? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? all the praise... ? [music]
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Pastor Byrd: Can you
imagine, friends of mine,
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losing everything you had?
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Everything gone.
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Your health, gone.
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Your wealth, gone.
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Your family, gone.
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And then on top of that your
so-called friends, who you've
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given money to help out,
come by and folks you helped,
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because you do know the people
you help the most appreciate
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it the least.
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
The people you've helped
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come by and instead
of saying "God bless you,
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Brother," or, "We're
praying for you, Brother,"
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they say no, we're just
going to criticize you by saying
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"The reason, Job, you're going
through this must be because
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you're not right with God."
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The text, Job 13,
expounds on the second cycle
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of conversations
with Job and his friends.
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But after charges of being
accused a sinner, my friends,
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Job then says, "Let me respond."
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In verse 1 and 2, Job confirms
that he has seen and heard
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the same thing that
his friend Zophar has.
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Job is not ignorant of
the things that are taking
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place around him,
nor is he ignorant
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of the theology of the day.
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In verse 4, Job tells his
friends, "Look, I've talked
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to you enough.
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I'm tired of talking to
you, let me know take you
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to the top.
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Let me take it and
talk to the One who says
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the buck stops here."
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Job has already heard what
his friends have had to say,
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and they are of no
help, so now he says,
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"Let me speak to the
One who's in charge."
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In verse number 4 then,
Job goes on the offensive.
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He has listened to the
"wisdom" of his friends and now
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he wants to speak.
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You see, I must
admit, I'm a little like Job.
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Job was one who believed,
if you're going to say what
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you're going to
say, then in the spirit
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of reciprocity let me
say what I'm going to say.
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And because of this,
you're going to listen.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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[Aud. reaction]:
PB: The Bible says Job
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calls them worthless liars.
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He calls them worthless doctors.
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Job calls his friends
worthless physicians because
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they have given advice,
but they have no cure for it.
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We know a lot of times what
the problem is, but if you don't
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have a solution then I suggest
you just ought to be quiet.
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He says that the wisest
thing you can do is sit down
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somewhere and listen.
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So Job then begins to
ask his friends a series
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of rhetorical questions.
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Number one, in verse 7, he
says, "Will you speak falsely
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for God?"
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Verse 8, he says,
"Are you God's mouthpiece?"
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Verse 9, he says, "When it's
all said and done, where will
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you stand with God?
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And so, in verse 12 Job tells
his friends that their wisdom
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is nothing more
than ashes and clay.
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Job asks his
friends to let him speak.
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He says that once he
says what he has to say,
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then let the chips
fall where they may.
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And so he comes to
the text of Scripture.
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In verse number
15, "Though he slay me,
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yet will I trust in him."
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I like the way the
Holman Christian Standard Bible
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puts it.
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It says, "Even if God kills
me, I will have hope in him."
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Regardless of what comes
my way, I still will have hope
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in God.
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Hallelujah, friends of mine.
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So then, what do you
do when trouble strikes?
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What do you do when
the bottom falls out?
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What do you do when you
feel like throwing in the towel?
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What do you do when you've
been diagnosed with cancer
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or some incurable disease?
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What do you do when you
or someone you love has been
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diagnosed with HIV.
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What do you do when
your loved one dies?
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What do you do when your
daughter dies, when she's only
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four months old?
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What do you do?
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Three things I want to suggest
to you then Iím going to sit
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down.
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Number one, and this is
no theological masterpiece.
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When trouble comes, you've
got to learn how to trust God.
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[Aud. reaction]:
PB: "Trust in the Lord
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with all thine heart,
and lean not unto thine own
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understanding but in all
thy ways acknowledge him,
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and he shall direct thy path."
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"Faith is the
substance of things hoped for,
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the evidence of things
not seen." "Without faith
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it is impossible to please God."
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"God is the rewarder
of those that diligently
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seek him."
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Friends of mine,
things may get rough.
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But you've got to
keep trusting in God.
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Things may get tough,
but you've got to keep
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trusting in God.
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You may feel like giving
up sometimes, but you've got
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to keep trusting in God.
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Sickness may be running
through your body, but you've
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got to keep
trusting in your God.
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You might not have a penny
to your name, but you've got
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to keep trusting in God.
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Your marriage may be in
trouble, your children may
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be out of control, but you've
got to keep trusting in God
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because I once was young,
but now Iím old, but I've never
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seen the righteous
forsaken nor his seed begging
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for bread.
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You have to have
faith - [Aud. reaction]:
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PB: in God.
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Regardless of your troubles,
you've got to keep trusting
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in God.
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No matter how you're
suffering, you've got to keep
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trusting God.
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No matter what you deal with,
you've got to keep trusting
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God.
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No matter what people do
to you, you've got to keep
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trusting God.
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No matter the diagnosis,
you've got to keep trusting
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God.
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Man's extremity
is God's opportunity.
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Your setback is a
setup for a comeback.
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
What lessons can I learn
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from a setback?
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A setback will teach you that
something is about to break.
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And I'm not talking
about a breakdown or a breakup,
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I'm talking
about a breakthrough.
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I wish I had a
witness in this place.
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
The very thing that somebody
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in this church right now,
you're dealing with right now.
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Maybe a death of a friend,
death of a church member,
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death of a loved
one, finances in trouble.
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The thing you're dealing
with right now, the issues
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that you're confronting
right now have everything to do
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with your walk with God.
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Friends, let's be clear.
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That doesn't mean that if
you're going through trouble
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that it's a sign that
you don't have a connection
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with God.
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Listen, it might not
be the lack of your faith
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that got you into
it, but it's the strength
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of your faith that's
going to get you out of it.
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
I'm trying to help somebody
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understand that we can
trust God in times of trouble.
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Ellen White says in
"Prophets and Kings" that "Hope
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and courage are essential
to perfect service for God."
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She said, "These
are the fruit of faith.
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Despondency," she says,
"Is sinful and unreasonable."
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She says, "God is
willing and able more abundantly
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to bestow upon His servants
the strength that they need
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for test and trial."
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Friends, she says, "The
enemies of God and the enemies
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of Satan's work may seem
to be well laid and firmly
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established."
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But this is what
gives me encouragement.
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She says, "But God can
overthrow the strongest
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of beings and
this I've had to learn.
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He does in His own way,"
she says, "and His own time,
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when He sees that
the faith of His servants
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has been sufficiently tested."
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Aud.: Hallelujah.
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PB: Do you all
realize what happened?
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That in one day Job
lost all of his donkeys.
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Lost all of his oxen.
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All his sheep, all his animals,
all his children, all his
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servants except the four
who came to tell him the news.
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The only thing he
didn't lose was his wife.
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But seeing how she told him
to curse God and die, maybe Job
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would have been better
off if he had lost her too.
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Come on, say amen.
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
Job was a broken man.
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He had very good reason
to think and feel that God
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had left him.
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But Job says, You can kill
me, but God I'm not leaving You.
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I'm not letting go that easily.
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Number two: In
trouble, you've got to know
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the Word of God.
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Knowing God's Word increases
your faith and trust in God.
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Paul said, "Faith
cometh by hearing, hearing
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by the word of God."
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David said, "Thy word have
I hid in my heart that I might
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not sin against thee.
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Thy word is a lamp unto my
feet, a light unto my path."
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Peter says, in 1 Peter 5:8
that "We are kept by faith."
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You see, our joy is
not zeal without knowledge.
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There are a lot of us who
say amen, a lot of us who shout.
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And folk don't know why
you shout or why you say amen.
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But our joy is
based on a revelation.
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It's based on a Word
from the Most High God.
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That's why I
love the Word of God.
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I don't care what you
obtain on this side of life,
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you'd better have a
Word from the Lord in time
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of trouble.
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You can know the ruats
of Hebrew, you can know
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the evangelions of Greek,
you can know the buenos noches
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of Spanish, but like
wood it will deteriorate.
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Put water in a
glass, it will evaporate.
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The car you drive,
it will depreciate.
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The money in your
pocket will devaluate.
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Heaven and earth may
pass away, but somebody knows
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that the Word of God
is going to stand forever.
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You see, when you get enough
Word in you, you can look at
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folk and say, If you knew
what I knew, you'd understand
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why I act like I act.
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Oh, y'all don't hear me.
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
Let me tell you something.
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Talking about when
you have a Word in you,
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when God's Word is in you.
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When growing up, when I was
growing up, in fact, probably
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all of us when we were growing
up there was a little toy
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you used to have.
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Maybe you didn't have
it, but I remember having it.
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I don't know if
they still have it today.
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I looked in the store,
my daughter being a baby,
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but they don't seem to have it.
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But some of you may remember
this, there was a toy and it
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was called a See and Say.
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[Aud. reaction]:
PB: Anybody know what
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I'm talking about?
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
Everybody say "See and Say."
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Aud.: See and Say.
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PB: Now, for those that didn't
know and don't know, it was
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a round toy and it
had an arrow on the toy.
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And if you would pull the
string, the arrow would turn
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and after turning a while
it would land on an animal.
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And if landed on a sheep,
it would say, "This is what
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a sheep sounds like: Baa. Baa."
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
You pull the string again,
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and it would land on a cow.
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And it would say, "This
is what a cow sounds like:
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Moo. Moo."
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You pull the string
again and the string
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would land on a pig.
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And it would say, "This
is what a pig sounds like:
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Oink. Oink. Oink-oink."
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
What's interesting here
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is the engineers
of the See and Say,
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they put a chip or
something in the See and Say.
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They recorded words,
they recorded voices,
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and they recorded and
stored them in the See and Say.
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You wouldn't know the
voices were in the See and Say.
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You wouldn't know the
words were in the See and Say
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until you pulled the string.
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
I'm trying to help somebody.
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Aolineís got it, but
I'm trying to help somebody.
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The devil's been
messing with somebody's stuff.
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Devil, you
pulled the wrong string.
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[Aud. reaction]: PB:
The devil's been saying,
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"You're going to be sick."
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Devil, you
pulled the wrong string.
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"He was wounded for my
transgressions, bruised for my
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iniquities: the chastisement
of our peace was upon him,
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but by his stripes I am healed."
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The devil's been
messing with somebody's money.
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Devil, you messed
with the wrong somebody.
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You pulled the wrong
string, for my God shall supply
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all of my needs according
to His riches in glory.
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The devil's been
messing with somebody's mind.
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Get thee behind me, Satan.
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In the name of Jesus, God
shall keep me in perfect peace
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when my mind is stayed on Him.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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[Aud. reaction]:
PB: Do me a favor.
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You're a little stiff.
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Turn to your
neighbor and say, "Neighbor."
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Aud.: Neighbor.
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PB: "Don't pull my string."
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Aud.: Don't pull my string.
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PB: Let me tell you something.
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In time of trouble, you're going
to need a Word from the Lord.
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Finally, number three: In
time of trouble, you're going
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to need a strong prayer life.
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But I want to share and suggest
that you don't need a strong
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prayer life just in trouble.
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But you need a strong prayer
life all the time, because
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when you get in trouble,
you're going to need something
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saved up on the inside.
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You need a strong prayer life
because when the enemy comes
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in like a flood, God
will lift up a standard.
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The effectual, fervent
prayer of the righteous
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availeth much.
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The effectiveness of our
prayers is directly related to
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the authenticity
of our walk of faith.
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Now, it's tough for a
hypocrite to get God's ear.
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If you look on in verse 16
of Job 13, it says, "He also
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shall be my salvation:
for an hypocrite shall not
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come before him."
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Isaiah 59:2 says, "But
your iniquities have separated
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between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face
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from you, that
he will not hear."
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John 9:31, "Now we know
that God heareth not sinners:
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but if any man be a worshipper
of God, and doeth his will,
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him he heareth."
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For the eyes of the Lord
are over the righteous, his ears
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are not open to their prayers,
but the face of the Lord
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is against them that do evil.
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He that turneth his way,
his ear from hearing the law,
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even his prayer
shall be an abomination.
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But Jesus said, in Matthew
7:7, but "Ask, and it shall
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be given you;
seek, and ye shall find.
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Knock, and the
door shall be opened
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Aud. member: Praise his name.
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PB: unto you."
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If my people, who are
called by name would humble
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themselves, and
do what, everybody?
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Aud.: Pray.
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PB: Seek My face, turn
from their wicked ways.
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He said then He would hear
from heaven and heal their land.
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When trouble
comes, you've got to pray.
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You've got to pray
until something happens.
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You've got to pray
your way through that thing.
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This is the confidence
we have in approaching God,
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that whatever we ask, we
know I've found the answer.
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I've learned how to pray.
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Prayer brings you
into the presence of God.
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Prayer changes things.
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Prayer changes people.
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Prayer unleashes the
power of God in your life.
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Jesus on the main line.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
Tell Him what you want,
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call Him up.
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Tell Him what you want.
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I serve a prayer-answering God.
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The devil can't stand prayer,
but the devil can't stop you
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from praying, and the devil
can't stop God from answering
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prayer.
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Whatever you want, God's got it.
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[Aud. reaction]
PB: Whatever you need
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He will supply, my
friends, it's yours.
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You've got to learn how
to pray without ceasing.
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You've got to learn
how to pray in the Spirit.
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But let me caution you:
you'd better remember, prayer.
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You need it in time of
trouble, but that's why, see,
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you have to
have it all the time.
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Something saved up in the
off season, because understand,
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prayer is not for
emergency use only.
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Aud.: Amen.
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PB: When you're in
trouble, you call on God.
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Kind of like when people
call a "jailhouse salvation."
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Where incarcerated inmates
claim they're going to follow
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Jesus because they're
in jail, but when they get
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out of jail you can't find them.
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Now that's not true of
all inmates, but that's true
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of some.
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Some of us are in a prison.
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We're bound and we're
chained by circumstances.
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And when we're in our
jail, when we're in our prison,
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we have a jailhouse salvation.
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God, if You'll just
deliver me from this one thing.
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And then, when the Lord does
it, we are nowhere to be found.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
You'd be amazed at people
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who come to God because
they had a car accident.
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They lost a job.
00:18:14.23\00:18:15.96
They discovered a lump
in their body somewhere.
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They're failing a class
and they're trying to graduate.
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But today, that's not the
kind of faith I'm talking about.
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Understand, you have to have
a daily prayer walk with God,
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because when you have a daily
walk, when life gets tough,
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when life knocks the wind
out of you, your intimacy,
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your communication,
your connection, your prayer
00:18:36.36\00:18:39.73
life with God is so strong
that you can withstand whatever
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the devil throws your way.
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[Aud. reaction] PB:
That's why the devil
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couldn't deter Job.
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That's why, regardless
of what his friends told him
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in those conversations,
it did not distract Job.
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You all, Job lost his wealth,
Job lost his health, Job lost
00:18:58.96\00:19:03.76
his entire family, but Job
never lost his faith in God.
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Aud.: Amen.
00:19:12.43\00:19:13.13
PB: "Though he slay me,
yet will I trust in him."
00:19:13.13\00:19:19.33
Job had a "yet" praise.
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It may not happen now,
but yet he knew it was coming.
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The devil told God, yes
Job is serving you, yes Job
00:19:24.93\00:19:32.93
is rich, yes
Job has a good name.
00:19:32.93\00:19:37.70
Everybody likes
Job, he has good kids.
00:19:37.70\00:19:40.50
His wife looks
good, Job is all that.
00:19:40.50\00:19:42.70
But the devil said,
God, if You move those hedges
00:19:42.70\00:19:45.50
that you have around
him, I'll make Job curse You
00:19:45.50\00:19:51.56
to Your face.
00:19:51.56\00:19:53.36
Because the devil
thought that Job's faith
00:19:53.36\00:19:56.16
was in his stuff.
00:19:56.16\00:19:59.26
But God said, I'll remove
the hedge around his wealth,
00:19:59.26\00:20:03.73
I'll remove the hedge
around his health, I'll remove
00:20:03.73\00:20:05.96
the hedge around his family,
but don't touch his life.
00:20:05.96\00:20:10.73
Why was God able
to say that to Satan?
00:20:10.73\00:20:12.93
He was able to say it because
God knew Job's faith was not
00:20:12.93\00:20:16.16
in what Job possessed,
but Job's faith was in the God
00:20:16.16\00:20:19.53
that possessed him.
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[Aud. reaction] PB: So
the enemy started shaking
00:20:21.03\00:20:26.46
everything in Job's life.
00:20:26.46\00:20:31.13
He shook any and everything
he could, but the one thing
00:20:31.13\00:20:34.86
that the enemy could not shake.
00:20:34.86\00:20:36.80
The one thing that mattered
most couldn't be shaken.
00:20:36.80\00:20:43.33
"My hope is built on
nothing less than Jesus blood
00:20:43.33\00:20:50.90
and righteousness.
00:20:50.90\00:20:53.30
'Tis so sweet to trust
in Jesus, just to take Him
00:20:53.30\00:20:59.56
at His word.
00:20:59.56\00:21:00.93
Just to rest upon His
promise, just to know thus
00:21:00.93\00:21:05.50
saith the Lord."
00:21:05.50\00:21:07.86
Can you imagine Satan saying
to his imps, saying to his boys,
00:21:07.86\00:21:12.93
what's that noise
I hear over there?
00:21:12.93\00:21:17.83
Is that Job, praising God?
00:21:17.83\00:21:22.83
Didn't I tell you
to mess with his stuff?
00:21:22.83\00:21:25.36
We did.
00:21:25.36\00:21:28.90
Didn't I tell you
to burn up his crops?
00:21:28.90\00:21:32.93
We did.
00:21:32.93\00:21:35.26
Didn't I tell you to
mess with his children?
00:21:35.26\00:21:38.46
We did.
00:21:38.46\00:21:41.26
Didn't I tell you to
destroy his marriage?
00:21:41.26\00:21:46.10
We did.
00:21:46.10\00:21:48.13
And you mean to tell
me he's still praising?
00:21:48.13\00:21:51.23
He's still worshiping?
00:21:51.23\00:21:53.50
He's still thanking God?
00:21:53.50\00:21:55.43
Aud.: Amen.
00:21:55.43\00:21:57.50
PB: He is.
00:21:57.50\00:21:59.86
Because I will bless the
Lord at all times and His praise
00:21:59.86\00:22:07.36
shall
continually be in my mouth.
00:22:07.36\00:22:10.60
Let me tell you something.
00:22:10.60\00:22:11.46
I'm going to sit down,
but somebody needs to praise
00:22:11.46\00:22:13.66
Him.
00:22:13.66\00:22:15.10
Somebody needs to thank Him.
00:22:15.10\00:22:17.53
Somebody needs to have an
attitude of gratitude because
00:22:17.53\00:22:21.76
in spite of every storm, in
spite of every test, in spite
00:22:21.76\00:22:25.80
of every trial, in spite
of everything you've gone
00:22:25.80\00:22:29.76
through, God still
brought you through.
00:22:29.76\00:22:32.80
[Aud. reaction] PB:
Somebody ought to praise
00:22:32.80\00:22:35.66
Him.
00:22:35.66\00:22:36.70
I've learned to praise Him
not because of, but in spite of.
00:22:36.70\00:22:41.53
And let me tell you,
if you don't praise Him,
00:22:41.53\00:22:45.73
the rocks are going to cry out.
00:22:45.73\00:22:49.23
And I tell you this, we
don't need a rock concert
00:22:49.23\00:22:52.10
up in Oakwood.
00:22:52.10\00:22:54.20
But somebody knows,
we need to praise Him.
00:22:54.20\00:22:57.56
I said, we need to praise Him.
00:22:57.56\00:22:59.70
We need to praise Him.
00:22:59.70\00:23:00.93
We walk by faith, we live
by faith, we see by faith.
00:23:00.93\00:23:10.40
And you know what?
00:23:10.40\00:23:11.93
From my church family to
the Breath of Life family,
00:23:11.93\00:23:15.46
you know what brings me
to church every Sabbath?
00:23:15.46\00:23:18.33
You know what brings me
to worship God every week?
00:23:18.33\00:23:24.40
Because I believe in a God
who can do things I can't do.
00:23:24.40\00:23:30.10
I believe in a God who can
reach things I can't reach.
00:23:30.10\00:23:34.76
I believe in a God who
can say things I can't say.
00:23:34.76\00:23:40.06
If I didn't believe in a God
like that, I wouldn't come here.
00:23:40.06\00:23:50.80
I wouldn't work like I do.
00:23:50.80\00:23:54.13
I wouldn't run
these revivals like I do.
00:23:54.13\00:23:59.20
But I still believe in
God, I still believe He can heal
00:23:59.20\00:24:05.90
your body.
00:24:05.90\00:24:08.63
I still believe He
can raise the dead.
00:24:08.63\00:24:12.33
I still believe He
can save your children.
00:24:12.33\00:24:16.80
I still believe He
can break those habits.
00:24:16.80\00:24:21.10
I still believe He can provide.
00:24:21.10\00:24:23.80
I still believe.
00:24:23.80\00:24:31.50
And you've got to believe.
00:24:31.50\00:24:35.50
He can deliver your son.
00:24:35.50\00:24:39.56
You've got to believe
that He can save your daughter.
00:24:39.56\00:24:44.76
You've got to believe
that He can save your family.
00:24:44.76\00:24:48.96
That He can heal your body.
00:24:48.96\00:24:51.76
You can't just come down
here for prayer, come to church
00:24:51.76\00:24:54.16
and sing hymns and see
who's here and who's not here.
00:24:54.16\00:24:56.90
You've got to believe that
He can break chains, that He can
00:24:56.90\00:25:03.23
destroy strongholds.
00:25:03.23\00:25:06.86
You've got to believe that He
can meet your financial needs.
00:25:06.86\00:25:11.20
Somebody right now is
going through it financially.
00:25:11.20\00:25:14.23
I've got in my office
right now a folder this thick
00:25:14.23\00:25:18.70
with requests from you,
but you've got to believe.
00:25:18.70\00:25:28.93
You've got to believe
you're the head, not the tail.
00:25:28.93\00:25:34.43
That you're above,
that you're not beneath.
00:25:34.43\00:25:39.23
That you're the
lender, you're not always
00:25:39.23\00:25:41.33
the borrower.
00:25:41.33\00:25:43.13
That the second half
of your life is going
00:25:43.13\00:25:45.46
to be better than the
first half of your life.
00:25:45.46\00:25:47.76
Aud.: Amen.
00:25:47.76\00:25:48.76
PB: You've got to believe
that the best is yet to come.
00:25:48.76\00:25:55.50
You've got to believe
that your latter is going
00:25:55.50\00:25:59.33
to be greater than your former.
00:25:59.33\00:26:00.70
Today, I still
believe, I still trust God,
00:26:00.70\00:26:05.33
I still pray to God.
00:26:05.33\00:26:07.33
I still study God's Word.
00:26:07.33\00:26:09.20
"Though he slay me, yet;
yet will I trust in him."
00:26:09.20\00:26:21.73
Some of you don't
understand why I do this.
00:26:21.73\00:26:24.83
You don't understand
why I get passionate, why
00:26:24.83\00:26:28.23
I get emotional.
00:26:28.23\00:26:29.66
You don't know like I
know what He's done for me.
00:26:29.66\00:26:34.63
You don't know
what God has done.
00:26:34.63\00:26:37.60
I was depressed, I was
down, I thought the world
00:26:37.60\00:26:40.76
was against me,
but I still believed.
00:26:40.76\00:26:48.10
You've got to trust Him.
00:26:48.10\00:26:50.66
Trust Him without limits.
00:26:50.66\00:26:53.96
Trust Him when
you can't trace Him.
00:26:53.96\00:26:57.76
Trust Him when
you can't see Him.
00:26:57.76\00:27:01.93
You gotta TRUST.
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Your health gone, your
wealth gone, your family gone,
00:28:13.03\00:28:15.40
and then on top of that your
so-called friends, who you've
00:28:15.40\00:28:19.30
given money to help out,
come by and folks you helped,
00:28:19.30\00:28:24.60
because you do know the
people you help the most
00:28:24.60\00:28:26.23
appreciate it the least.
00:28:26.23\00:28:27.73