Day 325: Job 40-42 | 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 325. It's our
9. 0:27last day in THE BOOK OF JOB. WE'RE
10. 0:29LOOKING AT JOB CHAPTERS 40, 41, and 42
11. 0:32today. I mean, BARS. GOD'S ABOUT TO SPIT
12. 0:38HOT FIRE, OKAY? AND I'M SUPER super
13. 0:40excited about it. What amazing chapters
14. 0:43of the Bible. I mean, God's going to
15. 0:45describe two chaos creatures, behemoth
16. 0:47and Leviathan. These this is just this
17. 0:50is peak mythological language in the
18. 0:54Bible. This image is actually derived
19. 0:56from God's Yahweh's description of
20. 0:59Leviathan that we are going to find here
21. 1:02at the end of the book of Job. Job 41 to
22. 1:06be precise. And I've got an
23. 1:08interpretation on these chapters that I
24. 1:10think is going to be helpful. This is
25. 1:13the thematic climax of the book. God is
26. 1:17about to instill tons of wisdom. And
27. 1:20unlike the end of speech one where Job's
28. 1:22response is, "Let me cover my mouth. I
29. 1:25got to stop talking." The end of speech
30. 1:27two, Job actually recantss his position,
31. 1:31repents and acknowledges that what he
32. 1:34had said about the Lord was incorrect.
33. 1:37Okay? And then Yahweh is going to
34. 1:39vindicate him and say that the his
35. 1:43friends are wrong. Okay? So, a lot of
36. 1:46things are going to happen in these
37. 1:48couple of chapters. I'm super super
38. 1:50excited about it. And big big idea,
39. 1:52okay, 30,000 ft idea is that the book of
40. 1:54Job is not designed for us to get to
41. 1:56know Job. The book of Job is actually
42. 1:59designed for us to get to know Yahweh,
43. 2:01to get to know God. And what God is
44. 2:03about to do in these very last chapters
45. 2:06is reveal himself in a serious way to
46. 2:09Job that he wants Job to understand him.
47. 2:13And by proxy, we get to understand God
48. 2:17uh because God is revealing himself to
49. 2:19Job. And so these are just invaluable
50. 2:22chapters of the Bible. And who doesn't
51. 2:24want, you know, really long description
52. 2:26on a fire breathing dragon? Like if
53. 2:29anyone doubts whether or not the Bible
54. 2:32and Game of Thrones has a lot in common,
55. 2:34just read Job chapter 41. Okay? Read
56. 2:37read Yahweh's description of Leviathan.
57. 2:40And there's a lot of people that would
58. 2:42suggest that Behemoth is a hippopotamus
59. 2:44and Leviathan is an alligator. That is
60. 2:47absolutely ridiculous. There's also a
61. 2:49lot of people who would kind of maybe
62. 2:51come from a exogetical perspective that
63. 2:54this is a description of Yahweh
64. 2:56conquering Leviathan and conquering
65. 2:58Behemoth. But the text does not say
66. 3:00that. Actually, I'm going to give an
67. 3:02interpretative or an exogetical
68. 3:04interpretation that lines up with Dr.
69. 3:07John Walton. He's a hero in the faith to
70. 3:10me. I've read almost all of his books. I
71. 3:13think that he's one of my favorite
72. 3:14scholars. And so, I'm gonna really I'm
73. 3:16gonna take Dr. John Walton's position
74. 3:18here and I'll kind of outline what that
75. 3:21looks like in a little bit. Now, if you
76. 3:23haven't done today's reading, shame on
77. 3:25you. Not as joking. I'm just joking.
78. 3:27Shame off you. Uh but shame on you. Uh
79. 3:29now, if you haven't done today's
80. 3:31reading, then I want you to stop the
81. 3:33video, pause the audio, go read Job
82. 3:35chapters 40, 41, and 42. If you've been
83. 3:38reading Job this time, this whole way
84. 3:40and don't want to read these last few
85. 3:42chapters, that's kind of crazy. So, get
86. 3:45the reading done. For the rest of us who
87. 3:47have done the reading, let's dive in.
88. 3:50All right. Now, Behemoth and Leviathan
89. 3:53are chaos creatures. Okay, this is
90. 3:55deeply mythological language. Okay,
91. 3:57which makes most modern people really,
92. 3:58really uncomfortable. But if you've been
93. 4:00rocking with us on this podcast for any
94. 4:02length of time, you know that the Bible
95. 4:04was written for us but not to us. Okay?
96. 4:08And in the ancient world, mythological
97. 4:10creatures are normal. Okay? uh whether
98. 4:13it's Mesopotamian or Babylonian or
99. 4:15Canaanite, you know, creation content,
100. 4:18the creator figure is always having to
101. 4:21subdue or conquer chaos creatures,
102. 4:24namely Rahab, Leviathan, all types of
103. 4:27chaos dragons and chaos monsters um in
104. 4:30order to start the creation process.
105. 4:31Okay, Genesis is different. Yahweh
106. 4:34doesn't have to do any of that. Yahweh
107. 4:36doesn't have to tame anything in order
108. 4:38to start creating. Okay. Actually,
109. 4:41Genesis chapter 1 is going to throw the
110. 4:43biggest curveball, the mind blown line
111. 4:47which says that God created the great
112. 4:49sea creatures. Like God created
113. 4:50Leviathan. Didn't have to conquer
114. 4:52Leviathan. He creates Leviathan and it's
115. 4:56a good part of his creation. Okay, that
116. 4:58is the curveball that mixed into this
117. 5:01ordered world is a form of chaos. Now,
118. 5:05Behemoth is a land animal. Leviathan is
119. 5:08a sea animal. Behemoth is going to take
120. 5:10up most of Job 40, specifically verses
121. 5:1315 to 24. And then Leviathan, we're
122. 5:17going to start the description on
123. 5:18Leviathan in Job chapter 41. Okay, I'm
124. 5:21going to mix in all that's all the
125. 5:23context that you need. Okay, now let's
126. 5:25dive into some nerdy nuggets. Let's
127. 5:26actually get into the text. Job 40:15.
128. 5:30Uh it says this, "Family, the wait is
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140. 6:04that the beauty of scripture is actually
141. 6:06knowing it in context, then you'll love
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143. 6:11chaos in your personal life, I think
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150. 6:25get a copy today. All right, back to the
151. 6:28episode. Job 40:15.
152. 6:32Look at behemoth, which I made. Here we
153. 6:35go. Key words. Along with you. Along
154. 6:39with you. That means he's a land animal.
155. 6:42And it means that you and Behemoth were
156. 6:44both made on day six of the creation
157. 6:47account. Okay? So, if you just take the
158. 6:49creation and then you want God to kind
159. 6:52of like zoom in on moments, okay? That's
160. 6:55what happens all through the Psalms that
161. 6:57there are these moments where we know
162. 7:00what God did in the seven days of
163. 7:01creation, but then God is going to zoom
164. 7:03in on a particular moment of the
165. 7:05creation and then give tons and tons and
166. 7:08tons of details and we get that in in
167. 7:11all kinds of places throughout the
168. 7:12Bible. Here's one. Okay, look at
169. 7:14Behemoth which I made along with you. So
170. 7:17there's now a correlation between Job
171. 7:20and Behemoth. Okay, God is using
172. 7:22behemoth to teach Job about what Job
173. 7:26needs to be like. Okay, so let's keep
174. 7:28going. Okay, which which and which feeds
175. 7:32on grass like an ox. Okay, that means at
176. 7:34the beginning of the story, Job is
177. 7:36wellfed. What strength it has in its
178. 7:38loins. What power in the muscles of its
179. 7:41belly. Its tail sways like a cedar. The
180. 7:45senus of its thighs are close-knit. Its
181. 7:48bones are tubes of bronze. its limbs
182. 7:50like rods of iron. It ranks first among
183. 7:53the works of God. Yet its maker can
184. 7:56approach it with his sword. Okay? So,
185. 8:00Job, you you're you're righteous. You're
186. 8:02blameless. I'm proud of you. And guess
187. 8:05what? I should be able to approach you.
188. 8:07Okay? The hills bring it their produce,
189. 8:10and all the wild animals play nearby.
190. 8:12Okay. What this is essentially a
191. 8:15description of Job prior to the Satan
192. 8:18figure being able to take Job's wealth
193. 8:22under the lotus plant. It lies hidden
194. 8:24among the reeds in the marsh. The
195. 8:26lotuses conceal it in their shadows. The
196. 8:29poppplers by the streams surround it. A
197. 8:31raging river does not alarm it. This is
198. 8:34what Yahweh is saying to Job. You have
199. 8:36now received or encountered a raging
200. 8:40river that threatens to drown you. But
201. 8:42you shouldn't be alarmed. Joe, be like
202. 8:46behemoth. Be strong. Okay. The raging
203. 8:48river does not alarm it. It is secure.
204. 8:50Though the Jordan should surge against
205. 8:53its mouth, can anyone capture it by the
206. 8:56eyes or trap it and pierce its nose? The
207. 9:00word nose in the ancient world is
208. 9:02synonymous with anger. Okay? Can anyone
209. 9:04make it angry? Can anyone and piercing
210. 9:08the nose is a symbol of like slavery.
211. 9:11Okay? And it's saying these friends of
212. 9:13yours shouldn't be able to get you this
213. 9:16hottempered. I need you to be like
214. 9:17behemoth. Now here's the next chapter 41
215. 9:20is going to start. Can you pull in
216. 9:22Leviathan with a fish hook or tie down
217. 9:25its tongue with a rope? Can you put a
218. 9:28cord through its nose or pierce its jaw
219. 9:31with a hook? Okay. So, and then it we're
220. 9:34going to talk you, you you you
221. 9:38can you make a pet of it like a bird is
222. 9:41verse 5. Verse 7, can you fill its hide
223. 9:44with harpoons? If you lay a hand on it,
224. 9:48you will remember the struggle and never
225. 9:49do it again. Nine, any hope of subduing
226. 9:53it is false. The mere sight of it is
227. 9:55overpowering. No one is fierce enough to
228. 9:57rouse it. Who then is able to stand
229. 10:00against me? Me. Verse 10, we get a
230. 10:04curveball. Everything has been you. You,
231. 10:07you, you, you. From Job 41:es 1 all the
232. 10:10way to verse 8, everything is you, you,
233. 10:14you, you, you. Look at all the look at
234. 10:16all the pronouns, okay? From verse one
235. 10:18all the way to verse 8. Can you? Can
236. 10:19you? Can you? Will you? Okay, can you?
237. 10:22And then all of a sudden in verse 10 and
238. 10:2411, things shift. No one is fierce
239. 10:28enough to rouse Leviathan. Who then is
240. 10:30able to stand against me? Yahweh. Verse
241. 10:3411. Who has a claim against me that I
242. 10:38must pay? Everything under heaven
243. 10:40belongs to me. So what is happening in
244. 10:43the text? Yahweh is saying Job is
245. 10:47behemoth and he is Leviathan. Yahweh is
246. 10:51comparing himself to Leviathan. We have
247. 10:55to conclude that because everything from
248. 10:58verse 1 to verse 8 of chapter 41 is you
249. 11:01you you you. And then verse 10, no one
250. 11:04is fierce enough to rouse Leviathan. Who
251. 11:06then is able to stand against me? God is
252. 11:09saying to Job is if you can't even
253. 11:11contend with Leviathan. The strongest
254. 11:13thing I've made, you definitely can't
255. 11:15contend with me. So here is the point.
256. 11:18Leviathan cannot be tamed. Leviathan
257. 11:20cannot be domesticated. Leviathan cannot
258. 11:22be controlled. Leviathan cannot be
259. 11:24controlled, subdued, harnessed, wounded,
260. 11:27cannot be forced. His mouth cannot be
261. 11:30forced open. Leviathan is wild.
262. 11:33Leviathan cannot be tamed, domesticated,
263. 11:36controlled, subdued, wounded, or
264. 11:38harnessed in any way. And guess what the
265. 11:41truth of the Bible is describing? It's
266. 11:44saying Yahweh in the same way cannot be
267. 11:47tamed. Yahweh cannot be tamed. Yahweh
268. 11:49cannot be domesticated. Yahweh cannot be
269. 11:50controlled. Yahweh cannot be subdued.
270. 11:52Yahweh cannot be wounded. Yahweh cannot
271. 11:54be harnessed. Yahweh's mouth cannot be
272. 11:56forced open. Yahweh is wild. This is
273. 12:02what Yahweh wants Job to understand. You
274. 12:05cannot act righteous and think that your
275. 12:09righteousness then manipulates me into
276. 12:12blessing you. I will not be manipulated.
277. 12:14I will not be controlled. I will not be
278. 12:17there's no formula to figure me out. I
279. 12:21will not be tamed. I am God. In the same
280. 12:26way that you cannot even tame Leviathan,
281. 12:29who I am astronomically stronger than,
282. 12:32astronomically
283. 12:35more wild than if you can't even tame
284. 12:38Leviathan, which is a created being, how
285. 12:41dare you think you can contra contain or
286. 12:44control me? God is using Leviathan as an
287. 12:48image to describe himself
288. 12:51and we get that from verses 10- 11.
289. 12:56Okay. So this description of Leviathan
290. 12:59is not really a description of
291. 13:01Leviathan. It's a description of Yahweh.
292. 13:05And that is what John Walton has
293. 13:07discovered that no one else that I've
294. 13:10read is it comes close to even talking
295. 13:12about this passage in Job chapter 41 is
296. 13:16not a passage about how God tames
297. 13:20Leviathan or or uh subdues Leviathan.
298. 13:23Nope. It's a passage about how Yahweh is
299. 13:26a lot like Leviathan. Now he's also
300. 13:30wholly other than Leviathan. He's not
301. 13:32like Leviathan in more ways than he's
302. 13:34like Leviathan. But what God is saying
303. 13:36is if you can't even subdue,
304. 13:39domesticate, or tame Leviathan, how dare
305. 13:42you think you can tame, subdue, or uh
306. 13:45tame, subdue, or control, or domesticate
307. 13:48me. All the things that Job cannot do to
308. 13:51Leviathan, Job also cannot do any of
309. 13:54these things to Yahweh. This is the
310. 13:58point. And once Job hears all of this,
311. 14:02he recantss and submits and acknowledges
312. 14:06that he had been presumptuous. He
313. 14:09thought that his righteousness could in
314. 14:12some way control or predict outcomes for
315. 14:16what Yahweh would do for him and to him.
316. 14:19Which means he was not being righteous
317. 14:21for righteous sake. He was being
318. 14:24righteous as a means to an end. And if
319. 14:27we're all honest, we're all the same.
320. 14:30Which means the message for Job is also
321. 14:32a message message for you and I. God
322. 14:35cannot be manipulated. God cannot be
323. 14:39tamed. God cannot be controlled. I I
324. 14:42want you to think about this because for
325. 14:43a lot of us, the point of understanding
326. 14:46someone or understanding something is so
327. 14:49that you can manipulate it, right? A
328. 14:50mechanic can manipulate a car. So
329. 14:53mechanics understand cars so that they
330. 14:55can take them apart, put them back
331. 14:56together and and the engineers
332. 14:59manipulate things. That that's what they
333. 15:00do, right? The point of the Bible is to
334. 15:04actually get you to a place where you
335. 15:05realize God cannot in any way be
336. 15:09controlled at all. And that thing in you
337. 15:12that wants to control others or control
338. 15:17God or to control your life, that's the
339. 15:20thing that needs to die because he's
340. 15:22Leviathan. He's untameable. He's wild.
341. 15:24He's uncontrollable. He's uncontainable.
342. 15:26And you cannot use your good deeds in in
343. 15:30order to try to predict how he is going
344. 15:34to bless you in in the universe. That is
345. 15:39a recipe for being disappointed by God.
346. 15:42If you think, "Yep, if I pull this
347. 15:43lever, if I do this, I can get this."
348. 15:46Yep. Nope. Wrong. So, what's our Thomas
349. 15:49Truth for the day? I'll tell you our
350. 15:50Thomas truth. Uh, it's actually I'm
351. 15:52going to quote uh of two passages from
352. 15:55the line of the witch in the wardrobe.
353. 15:57This is CS Lewis. And I don't know what
354. 15:59CS Lewis's stance is on Job chapter 41.
355. 16:02If he thought that Yahweh was describing
356. 16:04himself through this mythological
357. 16:07feature uh creature that we know as
358. 16:08Leviathan, I have no idea. But man, does
359. 16:11CS Lewis nail it in the lion, the witch
360. 16:14in the wardrobe. I'll read two quotes.
361. 16:16Here's the first. This is uh CS Lewis
362. 16:19describing Alan, the lion, the god
363. 16:22figure in the lion, the witch in the
364. 16:24wardrobe. It says, "He'll be coming and
365. 16:25going. One day you'll see him and
366. 16:28another you won't. He doesn't like being
367. 16:31tied down. And of course, he has other
368. 16:35countries to attend to. It's quite all
369. 16:37right. He'll often drop in. Only you
370. 16:40mustn't press him. He's wild, you know.
371. 16:43Not like a tame lion. You mustn't press
372. 16:49him. He's wild, you know. Not like a
373. 16:53tame lion. If there was a t-shirt for
374. 16:56the book of Job, I think the t-shirt
375. 16:58should just have Leviathan on it and it
376. 17:00say, "You must impress him. You must
377. 17:03impress him. He's wild." You know, he's
378. 17:06not a tame lion. He's not a tamed
379. 17:10Leviathan. He's wild. There's this other
380. 17:13quote uh from Lion Witch in the
381. 17:15Wardrobe. Mr. Beaver famously tells the
382. 17:17children, "Safe?"
383. 17:20It's like the kids are asking, "Is Alan
384. 17:22safe?" safe. Question mark. Who said
385. 17:25anything about safe? Of course he isn't
386. 17:29safe, but he's good. He's the king. I
387. 17:32tell you, most of us want a safe god. We
388. 17:35want a tamed god. We want a god that we
389. 17:37can control, which means we really want
390. 17:39a genie. We really just want like a
391. 17:41magician to like do magic tricks for us.
392. 17:43If it's a magician or a genie, guess
393. 17:45what? You're still in control. Aladdin
394. 17:48is in control of the genie. That's the
395. 17:51whole point. And now we really want a
396. 17:54genie. We want to be in control to free
397. 17:57the genie if we want to. We want to be
398. 17:59Aladdin. And the book of Job is a
399. 18:03reminder God's wild. God's not tamed.
400. 18:06Your righteousness doesn't get God to do
401. 18:09anything. Now that I'm a lead pastor for
402. 18:11the first time in my life, I now am
403. 18:13realizing there are people not at our
404. 18:16church. I prayed that they are not in
405. 18:18our church. eventually they will be who
406. 18:20think that the more they tithe the more
407. 18:23it will give them influence at church
408. 18:25like if they tithe a lot if they give a
409. 18:29lot they could determine like what I
410. 18:30preach or like they they could have a
411. 18:32say in like what I do and there's a part
412. 18:35of me that wants to be like [laughter]
413. 18:37you will not tame me you will not
414. 18:39domesticate me I am wild and guess what
415. 18:43you want me to stay that way because the
416. 18:46moment you try to tame me or domesticate
417. 18:48me if I was tame or domesticated, I
418. 18:50wouldn't be able to move to a city I've
419. 18:53never lived in and live amongst
420. 18:55strangers and just start a church. That
421. 18:57that's something that pioneers do. And
422. 19:01if you try to tame me, you'll actually
423. 19:04be denying the very thing that is able
424. 19:09to get a church up off the ground. Like
425. 19:12in a lot of us, that's what we do with
426. 19:14God. We think if I tithe or if I give or
427. 19:17if I serve or if I this or if I that,
428. 19:20it'll be a hedge of protection around
429. 19:21me. And then you need a book like Job to
430. 19:25come around and say, "No, no, no, no.
431. 19:28The universe is a wild place. The world
432. 19:30is a wild place. Life is wild. God is
433. 19:34wild." And if you're in this because you
434. 19:38want safe, predictable, like
435. 19:42domesticated like like faith, this ain't
436. 19:45the place. I'm sorry. And so, let's deal
437. 19:48with the epilogue. Couple things about
438. 19:50the epilogue. Elahoo is not reprimanded
439. 19:53in the epilogue. Job repents, but his
440. 19:55friends do not. And that is actually why
441. 19:59Yahweh is going to say in verse 7, after
442. 20:03the Lord had said these things to Job,
443. 20:05he said to Elephaz, who I think is a
444. 20:07representative of all the friends, I am
445. 20:10angry with you and your two friends
446. 20:12because you have not spoken the truth
447. 20:15about me as my servant Job has. Now,
448. 20:17let's think about this. Job has said
449. 20:19untrue things about Yahweh in the full
450. 20:23context of the book. But what has Job
451. 20:24done? Job comes to a place in chapter
452. 20:2742:1 where he says this. Then Job
453. 20:30replied to the Lord, I know that you can
454. 20:32do all things. No purpose of yours can
455. 20:34be thwarted. You asked, "Who is this
456. 20:37that obscures my plans without
457. 20:38knowledge? Surely I spoke of things I
458. 20:40did not understand, things too wonderful
459. 20:42for me to know." You said, "Listen now,
460. 20:44and I will speak. I will question you,
461. 20:45and you shall answer me." My ears had
462. 20:48heard of you, but now my eyes have seen
463. 20:50you. Therefore, I despise myself and
464. 20:53repent in dust and ashes. At the end of
465. 20:56the first speech, Job does not repent.
466. 20:58But at the end of the second speech, Job
467. 21:00repents because now what has happened?
468. 21:03My ears had heard of you, but now my
469. 21:06eyes have seen you. He now knows
470. 21:09something about God that he did not know
471. 21:11before. He thought that God could be
472. 21:14tamed by his good actions. And now he
473. 21:17knows my righteousness is as filthy rags
474. 21:21before the Lord. My righteousness gets
475. 21:23me nothing. And now why does God restore
476. 21:26everything to Job? Because Job comes to
477. 21:29the realization that God is not obliged
478. 21:31to do anything. But that blessing from
479. 21:35the Lord is just that, a gift. It's not
480. 21:39a reward for righteousness, but it's a
481. 21:42gift. And it's unpredictable and it's
482. 21:45wild. And when you begin to realize
483. 21:47everything's a gift and I hold
484. 21:49everything lightly and it could be gone
485. 21:51tomorrow and I deserve death, hell, and
486. 21:56the grave. But somehow in God's
487. 21:58untameable, unpredictable
488. 22:01wisdom, he decided to gift me with
489. 22:05blessings. He decided to gift me. It's
490. 22:07not anything I worked to achieve, but it
491. 22:10is something that I will gladly receive.
492. 22:13And now that Job has been transformed,
493. 22:16now God restores everything. And the
494. 22:20restoration is not as if the pain of
495. 22:24losing his children is not real. But the
496. 22:27pain of the suffering was there to
497. 22:30transform Job into the kind of person
498. 22:32that no longer thinks that he's entitled
499. 22:36to the things that he's worked for
500. 22:38because of his righteousness. But now he
501. 22:41can actually just receive blessing from
502. 22:43God as a gift that is completely
503. 22:46unpredictable, wild, and untameable. And
504. 22:49when you get there, when you get to the
505. 22:52point of life's untameable, God's wild,
506. 22:55he's not able to be domesticated, you
507. 22:58will know something about God that you
508. 23:00didn't know before. And that is what the
509. 23:03book of Job is actually all about. I
510. 23:07hope that you encounter the wild
511. 23:10untameable power of God. that you would
512. 23:13not through your prayers or through your
513. 23:17actions try to manipulate God in any
514. 23:21way, shape, or form, but that you would
515. 23:23actually have a relationship with the
516. 23:26God of the universe. Not a genie that
517. 23:29does your bidding, but God. And if God
518. 23:33sees fit to take everything away, then
519. 23:36guess what? I trust his wisdom. And if
520. 23:38God sees fit to open up the storehouses
521. 23:40of the heavens and bless me in ways that
522. 23:42I can't, I have room enough to receive,
523. 23:45I'll receive it. And that I think is the
524. 23:48entire book of Job. AND THAT [screaming]
525. 23:51that gets me fired up. I don't want some
526. 23:53neutered God. I want a God that actually
527. 23:56has real power. And I think that if we
528. 23:58can fall in love with the real God of
529. 24:00the Bible and not the God of our
530. 24:01imaginations, we could actually know
531. 24:03him. And to know him is to love him.
532. 24:06That's our timeless truth FOR THE DAY.
533. 24:07>> TOMORROW WE GOT A BRAND NEW BOOK OF THE
534. 24:09BIBLE. TIME TO TALK ABOUT SEX, BABY. NO,
535. 24:12I'm just playing. We gonna get into the
536. 24:14book of Song of Songs. It's going to be
537. 24:16fantastic. We got Song of Songs,
538. 24:18chapters 1, 2, and three on the docket
539. 24:20tomorrow here on day 326 on the Bible
540. 24:25department. Can't wait to see you. Love
541. 24:27you guys. Peace. Thanks so much for
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