Job—An Intercessor for His Family

Thank you, Lord, for establishing this work here and for giving us a job to do to reach our Jerusalem here in Greenville with the gospel and to shine as a light, as a city on a hill, as salt of the earth. Lord, as we look at the book of Job, especially as we look at the family, Job’s family, and the different truths and principles through Job’s life, who is your servant, please give us understanding and wisdom.

Be our teacher. And Lord, I pray especially, Lord, help me through the word of God to strengthen and to encourage your people. In Jesus’ name, amen. So, as I said, the book of Job has a secondary theme of the family because you do see Job’s family here. And we’ll begin reading in verse number one. There was a man in the land of Uz or Uz whose name was Job. Now, some, a lot of people say that the book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible. And the reason they say that, the primary reason they say that is because you will not find any mention of Israel or any, anything about the law or any of the major themes of the Old Testament Scripture anywhere in the book of Job.

And even Job’s hometown or homeland, which was the land of Uz, is associated with the patriarchs in the book of Genesis, like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It’s my personal belief that Job probably lived in the time where there were God-fearing people, but the whole nation of Israel had not yet been firmly established like in the time of Jacob. Because you do see figures like that in the book of Genesis.

So that’s my personal opinion about the period of Job, which makes the book so much more interesting to me. This is one of my favorite books in the Bible. so much more interesting to me. This is one of my favorite books in the Bible. There’s just, there’s so much, so many good things in the book of Job that deal with suffering, deal with the Lord, deal with science, all kinds of things in the book of Job.

But the fact that the scriptures of the Old Testament had not yet been written when the time that this was written, apparently, for sure at the time it’s recorded, makes it even more interesting because it reveals a lot of things about God that mankind had known even before the Lord officially revealed it, right, in the scripture. So it’s just interesting in that way. Middle of verse one says, and that man, Job, was perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evil. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

His substance also was 7,000 sheep and 3,000 camels and 500 yoke of oxen and 500 she-asses and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east. And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one on his day, and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all.

For Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. Now you see his children here, his wife will be mentioned later. What I want you to first of all see is just we’re just going to dive in. I basically have just a series of points I want to give you, and then we’ll be finished with our service. The first thing I want you to see is in verse number one and two.

You see the riches and the wealth of Job. But notice how the riches and the wealth of Job are described in their proper order. And it sets forth what, in other words, it sets forth to us, because it’s listed in this way, it sets forth to us what should be the proper order and the way that we value riches and wealth also. Notice in verse 1, it says this, that man was perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evil, similar to what we saw on Wednesday night with Noah, right? And then at verse 2, it talks about his, he was, were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. So those are his 10 children. And then in verse 3, it says he had 7,000 sheep, camels, oxen, sheasses, a very great household, a lot of money, a lot of wealth, the greatest man in the East. Note the order of his wealth. We might think that verse 3 is the only verse that talks about Job’s wealth, but that’s not true. Job’s wealth begins in verse 1.

that’s not true. Job’s wealth begins in verse one. The first thing in his wealth, what makes this man wealthy is his relationship with his God. The first thing that is of primary importance. And is this not a truth you see throughout scripture? The way that you judge wealth is not just in material things. That’s the way the world judges it because the world has no criteria to judge true wealth. So they judge it based upon what you can see and the way you can spend your money. But Job’s primary and most important wealth and riches was his relationship to God. That’s first and foremost. But the second thing that he had that made him a wealthy man was his children, as we saw this morning.

Seven sons and three daughters, and we’ll see in just a minute why that made him so wealthy. And then last of all, at the very bottom of the list, is Job’s riches, right? His monetary wealth. And it’s mentioned last because in the estimation of the Lord, what makes a man wealthy, what makes a woman wealthy is first of all, that person’s relationship to God. Secondly, their family. And third, and last, probably distant last, is how much material wealth the person has.

The Lord’s got it in the right order. The world has it in the completely reverse order because the world puts, the practical value the world puts on wealth is seen by what they think. You know, you think of these people who have, you know, the Elon Musks of the world, you know, the Jeff Bezos, all these guys, you know, have so much money, even people that have less money than that, but they, they’re considered very wealthy in the world. The only thing that’s ever considered is their money. Everything else in their life is a wreck. Well, at least they have money.

We should say at least, like at the bottom, they have money. In God’s estimation, they’re destitute. They’re totally impoverished because they don’t have number one, and oftentimes they don’t have number two, but at least they have number three. And many in the world sell their very soul, their family, any kind of faith that they might have been taught in the Lord, they sell it all for number three. When number three, when number one and number two should come first, but they sell it all. They sell it all. And they think, well, everything’s okay because I’m rich. Well, not in the Lord’s estimation, but Job was truly a wealthy man.

That’s one of the most interesting parts of this book because there’s a philosophy in this book, this kind of wrong, subtle philosophy, obviously not the book of Job is wrong, but especially as it’s believed by the three friends that you’ve got a lot of money, you must be right with God, everything’s going lot of money, you must be right with God, everything’s going well with you, you must be right with God, and the book of Job overturns all of that. All right? Notice also in verse number four about his children, and his sons went and feasted in their houses, everyone on his day. So notice he has adult children. We saw that with Noah as well. Everyone on his day, they had their own houses and notices and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. So you have the seven sons and they’re having a big party, right? And I don’t see any reason to read into what’s the end of this as if it’s some sort of debauchery or some sort of evil. They’re just having a party. They’re having a big get together. Maybe they live far apart and they’re having a family reunion. I don’t know what’s happening. They want their kids to get together. That’s how I choose to think it, however you might choose to think of it. But the seven sons are having each day, maybe they’re at one another’s houses in order, and they invite their sisters to come. You know what’s interesting and what stands out to me? Maybe it’s just my stage in life, obviously, with what’s happening today and this month. And I didn’t plan the whole family focus, August family focused, to match Sam and Anna’s wedding. Actually, I just thought about it as I was sitting there singing the songs that it lined up.

There appears to be a harmony among Job’s grown children. There appears to be a harmony among Job’s grown children. And I thought to myself, especially as my kids grow up and go into adulthood, what a blessing. What a blessing to have adult children who continue to fellowship and associate and have unity, right? Have and maintain a good relationship with their siblings, even in adulthood. What a blessing that is.

Because it’s like when Paul met Onesimus, remember, in jail, and Paul witnessed to Onesimus, the servant, who was the servant of Philemon. Some of you are familiar with the book of Philemon. And Paul sent Onesimus back after Onesimus believed in Christ. And he said, now, Philemon, he said, now Onesimus is more profitable than he was. Because before he was profitable only as a servant. Now he’s profitable both as a servant and a brother.

And that’s what godly, in a godly family, that’s what the siblings are, is you not only have the profit and the benefit of being spiritual brothers and sisters in Christ, you also have the additional benefit of being flesh and blood. And that should be a double, like a double honor, right? And I just thought to myself, what a blessing. I want this for my family. And the truth is I’m kind of stumbling through it and trying to deal with things and encourage this kind of thing in my family. And I know all of you want that for your family as well, but this is God’s intention. It is not the Lord’s intention that Christian families, as soon as kids become adults, they splinter into factions and they go their separate ways and they don’t have contact with one another and they don’t spend time with each other.

It is not, that is not God’s intention. So much more in a Christian family. You know what happens though? You know what happens though? Little squabbles, little foxes get in between those relationships and destroy them. It’s so sad. I don’t say this to chide. Honestly, I say it in my heart with fear and trembling. I say it because it is sad. It’s not the will of the Lord. It’s not the will of the Lord.

It’s not the will of the Lord. You know how, you hear what I hear, I’m sure, how sad it is to hear children grow up in Christian families and they go into adulthood cold and estranged from their siblings.

I’m talking about people, and I’ll be honest with you, where I saw it, where I heard of it the most, was when Anna was at Crown College. And people she knew there, I mean, these are people in their late teens, 20s, you know, that are going to college. A lot of times their families are pastors and missionaries and personally a total wreck.

Siblings estranged, kids estranged from their parents, have no functional relationship. And I thought to myself, how sad, how sad that is for Christian families. You know, all the more, you know, I mean, it’s one thing, you know, things happen, you know, sin gets involved. We know all that. But when someone is involved in ministry, when someone’s involved in ministry and, you know, this guy’s a preacher and this guy’s a preacher and this guy’s an evangelist and this guy’s a missionary and this guy’s a missionary and this, you know, and none of them talk and they don’t get along.

That is not God’s will. That is not God’s will. Right? This goes back to what we were talking about this morning, which is we’re a Christian first. And so those interpersonal problems for this person in ministry and that person in ministry and this deacon and that missionary and all these things, all siblings together, all professing Christians, each one of them independently should have sought to reconcile with one another, like the Lord says, because they’re Christians first.

They have a duty to God to obey his commandments first. And they don’t. And you all know what I’m talking about. You have seen it. To me, that just saddens me. You know what I’m talking about. You have seen it. To me, that just saddens me. You know what? I don’t want that to be the case to the extent that it is we have power, right? I don’t want that to be the case with our families here.

If you’re one of those kind of coming up, I know there’s several in here, the young adults, almost adults kind of thing, maintain a good relationship with your siblings.

Maintain a good relationship with your siblings. If there’s problems, humble yourself. Seek forgiveness. Show charity. Right? Don’t hold grudges. Don’t be bitter. This is apparently what we see here because this family was cohesive. They were together. Adults inviting their siblings over, having a good old time.

Notice in this, verse number five, and it was so, and it was so when the days of their feasting were gone about that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. Notice when you read verse five, when I read it, I get the impression that Job is kind of going behind their back, right? And we talked about this. When you gossip, gossip good, right? Go behind somebody’s back and just tear them up. Like up, not down. I guess that didn’t come out exactly right. You know, we talk about if you’re going to gossip, if you’re going to say something behind somebody’s back, then say something good, right?

Well, this is what Job did. He went behind his kid’s back, and you can see in this his private devotion. Nobody knows what he’s doing. Nobody knows the sacrifices he’s giving. Nobody knows that he’s giving sacrifices. He’s doing it of his own accord, privately, not for show. Job’s faith was a private faith. Not that we should keep it hidden, but his was such that it was first and foremost private, and it wasn’t just an outward show because apparently his kids were unaware of the kind of behind-the-scenes intercession that Job was doing for them, because this says something about Job, right?

Now, when you see verse number 5 and what Job is doing, ask yourself this. What was primarily on Job’s mind concerning his kids? Take just a second and read verse 5 to yourself one more time. And ask yourself, what was primarily on Job’s mind concerning his kids?

Exactly. Was it his wealth? What kind of job they would have what their future prospects might be what their dreams and their aspirations that’s that famous phrase that you hear all the time now was it what kind of education they would have or where they would land and in their social status no that was not on his mind at all. What was on his mind?

Job’s primary concern was their spiritual welfare. His primary concern was their spiritual welfare and that they would have a right relationship to God. And that says something about Job. This, again, this world’s philosophy has it completely backwards. Like we saw in verses one, two, and 3, wealth is at the top, and then family, and then wealth, and then just forget about the other one. And this world also has it backward as it relates to priorities for our children.

We’re all concerned about saving up money for college, and that’s all fine and good. Where are kids going to go to college, and what kind of education, and what kind of job they’re going to have, and is it going to be enough, and what kind of a career, and you know, we’re concerned about all that, who they’re going to marry, and all those things, and all of those things are valid things to think about. You have to think about them. They’re practical things you have to deal with, but the primary thing that’s important, the most important thing that we have as parents to consider and to focus on is our children’s spiritual welfare. All of the other things are just downstream of that, are less significant. Because if our child goes in and gets the right education and marries a good person and all of these things and makes a lot of money and, you know, is high on the social ladder, whatever it, you know, we might think is success. And yet their relationship to God is deficient. Number one, it’s all in vain.

And number two, down the line, it’ll lead to ruin because that’s the nature, that’s the process. Without the influence of God, mankind will destroy himself. And that’s what he does. Family after family after family after family has done that. And it only takes like one generation. It really does, and it’s wrecked. And the only thing that stops that tendency is the power of the grace of God at work in a family, like your family, like my family.

So Job has the right priorities concerning his kids. All those other things might be important to him. But the key thing he is focused on in verse 5 is his children’s spiritual welfare. But I want to just remind you as well of Job’s children, the fact that they’re adults. You know, when you have kids at the age of Joseph’s kids, they’re still very young. It’s a lot of work chasing them around, teaching them, you know, and all of that.

But as your kids get older, sometimes we kind of take our foot off the gas a little bit because they’re gone a lot more. They’ve got jobs. They have work. They’ve got school. They’ve got things that you, they’ve got friends, and then they get relationships, and all of a sudden, boom, they’re gone, right?

And as our kids get older, as a parent, we might be tempted to lessen our care of our children’s spiritual needs as they get older, because it’s not in front of us all the time. But what we actually see is that even though Job’s kids are adults, and they’re out of the house, and they have their own houses, yet Job has not stopped interceding for them. Job has not stopped caring for them. He is spending his money, and we’ll see that in just a minute, for these offerings. He is expending his wealth in order to intercede for his children, even though they’re adults. He did not, listen, he did not wash his hands of his kids when they left. He did not do that. And I want you to see something. Look at what Job says in verse five, because please listen to this point. It’s so important. At the end of verse five, after it talks about all the numbers of his offerings, why is he giving these offerings?

It says, for Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. You know why he’s giving the offerings? Job is under no illusions about his children.

It is, you know, you’ve met some people who think their kids can’t, you know, can’t do anything wrong. Of course, you’ve met people like that, right? The kids are perfect all the time. Job was not like that. Job understood, maybe my kids have messed up. Maybe my kids aren’t right with God. Maybe my kids have problems. Job was not under any illusions about how his kids were doing spiritually.

But one thing he did not do is he did not wash his hands of his kids even though he knew they might be out of the way sometimes. You know what he did? He continued.

He continued to intercede for them. He continued to care about their spiritual welfare. Probably the easiest thing we can do is just unplug because it, you know, it hurts, right? Your kids, I mean, Sister Karen, there are, you know, there are really very few more painful things than things dealing with your kids, right? I mean, it cuts to your very soul. So sometimes when they’re out of the way, it’s easy just to unplug so it doesn’t hurt.

But really, our job is to plug in. our job is to plug in. Our job as parents is to plug in and to intercede and to be like Job for our children, to still care about them.

Do we still carry the same burden for our adult children and as they grow into adulthood as we did when they were little and we were chasing them around? Do we still carry that same burden for them? Because we certainly should. Notice in verse number five, Job was concerned about each of his children individually. And it was so when the days of their feasting were gone about that Job sent and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all.

An offering for the child. Ten offerings. See that? Ten offerings. Ten offerings. Let me challenge you. Pray for your children individually. God bless my kids. Do better. Do better than that. Pray for them individually according to what you know their needs are. And you know what? You know probably better than anybody what their needs are. And you might know what, you might have a suspicion of a need that maybe hasn’t come into full fruition yet. You take that thing to the Lord and you pray and you ask God to work in their heart and in their life. This is our duty as Christian moms and dads. Individual individual care of each one of our children.

This is what Job did. And notice in verse five again, he gives, offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. Now, if you’ll call, if you’ll go back in your mind to our study of the law, we went through the burnt offerings. Somebody help me, somebody remind me. The burnt offering in the law, what did that prefigure? What did that, that was a type of what?

Remember, they would take the whole animal and they would cut it into parts and lay it on the altar and burn the entire animal, right? What did that picture?

Okay. You missed one thing, brother. Jesus. Yeah, that’s right. It pictures the Lord Jesus Christ, you know, bearing the wrath of God on the cross. His entire person consumed by the fire of God’s wrath. That’s what that pictures. That’s why the whole offering, those of you that were here, if you weren’t here and you weren’t here at that point when we went through the law, I’d encourage you to go back and listen to those messages if you have a desire to because it pops up in a lot of places in Scripture.

But that’s what you see. So these offerings that Job made pictured the sacrifice of Christ. And so when you see him giving these burnt offerings for his children, obviously he’s concerned with their spiritual needs, but it actually is specifically referring to the intercession that he had that we would have for our child before God, that our child would be right with God as it relates to their salvation, as it relates to their salvation, as it relates to their personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, because that’s what the offering’s talking about.

In other words, you and I, if there’s any doubt at all that any of our children are truly born again, that ought to be the focus of our prayer continually.

And then beyond that, it ought to be that our children might walk with God and obey God and have a close relationship to God. But our first and foremost priority is, Lord, let my children be forgiven of their sin and have eternal life and be made right with the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is what this pictures. You see, it is not enough that our children are in church. I want to tell you, this is my personal pet peeve. The phrase in church, I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people say, well, they’re in church. That’s not enough.

That’s not enough. People can be in church and not be on the way to heaven. People can be in church and not walking with God. That’s not it. That’s what you can see. But our prayer should not stop. They should be just in church.

What if they’re going to a church that’s not teaching the truth, right? It’s not enough for our children to be in church. That’s just outward. And it was insufficient for Job. And then we see in verse number five, the last sentence mentioned in verse five, thus did Job continually. thus did Job continually.

Thus did Job continually. As I said, Job was under no illusions that his children might not be right with God. And many Christians, not one, not two, many Christians have had to deal with the reality of children who, for some reason or another, aren’t right with the Lord, are far from God. The father of the prodigal dealt with it, and we can go on down the line.

Let me encourage you from the book of Job. Commit yourself to not stop interceding for those kids. Never, until you die, do not stop interceding for those kids. That is our duty as a mother and a father. You know, that might mean that you have to take some time out to fast. You see, taking this matter seriously. You know, we can’t always control what our kids do when they become adults. That is just a fact. I mean, we know that, right?

We don’t have that power once they become adults, just like we see with Job’s kids. But we do absolutely have power to refuse to stop praying for them. Daily, multiple times a day, going to God, Lord, please open their eyes, turn them around, bring them to repentance, help them walk with you. You can’t stop. If there’s anybody in this world, if it’s anybody’s duty to pray for your children, it’s you.

If there’s anybody’s duty in the world to pray for my children, I ought to be the first in line, should I not? Right? Would you take that responsibility? Would you take this example? And would you commit by the grace of God to pray for your children fervently, individually, sacrificially, continually?

The last thing I want to show you just to wrap up. In addition to the theme of the family in the book of Job, there’s also a theme of cursing God.

You notice in chapter 1 verse 5 says this. At the end of verse 5, it says, For Job said, it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts. You see it there. You also see it in chapter 1, verse 11, where the devil tells the Lord, but put forth thine hand now and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

See that? And then the second round, the devil comes back to the Lord in chapter 2, verse number 5. The devil says to the Lord again, But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. So the whole wager, the whole wager between the Lord and the devil, you call it a wager, I don’t want you, the agreement, the discussion was whether or not Job under intense pressure and suffering would finally give up and curse God, right? That was the whole question.

That was what Job was concerned about in chapter 1, verse 5, and that’s what the devil was betting that he could get Job to do. Now, go to chapter 2.

Let’s read verse 1. And the Lord said unto Satan, He holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause. And Satan answered the Lord and said, skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, behold, he is in thine hand, but save his life.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand, but save his life. So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd, that’s a broken piece of pottery, to scrape himself withal, and he sat down among the ashes.

Now, at this point, now what we’re doing is I’m tying this back into what we studied this morning from Genesis. At this point, Job is at his lowest at this moment. He’s at his weakest point. He has lost all of his wealth, his financial wealth. He’s lost all of his children. He’s lost his health. And at this point in time, Job is in doubt of his life. What you find in the book of Job, if you pay attention to what the scriptures say, Job did not know if he would live or die. Boils will kill you. Boils will kill you just by itself. Systemic infection of your body, it can put you in the grave.

So Job’s life is in doubt. He is at the very bottom. But who is still alive? His wife. And when he’s at, why didn’t the devil kill his wife? It’s almost like he killed his children. He had permission to kill everything, right? The devil had permission to kill everything in Job’s life, take it all away, including his health, and only save his life. But yet we find his wife is still alive. I don’t know why that is. I just think that’s interesting, considering the next verse.

Because when Job is at his very bottom, he hears a familiar voice of his dear wife. Not words of encouragement. She says, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God and die. Who wants Job to curse God?

The devil. This woman has likewise experienced great loss with her husband, right? This lady has lost her integrity, right? What the very thing she’s telling Job, she’s talking to Job about, in other words, she’s quit, she’s done. She stopped, she don’t believe in the Lord. She’s already cursed God herself, you know, just reading into it a little bit. She’s already cursed God herself, you know, just reading into it a little bit. She’s gone.

But you see, the devil needed the voice of someone dear to Job to tempt him. Right? Is that not exactly what we saw in Genesis? It was by means of Adam’s wife, his love, by means of his family that he was tempted. So it was in the book of Job. At the very moment, the lowest point, the weakest point, the devil speaks through the mouth of Job’s family member, the only one left alive, to tempt him to do the very thing that is the core of the devil and the Lord’s conversation. Isn’t this so wicked, right?

Now, granted, this lady, her life is wrecked. So I honestly don’t feel she’s being used by the devil. I doubt she even knows it because her life is wrecked too, right? She’s lost her children. She’s lost all of her security, all of her wealth, all of her status. Everything that might be important to her is gone.

And in her natural weakness, because the Bible does say that women are the weaker vessel. That’s what it says. She has fainted. And I understand why that happened. I certainly could not stand here and boast that if I went through these things that I would stand strong as Job did. I could not say that. But her weakness, her natural weakness has now been used as a weapon against Job. And at the point of this statement, she has already lost her faith in the Lord and she is now gonna speak to Job to also lose his faith in the Lord and to curse God and die.

But notice verse 10, and this is what we talk about this morning. Job was first and foremost a servant of God. And even when his own dear wife, for sure he loved her. We read in chapter 31 that he was faithful to her. He was faithful to his wife.

Even though his own dear wife says it, he says, thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? In other words, no way.

God is first. You see that? God is first. Even though the temptation came by means of his wife, the one dearest to him, because Job, we saw in chapter one, verse one, Job was a man who feared God and eschewed evil, right? At the top of his pile was the Lord. And not even if his own wife says, come sulk and go into depression like me, he says, no, I will not curse God. I will not do as you have done, right? And I know in our studies, we’ve seen mostly the husbands and the wives and the wife was the one that the temptation was coming by means of the wife, but the reverse is also true. It happens all the time. The reverse happens just as often as the wife to the husband and the husband to the wife.

You see, to be right with God, Job could not curse God, no matter if his own wife urged him to. Because behind all of this, we know, was the devil being used, or rather using a person. That’s why the Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood. It wasn’t about Job’s wife.

It was about Job’s relationship to God. It was about Job’s personal integrity before God and his staying right with his God, despite what had happened to him. I’m glad there’s a good version of what we saw this morning. This morning was not a good version. This morning ended up really bad. But in this case, when the pressure was on, by the grace of God, Job stood. Job stood.

You know what’s going to happen at the end? That this apparently, as far as we know, this lady is going to have 10 more children. And the Lord is going to reward Job, right? He’s going to give him all that he had, twice as much, including children, because he had 10, he had 10 more. That’s 20, right? He’s going to give him all that he had twice as much, including children, because he had 10, he had 10 more, that’s 20, right? He’s going to give him all of these things back.

I wonder if he would have gotten all that back had he cursed God. I doubt it. I don’t think we would have been reading it in the Bible for sure. So let the book of Job, let the testimony and the character of the book of Job prompt you and urge you to be the intercessor for your family, to be the one who, as it were, stands between your family, maybe your children perhaps, and whatever is going on.

Let it be an encouragement to you to retain your integrity and set God in the first place in your life. Would you pray with me?