(MUSIC)
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>>TODAY'S SMART PHONES
ARE A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE OF
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INFORMATION THAT FITS
IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
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IT'S A GOOD THING WE
HAVE OPPOSABLE THUMBS!
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WITH IT YOU CAN BUY YOUR
GROCERIES, TAKE CARE OF YOUR
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EXERCISE REGIME, WATCH A VIDEO,
LISTEN TO MUSIC, YOU CAN SURF
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THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD-WIDE
WEB, WHICH MAY NOT ALWAYS BE A
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GOOD THING. AND,
YOU KNOW, THERE IS MORE
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COMPUTER PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
AND POWER IN A LITTLE SMART
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PHONE TODAY THAN WAS USED BY
NASA TO PUT A MAN ON THE MOON.
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AND I ALMOST FORGOT, YOU CAN
ALSO USE THESE TO MAKE A PHONE
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CALL, BUT WHO DOES THAT ANYMORE?
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TODAY COMMUNICATION IS
NOT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
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IT'S ALL ABOUT SHORT MESSAGE
SERVICING OR SMS TEXTING.
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THAT'S RIGHT, THERE ARE ABOUT
2.5 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
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TODAY THAT ARE COMMUNICATING
WITH THEIR FELLOW HUMANS IN
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SHORT BYTES CALLED TEXTING.
THAT'S MORE DATA THAT IS BEING
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USED THAN THOSE WHO
ARE SURFING THE WEB OR EVEN
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PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
AND, FRIENDS, NOWHERE IS THIS
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MORE TRUE THAN RIGHT
HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES.
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EVEN THOUGH THE PHILIPPINES HAS
ABOUT 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY
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ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LARGEST
NUMBER OF TEXT MESSAGES OF
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ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
THEY'RE THE TWELFTH-LARGEST
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COUNTRY, BUT THEY SEND 400
MILLION TEXT MESSAGES EVERY DAY.
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WOW, THAT'S A LOT
OF FINGER FATIGUE.
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EVEN THOUGH THE GREATEST
NUMBER OF TEXTERS IS HERE IN THE
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PHILIPPINES, THE RECORD FOR THE
FASTEST TEXTER IN THE WORLD IS
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FROM BRAZIL. A
YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF
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MARCEL FERNANDES FILHO - HE WAS
ABLE TO TEXT 25 VERY COMPLICATED
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WORDS IN A LITTLE
MORE THAN 18 SECONDS.
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WOW, IT TAKES ME LONGER THAN
THAT TO JUST SAY 'I LOVE YOU' TO
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MY WIFE AND
PRESS SEND. ALL THUMBS.
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ONE OF THE NEAT THINGS ABOUT
TEXTING IS YOU CAN TEXT JUST
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ABOUT ANYWHERE. IF
YOU'RE SURROUNDED WITH PEOPLE
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AND YOU WANT TO SEND A
PERSONAL MESSAGE, YOU TEXT.
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YOU'RE IN A CROWDED SUBWAY
OR AN AIRPORT, YOU CAN TEXT.
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IF YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY NOISE
OR NOSEY PEOPLE, YOU CAN TEXT -
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JUST DON'T TEXT
WHILE YOU'RE DRIVING.
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THAT'S WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL,
FRIENDS, YOU CAN ALWAYS TEXT GOD
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A MESSAGE OF
PRAYER FROM YOUR HEART.
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WHEN YOU'RE WONDERING
'WHAT SCHOOL DO I GO TO?'
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'WHAT JOB DO I TAKE?'
'WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO DATE THAT
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MAY BE A FUTURE LIFE
PARTNER?' YOUR PRAYERS DON'T
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HAVE TO BE LONG. THE
SHORTEST PRAYER IN THE BIBLE
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IS THREE WORDS - WHEN PETER
PRAYED, 'LORD SAVE ME.' AND
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JESUS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER.
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAST YOU
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CAN TEXT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING
TO GOD, HE'LL KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
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ASKING FOR AND HEAR YOUR PRAYER
BEFORE YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO
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SAY 'AMEN' AND
PRESS THE SEND BUTTON.
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IN FACT, FRIENDS, YOU'LL BRING
JOY TO GOD WHEN YOU SEND HIM
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REGULAR MESSAGES
FROM YOUR HEART TO HIS.
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SO WHY DON'T YOU TALK
TO HIM RIGHT NOW? (MUSIC)
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>>WE'VE BEEN GOING
THROUGH A SERIES DEALING WITH
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ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF
THE BIBLE: THE BOOK OF JOB.
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AND THIS WOULD BE THE THIRD
PRESENTATION IN THAT LINE, AND
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THE MESSAGE TODAY IS ABOUT
DESPAIR AND FAITHLESS FRIENDS.
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WE'RE GOING TO TALK A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AND
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RELATIONSHIPS AND
HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS.
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YEARS AGO, WE DON'T DO IT SO
MUCH ANYMORE, OUR FAMILY USED TO
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KAYAK AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE
FAMILY HAD A KAYAK - AND I THINK
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THAT'S ME. THE ONLY
REASON I CAN TELL IS
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BECAUSE I HAD ALL THE BLUE
STUFF. AND WE WOULD GO DOWN,
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PRINCIPALLY THE EEL RIVER
BECAUSE IT WAS RIGHT NEAR COVELO
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AND THERE'S SOME GREAT KAYAKING
- WE'VE GONE DOWN THE MIDDLE
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FORK AND THE SOUTH FORK AND THE
NORTH FORK OF THE EEL RIVER -
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AND IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
KAYAKING, THERE ARE VARYING
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DEGREES OF DIFFICULTY.
DEPENDING UPON THE RAPIDS AND
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THE WATERFALLS, IT GOES ANYWHERE
FROM 1 TO 6 AND, WITHOUT
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EXAGGERATING, WE WENT
THROUGH ALL DIFFERENT LEVELS AND
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IT GOT PRETTY EXCITING.
IT WASN'T ALWAYS PLANNED.
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SOMETIMES - I REMEMBER ONE TRIP
IN PARTICULAR, WE WERE GOING TO
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GO DOWN THE NORTH FORK OF
THE EEL RIVER AND, WE'D DONE IT
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BEFORE, BUT WE USUALLY
DID IT LATER IN THE YEAR.
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THE WATER WAS LOWER AND - WHEN
THE WATER'S TOO LOW, IT'S NOT
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MUCH FUN BECAUSE
YOU'RE SCRAPING BOTTOM.
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YOU HAVE TO PICK UP AND
DRAG YOUR BOAT THROUGH THE DRY
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SECTIONS AND GET
WHERE IT'S FLOWING AGAIN.
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SO WE THOUGHT, 'OH, THERE WAS A
GOOD RAIN; LET'S GO NOW.' AND SO
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- KAREN AND I WERE
TALKING THIS MORNING.
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I WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER - THERE
WAS LIKE FIVE OR SIX OF US ON
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THIS TRIP - KAREN AND I
AND THE TWO OLDER BOYS AND SOME
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NEIGHBORS - AND OUR NEIGHBOR'S
WIFE TOOK ALL THE BOATS IN THIS
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BIG TRUCK AND WE - THEY BROUGHT
US UP TO THIS WILDERNESS AREA
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WHERE THEY DUMP US OUT WITH OUR
GEAR - AND WE HAVE CAMPING GEAR
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BECAUSE IT'S AN OVERNIGHT TRIP.
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YOU DRAG YOUR BOAT THROUGH THE
WOODS FOR MILES, IT SEEMS LIKE,
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AND YOU'VE GOT YOUR CAMPING GEAR
AND YOUR FOOD AND EVERYTHING -
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YOUR PADDLE ALL STRAPPED IN
THERE - AND YOU'RE WEARING YOUR
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WETSUIT BECAUSE
THE WATER WAS COLD.
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AND WE GOT DOWN AND WE FOUND
OUT, WHEN WE FINALLY GOT TO THE
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RIVER, THAT IT RAINED MUCH MORE
THAN WE THOUGHT AND IT WAS JUST
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ROARING AND WE
ACTUALLY GOT SCARED.
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WE THOUGHT, 'THERE'S NO
WAY OUT.' YOU CAN'T CALL.
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THERE'S NO CELL PHONE SERVICE
BACK THERE - AND THIS IS A VERY
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REMOTE AREA WHERE THEY ACTUALLY
HAVE JUST SHEER ROCK WALLS THAT
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GO UP ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT
AND YOU'RE JUST GOING THROUGH
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THIS CANYON. THIS IS A PART OF
THE COUNTRY, BELIEVE IT OR NOT,
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IN CALIFORNIA WHERE YOU CAN
BE ON THE RIVER FOR TWO OR THREE
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DAYS AND NOT SEE A SINGLE
PERSON - NO HOUSE, NO ROAD -
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IT'S JUST VERY REMOTE.
'AND WE STARTED DOWN THE RIVER
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AND, I'LL TELL YOU, WE
WERE DOING A LOT OF PRAYING.
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BECAUSE WHEN YOU FALL OUT AND
THE WATER'S HIGH AND IT'S ROUGH,
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YOU CAN GET CAUGHT IN A
WHIRLPOOL OR AN EDDY AND YOU
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CAN'T GET BACK UP
AGAIN - YOU CAN DROWN.
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AND WE'D FALLEN OUT A FEW TIMES
AND GOTTEN KIND OF SUCKED UNDER
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AND CAUGHT OR YOU GET
PULLED UNDER A LOG OR SOMETHING.
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AND ONE THING WE LEARNED THAT
WAS VERY HELPFUL, IS HOW TO USE
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- WHEN YOU'RE KAYAKING WITH MORE
THAN ONE PERSON, WHICH IS ALWAYS
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A GOOD IDEA, HOW TO
CREATE THE PONTOON EFFECT.
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THE PONTOON EFFECT IS IF
YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A PLACE IN
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THE RIVER WHERE IT'S WIDE
ENOUGH, YOU COME ALONG SIDE
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ANOTHER MEMBER OF YOUR TEAM -
YOU GRAB THE LIP OF THEIR KAYAK
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OPENING, THEY GRAB THE LIP
OF YOUR KAYAK OPENING AND YOU
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STEADY EACH OTHER AS YOU
GO THROUGH AND YOU HAVE A MUCH
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BETTER CHANCE OF AVOIDING
A TURNOVER IF YOU DO THAT.
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AND YOU COULD EVEN GO WHERE
THERE'S THREE - WIDE PLACES IN
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THE RIVER, SOMETIMES FOR FUN
WE GET FOUR OR MORE OF US, WE'RE
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ALL KIND OF LINKED TOGETHER
HOLDING EACH OTHER'S BOATS.
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AND YOU'D BE AMAZED.
THE WATER COULD JUST BE
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BOUNCING, YOU COULD BE GOING
THROUGH NUMBER 4 RAPIDS - IF YOU
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DON'T LET GO OF YOUR NEIGHBOR'S
BOAT AND THEY DON'T LET GO OF
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YOURS, IT STEADIES YOU,
LIKE OUTRIGGERS, AND IT KEEPS
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YOU FROM FLIPPING OVER.
WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THE
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RAPIDS OF LIFE, IT'S
NICE TO HAVE A FRIEND.
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SOMEONE WHO WILL HELP STEADY THE
BOAT SO YOU DON'T SPIN OVER AND
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DROWN. AND SOME
PEOPLE, BY THEMSELVES,
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DROWN IN THEIR GRIEF.
AND WE ALL KNOW OR HAVE HEARD
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STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO SO DESPAIR
OF LIFE, THEY TAKE THEIR LIVES.
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JOB HAD REACHED THAT POINT - AND
WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE
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LATER. YOU KNOW,
THEY'VE ALSO, ON THE
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COAST OF CALIFORNIA - ONE
MORE ILLUSTRATION - WE LIVE
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HERE IN REDWOOD COUNTRY.
WE'VE GOT REDWOODS TO THE SOUTH
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- THEY'RE THE INLAND REDWOODS -
THE SEQUOIAS THERE BY HALF DOME.
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AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE REDWOODS
TO THE NORTH ON THE COAST -
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THEY'RE CALLED THE COASTAL
REDWOODS - OR SEQUOIAS - THEY'RE
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DIFFERENT IN THAT THE COASTAL
SEQUOIAS, THEIR ROOT SYSTEM IS
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VERY SHALLOW SO THEY CAN
ABSORB AS MUCH SURFACE WATER AS
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POSSIBLE. YOU KNOW,
SOME OF THEM GET UP TO
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300 FEET - THEY'RE THE
TALLEST TREES IN THE WORLD.
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BUT IT'S AMAZING, EVEN THOUGH
THEY'RE 300 FEET HIGH, THE ROOTS
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ONLY GO, MAYBE, 6 FEET DOWN AND
YOU WONDER HOW IN THE WORLD ARE
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THEY ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE
STORMS THAT COME ROLLING IN OFF
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THAT MASSIVE PACIFIC
OCEAN? IT'S BECAUSE THEY
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INTERLOCK THEIR ROOTS.
YOU VERY SELDOM SEE THEM
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GROWING BY THEMSELVES.
THEY'RE USUALLY GROWING IN
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CLUSTERS BECAUSE THEY HOLD
EACH OTHER UP BY INTERLOCKING
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THEIR ROOTS. THIS IS
GOD'S PLAN FOR CHURCH.
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THAT'S WHY, WHEN YOU BECOME A
CHRISTIAN AND YOU'RE BAPTIZED -
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AS WE WITNESSED A BAPTISM -
OR A COUPLE - THIS MORNING, YOU
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BECOME PART OF A FAMILY.
AND, YES, UNLIKE WHAT CAIN SAID,
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WE ARE OUR BROTHER
AND OUR SISTER'S KEEPER.
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WE DO NEED TO CARE FOR AND LOVE
AND PRAY FOR AND WATCH OUT FOR
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EACH OTHER, BECAUSE
SOMETIMES PEOPLE GO THROUGH SOME
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TREMENDOUS STORMS.
THIS MORNING I GOT AN E-MAIL
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FROM A FAMILY THAT
ATTENDS CHURCH HERE.
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THEY'RE NOT MEMBERS YET,
BUT THEY COME AND THEY SAID,
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'PASTOR, PLEASE PRAY FOR US.' I
DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO MENTION
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IT TO BROTHER
MICHAEL BEFORE THE PRAYER.
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I WAS GOING TO ASK HIM TO
INCLUDE THIS BUT I WAS BACK
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CHANGING AFTER THE BAPTISM.
THEY SAID, 'WE WERE COMING
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BACK FROM ONE OF OUR SON'S
GRADUATIONS' - AND THE PARENTS
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FLEW BACK WITH THE KIDS -
GRANDPARENTS DECIDED TO DRIVE
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AND THEY'RE IN THEIR 80S - FROM
CALIFORNIA TO ATLANTA AND BACK -
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EIGHT MILES FROM HOME, I THINK,
YESTERDAY, THEY ROLLED THE CAR.
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MOM - GRANDMA AND
GRANDPA ARE SERIOUSLY INJURED.
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THEY'RE BOTH IN ICU AND
THEY SAID, 'PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS
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FAMILY. IT'S
THE BURMUDEZ FAMILY.
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THE FAMILY INJURED
IS THE BROWN FAMILY.
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AND I PROMISED THAT WE
WOULD KEEP THEM IN PRAYER.
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AND SHE SAID IT IS VERY HARD.
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SHE PUT IN THE NOTE, 'IT IS VERY
HARD TO HAVE BOTH YOUR PARENTS
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SO SERIOUSLY INJURED RIGHT
AFTER SUCH A GREAT OCCASION.'
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NOW, THIS IS THE
THEME OF THE STORY OF JOB.
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THESE ARE - I KNOW THE FAMILY.
WE'VE EATEN IN THEIR HOME.
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LOVELY CHRISTIAN PEOPLE -
AND GOOD AND BAD COMES TO ALL -
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JOB'S FRIENDS KIND OF DIDN'T
UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT
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GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD
PEOPLE, BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD
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PEOPLE. AND WE'RE
GOING TO GO NOW AND
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PICK UP OUR STORY AND A LITTLE
BIT OF REVIEW - SOME OF YOU
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MAYBE WERE NOT HERE FOR THE
FIRST TWO SECTIONS OF JOB, BUT
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IN THE BOOK OF JOB, YOU'VE GOT
THIS MAN WHO WAS THE GREATEST
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OF THE MEN OF THE EAST.
LIVES IN THE AREA OF THE DESERTS
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OF EDOM SOMEWHERE, BUT IT WASN'T
DESERT BACK THEN, IT WAS MORE
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PASTURE LAND - IT WAS
MORE OF A LUSH LAND, ACTUALLY.
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AND THIS IS SOUTHEAST OF THE
LAND OF ISRAEL, DIRECTLY EAST OF
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THE LAND OF EGYPT. THIS
IS WHERE ABRAHAM SENT THE
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CHILDREN THAT HE HAD BY KETURAH.
YOU KNOW, ABRAHAM HAD NOT ONLY A
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SON BY SARAH, THEN HE HAD A SON
BY HAGAR, BUT THEN HE MARRIED
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KETURAH AND HE HAD SEVERAL SONS
THROUGH KETURAH, BUT HE DIDN'T
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WANT THEM TO INTERFERE WITH
THE INHERITANCE OF ISAAC IN THE
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PROMISED LAND SO HE SAID,
'YOU TAKE THE LAND TO THE EAST.'
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THIS IS WHERE JOB
AND HIS FAMILY ARE FROM.
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NOW, IF YOU READ - AND
JOB, OF COURSE, GOOD MAN,
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RICH MAN - BUT
THERE'S A MEETING IN HEAVEN.
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THE DEVIL SAYS 'THE ONLY REASON
THAT JOB IS SERVING YOU IS
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BECAUSE YOU BLESS HIM.' AND GOD
GIVES THE DEVIL LIMITED ACCESS
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TO JOB SO THAT HE, BASICALLY,
WIPES OUT ALL OF JOB'S
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POSSESSIONS, WIPES OUT HIS
FAMILY, AND THEN WIPES OUT HIS
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HEALTH TO TRY TO
INSTIGATE JOB TO CURSE GOD.
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AND THE DEVIL IS SAYING, 'THE
ONLY REASON JOB SERVES YOU IS
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BECAUSE YOU BLESS HIM.
STOP BLESSING HIM AND HE'LL STOP
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LOVING YOU.' WHAT
WOULD HAPPEN TO US?
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IF GOD HOLDS BACK HIS BLESSINGS,
DO WE WITHDRAW OUR LOVE?
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OR DO WE LOVE HIM IN THE
GOOD TIMES AND THE BAD TIMES?
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SO NOW JOB HAS LOST EVERYTHING:
HE'S LOST HIS HEALTH, HE'S
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COVERED WITH BOILS FROM THE SOLE
OF HIS FOOT TO THE CROWN OF HIS
00:12:22.34\00:12:25.61
HEAD. HE SHAVES
HIS HEAD, HE TEARS HIS
00:12:25.61\00:12:29.48
CLOTHES, HE SITS IN THE ASH HEAP
OUTSIDE OF THE CITY BY A DUMP.
00:12:29.48\00:12:36.05
HE'S IN TERRIBLE MISERY.
HIS WIFE IS SO DISTRAUGHT
00:12:36.05\00:12:41.12
BECAUSE OF WHAT'S HAPPENED
SHE SAYS, 'WHY DO YOU STILL
00:12:41.12\00:12:44.29
RETAIN YOUR INTEGRITY?
JUST CURSE GOD AND DIE.
00:12:44.29\00:12:47.30
AND AGAIN, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
WHAT SHE'S BEEN THROUGH AS WELL.
00:12:47.30\00:12:50.23
SHE'S GRIEVING. THIS
HAS BROKEN HER HEART.
00:12:50.23\00:12:53.60
AND, AS THIS GOES ON, WE TAKE UP
THE STORY - JOB 2 - THE BOOK OF
00:12:53.60\00:12:57.77
JOB CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11,
"NOW WHEN JOB'S THREE FRIENDS" -
00:12:57.77\00:13:03.48
HE MAY HAVE HAD MANY OTHER
ACQUAINTANCES, BUT HE HAD THREE
00:13:03.48\00:13:05.75
CLOSE FRIENDS - THESE ARE OTHER
LEADERS - THESE ARE SHEIKS,
00:13:05.75\00:13:10.52
THESE ARE CHIEFTAINS, THESE ARE
THE PATRIARCHS OF AREAS - "NOW
00:13:10.52\00:13:15.66
WHEN JOB'S THREE FRIENDS HEARD
OF ALL THIS ADVERSITY THAT HAD
00:13:15.66\00:13:18.19
COME UPON HIM, EACH ONE CAME
FROM HIS OWN PLACE" - AND IT
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NAMES HIS FRIENDS - "ELIPHAZ THE
TEMANITE, BILDAD THE SHUHITE,
00:13:21.93\00:13:27.54
AND ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE."
NOW, JUST A LITTLE TIP: THERE'S
00:13:27.54\00:13:32.91
- WE ARE ABLE TO, SORT OF,
IDENTIFY JOB'S THREE FRIENDS -
00:13:32.91\00:13:36.81
WHO THEY WERE - THROUGH OTHER
SCRIPTURES. IN READING ABOUT
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THIS, I THOUGHT I OUGHT TO
LET YOU KNOW THERE MAY BE ONE
00:13:40.82\00:13:43.39
MENTION OF JOB, HIMSELF,
SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE BIBLE.
00:13:43.39\00:13:46.35
WHEN YOU READ THE GENEALOGIES
IN GENESIS - WHO WROTE GENESIS?
00:13:46.35\00:13:50.96
>>MOSES. >>WHO WROTE JOB?
00:13:50.96\00:13:53.03
>>MOSES. >>PROBABLY MOSES.
00:13:53.03\00:13:55.53
GENESIS 36, IN VERSES 31 AND
33, "NOW THESE WERE THE KINGS" -
00:13:55.53\00:14:03.10
CHIEFTAINS, SHEIKS, THE
PATRIARCHS - THE WORD IN HEBREW,
00:14:03.10\00:14:08.04
IT MEANS 'THE LEADERS' -
'WHO REIGNED IN THE LAND OF EDOM
00:14:08.04\00:14:12.21
BEFORE ANY KING REIGNED OVER
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL:" - EVEN
00:14:12.21\00:14:14.65
BEFORE ISRAEL HAD A
KING. OBVIOUSLY, BEFORE,
00:14:14.65\00:14:16.62
BECAUSE MOSES WROTE IT.
IT SAYS, "AND WHEN BELA DIED,
00:14:16.62\00:14:20.56
JOBAB THE SON OF ZERAH OF
BOZRAH REIGNED IN HIS PLACE."
00:14:20.56\00:14:25.49
AND SO, IT TALKS ABOUT THIS
PERSON IN THE LAND OF EDOM -
00:14:25.49\00:14:29.40
RIGHT AREA - HIS NAME IS NOT
THE SAME AS JOB, BUT THE HEBREW
00:14:29.40\00:14:32.60
CHARACTERS,
THERE'S SOME SIMILARITIES.
00:14:32.60\00:14:34.20
JUST LIKE IN ENGLISH YOU'VE GOT
- YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT JOB AND
00:14:34.20\00:14:37.31
JOBAB - MY NAME'S DOUGLAS, MOST
PEOPLE CALL ME 'DOUG' - ONLY A
00:14:37.31\00:14:41.04
FEW CALL ME DOUGIE, BUT SOME OF
YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE NAME AND
00:14:41.04\00:14:44.95
YOU EVEN SEE THIS IN
THE BIBLE. AND SO, SOME HAVE
00:14:44.95\00:14:48.08
WONDERED, WAS THIS JOB?
THIS KING IN THE AREA OF EDOM?
00:14:48.08\00:14:52.42
IT SAYS HE WAS THE
GREATEST MAN OF THE EAST.
00:14:52.42\00:14:54.69
IT'S POSSIBLE - BUT IT
TELLS US ABOUT HIS FRIENDS.
00:14:54.69\00:14:56.73
LET'S GO THROUGH THEM.
00:14:56.73\00:14:57.99
THEIR NAMES, AGAIN, ELIPHAZ -
HE'S THE TEMANITE - NOW, IF YOU
00:14:57.99\00:15:01.83
LOOK IN GENESIS 36:11 - I'VE GOT
A LOT OF NOTES, SO I DON'T KNOW
00:15:01.83\00:15:05.47
IF YOU'LL - ALL OF THIS
IS GOING TO BE TAKEN IN.
00:15:05.47\00:15:08.87
YOU MAY WANT TO WRITE SOME OF
THESE DOWN: GENESIS 36:11 - IT
00:15:08.87\00:15:13.04
SAYS, 'THE SONS OF ELIPHAZ WERE
TEMAN, OMAR, ZEPHO, GATAM, AND
00:15:13.04\00:15:17.48
KENAZ." NOW, IT SAYS
ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE.
00:15:17.48\00:15:21.12
WHY WOULD HE BE FROM
TEMAN IF HIS SON IS TEMAN?
00:15:21.12\00:15:24.69
WELL, THAT'S NOT THE FIRST
TIME THAT HAPPENED IN THE BIBLE.
00:15:24.69\00:15:27.02
LOOK IN GENESIS 4:17, "AND CAIN
KNEW HIS WIFE, AND SHE CONCEIVED
00:15:27.02\00:15:30.39
AND BORE ENOCH. AND HE BUILT A
CITY AND CALLED THE NAME OF THE
00:15:30.39\00:15:33.90
CITY AFTER HIS SON - ENOCH."
SO YOU HAVE CAIN FROM ENOCH
00:15:33.90\00:15:40.90
AND SO IT'S NOT UNUSUAL.
LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE.
00:15:40.90\00:15:43.67
YOU CAN READ, IN THE BOOK
OF OBADIAH 9 - THERE'S ONLY ONE
00:15:43.67\00:15:47.78
CHAPTER IN OBADIAH - "THEN YOUR
MIGHTY MEN, O TEMAN, SHALL BE
00:15:47.78\00:15:51.98
DISMAYED, TO THE END THAT
EVERYONE FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF
00:15:51.98\00:15:55.25
ESAU MAY BE CUT OFF..."
00:15:55.25\00:15:57.82
AND SO IT TALKS ABOUT
FROM THE AREA OF ESAU WAS EDOM.
00:15:57.82\00:16:02.26
AND THAT'S - THIS IS
WHERE ELIPHAZ IS FROM.
00:16:02.26\00:16:04.03
HE IS ONE OF THE LEADERS -
PROBABLY ONE OF THE PATRIARCHS
00:16:04.03\00:16:06.80
IN THAT AREA.
THEN YOU GO DOWN TO
00:16:06.80\00:16:08.86
BILDAD THE SHUHITE. THE
WORD 'BILDAD' MEANS 'SON OF
00:16:08.86\00:16:13.23
CONTENTION' AND THERE'S A LITTLE
CONTENTION THAT HE OFFERS IN THE
00:16:13.23\00:16:16.67
DISCOURSES THAT YOU
FIND IN THE BOOK OF JOB.
00:16:16.67\00:16:19.74
OH, I DIDN'T TELL YOU, ELIPHAZ
MEANS - THE NAME, IT MEANS
00:16:19.74\00:16:23.55
'ENDEAVOR' OR 'STRENGTH OF GOD'.
AND YOU READ IN GENESIS - BACK
00:16:23.55\00:16:27.95
TO BILDAD - BILDAD IS NOT
MENTIONED BY NAME, BUT IT TALKS
00:16:27.95\00:16:31.72
ABOUT HIS FATHER SHUAH - GENESIS
25, VERSES 1 AND 2, "ABRAHAM
00:16:31.72\00:16:38.23
AGAIN TOOK A WIFE,
AND HER NAME WAS KETURAH."
00:16:38.23\00:16:40.70
THIS IS AFTER SARAH DIES - "AND
SHE BORE HIM ZIMRAN, JOKSHAN,
00:16:40.70\00:16:45.30
MEDAN, MIDIAN,
ISHBAK, AND SHUAH."
00:16:45.30\00:16:48.37
- SO BILDAD IS THE SON OF SHUAH.
00:16:48.37\00:16:50.44
THE CHILDREN OF KETURAH WENT
TO THE EAST - BY THE WAY, THAT'S
00:16:50.44\00:16:53.81
GENESIS 25:6 - BUT ABRAHAM
GAVE GIFTS TO THE SONS OF HIS
00:16:53.81\00:16:58.81
CONCUBINES, WHICH ABRAHAM HAD
- CONCUBINE MEANING HAGAR AND
00:16:58.81\00:17:03.49
KETURAH - "AND WHILE HE WAS
STILL LIVING," - BEFORE HE EVEN
00:17:03.49\00:17:08.26
DIED - "HE SENT THEM EASTWARD,
AWAY FROM ISAAC HIS SON, TO THE
00:17:08.26\00:17:12.53
COUNTRY OF THE EAST."
THAT WOULD BE EDOM, AGAIN.
00:17:12.53\00:17:15.60
SO, IT'S - WE'RE FILLING IN
THE PIECES FOR WHERE THIS IS
00:17:15.60\00:17:18.17
HAPPENING AND
WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE.
00:17:18.17\00:17:20.34
YOU READ IN JOSHUA 15:21,
SPEAKING ABOUT - IT TALKS ABOUT
00:17:20.34\00:17:25.41
- STILL TALKING ABOUT ZOPHAR,
THE NAAMATHITE - AND THE WORD
00:17:25.41\00:17:29.61
'ZOPHAR' MEANS 'TO LEAP'. IN
JOSHUA 15:21 - 'THE UTTERMOST
00:17:29.61\00:17:34.72
CITIES OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
TOWARDS THE COAST OF EDOM' -
00:17:34.72\00:17:38.82
THERE YOU'VE GOT IT AGAIN - AND
00:17:38.82\00:17:40.42
IT SAYS IN VERSE 41, "GEDEROTH,
BETH DAGON, NAAMAH,' - AND
00:17:40.42\00:17:45.83
ZOPHAR IS THE NAAMATHITE,
SO THAT'S WHERE HE COMES FROM -
00:17:45.83\00:17:48.90
'SIXTEEN CITIES WITH THEIR
VILLAGES.' ALRIGHT, SO THESE
00:17:48.90\00:17:52.10
ARE THREE FRIENDS - THESE ARE
INTELLIGENT PEOPLE - YOU READ
00:17:52.10\00:17:55.74
THE DISCOURSE, THEY'RE
MEN OF AGE AND EXPERIENCE.
00:17:55.74\00:17:58.94
THEY ACTUALLY TAKE TURNS
TALKING, BASED UPON AGE, AND
00:17:58.94\00:18:02.58
THEY'VE COME - THEY HEARD ABOUT
THE MISFORTUNE THAT'S COME TO
00:18:02.58\00:18:05.01
THEIR FRIEND JOB - GREATEST MAN
- THE BIBLE SAYS - GODLY MAN,
00:18:05.01\00:18:09.72
WEALTHIEST MAN - AND HE HAS JUST
BEEN BLIND-SIDED BY ALL THESE
00:18:09.72\00:18:13.92
CALAMITIES TO HIS FAMILY, TO
HIS PROPERTY, TO HIS PERSON, AND
00:18:13.92\00:18:20.70
THEY SEND MESSENGERS AND
SAY, 'LOOK, LET'S MEET TOGETHER.
00:18:20.70\00:18:22.80
IT LOOKS LIKE JOB IS
TERMINAL. LET US COME AND LET'S
00:18:22.80\00:18:27.54
SEE HIM BEFORE HE
DIES. HE'S OUR FRIEND.'
00:18:27.54\00:18:31.14
AND SO THEY GATHER. IT
SAYS THEY MADE AN APPOINTMENT
00:18:31.14\00:18:34.51
- I'M IN VERSE 11 - JOB 2, VERSE
11 - THEY MADE AN APPOINTMENT TO
00:18:34.51\00:18:38.58
COME AND TO MOURN WITH
HIM AND TO COMFORT HIM.
00:18:38.58\00:18:42.75
AND, AS THEY GET TOGETHER,
AND THEY GO TOWARDS THE CITY AND
00:18:42.75\00:18:46.25
THEN THEY SEE WHERE HE IS
SITTING ON THE PILE OF BROKEN
00:18:46.25\00:18:49.42
POTTERY AND THE DUMP, AND THEY
RAISE THEIR EYES FROM AFAR AND
00:18:49.42\00:18:55.40
THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM.
I WENT AND I MADE A HOSPITAL
00:18:55.40\00:19:03.84
VISIT ONE TIME ABOUT THIRTY
YEARS AGO - HAD A MEMBER THAT
00:19:03.84\00:19:07.68
WAS 101 - SMALL CHURCH, I USED
TO VISIT HIM FAIRLY REGULAR -
00:19:07.68\00:19:12.28
NICEST MAN IN THE
WORLD - CLYDE COCHRAN.
00:19:12.28\00:19:15.75
I USED TO WONDER WHAT PROFESSION
WOULD GIVE YOU SUCH A LONG LIFE?
00:19:15.75\00:19:19.25
HE WAS A PAPER HANGER.
AND I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE A
00:19:19.25\00:19:21.69
GOOD REASON TO HANG WALLPAPER
- YOU LIVE A LONG TIME.
00:19:21.69\00:19:25.26
AND HE WAS IN GREAT SHAPE - 101
- HEARING AND EYESIGHT WASN'T SO
00:19:25.26\00:19:30.60
GOOD, BUT HE WAS UP AND AROUND.
00:19:30.60\00:19:32.83
HE WAS SO SWEET, HE COULDN'T
ALWAYS MAKE IT TO CHURCH, BUT
00:19:32.83\00:19:35.64
EVERY SABBATH HE'D GET UP, HE'D
DRESS, HE'D PUT ON HIS SABBATH
00:19:35.64\00:19:39.34
CLOTHES, HE'D WEAR HIS TIE, HE'D
SIT DOWN, HE'D DO HIS SABBATH
00:19:39.34\00:19:42.21
SCHOOL LESSON - BY HIMSELF
- HE'D DRESS UP FOR SABBATH IN
00:19:42.21\00:19:44.61
SABBATH CLOTHES, EVEN
THOUGH HE DIDN'T GO TO CHURCH.
00:19:44.61\00:19:46.78
HE SAID, 'IT'S A HOLY DAY,
I'M GOING TO WEAR MY SABBATH
00:19:46.78\00:19:48.22
CLOTHES. >>AMEN.
00:19:48.22\00:19:49.65
>>JUST A DEDICATED MAN. AND
THEN HE GOT SHINGLES - 101 -
00:19:49.65\00:19:56.62
AND SO I WENT BY
THE HOSPITAL TO VISIT.
00:19:56.62\00:20:00.96
I SAID, 'WHAT ROOM
IS MR. COCHRAN IN?'
00:20:00.96\00:20:03.90
AND I DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT
ANYONE RECOGNIZING HIS NAME
00:20:03.90\00:20:07.64
BECAUSE ALL OF HIS RELATIVES
DIED OFF - HE'S SO OLD - AND
00:20:07.64\00:20:13.14
THEY SAID, 'HE'S IN THIS ROOM
OVER HERE.' I WENT IN, I LOOKED,
00:20:13.14\00:20:16.18
I CAME BACK OUT - I SAID, 'NO,
I'M LOOKING FOR MR. COCHRAN.'
00:20:16.18\00:20:20.28
THEY SAID, 'THAT'S HIM.'
AND I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM.
00:20:20.28\00:20:27.72
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW MUCH
ABOUT SHINGLES, BUT IT'S AWFUL.
00:20:27.72\00:20:32.79
AND HE WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN AND
I SAT BY HIS BEDSIDE AND I SAID,
00:20:32.79\00:20:36.90
'CLYDE' - HE COULDN'T SEE ME,
BUT FINALLY WHEN HE HEARD ME AND
00:20:36.90\00:20:39.30
REALIZED IT WAS ME HE SAID, 'OH
PASTOR,' AND HE TOOK MY HAND AND
00:20:39.30\00:20:43.14
I HAD NO IDEA THAT A MAN 101
COULD SQUEEZE YOUR HAND LIKE A
00:20:43.14\00:20:47.54
VICE GRIP. PART OF
IT WAS, I THINK, THE
00:20:47.54\00:20:50.48
PAIN HE WAS IN,
BUT HE HAD SUCH A GRIP.
00:20:50.48\00:20:54.78
AND HE WAS SAYING, 'WHY
DOESN'T GOD LET ME DIE?'
00:20:54.78\00:20:58.02
AND HE WAS IN SO MUCH AGONY.
AND I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM.
00:20:58.02\00:21:03.19
AND SO, I THINK ABOUT THAT WHEN
I READ THEY SEE THEIR FRIEND -
00:21:03.19\00:21:06.03
THEY KNOW THEIR FRIEND, HE WAS A
ROBUST MAN OF DIGNITY AND NOW HE
00:21:06.03\00:21:09.80
HAS JUST BEEN
DECIMATED BY THIS DISEASE.
00:21:09.80\00:21:14.07
THEY "DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM,
THEY LIFTED THEIR VOICES AND
00:21:14.07\00:21:16.87
WEPT; AND EACH ONE TORE HIS ROBE
AND SPRINKLED DUST ON HIS HEAD
00:21:16.87\00:21:22.24
TOWARD HEAVEN." THAT
WAS A SIGN OF MOURNING.
00:21:22.24\00:21:25.88
THEY OFTEN DID IT AFTER A
PERSON DIED. HE'S STILL ALIVE.
00:21:25.88\00:21:29.85
"SO THEY SAT DOWN WITH HIM ON
THE GROUND SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN
00:21:29.85\00:21:33.62
NIGHTS, AND NO ONE SPOKE A WORD
TO HIM, FOR THEY SAW THIS HIS
00:21:33.62\00:21:38.49
GRIEF WAS VERY GREAT." YOU
KNOW, SOMETIMES, IF YOU HAVE
00:21:38.49\00:21:41.43
A FRIEND AND THEY'VE EXPERIENCED
A GREAT LOSS, OR MAYBE THEY'RE
00:21:41.43\00:21:44.13
SICK AND THEY'RE GOING THROUGH
GREAT PHYSICAL PAIN - ONE OF THE
00:21:44.13\00:21:47.30
MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU
CAN DO IS TO JUST BE WITH THEM.
00:21:47.30\00:21:51.31
YOU'RE THERE.
THEY KNOW YOU CARE.
00:21:51.31\00:21:54.44
AND YOU'RE DIVIDING THEIR
SORROWS AND THEIR PAIN JUST BY
00:21:54.44\00:21:57.55
SHARING IT WITH THEM. YOU DON'T
ALWAYS HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING.
00:21:57.55\00:22:01.08
I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE, AS A PASTOR,
I GO VISIT - I'VE GOT TO SAY
00:22:01.08\00:22:03.39
SOMETHING - I'M NOT
QUITE SURE WHAT TO SAY.
00:22:03.39\00:22:05.69
I USUALLY SAY SOMETHING DUMB
LIKE, 'HOW ARE YOU FEELING?'
00:22:05.69\00:22:08.79
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
AND SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER IF YOU
00:22:08.79\00:22:11.23
DON'T SAY ANYTHING
AND YOU'RE JUST WITH THEM.
00:22:11.23\00:22:15.86
NOW, I DON'T WANT TO MISLEAD YOU
WITH A SERMON TITLE WHERE I TALK
00:22:15.86\00:22:19.43
ABOUT FAITHLESS FRIENDS, BECAUSE
I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR, THEY
00:22:19.43\00:22:22.07
WERE FRIENDS. IF
YOU GO SEE SOMEBODY WHEN
00:22:22.07\00:22:26.98
THEY'RE SICK, AND YOU SIT DOWN
FOR SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS
00:22:26.98\00:22:31.08
WITH THEM, YOU'VE GOT TO
BE A FRIEND. THEY DID CARE.
00:22:31.08\00:22:34.42
THEY WERE FRIENDS, BUT THEIR
FAITH IN JOB WAVERED, AND THAT'S
00:22:34.42\00:22:38.05
WHY I TITLED IT
FAITHLESS FRIENDS .
00:22:38.05\00:22:40.79
SO THEY'RE SITTING THERE SEVEN
DAYS - AND THIS IS A TIME OF A
00:22:40.79\00:22:44.86
NUMBER OF
COMPLETENESS IN THE BIBLE.
00:22:44.86\00:22:47.10
THEY SAW HIS
GRIEF WAS VERY GREAT.
00:22:47.10\00:22:50.13
HE'S LOST EVERYTHING.
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS IF
00:22:50.13\00:22:52.77
YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU'VE
GOT FRIENDS, ROMANS 12:15,
00:22:52.77\00:22:56.74
"REJOICE WITH THOSE WHO REJOICE,
AND WEEP WITH THOSE WHO WEEP."
00:22:56.74\00:23:02.41
SOMETIMES WE NEED SOMEONE TO
SHARE GOOD NEWS WITH; SOMETIMES
00:23:02.41\00:23:07.05
WE NEED SOMEONE TO HELP US CARRY
THE BAD NEWS OR TO HELP SHARE
00:23:07.05\00:23:09.92
OUR SUFFERINGS. 1
CORINTHIANS 12:26, "AND IF ONE
00:23:09.92\00:23:13.56
MEMBER SUFFERS, ALL THE
MEMBERS SUFFER WITH IT."
00:23:13.56\00:23:18.06
WE ALL BEAR
EACH OTHERS' SORROWS.
00:23:18.06\00:23:21.70
PSALM 35:13, "BUT AS FOR ME,
WHEN THEY WERE SICK, MY CLOTHING
00:23:21.70\00:23:26.27
WAS SACKCLOTH;" - DAVID SAYS -
"I HUMBLED MYSELF WITH FASTING;
00:23:26.27\00:23:30.37
AND MY PRAYER WOULD
RETURN TO MY OWN HEART."
00:23:30.37\00:23:32.71
IN OTHER WORDS, I WASN'T PRAYING
FOR MYSELF, I WAS PRAYING FOR
00:23:32.71\00:23:34.94
THEM. AND DAVID
SAID, 'I CARED ABOUT
00:23:34.94\00:23:37.48
MY FRIENDS.' NOW EVERYBODY NEEDS
FRIENDS. WE ALL NEED FRIENDS.
00:23:37.48\00:23:45.49
THERE ARE DIFFERENT
LEVELS AND DEGREES OF FRIENDS.
00:23:45.49\00:23:47.59
I REMEMBER MY FATHER USED TO
TELL ME, 'IN YOUR LIFE YOU'LL BE
00:23:47.59\00:23:50.66
ABLE TO COUNT ALL YOUR
REAL FRIENDS ON ONE HAND.'
00:23:50.66\00:23:52.99
I THOUGHT, 'WOW, HOW
SAD. I'VE GOT A SCHOOL FULL OF
00:23:52.99\00:23:55.53
FRIENDS.' HE SAID, 'THEY'RE NOT
00:23:55.53\00:23:56.77
YOUR FRIENDS.' HE SAID,
'THEY'RE YOUR ACQUAINTANCES.'
00:23:56.77\00:24:02.84
YOU GO THROUGH A TRIAL, YOU FIND
OUT WHO YOUR REAL FRIENDS ARE.
00:24:02.84\00:24:06.61
IF YOU GO THROUGH A FINANCIAL
TRIAL, YOU REALLY FIND OUT WHO
00:24:06.61\00:24:09.51
YOUR REAL FRIENDS ARE, BECAUSE
WHEN YOU'RE RICH YOU'VE GOT A
00:24:09.51\00:24:13.98
LOT MORE FRIENDS
THAN WHEN YOU'RE POOR.
00:24:13.98\00:24:15.52
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT?
THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS - THE
00:24:15.52\00:24:19.99
RICH HAVE MANY FRIENDS -
THEY'RE NOT REALLY FRIENDS.
00:24:19.99\00:24:22.92
THESE WERE REALLY JOB'S
FRIENDS. FACEBOOK RIGHT NOW HAS
00:24:22.92\00:24:31.27
1.65 BILLION USERS. THAT
MEANS, IF FACEBOOK WERE A
00:24:31.27\00:24:36.84
COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE THE
MOST POPULOUS NATION ON EARTH.
00:24:36.84\00:24:42.24
THAT'S MORE THAN THE POPULATION
OF CHINA - 1.36 BILLION - YOU'VE
00:24:42.24\00:24:46.65
GOT THE NATION OF FACEBOOK.
HOW DID THIS COMPUTER PROGRAM
00:24:46.65\00:24:52.99
GROW TO BE SUCH A
PHENOMENON? BECAUSE EVERYONE
00:24:52.99\00:24:57.76
WANTS TO BE FRIENDED.
PEOPLE WANT FRIENDS - THEY
00:24:57.76\00:25:01.90
WANT TO FIND THEIR OLD FRIENDS
THEY'VE LOST CONTACT WITH.
00:25:01.90\00:25:05.53
NOW, I WON'T ASK HOW MANY OF
YOU ARE ON FACEBOOK, BUT I WOULD
00:25:05.53\00:25:09.60
ESTIMATE SOME OF YOU ARE PART
OF THAT 1.65 BILLION OUT THERE.
00:25:09.60\00:25:15.68
LITTLE PASTORAL ADVICE: IF
YOU'RE SPENDING MORE THAN 20
00:25:15.68\00:25:19.05
MINUTES ON FACEBOOK A DAY
YOU NEED TO GET SOME HELP.
00:25:19.05\00:25:24.32
YOU NEED TO GET
SOME REAL FRIENDS.
00:25:24.32\00:25:30.13
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS
LONELINESS - ACTUALLY IT WAS
00:25:30.13\00:25:34.96
JOHN MILTON THAT SAID
"LONELINESS IS THE FIRST THING
00:25:34.96\00:25:37.10
GOD NAMED 'NOT GOOD.'"
WHEN GOD MADE THE WORLD HE SAID,
00:25:37.10\00:25:40.37
'EVERYTHING IS GOOD,
GOOD, VERY GOOD.' RIGHT?
00:25:40.37\00:25:43.57
BUT THEN HE SAYS IT'S NOT
GOOD THAT A MAN SHOULD BE ALONE.
00:25:43.57\00:25:48.44
GOD MADE US TO
BE SOCIAL CREATURES.
00:25:48.44\00:25:50.91
WE NEED EACH OTHER.
MOTHER THERESA SAID, 'LONELINESS
00:25:50.91\00:25:54.05
IS THE GREATEST POVERTY.'
AND ALBERT EINSTEIN SAID, 'IT'S
00:25:54.05\00:25:58.75
STRANGE TO BE KNOWN SO
UNIVERSALLY AND YET BE SO
00:25:58.75\00:26:01.76
LONELY.' HERE'S THIS
GENIUS, BUT HE FELT SO LONELY.
00:26:01.76\00:26:09.23
ECCLESIASTES 4:9, "TWO ARE
BETTER THAN ONE BECAUSE THEY
00:26:09.23\00:26:13.00
HAVE A GOOD
REWARD FOR THEIR LABOR.
00:26:13.00\00:26:15.40
FOR IF THEY FALL, ONE
WILL LIFT UP HIS COMPANION."
00:26:15.40\00:26:19.01
- IT'S THE PONTOON EFFECT - "BUT
WOE TO HIM WHO IS ALONE WHEN HE
00:26:19.01\00:26:22.34
FALLS, FOR HE HAS
NO ONE TO HELP HIM UP."
00:26:22.34\00:26:26.05
PROVERBS 17:17, "A FRIEND LOVES
AT ALL TIMES, AND A BROTHER IS
00:26:26.05\00:26:30.15
BORN FOR ADVERSITY."
WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH
00:26:30.15\00:26:33.05
TERRIBLE TROUBLE, IT'S SO GOOD
TO HAVE A BROTHER - MEANING A
00:26:33.05\00:26:36.29
FRIEND - OR A SISTER - SOMEBODY
THAT YOU CAN CONFIDE IN.
00:26:36.29\00:26:40.46
AND WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
FRIENDS, I'LL SHARE A LITTLE
00:26:40.46\00:26:43.57
ECCENTRIC QUIRK I HAVE WITH YOU,
IS I THINK, ONCE YOU'RE MARRIED,
00:26:43.57\00:26:49.60
IF YOU'RE A MAN, YOUR FRIENDS
SHOULD BE MEN. AND IF YOU'RE A
00:26:49.60\00:26:54.84
WOMAN, YOUR FRIENDS SHOULD BE
WOMEN. NOW, YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME
00:26:54.84\00:26:57.51
REAL YOUNG OR REAL OLD FRIENDS,
BUT IF ANYBODY IS IN THE
00:26:57.51\00:27:02.45
BALLPARK OF SUSPICION, I BELIEVE
YOU SHOULDN'T BE INTIMATE WITH
00:27:02.45\00:27:06.59
PEOPLE OF THE
OPPOSITE SEX IF YOU'RE MARRIED.
00:27:06.59\00:27:10.26
AND THEY SAY, 'OH, THEY'RE JUST
FRIENDS.' AND BEING A PASTOR -
00:27:10.26\00:27:13.53
YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES YOU
START SEEING SOMETHING LOOK ODD
00:27:13.53\00:27:16.83
AND THEY SAY, 'OH, NO, WE'RE
JUST FRIENDS.' 'WE'RE JUST GOOD
00:27:16.83\00:27:19.40
FRIENDS.' AND THE NEXT THING YOU
KNOW THEY'RE WIFE-SWAPPING AND
00:27:19.40\00:27:22.64
DIVORCING EACH
OTHER. I'VE SEEN IT.
00:27:22.64\00:27:26.04
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:27:26.04\00:27:30.81
DAVID NEEDED A FRIEND FOR
ADVERSITY - WHO WAS HIS FRIEND?
00:27:30.81\00:27:34.58
JONATHAN. HE HAD
SOMEBODY - THEY WEPT
00:27:34.58\00:27:35.98
TOGETHER, THEY - HE WAS GOING
THROUGH A TRIAL - RUNNING FOR
00:27:35.98\00:27:38.35
HIS LIFE AND IT HELPED HIM SO
MUCH. DAVID WAS HIDING IN A CAVE
00:27:38.35\00:27:41.56
- JONATHAN CAME TO HIM TO
HOLD HIM UP - TO BE HIS FRIEND.
00:27:41.56\00:27:46.76
WE NEED FRIENDS - BROTHERS
AND SISTERS THAT WILL HELP US.
00:27:46.76\00:27:51.83
PROVERBS 18:24 - NOW, IF YOU
WANT FRIENDS - SOME PEOPLE SAY,
00:27:51.83\00:27:55.60
'I DON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS.'
WELL, ARE YOU HARD TO HAVE - BE
00:27:55.60\00:27:59.21
FRIENDS WITH? IT'S NOT EVERYBODY
ELSE'S FAULT ALL THE TIME.
00:27:59.21\00:28:05.81
"A MAN WHO HAS FRIENDS" -
PROVERBS 18:24 - "MUST HIMSELF
00:28:05.81\00:28:09.58
BE FRIENDLY." - AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:28:09.58\00:28:13.56
>>SO IF YOU SAY, 'I CAN'T FIND
ANYBODY TO BE MY FRIEND.' WELL,
00:28:13.56\00:28:17.19
ARE YOU BEING A FRIEND?
EVERYBODY WANTS SOMEONE TO
00:28:17.19\00:28:20.23
LISTEN TO THEIR TROUBLES,
SO ARE YOU A GOOD LISTENER?
00:28:20.23\00:28:22.96
DO YOU ONLY WANT SOMEBODY
TO LISTEN TO YOU, OR WILL YOU
00:28:22.96\00:28:24.60
LISTEN TO THEM?
THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
00:28:24.60\00:28:28.57
PROVERBS 19:6, "MANY ENTREAT THE
FAVOR OF THE NOBILITY, AND EVERY
00:28:28.57\00:28:32.94
MAN IS A FRIEND TO
ONE WHO GIVES GIFTS."
00:28:32.94\00:28:35.94
WHEN THE PRODIGAL SON RAN
AWAY FROM HOME, HE HAD A LOT OF
00:28:35.94\00:28:38.01
FRIENDS - WHEN HE
HAD HIS FATHER'S CREDIT
00:28:38.01\00:28:40.92
CARD - BUT ONCE THAT
RAN OUT, THEY WERE ALL GONE.
00:28:40.92\00:28:46.39
A FEW QUOTES ON FRIENDSHIP: 'A
FRIEND IS A PERSON WITH WHOM I
00:28:46.39\00:28:50.19
CAN THINK OUT LOUD.'
THAT'S WHAT EMERSON SAYS.
00:28:50.19\00:28:54.93
'A FRIEND IS ONE WHO COMES
IN WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD HAS GONE
00:28:54.93\00:28:57.43
OUT.' 'A FRIEND IS ONE WHO KNOWS
ALL ABOUT YOU AND LIKES YOU
00:28:57.43\00:29:02.74
ANYWAY.' 'A FRIEND IS SOMEONE
WITH WHOM YOU CAN DARE TO BE
00:29:02.74\00:29:08.28
YOURSELF.' ARISTOTLE
SAID, 'WHAT IS A FRIEND?
00:29:08.28\00:29:12.21
A SINGLE SOUL DWELLING IN TWO
BODIES.' IF YOU'VE GOT A CLOSE
00:29:12.21\00:29:15.65
FRIEND - THOSE ARE THE KIND
WHERE YOU ONLY HAVE A FEW IN
00:29:15.65\00:29:17.35
LIFE. SOMEONE SAID - THERE'S
AN OLD COWBOY SAYING THAT SAYS,
00:29:17.35\00:29:22.79
'EVERY MAN'LL HAVE ONE
GOOD HORSE AND ONE GOOD DOG.'
00:29:22.79\00:29:26.06
AND SOMETIMES IN LIFE YOU
MAY HAVE ONE REALLY GOOD FRIEND.
00:29:26.06\00:29:30.43
NOW JOB, HIS FRIENDS HAVE COME -
SEVEN DAYS THEY'VE SAT THERE AS
00:29:30.43\00:29:36.87
LOYAL FRIENDS. THEY'VE LISTENED
AS HE'S GROANED IN PAIN.
00:29:36.87\00:29:41.64
THEY'VE WEPT WITH
HIM. THEY'RE KEEPING VIGIL.
00:29:41.64\00:29:45.71
HAVE YOU EVER GONE TO THE
HOSPITAL OF SOMEBODY AND YOU
00:29:45.71\00:29:47.55
WONDER WHEN THEY'RE
GOING TO BREATHE THEIR LAST?
00:29:47.55\00:29:50.55
AND, AS A PASTOR, I'VE MADE
HOSPITAL VISITS BEFORE WHERE
00:29:50.55\00:29:54.16
FAMILY ARE AT THE BEDSIDE AND
SOMEONE IS GOING THROUGH WHAT
00:29:54.16\00:29:57.56
APPEARS TO BE A
TERMINAL ILLNESS.
00:29:57.56\00:30:00.40
AND THE FAMILY MEMBERS - I'VE
SEEN THEM BRING IN AN EXTRA BED
00:30:00.40\00:30:03.53
- THEY'RE AFRAID TO LEAVE THEM
BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THEM TO
00:30:03.53\00:30:06.13
DIE ALONE. AND SO
THEY HAVE THIS VIGIL AND
00:30:06.13\00:30:11.04
SOMETIMES I'VE HEARD THEM SAY
THEY THINK THEY'VE ONLY GOT A
00:30:11.04\00:30:14.98
MATTER OF HOURS AND, IN
REALITY, IT LASTED DAYS.
00:30:14.98\00:30:19.11
AND THEY NEVER LEAVE THE HOTEL
ROOM - OR THE HOSPITAL ROOM -
00:30:19.11\00:30:22.55
SORRY. AND THEY'RE THERE JUST
- BASICALLY, IT'S A VERY PAINFUL
00:30:22.55\00:30:28.19
VIGIL. SOMETIMES IT WEARS OUT
THE FAMILY. THEY'RE TAKING TURNS
00:30:28.19\00:30:32.69
BECAUSE THEY DON'T
WANT THE PERSON TO BE ALONE.
00:30:32.69\00:30:34.36
SO JOB'S FRIENDS, THEY SAID,
'BOY, IT'S JUST GONE FROM BAD TO
00:30:34.36\00:30:38.20
WORSE FOR JOB AND NOW HE IS AS
SICK AS ANYBODY WE'VE EVER SEEN.
00:30:38.20\00:30:43.10
WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE HIM NOW
BECAUSE AS SOON AS WE WALK AWAY,
00:30:43.10\00:30:45.51
HE'LL DIE ALONE. SO
THEY'RE KIND OF - IT'S
00:30:45.51\00:30:48.31
ALMOST LIKE A DEATH
VIGIL. THEY'RE WAITING WITH HIM.
00:30:48.31\00:30:51.95
BUT THEN SOMETHING
HAPPENS AFTER SEVEN DAYS.
00:30:51.95\00:30:55.42
JOB CANNOT
CONTAIN HIMSELF ANYMORE.
00:30:55.42\00:30:57.82
INSTEAD OF JUST GROANING
AND SCRAPING HIMSELF, HE FINALLY
00:30:57.82\00:31:01.46
BEGINS TO SPEAK. AND
NOW I'D LIKE YOU TO GO IN
00:31:01.46\00:31:05.43
YOUR BIBLES - AND YOU CAN
FIND THIS IN JOB CHAPTER 3. WE
00:31:05.43\00:31:12.20
FINISHED OUT JOB CHAPTER 2 AND
JOB BEGINS TO CURSE THE DAY OF
00:31:12.20\00:31:18.17
HIS BIRTH. HE'S WISHING
FOR DEATH IS WHAT'S REALLY
00:31:18.17\00:31:20.81
HAPPENING. "AFTER
THIS JOB OPENED HIS MOUTH
00:31:20.81\00:31:24.75
AND CURSED THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH.
AND JOB SPOKE, AND SAID: 'MAY
00:31:24.75\00:31:29.85
THE DAY PERISH ON WHICH I
WAS BORN, AND THE NIGHT IN WHICH
00:31:29.85\00:31:33.49
IT WAS SAID, 'A MALE CHILD
IS CONCEIVED.' MAY THAT DAY BE
00:31:33.49\00:31:37.69
DARKNESS; MAY GOD ABOVE NOT SEEK
IT, NOR THE LIGHT SHINE UPON IT.
00:31:37.69\00:31:41.36
MAY DARKNESS AND THE SHADOW
OF DEATH CLAIM IT;" - YOU KNOW,
00:31:41.36\00:31:44.73
THAT IS ALMOST AN EXACT QUOTE OF
SOMETHING THAT YOU FIND IN THE
00:31:44.73\00:31:50.17
BOOK OF JEREMIAH. IF
YOU LOOK IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER
00:31:50.17\00:31:52.37
20, VERSE 14, JEREMIAH SAYS
- AND THIS IS - IF YOU KNOW THE
00:31:52.37\00:31:56.75
STORY OF JEREMIAH, HE GOT
LOWERED INTO A DUNGEON FILLED
00:31:56.75\00:32:00.58
WITH - IT WAS A CISTERN THAT HAD
BEEN TURNED INTO A DUMP - AND
00:32:00.58\00:32:04.35
HE'S IN THERE - HE SINKS INTO
THE MIRE AND HE'S LEFT TO DIE.
00:32:04.35\00:32:09.62
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY JEREMIAH
WOULD BE A LITTLE DEPRESSED.
00:32:09.62\00:32:11.99
LISTEN TO WHAT JEREMIAH SAYS,
"CURSED BE THE DAY IN WHICH I
00:32:11.99\00:32:14.46
WAS BORN! LET THE
DAY NOT BE BLESSED
00:32:14.46\00:32:16.10
IN WHICH MY MOTHER BORE
ME! LET THE MAN BE CURSED WHO
00:32:16.10\00:32:19.50
BROUGHT THE NEWS TO MY
FATHER, SAYING, 'A MALE CHILD
00:32:19.50\00:32:21.87
HAS BEEN BORN TO
YOU!' MAKING HIM VERY GLAD."
00:32:21.87\00:32:25.04
SO JEREMIAH -
CURSING THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH.
00:32:25.04\00:32:28.24
JOB - CURSING
THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH.
00:32:28.24\00:32:31.81
- "MAY DARKNESS AND THE
SHADOW OF DEATH CLAIM IT.
00:32:31.81\00:32:34.82
MAY CLOUDS SETTLE ON IT." -
YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR BIBLES OPEN?
00:32:34.82\00:32:37.75
BECAUSE I'M GOING TO
READ A FEW PASSAGES FROM JOB.
00:32:37.75\00:32:40.02
YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING,
'PASTOR DOUG' - YOU'RE THINKING
00:32:40.02\00:32:43.56
- 'JOB HAS GOT 42
CHAPTERS. HOW LONG ARE WE
00:32:43.56\00:32:45.39
GOING TO DO THIS?'
(LAUGHTER) WE'RE GOING TO COVER
00:32:45.39\00:32:47.56
A LOT OF GROUND
TODAY, DON'T WORRY.
00:32:47.56\00:32:49.93
BUT I'M JUST GOING TO
HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE DIALOGUE.
00:32:49.93\00:32:52.57
I'M HOPING YOU'RE GOING
TO READ THE BOOK OF JOB.
00:32:52.57\00:32:54.04
IT'S JUST - IT'S - LIKE I SAID,
IT'S THE CREAM IN THE MILK OF
00:32:54.04\00:32:57.04
THE BIBLE. OH, BY THE
WAY, IT'S NOT ALL SAD.
00:32:57.04\00:33:01.61
JOB ENDS - IT'S A GOOD ENDING TO
THE BOOK, SO JUST HANG IN THERE
00:33:01.61\00:33:08.08
- "AS FOR THAT NIGHT, MAY
DARKNESS SEIZE IT; MAY IT NOT
00:33:08.08\00:33:10.32
REJOICE AMONG THE DAYS OF THE
YEAR, MAY IT NOT COME INTO THE
00:33:10.32\00:33:13.05
NUMBER OF THE MONTHS.
OH, MAY THAT NIGHT BE BARREN!
00:33:13.05\00:33:15.86
MAY NO JOYFUL SHOUT COME INTO
IT! MAY THOSE CURSE IT WHO CURSE
00:33:15.86\00:33:19.96
THE DAY, THOSE WHO ARE
READY TO AROUSE LEVIATHAN."
00:33:19.96\00:33:23.40
- LEVIATHAN COMES UP LATER -
"MAY THE STARS OF ITS MORNING BE
00:33:23.40\00:33:26.77
DARK; MAY IT LOOK FOR LIGHT,
BUT HAVE NONE, AND NOT SEE THE
00:33:26.77\00:33:30.21
DAWNING OF THE DAY; BECAUSE IT
DID NOT SHUT UP THE DOORS OF MY
00:33:30.21\00:33:33.07
MOTHER'S WOMB, NOR
HIDE SORROW FROM MY EYES.
00:33:33.07\00:33:36.44
'WHY DID I NOT DIE AT BIRTH?'"
- NOW, ARE THERE ANY OF YOU
00:33:36.44\00:33:42.88
WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO ADMIT
THAT THERE WAS A TIME IN YOUR
00:33:42.88\00:33:46.49
LIFE WHEN YOU SAID,
'WHY WAS I EVER BORN?'
00:33:46.49\00:33:52.69
COME ON, I'M GOING TO
ASK YOU TO RAISE YOUR HANDS.
00:33:52.69\00:33:53.83
COME ON. TEENAGER
- YOU NEVER WONDERED?
00:33:53.83\00:33:56.30
YOU NEVER HAVING A
HARD TIME? I SEE SOME OF YOU
00:33:56.30\00:33:57.83
ARE 'FESSING UP. 'WHY
DID I HAVE TO BE BORN?'
00:33:57.83\00:34:04.27
I REMEMBER GETTING MAD AT MY
FATHER AND SAYING TO HIM ONCE,
00:34:04.27\00:34:06.47
'IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT I'M
HERE.' ANY OF YOU EVER TRY THAT?
00:34:06.47\00:34:13.48
"WHY DID I NOT DIE AT
BIRTH? WHY DID I NOT PERISH WHEN
00:34:13.48\00:34:16.35
I CAME FROM THE WOMB?
WHY DID THE KNEES RECEIVE ME?
00:34:16.35\00:34:19.19
OR WHY THE BREASTS
THAT I SHOULD NURSE?
00:34:19.19\00:34:20.56
FOR NOW I WOULD HAVE LAIN STILL
AND BEEN QUIET, I WOULD HAVE
00:34:20.56\00:34:23.93
BEEN ASLEEP; THEN I WOULD
HAVE BEEN AT REST WITH KINGS AND
00:34:23.93\00:34:26.43
COUNSELORS OF THE EARTH; WHO
BUILT RUINS FOR THEMSELVES, OR
00:34:26.43\00:34:29.36
WITH PRINCES WHO HAD GOLD,
WHO FILLED THEIR HOUSES WITH
00:34:29.36\00:34:31.80
SILVER; OR WHY WAS I NOT HIDDEN
LIKE A STILLBORN CHILD, LIKE
00:34:31.80\00:34:35.60
INFANTS WHO NEVER SAW LIGHT?
THERE THE WICKED CEASE FROM
00:34:35.60\00:34:39.07
TROUBLING, AND THERE
THE WEARY ARE AT REST.
00:34:39.07\00:34:42.28
THERE THE PRISONERS REST
TOGETHER; THEY DO NOT HEAR THE
00:34:42.28\00:34:44.68
VOICE OF THE OPPRESSOR." BY
THE WAY, IF YOU EVER WONDERED
00:34:44.68\00:34:46.95
ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD,
THIS BOOK MAKES IT REALLY CLEAR
00:34:46.95\00:34:49.92
THERE'S NO CONSCIOUSNESS IN
DEATH - "THE SMALL AND THE GREAT
00:34:49.92\00:34:53.39
ARE THERE, AND THE SERVANT
IS FREE FROM HIS MASTER."
00:34:53.39\00:34:56.36
AND SO JOB IS
BASICALLY WISHING FOR HIS DEATH.
00:34:56.36\00:34:59.03
NOW, DID HE SIN?
JOB IS JUST VENTING.
00:34:59.03\00:35:05.37
IS IT OKAY,
SOMETIMES, TO CRY OUT TO GOD?
00:35:05.37\00:35:08.90
HAVE YOU READ SOME OF THE
DISCOURAGING PSALMS OF DAVID?
00:35:08.90\00:35:11.67
WHEN I SAY DISCOURAGING, THERE
ARE PSALMS THAT ARE A LITTLE
00:35:11.67\00:35:13.81
DARK, WHERE DAVID IS COMPLAINING
- I MEAN, HE'S RUNNING FOR HIS
00:35:13.81\00:35:17.95
LIFE, HE'S HIDING, HE'S
CHASED OUT OF HIS INHERITANCE,
00:35:17.95\00:35:20.42
HE'S BEING
PURSUED. THEY'VE GOT A PRICE
00:35:20.42\00:35:21.98
ON HIS HEAD AND
HE'S DISCOURAGED.
00:35:21.98\00:35:24.69
AND DAVID ARTICULATES THAT -
AND THOSE PSALMS ARE INSPIRED.
00:35:24.69\00:35:30.13
WOULD THIS BE THE FIRST TIME
A MAN OF GOD WISHED FOR DEATH?
00:35:30.13\00:35:34.10
NUMBERS 11:15, "IF YOU TREAT
ME LIKE THIS," - MOSES SAID -
00:35:34.10\00:35:39.33
"PLEASE KILL ME HERE AND NOW
- IF I HAVE FOUND FAVOR IN YOUR
00:35:39.33\00:35:43.27
SIGHT - AND DO NOT LET ME
SEE MY WRETCHEDNESS!" - ELIJAH -
00:35:43.27\00:35:48.71
1 KINGS 19:4, "BUT HE HIMSELF
WENT A DAY'S JOURNEY INTO THE
00:35:48.71\00:35:51.78
WILDERNESS, AND CAME AND
SAT DOWN UNDER A BROOM TREE." -
00:35:51.78\00:35:55.55
IF I WAS UNDER A BROOM TREE,
I'D BE DEPRESSED TOO - "AND HE
00:35:55.55\00:35:59.72
PRAYED THAT HE MIGHT
DIE, AND SAID, 'IT IS ENOUGH!
00:35:59.72\00:36:03.16
NOW, LORD, TAKE MY LIFE, FOR I
AM NO BETTER THAN MY FATHERS!'"
00:36:03.16\00:36:07.23
HE PRAYED THAT HE MIGHT DIE.
THAT'S AMAZING - THE DAY BEFORE
00:36:07.23\00:36:10.73
HE WAS ON THE MOUNTAIN
PRAYING AND FIRE CAME DOWN.
00:36:10.73\00:36:13.64
AND THEN HE PRAYED AND RAIN CAME
DOWN - AND NOW HE'S PRAYING THAT
00:36:13.64\00:36:16.00
HE MIGHT DIE. HE
ACTUALLY JUST HAD LOW BLOOD
00:36:16.00\00:36:20.78
SUGAR - AN ANGEL CAME DOWN AND
FED HIM - HE FELT MUCH BETTER.
00:36:20.78\00:36:24.41
REALLY - YOU GET TIRED AND
HUNGRY AND YOU SAY ALL KINDS OF
00:36:24.41\00:36:27.25
THINGS. JONAH
4:3, "THEREFORE NOW," -
00:36:27.25\00:36:30.69
JONAH IS A PROPHET - ELIJAH IS
A PROPHET - MOSES IS A PROPHET -
00:36:30.69\00:36:33.22
"THEREFORE NOW, O LORD, PLEASE
TAKE MY LIFE FROM ME, FOR IT IS
00:36:33.22\00:36:36.49
BETTER FOR ME TO
DIE THAN TO LIVE!"
00:36:36.49\00:36:41.33
SAMSON - IT CAME TO PASS,
WHEN DELILAH PESTERED HIM DAILY.
00:36:41.33\00:36:46.97
A NUMBER OF THINGS CAN
BRING YOU TO THE POINT OF DEATH.
00:36:46.97\00:36:51.24
SAMSON WAS PESTERED DAILY WITH
HER WORDS PRESSED IN HIM SO HIS
00:36:51.24\00:36:54.74
SOUL WAS VEXED TO DEATH.
WHEN HE TOLD DELILAH HIS SECRET
00:36:54.74\00:36:59.38
AND SHE HAD, THREE OTHER TIMES,
TRIED TO MAKE HIM LOSE HIS
00:36:59.38\00:37:02.48
STRENGTH, DID HE NOT KNOW
WHICH WAY THIS WAS GOING TO END?
00:37:02.48\00:37:06.25
IT WAS ALMOST
SUICIDE WAY BACK THEN.
00:37:06.25\00:37:09.52
HE ENDED UP BRINGING
DOWN THE HOUSE ON HIMSELF.
00:37:09.52\00:37:13.09
MATTER OF FACT, IN JOB CHAPTER
3 - WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT JOB
00:37:13.09\00:37:16.10
CHAPTER 3 - SIX TIMES
JOB ASKS 'WHY? WHY? WHY?'
00:37:16.10\00:37:21.44
IS IT OKAY TO ASK
GOD THOSE QUESTIONS?
00:37:21.44\00:37:23.51
>>YES. >>I GET
IRRITATED WHEN PEOPLE
00:37:23.51\00:37:25.07
SAY, 'WELL, JUST
ACCEPT IT. GOD IS SOVEREIGN.
00:37:25.07\00:37:27.04
YOU SHOULDN'T
ASK THOSE QUESTIONS.'
00:37:27.04\00:37:28.31
I THINK GOD WANTS
US TO REASON WITH HIM.
00:37:28.31\00:37:30.71
HE SAYS, "WHY DID
I NOT DIE AT BIRTH?
00:37:30.71\00:37:32.65
WHY DID I NOT PERISH...WHY
DID THE KNEES RECEIVE ME?
00:37:32.65\00:37:35.35
OR WHY THE BREASTS," - AND
SO SIX TIMES HE SAYS, 'WHY?
00:37:35.35\00:37:37.79
WHY? WHY? WHY HAS THIS
HAPPENED?' NOW, IF YOU READ IN
00:37:37.79\00:37:41.42
JOB, CHAPTER 3 AND CHAPTER 4
IS ALL ONE DISCOURSE OF JOB'S.
00:37:41.42\00:37:47.76
JUST - AND LET ME GIVE YOU
THE PICTURE: JOB IS - HE WAS THE
00:37:47.76\00:37:51.80
GREATEST MAN - YOU READ THROUGH
THE BOOK, IT TALKS ABOUT THE
00:37:51.80\00:37:54.50
TOWN, IT TALKS ABOUT THE CITY
GATES - THERE'S CITIES THERE -
00:37:54.50\00:37:59.14
THERE'S TOWNS -
HE WAS THE JUDGE.
00:37:59.14\00:38:02.18
EVERYBODY KNEW HIM. HE IS
NOW OUTSIDE THE TOWN - THE
00:38:02.18\00:38:05.55
CITY DUMP - PEOPLE IN THE
TOWN KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENED.
00:38:05.55\00:38:09.68
WHEN THEY HEAR THAT ELIPHAZ AND
BILDAD AND ZOPHAR HAVE ALL COME
00:38:09.68\00:38:15.52
FROM AFAR, THERE ARE PEOPLE
WHO ARE COMING TO WATCH THIS.
00:38:15.52\00:38:18.33
THEY SEE THEM
SITTING THERE WITH JOB.
00:38:18.33\00:38:20.10
IT'S NOT LIKE THEY'RE ALL THERE
BY THEMSELVES - THE TOWN IS
00:38:20.10\00:38:21.90
AWARE WHAT'S HAPPENED TO JOB.
ONE REASON THIS IS WRITTEN DOWN
00:38:21.90\00:38:25.30
IS BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS THERE
WRITING DOWN THEIR DIALOGUE.
00:38:25.30\00:38:29.70
ANOTHER CHARACTER, WHO IS
A FRIEND OF JOB, APPEARS IN
00:38:29.70\00:38:33.48
CHAPTER 32 - YOU
DON'T EVEN HEAR ABOUT HIM.
00:38:33.48\00:38:35.38
HE APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE -
THE SOMEWHAT MYSTERIOUS ELIHU.
00:38:35.38\00:38:38.71
HE MAY HAVE COME AND JOINED THE
DISCUSSION AND STARTED WRITING
00:38:38.71\00:38:41.55
THIS DOWN. SO THERE'S
PEOPLE THAT ARE LISTENING.
00:38:41.55\00:38:43.35
SO AFTER JOB GIVES OUT THIS TWO
CHAPTERS OF COMPLAINT TO GOD,
00:38:43.35\00:38:47.96
CURSING THE DAY OF HIS - OF
HIS BIRTH - AND HE DOES IT VERY
00:38:47.96\00:38:50.69
ELOQUENTLY - FINALLY ELIPHAZ,
THIS FAITHFUL FRIEND WHO HAS
00:38:50.69\00:38:56.23
COME FROM AFAR TO MOURN WITH JOB
- HE'S BEEN THERE FOR A WEEK -
00:38:56.23\00:39:00.74
HE CAN TAKE NO MORE. YOU
SEE, SOMETHING'S HAPPENED.
00:39:00.74\00:39:04.71
WHILE THEY'VE BEEN WATCHING JOB
SUFFER AND HE DOESN'T DIE AND
00:39:04.71\00:39:07.68
THEY SEE ALL THIS - THEY - HE'S
LOST EVERYTHING - THEY BEGIN TO
00:39:07.68\00:39:10.98
THINK TO THEMSELVES, 'WHY
WOULD GOD DO THIS TO ANY MAN?'
00:39:10.98\00:39:16.45
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PERSON
SUFFER AND THOUGHT, 'WHY IS GOD
00:39:16.45\00:39:18.72
ALLOWING THIS?' OR YOU
SEE IN THE HISTORY BOOKS
00:39:18.72\00:39:21.96
A POW CAMP OR CONCENTRATION CAMP
AND FOLKS ASK THE QUESTION: 'IF
00:39:21.96\00:39:26.73
GOD IS GOOD, WHY
WOULD HE ALLOW THAT?'
00:39:26.73\00:39:29.96
OR SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPENS -
A PLANE GOES DOWN AND YOU THINK,
00:39:29.96\00:39:34.47
'I GUESS EVERYBODY ON THAT PLANE
DESERVED IT.' THIS IS ONE OF THE
00:39:34.47\00:39:38.64
MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT
THE BOOK OF JOB IS DEALING WITH.
00:39:38.64\00:39:43.28
GOOD AND BAD COMES
TO THE GOOD AND THE BAD.
00:39:43.28\00:39:49.32
IN THIS LIFE, IT IS
A WAR. WAR IS NOT FAIR.
00:39:49.32\00:39:52.19
GOOD PEOPLE AND BAD
PEOPLE DIE IN A WAR.
00:39:52.19\00:39:54.42
IN THIS LIFE THERE ARE GOOD
PEOPLE THAT ARE TEMPTED AND THE
00:39:54.42\00:39:58.89
DEVIL SOMETIMES WILL
GIVE BAD PEOPLE BLESSINGS.
00:39:58.89\00:40:02.06
AND IT WORKS BOTH WAYS.
ELIPHAZ IS BEGINNING TO THINK
00:40:02.06\00:40:06.50
TO HIMSELF, 'JOB IS
SUFFERING BECAUSE HE MUST HAVE
00:40:06.50\00:40:09.80
SOME SIN IN HIS LIFE. HE'S
DONE SOMETHING WRONG AND HE
00:40:09.80\00:40:12.87
NEEDS TO CONFESS THIS.' AND HE
FINALLY CAN'T HOLD IT IN AND HE
00:40:12.87\00:40:17.05
SAYS WHAT THE OTHER TWO
FRIENDS ARE ALSO THINKING.
00:40:17.05\00:40:19.18
GO TO CHAPTER 4 - ELIPHAZ
RESPONDS - ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE
00:40:19.18\00:40:23.52
- HE ANSWERED AND HE
SAID - YOU GOT YOUR BIBLES?
00:40:23.52\00:40:26.42
CHAPTER 4 - JOB - "IF ONE
ATTEMPTS A WORD WITH YOU, WILL
00:40:26.42\00:40:30.43
YOU BECOME WEARY?" - IN OTHER
WORDS, YOU'VE BEEN TALKING.
00:40:30.43\00:40:32.59
WE'VE JUST BEEN LISTENING
AND WE'VE BEEN PRAYING.
00:40:32.59\00:40:34.50
WE'VE BEEN CRYING WITH YOU BUT,
JOB, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE MAKING
00:40:34.50\00:40:39.17
IT SOUND LIKE YOU'RE RIGHTEOUS
AND YOU'RE WONDERING WHY GOD LET
00:40:39.17\00:40:42.10
THIS HAPPEN TO YOU - PROBABLY
BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT.'
00:40:42.10\00:40:45.31
NOW, DID JOB SUFFER
BECAUSE HE DESERVED IT? NO.
00:40:45.31\00:40:49.44
BEFORE I GIVE YOU THE ANSWERS OF
ELIPHAZ AND ZOPHAR AND BILDAD,
00:40:49.44\00:40:56.52
BIG QUESTION COMES UP: THESE
CHAPTERS - JOB - HIS FRIEND -
00:40:56.52\00:41:03.49
JOB - HIS FRIEND - JOB - HIS
FRIEND - JOB ALTERNATES BETWEEN
00:41:03.49\00:41:06.90
ALL THE FRIENDS
- THEY TAKE TURNS.
00:41:06.90\00:41:09.20
WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF JOB,
ARE ONLY THE WORDS OF JOB TRUE
00:41:09.20\00:41:14.50
AND THE WORDS OF HIS THREE
FRIENDS, THEY'RE NOT SCRIPTURE?
00:41:14.50\00:41:19.17
WHAT DO YOU DO
WITH WHAT THEY SAY?
00:41:19.17\00:41:21.31
IS IT SCRIPTURE?
BECAUSE THEY GO ON QUITE A WAYS.
00:41:21.31\00:41:23.71
ELIPHAZ IS ONE OF THE MOST
VERBOSE - OR I LIKE USING THE
00:41:23.71\00:41:26.55
WORD 'LOQUACIOUS' - OF ALL
OF JOB'S FRIENDS, HE HAS QUITE A
00:41:26.55\00:41:30.42
BIT TO SAY. I THINK
BILDAD SAYS THE LEAST.
00:41:30.42\00:41:34.92
YOU KNOW THE OLD JOKE, 'HE'S
THE SHORTEST MAN IN THE BIBLE'?
00:41:34.92\00:41:38.96
BILDAD THE SHUHITE? THAT WAS A
BAD JOKE - I JUST - NATHAN SAID,
00:41:38.96\00:41:43.43
'YOU NEED TO TELL THAT DURING
THE SERMON' SO I...BUT HE DOES
00:41:43.43\00:41:46.84
GIVE THE SHORTEST
RESPONSES, ALSO, IN THE BIBLE.
00:41:46.84\00:41:50.51
SO I'M ASKING A QUESTION:
IS ALL OF THE BOOK INSPIRED?
00:41:50.51\00:41:56.31
I CONTEND THAT ALL OF
WHAT JOB'S FRIENDS SAY IS TRUE.
00:41:56.31\00:42:02.38
THEY'RE SPEAKING, THOUGH, IN
GENERAL TERMS - HOW GOD BLESSES
00:42:02.38\00:42:06.69
THE GODLY AND
PUNISHES THE WICKED.
00:42:06.69\00:42:09.26
IN GENERAL TERMS, EVERYTHING
THEY SAY IS TRUE - AND THEY SAY
00:42:09.26\00:42:12.29
SOME INCRED - THESE GUYS -
THIS IS BACK WHEN PEOPLE LIVED A
00:42:12.29\00:42:15.20
HUNDRED YEARS AND
THEY STILL HAD CLEAR MINDS.
00:42:15.20\00:42:17.43
THESE GUYS WERE VERY BRIGHT.
00:42:17.43\00:42:19.47
THEY HAD A LOT
OF LIFE EXPERIENCE.
00:42:19.47\00:42:21.04
THEY'RE THE LEADERS OF TOWNS -
LIKE I SAID, THEY'RE CHIEFTAINS
00:42:21.04\00:42:24.84
OR THEY USE THE WORD 'SHEIKS'
- THEY USE THE WORD 'KINGS' -
00:42:24.84\00:42:29.61
THEY'RE PATRIARCHS - AND I THINK
THEY WERE SAYING SOMETHING THAT
00:42:29.61\00:42:34.38
IS TRUE, BUT THEY WERE WRONG IN
APPLYING THAT GENERAL TRUTH TO
00:42:34.38\00:42:39.72
JOB'S UNIQUE SITUATION.
THEY DID NOT KNOW THAT JOB WAS
00:42:39.72\00:42:44.09
UNDER SPECIAL ATTACK
BY THE DEVIL AND A SPECIAL
00:42:44.09\00:42:47.40
TESTING FROM GOD. BUT
GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE
00:42:47.40\00:42:51.43
PRINCIPLES THAT THEY
SHARE ARE GOOD PRINCIPLES.
00:42:51.43\00:42:53.80
SO WHEN YOU OPEN THE BOOK OF JOB
AND YOU QUOTE, YOU'LL SEE SOME
00:42:53.80\00:42:56.94
AMAZING STATEMENTS THERE. YOU
BACK UP AND SAY, 'NOW WHO SAID
00:42:56.94\00:42:59.64
THIS? IS THIS JOB
OR BILDAD OR ZOPHAR?'
00:42:59.64\00:43:02.74
AND YOU SAY,
'OH, THIS IS ELIPHAZ.
00:43:02.74\00:43:04.01
IT'S WRONG.' NO, NO, IT'S - THE
WHOLE BOOK OF JOB IS INSPIRED.
00:43:04.01\00:43:08.55
IS THAT CLEAR?
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:43:08.55\00:43:11.25
THEY DID NOT SEE WHAT WAS
HAPPENING BEHIND THE VEIL.
00:43:11.25\00:43:13.62
THEY'RE SPEAKING IN GENERAL
TERMS ABOUT HOW GOD DEALS
00:43:13.62\00:43:16.32
WITH THE
RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED.
00:43:16.32\00:43:18.23
ALRIGHT, ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE
SAYS, 'LORD' - 'JOB, CAN I SAY
00:43:18.23\00:43:21.13
SOMETHING?'"...WILL
YOU BECOME WEARY? -
00:43:21.13\00:43:23.67
"BUT WHO CAN WITHHOLD HIMSELF
FROM SPEAKING? SURELY YOU HAVE
00:43:23.67\00:43:26.94
INSTRUCTED MANY, AND YOU
HAVE STRENGTHENED WEAK HANDS.
00:43:26.94\00:43:29.44
YOUR WORDS HAVE UPHELD HIM
WHO WAS STUMBLING, AND YOU HAVE
00:43:29.44\00:43:32.07
STRENGTHENED THE FEEBLE KNEES;
BUT NOW IT COMES UPON YOU, AND
00:43:32.07\00:43:35.51
YOU ARE WEARY;" -
YOU'RE ASKING GOD, 'WHY?'
00:43:35.51\00:43:38.31
YOU'RE THE ONE WHO WAS CHEERING
EVERYONE ELSE UP - "IT TOUCHES
00:43:38.31\00:43:40.35
YOU, AND YOU ARE TROUBLED.
IS NOT YOUR REVERENCE YOUR
00:43:40.35\00:43:43.25
CONFIDENCE?" - YOU'RE HAVING
CONFIDENCE IN YOUR HOLINESS -
00:43:43.25\00:43:47.29
"AND THE INTEGRITY
OF YOUR WAYS YOUR HOPE?"
00:43:47.29\00:43:49.62
- YOU'RE TRUSTING IN A FALSE
REVERENCE AND A FALSE HOPE -
00:43:49.62\00:43:52.73
"REMEMBER NOW," - HE SAID,
'LET'S JUST THINK ABOUT IT: "WHO
00:43:52.73\00:43:55.13
EVER PERISHED BEING INNOCENT?"
- HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE SUFFERING -
00:43:55.13\00:43:58.83
YOU'RE ON THE VERGE OF
PERISHING, YOU MUST BE GUILTY.'
00:43:58.83\00:44:01.77
YOU SEE WHERE
THE IMPLICATION IS? -
00:44:01.77\00:44:03.87
"OR WHERE WERE THE
UPRIGHT EVER CUT OFF?
00:44:03.87\00:44:06.04
EVEN AS I HAVE SEEN THOSE WHO
PLOW INIQUITY AND SOW TROUBLE,
00:44:06.04\00:44:10.71
REAP THE SAME."
DOESN'T PAUL QUOTE THAT?
00:44:10.71\00:44:13.18
DON'T MOCK GOD, YOU'RE GOING TO
REAP WHAT YOU - WHAT YOU PLANT.
00:44:13.18\00:44:17.59
YEAH, YOU'RE GOING TO
HARVEST WHATEVER YOU PLANT.
00:44:17.59\00:44:21.36
NUMBER - VERSE 9, "BY THE BLAST
OF GOD THEY PERISH, AND BY THE
00:44:21.36\00:44:25.76
BREATH OF HIS
ANGER THEY ARE CONSUMED.
00:44:25.76\00:44:27.86
THE ROARING OF THE LION, THE
VOICE OF THE FIERCE LION, AND
00:44:27.86\00:44:30.33
THE TEETH OF THE
YOUNG LIONS ARE BROKEN.
00:44:30.33\00:44:32.30
THE OLD LION PERISHES FOR LACK
OF PREY, AND THE CUBS OF THE
00:44:32.30\00:44:34.77
LIONESS ARE SCATTERED." AND
THEN, YOU KNOW, HE GOES ON -
00:44:34.77\00:44:39.21
I DON'T HAVE TIME, AS YOU HAVE
GATHERED - WHAT I'M GOING TO DO
00:44:39.21\00:44:41.64
IS JUST HIGHLIGHT SOME OF
THE THINGS THAT ARE SAID BY THE
00:44:41.64\00:44:44.41
FRIENDS OF JOB IN THE ONGOING.
SO, NOW LISTEN TO WHAT JOB SAYS
00:44:44.41\00:44:51.02
AND GO TO CHAPTER 6 -
I'M GOING TO VERSE 14.
00:44:51.02\00:44:55.76
JOB SAYS, "TO HIM WHO IS
AFFLICTED, KINDNESS SHOULD BE
00:44:55.76\00:44:59.53
SHOWN BY HIS FRIEND, EVEN THOUGH
HE FORSAKES THE FEAR OF THE
00:44:59.53\00:45:03.33
ALMIGHTY." IF
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND THAT IS
00:45:03.33\00:45:05.57
SUFFERING - KAREN AND I GOT A
PHONE CALL - I HAD AN OLD FRIEND
00:45:05.57\00:45:11.84
- USED TO GO TO CHURCH - DOESN'T
ANYMORE - KIND OF BACKSLID.
00:45:11.84\00:45:15.31
GOT A CALL THAT HE'S
IN PRETTY FEEBLE HEALTH.
00:45:15.31\00:45:17.88
WE WENT TO VISIT.
WE WENT TO ENCOURAGE.
00:45:17.88\00:45:19.45
WE WENT TO PRAY FOR HIM.
LAST THING IN THE WORLD HE
00:45:19.45\00:45:21.75
NEEDED ME TO SAY WAS TO CHASTISE
HIM FOR HIS BACKSLIDING.
00:45:21.75\00:45:25.29
HE NEEDED A FRIEND TO ENCOURAGE
HIM IN HIS SUFFERING - TO GIVE
00:45:25.29\00:45:28.99
HIM HOPE. AND JUST BECAUSE
SOMEONE HAS TURNED AWAY OR
00:45:28.99\00:45:32.26
FALLEN AWAY, THAT'S WHEN
FRIENDS ARE REALLY NEEDED.
00:45:32.26\00:45:35.96
WAS JESUS A
FRIEND OF SINNERS? >>YES.
00:45:35.96\00:45:39.10
>>WELL, THEY
ACCUSED HIM OF THAT.
00:45:39.10\00:45:40.87
THEN SHOULD WE SOMETIMES HAVE
FRIENDS OUT THERE THAT WE CAN
00:45:40.87\00:45:43.47
REACH - FOR THE PURPOSE OF
INFLUENCING THEM AND NOT THEM
00:45:43.47\00:45:46.31
INFLUENCING US? JOB 6, VERSE
24, "TEACH ME AND I WILL HOLD MY
00:45:46.31\00:45:51.65
TONGUE; CAUSE ME TO UNDERSTAND
WHEREIN I HAVE ERRED." -
00:45:51.65\00:45:54.38
HE SAID, 'YOU SHOW ME. WHERE
IS MY SIN? I'M FOLLOWING GOD.
00:45:54.38\00:45:59.22
JOB 7, VERSE 13, "WHEN I
SAY, 'MY BED WILL COMFORT ME, MY
00:45:59.22\00:46:02.92
COUCH WILL EASE MY COMPLAINT,'
THEN YOU SCARE ME WITH DREAMS
00:46:02.92\00:46:06.39
AND TERRIFY ME WITH VISIONS, SO
THAT MY SOUL CHOOSES STRANGLING
00:46:06.39\00:46:09.73
AND DEATH RATHER THAN MY BODY.
00:46:09.73\00:46:12.23
I LOATHE MY LIFE; I
WOULD NOT LIVE FOREVER.
00:46:12.23\00:46:14.80
LET ME ALONE, FOR MY DAYS ARE
BUT A BREATH.'" AND YOU GO TO
00:46:14.80\00:46:18.94
JOB 13, VERSE 15 - YOU CAN SEE
HE'S STILL IS HOLDING ON TO HIS
00:46:18.94\00:46:22.21
FAITH - "THOUGH HE SLAY
ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM."
00:46:22.21\00:46:27.58
AND SO THAT'S AN INCREDIBLE
STATEMENT - NO MATTER WHAT
00:46:27.58\00:46:29.55
HAPPENS, JOB IS SAYING, 'EVEN IF
HE WERE TO SLAY ME, I WILL NOT
00:46:29.55\00:46:32.72
STOP TRUSTING HIM.' JOB
19, VERSE 25 - ONE OF THE
00:46:32.72\00:46:37.06
GREAT - IF YOU WERE TO HAVE THE
STORY OF JOB - THIS DISCOURSE BE
00:46:37.06\00:46:42.26
A MOUNTAINTOP, 19
WOULD, SORT OF, BE THE PEAK.
00:46:42.26\00:46:46.53
FOR JOB SAYS - IT'S LIKE
A MOMENT OF TRIUMPH WHEN THE
00:46:46.53\00:46:48.64
CLOUDS BROKE AND THE SUN SHONE
THROUGH - "FOR I KNOW THAT MY
00:46:48.64\00:46:52.34
REDEEMER LIVES, AND HE SHALL
STAND AT LAST ON THE EARTH; AND
00:46:52.34\00:46:56.71
AFTER MY SKIN IS DESTROYED, THIS
I KNOW, THAT IN MY FLESH I SHALL
00:46:56.71\00:47:00.62
SEE GOD" - THAT MUST MEAN
A RESURRECTION IF, AFTER YOUR
00:47:00.62\00:47:03.42
FLESH IS DESTROYED BY WORMS,
YOU WILL SEE GOD IN YOUR FLESH -
00:47:03.42\00:47:07.56
"WHOM I SHALL SEE FOR MYSELF,
AND MY EYES SHALL BEHOLD," -
00:47:07.56\00:47:10.66
EVERY EYE WILL SEE
HIM - "AND NOT ANOTHER.
00:47:10.66\00:47:13.23
HOW MY HEART YEARNS WITHIN ME!"
JOB SAYS, IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING
00:47:13.23\00:47:17.63
THAT WAS HAPPENING, 'THOUGH HE
SLAY ME I WILL STILL TRUST HIM.'
00:47:17.63\00:47:21.34
HIS FAITH WAS NOT CONDITIONAL
ON GETTING SOMETHING FROM GOD.
00:47:21.34\00:47:25.94
HAVE YOU GONE THROUGH TRIALS OR
SOME DISCOURAGEMENT OR YOU FEEL
00:47:25.94\00:47:29.71
LIKE YOUR FRIENDS DON'T
UNDERSTAND AND YOU FEEL LIKE
00:47:29.71\00:47:31.78
YOU'RE ALL ALONE? CAN
YOU SAY 'THOUGH HE SLAYS
00:47:31.78\00:47:34.65
ME, I'LL STILL TRUST
HIM'? CIRCUMSTANCES DO NOT
00:47:34.65\00:47:37.99
CONTROL YOUR CHRISTIANITY.
IT DOESN'T DEPEND ON WEALTH OR
00:47:37.99\00:47:42.12
HEALTH, IT'S JUST
BECAUSE GOD IS GOOD.
00:47:42.12\00:47:46.03
AND IF YOU GO TO, LET ME SEE
HERE, GO TO CHAPTER 8, VERSE 1,
00:47:46.03\00:47:54.07
"THEN BILDAD THE SHUHITE
ANSWERED AND SAID: 'HOW LONG
00:47:54.07\00:47:57.81
WILL YOU SPEAK THESE THINGS, AND
THE WORDS OF YOUR MOUTH BE LIKE
00:47:57.81\00:48:00.94
A STRONG WIND?'" -
THAT'S NOT VERY NICE.
00:48:00.94\00:48:06.55
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR FRIEND
SAID YOUR MOUTH'S LIKE A STRONG
00:48:06.55\00:48:09.58
WIND? - "DOES GOD SUBVERT
JUDGMENT? OR DOES THE ALMIGHTY
00:48:09.58\00:48:14.39
PERVERT JUSTICE? IF
YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED
00:48:14.39\00:48:16.89
AGAINST HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM
AWAY FOR THEIR TRANSGRESSION.
00:48:16.89\00:48:21.13
IF YOU WOULD EARNESTLY SEEK GOD
AND MAKE YOUR SUPPLICATION TO
00:48:21.13\00:48:23.90
THE ALMIGHTY, IF YOU WERE PURE
AND UPRIGHT, SURELY NOW HE WOULD
00:48:23.90\00:48:27.34
AWAKE FOR YOU, AND PROSPER
YOUR RIGHTFUL DWELLING PLACE.
00:48:27.34\00:48:30.61
THOUGH YOUR BEGINNING WAS
SMALL, YET YOUR LATTER END WOULD
00:48:30.61\00:48:33.24
INCREASE ABUNDANTLY." IN
OTHER WORDS, GOD IS NOT UNJUST.
00:48:33.24\00:48:35.61
IF THIS IS HAPPENING
TO YOU, YOU DESERVE IT.
00:48:35.61\00:48:38.55
SEE WHAT HE'S SAYING?
AND, OF COURSE, CHAPTER 8 IS
00:48:38.55\00:48:40.92
PRETTY SHORT
BECAUSE IT'S BILDAD.
00:48:40.92\00:48:42.45
YOU KNOW, JOB SAYS SOMETHING
ELSE IN CHAPTER 3, HE SAYS, 'THE
00:48:42.45\00:48:47.36
THING THAT I FEARED HAS COME
UPON ME.' HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED
00:48:47.36\00:48:51.89
- DOES THAT MEAN
THAT JOB LIVED IN FEAR?
00:48:51.89\00:48:54.73
DOES THAT MEAN
JOB DIDN'T HAVE FAITH?
00:48:54.73\00:48:57.03
PEOPLE SAID, 'JOB FEARED HE'D
LOSE HIS MONEY.' 'JOB FEARED
00:48:57.03\00:49:00.60
HE'D LOSE HIS HEALTH.' YOU KNOW,
THE ONE THING THE BOOK OF JOB
00:49:00.60\00:49:03.61
TELLS US HE WAS FEARFUL OF?
WHEN HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS WERE
00:49:03.61\00:49:08.21
FEASTING HE WAS AFRAID THAT
THEY MIGHT DIE UNPREPARED AND
00:49:08.21\00:49:12.41
SO HE PRAYED FOR THEM.
AS SOON AS THEIR DAYS OF
00:49:12.41\00:49:15.08
FEASTING WERE DONE, HE CALLED
THEM TOGETHER - HE INTERCEDED.
00:49:15.08\00:49:17.92
YOU KNOW, IT'S A GOOD LESSON
FOR US THAT WE SHOULD KEEP SHORT
00:49:17.92\00:49:20.86
ACCOUNTS WITH GOD AND IF THERE
IS SOME SIN, RIGHT AWAY PRAY -
00:49:20.86\00:49:28.20
REPENT OF IT IMMEDIATELY.
JOB FEARED FOR THE SALVATION OF
00:49:28.20\00:49:31.83
HIS KIDS AND SO WHEN HE SAYS,
'THE THING I FEARED HAS COME
00:49:31.83\00:49:34.14
UPON ME.' IT
WASN'T FOR HIS MONEY.
00:49:34.14\00:49:36.44
IT WASN'T FOR HIS HEALTH.
IT WAS FOR THE ONES HE LOVED,
00:49:36.44\00:49:39.44
AND THAT WAS THE THING
THAT WAS TROUBLING HIM.
00:49:39.44\00:49:41.61
ALRIGHT, SO YOU HEARD FROM
BILDAD AND THEN, IF YOU KEEP
00:49:41.61\00:49:46.25
GOING HERE - LET'S SEE, I THINK
YOU'VE GOT ZOPHAR IS VERSE 11 -
00:49:46.25\00:49:51.09
CHAPTER 11, SORRY - "THEN ZOPHAR
THE NAAMATHITE ANSWERED AND
00:49:51.09\00:49:56.22
SAID:" - LET'S SEE, JOB ANSWERS
BILDAD, JOB ANSWERS ELIHAZ -
00:49:56.22\00:50:00.63
ELIPHAZ, RATHER - "THEN ZOPHAR
THE NAAMATHITE ANSWERED AND
00:50:00.63\00:50:03.63
SAID: 'SHOULD NOT THE
MULTITUDE OF WORDS BE ANSWERED?"
00:50:03.63\00:50:06.63
- HE SAID, 'JOB, YOU'VE GOT
A MULTITUDE OF WORDS.' THEY ALL
00:50:06.63\00:50:08.64
START LIKE THAT.
WE'VE GOT TO ANSWER YOU.
00:50:08.64\00:50:11.07
"SHOULD NOT A MAN
FULL OF TALK BE VINDICATED?
00:50:11.07\00:50:13.94
SHOULD YOUR EMPTY TALK
MAKE MEN HOLD THEIR PEACE?
00:50:13.94\00:50:16.88
AND WHEN YOU MOCK,
SHOULD NO ONE REBUKE YOU?
00:50:16.88\00:50:19.45
FOR YOU HAVE SAID, 'MY DOCTRINE
IS PURE, AND I AM CLEAN IN YOUR
00:50:19.45\00:50:22.42
EYES.' BUT OH, THAT GOD WOULD
SPEAK AND OPEN HIS LIPS AGAINST
00:50:22.42\00:50:25.49
YOU, THAT HE WOULD SHOW
YOU THE SECRETS OF WISDOM!
00:50:25.49\00:50:28.09
FOR THEY WOULD
DOUBLE YOUR PRUDENCE.
00:50:28.09\00:50:30.23
KNOW THEREFORE THAT GOD EXACTS
FROM YOU LESS THAN YOUR INIQUITY
00:50:30.23\00:50:33.70
DESERVES." 'JOB,
YOU'RE SUFFERING, BUT YOU
00:50:33.70\00:50:35.40
PROBABLY DESERVE MORE.'
PEOPLE SOMETIMES SAY, 'PASTOR
00:50:35.40\00:50:39.27
DOUG, HOW ARE YOU DOING?'
I ALWAYS SAY, 'BETTER THAN I
00:50:39.27\00:50:40.97
DESERVE.' BECAUSE
IT IS TRUE. WHAT IS THE
00:50:40.97\00:50:44.51
PENALTY FOR SIN? DEATH.
00:50:44.51\00:50:47.24
BUT COMPARED TO PEOPLE ON THE
PLANET, THE ONLY MAN ON EARTH
00:50:47.24\00:50:50.91
GOD COULD LOOK DOWN TO AND SAY,
'HAVE YOU BEHELD MY SERVANT JOB?
00:50:50.91\00:50:53.88
ONE WHO FEARS GOD AND
HATES EVIL' - WAS JOB.
00:50:53.88\00:50:56.95
SO IF ANYBODY ON THE PLANET
HAD A RIGHT TO SAY, 'WHY, GOD?'
00:50:56.95\00:51:00.16
IT WAS JOB. HE WAS FAITHFUL.
00:51:00.16\00:51:02.69
ZOPHAR GOT IT WRONG, BILDAD GOT
IT WRONG, ELIPHAZ GOT IT WRONG.
00:51:02.69\00:51:06.93
THEY WERE HIS FRIENDS,
BUT THEY MISUNDERSTOOD JOB.
00:51:06.93\00:51:12.57
YOU KNOW, ONE OTHER THING: IN
ONE OF JOB'S ANSWERS, CHAPTER 10
00:51:12.57\00:51:17.64
- I'M ALMOST DONE - CHAPTER 10,
VERSE 18, JOB SAYS, "WHY THEN
00:51:17.64\00:51:23.91
HAVE YOU BROUGHT
ME OUT OF THE WOMB?
00:51:23.91\00:51:26.31
OH, THAT I HAD
PERISHED AND NO EYE HAD SEEN ME!
00:51:26.31\00:51:30.39
I WOULD HAVE BEEN AS
THOUGH I HAD NOT BEEN.
00:51:30.39\00:51:32.69
I WOULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED
FROM THE WOMB TO THE GRAVE."
00:51:32.69\00:51:35.62
I KNOW THAT'S A VERY DIFFICULT
VERSE, BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHY I
00:51:35.62\00:51:37.49
READ THAT TO YOU: I GET ASKED
A QUESTION FREQUENTLY, 'PASTOR
00:51:37.49\00:51:42.60
DOUG, THERE' - YOU KNOW, THE
NUMBERS I HEAR ARE 50 MILLION
00:51:42.60\00:51:45.20
BABIES IN NORTH AMERICA ABORTED
EACH YEAR AND WILL THEY ALL BE
00:51:45.20\00:51:51.01
IN HEAVEN?' AND, YOU KNOW,
THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY GOING TO BE
00:51:51.01\00:51:56.41
CHILDREN RESURRECTED AND
BROUGHT TO THEIR PARENTS.
00:51:56.41\00:51:59.21
BUT SOMEONE SAYS, 'WILL
EVERY ABORTED BABY BE SAVED?'
00:51:59.21\00:52:03.12
THIS IS ONE OF THE VERSES IN THE
BIBLE THAT MAKE IT SOUND LIKE
00:52:03.12\00:52:05.82
THERE WILL BE SOME THAT WILL
BE AS THOUGH THEY HAD NOT BEEN.
00:52:05.82\00:52:09.72
AND HE TALKS
ABOUT A MISCARRIED BABY.
00:52:09.72\00:52:11.93
NOW, IF THERE ARE CHRISTIANS
PARENTS, I THINK THE LORD'LL
00:52:11.93\00:52:14.30
BRING THOSE PARENTS THAT BABY.
BUT I THINK YOU'VE GOT TO STOP
00:52:14.30\00:52:17.33
SHORT OF SAYING THAT
EVERY MISCARRIED CHILD IS
00:52:17.33\00:52:21.10
AUTOMATICALLY SAVED OF THE SAVED
OR LOST, BECAUSE IF YOU DO THE
00:52:21.10\00:52:24.61
MATH, HEAVEN WOULD
BE A VIRTUAL NURSERY.
00:52:24.61\00:52:27.31
WE WILL BE SWIMMING IN
BABIES IN THE RESURRECTION.
00:52:27.31\00:52:29.88
AND I KNOW THAT'S A DIFFICULT
VERSE, BUT THAT'S WHERE I GET
00:52:29.88\00:52:34.02
THAT FROM THE WORD OF
GOD. AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S
00:52:34.02\00:52:35.72
SUPPORTED BY THE
SPIRIT OF PROPHECY.
00:52:35.72\00:52:38.32
SO JOB'S FRIENDS ARE SITTING
THERE AND THEY START OUT -
00:52:38.32\00:52:41.42
THEY'RE COMING TO ENCOURAGE HIM,
BUT THEY END UP BEING A SOURCE
00:52:41.42\00:52:44.96
OF DISCOURAGEMENT AND FINALLY,
YOU GO TO CHAPTER 16, VERSE 5 -
00:52:44.96\00:52:51.70
CHAPTER 16, I'M SORRY, VERSE 1 -
JOB 16:1, "THEN JOB ANSWERED AND
00:52:51.70\00:52:56.60
SAID: 'I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH
THINGS;" - I'VE BEEN LISTENING
00:52:56.60\00:53:00.54
TO YOU - "MISERABLE
COMFORTERS ARE YOU ALL!"
00:53:00.54\00:53:04.48
(LAUGHTER) THEY'VE COME
TO COMFORT HIM, SUPPOSEDLY.
00:53:04.48\00:53:10.29
AND THEY DID AT FIRST - THEY
SAT, THEY WEPT WITH HIM, THEY
00:53:10.29\00:53:12.72
WERE QUIET, BUT THEN
THEY STARTED TALKING.
00:53:12.72\00:53:14.36
CAN YOU SEE HOW MUCH TROUBLE YOU
CAN GET IN WHEN YOU TRY TO TELL
00:53:14.36\00:53:16.12
SOMEONE WHY? I'VE
HAD TO DO FUNERALS BEFORE
00:53:16.12\00:53:20.93
WHERE YOU HAVE A
LITTLE WHITE CASKET.
00:53:20.93\00:53:23.40
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT
MEANS? SOMEONE LOST THEIR CHILD.
00:53:23.40\00:53:26.97
AND PEOPLE COME UP AND THEY
SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, WHY DID THIS
00:53:26.97\00:53:29.87
HAPPEN?' YOU'VE GOT
TO BE VERY CAREFUL OF
00:53:29.87\00:53:31.31
THINKING YOU HAVE AN
ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING.
00:53:31.31\00:53:33.64
SOMETIMES YOU'VE JUST GOT
TO SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW
00:53:33.64\00:53:36.18
WHY. I TRUST GOD.
00:53:36.18\00:53:37.85
THOUGH HE SLAY ME,
YET WILL I TRUST HIM.
00:53:37.85\00:53:40.55
I DON'T KNOW WHY.' AND JOB
SAYS, 'YOU CAME TO COMFORT ME' -
00:53:40.55\00:53:44.19
"MISERABLE COMFORTERS ARE
YOU ALL!...I COULD ALSO SPEAK AS
00:53:44.19\00:53:48.19
YOU DO, IF YOUR SOUL
WERE IN MY SOUL'S PLACE.
00:53:48.19\00:53:51.39
I COULD HEAP UP WORDS AGAINST
YOU, AND SHAKE MY HEAD AT YOU;
00:53:51.39\00:53:54.83
BUT I WOULD STRENGTHEN YOU WITH
MY MOUTH, AND THE COMFORT OF MY
00:53:54.83\00:53:58.00
LIPS WOULD RELIEVE YOUR GRIEF."
00:53:58.00\00:54:01.40
HE SAID, 'I WOULDN'T COME
TO ACCUSE YOU.' SO EVEN IF YOU
00:54:01.40\00:54:03.27
THINK A PERSON IS SUFFERING
BECAUSE OF THEIR MISTAKES OR
00:54:03.27\00:54:06.31
THEIR BAD JUDGMENT, GOD WANTS
YOU TO COMFORT THEM - TO LIFT
00:54:06.31\00:54:09.88
THEM UP. NOW, IN
CONCLUSION - YOU'VE
00:54:09.88\00:54:15.25
HEARD ME SAY THAT
ALREADY, HAVEN'T YOU?
00:54:15.25\00:54:18.49
I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO READ
ALL OF JOB, BUT WE'VE STILL GOT
00:54:18.49\00:54:20.56
A COUPLE MORE MESSAGES ON
JOB. JOB HAS REACHED THE BOTTOM.
00:54:20.56\00:54:25.53
I SAID EVERYTHING I JUST SAID IN
THE LAST THREE MESSAGES BECAUSE
00:54:25.53\00:54:28.30
I WANTED YOU TO REALIZE THAT
HE HAS BEEN SCRAPED DOWN TO THE
00:54:28.30\00:54:31.00
CORE OF HIS SOUL. HE HAS
BEEN LEFT JUST ABSOLUTELY AT THE
00:54:31.00\00:54:34.70
BITTER END. HE LOST HIS
STUFF. HE LOST HIS CHILDREN.
00:54:34.70\00:54:42.34
HIS WIFE
DESPAIRED. HE LOST HIS HEALTH.
00:54:42.34\00:54:47.95
NOW HIS FRIENDS THAT HE THOUGHT
WERE THERE TO COMFORT HIM - HE'S
00:54:47.95\00:54:50.65
FINALLY THROWN HIS HANDS IN THE
AIR AND SAID, 'YOU ARE A BUNCH
00:54:50.65\00:54:53.22
OF MISERABLE COMFORTERS.'
HE DOESN'T HAVE HIS FRIENDS'
00:54:53.22\00:54:55.42
SUPPORT. HE HAS LOST
EVERY EARTHLY SUPPORT.
00:54:55.42\00:54:59.63
I WANT TO READ YOU A QUOTE FROM
THE BOOK MARANATHA PAGE 173, "IN
00:54:59.63\00:55:03.80
THE LAST GREAT CONFLICT OF THE
CONTROVERSY WITH SATAN, THOSE
00:55:03.80\00:55:10.01
WHO ARE LOYAL TO GOD WILL SEE
EVERY EARTHLY SUPPORT CUT OFF."
00:55:10.01\00:55:16.34
WHY AM I PREACHING ABOUT JOB?
BECAUSE THE DAY MAY COME, AS WE
00:55:16.34\00:55:19.41
NEAR THE END, THAT WE WILL SEE
EVERY EARTHLY SUPPORT CUT OFF
00:55:19.41\00:55:24.15
AND OUR ONLY DEPENDENCE
IS GOING TO BE ON GOD.
00:55:24.15\00:55:26.69
DOES THAT MEAN YOUR FAMILY'S
ALL GOING TO TURN ON YOU?
00:55:26.69\00:55:28.42
NOT NECESSARILY. YOU
MIGHT BE IN JAIL WHERE YOU
00:55:28.42\00:55:30.23
JUST CAN'T GET THEIR SUPPORT.
YOU MIGHT BE ALONE IN THE WOODS
00:55:30.23\00:55:34.13
- I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN,
BUT YOU ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE
00:55:34.13\00:55:37.43
THE BARRENNESS OF SOUL THAT JOB
EXPERIENCED. AND THE ONLY THING
00:55:37.43\00:55:42.74
THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE
TO HANG YOUR HOPE ON IS 'WHAT A
00:55:42.74\00:55:46.14
FRIEND WE HAVE
IN JESUS.' >>AMEN.
00:55:46.14\00:55:49.38
>>WE STARTED WITH THIS VERSE IN
JOHN 15 - JESUS IS OUR FRIEND -
00:55:49.38\00:55:55.45
"GREATER LOVE HAS NO ONE THAN
THIS: THAT HE WOULD LAY DOWN HIS
00:55:55.45\00:55:58.32
LIFE FOR HIS
FRIENDS." DO YOU EVER QUESTION
00:55:58.32\00:56:00.66
IF HE'S YOUR
FRIEND? HE DIED FOR YOU.
00:56:00.66\00:56:04.16
"YOU ARE MY FRIENDS IF YOU
DO WHATEVER I COMMAND YOU."
00:56:04.16\00:56:06.53
JESUS SAID, 'ARE YOU MY FRIEND?'
ARE WE LIKE JOB'S FRIENDS?
00:56:06.53\00:56:10.03
"NO LONGER DO I
CALL YOU SERVANTS.
00:56:10.03\00:56:11.57
A SERVANT DOES NOT KNOW
WHAT HIS MASTER IS DOING."
00:56:11.57\00:56:14.17
'BUT I'VE CALLED YOU FRIENDS.
I'VE OPENED MY HEART TO YOU.'
00:56:14.17\00:56:16.77
"FOR ALL THINGS THAT I
HAVE HEARD FROM MY FATHER I
00:56:16.77\00:56:18.67
HAVE MADE KNOWN TO YOU."
SHORT OF THE SECOND-COMING DATE.
00:56:18.67\00:56:23.68
HE OPENED HIS HEART TO THEM.
JESUS WANTS TO BE OUR FRIEND.
00:56:23.68\00:56:28.72
THERE WAS A POEM I READ ONCE, IT
SAYS, 'THERE ARE THOSE WHO PASS
00:56:28.72\00:56:31.62
LIKE SHIPS IN THE NIGHT, WHO
MEET FOR A MOMENT AND THEN SAIL
00:56:31.62\00:56:34.62
OUT OF SIGHT. WHO
NEVER A BACKWARD GLANCE OF
00:56:34.62\00:56:37.29
REGRET, FOLKS WE KNOW
BRIEFLY AND THEN QUICKLY FORGET.
00:56:37.29\00:56:41.86
THEN THERE ARE FRIENDS WHO
SAIL ON TOGETHER, THROUGH QUIET
00:56:41.86\00:56:46.50
WATERS AND ALL STORMY WEATHER,
HELPING EACH OTHER THROUGH JOY
00:56:46.50\00:56:50.07
AND THROUGH STRIFE, AND THESE
ARE THE KIND WHO GIVE MEANING TO
00:56:50.07\00:56:53.48
LIFE.' WE ALL NEED
FRIENDS. WE NEED FRIENDS AS
00:56:53.48\00:56:56.48
A CHURCH COMMUNITY. WE
NEED FRIENDS IN OUR FAMILIES.
00:56:56.48\00:56:59.71
BUT ESPECIALLY, WE NEED TO MAKE
SURE JESUS IS OUR FRIEND BECAUSE
00:56:59.71\00:57:03.75
HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL
NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US.
00:57:03.75\00:57:07.22
WE WILL SEE EVERY
EARTHLY SUPPORT TAKEN AWAY.
00:57:07.22\00:57:10.26
YOU MAY LOSE YOUR POSSESSIONS,
YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HEALTH, YOU
00:57:10.26\00:57:13.50
MAY LOSE YOUR FAMILY AND
YOUR FRIENDS BUT JESUS SAID,
00:57:13.50\00:57:16.46
'I WILL NEVER LEAVE
YOU OR FORSAKE YOU.'
00:57:16.46\00:57:20.30
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00:57:58.11\00:58:01.14
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