Job Ch. 32 | Bible Study by Rick Burgess

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today we'll be in Job chapter thirty two. Job chapter
thirty two will meet somebody brand new that we didn't

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even know he was around. But we will hear from
him today as he addresses Job and the three Friends.
So if you want to turn to that, do so now. Lord,
Thank you for this opportunity to study your Holy Word.
Thank you for the application that is available to us
every time we get together. Help us, Lord today to
apply this scripture to our lives, for us to interpret

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it correctly through the power and discernment of the Holy Spirit. Lord,
and I pray that you'll continue to mold us into
the people that only you can accomplish and the power
provided in the transformation and the power of Jesus Christ
and your Holy Spirit, Lord, and your name, we pray Amen.
All right, So here's what's happening in Job thirty two.

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Job is done. We'll hear from him again after God
addresses him, but not again until then, we're not going
to hear from the Three Friends anymore. John Wesley said
something interesting. John Wesley said When I was young, I
was sure of everything. Now, having been mistaken a thousand times,

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I'm not half sure of anything except what God has
revealed to me, sitting here at sixty years old, teaching
that I can relate to that big time. So we
do know though, that you know, just because you're young
doesn't mean you don't have anything to bring to the table.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
And we're gonna be introduced to a man and I've
I've done all kinds of research on how to correctly
say his name, and nobody agrees.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's it's either Allahu, Alaiah, Hugh or ela who. So
nobody can agree which one's right. So so I think
I'm gonna go with Elaihu. If y'all don't mind, I think.
I just I think that's what I'm gonna roll with
from what I can gather any of these three in
English works. I tell you what it means. It means

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my God is he? That's what it means.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
So where does he come from? Uh? Where where was he?
Has he been here the whole time?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
We we do think because of some of the things
that Job has said. Uh, theologians believe that Job was
on some to some degree, on public display. Uh. He
mentions being, you know, someone who was highly regarded at
the gate of the city. And there are some who
suggest that there were numbers of people that could see Joe.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
He you know, think.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
About when he talked about that he's being now mocked
by people that at one time, you know, were considered
to be the scourge of the community. Even they well,
how did they know him? How does when have they
been mocking him? When when was this taking place? So
there is some indication that he was on some kind
of public display.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
He certainly had the three friends that showed up. So
is a lie who a fourth friend? Uh? Is a
lie who's someone who was just watching all this unfold?
H And we do know he makes this clear he's
had enough and he's been holding his tongue and we'll
find out why.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
But anyway, we know.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
That he's somehow he's privy because of the commentary he's
going to have. It's gonna be quite a long die
tribe we're going to hear from this young man. Uh. So,
the fact that he can talk about so much, it
means he's here the whole time. He's heard what the
friends have said, he's heard what Job has said, and
he's finally going to weigh in. We know that he's

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the son of Baracal from buzz. Now what is buzz?
We know Job's from us, So what is buzz? Well,
if you will go to Genesis twenty two twenty one,
you'll you'll find out there this is two places named
after two brothers, and there seems to be a pretty

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close proximity between the two.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now tee one.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Thing we're going to find out pretty quick too, is
a lot of who's angry. He's mad, and he's mad
because he's watched these three friends and then he's heard
Job's response and he doesn't think these men have been
able to refute Job's claims. Now, Job, by all accounts,

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seems to be righteous. Now, this is what he's not
gonna like about Job in his own eyes, and he
may have some wisdom there. He he he is now
done with standing on the sideline.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Have you ever been there? Have you? Have you ever
been done? Been to this point?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Hey, I've set here and I have listened to this
as long as I'm gonna listen to it. I got
a way in, I got I got something to say,
and I'm gonna say it. So, uh so that's kind
of where he is. He has heard enough. I've been there.
Have you ever made a commitment you weren't gonna say anything,
and but you didn't know what people were gonna say,
and you were like, well, I wasn't gonna say anything,

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but I can't let that go, and so uh I
tend to my dad.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Speaking to my dad and the book The Men Don't
Run in the Rain.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
My dad had a standard move that everybody who went
to Sunday school with my dad, they would they would say,
you could always tell when your dad was gonna weigh
in or he didn't agree with something that was said.
He would start doing this and he started rubbing his
hands just like this. That was all always an indication
that my dad was about to weigh in. You really
didn't want to see him start rubbing his hands and

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you hear those callouses, You're like, well.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
And so this is a situation like that, he's going
to now, Lee, I'm not gonna stand here on the
sideline anymore. I'm going into the game. I'm going to
take center stage right now. And God's not gonna be angry.
If you want me to look ahead with Elai Who.
So when he gets when when God finally addresses everybody,

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he doesn't have anything negative to say about this young man.
And a lot of the theologians believe the reason why
God never seems to correct ali Who when he finally
when God finally takes the stage, is that at no
point in everything he's saying, unlike the Three Friends, you
never hear allai who get God wrong. The three Friends

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got God wrong in some of their diatribes, ali Who
did not, So he doesn't get any correction from God
when God comes along. And the message must be one
that we need because it takes a prominent place in
this entire drama.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
So that's important.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
So so he seems to care about Job's suffering something
the Friends didn't. Uh, He's gonna speak from revelation, not
from his age age. Remember this, and I've seen this
far too many times. Age does not automatically equate wisdom.

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I have met some pretty stupid old people, okay, And
and all I can think of.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Is that's that's a lot of wasted years.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
So don't think that anybody in this room are out
there just because of your birth date, you just automatically
have been given wisdom.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Wisdom is to be sought after. As we know, if.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
You're an older person that's lived a long time but
you don't fear God, you're not much good to anybody.
And and I will say this, I h I look
back and I think to myself, I could see if
I didn't make some adjustments in my life and become
a follower of Jesus. I think I have very very

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strong potential to be a very stupid sixty year old,
just based on how stupid I was at any age.
So I don't think sixty would have suddenly made me
wiser than I was. So age does not always equate wisdom,
and age does not doesn't always mean you don't have wisdom.

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I have met some extremely impressive young people, extremely impressive
with with with a lot of wisdom. Now there's there's
some life lessons they don't know yet because they hadn't
lived them, but they they have, They've made They've made
a lot of wise decisions in their life for young people.
So I think that that's another thing that is infuriating sometimes.

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If you've ever dealt with youth ministry, and I have,
I remember just being nauseated and shocked at how many
parents thought that youth just included sin, that their kids
were just going to do stupid things and they were
going to sow these oats and commit all this sin,

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and that that was just part of being young. Always
found that to be infuriating because that somehow means, what
are you We're going to delay them getting serious about
their faith? Do we want them to end up? You know,
with all this regret that sin brings. What are we
talking about here? And so no, and I will tell you,

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And I don't know how this fits into God's narrative
on the end of the earth and the end of
the church age and the end of the seventieth week.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
I don't know how this works.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
But right now, and we've mentioned this before, but I
talked about it with somebody else just this week, there
is a younger generation right now that is actually returning
to the church and they're impressive. As I said, they
don't seem concern. Now this is general. There's exceptions, but

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as far as A and I just had this discussion
this week because I was actually helping another ministry because
we were talking about the different generations and how they
would market to this generation. And I said, well speaking,
having people that I know and even in my family

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in this generation, if you are trying to go after
them and get them to respond, what they respond to
is you must show them that what you're asking them
to do matters. Not it'll make them wealthy, it'll make
the popular. They really don't care about that, which is

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a nice refreshing. Now again, i'm speaking in general. You
may know individuals in that generation that don't live that way.
I'm talking about in general. If you want them to
be interested or get on board, they want to know
that it matters. Is this part of my life making
a difference?

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
They love that, and that seems to be what churns them.
They don't care what neighborhood they live in, They don't
care what kind of house they live in, what kind
of car they drive. They don't consider success being that
I was wealthy. They consider success being did my life matter?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well? What an opportunity? Because there's nothing that makes.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Your life matter more than advancing the kingdom of God.
And some of us are probably we didn't learn that
till we were much older than we should have been.
So let's talk about his introduction. Let's meet this young man.
So here we go in two. The first thing we're
gonna get is who he is, which I've kind of

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covered this, but we're review it in scripture. So these
three men cease to answer Job because he was righteous
in his own eyes. Now what underline in his own eyes?
So does that mean that he was guilty of what
his friend said? Doesn't mean that, It just means he's
got something to learn from God. A little bit later on,

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he's he's it's not quite clear to him yet how
sinful he really is, not that he has unrepented sin
or isn't blameless, just he's gonna get taught a lesson
through this difficulty about God that he doesn't know yet.
As I've said a thousand times, why God has used
pain and suffering.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Because it works. Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
And you're seeing that even in our modern society right
now at the time we're doing this Bible study, it's
happening again. So anyway, so in his own eyes, but
we also know that the Bible makes it clear. The
three other friends could never refute the case that Job
was making. Job was making a case that their theology

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of God's retribution to the wicked and blessing the blameless
that that theology was flawed, that it's bigger than that God.
God's doing something more complicated than that, and they could
not refute the case he kept making. So we got
that then, Elihu, and then we we've already said all this,

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who is the son of Baraco from buzz and from
the tribe of ram Uh. So so when we when
we see this, it says he burned with anger.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
So he's furious.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
He has heard this, he's watched this, and now look
who's mad at first Job. He burned with anger at
Job because he justified himself.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Rather than God.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Young man showing up with a bold comment because Job
has been talking on and on about how well respected
he was and how really no one could accuse him
of being a sinful man. And I will tell you
what a lie who is saying right now. And those
of us in the New Covenant need to learn this too.

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The only thing good about any of us that have
been redeemed and are blameless before God is Jesus. That's
all we bring to the table. If you remove Jesus
from every man in this room, and the man teaching,
and every man and woman this watching and listening, if

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you're redeemed, and we take Jesus away.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
You bring nothing to the table.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
We will stand before God, filthy, wretched, worthy of wrath.
And so apparently a lie who has heard job and
he's like I would have liked to send a little
more credit for God and a little less credit for
you. You talk about all these all these works you've done,

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and all these things you've done, and we agreed those
are good.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
But what's the source of you being this way? The
source is God.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Right when when people say to me, I knew you
before and I know you after and blankety blankety blankety blank,
the proper answer is, well, that's just the power of Jesus.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Why do you do this? And you used to do
that Jesus?

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Okay, I mean if it wasn't for Jesus, I mean
none of you should even remotely have anything to do
with me, because I promise you, if it wasn't for Jesus,
the only thing I would care about is me, And
if you could benefit me, then you can hang around.
If I don't see any benefit of you be with me,
then I don't want anything to do with it.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's who I was. Now.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
I see you as as a gift from God to
encourage me to challenge me. Are you've been given to
me as an opportunity to disciple with you. I see
you of a tremendous value. Not because I'm that way,
but because now I'm looking through the lens of the
Holy Spirit. I think different, I see things differently. My

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priorities are completely different. And so that's credit to the
transformation power of Jesus, not my new commitment to be
a better man. And that's the reason why I want
you to do. All of us need to start being
a little bit leery. Watch out how these things you

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know as we as Scripture tells us, weave even into
the church.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Be real careful when church. If you're in a church,
or you're.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
In a Bible stiff, or you got somebody teaching you,
and before you know it, they begin to look more
like a life coach than they do a disciple of Jesus,
And before you know it, they're trying to help you
become your best you, as opposed to trying to be
sure that you're immersed and are a follower.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
And under the authority of Jesus.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
As the young man who was just killed said correctly,
the church is about correcting behavior. You come in there
for correction. You come in there to be taught. You
come in there to be held accountable. You're coming in
there to be convicted, to be refined, to be sanctified.

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You're not coming in there for everybody to go you're awesome.
Well you better be coming there too. I want to
go to a place where they say God.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Is awesome, not I'm awesome. And you know, we want
you to be your best you.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
There's nothing in the Bible that says, as a matter
of fact, I was taught by my former pastor who's here,
and I'm not gonna embarrass him. I'll never forget it.
And it's and it's become the focal verse of the
maanchurch dot com.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
When Jesus says deny itself.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
If you look at the original Greek, it does not
mean to become a better version of yourself. It means
you don't exist anymore. You become Rick in Christ.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Period.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
And sometimes some of this stuff gets treated like, let's
just make you a better you now, let's let's do this.
Let's make you less you, that's what it is, and
let's make you more like him. That's what it's about.
That's what he's saying. And it's a very provocative statement,
and frankly, as we've learned, it's an offensive statement.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
It's shocking, you.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Know, and you know because you know, we love to say,
hey Jesus, we're in He goes hell, let me tell
you this is gonna be deny yourself, meaning you don't
exist anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean right there, it's kind of like what do
you oh, whoah, you know, and then he says, you're
gonna what you're gonna you can count the cost? Was
it gonna cost me? Uh well, let me tell what's
gonna coss all of you your sin?

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Like I said before, sometimes I think, especially as men,
we're more willing to die for Jesus than we are
to live for Jesus. Die for Jesus just means it's
over living for Jesus. That's day after day after day
after day of dying being refined, being sanctified. It's it's rough, okay.

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And then of course he says, pick up your cross,
But that's not that. If I'm in marketing, I would
sit across Jesus and say, we'll never sell this product.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
You want me to do a commercial.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
That says, these people that want that want to submit
to you, and they want to repent and follow you.
Here's what you want me to tell them. When you
do that, you no longer exist. When you do that,
you can't you can't just do whatever you want to do, Okay, right?

Speaker 1 (21:52):
And and and you want me to tell.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Them that they're going to possibly physically die, yes, and
that they're that they're they're they're like life is going
to be like toting across Jesus says, that's how we
market me. And I said, he ain't nobody gonna follow you.
I mean, so that and that's why he finally says
what he says. Now, a lot of people talk about me.
I heard somebody say today Jimmy Kimmel said he was

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a believer in Jesus.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
I said, well, so is Satan. I don't mean anything.
That means nothing. What you mean a believer? I don't
even like that term. You know what I mean? I
always was pebble to expand on it. Are you a believer?
Expand on that?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Now demons believe they got him right all the time, So.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
It's are you a follower of Jesus? Are you under
the lordship of Jesus?

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Have you repented and turned from your sin and left
faith in yourself and completely put yourself in Jesus. Have
you now become nothing while Jesus has become everything? You
preach that at least everybody knows what they're getting into
this thing of telling me I just need to believe
in Jesus. I need more to information. I've never not

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believed in Jesus. But you couldn't tell nothing thing changed.
I was, like I said, I had a demonic faith.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
And so this is.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Kind of where Ali who is saying I would have
liked to have seen job expand on. Where all this
the source of this righteousness as opposed to he somehow's
made himself righteous? Now is that fair? I just tell
you a lie who says it sounded like that sometimes.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
But you know what this is.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
This is a young man that's kind of uncomfortable holding
an older man accountable. But I will tell you I've
had young men hold me accountable, and I was thankful
for it.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
I needed their eyesight, I needed some new eyes on it.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
One of the things that we've done, even what I
do for a living, one of the things that I
have done after over forty years in radio, I am
working as much as I can. I want new eyes
on what we're doing. Well, how do you see how
we do it? You know, what are some things that
we could approve? I mean I went three nights in

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a row just listening to people who've been listening to
the old show that I did, and had been listening
for the first sixty days or so maybe ninety days
of the new show, And I sat and listened on
how they saw it, not how I saw it, because
I'm delusional. I'm too close. You know, how are all
these new eyes seeing it? You know, I've talked to

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a guy yesterday brand New, what do you think of
what we're doing? You know, if you don't have that,
and so I think a lot. Who's saying I know
what you were trying to say? You ever had that
happen to you? You ever had anybody pull you aside
going I know you didn't mean it to come across
this way, but let me tell you how we heard it.
Has that ever been beneficial for you? Uncomfortable at first

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because you thought you had it? Now one of my
worst cases of that was, you know, people tell me
all the time. Tell me the commentaries you use, and
tell me the things you do, and when you teach,
tell me some of all these sources. I say, there's
one I can't give you. My wife, y'all can't have her.
And that's who's had the most influence on discipling me,

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you know, especially early on, because she's an incredible researcher
and the resource and incredible study habits of the Word
of God, and the worst one ever as far as
just embarrassing, I come off.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know. Let me just tell any of you.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
If you ever teach and you public speak and your
wife goes with you, if you get in the car
and she hasn't commented on it yet, don't ask.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Don't ask, because if you.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Haven't already gotten some encouragement from her, and you have
to go looking for it, fishing for it, when you
set the hook, you can wish you hadn't brought that
fish in the boat. Okay, So we're riding, and I mean,
we're riding and it's and i'd like, I guess, I said, so,
what did you think.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
It was a good presentation? It was? It was thank you, baby.
Can I ask you a question? Yes, you were doing
the message on Joshua. Weren't you. Yes, well, that's a
shame because you caught him Joseph the entire MAA uh
and uh. I said, why did you signally? She said,

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I tried.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
You wouldn't look at me. I was on the front
road going trying to get your attention. I don't know
how I was gonna get Joseph Joshua to you. And
she goes, So if people who knew what you were doing,
I think they were fine seekers. Today they think Joseph
took the people into Canaan. They think Joseph took the
place of Moses. They think Joseph was told to be

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strong and courageous, and sadly, they probably think Joshua's brothers
sold him into slavery.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
You know what I mean. So I was like, oh,
go on it.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
So so sometimes sometimes you get you need to hear
these things, and it's not always fun.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
So so he says, he said, of.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
His own righteousness. So he burned with anger about that,
and so now now look at this. He burned with
anger also at Job's three friends. Although they had declared
Job to be in the wrong, he said, they declared
that he was in the wrong, but I see that
they are as wrong as Job.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Maybe was a little too self righteous.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
I'm here to tell you these friends who he's most
angry with. You guys didn't do any good either. You
declared that Job had done something wrong, and how many
more times did he have to show you that he
hadn't and y'all never would let that go? Now four
explains a little bit. You didn't make your case for
the accusations. Don't you sometimes wish some wom to step

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in and say, somebody who was accusing you of something, say,
I wish somebody would just tell you just had made
this case.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
So he said, I've been listening. Y'all didn't make the case, okay.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
And then he goes on and he says in four
he's respecting his elders.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
We could use some of that today.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Now, Elai who had waited to speak to Job, why
it tells you because they were older than him. What
a concept. Be respectful to the older men and wait
your turn to speak, give them their chance, let them finish,
and then you have the opportunity. I've been standing here.
I'm the younger dude. I've been letting all you older

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guys talk. And then five, and when Ali Who saw
that there was no answer in the mouth of these
three men, he burned with anger. I gotta tell you.
I sat here, I listened to you. I've listened long enough.
I listened and I listened. I kept waiting on you
all to make the case. I gave you every opportunity
you could possibly have to make your case.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
You didn't do it.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
I can't hear it anymore. I finally got to call
y'all on this. He had had enough. So now you
got to watch a little bit here. You gotta watch
a lie who because he's got some confidence, and we
respect his confidence. But he borderlines a little bit here,
sometimes on being at a little full of himself as well,

(28:56):
but not bad. He's all right again. God never gets
on him about any this. So he walks a delicate
line here. So he says uh in six and then
alle who, the son of Barrockel of the Buzzight, answered
and said, I'm young in years, and you are aged.
Therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion

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to you. We're fine here. My age restrained me from speaking.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Sooner.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
He explains that seven, I said, let days speak and
many years teach wisdom. What I thought is I'll just
sit here and be quiet. I was seeking wisdom. Now
this is important, okay, and listen, listen to this. I
was reading some of the commentaries on this and and

(29:44):
I love this one quote and it comes from Iban
and then it's gobbleral. But listen to this. This was
the quote the first when you're seeking wisdom. Step one,
shut up, be silent. Step two, listen, he's done both.

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Step three remember remember what you're hearing. Have good recall
number four. Now practice the things that you've learned. And
then fifth, then you can teach. But what we have
a lot of times is somebody comes out with some
sort of platform, they make some declaration that they found Jesus.

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You know, we all jump up and down, and before
we know it, we got them teaching and they don't
know anything. And I've said this before. I was pushed
into teaching too quick. Now, not teaching small groups. I'm
talking about speaking at events. I was very reluctant to
start teaching small groups because I knew the work it
would take and I wasn't willing to put the work in.

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Now that all changed, and now I just eat it
up and love every minute of it. I love preparing
for this. I love preparing for my son's shoe class.
I enjoy that now. I never thought I was would,
and that's another supernatural change. But anyway, what he said
is I have kept my mouth shut. I've let the
older man speak. I've listened to what they said. So

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if I want to refute something, right, you ever had
anybody refute you on something like WHOA? You didn't hear
what I said? I didn't say that. He let everybody
finish what they had to say. Then he remembered what
everybody had said, remember what job had said. Then he
began to examine himself to see does he have any
standing to do some correction.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
And then he started teaching. And those are nice steps,
by the way, for us to take.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I remember when an older man came into my life
who told me to speak less and study and pray more.
And he was one hundred percent right, and that was
great advice. So coming into verse eight, but it is
the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty,
that makes him understand. Now that's a big line right there. Hey,

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y'all may have all this age, and I know I
don't have that, But I tell what I do have.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I do have the Holy Spirit. I do have the.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Power of God. It's how much God that gives us understanding,
not how much us now, how many days we've been around,
how long we've been living. If we've lived all this
time and never goide ourselves right with God and we
don't have the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God
is true understanding. Well, we see that in the world,

(32:28):
don't we. Well, there's a lot of people, you know,
psycho babble, garbage, you know, philosophy this, and philosophy that
there's some value to that. But if you want true understanding,
it is what it is, the understanding and the teachings
that come from God and the power of the Holy Spirit.
And Ali who knows that age doesn't guarantee wisdom. He

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goes on to say, now, listen, a lot who gets
really close in verse eight to saying what he's going
to say is God's words. He stops short of that,
and then he basically says, Okay, let me let me
say this better. My words are God inspired, they are
my words. I'm not acting like I got these words
exactly as a revelation. But when I speak, they're God inspired.

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That's probably a better way to say it. I'm always
a little leiery of these people that say I got
a word from God, and this is exactly what he says.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
I think it. I think that does happen.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Don't misunderstand me, but I think a lot of times
what I said was inspired by God, as opposed to
my mouth is open and God just spoke through it
with none of me there. So not that it doesn't
ever happen. I'm just saying I don't think it happens often.
Verse nine. It is not the old who are wise,

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nor the aged who understand what is right.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
He says.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Age doesn't guarantee wisdom. Gray hair does not does not
ensure understanding. Trust us, those of us that have the
graying in the hair, we earned it. It's sad when
we have all this gray hair and we haven't learned anything.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Verse ten.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Now he's going to talk about the how inadequate these
three friends were. Verse ten. Therefore, I say, listen to me.
Let me also declare my opinion bold statement. Here, give
me your attention. You know, right now, all we've got
really is an introduction of what he is going to say,
love this kid.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
But if you ever been like, let's get to it.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
You've given us this grand introduction that you're now coming
on the scene.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
What say you?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
And that's now we're ready, he says. Everybody, get here
we go. I'm about to go into it. Now. Everybody listen,
Ali who has the platform, he says, Behold, I waited
for your words. I listened for your wise sayings while
you searched out what to say. So he didn't wait long.
He's going right in. I wasn't impatient. I kept quiet,

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let everybody finish, kept waiting on you guys to come
around with something.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Didn't stop you short, didn't interrupt. I've been listening. Then
he goes to twelve.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
I gave you my attention, and behold, there was none
among you.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Who refuted Job.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
So really, if a lie who took the role of
a judge in a courtroom right now, he would be
looking at everybody and he would go So the prosecution
y'all rattled on and on and on. I never interrupted you.
I've heard the prosecution clearly, you did not make the
case against Job.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
I wouldn't rule him guilty. You didn't make the.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Case, and he says, and I listened to every word
of it, and then he goes further, Not only did
you not make your case when he had his defense,
so means i've also heard the defense rest when he
defended himself self. You never refuted his defense. Not only

(36:04):
did you not make a case his defense of your
accusation when he stopped, y'all were, y'all were, y'all were silent.
You never he won this courtroom case. And and I've
been the one that's that's hurted you. You didn't answer
any Every time he questions these rhetorical questions back to you.

(36:27):
You never gave him an answer. When he said, looks
like to me, some of the wickeds doing great, you
never answered that. When he says, over here, I see
people who seem to be wonderful people, and they're not
doing good at all. You you didn't answer that. He
kept saying, it looks like to me, this is a
little more arbitrary than God punishes the wicked and he

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blesses the righteous.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
It doesn't look that simple. You never gave an answer
to that.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
So uh, I've watched every bit of this thirteen. Beware
lest you say we have found wisdom. God may vanquish him,
not a man. He says, I'm not sure. When I
first looked at this, I'm like, did they ever claim

(37:20):
they had wisdom? He seems to think they were trying
to insinuate that, But he said, really, your silence looks
like to me that you've admitted defeat. And he said,
and at this point, it sounds like to me, by
what I've watched and what I've heard, y'all have agreed

(37:43):
with job.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Let's let God decide.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
It looks like you realize at this point we haven't
made the case against him.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
If he's going to be vanquished, God's going to have to.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Judge against him. It looks like we're all in agreement
on that. Now nobody else is talking. Isn't this interesting
that Alaihu almost comes out like the MC that is
setting up God coming on the scene. He's like, all right,
so we're are we all to the point now we
all agree that God's going to have the final say,
And so he's making his point. And then he comes

(38:19):
back and he says, he has not directed his words
against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.
You know, when when I was sitting here watching this.
I did I never I never said anything. The answer

(38:40):
here is no. They they don't have anything else to say,
he said, and this is what kind of led me
to wanting to say something. And he said, you guys,
you guys didn't direct anything toward me. I think he
outwitted you, all three of you. He's yet to address me.

(39:00):
This is kind of a little bit of a I mean,
he came right out with a y'all. But I'm speaking now.
We'll see if he outwits me. I'm I'm still I
haven't been defeated yet. This is my time to talk now.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
He outwitted y'all.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
But but I'm new to the scene. A little bit
of boldness there from a young man. But but how
about this will allow it? So then he says in
verse fifteen, he says, they're there, they are dismays, they
are dismayed. They answer no more. They have not a

(39:37):
word to say. Your silence admits defeat. I'm not talking
to you now. I'm done with y'all. I'm not talking
to you. We're not conversing. I'm talking about you because
your your time's over. This is not gonna be a
give and take uh. This is the this is sit

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there and let me finish. I've listened to you. Have
you ever noticed we've lost that in society?

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Is that not? It?

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Does it infuriate you when somebody goes on and on
and on and they finish and you go, okay, so
let me respond to that, and they interrupt you about
a quarter away in let me finish.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Have you ever been there?

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Let me finish, Let me finish what I will say,
And he said, so this is not me calling for
you guys to go back and forth with me. And
then we get to sixteen and shall I wait because
they do not speak, because they stand there and answer
no more. Of course, the answer is no. It's rhetorical here.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
They don't have any more to say. And this is
why I was.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Thinking, it's time now for me to speak, and that's
why I spoke. You don't have anything else to say,
so it's my turn. He doubles down on that in
seventeen to make sure we don't misunderstand him. I also
want answer with my share. I also would declare my opinion.

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So this is the If you're there and you're in
the crowd, you're like, oh, well, this this kid's gonna
talk a while. He's letting us know. You know what,
he's saying, my turn, my turn to speak. Uh, let's
see if y'all can sit and listen to me the
way I've listened to you guys, go on and on
and on, and by the way, a lot of who
is gonna go on and on and on. It's just

(41:25):
not a This is not a short. We're not gonna
get into all of it today. We're setting it up today.
But he lets us know too, we're gonna be here
a while. Watch Watch eighteen. Have you have you ever
ever sat down to hear somebody speak and they give
you a heads up that this is not gonna be short,
tough feeling. My first thought is also, I should have gone.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
To the bathroom, you know what?

Speaker 2 (41:51):
And uh so he says, for I am full of words,
the spirit within me can struy me. Now this does
mean he's got a lot to say. What else does
it mean? Well, y'all better be thinking. I think y'all
better be thankful I got the spirit in me, because
if it wasn't for the Holy Spirit, I'd be going

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off on y'all right now.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
I would launch like a.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Rocket and he says, but I got a lot of words.
The spirit has kept me silent. It's not going to
constrain me anymore, but it will keep me from losing it.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
You know what he's saying. If you have you ever
wish you had waited just a minute.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
You know, I've really learned as I've gotten older, just
give it a minute.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
I can't. I can tell you even recently, because you
know I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
I told you guys we're praying about I'm going through
all these meetings right now about things we're going to
go through in the future. I had one yesterday, I
got another one today, and I can tell I'm learning.
There's been a couple of times where I thought, well,
you know what the old rick, you know, I'm just
about to turn this place upside down.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
And I noticed as I've gotten older, it'll creep in
there that I'm like, well, you know, it ain't the
thing to do.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Just sit here and just just bide your time, just
let everything keep going, give it a few days, don't
make any kind of decision right now.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Just and can I tell you if.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
You're if you haven't learned that yet, that's really really wise.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Counsel you know the old days.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
If if I'll start feeling smoke coming out from under
my shoes, I was.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
I was ready to launch like a rocket.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
And uh and you know, as it was funny because
my wife always talked about this. She said, you and
your brother. Your brother gets a lot of bad pr
for being ill and the hot head. She said, but
you know what, he has a little bit shorter fused
than you do.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
But he's harmless. He doesn't do anything. The difference is
when you go off, people need counseling.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
And uh and and she said, so that's the difference,
you know, I you're you know, he gets a little ill,
he gets through it, he's done with it. He might
bark a little something off. She goes, you, when the
rocket leaves, there's no bringing it back. And when she said,
you're scorched earth when it's over, and I was that way,

(44:14):
and I still have potential for that. I just, by
the grace of God, don't do that anymore if I
can keep from it. Now, is there a time? Is
there a time to go scorched earth?

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:28):
But it's not off not you know, but this this
is the kind of things about you know, there's a
righteous anger righteous anger is great. Even Jesus had righteous anger.
I love that I learned that from Steve Farr.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
God rest his soul.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Oh, I just can't imagine how happy Steve is, can
I mean? Can you imagine Steve Farr as much as
he loved Jesus being with Jesus. Now, But he said that,
and he said, you know, Jesus taught us how to
do everything, including being angry. He said, it wasn't that
Jesus never got angry, He just never sinned in his anger.
So if you want to know how to be angry correctly,

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watch Jesus.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Never.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
You know, we always think about learning all these things
from Jesus. Have you ever really thought about learning anger
from Jesus? He got angry, but he didn't sin in
his anger.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Why was he angry?

Speaker 2 (45:18):
What was it that prompted him to be angry? It
was what protecting the glory of God, defending the holiness
of God, dot letting people blaspheme his father.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Now, that's that's different.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
That's worth fighting for, that's worth being bold about, that's
worth saying I'm immovable, right, But you know, just because
you're hungry and hot and tired, probably not and I've
been immovable with just from those things before. That's not
being immovable. And I've learned that God. God has has

(45:52):
corrected me on that. So he's ready to unleash his frustration,
but he says.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
He's going to do it correctly.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Okay, So he says in eighteen that he will be
constrained by the Holy Spirit, and he has been constrained
by God himself.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Nineteen.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent,
like new wine skins ready to burst. I'm Baptist. So
I have no idea what this analogy mans? No, but
but no, what what?

Speaker 1 (46:23):
What? Now? What he's talking about? Here's what I'm about
to explode.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
I Am about to explode, you know, I'm I'm Have
you ever gotten to that point where you're like, Okay,
if I don't speak now, I'm gonna I'm just gonna.
I'm gonna explode. I have to say something. I must
say something. And and this is where he is. He said, honestly,
if I don't speak now, I'm going to explode. And uh,
and then he gets into twenty. I must speak that

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I may find relief. I must open my lips and answer.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
He picture this.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
He's really just if you look at the original language
here have you have you ever like had something that
had too much air in it? And you you have
that safety of app he said, My mouth is that
safety valve. I gotta let something out, it's we gotta
let some pressure off. I have got to get this out.
I've got if I can. If I can, I'll never

(47:21):
have relief if I don't vent this stress. It has
created so much stress, this unresolved case. It has frustrated
me so much. But but I will release it in
a controlled manner. Right, we don't lose control, even if
we're righteous in what we have to say, we don't

(47:42):
lose control. You keep control. You don't let people pull
you into some screaming and yelling. You make your point.
You can even be firm. But we need to always
be in control because we're under the authority of Jesus.
We don't lose control. That leads to chaos, and chaos

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is not of God. Right, You've heard me say many times,
and I promise I'm not going on that speech.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
God is not reckless, God is not chaotic. God is
a God of order. Now does God does he have anger? Yes?

Speaker 2 (48:22):
But he does, He's not out of his mind like
freaking out. Okay, you ever try to deal with people
that can't handle this, They just come in glued. The
unglued are difficult to deal with, you know, because you're like,
you know before you know it, and it almost seems
like it builds. You know that if you notice the
more they get angry, didn't they start coming with stuff?

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Doesn't it make sense anymore? You know?

Speaker 2 (48:47):
So they bring something out from like ninety four, you know,
you're like what you know? And you remember that time,
and like, I don'd I don't even remember ninety four?
You know, it's uh, and so I didn't get saved
to ninety six. I can't remember not four. I don't
remember eighty four to ninety six so much of it.
So so anyway, stay in control, what stay on the point.

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Don't start going after people for things you should have
said a long time ago. Stick with what we're here
to talk about, and deal with what's in front of you,
and do it in a controlled manner. And anger is
okay as long as it's correct and it's righteous.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
So so so twenty one here, he's gonna make sure
we know this. I will show no partiality to any
man or used flattery toward any person. I'm not gonna
patronize anybody. I'm gonna tell the truth. I'm not gonna
pick sides. I'm honestly gonna look at this argument going
back and forth, and I'm gonna tell you how I

(49:49):
see it. I'll be even handed. I'm not gonna I
don't have a favorite in this. And also I'm also
not going to be upset about something and pretend I'm not.
I also won't be flattering anyone in this. I'm gonna
tell it like it is. Here's the way I see it.
And I've already told you what I'm gonna say. I

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believe has been inspired by God. So I believe what
I'm gonna say. No matter how young I may be,
it's still gonna be correct. I'll give you an example.
It wasn't anger, but talking about you know, don't ever
discount people just because they're young. We know Paul told
this to Timothy. Don't let your youth be an issue here.

(50:31):
You go ahead to be an example to the men
of the church. What now not when you get older now?
And so we were planning themanchurch dot Com and of
course I was frustrated, you know, trying to reach and
disciple men.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
I don't know if y'all know this, but men can
be very frustrated.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
And I'm and so finally I got so, I got
so put out that nobody could teach. Nobody was willing
to teach. No one seemed to have any confidence in
teaching the Word of God. We didn't have curriculum at
this time, so we start building curriculum. Well here I was,
of course, I that's it. I'm doing the whole video.

(51:13):
And I said, I'm not. I'm on the videos. I'm
just gonna teach the whole thing. Just put me on video,
send me out to all these places, and I'm gonna
be on the video. I'll start it, I'll do the middle,
I'll do the end and and and that'll be it.
It'll be completely done. And the younger person on the team,
youngest guy on the team, said I have to disagree

(51:34):
with that, And of course I thought, what My first reaction,
you know, under the power of the Holy Spirit, is
who you talking to?

Speaker 1 (51:41):
How much older am I than you?

Speaker 2 (51:43):
No, I really didn't. I looked over and I said, okay, yeah,
tell me. He goes, they're never gonna learn to teach.
Then he goes, My suggestion would be, do a little
short video and set them up. You can give them
encouragement and give them, give them something that can start
the small group, but then they have to teach it.
We can provide the questions, we can provide the scripture,

(52:05):
but you should start the small groups. You should not
teach the whole group. If you do that, no one
learns to teach. And he was right, that was wisdom.
And I said, you are one hundred percent right.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
That's exactly that. Thank you for That's what we need
to do. And that's what we did.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
And it has turned out that God gave that young
man wisdom at the time, and what he said has
worked perfectly. And what I had would not have. What
I had, those kind of things already existed. I just
got frustrated and just tried to do the you know,
that's it. And he was wise enough to let me
get that out and say, I would have to respectfully

(52:45):
disagree with that. But let me tell you why. He
didn't just disagree, like because he just didn't like the
way it sounded, or it upset him. He disagreed because
what he had was a better plan. And I had
to also be humble enough to let a younger man
teach me something. And but I'm glad I did so

(53:06):
so verse verse twenty one. I will not show while
were it not? Twenty two so twenty two for I
do not know how to flatter. Apparently this tells us
something about his personality, Right, I've known those people. You know.
You just don't have the ability to flatter, do you.
I'm not really, I just don't have it. Uh, you know,

(53:27):
it's the you know, let's try some encouragement, you know.
But he says no, I kind of like that, you
know what he's saying here, because I will say this.
I have people in my life. My wife is one
of them. If you hear a compliment from her.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
You earned it.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
It's not patronizing, it's not flattering you. She even told me.
You know, I told you, I've told you all this.
Be careful of these people that flatter all the time.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
You know, they're not They're not genuine.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Now, if you want to have someone give you a
true encouragement, something that is from the heart, something that's
that's accurate. Meaning I didn't say this until I thought
it was something exceptional. And I will tell you this
because I know her, and I have men in my
life just like her. Because I know her, I honestly

(54:19):
can be at something with her if I'm teaching or
doing whatever, or even doing what I do for a living,
and people can be coming by patting me on this back.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
I don't know. Some people may say something negative. I
don't pay attention to it. I really don't. I'm looking
to her.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
And if she looks at me and she said, now
that was good, then really what everybody else says really
doesn't matter, because I know that was I know that's accurate.
And so I think that's all he's saying there. I
don't think he's trying to be mean. I think he's
just saying, I promise you what I say will just
be straight. I have no you know, ulterior motives. I'm

(54:59):
not sure do anything but get to the bottom of this, okay,
And so and then he says, else, my maker, see
there would soon take me away if I wasn't gonna
be genuine, if I had some motive in this or
some self serving reason for doing this. I'm trying to
get up here and be some young man that sets
a bunch of old men straight. You know, if that's

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my motivation, God's not gonna allow that. He's gonna strike
me down.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
I fear God.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
See he's showing you again. I fear God. I want
to do this because I think it's God inspired. Only
I'm telling you what I think God's told me to
tell y'all, not what I.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Want to tell y'all. I think that's crucial, I think.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
And I'm also not gonna patronize if I think that
we need to say something tough. Y'all can be that friend,
can't you. You don't have to be a jerk, and
you don't have to be someone that's constantly tearing somebody down. However,
you need to make the commitment, and we need to
make the commitment to each other that we're not gonna
patronize each other. If there's something we need to hear

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for our own good or anything, y'all need to tell
me from our own good, tell me. You know, I
don't need you to. It's not gonna help me for
you to give me a false sense of confidence. Something
really wasn't what it should have been, but you just
didn't want to tell me that. And you said, hey,
that was really good today, when really inside your like,
I'm not sure that was right.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
And I'll make the case.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Sometimes some of you brought stuff to my attention before
and I went back and looked and realized I skipped
a line. I was in the wrong verse what I
said about that, I was off on my notes.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
That's okay. That helps me, That doesn't bother me.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I know that I'm a flawed person, and you know,
the only thing good about my teaching is the word
of God. I'm not even a great teacher. I realize
that there's people that are much more eloquent than me,
and they roll it out better than me. I'm doing
what God's told me to do the way He's made
me to do it, so I haven't arright. So you

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guys helping me out welcome that. It only does me good.
And and if you bring something to me that I
think you're wrong, and I'm still think that what I
said was right, I'll defend it. I won't be a
jerk about it. I'll just show you why I disagree
with that. But most of the time, y'all see things
I don't see, and it's always helpful. It really is

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and so I think that's the point that he was making,
and and I think he has set the stage now
and then from here we roll on and he's going
to start out his first order of business.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
Is to go after Job.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
And some of you like, what, Yeah, he's going to
rebuke Job and say, here's some things I.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Think you got.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
You drifted a little bit on some of this. Now,
he never has done anything that you know would have
given Satan his victory.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
It's not that.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
But the bottom line is, as we know, Job is
a great man and he's of high character, but he's
not perfect. And we say blameless, remember that just means
any secret sin. It's sin that he has not repented
of sin he's never recognized. But even when we're saying
yes I'm redeemed, yes I have repented. As long as

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we have flesh Job included, we all still can be corrected.
And I think the people that are in trouble are
people that think that you can't never be corrected. Don't
never take on that attitude, because if you take on
that attitude, you sound a lot more like the devil
than you do a disciple of Jesus. Because if you
are redeemed by Jesus. Guess what the first thing we

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had to admit I'm in need of redemption. Let's pray, Lord,
thank you for today. Thank you for these men, and
thank you for the gift they are to me. Thank
you for the men and women that join us all
over the world through the incredible technologies, technology that you
allowed to be created. May your Holy Word go forward.
Thank you for this continued study in the Book of Job,

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and Lord you go with us as we step out
now to apply it to our lives and maybe even
use it to help others.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
In your name, we pray Amen. Thank you very much.