Warren Phillips – Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job – Class 5 – The Speeches of the Almighty (Part 2)

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This is the 1981 Texas
Christadelphian Bible School.

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This is the 5th class on Pastel
considered my servant Joe, our

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speaker, brother Warren
Phillips, and his session today,

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the second session on the
speeches of the Almighty.

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Good morning, everyone.
We’ve been working our way

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through job and as we move
along, of course our

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considerations have built up so
that our introduction could

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become as long as the class.
So we’re going to have to take

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it a little bit easy this
morning because I would like to

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make sure that we do get through
as much as we cost possibly can

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by tomorrow.
It’s the end of tomorrow’s

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session.
So very, very briefly, we have

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considered a man who is
extremely blessed by God, very

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wealthy, a man who had
everything this life could give,

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and another individual who did
who felt that the only reason

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that Job was serving God was
because it was a good business

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arrangement.
God had blessed him, and Job was

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merely giving God what God had
already paid for by being

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righteous before him.
The recommendation was that if

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his his wealth was removed, that
indeed he would curse God to his

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face.
This having been removed, we

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find that Job maintained his
integrity.

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Therefore the enemy suggested
that all that Job was interested

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in was his own life, suggestion
that his health be removed, and

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then he would curse God.
Therefore the Lord permitted

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this to be done as well, and yet
Job still maintained his

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integrity, but was unaware of
why it is that all of this had

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been removed from him.
We have a succession of

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characters that come across the
stage.

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From that point on.
We find that his wife comes and

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recommends that he curse God and
die.

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Not being a wicked woman, but
feeling that she’d rather see

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him dead and in peace than alive
and suffering as he is.

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He very gently rebukes her,
guiding her back to the type of

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righteousness that she’d
exemplified in the earlier days

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of her life.
Then comes along Job’s three

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friends.
They’re not Fairweather friends.

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They feel they know why Job is
suffering.

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They believe in the doctrine of
exact retribution.

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They felt that because Job was
suffering tremendously, it must

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be because he’s being punished
because of a particular sin.

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Therefore they recommend that he
confess his sin, that he repent,

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that he seek God’s forgiveness
and that God would indeed turn

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his captivity, that he would
heal him.

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We have a 28 chapter debate
where we find that this doctrine

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of exact retribution is proven
to be incorrect and yet still

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Job doesn’t understand why it is
He’s suffering, feels that God

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has not treated him quite
justly.

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He desires a days man, hoping
that this go between would take

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his part and would prove to God
that God was wrong and that Job

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was right.
Along comes a young man on the

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scene by the name of Elihu, who
is indeed that Daisman, that

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mediator, that arbitrator, or go
between, and he makes a series

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of four very interesting
speeches, being very displeased

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with both Job as well as his
three friends, because the Job

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had justified himself rather
than God, and his three friends

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had found no answer and yet had
still condemned Job.

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He doesn’t say too much to the
three friends because Job had

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already put them to silence.
But instead we find that he

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challenges Job in his
unfortunate accusations against

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God, which we must remember was
said only under extreme stress

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after a long period of time.
And he proves categorically that

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God is neither hostile nor
silent, that God is not unjust

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in his dealings, that
righteousness does profit a man,

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and that suffering can indeed be
disciplinary to bring a man to

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God.
And so we come to have prayed

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before us another very good
reason for suffering.

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Not only can suffering be a
punishment, not only is it part

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of our mortality, which indeed
it is, but we find that it also

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can draw a person closer to God.
We recognized how often it is

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that when things seem to go just
right in our lives, we don’t,

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even though we may be interested
in the things of God, attend

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meetings regularly, we don’t
draw nearly as closely to God as

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when we’re confronted with a
problem that we can’t handle.

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Then we find that our heart
turns directly to God, and we

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seek Him fervently in prayer.
And so suffering can indeed be

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disciplinary.
And if indeed we fail to listen

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to God, who has spoken to us in
a variety of ways, particularly

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now through His Word, Sometimes
God can speak up just a little

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louder when we’re afflicted on
beds of pain.

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And so we find that they can be
a reason for suffering, another

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reason for suffering, and that
is to draw us closer to God.

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And then we find that the end of
Elihu’s speeches, he introduces

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the Almighty by likening God
unto a storm.

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And then the time comes when the
Almighty actually speaks to Job,

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as Job had earlier desired.
We find that he chose a very

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good way in which to speak.
There were two ways that was

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suggested.
Either the Almighty would speak

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and then Job would answer, or
Job would speak and the Almighty

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would answer him, and the
Almighty chose the first.

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Of course it would be
inappropriate that Job should

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cross examine God.
How much more appropriate is for

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God to speak, and then to see if
Job has anything to say to what

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God has to say?
That’s the way the speeches

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proceed.
The Almighty makes 2 very

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fascinating speeches we
considered just over in the

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first half of the first speech.
Each of the speeches are divided

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into two parts.
In the first half of the first

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speech of the Almighty, we found
that God considered inanimate

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nature.
He asked Job where He was when

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he laid the foundation of the
earth.

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He asked Job if he had any idea
of the depth of the sea, or if

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Job could control the sea as God
did, measuring it out in the

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hollow of His hand.
Handling the sea as we would

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handle the little baby pace,
placing him in a playpen, saying

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that’s the only area that you
can go in, as God would say that

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the sea was placed within its
bounds and that there its proud

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ways would be stayed.
He asked Job if he had any idea

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of the extent of light or
darkness, if he knew where the

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light went when the darkness
came, or where the darkness went

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when the light came.
He asked Job if he could

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possibly control the weather, if
he had any idea of the extent of

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the storehouses of snow or where
it was, or if he could possibly

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make the clouds over his head
give forth rain.

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After that, he drew Job’s
attention to the entire

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universe, asking Job if he could
control the constellations such

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as the Pleiades in Orion or
stars such as Mazzaroth and

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Nocturus.
Could he possibly do that?

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And Job here is reduced to a
position of realizing how

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insignificant he is while he
pointed out to Job, if he can’t

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even cause the rain to fall from
the clouds over his head, how

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could he possibly contain
control the entire earth or the

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universe which God in his
infinite power is created and

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sustains?
Job had been brought to the

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position of realizing how small
and insignificant an individual

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he was, but the Almighty isn’t
true with him.

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Then he goes on now to turn his
attention to animate nature.

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Up to this time he had
considered inanimate nature, and

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that was enough perhaps to make
Job realize that he had charged

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God foolishly.
But now he finds he turns his

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attention to animate nature, and
we left off yesterday by

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considering the first point
that’s brought out, that of the

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lion going out to obtain food
for her Cubs.

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We drew our attention to the
lioness as it attacks this

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lovely little farm, to kill it
and to bring back food that its

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Cubs might have something to
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And there we recognize that the
Almighty had started with a very

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important subject.
Right away our attention has

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turned to the problem of
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When we look at a lioness and
recognize it’s beautiful.

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But in order for a lioness to go
on living or to supply food for

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its Cubs, being a carnivorous
animal, they have to go out and

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hunt other animals.
And when other animals are

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haunted and dropped down and
killed, here we have a problem,

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We’ve got suffering.
And here this lovely little

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fawn, beautiful, gentle, kind
little creature is going to be

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cruelly put to death and to be
given to the lionesses Cubs to

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eat.
And so we have the problem.

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And what would Job do about that
problem?

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Would he indeed find a way to
make more justice in nature?

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Would he upset the imbalance
that God has in nature?

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What would he do about a
situation such as that?

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And that’s where we left off
yesterday afternoon, yesterday

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morning, to consider what we
would do on similar

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circumstances.
What about the lioness?

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And not only that, we also find
that after the lioness has

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killed this lovely little animal
and given it to her Cubs to eat,

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and then they abandoned what is
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Along comes the Raven, and the
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that.
And there is no correlation

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between a lion and a Raven.
And yet we find that the lion

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has rendered a service to the
Raven as well by leaving a

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little bit of a kill for that
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And it’s not the lionesses idea,
but again, we recognize it’s the

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wisdom of God and make an
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all of his creatures have an
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And not only that, we find that
that which is left and would be

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left as waste.
God has found a way to clean it

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up and use it as a blessing for
his other creatures.

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It’s a rather beautiful thing.
And then the Almighty moves on

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to consider quite a variety of
creatures, which we have before

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you on this chart, on the right
side of the hall, the next thing

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that he considers.
And now we move on to the 39th

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chapter.
We’ve already drawn attention to

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the fact that the chapter
division really should have been

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at the end of the 38th verse of
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The 39th verse really should be
included in the next chapter

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because it is part of the
second-half of this first

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speech.
There is a very distinct change

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at that point.
Then he goes on at the beginning

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of this 39th chapter, the way we
have our Bibles divided to

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consider the wild goat and the
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Or we could say the fawn.
And he asked Job now about these

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victims in this process of
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And he asked Job if he knows
anything about the gestation

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period of these creatures.
Does he have any idea how the

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God has made a provision for
them?

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Without the help of man?
You will notice to keep them

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alive.
We would look at such a weak,

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flimsy creature as this and say,
well with all these lionesses

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around, why is it that they
don’t become extinct?

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How could a creature so I’ll
suited to survive?

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It would seem as this type of
creature be able to survive, but

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God has made provision for it,
perhaps because He’s made more

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of them.
But more than that, perhaps he’s

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made them such shy creatures
that they would suddenly run

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from any noise whatsoever to to
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And God has arranged a beautiful
balance in nature, so that even

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though these lions are much more
ferocious, still these gentle

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creatures will continue to
survive and to bring forth their

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young generation after
generation after generation.

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How would Job arrange for this
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Would he make changes in it,
suggesting that perhaps the

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Almighty had not been wise in
the way he had arranged nature?

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How would he solve this problem
of suffering that’s been

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introduced?
And then he goes on to

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continually pray to variety of
creatures before him.

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The next thing he considers is
the wild ass, and he draws a

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contrast between the wild ass
and the domestic ass, and points

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out that here the wild ass loves
his freedom.

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It is virtually impossible to be
able to capture and train this

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wild ass as you would his
domestic brother.

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And here we find that the
domestic ask can be trained and

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can be a very helpful animal to
mankind.

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But the wild ass loved his
freedom and would not tolerate

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this type of training.
They both look just alike, but

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boy do they react differently.
How come God made them both?

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Why is it that they look so much
alike but react so differently?

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And he goes on with another
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similar, where he considers the
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The wild ox, which he refers to
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domestic ox as well.
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wild ox also loves its freedom,
and there’s little or nothing

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you can do to capture and tame
it, or you might capture it to

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be able to tame it, so that
would be of service to you is

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extremely difficult.
But you can have a domestic ox,

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and you can train that ox to
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Train him to be able to plow the
field so much that you hardly

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even have to guide him, and
he’ll continually go back and

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forth after having been trained
and do a very wonderful job for

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you.
They both look alike, but boy do

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they react differently.
How come God made them both?

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Why is it that they conduct
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He then draws attention to the
Stark in the ostrich, pointing

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out that here we have creatures
that are similar, at least in

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one way.
They are both birds, aren’t

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they?
But when it comes to the way

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they take care of their young,
it’s very different.

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We find that the Stark is a very
good mother, and good in the way

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we look at it.
We find that she’ll lay her eggs

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and she’ll tend to those eggs
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But when it comes to this, the
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And I’d like to bring out a
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there’s been a claim against the
scriptures, a claim that there

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are a lot of mistakes about
animals in the Bible.

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There are different kinds of
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The ostrich that’s being
referred to here is an ostrich

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that in the past lived in the
Middle East and now is extinct.

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Some of the ostriches that we
have in the world today do take

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care of the young.
It’s very different.

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But this particular type is now
an extinct creature, and when

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observed at that time, this
particular ostrich did not take

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care of its young.
Instead, the ostrich which lay

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its eggs in the sand, that would
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Off she would go and not take
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God had arranged it so that they
would be able to hatch and

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defend for themselves right
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So here we have a very
interesting thing the the

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ostrich and the Stark.
The Stark taking care of its

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young and bringing them up, the
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disregarding any responsibility
whatsoever for care of its

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Young’s.
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Why is it that they reacted so
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In fact, when we look at the
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ostrich, we find that she’s very
interested in her own personal

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well-being.
We find that the ostrich can run

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very, very rapidly, and whenever
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whenever there’s anything to
alarm her, she’ll turn around

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and she’ll run in the other
direction just as fast as she

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can go.
So fast that it points out that

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she could actually outrun the
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Why is it that God has made this
creature to take care of itself

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and totally disregard anything
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And then immediately we have the
War Horse brought up, and

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instead of now having a
comparison between the Stark and

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the ostrich, we now have a
comparison between the warhorse

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and the ostrich.
And here with the warhorse, we

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find that whenever there is a
commotion of a battle, the

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warhorse runs directly toward
that battle, totally

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disregarding its own safely
safety, absolutely fearless.

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And even though it can run
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we notice the ostrich is running
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The War Horse is running into it
without any fear whatsoever for

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itself.
And here we find that God has

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given similar characteristics to
two very different creatures.

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They both can run fast, but they
make use of that ability to run

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in entirely different ways.
How come God made them both?

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And then He considers the hawk
and the eagle how that.

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Here we have two other creatures
that have a similarity between

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them.
Again, they’re both verbs, but

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we find that they react somewhat
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And he asked Job, who has taught
the hawk to migrate as they do

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migrate South in the winter
time, that is, if they’re living

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in the Northern Hemisphere, plus
who has trained them to do so?

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Who indeed has given them that
ability?

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And when it comes to the eagle,
who has given the eagle the

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tendency to place its nest very
high up on the mountain’s crag?

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And then to have such an ability
to be able to see, sometimes a

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couple of miles away?
To see an animal fall in the

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forest, so to see its prey, and
to be able to swoop down upon it

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and then bring it back to its
young, that they might be able

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to suck up blood?
Have you noticed something in

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this animate section of the
Almighty’s first speech?

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He starts out with a similar
problem to which he ends up

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with.
He starts out with the lioness

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falling upon this fawn and
bringing it back that the young

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might have something to eat.
He starts out by considering the

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problem of suffering.
He ends up the same way with the

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eagle swooping down, swooping
down upon its prey, and bringing

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it back that the young might
suck up blood.

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And that’s the way it’s worded
in our scriptures.

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And we are confronted both at
the beginning and the end of the

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speech with the problem of
suffering.

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And we say, what is the Almighty
trying to show us?

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And then we find we come to the
end of the Almighty’s first

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speech and it’s up to Job to
react.

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And I wouldn’t be a bit
surprised if Job is given a

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period of time to think about
what the Almighty has had to

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say, to let it sink in and to
draw some conclusions.

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And we might wonder just what it
is that the Almighty is trying

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to teach Job that lived well
over 3500 years ago, and also

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all the little jobs that are
here in this room this morning.

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What is the Almighty trying to
teach us?

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What did Job benefit by it?
And as we move into the 40th

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chapter, we find that the
Almighty now challenges Job and

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says, look, we’ve conducted this
discussion.

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Upon your suggestion, I’ve
called.

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Now it’s your turn to answer.
What do you have to say for

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these things?
And we find that Job doesn’t

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have much to say verse one.
Moreover, the Lord answered Job

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and said, Shall he that
contendeth with the Almighty

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instruct him He that we prove
God, let him answer it.

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In other words, Job, it’s your
turn to speak up.

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Now what do you think of what
I’ve said?

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Have you learned what I want you
to learn?

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Or could you possibly show me
where I’m wrong?

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And verse three?
And then Job.

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Job answered the Lord and said,
Behold, I am vile.

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What shall I answer thee?
I will lay my hand upon my mouth

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once I have spoken, but I will
not answer.

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Yeah, twice.
But I will proceed no further.

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Job was ready to give up before
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It only took one speech of the
Almighty to put Job totally the

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silence he would have given in
then gladly, without having the

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Almighty say anything further.
But the question first of all

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before us is, why?
What did Job learn from this

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very remarkable speech of the
Almighty?

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Jobe?
In the first part of the speech

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he recognized how insignificant
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But was it possible that Job had
learned something more than that

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from the Almighty speech?
What did the Almighty mean by

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this array of animals that he
had prayed before Job?

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Is it possible that he should
have been gotten something from

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it?
Well, first of all, I’d like to

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point out that from back before
the flood, we find that God’s

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creatures were divided into two
principal categories, both clean

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and unclean.
Remember when Noah went into the

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ark, and there was two of each
of the creatures that went in

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unto him But seven of the clean,
two of the unclean, 7 of the

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clean.
And so here we find that we have

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a division of clean and unclean
from back before the time of the

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flood.
Job no doubt would have been

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acquainted with that.
And when he looks at this array

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of creatures, he would recognize
in this array of creatures both

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clean and unclean creatures.
And perhaps what he really

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should recognize is all of
mankind depicted in this variety

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of of animate nature.
He should realize in these

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creatures mankind themselves,
where we’ll look at men and

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we’ll find that two men may look
very much alike.

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I mean, all mankind looks like
mankind.

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And yet how differently we react
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Some individuals are very
interested in God and His great

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plan of salvation.
There are others that are just

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disinterested and others are
absolutely hostile.

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And perhaps what Job should have
recognized in this group of

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creatures that were prayed
before him was indeed humanity

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itself, where the creatures that
looked very much alike would

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react very, very differently
before God, and he would have an

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opportunity to see, perhaps in
himself and some of those around

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about him, both clean and
unclean creatures.

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We find that Job is displayed
before us at the beginning of

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the book of Job as a clean
creature, as a man that feareth

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God and his cheweth evil, that
there is nothing like him in all

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the earth, that he was perfect,
He was upright.

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He certainly could be considered
as a clean creature, and we

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could look about him and see
people such as the enemy Satan,

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as it’s called here, who was not
interested in the things of God,

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who was willing to accuse both
God and Job of entering into a

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business deal?
And what is the basic principle

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that God has placed in nature
for us to recognize that Job

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should have recognized that
would help him understand

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another reason for suffering,
and we must indeed recognize and

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understand it if we’re to
understand the sacrifice of our

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Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
It’s a very remarkable

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principle, and that is that very
often the innocent will suffer

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for the benefit of the guilty.
And here we find this guilty It

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is ferocious, cruel lioness,
falling upon this shy, gentle,

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kind, innocent little fawn.
This fawn has to suffer and die,

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that the guilty lioness might go
on living in her Cubs as well.

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And likewise with the eagle we
find that she falls upon prey

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and brings it back, that her
young might suck up blood.

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And here we have a principle in
nature that one purpose for

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suffering can possibly be that
the innocent might suffer for

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the benefit of the guilty.
And when we look at Job, we find

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that that’s exactly the case.
Job is suffering.

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To try to coach a guilty
individual from that way of life

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which is contrary to God, to
bring them back to the to His

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Heavenly Father, we look upon
the Lord Jesus Christ and we

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find a clean creature, if ever
there was 1, suffering for the

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benefit of the guilty.
For who?

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You know who suffered for you.
And He suffered for me.

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He suffered for all guilty
creatures throughout mankind,

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The innocent suffering for the
guilty.

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A very beautiful, beautiful
thought that God has placed in

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nature.
And again, we return to a verse

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that was brought up in one of
the earlier classes that Peter

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had that wisdom crieth without.
She uttereth her voice in the

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streets.
And God has so arranged nature

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around about us that if we’re
willing to take a little time

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and stop and look and benefit by
what we see, we can learn an

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awful lot about the ways of God
from the creation that he has

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around about us.
It’s a rather beautiful thought.

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And Job now should begin to
recognize that perhaps his

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suffering wasn’t a punishment,
as his three friends had

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suggested.
And perhaps, even though he

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certainly could benefit and is
now benefiting from his

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suffering, as Eli who had said,
also his suffering can indeed be

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for the benefit of someone else
as well.

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It’s a very beautiful thought,
and I think that perhaps Job is

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beginning to recognize it, and
therefore he is not going to

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answer the Almighty.
But we find now that he’s

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willing to give up the debate,
willing to set back and say,

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look, I’ve had enough, I’m going
to be quiet.

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But the Almighty isn’t willing
to give up the debate.

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The Almighty isn’t finished with
Job yet because he’s got a lot

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more to teach him.
And consequently, we move into

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the second of the Almighty
speeches here in the 40th

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00:26:39,680 –> 00:26:42,360
chapter.
And here we find that God

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00:26:42,360 –> 00:26:44,480
proceeds in a very remarkable
way.

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00:26:45,080 –> 00:26:47,760
First of all, Job receives an
invitation.

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00:26:49,280 –> 00:26:51,200
He has made the.
Claim that he thinks he knows a

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00:26:51,200 –> 00:26:54,720
little bit more about how God
ought to have a creation than

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00:26:54,720 –> 00:27:00,040
God has himself.
He feels that he has felt by his

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00:27:00,040 –> 00:27:02,480
claims that he could have done
things a little better.

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And therefore the Almighty says,
All right, Job, I’ll tell you

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00:27:05,120 –> 00:27:07,680
what we do.
Why don’t you come up with me

447
00:27:07,680 –> 00:27:12,880
into heaven and see what you
would do to rule this creation

448
00:27:12,880 –> 00:27:17,440
that I have made?
But if you’re going to come up

449
00:27:17,480 –> 00:27:21,680
and rule, if you want to play
God, if you want to take the

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00:27:21,680 –> 00:27:24,360
place of God, there’s something
that you’ve got to do.

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00:27:25,160 –> 00:27:28,560
First of all, you’ve got to
disregard your own

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00:27:28,560 –> 00:27:30,560
righteousness.
You’ve got to give up your

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00:27:30,560 –> 00:27:34,040
righteousness, which the
Scripture tells us is as filthy

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00:27:34,040 –> 00:27:35,840
rags.
And you’re going to have to

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00:27:35,840 –> 00:27:38,960
adopt my righteousness.
You’re going to have to accept

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00:27:38,960 –> 00:27:41,640
my majesty and Excellency, my
glory and beauty.

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00:27:41,840 –> 00:27:46,040
In other words, you’re going to
have to react with the dignity

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00:27:46,040 –> 00:27:48,640
and Excellency and honor and
mystery of God.

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00:27:49,040 –> 00:27:52,240
If you want to pretend that you
are God, you’re going to have to

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00:27:52,240 –> 00:27:55,320
come up into heaven and you’re
going to have to look back at

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00:27:55,320 –> 00:27:57,880
the world and see the world the
way I see it.

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00:27:58,560 –> 00:28:01,040
You’re going to have to look at
the world through my eyes.

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00:28:01,280 –> 00:28:05,200
And when you do this, you’re
going to recognize that there

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are two things that you’re going
to have to deal with, two very

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00:28:09,120 –> 00:28:12,000
important things.
And we find that recorded for us

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00:28:12,160 –> 00:28:15,920
in the 11th through the 13th or
actually 14th verses of this

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00:28:15,920 –> 00:28:19,120
40th chapter.
I think we might do well to look

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00:28:19,120 –> 00:28:24,280
at them together, starting with
verse 11, cast abroad the rage

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00:28:24,280 –> 00:28:28,240
of their wrath, and behold
everyone that is proud and abase

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00:28:28,240 –> 00:28:30,600
him.
This is something that Job is

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00:28:30,600 –> 00:28:33,760
going to have to do.
He’s going to have to find a way

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00:28:33,760 –> 00:28:38,240
to abase the proud because no
individual can come before God

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00:28:38,600 –> 00:28:42,200
in a condition of pride.
They have to come before him in

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00:28:42,200 –> 00:28:44,600
a humble and with a humble and
contrite spirit.

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00:28:45,160 –> 00:28:48,800
Verse 12.
Look on everyone that is proud

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00:28:49,120 –> 00:28:54,280
and bring him love and tread
down the wicked in their place.

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00:28:55,360 –> 00:28:58,040
Hide them in the dust.
Together and bind their faces in

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00:28:58,040 –> 00:29:01,520
secret.
Then will I also confess unto

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00:29:01,520 –> 00:29:04,520
thee that thine own right hand
can save thee.

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00:29:04,520 –> 00:29:09,200
In other words, Job is
admonished by God that he has to

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00:29:09,200 –> 00:29:13,760
contend with two very difficult
things to contend with.

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00:29:14,120 –> 00:29:17,800
He has to abase the crowd, and
he has to destroy the wicked.

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00:29:18,480 –> 00:29:22,240
In other words, he’s got to
bring pride into subjection, and

484
00:29:22,240 –> 00:29:24,720
he’s got to completely put sin
to death.

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00:29:25,520 –> 00:29:28,960
That’s not an easy thing.
And then we find that the

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00:29:28,960 –> 00:29:33,880
Almighty shows Job how he looks
upon the affairs of men.

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00:29:36,640 –> 00:29:41,080
We find that the.
Almighty looks upon men and

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00:29:41,080 –> 00:29:44,800
these two problems in a very
interesting way.

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00:29:45,320 –> 00:29:52,360
He likens pride and sin onto 2
huge terrible aquatic monsters.

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00:29:52,600 –> 00:29:54,600
Two monsters that live in the
water.

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00:29:55,280 –> 00:29:58,440
Now, brothers and sisters, I
know there’s been quite a

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00:29:58,480 –> 00:30:03,240
variety of interpretations as to
what Leviathan is, as to what

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00:30:03,240 –> 00:30:06,440
Behemoth is.
And I can’t satisfy everybody,

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00:30:06,440 –> 00:30:09,480
and I’m not even going to try.
And I’m also going to make a

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00:30:09,480 –> 00:30:12,800
little confession to you.
I am not totally sure in my own

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00:30:12,800 –> 00:30:16,280
mind exactly what these
creatures were.

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00:30:16,880 –> 00:30:21,440
I’ve suggested that Behemoth is
a hippopotamus and that

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00:30:21,440 –> 00:30:25,600
Leviathan is a crocodile, but
whether or not they were doesn’t

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00:30:25,600 –> 00:30:28,640
really matter quite that much.
It’s the lessons that we get

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00:30:28,640 –> 00:30:30,640
from it, and that’s what we’re
trying to look at this morning.

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00:30:31,000 –> 00:30:33,920
And so I think they will
suffice, even though I’d like to

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00:30:33,920 –> 00:30:36,320
admit I’ve got some mental
reservations about it myself.

503
00:30:36,760 –> 00:30:39,400
So if you look at them a little
differently, so be it.

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00:30:39,720 –> 00:30:41,440
It’s the lessons that we’re
trying to gain from it.

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00:30:41,440 –> 00:30:45,920
And the lesson we have here is
that Job had a tremendous

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00:30:45,920 –> 00:30:49,160
problem that he wouldn’t be able
to cope with himself.

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00:30:50,240 –> 00:30:55,760
God looked upon these two
terrible things, pride and sin.

508
00:30:56,240 –> 00:30:59,800
It’s two dreadful aquatic
monsters that had to be brought

509
00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:03,280
into control.
Yes, more than that, pride had

510
00:31:03,280 –> 00:31:07,400
to be brought into control.
Something very difficult sin had

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00:31:07,400 –> 00:31:11,120
to be totally destroyed.
And he goes on to consider these

512
00:31:11,120 –> 00:31:14,520
two creatures in this second
speech.

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00:31:15,080 –> 00:31:20,680
He starts out by saying, behold
now, Behemoth, which I have made

514
00:31:21,000 –> 00:31:24,160
with thee.
In other words, what he’s saying

515
00:31:24,160 –> 00:31:28,480
is, look, I have made a creature
that’s an awful lot like you,

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00:31:28,480 –> 00:31:31,000
Job.
By being made with.

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00:31:31,000 –> 00:31:33,040
Thee is to say, he’s made made
him like him.

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00:31:33,640 –> 00:31:36,240
You’re going to be able to learn
some lessons from this creature,

519
00:31:36,480 –> 00:31:39,400
as I hope you’ve learned lessons
from many of the other creatures

520
00:31:39,400 –> 00:31:41,880
before with those other
creatures.

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00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:45,320
One other thing that perhaps we
didn’t mention was that God had

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00:31:45,320 –> 00:31:50,120
to take care of His whole
creation, not just little Job.

523
00:31:50,840 –> 00:31:53,720
God is not interested that any
should perish.

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00:31:54,160 –> 00:31:56,840
It’s not his will that any
should perish, but that all

525
00:31:56,840 –> 00:32:00,040
should come to repentance.
And therefore we find an

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00:32:00,040 –> 00:32:03,320
application of the reason why
sometimes some must suffer.

527
00:32:03,880 –> 00:32:06,560
Some of the innocent must suffer
for the benefit of the guilty.

528
00:32:06,920 –> 00:32:09,440
The object is to bring other
people to repentance.

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00:32:09,680 –> 00:32:13,880
Christ died that others might
have an opportunity of salvation

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00:32:14,560 –> 00:32:18,040
lest he abide alone.
And I’m not trying to get into

531
00:32:18,120 –> 00:32:20,160
an awkward subject here, I know
there is one.

532
00:32:20,680 –> 00:32:25,120
But here we find that Job had to
realize that God was interested

533
00:32:25,120 –> 00:32:28,320
in bringing other sons to
repentance and not just saying,

534
00:32:28,320 –> 00:32:30,600
well, I’ve got Job here, I’m
satisfied with him.

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00:32:31,560 –> 00:32:33,920
Others had to be brought to
repentance, and that is going to

536
00:32:33,920 –> 00:32:36,240
take a little doing and a little
suffering in the process.

537
00:32:37,000 –> 00:32:39,400
And now he says, look Job,
you’ve got a problem that you

538
00:32:39,400 –> 00:32:43,200
can’t cope with yourself, not
even for yourself can you cope

539
00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:45,560
with it.
You’ve got to bring this

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00:32:45,560 –> 00:32:49,640
behemoth into subjection.
And here, Behemoth, we’ve

541
00:32:49,640 –> 00:32:53,040
likened unto a hippopotamus
which is repulsive,

542
00:32:54,240 –> 00:32:58,680
self-centered and impenetrable.
Did you ever think of trying to

543
00:32:58,680 –> 00:33:02,440
penetrate the hide of a huge
hippopotamus?

544
00:33:02,720 –> 00:33:06,080
It’s not an easy thing to do.
And then he goes down and

545
00:33:06,080 –> 00:33:10,480
outlines the attributes of this
creature and how difficult it is

546
00:33:10,560 –> 00:33:12,720
to get through to him.
This could be a subject in

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00:33:12,720 –> 00:33:15,280
itself.
It could be a whole discourse in

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00:33:15,280 –> 00:33:17,160
itself.
We’re going to have to just skim

549
00:33:17,160 –> 00:33:20,680
through it and skim through the
attributes of the Leviathan as

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00:33:20,680 –> 00:33:22,800
well.
First of all, we find that his

551
00:33:22,800 –> 00:33:27,480
strength is in his loins or in
his belly, and I we find that

552
00:33:27,480 –> 00:33:31,440
man very often directs his
efforts to satisfy his own

553
00:33:31,440 –> 00:33:33,720
carnal desires.
That’s exactly what this

554
00:33:33,720 –> 00:33:36,480
behemoth does.
He spends his entire time

555
00:33:36,640 –> 00:33:40,920
satisfying himself, eating to
fill his own huge belly.

556
00:33:41,160 –> 00:33:44,400
He doesn’t seem to render too
much of A service to anybody

557
00:33:44,400 –> 00:33:46,480
else.
He’s interested only in

558
00:33:46,480 –> 00:33:50,240
satisfying himself, And isn’t
that the position that a proud

559
00:33:50,240 –> 00:33:55,200
man is in because of his pride?
He wants to elevate himself and

560
00:33:55,200 –> 00:33:59,160
satisfy himself all the time.
He’s not really interested in

561
00:33:59,160 –> 00:34:02,440
the well-being of other people.
His pride makes him interested

562
00:34:02,440 –> 00:34:04,640
in himself and not in other
people.

563
00:34:05,240 –> 00:34:08,840
We find that he moves his tail
like a cedar branch and here we

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00:34:08,840 –> 00:34:12,800
find that man is exalted with
very small or vain things, and

565
00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:17,800
you notice how small the tail of
a hippopotamus is in relation to

566
00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:20,560
the rest of his body.
It’s a very little thing.

567
00:34:20,960 –> 00:34:23,800
And yet he proudly swishes that
tail back and forth as if it was

568
00:34:23,800 –> 00:34:26,440
really something.
And how often we find that this

569
00:34:26,440 –> 00:34:29,480
is what men do.
They are interested in such

570
00:34:29,480 –> 00:34:33,639
petty, unimportant things that
don’t amount to anything, but

571
00:34:33,639 –> 00:34:36,400
because of those things, they’re
puffed up and think they’re

572
00:34:36,400 –> 00:34:39,239
great.
Well, look at a sports hero, for

573
00:34:39,239 –> 00:34:42,480
instance, because he can hit a
ball very well, He becomes very

574
00:34:42,480 –> 00:34:45,679
proud of it, As if that really
made any difference in regard to

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00:34:45,679 –> 00:34:47,840
our eternal existence.
It doesn’t.

576
00:34:48,360 –> 00:34:50,280
And other men think it’s pretty
good too, because they’ll pay

577
00:34:50,280 –> 00:34:53,600
them $1,000,000 a year to do it.
I think we have a very excellent

578
00:34:53,600 –> 00:34:57,120
example of how men are
interested in little things that

579
00:34:57,120 –> 00:35:00,880
don’t amount to much, instead of
looking at those things that do

580
00:35:00,880 –> 00:35:04,760
amount to an awful lot.
And then we read about how that

581
00:35:04,760 –> 00:35:07,120
is.
Bones are strong as metal, like

582
00:35:07,120 –> 00:35:11,200
iron and brass.
And here we find how difficult

583
00:35:11,200 –> 00:35:14,560
it is to reach a proud man’s
heart.

584
00:35:14,920 –> 00:35:17,600
If you ever try, or you can
imagine how difficult it would

585
00:35:17,600 –> 00:35:19,440
be if you did try.
I don’t think we’ve got too many

586
00:35:19,440 –> 00:35:22,480
hippopotamus hunters here.
But if you ever tried to get

587
00:35:22,480 –> 00:35:25,520
through to the heart of the
hippopotamus, it’s not easy.

588
00:35:25,920 –> 00:35:27,560
You’ve got to get through that
thick hide.

589
00:35:27,720 –> 00:35:31,120
You’ve got to get past those
enormous bones that are like

590
00:35:31,120 –> 00:35:33,760
iron or brass.
And you’ve got to get through

591
00:35:33,760 –> 00:35:35,680
those sinews to finally reach
his heart.

592
00:35:36,520 –> 00:35:39,880
And you know, that’s just about
as difficult as it is to reach

593
00:35:39,880 –> 00:35:44,080
the heart of a proud man.
Very difficult to directly reach

594
00:35:44,080 –> 00:35:48,840
the heart of a proud man.
Try it sometime, perhaps when

595
00:35:48,840 –> 00:35:52,440
you’re looking in the mirror.
It’s not all that easy.

596
00:35:53,840 –> 00:35:56,280
And then he goes on to speak of
other things as well.

597
00:35:56,560 –> 00:35:59,320
He speaks of the chief of the
ways of God, in other words,

598
00:35:59,320 –> 00:36:03,360
because of his size and power,
much like man who is indeed the

599
00:36:03,360 –> 00:36:07,800
chief of the ways of God, And
he’s the glory of God and God’s

600
00:36:07,800 –> 00:36:09,960
creation.
And because of it, He’s

601
00:36:09,960 –> 00:36:12,360
extremely proud of it.
And instead of giving the God

602
00:36:12,360 –> 00:36:15,360
the glory and realizing that
after all he is quite

603
00:36:15,360 –> 00:36:18,840
insignificant in relation to God
and the rest of his enormous

604
00:36:18,840 –> 00:36:22,600
creation, which Job has already
had prayed before him, he

605
00:36:22,600 –> 00:36:26,640
becomes extremely proud of what
he is feeling that he’s better

606
00:36:26,640 –> 00:36:30,120
than any of the other creatures,
and quite often feeling he’s

607
00:36:30,120 –> 00:36:32,240
better than any of the other men
around him.

608
00:36:33,520 –> 00:36:35,680
We also find.
That it says God furnished him

609
00:36:35,680 –> 00:36:37,960
with his sword.
He has teeth for vegetation,

610
00:36:38,160 –> 00:36:42,000
huge teeth, which is able to cut
down a great deal of education.

611
00:36:42,440 –> 00:36:45,520
And in a way, man also has
something that’s different from

612
00:36:45,520 –> 00:36:48,000
any of the other of the
creatures that God has created.

613
00:36:48,520 –> 00:36:52,840
He has received a mentality
that’s far superior to any of

614
00:36:52,840 –> 00:36:56,080
the rest of God’s creatures.
And how does he use it?

615
00:36:56,960 –> 00:36:59,400
How did the hippopotamus make
use of his huge teeth?

616
00:36:59,920 –> 00:37:02,640
Just to get himself food, to
satisfy his own appetite?

617
00:37:03,320 –> 00:37:07,040
And how does man make use of his
mentality to glorify God?

618
00:37:07,160 –> 00:37:09,080
I hope that occasionally some
do.

619
00:37:09,560 –> 00:37:11,560
Certainly the Lord Jesus Christ
did.

620
00:37:12,400 –> 00:37:15,640
But how often it is that we make
use of our mentality and our

621
00:37:15,640 –> 00:37:20,720
talents to satisfy ourselves, to
make a position in life, and to

622
00:37:20,720 –> 00:37:25,680
enjoy ourselves, to satisfy our
own personal carnal appetites?

623
00:37:26,320 –> 00:37:29,240
And it goes on, of course, to
bring out a number of the other

624
00:37:29,400 –> 00:37:33,080
characteristics of this very
remarkable creature.

625
00:37:34,520 –> 00:37:39,160
Job had somehow to cope with
this individual, and yet he has

626
00:37:39,200 –> 00:37:42,080
a problem.
And that problem is brought out

627
00:37:42,080 –> 00:37:46,240
very forcefully when we move on
into the next chapter, the 41st

628
00:37:46,240 –> 00:37:49,960
chapter, where it says, Canst
thou draw out Leviathan?

629
00:37:50,160 –> 00:37:53,680
And we find the awkward position
that Job is in in dealing with

630
00:37:53,680 –> 00:37:58,120
both of these creatures.
Here is little Job standing on

631
00:37:58,120 –> 00:38:02,400
the side of this riverbank, and
he’s got this huge hippopotamus

632
00:38:02,640 –> 00:38:05,600
that somehow he’s got to bring
into subjection.

633
00:38:05,840 –> 00:38:09,440
He’s got to control his
hippopotamus like we might a dog

634
00:38:09,440 –> 00:38:12,040
on a leash.
Can you imagine doing that

635
00:38:12,480 –> 00:38:15,360
standing with one hand, trying
to control a hippopotamus on a

636
00:38:15,360 –> 00:38:19,040
leash, and in the other hand
you’re confronted with a dread

637
00:38:19,040 –> 00:38:21,960
crocodile, and you can’t control
him in any way.

638
00:38:21,960 –> 00:38:25,320
You’ve got to put him to death.
Just picture yourself in that

639
00:38:25,320 –> 00:38:27,400
condition.
That’s exactly what we find here

640
00:38:27,400 –> 00:38:30,040
in this first verse.
Canst thou draw out Leviathan

641
00:38:30,040 –> 00:38:35,040
with a hook or his tongue with a
cord which thou let us down his

642
00:38:35,040 –> 00:38:37,480
little old job.
And he’s standing on the side of

643
00:38:37,480 –> 00:38:39,920
the river and all he’s done is a
little hook in the line.

644
00:38:40,440 –> 00:38:43,200
And he’s supposed to be able to
bring these two huge aquatic

645
00:38:43,200 –> 00:38:47,160
monsters into subjection.
He’s supposed to control Pride

646
00:38:47,640 –> 00:38:51,200
Behemoth and he’s supposed to
destroy sin Leviathan.

647
00:38:51,680 –> 00:38:55,720
What a job he’s got on his hand.
How can he possibly do it on his

648
00:38:55,720 –> 00:38:58,880
own.
And even if he could which of

649
00:38:58,880 –> 00:39:02,240
course he couldn’t on his own.
We know that in the tussle

650
00:39:02,560 –> 00:39:05,200
there’s going to be a problem.
He’s probably going to be

651
00:39:05,200 –> 00:39:07,880
wounded somewhere along the
line.

652
00:39:08,600 –> 00:39:11,160
And you notice how we’ve made
this individual that stands

653
00:39:11,160 –> 00:39:13,840
along the seashore and where the
the Riverside.

654
00:39:13,840 –> 00:39:16,160
We’ve tried to make this chart
so it can be used for other

655
00:39:16,160 –> 00:39:21,000
things, and I know that you all
recognize the the armor here of

656
00:39:21,240 –> 00:39:23,800
of the spirit.
You notice how that he’s got the

657
00:39:23,800 –> 00:39:26,600
helmet of salvation, how he’s
got the breastplate of

658
00:39:26,600 –> 00:39:29,240
righteousness, the shield of
faith, the sword of the spirit,

659
00:39:29,600 –> 00:39:31,800
feet short with the gospel of
peace and so forth.

660
00:39:31,960 –> 00:39:35,760
That we find recorded for us in
the 6th chapter of Ephesians.

661
00:39:36,720 –> 00:39:39,840
And we find that also the wound
that he has in his heel.

662
00:39:40,320 –> 00:39:43,800
And I’m sure that we all
recognize that as the Lord Jesus

663
00:39:43,800 –> 00:39:46,920
Christ being wounded in the
heel, that he might eventually

664
00:39:46,920 –> 00:39:51,280
crush the head of the serpent.
And here we come to Leviathan,

665
00:39:51,840 –> 00:39:56,080
Leviathan, A serpent.
Isn’t it interesting that a

666
00:39:56,080 –> 00:40:00,640
serpent or a reptile is very
often used to represent sin

667
00:40:00,640 –> 00:40:03,640
throughout the scriptures,
starting right back in the book

668
00:40:03,640 –> 00:40:07,120
of Genesis and working its way
right through Revelation?

669
00:40:07,480 –> 00:40:10,840
And therefore it’s quite
appropriate that God should make

670
00:40:10,840 –> 00:40:15,520
use of this term, a Leviathan,
to indicate a creature that

671
00:40:15,520 –> 00:40:18,640
represents sin.
You know there are two places in

672
00:40:18,640 –> 00:40:24,080
the scriptures where Leviathan
is a representative of various

673
00:40:24,080 –> 00:40:27,680
governments.
In Isaiah 27 verse one, it

674
00:40:27,680 –> 00:40:29,240
represents the King of the
North.

675
00:40:29,480 –> 00:40:33,480
In Psalm 7414 it represents the
King of the South, Pharaoh.

676
00:40:33,480 –> 00:40:35,720
It’s interesting that it is made
use of that.

677
00:40:35,720 –> 00:40:40,160
God looks upon human governments
as quite sinful, but here we’ve

678
00:40:40,160 –> 00:40:44,920
likened him unto a crocodile, a
suggestion which many others

679
00:40:44,920 –> 00:40:46,720
have made.
It’s not original with me.

680
00:40:46,720 –> 00:40:49,680
All you’re hearing this week is
totally plagiarized, I can

681
00:40:49,680 –> 00:40:54,000
assure you.
And here we find a crocodile and

682
00:40:54,000 –> 00:40:56,440
some interesting things that
brought out in regard to a

683
00:40:56,440 –> 00:40:59,280
crocodile.
Job was supposed to bring

684
00:40:59,280 –> 00:41:03,480
behemoth the hippopotamus pride
into subjection and to control

685
00:41:03,480 –> 00:41:06,120
it and to keep it down.
But when it comes to handling

686
00:41:06,120 –> 00:41:09,480
this crocodile, it isn’t a case
of bringing it into subjection.

687
00:41:09,960 –> 00:41:15,960
There is no way whatsoever that
we can make a sin, a servant for

688
00:41:15,960 –> 00:41:18,120
ourselves.
There’s only one thing that we

689
00:41:18,120 –> 00:41:20,600
can do with that crocodile.
We’ve got to destroy it.

690
00:41:20,800 –> 00:41:24,440
And in this set of passages that
we have before us, we find some

691
00:41:24,440 –> 00:41:26,240
very interesting things are
brought out.

692
00:41:26,480 –> 00:41:31,080
One of which is, would you take
this crocodile and would you

693
00:41:31,080 –> 00:41:33,760
bring it down into the
marketplace and put it up for

694
00:41:33,760 –> 00:41:36,440
sale?
Is there anyone that will want

695
00:41:36,440 –> 00:41:39,480
to buy a crocodile and take it
home for a pack?

696
00:41:40,360 –> 00:41:43,600
Could you imagine it?
What would happen if you took a

697
00:41:43,600 –> 00:41:46,000
crocodile home for a pet?
Why?

698
00:41:46,040 –> 00:41:47,920
It would end up killing you,
wouldn’t it?

699
00:41:48,600 –> 00:41:52,400
It isn’t that what sin does, The
wages of sin is death.

700
00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:54,960
It’s because sin that we all
die.

701
00:41:55,120 –> 00:42:00,200
We cannot make sin our servant.
We’re going to end up being the

702
00:42:00,200 –> 00:42:02,640
servant.
Yes, the victim of sin itself.

703
00:42:02,920 –> 00:42:05,440
There is no way that we can make
sin our servant.

704
00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:08,960
In fact, it goes on and says,
look, even if someone did buy

705
00:42:08,960 –> 00:42:11,720
it, would they take it home and
would they give it to their

706
00:42:11,720 –> 00:42:14,040
little maidens, their little
girls, two or three years of

707
00:42:14,040 –> 00:42:15,480
age?
Would they bring it home and

708
00:42:15,480 –> 00:42:17,080
give it to them to play with as
a pet?

709
00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:21,840
Could you imagine doing?
That would you bring a crocodile

710
00:42:21,840 –> 00:42:25,440
home and give it to your
preschool age daughters to play

711
00:42:25,440 –> 00:42:28,600
without in the backyard?
Can you imagine that?

712
00:42:29,000 –> 00:42:30,680
Of course not.
You know that the daughter would

713
00:42:30,680 –> 00:42:34,080
end up dead, wouldn’t she?
And that’s the same with all of

714
00:42:34,080 –> 00:42:37,360
the sons and daughters of God.
We start to play around with

715
00:42:37,360 –> 00:42:42,880
sin, and it’s going to kill us
any way whatsoever that we’re

716
00:42:42,880 –> 00:42:46,400
going to be able to control sin
and make sin our servant.

717
00:42:46,480 –> 00:42:50,720
It’s the other way around.
We are going to become the

718
00:42:50,720 –> 00:42:54,920
servants of sin.
There is no way whatsoever that

719
00:42:54,920 –> 00:42:57,400
we can make sin our servant.
And then it goes down.

720
00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:00,880
And in the last part of the
chapter it gives us a long list,

721
00:43:00,880 –> 00:43:04,320
just like it did with Behemoth,
of the various characteristics

722
00:43:04,600 –> 00:43:07,960
of this crocodile.
How that it has teeth and jaws.

723
00:43:07,960 –> 00:43:11,080
How it has strong scales.
How did about the terror of its

724
00:43:11,080 –> 00:43:15,160
breath, about its tremendous
strength, how or the fear that

725
00:43:15,160 –> 00:43:18,960
it engenders to others, How that
all men’s weapons fail against

726
00:43:18,960 –> 00:43:21,160
it?
How the impression that he makes

727
00:43:21,160 –> 00:43:23,360
in the mud and the commotion he
creates in the deep.

728
00:43:24,040 –> 00:43:27,000
And finally, and that I’d like
to draw your attention to,

729
00:43:27,000 –> 00:43:31,120
because our time is very rapidly
winging away in the very last

730
00:43:31,120 –> 00:43:32,760
verse.
And I think it puts it right on

731
00:43:32,760 –> 00:43:36,840
the line so beautifully.
In the 34th verse of this 41st

732
00:43:36,840 –> 00:43:41,000
chapter, it says he beholdeth
all high things.

733
00:43:41,520 –> 00:43:46,520
He is king over all the children
of pride.

734
00:43:47,200 –> 00:43:50,040
And this is the point that we’re
trying to bring out here.

735
00:43:50,040 –> 00:43:54,200
We have represented for us King
Sin, and all that sin is going

736
00:43:54,200 –> 00:43:57,800
to do is going to kill us.
And if we haven’t brought into

737
00:43:57,800 –> 00:44:02,480
subjection our own personal
pride, sin is going to start to

738
00:44:02,480 –> 00:44:05,520
rule over us.
Unless we can.

739
00:44:05,520 –> 00:44:09,120
Possibly bring pride into
subjection, which is very, very

740
00:44:09,120 –> 00:44:11,360
difficult.
We’re going to find that we’re

741
00:44:11,360 –> 00:44:16,320
going to be the servants of sin.
He’s the king over all the

742
00:44:16,320 –> 00:44:20,040
children of pride.
And now we find that the

743
00:44:20,080 –> 00:44:26,320
Almighty cease in his speeches
and he lets Job, I think, again

744
00:44:27,120 –> 00:44:32,120
consider what the Almighty has
had to say, and after Job has

745
00:44:32,120 –> 00:44:35,880
considered it, we find then that
the Almighty once again

746
00:44:35,880 –> 00:44:38,320
challenges him to answer.
Remember the way the debate was

747
00:44:38,320 –> 00:44:41,080
supposed to go?
The Almighty was supposed to

748
00:44:41,080 –> 00:44:43,680
call, and Job was supposed to
answer him.

749
00:44:44,040 –> 00:44:47,640
Job was supposed to come back
and give his arguments and show

750
00:44:47,640 –> 00:44:49,560
where he was right and the
Almighty was wrong.

751
00:44:49,760 –> 00:44:51,960
After all, that’s what Job
thought he could do.

752
00:44:53,000 –> 00:44:55,160
He was willing to give up the
debate at the end of the

753
00:44:55,160 –> 00:44:59,240
Almighty’s first speech.
After that, we can imagine how

754
00:44:59,240 –> 00:45:02,120
we must feel now.
Oh no, we don’t have to imagine,

755
00:45:02,120 –> 00:45:04,280
do we?
We’ve got it recorded for us in

756
00:45:04,280 –> 00:45:08,680
the first few verses of the next
chapter, verse one.

757
00:45:09,480 –> 00:45:15,080
Then Job answered the Lord and
said, I know that thou canst do

758
00:45:15,200 –> 00:45:19,560
everything and that no thought
can be withholding from thee.

759
00:45:20,000 –> 00:45:24,840
Who is he that that heideth
counsel without knowledge?

760
00:45:25,080 –> 00:45:28,640
Therefore I have uttered that I
understood not things too

761
00:45:28,640 –> 00:45:33,160
wonderful for me, which I knew
not what a confession Job is

762
00:45:33,160 –> 00:45:35,480
making.
He’s making a confession that he

763
00:45:35,480 –> 00:45:38,920
really doesn’t know it all.
And I hope that we.

764
00:45:38,960 –> 00:45:40,440
Can come to the position in
life.

765
00:45:41,560 –> 00:45:43,680
Well, that even as.
Christadelphians, even though we

766
00:45:43,680 –> 00:45:46,320
feel that we’ve learned what the
truth of the scripture is.

767
00:45:47,560 –> 00:45:51,560
We can humbly.
Admit that perhaps we don’t know

768
00:45:51,560 –> 00:45:55,400
it all, we don’t know
everything, and approach God

769
00:45:55,840 –> 00:45:58,800
with the humble and contrite
spirit that we must approach Him

770
00:45:58,800 –> 00:46:02,640
with if we’re to be found
acceptable and receive that

771
00:46:02,640 –> 00:46:05,680
wonderful crown of life.
Job had finally come to that

772
00:46:05,680 –> 00:46:07,960
position.
He realized that he didn’t know

773
00:46:07,960 –> 00:46:11,120
it all, that he had spoken
things that were too wonderful

774
00:46:11,120 –> 00:46:13,840
for him.
He was innocent to that degree

775
00:46:14,160 –> 00:46:16,080
that he is talking about
something he just didn’t

776
00:46:16,080 –> 00:46:19,200
understand and because of it God
had made allowance for it.

777
00:46:19,800 –> 00:46:22,760
God wasn’t going to blame him
for doing wrong and things that

778
00:46:22,760 –> 00:46:25,960
he didn’t understand.
This whole episode of the book

779
00:46:25,960 –> 00:46:30,960
of Job is so that Job can
benefit as well as the enemy and

780
00:46:30,960 –> 00:46:35,720
ourselves, so that Job could
draw nearer to God than he ever

781
00:46:35,720 –> 00:46:37,960
was before in his mechanical
righteousness.

782
00:46:38,560 –> 00:46:41,920
But now we would have a
righteousness that was founded

783
00:46:41,920 –> 00:46:44,760
in understanding as well as just
as men mechanics.

784
00:46:45,240 –> 00:46:47,080
And so Job is sorry for what he
said.

785
00:46:47,080 –> 00:46:48,480
And you notice what he said at
the beginning.

786
00:46:49,040 –> 00:46:53,920
Thou canst do everything.
He realized the position that he

787
00:46:53,920 –> 00:46:58,360
was in in trying to subdue pride
and to destroy sin.

788
00:46:58,800 –> 00:47:01,600
He knew that as a man he
couldn’t do it.

789
00:47:02,040 –> 00:47:05,840
He couldn’t overcome pride and
destroy sin by himself.

790
00:47:06,320 –> 00:47:08,960
He needed help.
The weapons that were available

791
00:47:08,960 –> 00:47:11,280
to him were not sufficient to do
the job.

792
00:47:11,480 –> 00:47:15,160
He had to rely on the goodness
and grace of almighty God.

793
00:47:15,400 –> 00:47:18,120
And therefore he says, Thou
canst do anything.

794
00:47:18,360 –> 00:47:22,360
He finally realized that he
couldn’t do it, He had to rely

795
00:47:22,360 –> 00:47:24,720
upon God.
And then he goes on in verse

796
00:47:24,720 –> 00:47:29,040
four, and says, Here, I beseech
thee, and I will speak, I will

797
00:47:29,040 –> 00:47:31,520
demand of thee, and declare thou
unto me.

798
00:47:32,440 –> 00:47:36,640
I have heard thee by the hearing
of the ear, but now mine eye

799
00:47:36,640 –> 00:47:40,680
seeth thee.
Wherefore I uphold myself and

800
00:47:40,680 –> 00:47:46,000
repent in dust and ashes.
In verse 4, all he is doing here

801
00:47:46,480 –> 00:47:50,280
is restating the challenge that
he’s made, for which he is now

802
00:47:50,280 –> 00:47:53,560
repentant.
He isn’t saying I’m still going

803
00:47:53,560 –> 00:47:55,440
to challenge you, and you better
answer me.

804
00:47:56,160 –> 00:48:00,280
That’s not the case.
He is recalling the unfortunate

805
00:48:00,280 –> 00:48:03,560
claim that he made the challenge
that he issued to God.

806
00:48:03,920 –> 00:48:06,320
And now he says, look, I’m sorry
I did it.

807
00:48:06,680 –> 00:48:10,280
I have now heard of thee.
I know that what you’re saying

808
00:48:10,280 –> 00:48:14,040
is right, and therefore he’s
brought to the only condition

809
00:48:14,040 –> 00:48:15,640
and position that he could be
brought to.

810
00:48:16,280 –> 00:48:23,240
He therefore says I abhor myself
and repent in dust and ashes.

811
00:48:23,920 –> 00:48:28,000
And here we find the result of
the speeches of the Almighty,

812
00:48:28,680 –> 00:48:30,440
but the story really isn’t
completed.

813
00:48:31,000 –> 00:48:34,760
We have the epilogue in the last
11 chapters, and in that

814
00:48:34,800 –> 00:48:37,800
epilogue we’re going to come
across some very, very

815
00:48:37,800 –> 00:48:42,560
remarkable things that thrill me
as much as some of the things

816
00:48:42,560 –> 00:48:45,640
that we’ve already considered.
And therefore I think we’ll have

817
00:48:45,640 –> 00:48:49,160
to leave that for tomorrow.
We’ll try to give a very brief

818
00:48:49,160 –> 00:48:51,520
review, particularly for those
that may not have been here for

819
00:48:51,520 –> 00:48:54,240
the whole week.
I know it’s a Saturday Also, to

820
00:48:54,240 –> 00:48:56,480
refresh our minds so that when
we’re confronted with this

821
00:48:56,480 –> 00:49:00,120
epilogue, we will have an
opportunity to understand why

822
00:49:00,120 –> 00:49:03,520
these things happen.
So now we’ve gained 3 at least

823
00:49:03,520 –> 00:49:08,200
reasons for suffering that it
can be for punishment as part of

824
00:49:08,200 –> 00:49:10,840
our human nature.
It could indeed be to bring

825
00:49:10,840 –> 00:49:15,280
people to God for chastisement,
or it could be for the benefit

826
00:49:15,280 –> 00:49:18,880
of others.
Job recognized that if we can

827
00:49:18,880 –> 00:49:22,160
recognize that in our life,
perhaps we can be found more

828
00:49:22,160 –> 00:49:24,040
acceptable before our maker as
well.