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Hiding your talents in the 
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God gave you that talent for a 
reason and want to use it. 

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So anyway, get your Bibles out 
tonight and oh, I thought you 

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had to go down there and get 
your Bible. 

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Good. 
All right, he's ready. 

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Amen. 
Good afternoon. 

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If you have your Bibles with 
you, please turn to Job Chapter 

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One. 
Job Chapter 1. 

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I know what pastor's doing, 
making me preach when I'm when 

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my stomach's full. 
He understands how hard it is 

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doing that in an afternoon. 
But no, I am thankful for the 

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opportunity that I have to 
preach tonight, this afternoon. 

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Really, it's one that I do not 
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the opportunity to do that. 
Also, I didn't say anything on 

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Thursday during testimony time, 
but I do want to take this time 

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to thank you guys just for your 
support and for your prayers 

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throughout the year, since 
January when I left to do my job

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interview and then I got the job
and then was out, you know, 

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doing the thing. 
But you know, I'm here in the 

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weekends and it really is a 
blessing to me when I'm able to 

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come to church on the weekends 
on Sundays and spend time with 

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God's people and then listen to 
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So I appreciate that. 
You never know what you have 

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until you lose it. 
So I will say that much. 

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Job, chapter 1 this afternoon. 
I'm not going to be, there's not

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going to be a very long message,
but I'm going to I'm going to 

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read throughout this chapter. 
We're going to pray and then 

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we'll get into the message this 
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Job One, the Bible says there 
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whose name was Job. 
And that man was perfect and 

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upright, and one that feared God
in eschewed evil. 

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And they were born unto him 
seven sons and three daughters. 

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His substance also was 7000 
sheep, and 3000 camels, and 500 

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yoke of oxen, and 500 she asses 
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So that this man was the 
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East. 
And his sons went and feasted in

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their houses everyone his day, 
and sent and called for their 

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three sisters to eat, and to 
drink with them. 

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And it was so, when the days of 
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that Job sent and sanctified 
them, and rose up early in the 

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morning, and offered burnt 
offerings, according to the 

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number of them all. 
For Job said, It may be that my 

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sons have sinned, and cursed God
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Thus did Job continually. 
Now there was a day when the 

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sons of God came to present 
themselves before the Lord, and 

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Satan came also among them. 
And the Lord said unto Satan, 

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Whence comest thou? 
Then Satan answered the Lord, 

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and said, From going to and fro 
in the earth, and from walking 

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up and down in it. 
And the Lord said it to Satan, 

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Hast thou considered my servant 
Job, that there is none like him

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in the earth, a perfect and an 
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God in issue with evil. 
Then Satan answered the Lord, 

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and said, Doth Job fear God for 
not? 

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Hast not thou made an hedge 
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and about all that he hath on 
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The work of his hands and his 
substance is increased in the 

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land. 
But put forth thine hand now and

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touch all that he hath, and he 
will curse thee to thy face. 

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Growing up, my dad would read 
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always put the emphasis in those
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It really gives Satan some 
character, I thought. 

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I just thought that was kind of 
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And Louis, I'm saying, Behold, 
all that he hath is in thy power

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only upon himself put not forth 
on hand. 

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So Satan went forth from the 
presence of the Lord, and there 

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was a day when his sons and his 
daughters were eating and 

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drinking wine in their eldest 
brother's house. 

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And there came a messenger unto 
Job, and said, the oxen were 

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plowing, and the asses feeding 
beside them, and the Sabian's 

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fell upon them, and took them 
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Yeah, they have slain the 
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sword, and I only am escaped 
alone to tell thee. 

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While he was yet speaking, there
came also another, and said, The

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fire of God has fallen from 
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sheep and the servants and 
consumed them, and I only and 

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escaped alone to tell thee. 
While he was yet speaking, there

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came also another, and said, The
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and fell upon the camels, and 
have carried them away. 

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Yeah, and slain the servants 
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And I only and escaped alone to 
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While he was yet speaking, there
came also another, and said, Thy

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sons and thy daughters were 
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their eldest brother's house. 
And behold, there came a great 

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wind from the wilderness, and 
smote the four corners of the 

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house, and it fell upon the 
young men, and they are dead, 

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and I only am escaped alone to 
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Then Joe Burrows and rent his 
mantle, and shaved his head, and

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fell down upon the ground, and 
worshipped, and said, Naked came

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I out of my mother's womb, and 
naked shall I return. 

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Thither the Lord gave, and the 
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Blessed be the name of the Lord,
and all this jobs, and not nor 

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charged God foolishly. 
May God bless the reading of His

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word. 
Let us pray. 

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Father in Heaven, thank you so 
much for this time. 

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We have to come into your house 
once again and to open up your 

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word once again. 
Lord, we thank you so much for 

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this church and for the people 
of God and for the blessing that

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it is to come into your house 
and spend time with them. 

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Lord, at this time, as we look 
through the book of Job and look

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through the story that we have 
here in the Bible that you put 

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here for us, help us to learn 
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Help us to realize what it is in
our hearts that need to be 

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changed and things in our lives 
that need to be changed. 

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I pray that you'll speak to 
speak through me. 

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I pray that you'll cleanse me of
sin and to me of self and fill 

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me with your Spirit at this 
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We pray this news in your name. 
Amen. 

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No, I always found it 
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that Job is not a very relatable
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I mean, from the start anyway. 
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I don't know how many of you 
have seven sons and three 

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daughter. 
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but you know, 7000 sheep and 
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and 500 donkeys. 
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know how many of you are the 
greatest of your, of your people

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in the West or in the East Coast
or whatever, but Job is not very

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relatable from the start towards
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Now after he goes to these 
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struck and struck with these 
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And maybe we can kind of relate 
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But I always thought it was 
pretty interesting. 

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But to this afternoon, I want to
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We're not going to be very long 
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lessons from a perfect and 
upright man. 

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That's the name of that's the 
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from a perfect and upright man. 
This is what God called him. 

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Lesson 1A Righteous routine. 
A righteous routine. 

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Now I do realize that I might 
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what Joseph, what Job did every 
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But the point I'd like to get 
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Job was faithful in his worship 
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as a father. 
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The Bible says, And it was so 
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were gone about that Job sent 
and sanctified them and rose up 

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early in the morning and offered
burnt offerings according to the

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number of them all for Job said,
it may be that my sons have 

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sinned and have cursed God in 
their hearts. 

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Thus did Job continually. 
He did this, He made a practice 

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out of this. 
He cared for his children. 

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He wanted them to find favor in 
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He didn't necessarily know where
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You know, were they walking with
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Were they walking in truth like 
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We like to think that they were 
based off of Job and based off 

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of Job's testimony, but Job 
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He interceded for his children. 
Maybe they messed up. 

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Maybe they haven't been giving 
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Maybe they have not been perfect
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I'm going to offer sacrifices 
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Sacrifices on their behalf of 
praying Father is a powerful 

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thing. 
I mean, I can't tell you how 

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many times the child I woke up 
and heard my dad praying for me 

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or even woken up and see like 
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me. 
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with, you know, with my job, 
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working and I'll think to 
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My dad is probably praying for 
me right now. 

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I'm praying. 
Father, do you take time to pray

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for your children? 
Children, do you take time to 

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pray for your parents, your 
family, your friends? 

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How about your pastor? 
How about our church? 

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How about our coworkers? 
Are they important enough to 

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you? 
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Make it a habit to consider them
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Lord. 
It's a principle that even the 

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Lord practice in the New, in the
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praying for his friends and his 
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Consider Luke 22 verse 31 to 32.
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to her, though there will be 
some passages that have returned

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to, but I'll read this one. 
The Lord said, Simon, Simon, 

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behold, Satan hath desire to 
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as wheat. 
But I have prayed for thee that 

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thy faith fell not. 
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strengthen thy brethren. 
The apostles encourage it as 

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well. 
Ephesians 618 says praying 

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always with all prayer and 
supplication in the Spirit, and 

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watching there too with all 
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for All Saints. 
Pray for the Saints, pray for 

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God's people. 
You know, there's a hymn that we

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saying here in our church, not 
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It's brethren we have met to 
worship, Brethren, we have met 

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to worship and adore the Lord 
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Will you pray with all your 
power while we try to preach the

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Word? 
All this vain unless the spirits

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of the Holy One come down, 
brother and pray, and holy manna

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will be showered all around, 
brother and sea. 

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Poor sinners around you 
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Death is coming, held us moving.
Can you bear to let them go? 

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See our fathers and our mothers 
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Brethren, pray and holy manna 
will be showered all around. 

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Sisters, will you join and help 
us? 

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Moses's sister aided him. 
Will you help the trembling 

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mourners who are struggling hard
with sin? 

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Tell them all about the Savior. 
Tell them that He will be found.

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Sisters, pray and holy manner 
will be showered all around. 

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Pray for your children. 
Pray for your family. 

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Pray for your friends and your 
loved ones. 

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Bring them up before the Lord. 
A righteous routine. 

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Lesson 2 a disdain for 
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disobedience. 
Job eschewed evil. 

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He did he deliberately chose to 
walk away from stay away from 

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evil things during a very wicked
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and even in the bad times, even 
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Look at verse 22 of Job chapter 
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Job said not. 
They were charged God foolishly.

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He was determined that 
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regardless of whether or not he 
had all of his money or all of 

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his wealth or his land or even 
his children, that he was not 

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going to disobey, that he was 
not going to be foolish. 

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He was not going to renounce 
God. 

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He was not going to live and 
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He understood that righteousness
is not based off of 

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circumstances. 
Turn to Psalm chapter one. 

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Well, it's not really chapter 
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Turn to Psalm 1. 
It's a very familiar passage. 

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We've all read it at some point.
First one to point your 

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attention to a few verses here. 
Psalm One Bible says, Blessed is

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the man that walketh not in the 
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standeth in the way of sinners, 
nor sitteth in the seats of the 

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scornful, but his delight is in 
the law of the Lord and in his 

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law that they meditate day and 
night. 

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Proverbs One also has something 
to something to say about sin, 

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about staying away from simple 
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Turn there real quick. 
Psalm chapter Excuse me. 

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Proverbs 1. 
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Verses 10 to 19. 
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sinners entice thee, consent 
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If they say, Come with us, let 
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lurk privately for the innocent 
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Let us swallow them up alive as 
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that go down into the pit. 
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substance. 
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spoil. 
Cast in thy lot among us. 

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Let us all have one purse. 
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this to us and I'd always, you 
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and think, you know, I don't. 
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I don't like persons anyway. 
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My son, Walk not thou in the way
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Refrain thy foot from their 
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One more Colossians 3, verse 
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You don't have to turn there, 
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your members, which are upon the
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inordinate affection, evil, 
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which is idolatry, for which 
things sake the wrath of God 

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cometh on the children of 
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Job hated sin, dope, adore, 
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that bothered him. 
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it should disgust us just like a
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If we have sinned our lives, you
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is basically what it's saying. 
Don't let it linger in the camp.

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Don't let it become a foothold. 
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that went in our training, in 
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called something called the 
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And there are four steps and one
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Getting a, getting a foothold in
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You stop putting that building 
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go through certain processes. 
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to get a, to gain a foothold in 
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And you start with the first 
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That building's clear. 
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buildings, you go to the next 
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floor, third floor of the roof. 
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gaining A foothold. 
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your house. 
Don't let him gain a one room in

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your house, in your heart. 
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not by it. 
Turn from it and pass away. 

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Let's not let our flesh get in 
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Let's not be disobedient. 
Lessons from Joe. 

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He had a righteous routine, a 
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Thirdly, an impregnable 
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Impregnable integrity. 
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him, so he guarded it. 
He didn't give anyone, not his 

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friends, not his wife, not even 
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to say that he gave up on his 
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Check out chapter 2 verse two 
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Go back to Job chapter 2 verses 
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The Bible says in the Lord said 
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thou? 
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said, from going to and fro in 
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down at it. 
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Hast thou considered my servant 
Job, that there is none like him

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in the earth, a perfect and an 
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God, and issue with evil, and 
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integrity, although thou movest 
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without cause. 
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says, Then his wife said it to 
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Dost thou still retain thine 
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He was still holding on to his 
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in this book Job actually says 
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integrity from me. 
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rewards integrity. 
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a bunch of passages here. 
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but if you would like to though,
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references to Proverbs 11/1 says
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abomination to the Lord, but I 
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Verse 3 of that same chapter. 
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shall guide them, but the 
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shall destroy them. 
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Verse 5. 
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Solomon by the way. 
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as David thy father, thy father 
walked in integrity of heart and

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in righteousness to do according
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will keep my statutes and my 
judgments, then I will establish

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the throne of thy Kingdom upon 
Israel forever, as I promised to

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David thy father, saying, There 
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the throne of Israel. 
Psalm 2521 says, let integrity 

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and uprightness preserve me, for
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Is your integrity worth 
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Does it mean as much to you as 
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When no one else is around? 
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Are you just as honest when it's
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Integrity like Job, we need to 
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We need to guard our integrity. 
I'm almost done your lessons 

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from Job a righteous routine 
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impregnable integrity. 
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worship. 
Wholesome worship. 

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This is my favorite one. 
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verses 20 and 22/22/22. 
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invents his mantle, and shaved 
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ground, and worshipped, and 
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mother's womb, and naked shall I
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Thither the Lord gave, and the 
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Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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came. 
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worship God in the hard times 
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Do you worship? 
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all the glory? 
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God is still God in the hard 
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God is still good. 
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everlasting love. 
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the Lord at all times. 
His prayers shall continually be

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in my mouth. 
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says, O taste and see that the 
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Blessed is the man that trusted 
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There's so many of that verses, 
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to talk about God's goodness and
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blessings in the hard times in 
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We talked about it this morning,
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thing about this and then we'll 
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When God is your foundation, you
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shaken. 
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I'll have you turn to this last 
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Jeremiah 17, verses 5 through 8.
These are some of my life 

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verses. 
Jeremiah 17, verses 5 through 8.

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This passage says, Thus saith 
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trusted the man, and maketh 
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departed from the Lord. 
For he shall be like the heath 

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in the desert, and shall not see
when good cometh, but shall 

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inhabit the parched places in 
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and not inhabited. 
Blessed is the man that trusteth

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in the Lord, and whose hope the 
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For He shall be like a tree 
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spreadeth out her roots by the 
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cometh, but her leaf shall be 
green, and shall not be careful 

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in the year of droughts, either 
shall cease from yielding 

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fruits. 
You need to praise God for being

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your Everlast, your everlasting 
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trouble. 
He's your foundation, He's your 

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shepherd. 
He's our cornerstone. 

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Every disappointment, every 
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time. 
Know that the Lord your God is 

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your strength. 
Let Him shine through you. 

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He will lead you, He will defend
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He'll grow you through the 
difficulties. 

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He will allow you to thrive in 
the victorious power of Christ. 

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Lessons from Job, a righteous 
routine, disdain for 

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disobedience, impregnable 
integrity, wholesome worship. 

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May the Lord help us to work 
through these things in our in 

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our hearts and our lives. 
All right, let us pray Father in

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Evan, thank you so much for this
time. 

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Just a short time we had to look
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these verses and see from from 
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Live the live a Christian life 
and not just not just live a, a 

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what we call the Christian life,
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help us to have integrity. 
Help us to live righteously. 

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Help us to to pray for each 
other. 

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Help us to worship you in the 
hard times. 

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But as we go throughout this 
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lives as Christian, help as 
Christians, help us to be a 

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light to those around us that 
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glorify you in heaven. 
We praise things in your name. 

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Amen. 
Amen. 

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Amen. 
Let's stand with our heads by an

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ice close. 
I want to give you an 

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opportunity to respond to the 
message. 

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Maybe God spoke to you about 
something in your heart that 

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needs to be changed. 
And boy, I tell you, one of the 

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reasons that Job responded the 
way that he did, and one of the 

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reasons we have the book of Job 
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Job was doing the things that he
needed to do before the trials 

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came that set him up for when 
the trials came. 

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And all of those things were not
things that Job developed after 

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everything got rough. 
Those are things that he 

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developed before. 
And that those the, all the, all

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the points that he mentioned are
things that Job was doing in his

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heart that helped prepare him 
for the trials that came. 

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And you know, obviously we all 
go through trials. 

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We all have difficulties and we 
all have things that we deal 

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with. 
But what are you doing in your 

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life? 
How are you handling those those

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problems? 
And are you doing these things? 

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Are you doing them? 
It's great, great message. 

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That can be a help to us if 
we'll let it. 

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Let's pray and then we'll have a
time of invitation. 

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Father, again, we thank you for 
the message. 

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I pray that you'd use it in our 
hearts, in Jesus name, Amen, as 

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the panel play.