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So let's open up a word of prayer and we'll
be in the Book of Job. We're getting toward the
end today is a highly anticipated study because we're going
to be in Job chapter thirty eight and this is
going to be God himself. So it's a biggie. So
let's open up in a word of prayer. Lord, bless
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our time and your word, may we hear as directly
from you today today as Job did when this actually
took place, and Your Holy name, we pray Amen. Well
that's where we are, aren't we. So I want to
just throw this out, but to get us started. You know,
I read this devotional just about every year because it
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just never fails to minister to me. And we have
devotions that we've done. I've written some, and I'm certainly
thankful I got the opportunity to do that, and God
use me with that. But I also know my place.
I still believe the best daily devotional, yearly devotional that's
every day of the year that I personally have ever
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read is my Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers.
It just it is as Holy Spirit inspired a piece
of work as I've ever read, and it will challenge
you and it does have some depth to it. So
I was reading getting ready, you know, as we've been
going through the Book of Job, and what God is
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trying to teach Job about suffering and is trying to
correct this false theology they had that God blesses the
righteous and he punishes the wicked. And God is making
sure that we find out for sure not so fast,
that that's actually not good theology. And this hit me
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from Oswald Chambers. It was back on November the first.
But listen to this when Oswald Chambers says on November first,
in his it was actually his wife put these together.
These are sermon notes from his sermon. If God can
accomplish his purpose, says in this world through a broken heart,
then why not thank him for breaking yours. So that
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just really hit me while we were studying, you know,
job and job, trying to figure out what's the purpose
of all this suffering. Maybe you've been there, maybe you've
had these same questions. A lot of you in here
might even remember this, because we've got some guys in
here that have got a little age on them with
there's a lot of gray hair here. Does anybody remember
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the nineteen fifty The next Voice You Hear? In nineteen
fifty it was this movie that came out and this
became a very popular phrase. And in the movie, God
is going to speak to the radio to the world.
And so you're in this movie, you're writing, listening to
the radio, and also you hear the next voice you
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hear will be God. And then in the movie God
begins to speak through the radio, to the world in
some movie in nineteen fifty the next voice you hear well,
Job has uttered words that darkened the light of God's
truth because he has said some things in his agony
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that are not true about God. We've had his friends
say things about God that are not true. And studying
chapter thirty eight, it has no ground and no legs.
But there was some commentary that thought that God's first
words might have been directed at Eliho, not at Job.
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What is this person? What ignorance is this person talking about?
It doesn't stand up because when we get to chapter
forty two, Job actually says, this is what you said
about me? So Job acknowledges that God was talking to him.
So that kind of kills the whole. The beginning of
it might be directed at Elihu, and the Bible says
it was that he answered Job. All of it is
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directed at Job, so that one doesn't really hold up
when Job finally confirms it for us in forty two.
So the Lord is going to subject Job to some
penetrating questions. Job has asked for audience with God and
he's getting it today, as will we. God's going to
talk to him, and where we're going to be today
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four through thirty eight. Of chapter thirty eight, you're going
to hear God's wisdom displayed in the created universe. So
we'll get that as we move on into thirty nine.
God's going to use his care in creation of the
animal Kingdom as part of his resume, and by the
time we get to forty and forty one, He's going
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to actually show job that I've actually restrained a lot
of evil, you know, and I don't think I think
sometimes we forget that, you know, when you think about
something that didn't happen for you, are we sometimes we
think of a life that was shortened by our standards,
And I wonder what we would say if, in our ignorance,
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God came to us and said, would you like for
me to show you what I kept that person from experiencing?
Would you like to see how much grace and mercy
I have actually been showing. So we'll get to that too,
toward the end of God's resume I've always enjoyed, and
we'll get there. And I won't spend much time on
that today because now we're gonna talk about today. We
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have a lot to cover, is uh. I do love
that job does try to say I got it before
God finishes, and God tells him that no, you're gonna
hear it all. So, so, hey, my bad. I shouldn't
have said what I said. And you'll see that it's
a very interesting part when Job finally speaks, but he's
about to just sit and be quiet right now for
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quite a while. So so Job, here's what God is
saying as we get started. Job, you claim that you
want to trial with me. Let's see, Let's see examine you.
This is what God is saying. Let's examine you, Job Rick.
Put your name here, and I want to see if
I think you're you're you, you are competent enough to
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stand trial. Let's see if you can answer some simple
questions and let me see if I think you're even
worthy of me taking the time to explain myself to you.
So I'm going to compare you to me. And uh
so uh here is his first introductory challenge in thirty eight,
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first couple of verses. Then the Lord answered Job, out
of the whirlwind, out of the whirlwind, from from the storm.
And remember the Hebrew word here that God is making
sure it's documented for us. It's it's not some genetic
it's some you know, genetic term for God. It's Yahweh, Lord,
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the Lord from the storm. The Lord Yahweh speaks, and
the first question is gonna kind of chasen uh and
mortify Job a little bit. Then there's gonna be a
challenge that I just tell you the world, you're not
gonna believe what God has the audacity to to say.
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For those of you out there that think that you
know better than God and you'd like to be God's
pr agent, he makes you pretty clear he's not looking
for one. So but he's going to actually challenge Job
to be manly. He's telling a man to be manly.
So we've got that coming up. How counter culture is
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that today? And then he's gonna ask him to take
an examination of the creation and administration of the universe,
and it's many untamed creatures. Then the Lord Yahweh answered
Job out of the whirlwind. He speaks not to his friends,
He's speaks to Job from a storm. The Hebrew word
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here is a mighty wind. Now, don't I mean we're
just barely in and we got a lot that's really deep. Okay,
anybody would like to know where this word also appeared
the storm that killed Job's children. It's exact same Hebrew word.
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So what you have here is the Hebrew word, this
mighty win. If you go back to the death of
Job's children, you'll see that storm. The word we're used
for storm. The Hebrew word is the same word. So
from this same type storm that killed his children. God
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has decided this is how he'll speak to him. You
think that's just random. No, everything God does is for
a reason. Nobody teaches like the Lord. We may not
like what he's teaching. No one teaches like the Lord.
Then look what he says next to Job. Who is
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this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now we've
already learned in the last couple of chapters the word
darkened here it means ignorance? Who who? Who has said
these ignorant things? Of course we all know that you
know you would you would? You can you see yourself
standing there like kind of getting your hand about halfway up.
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But that's me, Uh, that that's me. Your words lack knowledge.
So God establishes we're not even in. He said, I'm
going to show you that I'm in the storm. I'm
going to speak to you out of a storm, I'm
going to write, I'm already killing this theology by what
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I've decided to speak from. Well, God's not in that storm,
you know, He says, Oh, yes, I am, I absolutely am.
And then he says, the things that you've said, you
have said out of ignorance. Now do you realize how
quick he already has job in his place? How many
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things he's already said to job in two verses, but
he's not done. So then in three and here it
is dress for action like a man. I will question
you and you make it known to me. The first
line here this dress for action. Does anybody, if you've
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studied the word of God a lot, you heard gird
your loins? Okay, that's really what this word is. I
mean his phrase is gird your loins like a man,
meaning gather your flowing garment, tuck it in your belt
and order. Why did they do this? To go to work,
to go to war? They did this? What so this
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flowing garment would not be cumbersome to whatever they had
to do. Isn't it interesting that the great I Am,
the one and only living God yahweh says to this
human man. The conversation we're about to have. I'd get
myself ready for a battle. I'd get myself ready to
go to work. Gird your loins. And he actually says
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to a male, act like a man. Don't realize that
if you say that now, the world just loses their mind.
And you know what God is saying here too. I'm
not speaking to a woman. Men and women are equal,
but they're beautifully distinct. And I don't want to speak
to you like I would a woman. I'm going to
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speak to you like a man, So I would advise
you to get ready to act like one, be manly.
That's what this is going to require. That's pretty important
not to miss that none of this is random, and
we need to stop apologizing for things that God never
asked us to apologize about. That's the reason why we
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at the Manchurch dot Com at times are deemed really unpopular,
because we have the audacity to actually speak the truth
and say, you cannot reach and disciple men, you cannot
get what God's calling men to. If you contended to
continue to use a strategy or an approach that would
be more appropriate for women and children, it doesn't work,
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and we and will act like it. You know. I
had someone say to me talking about the headship and
where what I thought God meant by that? And I said, what,
it doesn't mean inequality. He's talking about order. There's there's
a headship. And the person said to me, so you're
telling me a man won't follow a woman. I said no,
I said, he'll appease a woman, but he won't follow her.
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Sometimes sometimes you misconstrue men appeasing women as men following women.
They are not. They're just appeasing them. And because because
they're not designed to my wife, who is one of
the most powerful women that I have ever known. I mean,
there are people right now doing work at our house
that are terrified of her. Okay, and uh, and they're
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hoping I'll come home soon. You know what I mean.
But but but but what but what I'm saying, that's
not even exaggeration. But what I'm saying is my wife
said this, who is not some wallflower? Okay. She said
she saw it in the males of the family. She said,
I noticed in the male children that they heard my
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voice loud and clear until puberty, she said. A puberty,
I noticed that I would say something and they weren't
disrespecting me. It's like they just didn't hear it. They
wouldn't respond to me. You would say it, and they
would immediately turn around and respond. She said, that's when
I knew that's where it is. That's where that transition
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of a male goes from being attached to the maternal
of his mother and then he leaves to the authority
of his dad. And when we take that out of
the homes, that causes so much confusion. Because that's not
to discredit the work of incredible mothers. It is just
saying that they have a deficit when that headship isn't there,
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especially dealing with males. How many have you ever seen
in a family where they were sorry men that the
women seem to do okay, but all the boys just
said terrible. It's like women find a way to overcome
it because they can find it in a husband or
they can find it. But but if boys don't have it,
it's like they just squat. They just seem to flounder
because a wife doesn't replace that. A husband can for
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a woman, but a wife can't replace that for a man,
and they kind of flounder around. And not that it
can't be overcome, but it is something to overcome. So
so here he's saying, this conversation is between a male,
So I want you to die like one, and I
would gird my loins. And I'm going to ask you
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if you think you can answer these things for me.
So there it is. God already is being counterculture, and
he's really upset a lot of people. And how would
you like to hear that you have been whining and
complaining about God and you've been questioning God? Can you imagine?
I want you to put yourself there now? Can you
imagine the great I am saying, Rick, I think I'll
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question you now. I can't even I mean scare me.
I mean I just got chills thinking about it. I mean,
he's not the big man upstairs. How many times have
we talked about this. He's the beginning in the end.
And why do we call him the big man upstairs?
So that we can fear him less and make him
easier to sin against. That's why we come up with
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these garbage analogies of the one and only living God,
so we it makes us feel less guilty about sinning.
We're less terrified of our sin. If I just kind
of didn't act right for the big man upstairs this
week as opposed to I blasphemed Holy, Holy, Holy, the
beginning in the end. And by the way, you will
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not see a version of God here. I've been working
through this. There's a version of God that's getting presented
a lot of times in the Western Church. I don't
see him on his own resume. It's a God that's
unrecognizable in this resume. You know, we sometimes we'll say
things about God that make us feel more comfortable, but
they can't really be supported biblically. And so let's let's
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hear from God. So the first question he's gonna throw
out at job, and God gets there pretty quick. He
starts with the very basic I just I just want
you to think about it. I looked at some of
the commentaries on people trying to just in. It's all
theories what the voice of God would sound like. I mean,
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I know that you know that that when when he
when he spoke about his son in front of everybody
in the Gospel of John, they thought it was a storm.
Remember that, And Jesus said, he said that for y'all's benefit,
because I didn't need to hear it. You know, since
I am God, I am his son. Some people are
thinking it could be musical, it could be impressive, and
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I love this was probably my favorite shot at it
with the limitations of language. Wonderfully scary. I like that one.
Wonderfully scary. It's like it's comforting, well at the same time,
it's terrified you. And so he starts out with verse four,
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where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me if you have understanding. So Joe did not
exist when he laid down the foundation of the earth.
No one did. Adam and Eve didn't exist. So this
first question was impossible to answer since I wasn't around
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when this happened, which is God's point. I have always
been remember that, you know, I was before anything, and
I don't think you were, Job. I think we can
document the day you were born. You'll never find when
I was born because I've always been does is everybody's mind? Okay,
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I have always been I'm the beginning of everything. Well,
everything must have a beginning, that's right, that's me and Job.
I don't recall you being there when I laid down
the foundation of the earth. So then he goes into five,
who determine who determined its measurements? Surely you know job,
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I mean, you've really been rattling on. Are who stretched
the line upon it? Now, if you have your Bible
Isaiah forty forty two Isaiah forty forty two kind of
gives us this indication about God. You'll see that a
lot of this stuff inspired by the prophets is from God,
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because you you hear things like this Isaiah forty uh.
And then getting into twelve, look at this who has
measured the waters and the hollow of his hand, and
marked off the heavens with a span, and closed the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the
mountains and scales and the hills and a balance. I
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think Isaiah probably did hear from God, since God said,
that's that's what I'm gonna say about myself. And and
he said, the Lord God did this, and I did
this on my own. I didn't need your help. Six
are are what were it's it's bases and and and
what were its bases sunk? Or or who laid its cornerstone? Now?
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These are these are things about a builder, a master builder.
Footings in cornerstone. Some of y'all do this for a living.
You you're you're familiar with these terms. Uh, it's these
are the most fundamental and essential parts of a building. Uh.
It's an analogy of you know, like I'm master builder.
You might have you know, built an impressive uh you
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know shed, or you might have built a building of
some kind. Oh, by the way, if you want to know,
comparing you as a builder to me, I built the earth. Okay,
I built the universe, So your your building is impressive.
But I don't know that. As a master builder, I
take pointers from you, since I built the earth and
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laid the foundation of it all so so, God says,
but I'm not done. That's not all I did. When
when the morning stars sang together and all the sons
of God shouted for joy? Now, now, job, were you
there when I was hanging the planets? Uh? When I
arranged the morning stars of word? Also for Venus? You
know when when I arranged these planets. Oh, by the way,
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when all my angels, do you have any angels? Job
you got, I've got I've got angels singing as i'm
as I'm hanging this and I'm creating that. Job. I
don't recall seeing you there, says there were no humans yet,
it was just me and my angels. I don't remember
you being in the audience. Of course, at this point,
Job's already done. But then he says, I want to
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talk to you about the sea a little bit. This
is the next time. Here's another thing I did the sea.
You're familiar with the sea, aren't you. Job. Let me
ask you this, are who shut in the sea with
doors when it burst out of the womb? How many
of you like to go to the beach? Okay, I
don't like to be out there in the middle of
the day, but I likes going to be I'd rather
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go in the fall. But anyway, so you've seen that
that there seems to be some boundaries that have been
set up for all this water. And so God said,
by the way, that was me. See, when it first happened,
the sea would have overwhelmed everything. It would have overwhelmed,
and at one time it did. So what I did
is I took the sea, and I started laying out
some boundaries for it. And as it was bursting forth,
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as I was creating it, I held it and I
controlled it as it was bursting from my creation. So
my power was so strong it just burst upon creation.
And I was able not only to cause it to
burst upon creation, I was able to grab it and
control it. Can you do that, Joe? And then he continues,
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when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness, its
swaddling band. The sea's like a newborn child conceived behind doors.
Its power is like the baby clothed in clouds. But
you know what, to you, the sea would be overwhelming
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and destructive. To me, I can hold it just like
a little baby. I can swallow it in the clouds
because you know why, Job, Because as impressive as the
sea he may be, my hand is a hand of
dominion over all of creation. How about yours? Job? I
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have you ever wondered what's everybody doing right now? I mean,
because he's focusing on job, I think if I'm the
other friends, I'm wondering off. Are y'all trying to slip off?
I'm like, well, this is Joe's problem, it ain't my problem,
and I don't. But we know that they're there because
they do get addressed at one point. So then God
goes on and he says intend and prescribed limits for it,
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and set bars and doors I saw the sea, job
I clothed it with clouds. I held it like a baby.
I controlled it with my hand of dominions. And then
I set its boundaries. I set its limits. I determined
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what it could and couldn't do. Now, why is this
also important? You're going, well, he's just impressing Joe with
his creation. Yes, but what else? If I want it
to be destructive, it'll be destructive too. If I want
it to be calm, it'll be calm. So when it's
destructive and it's calm, that's me. So he's taking that
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theology and he's chipping it away. That the health, wealth,
and prosperity gospel has died so many times, how it
is still alive. I guess the only reason why it's
still alive is because Satan is still is not put
up for good yet. Eleven, that's an email coming today
and said, thus far shall you come, and no farther?
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And here shall your proud waves be stayed? Interesting here
God begins to quote himself. If I want to quote something,
right now, if I got to quote myself, let me
tell you what I say. This is what I say
to the sea. I tell it where to stay I
set up the beach, I set up the shore. I
look at this raging water and say, and that's enough,
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stop right there, and it does. Can you do that job?
Any of y'all ever got been able to make a
wave stop? Have you ever gone down to the beach
and said, oh, it's kind of rough to die. I
wish it was calm? Or are you able to comment?
I've had no luck with that. I prayed that maybe
you'd be calm the next day to the source that
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could comment. But have you ever gone down there and go, wow,
this is really kind of rough, this is kind of scary.
I wish it would lay down. Well, God says, if
I wanted to lay down, I can, And if I
don't want it to go any further than that beach
right there, it won't. I control. I told it what
to do. And people don't just listen. Animals don't just listen.
Creation listens to me. Wow, Wow, have you commanded the
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morning since your days began? And caused the dawn? The
dawn to know its place? Now he's going to talk
about the Earth's administration? You ever say that. I've always
been like this, And even in our Sunday school class,
as a lot of you know that are in Sunsoo class.
I'm a teacher, but Sherry is the administrator. I've had
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people tell me before, we don't have a problem with
you teaching, which I'm thankful that's nice, but we really
rather you not administrate. It's not my gift. But can
you imagine that you are the administrator of the earth
in the universe, I administrate all this. And he said, job,
do you do you tell the sun when to come up?
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Do you tell dawn this is this is where you belong?
And Job, of course, was like, no, I don't command
the sun to do anything. I don't command it to
rise that it might take hold of the skirts of
the earth and the wicked be shaken out of an
interesting comment here, light, he says, remember, causes the wicked
to scurry to find shelter from the light. But how
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would you like job to be? Like me? If I
want wicked to scurry, I want to see the cockroaches
run around, I just declare there's light, and there it is.
I can illuminate wickedness. Can you do that? Can you
bring light on top of the When people say I
wish it would stay dark, I decide whether it does
or not. We wish that God would change us to daylight,
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savings time and just leave it. He could, Apparently our
government can't. I'm digging sunset at four forty five, how
about y'all? So anyway, we're too far east for this,
he says. Now, when he's talking about the skirts of
the earth, he's talking about as you look out over
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horizon and a sunrise. Last week we talked about that
a lot, about how you never get tired of seeing it,
he says. You know, when it looks like that the
sun's going up and there's a skirt on the horizon
of clouds or colors, that's me. I do all that.
I lay all that out, and the wicked are scurrying
because I'm bringing a new day. I'm bringing it all
to light. Fourteen. It is changed like clay under the seal,
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and its features stand out like garment. See light causes
also what for us to see the colors and the
shapes of the earth. When I bring this light, I
illumine that you can see my creation. When it's dark,
you can't tell where the clay is, you can't tell
what the terrain looks. Light the topography. You can't see
any of that, he said. But when I bring that
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light every day, you see what I've done. You can
see the artistry of everything that I've created. True right.
And then he gets into fifteen from the Wicked. Their
light is withheld and their uplifted arm is broken. Now
what does this mean, Well, he's back to the wicked.
He went back to them again, and he says, the
wicked will be incarcerated by the light. The Light's going
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to incarcerate the wicked, and I will then plunge them
into darkness or I will put them to death. This
upraised arm, this was always a symbol, like a clenched fist.
It's like an as symbol of arrogance, of defiance. You know,
I raised my hand against God. I will not do
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what he says. This he's saying, when the wicked give
me this arm of defiance, I just break it. They
won't stand against me. It looks like you've had kind
of a hard time with the wicked. Job they can't
stand against me. So again he's giving his resume, and
one of the things that he includes is the wicked
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are going to be broken by me. Then he goes
into the underworld in sixteen through eighteen? Have you entered
Job into the springs of the sea? Are walked in
the recesses of the deep? Now keep in mind, at
the time that Job is hearing this, we've never had
a submarine that can go down in these areas. Now
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we saw all these weird animals, and at this time
he's asking Job, now, can you go beyond what you
can see? Can can you go get into see and
go any further than what oxygen you would have? Have
you gone into the recesses of the deep? Have you
gone down beyond that? Have you left what you can see?
Are you pretty much limited to this? Because believe it
or not, there's other realms and other things that I
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can see. I go there as easy as I've come here.
Can you do that? Joe? And of course we know
the answer to that. Can you? I guess you could
take this question and kind of simplified and say, can
you see beyond what you can see? We're limited by that,
aren't we? Seventeen? Have the gates of death been revealed
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to you? Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Can you see the spiritual realm? Joe? Because because I
can when life and death, I can see both other dominions.
I see them. Can you see them like the things
that you see right now? Can you look to me
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seeing this and seeing demons, seeing angels, seeing hell, seeing heaven,
seeing life coming into the world and death, people going
out of the world. I see all that at the
same time. None of it's hidden from me. Can you
see all this? You realize that you're arguing way out
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of your leg right now. And because God is saying
one thing, can you ever said this before? And I've
heard this statement, and it's a good one, and it
could sum all this up. We could just shut down
and say, let's go have lunch. The more I learned
about God, the more I realize I am not God. Right,
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He is God and I am not. And this is
the point that God is ultimately making. But I like
hearing what he says about himself. He says, have you
comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare if you know this?
I love how he stops and he gives job. So
if you do know this, interrupt me, declare what you
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know about all this? Of course we don't hear anything
from Job, he says. I understand you say you have.
You're seeing it all at once. I see the full
expanse of the earth. Job, I see the full expanse
of all of it. Job. Honestly, this is the part here.
If you know that the nature of the time period,
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don't miss this. Job was wealthy, he's he's well known,
he's in leadership. He might he might have the ability
to travel one hundred miles maybe, And that's a maybe.
And you know what God's played right now? What have
you seen, Joe? You might have got one hundred miles
from here. Do you realize how much more of the
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earth there is that you've never seen? I've seen it all, Job,
You've seen very little of it. And there's an expanse
out there. Next he gets into you know the light
and the darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
Declare if you know it? Then he gets in where
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is the way to the dwelling of the light? And
where is the place of darkness? Light and darkness? Where
are they? Job? How are they created? Do you know that?
Do you know where light comes from? Do you know
why it gets dark? Job? Do you understand all this
light and darkness? You ever been there? You ever been
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to where it comes from its origin? See I have
because I created it? Have you have you been to
where you know? So? Where heaven is? And then have
you've been to the place of death? Where hell is?
Have you have you seen these two? Job? Because I'm
here with you, but I've seen all this? Can you
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find these places? Job? If I told you right now
to go find them? Could you find heaven in hell? Well?
I can't. Twenty one? Oh, that's just twenty about what
can you find them? That you may take it to
its territory, that you may discern the past, to its home?
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Where are they? Can you find them? Job? Twenty one?
You know for you were born then, and the number
of your days are great. A little sense of humor
hear from God. So they think that job may have
been around seventy the speculation around seventy years old probably,
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And you know what he's saying round here? You pretty old,
aren't you? You've really lived a long time. Seventy years? Wow? Wow, Job,
you got any idea how long I've been here? I
have always been. Your seventy years might be impressive to
this young Alaihu. It's not impressive to me, seventy years
to me is nothing. I'm from the beginning Job I
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have always been. Pardon me if I'm not impressed with
your seventy years since you were born. Even if he
was one hundred, it would be silly. Next, we go
back to the storm. Have you noticed how many times
we get storm analogies here in these latter chapters that
we've been studying Verse twenty two. Have you entered the
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storehouse of the snow or have you seen storehouses of
the hell? If I wanted to snow, Job, I just
simply to go to my storehouse using this analogy, and
I make it snow. If I want Hell to come down,
I'll just simply go to my supply and I'll drop Hell.
Do you have storehouses? Job, This's got snow and hell
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in it. If you need them, you can go get them.
And of course the answer is no. Twenty three, which
I have reserved for the time of trouble. Hang on
to that for the day of battle and war. Well,
now we're starting to think about the Bible, aren't we.
Exodus twenty two through twenty six tells us that Hell
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was involved in the Seventh plague to free the people
from Pharaoh. We know that he also is documented in
Joshua ten to eleven is throwing large helstones at the Amorites.
We also know because we've studied the revelation. In this
very study and Revelation sixteen twenty one, we see one
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hundred pound stones falling from heaven. So it's interesting that
God says, not only are these things part of weather,
but also having stored away for the time of trouble
and for the day of battle and war, I may
use them as weapons against the people. So I'm gonna
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say that again, I may use them as weapons against
the people. Okay, So when bad things come from weather
and that's not the devil, apparently God says he controls
all this. And you say, well, well, I just don't
like to think of God, you know, dropping hell down
on me or dropping storms down on me. Okay, Well,
then I have to hit you with something that comes
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out of Calhoun County. Do you believe that God can
stop it from hitting you? Well, if he can stop it,
but then he allows it and even causes it. Right now,
he doesn't know it's an apology for that, because whatever
he does, he does it, he does it for right,
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But sometimes I think we need to stop being squeamish
about the truths about God because to me, when that happens,
and I've been guilty of it, so I'm not talking
down to you when that happens, this is God refining me.
So I'm learning with you when that happens. I think
we have to be careful that you can open up
just you can open a tiny door to the adversary,
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your sin nature the demons to say, well, why don't
we take that faith. Let's see if we can't weaken
it a little bit. Saving faith is that we are
completely enamored with God's way and God's will, not ours.
We accept God the way he is and we do
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not include our preferences. So we got to be careful
with that when you really get there. Like we started
off with Oswald Chambers, I don't like what I'm going
through right now, but I'm thankful for it because I
know you're doing something in this. So teach me what
you're teaching. May you be glorified by it. So then
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he goes on and says that he does using twenty
four what is the way to the place where the
light is distributed? Or are where the east wind is
scattered upon the earth. God, you know, I'd like to
ask you this job. Do you know how lightning is dispersed?
Or do you know how when the east wind when it? Oh?
You got any idea how that happens? Of course, Job
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doesn't know that. Who has a cleft or a channel
for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt?
See Job? Not only do I create the rain, not
only do I create the lightning. I even set up
canyons so the water has a place to flow, things
that fill up. You know, I've got that set up.
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Do you know where lightning is going to strike? Job?
When when the lightning starts striking, you got any idea
where it's going to hit? I do? I determine where
it's going and where it's not going. So, first of all,
can you create lightning? And if you could, could you
control where it hits and where it does it? Twenty
six to bring rain on a land where no man is,
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on the desert in which there is no man, Let
me tell you something, Job, I decide when and where
rain falls. If a place is really really dry, they
don't have to human being there. I'll bring rain just
to make that place moist, because I think it's good
for the animals that live there, are good for whatever
is there. You know, if a place is wet and
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it needs to be dry, I'll dry it out. If
a place is dried it needs to be wet, then
you know, I'll also I'll give whatever needs to do.
This is happening everywhere, Joe, not just where people can
document it. You realize I'm in control of the weather
and the climate and everything that's happening everywhere, all the time.
Every time we move on to verse twenty seven, to
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satisfy the waste and desert land and to make the
ground sprout with grass. You know he's been talking about
in verse twenty four, I'm the origin of the storm.
Twenty five, I'm in charge of the route of the storm.
Twenty six I am in charge of the storm itself,
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so origin route itself. And in twenty seven, I'm also
responsible for the effects of the storm. I send rain
and it changes the situation. Just when you thought nothing
will grow, I'll send the rain and I will start
causing things to sprout. If you ever have ever looked
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at the pictures of Israel compared to all the countries
around them, you ever sending of those shots. Israel just green,
flowing with irrigation, flowing with fruitfulness, and just across the border,
dead dry nothing. Their enemies have nothing growing, Israel flowing green,
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all in the same place. It's almost like God's with them.
So so anyway, and you know they have offered to
help other countries and to help them do the same thing.
And of course all it's and is just their enemies
use it as a way to attack them and turn
it down every time. So anyway, so he says, so
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he's talking about that, and then he says in twenty
eight has the rain of father? Or who has begotten
the drops of dew? I'm the author of the rain?
Job are you? Are you? Are you the father of
the rain? Are you the author of all creation? Then
he uses a female analogy in twenty nine, from those
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whose womb did the ice come forth? And who has
given birth to the frost of heaven. He's saying, here,
I'm the source of ice, I'm the source of frost.
I'm the father of all creation. I create or birth
these other weather phenomenon. They'll get thirty the waters become
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hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
If I want to freeze a lake, if I want
to freeze a body of water, when you see one frozen,
you think of me? Should I should? Should they think
of you? Job? Did you? Did you freeze the lake
for everybody? Did you bring the ice when when it
was time for ice? Because see, I do I do
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all that? Then he gets into the stars and in
thirty one through thirty three, can you bind the chains
of eight ple eightes? Or loose the cords of Orion?
Can you do this Orion? Did you do this for Oryan?
Did you do this for ple eightes? These are, of
course what constellations and the stars, and he's saying, did
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you do this? He said, I have controlled all things
that are terrestrial, but I also control all things that
are celestial. The celestial is under my control just like
the terrestrial. So I'm controlling both of these stars, creation,
all these things y'all been saying that are up here,
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and you start making these pictures that you've got. Apparently
they were aware of these constellations because he uses them.
And when you see these constellations, have you ever thought
for you to see the constellation and call it what
you call it, that those stars all had to be
right where they are. Who do you think did that?
Who set up these constellations for you to look at?
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Of course that's me. I control even the arrangement of
the stars. Now this one gets there's a lot of
commentary about Mazareth. What is this? It doesn't really seem
to refer to anything specific. Can you lead forth the
Mazareth in their season? Or can you guide the bear
with its children? Now the bear and its children, we
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know is another constellation. But they're thinking this Mazareth word
here that's been used in English. It really is just
saying that God controls the entire zodiac, all of it.
You know, more examples of constellations, but this is a
word for all the different constellations, the big for it
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as a mass. The bottom line is more examples of
Him controlling how the stars are aligned and where they
are in the order in which they are. In thirty three,
do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you
establish their rule on earth? Again? Write this down. We
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won't turn to it because we're running out of time.
Isaiah fifty five to nine. Write that down. Isaiah fifty
five nine. Isaiah says, God administrates it all. It's under
divine or heavenly jurisdiction. He sets up where everything is
or isn't. He is the one who makes the jurisdictions
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in the heavens, not only on earth. He establishes how
it works both above us, the earth that we're on,
and below us. Now he's gonna talk about clouds. Can
you lift up your voice to the clouds that a
flood of waters may cover you? Can you call down rain? Job?
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I heard your little voice a minute ago complaining about me.
Is your voice so strong and so powerful that if
we used your voice and you shouted at that cloud,
could you get rain out of it? Have you got
that kind of voice? Job? Because at my voice, I'll
make that cloud start raining. Can you command that? Job?
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Thirty five? Can you send forth the lightnings that they
may go and say to you, here we are. So
do you tell the lightning not only have I created you,
I want to tell you where to go? And then
the lightning look back at you in obedience and say,
you told us where to go, So we struck just
where you told us to strike. Are they going to
answer to you? Job? They go here? We are Job,
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thank you for directing us. You know, honestly, when you
think about this, God seems to be having some fun
at this point, talking about that who has put wisdom
in the inward parts or are giving understanding to the mind. Now,
this seems to fall into a place where it doesn't
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seem like it belongs. But God said it, so it
belongs here. So I got into some of the commentary
about this this. I don't he's not talking about human
beings here. It's odd that it's in the middle of
clouds and weathers and all this speech that Job's getting
about creation. Many believe that what he's saying right here
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because he's about to get into animals. We're getting close
to animals. This is this is how animals seem to
understand weather patterns. Have you ever notice that if you
ever know that the animals seem to know when weather's
coming before you do. And he's saying that that, who
do you think has put that kind of wisdom in
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the inward parts or are given an understanding to the
mind of even animals that they seem to understand weather
too and have some sort of instincts. These instincts that
animals have this instinctive reasoning, this instinctive response. It looks
like they seem to be pretty wise to the weather
and the way the worth, the way the earth works.
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Who do you think gave them that? That came from me?
Thirty seven? Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or
who can tilt the water skins of the heaven? Of
the heavens? You know? Let me ask you this job,
I regulate the weather. This is regulation of the weather
he's talking about. Do you know the number of the
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clouds that are in the sky? Because I do? Can
you imagine? So? Can you just declare that the windows
of heaven open up? And when it opens up, it's
like tilting water scans, Like you pour out something out
of a water scan. It's like I take the heavens.
That would be no more complicated for me to bring
rain down on the earth, and it would be for
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you to take a water skin turned over and pour
the content out. I can take the contents of heaven
and I can pour those out. I regulate all weather.
Thirty eight. When the dust runs into a mass and
the clods stick fast together, he's so about dry soil.
After he's brought the water out. He said, the soil's
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grateful for the moisture. It softens the earth, and it's
getting ready now for sowing and plowing. So, Job, if
people are praying about their crops and it seems like
we're in a bit of a drought here and they
need some rain to come down to soften the land
so they can sow and plow, should they contact you
about that? Would you be able to take the heavens
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and turn the water out and put it on the
dry soil for them? Because when they ask me, and
it's my will, I'm able to do it. The only
reason why it's not there now is because I've decided
not to do it. But if I decide to do it,
I can bring it down. I can soften the dirt
if the dirts dry. Job. Should they see you about that?
And of course we all know what the answer is
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to that, and so does Job. By the way, thirty
nine we shift to animals. Joe, can you hunt the
prey for the lion or satisfy the appetite of the
young lions? Now? Lions hunt? We know that, but you
know what he's even throwing out here. Listen to the
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detail because you think why would this make the resume.
He's trying to give Job some kind of comprehension. He goes, Job,
it's one thing to create a lion that's big. It's
another thing to give it the ability to hunt. But
it's also quite another to provide the very thing it hunts.
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So if the lion can have all the skill to hunt,
it won'ts do. But where's the prey? We'll see? I
provide that to I provide both. And can you satisfy
the appetite of these young lions when the mother is
out looking for something for them to eat, I'll provide
that for them. Because would you like to provide that
for them? Should they they come to secrets of I
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was somebody, I'd say, no, I by end up being
what they eat. You know. That's how they come to
me looking for prey, and I'd say I don't have anything.
They say, well, how about you? So then he says,
when they when they crouch in their dens or lie
in wait in their thicket, they're lying in wait to attack.
They're prowling for victims. Job, who do you think taught
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them how to do that? Who do you think put
that instinct in them? Because I didn't just provide the lion,
and I didn't just provide the prey, and I didn't
just provide the skill and the strength also gave them
the instinct to do it. Have you ever watched a
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lion or predator. It's a lot of skill and he
goes The skill came from me. I cause it to
walk so quietly, to crouch, to get down in the
den or hide in the thicket. The reason why they
don't just run out there in the open screaming and
never kill anything is because I taught them not to
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do that. I taught them how to be good at
what they do. That all comes for me. Do you
ever think about that? It's one of the things that
I enjoy about hunting a lot, especially as I've gotten older.
There was a time I just went to hunt because
I was like, I'm shooting everything. But as I've gotten
older and I've had some good experiences. One of the things,
and I've had people ask me before, and you know,
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sometimes even Sherry's like, I like the outdoors too, but
you could just hang around the farm. Why do you go?
So you're telling me you go out into the wilderness
and you didn't have any luck at all harvesting anything,
and you enjoyed it, And I say, oh yeah, I say,
because I like watching the way it all works. I
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love watching how that deer. How first of all, to
watch a mama come out into an opening area and
get that nose up and she starts pulling that air.
And buddy, if you are on the wrong side of
the wind, are you haven't got your scent covered, which,
by the way, I think that's impossible. It's all about
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the wind. So I know they sell you a lot
of stuff thinking you can't be smelled it's the wind.
So uh So, anyway, so if the wind's wrong, even
if you're sitting there and it's right and that wind shifts,
she's like, I don't see you, but you're here. And
how many times have you seen her look out? And
she'll look left, she'll look right, pull that air and
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see her look back, and then little ones come running out.
She's like, it's all clear. And then and then they'll
go to eating and she just keeps looking in those ears,
going that nose. It's amazing. What an incredible creature, you know,
And and then of course, you know, if you're out
there watching young bucks there's nothing better for that. The
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young boats to go and a look back in the woods.
You say, now here comes the guy, because those young
bucks are like, well, time for us to move on.
Here comes here comes the bigger one. All that's fascinating
to watch squirrels and how incredible they are, and the
birds and you know, and this rabbit, what are you
even doing here? And so to watch it all work
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is fascinating. And God said, all these things. And the
part that I've learned on this lesson, I'm not just
doing some of it. Let your mind go and understand,
I'm doing every bit of it. I've created the prey.
I've created the predator. I've created the instinct. I've created
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the protection, the skill, the strength, the speed, the eyesight,
the ability to smell. And for some reason, he gives us,
as human beings, a chance. If a turkey could smell
like a deer and a deer could see like a turkey,
ever kill their the one of them. But he gave
the turkey the eyes sight and gave the deer of
the smell. He's like, I'll give you all chance. So
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there you go. So the final one, forty one who
provides for the raven. The raven's getting in here, it's pray.
When it's young ones cry to God for help and
wonder about the lack of food. Now, see, this is
Jesus here a little bit. You remember when he's talking
to us about not being anxious, not being not worrying
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about how we're going to eat. Now he's going with
a raven. Jesus is talking about just birds and sparrows.
And you know, he says, not even a sparrow falls
without my father knowing it. Aren't you worth more than
many sparrows? He goes, The birds don't worry about how
they eat. They're not worried about it. He goes, So, job,
if I've got a raven and it's looking for some prey,
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can can you first of all, can you make a raven?
And then can you give it its prey? What about
when it's searching for food for all, it's young ones
and they're eyeing out to their creator for help. We
need something to eat, We need something to eat. This
is an animal that knows that the Creator is the
one that's going to provide and they're wondering where the
food is, and they're crying out to the Creator should
I just send them to you, Joe, so you can
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feed them, So God says to Job as we close
for this week. They cried to me, Joe, because if
they cried to you, they'd starve. They cried to me,
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and maybe you should too. Let's pray, Lord, thank you
for today. Thank you for this incredible word. Lord. We
are in all of you right now, maybe in all
of you more right now than we were before we
came in here and said down. I'm just inspired. I'm
inspired to worship. You are great, you are wonderful. You
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are the beginning, You are the end. You are the
source of all things. And I beg for forgiveness for
how much I make of myself and how little sometimes
I make of you. Thank you for the correction today.
In your name, we pray Amen.
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So let's open up a word of prayer and we'll
be in the Book of Job. We're getting toward the
end today is a highly anticipated study because we're going
to be in Job chapter thirty eight and this is
going to be God himself. So it's a biggie. So
let's open up in a word of prayer. Lord, bless
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our time and your word, may we hear as directly
from you today today as Job did when this actually
took place, and Your Holy name, we pray Amen. Well
that's where we are, aren't we. So I want to
just throw this out, but to get us started. You know,
I read this devotional just about every year because it
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just never fails to minister to me. And we have
devotions that we've done. I've written some, and I'm certainly
thankful I got the opportunity to do that, and God
use me with that. But I also know my place.
I still believe the best daily devotional, yearly devotional that's
every day of the year that I personally have ever
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read is my Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers.
It just it is as Holy Spirit inspired a piece
of work as I've ever read, and it will challenge
you and it does have some depth to it. So
I was reading getting ready, you know, as we've been
going through the Book of Job, and what God is
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trying to teach Job about suffering and is trying to
correct this false theology they had that God blesses the
righteous and he punishes the wicked. And God is making
sure that we find out for sure not so fast,
that that's actually not good theology. And this hit me
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from Oswald Chambers. It was back on November the first.
But listen to this when Oswald Chambers says on November first,
in his it was actually his wife put these together.
These are sermon notes from his sermon. If God can
accomplish his purpose, says in this world through a broken heart,
then why not thank him for breaking yours. So that
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just really hit me while we were studying, you know,
job and job, trying to figure out what's the purpose
of all this suffering. Maybe you've been there, maybe you've
had these same questions. A lot of you in here
might even remember this, because we've got some guys in
here that have got a little age on them with
there's a lot of gray hair here. Does anybody remember
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the nineteen fifty The next Voice You Hear? In nineteen
fifty it was this movie that came out and this
became a very popular phrase. And in the movie, God
is going to speak to the radio to the world.
And so you're in this movie, you're writing, listening to
the radio, and also you hear the next voice you
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hear will be God. And then in the movie God
begins to speak through the radio, to the world in
some movie in nineteen fifty the next voice you hear well,
Job has uttered words that darkened the light of God's
truth because he has said some things in his agony
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that are not true about God. We've had his friends
say things about God that are not true. And studying
chapter thirty eight, it has no ground and no legs.
But there was some commentary that thought that God's first
words might have been directed at Eliho, not at Job.
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What is this person? What ignorance is this person talking about?
It doesn't stand up because when we get to chapter
forty two, Job actually says, this is what you said
about me? So Job acknowledges that God was talking to him.
So that kind of kills the whole. The beginning of
it might be directed at Elihu, and the Bible says
it was that he answered Job. All of it is
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directed at Job, so that one doesn't really hold up
when Job finally confirms it for us in forty two.
So the Lord is going to subject Job to some
penetrating questions. Job has asked for audience with God and
he's getting it today, as will we. God's going to
talk to him, and where we're going to be today
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four through thirty eight. Of chapter thirty eight, you're going
to hear God's wisdom displayed in the created universe. So
we'll get that as we move on into thirty nine.
God's going to use his care in creation of the
animal Kingdom as part of his resume, and by the
time we get to forty and forty one, He's going
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to actually show job that I've actually restrained a lot
of evil, you know, and I don't think I think
sometimes we forget that, you know, when you think about
something that didn't happen for you, are we sometimes we
think of a life that was shortened by our standards,
And I wonder what we would say if, in our ignorance,
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God came to us and said, would you like for
me to show you what I kept that person from experiencing?
Would you like to see how much grace and mercy
I have actually been showing. So we'll get to that too,
toward the end of God's resume I've always enjoyed, and
we'll get there. And I won't spend much time on
that today because now we're gonna talk about today. We
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have a lot to cover, is uh. I do love
that job does try to say I got it before
God finishes, and God tells him that no, you're gonna
hear it all. So, so, hey, my bad. I shouldn't
have said what I said. And you'll see that it's
a very interesting part when Job finally speaks, but he's
about to just sit and be quiet right now for
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quite a while. So so Job, here's what God is
saying as we get started. Job, you claim that you
want to trial with me. Let's see, Let's see examine you.
This is what God is saying. Let's examine you, Job Rick.
Put your name here, and I want to see if
I think you're you're you, you are competent enough to
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stand trial. Let's see if you can answer some simple
questions and let me see if I think you're even
worthy of me taking the time to explain myself to you.
So I'm going to compare you to me. And uh
so uh here is his first introductory challenge in thirty eight,
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first couple of verses. Then the Lord answered Job, out
of the whirlwind, out of the whirlwind, from from the storm.
And remember the Hebrew word here that God is making
sure it's documented for us. It's it's not some genetic
it's some you know, genetic term for God. It's Yahweh, Lord,
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the Lord from the storm. The Lord Yahweh speaks, and
the first question is gonna kind of chasen uh and
mortify Job a little bit. Then there's gonna be a
challenge that I just tell you the world, you're not
gonna believe what God has the audacity to to say.
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For those of you out there that think that you
know better than God and you'd like to be God's
pr agent, he makes you pretty clear he's not looking
for one. So but he's going to actually challenge Job
to be manly. He's telling a man to be manly.
So we've got that coming up. How counter culture is
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that today? And then he's gonna ask him to take
an examination of the creation and administration of the universe,
and it's many untamed creatures. Then the Lord Yahweh answered
Job out of the whirlwind. He speaks not to his friends,
He's speaks to Job from a storm. The Hebrew word
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here is a mighty wind. Now, don't I mean we're
just barely in and we got a lot that's really deep. Okay,
anybody would like to know where this word also appeared
the storm that killed Job's children. It's exact same Hebrew word.
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So what you have here is the Hebrew word, this
mighty win. If you go back to the death of
Job's children, you'll see that storm. The word we're used
for storm. The Hebrew word is the same word. So
from this same type storm that killed his children. God
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has decided this is how he'll speak to him. You
think that's just random. No, everything God does is for
a reason. Nobody teaches like the Lord. We may not
like what he's teaching. No one teaches like the Lord.
Then look what he says next to Job. Who is
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this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now we've
already learned in the last couple of chapters the word
darkened here it means ignorance? Who who? Who has said
these ignorant things? Of course we all know that you
know you would you would? You can you see yourself
standing there like kind of getting your hand about halfway up.
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But that's me, Uh, that that's me. Your words lack knowledge.
So God establishes we're not even in. He said, I'm
going to show you that I'm in the storm. I'm
going to speak to you out of a storm, I'm
going to write, I'm already killing this theology by what
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I've decided to speak from. Well, God's not in that storm,
you know, He says, Oh, yes, I am, I absolutely am.
And then he says, the things that you've said, you
have said out of ignorance. Now do you realize how
quick he already has job in his place? How many
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things he's already said to job in two verses, but
he's not done. So then in three and here it
is dress for action like a man. I will question
you and you make it known to me. The first
line here this dress for action. Does anybody, if you've
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studied the word of God a lot, you heard gird
your loins? Okay, that's really what this word is. I
mean his phrase is gird your loins like a man,
meaning gather your flowing garment, tuck it in your belt
and order. Why did they do this? To go to work,
to go to war? They did this? What so this
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flowing garment would not be cumbersome to whatever they had
to do. Isn't it interesting that the great I Am,
the one and only living God yahweh says to this
human man. The conversation we're about to have. I'd get
myself ready for a battle. I'd get myself ready to
go to work. Gird your loins. And he actually says
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to a male, act like a man. Don't realize that
if you say that now, the world just loses their mind.
And you know what God is saying here too. I'm
not speaking to a woman. Men and women are equal,
but they're beautifully distinct. And I don't want to speak
to you like I would a woman. I'm going to
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speak to you like a man, So I would advise
you to get ready to act like one, be manly.
That's what this is going to require. That's pretty important
not to miss that none of this is random, and
we need to stop apologizing for things that God never
asked us to apologize about. That's the reason why we
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at the Manchurch dot Com at times are deemed really unpopular,
because we have the audacity to actually speak the truth
and say, you cannot reach and disciple men, you cannot
get what God's calling men to. If you contended to
continue to use a strategy or an approach that would
be more appropriate for women and children, it doesn't work,
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and we and will act like it. You know. I
had someone say to me talking about the headship and
where what I thought God meant by that? And I said, what,
it doesn't mean inequality. He's talking about order. There's there's
a headship. And the person said to me, so you're
telling me a man won't follow a woman. I said no,
I said, he'll appease a woman, but he won't follow her.
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Sometimes sometimes you misconstrue men appeasing women as men following women.
They are not. They're just appeasing them. And because because
they're not designed to my wife, who is one of
the most powerful women that I have ever known. I mean,
there are people right now doing work at our house
that are terrified of her. Okay, and uh, and they're
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hoping I'll come home soon. You know what I mean.
But but but but what but what I'm saying, that's
not even exaggeration. But what I'm saying is my wife
said this, who is not some wallflower? Okay. She said
she saw it in the males of the family. She said,
I noticed in the male children that they heard my
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voice loud and clear until puberty, she said. A puberty,
I noticed that I would say something and they weren't
disrespecting me. It's like they just didn't hear it. They
wouldn't respond to me. You would say it, and they
would immediately turn around and respond. She said, that's when
I knew that's where it is. That's where that transition
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of a male goes from being attached to the maternal
of his mother and then he leaves to the authority
of his dad. And when we take that out of
the homes, that causes so much confusion. Because that's not
to discredit the work of incredible mothers. It is just
saying that they have a deficit when that headship isn't there,
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especially dealing with males. How many have you ever seen
in a family where they were sorry men that the
women seem to do okay, but all the boys just
said terrible. It's like women find a way to overcome
it because they can find it in a husband or
they can find it. But but if boys don't have it,
it's like they just squat. They just seem to flounder
because a wife doesn't replace that. A husband can for
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a woman, but a wife can't replace that for a man,
and they kind of flounder around. And not that it
can't be overcome, but it is something to overcome. So
so here he's saying, this conversation is between a male,
So I want you to die like one, and I
would gird my loins. And I'm going to ask you
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if you think you can answer these things for me.
So there it is. God already is being counterculture, and
he's really upset a lot of people. And how would
you like to hear that you have been whining and
complaining about God and you've been questioning God? Can you imagine?
I want you to put yourself there now? Can you
imagine the great I am saying, Rick, I think I'll
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question you now. I can't even I mean scare me.
I mean I just got chills thinking about it. I mean,
he's not the big man upstairs. How many times have
we talked about this. He's the beginning in the end.
And why do we call him the big man upstairs?
So that we can fear him less and make him
easier to sin against. That's why we come up with
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these garbage analogies of the one and only living God,
so we it makes us feel less guilty about sinning.
We're less terrified of our sin. If I just kind
of didn't act right for the big man upstairs this
week as opposed to I blasphemed Holy, Holy, Holy, the
beginning in the end. And by the way, you will
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not see a version of God here. I've been working
through this. There's a version of God that's getting presented
a lot of times in the Western Church. I don't
see him on his own resume. It's a God that's
unrecognizable in this resume. You know, we sometimes we'll say
things about God that make us feel more comfortable, but
they can't really be supported biblically. And so let's let's
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hear from God. So the first question he's gonna throw
out at job, and God gets there pretty quick. He
starts with the very basic I just I just want
you to think about it. I looked at some of
the commentaries on people trying to just in. It's all
theories what the voice of God would sound like. I mean,
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I know that you know that that when when he
when he spoke about his son in front of everybody
in the Gospel of John, they thought it was a storm.
Remember that, And Jesus said, he said that for y'all's benefit,
because I didn't need to hear it. You know, since
I am God, I am his son. Some people are
thinking it could be musical, it could be impressive, and
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I love this was probably my favorite shot at it
with the limitations of language. Wonderfully scary. I like that one.
Wonderfully scary. It's like it's comforting, well at the same time,
it's terrified you. And so he starts out with verse four,
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where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell me if you have understanding. So Joe did not
exist when he laid down the foundation of the earth.
No one did. Adam and Eve didn't exist. So this
first question was impossible to answer since I wasn't around
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when this happened, which is God's point. I have always
been remember that, you know, I was before anything, and
I don't think you were, Job. I think we can
document the day you were born. You'll never find when
I was born because I've always been does is everybody's mind? Okay,
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I have always been I'm the beginning of everything. Well,
everything must have a beginning, that's right, that's me and Job.
I don't recall you being there when I laid down
the foundation of the earth. So then he goes into five,
who determine who determined its measurements? Surely you know job,
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I mean, you've really been rattling on. Are who stretched
the line upon it? Now, if you have your Bible
Isaiah forty forty two Isaiah forty forty two kind of
gives us this indication about God. You'll see that a
lot of this stuff inspired by the prophets is from God,
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because you you hear things like this Isaiah forty uh.
And then getting into twelve, look at this who has
measured the waters and the hollow of his hand, and
marked off the heavens with a span, and closed the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the
mountains and scales and the hills and a balance. I
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think Isaiah probably did hear from God, since God said,
that's that's what I'm gonna say about myself. And and
he said, the Lord God did this, and I did
this on my own. I didn't need your help. Six
are are what were it's it's bases and and and
what were its bases sunk? Or or who laid its cornerstone? Now?
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These are these are things about a builder, a master builder.
Footings in cornerstone. Some of y'all do this for a living.
You you're you're familiar with these terms. Uh, it's these
are the most fundamental and essential parts of a building. Uh.
It's an analogy of you know, like I'm master builder.
You might have you know, built an impressive uh you
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know shed, or you might have built a building of
some kind. Oh, by the way, if you want to know,
comparing you as a builder to me, I built the earth. Okay,
I built the universe, So your your building is impressive.
But I don't know that. As a master builder, I
take pointers from you, since I built the earth and
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laid the foundation of it all so so, God says,
but I'm not done. That's not all I did. When
when the morning stars sang together and all the sons
of God shouted for joy? Now, now, job, were you
there when I was hanging the planets? Uh? When I
arranged the morning stars of word? Also for Venus? You
know when when I arranged these planets. Oh, by the way,
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when all my angels, do you have any angels? Job
you got, I've got I've got angels singing as i'm
as I'm hanging this and I'm creating that. Job. I
don't recall seeing you there, says there were no humans yet,
it was just me and my angels. I don't remember
you being in the audience. Of course, at this point,
Job's already done. But then he says, I want to
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talk to you about the sea a little bit. This
is the next time. Here's another thing I did the sea.
You're familiar with the sea, aren't you. Job. Let me
ask you this, are who shut in the sea with
doors when it burst out of the womb? How many
of you like to go to the beach? Okay, I
don't like to be out there in the middle of
the day, but I likes going to be I'd rather
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go in the fall. But anyway, so you've seen that
that there seems to be some boundaries that have been
set up for all this water. And so God said,
by the way, that was me. See, when it first happened,
the sea would have overwhelmed everything. It would have overwhelmed,
and at one time it did. So what I did
is I took the sea, and I started laying out
some boundaries for it. And as it was bursting forth,
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as I was creating it, I held it and I
controlled it as it was bursting from my creation. So
my power was so strong it just burst upon creation.
And I was able not only to cause it to
burst upon creation, I was able to grab it and
control it. Can you do that, Joe? And then he continues,
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when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness, its
swaddling band. The sea's like a newborn child conceived behind doors.
Its power is like the baby clothed in clouds. But
you know what, to you, the sea would be overwhelming
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and destructive. To me, I can hold it just like
a little baby. I can swallow it in the clouds
because you know why, Job, Because as impressive as the
sea he may be, my hand is a hand of
dominion over all of creation. How about yours? Job? I
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have you ever wondered what's everybody doing right now? I mean,
because he's focusing on job, I think if I'm the
other friends, I'm wondering off. Are y'all trying to slip off?
I'm like, well, this is Joe's problem, it ain't my problem,
and I don't. But we know that they're there because
they do get addressed at one point. So then God
goes on and he says intend and prescribed limits for it,
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and set bars and doors I saw the sea, job
I clothed it with clouds. I held it like a baby.
I controlled it with my hand of dominions. And then
I set its boundaries. I set its limits. I determined
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what it could and couldn't do. Now, why is this
also important? You're going, well, he's just impressing Joe with
his creation. Yes, but what else? If I want it
to be destructive, it'll be destructive too. If I want
it to be calm, it'll be calm. So when it's
destructive and it's calm, that's me. So he's taking that
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theology and he's chipping it away. That the health, wealth,
and prosperity gospel has died so many times, how it
is still alive. I guess the only reason why it's
still alive is because Satan is still is not put
up for good yet. Eleven, that's an email coming today
and said, thus far shall you come, and no farther?
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And here shall your proud waves be stayed? Interesting here
God begins to quote himself. If I want to quote something,
right now, if I got to quote myself, let me
tell you what I say. This is what I say
to the sea. I tell it where to stay I
set up the beach, I set up the shore. I
look at this raging water and say, and that's enough,
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stop right there, and it does. Can you do that job?
Any of y'all ever got been able to make a
wave stop? Have you ever gone down to the beach
and said, oh, it's kind of rough to die. I
wish it was calm? Or are you able to comment?
I've had no luck with that. I prayed that maybe
you'd be calm the next day to the source that
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could comment. But have you ever gone down there and go, wow,
this is really kind of rough, this is kind of scary.
I wish it would lay down. Well, God says, if
I wanted to lay down, I can, And if I
don't want it to go any further than that beach
right there, it won't. I control. I told it what
to do. And people don't just listen. Animals don't just listen.
Creation listens to me. Wow, Wow, have you commanded the
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morning since your days began? And caused the dawn? The
dawn to know its place? Now he's going to talk
about the Earth's administration? You ever say that. I've always
been like this, And even in our Sunday school class,
as a lot of you know that are in Sunsoo class.
I'm a teacher, but Sherry is the administrator. I've had
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people tell me before, we don't have a problem with
you teaching, which I'm thankful that's nice, but we really
rather you not administrate. It's not my gift. But can
you imagine that you are the administrator of the earth
in the universe, I administrate all this. And he said, job,
do you do you tell the sun when to come up?
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Do you tell dawn this is this is where you belong?
And Job, of course, was like, no, I don't command
the sun to do anything. I don't command it to
rise that it might take hold of the skirts of
the earth and the wicked be shaken out of an
interesting comment here, light, he says, remember, causes the wicked
to scurry to find shelter from the light. But how
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would you like job to be? Like me? If I
want wicked to scurry, I want to see the cockroaches
run around, I just declare there's light, and there it is.
I can illuminate wickedness. Can you do that? Can you
bring light on top of the When people say I
wish it would stay dark, I decide whether it does
or not. We wish that God would change us to daylight,
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savings time and just leave it. He could, Apparently our
government can't. I'm digging sunset at four forty five, how
about y'all? So anyway, we're too far east for this,
he says. Now, when he's talking about the skirts of
the earth, he's talking about as you look out over
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horizon and a sunrise. Last week we talked about that
a lot, about how you never get tired of seeing it,
he says. You know, when it looks like that the
sun's going up and there's a skirt on the horizon
of clouds or colors, that's me. I do all that.
I lay all that out, and the wicked are scurrying
because I'm bringing a new day. I'm bringing it all
to light. Fourteen. It is changed like clay under the seal,
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and its features stand out like garment. See light causes
also what for us to see the colors and the
shapes of the earth. When I bring this light, I
illumine that you can see my creation. When it's dark,
you can't tell where the clay is, you can't tell
what the terrain looks. Light the topography. You can't see
any of that, he said. But when I bring that
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light every day, you see what I've done. You can
see the artistry of everything that I've created. True right.
And then he gets into fifteen from the Wicked. Their
light is withheld and their uplifted arm is broken. Now
what does this mean, Well, he's back to the wicked.
He went back to them again, and he says, the
wicked will be incarcerated by the light. The Light's going
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to incarcerate the wicked, and I will then plunge them
into darkness or I will put them to death. This
upraised arm, this was always a symbol, like a clenched fist.
It's like an as symbol of arrogance, of defiance. You know,
I raised my hand against God. I will not do
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what he says. This he's saying, when the wicked give
me this arm of defiance, I just break it. They
won't stand against me. It looks like you've had kind
of a hard time with the wicked. Job they can't
stand against me. So again he's giving his resume, and
one of the things that he includes is the wicked
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are going to be broken by me. Then he goes
into the underworld in sixteen through eighteen? Have you entered
Job into the springs of the sea? Are walked in
the recesses of the deep? Now keep in mind, at
the time that Job is hearing this, we've never had
a submarine that can go down in these areas. Now
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we saw all these weird animals, and at this time
he's asking Job, now, can you go beyond what you
can see? Can can you go get into see and
go any further than what oxygen you would have? Have
you gone into the recesses of the deep? Have you
gone down beyond that? Have you left what you can see?
Are you pretty much limited to this? Because believe it
or not, there's other realms and other things that I
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can see. I go there as easy as I've come here.
Can you do that? Joe? And of course we know
the answer to that. Can you? I guess you could
take this question and kind of simplified and say, can
you see beyond what you can see? We're limited by that,
aren't we? Seventeen? Have the gates of death been revealed
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to you? Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Can you see the spiritual realm? Joe? Because because I
can when life and death, I can see both other dominions.
I see them. Can you see them like the things
that you see right now? Can you look to me
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seeing this and seeing demons, seeing angels, seeing hell, seeing heaven,
seeing life coming into the world and death, people going
out of the world. I see all that at the
same time. None of it's hidden from me. Can you
see all this? You realize that you're arguing way out
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of your leg right now. And because God is saying
one thing, can you ever said this before? And I've
heard this statement, and it's a good one, and it
could sum all this up. We could just shut down
and say, let's go have lunch. The more I learned
about God, the more I realize I am not God. Right,
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He is God and I am not. And this is
the point that God is ultimately making. But I like
hearing what he says about himself. He says, have you
comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare if you know this?
I love how he stops and he gives job. So
if you do know this, interrupt me, declare what you
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know about all this? Of course we don't hear anything
from Job, he says. I understand you say you have.
You're seeing it all at once. I see the full
expanse of the earth. Job, I see the full expanse
of all of it. Job. Honestly, this is the part here.
If you know that the nature of the time period,
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don't miss this. Job was wealthy, he's he's well known,
he's in leadership. He might he might have the ability
to travel one hundred miles maybe, And that's a maybe.
And you know what God's played right now? What have
you seen, Joe? You might have got one hundred miles
from here. Do you realize how much more of the
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earth there is that you've never seen? I've seen it all, Job,
You've seen very little of it. And there's an expanse
out there. Next he gets into you know the light
and the darkness? Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth?
Declare if you know it? Then he gets in where
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is the way to the dwelling of the light? And
where is the place of darkness? Light and darkness? Where
are they? Job? How are they created? Do you know that?
Do you know where light comes from? Do you know
why it gets dark? Job? Do you understand all this
light and darkness? You ever been there? You ever been
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to where it comes from its origin? See I have
because I created it? Have you have you been to
where you know? So? Where heaven is? And then have
you've been to the place of death? Where hell is?
Have you have you seen these two? Job? Because I'm
here with you, but I've seen all this? Can you
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find these places? Job? If I told you right now
to go find them? Could you find heaven in hell? Well?
I can't. Twenty one? Oh, that's just twenty about what
can you find them? That you may take it to
its territory, that you may discern the past, to its home?
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Where are they? Can you find them? Job? Twenty one?
You know for you were born then, and the number
of your days are great. A little sense of humor
hear from God. So they think that job may have
been around seventy the speculation around seventy years old probably,
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And you know what he's saying round here? You pretty old,
aren't you? You've really lived a long time. Seventy years? Wow? Wow, Job,
you got any idea how long I've been here? I
have always been. Your seventy years might be impressive to
this young Alaihu. It's not impressive to me, seventy years
to me is nothing. I'm from the beginning Job I
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have always been. Pardon me if I'm not impressed with
your seventy years since you were born. Even if he
was one hundred, it would be silly. Next, we go
back to the storm. Have you noticed how many times
we get storm analogies here in these latter chapters that
we've been studying Verse twenty two. Have you entered the
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storehouse of the snow or have you seen storehouses of
the hell? If I wanted to snow, Job, I just
simply to go to my storehouse using this analogy, and
I make it snow. If I want Hell to come down,
I'll just simply go to my supply and I'll drop Hell.
Do you have storehouses? Job, This's got snow and hell
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in it. If you need them, you can go get them.
And of course the answer is no. Twenty three, which
I have reserved for the time of trouble. Hang on
to that for the day of battle and war. Well,
now we're starting to think about the Bible, aren't we.
Exodus twenty two through twenty six tells us that Hell
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was involved in the Seventh plague to free the people
from Pharaoh. We know that he also is documented in
Joshua ten to eleven is throwing large helstones at the Amorites.
We also know because we've studied the revelation. In this
very study and Revelation sixteen twenty one, we see one
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hundred pound stones falling from heaven. So it's interesting that
God says, not only are these things part of weather,
but also having stored away for the time of trouble
and for the day of battle and war, I may
use them as weapons against the people. So I'm gonna
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say that again, I may use them as weapons against
the people. Okay, So when bad things come from weather
and that's not the devil, apparently God says he controls
all this. And you say, well, well, I just don't
like to think of God, you know, dropping hell down
on me or dropping storms down on me. Okay, Well,
then I have to hit you with something that comes
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out of Calhoun County. Do you believe that God can
stop it from hitting you? Well, if he can stop it,
but then he allows it and even causes it. Right now,
he doesn't know it's an apology for that, because whatever
he does, he does it, he does it for right,
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But sometimes I think we need to stop being squeamish
about the truths about God because to me, when that happens,
and I've been guilty of it, so I'm not talking
down to you when that happens, this is God refining me.
So I'm learning with you when that happens. I think
we have to be careful that you can open up
just you can open a tiny door to the adversary,
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your sin nature the demons to say, well, why don't
we take that faith. Let's see if we can't weaken
it a little bit. Saving faith is that we are
completely enamored with God's way and God's will, not ours.
We accept God the way he is and we do
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not include our preferences. So we got to be careful
with that when you really get there. Like we started
off with Oswald Chambers, I don't like what I'm going
through right now, but I'm thankful for it because I
know you're doing something in this. So teach me what
you're teaching. May you be glorified by it. So then
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he goes on and says that he does using twenty
four what is the way to the place where the
light is distributed? Or are where the east wind is
scattered upon the earth. God, you know, I'd like to
ask you this job. Do you know how lightning is dispersed?
Or do you know how when the east wind when it? Oh?
You got any idea how that happens? Of course, Job
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doesn't know that. Who has a cleft or a channel
for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt?
See Job? Not only do I create the rain, not
only do I create the lightning. I even set up
canyons so the water has a place to flow, things
that fill up. You know, I've got that set up.
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Do you know where lightning is going to strike? Job?
When when the lightning starts striking, you got any idea
where it's going to hit? I do? I determine where
it's going and where it's not going. So, first of all,
can you create lightning? And if you could, could you
control where it hits and where it does it? Twenty
six to bring rain on a land where no man is,
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on the desert in which there is no man, Let
me tell you something, Job, I decide when and where
rain falls. If a place is really really dry, they
don't have to human being there. I'll bring rain just
to make that place moist, because I think it's good
for the animals that live there, are good for whatever
is there. You know, if a place is wet and
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it needs to be dry, I'll dry it out. If
a place is dried it needs to be wet, then
you know, I'll also I'll give whatever needs to do.
This is happening everywhere, Joe, not just where people can
document it. You realize I'm in control of the weather
and the climate and everything that's happening everywhere, all the time.
Every time we move on to verse twenty seven, to
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satisfy the waste and desert land and to make the
ground sprout with grass. You know he's been talking about
in verse twenty four, I'm the origin of the storm.
Twenty five, I'm in charge of the route of the storm.
Twenty six I am in charge of the storm itself,
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so origin route itself. And in twenty seven, I'm also
responsible for the effects of the storm. I send rain
and it changes the situation. Just when you thought nothing
will grow, I'll send the rain and I will start
causing things to sprout. If you ever have ever looked
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at the pictures of Israel compared to all the countries
around them, you ever sending of those shots. Israel just green,
flowing with irrigation, flowing with fruitfulness, and just across the border,
dead dry nothing. Their enemies have nothing growing, Israel flowing green,
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all in the same place. It's almost like God's with them.
So so anyway, and you know they have offered to
help other countries and to help them do the same thing.
And of course all it's and is just their enemies
use it as a way to attack them and turn
it down every time. So anyway, so he says, so
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he's talking about that, and then he says in twenty
eight has the rain of father? Or who has begotten
the drops of dew? I'm the author of the rain?
Job are you? Are you? Are you the father of
the rain? Are you the author of all creation? Then
he uses a female analogy in twenty nine, from those
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whose womb did the ice come forth? And who has
given birth to the frost of heaven. He's saying, here,
I'm the source of ice, I'm the source of frost.
I'm the father of all creation. I create or birth
these other weather phenomenon. They'll get thirty the waters become
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hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
If I want to freeze a lake, if I want
to freeze a body of water, when you see one frozen,
you think of me? Should I should? Should they think
of you? Job? Did you? Did you freeze the lake
for everybody? Did you bring the ice when when it
was time for ice? Because see, I do I do
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all that? Then he gets into the stars and in
thirty one through thirty three, can you bind the chains
of eight ple eightes? Or loose the cords of Orion?
Can you do this Orion? Did you do this for Oryan?
Did you do this for ple eightes? These are, of
course what constellations and the stars, and he's saying, did
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you do this? He said, I have controlled all things
that are terrestrial, but I also control all things that
are celestial. The celestial is under my control just like
the terrestrial. So I'm controlling both of these stars, creation,
all these things y'all been saying that are up here,
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and you start making these pictures that you've got. Apparently
they were aware of these constellations because he uses them.
And when you see these constellations, have you ever thought
for you to see the constellation and call it what
you call it, that those stars all had to be
right where they are. Who do you think did that?
Who set up these constellations for you to look at?
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Of course that's me. I control even the arrangement of
the stars. Now this one gets there's a lot of
commentary about Mazareth. What is this? It doesn't really seem
to refer to anything specific. Can you lead forth the
Mazareth in their season? Or can you guide the bear
with its children? Now the bear and its children, we
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know is another constellation. But they're thinking this Mazareth word
here that's been used in English. It really is just
saying that God controls the entire zodiac, all of it.
You know, more examples of constellations, but this is a
word for all the different constellations, the big for it
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as a mass. The bottom line is more examples of
Him controlling how the stars are aligned and where they
are in the order in which they are. In thirty three,
do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you
establish their rule on earth? Again? Write this down. We
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won't turn to it because we're running out of time.
Isaiah fifty five to nine. Write that down. Isaiah fifty
five nine. Isaiah says, God administrates it all. It's under
divine or heavenly jurisdiction. He sets up where everything is
or isn't. He is the one who makes the jurisdictions
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in the heavens, not only on earth. He establishes how
it works both above us, the earth that we're on,
and below us. Now he's gonna talk about clouds. Can
you lift up your voice to the clouds that a
flood of waters may cover you? Can you call down rain? Job?
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I heard your little voice a minute ago complaining about me.
Is your voice so strong and so powerful that if
we used your voice and you shouted at that cloud,
could you get rain out of it? Have you got
that kind of voice? Job? Because at my voice, I'll
make that cloud start raining. Can you command that? Job?
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Thirty five? Can you send forth the lightnings that they
may go and say to you, here we are. So
do you tell the lightning not only have I created you,
I want to tell you where to go? And then
the lightning look back at you in obedience and say,
you told us where to go, So we struck just
where you told us to strike. Are they going to
answer to you? Job? They go here? We are Job,
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thank you for directing us. You know, honestly, when you
think about this, God seems to be having some fun
at this point, talking about that who has put wisdom
in the inward parts or are giving understanding to the mind. Now,
this seems to fall into a place where it doesn't
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seem like it belongs. But God said it, so it
belongs here. So I got into some of the commentary
about this this. I don't he's not talking about human
beings here. It's odd that it's in the middle of
clouds and weathers and all this speech that Job's getting
about creation. Many believe that what he's saying right here
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because he's about to get into animals. We're getting close
to animals. This is this is how animals seem to
understand weather patterns. Have you ever notice that if you
ever know that the animals seem to know when weather's
coming before you do. And he's saying that that, who
do you think has put that kind of wisdom in
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the inward parts or are given an understanding to the
mind of even animals that they seem to understand weather
too and have some sort of instincts. These instincts that
animals have this instinctive reasoning, this instinctive response. It looks
like they seem to be pretty wise to the weather
and the way the worth, the way the earth works.
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Who do you think gave them that? That came from me?
Thirty seven? Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or
who can tilt the water skins of the heaven? Of
the heavens? You know? Let me ask you this job,
I regulate the weather. This is regulation of the weather
he's talking about. Do you know the number of the
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clouds that are in the sky? Because I do? Can
you imagine? So? Can you just declare that the windows
of heaven open up? And when it opens up, it's
like tilting water scans, Like you pour out something out
of a water scan. It's like I take the heavens.
That would be no more complicated for me to bring
rain down on the earth, and it would be for
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you to take a water skin turned over and pour
the content out. I can take the contents of heaven
and I can pour those out. I regulate all weather.
Thirty eight. When the dust runs into a mass and
the clods stick fast together, he's so about dry soil.
After he's brought the water out. He said, the soil's
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grateful for the moisture. It softens the earth, and it's
getting ready now for sowing and plowing. So, Job, if
people are praying about their crops and it seems like
we're in a bit of a drought here and they
need some rain to come down to soften the land
so they can sow and plow, should they contact you
about that? Would you be able to take the heavens
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and turn the water out and put it on the
dry soil for them? Because when they ask me, and
it's my will, I'm able to do it. The only
reason why it's not there now is because I've decided
not to do it. But if I decide to do it,
I can bring it down. I can soften the dirt
if the dirts dry. Job. Should they see you about that?
And of course we all know what the answer is
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to that, and so does Job. By the way, thirty
nine we shift to animals. Joe, can you hunt the
prey for the lion or satisfy the appetite of the
young lions? Now? Lions hunt? We know that, but you
know what he's even throwing out here. Listen to the
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detail because you think why would this make the resume.
He's trying to give Job some kind of comprehension. He goes, Job,
it's one thing to create a lion that's big. It's
another thing to give it the ability to hunt. But
it's also quite another to provide the very thing it hunts.
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So if the lion can have all the skill to hunt,
it won'ts do. But where's the prey? We'll see? I
provide that to I provide both. And can you satisfy
the appetite of these young lions when the mother is
out looking for something for them to eat, I'll provide
that for them. Because would you like to provide that
for them? Should they they come to secrets of I
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was somebody, I'd say, no, I by end up being
what they eat. You know. That's how they come to
me looking for prey, and I'd say I don't have anything.
They say, well, how about you? So then he says,
when they when they crouch in their dens or lie
in wait in their thicket, they're lying in wait to attack.
They're prowling for victims. Job, who do you think taught
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them how to do that? Who do you think put
that instinct in them? Because I didn't just provide the lion,
and I didn't just provide the prey, and I didn't
just provide the skill and the strength also gave them
the instinct to do it. Have you ever watched a
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lion or predator. It's a lot of skill and he
goes The skill came from me. I cause it to
walk so quietly, to crouch, to get down in the
den or hide in the thicket. The reason why they
don't just run out there in the open screaming and
never kill anything is because I taught them not to
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do that. I taught them how to be good at
what they do. That all comes for me. Do you
ever think about that? It's one of the things that
I enjoy about hunting a lot, especially as I've gotten older.
There was a time I just went to hunt because
I was like, I'm shooting everything. But as I've gotten
older and I've had some good experiences. One of the things,
and I've had people ask me before, and you know,
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sometimes even Sherry's like, I like the outdoors too, but
you could just hang around the farm. Why do you go?
So you're telling me you go out into the wilderness
and you didn't have any luck at all harvesting anything,
and you enjoyed it, And I say, oh yeah, I say,
because I like watching the way it all works. I
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love watching how that deer. How first of all, to
watch a mama come out into an opening area and
get that nose up and she starts pulling that air.
And buddy, if you are on the wrong side of
the wind, are you haven't got your scent covered, which,
by the way, I think that's impossible. It's all about
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the wind. So I know they sell you a lot
of stuff thinking you can't be smelled it's the wind.
So uh So, anyway, so if the wind's wrong, even
if you're sitting there and it's right and that wind shifts,
she's like, I don't see you, but you're here. And
how many times have you seen her look out? And
she'll look left, she'll look right, pull that air and
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see her look back, and then little ones come running out.
She's like, it's all clear. And then and then they'll
go to eating and she just keeps looking in those ears,
going that nose. It's amazing. What an incredible creature, you know,
And and then of course, you know, if you're out
there watching young bucks there's nothing better for that. The
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young boats to go and a look back in the woods.
You say, now here comes the guy, because those young
bucks are like, well, time for us to move on.
Here comes here comes the bigger one. All that's fascinating
to watch squirrels and how incredible they are, and the
birds and you know, and this rabbit, what are you
even doing here? And so to watch it all work
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is fascinating. And God said, all these things. And the
part that I've learned on this lesson, I'm not just
doing some of it. Let your mind go and understand,
I'm doing every bit of it. I've created the prey.
I've created the predator. I've created the instinct. I've created
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the protection, the skill, the strength, the speed, the eyesight,
the ability to smell. And for some reason, he gives us,
as human beings, a chance. If a turkey could smell
like a deer and a deer could see like a turkey,
ever kill their the one of them. But he gave
the turkey the eyes sight and gave the deer of
the smell. He's like, I'll give you all chance. So
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there you go. So the final one, forty one who
provides for the raven. The raven's getting in here, it's pray.
When it's young ones cry to God for help and
wonder about the lack of food. Now, see, this is
Jesus here a little bit. You remember when he's talking
to us about not being anxious, not being not worrying
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about how we're going to eat. Now he's going with
a raven. Jesus is talking about just birds and sparrows.
And you know, he says, not even a sparrow falls
without my father knowing it. Aren't you worth more than
many sparrows? He goes, The birds don't worry about how
they eat. They're not worried about it. He goes, So, job,
if I've got a raven and it's looking for some prey,
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can can you first of all, can you make a raven?
And then can you give it its prey? What about
when it's searching for food for all, it's young ones
and they're eyeing out to their creator for help. We
need something to eat, We need something to eat. This
is an animal that knows that the Creator is the
one that's going to provide and they're wondering where the
food is, and they're crying out to the Creator should
I just send them to you, Joe, so you can
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feed them, So God says to Job as we close
for this week. They cried to me, Joe, because if
they cried to you, they'd starve. They cried to me,
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and maybe you should too. Let's pray, Lord, thank you
for today. Thank you for this incredible word. Lord. We
are in all of you right now, maybe in all
of you more right now than we were before we
came in here and said down. I'm just inspired. I'm
inspired to worship. You are great, you are wonderful. You
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are the beginning, You are the end. You are the
source of all things. And I beg for forgiveness for
how much I make of myself and how little sometimes
I make of you. Thank you for the correction today.
In your name, we pray Amen.
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