(MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS. WELCOME, AGAIN, TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THOSE
JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD - OUR
EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS.
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WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT YOU'RE PART
OF THIS TIME STUDYING TOGETHER.
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AND ALSO, THE MEMBERS OF THE
GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND THOSE WHO
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ARE VISITING - ALWAYS GOOD
TO SEE YOU HERE SABBATH AFTER
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SABBATH - EARLY -
READY TO STUDY THE LESSON.
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OUR LESSON - WE'RE GOING TO
CONTINUE IN THE BOOK OF JOB AND
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WE'RE ON LESSON #7 WHICH IS
ENTITLED RETRIBUTIVE PUNISHMENT
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. NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO
MIGHT NOT HAVE A COPY OF OUR
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LESSON DEALING WITH JOB, YOU CAN
GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE
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AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD
LESSON #7 AND YOU CAN STUDY
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RIGHT ALONG WITH US TOGETHER
AS WE LOOK AT THIS IMPORTANT
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SUBJECT. WE HAVE A BOOK THAT
GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY,
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IT'S A BOOK
ENTITLED YOUR CASE IN COURT .
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THIS IS OUR FREE OFFER THIS
MORNING, SO FOR ANYBODY JOINING
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US ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, YOU CAN
CALL US ON OUR RESOURCE PHONE
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NUMBER 866-788-3966 AND
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YOUR CASE IN COURT - OFFER #192
- AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND
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AMERICA, JUST GO TO THE AMAZING
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READ IT FOR FREE ONLINE.
WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR
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STUDY, AS WE NORMALLY DO,
WE LIKE TO LIFT OUR VOICES IN
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PRAISE. I'D
LIKE TO ENCOURAGE AND
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WELCOME OUR SONG LEADERS TO
COME AND LET'S SING TOGETHER.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
WE ARE EXCITED TO BE HERE TO
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SING YOUR FAVORITES WITH
YOU. WE'RE READY HERE AT THE
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GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH, SO IF YOU'RE
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AT HOME, PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS
AND JOIN WITH US. OUR FIRST ONE
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IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES - A CHILD
OF THE KING - WE'RE GOING TO DO
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THE FIRST, SECOND,
AND FOURTH STANZAS - #468.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WHEN YOU HAVE THE
ASSURANCE THAT YOU ARE A CHILD
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OF THE KING, IT TRULY DOESN'T
MATTER WHAT YOUR LOT IS IN LIFE
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ON THIS EARTH - WHETHER YOU
LIVE IN A PALACE OR A COTTAGE.
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AS A CHILD, I LIVED IN A MUD HUT
IN THE JUNGLE OF BELIZE FOR A
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YEAR WITH A MUD FLOOR
AND A THATCHED ROOF AND A BOA
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CONSTRICTOR UP IN THE CEILING
AND, YOU KNOW, TRULY, IT DOESN'T
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MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE OR HOW
MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE IN THE BANK
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BECAUSE ONE DAY WE'RE GOING TO
BE IN HEAVEN WITH A PALACE AND,
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MOST IMPORTANTLY, WITH JESUS,
WHICH GIVES US LOTS OF JOY AND
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SUNSHINE IN OUR SOULS
WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THAT, AMEN.
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#470 - THERE IS SUNSHINE IN MY
SOUL TODAY - JUST ON THE OTHER
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SIDE OF THE PAGE. AND
WE WILL ALSO DO THE FIRST,
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SECOND, AND
FOURTH STANZAS. (MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SINGING ALONG WITH US AND, AT
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THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS
WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER.
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>>LET'S BEGIN WITH A WORD OF
PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
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WHAT A PRIVILEGE, ONCE AGAIN, TO
BE ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR HOUSE,
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IN YOUR PRESENCE,
TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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AND LORD, AS WE LOOK TO THE
STORY OF JOB AND SEE THE GREAT
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CONTROVERSY BEING PLAYED OUT
AND THE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING
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MADE, I PRAY THAT OUR FAITH
WOULD BE ENCOURAGED - THAT WE
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WOULD BE STRENGTHENED TO
RECOGNIZE YOUR LOVE, AND THAT
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YOU'RE AWARE OF EVERY TRIAL
AND DIFFICULTY THAT WE FACE.
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SO BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER,
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. OUR LESSON
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THIS MORNING IS GOING TO BE
BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU, PASTOR
ROSS. GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
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>>GOOD MORNING.
>>HOW IS EVERYBODY?
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IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD -
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>>AMEN. >>HERE IN SACRAMENTO.
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I GUESS WE'RE NOT REALLY
IN SACRAMENTO - WE'RE AT THE
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GRANITE BAY
CHURCH IN ROCKLIN, RIGHT?
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LONG STORY BEHIND THAT. WE
ARE A CHURCH PLANT IN GRANITE
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BAY, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE RENTING
A CHURCH IN ROCKLIN WHILE
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WE BUILD IN GRANITE BAY.
PEOPLE HAVE SOMETIMES TYPED THE
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH INTO
THEIR GPS AND THEY CAN'T FIND A
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GRANITE BAY CHURCH IN GRANITE
BAY AND THAT CONFUSES THEM.
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ANYWAY, THAT'S TOO
MUCH INFORMATION, FRIENDS.
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WELCOME TO OUR SABBATH
SCHOOL STUDY TIME, AND WE ARE
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CONTINUING OUR STUDY IN THE
BOOK OF JOB AND TODAY WE ARE IN
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LESSON #7 AND THE LESSON IS
CALLED RETRIBUTIVE PUNISHMENT .
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YOU'VE HEARD OF RETRIBUTION?
RETRIBUTIVE PUNISHMENT - AND WE
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HAVE A MEMORY VERSE FROM
JOB 11:7 AND IF YOU WANT TO SAY
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THAT WITH ME, YOU CAN GO THERE.
THIS IS FROM THE NEW KING JAMES
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VERSION - JOB
11:7 - ARE YOU READY?
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"CAN YOU SEARCH OUT
THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD?
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CAN YOU FIND OUT THE
LIMITS OF THE ALMIGHTY?"
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I HEARD A PREACHER SAYING, JUST
THIS WEEK, THAT BECAUSE GOD IS
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ALL-KNOWING, THAT WE
SHOULD DESPAIR - NOT EVEN TRY TO
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UNDERSTAND WHY GOD IS DOING
WHAT HE'S DOING BECAUSE IT'S
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IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO
UNDERSTAND THE MIND OF GOD.
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I'D RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE.
MAN IS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD
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AND GOD WANTS TO APPEAL TO
OUR INTELLECT AND HE SAYS, 'COME
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LET US REASON TOGETHER'.
GOD WANTS US TO USE OUR NOODLE,
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AS THEY SAY, HE WANTS US TO
THINK AND HE WANTS US TO KNOW
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HIM AND HE WANTS US TO THINK
ABOUT WHY HE DOES WHAT HE DOES.
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AND SO, YES, IT IS TRUE THAT
WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT GOD KNOWS
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- AND THE BIBLE SAYS, 'AS
THE HEAVENS ARE HIGH ABOVE THE
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EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS ABOVE YOUR
WAYS.' THE LORD STILL WANTS US
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TO THINK. AND I
THINK HE ENJOYS FOR US TO
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STUDY TO BETTER
UNDERSTAND HIS MIND.
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SO IT IS TRUE THAT WE CANNOT
SEARCH OUT THE DEEP THINGS OF
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GOD. I THINK HE
WANTS US TO KNOW AS
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MUCH AS WE CAN AND
WE'LL SPEND ETERNITY TRYING TO
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UNDERSTAND THE MIND OF
GOD AND TO BE LIKE HIM.
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ALRIGHT, IN OUR FIRST SECTION
HERE, IT'S MORE ACCUSATIONS -
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NOW, YOU REALIZE, AS WE GO
THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB, THE
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FIRST COUPLE OF CHAPTERS ARE
TELLING ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES
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- THINGS THAT HAPPEN - AND THEN,
ONCE YOU GET INTO CHAPTER 3 ON
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UNTIL YOU GET TO ABOUT CHAPTER
39, IT'S A DIALOGUE THAT IS
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HAPPENING. AND
THEN, EVENTUALLY, YOU GET
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INTO THE CONCLUSIONS
WHERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT SOME
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ACTUAL EVENTS AGAIN.
WE'RE NOW INTO THE DIALOGUE.
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WE STARTED LAST WEEK AND WE'RE
LOOKING AT, PRINCIPALLY, TODAY,
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THE RESPONSES OF BILDAD
IN CHAPTER 8 AND IN ZOPHAR IN
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CHAPTER 11. NOW, I
WANT TO SAY JUST A WORD
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ABOUT WHO THESE CHARACTERS ARE.
I TOUCHED ON IT BRIEFLY LAST
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WEEK, BUT YOU'VE GOT JOB AND HIS
THREE FRIENDS, AND THEN A FOURTH
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FRIEND SHOWS UP - I'M NOT GOING
TO TALK ABOUT HIM YET, BEFORE
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THE DISCOURSE IS DONE.
ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, BILDAD THE
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SHUHITE, ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE.
NOW, JOB IS ACTUALLY SOMETIMES
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HARDER FOR US TO FIGURE OUT THAN
HIS FRIENDS. HIS FRIENDS APPEAR
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IN THE BIBLE AND SO WE CAN
KIND OF GET SOME BACKGROUND.
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FOR EXAMPLE, ELIPHAZ THE
TEMANITE - YOU CAN READ IN
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GENESIS 36, VERSE 11 - IT SAYS,
"THE SONS OF ELIPHAZ" - IT TELLS
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US ELIPHAZ WAS ONE OF THE SONS
OF ESAU - AND THEN IT GOES IN
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THE GENEALOGY AND IT SAYS,
"THE SONS OF ELIPHAZ WERE TEMAN,
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OMAR, ZEPHO, GATAM, AND KENAZ."
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BY THE WAY, THE KENAZITES WERE
SOME FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELITES.
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YOU REMEMBER THIS GIRL NAMED
JAAL THAT WHEN A FLEEING ENEMY
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GENERAL CAME, NAMED CICERO, CAME
TO HER TENT, SHE DROVE HER TENT
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STAKE IN HIM. SHE
WAS FROM THE TRIBE OF THE
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KENAZITES, AND SO,
THEY WERE RELATED TO ESAU.
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NOW, YOU MIGHT WONDER, 'WHY
DOES IT CALL HIM ELIPHAZ THE
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TEMANITE?' HE HAD
A SON NAMED TEMAN.
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IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON FOR THEM
TO NAME A TOWN AFTER THEIR SON.
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FOR EXAMPLE, GENESIS 4:17,
"AND CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE, AND SHE
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CONCEIVED AND BORE ENOCH.
AND HE BUILT A CITY, AND CALLED
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THE NAME OF THE CITY AFTER
THE NAME OF HIS SON - ENOCH."
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HERE HE HAD A SON, HE NAMED THE
SON - HE NAMED THE CITY AFTER
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HIS SON - SO THE REASON ELIPHAZ
IS CALLED 'THE TEMANITE' IS
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BECAUSE HE CAME FROM THE
CITY NAMED AFTER HIS SON.
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REMEMBER, THEY LIVED
A LONG TIME BACK THEN.
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AND YOU CAN READ IN OBADIAH 9,
"THEN YOUR MIGHTY MEN, O TEMAN,
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SHALL BE DISMAYED, TO THE END
THAT EVERYONE FROM THE MOUNTAINS
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OF ESAU" - SO THERE YOU HAVE IT
AGAIN; ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE IS
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RELATED TO THE CHILDREN OF ESAU.
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THIS WAS IN THE DESERTS
THAT ARE SOUTHEAST OF ISRAEL.
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NEXT YOU'VE GOT BILDAD THE
SHUHITE - OH, BY THE WAY, THE
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NAME 'ELIPHAZ' MEANS
'ENDEAVOR' OR 'STRENGTH OF GOD'.
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THESE ARE GOOD NAMES
THESE GUYS HAD - EXCEPT BILDAD,
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HE'S GOT THE NAME
'SON OF CONTENTION'.
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IT MAKES HIM
SOUND ARGUMENTATIVE.
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SON OF CONTENTION - AND
HE'S CALLED 'BILDAD THE SHUHITE.
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YOU CAN READ IN GENESIS 25:1 AND
2, "ABRAHAM AGAIN TOOK A WIFE,
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AND HER NAME WAS KETURAH."
- THIS WAS AFTER SARAH DIES;
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ABRAHAM MARRIES AGAIN.
BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, HE MAY
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HAVE ACTUALLY HAD MORE THAN
ONE BESIDES KETURAH BECAUSE IT
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TALKS ABOUT 'THE SONS OF HIS
CONCUBINES' - PLURAL - 'HE SENT
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AWAY FROM ESAU.' NOW, THEY MIGHT
BE THINKING THE CONCUBINES WERE
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HAGAR AND KETURAH,
THAT'S WHY IT'S PLURAL.
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THEY WERE WONDERING
IF HE HAD OTHERS BESIDES.
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BUT IT TELLS ABOUT THE NAMES AND
IT SAYS HERE, HE "...GAVE GIFTS
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TO THE SONS OF THE CONCUBINES
WHICH ABRAHAM HAD;" - I'M,
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AGAIN, IN GENESIS 25:6 - "AND
WHILE HE WAS STILL LIVING HE
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SENT THEM EASTWARD, AWAY FROM
ISAAC HIS SON, TO THE COUNTRY IN
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THE EAST." BUT IT
SAYS KETURAH BORE HIM
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ZIMRAN, JOKSHAN, MEDAN,
MIDIAN, ISHBAK, AND SHUAH.
00:15:04.83\00:15:11.41
AND SO BILDAD IS THE SHUHITE,
MEANING THAT HE'S FROM THE AREA
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OF SHUAH. THIS
IS WHERE THE SONS OF
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KETURAH CAME - EASTWARD AGAIN,
BACK IN THE VICINITY OF ESAU.
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AND THEN YOU HAVE ZOPHAR -
AND THE WORD 'ZOPHAR' MEANS 'TO
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LEAP'. I WAS
LISTENING TO J. VERNON
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MCGEE, THAT OLD SOUTHERN
PREACHER - IT SAYS - HE SAID,
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'IT'S BECAUSE ZOPHAR KEPT
LEAPING TO CONCLUSIONS IN HIS
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RESPONSES TO JOB.' I DON'T KNOW
IF I CAN SUPPORT THAT, BUT I
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THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING.
HE WAS THE NAAMATHITE.
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YOU CAN READ IN JOSHUA 15:21, IT
SAYS, "THE UTTERMOST CITIES OF
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THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF
JUDAH TOWARDS THE COAST OF EDOM"
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- EDOM IS WHERE THE PEOPLE OF
ESAU WERE, AGAIN, DESCENDANTS OF
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ESAU, AND IT NAMES SOME OF
THEM: "...GEDEROTH, BETH DAGON,
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NAAMAH" - SO SOME OF THE CITIES
THAT BELONGED TO ESAU - ONE OF
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THEM WAS NAAMAH AND YOU'VE
GOT ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE.
00:16:05.16\00:16:08.56
AND SO, IT'S REALLY CONCLUSIVE
WHERE THIS ALL TOOK PLACE AND,
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YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW, BUT THE
BIBLE DOES TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE
00:16:13.80\00:16:16.44
KINGS OF EDOM WAS JOBAB AND
SOME HAVE WONDERED IF THIS KING,
00:16:16.44\00:16:23.14
JOBAB, WAS THE SAME JOB OF THE
LAND OF EDOM, BECAUSE IT SAYS HE
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WAS THE
GREATEST MAN OF THE EAST.
00:16:28.08\00:16:29.78
SO, ANYWAY, THIS JUST GIVES
YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON THESE
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GUYS. AND SO,
WE'RE GOING TO READ A
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LITTLE BIT, NOW, OF WHAT BILDAD
SAYS AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
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FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, JAMES
4:14 - THAT'LL BE YOU, MANJEET?
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ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO
READ FIRST, JOB 8 - THIS IS THE
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RESPONSE AFTER JOB HAS BROKEN
FORTH AND SHARED HIS BROKEN
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HEART. IT SAYS, "THEN BILDAD THE
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SHUHITE ANSWERED AND SAID:
'HOW LONG WITH YOU SPEAK THESE
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THINGS, AND THE WORDS OF YOUR
MOUTH BE LIKE A STRONG WIND?"
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- HOW WOULD THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
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YOU EVER HEARD
SOMEONE CALLED A 'BLOWHARD'?
00:17:06.59\00:17:09.32
JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE FULL OF HOT
AIR - SOME OF THESE EXPRESSIONS,
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THIS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT
BILDAD'S SAYING TO HIS GOOD
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FRIEND WHO JUST LOST EVERYBODY
AND EVERYTHING - "AND THE WORDS
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OF YOUR MOUTH BE
LIKE A STRONG WIND?
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DOES GOD SUBVERT JUDGMENT?"
IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S SAYING,
00:17:20.90\00:17:22.97
'WHY ARE YOU SAYING 'WHY?
WHY, LORD? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
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YOU'RE DOING THINGS WRONG'
- "DOES GOD SUBVERT JUDGMENT?
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OR DOES THE
ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUSTICE?
00:17:28.84\00:17:31.31
IF YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED AGAINST
HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM AWAY FOR
00:17:31.31\00:17:35.98
THEIR TRANSGRESSION." AND
SO, IT'S TELLING US THAT HIS
00:17:35.98\00:17:41.12
SONS WERE SUFFERING BECAUSE
THEY DID SOMETHING WRONG.
00:17:41.12\00:17:46.33
HOW DO YOU THINK IT WOULD MAKE
YOU FEEL IF YOU LOST YOUR SONS -
00:17:46.33\00:17:50.50
OR YOUR CHILDREN
- AND JOB LOST WHAT?
00:17:50.50\00:17:52.97
HIS SONS AND HIS DAUGHTERS -
AND SOMEONE SAID, 'WELL, IT'S
00:17:52.97\00:17:55.84
BECAUSE THEY GOT
WHAT THEY DESERVED.'
00:17:55.84\00:17:58.27
WOULD THAT BE WHAT
YOU'D SAY TO COMFORT THEM?
00:17:58.27\00:18:00.91
JOB IS BROKEN HEARTED - NOT ONLY
HAS HE LOST EVERYTHING, HE'S
00:18:00.91\00:18:04.55
LOST EVERYONE, HE'S LOST HIS
HEALTH - AND THEN YOU'VE GOT A
00:18:04.55\00:18:07.28
FRIEND WHO SAYS, 'WELL, MAYBE
THEY'RE JUST GETTING WHAT THEY
00:18:07.28\00:18:11.55
DESERVE.' ALRIGHT, AND IF YOU
READ IN JOB 8:5-9, "IF YOU WOULD
00:18:11.55\00:18:18.93
EARNESTLY SEEK GOD AND MAKE YOUR
SUPPLICATION TO THE ALMIGHTY, IF
00:18:18.93\00:18:23.03
YOU WERE PURE AND UPRIGHT,
SURELY NOW HE WOULD AWAKEN FOR
00:18:23.03\00:18:27.67
YOU, AND PROSPER YOUR
RIGHTFUL DWELLING PLACE."
00:18:27.67\00:18:31.17
- HE SAYS, 'WELL, IF YOU WERE
PURER, GOD WOULD STEP IN RIGHT
00:18:31.17\00:18:33.84
NOW, HE WOULD HEAR YOUR PRAYER,
HE'D TURN THINGS AROUND - BUT
00:18:33.84\00:18:35.91
LOOK, YOU'VE BEEN SUFFERING FOR
DAYS, MAYBE WEEKS LIKE THIS -
00:18:35.91\00:18:38.61
YOU'RE PROBABLY GETTING WHAT
YOU DESERVE.' - "THOUGH YOUR
00:18:38.61\00:18:42.22
BEGINNING WAS SMALL, YET
YOUR LATTER END WOULD INCREASE
00:18:42.22\00:18:45.32
ABUNDANTLY. FOR
INQUIRE, PLEASE, OF THE
00:18:45.32\00:18:48.36
FORMER AGE, AND CONSIDER
THE THINGS DISCOVERED BY THEIR
00:18:48.36\00:18:51.73
FATHERS; FOR WE WERE BORN
YESTERDAY, AND KNOW NOTHING,
00:18:51.73\00:18:55.33
BECAUSE OUR DAYS ON
EARTH ARE A SHADOW."
00:18:55.33\00:18:58.57
NOW AGAIN, WE'VE GOT
THIS STATEMENT THAT WE NEED TO
00:18:58.57\00:19:02.17
ADDRESS. YOU'VE GOT JOB, YOU'VE
00:19:02.17\00:19:04.87
GOT HIS FRIENDS.
HIS FRIENDS DON'T KNOW
00:19:04.87\00:19:07.01
WHY JOB IS SUFFERING. BUT
ARE THEY SPEAKING THE TRUTH?
00:19:07.01\00:19:12.25
GENERALLY SPEAKING, WHAT
THEY'RE SAYING IS INSPIRED.
00:19:12.25\00:19:15.72
AND WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO READ,
NOW, MANJEET, IS AN EXAMPLE OF
00:19:15.72\00:19:18.05
THAT. WE JUST
READ WHERE BILDAD SAID,
00:19:18.05\00:19:21.69
'OUR DAYS ON EARTH ARE
AS A SHADOW' - IS THAT TRUE?
00:19:21.69\00:19:24.33
GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US JAMES 4:14.
00:19:24.33\00:19:26.43
>>"WHEREAS YOU DO NOT
KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW.
00:19:26.43\00:19:31.23
FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT
IS EVEN A VAPOR THAT APPEARS
00:19:31.23\00:19:36.34
FOR A LITTLE TIME
AND THEN VANISHES AWAY."
00:19:36.34\00:19:42.84
>>THAT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE
- OUR LIVES ARE LIKE A VAPOR.
00:19:42.84\00:19:46.38
THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S LIKE GRASS
THAT SPRINGS UP AND THEN WITHERS
00:19:46.38\00:19:49.42
IN THE SUN. OUR
DAYS ARE AS A SHADOW.
00:19:49.42\00:19:52.75
COMPARED TO ETERNITY,
HOW LONG ARE OUR LIVES?
00:19:52.75\00:19:56.36
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT WHEN YOU
WERE YOUNG, IT SEEMED LIKE IT
00:19:56.36\00:19:58.99
TOOK FOREVER
FOR A YEAR TO GO BY?
00:19:58.99\00:20:02.66
AND I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER
THINKING - MY BROTHER HAD HIS
00:20:02.66\00:20:06.10
TENTH BIRTHDAY AND I THOUGHT,
'MAN, I'M SEVEN - TEN, I'LL
00:20:06.10\00:20:10.17
NEVER GET THERE. THAT'S FOREVER.
00:20:10.17\00:20:13.17
I'LL NEVER LIVE TO BE TEN.' AND
IT JUST SEEMED SO ETERNALLY FAR
00:20:13.17\00:20:17.85
AWAY THAT THE
DAYS SEEMED TO DRAG BY.
00:20:17.85\00:20:21.82
AND NOW, I'LL TELL SOMEONE
- THEY'LL SAY, 'WHEN DID THAT
00:20:21.82\00:20:26.45
HAPPEN?' I'LL SAY,
'OH, MAYBE LAST YEAR.'
00:20:26.45\00:20:28.36
AND THEN I'LL LOOK AND I
FIND OUT IT WAS SIX YEARS AGO.
00:20:28.36\00:20:31.56
AND I GO, 'WOW! I CAN'T BELIEVE
HOW QUICK THE YEARS GO BY.'
00:20:31.56\00:20:36.53
ANYONE ELSE? YOU KNOW
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:20:36.53\00:20:38.83
IT'S LIKE YOU BUILD MOMENTUM AND
IT SEEMS LIKE IT ROLLS QUICKER
00:20:38.83\00:20:44.11
AND QUICKER AND YOU LOSE
YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS OF TIME.
00:20:44.11\00:20:47.24
AND YOU REALIZE, FINALLY,
OUR DAYS ARE JUST LIKE A SHADOW.
00:20:47.24\00:20:52.11
AND SO, A LOT OF WHAT
BILDAD IS SAYING IS TRUE, BUT HE
00:20:52.11\00:20:54.58
MISUNDERSTANDS
WHY JOB IS SUFFERING.
00:20:54.58\00:20:56.58
I'M GOING TO JUMP BACK TO
BILDAD'S RESPONSE - GO TO JOB 8,
00:20:56.58\00:20:58.99
VERSE 10 - JOB 8, VERSE 10 - AND
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
00:20:58.99\00:21:05.53
IN A MOMENT HERE,
ECCLESIASTES 8:12, OKAY?
00:21:05.53\00:21:09.40
IN JOB 8:10, "WILL THEY
NOT TEACH YOU AND TELL YOU, AND
00:21:09.40\00:21:13.57
UTTER WORDS FROM THEIR
HEART? CAN THE PAPYRUS GROW
00:21:13.57\00:21:17.14
UP WITHOUT A MARSH?
CAN THE REEDS FLOURISH
00:21:17.14\00:21:20.41
WITHOUT WATER?" AND
SO WHAT BILDAD IS SAYING,
00:21:20.41\00:21:23.24
HE SAYS, 'IF YOU'RE
SUFFERING THERE'S SIN.
00:21:23.24\00:21:27.78
YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG.'
YOU SEE HOW HE'S REASONING THESE
00:21:27.78\00:21:31.69
THINGS? IT'S A CAUSE
AND EFFECT PRINCIPLE.
00:21:31.69\00:21:37.19
AND HE GOES ON TO SAY, "CAN THE
REEDS FLOURISH WITHOUT WATER?
00:21:37.19\00:21:42.06
WHILE IT IS YET GREEN AND NOT
CUT DOWN, IT WITHERS BEFORE ANY
00:21:42.06\00:21:44.63
OTHER PLANT." - IF
THERE'S NO WATER, IT'LL
00:21:44.63\00:21:46.13
WITHER RIGHT AWAY - "SO ARE THE
PATHS OF ALL WHO FORGET GOD; AND
00:21:46.13\00:21:50.27
THE HOPE OF THE HYPOCRITE SHALL
PERISH," - NOW, IS THAT TRUE?
00:21:50.27\00:21:54.91
DID JESUS TALK ABOUT THE
HOPE OF THE HYPOCRITE PERISHING?
00:21:54.91\00:21:58.98
- "WHOSE CONFIDENCE SHALL BE CUT
OFF, AND WHOSE TRUST IS LIKE A
00:21:58.98\00:22:02.45
SPIDER'S WEB." YOU
KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU WANT TO
00:22:02.45\00:22:05.32
HANG ON A ROPE
THAT CAN SUPPORT YOU.
00:22:05.32\00:22:07.86
YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A LOT OF
TRUST IN A LITTLE SPIDER'S WEB -
00:22:07.86\00:22:11.86
"HE LEANS ON HIS
HOUSE, BUT IT DOES NOT STAND.
00:22:11.86\00:22:14.56
HE HOLDS IT FAST,
BUT IT DOES NOT ENDURE."
00:22:14.56\00:22:17.97
- SOME PEOPLE HAVE BUILT RICKETY
HOUSES AND WHEN THE WIND CAME
00:22:17.97\00:22:19.97
UP, THE HOUSE WENT OVER - "HE
GROWS GREEN IN THE SUN, AND HIS
00:22:19.97\00:22:24.61
BRANCHES SPREAD OUT IN HIS
GARDEN. HIS ROOTS WRAP AROUND
00:22:24.61\00:22:27.81
THE ROCK HEAP, AND LOOK
FOR A PLACE IN THE STONES.
00:22:27.81\00:22:31.41
IF HE IS DESTROYED FROM HIS
PLACE, THEN IT WILL DENY HIM,
00:22:31.41\00:22:34.55
SAYING, 'I HAVE NOT SEEN YOU.'
BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS
00:22:34.55\00:22:38.09
WAY, AND OUT OF THE
EARTH OTHERS WILL GROW.
00:22:38.09\00:22:41.16
BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY
THE BLAMELESS," - THIS IS THE
00:22:41.16\00:22:43.96
PRINCIPLE OF WHAT HE'S GETTING
AT - "GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY THE
00:22:43.96\00:22:47.66
BLAMELESS, NOR WILL
HE UPHOLD THE EVILDOERS."
00:22:47.66\00:22:51.77
DOES IT SEEM, SOMETIMES, THAT
INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE SWEPT AWAY
00:22:51.77\00:22:56.97
IN SOME CATASTROPHE? IF
A PLANE GOES DOWN, DO WE
00:22:56.97\00:23:01.91
AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME THAT
EVERYBODY ON THAT PLANE WAS A
00:23:01.91\00:23:05.35
SINNER AND THEIR JUDGMENT CAME?
IS THAT WHAT BILDAD IS SAYING?
00:23:05.35\00:23:13.09
WELL, IN PRINCIPLE, WHEN GOD
DOES TAKE A PERSON AWAY, THERE'S
00:23:13.09\00:23:18.49
- THE BIBLE SAYS 'A CURSE
CAUSELESS WILL NOT COME' -
00:23:18.49\00:23:21.36
THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON,
BUT ISN'T WAR INDISCRIMINATE?
00:23:21.36\00:23:26.97
IS EVERYBODY THAT'S HIT BY
A DRUNK DRIVER THAT WAS THEIR
00:23:26.97\00:23:31.24
JUDGMENT? OR HAVE
WE ALL KNOWN INNOCENT
00:23:31.24\00:23:33.91
PEOPLE THAT ARE STRUCK DOWN? AND
YOU WONDER, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:23:33.91\00:23:41.62
IS IT ALWAYS IMMEDIATE CAUSE AND
EFFECT OR IS THERE A WAR GOING
00:23:41.62\00:23:46.92
ON IN THE WORLD
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL?
00:23:46.92\00:23:50.33
I JUST GOT DONE LISTENING TO A
LENGTHY SERIES ON PHILOSOPHY IN
00:23:50.33\00:23:55.03
LIGHT OF CHRISTIANITY, AND SOME
PHILOSOPHERS HAVE SAID THERE
00:23:55.03\00:23:59.83
CAN'T BE A GOD - OR, IF
THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS NOT GOOD.
00:23:59.83\00:24:04.47
BECAUSE IF WE SEE BAD IN
THE WORLD AND IF WE SEE INNOCENT
00:24:04.47\00:24:07.74
SUFFERING, IF GOD IS
ALL-POWERFUL, HE WOULD NOT ALLOW
00:24:07.74\00:24:11.35
THAT. HAVE YOU HEARD
PEOPLE REASON THIS WAY BEFORE?
00:24:11.35\00:24:15.18
AND, YOU KNOW, A NUMBER
OF PHILOSOPHERS SAID, 'SO
00:24:15.18\00:24:16.95
THEREFORE, EITHER THERE IS
NO GOD OR GOD CAN'T BE GOOD.
00:24:16.95\00:24:20.96
BECAUSE IF HE'S ALL-POWERFUL WHY
WOULD HE ALLOW THE INNOCENT TO
00:24:20.96\00:24:24.36
SUFFER?' AND WHAT THEY'RE
MISUNDERSTANDING IS THEY DON'T
00:24:24.36\00:24:28.20
REALIZE THERE'S A GREAT
CONTROVERSY - THERE'S A BATTLE
00:24:28.20\00:24:31.20
WHERE, YES, GOD DOES HAVE
THE POWER, BUT HE MUST ALLOW.
00:24:31.20\00:24:34.84
SOMETIMES, CAUSE AND EFFECT
OF THE CREATURES HE'S MADE.
00:24:34.84\00:24:39.04
HAVE YOU, AS PARENTS, EVER STOOD
BACK - YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
00:24:39.04\00:24:44.91
INTERVENE IN SOME SIBLING
SQUABBLE BETWEEN YOUR CHILDREN
00:24:44.91\00:24:50.12
AND YOU DID NOT INTERVENE
BECAUSE YOU WANTED THEM TO
00:24:50.12\00:24:53.86
EXPERIENCE THE
CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR DECISION.
00:24:53.86\00:24:57.16
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING
ABOUT? I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT IF
00:24:57.16\00:24:59.76
THEY'RE WALKING IN FRONT
OF A, YOU KNOW, CAREENING CAR.
00:24:59.76\00:25:02.76
I'M TALKING ABOUT SOMETIMES THEY
INSIST ON KNEADING THEIR BREAD
00:25:02.76\00:25:11.11
WITH A HAIRBRUSH AND YOU TRY TO
EXPLAIN, 'YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT
00:25:11.11\00:25:14.58
BE HAIR IN YOUR BUN WHEN YOU
BAKE IT' - BUT YOU LET THEM JUST
00:25:14.58\00:25:18.68
FIND OUT. I'M
SHARING THIS BY EXPERIENCE.
00:25:18.68\00:25:22.15
(LAUGHTER) OUR DAUGHTER, RACHEL,
ONE TIME WANTED TO HELP BAKE
00:25:22.15\00:25:27.16
BREAD AND SHE WANTED TO KNEAD
THE BREAD WITH HER HAIRBRUSH.
00:25:27.16\00:25:30.26
WE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THAT MAY NOT
WORK.' 'I WANT - IT'S PERFECT'
00:25:30.26\00:25:36.20
AND THERE WAS A LOT OF HAIR
IN THE BUN WHEN SHE GOT DONE.
00:25:36.20\00:25:41.57
AND YOU JUST HAVE
TO LET THEM FIND OUT.
00:25:41.57\00:25:43.87
WELL, GOD, SOMETIMES
HAS HAD TO STAND BACK.
00:25:43.87\00:25:46.31
AND, BECAUSE - WHAT WOULD HAVE
HAPPENED IF, AS SOON AS LUCIFER
00:25:46.31\00:25:51.41
REBELLED, GOD
STRUCK HIM WITH LIGHTNING?
00:25:51.41\00:25:54.88
OR AS SOON AS SOME OF THE ANGELS
DECIDED TO LISTEN TO LUCIFER, HE
00:25:54.88\00:25:59.15
JUST DESTROYED THEM ALL?
THE OTHER GOOD ANGELS WOULD
00:25:59.15\00:26:02.12
WONDER, 'WELL,
MAYBE THEY WERE RIGHT.
00:26:02.12\00:26:04.09
MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST FEAR GOD.'
GOD HAD TO OFTEN ALLOW THINGS TO
00:26:04.09\00:26:07.86
PLAY OUT SO YOU CAN SEE 'WHAT IS
THE RESULT OF GOOD AND EVIL IN
00:26:07.86\00:26:11.50
THE WORLD?' AND IT'S
HORRIBLE THAT WE HAVE
00:26:11.50\00:26:13.84
TO EXPERIENCE THAT, BUT HE WANTS
TO MAKE SURE, ONCE THIS IS OVER
00:26:13.84\00:26:16.71
WITH, SIN WILL
NEVER RISE UP AGAIN.
00:26:16.71\00:26:19.11
AND SO, WE SEE THE CAUSE AND
EFFECT OF GOOD AND EVIL IN THE
00:26:19.11\00:26:23.21
WORLD TODAY AND GOD, SOMETIMES,
WAITS AND ALLOWS THINGS TO
00:26:23.21\00:26:27.45
REVEAL
THEMSELVES. IT DOESN'T MEAN
00:26:27.45\00:26:28.92
GOD ISN'T POWERFUL. IT
DOESN'T MEAN GOD ISN'T GOOD.
00:26:28.92\00:26:31.35
IT MEANS THERE'S A BATTLE.
AND IT DOESN'T MEAN EVERY TIME
00:26:31.35\00:26:33.62
SOMETHING BAD
HAPPENS THAT GOD DID IT.
00:26:33.62\00:26:36.29
DOES THE DEVIL
EVER CAUSE EVIL? >>YES.
00:26:36.29\00:26:38.89
>>YOU KNOW, THE FIRST THING WE
LEARN IN THE BOOK OF JOB - YOU
00:26:38.89\00:26:41.26
PULL AWAY THE CURTAIN AND
YOU SEE THAT GOD WITHDREW HIS
00:26:41.26\00:26:46.60
PROTECTION FROM JOB AND,
BASICALLY, GAVE THE DEVIL
00:26:46.60\00:26:50.04
LICENSE. BUT IT WAS
THE DEVIL WHO BROUGHT
00:26:50.04\00:26:52.64
THE SICKNESS, WHO BROUGHT
THE CALAMITY, WHO BROUGHT THE
00:26:52.64\00:26:54.71
REVERSES ON JOB, AND JOB LOST
VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY
00:26:54.71\00:26:59.78
AND THEN HE LOST HIS
HEALTH COMPLETELY ANOTHER DAY.
00:26:59.78\00:27:02.48
AND IT SAYS, 'THE DEVIL WENT
FORTH FROM THE LORD AND SMOTE
00:27:02.48\00:27:06.05
JOB.' SO THE DEVIL CAN
CAUSE WAR, SICKNESS, DISEASE,
00:27:06.05\00:27:10.76
DISASTER, PLAGUES,
ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
00:27:10.76\00:27:13.96
WHAT DOES THE INSURANCE
COMPANY CALL THOSE THINGS?
00:27:13.96\00:27:16.67
>>ACT OF GOD. >>AN
ACT - I DON'T KNOW IF THEY
00:27:16.67\00:27:18.40
CALL THAT 'ACTS OF GOD' ANYMORE.
I THINK THEY'VE CHANGED THE
00:27:18.40\00:27:20.77
LANGUAGE TO 'NATURAL DISASTER'
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT
00:27:20.77\00:27:26.07
THEY USED TO
CALL IT AN ACT OF GOD.
00:27:26.07\00:27:28.91
AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE - IF
YOU MISS A FLIGHT AND YOU GOT TO
00:27:28.91\00:27:35.85
THE AIRPORT ON TIME - AND IF YOU
MISSED A FLIGHT BECAUSE THERE
00:27:35.85\00:27:39.45
WAS A MECHANICAL PROBLEM, THE
AIRLINE IS SUPPOSED TO - BECAUSE
00:27:39.45\00:27:44.19
IF IT WAS THEIR AIRPLANE
YOU MISSED A FLIGHT, THEY'RE
00:27:44.19\00:27:45.89
SUPPOSED TO EITHER HELP YOU
BOOK ANOTHER FLIGHT OR GET YOU A
00:27:45.89\00:27:48.83
HOTEL AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR
FLIGHT AND A MEAL - I'VE HAD TO
00:27:48.83\00:27:51.33
GO THROUGH THAT MANY TIMES - BUT
IF THE WEATHER IS THE PROBLEM
00:27:51.33\00:27:55.80
FOR YOUR MISSING YOUR FLIGHT,
THEY SAY, 'THAT IS OUT OF OUR
00:27:55.80\00:27:57.81
CONTROL.' AND THEY MAY HELP YOU
REBOOK, BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE TO
00:27:57.81\00:28:02.08
SLEEP IN THE AIRPORT. 'IT'S
AN ACT OF GOD. WE CAN'T CONTROL
00:28:02.08\00:28:06.01
THAT.' AND YOU CAN TELL THE
FLIGHT ATTENDANT THAT'S BOOKING
00:28:06.01\00:28:11.15
YOU, 'THE DEVIL DID IT.' SEE
IF THAT'LL HELP. IT WASN'T GOD.
00:28:11.15\00:28:17.89
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US ECCLESIASTES 8:12.
00:28:17.89\00:28:21.63
>>"THOUGH A SINNER DOES EVIL A
HUNDRED TIMES, AND HIS DAYS ARE
00:28:21.63\00:28:25.30
PROLONGED, YET I SURELY KNOW
THAT IT WILL BE WELL WITH THOSE
00:28:25.30\00:28:30.21
WHO FEAR GOD,
WHO FEAR BEFORE HIM.
00:28:30.21\00:28:33.21
BUT IT WILL NOT BE WELL WITH THE
WICKED; NOR WILL HE PROLONG HIS
00:28:33.21\00:28:37.68
DAYS, WHICH ARE AS A SHADOW,
BECAUSE HE DOES NOT FEAR BEFORE
00:28:37.68\00:28:42.15
GOD." >>MANY,
MANY, MANY PEOPLE IN THE
00:28:42.15\00:28:46.02
WORLD MISINTERPRET THE PATIENCE
OF GOD AS THE APPROVAL OF GOD.
00:28:46.02\00:28:53.36
'BECAUSE SENTENCE AGAINST
AN EVIL WORK IS NOT EXECUTED
00:28:53.36\00:28:58.17
SPEEDILY, THEREFORE THE SONS
- THE HEARTS OF THE SONS OF MEN
00:28:58.17\00:29:01.40
ARE FULLY SET IN THEM TO
DO EVIL.' BECAUSE GOD DOES NOT
00:29:01.40\00:29:04.77
STRIKE WICKED WITH LIGHTNING
AS SOON AS THEY DISOBEY, THEY
00:29:04.77\00:29:09.54
INTERPRET THAT, SINCE THINGS
ARE GOING SMOOTHLY, 'GOD MUST BE
00:29:09.54\00:29:13.82
BLESSING ME. I MUST BE DOING THE
00:29:13.82\00:29:14.82
RIGHT THING.' NOT SO.
HE'S JUST REALLY PATIENT.
00:29:14.82\00:29:18.32
AND THOUGH IT MAY LOOK LIKE AN
EVIL PERSON IS PROSPERING - AND
00:29:18.32\00:29:22.39
THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON IS SAYING
IN ECCLESIASTES 8, 'THOUGH A
00:29:22.39\00:29:25.46
SINNER DOES EVIL A HUNDRED TIMES
AND HIS DAYS ARE PROLONGED,'
00:29:25.46\00:29:28.90
DOES THAT MEAN GOD'S BLESSING
HIM AND HIS DAYS ARE PROLONGED?
00:29:28.90\00:29:31.57
NO, IT MEANS THAT GOD IS
PATIENT. GOD DOES NOT ZAP A
00:29:31.57\00:29:35.00
PERSON IMMEDIATELY EVERY TIME
SOMETHING - HE DOES SOMETHING
00:29:35.00\00:29:39.14
BAD. AND, LIKEWISE, GOD
DOES NOT ALWAYS BLESS A PERSON
00:29:39.14\00:29:43.21
IMMEDIATELY, EVERY TIME
THEY TURN AND DO SOMETHING GOOD.
00:29:43.21\00:29:46.18
JESUS SAID - AND YOU'VE HEARD
ME QUOTE THIS MANY TIMES IN OUR
00:29:46.18\00:29:50.19
STUDY OF JOB, 'GOD SENDS
THE RAIN AND THE SUNSHINE ON THE
00:29:50.19\00:29:54.99
GOOD AND THE BAD.' SUNSHINE CAN
BE A BLESSING; SUNSHINE CAN BE A
00:29:54.99\00:29:58.53
CURSE - IF IT'S DRYING OUT YOUR
CROPS AND KILLING EVERYTHING -
00:29:58.53\00:30:02.06
RAIN CAN BE A
BLESSING; RAIN CAN BE A CURSE.
00:30:02.06\00:30:04.20
RAIN IS GOOD IF YOU'VE
JUST PLANTED YOUR SEED.
00:30:04.20\00:30:06.47
RAIN IS BAD AT
CERTAIN TIMES OF THE HARVEST.
00:30:06.47\00:30:08.90
SO WHEN JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT
THE SUNSHINE AND THE RAIN, HE'S
00:30:08.90\00:30:12.64
SAYING, 'GOOD AND
BAD COMES TO EVERYBODY.'
00:30:12.64\00:30:16.78
GOD IS A LOVING GOD
AND SOMETIMES HE'LL BLESS
00:30:16.78\00:30:19.61
PEOPLE THAT ARE EVEN
REBELLING AGAINST HIM.
00:30:19.61\00:30:22.68
DON'T MISINTERPRET HIS BLESSINGS
AND THINK THAT MUST MEAN 'I'M
00:30:22.68\00:30:26.89
DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT' AND
DON'T MISINTERPRET TRIALS AND
00:30:26.89\00:30:31.63
THINK IT MUST MEAN THAT I SINNED
AND DID SOMETHING WRONG, BECAUSE
00:30:31.63\00:30:35.43
GOOD AND BAD
COMES TO EVERY BODY.
00:30:35.43\00:30:38.57
HAVE YOU EVER - YOU KNOW,
SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS AND YOU
00:30:38.57\00:30:41.87
THINK, 'WHAT DID I DO?'
WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHY
00:30:41.87\00:30:44.84
WHAT'S HAPPENING IS
HAPPENING. WE CAN KNOW THAT
00:30:44.84\00:30:47.78
GOD IS A LOVING
GOD. ALRIGHT, HERE'S
00:30:47.78\00:30:49.38
THE NEXT SECTION.
WE'RE GOING TO JUMP NOW - WE
00:30:49.38\00:30:51.95
KIND OF LOOKED A LITTLE
BIT AT THE ANSWER OF BILDAD.
00:30:51.95\00:30:55.68
MATTER OF FACT, LET ME SEE HERE,
I BETTER KEEP MOVING HERE -
00:30:55.68\00:30:59.72
WE'RE GOING TO GO TO CHAPTER 11
- JOB 11 - AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING
00:30:59.72\00:31:03.83
AT SOME OF THE ANSWERS
OF ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE.
00:31:03.83\00:31:09.76
AND HE SAYS IF YOU - WELL, LET'S
LOOK AT VERSE 1, "THEN ZOPHAR
00:31:09.76\00:31:12.50
THE NAAMATHITE ANSWERED
AND SAID:" - IN VERSES 9 AND 10
00:31:12.50\00:31:16.71
YOU'VE GOT JOB'S RESPONSE TO
BILDAD - IN VERSE 11, ZOPHAR THE
00:31:16.71\00:31:22.11
NAAMATHITE ANSWERS AND SAID,
"SHOULD NOT THE MULTITUDE OF
00:31:22.11\00:31:24.51
WORDS BE ANSWERED? AND SHOULD A
MAN FULL OF TALK BE VINDICATED?
00:31:24.51\00:31:28.68
SHOULD YOUR EMPTY TALK
MAKE MEN HOLD THEIR PEACE?
00:31:28.68\00:31:32.05
AND WHEN YOU MOCK,
SHOULD NO ONE REBUKE YOU?"
00:31:32.05\00:31:35.32
AGAIN, HIS OTHER FRIEND SAID,
'YOU'RE JUST FULL OF HOT AIR'
00:31:35.32\00:31:39.69
AND NOW ZOPHAR IS SAYING,
'WHAT A BUNCH OF EMPTY TALK.
00:31:39.69\00:31:43.80
YOU'RE TALKING
ABOUT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:31:43.80\00:31:46.17
GOD ALWAYS PUNISHES THE WICKED.
AND SO HE SAYS - AND YOU GO TO
00:31:46.17\00:31:51.24
VERSE 4 - "FOR YOU HAVE SAID,
'MY DOCTRINE IS PURE, AND I AM
00:31:51.24\00:31:54.94
CLEAN IN YOUR EYES.' BUT OH THAT
GOD WOULD SPEAK, AND OPEN HIS
00:31:54.94\00:31:58.71
LIPS AGAINST YOU, THAT HE WOULD
SHOW YOU THE SECRETS OF WISDOM!
00:31:58.71\00:32:02.25
FOR THEY WOULD
DOUBLE YOUR PRUDENCE.
00:32:02.25\00:32:04.52
KNOW THEREFORE THAT GOD EXACTS
FROM YOU LESS THAN YOUR INIQUITY
00:32:04.52\00:32:08.39
DESERVES." IN OTHER WORDS,
'YOU'RE SUFFERING, JOB, BUT
00:32:08.39\00:32:11.19
YOU'RE REALLY GETTING
LESS THAN YOU DESERVE.'
00:32:11.19\00:32:14.20
WAS HE RIGHT OR
WAS HE WRONG? BOTH.
00:32:14.20\00:32:19.03
I KNOW, WHENEVER YOU'RE TRYING
TO TALK OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF
00:32:19.03\00:32:22.14
YOUR MOUTH LIKE THAT, IT SOUNDS
LIKE YOU'RE RUNNING FOR SOME
00:32:22.14\00:32:24.01
PUBLIC OFFICE. BUT I
JUST - I WANT TO BE CAREFUL.
00:32:24.01\00:32:28.91
WHAT IS THE
PENALTY FOR SIN? >>DEATH.
00:32:28.91\00:32:31.31
>>DEATH. IS JOB SINLESS OR
00:32:31.31\00:32:33.28
DID HE ALSO SIN? >>SINNED.
00:32:33.28\00:32:35.78
>>ALL HAVE
SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT.
00:32:35.78\00:32:37.79
SO HAD JOB SINNED? THE
PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH.
00:32:37.79\00:32:41.49
JOB WAS NOT DEAD, SO HE WAS
GETTING LESS THAN HIS INIQUITY
00:32:41.49\00:32:44.59
DESERVED. FREQUENTLY
PEOPLE ASK ME HOW I'M
00:32:44.59\00:32:47.23
DOING AND I SAY,
'BETTER THAN I DESERVE.'
00:32:47.23\00:32:51.67
IS THAT RIGHT OF
ALL OF US? >>AMEN.
00:32:51.67\00:32:54.04
>>I DON'T ALWAYS FEEL
THAT WAY, BUT I KNOW IT'S TRUE.
00:32:54.04\00:32:58.41
BUT, COMPARED TO OTHER PEOPLE -
SINCE - LET'S JUST ASSUME ALL OF
00:32:58.41\00:33:03.08
US ARE LIVING BY
THE GRACE OF JESUS.
00:33:03.08\00:33:06.51
JOB WAS NOT SUFFERING NOW
BECAUSE OF A SIN, BECAUSE GOD
00:33:06.51\00:33:09.55
HAD ALREADY SHOWN
HIM MERCY FOR HIS SIN.
00:33:09.55\00:33:11.75
THEY
MISUNDERSTOOD HIS SUFFERING.
00:33:11.75\00:33:14.12
THEY SAID, 'OH, BUT IF GOD
WERE TO OPEN YOUR EYES, THERE'S
00:33:14.12\00:33:16.56
SOMETHING YOU DON'T REALIZE THAT
- YOU'RE SUFFERING FOR SOME SIN
00:33:16.56\00:33:20.93
AND YOU'RE GETTING A JUDGMENT.'
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
00:33:20.93\00:33:24.60
IN A MOMENT, PSALM 130, VERSES 3
AND 4 - EMMA, YOU'LL HAVE THAT?
00:33:24.60\00:33:29.14
I WANT TO READ, FOR
YOU, 2 SAMUEL 12, VERSES 5-7,
00:33:29.14\00:33:35.08
"SO DAVID'S ANGER WAS GREATLY
AROUSED AGAINST THE MAN, AND HE
00:33:35.08\00:33:37.71
SAID TO NATHAN, 'AS THE LORD
LIVES, THE MAN WHO HAS DONE THIS
00:33:37.71\00:33:39.91
SHALL SURELY DIE! THEN
NATHAN SAID 'YOU ARE THE MAN!'"
00:33:39.91\00:33:44.25
- GO TO VERSE 13 - I'M IN 2
SAMUEL 12 - "SO DAVID SAID TO
00:33:44.25\00:33:48.46
NATHAN, 'I HAVE SINNED AGAINST
THE LORD.' AND NATHAN SAID TO
00:33:48.46\00:33:51.09
DAVID, 'THE LORD ALSO HAS
PUT AWAY YOUR SIN; YOU SHALL NOT
00:33:51.09\00:33:53.43
DIE.'" THAT'S WHY, WHEN BILDAD
SAYS, 'GOD IS PUNISHING US' -
00:33:53.43\00:33:59.77
I'M SORRY, IT WAS ZOPHAR -
'HE'S PUNISHING US LESS THAN OUR
00:33:59.77\00:34:03.77
INIQUITY DESERVES.' THE
PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH.
00:34:03.77\00:34:08.41
ALL OF US, RIGHT NOW, ARE
ALIVE BECAUSE OF GOD'S MERCY.
00:34:08.41\00:34:11.05
NOW THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE
CHRISTIANS, RIGHT? REALLY?
00:34:11.05\00:34:15.42
HOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT
ARE ALL MILLING AROUND THE WORLD
00:34:15.42\00:34:17.39
RIGHT NOW THAT ARE NOT
CHRISTIANS, THAT ARE ALIVE -
00:34:17.39\00:34:19.92
HAVE THEY SINNED?
WHAT'S THE PENALTY FOR SIN?
00:34:19.92\00:34:22.79
>>DEATH. >>HOW
COME THEY'RE ALIVE?
00:34:22.79\00:34:24.96
>>MERCY OF JESUS.
>>IT'S THE MERCY OF JESUS. DO
00:34:24.96\00:34:28.53
YOU REALIZE JESUS DYING ON THE
CROSS - WE ALWAYS THINK, 'WELL,
00:34:28.53\00:34:30.93
HE DIED FOR MY SINS.' JESUS ALSO
DIED TO BUY TIME FOR THE LOST TO
00:34:30.93\00:34:36.57
FIND HIM, BECAUSE HE COULD HAVE
JUST DESTROYED THEM BUT HE DIED
00:34:36.57\00:34:41.58
TO BUY PROBATIONARY TIME
FOR EVEN THE LOST TO FIND HIM.
00:34:41.58\00:34:45.85
AND SO, ALL OF US ARE GETTING
LESS THAN OUR INIQUITY DESERVES.
00:34:45.85\00:34:52.79
ALRIGHT, AND IF YOU GO TO JOB
11, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP READING
00:34:52.79\00:34:55.26
SOME OF HIS STATEMENT - ZOPHAR
- "CAN YOU SEARCH OUT THE DEEP
00:34:55.26\00:35:00.20
THINGS OF GOD? CAN YOU FIND
OUT THE LIMITS OF THE ALMIGHTY?
00:35:00.20\00:35:04.27
THEY ARE HIGHER THAN
HEAVEN - WHAT CAN YOU DO?
00:35:04.27\00:35:06.53
DEEPER THAN SHEOL
- WHAT CAN YOU KNOW?
00:35:06.53\00:35:09.44
THEIR MEASURE IS LONGER THAN THE
EARTH AND BROADER THAN THE SEA."
00:35:09.44\00:35:13.27
GOD IS INFINITE
IN HIS KNOWLEDGE.
00:35:13.27\00:35:15.54
HE IS INFINITE IN HIS
LIFE. HE IS OMNIPRESENT AND SO,
00:35:15.54\00:35:21.78
THROUGH ETERNITY, WE WILL
BE SEARCHING TO BETTER KNOW GOD
00:35:21.78\00:35:25.22
AND WE WILL PROGRESS IN
OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD.
00:35:25.22\00:35:28.42
THE HIGHEST EDUCATION
THAT ANYONE COULD RECEIVE IS
00:35:28.42\00:35:32.06
THEOLOGY. YOU
KNOW WHAT THEOLOGY IS?
00:35:32.06\00:35:36.90
THEO IS GOD; OLOGY - STUDY OF -
GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY - IT'S THE
00:35:36.90\00:35:42.07
STUDY OF GOD AND TO UNDERSTAND
GOD GIVES EVERYTHING ELSE
00:35:42.07\00:35:48.88
PURPOSE AND MEANING. IT
GIVES MEANING TO WHAT HAPPENS
00:35:48.88\00:35:52.05
IN THE MINUTE THINGS OF OUR DAY.
IT GIVES MEANING TO WHAT'S GOING
00:35:52.05\00:35:56.12
ON IN THE COSMOS - THE
UNIVERSE - IS TO UNDERSTAND GOD.
00:35:56.12\00:36:00.42
THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD
SPEND TIME IN PRAYER EVERY DAY,
00:36:00.42\00:36:04.89
CONTEMPLATING SPIRITUAL
THEMES. ISAIAH 55:9, IT IS TRUE,
00:36:04.89\00:36:11.67
GOD IS BIGGER THAN WE ARE.
"FOR AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER
00:36:11.67\00:36:14.57
THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS
HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY
00:36:14.57\00:36:18.61
THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS."
THEN AGAIN, GO TO ISAIAH 40,
00:36:18.61\00:36:22.04
VERSE 12, "WHO HAS MEASURED
THE WATERS IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS
00:36:22.04\00:36:25.68
HAND, MEASURED THE HEAVEN WITH A
SPAN" - YOU KNOW WHAT A SPAN IS?
00:36:25.68\00:36:29.55
THIS IS A CUBIT - A SPAN WAS
WHEN YOU COULD GO BETWEEN - YOU
00:36:29.55\00:36:34.39
GO YOUR FINGERS - AND THAT WAS
CALLED A SPAN - AND SO, WHEN IT
00:36:34.39\00:36:38.39
SAYS GOD MEASURES THE HEAVENS
WITH A SPAN - "AND CALCULATED
00:36:38.39\00:36:43.40
THE DUST OF THE EARTH
IN A BALANCE [MEASURE]?
00:36:43.40\00:36:46.50
WHO HAS DIRECTED THE SPIRIT
OF THE LORD, OR AS HIS COUNSELOR
00:36:46.50\00:36:52.84
HAS TAUGHT HIM? WITH
WHOM DID HE TAKE COUNSEL,
00:36:52.84\00:36:55.74
AND WHO INSTRUCTED
HIM, AND TAUGHT HIM IN THE
00:36:55.74\00:36:57.95
PATH OF JUSTICE?
WHO TAUGHT HIM KNOWLEDGE
00:36:57.95\00:37:00.08
AND SHOWED HIM THE
WAY OF UNDERSTANDING?"
00:37:00.08\00:37:02.08
GOD, THE FATHER AND CREATION
- THE SON IN CREATION AND THE
00:37:02.08\00:37:05.35
SPIRIT IN KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM.
WE CAN'T ADVISE GOD BUT, YOU
00:37:05.35\00:37:11.03
KNOW, THAT'S WHAT
MAKES IT SO WONDERFUL.
00:37:11.03\00:37:12.39
YOU REMEMBER WHEN GOD WAS ON HIS
WAY TO DESTROY SODOM AND GOD'S
00:37:12.39\00:37:16.16
TALKING WITH ABRAHAM AND
THEY'RE WALKING AND TALKING?
00:37:16.16\00:37:18.23
BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, WHEN
YOU WERE GOING ON A JOURNEY AND,
00:37:18.23\00:37:22.10
AFTER YOU'D BEEN VISITING
SOMEBODY, THEY WOULD, YOU KNOW,
00:37:22.10\00:37:25.37
IN AMERICA YOU WALK THEM TO
THE DOOR - THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE
00:37:25.37\00:37:28.98
POLITE. KAREN SLOWLY TAUGHT ME
THAT. BUT IN BIBLE TIMES, WHEN
00:37:28.98\00:37:33.72
SOMEONE WAS LEAVING, YOU DIDN'T
JUST SAY GOOD-BYE AT THE DOOR,
00:37:33.72\00:37:36.38
YOU TOOK A FEW STEPS
WITH THEM ON THEIR JOURNEY.
00:37:36.38\00:37:39.99
YOU REMEMBER WHEN RUTH AND ORPAH
- I ALWAYS WANT TO SAY OPRAH -
00:37:39.99\00:37:45.06
ORPAH WENT ON THE WAY WITH NAOMI
AND THEY WERE SEEING HER OFF.
00:37:45.06\00:37:51.67
AND SHE SAID, 'LOOK,
YOU'VE GONE FAR ENOUGH.
00:37:51.67\00:37:53.07
NOW'S THE TIME TO TURN AND
GO BACK.' ABRAHAM WAS SEEING THE
00:37:53.07\00:37:56.30
LORD ON HIS WAY AND GOD SAYS TO
ABRAHAM, 'WILL I HIDE FROM YOU,
00:37:56.30\00:38:00.61
SINCE YOU'RE MY FRIEND,
WHAT I'M ABOUT TO DO TO SODOM?
00:38:00.61\00:38:02.78
BECAUSE I KNOW
YOU'VE GOT FAMILY THERE.
00:38:02.78\00:38:04.38
YOU'RE A FRIEND.
I'VE GOT TO LET YOU KNOW.
00:38:04.38\00:38:06.38
I'M GOING TO DESTROY THE CITY.'
ABRAHAM STARTS TO ARGUE WITH GOD
00:38:06.38\00:38:09.05
ABOUT 'WON'T YOU SPARE THE
CITY IF THERE'S AT LEAST A FEW
00:38:09.05\00:38:11.29
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE
THERE?' AND THEY GO BACK AND
00:38:11.29\00:38:13.12
FORTH IN THIS DIALOGUE.
COULDN'T GOD HAVE JUST SAID,
00:38:13.12\00:38:15.36
'ABRAHAM, WILL YOU -
LOOK, I'M GOD, JUST TRUST ME.
00:38:15.36\00:38:17.23
I'LL KILL AS MANY AS I NEED
TO KILL.' BUT THEY GET INTO THIS
00:38:17.23\00:38:21.00
DIALOGUE. DOES GOD LIKE THAT?
00:38:21.00\00:38:25.03
DOES THE LORD
WANT TO REASON WITH US?
00:38:25.03\00:38:28.44
DOES THE LORD LIKE WHEN YOU PRAY
AND YOU JUST - YOU DON'T GIVE
00:38:28.44\00:38:32.21
HIM A LIST, BUT YOU CONVERSATE
WITH THE LORD IN YOUR PRAYERS?
00:38:32.21\00:38:37.75
HE WANTS TO COMMUNE
WITH US, DOESN'T HE?
00:38:37.75\00:38:41.15
I MEAN, YOU LOOK IN THE BIBLE:
THE LORD DELIGHTS TO REASON WITH
00:38:41.15\00:38:44.39
US. MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN
- 'MOSES, I'VE HAD ALL THESE
00:38:44.39\00:38:48.79
ISRAELITES I CAN TAKE.
I'M GOING TO WIPE THEM OUT.
00:38:48.79\00:38:50.69
TELL YOU WHAT, I'M GOING TO
WIPE THEM OUT, I'LL MAKE A GREAT
00:38:50.69\00:38:52.06
NATION OF YOU AND I'M GOING
TO START OVER AGAIN.' AND MOSES
00:38:52.06\00:38:54.73
SAID, 'LOOK, YOU
DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.
00:38:54.73\00:38:56.77
I MEAN, THE EGYPTIANS ARE GOING
TO SEE THAT AND THEY'RE GOING TO
00:38:56.77\00:38:58.30
SAY, 'YOU KNOW, GOD WAS
JUST NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH.
00:38:58.30\00:39:00.54
HE COULD TAKE THEM OUT OF EGYPT,
BUT HE COULDN'T MAKE A GREAT
00:39:00.54\00:39:02.50
NATION AND BRING THEM
INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:39:02.50\00:39:04.51
HE'S NOT A POWERFUL GOD AND
IT'S GOING TO BE BAD FOR YOUR
00:39:04.51\00:39:07.48
REPUTATION, LORD, YOU DON'T WANT
TO DO THAT.' AND GOD SAYS, 'YOU
00:39:07.48\00:39:09.48
KNOW, YOU'RE RIGHT.
GLAD YOU THOUGHT OF THAT.'
00:39:09.48\00:39:11.88
BUT IT'S JUST -
LIKE GOD DIDN'T KNOW.
00:39:11.88\00:39:13.42
BUT THEY'RE HAVING THIS
CONVERSATION AND MOSES IS
00:39:13.42\00:39:16.42
INTERCEDING. BUT THE LORD LIKES
00:39:16.42\00:39:18.92
WHEN WE TALK TO
HIM. YOU KNOW THAT SONG?
00:39:18.92\00:39:21.56
'HE WALKS WITH ME
AND HE TALKS WITH ME'?
00:39:21.56\00:39:25.19
JESUS SAID, 'CAN YOU COME
AND PRAY WITH ME IN THE GARDEN?'
00:39:25.19\00:39:29.23
HE WANTED THEM TO BE
IN COMMUNION WITH HIM.
00:39:29.23\00:39:36.00
SO YES, GOD IS GREAT, HIS
KNOWLEDGE PAST FINDING OUT, BUT
00:39:36.00\00:39:39.34
HE DOES WANT TO COMMUNE WITH US.
00:39:39.34\00:39:40.61
LUKE 13:1 - IT SAYS - SOMETIMES
WE AUTOMATICALLY THINK, WHEN BAD
00:39:40.61\00:39:45.78
THINGS HAPPEN, IT'S BECAUSE
THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVE.
00:39:45.78\00:39:47.92
THIS IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT
VERSE TO EXPLAIN THAT PRINCIPLE.
00:39:47.92\00:39:51.15
LUKE 13:1 - AND I'LL READ
THROUGH VERSE 5, "THERE WERE
00:39:51.15\00:39:55.52
PRESENT AT THAT SEASON SOME
WHO TOLD HIM ABOUT THE GALILEANS
00:39:55.52\00:39:59.26
WHOSE BLOOD PILATE HAD
MINGLED WITH THEIR SACRIFICES."
00:39:59.26\00:40:02.26
- THERE WAS AN EVENT WHERE,
DURING A FEAST, A NUMBER OF
00:40:02.26\00:40:05.77
GALILEANS WERE IN THE TEMPLE AND
THINGS GOT OUT OF HAND - THERE
00:40:05.77\00:40:09.04
WAS A RIOT - PILATE SENT
SOLDIERS INTO THE TEMPLE AND
00:40:09.04\00:40:12.57
THERE THEY WERE.
OFFERING SACRIFICES, AND MANY
00:40:12.57\00:40:14.58
WERE SLAUGHTERED IN THE
TEMPLE, IN THE PROCESS OF
00:40:14.58\00:40:16.98
OFFERING
SACRIFICE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT
00:40:16.98\00:40:19.61
THE JEWS THOUGHT?
'WOW, IF THEY WERE IN THE
00:40:19.61\00:40:22.88
TEMPLE, THE PRESENCE OF GOD, AND
THEY DIED THERE, THEY MUST HAVE
00:40:22.88\00:40:26.42
BEEN REALLY BAD.' THAT'S
WHAT EVERYBODY WAS ASSUMING.
00:40:26.42\00:40:30.99
AND LISTEN TO HOW JESUS RESPONDS
TO THAT THINKING - "DO YOU
00:40:30.99\00:40:33.63
SUPPOSE THAT THESE GALILEANS
WERE WORSE SINNERS THAT ALL
00:40:33.63\00:40:36.56
OTHER GALILEANS, BECAUSE
THEY SUFFERED SUCH THINGS?
00:40:36.56\00:40:38.87
I TELL YOU, NO; BUT UNLESS
YOU REPENT YOU WILL ALL LIKEWISE
00:40:38.87\00:40:44.31
PERISH." GOOD
THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD
00:40:44.31\00:40:48.24
PEOPLE; BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO
GOOD PEOPLE - THE BOTTOM LINE
00:40:48.24\00:40:50.51
IS EVERYBODY NEEDS TO REPENT
OR THEY'LL PERISH - "OR" - AND
00:40:50.51\00:40:54.05
JESUS TALKS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE
THAT WAS IN THE HEADLINES THERE
00:40:54.05\00:40:56.52
AROUND JERUSALEM - THEY MAYBE
HAD HAD AN EARTHQUAKE OR THERE
00:40:56.52\00:41:00.39
WAS SOME RAIN AND A WALL ERODED
AND A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WERE
00:41:00.39\00:41:03.32
STANDING BY A WALL AS IT FELL
OVER AND THEY DIED - "OR THOSE
00:41:03.32\00:41:08.06
EIGHTEEN ON WHOM THE TOWER IN
SILOAM FELL AND KILLED THEM," -
00:41:08.06\00:41:12.83
EIGHTEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED
- "DO YOU THINK THAT THEY WERE
00:41:12.83\00:41:15.30
WORSE SINNERS THAN ALL OTHER
MEN WHO DWELT IN JERUSALEM?"
00:41:15.30\00:41:18.17
- THERE'S THAT QUESTION WE ASK
WHEN A PLANE GOES DOWN - 'THEY
00:41:18.17\00:41:20.81
MUST HAVE BEEN BAD SINNERS' -
'WELL, LOTS OF PLANES FLY EVERY
00:41:20.81\00:41:22.81
DAY. BECAUSE
THAT PLANE WENT DOWN,
00:41:22.81\00:41:24.18
THEY MUST HAVE BEEN REALLY BAD.'
DO YOU EVER THINK THOSE THINGS?
00:41:24.18\00:41:28.72
I WAS SITTING ON AN AIRPLANE
NEXT TO A LADY - I HEARD - C.D.
00:41:28.72\00:41:31.92
BROOKS SAID THIS ONCE AND IT
HAPPENED TO ME TOO - IT WAS ON
00:41:31.92\00:41:35.42
AN AIRPLANE, THERE WAS A BUNCH
OF TURBULENCE AND SOMEHOW THE
00:41:35.42\00:41:40.33
LADY FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A
PASTOR AND SHE SAYS, 'WELL, AS
00:41:40.33\00:41:43.23
LONG AS I'M SITTING NEXT TO A
PASTOR, I GUESS I'M OKAY.' AND
00:41:43.23\00:41:46.60
SOMEONE TOLD ME THE SAME
THING. WE WERE ON A ROUGH PLANE
00:41:46.60\00:41:48.97
SHE SAID, 'OH GOOD.
I'M SAFE IF I'M NEXT TO A
00:41:48.97\00:41:50.47
PASTOR.' IT'S LIKE
WE'RE A GOOD LUCK CHARM.
00:41:50.47\00:41:53.04
(LAUGHTER) I COULD PROBABLY SHOW
YOU - PASTORS HAVE DIED IN PLANE
00:41:53.04\00:41:56.95
CRASHES TOO. SO,
YOU KNOW, THE IDEA THAT
00:41:56.95\00:42:00.38
BECAUSE SOMETHING BAD
HAPPENS THEY WERE WORSE SINNERS.
00:42:00.38\00:42:04.35
JESUS SAID, 'NO, BUT UNLESS
YOU REPENT YOU'LL PERISH.' SO
00:42:04.35\00:42:08.09
THERE'S TWO KINDS OF DEATH:
YOU'VE GOT THE ETERNAL DEATH AND
00:42:08.09\00:42:12.13
YOU'VE GOT THE
DEATH THAT ALL MEN DIE.
00:42:12.13\00:42:15.30
TURN REAL QUICK WITH
ME TO THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL.
00:42:15.30\00:42:18.60
I WAS LOOKING AT THIS JUST
BEFORE I GOT UP TO PREACH AND I
00:42:18.60\00:42:22.44
DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO FIND - OR
GOT UP TO TEACH, I SHOULD SAY -
00:42:22.44\00:42:26.07
THE VERSE. BUT
YEAH, LOOK AT EZEKIEL
00:42:26.07\00:42:28.64
CHAPTER 18, VERSE 3, "'AS
I LIVE,' SAYS THE LORD GOD,
00:42:28.64\00:42:38.05
'YOU SHALL NO
LONGER USE THIS PROVERB..."
00:42:38.05\00:42:39.49
ALL SOULS ARE MINE; THE SOUL OF
THE FATHER AS WELL AS THE SOUL
00:42:39.49\00:42:42.32
OF THE SON IS MINE; THE
SOUL WHO SINS SHALL DIE.'"
00:42:42.32\00:42:45.59
NOW, WAIT A SECOND,
DOESN'T EVERYBODY DIE?
00:42:45.59\00:42:48.40
THEY SAY IT'S AS
SURE AS TAXES, RIGHT?
00:42:48.40\00:42:51.70
HE'S NOT TALKING
ABOUT THAT DEATH.
00:42:51.70\00:42:53.84
"BUT IF A MAN IS JUST AND DOES
WHAT IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT; IF HE
00:42:53.84\00:42:59.64
HAS NOT EATEN ON THE MOUNTAINS,"
- TALKING ABOUT TO THE PAGAN
00:42:59.64\00:43:02.08
GODS - "NOR LIFTED UP HIS EYES
TO THE IDOLS OF THE HOUSE OF
00:43:02.08\00:43:05.55
ISRAEL, NOR DEFILED HIS
NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, NOR APPROACHED
00:43:05.55\00:43:08.52
A WOMAN DURING HER IMPURITY; IF
HE HAS NOT OPPRESSED ANYONE, BUT
00:43:08.52\00:43:12.95
HAS RESTORED TO THE DEBTOR
HIS PLEDGE; HAS ROBBED NO ONE BY
00:43:12.95\00:43:16.12
VIOLENCE, BUT HAS GIVEN HIS
BREAD TO THE HUNGRY AND COVERED
00:43:16.12\00:43:18.76
THE NAKED WITH CLOTHING; IF HE
HAS NOT EXACTED USURY NOR TAKEN
00:43:18.76\00:43:22.86
ANY INCREASE, BUT HAS WITHDRAWN
HIS HAND FROM INIQUITY AND
00:43:22.86\00:43:26.40
EXECUTED TRUE JUDGMENT BETWEEN
MAN AND MAN; IF HE HAS WALKED IN
00:43:26.40\00:43:30.07
MY STATUTES AND KEPT MY
JUDGMENTS FAITHFULLY - HE IS
00:43:30.07\00:43:33.71
JUST; HE SHALL SURELY
LIVE!' SAYS THE LORD GOD."
00:43:33.71\00:43:37.48
NOW, WHAT DOES EZEKIEL
MEAN, 'HE WILL SURELY LIVE'?
00:43:37.48\00:43:39.08
DOES THAT MEAN HE WON'T
DIE? NO, THEY ALL DIED ALSO.
00:43:39.08\00:43:43.79
SO WHAT DOES EZEKIEL MEAN WHEN
HE SAYS THIS PERSON WHO FOLLOWS
00:43:43.79\00:43:46.52
GOD WILL SURELY LIVE? HE'S
TALKING ABOUT THE LIFE THAT
00:43:46.52\00:43:50.13
DOESN'T END - ETERNAL LIFE.
AND THEN HE SAYS IF HE HAS A
00:43:50.13\00:43:54.86
SON WHO IS WICKED, HE'LL DIE.
HE'S TALKING ABOUT HE'S GOING TO
00:43:54.86\00:43:59.67
DIE THE SECOND DEATH, AND WE'LL
GET TO THAT A LITTLE LATER.
00:43:59.67\00:44:03.34
SO YOU'VE GOT THIS PRINCIPLE
WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THEY'LL NOT
00:44:03.34\00:44:06.57
PERISH - IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT
YOU'LL NOT PERISH IN THIS LIFE,
00:44:06.57\00:44:10.11
IT'S ETERNAL LIFE.
DIVINE RETRIBUTION IS THE NEXT
00:44:10.11\00:44:13.11
SECTION, AND IT IS TRUE THAT
THERE IS - THERE ARE EXAMPLES
00:44:13.11\00:44:18.25
IN THE BIBLE OF THE
LORD - JUST SEVERE JUDGMENT.
00:44:18.25\00:44:22.02
YOU'VE GOT THE FLOOD, FOR
EXAMPLE, GENESIS 6:5-8, "THEN
00:44:22.02\00:44:25.93
THE LORD SAW THAT THE
WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN
00:44:25.93\00:44:28.26
THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY INTENT
OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS
00:44:28.26\00:44:31.27
ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY.
AND THE LORD WAS SORRY THAT HE
00:44:31.27\00:44:35.30
HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH,
AND HE WAS GRIEVED IN HIS HEART.
00:44:35.30\00:44:38.47
SO THE LORD SAID, 'I WILL
DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED
00:44:38.47\00:44:41.11
FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH,"
- DO YOU SEE THE CONNECTION?
00:44:41.11\00:44:43.98
EVERY THOUGHT SINFUL - I WILL
DESTROY FROM THE FACE OF THE
00:44:43.98\00:44:47.15
EARTH. SO DID GOD
DESTROY THEM THE SAME
00:44:47.15\00:44:49.48
DAY HE MADE THAT DECLARATION?
OR DID 120 YEARS GO BY?
00:44:49.48\00:44:54.89
GOD'S VERY PATIENT, ISN'T HE?
"'I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE
00:44:54.89\00:44:59.06
MADE [CREATED]'...BUT NOAH FOUND
GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD."
00:44:59.06\00:45:03.60
WHY? YOU READ THE NEXT VERSE,
IT SAYS NOAH WALKED WITH GOD.
00:45:03.60\00:45:07.70
SO THERE'S A CONNECTION BETWEEN
THE OBEDIENCE AND THE FINDING
00:45:07.70\00:45:10.21
GRACE IN THE LONG RUN.
NOAH SURVIVED THIS CALAMITY.
00:45:10.21\00:45:13.58
YOU CAN READ 2 PETER CHAPTER
3, VERSE 5, "FOR THIS THEY
00:45:13.58\00:45:17.88
WILLFULLY FORGET: THAT BY THE
WORD OF GOD THE HEAVENS WERE OF
00:45:17.88\00:45:21.98
OLD, AND THE EARTH STANDING OUT
OF WATER AND IN THE WATER, BY
00:45:21.98\00:45:26.12
WHICH THE WORLD THAT THEN
EXISTED PERISHED, BEING FLOODED
00:45:26.12\00:45:29.86
WITH WATER. BUT THE
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
00:45:29.86\00:45:33.06
WHICH ARE NOW PRESERVED BY THE
SAME WORD, ARE RESERVED FOR FIRE
00:45:33.06\00:45:36.70
UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND
PERDITION" - PARDON ME - "THE
00:45:36.70\00:45:41.87
DAY OF JUDGMENT AND
PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN."
00:45:41.87\00:45:45.34
THE SAME WAY THERE WAS A
JUDGMENT THAT FELL ON PEOPLE
00:45:45.34\00:45:48.41
BACK IN THE DAYS OF NOAH,
IS THERE GOING TO BE A FUTURE
00:45:48.41\00:45:50.61
JUDGMENT? WHO IS JUDGED?
THE PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN.
00:45:50.61\00:45:57.15
AND SO, IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, DID
GOD PRESERVE NOAH THROUGH THAT
00:45:57.15\00:46:02.59
JUDGMENT? IN THE
FINAL JUDGMENT, WILL
00:46:02.59\00:46:05.76
GOD PRESERVE HIS
PEOPLE? DURING THAT JUDGMENT?
00:46:05.76\00:46:08.93
SO WHEN WE'RE STUDYING THE
SUBJECT OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION,
00:46:08.93\00:46:12.50
GOD KNOWS HOW TO SINGLE OUT
THE WICKED, ALTHOUGH IT DOESN'T
00:46:12.50\00:46:17.44
ALWAYS SEEM THAT WAY, HE
DOES KNOW HOW TO SINGLE OUT THE
00:46:17.44\00:46:19.41
WICKED AND TO PRESERVE THE
JUST. OKAY, HERE'S A COUPLE OF
00:46:19.41\00:46:26.38
EXAMPLES OF THAT - WELL EXODUS
- I'M SORRY, GENESIS 13:13,
00:46:26.38\00:46:31.25
"BUT THE MEN OF SODOM
WERE EXCEEDINGLY WICKED AND
00:46:31.25\00:46:34.36
SINFUL AGAINST THE LORD."
BUT DID HE SAVE LOT OUT OF THAT?
00:46:34.36\00:46:39.29
AND HE JUDGED THE OTHERS.
AND THEN, EVEN AMONG GOD'S
00:46:39.29\00:46:43.77
PEOPLE, SOMETIMES, THE LORD
HAS BROUGHT JUDGMENT DOWN AMONG
00:46:43.77\00:46:48.24
PEOPLE WHO
PROFESS TO SERVE THE LORD.
00:46:48.24\00:46:51.07
ONE EXAMPLE THAT'S GIVEN TALKS
ABOUT THE REBELLION OF KORAH
00:46:51.07\00:46:54.51
THAT YOU FIND IN NUMBERS 16:1,
"NOW KORAH THE SON OF ISHAR, THE
00:46:54.51\00:47:01.28
SON OF KOHATH, THE SON OF LEVI,
WITH DATHAN AND ABIRAM THE SONS
00:47:01.28\00:47:05.95
OF ELIAB, AND ON THE SON OF
PELETH, SONS OF REUBEN, TOOK
00:47:05.95\00:47:09.59
MEN; AND THEY ROSE UP BEFORE
MOSES WITH SOME OF THE CHILDREN
00:47:09.59\00:47:13.13
OF ISRAEL, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
LEADERS OF THE CONGREGATIONS," -
00:47:13.13\00:47:16.20
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A
COUPLE MILLION AT THIS POINT -
00:47:16.20\00:47:20.00
"REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
CONGREGATION, MEN OF RENOWN.
00:47:20.00\00:47:23.20
THEY GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST
MOSES AND AARON, AND SAID TO
00:47:23.20\00:47:25.87
THEM, 'YOU TAKE TOO MUCH
UPON YOURSELVES, FOR ALL THE
00:47:25.87\00:47:29.18
CONGREGATION IS HOLY, EVERY ONE
OF THEM, AND THE LORD IS AMONG
00:47:29.18\00:47:32.78
THEM. WHY THEN DO YOU EXALT
YOURSELVES ABOVE THE ASSEMBLY OF
00:47:32.78\00:47:34.82
THE LORD?'" WELL, GOD HAD CHOSEN
MOSES AND HE SAID, BY HIS WORD,
00:47:34.82\00:47:40.59
'MOSES IS MY REPRESENTATIVE'
AND THEY DIDN'T LIKE THAT.
00:47:40.59\00:47:43.49
THEY SAID, 'WE'RE ALL - ANY
OF US COULD BE - YOU - YOU PUT
00:47:43.49\00:47:46.23
YOURSELF OVER US' - AND THERE
WAS, SORT OF, THIS REBELLION
00:47:46.23\00:47:48.50
OVER AUTHORITY AND WHO HAD
AUTHORITY AND YOU HAVE SOME OF
00:47:48.50\00:47:52.43
THAT GOING ON EVEN
IN THE CHURCHES TODAY.
00:47:52.43\00:47:54.64
>>AMEN.
>>DEUTERONOMY 4:4, IT TELLS US
00:47:54.64\00:47:59.51
THAT WE SHOULD KEEP HIS STATUTES
AND HIS COMMANDMENTS THAT HE
00:47:59.51\00:48:05.21
COMMANDS US THAT IT MAY BE
WELL WITH US AND OUR CHILDREN.
00:48:05.21\00:48:09.88
YOU KNOW, I NEVER DID FINISH
READING WHAT HAPPENED HERE -
00:48:09.88\00:48:13.52
I'VE GOT TO - YOU JUMP TO
NUMBERS 16 - HANG ON HERE -
00:48:13.52\00:48:21.93
NUMBERS 16 - IT TELLS ABOUT THE
REBELLION AND, FINALLY, YOU CAN
00:48:21.93\00:48:27.94
READ IN VERSE 23, THEY WOULD NOT
REPENT - IN KORAH'S REBELLION -
00:48:27.94\00:48:35.31
AND "SO THE LORD SPOKE TO
MOSES, SAYING, 'SPEAK TO THE
00:48:35.31\00:48:37.85
CONGREGATIONS, SAYING, 'GET AWAY
FROM THE TENTS OF KORAH, DATHAN,
00:48:37.85\00:48:42.38
AND ABIRAM.' THEN MOSES ROSE AND
WENT TO DATHAN AND ABIRAM, AND
00:48:42.38\00:48:46.89
THE ELDERS OF
ISRAEL FOLLOWED HIM.
00:48:46.89\00:48:49.72
AND HE SPOKE TO THE
CONGREGATION, SAYING, 'DEPART
00:48:49.72\00:48:51.53
NOW FROM THE TENTS OF THESE
WICKED MEN! TOUCH NOTHING OF
00:48:51.53\00:48:54.30
THEIRS, LEST YOU BE CONSUMED
IN ALL THEIR SINS.' SO THEY GOT
00:48:54.30\00:48:58.53
AWAY FROM AROUND THE TENTS OF
KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM; AND
00:48:58.53\00:49:02.54
DATHAN AND ABIRAM CAME OUT
AND STOOD AT THE DOOR OF THEIR
00:49:02.54\00:49:04.04
TENTS, WITH THEIR WIVES, THEIR
SONS, AND THEIR LITTLE CHILDREN.
00:49:04.04\00:49:07.21
AND MOSES SAID: 'BY THIS
YOU SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD HAS
00:49:07.21\00:49:10.45
SENT ME TO DO ALL THESE WORKS,
FOR I HAVE NOT DONE THEM OF MY
00:49:10.45\00:49:15.02
OWN WILL.'" - AND ALL OF ISRAEL
IS WATCHING - "'IF THESE MEN DIE
00:49:15.02\00:49:19.52
NATURALLY LIKE ALL MEN, OR IF
THEY ARE VISITED BY THE COMMON
00:49:19.52\00:49:22.86
FATE OF ALL MEN,'" - THEY GET
OLD, THEY DIE, THEY MAYBE GET A
00:49:22.86\00:49:25.46
SICKNESS AND THEY DIE -
"'THEN THE LORD HAS NOT SENT ME.
00:49:25.46\00:49:30.20
BUT IF THE LORD CREATES A NEW
THING,'" - OUR STUDY SECTION IS
00:49:30.20\00:49:34.54
NAMED AFTER THAT - "'AND
THE EARTH OPENS ITS MOUTH AND
00:49:34.54\00:49:38.14
SWALLOWS THEM UP WITH ALL THAT
BELONGS TO THEM, AND THEY GO
00:49:38.14\00:49:41.61
DOWN ALIVE INTO THE PIT, THEN
YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THESE
00:49:41.61\00:49:45.71
MEN HAVE REJECTED THE LORD.' NOW
IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE FINISHED
00:49:45.71\00:49:50.25
SPEAKING ALL THESE WORDS, THAT
THE GROUND SPLIT" - IT'S LIKE
00:49:50.25\00:49:54.66
ELIJAH, RIGHT AFTER HE
GOT DONE PRAYING, IT HAPPENED.
00:49:54.66\00:49:57.89
RIGHT AFTER MOSES SAID THIS
- IF GOD DOES A NEW THING - THE
00:49:57.89\00:50:00.76
GROUND SPLIT LIKE A GREAT
EARTHQUAKE - "...UNDER THEM, AND
00:50:00.76\00:50:05.97
THE EARTH OPENED ITS MOUTH AND
SWALLOWED THEM UP, WITH THEIR
00:50:05.97\00:50:09.00
HOUSEHOLDS AND ALL THE MEN WITH
KORAH, WITH ALL THEIR GOODS.
00:50:09.00\00:50:12.44
SO THEY AND ALL THOSE WITH THEM"
- THEIR FAMILY, THEIR TENT -
00:50:12.44\00:50:15.24
EVERYTHING - "WENT DOWN ALIVE
INTO THE PIT;" - AND AFTER THEY
00:50:15.24\00:50:18.28
ALL FELL IN THERE SCREAMING,
THEN THE EARTH CLOSED UP LIKE A
00:50:18.28\00:50:22.45
VAULT DOOR. THAT
WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU
00:50:22.45\00:50:26.39
TO BE GOOD,
WOULDN'T IT? IF YOU SAW THAT?
00:50:26.39\00:50:30.19
SO ARE THERE EXAMPLES IN THE
BIBLE OF JUST IMMEDIATE JUSTICE
00:50:30.19\00:50:34.86
AND JUDGMENT? WHEN
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA - ACTS
00:50:34.86\00:50:41.84
CHAPTER 5 - WHEN THEY SINNED AND
PETER SAYS, 'YOU'VE NOT LIED TO
00:50:41.84\00:50:47.04
MEN, YOU'VE LIED TO GOD' AND
ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY DROP DEAD,
00:50:47.04\00:50:50.18
THAT WAS PRETTY SEVERE.
DOES GOD, SOMETIMES, HOLD SIN
00:50:50.18\00:50:53.85
MORE SEVERELY IN THE
CHURCH THAN IN THE WORLD?
00:50:53.85\00:50:57.15
BECAUSE HIGHER EXPECTATION -
TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS
00:50:57.15\00:51:00.86
REQUIRED - THAT'S WHY IT'S
VERY DANGEROUS FOR US TO REBEL
00:51:00.86\00:51:06.03
AGAINST GOD.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME,
00:51:06.03\00:51:07.23
DEUTERONOMY 5:29 - DO
YOU - YOU'VE GOT THAT, JOHN?
00:51:07.23\00:51:11.03
BEFORE YOU GET THERE, I'M GOING
TO READ DEUTERONOMY 4:40, "YOU
00:51:11.03\00:51:14.77
SHALL THEREFORE KEEP HIS
STATUTES AND HIS COMMANDMENTS
00:51:14.77\00:51:17.11
WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY,
THAT IT MAY GO WELL WITH YOU AND
00:51:17.11\00:51:20.88
WITH YOUR CHILDREN AFTER YOU,
AND THAT YOU MAY PROLONG YOUR
00:51:20.88\00:51:23.65
DAYS IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD
YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU FOR ALL
00:51:23.65\00:51:26.65
TIME." IF
YOU'RE OBEDIENT, IT'S A
00:51:26.65\00:51:28.75
GENERAL
PRINCIPLE: IT'LL GO WELL.
00:51:28.75\00:51:31.22
IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'LL NEVER
HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT IT'LL GO
00:51:31.22\00:51:32.82
WELL. GO AHEAD,
READ DEUTERONOMY 5:29.
00:51:32.82\00:51:36.26
>>"OH THAT THEY HAD SUCH A HEART
IN THEM THAT THEY WOULD FEAR ME
00:51:36.26\00:51:39.83
AND ALWAYS KEEP ALL MY
COMMANDMENTS, THAT IT MIGHT BE
00:51:39.83\00:51:43.10
WELL WITH THEM AND WITH
THEIR CHILDREN FOREVER!"
00:51:43.10\00:51:45.73
>>WHY DOES GOD WANT US
TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS?
00:51:45.73\00:51:48.17
JUST TO PROVE HE'S
RIGHT, OR BECAUSE HE LOVES US?
00:51:48.17\00:51:51.44
AND HE SAID THAT IT MIGHT BE
WELL WITH YOU - BECAUSE IF WE
00:51:51.44\00:51:53.74
DON'T KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS,
WE'LL BE LOST AND HE DOESN'T
00:51:53.74\00:51:56.41
WANT US TO BE LOST. HE'S NOT
WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH.
00:51:56.41\00:51:59.71
HE WANTS US TO OBEY
AND LIVE - IS WHAT IT SAYS.
00:51:59.71\00:52:03.12
NOW WE CAN ONLY DO IT BY HIS
POWER, BUT THERE'S NO QUESTION
00:52:03.12\00:52:05.35
HE WANTS US TO DO IT. SO
WHEN GOOD AND BAD COMES TO
00:52:05.35\00:52:08.42
EACH PERSON, WE MIGHT WONDER,
'WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?'
00:52:08.42\00:52:11.36
IT MIGHT BE TEMPORARY. IT
MAY NOT ALWAYS BE BECAUSE OF
00:52:11.36\00:52:13.73
OUR BEHAVIOR. IT
COULD BE GOD'S TEACHING US
00:52:13.73\00:52:16.60
THROUGH THE TRIALS THAT COME.
THERE'S AN INTERESTING QUOTE IN
00:52:16.60\00:52:20.30
THE - ACTUALLY, THIS ISN'T IN
THE LESSON; I FOUND THIS ONE -
00:52:20.30\00:52:24.31
IT'S THE FAITH THAT I LIVE BY
, PAGE 64, "GOD NEVER LEADS HIS
00:52:24.31\00:52:29.31
CHILDREN OTHERWISE THAN THEY
WOULD CHOOSE TO BE LED IF THEY
00:52:29.31\00:52:33.28
COULD SEE THE END FROM THE
BEGINNING AND DISCERN THE GLORY
00:52:33.28\00:52:36.35
OF THE PURPOSE WHICH THEY
ARE FULFILLING AS COWORKERS WITH
00:52:36.35\00:52:38.79
HIM. WHEN YOU
TRUST GOD, YOU KNOW
00:52:38.79\00:52:43.59
THAT IN THE JUDGEMENT, IF
YOU COULD LOOK BACK ON THE TRIAL
00:52:43.59\00:52:46.26
YOU'RE GOING THROUGH, AND SEE
THROUGH GOD'S BINOCULARS, YOU'D
00:52:46.26\00:52:50.97
SAY, 'OH, NOW I
KNOW WHY THAT HAPPENED.
00:52:50.97\00:52:52.70
THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT NEEDED
TO HAPPEN.' AND YOU WOULD BE
00:52:52.70\00:52:55.47
CONTENT. IT'D BE
NICE IF WE COULD KNOW
00:52:55.47\00:52:57.44
THAT AHEAD OF TIME, BUT WE DON'T
ALWAYS KNOW IT AHEAD OF TIME.
00:52:57.44\00:53:01.58
ALRIGHT, WE'RE
JUST ABOUT OUT OF TIME.
00:53:01.58\00:53:03.51
LAST SECTION: THE SECOND DEATH -
AND THERE IS A JUDGMENT - WE ALL
00:53:03.51\00:53:07.08
GO THROUGH TRIALS BUT THERE IS
A TRIAL FROM WHICH THERE IS NO
00:53:07.08\00:53:09.45
RECOVERY AND THAT IS THE SECOND
DEATH HE SPEAKS OF IN REVELATION
00:53:09.45\00:53:13.76
20 WHEN IT SAYS, 'DEATH AND
HADES WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF
00:53:13.76\00:53:17.89
FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.
00:53:17.89\00:53:19.83
ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE
BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE
00:53:19.83\00:53:23.47
LAKE OF FIRE.' AND THE LOST, IN
THAT CASE, WILL DECLARE, AS IT
00:53:23.47\00:53:27.64
SAYS IN JEREMIAH 8:20, "THE
HARVEST IS PAST, THE SUMMER IS
00:53:27.64\00:53:31.34
ENDED, AND WE ARE NOT SAVED!"
AND THAT MEANS THEY'VE WAITED
00:53:31.34\00:53:35.44
BEYOND MERCY - THE POINT OF NO
RETURN - PROBATION IS CLOSED -
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AND THAT'S NOT A VERY GOOD NOTE
TO END ON SO LET ME TELL YOU
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ABOUT THE FREE OFFER INSTEAD.
(LAUGHTER) WE'LL SEND THIS TO
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YOU FOR FREE - IT'S CALLED
PENDING: YOUR CASE IN COURT AND
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AND GOD'S LOVE IN THE JUDGMENT.
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ASK FOR OFFER #192 AND
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WHEN YOU GET IT AND READ IT,
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THEN PLEASE SHARE
WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
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GOD BLESS YOU, OUR FRIENDS
THAT ARE WATCHING, OUR EXTENDED
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MEMBERS AND CLASS, AND WE'LL
LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING HIS
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WORD TOGETHER
AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC)
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>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
>>YOU KNOW, I WASN'T RAISED
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TO BE A
METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURER.
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I WASN'T RAISED
TO BE A DRUG DEALER.
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I WAS RAISED IN THE
CHURCH. I WANTED TO FIT IN.
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I WANTED TO BE IN THE IN CROWD.
I WANTED TO FEEL ACCEPTED, SO I
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GOT INTO ALL THE THINGS
THAT MY FRIEND WAS INTO.
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SHE WAS AN AVID DRINKER AND BY
THE TIME I WAS 16 I WAS DRINKING
00:54:42.88\00:54:49.85
QUITE A BIT. AND
PRETTY SOON SOMEONE ASKED
00:54:49.85\00:54:52.39
ME IF I WANTED TO
HAVE SOME COCAINE.
00:54:52.39\00:54:56.29
AND ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER
THAT I - PRETTY SOON I STARTED
00:54:56.29\00:54:59.29
TO SELL COCAINE AND I THOUGHT,
YOU KNOW, 'I CAN QUIT ANY TIME I
00:54:59.29\00:55:03.63
WANT.' THAT THIS REALLY
DOESN'T HAVE A HOLD ON ME.
00:55:03.63\00:55:07.20
AND ONE DAY MY FRIEND, SHE WAS
DRIVING, A TRAIN HAD WENT BY AND
00:55:07.20\00:55:13.94
SOMEHOW SHE DIDN'T SEE THE OTHER
TRAIN COMING AND SHE DIDN'T MAKE
00:55:13.94\00:55:19.11
IT. AND THAT RIGHT
THERE JUST DEVASTATED ME.
00:55:19.11\00:55:25.89
IT WAS AT THAT POINT THAT I JUST
CRIED OUT TO GOD AND I SAID,
00:55:25.89\00:55:30.66
'GOD, YOU KNOW, DO
WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO.
00:55:30.66\00:55:33.73
I DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS.
00:55:33.73\00:55:35.33
INTERVENE IN MY LIFE.' MY
PARENTS, IN THE MEANTIME, HAD
00:55:35.33\00:55:41.20
BEEN PRAYING FOR ME - THAT
I WOULD COME BACK TO THE LORD.
00:55:41.20\00:55:45.87
THEY ACTUALLY HAD INVITED
ME TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR.
00:55:45.87\00:55:50.21
I DECIDED TO COME, BUT I WENT
THERE HIGH AND, I'M NOT PROUD OF
00:55:50.21\00:55:54.38
IT - WHY I EVEN MENTION IT TODAY
IS BECAUSE I JUST WANT YOU TO
00:55:54.38\00:55:57.75
KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MUCH
MORE POWERFUL AND HE STARTED
00:55:57.75\00:56:03.66
WORKING ON MY HEART.
IT'S LIKE I - I KNEW THAT THE
00:56:03.66\00:56:10.00
HOLY SPIRIT WAS CONVICTING ME,
BUT YET IT WASN'T EVEN LIKE IT
00:56:10.00\00:56:12.47
WAS ME, LITERALLY, I WAS PICKED
UP AND TAKEN DOWN TO THE FRONT.
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YOU CAN BE RAISED IN THE CHURCH
AND DO ALL KINDS OF THINGS AND -
00:56:18.77\00:56:22.01
AND THE DEVIL WILL MAKE YOU
THINK THAT HE - THAT GOD WON'T
00:56:22.01\00:56:26.15
ACCEPT YOU BACK,
BUT GOD IS MERCIFUL.
00:56:26.15\00:56:30.05
HE IS LOVING AND HE - IT
DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE,
00:56:30.05\00:56:33.69
HE JUST WANTS YOU
TO COME BACK HOME.
00:56:33.69\00:56:44.03
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER
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BEFORE. THANK
YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
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PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
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OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
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PROBABLY TELLING
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