Job 8-10 "Diatribe of Empty Parables"

day and standing up in heaven and sitting at the right hand of God the

Father and then coming to judge the world at the last day like those chairs up there look really comfy well we're gonna be in Job chapter 8 through 10

I do have to say that Shepherd that at Adventure Club when we're doing systematic theology one of the things that they do is sing songs right and so that was one of the songs that Shepherd is absolutely in love with one of the songs that he sings continually at home and so this week's answer or the question of what where and where where exists

Christ's exaltation that catechism song he was really happy to sing that every day that we went through that with him and so anyway that that's the eagerness and the joy that even

I have when my son answers that is quite wonderful to see we're gonna be

Job chapter 8 through 10 and as we said last week that I want to remind us we're taking a large bite in Scripture when we examine these things and last week we went through two whole chapters we went through a large portion today we're doing even more so I want to I want to say this that I as a preacher

I think one of the things that as preachers we ought to be doing as a pastor is be going through Scripture in a very exegetical means going through it seeing what is behind every single word what every sentence implies to us so on and so forth and we see that very much in the

New Testament and the best way that I can paint an analogy for us of why we're taking large bites of Scripture in this is these last couple of weeks

I've been held able to help the Zach cast out with butchering and helping out mainly on the kill floor for myself and then that it's time in that place you're you're killing a cow and you're removing its hide you're taking its guts out and you're not going into each minute section of the cow you're not cutting up individual sections for the cow to be consumed later on it goes into the freezer and sits for a little while before that portion takes place and so in Job we're looking at the whole cow we're looking at a large picture of what we have in here and then in the

New Testament and in more explicit doctrine text that's the meat that we're seeing dissected and then consumed by us and the reason that we have this large portion of Scripture is in chapters 1 through 3 we would see that Job's affliction comes about on him and then there's seven days of mourning and these three friends sit with him and on the seventh day they begin to talk and it's on the seventh day that we have all of chapters 4 all the way to the end of the book chapter 42 it's all this one conversation that's going between Job and his three friends currently about to see four friends and at the end of the book he has a conversation with God all on one day and so in this conversation there's bad philosophy that's void of God's Word in it his friends three of his friends are giving him bad advice and so that's why we don't look at every verse of the bad advice from the friends if we were to do that we could look and start dissecting bad things it would it would not be what we should apply to ourselves and so we have to look at the the larger scope of Scripture I think in order to better understand that the book of Job and that would be my encouragement that why we're going through this and so it's somewhat of a daunting task a pastor that could preach an hour longer on one verse him doing three chapters it's a little little scary that would if we were just look at the verses and take a 45 minutes on each verse here we would be here for all day it would be a long time but we're not doing that we're taking a larger scope of Scripture so chapter 8 through chapter 10 last week we examined some of the words from Job and we examined a little bit more of what a life is that first friend that spoke to him and in that those chapters

I think what we see in there is Job is debating with life as life is gives bad advice and he pleads to the idea of this this entity this vision that he has that's to clear up Job's life and what's going on and so we see this little bit of a debate that takes place and in Job's response in chapter 7 and 6

I would say that Job dangerously walks along the border of blasphemy he comes very close to saying things that I think would blaspheme

God however I think in the relation to how

Job is speaking it gives credit that Job is speaking in a way that he has a relationship with God and so we see that he does still feel fear

Yahweh he still has a relationship with this relational being Yahweh and I would also remind us that we looked at last week all these curses all these afflictions that have come to Job all that is a part of being in Adam and suffering the curse of sin

Job is complaining and I would look at it and I would say he has he has some good reason to complain right he has some good reasons to to in his suffering and losing seven friends and three daughters he has he's justified in some sense of what he's getting at however in seeing this we should actually exalt

Christ because Christ takes far more of a load than even Job does and becoming that suffering servant of Isaiah 53 and in that Job complains

Jesus does not Jesus is the silent sheep the silent lamb that walks to the slaughter for us and so even in seeing

Job in some of the ways that we would say man it seems like it's justifiable for him to say I wish

I was dead right now in all this terrible stuff that has happened to Job Jesus Christ is all the better in comparison to Job he walks to the cross knowing what's going to happen knowing he's taking the curse of man upon himself becoming sin so that we might be made the righteousness of God in him we should exalt

Christ even in seeing Job suffer and complain in this text so now

I would also say in the context even before we even read chapters 8 through 10 what has taken place between Elias and Job was kind of a debate now we would see what would be called a diatribe what what is that word it's now gone from Elias trying to offer through him appealing to this vision he's had to try to bring comfort to Job now it's going into personal attacks from Bildad to Job a diatribe a personal attack a verbal assault on Job from Bildad and this

I believe contextually is because Satan is still attacking

Job we can't read the book of Job and think chapter 1 through 3 is all the attack that happens to Job no the bad advice from the friends is that continual outpouring of God's sovereign hand allowing

Satan to persecute Job and so we're gonna see how this this knife in the back is still being twisted by the friends it's still causing

Job's to tremendous pain and we can see how it's chipping away at the countenance of Job so let's look here at chapter 8 verses 1 through 7 again we're taking larger bites to talk about these things verse 1 it says then

Bildad the Shuhite answered and said and I want to pause here and say I forgot to pray before we look at this text let's go ahead and pray before we examine what

God has to say before us this morning Lord God I would ask Lord as we look at this generally larger picture of Scripture and we realize that this is all going on in a continuous conversation in a historical context

Lord that we would glorify you that we would see how you have revealed to us your sovereign hand and that you have a purpose and plan for each one of your people

Lord for each one of your creation that your will is being done in each one of these things that we would glorify you in our own suffering in our own persecution today

Lord let us examine this let us see where bad advice is given and let us look then to what we come to and today and we reject such bad advice and we should run to your word for comfort and care

Lord I ask this in your name Jesus Christ amen back to verse 2 so Bildad is talking how long will you say these things and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind does

God pervert justice or does the Almighty pervert what is right if your son sinned against him then he sent them into the power of their transgression if you would seek

God earnestly and plead for the grace of the Almighty if you are here and upright indeed now how now he would rouse himself for you and make your righteous abode at peace though your beginning was insignificant yet your end will increase greatly again what is this friend build that saying he's talking to a father that has just lost his whole family and look at what he says in verse 4 if your son sinned against him then he sent them into the power of their transgression what is bad saying in these things is that true can we even come to that conclusion of saying that his sons were sinning before the

Lord the text never says so the text actually I would think it actually insinuates the different a different view that we should have on the children job is making sacrifices for his children he's the mediator for his family in this text and there's nothing that says that his family is sinners that his family has done something wrong against the

Lord and even in their celebration it never says that rather why has this affliction come to Job it's not because of what build out his painting pill build out is essentially saying he's assuming the rule of God I think in this he's assuming in this philosophical output that I know what

God's mind is that God wouldn't bring injustice to you Job unless you were a sinner unless your family wasn't it was a sinner he's saying

I have the truth behind this why does he suffer why does

Job suffer in this text God is showing his glory his greatness over Satan Satan have you set your heart on Job a man that is upright blameless fears

Yahweh he's showing that he has a purposeful plan in the life of Job that is actually going to destroy the character of Satan in this in the whole entire text of chapter 7 all the way to chapter 42 it has nothing to do with Job your family died because you guys were sinners it has nothing to do with that in fact what we would see in this

Texas is a theology of build ad that is consistent with a karma type of outlook you do a good thing you receive good if you do a bad thing you receive bad and so obviously

Job you're in a bad situation your family died obviously they must have sinned against the

Lord is that anything in the text could we come to that conclusion no absolutely not what is this doing to Job a father that's now void of children this is only hurting him that's the the the as I made mention of this is the diatribe that we see in here this is the verbal attack from build that to Job this is going to chip away at any father that just lost their sons if you had a friend that was saying your sons died because you were evil or they were evil what would that do to a father that destroys him in his manner that destroys him in his fatherhood if you would seek

God earnestly and plead for the grace of the Almighty in verse 7 though your beginning was insignificant your end will increase greatly what what is build ad teaching a prosperity type of gospel

Job only you do good good will come back to you is that the case of Job right now in this situation

Job has done good prior and what has come to him bad that's not the type of outlook we should have on life that if I have faith in Yahweh if I do good for Yahweh good will come to me no you might suffer very greatly you might have curse be brought against you that is not the type of look that you should have on life karma in that way does not exist and build that build that in this text has made himself the arbitrator of what is good and what is wrong now let's look at here in verses 8 through 22 and what

I'm going to give us context for is the front of life this peeled to a vision of darkness that he saw this a demonic influence and vision in his chapter where he gave advice to Job in this chapter in this exclamation of build ad to Job he actually appeals to tradition he appeals to creation to bring a charge against Job so let's look at the three parables that build that bring against Job to only hurt him and throw him further down a path of dark and despair please ask of past generations is what build that says appealing to this tradition and establish the things searched out by their fathers for we are only of yesterday and know nothing because our days on earth are but a shadow will they not instruct you and tell you and bring forth words from their heart he's again he's what is what's build dad now appealing to tradition history what did the forefathers do what what can we look at in in creation history to learn lessons from verse 11 can the papyrus grow up without a marsh this is a this is a plant that he's referring to can the rushes grow without water while it is still green and not cut down yet it dries up before any other plant so are the paths of all who forgot

God and the hope of the godless will perish Job the reason that you are in this situation is obviously because your hope perished it dried up it wasn't sustained long enough

Joe that's why this hardships by and brought against you that's the first parable that build dad looks at I would argue that we should never ever try to take creation in a in an elevated to be able to explain

God and his fullness by nature God is the creator cannot be fully realized in his creation he's the creator he's uncreated we are his creation we are created we cannot use analogies or examples to try to demonstrate in the fullness of God's character and try to elevate those things that are created on to the creator that just does not work out we see that work out in this text it doesn't it doesn't fit one for one in here

Joe do that saying you are hopeless you you obviously are godless you will perish you are godless your hope is dried up just like this papyrus that would fall down if it if the water stopped coming to it

Job so are you let's look at that the next parable that build dad looks at so that's the first one a plant the plant the pipe rise that now that now the second parable is going to be the parable of a spider web whose confidence is fragile and whose trust is a spider's web he relies on his house but it does not stand he holds fast to it but it is not established how many of us when we walk down into a dark basement you get overcome with spider webs on your face and then you're doing one of these things right it's all over your face it's stuck to you you can't get it off right what this is saying is job your house the very house that collapsed upon your children it's because it was weak just like the spiders web it holds them up for a time but when any sort of pressure comes to it it collapses job your life your your your faith it was a weak building up of it was a weak foundation it really wasn't had any sustenance it it held you there for a while but as soon as any trial and tribulation came it fell that's the second parable of build ad to Joe now

I would argue this that we would see this in the example that Jesus gives of the mustard seed is it is it true that if you have just a little bit of faith that you will fall in Christ no it matters the object of our little faith if the object of our little faith is

Christ will we ever fall doesn't matter how great your faith is doesn't matter how studious you are those things are important and I hope our faith grows but if you come today to the throne of grace and you have just a little mustard seed size of faith in Christ a little small speck doesn't matter the size of your faith it matters the the the character in whom it is placed if Job has placed even just an ounce even just a fraction of faith in the coming seed in the in Yahweh he can't ever fall it's strong it's upon a foundation that cannot collapse build ad you're wrong it wasn't a spiderweb it was the rock of ages that I have had my faith let's look at now verse 16 what is the third parable now that build ad gives us he gives us a parable of a root he thrives before the

Sun and his shoots go forth over his garden his roots wrap around a rock pile he looks upon a house of stones if he swallows him up from his place then it will deny him saying

I never saw you behold this is the joy of his ways behold this is the joy of his ways and out of the dust others will spring up what is build out saying in this text he's referring to a type of plant that has roots that don't actually go in the ground they stay on the surface they wrap around rocks they go over the garden bed they don't actually go into the dirt and what he says is when that plant is gone when it is ripped out of the ground when it is no longer there in the garden is there any evidence that that plant was there no it's not that the roots were on top of the on top of the soil it never actually went into the soil what insult is this to Joe from build down in the prior text as I alluded to last week it was wrong and blasphemous of Job to say

God if I die you will miss me saying you won't see me any lower

God of course I'm your creation you've raised me up but why you're gonna miss me if I'm gone and destroyed this is what

Job says in the prior chapter we alluded to that as being like a child like we all have to our parents saying

I'm going to run away mom thinking we can hurt our mothers when we say that right but we say that because we have a relationship with our mother this does a child come up to a stranger and say

I'm gonna run away stranger no they don't say that there's a relationship there for the son to say to the mom

I'm going to run away because I'm going to hurt you because I have a relationship with you and I know how to strike hard at you so Job does that to God in the last chapter now imagine in that same analogy the sibling hears his brother say mom

I'm gonna run away and the child goes to his room and starts packing up and the brother thinks oh

I'm going to make this even worse and he goes into the room and he says to the brother go ahead and run away mom will never remember you run away she won't think about you again run away we'll have another child it'll take your place and there won't be any remembrance of even who you were your roots aren't solid your roots aren't down deep in our household go ahead and leave brother that's the type of pain that build that is bringing against Job in the outcry and the pouring out of the the morning and the the sin of Job when he says the hard you'll miss me now build that is saying no he won't he won't even remember you your roots are gonna be gone and there's gonna be new in your place diatribe a verbal soul this twisting of the knife

Job you're gonna be a forgotten myth here in a year there will be no memory of immediately our mind should take us to what

God promises us that every hair on our heads is numbered that he holds us secure in his hand that there's nothing that can ever separate us from the love of God even in Job sin and saying

God you'll miss me if I leave and die even in that it would not separate him from the love of God even that would not separate him from being held in the sovereign secure hand of the father how long is it build out to say this let's look here now at verse 20 through 22 behold

God will not reject a blameless man nor will his strength the strength in the hand of the evildoers he will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouting those who hate you will be clothed with shame and the tent of the wicked will be no longer how false is this we see all throughout the

Old Testament that God raises up evil vile nations to come after Israel we see this all the time

God raises up wicked men we see that even in the life of Pharaoh God hardened

Pharaoh's heart to demonstrate his wrath his patience build dad you're just wrong you are just wrong in this we even think about the character of Christ who was was

Christ exalted obviously he rose from the grave we just have that but what came first and being made very beyond comprehension low

God has done that let's look here now at what

Job's response back and I think what happens in here is this the words of Job and his sovereign understanding of God which is found in chapter 1 the

Lord Yahweh he gives he takes blessed be the name of Yahweh it's the the new sign

I put new letters on the sign outside saying blessed be the name of the Lord blessed be the name of Yahweh he gives he takes it's up to him it's his sovereign creation it's his plan we're a part of it

Job still has this understanding but I think where he airs we'll see in chapter 10 so let's just read we're gonna read a large portion of this let's go through verses 1 through 10 make small pause and just continue to work through then

Job answered and said in truth I know that this is so but how can a man be in the right before God if one desires to contend with him he could not answer he could not answer him once in a thousand times wise in heart and mighty in power who has stiffened his neck against him and been at peace

God is the one who removes the mountains they know not how when he overturns them in his anger the one who shakes the earth out of its place and its pillars tremble the one who says for the

Sun not to shine and sets a seal upon the stars who alone stretches out heavens and tramples down the waves of the seas who makes the bear the

Orin and the Pleiades and the chambers of the south who does great things and unsearchable and wondrous works innumerable is this a true statement from Job yes

God is great yes God does do these things we looked at in a prior text we do know that man on his own cannot be made right before God but through Christ he can so that verse 2 is a yes and no answer in that but what's amazing in this is that Job is correct in the the assertion that God is the one that does all these cosmic wonders let's look at verses 11 and on were he to sweep by me

I would not see him were he to move past me I would not perceive him were he to snatch away who could turn him back who could say to him what are you doing

God will not turn back his anger beneath him crouch the helpers of Rahab how then can

I answer him and choose my words before him for though I were right I could not answer

I would have to plead for grace to my judge if I called and he answered

I could not believe that he was giving ear to my voice for he bruises me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause he will not allow me to get my breath but saturates me with bitterness again

Job is seeing all that is going on around him as what part of God's sovereignty a part of God's plan for him he still sees that he still recognizes that I think that's the correct way there's some things in here that are mingled with probably not the correct view

God does not just do anything without cause God has a great cause in all things and so we can't look at each one of these verses again we're not taking the cow we're separating the different types of meat for us to consume in its fullness we're looking at the whole text we're looking at the whole majority of this cow to understand what's going on in here let's look here at verse 19 if it is a matter of power behold he is the mighty one and if it is a matter of justice who can make him testify

I say amen to this verse I say that this verse is so true in the utterance of what Job has just said he has just ascribed to God a saty and uniqueness and mutability and saying that he is the mighty one who can tell him he has done wrong oftentimes we have so many individuals that elevate free will into a position of idolizing it that we have to that they have to lower

God's sovereignty and lower God's character to be able to be underneath their view of free will that is wrong we we should not lower

God from how high he is how much greater than he is so that we can then elevate a false doctrine a false view of things

God who has given a law cannot be held under our view of what justice and what righteous is

God is righteous he is just in all things that come about not because we're the ones that get a hold

God culpable but it's God that holds us culpable who can make him testify who's going to go into heaven and look at God and say

God come off your judge seat I got to sit there so I can judge you and see if what you did was right that is what happens in modern evangelical churches all the time in their view of what they think

God's sovereignty and God's purpose and his glory and again and what they think their free will ought to deserve in themselves the saying

God you get off the judge seat I'll come I'll sit there and I'll determine what's right and what's wrong and I'll put you under the microscope that is wrong that is sinful

Job knows that that is wrong and that is let's look at verse 20 through 24 though I am righteous my mouth will condemn me though I am blameless he will declare my me perverse

I am blameless I do not know my I do not know my soul I reject my life it is all one therefore

I say he consumes the blameless and the wicked if he scourges puts to death suddenly he mocks the despair of the innocent the earth is given into the hand of the wicked he covers the face of its judges if it is not he then who is it again this is amazing truth we've seen us in our

Bible studies especially in God's sovereignty and God's decree and his providence that God is the first cause we are the secondary causes we're the ones that are proximate to the doing of the action we're the ones held culpable of sin and wrongdoing because we have done these things in our own free will in our own nature in our own desiring of doing sin but it is still

God who has decreed all things who sustains all things who's created all things who has providence and purpose and glory in all things it is he who does this verse 25 to 35 of this these things are to us are still a mystery and we have to handle these things with prudence but let's look at verse 25 to 35 it says now my days are swifter than a runner they flee away they do not see good they sweep by like a reed boats like an eagle that swoops on its food though I say

I will forget my musing I will forsake my sad countenance and be cheerful I am afraid of all my pains

I know that you will not acquit me I am accounted wicked why then should

I toil in vain if I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye yet you would plunge me into the pit and my own clothes would abhor me for he is not a man as I am that I may answer him that we may go to a court for judgment together there is no adjudicator between us who make who may lay his hand upon us both let him remove his rod from me and let not dread of him terrify me then

I would speak and not fear him but I am NOT like that and myself this is the word picture of what

Joe is putting out is is exactly what Christ Jesus has done for us no adjudicator there's no mediator there's no one between me and God what was those three things that we see all throughout the

Bible God's greatness the chasm that separates us from God's greatness and how sinful and awful of a human being in our nature are that we're dead in our sins and trespasses who has crossed that chasm who has put hands on both of us who has made who's been the justifier who's been the adjudicator for us

God himself the second person of the Trinity particularly the word that became flesh but in all these things what

Job is saying is that I have no right to go before God and to accuse him of wrong there is no way

I can his character is too great let us now look at all of chapter 10 we're gonna read the entire chapter here and I believe this is where job starts to fall into serious error and I'll explain why when we read all these verses my soul is loathed by my life

I will abandon all restraint in myself to complain to complain I will speak in the bitterness of my soul

I will say to God do not account me as a wicked let me know why you contend with me is it good to you that you oppress that you reject the labors of your hands and cause the counsel of the wicked to sign forth have your eyes of flesh have you eyes of flesh or do you see as a moral man sees are your days as the days of a moral man or years for your years as man's years that you should seek for my guilt and search after my sin according to your knowledge

I am indeed not wicked yet there is no deliverer from your hand your hands fashions fashion and made me altogether and would you swallow me up remember now that you have made me as clay and would you turn me into dust again did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews you have made alongside me life and loving -kindness and your care has kept my spirit yet these things you have concealed in your heart

I know that this is within you if I sin then you wouldn't take note of me and would not acquit me of my guilt if I am wicked woe to me and if I'm righteous

I dare not lift up my head I am seated with disgrace so see my misery should my head be set on high you would hunt me like a lion and again you would show your wonders against me you renew your witness against me and increase your vexation towards me hardship after hardship is within me why then have you brought me out of the womb would that I had breathed my last and no

I ever seen I should have been as though I had not been carried from the womb to the tomb would he not cease for a few of my days withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer before I go and I shall not return to the land of darkness and shadow of death the land of utter gloom as a thick darkness itself of the shadow of death without order and which signs as thick darkness where would

I ascribe that Job has gone wrong in this text in these two chapters that we've seen

Job speaking has Job said that God is sovereign that God has he's the one that does all these cosmic one yes he ascribes

God rightly so to those things but where does Job overstep I think where does Job go beyond what he should as a human

I think we saw that in verse 18 through 22 God you should have let me just die you should have let me go from the womb to the tomb

God tomorrow should be just darkness for me God I should just die tomorrow

God I should not live any longer I think what we see in this is what

James chapter 4 refers to us when we talk about prayer that a man should not say tomorrow

I will go into the city and do this or that but that you ought to say if the

Lord should will will do this or that Job is saying

I think that in God's sovereign plan it would have been better if I had died in God's sovereign plan

I'm going to not live tomorrow that only darkness and gloom will follow after me what is Job done in this he's saying that I know a better way than God that I think

I could create a better plan than what God has prepared before the foundation of the world for me I think

I could do a better job than God I think this is where Job sins and fails and falls short in these two chapters instead well how

Job should have talked instead of saying I should have died he should say Lord if it's your will that I die tomorrow let us do that but if your will is that I should live another day and another day and another day upon that day let us do that instead you should have appealed to God's will and his purpose and all these things and not try to elevate himself to that throne not try to elevate himself and say

I have a better way again this is coming from a man who's professed

Yahweh gives Yahweh takes blessed be the name of the Yahweh and in his mourning and worship he never sinned against God in that text where do we see now that he has failed because in the last chapters as we made mention of he gets rebuked for what he said

I think this is the example that he goes beyond that which is declaring God's sovereignty and saying

I could do better Romans 920 it says this on the contrary who are you oh man who answers back to God the thing molded will not say to the molder why did you make me like this will it the pot does not have any authority any right the creation does not have the ability nor deserve any time to talk when it comes to saying

God why have you done this no thing that is molded has that right to speak back to its

Potter and all these things is summed up I think for us in Romans 11 33 through 36 where Paul says this oh the depths of the riches both the wisdom and the knowledge of God how unsearchable her is judgment and unfathomable his ways for who has known the mind of Yahweh or who has become his counselor

I know Job hasn't become his counselor I know that Job has not known his mind and Job saying

I should have died the rest of the chapters of the last chapter 42 would not come about where Job is given back all that he lost again

Job does not know all that God is doing verse 35 of Romans 11 says who has get first given to him that it might be paid back to him again or from him and through him and to him are all things to him be the glory forever amen brothers and sisters

I think the application of this looking at this whole cow or a but I would caution us to not try to assume the seat of God and say

I know the better way or I know the ultimate will or go over that which

God has prepared for us we should not think that we have that right we're his creation and we have this wonderful relationship with our

Creator and that is only through Jesus Christ that is only through the righteous suffering servant who deserved nothing that was given to him but he took it on his cheek for you and I let us go ahead and pray to that wonderful King of Kings and Lords of Lords today

God I thank you Lord you had all the more right and reason and even the ability to ask

Lord why but you said not my will but your will be done Lord Jesus I thank you for drinking every drip of that bitter cup that was deserving for each one of us sitting here in the chairs today even for the man that is standing behind the

Word of God today preaching for you Lord God you've drank it you have satisfied it

Lord God you've covered us with something that we are totally undeserving and that is the righteous life of your son

Jesus Christ Lord let us live our lives as what

Paul has told us and what James has told us Lord that the riches are too wondrous for us they are too unfathomable

Lord let us live asking for your will to be done and know that whatever comes

Lord that it is with a purpose to glorify you let us not question your plan but let us learn from it let us glorify you in it

Lord and God just comfort us in our mourning and our distress when those things do come do arise or have come and have a rose

Lord I ask this in your name Jesus Christ amen brothers and sisters please stand as we sing our final song today

I'd also like to remind us something I didn't say in the announcements is that because today was the baby dedication for Nehemiah Emily was able to make some sweet treats for everybody and so please after the service today please go in the gym get some food even if you got to take off take a plate to go we have too much food so please be please be blessed by Emily's baking this day

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