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So I rode my bicycle for a year in 2010 from Canada to Columbia and as part of that journey I discovered that basically a billion people in the world didn't have access to clean drinking water.

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So I began this journey and did some higher level education and been on a series of trips with my friends in the last six years.

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That's all led us to this spot now where we've become very interested in small scale decentralized desalinization projects.

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It's really the future for us.

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It's all about relationships.

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The Bible says that Jesus came into all the monks.

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So he left heaven to dwell among the people.

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It also says the son of man be feeding and drinking.

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That's what we do. We dwell with people, hang out and eat.

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That is ministry. That's love. Building long term relationships.

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Not to say, hey to be a part of what we're doing you have to come to our thing at this place.

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We want to be a part of what they're doing and point them and show them where God is working in their life.

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And if you've been down here and you come and see, you see God working in all these different ways of through line connecting people's lives and stories.

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Like that's God. That is God.

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I've surfed since I was 12 years old.

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And it's always been the way that I've made my friends.

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And most of the trips that we've done have revolved around surfing.

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And out of our time together surfing we actually got to know people and develop some really good friendships.

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And kind of through that we saw some of the challenges they were facing with water.

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And we tried our best as their friends to try to start to meet that need.

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And so out of our relationships from surfing and being friends for a few years we have kind of formed a way to try and help here in the community.

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So six years ago when we first came down here we just started building relationships and looking for needs.

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One of the things that we saw that was a huge issue in the beach cities here was that they didn't have access to clean water.

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They only had a couple of days a week where they had access to any water that they could use in their homes.

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So we realized that clean water was a big deal.

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And we started by doing filtration.

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And so we brought filtration in and we began handing out filters and we were working with a lot of the families and the schools in the area.

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And as we kind of got into it we realized that the need was bigger than just the filters.

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We needed something that was sustainable and we needed something that was scalable.

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Desalinization was something that actually just occurred to me and it was sort of ironic because I had been playing in the ocean since I was 12 as a kid.

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The thought first occurred to me that wait a second, the thing that I've been playing in can actually be incredibly helpful to people for their water rights and access if we can just help them get it.

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And with that dream in mind we began working and researching how can we do that in a simple way.

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And we looked all over the globe and we couldn't find a small scale decentralized, de-cell project happening that we could emulate.

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So we decided to jump in with both feet and figure it out and make this place the place where we would begin to experiment and find a model that we could begin to scale all over the world.

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As we've done research for water as it relates to the problem that it is now, there's a billion people, by 2050 it will be a two billion person problem.

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There's sort of some real challenges we're facing in the world of water and much have to do with access and distribution.

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Can we help people access the water they need out of the ocean and then can we distribute it for free?

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Because if you can help people access their water from the ocean they'll have an unlimited supply.

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If you can make the price point of zero that helps people economically to get all the health benefits of that.

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So that's really what we're passionate about and it's so important because there are 108 countries in the world that have a coastline that are directly accessible to the ocean.

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And in those 108 countries is where you find the lowest levels of poverty and the people that actually need the economic benefit most.

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So we want to be a platform to distribute, disseminate water from the ocean for free.

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Part of that is helping people secure their long term water rights.

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When we talk about doing small, decentralized desalinization projects, what that does is that helps people secure their long term access to water.

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And then out of that, that helps people's health, it helps people's economics, it helps them grow their own food.

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There are all sorts of empowering aspects that come from that.

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So we're excited about the future. We want to be a platform that helps people.

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So logistically we looked for a model that we could take, not only use here in El Salvador, but take it and reproduce it around the world.

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We're building this model we couldn't find anywhere else here in Palmer Seaco.

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We've now formed a partnership with Spectre Watermakers and we have purchased a system from them. There's about 18 of them in the world that have been made.

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We have one of them for our friends here in Palmer Seaco, El Salvador.

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And that system is small, it checks in as two pieces of luggage on commercial flights so it's scalable.

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We're really excited about that because ultimately we want people who are younger, who haven't put boots down yet

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and establish where they're going to be for a long time to be able to take a system like this and go do a bunch of good.

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Oftentimes there's this feeling of need to see fruit in your life.

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So we want to just put a bunch of more branches on our trees so we can see fruit.

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But the real fruit is not on your own tree.

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Real fruit happens when you see your fruit grow on other people's trees.

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And the only way that fruit grows on other people's trees is when you die.

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It's not about your name. It's about dying to anything, your name, your brand, your name, your win, your success, your metrics of measurement.

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To see other people win, to see other people's stories, to see them have a successful story.

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You know you're part of it, whether you get credit or not. You make heroes out of people.

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Your fruit grows on their trees.

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Thank you for your time. We would love to partner with you.

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Water is a global problem. It's going to take as many partners as we can to help solve this problem.

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We'd love for you to partner with us. If you can go to our website at www.oceanwater.com.

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That's ocnwtr.com. We'd love that. Thanks.

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Welcome to Ocean Water. We hope you feel refreshed by the living water of Jesus Christ as we help people receive drinking water from the ocean for free.

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Thanks for joining us for this weekend's message. And if you enjoy it, please share it with a friend.

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I'm Ryan with Ocean Water. I'm here today at the beach where I live in San Clemente, California.

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It's a beautiful day. We've had some really warm water. We've had some great waves this week.

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That's exactly why we live at the beach. I'm stoked that you could be with us for this week's Beach Talk.

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We've been working our way, teaching through the Bible. We read every day together.

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If you'd like to do that, you can join with us today. We're in Job chapter 40.

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It says, Moreover, God said to Job, shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him.

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Job, are you trying to instruct me? Isn't that ridiculous?

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Do you think that anybody trying to instruct God, how foolish?

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You're looking at one. Many times I've tried to instruct God.

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I'll say, now God, this is the way that I see it. And I think that you should do things exactly the way that I think.

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And I say things like, God, why aren't you doing things the way that I think they should be done?

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This is foolish thinking. And then I get upset when God doesn't do what I want.

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That's silly. I seek to instruct God and then I get upset when he doesn't follow my directions.

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Unfortunately, there are those who are thinking the same types of things today.

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We think that God should do what we want him to do. God's ways are not our ways.

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A lot of times we feel like we've got to instruct God and then he's supposed to follow our directions.

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And actually the opposite is true. God gives us the directions and we're supposed to follow them.

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An ant can't give directions to a human being because the ant doesn't have the capacity to understand in the same way.

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God, it's the same way.

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A lot of times you try to take control of our destiny. We try to put it into our own hands.

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And we try to constantly instruct God. Well, that's dangerous.

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God said to Job, can the person who contends with the Almighty instruct him?

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And Job answers, well, I'm vile. How should I answer you?

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In Job 40 verse 2, God said, hey, look, you've been trying to instruct me. You've been trying to tell me.

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You've been trying to give me direction. Job said, well, what else can I say?

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I'm not a very good person. That's exactly what I think. I'm not a very good person.

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So we often get caught up in this. The entire book of Job is this back and forth between Job's belief and his friend's belief

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and the way things should be and then God's understanding of the way things really are.

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The whole book is kind of a commentary on this.

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And picking up in verse 5, think about this for a moment, because I think quite often we're guilty of this in our own lives.

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Condemning God in seeking to make ourselves righteous.

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We say, I don't know how God could do that to me after all when I'm so good, good, I'm so pure,

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and I'm so righteous, and I understand everything, and I know everything.

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Why, God, would you allow this to happen to me? God, this isn't fair. This isn't just.

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We oftentimes operate with a very limited amount of knowledge.

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Can the arm say to God? Can the thunder tell God?

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Nature's full of examples. We explore Job.

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And God says, I want you to do this. Can you deck yourself with majesty and excellency?

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Can you array yourself with glory and beauty?

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You have the rage of an angry person. Behold, everyone on earth, I can bring low.

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And I can put the wicked in their place. I can hide them in the dust again.

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And then they'll have to figure out how to connect with me.

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Now, God says, if you can do these things, then I'll confess to you that your right hand can save people.

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That you can help people.

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Well, God goes on and gives Job the illustration of an elephant and talks to the elephant.

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He gives Job the description of the elephant, its size, its diet, and so forth at the end of chapter 40.

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And then he says, he starts to speak of this thing called the Leviathan.

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Now, what's a Leviathan? Well, it's a giant creature. God made the creature.

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It might have been a crocodile. It might have been even a dragon, maybe.

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A large reptile. Maybe a hippopotamus.

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These are just some opinions.

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Can you hook it like with a fish? Can you put the hook in its nose?

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Does the Leviathan pray to you? Does it ask you for help? Does it make a covenant with you?

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Will you take the Leviathan as a servant?

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Will you play with him like a bird?

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God asks a series of questions to Job to get Job to understand that his ways are not our ways.

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That's oftentimes how God asks us questions.

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He says, he'll ask me a question to get me to think.

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See, the best way to get people to think is not to give them the facts.

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It's to ask them a question.

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When you give people the facts, they tend to figure it out.

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When you ask people a question, it helps them think.

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This is what Socrates figured out. It's called the Socratic Method.

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It helps people learn by asking questions.

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God goes on to speak in the Leviathan and his strength and so forth,

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and showing Job that he really doesn't have that much power over nature.

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God has the power over nature. God has the power over the Leviathan.

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And God has the power over us.

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So at the end of the book, God's drawing this perspective to Job, common control.

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And then Job finally says, God, I know that you know everything,

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and that no thought can be withheld from you.

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Job 42, this is pretty important, that we know that God can do everything.

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The Bible says concerning Jesus that he didn't need anyone to come and tell him

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that one day our thoughts will all be judged.

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God is the discerner of thoughts and the intentions of man.

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That's what makes God the judge.

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That's why we're warned so harshly to never judge other people

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God has all the thoughts. God has all the wisdom.

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God has all the knowledge. That's what makes God the judge of the entire world.

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Jesus will one day judge all of us based on our circumstances,

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our thoughts, our motives, and our intentions.

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each month, should be lived with the perspective that one day I give an account of my life to God.

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That's the fear of God when we understand that everything that we've been given,

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just like Job, all the wealth, all the riches, all the influence,

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one day we're going to give an account for our life before God.

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He asks a question. Does God hide His counsel without knowledge?

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Well, Job is confessing. He says,

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I've talked about things that I don't understand, things that are too wonderful for me,

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things that I didn't know. You ever done that?

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He says, God, I've been talking kind of out of turn. I didn't even know what I was talking about.

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I say that to God all the time. God, I'm sorry. I literally don't even know what I'm talking about.

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Sometimes we're so confident in our knowledge. We're so confident in our beliefs

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only to have to go back and apologize later on because we spoke not with all the knowledge

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or not with all the information. We have to go back and we have to apologize. I've done it many, many times.

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This is the conversation that Job is having with God.

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This is the conversation that we have with God.

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God is always wanting us to trust Him more, just like He wanted Job to trust Him through this time in His life.

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Now, think about that. Do you trust God through everything in your life, through all your health,

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through all your wealth, through all your influence?

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You know, the Bible says, the blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

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God always is looking for the purity of our heart, the purity of our intentions, and the purity of our motives.

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So we want to line up our intentions and line up our motives, line up our agenda with God's agenda.

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That's making followers of Jesus, making more families of followers of Jesus, known as churches.

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That is our mission. That is what God wants us to do.

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Now, with ocean water, we do that in a few different ways.

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Primarily, we're helping people get a permanent supply of water out of the ocean.

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God's happy with this. That's why God's helping us. God made the ocean for free.

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God wants people to have access to the ocean for free, especially when it comes to the water they need every day to survive.

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God is looking for us to see if we'll line up our motives with Him.

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Isaiah says, woe is me. I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips.

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You see, seeing God gives us the greatest insight on ourselves.

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A lot of times, people will say, well, you know, I'm pretty good. I'm a pretty good guy.

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When you get an elevated view of God, you get a clear view of yourself.

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If you don't have a view of God correctly, you can't see yourself correctly.

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We think all sorts of things about ourselves, but then when we see God, high-lifted up,

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we understand our place in the world, and we understand our place in the universe.

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That is a humbling thing. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. God made us.

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So, so, that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord turned to his friends, to Eliphaz,

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and he says, my wrath is kindled against you guys, your friends, because you give Job all of this terrible advice

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about what you thought I was doing in his life, and all these philosophies, and all these ideas,

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and frankly, all of these meaningless cliches that are never helpful to people when they're going through suffering,

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and they're having to persevere through a trial. Meaningless cliches never help.

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He says, well, I'll deal with you, and you too, Job's friends, you'll give an account of your life to me as well,

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just like my Job, just like my servant Job.

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Now let me say that God doesn't like us to go around saying false things about him.

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He doesn't appreciate that. Or go around speaking for him things that he hasn't said.

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Because a lot of us in the world today that are guilty are speaking for God about things that he didn't necessarily say.

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The Bachelors of Friendship, they started theorizing and hypothesizing about what they thought God was saying.

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They were absolutely wrong. So what we want to do, we want to be very careful to speak for God.

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The best thing that we can do is let God speak for himself. That's why we quote scripture.

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That's why we quote the Bible. That's why it's important that we read the Bible every day, know the Bible every day.

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That's why it's important that we make time in our life for every word of God every day in our life.

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We want to quote God's word and let God speak for himself instead of giving our opinions about what we think God is saying.

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That shows honor to God and honor to his word.

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So Job's gone through a terrible amount of suffering, a terrible amount of trial, a terrible amount of unjustness,

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things that he didn't deserve in his life. His friends came along and hypothesized and came up with their ideas

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and their interpretation of what was happening to him.

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And really, God sort of brings this conversation together full swing of the earth.

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And God actually gave everything back to Job. The camels, the oxen, the land.

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He had seven sons and three daughters. God gave it all back to Job more than he had at the beginning.

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That's exactly what God wants to do with us when he sends us through a trial.

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God wants to reward us for the faithfulness that we've had to him through every trial that we've had in our life.

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God wants to give us that blessing and he wants to come through and he wants to reward us just like he did with Job.

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In all the land, there were no women found as fair as the daughters of Job.

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And Job gave them inheritance along with their brothers and Job actually ended up living to 140 years old.

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Now, Job was a contemporary to Abraham as he was. This is a long time to live.

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Abraham lived to be about 180. Now, this was just a few generations after the flood.

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And so, after this trial, after this experience, Job lived 140 years.

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You know, we have a lot of life to live after we go through a lot of the difficulty.

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A lot of us give up in the middle of the difficulty.

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And we need to hold on because there's so much more that we're going to have an experience with God when we get through that trial.

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The worst time to give up on a trial is in the middle of it.

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We want to hold on, get to the other side, and enjoy the lessons that God taught us through trial.

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Now, a lot of times you'll see ungodly people prosper. You have to ignore that.

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There's some people that are certain about their answers. You have to ignore that.

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We suffer. We don't always get to know the reason. We experience pain.

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Sometimes godly people don't live long lives. We're never promised a long life.

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We're promised eternal life.

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That's why we always want to make sure that our lives are connected to Jesus and that they're right with Jesus.

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Job's friend said, it doesn't pay to try to live right. It doesn't pay to try to do good.

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Because you're going to get afflicted anyways. Boy, were they wrong.

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These are the wrong conclusions.

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What we need to realize is that this present suffering is not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed when Jesus comes for us.

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So if we do experience hardship or suffering or disappointment,

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we can't compare it with the glory that God is going to dispel upon us in eternity.

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For this present suffering, which is a moment, it works God's exceeding eternal weight of his kingdom.

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Corinthians 1, 4.

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Now it's important to remember that God deals with us. He always has eternity in him.

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We have tomorrow in mind. We have next week in mind. God has eternity in him.

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He has a much different perspective.

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God is interested in our eternal comfort, not our temporary comfort.

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We're called sacrifice now for the benefit of eternity.

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That's a mature Christian perspective.

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Now, there might be things in your life right now that are stumbling you and are trying to drag you down.

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But God loves you and he wants you to be with him eternally.

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And sometimes he'll take away earthly, temporary things to get us to think about long term, eternal things.

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It's not that God doesn't love us. It's not that God's angry with us.

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It's not that God wants to punish us.

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It's that God is looking out for our long term welfare because he knows us so much better than we know ourselves.

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God knows our weaknesses. God's trying to shield us and protect us just like a good here.

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You know, when your kids are small, we see things as parents.

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Where we protect them, you'll see that car that's speeding up.

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You'll see that unsafe merger onto the freeway.

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And we know as parents we have a different perspective.

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And we move in a fashion that protects our children and our family members.

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Sometimes we'll have to take away things from our kids even though they don't understand and even though they don't comprehend.

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And they'll cry and they won't like it.

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They'll even accuse us of being mean. But that's all part of the process of looking out for someone's long term benefit and respect.

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That's why the Bible says discipline through God shows that you're his child.

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A lot of times we yell at God and we're angry with him.

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We say, God, I didn't want that. I didn't want that to happen. I didn't want to go through that.

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Are you just messing with me? He's not.

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He has our long term benefit.

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He looks at things eternally. And he deals with us in this fashion.

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Isn't that awesome? It just makes me want to trust God more knowing that he sees a lot more than Ryan sees.

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He sees a lot more than everyone sees.

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So although we can't see where he's taking us, we can learn to trust his hand and trust his heart.

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So we don't need to be troubled when we're going through these hard experiences because we know that God is working in our life a more exceeding and abundant reward in his kingdom.

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That's why Jesus encountered all joy when you have these trials.

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James 1-2.

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So if you've had hardship and difficulty, trust and know that God is working in your life.

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That's actually proof that you're one of God's children.

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Difficulty, suffering, hardship, and overcoming are the Christian store.

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That is the Christian narrative. That's true in my life. That's true in your life. That was true in Jesus' life.

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That's the Christian end.

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Now would you pray with me today? I'd like to end all of our time in prayer.

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Say, God, would you forgive me for my complaints, for the things I don't think that are right, for my sins, all of my shortcomings?

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God, I ask you today that you would give me grace and give me understanding and give me mercy and help me to walk with you today.

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In Jesus' name, give me the strength. Amen.

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Now, we worked really hard to put together a great story that you can share with your friends and family.

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We just completed it this week. It's on the home page of Ocean Water.

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And I'd like to give you a little assignment this week.

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I'd like you to go to the home page of OceanWater.com.

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And would you go and text or email or share on Facebook the seven-minute story that our friend Ryan Shoemaker spent six months putting together?

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And help get the word out about what God is doing for Ocean Water?

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That'd be a great way for you to share what God is doing through Ocean Water and through your life.

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Thank you so much and have a beautiful week.