Job Ch. 39 | Bible Study by Rick Burgess | 11/12/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Wednesday Bible Study. Thank you for being
with us today. We have more to cover if you're
just joining us. We are studying the Book of Job
to say that it is a provocative book as an understatement,
and it features something where we are right now that

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there's so many things that make it unique. But we
have God going on for several chapters talking about himselfet
and revealing to us, for lack of a better term,
he's given us his resume some of the things that
we might find impressive, which we have, and we covered
that last week in chapter thirty eight. Today we'll be

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in Job thirty nine if you want to go ahead
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It's always a little Uh, well, you know, it's intimidating
when you go back home, when you realize that even
Jesus was treated poorly when he went back home. So

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I had that in the back of my mind, and
it was a little shocking when I got back to
where I went to high school, people claiming to be
people that I knew, but they couldn't be those people
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those studios right now. So let's open up in a
word of prayer and we'll jump into job thirty nine. Lord,
we thank you for the opportunity to jump into your
Holy Word today to learn more about you. Always when
we study the Bible, we're learning about you, but to

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hear about you from you is quite an experience. And
just like when we left last week, I can only
speak for myself, but I had others say the same thing.
You prompted us to worship you and to be in
all of you, to fear you, but at the same time,
just be so grateful for your grace and mercy, and

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Lord just guide us through this next chapter about you
and your name. We pray Amen. So you know, last week,
if you missed it, Job heard from God and he
kind of had Job take a look at creation and
how weather works and all these things. And he asked
Job some tough questions if he could do those things. Job,

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of course has no end. Of course the answers no. Interesting.
This is very intriguing in so many ways. Toward last
week we saw the one and only living God starting
to show Job the animal Kingdom. That's all He's going
to do in thirty nine. Interesting. Now I want you
to think about how many animals that God has created.

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It's mind boggling. Just the number of species of birds
is more than we can even wrap our mind around.
And when I think about the creation of the animal kingdom,
especially when you get the things like birds have so
many different versions as it really is something I heard
one time about you ever heard these people say, well,
there must be alien life out there. I just have

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a hard time thinking that God just created, you know,
beings on earth. It just seems like you know, we've
got the vastness of the universe. I just doesn't make sense.
And uh and I love the first time I heard
I can't remember the commentator, It said, have you ever
thought about the vastness of the universe? Maybe telling you

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how big God is? Maybe he just needs the room,
you know, And uh and and and and one of
the things that that you think about, too, is it's
obvious we don't really I don't think this is even
speculation because it's so obvious. Is that the creator's side
of him is so powerful that he just keeps on creating.
It's like, just think about how he can have so

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many different colors and designs and and the and just
the uniqueness of each thing he's created. And uh and
and he's gonna pick now. I want you to think
about this. And I've always thought about this. He's gonna
spend thirty nine talking about the animal Kingdom, and we'll

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we'll have some creatures coming up later that that kind
of boggle the mind. Many think this is evidence of
of the that dinosaurs existed in Job's time. We'll talk
about that later, but today we're going to talk about
animals that we are familiar with. And it was interesting
to me the ones that God picked. So I'm going

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to show you my glory and I'm going to show
you how what I can do. And he picks these animals.
It's interesting, and it's even interesting what he says about
them and the points he's making about himself through these
kind of odd all star team he puts on the
field of all the animals he could talk about. So

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it starts off with the one to me right out
of the gate, that that I wouldn't expect if God's
going to give me his resume, and he's he's he
because he starts off, you know, talking about a lion
toward the end of last week. Then he goes to
a raven, which I thought was kind of an interesting choice.
But the lion, I could see, that one I would expect.
But would you expect him to then move to the

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mountain goat. I wouldn't expect that. But there's a reason
because and we'll talk about that. So the next thing
that God says, he's already talking about animals as we
ended last week. I'm not sure why they didn't just
put those two in here too, but they didn't do.
You know, this is God talking. Do you know to

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job and those that are that they're listening, do you
know when the mountain goat gives birth? Interesting these exclusive
animals that seem to float gracefully over the roughest terrain.
You ever seen a mountain goat? How they can just
I mean it's amazing the terrain that they just bounced
through like I would be walking across the parking lot.

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I even struggle to get across the parking lot if
it's not even you know, And and they float gracefully
over the roughest terrain. They stay as far away from
humans as possible. And in these days, they they don't
have a national geographic so no one has on out
with the budget of the people we have and say

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we will now go study the mountain goat and we'll
tell you everything about the mountain goat you've ever wanted
to know. Did you know that these national geographic and
I'm just using that as one of them. But these
photographers and these filmmakers that go out to study these
really elusive animals. Have y'all ever seen the information on
how long they stay out there, like to get a

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shot of the snow leopard. I mean, they are out
there for days and days and hours and hours, hidden
camera face going at any moment, I'm going to capture
the fill in the blank. But they didn't have that.
So keep in mind when God is saying, how about

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that mountain goat? They don't know much about it. I mean,
because they're so elusive. Very many humans ever even saw them.
But when they would see them from afar, you would
see them bouncing through this rough terrain. So so they
have not been studied in the details that they have today.
So keep in mind, Joe would have very little information

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on the mountain go So so when God is saying
to him, because let me tell you what he can't say,
you know what I actually do. I watched that National
Geographic thing, and I actually know when they give birth.
I heard all about it. Uh, he wouldn't know that
at all. So God says, do you know when the
mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving? Uh?
The the you know, the calving of the of the dose,

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meaning when the dose give birch of their calves. These
are really if you're looking at at what he's talking about,
you can write this down ibex ib e X. This
is the animal he's talking about. And so they they
also stay around some of the the the caves that

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are up in these mountains, and right now, if you
you went there, they still roam in small herds on
the western edge of the Dead Sea. Now Job doesn't
know when they birth. Job has never seen a female
mountain goat give birth, so he has no idea. And
so God is saying, you don't know these things, but

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I do. So remember everything God is saying about himself.
Not only did I create the mountain goat, and look
how graceful it is bouncing around on this rough terrain.
I gave it that ability. I also gave it the
ability to reproduce. I gave it the ability to carry
the calf to term. I gave it the ability to
know when to birth the calf. I actually created the

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birthing process. And I actually created the calf to be
able to nurse the mother and then get to its
point where it's independent to stay away from predators. I
did all that, and Job, did you do that? I mean,
have you got anything you can? Even? Right now, Job's
already and over his head long before we get here.

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But this is not helping. So now in verse two.
Can you number the months that they fulfill? And do
you know the time when they give birth? He's really asking, Job,
do you know the gestation process? Do you know how
long it takes a baby mountain goat to stay in
its mother's womb? Do you do you have any idea

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when these mother goats? Like, we want to throw a
number out there, how long do you think it takes? Joe? See,
I know how long it takes because I knew how
long it would need, and that's the number that I dictated,
and so I actually called I know how I create
up the conception. I created that and I thought, you know,
this calf to be able to survive needs to stay
in the mother's womb for this amount of time, and

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this should be the time it should be birth. So
do you tell me the number? Job? Do you even
have any idea? Again, he doesn't have a documentary, He
has no idea. Uh, and so he's asking Job that
Now you get to three, he says, when they crouch,
bring forth their offspring and are delivered of their young.
Do you know this? Obviously something like the birthing process

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where the mother for lack of a better term, has
to hunker down to get the strength to push the
baby out. And so see, I started thinking about all
that because what God, I think wants us to understand
is he is Lord, and he is sovereign over every
single detail. See. I wouldnt even think about that. I

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would think I'm good with the fact you made a
mountain goat and they seem to reproduce. Okay, that's all
you really had to say to me, And and God said, no, no,
I want I want you to know more. Do you
realize how many things have to take place for them
to reproduce themselves? Do you realize what a creator I
am that I came up with this animal to begin with.

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I gave it all this ability, all this grace, all
this strength, all this speed. We'll get into speed in
a minute. He's got some that are really fast coming up.
But I also something as simple as what is this
instinct that the mother even knows how to birth the baby.
I didn't just create the mother. I didn't just create

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the baby. I created the process from beginning to end.
And and this is mind blowing because it would be
mind blowing to us with all the information that we
have about animals. Now it's really mind blowing to Job
because he has no idea how this takes place. There's

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it's well, it's not likely, it's probable. It's probable that
suddenly Job, if he ever got a chance to see
a mountain goat, which they were very elusive, and he
might see a baby goat. I doubt he ever saw
one being born. I don't know that he would have
ever been in position to pull that out. First of all,
to get to where they birth, I don't even know
if you can get up there. So God is making

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this point so for he's going to talk about the
cycle of life. Their young ones become strong, they grow
up in the open, they go out and do not
return to them. He's even even adding this detail, Job,
I have created this cycle of life so much. I'm
even I didn't just give up. I stayed with that.

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The calf when it's been born. I know how long
it needs to stay with its mama before it is
strong enough to go out on its own, feed itself
and leave its mama. I even know that time period
I came up with that. The job. Any you have
anything to say, do you think you could have accomplished

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any of this? And of course the answer is no
interesting now that we go to the process of all
the animals, I think is coming next. The donkey, is
not it the wild donkey? That's important If you had
King James version, it is. It is what I was

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called a few times. Yeah, And my dad would also
insert the word dumb or wild. Uh. And for the
longest I thought that was my middle name. But but
the so remember that my that my dad was the
one that came up with the wonderful phrase. If I
had ordered a truckload of stupid people, but he said

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a different word than stupid people, and all I got
was you. You were the only one I got. I
would have got my money's worth, you know. So, So anyway,
so he now looks to these wild donkeys that that
roamed this area, and they're still have you ever seen them?
You ever seen documentarial there they're still out there. Uh

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and uh and and they're and they're wild and and
and and we see that wild donkey, believe it or not,
appears in the Old Testament ten times, and in the
King James version it uses the other phrase. And that's
one of the things that Greg keeps saying on the
day job. He says, I can't get in trouble for
saying this. It's the name of an animal. I'm simply saying,

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you're acting like an animal, and we're like still out
of some think it's great, you know what I mean.
But anyway, in the Old Testament, ten times four of
them is right now. It has already been mentioned in Job,
chapter six, five and chapter eleven twelve twenty four to five,
and now here now it refers to the wild donkey's freedom.

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Look at look at five? Who has let the wild
donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the
swift donkey? Okay, the donkey is an impressive animal, It
didn't feel that way in the beginning. Had a pretty
prominent role on some pretty big things. But here it's
talking about the freedom he has been I've set him loose.

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And this one seems to ridicule Job just a little
because he's now getting into a place where he's kind
of having a little fun with Job. About how the
distance between Job and in God verse six, to whom
I have given the arid plane for his home and

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the salt land for his dwelling place. Now I know
that this is great. Not only have I turned the
donkey loose because it needs room. This thing's wild, it
runs crazy, so it's got to have some room. I
created the room that it needs, so I've got I'm

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everywhere in this the donkey I've created him. I've set
him free to enjoy the space that I also created.
And what he's talking about here is the salt sea
or the dead sea. It's that same area where these
wild donkeys ran crazy and seven. He scorns the tumult

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of the city. He hears, not the shouts of the driver.
The donkey is so free and so far away from
anything he is. The hustle and bustle of city life
never even comes into his world. He's got so much
room and he covers so much ground. He's so far
away from the things. You know, Joe, this is this

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is once again him ridiculedly ridiculing job that he's telling Job.
Remember we talked about this before. You have a pretty
small view of all I've created. You haven't seen that
much of it. I'm so much bigger than anything that
you can comprehend. There's things going on, job that are
that are away from the little city life that you

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have lived. There's the wild donkey is not even part
of city life. Okay, it's a whole different world. Job.
And I created where you live, but I've created where
they live. I'm unlimited. You are quite limited. Uh. And
then we get into verse eight. He ranges the mountains
as his pasture and he searches after every green thing. Interesting.

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Though he lives a life of freedom, he still has
to find food on his own. So he does. But remember,
here we go again, God showing us everything. I created
the donkey. I created the room that the donkey needed.
I created the swiftness, the strength, the wildness of the donkey.

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He must go, he must cover all kinds of ground
I have put in him, the ability to go and
find food, and what appears to be the vastness of
his own. And oh, by the way, I created the
food that he eventually finds. Wow, I mean it is
really showing a resume that has job. Certainly by this

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point with his mouth wide open, going I wish this
wasn't I wish this would end at some point Verse
nine Interesting. So on the line up, God says, I
got to talk about inventing animals and making animals. He
went with the lion, big, he went with the raven. Okay,
he's gone now with mountain goats, wild donkeys, next a

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wild ox. Now, it's important that both the donkey and
the ox. The ox, he's not talking about the domesticated versions.
He's talking about all these animals had to be domesticated,
but they wild out there in creation. And he's talking
about in these two instances. You'll see different when we
get to the horse. But he's talking about wild ox.
He's talking about wild donkeys. So he says, is the

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wild ox willing to serve you? So job, let me
ask you. Can you just walk out to a wild
ox and just say I want you to come to
work at my farm and then he just goes with you.
Will he spend the night at your manger? He just
EA's on in there. So you can go out there
and grab a wild ox and you're just gonna walk
him to the barn and he's just gonna walk in

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there and and go to work for you. It really
doesn't work that way, Tim. Can you bind him in
the furrow with ropes? Or or will he herold the
valleys after you? What these are questions that he's asking
about the wild ox? Are you gonna round him? Up,

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take him away from his freedoms, live in your barn,
go to work for you. Is the oxen gonna just
just go out there and and and stand still for
you as you hook him up to the plow. Is
that what's gonna happen. Anybody ever been around farm life
or been involved in ranches where you had to break
some animal for it to become domesticated. I've never experienced that.

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It looks like a handful from what I've saying. Now,
I've worked around cows, not an ox, but I've worked
around cows, and it does seem that they can sometimes
be unwilling to do what you want them to do,
and if they are, there's not a whole lot you
can do about it. And especially dealing with bulls. But
I have been chasing to a farm pond by a

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bull before, and you're standing out in the pond going, well,
if he never leaves, I wonder how this ends. Uh
you know, uh so, uh so, But that has happened.
But but this is a different situation. He's saying. I
just don't think that a wild ox is gonna go
to the barn, is gonna stand there and let you,
you know, just just hook him up to the plow. Uh?

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And eleven? Will you depend on him because his strength
is great? And will you leave him to your labor?
Are you gonna make the ox work for you? And
now now, job? Do you agree to get a wild
ox to the manger, hooked up to the plow and
go to work for you? That that's no easy task.

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It's not just gonna happen for me. It would be
if I, because see I created the wild ox, I
could take a wild ox and I could investigate here
with no problem at all. I don't think you can
do that. Can you take this, this wild animal that
I've made for you? Without all your farm hands, without
all the people you got trained? Could you go out there,

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take a wild ox and get him to go to
work for you? And of course job, but I'm sure
is given a big numb. No, I don't think I
could Verse twelve. Do you have faith in him that
he will return your grain and gather it to your
threshing floor? Can? Can you trust a wild ox? Do
you just do what you tell it to do, gather grain,

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haul it in for you? Can you get it to
do that? You ever seen a wild ox? They're big
and they're strong, and they're onnery. They're difficult. As a
matter of fact, I read up on that and it
said even when you had them, they were very hard
to deal with, even the domesticated ones. Many times they
would dump the grain out because you couldn't get them

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to stay straight. And again, I mean kind of one
of the things we'll get to when we get to
the horse. One of the things that always bothered me
about livestock, and they're so called domesticated. When you're on
a wild animal, even when it's domesticated, the things that
we have that get them to turn and go and
the things we connect them to. If they decide today

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they're not into it, there's not a whole lot you
can do about it, and that always bothered me. Plus
they don't have a clutch. It's just, you know, it's
kind of like I'm on a beast and I can
feel this power. I understand that maybe ten times he's
done it the right way, but if he decides today

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it's not going that way, it's going to be really difficult.
So the ox is another thing he wants job to consider.
So we got lions, we got ravens, we got mountain goats,
we got donkeys, we got ox now here comes an
odd one on God's resume. He will include the Ostrich.

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And he said some things that have got a little
depth to them. This animal, if you know a lot
about it in in the Kingdom, and I do. I'm
very interested in animals, so I do watch a lot
of animal documentaries. This is a very dangerous animal. It
seems silly in the way they look in the act,
but they're very dangerous. How many of you know this

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that Johnny Cash was nearly killed by an ostrich? Absolutely true,
absolutely true. Got into one of these, you know when
people keep them and whatever he this was before he
came to Jesus, and he got he got, He got
on somebody else's land and thought he was in a
different place and got inside an area where somebody was
keeping ostriches, and Ostrich nearly killed it. He had some

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major injuries. By the way, you don't hear Johnny Cash
Ostro's storage much in a Bible study, but but here
it seems to work. Uh So let's talk about the Ostrich. Uh.
God says, the wings of the ostrich wave proudly. But
are they the pinions and plumage of love. They may

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look inviting, and that may look like they're not dangerous,
but you know different, don't you, Job. I guess Joe
did that this is actually a very dangerous animal. I
think we're going to see later another animal that I
did expect. Two animals I did expect. In the resume.
I think what God is doing here too, And many agree.
We had the raven, which is a bird that can fly.

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We're going to have, you know, we're going to have
some ego and hawk action at the end. But God
is showing the vastness of his creation. The ostrich is
a what it's a flightless bird. It's a bird that
has wings. But the way the body is and how
heavy they are, I mean they weigh hundreds of pounds.

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It can't fly, but we'll find out more about it.
It's like God's showing in his creation. Fourteen is an
interesting comment, for she leaves her eggs to the earth
and lets them be warmed on the ground. They're they're
really not in the region where Job is any more today,
but they were at one time. And and and the

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female lays the eggs out in the open. But the
eggs are kind of the color of the sand, so
they would be camouflage, but they were kind of out
in the open. And uh and in fifteen, look what
he says about this though, forgetting that a foot may
crush them, and that the wild beasts may trample them.
This is interesting, by the way, if you know about ostrich,

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just the male actually deals with the eggs, sometimes more
than the female. Uh. And there and their they're left.
And when when like a predator shows up that might
give the ostrich some issues, they can lion or something
like that. A lot of times they will. They will
run off to try to get the predator away from
the eggs so they don't step on them. But it

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really lays out in the open camouflage by the sand.
But really, if you think about it, if she can't
get them to stay away from it, or even if
a big ox came along, they could just step on
them and crush them. And and sometimes this did happen.
So so look at sixteen. She deals cruelly with her
young as if they were not hers, though her labor

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be in vain, yet she has no fear. Now now
he's telling us that he's created an animal that lacks
maternal concern for the offspring, and she really has no
fear of the outcome. At first you think, well, well

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she has she has. She has no fear of anything else.
That's the reason what they're what he's saying. He saying,
she throws them out there and they open. She doesn't
really have an internal connection to them. If they get destroyed,
it doesn't really bother her. Uh. And and he's saying, see,
this is the vastness of my creation. I've even instilled

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in this particular animal. I didn't really put to maternal
connection or concern. And that was my call. And by
the way, in seventeen he said, I even have decided
that this animal will not have wisdom because God has
made her forget wisdom and has given no share in understanding.

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God says that he decided not to give this bird wisdom.
He did not endow the bird with any ability to
make wise decisions. Interesting, so God can decide even in
an animal and some bizarre bird. Here's the things I

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want this animal to have, and here's some things I'm
not going to give it. And you say, well, why
did you do that? God? And he goes, that's of
no concern of yours. I did it because I'm God
you yeah, but I have to know why. And somewhere
God says, well, I know why I did this. If
I told you how all this worked, your head would
likely explode. Yeah, I remember, my ways are not your ways.

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I would go, if you can give all the animals wisdom,
shouldn't you just give them all wisdom? But he says,
in this case, I didn't. It could be that this
bird does not have wisdom because he realized physically when
he finished making this bird. He's like, if I give
this bird wisdom, it's gonna kill a lot of people.
You know, at least at least hopefully. You just hope
that it's dumb enough that it won't follow you, you know,

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when you're you're getting away from because you can't outrun it.
You're gonna see that. By the way, these things are
extremely fast. So this is another thing God is showing.
I didn't give it a maternal instinct. I didn't give
it wisdom, I didn't give it an understanding, but I
did give it speed and I did give it strength.

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So see he did give those things, and that I
think one of the things. I know. We're not animals, okay,
but I have been guilty of this so many times.
And I do think the message is here in this
silly animal. Okay, how many times have you found yourself
concentrating on what God didn't give you? And somebody had

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to sit down with you and say, can I run
the list for you all the things God did do
for you? All the things God did give you? Right?
I mean, it's like I've told you this before, something
as silly as doing what I do for a living.
And God says, Rick, here's today response from the audience.
Three hundred comments today. Okay, two hundred and ninety eight

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are going to be encouraging. I'm gonna encourage and I'm
gonna love on you, and I'm gonna build you up
today and I'm gonna give you what you need so
you can come back and do this again tomorrow. But
I am going to allow two negative comments just to
keep you humble. And what do I spend the rest
of the day on two comments? And God said, so,
I give you two hundred and ninety eight of encouragement,

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and I give you two that challenge you and humble you.
And you can't You've forgotten the two ninety eight I
gave you Austar dridge speed, and I gave it strength.
So don't sit around talking about how I didn't give
you understanding and I didn't give you wisdom and I
didn't give you a maternal connection, because if I didn't
give you those, I've deemed that the way you're created,

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this is what you need and this is what you
don't need for you to be what I want you
to be. I know, I'm talking about a silly bird,
but it works. I mean that is a takeaway here
because God's not telling job what he gave and what
he didn't give for just some random reason. So here
we go. Let's talk about the speed of the animal,

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and it has plenty. It says when she rouses herself
to flee, if she decides to run, she laughs at
the horse and his rider. Interesting, So if you want
to know a little something about the old three hundred
pound bird, you got a three hundred pound bird that
can run forty miles an hour, that's picking them up

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and putting them down. And how about that that's a
load coming at you at forty miles an hour. Okay,
so you realize that if you were pursuing the ostrich
on a horse you could not catch it. She laughs
at a rider coming after on a horse. So again,
I did give you that, And that's the reason why

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maybe we would look like I said if I didn't,
if I gave her everything, she would be so dangerous
out there if she had understanding maternal instinct, which would
make her, what want to kill everybody that went near
her eggs. And let's say she can run forty miles
an hour. She's got she's three hundred pounds worth of strength. Okay,

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But yet she also was smart enough that you couldn't
get away from her. And she also would kill anybody
that went near her eggs. That probably problematic. And you
know with her feet, you know, they have these big claws.
She can disembowel you. That's usually how she kills her
she kills she takes that toenail, and she'll come down
your gut and just take and let your guts fall out.

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There's a pleasant thought if you ever decided to take
on an ostrich. Uh. But anyway, so next we moved
to really what is one of my favorite parts of
his animal resume, the war horse. I wish that I
was not afraid of horses, because they're so majestic, and
they're so beautiful, and they made the resume. I'm terrified

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of horses, and I wish I wasn't. That's a big animal.
It's a lot of speed, a lot of strength. There's
a lot of reasons why I'm afraid of them. I've
had some bad horse experiences and and I don't want
to be afraid of them because I find them incredible.
And if you've ever watched the movie Secretariat, that slow

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motion shot of Big Red picking them up and putting
them down and they begin to quote this out of
job as that big horse is coming around the track,
the greatest race horse of all time. Uh, it is
incredibly impressive. But speaking of that name, have you ever had

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that friend that if they were not in your life,
you would have avoided a lot of bad situations? And
I have this friend. We're still dear friends today. He
always wanted to do things, and every time I would
go on one of his adventures, I would always get injured.
One time I nearly drown. And so he comes up

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with this brilliant idea that while we had time off
from class, we were gonna work a horse farm in Jade, Florida,
and I'm like, what do you mean. He goes, Now,
we're just gonna be raking, you know, hey, and brushing
the horses and cleaning up dung. I'm like, well that
sounds great, and he said but he said, but they'll
feed us and we'll make some money and all this. Okay.

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So so we get there, and that's what I think
I'm doing. I'm not a horseman, okay. All of a sudden,
I've been doing the raking and all that. It seems
like it's going well. We've been brushing horses, and all
of a sudden, the guy says, all right, guys, let's
take them out for a ride. Excuse me, what did
you just say? He said, Well, these people board their
horses here. We got to ride them. That's part of

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what the service is. Because you keep them domesticated, keep
them broken. You got to ride them or they'll start
being difficult again. And I'm like, I'm riding one, and
he goes, yeah, get on a horse. So I don't
know anything about the different horses. So I get on
this horse. I think it's a normal sized horse. All
of a sudden, the door's open and I come out

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on it, and he goes oh, I said, you decided
to ride Big Red. And I look and I'm towering
over all the other horses, and I'm like, I'm on
the biggest horse you got. You got the big one,
and you must be something. I'm like, no, and I
don't want to be on this horse. And I mean
the little quarter horses were like coming like right here,
and I'm like, I'm on a giant horse. And so

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we go out for the run. Well, my so called
friend what does he do? And he's pretty good on
the horse, which was weird because he played nose guard
and I felt so bad for the horse. There was
a lot of lot of lot of stew on that horse.
And and and he comes by and he slaps the
butt of Big Red, and Big Red takes off with me.

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I mean wide open and big Red can go. And
and where I'm riding, Big Red gets in some mud
because I don't know where he's going, and all of
a sudden, he goes down. He starts losing his footing,
and I come all the way off that horse and
hit and I nearly got ran over by the horse,
and uh, and he got up and I stood up
with mud all over me, and I was like, you know,

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first you have to see am I alive? Did this
kill me? I look around, Yeah, I'm still where I'm at.
And and the guy comes running up and he goes,
well you big red through you? And I said, yes
he did, Yes he did? Uh yeah, I said, can
I request? Do you have one that y'all named old

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nearly dead gray? Can I ride the nearest death horse
that's here? And they finally brought it some old, I mean,
bad looking horse. The horse even looked at me like
I'm out if you're out, you know, I don't even
want to go, and that he came by and slapped
that horse and no hours any move. It was just
like you know. So, so I finally got on one

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that was named Glue and and that was a much
better ride. So you know, I've I've been stuffed on
by horses, stuff on my feet, had a horse to
try to kick me one time. I don't like horses,
but I wish I did because they're they're majestic and
they're beautifully beautifully made. So horses. We think this is

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clearly a war horse because of everything God says about
this horse mainly owned by royalty. Uh you know the
royals were really the only ones usually that that were
riding these type of horses. The first time, you know,
the first time we see a horse show up is
when Joseph is taking care of Pharaoh's stuff. And Genesis

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forty seven seventeen, we don't that's first time we hear
about a horse in the Bible. But so but horses
have been a huge part of creation. So look at nineteen.
He says, did you give the horse his might? Do
you clothe his neck with a mane? That's so straightforward?

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Can't you see him? Job? I'd like to know, did
you give Because Job has probably seen a horse, did
you give the horse its beauty and strength? Look at it?
You ever looked at a r They're impressive, man, they're impressive.
We actually saw some horses. Sherry's dad, my father in law,
has horses. And the fog was coming up on Saturday

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morning and we were in Gunnersville. I'd spoke the night
before and we stayed there to see some family and
we were at where Chery grew up, and we're looking
at over this this pasture and you see the morning
fog is out there, and see those horses standing in
that morning fog. One of them is all white and
has blue eyes, and start walking through that fog towardist

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and I'm like, man, I wish I wouldn't afraid of horses.
And then all I can think of is, hey, it's
coming nearest. It thinks we're going to feed it. So anyway,
he says, did you give the horse its beauty and
its strength? Twenty did you make him leap like a locust?
His majestic snorting is terrifying. Can't you see him? He says,

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something this large job? If you noted, could you have
made something this big and this athletic at the same time.
Just the power and the muscles and the strength of
this beautiful Look at the main I mean think about
God says, you know, I think it needs this and
that beautiful in that majestic and twenty two twenty one,

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he paws in the valley, exults in his strength. He
goes out to meet the weapons. The spirited horse is
eager and ready to meet his enemy. He's fearless. Did
you give him that fearless attitude? He's ready to go
to war. He wants to get out there, he wants
to be ready to go. Then we look at twenty two,

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he laughs at fear and is not dismayed. He does
not turn back from the sword. These are weapons of war.
His attitude of courage, it's even reckless. He's so courageous
it almost borderlines on being reckless. He's not even afraid
of the fact that he's headed into a war where

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there's weapons. And you know, many times we do know
this what they would do as a strategy, what they
cut the horse down, you know, to try to see
if they couldn't Britain knock that out from under you.
And so he says he's not even worried about that.
Twenty three. He laughs at fear. He's not dismayed by
the sword upon him, rattle, the quiver, the flashing spear

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in the javelin. Look at him, job, look at him.
There's weapons of war hanging all over his body. He's
ready to take the rider into war. He's fearless. Look
at this, he's even excited about it. With fierceness and rage.
He swallows the ground. He cannot stand still at the
sound of the trumpet. He's ready to go into war.

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He's restless. They haven't sounded the trumpet yet. He's ready
to go into war, Jobe, look at this animal that
I created. I am the creator of this that you see.
And you know what I think? And and like this
about the excitement and the charging swiftly, he's you know,
he's eating up the ground. He can't wait to get there.

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He's he's he's got the sound of the trumpet. When
when I think about that, the fierceness and rage he
swallows the ground. Can you see him just grabbing ground,
just just thundering down there? And and and I think,
what what happened here? Most likely because of the details,
and he's using a war horse. This has to be

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something that job has seen before. And I think what
God is reminding all of us? I mean, I think
about just Saturday morning when I saw three horses coming
through the morning fog. I think God is reminding us.
And there's nothing wrong with the first part, but we

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should always add the second instead of saying, wow would
a horse? Don't be afraid to be reminded. Wow would
a creator? Wow would a God? Because what I'm seeing,
and I'm so blown away by, represents a creator. The

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horse is nothing without God. The whatever I'm looking at,
and I'm amazed by him, and all of many times
you see it happening in our society. We have now
become in all of the earth, but we're not in
all of its creator. And there was a time when
all science started being in all of the Creator, and

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we were eager to let the creator show us how
he created. But then we decided that the creation and
the science was more what was more impressive to us
than the creator, and we took him out of it.
And he's saying when you see this, because he's probably saying, Job,
you probably were pretty impressed with this, because you've seen

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this scene before avague and Job is probably thinking about that.
He goes, did you ever think of me? Did you
ever think that I did that? And may that be
something like I love? There's a reason when I when
I get to go to the land that we have,
there's a reason I feel closer to God there because

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all the noise is taken away. But I have through
this study saying, the next time I step on that
hallowed ground, I'm going to be impressed with what I see.
But what I see is going to remind me of
how wonderful God is, not how wonderful a rolling green
hill might be. What about the one that orchestrated the

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rolling Green Hill. When I'm looking at that, because I
love hardwoods, y'all have hardwoods, and you're looking at these
beautiful hardwoods, these trees. I saw hardwood over the weekend
that it was easily two hundred years old, and it
just stretched out, and I thought, how long has this
thing stood here? How many things have happened all around it?

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But it's nothing compared to God. It's only been here
a few seconds, compared to how long he has been,
because he has always been twenty five. When the trumpet sounds,
he says, aha. He smells the battle from Afar, the
thunder of the captains, and the shouting the sounds. He

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loves the trumpet. He loves the sound of war. He
loves the sound of battle. He smells it, he hears
the shouts. Yes, he's domesticated, but this image is powerful.
This animal. Back to my point, This animal, though domesticated,

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is always on the verge of being out of control.
The bridle the bit, it's just an arrangement. If that big, old,
strong son of a gun decides not today, he can
take you anywhere he wants to go. He's right on
the verge of being out of control, especially if you

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don't tighten the bit, and he's able to get out
in front of his teeth. And now you're just pulling
across the front of his teeth. Be sure it's snug,
and you might have a chance. This is designed by
God to cause Job to be an awe all of
its wonder and respect its impressive sight, so that he
remembers how impressive God must be. Now we get into

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birds of prey. Is it by your understanding that the
hawk sores spread, spreads his wings towards the south. I
love birds of prey, I'm in all they really blow
me away. So this is a type of hawk because
the reason why he's telling it which way to go?
Here spreads its wings towards the south. Because when I

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first saw that, I'm like, well, hawks don't migrate where
I live for Rickia in south buddy. But but also
this is a type of hawk that he would have
been familiar with. And uh, and it actually goes to
the to the south. And in the autumn it's called
a lesser kestrel k E S t R E L.

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And And what Job had noticed where he lives there
was a time of year, these particular hawks went back
to Africa, and so he's saying, did you make the hawk?
And did you design the hawk where it takes its wings?
He goes, hey, it's time for me to go back
to Africa. It's about to start getting cooler. Did you
give him the ability to know when to do that?

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Of course, Joe, no, is it at your command that
the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high
You ever seen where eagles make their nests. It's unbelievable
And he goes, so, job, just with the creation, I
created this magnificent bird. I saw two bald eagles also
over the weekend. That's an impressive animal, by the way,
and their wings span. But you know when they decide

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to go make a dest I mean they're gone as
high as they can get. And he said, so, can
can you do that? Job? The eagle, the most common
bird in the Bible. Did job tell and teach these
magnificent creatures to do this superhuman feat? It's beyond what

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you can do, is job. Now, there's some things that
I've designed human beings that are beyond what they can do.
So you see what I'm talking about. But right now, Job,
I don't think you have the ability to fly. I
don't think you have the ability to soar. I don't
think you have that ability. Not only do you not
have that ability, you can't create anything with that ability.

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But I did. When you see that hawk, when you
see it go toward Africa, you think of me. When
you see that eagle and you see it soar with
that magnificent wingspan, and you see it going back up
to where it nests and doing this effortlessly, I want
you to be in awe of me instead of being
all the eagle. And I'd like to know, could you
make an eagle? Could you make a hawk? Because I did?

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By the way, that is the most common bird we
hear about in the Bible. He goes. He starts talking
to Job about this. He says, on the rock he
dwells and makes his home on the rocky Crag and stronghold.
He goes there, Job, and he used is a superhuman
eyesight to find his prey. By the way, Job, the

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super human eyesight, the ability to go up to this
high place and scan the planes for his prey and
to see clearly with eyesight that is beyond what you
have I taught him that. I taught him that I
created that eyesight, I gave him that ability. I was

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able to do that. Twenty nine. From there he spies
out the prey his eyes behold it from underline that
far away job? You realize how far that eagle can see?
Did you know that I decided the eagle needed to
see far away so he can Can you can you
create this bird? And can you can you give it

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that kind of majesty? Can you give it that ability?
The egle finds its food thirty his young ones suck
up blood, and where the slain are there is he?
That's one of the things. Now I want you to
thinking about how far ahead this was gonna be? Mind

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boggling right now? Do you realize that job Chapter thirty nine,
verse thirty how far ahead this comment from God is?
Do you know that it wasn't till just recently. For
the longest time, there was a belief in the animal
kingdom from zoologists and all these scientists that eagles only ate,

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pray they killed, that they were not scavengers. We now
know they are scavengers. As a matter of fact, the
eagles that I saw Saturday were eating something dead big
bold bald eagles. You know, gunners was where we brought
them back in the population. They are all over guns well,
and so this is only in recent animal history science said,

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by the way, eagles are scavengers to the Bible told
you they were a scavenger and job before before we
agreed with that or saw it for ourselves because people
for the longest we couldn't get any documentation of them
eating dead animals. And then we start realizing they'll eat
something dead just like they will go and catch something alive,

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you know, so really because they were trying to you
know how we do now that's buzzards, that's that's the
clean up crew. That's the scavengers, not the majestic eagle.
The majestic eagle must hunt and kill. The blood must
be warm, it must be now. And they they they're there,
they'll go out and take what everything find. Well, well,
where the slain are there he is so so so

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that also is something that's being shown to us pretty
early in the Bible. So this is going to conclude
the first interrogation questions from the cosmos to the coming
of rain, from the King of Beast to the King
of the birds, What could Job say? What can anyone say?

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What can anyone say? Can we compare ourselves to God?
And you think about just the little do you realize that,
even for our benefit, how much God has to take
his resume and shorten it of all the things that
he can say. And to watch how the animal kingdom

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and how creation operates it kind of reminds you and
kind of affirms again what the apostle Paul said. Nobody
has an excuse. I mean, who you kidding? You really
look around at everything and think that this randomly just
fell into place by happenstance and chance. You know that

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God exists. Everybody knows God exists, if by no other evidence. Creation, Creation,
Creation screams, look at our magnificent creator. And then when

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this beautiful design you find the flaws now in it.
Those flaws do not come from the creator. The creator
did it perfectly. The flaws come from the fallenness of
creation caused by the entrance of sin when the first
rebellion took place. And Job is being reminded of it again,

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and you'll see the lesson he's being taught. When we
finish the first mistake, We as human beings made when
God said, enjoy creation, I will provide all that you need.
The only arrangement we have is I will decide what
is right and wrong. I will decide what is good
and evil. And the deceiver came in and said, shouldn't

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you decide that for yourself? Don't trust him to decide it.
And we bought that line, and we have to be
reminded over and over again what a mistake that was.
Let's pray, Lord, thank you for today, thank you for
the message, Thank you for just the wonder of you.

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We are in all of you. We respect you, we
fear you. You're wonderfully scary, but we also take solace.
And though you are just and you are wrath and

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you are creator, you are also grace. You are also mercy,
and you are also love. How wonderful you are, and
how gracious you are to allow us the opportunity to
make right what we did wrong by pouring your wrath

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out on your innocent son, So that all who are
willing to repent and own our mistake and say we
were wrong and you were right, Please forgive us that
we can be made fully righteous, and we can long
for the day when you take this creation, as impressive

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as it still is in its fallen state, because you're
so wonderful that those that you have redeemed will one
day be back in the garden with you again, and
we'll see the new heaven and the new Earth that
will be even beyond what we can see now, because

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it will return to perfection. Oh what a God you are,
and you and you alone are worthy of worship. And
though you allow us to enjoy this creation, we are
much more impressed by its creator and your holy name.

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We pray Amen.