Sherman First Baptist Church Messages

Send us a textPaul wanted the Philippians to share his perspective on bad circumstances and bad people so that the gospel may continue to advance. We must learn to see our circumstances with a gospel lens, looking for how God will sovereignly work in every situation.  (Text: Philippians 1:12-18)

Send us a textPaul's relationship with the Philippians shaped the way he prayed for them, and his prayers for them deepened his relationship with them. (Text: Philippians 1:3-11)

Send us a textPaul's blessing of Grace and Peace reminds believers of their standing with God and with Christ's Church. (Text: Philippians 1:2)

Send us a textPaul writes as the servant of Jesus Christ to the saints in Christ of the church in Philippi. (Text: Philippians 1:1)

Send us a textJesus is the glorious, grace-giving God-man. In Jesus Christ, we experience the presence of God, see the glory of God, receive the grace of God, and know God himself. (Text: John 1:14-18)

Send us a textJesus is the life-giving Light. We must believe in him, walk in his light, and take heart because of his promises. (Text: John 1:4-13)

Send us a textWhen we think of Christmas, we must think of the birth of Jesus, the Eternal Logos, who is separate from yet equal with God and is the Creator of all things. (Text: John 1:1-3)

Send us a textGod sovereignly and mercifully vindicated and blessed Job. He has given us the Spirit to vindicate/assure us and every spiritual blessing in Christ. (Text: Job 42;7-17)

Send us a textGod alone is able and worthy of ruling the universe as he chooses.  (Text: Job 38:1-42:6)

Send us a textGod uses suffering to speak to us, warn us, and teach us. Suffering is not always punishment for sin; for the sinner, it may be redemptive, and for the Christian, it is sanctifying. (Text: Job 32-37)

Send us a textIn times of suffering and questioning, we must do what we know is right and trust God to do what is right. (Text: Job 27-28)

Send us a textBoth Bildad and Job offer hymns about the power and wisdom of God. Although Bildad’s hymn proclaims the purity and holiness of God and the depravity of man, it fails to acknowledge the grace and kindness of God. Job’s hymn also proclaims the power and sovereign rule of God over all things, yet he acknowledges that mankind knows but a whisper of his greatness, the mere edges of his ways. (Text: Job 25-26)

Send us a textWe cannot understand God’s ways and must learn to trust him. (Text: Job 22-24)

Send us a textBoth good and bad will have their day of reckoning. God executes justice differently than we do, but assuredly better than we do. (Text: Job 20-21)

Send us a textJob desired that one who is equal with God would argue his case before God to vindicate him. New Testament  believers with fuller revelation can know that Jesus Christ is the Advocate who intercedes on our behalf and fulfills Job’s desire.  (Text: Job 15-17)

Send us a textGuest Speaker, Josh Mencer (Text: Romans 9)

Send us a textAlthough Job believes the same things as his unsympathetic friends, his experience is testing the flaws in his understanding of God. Job starts to see things differently than his friends because of what he’s personally going through. It’s one thing to believe something in theory, but it’s another thing to have that belief tested in real life. As Job contemplates the finality of death, he wonders about the possibility of life after death. (Text: Job 11-14)

Send us a textWe desperately desire to understand all that is going on in our life and world. We want God to fit into the box of our understanding and to meet our standards of justice, fairness, and goodness. But God is far bigger than we can know; he will not be fit into the box of human understanding; he is the standard of justice and fairness. (Text: Job 8-10)

Send us a textEliphaz believed that Job is suffering because of his sin. His is advice is that Job submit to God's discipline and quickly be restored his blessings. (Text: Job 4-7)

Send us a textThough unknown to us, we can trust in God's divine plan even in suffering. (Text: Job 2-3)