removal of people for their own good,
by the way, and for the good and the purity
of the church. If you enjoy doing that, there's something
really wrong with you. If it didn't nauseate you, there's
something wrong with you. But if you neglect to do it,
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that's just as bad. It's necessary, but it's not pleasant.
And if it's pleasant to you, then probably you got
a problem. You really shouldn't enjoy that, but it is necessary.
And so here is job saying, if if our friendship's
over because you want me to fabricate a confession that
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you're begging for, then we're done. That's not I'll die
before I do that. So now he gets to forward,
kind of continuing this, He says, my lips will not
speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. I
refute friends, because this is still at friends here. I
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refute your version of the situation, and I have spoken.
I will not speak the way you do. You've spoke
falsehoods against me. I'm not going to speak falsehoods against
myself or to you. I'm just telling you we're done.
Your version of what happened here is not what happened.
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And I'm really sick and tired of telling you that.
And if that means y'all are out of my life,
then you're just out. Have you? Have you ever had
the drama people in your life finally go and it
felt pretty good. You got sick and tired of dreading
that next text, dreading that next call, you know, the
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latest thing they're angry about, the latest thing they think
you're not doing right, And finally that relationship ends and
you don't really miss it. I think job has gotten
to that point with these three, So Verse five, far
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be it from me to say that you are right
till I die. I will not put away my integrity
from me. To admit that you're right would violate my
own integrity, because agreeing with a lie means I've lost
my integrity and I'm not you know, I will die
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knowing that the accusation you made against me is false,
and my defense of myself was the truth, and that's
good enough for me. We get into verse six. I
hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go.
My heart does not reproach me for any of my days,
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he said, when he says he's going to hold fast
to his righteousness. Now, remember when you look to the
New Covenant, we got to apply that here the correct way.
The only thing good about the redeemed is Jesus. He's
what makes us righteous. None of us are fully righteous.
We are in him, but without him we would cease
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to be able to be righteous. So all the credit
goes to Jesus in this case. He knows. Remember, I
want to keep repeating this because I want you to
grab the wrong words. Blameless does not mean sinless. When
he says righteousness here he's talking about he's blameless before God.
He doesn't have anything between him and God he has
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not confessed and repented of. And he says, when y'all
made these accusations against me, and when I sit here
searching for why God is doing this, I'm just going
to tell you not once has conviction entered my heart
about his sin. Maybe I forgot about or something I
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was doing, and now I've been convicted. It's not happening.
I can't I can't find anything that I've done wrong
that would cause this. God is doing this. I know
that I don't know why he's doing it. But let
me tell you this, He's not doing it because I'm
living a secret life and committing sins that I have
not confessed and repented of. I'm right with God and
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I have no conviction in my heart otherwise. And you
know that's one of those things, right have you ever?
Have you ever had one of those things in your life?
And you're like, you know, somebody keeps saying that that
what I'm doing is wrong, but honestly, I don't feeling
conviction at all. And you know you have the Holy Spirit.
As a matter of fact, you've had the Holy Spirit
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make you really uncomfortable many times. But in this particular case,
you're like, you know this, you're this, this accusation you're
making toward me. I keep praying about it. Lord show
me if this person's right. I gotta tell you, I
don't feeling conviction over this. I don't think I'm doing
the wrong thing, and that's what Job is saying. Well, now,
Job's gonna go further when he gets into seven and
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this part, a lot of commentators are like, wow, this
is this seems to do. Some of this go against
the teachings of Jesus about how we should see our enemies.
So this gets a little little dicey here, because I'm
gonna tell you what Joe's about to do. He's he's
gonna he's gonna call curses on his enemies. He won't.
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He wants some dealt with And now is it his
friends he's talking about here? Is it? Is it people
who have been mistreating him? I guess if these friends
have made themselves an enemy of Job, they would be included.
I don't really know the answer to where they would
stand on that, but he's saying this in front of them,
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and he says, let my enemy be as the wicked,
So he's almost separating the two and let him who
rises up against me be as the unrighteous. That feels
directed at the friends. It really does, because now what's
going to be wild here? And if you want to
have a little fun here, Job has just spent a
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lot of this book, telling his friends that sometimes the
wicked do quite well, but he's now saying he wants
them to be treated as the wicked, which is almost
saying if you're treated like the wicked, the wicked, have
bad things happen to him. So he's kind of getting enough.
But here I think he's said, there's no doubt that
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we do see that the wicked eventually pay for what
they do, no matter how I may look for a moment,
And that's how I want those who rise up against
me to be treated by God. And I'm going to
go further. I'm going to say I want them to
be treated as the unrighteous. Well, the unrighteous would be
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condemned by God and they would receive his wrath. He's
really angry. He's had enough. Remember I said, this is
more of a This is very intense. He is at
the end of his rope, and he's tired. He's miserable.
We've all been there, right, you know you know this,
you know I mean, let's face it. My wife will
even say this, She'll say, and this is nothing to
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compared to what Joe's going through. She said, Look, I
tell people all the time, don't let Rick get hot
tired and hungry. If he's hot, tired and hungry, you're impossible.
And I do remember one time, and it's a funny
story that my wife and I talk about and laugh
about now. But I was been at some tournament all
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day long in Alabama summer, says zillion degrees. I'm miserable. Okay,
we haven't eaten. I'm hungry, and I didn't get a
lot of sleep, and I was tired, and I'm ready
to go home. And for some reason, I don't know why,
I guess i'd become angry or ill. Because I was
riding in the passenger seat and my wife was driving,
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and all of a sudden, she threw out we got
to go by the store, grocery store and stuff. On
the way home. I said, no, it ain't happening, and
she goes and she said, yeah, we're going to go
by the store. I said, nope, not with me. I'm
going home. And she said, I really would like for
you to stop your behavior right now. And I said, well,
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let me tell you how you can stop my behavior.
You can take me home. I ain't going to the store.
And she said, all of a sudden, the car pulls
over and she says, get out of the car. She said,
you can walk home. I said, walk home. I said,
have you what's happening? Have you lost your mind? I said,
I'm not. Then she pulls into the parking lot of
a waffle house and she says, I, just so you know,
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I want you to get out of his car and
stay here, and I want you to find another way home.
And I said that's not going to happen. Under no
circumstances that going to happen. And I remember this, and
this is what we got to laugh about later. Now
we didn't laugh. We didn't laugh about that day. I said,
I said, let me tell you how committed to this
I am. I said, I said, I will sit in
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this seat till i'm bones. I said, you will look
over here and see a skeleton with a seat belt
over it. That's how committed that I will sit here
and die before I'll get out. And she said she'd
never been thissition before, ever been this. She said, I
will say, this is the one time I didn't know
what to do and I finally just drove him home.
She said, She said, I'd never seen that kind of commitment.
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He would he was immovable. I mean, I ain't getting
out of his car. There's no way that I'm now,
And so that's kind of where job is. He's like,
I'm telling you, I'm done with this. I'm at the
end of my rope on this, and I'm immovable on
changing my point of view, and I'm so mad about it.
I want God to strike all y'all dead. He's mad
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Verse eight, for what is the hope of the godless?
When God cuts him off? When God takes away his life.
It's almost like he's now trash talking his friends. Y'all.
Did hear me call God's curse down on you? You know?
But what God does to people that are against him?
Because he said, y'all not against me, y'all against God,
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you know. And he said, if you're coming after me,
let God strike him down. Let God strike you down.
Y'all know what happens to the godness, don't you? Y'all
know what happens happens when God cuts people off, when
God takes away his life. That's what I'm calling for.
That must have been a tough day. If the friendship
had any hope, it looks like it's shattering right now,
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you know. I don't know how we get you know,
can you imagine that being brought again? You remember that
time you tell God to strike us all dead? You
know that's hard to get past. But verse nine, well,
God hear his cry talking about the godless when distress
comes upon him. Of course we know the answer to
that rhetorical question. God doesn't even hear the prayers of
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people like y'all. God doesn't hear prayers of the unrighteous.
God doesn't hear prayers. Now. I've had people before come
back and say, well, no, wait a minute, how can
anyone ever be redeemed? No, God's going to always hear
the prayer of repentance. But but if you have not repented,
and you keep crying out to God, you know, without repentance,
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you know, I know, it's an uncomfortable thing. And this
one of those things again that we try to take theology.
And you know, if you've ever read the moments throughout scripture,
Psalm chapter five is one of them. I mean, Psalm
five is that it says that God with the unrepented,
he actually hates the wicked. Now, I know that's not
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very popular because we're always being told that God just
loves everybody unrepented or repented. No, God is willing to
open himself up to everybody to receive his grace and
mercy and his love. But if you reject God and
you won't repent, and you push him aside and you
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reject him, but he didn't love you. Matter of fact,
he's going to kill you. He's going to destroy you.
So that really isn't true. And Psalm five says that
he actually hates people that continue to act wicked and
reject him. So here you see that Job goes further
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and say you can cry all day if you're not
right with God, and it's not gonna matter. Uh. Verse ten,
will he take the light in the Almighty? Talking about
the godless? Will he call upon God at all times?
He says, God finds no delight in these people. They
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don't call on God unless they're in the bind. I
thought about that. What's this? What's the artist with all
the tattoos, big fat fellow? What's it called jelly row?
First time I saw that, I thought, Wow, that's right
on the nose, isn't it? Jelly rose a jelly row?
But anyway, he he you know, he's remember when he
wrote that song, only talk to God when I need
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something or something like that. And and and you know
that there's a lot of people that have that relationship.
They want nothing to do with God unless they can
get in the bind. Uh. I only talk to God.
I need it when I need a favor, that's what.
And uh and he's saying, well, the godless are that way.
And if all you're gonna do is call on him
when you need something, uh. He he doesn't. He doesn't.
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He doesn't take delight in people that have nothing to
do with him. Then all of a sudden, you're in
a buying you start calling out to it. And then
he gets into the fate of the Wicked and the
rest of this particular chapter eleven. He says, this you
that he is using seems to be plural, and again
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we think this represents his friends, and he's likely about
to address this meaningless talk they've had. The first two
verses are kind of like an introduction to what's going
to follow, maybe even into chapter twenty eight. Some of
this is gonna continue, but it's not a real introduction.
It's just him saying, I will teach you concerning the
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hand of God. What is with the Almighty, I will
not conceal twelve. Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves.
Why then have you become altogether vain? So he's saying,
I'm going to clue you in on the power of God.
I'm not going to hold anything back what I have stated.
Now we're in twelve. What I have stated is so
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blatantly obvious. Righteous sometimes suffer, wicked, sometimes prosper. But you
can clearly see these things are going on. Are you
just too proud to admit that everything I've stated and
the flaws in our theology, you can plainly see the
same things I see. I didn't see something with specializes.
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So what I don't understand? Are you just too arrogant
to finally go, hey, job, you know what? You made
some good points, you know, let's face it, sometimes some
of the most difficult thing we deal with. Rick Burgess included,
how about this. I don't like to be wrong. I
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don't think any of us do. But it's one thing
not to really enjoy admitting you're wrong. It's quite another
to be so arrogant that you won't admit it. Raise
your hand if you've ever been wrong about something right,
But don't you hate that when you have to just
go Hey, by the way, I was wrong on that,
but I will tell you, if you're willing to do it,
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it's pretty freeing. It can be embarrassing, but it's freeing.
And what he's saying is the things I'm saying are
so elementary, They're just so logical, They're so easy to
see with your own eye. I don't understand why y'all
want to come around to what I keep pointing out.
Maybe you're just too arrogant to do so. And you know,
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terrors the wicked can expect are now going to start
in verse thirteen and then the rest of the chapter.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God
and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty. This
is really now an introduction to the rest of the
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chapter on what's going to happen, first of all, and
now I want you to pick up you probably already
have if you've read this time. Some of you do
a great job of even getting out ahead of it
and studying it. If you pick up where we're going
now fourteen through the rest of the chapter. A lot
of these things he says are things they said about
him and he's bringing it back. So I'll tell you what.
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I'll tell you who the wicked may be here. It's
not me. I think it's y'all. And all the things
y'all said about the wicked's gonna happen to you. So
he says in fourteen, if his children are multiplied, it
is for the sword. And his descendants have not enough bread.
They said that about Job. They said that Job's wickedness
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had doomed his children. And he comes back and says, well,
now I remember what y'all said about wicked people, and
I've just declared you're wicked. So according to y'all, wicked
people have doomed their children. And so he brings that
up fifteen. Those who survive him the pestilence berries and
his widows do not weep. Why is used here? Uh?
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And and and some of the the different It says
widows here. Some of your translations may say wives. But
but when you see this, this is this is not
really pointing to polygamy. It just means all the wives
of wicked people, all the widows of wicked people. Some
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people thought, is he saying something about polygamy here? It
certainly was happening in that culture. Uh. But he says
that that wicked people doom the plight of their wife,
their spouse, and they are glad when the wicked spouse
is dead. They don't weep. You think, you think there's
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not spouses out there that are being treated horribly by
a wicked husband, our wicked wife, and their life is
so miserable, and they're so oppressed that you can be
so wicked that when you die, he's spouse is not
gonna weep about that, glad you're gone. And then he
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goes on to say that you know any of those
that survive, meaning the pestilence this wicked person has caused
in a home, And I will tell you you know,
I know people, and I've canceled people, And like I
said even in the book, men don't run in the rain.
I'm so thankful I didn't have the deady issues that
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some people had and husband issues for some of you
women that join us on the streaming and the archives.
But I have seen the damage it does in other
people's lives. And there's nothing quite so miserable that a
house of pestilence that's caused by wicked man, the kind
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of man everybody has to step on eggshells around. You
don't ever know when he's gonna go off. He's almost
a tyrant in the home, food always unpredictable, and anger
that is terrifying to his wife and his children. That's no,
that's not a house you want to live in. I mean,
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I've known people that said, you know, their dad was
such like so much like that. When they got old enough,
i mean, they would almost beg friends to let them
spend the night. They didn't want to go stay in
their own house, and they dreaded being in their own house,
and as soon as they were able to leave, they left.
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And I've even had some that were you know, and
I'm not saying this is right. I'm just saying that
were upset that the mom did not make us stand
that allowed them to stay in that situation. You know. Now,
sometimes that might be something that you don't understand till
you get older and you find out that maybe there
were reasons for that. But I'm just I'm really talking
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about the pestilence more than anything. There's nothing quite like
Evel wicked man inside a home. And this is what
he's talking about. Those that survive everything this wicked person does.
When that wicked person is buried, they'll be glad they're gone. So, yeah,
that's a rough but it's true. Sixteen and seventeen kind
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of go together. Though. He heap up silver like dust
and pile up clothing like clay. He may pile up,
but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will
divide the silver. So these go together as one at
the end. It is the righteous who are going to
be truly rich in the end. The wicked man or
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the niked wicked woman. The wicked may have it for
a moment. They may have richest for just for a moment,
and they may have all that you could ever imagine
for a moment, But when they die, it will be
the righteous that will inherit the things that they thought
were theirs. They're not going to take it with them.
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It's going to be divided up by the innocent. Eighteen.
He builds his house like a moth's like a booth
that a watchman makes. Now, you'd have to know the
culture here to kind of know what he's talking about.
One of them's in nature, so that one we should
all know. But if you ever have you ever seen
what a moth lives in. It's a very fragile cocoon.
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It's not even as nice as a butterfly. It's a
very fragile cocoon. And the watchman booth, the watchman's booth
he's talking about during harvest. If you were security to
watch over the harvest, you just lived in a temporary
little shack or a booth, and you stayed there and
watched everything until the harvest was over, and then you
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didn't live there anymore. Temporary housing bottom line. So what
he's saying is, you know, when you're wicked, you may
think that you've got this incredible home and this place
we should all just you know, be in awe of.
But really, because of your wickedness and what's going to
happen to you, you're in something as fragile as a
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moth's cocoon or a watchman's booth. You think that you
have all this, but you really got nothing. Twenty. By
the way, don't forget that the friends of Job, I
mean in verse nineteen, the friends of Job all wealthy people.
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They're all wealthy. So now we get to nineteen. He
goes to bed rich, but will do so no more.
He opens his eyes. His wealth it's gone. It's just
more of job talking about how temporary earthly wealth is.
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And as he has seen. Of course, they claim it's
because he's wicked, and he says it's not. But you
made the point friends that the wicked they they they
can lose their wealth overnight. It can be gone just
like that. Uh. We well, if you don't believe that
we did a story on the day Job the day
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that we're doing this, uh, and and it is that
Cam Newton is talking about how his life has changed
and he's no longer superman to his eight children, no wife,
but but eight children. And because he's not making the
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money he was making an NFL and uh he only
made one hundred and thirty million while being in But
in all fairness, though, before y'all start rolling your eyes,
after taxes, it's only eighty four million and and so
uh and uh and and it is uh, it's gone.
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Uh and it's it's it's it has fate, he said,
I can't provide for them like I once did. Now
many people have looked at if just the slightest of
conservative investments, he could be drawn about two million dollars
a year to live off of. Now. I don't know
what happened, but h and Greg brought this up. My brother.
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He said he saw Mike Tyson be interviewed one time
and Mike Tyson he even actually did a Broadway type thing,
a theater thing where Tyson was sit there and tell
you how he lost everything. And it was one statement,
though was easy. He said, I'll tell you how you
can go through ten million dollars spend eleven megion, you know,
And uh, I mean it's pretty simple and so and
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so this is the this is what he's talking about.
This wealth is so fragile, it can be gone in
no time. And and so it's really kind of relative.
You know. I know people that don't what we wouldn't say,
make up much money at all, and they've just been
real wise with it. And they're a lot wealthier than
people that have a lot of big houses and a
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bunch cards, you know, and multiple homes and all that
they're not worried about how they're going to live at
all because they've been wise with what they have. So
then you get into to verse twenty and it says
that terrors overtake him like a flood in the night,
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a whirlwind carries him off. Terror is coming for the wicked,
God is to be feared. Wrath is coming. And you know,
if you really do believe what we believe that, you know,
we're called that anybody who doesn't fear God lacks wisdom. Now,
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I've had people, I don't know why, for some reason,
we as the church think that God needs us to
be a public relations agent for him, don't. I don't
know where we get off of that kind of arrogance.
Have you ever heard people take fear of God and
immediately try to down Well, now that just means we
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have respect for God. No, it, I mean that that's
part of it. But the actual Hebrew word there also
includes terror. Uh it. We should be terrified of the
wrath of God. I'll go as far as to say,
if you're not, you'll always You've heard me say this before,
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you'll always dumb down his grace and mercy if you don't,
if you're not terrified or understand the wrath of God,
you'll always cheapen the grace and the mercy because it
won't feel like that big a deal. You know, if
somebody said, hey, Rick was gonna come over here and
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and he was gonna come out here and chop one
of your trees down if you didn't get right with him.
You'd go, well, I really hate for that to happen.
Uh So he says, if you'll say you're sorry, he
won't come chop that tree down. And you know, you
tell me sorry, and you go, well, I'm kind of
glad he didn't shot my tree down. What if you heard, Hey,
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if you don't get right with Rick, he's gonna burn
your house down. He's gonna kill everybody in this house.
And then all of a sudden, you heard that. I said, Man,
I'm good, your apology, accepted, my grace and mercy feels
a little better than the tree thing, doesn't it. And
I think sometimes we're so quick to not want to
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talk about God's wrath, as if that's not part of
his character, that we're going to be his public relations agent. No,
what Scripture is saying is if you're not afraid of
God's wrath, you're not very wise. You don't want to
be on the wrong side of God. Right do we
also respect and love him and we're in all of him,
of course, But there's also supposed to be a terror
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there of his wrath. And so this is what Job
is talking about. When you're not right with God, terror
overtakes you when his wrath comes like a flood or maybe,
and the night is a whirlwind and it's just gonna
carry you off. And if you're wicked, that's what's coming,
which should produce terror. So then in twenty one, the
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east wind lifts him up and he is gone. It
sweeps him out of his place. Now God will use
the east wind to destroy the wicked, And the east
wind is something they were very familiar with. That that
was usually where bad weather came from. You know, even
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in our time, it's different. I don't know where if
some of you live that are out there, but for
us there's sometimes exceptions. We always know that the fronts
are coming from the west and they're gonna move from
west to east, and we're gonna start watching. If you
know how the I hope you know some geography and
know how the state is set up. We start looking
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in Arkansas, then we start looking at Mississippi and we're like, well,
here it comes. And then we know it's gonna hit
West Alabama first and then it's gonna roll on to Birmingham,
and then we'll see where it goes from there. And
it really seems to have two paths when it starts
to get in the east that it takes either one
that goes on up from where I was from in
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Calhoun County, or it goes down there through Saint Clair
County and heads that way. But for them, the east
wind was something that usually bad weather for them came
from h And he's saying, the east wind is going
to destroy the wicked. God may use a storm to
do it. And he says, look, he's getting more and
more detailed. It says in twenty two. It hurls at
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him without pity. He flees from its power and headlong flight.
These punishing storms that God sends on the wicked will
show no mercy. You have not made a friend of God,
and so therefore, if you died a friend of God,
you don't have God to shell you in the time
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of a storm. Once again, you look back to what
we've said a couple of times. There's Matthew seven. Again.
If you're not right with God, when the storm comes
and it comes on the righteous and the unrighteous, if
you're not with God, you can't survive the storm. That's it.
And then verse twenty three, it claps its hands at
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him and hisses at him from its place. What does
this mean? Well, think about it. These are the sounds
of a storm, you know. This is what this is.
A sound of storm makes Wicked comes to an end,
Wicked is swept away by shrieking wind erased from the
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face of the earth. Job is saying, this is how
they see it, but he does not think God's moral
administration of the world is that simple. He's throwing what
they said right back at him and saying, if this
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is what you believe, and if you're being wicked, this
is what's going to happen to you. But he's saying,
I think it's more complicated than all this, and I
think there's more to God's moral administration of bad things
happening and good things happening. I just don't think it's
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that simple from what I've observed. I don't think I
would we would say this way in our falling state
and the falling creation, that God's moral administration is operating,
that's simplistic. It feels a lot more complicated than that
to me. And he's throwing all this back at them, saying, well,
this is what's going to happen to you. Now here's
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what's interesting. This is going to end the debate cycle, okay,
and we're not going to have three free going after
one guy anymore, luckily. And and I think one of
the things that we need to take away too, that
that's a bigger point is when you when you look
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at the voting system, just because the liars have more
votes does not make their lie true. Because really, right here,
if this is a jury, Job gets out voted, there'd
be three votes that Job is wicked, and there'd be
one vote that no, I'm not, and the three to
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one would win. But thankfully, the truth is not determined
by popular vote. And when you start thinking about this
image of the wicked that Job is talking about, and
you you you start thinking to him, to yourself, how
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can Job take this kind of turn on these people,
well that have obviously been his friend for some period
of time, right, I mean, they're the three that came.
How can Joe begin to start feeling the way start
feeling the way that he clearly does so disappointed in
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their accusations, and he knows that he's right with God,
and you know there's a lot of foreshadowing here, and
those of you that were with us on the study
of the Revelation, and I know for a lot of
you it was uncomfortable. And again it's interesting how God
weaves all this together. I got an email with this
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question in it half hour before the Bible study. And
the question is, which has been asked many times, if
our friends are our family, reject God and find themselves
on the wrong side of God all the way to
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their death, how will that affect us in eternity? And
we talked about this in the Revelation, So some of
you heard this, and I know some of you it
may be a little bitter and difficult, but you're thinking
about this with a finite mind, and you're thinking about
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this with a sin nature. Here you're not glorified yet.
And the answer to that, which is where job I
think is getting even here in the Old Testament, is
I don't care who you are. If you're against God,
then I'm against you. And I want you to know,
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based on everything we've read in scripture and in the Revelation,
when the wicked supernatural demonic forces in Satan along with
the wicked humans are destroyed by God, no matter who
they they are. When we've been in the presence of
the one and only Living God, when our glorified bodies
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are fellowshipping with a glorified Savior and a glorified God
that is holy, holy, holy, we will be in such worship.
We will be so enamored with God that we will
take on his character and we will oppose everybody who's
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rejected Him, and it won't bother us at all, no
matter who they are, based on who He is, and
our worship of people will cease and we will oppose
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them just as he does. Now that doesn't mean give up.
One day, I'll be no, because we certainly want to
stand before him saying I did what you told me
to do. I told him the truth over and over
and over. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed.
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I did everything you told me to do because I
loved them, but more importantly, because I wanted to be
obedient to you. So you'll stand there guiltless. But if
they reject God, I promise you the day is coming
that you'll reject them. And that's what we see because
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believe it or not, God will be more important to you.
Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for
this lesson, Thank you for the things you've taught us.
Thank you for sometimes difficult truths. But we certainly understand
Job being at the end of his rope with these
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people who keep accusing him of something he has not done.
Now we do know he's got a date with you
coming up, and some things with Job we're going to
be set straight as well. But you will agree with
his assessment of his friends. Lord, thank you for the
grace of mercy you've shown us. None of us are
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worthy of your grace and mercy. We all deserve your wrath,
but by the grace and mercy you bestowed upon us
by taking on human flesh and paying the price for us,
You pouring out your wrath on yourself, your own son,
so that those of us that repent and confess him
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as our Lord and our savior, and the only payment
for sin we can be seen by you is fully righteous.
And in your holy name we pray Amen. Thanks for
being with us.
Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. Hello, my name is
Rick Burgess. I'll be teaching again today the Book of Job.
Today will continue our study. We're in chapter twenty seven.
If you want to go ahead and turn with me
to Job chapter twenty seven. That's where we'll pick up
today as we continue to roll through this study of
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word of prayer, and then we'll jump right into Joe
chapter twenty seven. Lord, thank you for today, thank you
for the opportunity to be with the men here in
the room, and thank you for the men and women
that join us all over the country and around the
world on the archive or the live streaming. Lord, I
pray that you continue to bless us through this incredible
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and powerful historical moment of you dealing with a man
named Job, and also the things that we see in him,
and the things we see and his friends and the
things we are learning about. You help us again today
to discern this properly and be with those that are
with us on a regular basis that you know either
have you know sickness or difficulties. Lord, I pray that
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you be with them and have your hand on them
and your name we pray Amen. All right, So here
we go to Job chapter twenty seven. Job chapter twenty
seven is just going to continue from where we were
in twenty six because Job is not going to give
the floor up. Talked about this after the Bible study
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last week and even talked about it on the Daily Show.
Those who don't know I host a radio show every
Monday through Friday called the Rick Burgess Show. You can
find all that information at rickburgesshow dot com. But I
even mentioned on the show. I meant to include it
in the Bible study, and I didn't that when we
were studying twenty five where Bill Dad comes in and
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he only what we call verses, but he only talks
for a brief period of time. Some of the commentators
are suggesting that this really wasn't like Bill Dad to
be so short. That it's possible something likely, but we'll
list it with possible because I am speculating that Job
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just interrupted him. He just wasn't gonna sit there and
hear another long speech. And so this also continues going
into twenty seven because somewhere in here, if they were
keeping the same format that we've had since the Friends arrived,
we should be hearing from so far right now, and
we don't. As a matter of fact, we never hear
from him again. So some commentators think that Job is
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no longer giving the floor up to these friends, that
he's gonna take this and he's gonna roll right on,
and that's why we see him continuing to maintain his integrity.
I don't know if you've ever been there little application
I have, uh recently, Uh so have you have you
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ever been there when people were saying things about you
that weren't true and you just couldn't seem to get
the narrative changed, and you're like that that's not true
and and and people keep saying, well, you say it's
not true, but we think it is. And out there
somebody said and and somebody told me, and this isn't
that and tell you what? And uh and and sometimes
you're like, I'm not gonna let it go. Have you
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ever almost felt like that somebody was not going to stop?
And they at some point they just want you to
give in and go, Okay, that's what I did, even
even though you didn't. Now I have done that as
a as a husband, I've given in okay and uh
but okay, I guess I did. You're right, you know,
but uh but this is a little bit different than that.
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That's just so you can have a good day. But
but the you know, I'm not sure that you know
that I did take the trash outs so hell to
die on so you just kind of let it go.
But but anyway, this is very serious because these men
that he thought were his friends. We've talked about this
a lot. They've attacked his integrity and they're also when
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he explains himself, they don't believe it. And the reason
why they don't believe him is they have a flawed theology,
which God is working out through this whole process. Now
Job also is a little flawed, and God's gonna deal
with that too. But right now we're gonna we're gonna talk.
Job is going to take the floor and he is
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not going to give it back. This is going to
be the last time that he addresses his friends. He
seems to almost when we get to twenty seven. I
mean figuratively, but I wonder if not literally. It's almost
like he has his fist clenched and he's proclaiming his innocence.
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And this seems to be the most intense narrative from Job,
and we've had some pretty intense ones as far as
the defending of his integrity, and so we don't see
anything happening, you know. Verse one says, and Job again
took up his discourse and said, we see no response
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from so far as I mentioned, and he should have
been next up here, and Job just continues which is
what Verse one tells us nobody, We're not changing speakers,
We're staying with who we got. So Verse two Job says,
as God lives, who has taken away my right, and
the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter. Well, once again,
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Job does not seem to be in a gray area
over who is causing this. I know, I know, I know,
I can feel the pushback. You know, I've noticed when
dealing with this difficulty of God's character that human beings
that most that I will deal with Now, there's some
people they will not let God be involved in anything
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bad for you whatsoever. They're not gonna have it now. Unfortunately,
they seem to also be pretending that Satan is omnipotent
and omnipresent and omniscient when he's not. He's not. So.
First of all, we can just about rule out that
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we as individuals are being attacked by Satan himself. Love y'all.
I think y'all are great people, and I think you
are in this room. It is full of men of
God who have incredible integrity. But if Satan can't be
everywhere all at once like God and all the things
and people, he needs to go after and the things
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he needs to be involved in. Probably your difficulties did
not make his priority list. Now we do have a
third of the fallen angels that are demonic. Okay, now
now that I've experienced, I'm sure you have too. But
what does James tell us? Most of the time, Most
of the time, our sin struggle and our difficulty are
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broad on us by ourselves and our own behavior and
our own sin nature. You know it's I got a
question this week and I'll talk about it in the
new podcast Strange Encounters, which is only about spiritual warfare tomorrow.
And the question is can can Satan and the demons
read our mind? And the answers know they can't because
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they don't have those characteristics I just said, I think
a lot of times you think the demons can read
your mind. But all the demons have done is they've
done so much. They've watched so much film on you,
and they've watched so much film on me, and they've
been studying human beings for thousands of years, and they
know what makes us tick, so they know what plays
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to run because they've watched our nature, not because they
can read our mind. So anyway, well, I just gave
away the podcast that we're recording tomorrow, Direr, sorry about that. Uh,
but anyway, in this particular case, and then then then
I've seen people that will that will that will take
another step and they're okay, like they're gonna decide that
God allows bad things to happen. Well, you can't really
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argue against that one, because he can certainly stop it.
That there's no way to refute that God's God allows
it because he could stop it as we see here.
But the one that everybody gets a little nauseous about,
God cost it that everybody just kind of they get
a little squeamish about that job. Doesn't seem squamish about
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that at all. Uh. He's saying right here, God has
has turned aside my case. He he won't even hear
my case, okay, And he's the one that has made
me bitter. He's the one who did it. He didn't
say he allowed it. He's saying he cast it, which,
by the way, he did. Did Satan come to God
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and ask for permission? He sure did, but God gave it.
So he's saying, I want you to know that I've
been crying. I'm done with y'all, and I am trying
to cry out to God, but apparently he's just looked
at my case and said, no, thank you. Now we
know that's not going to stand, but that's how he
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feels right now. Verse three, as long as my breath
is in me and the spirit of God is in
my nostrils. So Job would rather die than compromise his
integrity by admitting to sins that he did not commit.
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If I fabricate a confession, so y'all get off my back.
So I was just talking about just to appease you.
Now that would be a sin. So y'all not going
to get it. There's no way you're gonna get me
to admit I did something that I did not do.
And have you have you ever been there? And look,
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sometimes you just have to lose a relationship over it,
you know. I told all of you this, and some
of you have adopted it because some of you are
even older than me, which that number is getting fewer
and fewer. But I can't do it anymore. Something about
when I turned sixty, I was just no longer willing
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to reason with unreasonable people. You know, if I've answered
your question and I've corrected a mistake and it doesn't
change anything. You just give me the same response again.
I'm done. I'm also not willing to continue to sit
down with people over and over again and say here's
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what you got to do. You need to do this,
this and this, and you just stop doing that and that,
and they just do the same thing again. You're saying, Rick,
now you know how God feels about you. I do,
and there's a lot of truth in that. But I'm
not God. He has he's he's slow to anger. Sometimes
I'm not. He's long suffering. Sometimes I'm not. I try
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to be, but there's always that feeling that I'm wasting
my time on this person and I could be devoted
to someone who would actually listen and and and would
make the changes and would start following the instruction right
and and you know that I will tell you. I
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will tell you that there have been times. This is
not giving up on people. I just go tell Jesus
on after this. But there have been times that I
have removed people from a group of people that were
growing together in Christ and we were all better for it.
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There's been people that have stopped coming in here, and
I'm glad they're gone. So it doesn't mean I've given
up on them praying for them, but I'm done with
them disrupting this and disrupting my life because they won't change,
and they're not here to make the place better. They're
here to cause chaos. And I think our pastor probably
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said the best statement I've ever heard said about church
discipline and about the removal of people for their own good,
by the way, and for the good and the purity
of the church. If you enjoy doing that, there's something
really wrong with you. If it didn't nauseate you, there's
something wrong with you. But if you neglect to do it,
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that's just as bad. It's necessary, but it's not pleasant.
And if it's pleasant to you, then probably you got
a problem. You really shouldn't enjoy that, but it is necessary.
And so here is job saying, if if our friendship's
over because you want me to fabricate a confession that
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you're begging for, then we're done. That's not I'll die
before I do that. So now he gets to forward,
kind of continuing this, He says, my lips will not
speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. I
refute friends, because this is still at friends here. I
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refute your version of the situation, and I have spoken.
I will not speak the way you do. You've spoke
falsehoods against me. I'm not going to speak falsehoods against
myself or to you. I'm just telling you we're done.
Your version of what happened here is not what happened.
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And I'm really sick and tired of telling you that.
And if that means y'all are out of my life,
then you're just out. Have you? Have you ever had
the drama people in your life finally go and it
felt pretty good. You got sick and tired of dreading
that next text, dreading that next call, you know, the
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latest thing they're angry about, the latest thing they think
you're not doing right, And finally that relationship ends and
you don't really miss it. I think job has gotten
to that point with these three, So Verse five, far
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be it from me to say that you are right
till I die. I will not put away my integrity
from me. To admit that you're right would violate my
own integrity, because agreeing with a lie means I've lost
my integrity and I'm not you know, I will die
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knowing that the accusation you made against me is false,
and my defense of myself was the truth, and that's
good enough for me. We get into verse six. I
hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go.
My heart does not reproach me for any of my days,
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he said, when he says he's going to hold fast
to his righteousness. Now, remember when you look to the
New Covenant, we got to apply that here the correct way.
The only thing good about the redeemed is Jesus. He's
what makes us righteous. None of us are fully righteous.
We are in him, but without him we would cease
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to be able to be righteous. So all the credit
goes to Jesus in this case. He knows. Remember, I
want to keep repeating this because I want you to
grab the wrong words. Blameless does not mean sinless. When
he says righteousness here he's talking about he's blameless before God.
He doesn't have anything between him and God he has
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not confessed and repented of. And he says, when y'all
made these accusations against me, and when I sit here
searching for why God is doing this, I'm just going
to tell you not once has conviction entered my heart
about his sin. Maybe I forgot about or something I
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was doing, and now I've been convicted. It's not happening.
I can't I can't find anything that I've done wrong
that would cause this. God is doing this. I know
that I don't know why he's doing it. But let
me tell you this, He's not doing it because I'm
living a secret life and committing sins that I have
not confessed and repented of. I'm right with God and
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I have no conviction in my heart otherwise. And you
know that's one of those things, right have you ever?
Have you ever had one of those things in your life?
And you're like, you know, somebody keeps saying that that
what I'm doing is wrong, but honestly, I don't feeling
conviction at all. And you know you have the Holy Spirit.
As a matter of fact, you've had the Holy Spirit
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make you really uncomfortable many times. But in this particular case,
you're like, you know this, you're this, this accusation you're
making toward me. I keep praying about it. Lord show
me if this person's right. I gotta tell you, I
don't feeling conviction over this. I don't think I'm doing
the wrong thing, and that's what Job is saying. Well, now,
Job's gonna go further when he gets into seven and
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this part, a lot of commentators are like, wow, this
is this seems to do. Some of this go against
the teachings of Jesus about how we should see our enemies.
So this gets a little little dicey here, because I'm
gonna tell you what Joe's about to do. He's he's
gonna he's gonna call curses on his enemies. He won't.
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He wants some dealt with And now is it his
friends he's talking about here? Is it? Is it people
who have been mistreating him? I guess if these friends
have made themselves an enemy of Job, they would be included.
I don't really know the answer to where they would
stand on that, but he's saying this in front of them,
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and he says, let my enemy be as the wicked,
So he's almost separating the two and let him who
rises up against me be as the unrighteous. That feels
directed at the friends. It really does, because now what's
going to be wild here? And if you want to
have a little fun here, Job has just spent a
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lot of this book, telling his friends that sometimes the
wicked do quite well, but he's now saying he wants
them to be treated as the wicked, which is almost
saying if you're treated like the wicked, the wicked, have
bad things happen to him. So he's kind of getting enough.
But here I think he's said, there's no doubt that
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we do see that the wicked eventually pay for what
they do, no matter how I may look for a moment,
And that's how I want those who rise up against
me to be treated by God. And I'm going to
go further. I'm going to say I want them to
be treated as the unrighteous. Well, the unrighteous would be
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condemned by God and they would receive his wrath. He's
really angry. He's had enough. Remember I said, this is
more of a This is very intense. He is at
the end of his rope, and he's tired. He's miserable.
We've all been there, right, you know you know this,
you know I mean, let's face it. My wife will
even say this, She'll say, and this is nothing to
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compared to what Joe's going through. She said, Look, I
tell people all the time, don't let Rick get hot
tired and hungry. If he's hot, tired and hungry, you're impossible.
And I do remember one time, and it's a funny
story that my wife and I talk about and laugh
about now. But I was been at some tournament all
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day long in Alabama summer, says zillion degrees. I'm miserable. Okay,
we haven't eaten. I'm hungry, and I didn't get a
lot of sleep, and I was tired, and I'm ready
to go home. And for some reason, I don't know why,
I guess i'd become angry or ill. Because I was
riding in the passenger seat and my wife was driving,
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and all of a sudden, she threw out we got
to go by the store, grocery store and stuff. On
the way home. I said, no, it ain't happening, and
she goes and she said, yeah, we're going to go
by the store. I said, nope, not with me. I'm
going home. And she said, I really would like for
you to stop your behavior right now. And I said, well,
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let me tell you how you can stop my behavior.
You can take me home. I ain't going to the store.
And she said, all of a sudden, the car pulls
over and she says, get out of the car. She said,
you can walk home. I said, walk home. I said,
have you what's happening? Have you lost your mind? I said,
I'm not. Then she pulls into the parking lot of
a waffle house and she says, I, just so you know,
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I want you to get out of his car and
stay here, and I want you to find another way home.
And I said that's not going to happen. Under no
circumstances that going to happen. And I remember this, and
this is what we got to laugh about later. Now
we didn't laugh. We didn't laugh about that day. I said,
I said, let me tell you how committed to this
I am. I said, I said, I will sit in
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this seat till i'm bones. I said, you will look
over here and see a skeleton with a seat belt
over it. That's how committed that I will sit here
and die before I'll get out. And she said she'd
never been thissition before, ever been this. She said, I
will say, this is the one time I didn't know
what to do and I finally just drove him home.
She said, She said, I'd never seen that kind of commitment.
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He would he was immovable. I mean, I ain't getting
out of his car. There's no way that I'm now,
And so that's kind of where job is. He's like,
I'm telling you, I'm done with this. I'm at the
end of my rope on this, and I'm immovable on
changing my point of view, and I'm so mad about it.
I want God to strike all y'all dead. He's mad
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Verse eight, for what is the hope of the godless?
When God cuts him off? When God takes away his life.
It's almost like he's now trash talking his friends. Y'all.
Did hear me call God's curse down on you? You know?
But what God does to people that are against him?
Because he said, y'all not against me, y'all against God,
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you know. And he said, if you're coming after me,
let God strike him down. Let God strike you down.
Y'all know what happens to the godness, don't you? Y'all
know what happens happens when God cuts people off, when
God takes away his life. That's what I'm calling for.
That must have been a tough day. If the friendship
had any hope, it looks like it's shattering right now,
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you know. I don't know how we get you know,
can you imagine that being brought again? You remember that
time you tell God to strike us all dead? You
know that's hard to get past. But verse nine, well,
God hear his cry talking about the godless when distress
comes upon him. Of course we know the answer to
that rhetorical question. God doesn't even hear the prayers of
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people like y'all. God doesn't hear prayers of the unrighteous.
God doesn't hear prayers. Now. I've had people before come
back and say, well, no, wait a minute, how can
anyone ever be redeemed? No, God's going to always hear
the prayer of repentance. But but if you have not repented,
and you keep crying out to God, you know, without repentance,
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you know, I know, it's an uncomfortable thing. And this
one of those things again that we try to take theology.
And you know, if you've ever read the moments throughout scripture,
Psalm chapter five is one of them. I mean, Psalm
five is that it says that God with the unrepented,
he actually hates the wicked. Now, I know that's not
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very popular because we're always being told that God just
loves everybody unrepented or repented. No, God is willing to
open himself up to everybody to receive his grace and
mercy and his love. But if you reject God and
you won't repent, and you push him aside and you
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reject him, but he didn't love you. Matter of fact,
he's going to kill you. He's going to destroy you.
So that really isn't true. And Psalm five says that
he actually hates people that continue to act wicked and
reject him. So here you see that Job goes further
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and say you can cry all day if you're not
right with God, and it's not gonna matter. Uh. Verse ten,
will he take the light in the Almighty? Talking about
the godless? Will he call upon God at all times?
He says, God finds no delight in these people. They
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don't call on God unless they're in the bind. I
thought about that. What's this? What's the artist with all
the tattoos, big fat fellow? What's it called jelly row?
First time I saw that, I thought, Wow, that's right
on the nose, isn't it? Jelly rose a jelly row?
But anyway, he he you know, he's remember when he
wrote that song, only talk to God when I need
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something or something like that. And and and you know
that there's a lot of people that have that relationship.
They want nothing to do with God unless they can
get in the bind. Uh. I only talk to God.
I need it when I need a favor, that's what.
And uh and he's saying, well, the godless are that way.
And if all you're gonna do is call on him
when you need something, uh. He he doesn't. He doesn't.
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He doesn't take delight in people that have nothing to
do with him. Then all of a sudden, you're in
a buying you start calling out to it. And then
he gets into the fate of the Wicked and the
rest of this particular chapter eleven. He says, this you
that he is using seems to be plural, and again
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we think this represents his friends, and he's likely about
to address this meaningless talk they've had. The first two
verses are kind of like an introduction to what's going
to follow, maybe even into chapter twenty eight. Some of
this is gonna continue, but it's not a real introduction.
It's just him saying, I will teach you concerning the
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hand of God. What is with the Almighty, I will
not conceal twelve. Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves.
Why then have you become altogether vain? So he's saying,
I'm going to clue you in on the power of God.
I'm not going to hold anything back what I have stated.
Now we're in twelve. What I have stated is so
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blatantly obvious. Righteous sometimes suffer, wicked, sometimes prosper. But you
can clearly see these things are going on. Are you
just too proud to admit that everything I've stated and
the flaws in our theology, you can plainly see the
same things I see. I didn't see something with specializes.
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So what I don't understand? Are you just too arrogant
to finally go, hey, job, you know what? You made
some good points, you know, let's face it, sometimes some
of the most difficult thing we deal with. Rick Burgess included,
how about this. I don't like to be wrong. I
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don't think any of us do. But it's one thing
not to really enjoy admitting you're wrong. It's quite another
to be so arrogant that you won't admit it. Raise
your hand if you've ever been wrong about something right,
But don't you hate that when you have to just
go Hey, by the way, I was wrong on that,
but I will tell you, if you're willing to do it,
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it's pretty freeing. It can be embarrassing, but it's freeing.
And what he's saying is the things I'm saying are
so elementary, They're just so logical, They're so easy to
see with your own eye. I don't understand why y'all
want to come around to what I keep pointing out.
Maybe you're just too arrogant to do so. And you know,
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terrors the wicked can expect are now going to start
in verse thirteen and then the rest of the chapter.
This is the portion of a wicked man with God
and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty. This
is really now an introduction to the rest of the
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chapter on what's going to happen, first of all, and
now I want you to pick up you probably already
have if you've read this time. Some of you do
a great job of even getting out ahead of it
and studying it. If you pick up where we're going
now fourteen through the rest of the chapter. A lot
of these things he says are things they said about
him and he's bringing it back. So I'll tell you what.
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I'll tell you who the wicked may be here. It's
not me. I think it's y'all. And all the things
y'all said about the wicked's gonna happen to you. So
he says in fourteen, if his children are multiplied, it
is for the sword. And his descendants have not enough bread.
They said that about Job. They said that Job's wickedness
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had doomed his children. And he comes back and says, well,
now I remember what y'all said about wicked people, and
I've just declared you're wicked. So according to y'all, wicked
people have doomed their children. And so he brings that
up fifteen. Those who survive him the pestilence berries and
his widows do not weep. Why is used here? Uh?
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And and and some of the the different It says
widows here. Some of your translations may say wives. But
but when you see this, this is this is not
really pointing to polygamy. It just means all the wives
of wicked people, all the widows of wicked people. Some
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people thought, is he saying something about polygamy here? It
certainly was happening in that culture. Uh. But he says
that that wicked people doom the plight of their wife,
their spouse, and they are glad when the wicked spouse
is dead. They don't weep. You think, you think there's
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not spouses out there that are being treated horribly by
a wicked husband, our wicked wife, and their life is
so miserable, and they're so oppressed that you can be
so wicked that when you die, he's spouse is not
gonna weep about that, glad you're gone. And then he
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goes on to say that you know any of those
that survive, meaning the pestilence this wicked person has caused
in a home, And I will tell you you know,
I know people, and I've canceled people, And like I
said even in the book, men don't run in the rain.
I'm so thankful I didn't have the deady issues that
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some people had and husband issues for some of you
women that join us on the streaming and the archives.
But I have seen the damage it does in other
people's lives. And there's nothing quite so miserable that a
house of pestilence that's caused by wicked man, the kind
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of man everybody has to step on eggshells around. You
don't ever know when he's gonna go off. He's almost
a tyrant in the home, food always unpredictable, and anger
that is terrifying to his wife and his children. That's no,
that's not a house you want to live in. I mean,
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I've known people that said, you know, their dad was
such like so much like that. When they got old enough,
i mean, they would almost beg friends to let them
spend the night. They didn't want to go stay in
their own house, and they dreaded being in their own house,
and as soon as they were able to leave, they left.
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And I've even had some that were you know, and
I'm not saying this is right. I'm just saying that
were upset that the mom did not make us stand
that allowed them to stay in that situation. You know. Now,
sometimes that might be something that you don't understand till
you get older and you find out that maybe there
were reasons for that. But I'm just I'm really talking
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about the pestilence more than anything. There's nothing quite like
Evel wicked man inside a home. And this is what
he's talking about. Those that survive everything this wicked person does.
When that wicked person is buried, they'll be glad they're gone. So, yeah,
that's a rough but it's true. Sixteen and seventeen kind
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of go together. Though. He heap up silver like dust
and pile up clothing like clay. He may pile up,
but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will
divide the silver. So these go together as one at
the end. It is the righteous who are going to
be truly rich in the end. The wicked man or
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the niked wicked woman. The wicked may have it for
a moment. They may have richest for just for a moment,
and they may have all that you could ever imagine
for a moment, But when they die, it will be
the righteous that will inherit the things that they thought
were theirs. They're not going to take it with them.
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It's going to be divided up by the innocent. Eighteen.
He builds his house like a moth's like a booth
that a watchman makes. Now, you'd have to know the
culture here to kind of know what he's talking about.
One of them's in nature, so that one we should
all know. But if you ever have you ever seen
what a moth lives in. It's a very fragile cocoon.
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It's not even as nice as a butterfly. It's a
very fragile cocoon. And the watchman booth, the watchman's booth
he's talking about during harvest. If you were security to
watch over the harvest, you just lived in a temporary
little shack or a booth, and you stayed there and
watched everything until the harvest was over, and then you
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didn't live there anymore. Temporary housing bottom line. So what
he's saying is, you know, when you're wicked, you may
think that you've got this incredible home and this place
we should all just you know, be in awe of.
But really, because of your wickedness and what's going to
happen to you, you're in something as fragile as a
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moth's cocoon or a watchman's booth. You think that you
have all this, but you really got nothing. Twenty. By
the way, don't forget that the friends of Job, I
mean in verse nineteen, the friends of Job all wealthy people.
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They're all wealthy. So now we get to nineteen. He
goes to bed rich, but will do so no more.
He opens his eyes. His wealth it's gone. It's just
more of job talking about how temporary earthly wealth is.
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And as he has seen. Of course, they claim it's
because he's wicked, and he says it's not. But you
made the point friends that the wicked they they they
can lose their wealth overnight. It can be gone just
like that. Uh. We well, if you don't believe that
we did a story on the day Job the day
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that we're doing this, uh, and and it is that
Cam Newton is talking about how his life has changed
and he's no longer superman to his eight children, no wife,
but but eight children. And because he's not making the
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money he was making an NFL and uh he only
made one hundred and thirty million while being in But
in all fairness, though, before y'all start rolling your eyes,
after taxes, it's only eighty four million and and so
uh and uh and and it is uh, it's gone.
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Uh and it's it's it's it has fate, he said,
I can't provide for them like I once did. Now
many people have looked at if just the slightest of
conservative investments, he could be drawn about two million dollars
a year to live off of. Now. I don't know
what happened, but h and Greg brought this up. My brother.
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He said he saw Mike Tyson be interviewed one time
and Mike Tyson he even actually did a Broadway type thing,
a theater thing where Tyson was sit there and tell
you how he lost everything. And it was one statement,
though was easy. He said, I'll tell you how you
can go through ten million dollars spend eleven megion, you know,
And uh, I mean it's pretty simple and so and
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so this is the this is what he's talking about.
This wealth is so fragile, it can be gone in
no time. And and so it's really kind of relative.
You know. I know people that don't what we wouldn't say,
make up much money at all, and they've just been
real wise with it. And they're a lot wealthier than
people that have a lot of big houses and a
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bunch cards, you know, and multiple homes and all that
they're not worried about how they're going to live at
all because they've been wise with what they have. So
then you get into to verse twenty and it says
that terrors overtake him like a flood in the night,
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a whirlwind carries him off. Terror is coming for the wicked,
God is to be feared. Wrath is coming. And you know,
if you really do believe what we believe that, you know,
we're called that anybody who doesn't fear God lacks wisdom. Now,
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I've had people, I don't know why, for some reason,
we as the church think that God needs us to
be a public relations agent for him, don't. I don't
know where we get off of that kind of arrogance.
Have you ever heard people take fear of God and
immediately try to down Well, now that just means we
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have respect for God. No, it, I mean that that's
part of it. But the actual Hebrew word there also
includes terror. Uh it. We should be terrified of the
wrath of God. I'll go as far as to say,
if you're not, you'll always You've heard me say this before,
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you'll always dumb down his grace and mercy if you don't,
if you're not terrified or understand the wrath of God,
you'll always cheapen the grace and the mercy because it
won't feel like that big a deal. You know, if
somebody said, hey, Rick was gonna come over here and
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and he was gonna come out here and chop one
of your trees down if you didn't get right with him.
You'd go, well, I really hate for that to happen.
Uh So he says, if you'll say you're sorry, he
won't come chop that tree down. And you know, you
tell me sorry, and you go, well, I'm kind of
glad he didn't shot my tree down. What if you heard, Hey,
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if you don't get right with Rick, he's gonna burn
your house down. He's gonna kill everybody in this house.
And then all of a sudden, you heard that. I said, Man,
I'm good, your apology, accepted, my grace and mercy feels
a little better than the tree thing, doesn't it. And
I think sometimes we're so quick to not want to
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talk about God's wrath, as if that's not part of
his character, that we're going to be his public relations agent. No,
what Scripture is saying is if you're not afraid of
God's wrath, you're not very wise. You don't want to
be on the wrong side of God. Right do we
also respect and love him and we're in all of him,
of course, But there's also supposed to be a terror
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there of his wrath. And so this is what Job
is talking about. When you're not right with God, terror
overtakes you when his wrath comes like a flood or maybe,
and the night is a whirlwind and it's just gonna
carry you off. And if you're wicked, that's what's coming,
which should produce terror. So then in twenty one, the
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east wind lifts him up and he is gone. It
sweeps him out of his place. Now God will use
the east wind to destroy the wicked, And the east
wind is something they were very familiar with. That that
was usually where bad weather came from. You know, even
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in our time, it's different. I don't know where if
some of you live that are out there, but for
us there's sometimes exceptions. We always know that the fronts
are coming from the west and they're gonna move from
west to east, and we're gonna start watching. If you
know how the I hope you know some geography and
know how the state is set up. We start looking
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in Arkansas, then we start looking at Mississippi and we're like, well,
here it comes. And then we know it's gonna hit
West Alabama first and then it's gonna roll on to Birmingham,
and then we'll see where it goes from there. And
it really seems to have two paths when it starts
to get in the east that it takes either one
that goes on up from where I was from in
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Calhoun County, or it goes down there through Saint Clair
County and heads that way. But for them, the east
wind was something that usually bad weather for them came
from h And he's saying, the east wind is going
to destroy the wicked. God may use a storm to
do it. And he says, look, he's getting more and
more detailed. It says in twenty two. It hurls at
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him without pity. He flees from its power and headlong flight.
These punishing storms that God sends on the wicked will
show no mercy. You have not made a friend of God,
and so therefore, if you died a friend of God,
you don't have God to shell you in the time
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of a storm. Once again, you look back to what
we've said a couple of times. There's Matthew seven. Again.
If you're not right with God, when the storm comes
and it comes on the righteous and the unrighteous, if
you're not with God, you can't survive the storm. That's it.
And then verse twenty three, it claps its hands at
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him and hisses at him from its place. What does
this mean? Well, think about it. These are the sounds
of a storm, you know. This is what this is.
A sound of storm makes Wicked comes to an end,
Wicked is swept away by shrieking wind erased from the
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face of the earth. Job is saying, this is how
they see it, but he does not think God's moral
administration of the world is that simple. He's throwing what
they said right back at him and saying, if this
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is what you believe, and if you're being wicked, this
is what's going to happen to you. But he's saying,
I think it's more complicated than all this, and I
think there's more to God's moral administration of bad things
happening and good things happening. I just don't think it's
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that simple from what I've observed. I don't think I
would we would say this way in our falling state
and the falling creation, that God's moral administration is operating,
that's simplistic. It feels a lot more complicated than that
to me. And he's throwing all this back at them, saying, well,
this is what's going to happen to you. Now here's
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what's interesting. This is going to end the debate cycle, okay,
and we're not going to have three free going after
one guy anymore, luckily. And and I think one of
the things that we need to take away too, that
that's a bigger point is when you when you look
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at the voting system, just because the liars have more
votes does not make their lie true. Because really, right here,
if this is a jury, Job gets out voted, there'd
be three votes that Job is wicked, and there'd be
one vote that no, I'm not, and the three to
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one would win. But thankfully, the truth is not determined
by popular vote. And when you start thinking about this
image of the wicked that Job is talking about, and
you you you start thinking to him, to yourself, how
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can Job take this kind of turn on these people,
well that have obviously been his friend for some period
of time, right, I mean, they're the three that came.
How can Joe begin to start feeling the way start
feeling the way that he clearly does so disappointed in
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their accusations, and he knows that he's right with God,
and you know there's a lot of foreshadowing here, and
those of you that were with us on the study
of the Revelation, and I know for a lot of
you it was uncomfortable. And again it's interesting how God
weaves all this together. I got an email with this
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question in it half hour before the Bible study. And
the question is, which has been asked many times, if
our friends are our family, reject God and find themselves
on the wrong side of God all the way to
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their death, how will that affect us in eternity? And
we talked about this in the Revelation, So some of
you heard this, and I know some of you it
may be a little bitter and difficult, but you're thinking
about this with a finite mind, and you're thinking about
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this with a sin nature. Here you're not glorified yet.
And the answer to that, which is where job I
think is getting even here in the Old Testament, is
I don't care who you are. If you're against God,
then I'm against you. And I want you to know,
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based on everything we've read in scripture and in the Revelation,
when the wicked supernatural demonic forces in Satan along with
the wicked humans are destroyed by God, no matter who
they they are. When we've been in the presence of
the one and only Living God, when our glorified bodies
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are fellowshipping with a glorified Savior and a glorified God
that is holy, holy, holy, we will be in such worship.
We will be so enamored with God that we will
take on his character and we will oppose everybody who's
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rejected Him, and it won't bother us at all, no
matter who they are, based on who He is, and
our worship of people will cease and we will oppose
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them just as he does. Now that doesn't mean give up.
One day, I'll be no, because we certainly want to
stand before him saying I did what you told me
to do. I told him the truth over and over
and over. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed.
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I did everything you told me to do because I
loved them, but more importantly, because I wanted to be
obedient to you. So you'll stand there guiltless. But if
they reject God, I promise you the day is coming
that you'll reject them. And that's what we see because
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believe it or not, God will be more important to you.
Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for
this lesson, Thank you for the things you've taught us.
Thank you for sometimes difficult truths. But we certainly understand
Job being at the end of his rope with these
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people who keep accusing him of something he has not done.
Now we do know he's got a date with you
coming up, and some things with Job we're going to
be set straight as well. But you will agree with
his assessment of his friends. Lord, thank you for the
grace of mercy you've shown us. None of us are
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worthy of your grace and mercy. We all deserve your wrath,
but by the grace and mercy you bestowed upon us
by taking on human flesh and paying the price for us,
You pouring out your wrath on yourself, your own son,
so that those of us that repent and confess him
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as our Lord and our savior, and the only payment
for sin we can be seen by you is fully righteous.
And in your holy name we pray Amen. Thanks for
being with us.
Host
Rick Burgess
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