The Sermon Life Isn't Fair by David McGee
Mar 11, 2012
Life Isn't Fair (34:06)
Referenced Scriptures: Job 1:1-8; Revelation 12:7-10
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Job 1:1-8
1) There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
2) There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
3) His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
4) His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5) It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Job continually.
6) Now it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.
7) Yahweh said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
8) Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
Revelation 12:7-10
7) There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
8) They didn‘t prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in heaven.
9) The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
10) I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
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For the Bible, Job, chapter one and the title of my message to his wife isn't there an sometimes we think that life should be fair, we think that if we do good things, good things happen. We do bad things that seems that, and that's generally how we are raised. If you are raised in a family you know you're your parents or our who's ever correcting safety do bad things, yet are you are you funny. She's a good thing Shirley rewarded and basically how I checked the and child. When we look at our life, though, and we look at how that seemingly the wicked get ahead or how that people who do a lot of good things with their life. Somehow, they may end up with bad things happening in their life. We began to wonder if we begin to wonder what is this about and how is it that God is at work if he is not taking care of the people who have been good and bad things happen to them, and all I got Rabbi Saul Law will not reminisce on a rep, Rabbi Hirsch Kershner, why, why do good people, so whenever we think of these things are all we are challenged and most the time we come back to Joe when things are going really bad people read the book of Job and that things are not going really bad. I'm just coming to the book of Job. I saw it is like you guys. I read back surgery. My wife was laid up with a way and because not enough. It is because of that that I chose this this morning, but that life is not fair and that we don't understand why bad things happen to good people and we don't understand why certain things happen the way they do in our lives, but we know this is a Christian and as a follower of Jesus Christ all that God is with us, and that God will give us the strength to see us through, and God will give us the direction and all I because we are dealers and hope and out. I was thinking as I was praying. Last week we mentioned that whenever we have the ability to create. We have the ability to create our words create something our words create encouragement. Our words create despair, our words create relationships at all words break them, and it is inside of us as Christians we have the ability to create whole and very hopeless situations. So whatever we are caught in this mental picture of mental dilemma on life isn't fair. We have to look at what we are saying how they are saying and what we are expecting solid job chapter one hour reverses one through five and job José was able to change the from the message bottle right after the NIV. Usually I read the message Bible. But last night, my printer wouldn't print off the heat was out of it, so I usually print out the Bible the version I'm going to read and then have it here and then it was a label put it up while I couldn't read anything last night, so were doing the NIV read our book. Okay, so we read the NIV Job, chapter one verses one through five in the land of Oz, there lived a man whose name was Joe, this man was blameless and upright in fear God and shuns evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys and have a large number of service. It was the greatest man among all the people. The East 's sons used to take turns holding feast of their homes and they wouldn't buy three sisters, Louise and drink with them. When I paragraph anything had run out run its course job would send it have been purified early in the morning he was sacrificed burnt offerings for each of them, thinking perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. This was Job 's regular custom. So what we have here is Jolie as the Donald Trump of obvious line. All or maybe it outnumbers the wealthiest man in the world at this time. I told was that individual, and I often refer to Job in whenever whenever I think of death, and whenever I think of recovery that Joe says that no though my body be destroyed into your and the King James as though my body being warns that my body be destroyed and the earth, yet in my flesh I will see God, and not that it will be me and not another job believes in the resurrection job believes and how that when life was over long after he has departed this earth, and his flesh has disappeared that there will come a time when he will see his reading work with his own eyes. Now that no other books written job is considered one of the oldest books of the Bible. That is one of the first books written and so he didn't have the writings of Moses and of the law all that going on what he is faced with here is the reality of his relationship with God versus the realities of life that is, so so quickly out of nowhere to devastate his life to take from him everything that he possesses, and it is in this situation that we have the story of Joe. He is a very real person in a very real timeframe. Now a couple of a couple of old tidbits that job is the one. This is my Redeemer sit upon the circle your now a jobless time frame when John was written the knee of astrologers and the people who are really understood the solar system believed that a giant Atlas knowledge Island Journal was going across the cosmos with a giant man standing on the back of the turtle carrying the air, which was a flat surface jobs as my Redeemer sin upon the circle beer. So Joe yelled whenever you start looking at the Scriptures and start seeing how that yell the popular thought at that time. Job said entirely different gossip on the circle of your help in the Big Blue marble that we think about the job understood that he had that insight so if we ever send it to ourselves. No life isn't fair, and the implication is that God is in fair that somehow I don't deserve this. I've been good. I've done the right things wasn't for me and for my actions. Other people would have problems in their life. And we've been able to help them. And yet somehow we end up with the short end of the stick in people simple words, a shortened this to come from while comes from drawing straws of the guy gets a shortage draws the one stuck doing and seeing up with the short end of the stick. So, what are yells, we look at. I think of the song our world with our our our world puts out there. Only the good die young, but heard that song. So what is that promoting, I don't want a big why is that I'm not Diane L any evening parade meant I often say don't count when you targeted about death with children while don't tell children that God died because of I got one of them, and then God took them so what you're saying is that this child is that God loved grandpa so he took any stolen from us and and having a detailed and stolen from us and took him from because what the job would you tell a child. While not I don't want, I got nominated him from jumping at night when I'm sleeping a so we have to be careful how we describe death to children younger talk about it. We don't hide it. We tell them your grandpa 's heart had a problem in his heart stopped beating and I'm in his heart LP die and then he went home to be with God. God income and still it because you love them and took them someplace else. So you couldn't haven't within my love, grandpa enough if I love grandpa Morgana taken when thinking of a little child by the Sutherland license from the mouth. I anyhow, I got was something we did the very same thing and they any idea that their UIM brand-new car paid for cash. Carve your dreams and your sitting here listening to me and and the knock at the door comes in the state trooper and says it all stuff such car was stolen from your parking lot. No, my gosh, that's my brand-new car stage of her Citizen K we found a guy who stole it. He made it a block down the road. He ran into a tree. So what you cannot make sure this is required so there you are my brand-new cars fronted trio walked down the street as there is life there is my car wrapped around a tree and the trooper says, I want to live. This is the man who sold your car when she welcomed him a big hug and tell new level I thought was that I am going to do that. So the idea, then, is not always, we'll look at this with you the very same thing with God while Gaudio and God is and is not of God is not fair in life is not a control, and we somehow think while you come to church and tell God love you. You are right, you know, here's a God who messed up my life and now he went on the church 's insoluble loving and an admitted that the child is Dennis Ross to understand that even though God submitted an all-powerful, all-knowing, omniscient, all of her all-knowing God. He is still in control of all things that yet we still control how we respond to things and going back to the idea that things happen to bring things that happen in our life bring out stoppage inside of us, and sometimes it's the stop inside of us that need help with some of that stuff is left over from events and that happened long time ago in our lives. We've never dealt with and we need to deal with those things in a healing way. Any handling way that sets us free from them is a killer logic about God is he's either unfair or he is powerless. See if there is an all-knowing, all-powerful God, and there are things going on in this planet. This world. So either God is unfair or he is powerless on it. Some people believe that God God created this world any throw out there to let it do its thing and no come back someday and and straighten it all out. Until then, he's done nothing to do with all those are all misnomers and wrong concepts. False teachers invite people to come to the master 's table because of what's on it, not because they love the master if they are entertainers, all through the Bible. One story turns to when things are really rock with the book is the story of Joe and the story about spiritual battles the rage over each of our lives in one of the things we find out if that our life is more than what it appears to be no, our world would like us to think that we are the greatest of all evolution. We've evolved to the highest position that possibly can be, and therefore we are the supreme being in our lives determining what happens and what doesn't happen and it's all about me, I've done it my way. I got to the top, and I put one guy said you climb to the top of the lateral and find out it was against the wrong building, and the health of our life that we are looking at and how that we are building our life and we wanted to be of value, but in John chapter one verse six and seven. Then it says one day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. The Lord said to Satan, where have you come from, and Satan answered the Lord from rubbing for the Europe and going back and forth and it. So here we have Satan 's desire to make war against all who have become friends of God, and also in the Scripture we find that Satan evil can only go so far is still accountable and he still has a start to get permission. You see, most Christians don't recognize that they have an enemy or even all that they have an enemy, the evil intent is to steal the killer to destroy everything that brings honor to God. So let me desire to serve God are there going to be problems in our life, but there are problems in everybody's life. There are people I know I said I deal with individuals who are terminally ill, and some people have great faith and some people have no faith in the ROM. There are about to die in both situations they will certainly die with their illness. But after conference on conclusion about what's going on in their faith and no one individual. I use this said this last week was that he said that I have to know about his fate is as yet. I believe in God have his picture on the wall it off and it's in it, and if you know I'm right& funding is a recent photo of and it off so I can ask it now is a recent photo, video, God together now assisted in a portrait in a bunch. The sad thing was that was his entire faith. That's all that admirable woman had no I'm not saying it was it was memorable. Leona, but it was young was all that that individual possessed with a picture of a young and I'm going to have a live picture on the wall, so our intent is to find out what God wants in our life and the enemy of our soul. The unity of God, the likes with trying to trip us up and get us all mixed up in our faith and in mixed up about what's going on a member years ago when I was a guy who worked of our farm and we're talking about because we always with church, always with the church and is this guy. He said what you know, I would believe in God, except for one. One reason I get this answer. I would go to church, I thought, well, well, maybe I can help. Not phenomenal fourteen years old when ever, I hope what your question is where did Locke get his wife. What is not my wife is not a lot being anything illegal. I think Illinois can get his wife that we know where Kate is why they did what I don't know I said while there is a remedy and enter zones can enable and he and Caitlin Cahill, the Golden King had had a family work life. That's what's keeping you from believing in God bio comes to find out in those days women were of no purpose. So sorry and that no Christianity gave placed the ladies, who was a very Christian, Christianity, there would be women when have about now look at the Middle East. So that's left over from there. But anyhow, we see how we see how that people have can create their own barriers create their own wall. If I could just find this out and evidently are the answer that it limited job with another question is but a revelation chapter twelve, verses seven through nine in verse seventeen it says this and that was the war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the drag and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he, Satan was not strong enough and they lost their place in heaven as one who talks about the battle of good and evil that Satan desires worship and he and his own pride desires to rule over heaven and earth, and he wants to take God 's place while he's a created being, and he loses the battle they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, who leaves the whole world is I was heartily and his angels with him, then the Dragon was enraged and went off to make war against those who obey God 's command commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ isn't it interesting that in the book of Revelation. It also said they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, that whenever we are confronted with evil. Anyone is not an imagine imagine a imaginary enemy. It was a very real enemy that has a very real presence in our society and in our lives just as God is a very real God who has a very real presence in our society and in our lives. You know it's interesting how that we can be influenced. Either way in the world and right, go for this one is when Peter, Jesus says who do men say that I am appears as one hour to Christ, the son of the living God and Jesus as the Peter wow that's magnificent flesh and blood hasn't revealed that you, my father in heaven than Jesus goes on to say, well noted that another Jerusalem exhibit the highest and Peter says of all, you cannot happen. And Jesus does appear to say get the behind the state so in one moment is influenced by God. In the next moment he's influenced by evil, and Peter doesn't even know Peter is a design like what is going on here. How could such a thing happen and Emily reluctantly things in our life we know that there are certain times in our life when we done things in while that wasn't that wasn't too smart to him. I'm a few sandwiches short of a picnic basket like that one of a few sandwiches short of a picnic, but the idea is we learn from our experiences. We learn in the Scriptures the things that are important to us that Satan can only go as far as God permits verses six and seven of Job, chapter one, says that the Angels came deployments out the game and before God and Satan was there these accountable to God 's sake, it can only go as far as Doctor met God will always be with us and he will help us and he will guide us through his Word through his testimony. Our lives that are Satan considers God as his enemy, and he tried to hinder God 's work in people, but is limited is limited. IMO doesn't know what you're thinking it will doesn't know what you're thinking or able can only read your action. He will only knows what you say. That's why the Scriptures tell us to speak the word to pray the word to allow the word to be in our hearts and lives. Jesus overcame evil by quoting the Scripture in understanding the Scripture. It's important for us to know what the Scriptures mean what the Scriptures mean for life and what the intent of the Scriptures is when it is given by by God, and especially the New Testament out of the Holy Spirit revealed these things unto the disciples, and until the early church. We do not need to confuse fame with success. I found this an instance like Madonna 's famous book, Billy, Billy Graham is successful. Donald Trump is famous, Helen Keller, successful receipt. Joe is successful is successful and that what he has built his built in his life by his relationship with God his relationship with God says a family on what type of the real what type of a God. This is, and if you read through the book of Job there is a number of individuals who always try to convince Joe that he did something wrong. CNN goes into our arm mentality. Life isn't fair that it means that I get all the right things. I don't deserve this. Just like Joe he he done all the right things and he was the wealthiest man of his time is the most influential, most wealthiest man of his time. And so the people there. Understanding those three friends show up in a straight friends try to comfort Job by telling him you did something wrong, because if you had done something wrong. This wouldn't happen. The end. That's the mentality that tells us that life is unfair because if life is fair. Then you wouldn't. You would be in this problem, you would have these troubles, but we find that with with God. God has a way of turning Bible says all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose that no matter how life seems to be unfair dog can take the most the worst of situations and turn around to be the best of things in our life, because we are about the kingdom of God, not about the kingdom of David, your kingdom, Lara, the kingdom of our of a political party or on on a community. God is about working in our life to build the kingdom of God. And as we find God building the kingdom of God in us. We find that we are part of other individuals working for the same goal to build the kingdom of God, not only here but around the world called the body of Christ. You see an evil understood and knew everything they were never kept the job I've never taken from all all the things he opened a life because the outcome was God gave back to Joe Emrick double and double what he had when you've lost and the book of job was as a story to us in illustration to us that we don't always understand we can trust God no matter where we are at in our life. If you understood everything were never had Jesus Christ crucified if him all understood with never had Christ crucified, because it was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The blood of the Lamb of God, whose sin is what takes away the sin of the world and it is our relationship with Jesus Christ 's resurrection from the dead, that gives us hope in our life in this life and in the life to come. So it IMO were all that intelligent now is better than more intelligent than us a more powerful than us, but God in us gives us the strength to overcome evil God in us gives us the string to look at the things that surface in our life and deal with them in a healing way. Everything that happened to us, perhaps even is no English children. We didn't deserve didn't deserve it to happen that way that God has a way to heal the brokenhearted, to heal the woundedness inside of us to be the healer inside of us. Such yell setbacks tragedy sorrows strike Christians as well as non-Christians business review. This is a rainfall than the just and the unjust, that that means that they lessened blessings fall upon the just and the unjust cousin, the Middle East rain is a blessing enough around here. It rains, it is room the okay, now, but in the Middle East. There is no water. And when it rains, they are. They are extremely thankful and the blessings of rain fall on the just and the unjust. So now hard in our hearts. God is at work to change us from the inside out. The way we respond to our trials of our troubles with basically two responses. Blimey, God, God use me know why Magog regarded newsman, so wherever I'm at matter what tribal or trial comes my way. What good is coming out of this and what good comes out of it is. I can look at what I'm doing. But you see are just that our trials bring to the surface things that are inside of and the things inside of us. It isn't that person that needs dealt with its name, it needs down because I'm the one in charge of my life and I cannot allow other people to dictate how I'm going to respond with what's going on in the music ended. These the VIP of evil is to bring about separation between you and God and God 's idea is to bring the closeness between us and with things inside of a surface whenever we feel that life is unfair. We began to challenge the very core of our faith that God doesn't love me or God doesn't care or God somehow is out of control when none of those things are true God is in control. We even sad thing is, he empowers us to deal with life. If we try why in our own package in our own understanding. We end up hurting or destroy ourselves and always is it's it's it's kind of funny. Not fun, God will always give us another opportunity to experience those same emotions and deal with them in a different way or deal with them in the same way that that message is about the children of Israel come the promise land got to go in and get it and they say object colors, Giants, and when and they disobey God may take a forty year trip with a forty year trip remained up coming back to the very same spot with the very same command. Galway: take the promised land. The driver noticed that some of the things were just always making a trip back to the same level in the same place and we get the same experience many different people, different setting, but it's the same emotions that are brought to the surface as like okay David, did you do with this yet. Did you deal with this yet. Did you did you allow my spirit to work in your life to clean this up in your life or is it still there and so we end with those challenges as they come. The last agency adversity strengthens real thing because adversity calls us to draw upon that which is not just greater than ourselves, and that is God. God is fully aware of every attempt by able to bring suffering and difficulty into our lives and the lives of others and the world around us, but God has never caught off twice never caught his never surprise God isn't surprised by what goes on in your life God has already gone before us on this path to give us what we need to complete turn complete the walk to go through the day is already there. We just have to recognize that he is there to walk with us were not alone in this and Joe verse twenty. He didn't high his overwhelming grief. It was devastated by his losses. It was devastated by his losses and in our study were hard on Job 's wife. When he says the person she says Chris God, and I should just lost all of her children. She just lost everything in a house in her social status. She just lost everything. She was a woman, and extreme grief and that's what happened. Sometimes in great dislike, but the pain was too much to bear and God doesn't God has a way of healing the broken hearted and if you go through the book of Job in the company, and I don't know, doing work on the book of Job, but to go to the end of the book Job sees God. He knows everything is okay and in our relationship. Whenever we come to that for every letter of our relationship with God, and we know he is with us. Everything is okay. No matter what the tragedies. The matter what the problem matter what the difficulties, no matter what surfaces in our life if we can just see God, and know that God is with us. There is a piece that he gives us there is an understanding of the places in our mind and in our hearts that it's okay and were safe. Anything that safety Internet security. We know life isn't fair. But God is with me every step of the way the it's all said and done, every new mobile every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, so I'm the one that's responsible for my life and my responses and no matter how much I try, I can play I can blame it on the guy who pulled out in front of me can't blame my wife can blame it on my kids can blame a lot of people can't blame the government can, it's me. So how then do I deal with me and get rid of the garbage that comes in life. How do how do you purify gold heated up and what happens when you heat up goals and buying your domain. What you do with your gold. Okay, what do you have any handful the junk comes the top when the junk comes the top you say all the gold is worthless and throw it all out. The heat causes the goal to liquefy the liquid gold bubbles and the impurities of the gold come to the surface and sometimes in our life when we are in trials. The impurities from the surface, but the pure. This is beneath the impurities. So what we do is we take off the dredges, we take off the garbage. What's left is incurable and in our life. Sometimes in the heated moments with AC things coming to the surface while that's okay. God help me to deal with the state to get rid of them because underneath it is really who I am, God loves me in spite of all the dredges of all the garbage in our life and his spirit and his work come to take away the garbage in our life and to continue to purify us in our relationship with him. I relationship with others. We continue to make a difference because we have the ability to create love, create friendship, create home with our wordsFor the Bible, Job, chapter one and the title of my message to his wife isn't there an sometimes we think that life should be fair, we think that if we do good things, good things happen. We do bad things that seems that, and that's generally how we are raised. If you are raised in a family you know you're your parents or our who's ever correcting safety do bad things, yet are you are you funny. She's a good thing Shirley rewarded and basically how I checked the and child. When we look at our life, though, and we look at how that seemingly the wicked get ahead or how that people who do a lot of good things with their life. Somehow, they may end up with bad things happening in their life. We began to wonder if we begin to wonder what is this about and how is it that God is at work if he is not taking care of the people who have been good and bad things happen to them, and all I got Rabbi Saul Law will not reminisce on a rep, Rabbi Hirsch Kershner, why, why do good people, so whenever we think of these things are all we are challenged and most the time we come back to Joe when things are going really bad people read the book of Job and that things are not going really bad. I'm just coming to the book of Job. I saw it is like you guys. I read back surgery. My wife was laid up with a way and because not enough. It is because of that that I chose this this morning, but that life is not fair and that we don't understand why bad things happen to good people and we don't understand why certain things happen the way they do in our lives, but we know this is a Christian and as a follower of Jesus Christ all that God is with us, and that God will give us the strength to see us through, and God will give us the direction and all I because we are dealers and hope and out. I was thinking as I was praying. Last week we mentioned that whenever we have the ability to create. We have the ability to create our words create something our words create encouragement. Our words create despair, our words create relationships at all words break them, and it is inside of us as Christians we have the ability to create whole and very hopeless situations. So whatever we are caught in this mental picture of mental dilemma on life isn't fair. We have to look at what we are saying how they are saying and what we are expecting solid job chapter one hour reverses one through five and job José was able to change the from the message bottle right after the NIV. Usually I read the message Bible. But last night, my printer wouldn't print off the heat was out of it, so I usually print out the Bible the version I'm going to read and then have it here and then it was a label put it up while I couldn't read anything last night, so were doing the NIV read our book. Okay, so we read the NIV Job, chapter one verses one through five in the land of Oz, there lived a man whose name was Joe, this man was blameless and upright in fear God and shuns evil. He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys and have a large number of service. It was the greatest man among all the people. The East 's sons used to take turns holding feast of their homes and they wouldn't buy three sisters, Louise and drink with them. When I paragraph anything had run out run its course job would send it have been purified early in the morning he was sacrificed burnt offerings for each of them, thinking perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. This was Job 's regular custom. So what we have here is Jolie as the Donald Trump of obvious line. All or maybe it outnumbers the wealthiest man in the world at this time. I told was that individual, and I often refer to Job in whenever whenever I think of death, and whenever I think of recovery that Joe says that no though my body be destroyed into your and the King James as though my body being warns that my body be destroyed and the earth, yet in my flesh I will see God, and not that it will be me and not another job believes in the resurrection job believes and how that when life was over long after he has departed this earth, and his flesh has disappeared that there will come a time when he will see his reading work with his own eyes. Now that no other books written job is considered one of the oldest books of the Bible. That is one of the first books written and so he didn't have the writings of Moses and of the law all that going on what he is faced with here is the reality of his relationship with God versus the realities of life that is, so so quickly out of nowhere to devastate his life to take from him everything that he possesses, and it is in this situation that we have the story of Joe. He is a very real person in a very real timeframe. Now a couple of a couple of old tidbits that job is the one. This is my Redeemer sit upon the circle your now a jobless time frame when John was written the knee of astrologers and the people who are really understood the solar system believed that a giant Atlas knowledge Island Journal was going across the cosmos with a giant man standing on the back of the turtle carrying the air, which was a flat surface jobs as my Redeemer sin upon the circle beer. So Joe yelled whenever you start looking at the Scriptures and start seeing how that yell the popular thought at that time. Job said entirely different gossip on the circle of your help in the Big Blue marble that we think about the job understood that he had that insight so if we ever send it to ourselves. No life isn't fair, and the implication is that God is in fair that somehow I don't deserve this. I've been good. I've done the right things wasn't for me and for my actions. Other people would have problems in their life. And we've been able to help them. And yet somehow we end up with the short end of the stick in people simple words, a shortened this to come from while comes from drawing straws of the guy gets a shortage draws the one stuck doing and seeing up with the short end of the stick. So, what are yells, we look at. I think of the song our world with our our our world puts out there. Only the good die young, but heard that song. So what is that promoting, I don't want a big why is that I'm not Diane L any evening parade meant I often say don't count when you targeted about death with children while don't tell children that God died because of I got one of them, and then God took them so what you're saying is that this child is that God loved grandpa so he took any stolen from us and and having a detailed and stolen from us and took him from because what the job would you tell a child. While not I don't want, I got nominated him from jumping at night when I'm sleeping a so we have to be careful how we describe death to children younger talk about it. We don't hide it. We tell them your grandpa 's heart had a problem in his heart stopped beating and I'm in his heart LP die and then he went home to be with God. God income and still it because you love them and took them someplace else. So you couldn't haven't within my love, grandpa enough if I love grandpa Morgana taken when thinking of a little child by the Sutherland license from the mouth. I anyhow, I got was something we did the very same thing and they any idea that their UIM brand-new car paid for cash. Carve your dreams and your sitting here listening to me and and the knock at the door comes in the state trooper and says it all stuff such car was stolen from your parking lot. No, my gosh, that's my brand-new car stage of her Citizen K we found a guy who stole it. He made it a block down the road. He ran into a tree. So what you cannot make sure this is required so there you are my brand-new cars fronted trio walked down the street as there is life there is my car wrapped around a tree and the trooper says, I want to live. This is the man who sold your car when she welcomed him a big hug and tell new level I thought was that I am going to do that. So the idea, then, is not always, we'll look at this with you the very same thing with God while Gaudio and God is and is not of God is not fair in life is not a control, and we somehow think while you come to church and tell God love you. You are right, you know, here's a God who messed up my life and now he went on the church 's insoluble loving and an admitted that the child is Dennis Ross to understand that even though God submitted an all-powerful, all-knowing, omniscient, all of her all-knowing God. He is still in control of all things that yet we still control how we respond to things and going back to the idea that things happen to bring things that happen in our life bring out stoppage inside of us, and sometimes it's the stop inside of us that need help with some of that stuff is left over from events and that happened long time ago in our lives. We've never dealt with and we need to deal with those things in a healing way. Any handling way that sets us free from them is a killer logic about God is he's either unfair or he is powerless. See if there is an all-knowing, all-powerful God, and there are things going on in this planet. This world. So either God is unfair or he is powerless on it. Some people believe that God God created this world any throw out there to let it do its thing and no come back someday and and straighten it all out. Until then, he's done nothing to do with all those are all misnomers and wrong concepts. False teachers invite people to come to the master 's table because of what's on it, not because they love the master if they are entertainers, all through the Bible. One story turns to when things are really rock with the book is the story of Joe and the story about spiritual battles the rage over each of our lives in one of the things we find out if that our life is more than what it appears to be no, our world would like us to think that we are the greatest of all evolution. We've evolved to the highest position that possibly can be, and therefore we are the supreme being in our lives determining what happens and what doesn't happen and it's all about me, I've done it my way. I got to the top, and I put one guy said you climb to the top of the lateral and find out it was against the wrong building, and the health of our life that we are looking at and how that we are building our life and we wanted to be of value, but in John chapter one verse six and seven. Then it says one day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. The Lord said to Satan, where have you come from, and Satan answered the Lord from rubbing for the Europe and going back and forth and it. So here we have Satan 's desire to make war against all who have become friends of God, and also in the Scripture we find that Satan evil can only go so far is still accountable and he still has a start to get permission. You see, most Christians don't recognize that they have an enemy or even all that they have an enemy, the evil intent is to steal the killer to destroy everything that brings honor to God. So let me desire to serve God are there going to be problems in our life, but there are problems in everybody's life. There are people I know I said I deal with individuals who are terminally ill, and some people have great faith and some people have no faith in the ROM. There are about to die in both situations they will certainly die with their illness. But after conference on conclusion about what's going on in their faith and no one individual. I use this said this last week was that he said that I have to know about his fate is as yet. I believe in God have his picture on the wall it off and it's in it, and if you know I'm right& funding is a recent photo of and it off so I can ask it now is a recent photo, video, God together now assisted in a portrait in a bunch. The sad thing was that was his entire faith. That's all that admirable woman had no I'm not saying it was it was memorable. Leona, but it was young was all that that individual possessed with a picture of a young and I'm going to have a live picture on the wall, so our intent is to find out what God wants in our life and the enemy of our soul. The unity of God, the likes with trying to trip us up and get us all mixed up in our faith and in mixed up about what's going on a member years ago when I was a guy who worked of our farm and we're talking about because we always with church, always with the church and is this guy. He said what you know, I would believe in God, except for one. One reason I get this answer. I would go to church, I thought, well, well, maybe I can help. Not phenomenal fourteen years old when ever, I hope what your question is where did Locke get his wife. What is not my wife is not a lot being anything illegal. I think Illinois can get his wife that we know where Kate is why they did what I don't know I said while there is a remedy and enter zones can enable and he and Caitlin Cahill, the Golden King had had a family work life. That's what's keeping you from believing in God bio comes to find out in those days women were of no purpose. So sorry and that no Christianity gave placed the ladies, who was a very Christian, Christianity, there would be women when have about now look at the Middle East. So that's left over from there. But anyhow, we see how we see how that people have can create their own barriers create their own wall. If I could just find this out and evidently are the answer that it limited job with another question is but a revelation chapter twelve, verses seven through nine in verse seventeen it says this and that was the war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the drag and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he, Satan was not strong enough and they lost their place in heaven as one who talks about the battle of good and evil that Satan desires worship and he and his own pride desires to rule over heaven and earth, and he wants to take God 's place while he's a created being, and he loses the battle they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, who leaves the whole world is I was heartily and his angels with him, then the Dragon was enraged and went off to make war against those who obey God 's command commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ isn't it interesting that in the book of Revelation. It also said they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, that whenever we are confronted with evil. Anyone is not an imagine imagine a imaginary enemy. It was a very real enemy that has a very real presence in our society and in our lives just as God is a very real God who has a very real presence in our society and in our lives. You know it's interesting how that we can be influenced. Either way in the world and right, go for this one is when Peter, Jesus says who do men say that I am appears as one hour to Christ, the son of the living God and Jesus as the Peter wow that's magnificent flesh and blood hasn't revealed that you, my father in heaven than Jesus goes on to say, well noted that another Jerusalem exhibit the highest and Peter says of all, you cannot happen. And Jesus does appear to say get the behind the state so in one moment is influenced by God. In the next moment he's influenced by evil, and Peter doesn't even know Peter is a design like what is going on here. How could such a thing happen and Emily reluctantly things in our life we know that there are certain times in our life when we done things in while that wasn't that wasn't too smart to him. I'm a few sandwiches short of a picnic basket like that one of a few sandwiches short of a picnic, but the idea is we learn from our experiences. We learn in the Scriptures the things that are important to us that Satan can only go as far as God permits verses six and seven of Job, chapter one, says that the Angels came deployments out the game and before God and Satan was there these accountable to God 's sake, it can only go as far as Doctor met God will always be with us and he will help us and he will guide us through his Word through his testimony. Our lives that are Satan considers God as his enemy, and he tried to hinder God 's work in people, but is limited is limited. IMO doesn't know what you're thinking it will doesn't know what you're thinking or able can only read your action. He will only knows what you say. That's why the Scriptures tell us to speak the word to pray the word to allow the word to be in our hearts and lives. Jesus overcame evil by quoting the Scripture in understanding the Scripture. It's important for us to know what the Scriptures mean what the Scriptures mean for life and what the intent of the Scriptures is when it is given by by God, and especially the New Testament out of the Holy Spirit revealed these things unto the disciples, and until the early church. We do not need to confuse fame with success. I found this an instance like Madonna 's famous book, Billy, Billy Graham is successful. Donald Trump is famous, Helen Keller, successful receipt. Joe is successful is successful and that what he has built his built in his life by his relationship with God his relationship with God says a family on what type of the real what type of a God. This is, and if you read through the book of Job there is a number of individuals who always try to convince Joe that he did something wrong. CNN goes into our arm mentality. Life isn't fair that it means that I get all the right things. I don't deserve this. Just like Joe he he done all the right things and he was the wealthiest man of his time is the most influential, most wealthiest man of his time. And so the people there. Understanding those three friends show up in a straight friends try to comfort Job by telling him you did something wrong, because if you had done something wrong. This wouldn't happen. The end. That's the mentality that tells us that life is unfair because if life is fair. Then you wouldn't. You would be in this problem, you would have these troubles, but we find that with with God. God has a way of turning Bible says all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose that no matter how life seems to be unfair dog can take the most the worst of situations and turn around to be the best of things in our life, because we are about the kingdom of God, not about the kingdom of David, your kingdom, Lara, the kingdom of our of a political party or on on a community. God is about working in our life to build the kingdom of God. And as we find God building the kingdom of God in us. We find that we are part of other individuals working for the same goal to build the kingdom of God, not only here but around the world called the body of Christ. You see an evil understood and knew everything they were never kept the job I've never taken from all all the things he opened a life because the outcome was God gave back to Joe Emrick double and double what he had when you've lost and the book of job was as a story to us in illustration to us that we don't always understand we can trust God no matter where we are at in our life. If you understood everything were never had Jesus Christ crucified if him all understood with never had Christ crucified, because it was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The blood of the Lamb of God, whose sin is what takes away the sin of the world and it is our relationship with Jesus Christ 's resurrection from the dead, that gives us hope in our life in this life and in the life to come. So it IMO were all that intelligent now is better than more intelligent than us a more powerful than us, but God in us gives us the strength to overcome evil God in us gives us the string to look at the things that surface in our life and deal with them in a healing way. Everything that happened to us, perhaps even is no English children. We didn't deserve didn't deserve it to happen that way that God has a way to heal the brokenhearted, to heal the woundedness inside of us to be the healer inside of us. Such yell setbacks tragedy sorrows strike Christians as well as non-Christians business review. This is a rainfall than the just and the unjust, that that means that they lessened blessings fall upon the just and the unjust cousin, the Middle East rain is a blessing enough around here. It rains, it is room the okay, now, but in the Middle East. There is no water. And when it rains, they are. They are extremely thankful and the blessings of rain fall on the just and the unjust. So now hard in our hearts. God is at work to change us from the inside out. The way we respond to our trials of our troubles with basically two responses. Blimey, God, God use me know why Magog regarded newsman, so wherever I'm at matter what tribal or trial comes my way. What good is coming out of this and what good comes out of it is. I can look at what I'm doing. But you see are just that our trials bring to the surface things that are inside of and the things inside of us. It isn't that person that needs dealt with its name, it needs down because I'm the one in charge of my life and I cannot allow other people to dictate how I'm going to respond with what's going on in the music ended. These the VIP of evil is to bring about separation between you and God and God 's idea is to bring the closeness between us and with things inside of a surface whenever we feel that life is unfair. We began to challenge the very core of our faith that God doesn't love me or God doesn't care or God somehow is out of control when none of those things are true God is in control. We even sad thing is, he empowers us to deal with life. If we try why in our own package in our own understanding. We end up hurting or destroy ourselves and always is it's it's it's kind of funny. Not fun, God will always give us another opportunity to experience those same emotions and deal with them in a different way or deal with them in the same way that that message is about the children of Israel come the promise land got to go in and get it and they say object colors, Giants, and when and they disobey God may take a forty year trip with a forty year trip remained up coming back to the very same spot with the very same command. Galway: take the promised land. The driver noticed that some of the things were just always making a trip back to the same level in the same place and we get the same experience many different people, different setting, but it's the same emotions that are brought to the surface as like okay David, did you do with this yet. Did you deal with this yet. Did you did you allow my spirit to work in your life to clean this up in your life or is it still there and so we end with those challenges as they come. The last agency adversity strengthens real thing because adversity calls us to draw upon that which is not just greater than ourselves, and that is God. God is fully aware of every attempt by able to bring suffering and difficulty into our lives and the lives of others and the world around us, but God has never caught off twice never caught his never surprise God isn't surprised by what goes on in your life God has already gone before us on this path to give us what we need to complete turn complete the walk to go through the day is already there. We just have to recognize that he is there to walk with us were not alone in this and Joe verse twenty. He didn't high his overwhelming grief. It was devastated by his losses. It was devastated by his losses and in our study were hard on Job 's wife. When he says the person she says Chris God, and I should just lost all of her children. She just lost everything in a house in her social status. She just lost everything. She was a woman, and extreme grief and that's what happened. Sometimes in great dislike, but the pain was too much to bear and God doesn't God has a way of healing the broken hearted and if you go through the book of Job in the company, and I don't know, doing work on the book of Job, but to go to the end of the book Job sees God. He knows everything is okay and in our relationship. Whenever we come to that for every letter of our relationship with God, and we know he is with us. Everything is okay. No matter what the tragedies. The matter what the problem matter what the difficulties, no matter what surfaces in our life if we can just see God, and know that God is with us. There is a piece that he gives us there is an understanding of the places in our mind and in our hearts that it's okay and were safe. Anything that safety Internet security. We know life isn't fair. But God is with me every step of the way the it's all said and done, every new mobile every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, so I'm the one that's responsible for my life and my responses and no matter how much I try, I can play I can blame it on the guy who pulled out in front of me can't blame my wife can blame it on my kids can blame a lot of people can't blame the government can, it's me. So how then do I deal with me and get rid of the garbage that comes in life. How do how do you purify gold heated up and what happens when you heat up goals and buying your domain. What you do with your gold. Okay, what do you have any handful the junk comes the top when the junk comes the top you say all the gold is worthless and throw it all out. The heat causes the goal to liquefy the liquid gold bubbles and the impurities of the gold come to the surface and sometimes in our life when we are in trials. The impurities from the surface, but the pure. This is beneath the impurities. So what we do is we take off the dredges, we take off the garbage. What's left is incurable and in our life. Sometimes in the heated moments with AC things coming to the surface while that's okay. God help me to deal with the state to get rid of them because underneath it is really who I am, God loves me in spite of all the dredges of all the garbage in our life and his spirit and his work come to take away the garbage in our life and to continue to purify us in our relationship with him. I relationship with others. We continue to make a difference because we have the ability to create love, create friendship, create home with our words