Word 239: Why the Church Must be Re-Formed

Pastor: Rev. Dr. D. Dean Weaver
Passage: John 17:1-26
Sermon Series: Living Out God's Unchanging Word to Serve and Ever Changing World

Academy of Faith 005: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering

Presented by: Dr. Bruce Bickel

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• Transcript Week 5

The Book of Job

Blessings through Pressure and Pain

Lesson #5

· The Dialogue

· Conversation with Elihu (32-37)

· Elihu denounces Job and his friends (32–33)

· Applications/Uses

· Counseling from an angry heart can be dangerous

· Be a good listener

· Don’t try to be the answer man

· Elihu refutes Job’s complaints (34–35)

· Elihu defends God (36–37)

· Applications/Uses

· Suffering can reveal our true character

· Suffering can teach us about the character of God

· Suffering can teach us about the nature of faith

Word 238: When the Church is Like the Turnpike

Pastor: Rev. Dr. D. Dean Weaver
Passage: Acts 2:24-27
Sermon Series: Living Out the Unchanging Word to Serve an Ever-Changing World

Academy of Faith 004: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering

Presented by: Dr. Bruce Bickel

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• Transcript Week 4

The Book of Job

Blessings through Pressure and Pain

Lesson #4

· The Dialogue

· Conversation with Friends – Cycle #3 (22-32)

· Eliphaz speaks (22)

· Job’s response (23–24)

· Bildad speaks (25)

· Job’s response (26–31)

· Applications and Uses

· By design, all of creation is a mystery to us

· God is self sustaining, but the world is not

· The concern for the Kingdom of God should be paramount

· Cursing God’s enemies (imprecations) should never be for personal revenge

· Cursing God’s enemies must be for the conversion of our enemies

· We have a basis for understanding what will happen to the unrepentant.

· Fearing God is based upon knowing God and being in awe of His ways

· We should intentionally and continuously remember God’s blessings of His care for us, His friendship with us, His provision for us, and His presence with us.

· Positive growing in growing is impossible without negative handling of sin.

· We must deal with our sin

· We must guard the heart and mind

· We must take practical steps

· We must live in the light of God’s presence

Word 237: The Maturity Matrix

Pastor: Rev. Kevin Gourley
Passage: Acts 7:54-8:4
Sermon Series: Living Out the Unchanging Word to Serve an Ever Changing World

Academy of Faith 003: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering

Presented by: Dr. Bruce Bickel

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• Transcript Week 3

The Book of Job

Blessings through Pressure and Pain

Lesson #3

· The Dialogue

· Conversation with Friends – Cycle #2 (15-21)

· Eliphaz speaks (15)

· Job’s response (16–17)

· Bildad speaks (18)

· Job’s response (19)

· Zophar speaks (20)

· Job’s response (21)

· Applications and Uses

· To be confused by how God deals with us is normal

· To be troubled by how God deals with us is not sinful

· A time of trouble is a time of great temptation

· A time of trouble need not defeat us entirely

Word 236: Our Shared Convictions

Pastor: Rev. Dr. D. Dean Weaver
Passage: II Timothy 3:10-4:8
Sermon Series: Living Out God's Unchanging Word to Serve an Ever Changing World

Academy of Faith 002: The Book of Job: A Study of Suffering

Presented by: Dr. Bruce Bickel

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• Transcript Lesson 2

The Book of Job

Blessings through Pressure and Pain

Lesson #2

· The Dialogue

· Conversation with Friends – Cycle #1 (3–14)

· Job’s lament (3)

· His cry of grief (3:1-10)

· His cursing turns into questioning (3:11-26)

· Applications and Uses

1). When suffering, people need sympathy not cold diagnosis

2). Asking too many questions of God is not healthy or productive

3). Questions about health and loss of loved ones challenge our faith the most

4). Christianity has always been and will always be the way of the cross

5). Suffering should prompt us to pray

· Eliphaz speaks (4–5) – The Religious Moralist

· Based upon experience

· Based upon private revelation

· Based on orthodox theology

· Job’s response (6–7)

· Anger, bitterness and complaints

· His loss of dignity

· His view of life as futile

· His being unfairly treated

· Bildad speaks (8) – The Religious Legalist

· Based on Tradition

· Based upon appearances

· Based upon cause and effect

· Job’s response (9–10)

· Has lost sense of God’s loving kindness

· Knows it is futile to argue with God because He is sovereign

1). God is incomprehensible

2). God is invisible

3). God is unaccountable

4). God is unrestrainable

6. Zophar speaks (11) – The Religious Dogmatist

· Based on Assumption

· Based on Job’s secret sin

· Based on Job’s serious sin

· Job’s response (12–14)

· God is sovereign

· He wants to talk to God not his friends

· The Three Friends compared and Contrasted

· Eliphaz is the religious moralist

· Bildad is the religious legalist

· Zophar is the religious dogmatist

· Eliphaz is the apologist – the voice of philosophy -

· Bildad is the lecturer – the voice of history

· Zophar is the bigot – the voice of orthodoxy

· Applications and Uses

· They had the view that calamity is always the direct outcome of sin

· They had a far too narrow and rigid view of Providence

· They wanted to prove that goodness and wickedness are always rewarded or punished in this present life

· They did not give a convincing answer to Job

· They all condemn Job

Organ and Brass Concert

Presented by: Mrs. Gail Henry (Organist) and The Memorial Park Brass

Click below to hear music from the concert:

1. Grande Chorus Dialogue 5:51
2. Hymn No. 9 4:50
3. Siciliano 3:16
4. Fugue In A Minor 6:41
5. Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair 3:44
6. Yellow from "Colors" 5:36
7. I Know That My Redeemer Lives from "Messiah" 6:44
8. Pastorale 7:59
9. Variations on a Neapolitan Song 8:21
10. Crown Imperial 7:43
    

Word 235: MPC's Missional Mandate

Pastor: Rev. Dr. D. Dean Weaver
Passage: Matthew 28:16-20 / John 20:19-23 / Acts 1:1-11
Sermon Series: Living out God's Unchanging Word to Serve and Ever Changing World