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Good morning.
It's 10 o'clock and time to begin.
We're in Job chapter 2 this morning.
Job chapter 2.
And the book of Job is much different than the ones we've studied since my time here.
And to get a glimpse of the scenes in the spiritual realms with these angelic beings, including Satan is really profound.
You don't always get that.
No matter where you look in the Bible, you'll learn about God.
But to get into those these places like the sons of God presenting themselves before him and Satan presenting himself before God and that conversation that took place.
You know, we have so little knowledge. of what takes place and what has taken place in those heavenly realms.
So when we get to a book like Job We have to glean all we can when God's word invites us to those places.
John chapter 17 has a similar effect on me.
Because in that chapter we have admission to the words that Jesus prayed directly to his father Concerning his sheep.
He prayed, if you're a believer, he prayed for you in that chapter.
So you ought to go read that sometime.
If you ever wondered if Jesus prayed for you, he he prays for you all the time.
But he prayed for you in that chapter specifically.
And not only in these various places in the Bible do we have admission. to those events, but that admission is free.
According to Ticketmaster, that's a large group that sells tickets to everything.
Football games, circuses, operas, whatever it may be.
And according to Ticketmaster, the cheapest ticket to this year's Super Bowl was $4,000.
Now that puts you in the nosebleed section, $4,000.
And people will take out payday loans.
To be able to pay for admission to probably the most watched sporting event, maybe next to the World Cup.
To the most watched sporting event in the world.
Now, I didn't watch any of it, and I surely wouldn't have watched either halftime show.
I wasn't interested in either one of them.
Watch one about Bad Bunny who Donald Trump called uh Conejo despecably Or this other one about the songs, you know, drinking in divorce and all that, and they mention the Bible, so they think it's a religious performance.
But most of the people who pay that kind of money to see those events can't seem to find time to open God's word and enter the spiritual places to which God has given them free access.
Even a lost person can read John chapter 17.
Or the book of Job, just like we are.
And we ended our study last week in verse 11.
So look down there with me.
We're in Job chapter 2 verse 11.
And that verse said, Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, They came every one from his own place.
Elaphaz the Timenite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.
For they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him Now we left off in the middle of the phrase, for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
And we learn that mourning with Job And comforting Job was for a purpose.
That was the purpose for which they came to see Job.
And I talked to you about the strength of the Hebrew word, the single Hebrew word that was translated, they had made an appointment And we emphasize the words made and appointment.
And I use the example of my daughters My oldest daughter's appointment process in her cosmetology business and how important it was. that both parties to the appointment honor the specific time and date, payment arrangements and the services provided.
Those all have to be agreed upon and honored And did you know an appointment is a vow?
You might think, well, it that that's not that serious.
I mean we can cancel an appointment.
Well you shouldn't just cancel an appointment.
There ought to be a an urgent reason you cancel an appointment.
But an appointment is a vow.
It's a promise that you make to somebody that you'll do something And they make that same promise in return to you.
Numbers chapter 30, verse 2.
Numbers chapter 30, verse 2.
If a man vow a vow unto the Lord or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word.
He shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Well, that's not too unreasonable, is it?
To do what you say you're going to do, so If you don't intend to do it, don't say you're going to do it.
This world is full of appointment breakers, promise breakers, and we've done it too.
And it's not right.
And unless it's an impossible situation, you should not break an appointment.
These men made an appointment with each other to go see Joe.
And that was a big undertaking for them.
It's uh to break an appointment is inconsiderate And eventually it will result in you not being able to make an appointment.
If someone breaks enough appointments with my daughter, They're done.
She just writes them out.
She fires clients.
If you've been in business long enough and you're good enough at it, you can fire clients.
And I remember arriving at that uh place in my private business many years ago and it was liberating to get rid of that troublesome client and say you better call somebody else.
So But you know something that's even more uh rude is changing appointments at the very last minute.
Now, if my daughter is the only one who keeps her end of the appointment But her client is a no-show.
Then my daughter's wasted her time and her gas to drive to the salon.
She's lost money.
When people work off appointments, that's how they make their money.
And that no-show has also robbed other clients of the opportunity to see my daughter a little sooner than they would have.
You know when people tell me they'll see me at church on Sunday, and through the decades I've had people say, I'll be there Sunday.
And most of the time they say that, they won't be there Sunday.
And I don't know if they know they're not coming or if they really think they'll come, but they say, boy, I got an invitation to go to a basketball game.
Or I don't feel like going, whatever it is, but they make an appointment.
And when they don't show up, they're appointment breakers.
When people say, I'll come by and see you next week, and they don't do it, they're appointment breakers.
Don't tell somebody you're going to come see them if you're not going if you have no intention of doing it.
Now imagine if Eliphaz and Zophar and Bildad had made an appointment to meet at Job's house.
But one of them backed out at the last minute, and for no good reason.
That would be breaking an appointment.
And that would be breaking the spirit of this Hebrew word that's the subject of our study.
It's a serious word.
Did you know God has something to say about keeping an appointment?
Several things he has to say.
Exodus chapter 25.
In that chapter, God gave Moses the command about the mercy seat And that sat on top of the Ark of the Covenant in the holy, most holy place of the tabernacle.
Now, if you haven't been through the Genesis to Jesus or Creation to Christ classes, you may not understand what any of those things are.
But I'm going to read to you Exodus 25, verses 21 through 22.
For God says to Moses, and thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark.
And in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, From between the two cherubims, which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Now the phrase, it's the second sentence of this passage I read.
The phrase, and there I will meet with thee, is the same Hebrew word.
As they had made an appointment here in our text.
Same word.
So God could have said.
And I'm making an appointment with you to meet you at the mercy seat.
God promised to make And keep an appointment with the children of Israel through the high priest at that mercy seat.
Now imagine if God had made that appointment, and then on the Day of Atonement, which was the only day that high priest was allowed inside that most holy place.
And on the Day of Atonement, God was a no-show.
Well, that's not our God.
Our God not only makes appointments, but he keeps every one of them.
He has a 100% appointment rate.
Just like he makes and keeps covenants, he's never broken a covenant that he made.
Boy, we sure have broken some, but he's never broken one he's made.
He's always kept his end.
And that's what we're counting on him to do with the church, isn't it?
Is to keep the covenant with us and take us out of here one day.
Now what if the high priest, who's on the other end of this appointment, because God said, I will meet with thee, and it would be through the high priest.
So there are two people involved here.
What if the high priest had decided to meet God somewhere besides the mercy seat?
He made the appointment, but he said, you know, I'm I'm fishing here at the Jordan River.
And I think it'd be more convenient if God would just show up over here.
We can do the same thing here we did at the mercy seat.
That would have brought the wrath of God upon Israel and upon that high priest, because the priest did not keep his end of the appointment.
Now, this next passage is really neat because it connects the making of an appointment to our salvation.
And here it is.
1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 9 through 10.
1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 9 through 10.
For God hath not appointed us to wrath.
But to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
Now, God's wrath will never make an appointment with a Christian.
Not ever.
Will he chasten us?
Yes.
He said, The Bible says, whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth.
Even every son he receiveth.
And that's showing us that he loves us.
He has a lot of ways he shows us he loves us, but that's one of them.
Will he test us?
Yes.
In those trials that he brings our way or allows to be brought our way.
He's teaching us that he's God and that we ought to look to him.
Chastening will make an appointment with us who are his.
Trials will make an appointment with us, but never will the wrath of God make an appointment with his people, with the Christian.
So don't get wrath and chastening confused, or boy, you'll really be confused.
But the unbeliever, just as the Christian will not have an appointment with God's wrath, the unbeliever will have an appointment with God's wrath, and they will keep it.
Both parties will keep the appointment.
Now hopefully we understand maybe a little better This word appointment.
And the appointment that it that Bildad and Zophar and Elifaz made was very important.
And it was very important that all three of them kept it.
Because their stated purpose for doing so was so critical.
They were there to mourn with Job and to comfort him.
Now look down in verse 12.
We're in Job chapter 2, verse 12, if you're just joining us online Speaking of the three friends, it says, and when they lifted up their eyes afar off and knew him not.
Now before we get into what their response was to that terrible sight Let's first see what this phrase means.
They lifted up their eyes afar off.
Now it doesn't mean they picked them up out of their head and went like this.
Only a boy would think of that, right, Nilda?
And but it means that they saw Job from a distance And they knew him not.
And because of the rest of the verse, we know they recognized that it was Job.
It wasn't that they didn't know him at all.
When it says they knew him not, it means that they didn't recognize the form of the man whom they had once seen and didn't he didn't look like that when they saw him before.
He was eaten up with boils.
He was a wretched sight, wasn't he?
He probably had lost weight, lost hair.
And he was sitting in an ash heap.
When we see someone whose physical form has changed drastically, Often that it happens if somebody loses a whole lot of weight.
You've known them their whole life and they've been kinda big and then you you maybe you see them a year later and they've lost hundred pounds or hundreds of pounds and You know it's them, but you hardly recognize them, don't you?
And that uh is we might say I almost didn't recognize you.
I almost didn't know who you were.
And that's the thrust of this phrase here, that they knew him not.
And when they beheld their disfigured, pitiful friend, look down in the text, it says.
They lifted up their voice and wept.
All three of them had the same reaction to the sight of Job.
And they were sorely grieved and moved with compassion, just hardly able to stand what they saw And the Bible has much to say about weeping.
You know, God gave us tears And he sees every tear we shed.
He doesn't miss a one.
And he knows why we're shedding them too.
Some are tears of sadness.
Some are tears of anger.
Have you ever been so angry that tears just well up in your eyes?
I'm sure you have.
I have.
Other tears are cried out of happiness.
When my daughter Lauren was born, I got to hold her and carry her to the nursery.
And let me tell you, the tears were flowing.
But I wasn't sad.
I sure wasn't angry.
I never did, I never was one of those guys who said, Lord, just give me a son.
I want a boy.
I didn't care whether God gave me a boy or a girl.
I prayed for a healthy child that would serve God one day.
And boy, he delivered on the girls, man.
I raised three.
I've got four granddaughters.
And the only stinky boys we have anywhere had to marry into the family.
So, and then me And both male dogs I had died premature death.
So I don't think my house was built to raise boys But those tears were tears of great joy.
Some people shed tears because of physical pain, like when you hit your hand with a hammer.
Or Only a redneck understands this injury.
When you bang your shin on trailer hitch, it's sticking out of the back of a truck.
Billy's done that.
He's just dropped his head back there.
He said, man, yeah.
But the tears shed by Elifaz and Zophar and Bildad were tears of compassion.
There was anguish in their hearts, not for their own grieving and pain, but for the grieving and pain their friend Job was suffering.
And even though we're all given tears and emotions that the emotions cause the release of those tears, there are some people who have a greater sensitivity in this area than others.
We're different.
My wife has a great compassion for people in general.
And if you're her friend, you know that.
She is a compassionate person.
And when somebody is going through something difficult, it occupies her mind greatly.
And she feels compassion for it, for them, and she acts on that by praying for them and talking to them on the phone and offering to help them any way she can.
You're going to get a hug from her.
And uh in even in uh movies, actors have her sympathy, they don't even know it.
And when their hearts are broken, or perhaps when two long-lost lovers reunite Uh for the happy ending of a movie, her tears are gonna flow.
And I'll look over there and think, man, I'm not wasting my tears on that, on those actors.
And in fact, in such a moment I hope you're taking notes.
I usually say something profound like this.
It's just a movie.
Those people really don't love each other.
I'm always trying to be a blessing to my wife and be an encouragement to her.
Those scenes don't move me to tears.
So each of us has his own trigger.
Well, if the suffering of another person causes you to weep. then you, my friend, have great compassion.
Now, if it doesn't cause you to weep, but it causes you to be concerned, it does, it doesn't mean you don't have great compassion.
You just show it differently.
But when you have compassion, what you're doing is you are feeling another person's hurt and pain as though it were your very own.
Now my wife and I complement each other.
Yes, we tell each other you look very nice, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Complimenting each other like to putting two 45s together to make a corner. of a picture frame.
That's a complement.
C-O-M-P-L-E-M-E-N-T.
It's a complementary angle, 245s.
Okay, I won't go into it too much, but we complement each other because I'm normally the more uh rational, logical person when it comes to events like I've just described.
I don't think for a moment that I don't have compassion because I do, I just show it differently.
When my Lauren was in junior high, her best friend died of a heart attack on basketball court right after the game was over.
And this girl's father and I were friends.
And I was working out of town in my private business, and he called me and I left work and I drove straight back to his house.
And tried to be a help to him and his wife.
His wife was an atheist, and uh he, I don't think he was a believer at that time either.
And of course I was devastated too.
I'd had uh I toted those two girls around to play basketball in the summers and uh eat at our house and all of that But I knew that this family didn't have a church, a pastor, or any idea what to do when it came to arranging a funeral for their child.
So I sat with them and did my best to comfort them and to try to help them make arrangements before I left.
Now in the days and weeks after all that, I shed many tears.
I I didn't know if I was going to get over it, and that wasn't even my child.
But that's where you imagine, what if that was my child?
And it's part of something God puts in us to be able to help others bear their burdens.
So be very careful in your judgment about another person's compassion if you don't see an outward sign. of that when you think it should be shown.
Not everyone reacts the same way.
But not only did Job's friends weep But the verse also says, look down there in verse 12, and they rent, that means tore, every one his mantle.
So this was the tearing of the outer garment, which was an act associated with great distress in the Bible.
In fact, we saw Job do this very thing back in chapter 1 in verse 20, when he was notified about the deaths of his children.
And then verse 11 in that chapter, in chapter 1, told us that his friends, I'm sorry, verse 11 in this chapter said, his friends heard about all the evil that befell him.
Which would include the deaths of his children.
So they heard about it too.
And so they're weeping Wasn't limited to what they saw when they looked at Job's disfigured form from far off.
But it also sprang from what they heard about his children and his servants And in further expression of their anguish for their friend, look down in the text, it says, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Now the word sprinkled here means tossed or thrown.
So it's not limited to what we might think when we see the word When we think of the word sprinkle today, we might think of sprinkling salt on our eggs or sprinkling powder on a baby.
Kind of a delicate thing Or we might think of a water sprinkler, which throws water in a circle or in an arc to water the yard But the key to understanding this, the sprinkling of the dust, is to see what that looked like.
If you look at the last few words of the verse, it says, upon their heads toward heaven.
So the direction the dust was sprinkled was toward heaven, which is upward.
And the destination of the dust was their heads, which was had to be downward.
So they had to throw it up and it came back down on them That would require them to throw or toss the dust upward.
Now you can picture three men doing that in anguish.
Uh tearing their mantles, grabbing dirt, throwing it in the air.
That was a pretty widely used thing, not just in one culture, but in many cultures.
So the dust landed on them as they stood under its cloud.
Now look at verse 13.
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights.
Now it seems to me that means they sat in the ashes with Job.
It doesn't directly say that, so I'm not being dogmatic about it.
And if they weren't directly in the ashes with him, they were at least close enough to Job to where an onlooker would say, well, they sat down with him, because the Bible says that.
And they didn't just sit for a few minutes and then leave.
They sat for an entire week.
Seven days, all day and all night.
We don't read where anybody went in the house to sleep or take a shower.
It didn't say there was any feasting or music being played.
There was just sitting on the ground with a hurting, afflicted man for a week.
Now that'd take a good friend to do that, wouldn't it?
And not only did they sit down with Job, but there was something else that it was absent from all that time that they spent with him.
And that was conversation with Job.
There was no conversation for seven days.
Look in the next few words of the verse, it says, and none spake a word unto him.
So whether they were at a loss for words, or they simply didn't want to say the wrong thing, they did not speak to him.
Now we don't read whether they spoke to each other.
You know, I've quoted this verse that we just read. many times when teaching on other Bible verses, but now I get to expound the verse a little bit.
When someone loses a loved one, or when someone's house burns down, somebody loses a job, sometimes we wonder, well, what do I say to him?
I don't have the words.
And we think we should say something.
But we don't want to say the wrong thing We argue within ourselves.
We have this conflict.
Perhaps if I say nothing, he'll think I don't care But if I say the wrong thing, then I can't take it back and I don't want to hurt him.
Let me tell you, silence is often the best thing.
In fact, it's often the best thing anyway.
If you're fishing, silence is often the best thing.
But when you're when you're trying to help somebody who's in dire straits like Job.
Sometimes silence is the best option.
In Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 1, Ecclesiastes chapter 3, verse 1.
Solomon wrote, To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
And then he gives a list of those of such things.
And in verse 7, that's Ecclesiastes 3. 7, he wrote, A time to rend and a time to sow, a time to keep silence and a time to speak.
Now our teachers tried to teach us that in kindergarten, didn't they?
What were you supposed to do before you spoke Raise your hand, right?
And so that's your time to speak when the teacher recognizes you and says, Andy.
You can put my hand down and that's my permission to speak, but if I just blurt it out, she's gonna say, don't speak unless you raise your hand.
In the book of Lamentations, chapter 2, Lamentations chapter 2, the prophet Jeremiah wrote about God's hot displeasure with Israel.
And in verse 1 of that chapter, he wrote, How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger?
and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.
And then skipping down to verse ten in the same chapter I want you to notice the response of the elders of Israel who had beheld all of this.
It says the elders of the daughter of Zion.
Sit upon the ground and keep silence.
They have cast dust upon their heads.
They have girded themselves with sackcloth The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
So the reaction of the elders of Israel to the horrible condition they saw.
Was the same as the reaction of Job's friends to the horrible condition they saw when they looked at their friend And now we're going to find out why his friends spoke not a word to him.
Look back in the text it says, for they saw that his grief was very great.
They read the room, didn't they?
They were perceptive to Job's demeanor.
Have you ever known somebody, and maybe you're that person, you just don't have the gift of reading the room?
I am thinking of so many people right now.
I can't crowd them all into this little space who do not get it when you're trying to leave.
When you're having a conversation with them and your feet are pointed toward the door, you're jingling your keys and you're looking at the door and they keep going.
They don't say, oh, I better let you go.
Well, these guys read the room.
They didn't say, oh, let's let's go tell Job all these words that we practice saying on our journey.
They didn't speak to him because they saw his grief was very great.
They were perceptive to his demeanor, and that's important.
Now it could have been that one of Job's friends or all of them thought to say something or thought to say many things to him.
As soon as they appeared in front of him, I know what I'll tell him.
I've got the magic words for a person who's grieving.
But they held their tongues.
And whether they had planned to speak with him or not, the fact that his grief was very great was enough to keep them quiet for seven days Now let me tell you something about people who are grieving like this.
And you may already know it.
You just maybe you hadn't put it together.
Especially people who've just found out really bad news.
They don't remember much of what you tell them.
Their brain is operating a lot differently.
They're under stress.
And things like fine motor control and those little details, they don't always remember.
I've made many, too many death notifications in my career.
And most of those were after somebody had been killed in an auto collision.
And in some of those cases, the survivors with whom I spoke had nobody at home to sit with them after I delivered the bad news.
And uh from my highway patrol days all the way until even now, uh I've always operated under the policy that you don't leave somebody alone after you give them bad news like that Even if you got you have to get a neighbor to come sit with them.
You don't tell them that bad news and then just drive off and leave them to deal with it And so I never wanted to leave anyone alone after making a death notification.
And I've sat with people for hours until their family member or their friends could arrive.
And during that time, I'm with the survivor, and let's say the widow, because that's usually who it is.
The guy went out and got drunk and rolled his truck and got thrown out and got killed.
That's normally the story.
But during that time, I try to answer their questions because at some point, once they get past their initial reaction of shock or of wailing or whatever they may do.
They have questions.
What happened?
How did this happen?
And in the case of a traffic collision, I tell them what happened.
I tell them what I know Whether the deceased person was wearing a seatbelt or not, or a helmet or not And so forth.
Now I don't tell him I think he was drunk, because I don't know.
I have to wait for toxicology results to come in and and I don't speculate.
But they want to know what happened.
They want to know where it happened.
Where his car is, things like that.
And so I'll give all those answers, and invariably I'll get a phone call from one of those widows for even as much as two years later.
But I'll get phone calls from them along the way.
And they have questions about things I already told them.
Now the reason they didn't remember wasn't because they were disinterested or not paying attention when I spoke.
Because the answer to their question was all that was on their mind at that time, or so it seemed.
But they didn't remember because their emotions completely overrode their present ability to reason, to understand, to remember details Very intelligent people may forget to do some of the most basic things in a moment like that.
They might leave their water running in the sink or leave Food on the stove.
Some people eat food on the stove anyway and burn it up, don't they?
But this is the kind of thing that happens.
So in the case of Job's friends Even if they had told him something, even if they had great words of their own wisdom, he probably wouldn't have been able to focus on what they said long enough.
At least during that initial time they sat down with him, seven days.
And while we're here, Let me tell you how you can help someone who has just received terrible news of a death or a diagnosis or some other negatively impactful event.
And some of you already do this.
Rather than having these great swelling words That you believe will comfort them, just make them a meal.
Make them something to eat.
And this church is great about it.
The last thing a grieving person wants to do is cook.
And making a meal is about more, a lot more than nutrition.
It shows that you're thinking about that person.
The person for whom you're cooking, every ingredient you use, every dish you dirty, every mile you drive to take them their food.
All of that is evidence of your compassion for them.
And you don't have to really say a word Just tell them I love you and I made you something to eat.
And man, let me tell you that speaks a lot.
Fix them a plate if they'll let you do it and wash your dishes.
If you just if they just want you to sit with them, then sit with them.
Unless you are Twitchy the squirrel.
Now, don't make people nervous when you sit with them.
If you ask a grieving person a thousand questions like, are you hungry?
Are you thirsty?
Do you want some more?
Are you are you tired?
Can I get you something?
Do you want black coffee or you want it with cream and sugar?
Uh ice or no ice?
Listen, they're grieving.
They're not disabled.
Don't bombard them with questions.
Be useful.
And I wish Job's friends had just sat with him. until he was in a frame of mind to move on without them rather than speaking some of the words that we're later going to hear them speak.
But right now, they're doing fine.
Let's give him credit for not speaking a word to him and just for sitting down and mourning and trying to comfort him.
Now go to chapter 3.
Verse 1.
After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day.
Now what do you notice that he did not do?
He did not curse God.
The Bible says he cursed his day, his own day He didn't curse God.
He didn't curse his friends.
He didn't even curse the Sabaeans who had stolen and killed servants and livestock.
He cursed his day.
Now, as we study the word day in the Bible, we learn that it refers to more than one thing And the first time the Hebrew word for day is used is found in Genesis chapter 1 and verse 5.
During the creation.
Where it says, And God called the light day.
And the darkness he called night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
So just in that one verse, the word day has two meanings, doesn't it?
Already.
The first Word day means light.
It said, and God called the light day.
We'd call it daylight, wouldn't we?
So when the light or the sun is shining, it's day.
And the second time day is used in that verse, it means a time period that includes both day and night Or what's called the evening and the morning, those were the first day.
Now sometimes I know this will shock you, but sometimes I can be a little mischievous, such as when my wife asks me, what day is it?
I'll answer Sunday.
Even though I suspect she's wanting to know what the date is.
And that would be February 22nd.
So if you want to know the date, then that's what you should ask me.
What's the date?
Because if you ask me what day it is What's the day of the week or what is today?
I'm going to tell you if if I know.
And each day of the week has something in common, morning and evening.
But in our text, the word day doesn't mean light.
It doesn't mean a time period that consists of a morning and an evening.
And next week we'll talk more about what it does mean.
Let's pray.
Father, it's been good to study your word with the sheep this morning.
And Lord, we're so thankful for the faithfulness of your spirit because you teach us your word and you use humble servants who have frailties in the flesh.
And who stumble over our words.
But Father, your truth is so clear in these passages.
And I pray that you would help us to meditate on what we've learned today and not let it slip from us.
That it'd make a difference in our Christian walk and it make a difference. and how we help others when they're going through terrible times.
We pray this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
