Job: Godliness in a Broken World – July 14, 2024

Job 31:13-23

Everyone has a reason to do the right thing. Some people do the right thing for practical reasons like if you want to make friends, it probably best to be kind. For other people, there’s a social pressure to do the right thing because we want people to like us.

But these motivations aren’t always fool proof because sometimes social pressure encourages people to be mean. Sometimes it feels good to do the wrong thing like getting revenge. We need a better moral compass, not based on our feelings because feelings change quite often- need something consistent

So, my big question today is: where do Christians get their moral compass from? Our Bible story teaches us that our moral compass comes from being consistently aware of God’s coming judgment (now some are uncomfortable with judgment, but we went in depth with it during our Revelation series, so check it out on our YouTube channel).

Remembering the coming judgment (that we are accountable to God) helps us commit to both fairness and generosity. That’s what we learn from our Bible passage today. Let’s read fom Job 31:13-23, here we find Job explaining why he’s committed to doing the right thing.

Sermon notes

Job: Godliness in a Broken World – July 7, 2024

Job 2:11-13

Every single one of us is going to one day witness a friend or family member lose someone they love. We will see people experience tragedy and suffer loss. So, my big question today, what can we do when someone is grieving?

That is what our Bible story is about today, our passage today comes from Job 2:11-13, and we’re going to see what Job’s friends did when they found Job grieving terribly.

  1. Mourn with them in silence
  2. Mourn with them by offering kind words

Job: Godliness in a Broken World – June 30, 2024

Job 38

We’re starting a new series on one of the best literatures on suffering. It’s an ancient epic collection of poems called, the book of Job.

Now the way Job is written is that major themes are drawn out and weaved throughout the entire book, and so its conclusions are all found at the end of the story. And so because of that, our series won’t really be going through the book chronologically because then we’d have 5 sermons with zero answers to our questions and the one sermon with 5 answers. So instead, we’re going by themes.

AND SINCE this is the case, I’m starting all the way at Job 38, which means we have to summarize the previous 37 chapters. So let’s do it!

What truths do we need to hold in order to suffer positively (meaning, in a positive trajectory).

  1. God’s presence is in the suffering
  2. God’s perspective gives hope to the suffering
  3. God’s purpose redeems the suffering