In trials, in persecution he was a genuine believer. - William Branham (63-1124E)

Sometimes believers put to the test, not sometimes, every time! For every son that cometh to God must be chastened, tried, child-trained! Remember the trials, the dusty roads, the hot sun of persecution, but the loyalty of your heart beats that material till she's ready to go into the mold. God's children is made up correctly on His Word, for they are living examples, and the Word of God living through them, see. The trial comes to shake you, to put you to the very bottom, to see where you'll stand, see. Tested, tried—every son that cometh to God.
Job went through the trials and the tests—his children taken, everything else taken. The church members come, accusing him being a secret sinner, and tried to say everything against him, but yet he wouldn't listen to any of it. He knowed he had met God's requirements. He knowed there's no need of Satan trying to tempt him! He knowed it was the devil! And as long as Satan could make him believe that his sickness was his God doing it, he had Job whipped. But when Job once struck that revelation that it was not God, he was only going through his trials to make him something. It wasn't God doing it; it was Satan doing it!
Same thing today. He'll try to tell you these trials and things is your God trying to put punishment upon you. It isn't so. No, sir. It's Satan doing that, and God permitting it to temper you, to make you see if you're tied to this earth by the earth cares or whether your treasure's in heaven. For wherever you're treasures is, there you are also. Your heart is where your treasures are.
Job—tried, yet he said, “I know my redeemer liveth; at the last days He'll stand upon the earth. Though after my skin worms destroys my body . . .” Did you notice? The skin worms was already in him. Your skin worms is in you. You're in a sealed-up casket without any air in it or anyhow, but the skin worms are already there. They're right in you, and they're ready to be called to duty any time.
Remember Caesar? he cankered right in the street. The skin worms eat him up right in the street, his own skin worms. They are right there ready.
“Though after my skin worms destroys this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.” Amen! You cannot annihilate it; though the skin worms eat it up, it still will come back again. “Whom I shall see for myself, mine eyes shall behold and not another.” He said it—Job. Why? He was a believer. In trials he was a believer; in persecution he was a believer! He was a genuine believer.
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