SERMONS ON JOB
Our sermon ideas on Job will help you preach a powerful message on the value of speaking to God in honest integrity and complaint. Preach on topics including trials and tribulations, remaining faithful in the midst of the storm, and the surety of God and his promises. Prepare your messages on God's Word in Job with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
God, Dust and a Tombstone
by Jerry Vines
His friends will accuse Job and then, Job will answer them. In the opening dialogues that were going on between them as they were dealing with the problem of Job's tragedy and Job's suffering. They are rather civil and somewhat polite in what they have to say to him, but as the controversy continues and as they talk with one another and the heat rises and the anger builds they become more and more caustic and hateful and belligerent in what they have to say. We can really see this in the words of Bildad in the 18th chapter as he steps to the stage again and he begins to speak. Bildad was the traditionalist. He's the...
Job: A Man Stripped Bare
by Dr. J. Vernon McGee
The Book of Job tells a true story but, since it comes out of the ancient Middle East, you may get the impression that it's far removed from life in modern America, that the story, and even Job's experience, are out of step. But it's very interesting that one of the most successful plays to appear on Broadway was a play entitled J.B. It's the story of the Book of Job brought up to date, and it illustrates that today people encounter the same problems that this man Job faced. When the author of J.B., Archibald MacLeish, was asked why in the world he picked a biblical theme, he said, "There are those, I know, who will object...
Job: Wisdom for Life's Losses (1 of 5)
by Stan Coffey
I want you to turn to Job chapter 1. Most of us know the story of Job. He lost everything he had. He had everything and then he lost everything and this is a verse when Job is faced with this terrible trial of having lost everything. This is his response as he tries to evaluate what has happened to him and possibly why it has happened to him. In Job chapter 1 verse 20, as he receives the final word that he has lost not only his possessions; not only his camels, oxen, sheep, crops, barns, but now he has also lost his sons and daughters and their families. His children and grandchildren have died. Job 1:20-22 "And Job arose...
Why Bad Things Happen to Good People (5 of 7)
by Jeff Schreve
He said, "Well, I've got to tell you my story." He said, "I'm a brick layer." And he said, "I was laying brick and making a brick wall." And he said, "It was pretty high up, about three stories up." And he said, "I got finished with my wall and I had quite a number of bricks, left over on the scaffolding." And so he said, "I wanted to get them down. But he said, "I didn't have a good way of getting them down, so I thought about what could be a way that would help me." And so he said, "I took a yardarm, just a piece of metal," and he said, "I kind of rigged it up and I set it up as a base up at the top of the scaffold." And he said, "And I ran a pulley to it, and I ran a rope through the pulley, and I had it set there...
When Suffering Strikes
by Ernest Easley
Today’s Sunday School lesson focused on the cross and the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ! As Jesus became sin upon that cross, He cried out, ''My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?'' And on this Palm Sunday, Christians around the world remember the suffering Jesus went through so that we might have salvation! That He became sin so that our sin would be forgiven! That He died so that might live! Hallelujah what a savior! The fact that Jesus was forsaken by God the Father in his suffering is His guarantee that He will not forsake us in our suffering! Deut 31.8, ''. . .He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear not be dismayed...
Job's Question -- If a Man Die Shall He Live?
by Jesse Hendley
Job's question is the greatest facing every human being. All earth's two billion souls are vitally concerned in its answer! Is there life after death? What is waiting for you out yonder just beyond the grave? Where will YOU BE WHEN YOUR HEART STOPS BEATING? Where will you be a million years from now?What will be your condition THIRTY SECONDSAFTER THE BREATH LEAVES YOUR BODY? These are questions facing YOU this moment. A young lady in our city died and we were asked to conduct the funeral service. We noticed it was unusually hard for a sister who wept throughout the service. Coming...
Job: Good People—Bad Times (9 of 10)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: Between these two texts is recorded one of the world's classic stories and one of faith's enduring lessons. This is the life of Job. A man was once having one of those days when everything goes wrong. One thing after another. At end of day he's laying in bed exhausted. He cries out: "Why me, God? What have I done to deserve this? Why does everything always go wrong for me?" Suddenly the ceiling opens up, a huge hand with a pointed finger began thumping him in the chest, and aloud, majestic voice boomed: "Because you bug me. That's why!" It was one of those days. Job's life had fallen apart so badly that...
Are You in the Know?
by James Merritt
1. Most of us don't remember, but many years ago doctors used to make house calls. That is, they would actually come to your house with their little black bag, and they would examine you. One day a man took deathly ill, and his wife called the doctor and the doctor came out to the house. 2. When he walked in, the wife told him that her husband was upstairs. He told her to wait there; he went upstairs; was gone for a little while; after a few minutes came down and asked for a screwdriver. She gave him one. He went back upstairs; several minutes later he came back down and asked for a can opener. She gave him that. 3. He went back...
Job: The Fair Portrait of a Saint
by Charles H. Spurgeon
Thus Job speaks of himself, not by way of vaunting, but by way of vindication. Eliphaz the Temanite and his two companions had brought distinct charges against Job's character. Because they saw him in such utter misery, they concluded that his adversity must have been sent as a punishment for his sin, and therefore they judged him to be a hypocrite who, under cover of religion, had exercised oppression and tyranny. Zophar had hinted that wickedness was sweet in Job's mouth and that he hid iniquity under his tongue. Eliphas charged him with hardness of heart to the poor and dared to say, "Thou hast taken a pledge...
All's Well That Ends Well (3 of 6)
by Daniel Rodgers
1. In the three verses I just read, we find a man just about as discouraged as someone can possibly be. When we think about Job we automatically think of suffering:a. The Christian and the non-Christian alike, have for centuries, drawn on the experiences, heartaches and disappointments of Job.1) More than any other thought, Job has been remembered for patience, "the patience of Job." But, was Job really a patient man?" 2. The answer to that question is, "yes," probably more than most: Job 13:15, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him."a. We are well aware that though...
