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to continue our heart -to -heart talk that we

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began the last time that i was in your home and

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i want to refresh your memory by reading that

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glorious portion of the word of god a promise

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one of the greatest assurances that the lord

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god has given to his own isaiah the fiftieth

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chapter the tenth verse who is among you that

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feareth the lord that obeyeth the voice of his

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servant that walketh in darkness and hath no

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light let him trust in the name of the lord and

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stay upon his god you will remember that i made

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a very definite statement the last time that

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i was in your home and that is that sooner or

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later trouble sorrow will come to every one of

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us you are no exception how true is it we're

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guilty of saying but it can't happen to me it

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couldn't possibly happen to our family it could

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never come into my life and yet it can not one

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of us is immune from sickness from sorrow sooner

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or later death will touch your life come into

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your family Your family is not immune to death.

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You are not immune to this darkness that Jesus

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is talking about. But remember something. These

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words that he has just spoken are for those who

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fear the Lord, whose confidence is in him. And

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then comes the question, why the sorrow? Why

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does affliction, why does trouble come to God's

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children? And that's a great big question. That's

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a mighty big question. And you will remember

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that I left you yesterday. by giving you that

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wonderful promise whom the lord loveth he chasteneth

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as many as i love i rebuke and chasten in the

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world jesus said ye shall have tribulation not

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only trouble up until now maybe all that you've

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had is just trouble but he said There's going

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to come a time when you're going to have more

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than trouble. There'll be tribulation. And like

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the little old Scotch lady got up in the testimony

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meeting and she said, Jesus said I'd have tribulation,

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and believe me, I sure am tribulating. But, he

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said, don't feel as though that... it's because

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my wrath has come upon thee or because of any

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sin in that life of yours no and the cruellest

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thing that any one can do is to sit on the seat

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of judgment and look at another and point that

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accusing finger at that one and say that trouble

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has come upon that family because there's sin

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are pointing an accusing finger at some individual

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who is having trouble and sorrow and affliction

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and say that's because of sin that's the cruellest

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thing that any one can ever do or ever say i

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want you to see something we are raising the

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question why do the friends of god pass down

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the veil of suffering and darkness and tears

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there are some partial answers and i say partial

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because even as i am talking to you now i cannot

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give you the answer in full i have things that

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have happened in my own life that i have not

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been able to fully understand Years ago, I felt

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that definitely it was because someplace, somewhere

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I'd gotten out of the will of God. And now, years

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later, I'm wondering whether or not it was part

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of God's plan to stabilize me. It was part of

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God's plan in educating me, in training me. at

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the time i thought sure it was going to kill

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me i look back now and i thank my god it happened

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i am stronger i am bigger i am more sympathetic

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now because of it than if that thing had never

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happened to me yes ma 'am so i say there are

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only partial answers that can come the full orbit

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and the complete answer we must wait for until

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we read it yonder in the golden glow of the land

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and life above and we hear it from his own lips

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but there are partial answers as to why troubles

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and sorrows and tears and suffering and darkness

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come again and again to god's precious children

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right here in this world in this life for one

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thing i want you to see something trouble if

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rightly used enables us to honor god be careful

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how you act when trouble comes be careful what

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you do with that thing when it comes into that

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life of yours Sorrow is rightly used. If that

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trouble is rightly used, it will enable us to

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honor God. Trouble, then, is a trust. And we're

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so to receive it. Receive it as a trust. We understand

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about other things being trusts. There's the

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man of education. he must answer for those superior

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attainments there is the one who can sing so

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that hearts are enchanted by the music there

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are those who can play the great organ and the

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music blesses those who hear the music it's a

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trust great musician the other day when i was

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complimenting him on his playing he said you

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know i never look at it as being a talent but

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a trust something that god has loaned to me there's

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the one who can sing so that hearts are enchanted

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by the music that singer must answer for that

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gift there's the man with money and the man of

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money must answer for it. There are the men who

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must answer for that capacity that they have

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for earning money. There are some folk who do

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not have the capacity to earn it, but those to

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whom God has entrusted that capacity for earning

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money. must give an answer to him one day. It's

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a trust. And whatever our gifts, whatever our

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capabilities, all of them are to be received

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as trusts from God and to be used in His name

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to help humanity. Now, along with other trusts,

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comes trouble. Trouble is to be received however

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it comes or in what form. as a trust and we're

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to bear it we are to meet it we're to go through

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it we are to face it like we ought as a trust

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from god to be used for the glory of his great

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name it's not the matter of what happens to you

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that's so important is what you do with that

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thing after it happens to you after it comes

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into your life when it comes into your home that

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determines the result you recall job's fiery

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trials oh who doesn't there are folk who may

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not know one thing about the word of god they

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cannot quote a single portion of god's word and

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yet they know that job is there and they know

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all about job's boils they may not know one thing

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about scripture and yet they know there was a

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man in the word of god that had boils and had

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troubles galore all right but see something now

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first of all bear in mind job had not sinned

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you folk were always judging people when troubles

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come into their lives and saying it's a judgment

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from god and it's because of sin the bible clearly

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teaches that Job was a man who, in the sight

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of God, was perfect. He was upright. He hated

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evil. He loved God, and God loved him. One day,

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Satan said to God, If you give me a chance at

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your man Job, I'll shake his religion right out

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of him. I'll shake his faith in you, I'll shake

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his confidence in you, and I'll make him deny

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you. Yes, sir, he said, you know, God, your man

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Job is serving you because of sheer selfishness.

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He knows, in the crude saying of the world, which

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side his bread is buttered, and therefore he's

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serving you because... of your goodness to him

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give me a chance said satan and i'll make him

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deny you yeah all right god says i'll give you

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a chance at him you can do anything you want

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to with him but you can't kill him go as far

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as you want to anything you want to but you dare

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not kill him. I'm telling you something. You

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talk about us having faith in God and thousands

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of sermons are being preached on our faith in

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God. Turn that thing around and look at God's

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faith in us. Can God have such faith in you that

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he can turn to Satan and say, all right, Satan,

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you can do anything you want to to her but don't

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kill her i have such trust i have such confidence

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in her i have such confidence in that child of

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mine i know she'll not deny me she'll go through

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victorious i tell you something that's faith

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can god have that kind of faith in you can he

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trust you to that extent he had that faith in

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job anything you want to but don't kill him and

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god says he'll still come through trusting me

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so here it starts job didn't know about this

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conversation between satan and god didn't know

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one thing about it not a thing there was job

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all unacquainted with this conversation between

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satan and god happy and prosperous in all of

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his surroundings and then it started there came

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a dark -robed messenger which took from all of

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his property i tell you when you strike a man

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in his property you've dealt him a staggering

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blow and some men some women seem never to recover

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from such a blow what a pity that it's so but

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it is then there came another messenger saying

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that this trouble had come to job and his servants

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were all taken away then there came another messenger

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telling him the awful tidings that his children

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all and each had gone down into death stricken

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and beaten to the very dust though that precious

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father was he simply made answer through the

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darkness and this is what he said the lord gave

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and the lord taketh away blessed be the name

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of the lord that's trust that's faith was that

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all no then there came another black -robed messenger

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and job was thickened in his own body his own

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health was attacked so that from the crown of

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his head to the very soles of his feet his body

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was one festering mass of affection and suffering

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did that stop him no ma 'am no ma 'am oh beloved

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that's that's honouring god that's honouring

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god and god brought job out of all those troubles

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and made the latter days of his life more glorious

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than his former and you and i should learn this

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great lesson from job god bless you