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Blessed is the man
who walketh not in the council the ungodly
Nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth
in seated the scornful
but his delight is on the law of the LORD
and on his law
doth he meditate day and night
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and he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water
that brings forth his fruit and his season
his weaf also shall not weather
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Welcome
to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
(01:01):
and let the Bible speak to us all
let us, as a former generation said
go add fontaise
to the fountain
and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
let's dig in together
(01:26):
hello
and welcome back to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
where we go adfantes to the fountain
to the Word of God.
To be nourished and sustained by all the God is
as he's revealed Himself to us.
My name is Tyler,
and we are continuing to March
verse by verse to the Book of Job.
Now coming to
verse 8
I will be reading through to verse 12.
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These are the words of God
for what is the hope of the hypocrite
though he hath gained when God taketh away his soul
10 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him
will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call upon God?
I will teach? You by the hand of God
that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal
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behold all ye yourselves have seen it.
Why then are ye thus all together vain?
And we have been working through some statements of job
as he returns
an address from Bildad
as he returned
some statements from Bildad about god's holiness
and job's implied unholiness,
(02:32):
and Job said last week, God is not his enemy
that's where we left off was that' God is not my enemy
let my enemy be the wicked,
let my enemy be god's enemies essentially
but here he says, what is the hope of the hypocrite
though he has gained when God taken away his soul
the may of us who grew up in the church
may be familiar with the verse in Luke.
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This is what does it profit a man
if he gains the whole world
it forfeits his soul and I believe that is a reference
to this
believe that Jesus is quoting Job when He says that
and that this is something that
hearkens back to the Book of Job.
But the idea here being is that there are people
that don't have this
there are people that do not have hope in God
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that God is very much an enemy to them
and what are the sort of people?
What do they do
is the question that Job is asking he says do they
will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon
him will he the wicked people, the hypocrites
will they delight in God?
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Will they always call upon God?
Will God hear their cry when trouble comes upon them
and this
is something that is
difficult to articulate? I'll be honest
because I've heard this abuse I've heard this idea
twisted and contorted to be something that's not
and I've heard people say that God doesn't hear sinners
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and if that is the case,
I'm in trouble
though I profess Christ. I am by definition as sinner
and so we make a
blanket statement that God does not hear the
prayer of sinners.
We got issues,
but the context here
the greater scope of what's going on here
is not so much that God doesn't' hear
because they're sinners'
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as much as it is that there's not a relationship
component here,
because
often times we've seen' that God
begins the dialogue he doesn't respond,
but he begins it
who can believe that they have not heard
this is Paul and Romans.
Likewise, we have all these
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passages in the Old Testament that talk about being
silent before God
about listening to God,
and I believe what is implied here
is that the relational content
of walking with God
begins by listening, not by speaking
and that that is the picture that Job is painting here
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is not so much
that God doesn't' hear sinners because of sinners
as much as my sheep hear my voice.
The God speaks first and we listen
and that the relationship starts with God,
and so they
the God doesn't' hear them because He doesn't' know them
there's not a back and forth.
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They don't hear His voice, they're not listening for Him
and so there's a relational deficit
when the hypocrites cry out to God
if we look over at Psalm 29,
this is a passage that my pastor preached last Sunday.
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It says The voice of the Lord is upon the waters.
The God of glory thundereth the
the Lord is upon many waters.
The voice of the Lord is powerful,
the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
The voice of the Lord braketh the cedars
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yea, the Lord braketh the cedars of Lebanon
so we've got this picture here
of the voice of Lore that it thunders
it is powerful, it is intense it is strong
it is noticeable.
It says he maketh them also to skip like a calf,
Lebanon insiden Assyrian like a young
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unicorn, as the King James says
or others might say something else
the voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire
the voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness
the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Cadish.
The voice of the LORD maketh
the hinds to calve
the voice of the lore causes smaller things
like the birth of a child.
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So it's not all of thunder it's not all
extravagance, but there's something smaller something
we can know,
and the overarching call of
Psalm 29 is listen to the God who is both
listen to his voice.
This goes throughout the Old Testament.
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This idea that we have to listen to God
go back to Genesis 3
when God is dishing out punishments. After
Adam and Eve eat the fruit,
he says to Adam
Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife
because you have listened to some
to a voice other than mine.
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And then we get to Deuteronomy
and there's that famous phrase in Deuteronomy 6
here Israellisten, Israel
and then he feeds them
and so in Genesis Adam and Eve do not listen and eat
but in Deuteronomy they listen and are fed by God,
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and so part of the
unveiling of himself that God is enacting
through the Old Testament is this idea of listening
and I go on that tangent
because it's relevant here
because Bildad EliphazZofar has spent a lot of time
speaking for God,
speaking on behalf of God, speaking authoritatively
speaking authoritatively my
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mistake about
God,
this is what God would do
this is what God would be like this is this is this is
and they spend a lot more time talking about God
speaking on behalf of God than they seem to spend
listening to God.
I've said it before and I'll say it again
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the wisest thing that
these 3 did in this entire book thus far
has been when they sat down in silence with Job for.
7 days when they sat down beside him and said nothing
because once they started talking it all goes downhill
because they show themselves to be men without wisdom
men with knowledge but not wisdom
they know a lot of stuff.
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They know a lot of things that are
objectively true
but they're not relevant here
they don't have knowledge that they're sharing, at least
that is
useful
and that's
the difference between knowledge and wisdom is
wisdom is useful,
useful as wisdom is relevant.
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And so they spend a lot of time speaking for God,
but I don't think they spend as much time listening
to God, listening for the voice of God,
that shakes the theaters
and causes the deer to give birth.
And this
jope says these are the people
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that are the hypocrite
that God take of the way their soul.
These are the people that do not delight themselves in
the Almighty
that God does not hear them when troubles come because
they have not been listening to God
when things are going
well
when the troubles arise,
they cry out to God
without having that ongoing relational
depth with God,
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and so God
in some sense doesn't hear
not so much that He is unaware
but
He withholds that
experience. He withholds that
and they don't delight themselves in God
in the Almighty as it says
in HebrewEl Shaddai
that is the overpower.
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They don't delight themselves in the God who is
powerful in the God who is more powerful than they
that is not a delight
to these people that Job is describing,
and I think it is safe to say that
the people he's describing
are the people he's been talking with
this entire book
that this is a picture
of Eliphaz Bildad and Zophar as they are hypocrites
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he's called them
counselors of no value.
He's called them all kinds of things
throughout this book
and to say that they're hypocrites at this point
it tracks
to say that they do not listen for God
tracks to say that they
do not delight themselves
in the might of God
seems to track
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and so will they.
The hypocrites delight themselves in the Almighty.
Will he always call upon God,
and the answer would be no
psalm 37 says delight yourself in the Lord
and he will give you the desires of your heart
and that's another phrase that' has' been
abused and twisted into something
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made to be something it's not
is this idea that if you delight yourself in God
he'll give you what you want
but the reality is if we delight ourselves in God,
if God is our delight He gives us
what we delight in which is
Him.
If we delight ourselves in God,
he gives us more of himself
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that is the picture in Psalms, so we delight in God.
There is none in heaven that
I desire besides thee
but the
hypocrite does not have that he does not delight
in God. He doesn't delight in
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the might of God.
That is not a delight to him
that that is something to be celebrated and to be
enjoyed, that God is powerful
because to the hypocrite God is something to be
manipulated. God is a thing to be profited from
god is something to be extorted when it's convenient,
and that has been the testimony of these 3 friends
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is that the only reason
God would be punishing Joe would be
dishing out. Suffering. Would be of Joe of sin
the
only reason
that Joe would be suffering
as if he was in a wrong standing with God,
and ultimately in their analysis
God could only do what he's doing
if Job was in the wrong
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and that is,
as we said this is, not wisdom this is, not true
because we have access to job one and 2
that lays out that this is
for a design that
Joe doesn't know.
There's a reason for this and rather than trying to
rest in the fact that God is wiser than they
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they have tried to prove themselves wiser than Job
that this is your problem. This is what you need to do
here's your here's your 12 step program
to get back on the right track
rather than sitting there in silence with Him
to meet with God.
They've not been listening for God
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they've been speaking on behalf of
God without all the facts
and these sorts of people.
Job says what hope do they have
because they don't delight in God.
They don't listen to his voice,
but he says, I will teach you by the hand of God.
That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal
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that is
with that which is with
El Shadai I will not conceal. I will let God be God
dude army 2929
says that the secret things belongeth to the LORD
our God, but that which hath been revealed
belongeth to us and to our children for what purpose,
so that we may
do things in this law.
That there is value to what God has made known,
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and so let it be known is
essentially what Job is saying
let the things
that are true of God that He is revealed to me
be available to you.
Let me share what God has taught me with you.
That is job's mindset. Here
he says that he will do this
by the hand of God
that he will teach from
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the hand of God that it is God who enables him
to teach to share to speak
and that's only possible because Joe has'
listened because Joe has walked with God.
It says in the book of Acts
of the disciples
that though people did not believe what they
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were preaching,
it says that they noted that they had been with Jesus
and the case seems to be true here with Job
that this is a man who has been with God
who has walked with God
and though he has suffered
and though he is continuing to suffer
Job seems to recognize that to speak
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of what is in God
requires him to be imbued with the power of God
with the Spirit of God.
That is the whole concept of this chapter right now
is that Job has the Spirit of God within him
god is within Job, and he recognizes that
it says by this I will teach
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that which is with God.
I will not hide, I will not conceal.
In verse 12
all ye yourselves have seen it.
You have seen
these things that are true of God because they are
out there they are not hidden
it says Why then are ye thus altogether
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vain?
And that word in Hebrew is
Hevel
and I point that out
because that is a key
word in the book of Ecclesiastes
oftentimes we read that is vanity
or meaninglessness or something like that
this idea of emptiness
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to be painfully literal with Hebrew.
It's vapor, it's wind, that that's the word,
you are all together. Wind.
You can't hold it, you can't
count it. You can't you can't measure it. It's
it's wind, it's unattainable,
and that is what you are says Job.
That is what you 3 are
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you are useless councillors, you are vain people,
you are hypocrites
claiming to be wise,
ye have.
Shown yourselves to be fools.
This is the the parallel between Job and these 3
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is that they claim to speak for God, but Job hasn't
at thus far has tried to listen for God
and he's going to say some pretty bold things
as we continue through the book
and God is going to
sort out some business.
But at the end of the day
Job desires
to walk with God.
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Job desires to let God be God let Job be Job
and to sit at his feet
says, as in one of the prophets,
the Lord is in his holy temple
let all the earth keep silent before him
there is a place for being silent before God,
and Job acknowledges that and these 3 have not
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they've done a lot of talking
and not a lot of listening
that
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speaks magnitudes to how we relate to God,
how much time do we spend talking for God, and
how much time do we spend listening for God,
getting alone with God
being silent and letting God speak
how much at that time
do we
use?
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Because
it doesn't say in John 10 that my sheep
preach my words, it says my sheep hear my voice,
are we the sheep they hear His voice?
One? Are we sheep? Are we the sheep? Of God and 2
are we listening for His voice?
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Are we getting acquainted with His voice?
Because when we get acquainted with the voice we don't
say dumb things
like what Bill that elephasm Zofar have said
that have no bearing on the present situation
when we know what truth sounds like
that changes things
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and so ultimately the picture that Joe paints
is that they are hypocrites
claiming to be wise, they become full. This is a picture
of his counsellors of his accusers of his Satans.
We went from having Satan
the accuser at the beginning of this book to adding 3
others to adding multiple accusers
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and he has had multiple people
accusing him of various things that are not true
they have shown themselves to be every bit as
unwise in this story as the devil himself
they have
not show themselves to be friends.
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Proverbs 17:17says that a friend
loveth at all times
and a brother is born for adversity
but Job is not the better off in its adversity
because they are here
he does not have wise counsel.
The only one that he has
is God. His friends are of. No benefit.
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The only
character in this story that is in job's corner
that is working for his good that is to his benefit
is God,
and so Job endeavors to listen for His voice
may we be people who listen for his voice?
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May that be the cry of our hearts
to hear his voice?
Maybe not audibly maybe not with our ears
but to know what God desires of us
you long to have that question. Answer what
do you desire of me?
What do you want me to be God?
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To ask of God
to ask God
to know
God,
not just to know of God, but to know Him,
to hear His voice, to walk in His ways
Jeremiah 6 says,
ask for the old path where the good way is
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and walk in them,
and ye shall find rest
for your souls,
and I leave you once again
with the words of Jesus,
come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon thee and learn of me
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for I am meek and lowly at heart,
and ye shall find rest for your souls
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god Bless Matthew 44.
Blessed is the man
who walketh not in the council the ungodly
Nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth
in seated the scornful
but his delight is on the law of the LORD
and on his law
doth he meditate day and night
(00:38):
and he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water
that brings forth his fruit and his season
his weaf also shall not weather
and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Welcome
to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
(01:01):
and let the Bible speak to us all
let us, as a former generation said
go add fontaise
to the fountain
and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
let's dig in together
(01:26):
hello
and welcome back to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
where we go adfantes to the fountain
to the Word of God.
To be nourished and sustained by all the God is
as he's revealed Himself to us.
My name is Tyler,
and we are continuing to March
verse by verse to the Book of Job.
Now coming to
verse 8
I will be reading through to verse 12.
(01:47):
These are the words of God
for what is the hope of the hypocrite
though he hath gained when God taketh away his soul
10 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him
will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call upon God?
I will teach? You by the hand of God
that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal
(02:10):
behold all ye yourselves have seen it.
Why then are ye thus all together vain?
And we have been working through some statements of job
as he returns
an address from Bildad
as he returned
some statements from Bildad about god's holiness
and job's implied unholiness,
(02:32):
and Job said last week, God is not his enemy
that's where we left off was that' God is not my enemy
let my enemy be the wicked,
let my enemy be god's enemies essentially
but here he says, what is the hope of the hypocrite
though he has gained when God taken away his soul
the may of us who grew up in the church
may be familiar with the verse in Luke.
(02:52):
This is what does it profit a man
if he gains the whole world
it forfeits his soul and I believe that is a reference
to this
believe that Jesus is quoting Job when He says that
and that this is something that
hearkens back to the Book of Job.
But the idea here being is that there are people
that don't have this
there are people that do not have hope in God
(03:15):
that God is very much an enemy to them
and what are the sort of people?
What do they do
is the question that Job is asking he says do they
will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon
him will he the wicked people, the hypocrites
will they delight in God?
(03:35):
Will they always call upon God?
Will God hear their cry when trouble comes upon them
and this
is something that is
difficult to articulate? I'll be honest
because I've heard this abuse I've heard this idea
twisted and contorted to be something that's not
and I've heard people say that God doesn't hear sinners
(03:58):
and if that is the case,
I'm in trouble
though I profess Christ. I am by definition as sinner
and so we make a
blanket statement that God does not hear the
prayer of sinners.
We got issues,
but the context here
the greater scope of what's going on here
is not so much that God doesn't' hear
because they're sinners'
(04:20):
as much as it is that there's not a relationship
component here,
because
often times we've seen' that God
begins the dialogue he doesn't respond,
but he begins it
who can believe that they have not heard
this is Paul and Romans.
Likewise, we have all these
(04:41):
passages in the Old Testament that talk about being
silent before God
about listening to God,
and I believe what is implied here
is that the relational content
of walking with God
begins by listening, not by speaking
and that that is the picture that Job is painting here
(05:01):
is not so much
that God doesn't' hear sinners because of sinners
as much as my sheep hear my voice.
The God speaks first and we listen
and that the relationship starts with God,
and so they
the God doesn't' hear them because He doesn't' know them
there's not a back and forth.
(05:22):
They don't hear His voice, they're not listening for Him
and so there's a relational deficit
when the hypocrites cry out to God
if we look over at Psalm 29,
this is a passage that my pastor preached last Sunday.
(05:47):
It says The voice of the Lord is upon the waters.
The God of glory thundereth the
the Lord is upon many waters.
The voice of the Lord is powerful,
the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
The voice of the Lord braketh the cedars
(01:00:00):
yea, the Lord braketh the cedars of Lebanon
so we've got this picture here
of the voice of Lore that it thunders
it is powerful, it is intense it is strong
it is noticeable.
It says he maketh them also to skip like a calf,
Lebanon insiden Assyrian like a young
(01:00:22):
unicorn, as the King James says
or others might say something else
the voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire
the voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness
the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Cadish.
The voice of the LORD maketh
the hinds to calve
the voice of the lore causes smaller things
like the birth of a child.
(01:00:45):
So it's not all of thunder it's not all
extravagance, but there's something smaller something
we can know,
and the overarching call of
Psalm 29 is listen to the God who is both
listen to his voice.
This goes throughout the Old Testament.
(01:01:06):
This idea that we have to listen to God
go back to Genesis 3
when God is dishing out punishments. After
Adam and Eve eat the fruit,
he says to Adam
Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife
because you have listened to some
to a voice other than mine.
(01:01:28):
And then we get to Deuteronomy
and there's that famous phrase in Deuteronomy 6
here Israellisten, Israel
and then he feeds them
and so in Genesis Adam and Eve do not listen and eat
but in Deuteronomy they listen and are fed by God,
(01:01:52):
and so part of the
unveiling of himself that God is enacting
through the Old Testament is this idea of listening
and I go on that tangent
because it's relevant here
because Bildad EliphazZofar has spent a lot of time
speaking for God,
speaking on behalf of God, speaking authoritatively
speaking authoritatively my
(01:02:13):
mistake about
God,
this is what God would do
this is what God would be like this is this is this is
and they spend a lot more time talking about God
speaking on behalf of God than they seem to spend
listening to God.
I've said it before and I'll say it again
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the wisest thing that
these 3 did in this entire book thus far
has been when they sat down in silence with Job for.
7 days when they sat down beside him and said nothing
because once they started talking it all goes downhill
because they show themselves to be men without wisdom
men with knowledge but not wisdom
they know a lot of stuff.
(01:02:55):
They know a lot of things that are
objectively true
but they're not relevant here
they don't have knowledge that they're sharing, at least
that is
useful
and that's
the difference between knowledge and wisdom is
wisdom is useful,
useful as wisdom is relevant.
(01:03:15):
And so they spend a lot of time speaking for God,
but I don't think they spend as much time listening
to God, listening for the voice of God,
that shakes the theaters
and causes the deer to give birth.
And this
jope says these are the people
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that are the hypocrite
that God take of the way their soul.
These are the people that do not delight themselves in
the Almighty
that God does not hear them when troubles come because
they have not been listening to God
when things are going
well
when the troubles arise,
they cry out to God
without having that ongoing relational
depth with God,
(01:03:58):
and so God
in some sense doesn't hear
not so much that He is unaware
but
He withholds that
experience. He withholds that
and they don't delight themselves in God
in the Almighty as it says
in HebrewEl Shaddai
that is the overpower.
(01:04:18):
They don't delight themselves in the God who is
powerful in the God who is more powerful than they
that is not a delight
to these people that Job is describing,
and I think it is safe to say that
the people he's describing
are the people he's been talking with
this entire book
that this is a picture
of Eliphaz Bildad and Zophar as they are hypocrites
(01:04:40):
he's called them
counselors of no value.
He's called them all kinds of things
throughout this book
and to say that they're hypocrites at this point
it tracks
to say that they do not listen for God
tracks to say that they
do not delight themselves
in the might of God
seems to track
(01:05:02):
and so will they.
The hypocrites delight themselves in the Almighty.
Will he always call upon God,
and the answer would be no
psalm 37 says delight yourself in the Lord
and he will give you the desires of your heart
and that's another phrase that' has' been
abused and twisted into something
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made to be something it's not
is this idea that if you delight yourself in God
he'll give you what you want
but the reality is if we delight ourselves in God,
if God is our delight He gives us
what we delight in which is
Him.
If we delight ourselves in God,
he gives us more of himself
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that is the picture in Psalms, so we delight in God.
There is none in heaven that
I desire besides thee
but the
hypocrite does not have that he does not delight
in God. He doesn't delight in
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the might of God.
That is not a delight to him
that that is something to be celebrated and to be
enjoyed, that God is powerful
because to the hypocrite God is something to be
manipulated. God is a thing to be profited from
god is something to be extorted when it's convenient,
and that has been the testimony of these 3 friends
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is that the only reason
God would be punishing Joe would be
dishing out. Suffering. Would be of Joe of sin
the
only reason
that Joe would be suffering
as if he was in a wrong standing with God,
and ultimately in their analysis
God could only do what he's doing
if Job was in the wrong
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and that is,
as we said this is, not wisdom this is, not true
because we have access to job one and 2
that lays out that this is
for a design that
Joe doesn't know.
There's a reason for this and rather than trying to
rest in the fact that God is wiser than they
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they have tried to prove themselves wiser than Job
that this is your problem. This is what you need to do
here's your here's your 12 step program
to get back on the right track
rather than sitting there in silence with Him
to meet with God.
They've not been listening for God
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they've been speaking on behalf of
God without all the facts
and these sorts of people.
Job says what hope do they have
because they don't delight in God.
They don't listen to his voice,
but he says, I will teach you by the hand of God.
That which is with the Almighty will I not conceal
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that is
with that which is with
El Shadai I will not conceal. I will let God be God
dude army 2929
says that the secret things belongeth to the LORD
our God, but that which hath been revealed
belongeth to us and to our children for what purpose,
so that we may
do things in this law.
That there is value to what God has made known,
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and so let it be known is
essentially what Job is saying
let the things
that are true of God that He is revealed to me
be available to you.
Let me share what God has taught me with you.
That is job's mindset. Here
he says that he will do this
by the hand of God
that he will teach from
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the hand of God that it is God who enables him
to teach to share to speak
and that's only possible because Joe has'
listened because Joe has walked with God.
It says in the book of Acts
of the disciples
that though people did not believe what they
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were preaching,
it says that they noted that they had been with Jesus
and the case seems to be true here with Job
that this is a man who has been with God
who has walked with God
and though he has suffered
and though he is continuing to suffer
Job seems to recognize that to speak
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of what is in God
requires him to be imbued with the power of God
with the Spirit of God.
That is the whole concept of this chapter right now
is that Job has the Spirit of God within him
god is within Job, and he recognizes that
it says by this I will teach
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that which is with God.
I will not hide, I will not conceal.
In verse 12
all ye yourselves have seen it.
You have seen
these things that are true of God because they are
out there they are not hidden
it says Why then are ye thus altogether
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vain?
And that word in Hebrew is
Hevel
and I point that out
because that is a key
word in the book of Ecclesiastes
oftentimes we read that is vanity
or meaninglessness or something like that
this idea of emptiness
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to be painfully literal with Hebrew.
It's vapor, it's wind, that that's the word,
you are all together. Wind.
You can't hold it, you can't
count it. You can't you can't measure it. It's
it's wind, it's unattainable,
and that is what you are says Job.
That is what you 3 are
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you are useless councillors, you are vain people,
you are hypocrites
claiming to be wise,
ye have.
Shown yourselves to be fools.
This is the the parallel between Job and these 3
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is that they claim to speak for God, but Job hasn't
at thus far has tried to listen for God
and he's going to say some pretty bold things
as we continue through the book
and God is going to
sort out some business.
But at the end of the day
Job desires
to walk with God.
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Job desires to let God be God let Job be Job
and to sit at his feet
says, as in one of the prophets,
the Lord is in his holy temple
let all the earth keep silent before him
there is a place for being silent before God,
and Job acknowledges that and these 3 have not
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they've done a lot of talking
and not a lot of listening
that
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speaks magnitudes to how we relate to God,
how much time do we spend talking for God, and
how much time do we spend listening for God,
getting alone with God
being silent and letting God speak
how much at that time
do we
use?
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Because
it doesn't say in John 10 that my sheep
preach my words, it says my sheep hear my voice,
are we the sheep they hear His voice?
One? Are we sheep? Are we the sheep? Of God and 2
are we listening for His voice?
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Are we getting acquainted with His voice?
Because when we get acquainted with the voice we don't
say dumb things
like what Bill that elephasm Zofar have said
that have no bearing on the present situation
when we know what truth sounds like
that changes things
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and so ultimately the picture that Joe paints
is that they are hypocrites
claiming to be wise, they become full. This is a picture
of his counsellors of his accusers of his Satans.
We went from having Satan
the accuser at the beginning of this book to adding 3
others to adding multiple accusers
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and he has had multiple people
accusing him of various things that are not true
they have shown themselves to be every bit as
unwise in this story as the devil himself
they have
not show themselves to be friends.
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Proverbs 17:17says that a friend
loveth at all times
and a brother is born for adversity
but Job is not the better off in its adversity
because they are here
he does not have wise counsel.
The only one that he has
is God. His friends are of. No benefit.
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The only
character in this story that is in job's corner
that is working for his good that is to his benefit
is God,
and so Job endeavors to listen for His voice
may we be people who listen for his voice?
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May that be the cry of our hearts
to hear his voice?
Maybe not audibly maybe not with our ears
but to know what God desires of us
you long to have that question. Answer what
do you desire of me?
What do you want me to be God?
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To ask of God
to ask God
to know
God,
not just to know of God, but to know Him,
to hear His voice, to walk in His ways
Jeremiah 6 says,
ask for the old path where the good way is
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and walk in them,
and ye shall find rest
for your souls,
and I leave you once again
with the words of Jesus,
come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon thee and learn of me
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for I am meek and lowly at heart,
and ye shall find rest for your souls
thank you for listening.
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