The Book of Job — Keith Daniel

Father, in mercy on every one of us, keep us under the blood of Jesus Christ, cleanse the atmosphere with the blood of Jesus Christ, wash me in the blood of God the Son, fill me with the Holy Spirit, anoint thy word and anoint every one of us that thou will give us understanding by the revelation of the Holy Spirit into our hearts and minds.

Give us the grace to embrace that which God's word holds out to us and not just to walk away and be hearers of the word and not doers, deceiving your own selves. Oh God bless us by giving us the grace to embrace thy holy word.

In Jesus, the Christ's name. Amen. There was a man, there was a man in the land of Uz. There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man, that man was perfect. That man was perfect and upright and one that feared God, one that feared God and eschewed evil.

Job’s Righteousness and Prosperity

He hated evil, he hated evil. And they were born unto him seven sons and seven daughters. They were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred she-asses and a very great household, a very great household so that this man was the greatest.

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. 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, for Job said, it may be, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God and cursed God in their hearts.

Thus did Job continually, 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, and Satan, and 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?

He hates evil, Satan. Then Satan answered the Lord and said, Doth Job, 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, he will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord, 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 went forth from the presence of the Lord. And there was a day, 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 Sabians fell upon them 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, The fire of God has fallen from heaven, 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, 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 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, there came a great wind from the wilderness and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, they are dead, and I only, I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Then Job arose and rent his mantle, he tore his garment and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped and worshipped and said, Naked, naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither.

The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, in all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. My beloved, I'm going to take a step by step through this book as long as you let me, as long as the Holy Spirit says go on.

The Possibility of Holy Living

I want you to listen in your hearts now, please. There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evil, he hated evil. The possibility, the possibility of a man living a holy life on this earth, hallelujah, hallelujah.

You think anything is in this book for your interest? No, it's for your edification, it's for God to whisper in your heart, his heart. Nothing is history in this book. To the unsaved, yes, but not to the saved, it's the living word written for you to get the depth that you will not get in the New Testament.

Without the new, we're in the law, we're in terrible darkness, but without the old, in the light of the new, oh brother, you don't know the heart of God half as you should. Here's the heart of God, the pulse of God, reasoning with man as he deals with his people, collectively or individually, it's God's word.

The possibility of a man living a holy life on this earth, and God himself points us to aspire to this in 1 Peter 1 verse 15, but as he which hath called you is holy, as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, in all manner of living, because it is written, it is written, be ye holy, be ye holy, for I am holy, be ye holy, for I am holy.

The possibility of a man living a holy life on this earth is a glorious, glorious statement here in this book, from the heart of God, from the heart of God. Verse 2 says, and they were born unto him seven sons and three daughters, his substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred she-asses and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the men in the east.

What a statement! But now we must be careful here, brethren, this is not a statement of faith for the prosperity cult. Those people across the world that preach that if you come to God you'll prosper financially, no wonder their churches are full, who wouldn't come to God to prosper?

Brother, you don't come to God with any condition but for mercy for your soul, whatever comes on you. Give another man any reason, most of them are going to hell, when suddenly they realize you lied, or they accuse God of lying because you twisted verses that they embraced.

No, brother, don't stoop to such a way to get people as that lie from hell. It is not a statement of faith for the prosperity cult. God does not promise wealth to the righteous. God promises his faithful provision of our needs, not our wants.

Brother, you'd be surprised how little you need to be happy and how many people who've got what they want that are miserable and commit suicide in their thousands annually. You think wealth is going to give you happiness?

Careful, God knows just what you need to make you what he knows will make you fulfill his purpose in this world. Be careful, he does not promise wealth to the righteous. God promises his faithful provision of our needs, not our wants, and he warns.

He warns us against seeking and wanting wealth on this earth again and again. He warns us against seeking wealth in this earth again and again. In 1 Timothy 6 verse 5, he warns us against people who teach otherwise, verse 3 says.

He says, perverse disputings of men, verse 5, of corrupt mind, destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness, that wealth is godliness, evidence of godliness. From such, withdraw thyself, and I make no apology to those you've got to withdraw from fast or be ruined.

But, the next verse says, godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out. Having food and raiment, clothes, let us be there with content, but they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things, flee these things.

Treasures in Heaven and Freedom from Anxiety

Oh, Jesus cried out in Matthew 6 verse 19, lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. Set your affection on things that are above, not on things that are in the earth. Christ cries it out, the word, the whole word cries out, don't ever aim at riches, don't ever look to it, don't desire it, you're just bringing on yourself grief.

Go visit the wealthy to find out if they're really happy, most of them. Oh, lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, that's a command, do you obey it or do you defy it? Lay not up for yourselves, lay not up for yourselves, lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye, if therefore the eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light, but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.

If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness. No man can serve two masters, for either he'll hate the one and love the other, or else he'll despise the one and hold to the other.

You cannot serve God and mammon, you cannot serve God and covert materialism, you cannot serve God and covert materialistic wealth, you cannot, God says, God said, God manifests in the flesh said, you cannot serve God and mammon, therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on, is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them, are ye not much better than they? Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature?

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed, was not clothed like one of these, wherefore if God so clothed the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow's costumes of the oven, shall he not much more clothe you?

O ye of little faith, therefore take no thought, saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed, for after all these things do the Gentiles seek, for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought, take therefore no thought, take therefore no thought, for the morrow God said, not me, but the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Listen, there's enough that you're going to be concerned about just to get through a day, and that's all you need to worry about. Give us this day our daily bread, tomorrow pray about tomorrow's bread, okay?

Don't die prematurely trying to worry how on earth you're going to pay off all the insurances in case you get sick, or in case I suppose some people die prematurely, you know how they have a good funeral, paying it off.

My word, don't worry, don't live in anxious, of course God says you've got to be conscientious, you've got to be, use your common sense, there's nothing of sin and carefully thinking about a little bit tomorrow, but the moment it becomes an anxiety, a thought of anxiety that brings fear, that God could possibly fail you.

Brother, you're defying Christ, you're defying Him in allowing fear for tomorrow. I don't care if the economy of America collapses when it comes to God's faithfulness, I don't want it to happen, but brother, whatever happens to you, God hasn't failed you, trust me.

He cannot fail to your needs, not your wants, not your wants, but that does not mean that God does not trust certain of His people with prosperity and great wealth. I want to repeat it in case you despise anyone who gets rich that carries a Bible, that does not mean that God does not trust certain people of His people with prosperity and great wealth as He did with the godly Job.

This is not a statement of faith for the prosperity cult, God does not promise wealth to the righteous, God promises His faithful provision of our needs, not our wants, and He warns us of ever seeking wealth on this earth again and again.

Job’s Concern for His Children

Now we come to verse 4, and His sons went and feasted in their houses every one His day, 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, beloved, being godly in God's eyes does not mean that you will not continue a concern about your children's spiritual state in this wicked world.

I want to repeat it, being godly in God's eyes does not mean that you will not have continual concern about your children's spiritual state in this evil world. In truth, the further a man is away from God, the less concern he will experience daily for his children's spiritual state.

That's the truth of it. I've come from a church in New York, the first town I came in this tour that Brother Don has arranged, and I've been there a number of times over the years to Jay Folk and Joe Camillari, the Old Path Baptist Church.

God's honouring them and they're godly people. The first occasion I ever went there to preach a number of years ago, all the children were still in the home, and they sang together. It was lovely, as he just in the car expressed the joy of the unity that came through harmonizing in the home, just the harmony of this beauty created by singing.

And it was lovely to talk about these godly children of his. And I was mentioning the blessedness of children when God gives to us his children, godly children. There was quietness for a moment, and then he said these words, and there wasn't another sound all the way to the church, not by one child in that car, listening to me praising them.

He said, I would rather die than to live to see my children serving the devil. He said it with a voice so broken, so earnest, so fearful. I would rather die than to live to see my children serving the devil, to see them eating from the devil's tables.

Let me die before I see that, brother. Oh, being born into a godly home does not necessarily mean a child will automatically choose to follow God. Being born into a godly home does not necessarily mean a child will automatically choose to follow God.

He has to be prayed for earnestly, beloved. The godlier you are, the more you know and sense what a terrible enemy there is that doesn't sleep while we're sleeping, but watches every thought, every reaction, every weakness, and plans accordingly.

For everyone is watching, especially in a godly home. Can I ask the children from godly homes here tonight, are you godly? Not religious, not conforming because of daddy and mommy's desire. I want to ask you one question in truth.

Are you godly? Are you godly, young people? Or are Job's fears substantial already by what you know is going on in your heart and your choices of what fills your mind and love? In my country, a young independent Baptist fellow, missionary there young, he's making a mark for God.

South Africa doesn't know much about independent Baptists, but they're learning. This boy, he walks with God. And he was sharing at some campfire, or in some convent, and I was speaking, and I was walking through the grounds.

There all the youth were around the campfire singing, and he was asked to share his testimony. And I was quite moved as I stood in the background there and listened to this fellow, fiery, jealous, crying out how he came from a godly home.

His father's a independent Baptist minister, and all he can remember, all he can remember is as a young boy seeking God. Nothing else was in his heart but to follow the Father, the God of his father and mother.

All he can remember as a young boy is one thing. He had no ambition. He didn't need writing on the wall to give his life to serve God. He just had one thing in his heart from a boy, I'm going to preach one day.

God didn't have much time or trouble to get him to do that. He just wanted that and nothing else is going to come. Somehow God put his hand on that boy. And now he's there in South Africa, reaching out in such a way that it's staggering to see his zeal.

I'm just hearing about him more and more from the godly, and I realize, oh God. After he gave that testimony, it was the morning, I said to him, come have a cup of tea with me. When they were all having breakfast or something in the dining hall, I said, let me ask you, I know a lot of independent Baptists.

I speak in a lot of groups, different movements of different persuasions, believe it or not. Somehow they accept this poor old man because they don't quite know where I stand. Shouldn't have said that.

Most of them come to try and find out, but if that's the reason they come, wonderful. Keep them guessing. But I said to him, I know a number of independent, and I'm blessed by the ones I know. Their godliness, their godly people, with a high standard and all the light they've been given.

And I told him of, and he says, well he comes from, and I won't tell you the town, but his father's an independent Baptist minister there. His father and mother served God there, and I've been to that town and other churches.

But I said to him, tell me, were there any other children in the families, sisters, brothers? He said, only one, a sister. Then mommy couldn't have children further. Only the two of us. I said, does she love God like you?

And his face dropped. No, she serves the devil. And that broke him because I saw how it hurt him to say it. It wasn't just a statement. She serves the devil. I said, why? You serve God? As I've seldom seen a young fellow, you're so full of fire for God.

It's like every breath in your body is just for Christ. It's contagious. I said, how come in the same home, where you wanted nothing but the God of your father and mother, how come she would want the devil?

He said, I don't know, sir. I said, well, is it your father and mother? Did they fail her? Did they have preference to you? Did there was something of a miscalculation and an injustice toward her? What reason?

There must be a reason. He said, sir, my mother and father gave her the same love, begged her, wept with her, pled beside her from a girl as they pled beside me for God to take her life. But he said, you know, there is such a thing as a free choice, free will, in spite of godly parents.

He said, I wish it wasn't so. All I can remember is my sister wanting sin from a little girl. She said to Hortense, she's a prostitute now. She sells her body from a home like that. It was not my father and mother's fault.

Every single person knows that, and I who live in the home know that. Oh, I'd admit it. Here is two children from one home whose parents serve God, longing for their children to go through with God. One from a child just wanted what he sees in his father and mother.

The other just makes up her mind. She looks twice at sin, at sinners, chooses their company, their stance. Tell me, young people, where will you end? Like that family? Coming from a godly home does not necessarily mean you're going to be godly, young man.

You've got to seek God before sin comes in. You've got to deny it. You've got to like little Daniel. Purpose in your heart that he will not defile himself no matter what the other boys and girls do. Even though I'm ostracized, even if I have to be persecuted, I will not deny what I know to be God's will.

I will not compromise. No matter what, if I stand alone. Right through to in his 90s, no man on earth was honored by God and man like Daniel because as a boy he purposed in his heart. I was in a church here in America, second visit to America, I think, maybe third, and this godly man with a fiery, compassionate cry that made you want to weep the way he loved souls, this godly woman, his wife.

We were in the house. She was godly. And their children, their children. And of late, I heard, having not seen him for many years now, that he retired. Young. He left the pulpit. People from his church wrote Jenny and I letters of their deep grief that he had to leave.

He felt he had to because his son is in jail. He chose sin. He chose to be rebellious. He chose to deny the sensitive workings of the Holy Spirit in his heart like others in that church. And close your heart.

Oh, do you think you're going to play the fool with the devil? You won't get away with it. Don't play the fool with God and don't give the devil a chance. You will be amazed what he'll gain and what becomes of you within a moment.

And this man left the pulpit because he felt the scriptures didn't allow him to continue, he said. The scriptures cancelled him of the right to preach. In his eyes, now be careful here. I don't believe congregations should judge a preacher if their children are going through a rebellious stage.

No one open your mouth. You dare not. It'll happen to you straight away if you do. Trust me. Trust me even if you're godly. Don't judge that man. Don't judge him once. I guarantee you, you'll be shocked what will come on your home.

Be careful. I do not believe it's right for a congregation to sit there in judgment over people, even the pastor's children who go through rebellious stages. It is tragic when this man of his own judgment on himself because of what he reads in the scriptures had to leave his calling for God because of his son, because of his son's choice.

They tell me he's aged and I won't believe what's left of him. Eli's son, Eli's sons killed him. Don't doubt it. They were the reason he died. In shock what they were the result of bringing upon Israel through their evil.

Oh, be careful. Be careful. Be careful. Being godly in God's eyes does not mean that you will not have to continue a concern about your children's spiritual state in this wicked world. Verse six. Verse six.

Satan’s Opposition and the Battlefield of Faith

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 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.

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. Do you think God's using dramatic language? You think that can't happen?

Seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that in the world. You think you're alone in this onslaught on you where he sees you all weak point just coming.

Be careful. He's like a lion prowling on this earth. He's hunting ground for what? To destroy souls and to cripple the faith and the testimony of people who will get to heaven, who dare to make a stand for God.

But many preachers have lost the right to preach when they want being sober and vigilant and awake. Miss your quiet time brother. Even if you're missing it being real, the great throb of your life, what's what happens to you that day.

I don't care about your doctrine. I dare you to stand up and tell me it didn't happen. You haven't got an enemy that we do not need to be very aware of and very careful of beloved. Very careful. Verse eight.

And the Lord said unto Satan, this roaring lion walking about seeking whom he may devour in his desperate moment left for eternity that he can hurt God, the one he hates. The one he hates. It's not you he hates.

It's God. And you love God. Oh, be careful. He goes around. 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? Doth Job fear God for naught? Hast thou made an hedge about him and about his house and about all that he hath on every side? I can't get near him.

You won't let me touch him. I can't get near him. You so protect him, thus bless the work of his hands. His substance is increased in the land. Look how you bless him, God. But put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath.

Oh, would God allow that to happen to you, brother? Was Job the only one? Is this book just singling out a man that never could happen again? Put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath and he, he will curse thee to thy face.

He will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, behold, and this staggers me. It never fails to stagger me. Behold, all that he hath, all that he hath is in thy power. Go, go ahead. And don't you kill him, Satan.

Touch not his life. Now this is staggering. Job's life is suddenly declared to be the battlefield between God and Satan. Can I repeat it? Job's life is suddenly declared to be the battlefield, the war zone between God and Satan singled out on the entire worth, his life singled out.

Now, wow, that's something. And God never consulted Job. Was that unrighteous? I mean, if God said, Job, listen, I'm trusting you. I'm trusting you. Don't fail me. Job would have said, come. But he didn't know.

He was confused. He didn't know what was this. He didn't even know it was the devil. He thought it was God, allowing things that his mind couldn't grasp at first. Suddenly he allows the devil to hurt him with total onslaught, a God of love, a God of love with total onslaught.

Brother, heaven's coming. Don't expect it until then. In this world, you shall have tribulation. There's war. If you're not conscious, this earth is the battlefield between God and Satan. I pity you. I pity you on every occasion of what goes in your life.

Total onslaught. The devil shows no mercy, no mercy or compassion. He hurls vengeance upon him with total onslaught. In one day, Job is robbed of almost everything he has in life. Think about that. God lets that happen, beginning with all his possessions and ending with his dearest possessions, his children.

As an evil spiral onslaught, Satan wipes out everything broadly and comes then to write down until he hits the most treasured things in his life. While he's despairing and taking him weaker and knocking, now hits everything, his most dearest possessions in life.

Now, let's see. Oh, I have stood with men who were multi-millionaires, not one. Wait till your economy collapses like ours did. Millionaires have got nothing in one day. You think millions will save you?

You've just got more to worry about keeping. Christians, I'm talking about, men of God, who in one day, I was with a man on the street. He was marched on the street. All he was allowed to take was one suitcase.

We stood with his family. They wouldn't allow him to take the car, the furniture, any other possessions. He was bankrupt. They said, out, it's not yours. He stood in the street. It wasn't his home. In one day, in one day, I've seen it.

I've seen men wiped out of everything they have in life in one day. And I've watched godly men with tears coming down their face, saying, the Lord gave, the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

And I looked at them with tears coming down my eyes because it wasn't to impress me. And I finished off the sentence that God was writing in heaven, I know. In all this, he sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

Hallelujah. It wasn't only Job. I've been in homes where the children were killed in one moment, wiped out with guns in all the violence of our country, getting into the wrong taxi. So another taxi driver gets out just because he didn't get the business.

A young 21-year-old boy just about finished his doctor's degree to follow his father dead, slaughtered. And what do they do? You think that doesn't happen to godly people? You think that just happened by mistake?

You think there is an enemy behind every single cursed thing that happens? A cursed thing that comes on you? Do you honestly think it just happened? God lost control, you say? No, no. I watched them go on their knees, weeping.

And I waited as I wept. And I waited and I heard what I knew would come because I knew their lives. The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away, for blessed is the name of the Lord. In all this, they sinned not, don't doubt it.

Job's not the only one. God allowed it to happen too. Verse 20. Staggering now. Just listen to this verse. Then Job arose and rent his garments and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshipped.

Oh, can you imagine Satan? Just imagine. Gonna curse God? No. He worshipped. I can just see the demons of hell screaming in horror and fear and shame and Satan cowering, don't doubt it, cowering. He worships.

A good man up there, where I just come from, John Glick was listening to, well I don't think this, but anyway he said, if the devil knew what was going to be the end of Job's life when he looks at the multitudes and multitudes and multitudes of Christians who took courage in all the darkness that comes and grief, he would never have touched Job.

He lost such a battle right to your life because God gave us the longest single book in the entire Bible about someone apart from Christ. Oh, Moses wrote more books, but about another person other than Christ no more is said on this pages of this book than Job.

The longest book, the most written of any single man apart from Jesus Christ was Job. Can you blame God doing that? For every generation to be staggered. Oh, he staggers the piles of hell. He staggers heaven.

Well, not God though. He staggers every generation because God made sure every generation knew what happened. Right down until tonight. Oh, brother, he worshipped. He triumphed over all that was allowed to be tested in his life.

Job’s Worship and the Sacrifice of Praise

Listen to this. Habakkuk 3 verse 17. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, by the by I hope you know the Bible is the school book, the set work book in the school of God. You've got to learn and you've got to do it and you've got to pass the exam.

If you don't, you'll go through it again, brother. Pass it now. Otherwise, I guarantee you don't get put up like some mischievous teachers will just get pushed up in your life. No, you will face it, brother, again and again until you sister pass the exams.

Nothing's happening in your life that is an exam. You better pass. At least my father-in-law told me that. We need fathers-in-law. Habakkuk 3 verse 17, the set work of God's school. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines.

The labor of the olives shall fail. The field shall yield no meat. The flock shall be cut off from the fold, Job, and there shall be no herd in the stall. I've lost everything. Next verse, yet I will rejoice.