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Sunday, November 8Kenwood Baptist Church

The Lord Answers Job Out of the Whirlwind

After thirty-seven chapters of Job asking where God is, God arrives in the whirlwind and answers not with explanations but with himself, asking Job question after question about creation until Job covers his mouth. The sermon holds that God's greatness is what comforts us when we feel powerless, and that being small in the hands of a great God is not the same as being insignificant.

What was preached

• Job 38:1
• Job 39:1–30
• Job 40:1–5

• Why does God answer Job's demand for a hearing with a tour of creation instead of an explanation of Job's suffering?
• What does God's care for the lion, the raven, and the ostrich show Job about how God is involved with what he has made?

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Earlier sermons

1. Sunday, October 25

   The Fear of the Lord Is Wisdom

   Job searches everywhere for wisdom and finds it cannot be mined or bought, only given by God, and it looks like fearing God and turning from evil. Job then lays out his own life in detail to show what that fear actually looks like when no one is watching.

2. Sunday, October 11

   Where Is My Father? Job 18-21: The Redeemer Who Stands With Us

   Job's friends answer his suffering with fear and judgment, and in the loneliness that follows he grasps for a living redeemer who will stand with him and whom he will one day see.

3. Sunday, October 4

   Where Is My Hope?

   Job's friends come back a second time with shorter speeches and no more comfort, and Job, certain that God has struck him, still lifts his hope toward God and longs for someone to plead his case before him.

4. Sunday, September 27

   Job's Three Friends

   Job's three friends arrive certain they know why he is suffering, and their confident advice turns out to be wrong about both Job and God. Job answers each of them in turn and finally turns to God with the question of why he matters so much to him.

5. Sunday, September 20

   Job: Where Is My Father? Job 2

   Job's suffering moves from losing everything to losing his own health, and his friends respond by sitting with him in silence until he finally cries out to God in his distress.

6. Sunday, September 13

   Job: Where Is My Father?

   Job is a righteous man who loses everything in a single day, and his name itself asks the question the whole book carries: where is my father? The sermon opens the book by showing that the first question it asks is not why the righteous suffer, but whether we serve God for his gifts or for God himself.

7. Sunday, September 6

   LORD: God's Personal Name

   The sermon walks through the burning bush to show that the all-caps LORD in our Bibles is God's own personal name, Yahweh, given to Moses as a promise that God will be with his people in covenant and remain sovereign over all.

8. Sunday, August 30

   Christ

   The word Christ is the New Testament's own name for Jesus, God's anointed Messiah, our teacher and Lord, and the word Christian is the name we are given because of him.

9. Sunday, August 23

   Humility: Having the Mind of Christ

   Humility is a uniquely Christian virtue that begins with a shift from a self-centered life to a Christ-centered one, and Paul holds up Jesus, who did not clutch at his equality with God but poured himself out as a servant, as the pattern for how we think of others and serve them from who we are in him.