Turning our Bibles to Job 42. Job 42. On Friday, Melinda and the kids
and I went up to visit with Chloe soon after her surgery in the
hospital. And I looked at this little six-year-old
girl She was still groggy from the anesthesia and she was laying
there in the bed so sick with leukemia. And I saw a young mother
and a young father with hurt in their eyes. And I know both of them would
gladly take her place in a heartbeat. And on the drive home, I prayed
and I asked God to give me a message for them and for us. And I began to think about how
that I've known a number of believers who have suffered in very, very
heavy trials and suffered some very, very heavy losses. And they've told me, more than
one believer has told me, that they would not change a thing
about their trial. It's not because there was anything
easy or pleasant about the trial. It's because after the trial,
God taught them things and blessed them in ways that they could
not have known apart from the trial. When God sends His child
to trial, It's bitter to go through. But in the end, God always accomplishes
His purpose of blessing and edifying His child. Now that's just so. When God sends His child to trial,
though it is bitter for us to go through, at the trial's end,
God always accomplishes His purpose to bless His child and edifies. A trial is a form of captivity. A trial is a form of captivity. Look down at verse 10, Job 42.10. It says, The Lord turned the
captivity of Job. He released him from the captivity
of affliction and sorrow and made him rejoice. That's what
it means. Well, God gave the children of
Israel a great trial of captivity. under the Babylonians for seventy
long years. But even as they suffered that
trial, God sent Jeremiah to them and assured them. Go with me
to Jeremiah 29. I want you to see what God sent
His prophet to assure them of. Jeremiah 29.10. Thus saith the Lord, Jeremiah
29.10, Thus saith the Lord, that after seventy years be accomplished
at Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward
you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts
of peace and not of evil, to give you and expect it in. Then
shall you call upon Me, and you shall go and pray unto Me, and
I will hearken unto you, and you shall seek Me and find Me
when you shall search for Me with all your heart. And I will
be found of you, saith the Lord, and I will turn away your captivity,
and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the
places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord, and I will
bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried
away captive. Now that's God's promise. Go
back with me to Job 42. Our subject this morning is the
trial's end. The trial's end. And I want to
show you three things that God did for Job at his trial's end,
which God does for His child at the end of our trials. One,
God grew Job in the knowledge of Christ. He grew Job in the
knowledge of Christ. Job 42.5. Job was brought to
say, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now
mine eye seeth thee, wherefore I abhor myself and repent in
dust and ashes. Number two, as God grew him in
the knowledge of Christ, God grew Job in the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Job 42.7 says, And it was so
that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord
said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee
and against thy two friends. For you have not spoken of me,
the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take
unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant
Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. That meant
Go to Job, and Job will offer it up for you. And My servant
Job shall pray for you, for him will I accept, lest I deal with
you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of Me the
thing which is right, like My servant Job. And so Eliphaz the
Temanite, and Bildad the Shuite, and Zophar the Naamathite went
and did according as the Lord commanded them, and the Lord
also accepted Job. And then three, after the trial
ended, God blessed Job with more than he had from the beginning. Job 42.10 says, Job 42.10 says, The Lord turned
the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends, and also
the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there
unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they
that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with
him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted
him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. Every
man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring
of gold, so that the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than
his beginning. For he had fourteen thousand
sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,
and a thousand she-asses. He had also seven sons and three
daughters. And he called the name of the
first Jemima, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name
of the third Cairnhop. And in all the land were no women
found so fair as the daughters of Job. and their father gave
them inheritance among their brethren. And after this lived
Job a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons'
sons, even four generations. So Job died being old and full
of days." I hope God will use this to comfort Ravi and Debbie,
their family, and each of us here, and all of his saints that
are suffering in any kind of trial. At the trial's end, God
will grow His child in the knowledge of Christ. Through the trial,
at the trial's end, when God has accomplished His purpose,
it will be that He will grow His child in the knowledge of
Christ. Verse 5, Job was brought to say,
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye
seeth thee. The first hour that God gives
His child faith in Christ, it's a grievous trial. It goes through
a terrible trial. It is a terrible captivity. Lots
of suffering involved in it as He reveals to him what a sinful
wretch he is. But as soon as God brings him
to the end of that trial, this is where he's brought, right
here, to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's brought
to cry out as Job did, I've heard of thee by the hearing of the
ear, but now mine eye seeeth thee. Scripture says, according
as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain
unto life and godliness through the knowledge of Him. Through
the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.
And just like God does this in the very first hour, likewise
after the trials end, in every trial God brings His child through.
He brings us to know in a more sure way, in a greater way, with
more light, the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. And He
brings us to cry out, just as Job did, I've heard of thee by
the hearing of the ear, but now mine eyes see a thing. For a
believer, we're made to behold our Redeemer so clearly in these
times that we feel like it's the first day we ever believed
on the Lord. I've told you this on more than one occasion. The
Lord put me through a trial and when the trial was over, He increased
an understanding of Christ, gave me a more clear view of Christ,
grew me in the knowledge of Christ to the point I thought, now I
see you. This whole time I've just been
hearing of you with my ear. Now I really believe on you.
I really see you. That's how it is over and over
and over again. For a believer, we're made to
behold Christ. Why does He send these trials?
Well, one of the best ways to keep us turned from our will
and our wisdom and our works is to continually make us behold
Christ. And while He does that, He makes
us behold by first-hand experience total depravity. He makes us
experience, He makes us to know by first-hand account that we
are totally depraved. When you see your child suffer,
you would gladly, gladly take that child's place. You'd gladly
do so. You're willing to do so, but
here's the problem. You just can't do it. In a trial like this, God makes
the doctrine of total depravity so very real to a believer We
experience firsthand how helpless our will is, how helpless our
works are to save. As a believer, Paul said, to
will is present with me. I'd be willing to take my child's
place. But how to perform that which
is good, I find not. I don't have the ability. That's
depravity, brethren. The Spirit of God makes us behold
our everlasting Father. We see when He brings us to see
our depravity and see that we can't do anything. By nature
our will is depraved and even when He gives us a new will in
the new man, we still can't perform that which we'd be willing to
perform. But then He turns you to our everlasting Father, the
Lord Jesus Christ, who not only beheld His child in our sickbed
of sin and death, He came to where we are. And He was able. He was not only willing, but
He had the power and was able to take not only our sickness,
but to take our sin upon Himself and bear our sin in His own body. He both willed and had the power
to perform the work. Scripture says the Lord looked
down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any
that didn't understand and seek God. They're all gone aside. They all together become filthy. There's none that do us good.
No, not one. Our Lord looked upon us in our
sick bed and that's what He saw. A disease incurable by any of
us or by any man. And he said in Isaiah 63, 5,
ìI looked and there was none to help, and I wondered that
there was none to uphold. Therefore, mine own arm brought
salvation unto me, and my fury it upheld me.î We look and weíre
helpless. He looked and He came and He
took. The sin, not of one of his sick
children, the sin of every elect child of God that the Father
trusted to him. For the judgment was by one sin
to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses unto
justification. It was not just one sin of one
child, it was all the sin of all God's elect. And then being
made sin for us, He bore His own just fury. And thereby His own fury upheld
Him. By His own blood. By His own
suffering. By His own bearing the sword
of divine justice. By His own forsaking of Himself
on that cross. God forsaking God. He bore His
own fury. He bore the fury that it required
to satisfy divine justice and uphold His law and truly, really
and truly crucify and pour out judgment upon every single soul
that He determined to save. Every one that He determined
to save died on the cross when He died. Judgment was satisfied. Judgment was settled. God was
glorified. The sins of His people was purged
forever. And He did all this by upholding
and bearing His own fury Himself. And so He says of Himself, Therefore
mine own arm brought salvation unto me, and my fury it upheld
me. And when we're in a trial, and
God gives us light to behold Christ on the cross bearing that
infinite pain and sorrow for us, That's what I think the trial
partly is about. It's to make us suffer. It's
to make us experience true, genuine pain, real heartbreak, real sorrow. And then He points us to Himself
and shows us one who bore infinitely more sorrow. than even the very
worst sorrow that you and I can be going through. And He brings you to cry out,
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eyes
see it thee. I wish I could express, if you
have never been through this, I wish I could express to you
how real this is. The Lord brings you to see You
can do nothing. He brings you to see and feel
the sorrow and the pain for someone you love or some other way in
the trial. And then He brings you to see
that Christ bore so much more for you. And for the first time,
you feel like for the first time you really and truly behold Christ. It takes all this for God to
wake us up out of our stupor, of our day to day, and our sin,
and all the things that we're going through, to set us down
just a minute and preach to us a message that we would not be
able to get any other way. He said, I'll pour, not just
a little bit, I'll pour upon the house of David, upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they shall look upon me whom
they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one mourneth
for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him as one
that's in bitterness for his firstborn. And brethren, that
look is a double cure. That look not only brings us
to rest entirely in Christ Jesus our Lord, like we've never rested
in Him before. That look also, when we behold
Him pierced, and we enter into that pain of what He bore for
His people, for us personally, it not only makes us rest entirely
in Him, it's the double cure. It makes us say, I abhor myself. and I repent in dust and ashes. The sure way to see that we're
nothing is to see Christ as everything. Go with me to 2 Corinthians 4.17. My brother mentioned this already
when I talked to him. And my heart breaks, brethren,
to see you suffer in trials, but this gracious work that our
Lord works through trials This gracious work that our Lord works
through trials is what the Apostle Paul meant when he said this
right here in verse 17, 2 Corinthians 4 verse 17. He said, Our light
affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Oh, the trial is so
bitter to us and it's so hard to bear. Job was a leper. Job had lost everything and he
was a leper. And yet God brought him to see
Christ and grow in the knowledge of Christ to where Job was able
to say what Paul said right here, our light affliction, which is
but for a moment works for us a far more exceeding weight,
an eternal weight of glory. Why? How? What is he doing? While
we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which
are not seen. For the things which are seen
are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. God makes us see what's real
and what's important. Now secondly, at the trial's
end, God also grows His child in the grace of Christ. Not only
does He grow us in the knowledge of Christ, but as He grows us
in the knowledge of Christ, He grows us in the grace of Christ. Look here in verse 7. It was
so that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord
said to Eliphaz, My wrath is kindled against thee and against
thy two friends, for you have not spoken of me the thing that
is right, as my servant Job hath. Now this is a A little side note
I want to throw in here, but if we need to be defended in
a trial, God will vindicate His child. I've experienced this
firsthand. If you need to be defended in
a trial, God will vindicate His child. When God tries you and
He uses friends to treat you with contempt, never try to vindicate
yourself. Don't do it. Job tried to. You know what Job was doing?
He was putting his hand to the ark. And you know what he did?
He made a mess of it by trying to vindicate himself. He went
too far and said things he ought not to have said about God and
about himself. Don't try to vindicate yourself.
Wait on the Lord. Because Christ waited on the
Lord. Christ waited on the Father. Christ said this, I hid not my
face from shame and spitting. He didn't open His mouth and
try to vindicate Himself. He was as a lamb led to his shearers. He was dumb. He was silent. He opened not His mouth. Why? For the Lord God will help me. Therefore shall I not be confounded.
Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that
I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifies me. Who will contend with me? Let
us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him
come near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help
me." And He did. When the trial was over, when
Christ cried, ìItís finished,î the Lord justified Him. The Lord
vindicated Him. The Lord raised Him showing to
this whole world He is who He says He is and He did accomplish
what He came to accomplish. And so now you and I, brethren,
have the assurance from Christ that in the trial, if you need
to be vindicated, wait on the Lord. Our Lord Jesus Christ will
vindicate us. Paul took that very same text
in Isaiah 50 that is concerning Christ and he applied it to us
in Romans 8. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. Who
is He that condemneth? It's Christ that died. Yea, brethren,
that's risen again, who's living at the right hand of God, who
also maketh intercession for us. Christ will vindicate His
child. He may not vindicate us on this
earth. Usually He does, though. But
even if He doesn't vindicate us on this earth, there's coming
a day when He will. There's coming a day when He
will. So don't try to defend yourself if God uses friends
like He used these friends toward Job. Don't try to defend yourself.
The Lord will vindicate you. Now here is my main point. God
grew Job in the grace of Christ. Now in the way God made Job to
do for these men who had treated him with so much contempt, Here's
these men who had been the adversary of Job. They had come and said
some horrible things against Job. They had not been friends
to him at all. They accused him of doing something
wrong and that's why God brought this upon him. And they were
not good friends to Job at all. But now God takes these friends
who had treated him with so much contempt and He tells them, you
need to make an offering to Me because you've sinned. And here's
how you're going to do it. You're going to take this offering
to Job my servant. And my servant Job who you treated
with such contempt, this man who was treated with such contempt
is going to come to me on your behalf and intercede with me
on your behalf. That, my friends, is God growing
Job in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ because that's exactly
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ toward us. That's the grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ toward us who treated Him with that
kind of contempt. And God is making Job now want
to show grace to these men and intercede with them for God because
he sees now the grace of the Lord toward him. That's growing
in the grace of our Lord Jesus. Now let's look at it here. Job
42.8. He tells them, ìTake unto you now seven bullocks and seven
rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a
burnt offering,î meaning Jobís going to do it for you, ìand
My servant Job shall pray for you. For him will I accept, lest
I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken to
Me the thing which is right, like My servant Job.î Do you
see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in that, His grace toward
us? They had to bring seven bullocks
and seven rams. Seven is the number of perfection.
They had to bring an offering. Blood had to be shed to remit
their sins. Our Lord Jesus Christ, by His
one offering, hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
He is that perfect offering. He is that perfect sacrifice
who perfected forever them that are sanctified. And God told
them to go to Job, and Job would offer this sacrifice to God for
them, and Job would make intercession for them. And that's exactly
what Christ did for Job, and that's what Christ did for all
God's elect, you and me included. After we treated Him with so
much contempt, we sinned against Christ. All our days we sinned
against Christ. Every thought in our heart was
only evil continually against Christ. We hated God with all
our fleshly heart. And when God saved us, who did
He send us to? That very one. That very one. Go to Him. Go
to Him. He's the God-man mediator. And
He'll stand between you, sinner, and between God the Father, and
He will intercede on behalf of this God-hating rebel. and make intercession for it.
That's the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ offers Himself
to God on behalf of the people that sinned against Him. Christ
is the intercessor who's our advocate with the Father on our
behalf. Two different times here God says of Job, He's my servant. Christ is the servant of God.
He came and made Himself of no reputation, but took upon Him
the form of a servant and humbled Himself and became obedient even
unto the death of the cross. He is the righteous servant of
God. And He did that for sinners,
wicked, God-hating like you and me who hated Him with every fiber
of our being. And God told them they had to
come to Job. And He said, verse 4, For Him
will I accept, lest I deal with you after your folly, for you
are not right like My servant Job is, He said. Sinners must
come to God through faith in Christ because you and I are
not righteous in ourselves. This is what God taught us about
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. You have to come to this one
you've sinned against. You have to come to this one
who you crucified. You have to come to this one
who died because he was bearing your sin. You have to come to
Him because you're not righteous in yourself. God said, I'll accept
Him. And if you don't come to Him,
I'll deal with you after your folly, after your sin. Sinner,
you want to be dealt with and accepted by God in grace and
in mercy, come in Christ, because He'll accept Christ. If we don't
come in Christ, He's going to deal with us after our sin. He'll
deal with us after our sin. And then in verse 9, now we see
the grace of our God and see that He grew Job in the grace
of Christ. They did according as the Lord
commanded and Job interceded for them and the Lord also accepted
Job. Now do you see how through this
trial God grew Job in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ? All
these things we just saw that Christ did for us, God brought Job, made him willing
to do this in a little way like what Christ did for him. He made
Him willing to do this for some men who treated Him not nearly
as contemptuously as Job treated Christ. But He was brought to
do this for them like Christ did it for Him. God made Job
willing to show them grace because he had seen the grace of Christ
toward him better. God made Job willing to do for
his adversaries what Christ did for him. Job interceded with
God on behalf of the men who had treated him as an enemy.
That's being grown in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. That
is the grace of our Lord. Turn to 2 Corinthians 8. 2 Corinthians 8. The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ toward His people is that He laid down His
life and He interceded for His people who hated Him and treated
Him with contempt. Look at 2 Corinthians 8 and 9.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though
He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor. Don't we see
a beautiful picture of that in Job? Job was a rich man. But
to get to this place right here where Job was willing to offer
a sacrifice for these men, Job was made poor. That's a picture
of Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your
sakes he became poor that you through his poverty might be
rich. Who are we talking about here
when it says, for your sakes he became poor? Go over to Colossians
1. Colossians 1. Who are we talking about here
that He did this for? Colossians 1.21. You, you that were sometime alienated
and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now, hath He reconciled
in the body of His flesh through death to present you. Just like Job went before God
to present these men, Christ went before God to present us
who were His enemies and that He might present us holy and
unblameable and unapprovable in His sight. So that's what
we see in Job, a believer that God grew in the grace of Christ. Now this is not that phony mess
that men call progressive sanctification where they tell you now you get
under the law and you try to not let people see you do this
and that and the other and then you call it holiness. No. When we are born of God, our
inner man is recreated in the image of God, conformed to the
image of Christ, and that new man is holy, and we never become
more holy. I heard a good illustration on
this. Brother Kevin gave it to me, coming back from Alabama
the other day. When a woman conceives in her
womb, and there is a new child, a new man in her womb, she doesn't
get more pregnant than she is. She's as pregnant as she's going
to get. But, that new man within her grows. Grows. And brethren, we never become
more holy, but God grows that new man in the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ. He makes us more willing to lay
down our lives for one another, even for our enemies. That's
what we're talking about. That's what the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ is. He was willing to lay down His
life for His enemies. That's growing in the grace of
our Lord Jesus. All this phony mess religion is doing, I wouldn't
give you two cents for that junk. This is what God does and He
only does it in the way we see right here. A man can't produce
this. A preacher can't produce this
in you. A disciplinary council can't
produce this in you. This takes the grace of our God
producing this in you by power. And He alone can do it. He alone
can do it. It's what the Apostle Peter called
growing in grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. That's the first two things we
saw that God did to Job in this trial. He grew him in the knowledge
of Christ and He grew him in the grace of our Lord Jesus.
Now lastly, After the trial, we find that not only has God
not hurt us, but God has blessed us with more than we had before. At the end of the trial, we're
going to find out, oh, our flesh might suffer and we might lose
something in the flesh, but that has not hurt us. Because the
real us is that new man. And you'll find that God has
blessed that new man more than you had before. Look here in
verse 10. The Lord turned the captivity
of Job when he prayed for his friends. That's the first thing
that happened where he was blessed more than before. The Lord turned
Job's captivity. He turned his sorrow and his
affliction into joy and rejoicing. God gave him joy when He made
him behold Christ more than he had ever beheld Him before. God
gave him joy when He made him behold the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Looking to Christ like he had
never beheld it before. And now this is important. Where
did God do this? When did God do this? He did
it in the public worship of God. How do you know that? It says
there that He did this when He came to offer the sacrifice and
pray for His friends. That's public worship. That was
public worship for them. Here's the point of that. Before,
during and after the trial, never cease to assemble to publicly
worship the Lord. Before the trial, during the
trial, after the trial, never cease to assemble to worship
the Lord. Because it is going to be through
the preaching of the Word that God is going to sanctify the
trial to you and teach you what it is all about. He is going
to teach you what He is teaching you in that trial. And turn your
captivity, your sorrow and your suffering into rejoicing. That
is what He is going to do. If I have one word of advice,
that dear Debbie is not going to leave that child. She is not
going to leave that baby. And I understand that. She is a mother.
She loves that baby. If I were you, I'd set her up
with a computer or something so she could join us in this
service because it's important for her. Right now, when you're
sick, you need to go to the doctor. And right now, she's in affliction,
she's in captivity, just like Rafi. And this is the time to
hear the Word of the Lord. It's how He's going to teach
you. It's how He's going to turn that captivity to joy. And that's
so for anybody else here that's suffering affliction. I pray
that's what He's doing for somebody today, that He's turning your
captivity to joy after the trial you've suffered. Now here's the
second way God gave Job more than he had before, verse 10.
Also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then
came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all
they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with
him in his house. They bemoaned him, they comforted
him over all the evil the Lord had brought upon him. Every man
gave him a piece of money, every one an earring of gold. And so
the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.
He had more sheep, and more camels, and he had more oxen. The Lord
blessed him that way. He had seven sons and three daughters. The Lord blessed him that way.
And after this, he lived 140 years and he saw his sons and
his sons' sons and four generations, brethren. And then he died and
went to be with the Lord. You think about Christ. He went
to that cross and he suffered. He said, ìIs there any sorrow
like unto my sorrow?î He suffered more than any man. His vision
was marred more than any man. That's the forsaking of God that
did that. That was the Lord pouring out
His wrath upon His Son that did that. And He lost everything. Christ
gave up everything. More so than Job did. But just
think now. When the Lord turned His affliction,
turned that captivity into rejoicing, He raised Him to the right hand
of the Father and He gave Him a multitude of brethren. He still
right now, our Lord Jesus from glory right now is still seeing
His sons and His sons' sons and His sons' sons' sons. He is watching
them be born again right now and come to Him in glory. And
He has unsearchable riches, the unsearchable riches of Christ.
He has those riches. He has the cattle of a thousand
hills are His. God's given Him everything is
His. In heaven and in earth, it's
all His. And He's made His people joint heirs with Him. And I guarantee
you this, brethren, this is why I've heard so many believers
who suffered grievous trials say that they wouldn't change
one thing about it. Robert Hawker said, the deepest
afflictions are but the seed time of a joyful harvest. You plant the seed in the garden,
the soil's got to be broken, and you just wait. That's what
the trial is. That's the seed time. But at
the trial's end, there's going to come forth a bountiful harvest.
And you're going to find out the Lord blessed you more than
in the beginning. How do you know this, preacher?
Because we know that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.
That means everything. Every event in our lives is being
worked together by our faithful heavenly Father for the good
of each of His children according to His purpose. So we just patiently
endure and wait. Behold, we count them happy which
endure. You've heard of the patience
of Job and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is
very pitiful and of tender mercy. So to every believer who's suffering
a trial on the Word of our God which I have proven myself by
experience, I comfort you with this. After this trial, it shall
be said of you what was said of Job. The Lord blessed the
latter end more than His beginning. I guarantee you. I guarantee
you that's going to be the case. I pray God bless it. Amen.