April 13, 2017
On Sunday, February 26, 2017, Pastor Joe Troutman preached “Good Intentions, Poor Execution” from Job 4.
The retribution your sin deserves was taken by Jesus Christ in his suffering and death on the cross.
1. Accusations and Innuendo—Eliphaz’s remarks confuses suffering with punishment and riches with reward. But God does not deal with his people according to their sins.
2. Not So New, and Not So Special—The religion Eliphaz advances is graceless. It misunderstands God and Man. God is just and the justifier of those who believe in Jesus Christ.
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April 12, 2017
On Sunday, February 19, 2017, Pastor Joe Troutman preached “A Day to Lament” from Job 3.
Jesus Christ rights the wrongs of a sin-cursed world by his death on the cross.
1. Creation Undone—As if his trials parallel the Fall of Adam, so Job wishes he’d never been born, even to the extent that God had never created the world in the first place.
2. Why, Oh Why?—Job assumes joy will only return to him by means of his own death. He wouldn’t take his own life, but endured his trials.
3. A Greater Than Job—The undoing of creation and relief from suffering in death find their ultimate expression in the death of Christ for fallen sinners, which sufferings result in eternal life and joy in Christ.
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April 12, 2017
On Sunday, February 12, 2017, Pastor Joe Troutman preached “Weep With Those Who Weep” from Job 2:11-13.
Jesus Christ shared our suffering humbling himself by taking a body of dust so we can live forever with him in glory.
1. A Concerted Effort—Knowing Job needs help, three friends deliberately arranged to visit him in his trouble.
2. Sharing Sorrows—Job’s friends express their grief and sorrow for Job.
3. Seven Days and Seven Nights—As the friends shared in Job’s sufferings, as Christ shared in ours, even as our sufferings complete his own, so are we to share the suffering of others.
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March 7, 2017
On Sunday, February 5, 2017, Pastor Joe Troutman preached “Instensive Trials” from Job 2:1-10.
Jesus Christ at every point of his earthly life blessed God and still died so all who cursed God and believe in his Son will never die.
1. Skin for Skin—Though Job was faithful, he was treated as one who had abandoned the Lord. Our suffering for the sake of Christ points back to the suffering of Jesus himself.
2. Six Little Words—Three Hebrew words echo Job’s faithfulness; three echo the curse. Wife holds our his two choices: to bless God or curse him. As Joshua’s call to choose whom you will serve, Job’s response shows he makes the better choice.
3. The Good with the Bad—In Christ, the justified believer is viewed by God as one who has faithfully endured trials .
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February 7, 2017
On Sunday, January 29, 2017, Pastor Joe Troutman preached “Cursed,” Yet Blessing Yahweh from Job 1:13-22.
God gives and God takes away; God is God, and he is to be worshipped.
1. Devastation and Disaster–Fourfold tragedy befalls Job and he falls on the ground to worship. “The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away…”
2. Sorrow and Service–when trouble befalls you, you are to worship. “…blessed be the name of the LORD.”
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January 28, 2017
On Sunday, January 15, 2017, Pastor Joe Troutman preached “Imputation of Wrong Motives” from Job 1:6-12.
Salvation is not an external blessing which we have caused and that we can be stripped of, but is an internal God-given gift that can never be taken away.
1. Satan’s Job—To accuse God’s people in the Divine Council as the loyal opposition who acts subservient to the LORD. Martin Luther writes: “Satan is God’s Satan.”
2. Satan’s Accusation—Satan presumes Job’s fear of God is tied to God’s blessing and protection of Job, the lack of which would provoke Job to lose his fear of God.
3. God’s Good Government—Since Job’s faith comes from God, Satan’s God-allowed test of Job is equally a test of God’s government of his creatures. In trial don’t claim God doesn’t love you. If Job’s faith was found true, so will that of God’s people.
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January 24, 2017
On Sunday, January 8, 2017, Pastor Joe Troutman preached “Blameless and Upright” from Job 1:1-5.
Jesus Christ’s work as our Mediator serves as God’s “grace-colored glasses”—when the Father looks at us, he sees the righteousness of his Son.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
1. Job’s Godly Character
2. Job’s God-Given Blessedness
3. Job’s God-Supplied Need
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January 23, 2017
On Sunday, January 1, 2017, Pastor Joe Troutman preached “The Book of Job and the Problem of Evil” from Job 1:12.
God is in sovereign control of all that happens, and all that happens brings glory to his name and good to his people.
1. The Problem of Pain—Pain is often the thing that brings us to the end of ourselves and drives us to Christ.
2. Not By A Bare Permission—Your present suffering God will use for his glory and your good if you trust in him, although you may never be freed from your suffering in this life.
3. God’s Solution to the Problem—Jesus Christ came to suffer so that you would not have to endure eternal suffering.
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