Day 314: Job 8-10 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
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8. 0:24family. Welcome to day 314 here on the
9. 0:27Bible department. We are looking at Job
10. 0:30chapters 8, 9, and 10 today. Chapters 8
11. 0:35through 10 of the book of Job. Solid
12. 0:38solid chapters. Hey, we are in the thick
13. 0:41of the dialogue that Job is having with
14. 0:44his three friends. And by the end of
15. 0:47this section, uh not the section today,
16. 0:49but like this entire section of
17. 0:51dialogue, we're going to get a surprise
18. 0:54speech from a new friend that has
19. 0:57honestly just creepily just been there
20. 0:59the whole time and he's going to start
21. 1:00talking anyway. We'll talk about that on
22. 1:02the day where we get to his content. But
23. 1:06uh we are in the thick of Hebrew poetry.
24. 1:10If you have not done the reading for the
25. 1:11day, I want to invite you, admonish you,
26. 1:14challenge you, stop the video, pause the
27. 1:16audio, go get the reading done. A lot of
28. 1:21nuggets, especially from Job's portion
29. 1:24uh of the speech, and we're going to
30. 1:26talk about these three friends. And, you
31. 1:28know, it it's painful to even read what
32. 1:32they have to say. When chapter 8 opens,
33. 1:35you know, obviously, we all know Job's
34. 1:37children have died. You know this friend
35. 1:39Billad is just golly man. Verse four
36. 1:43chapter 8 verse4 when your children
37. 1:46sinned against him he gave them over to
38. 1:48the penalty of their sin. Ah
39. 1:52dude even if you're right shut up. Like
40. 1:59that is a terrible thing to say to
41. 2:00somebody after the children have died.
42. 2:03just hoo
43. 2:06now he's also not right like what he has
44. 2:10to say is not true even if he was this
45. 2:14is a good wisdom principle right here
46. 2:16even if you're right that doesn't give
47. 2:17you the right to say what you're right
48. 2:19about okay even if you are right that
49. 2:22doesn't give you the right to just say
50. 2:24what you're right about so many people
51. 2:27you know they say things that are just
52. 2:29wild and then they're like but am I
53. 2:31wrong though but am I wrong and it's
54. 2:33So [snorts] the content of what you're
55. 2:35saying isn't wrong, but saying it is
56. 2:37definitely inappropriate or, you know,
57. 2:40impolite or, you know, just unhinged
58. 2:43generally. So all right, let's actually
59. 2:46dive into uh some context. Okay, today I
60. 2:50want to do something a little different.
61. 2:51Uh I actually want to dive into
62. 2:54theological context. Okay, theological
63. 2:57context. tomorrow we're really going to
64. 2:59handle this idea that Job is the oldest
65. 3:02book of the Bible cuz that's just not
66. 3:04true. But there's a reason why people
67. 3:06think that and why people preach that.
68. 3:08There something that I've heard from
69. 3:10prominent voices like that is something
70. 3:13that I've heard from like very very very
71. 3:16very prominent pastors, preachers,
72. 3:19ministers. Not a very popular idea in
73. 3:22the academic space but definitely a
74. 3:24popular idea in the church space.
75. 3:26Tomorrow we'll tackle that on our
76. 3:29context clues. Today though, for our
77. 3:31context clues, I just want to tackle
78. 3:33some some theological context because if
79. 3:37we don't have an understanding of Job's
80. 3:41friends theology and Job's theology,
81. 3:44then it's going to be hard to even
82. 3:45understand like what why why is Job such
83. 3:49a hero? Because once you get into
84. 3:51chapters 9 and 10 and Job starts
85. 3:54responding, you're kind of like, did Job
86. 3:57just accuse God of being unjust? Like
87. 4:00Job's KIND OF SAYING SOME WILD stuff
88. 4:01about God, you know? And I kind of want
89. 4:04to help to put what Job is saying in
90. 4:07some kind of not historical context,
91. 4:09maybe cultural context, but definitely
92. 4:11theological context. Okay, so let's talk
93. 4:14theology. Okay, this is we'll open up
94. 4:17our context clue today by talking about
95. 4:19some theology. Now, for many of us,
96. 4:22because the Judeo-Christian worldview
97. 4:26has influenced the world that we live
98. 4:28in, I don't think we realize just how
99. 4:32much of a Judeo-Christian ethical
100. 4:35worldview we all have, Christians and
101. 4:38non-Christians alike. Okay. It is a
102. 4:42Judeo-Christian ethic, a Judeo-Christian
103. 4:45worldview that is behind some of the
104. 4:49literature that has shaped the Western
105. 4:51world, right? Like the Magna Carta, like
106. 4:55the Constitution of the United States of
107. 4:57America, like like the Bill of Rights.
108. 4:59Okay? Now, I'm not here to debate
109. 5:02whether or not America was founded as a
110. 5:04Christian country or blah blah blah blah
111. 5:05blah. That's I don't have a dog in that
112. 5:08fight. That's not something I care
113. 5:09about. What I do care about is how we
114. 5:14don't even realize how moral of a
115. 5:18society we live in because the world
116. 5:21that we live in has been I mean
117. 5:24thoroughly shaped by a Judeo-Christian
118. 5:28ethical worldview. Okay. So even someone
119. 5:32who's like protesting
120. 5:35against you know religion it is
121. 5:38Christianity as a religion that gives
122. 5:41them the right like like in the history
123. 5:45of society to to protest like like like
124. 5:50prior to a a thoroughly biblical
125. 5:53worldview shaping the world there is no
126. 5:56like freedom of speech or like or like
127. 5:59just human rights.
128. 6:01like human rights is not an idea in the
129. 6:04Babylonian world or in the Canaanite
130. 6:06world or in the Roman world or in the
131. 6:09Persian world. There there is not a
132. 6:12world where human rights is a thing
133. 6:14outside of like a Judeo-Christian ethic.
134. 6:17Okay? that that people are endowed with
135. 6:21like value like as as a human that
136. 6:25understanding stems from people being
137. 6:28made in the image of God. Okay. So even
138. 6:32for the secularist who is an atheist to
139. 6:35themselves you know the the
140. 6:36self-proclaimed atheist they are
141. 6:38standing on the shoulders of Christians
142. 6:42by even arguing human rights. Okay,
143. 6:45human rights in terms of just the
144. 6:47history of thought in the world, uh,
145. 6:51Christians can take credit for that. All
146. 6:53right, without the Bible, no one would
147. 6:56be arguing for human rights. Okay?
148. 6:58Nobody in the Roman world, nobody in the
149. 7:00Persian world, nobody in the Babylonian
150. 7:03world or the Assyrian world or the
151. 7:04Canaanite world believes any of that.
152. 7:07There is no human rights for for
153. 7:09anybody. The reason they are human
154. 7:11rights is because Christianity like I
155. 7:13mean took hold in the Roman world and
156. 7:16changed Western civilization irrevocably
157. 7:19like forever. Okay. So I just want to
158. 7:22like get that out there. So we have to
159. 7:24then think all right what is the
160. 7:26theological worldview for someone living
161. 7:31in Job's time and that theological
162. 7:34worldview is essentially like there's
163. 7:35only a couple of sins like couple of big
164. 7:38ones right like stealing stuff sexually
165. 7:40assaulting people uh murder you know
166. 7:44outside of that there isn't like we
167. 7:46don't have this idea in the in the pagan
168. 7:50world of like sin Okay, this is why the
169. 7:54law is revolutionary. Okay, we read
170. 7:58Deuteronomy and we're just kind of like,
171. 8:00"Oh gosh, got to get to the end. This is
172. 8:02boring." Okay, in the ancient world,
173. 8:04revolutionary that there's a God that
174. 8:07would outline like what's sinful, like
175. 8:10what's moral revolutionary. If you're a
176. 8:13pagan and you have not sexually
177. 8:15assaulted someone, murdered someone, or
178. 8:18or stolen, and bad things are happening
179. 8:21to you, there's this superstition
180. 8:24default. I would say a superstitious
181. 8:26default where you would immediately just
182. 8:28assume, gosh, I must have ticked off a
183. 8:33god or the gods somehow. Don't know what
184. 8:36I did. Don't know how I did it. I made
185. 8:39the gods angry. Okay. So, this could be
186. 8:42the gods must have a plot of ground or a
187. 8:45plot of land out in the woods while I
188. 8:47was hunting and they they must have some
189. 8:49ground out there that's holy and I must
190. 8:52have made a mistake and stepped on it.
191. 8:53That's why my kid died or that's why,
192. 8:56you know, my crops aren't aren't that's
193. 8:58why there's a drought or I must have
194. 9:00done something. So, so outside of like,
195. 9:03you know, sexual assault, murder, and
196. 9:06stealing, you know, if if something bad
197. 9:09is happening to you, you're assuming,
198. 9:12gosh, dang it, I should have felt I
199. 9:15should have fed Baal some more corn.
200. 9:17Like, like, I must have done something.
201. 9:20Okay. And this is the perspective that
202. 9:23Job's friends have. They have a
203. 9:26perspective that's like, bro, you must
204. 9:28have done something. And it doesn't have
205. 9:30to be a sin. It could be some kind of
206. 9:35petty religious act that maybe you cut
207. 9:39corners on unknowingly. Okay? And so
208. 9:43there's two reasons why Job is going to
209. 9:46be platformed as a hero. And without
210. 9:50knowing just how like superstitious the
211. 9:52ancient world is, you don't really get
212. 9:54it. And so I want to give theological
213. 9:56context. Okay, let's dive into these two
214. 9:58reasons. Number one, Job never curses
215. 10:01God. Doesn't do it. He doesn't curse
216. 10:04God. Now, he says a lot of things about
217. 10:05God that aren't true. He says God's not
218. 10:08just. He He essentially calls God petty.
219. 10:10He said a lot of things about God, but
220. 10:12he never curses God. Okay? And number
221. 10:15two, he never sacrifices offerings to
222. 10:20God in order to repent. And for many of
223. 10:24us, that is a foreign idea. Okay. So
224. 10:27what Elephaz, Billad, and Zofar are
225. 10:31trying to get Joe to do is like, "Dude,
226. 10:33ju come on, man. Just offer a sacrifice.
227. 10:37JUST SAY YOU'RE SORRY, DUDE. YOU COULD
228. 10:39HAVE BEEN WALKING IN THE WOODS AND
229. 10:42STEPPED on one of God's twigs and broke
230. 10:45it and GOD COULD BE MAD CUZ you you
231. 10:47BROKE ONE OF HIS TWIGS." And that may
232. 10:49sound ridiculous to you and I, but I'm
233. 10:51not joking. I'm 100% serious. like all
234. 10:55throughout the ancient world, Canaanite,
235. 10:56Babylonian, Persian world, it was really
236. 11:00like trying to solve a Rubik's cube on
237. 11:02how to please the gods and essentially
238. 11:05everyone is in a codependent
239. 11:06relationship with the gods. Okay, so you
240. 11:09know, most people don't love the gods,
241. 11:11they hate the gods because the gods are
242. 11:13unpredictable. It's like they could just
243. 11:16make your life terrible and you don't
244. 11:18know why, but you need them. So, you're
245. 11:21in this toxic codependent relationship
246. 11:22with the gods. And the gods don't really
247. 11:25like humans. They hate humans. If you
248. 11:27read pagan literature, the gods hate
249. 11:30humans, but they do away with the
250. 11:32humans. They're going to be hungry.
251. 11:33Who's going to sacrifice food? You know,
252. 11:35like they they don't want to get their
253. 11:37own food. So, they're in a codependent
254. 11:40toxic relationship with humans. The gods
255. 11:42and humans are in this toxic codependent
256. 11:45relationship. So the friends are just
257. 11:47like, "Dude, just cover your bases. Just
258. 11:51get some animals, THROW THEM ON THE
259. 11:53ALTAR, AND JUST SACRIFICE TO GOD.
260. 11:56Sacrifice to Yahweh." Actually, they're
261. 11:59going to call the the friends call God
262. 12:01Elshadai. We'll get into that tomorrow
263. 12:03on why. So Job refuses to do that for
264. 12:07two reasons. Job refuses to do that
265. 12:10because a he's innocent. But Job refuses
266. 12:12to do that because he understands that
267. 12:14God's not like that. God doesn't have
268. 12:17special twigs out in the forest and if
269. 12:20you step on one of his special twigs, he
270. 12:21kills your kid. That's not what God's
271. 12:23like. At least that's not what the God
272. 12:25of the Bible's like. That's not what
273. 12:27Yahweh's like. That's not what Elshadai
274. 12:29is like. And because Job doesn't just
275. 12:33bust out a sacrifice and offer up an an
276. 12:38animal sacrifice to appease God, he
277. 12:42therefore wins. Like that is winning. So
278. 12:46there's two reasons why Job wins against
279. 12:50Satan or the Satan, the accuser. He wins
280. 12:52because he never curses God. And then he
281. 12:54wins because he understands something
282. 12:57about God.
283. 12:58>> [snorts]
284. 12:58>> He understands that God won't just take
285. 13:03your kids away because you did something
286. 13:07that you didn't even know you were
287. 13:08doing. It's this idea, you know, and by
288. 13:12the way, today is Halloween. And you
289. 13:15know, there's always Christians who are
290. 13:16going to be like, "We can't celebrate
291. 13:18Halloween OR WE CAN'T GO TO YOGA. We
292. 13:20can't do this or we can't do that. We
293. 13:22can't do this." And I just always want
294. 13:24to remind people, hey, hey, worship is
295. 13:26an act of your will. I I think sometimes
296. 13:29there's all this fear-mongering and we
297. 13:32it's like we convince Christians that
298. 13:33you could worship by accident. YOU'RE
299. 13:35GOING TO ACCIDENTALLY worship Satan. No,
300. 13:38there's no way to accidentally worship
301. 13:40anything. And so what Job is doing is
302. 13:42saying, "No, no, no. It didn't
303. 13:44accidentally sin. There's no such thing
304. 13:46as accidentally like doing something
305. 13:49that bothers God. God has laid out in
306. 13:53his law what he requires from us and
307. 13:56what he doesn't require. We're not in a
308. 14:00guessing game. So, I'm not going to
309. 14:02offer up sacrifices just to be safe.
310. 14:05Now, there's a bunch of other things we
311. 14:07could talk about, but a lot of those
312. 14:09things you could probably see on your
313. 14:11own, but that I just felt like that is
314. 14:14theological context that the average
315. 14:18reader just doesn't have. And so Job is
316. 14:22going to win this trial against the
317. 14:27accuser against the Satan or Hassatan by
318. 14:32Satan is the correct pronunciation for
319. 14:34Satan by never cursing God. Never curses
320. 14:38God. Does he have some bad theology?
321. 14:40Absolutely. Does he vent and is honest?
322. 14:44Yeah. Does he say some things that I
323. 14:46wouldn't be comfortable saying? Yeah.
324. 14:48But God doesn't judge us based on our
325. 14:50theology. He judges us based on our
326. 14:52theopraxy that that's theology is right
327. 14:56knowledge like like right word.
328. 14:59Theopraxy is right action. Okay. So Job
329. 15:03although he has some theology that I
330. 15:05would love to tweak and fix. I wish I
331. 15:07could go back in time and like help Job
332. 15:09out. He has good he has perfect
333. 15:12theopraxy. What he actually does does
334. 15:15not displease the Lord. And honestly,
335. 15:18that's all of us. God doesn't judge us
336. 15:21based on our theology. God judges us
337. 15:23based on our theopraxy like what we do.
338. 15:26Now, let me communicate with nuance.
339. 15:28What we do is determined by our
340. 15:31theology. But however, you can do the
341. 15:33right thing and your motives and your
342. 15:38thoughts can catch up if you're
343. 15:41practicing the right stuff. Okay? All
344. 15:44right. There's so much more to go into.
345. 15:48However, let let me just give you this
346. 15:50last little bit because this whole
347. 15:52dialogue is going to be between, you
348. 15:54know, Elephas gonna talk, then Job, then
349. 15:56Billad, then Job, then Zofar, then Job.
350. 15:59Okay? And they have slight nuances.
351. 16:02Elephas is only going to talk from
352. 16:04personal experience. So, he's giving
353. 16:06wisdom from personal experience. That is
354. 16:08kind of how I would summarize everything
355. 16:10Elephaz has to say. Now, Elephaz,
356. 16:13Bildad, and Zofar are all essentially
357. 16:16saying, "Hey, Job, you did something.
358. 16:18You did something. Just fess up, dude.
359. 16:20Fess up and offer a sacrifice. You did
360. 16:23something. God is just and you did
361. 16:26something." Job is arguing, "I didn't do
362. 16:29I did nothing. I'm innocent and
363. 16:31therefore God's not just." Both are
364. 16:33wrong. But both Job and the friends are
365. 16:36wrong. We as the audience have
366. 16:38information that neither Job or his
367. 16:40friends have. So, Elephaz, Bildad, and
368. 16:44Zofar are all arguing essentially what's
369. 16:47called retribution, which if you look at
370. 16:50what Elephaz, Bildad, and Zofar have to
371. 16:53say, and you didn't have someone telling
372. 16:55you that they're wrong, what they have
373. 16:57to say doesn't sound wrong. That
374. 16:59actually sounds a lot like the book of
375. 17:00Proverbs, okay? Because they have a very
376. 17:03proverbial perspective. Now, Elephaz is
377. 17:06typically going to give wisdom from
378. 17:08personal experience. Number two, Bill
379. 17:10Dad is going to give philosophical
380. 17:13answers. This is more like this is stuff
381. 17:17that's universally true based on
382. 17:19research and Zofar is going to give
383. 17:22always going to offer black and white
384. 17:25perspective. Job, you're trying to
385. 17:26create a lot of gray here. This is very
386. 17:28black and white. Life is pretty simple.
387. 17:31So, so these are the three strands of
388. 17:33wisdom in the ancient world. The first
389. 17:34strand of wisdom is dude, I may not be
390. 17:37that smart, but from my personal
391. 17:40experience, buying Bitcoin's fantastic.
392. 17:42You know, that doesn't mean you have a
393. 17:43bunch of research on Bitcoin. It just
394. 17:45means it worked for you. There's a lot
395. 17:46of people who they think they're wise
396. 17:48because things worked for them. Second,
397. 17:51research, information, truth, you know,
398. 17:54general wisdom, you know, a rule of
399. 17:56thumb. Okay, this is the person who's
400. 17:59learned, who's studied, and the reality
401. 18:02is that just because you're smart, and
402. 18:04just because you have a lot of
403. 18:05information doesn't mean that you're
404. 18:07wise. Okay? And a lot of people assume
405. 18:10that I'm going to come off that way cuz
406. 18:12I have a doctorate and then they're
407. 18:14shocked when I don't come off that way.
408. 18:16And I'm like, yeah, cuz I got a
409. 18:18doctorate in a pursuit of wisdom, not
410. 18:20just information. And then black and
411. 18:22white. Zofar is black and white. And the
412. 18:24reality is that wisdom doesn't come from
413. 18:27being black and white. Wisdom comes from
414. 18:29understanding nuance and gray. And gray
415. 18:32throws a lot of people off. And the more
416. 18:35complicated of a society we live in, the
417. 18:37more there's this desire to just be
418. 18:39black and white. And I promise you, I
419. 18:41promise you, just being black and white
420. 18:44is not going to help the the people who
421. 18:47are stuck in black or white. Right? If
422. 18:51someone's stuck in transgenderism and
423. 18:55you are very like, "Hey, there's boys
424. 18:57and there's girls. It's black and
425. 18:58white." It's like, "Got it. Fantastic.
426. 19:00You won the argument, but you didn't win
427. 19:01the person." And the goal is not just to
428. 19:04win the argument. It's to win the
429. 19:05person. And there's a difference between
430. 19:07telling the truth and leading people
431. 19:09into truth. Okay? The Holy Spirit
432. 19:12doesn't just tell the truth or reveal
433. 19:14the truth. The Holy Spirit leads us into
434. 19:17truth. And people who really have
435. 19:19unlocked the gift of wisdom know how to
436. 19:22lead people into the truth. Not just
437. 19:25tell them the truth, not just bark the
438. 19:27truth at them, but lead them into the
439. 19:30truth. Communicate in such a way that
440. 19:33helps them to see the truth that's right
441. 19:36there in front of them. Okay? So,
442. 19:38Elephaz, Buildad, and Zofar all have the
443. 19:41same perspective, but they're all going
444. 19:43to communicate their perspective with
445. 19:46unique styles of communication. And I
446. 19:49actually think that these styles of
447. 19:50communication still exist today. And Job
448. 19:53is obviously going to respond to each of
449. 19:55them over the course of multiple cycles
450. 19:58of confrontation and communication. All
451. 20:00right, that's a nuance that maybe you
452. 20:02wouldn't have seen if you were just
453. 20:03reading on your own. So, I wanted to
454. 20:05make that aware. I wanted to make make
455. 20:07you aware of just that little nerdy
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479. 21:09to the episode. Job is going to demand
480. 21:12to meet with God. All right, Job is
481. 21:14going to make it clear. Hey, I want an
482. 21:17encounter with Yahweh. Me and this dude
483. 21:19need to talk. All right, which is good.
484. 21:22Confrontation is good. Uh I'm going to
485. 21:24throw out a rand a stat that's going to
486. 21:26feel random. Uh but in America, 70 to
487. 21:3090% of all divorces initiated by women.
488. 21:3370% is the stat that's quoted a lot, but
489. 21:37if a woman is college uh educated or has
490. 21:41a master's degree or doctorate or is any
491. 21:43kind of like just successful, it goes up
492. 21:45to 90%. which means men don't file for
493. 21:48divorce often. Now, why? And the answer
494. 21:51may shock you. It's because men just be
495. 21:54leaving. Period. A dude will wake up and
496. 21:57there's just like I mean thousands of
497. 21:59stories. I'm not just giving like
498. 22:01anecdotal kind of, you know, thoughts.
499. 22:04I'm actually telling you like data. The
500. 22:06reason that women end up filing for
501. 22:08divorce at absorbbitant rates, obviously
502. 22:11way more than 50% of the time, is
503. 22:13because there are a hundreds of
504. 22:15thousands of stories of men just waking
505. 22:17up one day and just going to work and
506. 22:19never coming home, just disappearing.
507. 22:22And honestly, like they'll just stop
508. 22:24paying the mortgage, won't and will
509. 22:27literally disappear. They're just I'm
510. 22:29out. A dude will realize I've been
511. 22:30emotionally checked out for years. I'm
512. 22:32just going to leave. I'm out of here.
513. 22:34We'll just move to Minneapolis. I don't
514. 22:37know why Minneapolis is the place that
515. 22:38came to mind. Just just we'll move to
516. 22:40Boise, Idaho. I'm out. Just they're out
517. 22:43of here. Which then forces women to have
518. 22:45to, you know, file the paperwork because
519. 22:48dudes just won't. They they will
520. 22:50literally just leave. And you want to
521. 22:51know something? Like that's not
522. 22:53admirable. Just chucking up the deuces
523. 22:55and ghosting your wife. That's cowardly.
524. 22:59Like that's terrible. But there's a lot
525. 23:01of people that's how they interact with
526. 23:02God. You just ghosted God. He just And
527. 23:05Job refuses to ghost Yahweh. Instead of
528. 23:08ghosting the Lord, he's like, "Let's
529. 23:11have a showdown. Let's confront each
530. 23:14other. Like, let's talk. I'm demanding
531. 23:17an encounter with you." And guess what?
532. 23:20God can deal with that. Guess what? God
533. 23:22doesn't deal with you ghosting him. You
534. 23:25just like disappearing. You just like
535. 23:27taking your ball and leaving cuz life
536. 23:29got hard. And that right there, that's
537. 23:32where our Thomas truth is today. Because
538. 23:34there's a lot of us, religion taught you
539. 23:37that talking to God, the way Job is
540. 23:39talking to God and maybe the way that
541. 23:41David talks to God is just
542. 23:42inappropriate,
543. 23:44not respectful. But guess what? You're
544. 23:47now in the opposite extreme, which you
545. 23:49don't say anything. Now you have pent up
546. 23:52frustration. And really, you are angry
547. 23:54with God. You just won't admit that
548. 23:55you're angry with God. And the more you
549. 23:58won't say anything to God, there's not
550. 24:00even hope for there to be healing
551. 24:03because you cannot heal what you refuse
552. 24:06to reveal. So, you're harboring
553. 24:08bitterness towards God and, you know,
554. 24:11disappointment. But instead of bringing
555. 24:14it out into the open and and talking to
556. 24:16God like a grownup, you've decided to
557. 24:20just ghost him. And my challenge to you
558. 24:22today is I'd rather you be more like
559. 24:24Job. Uh, I'd rather you not be like the
560. 24:26husband who just picks up and moves to
561. 24:28Idaho and just, you know, I'm out. Like,
562. 24:31that's cowardly. And there's a lot of us
563. 24:33who deal with God in a very cowardly
564. 24:35way. And the reality is that you're not
565. 24:38going to get far in your spiritual life
566. 24:39if you deal with God in ways that are
567. 24:41cowardly. Tomorrow, we got day 3:15.
568. 24:45We're going to be looking at Job 11
569. 24:46through14. It's going to be fantastic.
570. 24:49We're going to continue looking at the
571. 24:51dialogue between Job and his friends. I
572. 24:54hope that this episode was helpful. If
573. 24:55you're on a streak, I'm proud of you.
574. 24:57Even if you're not, I love you. I'll see
575. 24:59you tomorrow, same time, same place.
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