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Pursuing Excellence message 3
Text: Matthew 11:28-30
Last week we said we need to set our affections and thoughts on things above. Now we'll be a little more specific - we need to fix our eyes on Jesus and what a wonderful Savior He is. He is majestic and yet He calls us in gentleness. He is God yet He is humble. We are to learn from Him. It is only in Him that we find true rest; rest for our souls. All good and so encouraging!
Pursuing Excellence message 2
Text:Colossians 3:1-4
If we are to Pursue Excellence in our lives, we have to have the right perspective. Our focus needs to be in the right place - if we set our hearts on temporal things or passing pleasures, we only set ourselves up for failure. What a joy to live life with a perspective that rises above the temporal and sees Christ, enthroned next to the Father. Paul bases his appeal about perspective on seven glorious facts that are true for every Christian.
Pursuing Excellence message 1
Text: Psalm 1:1-3
The point this Sunday as we start off a new year is to purposefully get ourselves in God's Word, so He can teach us, comfort us, convict us, build us up and strengthen us. The picture in Psalm 1 is of a tree with deep roots that thrives because it is near its life source of water. The Word is our life source and our lives are firmly established if God's Word is firmly planted in our lives.
The vision statement of Derwood Bible Church.
This week we'll wrap up our series on Job. The emphasis is on how the Gospel changes our perspective on suffering and helps us bear up under it. We'll talk about Christmas as well; how God has given us the perfect provision. The themes will be our absolute need for deliverance through Christ, our longing to be free from our suffering, and how Jesus' birth was at just the right time as people longed for His advent, and the eternal perspective.
Text: Job 38:1-11
This Sunday and next will wrap up Job. Job asked for his day in court with God and he got it. God shows up in the storm and points Job to the wonders of creation and the created order, as well as His sovereignty over man in His moral universe. The big idea here is that God offers no philosophical explanation for Job's suffering, but reveals Himself in a very personal way to Job; that is all he needs. Next week we'll lay the principles of grace and he Gospel over these final chapters to finish the series.
Text: John 1:14
The Apostle John tells us that when Jesus came He was all about grace and truth. When you think about it, the prevailing "wisdom" from Job's friends was the opposite of this. They taught that we relate with God based on our performance; in doing so, they got it all wrong as they analyzed Job's trial. Not to mention adding grief in this godly man's sorrow and pain. The Gospel frees us to confront the truth about ourselves in the context of God's grace, in which He does not treat us as our sins deserve. God's grace changes everything, particularly our perspective in suffering. This Sunday we will examine the full expression of God's grace; the Advent of Jesus Christ and His suffernigs for us. It will be a wonderful foundation for wrapping up the book of Job.
Text: Job 32-37
Scripture: various
We've examined the wisdom of Job's three friends, now we will highlight some of the more memorable truths from Job himself. He spends a lot of time contesting their twisted view of justice and asserts his own innocence. We'll highlight the wisdom/power of God, the brevity of life, and Job's tenacity in holding to his integrity while his world crumbles around him. All highly relevant for us today!
Text: Job Chapters 11 & 20
Text: Job chapters 8, 18, & 25.
Bildad deals with God’s justice. But just like Eliphaz, he only gets half the picture. In the Gospel, God’s justice meets God’s love and mercy. If God is just but not merciful, we’re doomed. If God is merciful but not just, He is not holy. The Gospel frees us because God’s justice is fully met at the cross while we experience God’s tender mercies in our lives. Everything’s resolved and we understand that “it is for freedom that Christ has set you free.” (Galatians 5:1).
As Job’s friends try to figure out Job’s calamity, Eliphaz takes his stab. Good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people. Job, God is disciplining you…repent of your wrong doing. Just what Job needed; Moral relativism. We contrast this to the Gospel (Eph 2:1-10) and see that our standing with God is based on grace, not works.
Text: Job 2:11-3:26
This week we meet Job’s three friends who start off well by sitting with Job in his grief. Job breaks his silence and gives us a window into his soul. Job pulls no punches and is brutally honest about where he’s at. God has big shoulders and there is no virtue in pretending that hurt that’s there really isn’t there.
The theme of this passage is how Satan really goes after Job and God allows him to afflict Job physically. In the depths of his suffering he doesn’t sin even though his own wife encourages him to bail. Tough times for Job! Psalm 46 reminds us that in our deepest struggles He is our refuge and fortress - thank God for that.
Week 2 in our sermon series on Job.
DBC is governed by a congregationally elected board of elders who are supported by a congregationally elected board of deacons. Why has DBC chosen this model? Pastor Colin addresses this topic by answering the following questions from Scripture:
Both the sermon slides and the audio are included.