Okay. So people always complain when I'm 10 minutes late. So I know they're going to complain if I'm 10 minutes early. This stream is sort of, I guess, a proof of concept. Hopefully it's working. All the tests have been working. It's been working on PeerTube. It's been working on YouTube, not live. But I'm doing a stream just with FFmpeg. So hopefully this will work out. Let me actually close some browser windows. It'll be just a normal live stream. If you want to donate, you can. But everything is working great, actually, with FFmpeg.  Since the beginning of my YouTube channel, I've always recorded videos in FFmpeg. For those who don't know, I don't know, maybe I should explain it, because I don't know, you've got a bunch of new people here always. I don't know, it sounded like a bad thing. Oh, got a bunch of new people here. But FFmpeg is a command line program where you can basically tell the computer how to record your screen or whatever. And I've always recorded videos with it, because back in the day, I was using a ThinkPad X200, and it only has an Intel Core 2 Duo. So if you want to use something like OBS on it, it's just impossible. And OBS, I've used it for live streaming, but it's pretty pointless for recording videos because it's just a giant graphical program you pull up just to run one FFmpeg command. It's just a graphical wrapper for that. I don't know if it actually calls FFmpeg, but you could just get the command yourself and have it work out. So anyway, guys, tell me if the audio is screwed up here. I think, well, the audio is sound. I'm pretty sure there's not going to be... Yeah, okay, people are already saying the audio is out of sync. I sort of know that's going to happen. Actually, maybe I could probably change that real time, but I don't know if I'm going to make it worse or better. I know how to change that in FFmpeg because I do it on my videos. I just know, how bad is it? Is it like more than a second? Actually, maybe I can pull it out myself. Let me pull it out myself. Got to actually listen to it. Yeah, we're doing bug testing live. I just see that at least it's going through. Yeah, because whenever I'm recording directly from a webcam input, there's always a little bit of a delay. How do I turn this freaking audio on? Okay, how do you out of sync? Not even a second. It's probably like... I want to say it's something like 0.35 seconds because that's the perfect... Yeah, less than a second. Maybe I'll talk slowly.  Anyway, I want to use FFmpeg for streaming, and I'll go ahead and tell you why. OBS, now firstly, the big problem with OBS, the significant problem as far as I'm concerned, is that OBS signed the petition against Richard Stolman. When that happened, a bunch of other... mostly soyware, stuff that no one should be using anywhere because it's poorly written. Why am I wearing this?   But the only ones that I use in that list was OBS, and I want to say LineageOS, which is like a free phone ROM thing, which really, it's outclassed by GraphiNOS, but I had installed Lineage on a phone, but then again, I never use my phone, so maybe that doesn't count. But if I reflash my ROM, reinstall a new operating system on my phone, I will probably install GraphiN or whatever. But additionally, due to some kernel update on OBS, whenever I was streaming, if I got 30 minutes into a stream, everything would be 100% CPU usage, all my memory would be taken up, and it was just OBS, and it just happened to... I think it was sort of a combination between a Linux problem, a kernel problem, and an OBS problem, but either way, maybe switching to BSD would take care of that problem. But what was I going to say? But yeah, I'm looking at this now. It's insane. I am streaming from my computer, and it's using something like 20% of my CPU, and this is on a really old i5. Anyway, so I'm just talking about boring technical stuff. If you have comments, things you want to talk about, send in a donation at donate.luxmit.xyz. Actually, that's one thing I need to do. Usually I have a banner with the link on the screen, so you know where to donate. Well, it's in the video description as well. I don't know, maybe I shouldn't do that. Maybe it's clean or not having anything. Maybe it's too much of a shill thing. The kind of thing that OBS makes easy. Okay, so I'll go ahead, I do have a donation actually from last time that I'll read. So, Chris donates 20 bucks says, hey Luke, or Chris from the Midwest, he says, hey Luke, a question about your next live stream, or question for your next live stream, this one. I'm 25 and work full time at a job 45 plus hours a week, I have presentations on the side, and I'm starting a business with some family members. In addition, I also volunteer at my local drum core on the weekends. My question is to you is, do you think there's such a thing as being too busy and doing productive, being too busy doing productive work? Do you think we need, or we need to, or should we strive to find a balance between work and relaxation? Please keep up the great content. Yeah, so it's funny, I don't believe in a difference between work and relaxation. That is like post, that's a very modern idea. I mean, for me, you have to do work that you enjoy, and there are lots of different things that you can do, especially in computing. There are so many things that you can, I'm not going to say you're always going to enjoy it, but I mean, it's pretty easy to find something that you could do as enjoyment.  For me, it's not about anti-fun, it's about when you're doing productive things, you will find that to be enjoyable. On the other hand, a lot of people in my real life who don't really know me that well, they're often surprised, they just think, I don't have to do a 9-5, I have done 9-5s recently, but since I don't need to do one, I just sit around on my computer all day, because that's what it looks like. But most of the time, I'm working on some kind of project, something that's going to pay off in the future. I have always been a proponent of it's not so much do a bunch of work and then have fun, it's do work so that your work gets closer to the thing that you enjoy. Always make steps in that direction. It depends on do you actually enjoy writing web applications and stuff to this guy's original question, and that's for him to make the call of. But most of the stuff that I do for enjoyment is work, and most of the work I do is I enjoy. That's also why, every once in a while, people will ask me what retirement means, do you want to retire early? As far as I'm concerned, obviously the things that I do are going to change, month to month even. But in general, I plan on doing more or less what I'm doing now for the rest of my life. There's never going to be a point where I say, I'm just going to quit, I'm going to retire. At the same time, there's a sense in which I am retired now. I guess you could say because I have a lot of free time, or at least flexibility in time, not necessarily free time. Let's see here. By the way, I'll go ahead and say, I don't think anyone sent in a Super Chat donation or anything. Actually I should check the chat, just to make sure everything's going okay. Hey Luke, don't you use Google Pixels for grapheme or something like that because you are always anti-phone and anti-Google, so this is a great option for you. I do use a Google Pixel and the irony is phones manufactured by Google are actually the easiest to de-Google. So that's why getting it and grapheme I think is only for Google Pixels because they're so easy to do. So let's see. But it looks like people are not complaining about the quality of the audio or video. Again, sorry about the lack of syncing. Let me pull this up. Let's see. See what people have said. Yeah, having popups on the stream makes it less clean. Yeah, but it wasn't a popup, it was just like a banner. I don't know, maybe I should make a frame around it just like with links to my website or like a Super Chat link or donation link. It probably is making a difference because by now I don't think anyone's donated yet but usually someone has because they're staring in front of their face but it's no big deal if no one... If no one does, I'll just read the normal chat. Let's see. Yeah, yeah. People keep saying videos out of sync, I know. I know the videos out of sync. I could fix it right now, I could turn off the stream, change one variable and then pull it back up but I don't know, maybe it doesn't make a difference. Let's see. When will we see Larb's BSD? Probably not. Well, I don't know. BSD, I think, people are talking to me about it. It's something like an install site. They have something built in that's sort of like Larb's where it like preconfigures like some setup, I'm pretty sure. So I'll look into that. Although right now I actually have to... I was actually well, I don't want to tell you that but what pixel do you use? I want to say it's a Google pixel 3. I'm not quite sure. I don't know phones. As I said, I very rarely use mine. I'll carry it around sometimes. But you know, there's nothing on it. I'm the kind of person, I don't even have a lock on my phone because if my phone gets stolen, there's literally nothing on there that is at all valuable. I mean, I guess a couple text messages to relatives. There's nothing sensitive on it. I think it's totally nuts when people have bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets on their phone. That is just so weird to me. If someone guesses your pin, they could steal all your money or same thing with a lot of cryptocurrency wallets. It's nuts. To me, it's crazy to have a wallet and a narrow wallet on your phone. So let's see. Can you do more shell scripting with Luke? I mean I do videos when I have a reason to do them. There are a couple things. So here are a couple things, little scripts that I've done in the past months. It makes it sound like I've been working on them for months. Usually what happens is I'll sit down one time and I'm like, it'd be really cool to have this on my status bar and then I'll write a script for it. One minor little thing is I now have a Doppler radar indicator. I think I may have uploaded the script to my GitHub, but for DWM, you can just click on it and it will bring up a Doppler radar for your area. Is that just an American thing? A Doppler radar? It shows you where it's raining. Okay, that's what it is. How close rain is to you? David, since $10, any chance you'll be making more woodworking videos in the future? I started learning a couple months ago and already built a nice workbench and end table. I haven't had any ... Well, I've had no extreme need to do woodworking recently.  However, none of it has been constructive. It's been mostly destructive.  I don't know why. Well, it never get particle board outside.  Whoever owned my place before I moved in had particle board and it just like bloats up and the doors are unopenable and they fall apart. It's just totally, it's in a waste. Bosco says, have you gotten into IPFS? No, I haven't. I mean, that's one of those things I should be looking up. I think it's a ... Well, okay. I know that there's a cryptocurrency project based on that. I think the Filecoin but yeah, I don't know much about it. It's interplanetary file system for people who have not heard about that but people will often be like, oh dude, you got to check this out. Maybe you'd like it. That feel when you're still a college student and live in a cringe dorm so you can't do woodworking yet. It's pretty cringe. Yeah, I mean, that's one of the big things. A lot of people ask me about living in apartments. Well, living apartments I think everyone knows is pretty cupped because you're renting. So it's going to nothing but additionally, people will ask me like, oh what about living mobile? What about living in a camper? And the big thing is you can't have tools and that might sound like a weird thing if you've never really done work but it makes a big difference. Let's see. Let me ... So my lamp databases sends in $10. My girlfriend so my girlfriend so the recursive ... My girlfriend is so bloated. The recursive function calculating her mass causes a stack overflow. Okay. Thank you for the donation and the hilarious joke. So let's see. Where can I find the script? If you're talking about the Doppler radar script, it's on my Github. So I assume you know how to get there. Maybe you don't. github.com slash lukesmithxyz slash void rice. And it's in the dot local slash bin directory. Or dot local slash bin maybe slash status bar. I forget if I keep the status bar stuff in a separate directory. Let's see. I'm going to check up on htop and let's see. Oh my goodness. This is so beautiful. Why have I not been streaming in ffmpeg the whole time? 25% CPU usage. This is fantastic. I could have been streaming from like a... I could have been streaming from an x200. But I don't know. I have thought. I have two computers. I have this laptop I think pad that I use for pretty much everything. And I do have that desktop that I showed in the video where I was talking about OpenBSD. And that I really do nothing with. I just had it for forever. I want to say it was like a Christmas present when I was a kid or something like that. I forget exactly where I got it. Maybe it was like a... maybe it was like a graduating college present. I think my parents had gotten it to me or gotten it for me years and years and years ago. But I don't really do anything on that. But I have been thinking about getting a new laptop. Now the thing is when it comes to classic thingpads there are things that I can't leave about them.  But I think the biggest thing is actually I have to have a track point. I can't live without a track point.  I just can't do that. The keyboard that I have I've done a video on my Unicomp thing. It has a track point as well. I can't survive living without that. I don't know how anyone could. So the thing is modern computers or laptops I've never really seen one with a track point. I think Lenovo a couple of years ago wanted to do let's create a modern thingpad. It has all the modern perks like 1080p. I would sort of like 1080p on this laptop. It has that what is it? The 1366 by 7 whatever but I don't know. So if anyone knows about a good laptop out there that's what I'm trying to say. But anyway the new when Lenovo put out this like new refurbished like version of the classic thingpad there are a bunch of things wrong with it too. I forget exactly all the the annoyances but okay let's see I'm gonna look at the chat here see what's going on. Modern thinkpads have track points. Well modern thinkpads okay maybe I should be clear modern thinkpads like they don't have the classic keyboard which is kind of an annoyance and just in general the build quality has decreased over time. In fact even the version I use like the X220 is fantastic gets everything done. But if you compare it to like one of the really old thinkpads back when they were made in America they are like well they way more but that's because they were like less plastic they like you could like beat someone with it it's so much better. I used to have an X60 that was like the first thinkpad I got it was like 30 bucks I was like I'll buy it we'll see how these thinkpads really are and it was fantastic that's one of the reasons I ended up using a X220 because thinkpads were great but the X60 is just so much more durable it's so much yeah it's just it's you can feel the difference you know okay let's see this is probably the most we've talked about technology in a stream in like literally years which is pretty weird I am going to I'm going to get some water hold on alright so I should probably check donations okay none alright oh look at the chat what's wrong with having a bunch of services on containers that's a good question maybe I should do a video on it now containers have a purpose it's just most of the time if you're like a normal person like if you have your own VPS like the kind of stuff I do videos for containers are frustrating they get in your way they're supposed to be like easy to install and deploy especially if you're using something like Docker but the thing is containers don't interface well with other software on your computer like they're supposed to be they're basically run as you know this is your own this is its own hermetically sealed service and it's not going to do anything else I'm a Unix person I like programs that are interacting I like to have VPS's that have different things on it um so like containers are just frustration and they're just an annoyance like containers are probably good for I mean this sounds condescending but they're probably good for people who don't really know that much about managing servers they just want to get things working or you know people who I guess maybe who are you know doing like development work and they're just like getting this thing working on like some companies computer that they've been paid to do so um like containers just in general and I'll also say like if you see a project out there something you can install on your server that it's default install is like a Docker install it's probably bad software realistically speaking like that's what I've found um it's not just it's actually sometimes harder to install with Docker but like uh even running the thing it's often just like poorly designed okay it's sort of soy-devy okay that's what I'm trying to say um if you avoid containerization as an average person I'm not in now in enterprise environments like the thing is I'll make these statements and then people will like ignore the context of it and get offended by stupid things I'm not saying that containerization uh you know it's not very important in some domains like for doing certain things but like for an average user who wants to have a server to host a website and an email server and other things like that containerization is just going to be like frustrating to you so why do you have a whales flag next to a confederate flag it's not a confederate flag it's a flag of Georgia I mean well I guess it's not the flag of Georgia anymore they changed the flag but yeah a bunch of like yeah a bunch of people see that and they're well firstly I mean I probably have a confederate flag but I don't but yeah that's the flag of Georgia you're looking extra good today Luke it must be the lighting yeah it's funny how different I look from different angles I was I watched that video I recorded um the one that was like uh where I was complaining about Manjaro I forget what I titled it I just titled my videos random things that they're just sort of like general teasers but in that video I watched that afterwards and I was like man I look really ugly in this I was like geez also that video uh attracted a bunch of people who I guess have never seen my channel before because like a lot of the comments were like well you're just too dumb to use linux you should go back to windows win baby you know it's like dude like you could click on my channel and see the kind of stuff I do um I guess there are people who on who are on youtube and watch linux stuff and don't know who I am which is sort of funny uh Luke what is the email and matrix tutorials on lanshad there might be a matrix tutorial already up if there's not I want to say there's a PR for one either way there's a but I should do a video on lanshad.net again because there's a bunch of uh great stuff up there right now uh people have added just fantastic things the email uh tutorial I'm breaking down so I could do a tutorial where I just tell you hey run my email script but and I will do that but I want to provide like a detailed tutorial about installing an email server on your own terms um but the thing is I want to get everything right I'm not a pro at post fix uh I want to make sure I have all the sensible settings and I explain it in a very good way and it's hard to do that like I don't think there are uh email tutorials out there that have done this well so I need to I need to you know sit you know think it through uh do a bunch of bug testing and you know I guess sort of vet the right settings um so uh abs uh 5 pounds would you ever consider purchasing an unofficial think pad such as the x 30 or x 62 they have modern performance and the classical modular design uh I've never actually heard of that x 62 x 62 um I might look that up later but I've not heard about I mean theoretically that sounds like a good idea but uh okay so uh static memes since in five dollars hey Luke do you think that immigration to the United States from Europe is a good idea it's hard to judge the general climate from over there since we um since we are only shown navigativity I would not like the US and Europe are um like both in bad situations and I wouldn't recommend moving from one to the other just because like well I'll say I think in the US like if you're an American thinking about escaping okay the US is probably big enough that you can you'll be fine like you're not gonna have to I mean that that's my view of it um just move out of a city same thing in Europe try and move out of a city people in Europe will tell me that it's harder to get land in Europe like rural land it's harder to do some things in Europe um but I think that it would be better I mean if anything you can move in Eastern Europe where things are a little less crazy uh well depending on where you move in Eastern Europe oh by the way I there's a chance there's a small teensy tiny chance that I will be somewhere in Eastern Europe later this year possibly just chance okay maybe 10 percent chance um it depends on how much money I have then honestly but I'm thinking about seeing a relative out there um so we'll see if that happens so some of you living in uh Eastern Europe maybe we'll do a meet up or something then again I've never done like an America meet up you know maybe I should do that um so but yeah I would say like us in Europe like never listen to the news what people are saying because it's all like hyper reality stuff um there are good things in bad places about or bad things about both places I mean you know I watch the news about today and it sounds like like absolute hell to me but I'm sure that in the United Kingdom there are many places that are like fine to live um and then there's Australia you know now they're like locked down they're in a police state because one 80 year old man died of coronavirus so you know um but either way like I would not I would not pack your bags and move anywhere unless you were a thousand percent sure and had direct evidence that it's a great place and in in America if you're talking about moving here um to a place that you don't know based on maybe it's gonna be better here I would not do that okay not at this point in time um uh uh donates $2 have you ever accessed the dark web if so what was it like I mean I've gone on tour like maybe for one thing or another like when people tell me oh check this out or something but never anything edgy I mean never anything illegal I guess of course if I had done something like that I wouldn't say uh that obviously or maybe I would because I'd be you know I just wouldn't care but uh no I mean I really have no reason to use like um like tour um and stuff like that like everything I need to see is on the the um clear web um now if like a lot of sites got like deplatformed and stuff which they have and they moved to tour I mean like just political sites mostly I mean that's that's the biggest worry like you know just every vaguely not even conservative site but just any site that sort of counter signals the mainstream even if they're not like right wing in any way um I think I feel like a year or two ago there was a real threat of like oh like every domain registrar is just gonna shut people down and people are gonna have to move to the dark web uh in a situation like that like sure I'd use it but I don't have any reason to use it now I there's not a single site um that I know of that I really care about um you know on the dark web um okay uh let's see oh so another thing uh let me read this and then I'll say that um IE says how hard is it uh to get jobs and electrician in the country is there a lot of competition how can one be a catholic with the current state of the church well you could be a set of acontists that's how um that's the only way I could understand being a catholic today um now so yeah so in the country I will tell you my county has something like two registered like certified electricians okay which is not enough to provide for everyone here even if there's like a thousand people in this uh county that's not enough you need more so yeah going to the country and doing one of those jobs like you think of the country oh yeah country people they they have all that taken care of their salt of the earth people a lot of those things like if you're if you like have a job if you're like certified in something like that you can make a lot of money in the um in the country um or like even things like painters can make lots of money or like any kind of craft I mean you can like now is like the best time to have a blue collar job okay whether you're in a city or the country um and I would say there is not enough competition anywhere because what happens is if you're a millennial or younger or even earlier even if you're gen X people have just been inculcated with this idea you turn 18 and if you're good you go to college and then you get your degree and then you work as a barista okay so no one is working these jobs like electricians even out in the country in the place where I live many salt of the earth people they're all normies uh they're all like but again as I said we have something like two uh electricians in our entire county even if that's in a county of you know a thousand people that's you know it's high in demand so yeah um I was also going to say one other thing so my donate page donate.luxmouth.xyz if you want to donate but um that is actually running FOSPAY and that's a software project who's the guy who made it I want to say his name is Drew something you can probably look it up um but I want to do a landshad thing for that as well like how to set that up too because that was I remember that being not hard but like there were a couple hurdles that I had to jump through to install that but it's it's very nice um just theoretically I think technically I still do have a patreon it's still out there and I think people still donate to me because I'll get like a I'll get literally $100 in patreon that's the people that's how much money I get from patreon a month um but hey that's nice to have but if you are watching and you have subscribed to my patreon I would rather you cancel that and do the FOSPAY thing that's frankly better um because you know we don't need to use patreon I haven't deleted the patreon just because I know there's some people who are using it but I would prefer you know using that um yeah yeah drew to vault yeah that's him he he has a couple cool projects is he okay what was there some project in his I was looking up the other day that was really nice but he has a bunch of like little software projects that are all very good dude drew to vault was the soy boy okay maybe his I don't know well I will say FOSPAY uses bootstraps so that's the dead giveaway uh man I hate bootstrap I should do a video on how much I hate bootstrap it's again one of those other things this is what I hate doing like I hate having an opinion on something and then doing a video on it and people just read the freaking title and don't like listen to what I say that that Linux video I did a couple days ago good example but if I did something on bootstrap it's the same thing actually bootstrap is more like I'm gonna cause controversy controversy if I say bootstrap is bad because it's terrible it's annoying it's awful and it might be easier to like make a website with bootstrap you know if you're just starting out but it breeds ignorance of CSS and JavaScript and it is so annoying to take a bootstrap site and to port it to like normal you know to make it your own you know so wait source yeah is that did he make source app the creator of FOSPAY actually moved to the Netherlands from America for political reasons I wonder what those are let's see okay I was gonna say something aren't set of acontists not in communion with the church well okay if you're set of acontists you believe that the visible quote unquote Catholic church is not the Catholic church set of acontists are the Catholic church so why would you want to be in communion with people who are heretics like that's the whole point crazy reddit or correct crazy reddit why did I read that is reddit crazy red one two three donates five dollars how would you go about making a website as censor proof as possible I'm assuming epic and vulture won't cut this can new technologies like handshake and IPFS help with this again IPFS I don't know that much about so when it comes to vulture I mean vulture is just an average VPS I use it because somehow I got it way back in the day and I recommend it to people because they give generous recommendation money or whatever like it's basically if someone signs up to it and they pay 25 bucks I get the first 25 bucks and that's nice but yeah I don't care about it don't take that I mean I use it because I use it don't I have no special endorsement of vulture if you want a better VPS provider and I've recommended this to people who ask use Fran tech that's F-R-A-N-T-E-C-H dot C-A they're actually a Canadian company but wait it's not that bad they have a very good record of being censorship resistant now I'm not saying vulture censors people I've never heard of it but Fran tech has specifically stood for not closing down political sites and stuff like that so they're a step better now of course ideally if you want to be really censorship censorship proof and this is rarely a problem I will say censorship at the VPS level is very rare I'm trying to think of an example of it happening I mean unless it's like child pornography I doubt that it would have like even political stuff I've never heard of anyone being cancelled by their VPS unless it's like Google or Amazon of course they cancel people all the time but if it's like a random VPS they're probably not going to shut you down unless you're doing something illegal in the country they're hosting in but if you want to avoid that you can of course just host your own like get a server and put it physically you know in some place that has a good connection to the internet and host your site there that's not too bad and of course you can avoid having a domain name by using Tor but Epic has a good record they well I will say some people Epic has cancelled some people but it's like mostly illegal stuff like people who have done targeted harassment or things that are sort of illegal Epic in general is good in fact they're much much better than any other American thing but they're not perfect there are and if you want like more perfection honestly you should get a registrar in like Eastern Europe or Russia or China or something like that now in China they'll censor you if you say bad things about the Communist Party but they're not going to if you say something like you can't even say things in quotitive context on YouTube but if you say things about certain people in America maybe gender confused people you won't be shut down by China they don't care so realistically speaking Epic and Vulture are fine that's why I recommend them I would not feel bad or I would feel bad if I were giving you a bad recommendation they suffice, Epic is good, Vulture is okay I haven't heard anything bad of Vulture if you have heard anything bad of Vulture please tell me Pie face Five Real thoughts on Climate Change Apocalypse Law yeah it's actually this year has been a weird weather year everywhere independent of climate change people are going to say you're saying you believe in climate change? No but this year has been like totally weird out where I live because it's rain throughout the whole summer usually we have a dry month but we haven't had a dry month but it's been great for farmers but you know that's how it is here Binary Ghosts $5 thanks to your videos I've made my own websites and email servers it's fun why OpenBSD over FreeBSD OpenBSD isn't sexy and neofatual I think so well FreeBSD is more like on the the soydevy SJW angle thing like they have a code of conduct and a couple things like that in FreeBSD even though I would like their if they use copy left stuff I would prefer that OpenBSD is just more I don't want to say they're more suckless but it's more let's create a computer that is just stable and let's not just add to code but take code away that kind of stuff so that's why OpenBSD I view it as a community and I view them as more stable Samurai Flak says watch your video on industrial tech isn't software like Linux inseparable from silicon which is mass industrial tech also microcontrollers too? Oh yeah absolutely yeah everything computing related is organization dependent technology so if you're using it just bear in mind don't invest your whole life on it if the collapse happens okay so let's see $5 from I don't know he doesn't really give a name well I could guess based on his domain name but I'll just not say what's up Luke I'm going to college my parents are paying for it and studying agriculture specifically animal science production and industry based on cringe also thanks for redpilling me so it depends whenever it comes to college if you're going to college for free if you're going to college not for free don't go but if you're going to college for free you just have to think of it not in terms of is this going to be a good degree but am I going to learn stuff in the meantime so if you're putting environments where you're actually going to be learning about how to do stuff in the real world that would be based but if you're just studying books about cows that's pretty cringe it's all about putting same thing especially in computer science like a lot of people I know went to college for computer science and they dropped out why because one or two years in they become competent programmers and they get connected with people who can give them jobs or they can be self employed same thing with everything else don't look at a college degree is the end you should unlist your live streams so they don't mess with your channel what do you mean I almost have to go to the bathroom I'm trying not to go to the bathroom thoughts on Jordan Peterson thank you my streamly question of what do I think about Jordan Peterson just go to the last stream and find the Jordan I said in the last stream I should just do a video on Jordan Peterson so I don't have to keep answering this question I totally have to be do you see your vulture link is expired we no longer have a deal going on that gives you money I think at least I couldn't use it no it works I can pull it up right now and I will see that there's probably been someone who clicked on it today people always say that because it goes to like the blank home page the link to vulture works and you should log in create an account and it will give you a $100 credit actually I will log in myself and check it because I want to make sure I'm getting my $25 actually because I need to pull my browser up for something else too so yeah it's definitely still working don't worry about it just because it doesn't show you a pop up doesn't mean it's not working it's not because I have to pee but I think I will stop this hold on so one more announcement before I go remember my book printing site is up and it's live and I've had the shipping is actually working I've had a couple of hiccups like cryptocurrency wasn't going through cryptocurrency is disabled now I think I'm going to set it up with BTC pay which is like self-hosted but you can pay in fiat you can pay in any currency shipping is included in the price it will ship anywhere it automatically does tax and shipping for you so lindypress.net let me actually put it in the lindypress lindypress.net that is my book reprinting site so there are five titles up there now you can see what they're about I haven't done a video on YouTube yet so I haven't done my official announcement but I've had lots of people confirm that it's successfully shipping to Canada, Britain, Germany Australia of course America so I have had some hiccups with the cryptocurrency there was one guy who emailed me the other day who I think hadn't gotten his thing but oh people are saying server error let me check that out let's check this out oh okay let me see what's going on wow I'm glad I mentioned that on the stream I was wondering okay let's see what's going on here let me fix that let's fix this real time kids oh I know what's going on I know exactly what's going on far, long yeah that's it give me a second give me a second hold on I'm fixing it I'm fixing it real time and then let's see if this works why didn't no one email me that it was broken that's what I'm annoyed by that okay now it should work let me put it in the description again lindypress.net yeah before if you clicked on a book it would crash I gotta fix that permanently it did that the other week I know what's going on I just need to fix some stupid stuff yeah but the site itself is working as in if you pay your money will go through and you will get your books that's the thing that matters if we have some downtime before I make it go public on youtube then yeah well everything will be fixed it works now okay why have we never seen you and mental outlaw together that's an interesting question server ever yeah okay thanks for that shoot let me actually like put something in my cart make sure it all works let's see yeah so stupid I need a now the guy who helped me write this site it was really him who wrote it and I did a couple of tweaks he's using bootstrap I think he's using bootstrap isn't he which I also don't like no bootstrap but that would have been annoying for him he spun it up and like I just spun it up spun it up in just a couple of days he spun it up in a couple of days but then like there was like two months of us emailing back and forth me like screwing something up or not really me screwing sometimes me screwing something up but me like trying to change something or whatever but um check my donations okay I'll check my donations oh maybe I'm looking at an old thing just arrived what software is supposed to be a replacement of OBS ffmpeg which is much better I've been streaming how long have I been streaming I have a million browser tabs pulled up and still only two gigs of um RAM being used and less than 15% of my CPU being used oh my goodness I can't even believe this um okay so yeah I feel so stupid I didn't check my freaking book site because the other day I was like huh I didn't get any orders today I wonder what I guess no one clicked on it but no I guess it's me being stupid and that stupid problem which is now fixed so you can go you can go get some dope books there are five of them I will do videos on them so one thing I'm looking for uh I was asking girls I know um to be hand models because I want to hand model these books I want to be I want them to turn pages while I talk I am so self-conscious about my hands I hate my hands because they're veiny they're skinny I just don't like the way they look I'm very self-conscious about them that sounds stupid but are you still using the brave browser I was about to do a blog entry about browsers okay that might come out today I am still using brave there was a period I was using un-googled chromium for a couple weeks and then I got sick of it because they're basic things that un-googled chromium doesn't have but brave thankfully is put in but brave is still stupid I hate all browsers that's what my blog post is going to be about how much I hate browsers um yeah girls maybe there will be girls on my channel I know like a while ago I was saying oh me and my cousin are going to do like a female cousin are going to do like a stream together she was going to like answer user submitted like personal questions about me but I don't know we never ended up doing that thick hand veins yeah they're very high test unfortunately like dude look how skinny my arm I'm very I'm a wristlet I'm a total wristlet because I wasn't like working on a farm as a kid kid that's how you know someone's really strong people look at biceps and stuff like that but really to tell if someone is like a strong country boy you got to look at their wrists and I'm clearly a urban bug man with the I'm a total wristlet okay so anyway I think girls hands would sell better I'm probably overthinking this it would probably be easier if I were turning the pages because you know I can you know move them the way I want I don't have to you know whatever how do you stream using ffmpeg also girls don't exist well I mean girls I'm not on this channel no girls watch this channel of course actually the only girls who watch this channel are girls that I know in real life that's what I think like relatives former students probably girls I know from I don't know different places ex-girlfriends I wonder I sort of wonder what some of my ex-girlfriends think now that I'm an East Soy Liberty but I know there's at least one of them who is anyway but how do I stream with ffmpeg it's actually easy you just I'll probably put a script I'll put the command up on my github let's see pull it up youtube stream I actually have a very nice script not just one command but it actually has all these different settings for you know if I want to do different resolutions it automatically gets the right corresponding resolution in the max buffer rate and all the stuff but you basically ffmpeg has this thing where is it that's like you force the output flv and then you give a server location slash and then the stream key and you can stream to some stream and I've tested it on youtube and peer2 I haven't tested it on odyssey maybe right after this I will just pull up just for a couple minutes you know what that's what I'll do I'm going to turn the stream off I'm going to go pee and then I'm going to go to odyssey and stream on there okay that's what I'm going to do so go to my odyssey channel let me actually type this in here which of course it will you know get their way before you end up hearing this because the audio is always delayed but whatever yeah the audio video lag that is that's ffmpeg normally so normally when I do a screencast I always have to run ffmpeg again to like sort of change the video and audio it's basically because the webcam gives delayed input okay but I forgot to do this when I started the stream I could have easily done it I've got a bunch of donations I got to read those once I finish reading them I will go pee then we will do an odyssey stream so go ahead and pull up 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Let's begin our study here in Job chapter 34. I'll begin by reading verses 1 through 4 and we'll get into our study. Job chapter 34 beginning at verse 1, reading to verse 4. Allie, you further answered and said here my words you wise men give ear to me you who have knowledge for the ear tests words as a pellet taste food. Let us choose justice for ourselves. Let us know among ourselves what is good. So what we have here and let me remind you of a few things as we enter into this week's study of Job. Let me remind you that a young man by the name of Allie who has been silently listening to Job as he has been speaking to three friends has finally gotten to the point where he can no longer contain himself. And so what he's doing now and as we've seen is he's beginning to give his opinion as to why Job is suffering. When we looked at chapter 32 and verses 2 and 3 those verses gave us two reasons why he could no longer hold back from speaking. One is because he believed that Job justified himself rather than God and two because his three friends could not convince Job of Job's guilt. And so he began. He began to speak and he began by saying wisdom doesn't necessarily result from age. In other words just because you men are older doesn't mean you have spoken from wisdom. And so after he made that point he launched into his rebuke of both Job and his friend. So Allie he was speaking to them all and he had rebuked his friends. Job's friends remember Alaphaz, Bildad and Zophar. He had rebuked them because he was frustrated that none of them had convinced Job of his error. And he made it clear that that is what had provoked him to speak. He had said in chapter 32 verses 16 and 17, must I wait now that they are silent now that they stand there with no reply? I too will have my say. I too will tell what I know. And so he's jumped in because he's become frustrated. Job seems to be self righteous. His friends can't convince him. So it's up to him now to speak. And so what did he do? Well, we saw this. He launched into a rebuke. He insisted that Job was speaking rather he insisted that he himself was speaking with honesty, sincerity and uprightness of heart. That's how he began in verse three. He had said in Job 33, my words come from my upright heart, my lips utter pure or sincere knowledge. So Alliehu, Alliehu believed that Job was presenting himself as more righteous than God and that Job felt that he had been unfairly treated and had gotten close to accusing God of sin. So Alliehu felt that Job had crossed the line and was in sin because he thought that Job had done that in Job 33 12 and 13. Look in this you are not righteous. I'll answer you for God is greater than man. Why do you contend with him? For he does not give an accounting of any of his words. Job, why are you arguing with God? Do you think you're better than he? Do you think you're equal to him? And so he went on to speak and he said, Listen, God has ways that he speaks to man. We saw this last time in chapter 33 in verses 14 through 18. He said that man receives from God by God's inward voice that God can use dreams in verses 19 through 22. He said that God speaks loudly by using pain when he chastises people. And then he also said in verses 23 through 26 that God speaks by living messengers. And he began to point to a need of a mediator. So what he was doing is he was reminding him that God does speak, but he is also saying, Job, you need to repent. And so as we look at these verses here in chapter 34 and prayerfully chapter 35, he continues his speech. So it says in verse one of chapter 34 that all of you further answered and said, Hear my words, you wise men, give ear to me, you have knowledge for the ear test words as appellate taste food. Let us choose justice for ourselves. Let us know among ourselves what is good. Now, he speaks of them in this way. He speaks in verse two, you wise men. He also says in verse 10, you men of understanding. Well, he's calling them wise and understanding, but rebuking them at the same time. It's become quiet, apparently, and Elehu believes that he's driven Job to silence through his reasoning. And so what he wants is he wants justice and judgment to be pronounced. And that's why he begins in verses two and three and says, Hear my words, wise men, give ear to me, you who have knowledge. In other words, listen to what I have to say, because what I have to say is very, very important. He says in verse three, the ear test words as the palate taste food. People listen to what is said in order to judge between what is wise or what is foolish. It's it's like the way we use taste to distinguish between what is good food and what is bad food. So in normal life, our experiences that we have are used to make the best decisions. But in the spiritual life, God's word in his spirit results in spiritual wisdom. And that's one of the most important reasons that we take time to read our Bibles. The study of God's word equips us with wisdom as well as discernment. I really believe and I'll take a moment just to say this. I really believe that that the neglect of reading and studying the word of God is really showing itself in the church today.  If you go to an associate to a junior college in two years, you can get an associates degree, right?  If you move on to get an advanced degree, a master's degree, depending on what you're studying, it takes at least another two years, sometimes three, right? Get your master's and then beyond that. If you want to go on to get a PhD, PSD or whatever you might want to get, you can get a degree three to five years after that, you can spend years and years and years to gather degrees. And, you know, within six years or so, you can be referred to as a master. Well, when you think about it, there are not a lot of six year old Christians today who would be qualified to be masters at the word of God. Why is that? It's because we neglect it. It's because when I went to college, when we go to college, we spend our time reading books and writing papers and listening to lectures and then taking tests and all. And then we achieve a certain goal and they hand you a diploma. And you feel that you have, you have legitimately performed a task that has gotten a reward. But in the spiritual life, a lot of people have been Christians, not just four years or six years, 10 years, you know, ask yourself, how long have you been a believer and just insert that knowledge? I've been a Christian 50 years. So you think about it's a long time to be a Christian. Am I a master? And that's something that I challenged myself with. Do I know the word of God? Have I mastered certain elements of it? You know, and many believers really haven't. They've neglected God's word. They've been Christians for years, but don't understand. There's an interesting portion of scripture in the book of Hebrews. Let me read it to you. It's found in Hebrews chapter five, verses 12 to 14. It reads there. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food. Anyone who lives on milk being still an infant is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. We had four children. And we have a number of grandchildren now. And we've seen our children. And now our grandchildren as they're growing from the milk stage to the meat stage, and all. And when they were teeny, you know, a year old, even less, you know, even if you gave them, if you gave them any meat at all, it had to be chopped up really good. You didn't want to choke them. They would choke on the meat. So what was good for a baby was milk. But at a certain point, as they exercise the things that God has given to them, they begin to develop maturity. And so the writer of Hebrews is simply saying to the Hebrew Christians, by now you ought to be masters. By now you ought to know God's word, you ought to be partaking in what is called the meat of the word. But he says, unfortunately, you've remained infantile in your, in your spiritual growth. One of the things that we know about babies, Marie and I having those four, and seeing the little ones to this day, they'll, they'll put pretty much anything in their mouth. Babies, well, we have my son, Joseph, and his wife, Karina, sold their house and, you know, moved in with us as they said, well, we'd be buying a house. And, and, and we said, well, of course, you can live with us. And, and only they've been with us for a few months now.  I mean, that's just the way it is. But the thing is, is that I will notice that sometimes she will bend down and find something on the rug, and it looks pretty good to her. And she eats it. She'll eat it. Babies put things in their mouths that they really ought not to do. And so that's what babies do. But you know, even, even Christians, when they're still immature, will watch something on TV or hear something on the radio or have a friend at work tell them stuff that is in scriptural sound. And I've had babies who have basically, because they do, they lash out sometimes. I have a year old baby, my, my Elena, and she's my son, David's baby. And, and there have been times and she she's only 13 months old. But if she gets frustrated with me, she's, I know she's left handed, because she pops me with her left hand. Boom, you know, and she's seen grandma do that. Babies, babies respond quickly. And, and sometimes when, when a baby in the Lord is, is, is corrected, they lash out too. And so what's going to help you? What's going to help us read the word, be in the word of God. And if you want to know the meaning of a passage, then determine that you'll obey what you understand.  And so we need to spend time reading the word. Why? Because in the spiritual life, maturity comes through hearing God's word, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.  And so immature believers can be seduced by false teachers. And that's why they need to be diligent to present themselves approved to God. Like Paul said in 2 Timothy 2 15, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. And so he says the ear test words as a palate taste food verse four. Let us choose justice for ourselves. Let us know among ourselves what is good. Let us discern what is right. Let us discern what is good. Let us seek truth and let us seek justice. Now I want you to know something. Notice again in verse four how he says, let us choose justice for ourselves. Let us know among ourselves what is good. He has just as a young man inserted himself into equality with the elders. That's a bit of a little bit arrogant for this young man. This man has included himself in the circle of elders. He wasn't welcomed in. He included himself. Somebody said this and I like this quote. Pride loves to climb up, not as a kiss to see Christ, but to be seen by others. And that's true. Pride likes to elevate. Not so that you draw closer to the Lord, but so that somewhere below you might look up to you. And that's basically what this young man is doing. He's climbing up to be seen. He says in verse five, for Job has said, I'm righteous, but God has taken away my justice. Should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable. Though I am without transgression. What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water, who goes in company with the workers of iniquity and walks with wicked men. For he has said it profits a man, nothing that he should delight in God. That's not true. Job has not said that. But what he's doing is he setting forth a case against him. You say you see in in verse five, notice how he says, Job has said, I am righteous. In other words, I have right on my side. Well, in chapter 33 verse nine, Alliehu had said that Job had said, I am pure without transgression. I'm innocent. There's no iniquity in me. So Alliehu has misunderstood Job. Job is basically maintaining his integrity, but he was not claiming to be sinless. In Job 917, he breaks me with the tempest. He multiplies my wounds without cause, he said. In Job 107, you know that I am not wicked. There's none who can deliver out of your hand. In Job 1617, no violence is in my hands. My prayer is pure. He had simply said to the Lord and seeing of the Lord, I don't see the reason why I'm being chastened in this way. He wasn't claiming to be perfectly righteous. He wasn't claiming to be perfect. He's simply saying that he doesn't understand what is taking place. He says in verse five, God has taken away my justice. In chapter 27 verse two, Job had said, as God lives, who has taken away my justice. In other words, he's saying that God is withheld from him the justice and judgment that he desired. Verse six, should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable though I am without transgression. He's saying very clearly my wound is incurable.  I have not opposed the will of God and I can't confess to what I haven't done. When he says my wound, that word wound is interesting. One of the commentators that I use pointed out that the word wound literally is saying my arrow. My arrow is incurable. In other words, I've been injured. I've been injured without reason. Now remember in chapter seven verse 20, he had said to the Lord, why have you set me as your target? So he's saying I'm going through this pain and I feel that it's unfair. And he's saying, although I'm right, I've been considered a liar. I haven't opposed the will of God. I can't confess to what I haven't done. My wound is incurable. I've been injured but that without reason. In verses seven through nine when he says what man is like Job who drinks scorn like what? He's saying Job is using sarcasm because Job he's saying is filled with bitterness. The bitterness is what is flowing out of him. In verse eight, it says who goes in company with workers of iniquity. In other words, the reason Job that is, Job is using sarcasm and is mocking is because he has ungodly counselors. That's something to think about too by the way. In the New Testament, in 1 Corinthians 1533, this is an important scripture to know. Paul said this. He said, be not deceived. Bad company ruins good morals. And what he is saying here is he is saying the reason Job is sarcastic and is mocking in the way he does is because he has bad company and this bad company has influenced him in this way. He's receiving ungodly counsel. In verse nine, for he has said it profits a man nothing that he should delight in God. Job had never said that. He did say, I feel overwhelmed by God. In Job nine, 17 and 18, he would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason. He would not let me regain my breath but would overwhelm me with misery. I feel that I've been overwhelmed by God but he's never said that it doesn't profit a man to delight in God. He's never said that. And so he's giving actually false accusations against Job. So it goes on in verse 10, therefore listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness and from the Almighty to commit iniquity. For he repays man according to his work and makes man to find a reward according to his way. Surely God will never do wickedly nor will the Almighty pervert justice. Who gave him charge over the earth or who appointed him over the whole world? If he should set his heart on it, if he should gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together and man would return to dust. So Ali, he was speaking to Job's friends but there are others who are standing around that he'd that are more or less listening to what he's saying. And so he says it, well what he's saying is true in verse 10, far be it from God to do wickedness. In the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy 32 verse 4, it says he is a rock, his work is perfect for all his ways are judgment, a God of truth without iniquity just and right is he. And so what he's saying here is right, far be it from God to do wickedness. So Job, the afflictions that you have endured have actually been for your benefit.  Now in saying this there is truth, Job 5.18 when Alaphaz is speaking it says, for he bruises but he binds up, he wounds but his hands make whole. I'll look at that a little further when we get into the next chapter.  In verses 11 and 12 he repays man according to his work. Your suffering is not undeserved. Now this is a strong statement. He is simply saying you're reaping what you've sown. You see in Job chapter 4 verse 8, Alaphaz had said, even as I've seen those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. So he's saying what you're getting you have done something to deserve. Now that's where he's wrong. He's saying you're reaping what you sowed. If you were not evil you wouldn't be suffering. Notice verse 12 says surely God will never do wickedly nor will the almighty pervert justice. If you were truly righteous, well even if you suffered now in the next life you'll receive a proper reward. So don't be concerned about that. In verses 13 through 15 it says, who gave him charge over the earth, who appointed him over the whole world. God is absolutely sovereign. He didn't receive authority from a higher source. God is completely fair. He owes no favors to anyone. In verses 14 and 15 if he should set his heart on it, if he should gather to himself his spirit and his breath all flesh would perish together. God is absolutely, absolutely the sovereign and he sustains the entire universe. If you take notes you might want to note this Colossians chapter 1 verses 16 and 17. God sustains the entire universe. In Colossians 1, 16 and 17 for by him all things were created. Things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things and in him all things hold together. He's saying everything is held together by the Lord but if he desired he could destroy it all immediately. In verse 16 if you have understanding hear this, listen to the sound of my words.  Will you condemn him who is most just? As a man with wisdom and deep understanding he's saying, listen to what I have to say. Notice verse 17, should one who hates justice govern? I'll be good. The question really relates to to God and the way God governs. And he's simply saying if God is unrighteous how could he be a just judge? Because a righteous judge will always judge righteously but an unjust judge can often judge in an unjust fashion. So should one who hates justice govern? Should somebody govern who doesn't value justice in righteousness? And so in effect he's saying you can't say that God is unrighteous because if he were he wouldn't be just and so that's the angle he's taking right now.  Okay. It is not proper to call an earthly king or someone who is what is called a noble. It is not proper to call him worthless. Even if he is worthless. You might find this interesting. The word worthless there literally says a son of Belial. A son of Belial. The word Belial is a word that is used to speak of Satan and the word worthless is Belial. And so to say even if this person is a son of Belial even if this person is a demon you know inspired by and lives for you don't you don't dare to say those things about him. Now he's actually using his history his context and he's making it clear that those who rule should have respect if not for themselves for the office that they hold. So it's not proper for us to speak down concerning them. But in context he is actually speaking to Job because he thinks that Job has accused the Lord of being unjust. And he's saying listen it's not proper or even prudent to call even an earthly ruler worthless. It seems to me Job that that's what you're saying concerning God. Now again Job was not saying that but he continues in verse 19 and he says yet he's not partial to princes nor does he regard the rich more than the poor for they are all the work of his hand in a moment they die in the middle of the night. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand. He's saying God is impartial and as an impartial judge he doesn't favor anybody. In Deuteronomy 10 verse 17 it says the Lord your God is the God of gods the Lord of lords the great the mighty the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe. In Romans 2 verse 11 the same thought there is no respect of persons with God. And so he's saying all people alike are treated fairly by God. And here's something interesting the poor do not receive better treatment than the rich. Why is that? Because justice is blind and justice is to be impartial. In Leviticus 19 if you take notes you might want to know Leviticus 19 15 you shall do no unrighteousness in judgment you shall not respect the person of the poor nor honor the person of the mighty but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. True justice really is blind that's why the the statue of Lady justice with the scales is blindfolded because justice is supposed to be blind. It's supposed to be impartially meted out not because I feel sorry for this person or I like this person. Justice should be equal and so I'm not to take into consideration that person or that person I love this person can't stand that person so I judge for this person or the Bible says no justice is to be equal and so God in his justice is also impartial. He says in verse 20 in a moment they die in the middle of the night the people are shaken pass away the mighty are taken away without a hand the hour of death is not hastened for the poor nor is it delayed for the rich because both of them die. Verse 21 for his eyes are on the ways of man and he sees all his steps there is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves for he need not further consider a man that he should go before God in judgment he's fair he's fair because he is all knowing notice how he said his eyes are on the ways of man and he sees all his steps he sees everything nothing is hidden even the things that they think are hidden even the things that they do in darkness many people prefer the darkness when they sin we know that go to a party when you're in the world and walk into one of the rooms where some of the kids went in turn the light on and see how liked you are after doing that I've done it before as a kid when I used to go to parties and things you walk into the room the room's dark you open up the the light open the door turn on the light now the kids turn the light off why is that why is that because what they were doing they wanted to do in the dark and a lot of crimes are committed in the dark why is that because the darkness covers it up so we think that if nobody sees us that we get away with it and and this is simply not true in Psalm 90 verse 8 you have set our iniquities before you our secret sins in the light of your presence there are sins that are open that people can see but there are sins that are hidden that no one sees and we think that nobody can see but the scripture says no God sees everything even those things you think you've hidden in Hebrews 4 13 nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account so next time you think you're getting away with something you look to the left you look to the right you look down you better look up because he's still watching you as you do that remember that time when Moses was there in Egypt as a young man and the Bible speaks concerning Moses the Bible tells us that he was learned in all the wisdom and knowledge of the of the Egyptians and when you read the scriptures concerning this man Moses and and all Moses is one of the heroic figures of all time the deliverer of Israel and used by God to to bring the children of Israel out of the slavery of Egypt and and the scriptures tell us that Moses knew that he had been called by God to deliver the children of Israel and when you begin to look at the story of how this all took place when he was 40 how that he had seen an Egyptian task master who was abusing one of his his relatives according to the flesh a fellow Israelite the Bible says that Moses looked at the left and looked to the right and then he promptly killed this Egyptian task master now let me say something very briefly to illustrate why we don't just read through the Bible and not meditate the task masters in Egypt when you see the word task master the task master in Egypt was the baddest amongst the baddest of the bad in Egypt they they were the MMA fighters of their day if you will they were they were bad bad dudes that's why they would be feared and obeyed the Egyptian task master was powerful well trained and so the Jewish slaves would not rebel against him knowing that this one task master could take out several of them if they caused a problem so know that when you read the scripture next time when it says Moses looked to the left in the right and killed promptly killed the task master what does that tell me about Moses that tells me he's bad so when you yeah because he didn't he he was just seeing who's gonna who's gonna see me kill this guy nobody okay it's over why do I know that well he was learning it and all the wisdom and knowledge of the Egyptians well he was being raised to be the son of as the son of Pharaoh he could have taken the position of Pharaoh over that nation what does that mean that means that everything that the Egyptians had to offer to make him a warrior prince he knew and at the age of 40 this man would be equivalent to the bad one of the baddest men that you'll ever see that's what he was he he he knew that he was called to deliver the children of Israel he knew that so when he sees this taking place I'm supposed to deliver him might as well start now the bible says he kills him and buries him covers it up right Moses looked to the left the scripture says he looked to the right but commentators like to point out but he didn't look up because he's being watched and that's when he ended up 40 years in the wilderness learning what he's supposed to be you know you're to be the deliverer but you're not going to deliver with the arm of flesh I will deliver my people you will represent me and that's how it works it's not your physical abilities it's God's supernatural gifting and you need to understand that he was saying to Moses and that's a lesson we need to understand too there's nothing I do that God doesn't see so I should be aware of the fact that I am watched that God is watching he loves me that is true but God is watching and we need to be aware of those things nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight well in verse 23 he continues he need not further consider a man that he should go before God in judgment in other words when it says he need not further consider a man he doesn't review the case a second time in order to make sure he gave a fair judgment the first time he doesn't have to do that he already knows all the facts in verse 24 he breaks in pieces mighty men without inquiry and sets others in their place therefore he knows their works he knows their works meaning he knows their evil works he overthrows them in the night he does it quickly without warning and they're crushed he strikes them as wicked men in the open side of others because they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways and so he sovereignly decides who's going to rule he removes one and he places another there it says in verse 27 they turned back from him now this is interesting now speak about this and share a little bit about this in more detail when it says because they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways in the very early history of man the awareness of God was much more abundant than it is in these latter days in the earlier days being closer to the original creation in the history of man being newer than it is now there was more of an awareness of God at that time Paul spoke of that when he was writing to the Romans in chapter 2 in verse 14 he said indeed when Gentiles who do not have the law do by nature things required by the law they are a law for themselves even though they don't have it he's saying that even within them intrinsically within man you know that there are things that are right and you know that there are things that are wrong those things come back from our history in how things were originally created and all and that was part of the culture and so he's referring to the reality of that that man knows there's right man knows that they're wrong but Aliou says that they have turned back from him in other words that means they wouldn't listen to him instead of progressing and walking towards the Lord he said they're moving away from him and the further they drift the less they desire and the less they and the less they listen to what he has to say the further you get away from God the less interested you are in the things of God in verse 28 is that for me that's oh don't worry about it I'll talk to him it's okay no problem at all I see you getting embarrassed there can somebody put a camera on this man I came to church tonight don't hurt me okay I'm with you verse 28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him for he hears the cry of the afflicted we might want to mark that down he hears the cry of the afflicted God loves you Aliou regards a wicked man as an oppressor that he causes pain to those who are needy but when the needy are in pain God pays attention to their cry Psalm 12 verse 5 says the Lord replies I have seen violence done to the helpless and I have heard the groans of the poor now I will rise up to rescue them as they have longed for me to do in verse 29 when he gives quietness who then can make trouble and when he hides his face who then can see him whether it is against the nation or man alone that the hypocrite should not reign lest the people be ensnared if the peace experience that one has experiences from God who can disturb God given peace that's important to realize verse 29 again you might want to remember this when he gives quietness who then can make trouble listen when your mind is stayed on the Lord there's a peace that you have that passes all understanding there are times that people may not understand why you're not overreacting or reacting in the way that they think you ought to something has happened how come you're so at peace how come you're so calm how come you're not freaking out why aren't you bad things are going on around you it would be understandable if you began to be upset and worried and concerned well when God gives you peace who can disturb it if God before us who can be against us if the word of God is true then why should I call God a liar if God said I'll keep you in perfect peace if your mind has stayed on me then I'm going to keep my mind stayed on you it's not that I ignore is that I understand who's greater than the storm I may be in a storm but I know who is the God of the storm and so because I know that again that doesn't mean that I don't have my times if it sounds that way please forgive me doesn't mean that I'm always walking total peace you know how can I am married but you know I'm in peace I'm at peace God keeps you strong doesn't he have you discovered that he does and a lot of people freak out over things and the believer doesn't they think there's something wrong with us they think how come you don't care why aren't you afraid why aren't you because my mind has stayed on him I'm not being presumptuous I'm trusting him I do what is wise and I'm not going to test him but I'm walking with him I'm obeying him he's taking care of me so when he gives quietness who who can make trouble that's a great scripture I love that scripture it's a good one see the Lord does that work in us he gives us that so if the peace experiences from God who can disturb the peace given from him if God decides to hide himself again who can who can discover him if God should hide himself well the hypocrite will be displaced and the people will be freed and verse 31 for has anyone said to God I have born chastening I will offend no more teach me what I do not see if I have done iniquity I'll do no more should he repay it according to your terms just because you disavow it he must choose and not I therefore speak what you know and so Job is as good as you are in the end you're a sinner and the pain you're enduring reveals that you're like all of us you need help but in verse 33 when he says should you repay it according to your terms just because you disavow it have you been put into place of God and can you set the standard for him and just because you say you haven't sinned that doesn't mean you're guiltless and he said finally verse 33 therefore speak what you know if this is what you think then argue your point clarify your opinion men of understanding verse 34 say to me wise men who listen to me Job speaks without knowledge his words are without wisdom oh that Job tried to the utmost because his answers are like those of wicked men for he adds rebellion to his sin claps his hand among us hands among us and multiplies his words against God as a prosecuting attorney he's drawing to his conclusion and he's basically simply saying that the wise men will agree with me when I say Job deserves what he's got he even deserves more and if he's arguing about being innocent he's only showing himself to be more guilty and we'll move on into verse 1 of chapter 35 reading to verse 3 moreover Allie you answered and said do you think this is right do you say my righteousness is more than God's for you say what advantage will it be to you what profit shall I have more than if I had sinned so again he's placing words in Job's mouth he says in verses 2 and 3 do you say my righteousness is more than God's Job had never claimed to be more righteous than God he did say that he was being treated unfairly and what he clearly had said is it's the unbelievers who see no profit in serving God Job didn't say there was no no profit in it he said unbelievers see no profit in serving him remember in chapter 21 verse 15 who is the Almighty that we should serve him what would we gain by praying to him that was in the mouth of unbelievers it's the unbelievers who refuse to worship God because to them worship has no value in Psalm 10 verse 4 in his pride the wicked doesn't seek him in all his thoughts there's no room for God see there are a lot of people even in our day who will say what's the point why should I follow God what do I have to gain by doing that what value is there what profit is there if I pray what profit is there if I yield to him and they don't believe that they need to do that because they don't see it as actually being valuable to them so he goes on in verse 4 and he says I will answer you and your companions with you look to the heavens and see behold the clouds they're higher than you if you sin what do you accomplish against him or if your transgressions are multiplied what do you do to him if you're righteous what do you give him or what does he receive from your hand your wickedness affects a man such as you and your righteousness a son of man and so he's beginning to deal with the reasonings of of aliphazzo far and bill dad and he's speaking concerning the heavens notice in verse 5 when he says look to the heavens behold the clouds are higher than you as a man you're lower than the material sky in heavens and the God who created them is far above you so you can't affect him in any way he says in verse 6 he goes if you sin what do you accomplish against him or if your transgressions are multiplied what do you do to him our sins don't injure him and our sins don't diminish his power in verse 7 if you're righteous what do you give to him in other words your righteousness doesn't enhance him either in psalm 16 verse 2 it's a beautiful psalm where it says I said to the Lord you are my Lord apart from you I have no good thing in verse 7 what does he receive from you your hand since all things already belong to him like it says in psalm 24 verse 1 the earth is the Lord's everything in it the world and all who live in it in other words we can only give him what he has already given to us it actually only always belongs first to him he says your wickedness in verse 8 affects a man such as you well you can't affect God you can only affect man our sins can harm us but our sins don't harm God in verse 9 he says because of the multitude of oppressions because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out they cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty those who are injured by the rich and mighty cry out in pain because of oppression they cry out in sorrow they cry out in pain but often don't cry out to God for help and this verse here that I'm going to look at right now I might come back to it next week as and give you a few more thoughts but this verse if you underscore scripture to me it's one of one of the verses that God gave to me a long time ago and I'll share just a couple thoughts as we look at it notice verse 10 no one says where is God my maker who gives songs in the night what a poetic way of putting it no one says where is God my maker who gives songs in the night night in scripture very often speaks of something obviously that is dark but it can also speak of sorrow at seasons of the soul sometimes when there's pain they can be called times of the night in my life I have suffered through times of darkness of the night all you who is saying that God can give joy and bring comfort even in your darkest hours God can inspire songs of praise from us even in our darkest times and God can turn our times of mourning into songs of joy I think of Paul and Silas this incarcerated in a jail cell in the city of Philippi they were on an evangelistic mission and they had come to this city Philippi and as they were there a demonized girl had been following around and had actually become promoting them these you know these are the men from God and all and and the Bible tells us that Paul got very frustrated with this this young girl and finally turned around and said in the name of Jesus Christ come out of her and delivered her from her her demon possession well she was a slave and she was owned by certain masters who had made their living off of her because she had a spirit that was used for prediction and prophesying and so the people around there in Philippi knew of this young woman would come to her would ask her to give a prophetic word for them and she would give words and they would pay the masters and now it's over now their means of financial security have been lost to them because Paul had kicked the demon out of this young woman and they did not like it and so what they did is they took him and they dragged Paul in and they took Silas and they brought him before the judge before the magistrate and they began to charge them and they said these these men are teaching customs that break our laws and and after they did that they were unjustly beaten the Bible tells us that they were beaten with rods and that many stripes were laid upon them and then they imprisoned them so when you think about the beaten with rods that's something we don't I don't understand perhaps some in this room may I I don't understand it it's it's like a whip and and to be beaten with that rod it is it would tear your flesh it was a horrible horrible painful way to be beaten and that's what happened to them and their backs were bloody wounds then they took them and they they put them in stocks and they had them in the most uncomfortable position as they're in there and and what's interesting as they're waiting in this cell the Bible tells us this in Acts 16 25 it says now toward midnight Paul and Silas praying were singing praises to God and the prisoners were listening to them I've been reading this this my Bible for 50 years and I still remember the first time I read Acts chapter 16 in verse 25 I still remember thinking how was that possible to be beaten unjustly imprisoned and beaten to be put in stocks and then all of a sudden out of nowhere guys verse 25 in Acts 16 and they were singing praises to God in midnight where is he who gives songs in the night where is he where are our eyes what are we looking at what are we looking at either I can look at the pain or I can receive the promise either I can either I can meditate on what is hurting or I look beyond what is hurting the affliction and I know that and this may sound this probably does sound simplistic but it's true either I can concentrate on what is hurting me or I can ask God to teach me through that pain a lesson that will help me understand and become a better Christian I remember an old illustration of a of a man who had been placed in a a jail cell and he had been chained to it and and at first he was trying to pull off the wall he was and then he couldn't he couldn't and and the writer said and then this man contorted his body as much as he could and he kissed the chains and I didn't understand first time I read that I was a young believer I didn't understand that kiss the chains why would you do that well the illustration was intended to communicate to us that he accepted where he was because he knew that this is a place God was going to meet him in a special way and I have to tell you there are things you've gone through and I've gone through that had I written out the script for my life would not have included those things would not have included those things that would not have included those pains it would not have included those tears it would not have included that sorrow it would not have included the disappointment it would not have included everything that I went through but now I look back and I say those are places where God met me in a very special way that I I would not have experienced no I'm not saying go out and beat yourself with a board and meet God I'm not saying that what I'm saying is sometimes people don't ask where is God who gives songs in the night where is God who can teach me to dance in the dark where is he because we get focused on our pain and we forget that there is one who understands who doesn't leave us who doesn't forsake us who understands he has a bottle that keeps my tears in he hasn't forgotten and so in this the statement is this is a statement that has spoken to my heart for many years no one says where is God my maker who gives songs in the night that that that has spoken to me for the longest time because God is the one who shows up in our darkest moments we can look up with tears but we can see God and the morning of our heart can become songs of joy in verse 11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth makes us wiser than the birds of heaven there they cry out but he doesn't answer because of the pride of evil men surely God will not listen to empty talk nor will the Almighty regard it although you say you do not see him yet justice is before him and you must wait for him and now because he has not punished in his anger nor taken much notice of folly therefore Job opens his mouth in vain he multiplies words without knowledge so in verse 11 he reminds us that we are more precious to him than the beasts of the field and the birds of the air something that Jesus taught us in Matthew chapter 6 when he had said look at the birds of the air they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feeds them and are you not of more value than they he says in verses 12 through 14 there they cry out but he doesn't answer because of the pride of evil men they cry out and don't receive answers because and their sin their filled with pride like it says in Isaiah 59 and 1 and 2 surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save nor is there too dull to hear but your iniquities have separated you from your God your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear so they don't cry out for the help that comes from God alone because they don't trust him and have no faith in him and so finally in verses 15 and 16 because he hasn't punished his anger hasn't been revealed he's simply saying this he's saying Job to be honest with you you haven't suffered enough you haven't learned these basic things that I've just revealed because if you had learned these things you wouldn't be saying the things that you've been saying so this young man has taken it upon himself to correct a man God spoke of and said he is the most righteous man on the face of the earth there are things that he said that are very true and timely but he's misjudging and judging Job or something Job didn't do and we'll see that as we continue on in this book and Father you are our maker and you are the one who gives gives to us songs in the night Lord I ask that we would just even now just cast our burdens on you some have brought them here some are watching online and they're carrying a pain that only you can understand and so even before we close we would lift those things to you and we would pray Father for your help let us not be prideful let us not try and deliver ourselves let us trust you to be the one who delivers and we lift these things to you you know our hearts and you know the things that we need that only you can supply and so we lift these things to you and we ask that you would meet us and even as our eyes are closed our heads are bowed there may be some right now who need to get right with the Lord and before I close whether you're online or whether you're in this room before I close I'd like to give a word of prayer on your behalf and so if you need prayer to get right with him right now if you need need him to be with you in a special way whatever which raise hand let me pray for you before I close Father you see these hands you know exactly what is going on in each person who's raising their hand right now you know what's the need Lord thank you that you're aware we simply would come to you now and ask that you would have your way that you would do your work in them Lord our hearts are open to you we ask that you would just right now just move within and have your way in us we trust you we're looking to you and we ask that you would just be with us now Lord and we give you praise for these things and thanks Lord and we bless you thank you you can put your hands down and Jesus please keep moving in us in your name amen