Grounded In Grace

Grounded In Grace

By Christ Church of ClarksonReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
Download on the App Store

Grounded In Grace episodes

  • Zophar’s Zingers: His First Reply to Job | Job 11:1-20
    Zophar’s Zingers: His First Reply to Job  | Job 11:1-20 
    ***For a complete sermon transcript click on the "Notes" icon above***

    ---------------------------- Sermon Outline--------------------------------

    Introduction and Review . . . 

    I. Zophar’s Zingers: His First Reply to Job (11:1-20) 
        A. Job It Should Be Worse (11:1-6)
            1. Fourfold Rebuke (2-3)
            2. False Accusation (4)
            3. Feckless Desire (5-6)
        B. Job You Are an Idiot (11:7-12)
            1. God’s Transcendent Greatness (7-9)
            2. God’s Immanent Awareness (10-11)
            3. Job’s Sinful Idiocy (12)
        C. Job Just Repent Already (11:13-20)
            1. Protasis: Zophar’s fourfold advice (13-14)
            2. Apodosis: Zophar’s Promise of Hope (15-19)
            3. Zophar’s Concluding Warning (20)

    Seven Final Thoughts:
    1. Be Thankful for Good Friends–Especially During Difficult Times.
    2. There Is a Friend Who Sticks Closer than a Brother -- and There Is a Friend Who Sticks the Knife.
    3. Beware of the Brashness That Often Comes with Youth.
    4. Beware of Doctrinal Legalism.
    5. Be Thankful That We Don't Get What We All Deserve
    6. God's Grace Wins Even When Everything (and Everyone) Fails.
    7. What a Friend We Have in Jesus (cf. James 2:23; John 15:14).
    56 min
  • In the Courtroom with God (Part 3) | Job 10:1-22
    In the Courtroom with God (Part 3) | Job 10:1-22
    ***For a complete sermon transcript click on the "Notes" icon above***

    ---------------------------- Sermon Outline--------------------------------

    Introduction

    I. In the Courtroom With God: How Can Job Possibly Be Exonerated? (9:1-35)
        A. Job’s Agreement: I Know This is So! (1-2a)
        B. Job’s Argument: How Can Anyone Dispute with God? (2b-24)
        C. Job’s Affliction: I Am Most Miserable (25-35)    
            1. Hopeless Days (25-26)
            2. Meaningless Existence (27-29)
            3. Helpless Cleansing (30-31) 
            4. Nameless Mediator (32-35)
            5. Relentless Discipline (34-35)

    II. In the Courtroom With God: Job Resigns Himself to a Sentence of Death (10:1-22)
        A. When Suffering Resist the Temptation to Complain (1-2)
            1. Lament vs. Complaint (cf. Job in chapter 3)
            2. “Windy words” and C.S. Lewis . . . 
        B. When Suffering Resist the Temptation to Question God’s Purposes (3-12)
            1. The Word ”Favorably” =  “to have a glowing face, to be radiant or to smile” 
            2. Why doesn’t Job see his depravity - that he is utterly sinful?
        C. When Suffering Resist the Temptation to Question God’s Goodness (13-17)
            1. Verse 13 is the door that opens up to verses 14-17
        D. When Suffering Resist the Temptation to Give Up Hope (18-22)
            1. Job questions why he was ever born (18-19)
            2. Job wants God to leave him alone do die (20-22)

    Conclusion: “The ‘F’ Factor” (Faith not Fear)
    48 min
  • In the Courtroom with God (Part 2) | Job 9:25-35
    In the Courtroom with God (Part 2) | Job 9:25-35   
    ***For a complete sermon transcript click on the "Notes" icon above***

    ---------------------------- Sermon Outline--------------------------------

    Introduction: Despondency . . .

    I. In the Courtroom With God: How Can Job Possibly Be Exonerated? (9:1-35)

     A. Job’s Agreement: I Know This is So! (1-2a)
     B. Job’s Argument: How Can Anyone Dispute with God? (2b-24)
     C. Job’s Affliction: I Am Most Miserable (25-35)
      1. Hopeless Days (25-26)
      2. Meaningless Existence (27-29)
      3. Helpless Cleansing (30-31)
      4. Nameless Mediator (32-35)
      5. Relentless Discipline (34-35)

    Conclusion: Lessons from the Despondent Life

    1. The windy words of a sufferer won’t leave the believer condemned in the courtroom of God.
    2. During times of despair we will, like Job, vacillate in our faith.
    3. Fight for faith before you fight for joy.
    4. Let’s encourage the fainthearted.
    5. Be thankful for that Mediator and let’s relish in a Savior who suffered for us.

    45 min
  • In the Courtroom with God (Part 1) | Job 9:1-24
    In the Courtroom with God (Part 1) | Job 9:1-24 
    ***For a complete sermon transcript click on the "Notes" icon above***

    ---------------------------- Sermon Outline--------------------------------

    I. In the Courtroom With God: How Can Job Possibly Be Exonerated? (9:1-35)
        A. Job’s Agreement: I Know This is So! (1-2a)
        B. Job’s Argument: How Can Anyone Dispute with God? (2b-24)
            1. God’s Wisdom and Power (3-10)
                a. God’s Wisdom Demonstrated in Cross-Examination (3)
                b. God’s Power Demonstrated in Creation (5-10)
            2. God’s Sovereignty (11-24)
                a. God Is Free to Move and Act (11-15)
                b. God Is Awesome in Power and Righteousness (16-21)
                c. God Is In Control of the Wicked (22-24)
                    (1) Sudden Disaster
                    (2) Free reign of the wicked
                    (3) Judicial Injustice
    54 min
  • The Black and White World of Bildad | Job 8:1-22
    The Black and White World of Bildad | Job 8:1-22
     ***For a complete sermon transcript click on the "Notes" icon above***

    ---------------------------- Sermon Outline--------------------------------

    I. Truism: The Immutable Character of God (1-3)
     A. Hello, I’m Bildad
     B. Here’s my Axiom (Plumb Line)
    II. Crooked Wall #1: Bad Things Happen to Bad People (4)
     A. Sin = Retribution and Retribution = Sin (4)
     B. Job Still Has a Chance to Live (5-7)
    III. Crooked Wall #2: Tradition Says . . . (8-10)
    IV. Crooked Wall #3: Lessons from Nature (11-19)
     A. The Papyrus and Reeds (11-12)
     B. The Spider’s Web (13-15)
     C. The Grounded Plant (16-19)
    V. Crooked Wall #4: A Faulty Conclusion (20-22)  
     A. God will Not Reject a Blameless Man (20)
     B. God will Bless the Blameless Man (21)
     C. God will Curse the Blameless Man’s Enemies (22)
    VI. A Straight Wall: Our Closing Application
     A. Understand the Difference Between Retribution and Discipline
      1. Believers NEVER get Retributive Justice
      2. Believers ALWAYS get Discipline
     B. There is No Necessary Correlation Between Personal Sin and Suffering
      1. Example of Jesus Christ
     C. If There is No Undeserved Suffering Then There is No Redemptive Suffering
    56 min
  • Job’s Reply to Eliphaz: My Hope is Dim But I Endure (Part 2) | Job 7:1-21
    Job’s Reply to Eliphaz: My Hope is Dim But I Endure (Part 2) | Job 7:1-21 
    ***For a complete sermon transcript click on the "Notes" icon above***

    ---------------------------- Sermon Outline--------------------------------

    INTRODUCTION: Job and Lament

    I. Horizontal: Job Complains to His Friends (6:1-30)
        A. IF ONLY You Knew My Suffering (6:1-7)
        B. IF ONLY My Life Would End (6:8-13)
        C. IF ONLY You Were Loyal (6:14-23)
        D. IF ONLY You Were Compassionate (6:24-30)

    II. Vertical: Job Complains to His God (7:1-21)
        A. WHY is Life Full of Vain Suffering? (7:1-8)

        B. WHY Don’t You Leave Me Alone? (7:9-16)
        C. WHY Is This Happening To Me?  (7:17-21) 
    56 min
  • Job’s Reply to Eliphaz: My Hope is Dim But I Endure (Part 1) | Job 6:1-30
    Job’s Reply to Eliphaz: My Hope is Dim But I Endure (Part 1) | Job 6:1-30   (this recording has some high-end distortion)
    ***For a complete sermon transcript click on the "Notes" icon above***

    ---------------------------- Sermon Outline--------------------------------

    INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW
    I. Horizontal: Job Complains to His Friends (6.1-30)
        A. IF ONLY You Knew My Suffering (6:1-7)
            1. Suffering is Suffocating
            2. Suffers are Rarely Silent
                a. Careless, impetuous words
                b. What Happened to the Job of Chapter 1?
                c. What happened to the Job of Chapter 2?
        B. IF ONLY My Life Would End (6:8-13)
            1. Job longs for death - We see that in 7:15
            2. When the hope of death seems to be the only hope there is . . .
            3. But there’s a little bit of light left in Job’s soul
        C. IF ONLY You Were Loyal (6:14-23)
            1. Job longs for loyalty from his friends, particularly Eliphaz at this point 
            2. “Kindness” = Hesed  - One of the great Hebrew words of the O.T.
            3. Second half of verse 14 - difficulty in translation
            4. Job gives an illust. of how his friends were acting in vv. 15-20
            5. He points the finger directly at them in verse 21
            6. Job continues to defend his innocence in vv. 22-23 ==>
        D. IF ONLY You Were Compassionate (6:24-30)

        
    CONCLUSION: These Four Main Points Bring Us Back to the Cross in that they Mark the Ministry of Jesus
        A. IF ONLY you knew my suffering . . . 
        B. IF ONLY my life would end . . . 
        C. IF ONLY you were loyal . . . 
        D. IF ONLY you were compassionate . . . 
    II. Vertical: Job Complains to His God (7)
    53 min

About Grounded In Grace

From the publisher's feed

Grounded In Grace is the teaching ministry of Tony Bartolucci, Minister of Preaching at Christ Church of Clarkson, New York. He has an M.A. from Phoenix Seminary and is a doctoral candidate at…