He's a man of faith. He's a man of family. He's a man of fortune. Now he's going to become a man of suffering.

Dr. Tony Evans says Job was successful in every corner of his culture until he wasn't.

So just because you have faith, just because you come from a solid family,

and you got a little change in your pocket,

doesn't mean that you have bought yourself out of problems.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker,

senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and President of the Urban Alternative.

Regardless of how good things look on the outside, none of us is immune to the potential for unexpected disaster to wreak havoc on our lives.

But today, Dr Evans points us to a man whose story can help you learn how to face life's

toughest challenges with an unbending belief in God's love and his purpose

for your life.

Let's join him as he begins.

Job is the idyllic man, he is, you might call him a man for all seasons. He's, everything in his life

recorded in the first five verses of Job 1 is what we would love all of our lives to be.

We're told in verse 1 he was a man full of faith. He feared God and he turned away from evil

You would call him a day a committed Christian, a disciple.

To fear God means to take God seriously, not take God casually.

He wasn't just a smoke, Sunday morning only.

He was... a small Sunday morning only.

He was a full-time representative of God because he feared God.

He took God seriously.

He was not only a man of strong faith, he was a man with a solid family.

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