"God Performs the Thing That is Appointed for Me" (Job 23:8-17), Part 3/4

Some Christians can’t stop measuring faith by forbidden objects and approved habits: no Easter eggs, no Christmas trees, no movies, no music, no anything. We go straight at that mindset and ask a better question: are we following the conviction of the Lord, or are we just copying rules that make us feel safe while our hearts stay untouched? The difference matters, because condemning others over disputable practices often masks what we refuse to examine in ourselves. 

From there, we dig into regeneration and sanctification with the language Scripture uses: the old man is crucified, yet the flesh remains. That tension explains why believers still battle temptation without pretending nothing changed. We talk through Galatians, the daily fight to “subdue” remaining sin, and why spiritual growth looks less like curating a clean image and more like honest confession, real accountability, and a life shaped by the Holy Spirit instead of performance. 

Then the focus turns to Job 23 and the sovereignty of God. Job says God is of one mind, no one can turn Him, and what He appoints will be performed. We connect that to assurance of salvation, common pushbacks using 2 Peter 3:9, and the hardest application of all: suffering. If your trial is appointed, you cannot outrun it, but you can endure it with a mind anchored in God’s fixed purpose and steady providence. 

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Transcript

Conviction Versus Religious Rules

SPEAKER_05 0:00

Um, if God doesn't want me to color Easter eggs, then he'll let me know. Don't be coloring those Easter eggs, Lisa. But until I feel that in my heart, if my little granddaughter wants to color an Easter egg, that's what we're gonna do. So I'm Sister.

SPEAKER_06 0:13

Amen.

SPEAKER_05 0:14

I follow I follow the conviction of the Lord. He knows.

SPEAKER_07 0:18

It's like all these people, like you know, every year I gotta hear Geno Jennings blowing his mouth up. You got a Christmas tree in your house. I'm not a big Christmas guy anyway, but I'm just saying, you know, I I don't think people are going to hell because they got a Christmas tree in their house. But there are so many immature Christians that think like that. They just think like it's like, okay, then here's the problem. If you think it's a sin to have a Christmas tree, don't have a Christmas tree.

SPEAKER_05 0:44

That's it.

SPEAKER_07 0:46

Don't tell somebody else they're going to hell because they got a Christmas tree in their house.

SPEAKER_05 0:50

That's the difference between Job's friends who wants to look at this and Job.

SPEAKER_06 0:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 0:56

Job knows God's heart. It's the difference between the Pharisees and Christ Jesus, who stood and said, You have no idea. Yep. You know, your cup is so clean and shiny on the outside, but on the inside, you are filthy. And I get it is that's what I think of one. You know, uh it's it's the tares amongst us or the wolves. Wolves and tares get together, and that's where we have to know and seek the Lord in all those things. And when you do that, you can't go wrong.

SPEAKER_07 1:29

Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:30

Amen.

SPEAKER_07 1:31

You cannot do it. Brother Pat.

SPEAKER_03 1:36

We miss Candy. I think she was in front of me.

What Actually Dies When Saved

SPEAKER_07 1:38

Oh, okay. Candy. Sorry. I I I thought I wrote it down. Candy, go ahead, sister. Pat then beg.

SPEAKER_04 1:46

I'm just gonna go back to the beginning where you said, you know, what dies? What what do what does die? Well, I mean, we're given what? A new heart and a new mind. But then also Galatians 2.20 says, What? I who live in the I'm crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live in the flesh, but it is Christ, Jesus, who lives in me, and I who live in the flesh live by faith of Jesus Christ. And with that being said, when we're saved and we're giving our old me dies, that it is the flesh that dies because then we we don't live in the flesh. He lives in us to correct us and guide us from continuing in those old ways. Yes. And I have to say something to Brother Rod. Sometimes, from my experience, we stay in He allows us to stay in certain situations because the change that comes in us is a lot to others to see, for seeds to be planted or to be watered or something like that. It's an opportunity for growth in him, from the change of the mindset and the heart of being in him, because the more we're in his word, the more he is in us, causing us to follow his ways and statutes and laws. And just like Lisa said, that conviction when we find ourselves falling short, because we all of a sudden somebody gets smart with you, and and and it's like all of a sudden you lash something out at them. That conviction causes us to turn from that way and seek him even more in that situation. That the next time that might take place, you go get in that word instead of responding or reacting to the actions that you could have caused yourself to sin for, if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_06 3:44

It makes sense, Lester.

SPEAKER_04 3:45

Just like earlier we were talking, it's about it's about an opportunity for growth.

SPEAKER_06 3:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 3:51

You know?

SPEAKER_06 3:52

Yep. Brother Pat.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

Jesus sits on the throne victorious as a king, and yet the Bible also tells us he's awaiting his enemies to be made a footstool. How can both of those things be true, right? You say, well, he's victorious, right? He's ruling and reigning as king, and yet there's enemies who he's awaiting to be made his footstool. I like to give the example, uh, Jonathan, of us who live in the United States. We had a civil war with slavery in this country. And we had a civil war in this country. And I You break it up, but can you hear me? Can you hear me? I hear you now. Go ahead, brother. Can you hear me? Okay. We had a we had a civil war. Let me know if is my connection okay.

SPEAKER_07 4:48

Just fine. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 4:49

We had a civil war in this country. And on April 9th, 1865, um, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at a courthouse in Northern Virginia that officially ended the war, securing victory for the for the uh northern states over the Confederacy. Did that end slavery? Well, it was supposed to, but as it turns out, there are people that won't. Even when they lost the war, there there are stragglers. There is resistance. And they're like, so for 50 years after the Civil War, there were pockets where this is a lot of people don't know this about American history. Slavy slavery persisted because the North didn't have the means. They hadn't subdued. There was rebels that didn't succumb to the outcome of the war. There were pockets of resistance, and our flesh is the same struggle. The victory is secure in Christ, but you must suppress those rebel forces, any principality, what if if it's a thought, if it's a lust, wherever you find sin in any form, anything that opposes Christ, it must be subdued.

SPEAKER_07 6:09

Amen, brother. Amen. Excellent, excellent uh analogy there. Uh Sister Meg and then Jeffrey.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Okay, so you know my brain goes a thousand miles an hour. Now, I'm gonna put it all together and we can move on. So Oh, really? Yeah, I am. Now I got it. I'm so excited. Okay, so if we say that our old nature, right, is completely gone, then you can't explain ongoing sin that we have in our life, right? But if we say that nothing has changed, then we're in denial of regeneration. So we have been regenerated. So what I saw was what Candy just said, there is an there is an old man and the flesh. These are the distinctions. So what died was the old man, the old man that died, hence why it says, put off your old man. Your old man was crucified. So the old man that was identified in Adam, right? This is why Christ is the second Adam. So in Adam, there was what? Sin, condemnation. We were dead spiritually, right? But the old man is crucified. Now, what does remain? The flesh remains. So that's the ongoing, that's the remaining sin. So when it says in Galatians chapter five, it says that the flesh lusts against the spirit, then the flesh is the remaining sinful corruption of the old man that has died. And then that is the inclination that we do have towards sin, but that part of us that is that still resists God. But the flesh is still present, but it's being put to death through sanctification. Hence why sanctification is a process, but the declaration that was made in legal standing has been before God, right? So that old man is done away with. What remains is the flesh. That's why it says when you walk in the spirit, then you don't fulfill the desires of the flesh, because the old man was the identity in Adam. The flesh is the remaining sinful tendencies that we can have. The old man was crucified, which is the past. The flesh is the present ongoing battle. That means that our old man was dead. Our flesh is still alive, but this is why we pick up our cross and take our, take up our cross because we are it is alive, but it's weakening. So it is the old man is who we were, the flesh is what still remains, and our identity now is in the Lord Jesus Christ. No problem with that at all.

SPEAKER_07 8:43

Amen. No problem with that at all.

SPEAKER_04 8:45

And we are spiritual and no longer carnal. He's right. Brother Jeffrey, go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 8:56

I'll talk later. Sorry about that. All right.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

This is my brain's crazy. It's not. Sorry.

Creativity And The Christian Conscience

SPEAKER_07 9:04

Okay. Anybody else want to add to that? Brother Rod, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

All right. So I got I'm going to say something. So, and even Sister Candy, I think you guys said it's about growth. So, and I I guess when I'm not gonna call me funny, but now all I want to do is kind of produce things that are God-related. So, you know, even when I find myself just generally writing and I might just jot an idea down, you know, even at Meg just said it about Jesus being the second Adam, you know, I'm like, okay, well, that would be so cool. But, you know, then I run into that barrier because there are like shows like The Chosen that I'm told it's just not to do. But then, you know, I'm like, well, what if I do it right? You know, is that okay, you know? Because again, staying here in this film thing, you know, and I think that I want it to take me away, you know, that's I want to stay right here, but I want to make, I don't want to just sit here and not respond, but the growth in me is like I don't want to do certain projects anymore, you know. So I'm just, you know, wondering if I'm maybe somewhere in the ballpark. That's the growth in me of just wanting to do different projects instead of just doing drama, stuff like that. You know what I mean?

Legalism, Hidden Struggles, Real Accountability

SPEAKER_07 10:23

So here's here's here's here's the way I look at it. You know, and people can, you know, because you know, when when you when you really start dealing with the understanding the sovereignty of God and when you really understand what grace is, it's virtually impossible when you understand it for somebody who doesn't understand it not to see that um you that you are developing some kind of an antinomian spirit, which is no law at all. That you you don't there you don't need to be obedience to any any anything. And that is not what we're saying, because I do believe that God's grace produces um faithfulness and an increase in faithfulness on an ongoing basis. And we continue to grow in God's grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But the thing about it is, man always has an obsession with his deeds. Now, am I saying that you're able to do sinful deeds and be okay with God? No, that's not what I'm saying. But what I am saying is that is that the emphasis should be shifted from the flesh, like Meg was talking about a little bit, and should be focused on dealing with what that complying with the desires of that new man, with that new heart, that regenerated, that regenerated soul. And so we have to look at the inward part of ourselves and and be driven by that. The Holy Spirit of God lives in us, and that is who we are supposed to be following. His guidance, his leading. And so, and so, but too many people, when they become Christian, they still get caught up in touch this, don't touch that, have eat that, don't eat that. And then people start thinking, and see, and then what people do, they have a tendency to want to impose on you to not do or to do what they find, what they themselves find easy to do or not do. But they don't tell you about the dirt stuff, you know, and every Christian here on this live and every Christian listen, every Christian on the planet, I'm telling you, they all are hiding dirt. Everybody. Every single Christian walking the earth, they are dealing with some kind of problem or something that they fight extra hard to resist.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Let's confess our sins right now.

Job 23 And The Sovereignty Of God

SPEAKER_07 12:52

We're not doing that. We're not doing that. But uh, but you know what I'm saying. So and so a lot of people just try to live in this fantasy world because they they want to make people believe that they don't do any of these things, that they don't have uh things that they struggle with, and this has a tendency to be a little hypocritical itself. You you see what I mean? And so many, and so and what and so what happens is now you paint this picture that you have no problems, so you're not, you're not, you don't, when you do have it, you got nobody to talk to. And people don't see you as and so now you carry this load by yourself. Then you fall in into the into the thing because you painted this picture of hypocrisy, that you never have any problems, you don't share, you don't confess your false one to another, and you don't seek accountability or to be accountable, and in this thing, you know, you go down this this this this rabbit hole of sin, and God knows what it takes to pull you out of it. But you what it really comes down to is knowing yourself. Knowing yourself. You need you know what you need to stay away from. You know the things you that you need to go do that you haven't done. You know, but see, we have a tendency to pick and choose what uh, you know, and and prioritize and categorize sin. You know, it's like I'll tell you one of my great, one of my greatest sins, and I'll I'll admit this openly to everybody else. I wish that I had um um been a better father to my two daughters. Not because I didn't, and it's not because I didn't want to. It's just because of the circumstances that prevailed. And I'm always plagued with what could I have done more? Could I have done more? And there's never a time where I where I ever can where I could ever say um no. I always think that there's something I could have done. Even though back then I I told convinced myself there's no way, there's nothing else I can do. This is a situation, and you know, and you know, but I wish I could have been a better father to my daughters. And then that has funneled down also to my grandchildren. You know what I mean? But see, so many Christians, they lie every day. I'm talking about Christian people, they lie about what really is plaguing their own hearts. And one way to cover that up is to point out sins in other people and say, oh, you that's not a that's a sin. You shouldn't be doing that. And you know, but what we were before we were regenerate, we it wasn't just about the sins that we did. Sin is what we were, it's what we were, it was our very being, it was the essence of what we were. And so the thing is, to now, people are trained, they train themselves not to be real about what's really happening with them, what's really going on in our own soul. And they measure their success as a Christian based on the things that they abstain from. And so we have to stop lying to ourselves. We have to confess our sin to our to our God first. We must meditate and commune with our own souls about it, and then we need to confess our faults one to another to have somebody help us be be put in check. And just because you you know, you get you get on here and you do a platform on social media like I'm doing here, or you got a you're a pastor in the church, you look at look how many pastors have fallen from from from shamefully from their pulpits because of sin that they were hiding. Because they didn't want their popularity and celebrity jeopardized. It's hard for men to give up these platforms. It's hard. So they lie and they pretend that they don't have any sin to deal with, and yet they're telling everybody else how to live. And if they weren't bottling this lie up, they would have, they they would have been able to be transparent where they can talk to where people can talk, feel, feel that they can talk to them and help them through it together. Like Lisa said, that's why God put us together to hold each other accountable and support each other. You know? And so, and and the thing is, there are, you know, and my thing is you need to know what you need to know what adds to the corruption of your own heart. Because whatever it is for you might not be the way it is for somebody else. That's your thing to deal with. Because you know where it's going to take you. You know, and so, and so it really, it, it, it really becomes a very important thing. And this is what Job is teaching us, everybody. He's teaching us to examine your heart. And this is what he's doing. Examine your heart to see whether you are in, see whether you be in the faith. Look at your heart and know that you are right with God. He knows, Job knows that he's right with the Lord, and he says it. He says it. He says, Look, I, my foot held his steps, his way I have kept and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Christians, we always have to be like this. We have to consume God's word. And the more time that you spend with the Lord, Brother Joseph, you're right. Search me, O Lord, see whether there be any iniquity within me, purge all iniquity, give me the joy of your Holy Spirit. But you need to know thyself. You know, and somebody's gonna tell you when you know when somebody, look, I guarantee you, somebody's gonna probably write to me tomorrow morning and say, Brother, brother, brother Jonathan, you may say I think that this is this is not right. This is right, I think you need to repent. Somebody told me this last week, I need to repent about some things. And I'm like, you know, when somebody doesn't call you and say, How you doing, brother? How's how is it going with your soul? You've been in the word of God. How are things going? Anything you need prayer for. See, those are the kind of people I respond to. Me personally. I don't like all these sideline rebukers that think that's their ministry. Don't let nobody do that to you. Don't let anyone do that to you. Like Reese said, when somebody starts with you me, she tunes out. I understand that. But there's a few people even here. That if you called me up and said, hey brother, I think that you know, this is a problem, I'm gonna listen. I can tell the difference between someone who genuinely cares for my soul, rather than someone who's trying to do they have some other ulterior motive. Some other motive that allows them, in their own mind and heart, to elevate themselves above me. Above me. Job's friends are doing that very thing. They want to be, they want Job to sort of be spiritually subjugated to them. Let me tell you, Job, and they and they they they kept putting him down. Like Brother Joseph says, what they should have been doing was building Job up. Building Job up. And so I I like where this conversation has gone because this is exactly what was happening right here. Job is admitting, no, he knows Job knows himself. He really knows himself. You know, and so we need to know ourselves, and we need to know that we are walking and consistently and in accord with our with our Lord, that we're walking in locked step with him. And the idea, when I see this verse in verse 11, when Job says, My foot held his steps, you know the way I look at it, the image I'll get, because when I read the Bible, I don't know about you, but I'm sure we well, I'm sure we all get images of that that are painted in our minds about what we're reading. So when I read this verse here, my foot held his steps. I'm imagining, like, you know, if you're a mother or father and you're on the beach on the sand and you're you're making footsteps, and your son or your daughter's walking behind you, stepping in every one of your steps where you step, you know? Or when you're hiking somewhere in the mountains and You got a group of people, and you know you're always taught when you do these little heights to walk in the step, put your foot in the same place the other person in front of you is. And that's what I think about it. That's how I think about this verse with Job. My foot held his steps. I walked in his steps. And I think it's a beautiful picture. I think it's a beautiful picture. In verse 13 and 14, speaking about God, Job says again, he says, but he, meaning God, is one mind. Who can turn him? Rhetorical. Emphatic answer demands a negative reply. No one can turn him. God is of one mind. Who can turn him? And listen to this. What his soul desires, even that is what he does. For he performs the thing that is appointed for me. And many such things are with him. Now, Christians, listen to me for a second here. This is why I love. Let me okay. All right. Listen. He says, God is of one mind. What does this mean? God does not contemplate. God does not calculate. God does not think things through. God does not consider. When we use these words, we will see places in the Bible where these words or like words will be used toward God, but they are used to accommodate our understanding. But Job understands the sovereign side of things. And he says, God is of one mind. And Job says, and who can turn it? Now we have people alive today, people who call themselves Christians, who believe that the only time God can move is when they move and God responds to their move, then he does. Then how can it be said that God is of one mind? Unless you say, well, he has one mind when he operates upon the contingency of me moving and exercising what's in my own mind. But Job says, God is of one mind, and he says, and who can turn him? And the answer is no one. So that means whatever God's mind is, that is what he does. That's what he does. He's of one mind. And so if he has one mind, then that means that God's eternal decree is guess what? It's one. Immutable. And it's immutable. Otherwise, it can't be said who can turn him.

unknown 25:15

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

Are you sure, Jonathan, that that God doesn't depend on creation? Oh, I'm sure. Are you sure he doesn't?

SPEAKER_07 25:24

I'm absolutely sure. Absolutely sure. You're terrible, but I love you, sister. And then, now, Christians, I'm going to read this next part of this verse again, the second part, after he says, who can turn them? And I want you to think about 2 Peter 3, verse 9. I'm sure most of you guys know the verse I'm talking about. Because it is always thrown in our faces by the non-denominational, dispensational group of people when we start talking about the sovereignty of God. Notice what Paul, what Job says. What his soul desires, that is what he does. Somebody, Mariah, I want you to do it for me, sister. Turns to 2 Peter chapter 3, read verse 9. And everyone's gonna know what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

SPEAKER_07 26:37

Now, when it says God is not willing, do you know what he's talking about? In light of this verse in Job that we just read, Job says, What God's soul desires, that's what he does. So when the when the verse that Mariah just read, when it says God is not willing, depending on translation, it's going to use the word desire. God's will and desire in this in this particular book, in this particular verse, is synonymous. When it says that God, when it says that that God is not willing, when God is not willing for anyone to perish, what it means is this what his soul desires, even that is what he does. So that verse is not talking about some condition. Job is not talking about a condition. What he says emphatically is very simple. Whatever it is that God's soul desires, that is what he does. And what does he do? What he does comes from his one mind. So whatever his mind has determined to do, that is what he's going to do. And Job says, and who can turn him? No one. Whatever he desires, that is what he will do. For he performs the thing. Look what he says. God performs. In other words, that's what he does. What he does is what he performs. He performs the thing that is what? Appointed for me. Job understands the God that you and I, all of us here, always talk about. The sovereign God of heaven. He is of one mind. Number one, Job says. Number two, none can turn him. Number three, what his soul desires, that is what he does. Number four, what he performs, that is what that is the thing that he has appointed for you and me. And there are many such things that are with him. Such things as what? Things that are appointed for me and you. God has an unchangeable purpose, and this is what Job is acknowledging. God has an unchangeable, fixed purpose, and everyone has an appointed scheme of things and events that are going to be worked out in the progress of time or in God's providence because He has ordered it so. Whatever He determines cannot be altered by any creature. This should thrill the heart of every Christian listening. Let me read this again because it's so heavy. Job says in 23, Job 23, 13 and 14. Who can turn him? None. What his soul desires, even that is what he does. He does what he desires, for he performs the thing that is appointed for me. Who makes the appointment? The Lord does. The Lord does. And there are many such things that he does and that he appoints. God's will is not subject to change, nor is it subject to any form of resistance by any creature, by any event. God's determination for you has been settled in eternity past. It cannot be improved upon and it cannot be detracted from. God is sovereign. I don't care what you think about your sin that we talked about earlier. I don't care what you think about your problems or your struggles, because Job is talking about it in the height of a severe affliction. And what Job finds comfort in, Christians, he finds his comfort in the sovereignty of his God. And that's where he finds his comfort. Not in the God that tells you you can lose your salvation. Where is the comfort in that? God came to me, supposedly having one mind, saved me, and then I lost my salvation. So obviously, God is not of one mind because that's a different God than the one Job is talking about. Very different God.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Sure, he's all sovereign. Is there too much sovereignty with God, Jonathan? Over sovereign.

SPEAKER_07 32:02

Let me think about this. Oh, I'm sure, sister. Sister Lisa, Lisa didn't candy. It made you terrible.

SPEAKER_05 32:10

No, so while you're reading that, Job's speaking, it's another amazing, you know, thing that just popped into my head. Sounds an awful lot like Philippians 1, verse 6.

SPEAKER_06 32:21

Yep, perfect verse.

SPEAKER_05 32:23

And I am sure of this that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus.

SPEAKER_06 32:30

Amen.

SPEAKER_05 32:31

I mean, Job knew these things. It just blows my mind. Like when Yeah, it's that's amazing.

Trials You Cannot Escape

SPEAKER_07 32:38

And we're supposed to listen to these knuckleheads in these lives telling us that you can lose your salvation, and you need to be this, you need to be that, you know, you know, you need to stop doing this, you need to start doing that, you need to stop eating meat, you need to stop drinking this, you need to stop going to this place, you need to stop listening to that music, stop watching that TV show, stop this, stop this, start that. It's it's it gets to be mind-boggling at the point where you're like, you know what, let me tie myself up to a chair and go nowhere. Well, then you sin again because how do you answer the call to the ministry to go out and do and proclaim the gospel? You know, we have to go out there and mix it up in the world. And I'm not saying we have to be worldly in order to do so. I'm not suggesting that at all. But Christians, you need to understand that we need to know the difference in how to live in terms of being of the world and being in it. We need to know how to separate ourselves from that world. And this is a this this passage is just it's amazing. Job sees his affliction as now being part of a divine appointment. He's recognizing that what's happening to him was appointed to him by God. That's what he's saying. Now I see, I'm understanding, Lord. You, this is what you gave to me to go through for my refinement. This affliction I know is a part of your divine mind, what you have appointed for me. This affliction belongs to me. It is tailored for me. It was fixed in your divine decree, and it is certain, and it is being lived out right now. And I need it. I need it to be a better servant to you. And so this brings two things to mind. Difficulty, sure. Submission, sure. Here's what's difficult. When God sends you tribulation and trials and afflictions, you can't escape it. You gotta go through it. You have to go through it, Christians. You have to go through it, but you have to have the mind Job had while you're going through it. And then there's the submission aspect, meaning that when it happens, don't resist it. Don't resist it. You're gonna complain, you're gonna murmur, you're gonna whine, you're gonna cry, you're gonna hurt, you're gonna be in pain. I get that. That's very human. But you need to understand, we need to, like the scripture says, we need to smart under the rod of God. Embrace it. Don't run from it. Embrace it. You're probably saying to me, like, this dude is crazy. I'm going through all this trouble, and you want me to wrap my arms around it? You want me to embrace it? Yes. It is what God has appointed for you. For me, it's different. For Vanessa, it's different. For Meg is different. For Lisa, it's different. Candy, everybody. Pat, everybody, Mariah, it's gonna be different. Different for Rod. Sister Candy, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 36:18

Just got a couple of scriptures that kind of, I don't know, it it makes Job, it makes what's happening to Job and what everything's being said tonight kind of just all come together because God did the same thing with his own son. You know, he sent his own son who to be sinned for us who knew no sin, that we might be righteous in God in him. And in Acts 22 and 23, he says, Ye men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands crucified him. Acts 4 27 says, For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together. Hmm, next verse, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. And last one, first Peter 3 18, for Christ also hath once suffered for sins that for the just. Wait, for Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just and the for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickeneth by the spirit, and he gives us that same spirit, and we do the same thing. Job is experiencing it right now. Amen. I don't know. That was just that was actually from last night. No, that's great. See how God floated over for today? Because I didn't even speak on it last night. That's like busy. Save it for today. I wasn't saving it, brother. That was God's plan.

SPEAKER_06 38:13

Amen, sister. Amen. Mariah and then Meg.

SPEAKER_00 38:19

I'm just wondering, does this appointed here, does this mean anything different than in Hebrews when it says it is appointed until man wants to die and then the judgment comes? Is there like because people seem to think that, you know, appointed in some places mean different things. And I just don't see how people get around such things when we know appointed means it's scheduled, it's predetermined beforehand that this would happen. And so yeah, we see that he predetermined or um scheduled this affliction for Job, you know?

SPEAKER_06 39:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_07 39:05

It's so funny, sister, you're asking that because this puts these kind of words put people in a lot of, puts them in a twist, you know. You you know, it it's like you got words like predestined, ordained, foreordained, appointed, reserved. It's almost like God is going, okay, I'm gonna tell you in 20 different ways that the same thing for you to understand. But what you are saying is is true. God has an appointed time for everything. And Job is this is what he's saying. This is literally what he is saying. For he performed the thing that he is appointed for me. And it's