349: Shawn Snobelen – The Power of God

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Welcome to good Chris Delphian
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I’m Chris.

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this week’s talk.
Hey everyone, it’s Jason

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Hensley.
This week we’re listening to a

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talk by brother Sean Snowblin
given at the Watshan Lake Bible

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School in 2024.
This is the 6th class in his

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series and I really felt like
not only was this a great cap

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for the series, but it just
stands alone really well in

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bringing out who our God is and
what we want to know about him.

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I think sometimes we really can
get stuck in focusing on the

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goodness or focusing on the
severity of God.

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And what Brother Sean brings out
that I really appreciated was

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that we really have to recognize
both.

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And he doesn’t call it the
goodness and severity.

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He refers to it as the infinite
power of God and the intimate

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power of God.
And I, I really like the way

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that he puts that.
So I hope that you appreciate

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that, that you enjoy hearing
about these aspects of God and

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that you find that encouraging
because I think really all of us

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struggle to put the right
emphasis on these various

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aspects.
We lean one way or the other.

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And so it’s a really good thing
to be reminded of this.

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With that said, here is brother
Sean Snoblin.

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This is class number six at the
Washington Lake Bible School

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called The Power of God.
Well, thank you.

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Thank you brother, and welcome
to the 6th class.

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This week has has been a week of
learning for me and I, I do

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appreciate all the, all the
comments and all the feedback

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and all the great verses that I
forgot to put in.

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And I try to sort of throw that
in at the end of every night.

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And, and, and it seems like this
series has struck a bit of a

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chord with some of you as well.
And I’ve, I’ve spoken with many

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of you about these same trials
and issues and tribulations that

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are happening within your life
as well.

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And so if we go back to the
theme of the very first class

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that Paul makes this very
powerful and an emphatic

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statement for I am not ashamed
of the gospel, for it is the

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power of God for salvation to
everyone who believes.

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I always wondered what what did,
what did Paul intend for us to

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understand from that particular
proclamation that this gospel,

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this gospel is the power of God
for salvation?

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What?
What is the power of God and how

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does it operate in our life?
Because I think we see it in and

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around us.
We see this infinite power of

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God, His omnipotence, his
transcendent authority, his

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sovereign rule over the
universe.

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But we also see his intimate
power, his personal

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relationships, and his
involvement with his creation

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and with us.
But sometimes we might see this

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dichotomy between the infinite
power of God and the infinite

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nature in which he works in our
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And sometimes we can see the one
and not see the other.

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And so I want to try to to end
this series this week by trying

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to better understand what Paul
would have us to know.

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We know that the power of God
brings salvation and it brings

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salvation to everyone who
believes.

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And the apostle Paul proclaims
that the gospel embodies this

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very personal power of God, This
this power that is manifested in

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his word that brings salvation
to everyone who believes in it.

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The the gospel is not just a
message, as we said at the start

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of the week, it’s not just words
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It is a transformative power.
And just a few verses on from

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that in, in Romans 1 and 20, the
apostle Paul states, for since

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the creation of the world, his
invisible qualities, his eternal

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power, his divine nature have
been clearly seen, being

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understood from what has been
made so that the people without

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excuse.
And so there’s the infinite

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power of God that is to be
manifest, that we all might see

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so that we are without excuse.
And so I want to explore these

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two aspects of God’s power, how
his magnificent nature might be

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oppressed upon us.
How is infinite and eternal

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nature might then be
personalized for us.

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And one of the things that I
that I learned very early on,

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and I can’t remember where this
came from.

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I, I, I attribute, you know, a
lot of things to my father and

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it might have been from him, but
I heard at one point that in

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Genesis chapter one, in the
beginning God.

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And when you think about God
from that perspective, then then

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God has always existed.
And so when we think about the

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eternal power of God, that in
the beginning there was God.

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He, he had always existed.
He has no beginning.

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He has no end.
God was independent and

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self-sustaining as a universal
force before even the the pages

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of Genesis begin.
It says in Psalm 90 and verse 2.

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He says before the mountains
were brought forth or ever you

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had formed the earth and the
world from everlasting to

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everlasting.
You are God.

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It says in Revelation, in the
last book of the Bible, it says

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I am Alpha and I Omega.
The beginning and the ending set

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the Lord, which is and which was
and which is to come, the

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Almighty.
And not only did God always

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exist, but He exists always to
sustain all things.

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He is the source of all things.
Everything begins with Him.

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He’s the, the first ’cause he’s
the only agent.

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He’s the law of every nature and
the, and the existence of him in

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time and space and energy and,
and matter has always been and,

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and I think we need to just stop
and reflect on, on how powerful

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that is.
This is not a God that just came

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into being for us.
This is a being that has always

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existed in John one and three.
It says through Him all things

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were made, and without Him
nothing was made that has been

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made.
And Isaiah 46 and 9 declares, I

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am God and there is no other.
I am God and there is none like

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me.
I make known the ends from the

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beginning, from ancient times,
what is till now to come.

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And so we understand His
supremacy and His sovereignty

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over everything.
God is the central figure in the

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unfolding story of the universe
and everything that follows from

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in the beginning.
God is a result of his power.

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Even science agrees.
The great singularity, they call

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it.
The singular power in the

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universe is God Almighty.
There’s no other force, there’s

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no other being that shares this
primacy.

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The Lord God stands alone.
He always was and He will always

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be.
For this is what the Lord says,

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the prophet Isaiah tells us,
this is what the Lord says, He

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who created the heavens, He is
God, he who fashioned it and

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made the earth, He founded it.
And he did not create it to be

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empty, but he formed it to be
inhabited.

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And so we understand then from
the nature of God’s power that

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he created it for a purpose, All
of this that we have, he created

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it for a purpose.
And, and we can think he created

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it for us.
And and he did in in that sense,

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and he created the universe by
simply speaking words.

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And with him there’s no end.
The existence and the nature of

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God is eternal.
It says in Psalm One, O 2.

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Oh my God, I say, take me not
away in the midst of thy days,

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whose years endureth throughout.
All generations are forever and

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ever.
Psalm One O 2 and 25 says that

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was laid the foundation of the
earth in the heavens of the work

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of thy hands.
The eternal nature of God

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assures us as believers that our
relationship with Him will also

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be eternal.
Lord Jesus Christ says in John

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17.
He says this is eternal life,

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that you know God because God is
everlasting and the life that he

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gives is also everlasting.
And so as believers, we’re

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promised eternal life and, and a
fellowship with the eternal God,

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which which is, is mind blowing
and it gives us purpose beyond

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the grave.
And so when we started this,

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this series about believing in
the existence of God, surely

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brethren, as sisters, we must
believe in his future existence

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because that’s where we’re
going.

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The Psalmist continues in in
Psalm 102, Speaking of the

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temporal nature of of the things
that we see.

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They shall perish, but thou
shalt injury.

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A all of them shall wax old like
a garment as a vester.

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There shall change them and they
will be changed.

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But thou art the same, O God,
and thy years have no end.

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God is immutable.
People change, brethren and

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sisters, circumstances
fluctuate.

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The world itself is transient
and all the things that it does,

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but God never changes.
God is eternal and His promises

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are everlasting.
Your Kingdom is an everlasting

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Kingdom, and your dominion
endures throughout all

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generations.
We don’t very often quote from

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Lamentations, but not very
often.

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You hear a Bible class series on
Lamentations, but it is just

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full of unbelievable wisdom and
I love this.

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The steadfast love of the Lord
never ceases.

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His mercies never come to an
end.

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They are new every morning.
Great is thy faithfulness and so

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this brethren and sisters, this
is the God that we can believe

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in the God that always was and
the God that will always be and

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we can rest assured in our
future because of it.

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And, and so when I look at the
power of God, I, I look at

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these, these two extreme ends of
these two aspects of, of the

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nature of God’s power that God
has manifest in the infinite

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that we read in Genesis chapter
one, that in the beginning God

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created everything.
But then God tells us about his

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intimate, his very intimate and
caring power that David talks

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about when he says, you created
my innermost being.

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You knit me together in my
mother’s womb.

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And so God can create the vast
universe, but he also has

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created us that his power is, is
infinite, but that his power is

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also intimate.
And, and it’s, it’s important

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for us to also understand
because we can have a problem if

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we focus on one or the other.
And, and, and the churches all

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around us, they trivialize the
power of God because they focus

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on the intimate power of God And
it becomes their faith becomes

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about them.
And God is their personal

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savior.
I’ve even heard somebody say

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that my God is my personal genie
that I can pull out at any time

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that I want.
And if we focus too much on the

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intimate nature of God’s purpose
with us, that our whole

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existence can become about us.
And if there’s one thing we’ve

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learned in in reading and
understanding the word of God is

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it’s, it’s, it’s not about us.
And I think of Peter when he was

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standing in opposition to his
Lord and, and, and Christ had,

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had told the disciples he had to
go to Jerusalem and he had to

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die.
And Peter says, no, it, it shall

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not be.
And he stood in in Christ’s way

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and and Jesus said to him, get
behind me, you’re an adversary.

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And he said, because you’re not
minding the things of God, but

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the things of men.
And Peter wanted Christ to be

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the king.
Then you don’t want to wait to

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the future.
But the inverse can also be true

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because we can focus too much on
the infinite power of God and

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God becomes for us very distant
and very uncaring.

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Like maybe we’re just being
pulled along in the current of

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his power and that our part to
play in this moving creation is

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just a dust speck.
The Pharisees did this at the

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time of Christ, making the
nature of God’s relationship

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burdensome and and rule driven
and fear based.

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And so this interpretation for
some we, we saw this with the

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Roman Catholic Church for for
hundreds of years, creating this

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distant, terrifying God of wrath
so they might control the

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people.
And so neither of those should

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be how we see God in our life.
And the the one man that I can

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think of in the Bible as an
example of where both of these

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came to play was the man Job.
But turn up to the book of Job.

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Job clearly had a relationship
with God.

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We’re told by God that Job was
perfect and upright.

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We’re told that God saw Job as
righteous and and was was God a

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good man?
Yes, he was a good man.

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He was, he was a really good
man.

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I’ve said before that he was the
best Pharisee in the best way

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was this man Job?
He was upright, he was rich, but

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he uses uprightness and his
wealth to do good things.

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And we, we read, we don’t have
time to look at that, but we

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read all about that.
But, but I don’t, I don’t think

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that the book of Job is so that
we might be introduced to a

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righteous man who did good
things.

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I believe the book of Job is
introducing us to a man who had

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a broken relationship with his
God that only saw God in the

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infinite and terrifying nature
of his existence.

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And yes, Job loved God while
things were going well and

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things for Job went very well,
but when things changed, so did

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Job’s understanding of God.
There’s all kinds of beautiful

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statements in the book of Job
about how God’s how, how Job saw

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God in his life.
Job 26 and verse 7, we’re going

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to get to some verses in just a
minute, but it says he stretches

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out the north over the void.
He hangs the earth on nothing.

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He binds the waters in his, in
his sick cloud.

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Job talks about also the
hydrological system of how the,

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the water and the moisture
worked.

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He, he says all these beautiful,
majestic things about his God.

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He talks in great detail about
the awesome power of his God.

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He even says in Job 26 and 14.
But these are only hints of his

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power, only whispers of what we
have heard.

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Who can truly know how great God
is?

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That’s what Job says.
But God’s power was a mystery to

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Job.
He didn’t understand how it

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worked.
It was, it was like a black box.

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And this black box became to Job
the fearful unknown.

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But that was all set aside when
Job’s life was good, when his

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life was amazing.
Until one day it was not when

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his trial and his suffering
started, and he no longer saw

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the light of God’s majesty, but
the blackness of his wrath and

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the fearful mystery of his
unknown purpose.

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And brothers and sisters, this
can be true for us.

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Then when our life is going
great, we look at God as

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benevolent and and merciful and
caring and, and bringing

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blessings to us.
And then one day our life

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changes and what happens, just
like Job said, he said, why me?

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Look at all the good things that
I’ve done.

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God, do you not do not see them?
And we start to blame

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circumstance and we blame our
upbringing and we we blame work,

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we blame our ecclesia, we blame
the people around us, but we

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never blame ourselves.
And eventually, as Job did, he

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blamed God.
Turn to Chapter 9 of Job.

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Because of of many things, Job
saw God as a poor ruler of his

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creation and and I got a lot of
pushback for that when I first

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did my series on Job.
They’re like, well, that no,

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that’s not Job.
Well, you, you read the things

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that Job says about his God.
First of all, he thought that

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God’s power was violent and
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Look at look at Chapter 9 of Job
and we just look at a few

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verses.
Truly, I know verse 2, truly I

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know that it is so, but how can
man be in the right before God

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if one wish to contend with him?
Job says one could not answer

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him once in 1000 times verse 5,
he moves mountains and they know

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it not he overturns them in his
anger.

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He takes the earth out of its
place, its pillars tremble.

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Verse 7 This God who commands
the sun and it does not rise,

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who seals up the stars.
Behold, he passes me by and I

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can’t even see him.
He moves on.

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I I can’t even perceive.
Look, he snatches away.

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Who can turn him back?
Who will say, what are you

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doing?
This was a God that Job saw as

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uncommunicative.
Uncaring, unfeeling, and violent

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and destructive with how he used
creation on his created turn to

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chapter 12, Job also viewed that
God’s power was not only unjust

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and destructive, but it was
arbitrary that that God did

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things that you couldn’t
understand.

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Job 12 and 14 What he tears
down, and things that cannot be

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rebuilt, those he imprisons
cannot be released.

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If he holds back the waters,
there is drought.

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If he lets them loose, they
devastate the land.

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In other words, no matter what
God does arbitrarily he brings

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destruction.
Verse 17.

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He leads rulers away stripped,
and makes fools of judges.

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He he leads priests away
stripped, and overthrows

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officials long established.
He silences the lips of trusted

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divisors, and he takes away the
discernment of elders.

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He makes nations great, then he
destroys them.

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He enlarges nations, then he
disperses them.

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I believe that Job saw God’s
power as not only destructive,

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but completely arbitrary.
And look, I understand Job is,

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is suffering.
He, he’s, he’s under trial.

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He’s lost his entire family.
He’s lost all of his net worth.

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He’s lost everything that he has
accumulated.

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And the wealth of his world is
gone.

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His wife has has really left him
and he’s lost his personal

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health.
He is sitting in in dust and

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ashes, scraping the boils on his
skin with a piece of pottery.

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That is what this man has been
reduced to.

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So we can understand in a human
sense, brethren and sisters, the

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the the the agony that he went
through and why this is even

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possible.
In chapter 19, Job states many

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times that God punishes then
doesn’t explain.

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He elevates the wicked.
He suppresses the just because

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he’s because he uses himself as
an example.

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Look the wicked, they’re
prospering, but look at me, I’m

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righteous and I am being
suppressed.

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He says.
He cries out and drove 19 and

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seven.
I cry out violence, but I’m not

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answered.
I call for help.

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There is no justice.
God has walled up my way so that

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I cannot pass and He has set
darkness upon my past.

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This is a broken man who has a
broken relationship with his

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God.
This can surely be the human

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reality of suffering.
Bev and his sisters, That we

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might be brought to the point
where we think that there is no

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answer to the sufferings that we
endure and that God doesn’t

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care.
And that from the depths of our

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despair we only see an uncaring
and arbitrary nature in our God.

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And I think we can feel this in
the suffering of this man.

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And as Job did, we we often look
back on our lives and we see all

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the good things that we have
done, and using human math on a

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calculator of our own
manufacture, we punch out these

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numbers and we say God is wrong
and we are right.

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Holding on as we do sometimes,
brothers and sisters, to the

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seeming fact that our lifelong
investment in our spiritual

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well-being is somehow then due
to be rewarded by some form of

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immunity from suffering and
trial in this life.

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And it does not.
God makes no such promise.

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He made no such promise to Job,
and he makes no such promise to

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us.
Such as the issue with only

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seeing the infinite and powerful
God in our universe.

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And such was Job’s problem that
when calamity struck, as it

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does, brothers and sisters, at
some point in our life it will

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strike.
If we don’t have our

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relationship with God right,
then we will see him just as Job

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did.
And if we hold this view, then

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in the depths of our suffering
we will see God also as a black

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box, unfeeling and arbitrary and
meeting out punishment, which is

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what his friend said.
Now, Job, God blesses the

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righteous and he curses the
wicked.

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And you’re really cursed, so you
must have been wicked.

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We need to have an understanding
that is unlike what Job had that

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that that that actually our pain
and our suffering is God’s tool

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to bring us to repentance.
That is actually God showing us

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that he loves us.
And this is counterintuitive to

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human nature.
But this is not our God.

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And we must understand the
nature of God and God’s power in

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order to understand God’s
nature.

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And so Job needed a mediator.
And Job cries out for three

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solid chapters.
He tells us all the wonderful

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things that he did.
My steps were washed with

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butter.
I made a covenant with my eyes

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because does God not see this?
What did I do wrong?

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I was just and fair.
I helped others.

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I didn’t trust in riches.
I wasn’t an idolater.

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I’m hospitable.
I stand up for truth.

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The problem that Job had was he
stood on the pedestal of his own

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self righteousness and he
couldn’t climb down because of

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the power of his own pride.
But Job did look for somebody to

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mediate for him.
But initially when we think

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about Job’s words, it was in the
form of a trial.

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He wanted to bring God to trial
to try God on his injustice and

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his unmerciful behavior says in
Job 9 and 32, God is not a mere

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mortal like me that I might
answer him that we might

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confront each other in court and
uses.

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There’s all this terminology in
the book of Job about a

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courtroom and how that he he
needs to be vindicated.

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If only, he says, there was
summoned to mediate between us,

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summoned to intercede, summoned
to bring us together, summoned

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to remove God’s rod from me, he
says, so that his terror would

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not frighten me anymore.
Then Job says I would speak

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without fear of him, but as it
now stands with me, I cannot.

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The words for mediatorship and
intercessor come up almost 30

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times in the book of Job.
And then Elihu comes on the

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scene and Elihu was Job’s
mediator.

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And Elihu among a number of
things that he said which was

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just beautiful, he, he lines up
all of Job’s accusations and he

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answers every single one of
them.

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And he says in Job 33 and verse
23 says, if there be for him an

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Angel and mediator or an
intercessor one in 1000, to

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declare to man what is right for
him.

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And he is merciful to him, and
says, deliver him from going out

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into the pit.
I have found a ransom, which

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means a covering and a price of
redemption.

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Let his flesh become the flesh
of youth.

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Let him return to the days of
his youthful vigor.

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Then man prays to God, Elihu
says, and God accepts him and he

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sees his face with a shout of
joy, and he restores to man his

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righteousness.
And so we don’t have time to

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cover all the amazing things
that that Elihu said to bring

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Job off of his pedestal of
self-righteous pride.

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Elihu was preparing Job to meet
his God.

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And we know the whole time that
Elihu is speaking, what’s

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happening, a storm is brewing
all around them.

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And one of the young people
asked me, do you think all the

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friends were still there?
I said, oh, yes, they were all

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there, Job and his three
friends.

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And Elihu was the youngest,
which is why he spoke last.

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And even when God starts to
speak, they’re all listening

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because Elihu and God both say
things that needed to be

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understood by those three
friends.

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It says in Job 33 and 31, Eli
who’s speaking, says pay

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attention to Job.
Listen to me, be silent, and I

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will speak.
If you have any words answered

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to me, speak, for I desire to
justify you.

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And that word in the Hebrew
means to make you right before

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you’re gone.
If Eli, who by the grace of God

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had not been inserted into this
conversation with Job, I believe

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Job would have been consumed in
the storm.

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Elihu started the process of
reconciling Job to his God in

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answering his questions and
helping him to understand the

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things that God was then going
to tell him.

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And then Job was brought before
his God, and God answers Job out

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of the whirlwind.
Turn to Job chapter 38, and out

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of the whirlwind and out of the
storm that had been building all

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all of this time.
And we can think about it maybe

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as God’s wrath is just brewing
out there.

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Chapter 38 and verse 2.
Who is this that darkens council

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with words without knowledge?
Dress for action, Job, action

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like a man, and I will question
you, and you will make it known

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to me.
And then what God does is

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absolutely beautiful.
He begins to show out of the

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infinite power that he possesses
the intimate nature of his care.

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And God begins to ask by saying
to Job in in in 38 and verse

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four, Job, where were you when I
laid the foundation of the

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earth?
Tell me if you understand who

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marked off its dimensions.
Surely you know Job, who

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stretched the measuring line
across it.

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This man, Job, who, who did
understand the terrifying

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majestic power of his God,
didn’t have any idea how it

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worked.
Verse 8, God continues by

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describing how he controls the
boundaries of the Seas.

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So the storms that Job saw as
only destructive, Whatever God

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did when he closed the
storehouses and when he opened

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them up, it didn’t matter.
There was either drought or

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there was calamity.
God says who shut up the sea

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behind behind its doors when it
burst forth from the womb.

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When, when I fix the limits for
it and I set the doors and the

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and the bars in place, God is
saying, Job.

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I’ve always been in control of
creation.

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It’s not destructive.
This is how I created it.

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I’m the one that’s holding it
back.

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I’m holding it from becoming
chaotic.

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Then God speaks about the
provision of of the creatures.

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He says to Job.
Do you hunt the prey for the

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lioness to satisfy the hunger of
the lions when they Crouch in

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their dens or they lie in wait
in the thicket?

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And Job, 38 and 39.
He also describes how he

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provides for the Raven, who
provides food for the Raven when

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the young cry out to God and
wander about for lack of food.

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Is that you, Job?
Do you do that?

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I do that Job.
God goes on to talk to Job about

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the things in the inanimate and
the animate creation.

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The smallest attention to detail
our God has in his purview.

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And throughout his speeches, God
describes this intimate

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knowledge and the smallest
details on earth.

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Whether it’s the feeding of the
young animals, the timing of the

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birth and the wild creatures,
the movement of the stars, the

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falling of the rain in a
desolate place.

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In Job 38 and 26, God shows that
nothing escapes his notice and

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nothing escapes his care and
ultimately God’s God’s speech

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reveals that not only does he
care for his creation, but God

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cares for Job by engaging
directly with Job when when when

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Job didn’t even know it was
happening, God shows that he’s

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been present and active in Job’s
life all along.

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Though job couldn’t understand
why he suffered, God was there.

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God’s response shows that his
wisdom and his power and his

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love, we’re always there.
You don’t need to turn this up

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and listen to one of the things
that Job says in his long

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rambling monologue about all the
things that were amazing about

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his life and in chapters 29 and
30 and 31.

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This is what he says in in Job
29 and 19.

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He says I was like a tree whose
roots always have water and

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whose branches are wet with dew
and have the many answers,

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direct answers that God made
against the claims of Job.

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This is what God says in chapter
38 and verse 28.

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He says Job, does either the
rain or the dew have a father?

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What God was saying to Job, he
was saying, Job, I was the one

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that watered your roots.
I was the dew on your branches.

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I was the one sustaining you.
All that time and all the times

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of blessing and all the good
things that were happening in

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your life, that was me.
That was me strengthening you.

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We can often see God like that,
benevolent in the good times,

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yet walled off and distant in
the times of our trial.

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A A, a lot of this is born of
trial rather than sisters.

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When we’re in distress, as Job
was and and and that clouds our

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judgement.
It makes it very difficult to

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see and understand what God is
actually doing.

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That God was always there, that
God is always there, carrying us

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through the trial and Elihu.
And then God points this out to

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him.
This is a fundamental process,

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brethren and sisters, that we
all must go through because in

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the end, through all the trial
and suffering, Job finally sees

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the beautiful balance of the
infinite and the intimate

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character of his God.
And it couldn’t be brought out

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any more beautifully than Job
chapter 42 and turn, let’s turn

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to that passage.
It says in Job chapter 42 and

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five, after God had finally
finished speaking, Job says to

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God, he says, I had heard of you
by the hearing of the ear, but

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now mine eyes see you.
And it took the devastating

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trial that God himself brought
on this just and righteous man

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to fix the relationship that was
broken.

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Job needed to develop and
understand that God’s power,

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God’s infinite power, is there
to address all the amazing

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things in the universe.
But most importantly, that we

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might understand how God can
then intimately care for us so

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that even through our trial, God
might be manifest.

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Even through the good times in
our life, God is manifest in

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everything that we do.
What is important, brethren and

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sisters, is not that we suffer.
What is important, brethren and

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sisters, is how we respond to
our suffering.

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Listen to what Elihu says in Job
36 and 11.

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This is just one of the many
amazing things that this

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intercessor was able to do for
Job.

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He says to Job in in chapter 36
and 11.

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He says if they listen to him,
him being God, if they listen to

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him and they complete their days
in prosperity and their years in

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pleasantness, right?
So if if we listen to God and we

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we serve him, then we can
complete our days in prosperity

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and our years in pleasantness.
Then he says in verse 15,

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remember Job and in and you see
the the lead up to this really

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with Elihu was that one of the
things he had to address with

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Job is Job had said God doesn’t
communicate.

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I I cried justice and he doesn’t
hear and Elihu said, no, God

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does communicate.
He he communicates in many ways.

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He communicates by dream.
He communicates by vision.

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He communicates by the way, by
trial and suffering.

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Oh, and by the way, Job, God
doesn’t communicate with the

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prideful.
He says that to Job, but listen

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to what he says in in Job 36 and
15.

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In answering that claim of Job’s
inability to hear God speaking

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to him through his trolley, says
Job.

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God delivers the afflicted by
their affliction, and he opens

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their ears because of their
adversity.

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And we have to remember this,
brothers and sisters, the two

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aspects of God’s great power,
his infinite power and the

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intimate nature of his care for
us.

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And, and, and we need to
understand the infinite power of

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God.
It becomes for us the foundation

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of worship.
And Job worshipped God.

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He was in awe of God.
He, he respected His Majesty and

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his glory.
Jeremiah speaks of this.

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No one is like you, Lord, you
are great and your name is

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mighty in power.
Who should not fear you, king of

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nations?
And so we need to understand the

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infinite power of God is there,
that we might bow in reverence

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to God’s almighty power, that we
might recognize the place of His

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sovereignty and His Majesty to
bring us to worship Him.

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Psalm 95 says the sea is His,
for he made it, and his hands

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form the dry land.
Oh, come, and let us worship and

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bow down.
Let us kneel before the God of

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our making.
And so we need to understand

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these things, brothers and
sisters, by seeing the hand of

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God in the grandeur and the
majesty and the vastness of

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creation and His control over
the whole universe, that we can

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truly appreciate His greatness.
That if we can believe in all of

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these things, that God can do
all of this in nature, that God

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can take care of this, that’s
what I think He needs us to

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understand and it brings us to
faith.

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Once we understand the awesome
power of our God and the things

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that He has done, the things
that He is doing, and the things

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that He will do in this world
and with each and every one of

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us, we can have faith.
Our understanding of God’s power

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builds faith.
Isaiah 46 and 10 says, declaring

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the end from the beginning.
My ancient times, the things

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that have yet come, saying, My
counsel shall stand and I will

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accomplish all of my purpose.
If we know that God is capable

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of all things, then He will
bring that promise to pass.

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It’s faith building that we can
always rely on our God.

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If we believe that He exists and
we have faith that what God says

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will come to pass in the future,
then we will rely on that

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outcome and it will direct our
paths every single day.

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Turn to Ephesians chapter 1.
It’s a very wonderful message in

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the New Testament about this,
this very fact.

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Ephesians chapter 1, starting at
verse 9, He says, making known

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to us the mystery of His will,
according to His purpose, which

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He set forth in Christ as a plan
for the fullness of time to

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unite all things in Him, being
in heaven and things on the

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earth.
In Him we have obtained an

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inheritance, having been
predestined according to the

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purpose of Him who works all
things according to the counsel

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of His will, so that we who were
first to hope in Christ might be

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to the praise of His glory in
Him.

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You also, the apostle Paul goes
on to say, when you heard of the

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word of truth, the gospel of
your salvation and believed in

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him were sealed with the promise
of the Holy Spirit, who is the

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guarantee of our inheritance
until we acquire possession of

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it to the praise of His glory.
And so, brethren and sisters,

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knowing this, we can stand firm
in our belief that God has

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already made it a reality for
us.

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And that includes the salvation
that we’ve been promised, the

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00:41:19,480 –> 00:41:25,320
guarantee of our inheritance.
And this is how our knowledge

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and our understanding and our
acceptance of God’s great and

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infinite power gives us
confidence and faith that God

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can and He will do all that he
has said, and that if you can do

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00:41:38,240 –> 00:41:40,360
all those things, surely He can
do that in US.

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And so the infinite becomes the
intimate in our lives.

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And I love these verses because
it marries these two attributes

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of God’s power perfectly
together.

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For this is what the high and
exalted One says, He who lives

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forever, whose name is holy, I
live in a high and a holy place,

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the infinite power of God, but
but also with the one who is

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contrite and lowly in spirit to
revive the spirit of the lowly

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and revive the heart of the
contrite.

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The intimate nature of God’s
power turn up to Acts chapter 17

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Acts chapter 17 starting at
verse 24 because again we we

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have here again the the infinite
power balanced with the intimate

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use of of God’s love in our
lives.

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And then this was Paul speaking
to the philosophers and the and

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the academics at up at Mars Hill
and he says first God is

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powerful verse 24 the God who
made the world and everything in

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00:42:50,400 –> 00:42:54,000
it is the Lord of heaven and
earth and does not live in

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temples built by human hands and
he is not served by human hands

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as if he needed anything.
Rather he gives everyone life

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and breath and everything else
from one man.

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00:43:06,520 –> 00:43:09,120
He made the nations that they
should inhabit the whole earth,

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and he marked out their
appointed times in history in

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the boundaries of their their
lands.

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And then God becomes personal
and God did this so that would

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seek him and perhaps reach out
for him and find him.

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And he is not far from any one
of us.

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And then Paul puts the capstone,
I think, on that statement.

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He says, for in Him we live and
move and have our being.

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God’s purpose is to inhabit this
earth with his glory.

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00:43:48,200 –> 00:43:56,520
God’s purpose is also that we
would be part of that glory in

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00:43:56,520 –> 00:44:04,040
God’s power as we opened in
God’s infinite power bound up in

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that is his power to save.
Turn to first Peter chapter 1.

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You know, we can have all kinds
of wonderful relationships in

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this world and and and we do we
can have wonderful relationships

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in our life.
Best friends, husbands, wives,

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the close relationships of
family that the relationships we

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have within our ecclesial
community and the love that is

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shared and the friendship that
we share in those relationships.

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And those relationships, as
wonderful as they are, they are

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not perfect and they will fail
in mortality, but they develop

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our understanding and our and
our dependence.

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Those human relationships help
us develop an understanding of

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that reciprocity that we need to
have the give and the take in

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the relationship.
And, and those relationships, I

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believe, are allegorical to the
one relationship that stands

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above them all, the relationship
that we have with our God and

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our Father and with his Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ, who did not

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00:45:21,200 –> 00:45:25,320
spare his own Son, as Paul says
in Romans 8, but gave him up for

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us all.
How will He not also along with

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him, graciously give us all
things?

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00:45:32,440 –> 00:45:35,000
And so the intimate nature of
God’s love was manifest in the

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giving of His only Son, that we
might be saved.

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And if we think of the pain and
the agony that God endured as

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His perfect Son was sacrificed
to cleanse our filthy garments,

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that we might be made clean
because no other relationship,

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brethren and sisters, can save
us from ourselves, only the

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divine relationship that we have
with God through His Son.

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First Peter chapter 1, starting
verse 3.

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Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ.

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By His mercy He gave us a new
birth into a living hope through

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the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead.

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That is unto an inheritance,
imperishable, undefiled,

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unfading.
It is reserved in heaven for

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you, who by God’s power are
protected through faith for a

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salvation ready to be revealed
in the last time.

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And so we understand the
intimate nature of God’s power.

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But the the intimate nature of
God’s power offers us salvation

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00:46:50,280 –> 00:46:54,280
by a loving God with an
outstretched arm, who gave his

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00:46:54,280 –> 00:46:58,160
Son for us, that he would be
crucified and resurrected, that

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00:46:58,160 –> 00:47:03,520
through him we might be saved.
And we looked at the verse

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yesterday, how God rescues us
and carries us to the Kingdom.

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This is a God who wants to dwell
with us, who is willing to

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extend His grace to us, to make
us righteous, not by our own

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00:47:16,000 –> 00:47:20,040
merit, as Paul says in Ephesians
2, but by grace.

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You have been saved through
faith and it is not of

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00:47:23,680 –> 00:47:26,360
ourselves, brethren and sisters,
it is the gift of God.

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00:47:27,000 –> 00:47:28,640
Our salvation, brothers and
sisters.

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Is bound up in this
understanding, understanding the

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00:47:32,840 –> 00:47:35,960
infinite and the infinite power
of God in our lives, how it

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touches us every single day.
Whether we see the glory of God

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00:47:39,880 –> 00:47:43,800
in the heavens or whether we
feel it in the trial of our

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00:47:43,800 –> 00:47:49,360
lives, God is there.
And so as we.

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Close I I just want to look at
at a few of my favorite verses.

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As we think about being
unashamed.

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Of the gospel being being
anchored in this understanding

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00:48:05,080 –> 00:48:10,840
of the nature of God’s power.
I want to end where we started.

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For the weak, the apostle Paul
given us this this powerful

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00:48:15,440 –> 00:48:16,880
statement.
For I am not ashamed of the

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00:48:16,880 –> 00:48:20,840
gospel of Christ, for it is the
power of God unto salvation to

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everyone that believes.
And so Paul’s declaration is.

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00:48:26,320 –> 00:48:29,360
Is is both bold and and yet
unwavering.

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00:48:29,360 –> 00:48:33,160
He declares his refusal to be
ashamed of the gospel of Christ,

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00:48:34,440 –> 00:48:37,120
and he does so because he knows
what’s at stake.

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00:48:39,280 –> 00:48:40,960
And because he knows that it is
the power.

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00:48:40,960 –> 00:48:45,360
Of God that has done all these
things that we might be saved

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00:48:45,360 –> 00:48:51,280
and.
When we understand the true

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00:48:51,280 –> 00:48:52,320
nature of.
God.

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00:48:54,960 –> 00:48:56,880
Then we understand what he can
do.

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00:48:56,880 –> 00:49:05,320
For us, and we have no reason to
be ashamed, but we might stand

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00:49:05,320 –> 00:49:08,320
unashamed in a world that
rejects the gospel.

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00:49:12,600 –> 00:49:15,680
That places human wisdom.
Ahead of Gods.

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00:49:17,400 –> 00:49:19,360
But Paul knew this when he wrote
in First Corinthians.

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00:49:19,360 –> 00:49:23,680
Two and five, that your faith
should not stand in the wisdom

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00:49:23,680 –> 00:49:27,520
of men, but in the power of God,
our faith.

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00:49:27,520 –> 00:49:29,920
Is not grounded, brethren, and.
Sisters in the cleverness of

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00:49:29,920 –> 00:49:33,000
human reasoning, the
pervasiveness of of human

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00:49:33,000 –> 00:49:38,160
arguments, the changing tides of
popular opinion it’s not swayed

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by the philosophy of the world.
Our faith is rooted in the power

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00:49:42,000 –> 00:49:45,600
of God, a God that.
Does not waver.

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That does not fade and that can
never be shaken.

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00:49:56,840 –> 00:50:01,080
And you know the amazing.
Thing is when I when I read

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Hebrews Chapter 11 and I read
through all those faithful men

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and women who who believed in
the existence of God and who

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00:50:10,800 –> 00:50:13,000
believed in God’s future for
them.

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And we read right at the end.
That they lie in the grave, not

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having received their promise
because God is waiting for us to

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00:50:31,960 –> 00:50:39,000
be perfected.
And I think about what Abraham.

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00:50:39,000 –> 00:50:42,480
And and and.
Joseph and David and all those

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00:50:42,480 –> 00:50:45,280
others that God is holding
patiently in the grave.

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Surely those faithful that
deserve.

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00:50:50,360 –> 00:50:54,120
The promise of the future.
He’s holding them there,

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brethren and sisters.
So that in in this.

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Intervening time that God has
given us, we might.

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00:51:03,920 –> 00:51:07,480
Get it?
Right in our relationship with

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Him, so that when that day comes
together with them, we might be

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00:51:15,360 –> 00:51:19,120
made perfect.
And that humbles me more than

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you can imagine.
The apostle Paul says.

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In Romans chapter 10.
He says if you therefore confess

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00:51:31,800 –> 00:51:34,040
with your.
Mouth that Jesus is Lord and you

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00:51:34,040 –> 00:51:39,520
believe in your heart that God
raised him from the dead, then

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you will be saved.
For with the heart 1 believes

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00:51:42,280 –> 00:51:45,880
and is justified, and with the
mouth 1 confesses and is saved.

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00:51:45,880 –> 00:51:49,200
For the scripture says everyone
that believes in him, brethren

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00:51:49,200 –> 00:51:51,480
and sisters, will never be put
to shame.

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00:51:54,080 –> 00:51:55,920
And so let us, brethren and
sisters, live.

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00:51:55,920 –> 00:51:59,720
Out these remaining days, living
unashamed of the gospel of the

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00:51:59,720 –> 00:52:03,640
Lord Jesus Christ, living
unashamed of the existence of

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00:52:03,640 –> 00:52:09,120
our God, being unashamed of his
future, being unashamed of the

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00:52:09,120 –> 00:52:13,600
truth that he has given us.
That’s in our hearts, that we

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00:52:13,600 –> 00:52:17,760
might be separated from this
world, set apart, that we might

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00:52:17,760 –> 00:52:23,000
set a boundary around us and.
Allow God into our lives.

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00:52:23,960 –> 00:52:29,800
That we might be unashamed of
the power of God to save us.

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00:52:33,680 –> 00:52:37,240
And when that great day arrives?
And the Lord Jesus.

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00:52:37,240 –> 00:52:41,440
Christ returns.
To collect his own, he might.

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00:52:41,440 –> 00:52:44,120
See our faith.
And he?

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00:52:44,120 –> 00:52:50,280
Might say I am.
Unashamed of us and that He will

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00:52:50,280 –> 00:52:52,400
accept us into God’s eternal
Kingdom.

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00:52:56,360 –> 00:52:59,400
And so I would just like to.
Thank you.

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00:52:59,400 –> 00:53:02,120
For having.
Marnie and I come here this

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00:53:02,120 –> 00:53:06,000
week.
I I love the schools, only the

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00:53:06,000 –> 00:53:11,320
second time I’ve ever been here,
but God willing, we will come as

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00:53:11,320 –> 00:53:17,480
often as we can and I do pray
that we might all continue to

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00:53:19,160 –> 00:53:24,320
flock together to fellow sheep
together, that our individual

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00:53:24,320 –> 00:53:29,080
lights might become a great
light in our community to show

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00:53:29,080 –> 00:53:30,400
the.
Light of God’s.

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00:53:30,400 –> 00:53:33,920
Truth and shine it at.
The darkness of this world.

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