<TITLE>05. Par 19-23</TITLE>L-19 Many are setting here, who knows what it means to go down a game trail, up through the forests, see the sunrise and the sunset. Know that in the times of trouble that some mysterious catch, that God helped them and in tight places. I love them, Father, they are my brethren.
And as I express to my good friends setting here today, I hope I meet them all along some great game trail in glory. May we meet with all those who we love and have fellowshipped together with here on earth. And if any be not ready for that, may they be prepared today. Get in the Word, Father, and plant the seed into our hearts that we might have Eternal Life, for we ask it in the Name of Thy beloved Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.

L-20 I almost just have to start on the Scriptures, because you're such a nice people. And I don't say that just to be nice. I say it from my heart. If I said it any other way, I'd be a hypocrite. And I'd rather meet God an infidel than a hypocrite.
Now, I want to read a Scripture for you. Because I believe that what I would say might fail, because I'm a man. But what He says will never fail. "Heavens and earth will pass away, but My Word shall not fail."
And the only way that we can approach God with assurance, is coming by His Word. For He promised to honor It. In Saint John 14:8...
 Philip said unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
 And Jesus said unto him, I have been so long with you, and... knoweth not me, Philip?
I'd take and draw for a context from there, "Show Us the Father." That's the cry of the human heart, has always been. Since we know that there is a God, every mortal has tried to look a past the curtain of time to find out if they could see where they come from, what's their business here, and where will they be after they leave here.

L-21 Now, we know we come from somewhere. And we're here for some cause and we're going somewhere. And there's not... Of all the literature in the world, there's only one Book who can tell you where you come from, who you are, and where you're going--and that's this Bible. So we approach Him this afternoon.
Even it's the oldest book in the Bible, Job. When he was broke out with boils, looked like everything had gone against him. And his--his Christian, or his religious friends said, "Job, you've done evil." Many people want to say, because somebody's sick that they did evil. That's not the truth. Job was a perfect man. God said so.
But sometimes, God let's affliction hit His people to test them for their faith. He was testing a saint not rebuking a sinner. And God does that to test.

L-22 Jesus said--the Scripture says every son that cometh to God must be tried, tested, child-trained. And then they're proven to be right children of God.
And now, in Job's case, when all his riches was taken from him, and all of his children was taken, all of his friends was--turned their back upon him, set seven days, accusing him of being a secret sinner, yet Job not he--knew he was not a sinner; because he stood firm on what God had promised. God required the burnt offering. And Job had offered it for he and his children, and he knowed he was justified; because he had offered God's appropriate offering.

L-23 How we could draw from that today, when we know that we've come in the Presence of God with faith believing, there's nothing going to change that. God said so, and that settles it.
Then when he got so in his distress and set on the ash heap, scraping his boils, his body was broke out in boils. And his wife said, "Job, why don't you curse God and die?"
He said (now, he never called her a foolish woman, she--he said, "You speak like one") he said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord." He would not curse God. He knowed that he hadn't done. He said, "I came into the world naked, and naked I shall return."


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