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>>MORNING EVERYONE.
WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A
VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR
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FRIENDS ON OUR EXTENDED -
OR PART OF OUR EXTENDED SABBATH
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SCHOOL CLASS AND ALSO THOSE HERE
AT THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH - A
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VERY WARM WELCOME TO
YOU AND THOSE VISITING.
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WE'RE GLAD YOU'VE
CHOSEN TO STUDY WITH US TODAY.
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WE HAVE A BRAND-NEW QUARTER
BEGINNING DEALING WITH THE BOOK
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OF JOB AND WE'RE GOING TO BE
LOOKING AT LESSON #1, WHICH IS
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ACTUALLY ENTITLED, THE END -
KIND OF AN INTERESTING TITLE FOR
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THE FIRST LESSON, BUT WE'RE
GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE BOOK
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OF JOB AND LEARNING SOME
IMPORTANT LESSONS FROM THIS
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STORY. BUT BEFORE
WE GET TO OUR LESSON,
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BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
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THOUGH, WE'D LIKE TO BEGIN
BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN PRAISE.
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WE'D LIKE TO ASK OUR SONG
LEADERS TO COME AND JOIN US AND
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THEY'LL LEAD US IN PRAISE.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND IT
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IS WONDERFUL TO BE HERE
TO SING SONGS WITH YOU LIKE
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WE DO EVERY WEEK.
WE'RE READY TO SING.
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WE'VE BEEN WARMING UP OUR VOICES
AND I KNOW YOU AT HOME ARE AS
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WELL, SO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS,
IF YOU HAVE THEM, AND JOIN WITH
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US ON OUR FIRST SONG, WHICH IS
#423 - GLORIOUS THINGS OF THEE
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ARE SPOKEN - AND WE WILL DO
THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH
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STANZAS - #423. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>GLORIOUS THINGS OF
THEE ARE SPOKEN, ZION, CITY
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OF OUR GOD; HE WHOSE WORD CANNOT
BE BROKEN FORMED THEE FOR HIS
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OWN ABODE; ON THE ROCK OF AGES
FOUNDED, WHAT CAN SHAKE THY SURE
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REPOSE? WITH SALVATION'S WALL
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SURROUNDED, THOU
MAYEST SMILE AT ALL THY FOES.
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SEE THE STREAMS OF LIVING WATERS
SPRINGING FROM ETERNAL LOVE,
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WELL SUPPLY THY SONS AND
DAUGHTERS, AND ALL FEAR AND WANT
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REMOVE; WHO CAN FAINT WHEN SUCH
A RIVER EVER FLOWS THEIR THIRST
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TO ASSUAGE? GRACE,
WHICH, LIKE THE LORD, THE
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GIVER, NEVER
FAILS FROM AGE TO AGE.
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SAVIOR, IF OF ZION'S CITY I,
THROUGH GRACE, A MEMBER AM, LET
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THE WORLD DERIDE OR PITY, I WILL
GLORY IN THY NAME; FADING IS THE
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WORLDING'S PLEASURE, ALL
HIS BOASTED POMP AND SHOW; SOLID
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JOYS AND LASTING TREASURE
NONE BUT ZION'S CHILDREN KNOW.
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>>THIS SONG, THE FOURTH
STANZA, IS MY FAVORITE ONE.
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IF YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION TO
THOSE WORDS, THE LAST TWO LINES
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- 'FADING IS THE WORLDLING'S
PLEASURE, ALL HIS BOASTED POMP
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AND SHOW; SOLID JOYS AND
LASTING TREASURE NONE BUT ZION'S
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CHILDREN KNOW.'
THAT IS THE TRUTH.
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YOU CAN THINK YOU HAVE
EVERYTHING - YOU CAN THINK YOU
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HAVE A NICE CAR, A NICE HOUSE,
MONEY IN THE BANK - EVERYTHING
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THAT YOU NEED, BUT IF JESUS
IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING,
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THAT FADES AND THAT IS NOT
ETERNAL PLEASURE - NOT ETERNAL
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HAPPINESS, BECAUSE IT WILL NOT
TAKE YOU TO THE STREETS OF GOLD.
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SO PUT YOUR TREASURE - PUT YOUR
HEART WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS -
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PUT IT IN HEAVEN AND YOU WILL
HAVE THE BEST LIFE, GUARANTEED.
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OUR NEXT SONG - SWEET BY AND BY
. I KNOW THIS IS A FAVORITE FOR
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MANY OF YOU - #428 - WE WILL
DO ALL THREE STANZAS - #428.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THERE'S A LAND THAT
IS FAIRER THAN DAY, AND BY
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FAITH WE CAN SEE IT AFAR; FOR
THE FATHER WAITS OVER THE WAY,
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TO PREPARE US A
DWELLING PLACE THERE.
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IN THE SWEET BY AND BY, WE
SHALL MEET ON THAT BEAUTIFUL
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SHORE; IN THE SWEET BY AND BY,
WE SHALL MEET ON THAT BEAUTIFUL
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SHORE. WE SHALL
SING ON THAT BEAUTIFUL
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SHORE THE MELODIOUS SONGS OF
THE BLEST, AND OUR SPIRITS SHALL
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SORROW NO MORE, NOT A
SIGH FOR THE BLESSING OF REST.
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IN THE SWEET BY AND BY, WE
SHALL MEET ON THAT BEAUTIFUL
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SHORE; IN THE SWEET BY AND BY,
WE SHALL MEET ON THAT BEAUTIFUL
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SHORE. TO OUR
BOUNTIFUL FATHER ABOVE,
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WE WILL OFFER A TRIBUTE OF
PRAISE, FOR THE GLORIOUS GIFT
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OF HIS LOVE, AND
THE BLESSINGS THAT
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HALLOW OUR DAYS. IN
THE SWEET BY AND BY, WE
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SHALL MEET ON THAT BEAUTIFUL
SHORE; IN THE SWEET BY AND BY,
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WE SHALL MEET ON
THAT BEAUTIFUL SHORE.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING
WITH US. AND, AT THIS TIME,
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PASTOR ROSS IS GOING TO
HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET US BOW OUR
HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
AGAIN, WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO BE
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ABLE TO GATHER
TOGETHER TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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AND, AS WE LOOK AT THIS GREAT
OLD TESTAMENT BOOK - THE BOOK OF
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JOB - AS WE SEE YOUR HAND
IN DEALING WITH THOSE WHO ARE
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TRUSTING IN YOU AND, YET,
HOW THEIR FAITH CAN GROW THROUGH
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DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES, WE
PRAY THAT OUR FAITH MIGHT BE
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STRENGTHENED AS WE SEE YOUR
GOODNESS IN HOW YOU LOVE US.
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SO BE WITH US THIS MORNING
FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME,
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AMEN. OUR LESSON TODAY WILL
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR
ROSS. MORNING EVERYONE.
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>>MORNING.
>>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL AT
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GRANITE BAY AND OUR SABBATH
SCHOOL STUDY HOUR AND WE'RE
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GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE. I
WANT TO WELCOME ANY VISITORS
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THAT MAY BE HERE ALONG THE
WAY. AND WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW
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QUARTER'S STUDY IN THE BOOK
OF JOB. AND, HOPEFULLY, YOU HAVE
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ONE OF THESE - IF YOU DON'T,
I HOPE THAT YOU CAN VISIT YOUR
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NEIGHBORHOOD ADVENTIST CHURCH
- I THINK YOU CAN EVEN GO ONLINE
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AND YOU CAN GO TO THE -
THE WORLD CHURCH HAS A SABBATH
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SCHOOL WEBSITE WHERE YOU
CAN DOWNLOAD THE LESSON AND
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STUDY ALONG WITH US. I
THINK PASTOR ROSS ALREADY
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MENTIONED WE HAVE,
SORT OF, A PREMIUM GIFT.
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IF YOU JUST CALL IN AND ASK, WE
HAVE A BOOK CALLED AMAZING FACTS
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OF - FROM - AMAZING BIBLE
ANSWERS - AND IT'S DEALING WITH
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NOW, THE LESSON TODAY - YOU
MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WELL, THIS
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IS OUR FIRST LESSON IN
OUR STUDY ON THE BOOK OF JOB.'
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IT'S CALLED THE END
BECAUSE THEY'RE ACTUALLY
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STARTING WITH THE
LAST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK.
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NOW, I'VE GOT A COUPLE OF
THEORIES - I HAVEN'T TALKED TO
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THE AUTHOR OF THE LESSON ABOUT
THIS, BUT I THINK ONE THEORY
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THAT THEY MAY BE DOING THAT IS
BECAUSE THE BOOK OF JOB IS ONE
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OF THE HEAVIEST
BOOKS IN THE BIBLE.
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YOU'VE GOT INCREDIBLE SUFFERING
- CALAMITY THAT COMES ON THIS
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MAN. IT REALLY
GETS YOU TO BEGIN TO
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CHALLENGE THE JUSTICE OF
GOD AND WHY THESE THINGS HAPPEN.
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AND, SOMETIMES, WHEN YOU GO TO
THE END OF THE BOOK AND YOU FIND
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OUT THAT IT ENDS WELL, IT MAKES
IT EASIER AS YOU'RE GOING INTO
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THE SUFFERING, BECAUSE YOU KNOW
HOW IT ENDS. AND SO, YOU KNOW,
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THAT'S MY THEORY - ONE REASON
THEY'RE DOING IT THIS WAY.
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AND OUR FIRST SECTION IN
THE BOOK IS HAPPILY EVER AFTER
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BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE
DEALING WITH THOSE VERSES.
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BUT, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT IT'D BE
A GOOD IDEA, SINCE WE'RE GETTING
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READY TO SPEND 13 WEEKS DEALING
WITH THE BOOK OF JOB, TO DO A
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LITTLE
INTRODUCTION IN THE BOOK OF JOB.
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I LOOKED AHEAD IN THE LESSON AND
I THOUGHT, 'WELL, THIS IS SOME
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STUFF THAT I THINK WOULD BE
HELPFUL NOW. FIRST OF ALL, THIS
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BOOK FALLS AMONG THE
BOOKS OF POETRY IN THE BIBLE.
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BY THE WAY, IN THE SEPTUAGINT,
IT'S PLACED DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU
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FIND IT IN YOUR BOOK - IN
THE REGULAR CANON OF SCRIPTURE -
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IT'S PLACED IN THE SEPTUAGINT
BETWEEN PSALMS AND PROVERBS.
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MARTIN LUTHER REGARDED THE BOOK
OF JOB AS THE MOST MAGNIFICENT
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AND SUBLIME OF ANY OF THE BOOKS
OF THE SCRIPTURE - AND HE WAS
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QUITE A SCHOLAR. IT
IS AN INCREDIBLE BOOK.
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IT HAS 42 CHAPTERS - WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK AT CHAPTER 42 TODAY -
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1,070 VERSES - 10,102 WORDS.
WHO WAS JOB? HE IS NOT A PERSON
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OF FICTION OR FABLE.
JOB IS FIGURED AS A REAL
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HISTORICAL
CHARACTER IN THE BIBLE.
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IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL 14:14 - IF
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YOU LOOK IN EZEKIEL 14:14 IT
SAYS, "THOUGH THESE THREE MEN,
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NOAH, DANIEL, AND JOB, WERE
IN IT, THEY SHOULD DELIVER BUT
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THEIR OWN SOULS BY
THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS..."
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EZEKIEL REFERS TO
JOB AS A REAL PERSON.
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IF YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
AND YOU READ FROM THE BOOK OF
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JAMES IT SAYS, 'AND YOU'VE HEARD
ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS OF JOB'.
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THE NEW TESTAMENT AUTHORS
VIEWED JOB AS A REAL HISTORICAL
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CHARACTER. AND SO,
IF WE BELIEVE JESUS AND
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IF WE BELIEVE THE APOSTLES, AND
IF WE BELIEVE THE OLD TESTAMENT
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PROPHETS, THEY ALL LOOKED
UPON JOB AS A REAL PERSON.
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HE'S A MAN WHO REALLY
LIVED. WHEN DID HE LIVE?
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NOW THIS IS AN INTERESTING
STUDY. JOB IS PROBABLY THE
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OLDEST BOOK IN THE BIBLE.
IT WAS NOT WRITTEN BY JOB, IT
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WAS PROBABLY WRITTEN BY MOSES.
ONE REASON THE SCHOLARS SAY THAT
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IS THEY LOOK AT THE STYLE OF THE
WRITING OF THE AUTHOR OF JOB AND
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THERE ARE A LOT OF SIMILARITIES
IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF THE
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TIME AND THE
AUTHORSHIP OF MOSES.
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SO IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT ONE
OF THE FIRST BOOKS THAT MOSES
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WROTE WHEN HE WAS IN THE
LAND OF MIDIAN WAS ABOUT JOB.
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THE PLACE OF JOB - NOW, WHEN
YOU START STUDYING - WE'VE GOT A
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LATER CHAPTER THAT'S GOING TO
TALK ABOUT JOB'S THREE FRIENDS.
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YOU REMEMBER ELIPHAZ AND BILDAD
AND - THE FRIENDS OF JOB, WHEN
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YOU LOOK AT THEM - FOR INSTANCE,
IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR BIBLE IN
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GENESIS CHAPTER 36:15, IT SAYS,
"...THE SONS OF ELIPHAZ, THE
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FIRSTBORN OF ESAU, IN THE LAND
OF EDOM;" NOW, ELIPHAZ WAS ONE
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OF THE FRIENDS OF
JOB. AND IT SAYS, 'FROM
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THE LAND OF EDOM'. WELL,
WHEN MOSES WAS IN MIDIAN,
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EDOM WAS THE
DESERTS TO THE NORTH OF HIM.
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SO HE WAS VERY WELL ACQUAINTED
WITH WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THAT
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COUNTRY AND THIS
STORY HAD REACHED HIM.
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AND, FURTHER, YOU CAN ALSO READ
IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS CHAPTER
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36 - SAME CHAPTER - IT'S GOING
THROUGH THE GENEALOGY OF ESAU
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AND IT SAYS, "AND BELA DIED, AND
JOBAB THE SON OF ZERAH OF BOZRAH
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REIGNED IN HIS STEAD."
JOB IS CALLED ONE OF THE
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GREATEST OF THE PEOPLE OF THE
EAST AND SOME HAVE WONDERED AND
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- YOU KNOW, MY NAME IS DOUGLAS -
A LOT OF PEOPLE CALL ME 'DOUG'.
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AND, EVEN IN BIBLE TIMES,
YOU COULD HAVE A PERSON NAMED
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'JOBAB' AND THEY'D CALL
HIM 'JOB' - IT'S AN ECONOMY OF
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SYLLABLES. AND,
WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE
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HEBREW, THERE ARE SIMILAR
CHARACTERS THAT ARE USED AND
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IT COULD BE THE SAME PERSON.
IT SAYS HE LIVED IN THE SAME
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TERRITORY, HE LIVED DURING THE
SAME TIME, AND HE WAS A KING OF
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THE LAND, AND THAT JOB SAYS THAT
HE WAS - THE BOOK OF JOB SAYS
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JOB WAS THE GREATEST MAN OF THE
EAST AND SO IT COULD BE JOBAB
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AND JOB ARE THE SAME PERSON
- VERY MUCH THE SAME TIME.
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PROBABLY WERE LIVING BETWEEN
1600 AND 1700 BC - THIS WOULD BE
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DURING THE TIME OF JOSEPH,
WHEN HE WAS LIVING IN EGYPT.
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OF COURSE, JOSEPH LIVED 110
YEARS, AND SO IT WOULD BE - JUST
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TO GIVE YOU THE TIME RANGE,
IT'S BEFORE THE EXODUS. SO IT
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TELLS US, ALSO, THAT ELIPHAZ
WAS ONE OF THE SONS OF ESAU.
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AND THEN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
OTHER FRIENDS OF JOB, THEY ALL
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LIVED DURING THAT SAME TIME
RANGE, THEY LIVED IN THE AREA
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AROUND PETRA, THE ARABIAN DESERT
- NORTHERN PART - NORTH OF
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MIDIAN, AND IT
WASN'T LIKE IT IS TODAY.
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I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD
ABOUT - THEY FOUND SOME AMAZING
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PETROGLYPHS IN THE SAHARA DESERT
AND THERE ARE SOME DRAWINGS IN
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THE ROCK OF GIRAFFES, AND
RHINOCEROS, AND ALLIGATORS.
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AND IT PORTRAYS, IN THESE
NUMEROUS PETROGLYPHS, A COUNTRY
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THAT WAS A SAVANNAH, THAT HAD
WATER AND CROCODILES AND RIVERS.
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AND YOU GO TO THE SAHARA NOW
AND THERE'S NOTHING BUT SAND.
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SO SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED.
THE CLIMATE OF THE WORLD HAS
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CHANGED. I THINK
EVERYONE AGREES WITH THAT.
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AND THE LAND OF THE NORTHERN
ARABIA, THAT IS SO DRY NOW, USED
00:16:18.07\00:16:25.45
TO BE A LOT MORE MILD AND THERE
WERE FARMS AND THERE WERE SHEEP
00:16:25.45\00:16:30.55
- YOU LOOK AT WHAT JOB HAD -
AND THERE WERE A LOT OF CATTLE.
00:16:30.55\00:16:33.66
THAT MEANS THAT THERE WAS A
LOT OF PASTURE LAND BACK THEN.
00:16:33.66\00:16:35.99
HE HAD THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS.
AND SO, THAT TELLS US SOMETHING
00:16:35.99\00:16:38.99
ABOUT THE TIME WHEN HE LIVED.
IT TELLS SOMETHING ABOUT THE
00:16:38.99\00:16:42.06
PEOPLE AND THE PLACES -
HIS NAME - THE NAME JOB MEANS
00:16:42.06\00:16:46.57
'ONE PERSECUTED'. IT
SIGNIFIES 'SORROWFUL'
00:16:46.57\00:16:49.94
OR 'HE THAT WEEPS'. NOW,
WE DON'T KNOW IF THAT - IF
00:16:49.94\00:16:53.21
HE WAS NAMED THAT BECAUSE THAT
WAS GOING TO HAPPEN, OR IF THE
00:16:53.21\00:16:55.18
NAME CAME TO MEAN THAT BECAUSE
IT'S SUCH AN ANCIENT NAME.
00:16:55.18\00:16:58.65
FOR INSTANCE, WHEN I SAY THE
NAME 'RUTH', WHAT DOES THE NAME
00:16:58.65\00:17:03.89
'RUTH' MEAN? RUTH
MEANS 'COMPASSION'.
00:17:03.89\00:17:08.69
BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT
REALLY SURE IF THE NAME RUTH
00:17:08.69\00:17:12.39
MEANS COMPASSION BECAUSE THAT
MOABITE WOMAN WAS COMPASSIONATE
00:17:12.39\00:17:16.97
AND SO THE NAME CAME - THE
MEANING OF THE NAME CAME AFTER
00:17:16.97\00:17:21.50
THE PERSON OR IF
IT MEANT THAT BEFORE.
00:17:21.50\00:17:24.57
AND WHEN A PERSON IS RUTHLESS
- WHAT ARE YOU SAYING WHEN A
00:17:24.57\00:17:27.01
PERSON IS
RUTHLESS? THEY'RE WITHOUT
00:17:27.01\00:17:30.21
COMPASSION, RIGHT? BUT
THEY'RE STILL NOT SURE - DID
00:17:30.21\00:17:34.28
THE NAME HAVE THAT MEANING WHEN
RUTH'S MOTHER NAMED HER, OR DID
00:17:34.28\00:17:38.79
THE NAME - MEANING OF THE NAME
- COME FROM HER CHARACTER LATER?
00:17:38.79\00:17:42.72
IT'S SUCH AN ANCIENT
NAME, THEY DON'T KNOW.
00:17:42.72\00:17:44.46
SAME THING WITH THE NAME OF JOB.
00:17:44.46\00:17:46.56
IT'S CONNECTED WITH ONE STRUCK,
ONE PERSECUTED, ONE WEEPING -
00:17:46.56\00:17:50.67
WELL, IS THAT WHAT IT MEANT THEN
OR DID THE HEBREW WORD TAKE ON
00:17:50.67\00:17:54.04
THAT BECAUSE OF
WHAT HE WENT THROUGH?
00:17:54.04\00:17:56.00
AND SO I TOLD YOU ROUGHLY
WHERE THE LAND OF UZ WAS.
00:17:56.00\00:18:00.04
IT SAYS - GENESIS CHAPTER
10, VERSE 22 - IT SAYS, "THE
00:18:00.04\00:18:04.01
CHILDREN OF SHEM; ELAM, AND
ASSHUR, AND ARPHAXAD, AND LUD,
00:18:04.01\00:18:08.18
AND ARAM. AND THE
CHILDREN OF ARAM; UZ,
00:18:08.18\00:18:11.25
AND HUL, AND GETHER, AND
MASH." UZ MIGRATED TO THAT
00:18:11.25\00:18:15.02
TERRITORY OF EDOM
THERE. LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE
00:18:15.02\00:18:17.93
VERSE TO SORT OF PROVE
THAT: LAMENTATIONS - WRITTEN BY
00:18:17.93\00:18:21.03
JEREMIAH - LAMENTATIONS 4:21,
"REJOICE AND BE GLAD, O DAUGHTER
00:18:21.03\00:18:26.00
OF EDOM, THAT DWELLEST IN THE
LAND OF UZ;" - EDOM/UZ - ESAU'S
00:18:26.00\00:18:32.77
DESCENDANTS - YOU CAN REALLY
ZERO IN WITH A LOT OF SCRIPTURE,
00:18:32.77\00:18:35.88
SO WE KNOW - WE DON'T KNOW THE
EXACT PLACE OF HIS TOWN, BUT WE
00:18:35.88\00:18:39.75
KNOW THE AREA WHERE
THIS ALL TRANSPIRED.
00:18:39.75\00:18:42.68
IT WAS NORTH OF MOSES - THE
STORY CAME TO MOSES - IT WAS AN
00:18:42.68\00:18:45.95
INSPIRED STORY. HE
WROTE IT DOWN, PROBABLY EVEN
00:18:45.95\00:18:49.22
BEFORE THE BOOK OF
GENESIS WAS WRITTEN.
00:18:49.22\00:18:51.39
CAN'T PROVE THAT BUT IT SEEMS
LIKE IT FROM THE STYLE AND THE
00:18:51.39\00:18:54.30
TIMES. ALRIGHT,
NOW, GETTING TO OUR
00:18:54.30\00:18:57.47
FIRST SECTION:
HAPPILY EVER AFTER .
00:18:57.47\00:18:59.50
GO WITH ME, IN THE BOOK OF
JOB, TO THE LAST CHAPTER - LAST
00:18:59.50\00:19:04.61
CHAPTER - I'VE TOLD KAREN HER
NAME IS IN THE BIBLE AND THIS IS
00:19:04.61\00:19:08.54
WHERE YOU FIND IT. JOB
42 - AND WE'RE GOING TO
00:19:08.54\00:19:11.58
START WITH VERSE 10 - JOB 42:10
- AND IT SAYS, "AND THE LORD
00:19:11.58\00:19:18.19
RESTORED JOB'S LOSSES
WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS.
00:19:18.19\00:19:23.83
INDEED THE LORD GAVE JOB
TWICE AS MUCH AS HE HAD BEFORE.
00:19:23.83\00:19:28.23
THEN ALL HIS BROTHERS, ALL HIS
SISTERS, AND ALL THOSE WHO HAD
00:19:28.23\00:19:31.03
BEEN HIS ACQUAINTANCES BEFORE,
CAME TO HIM AND ATE FOOD WITH
00:19:31.03\00:19:34.40
HIM IN HIS HOUSE; AND THEY
CONSOLED HIM AND COMFORTED HIM
00:19:34.40\00:19:37.94
FOR ALL THE ADVERSITY THAT
THE LORD HAD BROUGHT UPON HIM.
00:19:37.94\00:19:40.98
EACH ONE GAVE HIM A PIECE OF
SILVER AND EACH A RING OF GOLD.
00:19:40.98\00:19:45.51
NOW THE LORD BLESSED THE
LATTER DAYS OF JOB MORE THAN HIS
00:19:45.51\00:19:48.68
BEGINNING; FOR HE HAD FOURTEEN
THOUSAND SHEEP, SIX THOUSAND
00:19:48.68\00:19:52.82
CAMELS, ONE THOUSAND YOKE OF
OXEN, AND ONE THOUSAND FEMALE
00:19:52.82\00:19:56.29
DONKEYS. HE ALSO HAD
SEVEN SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS."
00:19:56.29\00:19:59.53
- THAT'S WHAT HE
HAD TO START WITH.
00:19:59.53\00:20:01.53
THIS IS A SECOND BATCH - AND
IT SAYS, "HE HAD SEVEN SONS AND
00:20:01.53\00:20:06.53
THREE DAUGHTERS AND HE CALLED
THE NAME OF THE FIRST [THESE ARE
00:20:06.53\00:20:08.84
HIS DAUGHTERS] JEMIMAH, THE NAME
OF THE SECOND KEZIAH, AND THE
00:20:08.84\00:20:14.08
NAME OF THE THIRD
KEREN-HAPPUCH." THAT'S AS CLOSE
00:20:14.08\00:20:16.78
AS I GET TO KAREN IN THE BIBLE.
AND I TELL PEOPLE THE NAME DOUG
00:20:16.78\00:20:20.82
IS IN THE BIBLE
TOO, DID YOU KNOW THAT?
00:20:20.82\00:20:23.79
IT SAYS, 'ISAAC DUG THE
WELLS OF HIS FATHER ABRAHAM.'
00:20:23.79\00:20:26.79
(LAUGHTER) SO, YEAH, IT'S
A BIBLE NAME - JUST SPELLED A
00:20:26.79\00:20:29.06
LITTLE DIFFERENT - BUT
WE BOTH HAVE BIBLE NAMES.
00:20:29.06\00:20:33.63
AND SO, IT TELLS US THAT AFTER
THIS HE - FURTHER MORE, IT SAYS,
00:20:33.63\00:20:39.67
"IN ALL THE LAND WERE FOUND
NO WOMEN SO BEAUTIFUL AS THE
00:20:39.67\00:20:43.04
DAUGHTERS OF JOB;" - IT'S
INTERESTING, IT DOESN'T SAY THAT
00:20:43.04\00:20:46.11
ABOUT HIS SONS - "AND THEIR
FATHER GAVE THEM AN INHERITANCE
00:20:46.11\00:20:50.55
AMONG THEIR BROTHERS.
AFTER THIS JOB LIVED ONE
00:20:50.55\00:20:54.95
HUNDRED AND FORTY
YEARS, AND SAW HIS CHILDREN AND
00:20:54.95\00:20:58.79
GRANDCHILDREN
FOR FOUR GENERATIONS.
00:20:58.79\00:21:02.46
SO JOB DIED, OLD
AND FULL OF DAYS."
00:21:02.46\00:21:06.53
SO THAT SOUNDS LIKE
IT'S HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
00:21:06.53\00:21:10.93
YOU KNOW, HE SUFFERED FOR
SEVERAL WEEKS - LESS THAN A
00:21:10.93\00:21:15.47
COUPLE OF MONTHS WHEN YOU READ
ABOUT HOW QUICKLY THE PLAGUES
00:21:15.47\00:21:17.94
CAME UPON HIM AND HIS SUFFERING
- HIS FRIENDS WATCHED HIM SUFFER
00:21:17.94\00:21:21.78
FOR SEVEN DAYS. THE BULK OF
JOB'S LIFE WAS GREATLY BLESSED.
00:21:21.78\00:21:26.25
THERE WAS A TERRIBLE TIME OF
SUFFERING IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
00:21:26.25\00:21:30.49
AND THE SUFFERINGS OF JOB WE'LL
LEARN - ALSO TELL US SOMETHING
00:21:30.49\00:21:34.59
ABOUT THE SUFFERINGS OF
JESUS. HE, IN SOME WAYS,
00:21:34.59\00:21:37.73
IS A TYPE OF
CHRIST. SO IT SOUNDS LIKE
00:21:37.73\00:21:40.63
A HAPPY ENDING.
EXCEPT IT SAYS HE DIED.
00:21:40.63\00:21:45.90
SO, IS IT A HAPPY
ENDING WHEN YOU DIE?
00:21:45.90\00:21:49.87
WELL, IF YOU'RE GOING TO DIE,
AS FAR AS IT CAN GO IN THIS LIFE
00:21:49.87\00:21:54.71
- WHENEVER YOU READ THOSE FAIRY
TALES AND IT SAYS, 'HAPPILY EVER
00:21:54.71\00:21:57.28
AFTER' - IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY
DIDN'T DIE, IT MEANS THEY LIVED
00:21:57.28\00:22:00.25
A HAPPY LIFE. ARE
THERE OTHER PLACES WHERE
00:22:00.25\00:22:05.02
YOU FIND THAT IN THE BIBLE?
LET ME GIVE YOU A FEW VERSES.
00:22:05.02\00:22:09.52
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
IN JUST A MOMENT, GENESIS 35:29
00:22:09.52\00:22:13.46
- HAFDIS, YOU HAVE THAT?
OKAY. I'M GOING TO READ GENESIS
00:22:13.46\00:22:16.43
25:8, "THEN ABRAHAM BREATHED HIS
LAST AND DIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE,
00:22:16.43\00:22:23.10
AN OLD MAN AND FULL OF YEARS,
AND WAS GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE."
00:22:23.10\00:22:28.41
HOW OLD WAS
ABRAHAM WHEN HE DIED? 175.
00:22:28.41\00:22:32.71
WHO LIVED
LONGER, ABRAHAM OR ISAAC?
00:22:32.71\00:22:37.29
ISAAC OUTLIVED HIS
FATHER. ISAAC LIVED 180.
00:22:37.29\00:22:42.76
I'VE GOT A THEORY: ABRAHAM HAD
SEVERAL WIVES, ISAAC ONLY HAD
00:22:42.76\00:22:47.50
ONE. (LAUGHTER)
I CAN'T PROVE THAT
00:22:47.50\00:22:51.73
BUT YOU CAN'T PROVE I'M WRONG.
YOU KNOW, THEY'VE PROVEN THAT
00:22:51.73\00:22:56.57
MARRIED PEOPLE LIVE
LONGER. THEY DID A STUDY.
00:22:56.57\00:23:01.01
MARRIED PEOPLE LIVE
LONGER THAN SINGLE PEOPLE.
00:23:01.01\00:23:03.71
NOW, I'M NOT SAYING THIS TO MAKE
THE SINGLE ONES FEEL BAD OR RUN
00:23:03.71\00:23:05.98
OUT AND HURRY UP AND GET
MARRIED, I JUST - THEY - THEY'RE
00:23:05.98\00:23:08.78
- THEY SAY THERE'S
SOME HEALTH BENEFIT.
00:23:08.78\00:23:10.62
IT COULD BE, THEY SAY, BECAUSE
YOU'VE GOT SOMEONE KIND OF
00:23:10.62\00:23:12.59
KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU, AND ALSO
FOR THE RELATIONSHIP - MAYBE
00:23:12.59\00:23:16.79
THERE'S MORE ENDORPHINS
RELEASED, I DON'T KNOW, BUT
00:23:16.79\00:23:18.93
THAT'S A STUDY I'VE
SEEN IN MORE THAN ONE PLACE.
00:23:18.93\00:23:21.03
GO AHEAD, HAFDIS,
READ YOUR PASSAGE FOR US.
00:23:21.03\00:23:24.33
>>"SO ISAAC BREATHED HIS LAST
AND DIED AND WAS GATHERED TO HIS
00:23:24.33\00:23:28.94
PEOPLE BEING OLD
AND FULL OF DAYS."
00:23:28.94\00:23:32.47
>>THANK YOU. NOW,
YOU NOTICE WHEN WE READ
00:23:32.47\00:23:34.08
ABOUT ABRAHAM IT SAYS, 'OLD
AND FULL OF YEARS' AND HERE IS
00:23:34.08\00:23:36.34
SAYS 'OLD AND FULL OF DAYS'.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD, IN THE
00:23:36.34\00:23:39.01
BIBLE, THAT SOMETIMES
A DAY REPRESENTS A YEAR?
00:23:39.01\00:23:42.12
I BET YOU'VE NEVER HAD
THEM SHOW YOU THESE TWO VERSES.
00:23:42.12\00:23:44.92
BUT HERE YOU'VE GOT A DAY AND
A YEAR - IT'S BASICALLY SAYING
00:23:44.92\00:23:48.22
ABRAHAM WAS FULL OF
YEARS - HAD MANY YEARS.
00:23:48.22\00:23:51.69
AND HIS YEARS WERE FULL.
AND THEN IT SAYS 'MANY DAYS' -
00:23:51.69\00:23:56.16
IT MEANS LONG LIFE - MANY YEARS.
YOU'VE HEARD THE EXPRESSION
00:23:56.16\00:24:01.37
'BUCKET LIST' - BUCKET
LIST - YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
00:24:01.37\00:24:06.17
AND IT - YOU KNOW
WHERE IT COMES FROM?
00:24:06.17\00:24:09.21
COMES FROM A CRUDE EXPRESSION
THAT WHEN YOU DIE THEY SAY 'KICK
00:24:09.21\00:24:12.81
THE BUCKET'.
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
00:24:12.81\00:24:14.05
HEARD THAT PHRASE
BEFORE? YOU KICK THE BUCKET?
00:24:14.05\00:24:16.79
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH YOUR
LIFE - WHAT ARE SOME BIG GOALS?
00:24:16.79\00:24:21.99
WHAT ARE SOME
PLACES YOU WANT TO GO?
00:24:21.99\00:24:23.49
WHAT ARE SOME FEATS YOU WANT TO
ACCOMPLISH BEFORE YOU KICK THE
00:24:23.49\00:24:26.36
BUCKET? BEFORE YOU DIE?
00:24:26.36\00:24:28.66
AND THOSE THINGS THEY CALL YOUR
'BUCKET LIST' AND PEOPLE WILL
00:24:28.66\00:24:31.90
HAVE THINGS LIKE 'I WANT TO
CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST' 'I WANT TO
00:24:31.90\00:24:36.24
PARACHUTE' 'I WANT TO HANG
GLIDE' 'I WANT TO SWIM WITH
00:24:36.24\00:24:41.51
KILLER WHALES' 'I WANT TO' -
A FEW WEEKS AGO I TOLD YOU I WAS
00:24:41.51\00:24:45.71
IN THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII AND
WE WENT TO SEE THE LAVA FLOW AND
00:24:45.71\00:24:49.58
I SAID, 'I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS
ON MY BUCKET LIST, BUT I MADE UP
00:24:49.58\00:24:51.69
MY MIND IT WAS, SO THAT WAS FUN
TO JUST SIT THERE AND SEE THE
00:24:51.69\00:24:54.56
LAVA COMING OUT OF THE GROUND
AND POURING INTO THE OCEAN.
00:24:54.56\00:24:57.43
IT WAS KIND OF NEAT. AND
SO, HAVE YOU MADE A LIST?
00:24:57.43\00:25:00.46
SOME PEOPLE JUST THINK THERE'S A
LOT OF INTERESTING THINGS I WANT
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.16
TO DO, BUT YOU DON'T
HAVE A PARTICULAR LIST.
00:25:02.16\00:25:04.30
BUT WHAT GOOD IS A BUCKET LIST
IF YOU DIE AND YOU DON'T HAVE
00:25:04.30\00:25:07.37
ETERNAL LIFE? I MEAN,
THINK ABOUT IT: WOULDN'T
00:25:07.37\00:25:11.81
THE FIRST THING ON YOUR BUCKET
LIST BE 'I WANT TO HAVE CHRIST
00:25:11.81\00:25:16.18
IN MY HEART AND HAVE ETERNAL
LIFE'? IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT,
00:25:16.18\00:25:19.41
WHAT GOOD IS IT TO
CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST?
00:25:19.41\00:25:22.88
I MEAN, BEFORE I AM FOREVER
LOST, I WANT TO SEE LAVA RUN IN
00:25:22.88\00:25:28.16
THE OCEAN. BIG DEAL. I
MEAN, IF YOU CAN GO TO HEAVEN,
00:25:28.16\00:25:31.19
WHAT ON EARTH CAN COMPARE WITH
THE GLORIES YOU'LL SEE THERE?
00:25:31.19\00:25:35.40
SO ANYTHING A PERSON MIGHT HAVE
ON THEIR EARTHLY BUCKET LIST IS
00:25:35.40\00:25:38.87
SILLY IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE
MOST IMPORTANT THING - LIVING
00:25:38.87\00:25:42.90
FOREVER, GOING TO OTHER WORLDS
- I MEAN, CAN YOU THINK OF
00:25:42.90\00:25:45.67
ANYTHING MORE OUTSTANDING THAN
BEING ABLE TO LIVE FOREVER AND
00:25:45.67\00:25:48.48
GO THROUGH THE
INFINITE CREATION OF GOD?
00:25:48.48\00:25:51.98
I MEAN, HOW PUNY WOULD IT BE?
I'D LIKE TO MEET THE QUEEN OF
00:25:51.98\00:25:59.05
ENGLAND - THAT'S
ON MY BUCKET LIST.
00:25:59.05\00:26:01.42
OR 'I'D LIKE TO GET THE
SIGNATURE FROM THIS MOVIE STAR'.
00:26:01.42\00:26:03.56
MAN, IN HEAVEN, YOU'LL BE ABLE
TO TALK TO DAVID AND HAVE JONAH
00:26:03.56\00:26:08.30
TELL YOU HIS FIRST-HAND STORY.
I MEAN, JUST THINK ABOUT THE
00:26:08.30\00:26:10.67
PEOPLE YOU CAN MEET THERE.
SO - BUT THEY HAD - THEY LIVED
00:26:10.67\00:26:16.30
FULL LIVES - FULL OF DAYS.
AND JOB, HE LIVED A FULL LIFE.
00:26:16.30\00:26:22.38
BUT THE BIBLE - JOB'S LIFE ENDED
- YOU WOULD SAY IT WAS A HAPPY
00:26:22.38\00:26:26.72
ENDING. DAVID DIED IN HOME.
00:26:26.72\00:26:29.45
YOU KNOW, YOU ALWAYS THINK, 'YOU
DIED IN YOUR HOME SURROUNDED BY
00:26:29.45\00:26:31.82
FAMILY.' THAT'S
CONSIDERED A GOOD ENDING.
00:26:31.82\00:26:34.29
DAVID, THE BIBLE SAYS, WAS FULL
OF DAYS, BUT ISAAC LIVED 180
00:26:34.29\00:26:39.29
YEARS, DAVID LIVED
70. HOW COME IT SAID DAVID
00:26:39.29\00:26:44.07
DIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE? BY
THE WAY, YOU FIND THAT IN 1
00:26:44.07\00:26:52.54
CHRONICLES 29:28 - SO HE
DIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE FULL OF
00:26:52.54\00:26:56.64
DAYS, RICHES, HONOR.
AND SOLOMON, HIS SON,
00:26:56.64\00:26:59.58
REIGNED IN HIS
PLACE. IT WASN'T THE LENGTH,
00:26:59.58\00:27:02.58
IT WAS THE
EXPERIENCE. THINK ABOUT ISAAC.
00:27:02.58\00:27:07.39
TELL ME THE MOST EXCITING
THING THAT HAPPENED TO ISAAC.
00:27:07.39\00:27:12.86
NEARLY DYING - HAVING THAT
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE ON THE
00:27:12.86\00:27:15.06
MOUNTAIN WITH HIS
FATHER. OKAY, WHAT ELSE?
00:27:15.06\00:27:19.00
>>THE ANGEL IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE NIGHT - HE WRESTLED WITH THE
00:27:19.00\00:27:21.97
ANGEL. >>THAT'S NOT ISAAC,
00:27:21.97\00:27:23.57
THAT'S JACOB. >>YOU'RE RIGHT.
00:27:23.57\00:27:27.21
>>TELL ME ABOUT THE OTHER
EXCITING THING THAT ISAAC DID.
00:27:27.21\00:27:31.55
HE DUG THE
WELLS. I TOLD YOU HE DUG
00:27:31.55\00:27:33.38
THE WELLS OF
ABRAHAM. >>HE SAW HIS BRIDE
00:27:33.38\00:27:36.15
BEING BROUGHT TO HIM.
>>HE SAW HIS BRIDE, YEP.
00:27:36.15\00:27:38.25
HE HAD A GOOD - IT SAYS HE
LOVED HIS WIFE - THAT'S GOOD.
00:27:38.25\00:27:41.22
180 YEARS. YOU'VE GOT
THOSE TWO HIGH POINTS.
00:27:41.22\00:27:45.09
NOW TALK ABOUT THE
LIFE OF DAVID - 70 YEARS.
00:27:45.09\00:27:49.23
WHO HAD MORE
ADVENTURE IN 70 YEARS? DAVID.
00:27:49.23\00:27:53.90
YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT DAVID DID -
'LET'S SEE, I KILLED THE GIANT,
00:27:53.90\00:27:56.74
I FOUGHT THE PHILISTINES, I
FOUGHT THE AMMORITES, I FOUGHT
00:27:56.74\00:27:59.07
THE EDOMITES' - YOU KNOW, YOU
JUST THINK ABOUT IT - BUILT THE
00:27:59.07\00:28:01.34
TEMPLE - I MEAN, DAVID HAD
SO MANY ADVENTURES IN HIS LIFE.
00:28:01.34\00:28:05.65
WHEN YOU LOOK AT JUST THE
INTERESTING - 'RAN FOR MY LIFE
00:28:05.65\00:28:08.82
FROM KING SAUL, HAD THE CHANCE
TO KILL KING SAUL TWICE AND I
00:28:08.82\00:28:13.22
DIDN'T DO IT.' YOU JUST LOOK
AT DAVID'S LIFE AND IT'S JUST -
00:28:13.22\00:28:16.32
IT'S FULL OF ADVENTURE.
SO BEING FULL OF DAYS DOESN'T
00:28:16.32\00:28:21.70
JUST MEAN YOU LIVE A LONG LIFE;
IT MEANS YOU LIVE A FULL LIFE
00:28:21.70\00:28:26.80
AND - BUT NOT ALL OF THE GOOD
PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE HAD WHAT
00:28:26.80\00:28:32.97
WE WOULD NORMALLY
CALL A HAPPY ENDING.
00:28:32.97\00:28:36.85
YOU MIGHT HAVE AN UNHAPPY ENDING
IN THIS LIFE, BUT A HAPPY ENDING
00:28:36.85\00:28:41.52
ETERNALLY. WHICH
WOULD YOU PREFER?
00:28:41.52\00:28:45.02
AREN'T THERE MARTYRS
WHO WERE TORTURED TO DEATH?
00:28:45.02\00:28:50.96
DOES THAT MEAN
GOD DIDN'T LOVE THEM?
00:28:50.96\00:28:52.86
IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE AN UNHAPPY
EARTHLY ENDING, BUT THEY'RE
00:28:52.86\00:28:56.80
GOING TO HAVE AN
ETERNAL HAPPY ENDING.
00:28:56.80\00:28:58.33
NOW, YOU KNOW, IF I HAD MY
DRUTHERS, I WANT TO HAVE BOTH
00:28:58.33\00:29:00.77
ENDINGS HAPPY. AM I
ALONE? ANYONE ELSE OUT THERE?
00:29:00.77\00:29:06.37
I MEAN, I'D RATHER NOT DIE FROM
TORTURE AND I ALSO WANT ETERNAL
00:29:06.37\00:29:09.01
LIFE. BUT THE BIBLE
TELLS US THERE'S SOME OF BOTH.
00:29:09.01\00:29:13.21
FOR EXAMPLE, HOW DID
ABEL DIE? WAS ABEL GOOD?
00:29:13.21\00:29:19.02
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'NOW CAIN
TALKED WITH ABEL HIS BROTHER.
00:29:19.02\00:29:21.56
IT CAME TO PASS WHEN IN THE
FIELD CAIN ROSE UP AGAINST HIS
00:29:21.56\00:29:23.93
BROTHER AND KILLED
HIM.' ABEL WAS MURDERED.
00:29:23.93\00:29:30.83
HOW DID JOSIAH DIE?
WAS JOSIAH A GOOD KING?
00:29:30.83\00:29:35.44
ONE OF THE BEST - GODLY KING
- EXPECT TO SEE HIM IN HEAVEN.
00:29:35.44\00:29:41.01
HE WENT OUT TO
BATTLE. THE BIBLE SAYS THE
00:29:41.01\00:29:42.64
ARCHERS SHOT JOSIAH.
HE SAID, 'TAKE ME AWAY
00:29:42.64\00:29:46.01
FOR I AM SEVERELY WOUNDED.
HIS SERVANTS TOOK HIM OUT OF
00:29:46.01\00:29:48.48
THAT CHARIOT, PUT HIM IN ANOTHER
CHARIOT - THEY BROUGHT HIM
00:29:48.48\00:29:50.75
TO JERUSALEM AND HE
DIED. HE WAS CLOSE TO THE LORD.
00:29:50.75\00:29:55.66
HE WAS
38-YEARS-OLD. HE DIED YOUNG.
00:29:55.66\00:29:58.99
THAT DOESN'T SOUND
LIKE A HAPPY ENDING.
00:29:58.99\00:30:00.76
BUT DOES THAT MEAN
GOD DOESN'T LOVE YOU?
00:30:00.76\00:30:03.26
SOMETIMES GOD TAKES PEOPLE AWAY
TO SAVE THEM FROM SEEING THE
00:30:03.26\00:30:06.57
TERRIBLE THINGS
THAT ARE GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:30:06.57\00:30:08.90
AND THE KINGDOM REALLY WENT
DOWNHILL AFTER JOSIAH AND GOD
00:30:08.90\00:30:12.04
SPARED HIM FROM THAT. SO
SOMETIMES WE QUESTION WHY
00:30:12.04\00:30:15.24
GOD DOES THINGS A CERTAIN WAY.
THAT WASN'T REALLY A VERY HAPPY
00:30:15.24\00:30:18.05
ENDING, BUT IT DOESN'T
MEAN HE DIDN'T LOVE HIM.
00:30:18.05\00:30:21.18
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
A MINUTE MATTHEW 14:10 AND 11 -
00:30:21.18\00:30:24.89
OKAY. URIAH - URIAH THE
HITTITE - GOOD MAN OR BAD MAN?
00:30:24.89\00:30:30.06
GOOD MAN. WILL HE BE
IN HEAVEN? BELIEVE SO.
00:30:30.06\00:30:35.90
BUT HE DIED - LET ME READ IT TO
YOU - 2 SAMUEL 11:17, "THEN THE
00:30:35.90\00:30:41.87
MEN OF THE CITY CAME
OUT AND FOUGHT WITH JOAB.
00:30:41.87\00:30:44.67
AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE OF
THE SERVANTS OF DAVID FELL; AND
00:30:44.67\00:30:47.48
URIAH THE HITTITE DIED ALSO."
IT SAYS THEY SHOT FROM THE WALL.
00:30:47.48\00:30:52.45
URIAH WAS SENT ON
A SUICIDE MISSION.
00:30:52.45\00:30:55.12
HE DIDN'T ONLY DIE IN BATTLE,
IT WAS SOMETHING OF A MURDER
00:30:55.12\00:30:59.19
BECAUSE DAVID TOLD JOAB TO PUT
URIAH IN A PLACE WHERE HE WOULD
00:30:59.19\00:31:04.06
BE CERTAIN TO BE KILLED. SO
HE DIED A VICTIM OF BETRAYAL
00:31:04.06\00:31:08.83
AND - IN A BLOODY BATTLE - GOOD
MAN. ELI, HOW DID HE END? WAS
00:31:08.83\00:31:18.61
ELI - WILL ELI BE IN HEAVEN?
HE WAS A TOTAL FAILURE AS A
00:31:18.61\00:31:24.05
FATHER - EXCEPT IN
THE WAY HE RAISED SAMUEL.
00:31:24.05\00:31:27.98
THE ONLY BRIGHT SPOT IN ELI'S
LIFE, REALLY, WAS THE WAY HE
00:31:27.98\00:31:31.19
RAISED SAMUEL.
BUT HE WAS A PROPHET.
00:31:31.19\00:31:33.49
REMEMBER, HE'S THE ONE WHO TOLD
HANNAH, 'YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A
00:31:33.49\00:31:35.22
SON.' I THINK HE LOVED THE LORD
BUT HE WAS JUST - HE COULDN'T
00:31:35.22\00:31:40.50
STAND UP TO HIS KIDS AND THEY
JUST DID WHATEVER THEY WANTED TO
00:31:40.50\00:31:43.60
DO AND HE WOULD NOT REBUKE THEM.
BUT WHEN THE TIME CAME, BECAUSE
00:31:43.60\00:31:48.14
OF HIS BAD LEADERSHIP, THE
LORD JUST WITHDREW FROM ISRAEL.
00:31:48.14\00:31:53.38
THEY WERE DEFEATED IN BATTLE.
A MESSENGER CAME FROM THE
00:31:53.38\00:31:57.25
BATTLEFIELD AND
SAID, 'YOUR SONS ARE SLAIN.
00:31:57.25\00:32:00.65
ISRAEL IS DEFEATED.' AND THEN
HE GAVE SOME OTHER BAD NEWS.
00:32:00.65\00:32:03.89
AND THIS IS 1 SAMUEL 4:18,
"THEN IT HAPPENED, WHEN HE MADE
00:32:03.89\00:32:06.22
MENTION OF THE ARK OF GOD,"
- THAT THE ARK WAS CAPTURED -
00:32:06.22\00:32:08.89
"THAT ELI FELL OFF THE
SEAT BACKWARD BY THE SIDE OF THE
00:32:08.89\00:32:12.46
GATE; AND HIS NECK WAS BROKEN
AND HE DIED, FOR THE MAN WAS OLD
00:32:12.46\00:32:16.30
AND HEAVY. AND HE HAD
JUDGED ISRAEL FORTY YEARS."
00:32:16.30\00:32:22.00
HE MAY HAVE BEEN A GOOD
MAN - NOT A HAPPY ENDING.
00:32:22.00\00:32:26.17
ALRIGHT, NEXT
ONE: JOHN THE BAPTIST.
00:32:26.17\00:32:28.68
>>"SO HE SENT AND HAD
JOHN BEHEADED IN PRISON.
00:32:28.68\00:32:31.48
AND HIS HEAD WAS BROUGHT ON A
PLATTER AND GIVEN TO THE GIRL,
00:32:31.48\00:32:35.32
AND SHE BROUGHT
IT TO HER MOTHER."
00:32:35.32\00:32:37.89
>>WELL, I TELL YOU RIGHT NOW,
THAT'S NOT ON MY BUCKET LIST.
00:32:37.89\00:32:40.72
(LAUGHTER) IT'S NOT HOW I WANT
TO GO - ALONE IN A DUNGEON FOR -
00:32:40.72\00:32:48.96
WE DON'T KNOW - MONTHS PROBABLY.
AND THEN TO JUST COME AND
00:32:48.96\00:32:52.90
UNCEREMONIOUSLY BE BEHEADED
AND HAVE YOUR HEAD SEPARATED
00:32:52.90\00:32:56.54
AND DISPLAYED AT A
PARTY. JOHN THE BAPTIST -
00:32:56.54\00:33:02.74
GOOD MAN/BAD
MAN? >>VERY GOOD MAN.
00:33:02.74\00:33:05.48
>>A GOOD PROPHET OR, AS
JESUS SAYS, THE GREATEST OF THE
00:33:05.48\00:33:08.72
PROPHETS? >>THE GREATEST.
00:33:08.72\00:33:10.35
>>WHY WOULD GOD LET THE GREATEST
OF THE PROPHETS DIE LIKE THAT?
00:33:10.35\00:33:14.29
JUST BECAUSE YOU SUFFER IN THIS
LIFE DOES NOT MEAN THAT GOD DOES
00:33:14.29\00:33:18.53
NOT LOVE YOU. JOB IS A MAN GOD
LOOKS DOWN FROM HEAVEN HE SAYS,
00:33:18.53\00:33:22.46
'HE'S A PERFECT AND
UPRIGHT MAN.' BUT JOB SUFFERED.
00:33:22.46\00:33:26.33
YOU MIGHT HAVE - NOW, THIS
IS GOING TO HAPPEN ALSO LATER IN
00:33:26.33\00:33:30.57
THE BOOK OF JOB - BECAUSE A
PERSON DIES IN BED SURROUNDED BY
00:33:30.57\00:33:36.58
FAMILY PEACEFULLY, DOES
THAT MEAN THAT THEY'RE SAVED?
00:33:36.58\00:33:42.75
NO. IS THAT RIGHT?
00:33:42.75\00:33:46.35
DOES GOD SEND GOOD
AND EVIL TO EVERYBODY?
00:33:46.35\00:33:49.62
SOMETIMES A PERSON MIGHT BE
A GOOD PARENT AND HAVE A GOOD
00:33:49.62\00:33:54.83
FAMILY AND HAVE A GOOD JOB AND
HAVE A GOOD DOCTOR AND THEY DIE
00:33:54.83\00:33:59.13
QUIETLY AT HOME AND
THEY'VE REJECTED THE LORD.
00:33:59.13\00:34:03.74
AND GOD JUST SHOWED 'EM MERCY
BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A VERY
00:34:03.74\00:34:06.14
GOOD PROSPECT IN THE FUTURE.
AND SO, HOW YOUR LIFE ENDS IN
00:34:06.14\00:34:11.18
THIS WORLD IS NOT A
MEASUREMENT OF ETERNITY.
00:34:11.18\00:34:16.12
NOW, I'M NOT WANTING TO BE
MORBID, IT'S IN THE LESSON.
00:34:16.12\00:34:19.05
I'M JUST TRYING TO TEACH IT.
00:34:19.05\00:34:21.66
THERE'RE SOME HAPPY ENDINGS AND
THERE'RE SOME SAD ENDINGS, BUT
00:34:21.66\00:34:24.39
THAT DOESN'T
DETERMINE YOUR ETERNITY.
00:34:24.39\00:34:26.83
YOU ALL LOOK SO
SERIOUS AND I DON'T BLAME YOU.
00:34:26.83\00:34:28.46
I'M TALKING ABOUT
ALL THESE SAD ENDINGS.
00:34:28.46\00:34:31.23
ALRIGHT, ONE MORE IS
MENTIONED IN THE LESSON.
00:34:31.23\00:34:36.04
STEPHEN - GOOD MAN
OR BAD MAN? >>GOOD MAN.
00:34:36.04\00:34:40.61
>>TALKING ABOUT, OF COURSE, THE
SPIRIT-FILLED DEACON, STEPHEN,
00:34:40.61\00:34:45.48
BECOMING A PREACHER.
ACTS 7:58, "AND THEY CAST HIM
00:34:45.48\00:34:49.78
OUT OF THE CITY AND STONED HIM."
- HE WAS FALSELY ACCUSED - "AND
00:34:49.78\00:34:54.22
THE WITNESSES LAID DOWN
THEIR CLOTHES AT THE FEET OF
00:34:54.22\00:34:56.56
A YOUNG MAN NAMED SAUL.
AND THEY STONED STEPHEN AS HE
00:34:56.56\00:34:59.49
WAS CALLING ON GOD AND SAYING,
'LORD JESUS, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.'
00:34:59.49\00:35:03.97
THEN HE KNELT DOWN AND CRIED OUT
WITH A LOUD VOICE, 'LORD, DO NOT
00:35:03.97\00:35:06.90
CHARGE THEM WITH
THIS SIN.'" NOTICE
00:35:06.90\00:35:09.30
HE DOESN'T SAY, 'LORD,
SAVE ME FROM THIS EXECUTION'?
00:35:09.30\00:35:13.17
HE SORT OF
RESIGNED HIMSELF TO THAT.
00:35:13.17\00:35:16.81
MY LAST PRAYER MIGHT HAVE
BEEN, 'LORD, STOP THE ROCKS IN
00:35:16.81\00:35:19.11
MIDAIR.' BUT INSTEAD
HE'S PRAYING ABOUT THEM.
00:35:19.11\00:35:24.39
HE'S NOT PRAYING FOR HIMSELF.
'SAVE ME' - HE SAYS, 'FORGIVE
00:35:24.39\00:35:28.32
THEM OF THIS SIN.' "AND WHEN HE
HAD SAID THIS, HE FELL ASLEEP."
00:35:28.32\00:35:33.40
CHRISTIANS DON'T
REALLY DIE, THEY GO TO SLEEP.
00:35:33.40\00:35:36.60
HE DIED, BUT THEY CALL IT SLEEP.
AND, SO, HERE THE BIBLE SAYS
00:35:36.60\00:35:40.37
THAT SOMETIMES THERE ARE UNHAPPY
ENDINGS, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN
00:35:40.37\00:35:43.54
THAT THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT GOD
DIDN'T LOVE. HOW DID JESUS DIE?
00:35:43.54\00:35:49.21
IT WASN'T PRETTY AND
HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.
00:35:49.21\00:35:51.98
THERE'S A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD
AND EVIL AND, IF THERE'S ANY
00:35:51.98\00:35:54.32
THING WE'VE LEARNED AS WE STUDY
THE BOOK OF JOB, IT'S THAT.
00:35:54.32\00:35:58.32
THE BOOK OF JOB IS
ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY?
00:35:58.32\00:36:04.86
WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD
PEOPLE AND WHY DO GOOD THINGS
00:36:04.86\00:36:08.33
HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE?
WHY DO GOOD PEOPLE END
00:36:08.33\00:36:12.27
SUDDENLY, EARLY,
VIOLENTLY? WHY DO BAD PEOPLE
00:36:12.27\00:36:16.94
LIVE LONG LIVES? HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE KNOWN
00:36:16.94\00:36:19.47
SOMEBODY THAT WAS ORNERY THAT
JUST SEEMED TO LIVE FOREVER.
00:36:19.47\00:36:24.21
I JUST TOLD YOU
ABOUT THE MERCY OF GOD.
00:36:24.21\00:36:26.72
GOD'S GIVEN THEM ALL AS MUCH
TIME AS - WHO - WHAT KING WAS
00:36:26.72\00:36:31.39
THE LONGEST
REIGNING KING OF JUDAH?
00:36:31.39\00:36:34.56
>>MANASSEH. >>MANASSEH.
00:36:34.56\00:36:36.66
WHO WAS THE WORST
KING OF JUDAH? >>MANASSEH.
00:36:36.66\00:36:39.66
>>WHY WOULD GOD LET THE WORST
KING LIVE THE LONGEST - OR REIGN
00:36:39.66\00:36:42.33
THE LONGEST? BECAUSE
THE LORD IS LONGSUFFERING.
00:36:42.33\00:36:47.10
DID MANASSEH
REPENT IN THE END? >>AMEN.
00:36:47.10\00:36:49.50
>>HE DID. GOOD THING GOD WAITED,
HUH? AND SO WE DON'T KNOW.
00:36:49.50\00:36:53.44
SOMETIMES GOD IS PATIENT
WITH THESE PEOPLE AND HE'S
00:36:53.44\00:36:55.94
LONGSUFFERING, NOT
WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH.
00:36:55.94\00:36:58.85
ALRIGHT, IN THE NEXT SECTION IT
TALKS ABOUT PARTIAL RESTORATION.
00:36:58.85\00:37:04.45
NOW, THE BOOK OF JOB TELLS
US THAT JOB, HIS LIFE ENDS WELL.
00:37:04.45\00:37:08.76
HE'S SURROUNDED BY HIS FAMILY.
HE'S PLAYING WITH HIS CHILDREN
00:37:08.76\00:37:12.83
AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN - HIS
GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN ON HIS KNEE.
00:37:12.83\00:37:16.36
HE'S SURROUNDED BY PROSPERITY.
HE'S LIVING IN PEACE.
00:37:16.36\00:37:21.24
AND IT SOUNDS GOOD, BUT THAT'S
REALLY - IT TALKS ABOUT THE
00:37:21.24\00:37:23.51
RESTORATION. THE BOOK
OF JOB TALKS ABOUT HOW
00:37:23.51\00:37:25.87
THIS MAN LOST EVERYTHING - LOST
HIS HEALTH, LOST HIS FRIENDS,
00:37:25.87\00:37:29.78
LOST HIS FAMILY, LOST EVERYTHING
- AND EVERYTHING IS RESTORED AT
00:37:29.78\00:37:34.48
THE END - FAMILY'S RESTORED,
WEALTH IS RESTORED, HEALTH IS
00:37:34.48\00:37:37.15
RESTORED, PEACE IS RESTORED.
BUT IS THAT THE COMPLETE
00:37:37.15\00:37:41.82
RESTORATION, OR IS IT
A PARTIAL RESTORATION?
00:37:41.82\00:37:45.69
IF YOU END YOUR LIFE HEALTHY,
WEALTHY, SURROUNDED BY FAMILY -
00:37:45.69\00:37:51.57
MANY GENERATIONS - AND
YOU DIE LOST, IS THAT ALL THE
00:37:51.57\00:37:54.87
RESTORATION YOU WANT, OR DON'T
YOU WANT THE FULL RESTORATION?
00:37:54.87\00:38:00.48
SO WHAT'S THE FULL RESTORATION?
00:38:00.48\00:38:03.75
IT TALKS ABOUT WHEN
EVERYTHING IS MADE NEW AGAIN.
00:38:03.75\00:38:07.98
BY THE WAY, JOB 42:10, I WANT
TO READ THE VERSE FROM JOB, "AND
00:38:07.98\00:38:11.12
THE LORD RESTORED JOB'S LOSSES
WHEN HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS."
00:38:11.12\00:38:16.12
IT'S INTERESTING THAT WHEN HE
PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS - PRAYING
00:38:16.12\00:38:18.89
FOR OTHERS - GOD
TURNED HIS CAPTIVITY.
00:38:18.89\00:38:20.93
JUST BEFORE STEPHEN DIED HE WAS
PRAYING FOR OTHERS, WASN'T HE?
00:38:20.93\00:38:24.37
AND IT SAYS HE WENT TO SLEEP.
THE LORD APPEARED IN HEAVEN,
00:38:24.37\00:38:28.70
ABOVE STEPHEN, WHEN
HE WAS BEING STONED.
00:38:28.70\00:38:31.34
HE PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS AND
THE LORD GAVE JOB TWICE AS MUCH
00:38:31.34\00:38:35.28
AS HE HAD BEFORE. NOW,
IF YOU'RE SAVED, DO YOU GET
00:38:35.28\00:38:40.25
TWICE AS MUCH IN HEAVEN,
OR IS IT MUCH MORE THAN THAT?
00:38:40.25\00:38:45.55
LET ME GIVE YOU A VERSE.
THE BIBLE SAYS THE DISCIPLES
00:38:45.55\00:38:48.79
ASKED JESUS, 'LORD, WE'VE LEFT
EVERYTHING AND FOLLOWED YOU.
00:38:48.79\00:38:51.86
WHAT WILL WE HAVE?'
AND WHAT DID GOD SAY?
00:38:51.86\00:38:56.26
'NO MAN HAS FORSAKEN HOUSES
OR LANDS' - I'M PARAPHRASING -
00:38:56.26\00:39:02.34
'HUSBANDS OR WIVES, CHILDREN,
FRIENDS FOR MY SAKE AND THE
00:39:02.34\00:39:05.91
GOSPEL'S EXCEPT HE WILL HAVE
A HUNDREDFOLD MORE IN THIS LIFE
00:39:05.91\00:39:13.62
AND ETERNAL LIFE IN THE WORLD TO
COME.' SO JOB GOT TWICE AS MUCH.
00:39:13.62\00:39:17.99
HOW MUCH IS GOD
OFFERING THE REDEEMED?
00:39:17.99\00:39:21.09
HE SAYS YOU GET A HUNDRED
TIMES MORE IN THIS LIFE WITH
00:39:21.09\00:39:24.56
PERSECUTION, BUT IF YOU GET THAT
MUCH MORE IN THIS LIFE, WHAT DO
00:39:24.56\00:39:29.00
YOU GET IN ETERNAL LIFE?
PAUL SAYS, 'I HAVE ESTIMATED
00:39:29.00\00:39:34.70
THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF THIS
LIFE ARE NOT EVEN WORTHY TO BE
00:39:34.70\00:39:38.51
COMPARED TO WHAT GOD HAS IN
STORE FOR THOSE THAT LOVE HIM.
00:39:38.51\00:39:42.71
SO IT'S NOT LIKE YOU GET A
50 PERCENT OR DOUBLE IN THE NEXT
00:39:42.71\00:39:46.48
LIFE, IT'S INFINITELY MORE THAN
DOUBLE BECAUSE THE EYE HAS NOT
00:39:46.48\00:39:50.55
SEEN, THE EAR HAS NOT HEARD,
NEITHER HAS ENTERED INTO THE
00:39:50.55\00:39:53.29
HEART OF MAN THE THINGS THAT GOD
HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE THAT LOVE
00:39:53.29\00:39:55.76
HIM. YOU CAN'T FIGURE
IT. YOU CAN'T CALCULATE IT IN
00:39:55.76\00:39:58.29
MULTIPLES OF 'DO I GET TWICE AS
MUCH IN HEAVEN AS I HAVE NOW?'
00:39:58.29\00:40:02.03
THINK ABOUT THOSE POOR PHARAOHS
THAT GOT BURIED IN THE PYRAMIDS
00:40:02.03\00:40:05.33
AND THEY LOADED DOWN THE
PYRAMIDS THINKING, 'WHAT WILL I
00:40:05.33\00:40:07.77
HAVE IN THE NEXT LIFE?'
THEY TRIED TO MAKE SURE THEY'D
00:40:07.77\00:40:10.47
HAVE AMPLE
PROVISIONS FOR THEIR JOURNEY.
00:40:10.47\00:40:13.14
AND HOW DISAPPOINTED THEY'RE
GOING TO BE TO WAKE UP AND FIND
00:40:13.14\00:40:15.88
THAT ALL OF IT IS
MUSTY, DUSTY, AND RUSTY.
00:40:15.88\00:40:19.45
THEY DON'T GET ANY OF IT
- IF YOU DON'T HAVE JESUS.
00:40:19.45\00:40:23.72
BUT IF YOU HAVE JESUS, IT'S
NOT LIKE GOD DOUBLES YOUR BANK
00:40:23.72\00:40:26.89
ACCOUNT, YOU GET
INFINITELY MORE, AMEN.
00:40:26.89\00:40:30.63
>>AMEN. >>ALRIGHT, SO LET'S TALK
00:40:30.63\00:40:32.29
ABOUT SOME OF THAT
COMPLETE RESTORATION.
00:40:32.29\00:40:34.50
NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
FOR ME 1 CORINTHIANS 13:12 -
00:40:34.50\00:40:37.43
THAT'LL BE YOU. OKAY. I'M
GOING TO READ FIRST ROMANS
00:40:37.43\00:40:41.07
8:18 AND 19, "FOR I CONSIDER" -
AND I JUST READ THIS TO YOU - "I
00:40:41.07\00:40:46.27
CONSIDER THAT THE SUFFERINGS OF
THIS PRESENT TIME ARE NOT WORTHY
00:40:46.27\00:40:48.98
TO BE COMPARED WITH THE GLORY
WHICH SHALL BE REVEALED IN US.
00:40:48.98\00:40:52.61
FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF
THE CREATION EAGERLY WAITS FOR
00:40:52.61\00:40:56.42
THE REVEALING OF THE SONS
OF GOD." AND YOU CAN READ IN 1
00:40:56.42\00:41:00.59
CORINTHIANS 4:5, "THEREFORE
JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME,
00:41:00.59\00:41:05.29
UNTIL THE LORD COMES, WHO WILL
BOTH BRING TO LIGHT THE HIDDEN
00:41:05.29\00:41:08.26
THINGS OF DARKNESS AND REVEAL
THE COUNSELS OF THE HEARTS.
00:41:08.26\00:41:11.67
THEN EACH ONE'S
PRAISE WILL COME FROM GOD."
00:41:11.67\00:41:14.47
JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE
TIME UNTIL THE LORD COMES.
00:41:14.47\00:41:18.31
SOMETIMES WE CAN'T FIGURE
OUT, 'WHY DO THE WICKED SEEM TO
00:41:18.31\00:41:21.11
PROSPER AND THE
RIGHTEOUS SEEM TO SUFFER?'
00:41:21.11\00:41:23.91
IT WILL ALL BE
CLEAR WHEN THE LORD COMES.
00:41:23.91\00:41:27.32
IN THE MEANTIME,
JUST BE FAITHFUL.
00:41:27.32\00:41:29.05
GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US THAT NEXT VERSE.
00:41:29.05\00:41:31.12
>>IN 1 CORINTHIANS 13:12 THE
BIBLE READS, "FOR NOW WE SEE IN
00:41:31.12\00:41:34.92
A MIRROR, DIMLY,
BUT THEN FACE TO FACE.
00:41:34.92\00:41:38.39
NOW I KNOW IN PART, BUT THEN
I SHALL KNOW JUST AS I ALSO AM
00:41:38.39\00:41:42.20
KNOWN." >>VERY GOOD. THANK YOU.
00:41:42.20\00:41:44.80
IT TELLS US ABOUT NOW WE DON'T
KNOW. IT SAYS 'NOW WE SEE IN A
00:41:44.80\00:41:48.74
MIRROR DIMLY' - SOME OF YOU READ
THE KING JAMES 'THROUGH A GLASS
00:41:48.74\00:41:52.41
DARKLY'. THE MIRRORS WERE
ROUGH. THEY WEREN'T CLEAR AND
00:41:52.41\00:41:56.44
SHARP LIKE THEY ARE NOW.
YOU KIND OF GOT KIND OF A
00:41:56.44\00:41:59.75
WARPED, DISTORTED LOOK IN A
MIRROR BACK THEN AND - BUT 'NOW
00:41:59.75\00:42:07.49
WE KNOW IN PART, THEN I'LL KNOW
AS I AM KNOWN.' PEOPLE WONDER,
00:42:07.49\00:42:11.89
'WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN ARE
WE GOING TO KNOW EACH OTHER?'
00:42:11.89\00:42:13.70
THIS IS ONE OF THE VERSES,
'THEN I'LL KNOW AS I AM KNOWN.'
00:42:13.70\00:42:16.46
HEBREWS 11:24, "BY FAITH MOSES,
WHEN HE BECAME OF AGE, REFUSED
00:42:16.46\00:42:21.70
TO BE CALLED THE SON OF
PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, CHOOSING
00:42:21.70\00:42:24.87
RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION
WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO
00:42:24.87\00:42:29.01
ENJOY THE PASSING
PLEASURES OF SIN," - WHY?
00:42:29.01\00:42:31.81
- "ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF
CHRIST GREATER RICHES THAN THE
00:42:31.81\00:42:36.08
TREASURES IN EGYPT; FOR
HE LOOKED TO THE REWARD."
00:42:36.08\00:42:39.59
WHAT REWARD WAS
MOSES LOOKING FOR?
00:42:39.59\00:42:41.82
THE ONE IN THIS
LIFE OR THE ONE TO COME?
00:42:41.82\00:42:44.09
>>TO COME.
>>WHICH ONE IS WORTH MORE?
00:42:44.09\00:42:46.73
>>TO COME. >>WHAT
PROFIT IS IT IF YOU GAIN
00:42:46.73\00:42:49.13
THE WHOLE WORLD
AND YOU LOSE YOUR SOUL?
00:42:49.13\00:42:51.40
OR WHAT WILL A MAN GIVE
IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS SOUL?
00:42:51.40\00:42:54.67
AND, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE STORING
OUR TREASURE DOWN HERE, WHERE
00:42:54.67\00:42:58.27
YOUR HEART IS, THAT'S
WHERE YOUR TREASURE WILL BE.
00:42:58.27\00:43:00.88
THE BIBLE SAYS YOU
NEED TO BE LOOKING AHEAD.
00:43:00.88\00:43:03.24
THAT'S - THIS IS - ANY
RESTORATION YOU HAVE - ANY
00:43:03.24\00:43:05.78
VINDICATION IN
THIS LIFE, IT'S NOT IT.
00:43:05.78\00:43:09.58
I HEARD A PREACHER PREACH A GOOD
SERMON ONE TIME AND HE SAID,
00:43:09.58\00:43:12.62
'THIS IS NOT IT. THIS IS NOT IT.
AFTER JESUS COMES, THAT'S IT.'
00:43:12.62\00:43:20.06
THAT'S THE ONE
THAT REALLY MATTERS.
00:43:20.06\00:43:22.10
SO THAT'S THE
ETERNAL RESTORATION.
00:43:22.10\00:43:24.57
AND THEN, ONE MORE ON THAT
THEME, IN 1 JOHN 3:2, IT SAYS,
00:43:24.57\00:43:29.67
"BELOVED, NOW WE ARE THE
CHILDREN OF GOD; AND IT HAS NOT
00:43:29.67\00:43:33.04
YET BEEN REVEALED WHAT WE SHALL
BE, BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN HE IS
00:43:33.04\00:43:37.61
REVEALED, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM,
FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS."
00:43:37.61\00:43:41.22
YOU KNOW, WE - WE DON'T KNOW
WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE GLORIFIED
00:43:41.22\00:43:44.75
BODIES. MOSES KNOWS.
ELIJAH KNOWS. ENOCH KNOWS.
00:43:44.75\00:43:50.13
THERE ARE SOME OTHERS THAT WERE
RESURRECTED AT THE RESURRECTION
00:43:50.13\00:43:52.86
OF CHRIST, BUT
MOST OF US DON'T KNOW.
00:43:52.86\00:43:55.30
WE CAN IMAGINE, BUT THE BIBLE
SAYS YOU CAN'T FULLY IMAGINE
00:43:55.30\00:44:00.17
BECAUSE CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT
IT'S LIKE TO HAVE A GLORIFIED
00:44:00.17\00:44:03.34
ETERNAL BODY
WITHOUT ACHES AND PAINS?
00:44:03.34\00:44:05.67
IMAGINE HAVING A BODY LIKE
ADAM THAT FELT THE VITALITY FROM
00:44:05.67\00:44:10.75
EATING FROM THE TREE OF
LIFE. THAT'S THE ONE THAT
00:44:10.75\00:44:14.35
REALLY MATTERS. SO,
FINAL KINGDOM, 1 CORINTHIANS
00:44:14.35\00:44:21.06
10, VERSE 11, "NOW ALL
THESE THINGS HAPPENED TO THEM AS
00:44:21.06\00:44:24.73
EXAMPLES, AND THEY WERE WRITTEN
FOR OUR ADMONITION, UPON WHOM
00:44:24.73\00:44:28.60
THE ENDS OF THE AGES HAVE COME."
THE BOOK OF JOB TALKS ABOUT THIS
00:44:28.60\00:44:33.97
COLOSSAL BATTLE
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
00:44:33.97\00:44:37.71
YOU'VE GOT THE DEVIL ON ONE SIDE
SAYING, 'JOB ONLY SERVES YOU
00:44:37.71\00:44:40.64
BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU GIVE HIM.'
YOU'VE GOT GOD SAYING, 'HE LOVES
00:44:40.64\00:44:43.81
ME.' AND SO THE
DEVIL SAYS, 'PROVE IT.
00:44:43.81\00:44:47.35
TAKE EVERYTHING AWAY.
AFFLICT HIM WITH SUFFERING.
00:44:47.35\00:44:51.42
HE'LL CURSE YOU TO YOUR FACE.
00:44:51.42\00:44:53.92
AND SO, THE DEVIL
THROWS DOWN THE GAUNTLET.
00:44:53.92\00:44:55.92
THE WHOLE WORLD - ANGELS
ARE WATCHING WHAT'S HAPPENING.
00:44:55.92\00:44:59.93
JOB IS FINALLY
VINDICATED AT THE END.
00:44:59.93\00:45:02.40
WE'RE GOING TO
THE END OF THE BOOK.
00:45:02.40\00:45:03.67
YOU KNOW THAT HE
COMES OUT BLESSED.
00:45:03.67\00:45:05.77
I HOPE I DON'T
RUIN THE STORY FOR YOU.
00:45:05.77\00:45:08.07
NOW THE QUESTION IS: DID JOB
EVER FIND OUT WHY HE SUFFERED
00:45:08.07\00:45:13.21
THE WAY HE DID? DOES
THE BOOK OF JOB EVER TELL
00:45:13.21\00:45:18.21
US, 'GOD SAID, 'ALRIGHT JOB, LET
ME TELL YOU, YOU WERE WONDERING
00:45:18.21\00:45:20.62
WHY DID YOU GO THROUGH
EVERYTHING YOU WENT THROUGH.
00:45:20.62\00:45:22.52
LET ME TELL YOU
WHAT WAS GOING ON.
00:45:22.52\00:45:24.12
SEE, IF I PULL BACK THE VEIL,
THERE WAS THE DEVIL AND THIS IS
00:45:24.12\00:45:26.22
WHAT HAPPENED.' HOW MANY OF YOU
THINK JOB FINALLY GOT THE BACK
00:45:26.22\00:45:30.29
STORY BEHIND HIS SUFFERINGS?
WELL, LET ME GIVE YOU
00:45:30.29\00:45:36.33
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF JOB?
00:45:36.33\00:45:40.97
MOSES. DID MOSES KNOW WHAT WAS
00:45:40.97\00:45:42.84
GOING ON BEHIND
THE SCENES? HE DID.
00:45:42.84\00:45:46.64
MOSES WAS A PROPHET. GOD
REVEALED TO MOSES WHY DID
00:45:46.64\00:45:51.31
JOB GO THROUGH HIS
SUFFERINGS. WAS JOB A PROPHET?
00:45:51.31\00:45:55.75
ARE THE WORDS OF
JOB SCRIPTURE? >>YES.
00:45:55.75\00:46:00.86
>>I THINK THAT AFTER HIS
SUFFERINGS - I CAN'T PROVE IT
00:46:00.86\00:46:04.56
BUT I THINK GOD SOMEHOW REVEALED
TO JOB AND GAVE HIM ANSWERS EVEN
00:46:04.56\00:46:09.10
- JOB, OF COURSE'LL HAVE ANSWERS
IN HEAVEN, BUT I THINK THAT JOB
00:46:09.10\00:46:13.17
HAD SOME IDEA THAT THIS WAS ALL
A SUPERNATURAL DRAMA AND ALL OF
00:46:13.17\00:46:21.68
HEAVEN WAS WATCHING.
JESUS SAID, 'WHOEVER THEREFORE
00:46:21.68\00:46:30.25
DENIES ME BEFORE MEN, I'LL DENY
HIM BEFORE MY FATHER IN HEAVEN.
00:46:30.25\00:46:33.36
WHOEVER CONFESSES ME BEFORE MEN
I'LL CONFESS BEFORE MY FATHER IN
00:46:33.36\00:46:35.82
HEAVEN.' IN OTHER WORDS,
THE ANGELS AND THE FATHER ARE
00:46:35.82\00:46:39.86
WATCHING WHAT'S
HAPPENING HERE ON EARTH.
00:46:39.86\00:46:42.20
BY THE WAY, IT DOES SAY, 'BEFORE
THE ANGELS AND MY FATHER IN
00:46:42.20\00:46:44.67
HEAVEN.' THEY'RE
WATCHING WHAT'S HAPPENING.
00:46:44.67\00:46:47.44
YOUR LIFE IS A
SPECTACLE, PAUL SAYS.
00:46:47.44\00:46:51.04
WE ARE LIVING ON A STAGE WHERE
UNFALLEN BEINGS ARE WATCHING
00:46:51.04\00:46:55.14
WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE.
WHEN WE SUCCEED - DO ANGELS
00:46:55.14\00:46:59.35
REJOICE WHEN
SOMEONE'S SAVED? WHY?
00:46:59.35\00:47:02.08
BECAUSE THEY'RE
WATCHING WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE.
00:47:02.08\00:47:04.02
DO ANGELS WEEP
WHEN WE ARE OVERCOME?
00:47:04.02\00:47:07.22
IS THERE CRYING IN HEAVEN?
DOES IT SAY IN REVELATION THAT
00:47:07.22\00:47:11.79
JOHN SAW NOBODY COULD OPEN THE
BOOK AND HE WEPT MUCH IN HEAVEN?
00:47:11.79\00:47:17.03
SO, YEAH, I
THINK THERE'S SADNESS.
00:47:17.03\00:47:20.67
GOD'LL ULTIMATELY WIPE AWAY ALL
TEARS FROM YOUR EYES, BUT THERE
00:47:20.67\00:47:22.90
IS JOY AND THERE
IS SADNESS IN HEAVEN.
00:47:22.90\00:47:25.04
AND SO THEY'RE
SEEING WHAT'S GOING ON.
00:47:25.04\00:47:26.71
I THINK - I THINK JOB EVENTUALLY
KNEW THAT HIS LIFE WAS A
00:47:26.71\00:47:31.28
SPECTACLE. PAUL
TELLS US THE WHOLE
00:47:31.28\00:47:34.82
EXPERIENCE OF THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL WAS FOR OUR ADMONITION.
00:47:34.82\00:47:37.75
I'M SO GLAD JOB WENT
THROUGH WHAT HE WENT THROUGH
00:47:37.75\00:47:40.66
SUCCESSFULLY - BECAUSE I LOOK
AT IT AND I GAIN ENCOURAGEMENT,
00:47:40.66\00:47:43.79
RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:47:43.79\00:47:45.13
>>THESE THINGS ARE
WRITTEN FOR OUR ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:47:45.13\00:47:46.96
YOU CAN READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2
- SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
00:47:46.96\00:47:49.86
DANIEL 7:18 -
YOU'LL HAVE THAT, JOHN.
00:47:49.86\00:47:52.63
DANIEL CHAPTER 2, VERSE 44, "AND
IN THE DAYS OF THESE KINGS THE
00:47:52.63\00:47:57.77
GOD OF HEAVEN WILL SET UP A
KINGDOM WHICH SHALL NEVER BE
00:47:57.77\00:48:00.41
DESTROYED; AND THE KINGDOM SHALL
NOT BE LEFT TO OTHER PEOPLE; IT
00:48:00.41\00:48:04.15
SHALL BREAK IN PIECES AND
CONSUME ALL THESE KINGDOMS."
00:48:04.15\00:48:07.45
IN OTHER WORDS, WE KNOW NOW THAT
ALL THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND
00:48:07.45\00:48:11.52
EVIL HERE, IT'S
NOT GOING TO LAST.
00:48:11.52\00:48:13.15
THE BATTLE THAT'S GOING TO LAST
- OR THE KINGDOM THAT'S GOING TO
00:48:13.15\00:48:16.42
LAST IS GOD'S KINGDOM.
THAT NEXT VERSE BEARS THAT OUT.
00:48:16.42\00:48:19.59
GO AHEAD, READ THAT PLEASE.
>>DANIEL 7:18, "BUT THE SAINTS
00:48:19.59\00:48:23.20
OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL RECEIVE
THE KINGDOM, AND POSSESS THE
00:48:23.20\00:48:26.13
KINGDOM FOREVER,
EVEN FOREVER AND EVER."
00:48:26.13\00:48:29.47
>>IF YOU WERE TO SUMMARIZE
THE BOOK OF DANIEL, THE BOOK OF
00:48:29.47\00:48:31.81
DANIEL IS TALKING ABOUT WHICH
KING AND WHICH KINGDOM WINS.
00:48:31.81\00:48:37.71
THE BOOK OF DANIEL TALKS ABOUT
ALL THESE KINGDOMS AND YOU'VE
00:48:37.71\00:48:40.28
GOT THE BRASS AND THE GOLD AND
THE SILVER AND YOU'VE GOT THE
00:48:40.28\00:48:42.28
GOAT AND THE RAM AND YOU'VE GOT
THE LION AND THE BEAR AND YOU'VE
00:48:42.28\00:48:45.12
GOT ALL THESE - LITTLE HORN, THE
BIG HORN - YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE
00:48:45.12\00:48:47.69
KINGDOMS AND THEY'RE ALL
BATTLING AND AT THE END OF EVERY
00:48:47.69\00:48:51.46
PROPHECY IT BASICALLY SAYS,
'HERE'S THE PROPHECIES OF THE
00:48:51.46\00:48:54.86
EARTHLY KINGDOMS.
THEY'RE ALL GOING TO BE
00:48:54.86\00:48:56.83
BLOWN AWAY LIKE CHAFF.
GOD'S KINGDOM WILL REIGN
00:48:56.83\00:49:00.54
FOREVER.' THE END OF THE STORY
OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR: 'IS THIS NOT
00:49:00.54\00:49:02.90
THE GREAT BABYLON I HAVE BUILT?'
HE TURNS INTO A RAVING LUNATIC.
00:49:02.90\00:49:06.54
BUT AT THE END HE
SAYS, 'I GUESS I'M NOT KING.
00:49:06.54\00:49:09.58
GOD IS KING AND HIS KINGDOM IS
THE ONE THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.
00:49:09.58\00:49:13.08
AND SO, THROUGH ALL OF THIS
STORY, IT'S REALLY ULTIMATELY
00:49:13.08\00:49:16.55
TELLING YOU GOD'S
KINGDOM IS GOING TO LAST.
00:49:16.55\00:49:19.45
OUR KINGDOM DOWN HERE, DON'T
SET UP YOUR KINGDOM DOWN HERE
00:49:19.45\00:49:22.19
BECAUSE - SEEK
FIRST WHAT? >>THE KINGDOM.
00:49:22.19\00:49:25.93
>>THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
THAT'S THE ONE THAT'S GOING TO
00:49:25.93\00:49:27.56
LAST AND THE BOOK
OF JOB BEARS THAT OUT.
00:49:27.56\00:49:30.17
MATTHEW 5:5, "BLESSED ARE THE
MEEK, FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE
00:49:30.17\00:49:34.40
EARTH." THE FINAL
ONES WHO WIN ARE THE
00:49:34.40\00:49:37.34
PEOPLE LIKE JOB WHO
ARE THE MEEK OF THE EARTH.
00:49:37.34\00:49:41.01
AND LUKE 23:42, "THEN HE SAID TO
JESUS, 'LORD, REMEMBER ME WHEN
00:49:41.01\00:49:45.61
YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.'"
ONE OF THE GREATEST TESTIMONIES
00:49:45.61\00:49:48.55
CAME FROM THE MAN THAT
WAS, OSTENSIBLY, ON THE RIGHT OF
00:49:48.55\00:49:51.82
JESUS WHEN HE DIED. HE
TURNS TO JESUS AND HE SAYS,
00:49:51.82\00:49:56.73
'LORD,' - DID
JESUS LOOK LIKE A LORD?
00:49:56.73\00:50:01.06
HE SAYS, 'REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU
COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.' HE IS
00:50:01.06\00:50:04.13
TURNING TO JESUS, THE ONE WHO
LOOKS THE MOST UNLIKELY TO SAVE
00:50:04.13\00:50:09.07
ANYBODY, HE TURNS TO HIM AND
SAYS, 'LORD, REMEMBER ME WHEN
00:50:09.07\00:50:11.77
YOU COME INTO YOUR KINGDOM.' ONE
OF THE MOST POWERFUL TESTIMONIES
00:50:11.77\00:50:15.38
THAT CHRIST WAS A KING CAME FROM
A THIEF DYING, WHO LOOKED TO
00:50:15.38\00:50:19.31
JESUS - NOW, YOU KNOW ONE REASON
HE MAY HAVE SAID THAT, THERE WAS
00:50:19.31\00:50:22.32
A SIGN ABOVE CHRIST'S
HEAD. WHAT DID IT SAY?
00:50:22.32\00:50:24.59
>>KING OF THE JEWS.
>>THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
00:50:24.59\00:50:27.42
AND IT WAS MEANT TO BE MOCKERY
AND, IF NOTHING ELSE, THE JEWS
00:50:27.42\00:50:33.86
GOT UPSET. THEY SAID
TO PILATE, 'DON'T SAY
00:50:33.86\00:50:35.70
'KING OF THE JEWS' AS A FACT,
SAY HE SAID HE WAS THE KING
00:50:35.70\00:50:39.03
OF THE JEWS.' AND THAT'S WHEN
PILATE FINALLY DECIDED TO STAND
00:50:39.03\00:50:42.74
UP AND SAY, 'WHAT
I'VE WRITTEN I'VE WRITTEN.
00:50:42.74\00:50:45.01
I'M NOT GOING TO CHANGE IT.'
BECAUSE JESUS WAS THE KING AND
00:50:45.01\00:50:47.91
THAT THIEF SAW THAT AND
HE LOOKED UPON JESUS AS THE
00:50:47.91\00:50:50.91
ULTIMATE KING.
HE'S THE ONE WHO HAS A
00:50:50.91\00:50:52.68
KINGDOM HE CAN OFFER.
WHEN YOU PRAY THE LORD'S
00:50:52.68\00:50:55.42
PRAYER, HOW DOES
THAT END? 'FOR THINE IS' -
00:50:55.42\00:50:59.82
>>THE KINGDOM.
00:50:59.82\00:51:01.29
>>SO THERE'S A BATTLE BETWEEN
KINGDOMS, AND IN THE END THE
00:51:01.29\00:51:04.99
DEVIL WOULD LIKE TO
THINK THIS IS HIS KINGDOM.
00:51:04.99\00:51:07.03
THE DEVIL SAID TO JESUS,
'BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME AND ALL
00:51:07.03\00:51:09.30
THESE KINGDOMS I'LL GIVE YOU.'
JESUS SAID, 'NO, I'M GOING TO
00:51:09.30\00:51:12.53
GET THEM - I'LL
GET IT ALL MY WAY.
00:51:12.53\00:51:15.50
I DON'T WANT YOUR KINGDOMS. I
WANT MY KINGDOM.' SO THE WHOLE
00:51:15.50\00:51:18.47
THING IS ABOUT A BATTLE
BETWEEN WHICH KINGDOM IS
00:51:18.47\00:51:21.11
GOING TO REALLY
LAST. WHAT IS GOING TO BE
00:51:21.11\00:51:23.55
THE FINAL KINGDOM?
'YOURS IS THE KINGDOM AND THE
00:51:23.55\00:51:26.21
POWER AND THE GLORY
FOREVER.' MATTHEW 6:13.
00:51:26.21\00:51:29.45
AND IN THE FINAL SECTION HERE IN
OUR FIRST LESSON ON JOB - LET'S
00:51:29.45\00:51:34.29
READ JOB 14:14 AND 15. IT SAYS,
"IF A MAN DIES, SHALL HE LIVE
00:51:34.29\00:51:39.63
AGAIN?" - SOME PEOPLE HAVE
SAID, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, THE OLD
00:51:39.63\00:51:42.76
TESTAMENT WRITERS DIDN'T KNOW
MUCH ABOUT THE RESURRECTION.'
00:51:42.76\00:51:45.67
I RESPECTFULLY
DISAGREE. I THINK THEY DID.
00:51:45.67\00:51:49.57
IT SAYS IN EZEKIEL THAT IF
A WICKED MAN TURNS FROM HIS
00:51:49.57\00:51:52.07
WICKEDNESS, HE WILL LIVE.
WHAT DID HE MEAN HE'LL LIVE?
00:51:52.07\00:51:55.81
WE ALL LIVE THIS LIFE.
HE'S TALKING ABOUT HE'LL LIVE
00:51:55.81\00:51:57.15
THE LIFE THAT
DOESN'T END, RIGHT?
00:51:57.15\00:52:00.45
AND YOU CAN READ IN JOB, IT
SAYS, "AND IF A MAN DIES, SHALL
00:52:00.45\00:52:02.62
HE LIVE AGAIN? ALL THE
DAYS OF MY HARD SERVICE
00:52:02.62\00:52:05.35
I WILL WAIT,
TILL MY CHANGE COMES.
00:52:05.35\00:52:08.02
YOU SHALL CALL, AND I WILL
ANSWER YOU; YOU SHALL DESIRE
00:52:08.02\00:52:10.99
THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS."
AND SO, WHAT REALLY MATTERS IS
00:52:10.99\00:52:15.40
THE RESURRECTION THAT LASTS.
IF YOU LIVE A LONG LIFE DOWN
00:52:15.40\00:52:18.23
HERE AND YOU DON'T HAVE
ETERNAL LIFE, WHAT PROFIT IS IT?
00:52:18.23\00:52:22.97
SOLOMON ASKS THAT QUESTION -
ECCLESIASTES 6, VERSE 3, "IF A
00:52:22.97\00:52:26.91
MAN BEGETS A HUNDRED CHILDREN" -
JOB HAD CHILDREN AND CHILDREN'S
00:52:26.91\00:52:29.91
CHILDREN AND CHILDREN'S
CHILDREN'S CHILDREN - AND
00:52:29.91\00:52:32.91
SOLOMON SAYS, "IF A MAN BEGETS A
HUNDRED CHILDREN AND LIVES MANY
00:52:32.91\00:52:36.58
YEARS, SO THAT THE DAYS OF HIS
YEARS ARE MANY," - IT SAYS HIS
00:52:36.58\00:52:40.59
LIFE WAS FULL OF DAYS - "BUT
HIS SOUL IS NOT SATISFIED WITH
00:52:40.59\00:52:47.66
GOODNESS, OR INDEED HE HAS NO
BURIAL, I SAY THAT A STILLBORN"
00:52:47.66\00:52:52.23
- OR A MISCARRIED -
"CHILD IS BETTER THAN HE."
00:52:52.23\00:52:56.37
IF A MAN HAS A LOT OF CHILDREN
AND HE LIVES A LONG TIME BUT HE
00:52:56.37\00:52:59.81
DOESN'T KNOW THE GOODNESS
OF GOD, WHAT GOOD IS IT?
00:52:59.81\00:53:02.64
IT'S LIKE JOB SAID, 'IT WOULD
BE BETTER IF I WERE NOT BORN.'
00:53:02.64\00:53:06.75
JOB EVEN USES THE SAME LANGUAGE.
AND I THINK SOLOMON IS QUOTING
00:53:06.75\00:53:09.42
JOB WHEN JOB SAYS, 'I WISH I HAD
BEEN LIKE A STILLBORN CHILD.'
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SO YOU'VE GOT THE
RESURRECTION HERE.
00:53:14.69\00:53:16.16
JOHN 11:25, "JESUS SAID TO HER,
'I AM THE RESURRECTION'" - HE'S
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TALKING TO MARTHA - "'I AM
THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE.
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HE WHO BELIEVES IN ME, THOUGH
HE MAY DIE, HE SHALL LIVE.
00:53:24.47\00:53:29.30
AND WHOEVER LIVES AND
BELIEVES IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE.
00:53:29.30\00:53:32.37
DO YOU BELIEVE
THIS?'" BY THE WAY, HE'S NOT
00:53:32.37\00:53:34.58
JUST ASKING MARTHA
THAT. JESUS, TODAY, IS
00:53:34.58\00:53:36.64
ASKING YOU THAT. >>AMEN.
00:53:36.64\00:53:39.01
>>DO YOU BELIEVE HE IS
THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE?
00:53:39.01\00:53:42.48
AND WHOEVER LIVES AND BELIEVES
IN HIM - LIVING IN HIM -
00:53:42.48\00:53:46.39
BELIEVING IN HIM - IT'S NOT JUST
BELIEVING, IT'S LIVING IN HIM -
00:53:46.39\00:53:50.76
WILL NEVER DIE. NOW
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE?
00:53:50.76\00:53:53.86
WOULD YOU LIKE TO
END THE WAY JOB ENDED?
00:53:53.86\00:53:55.83
LOTS OF KIDS, LONG LIFE,
SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS, LOTS OF
00:53:55.83\00:53:59.53
POSSESSIONS - HE WHO
DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS WINS.
00:53:59.53\00:54:03.51
YOU EVER HEARD THAT?
00:54:03.51\00:54:06.68
I REMEMBER READING ABOUT A GUY
WHO WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD.
00:54:06.68\00:54:11.21
HE HAD HIS, YOU KNOW,
EXTRA LARGE DIESEL-POWERED RV.
00:54:11.21\00:54:17.45
GOT THE SATELLITE DISH ON THE
TOP AND THE AIR CONDITIONER AND
00:54:17.45\00:54:21.36
HE'S GOT THE BICYCLES STRAPPED
TO THE BACK AND HE'S PULLING A
00:54:21.36\00:54:24.59
TRAILER WITH ALL THESE MOTORIZED
VEHICLES AND TOYS AND HE'S GOT A
00:54:24.59\00:54:30.70
BUMPER STICKER 'HE WHO
DIES WITH THE MOST TOYS WINS'.
00:54:30.70\00:54:35.00
I SAW ANOTHER ONE:
'WE'RE SPENDING OUR CHILDREN'S
00:54:35.00\00:54:37.27
INHERITANCE'. BUT
WHAT PROFIT IS IT IF YOU
00:54:37.27\00:54:42.24
GAIN ALL THAT AND YOU LOSE YOUR
SOUL? THAT'S WHAT JESUS ASKS.
00:54:42.24\00:54:47.05
JOB TALKS ABOUT THE RESURRECTION
- CHAPTER 13:15, "THOUGH HE SLAY
00:54:47.05\00:54:51.45
ME, YET WILL I TRUST
HIM. EVEN SO, I WILL DEFEND
00:54:51.45\00:54:55.22
MY OWN WAYS BEFORE
HIM." HE BELIEVES IN HIM.
00:54:55.22\00:54:58.99
THOUGH HE BELIEVES
IN ME HE WILL NEVER DIE.
00:54:58.99\00:55:01.23
AND THEN HEBREWS 11 - THIS IS
OUR LAST VERSE - HEBREWS 11:17,
00:55:01.23\00:55:05.50
"BY FAITH ABRAHAM, WHEN HE WAS
TESTED, OFFERED UP ISAAC, AND HE
00:55:05.50\00:55:10.57
WHO HAD RECEIVED THE PROMISES
OFFERED UP HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN
00:55:10.57\00:55:13.74
SON, OF WHOM IT WAS SAID,
'IN ISAAC YOUR SEED SHALL BE
00:55:13.74\00:55:16.44
CALLED,' CONCLUDING [BELIEVING]
THAT GOD WAS ABLE TO RAISE HIM
00:55:16.44\00:55:21.22
UP." NOW WHEN DID ABRAHAM LIVE,
00:55:21.22\00:55:22.88
OLD TESTAMENT/NEW
TESTAMENT? OLD TESTAMENT.
00:55:22.88\00:55:26.29
DID ABRAHAM BELIEVE THAT GOD
WAS ABLE TO RAISE UP HIS ONLY
00:55:26.29\00:55:31.19
BEGOTTEN SON? >>AMEN.
00:55:31.19\00:55:33.43
>>DID THEY BELIEVE IN
THE RESURRECTION IN THE OLD
00:55:33.43\00:55:35.20
TESTAMENT? I SAY
THAT - I EMPHASIZE THAT
00:55:35.20\00:55:37.53
BECAUSE I MEET BIBLE SCHOLARS
EVERY NOW AND THEN THAT SAY IN
00:55:37.53\00:55:40.77
THE OLD TESTAMENT THEY DIDN'T
BELIEVE IN A RESURRECTION.
00:55:40.77\00:55:43.51
I SAY, 'NO,
THAT'S NOT WHAT I READ.
00:55:43.51\00:55:45.71
I THINK THEY DID.' WHAT GOOD
WAS LIFE BACK THEN OTHERWISE?
00:55:45.71\00:55:50.28
ABRAHAM EVEN BELIEVED THAT GOD
WAS ABLE TO RAISE UP ISAAC FROM
00:55:50.28\00:55:53.28
THE DEAD. AND NOTICE
THAT: JESUS SAID, 'IF
00:55:53.28\00:55:55.85
YOU BELIEVE IN ME, YOU'LL BE
RAISED UP.' ABRAHAM BELIEVED IN
00:55:55.85\00:55:58.85
GOD AND GOD RAISED UP
HIS SON. FIGURATIVELY IS THE
00:55:58.85\00:56:02.89
TERM THAT IS USED. SO,
IN OUR FIRST BOOK - OUR
00:56:02.89\00:56:06.86
FIRST STUDY IN JOB, WE'RE
TALKING ABOUT THE END, BUT WE'RE
00:56:06.86\00:56:10.83
LETTING YOU KNOW
THAT HE HAS A GOOD ENDING.
00:56:10.83\00:56:13.40
HE HAS A GOOD ENDING IN THAT GOD
BLESSES HIM IN THE WORLD AND HE
00:56:13.40\00:56:18.17
HAS A GOOD ENDING IN THAT HE IS
GOING TO BE BLESSED WITH ETERNAL
00:56:18.17\00:56:21.28
LIFE. I WANT BOTH GOOD ENDINGS.
00:56:21.28\00:56:22.98
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