1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:05,900 Charles Spurgeon as done. Several sermons on the Book of 2 00:00:05,900 --> 00:00:10,000 Job. And when it comes to Job chapter 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,300 23, he records these words about job. 4 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:23,300 He says, job has fought the Battle, right manly, not perhaps 5 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:26,100 without a little display of temper and self-righteousness, 6 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:30,500 but still with much less of either than any of us would have 7 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:35,000 shown had, we been in the same plight and had we been equally 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,600 conscious of perfect integrity? T. 9 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:44,300 He has in this part of his self. Defense, sketched a fine picture 10 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:49,100 of a man, perfect. And upright, before God, he is 11 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:52,300 set before us the image to, which we should seek to be 12 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:56,100 conformed. Here is the high ideal after, 13 00:00:56,100 --> 00:01:00,600 which every Christian man should strive and happy, shall he? 14 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,000 Be, who shall attain? It blessed. 15 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,100 Is he who? In the hour of his distress? 16 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:12,000 If he be falsely, accused will be able to say, with as much 17 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,000 truth as the patriarch could, my foot has held the steps. 18 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,600 His way have I kept and not declined? 19 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,100 Neither have, I gone back from the Commandment of his lips? 20 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:29,600 I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary 21 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:35,100 food. Spurgeon's assessment of job is 22 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:38,900 that he has proved himself a Godly Man. 23 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:47,400 Over and over again. He is the Supreme example. 24 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:54,200 Of manhood in the scriptures. because of the things that he 25 00:01:54,200 --> 00:02:00,600 says, the way he handles his crises, And the way God has used 26 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:07,300 him for centuries. There's no secret that God has 27 00:02:07,300 --> 00:02:09,400 called him, the greatest man on the planet. 28 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:13,300 And there's a reason for that, not because of job necessarily, 29 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:16,700 but because of what God has done in his life. 30 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:22,600 So when you come to Job, chapter 23 and Joe chapter 24, you 31 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,900 realize that job is going to answer. 32 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:28,100 Not what was spoken to him last week. 33 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,200 He's going to answer in such a way that with Grace, he is going 34 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:39,000 to talk to God because that's what Godly men do, they talk to 35 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,200 God. And so that's exactly how the 36 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,800 conversation goes so much. So that when you come to chapter 37 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:52,300 25, which is only six verses that's next week that there's 38 00:02:52,300 --> 00:02:58,500 not much left for bildad to say, and so as we go through the 39 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:02,100 text, we're going to look at chapter 23, looking at the 40 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:06,800 situation, concerning job to sufferer and then chapter 24 41 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,200 deals with the situation concerning, those who have 42 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:15,800 sinned against God and he's going to address that he's going 43 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,400 to give us a perspective that the men who have come to counsel 44 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:25,700 him do not have But because of job's pain, he's able to relate 45 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:31,100 to others who are in pain. Not like he has a different kind 46 00:03:31,100 --> 00:03:35,100 of pain and so he shows himself a man of great empathy. 47 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:42,600 Great sympathy, great Mercy because that's the way job is. 48 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:48,800 So first of all, chapter 23, the situation surrounding job, the 49 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:54,400 sufferer as he speaks to God. It says, in verse number 1, then 50 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,600 Joe be applied. Even today, my complaint is 51 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,300 rebellion. His hand is heavy despite my 52 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:00,900 groaning. Now you read that, you think 53 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,600 who's he rebelling against? He's rebelling against himself. 54 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:11,600 He's rebelling against his pain. In other words, God's hand is 55 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:17,399 heavy upon him. But his groaning does not equate 56 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:21,500 with the amount of pain he's going through. 57 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:28,000 So his Rebellion is against groaning about that pain, which 58 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,500 is really a good example for us. Because, you know, when we get 59 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:37,200 sick or we get you know, some kind of Affliction we love to 60 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,000 grown about our pain and we want to grown so loud and so long, 61 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,900 everybody else hears about how bad things are with me job, 62 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:48,400 wasn't that way. In other words, he talks to us 63 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,600 about discipline. He wants to make sure that God's 64 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,800 hand is heavy upon him. Yes, but he is not going to 65 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,600 grown in line with the amount of pain. 66 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,000 Or grown in line with the amount of pain that his friends have 67 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,100 caused. That's great. 68 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:10,800 Discipline doesn't want, pity. There's what people feel, sorry 69 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:14,300 for him. I think about that, if anybody 70 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:18,500 should have been felt, sorry for it would have been Joe, but he 71 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:21,000 doesn't want that. He doesn't want you thinking 72 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,700 about his pain and his Affliction again. 73 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Not like us. We want everybody to know how 74 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,700 Afflicted I him. We want to know how much pain 75 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:30,600 I'm in. We want them to be able to pray 76 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,300 for me all the more Not Joe. He doesn't want to draw 77 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:38,300 attention to himself. He's an ass for his three 78 00:05:38,300 --> 00:05:39,800 friends to come. They came. 79 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:44,600 He didn't ask for his three friends to stay, they stayed, 80 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,200 I'm sure the back of his mind he wished they'd leave, but they're 81 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,500 still there. So Joe is going to talk to God, 82 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,700 look what he says. In verse number 20 and verse 83 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:59,500 number 30 that I knew where I might find him that I might come 84 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:03,700 to his seat. He longs. 85 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:09,900 Defined his God. There's a longing about his life 86 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,500 that draws him to God. Oh, that I might find him. 87 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,500 Oh, that I might come before him. 88 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:20,700 Oh, that I might be able to speak to him. 89 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:25,500 But I might be able to sit down in his presence and explain my 90 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:27,500 case. Tammy says, in verse number 4, I 91 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:31,100 would present my case before him and fill my mouth with 92 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:34,400 arguments. I would learn The Words, which 93 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,900 he would answer and perceive what he would say. 94 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:44,700 To me. You see he's a redeemed person, 95 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,800 he doesn't fear entering the courtroom of God. 96 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:55,700 Because he's been redeemed. We know that from chapter 19, we 97 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:57,700 read from chapter 1. We know that he's right with 98 00:06:57,700 --> 00:06:59,400 God. He's an upright man, he's a 99 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,400 God-fearing man. He turns Away From Evil, so he 100 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,900 wants to be in God's presence. He wants to be in, God's 101 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:06,600 courtroom. He wants to be able to present 102 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,000 his case to God, and then whatever God says he's going to 103 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,900 listen to Verse 6. Would he contend with me by the 104 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:18,300 greatness of his power? No. 105 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,500 Surely he would pay attention to me. 106 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:27,700 They're the upright would reason with him and I would be 107 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:32,100 delivered forever. From my job. 108 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:38,200 My judge job is a guy who understands that in the presence 109 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:43,100 of God is Mercy in the presence of God. 110 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:48,100 There's forgiveness in the, in the presence of God grace is 111 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:52,900 extended. He knows that he knows that when 112 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:56,800 he gets there and speaks to him in spite of the greatness of his 113 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,200 power. That God would pay attention. 114 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:06,400 And God would listen, he's a great perspective on the Lord. 115 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,400 It says, in verse number 8, behold I go forward but he is 116 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,000 not there and backward, but I cannot perceive him when he acts 117 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,100 on the left. I cannot Behold Him, he turns on 118 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:20,100 the right. I cannot see him. 119 00:08:20,300 --> 00:08:23,600 He knows he's there. But he can't perceive him or see 120 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,100 him. He knows he's all around because 121 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:30,200 he knows God's on depressant. But then he says this. 122 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,400 And this is another one of his great confessions that will draw 123 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:37,100 an application from at the end of our time together this 124 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:39,000 evening. But look at listen to what he 125 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:46,100 says. He says, but he knows the way I 126 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:50,100 take. There's a change. 127 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:55,200 From regret. To reassurance. 128 00:08:56,300 --> 00:08:58,400 I go left. I go right, I go forward to go 129 00:08:58,400 --> 00:08:59,600 backward. I don't see him. 130 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:04,200 I don't perceive him perceive him, but but I do know 131 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,700 something. He knows the way I take. 132 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,500 What he's tried me? I shall come forth. 133 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,100 As go. How does he know that? 134 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:19,900 What would ever give him that idea? 135 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:24,700 We'll see in a moment that there there's a plethora of scriptures 136 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:28,200 that speak of God's refining process, but Joe could read 137 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,400 those. So, how does he know that when 138 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,100 he is tried? He is going to come forth as 139 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:37,100 gold. Well, if he's a contemporary of 140 00:09:37,100 --> 00:09:41,300 Abraham, I'm sure he would know about Abraham's test on Mount 141 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:44,200 Moriah to some degree, because he knows about a redeemer who 142 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,300 lives, she does about the resurrection of the Redeemer. 143 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,400 He was 11 tells us that Abraham knew that that if his son was to 144 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,700 be slain that God would raise him from the dead. 145 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,700 So Abraham believed in the resurrection, Joe believe in a 146 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:01,100 resurrection. And so if he's a contemporary of 147 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:04,800 Abraham's, he would see how Abraham's life was was 148 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,800 transformed because Injustice at the 22. 149 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:12,100 God says to Abraham. Now, I know that you fear me Was 150 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:13,200 there. Something God didn't know? 151 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,000 No, he says that, for Abraham's sake. 152 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:21,900 God says it for Abraham shake. So Abraham knows that he lived 153 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:25,100 in the fear of God and that's the way he was supposed to live. 154 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,600 And Abraham passed the test, the test of the sacrifice. 155 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:36,100 So evidently job knows something about the refining process of 156 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:38,300 God. How he knows and what he knows. 157 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:41,300 We don't necessarily know because he doesn't tell us. 158 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:46,700 But the inspired word of God tells us that he believes that 159 00:10:46,700 --> 00:10:50,200 when it's all said and done, he'll come forth as gold. 160 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,000 It says, first 11th, my foot has held fast to his path. 161 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,000 I have kept his way and not turn to side. 162 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,700 I have not departed from the Commandment of his lips. 163 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:05,200 I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my necessary 164 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:10,300 food. Now think about that, He doesn't 165 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:12,800 have the words that you and I had. 166 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,100 He doesn't have 66 books of the Bible to be able to treasure 167 00:11:19,100 --> 00:11:22,500 those words, the words that he has from God have been passed 168 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:24,800 down from generation to generation. 169 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:31,500 Have passed been passed down from from Enoch to Methuselah to 170 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:37,400 Noah and his family into Chemin to Abraham and and the words of 171 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:41,100 God have been passed down. So those words are very few and 172 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:44,900 far between their valuable words because of the words of God, he 173 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:49,500 Treasures those words, we don't look at God's word as a 174 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:51,200 treasure. No, he's much because we can 175 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,000 pick it up and read it. Whatever we want to, we can 176 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,400 listen to it on the radio. We have words put the song, we 177 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,600 take for granted the value of the word of God, but but job do 178 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:06,200 not Joke didn't. Which made him such a unique 179 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,600 individual because with very little to read, and very little, 180 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,900 to memorize and, and very little to memorialize he, he treasured 181 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:18,000 them all. More than is necessary food. 182 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:25,800 Now I don't know about you but it's like a Jeremiah member of 183 00:12:25,808 --> 00:12:28,500 Jeremiah 15:16. When God told him you're going 184 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:32,200 to go and present the the truth to My People Israel. 185 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:35,000 And and when you do it's really you know in advance that no 186 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,300 one's going to listen to a word. You say Nobody's gonna listen. 187 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:41,300 Those are the follow. But I'm sending you Jeremiah 188 00:12:41,300 --> 00:12:43,600 because I've chosen you from your mother's womb, in fact 189 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,000 before I formed you in the womb, I knew you and I chose you 190 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,500 specifically to go and preach so no one listens But he did could 191 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:55,800 have said, why don't we do that? Give me another job. 192 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,000 Don't say God said, that is your job. 193 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,800 So we did. He said you know that words are 194 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,500 found and I did eat them and they were the joy and the 195 00:13:03,500 --> 00:13:08,200 rejoicing of my heart to realize that even though no one's gonna 196 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,300 listen, no one's going to respond. 197 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:12,800 No One's Gonna follow the laugh at me. 198 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,200 They're going to reject me. Do not throw me in the pit. 199 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,800 They're call me names. That words are found and I did 200 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,900 eat them and they were the joy and the rejoicing of my heart. 201 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,200 There's a man who realized that when nothing else. 202 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,700 Is available and no one else responds. 203 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,800 God's word is true. And that's what matters. 204 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:44,200 Most So think a job who has very little words from God and the 205 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,000 ones he has, he cherishes and treasures. 206 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:53,700 Jeremiah. And Jeremiah had more than job 207 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:58,900 did, and God would speak to Jeremiah in Jeremiah within 208 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:03,000 relay, the message to Israel, but no one listened. think about 209 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,200 that when you're trying to witness to your family, And no 210 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:12,400 one listens. Is God's word so treasured that 211 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,400 it's the joy and the rejoicing of your heart, even though your 212 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:19,600 your unsaved spouse or your unsaved children, or your 213 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,300 unsaved, aunts and uncles, don't respond. 214 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:26,800 What's your attitude toward the word of God? 215 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,900 This was Jeremiah's. This was jobs. 216 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:38,700 I love what the what the Lord says in John's gospel, in the 217 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:42,600 fourth chapter, The Lord says these words. 218 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:49,100 Disciples were urging him saying Rabbi eat eat. 219 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,200 But he said to him or to them, I have food to eat that. 220 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,600 You do not know about. So the disciples were saying to 221 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,300 one another? No one brought him anything to 222 00:14:59,300 --> 00:15:02,500 eat, did they? They're one of you have food. 223 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,100 Who gave you food? Were you stashing the food? 224 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:14,000 And the Lord says my food is to do the will of him who sent me. 225 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:20,100 And to accomplish his work. Think about that. 226 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:25,100 Rabbi you have to eat something. We're all eating. 227 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:26,600 You need. You need to eat as well. 228 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:32,200 I have food that you have no idea about And that food is to 229 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,200 do the will of my father who sent me. 230 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:42,300 That was his driving passion. Over in Psalm 119. 231 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:51,500 Psalm 119 verse number 130, The psalmist says, these words. 232 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,700 Someone 18. I'm sorry 103. 233 00:15:55,600 --> 00:16:00,100 How sweet are your words to? My taste is sweeter than honey 234 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:05,100 to my mouth. It's almost new about the 235 00:16:05,108 --> 00:16:10,100 sweetness of God's word. The value of God's word that he 236 00:16:10,108 --> 00:16:14,300 should treasure the truth that God has given to him. 237 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,900 And so, you begin to realize that, that when the Lord says in 238 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:21,900 Matthew, for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every 239 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:25,800 word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, this is your food 240 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:31,400 and you need to treasure the written word as your food more 241 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:35,800 so than anything else. And that's why Joe becomes such 242 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:45,500 a great hero. for the little bit of words that he had. 243 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,600 He treasured them. More than anything. 244 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:52,800 Now, the God's going to speak to him and God is going to give him 245 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,600 a whole slew of words. And that's going to only enhance 246 00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:03,700 his belief in Treasure of the truth of God's word, but I 247 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:05,500 wonder where you are this evening. 248 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:09,000 When it comes to treasuring the truth of God's word. 249 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:16,599 More than you necessary food. And so he says these words verse 250 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:20,099 13, but he is unique and who can turn him. 251 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:26,200 And what is soul desires that he does free performs, what is 252 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:33,500 appointed for me and many such decrees are with him. 253 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:38,800 This whole statement is, is so profound, it will be. 254 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,200 There are application for our time together. 255 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,400 This evening to show you how his three main confessions all come 256 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:50,000 together. As a one, great confession in a 257 00:17:50,008 --> 00:17:54,400 moment. But you can never mistake God's 258 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:59,600 silence for his absence. Because you don't hear God. 259 00:17:59,900 --> 00:18:03,500 You don't see. God does it mean that God's Not 260 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:05,800 There. He's always there. 261 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,500 There's a reason for the silence. 262 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,300 But he's not absent. And so as you come to verse 263 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:17,100 number 15, therefore, I would be dismayed at his presence when I 264 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:20,600 consider him. I am terrified of him. 265 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:25,500 That's the right response. I am terrified of him and 266 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:29,600 rightly, so, To this man. Will I Look to Him is broken of 267 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,800 a contrite heart? Who trembles at my word? 268 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,000 Is it truly terrifying and terrified by him. 269 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,700 He said he says, I'm dismayed at his presence. 270 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,000 But I know this, I live in the fear of God. 271 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,600 And that's the way every believer, should live. 272 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,100 Absolutely, in fear of the terror of God. 273 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,100 That's why the Bible says there's forgiveness with thee 274 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:59,200 that thou mayest be feared, God forgives you. 275 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,800 So you will fear him because the unbeliever what has no fear of 276 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,300 God before his eyes in care about God. 277 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:10,500 The love be afraid of God. Verse 16. 278 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:15,100 It is God, who has made my heart faint and the almighty, who has 279 00:19:15,100 --> 00:19:20,200 dismayed me, but I am not silenced by the darkness nor 280 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:24,700 deep Gloom, which covers me what a perspective. 281 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:29,300 There is Darkness all around me. There's a Gloom that covers me. 282 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:34,100 I am dismayed by my by my God. But you know what? 283 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,800 I trust. I believe in him. 284 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,100 And that's what joke 23 and 24 is all about. 285 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:45,500 Even though he can't see God, even though God is silent and it 286 00:19:45,508 --> 00:19:49,600 has yet to speak to him even though he doesn't understand the 287 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,000 ways of God, he knows that God has a way. 288 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:56,900 It's a perfect way in all he can do is trust in God and believe 289 00:19:56,900 --> 00:20:00,700 in God. And that's that's where God 290 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:05,400 wants us to be living in trust, living in obedience, even though 291 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,100 we don't have an answer because job doesn't have an answer. 292 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,100 He's perplexed. He truly is. 293 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,000 Dismayed. But he knows that he was, he was 294 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:24,600 preserved for this moment. He was preserved for this moment 295 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,900 and he was protected in the moment. 296 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,300 He didn't know how protective he was because Satan wanted to kill 297 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:33,600 him but God says, you can't do that. 298 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:37,200 God was protecting him. He didn't know what that 299 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:38,800 conversation. He didn't know about the 300 00:20:38,808 --> 00:20:42,200 conversation between Satan and the Lord God of the universe. 301 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,800 But he knows that he's being protected and preserved for this 302 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,400 moment and on top of that he was prepared for this moment. 303 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:52,400 As much as he could be, he was prepared. 304 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,900 That's Job. Chapter 1 in Joel chapter 2. 305 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:58,700 It was his character that prepared him for this moment. 306 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,500 So that when the trial came, he wasn't obliterated when the 307 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,600 trial came. He wasn't consumed with a trial 308 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,200 came. He didn't crumble the trial 309 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,700 came. He didn't give up because of his 310 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:11,900 character. He was the man who was 311 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:16,900 God-fearing upright blameless Turning Away From Evil. 312 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,200 That's what made job. The man that he was. 313 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:26,700 So when you come to chapter 24, okay, you move from the 314 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:29,900 situation between Joe, the sufferer to the situation 315 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:35,800 concerning. Those who sin against God and 316 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,600 his perspective is it's quite remarkable. 317 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,000 In fact, one author said that this way while Jobe awaits God's 318 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:46,400 answer his mind turned to the topsy-turvy Affairs in the world 319 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,000 that allow the wicked, given to self-serving brutal. 320 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,700 Deeds of violence to oppress the Weak and Powerless, his own 321 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,700 sufferings have, made him more sensitive to widespread human 322 00:21:56,700 --> 00:22:00,300 suffering, he Longs for God to rectify matters on Earth. 323 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,700 While he Grieves that social evil He remains so confident 324 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:06,400 that God does eventually execute Justice. 325 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,300 That he pronounces a series of curses against the wicked jobs 326 00:22:10,300 --> 00:22:14,000 concern, for Injustice, leads him to challenge the Theology of 327 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,100 his day. But the same time because of his 328 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:21,300 profound faith in God, his lamenting drives him to God for 329 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:24,100 an answer. He is anxious that God curse, 330 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:27,600 the wicked holding them accountable accountable for 331 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,200 their evil Deeds. He begins Alyssa, but look at 332 00:22:31,208 --> 00:22:35,500 the empathy of job verse. 22, through 24 verse number 1, yr x 333 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:40,200 not stored up by the almighty and why do those who know him? 334 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,100 Not see his days. In other words, why is it that 335 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:46,200 we are unable to see the Judgment of God happened in 336 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,000 these days? Why don't we know when God's 337 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,600 going to act in act and execute his judgment in these days? 338 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,000 Why isn't God tell us? And that's a good question. 339 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:59,200 We love to know that. But we do know that God will 340 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,800 execute his Justice. and his judgments because he's promises 341 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:09,300 that So he says some remove the landmarks, they seize and devour 342 00:23:09,300 --> 00:23:12,100 flocks. They drive away the donkey's of 343 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:15,800 the orphans, they take the Widow's aux for a pledge. 344 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,100 They pushed the needy, aside from the road, the poor of the 345 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:20,900 land are made to hide themselves. 346 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:23,000 Altogether. Behold this wild donkeys in the 347 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,400 wilderness they go for seeking food in their activity, as bred 348 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:28,800 for their children in the desert. 349 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,800 They harvest their father in the field and glean The Vineyard of 350 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,600 the of the wicked. They spend the night naked 351 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,600 without clothing and have no covering against the cold beer, 352 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:46,900 wet with the mountain rains and huge the rock for once of a 353 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:49,700 shelter. Or hug the rock for want to 354 00:23:49,700 --> 00:23:51,400 shelter. She's me other snatched the 355 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,600 orphan from the breast. And against the poor, they take 356 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,200 a pledge, they cause the poor to go about naked without closing 357 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,300 clothing, and they take away. The she's from the hungry within 358 00:24:01,300 --> 00:24:04,300 the walls, they produce oil, they tread wine presses but 359 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:08,400 thirst from the city mean grown in The Souls of the Wounded. 360 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,200 Cry out yet. God does not pay attention to 361 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,800 Folly. He begins to list what's 362 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,300 happening to the orphans and what happened happening to the 363 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:19,700 Widow, what's happening, people's property, how how 364 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:23,800 people come and steal and, and how people abuse them in his 365 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:24,800 great? Sympathy. 366 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,100 For those people. You see Joe does what his his 367 00:24:30,100 --> 00:24:34,300 comforters haven't done. And necessarily can't do. 368 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:41,100 He feels for those in pain. He's feels for those who are 369 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:47,100 being dealt with unjustly by Wicked people around them. 370 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:54,900 In fact, he gets his eyes off of his own pain to be able to 371 00:24:54,900 --> 00:24:57,900 effectively see the pain of other people. 372 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,700 That's remarkable. Most of us can't do that. 373 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,400 Most of us have such tunnel vision that when were in pain, 374 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,400 it's always see when our world is crumbling all we can see are 375 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,500 the are the bricks building up falling around us. 376 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:17,900 That's all we can see but not job. 377 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:25,100 Job sees the people in pain. He provides first example on how 378 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:28,900 not to be self-serving when Affliction comes our way. 379 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:34,300 How not to think only about my Affliction and my pain and 380 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:37,700 asking and wanting others to come alongside of me and and be 381 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:41,500 of assistance to me. But look at the Injustice of all 382 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:45,100 those around me. What's happening to them? 383 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,100 This is a remarkable man. Because if anybody should be 384 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:53,100 thinking of themselves as a job, he has nothing. 385 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:59,600 He's lost at all his pain, insurmountable. and yet, he 386 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,500 says, the time to think of other people, Who go through 387 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:08,200 difficulties. God could have stopped all the 388 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,400 injustices but he doesn't. Let's continue. 389 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,700 Because that's what God does. It says verse number 13. 390 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:21,900 Others have been with those who rebel against the light. 391 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,800 Do not want to know the ways. Nor bide in its past the 392 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,700 murderer, arises at dawn, he kills the poor and the needy and 393 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:36,800 a night, he's a thief, the eye of the adulterer waits for the 394 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,500 Twilight saying no I will see me. 395 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,700 He disguises his face in the dark they dig into houses they 396 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,000 shut themselves up by day. They do not know the light for 397 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,700 the morning is the same to him as thick Darkness. 398 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:57,800 As for his familiar with the Terrors of thick Darkness. 399 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:01,200 God doesn't stop the robber. God doesn't stop. 400 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,900 The thief. God doesn't stop. 401 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:05,200 The murderer! God doesn't stop the evil doer. 402 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,000 God doesn't stop the adulterer. God just lets them continue in 403 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:14,800 their sin. Verse 18, they are insignificant 404 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,700 on the surface of the water. Their portion is cursed on the 405 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:20,100 earth. They do not turn toward The 406 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:22,800 Vineyards drought and heat consumed the snow Waters. 407 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,700 So does she owe? Those who have sinned. 408 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:30,600 In other words, As Swift as the snow melts. 409 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,600 So swiftly, will come there, there end their grave. 410 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,200 On top of that a mother will forget him, the worm feeds 411 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,500 sweetie till he is no longer remembered and wickedness will 412 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:45,500 be broken like a tree. He wrongs the barren woman. 413 00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:49,600 He does no good for the Widow, but he drags off the Valiant by 414 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:50,900 his power. He rises. 415 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:53,400 But no one has a Servants of life. 416 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:58,300 He provides them with security and they are supported and the 417 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:02,500 eyes of God are on their ways. They are exalted for a little 418 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:06,000 while, then they're gone. Moreover, they are are they are 419 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,700 brought low and like everything gathered up, even the heads of 420 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:15,900 grain, they are cut off Now, if it is not so who can prove me a 421 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:21,500 liar and make my speech? Worthless answer. 422 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:24,100 No one. Because he can't answer that 423 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:28,000 because he knows he's right. See Joe's perspective. 424 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,800 On the injustices around him are spot-on jobs perspective on the 425 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,400 wicked, man, who's carrying out his evil is spot-on. 426 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:40,900 But there's coming to judgement upon that, man. 427 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:49,300 In God's your time. you know, I got this book from Bruce this 428 00:28:49,300 --> 00:28:56,200 past week or on Divine Providence Stephen Shahrukh has 429 00:28:57,300 --> 00:29:02,300 as they evolve Hume written on the attributes in existence of 430 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:04,900 God. It's quite lengthy. 431 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:10,100 It's very hard to read. This book has been for lack of a 432 00:29:10,108 --> 00:29:13,200 better phrase, dumb down for the normal guy, to be able to read 433 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:18,700 and understand. And he talks about The classic 434 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:22,300 work of Divine Providence. And in it. 435 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,600 He says this about Job 12, verse number 10, which reads in his 436 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,600 hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all 437 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,700 mankind. Joe made that statement injector 438 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:36,200 12. Sonic says, there is not a 439 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,500 single molecule in all the universe that lies outside, 440 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:42,900 God's control. The Lord knows and directs all 441 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:46,500 creation from the mightiest Angel to the smallest earthworm, 442 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,700 and it is goodness and wisdom God. 443 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:54,200 Exerts his authority over every single act, large, and small, 444 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,900 good, and evil. He has woven all creation into a 445 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:04,700 Salvation story that culminates in the cross, and this is Divine 446 00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:08,300 Providence. In other words, he States the 447 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:10,200 fact that and if you don't have this book you might want to get 448 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,600 it and read it. It's it's really, really good. 449 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,600 If you want to understand the Providence of God, the working 450 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,200 of God and in the in the way of life and the way of the world. 451 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,800 But what he's saying is that everything functions under 452 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,700 Divine Providence, because everything leads to the Cross, 453 00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:29,900 everything is about the Apex of human history Calvary. 454 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,400 So, everything providentially is being orchestrated by God to 455 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:43,200 move everything everyone. 21 period of time to one day. 21 456 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:48,600 sacrifice were Christ gave his life for the sins of man. 457 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:52,100 And that's what Divine Providence does. 458 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:55,800 God orchestrates, everything toward that end. 459 00:30:56,900 --> 00:31:00,100 And God even lets the injustices of this world continue on 460 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:03,300 because he's patient and kind and merciful. 461 00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:07,600 So having said that, let me, let me take it back to chapter 23 462 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,600 and show you once again, this Great Divine confession. 463 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,700 Because remember, we've given you two of them. 464 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:16,600 The first one was in chapter 9. Remember that chapter 9 verse 465 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,500 number 10, who does great things, unfathomable and 466 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:27,400 wondrous Works without number, that was jobs, great statement 467 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,900 and great confession. We told you that statement alone 468 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:37,800 unlocks the mystery of God and Folds, the meaning of the book 469 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:43,000 of Joe, that one statement that one verse unlocks, the mystery 470 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,200 of God and unfolds, the meaning of the Book of Job. 471 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,000 In other words, God himself is in comprehensible. 472 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:57,400 And then in chapter chapter 20, she be chapter 19, he makes that 473 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,600 Nick's great statement. Verse 25, as for me, I know that 474 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,100 my redeemer lives and at the last, he will take His stand on 475 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:07,600 the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed 476 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:12,200 yet from my flesh. I shall see God whom I myself 477 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,000 Shall Behold and who my eyes will see. 478 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:20,500 And yet, and not another my heart faints within me. 479 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,800 That great confession. Unveils to us the ministry of 480 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:30,300 God. And unleashes for us, the 481 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:35,400 message of God to man. This confession. 482 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:41,300 In chapter 23. Uncovers for us, the Majesty of 483 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:49,100 God. and utters the magnificence of job, the man It uncovers the 484 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:54,100 Majesty of God. And it utters. 485 00:32:55,300 --> 00:33:00,800 The magnificence of job. The man in other words, what job 486 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,600 says? Shows us how magnificent he is. 487 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:09,700 Because he understands something about God that most of us never 488 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:16,300 get That God has a plan and that plan centers around. 489 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:23,700 How he purifies, man. And how he performs everything 490 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:29,600 that's appointed for that man. so he speaks to us about the 491 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:35,300 Majesty of God when it comes to his refinement and then it 492 00:33:35,308 --> 00:33:39,000 speaks of the magnificence of job, when it comes to his 493 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:45,300 resolve, this is Job's resolved This is what he comes to. 494 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:50,200 This is where he is in his suffering and what he is saying 495 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,900 is providing for us a a map on how to live our lives. 496 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,300 And how to how to govern, how did we deal with situations? 497 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:02,800 But but, but the confession, first of all deals with the 498 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,700 Majesty of God in his refinement. 499 00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:15,400 He says These words. In Job chapter 23. 500 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:22,400 He says, he knows the way that I take. 501 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:29,300 And what he's tried me. I shall come forth as gold. 502 00:34:30,100 --> 00:34:32,199 Got his Majestic because he has a plan. 503 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:38,400 It's a plan that runs perfectly without any mistakes. 504 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:43,600 Over in 1st Thessalonians, 5 24 says, Faithfully. 505 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:48,100 See, who called you who who also will will do it. 506 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:54,199 Remembering in Daniel chapter 4. Verse number 17. 507 00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:01,900 It says these words, this sentence is by the decree of the 508 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,100 Angelic Watchers. And the decision is a command of 509 00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:08,700 the Holy ones in order that the living may know that the most 510 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:13,700 high is ruler over all the realm of mankind and bestows it on 511 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:18,100 whom he wishes other words. God rules over over man, over 512 00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:24,000 man, does whatever he wants to do and then over in chapter 4 513 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,100 verse number, 34 Talk about Nebuchadnezzar. 514 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,500 He says, I blessed the most high, I praise and honor him. 515 00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:33,200 Who lives forever for his Dominion is an everlasting 516 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,700 dominion and his kingdom endures from generation to Generation 517 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:41,600 all the inhabitants of the Earth are Canada's nothing but he 518 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,500 does. According to his will in the 519 00:35:43,508 --> 00:35:47,500 host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and no 520 00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:50,300 one can ward off his hand or say to him. 521 00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:55,600 What have you done? Then it says in verse Remember 522 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,000 37. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise 523 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,200 exalt and honor the king of heaven and all his works are 524 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:09,700 true in his ways just and he is able to Humble those who walk in 525 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:13,900 Pride. The Majesty of God is seen in 526 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:17,100 this plans because they can't be changed. 527 00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:23,000 They can't be thwarted. And God sticks to them. 528 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,800 No matter what. In fact, in the book of Jeremiah 529 00:36:26,300 --> 00:36:30,300 in Jeremiah chapter 29, it says in verse number for thus, says 530 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:33,400 the Lord of hosts, the god of Israel to all the Exiles who 531 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,200 might have sent into Exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 532 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,300 God wants to make sure that they know that it's he who sent them 533 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:46,000 into Babylonian captivity. True Nebuchadnezzar is going to 534 00:36:46,008 --> 00:36:48,700 come, he's going to plunder the city is going to take them 535 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:51,700 captive. But Nebuchadnezzar was a servant 536 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:55,200 of God. And God wants you to know that 537 00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:58,200 I've done this. I'm behind all this. 538 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,300 I'm behind your York activity. They says, in verse number 8, 539 00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:07,600 excuse me for thus, says the Lord of hosts, the god of 540 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,300 Israel, do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your 541 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:14,600 dividends deceive. You don't listen to the dreams 542 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,800 or which they, they dream for, they prophesy falsely to you. 543 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:24,000 In my name, I have not sent them declares the Lord for thus, says 544 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000 the Lord. When 70 years have been 545 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,900 completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill my good 546 00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:34,500 word to you to bring. NG you back to this place? 547 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:39,400 God says, I have a plan and the plan has had a time limit. 548 00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:45,400 It's 70 years, it's very specific and if you went with us 549 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,500 in our study of Daniel, you know why it was 70 years and why God 550 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:52,600 told him, it was 70 years. He says these words for, I know 551 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,700 the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord plans for 552 00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:58,500 welfare and not for Calamity to give you a future and a hope. 553 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:02,000 That we quote that all the time, but it comes to our lives, but 554 00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:03,800 specifically refers only to Israel. 555 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,400 Not you and me by secondary application. 556 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,500 It can be fair to us, but it specifically refers to Israel in 557 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:14,500 the Babylonian captivity. And so God says, I have a plan. 558 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,700 I have a plan for you and you don't know the plan. 559 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:26,200 But I do. It's a 70 year plan. and the 560 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:30,900 good thing about that is that is that God told him in advance job 561 00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:33,900 had no advanced warning as to how long his plan was. 562 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:38,900 The plan for his suffering he didn't know had no idea and most 563 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:41,500 of us don't either. We have no idea when we go 564 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:43,800 through Affliction and hardship and difficulty how long it's 565 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,000 going to last. Only God knows that he has a 566 00:38:46,008 --> 00:38:50,200 plan. Is a plan and that plan is to is 567 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,800 to purify. You look what it says. 568 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:58,100 He says the plans are for your your tranquility. 569 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,100 Not for your calamity. I'm going to do something among 570 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:06,400 you. I'm going to give you a future. 571 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:13,100 I'm going to give you a hope because in Israel is Hope then, 572 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:17,200 you will call upon me and pray to me and I will listen to you. 573 00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:23,000 You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all 574 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,400 your heart. And I will be found by you 575 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,500 declares the Lord. And I will restore your fortunes 576 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:30,200 and will gather you from all the nations. 577 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,000 From all the places where I have driven, you declares the Lord 578 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,500 and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you. 579 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:43,600 In Exile. I have a place. 580 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:50,100 It's called captivity. I have a place it's called the 581 00:39:50,100 --> 00:39:53,800 place of adversity. But with that place. 582 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:00,000 I have a plan. And that plan centers around 583 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:06,800 your Purity in your tranquility. And he says, I have a purpose 584 00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:10,100 but the purpose is it's always this. 585 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,500 Intimacy. For my glory. 586 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,600 It's intimacy. Because when it's all said and 587 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,900 done, you going to call upon me. Because right now, you don't And 588 00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:25,700 when you call upon me, I'm going to listen, I will be there. 589 00:40:27,100 --> 00:40:29,100 You will seek me with all your heart because right now, you 590 00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:33,600 don't, but you will. So, God tells them in advance. 591 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:37,300 What the plan is. Cousin what the process is 592 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:42,700 cousin, what the purpose is. Because he wants to understand 593 00:40:42,700 --> 00:40:45,400 in advance his care and concern for them. 594 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:49,300 By secondary application. We have to realize that God has 595 00:40:49,300 --> 00:40:53,400 a plan. That plan a lot of time, 596 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:59,600 includes adversity and calamity. But at that plan. 597 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,600 Comes a process, a refining process. 598 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:08,600 So when it's all said and done, we walk in intimacy with the 599 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,500 true and living God. God moves us toward himself. 600 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:18,300 Now, think about this. God's doing this in jobs life 601 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:20,100 and he's already a blameless, man. 602 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:26,500 He's already a God-fearing man. He's already a man who turns 603 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:30,200 away from evil. He's already an upright, man. 604 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,800 That's a chapter one. So, Joe was already there. 605 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:41,800 But yet even though he's there, God is still doing a work in his 606 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,900 life because he's not a perfect man just to blame us man. 607 00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:50,300 And God is going to do something so unique and so special in him. 608 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:55,000 God's going to drive him even further into intimacy with him. 609 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,800 That he becomes the quintessential man of all 610 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,800 scripture. Because this man was stood 611 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,100 everything thrown at him by the grace, and mercy of the Living 612 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:09,200 God. And God drove him to a place 613 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:12,100 where most men can't even dream of being. 614 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,500 For at the end, he will say I've heard of you but now I see you 615 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:22,600 now. I get it. so, the Majesty of God 616 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:27,100 is seeing And how are you finds, man? 617 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,000 Is a plan and that plan is to purify. 618 00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:39,000 Amanda's already blame us. A man who was already upright 619 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,800 and God-fearing. But job knows that when it's all 620 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,900 said and done, he will come forth as gold, he will shine 621 00:42:46,100 --> 00:42:50,600 like the royalty of his King. And others will see. 622 00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:56,100 The king because they reflect the image of the king. 623 00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:00,500 Way back in Daniel chapter. I'm sorry, Deuteronomy chapter 624 00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:03,200 4. God says this to Israel. 625 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,400 But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron 626 00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:14,300 Furnace from Egypt. To be a people for his own 627 00:43:14,700 --> 00:43:17,400 possession. As today. 628 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:23,800 God has brought you through an iron furnace for furnace 400 629 00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,900 years. They were in Egypt. 630 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:30,000 It's a long time. That was an iron furnace. 631 00:43:31,300 --> 00:43:34,700 But they were a people of God's Own possession. 632 00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:42,300 The Bible says, In the book of First Peter chapter 1 in this, 633 00:43:42,300 --> 00:43:44,300 you greatly Rejoice, even though now for a little while, if 634 00:43:44,300 --> 00:43:46,600 necessary you have been distressed by various trials. 635 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,200 So that the proof of your faith being more precious than gold, 636 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:54,600 which is perishable even though, tested by fire may be found to 637 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,100 result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus 638 00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:02,800 Christ. The penis is this in, though. 639 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:07,000 You have not seen him, you love him and though you do not see 640 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:12,100 him now, but believe in him, you greatly Rejoice with joy 641 00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:15,800 inexpressible, and full of Glory, obtaining, as the outcome 642 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,500 of your faith, the salvation of your souls, So Peter says to 643 00:44:19,508 --> 00:44:22,000 those who are already suffering those who are losing their 644 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,000 lives. Yuri, you rejoice greatly. 645 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,900 Because of what God is doing in your life. 646 00:44:28,900 --> 00:44:30,900 He goes on to say in chapter 4, verse. 647 00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:35,600 Number 12, beloved do not be surprised at this fiery ordeal 648 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,600 among you which comes upon you for your testing as though, some 649 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:43,000 strange thing were happening to you but to the degree that you 650 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,100 share the sufferings of Christ, keep on rejoicing. 651 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,500 So that also at the revelation of his glory, you may Rejoice 652 00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:55,800 with eggs, all Tatian. So, job statement is all about 653 00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:00,500 the Majesty of God. because the Majesty of God is seen in the 654 00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:08,200 refining process of each individual person He says these 655 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:12,800 words. He is unique who can turn him 656 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,300 his soul. Does that he desires, he 657 00:45:17,300 --> 00:45:20,200 performs, what is appointed for me. 658 00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:24,000 And what's important for job is not necessarily appointed for 659 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,600 you. And what's important for you is 660 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,900 not asleep. Waiting for your, your family, 661 00:45:29,900 --> 00:45:34,400 or your children or your friends, Because God has a 662 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,600 Divine appointment and he doesn't treat us all the same. 663 00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:40,000 Teachers, all uniquely different. 664 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,300 But he will accomplish that, which is appointed for us 665 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:49,300 because God has a plan. And that plan will be performed. 666 00:45:49,300 --> 00:45:52,700 Exactly as he desires it to happen. 667 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,700 You must understand the loving God in his Providence, how he 668 00:45:57,700 --> 00:45:59,300 works in the lives of his people. 669 00:46:00,100 --> 00:46:03,800 He is not an ogre upstairs who looks down and frowns and growls 670 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,900 that his children. No. 671 00:46:05,900 --> 00:46:08,700 He lovely cares for them and protects them and preserves them 672 00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:11,600 and watches over them and takes them through difficult times. 673 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,000 That they might see the hand of God moving in their lives and 674 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:22,000 draw closer to him. so, the Majesty of God, Is part of this 675 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:27,100 statement. Is seen in his refinement, but 676 00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:32,300 the, the Magnificent magnificent of job is seen in his resolve. 677 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:39,100 Job's resolved as result of God's refining process is 678 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:47,400 remarkable. because look, he says I've tracked, the ways of 679 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,900 God. I've treasured the word of God 680 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:55,200 and I've trusted the work of God. 681 00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:01,400 He says, very clearly, he knows the way I take when he tries 682 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:05,600 Master come forth as gold, my foot has held fast to his path. 683 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,600 I have kept his way and not turn aside. 684 00:47:09,700 --> 00:47:13,100 In other words, it's his way, not my way, it's his path, not 685 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:15,900 my path. And I haven't turned aside from 686 00:47:15,900 --> 00:47:18,500 that. I haven't rebelled against the 687 00:47:18,500 --> 00:47:21,500 direction that God is leading me and God is directing me. 688 00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,100 Remember the Book of Proverbs when it talks about the way? 689 00:47:24,100 --> 00:47:25,600 It's always the way of righteousness. 690 00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:28,700 Well, you have a righteous God is working in upright. 691 00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:32,700 People leading them closer to him that they might exude his 692 00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:34,800 righteousness. It's a righteous way. 693 00:47:35,900 --> 00:47:37,900 He sees that he understands that. 694 00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:42,300 And so he says, I don't turn to the left, I don't turn to the 695 00:47:42,300 --> 00:47:48,100 right, but I stay right. On course, because I want to 696 00:47:48,100 --> 00:47:50,400 follow the way that God has led me. 697 00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,900 He is tracked. The ways of God, he has followed 698 00:47:53,900 --> 00:47:56,200 the ways of God does not question. 699 00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,000 The ways of God. He's not debating the ways of 700 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,800 God. Befalls in explicitly, not 701 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:08,600 turning to the left, or to the right. and then, he treasured 702 00:48:09,700 --> 00:48:15,500 The word of God. He Treasures the word of God. 703 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:23,100 That's why he stays on the path of God because what God says he 704 00:48:23,100 --> 00:48:26,600 does we're God leads. He goes, how do you know your 705 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:27,700 treasure? God's word? 706 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:31,800 You just do everything says that's all you don't debate. 707 00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,000 What God says you love is worth so much, whatever he says, you 708 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,300 just do Because you love him so much. 709 00:48:39,700 --> 00:48:42,300 If you want to debate with God and question God and and and 710 00:48:42,300 --> 00:48:45,100 just try to try to get in the courtroom with God say you know 711 00:48:45,100 --> 00:48:46,800 what, God, I don't think you're really leaving me the right way. 712 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:48,100 I mean, that's just not going to work. 713 00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:51,400 Because God is the king of all. We'll see you next week. 714 00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,300 That God is the ruler of all. He is the one who holds dominion 715 00:48:54,300 --> 00:48:57,500 over everything and build that will be correct when he says 716 00:48:57,500 --> 00:49:01,600 that will talk about the rulership of God, over all of 717 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,400 man, because he rules over all, he makes no mistakes. 718 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,500 You know, it'd be great to be able to rule your family without 719 00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:12,100 making a mistake, right? That doesn't happen. 720 00:49:13,500 --> 00:49:17,300 As father's, we make mistakes with a rule in our own little 721 00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:20,000 kingdom, but we're going to make a lot of mistakes along the way. 722 00:49:21,100 --> 00:49:25,200 God is making mistakes. Ever makes any errors. 723 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,500 Always does it right? And Joe says, I've treasured his 724 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:34,800 word, I've tracked, his his ways, I love what it says and in 725 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:40,800 Psalm Psalm 29 verse number 10, this is so great. 726 00:49:41,700 --> 00:49:45,400 Someone says the Lord sat as king at the flood. 727 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,200 Yes the Lord sisters king forever. 728 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,200 The Lord will give strength to his people. 729 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,300 And the Lord will bless his people with peace, when the 730 00:49:56,300 --> 00:50:00,000 flood happened. God said, as king, why? 731 00:50:00,100 --> 00:50:01,300 Because his Dominion of everything. 732 00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:04,300 God sent the flood. God gave him a hundred. 733 00:50:04,300 --> 00:50:06,400 Twenty years, he was very patient with them. 734 00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,100 He told him I was going to happen. 735 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,700 He used no of the preacher of righteousness. 736 00:50:12,300 --> 00:50:17,100 And yet he sits his King. Over the flood. 737 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:23,100 Over the waters. Because the floods in waters in 738 00:50:23,100 --> 00:50:29,400 scripture, represent the constant tumult that we face all 739 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:32,700 the time. And got such as king over them. 740 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:38,200 God, rules over them. He guides the flood. 741 00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,300 As he did way back in Genesis chapter 7 and 8. 742 00:50:43,700 --> 00:50:46,400 He guided the, the depth of the flood. 743 00:50:48,500 --> 00:50:53,000 The length and breadth of the flood he sat as king over the 744 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,000 flood waters. Because he rules over them. 745 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,300 Just like he does in your life in mind and maybe sit there and 746 00:51:00,300 --> 00:51:02,300 think man the flood waters are so high. 747 00:51:03,100 --> 00:51:05,600 I don't know if I could either ever breathe again. 748 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,400 But God says his King over your flood waters. 749 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:12,500 The only go as high as he wants them to go. 750 00:51:13,900 --> 00:51:15,800 They only last as long as he wasn't the last. 751 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:21,700 Because he's the Majestic one. He's the king. 752 00:51:23,100 --> 00:51:26,700 He says in chapter 28 of the Psalms verse 6 blessed. 753 00:51:26,700 --> 00:51:29,400 Be the Lord because he has heard the voice of my supplications. 754 00:51:29,700 --> 00:51:32,600 The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart trust in him 755 00:51:32,700 --> 00:51:35,900 and I am helped therefore my heart exults in with my song I 756 00:51:35,900 --> 00:51:38,200 shall thank him. The Lord is their strength and 757 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,600 he is a saving defense to his anointed. 758 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,900 Save your people and bless your inheritance be their Shepherd 759 00:51:43,900 --> 00:51:48,200 also and carry them forever. The Reason God sits is King 760 00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,100 over. The flood waters is because he 761 00:51:50,100 --> 00:51:52,800 wants to, as he says in verse number 11, give strength to 762 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,400 People. And peace to his people. 763 00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,200 That's what God's going to do in your life. 764 00:52:01,300 --> 00:52:04,500 That's why you treasure is words more than you necessary food. 765 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,900 Because God is constantly at work in your life and in mine. 766 00:52:12,100 --> 00:52:17,400 So job says, this is my resolve I tracked the ways of God. 767 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:23,700 I treasured the word of God and I always trusted the work of 768 00:52:23,700 --> 00:52:27,700 God. He's going to perform what's 769 00:52:27,700 --> 00:52:34,400 been appointed for me. And evidently he says, this is 770 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:39,200 appointed for me. Because I have it, it's present. 771 00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,800 It's here. Psalmist in Psalm 90 verse 772 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:46,800 number 15 make us glad according to the day, you have Afflicted 773 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:49,700 us. And with the years we have seen 774 00:52:49,700 --> 00:52:55,800 trouble, wow, a statement make us glad according to the days in 775 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,300 which you Afflicted us, why? Because there was something 776 00:52:58,300 --> 00:53:00,300 about the Affliction that made us glad why? 777 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,800 Because we had to learn to trust in you and depend upon you. 778 00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:08,600 And what we did, we called upon you You heard you answered. 779 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,600 You saved us. You gave us strength to give us 780 00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,700 peace. That's what you did. and jumps 781 00:53:16,700 --> 00:53:21,600 is this is my resolve I've always tracked the ways of God. 782 00:53:22,900 --> 00:53:24,800 I'm always going to treasure the word of God. 783 00:53:26,900 --> 00:53:29,100 And I'm going to trust the work of God, even though I don't 784 00:53:29,100 --> 00:53:34,900 understand what he's doing. Because he knows what's 785 00:53:34,900 --> 00:53:37,200 appointed for me, he knows what's best for me. 786 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:45,500 Here's a man who has nothing compared to what you want to 787 00:53:45,500 --> 00:53:49,900 have when it comes to the full knowledge of the Gospel, in the 788 00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:56,500 truth of the word of God. but what he knew, he fully obeyed, 789 00:53:57,500 --> 00:54:05,100 what he knew, he fully treasured What he knew he fully trusted. 790 00:54:06,500 --> 00:54:10,300 Because it was all he had. Then, everything else. 791 00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,300 He didn't even have his wife. Because she's never mentioned 792 00:54:16,300 --> 00:54:20,100 again, outside of chapter 2. So we don't even know if she's 793 00:54:20,100 --> 00:54:23,400 there. Probably not. 794 00:54:24,700 --> 00:54:28,600 But he had the Lord. And so as he tracked the ways of 795 00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:33,200 God entrusted, the work of God, he treasured the word of God. 796 00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:34,500 All the way that was his resolve. 797 00:54:34,500 --> 00:54:38,100 And that's what your resolve and mine should always be. if you 798 00:54:38,100 --> 00:54:42,700 want to follow an example gems, the man He is the greatest hero 799 00:54:42,700 --> 00:54:45,300 in the scriptures. He's the man you need to 800 00:54:45,300 --> 00:54:46,700 emulate. He's the man you need to 801 00:54:46,707 --> 00:54:49,200 understand. He's the man you need to follow. 802 00:54:50,700 --> 00:54:55,400 because with just a little bit of knowledge of God, he had 803 00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,700 great faith in God. We have a whole lot of knowledge 804 00:54:59,700 --> 00:55:02,800 about God. And very little faith. 805 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,400 In God. Not Joe. 806 00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:12,000 Hebe loved. His God it wasn't a perfect man. 807 00:55:12,700 --> 00:55:16,600 But he was a blameless, man. In this confession. 808 00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:23,600 Uncovers for us, the Majesty of God and others for us, the 809 00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,400 magnificence of job that made it. 810 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:30,100 Let's pray, father, we thank you Lord, for tonight a chance. 811 00:55:30,100 --> 00:55:33,200 To once again look into the word of God truly Lord, it is a 812 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,000 treasure. May we value you word more than 813 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,300 we do more than necessary food because we don't live by bread 814 00:55:40,300 --> 00:55:43,000 alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. 815 00:55:43,700 --> 00:55:46,200 Thank you. Lord, we pray in your name, 816 00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:46,800 amen.