In today's video, I'm going to tell you how you can get a BS in business administration management in as little as six months.  And this is all possible because of something called competency-based education.  In this particular case, the one I'm going to tell you about is a top 10% school where you can do this at most universities, AKA traditional education, they're going to make you go to school for at least four years to get your bachelor's degree. And on average, it's actually 5.1 years. But if you attend a competency-based university like the one I'm going to talk about in this video, WGU or Western Governors University, you can get it much faster. And this is something that previously I only revealed to my consulting clients, but I posted a few videos here on YouTube. People really loved it and they wanted me to make a series on it, so that's exactly what I'm doing. And not only did I make a series on it, but also myself, my team, and my friend Josh Madicor worked really hard on a cheat sheet that makes this entire process insanely easy. So if you appreciate me doing all this hard work for you, go ahead, gently tap that like button and let's jump into it. All right, so this is a simple four-step process and you need to follow each step and you really need to take your time and do it exactly as I say in this video. Some of these steps might seem extremely easy and you might kind of like pass over them, not spend very much time on them, but I highly recommend that you actually really take your time with these. So the very first step is going to be transfer in all of your existing credits. Now, in this particular case, we are going to be using WGU, Western Governors University. But like I said before, there are other competency-based universities that are pretty good as well. And this entire process is going to work relatively the same with a few tiny little changes here and there with those other universities. Now, when it comes to transferring in your credits, you definitely want to get your transcript, right? So obviously they're going to accept things like AP and IB classes during high school. They're also going to accept any college credit that you currently have. And then, of course, they're also going to accept CLEP exams, any type of special exams, certifications, et cetera. But the one that you might be a little surprised about is they also accept work experience, in some cases, as well as military experience. So make sure you talk with your counselor, send your transcript in, and really see which classes you can knock out using your existing credits and experience. So for example, this person here, 817 Texan, they said that they transferred in 21 credit units, which means that they had 100 credit units left. They were able to dedicate about 10 to 15 hours a week to school. And they completed their entire degree in three terms, which is approximately a year and a half, right? And so there is endless amounts of testimonials on YouTube, Reddit, et cetera, all over the internet of people who have used similar strategies to this, who were able to get their degrees really fast. Now, in this particular case, it looks like they were able to do it in about a year and a half. And you can do it even faster than that if you use these strategies. Now, once you have transferred in all of these credits, you're not going to enroll. In fact, you're not going to enroll until step number four. So the next step is you are going to test out of a bunch of the remaining classes using third-party companies. Now you might be asking, hey, WGU is competency-based. It's accelerated. You know, you can finish it super fast. So why would you use these third-party companies? Well, the answer to that is very simply, they're faster, easier, and cheaper. Now I'm going to warn you, as much as I love WGU, they still do want to make money. So they might be kind of pressuring you to enroll at this point. And I highly recommend that you don't do that because you're going to be able to knock out, especially the entry-level classes, extremely quickly using these third-party companies. So the three that I recommend personally, and the three that are just very smooth, it's like a frictionless experience, especially the first one is going to be study.com, Sophia.org, and straighterline.com. Now there are others out there, but those are the three that I've had the best experience with. And my favorite is study.com, followed by Sophia.org. Now some people use really complex strategies, like they'll take these three classes from straighterline and five classes from Sophia and like 10 classes at study.com. And if you want to, you can look those up and maybe you'll save yourself like 30 minutes here and there. But if you just want a pretty straightforward experience, I do recommend study.com. They seem to have the best user interface. It's the easiest to understand and comprehend. And it just seems to be the most frictionless one. I got this. Now this particular degree, business administration management has 40 total classes. And you can very easily test out of these classes about one per week, even if you're super busy, even if you've got a family, even if you're working full time. I'm a little busy right now. If you're not super busy, you can test out of them much quicker than that. So for instance, some of my students have reported to me they're able to test out of like one class per day, sometimes even multiple classes per day. And this is especially true for the entry level ones that are super easy. Now another great thing about doing this as well as just going to WGU in general is you don't really have to buy an expensive textbook or buy any extra like random quizzes. Sometimes they'll make you buy like a clicker or something like that to take these random quizzes.  And WGU and Study.com don't have this issue. And by the way, I made this entire process ridiculously easy, making a cheat sheet. It maps out the exact class you can take at Study.com. You can even click on it and go straight to the class with the class that it maps to at WGU. So it just makes the whole process ridiculously easy. And I'll put that down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. And here in a few minutes at the end of the video, I'm actually gonna go through step by step exactly how to use this cheat sheet. So once you have taken all these classes using Study.com, Sophia.org or Straighterline, you're gonna go ahead and transfer them in. And then you're gonna move on to step number three, which is you are gonna go ahead and pre-study the remaining classes, right? So you're not gonna enroll in WGU yet. You're gonna take those remaining classes.  And the reason you wanna do this is because the whole goal of going to WGU is to graduate in terms of the time you're actually enrolled at WGU as fast as possible. And the reason for this is because they charge you by the term. So they charge you every six months about $3,500 or so. And so you really wanna try to graduate from WGU in one to two terms max if possible. And that's gonna keep your costs as low as possible. In many cases, people end up not spending any money at all with the grants, scholarships, and student aid. Now the two best resources, and this is gonna be different for every single degree at WGU, is going to first of all be the WGU subreddit and specifically each degree has their own subreddit. Now some of the subreddits are more active than others, but this can be a great resource because people will share tips and tricks, methods for studying for the courses, as well as how to pass the test as quickly and efficiently as possible. So a lot of the time they will tell you the exact sources they used to study to pass these tests. Another really good resource is going to be the WGU Facebook group. So it's very similar to the subreddit, except it's a Facebook group. So I'd say it's a little easier to network because you're actually talking to other real people on Facebook. And they do the same thing. They share tips, tricks, and strategies on how to pass these classes and pass the test as quickly and easily as possible. There's also of course great resources all across the internet. Google, YouTube, Khan Academy is great. If you're a textbook type of person, you can download either free or very cheap textbooks online, or you can just order it from Amazon if you want a physical textbook. If you order one that's a few years old, it'll probably be like $20 to $30. And then when you feel really confident about your studying, you think you can pass those tests really quickly, you wanna move on to step number four, which is enroll in WGU and test out of those classes as fast as possible. So here is an example of someone who was able to complete 117 credit units in six months. So it's absolutely possible to do this. And this is the exact degree of business administration management. Here's another person who was able to transfer in 23 credits and then test out of 97 credits. So it looks like they were also enrolled for only one term. So many examples on the internet of people using these strategies in order to get through these classes as fast as possible. Now, a normal college degree in the United States of America takes around 5.1 years on average. So if you are able to test out of a degree in six months and you didn't have to quit your job, you didn't have to move across the country, you're able to do it quickly and easily. You probably don't take out any debt.  I think you can see why this is such an attractive option for people. Now we're gonna go ahead and jump into the cheat sheet and I'm gonna take you through a step-by-step example of something that would probably happen. It would look very similar to what you would do if you enrolled in WGU and use the methods that I talked about in this video. All right, so here we are in the cheat sheet. And as you can see on the far left here, this column is the ID numbers for all the WGU classes. In this column it shows the class names at WGU and then the amount of units in each class. This column right here is probably the most important one and that is the study.com classes that you can take and then transfer into WGU. So just for an example here, the English 104 study.com class which is number 57, transfers in for English composition one. So super easy, also color coded it. These green classes are the general education classes and these tend to be the easiest generally speaking. Then as you go down, the core classes are a little bit more difficult and then the program specific classes are a little bit more difficult generally speaking as well. So that's not always true though. Sometimes they're not that hard. And if you wanna go ahead and do this exact process that I'm about to show you, all you have to do is just go file and make a copy. You need a Gmail account and you'll pretty much be good to go and you can just do this entire process with me step by step, basically the same way that I'm about to show you. So we're gonna go ahead and do step one which is we're gonna transfer in our existing credits. So in this particular case, again I'm just making all this up. Let's say you took AP calculus during high school so that transferred in for math 101. You also took AP biology during high school as well. That transferred in and then you took AP economics and that transferred in. Then you took one semester at community college where you took art and sociology and you transferred those classes in as well. So that's not too bad. A lot of the times people will transfer in even a lot more than that but you'll probably end up transferring in at least a few classes from your experience as well as classes you've already taken. Then you're gonna go ahead and move on to step two which is the test out phase. And if you are a little bit sad because you weren't able to transfer classes in, it's not really that big of a deal. It'll maybe set you back like a week or two at most because the test out phase is so insanely effective and this is probably the most important phase out of all four steps. So you're gonna go ahead and test out of these classes using study.com, Stratorline or Sophia. Some people do like a combination of the three but again just to keep things simple I find that when you try to over complicate things people get really confused. I just did study.com. In the future I may update this and do the Sophia.org stuff as well and possibly even Stratorline. And I'll also try to keep up to date if study.com adds classes because sometimes they do but just keep in mind that if you make a copy any changes I make will not be on the copy it will be on the original. So just keep that in mind. So you tested out of all of these classes and you were able to do it much quicker, easier and cheaper than it would have been at WGU. And so you're gonna move on to the next phase which is you are going to pre-study the remaining classes and there's only one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13 classes remaining. So you are able to test out of all except for 13 classes and you're gonna go ahead and pre-study these remaining classes. And once you feel comfortable and confident you're gonna go ahead and enroll in WGU and your goal is to try to test out of all the classes in one term, right? That's the goal, two terms max.  It's not one of the more difficult degrees at WGU. So you will move on to step four you're gonna enroll in WGU and knock the rest of the classes out as fast as you possibly can.  And if you're nice you will share this video with them so that they can do it as well. Now one thing I did want to say is WGU is a phenomenal school but there's two things. First of all there are other competency-based universities and some of them might have the degree that you're looking for whereas WGU doesn't have it or there might be other reasons why you go to those other universities. And then the second thing is WGU is great and competency-based universities are great but they're not necessarily for everyone. There's always going to be downsides. There's nothing in life that only has upside and no downside. So the downside to WGU, for instance, one of them is that it's completely remote, right? So some people cannot concentrate if they're doing everything completely remotely.  So that's definitely gonna be a downside and there are other pros and cons to going to WGU which I talk about in this video right here. So I highly recommend you check that video out.


Hi there. Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I'm a marketing communication specialist based in Jerusalem. A common question I'm hearing from a lot of businesses invested in inbound marketing at the moment is whether they should be putting most of their efforts into your traditional text-based creation processes like blogs, white papers, ebooks into audio-based collateral. That's a term I'm inventing to refer to podcasts and anything else, leveraging audio or increasingly popular into video-based collateral like the video blog you're watching here on YouTube or LinkedIn. So the answer to that question is that from a marketing communications perspective, from a mark on perspective, the most impactful and effective channel is going to be whatever your audience is actually going to watch. So how do you determine when you can produce all three forms of collateral relatively cheaply, which one to which one to invest in and how much effort to put into each channel? So the answer to that question is that you should measure, test and iterate. Firstly, let's start with testing. If you've never doubled in audio or video-based production before, now would be a great time to do that. So put out your first video, put out your first podcast, measure, make sure that you're looking at analytics and comparing those analytics, comparing their performance with the performance of your traditional text-based media, then iterate, find whatever is most effective and keep doing more of that basically. Not every business, even in the year 2022, needs to be doing video. If no one's going to be watching your videos and they're expensive, it's just a waste of marketing budget. Equally, there are businesses who have never tried video that if they were to try it and they were to try producing a podcast could find that it's actually very effective and more effective than the return on investment and the inbound lead generation they're seeing from their text-based processes. Thank you guys for watching. If you'd like to get more videos from me, please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.


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Hi, how you doing? This is Rich here and we have a RichTV Live. I'm here with a very special guest. It is Sophie, the communications manager of Sundial Growers. How you doing today? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing very good and we're very excited to have you here. Yeah, me too. How are you enjoying the conference? Yeah, I'm enjoying it. It's awesome. I love these opportunities. It's so good to get the cannabis community together, meet people, have conversations. It's great. I love it. Now it's really exciting to have you guys here and are you from Calgary? Yeah. I know your company's from Calgary. Yeah. And you guys are pretty new IPOs still compared to a lot of the companies you've been around a few months. So tell us, what is Sundial? What makes you different? Why are you guys so special? Okay, well, so we've been public since August. So it's been a few months. It's been very interesting since August. Yeah, it's been a tough time to go public. Yeah, it was a tough time, but you know, we're really happy to have done it and we're happy to have done it when we did it. So Sundial, I mean, our mission is to enhance people's lives through our Heal Help Play products. So Heal is medical products, Help is wellness products with CBD, and then Play products is our recreational brands. So here, if you're at the conference this weekend, you'll see all of our Play products. So Sundial Cannabis, Top Leaf, VC Weco, Palmetto, and then one of our biggest differentiator is how we grow our cannabis. So what we do is we do purpose-built modular systems. So we grow our cannabis in small rooms. And then so that way we can really control the environment in which we grow and really tailor it and target it. So it's not huge greenhouse. Because it becomes difficult, right? Absolutely. So I mean, that enables us to learn really fast. And so if we make mistakes, it's really, it's really easy for us to kind of switch gears and switch strategies. And it's a little bit easier for us. And then it enables us to create really high quality products that we've seen on the market right now with our Strawberry Cream with Top Leaf, Lemon Riot with Sundial Cannabis. They're flying off the shelves and they're doing really, really well. You know, it's funny. I have a spirit leaf in Vancouver that I go to, and I've been buying your product. Yeah! Daga? Is it Daga? No, which product is it? It's not Daga. Man, what is it? What are some of the brands you guys carry that you're selling at Spirit Leaf? Do you know? So, well, it depends on which store. But is it Sundial Cannabis or is it Top Leaf? Sundial. Sundial. So we have Lemon Riot, Citrus Punch, Zen Berry. We have also Twilight, Berry Bliss that's just coming on the market. You've got so many products. I know. It's so complicated. I know. I can't remember the name, but I was buying Sundial product. I know for a back. So I've been supporting your company. Okay, that's good. I tested the product and it was a good product by the way. It's really good. And one of the things that I'm really impressed with is you guys revenue growth. For a company that's only been public for a few months, you guys have pretty incredible revenue growth. What's the secret to that? Like where are you guys selling right now? Are you selling all across Canada? So we're selling pretty much from West to East. We're obviously in BC in Alberta. So we were only in Alberta for a few months and then we started expanding through the provinces. So we're BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario. We're not in Quebec yet, but hopefully we will be in the next few months. And then Nova Scotia, fairly new right before the end of the year. New Brunswick where we started shipping this year. PAI as well. And then not Newfoundland yet. So Newfoundland and Quebec are the two provinces that we're waiting. And then the territories as well, but we're planning on doing it this year. Wow. So coast to coast across Canada. Yeah. Now I had one of my members ask me because they're an investor. They're like, listen, I want to know, are these guys going to the US? Do you guys have any goals to expand to the US or internationally? So as you probably know, we made an acquisition back in July. So we build Bridge Farm, which is a huge facility there, 1.5 million square foot facility. Right now it's herbs, it's flowers that they're growing. We're going to convert it to hemp and cannabis eventually. So our priority right now is Europe. It's a bigger popular base. So that's kind of why we decided to focus on that and kind of leave the US to the other LPs. But you know what, we're always looking at opportunities. We're always looking at what would make more sense for Sundial. So we're not saying no to the US, but we don't really have. I think Europe is a great market. I think what was the number, like over 500 million people in the European market? I mean, it is a bigger popular base and CBD there is huge. So that's what we would be doing in Europe. So is CBD a big portion of your business? Because we can't really do CBD in Canada, right? We can, yeah. Through cannabis infused beverages, correct? You can do CBD with oils. You can do CBD with topicals.  Because I know there's a couple companies that had licenses and there was a bunch of... Are you talking about Europe? No, I'm talking about in Canada. No, we have a license to do that. Very good. Because I think there's only a few companies that have the license to do that so far from what I heard. Interesting. Yeah, like Aurora and Zenibus were two of the few. So we are coming out with our first CBD product, our oil. Very good. At the end of January, beginning of February, timing, exact timing, it's when you ship and obviously when it gets in the stores, that's never certain. But in the next two months, we should have our first CBD oil. Very good. Unflavored product. That'll be really big. Yeah, I'm really, I'm personally really excited about that and to try that. Totally. Yeah. And Edible's just launched. Yeah. Are you guys deep in the Edibles? So we don't have Edible products just yet. Those are in the plants for summer, end of summer, summer, end of summer. So what we will be doing is teas, which that's exciting. That's so exciting. Teas. Oh yeah. I love tea. I know. Everyone loves tea. And then gummies and chocolate. Very good. But right now, in terms of 2.0 products, we're really focused on vape. Okay. We have a lot of our vape products with top leaf and sundial out right now and then soon Paul Meadow. Very good. Now, we have investors all over the world in 60 countries that watch our show every day. We get like 11,000 hours of watch time a month on YouTube alone. People love to watch and learn about these companies. So if you were talking to the investors that are watching in over 60 countries right now that wanted to know why they should invest in sundial, what would you tell them? Like I said before, one of our biggest differentiator is how we grow. And the way that we grow, it is very different and very particular and it really enables us to grow high quality products. Another thing that is huge about sundial is the team that we have. The executive, they all come from CPG background. So consumer packaged good background. So cores, Coca-Cola, Budweiser, Mars. So they have a lot of knowledge about this right? They've done this before. They know what it takes to be successful in this industry. Well, not cannabis industry, but CPG industry. So we have really strong people there. And then we have amazing strains right? Our growers are the best in the business. Our strains are the best that you want. So we know that what we have, everything that we have is going to be successful. And we're right now, we're making some really top quality product that we are very, very proud of. And is there anything that you want to tell the investors that are watching that they should look forward to for 2020 and beyond? Anything new? Anything exciting coming up? Anything different? I know you mentioned edibles, which should be great. Yeah, edibles are great. I think this is an emerging industry. So I feel like every day is different and every day is different. Change is so fast. It's changed so fast, which is why it's really interesting. And again, I was listening to yesterday at the business conference. I was listening to a panel and one of the guys said in average an investor stays with a company 9.2 years or 9.6 years. And a decade. A typical marriage is about 10 years. So when you invest with a company, you're in it for the long run. That's right. So I think that's what we need to remember. This is an emerging industry. We've only been legal in Canada. We've only been legal for 13, 14 months. Exactly. So I think people just need to be patient. We're learning, we're getting better. Everyone's getting better. Sundial is getting better. So it's just be patient. Things, extraordinary things are going to happen. And this is an emerging industry. When will you ever be a part of this? Never again. So once in a lifetime opportunity. Exactly. I tell everyone it's a hyper growth sector. It can only get bigger. It reminds me of the tech sector. Yeah. And everybody's like, oh, the tech sector had a bubble. Well, what happened through that? Now we've got Facebook. We've got Snapchat. We've got Instagram. We've got Twitter. These are all online giants, Amazon, Google. They run the world. Exactly. So through that bubble, these companies now run the world. Exactly. I believe that we're going to see a similar trend in the cannabis sector where some of these companies, they get through this and through this tough initiation stage, not only will be successful, but they're going to become global brands that people can recognize with and see on shelves all over the world. Yeah, I agree. So congratulations on all your success. Well, thank you. Congratulations on the new IPO. Thank you. And only being a few months old. Yeah. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors. Yeah, thank you so much. Guys, this is Sophie, the communications manager for Sundial Growers. Take a look at Sundial Growers. They're a company to watch. Thank you guys for watching. Thanks. Thank you so much. Thank you.


See Saul became possessed because he disobeyed God's servant. He remained possessed because he obeyed his own servants. Let me explain that. When he disobeyed Samuel he caused rebellion and that opened the door for the evil spirit to attack his life. He became possessed because he disobeyed God's servant. But did you know why Saul remained like that? It was because he listened to his servants. He listened to their advice and the advice was this. You need entertainment to fix your demons. You need to bring a kid who can play a harp. Now at first it seems like this advice is innocent but we know one thing about this advice. It didn't work. Saul got a temporary relief but he never was delivered. Saul for a moment felt better but for a lifetime Saul was tormented by the same spirits because people around him gave him an advice he followed. What would happen if they would tell him, get Samuel and he would cast out demons out of you? He would listen because he listened to his servants. They are the people he trusted. He had a hard time listening to Samuel but if somebody would be close to him and say Saul if you get prophet Samuel that guy moves with God and the demons will be over. Now you might have to resign from your job. You might have to give up the throne but you will be cured because Samuel will know how to deal with it. Yeah you might never be a king again and you might have to go back to the fields but Saul you will never have those thoughts again. You will be a free man if you will get Samuel here not a musician and you're more likely to listen to your friends than to listen to your parents. You're more likely to listen to your friends than to listen to your teachers. You are more likely to listen to your friends than to listen to your pastor. You are more likely to listen to those people who around you and most of you here are also friends to someone who is in need right now and they are more likely to listen to you than to listen to their parents because the kind of people you have around you they influence you the difference your friends have the difference of between your friends and your parents is your in is the influence your parents have authority your friends have influence and he who has influence is he who has control not he who has authority anytime your advice involves changing somebody's mood instead of changing somebody's mind which is repentance you are giving a bad advice anytime your friends give you advice that involves makes you feel better instead of making you be better it's a bad advice and that advice is from souls friends it will make you feel better but it will not make you be better no he's afraid of sob he because he's a teenager he's a young man and those are the people usually we look for advice from those people who are afraid to tell you the truth we like to have davids around and listen to me there they're amazing they're powerful they're anointed the only difference about them is they don't have the God to tell you the truth and if you are off the line they will never tell you the truth why because they're scared of you Samuel on the other hand well you're afraid of Samuel see he's not gonna invite Samuel why because soul is afraid of Samuel you gotta go to people who will tell you know who you know they're not afraid of you they're just not afraid of you they love you they honor you but they're not afraid to tell you the truth


It's kind of interesting to note that this operating activity, you would think that you can go to the income statement and just hit your little button up here to changing it to a cash-based system and you should basically tie out to an income statement that is on, you know, basically the direct method of the statement of cash flows. It's not perfect. So if I go over here and say, run it and I check it out down here, then I got a negative 190412 and over here I've got 1896.02. So there's a little bit of a difference between that, but you know, that's the general idea. This operating activity is in essence kind of giving you a cash flow basis as opposed to an accrual basis of kind of like the income statement, but it's giving you a reconciliation format. You take your income statement and remember you don't want to use this toggle button to kind of feel like you're running a cash-based system because that will be dependent on whether you're using accrual forms, meaning are you using an invoice or just recording revenue with a deposit, a bank deposit form or a sales receipt? Are you using a bill form or just recording expenses with the expenses? But if you use this properly and you're then thinking, okay, I know I'm on an accrual system or whatever, I've entered my data, now I want to see the difference if I was to switch over to a cash-based system, which would in essence be kind of like the first section of the statement of cash flows, but on a direct method. And that can give you an interesting look at your performance basically on a cash flow system, although it's not perfectly tied out to what we have over here on the operating activities, possibly because of some of the play between what's on the books up top versus the investing and financing activities, but that'll give you a general idea. So in summary, just realize that your major financial statements are the balance sheet and the income statement. That's how I would think of it. You're inevitably going to have someone ask you, but what about the statement of cash flows? It's also a major financial statement and you're going to say, yes, it is a major financial statement, but it's actually kind of constructed from oftentimes the balance sheet and the income statement. Therefore, I'm always going to look at the balance sheet and the income statement first when I'm building my data input to check the impact on the balance sheet and the income statement. And then if that's correct, then I should be able to construct in essence my statement of cash flow or QuickBooks have it constructed for me from it. And also just remember the statement of cash flows constructed from QuickBooks may not be perfect. It reconciles, it ties out, but if you have complex financing transactions and investing transactions and buying equipment and disposing of equipment, oftentimes depreciation is kind of an issue when you buy and sell equipment. You might have to get a little bit more detailed to really hone down and get a proper statement of cash flows, but QuickBooks gives you a good baseline.


In Job chapter 10, we'll begin reading at verse 1, I'll read to verse 7, in Job chapter 10, it says, My soul loathes my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say to God, do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. Does it seem good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands and smile on the counsel of the wicked? Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees? Are your days like the days of a mortal man? Are your years like the days of a mighty man that you should seek from my iniquity and search out my sin?  As we begin, we need to remember that in the chapter prior to this, in chapter 9, Job had cried out. He wanted a mediator. Remember what he said in verse 32 following, speaking of the Lord, he said, He's not a man as I am, that I may answer him, and that we should go to court together. Nor is there any mediator between us who may lay his hand on us both. Let him take his rod away from me, and do not let dread of him terrify me. Then I would speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me. Notice verse 33, Nor is there any mediator between us who can or may lay his hand on us both. Job is saying that he needed someone who could be like an umpire, who could be the umpire between him and God. You see, at this time all he could believe is that it's God who is inflicting this pain on him. From the beginning of his afflictions, God had been accused of doing just that. We saw this when he lost his sheep and servants to a lightning storm in Job chapter one, verse 16.  So God was blamed for that from the beginning. After losing his wealth, after losing his children, he began experiencing health issues.  In Job two, verse 10, he said to her, you speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we accept good from God? And shall we not accept adversity? Once again, the inference is that God is doing this to me. And so when he opened his mouth to crowd his pain, it's God who's being blamed for it. In chapter three, verse 23, it says, why is light given to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has hedged in? His friends began counseling him, made it clear that they thought God was behind all of this. In Job chapter four, verses eight and nine, Alaphaz said, even as I've seen those who plough in equity and so trouble reap the same, by the blast of God they perish.  Once again, God is being blamed for everything that's taking place. You see, Alaphaz believed that God was chastening Job for some unconfessed sin. And Job chapter five, verse 17, he said, behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. Now he had another friend, Bildad, and Bildad took up the same theme as his friend Alaphaz. As far as he could see, Alaphaz was right. Job was reaping what he sowed. In Job eight, verse three, the question is asked, does God subvert judgment? Does the Almighty pervert justice? Once again, Job God has brought all of this upon you. And so he gave him counsel. He said, seek God for forgiveness. You might be restored. And he made it clear that if Job would repent, God would bless him. In chapter eight, verse 20 and 21, behold, God will not cast away the blameless, nor will he uphold the evildoers.  In other words, Job repent. And if you do that, everything will be good. So in all of this, God is blamed for the actual evil that has befallen Job. In fact, it was Satan who was responsible for the pain that had been inflicted on him. But even so, God was, Job was convinced rather that God had personally brought this upon him. In Job nine, 17, it says, he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause. So it's quite simple. If only I had a mediator, if only I had someone who could plead my case. Now he's wrong about who inflicted the pain, but he still reflected on man's greatest need. He had what might be called a spiritual instinct. He knew innately that he needed someone to mediate between him and God. In other words, Job knew of his own sinful condition and he made it clear by what he said in verses 30 and 31. He had made it very clear when he said in chapter nine, if I wash myself with snow water and cleanse my hands with soap, yet you will plunge me into the pit and my own clothes will abhor me.  I know my unrighteous condition. You see, God made this clear and God even inspired a prophet by the name of Jeremiah to prophesy something very similar to that. You see, there are none, the Bible says, who are righteous. The Bible says, all have sin, fall short of the glory of God. And there's nothing that man can do on his own power to remove this stain of sin, no matter how hard we work, no matter what we do, no matter how much we give, no matter how much we serve, no matter how we try to be good. The bottom line is, is we cannot cleanse ourselves. Again, Jeremiah said it like this in Jeremiah 2 verse 22, though you wash, though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, yet your iniquity is barked before me, say, at the Lord God. Paul later on was to write and he spoke concerning God and he said in Romans 3 26 that God is just and he's the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. You see, the invitation to be cleansed would be issued and was issued to those who desired to know him. In the Old Testament book of Isaiah in chapter 1 verse 18, it says, come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. And so Job is aware of his own sinful condition. His men, the men who are advising him are blaming him for the things that are taking place. But Job realizes that he's not a blameless man and all and he needs a mediator. And so that's why we're so blessed to have our mediator, Jesus Christ, that has revealed to us in the New Testament because the invitation for sins to be completely forgiven comes through faith in Christ. We see that in the New Testament, Jesus is declared to be our mediator. He's the one that Job was wishing that he had at that time. In Romans 5 1 and 2, Paul said it like this. He said, therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. So Job's desire is for someone to plead his case before this righteous God because he believes that if he had someone who could do that, he would be found not guilty. You know, today, many think that they can just approach God and receive whatever it is that they need. And they don't realize that their sin has made a separation between them and God. They don't understand that that's the reason that Jesus came. Jesus came in order that he might bridge that gap, that sin gap, that gap that is between me and God. Jesus came and he took the hand of his father and took my hand and joined us together. And he's the one who is the mediator. He's the one who is the bridge that causes us to have relationship with God. Well, Job was crying for someone who would give him confidence to speak to God. This arbitrator is revealed to us in the Gospels. It's Jesus who said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me. In the Old, and rather in the New Testament book of Hebrews in chapter four, verses 14 through 16, the writer says this. He says, therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess, for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Job is saying, oh, I wish I had a mediator. But as I read in verse 33, chapter nine, he says, nor is there any mediator between us who may lay his hand on us both. He's saying, I just don't have anybody who can do that. And so as he has finished making that statement, he continues into chapter 10. And now he makes it very clear how he feels.  And he goes on to say, I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I'm going to be an open book. I have a lot of pain and that gives me the freedom to open up. And I'm going to express my pain. And I'm going to tell God how I feel.  I'm tired of living. I'm tired of living in this miserable, rotting body. And that's what's taking place. He's scraping his body with broken pieces of pottery. He's just pressing on those open wounds. And his body is caked with scabs and filled with just disease. And I'm just tired of it.  I hate being alive.  I'm just tired of living. And I'm tired of living in this miserable, rotting body. I'm tired of my life. And because I am, I'm going to just give vent to my complaining. I'm not going to restrain myself any longer. And so he says, I'm going to give free course to my complaint. I'm going to speak of the bitterness of my soul. And then he says in verse two, I'll say to God, do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. What have I done? Why are you mad? Why are you fighting with me? What have I done to you? Show me why. Don't call me wicked as my friends have. Why have you singled me out? Why have you allowed me to go through such terrible pain? What have I done? How have I sinned? Why do I deserve this? Why have I gone through so much pain? Why have I gone through so much loss? I mean, the pain and loss that this man went through is we can't calculate it. We can't. He lost every single thing he had that had any value. In the material, he lost it all. In the emotional, he lost his children.  In his friendships, these guys traveled some time to get to him. The first thing they do when they can open their mouth is they say, you're a sinner. That's why this is happening. Well, thank you, friends. I appreciate that. I mean, he's going through an awful lot of pain. And so I say, please, reveal to me what have I done? How have I deserved this? You see, I don't see that as a bad prayer, by the way. Sometimes we need help to understand what we're going through. Remember in chapter seven, verse 20, he had already asked, have I sinned? What have I done to you, old watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target so that I'm a burden to myself? He's already asking, God, listen, I'm going through my own heart. I'm going through the way that I live. I'm going through everything. Even what I think I've had plenty of time. And I just need to know. I just need to know what's going on. Verse three, does it seem good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands and smile on the counsel of the wicked? Does this seem right to you? This is somehow pleased you. You see, it appears that God, that Joe believes that God is afflicting him beyond what he deserves. So he's asking the question because he never thought God would be like this. On one hand, this is just not the God that he'd worshipped over his lifetime. But then, who else could be inflicting such pain on me? So that question may reveal something in Job that has come to the surface. It may be that God is more severe than he ever thought. Since Joe believed that he was innocent, then what other answer could there be? In verse four, do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees are your days like the days of a mortal man? Are your years like the days of a mighty man? And so he's asking the Lord, why am I going through so much pain? You see, at this time, he only sees his pain as being to his own hurt. He doesn't see it as something God could use to actually refine him. That's the natural way for all of us, though none of us in this room could ever claim to go through the pain that he did. It's the natural response of man to wonder those kinds of things. I don't see why I'm going through this pain. And I don't see any good that can come out of this. You know, in the New Testament in 1 Peter chapter one, verses six and seven, the apostle Peter said this. He said, in this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith of greater worth and gold, which perishes, even though refined by fire, may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. You mean the things I'm going through are actually going to result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus is revealed? Is that what you're saying? Are you saying that the things that we endure, the trials that we go through and the pain that we experience can actually turn out to refine us and cause us to be of a pure heart than we were before? Well, somebody said trials make room for consolation. There's nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows who never weep for the sorrows of others, very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can be made only by great troubles. You know, my father when I was growing up, my father was very reserved in his emotions and all like the men of his generation. He just was reserved. And my father was kind of a very direct man. Some people in our church grew to know my father while my dad was still with us and they knew him as a very loving, very warm, very kind man. My wife, Marie, met my father after my father had been saved. My wife never met my dad prior to him being saved. My father was not a nice person. I'm not saying he was an evil man. I'm simply saying he wasn't a nice person. He wasn't real friendly. He was real reserved in all of that. And he didn't have a lot of affection. My father wasn't a man who showed affection at all. I've said this before, no complaint, just a statement. And it's a common statement. Many men, my age, if they're still alive, can say this. Their fathers were the same. My father never said, I love you.  My father told me, even as a believer in my entire life, 51 years, he used the words, I love you maybe two or three times at the most in 50 plus years. My father kissed me good night until I was four.  Men don't kiss other men. That was my dad. And so my dad never said, I love you. My dad never showed any patience. My dad, if I was in the room with him and he was watching TV, my dad would not talk to me until commercials. So I had a minute to two minutes to talk to my dad. That's the truth. I don't know. I bet a lot of you guys could say the same thing in your house. It was just common. So it's no complaint. It's just an observation. That's the way it was. See, so when my dad got saved, things started changing. My dad started getting kind. My dad started getting warm. My wife, Marie, loved my dad. My dad loved Marie. The last thing I remember my father saying to me about my wife was shortly before he died. And I'll never forget it. It's something I haven't tried in my heart. My dad said to me one day just out of nowhere. It was shortly before he died. He hadn't had his heart attack or anything yet. It was just something he felt like saying. And he said to me, and this is how my dad spoke. He says, David, and that's how he spoke to me. I always thought he was mad because it sounded like he was yelling. He goes, David, he goes, you got a good woman. And that just touched my heart because he loved my wife and my wife loved him. But my wife knew the kind man. You know how my father became kind? My mother was sick. And my dad cared for my mom. All of her life, he married her at 17. My mother got ill at the age of 24. And my father loved her and cared for her from sickness to sickness to illness to illness from lupus to rheumatoid arthritis, pain after pain after pain. And it softened my father. And it taught my father how to love, how to care, how to speak, how to be warm, how to be compassionate. Sometimes even when you're not personally going through it, because I still remember my dad saying to God, put it on me, put it on me, take it off of my wife and put it on me. I can do it. I will do it. I remember my dad praying that the pain my mother was suffering would be put on him. That's how deeply he loved her. And it was her pain and her suffering and her affliction that broke my father to a humility and a compassion and a love and a kindness that he didn't have prior to that. No, I'm not saying go home and say, okay, God, give me something bad. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that sometimes we don't see that the things we go through are the things we've been praying for without knowing it.  God, break my heart. God, help me to have strong faith. God, teach me to love. Those are the things that God is delighted to answer. Sometimes the answer comes in a different way than we expected. The refining of our faith produces something that actually results in us giving glory to the Lord. It results in us being able to do things and to experience things. And Job, Job is crying out and he's giving his pain to the Lord, but he doesn't understand what is going on. And that's why, again, when he had said in verse three, does it seem good to you that you should oppress? You see, for the Lord to be an oppressor doesn't reflect well on God. God would ordinarily be expected to care for his creation, not harm it. When he said in verse four, do you have eyes of flesh or do you see as man sees? God, you're above men. You don't judge the way that man judges. You see, God, you judge without partiality because you know not only the facts, but you know the heart. That's what happened. Remember when God chose David to be king when Saul, the first king of Israel, had turned out to be someone whose heart wasn't perfect towards the Lord. And so God said, I'm going to replace him with somebody who has a heart after me. And when Samuel saw David for the first time in all, and he looks at David and he's saying to himself, this guy, he doesn't have a kingly appearance at all. He's a good looking, ruddy young man, a redhead and all. But his older brother, surely the Lord's anointed stands before me because when the first brother came and stood before Samuel, because Samuel had been given the responsibility of anointing the king, who was to replace Saul. Well, his oldest brother came and stood before Samuel. And the scripture says Samuel thought, well, surely the Lord's anointed stands before me because he's looking at this powerful, handsome man. And the Lord says, no, that's not him. In first Samuel 16, verse seven, the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature because I've refused him. For the Lord does not see his man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance. The Lord looks at the heart. We still, by the way, look at the outward appearance. We still make judgments based on what we like about that person, and we can't see their hearts. And so as this is taking place, verse five, he says, again, are your days like the days of a mortal man? Are your years like the days of a mighty man? It is interesting. There's an inference here that that you might not see at first reading.  You want to be quick to punish me. But this can't be true because you inhabit eternity and you're not in need of moving so quickly because you're eternal. You don't have short-sighted judgment. In verse six, that you should seek for my iniquity and search out my sin. Well, Job feels that God is searching every area of his life in order to find any sin. Now, if God was to do that kind of thing, then he's saying nobody could plead not guilty. Again, all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. There are none who are righteous, not a single one. And since that's true, he's saying to the Lord, there's no need for you to quickly bring such pain on me. In verse seven, although you know that I'm not wicked and there is no one who can deliver from your hand. God, you've known me from the time I was before I was conceived. You know everything about me. You know, I've lived right before you.  This reminds me of something the psalmist said in Psalm 17 verse three when the psalmist said, you have tested my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me and found nothing. I have purpose that my mouth shall not transgress. You know, I've lived right before you.  I've lived uprightly. I've honored you. I've lived with integrity before you as well as man. Again, Psalm seven verse eight, the Lord shall judge the people. Judge me, oh Lord, according to my righteousness, according to my integrity within me. You know, I lived to please you.  I'm helpless before you. Have pity. Have pity on me. I wonder if anybody in this room has ever felt like that. I've tried so hard. My life has changed. I've given up everything. I don't hang around with the people I used to hang around. I shared with them about you. They rejected me. I'm now pretty much alone. You see, when I first got saved, I shared with my friends. I didn't have that many and almost every one of them rejected me. Almost everyone didn't want to be around me. Didn't want anything to do with me because I was a Jesus freak and they didn't like that. So I pretty much started losing friends after friend after friend and I didn't have that many to begin with. But I made that decision. I'm going to follow you, Jesus. And I went into the army. When I went into the army, I had my ups. I had my downs, but the Lord brought somebody into my life, a guy named Danny. Danny was a Christian. Danny took me under his wing because I was a brand new Christian and he was an older brother and the Lord. And he became a very dear friend and a mentor to me and helped me to begin to see some things that I didn't see in myself and taught me to memorize Scripture and the need to read in the Bible and discipled me for a year and a half. And my life started changing. And when I got out of the army, I eventually went to Biola and started studying and started T. General Bible study in 1973 at the age of 23. And my life was radically changed, radically changed. The neighbors, the people who knew me, they saw an entirely different person, a person that was nothing like I used to be, nothing like I used to be. They saw that. I led my mom to Christ. I led my father to Christ. I led my sister to Christ. I helped my brother come to faith in Christ. My whole life was serving the Lord. And then the rug was pulled out from underneath me and I began to wonder, why? What have I done to you? Have you ever been there, ever? Where you start saying, what did I do to make you mad at me? I think part of my upbringing, maybe like some of yours says, I was raised in a particular persuasion that God is always mad. And then it doesn't take anything to get him mad at you. And I was raised that way. I was raised that way. My mom believed that. And so I was raised believing that God is always mad and there's not a single thing you can ever do to make him happy. But I thought I had when I came to Christ and so when I came to faith in Christ, my whole life changed from everything. I'll tell you this. My wife Marie would never have even thought of dating me the way I used to be. I was the guy her mom and dad said, stay away from. I was that guy. I was that guy. And that this girl here to fall in love with this man here had to be a radical transformation, right? There had to be. I had to be an entirely different kind of man than I was. She would have never dated me. And then I had some disappointments. Then I had some pain, some real deep emotional hurts. And I began to cry out, God, why? Why? Why? Did you allow my pain? Why did you hurt me? I blame the Lord. No, I'm no joke. But I think it's a human response when we don't understand what God is doing. And Job certainly is responding like that. I've tried to please you. Why are you treating me this way? In verse seven, who can deliver from your hand? Who's bigger than God? In Deuteronomy 32, verse 39, the Bible says, now see that I, even I am He, there is no God besides me.  I wound and I heal. Nor is there any who can deliver from my hand. That's the God you worship. So I'm asking you, deliver me. Because if you don't, nobody else can. In verse 80, he says, your hands have made me and fashioned me in intricate unity. Yet you would destroy me. You have made me. You formed me. You fashioned me. You literally, you produced me. And he says, you have made me. God creates each of us personally and individually. Keep that in mind. By the way, I wonder how many in this room would ever wish that you were somebody else? You know, Don McClure once said it in a way that I've never forgotten. He says, have you ever wished that you were somebody else? And he's speaking to a group of pastors and a lot of times pastors say, oh, I wish I could preach like that or teach like that. Have you ever wished that you were somebody else? He says, have you ever stopped to think that if, if you were exactly like somebody else and one of you wasn't necessary? I like that. If you were exactly like somebody else, one of you is not necessary.  And he takes responsibility for that. And he's saying that you have made us personally. You have made us individually. You have tenderly made me as the inference, but it seems now that you're destroying me, the word destroy means to devour. He says in verse nine, he says, remember, I pray that you have made me like clay and will you turn me into dust again? Your amazing creativity brought me into existence. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Will you take the vessel of clay that you made and grind it into powder? In verse 10, did you, did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? It's interesting when he says, did you not pour me out like milk? The phrase pour me out is in reference to the formation of an embryo. That's what the words, those words mean. When it says curdled me like cheese, it's a picture of a child being formed in the womb. When he said, clothed with skin and flesh, bones and sinew, that speaks of a child that is in development. And it echoes Psalm 139 verses 13 through 16. You created my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. You might want to mark that down because you too have been wonderfully, you've been fearfully made.  And God is fully aware of the babies in the womb. The way that just a moment ago, Jared was sharing with you, please keep his wife, Isabelle and him in prayer because she's about to give birth. That baby that is being formed in the womb is already known by God. Before one of the days have been lived, God already knows all of them. Before one word has been formed on that baby's mouth, before it's even capable of speaking, God already knows every word that will come out of that mouth. And the Bible makes it very clear that we are fearfully and we are wonderfully made. And as Christians, that's why we are so pro-life because God is fearfully and wonderfully made us because he is the Creator. He says in verse 12, he says, you have granted me life and favor and your care has preserved my spirit. You not only gave me a body, you gave me a soul. You gave me favor. You gave me blessings, the blessings that come from your hand. You have protected me when I've encountered danger. It's you who has delivered me.  In verse 13, and these things you have hidden in your heart, I know that this was with you. I know that you have cared for me. I know that you've blessed me, but I also believe that my present trouble and pain were also in your plan for me. And this is all part of what you intended for my life and my sorrow is because after all the protective care you have given me, it seems now you intended to hurt me. Once again, Job is speaking from the reservoir of pain and notice he doesn't have any hope for his future. That's because all that he had at that time and all he could see at that time is pain. He doesn't know. And this is something else that I think we need to remember. He doesn't know that God will turn his sorrow into joy. God does that, doesn't he? Jesus said it in an interesting way. He said, when a woman is about to give birth, there's nothing but pain, but she forgets promptly after the child is brought in to the world. Listen, if God had men give birth, we'd be extinct. I don't understand that. Marie, when she gave birth to Corinne, 33 hours of labor. I mean, when she was going through back pain, she had this back labor. And I had gone and I had become an expert at coaching. And they said that when the baby, if the baby's face is towards the spine, the head is there, it's going to create great pain. And so they told us to put our fists. Some of you guys know this. Put your fist where the baby's head is and press. And I can remember when Marie was going through these contractions and they have that monitor that goes the one we had in the old days. It was like zero to 10. And it was pegging at 10. And a duration of that contraction was long. And I was watching her and I said, Oh, God, Oh, God, thank you. This is not me. No, I didn't say. Thank you. And I took my fist like I was taught. And I, and you could, you could feel her a little skull. And I put my hand and I pressed Marie's back so hard that the bed she was on went into the wall. I pressed it into the wall and I pressed as hard as I could. And I held it for some time.  And my hand actually sunk into Marie's back. And Marie was relieved. And I'm watching this. All this pain 33 hours, 33 hours. When we went in, when Marie was about to go in and be brought into the hospital, there was a young woman and her husband in the same room that we went into. And, and I'm sitting with Marie. And right next to us is this bed because they're about to bring the woman into her own room. And her husband is standing there. I'll never forget this. And she turned and it was very dramatic. And she yells at her husband, go away.  I don't want you to see me like this. And the guy doesn't know what to do. He starts freaking out. And I'm just sitting there watching him. And he's kind of like, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Should I leave? And that was my introduction to fatherhood. And after all of those hours, 33 hours, I never want to go through that again. No, the baby finally comes. And she was a forceps baby. They had to twist her and pull her out. And with the forceps, pinched her temples. And they were indented. And they brought her out and they quickly put her under that warming light, dried her up. And they put that thing in her nose and pulled out the fluids in her throat, pulled it out. And she's all like that. Ugliest a day as long. I'm looking at this thing. I'm saying, I'm not quite sure this is what I ordered. And Marie is like, she's just exhausted all these hours, right? And they hand that baby to me. And we have that moment where I bring the baby to Marie and we named her. I thought, man, we'll just have one. Nobody would do this again. But we did. You women are crazy. You know, you're more than one. She had four. One after another. We had five pregnancies in six and a half years, five pregnancies. We lost one in the womb. We had four live births and we have one baby waiting in heaven for us. But, you know, like Jesus said, he said they forget the pain because the life has been brought into the world. And I really believe very strongly that the things that we go through, they're the things that help us to understand the ways of the Lord. And he's learning something about God that pain actually can end up with something that is His joy. Well, I'm going through pain right now. Job is saying, I don't have hope for the future. I can't see how you can turn my sorrow into joy. But remember in the book of James in chapter five, verse 11, indeed, we count them blessed to endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seeing the end intended by the Lord that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. God had something He was doing. He says in verse 14, if I sin, then you mark me and will not equip me of my iniquity. People's sins are not ignored by you. You have an awareness of a record of them. In Revelation 20, verse 12, it says, I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. You mark me.  That's why I'm being punished. There's no way I can ever be forgiven. If you don't forgive me, nobody can and nobody will. You see, without someone to atone for my sin, it's not forgiven. But that's why we Christians are aware that God sent Jesus to be the Lamb of God who atoned for our sin. In Hebrews 812, I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, their sins and their iniquities. I will remember no more. He says in verse 15, if I am wicked, woe to me, even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head.  See my misery. If I'm an ungodly hypocrite, as my friends say I am, I'm helpless and I'm miserable, and I'm going to pay the due penalty of my life of sin for the wages of sin is death. But if I'm righteous, I cannot lift up my head in pride. I have no way that I could boast.  And again, you show yourself awesome against me. You're continually pursuing me like a lion, stalking game. You show yourself awesome against me. This is a picture of a lion not killing the victim. When it says you show yourself awesome, it's a picture of a lion not killing the victim, but returning to hurt it even more. You show yourself awesome against me because and I can't understand why you're doing this. He said in verse 17, you renew your witnesses against me and increase your indignation toward me. Changes in war are ever with me. The witnesses against Job would be the various calamities that he's been enduring. This was not the only, not only the loss of everything, it's also the miserable comforters that have plagued him. And he says in verse 17, changes in war are ever with me. The word change is interesting. Changes can speak of changes of clothing, but also speaks of the changing of the guard. The point he's making is it seems that one attack leads to another by fresh troops, great pain that continued to come upon me. Why, verse 18, then have you brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished and know I had seen me. I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave. Are not my days few? See, leave me alone that I may take a little comfort before I go to the place from which I shall not return to the land of darkness and the shadow of death. A land as dark as darkness itself as the shadow of death without any order or even the light is like darkness.  I can't take this anymore. Why did you take me out of my mother's womb and allow me to suffer like this? Stop attacking me. Stop hurting me. Give me some peace.  Just let me die. What a heartbreaking thing to read in Scripture. Just leave me alone. I can't fight with you. I can't argue with you. I have no one to plead my case with you. I've tried to love you. I've tried to serve you. I lost everything, material things. I can get them back, but I lost my sons and my daughters. I lost my health.  I'm sitting on this heap of ashes and there are worms in my skin and my body is in such pain. Later we'll see that he's become the song of children who mock him. And he says there was a time when I would walk into a room and the men would stand in respect and look what I've become. God, I can't take this anymore. I've done my best. I believe that I've been innocent. I don't understand why it's one attack after another. So I'm just asking you as I complain. I'm just saying, God, let me die. Take me out of my misery, please. Why did you bring me out of my mother's womb if it's going to end up with me suffering like this? Please stop attacking me. You know, it was Satan's attacks and the onslaught and the continuation of those attacks began to undermine his belief that God cared for him. His hope in God had given way to sorrow, despair. I just want this to end. He didn't curse God, but he realized that he didn't know him as well as he had thought. In verses 21 and 22 he speaks of the land of darkness. He speaks of a shadow of death. It gives us insight into what was once thought of the regions of the dead. There are two ways to look at this. One, when he speaks concerning verse 22, a land as dark as darkness, a selfish shadow of death without any order, where even the light is like darkness. Some commentators say that he's speaking of a body in a tomb or in a grave, and that there's no light because the dirt or the stone has covered that, so it's pitch black. But others say that this is something that relates to what would be called the regions of the dead. The region beyond the grave, and at that time they thought of this region beyond the grave as a place of complete darkness, a place where no light ever shines, a place of misery, a place with the complete absence of God, or anything that is good. Jesus described this place in different ways. He spoke of utter darkness. He spoke of where the worm dies not, and the flame is never extinguished. It's a way of speaking of the other world, the regions beyond. And he's simply speaking of it that way. He's saying, I'll die and I'll go into that place. It would seem that he thinks that the Lord has rejected him, so there's nothing else waiting for him. So he says, I'll go to that place, a place I won't return from, a land of darkness, shadow of death, land as dark as darkness itself, shadow of death without any order, or even the light is like darkness. God is light. In him is no darkness whatsoever, and where God isn't is only complete darkness. So the picture is, I'm going to go into this other region, and seeing that you have forsaken me, you've punished me, you think that I'm evil, and at this point I have no more hope. So I might as well just end now and move forward into what is waiting me, because at this point his despair is so great that he's thinking that would be better than what he is presently feeling.  And Jesus speaks of Lazarus and the rich man, and how Lazarus was poor and he begged at the gate of this rich man, that he might even eat just the scraps from this rich man's table, and the rich man would daily have banquets. And he was dressed beautifully as a very, very wealthy man, but both of them died. And Jesus said that Lazarus was taken to the bosom of Abraham, paradise, and the rich man opened up his eyes in Hades. And the rich man saw Abraham and said, Father Abraham, Father Abraham, because Lazarus was there being comforted by Abraham, but the rich man said, I am being tormented in this flame. He said, please just send Lazarus here, that he might dip the tip of his finger in water and place it on my tongue before I'm dying of thirst. And Abraham said, oh, you had your good things while you were on earth, and Lazarus had his bad. But now Lazarus is comforted, and you are reaping what you've sown. Well, I'll send him to tell my, my, my brothers, have someone go and tell my brothers that they may not come to this place. No. No. Even if a man were to rise from the dead, they wouldn't believe. Obviously, that was a parable Jesus gave pertaining to the reality of the fact that he himself would be resurrected, and people would still reject that. They would still not believe, even though one had been raised from the dead. But the promise there is what I want us to close with, because Joe right now is thinking only of the worst case. But he hasn't yet been brought to the place where he says, I heard of you with the hearing of my ear, but now I see you with the seeing of my eye. I walked in faith, trusting you, not really knowing you deeply and personally, but you have revealed yourself to me. And that's why I abhor myself in, in, in sackcloth and ashes. And I'll keep my mouth silent because my eyes have finally beheld the one that I worshiped in faith. So he doesn't end up in this place that he's wishing he was in. He ends up, well, he's with the Lord right now, just enjoying his presence. And do you think that Job regrets a minute of what he went through? No, I don't think so. He became the man he wanted to be through the things the Lord allowed in his life. And you're going to be the person that you want to be if you want to be like him. By the way, the Lord will allow things into your life. And he will make you into his image slowly, but surely. And some of the ways of the Lord are not the ways that we think he should do that. But he does it that way because it's the best way and it makes you into what you want to be, which is a follower of Jesus Christ and conformed to his image.