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Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. We are thankful that
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our podcast channel. Today we'll be in Job chapter thirty four,
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Job Chapter thirty four. We're staying with Thelai who Alaiah,
Hugh r Elihu however you want to say it, the
young man who has the floor. My name's Rick Burgess
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So let's pray and let's open up in a word
of prayer. Lord, thank you for today, Thank you for
these men that are here in the room. Thank you
for the men and women that are listening to this
all around the world. Today. Lord, help us to grab
what you intend for us to. We just beg for
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the discernment, the perfect filter that is the Holy Spirit,
your presence in our life. Lord. We pray for those
that are not redeemed, that are they've been brought here
today by You drawing them to You, that maybe today's
their day, that they'll repent and decide to leave faith
in themselves and submit to your authority while repenting of
all sin and your name. We pray. Amen. So Ali,
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who has the floor, He's going to continue for a while.
He's called Job to repent. Job's heard that before. That's
that's not new. He's quoted Jobs. He thinks he's answered
Job's arguments. So now what he's going to move to
is illuminating God's attributes of justice, mercy, omniscience, and sovereignty.
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He's gonna remind Job of that. Not there's no indication
that Job needs to be reminded of that. But it's
always beneficial, right when we as as brothers and sisters
remind each other of the things that maybe we should
already know or have even said in the payer. So
when you go to chapter thirty four, the first verse
is simple. It's just telling us that Alaiahu is keeping
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the floor and continuing to speak. And then Elihu answered,
and I'm not you know, I guess he gave I
guess he gave Job an opportunity to respond to him
that didn't happen. So he's now filling that silence. And
he gets into verse two. So verse two he says this,
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hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me,
you who know. Now there's much discussion on this, as
these wise men. Is he referring to job plus the
three or is he speaking to a larger audience that
maybe has gathered again we think that that Job is
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in a public place. He is showing, you know, just
a little bit. It's one of the things you know.
I released a new book this past year called Men
Don't Run in the Rain. It is a book about
my earth father and in one of the chapters we
talk about this. My earthly father was more than willing
to teach me the difference between confidence and arrogance. Uh. There,
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they are two different things. There really is nothing wrong
with confidence as long as the confidence is placed in
the right place. Now, arrogance is different. And reading the
commentaries on this demand for this young man to everybody
around him, whether it's the four or a bigger crowd,
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hear my words, he's kind of demanding that they need
to listen to him. Is this coming from confidence that
he believes that he is well well versed on who
God is and these things, that what what he says
has is going to be correct because he's done the work,
he's done the study. Or is it a little bit arrogant.
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No one really knows, but you you don't. You don't
really see. Really, when God shows up, a lot of
this is going to be clear it up for us.
But I tend to lean a little more confident than
I do arrogant here, just based on what Liho seems
to know about God. But anyway, so we we now
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go to to verse three, Verse three, Uh, he he
invites scrutiny of his logic. See back to confidence again.
He's he's he's inviting them, you know, if you if
you have any anything that you'd like to say about
my my my logic, what I like to say about
my conclusions, He's saying once again, which is why I
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lean confidence. He's pretty sure of himself. He thinks that
the things he's going to about. He's going to say,
have you ever been that way before? You had something
to say, but you weren't sure you wanted to be scrutinized.
But but sometimes you go, I think I have this right,
uh and and you you're welcome to disagree with me.
It's It's one of the things that I've dealt with
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with a public forum is I really don't give much
credence to people who come after me, but they don't
have scripture ready to go. You know, I'm upset with
what you did, and I think what you did was wrong,
what you said was wrong. I always say, well, which
I'm always open to show me the scriptures this support
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this or is this just your feelings? Can you dispute
it from a scripture standpoint that would show I have
this incorrect or did you just not like what I
had to say? That's completely different. And so you know
I've said this before. There's people that I think all
of us, all of us, I hope you have these
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kind of people in your life. Their assessment of what
you've done, it holds value. And then there's people that
their assessment of what you've done or who you are
has no value at all because you don't have any
respect for them. So I'm always trying to find out
how much do you know about the argument? And here
have you have a lie who's saying, I'm ready, I'm
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not afraid of scrutiny. So he makes that clear in
three for the ear test words as the palette tastes food.
So if you want to scrutinize what I am saying,
I'm good with that. Four. Let us choose what is right,
let us know among ourselves what is good. Let's all
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try to mutually search for justice. Let's reason this out together. Boy,
we could use some of that in our society today,
couldn't we? As opposed to Let's see who can win,
he said, he's also stating again what his purpose is.
That's always important anytime you're gonna hold somebody accountable, anytime
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you're gonna say something, we should always state, here's the
reason why I want to have this conversation with you,
Here's the reason why I'm going to say what I'm saying,
as opposed to to I'm just want to be a
blowhard and say some stuff. I do have a reason
for this. So he's saying, I'm just looking for justice
and all this, I'm searching for the truth. Why don't
we all do that together? So he's opening the floor
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to anybody who wants to to disagree with him, and
then he has up next. He's going to go through
the statements of Job's arguments, and he's going to be
try to indict Job by using his own quotes, just
like he did in chapter thirty three, but not exactly
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like thirty three. But it's obvious what he's trying to
do here, even though he's doing it a little bit different.
So let's start in verse five for this part. For
Job has said, he's reminding everybody. Job has said, I'm
in the right, and God has taken away my right.
He says in verse five, Job claims he's innocent. And
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we know this is true. If you want to make
some notes, those of you that come to make notes,
I always love seeing that because you're probably like me.
That helps a lot. Job said he's innocent in chapter nine,
verse fifteen. Job says he's innocent in chapter ten, verse fifteen.
Job says he's innocent in chapter fourteen, verse three, And
he's also says he's innocent in chapter nineteen, verse seven.
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So again, nine fifteen, ten, fifteen, fourteen three, nineteen seven.
So it's obvious that Alahu has heard all this. Job
says he's innocent. Let's get that on the record. And
he says that God has taken away his right and
he's done nothing to deserve that verse six. In spite
of my right, I am counted a liar. My wound
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is incurable. Though I am without transgression, Job, I'm considered
guilty even though I'm without sin, and even though I'm
not guilty, and even though I'm without sin, God's arrows
continue to fly. I'm being punished by God, but I'm
not being punished by God because I'm guilty. I'm not
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being punished by God. Because I have unrepented sin. Nothing
has changed about my standing. When God agreed that I
was blameless, and so did everybody else, nothing's changed. But
now even though that's true, God continues to attack me.
I continue to suffer. And if you want to agree that, Ali,
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who's got that right? Chapter fourteen, verse thirteen, Chapter nineteen,
verse seven. He also talks about it before that, in
as early as chapter six, verse twenty eight, six verse four, sixteen,
verse thirteen, ten, verse seven thirteen, verse twenty three, sixteen,
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verse seventeen, fourteen thirteen, nineteen seven, six twenty eight, six four, sixteen, thirteen, ten, seven, thirteen,
twenty three, and sixteen seventeen. These are all places where
you will find Job making this point. So now we
get into seven. What man is like Job? Who drinks
up scoffing like water? He say, I'll tell you one
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thing about Job that I've noticed. Scorn hasn't caused him
to change his position. The more we scoff at him,
the more he doubles down. So the scoffing and the
scorning of him has had no effect. He drinks it
like water, and he stays with his position. Eight Who
travels in company with evil doers and walks with wicked men.
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Notice that's a question. This led to a lot of confusion.
People have tried to unpack this. What is the lie
who's suggesting? Here? Is he lumping job in with those
who do evil? There's no specifics here, so it's kind
of it's a hard verse. It seems more likely since
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he's questioning, he's almost saying have we seen him with
these kind of people? Because it is a question who
travels in the company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
Do you see how that question goes up? There? Is
he is he saying? Have we really ever seen that
in his life? He claims this doesn't happen. Is there
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any witnesses that say that that Joe was wrong about that? So?
You know, I saw this the other day and it
really well, I don't know if I should probably stay
out of this. I'm gonna do something In general, I
don't like when I see people make accusations publicly and
they give no example, they make any that they like.
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They'll say, I'll tell you one thing about so and so.
They are this, this and this, and you go based
on what, give me an example of what would affirm that.
What would prove that? Give me some examples, and then
they give no examples. It's it's to me. If you
can't point to it, then shut up. I mean, if
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it just because you feel a certain way about somebody,
if you can't give an example of it, you probably
need to stand down, and you certainly shouldn't be saying
it publicly. You might want to go over and you
can talk to them privately or talk to somebody else privately.
But if you can't give an example, you know, like
if I were to say, well, I tell you so
and so has an anger issue, Okay, give me an example.
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I've never seen that. I just I'd get the sense
he does. No, can you give an example of that? Now?
If I also I said that, you know I was.
I saw him in a grocery store the other day,
and you know they didn't they didn't have what he
was looking for, and he just had a complete meltdown.
He said this to the person, he went up to
the customer service and he made a big scene up there. Well,
then now I've got an example. You know, hey, I
was with him at a ballgame and man, he just
lost control and just acted like a fool embarrassed. All
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Now you've got examples. But if you just say something,
but you can't give an example. So I think who
is likely saying this has been suggested? But have any
of us ever seen this? So that's a good point
that he's making. Then verse nine, for he has said,
it profits a man nothing that he should take delight
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in God. Now this is something he says, I didn't
like how Job did that. Job. By the way, if
you look back, he didn't say this specific that not
this phrase it profits a man nothing that he should
take delight in God. But he does use similar language
in chapter nine. Go back if you want to and
read what Job was saying. In verses twenty nine through
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thirty one. He did use similar language. And here it
reminds us of a little bit here of Psalm seventy
three thirteen. Write that down and go back and read it.
The Psalmist there says is basically is fear of God
even worth it? I mean I feared God? What good
has it done me? Yeah? I got, I got all
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these horrible things happening. Job does get a little, poor, poor,
pitiful me on that I've stayed true to God. I've
been blameless and what good has it done me? Look
at this. You know, I've been trying to delight in
the things of God, and here I am that's all
been taken away from me. So a lot of who
is reminding Job, now you did do that, and that
that was something he disagreed with. So now he's he's
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going to get into this this second speech, and and
he's going to start answering some of Job's arguments. He's
going to concentrate on God his justice and and and that,
you know, just dealings with with the you know, the
people who are offenders. Now the first few verses ten
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through fifteen, he's going to talk about God's unchanging, there's
nothing changed about God. And he's going to start in
verse ten. Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding again,
kind of demanding for everybody's attention tension. Far be it
from God that he should do wickedness and from the
Almighty that he should do wrong? Hey, Job, are you
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trying to suggest that God has got this wrong? Is
this what you're saying to us? I mean, are you
insinuating God is not just? I disagree with that. If
you're saying that, then a lie who says, I'm gonna
have to disagree with you on that. So is Job
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saying that he's he's teetering. Uh. And Eli's giving us
some I mean Eli, that's what you call me. Ali.
Hugh gives him some caution here. You ever you ever
gone up to a friend of yours said, I got
a little caution flag out here. I don't have a
red one yet, but I've got a yellow one. You
you treading on, You treading on light on thin ice
right now, tread lightly? Be careful what you say about God,
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which I would agree with. And of course Job's gonna
learn that lesson too. If you want me to give
away the ending verse eleven, For according to the work
of a man, he will repay, repay him, and according
to his ways he will make it befall him. And
then Allah, who goes off the rails. This is as
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clear a presentation in this whole book of Job, of
one of the guys talking about the flawed doctrine of retribution. Now,
is there some truth that the things we do bring
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stuff on us? There's truth in that, but this is
not the way it's being applied to Job. That's what
he has wrong. Yes, It's true that we can be
punished for our sin, no question on earth, if you're redeemed,
you won't be in heaven. But Allah, who where he's
making the mistake? Here is he's going, I've seen God,
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you know, you know, kind of give people a tough
time for the way they were living. I've seen people,
you know, getting on the wrong side of God and
God punished him. True. True, But he's applying it to Job, saying, well,
this must be the case with Job too, And that's
where he's wrong, because that's not what God's doing. This
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is not the doctrine of retribution. It really isn't. So
we'll get to that before we finish our study. So
verse twelve. So a lot of who's getting getting off
base just a little bit here now. But he is
stating that doctrine of retribution twelve of a truth. God
will will not do wickedly and the Almighty will not
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pervert justice. Now it gets back to what is true.
God cannot do these things. It's not in his it's
not in his character. It would violate the very character
of God. Job if he he's done something wicked to
you and he's somehow perverted justice, he can't do that,
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he would cease to be God. His character doesn't allow it.
By the way, true, that's true, he is saying, which
is true. Even when God allows or causes suffering, God
doesn't do anything incorrectly. You can never go back to
God and say, I think what you put me through
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was was not just. It was injustice on me. And
God would correct you pretty quick and say, no, no,
I knew what I was doing, and let me tell
you what I was doing. If you missed it, that's
on you. But it wouldn't have flaw in me. That's
that kind of I'm kind of giving away strange encounters
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again tomorrow, but we're going to talk about in strange
encounters tomorrow. It's just a little sidebar that kind of
fits with this. You know, have you ever wondered in
Mark nine when the disciples were unsuccessful in casting out
a demon and they go to Jesus and say, how
come we couldn't do it? And Jesus says, well, you know,
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there's sometimes when you deal with demons, sometimes it's a
it requires prayer and fasting, and one of them, just
one of the godspeld just say says prayer. But there's
another says fasting. What is that all about. Well, what
he's saying is the problem is now you're starting to
think that you're casting out demons. You haven't cast out
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a demon yet. I've cast them out, I've used you
as a vessel. But you don't have the power to
cast out a demon. And what's happened is you stop praying,
and you stop fasting, you stop worshiping me, and now
you think you can go do it. And so this
is kind of the situation here is if we really
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have a saving faith. A saving faith is we trust
God completely, not partially, not sometimes not if it goes
whatever he's doing. If you have a saving faith, you
are at the heart of it all saying God's right,
no matter how I feel about it. And so he's
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the source, and his source is right. I don't tell
him what to do. As you've heard me say many times,
God did not say, Well, now that I've redeemed you,
would you please be my pr agent and straighten me out.
When I'm doing something you don't think it looks good,
or you know, maybe you don't like the way I'm
doing it, I'd love for you to correct me. No,
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saying that we have a saving faith is I'm all
in for whatever you want to do. And so this
is the part that's being missed by everybody until we
get to God's when he takes the floor, which is
going to happen before we're done with this incredible study.
So verse thirteen, who gave him charge over the earth
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and who laid on him the whole world? So he says,
this is going to be real, similar to God's upcoming
speeches in chapter thirty eight through forty one. God's going
to make this point. Now, where were you when I
made the earth? Where were you when I created everything? So?
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Were you there? Who gave me that job? Nobody? Why?
Because I'm the beginning. I get so frustrated when people
think it's some kind of deep statement. Well, my biggest
problem is who made God? Yeah, I'm like, do you
when he says the beginning, do you not understand what
that means? Well? Everything you had to have at the beginning? Yeah,
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And God said, that's him. So he's where it stops.
He's where it stops. Nobody created him. I am I
have always been, Well, something's got that's it. He's the
beginning and everything flew was flowing from him. You know.
So I cannot stand that who created God? Nobody did.
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He's the creator, He's the beginning of everything. It's literally
his name. I'm the beginning and the end. I'm the
alpha in Omega. But who was before God? Nobody? Nothing.
That's what the word beginning means, that's where it starts.
And uh, and so this is uh, this is a
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lieho reminding I don't know who's gonna charge God since
he had no one ever charging him over the earth,
and who laid on him the whole world? Uh? He
did this. He's the beginning. Do we realize who we're
talking about here? Uh? And you're gonna you're gonna hear
God Uh say the very same thing about himself. And
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so now he's gonna veer into God's domain. He's talked
about God's justice is perfect. Now he's gonna get more
into God's Now this is gonna set the stage you
know for you know, heart and intention, you know, God
breathing life into us. Look at look at fourteen. If
he should set his heart to it and gather to
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himself his spirit and his breath, meaning here's the setup.
If God's intention is this. If God's heart is this,
If God's breath decides to do this, this is what
will happen. Look at look at fifteen. All flesh would
perish together and man would return to us. If God
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decided to withdraw the breath that we breathe, we all
die instantly air wind, you know, heart, spirit. It would
be instant universal death. So we are only allowed to
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breathe and live even in rebellion, by God's mercy and
God's mercy alone. You've heard me quote the late Steve Farrar.
Never fear people that God has to allow to breathe.
But at the same time, never take for granted that granted,
the breath that we just took was allowed by God.
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And if He decided that your breath is over, you
would die instantly. He could kill all of us like that,
universal death, instant universal death. So now we're going to
talk about his sovereign justice sixteen through twenty. If you
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have understanding, hear this and listen to what I say.
Once again, if you have understanding, then you are to listen,
And to not listen is to lack of understanding. It's
what lie who's saying right here. So Apparently he still
thinks what he's got to say is well thought out.
He's well educated on all this, and for us not
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to listen to him, we're going to miss something. Seventeen.
Shall one who hates justice govern, will you condemn him
who is righteous and mighty? So God's rules are somehow unjust?
Are you going to make an accusation? You can't say
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on one hand that God is wonderful and God is
all knowing, and God is never wrong, and everything God
does is just, and then turn right around and claim
he's unjust. These things are mutually exclusive. You know, you can't.
You can't say that, you, you know, hate the one
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who governs perfectly, you can't condemn the one who's righteous
and mighty. And I would also turn that around. He
is making another point here. God wouldn't do that either.
So once again, all these claims you're making, God's doing
this to you, But yet you're righteous. Well, the answer
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is yes, blameless is a better word. But he's made
righteous by God's mercy verse eighteen, who says to a
king worthless one and to nobles wicked man, God actually
does have the authority to question anyone. He's overall including
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kings and nobles. He's saying, there's only one person who
can say to a king that he's worthless, and say
to a noble that he's wicked, and that's God and
get away with it. If you tried that dealing with
kings and nobles of the day and you were a commoner,
well I hope you enjoyed it, because that's gonna be
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your last. You ain't gonna be alive very much longer.
But he says God, I can call him out, and
there's nothing happened to him because he's even above them nineteen.
Who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich
more than the poor, for they're all the work of
his hands. No one put God in power, so he
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is beholden to no one. All are created by him
and stand in equal need of his protection, and equal
need of his mercy, and equal need of his grace.
As we've said in this Bible study for a decade,
I don't care who you think you are. Everybody's equal
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at the foot of the cross. There's no one that
is gonna strut into heaven saying, you know, when I
was on earth, I was a big deal. Everybody's gonna come.
You talk about a quality, You're gonna see the poorest
person you have ever known on this earth that has
that barely has a roof over their head, and a
guy who's got five houses and one hundred cars. If
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he's redeemed and this person's redeemed at the foot of
the cross, they're gonna be completely equal in need of redemption.
This stuff that we think is such a big deal
that we sometimes covet and wish we had, it doesn't
mean anything on the day of judgment. You're not gonna say,
to the beginning and the end, you know, I was
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quite influential on earth. I was a pretty big deal.
He's not gonna be impressed. So and everybody is equally
his eyes. And you know what, I love, he said.
And he's the only one that sees everybody equal because
he created everyone. We have a hard time doing that.
As human beings. We do not pull that off. Then
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we get into verse twenty. In a moment they die
at midnight, the people are shaking and pass away, and
the mighty are taken away by no human hand. He's sovereign.
He controls life and death. Hell, he has control over
all human life. If he determines that your life is
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over again, your standing in society will have no bearing.
You'll die just like everybody else. You ever notice that
how many people just in the last year that we
hear all these wonderful things about, and they had all
this stuff on earth, they died just like everybody else.
Steve Jobs dead, died just like everybody else. And where's
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all this wealth? Now? Somebody else has got it. And
when he stood before God, if he stood there without Jesus,
he was condemned and he didn't say, please don't see
me to Hell, I invented some really cool stuff. He
stood before the Great I am, and I hope he
had Jesus with him. If he didn't, that iPhone ain't
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gonna mean anything. So now twenty one for his eyes
are on the ways of a man, and he sees
all his steps, he sees everything. He's now moving into
God's punishment. He sees everything. He's not missing any point.
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I've been guilty of this. You've heard me mention this
many times. I'm gonna rep you on this one because
it's something that I need to deal with and we
all do. I will sing and I will praise that
God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient, and then at times
I live my life like he can't see me. You know,
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you have a bad moment, you know, I hope God
didn't see that. Well, I got news for you. He
absolutely knows, and this is what he's being reminded of.
Look job, I mean, if you may fool us, but
you're not gonna fool God. Right, we all know this
is gonna be one of those things when we stand
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before you know, we stand before God. There'll be no lawyers.
We'll have a Thank goodness, we do have an advocate
in Jesus. But God doesn't need the case presented to
you to me him. He's already seen it. Now, let
me tell you what happened, God goes, I was there.
I've known everything, you know, because then you think, you know,
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I had a version of the story that's much better
than what actually happened, you know, and God's going to say, no,
I saw exactly how it happened. And you know what,
I knew the intent of your heart. How many times, though,
are you comforted sometimes that God knows the intent of
your heart? Because I get misunderstood a lot of times
and then there's times where I wish he didn't know it,
but he does. But sometimes him knowing the intention of
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your heart is actually a comfort because the world may
misunderstand you, and he goes, I knew what you were
trying to do. I knew that you were you loved me.
I knew you were doing that for the right reason.
So that's always comforting too, because you may not be
able to plead your case to human beings, but God,
God knows the answer even when you're innocent, which I love,
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all right. So twenty two there is no gloom or
deep darkness. Well, evil doers may hide themselves. That's straightforward.
You don't need any commentary for that. He's just saying
he sees everything. He's not missing any point. Evil doers
have nowhere to hide. There is no cover. You're not
going to go down, you know, some alley and hide
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from God and do something awful. He's going to see
everything that people are doing. Nobody's going to get away
with anything. Twenty three. For God has no need to
consider a man further than he should go before God
in judgment, really no need for a trial. All men
are guilty compared to the holiness and perfection of God.
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That godless are guilty. But that's the point we have
to understand, is that if there was no Jesus and
there was no redemption Jesus, you've even seen in this chapter,
this very old book, most believe, the oldest book of
the Bible. They're looking for that advocate. They're looking for
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somebody to pay that rants. And why do you think
they are. Everybody's guilty. Everybody's guilty. If God stood there
and never ever offered redemption, everybody's doing nobody makes it so,
He says, so if you, if you reject his mercy
and you reject redemption, there is no way for you
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to stand before him and be innocent. So the godless
don't get away with it. Not in the end. It
may feel like they're getting away with it, they just don't.
Twenty four. He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets
others in their place. We see this all throughout scripture,
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don't we No matter? Right now? In this world the
most powerful people were set up by God, some for blessings,
some for protection, some for punishment. But he can set
them up and tear them down. As we've learned in
the scriptures. I love that comparison. It be like me
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sticking my finger in a glass of iced tea and
just move in the cubes around. That's how easy it
is for him to raise up a nation and destroy
a nation, raise up a leader, destroy a leader. He
does it all the time. And so what we're hearing
from this speech is powerful people. He investigates with no
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apology whatsoever, and rules on them just like he does
everybody twenty five, Thus knowing their works, he overturns them
in the night, and they are crushed. He need not
ask questions because he already knows the answers. And every
time he rules, he rules fully informed, fully informed. There's
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nothing that God goes now. I didn't know that. I've
sometimes been thinking something and finally new information shows up.
Look think about this, Think about how many times we've
even heard It's horrible that we've had one just recently
where somebody was completely exonerated for what they were accused
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of doing, but unfortunately the man had already killed himself. Now,
the former LSU football player, he kept being accused of
vehicular homicide, and new information came out. Somebody finally had
footage that he was over twenty feet behind that vehicle.
He knew it was innocent, and by the time everybody
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found out, he'd already killed himself. So sometimes, you know,
we as human beings go, you know what, we didn't
have that information. God's never in that position, has all
the information, so he rules perfectly. Twenty six. He strikes
them for their wickedness in a place for all to see.
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The godless may try to hide, but they will all
be punished, and they will be punished for all to
see in the final judgment twenty seven because they turned
aside from following him, had no regard for any of
his ways. The godless turn away from following the one
and only living God. They do not obey God, and
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they do not choose the wise way. This is back
to what all wisdom comes from, fear of God. If
you're out there and you've decided that God's ways are unreasonable,
God's ways are to be questioned, you're not quite sure
that he is right, then you have, as Jesus even
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talked about in Matthew seven, you've looked over here at
these two gates, and you said, I think I'm gonna
take this wide and easy one. Here we don't have
to deal with all God's commands, And I don't have
to give up my sin and repent, and I don't
have to leave faith in myself. I don't. I don't
have to. And you know what Jesus said in that
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one right there is so wide and so easy that
many are going that way. But that's the road to destruction.
He said, over here, we're entering a narrow gate. It's
God's way. And he said that's hard, he said, and
only if you ever find it? Why, because it's cost
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What does it cost us? It could it cost us
our life, maybe, what it cost us our job? Possibly?
Is it cost us family? Could cost you your friend maybe?
And that that's a little bit daunting. But most of
the time, the reason why we don't enter the narrow
gate is because it cost us our sin. Because that's
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going to be the cost to everybody. I've been guilty
of that most of my life before redemption. I knew
about the narrow gate. Do you know why I didn't
go to church for thirteen years? Because I knew what
they were gonna say. How was it ignorant to the gospel?
I wasn't ignorant to the teachings of God. I just
didn't want them. I didn't want to do things the
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way God wanted to do. I even knew what he expected,
and I didn't want it. So you think I'm gonna
go in there. I really don't understand people that go
to church when they're living a rebellious life. What a
miserable was it? How you get it? How are you
surviving there? I mean, it's like, how about it? I
didn't go there because I knew what they were gonna say,
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and I said it. Until I'm ready to hear it again,
I ain't going back. I already know what they're gonna preach.
And when I finally came under a conviction by going
just to try to get married by a pastor who
loved me enough to tell me the truth, the next
time I went back into church, I went back in
seeking God, which is a whole different way to go
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than I found him, because he said, if you'll seek me,
you'll find me. And I realized that his ways were
not burdensome, that his yoke was actually easy. It is
a yoke, though, which means he does God me, and
he does have parameters, and it is a narrow gate.
But the narrow gate, though it may be hard, it's
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better because it leads to life. So this is the
point that a lie who is making long before Jesus
was walking this earth twenty eight, so that they caused
the cry of the poor to come to him, and
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he heard the cry. They afflicted. They abuse people, They
mistreated the poor, they mistreated the sick. And you know what, God,
here's these prayers. He here's the cries of the mistreated.
Now the problem here is Job says he never did
those kind of things. I didn't mistreat the poor. I
didn't mistreat the sick. I did not abandon the widows.
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I remember him saying, men who were dying were comforted
to know I was there because they knew their family
be taken care of. But again, Ali, who is saying,
if you're not telling the truth about this God, here's it.
He knows the truth, and this must be I just
feel like now Joe's just like, okay, whatever, just roll on.
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And then twenty nine. When he is quiet, who can condemn?
When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether
it be a nation or a man. God treats individuals
and nations alike. He judges them both correctly. And I
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know the lot of us think, because we're in the
us of a that somehow God's not judging us. But
he is and he will. And you know it's almost
like you go, well, God judges individuals, but he wasn't
judge nation. He'd been judging nations for a long time,
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and he loves his people enough to judge them harshly.
Sometimes it seems more harsh than those that reject him,
because he's calling us to something, even as a nation.
And may we not forget what was the whole issue
with Jesus crying over Jerusalem is he's crying over Jerusalem
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because he said, I came to you the Hebrew. First.
Your job was to take me to the rest of
the world. You were supposed to go preach the gospel.
Accept me, and now you be a light to the gentiles.
And you rejected me. And now all these horrible things
to this day are still going to come upon you
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until the day you know that you see me and
you weep over the fact that you crucified me. We
know one hundred and forty four thousand of them will
finally go to work in the tribulation and do what
they should have done the first time. And he says, so,
now what he pivots to the gentiles secondly, to take
the light of the Gospel to the world until the
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number of the gentiles come in. And if we the
gentiles decide we're going to reject it too, and we're
going to not do what we were told to do,
and we're going to take all this freedom and all
this wealth and all this ability to take the Gospel
anywhere we wanted to go and not do it. Well,
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then he's going to discipline us too, and has and will.
So he says he's been doing this. Apparently this has
been well known about God for a long time Verse thirty,
that a godless man should not reign, that he should
not ensnare the people now here this is problematic. He's
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wrong about this. He's claiming that God doesn't allow godless
men to rule. Is he not aware of how many
bad kings there had been? Is he not aware of
how many evil people, unjust judges, wicked kings, deceitful leaders.
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They've been around for a long time. So a lot
who's wrong on this one. God does allow godless people
to get into places of power. Usually it's a punishment.
Sometimes Cyrus he used pagans to be a blessing to
his people. He's done that too, So that's just bad
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theology on a lie. Who's part Now, if he wants
to say, whoever comes into power God allows for all
kinds of reasons, and that he he places them there,
he'd be right about that. But he's saying he only
places good people there. But that's just not true. And
I wonder, surely Ali who knows this? So it's one
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of these things. It's kind of like when Joe was
pointing out, have y'all not noticed that sometimes the wicked
do quite well? You know, I'm surely they had seen it,
So Ali who kind of he misses it? On verse
thirty thirty one, For has anyone said to God I
have born punishment? I will not offend anymore? This is
his challenge for job to repent verse one, the next
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thirty one, thirty two, and thirty three do this just
say that you're guilty. Has anyone said to God I
have born punishment, I will not offend anymore? And then
he says thirty two teach me what I do not see?
If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.
Why don't you just say to God that you're guilty?
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And then in thirty two he kind off, there's a
model prayer. Want you to say this, Teach me what
I don't see. If you don't see it, ask God
to show it to you, And he says, and if
I've done iniquity, I will do it no more. Won't
you just do that? And he doesn't get any response.
Then thirty three will he then make repayment to suit
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you because you reject it? Hey, you got to choose Job.
I can't I can't ask answer this for you. Just
say it. Just say to God if you don't see it,
ask him to show it to you. And when he
shows it to you, tell him you won't do it anymore.
Repent Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's
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not there. Ask God to clarify it. By the way,
Job has where has he been? Job has been asking this?
But you know what we get from Job here? No answer? Well,
now a lie who's not going to like that because
he doesn't get an answer, So now he's going to
them Job for not repenting. Thirty four to the end,
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Men of understanding, will say to me, and the wise
men who hears me will say, he starts out, he
turns to the three friends or anyone who would listen
to him to affirm the guilty verdict. Job, you are
arrogant toward God. We all wise men know the truth. Job.
We all know thirty five. Job speaks without knowledge. His
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words are without insight. Job isn't wise like us because
he can't see what we can clearly see. He doesn't
see it. We all see it plainly. Job does not.
Thirty six would that Job were tried to the end
because he answers like wicked men, he will continue to suffer.
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And I'll tell you why, because he's failed to repent.
This is just going to continue. Y'all heard me. I tried.
I tried. I've been through this before where I've had
people make horrible accusations about me and I've said the
same thing. But if I said it more like Calhoun
County and I will reach out to them and they
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won't talk to me. I will say, I'll answer the
question and they won't have the conversation. And the last
thing I use to email them and text them is
I tried. Now I'm done. I tried. You made accusations,
I told you I would answer them. You ask questions,
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I told y'all would answer them. Now let's have a conversation,
and they won't do it, and then you just turn
around say I tried. So that's kind of what a
li who is doing. I tried to get him to repent,
he wouldn't do it. We go to thirty seven, for
he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hand
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among us and multiplies his words against God. Job, apparently,
according to Elihu, has doubled down. He now multiplies his
words against God. And of course I don't know where
he's getting this because Job hasn't spoken quite a while.
But now, what what you kind of you kind of
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don't like with Allaihu right now is as we get
down to the end, he's becoming almost as confrontational and
cruel as the other three. And he claims that Job's
lack of response is just him doubling down. He's gonna
stick with his narrative. Now, you would think at this
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point that Elaihu would would give up, but he does it.
We're gonna we're gonna hear continue to hear from him
thirty five, thirty six, and thirty seven, So he's going
to continue on. And I know, if you ever been
in the situation when somebody's really wearing you out, it's
always wonderful when you go we've hit an ending point
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about four or five times here, and you're still going.
You've heard somebody saying, I just say I'm done with it. Now,
I got one more thing to say, and uh, okay,
that's that's the opposite of being done with it. So
this is a tough situation. But this this there's starting
to be some tension here because some of what Ali
who has said is true, but then there's parts where
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he seems to not be as informed as he thinks
he is. No one knows why Job is not interjecting
anything answering some of these questions. Uh. Some of the
commentaries say he's just so sick and so weak. He
just may be he just are are he? You know,
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have you ever got to the point where you just say,
I don't have anything else to add. I've made my case.
I've said it over and over again. Nobody's believing me.
Everybody continues on the same narrative, and you just say,
I don't have anything to add. I don't know. But
he does not answer again. We won't hear from Job
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again until he finally answers God when God comes on
the scene, which we're getting very close, very close once again.
As we study this, I think we got to keep
doing what we've been doing. Let's be Job in this situation.
Let's also be Allahu. Let's be both. But ultimately, let's
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cling to the things that we know to be true
about God when everything seems confusing, cling to the things
that we know about God, no matter how difficult it
may be, no matter how much you may think it's
your job to get to the bottom of something. God
will do the right thing, and what He does is
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always right, and we have to learn that it's not
just right, it's also beneficial. It's for our own good.
Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for
this ongoing study. I pray you be with all the
men here in the room. May your hand be upon them.
And I pray, Lord Jesus, that you be with those
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out there that are listening and watching this Bible study.
Be with them. Lord, draw them to you, let them
apply what they've heard about you today, even though a
lie who is flawed in some of it, his reminders
of who you are are worth our attention and application.
In your holy name, we pray Amen. Thank you, guys,
Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. We are thankful that
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So let's pray and let's open up in a word
of prayer. Lord, thank you for today, Thank you for
these men that are here in the room. Thank you
for the men and women that are listening to this
all around the world. Today. Lord, help us to grab
what you intend for us to. We just beg for
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the discernment, the perfect filter that is the Holy Spirit,
your presence in our life. Lord. We pray for those
that are not redeemed, that are they've been brought here
today by You drawing them to You, that maybe today's
their day, that they'll repent and decide to leave faith
in themselves and submit to your authority while repenting of
all sin and your name. We pray. Amen. So Ali,
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who has the floor, He's going to continue for a while.
He's called Job to repent. Job's heard that before. That's
that's not new. He's quoted Jobs. He thinks he's answered
Job's arguments. So now what he's going to move to
is illuminating God's attributes of justice, mercy, omniscience, and sovereignty.
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He's gonna remind Job of that. Not there's no indication
that Job needs to be reminded of that. But it's
always beneficial, right when we as as brothers and sisters
remind each other of the things that maybe we should
already know or have even said in the payer. So
when you go to chapter thirty four, the first verse
is simple. It's just telling us that Alaiahu is keeping
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the floor and continuing to speak. And then Elihu answered,
and I'm not you know, I guess he gave I
guess he gave Job an opportunity to respond to him
that didn't happen. So he's now filling that silence. And
he gets into verse two. So verse two he says this,
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hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me,
you who know. Now there's much discussion on this, as
these wise men. Is he referring to job plus the
three or is he speaking to a larger audience that
maybe has gathered again we think that that Job is
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in a public place. He is showing, you know, just
a little bit. It's one of the things you know.
I released a new book this past year called Men
Don't Run in the Rain. It is a book about
my earth father and in one of the chapters we
talk about this. My earthly father was more than willing
to teach me the difference between confidence and arrogance. Uh. There,
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they are two different things. There really is nothing wrong
with confidence as long as the confidence is placed in
the right place. Now, arrogance is different. And reading the
commentaries on this demand for this young man to everybody
around him, whether it's the four or a bigger crowd,
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hear my words, he's kind of demanding that they need
to listen to him. Is this coming from confidence that
he believes that he is well well versed on who
God is and these things, that what what he says
has is going to be correct because he's done the work,
he's done the study. Or is it a little bit arrogant.
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No one really knows, but you you don't. You don't
really see. Really, when God shows up, a lot of
this is going to be clear it up for us.
But I tend to lean a little more confident than
I do arrogant here, just based on what Liho seems
to know about God. But anyway, so we we now
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go to to verse three, Verse three, Uh, he he
invites scrutiny of his logic. See back to confidence again.
He's he's he's inviting them, you know, if you if
you have any anything that you'd like to say about
my my my logic, what I like to say about
my conclusions, He's saying once again, which is why I
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lean confidence. He's pretty sure of himself. He thinks that
the things he's going to about. He's going to say,
have you ever been that way before? You had something
to say, but you weren't sure you wanted to be scrutinized.
But but sometimes you go, I think I have this right,
uh and and you you're welcome to disagree with me.
It's It's one of the things that I've dealt with
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with a public forum is I really don't give much
credence to people who come after me, but they don't
have scripture ready to go. You know, I'm upset with
what you did, and I think what you did was wrong,
what you said was wrong. I always say, well, which
I'm always open to show me the scriptures this support
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this or is this just your feelings? Can you dispute
it from a scripture standpoint that would show I have
this incorrect or did you just not like what I
had to say? That's completely different. And so you know
I've said this before. There's people that I think all
of us, all of us, I hope you have these
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kind of people in your life. Their assessment of what
you've done, it holds value. And then there's people that
their assessment of what you've done or who you are
has no value at all because you don't have any
respect for them. So I'm always trying to find out
how much do you know about the argument? And here
have you have a lie who's saying, I'm ready, I'm
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not afraid of scrutiny. So he makes that clear in
three for the ear test words as the palette tastes food.
So if you want to scrutinize what I am saying,
I'm good with that. Four. Let us choose what is right,
let us know among ourselves what is good. Let's all
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try to mutually search for justice. Let's reason this out together. Boy,
we could use some of that in our society today,
couldn't we? As opposed to Let's see who can win,
he said, he's also stating again what his purpose is.
That's always important anytime you're gonna hold somebody accountable, anytime
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you're gonna say something, we should always state, here's the
reason why I want to have this conversation with you,
Here's the reason why I'm going to say what I'm saying,
as opposed to to I'm just want to be a
blowhard and say some stuff. I do have a reason
for this. So he's saying, I'm just looking for justice
and all this, I'm searching for the truth. Why don't
we all do that together? So he's opening the floor
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to anybody who wants to to disagree with him, and
then he has up next. He's going to go through
the statements of Job's arguments, and he's going to be
try to indict Job by using his own quotes, just
like he did in chapter thirty three, but not exactly
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like thirty three. But it's obvious what he's trying to
do here, even though he's doing it a little bit different.
So let's start in verse five for this part. For
Job has said, he's reminding everybody. Job has said, I'm
in the right, and God has taken away my right.
He says in verse five, Job claims he's innocent. And
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we know this is true. If you want to make
some notes, those of you that come to make notes,
I always love seeing that because you're probably like me.
That helps a lot. Job said he's innocent in chapter nine,
verse fifteen. Job says he's innocent in chapter ten, verse fifteen.
Job says he's innocent in chapter fourteen, verse three, And
he's also says he's innocent in chapter nineteen, verse seven.
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So again, nine fifteen, ten, fifteen, fourteen three, nineteen seven.
So it's obvious that Alahu has heard all this. Job
says he's innocent. Let's get that on the record. And
he says that God has taken away his right and
he's done nothing to deserve that verse six. In spite
of my right, I am counted a liar. My wound
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is incurable. Though I am without transgression, Job, I'm considered
guilty even though I'm without sin, and even though I'm
not guilty, and even though I'm without sin, God's arrows
continue to fly. I'm being punished by God, but I'm
not being punished by God because I'm guilty. I'm not
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being punished by God. Because I have unrepented sin. Nothing
has changed about my standing. When God agreed that I
was blameless, and so did everybody else, nothing's changed. But
now even though that's true, God continues to attack me.
I continue to suffer. And if you want to agree that, Ali,
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who's got that right? Chapter fourteen, verse thirteen, Chapter nineteen,
verse seven. He also talks about it before that, in
as early as chapter six, verse twenty eight, six verse four, sixteen,
verse thirteen, ten, verse seven thirteen, verse twenty three, sixteen,
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verse seventeen, fourteen thirteen, nineteen seven, six twenty eight, six four, sixteen, thirteen, ten, seven, thirteen,
twenty three, and sixteen seventeen. These are all places where
you will find Job making this point. So now we
get into seven. What man is like Job? Who drinks
up scoffing like water? He say, I'll tell you one
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thing about Job that I've noticed. Scorn hasn't caused him
to change his position. The more we scoff at him,
the more he doubles down. So the scoffing and the
scorning of him has had no effect. He drinks it
like water, and he stays with his position. Eight Who
travels in company with evil doers and walks with wicked men.
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Notice that's a question. This led to a lot of confusion.
People have tried to unpack this. What is the lie
who's suggesting? Here? Is he lumping job in with those
who do evil? There's no specifics here, so it's kind
of it's a hard verse. It seems more likely since
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he's questioning, he's almost saying have we seen him with
these kind of people? Because it is a question who
travels in the company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
Do you see how that question goes up? There? Is
he is he saying? Have we really ever seen that
in his life? He claims this doesn't happen. Is there
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any witnesses that say that that Joe was wrong about that? So?
You know, I saw this the other day and it
really well, I don't know if I should probably stay
out of this. I'm gonna do something In general, I
don't like when I see people make accusations publicly and
they give no example, they make any that they like.
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They'll say, I'll tell you one thing about so and so.
They are this, this and this, and you go based
on what, give me an example of what would affirm that.
What would prove that? Give me some examples, and then
they give no examples. It's it's to me. If you
can't point to it, then shut up. I mean, if
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it just because you feel a certain way about somebody,
if you can't give an example of it, you probably
need to stand down, and you certainly shouldn't be saying
it publicly. You might want to go over and you
can talk to them privately or talk to somebody else privately.
But if you can't give an example, you know, like
if I were to say, well, I tell you so
and so has an anger issue, Okay, give me an example.
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I've never seen that. I just I'd get the sense
he does. No, can you give an example of that? Now?
If I also I said that, you know I was.
I saw him in a grocery store the other day,
and you know they didn't they didn't have what he
was looking for, and he just had a complete meltdown.
He said this to the person, he went up to
the customer service and he made a big scene up there. Well,
then now I've got an example. You know, hey, I
was with him at a ballgame and man, he just
lost control and just acted like a fool embarrassed. All
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Now you've got examples. But if you just say something,
but you can't give an example. So I think who
is likely saying this has been suggested? But have any
of us ever seen this? So that's a good point
that he's making. Then verse nine, for he has said,
it profits a man nothing that he should take delight
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in God. Now this is something he says, I didn't
like how Job did that. Job. By the way, if
you look back, he didn't say this specific that not
this phrase it profits a man nothing that he should
take delight in God. But he does use similar language
in chapter nine. Go back if you want to and
read what Job was saying. In verses twenty nine through
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thirty one. He did use similar language. And here it
reminds us of a little bit here of Psalm seventy
three thirteen. Write that down and go back and read it.
The Psalmist there says is basically is fear of God
even worth it? I mean I feared God? What good
has it done me? Yeah? I got, I got all
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these horrible things happening. Job does get a little, poor, poor,
pitiful me on that I've stayed true to God. I've
been blameless and what good has it done me? Look
at this. You know, I've been trying to delight in
the things of God, and here I am that's all
been taken away from me. So a lot of who
is reminding Job, now you did do that, and that
that was something he disagreed with. So now he's he's
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going to get into this this second speech, and and
he's going to start answering some of Job's arguments. He's
going to concentrate on God his justice and and and that,
you know, just dealings with with the you know, the
people who are offenders. Now the first few verses ten
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through fifteen, he's going to talk about God's unchanging, there's
nothing changed about God. And he's going to start in
verse ten. Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding again,
kind of demanding for everybody's attention tension. Far be it
from God that he should do wickedness and from the
Almighty that he should do wrong? Hey, Job, are you
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trying to suggest that God has got this wrong? Is
this what you're saying to us? I mean, are you
insinuating God is not just? I disagree with that. If
you're saying that, then a lie who says, I'm gonna
have to disagree with you on that. So is Job
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saying that he's he's teetering. Uh. And Eli's giving us
some I mean Eli, that's what you call me. Ali.
Hugh gives him some caution here. You ever you ever
gone up to a friend of yours said, I got
a little caution flag out here. I don't have a
red one yet, but I've got a yellow one. You
you treading on, You treading on light on thin ice
right now, tread lightly? Be careful what you say about God,
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which I would agree with. And of course Job's gonna
learn that lesson too. If you want me to give
away the ending verse eleven, For according to the work
of a man, he will repay, repay him, and according
to his ways he will make it befall him. And
then Allah, who goes off the rails. This is as
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clear a presentation in this whole book of Job, of
one of the guys talking about the flawed doctrine of retribution. Now,
is there some truth that the things we do bring
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stuff on us? There's truth in that, but this is
not the way it's being applied to Job. That's what
he has wrong. Yes, It's true that we can be
punished for our sin, no question on earth, if you're redeemed,
you won't be in heaven. But Allah, who where he's
making the mistake? Here is he's going, I've seen God,
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you know, you know, kind of give people a tough
time for the way they were living. I've seen people,
you know, getting on the wrong side of God and
God punished him. True. True, But he's applying it to Job, saying, well,
this must be the case with Job too, And that's
where he's wrong, because that's not what God's doing. This
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is not the doctrine of retribution. It really isn't. So
we'll get to that before we finish our study. So
verse twelve. So a lot of who's getting getting off
base just a little bit here now. But he is
stating that doctrine of retribution twelve of a truth. God
will will not do wickedly and the Almighty will not
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pervert justice. Now it gets back to what is true.
God cannot do these things. It's not in his it's
not in his character. It would violate the very character
of God. Job if he he's done something wicked to
you and he's somehow perverted justice, he can't do that,
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he would cease to be God. His character doesn't allow it.
By the way, true, that's true, he is saying, which
is true. Even when God allows or causes suffering, God
doesn't do anything incorrectly. You can never go back to
God and say, I think what you put me through
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was was not just. It was injustice on me. And
God would correct you pretty quick and say, no, no,
I knew what I was doing, and let me tell
you what I was doing. If you missed it, that's
on you. But it wouldn't have flaw in me. That's
that kind of I'm kind of giving away strange encounters
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again tomorrow, but we're going to talk about in strange
encounters tomorrow. It's just a little sidebar that kind of
fits with this. You know, have you ever wondered in
Mark nine when the disciples were unsuccessful in casting out
a demon and they go to Jesus and say, how
come we couldn't do it? And Jesus says, well, you know,
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there's sometimes when you deal with demons, sometimes it's a
it requires prayer and fasting, and one of them, just
one of the godspeld just say says prayer. But there's
another says fasting. What is that all about. Well, what
he's saying is the problem is now you're starting to
think that you're casting out demons. You haven't cast out
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a demon yet. I've cast them out, I've used you
as a vessel. But you don't have the power to
cast out a demon. And what's happened is you stop praying,
and you stop fasting, you stop worshiping me, and now
you think you can go do it. And so this
is kind of the situation here is if we really
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have a saving faith. A saving faith is we trust
God completely, not partially, not sometimes not if it goes
whatever he's doing. If you have a saving faith, you
are at the heart of it all saying God's right,
no matter how I feel about it. And so he's
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the source, and his source is right. I don't tell
him what to do. As you've heard me say many times,
God did not say, Well, now that I've redeemed you,
would you please be my pr agent and straighten me out.
When I'm doing something you don't think it looks good,
or you know, maybe you don't like the way I'm
doing it, I'd love for you to correct me. No,
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saying that we have a saving faith is I'm all
in for whatever you want to do. And so this
is the part that's being missed by everybody until we
get to God's when he takes the floor, which is
going to happen before we're done with this incredible study.
So verse thirteen, who gave him charge over the earth
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and who laid on him the whole world? So he says,
this is going to be real, similar to God's upcoming
speeches in chapter thirty eight through forty one. God's going
to make this point. Now, where were you when I
made the earth? Where were you when I created everything? So?
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Were you there? Who gave me that job? Nobody? Why?
Because I'm the beginning. I get so frustrated when people
think it's some kind of deep statement. Well, my biggest
problem is who made God? Yeah, I'm like, do you
when he says the beginning, do you not understand what
that means? Well? Everything you had to have at the beginning? Yeah,
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And God said, that's him. So he's where it stops.
He's where it stops. Nobody created him. I am I
have always been, Well, something's got that's it. He's the
beginning and everything flew was flowing from him. You know.
So I cannot stand that who created God? Nobody did.
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He's the creator, He's the beginning of everything. It's literally
his name. I'm the beginning and the end. I'm the
alpha in Omega. But who was before God? Nobody? Nothing.
That's what the word beginning means, that's where it starts.
And uh, and so this is uh, this is a
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lieho reminding I don't know who's gonna charge God since
he had no one ever charging him over the earth,
and who laid on him the whole world? Uh? He
did this. He's the beginning. Do we realize who we're
talking about here? Uh? And you're gonna you're gonna hear
God Uh say the very same thing about himself. And
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so now he's gonna veer into God's domain. He's talked
about God's justice is perfect. Now he's gonna get more
into God's Now this is gonna set the stage you
know for you know, heart and intention, you know, God
breathing life into us. Look at look at fourteen. If
he should set his heart to it and gather to
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himself his spirit and his breath, meaning here's the setup.
If God's intention is this. If God's heart is this,
If God's breath decides to do this, this is what
will happen. Look at look at fifteen. All flesh would
perish together and man would return to us. If God
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decided to withdraw the breath that we breathe, we all
die instantly air wind, you know, heart, spirit. It would
be instant universal death. So we are only allowed to
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breathe and live even in rebellion, by God's mercy and
God's mercy alone. You've heard me quote the late Steve Farrar.
Never fear people that God has to allow to breathe.
But at the same time, never take for granted that granted,
the breath that we just took was allowed by God.
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And if He decided that your breath is over, you
would die instantly. He could kill all of us like that,
universal death, instant universal death. So now we're going to
talk about his sovereign justice sixteen through twenty. If you
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have understanding, hear this and listen to what I say.
Once again, if you have understanding, then you are to listen,
And to not listen is to lack of understanding. It's
what lie who's saying right here. So Apparently he still
thinks what he's got to say is well thought out.
He's well educated on all this, and for us not
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to listen to him, we're going to miss something. Seventeen.
Shall one who hates justice govern, will you condemn him
who is righteous and mighty? So God's rules are somehow unjust?
Are you going to make an accusation? You can't say
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on one hand that God is wonderful and God is
all knowing, and God is never wrong, and everything God
does is just, and then turn right around and claim
he's unjust. These things are mutually exclusive. You know, you can't.
You can't say that, you, you know, hate the one
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who governs perfectly, you can't condemn the one who's righteous
and mighty. And I would also turn that around. He
is making another point here. God wouldn't do that either.
So once again, all these claims you're making, God's doing
this to you, But yet you're righteous. Well, the answer
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is yes, blameless is a better word. But he's made
righteous by God's mercy verse eighteen, who says to a
king worthless one and to nobles wicked man, God actually
does have the authority to question anyone. He's overall including
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kings and nobles. He's saying, there's only one person who
can say to a king that he's worthless, and say
to a noble that he's wicked, and that's God and
get away with it. If you tried that dealing with
kings and nobles of the day and you were a commoner,
well I hope you enjoyed it, because that's gonna be
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your last. You ain't gonna be alive very much longer.
But he says God, I can call him out, and
there's nothing happened to him because he's even above them nineteen.
Who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich
more than the poor, for they're all the work of
his hands. No one put God in power, so he
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is beholden to no one. All are created by him
and stand in equal need of his protection, and equal
need of his mercy, and equal need of his grace.
As we've said in this Bible study for a decade,
I don't care who you think you are. Everybody's equal
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at the foot of the cross. There's no one that
is gonna strut into heaven saying, you know, when I
was on earth, I was a big deal. Everybody's gonna come.
You talk about a quality, You're gonna see the poorest
person you have ever known on this earth that has
that barely has a roof over their head, and a
guy who's got five houses and one hundred cars. If
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he's redeemed and this person's redeemed at the foot of
the cross, they're gonna be completely equal in need of redemption.
This stuff that we think is such a big deal
that we sometimes covet and wish we had, it doesn't
mean anything on the day of judgment. You're not gonna say,
to the beginning and the end, you know, I was
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quite influential on earth. I was a pretty big deal.
He's not gonna be impressed. So and everybody is equally
his eyes. And you know what, I love, he said.
And he's the only one that sees everybody equal because
he created everyone. We have a hard time doing that.
As human beings. We do not pull that off. Then
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we get into verse twenty. In a moment they die
at midnight, the people are shaking and pass away, and
the mighty are taken away by no human hand. He's sovereign.
He controls life and death. Hell, he has control over
all human life. If he determines that your life is
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over again, your standing in society will have no bearing.
You'll die just like everybody else. You ever notice that
how many people just in the last year that we
hear all these wonderful things about, and they had all
this stuff on earth, they died just like everybody else.
Steve Jobs dead, died just like everybody else. And where's
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all this wealth? Now? Somebody else has got it. And
when he stood before God, if he stood there without Jesus,
he was condemned and he didn't say, please don't see
me to Hell, I invented some really cool stuff. He
stood before the Great I am, and I hope he
had Jesus with him. If he didn't, that iPhone ain't
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gonna mean anything. So now twenty one for his eyes
are on the ways of a man, and he sees
all his steps, he sees everything. He's now moving into
God's punishment. He sees everything. He's not missing any point.
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I've been guilty of this. You've heard me mention this
many times. I'm gonna rep you on this one because
it's something that I need to deal with and we
all do. I will sing and I will praise that
God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient, and then at times
I live my life like he can't see me. You know,
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you have a bad moment, you know, I hope God
didn't see that. Well, I got news for you. He
absolutely knows, and this is what he's being reminded of.
Look job, I mean, if you may fool us, but
you're not gonna fool God. Right, we all know this
is gonna be one of those things when we stand
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before you know, we stand before God. There'll be no lawyers.
We'll have a Thank goodness, we do have an advocate
in Jesus. But God doesn't need the case presented to
you to me him. He's already seen it. Now, let
me tell you what happened, God goes, I was there.
I've known everything, you know, because then you think, you know,
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I had a version of the story that's much better
than what actually happened, you know, and God's going to say, no,
I saw exactly how it happened. And you know what,
I knew the intent of your heart. How many times, though,
are you comforted sometimes that God knows the intent of
your heart? Because I get misunderstood a lot of times
and then there's times where I wish he didn't know it,
but he does. But sometimes him knowing the intention of
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your heart is actually a comfort because the world may
misunderstand you, and he goes, I knew what you were
trying to do. I knew that you were you loved me.
I knew you were doing that for the right reason.
So that's always comforting too, because you may not be
able to plead your case to human beings, but God,
God knows the answer even when you're innocent, which I love,
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all right. So twenty two there is no gloom or
deep darkness. Well, evil doers may hide themselves. That's straightforward.
You don't need any commentary for that. He's just saying
he sees everything. He's not missing any point. Evil doers
have nowhere to hide. There is no cover. You're not
going to go down, you know, some alley and hide
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from God and do something awful. He's going to see
everything that people are doing. Nobody's going to get away
with anything. Twenty three. For God has no need to
consider a man further than he should go before God
in judgment, really no need for a trial. All men
are guilty compared to the holiness and perfection of God.
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That godless are guilty. But that's the point we have
to understand, is that if there was no Jesus and
there was no redemption Jesus, you've even seen in this chapter,
this very old book, most believe, the oldest book of
the Bible. They're looking for that advocate. They're looking for
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somebody to pay that rants. And why do you think
they are. Everybody's guilty. Everybody's guilty. If God stood there
and never ever offered redemption, everybody's doing nobody makes it so,
He says, so if you, if you reject his mercy
and you reject redemption, there is no way for you
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to stand before him and be innocent. So the godless
don't get away with it. Not in the end. It
may feel like they're getting away with it, they just don't.
Twenty four. He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets
others in their place. We see this all throughout scripture,
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don't we No matter? Right now? In this world the
most powerful people were set up by God, some for blessings,
some for protection, some for punishment. But he can set
them up and tear them down. As we've learned in
the scriptures. I love that comparison. It be like me
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sticking my finger in a glass of iced tea and
just move in the cubes around. That's how easy it
is for him to raise up a nation and destroy
a nation, raise up a leader, destroy a leader. He
does it all the time. And so what we're hearing
from this speech is powerful people. He investigates with no
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apology whatsoever, and rules on them just like he does
everybody twenty five, Thus knowing their works, he overturns them
in the night, and they are crushed. He need not
ask questions because he already knows the answers. And every
time he rules, he rules fully informed, fully informed. There's
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nothing that God goes now. I didn't know that. I've
sometimes been thinking something and finally new information shows up.
Look think about this, Think about how many times we've
even heard It's horrible that we've had one just recently
where somebody was completely exonerated for what they were accused
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of doing, but unfortunately the man had already killed himself. Now,
the former LSU football player, he kept being accused of
vehicular homicide, and new information came out. Somebody finally had
footage that he was over twenty feet behind that vehicle.
He knew it was innocent, and by the time everybody
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found out, he'd already killed himself. So sometimes, you know,
we as human beings go, you know what, we didn't
have that information. God's never in that position, has all
the information, so he rules perfectly. Twenty six. He strikes
them for their wickedness in a place for all to see.
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The godless may try to hide, but they will all
be punished, and they will be punished for all to
see in the final judgment twenty seven because they turned
aside from following him, had no regard for any of
his ways. The godless turn away from following the one
and only living God. They do not obey God, and
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they do not choose the wise way. This is back
to what all wisdom comes from, fear of God. If
you're out there and you've decided that God's ways are unreasonable,
God's ways are to be questioned, you're not quite sure
that he is right, then you have, as Jesus even
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talked about in Matthew seven, you've looked over here at
these two gates, and you said, I think I'm gonna
take this wide and easy one. Here we don't have
to deal with all God's commands, And I don't have
to give up my sin and repent, and I don't
have to leave faith in myself. I don't. I don't
have to. And you know what Jesus said in that
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one right there is so wide and so easy that
many are going that way. But that's the road to destruction.
He said, over here, we're entering a narrow gate. It's
God's way. And he said that's hard, he said, and
only if you ever find it? Why, because it's cost
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What does it cost us? It could it cost us
our life, maybe, what it cost us our job? Possibly?
Is it cost us family? Could cost you your friend maybe?
And that that's a little bit daunting. But most of
the time, the reason why we don't enter the narrow
gate is because it cost us our sin. Because that's
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going to be the cost to everybody. I've been guilty
of that most of my life before redemption. I knew
about the narrow gate. Do you know why I didn't
go to church for thirteen years? Because I knew what
they were gonna say. How was it ignorant to the gospel?
I wasn't ignorant to the teachings of God. I just
didn't want them. I didn't want to do things the
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way God wanted to do. I even knew what he expected,
and I didn't want it. So you think I'm gonna
go in there. I really don't understand people that go
to church when they're living a rebellious life. What a
miserable was it? How you get it? How are you
surviving there? I mean, it's like, how about it? I
didn't go there because I knew what they were gonna say,
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and I said it. Until I'm ready to hear it again,
I ain't going back. I already know what they're gonna preach.
And when I finally came under a conviction by going
just to try to get married by a pastor who
loved me enough to tell me the truth, the next
time I went back into church, I went back in
seeking God, which is a whole different way to go
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than I found him, because he said, if you'll seek me,
you'll find me. And I realized that his ways were
not burdensome, that his yoke was actually easy. It is
a yoke, though, which means he does God me, and
he does have parameters, and it is a narrow gate.
But the narrow gate, though it may be hard, it's
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better because it leads to life. So this is the
point that a lie who is making long before Jesus
was walking this earth twenty eight, so that they caused
the cry of the poor to come to him, and
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he heard the cry. They afflicted. They abuse people, They
mistreated the poor, they mistreated the sick. And you know what, God,
here's these prayers. He here's the cries of the mistreated.
Now the problem here is Job says he never did
those kind of things. I didn't mistreat the poor. I
didn't mistreat the sick. I did not abandon the widows.
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I remember him saying, men who were dying were comforted
to know I was there because they knew their family
be taken care of. But again, Ali, who is saying,
if you're not telling the truth about this God, here's it.
He knows the truth, and this must be I just
feel like now Joe's just like, okay, whatever, just roll on.
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And then twenty nine. When he is quiet, who can condemn?
When he hides his face, who can behold him? Whether
it be a nation or a man. God treats individuals
and nations alike. He judges them both correctly. And I
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know the lot of us think, because we're in the
us of a that somehow God's not judging us. But
he is and he will. And you know it's almost
like you go, well, God judges individuals, but he wasn't
judge nation. He'd been judging nations for a long time,
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and he loves his people enough to judge them harshly.
Sometimes it seems more harsh than those that reject him,
because he's calling us to something, even as a nation.
And may we not forget what was the whole issue
with Jesus crying over Jerusalem is he's crying over Jerusalem
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because he said, I came to you the Hebrew. First.
Your job was to take me to the rest of
the world. You were supposed to go preach the gospel.
Accept me, and now you be a light to the gentiles.
And you rejected me. And now all these horrible things
to this day are still going to come upon you
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until the day you know that you see me and
you weep over the fact that you crucified me. We
know one hundred and forty four thousand of them will
finally go to work in the tribulation and do what
they should have done the first time. And he says, so,
now what he pivots to the gentiles secondly, to take
the light of the Gospel to the world until the
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number of the gentiles come in. And if we the
gentiles decide we're going to reject it too, and we're
going to not do what we were told to do,
and we're going to take all this freedom and all
this wealth and all this ability to take the Gospel
anywhere we wanted to go and not do it. Well,
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then he's going to discipline us too, and has and will.
So he says he's been doing this. Apparently this has
been well known about God for a long time Verse thirty,
that a godless man should not reign, that he should
not ensnare the people now here this is problematic. He's
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wrong about this. He's claiming that God doesn't allow godless
men to rule. Is he not aware of how many
bad kings there had been? Is he not aware of
how many evil people, unjust judges, wicked kings, deceitful leaders.
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They've been around for a long time. So a lot
who's wrong on this one. God does allow godless people
to get into places of power. Usually it's a punishment.
Sometimes Cyrus he used pagans to be a blessing to
his people. He's done that too, So that's just bad
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theology on a lie. Who's part Now, if he wants
to say, whoever comes into power God allows for all
kinds of reasons, and that he he places them there,
he'd be right about that. But he's saying he only
places good people there. But that's just not true. And
I wonder, surely Ali who knows this? So it's one
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of these things. It's kind of like when Joe was
pointing out, have y'all not noticed that sometimes the wicked
do quite well? You know, I'm surely they had seen it,
So Ali who kind of he misses it? On verse
thirty thirty one, For has anyone said to God I
have born punishment? I will not offend anymore? This is
his challenge for job to repent verse one, the next
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thirty one, thirty two, and thirty three do this just
say that you're guilty. Has anyone said to God I
have born punishment, I will not offend anymore? And then
he says thirty two teach me what I do not see?
If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.
Why don't you just say to God that you're guilty?
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And then in thirty two he kind off, there's a
model prayer. Want you to say this, Teach me what
I don't see. If you don't see it, ask God
to show it to you, And he says, and if
I've done iniquity, I will do it no more. Won't
you just do that? And he doesn't get any response.
Then thirty three will he then make repayment to suit
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you because you reject it? Hey, you got to choose Job.
I can't I can't ask answer this for you. Just
say it. Just say to God if you don't see it,
ask him to show it to you. And when he
shows it to you, tell him you won't do it anymore.
Repent Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's
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not there. Ask God to clarify it. By the way,
Job has where has he been? Job has been asking this?
But you know what we get from Job here? No answer? Well,
now a lie who's not going to like that because
he doesn't get an answer, So now he's going to
them Job for not repenting. Thirty four to the end,
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Men of understanding, will say to me, and the wise
men who hears me will say, he starts out, he
turns to the three friends or anyone who would listen
to him to affirm the guilty verdict. Job, you are
arrogant toward God. We all wise men know the truth. Job.
We all know thirty five. Job speaks without knowledge. His
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words are without insight. Job isn't wise like us because
he can't see what we can clearly see. He doesn't
see it. We all see it plainly. Job does not.
Thirty six would that Job were tried to the end
because he answers like wicked men, he will continue to suffer.
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And I'll tell you why, because he's failed to repent.
This is just going to continue. Y'all heard me. I tried.
I tried. I've been through this before where I've had
people make horrible accusations about me and I've said the
same thing. But if I said it more like Calhoun
County and I will reach out to them and they
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won't talk to me. I will say, I'll answer the
question and they won't have the conversation. And the last
thing I use to email them and text them is
I tried. Now I'm done. I tried. You made accusations,
I told you I would answer them. You ask questions,
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I told y'all would answer them. Now let's have a conversation,
and they won't do it, and then you just turn
around say I tried. So that's kind of what a
li who is doing. I tried to get him to repent,
he wouldn't do it. We go to thirty seven, for
he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hand
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among us and multiplies his words against God. Job, apparently,
according to Elihu, has doubled down. He now multiplies his
words against God. And of course I don't know where
he's getting this because Job hasn't spoken quite a while.
But now, what what you kind of you kind of
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don't like with Allaihu right now is as we get
down to the end, he's becoming almost as confrontational and
cruel as the other three. And he claims that Job's
lack of response is just him doubling down. He's gonna
stick with his narrative. Now, you would think at this
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point that Elaihu would would give up, but he does it.
We're gonna we're gonna hear continue to hear from him
thirty five, thirty six, and thirty seven, So he's going
to continue on. And I know, if you ever been
in the situation when somebody's really wearing you out, it's
always wonderful when you go we've hit an ending point
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about four or five times here, and you're still going.
You've heard somebody saying, I just say I'm done with it. Now,
I got one more thing to say, and uh, okay,
that's that's the opposite of being done with it. So
this is a tough situation. But this this there's starting
to be some tension here because some of what Ali
who has said is true, but then there's parts where
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he seems to not be as informed as he thinks
he is. No one knows why Job is not interjecting
anything answering some of these questions. Uh. Some of the
commentaries say he's just so sick and so weak. He
just may be he just are are he? You know,
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have you ever got to the point where you just say,
I don't have anything else to add. I've made my case.
I've said it over and over again. Nobody's believing me.
Everybody continues on the same narrative, and you just say,
I don't have anything to add. I don't know. But
he does not answer again. We won't hear from Job
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again until he finally answers God when God comes on
the scene, which we're getting very close, very close once again.
As we study this, I think we got to keep
doing what we've been doing. Let's be Job in this situation.
Let's also be Allahu. Let's be both. But ultimately, let's
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cling to the things that we know to be true
about God when everything seems confusing, cling to the things
that we know about God, no matter how difficult it
may be, no matter how much you may think it's
your job to get to the bottom of something. God
will do the right thing, and what He does is
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always right, and we have to learn that it's not
just right, it's also beneficial. It's for our own good.
Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for
this ongoing study. I pray you be with all the
men here in the room. May your hand be upon them.
And I pray, Lord Jesus, that you be with those
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out there that are listening and watching this Bible study.
Be with them. Lord, draw them to you, let them
apply what they've heard about you today, even though a
lie who is flawed in some of it, his reminders
of who you are are worth our attention and application.
In your holy name, we pray Amen. Thank you, guys,
Host
Rick Burgess
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