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Where can I find God? In the midst of his distrees and trial, Job confesses "I do not see him. But he knows the way thast I take: when he has tried me I shall come out as gold.
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Blaming the victim can be our own defense mechanism to shield ourselves from the threat of pain or injustice. When Job feels abandoned by friends and family, his heart yearns to see God. He voices confidence that God himself will come as his kinsman redeemer.
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Job longs for God to be his advocate, his intercessor, his defender.
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Job's three friends are full of advice, none of it worth while for Job. Job replies to each in turn and then asks God, "What is man that you make so much of him"
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Job shatters the silence by crying out to God in his distress. Here is the path for us to follow. As Psalm 120:1 records, "In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me."
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The main character Job, despite being identified repeatedly as a man who is “blameless and upright, fearing God and turning away from evil,” goes through intense suffering and loss. The book of Job is filled with questions, but it also generates many questions in the mind of the reader. Is life unfair? Where do I find hope when life hurts? Where is God in the midst of my suffering? How can I best support those who are hurting around me? Job is included in the Bible for important reasons. It is placed among the books of wisdom.Click to watch - Click to view manuscript
The four Hebrew consonants in “Yahweh” are pronounced with the vowels of the noun Adonai meaning “Lord.” Whenever this occurs in the text, the English Bible translators honor this tradition and read LORD. We learn here to love God’s personal name, to treat God’s name as holy, and to anticipate that one day “all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.” (1 Kings 8:60).
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The central confession of our faith is to believe that Jesus is the Christ. When we name Jesus as Christ, we believe that he is God’s anointed Messiah, our Savior. We believe that Jesus is our disciple maker. He is our teacher and Lord. We derive our name from him as “Christians” and are recognized in the world by our love and dedication to him. As his disciples, we are committed followers of him alone.
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Humility is a uniquely Christian virtue. This word never appears on any of the virtue lists of the ancient world. ). For disciple makers, humility means having the mind of Christ, thinking of others more highly than ourselves, and serving others from the abundance of who we are in Christ.
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In John 3, we discover that the world is the object of God’s redeeming love: “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). For Christians, the world becomes the place of our earthly pilgrimage and the people with whom we share Christ in humility.
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Kenwood Baptist Church is a multi-cultural, multi-generational church located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Podcasts include sermons and conversations with worldwide Christian leaders.…