What should we know as we pick up chapter four? Right.

Job.

Wow.

A big book, a long book, but what an incredible book.

Job is an ancient piece of wisdom literature.

The events of the book are likely set during the time of the patriarchs.

The book itself is purportedly the oldest document in the Bible, which means the Hebrew is often archaic, and words that we see here in Job do not appear anywhere else in Hebrew literature.

Yeah, we don't know.

Anybody want to go

first? There's been so many moments.

As you said, Lisa, you went through that list of things which we've kind of overcome over the years.

I mean, it's like the joke about the weather.

Hang around for a few minutes, the weather will change.

Hang around for a moment, our issues will change.

I mean, Um, as, as Chris mentioned, you know, since the late nineties, we've gotten into an advocacy posture.

It's because of the good people here in Oakland.

As we get started today, Pastor, talk to us about the context as we start to look at Matthew 9 this morning.

Right.

So this text, kind of an interesting one.

It does appear in our lectionaries, but not where you'd maybe expect it, right? We have our three-year series that goes through the different synoptic gospels.

Series A is all about Matthew.

It does not appear in Series A.

Even in the, the sort of time of the church when we get to go through long swaths of the texts of the books, right, that Lectio Continua, does not appear there.

So talk a little bit about that and, and put it in the context of what we've been reading here in the Matth- Matthew's gospel.