======================================================================== THE FAITH OF JOB by Keith Malcomson ======================================================================== Summary: This sermon by Pastor Keith delves into the story of Job, highlighting the importance of faith before, during, and after the trials and challenges faced. It emphasizes the need for integrity, patience, and trust in God, even in the midst of silence and friendly fire. The ultimate message is about faith being refined and strengthened through the fire, leading to a deeper revelation of God and a restoration after the trials. Topics: "Faith in Trials", "Divine Restoration" Scripture References: Job 1:1, Job 42:5, Job 42:6, Job 42:10, James 1:2, 1 Peter 1:7, Luke 22:31, Psalm 139:23, Romans 5:3, Isaiah 6:8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This sermon by Pastor Keith delves into the story of Job, highlighting the importance of faith before, during, and after the trials and challenges faced. It emphasizes the need for integrity, patience, and trust in God, even in the midst of silence and friendly fire. The ultimate message is about faith being refined and strengthened through the fire, leading to a deeper revelation of God and a restoration after the trials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And Pastor Keith, you come right now, just to have a shake, a blessing, all around us. Just lead us in the Lord, just say my, my, my. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Oh Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus. Oh Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Oh Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Let's just praise him, let's just thank him for salvation tonight. Let's just glorify the Lamb of God. We praise you, we love you Lord Jesus. We exalt you tonight, we praise you, we adore you. Glory to your holy name tonight. Be glorified in our midst. Be exalted in our lives tonight, oh God. Have your way in our gathering, in our midst. Lord God, take control, oh God. Lord God, we hand everything over into your hands this weekend. Lord God, we don't want to be the ones leading, oh God. Lord God, be sovereign over everything. In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. You may be seated here tonight. I can't possibly have words or an explanation to describe what this means to me tonight, standing here. This is a very unusual night for me. From a child I grew up, I mean from a child, constantly hearing testimonies of Dulwich Road. All the testimonies of my childhood and youth. Dulwich Road, Bible School, the things that happened in this area. Even concerning this church, and I didn't even realize it. Many times over my 50 years, I've often wondered, I wonder where those people are at that church. My mom, her mind, it seems a bit clearer at the minute than it did through the previous decades. I'd ask her questions, she'd say, I don't know. But she had those living testimonies. And I thought, I could never find that people at that church. That would be an impossibility. But it's almost like tonight, coming right back to my roots. I really mean that. I've been in many churches where I said, I feel like I'm at home. I can't quite say that tonight. I don't know what the right phrase is. When I think that here in meetings in this area, my mom and dad knelt and prayed before they're married, thinking of the future, what can I say tonight? At the end of 2021, Vanessa, as you've already heard, spoke to me, said, I really believe, I was praying, I really believe there's a pastor you need to speak with. She knew nothing of this. Do you know, when you're in prayer, don't underestimate what can happen in a place of prayer and the leadership of the Holy Spirit. She simply spoke to me, and I've had many people say that and have regretted it most of the time. So sorry, Vanessa, when you said that, I went, oh, wonderful. Yes, sure, we'll, you arrange it and we'll talk. You've got to meet, if you don't mind, I'll introduce you and then get out of the way. Glad you're here tonight. And I said, wonderful. But that day in January 22, we started to talk. I don't know about the past. I don't know about this connection. Not a clue, not an idea. And as we began to talk, I went, this is not a normal brother and this is not a normal meeting. And I go, I don't quite, I couldn't comprehend it, understand it. I went, our hearts were joined. And I go, I can't grasp. I don't know what's going on here, but there's something of a unity. You know, thereafter, over the next weeks, he had sent me messages saying we're brothers from another mother and I would so laugh about that. How little did we realize the reality of that spiritual work of God. And you know, over the following months, I went, there's something in this I can't comprehend. I just can't grasp it. I really can't. And as you know, Candice went through a three-year, very intensive battle. I believe it was February one year ago that we'd done a video. She was just about to go into hospital. We'd done a video. Pastor Dennis asked for it. We sent it to the church here to pray. I think you showed it on the screen here. We just stood by our fireplace just asking for prayer. It was a very important time. And it was just like as a church, you were brought in out of nowhere at the right time for a task and a reason. It was like an older brother coming alongside or an older church coming alongside a very young church to help at a very needy hour. This is beyond us, saints. This is way beyond us. I don't understand everything or like everything, but I know there's a strange work of God here. That's why I don't think tonight, tomorrow is a normal time. And it got to a crisis point with Candice, a very dark time. And I don't know why, but there was no one. I just wanted to be there. We hadn't talked for quite a bit, and yet it was rolling. I went, what is it with Pastor? What? I just don't know. It's not about organizing something. But at that crisis time, I just knew I've got to message my brother. And I said, will you come? Can you come? And he flew in that particular week. We prayed with Candice. Just the spirit of God came down on that Tuesday. It was the Tuesday before she died. Very unusual. Pastor Dennis would have been the last one in with us. And honestly, the spirit of God came in Candice. She took the oxygen out. She couldn't survive without it. Threw her hands up, began to pray. I'm telling you, God really touched us all. A very strange time. Because this is beyond us. We don't know where this is going. And the brother preached at our church on Wednesday night. Then the Thursday, we're sitting. I think it was the Thursday or the Wednesday. We sat at our dinner table. And he said, my dad used to preach in Northern Ireland an awful lot. I said, really? We must know someone in common. He said they preached or he stayed at a farm of a family called the Mulligans. I'm going, my grandparents are called the Mulligans. But it can't be the same Mulligans. This would be too much. We are sitting in the crisis. And we begin. But I asked him, I said, do you know Philip Mobier? That was before he mentioned the Mulligans. I said, do you know Philip Mobier? He said, Philip Mobier, of course he was there at our wedding. And I went, well, he trained my mother and father in Dulwich Road. And we began to talk. And the more we go, this is crazy. This is too strange. And almost hour by hour, and you are messaging your family. I'm messaging my mom. And more and more begins to get revealed. It's very strange. Why 60 years down the road, in my darkest hour, does the Spirit of God bring all this right back? I didn't know this until he's sitting at my dinner table. With my wife, just down the corridor, being given days, if not hours, to live. And as we talk, very, very strange. More and more. You know, some of you will maybe remember Leela Lord. She's a lady who, in Northern Ireland, a very close family member. I've grown up with her. If you know Leela, she's a character, a woman of God. But she has prayed for our church for nine years from it began. Every person by name, very caught up in our church there in Limerick. Then I begin to hear, here she is, with your leadership in this church, and their children. And she's the first Sunday school teacher, I believe, here in this church. And yet I grew up with her. And she's praying for our church, yet she's here teaching your leadership in this church all those years ago. Sixty years later. I don't know what to make of this tonight. I don't know what views to make of it. I don't know what to make of this. I don't know where this goes. But I know this is a strange. If ever I'm not going to play games, it's now. I've got nothing. I'm in the darkest. I've gone through the darkest, most horrendous six months of my entire life. Daily. And yet I'm in awe. Absolute awe of my God. Utter amazement. Devastation over losing the most precious person in my life. And yet in awe of my God. I'll maybe say more tomorrow morning. I could keep you here. I want to go to the word of God tonight. I hope you will allow me. I'm going to take you to the book of Job tonight. Job chapter one. I'm giving you an introduction tonight and giving you the real heart of the message tomorrow. But they joined together. I was just going to separate them and not tell you about tomorrow morning, but I can't help it. I'm terrible at keeping secrets. Do you know 25 years ago, God dropped a seed in my heart about Job being a type of the end day or last day church. And of something that was going to happen at the end. And even this past three years, I've tried to preach on it. Candice and I would talk about Job. In fact, we've spent 16 years talking about Job. An awful lot. Do you know what Candice said to me? She said, when I was a child, when I was a young girl there in South Africa, two books I couldn't understand. The book of Job and the Song of Solomon. And says they, in our church, they destroyed the Song of Solomon. You taught it to me and opened up Christ. But the church destroyed it, made it a corrupt book. And said the other book I didn't understand was the book of Job. Says I would so wrestle over it, I would cry. I would cry over it and couldn't read it and say, please teach me what the book of Job, what its purpose is, why it is there, what is the message of it. I cannot understand it. Says, as a child, please open up this book to me. That's what my wife Candice said. And I want to tell you, our entire marriage was baptized in fire. We came together in the midst of fiery trials. And for 14 years, it never stopped for one month. And after 14 years, then she's diagnosed with stage four cancer. And we go through the next two and a half, three years. I want to take you to the book of Job. Maybe I'll preach it like you've never heard it preached before. I tend to do that. I want to warn you. I've got a tendency, because I just love the text of Scripture, I don't know anything else than for him to teach me. I spend decades not going to commentaries and asking questions of preachers. I spend decades asking the Lord, teach me, show me, open up to me. I don't understand. Decades, many messages I preach. I've spent 20, 30 years preparing for those messages. Here tonight, I want to deal with something in preparation. These two messages, tonight and tomorrow morning, go together. I couldn't preach this to my church. I've tried. I tried to preach it when Candice was alive. I couldn't. I thought, surely it's for our church. Or maybe it's for somewhere else. But I have not been able to preach this. 25 years I've carried it. I haven't preached it once, what I'll preach tomorrow morning. But I'm going to preach it here. I don't know whether I'll scare you. Maybe you won't come tomorrow when you hear I'm going to do that. I just have to deliver the message. You have to do with it what you're going to do with it. But saints of God, I really love you. I thank you for allowing me to be here. I'm still trying to work this out. I really am. I want this brother of mine to, I want to go see Dulwich Road. There's a couple of addresses I want to go see. There's some prayers there that were prayed in buildings like this that have affected my entire life. I'm trying to compute all of this, work through all of this, and meet and sister Greenwich tonight. What a remarkable thing. Wait till I tell my mother. She's going to be so jealous. She won't be happy that I didn't get her a Ryanair flight over here tonight. I want to assure you. Amen. Let's turn to the book of Job chapter 1. Reading from verse 1, then we're going to jump to verse 6. 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. Then down to verse 6. Now there was a day when the sons of God 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. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? Notice this. And that there is none like him in the earth. A perfect and 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 a 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 went forth from the presence of the Lord. You pray with me. Father, we thank you for this time in your presence. This isn't a normal night. I really believe that, oh God. I cannot comprehend or understand. We don't need to know all the mysteries of God. But oh God, it's you that has led our lives together. Lord God, when I think that my past was caught up with this church 60 years ago in the prayer meetings and the meetings, Lord God, we stand in awe of your mighty hand. You are the God of providence. You're the God that suddenly brings things into the light and shows us things that we never knew. And Lord God, what we do know is that you have an absolute perfect eternal plan from generation unto generation and that we but see a glimpse of that. But oh God, we are submitted to the Lord Jesus Christ here tonight. We gladly bow the knee to him and we worship him in the darkest of hours. We confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and we magnify him. And Lord God, I pray for your blessing on your word tonight. In Jesus' mighty name, amen. There is such a thing as suffering faith. And there's also such a thing as suffering without faith and without love. In 1 Corinthians chapter 13, we're told a description of various people in the church who actually do extraordinary things, but they do not have charity. They do not have love. It is absent from them. One of those things in 1 Corinthians 13 is that you could give your body to be burnt. You could be a martyr. You could lay down your physical life. You could allow your life to come to an end willingly for the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet it's not because of charity. It's not because of the love of the Lord Jesus Christ in action. And you know what the Bible says? It is vain. A martyr's death could be vain without real agape love. I actually believe that you can have suffering faith. We know in our world everyone suffers. Sinners actually suffer. And there's nothing special about your suffering or your trials or your troubles or your heartaches or your losses. There's nothing special about that. But it is the motive of the heart. It is actually what motivates you, your response to it, and how you walk to God right in the midst of that. I hear as we go into this message, this is my message tonight, the faith of Job. You see all across the church of our generation few preachers will pick Job as a testimony to the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. They'll choose many other men, many other women, but somehow nobody wants to be a Job. Nobody really wants to fully understand a Job. And I actually believe very few preachers understand the entire book of Job. I believe in many ways it's still a closed book. But listen to me. I believe there's a close connection between real, genuine faith and fire. I actually believe it's impossible to separate real faith from the fire and dealings of God. But also where you get the real dealings of God, you're gonna find a real and a genuine faith. Listen to what the Bible says in 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 7, that the trial of your faith, the trial, the testing, the proving of your faith, this is not just a trial by the devil. This is God testing your faith. Do you realize God not only honors your faith, responds to your faith, sees your faith, answers your faith, God actually tests your faith. You may be there saying, God, honor my faith. I wanna tell you, God has the right to test your faith. What is faith? I have to say very little in this church about faith. I know that. You understand faith. You have been taught about faith. You have lived faith. But there is something I wanna teach you here tonight. The trial of your faith being much more precious than that of gold that perishes. Though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is Peter saying this, about the trial of your faith, the testing of your faith. I believe there is a fire that tests your faith. Fire is gonna test or prove or reveal what quality your faith is actually of. A little later in Peter, it says in chapter 4 in verse 12, Beloved, think it not strange, concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened to you. But rejoice in so much that ye are partakers of Christ's suffering. When your faith is tested by fire, it is in the midst of the fiery trial that your faith becomes a partaker of the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is an entering into the death and the suffering of Christ when your faith is actually tested in the will of God, by God himself. It is allowed and ordained. It says again in James chapter 1 in verse 2, My brethren, count it all joy when ye shall fall into divers temptations, knowing this, I hope we know it tonight, knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. So as faith is put in the fire, I'm going somewhere here tonight. I'm leading you somewhere by the word of God. And so your faith put in the fire, a work is being done, it's being tested, it's being proved, and a work is being accomplished. As James says, don't think it's strange. In fact, rejoice about this. As soon as your faith comes into the fire, you're to rejoice in that. It's not a bad thing. You don't rebuke it. I once prayed for a brother, there were a few of us laying hands, Lord, break him, Lord, change him. He threw off our hands and he rebuked us. He said, I rebuke that in Jesus' name. I don't want broken. I don't want all of those things to happen. That's the generation we live in. Don't you dare pray that God breaks me. I'm gonna tell you, God never used anybody who wasn't broken. He'll never use an unbroken vessel. It's utterly impossible. And so we see, the trial of your faith, what does it do? It worketh patience within you. So you have a real faith. It goes in the fire. And what's happening? You're being brought into a realm of patience. Now this word patience means you stay put. You stay in your place where God has put you. You uphold under the trial. You endure. You stay the course. You keep going forward. You don't leave the church. You don't leave ministry. You don't leave where God has put you. That's patience. So when your faith is put in the fire, do you know what? It's to work a patience of endurance. You know when we find ourselves standing, having to stay in our position, and the fire has come. We go, God, what are you doing? Sure, I told you what I'm doing. I am trying, testing, proving your faith. But not just testing it. I'm refining it to bring forth a patience. It says again in James 5, verse 11, ye have heard of the patience of faith. Do you see what's happening here? Do you see how this connects? You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, very pitiful, and of tender mercy. In Romans 5, verse 3, it says, and not only so, but we glory in tribulation, also known that tribulation worketh patience. Let me describe to you here the word tribulation, what it means. It is the Greek word phliplos, if I can pronounce that rightly. Listen carefully. You cannot have patience. Your faith can be genuine, but you cannot have patience. The testimony of staying the course. The testimony of remaining faithful. The testimony of standing your ground. The testimony of being immovable in the hottest trials. You can't have that unless you move, unless you come under tribulation. Tribulation worketh patience. Fire moves you into patience. This word for tribulation in the Greek, it means you're not gonna like this, but you already know it in part in your own Christian life. If you don't know this, either you're a young believer, you will face this in the future, or else you're not a Christian. The word tribulation, and it's a work of God, means to crush, to press together, to compress. It means physical pressure, sheer, utter pressure. Not minor inconveniences of life. Some people say, guess what I'm going through. Candice and I used to look at each other and say, I wish I had their problems. But we never told them that. We showed grace and care and said, let's pray for you. We had laid hands on them, been praying them through their trials. Oh God, if only they knew what we were going through. They couldn't have imagined. This word actually means real hardship. Being squeezed or placed under pressure, or crushed beneath a heavy weight. It means to be pushed flat on the ground. Are you liking this? No amens tonight. There's an ancient steamroller that was created in the ancient Roman Empire, and they took this word, flip-loss, tribulation, and they named this steamroller this word, tribulation. Because what a steamroller does is what tribulation. This is how you get patience. You're going to be put in the grinder. You're going to have to face the heat of hell. You're going to have to endure some things. In fact, how does the wheat get separated from the chaff? Everyone thinks the chaff is sinful things or evil things. No, it's not. Do you know God has ordained the chaff and the wheat for a period of time? Only for a period of time. Then a time comes, and you know what? We need to get rid of the chaff in order to have the wheat and bring forth the wheat to be useful. So what do you do? You put it under crushing, under pressure. You bring the steamroller in, and as it begins to do its work, you get the wheat. The story of Job is the story of faith, endurance, patience, and winning against unbelievable, overwhelming odds. That's just your introduction here tonight. I want to give you several points here. Listen to me very carefully about the faith of Job. I've given you those verses. Let's apply it to the person of Job, and I'll go much deeper tomorrow because I believe Job is a type of the church, and we are just about to face certain things the like of which you cannot imagine. We've been there. We're maybe there now, but we're certainly going there. There is a remnant church that is going to stand like Job, and what I explain to you tomorrow, I assure you I can show you something biblically that shows you there's something just ahead where there's a Job church is going to stand in the fire, and you better understand what you're facing or you're going to get very confused in that hour. I know what I'm talking about. Number one, this is the faith of Job, faith before the fire, before the fire. Look at Job chapter one and verse one. It says, 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. Look at this faith of Job before the fire. What did it look like? You see, there's some that will say his faith appeared in the provisions he had, everything that he had, or that God preserved him and protected him, and the hedge that was around him. Surely, that hedge was a testimony to God's faith and to the faith of God in Job's heart. I want to tell you, the faith of Job before his trial revealed in the book of Job. You see it in verse one. What you see is faith, and not many people speak about faith like this. What did Job's faith look like? He was a perfect man. That means a mature man. That means a sincere man. That means a transparent man. Nothing hidden, no guile, no hypocrisy. It means he'd come to a place of great maturity in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is Job's faith before the fire comes. God is going to allow the fire to come. But here's a man with genuine, real faith. He is perfect in his generation. No other man in that generation was called perfect. Here's a man of perfect faith. How does it appear he was upright? I'm tired of a lack of uprightness in the church. I'm tired of a lack of integrity in the church that you can't trust people, that you can't trust leadership, that there's no more uprightness. Don't tell me that uprightness is thought highly of in the church in this generation, because it's not. It's demeaned. There's competition for ministry. They'd kill you for a pulpit on a Saturday night or Sunday morning. There's something wrong with that. There's something terribly, terribly wrong. But here's the faith of this man. He's one that feared God. You show me your faith, you're a man who fears God. If you don't fear God, you have no faith. I've met people along the road. They had faith to move mountains, faith to do miracles, but I saw very little of the fear of God trembling under the preaching of the word of God. They were casual. They were slack. They didn't fear this God. I'm gonna tell you this, the faith of Job before the fire, before the fire hits him, he fears God. He has got great integrity. That's the sort of man God's gonna let the fire come on. You know why? God's gonna take him somewhere, gonna use him. Look at this man, 10 children, seven boys, three girls. And he used to make sacrifices for them every single day. Several thousand sheep, 3,000 camels. Ah, now we're getting to the real faith of Job, aren't we? His possessions, his camels. There's a whole segment of the church that says that's how you discern faith. That is an abomination. This is taught all through the church that you can see the faith of Job by all he possessed. By all he kept. By what God wouldn't let the devil touch. But Job's faith was deeper than that because when all of those things go, Job still has faith. Take away everything from him. Faith can't be discerned by all these things that he lost. They did not prove or show the faith of Job because when they went, this man of God still had faith. We are told there in chapter 29, he himself begins to talk about what it was like before the trial came. In the months past when God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle. Do you know what the secret of God is? That's the secret council chamber of the Godhead. Father, Son, Holy Ghost. It is the secret council of the Almighty God. You know where it was? It was upon his tabernacle. In other words, God revealed mysteries. God revealed his plans. God showed his secrets to this man, Job. It goes deeper. Most people think this is the depths of faith. When you see this, this is faith before the fire. Do you hear me tonight? There is a kind of faith. It wasn't yet tried in the fire. God had not brought him to perfection of patience, and yet here he is, mysteries are opened. God revealed the secrets of his inner chamber. But do you know where God's gonna lead him? To a place where I'm not gonna tell you what I'm doing. This is a deeper place. This is a further place. I'm taking you on to perfection. We all across the church go, I know everything that God is gonna do and say. I am in such an intimate place. I've had people tell me, at least it sounds like it, they have more dreams, visions, and prophecies than Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Jeremiah all rolled together in one person. I've met hundreds of them, thousands of them. God speaks to me every day about everything and tells me everything. I said, are you serious? Yes. Not even the apostle Paul was like that. Job before the fire actually had an open heaven of understanding and revelation. But God says, there's so much more. You do have real faith. You have an upright faith, a righteous faith, a perfect faith, and yet I'm gonna take you further. When you read through chapter 29, you see his looking after the fatherless, the widowed, the broken, the poor, the lost, the lame. This is an extraordinary man. This is his faith, but it's a faith before the fire. That's number one, faith before the fire. Number two, faith challenged by fire. This is actually before anything physically happens. This is before the manifestation of the trial. It's hidden, it's secret. He knows nothing about it. His faith is being challenged by fire and he doesn't know it. He doesn't feel it. God doesn't tell him about it. It says there in Job chapter one, verse six to eight, all about this, but in verse nine, and Satan answered the Lord and said, does Job fear God for naught? He and she fears you for no good reason. It's untested. I know if they are tested, if this church was tested in a certain way, they will deny you. You don't even know what the devil's saying to God about you. There's a day hidden from you and it's part of the trial where the devil has access and he begins to say, does Job not fear you for naught? Has not thou made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has on every single side? This was God's divine protection. On his house, on everything he had, Satan, you can't even touch him, but here is faith challenged by fire. The devil is challenging that real faith and saying it's not real faith because if you allow them to go through certain things, they will curse you. They'll deny you. They'll turn their back on you. They'll say, I don't believe in God anymore. Let your wife die. I don't believe in you. Why would you let that happen to me? And so here is a secret hidden challenge. Put now forth thy hand and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face. This second realm, faith challenged by fire and we see this through the next chapters. Job, his wife, his friends, his servants, all believed that it was God doing these things to him. Look at the hedge. It speaks of protection. They don't realize the devil is restrained. Do you realize how much the devil's restrained in your life? Do you realize he can't challenge anything in your life? He can't touch anything when you walk with him with real faith, but don't think that's all there is to faith. Look at this Satan approaching God. The name Satan means opponent, adversary. It means to withstand, to attack, to accuse. It is the accuser of the brethren. And look at this, he's at the throne of God accusing a real genuine man whose genuine faith. I believe there's been many in the church who had a good testimony before the fire. Oh yes, before the fire. Certain things didn't happen to them, therefore they had faith and they walked with God and they feared God and they are upright. The fire comes and it crumbles. There's something wrong. And so Satan knows this. There's many in the church. Just let certain things happen in London and Britain. Just lift your hand. Lord, I challenge you that in London you don't have a real church. I'm telling you it's happening right now. Lord, I challenge you, you protected them. No persecution, no suffering for their faith. They go through three years of COVID and think the world's falling apart. I was with a brother the other day. Every single day the secret police come to his door looking information. Five men come out of the bushes with automatic weapons. He's a born again Christian, a preacher under communism in Slovakia. I think there would be a few churches quite small in this city. Lord, if you allow me to do this, they will run from you. They'll desert you. They'll say you don't love, that you don't care about them, that you're not interested in them, that you have failed them and disappointed them. God, I know most of those in the church, they are laughing stock. Just let me test them. I'll show you what they're really like because at the minute you so protected them. They're hypocrites. They're playing games. They're actually serving you for everything. The Lord's gonna protect me. The Lord's gonna keep me. The Lord's not gonna let anything bad happen to me. What a tragedy. Do you remember that the devil says here for naught, you pay good wages, God. You give them such good wages that they don't really fear you. It's not real, genuine faith. It's a faith that's been bought. You're paying them to have faith. Remember in the New Testament, in Luke chapter 22, verse 31, and the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you like wheat. But I pray for thee that thy faith fail not. Do you realize when Satan is asking, God's only interested in one thing, your faith. I mean real, genuine faith. What's faith? It's a confidence in God. It is an utter, absolute, determined faith not moved by what you see or you feel or you experience. You know, the faith of our generation is affected by everything in and around you. By the worship, by the music, by the church. That's what our faith is. Faith isn't that. And you know as Satan is asking for Peter, give him to me, give him to me. Let me come in and sift Peter. You know what Jesus is concerned about? Not so much failure or struggling or going through a dark time. You know what he's interested in? That faith, that confidence in God. That absolute knowledge and reliance upon the living God that it remains intact. I don't care so much about all the things in and around that. That's chaff. But you know what? That absolute confidence. Job in this trial doesn't know what's going on. In fact, he thinks God is doing it to him. His theology's a bit off, isn't it? You know, you're trying to get everything word perfect and you're concerned about your brother or sister. Oh, they don't realize that's the devil. Do you think that's what God is after? I understand their theology needs sorted out. I know that. Oh, we need to teach this. God never afflicted Job. It was the devil. It's not God who puts cancer on a person. It is the devil. I assure you, it's the devil behind that. The third thing, faith in the fire. I said faith challenged by fire, number two. I'm taking you step by step. Your faith can be getting challenged by fire. Nothing's happened yet. It's in this third realm, faith in the fire. Now you're going to experience it. Verse 12, And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath, all that he hath, is in thy power. God would never do that. I've got Scripture for it. It must have been his bad confession or his fear. The reason was with Job. Was it? Read your Bible. Go to Scripture. Show me. Prove to me. All that he hath is in thy power. You used to protect it. Now you're saying, okay. I'm going to show you tomorrow morning why God allows this and why he's going to allow it again and why he does at times. I don't want to scare you off tomorrow morning. You need to come here. There'll be a good part to it as well. Only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord. Imagine having a messenger come straight from the presence of the Lord straight to your door with such a message. We live in a generation right across Britain and Ireland. We combined every demon, rebuke the devil, cast out, cast into hell. You've heard it all. I bind you. I preached sermons about the demon before that no Christian can bind. Do you know there's a teaching in the Bible about that? Do you know there's certain demons you can't bind, you can't get rid of? I'm sorry, sister. I'm really messing with theology here, aren't I? You can sort things out after I go. The pastor's not going to ask me back again. Do you know where it is? The Apostle Paul. Where did that emissary? Oh, I think of sickness. No, it wasn't with the Apostle Paul. It wasn't. To Buffetham. Do you know what it was? Every town he went to, the devil, there was a fallen angel, devil sent aloud by God to actually follow him from town to town to town to stir up opposition three times. Lord, deliver me. Uh-uh. No way. This messes up totally the theology of this generation in Britain. All the demon teaching and all the bind, loosen. I believe in the power and authority of a believer over the devil. I believe in the casting out of devils. I do. But I'm telling you, when we think we're smarter than God and the Word of God, we're on dangerous ground. Paul, you ain't getting rid of this devil. You know why? Something is being worked on you to keep your heart humble. You can't get rid of this demon. I bind you, Satan. I can get rid of any demon. No, you can't. If the devil is actually attacking you under the sovereign will of God, do you think it's nice every, remember I said 14 years, we didn't have one month's break, 14 years, that's not natural. Every country we go to, that is not normal, I want to tell you. There's intelligence there, there's a pattern. I'm a really nice guy, so no one could dislike me. So that's not natural. There is a spiritual power behind that, stirring things up. Paul had to go through his entire 30-year ministry with the devil, and yet it's in the will of God. Can't be. Who says? And so faith in the fire. Look at this attack on Job. There's the first assault, then the second assault, the first one, the loss of possessions and his 10 children, with only four servants surviving. Happened all in one day. When you have trial after trial in one day, and every time the trial happens, only one servant survives, that's not natural. Why not two? Why is it every time that something happens, only one servant? That shows intelligence. Something is happening here. So the first messenger comes to the door. Job, a tribe of raiders called the Sabaeans, have stolen all of your oxen, your donkeys, and killed all of your servants, only I survive. So Job, the fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up all of your sheep and all of your servants, only I survive. The Chaldeans have come and stolen all of your camels, killed all of your servants, only I survive. The fourth man came. A wind hit the house and your 10 children were dead. Seven boys, three girls. The devastation. You know where you are now? Faith in the fire. Do you think this is out of God's control? That he doesn't have a plan in the midst of this? He's going, what's your faith going to be like in the fire? Some of you could be very smart and think you've got a great faith. It's never been tested yet. Walk humbly before your God. Walk very tenderly. I had a young Christian just very, very recently. Couldn't comprehend me. Obviously I lacked faith or something with what I'm walking through. What's wrong with it? Move on. After all, several months. Move on. Just get up. You can decide when to move on. Better walk very carefully. I've walked a long way in this walk. You don't know very much if you say something like that. Do you know what faith in the fire, what does it look like? What does Job's faith actually look like? Do you know Job had more faith at that hour than most Christians who are not in the faith prior to the fire. I really believe that. Look what Job does. This is faith manifest in the fire. Then, verse 20, Then Job arose and rent his mantle, shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and he worshipped. Do you want to see what faith looks like? This is what faith looks like in the fire. Before all of this, you could say, Well, look at all the possessions. You're not getting hassled. You're not in trouble. That's faith. Now have a very close look at faith in the fire when God says, Okay, Job doesn't have real faith. We'll see. He fears you for nothing, for no good reason. You're paying good wages. Okay, we'll see. I'm going to prove to you that there's still a church like Job in Britain, but certain things are going to have to happen. It won't be all churches. It won't be all Christians, but there's going to be a certain people like Job. In order for God to say, I do have a real church, they're going to have to walk through certain things. They're going to have to because God is going to have real faith in the fire. I'm in a real faith. And he said, Naked come I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return hither. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Job, your theology's wrong. You're really making mistakes saying things like that. Is he? Listen to the next statement. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. Be careful how you read Scripture. That was only the first onslaught. There's more. Then the second wave comes. It was the destruction of his health. Let's see how your faith withstands this. You're going to be in the fire. What are you going to do? What's your faith going to look like in the fire? Since I do not decide what I preach, I want to tell you, I can't tell you what I go through year to year. I pray for the mind of God. I'm a messenger boy. Chapter 2 verse 3, And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? Do you think the devil's focus came on Job, and he took advantage because of Job's lack, or something wrong with Job, and was able to move in because Job let the hedge down? The Bible doesn't say that. God draws the attention of Satan to Job for a reason before the challenge. You know why? God wants to raise up a testimony, a certain kind of testimony, a remarkable testimony about real faith. He doesn't want an untested faith. You see, not every Christian can bear with this. Not every church can endure this. Not every people are a vessel being made ready to show such a kind of faith that can survive the fire and walk through the fire. You know, some Christian's faith is so delicate you've got to use cotton wool. God's got to use that. There's other believers, you've seen them. God goes over them with a steamroller. I feel like I've been pulled through a hedge backwards so many times. I don't know which side of the hedge I'm at sometimes, but I do know who my God is. I do know where my standing is with the Lord. And so this onslaught comes against his health. Verse 3, And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? This is after the attack, in the midst of the fire. And still he holdeth fast his integrity. This is God speaking about Job. Job doesn't know what's happening. He cannot see. His ear has not been told by the voice of God what's going on. He is walking through this almost blind, caught up in this situation, saying, what is God doing to me? But I'm going to worship him. What does God say of Job? Right in that hour, do you know where he is? He's sitting on an ash heap. Do you know that Satan hated that man sitting on an ash heap, saying, you're dangerous to me. It's not your camels are dangerous to me. It's not even your health. That man's sitting on an ash heap with his health gone. The devil's still interested in him. You know why? That man's sitting on that ash heap, bemoaning him, I wish I'd never been born. The devil's going, I hate him. I've got to destroy him. This man on the ash heap that can't even see beyond himself is so dangerous. I'm in danger to the kingdom of Satan. He is destroying the lives of hell. Hell's saying, you don't have anyone like this. That man on the ash heap is proving there's a real man of God with real, genuine faith. He's got real integrity. You know, this man doesn't even understand what the battle's about. He thinks that, have I done something? What's going on here? Do you know, maybe, all right, maybe I did let the heads down. Do you know, just after Candace got diagnosed, I had a very good friend, pastor friend, who helped us in past times. In fact, one of the few people who stood with me at one point. He was the only one who stood with me at that point. But years later, here we are. He hears about the diagnosis. And this night, I'm fighting all the powers of hell. I'm praying for God to heal my wife. And he phones up this night. He says, Brother Keith, just wanted to phone you. He said, you let down the hedge. You're the husband. He said, we need to get to this. We need to talk. I was stunned. I sat in my seat, and I could not think of anything to say. I couldn't be mad. I couldn't be angry. I couldn't be wise. I couldn't be biblical. I was utterly stunned that in my darkest hour, here comes a man, and he says, no, this is the reason. Still, he holdeth his integrity. Aloh, thou movest me against him. Why was God moved against Job? Thou movest me against him. It wasn't something, Job. It wasn't his fear. It wasn't some other issue. He had a perfect faith. He was a perfect man. Do you know what it was? Satan stirs this up. But hold on. God actually drew his attention to him. I may leave you with some questions. I don't mind that. I don't want to answer everything. I want to show you. I'll answer every question about God. My God is good and kind and loving. He is perfect in all his ways. I trust him implicitly, utterly implicitly. In these seven months, I have never doubted him once. I implicitly trust him. I don't have a clue what's going on. I don't understand it. I don't like it. Sometimes I think I'm going crazy, but my confidence is in this God. I can't even be anything else, saints of God. He is so real. Satan answered the Lord and said, skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. Put forth, touch his flesh, touch his life, et cetera. What does Job look like in the fire? Chapter 13, 15. Listen to Job. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, but I will remain. I will maintain mine own ways before him. I'm going to keep going forward. You want to die. Surely the devil's defeated you. Look at you in that shape, and you go, I just want to die. It's over. I'm finished. But I trust you, and I'm going to keep going forward. Do you know that man's very, very dangerous to the devil? Most of the church don't even understand this. There was more faith in Job on the ashe than there is in most churches doing Jericho marches, I want to tell you. Or what about chapter 23 and 10? And he knoweth the way that I take, and when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Or what about chapter 10, verse 25? And I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though after my skin worms destroy the body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Number four, faith under fire. Faith under fire. Hold on, you said he's already in the fire. I know. Being in the fire was the work of Satan. His health is destroyed. His 10 children have been buried. Brother Keith, you said this was the faith of Job. Do we really know what faith looks like? When you find a sincere believer, and things happen, and say, I can't believe anymore. Don't you understand what this is about? It's easy to believe when you're blessed. And when there's a feeling, and an emotion, and an atmosphere. On that ash heap, you have the power to destroy the testimony of hell, like you never have in your entire Christian life. That man is a dangerous man. What comes after being in the fire? You're under fire. I'm a soldier. I was a soldier. I'm still a soldier. But five years in the British Army, you know when you come under fire, people are shooting at you. I fought in the first Gulf War. And this is something American, I hope there's no Americans here tonight, but the American Army is renowned for red on red, shooting at themselves, killing their own soldiers. If you're an American, please shut your ears for a minute. They're renowned for it. Most British soldiers aren't. There's a whole different concept. But friendly fire is one of the great and most dangerous things in warfare. You're in the war, you think you can trust your friends. Wouldn't you? You go, we're fighting Russia. We're fighting the enemy. Friends don't shoot friends when you're under fire. And you're in the fire, and you're in the war. I'm sorry to tell you, the book of Job shows something else. That's my fourth point. Faith under fire. You're in the fire like you've never been in your entire life, and suddenly there's friendly fire from your own lines. First of all, his wife, chapter two, verse nine. Then said his wife unto him, does thou still retain thine integrity? Do you see what this is about? It's about integrity. God's saying he's maintaining his integrity. His wife's saying, you're maintaining your integrity. Even his wife said, please curse God and die. Maybe this'll all be over. Maybe it'll come to an end. She knows what this is about. Integrity. Where's the integrity in the church of this generation? Don't you think it's time that there is a testimony raised up where there is real integrity in the church? I had a young friend in Spain, and he preached one sermon, and one of the top national leaders in Spain called him in. Had a ministry all across South America in the Spanish language. Called him in. Said, young man, here's your CD of that message on the cross. Crucified life. Says, now, and he didn't, he's a young guy. Hardly started his ministry when this big ministry calling me in. And this leader says, now, I'm gonna put your message on my website, and this'll go all across the Spanish-speaking world, and they're gonna hear you preach. Just one thing. I want you to stop preaching like this. Do you know how many stories I've heard like that? That's why I preach the way I do. I know what the church is. I'm not a fool about what's going on in our generation. And that young man come out. I wasn't surprised. I knew that the character. He says, can you believe this? I said, yes, sadly. And you know what? He says, no way. Turned it down. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. We need integrity again. I've seen hundreds of leaders sell their soul for a pulpit. I could tell you things make your hair stand on end. Do you know what the issue of Job is? Is there integrity left in the church of Jesus Christ? Some things are gonna happen, saints of God. They're really gonna happen. So under fire, curse God and die. He said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What, shall we not receive good at the hand of God and receive evil? Listen, in all this did not Job sin with his lips. Did you think he sinned there? No, he didn't. This is faith revealed in the fire. What about his three friends? Now we're getting to it. Friends, I'm not gonna preach all night. Just until I finish. His three friends, you're under fire. Haven't we said all through the years with friends like this, you don't need enemies. I've had hundreds of friends like this. Remember my friend, fooling me. I was stunned. I was on the seat. In fact, I was so quiet, he said, Hello, hello, are you there? I couldn't answer. Keith? Yeah. Are you okay? Yeah. Let's get back to, so you've let the wall down. Candace is facing stage four cancer because of you. What wonderful friends. I just needed such a friend when I'm in the fire. The worst fire in my life. God bless you, brother. Took me a while before I could speak to him again. I'm flesh and blood. His three friends, you read about them. There's a massive portion of Scripture. Chapter four in Job to chapter 31. And you've got all the conversations of three friends. Why'd the Holy Spirit waste all that time on friendly fire? You're in the fire. Faith in the fire. Now faith is under fire. He only gives a brief portion to being in the fire under the salt of hell. That was one day. And then another day when he took his health. Now all of these chapters, chapter four to 31, is under fire. Look at these three friends. They came to him immediately. What good friends. They immediately showed empathy. They cried with him. They began to weep aloud. What wonderful friends. They tore their robes beside him. And they sat with Job for seven days in complete silence. Utterly stunned. They couldn't recognize him. Seven days, no talking. Then at the end of this time, chapter two and 13, then Job cursed the day of his birth and wished he had never been born. And then the three friends start, maybe we'll save that for tomorrow. You won't believe what they brought. Do you know as I study these three wonderful, gifted, inspired, theologically sound, vision, night vision seeing friends who are in the victory, in faith, living above this, untouched by the devil? Devil's not interested in them. In fact, God's not interested in them. You know my granddad, granddad Mulligan, there in Northern Ireland, there was someone in their house and a demon literally manifested, I mean really manifested. And this demon, this voice spoke out and there was a sinner, sorry, a so-called supposed Christian there. And the demon spoke and said, who are you? My granddad with his humor said afterwards, said, boy, you're in trouble. Not even the devil knows you. Do you realize God's focus is not these three friends? Just look at it for a minute. Job is on the ash heap. They don't think he's got any faith. He's no threat to hell. He's got no testimony. He doesn't have anything. His wife doesn't think it. Nobody thinks it. But God's eye is on him. Still he holds his integrity. Hell's focus is on a man on an ash heap. He doesn't care about the three friends with their amazing theology and dreams and visions and prophecies and generational curses. I know it's your father sinned. I know it's you sinned. I know it's your children sinned. Well, which is it? You're all experts on ministry, aren't you? There's people all through the church in Britain and they can't wait to get their hands on you. Hopefully you're not in victory because that really stops them in their track. They're looking for problems and discouragement and fear and hang-ups in the past. My past's a bit clean-cut. You know, they want to delve into your past, get their hands on you. You need to be very careful who ministers onto you. This is faith under fire. Fifth and final, I'm finishing now. Listen very carefully, saints of God. Faith after the fire. I'm going to finish. We've got more to say tomorrow. I know God want me to preach. You know, last weekend, I would not want to tell you what I went through last weekend. There's nights, days, weeks, I wouldn't want anyone on this earth to feel what I felt at times. I really wouldn't. Not my worst enemy. Last weekend, I cannot tell you the onslaught from hell and that I went, I've got the wrong message. I really believe God led me to this. And then all hell and darkness come in and I cannot tell you the wicked, evil thoughts to say you cannot preach that next week on Saturday night, Sunday morning. You're out of the will of God. God isn't with you. You don't have the will of God. It's wrong. I'm telling you, the wrestling of a preacher. You won't believe what I've gone through every time I've come to London, especially to preach. It's really, I've gone through vicious fights. I know there can be battles always when you preach, but it strains the battles I've gone through in coming to London the past two years. Really vicious prior to it. My health gets hit, my cough, I can't hardly speak before, and yet I'm going, I want the mind of God. I'm not here to preach sermons. I'm here to get the mind of God. And I'm telling you, my heritage is here in this place. This holds a special place with me tonight. I'm with friends. There's something going on. Fifth and finally, faith after the fire. You have this in chapters 38 to 41. God reveals himself and now begins to speak. He's been utterly silent. Do you know how terrible it is when God doesn't speak? In the midst of the fire, and when you're under fire. You know, I said to someone the other day, I said, I don't feel God. I couldn't understand a young Christian. Couldn't understand it. Thought there was something wrong with me. You haven't lived very long. I want to tell you. I didn't say I didn't believe in God or trust in God or worship God. Job says, I go forward. You're not there. I can't perceive you. I can't see you. Was he backslidden? I can't feel him. I'm telling you, I'm being honest here. I can't feel him. I can't see him. I can't sense him. I've had the lies of hell come to me in a deluge for six or seven months in a way I never have in 50 years. It's unbelievable. But yet I trust him. I love him. I worship him. I'm loyal to him. There's integrity. I'm not anything. I'm no better than a man on an ash heap, but I do know my Redeemer liveth. And I know when he finishes work with this fire, I know gold's coming forth. I know that. I know this God. I know his character. I know his nature. But look at this. God was silent. Do you know how terrible it is when God is silent? We think it's spiritual. You're at your spiritual height when God is speaking to you and you're hearing everything clearly. Who told you that? Do you know maybe one of the most spiritual times is when you hear nothing? I've got an overwhelming sense of him being with me. The Scripture, I can't keep up with sermons. It opens and it opens and it opens. I'm being abundantly fed. I can't help but preach during this dark time. I mean, I don't think these messages up. I'm not grappled. They are coming down from the Lord. And yet my mind doesn't function. I can't get it to function. My emotions aren't functioning. And yet the word of God's coming. And yet he's utterly silent. He is with me. I am so conscious of him. But he's silent. It's a deliberate silence. Lord, why is this happening to me? I've never been one, 50 years, I've never said, why God? A girl I love deeply, she was killed in a car accident when I was 21 years old. At the time I wanted to marry her. Never asked why. Never. Never questioned. 21 years old. I could take you through that. See, this silence is almost unbearable. Silence. Lord, what am I going through? What's happening? What are you doing? What's the purpose? Please show me the purpose. I'll make this easier. What if I never tell you? I hope he does tell me. But I'm walking through this going, but I trust you implicitly. Faith after the fire. Three things as I close. Revelation out of refining. Job 42 and 5. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee. Revelation out of the refining. You've been refined. Now I see. Job, you're a perfect man in chapter 1 verse 1. You're an upright man. You fear God. You have everything. The secret of the Lord is upon you. And you're saying, now I see God. Do you know most of the church when they say, I know it all. I go, God help me. I tremble even when they say that. I go, I feel like a child only beginning in this journey. I feel like I'm only embarking. What do I know? But there is revelation in the refining. Now my eye sees. Saints of God, this is faith after the fire. The most horrendous, there's going to come a church. Do you hear me? There's going to come a church up out of the fire. It's been in the fire and under fire. And God's hand is in that. And also the devil is involved in that. And up out of the fire is going to arise a church that says, now we see you. Now we know you. Out of the fire. There is a work of God bringing forth patience. Also repentance, chapter 42, 6. Wherefore I abhor myself and I repent in dust and ashes. Then restoration, chapter 42 and 10. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Do you want to pray for these friends? This is the eve. It's after the fire. You want to move on now out of the fire? Pray for those friends. This could be harder than anything. Hold on. It was hard, them assaulting me and accusing me. It was hard hearing about my ten children. Praying for them, I think that's the hardest now. You want me to pray for these three friends? Utterly unfaithful friends. Theologically messed up friends. Spiritually astute friends. Maybe those three friends represent movements and churches who God isn't even going to put in the fire. Do you know why? Because they're going to serve their purpose. Because the real Jewish church, they're going to turn their guns on the real Jewish church. I thought you were a church of faith. We thought you walked with God. We thought you had an intimate relationship with God. And now you've got to pray for these three friends. Joseph's greatest trial was not the prison, and not the pet, and not his brothers. Getting angry with him. It was right when he was sitting on the throne and God had him in position. And he looks up and they're walking down. Uh-oh, you're about to face your greatest trial. Joseph, what are you going to do with those conniving brothers of yours? And now you're in a position that you can do anything. Joseph, it wasn't the prison. It wasn't Potiphar's house. You are now, you've got all this power and blessing and authority and the will of God. And you see all these connivers and angry and bitter and liars and all the game players. Your brothers walking down the road. What are you going to do now? Job, if you pray for your three friends, I'm going to turn your captivity. And you know what he done. He prayed for his friends. And the Lord turned his captivity and God gave him back twice as much. Twice as much. Saints of God, I believe that there's going to be a Job church. And I don't fully know what I'm talking about really. You understand what I mean. I don't know what that involves. I don't know what we're going to face. But I'm tired of what I've seen from a child. Growing up, oh, I knew the saints of God. I knew those holy women of God. I'm telling you, there's nothing like them that pray and walk with God humbly. They're some of the greatest saints I've ever met. Nobody knows about them. But saints, we're about to go home. But we're about to play the last chapter of church history. And I want to show you tomorrow morning what's just about to happen. I want to prove it from prophetic scriptures. Something that I've never in my entire life heard anyone preach about. Neither can I find a commentary that will even discuss it, talk about it, or comment on it. And yet I believe it's very clear of a certain thing. And I'm going to show you, you'll see it. Of something that's just about to take place. And I believe it's connected to Job. And it's somewhere between now and the fulfilling of all the prophecies and revelation. And in that gap, it's about to happen. And it's got everything to do, concerning what I'm saying tonight and tomorrow morning. Church of God, I'm here in the will of God. I don't understand what's going on. I don't understand why my brother and I had to meet one year ago. I don't understand why Candice was the connection on that other side. And bringing us together. I don't understand why I went, hold on, this ties into 60 years ago. In this church. And that building out the back there, I took a photograph from the window. That building looks like a place that was here 60 years ago. That village road, all these things that happen in and around here. I go, what is going on? Maybe just very, very shortly, we're about to see. All the prayers that went up and ascended 60 years ago. I knew some of those old ladies who wrestled in prayer 60 years ago. I grew up with them from children. They never changed from us that height until it was this height. And they still sounded the same and acted the same and prayed the same all my entire life. And some of those ladies were in that Bible school with Philip Mobier 60 years ago wrestling in prayer. One of those ladies, June Barry, they couldn't get her out of the prayer room. They went down there and went, June's always in there praying. We want to get in there and pray. Saints of God, stand with me here tonight. Why don't you lift your hands? Saints of God. Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus. Oh, worthy is the Lamb. Let's just love him. Let's just worship him. Out of our spirit. Out of our innermost being. Let's just adore him. Let's just magnify him. Let's just thank him tonight. Hallelujah. Lamb of God, we love you. We worship you. We are in your hand, oh God. What other place do we desire to be than right in the center of your will? Lord God, we are a vessel in your hand. We don't know everything. We don't understand everything. Yet this we do know. Our faith is in you. Our confidence is in you. Our eyes are upon you. That you're a good God and a kind God and a wise God. You're a God to be trusted when we cannot see and when everything is dark and around us. When contradiction comes and things we don't understand happen. My God, we lean on you heavier than at any other time. My God, with the fire and the trials and the friendly fire. My God, it just drives us deeper into you. My God, there's mysteries that we do not understand. And yet our eyes are upon you tonight. Lord Jesus, we cry out to you. Lord Heavenly Father, we cry out. My God, fulfill your purpose. Even in me standing here and delivering this word. Lord God, we are asking that you move in our midst. My God, we are desperate for a revival. We're desperate for a move of God in the nation. We want a genuine heaven sent revival. My God, you spoke to me at five years old about a revival that's gonna come. And Lord God, we cry to you. Revive your church again. Pour out your Holy Spirit, oh God. Bring back integrity to the center of your church. Bring back a genuine faith tried in the fire. Lord God, a restoration of the real. And Lord God, we dare not say to do whatever it takes. Oh God, we tremble at the thought of the price, oh God, of you getting a real bride, a real church, genuine men and women of God again. We tremble at our own weakness and inability, oh God. We know what we're prone to. We understand our frailty. But oh God, our trust is in a mighty, immovable God, a sovereign God who has a plan. And oh God, you've chosen that we are caught up in that plan in this hour. We yield to you tonight. We submit to you in Jesus' mighty name. In Jesus' mighty name. Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus. Lord Jesus, Pastor. Lord Jesus. ======================================================================== Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/4k9TdrtE4bw.mp4 Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/keith-malcomson/the-faith-of-job/ ========================================================================