In his sermon, Trent Moody explores the theme of a father's blessings on his daughters, using the story of Job as a focal point. Moody highlights the pivotal role fathers play in setting the tone and vision for their families, and he draws parallels between Job's journey from a hearsay faith to a seeing faith and the spiritual journey fathers can take with their daughters. By examining the symbolic meanings of the names Job gave his daughters, the sermon underscores the importance of how fathers communicate with their daughters, advocating for words and actions that beautify and uplift. Moody also emphasizes the value of leaving a spiritual inheritance for daughters, which he argues is more crucial than material wealth. Ultimately, the sermon calls fathers to nurture a deeper relationship with their daughters, aiming for a legacy of faith and love that extends into eternity.

All right, good to see everybody this evening. Go ahead and turn in your Bibles to the book of Job chapter 42 and this may seem like a little bit of an odd place to go for our father-daughter but I hope to bring something tonight just briefly by way of encouragement really. I'm going to begin with the fathers here, beginning with myself. Fathers we are the ones who set really the tone for our families. We we set the vision for our families.

And I want to help you tonight to think through some things and help you to understand that the blessings of a father will also be a blessing to the daughters. And I hope to show you that tonight in the book of Job. Again, just briefly and tonight's really going to be more of an encouragement. I'm going to have the heavy hitters tomorrow of really challenging us to some hard things but tonight I just wanted to encourage you because I so appreciate the book of Job in that it's kind of a hard book. We look at all the difficulties that Job faced and these friends that he had and the work of the devil in the midst of his life, but yet God gives us such a unique perspective on the book of Job.

And in this perspective I appreciate it because within the pages we kind of get a God's eye view, if you will, of all that's going on. We have a view that Job certainly did not. When Job was going through these things, he did not have an understanding of what God was doing and what the devil was doing and what all of this spiritual warfare that was going on. He didn't understand that. And in fact, as we go through things that we don't often understand, we have no clue what is going on in the spiritual realm to some degree anyway.

But Job was an upright man before the Lord. But even in his uprightness, God wanted to take Job from one place to another. I think God that each of you men have made the commitment and the effort to be here with your daughters. You've You've taken time and you've made the effort to be here, to travel here, and to consider these things. And that's a really good thing.

But my prayer for each of you is that God will now take you from one place to another. You all know this verse in the end of the book of Job chapter 42 verse 5 and it says Job is speaking to God and he says I've heard of you by the hearing of the ear but now my eye sees you. God took Job from a hearsay faith to some degree to a seeing type of faith. He began to see God with the eyes of faith. And so the Lord wants to take each of you and myself to a deeper understanding of Himself, to understand the things that God is doing, the things that we need to go through, and the difficulties and the trials that we may need to go through that will bring us to a greater faith, to increase our faith in what He is doing.

And I suggest that he also wants to take your relationship with your daughter this weekend to a new place. You may be in a really good place with your daughter or daughters, but God, I believe, wants to take you to the next level of relationship that you have with your daughter. Perhaps it's not so good. He certainly wants to take you to a better place than where you are to a really sweet relationship. And so I pray that this weekend that it will be a catalyst for that very thing.

That God will do something in your heart, turning your heart to your children and turning their hearts to you for the glory of God. Let's ask God's blessing upon this time. Our Father, I just so appreciate what our brother Scott mentioned there, just how your sheep hear your voice and and they follow you. And Lord I pray tonight and throughout this weekend that that would be the very case that each of us would hear your voice and that we would gladly and joyfully follow you. Tonight Lord I pray that in this text here in the book of Job that you would give us some eyes to see, help us to understand this relationship between a father and a daughter and the beauty and the blessing that comes from it.

Lord that does not only last in this life but into generations to come and way beyond that even into eternity and I ask it in Christ's name, Amen. So as we think about this, I somewhat resemble Job himself at least in one way. I have seven sons and three daughters, so I'm blessed like Job was to have a large family. And God has taught me a lot through these seven sons and three daughters. And I greatly appreciate that relationship with my daughters.

And Scott, you couldn't be more right when you said that when a boy came into the world, it's like, wow, what is this? This is a different thing. It's a wonderful thing because they have the energy and the strength and the vision to do great things, but our daughters have such beauty. They bring such beauty to your home. They bring joy to your home.

They bring sweetness. They make this building into a home of refuge and I love what daughters do in a family and I love what they do in a home. But the differences that I have with Job at least three I'm just going to name them just somewhat of a fun fact here. I've never seen the troubles that Job has seen. That's how I'm different than Job and I'm very thankful that I've not seen the troubles that Job has had.

Also I have a loving and God-fearing wife who encourages me. That's how I'm certainly different than Job and his wife. And then certainly I have better friends than Job had. Dear brothers, y'all who are my friends here tonight, I'm very thankful for you and I know that you will be there for me not only to kick me when I'm down, but you're actually there to help pick me up a little bit if I'm down as well. So I praise God for you for that as well.

So I thank God for my friendships. But right to the text now, Job 42 in verse 12, you will find our text. And I'm gonna read down to the end of the chapter Job 42 12 and you keep in mind the context of the book of Job you know he had his he had seven sons and three daughters he lost everything he had and now this is the end of his near the end of the book of Job, and God is blessing him. And this is what he said, Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, for he had 14, 000 sheep, 6, 000 camels, 1, 000 yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters, and he called the name of the first Jemima, the name of the second Kizaya, and the name of the third Karen Hephook.

In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. So Job died old and full of days. That's an amazing statement when we think about what God had done. All that had been taken away from Job and now God is doubly blessing Job.

I found it interesting too, he did not double the amount of children here because his other ones, by the grace of God, were living on even though not in this world. He actually did double his children and so they were continuing on. But Job in this passage we see that Job named his daughters, now that seems like an obvious statement, dads named children with the help of their of their wives, but I want to look at these names just for a moment and like I said it seems obvious but there's a meaning and I want you to hear the meaning in these names. Jemima. This means handsome as the day.

Let's change that to beautiful as the day, if you will. Beautiful as the day. This is how he named his daughter. The next one, keziah. It means cinnamon flower.

It was a powdered cinnamon-like bark of a tree in context used as a powdered spice perfume. She brought sweet incense into the home, if you will. She was something that was precious to him. That was his little cinnamon flower. And then you have Karen Hippock, not so sweet to our ears, but the meaning of that is horn of color or the colorful ray or beautifier.

She was a beautifier. And then he says in verse 15, in all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Why is that in there? Why would God inspire that passage of scripture, that little statement to be in there? There was no one as beautiful as his daughters.

You know, in our circles we were thankful for the beauty of our daughters we don't focus on the outward beauties of our daughters but God actually acknowledges here some outward beauty but I believe that there's something more here than just outward beauty and again I'm not going to be real strict in in the exegesis of all of these words, but I want us to understand something that there's some principles here that I believe a the blessing of the Father will be a blessing to the daughters. And so in this beauty that we see of these daughters and in their names, I believe that these daughters were beautiful because of the love that their father had for them. Because of the context that we have in the beginning of the book of Job, we know that Job continually spent his time praying for and offering sacrifices for his children lest any of them had sinned. And I believe that his, I don't think that his love had diminished whatsoever. It had only increased now because of all that he had gone through and because now he not only hears of God but he sees God.

He sees what God has done and he knows the beauty that God has brought into his life by giving him three more daughters. He was very thankful. I love those names that he gives them. We're gonna look at that just for a moment. Consider again these names, handsome or beautiful as the day, cinnamon flower, and then the colorful ray, and give me liberty here, his little sunshine.

This is what he named his daughters and fathers I want you to know that what you call your daughters and your interactions with them and how you speak to them is actually something that's very important and it's also something that beautifies them. I have been guilty of speaking to my daughters in a way that's not beautifying. I have spoken sometimes harshly or not thinking clearly that I'm actually speaking to a daughter and not a son and I'm not speaking to a buddy. I'm actually speaking to a precious girl that God has given me as a father, but I want you to realize something that our interactions not only with our wives but especially with our daughters, it can be beautifying to them because I've seen when I've spoken in a way that's not not tender and not gentle with them, I have actually seen the beauty fade out of their face because of some harshness or some difficulty that or some way of difficult conversation that I've had with them. And so I want you to understand something tonight.

You can, like Job's daughters were beautiful, I believe they were beautiful because one he named them beautiful things he he had these beautiful little names for them you speak life and beauty into your daughters so men be let's be really careful how you speak. Perhaps also, this is just kind of fun, perhaps also just give give your daughters, if you don't already, do you have a pet name for your daughters? Something that's just sweet, something that's maybe funny, something that's kind. I've had little things like that before. I hear laughing here.

Is there a testimony time? Just kidding, Alan. So it's a sweet thing to do to have a term of endearment for your daughter. It builds a heart relationship, just like Scott said, instead of saying, give me your heart. How about you win her heart?

How about you speak to her in a way that's endearing, and you speak to her in a way that beautifies her countenance because of this relationship. So make your daughters, here's my challenge to you dads, make your daughters beautiful this weekend by how you speak to them. Speak to them in a way that is beautifying. Next, I want you to notice this. Job gave them an inheritance.

This is an unusual statement in the Old Testament considering daughters were rarely considered those who would inherit things. We know there's different occasions where that happened. You know there's one man who had the had the daughters and had no sons and they were given an inheritance. Moses commanded that. And here we have Job, even though they had seven brothers and obviously they ended up having children because Job saw his children and grandchildren to the fourth generation, Job still gave them an inheritance among their brothers because the blessing of Job was so great from the Lord.

That's what we read in verse 12. Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than the beginning. God blessed him so much that he in turn blessed his daughters. Job had twice as many possessions as he had before and in these latter days he wanted to pass that blessing on to his daughters. It's important, fathers, for us to plan for the future blessing and consideration of what we will leave our children.

Physically speaking, we should be thinking about their future financially and in other ways of protection in ways of provision that we would bless our daughters in these ways for the building up of family wealth. Multi-generational wealth is a good thing if it's done in the fear of the Lord and we're not turning the hearts to loving of money. But we should consider how we might do this and plan. Plan for their futures because it's a good thing. The Bible says in Proverbs 13 22, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children.

However, this will not always look the same in every family. Some men God has blessed abundantly, it is the power of God to give wealth, and some men go to their grave without a penny to their name. They died, however, with a name that was worth more than gold. I want to encourage you men, no matter the amount of the size of your bank account, make sure that you leave a name that's more valuable than gold. Leave a godly inheritance in that way.

At the very least, leave your children with the happy memories of a life lived with their father. The memories that they have of you men, what are those memories? Are they memories of you being frustrated and stressed out and speaking harshly? Are they memories of you just going to work and coming home going to sleep and they don't they just see you kind of passing by? Or are those memories of something that is sweet and tender and you have tender conversation you have tender names for them and you're beautifying them not only with your words but with your presence leaving them an inheritance but even more importantly than that is leaving your daughters a spiritual inheritance Pass on your faith to your daughters.

They are well able and capable to receive doctrine and instruction and all the wonderful things that we hope that our sons have a hold of and grapple with and be able to teach one day Lord willing and teach their families. Your daughters are very capable young women and so do not let a day go by that you do not speak to your daughters about God and to God about your daughters. Leave that inheritance for them. The truth is that we may not be able to leave any physical wealth at all, but all of us can leave a spiritual inheritance to them that will be a blessing to them throughout their life and throughout generations to come, a passing on of the spiritual faith. Job was a man who was concerned about his daughter's future.

He left them an inheritance. He left them something that would be with them after he was gone. And we have no reason to believe that Job walked any differently in that latter part of his life than he did in the beginning of his life. But be a father that cares for the and provides for the spiritual well-being of your daughters. That means doctrinally, that means teaching them about the the wonders and the beauty of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is your responsibility and it's greater than any physical protection or provision that you can give is to leave this spiritual inheritance for them. You must be a, You must spiritually provide for them. You must spiritually protect them. And I want to close this section with the words of the Apostle Peter in 1 Peter in which we see how abundantly our Heavenly Father has provided us an inheritance and my desire is that we may lead our daughters into that same inheritance by His grace. May we be able to say the same thing to our daughters as God says to his children.

Listen to what he says. Peter blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Whom having not seen you love, Though now you do not see him yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls. May that be the greatest inheritance that we ever leave to our daughters.

Would you pray with me? Our father in heaven, we thank you, oh Lord, for your goodness and mercy to us. We thank you for our daughters. Lord, I pray that you would help us as fathers to be men who with who have vision, but also men who have tender compassion to our daughters. Lord that we would speak in such a way to them that it would beautify them and that we would treat them in such a way that we are showing our care for them and thinking about their future here on this earth but also and more importantly their future throughout all eternity.

And so Father, the inheritance that you have given us through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, I pray for every daughter here today, Lord, that you would grant them that same inheritance, that inheritance that does not fade away. And Lord, I ask this in Jesus' name, amen.