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oh thanks guys

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thank you thank you

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don't be afraid I have a lot of books

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awesome how's everyone doing today

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good good

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that uh

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semi international thing came from one time

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people asked me like

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what's your what's your title

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and I said uh

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semi international nearly famous author

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that's that's my title

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awesome cool

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alright well uh I

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I um

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have a specific message I felt like I was

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was to give to you guys today

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and the um

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the one of the stories that this is coming out of is

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is one that I've shared before

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but I I wanted to just remind it of you guys

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and it's one that when I first shared it here

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I got um

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perhaps more flag for it

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than almost any other story that I've

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I've shared as far as um

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feedback and and things like that

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and so um

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maybe not in the in the way that you would expect

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it was mostly moms that came up to me afterwards

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but um

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so if you if you're not familiar with the story

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I was I was uh

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sitting in my garage some

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some time ago

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and my children were playing in the driveway riding

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riding bicycles and things

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and I had this thought cross my mind

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I usually don't think in these terms really

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but uh

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just for this particular day

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I thought Lord

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you know how am I

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how am I doing as a parent

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like give me a

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you know give me a letter grade

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give me a give me a one out of 10

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you know I normally don't

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again don't think in those terms

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don't find it useful to think in those terms

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I really care about parenting

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I care about parenting as a skill

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I care about my actual kids

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I we read a lot of

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you know parenting books and stuff

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and we're trying to improve that all the time

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and so it's an area I care about

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so I'm like you know who

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who better

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to assess my parenting than the Lord Almighty

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you know um

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and I I sat there

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I asked this question you know

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give me give me a rating

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and immediately the Lord responded

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and he said um

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you're failing

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in ways that you couldn't possibly understand

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even if I told you

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you can maybe see some of the feedback that some moms

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in particular might want to give me

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after sharing something like that like

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oh Blake

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you're such a good father

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it's you know

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and I'm like well

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you realize you're correcting the Lord with those

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statements but I appreciate your heart

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I love this story for a handful of reasons

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and I I

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I want to be careful to not

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to genuinely not not take pride in this

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but I I was very blessed by what the Lord said

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and when he said it I felt very

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very comforted

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some of you may uh

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understand that some of you may think uh

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sure that's what you're supposed to feel uh

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but it's not how I would actually feel

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after receiving such such a message

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and I wanted to explore a little bit why

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because the the thing I want to focus on today

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is on a topic that we all

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I think have a value for

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but we don't always explore to its fullest

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uh the topic I'd like to talk about today is

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the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord

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um I think the fear of the Lord is always important

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um every bit of the wisdom literature in the Bible

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almost 100% of it uh

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refers back to the fear of the Lord as

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as the foundation of wisdom

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Proverbs illustrates this as the beginning of wisdom

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the beginning of knowledge

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the beginning of understanding is the fear of the Lord

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but what does this what does this mean

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does this mean that we're scared of god

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does this mean that we're aware

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that God's bigger than us

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does it mean that we're aware of how small we are

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what does it what does it mean

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and for me at least

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there's no uh

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book of the Bible that better explores

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at least in my opinion the fear of the Lord

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than one of my favorite books of the Bible uh

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the book of job

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so if I know it's everyone else's favorite too

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so if you have a Bible with you um

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or a digital Bible with you

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if you'd open up to the to the book of job

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now this this is a

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a big and a mysterious book

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it's one that honestly a lot of us like to avoid

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cause there's scary stuff in there

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I want to uh

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give you a

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rather than try to explain the entire book to you

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I would like to give you a framework

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for understanding it

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because I do think that this is a book of the Bible

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that's often misunderstood

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so in the um

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in in the Bible

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there's lots of wisdom literature

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there's numerous psalms

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that are counted among the wisdom literature

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there's elements of multiple books

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that are considered the wisdom literature

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but the main three books that kind of like

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core books of the wisdom literature in the Bible

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are the book of Proverbs the book of Ecclesiastes

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and the book of job you guys familiar with this

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now we like the book of Proverbs a lot

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it's the more popular one

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it's the one that's a little bit more

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you know instagramable

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um it's because it's a form

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it's a form of wisdom

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that people have always been attracted to

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that we're still attracted to today

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is the a form of wisdom

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that's essentially pulling towards the same question

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which to be formed as how do you have a good life

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what does a good life look like

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what does it look like to live a good life

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how should I live to have a good life

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to produce goodness in others

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you know what

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what should I do

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and Proverbs is pretty straightforward about that

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you know it

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it is willing to you know

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dive into some of the nuance of it

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but essentially over and over

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in many different ways it says hey

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do these things act this way

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be this way and you'll have a good life

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you'll have wealth health

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prosperity a good family

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you'll even meet

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here's a guide book for how to find a good girl

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a good guy you know

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here's here's all the qualities you should look for

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and so we we like this um

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the book of Ecclesiastes is a little bit less popular

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it's a little bit more cynical

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a little bit more depressing

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um and it essentially says hey

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all of this wisdom is great

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but have you guys noticed that sometimes

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even when you live according to this stuff

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it just doesn't seem to work out

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have you noticed that sometimes

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it seems that bad things do happen to good people

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and that's kind of messed up

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isn't it it's pretty much what the whole book says

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over and over and over again

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um and even in the midst of that

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it still says hey

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the the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

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and you should follow the

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you should submit to the fear of the Lord

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and you should still follow the way of wisdom

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but hey

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we've all noticed that sometimes

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this doesn't seem to work out

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The Book of job is in many ways an exploration of this

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and in the canon of Scripture

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it's a book that was held as sacred very early on

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even though much of what it has to say

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is kind of a counterbalance

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to what the rest of the wisdom literature says

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most of the wisdom literature says

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if you live this way if you do these things

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good things will happen to you

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god does good things to good people

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bad things to bad people this is how justice works

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I've never had those kinds of thoughts

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or maybe come to that conclusion

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after sitting under a sermon

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or something like that

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also I know you're scared to answer

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cause don't know where we're going but

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so in the book of job

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job experiences a terrible calamity

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he loses his kids he loses his health

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he loses his wealth he has a horrible disaster

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and he's sitting there lamenting this disaster

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when three friends come to him

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and try to offer explanation

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for why he's experienced this disaster

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the book of job

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is one of the books that I've been most tempted

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that's LED me to be the most tempted to uh

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study Hebrew

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because the book of job is one of the most rich kind of

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uh literally book uh

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structured books in the Bible there's um

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it's written in poetry which

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we don't really share wisdom in poetry

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that much anymore unless you count uh

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you know Taylor Swift and people like that um

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some people count her among the wise um

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but um

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so poetry is the it is in

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in this period of time

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this is how you communicate big ideas

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this is how you express wisdom

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and in the book of job are three levels of poetry

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three levels of quality so

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the author of job is intentionally doing lower quality

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more generic more kind of

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you know cliche sort of poetry

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he's doing poetry that's elevated above that

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very beautiful uses richer metaphor and uh

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uses richer language

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and then he has a third level that's the highest

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that's the most rich

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that has the most kind of beauty to it

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now when the author is writing Job's three friends

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he chooses to lose his lowest form of poetry

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the most cliche the most uh redundant

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uh the book of job is intentionally long and repetitive

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because it's meant to illustrate the um

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the emptiness of us trying to make our own sense

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out of the experiences that we

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and others have in our life

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it's meant to illustrate that we are coming to simple

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human conclusions

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trying to make our own sense out of life

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these uh

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three friends are carriers of wisdom

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their poetry is not intentionally idiotic

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when you read it it's not

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it's not bad poetry

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it's just intentionally written with some cliche

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with a few little bright spots in there

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to evoke the idea that they are not completely wrong

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but to recognize that it is incomplete

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it is unholy it is not answering the question

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and this is reflected by job

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every time they share their wisdom

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it doesn't meet the need of his heart

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job is given the middle level of poetry

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throughout the books whenever he is responding

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whenever he is talking about his pain

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talking about his anguish

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talking about his confusion

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and frustration with the Lord

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he is speaking more highly

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so his honesty is elevated in the story

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as something that is of more value

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even than these men's wisdom

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now we don't have time

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to break down all of the arguments

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that are set before him

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but they essentially come to more or less

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the same overarching structure

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with a few nuances in it

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so all these guys have the traditional view of wisdom

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god does good things to good people

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bad things to bad people

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and they are presenting this to job

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because justice works like this

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then that means that you must have done something bad

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so the first friend says hey

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this is how justice works

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you must have done something bad

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and he says that for a long time

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and then Joe responds hey

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I'm willing to engage that idea

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but I really do not see do not recognize

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where I have done something wrong in my life

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he is called a righteous man in the story

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that reinforces this idea

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and so doesn't really meet the need

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well the next friend

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who's a little bit wiser says well

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well well

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maybe your father or grandfather did something wrong

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and that has you know

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echo echo down the generations

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and now you are being punished

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for something that they have done

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because of course

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god does good things to good people

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and bad things to bad people

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so someone else must have done something that's bad

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Joe again responds hey

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I don't know of anything that my father did

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I don't know anything of that my forefathers did

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and also when you really think about it

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that's maybe kind of messed up if I

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you know have lived righteously and they have not

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and I'm receiving the punishment

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I don't know that doesn't quite meet the need

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that doesn't meet me where I'm at in this pain

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um

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last and youngest friend comes up

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and again there's lots of nuances in here

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we don't have time to explore

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and he is of course

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the most clever and he says

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well we

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of course uh

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could agree with

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perhaps the idea that you have not done anything wrong

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or maybe even your forefathers not done anything wrong

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but perhaps you were going

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to do something wrong in the future

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and god knowing all and seeing this

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decided to punish you now for this

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because you would eventually do something wrong

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and Joe was like I don't know how to argue with that

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but I wasn't planning on doing anything wrong

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I was planning on continuing to live my life

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in the way that I have and also honestly

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doesn't that seem a little bit messed up

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if god would punish me for something I would future do

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wasn't there a Tom Cruise movie about this very thing

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um

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Minority Report in case you're curious

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um

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uh

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you know that's

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this just doesn't work and either way

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it comes both

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he rebuttles what they're saying

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and speaks to how this is not meeting

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this is not meeting me

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in the pain that I'm experiencing right now

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and of course

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at this point god shows up

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god responds and as you can imagine

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God's poetry is the highest

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it is the greatest it is spoken with the most beauty

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spoken with the most skill

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and god responds to Job's situation

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after hearing his lament hearing his challenge

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and

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uh many scholars have noted

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that god does not answer the question

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he does not answer what the question

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as to why Joe is experiencing what he's experiencing

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he does not validate or invalidate

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the forms of justice that his friends have presented

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he simply

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in my opinion says

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I'm god and you're not

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um I'm gonna read Job's response in just a little bit

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this is the um

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the Robert Alter translation of the uh

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Hebrew Bible one of my favorite study Bibles these days

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if you're looking to study the Old Testament

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um has a real focus on the literary form of Scripture

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and I wanna read a

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a first a brief passage just from the

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in the introduction to job in this book

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um

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uh he's a

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he's a writer and he's a language guy

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so the language here is a little bit rich

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but I think it helps illustrate uh

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some of what I just shared

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as well as the tension that's being explored

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when god responds to job in the middle of this place

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um

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so he's describing the three levels of poetry

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that are available in this book

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and he's in this passage

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describing the third and final level of poetry

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so the third

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and ultimately decisive level of poetry in the book

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is manifested when the Lord addresses job

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out of the whirlwind here too

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Job's poet the author of job

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has a keen interest in the nature that

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in nature that is evident

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but in altogether spectacular way that one might say

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trumps job in the game of vision

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so his capacity the poetry in here

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surpasses Job's capacity to understand

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to express to share what's going on in his own life

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um the poet

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having given job such vividly powerful language

433
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for the articulation of his outrage

434
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and his anguish now fashions still greater poetry

435
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for god the wide ranging panorama of creation

436
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in the voice from the whirlwind

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shows a Sublimity of expression

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a plasticity of description

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an ability to evoke the complex and dynamic interplay

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of beauty and violence in the natural world

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and even an origin

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an originality of metaphoric inventiveness

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that surpasses all the poetry

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great as it is that job has spoken

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many readers over the centuries

446
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have felt that God's speech to job

447
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is no real answer

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to the problem of undeserved suffering

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and some have complained that it amounts to a kind of

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cosmic bullying of puny man

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by an overpowering deity

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one must concede that it is not exactly

453
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an answer to the problem because

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for those who believe

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that life should not be arbitrary

456
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there can be no real answer

457
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concerning the good person who loses a child

458
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not to speak of 10 children in Job's case

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or the blameless dear one who dies in an accident

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or is stricken with a terrible

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wasting disease

462
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but God's thundering challenge to job is not bullying

463
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rather it is rousing

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it rousingly introduces a comprehensive overview

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of the nature of reality

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that exposes the limits of Job's human per uh

467
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uh human perceptive uh

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perception anchored as it is

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in the restricted compass of human knowledge

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and the inevitable egoism of suffering

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the vehicle of that overview is an order of poetry

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created to match the grandeur

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or perhaps the omniscience of god

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the visionary experience that this poetry enables

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for job is of a vast creation

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shot through with unfathomable paradoxes

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such as the conjoining of the nurturing instinct

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with cruelty

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we're in this place

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of the sufferer's longing for absolute darkness

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the morning stars sing together

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and there is a rhythmic interplay

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between light and darkness

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and so many scholars have studied God's response

485
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recognized that he doesn't answer the question

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he essentially says I'm god

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and you're not but he says it beautifully

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he says it in poetry he says

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look at this world that I've created

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look at these creatures look at all of the elements

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that are at play in this vast creation

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recognize and accept that

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you cannot even understand

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the inner workings of this creation

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how much less can you understand me

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now in

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in Job's response um

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there's

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there's two things that happened in his response

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he concedes the points that god is making

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he is allowing god to win this argument

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but there's something that's uh

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interesting to note here in this final response

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Job's poetry is elevated just a little bit higher

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not quite as high as God's

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but higher than his original poetry has been

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so as to say that this encounter with god

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has reframed his way of thinking

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we can recognize that god does not answer the question

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we can see him exerting his dominance

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as that kind of cosmic bullying

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however when we look at Job's response

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I think it's plain in the

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in the English translation

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but it's even more apparent

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as I understand it in the Hebrew

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that this is not just a yes sir

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you're right I'm wrong sort of response

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the kind of thing that we would do to a boss

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you know who is argumentative and not

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not open to feedback but instead

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the kind of language and the kind of vocal posture

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we would have

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when we've been corrected by a coach or a mother

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someone who loves us and we know is invested in this

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and we are not only corrected by this exchange

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we are simultaneously comforted by this exchange

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and this is the only time that in Job's poetry

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in his statement he expresses the relief

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that he was not able to find

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in the responses from his friends

532
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does that make sense to you guys

533
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so I'll just read this brief passage

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job Chapter 42

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and job answered the Lord

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and he said I know that you can do anything

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and no devising is beyond you

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who is this obscuring counsel without knowledge

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this is the challenge that god initially gave

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when he spoke in response to job

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he says therefore I told

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but did not understand

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wonders beyond me that I did not know

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hear pray

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and I will speak let me ask you that you may inform me

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by the ear's rumor I heard of you

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and now my eye has seen you

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therefore I do recant and I repent in dust and ashes

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and it's after this that

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uh his friends kind of dissipate

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he's able to reconnect with his extended family

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god blesses him he ends up having more children

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he ends up having all his wealth restored to him

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his health restored to him

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and even though all these things are restored to him

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in fact it says he gets double back

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there's an acknowledgement in the language here

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that his children did die in that previous experience

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and that is not something

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that can be given back in the same way

561
00:20:20,866 --> 00:20:22,766
so there's acknowledgement of the loss

562
00:20:22,766 --> 00:20:25,333
there's acknowledgement of the pain

563
00:20:25,833 --> 00:20:28,200
and yet the very last line of job

564
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,300
is one that's always stuck out to me

565
00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:32,600
it's said differently in different translations

566
00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,466
but my favorite is the one that's in the um

567
00:20:35,566 --> 00:20:41,266
NASB that says and job died an old man and full of days

568
00:20:42,466 --> 00:20:45,666
that there is a picture of a person

569
00:20:45,666 --> 00:20:49,900
who is not only carried wisdom and understanding

570
00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:51,033
or walked in righteousness

571
00:20:51,033 --> 00:20:53,566
but someone who has been transformed

572
00:20:53,566 --> 00:20:54,966
by an encounter with god

573
00:20:54,966 --> 00:20:57,366
to be and to think more like him

574
00:20:58,633 --> 00:20:59,300
and I I

575
00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:03,000
I wanna share this story because we're

576
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:06,433
we're in an age now and maybe it's always been this way

577
00:21:06,433 --> 00:21:09,533
it's just louder or or um

578
00:21:10,233 --> 00:21:11,966
on display more but we're

579
00:21:11,966 --> 00:21:15,700
we're in an age where it's so easy to know things

580
00:21:16,466 --> 00:21:19,400
where it's so easy to be certain about things

581
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,633
where it's so easy to find hundreds of people

582
00:21:22,633 --> 00:21:25,000
who agree with exactly what you think

583
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,733
and can articulate it even better than you can

584
00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:31,800
and can select evidence that will support that claim uh

585
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,000
within minutes within minutes

586
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,500
regardless of whether you believe the world is flat

587
00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:38,866
or the moon landing was fake

588
00:21:38,866 --> 00:21:40,766
or that god is real or that god is fake

589
00:21:40,766 --> 00:21:43,966
or anything in between you can find hundreds

590
00:21:43,966 --> 00:21:44,966
sometimes thousands

591
00:21:44,966 --> 00:21:47,666
of people who can articulate this argument

592
00:21:47,666 --> 00:21:51,466
in wonderful poetry that's pretty good

593
00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,766
but part of abiding in the fear of the Lord

594
00:21:56,766 --> 00:21:59,066
is accepting the position

595
00:21:59,066 --> 00:22:01,466
that god has created us to be in that that

596
00:22:01,466 --> 00:22:02,666
yes and

597
00:22:02,666 --> 00:22:04,300
and this is a position that is

598
00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:05,900
that we must receive

599
00:22:05,900 --> 00:22:08,500
within the acceptance of Jesus Christ

600
00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:10,966
within the adoption that Steve was uh

601
00:22:10,966 --> 00:22:13,366
beginning to share about in the book of Ephesians

602
00:22:13,366 --> 00:22:15,566
within this place of belonging

603
00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:19,100
if we engage the fear of the Lord outside of belonging

604
00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:22,100
we start to kind of go back to old religious ideas

605
00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:24,766
of a angry deity who is better than us

606
00:22:24,766 --> 00:22:25,966
and is super but

607
00:22:25,966 --> 00:22:27,033
and yet superior

608
00:22:27,033 --> 00:22:28,866
in the kind of way that we would be superior

609
00:22:28,866 --> 00:22:30,366
if we were better than someone

610
00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:33,100
rather than a loving father who

611
00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:36,300
in his superiority has chosen to connect with us

612
00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:40,000
who's chosen to connect with our heart

613
00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:42,400
and I wanna um

614
00:22:42,433 --> 00:22:47,400
illustrate again the vastness of the need for humility

615
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,000
uh using a deck of cards

616
00:22:49,566 --> 00:22:50,366
um

617
00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:52,866
so um

618
00:22:52,866 --> 00:22:54,300
if I could have an assistant Andy

619
00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:55,233
you wanna help me out real quick

620
00:22:55,233 --> 00:22:56,100
come on up

621
00:22:56,766 --> 00:22:58,433
this is not gonna turn into a magic show

622
00:22:58,433 --> 00:22:59,866
I promise um

623
00:23:00,233 --> 00:23:00,700
but Andy

624
00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:02,466
if you would just kindly shuffle those cards

625
00:23:02,466 --> 00:23:04,133
maybe four or five times

626
00:23:04,966 --> 00:23:06,233
um you can use the

627
00:23:06,233 --> 00:23:08,200
you're welcome to use the pulp it if you'd like

628
00:23:10,966 --> 00:23:12,400
well this deck came out of my house

629
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:13,366
there's only uh

630
00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:16,300
48 cards in it um

631
00:23:17,166 --> 00:23:18,900
the rest are probably in the uh

632
00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:19,766
dog's uh

633
00:23:19,766 --> 00:23:21,533
cage or stomach um

634
00:23:22,066 --> 00:23:22,866
so

635
00:23:23,566 --> 00:23:25,200
so uh

636
00:23:25,233 --> 00:23:26,033
now officially

637
00:23:26,033 --> 00:23:28,700
you have to shuffle a brand new deck of cards maybe uh

638
00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:30,233
seven times to get a full

639
00:23:30,233 --> 00:23:31,166
good solid mix

640
00:23:31,166 --> 00:23:34,100
but Andy's done it two or three times now so far

641
00:23:34,266 --> 00:23:35,200
so uh

642
00:23:35,700 --> 00:23:36,366
well well

643
00:23:36,366 --> 00:23:36,500
well yeah

644
00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:38,100
you can keep doing it a few more times if you want

645
00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:40,433
so we'll pretend that there's 52 cards in this

646
00:23:40,433 --> 00:23:43,000
because math but um

647
00:23:43,233 --> 00:23:44,700
so here's your shuffle these cards

648
00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:45,900
how many of you ever played cards before

649
00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:47,700
who likes playing cards awesome

650
00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:48,900
okay the rest of you

651
00:23:48,900 --> 00:23:49,566
get up no

652
00:23:49,566 --> 00:23:50,466
just kidding um

653
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,666
unless you have a religious exemption

654
00:23:53,666 --> 00:23:55,366
then that's fine but um

655
00:23:56,433 --> 00:23:59,300
so I know how many of you uh

656
00:23:59,466 --> 00:24:00,233
at like

657
00:24:00,233 --> 00:24:00,966
me maybe

658
00:24:00,966 --> 00:24:03,166
grew up in a household where playing cards was like

659
00:24:03,166 --> 00:24:04,600
this was a family gathering thing

660
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,166
this was a uncle's aunt's come over thing

661
00:24:06,166 --> 00:24:07,466
this is part of the culture

662
00:24:07,866 --> 00:24:08,666
yeah to some degree

663
00:24:08,666 --> 00:24:09,100
okay yeah yeah

664
00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:10,100
that was that was my household

665
00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:11,200
a lot of a lot of card games

666
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,600
lots of lots of spades and crazy eights and

667
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,200
and everything um

668
00:24:15,766 --> 00:24:16,800
and so

669
00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:18,833
you've probably shuffled a lot of decks in your time

670
00:24:18,833 --> 00:24:21,366
right and cards have been around for a very

671
00:24:21,366 --> 00:24:23,766
very long time and people have been shuffling them for

672
00:24:23,766 --> 00:24:26,166
probably that entire time right

673
00:24:26,166 --> 00:24:27,866
yes so

674
00:24:28,366 --> 00:24:29,633
and you shuffle these cards number time

675
00:24:29,633 --> 00:24:30,400
you can stop now

676
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,400
you can just hold that above for everyone to see

677
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,900
yeah you can maybe uh

678
00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:34,566
fan it out

679
00:24:34,566 --> 00:24:36,200
so the people can see some of what's in there

680
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:37,766
I promise this isn't a magic trick

681
00:24:37,766 --> 00:24:40,266
just hold me I I well

682
00:24:40,266 --> 00:24:41,666
I may have a big one so

683
00:24:41,666 --> 00:24:43,466
what do you think the chances are

684
00:24:43,666 --> 00:24:47,933
that this deck of 52 cards

685
00:24:48,433 --> 00:24:51,466
is arranged the exact same way

686
00:24:51,566 --> 00:24:54,866
that another deck of cards has been

687
00:24:54,866 --> 00:24:56,933
at some point in human history

688
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,566
in all of the times that cards have been shuffled

689
00:24:59,566 --> 00:25:01,466
over and over and over again

690
00:25:01,766 --> 00:25:03,266
millions and billions of times

691
00:25:03,266 --> 00:25:04,000
surely

692
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,366
how many of you think that there's a chance that

693
00:25:06,366 --> 00:25:08,366
at some point in history

694
00:25:08,633 --> 00:25:12,300
there was this exact arrangement of cards

695
00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:13,000
in this order

696
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,666
how many of you think that's a possibility

697
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,200
okay

698
00:25:17,166 --> 00:25:17,833
it is of course

699
00:25:17,833 --> 00:25:20,133
a possibility that could happen

700
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,866
but it's actually significantly more likely

701
00:25:26,166 --> 00:25:30,166
that it's an order that's never been done before ever

702
00:25:30,466 --> 00:25:32,266
um you can sit those down for now

703
00:25:32,266 --> 00:25:34,600
and let's give Andy a big hand for his assistant

704
00:25:37,666 --> 00:25:38,466
um

705
00:25:38,966 --> 00:25:40,466
the way mathematically

706
00:25:40,466 --> 00:25:43,900
that you would express how many possible combinations

707
00:25:44,033 --> 00:25:46,166
a 52 card deck could have

708
00:25:46,166 --> 00:25:50,166
on random shuffling is a number called 52 factorial

709
00:25:50,266 --> 00:25:52,166
um sorry for the non math people

710
00:25:52,166 --> 00:25:53,233
I'm a non math person

711
00:25:53,233 --> 00:25:54,766
I'll get it out of math as quickly as I can

712
00:25:54,766 --> 00:25:55,566
um

713
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,700
52 factorial is 1 * 2 times three times 4 * 5

714
00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:02,166
all the way up to 52 that is how you would calculate

715
00:26:02,166 --> 00:26:03,733
the possible combinations

716
00:26:04,266 --> 00:26:08,100
what you will get if you do that is a number that is 8

717
00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,800
with about 87 zeros after it

718
00:26:10,966 --> 00:26:13,633
a number that is greater than the atoms

719
00:26:13,633 --> 00:26:15,300
in the visible universe

720
00:26:17,466 --> 00:26:18,600
now numbers like this

721
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,433
are really hard for us to get a grip on

722
00:26:21,433 --> 00:26:23,600
because even if I explain

723
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,366
the number of atoms that are in your hand um

724
00:26:26,366 --> 00:26:29,466
it's in the nonillions if you're curious

725
00:26:29,866 --> 00:26:32,800
um that's 10 with 27 zeros

726
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,400
if I'm not mistaken um

727
00:26:34,733 --> 00:26:36,233
that's a hard number to grip with

728
00:26:36,233 --> 00:26:36,500
and then

729
00:26:36,500 --> 00:26:39,400
we get to all of the atoms in the observable universe

730
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,066
that's crazy that's

731
00:26:41,166 --> 00:26:42,800
that's just kind of it gets big in a way

732
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,833
that's hard for us to get a grip on

733
00:26:43,833 --> 00:26:47,666
right and so I've heard an example of how to

734
00:26:47,666 --> 00:26:50,666
how to begin to grasp a number like this

735
00:26:50,666 --> 00:26:52,566
and I'll try to explain it as briefly as I can

736
00:26:52,566 --> 00:26:56,333
so you set a timer on your phone and you hit start

737
00:26:56,466 --> 00:27:00,633
and we want to have 52 factorial seconds

738
00:27:00,633 --> 00:27:02,900
that's how long we want it to go for

739
00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:04,666
so how can we time this out

740
00:27:04,666 --> 00:27:05,500
cause it gets boring

741
00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:07,866
just looking at your phone while it's ticking

742
00:27:07,866 --> 00:27:09,100
you know makes it take longer

743
00:27:09,966 --> 00:27:13,066
so what you would do is go to the equator of the earth

744
00:27:13,233 --> 00:27:15,800
wait for one billion years

745
00:27:16,433 --> 00:27:18,200
and then take one step

746
00:27:19,266 --> 00:27:21,300
and then you'd wait for another billion years

747
00:27:21,300 --> 00:27:24,766
and take one step and you'd continue doing this

748
00:27:24,766 --> 00:27:27,266
with your timer running the entire time

749
00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:29,600
until you made it all the way around the earth

750
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:31,566
to the exact same spot that you were

751
00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:34,266
and then you would take an eyedropper

752
00:27:34,633 --> 00:27:37,766
and take one drop of water out of the Pacific Ocean

753
00:27:38,433 --> 00:27:39,766
and put it in a bowl

754
00:27:40,566 --> 00:27:42,400
and then you would wait a billion years

755
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,966
and take another step go away all the way around again

756
00:27:46,666 --> 00:27:48,766
another drop of water from the Pacific Ocean

757
00:27:48,766 --> 00:27:49,666
put it in a bowl

758
00:27:50,466 --> 00:27:53,400
do this until the Pacific Ocean is empty

759
00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:56,466
and is in your very large bowl

760
00:27:57,966 --> 00:28:00,100
lay one sheet of paper down

761
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:01,500
what is happening

762
00:28:02,366 --> 00:28:03,600
walk around the earth again

763
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,600
taking one step every billion years

764
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,100
and put one drop back in the ocean

765
00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:10,300
until it's completely full again

766
00:28:10,433 --> 00:28:11,700
once it's completely full

767
00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:14,066
put a second sheet of paper down

768
00:28:14,433 --> 00:28:17,533
do this again and again and again

769
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:23,266
when the stack of paper has reached the sun

770
00:28:26,633 --> 00:28:28,566
you're still not even close

771
00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:31,966
once the stack of paper

772
00:28:31,966 --> 00:28:34,466
that has taken all of these trips around the world

773
00:28:34,466 --> 00:28:36,600
waiting one billion years at a time

774
00:28:36,966 --> 00:28:41,500
once 1,000 stacks of paper have reached the sun

775
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:42,266
oh my god

776
00:28:42,266 --> 00:28:44,200
you are a third of the way there

777
00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:48,333
you are a third of the way there in seconds

778
00:28:49,566 --> 00:28:52,100
so even in this very absurd

779
00:28:52,233 --> 00:28:54,233
not super realistic you can walk on water

780
00:28:54,233 --> 00:28:56,233
I guess Jesus is into figuring out the math of this

781
00:28:56,233 --> 00:28:57,033
apparently um

782
00:28:57,466 --> 00:28:59,166
you know walking around the world

783
00:29:00,566 --> 00:29:04,700
it's still so hard for us to grasp the

784
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,433
that a number this large

785
00:29:06,433 --> 00:29:08,833
that something so simple as a deck of cards

786
00:29:08,833 --> 00:29:10,466
could have that many combinations

787
00:29:11,033 --> 00:29:13,100
good thing to remember next time you wanna go to Vegas

788
00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:13,900
um

789
00:29:16,466 --> 00:29:17,366
but

790
00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:20,700
if we have to struggle

791
00:29:20,866 --> 00:29:25,700
and make absurd symbols and thought experiments

792
00:29:25,833 --> 00:29:29,500
to begin to kind of understand

793
00:29:29,566 --> 00:29:30,466
the complexity

794
00:29:30,466 --> 00:29:33,866
of the arrangement of 52 similar objects

795
00:29:35,966 --> 00:29:38,600
can we begin to engage that

796
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,900
we might not understand how to run a country

797
00:29:43,166 --> 00:29:44,200
the best way

798
00:29:44,866 --> 00:29:47,566
that we might not know how to raise children

799
00:29:47,566 --> 00:29:48,566
the best way

800
00:29:49,233 --> 00:29:51,966
that the Instagram mom who's telling you

801
00:29:51,966 --> 00:29:53,200
this is what your kids should eat

802
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:54,833
and this is what your kids should do

803
00:29:54,833 --> 00:29:55,900
and how they should wake up

804
00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:57,666
and this is what it is to be a loving parent

805
00:29:57,666 --> 00:29:59,366
if you're not doing this that you're failing

806
00:29:59,866 --> 00:30:02,266
that they might not really have a clue either

807
00:30:03,066 --> 00:30:03,966
that

808
00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:08,100
it it

809
00:30:09,266 --> 00:30:12,666
if we whenever we forget that we are human

810
00:30:12,666 --> 00:30:14,633
we forget how small we are

811
00:30:14,633 --> 00:30:18,400
when we forget how limited our capacity is

812
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,733
in the face of God's nature

813
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,566
we begin to take pride in our own knowledge

814
00:30:24,566 --> 00:30:26,100
and our own understanding

815
00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:29,433
and begin to build empires that are built on very

816
00:30:29,433 --> 00:30:31,800
very silly ideas that are very small

817
00:30:34,166 --> 00:30:38,433
and I'm not saying just give up and say

818
00:30:38,433 --> 00:30:41,100
I can't know anything or I can't be certain of anything

819
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:41,800
well that is

820
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,400
perhaps a temptation when we come to this realization

821
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,066
instead let this produce the fear of the Lord

822
00:30:50,066 --> 00:30:52,666
the recognition that we are not god

823
00:30:52,666 --> 00:30:55,100
and he is god that

824
00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:59,900
that when things that we are hoping will be good

825
00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:01,833
when people we hope are being good

826
00:31:01,833 --> 00:31:03,833
when there is conflict when there is challenge

827
00:31:03,833 --> 00:31:04,500
when there is tragedy

828
00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:06,766
to recognize that even though we may have very

829
00:31:06,766 --> 00:31:09,366
very strong convictions around a subject

830
00:31:09,366 --> 00:31:13,166
those may or may not be founded on God's nature

831
00:31:15,766 --> 00:31:17,866
that doesn't mean we do not respond

832
00:31:17,866 --> 00:31:20,100
and act according to those convictions

833
00:31:21,266 --> 00:31:22,100
it instead

834
00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:24,266
means that we always carry it

835
00:31:24,266 --> 00:31:25,466
with the fear of the Lord

836
00:31:25,466 --> 00:31:27,100
that we are not certain

837
00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:30,366
if our ideas are of his nature or not

838
00:31:30,966 --> 00:31:34,733
and that we cannot be certain of that

839
00:31:36,033 --> 00:31:37,366
The Book of job

840
00:31:37,366 --> 00:31:42,200
is a rebuttal to the rest of the wisdom literature

841
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,400
the majority of the wisdom literature in the Bible

842
00:31:44,433 --> 00:31:46,666
not because the Bible is disagreeing with itself

843
00:31:46,666 --> 00:31:47,900
at least in my opinion well

844
00:31:48,033 --> 00:31:49,466
I guess I'd put it this way uh

845
00:31:49,466 --> 00:31:50,300
because the Bible is

846
00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:52,500
intentionally disagreeing with itself

847
00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:56,166
because God's nature is vast

848
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,666
his character his capacity

849
00:31:59,666 --> 00:32:01,200
who he is is so vast

850
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,900
that we cannot adequately describe him

851
00:32:04,166 --> 00:32:07,433
without what seems like an imbalance to us

852
00:32:07,433 --> 00:32:11,700
without wrestling with the tension between yes

853
00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:13,466
you should get to live a good life yes

854
00:32:13,466 --> 00:32:15,600
you should live in accordance with the book of Proverbs

855
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,400
yes

856
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,333
you should do all the things that you know to be good

857
00:32:20,566 --> 00:32:23,233
yet you should recognize God's nature

858
00:32:23,233 --> 00:32:25,033
is so vast I cannot

859
00:32:25,033 --> 00:32:27,766
I can only barely begin to understand

860
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,733
how the organization of a deck of 52 cards work

861
00:32:32,433 --> 00:32:35,500
how can I presume to understand anything else

862
00:32:35,666 --> 00:32:37,200
does this make sense to you guys

863
00:32:37,966 --> 00:32:42,400
and when that realization falls on a person

864
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,800
who has their identity rooted in Christ

865
00:32:45,433 --> 00:32:47,966
it doesn't produce shame

866
00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:51,066
it doesn't produce disconnection

867
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,600
it produces a childlike heart

868
00:32:53,966 --> 00:32:58,100
that comes to god as a father saying hey

869
00:32:58,100 --> 00:33:00,266
I'm doing my best I'm doing what's right

870
00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:02,600
a heart that can show up the way that job did

871
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,100
and so many others show up to god throughout scripture

872
00:33:05,366 --> 00:33:08,033
being very very honest with the pain

873
00:33:08,033 --> 00:33:10,500
with the suffering with the confusion

874
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:12,766
and the sense of injustice that's being experienced

875
00:33:12,766 --> 00:33:15,766
and it is in that that I believe god will meet you

876
00:33:15,766 --> 00:33:18,000
as he met job as he met uh

877
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,100
doubting Thomas as he met so many throughout history

878
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:24,133
and in our own lives and in Scripture

879
00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:26,900
it's only in that vulnerability

880
00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:29,466
that we'll actually get that need met

881
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,866
the attempt to let mankind's wisdom satisfy

882
00:33:35,866 --> 00:33:37,200
the suffering that's in your heart

883
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:38,733
will always leave you hollow

884
00:33:39,366 --> 00:33:41,333
will always be an incomplete picture

885
00:33:41,366 --> 00:33:42,566
will always

886
00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:44,866
uh be incomplete in its satisfaction

887
00:33:44,866 --> 00:33:48,200
it's only in an encounter with the Lord

888
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,066
that we can get the comfort that we need

889
00:33:50,366 --> 00:33:52,600
for the problems that are in our midst

890
00:33:53,166 --> 00:33:55,233
and can become the kind of people

891
00:33:55,233 --> 00:33:57,466
who can contribute to the answers

892
00:33:57,466 --> 00:33:59,300
for the problems that are much larger than us

893
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:00,666
throughout the rest of the world

894
00:34:01,033 --> 00:34:02,700
does that does that make sense to you guys

895
00:34:03,266 --> 00:34:04,466
and so with this

896
00:34:04,466 --> 00:34:07,200
I wanna encourage you to pursue the fear of the Lord

897
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,000
to recognize parts of your thinking

898
00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:11,700
parts of your belief system

899
00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,933
that are built more on uncertainty

900
00:34:15,066 --> 00:34:16,566
than on the fear of the Lord

901
00:34:17,266 --> 00:34:20,066
because I think in this season um

902
00:34:20,233 --> 00:34:22,666
the world is hungry for people

903
00:34:22,666 --> 00:34:24,566
who carry the fear of the Lord

904
00:34:25,066 --> 00:34:28,666
and just as god opposes the proud

905
00:34:28,666 --> 00:34:30,600
and gives Grace to the humble

906
00:34:30,833 --> 00:34:33,066
I actually believe that people are designed

907
00:34:33,066 --> 00:34:34,600
to do the same thing

908
00:34:34,966 --> 00:34:37,500
and I think that some of the rejection

909
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:39,466
that Christianity has experienced

910
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,066
uh especially in recent years um

911
00:34:43,066 --> 00:34:45,433
has more to do with some of the pride

912
00:34:45,433 --> 00:34:48,400
with which we've carried God's kingdom uh

913
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,366
rather than the badness of

914
00:34:50,366 --> 00:34:51,733
of the world

915
00:34:52,466 --> 00:34:55,466
because when I see the life of Jesus

916
00:34:55,833 --> 00:34:58,066
I see the people that were

917
00:34:58,066 --> 00:35:00,366
in many ways most riddled with sin

918
00:35:00,466 --> 00:35:04,400
attracted to him transformed by him

919
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,366
changed by him renewed in him

920
00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:09,700
but initially attracted to him

921
00:35:10,033 --> 00:35:12,466
and so I believe that in this season

922
00:35:12,466 --> 00:35:14,700
the Lord is releasing purification uh

923
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,766
not not just through church leaders

924
00:35:16,766 --> 00:35:20,566
but through his people and this starts with the heart

925
00:35:20,566 --> 00:35:24,466
and for me this starts with exercising the posture

926
00:35:24,466 --> 00:35:25,466
of the fear of the Lord

927
00:35:25,466 --> 00:35:29,533
the recognition that he is god and I am not

928
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,300
that I am even if I am very intelligent

929
00:35:33,566 --> 00:35:36,100
I can only see the world through a tiny

930
00:35:36,100 --> 00:35:39,033
tiny little lens and he can see much more

931
00:35:39,033 --> 00:35:40,700
so I'm gonna ask you guys to stand

932
00:35:49,266 --> 00:35:49,666
so Lord

933
00:35:49,666 --> 00:35:51,200
I just wanna bless just uh

934
00:35:51,266 --> 00:35:53,700
three 3 groups of people

935
00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:55,666
um First Lord I

936
00:35:55,666 --> 00:35:57,166
I just release a special blessing

937
00:35:57,166 --> 00:35:58,766
for anyone who is feeling

938
00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:02,866
like job where you're just in the middle of calamity

939
00:36:02,866 --> 00:36:04,166
you're in the middle of disaster

940
00:36:04,166 --> 00:36:05,466
you're in the middle of loss

941
00:36:05,833 --> 00:36:07,700
and the confusion the uncertainty

942
00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:08,466
the pain of that

943
00:36:08,466 --> 00:36:10,866
feels like it just takes every moment of every day

944
00:36:11,033 --> 00:36:13,266
I just pray that right now

945
00:36:13,266 --> 00:36:13,700
first of all

946
00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:16,066
we'd be able to embrace some of those feelings

947
00:36:16,066 --> 00:36:18,066
to allow ourselves to feel frustrated

948
00:36:18,066 --> 00:36:20,600
to feel disappointed to feel uh

949
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,266
the injustice to feel the

950
00:36:22,266 --> 00:36:23,466
the fear whatever it is

951
00:36:23,466 --> 00:36:25,766
not so that we can wallow in those feelings

952
00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:29,500
but so that we can seek the comfort of our father

953
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:30,900
in those places I pray

954
00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:33,333
Lord for any person who is feeling

955
00:36:33,966 --> 00:36:36,333
in any kind of season that's similar to job

956
00:36:36,833 --> 00:36:39,633
that they would experience your voice in the whirlwind

957
00:36:39,633 --> 00:36:42,400
that speaks to you personally

958
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:42,833
and yes

959
00:36:42,833 --> 00:36:45,766
may release correction may release adjustment

960
00:36:45,766 --> 00:36:46,800
but that the result of it

961
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,166
just as it was with job

962
00:36:48,566 --> 00:36:50,700
would be an experience of comfort

963
00:36:50,866 --> 00:36:53,700
of your need being met of the cry

964
00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:57,366
of your heart being met in the place that you need it

965
00:36:58,166 --> 00:37:01,900
father I pray for anyone who

966
00:37:02,166 --> 00:37:03,866
knowingly or unknowingly

967
00:37:03,966 --> 00:37:07,566
is wrestling with an empire of the mind a

968
00:37:07,566 --> 00:37:08,300
a mindset

969
00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:10,200
that was either handed to them by their father

970
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,800
or their mother or their history or their legacy

971
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,633
or some part of their education or a pastor

972
00:37:14,633 --> 00:37:16,833
but something that they have held on to

973
00:37:16,833 --> 00:37:18,466
a way of posturing themselves

974
00:37:18,466 --> 00:37:20,166
maybe in their relationship with their children

975
00:37:20,166 --> 00:37:22,633
in the relationship with their husband or wife

976
00:37:22,633 --> 00:37:24,600
in the relationship with friends

977
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,833
something that is causing disconnection

978
00:37:26,833 --> 00:37:28,266
any area father

979
00:37:28,566 --> 00:37:32,066
where our pride places

980
00:37:32,066 --> 00:37:35,066
that we have constructed our idea of right

981
00:37:35,433 --> 00:37:38,533
and died on a hill that Jesus wouldn't have died on

982
00:37:39,866 --> 00:37:41,033
Lord I ask for the

983
00:37:41,033 --> 00:37:43,533
for your mercy to help us see this

984
00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:45,700
to help us recognize this

985
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:48,500
and we recognize that when you bring correction

986
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:50,433
father it comes with comfort

987
00:37:50,433 --> 00:37:54,000
proportional to the size of that correction that

988
00:37:54,033 --> 00:37:56,266
that we would not walk away from that experience

989
00:37:56,266 --> 00:37:58,033
ashamed beating ourselves up

990
00:37:58,033 --> 00:37:59,866
that we would in the fear of the Lord

991
00:37:59,866 --> 00:38:02,733
recognize of course I need correction

992
00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:04,233
of course I'm failing

993
00:38:04,233 --> 00:38:06,200
in ways that I couldn't possibly understand

994
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,900
of course I miss something here

995
00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:11,166
he's god and I'm not

996
00:38:11,566 --> 00:38:13,966
that could happen in any part of my life

997
00:38:17,566 --> 00:38:17,966
and Lord

998
00:38:17,966 --> 00:38:22,166
lastly I pray for anyone who has been in a season

999
00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,300
where they have felt a little bit like job in

1000
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:26,700
in the aspect of friends

1001
00:38:26,700 --> 00:38:28,100
who are trying to meet the need

1002
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:29,166
and maybe even genuinely

1003
00:38:29,166 --> 00:38:30,366
trying to meet the needs in their life

1004
00:38:30,366 --> 00:38:31,966
but it felt like it has not hit their heart

1005
00:38:31,966 --> 00:38:33,100
it has not hit that spot

1006
00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:35,900
it has not touched that place of need

1007
00:38:36,566 --> 00:38:37,966
I pray for two things father

1008
00:38:37,966 --> 00:38:40,433
I pray that if there are other friends

1009
00:38:40,433 --> 00:38:42,500
or other people who carry what that person needs

1010
00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:43,600
that they will be able to see

1011
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:44,566
and recognize those people

1012
00:38:44,566 --> 00:38:45,600
for who they are

1013
00:38:46,066 --> 00:38:48,000
that the people that are connected to them

1014
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,500
would experience the transformation of your Grace

1015
00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:51,066
Lord

1016
00:38:51,066 --> 00:38:53,366
and that they would be able to say what you're saying

1017
00:38:53,366 --> 00:38:55,033
just rather than saying what what

1018
00:38:55,033 --> 00:38:56,466
what they think Lord

1019
00:38:57,033 --> 00:38:58,833
but I also pray for the person

1020
00:38:58,833 --> 00:39:00,300
who's been on the receiving end

1021
00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:02,466
of people who are maybe offering kindness

1022
00:39:02,466 --> 00:39:04,300
uh justifications

1023
00:39:04,366 --> 00:39:06,000
encouragement explanations

1024
00:39:07,100 --> 00:39:09,733
that their heart would be able to

1025
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,400
with you discover

1026
00:39:11,833 --> 00:39:14,233
the true nature of the need that they are experiencing

1027
00:39:14,233 --> 00:39:17,500
Lord so that they can not only seek that in you Lord

1028
00:39:17,566 --> 00:39:19,566
but they can ask for that more effectively

1029
00:39:19,566 --> 00:39:21,000
from people around them Lord

1030
00:39:21,633 --> 00:39:24,500
that they would be able to take responsibility

1031
00:39:24,833 --> 00:39:28,200
for pulling what they need from their environment

1032
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,233
from the people around them

1033
00:39:29,233 --> 00:39:30,033
Lord

1034
00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:33,033
that anyone who has felt stuck or lonely

1035
00:39:33,033 --> 00:39:34,866
in any of these spaces father

1036
00:39:35,166 --> 00:39:36,700
that you would encounter them

1037
00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:38,966
and equip them to connect with others

1038
00:39:38,966 --> 00:39:41,233
Lord so that just like job

1039
00:39:41,233 --> 00:39:46,000
every one of us can grow to be old and full of days

1040
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:48,200
carrying the history of a life

1041
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,000
that has been transformed by God's Grace

1042
00:39:51,700 --> 00:39:53,433
I ask that for every single one of us

1043
00:39:53,433 --> 00:39:55,900
in Jesus name amen

1044
00:39:57,900 --> 00:39:58,766
thanks so much everybody