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It's good to be here and 
thankful for Hall, that have 

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made it and appreciate the 
attendance. 

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And hopefully this morning I'd 
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to the congregation here and and
in line with what God teaches us

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as well, the primarily so we're 
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teaching out of the Book of Job 
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And a jumping between a few 
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points in this book. 
So most of us know, the story of

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job and how God allowed Satan to
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And we'll go over some of those 
today and when we read the book 

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of job, I've always wondered and
had a question of why, why would

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God allow this? 
Why would God allow Ready to go 

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through these things to go 
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and the things that Joe went 
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And the question that I want us 
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Here's when we think about our 
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whatever, we may come upon maybe
a long time ago is why when we 

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think about those questions, you
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allowing this in my life? 
Why am I suffering so much pain 

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or going through this or that or
whatever it may be? 

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We're going to be starting in 
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going to be going through job 
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And here's the kind of the setup
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beginning of job. 
One, Joe had everything that he 

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could ever want to desire. 
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Full of children, wealth, 
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And he was blameless before God,
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And he turned away from evil 
evil and then in an instant, all

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of his possessions were Stripped
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You had everything taken away 
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the kind of waves after waves of
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one after the other and then all
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instantly, we could read. 
In job to he loses his good 

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health. 
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in pain. 
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curse God and die. 
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end of Job 1 and 2, he is still 
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One says that when all this 
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possessions, and all his 
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1, verse 20, through 22. 
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his robe and shaved his head and
fell on the ground and worshiped

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and he said naked, I came from 
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I return? 
The lord gave and the Lord has 

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taken away blessed. 
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this job did not sin. 
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wrong. so, these are really kind
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end of Job chapter 2, it says in
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but he said to her, you speak as
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speak. 
This is his is him talking to 

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his wife? 
Shall we receive good from God? 

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And shall we not receive evil? 
And all of this job, did not sin

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with his lips and those are two 
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statements that I can read you 
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Those statements are of trust in
and worship of God in the middle

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of unimaginable tragedy and loss
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But this was just the beginning 
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Experiencing its one thing, you 
know to get a sudden tragedy 

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happened in your life, something
that happens that you don't 

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expect, but job experienced a 
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of all this stuff happening to 
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You know, it's one thing to I 
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thing to have prolonged pain, 
and suffering, two, totally 

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different things. 
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to in Job 3. 
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blameless, upright, man, who is 
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now struggling with questions of
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to him. 
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question of God. 
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Why is this happening? 
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He's even in a trash Heap while 
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These things in his life, then 
before long, some of his friends

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showed up, which is eliphaz 
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job, initially speaks in Job 3 
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he and his friends conversing 
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First eliphaz speaks, then job 
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speech than job responds. 
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And then The third time, one of 
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guy, new friend comes in and his
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So the Council of these friends 
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that Book of Job, we need to 
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some things are happening in the
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those specific things as 
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This is a clear example of not 
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from job's friends. 
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are saying or is true at 
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they apply that truth is often 
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tone in sharing these truths as 
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true. 
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unhelpful council is an 
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something. 
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to deserve all this. 
Job, you've done something 

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wrong. 
You deserve this, this pain. 

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Something bad happens, something
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it. 
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you, then you deserve it. 
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That's a terrible way to look at
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However, in the middle of all 
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and his friends, we do find some
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that job was relying on anchors 
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through these things that were 
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Joe 3 is exactly the place that 
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how many times job. 
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want to read the whole chapter 
of Job 3 and I was you read 

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through it. 
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the question of why we'll start 
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After this job opened his mouth 
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And this is him actually talking
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And job spoke and said May the 
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and the night in which it was 
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Met that day. 
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seek it, nor the light shine 
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shadow of death claim, it made 
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It may the blackest of the day 
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May Darkness sees it may it not 
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Year, may it not come into the 
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Oh may it, that night be Barren,
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into it may those curse it who 
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ready to arouse, the Vaya 'then 
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Be dark. 
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none and not see the dawning of 
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up. 
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nor hide sorrow from my eyes. 
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Why did I not pray? 
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Why did the knees receive me? 
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nurse for? 
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been quiet. 
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would have been at rest with 
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the earth who built runes for 
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had gold, who filled their 
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why was I not hidden like a 
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Like infants, who never saw 
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from troubling and they're the 
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They're the prisoners rest 
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They do not hear the voice of 
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great are there and the servant 
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light given to him who is in 
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Soul who longed for death? 
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for it. 
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Rejoice exceedingly and are glad
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Why is light given to a man who 
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God has hedged in For my sign 
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I eat in my groanings pour out 
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I greatly feared has come upon 
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happened to me. 
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quiet. 
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That's some heavy stuff. 
That's um, that's a guy who just

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really is saying why in the 
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To experience this six times in 
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Why is the question that we is 
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Like we said, why was I even 
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Why did you even make me? 
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A faithful man hurting and not 
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he even here? 
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implication of job thinking. 
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I don't want to live and he's 
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death. 
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So how in the world with Joe 
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questions and trials? 
How in the world did he hold 

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onto his faith in God? 
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I'm going to show, you know, 
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That job really had, you know, 
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on to God, that's all he had. 
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going to go over. 
That job was relying on, you 

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know, it's good for, it was good
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us today. 
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That's what Joe was holding 
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I want to jump ahead to Job 28 
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kind of contains a scene of a 
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climax. 
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God is God speaks to job and in 
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chapter there, this this chapter
is kind of referred to as wisdom

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literature. 
The kind of you kind of see some

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stuff that you can see in 
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And so was job is wrestling with
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NY listen to what he said. 
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verse 12 and will read through 
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But where can wisdom be found? 
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understanding? 
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Does not know its value, nor it 
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living. 
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and the Sea says, it is not with
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It cannot be purchased for gold,
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its price. 
It cannot be valued in the gold 

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of ophir in the precious Onyx or
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Crystal can equal, it nor can it
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gold? 
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And of coral, or quartz for the 
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The topaz of Ethiopia can 
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valued in pure goal from where, 
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And where is the place of 
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It is hidden from the eyes of 
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the birds of the air, 
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Say we have heard a report about
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understands its way, and he 
knows its place for He took the 

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head ends of the Earth for, he 
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and seas under the whole Heavens
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A wait for the wind and a 
portion the Water by measure 

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when he made a law for the rain,
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then he saw wisdom and declared 
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He prepared it, indeed, he 
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And to man, he said, behold the 
fear of the Lord that is wisdom 

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and to depart from Evil is 
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like what we see in, you know, 
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the wisdom literature that we 
see there and job is searching 

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for wisdom and understanding and
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it. 
And he doesn't Got a job does 

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not understand why he's going 
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But he know God does he knows 
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And so when we get to verse 23, 
this chapter, we see something 

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that's key for us to understand 
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Why questions? 
You know I want to show us 

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basically three ingredients that
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So follow me on this as we go 
through these number one, wisdom

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involves knowledge. 
God understands the way to it 

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and he knows its place. 
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knowledge. 
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involves perspective verse 24 
for for he, which is God looks 

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to the ends of the Earth and 
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wisdom is the ability to 
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starts talking about how God has
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And he says there, he create he 
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a portion of the waters by 
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rain and a way for the lightning
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God made everything himself and 
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He declare wisdom, he 
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beginning. 
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experience, I want you to think 
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I'm sorry, will think we're 
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wisdom first and then we'll get 
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Wisdom? 
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don't know everything. 
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our saved saying? 
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that, I would have done this. 
If what I want to Kno know this,

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I would have made. 
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construction in Bakersfield, I 
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perspective. 
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situation are all the effects of
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point of view, Maybe, Something 
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don't necessarily see all the 
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instance. 
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learned some things for in the 
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through a situation knowing that
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better than that. 
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experience the more we grow in 
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wisdom. 
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Let's think about how he has 
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Knowledge number one, God knows 
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future. 
He knows he has all the facts, 

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she's got all the info. 
He knows everything. 

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God never finds himself saying I
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I would have done it 
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We don't see that ever happened,
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everything. 
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perspective on everything at all
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In verse 24, it says for he 
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and seas under the whole 
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spec perspective and God has 
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perspective. 
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one thing will affect every 
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Including every person at every 
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That's a huge concept to grasp, 
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God has Infinite Experience. 
He's always acted wisely and all

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that he has done and he's the 
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wisdom, wisdoms, author, excuse 
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God is Infinite Experience as 
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So during our questions, the 
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the pain we might suffer the 
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anything like that, why? 
Me God, why am I going through 

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this? 
Why, why is somebody that is 

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I was thinking this morning, you
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Have you ever thought about how 
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Not only in our lives that may 
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You know, what have God is 
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In order to have an effect on 
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Maybe somebody's looking to us 
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To something for them to learn 
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be that they're dealing with in 
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God's Providence, which is the 
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works in our lives. 
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It's not just about us all the 
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else. 
Maybe we're going through this 

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trial, whatever, may be in order
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deal with it. 
I remember, you know, Frank up 

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here. 
Sometimes he would always talk 

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about this subject and somebody 
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Frank would say? 
Well why not you Why not? 

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Are you above everybody else? 
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experience? 
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that in our lives, you know, to 
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better to get us through that 
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And he's never going to give us 
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So we need to remember that. 
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we lack. 
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perspective and experience but 
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And this is why in the middle of
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In the middle of the Book of 
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that God is all-wise and as a 
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because God is always And you 
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trust God when this or that 
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to somebody else we can trust 
God and we when we remember that

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his knowledge is perfect that he
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what is best in all those things
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When we remember that, he sees 
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time. 
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We can trust God when we 
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Experience and that he has, and 
is always and will and always 

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will be in that in wisdom, his 
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He knows how to take an evil and
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situation and turn to good, The 
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the cross. 
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It's the story of Jesus, the 
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Son of God, beaten and tortured 
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Why? 
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go through that Jesus was on the
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ninth hour? 
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voice saying, Eli, Eli, Lama 
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And that is to say my God, my 
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Why have you forsaken me? 
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suffering was asking, why why 
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why the pain, why the death, why
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And the answer is because God, 
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wisdom, his perfect knowledge of
every single, he has perfect 

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knowledge of every single one of
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And in his internal perspective,
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one of us who obeys, the Gospel 
of Jesus and lives for him. 

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2,000 liters from that event. 
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event. 
That's what we count. 

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Our time by. 
Is that event right around that 

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time to be here today and to be 
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Eternal perspective. 
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So we praise God. 
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father in that situation. 
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The most evil act in history. 
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Son of God, ushered in the most 
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history and Salve. 
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person from every nation who 
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infinitely wise and we are not. 
So we have all of our questions 

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about why we must remember that.
God is all-wise it honors and 

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glorifies God when we trust in 
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And honestly don't understand 
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Let me know. 
Stan, what's going on? 

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May not want to know the reality
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doing what is best for us. 
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anchor that we can rely on and 
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you are hope back in Job 3. 
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think is an appropriate 
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State of Mine. 
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A number of times, you talked 
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picture of Despair and the 
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responses that he has to his 
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For example, he had a response 
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It says, oh, that I might have 
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me. 
The thing that I long for that 

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at would plead that it would. 
Please God to crush me, that he 

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would lose. 
His hand and cut me off and job 

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7 verse 16. 
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I would not live forever. 
Let me alone for my days are but

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a breath joke. 10 20 through 22 
are my days. 

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Not few cease, leave me alone 
that I may take a little Comfort

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before I go to the place from 
which I shall not return to the 

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land of darkness and the shadow 
of death at land is dark as 

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Darkness itself as the shadow of
death without any order. 

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Or even the light is like 
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through 22. 
He has removed my brother's far 

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from me and my acquaintances are
completely estranged from me. 

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My relatives have failed and my 
close friends have forgotten me.

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Those who dwell in my house and 
my maid servants, count me as a 

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stranger. 
I am an alien in their sight. 

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I call my servant but he gives 
no answer. 

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I begged him with my mouth. so, 
Job is in death and despair and 

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and he's longing for he's 
longing for Hope in all this 

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stuff that he's going through. 
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challenge, right? 
It's what despair is. 

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Its Darkness was no sign of 
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Rock. 
Bottom in a sense, in chapter 

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19, we just read that. 
I got ahead of myself and 

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beginning in verse 13. 
He says there, as we read in 

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verse 13. 
Will keep, you know, above all 

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other things. 
We should be going through, you 

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know, these things. 
You know, we're not above all 

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these things will continue 
reading in verse 17 of chapter 

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19. 
I apologize. 

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I got a little bit out of order.
There says my breath is 

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offensive to my wife and I am 
repulsive to the children of my 

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own blood. 
Even young children despise me. 

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I arise and they speak against 
me. 

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All of my close friends of bore 
me, and Those whom I love have 

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turned against me, my bone 
clings, to my skin, into my 

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flesh, and I have escaped by the
skin of my teeth. 

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Have pity on me. 
Have pity on me. 

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Oh my you my friends for the 
hand of God has struck me. 

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Why do you persecute me as God 
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my flesh. 
Seemingly basically no hope that

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that he had. 
And it's at this point in jobs 

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life where we, we, you know, one
of the most remarkable 

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remarkable and thrilling 
triumphant parts. 

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In this book. 
In the very next sentence in the

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very next verse in verse 23, o, 
that my words were written. 

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Oh, that they were inscribed in 
a book. 

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And I want us to feel the 
intensity there that they were 

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engraved on a rock with an iron 
pan and led forever. 

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And then in verse 25 and 3, 27 
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redeemer lives and he shall 
stand at last upon the Earth and

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after my skin is destroyed, 
this. 

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I know that in my flesh, I shall
see God whom I shall see for 

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myself and my eyes Shall Behold 
and not another how my heart 

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yearns. 
Earns Within Me. 

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Could you imagine going through 
this stuff that he did? 

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And then being able to speak 
these words still have that 

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faith and trust in God. 
Really a remarkable man. 

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And he says, I know. 
Somebody else doesn't know. 

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I know that my redeemer lives My
Redeemer mine. 

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Now that just because he had 
those questions, you know, that 

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that he had that faith. 
It doesn't mean that he still 

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didn't have those questions of 
why things were happening. 

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It's like not like all of a 
sudden they've all been answered

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and quite the opposite. 
You know, job doesn't seem to 

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have any of his questions after 
he doesn't know why. 

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But he knows who. 
Jobe understands, who is the 

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creator, who gives all life, who
we can rely on? 

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No matter what position he is. 
A redeemer of indicator. 

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And this word is used in Ruth to
describe the champion of the 

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oppressed. 
It's used in Exodus to describe 

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the delivery of the captives. 
It's used in Proverbs to 

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describe the defender of the 
week, and, you know, there's 

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something after your skin is 
destroyed, he saying here, 

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there's something after the pain
after the heartache, after the 

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sickness after the grief, after 
my skin is destroyed that in my 

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flesh, I shall see God whom I 
shall see for myself, my eyes, 

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Shall Behold yet and not another
how my heart yearns Within Me 

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So, let's hold fast. 
To God In Hope, do not turn away

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from God during our trials. 
Where else would we go? 

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To whom shall we go? 
Because in John chapter 6, The 

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disciples had nowhere else to 
go, but to Jesus, nobody else 

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could give the life that Jesus 
was promising to them. 

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And to us, there was no other 
place. 

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So when we hold fast to Hope in 
him, you would Behold Him as Our

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Redeemer, our Vindicator 
Defender deliver provider and 

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our healer, he is the one who 
alone can make All Things New in

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our life. 
We will see God. 

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He is our hope. 
We'll see our hope one of these 

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days. 
We'll see his face as we're told

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in Revelation. 
I think about Darren, and he's 

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okay with me using this, but 
there has been blind most of his

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life and he's going to see God's
face. 

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That's amazing to me. 
Beautiful. 

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And so we long for that hope to 
see God one of these days. 

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He will satisfy our souls 
forever. 

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So, jobs anchors, remember that 
God is all-wise, and hold fast 

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to God. 
As our hope. 

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