1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,500 Chapter 20 is where we are this evening, this bow for a word of 2 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:04,600 prayer together. Father, thank you for today. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,500 And the chance we have the study, the word. 4 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,100 You are such a great God. And we are blessed to be able to 5 00:00:10,100 --> 00:00:15,000 spend a brief moment in the scriptures to understand those 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,800 things you have for us. Lord, we realize that the things 7 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:23,500 that you have said in your word speak to us every day and that 8 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:28,600 because it's a Living Word. It's something that is always 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,299 applicable. No matter what year we live, no 10 00:00:32,299 --> 00:00:36,300 matter what culture, we are from the word of God, speaks to all 11 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:38,900 of us. It is so great to know that when 12 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:42,700 we read it and when we study it and when we memorize it, we're 13 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:47,500 able to understand what your word is for us at that time. 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,800 And so Lord, I just pray that you open our hearts and Minds 15 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:54,400 tonight to see the things out of your law that will enable us to 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,700 see you for who you are and what you've done. 17 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:58,700 Thank you for those who are here. 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,300 We thank you. Lord, that they were here safely 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,900 and pray that their time would be rich for them as they hear 20 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:07,600 your word this evening in Jesus name. 21 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:14,500 Amen, Job chapter 20, and as you're turning there, you have 22 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:16,400 to ask yourself. The question. 23 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,400 Question is why is it we spend all this time? 24 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:26,600 Reading over all these conversations between job. 25 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:31,200 And his friends. Why is it? 26 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:33,500 We just don't skip over all this. 27 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:39,200 Why do we spend all this time week after week after week? 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,600 Listening to what job's friends say when in all reality when we 29 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:49,300 get to the end, God's going to say very clearly that the 30 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:55,000 friends did not represent me? They did not speak for me. 31 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:00,700 In fact they misrepresented me tremendously job. 42 first. 47. 32 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:05,900 So if that's the case, why spend all this time looking at this 33 00:02:05,900 --> 00:02:09,300 conversation, we're God's being misrepresented. 34 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:15,500 Why would we do that? well, the Bible tells us that 35 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:20,400 all scripture is inspired by God and is profitable. 36 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,300 They're just not certain books that are inspired, that's all 37 00:02:24,300 --> 00:02:29,500 inspired, it's all God. Breathed every single word is is 38 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:35,500 breathed into existence by God. So when we study the Bible we 39 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:39,900 are studying what God has said. So the Bible says that every 40 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:42,700 word of God is pure every word of God is true. 41 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,700 We take that at face value and realize that everything that God 42 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:49,900 has said is absolutely true. So there's no portion of 43 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:51,900 scripture that's irrelevant to our lives. 44 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:54,500 We think it is because we're reading this and you know, and 45 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,000 I'm not sure that applies to me at this time or I'm not sure 46 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,400 that's really where I'm at, you know. 47 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,400 And so I don't see anybody relates to me but it does it all 48 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,000 does. And that's very, very important 49 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,900 understand because people read The Book of Leviticus and say I 50 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:11,400 don't understand all these rituals and ceremonies and that 51 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,400 doesn't apply to me. But it's all about Holiness, 52 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:15,500 right? The Book of Leviticus is about 53 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:18,400 Holiness and so everybody's to be holy as God. 54 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:20,300 His holy. So yeah, we say The Book of 55 00:03:20,308 --> 00:03:25,300 Leviticus because God wants us to be holy like he's holy And 56 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:28,000 yet when you read the conversations that job has with 57 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,100 these so-called friends, It can be very monotonous. 58 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:39,100 It can be very repetitive. It can be very insulting. 59 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,700 So why do we do it? Well, if every word of God is 60 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:47,600 inspired and all that inspired word of God is profitable for 61 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,300 Doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in 62 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:52,700 righteousness, that the man of God will be thoroughly. 63 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:55,500 Furnished equipped for all good works, right? 64 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,800 There's something here that's going to equip me. 65 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,600 There's something here that's profitable for me. 66 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,400 So what is it? That's going to profit me. by 67 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,800 studying The Book of Job and the conversations that job was 68 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:13,100 having that's very important. and so, as we study tonight, for 69 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:20,600 instance, you can talk about The brevity of Life For The Wicked 70 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:24,700 that will be Point. Number one, or you can talk 71 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:29,200 about the temporary pleasure. For the wicked. 72 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,100 That's Point. Number two. 73 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:34,600 Or you could talk about the certainty of judgment upon the 74 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,300 wicked. That's Point. 75 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:38,800 Number three. And all that would be 76 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,300 applicable. Life is brief. 77 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:45,600 Doesn't last very long. Pleasures are temporary in this 78 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,400 life. They come and go. 79 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,700 And then there is a certainty that judge was going to come 80 00:04:50,900 --> 00:04:54,300 from the wicked. so you can learn about those things 81 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:56,900 especially when it comes to sharing your faith, with those 82 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:00,500 who live Wicked lives and they need to know of the certainty of 83 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:04,400 judgement But it goes way beyond that. 84 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,900 Because you have to understand what's exactly happening in the 85 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:11,200 conversations. So, let me introduce it to you 86 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,300 this way. The greatest destructive force 87 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,800 in the church. Is the tongue. 88 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,300 Our speech. Our conversation. 89 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,400 It is always been the most destructive force. 90 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,000 In fact, the tongue is like a sword that's driven into the 91 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,200 side of people's lives and in it, just drives deep into the 92 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,400 heart and soul of people and causes great damage. 93 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:49,700 Especially when what is said. Is not true. 94 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:56,800 And what jobs friends are saying is not true. 95 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:04,700 In fact, they are giving false accusations against job. 96 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,400 Now that's very important because we need to understand 97 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,500 that in our day and age because we need to realize that false 98 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:16,300 accusations are very destructive to people in the church. 99 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,800 But here's Joe right? He's suffering greatly. 100 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:26,700 And what is being said to him? Just isn't true. 101 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,700 So they falsely accuse, the innocent man, they falsely 102 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:35,000 accused. The greatest man on the planet 103 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:38,300 they falsely accused the blameless upright God-fearing 104 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:42,800 man. And they will stop at nothing. 105 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,600 For him to see it their way. Now, when you think about that, 106 00:06:49,500 --> 00:06:52,100 think about the people in the Bible that were falsely accused. 107 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:59,100 Let's think of Joseph, right. Joseph was sold into slavery. 108 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:04,400 By his brothers, went off to Egypt. 109 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:10,000 And served in Potiphar's house. The one-day Potiphar's wife 110 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,400 wanted Joseph. And so she wanted Joseph to lie 111 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,600 with her. And he would not. 112 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,100 So, she grabbed his cloak and he ran. 113 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:29,000 And she falsely accused him. Of something that wasn't true. 114 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:35,400 And Joseph went to prison. She wanted something from, from 115 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,200 Joseph. And she didn't get it. 116 00:07:39,500 --> 00:07:41,600 And because she didn't get what she wanted. 117 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:46,000 She falsely accused him. He went to prison. 118 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:51,900 What about Moses? Israel's greatest leader right 119 00:07:51,900 --> 00:07:57,500 the great emancipator. Moses at age 80 right at age 80 120 00:07:57,900 --> 00:08:00,000 the Lord appeared to him in a burning bush and told him hey 121 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:01,300 you're going to deliver my people this year. 122 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:03,700 I'm coming down to deliver them and you're going to be the 123 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:05,800 deliverer and sure enough he did. 124 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,700 He took them out after those ten plagues. 125 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,500 He led them out of Egyptian bondage Into the Wilderness and 126 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:16,000 guess what? Israel was so upset that they 127 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,900 falsely accused Israel's greatest leader for bringing 128 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:24,900 them out of bondage just so they could die in the wilderness. 129 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,900 That wasn't true. But the accused him of that 130 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:34,600 falsely. That wasn't his motive, not at 131 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,400 all. But here is Moses Israel's 132 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:44,800 greatest leader falsely accused. By the nation here was Joseph, 133 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:49,500 nothing in the scriptures is said, bad about Joseph at all. 134 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,500 He's a great type of Christ in the Old Testament. 135 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,700 Falsely accused. Went to prison, didn't do 136 00:08:58,700 --> 00:09:02,100 anything. How about David King? 137 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:07,200 David member at 17 years of age. He slew the Giant and the song 138 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,400 began to ring all throughout Israel, right? 139 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:17,000 Saul has slain his thousands but David his ten thousands, and all 140 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,300 of a sudden, Saul became jealous. 141 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:25,600 Angry. So what did he do? 142 00:09:26,300 --> 00:09:32,100 He falsely accused David of wanting to steal his throne and 143 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:36,800 for the next 12 years. David was a fugitive, David was 144 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:41,900 on the Run. Because King Saul falsely. 145 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:46,000 Accused him. He lied about. 146 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,300 So, you have Joseph. And Potiphar's wife. 147 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,700 She wanted something so bad when she didn't get it. 148 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:56,400 She was angry. So what did she do? 149 00:09:56,500 --> 00:10:01,500 She falsely accused Joseph and then you have Moses. 150 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,300 Great leader of Israel. And all of a sudden the people 151 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:09,900 not getting what they want. And when they don't get what 152 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:13,200 they want, what do they do? They turn on the leader and they 153 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,900 falsely accuse him. Here's King David. 154 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,500 Not the king yet. This is 17 year old kid. 155 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:24,500 But he's accused of wanting to steal the throne even though 156 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:29,100 that's not his purposes simply because Saul didn't want to lose 157 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:32,000 the throne and he was a jealous man. 158 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,600 It's so jealousy is seen by falsely accusing, those who are 159 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:41,500 a threat to you. In the list, goes on. 160 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,600 How about Nehemiah? The Abaya was sent by God to 161 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,900 help rebuild the walls around the city of Jerusalem after 162 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:56,900 their Babylonian captivity. But he was falsely accused. 163 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:04,500 Of wanting to be the next king of Israel, which was so far from 164 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:09,000 the truth. But he was falsely accused. 165 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:15,300 And then you move on. Look at Peter and John they were 166 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:19,700 falsely accused of preaching a false Christ when they were 167 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:22,800 preaching the true Christ and because they were falsely 168 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:29,300 accused, they were beaten and imprisoned Then, of course, you 169 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:33,700 have the great Apostle Paul. Poop on his conversion. 170 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:41,400 Was falsely accused of not being a true convert but a phony and 171 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,100 was later accused of bringing dissension among the Jewish 172 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:48,800 Nation. It was a Accused by Governor 173 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,500 Festus of being insane. All false accusations, none of 174 00:11:53,508 --> 00:11:56,400 them were true. But yet. 175 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,900 He was lied about. How about the Christ? 176 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,800 Right. He was falsely accused. 177 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,300 He was born. Illegitimately that was an 178 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:11,700 accusation. Not true. 179 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:18,000 Or how about the fact that he cast out demons by Beelzebub? 180 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,700 All another words, the things that he did he did because he 181 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:27,800 was possessed by Satan. False accusation. 182 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,900 He was accused of being a drunkard because he was so, she 183 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:35,900 ate with, with, with Sinners, not true. 184 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:40,800 And upon his trial, there are many false accusations said 185 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,600 against him that put him on a tree. 186 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,100 He hung there and died for your sins in mind. 187 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,600 And what does Christ say, before any of that ever took place? 188 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,300 He said these words in Matthew Chapter 5 on that first Sermon 189 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,900 on the Mount there on the Northern slopes of the Sea of 190 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:04,300 Galilee. He said these words blessed are 191 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:09,000 you when people insult, you persecute you falsely say all 192 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 kinds of evil against you because of me rejoice and be 193 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,400 glad for your reward in heaven is great for in the same way. 194 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:21,300 They persecuted the prophets who were before you You live. 195 00:13:21,300 --> 00:13:24,500 The beatitude kind of life. You're a peacemaker. 196 00:13:25,700 --> 00:13:29,200 And you're the kind of person who who who Mourns over to sin 197 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:31,300 and is a part of the kingdom of God. 198 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:33,700 People will persecute you for righteousness sake. 199 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:38,500 They'll falsely accuse you. But Christ says be of good 200 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:42,300 cheer. You're a part of good company so 201 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:46,300 they persecuted the prophets who were before you in fact he could 202 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:51,400 have said and so they persecuted the greatest men on the planet 203 00:13:51,900 --> 00:13:56,900 job, falsely. Because they did. 204 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,300 What would possess these men to falsely? 205 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:09,800 Accuse job? What would possess these men to 206 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:13,600 lie about what's happening with job? 207 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:14,700 Because that's what they're doing. 208 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,300 They're not speaking the truth, that's why the Lord invites him 209 00:14:18,300 --> 00:14:20,000 at the end. And that's why at the very end 210 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,800 they have to offer sacrifices. They have to repent because they 211 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,900 sinned against God and syndicates job. 212 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:30,200 And they think they're coming to give Comfort to job and they're 213 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:32,600 they're coming with the right motive in the right purpose and 214 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,400 here they are to sit with him and and to weep with him and to 215 00:14:35,408 --> 00:14:37,900 pray with him. Although the Bible records, no, 216 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:41,800 no prayer with him or for him by them, but here they are. 217 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,900 Do you know why? Do you know why? 218 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,300 They falsely accused him. It's because he hated job. 219 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,200 The hit them. See what that's harsh. 220 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:59,900 How can you say that? I didn't say it. 221 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,800 God did. Let me read it to you. 222 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:11,400 Book of Proverbs 26 verse verse 2426 chapter 24 verse He Who 223 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:16,000 hates Disguises it with his lips. 224 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:21,200 But he lays up the seat. In his heart. 225 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,300 He use a heater is going to disguise it with his lips. 226 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:29,500 In other words, they're going to say things that you want to 227 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:33,100 hear, but down deep, they hate you because they have deceived 228 00:15:33,100 --> 00:15:37,700 them on their, their own selves. But listen to this verse 25. 229 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,100 When he speaks graciously, do not believe him for there are 230 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:45,800 seven Abominations in his heart. Now, you can take that as being 231 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,400 the Perfection of abomination because seven is the number of 232 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,500 perfection. So there's a, a perfect 233 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:54,600 abomination in the heart or you can go back to Proverbs Chapter 234 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,900 6, right? About the things that God hates 235 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:02,400 and maybe that's the seven Abominations in his heart. 236 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:06,600 But it says, there was hatred covers himself with Gaia, whose 237 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,700 wickedness will be revealed. Before the assembly, he digs a 238 00:16:09,708 --> 00:16:12,700 pit will fall into it and he rolls a stone. 239 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:15,300 It will come back on him. And that's exactly what happens 240 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:18,700 to build, dad eliphaz, and zophar. 241 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:24,700 They dig a pit for themselves? By falsely, accusing job. 6 242 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:30,500 verse. 28. A lying tongue hates those. 243 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:32,700 It crushes. There you go. 244 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,200 Why do people lie? I hate you. 245 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:41,600 That's what they like. You have stopped them from 246 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,300 obtaining something that they want. 247 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,800 Potiphar's wife nation of Israel. 248 00:16:47,900 --> 00:16:50,400 King David, I mean assault with David. 249 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,200 Down deep. They there is hatred in their 250 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,100 hearts because you have kept them from obtaining something 251 00:16:58,100 --> 00:17:01,200 they want to obtain. Now, job's friends, would never 252 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,600 say that they hate each other because we don't hate joke. 253 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,400 Oh no, you got it all wrong. You're wrong. 254 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,900 We're here because we love job, we're here because we admire 255 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:12,900 Joe, we're here because we're the comforters of job. 256 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:18,000 That's why we're here. Hmm, really Then why do you 257 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,500 falsely accuse him? I've sinned, he never committed. 258 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:28,000 Why do you lie about his life? Why? 259 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:31,100 Because the Bible says you hate him, I don't care what anybody 260 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:34,200 else says, that's your relevant. What does the Bible say? 261 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:39,500 That's all that matters. The lying tongue hates the sole 262 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,600 it crushes. And a flattering mouth. 263 00:17:45,100 --> 00:17:49,000 Works ruin. That's why the Ten Commandments. 264 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:52,600 God says, Thou shalt not bear false. 265 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,300 Witness against your neighbor, can't lie. 266 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,600 Can't do that. Over in Proverbs, chapter 17, 267 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,000 listen to this. Probably 17 verse number 4 and 268 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,900 evildoer listens to Wicked lips and evildoer listens to weekly. 269 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:12,500 And what are these three men doing? 270 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,800 They're all sitting around listening to the same 271 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:20,100 conversation right? And the evildoer listens to 272 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:23,600 Wicked lips. A liar pays attention to a 273 00:18:23,608 --> 00:18:27,900 destructive tongue. In other words what makes me pay 274 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:29,600 attention? What perks of my ears? 275 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:32,000 Is the same thing that these three guys are they sat around 276 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 job. They all wanted to hear the same 277 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:39,400 thing and as the lies began to envelop around job's condition, 278 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,200 they were thinking about more things that could say about job 279 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:43,500 more things, that would accuse them. 280 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:45,900 Maybe down deep. They were jealous about how 281 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,100 popular job was. Maybe they were just because of 282 00:18:50,100 --> 00:18:53,600 the success of Jobs Family and life, we don't know. 283 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:58,500 But what we do know is that when you falsely accuse someone, when 284 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:03,400 they didn't do anything, that was wrong, it's because you hate 285 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:08,000 them in your heart. and you deceive your own self into 286 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:13,900 thinking that you really do love them, but you don't You see, we 287 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:17,100 have to go back into, what does the Bible say not? 288 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:19,700 How do I feel? What do I think? 289 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,000 What my opinion is all? That's irrelevant only did it's 290 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,700 relevant? Is the scriptures? 291 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:34,700 What does the Bible say? And these men listened lied, 292 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,800 falsely accused Joe. That's what makes him the most 293 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:44,000 remarkable man in the scriptures because of how he responds to 294 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,600 all this. This is absolutely phenomenal 295 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:53,800 about how job does all this. Because he's able, he's able to 296 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:59,000 endure the emotional abuse, the verbal abuse, the false 297 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:03,400 accusations. Because he knows his Redeemer 298 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,700 Lives. He knows one day. 299 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:11,000 You'll see him face to face, and he knows in his heart that he 300 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 has not done anything, that he's been accused of, even though 301 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,900 they just berate him, they come at him. 302 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:24,100 One after another, they tag team on top of Joe's back coming back 303 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:26,300 one after another one. After another one. 304 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:29,900 After another. They just don't want to quit. 305 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:34,100 And they're arrogant. The prideful. 306 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:39,000 Well, how do we know that look what it says, Job chapter 20 307 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:42,200 long introduction to get to where we want to get to verse 308 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,800 number one? Then so far the name of theit 309 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,500 answered. Therefore my disquieting 310 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:52,400 thoughts make me respond even because of my inward agitation. 311 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,400 I listened to the reproof which insults me and the spirit of my 312 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:01,700 understanding makes me answer. What an arrogant fool. 313 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:07,100 This is Le first of all when you're going to go help somebody 314 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:09,100 you can't go. If you wear your feelings on 315 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:11,800 your sleeve, right? You just can't do that because 316 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,800 you're going to say something that you don't like they're 317 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,000 going to respond to you in a way you don't like and then you 318 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,600 going to get hurt and then you're going to hang your head 319 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:21,200 and then you go on to go home now, these guys don't do that. 320 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:27,200 No, but he's insulted that somehow they're going to be 321 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,900 judged and they are going to be judged and God's going to do it. 322 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:34,800 The end. but somehow they're insulted and he says this, he 323 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:39,900 says, look he says The spirit of my understanding, makes me 324 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:44,600 answer the street of my wisdom. I have such wisdom and I'm 325 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:51,000 compelled now because I'm so wise to answer you He is the 326 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,400 person Paul mentions in Galatians chapter 36 verse 327 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,600 number 3. That says if anyone thinks he is 328 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:03,100 something, when he is nothing he deceives himself. 329 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:08,300 He thought he was something. But he was nothing. 330 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,800 He was so deceived. He was so self-deceived because 331 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,100 he really thought he was all that high, wisdom, and obviously 332 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:20,600 job, you don't have any wisdom but I do so I am compelled. 333 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:25,800 Now to answer you explain to you your situation once again 334 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,800 because obviously you didn't get the first time I explain it to 335 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:29,900 you. So I'm going to talk to you 336 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:34,000 number one, about the brevity of the life of the wicked because 337 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,700 your life is brief Then to talk to you about the temporary, 338 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,300 pleasure of the life of the wicked. 339 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:43,500 And then we'll talk to you about the certainty of judgment that 340 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:47,300 comes upon the wicked because you are bound in term determined 341 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:51,200 to be judged by God. Now, that's not true. 342 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,000 But that's what's so far beliefs. 343 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:58,300 You see, they can't get job to agree with them. 344 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:03,500 They're frustrated. They can't get joke to acquiesce 345 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:07,400 to their whims. They can't get joke to admit. 346 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,400 Yep, I've sinned. This great, Wicked sin. 347 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,400 It's caught up to me. The Jig Is up. 348 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:14,800 You're right guys. I am what I am. 349 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,200 I'm a sinner and I'm being punished because of that because 350 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,400 none of it's true. But they're going to continue to 351 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,900 berate him and come at him. Any way they possibly can 352 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,500 because they have to convince him that he is wicked and he 353 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:28,400 deserves the Judgment of the wicked. 354 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,600 So so far says I'm going to speak to you out of my wisdom. 355 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,400 The first thing he said, addresses is the brevity of Life 356 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:41,700 For The Wicked. He says, verse 4. 357 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,200 Do you know this from of old from the establishment of man on 358 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,900 Earth that the triumphing of the wicked is short? 359 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:51,100 And the joy of the Godless is momentary. 360 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,500 Jump this way. It's always been for the very 361 00:23:53,500 --> 00:23:57,200 beginning of time. You need to know this job 362 00:23:57,300 --> 00:24:03,100 nothing's ever changed that the wickets time of Triumph. 363 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:10,200 Is short. And the joy of the Godless is 364 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,200 momentary. You've had job Joy joke. 365 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,300 But it's brief. You've had good times job. 366 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,500 But it's over. That's why you have nothing 367 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:25,600 left. Because God is judging you 368 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,700 though. Is loftiness reaches the heavens 369 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:32,400 and his head touches the cloud. Speaking of job, he perishes 370 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:37,000 forever like his refuse or like dung. 371 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,100 Those have seen him will say, where is he? 372 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,500 He flies away like a dream and they cannot find him even like a 373 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:45,600 vision of the night. He is chased away. 374 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:48,900 The I would saw him see some no longer and his place no longer 375 00:24:48,900 --> 00:24:52,700 be holds him, his sons favor the poor, this hands give back as 376 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:54,400 well. His bones are full of his 377 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,200 youthful vigor but it lies down with him in the Dust. 378 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,400 In other words, job. Listen, it's over. 379 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,400 You're going to be gone and people can say, where's Joe? 380 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:04,200 Where do you go? He's gone. 381 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,600 Why? Because the sin somehow of your 382 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:13,100 youthful vigor? Somehow when you were young, you 383 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,200 did something that was an abomination. 384 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:19,200 And it's going to lie down with you in the dust. 385 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,300 Because your life is short because you're Wicked. 386 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,300 That's not true. That's a false accusation. 387 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:31,900 That's a lie. Because Wicked people live a 388 00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:34,200 long time. Think about it. 389 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:37,800 I know a lot of wicked people that lived a long time and I do 390 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,600 a lot of great godly people that died. 391 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,900 Very, very young, right? So we know it's not true. 392 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:47,400 So we moved to the second point which is the the temporary 393 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,900 pleasure of the wicked and we know that pleasure is very 394 00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:53,500 temporary. He was 1125 speaks about the 395 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:56,500 passing pleasures of sin. So we know that that the 396 00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:58,500 pleasure of sin never last forever. 397 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:00,100 We we get that, we understand that. 398 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:05,600 But he's going to apply that to job that the temporary pleasure 399 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,700 that he has. Is all over now, because you're 400 00:26:09,708 --> 00:26:14,000 Wicked. Verse 12. though, evil is sweet 401 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:19,200 in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue. 402 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,600 It's not to speak about the attraction of sin. 403 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:25,500 You've had a had a piece of candy in your mouth that just is 404 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,800 so, so good. I love sitting Bears, right? 405 00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:32,600 And I love that, the, the intensity of that that cinnamon 406 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,900 in your mouth and I'll suck on those two in a man and and I 407 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:40,400 know I just I want to chew them, but I try not to because I love 408 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,700 stuffed bear so much and I'll put them under my tongue and let 409 00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:45,600 it sit at sweetness. This just sit there or milk 410 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,600 doesn't, that's all man. The chocolate-covered Milk. 411 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:51,000 Oh man. It just melts in your mouth and 412 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,100 just let it sit there for a while, right? 413 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,400 It just is so good. What so far saying is, he's 414 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,200 applying this to evil and what Wicked people do. 415 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,300 They love their evil. It's like the candy in the 416 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:03,800 tongue that you just want to keep their. 417 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:06,300 You want to keep the attraction always before you. 418 00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:10,900 He says, in in verse number 13, though, he desires it and will 419 00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:14,700 not let it go. But holds it in his mouth, get 420 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:18,700 his food in his stomach is changed to the Venom Of cobras 421 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:22,000 within him, he swallows riches, but will vomit them up. 422 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,900 God will expel them from his belly, the interim assault of 423 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:33,400 evil, the end result of sin is loathing, In, this is where 424 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,900 you're at job. You're at the end and now you 425 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:40,900 are experiencing the loathing of your sin. 426 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,900 So it was great while it was around for a while, but it's 427 00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:47,900 just temporary pleasure. All the while you were offering 428 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:51,000 sacrifices for your children and in all the while you were, you 429 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,500 were praying for your children. And all the while you were level 430 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:57,400 on your wife, there was a sin that just melted in your mouth 431 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,200 that you were hiding from everybody else again, not true. 432 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,300 Falsely. Accusing job. 433 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,600 Verse 16, he sucks. The poison of cobras the Vipers 434 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,700 tongue, slice them You can dye job. 435 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,100 The wages of sin is death. There is a way which seemeth, 436 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:19,100 right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death, 437 00:28:19,100 --> 00:28:23,100 not life. It's over job, you're dying. 438 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,400 The temporary pleasure is finished. 439 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,900 He does not look at the streams. The rivers flowing with honey 440 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:33,400 and Kurds. He returns what he's attained 441 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,400 it. Cannot swallow it as to the 442 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,200 riches of his training. He cannot even enjoy them for 443 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,700 his oppressed and forsaking the poor. 444 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,800 He has seized the house, which he has not built, not true. 445 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,300 He didn't do that. He never oppressed the poor. 446 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,300 He never took from somebody a house. 447 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,500 In fact, over in chapter 29, these words are said about Job 448 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,900 verse 12, because I delivered the poor who cried for help Help 449 00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:00,500 and the orphan who had no helper, the blessing of one 450 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:02,200 ready to perish. Came Upon me. 451 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:05,000 And I made the Widow's heart sing for joy. 452 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:09,300 That in verse number 15 of chapter 29, I was eyes to the 453 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,700 Blind and feet to the laying. I was a father to the needy and 454 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:15,400 I investigated the case which I did not know. 455 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,300 I mean he was always giving himself away to help people. 456 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000 But so far says, you know, what job you stole people's homes to 457 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:27,200 make yourself rich? Now look you lost your whole. 458 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,200 You lost your riches, he lost it all. 459 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,000 Because you're Wicked. Again. 460 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:41,200 A false accusation. Ally and eliphaz and bildad are 461 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,300 listening to this and this is just fuel for the fire. 462 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:46,600 This is just fueling their fire as to what they're going to say 463 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,200 next, why? Because Liars, love Liars, 464 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,500 right? They love the destructive words 465 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,700 that they say because you can few be fueled by that and feed 466 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,200 off of that and give more fuel to the fire. 467 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,500 And that's exactly what they're going to do as time goes on. 468 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,900 You job. So remarkable so fascinating. 469 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,500 His response is because he responds with truth because what 470 00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:14,700 silence lies. Truth. 471 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,200 Truth silence Sciences lies, it always does. 472 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:28,000 Truth loves the light. Lies don't like to be exposed 473 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,800 like to be hidden away, truth loves the light. 474 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,500 It always wants to be in the light in job will always expose 475 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:39,800 them to the light. Because he wanted to know the 476 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,200 truth. Very important. 477 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,600 So you come down to verse number 20, he goes from the brevity of 478 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,000 the life of the wicked to the temporary pleasure for the 479 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,900 wicked to the certainty of judgement God's judgment upon 480 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:57,200 the wicked. Because he knew no quiet within 481 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,000 him. He does not retain anything. 482 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,000 He desires. That's the Wicked Man. 483 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,800 And Joe bet you. There's no peace within you. 484 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:07,600 There's no Trend quality within you. 485 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,000 Isaiah 40 tells us there is no peace for the wicked, right? 486 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:14,100 He just saying, you have no peace, you had no peace. 487 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:18,800 You were never at peace job because of your sin and 488 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,700 therefore you do not retain anything that you desire. 489 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,300 Everything you wanted. You AUST, why? 490 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:33,100 cuz, Of your sin. So, nothing remains for him to 491 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:37,700 devour their Forest Prosperity, does not endure, you've lost it 492 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:40,300 all job in the fullness of his plenty. 493 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:43,600 He will be cramped, the hand of everyone who suffers will come 494 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,100 against him. When he fills his belly, God 495 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:49,600 will send his Fierce anger on him and Will Rain it on him 496 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,600 while he is eating. In other words, he is applying 497 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,300 this to what happened to job as he was taking care of things at 498 00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:57,600 home. And all of a sudden there was 499 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,800 one messenger and then a other messenger and then another 500 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,800 messenger because God was reading his wrath down on on 501 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:11,600 job, because of his wickedness, He may flee from the iron weapon 502 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,000 but the bronze bow will pierce him. 503 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:17,000 It is drawn forth and comes out of his back. 504 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,500 When even the glittering point from his Gall Terrors come upon 505 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:22,700 Him. Complete darkness is held in 506 00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:27,400 reserve for his treasures and unfeigned fire will devour him. 507 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,900 It will consume the Survivor in his tent. 508 00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:33,400 The heavens will reveal his iniquities and the Earth will 509 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,800 rise up against him. There's no Escape job. 510 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:41,000 Because both Heaven and Earth everything above and everything 511 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,900 below knows of your iniquity knows. 512 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,800 You're guilty the increase of his house will depart, his 513 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,000 possessions will Flow Away in the day of his anger. 514 00:32:52,100 --> 00:32:56,100 This is the wicked man's portion from God, even the Heritage, 515 00:32:56,100 --> 00:33:01,000 decreed to him, by God, see joke, this is all from God. 516 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:06,000 It's called given to you by God, this is a decreed appointment 517 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:13,200 because of your wickedness. And Joe will respond as long as 518 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:18,000 you can. Because he responds with super 519 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,000 super wisdom. That's joke. 520 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,700 But this drives us right back to where we were at the very 521 00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:29,600 beginning. The tongue is the most 522 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:34,400 destructive force. In your family. 523 00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:38,700 In your church. Right. 524 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:42,000 Life and death are in the power of the tongue Proverbs 18. 525 00:33:42,300 --> 00:33:45,900 First number 21, Whatever has potential for good, has the 526 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:48,300 equal, but opposite potential for for evil. 527 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:55,500 And so Paul. Picks up on this, not 528 00:33:55,700 --> 00:34:01,100 particularly job, but picks up on the whole theme of why people 529 00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:05,000 falsely accuse in life. So term would be a Colossians 530 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:10,400 chapter 3. Paul picks up on this. 531 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:16,800 He says in verse number one, therefore, if you have been 532 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,500 raised up with Christ, keep seeking, the things above where 533 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:21,800 Christ is seated, at the right hand of God, set your mind on 534 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,699 things above, not on the things that are on the earth for, you 535 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:27,500 have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 536 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,300 When Christ, who is our life is revealed? 537 00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:32,900 Then you also will be revealed with him in glory Christ. 538 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:35,800 Is our life right? When Christ who is our life is 539 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,199 revealed you shall be revealed with him in glory. 540 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:44,300 So in other words he says look you can't function Horizontally. 541 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,600 Unless you are focused. Vertically. 542 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,400 You can't function in the Earthly Realm. 543 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,600 Unless you're focused on the Heavenly Realm. 544 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,100 Very important. So we said it, first number 5, 545 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:04,900 therefore consider the members of your Earthly body is dead to 546 00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:07,900 immorality, impurity passion, evil, desire, and greed, which 547 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:11,200 amounts to idolatry for his because of these things, that 548 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,600 the wrath of God will come upon the sons of Disobedience. 549 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,400 And in them, you also, once walked when you were living in 550 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:25,200 them, but now also, Put them all. 551 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:31,600 Aside, put them off. And Paul, if you've read the 552 00:35:31,607 --> 00:35:35,300 book of Galatians or you've read the book of Colossians, you know 553 00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:43,700 that Paul has this putting off and put it on conversation, it's 554 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:51,200 were dealing with clothes. and so, when When a Jew would be 555 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,700 baptized, he would, he would strip down to almost nothing. 556 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:56,700 And he'd walk down to the mikveh and once he come up out of the 557 00:35:56,700 --> 00:36:00,200 mikveh, he would be clothed in a white robe, right? 558 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:03,500 All symbolic because the Bible says, in the book of Isaiah that 559 00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:06,500 that we are clothed in Robes of righteousness, the garments of 560 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:09,700 God, symbolic of how what God does with us. 561 00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:12,100 When he clothes us with his righteousness, when he saves us 562 00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:19,100 from our sin, but there's this putting off and putting on of 563 00:36:19,100 --> 00:36:24,700 clothes. That exemplify the condition of 564 00:36:24,700 --> 00:36:28,600 your heart. So listen, what Paul says. 565 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:33,400 He says this. Now, you also put them all 566 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,200 aside. Now, what he does he's going to 567 00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:40,700 build from the inside out. He built from the inside out the 568 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:47,500 motive behind, why people lie? so, he says, But the mall side, 569 00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,100 number one. Anger. 570 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:55,500 Anger. Or gay is the word. 571 00:36:56,500 --> 00:37:00,000 It's a word that deals with a smoldering resentment on the 572 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,200 inside, okay? Because this is where it all 573 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,200 begins. There is this resentment there 574 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,700 is this bitterness there, is this smoldering, that's going 575 00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:10,700 on, in the inside. That's what happened to 576 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:14,300 Potiphar's wife. She was so angry and so bitter 577 00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:19,000 that she was scorned by Joe. I by Joseph, that he would not 578 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000 want to lie with her, she became bitter and angry on the inside. 579 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,800 As Saul became bitter and angry on the inside, as the nation of 580 00:37:26,808 --> 00:37:29,500 Israel became bitter and angry on the inside. 581 00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:35,000 See, that's what all begins on the inside. put aside anger, he 582 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:41,000 says, Wrath wrath is thumos, right? 583 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:46,000 That is the the blurting out of what's on the inside. 584 00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:50,600 It's the, it's the volcanic eruption of the bitterness, on 585 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,000 the anger. That's on the inside, right? 586 00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:58,800 It's just erupts. And then he says, malice that 587 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,600 sekiya with deals with all forms of wickedness and evil. 588 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,500 Why? Because once you resent someone 589 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,000 and you become Her toward them, right? 590 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,500 What happens is that all of a sudden what spills out of the 591 00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:16,800 mouth is a volcanic eruption of of Wrath. 592 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,100 In all kinds of evil takes place. 593 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:27,800 He says. Slander and abusive speech from 594 00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:31,800 your mouth. Slander. 595 00:38:33,300 --> 00:38:36,700 And slander and gossip are two words used, similarly in 596 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:38,400 scripture but there's a difference. 597 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:46,200 Gossip gossip collects secrets. And loves to pass them on to 598 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,300 others. Slander. 599 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:56,500 Makes up its own secrets and broadcast them wherever. 600 00:38:57,700 --> 00:39:04,700 They do the most harm. That's District slander and 601 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:08,400 gossip. And what happens is because of 602 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,100 the anger in the heart and the Wrath that's building because of 603 00:39:13,107 --> 00:39:16,900 the bitterness. That's there Comes This 604 00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:21,600 wickedness. Which leads to slander false 605 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:26,600 accusations, right. And that he says, do not lie to 606 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:33,300 one another, Why? Because at the base of every lie 607 00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:37,500 is a hatred for the one you're lying to or about, that's why. 608 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:43,300 He builds it from the inside out from the internal part of a man. 609 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,200 That's why he begins the way he does. 610 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,000 Because he wants you to be able to deal with this in a proper 611 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,100 way. And and we can do this because 612 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:58,600 because we're Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we can do 613 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,700 this. You know, he goes on to say 614 00:40:02,700 --> 00:40:05,700 this, do not lie to one another since you laid aside the old 615 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:09,600 self with its evil practices and have put on the new self, who is 616 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,100 being renewed to a true knowledge, according to the 617 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:13,700 image of the one who created him. 618 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:18,200 Do you understand that? There is a not an old man that 619 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:22,500 exist within your new man. You know they're right there are 620 00:40:22,508 --> 00:40:24,900 some people believe where you have an old man and a new man, 621 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:27,000 the old man's always talking the new man, and the new man saying 622 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,900 no to the old, man, the old man. Should I get the new man to do 623 00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:30,000 this? No, no. 624 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:31,800 We are not. Schizophrenic. 625 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:37,700 All right. The old man was what crucified? 626 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,400 It's dead. That's why you become a new 627 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,800 creation. The old man is corrupt. 628 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,900 The new man is made righteous in the eyes of God. 629 00:40:54,900 --> 00:41:00,100 See, you are either in Adam or in Christ, who is the second 630 00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:03,800 Adam? But you're not in both at the 631 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,300 same time. You're the in Adam. 632 00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:11,300 Or you're in Christ because if you're in Christ, who is a 633 00:41:11,308 --> 00:41:13,700 second Adam, you no longer in Adam. 634 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,300 There's no old man there. So then why do I have to lay 635 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:20,000 aside these things and then what's happening? 636 00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:22,800 That's because you had the stench of the dead man. 637 00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:26,000 In you, the stench is still there. 638 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:30,100 The smell is still there. And that's why you got to put 639 00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:33,700 off the smell, put off the old garments, put off those things 640 00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:37,800 that that work governing in controlling your life. 641 00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:44,600 And put on put on that, which is Honorable and true and pure and 642 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,000 holy. Lovely. 643 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:54,400 That's what you got to do. She had these three friends. 644 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,900 Who are sitting around. The a sheep. 645 00:42:01,300 --> 00:42:06,200 Each one, fueling the other. With false accusations. 646 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:13,800 With slanderous comments. With lies about job. 647 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,400 And they grow with intensity as the conversations go because 648 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,800 they got to convince job that he's wrong. 649 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,000 You see, they are so upset that he that he won't see it their 650 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000 way. That in the depths of their 651 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,400 hearts, they are so angry. Why? 652 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,600 Because there's a hatred, that's there. 653 00:42:37,500 --> 00:42:40,800 For job. And they express it by the 654 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,700 conversation they use against him. 655 00:42:46,300 --> 00:42:50,800 Eva Donna. Maybe in the privacy of your 656 00:42:50,808 --> 00:42:55,600 home. Maybe kids with their parents. 657 00:42:57,300 --> 00:43:00,600 Parents with their kids. Why is it husbands or husbands 658 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,500 wives? Every one of us in the room has 659 00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:06,800 said things that we probably should have never said, probably 660 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,300 too many times during the years of our marriage, right? 661 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,200 Where's that come from? Comes from the, the inside of a 662 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:19,000 man for what proceeds from the inside of the man, right? 663 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,600 Christ tells us it's all the Slanders and the gossip in the 664 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,700 anger. That's on the inside of a man 665 00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:28,900 comes from the heart of men are sick. 666 00:43:28,900 --> 00:43:32,300 That's not right with God. Hardest not confessed up with 667 00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:39,300 God. So, so how would we handle this 668 00:43:39,900 --> 00:43:44,100 individually? What would, what would we do to 669 00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:48,400 make sure that we are not involved in hating someone to 670 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,800 the degree that I'm waiting to spread false accusations about 671 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,700 them, even to their face lie to their face about what's going on 672 00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:58,200 to try to convince them that I'm right and they're wrong. 673 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,200 Or somebody else that I'm right and they're wrong. 674 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:10,000 How do you not lie? To one another. 675 00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:14,700 Well, first of all. You got to repent of the sin of 676 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:16,600 line. Right? 677 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,100 You got to repent of the sin of false accusations. 678 00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:23,600 You got to repent of the sin of slander. 679 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,600 Now his friends never do this. Until God compels him to do it. 680 00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,500 At the end, they have to do it at the end because God makes 681 00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:35,900 them right. You don't do it, voluntarily. 682 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:40,400 Not until they're confronted by. The Lord God of Israel. 683 00:44:42,900 --> 00:44:48,100 But we have the opportunity. To turn from our sin. 684 00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:52,800 And repent of our sin. You know what psalm? 685 00:44:54,100 --> 00:45:00,400 Psalm 51 says, right? Over in Psalm 51. 686 00:45:02,100 --> 00:45:09,400 David speaks verse number 6. It says, behold you desire truth 687 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:17,200 in the innermost being David knew he lied. 688 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:24,600 David lied about Bathsheba lied about Uriah. 689 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,300 Why? Because down deep inside there 690 00:45:28,308 --> 00:45:30,500 was hatred for your Riot. Why? 691 00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:34,700 Because Uriah had something that he wanted, why do people lie? 692 00:45:35,100 --> 00:45:39,100 You have what they want and you are stopping them forgetting it. 693 00:45:39,100 --> 00:45:41,300 So I will do whatever I can to get you out of the way and I've 694 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:42,400 got a lie about it. I will. 695 00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:48,100 And down deep. He hated your eye out. because 696 00:45:48,100 --> 00:45:52,100 your I had Bathsheba and he didn't He wanted Bathsheba. 697 00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:56,600 She says, behold you desire truth in the innermost being and 698 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,700 in the hidden part, you will make me no wisdom Purify Me with 699 00:45:59,700 --> 00:46:02,600 hyssop and I will be clean, wash me, and I shall be whiter than 700 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,200 snow. Make me hear joy and gladness 701 00:46:05,300 --> 00:46:08,300 that the bones which you have broken and rejoice, hide your 702 00:46:08,300 --> 00:46:11,300 face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities create in me. 703 00:46:11,300 --> 00:46:14,100 A clean heart, o God, renew a steadfast Spirit within me. 704 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:15,800 Do not cast me away from your presence. 705 00:46:15,900 --> 00:46:17,300 Then I take your Holy Spirit from me. 706 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:21,200 Restore to me the joy of your salvation you know, Joy. 707 00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:26,600 Can I have hatred in your heart and joy at the same time? 708 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:33,200 And even had no joy. Or to obtain Joy, you, you must 709 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:41,200 confess repent of your sin. so you repent from the sin of lying 710 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:46,600 and then you have to request That God intervene and help you. 711 00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:54,300 Psalm 122 verse number to deliver my soul O. 712 00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:59,900 Lord from lying lips from a deceitful. 713 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,700 Tom. The moment you think that you 714 00:47:04,700 --> 00:47:08,400 can do this yourself, you're back to square one again. 715 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,900 You can't. You must request that the Lord 716 00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:16,500 step in and deliver you from a deceitful tongue from lying 717 00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:19,400 lips. But you going to do that. 718 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:24,000 Once you've repented of You're lying, lips, your slanderous 719 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,600 lips. The tongue that shows Discord 720 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:33,300 among the Brethren the false accusations And then there were 721 00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:36,300 three. You need to recommit to loving 722 00:47:36,300 --> 00:47:40,400 your brother. You got to recommit to that. 723 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,000 And would it be that that so far and eliphaz bildad would 724 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,100 recommit themselves to doing what they came to do in the 725 00:47:48,100 --> 00:47:51,300 first place to, to mourn with him into the comfort him and to 726 00:47:51,500 --> 00:47:55,800 express her love for him? But as time went on, that was 727 00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:59,200 just such a far cry from what was in their hearts. 728 00:48:01,100 --> 00:48:04,500 They would say they love joke. They would say that. 729 00:48:05,900 --> 00:48:09,100 If they were here today, you could say, hey so far, do you 730 00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:11,500 love Joe? I'm there all night. 731 00:48:12,500 --> 00:48:15,100 I'm in a sheep with him, right? Of course, I love them. 732 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,900 But you word say something, completely different. 733 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,700 The words are the clearest indicator of your spiritual 734 00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:25,800 condition. More than anything else. 735 00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:31,000 What you say? Tells us what's on the inside. 736 00:48:33,700 --> 00:48:39,800 Bible says, in first John chapter 3, He Who hates? 737 00:48:41,500 --> 00:48:44,700 His brother. Is a murderer. 738 00:48:46,100 --> 00:48:49,300 That's pretty strong. He who hates his brother is a 739 00:48:49,300 --> 00:48:55,400 murderer. In no murderer, has eternal life 740 00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,300 in. Him. 741 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:02,600 That would help us to rethink how we relate to one another, 742 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,400 right? That we are to love one another 743 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,900 to talk about acid a morning, let Brotherly Love continue. 744 00:49:10,300 --> 00:49:14,500 Don't be a stranger to you. Then you have to rely upon the 745 00:49:14,500 --> 00:49:17,700 spirit of God relations 5. Verse number 16, you can't can't 746 00:49:17,700 --> 00:49:20,100 walk in the flesh or you'll fulfill the lust of the flesh. 747 00:49:20,100 --> 00:49:22,300 You to walk in the spirit so you can rely upon the spirit of God. 748 00:49:22,300 --> 00:49:24,000 And then there were five. You got to remember the value 749 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:28,500 that God places on truth. Remember the value that God 750 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:31,000 places on Truth, God is a god of Truth. 751 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:38,600 And God cares about truth. More than anything else. 752 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,800 And sometimes we don't value the truth enough. 753 00:49:45,100 --> 00:49:48,700 That's why we lie. Because lying is his what we 754 00:49:48,700 --> 00:49:56,200 want immediately. so, will I Make a false accusation. 755 00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:02,200 slander, somebody For a moment, it makes us feel really good on 756 00:50:02,207 --> 00:50:07,000 the inside. But as Proverbs 26 says all 757 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,900 you've done is roll the stone away, that's going to roll back 758 00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:13,400 up on you or dig a pit that you're one day be lying in. 759 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,700 Lashley. You got to rest in God's 760 00:50:20,700 --> 00:50:22,300 sovereignty. This is joke. 761 00:50:24,100 --> 00:50:25,500 You got to rest in God's sovereignty. 762 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:37,700 Why Proverbs chapter 16? Proverbs chapter 16 verse number 763 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,900 4. Says this. 764 00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,600 The Lord has made everything for its own purpose. 765 00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:49,200 Even the wicked for the day of evil. 766 00:50:52,100 --> 00:50:59,500 That speaks volumes. God made even potiphar wife for 767 00:50:59,500 --> 00:51:04,500 the day of evil. In Joseph's life. 768 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:14,100 God made the nation of Israel. In Moses life. 769 00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:22,400 And God made Saul. The wicked person for the day of 770 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,900 evil. For David's life. 771 00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:29,700 When people speak, all kinds of evil things against you. 772 00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:35,000 God is still in control. He's still running the show. 773 00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:37,900 Don't get all bent out of shape about it. 774 00:51:39,100 --> 00:51:43,200 Relax. God has made everything and 775 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:47,600 everyone for a purpose. And he's made even the Wicked, 776 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,400 Man. The Wicked Woman for the day of 777 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,800 evil, So you can rest in the fact that God is Sovereign and 778 00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:55,900 he's ruling over all these things. 779 00:51:55,900 --> 00:51:59,800 And this is job, that's my job is so the sovereignty of God in 780 00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,300 the suffering of man, not just the sovereignty of God in the 781 00:52:02,300 --> 00:52:05,800 physical suffering of Joseph. But in the verbal suffering that 782 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,000 he faces every day with this re friends, Got a sovereign in that 783 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,700 as well. And Joe continues to sit 784 00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:19,700 continues to listen. He does not interrupt. 785 00:52:21,300 --> 00:52:25,100 To the conversations over. And then he speaks. 786 00:52:27,100 --> 00:52:28,900 And when he speaks, he speaks truth. 787 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:31,800 Because truth says, light on error. 788 00:52:33,700 --> 00:52:35,800 And their conversation was filled with error. 789 00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,000 Like Proverbs 26 says, they have deceived their own hearts into 790 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:42,500 thinking that what they're saying is true. 791 00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,400 That's because there is so much hatred in their hearts. 792 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:54,700 Toward job. And therefore, they slandered 793 00:52:54,700 --> 00:52:59,300 him to his face. I'm sure there's others walked 794 00:52:59,300 --> 00:53:01,500 by and heard the conversation. They could hear what was going 795 00:53:01,500 --> 00:53:05,700 on. The job just sat and listened 796 00:53:06,700 --> 00:53:08,300 until it was time to turn to respond. 797 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,200 Let's get the 21. It was spawned. 798 00:53:14,300 --> 00:53:15,800 It will cover that next week. Let's pray. 799 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,300 Father, we thank you, Lord, for today and the opportunity you 800 00:53:19,300 --> 00:53:23,200 give us to look into your word, Lord, such good reminders. 801 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,600 For all of us. Lord, that our lives are 802 00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:31,900 governed by truth and speak the truth and live the truth. and 803 00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:34,400 pray father, that we would not be numbered among those who 804 00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:38,500 would speak ill of someone else or slander, someone else or a 805 00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:44,100 think of things that would falsely accuse someone Maybe we 806 00:53:44,100 --> 00:53:48,900 truly love one another. To the point where we would 807 00:53:48,900 --> 00:53:51,600 speak the truth. Sometimes, the truth is 808 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:56,600 difficult to hear. But it needs to be said. but 809 00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:01,500 needs to be said to the person, That needs to hear it. 810 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,800 And our prayer father is that we wouldn't be like zophar or build 811 00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,900 a door eliphaz. This word is in the text. 812 00:54:11,900 --> 00:54:13,600 I mean, this is profitable for us. 813 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:19,100 We need to learn from this. My prayer is that we would have 814 00:54:19,100 --> 00:54:24,100 learned, we would have grown. And we can begin to deal with 815 00:54:24,100 --> 00:54:26,900 things from a proper biblical perspective. 816 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,300 None of us. None of us are perfect. 817 00:54:31,100 --> 00:54:34,900 None of us are, are completely in totally and wholly righteous, 818 00:54:35,300 --> 00:54:39,200 or we all sin, and you are a forgiving God. 819 00:54:39,900 --> 00:54:43,800 We're so grateful for your forgiveness, and it would maybe 820 00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,700 be willing to extend forgiveness to those who are slandered us 821 00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:54,500 spoken against us even in our own family. those who have we've 822 00:54:54,500 --> 00:54:58,900 lived with for years, who have turned against us, husband, or 823 00:54:58,908 --> 00:55:04,500 wife or son, or daughter, or Aunt, or uncle It may be just be 824 00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:11,700 forgiving kind of people knowing knowing that everything has a 825 00:55:11,700 --> 00:55:15,600 purpose. And you've even created the 826 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,500 wicked person for the day of evil. 827 00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:23,800 Lord, you're in charge, maybe trust you only in Jesus name? 828 00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:24,300 Amen.