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GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
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HOUR COMING TO YOU FROM
THE GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH. A
VERY WARM WELCOME TO THE
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MEMBERS AND THOSE
WHO ARE VISITING WITH US
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HERE THIS MORNING. WE'RE
GLAD THAT YOU'VE CHOSEN TO
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JOIN US - EVEN THOUGH IT'S COLD
AND RAINY OUTSIDE, WE HAVE A
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WARM PLACE WHERE WE CAN GATHER
TOGETHER AND STUDY GOD'S WORD.
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NOW, WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH
THE BOOK OF JOB AND TODAY WE
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FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON
#6, WHICH IS ENTITLED THE CURSE
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CAUSELESS - LESSON #6 - AND FOR
OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE JOINING US,
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IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF
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DOWNLOAD LESSON #6 AND
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TO SEND THAT TO
ANYBODY HERE IN NORTH AMERICA.
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
STUDY, AS USUAL, WE'D LIKE TO
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BEGIN BY LIFTING
OUR VOICES IN PRAISE.
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I'D LIKE TO ASK THE SONG LEADERS
TO COME AND JOIN ME HERE ON
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STAGE, AND THEY WILL
LEAD US IN SOME MUSICAL ITEMS.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
WE LOVE TO SING TOGETHER BEFORE
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WE GET INTO GOD'S WORD, SO I
INVITE YOU - THOSE THAT ARE AT
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HOME - TO PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS
AND RIGHT HERE, WE'RE GOING TO
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SING SOME OF OUR FAVORITES THIS
WEEK - O HOW I LOVE JESUS - I
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PRAY THAT THAT IS THE SONG THAT
IT RINGS IN YOUR HEART EVERY
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SINGLE MINUTE OF EVERY SINGLE
DAY UNTIL WE SEE HIM AGAIN.
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HYMN #248 - O HOW I LOVE JESUS
- WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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(PIANO MUSIC) >>THERE IS A NAME
I LOVE TO HEAR, I LOVE TO SING
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ITS WORTH; IT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC
IN MY EARS, THE SWEETEST NAME ON
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EARTH. O HOW I
LOVE JESUS, O HOW I
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LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS,
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME.
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IT TELLS ME OF A SAVIOR'S LOVE,
WHO DIED TO SET ME FREE; IT
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TELLS ME OF HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD,
THE SINNER'S PERFECT PLEA.
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O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O HOW I
LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS,
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BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME.
IT TELLS OF ONE WHOSE LOVING
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HEART CAN FEEL MY DEEPEST
WOE; WHO IN EACH SORROW BEARS A
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PART THAT NONE CAN BEAR BELOW.
O HOW I LOVE JESUS, O HOW I
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LOVE JESUS, O HOW I LOVE JESUS,
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED ME.
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>>YOU KNOW, THAT CHORUS IS ONE
OF THE FIRST SONGS OUR CHILDREN
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LEARN IN SABBATH SCHOOL. AS
- I WAS JUST THINKING, AS WE
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WERE SINGING THAT, IF WE CAN GET
THAT THROUGH, WHETHER IT'S OUR
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CHILDREN'S BRAINS AND HEARTS, OR
WHETHER IT'S US AS ADULTS, THAT
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WE CAN TRULY BELIEVE THAT JESUS
LOVES US WITH EVERYTHING HE HAS
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AND THAT HE PAID THAT PRICE
FOR US TO SAVE EACH ONE OF US
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- TO SAVE ME, PERSONALLY.
IT MAKES LIFE JUST SO MUCH
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GRANDER HERE ON EARTH - THAT
IT'S SO DARK AND HE IS ABOUT
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TO TAKE US HOME AND I AM
SO GRATEFUL THIS MORNING.
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
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- BECAUSE HE
LOVES US WE PRAISE HIM.
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HYMN #249 - 1 PAGE OVER -
WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES.
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(PIANO MUSIC)
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>>PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
JESUS, OUR BLESSED REDEEMER!
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SING, O EARTH, HIS
WONDERFUL LOVE PROCLAIM!
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HAIL HIM! HAIL HIM!
HIGHEST ARCHANGELS IN GLORY;
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STRENGTH AND HONOR GIVE TO
HIS HOLY NAME! LIKE A SHEPHERD,
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JESUS WILL GUARD HIS CHILDREN,
IN HIS ARMS HE CARRIES THEM ALL
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DAY LONG: PRAISE HIM! PRAISE
HIM! TELL OF HIS EXCELLENT
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GREATNESS. PRAISE HIM!
PRAISE HIM! EVER IN JOYFUL SONG!
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM! JESUS,
OUR BLESSED REDEEMER! FOR OUR
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SINS HE SUFFERED, AND BLED, AND
DIED. HE OUR ROCK, OUR HOPE OF
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ETERNAL SALVATION, HAIL HIM!
HAIL HIM! JESUS THE CRUCIFIED.
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SOUND HIS PRAISES! JESUS
WHO BORE OUR SORROWS, LOVE
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UNBOUNDED, WONDERFUL, DEEP AND
STRONG. PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
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TELL OF HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS.
PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
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EVER IN JOYFUL SONG!
PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
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JESUS, OUR BLESSED
REDEEMER! HEAVENLY PORTALS LOUD
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WITH HOSANNAS RING!
JESUS, SAVIOR, REIGNETH
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FOREVER AND EVER.
CROWN HIM! CROWN HIM!
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PROPHET, AND PRIEST,
AND KING! CHRIST IS COMING!
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OVER THE WORLD VICTORIOUS, POWER
AND GLORY UNTO THE LORD BELONG.
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!
TELL OF HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS.
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PRAISE HIM! PRAISE
HIM! EVER IN JOYFUL SONG!
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>>I PRAY THAT YOU ARE
PRAISING HIM ALL WEEK LONG.
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AT THIS TIME, PASTOR
ROSS WILL LEAD US IN PRAYER.
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>>I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR
HEADS AS WE OPEN WITH A WORD OF
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PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHAT A
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PRIVILEGE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO
GATHER TOGETHER AND OPEN UP YOUR
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WORD AND STUDY TOGETHER. AND,
TODAY, AS WE ALWAYS DO, WE ASK
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FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND
GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
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LEAD US INTO A CLEAR
UNDERSTANDING OF WHY THERE'S
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PAIN AND SUFFERING IN THE WORLD,
AND HELP US, ALSO, TO SEE YOUR
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LOVE AND YOUR PROVIDENCE AND
YOUR LEADING IN OUR LIVES, FOR
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WE ASK THIS IN
JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL
BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR
ROSS. MORNING, FRIENDS.
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>>GOOD MORNING.
>>FAMILY, COUNTRYMEN,
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LEND ME YOUR EARS.
WE'RE GOING TO STUDY OUR
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SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON #6.
I WANT TO WELCOME OUR FRIENDS
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THAT ARE WATCHING VIA STREAMING
OR YOU'RE WATCHING ON SATELLITE
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OR IT MIGHT EVEN BE DIRECT
FREE-TO-AIR TV. WE'RE JUST
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THRILLED THAT THIS BROADCAST
IS GOING THROUGH SO MANY MEDIUMS
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AND WE MEET PEOPLE ALL OVER
THE WORLD THAT ARE WATCHING.
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LAST WEEK, I WAS IN WASHINGTON,
D.C. FOR SOME IMPORTANT
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MEETINGS, BOTH OF OUR CHURCH,
AND I MET WITH SOME OTHER
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RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN WASHINGTON
AND WAS THERE - THE FRINGES OF
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MATTHEW - THE HURRICANE MATTHEW
- CAME BY AND SO IT WAS VERY
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INTERESTING TO WATCH WHAT WAS
GOING ON THERE, BUT TRIALS COME
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TO PEOPLE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE
SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF THAT
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HURRICANE AND, I DON'T KNOW
IF YOU'VE HAD ANY HURRICANES IN
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YOUR LIVES, BUT WE'RE GOING TO
BE STUDYING, TODAY, MORE ON THE
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STORY OF JOB - THE BOOK OF JOB
- AND TODAY OUR LESSON IS #6,
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WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE CURSE
CAUSELESS - THE CURSE CAUSELESS
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- AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
AND THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US
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FROM THE BOOK OF JOB CHAPTER
4, VERSE 17 - AND IF YOU WANT TO
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READ IT WITH ME - JOB
4:17 FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION - ARE YOU
READY? "CAN A MORTAL BE MORE
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RIGHTEOUS THAN
GOD? CAN A MAN BE MORE
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PURE THAN HIS MAKER?" THAT
QUESTION WILL COME UP AGAIN
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IN THE LESSON, BUT WHAT
DO YOU THINK THE ANSWER IS?
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"CAN A MAN BE MORE
PURE THAN HIS MAKER?"
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YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GET A
BEAUTIFUL WHITE LILY THAT WILL
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COME OUT OF A BLACK SWAMPY POND,
AND YOU'LL SEE A FEW CASES IN
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HISTORY WHERE YOU'LL SEE
A ROTTEN FATHER AND A ROTTEN
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MOTHER AND, FOR SOME REASON,
THEY END UP WITH A GREAT KID.
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IT DOES HAPPEN. AND
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE GOOD
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PARENTS THAT COME
UP WITH ROTTEN KIDS.
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I MEAN, THAT'S - ADAM AND
EVE HAD A MURDERER, RIGHT?
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AND YOU THINK ABOUT HEZEKIAH
- GREAT KING - HAD MANASSEH -
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TERRIBLE KING. AND
SO, CAN SOMETHING PURE
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COME OUT OF SOMETHING BAD?
ONE OF THE NICEST PEOPLE I KNOW
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WAS BORN INTO A FAMILY THAT
WAS DYSFUNCTIONAL, ALCOHOLICS,
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ABUSIVE - AND SHE TURNED
INTO SUCH A DELIGHTFUL PERSON.
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I JUST THOUGHT,
'HOW CAN THAT BE?'
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IF IT WASN'T FOR THE POWER
OF THE GOSPEL, IT WOULDN'T BE.
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BUT, WHEN IT COMES TO GOD, CAN
A PERSON BE MORE PURE THAN THEIR
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MAKER? AND THE ANSWER IS 'NO'.
SO WE'RE GOING TO BE DELVING
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INTO THE BIG QUESTIONS
AND THAT'S SUNDAY'S STUDY
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IN OUR LESSON TODAY.
THE BIG QUESTIONS - NOW, UP
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UNTIL THIS POINT IN OUR STUDY
OF JOB, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
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THE STORY, THE BACKGROUND,
THE GREAT CONTROVERSY.
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YOU REALIZE, THE FIRST COUPLE OF
CHAPTERS OF JOB ARE DEALING WITH
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THE STORY, THE CIRCUMSTANCES,
THE TRIALS THAT CAME, AND, IN
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THE LAST CHAPTER OF JOB, IT
TALKS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES AND
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THE BLESSING AND THE
REVERSAL, AND THE RESTORATION.
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BUT, ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE IN
THE OTHER 39 CHAPTERS, IS PROSE
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AND DIALOGUE. AND,
I REMEMBER THE FIRST
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TIME I READ THE BOOK OF JOB,
FORTY-SOMETHING YEARS AGO, IT
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WAS SO DEEP, BUT IT WAS
SO PROFOUND THAT I WAS IN
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AWE OF THESE STATEMENTS.
AND, KEEP IN MIND, AS YOU READ
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THIS, YOU ARE READING SOME
OF THE THOUGHTS AND INSIGHTS AND
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PHILOSOPHY OF GREAT PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW, YOU TALK ABOUT THERE
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ARE RUMORS ABOUT
A LAND OF ATLANTIS.
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YOU EVER HEARD THE
STORIES OF ATLANTIS?
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THAT'S WHERE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
ACTUALLY GETS ITS NAME - ABOUT A
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RACE OF PEOPLE THAT WERE VERY
BRIGHT AND THEY LIVED A LONG
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TIME AND THEY WERE VERY
POWERFUL, BUT THEN THEY TURNED
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TO WICKEDNESS AND THE GODS,
ACCORDING TO THE GREEK METHOD,
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THE GODS PUNISHED THEM AND
THE WHOLE LAND OF ATLANTIS WAS
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SWALLOWED BY A FLOOD. YOU
KNOW, THE STORY OF ATLANTIS
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ACTUALLY COMES FROM SOMETHING
THAT DID HAPPEN - THE PEOPLE WHO
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LIVED BEFORE THE FLOOD,
THEY LIVED A LONG TIME AND
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THEY HAD GREAT INTELLECTS.
THEY WERE DESTROYED BY A FLOOD
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BECAUSE OF THEIR WICKEDNESS.
SO IT'S ROOTED IN SOME TRUTH.
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AND, EVEN SOME STORIES LIKE
PANDORA'S BOX - IS ROOTED IN THE
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STORY OF EVE - THE
TREE OF GOOD AND EVIL.
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AND SO, SOME OF THESE LEGENDS
ARE ROOTED IN TRUTH, BUT THESE
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PEOPLE, BACK IN THE DAYS OF
JOB - IN PRIOR LESSONS, WE'VE
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EXPLAINED, THEY MEASURED
THEIR LIVES IN CENTURIES.
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JOB LIVED OVER 200 YEARS.
AND IT'S NOT LIKE, YOU KNOW,
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YOU LIVE SIXTY YEARS AND THINGS
START TO GET FUZZY, TODAY.
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I THINK IT WAS JAMES DOBSON THAT
SAID, 'LIFE ISN'T FAIR - ABOUT
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THE TIME YOUR FACE CLEARS UP,
YOUR MIND GETS FUZZY' - TODAY,
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BUT IT DIDN'T
USED TO BE LIKE THAT.
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THEIR MINDS WERE CLEAR AND THEY
ALMOST HAD - THEY DIDN'T WRITE A
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LOT OF THINGS DOWN BECAUSE
THEY HAD VIRTUALLY PHOTOGRAPHIC
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MEMORIES BACK THEN AND THEY'D
REHEARSE HISTORY VERBALLY AND -
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ORAL TRADITION,
THEY REMEMBERED IT.
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OF COURSE, THEY DIDN'T
HAVE - OUR SENSES BOMBARDED BY
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TELEVISION HOURS A DAY, AND
ALL THE OTHER MEDIA, AND SO WHEN
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PEOPLE SPOKE, IT REALLY MEANT
SOMETHING. AND SO, AS YOU GO
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THROUGH THIS DIALOGUE, IT'S
TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT THEMES.
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NOW, I'VE GOT TO ANSWER, BEFORE
I DELVE INTO WHAT - WHAT WE'RE
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GOING TO DELVE INTO HERE, I
PROBABLY SHOULD SAY SOMETHING.
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YOU'VE GOT THE STATEMENTS OF JOB
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT HIS THREE
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FRIENDS - LATER A FOURTH
FRIEND APPEARS - AND - AND WE'VE
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IDENTIFIED WHO THESE PEOPLE
WERE, I BELIEVE, IN EARLIER
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LESSONS - THAT THEY'RE ALL
RELATED TO ESAU AND, DURING THAT
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TIME, OF THE DESCENDENTS OF
ESAU, AND SEVERAL OF THEM, YOU
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CAN TRACE BY THEIR NAMES, WHERE
THEY LIVED - IT'S THE AREA EAST
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OF ISRAEL - MORE LIKE THE
COUNTRY SOUTH OF WHERE YOU'D SAY
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'EDOM', WHICH IS - IF YOU
PICTURE YOUR MAP OF ISRAEL AND
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YOU CAN SEE THE DEAD SEA, IF YOU
GO SOUTHEAST OF THE DEAD SEA,
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THAT WAS A BIG, VAST TERRITORY;
IT WASN'T LIKE IT IS TODAY.
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NOW IT IS A - JUST A -
ALMOST A USELESS DESERT -
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A VERY BARREN COUNTRY
- BUT THERE HAS BEEN A
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CHANGE IN THE
CLIMATE OF THE WORLD.
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WE KNOW WE'VE FOUND PETROGLYPHS
IN NORTHERN AFRICA THAT SHOW
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THAT THERE WERE, IN THE
DESERTS THERE - THERE THEY HAVE
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ENGRAVINGS OF CROCODILES AND
GIRAFFE AND SAVANNAH ANIMALS,
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AND IT WAS LUSH AND IT
WAS GREAT PASTURE LAND.
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BUT THE CLIMATE CHANGED AND IT
TURNED INTO DESERT AND SO, BACK
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WHEN JOB AND HIS FRIENDS WERE
LIVING IN THAT AREA - LOOK AT
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ALL THE FLOCKS OF SHEEP
AND THE DONKEYS JOB HAD - GREAT
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PASTURELAND - AND THERE WAS MORE
WATER AND MORE RAIN - AND THEY
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FARMED. THERE'S
ALLUSIONS TO FARMING -
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AND SO, JUST GIVING YOU SOME
OF THE BACKGROUND - SO JOB'S
00:15:29.56\00:15:33.46
FRIENDS, THEY SAY SOME
THINGS THAT ARE NOT CORRECT.
00:15:33.46\00:15:38.73
DOES THAT MEAN THAT PART OF
THE BOOK OF JOB - ALMOST FIFTY
00:15:38.73\00:15:43.57
PERCENT - IS THE RESPONSES
OF HIS FRIENDS - THEY SAY
00:15:43.57\00:15:46.21
SOMETHING, HE SAYS SOMETHING
- THEY SAY SOMETHING, HE SAYS
00:15:46.21\00:15:48.18
SOMETHING - DOES THAT MEAN THAT
THOSE CHAPTERS WHERE JOB AND HIS
00:15:48.18\00:15:52.21
THREE FRIENDS ARE
TALKING ARE NOT INSPIRED?
00:15:52.21\00:15:56.92
>>NO. >>HOW DO
YOU GET AROUND THAT?
00:15:56.92\00:15:59.65
GOD SAYS, AT THE END OF THE BOOK
OF JOB, 'JOB, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:15:59.65\00:16:04.69
PRAY AND OFFER SACRIFICE FOR
YOUR FRIENDS BECAUSE THEY DID
00:16:04.69\00:16:07.30
NOT SAY THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT
CONCERNING ME.' BUT THAT DOESN'T
00:16:07.30\00:16:11.10
MEAN WHAT THEY
SAID WAS NOT INSPIRED.
00:16:11.10\00:16:13.60
I'LL PUT TO YOU THAT I THINK
WHAT THEY SAID WAS INSPIRED AND
00:16:13.60\00:16:18.87
IT WAS TRUE -
GENERALLY SPEAKING.
00:16:18.87\00:16:21.88
NOW, WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS
THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT WHEN BAD
00:16:21.88\00:16:25.88
THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD
PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DO BAD.
00:16:25.88\00:16:28.72
THAT IS A BASIC TRUTH IN LIFE.
WHAT THEY DID NOT KNOW IS THAT
00:16:28.72\00:16:32.45
JOB WAS AN UNUSUAL EXCEPTION
BECAUSE OF A COSMIC BATTLE.
00:16:32.45\00:16:36.06
GENERALLY SPEAKING,
WHAT THEY SAID IS TRUE.
00:16:36.06\00:16:38.36
AND WE'RE GOING TO DELVE INTO
SOME OF THAT HERE AS WE GET INTO
00:16:38.36\00:16:40.63
THE LESSON. SO, ALL OF JOB
IS INSPIRED, IS WHAT I'M SAYING.
00:16:40.63\00:16:45.30
THE PRINCIPLES THAT EVEN HIS
FRIENDS SHARE - THESE ARE GREAT
00:16:45.30\00:16:48.40
MEN. THESE ARE
LEADERS OF TRIBES.
00:16:48.40\00:16:49.87
THEY WERE GODLY MEN.
THEY WORSHIPED JEHOVAH.
00:16:49.87\00:16:52.81
THEY WERE ALL
RELATED TO ABRAHAM.
00:16:52.81\00:16:55.71
WHAT THEY SAY IS TRUE AND
INSPIRED, BUT NOT FOR JOB.
00:16:55.71\00:17:00.78
THEY SAID IT TO
THE WRONG PERSON.
00:17:00.78\00:17:02.65
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TRUE IN
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LIFE.
00:17:02.65\00:17:05.19
IS THAT MAKING SENSE?
00:17:05.19\00:17:06.76
ALRIGHT, SO IT DELVES WITH
SOME OF THE BIG QUESTIONS AND
00:17:06.76\00:17:10.73
THE FIRST SECTION ON THE
BIG QUESTIONS - JOB 23:10 - NO
00:17:10.73\00:17:15.36
MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN LIFE,
WE'VE GOT TO REMEMBER THAT GOD'S
00:17:15.36\00:17:19.40
IN CHARGE AND, EVEN IF WE DON'T
UNDERSTAND OR IT DOESN'T MAKE
00:17:19.40\00:17:21.97
SENSE, IT SAYS, "BUT HE KNOWS
THE WAY THAT I TAKE; WHEN HE HAS
00:17:21.97\00:17:26.84
TESTED ME, I SHALL
COME FORTH AS GOLD."
00:17:26.84\00:17:30.75
GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD PEOPLE
AND BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD
00:17:30.75\00:17:34.85
PEOPLE AND SOMETIMES, WHEN BAD
THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE,
00:17:34.85\00:17:38.29
IT'S BECAUSE GOD IS
ALLOWING US TO BE TRIED.
00:17:38.29\00:17:42.49
JESUS WAS GOOD,
BUT WAS HE TEMPTED?
00:17:42.49\00:17:46.56
JESUS SUFFERED ON THE
CROSS - WAS IT FOR HIS SINS?
00:17:46.56\00:17:52.13
IT WAS FOR OUR SINS. AND
SO, BAD THINGS HAPPENED TO
00:17:52.13\00:17:54.74
JESUS EVEN THOUGH
HE WAS A GOOD PERSON.
00:17:54.74\00:17:57.94
SO, WHEN YOU GO THROUGH A TRIAL
AND YOU THINK, 'LORD, WHAT DID I
00:17:57.94\00:18:01.44
DO TO DESERVE THIS?' I'LL
NOT GIVE YOU MY LIST - I'VE
00:18:01.44\00:18:04.75
GOT A LITTLE LIST OF
THINGS I THINK, 'OH MAN, WHY
00:18:04.75\00:18:06.68
DID THAT HAPPEN TO
ME? WHAT DID I DO?'
00:18:06.68\00:18:08.68
HAVE YOU EVER ASKED
THAT? 'WHAT DID I DO?'
00:18:08.68\00:18:10.55
BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS THINK CAUSE
TO EFFECT - 'I DID SOMETHING AND
00:18:10.55\00:18:13.02
A BAD THING HAPPENED.' I
REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD ME
00:18:13.02\00:18:15.69
- SHE WAS JEWISH AND SHE
BELIEVED IN GOD, UNLIKE MY
00:18:15.69\00:18:19.89
MOTHER AND FATHER, AND SHE
WOULD SAY, 'GOD IS GOING TO
00:18:19.89\00:18:24.00
PUNISH YOU.' SHE'D SHAKE HER
FINGER AND SAY, 'GOD'S GOING TO
00:18:24.00\00:18:27.07
PUNISH YOU IF YOU DO THAT.' AND
SHE TAUGHT ME THAT THERE WAS A
00:18:27.07\00:18:31.11
GOD AND THERE WAS A JUDGMENT
AND THAT YOU - THERE'D BE
00:18:31.11\00:18:33.94
CONSEQUENCES, NOT JUST
WHEN YOU DIED, BUT THERE'D BE
00:18:33.94\00:18:36.51
CONSEQUENCES WHEN YOU'RE ALIVE.
AND SO, WE'RE TEMPTED TO THINK,
00:18:36.51\00:18:40.42
YOU KNOW, IF YOU DRINK
AND YOU DRIVE AND YOU HAVE AN
00:18:40.42\00:18:43.75
ACCIDENT - CAUSE TO EFFECT.
IF YOU'RE RUDE TO EVERYBODY,
00:18:43.75\00:18:49.46
FOLKS MAY NOT BE NICE TO YOU.
IT'S KIND OF CAUSE TO EFFECT.
00:18:49.46\00:18:55.33
IF YOU'RE A THIEF, THEN YOUR
SUBSTANCE MAY NOT BE BLESSED -
00:18:55.33\00:19:01.40
BAD THINGS MAY HAPPEN TO
YOU. AND YOU ALWAYS THINK, WHEN
00:19:01.40\00:19:06.04
SOMETHING
HAPPENS, 'WHAT DID I DO?'
00:19:06.04\00:19:08.38
KING UZZIAH
DISOBEYED GOD, HE GOT LEPROSY.
00:19:08.38\00:19:13.35
KING AHAZIAH
DISOBEYED GOD, HE GOT GOUT.
00:19:13.35\00:19:16.45
IT SAID HE HAD DISEASE IN HIS
FEET - THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT
00:19:16.45\00:19:18.29
WAS - IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
GOUT, BUT HE SUFFERED WITH IT.
00:19:18.29\00:19:21.16
AND SO YOU THINK, 'IF I GET A
DISEASE - IF I GET SICK - WHAT
00:19:21.16\00:19:24.39
DID I DO WRONG?' NOW,
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW PEOPLE
00:19:24.39\00:19:29.76
THAT ARE VERY CAREFUL WITH THEIR
HEALTH, WITH EXERCISE, THEIR
00:19:29.76\00:19:33.70
BODY - THEY'RE GOOD
PEOPLE - AND THEY GET SICK.
00:19:33.70\00:19:37.54
HAVE YOU KNOWN PEOPLE THAT NEVER
SMOKED AND THEY GOT LUNG CANCER?
00:19:37.54\00:19:41.28
IT HAPPENS. IT'S NOT
OFTEN, BUT IT DOES HAPPEN.
00:19:41.28\00:19:44.48
AND YOU SAY, 'WHY?'
SO ALL THESE QUESTIONS
00:19:44.48\00:19:47.92
ARE BEING ASKED. LET ME
ASK YOU ANOTHER QUESTION.
00:19:47.92\00:19:50.52
I'M JUST TRYING
TO GET YOU TO THINK.
00:19:50.52\00:19:51.69
IS - THE BOOK OF JOB IS DEALING
WITH THESE BIG QUESTIONS.
00:19:51.69\00:19:57.46
IF SOMETHING BAD
HAPPENS, IS IT GOD'S WILL?
00:19:57.46\00:20:02.46
IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS TO
YOU - IS EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS
00:20:02.46\00:20:07.14
GOD'S WILL? LET ME
JUST ASK IT THAT WAY?
00:20:07.14\00:20:09.54
>>NO. >>NO.
00:20:09.54\00:20:13.01
BUT CAN GOD WORK THINGS
TOGETHER FOR GOOD, EVEN THOUGH
00:20:13.01\00:20:18.11
SOMETHING,
INITIALLY, WAS NOT HIS WILL?
00:20:18.11\00:20:20.62
>>YES. >>WAS IT JESUS' WILL THAT
00:20:20.62\00:20:24.75
JUDAS SHOULD BETRAY HIM? >>NO.
00:20:24.75\00:20:28.19
>>DID JESUS
FORETELL HE WOULD? >>YES.
00:20:28.19\00:20:31.06
>>DOES THAT MEAN
IT WAS GOD'S WILL?
00:20:31.06\00:20:32.36
>>NO. >>DIDN'T
GOD NEED SOMEONE TO BE
00:20:32.36\00:20:34.46
THE FALL GUY - TO BETRAY HIM?
I MEAN, THE PROPHECY SAID, YOU
00:20:34.46\00:20:40.40
KNOW, 'MY FRIENDS BETRAYED
ME AND SOLD ME FOR 30 PIECES OF
00:20:40.40\00:20:42.60
SILVER.' AND SO, IT
MUST HAVE BEEN GOD'S WILL.
00:20:42.60\00:20:44.14
HE SAID, 'LOOK, I NEED SOMEBODY
TO BE THE FALL GUY, SO, TURN IN
00:20:44.14\00:20:46.68
MY SON SO HE CAN DIE FOR YOUR
SINS, SO, OH, LET ME SEE, EENIE,
00:20:46.68\00:20:50.15
MEENIE, MINEY MOE
- HOW ABOUT JUDAS?
00:20:50.15\00:20:51.85
SORRY JUDAS, YOU CAN'T MAKE
IT. YOU'VE GOT TO BE THE BAD GUY
00:20:51.85\00:20:53.88
IN THIS COSMIC STORY THAT I'M
DEVELOPING.' WHAT DO YOU THINK?
00:20:53.88\00:21:00.86
>>NO
(INAUDIBLE). >>I DON'T THINK
00:21:00.86\00:21:02.86
IT WAS GOD' WILL.
JESUS WAS DESPERATE
00:21:02.86\00:21:04.36
FOR JUDAS TO REPENT.
HE KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
00:21:04.36\00:21:07.20
BECAUSE HE KNOWS ALL THINGS.
IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S HIS WILL.
00:21:07.20\00:21:09.60
IN THE LORD'S PRAYER, WHEN YOU
SAY, 'THY WILL BE DONE', WHY ARE
00:21:09.60\00:21:13.67
YOU PRAYING THAT IF EVERYTHING
IS GOING TO BE GOD'S WILL?
00:21:13.67\00:21:18.01
LATER TODAY WE'RE GOING
TO BE TALKING ABOUT ISLAM AND
00:21:18.01\00:21:21.88
CHRISTIANITY IN PROPHECY,
BEGINNING A SERIES, AND YOU'VE
00:21:21.88\00:21:26.05
MAYBE HEARD MUSLIMS SAY,
'IT MUST BE THE WILL OF GOD.'
00:21:26.05\00:21:29.98
WHATEVER HAPPENS THEY SAYS,
'IT MUST BE THE WILL OF ALLAH.'
00:21:29.98\00:21:32.62
HAVE YOU HEARD THAT
BEFORE? THAT'S NOT TRUE.
00:21:32.62\00:21:38.06
GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY
SHOULD PERISH - THAT'S WHAT THE
00:21:38.06\00:21:40.63
BIBLE SAYS - GOD IS NOT
WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH.
00:21:40.63\00:21:42.83
BUT WILL MANY PERISH?
WILL IT BE THE MINORITY OR
00:21:42.83\00:21:45.93
THE MAJORITY THAT
PERISH? >>THE MAJORITY.
00:21:45.93\00:21:48.44
>>BROAD IS THE WAY
THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION.
00:21:48.44\00:21:50.04
IT'S NOT GOD'S WILL. AND
SO, WHAT YOU HAVE HAPPENING
00:21:50.04\00:21:52.81
IN THE WORLD TODAY IS A LOT OF
THINGS THAT ARE NOT GOD'S WILL.
00:21:52.81\00:21:58.51
WHEN YOU SUFFER, IS
IT ALWAYS GOD'S WILL?
00:21:58.51\00:22:01.02
>>NO. >>NO, BUT CAN HE
00:22:01.02\00:22:03.79
WORK IT FOR GOOD? >>YES.
00:22:03.79\00:22:05.95
>>THAT'S THE QUESTION THAT -
WHEN THOSE - WAS IT GOD'S WILL
00:22:05.95\00:22:08.99
THAT JOSEPH'S
BROTHERS SOLD HIM? >>NO.
00:22:08.99\00:22:14.23
>>DIDN'T JOSEPH SAY, 'GOD
HAS WORKED THIS FOR GOOD'?
00:22:14.23\00:22:16.97
>>YES. >>THAT HE
MIGHT SAVE MUCH LIFE.
00:22:16.97\00:22:19.20
BUT GOD DIDN'T WANT HIS BROTHERS
TO DO SOMETHING BAD SO HE COULD
00:22:19.20\00:22:22.90
ACCOMPLISH HIS WILL. GOD
TOOK WHAT THEY DID AND MADE
00:22:22.90\00:22:26.78
GOOD OUT OF IT THAT
MUCH LIFE SHOULD BE SAVED.
00:22:26.78\00:22:29.64
YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE?
BUT IT'S NEVER GOD'S WILL.
00:22:29.64\00:22:32.65
GOD DOES NOT TEMPT ANYONE EVIL.
00:22:32.65\00:22:34.68
GOD IS GOOD; HE CAN'T DO BAD
BECAUSE HE IS PERFECTLY GOOD.
00:22:34.68\00:22:39.05
ALRIGHT, WELL, WE'RE GOING
TO LOOK IN - I'M GOING TO HAVE
00:22:39.05\00:22:41.56
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME, JOB
5, VERSES 17 AND 18 - YOU HAVE
00:22:41.56\00:22:45.63
THAT, HAFDIS? AND I'M
GOING TO READ PSALM 119
00:22:45.63\00:22:48.36
- THIS IS THE
LONGEST CHAPTER IN THE BIBLE.
00:22:48.36\00:22:49.76
I WON'T READ THE WHOLE CHAPTER,
BUT THERE'S A SECTION HERE THAT
00:22:49.76\00:22:52.43
TALKS ABOUT, KIND
OF, CAUSE AND EFFECT.
00:22:52.43\00:22:55.54
PSALM 119, VERSE 65 - THIS IS
IN YOUR LESSON - "YOU HAVE DEALT
00:22:55.54\00:23:00.28
WELL WITH YOUR SERVANT, O
LORD, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD.
00:23:00.28\00:23:03.35
TEACH ME GOOD JUDGMENT AND
KNOWLEDGE, FOR I BELIEVE YOUR
00:23:03.35\00:23:06.61
COMMANDMENTS. BEFORE
I WAS AFFLICTED I WENT
00:23:06.61\00:23:09.82
ASTRAY, BUT NOW
I KEEP YOUR WORD.
00:23:09.82\00:23:12.62
YOU ARE GOOD, AND DO GOOD;" -
SEE, IT'S SAYING GOD IS GOOD AND
00:23:12.62\00:23:15.49
HE DOES GOOD - 'I WAS AFFLICTED
BECAUSE I WENT ASTRAY' - SEE THE
00:23:15.49\00:23:18.79
CAUSE AND EFFECT HAPPENING
HERE? "TEACH ME YOUR STATUTES.
00:23:18.79\00:23:21.90
THE PROUD HAVE FORGED A LIE
AGAINST ME, BUT I WILL KEEP YOUR
00:23:21.90\00:23:25.10
PRECEPTS WITH MY WHOLE HEART.
THEIR HEART IS AS FAT AS GREASE,
00:23:25.10\00:23:28.47
BUT I DELIGHT IN YOUR LAW.
IT IS GOOD FOR ME THAT I HAVE
00:23:28.47\00:23:31.41
BEEN AFFLICTED, THAT I
MIGHT LEARN YOUR STATUTES."
00:23:31.41\00:23:34.74
SEE HOW GOD SOMETIMES ALLOWS
AFFLICTION THAT WE MIGHT LEARN
00:23:34.74\00:23:38.31
SOMETHING? SO WHEN
YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A
00:23:38.31\00:23:40.18
TRIAL - I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU,
BUT I'VE PRAYED BEFORE, 'LORD,
00:23:40.18\00:23:44.12
WHATEVER IT IS YOU WANT ME TO
LEARN, HELP ME LEARN IT QUICKLY
00:23:44.12\00:23:46.32
SO I DON'T EVER HAVE TO GO
THROUGH THIS CLASS AGAIN.' AMEN?
00:23:46.32\00:23:50.93
>>AMEN. >>WHAT IT
IS - HELP ME LEARN IT.
00:23:50.93\00:23:54.30
IT IS GOOD THAT I WAS AFFLICTED
- "THAT I MIGHT LEARN YOUR
00:23:54.30\00:23:57.47
STATUTES. THE LAW
OF YOUR MOUTH IS BETTER
00:23:57.47\00:24:00.47
TO ME THAN THOUSANDS OF
COINS OF GOLD AND SILVER."
00:24:00.47\00:24:03.91
AND HERE YOU SEE THERE'S A
CONNECTION BETWEEN AFFLICTION
00:24:03.91\00:24:05.57
AND GOLD AND SILVER, WHICH
REMINDS ME OF 1 PETER 1:6 -
00:24:05.57\00:24:11.65
1 PETER 1:6 AND 7, FOR "IN THIS
YOU GREATLY REJOICE, THOUGH NOW
00:24:11.65\00:24:16.99
FOR A LITTLE WHILE, IF NEED BE,
YOU HAVE BEEN GRIEVED BY VARIOUS
00:24:16.99\00:24:20.46
TRIALS," - DOES JESUS SAY
SOMETHING ABOUT REJOICE WHEN YOU
00:24:20.46\00:24:24.66
ARE PERSECUTED FOR
RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE?
00:24:24.66\00:24:27.50
AND HERE PETER'S SAYING YOU CAN
REJOICE EVEN IN YOUR TRIALS -
00:24:27.50\00:24:31.23
"THAT THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR
FAITH, BEING MUCH MORE PRECIOUS
00:24:31.23\00:24:34.90
THAN GOLD THAT PERISHES, THOUGH
IT IS TESTED BY FIRE, MAY BE
00:24:34.90\00:24:39.67
FOUND TO PRAISE, HONOR, AND
GLORY AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS
00:24:39.67\00:24:43.78
CHRIST". AND SO,
WHEN YOU'RE GOING
00:24:43.78\00:24:46.25
THROUGH TRIALS, HAVE YOU EVER
LOOKED UPON IT WITH EXCITEMENT
00:24:46.25\00:24:49.58
SAYING, 'OH LORD, YOU'RE DOING
THIS BECAUSE YOU LOVE ME AND
00:24:49.58\00:24:54.06
YOU'RE GETTING
ME READY FOR HEAVEN.
00:24:54.06\00:24:55.79
THIS IS WONDERFUL'? IT'S
KIND OF HARD TO HAVE THAT
00:24:55.79\00:24:58.13
ATTITUDE, BUT THIS
IS WHAT PETER IS SAYING.
00:24:58.13\00:25:00.36
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
PLEASE, READ FOR US JOB 5:17.
00:25:00.36\00:25:03.90
>>"BEHOLD, HAPPY IS THE MAN WHOM
GOD CORRECTS; THEREFORE DO NOT
00:25:03.90\00:25:09.70
DESPISE THE
CHASTENING OF THE ALMIGHTY.
00:25:09.70\00:25:12.41
FOR HE BRUISES, BUT HE BINDS UP;
HE WOUNDS, BUT HIS HANDS MAKE
00:25:12.41\00:25:18.11
WHOLE." >>HAPPY IS
THE MAN - NOW, WHAT
00:25:18.11\00:25:20.68
BOOK DID YOU
READ THAT FROM? >>JOB.
00:25:20.68\00:25:23.59
>>AND THIS IS EVEN JOB - HAPPY
IS THE MAN THAT GOD CORRECTS.
00:25:23.59\00:25:28.42
AND THIS IS GOOD - IT SAYS,
'HE BRUISES BUT HE BINDS UP.
00:25:28.42\00:25:33.13
HE WOUNDS BUT HIS HANDS MAKE
WHOLE.' YOU EVER SEE A CHILD
00:25:33.13\00:25:37.23
THAT REJOICES WHEN
THEIR PARENTS DISCIPLINE THEM?
00:25:37.23\00:25:41.44
YOU KNOW, WE OFTEN FORGET, BUT
IT'S GOOD WHEN YOU HAVE YOUNG
00:25:41.44\00:25:45.04
CHILDREN, IF YOU NEED TO
DISCIPLINE THEM - I REMEMBER
00:25:45.04\00:25:48.01
ONCE, MY FATHER SAID, 'THIS
IS GOING TO HURT ME MORE THAN IT
00:25:48.01\00:25:50.65
HURTS YOU.' AND I
NEVER COULD UNDERSTAND THAT.
00:25:50.65\00:25:52.58
(LAUGHTER) BUT, I MEAN, I DO
NOW, BUT I DIDN'T THEN, BUT SIT
00:25:52.58\00:25:57.25
YOUR CHILDREN DOWN
AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:25:57.25\00:25:58.89
I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE I LOVE
YOU, SO YOU CAN LIVE - IT'S FOR
00:25:58.89\00:26:03.02
YOUR GOOD.' AND IF THE KID KEEPS
RUNNING OUT IN THE STREET, AND
00:26:03.02\00:26:06.23
YOU'VE GOT TO PADDLE THEM OR
WHATEVER SO YOU CAN SAVE THEIR
00:26:06.23\00:26:08.96
LIFE, THEN THAT'S A GOOD THING.
00:26:08.96\00:26:12.93
I REMEMBER ONE TIME, ONE OF MY
KIDS - I WON'T NAME WHICH ONE -
00:26:12.93\00:26:16.27
AFTER THEY GOT A CAR, GOT
INTO A LITTLE FENDER BENDER.
00:26:16.27\00:26:19.94
THEY WERE OKAY - IT BENT
THE FENDER - AND I WAS THANKFUL.
00:26:19.94\00:26:25.61
I MEAN, I WASN'T THANKFUL FOR
THE DAMAGE, I WAS THANKFUL THAT
00:26:25.61\00:26:30.52
IT WOULD PUT THE FEAR IN THEM TO
BE CAREFUL AND REALIZE THAT YOUR
00:26:30.52\00:26:36.26
CAR IS VULNERABLE AND THAT YOU
HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OR YOU CAN
00:26:36.26\00:26:42.53
NOT ONLY DAMAGE THE
CAR, YOU CAN DAMAGE YOURSELF.
00:26:42.53\00:26:44.43
YOU'RE ALMOST HAPPY WHEN THEY
HAVE A LITTLE ACCIDENT AND THEY
00:26:44.43\00:26:47.37
LEARN ABOUT GRAVITY SO THEY
AVOID THE BIG ACCIDENT, YOU KNOW
00:26:47.37\00:26:51.37
WHAT I MEAN? AND
THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THE
00:26:51.37\00:26:53.31
PURPOSE OF DISCIPLINE IS.
GOD IS TRYING TO SAVE US FROM
00:26:53.31\00:26:55.31
THE BIG ACCIDENT, WHICH IS
WAKING UP TO FIND OUT, IN THE
00:26:55.31\00:26:58.31
SECOND RESURRECTION, THAT YOU'RE
LOST FOREVER BECAUSE THERE'S
00:26:58.31\00:27:01.15
NO RECOVERY FROM THAT.
OKAY, NOW WE GET INTO THE
00:27:01.15\00:27:07.86
BIG - SOME OF THESE
OTHER BIG QUESTIONS.
00:27:07.86\00:27:10.33
WHEN HAVE THE INNOCENT PERISHED?
IS THE HEADING WE'RE LOOKING
00:27:10.33\00:27:13.60
AT RIGHT NOW - WHEN
HAVE THE INNOCENT PERISHED?
00:27:13.60\00:27:16.60
WELL, THAT'S A
RHETORICAL QUESTION.
00:27:16.60\00:27:18.40
SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR ME,
IN A MOMENT, JOB 4:7 - I'LL READ
00:27:18.40\00:27:23.41
JOB 2:11, "NOW WHEN JOB'S
THREE FRIENDS HEARD ALL OF THIS
00:27:23.41\00:27:27.28
ADVERSITY THAT HAD COME UPON
HIM, EACH ONE CAME FROM HIS OWN
00:27:27.28\00:27:31.05
PLACE - ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE,
BILDAD THE SHUHITE, AND ZOPHAR
00:27:31.05\00:27:35.22
THE NAAMATHITE. FOR
THEY HAD MADE AN APPOINTMENT
00:27:35.22\00:27:37.89
TOGETHER TO COME AND MOURN
WITH HIM, AND TO COMFORT HIM.
00:27:37.89\00:27:40.99
AND WHEN THEY RAISED THEIR EYES
FROM AFAR, AND DID NOT RECOGNIZE
00:27:40.99\00:27:44.69
HIM, THEY LIFTED THEIR VOICES
AND WEPT; AND EACH ONE TORE HIS
00:27:44.69\00:27:50.33
ROBE AND SPRINKLED DUST ON HIS
HEAD" - NOW REMEMBER, JOB HAD
00:27:50.33\00:27:53.30
DONE THAT TOO, SO
THEY'RE COMMISERATING WITH HIM.
00:27:53.30\00:27:57.24
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'MOURN
WITH THOSE THAT MOURN, WEEP WITH
00:27:57.24\00:27:59.84
THOSE THAT WEEP, REJOICE WITH
THOSE THAT REJOICE' - AND HERE
00:27:59.84\00:28:02.51
THEY'RE MOURNING WITH
THOSE THAT ARE MOURNING.
00:28:02.51\00:28:06.51
THERE'S A VERSE IN PROVERBS,
IT SAYS, 'IT'S NOT A GOOD THING
00:28:06.51\00:28:12.12
WHEN YOU SING TO SOMEONE WHO HAS
A HEAVY HEART' - "SO THEY SAT
00:28:12.12\00:28:18.03
DOWN WITH HIM ON THE GROUND
SEVEN DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS, AND
00:28:18.03\00:28:21.86
NO ONE SPOKE A WORD TO HIM, FOR
THEY SAW THAT HIS GRIEF WAS VERY
00:28:21.86\00:28:26.37
GREAT." NOT JUST
GREAT, BUT VERY GREAT
00:28:26.37\00:28:28.30
- GREAT - HE'S LOST EVERYTHING,
HE'S LOST HIS CHILDREN, WHICH
00:28:28.30\00:28:33.24
WERE SO PRECIOUS - HE HAD BEEN
SACRIFICING FOR THEM EVERY DAY
00:28:33.24\00:28:37.21
AND NOW HE'S LOST HIS HEALTH AND
HE'S IN AGONY. I MEAN, HE'S JUST
00:28:37.21\00:28:41.08
BEEN LAID VERY LOW.
HIS GRIEF IS VERY GREAT.
00:28:41.08\00:28:44.39
AND SO, THEY
DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
00:28:44.39\00:28:46.22
THEY DON'T SAY ANYTHING.
THEY JUST MOURN WITH HIM.
00:28:46.22\00:28:48.32
HOW LONG DID THEY
MOURN? >>SEVEN DAYS.
00:28:48.32\00:28:50.66
>>IT'D BE HARD TO
KEEP QUIET FOR SEVEN DAYS.
00:28:50.66\00:28:52.99
IF YOU GO TO A HOSPITAL ROOM
AND YOU SEE A FRIEND SUFFERING,
00:28:52.99\00:28:55.10
DON'T YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING
TO TRY TO COMFORT THEM?
00:28:55.10\00:28:58.77
BUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN SAY.
00:28:58.77\00:29:01.54
SOMETIMES, IF YOU'VE GOT A
FRIEND - BROTHER OR SISTER -
00:29:01.54\00:29:04.07
THAT'S REALLY SUFFERING, THE
BEST THING YOU CAN DO IS JUST BE
00:29:04.07\00:29:05.87
THERE AND LET THEM KNOW THEY'RE
NOT ALONE AND LET THEM KNOW YOU
00:29:05.87\00:29:09.64
CARE AND SORT OF TRY TO DIVIDE
THEIR BURDEN BY BEARING IT WITH
00:29:09.64\00:29:14.95
THEM. THAT'S WHY THEY TORE THEIR
CLOTHES AND THEY THREW DUST ON
00:29:14.95\00:29:19.25
THEIR HEADS AND THEY SAT DOWN
WHERE HE SAT, WHICH WASN'T A
00:29:19.25\00:29:22.12
VERY PLEASANT PLACE.
YOU REMEMBER WHERE HE SAT?
00:29:22.12\00:29:24.09
THE CITY DUMP. SO
THEY SAT WITH HIM AND THEY
00:29:24.09\00:29:27.46
COMMISERATED WITH HIM AND THEY
SHARED HIS SUFFERING AND - BUT
00:29:27.46\00:29:30.90
AS THOSE SEVEN DAYS GO BY - AND
I JUST WANT TO PAUSE HERE AND -
00:29:30.90\00:29:34.20
CAN YOU THINK OF SOMEWHERE
ELSE IN THE BIBLE - SOMEONE THAT
00:29:34.20\00:29:36.37
MOURNED FOR SEVEN DAYS? >>DAVID.
00:29:36.37\00:29:40.04
>>YEAH. I DON'T
KNOW WHO SAID IT.
00:29:40.04\00:29:41.91
REMEMBER WHEN DAVID SINNED WITH
BATHSHEBA AND THE CHILD - THE
00:29:41.91\00:29:45.25
PRODUCT OF THAT
RELATIONSHIP BECAME SICK?
00:29:45.25\00:29:49.35
DAVID WENT IN BEFORE THE LORD
AND HE FELL ON HIS FACE AND HE
00:29:49.35\00:29:51.75
FASTED FOR SEVEN
DAYS, PRAYING FOR THE CHILD.
00:29:51.75\00:29:57.39
YOU EVER PRAY FOR SEVEN DAYS?
THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS PRAYED ALL
00:29:57.39\00:30:02.60
NIGHT LONG AND I CAN HONESTLY
ONLY THINK OF ONE TIME I SPENT A
00:30:02.60\00:30:07.90
NIGHT WITH A FRIEND JUST PRAYING
AND STUDYING - SPENT THE WHOLE
00:30:07.90\00:30:11.31
NIGHT - WE, I DON'T KNOW,
WE PROBABLY WENT TO SLEEP ABOUT
00:30:11.31\00:30:13.07
SIX, BUT JUST STAYED
UP ALL NIGHT PRAYING.
00:30:13.07\00:30:17.75
HERE THEY SAT WITH THEIR FRIEND
SEVEN DAYS - AND THESE ARE
00:30:17.75\00:30:21.28
WEALTHY IMPORTANT MEN.
THEY'RE LEADERS OF THEIR OWN
00:30:21.28\00:30:23.72
TRIBES - GREAT MEN -
TO SHARE HIS SUFFERING.
00:30:23.72\00:30:28.42
BUT, DURING THAT SEVEN DAYS,
THEY'RE WATCHING JOB GROAN IN
00:30:28.42\00:30:33.50
AGONY AND SCRAPE HIS BOILS -
THAT'S NOT VERY PLEASANT, BUT
00:30:33.50\00:30:36.30
THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS - THEY'RE
THINKING, 'WHY IS ALL THIS
00:30:36.30\00:30:41.50
HAPPENING TO
JOB?' I MEAN, EVERYONE
00:30:41.50\00:30:43.14
WANTS TO KNOW WHY.
WE ALL WANT ANSWERS.
00:30:43.14\00:30:45.94
GOD MADE US RATIONAL BEINGS.
HE SAYS, 'COME, LET US REASON
00:30:45.94\00:30:47.94
TOGETHER.' THEY'RE
TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT.
00:30:47.94\00:30:51.18
AND, IN THEIR MINDS, THEY'RE
BEGINNING TO THINK, 'YOU KNOW,
00:30:51.18\00:30:55.42
HE ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE SUCH A
NICE GUY, BUT ANYBODY SUFFERING
00:30:55.42\00:30:58.09
LIKE THIS, WHY
WOULD GOD ALLOW THIS?'
00:30:58.09\00:31:01.16
YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE SEE
SUFFERING, THEY ALWAYS WONDER,
00:31:01.16\00:31:03.96
'IF THERE IS A GOD AND HE
IS LOVE, WHY DOES HE LET THE
00:31:03.96\00:31:07.93
INNOCENT SUFFER?
WHY DO CHILDREN SUFFER?
00:31:07.93\00:31:10.10
WHY ARE THEY BORN WITH
DEFORMITIES AND ILLNESS AND, IF
00:31:10.10\00:31:15.17
GOD IS GOOD' - AND THERE'S ALL
THESE QUESTIONS WE'RE TRYING TO
00:31:15.17\00:31:17.44
RATIONALIZE. WE'RE TRYING
TO MAKE SENSE OF IT, RIGHT?
00:31:17.44\00:31:20.91
SO, WHILE THEY'RE WATCHING JOB
SUFFER, THEY BEGIN TO PONDER IN
00:31:20.91\00:31:23.55
THEIR HEARTS, 'MAYBE HE
WASN'T AS GOOD AS WE THOUGHT.
00:31:23.55\00:31:27.08
THERE MUST BE
SOMETHING GOING ON.
00:31:27.08\00:31:28.78
WHY WOULD A GOOD GOD LET A GOOD
MAN EXPERIENCE SO MUCH BAD?'
00:31:28.78\00:31:35.09
AND SO, FINALLY, AFTER SEVEN
DAYS OF THINKING THESE THOUGHTS
00:31:35.09\00:31:38.96
AND WATCHING HIM SUFFER, THEY'RE
BEGINNING TO WONDER, 'WELL,
00:31:38.96\00:31:43.67
MAYBE THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY
THAT WE DON'T KNOW.' AND THEY
00:31:43.67\00:31:46.53
SORT OF TURN ON THEIR FRIEND.
THEY SAID, 'OH JOB, WHY DON'T
00:31:46.53\00:31:50.04
YOU 'FESS UP BEFORE YOU DIE, YOU
KNOW? YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO
00:31:50.04\00:31:54.01
YOUR GRAVE HIDING THE SECRET
SIN THAT BROUGHT ON ALL THIS
00:31:54.01\00:31:56.44
CALAMITY. WHAT IS IT?
THERE MUST BE SOMETHING.'
00:31:56.44\00:31:59.25
AND SO THIS IS WHERE - THIS IS
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE THINKING
00:31:59.25\00:32:02.22
AND YOU - THAT BEARS ITSELF
OUT AS YOU BEGIN TO READ IT.
00:32:02.22\00:32:05.52
SO YOU READ HERE, WHEN THEY SAW
THAT, NO ONE COULD SPEAK A WORD.
00:32:05.52\00:32:11.36
THEY SAW HIS
GRIEF WAS VERY GREAT.
00:32:11.36\00:32:12.63
GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US, PLEASE, JOB 4:7.
00:32:12.63\00:32:15.66
>>"REMEMBER NOW, WHO
EVER PERISHED BEING INNOCENT?
00:32:15.66\00:32:19.73
OR WHERE WERE THE
UPRIGHT EVER CUT OFF?"
00:32:19.73\00:32:23.71
>>YEAH, NOW ELIPHAZ BEGINS
TO TALK AND HE SAYS, 'IF YOU'RE
00:32:23.71\00:32:28.78
INNOCENT, YOU DON'T PERISH.'
HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT DYING THE
00:32:28.78\00:32:31.75
DEATH THAT ALL MEN DIE,
HE'S TALKING ABOUT PERISH EARLY.
00:32:31.75\00:32:34.82
IT'S LIKE WHEN EZEKIEL SAYS, 'IF
YOU TURN FROM YOUR SIN YOU'LL
00:32:34.82\00:32:36.82
SURELY LIVE; IF YOU DON'T,
YOU'LL DIE.' WELL, EVERYONE DIES
00:32:36.82\00:32:38.72
EVENTUALLY. HE'S
TALKING ABOUT PREMATURELY.
00:32:38.72\00:32:41.42
IT'S LIKE DAVID SAID, 'I WAS
YOUNG AND NOW I'M OLD AND I'VE
00:32:41.42\00:32:44.66
NEVER SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS
FORSAKEN OR HIS SEED BEGGING
00:32:44.66\00:32:47.23
BREAD. WELL, DAVID, AGAIN,
IS SPEAKING IN GENERAL TERMS.
00:32:47.23\00:32:52.63
HAVE WE NEVER HEARD OF ANY
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE BEING HUNGRY?
00:32:52.63\00:32:58.67
SO IT'S NOT AN ABSOLUTELY RULE,
IT'S A GENERAL PRINCIPLE THERE.
00:32:58.67\00:33:04.71
AND THEN, AND THIS IS - THIS IS
LIKE - THIS WAS BASED UPON THE
00:33:04.71\00:33:08.62
TITLE OF OUR LESSON: THE
CURSE CAUSELESS - PROVERBS 26:2,
00:33:08.62\00:33:12.92
WRITTEN BY SOLOMON, "LIKE A
FLITTING SPARROW, LIKE A FLYING
00:33:12.92\00:33:16.79
SWALLOW, SO A CURSE
WITHOUT CAUSE SHALL NOT ALIGHT."
00:33:16.79\00:33:20.76
THE CURSE DOES NOT
COME WITHOUT A CAUSE.
00:33:20.76\00:33:24.50
AND SO, WHEN THEY SEE JOB THAT
LOOKS LIKE HE'S UNDER A CURSE,
00:33:24.50\00:33:26.90
THEY'RE SAYING,
'WHAT IS THE CAUSE?'
00:33:26.90\00:33:29.44
SO I GUESS I'M KIND OF SPEAKING
UP IN DEFENSE OF JOB'S THREE
00:33:29.44\00:33:32.91
FRIENDS - DON'T MISUNDERSTAND
THAT - JUST THAT THEY WERE
00:33:32.91\00:33:37.88
SAYING WHAT WAS THE CONVENTIONAL
THINKING THAT - GOD BLESSES THE
00:33:37.88\00:33:42.85
GOOD AND CURSES
HAPPEN TO THE BAD.
00:33:42.85\00:33:45.49
AND EVEN SOLOMON SAYS, 'THE
CURSE CAUSELESS DOES NOT LAND.'
00:33:45.49\00:33:48.96
NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT, YOU'LL SEE AN EXAMPLE
00:33:48.96\00:33:52.56
WHERE THE DISCIPLES WERE EVEN
TAKEN UP WITH THIS THINKING.
00:33:52.56\00:33:56.30
IN JOHN 1, VERSE - I'M SORRY,
JOHN CHAPTER 9 - THE GOSPEL OF
00:33:56.30\00:34:00.54
JOHN 9, VERSE 1 - IT SAYS, "NOW
AS JESUS PASSED BY, HE SAW A MAN
00:34:00.54\00:34:05.97
WHO WAS BLIND FROM BIRTH."
NOW WHEN HE'S BLIND FROM BIRTH,
00:34:05.97\00:34:09.54
YOU KNOW, IF HE HAD BEEN TURNED
BLIND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE SAID,
00:34:09.54\00:34:12.05
'WELL, HE DID SOMETHING WRONG.'
AND KEEP IN MIND, DID JESUS EVER
00:34:12.05\00:34:18.52
HEAL SOMEBODY AND SAY, 'GO
AND SIN NO MORE LEST A WORSE
00:34:18.52\00:34:23.06
THING COME UPON YOU'? >>YES.
00:34:23.06\00:34:26.36
>>DID SOME PEOPLE - MANY PEOPLE
SUFFER PHYSICALLY BECAUSE OF
00:34:26.36\00:34:31.27
THEIR SIN? THAT'S
WHAT JESUS SAID - 'DON'T
00:34:31.27\00:34:34.87
SIN ANYMORE OR SOMETHING WORSE
THAN WHAT I JUST HEALED YOU FROM
00:34:34.87\00:34:37.74
WILL HAPPEN TO YOU.' A LOT OF
SUFFERING IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF
00:34:37.74\00:34:41.28
SIN, BUT NOT ALWAYS, AND
THAT'S WHAT THE BOOK OF JOB
00:34:41.28\00:34:44.55
IS TRYING TO TELL US. SO
THEY SEE THIS BLIND MAN AND
00:34:44.55\00:34:46.75
THEY'RE ASKING
JESUS, 'LORD, WHO SINNED?
00:34:46.75\00:34:49.95
THIS MAN WAS BORN BLIND SO HOW
DO WE - HOW COULD HE SIN AND BE
00:34:49.95\00:34:53.92
BLIND? WHAT DID HE DO WRONG?'
00:34:53.92\00:34:55.12
AND SO THEY SAY, 'RABBI, WHO
SINNED - THIS MAN OR HIS PARENTS
00:34:55.12\00:34:58.39
- THAT HE WAS BORN BLIND?'
NOW, YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING,
00:34:58.39\00:35:01.20
'HOW CAN THE MAN SIN
SO THAT HE'S BORN BLIND?'
00:35:01.20\00:35:05.47
THE DISCIPLES - NOT JUST THE
DISCIPLES, THE JEWISH LEADERS,
00:35:05.47\00:35:08.20
ACTUALLY HAD A THEORY THAT GOD,
KNOWING ALL THINGS, KNEW THAT
00:35:08.20\00:35:11.31
THIS PERSON WOULD SIN SO
HE PUNISHED HIM IN ADVANCE.
00:35:11.31\00:35:16.64
GOD KNEW HE WAS GOING TO BE BAD
SO, BECAUSE OF HIS SIN, BECAUSE
00:35:16.64\00:35:20.22
GOD KNEW IT, HE SAID, 'I'M JUST
GOING TO MAKE HIM BLIND FROM THE
00:35:20.22\00:35:22.35
START, TO TEACH HIM A LESSON.'
THAT'S REALLY GOT THEOLOGICAL
00:35:22.35\00:35:26.49
PROBLEMS TO IT WHEN YOU THINK
ABOUT IT. SO WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
00:35:26.49\00:35:31.33
"NEITHER THIS MAN NOR HIS
PARENTS SINNED," - NOW, HE'S NOT
00:35:31.33\00:35:34.56
SAYING THEY'RE SINLESS, HE'S
JUST SAYING IT WASN'T THEIR SIN
00:35:34.56\00:35:38.03
THAT CAUSED HIS BLINDNESS - "BUT
THAT THE WORKS OF GOD SHOULD BE
00:35:38.03\00:35:42.07
REVEALED IN HIM." NOW
DON'T FORGET THAT VERSE.
00:35:42.07\00:35:44.97
WHY DID JOB
SUFFER? BECAUSE OF HIS SIN?
00:35:44.97\00:35:48.11
BECAUSE OF HIS PARENTS'
SIN? OR THAT THE WORKS OF GOD
00:35:48.11\00:35:50.91
MIGHT BE REVEALED IN
HIM? HOW MANY OF YOU ARE
00:35:50.91\00:35:53.48
GLAD THAT JOB SUFFERED?
NOW WHAT I MEAN BY THAT - I
00:35:53.48\00:35:58.59
WOULDN'T WANT TO SAY THAT TO YOU
AND I HOPE YOU DON'T SAY THAT TO
00:35:58.59\00:36:00.66
ME, BUT WHAT I MEAN IS I'M
GLAD THE STORY'S IN THE BIBLE,
00:36:00.66\00:36:03.83
BECAUSE THROUGH THE STORY OF
JOB, I'VE OFTEN BEEN ENCOURAGED.
00:36:03.83\00:36:07.86
AND WHEN I THINK THAT -
'WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?'
00:36:07.86\00:36:11.67
YOU KNOW AND - I'M
A BIG BABY SOMETIMES.
00:36:11.67\00:36:13.54
I JUST GO THROUGH A LITTLE BIT
OF SUFFERING - I JUST THINK THE
00:36:13.54\00:36:15.20
WORLD'S ENDING AND
KAREN SAYS, 'DOUG, GET A LIFE.
00:36:15.20\00:36:17.77
IT'S NOT THAT BAD.' (LAUGHTER)
SHE'S VERY SYMPATHETIC.
00:36:17.77\00:36:20.91
(LAUGHTER) AND, BUT SOMETIMES,
YOU KNOW, I START THINKING LIKE
00:36:20.91\00:36:25.51
THAT, THEN I THINK OF OTHERS I
KNOW THAT ARE SO MUCH WORSE OFF.
00:36:25.51\00:36:30.39
YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE ADAGE
THAT SAYS, 'I MOURNED THAT I HAD
00:36:30.39\00:36:33.52
NO SHOES UNTIL I MET A MAN THAT
HAD NO FEET.' YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
00:36:33.52\00:36:38.26
SAYING? AND SO, JESUS WAS
SAYING, THIS MAN DIDN'T SIN, OR
00:36:38.26\00:36:42.30
HIS PARENTS, BUT THAT THE WORKS
OF GOD MIGHT BE REVEALED IN HIM.
00:36:42.30\00:36:45.57
AND SO SOME PEOPLE SUFFER
BECAUSE OUR FAITH IS BEING TRIED
00:36:45.57\00:36:48.27
- WE'RE BEING STRENGTHENED.
SOME PEOPLE SUFFER BECAUSE OF
00:36:48.27\00:36:50.84
THEIR SIN, AND SOME PEOPLE
SUFFER BECAUSE GOD IS GOING TO
00:36:50.84\00:36:54.94
ALLOW THEIR SUFFERING TO BE
A VEHICLE FOR REACHING MANY.
00:36:54.94\00:37:00.45
WHY DID GOD ALLOW SHADRACH
MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO TO GO
00:37:00.45\00:37:04.85
THROUGH A FIERY FURNACE?
SO HE MIGHT BE GLORIFIED.
00:37:04.85\00:37:11.09
I MEAN, HE PROTECTED THEM
THROUGH THE FURNACE, BUT IT'S -
00:37:11.09\00:37:12.79
THE FURNACE IS AN
ALLEGORY FOR SUFFERING.
00:37:12.79\00:37:15.36
PETER TALKS ABOUT 'DON'T BE
AMAZED AT THE FIERY TRIALS YOU
00:37:15.36\00:37:17.83
GO THROUGH.' I READ A GOOD
BOOK BY MARVIN MOORE YEARS AGO.
00:37:17.83\00:37:22.94
I WISH IT WAS STILL IN PRINT.
IT'S CALLED - I THINK IT'S
00:37:22.94\00:37:27.24
CALLED WITNESSING THROUGH TRIALS
- SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT - AND
00:37:27.24\00:37:30.78
HE TAKES ALL THESE STORIES ABOUT
PEOPLE WHO ENDED UP BEING GREAT
00:37:30.78\00:37:34.72
WITNESSES BECAUSE
THEY WENT THROUGH TRIALS.
00:37:34.72\00:37:38.12
JOSEPH - LOOK AT ALL THE TRIALS
JOSEPH WENT THROUGH, BUT LOOK AT
00:37:38.12\00:37:43.09
WHAT A WITNESS HE IS FOR US - OF
FORGIVING THE ONES WHO SELL YOU
00:37:43.09\00:37:48.30
INTO SLAVERY. IT'S JUST
A - IT'S A WONDERFUL STORY.
00:37:48.30\00:37:53.17
BECAUSE A PERSON GOES THROUGH
GREAT TRIALS, THEY'RE OFTEN ABLE
00:37:53.17\00:37:55.67
TO BE A WITNESS.
ALRIGHT, THE NEXT SECTION WE'RE
00:37:55.67\00:37:57.87
GOING TO LOOK AT IS
A MAN AND HIS MAKER .
00:37:57.87\00:38:01.54
NOW, WE'RE GOING TO DO
A LITTLE BIT OF READING.
00:38:01.54\00:38:02.88
WE'RE GOING TO BACKTRACK AND
READ SOME OF WHAT WE JUST READ
00:38:02.88\00:38:05.18
HERE. GO TO JOB
CHAPTER 4, PLEASE,
00:38:05.18\00:38:08.05
AND I'M GOING TO
KIND OF READ 1 THROUGH 11.
00:38:08.05\00:38:10.99
SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE READING
FOR ME 1 PETER 1:24 IN JUST A
00:38:10.99\00:38:15.52
MINUTE. JOHN, YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:38:15.52\00:38:17.43
ALRIGHT, YOU'LL READ, I THINK,
24 AND 25, BUT I'M GOING TO READ
00:38:17.43\00:38:20.66
SEVERAL VERSES
BEFORE WE GET THERE.
00:38:20.66\00:38:22.63
SO, IF WE GO TO JOB 4:1, "THEN
ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE ANSWERED
00:38:22.63\00:38:29.60
AND SAID:" - NOW THIS IS THE
DIALOGUE RIGHT, YOU KNOW, JOB IS
00:38:29.60\00:38:32.61
SAYING, 'WHY
DIDN'T I DIE AT BIRTH?'
00:38:32.61\00:38:34.28
AND JOB, FINALLY, AFTER THESE
DAYS OF SUFFERING, HE CAN'T
00:38:34.28\00:38:38.21
CONTAIN HIMSELF ANYMORE AND,
LIKE A RUPTURED VENT, HE BEGINS
00:38:38.21\00:38:41.48
TO JUST POUR OUT THE ANGUISH
IN HIS HEART AND IN GREAT
00:38:41.48\00:38:44.79
ELOQUENCE, BETWEEN HIS GASPING
AND HIS MOANING, HE MAKES ALL
00:38:44.79\00:38:48.46
THESE STATEMENTS ABOUT
SAYING, 'WHY? WHY? WHY?
00:38:48.46\00:38:50.46
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
BETTER NOT TO BE BORN.
00:38:50.46\00:38:53.56
EVEN THE DEAD ARE AT REST.' AND
ELIPHAZ, HE'S THINKING, 'JOB,
00:38:53.56\00:38:58.27
MAYBE IT'S HAPPENING TO
YOU BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT.
00:38:58.27\00:39:00.84
LET ME SHARE SOME PRINCIPLES
WITH YOU - "'IF ONE ATTEMPTS A
00:39:00.84\00:39:04.61
WORD WITH YOU, WILL YOU BECOME
WEARY? BUT WHO CAN WITHHOLD
00:39:04.61\00:39:07.84
HIMSELF FROM SPEAKING?
SURELY YOU HAVE INSTRUCTED MANY,
00:39:07.84\00:39:10.51
AND YOU HAVE
STRENGTHENED WEAK HANDS.
00:39:10.51\00:39:12.71
YOUR WORDS HAVE UPHELD HIM
WHO WAS STUMBLING, AND YOU HAVE
00:39:12.71\00:39:14.82
STRENGTHENED THE FEEBLE KNEES;'"
- YOU'VE BEEN A TEACHER TO MANY
00:39:14.82\00:39:16.72
OTHERS - "'BUT NOW IT COMES
UPON YOU, AND YOU ARE WEARY;
00:39:16.72\00:39:20.36
IT TOUCHES YOU,
AND YOU ARE TROUBLED.
00:39:20.36\00:39:22.66
IS NOT YOUR
REVERENCE YOUR CONFIDENCE?'"
00:39:22.66\00:39:25.16
YOU'RE - YOU'VE GOT TOO MUCH
CONFIDENCE IN YOUR HOLINESS -
00:39:25.16\00:39:28.33
"AND THE INTEGRITY
OF YOUR WAYS YOUR HOPE?
00:39:28.33\00:39:31.80
REMEMBER NOW, WHO EVER
PERISHED BEING INNOCENT?
00:39:31.80\00:39:34.37
OR WHERE WERE THE
UPRIGHT EVER CUT OFF?'"
00:39:34.37\00:39:36.77
NOW, GENERALLY SPEAKING,
THAT'S TRUE, BUT DO THE UPRIGHT
00:39:36.77\00:39:42.98
SOMETIMES GET CUT OFF?
DON'T LOSE YOUR PLACE THERE IN
00:39:42.98\00:39:46.75
JOB 4 - AND I KNOW I'VE GOT
SOMEONE STANDING BY TO READ A
00:39:46.75\00:39:49.32
VERSE, BUT GO WITH ME TO
PSALM 37 - PSALM 37, REAL
00:39:49.32\00:39:53.82
QUICK, YOU LOOKING 'EM
UP? "DO NOT FRET BECAUSE OF
00:39:53.82\00:40:01.70
EVILDOERS," - THIS IS VERSE
1 - "DO NOT FRET BECAUSE OF
00:40:01.70\00:40:04.07
EVILDOERS, NOR BE ENVIOUS
OF THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY.
00:40:04.07\00:40:08.30
FOR THEY SHALL SOON BE CUT DOWN
LIKE THE GRASS, AND WITHER AS
00:40:08.30\00:40:11.47
THE GREEN HERB. TRUST
IN THE LORD, AND DO GOOD;
00:40:11.47\00:40:14.78
DWELL IN THE LAND, AND
FEED ON HIS FAITHFULNESS.
00:40:14.78\00:40:16.51
DELIGHT YOURSELF ALSO IN THE
LORD, AND HE SHALL GIVE YOU THE
00:40:16.51\00:40:18.51
DESIRES OF YOUR HEART.
COMMIT YOUR WAY TO THE LORD,
00:40:18.51\00:40:20.92
TRUST ALSO IN HIM, AND HE SHALL
BRING IT TO PASS." - GIVE YOU
00:40:20.92\00:40:22.78
YOUR DESIRES, HE'LL BLESS
YOU - "HE SHALL BRING FORTH YOUR
00:40:22.78\00:40:24.85
RIGHTEOUSNESS AS THE LIGHT,
AND YOUR JUSTICE AS THE NOONDAY.
00:40:24.85\00:40:27.72
REST IN THE LORD...DO NOT FRET
BECAUSE OF HIM WHO PROSPERS IN
00:40:27.72\00:40:31.33
HIS WAY, BECAUSE OF THE MAN WHO
BRINGS WICKED SCHEMES TO PASS."
00:40:31.33\00:40:35.66
NOW, DAVID IS SAYING, 'YOU'RE
GOING TO SEE CASES WHERE WICKED
00:40:35.66\00:40:39.17
SEEMS TO BE PROSPERING,
BUT IT WILL NOT LAST.
00:40:39.17\00:40:43.14
HE'LL END UP BEING CUT
DOWN LIKE THE GREEN GRASS.
00:40:43.14\00:40:46.11
IF YOU'RE FAITHFUL,
YOU WILL END UP PROSPERING.
00:40:46.11\00:40:49.48
SO THIS IS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE.
OKAY, BACK TO ELIPHAZ.
00:40:49.48\00:40:54.92
"REMEMBER NOW, WHO EVER PERISHED
BEING UPRIGHT [INNOCENT]?...
00:40:54.92\00:40:58.15
EVEN AS I HAVE SEEN, THOSE WHO
PLOW INIQUITY AND SOW TROUBLE
00:40:58.15\00:41:01.99
REAP THE SAME." IS THAT TRUE?
00:41:01.99\00:41:04.53
DOESN'T EVEN PAUL SAY, 'GOD IS
NOT MOCKED; WHAT A MAN SOWS HE
00:41:04.53\00:41:07.86
WILL REAP.'? SO
HE'S SPEAKING THE TRUTH.
00:41:07.86\00:41:11.97
IN GENERAL, THAT'S A PRINCIPLE
- "BY THE BLAST OF GOD THEY
00:41:11.97\00:41:14.87
PERISH, AND BY THE BREATH
OF HIS ANGER THEY ARE CONSUMED.
00:41:14.87\00:41:17.87
THE ROARING OF THE LION, AND THE
VOICE OF THE FIERCE LION, AND
00:41:17.87\00:41:20.84
THE TEETH OF THE
YOUNG LIONS ARE BROKEN.
00:41:20.84\00:41:22.94
THE OLD LION PERISHES FOR LACK
OF PREY, AND THE CUBS OF THE
00:41:22.94\00:41:25.78
LIONESS ARE SCATTERED."
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE LION
00:41:25.78\00:41:27.35
IN CONTEXT OF THE WICKED.
AND HE SAID, 'THEY MAY HAVE BEEN
00:41:27.35\00:41:30.22
POWERFUL, BUT THEY'RE GOING
TO COME TO A DAY OF JUDGMENT.'
00:41:30.22\00:41:34.26
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US, PLEASE, 1 PETER 1:24 AND 25.
00:41:34.26\00:41:40.33
>>"BECAUSE 'ALL FLESH IS AS
GRASS, AND ALL THE GLORY OF MAN
00:41:40.33\00:41:44.03
AS THE FLOWER OF THE GRASS.
00:41:44.03\00:41:45.83
THE GRASS WITHERS, AND ITS
FLOWER FALLS AWAY, BUT THE WORD
00:41:45.83\00:41:49.70
OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.'"
>>SO IF IT LOOKS LIKE A MAN IS
00:41:49.70\00:41:54.84
WICKED - OR A WOMAN - BUT
THEY SEEM TO HAVE, OUTWARDLY,
00:41:54.84\00:41:59.71
BLESSINGS AND PROSPERITY, FIRST
OF ALL, IT'S OFTEN AN ILLUSION.
00:41:59.71\00:42:08.16
YOU KNOW, WHEN I GO TO THE
MARKET, THERE'S USUALLY ALL
00:42:08.16\00:42:10.69
THESE TABLOID MAGAZINES THERE
AND I'LL MAKE A CONFESSION,
00:42:10.69\00:42:13.90
WHILE I'M WAITING IN
LINE, I WILL SOMETIMES READ THE
00:42:13.90\00:42:17.37
HEADLINES. NOW, I
KNOW YOU NEVER DO.
00:42:17.37\00:42:19.47
(LAUGHTER) YOU WOULD NEVER ADMIT
THAT IN PUBLIC - AND IF YOU BUY
00:42:19.47\00:42:24.21
THEM, DON'T TELL ANYBODY BECAUSE
YOUR PERCEIVED IQ WILL GO DOWN
00:42:24.21\00:42:27.94
SEVERAL POINTS IF YOU TELL
PEOPLE YOU BUY THOSE MAGAZINES.
00:42:27.94\00:42:30.85
ONLY TIME I BOUGHT - I BOUGHT
ONE OR TWO - I'M CONFESSING NOW
00:42:30.85\00:42:35.15
- I BOUGHT ONE OR TWO BECAUSE
THEY HAD SOME PROPHECY ON THE
00:42:35.15\00:42:38.42
COVER THAT WAS SO ABSURD I USED
IT AS AN ILLUSTRATION TO TEACH A
00:42:38.42\00:42:41.86
PROPHECY LESSON, SAYING,
'LOOK AT CRAZY PROPHECIES.' BUT
00:42:41.86\00:42:44.89
THEY'RE OFTEN COVERED
WITH THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS.
00:42:44.89\00:42:48.76
AND THEY'LL PUT THE FAMOUS MOVIE
STARS - THE COUPLES - ON THE
00:42:48.76\00:42:51.30
COVER AND IT'S GOT THIS GLAMOUR
AND PEOPLE JUST VICARIOUSLY THEY
00:42:51.30\00:42:54.80
THINK, 'OH, IF I COULD JUST BE
AS GOOD LOOKING AS HIM OR HER'
00:42:54.80\00:42:57.84
AND 'LOOK AT ALL THE MONEY AND
THE MANSION AND THE CLOTHES' AND
00:42:57.84\00:43:00.08
THEY JUST SEEM TO HAVE SUCH
SUCCESS AND - BUT, IN REALITY,
00:43:00.08\00:43:03.41
THEIR LIVES ARE IN SHAMBLES.
AND SO, A LOT OF PEOPLE, WHEN
00:43:03.41\00:43:07.32
YOU THINK THE WICKED ARE
PROSPERING, IT MAY JUST LOOK
00:43:07.32\00:43:10.59
LIKE THAT ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT
THEY'RE OFTEN NOT PROSPERING.
00:43:10.59\00:43:13.79
IF YOU COULD GO INTO THEIR HOME
AND YOU HEAR THE SHOUTING AND
00:43:13.79\00:43:16.46
THE SCREAMING AND THE DRINKING
AND THE PROBLEMS AND - SO IT'S
00:43:16.46\00:43:20.96
AN ILLUSION. AND,
EVEN IF A PERSON LOOKS LIKE
00:43:20.96\00:43:23.10
THEY'RE PROSPERING FOR A LITTLE
WHILE, HOW LONG IS THIS LIFE?
00:43:23.10\00:43:29.14
LIKE GRASS, IT
WITHERS, AND THEN WE'RE JUDGED.
00:43:29.14\00:43:35.04
ALRIGHT, GOING BACK TO - I WANT
TO CONTINUE NOW AND I WANT TO
00:43:35.04\00:43:39.81
READ - I'M GOING TO GO FROM
VERSE 12 TO 21 IN JOB 4:12-21 -
00:43:39.81\00:43:45.95
STILL TALKING ABOUT ELIPHAZ
HERE. "NOW A WORD WAS SECRETLY
00:43:45.95\00:43:49.32
BROUGHT TO ME, AND MY EAR
RECEIVED A WHISPER OF IT."
00:43:49.32\00:43:53.43
- NOW HE STARTS TO TELL ABOUT
THIS SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCE -
00:43:53.43\00:43:56.40
"IN DISQUIETING THOUGHTS FROM
THE VISION OF THE NIGHT, WHEN
00:43:56.40\00:43:59.63
DEEP SLEEP FALLS ON MEN, FEAR
CAME UPON ME, AND TREMBLING,
00:43:59.63\00:44:03.24
WHICH MADE ALL MY BONES SHAKE.
THEN A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE MY
00:44:03.24\00:44:06.81
FACE; THE HAIR ON
MY BODY STOOD UP."
00:44:06.81\00:44:10.65
- YOU EVER BEEN SCARED
AND YOUR HAIR STANDS UP?
00:44:10.65\00:44:13.15
- I COULD USE A HAIR-RAISING
EXPERIENCE RIGHT NOW, ACTUALLY -
00:44:13.15\00:44:16.05
"IT STOOD STILL, BUT I COULD
NOT DISCERN ITS APPEARANCE.
00:44:16.05\00:44:18.99
A FORM WAS BEFORE MY EYES; THERE
WAS SILENCE; THEN I HEARD A
00:44:18.99\00:44:22.56
VOICE SAYING:" - HERE'S THE BIG
QUESTION - THIS VOICE GETTING
00:44:22.56\00:44:25.49
READY TO MAKE THIS DECLARATION -
"'CAN A MORTAL BE MORE RIGHTEOUS
00:44:25.49\00:44:29.46
THAN GOD? CAN A MAN BE
MORE PURE THAN HIS MAKER?
00:44:29.46\00:44:37.54
IF HE PUTS NO TRUST IN HIS
SERVANTS, IF HE CHARGES HIS
00:44:37.54\00:44:41.21
ANGELS WITH ERROR," - WERE THERE
ANGELS THAT WERE CHARGED WITH
00:44:41.21\00:44:44.88
ERROR AND WERE
THEY CAST OUT OF HEAVEN?
00:44:44.88\00:44:48.28
IF EVEN ANGELS ARE ACCOUNTABLE
- "HOW MUCH MORE THOSE WHO DWELL
00:44:48.28\00:44:52.42
IN HOUSES OF CLAY," - NOW, WHEN
HE TALKS ABOUT HOUSES OF CLAY,
00:44:52.42\00:44:54.72
IT'S NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN BRICK HOUSES
00:44:54.72\00:44:57.56
THERE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, HE'S
TALKING ABOUT OUR BODIES ARE
00:44:57.56\00:45:00.10
MADE OF CLAY - THESE ARE CALLED
HOUSES AND TABERNACLES - "HOW
00:45:00.10\00:45:03.80
MUCH MORE THOSE WHO DWELL IN
HOUSES OF CLAY, WHOSE FOUNDATION
00:45:03.80\00:45:08.77
IS IN THE DUST, WHO
ARE CRUSHED BEFORE A MOTH?"
00:45:08.77\00:45:14.71
- MOTHS WOULD COME THROUGH AND
PLAGUE THEIR PRODUCE AND THEY
00:45:14.71\00:45:17.88
WERE VULNERABLE TO MOTHS OR
LOCUSTS - "THEY ARE BROKEN IN
00:45:17.88\00:45:21.28
PIECES FROM MORNING TILL
EVENING; THEY PERISH FOREVER,
00:45:21.28\00:45:23.82
WITH NO ONE
REGARDING. DOES NOT THEIR OWN
00:45:23.82\00:45:26.62
EXCELLENCE GO AWAY? THEY
DIE, EVEN WITHOUT WISDOM.'"
00:45:26.62\00:45:29.69
AND SO, HE'S BASICALLY SAYING
THAT, YOU KNOW, 'MAN IS NOTHING'
00:45:29.69\00:45:36.26
AND 'HOW CAN WE BE MORE
RIGHTEOUS THAN GOD WHO MADE US?'
00:45:36.26\00:45:40.24
AND THIS IS THE BIG
QUESTION THAT'S BEING DEBATED.
00:45:40.24\00:45:42.30
ISAIAH 64:7 - I NEED TO HASTEN
ALONG HERE - HE SAYS, "AND THERE
00:45:42.30\00:45:48.58
IS NO ONE WHO CALLS ON YOUR
NAME, WHO STIRS HIMSELF UP TO
00:45:48.58\00:45:53.15
TAKE HOLD OF YOU; FOR YOU HAVE
HIDDEN YOUR FACE FROM US, AND
00:45:53.15\00:45:56.35
HAVE CONSUMED US
BECAUSE OF OUR INIQUITIES."
00:45:56.35\00:45:58.92
- AGAIN, TALKING
ABOUT HOW VULNERABLE WE ARE.
00:45:58.92\00:46:02.29
ROMANS 3 - HE SAYS THE SAME
THING - VERSE 19, "NOW WE KNOW
00:46:02.29\00:46:05.76
THAT WHATEVER THE LAW SAYS, IT
SAYS TO THOSE WHO ARE UNDER THE
00:46:05.76\00:46:08.26
LAW, THAT EVERY MOUTH MAY BE
STOPPED, AND ALL THE WORLD MAY
00:46:08.26\00:46:11.67
BECOME GUILTY BEFORE GOD." -
WE'VE ALL SINNED - "THEREFORE
00:46:11.67\00:46:14.57
BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW NO FLESH
WILL BE JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT,"
00:46:14.57\00:46:18.34
- IS A MAN MORE
RIGHTEOUS THAN GOD? NO.
00:46:18.34\00:46:20.44
"...NO FLESH WILL BE JUSTIFIED
IN HIS SIGHT, FOR BY THE LAW IS
00:46:20.44\00:46:23.65
THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN."
ALRIGHT, NEXT SECTION: THE
00:46:23.65\00:46:27.98
FOOLISH TAKING ROOT - AND
I ACTUALLY STOLE FROM MY OWN
00:46:27.98\00:46:31.65
THUNDER - I READ
PSALM 37 ALREADY AND
00:46:31.65\00:46:33.52
THAT'S IN MY NOTES.
WHO'S GOING TO READ,
00:46:33.52\00:46:34.79
FOR ME, PROVERBS 26:2?
MANJEET, YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:46:34.79\00:46:38.39
ALRIGHT, IT SAYS IN LUKE 1:52,
"HE HAS PUT DOWN THE MIGHTY FROM
00:46:38.39\00:46:46.07
THEIR THRONES, AND
EXALTED THE LOWLY."
00:46:46.07\00:46:49.47
GOD CAN COMPLETELY
TURN THE TABLES ON A PERSON.
00:46:49.47\00:46:52.47
AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT AN
EXAMPLE WHERE JOB WAS AT THE
00:46:52.47\00:46:55.78
PINNACLE - GOOD, WEALTHY,
HEALTHY, BLESSED, PROSPEROUS -
00:46:55.78\00:47:02.18
AND ALMOST OVERNIGHT HE GOES
FROM WEAK, SICK, DEVASTATED,
00:47:02.18\00:47:06.82
DESTITUTE - AND THEN GOD TAKES
HIM LATER AND BRINGS HIM BACK UP
00:47:06.82\00:47:11.13
AGAIN. GOD CAN COMPLETELY
00:47:11.13\00:47:13.56
TURN YOUR TABLES. I
CAN THINK OF A COUPLE OF
00:47:13.56\00:47:18.30
TIMES IN MY LIFE WHERE I
HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AND IN 24
00:47:18.30\00:47:24.47
HOURS, THE LORD COMPLETELY
TURNED MY CIRCUMSTANCES.
00:47:24.47\00:47:27.41
I REMEMBER ONCE, I'M NOT PROUD
OF IT, BUT I WAS IN JAIL AND I
00:47:27.41\00:47:31.28
GOT RELEASED FROM JAIL WITH
NOTHING BUT WHAT THE POLICE GAVE
00:47:31.28\00:47:33.42
ME - MY, YOU KNOW, WATCH AND
WALLET OR WHATEVER IT WAS - AND
00:47:33.42\00:47:36.32
I HAD NOTHING. I NEEDED TO GET
A JOB. I NEEDED TO GET A PLACE.
00:47:36.32\00:47:39.09
I NEEDED TO GET SOME FOOD -
I HAD NOTHING - AND I PRAYED -
00:47:39.09\00:47:42.22
THIS WAS THE EARLY DAYS WHEN
I WAS JUST LEARNING ABOUT THE
00:47:42.22\00:47:44.83
BIBLE AND, KEEP IN MIND,
IT WAS A TRANSITION FOR ME.
00:47:44.83\00:47:48.33
I THINK I WAS ARRESTED FOR
HITCHHIKING YEARS AGO AND I DID
00:47:48.33\00:47:51.77
NOT PAY THE FINE AND THEN I GOT
STOPPED FOR HITCHHIKING AGAIN
00:47:51.77\00:47:54.10
AND THEY HAD A WARRANT OUT FOR
MY ARREST AND SO THEY THREW ME
00:47:54.10\00:47:55.94
IN JAIL. AND I SAID,
'LORD, WILL YOU PLEASE HELP ME?'
00:47:55.94\00:48:00.11
AND I CAN'T TELL YOU ALL THE
CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT BEFORE THE
00:48:00.11\00:48:02.94
SUN WENT DOWN THAT DAY, THE
STRANGEST THINGS HAPPENED: I HAD
00:48:02.94\00:48:07.05
A JOB, I HAD FOOD, AND I HAD
A HOUSE - IN ONE DAY - AND I HAD
00:48:07.05\00:48:11.12
NO MONEY OR ANYTHING AT
THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY.
00:48:11.12\00:48:14.39
AND JUST COMPLETELY
REVERSED MY CIRCUMSTANCES.
00:48:14.39\00:48:19.33
ALRIGHT, I ACTUALLY GAVE YOU
THE VERSE I READ ALREADY, BUT GO
00:48:19.33\00:48:21.83
AHEAD, READ THAT AGAIN,
MANJEET - PROVERBS 26:2.
00:48:21.83\00:48:25.50
>>"LIKE A FLITTING SPARROW, LIKE
A FLYING SWALLOW, SO A CURSE
00:48:25.50\00:48:31.14
WITHOUT CAUSE SHALL NOT ALIGHT."
>>YEAH, NOW THAT - WHAT YOU
00:48:31.14\00:48:35.41
READ - WAS FROM
THE KING JAMES VERSION.
00:48:35.41\00:48:36.95
EARLIER IT WAS THE NEW KING
JAMES VERSION AND SO IT - IT'S
00:48:36.95\00:48:40.25
JUST - ACTUALLY, I THINK YOU
READ THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION
00:48:40.25\00:48:43.42
TOO - I TAKE THAT BACK.
ANYWAY, AGAIN, THAT'S PROVERBS
00:48:43.42\00:48:46.19
- THAT'S SOLOMON'S OBSERVATION
THAT THE CURSE WITHOUT
00:48:46.19\00:48:51.03
CAUSE DOES NOT
COME. THERE IS A REASON.
00:48:51.03\00:48:54.20
NOW, THE REASON MIGHT BE - WAS
THERE A REASON THE CURSE CAME TO
00:48:54.20\00:48:58.03
JOB? >>YES.
00:48:58.03\00:49:00.90
>>NO. >>NOT
BECAUSE OF JOB'S BADNESS,
00:49:00.90\00:49:03.04
BUT WAS THERE A REASON? >>YES.
00:49:03.04\00:49:05.24
>>THE REASON WAS THAT HE - THAT
GOD AND THE DEVIL WERE DEBATING
00:49:05.24\00:49:09.58
ON WHETHER HE WOULD REALLY
BE FAITHFUL AND GOD WITHDREW HIS
00:49:09.58\00:49:12.55
PROTECTION FROM JOB. YOU
SEE, MOST OF US, LIKE JOB,
00:49:12.55\00:49:15.82
ARE HEDGED IN BY GOD,
BECAUSE IF WE WEREN'T, THE DEVIL
00:49:15.82\00:49:18.45
WOULD TRY TO DESTROY US.
NOW, THERE ARE SOME OUT THERE
00:49:18.45\00:49:20.76
THAT THE DEVIL ACTUALLY OWNS AND
HE SORT OF BLESSES THEM OR USES
00:49:20.76\00:49:23.36
THEM FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES.
THEY JUST - THEY REALLY ARE
00:49:23.36\00:49:26.39
IN THE HANDS OF THE DEVIL.
BUT I THINK THAT GOD IS HEDGING
00:49:26.39\00:49:31.00
IN MOST PEOPLE AND
PROTECTING AND BLESSING.
00:49:31.00\00:49:33.23
ALRIGHT, LET'S SEE HERE.
AND THEN WE'VE GOT 1 CORINTHIANS
00:49:33.23\00:49:36.81
3:19, "FOR THE WISDOM OF THIS
WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD.
00:49:36.81\00:49:41.38
FOR IT IS WRITTEN, 'HE
CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR OWN
00:49:41.38\00:49:44.01
CRAFTINESS" - WE CAN'T ALWAYS
FIGURE OUT WHY THESE THINGS ARE
00:49:44.01\00:49:47.02
HAPPENING. PSALM
34:6, "THIS POOR MAN CRIED
00:49:47.02\00:49:51.32
OUT, AND THE LORD HEARD
HIM, AND SAVED HIM OUT OF ALL
00:49:51.32\00:49:54.02
OF HIS TROUBLES." SO
WHEN WE'RE GOING THROUGH
00:49:54.02\00:49:57.16
TROUBLES LIKE
JOB, WHAT'S THE ANSWER?
00:49:57.16\00:50:01.00
A POOR MAN CRIED OUT
AND THE LORD HEARD HIM.
00:50:01.00\00:50:04.03
WE'VE GOT TO JUST -
YOU'VE GOT TO TURN TO THE LORD.
00:50:04.03\00:50:05.80
DID JOB PRAY THROUGH - YOU READ
THE BOOK OF JOB AND HE'S CRYING
00:50:05.80\00:50:08.60
OUT. THE ANSWER
DIDN'T COME RIGHT AWAY.
00:50:08.60\00:50:11.84
WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF
JOB, HOW LONG DO YOU THINK JOB'S
00:50:11.84\00:50:16.18
SUFFERINGS LASTED? A FEW WEEKS.
00:50:16.18\00:50:24.19
WE DON'T KNOW, BUT, YOU KNOW,
I'VE GOT A THEORY - I CAN'T
00:50:24.19\00:50:27.59
PROVE IT - THAT - HOW LONG
DID THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT LAST?
00:50:27.59\00:50:34.10
A FEW WEEKS WHEN YOU
JUST BACK THEM UP, YOU KNOW?
00:50:34.10\00:50:36.23
IT SAYS, 'AND THERE WAS FOR THIS
DAY' AND THEN MOSES PRAYED AND
00:50:36.23\00:50:39.07
IT WENT AWAY AND THEN PHARAOH
WOULDN'T LET THEM GO AND HE
00:50:39.07\00:50:41.07
PRAYED - ANOTHER PLAGUE CAME
- AND YOU JUST KIND OF PIECE IT
00:50:41.07\00:50:43.77
TOGETHER AND IT'S LIKE, OH,
MAYBE A MONTH - ALL THOSE THINGS
00:50:43.77\00:50:47.18
HAPPENED VERY QUICKLY, WHICH
REMINDS US THAT IN THE LAST
00:50:47.18\00:50:50.31
DAYS, THE FINAL EVENTS COULD BE
RAPID ONES BECAUSE, IF YOU HAD
00:50:50.31\00:50:53.58
GONE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL A
FEW DAYS OR A MONTH BEFORE THEY
00:50:53.58\00:50:57.42
BEGAN THE EXODUS AND
SAID, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:50:57.42\00:50:59.25
YOU'RE GOING TO BE ON YOUR
WAY TO THE PROMISED LAND IN A
00:50:59.25\00:51:01.29
MONTH.' THEY'D SAY, 'OH,
NO, GOVERNMENT WORKS TOO SLOWLY.
00:51:01.29\00:51:04.56
WE'LL NEVER - WE HAVE COMMITTEES
AND THERE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE
00:51:04.56\00:51:06.80
APPEALS AND THEN THE COURT'S
GOING TO HAVE TO MEET AND 'OH,
00:51:06.80\00:51:09.50
WE'LL NEVER GET OUT OF HERE.''
BUT THEY LEFT THE GOD FACTOR
00:51:09.50\00:51:12.63
OUT. AND WHEN THE PLAGUES FELL,
00:51:12.63\00:51:14.80
THINGS HAPPENED VERY QUICKLY.
JOB'S SUFFERING - IT SEEMED LIKE
00:51:14.80\00:51:18.61
IT WAS A BLITZKRIEG, WHERE THE
DEVIL JUST HIT HIM WITH THESE
00:51:18.61\00:51:22.11
THINGS ONE AFTER ANOTHER.
IF YOU READ THE ENTIRE BOOK OF
00:51:22.11\00:51:25.61
JOB, THIS DISCOURSE COULD
HAVE ALL HAPPENED IN ONE DAY.
00:51:25.61\00:51:29.68
YOU AND I CAN READ THE
WHOLE BOOK OF JOB IN A COUPLE OF
00:51:29.68\00:51:32.12
HOURS. I KNOW,
I'VE LISTENED TO IT
00:51:32.12\00:51:34.59
WHILE I WAS DRIVING
DOWN THE ROAD IN MY CAR.
00:51:34.59\00:51:37.66
AND SO, THIS COULD HAVE BEEN
THE DISCOURSE ALL OF ONE DAY.
00:51:37.66\00:51:42.46
AND SO, HE - JOB PRAYED - CRIED
OUT AND GOD GAVE - SAVED HIM
00:51:42.46\00:51:45.73
FROM HIS TROUBLES - BUT
SOMETIMES YOU AND I GO THROUGH
00:51:45.73\00:51:47.50
TROUBLES AND WE DON'T
GET DELIVERANCE RIGHT AWAY.
00:51:47.50\00:51:50.57
AND YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PRAY FOR
AWHILE BEFORE YOU GET AN ANSWER.
00:51:50.57\00:51:56.08
HEBREWS 12:4-6, "AND YOU HAVE
FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION WHICH
00:51:56.08\00:52:02.95
SPEAKS TO YOU AS SONS: 'MY SON,
DO NOT DESPISE THE CHASTENING OF
00:52:02.95\00:52:07.52
THE LORD, NOR BE DISCOURAGED
WHEN YOU ARE REBUKED BY HIM;'"
00:52:07.52\00:52:12.73
NOW, WHO WOULD BE ENCOURAGED
IF THEY'RE REBUKED BY THE LORD?
00:52:12.73\00:52:16.16
IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU BE HAPPY
ABOUT IT, IN THAT SENSE, BUT YOU
00:52:16.16\00:52:18.00
NEED TO JUST SAY,
'ALRIGHT, THANK YOU, LORD.
00:52:18.00\00:52:20.14
I NEEDED THAT.' DON'T BE
DISCOURAGED WHEN YOU'RE REBUKED
00:52:20.14\00:52:22.74
BY HIM, "FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVES
HE CHASTENS, AND SCOURGES EVERY
00:52:22.74\00:52:27.91
SON WHOM HE RECEIVES."
HE SCOURGES SOME OR EVERY?
00:52:27.91\00:52:34.52
WHAT DID I JUST READ?
HE SCOURGES EVERY SON - AND
00:52:34.52\00:52:37.69
DAUGHTER. WHAT
THAT MEANS - A SCOURGING
00:52:37.69\00:52:39.79
MEANS TRIALS OR DISCIPLINE.
EVERY BELIEVER IS GOING TO GO
00:52:39.79\00:52:43.56
THROUGH SOME
DISCIPLINE WITH GOD.
00:52:43.56\00:52:46.06
SO, NEXT SECTION - LAST SECTION
HERE - IT TALKS ABOUT RUSHED TO
00:52:46.06\00:52:50.63
JUDGMENT AND IT BEGINS WITH
A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK EDUCATION
00:52:50.63\00:52:54.64
PAGE 146, "NO TRUTH DOES THE
BIBLE MORE CLEARLY TEACH THAN
00:52:54.64\00:52:59.94
THAT WHICH - THAT WHAT WE
DO IS A RESULT OF WHAT WE ARE.
00:52:59.94\00:53:05.68
TO A GREAT DEGREE, THE
EXPERIENCES OF LIFE ARE THE
00:53:05.68\00:53:09.28
FRUITION OF OUR OWN
THOUGHTS AND DEEDS."
00:53:09.28\00:53:11.85
AND WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT
THERE IS, THERE IS CAUSE AND
00:53:11.85\00:53:15.26
EFFECT IN LIFE. YOU
ARE, TODAY, WHO YOU ARE, AS
00:53:15.26\00:53:22.26
THE RESULT OF, LARGELY, CHOICES
YOU'VE MADE AND WHAT YOU'VE
00:53:22.26\00:53:26.63
TAKEN IN - EVERYTHING FROM YOUR
MOTHER AND YOUR FATHER AND YOUR
00:53:26.63\00:53:29.70
ENVIRONMENT, BUT IT
KIND OF CREATES A SUM TOTAL
00:53:29.70\00:53:32.21
OF WHO YOU ARE.
THERE'S A CAUSE AND EFFECT.
00:53:32.21\00:53:35.18
NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, WHEN A
PERSON'S SUFFERING - WE'RE JUST
00:53:35.18\00:53:39.28
GOING TO TIE THIS OFF HERE - DID
JOB'S FRIENDS MISUNDERSTAND WHY
00:53:39.28\00:53:43.89
JOB WAS GOING
THROUGH HIS TRIALS?
00:53:43.89\00:53:45.55
>>YES. >>THEY
THOUGHT THERE WAS SOME
00:53:45.55\00:53:46.65
HIDDEN SIN IN HIS LIFE HE
WASN'T CONFESSING - THERE WAS
00:53:46.65\00:53:49.06
SOMETHING EVIL HE HAD
DONE. THEY WERE WRONG.
00:53:49.06\00:53:52.56
WHAT DOES THAT
TELL US ABOUT JUDGING?
00:53:52.56\00:53:54.10
>>DON'T DO IT.
>>WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL.
00:53:54.10\00:53:58.57
NOW, DOES THE BIBLE
SAY 'DON'T EVER JUDGE'?
00:53:58.57\00:54:01.44
DOESN'T IT SAY 'JUDGE NOT'?
00:54:01.44\00:54:03.97
IF YOU STOP THE VERSE THERE,
'JUDGE NOT' MEANS 'DON'T EVER
00:54:03.97\00:54:05.87
JUDGE.' THOU
SHALT NOT JUDGE - NEVER?
00:54:05.87\00:54:09.78
NO, IT SAYS, 'JUDGE NOT THAT
YOU BE NOT JUDGED.' AND THE WORD
00:54:09.78\00:54:12.51
'JUDGE' THERE, REALLY MEANS
'DON'T CONDEMN' - 'FOR WITH
00:54:12.51\00:54:15.55
WHAT JUDGMENT YOU JUDGE YOU WILL
BE JUDGED, AND WITH WHAT MEASURE
00:54:15.55\00:54:19.62
YOU USE IT'LL BE MEASURED BACK
TO YOU.' JESUS SAID, 'WHEN YOU
00:54:19.62\00:54:23.73
JUDGE, USE A
RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.'
00:54:23.73\00:54:27.00
AND PAUL SAID, AREN'T
YOU ABLE TO JUDGE ANYTHING?'
00:54:27.00\00:54:29.66
MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO
READ THAT HERE IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:54:29.66\00:54:32.00
ROMANS 2, VERSES 1 THROUGH 3,
"THEREFORE YOU ARE INEXCUSABLE,
00:54:32.00\00:54:35.94
O MAN, WHOEVER YOU ARE WHO
JUDGE, FOR IN WHATEVER YOU JUDGE
00:54:35.94\00:54:39.17
ANOTHER YOU CONDEMN YOURSELF;
FOR YOU WHO JUDGE PRACTICE THE
00:54:39.17\00:54:44.08
SAME THINGS. BUT WE
KNOW THAT THE JUDGMENT OF
00:54:44.08\00:54:46.78
GOD IS ACCORDING TO
TRUTH AGAINST THOSE WHO
00:54:46.78\00:54:48.85
PRACTICE SUCH THINGS.
AND DO YOU THINK THIS, O MAN,
00:54:48.85\00:54:51.85
YOU WHO JUDGE THOSE PRACTICING
SUCH THINGS, AND DOING THE
00:54:51.85\00:54:54.52
SAME, THAT YOU WILL
ESCAPE THE JUDGMENT OF GOD?"
00:54:54.52\00:54:56.93
SO YOU'VE GOT TO ESPECIALLY BE
CAREFUL BECAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING
00:54:56.93\00:54:59.33
TO BE EXAMINING SOMEONE
ELSE, ARE YOU BEING A HYPOCRITE?
00:54:59.33\00:55:04.37
1 CORINTHIANS 4, VERSES 3
THROUGH 5, "BUT WITH ME IT IS A
00:55:04.37\00:55:08.90
VERY SMALL THING THAT I SHOULD
BE JUDGED BY YOU OR BY A HUMAN
00:55:08.90\00:55:11.87
COURT. IN FACT, I DO
NOT EVEN JUDGE MYSELF.
00:55:11.87\00:55:14.74
FOR I KNOW OF NOTHING AGAINST
MYSELF, YET I AM NOT JUSTIFIED
00:55:14.74\00:55:18.11
BY THIS; BUT HE WHO
JUDGES ME IS THE LORD.
00:55:18.11\00:55:21.32
THEREFORE JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE
THE TIME, UNTIL THE LORD COMES,
00:55:21.32\00:55:25.35
WHO WILL BOTH BRING TO LIGHT THE
HIDDEN THINGS OF DARKNESS AND
00:55:25.35\00:55:28.76
REVEAL THE
COUNSELS OF THE HEARTS.
00:55:28.76\00:55:30.79
THEN EACH ONE'S
PRAISE WILL COME FROM GOD."
00:55:30.79\00:55:36.70
SOMETIMES WE GO TO FUNERALS AND
A PERSON'S ETERNAL FUTURE MIGHT
00:55:36.70\00:55:41.20
BE IN DOUBT. I WON'T
ASK IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN
00:55:41.20\00:55:43.37
TO ONE OF THOSE
FUNERALS - AND YOU'RE WONDERING,
00:55:43.37\00:55:46.04
'WILL HE OR SHE MAKE
IT? WERE THEY READY?'
00:55:46.04\00:55:49.91
AND MOST OF US ARE JUST GOING
TO HAVE TO SAY WE DON'T KNOW.
00:55:49.91\00:55:54.15
THERE'S TIMES WHERE I'VE BEEN
VERY CONFIDENT THAT A PERSON
00:55:54.15\00:55:56.82
KNEW THE LORD AND THEY HAD
THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT AND I'M
00:55:56.82\00:55:59.22
GOING TO SEE THEM
AGAIN IN THE KINGDOM.
00:55:59.22\00:56:01.02
AND THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHERE
IT REALLY DIDN'T LOOK GOOD.
00:56:01.02\00:56:05.66
I, YOU KNOW, WHEN A PERSON
CRASHES A CAR OFF A CLIFF AND
00:56:05.66\00:56:12.23
THEY'RE - 'CAUSE THEY'VE JUST
COME FROM A WILD PARTY, YOU'RE
00:56:12.23\00:56:15.87
WONDERING - BUT YOU'VE GOT TO BE
CAREFUL NOT TO JUDGE BECAUSE GOD
00:56:15.87\00:56:24.05
KNOWS. WE CAN'T CONDEMN.
00:56:24.05\00:56:26.35
YOU JUST HAVE TO PUT THOSE
THINGS IN THE LORD'S HANDS AND
00:56:26.35\00:56:29.15
KNOW THAT GOD'S DESPERATE TO
SAVE PEOPLE MORE THAN WE ARE,
00:56:29.15\00:56:31.15
AMEN? BUT HE'S
NOT SAYING, WHEN HE
00:56:31.15\00:56:34.79
SAYS, 'DON'T JUDGE',
'DON'T EVER USE JUDGMENT'.
00:56:34.79\00:56:37.23
FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU'RE A CHURCH
MEMBER AND YOU SEE A BROTHER OR
00:56:37.23\00:56:39.66
SISTER, THEY START MISSING
CHURCH, AND THEY SEEM TO START
00:56:39.66\00:56:42.33
BEING WEAK IN THE FAITH,
USE YOUR JUDGMENT AND SAY, 'YOU
00:56:42.33\00:56:46.00
KNOW, THEY SEEM TO BE DRIFTING
AND I CARE.' AND YOU CAN GO TO
00:56:46.00\00:56:48.34
THEM AND YOU APPEAL TO THEM.
JAMES SAYS DO IT IN A SPIRIT OF
00:56:48.34\00:56:51.61
MEEKNESS, NOT CONDEMNATION,
LEST YOU BE TEMPTED YOURSELF.
00:56:51.61\00:56:56.21
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DO NEED
TO CARE AND WE DO NEED TO USE
00:56:56.21\00:56:58.35
COMMON SENSE AND JUST -
JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU JUDGE, USE A
00:56:58.35\00:57:01.18
RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.' TIME
IS UP, BUT I HOPE WE'VE LEARNED
00:57:01.18\00:57:04.32
SOMETHING TODAY
FROM THE BOOK OF JOB.
00:57:04.32\00:57:06.65
I WANT TO REMIND YOU, IF YOU
MISSED IT AT THE BEGINNING, WE
00:57:06.65\00:57:08.56
DO HAVE A FREE OFFER. IT'S
CALLED THE POSITIVE SIDE OF
00:57:08.56\00:57:11.66
SUFFERING. IT'S A
SERMON DONE BY YOURS TRULY,
00:57:11.66\00:57:15.06
THAT TALKS ABOUT 'WHY
DO WE GO THROUGH TRIALS?
00:57:15.06\00:57:16.97
AND WHAT'S A GOOD
THING TO LEARN FROM THAT?'
00:57:16.97\00:57:18.77
I THINK YOU'LL
BE BLESSED BY THIS.
00:57:18.77\00:57:19.90
WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. ALL
YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS ASK FOR
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OFFER #819 AND CALL 866-788-3966
FOR THAT FREE OFFER.
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THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE AND THEN
WHEN YOU LISTEN, PLEASE SHARE IT
00:57:28.64\00:57:32.21
WITH A FRIEND. GOD
BLESS YOU, FRIENDS, WE LOOK
00:57:32.21\00:57:34.45
FORWARD TO STUDYING WITH YOU
AGAIN, GOD WILLING, NEXT WEEK.
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>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
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OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
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PROBABLY TELLING
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