<TITLE>11. Par 107-118</TITLE>L-107 And now, Job got into all kinds of trouble. Remember, He lost all of his wealth. He lost all of his popularity.

L-108   He was a prince, you know, in the East, and all the young prince used to come bow before him because he was a man of wisdom. He was a prophet. And everybody wanted to see him and talk with him, just a moment. Just a moment of his time would just mean so much. And how he used to walk down the street, an honor in his heart for God, because God had made him a prophet.

L-109 And the wise men would come up and say, "Job, sir, we know that the great God of Heaven is with you. Just one piece of advice we'd like to have. We've done a certain-certain thing. What should we have." And God would reveal it to Job. And they'd go do that that way, and that's just the way it would be. That was fine.

L-110 But, all at once, all the people got against him. Yeah. Everybody turned him down. Then the cyclones come, killed his children and killed all of his animals. Everything he had was gone. Then come some of his very best, maybe the deacons of his church, see, come to give him comfort. And they was accusing him. "Now, Job, you know, a man that was favored with God, like you, and all this has happened to him, there has got to be something wrong. You've done something wrong."

L-111 Job said, "I am satisfied that I never. My heart is clean before God, and I've made my sacrifice." Amen.

L-112   There you are, then stand on it. If you met God's requirements, stay right there. Don't you move. Abraham called everything contrary to that promise as though it wasn't. He staggered not at the promise through unbelief, but was strong, giving praise to God.

L-113 Job stayed right with it. After while, his own wife kind of turned against him. Job got broke out with boils, his own health failed. He went out and sit on an ash heap, and scrapped himself with a piece of crock or something, scrap. You just imagine what a miserable shape that man was in!

L-114   I remember taking that one time, at my tabernacle, years ago. And I was on it for a year, just the Book of Job. That's the way. We just break it down, just lace the whole Word together. And then I had him on that ash heap there for about five straight Sundays. And I never... After while, a little sister wrote me a letter. She said, "Brother Branham, when you going to get Job off that ash heap?" But I--I was trying to make a point. See? I--I was. I was trying to get this settled, that, why he was there.

L-115 And his wife come out and said, "Job, you're miserable. Why don't you curse God and die the death?"

L-116 Now look. He didn't call her a foolish woman. He said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman." In other words, "You--you--you speak foolish." He said, "The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord."

L-117   Then, he knowed he was going to die. And he said, "Lord..." The 14th chapter of Job, he said, "There is hope in a tree, if it blows down." He knowed he had been... It influenced people. His life had been useful. God never give us our lives just to hang around, this, that. He give it, to be useful for Him. Do something. Tell somebody else. You can't talk? Whistle a hymn, or something. Give some impression, somewhere. And Job was the type of man that was useful.

L-118 He said, "If a tree goes down in the grave; a--a scent of rain, the roots come out again. If a flower dies, the little seed lays there and bursts open, the pulp runs out of it. There ain't a way you can find the life in it. But when spring comes around, up comes that little flower again. "Now, there's hope, if a flower dies, if a tree dies. But a man," said, "he layeth down, he giveth up the ghost. His sons come to honor him, and he perceive it not." Job want to know. "When they plant a seed in the ground, and it comes up. But they plant a man in the ground, and he don't come up." Now he said, "What about all of this?"


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