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of doesn't it? So this one
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this one is the ten best excuses
to give the pastor when you're late for

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church, which is great. We
haven't read these yet, no, okay,

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so here goes it says it happens
to everyone. Sometimes, despite your

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best efforts, you end up being
late to church. Though the grace of

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God is vast, the grace of
your pastor may not be, coming up

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with good excuses for being late for
church can be important. The Babylon b

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is here to save the day by
providing you with the following list of the

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best excuses you can give your pastor
when you're late to church. Number one

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implying that these are not true.
Yes, Number one, I prayed too

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long. This morning, a lost
track of time. Yes, sometimes you

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end up being late because of how
super duper spiritual you are. It happens.

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Number two, you could say,
my children attempted to murder each other,

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and this typically happens every Sunday morning
before church, which, by the

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way, that would be true,
right, yes, yes. Number three

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you could offer this one. We
had thirty two shoes, but they were

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all left feet. We couldn't find
any of their matches. Was enough children,

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That's entirely pliable. Number four,
I was making godly biblical memes about

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the Bible and stuff. Wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not

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likely, right. You know that
you do know that ability to create spicy

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memes as a spiritual gift, right
yeah? Yeah? Okay. Number five,

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I had to own some libs on
Facebook, doing the Lord's work.

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Yeah, doing the Lord's work,
man, good, bust some people for

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being liberal on the Facebook. Okay, here we go. Number six,

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The last shall be first. Hey, Jesus said it, pastor, I'm

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just trying to follow Jesus. That's
right, And so if you're going to

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follow Jesus, then you have to
be last one. That's a good one.

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By the way, you could use
that in almost any setting. It

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is it is. Yes, yeah, I shall be first. Oh no,

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oh no, here comes the hate
mail. Number seven, Greta Thunberg

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was sitting in the road. Should
someone be expected to run over protesters?

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How dare you? Number eight?
I'm not here this week, but I'm

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actually getting here really early for next
week. That's really funny. You're getting

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to church a full week before the
pastor. We because we do four services

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on a Sunday at Heritage Church.
I think it's really funny how some people

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they show up so late. They're
like, well, I'm just just the

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next one. I guess I'm just
early for the next one. Yeah,

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it's so funny. Okay, So
number nine was I was caught up to

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the Third Heaven. That was in
the Book of Revelation. Oh, the

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Bible says, yeah, he's John
says that he was in the spirit on

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the Lord's Day and he was caught
up into the Third Heven. And the

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subtitle says, your pastor will be
so much in awe that he'll forget that

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you were late. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. It was.

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It was it John, There,
No, it wasn't. I think

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that was Paul caught up into the
third heaven. Okay, and then number

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ten, I have a wife,
say no more, no more. I

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have a wife that is actually pretty
brutal. It's why are you late?

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I have a wife that's terrible.
Actually. However, yeah, however,

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yeah, there's there's a stereotype for
a reason there. Say no more is

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what it literally says here on the
page, right, So just rattle off

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one or more of the excuses listed
above and you'll be golden, become a

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master of the late church excuse,
and you can just show up whenever you

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want. It's so funny. Okay. You know there are people who intend

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on being late. They're just not
music people, so they actually purposefully only

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showed up for the message the time. It not too many in our church,

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right, because our music is really
good, because our preaching is not

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that good. Our preaching is not
that good. I was gonna say the

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music is really good. But yeah, that's funny. It's funny. Okay,

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Well, only the finest for our
listeners. From Yes, you're welcome,

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everybody, You are so welcome.
It's our privilege. That's great,

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it's our pleasure, isn't that what
Chick fil A says? Our pleasure,

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yeahure, yeah, yeah, Chick
fil A is the best. Okay,

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I love Chick fil A. Yeah
yeah. I saw in an episode recently.

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My daughter sent me a clip.
She was watching the episodes while I

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was out out of the country and
it was one of the Bible Guys live

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events. Oh yeah. We were
asking for somebody to mention an overrated restaurant

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member, and somebody shouted out chick
and we just went after that. We

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went after him. That's Jesus Chicken. Man, You're like you got a

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lightning broad right on top of your
head. I don't think you go to

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heaven now. It's really funny.
Don't mess with Jesus Chicken. Okay.

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So here we are Job chapter forty
two. After all the things, let

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me just remind you now, God
goes into even more challenges. He tells

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Job again, hey, brace yourself
like a man. I've got more questions

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for you, and he goes,
are you as strong as God? You

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know? Can you just speak with
like thunder like like my voice? Can

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you, you know, do all
the things I can do? Of course

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you can't, And then he starts
talking about one time He mentions what was

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the one behemoth some giant animal.
And well, this one's Leviathan. Oh

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you're saying in another place. Yeah, So in a previous chapter in here

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he's talking about this giant creature that
God made called Behemoth. And then here

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in Leviathan. You read Leviathan,
and it sure seems like he's talking about

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a dragon, by the way,
some kind of a dinosaur, kind of

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a creature. It's really really interesting. You can read that yourself if you'd

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like. I can in Job chapter
forty one, and God saying did you

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make that? Uh no, no, you didn't let me answer it for

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you. So finally, when it's
all done, Job says this in chapter

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forty two, verse one, he
says, Then Job replied to the Lord,

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I know that you can do anything
and no one can stop you.

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You asked, who is this that
questions my wisdom with such ignorance? It's

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I, And I was talking about
the things I knew nothing about, things

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far too wonderful for me. You
said, listen and I'll speak. I

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have some questions for you, and
you must answer them. I had only

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heard about you before, but now
I've seen you with my own eyes.

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I take back everything I said said
and I sit in dust and ashes to

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show my repentance. Who that is
so strong? It's so strong. So

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after he's all done, the Bible
says, after the Lord had finished speaking

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to Job, he said to Eliphaz
the timidnight, I am angry with you

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and your two friends, for you
have not spoken accurately about me, as

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my servant Job has. So take
seven bulls and seven rams and go to

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my servant Job and offer a burn
offering for yourselves. My servant Job will

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pray for you, and I will
accept his prayer on your behalf. Will

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not treat you as you deserve,
for you have not spoken accurately about me,

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as my servant Job has. So
Aliphaz the Temanite, bill Dad the

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Shoeyite, and so Far the Namathite
did as the Lord commanded them, and

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the Lord accepted Job's prayer. When
Job prayed for his friends, the Lord

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restored his fortunes. In fact,
the Lord gave him twice as much as

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before. Then all his brothers,
sisters, and former friends came and feasted

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with him in his home, and
they consoled him and comforted him because of

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all the trials the Lord had brought
against him, and each of them brought

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him a gift of money and a
gold ring. So the Lord blessed Job

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in the second half of his life
even more than in the beginning. For

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now he had fourteen thousand sheep,
six thousand camels, a thousand teams of

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oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. He also gave Job seven more sons

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and three more daughters, and he
named his first daughter Jemima, the second

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Kaziah, and the third Karen.
Happuch, in all the land, no

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women were as lovely as the daughters
of Job, and their father put them

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into his will along with their brothers. Job lived a undred and forty years

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after that, living to see four
generations of his children and grandchildren, and

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then he died an old man who
had lived a long, full life.

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Wow, one hundred and forty years
after that. Yeah, it was halfway

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through. That's what Bible says,
right, second half was greater than the

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first. It said it said that
he named his first starter Jemima, and

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then his second has a Kaziah.
So I mean Kaziah's children would have had

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an ant Jemima. No, it's
true. It's true. It's true.

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Come on, it's true. You
can't it's true. You can't argue with

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the it's true. That's right,
and Jemimah and man, she made good

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sir, that's so funny. Man, that's true. That's great. Yep,

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only Chris Sarba, let me let
me just say that. Well you

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said loud, you said Jemimah.
I did. How do you not think

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of a Jemimah? Well? I
did, but I didn't realize that.

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Literally, Kazya kids and Karen's kids, right, and then the three the

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seven brothers kids. There's a bunch
of cousins and nieces and nephews and an

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Anchemima. That's right. That's awesome, man, And your mama takes a

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role. That's great. So here
we go. I think Job's response is

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phenomenal. Right now, you gotta
remember all these things we just read.

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God is speaking from a tornado,
right right? A whirlwind, Yeah,

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it was it. A tornado could
have been just like a little a whirlwind.

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You ever see that? Do you
ever see the like air spinning in

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a circle but not as fierce as
a tornado? What's a tornado? How

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like I've seen I've seen in an
alleyway leaves in a circle that go all

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in a tornadic fashion. Okay,
so okay, so you're saying the semantics

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are, doesn't matter how strong the
tornado is, it's still a tornado.

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Yeah, that's what you're saying.
Yeah, but of course God was talking

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about my voice like thunder. Also, by the way, did you say

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in a tornado fashion? Yes,
that's so funny. Yeah, it's so

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funny. So so God also was
speaking and mentions his voice sounds like thunder.

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So I doubt it was a little
dust devil with thunder voice. Yeah,

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okay, all right, fine whatever, right, So anyways, okay,

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I get it, all right,
right, So, so I think

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this is pretty very substantial. And
by the way, his buddies are all

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sitting there, elephants is there?
These are these three guys are there?

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Man? Right? And how about
how about the Lord? The Lord's like

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sort of going back to them and
scolding, the kind of roughing them up,

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well, because they're they're coming from
man's perspective rather than Finally, Job

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shifted around. Even though Job was
like, God, I don't understand why

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this happened. I feel like you're
being mean to me. I think that

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you're not paying attention to the other
bad people on the planet. I'm a

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pretty good guy, and you know
he's frustrated with that. But God is

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is while God challenged him, there's
a lot of sarcasm of God's challenge by

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the way he's pretty biting and the
things he says. But Job's response is,

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well, let me do this for
you, because he does this twice

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where God pauses and Job responds right, So he pauses in the middle,

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and in chapter forty, Job just
simply says, I'm nothing. How could

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I ever find the answers. I'll
cover my mouth in my hand. I've

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said too much already. I have
nothing more to say, so Job saying,

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look it, I've overspoken. I
didn't know what I was talking about.

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I'm not going to say anymore.
And then God goes, well,

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let's go on, brace yourself like
a man. I got some more questions

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for you, and God just kind
of piles on, going, dude,

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you don't know anything. And finally
Job's response is you can do anything and

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no one can stop you. And
he said, you asked me. You

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know who is it that questions my
wisdom with such ignorance? He goes,

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it's me. I was one was
talking about things I knew nothing about him.

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Yeah, that's the phrase that stands
out to me. I mean,

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obviously the one that he says about
the ears in the eyes is the strongest

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one. But when he says I
was talking about the things I knew nothing

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about to literally take every bit of
uh. I mean, think about how

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many words have been spoken. Think
about all those chapters where Job is just

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you know, imparting. You know
what, we would look at and say,

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yeah, that sounds like good reasoning, It sounds like good wisdom,

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sounds like good logic, it sounds
like good emotion, like that, these

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are all reasonable things. And then
for Job to literally come to the conclusion

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and says, I was I didn't
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was talking about at all. And
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compared to God, I thought I
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wisdom, a level of insight,
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Yeah. Right, And so I
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the fact that no matter how smart
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to figure out God, you know, the bottom line is is all of

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us are in the same camp as
Job. I had the privilege serving with

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a pretty famous pastor. I was
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five. No, I had just
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him, I think. And I
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He was eighty five years old,
so he'd been in ministry, he

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and his wife for sixty five years. He had two earned doctorates, right,

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just incredibly brilliant. He had pastored
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in American history up to that point. I say his name, you know

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what I'm talking about, And so
I'm a young man. And he would

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sit on the front row of the
church service. After he had a college,

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he'd sit on the front row of
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come up and just ask questions after
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But he couldn't hardly hear. So
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you know, what did he say? I'd say a thing, then

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he just answered and he just oozed
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But I can remember going to They
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to lunch, which was weird,
you know, twenty seven year old's going

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out with two eighty five year olds
eighty six year olds for dinner every week

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after church, and we went because
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were poor, so that was great. But I can remember talking about them

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and their ministry, and I had
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the things he'd done all over the
world, all the things God had helped

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him do, the thousands of preachers
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school, and all this stuff.
And missus Malone said, well, you

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know you're seeing us at this point
of we're way more gentle because we're way

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more wise. And those two things
are because we're older. And she said,

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I think our greatest mistakes were how
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right, but we did it the
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doctors we got, the more we
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educated we became, the more experienced
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So when we were younger and we
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achieving all the things, nothing could
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would bulldoze people. And doctor Malone
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I had smart, but not wisdom. Well, right, he said I

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was intelligent, but I wasn't wise, right, And he said, the

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older I got, the more wise
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the more humble I became, and
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towards others. And that's what it
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that he's chosen the wise path.
That's why he lived the life he lived

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before God allowed this to happen in
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I chose the wise path. But
now what you hear have is this incredible

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humility from Job where he's going.
You know, I was talking about I

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was talking about things I knew nothing
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And I was thinking about a big
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theologians, both of them well read, fairly educated, fairly well educated,

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young, and they were arguing with
so much confidence. Right, you've been

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around that before, Yeah, of
course, so much confidence. And you

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know what, both of them had
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they were arguing their their their elements
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total, definitive fact. And so
on occasion I would just inject out,

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what about what if have you ever
thought of? And they got frustrated with

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it. You know, they came
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conversation with it, and they were
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they thought about it. But it's
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the young and the inexperienced. But
here here's a guy that he come out

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of it and finally he goes,
God, your things are too wonderful for

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me to understand. And I was
speaking about stuff I should have kept my

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mouth shut about. But then I
love this. Here's my favorite part in

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the whole story. It's not the
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him. My favorite part is this. I had only heard about you before,

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but now I've seen you with my
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I said, and I sit in
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He goes, dude, I only
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We've only heard about God. I've
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shouting and thunder at me. Right. I never had that experience. I've

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never had any kind of like face
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privilege to be job. Yeah,
yes, but you could apply that also,

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right, because every truth like this
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it to those people who don't like
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see God until we go to heaven. The chances are pretty good about that.

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But you can also translate that into
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God's work. Yeah, because because
you know when you when you hear somebody

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tell you about God and oh God
so amazing, you're like, Okay,

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I've heard about it. But then
when you witness God doing a miracle in

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the in your midst and he does
things in your own life and the lives

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of people around you to such a
degree towards undeniably God, and then you

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see that you could make that statement, I've only heard about God, but

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now I've seen Him with my own
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the power of the Holy Spirit in
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Spirit is is is sometimes very tangible, right, even though that God himself

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may not be tangible. Well,
the fact that God goes back and he

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uses his own creation as evidence of
how great he is means that you and

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I can see how great God is
just creation, that's right. And then

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we can also see God when he
intervenes that he does miracles and he you

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know, casts out demons, and
he he saves people whose lives could never

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turn around on their own, and
when God heals and God does so many

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incredible things. But we have God's
word completed. Job did not. This

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is the first book in the Bible, right, jobs written book? Ye,

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first unwritten books because I think the
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written. It doesn't come chronologically first
when you open the Bible. Oh yeah,

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the Bible is not in chronological order. Yeah, but this this would

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have been the first book that had
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And so in that I think it's
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Like when I read it, I
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I've only heard about you before,
but now I've seen you with my own

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eyes, and the number of people
that I've seen who God just radically transforms

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their lives and they go, I
heard about it before, but I never

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thought it was for me, and
it is for you. And then God

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challenges his buddies and goes, hey, you guys were wrong, job right?

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You need to repent of that,
and then God gives me back everything

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times two. Right. So this
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We are horrified. We talked about
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you should go back and watch it. It was at the end of the

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episode we talked about yesterday that God
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is our comfort. And Job had
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that I know this that when I
come through this, when I'm tried and

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purified, I'll come forth as gold. And God is purifying. There's way

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better in you. But the only
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is knocking off the rough spots,
right, And that's what he does,

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is he pulls out the best.
I can't think of a person in the

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Bible who finishes better than Job.
Yeah. Right, And he had he

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had every reason, every reason in
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lost my children, I lost my
wealth, I lost my wife turned against

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me, I lost my health.
My friends are coming after me and just

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being a bully to me. God, I feel like you've abandoned me,

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and it's your fault. You did
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love you. Anyways, and he
finishes so well, and that's I think

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one of the big things that your
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if you humble yourself like like Job
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he made the other guy's sacrifice.
He didn't make Job sacrifice, right,

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Hey, you guys go sacrifice for
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to accept that humility as your sacrifice. And there's something to that, you

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know. It also reminds me,
I don't know what the deal with my

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voices today, so sorry that I'm
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But the it reminds me another scripture
later on. What is a scripture that

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says comparing ourselves among ourselves and measuring
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yeah, yeah, in the New
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and that's what it reminds me of
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somebody who you know has hardship and
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and what they say is they're saying, like, geez, this didn't happen

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to all my other friends, you
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life, and yet here I am
and I'm better than them, right,

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Like, I've tried harder than them. These guys don't even love God.

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And here I am. I've given
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I have this lot in life that
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you know, we shouldn't compare ourselves. We should just you know,

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among ourselves and be jealous and envious. I think that that's a human thought,

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and I think that God steers us
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when it comes down to it,
everything that happens to us is all about

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our relationship with our heavenly Father,
not about those around us. It's not

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about the wicked, it's not about
others around us. It's not about what

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God chooses to do with other people. Right, We should just measure it

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with our relationship with God and what
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then after all the criticism and the
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the bad advice, job praise for
his friends, right, Yeah, So

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he's humble in front of God and
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right, Like he says, I'll
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you, not your prayer. Right, Job's prayer. Right, You guys

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deserve judgment now because you were so
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That'll give you that. That'll heighten
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Right, But what kind of humility
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loving God and loving people, we
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serve people. But he's also humble
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In this moment, it's it's hard. It's hard to pray with people.

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are treating like enemies. He actually
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your enemies, and Jesus says,
pray for your enemies. Jesus said,

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do good to your enemies. And
this is what we're seeing. We're seeing

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Job live it out. So the
whole thing he finishes, so well,

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that's great. Well, hey,
that's a great way to wrap up Job.

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And we're going to pick up tomorrow
with Uh, she's don't even what

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we're doing tomorrow. What are we
doing? Exodus? Exodus? We're joining

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the Exodus. Wow. Yeah,
okay, well, hopefully we will see

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you next time on the Bible guys. Mhm h