Persecution, Affliction, and Tribulation — Keith Daniel

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Draw me, my Savior, so precious Thou art. Isn't that wonderful? I do bless God for the lovely hymns of our faith. I cannot thank you enough for the way you sing. I cannot tell you the grief that comes into me when I witness that there are churches that sing modern hymns and modern things.

I know their hearts, they mean well, but I feel we bury our inheritance that we have inherited from Revival when blood flowed. Those hymns of the faith, brethren, that we sing and the way you sing it, oh, it's beautiful.

Don't ever, ever, ever, ever leave them. So nice to start, you know, the next thing you're swallowed up with modern, shallow, emotional words that are so superficial without the depth of the old hymns.

Oh, I bless God you're holding on. Don't let go now. Don't follow the rest of the church. One man will grieve. In my old age, I'm looking for something, not to sing now, to sing at the end. I was supposed to do this, but I want to see if it's in here.

Yes, I thought of doing this down there, but I didn't have a hymn book. Remind me, brethren, there's a hymn to sing in case I forget about that at the end. Oh, der Dom. Terrible word in our language. I'll let you Germans work out that what means, what that means.

Oh, der Dom. This is a little newsletter my wife sends out. She does so much for me. Without my wife, I would just think, I would just roll up in a little ball and die. Trust me, that's not exaggeration.

I don't know, brother, if you can survive without your wife, but there's no hope for this man without my wife. I'm half a man without her. I don't think people realize that, but I am totally half a man without Jenny beside me.

But she does this also, plus every other thing, apart from the preaching. Believe me, she's got quite a time. But this little letter she sends out, I think a lot of you do get it, and I thank you for that.

I thank you for the consciousness I have of prayer being lifted up all over America. When I come here and even overseas, back in our country, I just sense God has got people praying. You just sense God sweeping into circumstances.

And I know people are praying. Please don't stop to pray for this poor man. Trust me, there is no preacher on earth that needs prayer as much as this poor man. Trust me, I so need it. You could do no singular favor to me more than to just pray for my children, for my darling wife.

Don't let her ever get discouraged, God, and please don't let the boys ever be hurt by the devil. Rebuke him away. Let Noel, Roy, Samuel love Christ, even though most of their lives they didn't have a father.

Won't you just pray, please, for my boys? I shall die if the devil gets hold of my boys. Trust me about that. I am not strong enough to survive that. Please pray for it. That God protects them. So now, if you don't receive the newsletter to know just how to pray soberly, and you really are a prayer warrior, please don't just put your name and address down for a piece of paper.

It will just become junk mail. But if you agonize on your knees for souls, and you grieve and groan before God for America to come to revival, and you don't do that in a prayer meeting, you do it alone when no one but God's watching, please, you are the one I would be so grateful for the privilege of having your name, your prayers.

Please put your name and address down on a piece of paper. Somehow get it to me. It won't be difficult. And if you'd like to just take a copy to see what Jenny puts out, just how to pray, please do. I'm going to leave it somewhere where you won't forget.

There you are. There's only about a hundred, but I think most of you get it. So, it's just to those who don't, forgive me for coughing. Thank you for letting me come to charity and to the other church, this morning.

Thank you. Thank you so much for the lovely fellowship I have had in Brother Denny and Sister Jackie's home. Precious fellowship yesterday with Jerry, J-A-Y, not J-A-Y-E. Wonderful testimony. A God took him out of the military air force, deeply spoken to by God, and how he came and joined up with you.

Somehow God linking him up to find this place and home. Lovely to find a home, Jerry. I wish I was as privileged as you to just be able to be here, part of this lovely family. God bless you for it, for your lovely testimony.

Your lovely testimony, Jerry, what you went through, and I think a lot of Hederites, Hederites, how does a man from the jungle say the right word? Nonetheless, I think your testimony was precious. Both of you, brothers, Jerry and Jay, you have two amazing testimonies there.

Two amazing men of God in the making. They are going to shake the powers of hell if you pray them through. But the devil will try and destroy them, trust me, so you better pray them through, brethren.

They need you. They are too precious for Satan not to come in total onslaught to try and hurt. Thank you for the lovely fellowship I received in the home with Brother Denny. There are no words to tell you of my esteem of this dear man and his godly wife, and the fruit of their godly marriage, so I'm not going to try.

I just thank you for them. And thank you that I could have been in your home once again, spared by God again to come. Thank you for the way you trust me, dear brother. Don't ever throw me away, okay? I might not have a beard.

I wish I did. Imagine not saving. Oh, it would be lovely to be part of you. I hate saving. And it's true, it wasn't meant. The world has become so strange. But I just happen to live in the part of the world, if you do have a beard, you're in trouble.

Forgive me, I won't explain that, but trust me. And not to wear a tie. Oh, I hate a tie. I loathe each time I put it on. Why did they ever do it, you know? But some pulpits won't let you in unless you've got it on.

And if you haven't, most people would get up and walk out. They think you're a reverend, so there's such a different culture in the world. Forgive me, but don't throw me off because I'm learning, okay?

Have patience, have patience. Don't close up to others who might not be 100 in line in every aspect. The day you close your doors, brothers, to every single one out there, you will think of what God is doing.

I'm warning you out of love. Don't allow heresy. Don't allow compromise. But don't judge a man if he hasn't had your privileges and your background and this atmosphere to thrive in. Love them, and especially this poor, weak, beige man who cannot tell you how much it means to him to come to the home of this brother and other homes to embrace your fellowship and be trusted by you and prayed for by you.

I do so respect what God is doing among you and have become conscious that you have become not raised up to reach the Mennonite, Amish, Hittite. You think you are, you know, but you know God raised you up to become the conscience of the church of this land.

You don't know it yet, but you already are. And as you grow, God knows what's going to happen. Don't ever compromise. Don't ever compromise, doctrinally or outwardly, to the light you've been given. But don't ever close your hearts full of compassion to those who haven't had your privileges or are not in the light you've got, okay?

Don't do it. You'll miss what God is really raising you up for, in case you think it's just the Mennonite at a right. People are watching. Now be Christ-like with the standards or you're going to fail God.

And Jesus looks past so much to all men. Oh, forgive me as an outsider coming in here and saying such things. I just covet God to do what I know He wants to do through you if you just stay pure and lowly and look at everyone who differs with you with compassion, not with hatred.

And thank you also that I could have had that lovely meal in that lovely home today. Dean, lovely wife, lovely children, and the lovely people in that home too. We had precious, precious time together.

Thank you. Thank you also for those in Denny's home that ironed my shirts. Isn't that wonderful? To have an ironed shirt. You won't know what that means. One day I'll explain to you if you ask me. But it does look nice, doesn't it?

Not just out of the tumble dryer. But bless the Lord for the lovely home. I have marveled at the children in that home and right now I'm looking at little Hannah and Esther and even the other little ones, David and John.

Aren't they lovely? Oh, bless God for these wonderful, wonderful fruit of the Son. Thank you for all you did to make my stay so wonderful. And the lovely way Denny and Jackie and Hannah and Esther have organized this whole tour for me through America for eight weeks.

Bless them. Bless you and all your lovely people across the land that come to hear this poor man, as different as I am. I am so privileged and I am so grateful and I don't know how much I will weep if I ever lose your trust and your love.

Now can we bow in prayer? And I hope this is loud enough. I'd like it to be just that loud. Not to hear my voice, but somehow to be able to concentrate above every other thing. So there's a lot of reasons I glare at you, brother.

When it goes down slightly, you're in trouble. And in case you don't know it, this is a glare. It's not that I need glasses, it's a glare. Let's pray, please. Can we just bow before God in the silence of our hearts?

Prayer for the Church’s Purity, Unity, and Faithfulness

Our wonderful Father, thank Thee for these three nights that I could have been with Thy people here and this morning at the new church. Thank Thee, God, for the privilege of being in this land that is not my land, but I feel as much burden and love for it as I do for my own country.

Thank Thee for giving me that love for this land and bringing me here. I am so grateful, God. Bless and honor those who have had in their hearts and made such sacrifices to make me able to come to this land again and again and again and again to so much of America already.

I am overwhelmed, Lord, and I thank Thee for it. Bless and honor dear brother Denny and sister Jackie and thank You for what they do that I can preach. God, I don't know how to do anything else, but thank Thee others organize and get things done where I wouldn't know how to take the first step or say the first word to get it done.

Bless Thee, Lord, for such people. Oh, protect this work that has begun in America. I have come to love them and respect them and revere them and treasure what they've got and I ask Thee to protect it all under the blood of Jesus.

The devil would do anything to divide them. The devil would do anything to divert them, to trip them up that they could be branded as a sect and that men and women might even have true just cause to do that.

Don't let it happen, God. Don't let them trip up in their zeal. Give them wisdom, lowliness and carefulness before they speak to each other, let alone to the outside world. Oh, God, give them wisdom that they have prayed through words that could turn the course of this whole movement in one moment backwards.

Even if they're zealous doing it, God, reach out to bring such wisdom, such compassion and yet never compromise. And there's an ability to do that, God. Give them that ability, please, to protect them and to honor them and to use them in such a way that the world will tremble through them.

I covet that revival may come to this land through them for without preaching, the message is cried out, the standard is being cried out. And men are not being offended as much as they are, just crumbling in their hearts as they cannot argue.

This is what I want too. God, please keep that testimony that doctrines will not be thrown against them, but their lies will just make men's words swallow it up and disappear. That all criticism and condemning will just disappear as words will just fade out for there's nothing behind them.

God, please, please protect them and the fruit of their ministry, the fruit of their ministers, the fruit of those who preach, who are the fruit already of this movement. They are men that other denominations haven't seen to that degree and so many in a hundred years.

Don't let them lose one of them. Don't let them destroy or condemn or forget to encourage in case they lose one of these great men that has given them. And woman equally, for no man is a man of God that doesn't somehow, normally Lord, have a godly woman carrying him.

You never make it. Thank you for the woman, their willingness to submit and to be just a compliment to the whole message their husband preaches, a proof, an evidence. As the world sees the wife's joy and the children's joy, they must know this man is real.

Oh God, please bless the children, the wives, the godly preachers, the godly teachers, the godly examples. Don't let us lose them. And keep them from diverting from truth. God, keep them from dividing.

Keep them from contentious spirit. Keep them from those who would cause splits. God, keep them one. Ability to submit, to submit to the elders as younger. To all be subject one to another. Be close with humility.

For God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble. God, give them that grace to be a submitting people to authority, to those that have care over them as elders and must be giving account of them one day as shepherds over the flock.

Don't let those shepherds be hard and tyrannical, Christ-like and lowly and patient and yet holy. Oh God, if ever America needed a people that were living the standard of this book and growing and blossoming, filled with compassion for all souls, it's now, and who knows, perhaps for this moment, thou hast been raised up, O remnant.

Oh God, come in mercy now and hallow thy word, thy sacred word, by anointing it, by anointing this poor man and washing me in the blood of Jesus, by anointing our hearts and our minds and quietening us into sacred ground.

Come protect us so under the blood of Jesus. Cleanse the atmosphere with the blood of Jesus. Make this holy, holy ground. Oh fill me with the Holy Spirit and stand beside me, O God, and use me as a mouthpiece through which thy voice can be heard.

In Jesus Christ's name. In Jesus the Christ's name. In Jesus Christ's name. We all unitedly agree asking these things of our God, our Father in heaven. Amen. I would like, I would like for us tonight to look at three words in the Bible.

Persecution as the Cost of Godly Living

Persecution, affliction and tribulation. What is the difference, you may ask, between persecution, affliction and tribulation? Well, let's look at the Scriptures. Let's look at the Scriptures and what God says concerning these three things.

Firstly, firstly, persecution. All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. All, all, all, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. These staggering words are found in 2 Timothy 3, verse 12.

Isaiah, Isaiah prophesied in chapter 59, verse 15 that a time would come, a time would come when he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. In its context, in its context, Isaiah is prophesying about the gospel dispensation.

He that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. The margin says, would be accounted as mad. I would say that the most accurate interpretation of this verse would read like this, that a time will come in the gospel dispensation.

And as a result of the gospel, that he that turns from evil, from a life of evil to a life of godliness, he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey, would be persecuted. A time would come in the gospel dispensation that as a result of the gospel, he that turns from a life of evil to a life of godliness would not only be accounted and treated as mad, he would be hunted, sought out to persecute.

Thirty years ago, as a young Christian, I don't think that I would have accepted or identified with this verse as being relevant to this age that you and I are living on for the church. But, beloved, in the last thirty years, something has happened in this world that has staggered me deeply.

The avalanche, the avalanche of moral decadence and evil that has swept across the world, affecting and swaying and conditioning the minds of the masses. The avalanche of moral decadence and evil that has swept across this world, affecting and swaying and conditioning the minds of the masses to hate, to hate the good and love the evil.

I have become deeply and fearfully aware that the stage has been set to usher in an era of unprecedented global persecution against all who will live godly in Christ Jesus. I have become deeply and fearfully aware that the stage has been set to usher in an era of unprecedented global persecution against all that will live godly in Christ Jesus.

Not against all that will profess to know Christ Jesus, but all that will live godly in Christ Jesus. There is a great difference. I want us to carefully look before going on at these verses of Isaiah 59 verse 15 of what God is saying.

Of what God is saying. It starts off with these words, Yea, truth faileth. Let's look broader at its context. Yea, truth faileth. And he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey, would be accounted as mad, would be treated as mad.

Yea, truth faileth. There is coming a time when there will be a famine of the true word of God. There will be a compromise on the true word of God in the pulpits worldwide, in the gospel dispensations, where liberal theology, liberal theology will so be affecting even the evangelical church, that truth will become failing.

Truth faileth. It's there, it's being preached, but you're failing and you're deliberately of it. You're taking the cutting edge away. You're scared of offending, so you're compromising. Truth faileth in this time that will usher in, and as a result of truth failing from the pulpits in the evangelical church, this era of unprecedented global persecution will be ushered in as a result of truth failing.

It will usher in an era of unprecedented global persecution against all that will live godly in Christ Jesus. But there's something staggering about the context of this verse that I hope I'm not going to offend you in America, but I cannot deny it of what this is saying about the gospel dispensation.

A moment will come in this dispensation when because truth fails from the pulpits in the liberal church, where liberal theology will be embraced and affect more and more what we preach, undermining and failing to preach what God intended us to preach, the standard God.

Because of this, he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. Something has been implied here. It's been implied that persecution will begin in the church against those who would depart from evil to a life of godliness.

Something of being ostracized within the true church when a man, a woman, depart from evil will be coming to a circumstance in the world and the church you'll be looked upon as mad, ostracized and persecuted, let alone what the world's going to do to you.

2 Timothy 3, verse 12. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. The next verse, verse 13, says,. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. Evil men in this moment when there is such persecution upon all that will live godly.

Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. Seducing and being seduced. Oh, being deceived and deceiving, deceiving and being deceived. Isn't that terrible? Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.

You know what the word seducers means? Impostors. People who say they're Christians who are not Christians. They profess to know Christ, but they deny the power thereof. It's something of a denial of all that God demands of true salvation.

But they imply they're born of God. They imply they're true Christians. Evil men and seducers, impostors shall wax worse and worse in this moment that will usher in where all, all beloved in revival, when God sweeps through lands, through Wesley's, through Whitefield's, through Jonathan Edwards', through Charles Finney's, and nations seek God when the multitude begin to seek God and turn to Christ with lands.

All who will live godly in Christ are not suffering. They do not suffer in the times of revival. They're esteemed by the masses. They're esteemed and treasured. They walk with God. Their teaching, their standard is treasured and respected in times of revival.

But there's a time coming when truth faileth that all that would dare to live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But Jesus, Jesus said in Matthew 5, verse 10,. Blessed, blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake. For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and shall persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely.

For my sake, rejoice and be exceedingly glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which are before you. But beloved, we must be careful here. We must be so careful here.

Jesus goes on. He goes on to warn us in verse 38. You have heard that it has been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you that ye resist not evil. I say unto you that ye resist not evil.

But whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Verse 43. You have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies.

Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. 1 Peter 2 verse 19. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

For what glory is it if when you be buffeted for your faults, you should take it patiently? But if when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently. This is acceptable with God for even here unto where ye called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that ye should follow His steps who did no sin, neither was guile found at His mouth, who when He was reviled, reviled not again.

When He suffered, He threatened not, but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously. 1 Peter 4 verse 12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning this fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy if ye be approached for the name of Christ.

Happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part ye is evil spoken of, but in your part ye is glorified. But let none of you suffer. Let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evildoer or as a busybody in other men's matters.

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on his behalf. Philippians 1 verse 29. Philippians 1 verse 29. For unto you it is given on the behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake.

Unto you it is given on the behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake. But I would like for us, I would like for us tonight to look at three words in the Bible. Persecution, affliction and tribulation.

Affliction and the Deliverance of the Righteous

What is the difference, you may ask, between persecution and affliction? Well, let's look at the Scriptures at what God says concerning affliction. In Psalm 34 verse 19 we read, Many are the afflictions of the righteous.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers Him out of them all. I'm not a Pentecostal, you know, but I feel like shouting hallelujah to that. Many are the afflictions. Don't hide away from it.

It's not heaven yet, brother. You're on earth. And heaven's coming. There'll be no tears, no trials, no hurt. But if you're righteous in this world, many, God tells you, are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers Him out of them all.

James says to us in chapter 5 verse 10, Take, my brethren, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering, affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure.

You have heard of the patience of Job. You have heard of the patience of Job. And have seen the end of the Lord. The Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy. Job is the only man that James refers to as an example of someone who suffered affliction in the Bible.

Job is the only man that James refers to as an example of someone who suffered affliction in the Bible. So, beloved, let's look at Job. Let's look carefully at the life of Job. Let's look at the many afflictions of this righteous man, Job.

Job’s Faithfulness Through Catastrophic Loss

There was a man in the land of Uz. His name was Job. And that man was perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evil. And they were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was 7 ,000 sheep and 3 ,000 camels and 500 yoke of oxen and 500 sea asses and a very great household so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And his sons went and feasted in their houses every one his day, every one on his birthday and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all.

For Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. Now, there was a day when the sons of God, the angels, came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them.

Satan came also among them. And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?

Then Satan answered the Lord and said, Doth Job fear God for naught? Hast not thou made an hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land.

But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power. Only upon himself put not forth thine hand.

So Satan, from the presence of the Lord, and there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house. And there came a messenger unto Job and said, The oxen were ploughing and the asses feeding beside them.

And the Fabians fell upon them and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, while he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, The fire of God, the fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them.

And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, while he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, The Chaldeans, the Chaldeans made out three bands and fell upon the camels and have carried them away.

Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, while he was yet speaking, there came also another and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house.

And behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house and it fell upon the young men and they are dead. And I only am escaped alone to tell thee. Then Job arose and rent his mantle.

He tore his garment and saved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped and worshipped naked. Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord in all this, in all this, Job sinned not nor charged God foolishly. In all this, in all this, Job sinned not nor charged God foolishly. Again there was a day when the sons of God, the angels, came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered My servant Job that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, and one that feareth God and escheweth evil?

And still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movest Me against him to destroy him without cause. And Satan, Satan, answered the Lord and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee. He will curse thee. He will curse thee. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand, but save his life.

So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord and smoked Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd, a piece of broken pottery, to scrape himself withal.

And he sat down among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity as God? And died. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? Shall we receive good?

Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? Shall we only love God and trust Him and serve Him if everything goes right? And cease to love Him and serve Him and trust Him if things go wrong?

Shall we receive good at the hand of God? Shall we not receive evil? In all this, in all this, did not Job sin with his lips? O beloved, 1 Peter 5, verse 8, Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil is a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour, whom resist.

Steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. Knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

O beloved, Job was not the only man. Job was not the only man that lost all his material possessions in one moment. Job was not the only man that lost every single thing he had in life in one moment. I have stood with so many men who were millionaires, who had wealth, and in one moment they lost everything.

They had nothing in life in one moment. And I have looked at these men with a heart sunken grief for them, for they loved God. But I staggered as I saw those men lift their hands up to heaven and from their heart with tears coming down their face, crying out, The Lord gave.

The Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I saw men in all these things sin not, nor charge God foolishly when they lost everything and were suddenly in poverty. Job is not the only man, beloved, that lost all his children.

I cannot tell you how many homes I have been in where suddenly all of them were gone. Wiped out. Bullets flying through young 20 year olds. Oh, I have seen homes upon homes where suddenly men and women were being robbed of their children.

Godly men and women. I watched them as I wept. And oh, they wept, I admit it. But the resignation staggered me as they cried out the words of Job from their heart. The Lord gave. The Lord hath taken away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord. I saw in all these things they sin not, nor charge God foolishly. Job was not the only one, beloved, to suffer these afflictions that are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

I have seen many men lose their health who were strapping and strong and capable, suddenly dependent and crippled in life as sickness riddled their bodies and pain so excruciating. I watched them in their sufferings, these godly men, crying out from their hearts, though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.

Oh, Job in the midst of all his sufferings cried out, when He hath tried me, when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold from the fire. 1 Peter 1 verse 6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, oh, I love those words, if need be, oh, wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations, sufferings, trials.