Job Sermon Series: Part 12 "A New Beginning"

So we have come to the end of the book of Job.  We hear how Job has been changed by this struggle and how God responds to Job's transformation.




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Job Sermon Series: Part 12 Devotion & Sermon Questions

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our 16 August Sunday Service Bulletin. We are continuing on a multi-part series on Job. Some of the devotion thoughts were inspired and quoted using the footnotes in the LSB (pp836). 

Old Testament Reading:  Job 42

Then Job answered the Lord and said: 2“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3’who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4’Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’ 5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; 6therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

Job Sermon Series: Part 11 "The Nature of God"

This week we hear the second response God has to Job regarding his suffering.  Lets listen to what God says.  Have you ever had God speak to you?  What does this mean for us today?




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Job Sermon Series: Part 11 Devotion & Sermon Questions

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin. We are continuing on a multi-part series on Job. Some of the devotion thoughts were inspired and quoted using the footnotes in the LSB (pp836) and from www.net.bible.org.

Old Testament Reading:  Job 40, 41 (partial extracts below)

And the Lord said to Job: 2 “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”3 Then Job answered the Lord and said: 4 “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. 5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.” 6 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: 7 “Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. 8 Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right? 9 Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? 15 “Behold, Behemoth,  which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox 16 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. 17 He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. 18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron 19 “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword! 41 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? 2 Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook 3 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

Job Sermon Series Part 10: "The God of Nature"

This week God now answers Job!  Is the response what Job expected?  What does this mean for us in our suffering?




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Job Sermon Series Part 10 Devotion & Sermon Series

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin. We are continuing on a multi-part series on Job. Some of the devotion thoughts were inspired by footnotes in the LSB (pp833) and from www.net.bible.org.

Old Testament Reading:  Job 38, 39, 40 (partial extracts below)

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: ²“Who is this thatdarkens counsel by words without knowledge? ³Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. ⁴Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. ⁵Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? ⁶On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, ⁷when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, ⁹when I made clouds its garment andthick darkness its swaddling band, ¹⁰and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, ¹¹and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall yourproud waves be stayed’? ¹²Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Job Sermon Series: Part 9 " Your God is Too Small"

In today's sermon, we hear again from Elihu as he addresses Job in his suffering. How does Elihu's view of God fit with your view of God?  Is your God too small or is your view of God too small?


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Job Sermon Series: Part 9 Devotion & Sermon Questions

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin. We are continuing on a multi-part series on Job. Some of the devotion thoughts were inspired by footnotes in the LSB (pp824-830) and fromwww.net.bible.org.

Old Testament Reading:  Job 34, 35, 37 (partial extracts below)

34 Then Elihu said, “If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.¹⁷Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn Him who is righteous and mighty,¹⁸who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’ ¹⁹who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of His hands? ²⁰In a moment they die; at the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand. I will answer you and your friends with you.  

Job Sermon Series: Part 8 "Youth Answers Age"

In today's sermon, Pastor Hook continues in the book of Job.  Now a younger man, named Elihu addresses Job.  What wisdom can this youth impart to Job is his suffering?




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Job Sermon Series: Part 8 - Devotion and Sermon Questions

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin. We are continuing on a multi-part series on Job.

Old Testament Reading:  Job 32, 33 (partial extracts below)

32 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. ² Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God. ³ He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.⁴ Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. ⁵ And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger.

Job Sermon Series: Part 7 - Devotion and Sermon Questions

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin. We are continuing on a multi-part series on Job.

Old Testament Reading:  Job 27:1-6; 28:12-15; 28:23-28; 31:35-40

27: ¹And Job again took up his discourse, and said:

² “As God lives, who has taken away my right,    and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,³ as long as my breath is in me,    and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,⁴ my lips will not speak falsehood,    and my tongue will not utter deceit.⁵ Far be it from me to say that you are right;    till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.⁶ I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go;    my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.

Job Sermon Series: Part 6 - Why doesn't God intervene"

In today's sermon, Pastor Hook continues in the Book of Job.  The question is asked, "Why doesn't God intervene?"  The answer to this question is as important to us today as it was to Job thousands of years ago.

Job Part 6 - Devotion and Sermon Questions

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin.

Old Testament Reading:  Job 20:1-7, 21:1-16
(English Standard Version)

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: 2“Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me. 3I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me. 4 Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth, 5that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment? 6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, 7he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say ‘Where is he?’ Then Job answered and said: 2“Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort. 3Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. 4As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient? 5Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. 6When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh. 7 Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

Job part 5 - Devotion

A brief prayer is offered at the end that you may add to your daily prayers. The scripture reference is from this Sunday's Service Bulletin.

Old Testament Reading: Job 19 (ESV)

25 “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. 26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, 27 whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.  My heart faints within me!”

Devotion: My Redeemer Lives!
According to Miriam Webster, a redeemer is a person who brings goodness, honor, etc. to something once again. Our Lord Jesus Christ brings us goodness and honor that we do not deserve. But this goodness that we can now claim was bought with a heavy price. Our Lord suffered greatly and felt the wrath of God for the sins of the world. While on the cross Jesus spoke these words, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46b (Also see Psalm 22:1). Jesus suffered physically, but he also felt spiritual pain at the separation from his Father in heaven. When we suffer, let us remember our Lord's suffering. We are not forsaken because our Lord is always with us. We have hope because our Redeemer, Jesus Christ, brings us life and frees us from the burdens of sin. Job's body may have been devastated, but Job's great faith led him to declare, “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.”

Prayer: O Lord, let us never forget that Christ is our Redeemer who loves us so much that he gave his life for us. Praise be to God, our great Redeemer.

May God bless you and keep you,

Cheryl Virden

Book of Job: Part 4 - Trying to figure out God

This is the fourth sermon in our sermon series on Job.  It is the first round of monologues given by Job's friends.  Who really is to blame for his suffering?  Today we'll see Job's response.




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Job Part 4 - Devotion and sermon questions

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin.

Old Testament Reading: Job 8 [ESV]

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: ²“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? ³Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? ⁴If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. ⁵If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, ⁶if you are pure and upright, surely then He will rouse Himself for youand restore your rightful habitation.

Job Part 3 - Small group notes and devotion

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin.

Gospel Reading: Matthew 26: 20-24, [ESV]

20 When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. 21 And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” 22 And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” 23 He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me. 24 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.

Book of Job: Part 3 - Job's anger

In Job Part 3, we'll look at Job's anger.  But who is the anger really directed towards?  Listen to part 3 of this sermon series on Job.




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Book of Job: Part 2 - Another test

Today is the second sermon in our look at the Book of Job. How much suffering is too much? Is God still up there? Today's sermon looks at the second test, Job Chapter 2.




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Job Part 2 - Prayer and Questions

A brief prayer is offered that you can add to your daily prayers. The scripture is from our Sunday Service Bulletin.

Gospel Reading [ESV]

Matthew 14: 13-21
17They said to Him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.” 18And He said, “Bring them here to me.” 19Then He ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, He looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 20And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. 21And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.