So on the topic of public-private partnerships, a theme that's been running through my head just given the political climate is the I will do it alone versus we the people can make this happen. And I think that's a really interesting dichotomy to think about for public-private partnerships. When we go and we advise people, we say you need a leader, you need a visionary, you need someone who is going to be your champion for this project because they are complicated, they are difficult, and they take a long time. But on the flip side, you need everyone to be involved to make it happen. And I think the cultural district is an example where it feels like it was somewhere in the middle and maybe was a little messy because it was so much of the we and there's different heads and people changing. And I think looking back on that experience, you know, where could have been, where were the benefits for that messiness and where were the difficulties and has it enabled the ultimate goals of trying to knit back into the neighborhood and bringing the neighborhood in and also improving the neighborhood. Has that really happened and how do you kind of like looking back seeing what could be done differently? Yeah, so it's a big one, but. I think actually Fort Green, I lived there for a while. And I think from the residents of the Fort, people who actually live in Fort Green and Clinton Hill in that area. I don't necessarily know that they feel that all this new development that's going on in downtown Brooklyn and around the band cultural district is really beneficial to them in terms of being a recipient. I think there is a tremendous backlash from the community saying that they can no longer afford to live there. And I think the city under the Bloomberg administration actually did a good job of down-zoning the historic districts and creating those areas to protect those historic brownstones and those beautiful areas. But you know, I think Brooklyn is at a point where there's tremendous change going on and there's a lot of growing pains. And the challenge for I think next 10 years is there's so much residential coming online. I think in next two to three years, there's almost 15,000 new units that's going to get built and delivered. That's combination of market rate condominiums, market rate rentals, and affordable housing. And it's really important, you know, for Pacific Park, we did this as part of negotiation with the city and the state by providing 35% affordable as overall development was one of the ways that we were able to actually create the large scale development for this project. And the affordability is actually very much more robust and it was the city had never actually done a significant number of the middle income housing, which is really from 100 to 200% of the AMI. And to give you guys an idea of what that means is 100% for family of four in 2016 is about $88,000 a year, right? So we're talking probably teachers, right? Recently graduating architects, most likely. So, you know, you're creating these much more sustainable development where all those people are living together, right? People who are paying, let's say $3,000 for a studio are living in the same building where someone because they income qualify can pay $1,000 for a studio in a brand new safe doorman building with washer and dryer in your unit, you know, with amenities. And there's another person who's actually only paying $400 a month in studio income qualifies. And I think it's a little bit of a social experiment because it's not something that city has done very well, I would say, because they typically do 80-20s, or 20%, you know, until recently, you could even put people in a poor door, which is, you know, ridiculous. So I think part of the backlash against people being priced at having to move away from the community, we want to, at least for Pacific Park, we want to reincorporate that community. So we've done lots of town hall meetings at different community boards, different schools, outreaches just to make sure that, you know, to educate people who really would know what a lottery process is to get into affordable housing, to educate them and have them actually come and apply for these, because it's really important. Like, I met a family, like a guy is a freelancer, and I think his wife is a teacher, and they just had a child, and they're applying for this affordable housing, because alternative is, like, they're going to have to move out to Lyland somewhere else, and they have to leave the city. And if they actually get this lottery, it would be, like, a life-changing event for them, so they could stay within the community and be able to have children, raise their children in the community that they've invested in. I mean, I think if you, you know, these are all, the cultural district is, I think, a pretty amazing mechanism for the other side of the equation, too. Not only the affordable housing, but actually, you know, you look at kind of institutions like Bomb, right, who have been able to get affordable office space, and look at how many people that they employ, and equally with Mark Morris, and the number of, you know, these institutions use their facilities, especially, like, when you think about brick, right, or even glass, they use their facilities, not just in the evening for performances, but there is a huge amount of programming for that was already there, but they just didn't have the facilities, wasn't well located. Ultimately, I think the equation in the city, and this is a bias, because I'm not an affordable housing person, is that the more jobs there are that pay well, the more skills people have, the more education, money gets put into education, and there's a lot of universities in downtown Brooklyn, the easier it is for people to access those. Ultimately, the volume of affordable housing will start to, you know, like, hopefully it will continue at 35%, but it will mean something different if people have a way to pay even that AMI for their rent, because they had an opportunity, you know, and this is really true across the board. Downtown Brooklyn was a place with a lot of a certain kind of jobs, essentially, you know, fire, and those jobs were highly, you know, prone to kind of political decision-making. Should government move into these offices? But none of those jobs help support arts. They, none of them really paid into supporting public spaces. So potentially, as long as it doesn't get balanced one way or the other, like too much Class A office or too much Class A housing, that Brooklyn continues to have enough volume, I think there's a very interesting experiment happening. That's sort of my perspective. Right, I agree with what you said. And, but also, I feel like it's really important, you know, what we see all the time is like, there's so much growth happening in Brooklyn right now, and, I mean, all over the city, but particularly Brooklyn, and the truth is that we haven't really come to terms with what that really means, and the truth is also that people who've been living in Brooklyn are called, nobody is in favor of growth happening around them. It's just the way things are. Nobody wants it anywhere near them, no matter how beautiful it is, no matter how much affordable housing there is, no matter how much wonderful sidewalk art there is, they just don't want it, period. Even Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is an amazing thing, and I actually have spent a few years living across the street from it and completely enjoyed it, but I had neighbors who were utterly appalled that the park had even been built. They would have preferred to have abandoned piers there because just having these people come in and be around their space just freaked them out too much. It's true. It's true. It's a really, so growing is an incredibly painful thing, and it's always been that way. And so we have to try to figure out the best way to deal with it is, ultimately, it is better for everyone. The city has to keep growing to survive and to remain viable. It's just not a choice. You can't say, well, we're just not going to build anymore because no one really wants it. It has to happen. We have to do it in the best way we can. We are living in a pretty enlightened era of development compared to what happened for the decades previously. It's amazing the difference compared to what happened in the 60s and 70s and 80s. And so we should be thankful for that, but we still are trying to figure out a way to make development palatable for people who live in neighborhoods where they don't want it to happen. I appreciate very much the optimism of this table. Yeah, and it's great. And New York is a fantastic force and et cetera, et cetera. The truth is, is that all of this has a very good side and a very dangerous side. You know, and it's both with the High Line and it's happening in Brooklyn. And obviously, you know, we all heard the High Line is beautiful. There's no doubt about it. You know, Liz and Ricardo Oscar Fidio did a great job. James Corner did a great job. You know, what's happening in Brooklyn is amazing. But on the other side, it is becoming a little bit of a zoo and a little bit of Disneyland, the whole thing. And it does bring higher taxes and it raises the value of the city. But then many, many people just cannot live there anymore. You know, I'm not an anti-gentrification advocate. I'm the contrary. You know, I believe very much in development. I believe very much in investment. But there must be other ways of dealing with this. I don't know what it is. I was yesterday in the building I just showed you and I can tell you that one bedroom apartment is renting for $6,000. But that's not the worst thing. The worst thing that I heard is that in order to rent that apartment, anybody needs to demonstrate that their salary is 50 times that amount. So anybody that doesn't make $300,000 a year cannot live in that building. So we're bringing all of these cultural institutions to an area that at the same time we're pushing away most of the people that would be the real natural and authentic people that would use these cultural institutions. We're bringing in really edgy cultural institutions that used to be in sort of lost places. But who's going to be their audience now? You know, it's going to be people that perhaps their interests are others. So there's a very, very complex sort of balance that I don't think anybody, you know, all of us included have been able to reach. In a way, though, I think just to counter that a bit is that that site you were on, the loss was, I mean, wasn't it a big plant nursery, right? So if you, but there are plenty of sites in the city where the loss is a valued Odana library, the loss is a nursing home. Everyone knows what site I'm referring to. The loss is that it changes what the brownstones cost. But there are, there's so much in the city that is dilapidated, ill-used industrial space that isn't supporting any jobs. And there's tons of city sites. And, you know, I'm going to get back to the Brooklyn Strand. We're talking about berms on the sides of highways. That for me, the city has to focus on not disruption of neighborhoods, but looking at the kind of growth in city-owned sites like it did on BAM Cultural District. It took city-owned sites or essentially parking lots and, or rail yards, except for a couple of sites. But, but like you're looking at sites that there's no eminent domain except for some police cars. You know, like the city has such capacity. New York, that's a great thing, I think, is that we have a lot of capacity. But we just want to, developers, and for you developers in the audience, you just want a sure thing. You just want to build in the same place everyone else is building after someone really who's done the hard work risking it, like, you know, everyone who tried to save that high line and I'll count myself among them. But, you know, and basically people want the easy payoff. So the real issue is how do we encourage in our public policy entrepreneurial developers the general entices who started off in Dumbo by, you know, giving Jacques Torres cheap space? Like, how do you encourage that instead of the let's just swoop in and take it for the short-term gain? There has to be some sort of public penalty in not taking a risk so that we get something back, I think. I think it's easier to offer very low-rents to companies like Jacques Torres when you bought the entire portfolio for significant, like, way, way below market and held up for 30 years. So I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I think what is for your future developers out there, you know, there is a saying, what does the pioneers get the arrows and settlers get the lead? I think, you know, developing in New York is incredibly difficult. And it doesn't matter whether you're doing a 20-unit building or 200-unit building. It's exactly the same.   I'm, you know, I personally love it. But there are battle scars that you will bear because the agencies you have to deal with, the negotiations that you have to, you know, have with the city and the state, and the community, because I think actually what's great is that the community organizations, right, community boards have now become very savvy and they're very active vocal voices in the future of their community. So they are also stakeholders. So you have to be able to manage all of these things so that, and there's a gift. There's always a gift. If it doesn't hurt, someone walked away. It's got three, right? Both sides have to hurt. All sides have to hurt a little bit. But you come with a development that's appropriate for that site. And you can look for pioneering sites. You know, Bushwick's already over, right? So you have to go further down the L train, I think. There's no other opportunities. But, you know, New York City, I think, is full of those things, but you have to have the staying strength in order to really develop it and see the project through it because it's going to take literally on a perfect project. It'll take you five years from the beginning to the end to bring a project online. The reality of it, it'll be a decade. But I think my argument was that the neighborhoods, not further down the L line, that shouldn't be the sole focus of developers. It's the infrastructure. Like, there are big sites that were never housing or haven't been since they got taken over by Robert Moses. And those sites are scars in neighborhoods and they're even not even neighborhoods. You look at sunny side yards. If we all, like, said, guys, no one's going to pose sunny side yards and doing something, let's all support and make sure there's something interesting there, then no one is going to say that you've just destroyed my street of brownstones. What needs to be thought about is New York is an ecosystem. We are a very complex ecosystem. And whenever you develop something, you need to think about who are you benefiting and who's benefiting from you. And think about both sides of that. So with BAM, we brought in a lot more attendance to BAM, who then fed the restaurants and the whole cultural amenities in the neighborhood, who then fed the residential development, who then fed back the cultural assets. Very long time, but it helped the ecosystem develop and foster upon itself. And so I think when you're looking at a project, you can't just look at that one site that's going to give you X amount of return. You have to think about it in the context and think about the ecosystem, both the jobs that it's creating and then where those people are going to live and how that's going to work together. Can I ask one question? So I wanted to ask whoever wants to answer this. So why don't we, why isn't this happening? Again, the city, like why isn't this happening in Harlem? Why don't we have a Harlem cultural district where groups are getting this kind of new facility support? It's happening. Well, not in the mechanism we're talking about here. But I think it's happening. It goes back to a very strong visionary, right? Harvey was very forthful to create this in the beginning. Yes, there were lots of people involved, but you had this very strong leader in the beginning. And I think it's that balance between the leader and the we and how you bring them together. It's not because we don't have enough city-owned sites? No, I mean, because it wasn't just about the city-owned sites that made them happen. I mean, it's a large part of it. It's a large part of it. It's not RFP, a private site. No, but there weren't, I mean, it wasn't, it's not like the city just was like, here's our land, make it happen. Okay, so my question is, if I look at city-owned sites, for example, in Harlem, why aren't those RFPs requiring culture? Okay, who, what? Why aren't the RFPs in Harlem on the city-owned sites requiring cultural investment the way they did at the Brooklyn Cultural District if there is a cultural district happening, which was part of the zoning on 125th and is not happening? You're right, I think there is lack of a single visionary and also, I would say, stewardship from the city that is lacking to make that happen. I think, you know, that leadership is incredibly important to make it happen. I also think that leadership is not necessarily a responsibility of the city, of the public realm, and we need developers that are more committed to social causes, to cultural causes, and that are more visionary. In the project I was mentioning in Harlem, unfortunately, it's a project I was partially doing with you. I'm not doing it with you anymore, but it's moving forward beautifully and it's becoming a cultural district, like cultural, and it's a totally privately owned project that is attracting a number of cultural institutions and social institutions that will create in that part of Harlem, I believe, a similar situation. You know, there are not two situations that are identical, but it's pretty close, I would say. Really fascinating for us and hopefully for you all. Do you want to, questions or? Yeah. If you want to, and we're late on time. We're running a little late, but just a couple of questions. Burning questions from the floor? I was just wondering if we hold ever different parts. Best practices in New York versus other cities you worked in? Who thinks you've seen here that you love and that are elsewhere and vice versa? That's such a huge theme. That should be another seminar. Obviously New York is a big example for the world. It's a very sophisticated society. Also it has tremendous problems. I would be very happy to be part of such a thing, but it's really very long. It's a very, very, very long discussion. Well, to be very brief, obviously New York is a very sophisticated society where some issues are sort of not working very rightly. One of them is a very beautiful idea and a very great idea of the 20th century that I think has some tune up, which is called democracy. And we're seeing it not only within our projects. I hope you don't have to suffer it in your bigger political realm because that could be a huge historical mistake due to a malfunctioning of democracy, for example. So the excess of democracy, it's somehow creating huge problems in the city. It's also the huge excess of being a free market is creating huge problems. Free market is a beautiful idea. We don't have any, in any of the two cases, we don't have a better solution. It's really the best solution, but it's come to such extremes that it's backlash. But those are very extreme things that we should discuss. Absolutely. Well, there you are. What a better way to finish up with setting the stage for our next panel. And we've heard that this is the free market and democracy coming together, both challenged, but both also having exciting outcomes. And I think Enrique's call for developers to be much more in tune with these requirements for the public space and the public good of communities is precisely why we're having this today. This is being hosted by the program, the Graduate Masters of Real Estate Development program. So hopefully many of our young people in the audience who are coming through will be such developers. Good luck. So on that note, I want to thank our panelists, both of them, and invite everyone to have lunch, please.


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It is playoff time with the Pittsburgh Penguins in year 1 of our GM mode and my god we are ready for it. So if you guys missed last episode we are taking on the Washington Capitals in the first round of the 2021 playoffs. So before we start simulating I'm going to go over our team and the Capitals team. So heading into the playoffs with Eric Stahl and Melkin and Gensel playing on that first line, Zucker, Crosby and Kaepern on the second line, Russ, McKen, Tanev on the third and then Jankowski, Grandlin and Sevier on the fourth line, Grandlin being that trade deadline pickup that we did pick up last episode. On D we have Michael Matheson paired with LaTang, Yanuk Weber with Pedersen and then CeCe with John Marino and then in the next we have Casey DeSmith and Tristan Jari and I think we are going to be starting Casey DeSmith to start the playoffs. I think he had a better regular season if I'm not mistaken we are going to go check that out in a minute and then looking at our depth because injuries are on we have Evan Rodriguez, Teddy Bluger and Zac Assen re-scratched. The Miners, Sam Lafferty can get a shell, Goudreau maybe, Rudeweal, Ricola they can get shells as well, Traumann so hopefully we don't have to really work or have to deal with our depth. We do have decent depth but it's obviously better to have a healthy team come playoffs. I mean it was pretty close, Casey DeSmith was technically the starter for the season so you know what we are going to have Casey DeSmith, he started in the playoffs, he earned it, he played more, he had better or similar stats to Jari given he played more so we are going to stick with him and now let's check on this Washington capital team. I know they are good, I just want to see if they made any changes so the first line Ovi is at a 97 overall, oh my goodness okay so Ovi Kuznetsov and Verana on that first line, Daniel Sprung, Backstrom and Conor Sheary the former Pittsburgh Penguin, we got Tom Wilson, Lars Eller, Oshi, Gathaway, Panic and Haglund so I think we do have a better fourth line, Ovi on that first line is crazy, our second line is probably similar if not better in our third lines, they might have the better third line there, on defense Chara and John Carlson at a 91 overall, Schultz and Orlov, Dylan and TVR so they definitely have a better defense than us and then in net they have Henrik Lankwas at an 84 and then Samson Ovi at an 83, they have Kempney and Jensen scratch so man it's going to be interesting, it's going to be a very interesting playoffs series. So given that we just made the playoffs we are on the road so the Pittsburgh Penguins are ready to start out their playoff journey looking to bring another cup home, 2021 first game in Washington first period, ooh that is not the start you want from the Pittsburgh Penguins so we got Nick Backstrom opening up the scoring less than 5 minutes in and then Justin Schultz with 4 to go gets the second one past Casey to Smith at a weird angle as well so not the greatest first period we are getting outshot 18-6, not good at all, second period 3-1, we give up another goal Lars Ellis and then Pedersen gets us a goal, our defenseman, okay third period here we are going to sim it slowly, power play, nothing going and Daniel Sprung makes a 4-1, essentially taking us out of the game who is now making a 5-1, wow not the game one we needed, I think some changes are going to be made because this Pittsburgh Penguins team not looking good especially in game one here 5-1 and we take the game 1L 5-1 it was it was known that we were going to lose that game, Backstrom had a goal in to assist, Lars Eller with a goal in assist and Henrik Lunkas had himself a performance of 0.926 a percentage so Tannif had an assist and Russ had an assist on that Pedersen goal not the greatest performance from us here, Casey Smith not the greatest a 0.875 save percentage in game one I think we're gonna stick with him in game two he is our guy for this season but we got to make some lineup changes I think, alright so we found a way where we can throw Michael Grandlin on or Mikhail Grandlin on the third line I think it's better to have him third line then on the fourth so we now have a third line of Jan Kelsky, Grandlin and Russ and then our fourth line being Sevier, McCann and Tannif so it's gonna be interesting it's a minor change it's nothing too too big so that's what we did on offense defense there really isn't much we can do we could get a plus three down here maybe that's a bit better we'll keep these guys at an 81 and an 87 like those aren't bad ratings we now have Michael Matheson up to an 83 and Yannick Weber up to a 81 and then these guys get a plus one 82 and an 80 not bad and like I said we're gonna stick with Casey to Smith he's been our guy this season so we're gonna lean on him to have a huge bounce back here in game two alright we're looking for a huge bounce back win here again still in Washington down 1-0 we do not want to go home down 2-0 we want to split the games in Washington so here we go first period 1-0 Mikhail Grandlin the third line forward we move them up from the fourth line to the third line he gets a goal that period big stuff from mr. Mikhail Grandlin the trade deadline acquisition second period make that 3-0 then Jason Zucker and Cindy Crosby checking into the series that is huge so we got three goal leading the third period we should be comfortable we just got to defend here and and close out this game really impressed with Mikhail Grandlin opening up the scoring and then we had a huge second period to follow up that third period so good stuff again we're just here to close it out Casey to Smith having himself a bounce back game three to go to one and that is a we take game number two three to nothing three to nothing I was a little bit critical of Casey to Smith last game comes into this one gets us the shutout which is absolutely huge let's look at the three stars Casey to Smith as deserved as a first star 26 save shutout Michael Matheson had to assist good for him and Mikhail Grandlin the guy that we moved up to the third line got the goal for us there to start the game off so very good stuff from the Pittsburgh Penguins team in that game to we split the games and we're heading home for game three so moving Pedersen up a little tang got him to assist last game so some good changes we made there we absolutely love to see that let's sim to the next game game three on home ice we want to continue our ways here we had a great second game first period make it one nothing Christopher let's hang on that first pairing checks into the series gets his first of the playoffs make that one nothing Pittsburgh we are out shooting the capitals by seven shots so a great first period let's have a follow-up second period like last game second period two to one I'm getting Malcolm gets his first of the playoffs but halfway cut in the lead to one there getting his teammate goal so a two one game heading into the third we need that insurance marker from our team we need someone to step up and Ovi has checked into the series he ties it up from his spot and then Lars Eller gets one for the make it three to two we need someone to show up here we are shooting them to bits and we cannot get one pass them and half away I believe that's a second of the game makes a four two pretty much making this game out of reach horrible third period from this Pittsburgh Penguins team we lose five to two and now Washington leads a series two to one three stars that game Henrik Longquist just had himself a performance a 33 save performance a nine four two save percentage halfway had two goals that game and Crystal Tang getting the third start with a goal and an assist not the greatest game three from this Pittsburgh Penguins team again you don't want to lose both on home ice let's split it at least here I don't think there's gonna be much we can do to the lines like I feel like we played good up until that third period all right game for the penguins are down two to one we need another bounce back win here so here we go first period so one one hockey game Tom will Tom Wilson opens up to scoring and the Jason Zucker gets one back there on the power play so good stuff to see second period oh can we talk about these shots we only have four shots to their 14 not good enough okay second period here two one 16 shots we up the shots there Jacob Verana though given his team the lead third period here we do not want to go down three to one heading back to Washington they're gonna have home ice advantage and look to close up the series here power play nothing going not good from the penguins here we were up in the shots we need a goal will tend to go here power play for the Capitals and we don't kill it off Justin Schultz gets one three to one they're up by two with five to go and it doesn't look like we're going to get a goal here and the offense isn't looking good Dylan's Daniel Sprung making it a four one game he's been turning it on the series it's another empty net or form for one the pens go down three to one heading back to Washington again Lunk was with another first star performance Schultz had a goal in an assist that second star Tom Wilson with a goal in an assist not good from the penguins backs against the wall heading to Washington we're gonna make some changes here we're forced to make some changes here all right we're loading it up on the first line here this might be my inner Sheldon Keefe in me here but I've getting milk and is now playing with Cindy Crosby and Jake and so we are loading up that first line we need offense man we need offensive drastically second line is looking like happening Grand Lynn and Zucker and then the third line is Jan Kalski Eric Stahl Brandon Brian Russ and then Sevier McCann in 10 of defense again there's not much we can really change here we can switch that back around but he's better they're getting a plus three we might as well just keep it the way it is for now and Casey to Smith I mean he's been pretty good this series a 903 say percentage could be a little bit better 3.10 goals against average ain't the greatest so we need our best Casey to Smith here loading up that first line I'm just looking at her scoring in these past recent games we're hoping this helps we have one that's four six seven goals in four games that isn't good enough so backs against the walls load up that first line let's see if it works first period we're up three to one so there it is Mikhail Grand Lynn getting more playing time on that second line gets a goal John Carlson ties it up but then Kasperi Kaepernan the former Toronto Maple Leaf gets two in this period to give us a 3-1 lead heading into the second huge from Kasperi that second line is absolutely flying Grand Lynn and captain they're liking it there so second period make it 5-1 Kasperi Kaepernan getting the hat trick and Sidney Crosby on that top line with Gino gets a goal makes it 5-1 huge performance from this Pittsburgh Penguins team it is just time to close out this game and head back home and look for another win to force a game seven we just got to close this game out ten to go huge performance from the team the lineup changes definitely did help that second line finally got going in the first line finally got going as well we close out this game we take it 5-6 to 1 Jay Gensel getting one we take it 6-1 there and it's a 3-2 series heading back home of good stuff from the team so looking at the three stars here Kasperi Kaepernan as expected gets the first star with three goals Sidney Crosby second star with a goal and two assists and Gensel third star with a goal and two assists that first line was absolutely feeling it good stuff so yeah Crosby with three points Kaepernan with three points Gino with three points that first line was flying the Gensel three points Granlin with two stall with one just good stuff all around Tristan Jari Kasperi Smith with a 0.963 save percentage absolutely what we needed from him there that's the best of Kasperi to Smith right there we're heading to game seven back still up against the wall we're trying to force a game seven we're on home ice and hopefully that will help us so here we go we need a huge performance from that first and second line again first period one nothing Washington Nicholas Box from gets the goal for them second period no scoring in the second so this one is a tighter game we need that first line to step up again Kaepernan had a great game if he continued going that'd be great we need Crosby, Malkin the first two lines just to check in here so here we go we need something big here again backs against the wall trying to force a game seven five on four power play nothing going and Pettersen gets us the goal and Mikael Granlin on that second line gets us another one two minutes later and Jared McCann another two minutes later makes it three to one Lars Eller cuts the lead to one though oh my god what a third period three to go to the Peng was looking to just close it out here and they don't do it no way TJ Oshie with four seconds to go ties it up and forces a overtime oh no Pittsburgh oh no I am in complete and utter shock right now the Penguins pulled a Leafs they did it four seconds ago TJ Oshie scores and ties it up and they force an overtime so who's gonna be the game six hero for either side here we go overtime period Penguins trying to force a game seven they have 40 shots on goal Lunk was playing out of his mind here who is going to be the hero for either side and we're hoping it's the Penguins side oh that is a huge kill and Michael or Mikael Granlin four to three second line absolutely flying he gets a second of the game the Penguins force a game seven I don't care how we did it I know we blew a lead in the third but we force the game seven things you love to see looking at our three stars here at Granlin the expected first star with two goals and an assist Jason Zucker with two assists and Pettersen with a goal and an assist absolutely amazing from this Pittsburgh Penguins team Granlin had three points Pettersen with two captain with another two Zucker with two good stuff and Casey to Smith with a 914 it's good just not a fan that we blew that third period lead there but we forced the game seven we're heading back to Washington boys oh no speaking of heading to game seven Chris LaTang will not be playing in game seven so that's our top defense man out I was gonna say we've been pretty lucky injury wise and now Chris LaTang is out so we got a call someone up from the miners here and rude wheels probably the the next specs best thing to call up so I guess he's getting the shot so what we'll do is we'll have John Marino up on the top pairing there and we'll throw a rude wheel on the third pairing we still get a plus three here so that's okay but damn that Chris LaTang being out for game seven definitely hurts us game seven on the road we need people to step up especially with Christopher LaTang out of the lineup here so here we go first period one nothing penguins Eric Stahl we're finally getting our depth scoring from our third and fourth line he gets one pass Henry Clonquist gives us a one nothing lead heading in to the second second period okay so we're feeling the loss of Christopher LaTang TVR gets one and then Lars Eller gets one as well so we're down by one in the third game seven we need someone to step up for this Penguins team it's a huge hill to start the period off so hopefully that gives us a momentum here someone on the first two lines no Nicholas Baxter gets one for them makes it a three two one game Malcolm giving us hope though he gets us one back six to go okay Eric Stahl with a second of the game make a three two to go in the third period oh my god we are heading to overtime in game seven and you know what we're gonna do we're gonna head into this game and watch the simulation because why not all right here we go overtime period starting here Crosby taking the draw against Evgeny Kuznetsov who is going to be the hero here it's what we're all thinking right now Evgeny Kuznetsov drops it to Ovi Verana oh my god Casey to Smith oh my god Casey to Smith oh my god we almost lost the game on some utter BS and comes Ovi has me a little nervous when I see that 97 Ovi with the poxprong good save by Casey to Smith here we go get a little third line action here they're getting something offensively tried passing it across there wasn't great on the front and the Pittsburgh Penguins win a game seven and they're heading off to the second round they were down 3-1 in the series and made these series come back what a play out in front and the third line gets it done let's go boys we are sending the Washington Capitals home packing with no trophies we take it over in the Crosby and Ovi era of playoffs facing each other goes to Sydney Crosby again they win it in seven with a huge comeback things you'll love to see we are heading to the second round oh my what a game Eric Stahl had himself a 3.9 for the three stars the penguins head into the second round what a series against the Washington Capitals just things you absolutely love to see so let's see who we are taking on in the second round and it is the Carolina Hurricanes so I know we get Christopher Latain back the 25th so we are without him for games number one and two so taking a look at the playoff tree here the Hurricanes won their series against the Flyers in five so they've been sitting for a while looking at the matchups here we're taking on Carolina Boston's taken on Tampa the Leafs got swept by the Bruins okay and the Lightning swept the Islanders looking at the West it is the avalanche taken on the Blues and the Oilers taking on the Arizona Coyote so some good matchups here and we are taking on the Hurricanes in the second round


Job chapter 11. We'll look at the chapter today. We'll begin at verse one, read to verse four, and get into our study. Beginning at verse one, Job chapter 11, then, so far, the Namathite answered and said, should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be vindicated? Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one rebuke you? For you have said, my doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes. Well, Job has been making a statement. We already saw how he had begun. He had stated in chapter 10 that he was making a complaint to God. And in chapter 10, we saw last time we were together how that this man had spoken of the bitterness of his soul. And he had asked God, as he was contending with him, he asked God, why? Why is this happening? So as he was doing so, as we saw, he tried to reason with God by giving vent to his frustration and by asking questions. It is good. Is it good to oppress and despise the work of your hand? Does not your ability to know all things reveal to you that I'm innocent? This is what he was saying.  I don't know why. What have I done to deserve this? I'm simply a miserable man. I am unrighteous.  He went on to say, why did you survive? Let me survive childbirth. Leave me alone. I'm in such need of comfort. Please, God, just let me die because I can't take any more of this pain. And that's what he's been saying. He's been pouring out the complaint of his heart. He was speaking, as he said in verse 1 of chapter 10, of the bitterness of his soul. And that's what we received him to last time we're together. He was complaining. He is speaking. He was wanting God just to let him die. He was saying, I can't take this anymore. The pain that he was going through is unimaginable. Nobody in this room, beginning with me, could understand the kind of pain that he went through. We can't understand that. But he was in such great pain. He was saying, why was I even born? I should have died in my mother's womb. I should have died when I was born. Why did I go through all of this? And so he's complaining and crying after God. And as he's complaining in verse 1 of chapter 11, a man by the name of Zophar begins to speak to him. Now he's one of his miserable comforters, if you will. And as you look at this, man, you're going to see that his words are filled with a lack of understanding and a lack of compassion. A lack of compassion. One of the scriptures that I have in my heart that reminds me of the God that we serve is simply when the scripture tells us that Jesus saw a multitude and his heart was filled with compassion for them. Well, this man doesn't have compassion. He's an interesting man. We've already seen Ali Hu and Bill Dad speak. This is the third who's speaking so far. Because he is third to speak, if you take notes, you might want to note this. He's more than likely the younger of the three men who are speaking. But he's more passionate. And as he's been listening to the conversations with Ali Hu and Bill Dad and the response of Job to the things that they're saying, it has obviously caused him to become a bit irritated. Now, we know that when we looked at Aliphaz, Aliphaz was a spiritually minded man. As we went through some of the things he had to say, let me refresh your memory. He spoke of visions of the night. He spoke of revelation in Job 4 verses 12 and 13. He said, now a word was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it in disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night when deep sleep falls on me. So we see him and know him as a man who is given over to visions of the night and all, very spiritually minded man. Then we were introduced to Bill Dad. Bill Dad was more representative of one who holds fast to tradition and one who holds fast to authority. Remember how he in chapter 8 verse 8 had said, inquire please of the former age. Consider the things discovered by their fathers, for we were born yesterday. Know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.  So on one hand, we had a kind of a mystic, a man who spoke of visions. And on the other hand, we have a man who holds fast to tradition and authority. And so so far is a man who argues from what you would call a common sense perspective. He doesn't like Job complaining. He's basically going to tell him, why don't you just be quiet? Why don't you close your mouth?  After all, Job, you deserve everything that you're going through. And so we get an opportunity to see somebody else who doesn't know how to minister to those who are hurting. We get the chance to see Zophar the Namathite. And so in verse 2 he says, should not the multitude of words be answered and should a man full of talk be vindicated? So he begins in this loving, caring way. Job, you love hearing yourself talk. In fact, you're getting less than you deserve. You've been speaking for a long time, but your words have no weight to them. Now when he speaks of a multitude of words, you use a multitude of words, the words that phrased a multitude of words very often in Scripture speaks of folly or speaks of sin. Ecclesiastes 5.3, for example, says a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. In Proverbs 10, verse 19, it says in the multitude of words, sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise. So when this phrase a multitude of words is used, it very often will speak of folly or it can speak of sin.  And he says in verse 2, should a man full of talk be vindicated? In other words, should we by our silence seem to be approving the things that you're saying? Do you think that because you talk so much that this means you're right? Just because you're opening your mouth and speaking so much, do you think that that makes you automatically right? Just because I haven't responded and just because nobody has really been able to defeat what you're saying doesn't mean that you're correct. He says in verse 3, should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one rebuke you? Empty talk. Empty talk in the Hebrew can also be translated lies, should your lies, but it can also speak of that which is improper, what is called improper speech or vain talk. So you can say that he is saying, should your vain ramblings cause everyone to remain silent and not respond? All right, I get it. You're in pain. You've lost everything. You've made your complaint to God. You've been speaking with a lot of words. I guess you assume that we ought to just be quiet and let you speak as if you're right. That's his attitude, but you're not right. You see, by complaining that God is unfair, you're actually speaking against him.  Let the potsard strive with the potsards of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, what are you making? Or shall your handiwork say he has no hands? Are you saying that the potter doesn't have the right to form the pot in any way he wants?  You've even gone so far as to ask God to show you why he's contending with you because in verse 4 it says you have said my doctrine is pure and I'm cleaning your eyes. You say my doctrine is pure. My way of life is proper. I've done no wrong. How dare you do that? Even questioning God, why are you condemning me? Why do you contend with me? That's a wrong attitude and that's what he's doing. He's bringing correction to him for the things that he said. He says in verse 5, but oh that God would speak and open his lips against you. I wish God would just show up and take you at your challenge. I wish that he would just show up. You want to complain against him? Well, I wish that he would be standing before you right now. See all the compassion. It even gets better. In verse 6, that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, for they would double your prudence, know therefore that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves. The secrets of God's wisdom is far deeper than you can ever fathom. His wisdom is complicated. It's beyond our ability to understand and most certainly beyond our ability to explain. He's saying, Job, you need to remember that God's wisdom and the secrets that God has are so far beyond you. His wisdom exceeds your understanding. It exceeds your good judgment. It exceeds your ability to live life in a practical way. You don't understand how deep God is. That reminded me as I was studying this of Romans chapter 11 verse 33 where Paul had said, oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. Who are you to argue against God, Job? Who are you to complain against God? Who are you to question his decisions? His wisdom is past finding out. You're just a human being. He's God Almighty. You have limited understanding. He has all understanding. Why hasn't that dawned on you so that you have taken upon yourself, you're saying, to call into question the works of God? And then he hammers him in verse 6 by simply saying, know therefore that God exacts from you, less than your iniquity deserves. You're not even getting it as badly as you deserve it.  Now briefly, much of what he's saying is right. Much of what he's saying in its right context is true. This is something that others have said in the book of Ezra in chapter 9 verse 13. Ezra prayed and Ezra said, after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this. You have punished us less than our iniquities deserve. Well, he's basically simply saying, and again, he's assuming that Job is in sin and thus receiving what he deserves. He's saying, you ought to get it worse than you're getting it, Job. Don't you have any humility at all? Can't you understand this? And then he goes on in verse 7. Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty? Are you able to do that? Can you discover the depth of his wisdom? Job, can you give me an explanation, give me the reasons why he does what he does? Do you really think you're capable of understanding his ways? Do you really think that you're capable of knowing all that God knows and thus you can correct him for what he's doing? In the Psalms, in Psalm 145, verse 3, it says, great is the Lord and greatly do be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. So you cannot search out these deep things of God. You cannot find the limits of the Almighty. He's so far beyond you. Don't you understand that? In verse 8, they're higher than heaven. What can you do deeper than Sheol? What can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. So he speaks of that which is higher, that which is deeper. And so far as making a simple point, he's saying, God's wisdom is above any human's ability to reach and deeper than any man could ever really know. In Isaiah 55, 8, and 9, it says, my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. You know, it's interesting. I'll speak about this for just a moment. The fact is, and this is, this is true, what he's saying here, by the way, the fact is, if God didn't reveal himself to us, we could never know him. If God didn't make himself known to us, we could never know him.  If God determined to not reveal himself to us by searching, we could never find him out. You go all the way to the book of Genesis, guys, and you begin to read concerning our first parents, Adam and Eve. And you see how the serpent enters into the garden there, and Eve begins to dialogue with the serpent. And in the conversation, the serpent presents to her a temptation to take of the fruit that has been forbidden. And the scripture very plainly says, says that she took it, she did eat of it, and gave it to her husband, and he also ate of it. And their eyes at that time become open, and through experience, they understand what sin is. And what was their brilliant plan, their strategy? Well, they decided to hide from God by putting fig leaves on, to hide their nakedness. I don't know, have you guys ever, my grandmother had fig trees, and we would, when we were little kids, we would climb in the fig trees and we would hide in the fig trees. And I found out something about fig leaves. They're very itchy. So when I picture Adam running around with a fig leaf, that was not the smartest thing you could do with a fig leaf. But they're hiding. They're thinking that they can create something that will block their sin from God's sight. And God begins to speak to them. We all know the story, and the scripture says that the Lord was there in the garden, and he called out to Adam. And he said, Adam, where are you? And Adam answers him.  So we hid ourselves.  And he goes into the confession. Well, you know, the serpent, you know that woman you gave me? I don't want to call into question your wisdom, God, but she's a bad one. No. When you look at that story, though, it was not Adam searching for God. Why? Because sin had made a separation. It was Adam hiding from God. Our sin makes a separation. And what we end up doing, even when we think we're doing well, is we're actually hiding from. So we sow our own fig leaves, good works, religious behavior, various things that we think get us brownie points in heaven.  We all like sheep have gone astray. Each has turned into his own way. The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all, Isaiah tells us in chapter 53. What we have is a seeking God. We all have sinful, short of the glory of God. There's none who does that which is right. No, not a single one. All of our righteousness is as filthy rags, Isaiah tells us in the sight of God. They're like lepers' cloths that with this, the pus that would be emitted from the second arm and the various things that would ooze out. We are like lepers' cloths. That's our righteousness in comparison to the spotless righteousness of God. So if God does not reveal himself to us, guys, and this is where we ought to be really so blessed, if God did not reveal himself to us, we could never know him by searching. We would not find him. His ways are past finding out. He is beyond us. Truly thou art the God that hideth thyself, Isaiah says.  And so what God has done and this is the heart of Christianity is he took upon himself human flesh. He dwelt amongst men and John said, and we beheld his glory. The glory is of the only begotten Son of God. He revealed himself to me. He showed himself to us.  Oh, that I had someone who could plead my case for me. Well, that's why we need Jesus, our mediator. You see, Jesus knows the Father. He knows all of the Father because he himself is God in the flesh. And he reveals the Father to us. In Matthew in chapter 11, verse 27, he said, all things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal him. Remember, there was a time in chapter 14 of the Gospel of John, one of Jesus's disciples, a man by the name of Philip, is mentioned there. And do you remember when Philip said to Jesus, show us the Father, show us the Father, and that will be sufficient for us. Show us the Father. Jesus show us because Jesus had been speaking and he had just said, I am the way, the truth in life. No man comes to the Father but by me. And then Philip there says, show us the Father, and it'll be enough. Show us the Father. Reveal God to us. And Jesus responds to him. It's a beautiful response. It's found in John 14.9 where he says, have I been with you so long, and yet you've not known me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say show us the Father unless God reveals himself to you? You cannot know him. He reveals himself through the conviction of the Holy Spirit. And he has revealed himself by taking upon himself human flesh, came and dwelt amongst us, and we beheld his glory. When Paul was writing to the church in Colossae, in chapter 2, verse 9, Paul said, speaking of Jesus, in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Jesus is the incarnate God. And that's how we know him. No, we cannot on our own search out the deep things of God. No, we cannot find out the limits of the Almighty. As he said, they're higher than heaven.  What can you know? Their measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. There's no way that we in and of ourselves as a point that is being made could ever know him because he's beyond anything that we as human beings could ever fathom. Our sin is made a separation between God and ourselves. We need a mediator. He says in verse 10, if he passes by in prisons and gathers to judgment, who can hinder him? This is interesting. When I read the words passes by, I thought, what does that mean? So I looked it up to see what the literal translation of that phrase passes by because it says passes by in prisons and gathers to judgment. So how does that work? So the words passes by. It carries with it the thought of rushing something that's moving quickly. And the thought is it's making rushing to arrest someone to rush after them in order that and that makes sense here. If he rush, if he passes by, if he rushes to arrest, then in prisons and then gathers to judgment, who can hinder him is the point he's making. God rushes to arrest. He's saying God in prisons and God judges. And when he decides to do that, who can stop him? God is righteous. God knows all things. God knows the details of the crime. And God is going to judge properly. And because he has a righteous judgment, who can argue with him and who can plead their case and who could prove him wrong? Who can resist God is what he's saying. No one can deliver a criminal from his hands. In Isaiah 43 verse 13, it reads, Yes, and from ancient days I am he, no one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it? It says in verse 11, he knows deceitful men. He sees wickedness also. Men do not know God or very little of him. They can't judge his ways and they can't determine his purposes. Though men cannot judge him, he knows everything about men and he can judge them. He sees wickedness and will he not consider it? In other words, he sees what is wicked and he punishes it. God, he's saying, sees not only the action, but he also knows what motivated that. He knows the secrets hidden within the heart. Job, you don't have the capacity to do that. And because you're incapable of seeing anything other than outside behavior and you don't know a man's hearts and you don't know the things that go on within him, you need to stop arguing with God. You see, God knows everything about us. When I was reading this today and preparing this study, I thought of John chapter 2 verses 23 through 25 because it says, when he was in Jerusalem, speaking of Jesus at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself to them because he knew all men and had no need that anyone should testify of man for he knew what was in man.   He knows the words that you're about to speak before they're even formed on your tongue. I was taught that when I was seven years old. God is omniscient. He knows everything. And I was a logical kid. I've always had a bit of a logical bent.  For a while, true story, when I was seven years old, I would go to bed at night and I had been taught to say my nightly prayers. And I still remember doing this. I would lay my head on my pillow and I'd pray because you're supposed to. And I said, God, I learned that you know everything. And because you know everything, that means you would know what I would pray tonight if I were to pray and seeing that you already know what I would pray if I was going to pray. Good night. That made sense to me because if you already knew it, why would I repeat something you're already aware of, right? I'm being rude. But the Bible makes it very clear that he knows, you know, he knows everything about you. That isn't something that should scare us, by the way. That speaks of intimacy. That speaks of awareness.  Now, that to me is amazing because we have a tendency of trying to be the best that we can to win the love of somebody, don't we? You have an opportunity to go out on a date. This comes from both men and women, both do the same thing. On the first date, if you have some kind of an interest in that person, what do you do? Do you show them what you're really like?  You even take a bath, even though it's only Friday. Put on clean socks and everything.  You're very polite. Open the door. Try to get to know one another. Do you tell them all the secrets? Do you tell them everything about you? Do you say, oh, by the way, I was arrested four times for this? No, no, no. You were the president of the high school. You were on the track team. Yeah, I was very fast. Yeah, when you were running from the cops. Now you put your best face on, right? And then you share with them as much as you want them to know about you over time. Sometimes you don't tell them everything. You can be with them 30, 40 years in marriage and still they don't really know your real story. It's a fact. They don't know your real story. They only know what you trusted them with. And sometimes some guys who have hidden their past from their wife are afraid that someday she may find those secrets. And he's afraid that she may not love him anymore because she really doesn't know the true guy that he was, even though he may be different right now. But guess what? God knows everything about you. He knows everything about you. There's not a single thing you've ever done. That's that such, that causes me to wonder. But he does. He knows everything I've ever done. Every word I've ever spoken, even the words that will come from my mouth tomorrow next week or next year. He already knows those two. He knows the things that I wouldn't want anybody to know about me. He knows those things. And he loves me anyway. He loves you anyway. Have you allowed him to love you anyway?  But when you finally say to him, God, this is who I am, I'm worse than I pretend, but you know everything about me. There's a freedom in that. There's a freedom I've experienced in that. He knows you and he still loves you. And that's something that causes me great joy.  In verse 12 it says, for an empty-headed man will be wise when a wild donkey cold is born of a man. That's a little sarcasm there. An empty-headed man is a man by nature who is ignorant of God in his way. He's an empty-headed man. It's a foolish man.  Again, Paul made that clear when he was writing to the Romans. He said that when someone's not born again, they don't understand the ways of God. In Romans 8 verses five through eight, Paul said, those who live according to the sinful nature have their mindset on what that nature desires.  He goes on to say, the mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the spirit is life and peace. The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. We are by nature before we're born again rebels in rebellion against the king of the universe, is what the Bible teaches. And as I've said so many times in various ways, if God says, go to the left, our nature says, no, I want to go to the right. If God says, stop, our nature says, no, I want to continue to go. If God says it's up there, we say, no, it's down there. If God says that's bitter, we say, no, that's sweet. That's what we do. We argue with God constantly. The unregenerate mind, the mind that hasn't been set free by the spirit of God hasn't been washed by the blood of Christ that is prone to doing that, which pleases itself, the flesh. Well, we can't know God because we're in rebellion against him. An empty-headed man is going to be wise when a wild donkey is cold as born a man. He's saying it's not your nature to have wisdom any more than it's the nature of a human being to give birth to or be given birth by an animal. It doesn't happen that way. And so we need to be born again. He continues, verse 13. If you would prepare your heart and stretch out your hands towards him, if iniquity were in your hand and you put it far away and would not let wickedness dwell in your tents, then surely you could lift up your face without spot. Yes, you could be steadfast and not fear because you would forget your misery and remember it as waters that have passed away. Your life would be brighter than noon day, though you were dark, you would be like the morning and you would be secure because there's hope. Yes, you would dig around you and take your rest in safety. You would also lie down and no one would make you afraid. Yes, many would court your favor, but the eyes of the wicked will fail and they shall not escape in their hope, loss of life. Even a stubborn man may be reclaimed if he repents is the point he's making. Listen, all you need to do is confess that you've sinned and if you confess, you'll be forgiven and you'll be healed. He says in verse 13, if you would prepare your heart and stretch out your hands towards him, so so far is convinced that Job is guilty of sin and has been punished for his sin by God. He said, God knows deceitful men. God sees wickedness also. He told Job that he was without wisdom. He didn't understand the ways of God and because of this, he believes that Job is in sin and therefore he's giving Job an invitation. Job, listen, you need to seek God and when you do, God will once again bless you. You see, to Zophar, it's obvious that Job is reaping what he's sown. Job, you need to repent. So in verse 13, he's telling Job, don't argue with God. Recognize your sin. Turn from it. You need to repent. Prepare your heart. Stretch out your hands to him. Now that phrase stretch out your hand in verse 13 is an interesting thing. To stretch out your hand is a picture of surrendering to him. Surrender. It's also a picture of surrendering and begging, making your supplication. It's like what it says in Ezra 9, verse 5, at the time of the sacrifice, I stood up from where I had sat in mourning with my clothes torn. I fell to my knees and lifted my hands to the Lord, my God. It's a picture of repentance and surrendering. That's what he's saying here. If you would prepare your heart, you need to repent. Stretch out your hands. Ask God for help. That's what he's saying. If you don't turn from your sin, it will have a foothold in your life, Job. Well, in that, that observation in general, by the way, would make Zophar right. He's right about that. If you don't turn from sin, it does have a foothold in your life. Here's something that I don't say often enough, so I'll say it now. Sometimes, listen carefully because I don't want to say this wrong, and hopefully I won't, but sometimes we can speak of sin and actually lessen the depth of evil that it really is because our desire is to recover people, and thus we don't want to say sin is as terrible as it is sometimes. But if you're ever going to be set free from sin, guys, and some of us in this room perhaps have been hedged about to be setting sin, this is what the Bible teaches. Sin needs to be dealt with harshly. Harshly. It needs to be completely obliterated in your life. In Romans 8.13, if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Sometimes Christians get the mistaken belief that sins, well, some sins are more like pets. The things we want to keep around because after all these happen to be our pet sins, the things that we like. I don't do these ugly ones that I used to do, but every once in a while I don't mind doing this particular one. So we basically allow it to continue living in us unaware of the fact that if you keep feeding it, it eventually works to destroy. That's what it does. It works to destroy you. Like the woman who found a baby raccoon and brought the raccoon into the house. And it was a baby, so she gave it a bottle of milk and fed it like it was a cat or a puppy. And every day she would play with it. Every day she pet it. Every day she loved it. She take it with her place and put it in the purse and go places. As it was growing and started to mature, it got bigger and bigger. And then one day she is there on the couch and she went up and did what she'd been doing for so long. She put her face next to it to greet it. And they have these claws on them. And it reached up and ripped her face. Just ripped her face, tore her face because she thought that she could domesticate a wild thing. Eventually what happened is that what she loved and cared for and nurtured harmed her. And your sin does the same thing and even worse. You don't keep sin as a pet. You don't make an excuse for it. You don't say, well, it's just the way my family is. Or that's just the way we are. That's the way my culture is or whatever. Because we can find various things that we use as excuses. Now the Bible says you mortify the deeds of the flesh. You put those things to death. In Colossians, Paul said it like this in chapter three, verses five through eight. He said, put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature. Then he begins to list some things. Sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways. In the life you once lived. But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these, anger, rage, mellus, slander, filthy language from your lips. Sin is to be dealt with. It's to be obliterated. It's to be put to death. It's to be turned away from. So you don't hold fast to it. You put it to death.  Prepare your heart. Stretch out your hands toward him. Surrender to God. Verse 14, if iniquity were in your hand and you put it far away and would not let wickedness dwell in your tents, then surely you could lift up your face without spot. Yes, you could be steadfast and not fear because you would forget your misery and remember it as waters that have passed away. Your life would be brighter than noon day, though you were dark, you would be like morning. So he continues on and he speaks concerning the things that should be put away. If iniquity were in your hand, put it far from you. Like other men, so far is certain that Job has brought all of this upon himself. Like the other guy said, you see righteous people in his mind don't go through this kind of suffering. So in verse 14, if iniquity were in your hand and you put it far away, in other words, if you were rich because you dealt him properly with people, well, confess that and repent. If you oppressed the poor, you got rich by injustice, did business sinfully, you need to repent. In verse 15, then surely you could lift up your face without spot. You can have joy, you can have purity, you can have a righteous boldness and a confidence if you get rid of this sin. You see, obviously this is in contrast to the disfigured and pain filled face that Job now has. So put away your sin so you can once again have a bright smile. Job had just said he could put off his sad face and wear a smile, but it would be fake for him to do that. Well, Zophar says, if he repents from his heart, then he'll have a smile that's for real. It's like what it says in Psalm 32. One, blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. In verse 15, he said, this will result in you being steadfast. Steadfast speaks of, it's actually a word that speaks of molten metals being poured into a mold and becoming combined and solid. Instead of being in doubt, he's saying you will be firm and fixed. You'll be unwavering, like it promises in Proverbs 28.1 where it says, the wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. He's saying you'll be steadfast. Verse 16, you would forget your misery. It's be like waters that have passed by. If you do this, your happiness will be so great. It'll be so great, you'll never remember your pain. So repent, put away this sin. You can be healed. Your pain will come to an end. The blessings will be so immense, it'll wipe out every memory you have of pain. In verse 17, your life will be brighter than noon day. The rest of your life is going to be more bright than the sun or even the moon. Your life is going to be like a beautiful sunlit morning. Isn't that a beautiful promise to him? You're talking to a guy who's scraping his sores, whose disfigurement has been mocked, he's been ridiculed. And he's saying, I need to do a say, I'm sorry. And all of this is going to go away. Everything's going to be lovely. In verse 18, he says you would be secure because there's hope. Yes, you would dig around you and take your rest. It's safety. The rest of your life will be great. Your mind will be at peace. It'll be free from the fear and terror because your sin made a separation, Job. Now you can have a relationship with God. You can have hope in him. It's like what it says in Psalm 73, 18 and 19 where the Psalmist said, surely you set them in slippery places. You cast them down to destruction. Oh, how they are brought to desolation as in a moment they are utterly consumed with tears. Your mind will be at peace and you will be free from terror because your hope is in God. He says you will dig around you and take your rest in safety. That's an interesting phrase that could speak of preparing a place for your tent or it could even speak of digging a well. Either way, it speaks of security as well as provision. He says in verse 19, you would also lie down and no one would make you afraid. Yes, many would court your favor. That's an interesting thing to say. You see God in Psalm 48, in Psalm 4 verse 8, it is said of God, I will both lie down in peace when I'm right with him. I will both lie down in peace and sleep for you alone. Oh Lord, make me dwell in safety. You're going to have peace and you have the ability to rest, Job, if you confess. Notice how he says, many will court your favor. Your repentance and restoration will open the door for people to come to you once again for advice. Your honor is going to be restored to you, but you need to repent.  The eyes of the wicked are looking for help, but we'll never see it come their way. Their hope will leave them, even as their final breath leaves their body. Their hope is going to go like their final breath. Well, you know here, let's close with a couple of thoughts. Much of what he is saying is true, but the problem is Job didn't do what so far says he did. Job had not consciously sinned. They're giving him advice, a prescription, if you will, for a healing, for an illness that at that time he really wasn't sick with. You see the way Job's friends thought at that time is still common today. Be very careful, if I might close with the word of encouragement and advice, be very careful. The church needs to learn this, especially some of my Facebook friends who furiously post advice. I can almost picture them pounding away at their keyboard with a halo over their head as they give advice of things that they've never encountered. One of the wisest things you can learn to do seriously is you can learn to weep with those who weep. You can learn to just sit quietly and let them be who they are right now, not that you want them to stay there because you don't. But when you go about, when a person goes about accusing somebody of sinning simply because the circumstances surrounding them seems to make sense that they did, that's what's taking place with these men. Elihu and Zophar and Bildad, they all are accusing Job of one thing, you have sinned. You're reaping what you've sown. It's the best thing you can do is to listen to somebody and ask God, give me understanding because I don't want to come on like a self-righteous judge, Lord. And I don't want to give them a word of healing when they're not ready to receive it. So give me the wisdom to listen and to listen, Lord, with your heart. Read the words of Jesus, spend time looking at how he ministered to the sinner. And as you see him speak, there are so many times you see his love and his compassion. He never gives them a reason to continue in sin. He never gives them permission to remain in sin. And these are sinners he's speaking to. But he seems to have saved or reserved his greatest irritation towards the religious people that seemed to think they had it all together and other people didn't. We're living in a time in the church where we're quick to give the remedy but we're not so quick to have compassion on the one who's suffering. Sometimes we get frustrated, I understand that. And sometimes we give advice and they don't seem to listen and we just think, my goodness, and I just got nothing else to say. But I discovered and I have continued to discover that one of the things that makes somebody a healing agent in the hands of God is a willingness to let your heart be touched with their pain. To allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to try to understand where they're coming from. Yes, we have the answer in Christ. We do. And yes, His word brings healing. Sometimes I need to just listen to what they're saying because sometimes they're confused and they don't know exactly how to put into words the pain that they feel. And some of us have a tendency unfortunately of wanting to give the solution before we hear the problem because we really don't have the compassion of Christ. But when you say to the Lord, help me to have an ear to hear and a heart to feel. Watch your ministry start taking off because there are so many broken people. So many broken people. And I say this to pastors. When I teach pastors at pastors conferences, I say look at your congregation. You've got a broken hearted woman over here and you have a sorrowful man over here and you have a young man over here. You've got a young lady over here. They have gone through pain and sorrow that you don't understand. And you're so busy wanting to feel the pews with people that you forget these people have hearts and needs. And you're not there to feel the pews with people. You're there to feel empty people with Jesus. Understand that and give them the Lord and give them your heart and give them your understanding and listen to what they say. Because these people are giving good theology and many of the things that we just read that's solid except for one thing. It didn't apply to Joe at that moment because he came in with this idea you're in sin. Let me tell you how to get out of it. So who isn't in sin and who doesn't need help from Jesus to get out of it, right? So always remember that one finger pointed at that person leaves three fingers pointing at you. Never forget it.