The Lord Gave and the Lord Has Taken Away

Job, continuing his final speech, recounts how God had blessed him so richly and how God has taken everything away from him. In this lament we learn about Job's tenacity to rest in the sovereign God and to maintain hope in him.
May we learn with him to trust our great God in every and any circumstance.

1. How is lament a language of trust rather than doubt?
2. What provides us confidence in dark times that God is always for us?

Job

The book of Job deals with the topic of suffering. But even more profound that questions surrounding suffering are questions surrounding the nature of God. This book, and thus this sermon series, explores the nature and character of God. The goal, to say with Job from a place of comfort in the midst of suffering, "I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you" (Job 42:5).

Tim Stephens

Tim Stephens is the senior pastor of Fairview Baptist Church. Tim grew up on a farm in Eastern Ontario and has graduated with a Computer Engineering degree from Queen’s University, a Masters of Divinity degree from Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, and is currently pursuing his Doctor of Ministry in Expository Preaching at the Master’s Seminary. He is happily married to Raquel and they have eight children.