1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 I need everybody to locate the closest box of Kleenex. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Make sure you know how to get to it. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Because I might run out. 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000 No joke, I was texting people this morning. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Pray for me, because this one... 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 I cried so much writing this sermon. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Maybe they all got out. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Maybe I'll just... 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Maybe it won't affect me at all as I'm preaching it right now. 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,000 That happens sometimes where I'll be super emotional as I'm writing it. 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,000 And then I get up here and it's just clear as day. 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 But this one... 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 I was driving here this morning just thinking about the sermon. 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Like... 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Trying to hold it together. 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 For those of you who have not met me before, my name is Crying Greg. 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 If we have not met, I would love to meet you. 18 00:00:54,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Maybe buy you a coffee, chat about life, talk about Jesus, if that's something you would like to do. 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 We are in our fifth week of our series on wisdom literature. 20 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,000 There are different categories of scripture, of different kinds of writing throughout the Bible. 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 And one of those is called wisdom literature. 22 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 And so we have covered a handful of those places. 23 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Now so far the Psalms, some of the words of Jesus, the Proverbs, last week Ecclesiastes. 24 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,000 And today we look at the book of Job. 25 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Job is unlike any other book in the scriptures. 26 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 We don't really know when it happened. 27 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 We think that it was written sometime after Solomon. 28 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,000 But the context clues inside of the book of Job tell us more. 29 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Things like that it probably wasn't from that era. 30 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Things like that wealth is measured by how many cattle someone had. 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:02:01,000 So what happens is that that ends up putting the dating of the story in the book closer to the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 32 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:08,000 A thousand years before the story was ever actually written down. 33 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,000 If you're keeping track, that's four thousand years ago for us. 34 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:19,000 And then scholars generally agree that Job wasn't an Israelite. 35 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,000 That's unique. 36 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:26,000 To have an entire book in the Bible that's dedicated to someone that probably wasn't Jewish. 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 And they think that obviously partly because of the timing. 38 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:35,000 If this was happening around the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we know the names of all his immediate descendants. 39 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:42,000 And so we can assume that this is not someone that was immediately related to any of those three. 40 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And that reminds us that God is known by other people. 41 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 God is known by other people. 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:58,000 God is known by people that we've never heard of. 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:07,000 And then even if it happened later, later than what we think it did, they don't think that he's an Israelite because of where the story happened. 44 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Chapter one says that Job lived in the land of Uz in the east. 45 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 No one really knows where that is. 46 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 It's not like Nineveh. It's not like Bethel. It's not like Jericho. 47 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Uz is a region that is lost to history. 48 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,000 So this story is unique. 49 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,000 And then there's the composition of Job. 50 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 The book of Job changed over the years like many of the books of the Bible did. 51 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Some versions we have found have smaller changes. 52 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Some are missing 400 lines from version to version. 53 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:51,000 And then some scholars believe that Job originally was only three chapters long. 54 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:56,000 The first two chapters and the last chapter. 55 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:03,000 For those of you that are wondering, the version we have now is 42 chapters long. 56 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:12,000 One of the reasons that they think that this is possible about the composition is that chapter one and two and 42 are considered what's called prose. 57 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 It's narration. 58 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,000 But the 39 chapters between are almost completely made up of poetry. 59 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Seven voices in the book of Job, including God and a narrator. 60 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Seven voices in those 39 chapters speak. 61 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:35,000 The narrator speaks only a few times for a few verses here and there. 62 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,000 The other six voices for those 39 chapters speak exclusively in poetry. 63 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Imagine having four friends obsessed with Shakespeare. 64 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:55,000 And no matter what you're talking about, they will only speak with a Shakespearean iambic-tameter. 65 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Pentameter, I should say. 66 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Andy, I felt your presence back there and then I flubbed the words. 67 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 Andy loves Shakespeare. 68 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Imagine pleading your case with God and having to do so in poetry because apparently that's all that God speaks in. 69 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Imagine having to defend yourself against your friends but having to come up with a poetic way of saying it because they're coming at you with Chaucer. 70 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:34,000 It's just not how anyone has ever had a conversation for that period of a time, even 4,000 years ago. 71 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,000 It's not saying that no parts of this conversation happened. 72 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:51,000 It's saying that somewhere along the way, any conversations that did happen were surely rewritten into poetry as tradition grew, as their theological understanding of God developed. 73 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Okay, so we don't know when it happened. 74 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 We don't really know where it happened and we're not sure that all of it happened. 75 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:07,000 This is a good time to remind us that in the Bible, some things don't have to be historically accurate to teach us something that's true. 76 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 I want you to think of Jesus. 77 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Across the Gospels, a third of everything Jesus taught was in parable. 78 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Parables are stories that literally did not happen and yet they are true. 79 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:31,000 In that way, Job doesn't have to be a history book to learn something that is true. 80 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Allegory and poetry have their place in the Bible. 81 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:43,000 So the next question isn't when or where. 82 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:50,000 It's the angel question of why do bad things happen to good people? 83 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:57,000 And what does it say about God when they do? 84 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Some will use Paul's passage, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, to say that no one is truly good. 85 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,000 But that's not the description that we get of Job. 86 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 There is no way around it if you read the book of Job. 87 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Job was a good person. 88 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:24,000 In chapter one, Job is described as the greatest of all people in the East. 89 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 He's described as wise, righteous, God-fearing. 90 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 And that doesn't mean that he cowers at the thought of God. 91 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 That's not what we mean when we say the fear of God. 92 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:40,000 We're talking about someone that follows closely after what they believe God has said their life should be. 93 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:47,000 That they follow closely and let what God has said shape their life, to shape everything that they did. 94 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 And that's exactly what Job did. 95 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:56,000 His fear for God shaped his business, it shaped his family, it shaped everything. 96 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 He was the father of ten children. 97 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:11,000 It says that he would not only make sacrifices to purify himself, but he would regularly sanctify his children, just in case they had sinned against God. 98 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:20,000 Job was good with a capital G-O-O-D. 99 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,000 But then, Satan. 100 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 If you read Job, it says that Satan was talking to God. 101 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 We don't exactly know why. 102 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,000 And he says, surely Job is only good because you have blessed him. 103 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Surely he's only good because you protect him. 104 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:44,000 So then Satan set out to afflict him, to try and force him to reject God. 105 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 All of his cattle, dead. 106 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,000 His businesses destroyed, demolished, his servants killed. 107 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,000 All of his wealth, gone. 108 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,000 His ten children, dead in a freak accident. 109 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Then his body was covered with sores and boils. 110 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Some of us have borne the weight of sorrow. 111 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Few, or maybe none of us, have ever had this kind of tragedy happen all at once. 112 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:31,000 And in the midst of Job's sorrow and pain, his spouse told him that he should just curse God and die. 113 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:41,000 The only three friends that showed up lecture him eight different times about how he must be hiding some sin. 114 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 He must be guilty. 115 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:49,000 God doesn't allow such calamity without fault. 116 00:09:49,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Job, having lost absolutely everything, surrounded by friends, found himself completely alone. 117 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:10,000 He had no one on his side. 118 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:15,000 And then God spoke up. 119 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:26,000 At first, if you read it, God chides Job for thinking that he knows more about God than he actually does. 120 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 But then something fascinating happens. 121 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:35,000 God says, you're right. 122 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:48,000 You didn't sin. This isn't your fault. 123 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:58,000 How many of us have been waiting to hear God say that to us? 124 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:08,000 And then God turns to Job's friends, the friends that should have been comforting him, and he rebukes them. 125 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:20,000 He says, my wrath is kindled against you, for you have not spoken of me what is right as my servant Job has. 126 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:25,000 The book ends with God making his friends share their wealth with him. 127 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 And then he gives Job a new family and twice the wealth that he had before. 128 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Now, the most generic lesson that people try to teach from the book of Job is that if you just keep the faith, 129 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:40,000 God will reward you with double. 130 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:45,000 That is not what Job is teaching us. 131 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:56,000 I think that that lesson, the desire for us to learn that lesson is the reason that we need 39 chapters of poetry in between the beginning and the end. 132 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Because the lesson you get if you just read the beginning and the end, all you see is him losing everything, staying faithful, and then being rewarded. 133 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:17,000 It's in the poetry that we see the point. 134 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,000 But let me come back to that. 135 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:31,000 For those of you that are a bit more familiar with the book of Job, you may have already noticed that I left something pretty big out. 136 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:41,000 I left it out because I think that if Job were to be written today, for the very first time, that it would probably be written a little bit more like an M. Night Shyamalan movie, 137 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:48,000 where the twist at the end changes the rest of the movie and the rest of the way that you saw everything else that you read. 138 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:57,000 See, because the twist isn't that God told Job that he didn't do anything wrong and then rebuked his friends. 139 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:02,000 That feels like a twist, doesn't it? It's not the twist. 140 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Because we knew that Job was innocent all along, didn't we? Yes? 141 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 The twist is the flashback to the beginning. 142 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:23,000 The twist is the flashback to why Satan knew who Job was in the first place. 143 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Because it wasn't Satan that noticed Job. 144 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:35,000 It was God that asked Satan if he had noticed him. 145 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:46,000 When Satan tells God that Job would reject him if it wasn't for his blessings, Satan didn't just run off and afflict him. 146 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Chapter 1 verse 12 says, God said to Satan, very well then everything he has is in your power. 147 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:04,000 Chapter 2 verse 6, he says, very well, he is in your hands. 148 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:15,000 The twist is that while Satan did the dirty work, God put him up to it. 149 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:22,000 There are illusions in other parts of the Bible that Satan wants to harm us. 150 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Revelation speaks of the devil imprisoning believers in 2 Corinthians. 151 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Paul calls the metaphorical thorn that it's in inside, he calls it a messenger from Satan. 152 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:43,000 In Luke 22, Jesus tells Peter, he says, Satan has asked to test you, but I am praying for you. 153 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:52,000 It's a generally accepted biblical idea that Satan does not like us. 154 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:59,000 But Job is different. Remember I told you the book is unique. 155 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Because Job seems to be the only place where God points out the target and then gives Satan explicit freedom to hurt him. 156 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:21,000 So what's the lesson? Be good and God will let Satan hurt you anyway? 157 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Be good and he might instigate your pain. 158 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:36,000 This is what God is really like. That should disturb you. 159 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Because if anyone else did this, we would call it cruel. 160 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:55,000 If anyone did this, they would be held responsible. We would object. 161 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Now, listen, very carefully, that is the point. 162 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:14,000 The point is that we should object. 163 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:21,000 The point is that God can be questioned, should be questioned. 164 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Job, over and over and over again, didn't just ask why is this happening, he questioned God. 165 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:39,000 And this is why Job is rewarded, not because he remained faithful, but because he asked the questions. 166 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:45,000 He asked questions where his friends did not. 167 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:59,000 And that's why it's in the poetry that we see the point. Because it's in Job's poetry that we see the human heart confronting the infinite for justice. 168 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Job cared for the poor. If you read throughout the poetry, if you read throughout the entire book, you see how it's described how he was someone that cared for his neighbor, cared for the poor, cared for those that were around him. 169 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:18,000 He didn't help, he helped. He protected his children, but God didn't? 170 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:24,000 He helped his neighbors, but God didn't help him? 171 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Job was nothing but faithful to God? Why then has God not been faithful to him? 172 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:51,000 It's in the poetry that we see the cry for justice. It's in the poetry that we see that we learn that if you are not willing to question God about why something happened to you, how will you learn to object when you see injustice happen to someone else? 173 00:17:51,000 --> 00:18:06,000 If you will not object when something happens to you, why would you object when something happens to someone else? 174 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:14,000 We are not supposed to walk away thinking that we will be rewarded if we just don't lose our faith. 175 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:23,000 We're supposed to walk away knowing that it is the one that questioned God that in the end was validated by God. 176 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Everyone else told Job to shut up. You can't say that. You must be wrong. How dare you? 177 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Those people were rebuked by God. 178 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:43,000 God says to them, you have not spoken to me what is right like Job did. 179 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,000 And what is it that Job said that was right? 180 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 These are his words. 181 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Why did I not perish at birth and die as I came from the womb? 182 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Why was I born in the first place if this is what you had planned for me? 183 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:10,000 720. If I have sinned, why have I, what have I done to you? You see everything we do. Why have you made me your target? 184 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Have I become a burden to you? Job 10.3. Does it please you to oppress me? 185 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:31,000 He's asking God this. Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands while you smile on the plans of the wicked? 186 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Job is literally accusing God of having more favor on the wicked than he has on his own follower. 187 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Job 13. He says, why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? Show me my offense. Show me my sin. 188 00:19:53,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Job, the only one that had enough guts to question the great and powerful God is the hero of this story. 189 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:11,000 Not because I say so, because God said so. 190 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:17,000 God says he's the only one that spoke correctly about me. 191 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Some of the things he said are things that some of us would be terrified to say. 192 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Because we've been told that God can't handle it. 193 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Because Job was wise enough to object. 194 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,000 That's why this is wisdom literature. 195 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Job is wisdom literature because he was wise enough to object. 196 00:20:52,000 --> 00:21:04,000 And the wisdom of God was to acknowledge that of all the voices in this book, Job's is the voice that everyone should have been listening to. 197 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:11,000 The question that comes to us is will we have the voice of Job or will we have the voice of the friends? 198 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Will we see affliction and when we tell them that we're with them, will we really be with them or will we be telling them you must have done something wrong? 199 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:33,000 I want to read you a conversation that I saw. 200 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:38,000 I have not paraphrased. I'm reading the exchange verbatim. 201 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,000 It's like this. 202 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Terrible things are happening outside. 203 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,000 At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. 204 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:57,000 They're allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them and even then they're robbed of these possessions on the way. 205 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. 206 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,000 Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. 207 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone. 208 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Someone replied, yes, it's a consequence of uncontrolled borders. 209 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,000 It is to be expected. Grow a backbone. It's what we voted for. 210 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Sometimes with a democracy you have to lose and suck it up. 211 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000 A state has to control its borders. 212 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,000 The original poster replied. 213 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Buddy, that's a quote from Anne Frank describing the Nazis. 214 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:43,000 There are challenges all around us that we want to blame them for. 215 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:54,000 There are people that are experiencing the greatest trials of their life and we're telling them it's your fault. 216 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:00,000 You must have done something. 217 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:06,000 For some many of us, it doesn't really affect us. 218 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:22,000 We can sit by our friend and say, it'll be fine. Just repent. 219 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:47,000 But God was pleased with the obstinate, objecting voice of Job. 220 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:55,000 We all have a choice. 221 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:02,000 The question is whether we will see the point in the poetry. 222 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:15,000 Whether we will see that compassion, empathy, mercy 223 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:24,000 is the language of God. 224 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Because some of us may not be affected by anything that's happening in the world. 225 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:40,000 But maybe God will put a friend in your life that is. 226 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:44,000 Let me tell you the best thing that these three friends did. 227 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,000 If you go back and read it for yourself, it says that after Job had been suffering, 228 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:54,000 that these three friends showed up. They were from three different places. 229 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:00,000 And it says that for seven days they sat in silence. 230 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:11,000 If you cannot understand, if you cannot speak with compassion, then do not speak at all. 231 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:18,000 And if you must speak, then object to the pain that they are experiencing. 232 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:28,000 And call on God to do something different. 233 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:38,000 Will you pray with me? 234 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Oh God, I am broken. 235 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:05,000 From the outside, if anyone just sees my life, I have a job, I have family, children and a house. 236 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:13,000 I am safe. I am just fine. I am okay. 237 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:27,000 But my brothers, my sisters, my neighbors are not. 238 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:33,000 And I object. 239 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:39,000 I do not have poetic words. 240 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:44,000 But I object. 241 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:49,000 God, can your hand not stretch out to them as well? 242 00:26:49,000 --> 00:27:09,000 How long will they suffer? 243 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Let your spirit come in comfort. 244 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Let us know your goodness. 245 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,000 Let us hear your voice. 246 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Coming in and in whatever way that you need to correct us, we receive your correction. 247 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:31,000 But hear us objecting to the pain. 248 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Hear us calling on you to do a good work. 249 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Amen.