D.A.Y. Message

Preached Sunday, October 4, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapter 22
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20

Eliphaz 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,...

Preached Sunday, September 20, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapter 20
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20

Zophar 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 descripti...

Preached Sunday, September 27, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapter 21
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20

Job 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...

Preached Sunday, September 13, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapter 19
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20

Job 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 “frien...

Preached Sunday, August 30, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapter 18
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20

Bildad 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 stan...

Preached Sunday, August 23, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapters 16-17
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20

Job 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 no...

Preached Sunday, August 16, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapters 15
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20

Eliphaz 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 g...

Preached Sunday, August 9, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapters 12-14
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series 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 t...

Preached Sunday, July 26, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapters 9-10
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series 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 Hea...

Preached Sunday, July 19, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapters 8
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20
 
Job’s friend Bildad was an emotional person, and he called Job a windbag. Bildad used simplistic reasoning in his conversation with Job, trying to persuade Job to repent so that he might be restored to his former glory.

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Preached Sunday, July 12, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapters 6 & 7
Sermon Series: The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life
Series Launch Date: 06/14/20

In Chap 6, Job defended his speech in Chap 3, saying that God was hurting him, and that he wished that God would rather kill him. He wished his friends were reliable and that they would truthfully tell him where he did wrong. Job’s friends, neverth...

Preached Sunday, July 5, 2020
Scripture: Job Chapers 4 & 5
Sermon Series: The Book of Job - Launched 06/14/2020

Job’s friend, Eliphaz, represents reason, and he provides comfort to the suffering Job while also questioning the latter’s fear of God and overall integrity. He asked Job to be patient, consistent, realistic, and submissive to God. While his words are 90% true, and sometimes quoted by NT apostles, the...

Preached Sunday, June 28, 2020
Scripture: Job 3:1-27
Sermon Series: The Book of Job - Relating to God While Suffering

Job gave the opening speech of his dialogue with his friends by cursing the day of his birth and the night of his conception, then lamenting of his misfortune, which literally came “out of the blue.” Basically, he was asking these questions: “Why Should I Live?” “Who Should I Blame?” “What Can I Do?...

Preached Sunday, June 21, 2020
Scripture: Job 1:1-2:10
Sermon Series - The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life

The author of Job, apparently by divine inspiration, gave us a big picture of cosmic proportion. God was making a point to Satan, and Job was a pawn on the board. God says that true believers believe because of what God is and not because of what He does for them. Satan believes otherwise,...

Preached Sunday, June 14, 2020
Scripture: Introductory Material – See Sermon Handouts
Sermon Series - The Book of Job: Relating to God While Suffering in Life

Is Job an historical person? If he is, when did he live? Why did tradition attribute the book to Moses? Is there an overlap between the lifetime of Job and Moses? Did they face the similar issue (the suffering of the righteous without apparent reason)? This introductio...

Preached Sunday, June 7, 2020
Scripture: II Corinthians 12:14-13:14
Series over Sanctification through the Study of I & II Corinthians

Paul and his team never served for money (12:14-18). He hoped that the Corinthians would repent from rebellion (12:19-21). He was ready to demonstrate the power of God in him (13:1-4); but he wished that he did not have to use his “nuclear option” (13:5-10). The book ends with one of th...

Preached Sunday, May 31, 2020
Scripture: II Corinthians 11:16-12:13
Series over Sanctification through the Study of I & II Corinthians

Paul boasted only because the false apostles did (11:16-20). He claimed to be no less Israelite than the “super apostles” (11:21-22), he suffered a lot more as a Servant of Christ (11:23-33), and he received deeper spiritual revelations (12:1-10). He never took monetary advantages (12:11-...

Preached Sunday, May 24, 2020
Scripture: II Corinthians10:15-11:15
Series over Sanctification through the Study of I & II Corinthians

False apostles rob the fruits of other people’s work (10:15 –11:1); they rob the purity of new believers (11:2-6); and they rob the funds from the churches (11:7-12). They are actually undercover agents of Satan (11-13-15).

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Preached Sunday, May 17, 2020
Scripture: II Corinthians10:1-11
Series over Sanctification through the Study of I & II Corinthians

Paul declared that he would not exclude his “nuclear option” in the spiritual warfare against the false apostles. He is gentle to believers but bold to enemies (10:1-2). He fights the spiritual warfare with spiritual weapons (10:3-5), and allowed people to chose which side of him to face (10...