Preached Sunday, October 18, 2020Scripture: Job Chapter 25 & 26Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20In Chap 26, Bildad exalted God as mighty and holy. Compared to Him, all men are nothing but worms. He was implying that Job should not be so proud, thinking that he could win a case against God in the court of God. In Chap 26, Job did the same. He called his friends men without wisdom while he exalted God as almighty and the only...

Preached Sunday, October 4, 2020Scripture: Job Chapter 22Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20Eliphaz made up his mind that his worldview of a moralistic universe could not be wrong. Thus, Job must have committed big sins; therefore, he was receiving deserved retributions from God. Eliphaz swore that he, himself, would never go the way of the wicked. Then, he advised Job for the last time to repent in order to be restored to glory....

Preached Sunday, September 27, 2020Scripture: Job Chapter 21Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20Job challenged the system of a Moralistic Universe that his “Friends” held as their worldview, pointing out in particular one glaring failure: the promised punishment for the wicked is often not fulfilled in reality. The wicked appear to be blessed and happy in this life, their children multiply as their wealth, and even immediately aft...

Preached Sunday, September 20, 2020Scripture: Job Chapter 20Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20Zophar developed a theme about his friend Bildad, describing the fate of the wicked man in hell. He did it artistically and masterfully, and he was possibly correct. The problem was that he implied Job as the referent, which is totally opposite to the description by God. This showed the bifurcation of human minds due to different percep...

Preached Sunday, September 13, 2020Scripture: Job Chapter 19Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20Job complained that his friends were masterful torturers of his soul. He believed that God allowed this torture. God was the one who surrounded Job, fighting against him, treating him as an enemy. All was against Job, even his own body. He questioned his “friends,” asking them why they were not satisfied by his physical suffering, and h...

Preached Sunday, August 30, 2020Scripture: Job Chapter 18Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20Bildad Gave a powerful sermon concerning the fate of a confident but wicked man who found himself in hell. However, the artistic prowess of his position was misused because it is wrong both in terms of theology and application: The Law of Retribution does not stand without exception in all of its four logical forms, and God testified that ...

Preached Sunday, August 23, 2020Scripture: Job Chapters 16-17Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20Job judged his friends as “sorry counselors” who provided him nothing but windy words. Nevertheless, Job believed in the same system as his friends, and could have said the same things if he and his friends could have switched places, but he would not do it. He laid the responsibility on God, who blinded the “friends,” who acted as bea...

Preached Sunday, August 16, 2020Scripture: Job Chapters 15Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20Eliphaz started the second round of the dialogue by pointing out that the words of Job were dangerous self-condemning. He advised Job to be humbler so that he would then admit his nature as a sinner, which, in turn, would cause Job to see his personal guilt as the source of his suffering. He painted a traditional picture of the fate of th...

Preached Sunday, August 9, 2020Scripture: Job Chapters 12-14Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20 Job fought fire with fire. He pointed out that his friends were not the only wise men in the world, for he (Job) understood and valued the system of a moralistic universe just as much they did. However, he makes clear that his friends were no wiser than the animals, who can see that Job’s sufferings are acts of God. In contrast to...

Preached Sunday, July 26, 2020Scripture: Job Chapters 9-10Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in LifeSeries Launch Date: 06/14/20 Job recognized that his friends would never understand his true situation, so he sought to argue his case before God. The problem, however, is that God is too holy for humans to stand before Him. Job dreamed of having a mediator to represent him in HeavenPlease join us in person for worship, fellowship, and study at Abilene Bible Ch...