Simple as this...
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Take my life
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Lord, will You take my life?
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As I surrender
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To Your will
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I confess
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You are my righteousness
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And until You move,
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I'll be still
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And know
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That You
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Are God
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You hold my world in Your hands
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You hold my world in Your hands
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And I am amazed at Your love
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I am amazed that You love me
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You hold my world in Your hands
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You hold my world in Your hands
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And I'm not afraid
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My world is safe In Your hands
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Oh
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In Your hands
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We're gonna say take
my life, will you take.
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Take my life
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Lord, will You take my life?
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You are the reason
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That I live
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I believe
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That You have forgiven me
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And by Your grace I will
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Forgive
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And know
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That You are God
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And know
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That You
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Are God
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You hold my world in Your hands
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You hold my world in Your hands
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And I am amazed at Your love
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I am amazed that You love me
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You hold my world in Your hands
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You hold my world in Your hands
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And I'm not afraid
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My world is safe in your hands
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Oh
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In Your hands
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go of me
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Anybody know that
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He won't let go of you
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You won't let, never let go
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go, never let go
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go, never let go
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go of me
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No matter what I've done Lord
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go, never let go
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go of me
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You won't let go, never let go
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Say won't let go
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Won't let go
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Won't let go
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Won't let go
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There is a sound
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That is pleasing to His ear
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The sound of praises
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Lifted into the atmosphere
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Every time you lift your voice
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You need to know
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Of praise
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Of praise
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There is a sound
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That is pleasing to His ear
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The sound of praises
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Lifted into the atmosphere
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Every time you lift your voice
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You need to know
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Of praise
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Of praise
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A sweet symphony
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A heart's melody
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A song of praise to hear
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Is music to His ear
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Of praise
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Of praise
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A sweet symphony
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A heart's melody
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A song of praise to hear
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Is music to His ear
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Of praise
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Of praise
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Hallelujah
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Lord, You're worthy
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Lord, You're worthy
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The sound
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He loves to hear
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Jesus loves to hear
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The sound of praise
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Jesus loves to hear
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The sound of praise
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Jesus loves to hear the sound
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Jesus loves to hear
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Jesus loves to hear
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Jesus loves to hear Hallelujah
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Jesus loves to hear
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I adore You
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Jesus loves to hear
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Lord, You're worthy
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Jesus loves to hear
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the praise Lord, You're worthy
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Jesus loves to
hear the sound of praise
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Jesus loves to
hear the sound of praise
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Jesus loves to
hear the sound of praise
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I want to direct your attention
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to the Book of Job...
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Job, the 23rd
division, Job 23...
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and I want to
begin with verse 8.
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Job, the 23rd division
beginning with verse 8...
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trusting that you haven't there,
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you'll find
these words recorded.
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"Behold, I go forward,
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but he is not
there, and backward,
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but I cannot perceive
him: On the left hand,
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where he doth work,
but I cannot behold him:
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he hideth himself
on the right hand,
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that I cannot see him..."
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What's the next word?
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"But he knoweth
the way that I take:
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when he hath tried me,
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I shall come forth as gold."
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I thought today, we
would lift up the thought.
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Broken, but still blessed.
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Broken, but still blessed.
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Imagine her incredulity,
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as he walked
home in the darkness
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of a familiar alleyway,
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only to be
accosted by a gang of boys.
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She had just prayed to God
to give her an evening job,
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so that her boy
could be sent to college.
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And now look at here,
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what added insult to the injury,
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was that when the last
boy who came to assault her,
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looked into her face,
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she looked into the
eyes of her own son.
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Imagine her inconsolable grief.
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She had prayed and asked God
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to watch over her four children,
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as she went out on a
rare Friday evening party.
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She was a good mother,
she always stayed in home,
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but this time, she felt like,
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she wanted to do something
different only to return home
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and find her
children still sleeping,
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but shot and
burned beyond recognition.
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Her home had caught on fire,
while she was out partying.
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Imagine his disillusionment.
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He had done the impossible
and kept himself chaste
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until the day of his marriage.
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And now he's
coming home from work,
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and he finds his bride sitting
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in a chair covered
in a torrent of tears.
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She had just
come from the doctor
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and discovered that
she was HIV positive.
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And yet he had
waited all his life for her.
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How do you reconcile yourself
to experiences like this?
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When you believe that
God is in your corner,
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when in fact it
seems He's somewhere else.
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Let me clear up
something for you this morning.
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Perhaps one of
the greatest misnomers
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in the Christian mind,
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is the fact that when
you become a Christian,
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things get better.
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Faith don't get better beloved.
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In fact, if you're
going to be a real Christian,
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things are gonna get worse.
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I want to
expand a little further
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on a subject that I broached
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on this past Wednesday night.
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A subject that is
steeped in complexity
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and drape in mystery.
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It's a subject that I believe
that unless we understand
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what's going on with this
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whole idea of
the breaking process,
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we might find
ourselves eternally lost.
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And so today, I want to look
at the prospect, the process,
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and the promise of
the breaking process.
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Let's go to Job 1:1, Job 1:1,
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as we use Job as
our official tour guide
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in this journey called pain,
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Job 1:1,
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notice what the
word of God says here,
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there was a man
in the land of Oz,
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whose name was what?
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And that man was
what everybody, what else?
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One that did
what, and what else?
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All ready, we got a
peerless patriot right here.
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We can preach a
sermon just from Job 1:1.
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There are four words that I
just want to lift up for you.
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The first one,
what you think it is?
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He was perfect.
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He was perfect.
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In the Hebrew it's 'tam',
it means, he was complete,
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completed together.
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How can he be
completed together?
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We are talking about one person.
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It's because you can never
be perfect all by yourself.
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If you're going to be perfect,
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you have to be
connected with somebody.
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You got to be
connected not with just anybody,
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but with somebody
who's perfect by themselves.
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And so the Bible
says, he was perfect.
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What's the second word?
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He was upright, upright,
'yashar', that translates,
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he was straight.
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That's important to know
in a day like today, isn't it?
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Oh, yeah, he wasn't some
sort of closet Christian.
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I remember when I was stationed
at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
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I just been assigned
to that installation,
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and I made it my business
as a chaplain to go through
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the personal rows,
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and I wanted to
discover who had placed
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on their registration card
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that they were
Seventh-day Adventist.
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And when I went to visit
one of the manager's office,
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and let him know, I
was starting a Seventh-day
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Adventist church
in the community,
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and wanted to
know if he would come,
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and be a part of
this charter group.
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He conceited and then
I asked him a question,
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"Do you happen to
know who so and so is?"
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And he looked at the
name and started laughing.
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Now, my name is
Eddie Polite, not Murphy.
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Why are you laughing?
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The office was set up so
that two desks face each other,
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and the person
on the opposite side
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was the other
Seventh-day Adventist
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and neither one of
them knew about it.
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They were there
working every day,
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sitting on their faith,
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not sharing it with
anybody, but Job was straight.
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He wasn't lukewarm,
he wasn't nailed to sin.
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You can tell what
kind of person Job was.
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And so the Bible
says, he was upright.
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What else was he?
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He feared God, 'yare'.
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He was reverent.
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He respected God.
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He held him in high esteem.
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And what's the last word there?
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He eschewed evil.
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And you need to get this one.
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In the Hebrew that word
eschew translates sohar.
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Sohar translates
beheaded, beheaded.
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What do you mean
Job was beheaded.
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It wasn't that Job was beheaded.
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Perhaps if I share this
Japanese legend with you,
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you might
understand little bit better.
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I'm told there
were two ninja warriors,
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who came face to
face with one another.
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And as they stealthily
moved about each other,
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one of them
pulled out his sword,
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swung it and put it
back in its holster,
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while still moving around.
00:22:00.18\00:22:02.68
And the other ninja
warrior was still moving around,
00:22:02.72\00:22:06.42
stealthily
himself, and he replied,
00:22:06.45\00:22:09.69
responded to the man who
had just swung his sword.
00:22:09.72\00:22:11.86
He said, "I'm gonna kill you."
00:22:11.89\00:22:13.23
he said, "No, you're not."
00:22:13.26\00:22:15.53
He said, "I'm gonna kill you."
00:22:15.56\00:22:16.90
He said, "No, you're not."
00:22:16.93\00:22:19.23
"Yes I am."
00:22:19.27\00:22:20.94
He said, "No, you're not.
00:22:20.97\00:22:22.30
Because I already cut your
head off, shake your head."
00:22:22.34\00:22:24.57
Shook his head and
it fell to the ground.
00:22:28.84\00:22:32.51
Chuuk was the kind of
men that when the devil said,
00:22:32.55\00:22:35.25
"you're evil."
00:22:35.28\00:22:36.62
He said, "No, no, no...
00:22:36.65\00:22:38.25
I'm not."
00:22:38.29\00:22:39.62
"I'm gonna overcome you."
00:22:39.65\00:22:41.12
"No, you're not" "I'm
gonna kick you to the floor."
00:22:41.16\00:22:43.93
"No, you not,
shake your head devil."
00:22:43.96\00:22:46.59
"I've made it my
point to beheaded,
00:22:46.63\00:22:49.96
every time evil gets in my way."
00:22:50.00\00:22:53.77
"Shake your head."
00:22:53.80\00:22:56.17
It sounds to me like
00:22:56.20\00:22:58.14
Job is already a
pretty good Christian.
00:22:58.17\00:23:01.14
So then, why would
he need to be broken?
00:23:01.18\00:23:06.45
Think about it for a moment.
00:23:06.48\00:23:08.78
Part of our problem, beloved,
00:23:08.82\00:23:10.35
is that we see
ourselves one way,
00:23:10.39\00:23:13.05
while God sees us in other way.
00:23:13.09\00:23:15.66
When we look at ourselves,
00:23:15.69\00:23:17.03
we don't look
too bad to ourselves.
00:23:17.06\00:23:19.69
But if we could
ever see ourselves
00:23:19.73\00:23:21.93
to the living from God's law,
00:23:21.96\00:23:23.83
we would see how
wretched, and defile,
00:23:23.87\00:23:27.50
and putrid and indeed
unimpressed we really are.
00:23:27.54\00:23:31.61
If we can just pull our
God's eyeglasses and look at us.
00:23:31.64\00:23:36.48
We would see a
completely different individual.
00:23:36.51\00:23:40.02
We think we're fine
00:23:40.05\00:23:41.38
and God says you
need to be refined.
00:23:41.42\00:23:45.59
We believe, we're
ready for translation,
00:23:45.62\00:23:47.46
and God says, you're
ready for self application.
00:23:47.49\00:23:51.39
I think sometimes,
00:23:51.43\00:23:53.73
because we memorize
large passages of the word,
00:23:53.76\00:23:57.93
and read all the red books.
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And we eat a vegan diet,
and drink a whole lot of water,
00:24:00.30\00:24:04.51
and put our kids to swatch,
00:24:04.54\00:24:07.08
and because we have
our ministry in the church,
00:24:07.11\00:24:10.65
and we give a few Bible studies,
00:24:10.68\00:24:12.78
and folk I've
been won to the Lord.
00:24:12.81\00:24:15.12
We believe that now,
00:24:15.15\00:24:17.09
we must be a right with
God for getting that fact
00:24:17.12\00:24:21.32
that Matthew
screams out in Matthew 7.
00:24:21.36\00:24:24.79
Depart from me ye
that work iniquity,
00:24:24.83\00:24:27.33
I never knew you.
00:24:27.36\00:24:29.40
The biggest reason,
00:24:35.60\00:24:37.97
the biggest reason,
why Job, you and me,
00:24:38.01\00:24:44.01
why we need a breaking
process is found in Jeremiah,
00:24:44.05\00:24:49.55
Jeremiah 17th
chapter, turn there with me.
00:24:49.58\00:24:52.55
Keep your finger on
Job, go to Jeremiah,
00:24:52.59\00:24:54.56
the 17th chapter.
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Jeremiah 17.
00:24:56.56\00:24:58.89
And I want you to look
at verses 9 and 10 with me.
00:24:58.93\00:25:02.36
"The heart is
deceitful above all things..."
00:25:02.40\00:25:07.37
And what else is it?
00:25:07.40\00:25:09.80
Desperately, not just wicked,
00:25:09.84\00:25:14.91
but it's an emphatic intensive,
00:25:14.94\00:25:18.65
desperately
wicked, "Who can know it?"
00:25:18.68\00:25:23.65
"I the Lord search the
heart, I try the reins,
00:25:23.69\00:25:28.19
even to give every
man according to his ways,
00:25:28.22\00:25:31.29
and according to
the fruit of his doings.
00:25:31.33\00:25:34.30
Maybe we don't understand
what's going on with us,
00:25:34.33\00:25:37.87
but God certainly understands
what's going on with us.
00:25:37.90\00:25:41.70
Look here, somewhere within us,
00:25:41.74\00:25:45.84
is a dioxide
ribonucleic acidic threat.
00:25:45.87\00:25:50.35
It's moving and stitched
00:25:55.22\00:25:58.32
throughout our
myotonic composition.
00:25:58.35\00:26:03.32
And so what
lead us to well stop,
00:26:03.36\00:26:05.79
we don't even know about.
00:26:05.83\00:26:08.20
We become the subtotal
of all of the ancestors
00:26:08.23\00:26:11.30
who have lippy for us,
00:26:11.33\00:26:12.67
so then, if you're gonna
lie in the family, guess what?
00:26:12.70\00:26:18.84
If you're gonna profligate
in the family, guess what?
00:26:18.87\00:26:23.11
If you got a thief in
the family, guess what?
00:26:23.14\00:26:27.98
If you've caught somebody
00:26:28.02\00:26:29.95
who's acquainted in
the family, guess what?
00:26:29.98\00:26:33.42
All of the genetic material
that make in who they are,
00:26:33.46\00:26:38.66
now take
residence in you and me.
00:26:38.69\00:26:46.33
And so, because we don't
know everybody before us,
00:26:46.37\00:26:48.60
you don't know
everything that's in us.
00:26:48.64\00:26:52.31
If you knew all your
family, may be you would be
00:26:52.34\00:26:54.04
a little more aware of
what you're capable of.
00:26:54.08\00:26:56.85
But since you
don't know everybody,
00:26:56.88\00:26:58.48
since I don't know everybody,
00:26:58.51\00:26:59.85
we can't be aware of
everything that we...
00:26:59.88\00:27:03.42
You ever done
something and it surprised you?
00:27:03.45\00:27:05.45
Maybe you did, or
maybe you weren't surprised.
00:27:10.03\00:27:14.43
Maybe you expected to do it.
00:27:14.46\00:27:17.70
But that petty things, things
00:27:17.73\00:27:22.00
that we have
involved ourselves in,
00:27:22.04\00:27:25.17
that should have made
00:27:25.21\00:27:26.54
our own half stand uh
just because we did it.
00:27:26.57\00:27:30.68
Here's the big point.
00:27:30.71\00:27:32.21
Here' the big
point about the prospect.
00:27:32.25\00:27:34.55
When we follow Christ,
00:27:34.58\00:27:38.09
we give him permission
00:27:38.12\00:27:41.12
to place us in
the breaking process.
00:27:41.16\00:27:47.10
We'll say that again.
00:27:47.13\00:27:48.70
When we follow Christ,
00:27:48.73\00:27:50.93
we give Him
permission to break us.
00:27:50.97\00:27:55.77
What do you mean,
pastor, we give Him permission?
00:27:59.61\00:28:02.81
Do you not recall
what 1 Peter 4:12-14 says,
00:28:02.84\00:28:07.02
think it not strange concerning
00:28:07.05\00:28:08.48
the fiery trial
which is to try you,
00:28:08.52\00:28:10.39
as though some
strange thing happened.
00:28:10.42\00:28:12.32
Rejoice and be
exceeding that, because
00:28:12.35\00:28:15.16
we are partakers of
Christ own suffering.
00:28:15.19\00:28:17.59
Have you
forgotten what the words
00:28:17.63\00:28:18.96
of the 2 Timothy 3:12 said,
00:28:18.99\00:28:20.76
"Yea, and all that
shall live in Christ Jesus
00:28:20.80\00:28:22.93
shall suffer persecution. "
00:28:22.96\00:28:25.17
Have you forgotten what
Matthew 10:38 says, that,
00:28:25.20\00:28:28.10
"If you're gonna follow me,
you got to take up your cross."
00:28:28.14\00:28:31.27
You can't follow me
walking in a high heel shoes.
00:28:31.31\00:28:34.14
It's an arduous journey.
00:28:39.91\00:28:43.59
I can remember
walking down the road,
00:28:43.62\00:28:45.52
sometime I'm
getting a rock in my shoe,
00:28:45.55\00:28:49.66
and not being able to
get that little pebble out,
00:28:49.69\00:28:52.09
that's the kind
of charity we're on.
00:28:52.13\00:28:54.66
Think about how it is to
walk with a rock in your shoe
00:28:54.70\00:28:58.20
and you'll understand better
00:28:58.23\00:28:59.67
how the journey
is for the believer.
00:28:59.70\00:29:01.64
Now let me just say this.
00:29:05.37\00:29:08.71
If you're really not ready...
00:29:08.74\00:29:10.88
to be a follower of Christ
00:29:14.58\00:29:19.19
then don't accept Him,
00:29:19.22\00:29:21.96
because the
moment you'll accept him,
00:29:21.99\00:29:24.03
He's gonna start the process.
00:29:24.06\00:29:26.33
He's going to start
the breaking process,
00:29:26.36\00:29:29.36
because your acceptance of Him
00:29:29.40\00:29:31.73
becomes His permission to start.
00:29:31.77\00:29:36.47
So if you're not
ready, don't accept Him.
00:29:36.50\00:29:40.11
Leave Him alone.
00:29:40.14\00:29:42.38
Now, we just hope He is
there when you're ready,
00:29:42.41\00:29:45.38
'cause tomorrow is not promised,
00:29:45.41\00:29:47.88
but God takes
this thing seriously.
00:29:47.92\00:29:51.95
I want to look at the process.
Go back there to Job 1, Job 1.
00:29:51.99\00:29:56.66
Go back there to Job 1,
00:29:56.69\00:29:58.03
I want to look
at the process now.
00:29:58.06\00:30:00.20
Pastor got me stirred now.
00:30:00.23\00:30:01.56
I need to look at the process,
see what's going on here.
00:30:01.60\00:30:05.43
Job 1:8, "And the
Lord said unto Satan,
00:30:05.47\00:30:08.64
Hast thou
considered my servant Job,
00:30:08.67\00:30:10.61
that there is none
like him in the earth,
00:30:10.64\00:30:12.17
a perfect and an upright man,
00:30:12.21\00:30:13.71
one that feareth
God, and escheweth evil?
00:30:13.74\00:30:15.81
Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said,
00:30:15.84\00:30:17.28
Doth Job fear God for nought?
00:30:17.31\00:30:19.25
Hast not thou made
an hedge about him,
00:30:19.28\00:30:21.38
and about his house,
00:30:21.42\00:30:22.75
and about all that
he hath on every side?
00:30:22.78\00:30:24.92
thou hast blessed
the work of his hands,
00:30:24.95\00:30:26.86
and the substance is
increased in the land.
00:30:26.89\00:30:29.96
But put forth thine hand
now, and touch all that he hath,
00:30:29.99\00:30:34.00
and he will do
what, curse thee thou,
00:30:34.03\00:30:37.63
to thy face and the
Lord said unto Satan,
00:30:37.67\00:30:40.20
Behold, all that he
hath is in thy power,
00:30:40.24\00:30:44.11
only upon himself
put not forth thine hand.
00:30:44.14\00:30:47.58
So Satan went forth from
the presence of the Lord".
00:30:47.61\00:30:52.85
I'm getting to background here.
00:30:52.88\00:30:54.58
You notice there in verse 6,
00:30:54.62\00:30:56.82
there was a day
when the sons of God
00:30:56.85\00:30:58.19
came before God.
00:30:58.22\00:30:59.55
There's a little meeting,
00:31:01.29\00:31:03.06
a family meeting,
of the sons of God.
00:31:03.09\00:31:07.66
And Satan shows up.
00:31:07.70\00:31:11.20
Now remember this is
after he's been pull out.
00:31:11.23\00:31:15.54
And he's been
cast out to the earth.
00:31:15.57\00:31:18.34
But he shows up to this meeting
as the ambassador of earth.
00:31:18.37\00:31:24.65
I represent earth,
00:31:24.68\00:31:27.98
and the God has to
get him straight the said,
00:31:28.02\00:31:33.42
when did I invite you?
00:31:33.46\00:31:34.79
Where you been,
walking to and falter out.
00:31:40.46\00:31:43.26
It says the earth
but it really says
00:31:43.30\00:31:45.53
in the Hebrew my earth.
00:31:45.57\00:31:49.10
Walking up and down my earth,
and here is what the Lord says,
00:31:49.14\00:31:54.14
"Oh, yeah, have you consider?"
00:31:54.18\00:31:58.48
My servant Job, he
acts like my representative.
00:31:58.51\00:32:04.82
He acts like my son.
00:32:04.85\00:32:06.99
If anybody ought of be
here, he ought to be here.
00:32:07.02\00:32:11.36
And Satan takes
umbrage with God,
00:32:11.39\00:32:13.86
because he has thrown him,
and here's what Lucifer say,
00:32:13.90\00:32:19.03
seem to say us, you
know, the only reason
00:32:19.07\00:32:21.34
why Job is serving you at
all is because you blessed him
00:32:21.37\00:32:27.01
and you put a hedge about him,
00:32:27.04\00:32:28.74
but if you take everything
away and remove your hedge,
00:32:28.78\00:32:32.65
he will curse you.
00:32:32.68\00:32:35.62
And God gives the
devil the permission.
00:32:35.65\00:32:40.42
What did I say?
00:32:40.46\00:32:42.02
The permission to
touch his possessions.
00:32:42.06\00:32:46.66
The Bible goes
on to say in one day
00:32:50.47\00:32:54.24
he loses 7,000 sheep,
00:32:54.27\00:32:57.11
3,000 camels, 500 teams of oxen,
00:32:57.14\00:33:01.64
and 500 donkeys, he
lose his seven sons,
00:33:01.68\00:33:06.35
and three daughters
all in the same day.
00:33:06.38\00:33:13.42
you can imagine the
grief that would come
00:33:13.46\00:33:15.02
if he just lost one
child, but 10 children?
00:33:15.06\00:33:21.80
A man's fame,
00:33:21.83\00:33:23.57
his celebrity was
measured by his possessions,
00:33:23.60\00:33:27.30
he lost all his
wealth in one day.
00:33:27.34\00:33:33.24
I guess I am more fascinated
with his response to that.
00:33:33.27\00:33:37.01
The Chapter
1:20, "Then Job arose,
00:33:37.05\00:33:41.32
and rent his
mantel, shaved his head,
00:33:41.35\00:33:44.99
fell down upon the
ground and did what?
00:33:45.02\00:33:48.39
Worshiped.
00:33:48.42\00:33:49.76
And said "Naked came I
out of my mother's womb,
00:33:49.79\00:33:54.00
and naked shall I
return there, for Lord gave,
00:33:54.03\00:33:58.03
and the Lord has taken away,
00:33:58.07\00:34:00.30
Blessed be the
name of the Lord. "
00:34:00.34\00:34:03.10
Now you know if that was me...
00:34:08.14\00:34:09.91
I wouldn't be saying
blessed being nothing.
00:34:15.78\00:34:18.99
The pre-ministry
days would come out...
00:34:24.03\00:34:26.53
and I would
describe God in very cloud up
00:34:30.07\00:34:32.73
very flowery and
picturesque language,
00:34:32.77\00:34:37.21
that would be very flattering,
00:34:37.24\00:34:40.61
because of my own internal pain.
00:34:40.64\00:34:45.68
The reason we don't respond like
00:34:45.71\00:34:47.82
Job did, is because of this.
00:34:47.85\00:34:49.72
When we look at
the stuff that we have,
00:34:49.75\00:34:52.49
we say this is my
house, this is my car,
00:34:52.52\00:34:57.43
this is my
money, this is my job,
00:34:57.46\00:35:01.33
these are my
children, this is my husband,
00:35:01.36\00:35:05.63
this is my wife and
so we take ownership
00:35:05.67\00:35:09.77
for every thing we had
00:35:09.80\00:35:11.57
as if we got it
hold by ourselves
00:35:11.61\00:35:14.68
but Job recognize, I
came here with nothing
00:35:14.71\00:35:18.38
and if he takes away everything,
00:35:18.41\00:35:20.52
I am not living
here with nothing
00:35:20.55\00:35:22.75
because I didn't
bring in here myself,
00:35:22.78\00:35:25.59
he gave it to me
in the first place.
00:35:25.62\00:35:27.66
If he wants it
back, He can have it back
00:35:27.69\00:35:30.43
because it belongs to
Him in the first place.
00:35:30.46\00:35:33.33
We got to get to the
place, well we understand
00:35:39.93\00:35:42.87
where all our
blessings come from.
00:35:42.90\00:35:47.48
It is God who had given
me the powers to get wealth.
00:35:47.51\00:35:52.08
And the reason they
become so dramatic for us,
00:35:52.11\00:35:57.52
is because we think
of what we did together.
00:35:57.55\00:36:01.19
All the hours we slaved,
00:36:01.22\00:36:04.09
all the jobs we
worked to get this
00:36:04.13\00:36:09.06
and that only to
have it gone in a moment.
00:36:09.10\00:36:13.64
Let's not get it twisted.
00:36:18.71\00:36:23.01
If that wasn't
enough, look at Job 2:3-6,
00:36:23.04\00:36:27.28
Satan comes back again,
00:36:27.32\00:36:29.38
they have another
meeting of the sons of God.
00:36:29.42\00:36:31.92
He shows up again and
he says "Skin for skin!
00:36:31.95\00:36:37.56
Yea, all that a man has
will he give for his life,
00:36:37.59\00:36:41.13
but put forth mine hand now,
00:36:41.16\00:36:42.96
touch his bone and
his flesh and you do what
00:36:43.00\00:36:47.04
cursed thee to thy face!"
00:36:47.07\00:36:48.50
And the Lord said unto Satan,
"Behold, he is in thine hands,
00:36:48.54\00:36:52.97
but do what?
00:36:53.01\00:36:55.04
Save his life."
00:36:55.08\00:36:57.01
If that wasn't enough
verse 10 says, verse 9 says,
00:36:57.05\00:37:02.92
"Then said his wife unto him,
00:37:02.95\00:37:05.99
"Dost thou still
retain thine integrity?
00:37:06.02\00:37:09.16
curse God, and die!''
00:37:09.19\00:37:12.63
''Now even though the
brother is hurting, in pain,
00:37:12.66\00:37:16.87
he still got to
keep her in check.
00:37:16.90\00:37:21.07
And so verse 10, he
said to her "Thou speakest
00:37:21.10\00:37:24.57
as one of the
foolish women speaketh.
00:37:24.61\00:37:27.08
What?
00:37:27.11\00:37:28.44
Shall we receive
good at the hand of God,
00:37:28.48\00:37:31.05
and shall we not receive evil?
00:37:31.08\00:37:33.42
In all this did not
Job sin with his lips."
00:37:33.45\00:37:39.95
Isn't it easy for us to
thank God and praise God
00:37:39.99\00:37:43.53
when things are going well.
00:37:43.56\00:37:48.00
Let a little calamity,
00:37:48.03\00:37:50.77
walk in the room,
00:37:50.80\00:37:53.17
things change.
00:37:53.20\00:37:55.77
I heard once
00:37:55.80\00:37:57.97
that we can judge
a person's character
00:37:58.01\00:38:00.01
not in the times of prosperity,
but the time of adversity.
00:38:00.04\00:38:05.11
That's when we really
see what somebody is made of.
00:38:05.15\00:38:07.92
If that wasn't
enough verses 11-13, says
00:38:07.95\00:38:11.25
his friends showed up,
00:38:11.29\00:38:15.09
they came over, sat
with him for seven days
00:38:15.12\00:38:18.59
and seven nights.
00:38:18.63\00:38:21.43
It was
customary, It was customary
00:38:21.46\00:38:23.57
when someone was
going through deep guilt
00:38:23.60\00:38:26.40
for your friends to
come and support you
00:38:26.43\00:38:29.84
and they couldn't say
anything until you spoke first.
00:38:29.87\00:38:34.28
And so Job had gone
through so much calamity
00:38:34.31\00:38:38.48
that it took him about
week before he could talk.
00:38:38.51\00:38:42.62
And so verse 1
in chapter 3 says,
00:38:42.65\00:38:44.79
and then Job open his
mouth and he does what?
00:38:44.82\00:38:48.92
Curses the day he was born.
00:38:48.96\00:38:50.59
You know, we love to quote Job,
00:38:50.63\00:38:53.83
when things are going wrong.
00:38:53.86\00:38:56.63
Though he slay me,
yet will I trust in him,
00:38:56.67\00:39:03.84
skin worms destroy this body,
00:39:03.87\00:39:06.47
yet in my flesh
shall I see the Lord.
00:39:06.51\00:39:08.84
The Lord giveth,
the Lord taketh away
00:39:08.88\00:39:12.91
but we forget about the fact
00:39:12.95\00:39:14.62
that Job was a human
being just like you and I.
00:39:14.65\00:39:19.75
He had no strength,
00:39:19.79\00:39:21.52
this is not fun,
this is not pleasant,
00:39:21.56\00:39:24.96
this is painful and I
don't had anything to say
00:39:24.99\00:39:29.30
at this moment except I
wished I had never been born.
00:39:29.33\00:39:32.83
Ever anybody
ever felt like that?
00:39:32.87\00:39:35.50
You wished you
have never been born.
00:39:35.54\00:39:40.11
If you haven't, there
will come an experience
00:39:40.14\00:39:42.74
when you're going to get there.
00:39:42.78\00:39:45.88
Because the breaking
process is for anyone,
00:39:45.91\00:39:48.35
who has decided
to follow Christ.
00:39:48.38\00:39:50.45
If that wasn't enough,
when his friends finally spoke,
00:39:50.49\00:39:53.82
look at chapter 4:8,
his friend Eliphaz says,
00:39:53.86\00:39:57.53
my experience shows me
that those who plant trouble
00:39:57.56\00:40:01.46
and cultivate evil,
will harvest the same,
00:40:01.50\00:40:04.07
that's what his friend told.
00:40:04.10\00:40:06.53
In chapter 8:3 and 4,
his friend Bildad says,
00:40:06.57\00:40:10.11
does the almighty
twists what is right,
00:40:10.14\00:40:12.54
your children
obviously sinned against him
00:40:12.57\00:40:15.68
so their
punishment was well deserved.
00:40:15.71\00:40:18.65
This is the man
who just lost 10 kids,
00:40:18.68\00:40:21.15
and this is his best
friend talking to him,
00:40:21.18\00:40:22.88
supposingly consoling him.
00:40:22.92\00:40:28.39
Look at his friend
Zophar, chapter 11:6,
00:40:28.42\00:40:31.29
God is doubtless punishing
you far less, than you deserve.
00:40:31.33\00:40:36.56
With friends like this.
00:40:40.27\00:40:41.87
If you know anybody like
this, keep them away from me,
00:40:45.74\00:40:51.65
just keep them away.
00:40:51.68\00:40:56.35
They did better
by just being quiet.
00:40:56.38\00:41:00.32
If you don't know what to
say, don't say anything at all.
00:41:00.36\00:41:05.36
But notice the
progression of Job's calamities,
00:41:05.39\00:41:08.80
Job's trail,
Job's breaking process.
00:41:08.83\00:41:11.97
First of all, first of
all, they took his possession,
00:41:12.00\00:41:15.74
they took his
family, they took his health,
00:41:15.77\00:41:18.57
they took his wife's support,
hey took his friend's support,
00:41:18.61\00:41:22.61
what does he have left?
00:41:22.64\00:41:24.38
There is only one
thing left, that's God.
00:41:28.82\00:41:34.29
That is the objective
of the breaking process,
00:41:34.32\00:41:38.23
to strip you of
everything you hold dear,
00:41:38.26\00:41:42.76
everything you depend on,
00:41:42.80\00:41:45.87
until you get to the
place where you got nothing left
00:41:45.90\00:41:49.30
but God.
00:41:49.34\00:41:52.84
If when you reach that point,
00:41:52.87\00:41:55.74
then God can really
do something for you.
00:41:55.78\00:41:59.71
You need to understand,
when we follow Christ,
00:41:59.75\00:42:02.32
we give Him permission to choose
00:42:02.35\00:42:05.45
how He's going to break us.
00:42:05.49\00:42:09.66
Tell me what I just said.
00:42:09.69\00:42:12.33
When we follow Christ,
00:42:12.36\00:42:13.90
we give Him
permission to do what?
00:42:13.93\00:42:16.56
Choose how He's
going to break us.
00:42:16.60\00:42:20.87
We can't, we
can't determine for God
00:42:20.90\00:42:23.67
how to handle us,
00:42:23.71\00:42:25.47
because we can't
see what's in us.
00:42:25.51\00:42:29.28
And so we would let
ourselves off easily.
00:42:29.31\00:42:33.75
And wild up missing something
that needs to come out of us,
00:42:33.78\00:42:38.25
and so we got to trust Him
00:42:38.29\00:42:40.66
enough to turn
everything over to Him.
00:42:40.69\00:42:45.06
Breaking is not
pleasant, it's painful,
00:42:45.09\00:42:48.10
yet it's necessary
in order to save us.
00:42:48.13\00:42:51.53
Sometimes we see the breaking
process as a punishment.
00:42:51.57\00:42:58.14
How many times?
00:42:58.17\00:43:00.28
How many times have we been
00:43:00.31\00:43:03.04
in the midnight
of circumstances?
00:43:03.08\00:43:06.65
And we believe we're there,
because we did something wrong.
00:43:06.68\00:43:12.42
And we forget that
00:43:12.45\00:43:13.79
what's really going on
is God is bragging on us.
00:43:13.82\00:43:17.19
Have you considered my servant?
00:43:17.23\00:43:22.46
Have we not considered
that there is a big difference
00:43:22.50\00:43:26.80
between
punishment and chastisement?
00:43:26.84\00:43:31.44
Look here, look here in Hebrews,
00:43:31.47\00:43:32.87
I want you to see
something here in Hebrews,
00:43:32.91\00:43:35.28
Hebrews 12:6.
00:43:35.31\00:43:37.65
Go there with me
quickly, Hebrews 12:6.
00:43:37.68\00:43:43.69
Trying to help my folk today,
00:43:43.72\00:43:46.39
Hebrews 12: 6.
00:43:46.42\00:43:52.93
Notice what the
word of God says here,
00:43:52.96\00:43:55.86
"For whom the Lord
loveth, he does what?
00:43:55.90\00:44:00.00
Chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receives."
00:44:00.04\00:44:05.44
I love Donna.
00:44:12.58\00:44:15.28
Yeah, I'm going
somewhere already, don't you?
00:44:15.32\00:44:17.89
I love Donna and I watch
her as she raised our children.
00:44:17.92\00:44:24.73
Donna had an approach
to chastising our children,
00:44:27.66\00:44:31.33
that was little
different from mine.
00:44:31.37\00:44:36.67
When the children
did something wrong,
00:44:36.71\00:44:38.34
Donna would bring them
in and sit down with them,
00:44:38.37\00:44:41.94
and explain
Jesus is not pleased.
00:44:41.98\00:44:47.65
You hurt His heart.
00:44:47.68\00:44:49.02
He is wounded by your behavior.
00:44:53.05\00:44:58.16
And so I have no
choice, but to spank you.
00:44:58.19\00:45:02.50
Because you're
not living the way
00:45:06.33\00:45:07.84
the Lord would have you to.
00:45:07.87\00:45:12.81
I'll be in the next
room, listening to this.
00:45:12.84\00:45:14.74
Thinking to myself,
why don't you beat them.
00:45:19.78\00:45:21.95
That's just gonna
antagonize the children,
00:45:25.05\00:45:28.12
beat them.
00:45:28.16\00:45:30.73
Don't give them a sermon first,
that's gonna make them angry.
00:45:30.76\00:45:38.40
And so when it came my
turn to deal with them,
00:45:38.43\00:45:42.24
I saw something different
00:45:42.27\00:45:43.61
after Donna had dealt with them,
00:45:43.64\00:45:45.94
they coming all back to
her, not more than a hour later,
00:45:45.97\00:45:48.94
hugging her neck
to, mommy, I love you,
00:45:48.98\00:45:51.78
I really love you, I whip them
00:45:51.81\00:45:54.08
and they don't talk to
me the rest of the day...
00:45:54.12\00:45:55.48
because I took the shortcut.
00:46:01.69\00:46:05.09
I didn't
prolong on their misery.
00:46:05.13\00:46:07.90
I didn't give my
sermon and let them know
00:46:07.93\00:46:09.73
they were about to get spanked.
00:46:09.76\00:46:11.73
I got to it.
00:46:11.77\00:46:13.87
And they shunned
me, but they loved her.
00:46:13.90\00:46:20.18
Whom the Lord
loveth, He chastises.
00:46:20.21\00:46:23.68
I recognize now,
00:46:23.71\00:46:25.31
that they translated
my form of discipline
00:46:25.35\00:46:28.75
as punishment and
hers as chastisement.
00:46:28.78\00:46:34.52
See, punishment
flows out of wrath,
00:46:34.56\00:46:37.93
but chastisement
flows out of love.
00:46:37.96\00:46:41.76
There is a
difference between the two.
00:46:41.80\00:46:43.93
God's method of disciplining
us is when we try to go one way,
00:46:43.97\00:46:50.67
and he pushes us back in place.
00:46:50.71\00:46:53.54
That's disciplining us.
00:46:53.58\00:46:57.15
And they got that,
that's how God deals with that,
00:46:57.18\00:47:00.98
that's why we got to get
00:47:01.02\00:47:02.72
a proper
prospective of who God is.
00:47:02.75\00:47:06.25
1 Corinthians 10:13 says,
00:47:06.29\00:47:08.12
He won't put more
on us than we can bear.
00:47:08.16\00:47:15.16
We got to trust Him with that.
00:47:15.20\00:47:17.17
I shared with the
folk on Wednesday night,
00:47:17.20\00:47:19.87
that the reason
why God has the right,
00:47:19.90\00:47:23.81
He has the
right to discipline us
00:47:23.84\00:47:26.14
is because He's sovereign.
00:47:26.17\00:47:29.01
What does sovereign mean?
00:47:29.04\00:47:31.05
He has the right to rule,
and to do what's best for me.
00:47:31.08\00:47:36.38
There are two
dimensions of His sovereignty.
00:47:36.42\00:47:39.39
The first one is existential.
00:47:39.42\00:47:41.92
It's found in Exodus 20:11.
00:47:41.96\00:47:44.89
Six days the Lord made
the heavens and the earth,
00:47:44.93\00:47:47.76
the sea, and all
that in it, but the...
00:47:47.80\00:47:52.00
is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God.
00:47:52.03\00:47:55.17
He is the
creator. He is the creator.
00:47:55.20\00:48:00.21
That's His existential
role. He has the right.
00:48:00.24\00:48:04.38
He has the right to
chastise us any way He chooses.
00:48:04.41\00:48:12.35
The other one is experiential.
00:48:12.39\00:48:13.96
For God so loved the world,
00:48:13.99\00:48:15.49
John 3:16, that He
gave his only begotten Son.
00:48:15.52\00:48:20.03
He is also our
redeemer. He is our creator,
00:48:20.06\00:48:25.03
and our redeemer, and
so He has the right because
00:48:25.07\00:48:28.90
we're doubling his to
put us in a breaking process
00:48:28.94\00:48:33.98
that will do its best
00:48:34.01\00:48:35.84
to get us save in our
scripture reading today.
00:48:35.88\00:48:39.11
Job said in Job 23, he says,
00:48:39.15\00:48:41.82
He knows the way that I take
and when I shall come forth,
00:48:41.85\00:48:45.89
I'll come forth how? As gold.
00:48:45.92\00:48:49.56
As gold, in Job's days
there was a kind of gold
00:48:49.59\00:48:53.26
that was very valuable, it
came from the city of Ophir.
00:48:53.29\00:48:57.40
And the Ophir
goldsmiths were known
00:48:57.43\00:49:00.10
because of their
process for gold's melting.
00:49:00.14\00:49:02.84
What they would do
00:49:02.87\00:49:04.21
is in order to
get the impurities
00:49:04.24\00:49:06.11
out of the gold ore, they would,
00:49:06.14\00:49:08.64
first of all put it on low heat.
00:49:08.68\00:49:12.18
And skim off some of
the surface impurities.
00:49:12.21\00:49:16.45
Then they would
turn it up little more,
00:49:16.48\00:49:18.79
and then they get the
next level of impurities.
00:49:18.82\00:49:22.39
And they were pulling
after the hardcore stuff,
00:49:22.42\00:49:25.29
they would turn it up to
the highest temperature possible
00:49:25.33\00:49:28.36
and then take all
the dross out of it,
00:49:28.40\00:49:30.63
so that they came
up with pure gold.
00:49:30.67\00:49:33.87
And when the gold was
cool, they would take a hammer
00:49:33.90\00:49:37.74
and they would
beat plates of gold
00:49:37.77\00:49:40.31
so thinly that they
could be see they can see
00:49:40.34\00:49:43.65
their own image
in the gold plates.
00:49:43.68\00:49:48.58
It was their desire
00:49:48.62\00:49:51.15
to make sure that
the gold was so pure
00:49:51.19\00:49:54.49
that when they looked in it,
00:49:54.52\00:49:55.86
they can see a pure
image of themselves.
00:49:55.89\00:50:00.10
And so Job says, he
knows the way that I take it
00:50:00.13\00:50:03.23
that when he strike me
out come forth as pure gold.
00:50:03.26\00:50:07.80
He understood that
he wasn't want to take
00:50:07.84\00:50:10.27
the best things
out of him all at once,
00:50:10.31\00:50:13.01
he was going to
deal with him gradually,
00:50:13.04\00:50:15.54
as he was able and
when the process was over,
00:50:15.58\00:50:19.18
he wanted to be able to
see the reflection of Christ
00:50:19.21\00:50:24.35
in the gold.
00:50:24.39\00:50:25.72
I want to look at
this last part of promise,
00:50:25.75\00:50:28.09
Job 42, Job 42.
00:50:28.12\00:50:33.09
Let's look at
this last part, Job 42.
00:50:33.13\00:50:40.07
I want to consider
verses 10-12, Job 42:10-12.
00:50:40.10\00:50:45.57
I am fascinated
by the life of Job,
00:50:49.58\00:50:53.31
because it
challenges me as a Christian.
00:50:53.35\00:50:58.22
And the Lord turned
the captivity of Job,
00:50:58.25\00:51:00.22
when he prayed for his friends.
00:51:00.26\00:51:02.66
Also the Lord gave Job
twice as much as he had before.
00:51:02.69\00:51:06.46
"Then came there
unto him all his brethren,
00:51:06.49\00:51:08.46
all his sisters,
all they that had been
00:51:08.50\00:51:10.37
of his acquaintances before,
00:51:10.40\00:51:12.33
did eat bread
with him in his house.
00:51:12.37\00:51:14.30
They bemoaned him,
and comforted him over
00:51:14.34\00:51:16.00
all the evil that the
Lord had brought unto him:
00:51:16.04\00:51:17.84
every man also gave
him a piece of money,
00:51:17.87\00:51:20.34
and every one
an earring of gold.
00:51:20.38\00:51:22.64
So the Lord blessed
the latter end of Job
00:51:22.68\00:51:25.91
more than his beginning:
00:51:25.95\00:51:29.18
for he had
fourteen thousand sheep,
00:51:29.22\00:51:31.15
and six thousand camels,
and a thousand yoke of oxen
00:51:31.19\00:51:34.59
and a thousand she asses.
00:51:34.62\00:51:38.49
"It's my last and final point.
00:51:38.53\00:51:41.03
When we follow Christ,
00:51:41.06\00:51:43.90
we give Him permission
to bless us better than
00:51:43.93\00:51:49.34
we were before.
00:51:49.37\00:51:50.71
We give Him
permission to bless us better
00:51:54.28\00:51:58.31
than we were before.
00:51:58.35\00:51:59.68
Charles Stanley once said,
00:51:59.71\00:52:03.72
"Brokenness can be a
path toward great blessing,
00:52:03.75\00:52:08.29
but only when we allow God
00:52:08.32\00:52:10.33
to do the
breaking and the blessing."
00:52:10.36\00:52:14.43
Job's possession went up.
00:52:14.46\00:52:17.60
He even got a new
family of 10 children
00:52:17.63\00:52:19.93
and guess what?
00:52:19.97\00:52:21.97
He got them with Mrs. Job.
00:52:22.00\00:52:27.31
Listen to me, even though
00:52:27.34\00:52:29.71
she wasn't there
at his time of need,
00:52:29.74\00:52:33.58
even though she
wouldn't standby him
00:52:33.62\00:52:35.75
when he needed the
most comfortest support,
00:52:35.78\00:52:38.55
Job stayed there,
00:52:38.59\00:52:40.19
he didn't leave the relationship
00:52:40.22\00:52:42.36
when it got hacked.
00:52:42.39\00:52:43.86
It was because of his
example that she was able to see
00:52:48.86\00:52:54.67
what God really needed in a man,
00:52:54.70\00:52:58.07
in a believer to stay
though the heavens fall.
00:52:58.11\00:53:01.78
And it was because of
his example that she did not
00:53:01.81\00:53:04.38
leave him.
00:53:04.41\00:53:05.75
Remember now, that
there are some commentators
00:53:05.78\00:53:08.52
that summarize that when
Job was on his back sick,
00:53:08.55\00:53:12.49
one of the reasons why it
was so despicable and heinous
00:53:12.52\00:53:15.62
was because it was believed that
00:53:15.66\00:53:17.33
he had some sort
of a neural disease,
00:53:17.36\00:53:20.00
and yet he was tell her
how he had been with nobody.
00:53:20.03\00:53:24.47
I've only been with you.
00:53:24.50\00:53:28.40
And she stayed
because beyond his sickness
00:53:28.44\00:53:34.21
she knew the life
that he had earlier.
00:53:34.24\00:53:36.68
She knew, he had to
be telling her the truth
00:53:36.71\00:53:39.38
and so his
example kept her home,
00:53:39.41\00:53:41.88
they had ten more children.
00:53:41.92\00:53:45.19
They were five blessings,
I am gonna end with this.
00:53:45.22\00:53:48.59
Five blessings that come to us.
00:53:48.62\00:53:50.89
Common musicians as a
result of being broken.
00:53:50.93\00:53:52.76
The first one is this.
00:53:52.79\00:53:54.50
It's the blessing of
understanding God better.
00:53:54.53\00:53:59.73
The blessing of
understanding God better.
00:53:59.77\00:54:02.77
We get an opportunity to
enter into His sufferings.
00:54:02.80\00:54:06.68
We get an opportunity
to understand first hand
00:54:06.71\00:54:11.05
what God went
through to try to save us.
00:54:11.08\00:54:14.35
See, He never
asks us to do anything
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that He has it
already done Himself.
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Come with me to the
God, see Him on his knees,
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broken by the
conflict, sweating as it were
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great drops of
blood, see Him fall over,
00:54:28.80\00:54:32.10
watch his dribbling hands say,
00:54:32.13\00:54:33.84
father, if
father would be willing,
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remove this cup
from me, until he comes
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full circle with the word.
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Nevertheless, not my
will, but thine be done.
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We get the
blessing of understanding
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a little bit better.
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What the breaking process
is through His suffering.
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Secondly, we get the
blessing of greater faith.
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The blessing of greater faith.
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You got to understand something,
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our understanding is limited.
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At some point when we
in the breaking process,
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our understanding
is going to run out.
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And we're not going to be able
to make sense out of anything
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that's going on around us.
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And it's in that
moment in that synapse of time
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when our understanding
ends, that faith has to begin.
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We got to trust Him
even when we can't trace Him.
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Even though we don't understand
what He's doing to us,
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we still need a believe that
He's doing something for us.
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For all things
work together for good,
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to them that love the Lord,
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and are called
according to his purpose.
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The third blessing
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we get is that of
increase compassion.
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Increase compassion.
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Maybe now we'll be a little bit
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more
understanding of one another.
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When we see our brother,
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and we see our sister
going through something,
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instead of criticizing them,
instead of talking about them,
00:55:59.32\00:56:03.29
instead of
sharing gossip about them,
00:56:03.32\00:56:05.69
instead I'm looking
down our noses at them.
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Perhaps, will understand
better what it is to walk
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the walk like they are walking,
to cry like they are crying.
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It will help us to
become more passionate
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to our brothers and our sisters.
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The fourth
blessing is the blessing
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of a more fulfilled life.
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A more fulfilled life.
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You think things are good now.
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You got no idea I have
not seen nor hear or heard.
00:56:34.26\00:56:38.53
Neither had entered
into the heart of men,
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the things that
God has prepared for...
00:56:42.16\00:56:46.10
If you can describe to
me what heaven is like,
00:56:46.13\00:56:50.34
I automatically know that
that's not what it's like.
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Because it can't enter
into our human comprehension
00:56:55.74\00:57:00.42
what's really
prepared for us. And finally,
00:57:00.45\00:57:05.29
there's the
blessing of God's presence.
00:57:05.32\00:57:08.76
He's never gonna leave us.
00:57:13.63\00:57:16.80
He's never going to forsake us.
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