In Job 29 you will read where Job said in verse 2 oh that I were as in months past....

Job understood that the days he was living in were not the same as the days in the past were. Job was a leader in his day and time and now that he was going through a situation it seemed there was not alot of respect coming to him. You will note his friends were even trying to convince him that he was a human being just like them and he was not exempt from having heartaches and troubles. 

I want to make it clear this morning that no one is exempt from having troubles, if you live here and you have breath in your body you are not exempt. 

Notice our key verse for our Fire-starter and that is verse 16. 

Job 29:16 KJV

I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

Job said, ...the cause which I knew not I searched out. 

I wonder how often we search out the cause that we know not of. How many times we get upset at someone because they are upset with a friend of ours. Without knowing the cause you have no right to be mad at someone. 

Job said he searched out the cause. May God help us do the same thing. Many of us do not search out the cause and sometimes it leads us in doing wrong. 

Many have the mindset, you scratch my back i will scratch yours. That sounds good till they are in sin and you are trying to back them up in their sin. God help us! 

Don't sin just so you can be someone's friend!!!! Find out the cause of situations before you go around and telling people you are going to get right in the middle of it. 

God help us to search out the cause we do not know about!!! 

Job 29:1-25 KJV

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, [2] Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; [3] When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; [4] As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle; [5] When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; [6] When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; [7] When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! [8] The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. [9] The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. [10] The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. [11] When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: [12] Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. [13] The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. [14] I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. [15] I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. [16] I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. [17] And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. [18] Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. [19] My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. [20] My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. [21] Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel. [22] After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them. [23] And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain. [24] If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down. [25] I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.