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00:34 >>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS. WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL 00:37 STUDY HOUR - A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR NATIONAL AND 00:39 INTERNATIONAL VIEWERS JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND 00:43 THE WORLD DURING OUR STUDY TIME TOGETHER. 00:46 NOW, WE HAVE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH THE BOOK OF JOB. 00:49 TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #9 ENTITLED INTIMATIONS 00:53 OF HOPE . AND, FOR THOSE WHO ARE JOINING 00:55 US ONLINE, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO STUDY ALONG WITH US, JUST GO TO 00:58 THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - YOU CAN 01:03 DOWNLOAD LESSON #9 AND STUDY ALONG. 01:06 A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THE MEMBERS AND OUR VISITORS HERE AT 01:09 THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH - ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU SABBATH AFTER 01:11 SABBATH, HERE BRIGHT AND EARLY, READY TO STUDY TOGETHER. 01:14 NOW, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR STUDY 01:18 TODAY AND, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING IN NORTH 01:20 AMERICA, A BOOK ENTITLED FROM STRESS TO JOY AND THIS IS FREE 01:25 IF YOU CALL OUR RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER AND JUST ASK FOR OFFER 01:28 #705. THE PHONE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966. 01:34 AGAIN, THAT'S 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #705 AND 01:41 WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU THE BOOK FROM STRESS TO JOY . 01:44 THOSE OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA JUST GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS 01:47 WEBSITE; YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE BOOK AND STUDY ALONG WITH US. 01:51 WELL, BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY TODAY, AS WE NORMALLY DO, WE'D 01:54 LIKE TO BEGIN BY LIFTING OUR VOICES IN SONG. 01:57 I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME AND THEY'LL LEAD 01:59 US IN OUR PRAISE TODAY. (SOFT PIANO MUSIC) 02:05 >>GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY SABBATH. 02:07 WHAT A BLESSING IT IS THAT WE CAN WORSHIP OUR LORD AND PRAISE 02:10 HIM EVERY SABBATH MORNING AS WE GATHER TOGETHER. 02:13 LET'S SING HYMN #8 - WE GATHER TOGETHER - WE JOIN - PLEASE JOIN 02:17 WITH US AND SING ALL THREE VERSES. (PIANO MUSIC) 04:01 >>WE CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THE TIME WHEN JESUS COMES 04:03 BACK IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY, BUT UNTIL THEN WE ASK HIM TO BE WITH 04:08 US IN OUR HEARTS - TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS AND OUR FEARS AND TO 04:12 GIVE US REST IN HIM. LET'S JOIN TOGETHER AND SING 04:17 COME, THOU LONG EXPECTED JESUS - HYMN #204. (PIANO MUSIC) 06:18 >>THANK YOU FOR SINGING WITH US THIS MORNING. 06:27 >>I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS AS WE OPEN WITH A 06:30 WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER, WHAT A PRIVILEGE, 06:32 ONCE AGAIN, TO BE ABLE TO GATHER TOGETHER IN YOUR HOUSE TO OPEN 06:35 UP YOUR WORD AND STUDY ABOUT THE STORY OF JOB AND LEARN THESE 06:39 IMPORTANT LESSONS ABOUT THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, YOUR CARE FOR 06:42 US, AND HOW YOU CAN SUSTAIN US THROUGH EVERY TRIAL AND 06:45 DIFFICULTY. SO BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER, FOR 06:48 WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. OUR LESSON TODAY WILL BE 06:53 BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR MARSHALL MCKENZIE. 06:55 PASTOR MARSHALL IS NEW TO THE SACRAMENTO AREA. 06:59 HE RECENTLY JOINED THE AMAZING FACTS TEAM. 07:02 HE IS OUR PUBLISHING DIRECTOR AND WE ARE JUST DELIGHTED THAT 07:05 HE WILL BE SHARING WITH US THIS MORNING. 07:07 THANK YOU, MARSHALL. >>GOOD MORNING 07:15 AND HAPPY SABBATH. >>HAPPY SABBATH. 07:17 >>I WAS THOROUGHLY ENCOURAGED BY THE LESSON THIS WEEK. 07:22 YOU KNOW, AS WE LIVE LIFE FROM DAY TO DAY, IT'S AMAZING HOW 07:26 DOWN WE CAN GET BECAUSE OF ALL THE THINGS WE SEE HAPPENING 07:29 AROUND US. AND IN THE BOOK OF JOB, THIS WEEK, IS ALL ABOUT 07:33 HOPE. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FROM SUFFERING TO HOPE IN THIS WEEK'S 07:39 LESSON. AND I WAS THOROUGHLY ENCOURAGED BY THAT AND I WAS 07:42 ALSO REMINDED OF THAT THIS MORNING. 07:45 WHEN I ACTUALLY CAME INTO CHURCH, I DIDN'T HAVE MY - SOME 07:49 OF MY NOTES PRINTED OUT AND I WAS SCRAMBLING AROUND TO FIND A 07:53 PRINTER AND I TALKED TO ONE PERSON WHO DIDN'T THINK THAT 07:56 THERE WAS A PRINTER ACTUALLY HERE AND I THOUGHT, 'OH NO, 08:01 LORD, I NEED TO GET MY NOTES.' AND THEN I FOUND THE RIGHT 08:04 PERSON. YOU KNOW, IT'S AMAZING WHAT 08:05 HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND THE RIGHT PERSON. 08:08 AND THAT PERSON REMINDED ME THAT THERE IS HOPE AND THEY PROCEEDED 08:14 TO PRINT OFF SOME OF THE NOTES FROM THIS WEEK'S LESSON AS WE GO 08:17 THROUGH IT. AND I WAS REMINDED, 'MARSHALL, 08:20 EVEN IN CHALLENGE THERE'S STILL' - WHAT? - 'HOPE.' IN 08:23 SUFFERING THERE'S STILL HOPE. IN TRIAL THERE'S STILL HOPE. 08:28 AND AS WE STUDY THIS LESSON, THAT'S WHAT JOB REALLY HELPS US 08:33 TO UNDERSTAND: NOT JUST THE SUFFERING THAT HE WENT THROUGH, 08:36 BUT THE HOPE THAT HE HAD WHILE HE WAS GOING THROUGH IT. 08:41 AND SO, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FROM SUFFERING TOWARD HOPE. 08:43 WE'RE GOING TO MOVE AWAY FROM SATAN'S SADISTIC PLANS TOWARDS 08:47 GOD'S HOPE-FILLED PROMISES. IF YOU'VE EVER TAKEN THE TIME, 08:52 IT'S AMAZING HOW MANY PROMISES ARE FOUND THROUGHOUT 08:55 SCRIPTURE, TO GIVE US HOPE. AND WE NEED THOSE PROMISES. 09:01 WE NEED THAT HOPE THAT JOB HAD. 09:05 MATTER OF FACT, IT'S BROUGHT OUT RIGHT IN OUR MEMORY TEXT. 09:08 RIGHT IN THE VERY OPENING OF OUR LESSON - YOU HAVE YOUR LESSONS, 09:11 YOU CAN OPEN UP HERE IN THE LESSON TO LESSON #9 AS WAS 09:16 MENTIONED EARLIER - INTIMATIONS OF HOPE - AND RIGHT HERE IN THE 09:20 MEMORY VERSE, WE SEE THIS BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT OF 09:24 JOB'S THINKING. "HE ALSO SHALL BE MY" - WHAT? - "MY SALVATION. 09:31 FOR A HYPOCRITE COULD NOT COUNT BEFORE HIM." 09:35 WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS, REALLY, IN THIS LESSON, ON THE FIRST HALF 09:40 OF THIS PASSAGE. AGAIN, IT SAYS, 'HE ALSO SHALL 09:46 BE MY SALVATION' AND EVERYTHING THAT JOB FACED, IN ALL OF HIS 09:50 TRIALS, IN ALL OF HIS LOSSES, HE STILL COMES FORWARD WITH THIS 09:54 THOUGHT: "HE ALSO SHALL BE MY SALVATION." 10:01 MATTER OF FACT, JOB HELPS US UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 10:05 HIS GRIEF, BUT THAT MAKES THE HOPE SO MUCH SWEETER. 10:10 IN JOB CHAPTER 6, VERSE 2 - AFTER JOB LOSES FAMILY, AFTER 10:15 JOB LOSES LIVESTOCK, AFTER JOB LOSES HIS SERVANTS - EVERYBODY 10:19 THAT'S REALLY CLOSEST TO HIM - AND NOW HE'S FACING THIS IN 10:24 PHYSICAL PAIN AND MENTAL GRIEF. HE HAS THESE WORDS TO SAY 10:28 - JOB CHAPTER 6, VERSE 2. WHEN WE KIND OF GO BACK A LITTLE 10:31 BIT, WE GET THIS PICTURE AND THEN WE SEE HOW MUCH SWEETER THE 10:35 HOPE THAT JOB EXPRESSES REALLY IS. "OH, THAT MY GRIEF WERE 10:41 FULLY WEIGHED, AND MY CALAMITY LAID WITH IT ON THE SCALES!" 10:48 - SO JOB'S LIKE IF - TALKING TO HIS FRIENDS HE'S LIKE, 'IF YOU 10:50 COULD JUST WEIGH THE CALAMITY THAT I'M FACING - IF YOU COULD 10:54 JUST WEIGH THE GRIEF THAT I'M EXPERIENCING - IF YOU COULD JUST 10:58 PUT IT ON SCALES - IF YOU COULD JUST UNDERSTAND IT' - HE'S 11:02 HELPING HIS FRIENDS TO TRY TO GET A GLIMPSE OF HIS GRIEF BUT, 11:07 LATER, WE SEE HOW MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THE HOPE IS IN THIS. 11:12 'HE ALSO SHALL BE MY' - WHAT? 11:15 'SALVATION.' NOW WHAT'S INTERESTING IS, IN SUNDAY'S 11:19 LESSON, JUST BEFORE WE REALLY DIVE INTO JOB'S HOPE, JOB HAS 11:26 SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT HIS FRIENDS. 11:29 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GO THROUGH TRIALS, WHEN WE GO THROUGH 11:31 SUFFERING, WHEN WE GO THROUGH CHALLENGES IN OUR LIVES, WE 11:34 HOPE, RIGHT, THAT OUR FRIENDS WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY THAT 11:40 WILL COMFORT US, THAT WILL ENCOURAGE US, THAT WILL 11:43 STRENGTHEN US, THAT WILL CHALLENGE US TO DRAW CLOSER TO 11:47 GOD. BUT JOB'S FRIENDS ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. 11:53 AND MAYBE WE'VE HAD THAT EXPERIENCE WHERE WE'VE GONE 11:56 THROUGH A CHALLENGE AND WE'VE LOOKED TO OUR FRIENDS, AND OUR 11:59 FRIENDS, REALLY, HAVE KIND OF FAILED US. 12:03 JOB, IN SUNDAY'S LESSON, HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HIS 12:09 FRIENDS WERE LIKE. MATTER OF FACT, THE TITLE OF THE 12:11 LESSON ON SUNDAY IS FORGERS OF LIES . 12:14 NOW THINK ABOUT THIS: JOB IS FACING THE LOSS OF HIS CHILDREN. 12:19 JOB IS FACING THE LOSS OF HIS LIVESTOCK. 12:23 JOB IS NOW FACING THIS INCREDIBLY PHYSICAL SUFFERING 12:27 AND MENTAL AGONY AND SO HE'S LOOKING TO HIS FRIENDS, FOR A 12:32 MOMENT, AS HE'S HAVING THESE DISCUSSIONS. AND HE FINDS OUT 12:37 SOMETHING THAT'S VERY INTERESTING ABOUT HIS FRIENDS. 12:41 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU'D TURN WITH ME TO JOB CHAPTER 13 - IN 12:45 YOUR BIBLES - JOB CHAPTER 13, VERSE 4 - JOB CHAPTER 13 AND 12:51 VERSE 4 - AND WE'RE GOING TO SPEND MOST OF OUR TIME IN JOB 12:54 CHAPTER 13, JOB CHAPTER 14 - BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY WHERE JOB 12:58 STARTS TO BRING OUT HIS HOPE AND WHO HIS HOPE IS IN, OKAY? 13:05 BUT BEFORE THAT, HE HAS TO HELP US UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 13:08 THE FRIENDS THAT WERE SURROUNDING HIM. 13:10 JOB CHAPTER 13, VERSE 4 SAYS, "BUT YOU ARE" - WHAT? - 13:16 "FORGERS OF LIES, YOU ARE ALL WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS." 13:24 VERSE 5 SAYS, "OH, THAT YOU WOULD BE SILENT, AND IT WOULD BE 13:27 YOUR WISDOM." THE CLOSEST PEOPLE TO JOB IN THIS GREAT TIME OF 13:35 TRIAL, HE IDENTIFIES AS WHAT? FORGERS OF LIES. 13:43 THESE INDIVIDUALS THAT HE'S KNOWN FOR SOME TIME - I'M SURE 13:47 HE'S HAD SOME RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM THROUGHOUT HIS LIFETIME - 13:51 HE COMES TO SEE HIS FRIENDS FOR WHO THEY REALLY ARE IN THIS 13:55 GREAT TRIAL. YET JOB SPEAKS OF HOPE. 14:01 HE'S LOST FAMILY. HE'S LOST SERVANTS. 14:06 HE'S LOST EVERYTHING AND HIS FRIENDS, WHO ARE THE CLOSEST TO 14:09 HIM, ARE FOUND TO BE SOMETHING THAT HE NEVER THOUGHT THEY WERE. 14:16 I'M SURE WE'VE EXPERIENCED THAT, RIGHT? I KNOW THERE'S BEEN TIMES 14:20 IN MY LIFE WHERE I'VE HAD TRIAL AND I'VE HAD CHALLENGES AND I'VE 14:25 HAD SUFFERING. AND I'VE HAD FRIENDS THAT WERE 14:28 CLOSEST TO ME THAT I THOUGHT I COULD CLING TO. 14:34 AND YET, I FOUND THEM TO BE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT I 14:39 THOUGHT THEY WERE - AND IT'S NO DIFFERENT WITH THE STORY OF JOB. 14:43 THIS IS WHY JOB FINDS HIS HOPE IN WHOM? 14:47 HE FINDS HIS HOPE IN CHRIST. HE FINDS HIS HOPE IN GOD. 14:52 WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE AROUND HIM IS KIND OF FALLING APART AND HE 14:56 SEES HIS FRIENDS FOR WHAT THEY REALLY ARE, WE START TO 15:00 UNDERSTAND, CLOSER, HOW MUCH JOB IS CLINGING TO GOD. 15:07 HE'S CLINGING TO GOD. TALKING ABOUT JOB AND HIS 15:10 FRIENDS FOR JUST A MINUTE - ACTUALLY, I WANT TO SWITCH 15:13 TO GOD FOR JUST A MINUTE. JOB'S FRIENDS ARE 15:17 FORGERS OF LIES. NOW, BY THE WAY, WHO'S 15:19 THE FATHER OF LIES? >>SATAN. 15:22 >>SATAN'S THE FATHER OF LIES, RIGHT? 15:24 WHERE DO WE FIND THAT, ACTUALLY, IN THE GOSPELS? 15:27 WE FIND THAT IN JOHN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 44. 15:31 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU CAN TURN THERE JUST A MINUTE, UNDERSTAND 15:34 THE PERSPECTIVE AND THE BACKGROUND - WHAT JOB IS GOING 15:38 THROUGH - JOB CHAPTER 8 - JOHN, EXCUSE ME, CHAPTER 8, VERSE 15:42 44 - JOHN CHAPTER 8, VERSE 44 - JESUS POINTS THIS OUT TO HIS 15:53 DISCIPLES. HE SAYS, "YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER 15:58 THE DEVIL, AND THE DESIRES OF YOUR FATHER YOU WANT TO DO. 16:03 HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING AND DOES NOT STAND IN 16:07 THE TRUTH BECAUSE THERE IS NO TRUTH" - WHAT? 16:10 >>IN HIM. >>"IN HIM. WHEN HE SPEAKS A LIE, 16:14 HE SPEAKS FROM HIS OWN RESOURCES, FOR HE IS A LIAR 16:21 AND THE FATHER OF IT." NOW, IF YOU GO BACK TO JOB, AND 16:25 JOB IDENTIFIES HIS FRIENDS AS FORGERS OF LIES, WHAT IS 16:30 JOB REALLY IDENTIFYING? HE'S IDENTIFYING WHOM HIS 16:37 FRIENDS ARE BEING INFLUENCED BY. SO, IN THIS GREAT TRIAL THAT JOB 16:43 IS FACING, JOB REALIZED THAT SATAN IS BEHIND THE SCENES 16:47 INFLUENCING HIS FRIENDS TO BE LYING TO HIM ABOUT WHOM? 16:54 WHO ARE HIS FRIENDS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT, BY THE WAY? 16:57 YOU SEE THIS IN THEIR DISCUSSIONS AS THEY TALK TO JOB. 17:00 THEY'RE TRYING TO POINT JOB TO WHOM? TO GOD, RIGHT? 17:07 YET, THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND BEING INFLUENCED BY SATAN, 17:12 IS MISINTERPRETING WHO GOD REALLY IS. 17:18 THIS IS - THIS IS BROUGHT OUT VERY INTERESTINGLY. 17:20 NOTICE WITH ME, JOB CHAPTER 42, VERSE 7, OKAY? 17:25 JOB CHAPTER 42, VERSE 7 - AND THE LESSON BRINGS THIS OUT VERY 17:29 CLEARLY - JOB CHAPTER 42, VERSE 7 - NOW THIS IS NOT JOB 17:37 SPEAKING, THIS HAS FINALLY COME TO THE POINT WHERE WE ACTUALLY 17:40 HEAR GOD SPEAKING. AND GOD HAS SOME VERY 17:44 INTERESTING THINGS TO SAY TO JOB'S FRIENDS, OKAY? 17:49 JOB CHAPTER 42, VERSE 7 - IT SAYS, "AND SO IT WAS, AFTER THE 17:55 LORD HAD SPOKEN THESE WORDS TO JOB," - NOW HE'S GOING TO SWITCH 18:01 TO HIS FRIENDS - "THAT THE LORD SAID TO ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, 18:05 'MY WRATH IS AROUSED AGAINST YOU AND YOUR TWO FRIENDS, FOR YOU 18:10 HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF ME WHAT IS RIGHT..." 18:15 HIS FRIENDS WHO WERE CONSTANTLY BRINGING UP THESE ASPECTS OF GOD 18:19 WERE NOT, IN ESSENCE, REALLY TRUTHFUL ASPECTS OF GOD. 18:25 IT WAS LIKE TRUTH MIXED WITH ERROR. 18:29 SO GOD SAYS, "YOU HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF ME WHAT IS RIGHT" AND 18:34 THEN HE GOES ON, "AS MY SERVANT JOB HAS." 18:39 THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. AS JOB'S FRIENDS ARE SPEAKING OF 18:42 GOD, THEY'RE NOT SPEAKING RIGHT OF GOD. 18:45 YET, JOB, IN SPEAKING OF GOD, IS SPEAKING RIGHT OF GOD - AND GOD 18:53 IS THE ONE POINTING THIS OUT BECAUSE JOB, THROUGH THIS TRIAL, 18:59 IS CLINGING TO GOD. HE'S HANGING ON TO GOD BY FAITH 19:06 AND, THEREFORE, HE CAN SAY, 'HE ALSO SHALL BE MY SALVATION.' 19:13 THERE'S THESE PIECES OF HOPE THAT ARE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT 19:17 THE BOOK OF JOB BECAUSE JOB IS RELYING ON GOD. 19:24 NOW, BEFORE WE JUMP INTO JOB CHAPTER 13 A LITTLE BIT MORE, I 19:28 WANT TO ACTUALLY GO BACK TO JOB CHAPTER 12, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING 19:31 TO GET A PICTURE OF JOB'S VIEW AND HIS WORDS IN RELATION TO 19:37 GOD, OKAY? JOB CHAPTER 12 - AND I'M JUST 19:41 GOING TO READ A FEW OF THE VERSES. 19:44 WE'RE NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH THE WHOLE CHAPTER, JUST A VIEW 19:46 FOR THE SAKE OF TIME. IT SAYS, "I AM ONE MOCKED BY HIS 19:50 FRIENDS," - OKAY, WE UNDERSTAND THAT. 19:53 HE'S LOST EVERYTHING AND HIS FRIENDS ARE BEING INFLUENCED BY 19:57 SATAN - "I AM ONE MOCKED BY HIS FRIENDS," - AND THEN HE GOES ON 20:01 - "WHO CALLED ON GOD, AND HE" - WHAT? 20:05 - "AND HE ANSWERED HIM," - HE WAS LIKE, 'I'M BEING MOCKED BY 20:07 MY FRIENDS BUT, YOU KNOW, IN THAT TIME I CALL ON GOD. 20:12 AND WHEN I CALL ON GOD, GOD" - IS GOD SILENT? 20:16 IS GOD SILENT HERE IN THIS VERSE? 20:18 >>NO. >>NO. HE ANSWERS HIM. 20:20 YOU KNOW, GOD IS SO GOOD. WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE FAILS 20:25 AROUND US, WE CAN ALWAYS CRY OUT TO GOD AND GOD WILL WHAT? 20:29 HE WILL ANSWER US. WHY? 20:31 BECAUSE HE'S OUR GREATEST ALLY. HE'S OUR GREATEST FRIEND. 20:37 THERE'S NO ONE ELSE LIKE GOD. NO ONE ELSE. 20:41 AND SO JOB CRIES OUT TO GOD AND GOD ANSWERS HIM. 20:47 THE JUST AND THE BLAMELESS WHO IS RIDICULED. 20:50 SO JOB UNDERSTANDS, 'GOD WILL ANSWER ME. 20:53 I'LL CALL OUT TO GOD. GOD WILL HEAR MY PRAYER. 20:55 GOD WILL ANSWER ME IN THIS TIME OF TRIAL. 21:00 BUT THERE'S A FEW OTHER VERSES I WANT TO SHOW YOU - VERSE 10 - 21:02 NOTICE: HE'S TALKING ABOUT GOD - AND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO CHAPTER 21:07 13, WHICH THE LESSON REALLY DIVES INTO MONDAY AND TUESDAY. 21:12 HE SAYS, 'IN WHOSE HAND IS THE LIFE OF EVERY LIVING THING," - 21:17 IN WHOSE HANDS DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE? 21:20 >>GOD'S HANDS. >>GOD'S HANDS. 21:23 AND JOB, IN VERSE 10 SAYS, "IN WHOSE HAND IS THE LIFE OF EVERY 21:27 LIVING THING AND THE BREATH OF ALL MANKIND?" 21:33 VERSE 13 - HE SAYS, "WITH HIM" - GOD - "ARE WISDOM AND STRENGTH, 21:41 HE HAS COUNSEL AND UNDERSTANDING." 21:44 VERSE 16 - "WITH HIM" - ARE WHAT? 21:46 >>STRENGTH. >>STRENGTH AND PRUDENCE." 21:50 VERSES 23, 24, 25 - "HE MAKES NATIONS GREAT, AND DESTROYS 21:56 THEM; HE ENLARGES NATIONS AND GUIDES THEM. 22:00 HE TAKES AWAY THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHIEFS OF THE PEOPLE OF 22:03 THE EARTH, AND MAKES THEM WANDER IN A PATHLESS WILDERNESS. 22:09 THEY GROPE IN THE DARK WITHOUT LIGHT, AND HE MAKES THEM STAGGER 22:12 LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN." GOD, ULTIMATELY, IS IN CONTROL. 22:16 >>AMEN. >>AND WE CAN TRUST GOD WITH OUR 22:21 LIVES. WHY? BECAUSE THAT'S THE BEST PLACE TO 22:24 HAVE OUR LIVES IS IN THE HANDS OF GOD, NOT THE HANDS OF OUR 22:30 FRIENDS, BUT IN THE HANDS OF GOD. 22:35 AND JOB REALLY DIVES INTO THIS EVEN MORE SO. 22:38 SO HE HAS A RESPONSE TO HIS FRIENDS AND IT HAS TO DO WITH 22:41 WHOM GOD IS. AND, BY THE WAY, JOB HAS A 22:45 RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF GOD. OKAY? 22:50 SO WE GO ON IN JOB CHAPTER 13, BEGINNING IN VERSE 1 - I'M GOING 22:54 TO READ QUICKLY FOR THE SAKE OF TIME. "BEHOLD, MY EYE HAS SEEN 22:58 ALL THIS, MY EAR HAS HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD IT. 23:02 WHAT YOU KNOW, I ALSO KNOW; I AM NOT INFERIOR TO YOU. 23:06 BUT I WOULD SPEAK TO THE ALMIGHTY, AND I DESIRE TO REASON 23:11 WITH GOD." - I LOVE THAT VERSE. JOB'S LIKE, 'LISTEN, I 23:14 UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM. 23:16 I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT I DESIRE TO REASON WITH" - WHOM? 23:21 >>GOD. >>'I DESIRE TO REASON WITH GOD. 23:25 I DON'T NEED TO REASON WITH YOU, I WANT TO REASON WITH GOD.' AND 23:29 GOD LOVES IT, BY THE WAY, WHEN WE TALK TO HIM - WHEN WE REASON 23:33 WITH HIM - WHEN WE BRING EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE GOING 23:36 THROUGH TO HIS FEET - HE LOVES THAT. 23:39 HE LOVES TO INTERACT AND COMMUNICATE AND THAT'S WHY, 23:44 LATER IN JOB, YOU SEE GOD ENTERING THE PICTURE AND HE'S 23:46 THE ONE COMMUNICATING. VERSE 4 SAYS, "BUT YOU FORGERS 23:53 OF LIES, YOU ARE ALL WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS. 23:56 OH, THAT YOU WOULD BE SILENT, AND IT WOULD BE YOUR WISDOM! 24:00 NOW HEAR MY REASONING, AND HEED THE PLEADINGS OF MY LIPS. 24:03 WILL YOU SPEAK WICKEDLY FOR GOD, AND TALK DECEITFULLY FOR 24:07 HIM? WILL YOU SHOW PARTIALITY FOR HIM? WILL YOU CONTEND FOR 24:12 GOD? WILL IT BE WELL WHEN HE SEARCHES YOU OUT? 24:17 OR CAN YOU MOCK HIM AS ONE MOCKS A MAN? 24:20 HE WILL SURELY REBUKE YOU IF YOU SECRETLY SHOW PARTIALITY. 24:26 WILL NOT HIS EXCELLENCE MAKE YOU AFRAID, AND THE DREAD OF HIM 24:31 FALL UPON YOU? YOUR PLATITUDES ARE PROVERBS 24:33 OF ASHES, YOUR DEFENSES ARE DEFENSES OF CLAY." 24:38 - HE SAYS, "HOLD YOUR PEACE WITH ME, AND LET ME SPEAK, THEN LET 24:43 COME ON ME WHAT MAY! WHY DO I TAKE MY FLESH IN MY 24:48 TEETH, AND PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS?" 24:51 - AND HERE IS MONDAY AND TUESDAY - VERSES 15 AND 16 - "THOUGH HE 24:56 SLAY ME, YET WILL I" - WHAT? >>TRUST HIM. 25:00 >>"YET WILL I TRUST HIM." JOB KNOWS IN WHOM HE CAN TRUST. 25:07 HE'S CLINGING TO GOD FOR WHOM HIS HOPE COMES FROM. 25:16 HE SAYS, "EVEN SO, I WILL DEFEND MY OWN WAYS BEFORE HIM. 25:22 HE ALSO SHALL BE MY SALVATION, FOR A HYPOCRITE COULD NOT COME 25:27 BEFORE HIM." JOB HAS THIS INCREDIBLE HOPE - 25:36 IN THE MIDST OF ALL THE THINGS THAT HIS FRIENDS ARE TELLING HIM 25:39 - THAT HE CAN TRUST GOD EVEN IF GOD WERE TO CHOOSE TO 25:45 BRING HIS LIFE TO AN END. AND WHY IS THAT? 25:50 WHY COULD JOB HANG ON TO GOD SO CLOSELY - EVEN IF GOD CHOSE TO 25:57 ALLOW HIS LIFE TO COME TO AN END? 26:01 BECAUSE JOB UNDERSTOOD THAT EVEN IF HIS LIFE WERE TO COME TO AN 26:07 END, IT'S NOT ALL OVER YET. THIS IS WHY JOB SAYS 'HE ALSO 26:15 SHALL BE MY SALVATION.' BECAUSE JOB KNEW THERE WAS LIFE AFTER 26:23 DEATH FOR ONE WHO COMMITS THEIR LIVES COMPLETELY TO GOD. 26:31 ONE WHO PLACES THEIR LIFE IN THE HAND OF THE ALMIGHTY - HE KNOWS 26:37 THAT EVEN IF GOD WERE TO SLAY HIM, HE COULD RAISE HIM UP FROM 26:43 THE DEAD ONE DAY. YOU KNOW, THERE'S OTHER 26:46 EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF THIS. YOU THINK OF MESHACH, 26:49 SHADRACH, AND ABEDNEGO, RIGHT? THEY'RE STANDING BEFORE THE FIRE 26:52 AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO BE THROWN INTO THE FIRE. 26:56 AND YET, THEY WERE UNWILLING TO BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP THE KING. 27:01 WHY? BECAUSE THERE WAS ONE KING GREATER THAN THE ONE STANDING IN 27:05 FRONT OF THEM. >>AMEN. 27:08 >>WHO WOULD BE ABLE, EVEN IF THEY WERE TO DIE, HE WOULD BE 27:12 ABLE TO BRING THEM BACK. ABRAHAM HAD THIS SAME HOPE WHEN 27:18 HE TOOK HIS SON - REMEMBER? - TOOK HIS SON UP THE MOUNT AND 27:23 HE WAS GOING TO SACRIFICE HIS SON. 27:24 AND YET, HIS SON WAS WHERE THE LINE OF CHRIST WAS GOING TO COME 27:28 FROM, BUT HE WAS WILLING BECAUSE PAUL TELLS US IN HEBREWS, 27:33 ABRAHAM HAD SUCH A FAITH THAT HE KNEW THAT GOD COULD BRING HIM 27:37 BACK AND CONTINUE THE PLANS THAT HE HAD PLANNED FROM THE VERY 27:42 BEGINNING. HE KNEW - THEY ALL KNEW - THAT 27:47 THERE WAS LIFE AFTER DEATH. MATTER OF FACT, LOOK AT - WITH 27:51 ME - IN JOB CHAPTER 12, VERSE 10. 27:55 WE READ IT EARLIER. I WANT TO READ IT 27:56 AGAIN IN THIS CONTEXT. "IN WHOSE HAND IS THE LIFE OF" - WHAT? - 28:03 "EVERY LIVING THING, AND THE BREATH OF ALL MANKIND?" 28:12 NOTICE, WITH ME, CHAPTER 14 - I'M GOING TO JUMP A COUPLE 28:16 CHAPTERS - BECAUSE JOB CONTINUES TO CLARIFY THIS HOPE. 28:22 THE FACT THAT THERE'S LIFE AFTER DEATH - THAT IF GOD WERE TO 28:25 BRING MY LIFE TO AN END, SO BE IT. 28:27 I'LL STILL CONTINUE TO TRUST HIM BECAUSE I KNOW HE HAS THE 28:31 ABILITY AND HE'S PROMISED TO BRING ME BACK. 28:36 NOTICE, WITH ME, JOB CHAPTER 14, VERSE 14 - ACTUALLY, START WITH 28:40 VERSE 13 - WE'LL GO 13, 14, 15 - HE SAYS, "OH, THAT YOU WOULD 28:43 HIDE ME IN THE GRAVE," - NOTICE: NOT END ME, JUST WHAT? 28:50 >>HIDE ME. >>HIDE ME. 28:53 JUST "...HIDE ME IN THE GRAVE, THAT YOU WOULD CONCEAL ME UNTIL 29:00 YOUR WRATH IS PAST, THAT YOU WOULD APPOINT ME A SET TIME, 29:05 AND" - WHAT? - "REMEMBER ME!" 29:10 - VERSE 14 - "IF A MAN DIES, SHALL HE LIVE AGAIN? 29:17 ALL THE DAYS OF MY HARD SERVICE I WILL WAIT, TILL MY CHANGE 29:23 COMES." - THAT'S POWERFUL. 29:27 ONE DAY, JESUS CHRIST IS GOING TO COME AGAIN AND HE HAS 29:31 PROMISED TO RAISE THOSE WHO TRUST IN HIM, THOSE WHO HAVE 29:34 BELIEVED IN HIM, THOSE WHO HAVE PUT THEIR FAITH IN HIM - HE HAS 29:38 PROMISED TO BRING THEM BACK FROM THE DEAD. 29:41 >>AMEN. >>CORINTHIANS TELLS US ABOUT 29:44 THAT CHANGE WHEN HE COMES IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY, "TILL 29:48 MY CHANGE COMES." - VERSE 15 - "YOU SHALL CALL, 29:54 AND I WILL ANSWER YOU; YOU SHALL DESIRE THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS. 30:00 FOR NOW YOU NUMBER MY STEPS," - JOB HAD A HOPE AND THAT HOPE WAS 30:07 IN THE PROMISE THAT CHRIST, EVEN IF HE WERE TO ALLOW JOB TO BE 30:13 SLAIN, HE WOULD ONE DAY BRING HIM BACK FROM THE DEAD. 30:21 THIS JESUS - THIS GOD, WHO IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE - 30:27 THIS GOD, WHO IS THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD - THIS CREATOR, 30:33 WHO HAS THE KEYS OF HADES AND OF DEATH, HE'S THE FIRST AND THE 30:39 LAST, WHO WAS DEAD AND HAS COME TO LIFE. 30:46 YOU KNOW, I LOVE THAT SONG BECAUSE HE LIVES . 30:50 JOB COULD HAVE HOPE BECAUSE THERE WAS ONE GREATER THAN ALL 30:55 OF HIS CHALLENGES THAT WAS ALIVE AND WELL AND LOOKING AFTER JOB 31:00 IN EVERY SITUATION. JOB COULD TRUST IN THIS GOD. 31:08 MATTER OF FACT, IN THE LESSON - YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING, IN 31:12 TUESDAY'S LESSON - I WANT TO TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER PASSAGE IN 31:16 SCRIPTURE - IT'S 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15. 31:19 PAUL TALKS ABOUT THIS IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, VERSES 31:24 11 THROUGH 20 - 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, VERSES 11 THROUGH 31:32 20. HAVE YOUR BIBLES - AND I HOPE YOU BROUGHT THEM - AND THEN 31:37 TURN TO 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15 - 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, 31:43 VERSES 11 THROUGH 20. IT SAYS, "THEREFORE, WHETHER IT WAS I OR 31:54 THEY, SO WE PREACH AND SO YOU BELIEVED." 31:59 - VERSE 12 - "NOW, IF CHRIST IS PREACHED THAT HE HAS BEEN RAISED 32:04 FROM THE DEAD, HOW DO SOME AMONG YOU SAY THAT THERE IS NO 32:10 RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD?" - NOW THIS IS INTERESTING. 32:13 SO THERE'S SOME IN THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH, EVEN THOUGH 32:17 IT WAS BEING PREACHED THAT CHRIST HAS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, 32:21 THERE WERE STILL SOME WHO - WHAT? 32:24 THERE WERE STILL SOME THAT DIDN'T BELIEVE THERE WAS A 32:27 RESURRECTION - ALMOST LIKE THE SADDUCEES WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE 32:31 THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE A RESURRECTION. 32:35 VERSE 13 HE SAYS, "BUT IF THERE IS NO RESURRECTION" - SO HE'S 32:38 LIKE, 'OKAY, LET ME TAKE THIS THOUGHT - YOU BELIEVE THIS WAY, 32:42 LET ME TAKE THIS THOUGHT AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHERE THIS THOUGHT 32:45 LEADS, OKAY? LET ME SHOW YOU WHERE IT LEADS - "BUT IF THERE 32:49 IS NO RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, THEN CHRIST IS" - WHAT? 32:53 HE'S NOT RISEN - "AND IF CHRIST IS NOT RISEN, THEN OUR PREACHING 32:59 IS EMPTY AND YOUR FAITH IS" - WHAT? 33:01 >>EMPTY. >>"ALSO EMPTY." HOW MANY OF US 33:04 WOULD WANT AN EMPTY FAITH? THAT WOULD JUST CRUMBLE UNDER 33:10 OUR FEET UNDER THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCE. 33:14 HE GOES ON - VERSE 15 - "YES, AND WE ARE FOUND FALSE WITNESSES 33:18 OF GOD, BECAUSE WE HAVE TESTIFIED OF GOD THAT HE RAISED 33:25 UP CHRIST," - SO NOW HE'S SAYING, 'LISTEN, IF THERE IS NO 33:29 RESURRECTION AND WE'VE BEEN PREACHING ABOUT RESURRECTION, 33:32 THEN THIS MAKES US TO BE' - WHAT? 'FALSE WITNESSES AND 33:36 LIARS.' "WHOM HE DID NOT RAISE UP" - I'M CONTINUING IN VERSE 15 33:46 - "IF IN FACT THE DEAD DO NOT RISE. FOR IF THE DEAD DO NOT 33:51 RISE, THEN CHRIST IS" - WHAT? - "NOT RISEN. 33:55 AND IF CHRIST IS NOT RISEN, YOUR FAITH IS FUTILE;" - HERE IN THE 34:02 NEW KING JAMES VERSION THAT'S AN INTERESTING WORD BECAUSE, WHEN 34:05 YOU LOOK AROUND OUR WORLD TODAY, YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH FUTILITY 34:09 WE'RE SURROUNDED BY. THIS PLANET AND THE SHAPE OF 34:15 THIS PLANET AND THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD 34:18 ON THIS PLANET, SHOW US HOW FUTILE THINGS ARE AROUND US. 34:25 THE LAST THING WE WOULD WANT IS OUR FAITH TO BE WHAT? FUTILE 34:30 ALSO. "FOR IF THE DEAD DO NOT RISE, THEN CHRIST IS NOT RISEN. 34:37 AND IF CHRIST IS NOT RISEN, YOUR FAITH IS FUTILE;" - AND THEN HE 34:42 SAYS, "YOU ARE STILL" - WHAT? - "YOU ARE STILL IN YOUR SINS! 34:47 THEN ALSO THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP IN CHRIST HAVE PERISHED." 34:53 - AND THEN 19 - "IF IN THIS LIFE ONLY WE HAVE HOPE IN CHRIST, WE 34:58 ARE OF ALL MEN THE MOST PITIABLE." 35:02 - VERSE 20 - "BUT NOW" - HE SAYS WHAT? 35:06 - "CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, AND HAS BECOME THE 35:11 FIRSTFRUITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP." 35:15 HE FOLLOWS THE ARGUMENT AND YOU REALIZE THAT, WHEN YOU FOLLOW 35:18 THAT LOGICAL THINKING, THERE'S NO HOPE - THAT PROCESS OF 35:23 THINKING - BUT PAUL COMES BACK TO REASSURE THEM THAT THERE IS 35:28 WHAT? THAT CHRIST DID WHAT? >>DIED AND ROSE. 35:31 >>THAT CHRIST DID RISE FROM THE DEAD AND WE CAN BELIEVE IT. 35:35 WE CAN STAND ON IT. WE CAN TRUST IN IT. 35:38 OUR FAITH IS NOT FUTILE. >>AMEN. 35:42 >>OUR FAITH IS FOUNDED ON THE ROCK. 35:46 AND WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE FALLS APART AROUND US, JUST LIKE IN 35:50 THE BOOK OF JOB, THERE IS A HOPE THAT WE CAN HAVE. 35:56 THERE IS A HOPE THAT WE CAN LIVE WITH - LIVE BY - LIVE FOR EACH 36:04 AND EVERY DAY THAT WE WAKE UP - EACH AND EVERY DAY THAT 36:09 WE GO ABOUT LIFE THERE IS A HOPE. 36:14 'IF HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM.' THERE IS A HOPE. 36:24 FROM THIS GOD - FOR THIS IS THE GOD THAT JOB GATHERS HIS HOPE 36:31 FROM AS HE, BY FAITH, CLINGS TO HIM AND HIS PROMISES. 36:39 SO I HAVE TO ASK MYSELF - WHEN I LOOK AT JOB AND WHEN I LOOK AT 36:43 JOB'S HOPE AND I LOOK AT THE FACT THAT JOB IS CLINGING, IN 36:46 THIS CHALLENGE, TO THE FACT - THE REAL TRUTH THAT JESUS CHRIST 36:50 IS COMING AGAIN - THAT GOD HAS THE ABILITY - GOD HAS PROMISED 36:55 TO RAISE US FROM THE DEAD. I HAVE TO ASK MYSELF, 36:58 IS THAT MY HOPE? >>AMEN. 37:03 >>DO I CLING TO THAT SAME THING EACH AND EVERY DAY THAT I LIVE? 37:10 DO I HAVE THIS SAME HOPE, NO MATTER WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MY 37:14 LIFE? AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR 37:16 CHALLENGES ARE - YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT MY CHALLENGES ARE, BUT WE 37:19 HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES IS THIS HOPE REAL FOR US, JUST 37:24 AS IT WAS REAL FOR JOB? CAN WE SAY THE EXACT SAME THING 37:30 AS JOB SAID IN OUR MEMORY VERSE? 'HE ALSO SHALL BE MY' - WHAT? 37:36 MY SALVATION - 'AND EVEN IF HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I' - WHAT? 37:41 >>TRUST HIM. >>TRUST HIM. TRUST HIM. 37:47 CAN WE SAY THE SAME THING AS JOB SAID? YOU KNOW, I WANT TO READ A 37:52 PASSAGE FROM THE LESSON. IT'S A POWERFUL STATEMENT, 37:56 ACTUALLY, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LESSON. 37:59 IT SAYS, 'THE RICHES OF THE GRACE OF CHRIST MUST BE KEPT 38:03 BEFORE THE MIND.' WHAT DO WE NEED TO KEEP BEFORE THE MIND? 38:09 THE RICHES OF THE GRACE OF CHRIST. 38:13 YOU KNOW, WHERE THERE'S SIN - WHERE SIN ABOUNDS - WE'RE TOLD 38:16 IN ROMANS - GRACE DOES MUCH - WHAT? 38:19 - MORE ABOUND. AND THIS GRACE, WE MUST 38:22 EVER KEEP BEFORE OUR MINDS. TREASURE UP THE LESSONS 38:27 THAT HIS LOVE PROVIDES. LET YOUR FAITH BE LIKE JOB'S. 38:34 LET YOUR FAITH BE LIKE JOB'S THAT YOU MAY DECLARE - THAT YOU 38:39 MAY SHOW PLAINLY - 'THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN 38:44 HIM.' LAY HOLD ON THE PROMISES OF YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER.' LAY 38:49 HOLD ON WHAT? THE PROMISES OF YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER. 38:53 YOU KNOW, PETER TALKS ABOUT THESE PROMISES QUITE OFTEN AND 38:58 PETER, HIMSELF, WENT THROUGH AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE WHEN HE 39:02 WAS CRUCIFIED - WHAT? - UPSIDE DOWN. 39:06 YET HE CLUNG TO THE PROMISES OF GOD. 39:10 THOSE PROMISES ARE TRUE AND THEY GAVE HIM HOPE. 39:15 'THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM.' LAY HOLD ON THE 39:18 PROMISES OF YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER AND REMEMBER HIS FORMER DEALINGS 39:23 WITH YOU AND WITH HIS SERVANTS. 'FOR ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER 39:28 FOR' - AND WE COULD QUOTE THIS BY MEMORY, RIGHT? 39:30 - 'FOR ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD FOR THOSE WHO LOVE GOD 39:35 AND ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.' 39:39 POWERFUL PASSAGE - POWERFUL STATEMENT FROM THE ADVENT REVIEW 39:44 AND SABBATH HERALD - JUST CLING TO THE PROMISES. 39:49 YOU KNOW, IF YOU TURN WITH ME TO HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, THIS IS WHAT 39:54 ALL THESE MEN AND WOMEN OF FAITH DID. 40:00 AND I KNOW OUR FOCUS IS JOB, BUT YOU CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ABOUT 40:03 ALL THE OTHER MEN AND WOMEN OF THE BIBLE THAT HAD THE SAME 40:07 FAITH AND HAD THE SAME HOPE THAT JOB HAD. 40:13 HEBREWS CHAPTER 11 - AND I JUST WANT TO READ A FEW VERSES, 40:17 STARTING WITH VERSE 13, BECAUSE JOB SAYS 'THOUGH YOU SLAY ME, 40:23 YET WILL I' - WHAT? 'YET WILL I TRUST YOU.' NOW 40:27 NOTICE, IN VERSE 13 OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 11, IT SAYS, 40:31 "THESE ALL DIED IN" - WHAT? >>FAITH. 40:35 >>"IN FAITH, NOT HAVING RECEIVED THE PROMISES, BUT HAVING SEEN 40:42 THEM AFAR OFF WERE ASSURED OF THEM, EMBRACED THEM." 40:48 IN OTHER WORDS, THEY FOLDED THE PROMISES IN THEIR OWN HANDS - 40:52 THESE PROMISES THAT GOD SPEAKS ARE NOT JUST WORDS ON A PIECE OF 40:56 PAPER, BUT THEY'RE ACTUALLY MINE. 40:59 THEY WERE MEANT FOR ME. THEY WERE MEANT FOR YOU. 41:02 THEY WERE MEANT FOR ALL OF US. THEY WERE MEANT FOR JOB. - 41:09 "...BUT HAVING SEEN THEM AFAR OFF WERE ASSURED OF THEM, 41:12 EMBRACED THEM AND CONFESSED THAT THEY WERE STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS 41:15 ON THE EARTH. FOR THOSE WHO SAY SUCH THINGS 41:19 DECLARE PLAINLY THAT THEY SEEK A HOMELAND." 41:24 YOU KNOW, JOB WASN'T SO CONCERNED ABOUT HIS EARTHLY 41:28 HOME. JOB HAD MUCH BIGGER THINGS ON 41:33 HIS MIND AS HE'S GOING THROUGH THIS CHALLENGE. IT AFFECTED HIM; 41:38 THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. WHO WOULDN'T IT AFFECT? 41:41 YOU LOSE EVERYTHING - YOU LOSE EVERYTHING AND, YET, THE FRIENDS 41:47 WHO WERE CLOSEST TO YOU ARE BEING INFLUENCED TO SPEAK ABOUT 41:52 GOD DIFFERENTLY THAN HE ACTUALLY IS. 41:55 YOU HAVE ALL OF THAT GOING ON AROUND YOU, ALL OF US WOULD BE 42:00 AFFECTED IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER, YET JOB CLINGS TO THAT HOPE 42:07 KNOWING THAT GOD HAS GREATER PLANS. 42:11 WHY? BECAUSE EVEN IF YOU SLAY ME - 42:13 EVEN IF I DIE - YOU'LL RESURRECT ME. WHY? 42:16 BECAUSE YOU'VE PROMISED A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, THAT 42:21 EVENTUALLY THESE CHALLENGES WILL PASS AND I WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY 42:28 MY TIME WITH YOU FOR ETERNITY IN A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. 42:36 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 13 - THE LESSON BRINGS THIS OUT, 42:39 RIGHT IN THE VERY BEGINNING, THAT GOD HAS PROMISED THAT THERE 42:43 WILL BE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH AND THESE MEN AND WOMEN OF 42:46 FAITH, JUST LIKE JOB, CLUNG TO THOSE PROMISES AND THEY DIED IN 42:50 FAITH - BUT THEY DIED TRUSTING IN THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO 42:56 FULFILL EVERY PROMISE THAT HE MADE. I LOVE GOD FOR THAT VERY 43:02 REASON. WHEN GOD SAYS SOMETHING HE WHAT? HE DOES IT. 43:06 WHEN GOD MAKES A PROMISE, GOD FULFILLS THAT PROMISE. 43:12 WHEN GOD STARTS A WORK, HE'S GOING TO COMPLETE THAT WORK. 43:17 GOD DOESN'T, YOU KNOW, LEAVE ANY LOOSE ENDS. 43:22 AND GOD PROMISES A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. 43:25 VERSES 15 AND 16 IS WHERE I'LL FINISH - HERE IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 43:28 11, "AND TRULY IF THEY HAD CALLED TO MIND THAT COUNTRY FROM 43:33 WHICH THEY HAD COME OUT, THEY WOULD HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO 43:36 RETURN. BUT" - VERSE 16 - "NOW 43:40 THEY DESIRE A" - WHAT? - "THEY DESIRE A BETTER...COUNTRY." 43:44 WHAT A HOPE - A HOPE THAT WILL ENCOURAGE EACH OF US TO DESIRE 43:48 SOMETHING BETTER THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE. ISN'T - DON'T 43:54 ALL OF US WANT SOMETHING BETTER THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE? 43:59 YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THE - EVERY YEAR OR EVERY FOUR YEARS, YOU 44:02 KNOW, THE ELECTION CYCLE EVERYBODY WANTS SOMETHING BETTER 44:06 THAN THEY'VE HAD BEFORE AND I'M NOT TALK - I'M NOT GETTING INTO 44:08 POLITICS, BUT WE ALWAYS WANT SOMETHING BETTER. 44:11 WE'RE ALWAYS DESIRING SOMETHING BETTER. 44:13 WE LOVE NEW THINGS. HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE NEW THINGS? 44:17 LET'S BE HONEST. HOW MANY OF YOU LIKE 44:19 NEW THINGS, OKAY? WE ALL LIKE NEW THINGS. 44:23 NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN AFFORD ALL NEW THINGS, BUT WE 44:27 LIKE NEW THINGS. MY CHILDREN LOVE NEW THINGS. 44:30 MATTER OF FACT, EVERY STORE WE GO INTO IT'S 'DAD, I WANT THIS.' 44:36 'DAD, I WANT THAT.' 'I WANT THIS.' 'I WANT THAT.' AND, 44:40 SERIOUSLY, IF I COULD BUY THE WHOLE STORE, THEY'D LOVE ME 44:44 FOREVER, BUT I HAVE TO TELL THEM WE CAN'T - I CAN'T BUY THAT. 44:49 BUT THEY LOVE NEW THINGS. WE ALL LOVE NEW THINGS. 44:54 AND WHAT BETTER THING TO LOVE THAN A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW 44:59 EARTH? >>AMEN. 45:01 >>THAT SHOULD TOP ALL OF OUR LIST OF NEW THINGS. 45:04 THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD DESIRE. THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD CLING TO. 45:08 THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD HOLD ONTO. 45:10 THIS IS WHAT JOB CLUNG TO. AND, FRIENDS, GUESS WHO WE'RE 45:14 GOING TO SEE IN HEAVEN ONE DAY. WE'RE GOING TO SEE JOB. 45:19 AT ONE POINT, HIS LIFE DID HAVE TO COME TO AN END, BUT IT CAME 45:24 TO AN END TRUSTING: 'THESE ALL DIED IN FAITH, NOT HAVING 45:28 RECEIVED THE PROMISES, BUT THEY SAW THEM AFAR OFF.' 45:31 IT'S AMAZING WHAT FAITH, BY THE WAY, CAN SEE. 45:35 IT'S AMAZING WHAT FAITH CAN SEE. IT SEES THROUGH OUR CHALLENGES, 45:39 IT SEES THROUGH OUR TRIALS, IT SEES THROUGH OUR CONFLICTS. 45:43 JOB SAW IT. JOB CLUNG TO IT. JOB HUNG ONTO IT. 45:48 SO THEY DESIRE WHAT? "A BETTER, THAT IS, 45:50 A HEAVENLY COUNTRY. THEREFORE GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO 45:54 BE CALLED THEIR GOD FOR HE HAS" - WHAT? - "HE HAS PREPARED 45:59 A CITY FOR THEM." A CITY. WHAT A HOPE. WHAT A HOPE THAT WE KNOW 46:09 THAT, EVEN IN THIS LIFE, IF IT SHALL PASS, THERE'S A BETTER ONE 46:15 JUST OVER THE HORIZON. >>AMEN. 46:17 THERE'S A BETTER LAND JUST OVER THE HORIZON. 46:24 AS A MATTER OF FACT, IN WEDNESDAY'S LESSON, THIS HOPE 46:31 THAT JOB HAS, WAS ALWAYS GOD'S PLAN FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 46:40 GOD'S DESIRE FOR US WAS TO EXPERIENCE. 46:45 HE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. HE KNEW WHAT WAS GOING 46:49 TO TAKE PLACE, AND HE HAD PLANNED IN ADVANCE. 46:54 WE READ IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 4, "JUST AS HE CHOSE US IN 46:58 HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY 47:02 AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM IN LOVE," - NOTICE - "JUST AS HE 47:07 CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD," - 47:11 THINK ABOUT THAT. GOD HAD THIS PLAN ALL ALONG THE WAY. 47:20 TITUS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2 - WE READ: "IN HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE 47:26 WHICH GOD, WHO CANNOT LIE, PROMISED BEFORE TIME BEGAN," - 47:36 BEFORE YOU WERE BORN GOD HAD THIS HOPE FOR YOU. 47:41 HE HAD THIS HOPE FOR ME - HAD THIS HOPE FOR ALL OF US 47:45 BEFORE THE WORLD WAS EVEN CREATED. 47:49 BEFORE YOU AND I WERE BORN - BEFORE OUR CHILDREN WERE BORN - 47:53 BEFORE OUR GRANDCHILDREN WERE BORN - THIS HOPE HAS - BEFORE 47:58 THE WORLD WAS EVEN CREATED - WAS TO BE OURS. 48:02 AND THEN, IN 2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 1, VERSES 8 AND 9, THE LESSON 48:07 BRINGS THESE PASSAGES OUT IN WEDNESDAY'S LESSON, "THEREFORE 48:10 DO NOT BE ASHAMED OF THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD, NOR OF ME 48:15 HIS PRISONER, BUT SHARE WITH ME IN THE SUFFERINGS FOR THE 48:20 GOSPEL" - INTERESTING - SHARE WITH ME IN THE SUFFERINGS - 48:24 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JOB, RIGHT? 48:25 JOB WENT THROUGH A LOT OF SUFFERING. 48:27 HE SAYS, "SHARE WITH ME IN THE SUFFERINGS FOR THE GOSPEL 48:31 ACCORDING TO THE POWER OF GOD, WHO HAS SAVED US AND CALLED US 48:39 WITH A HOLY CALLING, NOT ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS, BUT 48:43 ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE WHICH WAS GIVEN TO US IN 48:48 CHRIST JESUS BEFORE TIME BEGAN." THIS HOPE IN CHRIST JESUS WAS 48:58 GOD'S PLAN FOR US FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 49:03 HIS CONCEPTION OF THIS WORLD AND THE CREATION OF THIS WORLD - GOD 49:08 HAD HOPE FOR US ON HIS MIND AND THAT'S WHY JOB CAN SAY HE ALSO 49:16 SHALL BE MY SALVATION. HE HAS A PLAN FOR ME. 49:22 HE HAS A PLAN THAT GOES BEYOND WHAT I'M CURRENTLY FACED WITH - 49:29 THAT GOES BEYOND EVEN ME. FOR THE SAKE OF TIME WE CAN'T 49:34 GET INTO - REALLY INTO ALL THE THINGS IN THURSDAY'S LESSON, BUT 49:37 I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO BACK TO IT. 49:40 IT'S IMAGES OF HOPE - YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE IS BRIMMING WITH ALL 49:45 OF THESE PROMISES THAT GOD GIVES US AND ALL OF THESE PROMISES, 49:50 WHEN TRULY EMBRACED, FILL US WITH HOPE. 49:54 AND IN THIS TIME, IN THIS WORLD'S HISTORY, WE HAVE HOPE, 49:59 WE NEED HOPE, AND WE CAN EMBRACE HOPE BECAUSE WE'RE CLINGING TO 50:06 THE AUTHOR OF HOPE AND THAT'S GOD. 50:10 THAT'S CHRIST. THAT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT. 50:14 IN JOHN CHAPTER 16 - JUMPING TO THE VERY END - IN JOHN CHAPTER 50:18 16, VERSE 33 - WE'LL READ IT FROM OUR BIBLES. 50:22 I LOVE THIS INCREDIBLE PASSAGE - CHRIST'S WORDS TO US - TAKE HOLD 50:28 OF THEM TODAY. TAKE HOLD OF THEM. 50:30 JOHN CHAPTER 16, VERSE 33 - JOHN CHAPTER 16, VERSE 33, "THESE 50:45 THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU, THAT IN ME YOU MAY HAVE" - WHAT? 50:51 >>PEACE. >>PEACE. 50:53 IN ME - NOT IN THE WORLD, BUT IN ME, YOU MAY HAVE PEACE. 50:59 - "IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE" - WHAT? TRIBULATION. 51:03 JOB TEACHES US THAT, THAT IN THIS WORLD WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 51:08 TRIBULATION BUT THEN HE SAYS, "BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER, I HAVE" - 51:13 WHAT? HE SAYS - >>OVERCOME. 51:15 >>"I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD." BE OF GOOD CHEER. 51:19 THERE IS HOPE FOR EACH ONE OF US. 51:23 EVEN IN THE MIDST OF TRIBULATION - WHY? 51:26 BECAUSE JESUS SAYS, 'I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD. 51:29 I CAN GIVE YOU THE ABILITY. I CAN GIVE YOU THE 51:33 GRACE THAT YOU NEED. I'VE PROMISED A BETTER LAND. 51:37 I'VE PROMISED A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.' AND ONE DAY - AND I 51:42 BELIEVE SOON - WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT 51:45 PROMISE, SO HANG ON. THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I WHAT? 51:52 >>TRUST HIM. >>TRUST HIM. 51:54 DRAW CLOSE TO THAT: THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST HIM. 52:01 AND BELIEVE ME, WE CAN TRULY, FULLY TRUST HIM. 52:08 WE CAN TRUST HIM WITH EVERYTHING. 52:12 I WAS ENCOURAGED BY THIS STUDY IN JOB AND I HOPE THAT YOU ALSO 52:16 ARE ENCOURAGED BY THIS STUDY. LET'S HAVE A WORD 52:21 OF PRAYER TOGETHER. FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU 52:26 SO MUCH FOR YOUR MANY BLESSINGS. AND LORD, WE KNOW THAT JOB WAS 52:32 SURROUNDED BY SUFFERING AND TRIAL. 52:35 HIS FRIENDS WERE BEING INFLUENCED AND YET HE CLUNG TO 52:39 YOU, WHO HAD PROMISED HIM A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH THAT HAD 52:46 PROMISED HIM A RESURRECTION AND THAT FULFILLS - 52:51 LORD, YOU FULFILL YOUR PROMISES. 52:53 MAY WE LEAVE HERE WITH HOPE, KNOWING THAT YOU HAVE BETTER 52:59 THINGS FOR US AND MAY WE CLING TO THAT HOPE - THAT FAITH - 53:04 THOSE PROMISES THAT YOU'VE GIVEN TO US ON A REGULAR BASIS - TO 53:09 CHALLENGE US, TO ENCOURAGE US, TO LIFT US UP CLOSER TO YOU. 53:13 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TIME THAT WE'VE HAD TO STUDY 53:15 YOUR WORD TOGETHER. WE THANK YOU FOR THE BOOK OF JOB 53:18 AND FOR THE LESSONS THAT TRULY COME FORTH FROM IT AS WE STUDY 53:23 TOGETHER AND AS WE STUDY INDIVIDUALLY. 53:26 FOR WE THANK YOU AND PRAISE YOU. IN JESUS' PRECIOUS AND 53:29 HOLY NAME WE PRAY, AMEN. >>AMEN. 53:33 >>AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO COME BACK TO OUR FREE OFFER: FROM 53:38 STRESS TO JOY - OUR FREE OFFER - FROM STRESS TO JOY . 53:44 THIS FREE OFFER IS #705. 53:46 YOU CAN ALSO CONTACT, TO GET THIS FREE OFFER, 866 - THE 53:50 NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 - FROM STRESS TO JOY . 53:57 MAY GOD BLESS YOU THIS SABBATH DAY. 54:02 (MUSIC) >>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES. 54:13 >>WELL, MY CONVERSION STORY IS WHEN I WAS IN THE PHILIPPINES I 54:18 JUST GRADUATED AS A NURSE AND AFTERWARDS I DID NOT HAVE ANY 54:23 RELIGION AND ONE TIME I FOUND MYSELF INSIDE A SMALL CHURCH - 54:29 CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MANILLA AND BEFORE A BIG CROSS. 54:35 AND I WAS KNEELING BEFORE AND I COULD HEAR JESUS TELLING ME TO 54:41 ENTER THE CONVENT - SAVE MYSELF AND ALSO MY FAMILY. 54:46 AND I SAID, 'LORD, I WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW YOU ALL THE WAY.' AT 54:49 THAT POINT, I SEEMED TO BE HAPPY EXTERNALLY BUT, BECAUSE INSIDE 54:54 THE CONVENT WE DON'T READ OUR BIBLE - WE DON'T STUDY ABOUT THE 54:58 WORD OF GOD. WE PRAY THE ROSARIES. 55:02 WE ALSO, AT THE SAME TIME, STUDY THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS AND ALSO 55:06 OUR FOUNDERS AND THE ENCYCLICALS OF THE POPE AND THE VIRGIN MARY. 55:12 AND SO I DO NOT KNOW THE TRUTH AND I HAD THIS TORTURE OF 55:15 CONSCIENCE - THE GUILTY FEELINGS THAT CANNOT BE RESOLVED. 55:20 SO I WOULD CONFESS TO THE PRIEST IN THE CONFESSIONAL BOX SAYING, 55:24 'FATHER FORGIVE ME. SINCE - MY LAST CONFESSION WAS 55:27 LAST WEEK - SINCE THEN I HAVE COMMITTED THE FOLLOWING SIN, 55:32 INCLUDING THE ROOT CAUSE, WHY AM I FALLING AND FALLING IN THAT 55:35 SAME SIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN?' AND STILL, FOR 21 LONG YEARS, I 55:42 STRUGGLE AND I STRUGGLE AND I STRUGGLE. 55:46 I REALIZED THAT I WAS TOTALLY EMPTY. 55:49 I WAS TOTALLY HELPLESS AND HOPELESS AND SO DEPRESSED AND SO 55:54 DESPERATE THAT I WOULD LIKE ALREADY TO END MY LIFE. 55:59 I WAS WORKING FOR FIVE YEARS AS DEAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAINT 56:03 AUGUSTINE COLLEGE OF NURSING IN ILOILO CITY ON 56:07 ONE OF THE ISLANDS IN THE PHILIPPINES. 56:10 AFTER FIVE YEARS I RECEIVE MY COMMISSION FROM MY PARENTS TO 56:15 HELP MY SISTER WHO IS BEING A BATTERED WOMAN. 56:20 THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I CAME OVER TO UNITED STATES, IT 56:25 IS BECAUSE MY SISTER NEEDS MY HELP. AS I WAS WORKING IN THE 56:30 HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK, MY BOSS SERAPHIN, HE WAS SO GRACIOUS 56:33 ENOUGH TO GIVE ME AN INVITATION TO THE MILLENNIUM PROPHECY. 56:38 AS I WAS LISTENING TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR'S PRESENTATION, 56:43 MY HEART REALLY WAS BEATING SO FAST AND MY MIND - I'M ABLE TO 56:48 GRASP THE TRUTH THAT THIS IS THE TRUTH THAT I'VE BEEN LONGING TO 56:54 HEAR ALL MY LIFE - THAT I'VE BEEN SEEKING FOR SO LONG. 56:59 MY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS - I CAN SEE JESUS AS MY 57:04 PERSONAL SAVIOR. HE IS NOT ONLY THE SAVIOR OF 57:08 THE WHOLE WORLD, BUT HE IS MY PERSONAL SAVIOR. 57:12 HE WAS THE ONE WHO DELIVERED ME MIGHTILY FROM THE DEPTHS OF SIN 57:18 - FROM THE MIREY CLAY. PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR HAS 57:22 BEEN USED BY THE LORD IN MY CONVERSION. 57:25 THE AMAZING FACTS I OWE TO THEM. THE LORD REALLY BLESSED THIS 57:31 MINISTRY AND I'M SO PROUD I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND THIS 57:36 MILLENNIUM PROPHECY. MY LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME. 57:40 IT HAS GIVEN ME THAT PEACE - THAT JOY THAT NEVER - I HAVE 57:46 NEVER TASTED IN MY LIFE AND NOW I'M SET FREE TO BE ABLE TO WORK 57:52 FOR HIM AND TO FOLLOW HIM. (MUSIC) |
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