1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,700 I wonder if you have any friends. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,500 Yeah. Friends, I'm sure you probably 3 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:10,800 have at least one friend. Maybe two. 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,500 Maybe three. How many good friends do you 5 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:16,100 have? Nobody has a lot of good 6 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:18,100 friends. We have a lot of Associates, a 7 00:00:18,108 --> 00:00:23,300 lot of acquaintances but most of us have one two, maybe three 8 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:26,300 really good friends in our lifetime. 9 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,000 The question is, what kind of friends are they? 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,900 Jobe had friends. He had at least three friends 11 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:37,000 that we know of, I'm sure he had more. 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,700 I mean, after all he was a greatest man on the planet. 13 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:41,300 So I'm sure he had other friends. 14 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:44,600 We just don't know who they are, but he had at least three 15 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:50,500 friends, three friends. I think his wife was his friend, 16 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:52,500 I'm not so sure. I mean that she told him to 17 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:55,000 curse God and die. Maybe she wasn't his best 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 friend, I don't know. But he had at least three 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,000 friends, but with friends like Joe bad, who needs enemies, 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,100 right? Because his friends were not the 21 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:12,100 best of friends. In fact, when they began to 22 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:16,800 speak, they were condemning critical. 23 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:23,200 Condescending. Toward this person they believe 24 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:28,200 was a friend of theirs. And when you read a story of 25 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,600 job, you really begin to understand what's the best way 26 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:37,800 to communicate with people. And how not to communicate with 27 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,900 people. And job's friends. 28 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:48,100 Help us understand that tonight we come to jobs, third friend. 29 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:52,200 We've already heard what eliphaz has said and what build that is 30 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,500 said. But tonight we're going to hear 31 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:59,300 from a man named zophar. Some people believe that he is 32 00:01:59,300 --> 00:02:01,500 the youngest of the three. Maybe he is. 33 00:02:01,500 --> 00:02:04,300 That's because he speaks last and they would give preference 34 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:07,000 to age order. And so maybe he was the youngest 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,699 we don't know that for certain, but maybe that's The case, but 36 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:15,800 he's Brash. He's harsh, maybe he's trying to 37 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:18,800 gain the upper hand, on the other two are show the other 38 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,700 two, how much she knows. And, and how he can best them in 39 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:30,800 the in the conversation. But so far was close, but yet so 40 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,500 far from the truth. In fact, one author says it this 41 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:40,100 way. How sad it is when people who 42 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:44,100 should Shear Ministry, end up creating misery. 43 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:48,900 How tragic that? These three friends focused on 44 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:54,500 jobs words instead of the feelings Behind these words? 45 00:02:55,700 --> 00:03:00,600 The Chinese proverb says, through conversing face-to-face, 46 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:07,900 their hearts have a thousand miles between them, how true 47 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:12,200 that is. As job sat in the ash Heap, 48 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:18,200 after all information is not the same as communication. 49 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,900 Information is giving out. Communication is getting 50 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:26,500 through. These men, these three friends 51 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:33,100 were interesting interested in informing job as to why he was 52 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:36,700 the way he was. But they did not communicate 53 00:03:36,700 --> 00:03:40,300 with what job they were miles apart. 54 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,100 They would sit next to each other. 55 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:46,400 In the ass sheep. They would converse with one 56 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:52,500 another face-to-face. But their hearts were so far 57 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:56,400 apart. So, they could not communicate 58 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,600 to one another. We find that in marriages. 59 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:04,000 Do we not? We want to be close to our 60 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:09,100 spouse but sometimes our hearts are far from our spouse. 61 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:13,000 We want to inform our spouse as to what they did wrong and how 62 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,700 they did it wrong and how they could do it, right, or really, 63 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:17,700 how they could do it my way instead of their way. 64 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,300 We would inform them, give them information but we don't 65 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:24,200 communicate with them because we don't communicate heart-to-heart 66 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:29,200 just face-to-face. We find ourselves miles apart 67 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:34,800 instead of being closed. Instead of being intimate and 68 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,700 having a Ministry, we create misery and that's because our 69 00:04:39,700 --> 00:04:43,100 hearts are so far from the truth. 70 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:50,200 And these men who believed in God, were still far from the 71 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,900 truth of how God's word applied to job. 72 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,900 So, zophar is going to speak, he's going to indict job in 73 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:05,900 three arenas. He's going to attack him when it 74 00:05:05,900 --> 00:05:09,500 comes to his integrity. He's going to attack him when it 75 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:16,100 comes to his ignorance about God and attack him in his inability 76 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:21,100 to repent. Just 20 versus a very short 77 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,400 summation and then we'll spend some time in application as to 78 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,600 how these verses apply to your life and to mine. 79 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,100 Text begins in verse number. 1 of chapter 11, then zophar the 80 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:40,100 name of theit answered shall multitude of words. 81 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:44,700 Go in answered and a talkative man, be acquitted. 82 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:51,200 He begins the same way build that begins by condemning jove 83 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:56,300 for speaking too much. In fact, he condemns Joe by by 84 00:05:56,300 --> 00:05:59,800 saying all these words that that you are speaking? 85 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:03,600 Truly are covering up. The real reason you are the way 86 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,600 you are. You're trying to convince us of 87 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,300 something that you can't convince us of. 88 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,700 Now, it is true that Proverbs chapter 10 verse number. 19 89 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:16,500 tells us that in a multitude of words, there wanteth not sin, 90 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,700 the more you speak, the more you cover up your sin. 91 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,200 It also says, in the latter part of that verse that he that 92 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:32,900 retaining, his lips is wise, but so far, Tells job that he's just 93 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:38,500 babbling, he's talking too much. And therefore trying to hide 94 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:43,800 something. He tells job that he is unwise. 95 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:52,600 He is untrue and he is. Unkind. 96 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:57,200 So he attacks Integrity. He tells them show your boast or 97 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,200 lies. Silence, men, do you think you 98 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,700 can lie to us? You think you can exaggerate the 99 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:05,800 truth? You think it keep talking and 100 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,300 try to cover up that which is real job. 101 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:11,900 You think you can lie to us and silence us, put us, put us to 102 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:16,200 the silence. The words you say are untrue. 103 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:20,600 And then he says, and shall you scoff? 104 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,900 And, and none. Rebuke other words. 105 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:26,300 Why do you mock us? Your unkind. 106 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Here, we are trying to communicate with you or talk to 107 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,000 you and yet you respond with unkind words, but job, didn't do 108 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:40,500 that. They accuse them of that simply 109 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:45,300 because they won't, he won't bow to their criticism. 110 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,800 He stands strong on what he believes to be true. 111 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:54,400 This is the first number four for you have said, my teaching 112 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,200 is Pierre and I am innocent in your eyes now. 113 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,600 Job never said that. But they're accusing them of 114 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:05,500 that. He's accusing job of saying that 115 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:14,800 his teaching is pure. And that there truly is no sin 116 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,700 in his life. Now job never said that either 117 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,800 on at least three occasions job said that he had sinned. 118 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,300 He has sinned, he knows he's not sinless. 119 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:29,500 And so he knows he is not an innocent man. 120 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:34,799 Although he's upright God-fearing blameless, Turning 121 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:37,299 Away From Evil, that's Job chapter 1. 122 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:41,799 God says that about Job, the writer of joke tells us about 123 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:45,600 him so that's who he is. We never said these words. 124 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,500 And so they say He's a hypocrite, basically you say one 125 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:54,400 thing and live another way. So he begins by attacking the 126 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,400 Integrity of job and then he attacks the, the ignorance of 127 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,200 job. When it comes to understanding 128 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,700 who God is for God, it's an all wise God. 129 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,300 Now job knows this. But instead he says this but 130 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:10,300 would that God might speak and open his lips against you? 131 00:09:10,700 --> 00:09:14,500 Would it be that God would would just tell you job where you're 132 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:16,400 wrong? They even speak. 133 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,000 Now, God is going to speak and when he speaks he's not going to 134 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,700 condemn job, he will condemn zophar and eliphaz and build 135 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:29,000 that he will rebuke them, but he will not review job. 136 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:32,200 We saw it last week, job chapter 42, verse number seven. 137 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,200 So so far is going to get his wish. 138 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,700 God's going to open his mouth. He is going to speak, but he's 139 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:44,400 not going to speak against job. so he says in verse number 6, 140 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:48,600 show you the secrets of wisdom for sound. 141 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:54,000 Wisdom has two sides. God need to show you the his 142 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,200 wisdom joke, there's the reveal side and the concealed side, and 143 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,600 maybe he's going to open his mouth speak to you and reveal to 144 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,300 you, that, which is concealed. And then he says these words, if 145 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:08,800 you can believe it or not, he says no Then that God forgets 146 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:12,800 part of your iniquity. In other words, he says just be 147 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:17,800 glad that God hasn't punished You, for all your sin. 148 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:23,000 What you have gotten your loss of your children, the loss of 149 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,600 your, your business, the loss of your home. 150 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:29,900 The loss of your health is only partial punishment. 151 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:36,300 God can do a lot more than that. But it's only punish you for 152 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,700 part of your iniquity, not all of your iniquity. 153 00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:43,400 Now, how could you say that the job? 154 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:47,800 As you sit there. But he does. 155 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:52,000 Now it is true that that God never gives us what we deserve. 156 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:53,300 That's a good thing. Is it not? 157 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:57,100 You know, it's because of his mercies that were not consumed. 158 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:00,300 He knows our frame. He knows that we're were nothing 159 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:03,400 but dust. God treats us with mercy and 160 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:05,900 Grace. And, and compassion and love. 161 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,700 He does do that. And if God punished us every 162 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:13,700 time we sinned, then we'd be in big trouble. 163 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,600 But God is merciful, doesn't do that. 164 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:25,600 But so far, truly condemns job. He comes against him and says, 165 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,900 you know what, be lucky. You were not punished to the 166 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:35,100 full extent of the law that God didn't unleash on you, 167 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,800 everything you deserve because of your sin. 168 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,200 How do you say that to a man who's lost everything? 169 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:45,900 And there's nothing to show for it. 170 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:50,100 But so far does that? This is this. 171 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,600 Can you discover the depths of God, can you discover the limits 172 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,100 of the almighty answered? No, nobody can. 173 00:11:56,100 --> 00:12:00,100 But job knows that never last week and in chapter 9, would a 174 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:02,500 job. Say verse number 10, who does 175 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:06,300 great things unfathomable and wondrous Works without number. 176 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:09,700 God does those kind of things job knows, you can't understand 177 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:13,500 the Almighty job knows, you can't comprehend everything that 178 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:18,500 God does jump understands that. But so far wants to wax eloquent 179 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:21,900 and try to inform Joe job that he's ignorant concerning. 180 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:26,200 The things of God. Says they are high as the 181 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,900 heavens. What can you do deeper than she 182 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:30,200 ol? What can you know? 183 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:34,000 It's measure is longer than the earth and broader than the see 184 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:38,500 if he passes by or shuts up or calls and assembly who can 185 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:40,300 restrain him. Answer, no one can. 186 00:12:41,100 --> 00:12:43,200 So, he talks about the awesomeness of God, he talks 187 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,200 about the abilities of God. He talks about the awareness of 188 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,300 God, that God is aware of everything he says in verse 189 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:50,300 number 11, for he knows faults men. 190 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,800 He sees iniquity without investigating. 191 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,000 We know that God never has to search us. 192 00:12:56,900 --> 00:13:00,700 He just knows all about us, why? Because he's omniscient. 193 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:05,500 So he's trying to inform job. He's giving job information, but 194 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:10,300 he's not communicating with job, he's not wanting to understand 195 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:14,400 jobs predicament and the pain that is in to console him and 196 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,900 working through these things. Nope, he's just trying to inform 197 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:19,800 him about the fact that you are ignorant. 198 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,500 Concerning the knowledge of God, the wisdom of God, the emissions 199 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:27,600 of God, the ability of God. Joby just don't understand. 200 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,400 But if you're with us, you know, that job doesn't understand 201 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,700 because it's theology is extremely sound. 202 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:42,400 So he says verse number 12, an idiot will become intelligent. 203 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:48,500 when the full of a wild donkey, Is born a man, well that will 204 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:52,400 never happen. So tells job to job from the 205 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,100 human standpoint of view. You're never going to be 206 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:57,800 intelligent enough. You're never going to come to 207 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,400 understanding these things. Well, we know that we're never 208 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:07,000 going to understand all that God is But so far wants to make him 209 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:10,300 understand, you'll never get the knowledge you're searching for 210 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,200 joke. So, he attacks job's inability 211 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,900 to repent. If you would direct your heart, 212 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:20,200 right? And spread out your hand to him. 213 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,600 If iniquity is in your hand, put it too far away and do not let 214 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,400 wickedness. Dwell in your tents. 215 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:29,100 We know that that repentance is a heart issue. 216 00:14:29,900 --> 00:14:32,100 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me 217 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:35,500 Psalm 66:18, right? That's why we preach the word, 218 00:14:35,500 --> 00:14:37,400 why? Because Jeremiah 29 tells us 219 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,200 that when you preach the word, God's word is like a fire in a 220 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,800 hammer. It Purifies the soul with it 221 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,600 pummels, the heart, it crushes, the the hard heart. 222 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:50,500 And so we know that that repentance is a heart issue, but 223 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:54,100 he's trying to get job to repent from some wickedness that he's 224 00:14:54,100 --> 00:15:00,400 committed, but that he hasn't So he says did indeed. 225 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,300 You would lift up your face without moral defect, and you 226 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:05,700 would be steadfast and not fear for you at. 227 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:09,400 Forget your trouble as Waters that have passed by, you would 228 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,400 remember it. Your life would be brighter than 229 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,100 a Noonday. Darkness would be like the 230 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:17,000 morning, then you wouldn't trust because there is hope and you 231 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,200 would look around and rest securely. 232 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,900 You would lie down and none would disturb you. 233 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,900 And many would entreat your favorite joke. 234 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:27,600 These are all the benefits of repentance. 235 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,400 If you just repent, your rest securely, if you just repent, 236 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,000 things will go so much better for you. 237 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:37,300 Well, that's not necessarily true. 238 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:40,100 Your people who sin and repent, they still have to suffer the 239 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:43,200 consequences to sin, right? That had, that does happen. 240 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,000 But so far is trying to convince Joe that you need to repent. 241 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:53,100 And because you are unable to repent unwilling to repent, says 242 00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:57,000 this as he closes out the eyes of the wicked will fail and 243 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,700 there will be no Escape for them. 244 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,500 And their hope is to breathe their last. 245 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,200 If you don't repent job, your only hope is to die. 246 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:11,100 That's it. Now so far speaks twice not 247 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:13,400 three times. Like the other men do he just 248 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,300 speaks twice, which is a good thing, because he wants to leave 249 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:21,700 job, hopeless. He wants to leave job, 250 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:26,500 groveling. Think about that speaking to a 251 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:32,400 man who's in so much pain. Completely isolated all by 252 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,300 himself. And yet, you want to leave him 253 00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:39,400 in that condition. And that sounds so far, Lisa. 254 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,400 Joba, respond and respond in a magnificent way. 255 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:50,900 But what I want to do with you tonight is show you how it is. 256 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:56,700 This applies to us. Job James 5. 257 00:16:56,700 --> 00:17:03,400 Verse number 11 says these words We cannot excuse me, we count 258 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,900 those blessed to endured. You have heard of the endurance 259 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:11,300 of job and a seen the outcome of the Lord's, dealings with that, 260 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:16,000 the Lord is full of compassion and merciful. 261 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:19,900 You have heard of the endurance of job. 262 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:26,300 Now, if we've gone through these, these first 11 chapters, 263 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:36,300 we realize that for job, he has Unexplicable pain. 264 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:43,800 So harsh, so difficult. None of us can really imagine 265 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,300 it. And so when the writer James 266 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:50,900 says that you've heard of the endurance of job, it is true. 267 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:54,200 He had he had to endure. All the Affliction, all of the 268 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:58,600 loss, all of the pain, and he did under all that. 269 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:04,600 But he also had to endure the criticism of a so-called 270 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,200 friends. A lot of us can endure physical 271 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,600 pain, but we can't endure criticism. 272 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,700 We can't endure when our friends come to us and say things that 273 00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:18,500 aren't true about us. We begin to crumble. 274 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,300 But not Joe. I told you on Sunday that jobs a 275 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:28,700 book about hope. It gives hope to people, like 276 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:32,300 you and me. Because job was a man who lived 277 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:36,700 in light of hope it will unveil that to even all the more as Joe 278 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,400 responds to two so far next week. 279 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,100 But there's something about jobs, endurance. 280 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:48,300 That's remarkable. His ability to sit there and 281 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:53,000 miss all of us pain and hear the words that are spoken to him. 282 00:18:54,100 --> 00:18:58,100 With no mercy and no compassion. That's why James says that 283 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:01,500 you've heard of the endurance, of job and how the Lord dealt 284 00:19:01,500 --> 00:19:05,100 with him. Excuse me, with mercy and 285 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:08,700 compassion. Because the Lord is full of 286 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:14,200 Mercy. The job even though so far, when 287 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:20,300 the leave him hopeless, he lived in light of his hope, his Hope 288 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,600 was in God. It wasn't anyone else? 289 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:29,000 His hope wasn't his friends and you can't have your hope in your 290 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 friends or your family. Why? 291 00:19:33,700 --> 00:19:34,900 Because they're going to fail, you. 292 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:41,200 Inevitably they're going to fail you so your hope must be in God 293 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:45,200 alone. Psalmist said these words in 294 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:56,300 Psalm 146. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord 295 00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:59,000 O, my soul. I will praise the Lord while I 296 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:00,900 live. I will sing praises to my God. 297 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:05,400 While I have my being to not trust in princes in Mortal man 298 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:09,800 in whom, there is no salvation, his Spirit departs and returns 299 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,400 to earth. And that very day, his thoughts 300 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,000 perish. How blessed is he? 301 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:20,700 Whose help is the god of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord. 302 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,200 His God. Who made Heaven and Earth the 303 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:29,300 sea and all that is in them who keeps Faith forever, who 304 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:32,800 executes Justice for the oppressed who gives food to the 305 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:37,700 hungry, the Lord sets the prisoners free, the Lord opens 306 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:41,700 the eyes of the blind, the Lord raises up, those who are bowed 307 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:44,300 down the lord loves the righteous. 308 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:48,100 The Lord protects the strangers, he supports the fatherless and 309 00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:51,200 the Widow. It's the Way of the Wicked. 310 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,800 The Lord will reign forever. Your God o Zion to all 311 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,500 generations. Praise the Lord. 312 00:21:00,100 --> 00:21:03,800 The psalmist learned to Hope in God. 313 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,700 Over in. Psalm 71 it says in You O Lord I 314 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:15,100 have taken Refuge. Let me never be ashamed in your 315 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:16,800 righteousness. Deliver me and Rescue Me 316 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:19,900 incline. Your ear to me and save me. 317 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:25,100 Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come. 318 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,400 You have given commandment to save Me For You. 319 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,700 Are My Rock and my Fortress rescue me. 320 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:35,500 Oh my God, out of the hand of the wicked out of the grasp of 321 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:41,100 the wrongdoer and ruthless Man For You Are My Hope O Lord God, 322 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:46,200 you are my confidence from my youth by you, I have been 323 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,600 sustained from my birth. You are he took me from my 324 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:55,300 mother's womb? My praise is continually of you. 325 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,900 Verse 14. As for me, I will hope 326 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:04,800 continually and will praise you yet more and more Romans chapter 327 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,900 14 Romans chapter 14. Excuse me, chapter 15 verse. 328 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:11,700 Number 13. Now, may the god of Hope. 329 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:15,400 Fill you with all joy and peace in believing say, you may have 330 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,100 Bound in Hope by the power. Of the Holy Spirit. 331 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,400 In other words, the Bible tells us that God is a god of Hope. 332 00:22:24,900 --> 00:22:29,900 Timothy tells us that that Christ is our hope and in the 333 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:34,000 book of Galatians, Paul tells us that the gospel Is Our Hope. 334 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:41,300 Job lived in light of his hope in God, in no matter how 335 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:46,100 critical his friends were he never lost his hope in God 336 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,500 because it's hope wasn't in his friends. 337 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:56,400 His hope wasn't in his wife. His hope. 338 00:22:57,500 --> 00:23:01,800 Wasn't God. So James says, you have you have 339 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:07,300 heard of the endurance of job. Yes, you know that, he endured 340 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:13,600 physical affliction. you know, they endured pain, immeasurable 341 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:20,700 but he also endured constant criticism from his so-called 342 00:23:20,700 --> 00:23:24,200 friends. And he endured it. 343 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,000 A unique and special way. Questions. 344 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:33,100 How did he do that? Because we need to learn how job 345 00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:36,600 endured. If we're going to endure, right? 346 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,300 So many times it's we just crumble under criticism. 347 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:47,000 We crumble under difficulties, we crumble under things that 348 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,800 that we shouldn't crumble under The job never did. 349 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,100 Yeah, it says some things that maybe maybe will question at 350 00:23:56,100 --> 00:24:00,400 times, but remember job, God has nothing but good to say about 351 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:06,600 job at the end. So what is it about job that 352 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,500 caused him to endure? Not just a physical anguish. 353 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,700 But the misery he experienced from his friends. 354 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:21,000 How could he do that? You know, you don't wake up one 355 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,300 day and say today I'm going to endure through everything. 356 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,500 You don't wake up tomorrow and run a 26-mile marathon. 357 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,400 You'll die. After 26 feet. 358 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,500 I mean I would I would make it 36 feet in length 16 miles, 359 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:40,300 right? You got to build up toward that. 360 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,600 It's like it's like football. You got to endure all the way to 361 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,300 the end. Footballs 4/4 not 1/4, right? 362 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,600 So you train so you can endure through all four quarters. 363 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,800 And it takes time to endure to build up endurance. 364 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,800 Same is true spiritually. So, wake up one day and endure 365 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,500 Affliction or endured criticism. There has to be the groundwork 366 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:07,200 that's been laid. There has to be the cultivation 367 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,500 of a the spiritual muscles that will allow you to continue, 368 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:15,900 keeping on amidst, all the Affliction of persecution and 369 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:18,600 it's all the pain, all the disappointments. 370 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:23,100 How do you do that? How does somebody in der? 371 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:28,800 Not just physical Affliction, not just personal anguish. 372 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:33,700 But relational misery. Because no one stands by you. 373 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:39,800 Now. There is no one there to hold 374 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,200 jobs hand. No one. 375 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:47,200 There was was caressing his hand and maybe rubbing his bald head, 376 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,800 or putting their arm around him. Mainly because his body was full 377 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:58,500 of Oozing pus filled sores, right? 378 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:02,300 But there is no one there, to give him any comfort whatsoever, 379 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,600 which makes his endurance, all the more Marvelous. 380 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:12,800 Because he didn't have a human support system. 381 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:16,400 He only had a Divine support system. 382 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:21,400 That's all I needed. See, our problem is we think we 383 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,700 need a human support system. Now it doesn't mean we don't 384 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:25,000 support one another encourage one. 385 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Another pray for one, another doesn't mean we don't do those 386 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000 kind of things. It's just that you can't depend 387 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,500 on those kind of things. Jobe didn't depend on his 388 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:37,200 friends. He would depend solely upon God. 389 00:26:38,300 --> 00:26:41,000 So let me give you three words. Three? 390 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,700 Words that I believe are critical to jobs. 391 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:48,900 Endurance, that help us understand how we could sit 392 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:53,000 there and listen to zophar bildad eliphaz eventually alive. 393 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,100 Who And never crumble under the criticism. 394 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:04,300 But we remain steadfast. Strong, even though physically 395 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:08,600 he was frail. His inner Spirit was strong. 396 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,500 Three words. All right, confidence. 397 00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:18,800 Conviction. And commitment. 398 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:24,200 Okay. Jobs endurance. 399 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:30,300 Was rooted. In his confidence. 400 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:36,300 In God. That's where it was routed. 401 00:27:36,900 --> 00:27:39,800 There was no self confidence in job. 402 00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:47,700 It was all God confidence. He says, later in the Book of 403 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:52,900 Job, Job chapter 31. If I have put my confidence in 404 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:59,700 gold and called Feingold, my trust, if I have gloated because 405 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:06,400 my wealth was great, and because my hand had secured so much if I 406 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:10,100 had looked at the sun when it's shown or the moon going in 407 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:14,600 splendor, And my heart became secretly enticed in my hand 408 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,000 through a kiss from my mouth. That too would have been an 409 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,000 iniquity calling for judgment for. 410 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:29,900 I would have denied God above Job did not put his confidence 411 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:32,800 in his gold and he had a lot of it. 412 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,900 Who is very wealthy, man? He did not put his trust in 413 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:40,800 anything. Outside. 414 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:46,700 Of his God. His confidence was in his God 415 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,800 Alone. If we're ever going to endure, 416 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:59,900 we must be solely confident. In God himself and no one else. 417 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:07,400 And that's what job was. In fact, every great man of God 418 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,900 in the Bible was confident in his God. 419 00:29:10,700 --> 00:29:15,000 Whether it's the Apostle Paul, whether it's Daniel, whether 420 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:21,200 it's Joseph, whether it's Peter, John, they all had confidence in 421 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,900 God. Confidence in what not only 422 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:27,000 God's activity, but God's ability. 423 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,900 Great confidence in God's activity as well as his ability. 424 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,400 Paul said this way being confident of this very thing 425 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:41,200 that he who began a good work in, you will complete it until 426 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,800 the day of Jesus Christ. That's how Paul to find it. 427 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Paul says, I am I have this persuasion? 428 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:56,300 Another word for confidence. I am confident of this very 429 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:59,500 thing. I am confident of God's 430 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:02,500 activity. I'm confident of God's ability 431 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,700 that is I am confident God's activity being confident of this 432 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:10,700 very thing that he who began a good work in you. 433 00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:19,400 God begins to good work in you. It began in eternity past with 434 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,800 predestination, right? Paul says it well and the book 435 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,900 of Ephesians Ephesians chapter 1. 436 00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:34,800 Verse number 4, when he says he chose us in him before the 437 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:39,200 foundation of the world that we would be holy and blameless 438 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:45,100 before him in love. And then he says, in verse 11, 439 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:49,900 we have obtained, an inheritance having been predestined, 440 00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:54,100 according to his purpose. Who works all things after the 441 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:56,900 counsel? Of his will. 442 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:04,000 In other words God who began a good work in you, which deals 443 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:09,000 with the realm of predestination, And then, when 444 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:14,100 time in eternity intersect, I call upon the name of the Lord, 445 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:20,400 and I'm saved that good work. Just comes to be realized in my 446 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,800 own life. The work of Salvation as well as 447 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,500 the work of justification and sanctification and conformation. 448 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:31,700 So ultimately, there's this glorification of my body. 449 00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:36,100 Paul was confident in the activity of God. 450 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:40,300 That would God began in you. He will complete it. 451 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:47,500 Job, had that same confidence. We know he's an upright man that 452 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:51,500 is he is right with God. And the only way he could be 453 00:31:51,500 --> 00:31:56,300 right with God is because God declared him righteous God. 454 00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:00,400 Did the work So he began a good work in. 455 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:05,100 You will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. 456 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:09,900 Not only in God's activity when it comes to his salvation. 457 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:18,600 But God's ability, when it comes to your sanctification, He will 458 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,700 complete the work. Other words, God's already at 459 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:26,200 work. God's never not at work in your 460 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,200 life. He's always doing something to 461 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,400 conform me to his image, to sanctify. 462 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:36,600 You to set you apart to make you, holy, And she might serve 463 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:46,500 him in a way that honors and glorifies his great name. so, 464 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:52,300 like Paul. Jobe. 465 00:32:54,300 --> 00:33:01,200 Endured because his endurance was rooted in the confidence 466 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,100 that he had. In his God. 467 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,600 Did he understand all that God was doing? 468 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:10,300 Nope. Do you know we understand a lot 469 00:33:10,300 --> 00:33:11,900 more than joke did because we have the Bible. 470 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:14,700 We have all 66 books joke didn't have a Bible. 471 00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:18,600 We can read theology books. Job didn't have a theology book. 472 00:33:19,500 --> 00:33:23,700 So we have a lot more understanding of God and 473 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:25,700 knowledge of God, and the workings of God, because we know 474 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:29,500 Job, chapter 1 job, didn't know that chapter Dentist and the 475 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:31,100 conversation going on in Heaven from God. 476 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:40,400 And Satan, we do. but yeah, job endured he was able to be 477 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,200 steadfast. And immovable. 478 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:47,500 Because of his confidence in God. 479 00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:50,300 Miss your question. Where's your confidence this 480 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:53,400 evening? Is that in your gold? 481 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,500 Is that in your friendships, your family, your job. 482 00:33:59,700 --> 00:34:04,400 Where is your confidence? We can only be confident in God 483 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,100 himself. He's the only one we can count 484 00:34:07,100 --> 00:34:09,699 on. He is the only one is true to 485 00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:14,199 his word fully and completely. He never reneged. 486 00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:19,000 He's always there. He never forsakes us. 487 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:24,000 He is always present with us. He is. 488 00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:34,600 Our confidence. so, When Paul defines what a Believer is in 489 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,900 Philippians chapter 3. Verse number 3 says that we are 490 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:40,900 The Marked Ones. We are the we are the 491 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:43,100 circumcision. We are the ones that have been 492 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:47,500 set apart by God. We are the ones who put no 493 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,199 confidence. In the flesh. 494 00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:56,199 But we worship God in spirit and glory in Christ Jesus. 495 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,500 We have no confidence in anything of the flesh are 496 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:03,500 confidence is solely and God himself. 497 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,300 Salvation is a work of God, when salvation is when God Saves you 498 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:14,200 and he redeems you, he calls you, he moves you, he conforms 499 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,800 you. He's going to bring everything 500 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:22,100 about you to completion. Until the day of Christ. 501 00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:29,700 Remember to Not only was jobs, endurance rooted in his 502 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:35,100 confidence in God. But it was riveted by his 503 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:41,200 conviction about God. He had a deep conviction. 504 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:50,500 About God. I told you. early on that, 505 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:57,500 unless you understand Job. Chapter 1. you will never be 506 00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:02,300 able to live through anything like Jobe lives through unless 507 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:07,000 you understand Job, chapter 1, You'll always crumble under 508 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,200 pressure. Because Job chapter 1 is is the 509 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,300 Crux to the book. It tells us he was a he was an 510 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:20,300 upright blameless God-fearing man turning away from evil. 511 00:36:21,700 --> 00:36:27,600 The character of job is supreme. And so that's that's jobs 512 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:33,000 character. But his ability to endure, yes, 513 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:35,900 centers around that character because that character had a 514 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:39,600 confidence in God. But it was, it was, it was 515 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,100 riveted by a conviction about his God. 516 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:48,700 And that conviction was that. God was a, holy God, a pure God. 517 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:50,300 That's why he would turn away from Evil. 518 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,800 That's why job 31:1. He says, I've made a covenant 519 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:54,900 with my eyes. Not to look. 520 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:02,500 And morally unfaithfully upon a woman. because in a deep 521 00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:07,300 conviction about the Holiness and purity of God, That's why he 522 00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:11,600 was a blameless, man. Because he knew that God called 523 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,200 for blamelessness. He knew that God called for 524 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,600 purity of heart. He now he knew that God called 525 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:24,600 for a cleansing of the Soul. He had deep conviction about 526 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:30,300 that. He was so convicted about God's 527 00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:33,300 Purity and God's holiness. He wanted to live to that 528 00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:34,800 standard. That was a standard. 529 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,500 So he can make a covenant with his eyes. 530 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:42,100 Not to look lustfully upon another woman. 531 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,700 He would not trust in something outside of his God. because 532 00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:53,800 everything was was, was riveted by one conviction that he would 533 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:00,900 not compromise. He didn't. you know, every every 534 00:38:00,900 --> 00:38:05,500 man of God in the scriptures, the same way, Daniel, was that 535 00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:09,600 way, right? Daniel chapter chapter one. 536 00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:15,500 Verse number 8, the Daniel made up his mind that he would not 537 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:18,200 defile himself with the Kings Choice food or with the wine, 538 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,200 which he drank. So, he sought permission from 539 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,400 the commander of the officials that he might not defile 540 00:38:25,300 --> 00:38:29,800 himself. get a conviction that he would not defile himself and 541 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:36,000 that conviction Was. Was based on the fact that his 542 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,800 God was a holy God. And he could not defile himself. 543 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:45,700 Well the same was to a job the same with Judith Paul Peter John 544 00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:50,300 all these red Joseph, right? Joseph had confidence in his 545 00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:52,000 God. He knew his God was going to be 546 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,800 with him but he also had a conviction about about the 547 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,100 purity of his God the Holiness of his God. 548 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,600 So that would cause him to run away from Potiphar's wife, when 549 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,000 she tried to seduce him because he wanted to live a pure and 550 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,000 holy life. That's a deep-rooted conviction. 551 00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:16,000 then unfortunately, a lot of people just don't have What Joe 552 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,200 did? It caused him to endure. 553 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,300 All kinds of criticism, all kinds of of adverse 554 00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:30,100 circumstances. Later on in the Book of Daniel 555 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,100 it says of Daniel these words and you know them. 556 00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:35,600 Well Daniel chapter 6 verse number 3, then Daniel began to 557 00:39:35,607 --> 00:39:39,100 distinguish himself among the Commissioners and say traps 558 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,600 because he possessed an extraordinary kind of spirit. 559 00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:45,300 His fear was different than anybody else's spirit. 560 00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:49,800 And the King plan to appoint him over the entire Kingdom. 561 00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,800 And then the Commissioners and say, trust began, trying to find 562 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,500 a ground of accusation against Daniel and regard to government 563 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:59,000 Affairs. But they could find no ground of 564 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,600 accusation or evidence of corruption. 565 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,100 And as much as he was faithful and no, negligence or corruption 566 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:13,100 was to be found in him. Well, known it. 567 00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:17,700 Was that true of Daniel but it was true of job. 568 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:23,100 That's why he was an upright God-fearing blameless, man. 569 00:40:24,900 --> 00:40:31,600 His conviction about God's holiness moved his life. 570 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,700 How about you? How convicted are you about the 571 00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:40,600 Holiness of God? The purity of God. 572 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,700 Bible tells us that he's holy. Holy, holy Very important aspect 573 00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:50,600 of his character. Everything stems from his 574 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:54,500 Holiness. He is so separate from us, so 575 00:40:54,500 --> 00:41:03,500 different from us. and Joe banister that the Bible tells us 576 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:10,100 in, In Psalm 15. These words, which makes. 577 00:41:12,900 --> 00:41:17,600 Zophar has attack on jobs Integrity, just so wrong. 578 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,800 Didn't tell lies. It wasn't boastful. 579 00:41:24,500 --> 00:41:27,500 He didn't make untrue statements, he wasn't a 580 00:41:27,500 --> 00:41:29,700 hypocrite. Psalm 15. 581 00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:33,100 The Bible says O Lord, who may abide in your tent who may dwell 582 00:41:33,100 --> 00:41:36,000 in your Holy Hill. He walks with integrity and 583 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,100 works righteousness and speaks truth in his heart. 584 00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:45,400 That's it. And then it says in verse 15, at 585 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:50,600 the end of verse, number 6, he does these things. 586 00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:59,100 Will Never Be Shaken. Other words Integrity cause you 587 00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:02,400 to endure. And Never Be Shaken. 588 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:08,400 Never be fearful. Never turn away. 589 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,500 You see, he had this deep riveted conviction, that God was 590 00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:17,800 holy and because God was holy, he needed to be holy. 591 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,800 That's why the Bible says he was a blameless. 592 00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:25,700 Upright God-fearing man, turning away from evil. 593 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:31,800 He was convicted concerning his own Purity, and his testimony. 594 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:38,400 They would live for the glory and honor of his God. and so, 595 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,500 when you look at job and you realize that this man had 596 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,900 Supreme endurance, it's simply because of his confidence in his 597 00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:50,400 God and His conviction about the character and nature of his God, 598 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:57,200 as well as his commitment to that God, to know him to 599 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,400 understand him. And to live for him. 600 00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:06,300 Note, The Book of Proverbs the 24th chapter says, the 10th 601 00:43:06,300 --> 00:43:09,300 verse. If you are slack in the day of 602 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:13,200 distress your strength, Is small. 603 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,200 Are you slack in the day of distress? 604 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,100 Are you the kind of person who can't bear up under the pressure 605 00:43:23,700 --> 00:43:27,200 whether it's verbal criticism? What is physical suffering? 606 00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,000 If that's the case your strength is small. 607 00:43:32,700 --> 00:43:37,100 It's not large, certainly not. You won't endure, certainly not. 608 00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:40,900 That's why. Daniel says that those who know 609 00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:43,000 the God will display strength and take action. 610 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,200 Why is it job could endure? Because he knew his God, he was 611 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,400 committed to knowing god. He was committed to 612 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,800 understanding god with not nearly the tools that you and I 613 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,700 had today. He was committed to knowing his 614 00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:06,000 God in a deep. And, and intimate way. 615 00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:11,300 And he did. The things he says about God 616 00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:14,700 shows us house down. His theology is, as he talks 617 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:18,300 about the greatness of God, the wondrous works of God, Joe Knows 618 00:44:18,300 --> 00:44:22,800 those things. But but he didn't let it rest 619 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,800 there. He kept wanting to know, let the 620 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,900 Apostle Paul, all that I may they know him in the fellowship 621 00:44:28,900 --> 00:44:32,600 of his sufferings, right? Paul says, I just want to know 622 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:39,200 my God more and more and more. And whether it's Daniel or 623 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,400 whether it's job or whether it's, it's Peter or Paul, or 624 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,600 whoever it is, maybe they want to know their God. 625 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,300 Why? Because that commitment causes 626 00:44:49,300 --> 00:44:53,600 you to endure. It causes you to stand strong 627 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:58,300 unfazed. When the Bible talks about Job 628 00:44:58,300 --> 00:45:04,500 fearing, God, Fearing. God is the beginning of 629 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:06,100 knowledge. Right? 630 00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:10,600 Proverbs tells us that knowing god is equivalent to fearing. 631 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,800 God, the knowledge of God is equivalent to fearing. 632 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,800 God if you fear God, you know God, why? 633 00:45:16,500 --> 00:45:19,700 Because you know, he needs to be feared, the more, you know, God, 634 00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:22,500 the more you're going to fear. God, there is forgiveness with 635 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:24,600 thee. Psalm 130 person before that 636 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,400 thou mayest be feared. Why does God forgive you of your 637 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:31,800 sins that you might fear Him? Roma Street tells us that there 638 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,200 is no fear of God before the eye of the unbeliever. 639 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,800 They don't fear God. But job feared God. 640 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:44,200 Because he knew his God. in the more you come to know, God, the 641 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:51,100 more you fear Him and Joe did. So when the Bible says that he 642 00:45:51,100 --> 00:45:56,100 was an upright God-fearing man who turned away from evil and 643 00:45:56,100 --> 00:45:59,800 was blameless. It's because their deep 644 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:05,500 commitment to know, as God. And I wonder if that's your 645 00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:09,700 commitment. How much do you really want to 646 00:46:09,700 --> 00:46:10,600 know? God? 647 00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:15,700 You know, the Bible says in Jeremiah chapter chapter 9, 648 00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:18,800 right? Let not the Mighty Man boast in 649 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,000 his mind or the rich man, boast of his riches or the wise man 650 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,800 boast in his riches. But isn't it funny? 651 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,300 We posted all those things right? 652 00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:32,600 We love to post in our might our riches, our intellect, we love 653 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:37,000 to boast in those things. And we all had this tendency, 654 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,100 right? We can send our kids to Junior 655 00:46:40,100 --> 00:46:42,800 College or we send our kids to Harvard. 656 00:46:43,900 --> 00:46:46,600 I want my kid to go to Harvard. Why? 657 00:46:47,300 --> 00:46:51,600 Because in reality, I boast in wisdom, but the Bible says let 658 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,600 not the wise man boast in his wisdom. 659 00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:59,000 I, I can let my kid play at a division. 660 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,200 Three school and play division. One school. 661 00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:03,500 And I can tell everybody is on TV. 662 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:12,900 We boast in our abilities. See I want my kid to go to good 663 00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:16,100 schools and get a good education so he can she can be a lawyer or 664 00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:20,000 a doctor or somebody makes a lot of money because we posted our 665 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,400 riches We tend to lean that way, don't we? 666 00:47:26,500 --> 00:47:31,900 yet the Bible says let him who boasts boast in this the word 667 00:47:31,900 --> 00:47:37,000 boast Or Glory means to be heavy Three way down. 668 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,600 All right, you'll doesn't it. Word means to, to, to be heavy. 669 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,600 Why? Because the, the more riches you 670 00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,800 have, the heavier were the heavier. 671 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:51,300 You were, the more intellectual had the heavy you were right? 672 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,900 And yet, God says, I want you to be heavy in knowing me. 673 00:47:57,700 --> 00:48:02,900 Knowing me because I'm The God Who exercises loving kindness. 674 00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:07,400 And mercy. And justice. 675 00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:12,900 I want you to know me. Is it wrong for your kid, to go 676 00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:15,100 to Harvard? No, they're wrong for your kid 677 00:48:15,100 --> 00:48:17,800 to get a D1 scholarship. No, it's wrong for your kid to 678 00:48:17,808 --> 00:48:21,100 be a lawyer. No, so great things nothing's 679 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:23,100 wrong with them. He's can't be heavy in those 680 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:25,800 things just can't boast in those things. 681 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:32,200 Glory in those things, be heavy in the knowledge of God knowing 682 00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:36,000 god. Coming to understand your God. 683 00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:42,500 And that requires, you knowing him and fearing him. 684 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:49,300 Listen to what the Bible says. And in Psalm 112 how blessed is 685 00:48:49,300 --> 00:48:51,800 the man who fears, the Lord, who greatly Delights in his 686 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:56,300 Commandments that great The man who greatly Delights in his 687 00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:57,900 Commandments, is the one who fears God. 688 00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:03,300 They're parallel statements. If you're fearing God, you're 689 00:49:03,300 --> 00:49:04,800 delighting in God's Commandments. 690 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,000 If you're not delighting in God's Commandments because 691 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:12,000 you're not fearing God and he says this, his descendants will 692 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,900 be Mighty on the earth. Generation of the upright will 693 00:49:14,900 --> 00:49:20,100 be blessed. For this man, verse 36 Will 694 00:49:20,100 --> 00:49:23,800 Never Be Shaken. I'll Never Be Shaken. 695 00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:26,500 The righteous will be remembered forever. 696 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:31,600 He will not fear evil Tidings. His heart is steadfast trusting 697 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:33,400 in the Lord. His heart is upheld. 698 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:37,700 He will not fear. If you're what if you what man 699 00:49:37,700 --> 00:49:41,500 would do to him? See the man who fears God 700 00:49:41,500 --> 00:49:43,900 Delights in the Commandments of God because he's coming to know 701 00:49:43,900 --> 00:49:46,800 more and more about his God. That kind of man is never 702 00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:52,300 shaken. He never Teeters, he stands 703 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:57,700 established, and strong. See, and that's what we need 704 00:49:58,300 --> 00:50:01,100 today. People like job. 705 00:50:02,900 --> 00:50:10,000 Who endured? it's easy to, to To endure when 706 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:15,100 when things are easy. You know, someone said, one 707 00:50:15,100 --> 00:50:17,800 time, there's two choices of Life, the easy way in the right 708 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,400 way, right? The easy way, in the right way. 709 00:50:22,700 --> 00:50:30,400 We love to take the easy Road. Because it's so cushy so smooth. 710 00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,100 Always, so we say But there's a right way to do things. 711 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,200 And usually that's the heart of the hardest way. 712 00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:41,400 And Joe was a man of great endurance. 713 00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,500 I Marvel at this. I just can't understand and 714 00:50:45,500 --> 00:50:50,400 believe what I'm reading when I read the book of Job, That when 715 00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:53,900 they criticize him, he didn't say anything until they're done 716 00:50:54,300 --> 00:50:57,200 and then he speaks not to defend himself. 717 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:04,800 But just to, to show them, the reason of what's happening in 718 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,200 his own mind. What's going on. 719 00:51:09,300 --> 00:51:13,700 But for him to sit there and injure criticism to endure, 720 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:17,200 condemnation, to endure ridicule. 721 00:51:18,900 --> 00:51:21,800 When he's already in physical pain, when he's already an 722 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:25,200 emotional pain, he's already lost everything that he has. 723 00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:30,800 He has nothing to hold onto right in the constant throughout 724 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,100 all these accusations against him against them, one after 725 00:51:34,100 --> 00:51:38,800 another, after another, after another sister and listens and 726 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:45,400 he endures all of it. He is the Bible's greatest hero 727 00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:52,700 Bar, None, this man is heads. And Tails above everybody else 728 00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,500 because he was able to endure. What others never did in her 729 00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,900 Paul, endured the Affliction of his enemies, his enemy spoke 730 00:52:00,900 --> 00:52:04,600 against him, Jobs, friends spoke against him. 731 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,600 And you think that jobs friends were his enemies? 732 00:52:10,100 --> 00:52:12,900 But he endured it all and my prayer for you and me is that we 733 00:52:12,900 --> 00:52:14,800 would be men and women of endurance. 734 00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:19,400 That we would understand our confidence is only in God. 735 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:23,000 That's it. No one else. 736 00:52:24,100 --> 00:52:27,200 And nothing else. His ability. 737 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:32,400 To make sure that he brings us to a point where we look just 738 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:36,700 like him. Knowing that that we this deep 739 00:52:36,700 --> 00:52:39,000 conviction about the character and nature of God. 740 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,500 These are pure and holy God and I need to be as holy as God 741 00:52:41,500 --> 00:52:47,800 himself is Holy I might then be committed to knowing him every 742 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,600 day, more and more. Because I want to understand my 743 00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,000 God. Now, that lived his glory and 744 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:58,300 honor, let's pray, father, thank you, Lord for tonight and thank 745 00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:00,700 you for the opportunity. As brief as it is to look into 746 00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:04,100 the word of God and our prayer. Father, is that we would be men 747 00:53:04,100 --> 00:53:09,500 and women who exemplify you Thank you for this man job, who 748 00:53:09,500 --> 00:53:13,500 understood? Understood you? 749 00:53:14,700 --> 00:53:17,000 Did he grasp everything about you? 750 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,100 No, he's not. Did he understand why he was 751 00:53:21,100 --> 00:53:23,100 going through was going through? No, he didn't. 752 00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,900 Be a great conference in his God, that God was going to do 753 00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:34,300 something great. when where how He did not know. 754 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,600 But he never lost his faith. He never never backed away from 755 00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,600 his Trust. He hoped his God. 756 00:53:45,500 --> 00:53:47,600 My prayer for all of us stores that we would live that same 757 00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,200 kind of life. Hoping solely. 758 00:53:52,700 --> 00:53:55,900 On you for everything in Jesus name. 759 00:53:56,100 --> 00:53:56,600 Amen.