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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL
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STUDY HOUR - A VERY WARM
WELCOME TO OUR NATIONAL AND
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INTERNATIONAL VIEWERS JOINING
US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
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THE WORLD DURING
OUR STUDY TIME TOGETHER.
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NOW, WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING
THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB.
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TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON
LESSON #9 ENTITLED INTIMATIONS
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OF HOPE . AND, FOR
THOSE WHO ARE JOINING
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THE
MEMBERS AND OUR VISITORS HERE AT
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THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH - ALWAYS
GOOD TO SEE YOU SABBATH AFTER
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WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY
TODAY, AS WE NORMALLY DO, WE'D
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LIKE TO BEGIN BY
LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG.
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I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG
LEADERS TO COME AND THEY'LL LEAD
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US IN OUR PRAISE
TODAY. (SOFT PIANO MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING
AND HAPPY SABBATH.
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WHAT A BLESSING IT IS THAT WE
CAN WORSHIP OUR LORD AND PRAISE
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HIM EVERY SABBATH
MORNING AS WE GATHER TOGETHER.
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LET'S SING HYMN #8 - WE GATHER
TOGETHER - WE JOIN - PLEASE JOIN
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WITH US AND SING ALL
THREE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>WE CANNOT WAIT UNTIL
THE TIME WHEN JESUS COMES
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BACK IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY, BUT
UNTIL THEN WE ASK HIM TO BE WITH
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US IN OUR HEARTS - TO TAKE AWAY
OUR SINS AND OUR FEARS AND TO
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GIVE US REST IN HIM.
LET'S JOIN TOGETHER AND SING
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COME, THOU LONG EXPECTED
JESUS - HYMN #204. (PIANO MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU FOR
SINGING WITH US THIS MORNING.
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>>I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO
BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE OPEN WITH A
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WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER, WHAT A PRIVILEGE,
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ONCE AGAIN, TO BE ABLE TO GATHER
TOGETHER IN YOUR HOUSE TO OPEN
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UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY ABOUT
THE STORY OF JOB AND LEARN THESE
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IMPORTANT LESSONS ABOUT THE
GREAT CONTROVERSY, YOUR CARE FOR
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US, AND HOW YOU CAN SUSTAIN
US THROUGH EVERY TRIAL AND
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DIFFICULTY. SO BLESS
OUR TIME TOGETHER, FOR
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WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME,
AMEN. OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE
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BROUGHT TO US BY
PASTOR MARSHALL MCKENZIE.
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PASTOR MARSHALL IS NEW
TO THE SACRAMENTO AREA.
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HE RECENTLY JOINED
THE AMAZING FACTS TEAM.
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HE IS OUR PUBLISHING DIRECTOR
AND WE ARE JUST DELIGHTED THAT
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HE WILL BE SHARING
WITH US THIS MORNING.
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THANK YOU,
MARSHALL. >>GOOD MORNING
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AND HAPPY
SABBATH. >>HAPPY SABBATH.
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>>I WAS THOROUGHLY ENCOURAGED
BY THE LESSON THIS WEEK.
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YOU KNOW, AS WE LIVE LIFE FROM
DAY TO DAY, IT'S AMAZING HOW
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DOWN WE CAN GET BECAUSE OF
ALL THE THINGS WE SEE HAPPENING
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AROUND US. AND IN THE BOOK
OF JOB, THIS WEEK, IS ALL ABOUT
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HOPE. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FROM
SUFFERING TO HOPE IN THIS WEEK'S
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LESSON. AND I WAS THOROUGHLY
ENCOURAGED BY THAT AND I WAS
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ALSO REMINDED OF
THAT THIS MORNING.
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WHEN I ACTUALLY CAME INTO
CHURCH, I DIDN'T HAVE MY - SOME
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OF MY NOTES PRINTED OUT AND I
WAS SCRAMBLING AROUND TO FIND A
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PRINTER AND I TALKED TO ONE
PERSON WHO DIDN'T THINK THAT
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THERE WAS A PRINTER ACTUALLY
HERE AND I THOUGHT, 'OH NO,
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LORD, I NEED TO GET MY NOTES.'
AND THEN I FOUND THE RIGHT
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PERSON. YOU
KNOW, IT'S AMAZING WHAT
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HAPPENS WHEN YOU
FIND THE RIGHT PERSON.
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AND THAT PERSON REMINDED ME THAT
THERE IS HOPE AND THEY PROCEEDED
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TO PRINT OFF SOME OF THE NOTES
FROM THIS WEEK'S LESSON AS WE GO
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THROUGH IT. AND I
WAS REMINDED, 'MARSHALL,
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EVEN IN CHALLENGE THERE'S
STILL' - WHAT? - 'HOPE.' IN
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SUFFERING THERE'S STILL HOPE.
IN TRIAL THERE'S STILL HOPE.
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AND AS WE STUDY THIS LESSON,
THAT'S WHAT JOB REALLY HELPS US
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TO UNDERSTAND: NOT JUST THE
SUFFERING THAT HE WENT THROUGH,
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BUT THE HOPE THAT HE HAD
WHILE HE WAS GOING THROUGH IT.
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AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO
MOVE FROM SUFFERING TOWARD HOPE.
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WE'RE GOING TO MOVE AWAY FROM
SATAN'S SADISTIC PLANS TOWARDS
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GOD'S HOPE-FILLED PROMISES.
IF YOU'VE EVER TAKEN THE TIME,
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IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY
PROMISES ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT
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SCRIPTURE, TO GIVE US HOPE.
AND WE NEED THOSE PROMISES.
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WE NEED THAT HOPE THAT JOB HAD.
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MATTER OF FACT, IT'S BROUGHT
OUT RIGHT IN OUR MEMORY TEXT.
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RIGHT IN THE VERY OPENING OF OUR
LESSON - YOU HAVE YOUR LESSONS,
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YOU CAN OPEN UP HERE IN
THE LESSON TO LESSON #9 AS WAS
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MENTIONED EARLIER - INTIMATIONS
OF HOPE - AND RIGHT HERE IN THE
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MEMORY VERSE, WE SEE THIS
BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT OF
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JOB'S THINKING. "HE ALSO SHALL
BE MY" - WHAT? - "MY SALVATION.
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FOR A HYPOCRITE COULD
NOT COUNT BEFORE HIM."
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WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS, REALLY, IN
THIS LESSON, ON THE FIRST HALF
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OF THIS PASSAGE.
AGAIN, IT SAYS, 'HE ALSO SHALL
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BE MY SALVATION' AND EVERYTHING
THAT JOB FACED, IN ALL OF HIS
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TRIALS, IN ALL OF HIS LOSSES,
HE STILL COMES FORWARD WITH THIS
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THOUGHT: "HE ALSO
SHALL BE MY SALVATION."
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MATTER OF FACT, JOB HELPS US
UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
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HIS GRIEF, BUT THAT
MAKES THE HOPE SO MUCH SWEETER.
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IN JOB CHAPTER 6, VERSE 2 -
AFTER JOB LOSES FAMILY, AFTER
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JOB LOSES LIVESTOCK, AFTER JOB
LOSES HIS SERVANTS - EVERYBODY
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THAT'S REALLY CLOSEST TO HIM
- AND NOW HE'S FACING THIS IN
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PHYSICAL PAIN AND MENTAL
GRIEF. HE HAS THESE WORDS TO SAY
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- JOB CHAPTER 6, VERSE 2.
WHEN WE KIND OF GO BACK A LITTLE
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BIT, WE GET THIS PICTURE AND
THEN WE SEE HOW MUCH SWEETER THE
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HOPE THAT JOB EXPRESSES REALLY
IS. "OH, THAT MY GRIEF WERE
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FULLY WEIGHED, AND MY CALAMITY
LAID WITH IT ON THE SCALES!"
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- SO JOB'S LIKE IF - TALKING TO
HIS FRIENDS HE'S LIKE, 'IF YOU
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COULD JUST WEIGH THE CALAMITY
THAT I'M FACING - IF YOU COULD
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JUST WEIGH THE GRIEF THAT I'M
EXPERIENCING - IF YOU COULD JUST
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PUT IT ON SCALES - IF YOU
COULD JUST UNDERSTAND IT' - HE'S
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HELPING HIS FRIENDS TO TRY TO
GET A GLIMPSE OF HIS GRIEF BUT,
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LATER, WE SEE HOW MUCH MORE
IMPORTANT THE HOPE IS IN THIS.
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'HE ALSO SHALL BE MY' - WHAT?
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'SALVATION.' NOW WHAT'S
INTERESTING IS, IN SUNDAY'S
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LESSON, JUST BEFORE WE REALLY
DIVE INTO JOB'S HOPE, JOB HAS
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SOMETHING TO SAY
ABOUT HIS FRIENDS.
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YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GO THROUGH
TRIALS, WHEN WE GO THROUGH
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SUFFERING, WHEN WE GO THROUGH
CHALLENGES IN OUR LIVES, WE
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HOPE, RIGHT, THAT OUR FRIENDS
WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY THAT
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WILL COMFORT US, THAT
WILL ENCOURAGE US, THAT WILL
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STRENGTHEN US, THAT WILL
CHALLENGE US TO DRAW CLOSER TO
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GOD. BUT JOB'S FRIENDS
ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
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AND MAYBE WE'VE HAD THAT
EXPERIENCE WHERE WE'VE GONE
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THROUGH A CHALLENGE AND WE'VE
LOOKED TO OUR FRIENDS, AND OUR
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FRIENDS, REALLY,
HAVE KIND OF FAILED US.
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JOB, IN SUNDAY'S LESSON,
HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HIS
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FRIENDS WERE LIKE.
MATTER OF FACT, THE TITLE OF THE
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LESSON ON SUNDAY
IS FORGERS OF LIES .
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NOW THINK ABOUT THIS: JOB IS
FACING THE LOSS OF HIS CHILDREN.
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JOB IS FACING THE
LOSS OF HIS LIVESTOCK.
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JOB IS NOW FACING THIS
INCREDIBLY PHYSICAL SUFFERING
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AND MENTAL AGONY AND SO HE'S
LOOKING TO HIS FRIENDS, FOR A
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MOMENT, AS HE'S HAVING THESE
DISCUSSIONS. AND HE FINDS OUT
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SOMETHING THAT'S VERY
INTERESTING ABOUT HIS FRIENDS.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU'D TURN
WITH ME TO JOB CHAPTER 13 - IN
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YOUR BIBLES - JOB CHAPTER
13, VERSE 4 - JOB CHAPTER 13 AND
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VERSE 4 - AND WE'RE GOING TO
SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME IN JOB
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CHAPTER 13, JOB CHAPTER 14 -
BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY WHERE JOB
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STARTS TO BRING OUT HIS HOPE
AND WHO HIS HOPE IS IN, OKAY?
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BUT BEFORE THAT, HE HAS TO HELP
US UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
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THE FRIENDS THAT
WERE SURROUNDING HIM.
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JOB CHAPTER 13, VERSE 4
SAYS, "BUT YOU ARE" - WHAT? -
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"FORGERS OF LIES, YOU ARE
ALL WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS."
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VERSE 5 SAYS, "OH, THAT YOU
WOULD BE SILENT, AND IT WOULD BE
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YOUR WISDOM." THE CLOSEST PEOPLE
TO JOB IN THIS GREAT TIME OF
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TRIAL, HE IDENTIFIES
AS WHAT? FORGERS OF LIES.
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THESE INDIVIDUALS THAT HE'S
KNOWN FOR SOME TIME - I'M SURE
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HE'S HAD SOME RELATIONSHIP WITH
THEM THROUGHOUT HIS LIFETIME -
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HE COMES TO SEE HIS FRIENDS
FOR WHO THEY REALLY ARE IN THIS
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GREAT TRIAL. YET
JOB SPEAKS OF HOPE.
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HE'S LOST FAMILY.
HE'S LOST SERVANTS.
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HE'S LOST EVERYTHING AND HIS
FRIENDS, WHO ARE THE CLOSEST TO
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HIM, ARE FOUND TO BE SOMETHING
THAT HE NEVER THOUGHT THEY WERE.
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I'M SURE WE'VE EXPERIENCED THAT,
RIGHT? I KNOW THERE'S BEEN TIMES
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IN MY LIFE WHERE I'VE HAD TRIAL
AND I'VE HAD CHALLENGES AND I'VE
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HAD SUFFERING. AND
I'VE HAD FRIENDS THAT WERE
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CLOSEST TO ME THAT I
THOUGHT I COULD CLING TO.
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AND YET, I FOUND THEM TO BE
SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I
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THOUGHT THEY WERE - AND IT'S NO
DIFFERENT WITH THE STORY OF JOB.
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THIS IS WHY JOB
FINDS HIS HOPE IN WHOM?
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HE FINDS HIS HOPE IN CHRIST.
HE FINDS HIS HOPE IN GOD.
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WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE AROUND HIM
IS KIND OF FALLING APART AND HE
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SEES HIS FRIENDS FOR WHAT
THEY REALLY ARE, WE START TO
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UNDERSTAND, CLOSER, HOW
MUCH JOB IS CLINGING TO GOD.
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HE'S CLINGING TO GOD.
TALKING ABOUT JOB AND HIS
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FRIENDS FOR JUST A MINUTE
- ACTUALLY, I WANT TO SWITCH
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TO GOD FOR JUST A
MINUTE. JOB'S FRIENDS ARE
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FORGERS OF LIES.
NOW, BY THE WAY, WHO'S
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THE FATHER OF LIES? >>SATAN.
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>>SATAN'S THE
FATHER OF LIES, RIGHT?
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WHERE DO WE FIND THAT,
ACTUALLY, IN THE GOSPELS?
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WE FIND THAT IN
JOHN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 44.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU CAN TURN
THERE JUST A MINUTE, UNDERSTAND
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THE PERSPECTIVE AND THE
BACKGROUND - WHAT JOB IS GOING
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THROUGH - JOB CHAPTER 8 - JOHN,
EXCUSE ME, CHAPTER 8, VERSE
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44 - JOHN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 44
- JESUS POINTS THIS OUT TO HIS
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DISCIPLES. HE SAYS,
"YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER
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THE DEVIL, AND THE DESIRES
OF YOUR FATHER YOU WANT TO DO.
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HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE
BEGINNING AND DOES NOT STAND IN
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THE TRUTH BECAUSE
THERE IS NO TRUTH" - WHAT?
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>>IN HIM. >>"IN HIM.
WHEN HE SPEAKS A LIE,
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HE SPEAKS FROM HIS OWN
RESOURCES, FOR HE IS A LIAR
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AND THE FATHER OF IT."
NOW, IF YOU GO BACK TO JOB, AND
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JOB IDENTIFIES HIS FRIENDS
AS FORGERS OF LIES, WHAT IS
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JOB REALLY IDENTIFYING?
HE'S IDENTIFYING WHOM HIS
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FRIENDS ARE BEING INFLUENCED BY.
SO, IN THIS GREAT TRIAL THAT JOB
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IS FACING, JOB REALIZED
THAT SATAN IS BEHIND THE SCENES
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INFLUENCING HIS FRIENDS TO
BE LYING TO HIM ABOUT WHOM?
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WHO ARE HIS FRIENDS ALWAYS
TALKING ABOUT, BY THE WAY?
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YOU SEE THIS IN THEIR
DISCUSSIONS AS THEY TALK TO JOB.
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THEY'RE TRYING TO POINT
JOB TO WHOM? TO GOD, RIGHT?
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YET, THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD
AND BEING INFLUENCED BY SATAN,
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IS MISINTERPRETING
WHO GOD REALLY IS.
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THIS IS - THIS IS
BROUGHT OUT VERY INTERESTINGLY.
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NOTICE WITH ME, JOB
CHAPTER 42, VERSE 7, OKAY?
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JOB CHAPTER 42, VERSE 7 - AND
THE LESSON BRINGS THIS OUT VERY
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CLEARLY - JOB CHAPTER 42,
VERSE 7 - NOW THIS IS NOT JOB
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SPEAKING, THIS HAS FINALLY COME
TO THE POINT WHERE WE ACTUALLY
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HEAR GOD SPEAKING.
AND GOD HAS SOME VERY
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INTERESTING THINGS TO
SAY TO JOB'S FRIENDS, OKAY?
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JOB CHAPTER 42, VERSE 7 - IT
SAYS, "AND SO IT WAS, AFTER THE
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LORD HAD SPOKEN THESE WORDS TO
JOB," - NOW HE'S GOING TO SWITCH
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TO HIS FRIENDS - "THAT THE LORD
SAID TO ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE,
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'MY WRATH IS AROUSED AGAINST YOU
AND YOUR TWO FRIENDS, FOR YOU
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HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF
ME WHAT IS RIGHT..."
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HIS FRIENDS WHO WERE CONSTANTLY
BRINGING UP THESE ASPECTS OF GOD
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WERE NOT, IN ESSENCE,
REALLY TRUTHFUL ASPECTS OF GOD.
00:18:19.39\00:18:25.77
IT WAS LIKE
TRUTH MIXED WITH ERROR.
00:18:25.77\00:18:29.97
SO GOD SAYS, "YOU HAVE NOT
SPOKEN OF ME WHAT IS RIGHT" AND
00:18:29.97\00:18:34.41
THEN HE GOES ON,
"AS MY SERVANT JOB HAS."
00:18:34.41\00:18:39.41
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. AS
JOB'S FRIENDS ARE SPEAKING OF
00:18:39.41\00:18:42.35
GOD, THEY'RE NOT
SPEAKING RIGHT OF GOD.
00:18:42.35\00:18:45.95
YET, JOB, IN SPEAKING OF GOD, IS
SPEAKING RIGHT OF GOD - AND GOD
00:18:45.95\00:18:53.09
IS THE ONE POINTING THIS OUT
BECAUSE JOB, THROUGH THIS TRIAL,
00:18:53.09\00:18:59.63
IS CLINGING TO GOD. HE'S
HANGING ON TO GOD BY FAITH
00:18:59.63\00:19:06.07
AND, THEREFORE, HE CAN SAY,
'HE ALSO SHALL BE MY SALVATION.'
00:19:06.07\00:19:13.01
THERE'S THESE PIECES OF HOPE
THAT ARE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT
00:19:13.01\00:19:17.89
THE BOOK OF JOB
BECAUSE JOB IS RELYING ON GOD.
00:19:17.89\00:19:24.63
NOW, BEFORE WE JUMP INTO JOB
CHAPTER 13 A LITTLE BIT MORE, I
00:19:24.63\00:19:28.50
WANT TO ACTUALLY GO BACK TO JOB
CHAPTER 12, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING
00:19:28.50\00:19:31.90
TO GET A PICTURE OF JOB'S VIEW
AND HIS WORDS IN RELATION TO
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GOD, OKAY? JOB
CHAPTER 12 - AND I'M JUST
00:19:37.77\00:19:41.64
GOING TO READ A
FEW OF THE VERSES.
00:19:41.64\00:19:44.15
WE'RE NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH
THE WHOLE CHAPTER, JUST A VIEW
00:19:44.15\00:19:46.35
FOR THE SAKE OF TIME. IT
SAYS, "I AM ONE MOCKED BY HIS
00:19:46.35\00:19:50.69
FRIENDS," - OKAY,
WE UNDERSTAND THAT.
00:19:50.69\00:19:53.19
HE'S LOST EVERYTHING AND HIS
FRIENDS ARE BEING INFLUENCED BY
00:19:53.19\00:19:57.03
SATAN - "I AM ONE MOCKED BY HIS
FRIENDS," - AND THEN HE GOES ON
00:19:57.03\00:20:01.00
- "WHO CALLED ON
GOD, AND HE" - WHAT?
00:20:01.00\00:20:05.03
- "AND HE ANSWERED HIM," - HE
WAS LIKE, 'I'M BEING MOCKED BY
00:20:05.03\00:20:07.94
MY FRIENDS BUT, YOU KNOW,
IN THAT TIME I CALL ON GOD.
00:20:07.94\00:20:12.07
AND WHEN I CALL ON
GOD, GOD" - IS GOD SILENT?
00:20:12.07\00:20:16.41
IS GOD SILENT
HERE IN THIS VERSE?
00:20:16.41\00:20:18.01
>>NO. >>NO. HE ANSWERS HIM.
00:20:18.01\00:20:20.95
YOU KNOW, GOD IS SO GOOD.
WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE FAILS
00:20:20.95\00:20:25.29
AROUND US, WE CAN ALWAYS CRY
OUT TO GOD AND GOD WILL WHAT?
00:20:25.29\00:20:29.82
HE WILL ANSWER US. WHY?
00:20:29.82\00:20:31.86
BECAUSE HE'S OUR GREATEST
ALLY. HE'S OUR GREATEST FRIEND.
00:20:31.86\00:20:37.27
THERE'S NO ONE ELSE
LIKE GOD. NO ONE ELSE.
00:20:37.27\00:20:41.97
AND SO JOB CRIES OUT TO
GOD AND GOD ANSWERS HIM.
00:20:41.97\00:20:47.21
THE JUST AND THE
BLAMELESS WHO IS RIDICULED.
00:20:47.21\00:20:50.65
SO JOB UNDERSTANDS,
'GOD WILL ANSWER ME.
00:20:50.65\00:20:53.38
I'LL CALL OUT TO GOD.
GOD WILL HEAR MY PRAYER.
00:20:53.38\00:20:55.95
GOD WILL ANSWER ME
IN THIS TIME OF TRIAL.
00:20:55.95\00:21:00.16
BUT THERE'S A FEW OTHER VERSES
I WANT TO SHOW YOU - VERSE 10 -
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NOTICE: HE'S TALKING ABOUT GOD -
AND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO CHAPTER
00:21:02.62\00:21:07.10
13, WHICH THE LESSON REALLY
DIVES INTO MONDAY AND TUESDAY.
00:21:07.10\00:21:12.67
HE SAYS, 'IN WHOSE HAND IS THE
LIFE OF EVERY LIVING THING," -
00:21:12.67\00:21:17.77
IN WHOSE HANDS DO
YOU WANT YOUR LIFE?
00:21:17.77\00:21:20.94
>>GOD'S HANDS. >>GOD'S HANDS.
00:21:20.94\00:21:23.38
AND JOB, IN VERSE 10 SAYS, "IN
WHOSE HAND IS THE LIFE OF EVERY
00:21:23.38\00:21:27.52
LIVING THING AND THE
BREATH OF ALL MANKIND?"
00:21:27.52\00:21:33.09
VERSE 13 - HE SAYS, "WITH HIM" -
GOD - "ARE WISDOM AND STRENGTH,
00:21:33.09\00:21:41.26
HE HAS COUNSEL
AND UNDERSTANDING."
00:21:41.26\00:21:44.50
VERSE 16 -
"WITH HIM" - ARE WHAT?
00:21:44.50\00:21:46.74
>>STRENGTH.
>>STRENGTH AND PRUDENCE."
00:21:46.74\00:21:50.74
VERSES 23, 24, 25 - "HE MAKES
NATIONS GREAT, AND DESTROYS
00:21:50.74\00:21:56.34
THEM; HE ENLARGES
NATIONS AND GUIDES THEM.
00:21:56.34\00:22:00.25
HE TAKES AWAY THE UNDERSTANDING
OF THE CHIEFS OF THE PEOPLE OF
00:22:00.25\00:22:03.75
THE EARTH, AND MAKES THEM
WANDER IN A PATHLESS WILDERNESS.
00:22:03.75\00:22:09.06
THEY GROPE IN THE DARK WITHOUT
LIGHT, AND HE MAKES THEM STAGGER
00:22:09.06\00:22:12.23
LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN." GOD,
ULTIMATELY, IS IN CONTROL.
00:22:12.23\00:22:16.46
>>AMEN. >>AND WE
CAN TRUST GOD WITH OUR
00:22:16.46\00:22:21.07
LIVES. WHY? BECAUSE
THAT'S THE BEST PLACE TO
00:22:21.07\00:22:24.57
HAVE OUR LIVES IS IN THE HANDS
OF GOD, NOT THE HANDS OF OUR
00:22:24.57\00:22:30.18
FRIENDS, BUT IN
THE HANDS OF GOD.
00:22:30.18\00:22:35.95
AND JOB REALLY DIVES
INTO THIS EVEN MORE SO.
00:22:35.95\00:22:38.89
SO HE HAS A RESPONSE TO HIS
FRIENDS AND IT HAS TO DO WITH
00:22:38.89\00:22:41.86
WHOM GOD IS. AND,
BY THE WAY, JOB HAS A
00:22:41.86\00:22:45.39
RIGHT
UNDERSTANDING OF GOD. OKAY?
00:22:45.39\00:22:50.13
SO WE GO ON IN JOB CHAPTER 13,
BEGINNING IN VERSE 1 - I'M GOING
00:22:50.13\00:22:54.50
TO READ QUICKLY FOR THE SAKE OF
TIME. "BEHOLD, MY EYE HAS SEEN
00:22:54.50\00:22:58.67
ALL THIS, MY EAR HAS
HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD IT.
00:22:58.67\00:23:02.08
WHAT YOU KNOW, I ALSO
KNOW; I AM NOT INFERIOR TO YOU.
00:23:02.08\00:23:06.58
BUT I WOULD SPEAK TO THE
ALMIGHTY, AND I DESIRE TO REASON
00:23:06.58\00:23:11.22
WITH GOD." - I LOVE THAT
VERSE. JOB'S LIKE, 'LISTEN, I
00:23:11.22\00:23:14.42
UNDERSTAND WHERE
YOU'RE COMING FROM.
00:23:14.42\00:23:16.79
I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT
I DESIRE TO REASON WITH" - WHOM?
00:23:16.79\00:23:21.33
>>GOD. >>'I DESIRE
TO REASON WITH GOD.
00:23:21.33\00:23:25.27
I DON'T NEED TO REASON WITH YOU,
I WANT TO REASON WITH GOD.' AND
00:23:25.27\00:23:29.60
GOD LOVES IT, BY THE WAY, WHEN
WE TALK TO HIM - WHEN WE REASON
00:23:29.60\00:23:33.38
WITH HIM - WHEN WE BRING
EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE GOING
00:23:33.38\00:23:36.81
THROUGH TO HIS
FEET - HE LOVES THAT.
00:23:36.81\00:23:39.81
HE LOVES TO INTERACT AND
COMMUNICATE AND THAT'S WHY,
00:23:39.81\00:23:44.12
LATER IN JOB, YOU SEE GOD
ENTERING THE PICTURE AND HE'S
00:23:44.12\00:23:46.45
THE ONE COMMUNICATING.
VERSE 4 SAYS, "BUT YOU FORGERS
00:23:46.45\00:23:53.43
OF LIES, YOU ARE ALL
WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS.
00:23:53.43\00:23:56.77
OH, THAT YOU WOULD BE SILENT,
AND IT WOULD BE YOUR WISDOM!
00:23:56.77\00:24:00.57
NOW HEAR MY REASONING, AND
HEED THE PLEADINGS OF MY LIPS.
00:24:00.57\00:24:03.71
WILL YOU SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR
GOD, AND TALK DECEITFULLY FOR
00:24:03.71\00:24:07.58
HIM? WILL YOU SHOW PARTIALITY
FOR HIM? WILL YOU CONTEND FOR
00:24:07.58\00:24:12.25
GOD? WILL IT BE WELL
WHEN HE SEARCHES YOU OUT?
00:24:12.25\00:24:17.62
OR CAN YOU MOCK
HIM AS ONE MOCKS A MAN?
00:24:17.62\00:24:20.42
HE WILL SURELY REBUKE YOU IF
YOU SECRETLY SHOW PARTIALITY.
00:24:20.42\00:24:26.33
WILL NOT HIS EXCELLENCE MAKE
YOU AFRAID, AND THE DREAD OF HIM
00:24:26.33\00:24:31.13
FALL UPON YOU? YOUR
PLATITUDES ARE PROVERBS
00:24:31.13\00:24:33.60
OF ASHES, YOUR
DEFENSES ARE DEFENSES OF CLAY."
00:24:33.60\00:24:38.11
- HE SAYS, "HOLD YOUR PEACE WITH
ME, AND LET ME SPEAK, THEN LET
00:24:38.11\00:24:43.48
COME ON ME WHAT MAY!
WHY DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY
00:24:43.48\00:24:48.28
TEETH, AND PUT MY
LIFE IN MY HANDS?"
00:24:48.28\00:24:51.35
- AND HERE IS MONDAY AND TUESDAY
- VERSES 15 AND 16 - "THOUGH HE
00:24:51.35\00:24:56.96
SLAY ME, YET WILL
I" - WHAT? >>TRUST HIM.
00:24:56.96\00:25:00.70
>>"YET WILL I TRUST HIM."
JOB KNOWS IN WHOM HE CAN TRUST.
00:25:00.70\00:25:07.70
HE'S CLINGING TO GOD FOR
WHOM HIS HOPE COMES FROM.
00:25:07.70\00:25:16.64
HE SAYS, "EVEN SO, I WILL
DEFEND MY OWN WAYS BEFORE HIM.
00:25:16.64\00:25:22.22
HE ALSO SHALL BE MY SALVATION,
FOR A HYPOCRITE COULD NOT COME
00:25:22.22\00:25:27.16
BEFORE HIM." JOB HAS
THIS INCREDIBLE HOPE -
00:25:27.16\00:25:36.43
IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE THINGS
THAT HIS FRIENDS ARE TELLING HIM
00:25:36.43\00:25:39.87
- THAT HE CAN TRUST GOD
EVEN IF GOD WERE TO CHOOSE TO
00:25:39.87\00:25:45.94
BRING HIS LIFE TO AN
END. AND WHY IS THAT?
00:25:45.94\00:25:50.48
WHY COULD JOB HANG ON TO GOD SO
CLOSELY - EVEN IF GOD CHOSE TO
00:25:50.48\00:25:57.69
ALLOW HIS LIFE
TO COME TO AN END?
00:25:57.69\00:26:01.09
BECAUSE JOB UNDERSTOOD THAT EVEN
IF HIS LIFE WERE TO COME TO AN
00:26:01.09\00:26:07.23
END, IT'S NOT ALL OVER YET.
THIS IS WHY JOB SAYS 'HE ALSO
00:26:07.23\00:26:15.34
SHALL BE MY SALVATION.' BECAUSE
JOB KNEW THERE WAS LIFE AFTER
00:26:15.34\00:26:23.88
DEATH FOR ONE WHO COMMITS
THEIR LIVES COMPLETELY TO GOD.
00:26:23.88\00:26:31.65
ONE WHO PLACES THEIR LIFE IN THE
HAND OF THE ALMIGHTY - HE KNOWS
00:26:31.65\00:26:37.53
THAT EVEN IF GOD WERE TO SLAY
HIM, HE COULD RAISE HIM UP FROM
00:26:37.53\00:26:43.50
THE DEAD ONE DAY.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S OTHER
00:26:43.50\00:26:46.50
EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF
THIS. YOU THINK OF MESHACH,
00:26:46.50\00:26:49.57
SHADRACH, AND ABEDNEGO, RIGHT?
THEY'RE STANDING BEFORE THE FIRE
00:26:49.57\00:26:52.64
AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO
BE THROWN INTO THE FIRE.
00:26:52.64\00:26:56.75
AND YET, THEY WERE UNWILLING TO
BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP THE KING.
00:26:56.75\00:27:01.08
WHY? BECAUSE THERE WAS ONE KING
GREATER THAN THE ONE STANDING IN
00:27:01.08\00:27:05.82
FRONT OF THEM. >>AMEN.
00:27:05.82\00:27:08.36
>>WHO WOULD BE ABLE, EVEN IF
THEY WERE TO DIE, HE WOULD BE
00:27:08.36\00:27:12.16
ABLE TO BRING THEM BACK.
ABRAHAM HAD THIS SAME HOPE WHEN
00:27:12.16\00:27:18.17
HE TOOK HIS SON - REMEMBER?
- TOOK HIS SON UP THE MOUNT AND
00:27:18.17\00:27:23.07
HE WAS GOING TO
SACRIFICE HIS SON.
00:27:23.07\00:27:24.57
AND YET, HIS SON WAS WHERE THE
LINE OF CHRIST WAS GOING TO COME
00:27:24.57\00:27:28.34
FROM, BUT HE WAS WILLING BECAUSE
PAUL TELLS US IN HEBREWS,
00:27:28.34\00:27:33.01
ABRAHAM HAD SUCH A FAITH THAT
HE KNEW THAT GOD COULD BRING HIM
00:27:33.01\00:27:37.72
BACK AND CONTINUE THE PLANS THAT
HE HAD PLANNED FROM THE VERY
00:27:37.72\00:27:42.79
BEGINNING. HE KNEW
- THEY ALL KNEW - THAT
00:27:42.79\00:27:47.23
THERE WAS LIFE AFTER DEATH.
MATTER OF FACT, LOOK AT - WITH
00:27:47.23\00:27:51.17
ME - IN JOB
CHAPTER 12, VERSE 10.
00:27:51.17\00:27:55.14
WE READ IT
EARLIER. I WANT TO READ IT
00:27:55.14\00:27:56.37
AGAIN IN THIS CONTEXT. "IN WHOSE
HAND IS THE LIFE OF" - WHAT? -
00:27:56.37\00:28:03.78
"EVERY LIVING THING, AND
THE BREATH OF ALL MANKIND?"
00:28:03.78\00:28:12.75
NOTICE, WITH ME, CHAPTER 14
- I'M GOING TO JUMP A COUPLE
00:28:12.75\00:28:16.09
CHAPTERS - BECAUSE JOB
CONTINUES TO CLARIFY THIS HOPE.
00:28:16.09\00:28:22.16
THE FACT THAT THERE'S LIFE AFTER
DEATH - THAT IF GOD WERE TO
00:28:22.16\00:28:25.67
BRING MY LIFE TO
AN END, SO BE IT.
00:28:25.67\00:28:27.87
I'LL STILL CONTINUE TO TRUST
HIM BECAUSE I KNOW HE HAS THE
00:28:27.87\00:28:31.27
ABILITY AND HE'S
PROMISED TO BRING ME BACK.
00:28:31.27\00:28:36.24
NOTICE, WITH ME, JOB CHAPTER 14,
VERSE 14 - ACTUALLY, START WITH
00:28:36.24\00:28:40.15
VERSE 13 - WE'LL GO 13, 14, 15
- HE SAYS, "OH, THAT YOU WOULD
00:28:40.15\00:28:43.92
HIDE ME IN THE GRAVE," -
NOTICE: NOT END ME, JUST WHAT?
00:28:43.92\00:28:50.39
>>HIDE ME. >>HIDE ME.
00:28:50.39\00:28:53.16
JUST "...HIDE ME IN THE GRAVE,
THAT YOU WOULD CONCEAL ME UNTIL
00:28:53.16\00:29:00.14
YOUR WRATH IS PAST, THAT
YOU WOULD APPOINT ME A SET TIME,
00:29:00.14\00:29:05.51
AND" - WHAT? - "REMEMBER ME!"
00:29:05.51\00:29:10.78
- VERSE 14 - "IF A MAN
DIES, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN?
00:29:10.78\00:29:17.42
ALL THE DAYS OF MY HARD SERVICE
I WILL WAIT, TILL MY CHANGE
00:29:17.42\00:29:23.53
COMES." - THAT'S POWERFUL.
00:29:23.53\00:29:27.23
ONE DAY, JESUS CHRIST IS
GOING TO COME AGAIN AND HE HAS
00:29:27.23\00:29:31.03
PROMISED TO RAISE THOSE WHO
TRUST IN HIM, THOSE WHO HAVE
00:29:31.03\00:29:34.90
BELIEVED IN HIM, THOSE WHO HAVE
PUT THEIR FAITH IN HIM - HE HAS
00:29:34.90\00:29:38.81
PROMISED TO BRING
THEM BACK FROM THE DEAD.
00:29:38.81\00:29:41.14
>>AMEN.
>>CORINTHIANS TELLS US ABOUT
00:29:41.14\00:29:44.91
THAT CHANGE WHEN HE COMES
IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY, "TILL
00:29:44.91\00:29:48.88
MY CHANGE COMES." -
VERSE 15 - "YOU SHALL CALL,
00:29:48.88\00:29:54.09
AND I WILL ANSWER YOU; YOU SHALL
DESIRE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS.
00:29:54.09\00:30:00.30
FOR NOW YOU NUMBER MY STEPS," -
JOB HAD A HOPE AND THAT HOPE WAS
00:30:00.30\00:30:07.70
IN THE PROMISE THAT CHRIST, EVEN
IF HE WERE TO ALLOW JOB TO BE
00:30:07.70\00:30:13.74
SLAIN, HE WOULD ONE DAY
BRING HIM BACK FROM THE DEAD.
00:30:13.74\00:30:21.02
THIS JESUS - THIS GOD, WHO IS
THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE -
00:30:21.02\00:30:27.82
THIS GOD, WHO IS THE FIRSTBORN
FROM THE DEAD - THIS CREATOR,
00:30:27.82\00:30:33.96
WHO HAS THE KEYS OF HADES AND
OF DEATH, HE'S THE FIRST AND THE
00:30:33.96\00:30:39.60
LAST, WHO WAS DEAD
AND HAS COME TO LIFE.
00:30:39.60\00:30:46.17
YOU KNOW, I LOVE THAT
SONG BECAUSE HE LIVES .
00:30:46.17\00:30:50.25
JOB COULD HAVE HOPE BECAUSE
THERE WAS ONE GREATER THAN ALL
00:30:50.25\00:30:55.12
OF HIS CHALLENGES THAT WAS ALIVE
AND WELL AND LOOKING AFTER JOB
00:30:55.12\00:31:00.92
IN EVERY SITUATION. JOB
COULD TRUST IN THIS GOD.
00:31:00.92\00:31:08.60
MATTER OF FACT, IN THE LESSON
- YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, IN
00:31:08.60\00:31:12.37
TUESDAY'S LESSON - I WANT TO
TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER PASSAGE IN
00:31:12.37\00:31:16.74
SCRIPTURE - IT'S 1
CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15.
00:31:16.74\00:31:19.57
PAUL TALKS ABOUT THIS IN 1
CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, VERSES
00:31:19.57\00:31:24.01
11 THROUGH 20 - 1 CORINTHIANS
CHAPTER 15, VERSES 11 THROUGH
00:31:24.01\00:31:32.39
20. HAVE YOUR BIBLES - AND I
HOPE YOU BROUGHT THEM - AND THEN
00:31:32.39\00:31:37.56
TURN TO 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER
15 - 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15,
00:31:37.56\00:31:43.47
VERSES 11 THROUGH 20. IT SAYS,
"THEREFORE, WHETHER IT WAS I OR
00:31:43.47\00:31:54.91
THEY, SO WE PREACH
AND SO YOU BELIEVED."
00:31:54.91\00:31:59.75
- VERSE 12 - "NOW, IF CHRIST IS
PREACHED THAT HE HAS BEEN RAISED
00:31:59.75\00:32:04.35
FROM THE DEAD, HOW DO SOME
AMONG YOU SAY THAT THERE IS NO
00:32:04.35\00:32:10.16
RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD?"
- NOW THIS IS INTERESTING.
00:32:10.16\00:32:13.09
SO THERE'S SOME IN THE
CORINTHIAN CHURCH, EVEN THOUGH
00:32:13.09\00:32:17.13
IT WAS BEING PREACHED THAT
CHRIST HAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD,
00:32:17.13\00:32:21.60
THERE WERE
STILL SOME WHO - WHAT?
00:32:21.60\00:32:24.27
THERE WERE STILL SOME
THAT DIDN'T BELIEVE THERE WAS A
00:32:24.27\00:32:27.38
RESURRECTION - ALMOST LIKE
THE SADDUCEES WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE
00:32:27.38\00:32:31.88
THAT THERE WAS GOING
TO BE A RESURRECTION.
00:32:31.88\00:32:35.02
VERSE 13 HE SAYS, "BUT IF THERE
IS NO RESURRECTION" - SO HE'S
00:32:35.02\00:32:38.25
LIKE, 'OKAY, LET ME TAKE THIS
THOUGHT - YOU BELIEVE THIS WAY,
00:32:38.25\00:32:42.26
LET ME TAKE THIS THOUGHT AND LET
ME SHOW YOU WHERE THIS THOUGHT
00:32:42.26\00:32:45.43
LEADS, OKAY? LET ME SHOW YOU
WHERE IT LEADS - "BUT IF THERE
00:32:45.43\00:32:49.06
IS NO RESURRECTION OF THE
DEAD, THEN CHRIST IS" - WHAT?
00:32:49.06\00:32:53.27
HE'S NOT RISEN - "AND IF CHRIST
IS NOT RISEN, THEN OUR PREACHING
00:32:53.27\00:32:59.01
IS EMPTY AND
YOUR FAITH IS" - WHAT?
00:32:59.01\00:33:01.54
>>EMPTY. >>"ALSO
EMPTY." HOW MANY OF US
00:33:01.54\00:33:04.41
WOULD WANT AN EMPTY FAITH?
THAT WOULD JUST CRUMBLE UNDER
00:33:04.41\00:33:10.19
OUR FEET UNDER THE
RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCE.
00:33:10.19\00:33:14.32
HE GOES ON - VERSE 15 - "YES,
AND WE ARE FOUND FALSE WITNESSES
00:33:14.32\00:33:18.63
OF GOD, BECAUSE WE HAVE
TESTIFIED OF GOD THAT HE RAISED
00:33:18.63\00:33:25.20
UP CHRIST," - SO NOW HE'S
SAYING, 'LISTEN, IF THERE IS NO
00:33:25.20\00:33:29.20
RESURRECTION AND WE'VE BEEN
PREACHING ABOUT RESURRECTION,
00:33:29.20\00:33:32.71
THEN THIS MAKES US TO BE'
- WHAT? 'FALSE WITNESSES AND
00:33:32.71\00:33:36.54
LIARS.' "WHOM HE DID NOT RAISE
UP" - I'M CONTINUING IN VERSE 15
00:33:36.54\00:33:46.45
- "IF IN FACT THE DEAD DO
NOT RISE. FOR IF THE DEAD DO NOT
00:33:46.45\00:33:51.59
RISE, THEN CHRIST
IS" - WHAT? - "NOT RISEN.
00:33:51.59\00:33:55.73
AND IF CHRIST IS NOT RISEN, YOUR
FAITH IS FUTILE;" - HERE IN THE
00:33:55.73\00:34:02.07
NEW KING JAMES VERSION THAT'S AN
INTERESTING WORD BECAUSE, WHEN
00:34:02.07\00:34:05.07
YOU LOOK AROUND OUR WORLD TODAY,
YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH FUTILITY
00:34:05.07\00:34:09.71
WE'RE SURROUNDED BY.
THIS PLANET AND THE SHAPE OF
00:34:09.71\00:34:15.85
THIS PLANET AND THE THINGS THAT
ARE HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD
00:34:15.85\00:34:18.85
ON THIS PLANET, SHOW US HOW
FUTILE THINGS ARE AROUND US.
00:34:18.85\00:34:25.16
THE LAST THING WE WOULD WANT
IS OUR FAITH TO BE WHAT? FUTILE
00:34:25.16\00:34:30.57
ALSO. "FOR IF THE DEAD DO NOT
RISE, THEN CHRIST IS NOT RISEN.
00:34:30.57\00:34:37.14
AND IF CHRIST IS NOT RISEN, YOUR
FAITH IS FUTILE;" - AND THEN HE
00:34:37.14\00:34:42.64
SAYS, "YOU ARE STILL" - WHAT?
- "YOU ARE STILL IN YOUR SINS!
00:34:42.64\00:34:47.85
THEN ALSO THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN
ASLEEP IN CHRIST HAVE PERISHED."
00:34:47.85\00:34:53.12
- AND THEN 19 - "IF IN THIS LIFE
ONLY WE HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST, WE
00:34:53.12\00:34:58.79
ARE OF ALL MEN
THE MOST PITIABLE."
00:34:58.79\00:35:02.76
- VERSE 20 - "BUT
NOW" - HE SAYS WHAT?
00:35:02.76\00:35:06.03
- "CHRIST IS RISEN FROM
THE DEAD, AND HAS BECOME THE
00:35:06.03\00:35:11.97
FIRSTFRUITS OF THOSE
WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP."
00:35:11.97\00:35:15.11
HE FOLLOWS THE ARGUMENT AND YOU
REALIZE THAT, WHEN YOU FOLLOW
00:35:15.11\00:35:18.18
THAT LOGICAL THINKING, THERE'S
NO HOPE - THAT PROCESS OF
00:35:18.18\00:35:23.79
THINKING - BUT PAUL COMES BACK
TO REASSURE THEM THAT THERE IS
00:35:23.79\00:35:28.56
WHAT? THAT CHRIST DID
WHAT? >>DIED AND ROSE.
00:35:28.56\00:35:31.46
>>THAT CHRIST DID RISE FROM
THE DEAD AND WE CAN BELIEVE IT.
00:35:31.46\00:35:35.16
WE CAN STAND ON
IT. WE CAN TRUST IN IT.
00:35:35.16\00:35:38.00
OUR FAITH IS NOT FUTILE. >>AMEN.
00:35:38.00\00:35:42.37
>>OUR FAITH IS
FOUNDED ON THE ROCK.
00:35:42.37\00:35:46.88
AND WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE FALLS
APART AROUND US, JUST LIKE IN
00:35:46.88\00:35:50.18
THE BOOK OF JOB, THERE
IS A HOPE THAT WE CAN HAVE.
00:35:50.18\00:35:56.65
THERE IS A HOPE THAT WE CAN LIVE
WITH - LIVE BY - LIVE FOR EACH
00:35:56.65\00:36:04.09
AND EVERY DAY THAT WE WAKE
UP - EACH AND EVERY DAY THAT
00:36:04.09\00:36:09.16
WE GO ABOUT
LIFE THERE IS A HOPE.
00:36:09.16\00:36:14.80
'IF HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I
TRUST HIM.' THERE IS A HOPE.
00:36:14.80\00:36:24.81
FROM THIS GOD - FOR THIS IS THE
GOD THAT JOB GATHERS HIS HOPE
00:36:24.81\00:36:31.29
FROM AS HE, BY FAITH,
CLINGS TO HIM AND HIS PROMISES.
00:36:31.29\00:36:39.16
SO I HAVE TO ASK MYSELF - WHEN
I LOOK AT JOB AND WHEN I LOOK AT
00:36:39.16\00:36:43.26
JOB'S HOPE AND I LOOK AT THE
FACT THAT JOB IS CLINGING, IN
00:36:43.26\00:36:46.37
THIS CHALLENGE, TO THE FACT -
THE REAL TRUTH THAT JESUS CHRIST
00:36:46.37\00:36:50.91
IS COMING AGAIN - THAT GOD HAS
THE ABILITY - GOD HAS PROMISED
00:36:50.91\00:36:55.44
TO RAISE US FROM THE
DEAD. I HAVE TO ASK MYSELF,
00:36:55.44\00:36:58.85
IS THAT MY HOPE? >>AMEN.
00:36:58.85\00:37:03.49
>>DO I CLING TO THAT SAME THING
EACH AND EVERY DAY THAT I LIVE?
00:37:03.49\00:37:10.43
DO I HAVE THIS SAME HOPE, NO
MATTER WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MY
00:37:10.43\00:37:14.40
LIFE? AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR
00:37:14.40\00:37:16.26
CHALLENGES ARE - YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT MY CHALLENGES ARE, BUT WE
00:37:16.26\00:37:19.70
HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES IS
THIS HOPE REAL FOR US, JUST
00:37:19.70\00:37:24.21
AS IT WAS REAL FOR JOB?
CAN WE SAY THE EXACT SAME THING
00:37:24.21\00:37:30.25
AS JOB SAID IN OUR MEMORY VERSE?
'HE ALSO SHALL BE MY' - WHAT?
00:37:30.25\00:37:36.48
MY SALVATION - 'AND EVEN IF
HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I' - WHAT?
00:37:36.48\00:37:41.59
>>TRUST HIM.
>>TRUST HIM. TRUST HIM.
00:37:41.59\00:37:47.66
CAN WE SAY THE SAME THING AS JOB
SAID? YOU KNOW, I WANT TO READ A
00:37:47.66\00:37:52.73
PASSAGE FROM THE LESSON.
IT'S A POWERFUL STATEMENT,
00:37:52.73\00:37:56.50
ACTUALLY, IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE LESSON.
00:37:56.50\00:37:59.11
IT SAYS, 'THE RICHES OF THE
GRACE OF CHRIST MUST BE KEPT
00:37:59.11\00:38:03.95
BEFORE THE MIND.' WHAT DO WE
NEED TO KEEP BEFORE THE MIND?
00:38:03.95\00:38:09.12
THE RICHES OF
THE GRACE OF CHRIST.
00:38:09.12\00:38:13.62
YOU KNOW, WHERE THERE'S SIN -
WHERE SIN ABOUNDS - WE'RE TOLD
00:38:13.62\00:38:16.99
IN ROMANS -
GRACE DOES MUCH - WHAT?
00:38:16.99\00:38:19.76
- MORE ABOUND. AND
THIS GRACE, WE MUST
00:38:19.76\00:38:22.96
EVER KEEP BEFORE OUR
MINDS. TREASURE UP THE LESSONS
00:38:22.96\00:38:27.94
THAT HIS LOVE PROVIDES.
LET YOUR FAITH BE LIKE JOB'S.
00:38:27.94\00:38:34.88
LET YOUR FAITH BE LIKE JOB'S
THAT YOU MAY DECLARE - THAT YOU
00:38:34.88\00:38:39.91
MAY SHOW PLAINLY - 'THOUGH
HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN
00:38:39.91\00:38:44.69
HIM.' LAY HOLD ON THE PROMISES
OF YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.' LAY
00:38:44.69\00:38:49.02
HOLD ON WHAT? THE PROMISES
OF YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.
00:38:49.02\00:38:53.16
YOU KNOW, PETER TALKS ABOUT
THESE PROMISES QUITE OFTEN AND
00:38:53.16\00:38:58.67
PETER, HIMSELF, WENT THROUGH
AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE WHEN HE
00:38:58.67\00:39:02.50
WAS CRUCIFIED -
WHAT? - UPSIDE DOWN.
00:39:02.50\00:39:06.64
YET HE CLUNG TO
THE PROMISES OF GOD.
00:39:06.64\00:39:10.81
THOSE PROMISES ARE
TRUE AND THEY GAVE HIM HOPE.
00:39:10.81\00:39:15.65
'THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL
I TRUST HIM.' LAY HOLD ON THE
00:39:15.65\00:39:18.62
PROMISES OF YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER
AND REMEMBER HIS FORMER DEALINGS
00:39:18.62\00:39:23.66
WITH YOU AND WITH HIS SERVANTS.
'FOR ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER
00:39:23.66\00:39:28.40
FOR' - AND WE COULD
QUOTE THIS BY MEMORY, RIGHT?
00:39:28.40\00:39:30.87
- 'FOR ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER
FOR GOOD FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GOD
00:39:30.87\00:39:35.54
AND ARE THE CALLED
ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.'
00:39:35.54\00:39:39.94
POWERFUL PASSAGE - POWERFUL
STATEMENT FROM THE ADVENT REVIEW
00:39:39.94\00:39:44.05
AND SABBATH HERALD -
JUST CLING TO THE PROMISES.
00:39:44.05\00:39:49.68
YOU KNOW, IF YOU TURN WITH ME TO
HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, THIS IS WHAT
00:39:49.68\00:39:54.86
ALL THESE MEN AND
WOMEN OF FAITH DID.
00:39:54.86\00:40:00.13
AND I KNOW OUR FOCUS IS JOB, BUT
YOU CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ABOUT
00:40:00.13\00:40:03.57
ALL THE OTHER MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE BIBLE THAT HAD THE SAME
00:40:03.57\00:40:07.07
FAITH AND HAD THE
SAME HOPE THAT JOB HAD.
00:40:07.07\00:40:13.44
HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 - AND I
JUST WANT TO READ A FEW VERSES,
00:40:13.44\00:40:17.31
STARTING WITH VERSE 13, BECAUSE
JOB SAYS 'THOUGH YOU SLAY ME,
00:40:17.31\00:40:23.65
YET WILL I' - WHAT?
'YET WILL I TRUST YOU.' NOW
00:40:23.65\00:40:27.62
NOTICE, IN VERSE 13 OF
HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, IT SAYS,
00:40:27.62\00:40:31.19
"THESE ALL DIED
IN" - WHAT? >>FAITH.
00:40:31.19\00:40:35.60
>>"IN FAITH, NOT HAVING RECEIVED
THE PROMISES, BUT HAVING SEEN
00:40:35.60\00:40:42.20
THEM AFAR OFF WERE
ASSURED OF THEM, EMBRACED THEM."
00:40:42.20\00:40:48.54
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY FOLDED THE
PROMISES IN THEIR OWN HANDS -
00:40:48.54\00:40:52.71
THESE PROMISES THAT GOD SPEAKS
ARE NOT JUST WORDS ON A PIECE OF
00:40:52.71\00:40:56.85
PAPER, BUT
THEY'RE ACTUALLY MINE.
00:40:56.85\00:40:59.35
THEY WERE MEANT FOR ME.
THEY WERE MEANT FOR YOU.
00:40:59.35\00:41:02.46
THEY WERE MEANT FOR ALL OF
US. THEY WERE MEANT FOR JOB. -
00:41:02.46\00:41:09.43
"...BUT HAVING SEEN THEM
AFAR OFF WERE ASSURED OF THEM,
00:41:09.43\00:41:12.13
EMBRACED THEM AND CONFESSED THAT
THEY WERE STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS
00:41:12.13\00:41:15.44
ON THE EARTH. FOR
THOSE WHO SAY SUCH THINGS
00:41:15.44\00:41:19.41
DECLARE PLAINLY THAT
THEY SEEK A HOMELAND."
00:41:19.41\00:41:24.01
YOU KNOW, JOB WASN'T SO
CONCERNED ABOUT HIS EARTHLY
00:41:24.01\00:41:28.95
HOME. JOB HAD
MUCH BIGGER THINGS ON
00:41:28.95\00:41:33.82
HIS MIND AS HE'S GOING THROUGH
THIS CHALLENGE. IT AFFECTED HIM;
00:41:33.82\00:41:38.23
THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT
IT. WHO WOULDN'T IT AFFECT?
00:41:38.23\00:41:41.66
YOU LOSE EVERYTHING - YOU LOSE
EVERYTHING AND, YET, THE FRIENDS
00:41:41.66\00:41:47.17
WHO WERE CLOSEST TO YOU ARE
BEING INFLUENCED TO SPEAK ABOUT
00:41:47.17\00:41:52.94
GOD DIFFERENTLY
THAN HE ACTUALLY IS.
00:41:52.94\00:41:55.88
YOU HAVE ALL OF THAT GOING ON
AROUND YOU, ALL OF US WOULD BE
00:41:55.88\00:42:00.52
AFFECTED IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER,
YET JOB CLINGS TO THAT HOPE
00:42:00.52\00:42:07.89
KNOWING THAT GOD
HAS GREATER PLANS.
00:42:07.89\00:42:11.86
WHY? BECAUSE
EVEN IF YOU SLAY ME -
00:42:11.86\00:42:13.43
EVEN IF I DIE -
YOU'LL RESURRECT ME. WHY?
00:42:13.43\00:42:16.13
BECAUSE YOU'VE PROMISED A
NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, THAT
00:42:16.13\00:42:21.64
EVENTUALLY THESE CHALLENGES WILL
PASS AND I WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY
00:42:21.64\00:42:28.78
MY TIME WITH YOU FOR ETERNITY
IN A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.
00:42:28.78\00:42:36.15
2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 13
- THE LESSON BRINGS THIS OUT,
00:42:36.15\00:42:39.29
RIGHT IN THE VERY BEGINNING,
THAT GOD HAS PROMISED THAT THERE
00:42:39.29\00:42:43.19
WILL BE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW
EARTH AND THESE MEN AND WOMEN OF
00:42:43.19\00:42:46.43
FAITH, JUST LIKE JOB, CLUNG TO
THOSE PROMISES AND THEY DIED IN
00:42:46.43\00:42:50.93
FAITH - BUT THEY DIED TRUSTING
IN THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO
00:42:50.93\00:42:56.34
FULFILL EVERY PROMISE THAT HE
MADE. I LOVE GOD FOR THAT VERY
00:42:56.34\00:43:02.34
REASON. WHEN GOD SAYS
SOMETHING HE WHAT? HE DOES IT.
00:43:02.34\00:43:06.72
WHEN GOD MAKES A PROMISE,
GOD FULFILLS THAT PROMISE.
00:43:06.72\00:43:12.95
WHEN GOD STARTS A WORK, HE'S
GOING TO COMPLETE THAT WORK.
00:43:12.95\00:43:17.53
GOD DOESN'T, YOU
KNOW, LEAVE ANY LOOSE ENDS.
00:43:17.53\00:43:22.83
AND GOD PROMISES A NEW
HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.
00:43:22.83\00:43:25.20
VERSES 15 AND 16 IS WHERE I'LL
FINISH - HERE IN HEBREWS CHAPTER
00:43:25.20\00:43:28.44
11, "AND TRULY IF THEY HAD
CALLED TO MIND THAT COUNTRY FROM
00:43:28.44\00:43:33.54
WHICH THEY HAD COME OUT, THEY
WOULD HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO
00:43:33.54\00:43:36.61
RETURN. BUT" - VERSE 16 - "NOW
00:43:36.61\00:43:40.02
THEY DESIRE A" - WHAT? - "THEY
DESIRE A BETTER...COUNTRY."
00:43:40.02\00:43:44.29
WHAT A HOPE - A HOPE THAT WILL
ENCOURAGE EACH OF US TO DESIRE
00:43:44.29\00:43:48.89
SOMETHING BETTER THAN WHAT
WE CURRENTLY HAVE. ISN'T - DON'T
00:43:48.89\00:43:54.23
ALL OF US WANT SOMETHING BETTER
THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE?
00:43:54.23\00:43:59.10
YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THE - EVERY
YEAR OR EVERY FOUR YEARS, YOU
00:43:59.10\00:44:02.70
KNOW, THE ELECTION CYCLE
EVERYBODY WANTS SOMETHING BETTER
00:44:02.70\00:44:06.11
THAN THEY'VE HAD BEFORE AND I'M
NOT TALK - I'M NOT GETTING INTO
00:44:06.11\00:44:08.38
POLITICS, BUT WE
ALWAYS WANT SOMETHING BETTER.
00:44:08.38\00:44:11.25
WE'RE ALWAYS
DESIRING SOMETHING BETTER.
00:44:11.25\00:44:13.31
WE LOVE NEW THINGS. HOW
MANY OF YOU LIKE NEW THINGS?
00:44:13.31\00:44:17.22
LET'S BE HONEST.
HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE
00:44:17.22\00:44:19.59
NEW THINGS, OKAY?
WE ALL LIKE NEW THINGS.
00:44:19.59\00:44:23.09
NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN
AFFORD ALL NEW THINGS, BUT WE
00:44:23.09\00:44:27.00
LIKE NEW THINGS. MY
CHILDREN LOVE NEW THINGS.
00:44:27.00\00:44:30.77
MATTER OF FACT, EVERY STORE WE
GO INTO IT'S 'DAD, I WANT THIS.'
00:44:30.77\00:44:36.74
'DAD, I WANT THAT.' 'I
WANT THIS.' 'I WANT THAT.' AND,
00:44:36.74\00:44:40.88
SERIOUSLY, IF I COULD BUY
THE WHOLE STORE, THEY'D LOVE ME
00:44:40.88\00:44:44.11
FOREVER, BUT I HAVE TO TELL THEM
WE CAN'T - I CAN'T BUY THAT.
00:44:44.11\00:44:49.72
BUT THEY LOVE NEW
THINGS. WE ALL LOVE NEW THINGS.
00:44:49.72\00:44:54.89
AND WHAT BETTER THING TO
LOVE THAN A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW
00:44:54.89\00:44:59.03
EARTH? >>AMEN.
00:44:59.03\00:45:01.33
>>THAT SHOULD TOP ALL
OF OUR LIST OF NEW THINGS.
00:45:01.33\00:45:04.40
THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD DESIRE.
THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD CLING TO.
00:45:04.40\00:45:08.54
THIS IS WHAT WE
SHOULD HOLD ONTO.
00:45:08.54\00:45:10.74
THIS IS WHAT JOB CLUNG TO.
AND, FRIENDS, GUESS WHO WE'RE
00:45:10.74\00:45:14.71
GOING TO SEE IN HEAVEN ONE
DAY. WE'RE GOING TO SEE JOB.
00:45:14.71\00:45:19.51
AT ONE POINT, HIS LIFE DID HAVE
TO COME TO AN END, BUT IT CAME
00:45:19.51\00:45:24.39
TO AN END TRUSTING: 'THESE
ALL DIED IN FAITH, NOT HAVING
00:45:24.39\00:45:28.32
RECEIVED THE PROMISES,
BUT THEY SAW THEM AFAR OFF.'
00:45:28.32\00:45:31.99
IT'S AMAZING WHAT
FAITH, BY THE WAY, CAN SEE.
00:45:31.99\00:45:35.60
IT'S AMAZING WHAT FAITH CAN SEE.
IT SEES THROUGH OUR CHALLENGES,
00:45:35.60\00:45:39.70
IT SEES THROUGH OUR TRIALS,
IT SEES THROUGH OUR CONFLICTS.
00:45:39.70\00:45:43.47
JOB SAW IT. JOB CLUNG
TO IT. JOB HUNG ONTO IT.
00:45:43.47\00:45:48.51
SO THEY DESIRE
WHAT? "A BETTER, THAT IS,
00:45:48.51\00:45:50.78
A HEAVENLY COUNTRY.
THEREFORE GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO
00:45:50.78\00:45:54.42
BE CALLED THEIR GOD FOR HE
HAS" - WHAT? - "HE HAS PREPARED
00:45:54.42\00:45:59.02
A CITY FOR THEM." A CITY. WHAT
A HOPE. WHAT A HOPE THAT WE KNOW
00:45:59.02\00:46:09.10
THAT, EVEN IN THIS LIFE, IF IT
SHALL PASS, THERE'S A BETTER ONE
00:46:09.10\00:46:15.07
JUST OVER THE HORIZON. >>AMEN.
00:46:15.07\00:46:17.97
THERE'S A BETTER LAND
JUST OVER THE HORIZON.
00:46:17.97\00:46:24.58
AS A MATTER OF FACT, IN
WEDNESDAY'S LESSON, THIS HOPE
00:46:24.58\00:46:31.59
THAT JOB HAS, WAS ALWAYS GOD'S
PLAN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
00:46:31.59\00:46:40.56
GOD'S DESIRE FOR
US WAS TO EXPERIENCE.
00:46:40.56\00:46:45.70
HE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO
HAPPEN. HE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING
00:46:45.70\00:46:49.37
TO TAKE PLACE, AND HE
HAD PLANNED IN ADVANCE.
00:46:49.37\00:46:54.71
WE READ IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1,
VERSE 4, "JUST AS HE CHOSE US IN
00:46:54.71\00:46:58.65
HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY
00:46:58.65\00:47:02.45
AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM
IN LOVE," - NOTICE - "JUST AS HE
00:47:02.45\00:47:07.09
CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE
FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD," -
00:47:07.09\00:47:11.89
THINK ABOUT THAT. GOD HAD
THIS PLAN ALL ALONG THE WAY.
00:47:11.89\00:47:20.50
TITUS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2 - WE
READ: "IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE
00:47:20.50\00:47:26.91
WHICH GOD, WHO CANNOT LIE,
PROMISED BEFORE TIME BEGAN," -
00:47:26.91\00:47:36.02
BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
GOD HAD THIS HOPE FOR YOU.
00:47:36.02\00:47:41.52
HE HAD THIS HOPE FOR ME -
HAD THIS HOPE FOR ALL OF US
00:47:41.52\00:47:45.33
BEFORE THE WORLD
WAS EVEN CREATED.
00:47:45.33\00:47:49.13
BEFORE YOU AND I WERE BORN -
BEFORE OUR CHILDREN WERE BORN -
00:47:49.13\00:47:53.60
BEFORE OUR GRANDCHILDREN WERE
BORN - THIS HOPE HAS - BEFORE
00:47:53.60\00:47:58.54
THE WORLD WAS EVEN
CREATED - WAS TO BE OURS.
00:47:58.54\00:48:02.98
AND THEN, IN 2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER
1, VERSES 8 AND 9, THE LESSON
00:48:02.98\00:48:07.18
BRINGS THESE PASSAGES OUT IN
WEDNESDAY'S LESSON, "THEREFORE
00:48:07.18\00:48:10.92
DO NOT BE ASHAMED OF THE
TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD, NOR OF ME
00:48:10.92\00:48:15.99
HIS PRISONER, BUT SHARE WITH
ME IN THE SUFFERINGS FOR THE
00:48:15.99\00:48:20.23
GOSPEL" - INTERESTING - SHARE
WITH ME IN THE SUFFERINGS -
00:48:20.23\00:48:24.03
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JOB, RIGHT?
00:48:24.03\00:48:25.53
JOB WENT THROUGH
A LOT OF SUFFERING.
00:48:25.53\00:48:27.50
HE SAYS, "SHARE WITH ME IN
THE SUFFERINGS FOR THE GOSPEL
00:48:27.50\00:48:31.67
ACCORDING TO THE POWER OF GOD,
WHO HAS SAVED US AND CALLED US
00:48:31.67\00:48:39.68
WITH A HOLY CALLING, NOT
ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS, BUT
00:48:39.68\00:48:43.28
ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND
GRACE WHICH WAS GIVEN TO US IN
00:48:43.28\00:48:48.89
CHRIST JESUS BEFORE TIME BEGAN."
THIS HOPE IN CHRIST JESUS WAS
00:48:48.89\00:48:58.60
GOD'S PLAN FOR US
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
00:48:58.60\00:49:03.91
HIS CONCEPTION OF THIS WORLD AND
THE CREATION OF THIS WORLD - GOD
00:49:03.91\00:49:08.08
HAD HOPE FOR US ON HIS MIND AND
THAT'S WHY JOB CAN SAY HE ALSO
00:49:08.08\00:49:16.92
SHALL BE MY
SALVATION. HE HAS A PLAN FOR ME.
00:49:16.92\00:49:22.96
HE HAS A PLAN THAT GOES BEYOND
WHAT I'M CURRENTLY FACED WITH -
00:49:22.96\00:49:29.00
THAT GOES BEYOND EVEN ME.
FOR THE SAKE OF TIME WE CAN'T
00:49:29.00\00:49:34.64
GET INTO - REALLY INTO ALL THE
THINGS IN THURSDAY'S LESSON, BUT
00:49:34.64\00:49:37.97
I WANT TO ENCOURAGE
YOU TO GO BACK TO IT.
00:49:37.97\00:49:40.88
IT'S IMAGES OF HOPE - YOU KNOW,
THE BIBLE IS BRIMMING WITH ALL
00:49:40.88\00:49:45.25
OF THESE PROMISES THAT GOD GIVES
US AND ALL OF THESE PROMISES,
00:49:45.25\00:49:50.02
WHEN TRULY
EMBRACED, FILL US WITH HOPE.
00:49:50.02\00:49:54.09
AND IN THIS TIME, IN THIS
WORLD'S HISTORY, WE HAVE HOPE,
00:49:54.09\00:49:59.53
WE NEED HOPE, AND WE CAN EMBRACE
HOPE BECAUSE WE'RE CLINGING TO
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THE AUTHOR OF
HOPE AND THAT'S GOD.
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THAT'S CHRIST.
THAT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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IN JOHN CHAPTER 16 - JUMPING TO
THE VERY END - IN JOHN CHAPTER
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16, VERSE 33 - WE'LL
READ IT FROM OUR BIBLES.
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I LOVE THIS INCREDIBLE PASSAGE -
CHRIST'S WORDS TO US - TAKE HOLD
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OF THEM TODAY.
TAKE HOLD OF THEM.
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JOHN CHAPTER 16, VERSE 33 - JOHN
CHAPTER 16, VERSE 33, "THESE
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THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU,
THAT IN ME YOU MAY HAVE" - WHAT?
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>>PEACE. >>PEACE.
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IN ME - NOT IN THE WORLD,
BUT IN ME, YOU MAY HAVE PEACE.
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- "IN THE WORLD YOU WILL
HAVE" - WHAT? TRIBULATION.
00:50:59.15\00:51:03.46
JOB TEACHES US THAT, THAT IN
THIS WORLD WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
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TRIBULATION BUT THEN HE SAYS,
"BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER, I HAVE" -
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WHAT? HE SAYS - >>OVERCOME.
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>>"I HAVE OVERCOME THE
WORLD." BE OF GOOD CHEER.
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THERE IS HOPE
FOR EACH ONE OF US.
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EVEN IN THE MIDST
OF TRIBULATION - WHY?
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BECAUSE JESUS SAYS, 'I
HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.
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I CAN GIVE YOU THE
ABILITY. I CAN GIVE YOU THE
00:51:29.92\00:51:33.19
GRACE THAT YOU NEED.
I'VE PROMISED A BETTER LAND.
00:51:33.19\00:51:37.99
I'VE PROMISED A NEW HEAVEN AND A
NEW EARTH.' AND ONE DAY - AND I
00:51:37.99\00:51:42.40
BELIEVE SOON - WE'RE GOING
TO SEE THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT
00:51:42.40\00:51:45.33
PROMISE, SO HANG ON. THOUGH
HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I WHAT?
00:51:45.33\00:51:52.71
>>TRUST HIM. >>TRUST HIM.
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DRAW CLOSE TO THAT: THOUGH HE
SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM.
00:51:54.81\00:52:01.72
AND BELIEVE ME, WE CAN
TRULY, FULLY TRUST HIM.
00:52:01.72\00:52:08.89
WE CAN TRUST
HIM WITH EVERYTHING.
00:52:08.89\00:52:12.06
I WAS ENCOURAGED BY THIS STUDY
IN JOB AND I HOPE THAT YOU ALSO
00:52:12.06\00:52:16.36
ARE ENCOURAGED BY THIS
STUDY. LET'S HAVE A WORD
00:52:16.36\00:52:21.64
OF PRAYER TOGETHER.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU
00:52:21.64\00:52:26.68
SO MUCH FOR YOUR MANY BLESSINGS.
AND LORD, WE KNOW THAT JOB WAS
00:52:26.68\00:52:32.01
SURROUNDED BY
SUFFERING AND TRIAL.
00:52:32.01\00:52:35.22
HIS FRIENDS WERE BEING
INFLUENCED AND YET HE CLUNG TO
00:52:35.22\00:52:39.92
YOU, WHO HAD PROMISED HIM A NEW
HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH THAT HAD
00:52:39.92\00:52:46.16
PROMISED HIM A
RESURRECTION AND THAT FULFILLS -
00:52:46.16\00:52:51.50
LORD, YOU FULFILL YOUR PROMISES.
00:52:51.50\00:52:53.84
MAY WE LEAVE HERE WITH HOPE,
KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE BETTER
00:52:53.84\00:52:59.57
THINGS FOR US AND MAY WE CLING
TO THAT HOPE - THAT FAITH -
00:52:59.57\00:53:04.35
THOSE PROMISES THAT YOU'VE GIVEN
TO US ON A REGULAR BASIS - TO
00:53:04.35\00:53:09.08
CHALLENGE US, TO ENCOURAGE
US, TO LIFT US UP CLOSER TO YOU.
00:53:09.08\00:53:13.32
WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS
TIME THAT WE'VE HAD TO STUDY
00:53:13.32\00:53:15.92
YOUR WORD TOGETHER. WE
THANK YOU FOR THE BOOK OF JOB
00:53:15.92\00:53:18.96
AND FOR THE LESSONS THAT TRULY
COME FORTH FROM IT AS WE STUDY
00:53:18.96\00:53:23.60
TOGETHER AND AS WE
STUDY INDIVIDUALLY.
00:53:23.60\00:53:26.40
FOR WE THANK YOU AND PRAISE
YOU. IN JESUS' PRECIOUS AND
00:53:26.40\00:53:29.64
HOLY NAME WE PRAY, AMEN. >>AMEN.
00:53:29.64\00:53:33.91
>>AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO COME
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MAY GOD BLESS
YOU THIS SABBATH DAY.
00:53:57.97\00:54:02.60
(MUSIC) >>AMAZING
FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
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>>WELL, MY CONVERSION STORY IS
WHEN I WAS IN THE PHILIPPINES I
00:54:13.15\00:54:18.82
JUST GRADUATED AS A NURSE AND
AFTERWARDS I DID NOT HAVE ANY
00:54:18.82\00:54:23.96
RELIGION AND ONE TIME I FOUND
MYSELF INSIDE A SMALL CHURCH -
00:54:23.96\00:54:29.60
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN
MANILLA AND BEFORE A BIG CROSS.
00:54:29.60\00:54:35.97
AND I WAS KNEELING BEFORE AND
I COULD HEAR JESUS TELLING ME TO
00:54:35.97\00:54:41.38
ENTER THE CONVENT - SAVE
MYSELF AND ALSO MY FAMILY.
00:54:41.38\00:54:46.28
AND I SAID, 'LORD, I WOULD LIKE
TO FOLLOW YOU ALL THE WAY.' AT
00:54:46.28\00:54:49.28
THAT POINT, I SEEMED TO BE HAPPY
EXTERNALLY BUT, BECAUSE INSIDE
00:54:49.28\00:54:54.36
THE CONVENT WE DON'T READ OUR
BIBLE - WE DON'T STUDY ABOUT THE
00:54:54.36\00:54:58.33
WORD OF GOD. WE
PRAY THE ROSARIES.
00:54:58.33\00:55:02.03
WE ALSO, AT THE SAME TIME, STUDY
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS AND ALSO
00:55:02.03\00:55:06.20
OUR FOUNDERS AND THE ENCYCLICALS
OF THE POPE AND THE VIRGIN MARY.
00:55:06.20\00:55:12.34
AND SO I DO NOT KNOW THE
TRUTH AND I HAD THIS TORTURE OF
00:55:12.34\00:55:15.54
CONSCIENCE - THE GUILTY FEELINGS
THAT CANNOT BE RESOLVED.
00:55:15.54\00:55:20.42
SO I WOULD CONFESS TO THE PRIEST
IN THE CONFESSIONAL BOX SAYING,
00:55:20.42\00:55:24.19
'FATHER FORGIVE ME.
SINCE - MY LAST CONFESSION WAS
00:55:24.19\00:55:27.92
LAST WEEK - SINCE THEN I HAVE
COMMITTED THE FOLLOWING SIN,
00:55:27.92\00:55:32.13
INCLUDING THE ROOT CAUSE, WHY
AM I FALLING AND FALLING IN THAT
00:55:32.13\00:55:35.13
SAME SIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN?'
AND STILL, FOR 21 LONG YEARS, I
00:55:35.13\00:55:42.47
STRUGGLE AND I
STRUGGLE AND I STRUGGLE.
00:55:42.47\00:55:46.37
I REALIZED THAT I
WAS TOTALLY EMPTY.
00:55:46.37\00:55:49.91
I WAS TOTALLY HELPLESS AND
HOPELESS AND SO DEPRESSED AND SO
00:55:49.91\00:55:54.72
DESPERATE THAT I WOULD
LIKE ALREADY TO END MY LIFE.
00:55:54.72\00:55:59.35
I WAS WORKING FOR FIVE YEARS AS
DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT
00:55:59.35\00:56:03.89
AUGUSTINE COLLEGE OF
NURSING IN ILOILO CITY ON
00:56:03.89\00:56:07.50
ONE OF THE ISLANDS
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
00:56:07.50\00:56:10.40
AFTER FIVE YEARS I RECEIVE
MY COMMISSION FROM MY PARENTS TO
00:56:10.40\00:56:15.87
HELP MY SISTER WHO IS
BEING A BATTERED WOMAN.
00:56:15.87\00:56:20.18
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY
I CAME OVER TO UNITED STATES, IT
00:56:20.18\00:56:25.38
IS BECAUSE MY SISTER NEEDS
MY HELP. AS I WAS WORKING IN THE
00:56:25.38\00:56:30.39
HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK, MY BOSS
SERAPHIN, HE WAS SO GRACIOUS
00:56:30.39\00:56:33.92
ENOUGH TO GIVE ME AN INVITATION
TO THE MILLENNIUM PROPHECY.
00:56:33.92\00:56:38.93
AS I WAS LISTENING TO PASTOR
DOUG BATCHELOR'S PRESENTATION,
00:56:38.93\00:56:43.40
MY HEART REALLY WAS BEATING SO
FAST AND MY MIND - I'M ABLE TO
00:56:43.40\00:56:48.80
GRASP THE TRUTH THAT THIS IS THE
TRUTH THAT I'VE BEEN LONGING TO
00:56:48.80\00:56:54.48
HEAR ALL MY LIFE - THAT
I'VE BEEN SEEKING FOR SO LONG.
00:56:54.48\00:56:59.95
MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH
JESUS - I CAN SEE JESUS AS MY
00:56:59.95\00:57:04.79
PERSONAL SAVIOR. HE
IS NOT ONLY THE SAVIOR OF
00:57:04.79\00:57:08.49
THE WHOLE WORLD, BUT
HE IS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR.
00:57:08.49\00:57:12.96
HE WAS THE ONE WHO DELIVERED ME
MIGHTILY FROM THE DEPTHS OF SIN
00:57:12.96\00:57:18.87
- FROM THE MIREY CLAY.
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR HAS
00:57:18.87\00:57:22.44
BEEN USED BY THE
LORD IN MY CONVERSION.
00:57:22.44\00:57:25.87
THE AMAZING FACTS I OWE TO THEM.
THE LORD REALLY BLESSED THIS
00:57:25.87\00:57:31.51
MINISTRY AND I'M SO
PROUD I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND THIS
00:57:31.51\00:57:36.38
MILLENNIUM PROPHECY. MY
LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME.
00:57:36.38\00:57:40.09
IT HAS GIVEN ME THAT PEACE
- THAT JOY THAT NEVER - I HAVE
00:57:40.09\00:57:46.23
NEVER TASTED IN MY LIFE AND NOW
I'M SET FREE TO BE ABLE TO WORK
00:57:46.23\00:57:52.70
FOR HIM AND TO
FOLLOW HIM. (MUSIC)
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