WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:05.839 This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.960 of Pastor Rick Warren. Today we continue with a series 3 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:14.800 called how God Turns Setbacks into Comebacks. We're so glad 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:17.519 that you've joined us today. Now, if you know someone 5 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:20.960 who needs some encouragement right now, be sure to invite 6 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:23.559 them with a text or a phone call to listen 7 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:27.440 along with you. But first studies have shown the more 8 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:31.000 grateful a person is, the happier they are. But it's 9 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:34.679 not always easy to be thankful. That's why Pastor Rick 10 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:39.240 developed the Power of Gratitude. It's a special interactive Bible 11 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:43.159 study to help you grow your gratitude. You can find 12 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:46.560 out more by going to Pastorick dot com while you 13 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:50.079 listen to today's message. If you want, you can just 14 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.920 text the word hope to eight hundred six hundred five 15 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.799 thousand and four for more information. That's the word hope 16 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:02.679 to eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four. Right now, 17 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:05.760 here's Pastor Rick with part one of a message called 18 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.799 when You're setback seems irreversible. 19 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:14.200 A setback is a loss of progress, a defeat of 20 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:18.239 a plan, or a reversal of good fortune. In other words, 21 00:01:18.280 --> 00:01:21.799 it's anything that sets you back that's setback. And today 22 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:23.799 we're going to look at what do you do when 23 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.719 your setback seems irreversible. You just think the door is 24 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:31.680 totally closed and it's never opening again. What do you 25 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.319 do when you're setback appears to be permanent, it looks irreversible. 26 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.840 You think I'm never going to climb out of this hole. Well, 27 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.319 the answer to that question is found in the life 28 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:45.079 of a man in the Bible named Job. There's a 29 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.799 book by his name, almost in the middle of your Bible. 30 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:49.319 If you open your Bible right in the middle, you'll 31 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.200 come to Psalms, and the book right before that is Job. 32 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:56.239 It's probably the first book written in the Bible, and 33 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.760 it's about a man named Job. Now, in his day, 34 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.680 Job was the healthiest man in the world. He was 35 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:05.920 very powerful, very famous, very important, very influential. 36 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:07.280 But on a single. 37 00:02:07.079 --> 00:02:12.759 Day he literally lost everything. Every one of his sons 38 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.879 and daughters he had a big family, were murdered by 39 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:17.840 terrorists on a single day. 40 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:19.599 That's enough right there. 41 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:24.159 But then natural disasters wiped out all of his crops 42 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:25.919 and all of his livestock. 43 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:27.439 They all died on a single day. 44 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.560 It was a disaster, He lost all of his wealth, 45 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:35.840 and he became deathly ill with an incurable and extremely 46 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:40.319 painful disease. Now, talk about having a bad day. If 47 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:42.759 you want to read that story and the story behind it, 48 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:43.960 it's in the Book of Job. 49 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.719 But everything went wrong in his life. 50 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.520 That's a real setback, and it seemed like it was 51 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.039 irreversible Job Chapter thirty, verse twenty six and twenty seven. 52 00:02:54.159 --> 00:02:57.639 Job says, I looked for good to come, but evil 53 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:02.159 came instead. And I waited for some light, but darkness 54 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:06.319 fell instead. And the churning inside of me, you know, 55 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:11.879 that upset stomach never stops, and waves of misery crash 56 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.960 over me. I have no doubt in a crowd this 57 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.759 size at Saddleback Church this weekend, that some of you 58 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:21.560 are feeling like Job. And yet at the end of 59 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.120 the story of the Book of Job, he has one 60 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:30.080 of the greatest comebacks in history. He loses it all, health, wealth, family, everything, 61 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:35.639 posterity and prestige, but at the end he gains it 62 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:38.639 all back in even a greater way. Now, this story's 63 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.479 gonna encourage you no matter what kind of setback you're 64 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:44.680 experiencing today. What we're gonna do is. We're gonna look 65 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.439 at the five things that Job did when everything fell 66 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:51.400 apart in his life. You're gonna need this someday if 67 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:53.319 you don't need it right now. So I encourage you 68 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.680 to write this down and to help you remember, I've 69 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:02.159 created a little acrostic around the word trust t R 70 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.759 U S T. These are the five things that Job 71 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:10.280 did to trust God for a comeback when it's setback 72 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:11.560 seemed irreversible. 73 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:12.919 So what do you do? 74 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.639 What do you do when you've been devastated by something 75 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:19.000 so big that you think I'm never getting out of this, 76 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:22.680 I'm never coming back from this. You trust, and you 77 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:25.480 do the five things that Job did. So let's get 78 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.560 right into it. The T in our trust acrosstic stands 79 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.199 for tell God exactly how you feel. That's where you 80 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.920 start when you had a major setback. You start by 81 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:40.079 unloading your emotions on God. The first thing you do 82 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.240 when you're in pain, you tell God how you feel. 83 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.360 You don't tell him how you think you ought to feel. 84 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.000 You don't tell him how you should feel. You don't 85 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.480 tell what would be right to feel. You tell him 86 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:53.759 how you actually feel. Did you know that when God 87 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:59.399 listens to you, he wants you to be honest, and 88 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.879 that when you honest to God about your emotions, that's 89 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:07.000 actually an act of worship. Even when you're disappointed, even 90 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:11.120 when you're expressing frustration, even when you express doubt and 91 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:12.600 fear or anything. 92 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:12.920 To God. 93 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.800 He said, God, I'm afraid, God, I'm guilty. God, I'm resentful. God, 94 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:19.000 I'm sad. God, life sucks. This is terrible. I can't 95 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.439 stand what I'm going through. When you're talking to God, 96 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:25.439 you're still focusing on him, and that's worship. And so 97 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.240 you start, no matter what's gone wrong in your life, 98 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:30.839 by telling God exactly how you feel. 99 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:32.000 Now. 100 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:37.120 Notice Job's reaction to the disaster in his life. Job 101 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:40.839 says this. It says this about Job. Job stood up. 102 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.160 He tore his robes in grief. That, by the way, 103 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:48.240 is a Middle Eastern custom. And he shaved his head, 104 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.319 that's a Middle Eastern custom. And then he fell to 105 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:56.920 the ground and he worshiped God. He's acting in total 106 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:02.040 humility and in despair and in doubt, and in frustration 107 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:04.879 and anger. Anytime you have a loss in your life, 108 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.120 any kind of loss, you're gonna have four emotions. You're 109 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.560 gonna have anger. Why did this happen to me. You're 110 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:12.360 gonna have grief. What have I lost? 111 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.160 You're gonna have shock what's going on here? Uh? 112 00:06:16.199 --> 00:06:19.560 And you're gonna and you're gonna have questions, why did 113 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.439 this happen? I can't believe this is going on. You're 114 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:24.079 gonna have fear. What's gonna happen next? 115 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:25.240 You know what? 116 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.639 You need to express every one of those emotions to God. 117 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:29.720 You need don't need to hold it in. You don't 118 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.040 need to say, uh, you know God, I'm happy about this. 119 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.120 You can say God, I'm angry, God, I'm fearful. God, 120 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.399 I'm frustrated, I'm scared. You tell them exactly how you feel. 121 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:46.600 You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope rip will be 122 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:49.480 back in just a moment with the rest of today's lesson. 123 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:53.000 You can sign up for Pastor Rick's free email devotional 124 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:57.759 at pastorick dot com. That's pastorick dot com. 125 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:01.120 Did you know? Experts have discovered that gratitude is the 126 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.920 healthiest human emotion. It makes you more resistant to stress 127 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:09.759 and increases your overall happiness and satisfaction. In fact, study 128 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.920 show the more grateful a person is, the happier they are. 129 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:18.319 That's the Power of Gratitude. The Bible tells us to rejoice, always, 130 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:23.439 pray continually, and give thanks in all circumstances. So it's 131 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:27.839 clear that God wants us to develop an attitude of gratitude. 132 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.519 But we all know it's not always easy to feel grateful. 133 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.600 That's why Pastoric developed a Bible study called the Power 134 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:42.720 of Gratitude. 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You're gonna have shock what's going 154 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:53.759 on here? And you're gonna and you're gonna have questions, 155 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.240 why did this happen? I can't believe this is going on. 156 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:59.080 You're gonna have fear. What's gonna happen next? 157 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:00.279 What? 158 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.639 You need to express every one of those emotions to God. 159 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.000 Don't need to hold it in. You don't need to 160 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:08.480 say you know God, I'm happy about this. You can 161 00:09:08.519 --> 00:09:11.840 say God, I'm angry, God, I'm fearful. God, I'm frustrated, 162 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.960 I'm scared. You tell him exactly how you feel. Let 163 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.440 me let you in on a little secret. Some of you 164 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:19.279 have told this too before, but some of this is 165 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.360 new for you. God can handle any emotion you've got, 166 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:23.840 and you know why. 167 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:25.320 Because He gave them to you. 168 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:28.240 The only reason you have any feelings, you have any emotions, 169 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.000 is because you were made in the image of God. 170 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.759 It's what makes you different from animals. And God is 171 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:36.840 an emotional God. The reason you have emotions is because 172 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.600 God has emotions. All those emotions came from him, and 173 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:43.120 he can handle them. He can handle your anger, he 174 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.399 can handle your doubt, he can handle your fear, he 175 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:46.600 can handle your complaints. 176 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:47.440 All of that. 177 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:53.799 Fact, Job was brutally honest with God. In Job chapter seven, 178 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:58.080 verse eleven, he says this, I can't be quiet. I'm angry. 179 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.759 I have to speak. He's saying, God, I'm ticked off. 180 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:04.159 And if you read the book of Job, you will 181 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:09.039 actually see a progression in his reaction to his giant 182 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:14.200 setback where he literally lost everything devastated. First, he expresses confusion, 183 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.679 what's going on in my life? He ever felt like that? 184 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:18.279 Yeah? 185 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:23.000 Then number two he starts complaining. Then he starts blaming 186 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:26.080 God for all this pain, and at one point he says, God, 187 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:30.519 you didn't do this right. You handled it wrong. You 188 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:34.200 let all this bad stuff happen to me, and God, 189 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:36.879 I don't like it or like you right now? Well, 190 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:42.039 God can handle that emotion. The right response to loss, 191 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:45.840 or to tragedy or to disaster He's not to grin 192 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:51.399 and bear it the right response when someone causes a 193 00:10:51.519 --> 00:10:55.279 setback in your life. God never wants you to fake 194 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:59.159 an emotion. Remember that God never wants you to fake emotion. 195 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:02.000 I want you to put on a happy face. That's 196 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:04.600 faking it. Never, never, never. He doesn't want you to 197 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:07.480 fake emotion. Doesn't want you to say pious platitudes what 198 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.200 you think you ought to say to God in prayer. 199 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.200 He wants you to honestly tell him how you're struggling. 200 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:12.559 God. 201 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:16.039 I'm grieving right now. God, I'm hurting right now. God, 202 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.200 I'm in a lot of pain. I'm depressed, I'm discouraged. 203 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:22.360 I'm having some doubts. You tell it all. 204 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:24.639 To God and God can handle it. 205 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:28.000 I'm just wondering how many of you who are listening 206 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:32.159 to me are parents, because if you're a parent, you 207 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:33.200 know what I'm talking about. 208 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:34.960 Now. 209 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:36.799 This may have never happened to you, but it certainly 210 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.360 has happened to me. Sometimes my children, I know this 211 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:48.240 will shock you, actually question my judgment. Sometimes my kids 212 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.000 question my judgment. Now, my kids never questioned that I 213 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.440 love them. They know I love them. They've never doubted that, 214 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:55.879 and they don't question that I've been around a lot 215 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:57.799 longer than they have been. I've experienced a whole lot 216 00:11:57.840 --> 00:12:01.360 more in life than they have. But sometimes they do 217 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:06.240 question my wisdom, Daddy's wisdom. And you know what, I'd 218 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:09.039 rather have an honest conversation with my kids than have 219 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:12.679 them stuff it. I'd rather have my kids say, you know, Dad, 220 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:14.360 I think you're way. 221 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:14.799 Off on this. 222 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:17.679 Why did you do that? I think that was a 223 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.480 dumb thing to do. I'd rather have my kids talk 224 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:24.480 to me honestly than to stuff it down, And so 225 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:31.039 would God. Lamentations two nineteen says this cry out in 226 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:34.080 the night, pour out your heart like water. 227 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:34.759 What's that mean? 228 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:38.399 Spill your guts, pour out your heart like water in 229 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:42.519 prayer to the Lord with God, honesty is always the 230 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:46.159 best policy. And at the end of the story, God 231 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:51.879 actually commends and praises and encourages Job because he did 232 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.000 this first step in the trust. He told God exactly 233 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:55.480 how I feel. 234 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:56.240 He was honest. 235 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:00.639 Job never stop trusting God, even when he angry, even 236 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.440 when he's upset, even when he didn't understand it, when 237 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:05.720 he was confused, when he had doubts, even when he 238 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:08.879 thought God had messed it all up. He still kept 239 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.960 trusting God, but he was just honest. Now, the Bible 240 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.039 gives us a lot of examples of many godly people 241 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.000 expressed their frustration to God. One time there was a 242 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.519 guy named Jeremiah and he gets upset at what God did. 243 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.639 He says, God, you have deceived me. He's a prophet. 244 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:24.679 Jeremiah is a prophet. 245 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:26.919 He says, I think you've lied to me, God, and 246 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.039 things haven't turned out the way you told me they 247 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.120 were going to turn out, and I'm mad at you. 248 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:35.000 God allows that in the Bible. Another time, there's a 249 00:13:35.039 --> 00:13:37.480 woman named Naomi and things don't go well for her. 250 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:39.799 She says, call me bitter, because God has made my 251 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:40.559 life bitter. 252 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:42.399 It's in the Bible. 253 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:45.240 Another time, there's a guy named David who says, Lord, 254 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:47.720 I've taken the worst from you, and I've taken all 255 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:49.200 that you can give, and I'm fed up. 256 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:50.000 I've had it. 257 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:52.960 And God says, you're a man after my own heart. 258 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:57.600 These people were trusting God to handle their emotions, and 259 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:01.679 Job did that too. The expressed his fear and his 260 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:06.879 questions and his frustrations and his doubts. He says, I'm 261 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:09.759 still gonna trust you. Lord, even though I don't understand it, 262 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:14.159 and I'm gonna do exactly what you tell me to do, 263 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:18.120 even though I feel like blowing it all off. And 264 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:19.879 I'm going to tell you how I feel because I 265 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:22.159 know you can handle it. You know, there's another guy 266 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:25.360 in the Bible named Habaccoc. I would like to have 267 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.919 that name Habacca. He had the same problem. And Habaccock 268 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.039 wrote a little short book near the end of the 269 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.399 Old Testament of the Bible. It's called the Book of 270 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:38.480 you guessed it, Habacchock. It's only three chapters long, and 271 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:41.799 you can summarize the whole book in one word, Why 272 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.279 Why God? Why is this happening to me? If you've 273 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:49.159 ever felt that question, why is this happened to me? 274 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:51.639 Why? God? Why me? Why? Now? Then you need to 275 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:52.840 go read the Book of a Backack. 276 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:56.559 What happened in his lifetime is that Habacoa saw his 277 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:02.240 nation being overrun by terrorists I sound familiar. And they 278 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:05.159 were distevastating the country, and they were brutal, and they 279 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:07.360 were destroying his nation right in front of his eyes. 280 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.399 And Habakik was really upset about it, and he complains 281 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:13.279 to God. He says, God, I don't know what I'm 282 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:17.159 going to do, and he's asking why. There's another guy 283 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:20.240 who did that named David. David went through a really 284 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:21.960 tough time and he didn't know how to handle it. 285 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.559 And here's what he says in some one sixteen, verse ten, 286 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.799 in the middle of his setback is deep despair. David says, 287 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:36.360 I believed, so I said I'm completely ruined. Now that 288 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:39.399 sounds like a contradiction. Look at that verse on your outline. 289 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.879 David says, I believed, so I said I'm ruined. What 290 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:45.480 in the world's he talking about? 291 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:46.519 What is he saying? 292 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:50.360 Well, what he's saying is because I believe in God, 293 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:54.159 I know I can complain to God. You every thought 294 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:59.120 about this. Who does an atheist complain to himself? I mean, 295 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.840 if you complain to God about your life, it means 296 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:05.679 that you at least believe there's a God. And David says, 297 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:10.200 I believed. So I complained and I kept on believing 298 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:14.759 even when I said I'm completely crushed. There's no contradiction 299 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:20.039 in that question. What frustrations have you never talked about? 300 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:25.399 Let me ask you that question again. What frustrations have 301 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:28.480 you never talked about? You've never talked to God about 302 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:31.559 him much less talk to a counselor about it or whatever. 303 00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:35.519 That frustration at work, that frustration in your marriage, that 304 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:39.879 frustration with your body, that frustration and a relationship, a 305 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:44.320 friendship with your parents, that frustration with that wacko relative 306 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:48.679 of yours and your feeling. I don't like this God, 307 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.879 but you've never talked to God about it. God can 308 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:57.399 handle it. The first step to trusting God on the 309 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.399 road to come back is to tell him exactly how 310 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:00.919 you feel. 311 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.720 That's the tea, tell them exactly how I feel. Now. 312 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:05.920 The second way to trust God for. 313 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:10.759 A comeback when everything looks fatal, final and no way 314 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:12.799 out of it is the r in trust that it 315 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:20.160 stands for refuse to become bitter. Refuse to become bitter. Now, 316 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:23.039 it's okay to tell God you're mad or you're sad, 317 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.880 or you're angry, or you're depressed, but you don't let 318 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:32.519 that grief or frustration or worry turn into resentment and bitterness, 319 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.160 because really, what bitterness is is a bitterness to saying 320 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:40.200 I don't trust you God, bitness to saying I don't 321 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:43.640 see the big picture when those flames are coming around 322 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:46.319 my life and I'm getting burned on every side. How 323 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:48.319 could God allow this to happen to me? Bitterness is 324 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.279 really saying God, I don't understand what you're doing. 325 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:55.680 And I'm not just mad, I'm bitter. I'm resentful, and 326 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:57.599 that is like poison. Now. 327 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:01.279 Job did not get bitter. He saw the big picture. 328 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:02.839 And for some of you today, the first time you're 329 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.400 going to see the big picture with Job, you're going 330 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:09.599 to read Job there was nothing about marketplace in his life, 331 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.279 but you're going to see the picture, the big picture 332 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:16.759 of that. God is still in control now. On job Wood, 333 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:21.319 he says this, when everything bad happened to him, I 334 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:25.240 came naked from my mother's womb, and I shall have 335 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:28.640 nothing when I die. Now let me just pause there. 336 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.440 You know I have three kids. I was there when 337 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:35.880 they were all, you know, born, and they did come 338 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:39.440 in with nothing. They none of them brought toys, none 339 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:42.720 of them brought a portfolio, none of them had a briefcase. 340 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:47.440 And so I know, nobody comes into this world with something. 341 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:48.559 You come in naked. 342 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:53.200 And also I would say that I have done hundreds, 343 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:58.480 maybe thousands of funerals, and I've never seen a U 344 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:01.599 Hall park on a grave site. So in this passage, 345 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:03.920 you come with nothing, you leave with nothing. That's true, 346 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:08.440 he says, the Lord gave me everything I have, and 347 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:11.079 it's his right to take anything away. Blessed be the 348 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:13.759 name of the Lord. And it says in all of this, 349 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:17.240 I want you to underline this Job did not sin 350 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.559 by blaming God. You know, if you're to study the 351 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.119 Book of Job, you'd find that the main question of 352 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:28.400 the book is will you love God and will you 353 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:31.599 trust God no matter what happens? Why do you worship God? 354 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:34.039 Why do you love God only when things go good? 355 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:36.920 Or will you love God and serve God no matter 356 00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:40.079 what happens? Friends, this is the ultimate test of your faith. 357 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:44.440 Will you worship God even though everything's going wrong in 358 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:51.519 your life? 359 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:55.960 You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We are so 360 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:59.000 happy that you've chosen to study along with us today. 361 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:02.279 If you'd like to resc hope and encouragement every day 362 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:05.559 delivered right to your inbox, then sign up for Rick's 363 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:10.359 free daily devotional by going to Pastorick dot com. 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