How Great is Our God, Part 2—by Justin Renton
August 22, 2022
Sermon summary:
Job 9: 1–6 Job lost perspective of who God was. He lost all he owned in one day, had his children die in one swoop; his health suffered, his reputation was shot. Yet he kept his view of God pure. He saw how amazing he is.
Look up and see. Examine what he has made.
Sometimes we pray expecting God to come through and he doesn't. How do we respond?
We cannot argue or disrespect him.
Job 36:26 The numbers of His years are infinite. Eternity is hard to grasp.
Isaiah 55:8–9 God's ways are greater than ours.
Hardship make us look up at God. We don't understand why but have to trust him.
Decide to Trust God:
- In the good and bad
- With the easy and hard scriptures.
- With your past and your future.
Watch the full service here (the sermon starts at 42mins)
Because Jesus reconciled us to God through the cross, we are called to pursue reconciliation with God, one another, and the world around us.
Jesus reconciles us to the Father and teaches us to extend his grace, helping us forgive one another, heal relationships, and walk together in peace.
The physics of the pendulum Picture an old grandfather clock in a quiet hallway. Its long brass pendulum swings steadily: tick, tock, tick, tock. Now give that pendulum a hard shove to the right. It does not simply glide back to the center and stop. It races right past the middle and sways just as far to the left. Left to its own momentum, a pendulum never rests at either extreme; it finds peace only when it hangs still at the center, held by gravity and its fixed point. The church behaves in much the same way. Push her too far toward one side of a truth and she does not gently settle into balance, she swings. Often for a whole generation toward the opposite error, and then back again, wounding people at both ends of the arc. And here is the crucial thing the clock teaches us: the pendulum comes to rest not by being frozen in place, but by being held. Balance is not the absence of force; it is the fixed point that keeps opposing pulls in tension so that the weight can finally hang still.