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ah here we are book by book right in
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Sussex by the sea and we're doing the
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book of Job and we come to study number
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three and I'm joined here once again by
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my colleague dr. Paul blacken and also
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by our special visitor today
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Glen Scrivener who works with the hour
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of revival ministries and as we come to
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study number three what's our theme well
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I think we'll take it from chapter 9
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verse 33 when job says oh if only there
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was someone to arbitrate between us to
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lay his hand upon us both so that's what
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he's arguing for and I think what we
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should do is to we're going to try it
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and do if we may several chapters at
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least cover them as well as we possibly
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can
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chapters 8 to 10 why don't I read
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chapter 8 and now enters bildad the
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shuhite he's the second of the Friends
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of job then bildad the shuhite replied
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how long will you say such things your
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words are a blustering wind does God
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pervert justice does the almighty
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pervert what is right when your children
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sinned against him he gave them over to
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the penalty of their sin but if you will
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look to God and plead with the Almighty
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if you are pure and upright even now he
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will rouse himself on your behalf and
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restore you to your rightful place so
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that's where we start with with if we
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think that elephants earlier on was
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preaching a kind of prosperity gospel
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then builders here
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well is he passionately preaching a
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full-blown you've got an even call it
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works righteousness why is that so bad
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why is it the worst attitude to have in
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times of suffering what do you think
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then well it's particularly vulgar
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thinking and it's expressed in a
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particularly vulgar way verse 4 when
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your children sinned against him he gave
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them over to the penalty for this and I
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think that's the worst thing that's said
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to job at a personal level there are all
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sorts of insinuations about job's
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uprightness in the in the general but
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bill that even goes after the kids I I
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think it's particularly vulgar but
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remember that these comforters did come
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through sympathize with joband to
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comfort him
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yet they do end up tormenting and I
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think it is because of this works
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righteousness bill that thinks you can
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pull yourself up by your bootstraps and
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make life work and so when he comes
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across someone who is broken he just
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wants to fix them and we see that in in
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life all the time at anyone who goes
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through long-term suffering we can be
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kind of sympathetic to them for a little
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while and we can put the armor down move
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on yeah so now we move on and you know
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have you tried goji berries have you
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tried superfoods if you tried quinoa
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have you tried this diet have you tried
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this article let me clip you out this
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article and and we always want to focus
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any books after somebody's been bereaved
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you get flooded books which is not
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always the best moment to give a book
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and the book the bill that would give
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you would tell you basically to pull
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yourself together and then you'll lift
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yourself out of this suffering somehow
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it's it's a terrible thing to tell
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someone in suffering yeah exactly then
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get but then do you think there's a seed
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of truth in bildad's analysis of the
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flimsy you know we'd like the life of
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the wicked in chapter 8 11 to 19 which I
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mean when it's uprooted just with us
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away that's what you're saying well
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that's it I mean the thing with these
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friends is it's not that they don't know
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any theology at all they they do know
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some theologians they got the grammar of
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it wrong the perspective run so yeah
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it's true you reap what you sow and
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that's a biblical truth Jesus teaches
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that truth and it's here and he's sort
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of laying it out where he's saying look
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if if a plant with us away there's a
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reason for that it's been uprooted or
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it's not being watered properly or
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there's something flimsy and you know
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job I you know there's no smoke without
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fire
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we know what the problem is it's you you
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need to sort yourself out so no in a way
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he takes a big truth and then just takes
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a snapshot of job's life and says right
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job I can fix you here's the diagnosis
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and here's let's fix it but that's not
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the the the correct view to view it I
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always again think about James chapter 5
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when he says what do we learn from job
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and he says he gives the example of the
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farmer who waits patiently for the day
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of Harvard
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so there's no point in the farmer just
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straight away after he's done his crops
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coming right and said okay where's the
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harvest as nothing his empty field it's
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all gone wrong no no no no no wait wait
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there's a day of harvest to come so when
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the Lord comes he will ensure that the
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wicked get the punishment and that's jus
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and the righteous will be lifted up but
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at any moment before the Lord's coming
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any snapshot is not a true picture of
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reality so builder goes no no right now
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I can tell what's going on
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good bad you know if you're good you'll
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be doing well if you're evil you'll be
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suffering and it's like no bill dad stop
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that's there is a truth there but you're
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taking something from the end of all
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time on the day of judgment are you
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trying to impose it on poor job right
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now but then it could be argued that in
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chapter 8 verse 22 22 well he says
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surely God does not reject a blameless
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man it almost sounds like a bit of what
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the Psalms maybe Psalm 15 or whatever
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mm-hmm so bill dad is trying to apply
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this thinking to himself Oh
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job why is this where do we see the
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wrong in this yes so verse 20 surely God
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does not reject a blameless man that's
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absolutely true but from the Psalms
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let's figure out what a blameless man is
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like and I think Psalm 15 is a great
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place to go Psalm 15 begins you know
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Lord who may dwell in your sanctuary who
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may live on your holy hill answer verse
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2 he whose walk is blameless only the
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blameless are allowed into heaven and
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they can stand the scrutiny of the Lord
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but it's in context some 14 has just
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said from verse 2 the Lord looks down
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from heaven on the sons of men to see if
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there are any who understand any who
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seek God all have turned aside they have
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together become corrupt there is no one
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who does good not even one no so there's
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no one blameless and yet straight after
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Psalm 14 you've got some 15 all this
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there's this he whose walk is blameless
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gets into heaven who's he well of course
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he's Christ Christ the blameless one
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yeah and we are in ourselves wicked and
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evil and sinners and yet simply through
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trusting in Jesus we are connected to
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Christ and we have all that is Christ's
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including
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his declaration of being righteous of
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being upright of being blameless and so
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you know even Jobe is called a man who
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is upright and blameless and that kind
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of thing not because of anything in
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himself not cuz he trusts in his own
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piety but simply because of Christ and
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therefore because of Christ
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yeah it's true back in job chapter 8
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verse 20 surely God does not reject the
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blameless man just as God will never
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reject Christ God will never reject
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those who are connected to Christ but
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it's got nothing to do with the internal
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quality of our own sort of spirituality
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and everything to do about Jesus and
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when you divorce it from Jesus that's
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when you fall into the works
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righteousness so it's like when Joe was
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worried about the Lord inspecting them
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too closely yes he's like no I don't
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expect me to places but in the Psalms
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what is it yes Christ really says yeah
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yeah do inspect me search yeah you know
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me you know my thoughts from a final
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yeah so Christ says I want you to
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inspect me here was job's like no don't
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expect me look at him instead yes
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exactly that's very important I mean
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you're John Chapman of Australia that
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famous and wonderful avenges who once
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said if when you're asked why do you
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think you're going to heaven and you
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answer because I then you've already
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answered the wrong answer wrongly it
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isn't because I yes because of him yeah
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ultimately so we come into chapter 9 -
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Jeff's answer to Bildad now why does Joe
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wants to build out with such a big
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doctrine of God that maybe changes the
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picture do you think well it does
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because anyone who has these prosperity
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Gospels or works/righteousness anyone
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who says well if I do this I can make
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the Lord do this or the Lord needs such
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and such a thing and I will give it to
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him oh that's such a rubbish god any God
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that I can buy off with my flimsy little
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bits and pieces of things is a rubbish
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guard and so job says no no no I don't
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buy this I don't think that the Lord can
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easily be bought off with a few like
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good works here or good attitudes here
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or if I pull my socks up then he's like
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listen this is the Living God though
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because if we think about the rich life
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of the Trinity Father Son and Holy
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Spirit who dirt is not a needy God then
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the Lord God say that you know
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the father loves the son and does
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everything through the spirit the son in
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the power of the Spirit
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they don't need things from us though
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it's all sufficient God rich in life and
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then so job's saying listen listen
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listen to this God who speaks to the Sun
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and can say Sun go down Sun come up the
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universe do this this God who literally
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runs the vastness of the universe it
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can't be that he is so small that I can
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manipulate him so actually it's great
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that Joe says hang on let me just get
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the big picture of the Living God in
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mind again and every time Joe is able to
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do that see the real and living God and
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get his eyes fixed on Christ again it
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lifts Jobe and then usually one of his
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friends says no no Jobe now think about
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yourself again for a bit and then that's
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always unhelpful Oh Paul so I like you
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see verse 27 and 28 of chapter 9 when
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Joe says if I say I will forget my
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complaint I will change my expression
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and smile
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I still dread all myself for I know that
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you will not hold me innocence so it's
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not enough to say you know all things
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work together for good or some you know
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keep smiling is to keep keep your chin
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always look on the bright side of life
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like there never strikes twice it's a
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bit cliche like chapter 9 verse 20 32 to
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35 ah however verses that many readers
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of the Bible John the ages have rather
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loved what's the sort of treasure in
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those verses the treasure here is a
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mediator a mediator between us and go
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because Paul's has been talking about
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the you know the Most High who is not
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you know no man's debtor and no one can
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buy him off well well then how can we
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have fellowship with such a God well job
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here describes the mediator he doesn't
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particularly feel the presence of the
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mediator here right now he knows the
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media that will we'll learn more about
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him in chapter 16 and elsewhere but he
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describes our needs so verse 33 if only
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there was someone to arbitrate between
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us to lay his hand upon us both someone
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to remove God's rod from me so that his
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terror would frighten me no more then I
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would speak up without fear of him and
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an incredible image isn't it to think
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you know whoever could put their hand on
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the living gods I mean 20 years ago was
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that there was a big story in Australia
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Paul Keating the Prime Minister put his
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hand on the Queen did you remember that
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he was called the lizard of Oz even
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touch just just a director around the
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place who can lay a hand on God and on
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us and then what what kind of posture is
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that laying their hands on God laying
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their hands on us in order to remove
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God's rod of discipline correction and
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punishment from us so here here is this
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one who stands between us and God who
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stands with his arms outstretched who's
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removing God's rod from us who's
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bringing us to the most high then job
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says then I'll speak up without fear job
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has lost sight of him somewhat in this
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chapter but that's what we need in our
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suffering we need to look again to the
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Lord Jesus and know that we're not just
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yelling up into heaven
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no we've we've got the Lord Jesus who's
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keeping us together with the Father and
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he'll never let us go that's very
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powerful we had ourselves have to hang
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on to this mighty truth that there is an
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arbiter a mediator which is held on both
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sides oh my word
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look at verse well move on to chapter 10
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Jobe knows that his life is from the
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sheer love and the grace of the Living
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God chapter 10 verse 12 you gay you gave
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me life and showed me kindness and in
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your Providence washed over my spirit
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but he just can't deal with the depth of
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the suffering that he's in throughout
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chapter 10 so it seems that Jobe feels
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that the father has always planned this
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trial for in verse 13 but why does he
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feel he's going to fall down into Hell
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shell in verses what 18 to 22 yeah I do
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think there's some this is a reality
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which is when we're in suffering and as
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Christians it's not as if oh well I'll
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just always be utterly joyful and happy
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no the sufferings coming you can feel
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completely overwhelmed I think of Jacob
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when he thought Joseph had died he spoke
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exactly like this didn't hear him Jacob
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was saying I'm just gonna go down to
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shale now and he almost thinks I can't I
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have no hope he loses sight because of
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the over
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it's like Peter in the sea isn't it and
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he's looking equation he can walk on the
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sea but then he suddenly go he doesn't
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look at Jesus anyone he looks at the in
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the armed drowning and drowning and then
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he like lord save me
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and in that snapshot of Peter when he
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doesn't look at Jesus but looks at the
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problems and then he falls down into the
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sea the abyss really and I think that's
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what's happening to job he takes he's
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had a glimpse of Christ or his need of
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Christ but then he's kind of looking at
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all the problems again and he's
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completely overwhelmed and we can be
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like that in the Christian life but each
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time we kind of have to look to Jesus
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because even Jesus it's not wrong to
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feel the overwhelm and to be like I
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can't cope it's too much for me and
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Jesus on the cross said my god why have
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you forsaken me he crumbs that cry
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feeling like that but what what's the
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great thing with Jesus that's not his
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last word his last word of course you
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know into your hands I commit my spirit
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and he's thinking of paradise and he
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says to the thief you know today you and
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me will be in paradise together but it's
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the point is that so the feeling comes
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we're forsaken were lost
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we're losing hope and if you lose hope
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that's the darkest place of all to be
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where you've got no hope but then that's
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how he feels and I always think no
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Christ has been into the darkness and
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that feeling of overwhelmed and losing
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and feeling forsaken but because he's
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been there we know we're not alone
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we might be in that darkest place and I
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think there's no work there is no hope
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Christ so there he's been into the
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darkness in order to get us he's been
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ahead of us yeah oh well you know you
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Japanese showers in this program you had
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a great Christian man in the early part
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of the 20th century called to yahiko
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Kagawa who worked in the slums and then
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in the darkness of Kobe at that
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particular time in the slums and he once
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said this I quote that deeper my little
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life is buried the more I feel that
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Jesus is my guide he is my Savior nay he
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is a friend of the friendless and the
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homeless and the prostitutes and sinners
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and of my poor small self so with you
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living or Tokyo or Haiti or in Nairobi
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or in Baghdad or in good
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all brightened here in Sussex by the sea
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Jesus has been ahead of us in any
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darkness that we shall ever experience
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god bless you and we'll meet again on
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this program
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