Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021646A
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00:35 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME, AGAIN, TO 00:36 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:38 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THOSE JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY 00:40 AND AROUND THE WORLD - OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS. 00:44 WE'RE DELIGHTED THAT YOU'RE PART OF THIS TIME STUDYING TOGETHER. 00:47 AND ALSO, THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND THOSE WHO 00:49 ARE VISITING - ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU HERE SABBATH AFTER 00:52 SABBATH - EARLY - READY TO STUDY THE LESSON. 00:55 OUR LESSON - WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE IN THE BOOK OF JOB AND 00:58 WE'RE ON LESSON #7 WHICH IS ENTITLED RETRIBUTIVE PUNISHMENT . 01:03 NOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT NOT HAVE A COPY OF OUR LESSON 01:06 DEALING WITH JOB, YOU CAN GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE AND 01:09 YOU CAN ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD LESSON #7 AND YOU CAN STUDY RIGHT ALONG 01:13 WITH US TOGETHER AS WE LOOK AT THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 01:16 WE HAVE A BOOK THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY, IT'S A 01:20 BOOK ENTITLED YOUR CASE IN COURT . 01:23 THIS IS OUR FREE OFFER THIS MORNING, SO FOR ANYBODY JOINING 01:26 US ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, YOU CAN CALL US ON OUR RESOURCE PHONE 01:30 NUMBER 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #192. 01:38 THE NUMBER, AGAIN, IS 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR THE BOOK 01:42 YOUR CASE IN COURT - OFFER #192 - AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND 01:47 THAT TO YOU. IF YOU'RE OUTSIDE OF NORTH 01:49 AMERICA, JUST GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - YOU CAN TYPE IN 01:52 THE TITLE OF THE BOOK, YOUR CASE IN COURT , AND YOU CAN 01:55 READ IT FOR FREE ONLINE. WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR 01:57 STUDY, AS WE NORMALLY DO, WE LIKE TO LIFT OUR VOICES IN 02:00 PRAISE. I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE AND 02:02 WELCOME OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME AND LET'S SING TOGETHER. 02:09 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. WE ARE EXCITED TO BE HERE TO 02:12 SING YOUR FAVORITES WITH YOU. WE'RE READY HERE AT THE 02:15 GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, SO IF YOU'RE 02:18 AT HOME, PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND JOIN WITH US. OUR FIRST ONE 02:21 IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES - A CHILD OF THE KING - WE'RE GOING TO DO 02:26 THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS - #468. 02:30 (MUSIC) 04:53 >>WHEN YOU HAVE THE ASSURANCE THAT YOU ARE A CHILD 04:56 OF THE KING, IT TRULY DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR LOT IS IN LIFE 05:00 ON THIS EARTH - WHETHER YOU LIVE IN A PALACE OR A COTTAGE. 05:04 AS A CHILD, I LIVED IN A MUD HUT IN THE JUNGLE OF BELIZE FOR A 05:08 YEAR WITH A MUD FLOOR AND A THATCHED ROOF AND A BOA 05:11 CONSTRICTOR UP IN THE CEILING AND, YOU KNOW, TRULY, IT DOESN'T 05:14 MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE OR HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE IN THE BANK 05:18 BECAUSE ONE DAY WE'RE GOING TO BE IN HEAVEN WITH A PALACE AND, 05:24 MOST IMPORTANTLY, WITH JESUS, WHICH GIVES US LOTS OF JOY AND 05:30 SUNSHINE IN OUR SOULS WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THAT, AMEN. 05:36 #470 - THERE IS SUNSHINE IN MY SOUL TODAY - JUST ON THE OTHER 05:39 SIDE OF THE PAGE. AND WE WILL ALSO DO THE FIRST, 05:42 SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS. (MUSIC) 07:45 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SINGING ALONG WITH US AND, AT 07:48 THIS TIME, PASTOR ROSS WILL HAVE OUR OPENING PRAYER. 07:58 >>LET'S BEGIN WITH A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, 08:01 WHAT A PRIVILEGE, ONCE AGAIN, TO BE ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR HOUSE, 08:04 IN YOUR PRESENCE, TO STUDY YOUR WORD. 08:06 AND LORD, AS WE LOOK TO THE STORY OF JOB AND SEE THE GREAT 08:10 CONTROVERSY BEING PLAYED OUT AND THE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING 08:12 MADE, I PRAY THAT OUR FAITH WOULD BE ENCOURAGED - THAT WE 08:15 WOULD BE STRENGTHENED TO RECOGNIZE YOUR LOVE, AND THAT 08:18 YOU'RE AWARE OF EVERY TRIAL AND DIFFICULTY THAT WE FACE. 08:21 SO BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER, IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. OUR LESSON 08:25 THIS MORNING IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG. 08:33 >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. 08:36 >>GOOD MORNING. >>HOW IS EVERYBODY? 08:39 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD - 08:40 >>AMEN. >>HERE IN SACRAMENTO. 08:43 I GUESS WE'RE NOT REALLY IN SACRAMENTO - WE'RE AT THE 08:46 GRANITE BAY CHURCH IN ROCKLIN, RIGHT? 08:50 LONG STORY BEHIND THAT. WE ARE A CHURCH PLANT IN GRANITE 08:55 BAY, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE RENTING A CHURCH IN ROCKLIN WHILE 08:59 WE BUILD IN GRANITE BAY. PEOPLE HAVE SOMETIMES TYPED THE 09:02 GRANITE BAY CHURCH INTO THEIR GPS AND THEY CAN'T FIND A 09:06 GRANITE BAY CHURCH IN GRANITE BAY AND THAT CONFUSES THEM. 09:09 ANYWAY, THAT'S TOO MUCH INFORMATION, FRIENDS. 09:11 WELCOME TO OUR SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY TIME, AND WE ARE 09:14 CONTINUING OUR STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JOB AND TODAY WE ARE IN 09:20 LESSON #7 AND THE LESSON IS CALLED RETRIBUTIVE PUNISHMENT . 09:25 YOU'VE HEARD OF RETRIBUTION? RETRIBUTIVE PUNISHMENT - AND WE 09:30 HAVE A MEMORY VERSE FROM JOB 11:7 AND IF YOU WANT TO SAY 09:35 THAT WITH ME, YOU CAN GO THERE. THIS IS FROM THE NEW KING JAMES 09:38 VERSION - JOB 11:7 - ARE YOU READY? 09:42 "CAN YOU SEARCH OUT THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD? 09:46 CAN YOU FIND OUT THE LIMITS OF THE ALMIGHTY?" 09:50 I HEARD A PREACHER SAYING, JUST THIS WEEK, THAT BECAUSE GOD IS 09:56 ALL-KNOWING, THAT WE SHOULD DESPAIR - NOT EVEN TRY TO 10:00 UNDERSTAND WHY GOD IS DOING WHAT HE'S DOING BECAUSE IT'S 10:04 IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THE MIND OF GOD. 10:06 I'D RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. MAN IS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD 10:11 AND GOD WANTS TO APPEAL TO OUR INTELLECT AND HE SAYS, 'COME 10:14 LET US REASON TOGETHER'. GOD WANTS US TO USE OUR NOODLE, 10:19 AS THEY SAY, HE WANTS US TO THINK AND HE WANTS US TO KNOW 10:23 HIM AND HE WANTS US TO THINK ABOUT WHY HE DOES WHAT HE DOES. 10:26 AND SO, YES, IT IS TRUE THAT WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT GOD KNOWS 10:31 - AND THE BIBLE SAYS, 'AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGH ABOVE THE 10:34 EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS ABOVE YOUR WAYS.' THE LORD STILL WANTS US 10:37 TO THINK. AND I THINK HE ENJOYS FOR US TO 10:41 STUDY TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HIS MIND. 10:44 SO IT IS TRUE THAT WE CANNOT SEARCH OUT THE DEEP THINGS OF 10:49 GOD. I THINK HE WANTS US TO KNOW AS 10:51 MUCH AS WE CAN AND WE'LL SPEND ETERNITY TRYING TO 10:55 UNDERSTAND THE MIND OF GOD AND TO BE LIKE HIM. 10:59 ALRIGHT, IN OUR FIRST SECTION HERE, IT'S MORE ACCUSATIONS - 11:04 NOW, YOU REALIZE, AS WE GO THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB, THE 11:06 FIRST COUPLE OF CHAPTERS ARE TELLING ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES 11:09 - THINGS THAT HAPPEN - AND THEN, ONCE YOU GET INTO CHAPTER 3 ON 11:13 UNTIL YOU GET TO ABOUT CHAPTER 39, IT'S A DIALOGUE THAT IS 11:19 HAPPENING. AND THEN, EVENTUALLY, YOU GET 11:21 INTO THE CONCLUSIONS WHERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT SOME 11:24 ACTUAL EVENTS AGAIN. WE'RE NOW INTO THE DIALOGUE. 11:27 WE STARTED LAST WEEK AND WE'RE LOOKING AT, PRINCIPALLY, TODAY, 11:32 THE RESPONSES OF BILDAD IN CHAPTER 8 AND IN ZOPHAR IN 11:41 CHAPTER 11. NOW, I WANT TO SAY JUST A WORD 11:44 ABOUT WHO THESE CHARACTERS ARE. I TOUCHED ON IT BRIEFLY LAST 11:48 WEEK, BUT YOU'VE GOT JOB AND HIS THREE FRIENDS, AND THEN A FOURTH 11:51 FRIEND SHOWS UP - I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT HIM YET, BEFORE 11:55 THE DISCOURSE IS DONE. ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, BILDAD THE 12:01 SHUHITE, ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE. NOW, JOB IS ACTUALLY SOMETIMES 12:08 HARDER FOR US TO FIGURE OUT THAN HIS FRIENDS. HIS FRIENDS APPEAR 12:12 IN THE BIBLE AND SO WE CAN KIND OF GET SOME BACKGROUND. 12:15 FOR EXAMPLE, ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE - YOU CAN READ IN 12:18 GENESIS 36, VERSE 11 - IT SAYS, "THE SONS OF ELIPHAZ" - IT TELLS 12:22 US ELIPHAZ WAS ONE OF THE SONS OF ESAU - AND THEN IT GOES IN 12:27 THE GENEALOGY AND IT SAYS, "THE SONS OF ELIPHAZ WERE TEMAN, 12:30 OMAR, ZEPHO, GATAM, AND KENAZ." 12:35 BY THE WAY, THE KENAZITES WERE SOME FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELITES. 12:41 YOU REMEMBER THIS GIRL NAMED JAAL THAT WHEN A FLEEING ENEMY 12:47 GENERAL CAME, NAMED CICERO, CAME TO HER TENT, SHE DROVE HER TENT 12:52 STAKE IN HIM. SHE WAS FROM THE TRIBE OF THE 12:54 KENAZITES, AND SO, THEY WERE RELATED TO ESAU. 12:58 NOW, YOU MIGHT WONDER, 'WHY DOES IT CALL HIM ELIPHAZ THE 13:00 TEMANITE?' HE HAD A SON NAMED TEMAN. 13:02 IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON FOR THEM TO NAME A TOWN AFTER THEIR SON. 13:08 FOR EXAMPLE, GENESIS 4:17, "AND CAIN KNEW HIS WIFE, AND SHE 13:13 CONCEIVED AND BORE ENOCH. AND HE BUILT A CITY, AND CALLED 13:16 THE NAME OF THE CITY AFTER THE NAME OF HIS SON - ENOCH." 13:20 HERE HE HAD A SON, HE NAMED THE SON - HE NAMED THE CITY AFTER 13:23 HIS SON - SO THE REASON ELIPHAZ IS CALLED 'THE TEMANITE' IS 13:26 BECAUSE HE CAME FROM THE CITY NAMED AFTER HIS SON. 13:30 REMEMBER, THEY LIVED A LONG TIME BACK THEN. 13:33 AND YOU CAN READ IN OBADIAH 9, "THEN YOUR MIGHTY MEN, O TEMAN, 13:39 SHALL BE DISMAYED, TO THE END THAT EVERYONE FROM THE MOUNTAINS 13:42 OF ESAU" - SO THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN; ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE IS 13:46 RELATED TO THE CHILDREN OF ESAU. 13:50 THIS WAS IN THE DESERTS THAT ARE SOUTHEAST OF ISRAEL. 13:56 NEXT YOU'VE GOT BILDAD THE SHUHITE - OH, BY THE WAY, THE 13:59 NAME 'ELIPHAZ' MEANS 'ENDEAVOR' OR 'STRENGTH OF GOD'. 14:04 THESE ARE GOOD NAMES THESE GUYS HAD - EXCEPT BILDAD, 14:08 HE'S GOT THE NAME 'SON OF CONTENTION'. 14:10 IT MAKES HIM SOUND ARGUMENTATIVE. 14:12 SON OF CONTENTION - AND HE'S CALLED 'BILDAD THE SHUHITE. 14:16 YOU CAN READ IN GENESIS 25:1 AND 2, "ABRAHAM AGAIN TOOK A WIFE, 14:21 AND HER NAME WAS KETURAH." - THIS WAS AFTER SARAH DIES; 14:24 ABRAHAM MARRIES AGAIN. BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, HE MAY 14:28 HAVE ACTUALLY HAD MORE THAN ONE BESIDES KETURAH BECAUSE IT 14:31 TALKS ABOUT 'THE SONS OF HIS CONCUBINES' - PLURAL - 'HE SENT 14:37 AWAY FROM ESAU.' NOW, THEY MIGHT BE THINKING THE CONCUBINES WERE 14:41 HAGAR AND KETURAH, THAT'S WHY IT'S PLURAL. 14:45 THEY WERE WONDERING IF HE HAD OTHERS BESIDES. 14:47 BUT IT TELLS ABOUT THE NAMES AND IT SAYS HERE, HE "...GAVE GIFTS 14:52 TO THE SONS OF THE CONCUBINES WHICH ABRAHAM HAD;" - I'M, 14:54 AGAIN, IN GENESIS 25:6 - "AND WHILE HE WAS STILL LIVING HE 14:58 SENT THEM EASTWARD, AWAY FROM ISAAC HIS SON, TO THE COUNTRY IN 15:01 THE EAST." BUT IT SAYS KETURAH BORE HIM 15:04 ZIMRAN, JOKSHAN, MEDAN, MIDIAN, ISHBAK, AND SHUAH. 15:11 AND SO BILDAD IS THE SHUHITE, MEANING THAT HE'S FROM THE AREA 15:15 OF SHUAH. THIS IS WHERE THE SONS OF 15:17 KETURAH CAME - EASTWARD AGAIN, BACK IN THE VICINITY OF ESAU. 15:23 AND THEN YOU HAVE ZOPHAR - AND THE WORD 'ZOPHAR' MEANS 'TO 15:27 LEAP'. I WAS LISTENING TO J. VERNON 15:30 MCGEE, THAT OLD SOUTHERN PREACHER - IT SAYS - HE SAID, 15:34 'IT'S BECAUSE ZOPHAR KEPT LEAPING TO CONCLUSIONS IN HIS 15:38 RESPONSES TO JOB.' I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN SUPPORT THAT, BUT I 15:42 THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING. HE WAS THE NAAMATHITE. 15:45 YOU CAN READ IN JOSHUA 15:21, IT SAYS, "THE UTTERMOST CITIES OF 15:50 THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH TOWARDS THE COAST OF EDOM" 15:54 - EDOM IS WHERE THE PEOPLE OF ESAU WERE, AGAIN, DESCENDANTS OF 15:57 ESAU, AND IT NAMES SOME OF THEM: "...GEDEROTH, BETH DAGON, 16:00 NAAMAH" - SO SOME OF THE CITIES THAT BELONGED TO ESAU - ONE OF 16:05 THEM WAS NAAMAH AND YOU'VE GOT ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE. 16:08 AND SO, IT'S REALLY CONCLUSIVE WHERE THIS ALL TOOK PLACE AND, 16:13 YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW, BUT THE BIBLE DOES TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE 16:16 KINGS OF EDOM WAS JOBAB AND SOME HAVE WONDERED IF THIS KING, 16:23 JOBAB, WAS THE SAME JOB OF THE LAND OF EDOM, BECAUSE IT SAYS HE 16:28 WAS THE GREATEST MAN OF THE EAST. 16:29 SO, ANYWAY, THIS JUST GIVES YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON THESE 16:34 GUYS. AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO READ A 16:37 LITTLE BIT, NOW, OF WHAT BILDAD SAYS AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 16:41 FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, JAMES 4:14 - THAT'LL BE YOU, MANJEET? 16:46 ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ FIRST, JOB 8 - THIS IS THE 16:49 RESPONSE AFTER JOB HAS BROKEN FORTH AND SHARED HIS BROKEN 16:53 HEART. IT SAYS, "THEN BILDAD THE 16:55 SHUHITE ANSWERED AND SAID: 'HOW LONG WITH YOU SPEAK THESE 16:59 THINGS, AND THE WORDS OF YOUR MOUTH BE LIKE A STRONG WIND?" 17:03 - HOW WOULD THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? 17:06 YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE CALLED A 'BLOWHARD'? 17:09 JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE FULL OF HOT AIR - SOME OF THESE EXPRESSIONS, 17:12 THIS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT BILDAD'S SAYING TO HIS GOOD 17:14 FRIEND WHO JUST LOST EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING - "AND THE WORDS 17:19 OF YOUR MOUTH BE LIKE A STRONG WIND? 17:20 DOES GOD SUBVERT JUDGMENT?" IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S SAYING, 17:22 'WHY ARE YOU SAYING 'WHY? WHY, LORD? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 17:25 YOU'RE DOING THINGS WRONG' - "DOES GOD SUBVERT JUDGMENT? 17:28 OR DOES THE ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUSTICE? 17:31 IF YOUR SONS HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM, HE HAS CAST THEM AWAY FOR 17:35 THEIR TRANSGRESSION." AND SO, IT'S TELLING US THAT HIS 17:41 SONS WERE SUFFERING BECAUSE THEY DID SOMETHING WRONG. 17:46 HOW DO YOU THINK IT WOULD MAKE YOU FEEL IF YOU LOST YOUR SONS - 17:50 OR YOUR CHILDREN - AND JOB LOST WHAT? 17:52 HIS SONS AND HIS DAUGHTERS - AND SOMEONE SAID, 'WELL, IT'S 17:55 BECAUSE THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED.' 17:58 WOULD THAT BE WHAT YOU'D SAY TO COMFORT THEM? 18:00 JOB IS BROKEN HEARTED - NOT ONLY HAS HE LOST EVERYTHING, HE'S 18:04 LOST EVERYONE, HE'S LOST HIS HEALTH - AND THEN YOU'VE GOT A 18:07 FRIEND WHO SAYS, 'WELL, MAYBE THEY'RE JUST GETTING WHAT THEY 18:11 DESERVE.' ALRIGHT, AND IF YOU READ IN JOB 8:5-9, "IF YOU WOULD 18:18 EARNESTLY SEEK GOD AND MAKE YOUR SUPPLICATION TO THE ALMIGHTY, IF 18:23 YOU WERE PURE AND UPRIGHT, SURELY NOW HE WOULD AWAKEN FOR 18:27 YOU, AND PROSPER YOUR RIGHTFUL DWELLING PLACE." 18:31 - HE SAYS, 'WELL, IF YOU WERE PURER, GOD WOULD STEP IN RIGHT 18:33 NOW, HE WOULD HEAR YOUR PRAYER, HE'D TURN THINGS AROUND - BUT 18:35 LOOK, YOU'VE BEEN SUFFERING FOR DAYS, MAYBE WEEKS LIKE THIS - 18:38 YOU'RE PROBABLY GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE.' - "THOUGH YOUR 18:42 BEGINNING WAS SMALL, YET YOUR LATTER END WOULD INCREASE 18:45 ABUNDANTLY. FOR INQUIRE, PLEASE, OF THE 18:48 FORMER AGE, AND CONSIDER THE THINGS DISCOVERED BY THEIR 18:51 FATHERS; FOR WE WERE BORN YESTERDAY, AND KNOW NOTHING, 18:55 BECAUSE OUR DAYS ON EARTH ARE A SHADOW." 18:58 NOW AGAIN, WE'VE GOT THIS STATEMENT THAT WE NEED TO 19:02 ADDRESS. YOU'VE GOT JOB, YOU'VE 19:04 GOT HIS FRIENDS. HIS FRIENDS DON'T KNOW 19:07 WHY JOB IS SUFFERING. BUT ARE THEY SPEAKING THE TRUTH? 19:12 GENERALLY SPEAKING, WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS INSPIRED. 19:15 AND WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO READ, NOW, MANJEET, IS AN EXAMPLE OF 19:18 THAT. WE JUST READ WHERE BILDAD SAID, 19:21 'OUR DAYS ON EARTH ARE AS A SHADOW' - IS THAT TRUE? 19:24 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US JAMES 4:14. 19:26 >>"WHEREAS YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW. 19:31 FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOR THAT APPEARS 19:36 FOR A LITTLE TIME AND THEN VANISHES AWAY." 19:42 >>THAT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE - OUR LIVES ARE LIKE A VAPOR. 19:46 THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S LIKE GRASS THAT SPRINGS UP AND THEN WITHERS 19:49 IN THE SUN. OUR DAYS ARE AS A SHADOW. 19:52 COMPARED TO ETERNITY, HOW LONG ARE OUR LIVES? 19:56 HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG, IT SEEMED LIKE IT 19:58 TOOK FOREVER FOR A YEAR TO GO BY? 20:02 AND I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER THINKING - MY BROTHER HAD HIS 20:06 TENTH BIRTHDAY AND I THOUGHT, 'MAN, I'M SEVEN - TEN, I'LL 20:10 NEVER GET THERE. THAT'S FOREVER. 20:13 I'LL NEVER LIVE TO BE TEN.' AND IT JUST SEEMED SO ETERNALLY FAR 20:17 AWAY THAT THE DAYS SEEMED TO DRAG BY. 20:21 AND NOW, I'LL TELL SOMEONE - THEY'LL SAY, 'WHEN DID THAT 20:26 HAPPEN?' I'LL SAY, 'OH, MAYBE LAST YEAR.' 20:28 AND THEN I'LL LOOK AND I FIND OUT IT WAS SIX YEARS AGO. 20:31 AND I GO, 'WOW! I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW QUICK THE YEARS GO BY.' 20:36 ANYONE ELSE? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 20:38 IT'S LIKE YOU BUILD MOMENTUM AND IT SEEMS LIKE IT ROLLS QUICKER 20:44 AND QUICKER AND YOU LOSE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS OF TIME. 20:47 AND YOU REALIZE, FINALLY, OUR DAYS ARE JUST LIKE A SHADOW. 20:52 AND SO, A LOT OF WHAT BILDAD IS SAYING IS TRUE, BUT HE 20:54 MISUNDERSTANDS WHY JOB IS SUFFERING. 20:56 I'M GOING TO JUMP BACK TO BILDAD'S RESPONSE - GO TO JOB 8, 20:58 VERSE 10 - JOB 8, VERSE 10 - AND SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, 21:05 IN A MOMENT HERE, ECCLESIASTES 8:12, OKAY? 21:09 IN JOB 8:10, "WILL THEY NOT TEACH YOU AND TELL YOU, AND 21:13 UTTER WORDS FROM THEIR HEART? CAN THE PAPYRUS GROW 21:17 UP WITHOUT A MARSH? CAN THE REEDS FLOURISH 21:20 WITHOUT WATER?" AND SO WHAT BILDAD IS SAYING, 21:23 HE SAYS, 'IF YOU'RE SUFFERING THERE'S SIN. 21:27 YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG.' YOU SEE HOW HE'S REASONING THESE 21:31 THINGS? IT'S A CAUSE AND EFFECT PRINCIPLE. 21:37 AND HE GOES ON TO SAY, "CAN THE REEDS FLOURISH WITHOUT WATER? 21:42 WHILE IT IS YET GREEN AND NOT CUT DOWN, IT WITHERS BEFORE ANY 21:44 OTHER PLANT." - IF THERE'S NO WATER, IT'LL 21:46 WITHER RIGHT AWAY - "SO ARE THE PATHS OF ALL WHO FORGET GOD; AND 21:50 THE HOPE OF THE HYPOCRITE SHALL PERISH," - NOW, IS THAT TRUE? 21:54 DID JESUS TALK ABOUT THE HOPE OF THE HYPOCRITE PERISHING? 21:58 - "WHOSE CONFIDENCE SHALL BE CUT OFF, AND WHOSE TRUST IS LIKE A 22:02 SPIDER'S WEB." YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU WANT TO 22:05 HANG ON A ROPE THAT CAN SUPPORT YOU. 22:07 YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A LOT OF TRUST IN A LITTLE SPIDER'S WEB - 22:11 "HE LEANS ON HIS HOUSE, BUT IT DOES NOT STAND. 22:14 HE HOLDS IT FAST, BUT IT DOES NOT ENDURE." 22:17 - SOME PEOPLE HAVE BUILT RICKETY HOUSES AND WHEN THE WIND CAME 22:19 UP, THE HOUSE WENT OVER - "HE GROWS GREEN IN THE SUN, AND HIS 22:24 BRANCHES SPREAD OUT IN HIS GARDEN. HIS ROOTS WRAP AROUND 22:27 THE ROCK HEAP, AND LOOK FOR A PLACE IN THE STONES. 22:31 IF HE IS DESTROYED FROM HIS PLACE, THEN IT WILL DENY HIM, 22:34 SAYING, 'I HAVE NOT SEEN YOU.' BEHOLD, THIS IS THE JOY OF HIS 22:38 WAY, AND OUT OF THE EARTH OTHERS WILL GROW. 22:41 BEHOLD, GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY THE BLAMELESS," - THIS IS THE 22:43 PRINCIPLE OF WHAT HE'S GETTING AT - "GOD WILL NOT CAST AWAY THE 22:47 BLAMELESS, NOR WILL HE UPHOLD THE EVILDOERS." 22:51 DOES IT SEEM, SOMETIMES, THAT INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE SWEPT AWAY 22:56 IN SOME CATASTROPHE? IF A PLANE GOES DOWN, DO WE 23:01 AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME THAT EVERYBODY ON THAT PLANE WAS A 23:05 SINNER AND THEIR JUDGMENT CAME? IS THAT WHAT BILDAD IS SAYING? 23:13 WELL, IN PRINCIPLE, WHEN GOD DOES TAKE A PERSON AWAY, THERE'S 23:18 - THE BIBLE SAYS 'A CURSE CAUSELESS WILL NOT COME' - 23:21 THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON, BUT ISN'T WAR INDISCRIMINATE? 23:26 IS EVERYBODY THAT'S HIT BY A DRUNK DRIVER THAT WAS THEIR 23:31 JUDGMENT? OR HAVE WE ALL KNOWN INNOCENT 23:33 PEOPLE THAT ARE STRUCK DOWN? AND YOU WONDER, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 23:41 IS IT ALWAYS IMMEDIATE CAUSE AND EFFECT OR IS THERE A WAR GOING 23:46 ON IN THE WORLD BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL? 23:50 I JUST GOT DONE LISTENING TO A LENGTHY SERIES ON PHILOSOPHY IN 23:55 LIGHT OF CHRISTIANITY, AND SOME PHILOSOPHERS HAVE SAID THERE 23:59 CAN'T BE A GOD - OR, IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS NOT GOOD. 24:04 BECAUSE IF WE SEE BAD IN THE WORLD AND IF WE SEE INNOCENT 24:07 SUFFERING, IF GOD IS ALL-POWERFUL, HE WOULD NOT ALLOW 24:11 THAT. HAVE YOU HEARD PEOPLE REASON THIS WAY BEFORE? 24:15 AND, YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF PHILOSOPHERS SAID, 'SO 24:16 THEREFORE, EITHER THERE IS NO GOD OR GOD CAN'T BE GOOD. 24:20 BECAUSE IF HE'S ALL-POWERFUL WHY WOULD HE ALLOW THE INNOCENT TO 24:24 SUFFER?' AND WHAT THEY'RE MISUNDERSTANDING IS THEY DON'T 24:28 REALIZE THERE'S A GREAT CONTROVERSY - THERE'S A BATTLE 24:31 WHERE, YES, GOD DOES HAVE THE POWER, BUT HE MUST ALLOW. 24:34 SOMETIMES, CAUSE AND EFFECT OF THE CREATURES HE'S MADE. 24:39 HAVE YOU, AS PARENTS, EVER STOOD BACK - YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO 24:44 INTERVENE IN SOME SIBLING SQUABBLE BETWEEN YOUR CHILDREN 24:50 AND YOU DID NOT INTERVENE BECAUSE YOU WANTED THEM TO 24:53 EXPERIENCE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR DECISION. 24:57 DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT IF 24:59 THEY'RE WALKING IN FRONT OF A, YOU KNOW, CAREENING CAR. 25:02 I'M TALKING ABOUT SOMETIMES THEY INSIST ON KNEADING THEIR BREAD 25:11 WITH A HAIRBRUSH AND YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN, 'YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT 25:14 BE HAIR IN YOUR BUN WHEN YOU BAKE IT' - BUT YOU LET THEM JUST 25:18 FIND OUT. I'M SHARING THIS BY EXPERIENCE. 25:22 (LAUGHTER) OUR DAUGHTER, RACHEL, ONE TIME WANTED TO HELP BAKE 25:27 BREAD AND SHE WANTED TO KNEAD THE BREAD WITH HER HAIRBRUSH. 25:30 WE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THAT MAY NOT WORK.' 'I WANT - IT'S PERFECT' 25:36 AND THERE WAS A LOT OF HAIR IN THE BUN WHEN SHE GOT DONE. 25:41 AND YOU JUST HAVE TO LET THEM FIND OUT. 25:43 WELL, GOD, SOMETIMES HAS HAD TO STAND BACK. 25:46 AND, BECAUSE - WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF, AS SOON AS LUCIFER 25:51 REBELLED, GOD STRUCK HIM WITH LIGHTNING? 25:54 OR AS SOON AS SOME OF THE ANGELS DECIDED TO LISTEN TO LUCIFER, HE 25:59 JUST DESTROYED THEM ALL? THE OTHER GOOD ANGELS WOULD 26:02 WONDER, 'WELL, MAYBE THEY WERE RIGHT. 26:04 MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST FEAR GOD.' GOD HAD TO OFTEN ALLOW THINGS TO 26:07 PLAY OUT SO YOU CAN SEE 'WHAT IS THE RESULT OF GOOD AND EVIL IN 26:11 THE WORLD?' AND IT'S HORRIBLE THAT WE HAVE 26:13 TO EXPERIENCE THAT, BUT HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE, ONCE THIS IS OVER 26:16 WITH, SIN WILL NEVER RISE UP AGAIN. 26:19 AND SO, WE SEE THE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF GOOD AND EVIL IN THE 26:23 WORLD TODAY AND GOD, SOMETIMES, WAITS AND ALLOWS THINGS TO 26:27 REVEAL THEMSELVES. IT DOESN'T MEAN 26:28 GOD ISN'T POWERFUL. IT DOESN'T MEAN GOD ISN'T GOOD. 26:31 IT MEANS THERE'S A BATTLE. AND IT DOESN'T MEAN EVERY TIME 26:33 SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS THAT GOD DID IT. 26:36 DOES THE DEVIL EVER CAUSE EVIL? >>YES. 26:38 >>YOU KNOW, THE FIRST THING WE LEARN IN THE BOOK OF JOB - YOU 26:41 PULL AWAY THE CURTAIN AND YOU SEE THAT GOD WITHDREW HIS 26:46 PROTECTION FROM JOB AND, BASICALLY, GAVE THE DEVIL 26:50 LICENSE. BUT IT WAS THE DEVIL WHO BROUGHT 26:52 THE SICKNESS, WHO BROUGHT THE CALAMITY, WHO BROUGHT THE 26:54 REVERSES ON JOB, AND JOB LOST VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY 26:59 AND THEN HE LOST HIS HEALTH COMPLETELY ANOTHER DAY. 27:02 AND IT SAYS, 'THE DEVIL WENT FORTH FROM THE LORD AND SMOTE 27:06 JOB.' SO THE DEVIL CAN CAUSE WAR, SICKNESS, DISEASE, 27:10 DISASTER, PLAGUES, ALL KINDS OF THINGS. 27:13 WHAT DOES THE INSURANCE COMPANY CALL THOSE THINGS? 27:16 >>ACT OF GOD. >>AN ACT - I DON'T KNOW IF THEY 27:18 CALL THAT 'ACTS OF GOD' ANYMORE. I THINK THEY'VE CHANGED THE 27:20 LANGUAGE TO 'NATURAL DISASTER' OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT 27:26 THEY USED TO CALL IT AN ACT OF GOD. 27:28 AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE - IF YOU MISS A FLIGHT AND YOU GOT TO 27:35 THE AIRPORT ON TIME - AND IF YOU MISSED A FLIGHT BECAUSE THERE 27:39 WAS A MECHANICAL PROBLEM, THE AIRLINE IS SUPPOSED TO - BECAUSE 27:44 IF IT WAS THEIR AIRPLANE YOU MISSED A FLIGHT, THEY'RE 27:45 SUPPOSED TO EITHER HELP YOU BOOK ANOTHER FLIGHT OR GET YOU A 27:48 HOTEL AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR FLIGHT AND A MEAL - I'VE HAD TO 27:51 GO THROUGH THAT MANY TIMES - BUT IF THE WEATHER IS THE PROBLEM 27:55 FOR YOUR MISSING YOUR FLIGHT, THEY SAY, 'THAT IS OUT OF OUR 27:57 CONTROL.' AND THEY MAY HELP YOU REBOOK, BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE TO 28:02 SLEEP IN THE AIRPORT. 'IT'S AN ACT OF GOD. WE CAN'T CONTROL 28:06 THAT.' AND YOU CAN TELL THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT THAT'S BOOKING 28:11 YOU, 'THE DEVIL DID IT.' SEE IF THAT'LL HELP. IT WASN'T GOD. 28:17 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US ECCLESIASTES 8:12. 28:21 >>"THOUGH A SINNER DOES EVIL A HUNDRED TIMES, AND HIS DAYS ARE 28:25 PROLONGED, YET I SURELY KNOW THAT IT WILL BE WELL WITH THOSE 28:30 WHO FEAR GOD, WHO FEAR BEFORE HIM. 28:33 BUT IT WILL NOT BE WELL WITH THE WICKED; NOR WILL HE PROLONG HIS 28:37 DAYS, WHICH ARE AS A SHADOW, BECAUSE HE DOES NOT FEAR BEFORE 28:42 GOD." >>MANY, MANY, MANY PEOPLE IN THE 28:46 WORLD MISINTERPRET THE PATIENCE OF GOD AS THE APPROVAL OF GOD. 28:53 'BECAUSE SENTENCE AGAINST AN EVIL WORK IS NOT EXECUTED 28:58 SPEEDILY, THEREFORE THE SONS - THE HEARTS OF THE SONS OF MEN 29:01 ARE FULLY SET IN THEM TO DO EVIL.' BECAUSE GOD DOES NOT 29:04 STRIKE WICKED WITH LIGHTNING AS SOON AS THEY DISOBEY, THEY 29:09 INTERPRET THAT, SINCE THINGS ARE GOING SMOOTHLY, 'GOD MUST BE 29:13 BLESSING ME. I MUST BE DOING THE 29:14 RIGHT THING.' NOT SO. HE'S JUST REALLY PATIENT. 29:18 AND THOUGH IT MAY LOOK LIKE AN EVIL PERSON IS PROSPERING - AND 29:22 THIS IS WHAT SOLOMON IS SAYING IN ECCLESIASTES 8, 'THOUGH A 29:25 SINNER DOES EVIL A HUNDRED TIMES AND HIS DAYS ARE PROLONGED,' 29:28 DOES THAT MEAN GOD'S BLESSING HIM AND HIS DAYS ARE PROLONGED? 29:31 NO, IT MEANS THAT GOD IS PATIENT. GOD DOES NOT ZAP A 29:35 PERSON IMMEDIATELY EVERY TIME SOMETHING - HE DOES SOMETHING 29:39 BAD. AND, LIKEWISE, GOD DOES NOT ALWAYS BLESS A PERSON 29:43 IMMEDIATELY, EVERY TIME THEY TURN AND DO SOMETHING GOOD. 29:46 JESUS SAID - AND YOU'VE HEARD ME QUOTE THIS MANY TIMES IN OUR 29:50 STUDY OF JOB, 'GOD SENDS THE RAIN AND THE SUNSHINE ON THE 29:54 GOOD AND THE BAD.' SUNSHINE CAN BE A BLESSING; SUNSHINE CAN BE A 29:58 CURSE - IF IT'S DRYING OUT YOUR CROPS AND KILLING EVERYTHING - 30:02 RAIN CAN BE A BLESSING; RAIN CAN BE A CURSE. 30:04 RAIN IS GOOD IF YOU'VE JUST PLANTED YOUR SEED. 30:06 RAIN IS BAD AT CERTAIN TIMES OF THE HARVEST. 30:08 SO WHEN JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT THE SUNSHINE AND THE RAIN, HE'S 30:12 SAYING, 'GOOD AND BAD COMES TO EVERYBODY.' 30:16 GOD IS A LOVING GOD AND SOMETIMES HE'LL BLESS 30:19 PEOPLE THAT ARE EVEN REBELLING AGAINST HIM. 30:22 DON'T MISINTERPRET HIS BLESSINGS AND THINK THAT MUST MEAN 'I'M 30:26 DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT' AND DON'T MISINTERPRET TRIALS AND 30:31 THINK IT MUST MEAN THAT I SINNED AND DID SOMETHING WRONG, BECAUSE 30:35 GOOD AND BAD COMES TO EVERY BODY. 30:38 HAVE YOU EVER - YOU KNOW, SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS AND YOU 30:41 THINK, 'WHAT DID I DO?' WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHY 30:44 WHAT'S HAPPENING IS HAPPENING. WE CAN KNOW THAT 30:47 GOD IS A LOVING GOD. ALRIGHT, HERE'S 30:49 THE NEXT SECTION. WE'RE GOING TO JUMP NOW - WE 30:51 KIND OF LOOKED A LITTLE BIT AT THE ANSWER OF BILDAD. 30:55 MATTER OF FACT, LET ME SEE HERE, I BETTER KEEP MOVING HERE - 30:59 WE'RE GOING TO GO TO CHAPTER 11 - JOB 11 - AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING 31:03 AT SOME OF THE ANSWERS OF ZOPHAR THE NAAMATHITE. 31:09 AND HE SAYS IF YOU - WELL, LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 1, "THEN ZOPHAR 31:12 THE NAAMATHITE ANSWERED AND SAID:" - IN VERSES 9 AND 10 31:16 YOU'VE GOT JOB'S RESPONSE TO BILDAD - IN VERSE 11, ZOPHAR THE 31:22 NAAMATHITE ANSWERS AND SAID, "SHOULD NOT THE MULTITUDE OF 31:24 WORDS BE ANSWERED? AND SHOULD A MAN FULL OF TALK BE VINDICATED? 31:28 SHOULD YOUR EMPTY TALK MAKE MEN HOLD THEIR PEACE? 31:32 AND WHEN YOU MOCK, SHOULD NO ONE REBUKE YOU?" 31:35 AGAIN, HIS OTHER FRIEND SAID, 'YOU'RE JUST FULL OF HOT AIR' 31:39 AND NOW ZOPHAR IS SAYING, 'WHAT A BUNCH OF EMPTY TALK. 31:43 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 31:46 GOD ALWAYS PUNISHES THE WICKED. AND SO HE SAYS - AND YOU GO TO 31:51 VERSE 4 - "FOR YOU HAVE SAID, 'MY DOCTRINE IS PURE, AND I AM 31:54 CLEAN IN YOUR EYES.' BUT OH THAT GOD WOULD SPEAK, AND OPEN HIS 31:58 LIPS AGAINST YOU, THAT HE WOULD SHOW YOU THE SECRETS OF WISDOM! 32:02 FOR THEY WOULD DOUBLE YOUR PRUDENCE. 32:04 KNOW THEREFORE THAT GOD EXACTS FROM YOU LESS THAN YOUR INIQUITY 32:08 DESERVES." IN OTHER WORDS, 'YOU'RE SUFFERING, JOB, BUT 32:11 YOU'RE REALLY GETTING LESS THAN YOU DESERVE.' 32:14 WAS HE RIGHT OR WAS HE WRONG? BOTH. 32:19 I KNOW, WHENEVER YOU'RE TRYING TO TALK OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF 32:22 YOUR MOUTH LIKE THAT, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE RUNNING FOR SOME 32:24 PUBLIC OFFICE. BUT I JUST - I WANT TO BE CAREFUL. 32:28 WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR SIN? >>DEATH. 32:31 >>DEATH. IS JOB SINLESS OR 32:33 DID HE ALSO SIN? >>SINNED. 32:35 >>ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT. 32:37 SO HAD JOB SINNED? THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 32:41 JOB WAS NOT DEAD, SO HE WAS GETTING LESS THAN HIS INIQUITY 32:44 DESERVED. FREQUENTLY PEOPLE ASK ME HOW I'M 32:47 DOING AND I SAY, 'BETTER THAN I DESERVE.' 32:51 IS THAT RIGHT OF ALL OF US? >>AMEN. 32:54 >>I DON'T ALWAYS FEEL THAT WAY, BUT I KNOW IT'S TRUE. 32:58 BUT, COMPARED TO OTHER PEOPLE - SINCE - LET'S JUST ASSUME ALL OF 33:03 US ARE LIVING BY THE GRACE OF JESUS. 33:06 JOB WAS NOT SUFFERING NOW BECAUSE OF A SIN, BECAUSE GOD 33:09 HAD ALREADY SHOWN HIM MERCY FOR HIS SIN. 33:11 THEY MISUNDERSTOOD HIS SUFFERING. 33:14 THEY SAID, 'OH, BUT IF GOD WERE TO OPEN YOUR EYES, THERE'S 33:16 SOMETHING YOU DON'T REALIZE THAT - YOU'RE SUFFERING FOR SOME SIN 33:20 AND YOU'RE GETTING A JUDGMENT.' SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, 33:24 IN A MOMENT, PSALM 130, VERSES 3 AND 4 - EMMA, YOU'LL HAVE THAT? 33:29 I WANT TO READ, FOR YOU, 2 SAMUEL 12, VERSES 5-7, 33:35 "SO DAVID'S ANGER WAS GREATLY AROUSED AGAINST THE MAN, AND HE 33:37 SAID TO NATHAN, 'AS THE LORD LIVES, THE MAN WHO HAS DONE THIS 33:39 SHALL SURELY DIE! THEN NATHAN SAID 'YOU ARE THE MAN!'" 33:44 - GO TO VERSE 13 - I'M IN 2 SAMUEL 12 - "SO DAVID SAID TO 33:48 NATHAN, 'I HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD.' AND NATHAN SAID TO 33:51 DAVID, 'THE LORD ALSO HAS PUT AWAY YOUR SIN; YOU SHALL NOT 33:53 DIE.'" THAT'S WHY, WHEN BILDAD SAYS, 'GOD IS PUNISHING US' - 33:59 I'M SORRY, IT WAS ZOPHAR - 'HE'S PUNISHING US LESS THAN OUR 34:03 INIQUITY DESERVES.' THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 34:08 ALL OF US, RIGHT NOW, ARE ALIVE BECAUSE OF GOD'S MERCY. 34:11 NOW THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE CHRISTIANS, RIGHT? REALLY? 34:15 HOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALL MILLING AROUND THE WORLD 34:17 RIGHT NOW THAT ARE NOT CHRISTIANS, THAT ARE ALIVE - 34:19 HAVE THEY SINNED? WHAT'S THE PENALTY FOR SIN? 34:22 >>DEATH. >>HOW COME THEY'RE ALIVE? 34:24 >>MERCY OF JESUS. >>IT'S THE MERCY OF JESUS. DO 34:28 YOU REALIZE JESUS DYING ON THE CROSS - WE ALWAYS THINK, 'WELL, 34:30 HE DIED FOR MY SINS.' JESUS ALSO DIED TO BUY TIME FOR THE LOST TO 34:36 FIND HIM, BECAUSE HE COULD HAVE JUST DESTROYED THEM BUT HE DIED 34:41 TO BUY PROBATIONARY TIME FOR EVEN THE LOST TO FIND HIM. 34:45 AND SO, ALL OF US ARE GETTING LESS THAN OUR INIQUITY DESERVES. 34:52 ALRIGHT, AND IF YOU GO TO JOB 11, WE'RE GOING TO KEEP READING 34:55 SOME OF HIS STATEMENT - ZOPHAR - "CAN YOU SEARCH OUT THE DEEP 35:00 THINGS OF GOD? CAN YOU FIND OUT THE LIMITS OF THE ALMIGHTY? 35:04 THEY ARE HIGHER THAN HEAVEN - WHAT CAN YOU DO? 35:06 DEEPER THAN SHEOL - WHAT CAN YOU KNOW? 35:09 THEIR MEASURE IS LONGER THAN THE EARTH AND BROADER THAN THE SEA." 35:13 GOD IS INFINITE IN HIS KNOWLEDGE. 35:15 HE IS INFINITE IN HIS LIFE. HE IS OMNIPRESENT AND SO, 35:21 THROUGH ETERNITY, WE WILL BE SEARCHING TO BETTER KNOW GOD 35:25 AND WE WILL PROGRESS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD. 35:28 THE HIGHEST EDUCATION THAT ANYONE COULD RECEIVE IS 35:32 THEOLOGY. YOU KNOW WHAT THEOLOGY IS? 35:36 THEO IS GOD; OLOGY - STUDY OF - GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY - IT'S THE 35:42 STUDY OF GOD AND TO UNDERSTAND GOD GIVES EVERYTHING ELSE 35:48 PURPOSE AND MEANING. IT GIVES MEANING TO WHAT HAPPENS 35:52 IN THE MINUTE THINGS OF OUR DAY. IT GIVES MEANING TO WHAT'S GOING 35:56 ON IN THE COSMOS - THE UNIVERSE - IS TO UNDERSTAND GOD. 36:00 THAT'S WHY WE SHOULD SPEND TIME IN PRAYER EVERY DAY, 36:04 CONTEMPLATING SPIRITUAL THEMES. ISAIAH 55:9, IT IS TRUE, 36:11 GOD IS BIGGER THAN WE ARE. "FOR AS THE HEAVENS ARE HIGHER 36:14 THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, AND MY 36:18 THOUGHTS THAN YOUR THOUGHTS." THEN AGAIN, GO TO ISAIAH 40, 36:22 VERSE 12, "WHO HAS MEASURED THE WATERS IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS 36:25 HAND, MEASURED THE HEAVEN WITH A SPAN" - YOU KNOW WHAT A SPAN IS? 36:29 THIS IS A CUBIT - A SPAN WAS WHEN YOU COULD GO BETWEEN - YOU 36:34 GO YOUR FINGERS - AND THAT WAS CALLED A SPAN - AND SO, WHEN IT 36:38 SAYS GOD MEASURES THE HEAVENS WITH A SPAN - "AND CALCULATED 36:43 THE DUST OF THE EARTH IN A BALANCE [MEASURE]? 36:46 WHO HAS DIRECTED THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD, OR AS HIS COUNSELOR 36:52 HAS TAUGHT HIM? WITH WHOM DID HE TAKE COUNSEL, 36:55 AND WHO INSTRUCTED HIM, AND TAUGHT HIM IN THE 36:57 PATH OF JUSTICE? WHO TAUGHT HIM KNOWLEDGE 37:00 AND SHOWED HIM THE WAY OF UNDERSTANDING?" 37:02 GOD, THE FATHER AND CREATION - THE SON IN CREATION AND THE 37:05 SPIRIT IN KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. WE CAN'T ADVISE GOD BUT, YOU 37:11 KNOW, THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT SO WONDERFUL. 37:12 YOU REMEMBER WHEN GOD WAS ON HIS WAY TO DESTROY SODOM AND GOD'S 37:16 TALKING WITH ABRAHAM AND THEY'RE WALKING AND TALKING? 37:18 BACK IN BIBLE TIMES, WHEN YOU WERE GOING ON A JOURNEY AND, 37:22 AFTER YOU'D BEEN VISITING SOMEBODY, THEY WOULD, YOU KNOW, 37:25 IN AMERICA YOU WALK THEM TO THE DOOR - THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE 37:28 POLITE. KAREN SLOWLY TAUGHT ME THAT. BUT IN BIBLE TIMES, WHEN 37:33 SOMEONE WAS LEAVING, YOU DIDN'T JUST SAY GOOD-BYE AT THE DOOR, 37:36 YOU TOOK A FEW STEPS WITH THEM ON THEIR JOURNEY. 37:39 YOU REMEMBER WHEN RUTH AND ORPAH - I ALWAYS WANT TO SAY OPRAH - 37:45 ORPAH WENT ON THE WAY WITH NAOMI AND THEY WERE SEEING HER OFF. 37:51 AND SHE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU'VE GONE FAR ENOUGH. 37:53 NOW'S THE TIME TO TURN AND GO BACK.' ABRAHAM WAS SEEING THE 37:56 LORD ON HIS WAY AND GOD SAYS TO ABRAHAM, 'WILL I HIDE FROM YOU, 38:00 SINCE YOU'RE MY FRIEND, WHAT I'M ABOUT TO DO TO SODOM? 38:02 BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE GOT FAMILY THERE. 38:04 YOU'RE A FRIEND. I'VE GOT TO LET YOU KNOW. 38:06 I'M GOING TO DESTROY THE CITY.' ABRAHAM STARTS TO ARGUE WITH GOD 38:09 ABOUT 'WON'T YOU SPARE THE CITY IF THERE'S AT LEAST A FEW 38:11 RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE THERE?' AND THEY GO BACK AND 38:13 FORTH IN THIS DIALOGUE. COULDN'T GOD HAVE JUST SAID, 38:15 'ABRAHAM, WILL YOU - LOOK, I'M GOD, JUST TRUST ME. 38:17 I'LL KILL AS MANY AS I NEED TO KILL.' BUT THEY GET INTO THIS 38:21 DIALOGUE. DOES GOD LIKE THAT? 38:25 DOES THE LORD WANT TO REASON WITH US? 38:28 DOES THE LORD LIKE WHEN YOU PRAY AND YOU JUST - YOU DON'T GIVE 38:32 HIM A LIST, BUT YOU CONVERSATE WITH THE LORD IN YOUR PRAYERS? 38:37 HE WANTS TO COMMUNE WITH US, DOESN'T HE? 38:41 I MEAN, YOU LOOK IN THE BIBLE: THE LORD DELIGHTS TO REASON WITH 38:44 US. MOSES ON THE MOUNTAIN - 'MOSES, I'VE HAD ALL THESE 38:48 ISRAELITES I CAN TAKE. I'M GOING TO WIPE THEM OUT. 38:50 TELL YOU WHAT, I'M GOING TO WIPE THEM OUT, I'LL MAKE A GREAT 38:52 NATION OF YOU AND I'M GOING TO START OVER AGAIN.' AND MOSES 38:54 SAID, 'LOOK, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. 38:56 I MEAN, THE EGYPTIANS ARE GOING TO SEE THAT AND THEY'RE GOING TO 38:58 SAY, 'YOU KNOW, GOD WAS JUST NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH. 39:00 HE COULD TAKE THEM OUT OF EGYPT, BUT HE COULDN'T MAKE A GREAT 39:02 NATION AND BRING THEM INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 39:04 HE'S NOT A POWERFUL GOD AND IT'S GOING TO BE BAD FOR YOUR 39:07 REPUTATION, LORD, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.' AND GOD SAYS, 'YOU 39:09 KNOW, YOU'RE RIGHT. GLAD YOU THOUGHT OF THAT.' 39:11 BUT IT'S JUST - LIKE GOD DIDN'T KNOW. 39:13 BUT THEY'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION AND MOSES IS 39:16 INTERCEDING. BUT THE LORD LIKES 39:18 WHEN WE TALK TO HIM. YOU KNOW THAT SONG? 39:21 'HE WALKS WITH ME AND HE TALKS WITH ME'? 39:25 JESUS SAID, 'CAN YOU COME AND PRAY WITH ME IN THE GARDEN?' 39:29 HE WANTED THEM TO BE IN COMMUNION WITH HIM. 39:36 SO YES, GOD IS GREAT, HIS KNOWLEDGE PAST FINDING OUT, BUT 39:39 HE DOES WANT TO COMMUNE WITH US. 39:40 LUKE 13:1 - IT SAYS - SOMETIMES WE AUTOMATICALLY THINK, WHEN BAD 39:45 THINGS HAPPEN, IT'S BECAUSE THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVE. 39:47 THIS IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT VERSE TO EXPLAIN THAT PRINCIPLE. 39:51 LUKE 13:1 - AND I'LL READ THROUGH VERSE 5, "THERE WERE 39:55 PRESENT AT THAT SEASON SOME WHO TOLD HIM ABOUT THE GALILEANS 39:59 WHOSE BLOOD PILATE HAD MINGLED WITH THEIR SACRIFICES." 40:02 - THERE WAS AN EVENT WHERE, DURING A FEAST, A NUMBER OF 40:05 GALILEANS WERE IN THE TEMPLE AND THINGS GOT OUT OF HAND - THERE 40:09 WAS A RIOT - PILATE SENT SOLDIERS INTO THE TEMPLE AND 40:12 THERE THEY WERE. OFFERING SACRIFICES, AND MANY 40:14 WERE SLAUGHTERED IN THE TEMPLE, IN THE PROCESS OF 40:16 OFFERING SACRIFICE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT 40:19 THE JEWS THOUGHT? 'WOW, IF THEY WERE IN THE 40:22 TEMPLE, THE PRESENCE OF GOD, AND THEY DIED THERE, THEY MUST HAVE 40:26 BEEN REALLY BAD.' THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY WAS ASSUMING. 40:30 AND LISTEN TO HOW JESUS RESPONDS TO THAT THINKING - "DO YOU 40:33 SUPPOSE THAT THESE GALILEANS WERE WORSE SINNERS THAT ALL 40:36 OTHER GALILEANS, BECAUSE THEY SUFFERED SUCH THINGS? 40:38 I TELL YOU, NO; BUT UNLESS YOU REPENT YOU WILL ALL LIKEWISE 40:44 PERISH." GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO BAD 40:48 PEOPLE; BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE - THE BOTTOM LINE 40:50 IS EVERYBODY NEEDS TO REPENT OR THEY'LL PERISH - "OR" - AND 40:54 JESUS TALKS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE THAT WAS IN THE HEADLINES THERE 40:56 AROUND JERUSALEM - THEY MAYBE HAD HAD AN EARTHQUAKE OR THERE 41:00 WAS SOME RAIN AND A WALL ERODED AND A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WERE 41:03 STANDING BY A WALL AS IT FELL OVER AND THEY DIED - "OR THOSE 41:08 EIGHTEEN ON WHOM THE TOWER IN SILOAM FELL AND KILLED THEM," - 41:12 EIGHTEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED - "DO YOU THINK THAT THEY WERE 41:15 WORSE SINNERS THAN ALL OTHER MEN WHO DWELT IN JERUSALEM?" 41:18 - THERE'S THAT QUESTION WE ASK WHEN A PLANE GOES DOWN - 'THEY 41:20 MUST HAVE BEEN BAD SINNERS' - 'WELL, LOTS OF PLANES FLY EVERY 41:22 DAY. BECAUSE THAT PLANE WENT DOWN, 41:24 THEY MUST HAVE BEEN REALLY BAD.' DO YOU EVER THINK THOSE THINGS? 41:28 I WAS SITTING ON AN AIRPLANE NEXT TO A LADY - I HEARD - C.D. 41:31 BROOKS SAID THIS ONCE AND IT HAPPENED TO ME TOO - IT WAS ON 41:35 AN AIRPLANE, THERE WAS A BUNCH OF TURBULENCE AND SOMEHOW THE 41:40 LADY FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS A PASTOR AND SHE SAYS, 'WELL, AS 41:43 LONG AS I'M SITTING NEXT TO A PASTOR, I GUESS I'M OKAY.' AND 41:46 SOMEONE TOLD ME THE SAME THING. WE WERE ON A ROUGH PLANE 41:48 SHE SAID, 'OH GOOD. I'M SAFE IF I'M NEXT TO A 41:50 PASTOR.' IT'S LIKE WE'RE A GOOD LUCK CHARM. 41:53 (LAUGHTER) I COULD PROBABLY SHOW YOU - PASTORS HAVE DIED IN PLANE 41:56 CRASHES TOO. SO, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA THAT 42:00 BECAUSE SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS THEY WERE WORSE SINNERS. 42:04 JESUS SAID, 'NO, BUT UNLESS YOU REPENT YOU'LL PERISH.' SO 42:08 THERE'S TWO KINDS OF DEATH: YOU'VE GOT THE ETERNAL DEATH AND 42:12 YOU'VE GOT THE DEATH THAT ALL MEN DIE. 42:15 TURN REAL QUICK WITH ME TO THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL. 42:18 I WAS LOOKING AT THIS JUST BEFORE I GOT UP TO PREACH AND I 42:22 DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO FIND - OR GOT UP TO TEACH, I SHOULD SAY - 42:26 THE VERSE. BUT YEAH, LOOK AT EZEKIEL 42:28 CHAPTER 18, VERSE 3, "'AS I LIVE,' SAYS THE LORD GOD, 42:38 'YOU SHALL NO LONGER USE THIS PROVERB..." 42:39 ALL SOULS ARE MINE; THE SOUL OF THE FATHER AS WELL AS THE SOUL 42:42 OF THE SON IS MINE; THE SOUL WHO SINS SHALL DIE.'" 42:45 NOW, WAIT A SECOND, DOESN'T EVERYBODY DIE? 42:48 THEY SAY IT'S AS SURE AS TAXES, RIGHT? 42:51 HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT DEATH. 42:53 "BUT IF A MAN IS JUST AND DOES WHAT IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT; IF HE 42:59 HAS NOT EATEN ON THE MOUNTAINS," - TALKING ABOUT TO THE PAGAN 43:02 GODS - "NOR LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO THE IDOLS OF THE HOUSE OF 43:05 ISRAEL, NOR DEFILED HIS NEIGHBOR'S WIFE, NOR APPROACHED 43:08 A WOMAN DURING HER IMPURITY; IF HE HAS NOT OPPRESSED ANYONE, BUT 43:12 HAS RESTORED TO THE DEBTOR HIS PLEDGE; HAS ROBBED NO ONE BY 43:16 VIOLENCE, BUT HAS GIVEN HIS BREAD TO THE HUNGRY AND COVERED 43:18 THE NAKED WITH CLOTHING; IF HE HAS NOT EXACTED USURY NOR TAKEN 43:22 ANY INCREASE, BUT HAS WITHDRAWN HIS HAND FROM INIQUITY AND 43:26 EXECUTED TRUE JUDGMENT BETWEEN MAN AND MAN; IF HE HAS WALKED IN 43:30 MY STATUTES AND KEPT MY JUDGMENTS FAITHFULLY - HE IS 43:33 JUST; HE SHALL SURELY LIVE!' SAYS THE LORD GOD." 43:37 NOW, WHAT DOES EZEKIEL MEAN, 'HE WILL SURELY LIVE'? 43:39 DOES THAT MEAN HE WON'T DIE? NO, THEY ALL DIED ALSO. 43:43 SO WHAT DOES EZEKIEL MEAN WHEN HE SAYS THIS PERSON WHO FOLLOWS 43:46 GOD WILL SURELY LIVE? HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE LIFE THAT 43:50 DOESN'T END - ETERNAL LIFE. AND THEN HE SAYS IF HE HAS A 43:54 SON WHO IS WICKED, HE'LL DIE. HE'S TALKING ABOUT HE'S GOING TO 43:59 DIE THE SECOND DEATH, AND WE'LL GET TO THAT A LITTLE LATER. 44:03 SO YOU'VE GOT THIS PRINCIPLE WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THEY'LL NOT 44:06 PERISH - IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU'LL NOT PERISH IN THIS LIFE, 44:10 IT'S ETERNAL LIFE. DIVINE RETRIBUTION IS THE NEXT 44:13 SECTION, AND IT IS TRUE THAT THERE IS - THERE ARE EXAMPLES 44:18 IN THE BIBLE OF THE LORD - JUST SEVERE JUDGMENT. 44:22 YOU'VE GOT THE FLOOD, FOR EXAMPLE, GENESIS 6:5-8, "THEN 44:25 THE LORD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN 44:28 THE EARTH, AND THAT EVERY INTENT OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART WAS 44:31 ONLY EVIL CONTINUALLY. AND THE LORD WAS SORRY THAT HE 44:35 HAD MADE MAN ON THE EARTH, AND HE WAS GRIEVED IN HIS HEART. 44:38 SO THE LORD SAID, 'I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE CREATED 44:41 FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH," - DO YOU SEE THE CONNECTION? 44:43 EVERY THOUGHT SINFUL - I WILL DESTROY FROM THE FACE OF THE 44:47 EARTH. SO DID GOD DESTROY THEM THE SAME 44:49 DAY HE MADE THAT DECLARATION? OR DID 120 YEARS GO BY? 44:54 GOD'S VERY PATIENT, ISN'T HE? "'I WILL DESTROY MAN WHOM I HAVE 44:59 MADE [CREATED]'...BUT NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD." 45:03 WHY? YOU READ THE NEXT VERSE, IT SAYS NOAH WALKED WITH GOD. 45:07 SO THERE'S A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE OBEDIENCE AND THE FINDING 45:10 GRACE IN THE LONG RUN. NOAH SURVIVED THIS CALAMITY. 45:13 YOU CAN READ 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 5, "FOR THIS THEY 45:17 WILLFULLY FORGET: THAT BY THE WORD OF GOD THE HEAVENS WERE OF 45:21 OLD, AND THE EARTH STANDING OUT OF WATER AND IN THE WATER, BY 45:26 WHICH THE WORLD THAT THEN EXISTED PERISHED, BEING FLOODED 45:29 WITH WATER. BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH 45:33 WHICH ARE NOW PRESERVED BY THE SAME WORD, ARE RESERVED FOR FIRE 45:36 UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND PERDITION" - PARDON ME - "THE 45:41 DAY OF JUDGMENT AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN." 45:45 THE SAME WAY THERE WAS A JUDGMENT THAT FELL ON PEOPLE 45:48 BACK IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, IS THERE GOING TO BE A FUTURE 45:50 JUDGMENT? WHO IS JUDGED? THE PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN. 45:57 AND SO, IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, DID GOD PRESERVE NOAH THROUGH THAT 46:02 JUDGMENT? IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT, WILL 46:05 GOD PRESERVE HIS PEOPLE? DURING THAT JUDGMENT? 46:08 SO WHEN WE'RE STUDYING THE SUBJECT OF DIVINE RETRIBUTION, 46:12 GOD KNOWS HOW TO SINGLE OUT THE WICKED, ALTHOUGH IT DOESN'T 46:17 ALWAYS SEEM THAT WAY, HE DOES KNOW HOW TO SINGLE OUT THE 46:19 WICKED AND TO PRESERVE THE JUST. OKAY, HERE'S A COUPLE OF 46:26 EXAMPLES OF THAT - WELL EXODUS - I'M SORRY, GENESIS 13:13, 46:31 "BUT THE MEN OF SODOM WERE EXCEEDINGLY WICKED AND 46:34 SINFUL AGAINST THE LORD." BUT DID HE SAVE LOT OUT OF THAT? 46:39 AND HE JUDGED THE OTHERS. AND THEN, EVEN AMONG GOD'S 46:43 PEOPLE, SOMETIMES, THE LORD HAS BROUGHT JUDGMENT DOWN AMONG 46:48 PEOPLE WHO PROFESS TO SERVE THE LORD. 46:51 ONE EXAMPLE THAT'S GIVEN TALKS ABOUT THE REBELLION OF KORAH 46:54 THAT YOU FIND IN NUMBERS 16:1, "NOW KORAH THE SON OF ISHAR, THE 47:01 SON OF KOHATH, THE SON OF LEVI, WITH DATHAN AND ABIRAM THE SONS 47:05 OF ELIAB, AND ON THE SON OF PELETH, SONS OF REUBEN, TOOK 47:09 MEN; AND THEY ROSE UP BEFORE MOSES WITH SOME OF THE CHILDREN 47:13 OF ISRAEL, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY LEADERS OF THE CONGREGATIONS," - 47:16 THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A COUPLE MILLION AT THIS POINT - 47:20 "REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONGREGATION, MEN OF RENOWN. 47:23 THEY GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST MOSES AND AARON, AND SAID TO 47:25 THEM, 'YOU TAKE TOO MUCH UPON YOURSELVES, FOR ALL THE 47:29 CONGREGATION IS HOLY, EVERY ONE OF THEM, AND THE LORD IS AMONG 47:32 THEM. WHY THEN DO YOU EXALT YOURSELVES ABOVE THE ASSEMBLY OF 47:34 THE LORD?'" WELL, GOD HAD CHOSEN MOSES AND HE SAID, BY HIS WORD, 47:40 'MOSES IS MY REPRESENTATIVE' AND THEY DIDN'T LIKE THAT. 47:43 THEY SAID, 'WE'RE ALL - ANY OF US COULD BE - YOU - YOU PUT 47:46 YOURSELF OVER US' - AND THERE WAS, SORT OF, THIS REBELLION 47:48 OVER AUTHORITY AND WHO HAD AUTHORITY AND YOU HAVE SOME OF 47:52 THAT GOING ON EVEN IN THE CHURCHES TODAY. 47:54 >>AMEN. >>DEUTERONOMY 4:4, IT TELLS US 47:59 THAT WE SHOULD KEEP HIS STATUTES AND HIS COMMANDMENTS THAT HE 48:05 COMMANDS US THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH US AND OUR CHILDREN. 48:09 YOU KNOW, I NEVER DID FINISH READING WHAT HAPPENED HERE - 48:13 I'VE GOT TO - YOU JUMP TO NUMBERS 16 - HANG ON HERE - 48:21 NUMBERS 16 - IT TELLS ABOUT THE REBELLION AND, FINALLY, YOU CAN 48:27 READ IN VERSE 23, THEY WOULD NOT REPENT - IN KORAH'S REBELLION - 48:35 AND "SO THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES, SAYING, 'SPEAK TO THE 48:37 CONGREGATIONS, SAYING, 'GET AWAY FROM THE TENTS OF KORAH, DATHAN, 48:42 AND ABIRAM.' THEN MOSES ROSE AND WENT TO DATHAN AND ABIRAM, AND 48:46 THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL FOLLOWED HIM. 48:49 AND HE SPOKE TO THE CONGREGATION, SAYING, 'DEPART 48:51 NOW FROM THE TENTS OF THESE WICKED MEN! TOUCH NOTHING OF 48:54 THEIRS, LEST YOU BE CONSUMED IN ALL THEIR SINS.' SO THEY GOT 48:58 AWAY FROM AROUND THE TENTS OF KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM; AND 49:02 DATHAN AND ABIRAM CAME OUT AND STOOD AT THE DOOR OF THEIR 49:04 TENTS, WITH THEIR WIVES, THEIR SONS, AND THEIR LITTLE CHILDREN. 49:07 AND MOSES SAID: 'BY THIS YOU SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD HAS 49:10 SENT ME TO DO ALL THESE WORKS, FOR I HAVE NOT DONE THEM OF MY 49:15 OWN WILL.'" - AND ALL OF ISRAEL IS WATCHING - "'IF THESE MEN DIE 49:19 NATURALLY LIKE ALL MEN, OR IF THEY ARE VISITED BY THE COMMON 49:22 FATE OF ALL MEN,'" - THEY GET OLD, THEY DIE, THEY MAYBE GET A 49:25 SICKNESS AND THEY DIE - "'THEN THE LORD HAS NOT SENT ME. 49:30 BUT IF THE LORD CREATES A NEW THING,'" - OUR STUDY SECTION IS 49:34 NAMED AFTER THAT - "'AND THE EARTH OPENS ITS MOUTH AND 49:38 SWALLOWS THEM UP WITH ALL THAT BELONGS TO THEM, AND THEY GO 49:41 DOWN ALIVE INTO THE PIT, THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THESE 49:45 MEN HAVE REJECTED THE LORD.' NOW IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE FINISHED 49:50 SPEAKING ALL THESE WORDS, THAT THE GROUND SPLIT" - IT'S LIKE 49:54 ELIJAH, RIGHT AFTER HE GOT DONE PRAYING, IT HAPPENED. 49:57 RIGHT AFTER MOSES SAID THIS - IF GOD DOES A NEW THING - THE 50:00 GROUND SPLIT LIKE A GREAT EARTHQUAKE - "...UNDER THEM, AND 50:05 THE EARTH OPENED ITS MOUTH AND SWALLOWED THEM UP, WITH THEIR 50:09 HOUSEHOLDS AND ALL THE MEN WITH KORAH, WITH ALL THEIR GOODS. 50:12 SO THEY AND ALL THOSE WITH THEM" - THEIR FAMILY, THEIR TENT - 50:15 EVERYTHING - "WENT DOWN ALIVE INTO THE PIT;" - AND AFTER THEY 50:18 ALL FELL IN THERE SCREAMING, THEN THE EARTH CLOSED UP LIKE A 50:22 VAULT DOOR. THAT WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU 50:26 TO BE GOOD, WOULDN'T IT? IF YOU SAW THAT? 50:30 SO ARE THERE EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF JUST IMMEDIATE JUSTICE 50:34 AND JUDGMENT? WHEN ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA - ACTS 50:41 CHAPTER 5 - WHEN THEY SINNED AND PETER SAYS, 'YOU'VE NOT LIED TO 50:47 MEN, YOU'VE LIED TO GOD' AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY DROP DEAD, 50:50 THAT WAS PRETTY SEVERE. DOES GOD, SOMETIMES, HOLD SIN 50:53 MORE SEVERELY IN THE CHURCH THAN IN THE WORLD? 50:57 BECAUSE HIGHER EXPECTATION - TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS 51:00 REQUIRED - THAT'S WHY IT'S VERY DANGEROUS FOR US TO REBEL 51:06 AGAINST GOD. SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, 51:07 DEUTERONOMY 5:29 - DO YOU - YOU'VE GOT THAT, JOHN? 51:11 BEFORE YOU GET THERE, I'M GOING TO READ DEUTERONOMY 4:40, "YOU 51:14 SHALL THEREFORE KEEP HIS STATUTES AND HIS COMMANDMENTS 51:17 WHICH I COMMAND YOU TODAY, THAT IT MAY GO WELL WITH YOU AND 51:20 WITH YOUR CHILDREN AFTER YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY PROLONG YOUR 51:23 DAYS IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GIVING YOU FOR ALL 51:26 TIME." IF YOU'RE OBEDIENT, IT'S A 51:28 GENERAL PRINCIPLE: IT'LL GO WELL. 51:31 IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'LL NEVER HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT IT'LL GO 51:32 WELL. GO AHEAD, READ DEUTERONOMY 5:29. 51:36 >>"OH THAT THEY HAD SUCH A HEART IN THEM THAT THEY WOULD FEAR ME 51:39 AND ALWAYS KEEP ALL MY COMMANDMENTS, THAT IT MIGHT BE 51:43 WELL WITH THEM AND WITH THEIR CHILDREN FOREVER!" 51:45 >>WHY DOES GOD WANT US TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS? 51:48 JUST TO PROVE HE'S RIGHT, OR BECAUSE HE LOVES US? 51:51 AND HE SAID THAT IT MIGHT BE WELL WITH YOU - BECAUSE IF WE 51:53 DON'T KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, WE'LL BE LOST AND HE DOESN'T 51:56 WANT US TO BE LOST. HE'S NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH. 51:59 HE WANTS US TO OBEY AND LIVE - IS WHAT IT SAYS. 52:03 NOW WE CAN ONLY DO IT BY HIS POWER, BUT THERE'S NO QUESTION 52:05 HE WANTS US TO DO IT. SO WHEN GOOD AND BAD COMES TO 52:08 EACH PERSON, WE MIGHT WONDER, 'WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME?' 52:11 IT MIGHT BE TEMPORARY. IT MAY NOT ALWAYS BE BECAUSE OF 52:13 OUR BEHAVIOR. IT COULD BE GOD'S TEACHING US 52:16 THROUGH THE TRIALS THAT COME. THERE'S AN INTERESTING QUOTE IN 52:20 THE - ACTUALLY, THIS ISN'T IN THE LESSON; I FOUND THIS ONE - 52:24 IT'S THE FAITH THAT I LIVE BY , PAGE 64, "GOD NEVER LEADS HIS 52:29 CHILDREN OTHERWISE THAN THEY WOULD CHOOSE TO BE LED IF THEY 52:33 COULD SEE THE END FROM THE BEGINNING AND DISCERN THE GLORY 52:36 OF THE PURPOSE WHICH THEY ARE FULFILLING AS COWORKERS WITH 52:38 HIM. WHEN YOU TRUST GOD, YOU KNOW 52:43 THAT IN THE JUDGEMENT, IF YOU COULD LOOK BACK ON THE TRIAL 52:46 YOU'RE GOING THROUGH, AND SEE THROUGH GOD'S BINOCULARS, YOU'D 52:50 SAY, 'OH, NOW I KNOW WHY THAT HAPPENED. 52:52 THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN.' AND YOU WOULD BE 52:55 CONTENT. IT'D BE NICE IF WE COULD KNOW 52:57 THAT AHEAD OF TIME, BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW IT AHEAD OF TIME. 53:01 ALRIGHT, WE'RE JUST ABOUT OUT OF TIME. 53:03 LAST SECTION: THE SECOND DEATH - AND THERE IS A JUDGMENT - WE ALL 53:07 GO THROUGH TRIALS BUT THERE IS A TRIAL FROM WHICH THERE IS NO 53:09 RECOVERY AND THAT IS THE SECOND DEATH HE SPEAKS OF IN REVELATION 53:13 20 WHEN IT SAYS, 'DEATH AND HADES WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF 53:17 FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 53:19 ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE 53:23 LAKE OF FIRE.' AND THE LOST, IN THAT CASE, WILL DECLARE, AS IT 53:27 SAYS IN JEREMIAH 8:20, "THE HARVEST IS PAST, THE SUMMER IS 53:31 ENDED, AND WE ARE NOT SAVED!" AND THAT MEANS THEY'VE WAITED 53:35 BEYOND MERCY - THE POINT OF NO RETURN - PROBATION IS CLOSED - 53:39 AND THAT'S NOT A VERY GOOD NOTE TO END ON SO LET ME TELL YOU 53:42 ABOUT THE FREE OFFER INSTEAD. (LAUGHTER) WE'LL SEND THIS TO 53:46 YOU FOR FREE - IT'S CALLED PENDING: YOUR CASE IN COURT AND 53:50 IT TALKS ABOUT THE JUDGMENT AND GOD'S LOVE IN THE JUDGMENT. 53:52 ASK FOR OFFER #192 AND THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND 53:59 THAT'S 866-STUDY-MORE. WHEN YOU GET IT AND READ IT, 54:02 THEN PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS. 54:03 GOD BLESS YOU, OUR FRIENDS THAT ARE WATCHING, OUR EXTENDED 54:06 MEMBERS AND CLASS, AND WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING HIS 54:09 WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. (MUSIC) 54:16 >>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES. >>YOU KNOW, I WASN'T RAISED 54:27 TO BE A METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURER. 54:30 I WASN'T RAISED TO BE A DRUG DEALER. 54:32 I WAS RAISED IN THE CHURCH. I WANTED TO FIT IN. 54:35 I WANTED TO BE IN THE IN CROWD. I WANTED TO FEEL ACCEPTED, SO I 54:39 GOT INTO ALL THE THINGS THAT MY FRIEND WAS INTO. 54:42 SHE WAS AN AVID DRINKER AND BY THE TIME I WAS 16 I WAS DRINKING 54:49 QUITE A BIT. AND PRETTY SOON SOMEONE ASKED 54:52 ME IF I WANTED TO HAVE SOME COCAINE. 54:56 AND ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER THAT I - PRETTY SOON I STARTED 54:59 TO SELL COCAINE AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, 'I CAN QUIT ANY TIME I 55:03 WANT.' THAT THIS REALLY DOESN'T HAVE A HOLD ON ME. 55:07 AND ONE DAY MY FRIEND, SHE WAS DRIVING, A TRAIN HAD WENT BY AND 55:13 SOMEHOW SHE DIDN'T SEE THE OTHER TRAIN COMING AND SHE DIDN'T MAKE 55:19 IT. AND THAT RIGHT THERE JUST DEVASTATED ME. 55:25 IT WAS AT THAT POINT THAT I JUST CRIED OUT TO GOD AND I SAID, 55:30 'GOD, YOU KNOW, DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO. 55:33 I DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS. 55:35 INTERVENE IN MY LIFE.' MY PARENTS, IN THE MEANTIME, HAD 55:41 BEEN PRAYING FOR ME - THAT I WOULD COME BACK TO THE LORD. 55:45 THEY ACTUALLY HAD INVITED ME TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR. 55:50 I DECIDED TO COME, BUT I WENT THERE HIGH AND, I'M NOT PROUD OF 55:54 IT - WHY I EVEN MENTION IT TODAY IS BECAUSE I JUST WANT YOU TO 55:57 KNOW THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL AND HE STARTED 56:03 WORKING ON MY HEART. IT'S LIKE I - I KNEW THAT THE 56:10 HOLY SPIRIT WAS CONVICTING ME, BUT YET IT WASN'T EVEN LIKE IT 56:12 WAS ME, LITERALLY, I WAS PICKED UP AND TAKEN DOWN TO THE FRONT. 56:18 YOU CAN BE RAISED IN THE CHURCH AND DO ALL KINDS OF THINGS AND - 56:22 AND THE DEVIL WILL MAKE YOU THINK THAT HE - THAT GOD WON'T 56:26 ACCEPT YOU BACK, BUT GOD IS MERCIFUL. 56:30 HE IS LOVING AND HE - IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE, 56:33 HE JUST WANTS YOU TO COME BACK HOME. 56:44 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 56:48 BEFORE. 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