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Because of our Adamic nature, we all are born slaves to our sinful nature. Try as we might, we will never be holy. We will never be able to keep the Ten Commandments on our own. Pastor Terry teaches us from today’s message in Ephesians chapter 1 that while we were still slaves to sin and enemies to God, Christ paid the great purchase price of His life on the cross to free us from our prisons. When...

Sometimes when we are in the midst of extreme trial and hardship, it can be difficult to sense God in our circumstances. Pastor Terry teaches us through our continued study in Job today that even Job struggled to believe that God hadn’t abandoned him as he suffered. However, we need to always remember that our faith in God is not based on subjective fickle feelings. Instead, our faith is based on...

Pastor Terry continues our study in the book of Job today. Throughout the book of Job, God is silent Job laments and asks questions aimed toward heaven. Though God is quiet, Job patiently endures suffering and proves himself to be faithful even under the blazing furnace of intense personal loss, sickness, and pain. Finally, at the end of the book of Job, God shows up. Pastor Terry points out that...

At the end of the book of Job, God shows up in a mighty whirlwind and displays His awe inspiring power, creativity, and sovereignty through a set of thought provoking questions. In response, Job repents for rash words spoken in pride. Pastor Terry asks us to remember today that we are mere men and woman that can only see God’s plan in part. Because of our limited view, we are required to trust the...

At the end of the book of Job, God brings Job’s long season of intense suffering and trial to a mighty end. What the Lord took away at the beginning of Job’s suffering, God gave back to him double fold. Job’s health is restored by the Lord’s miraculous healing powers, his wealth is returned, and he is consoled by friends. The book of Job ends with the happy declaration that he lived a beautiful fu...

You're listening to Summons, the daily radio ministry of Terry Gray, senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Sun City in El Paso Texas. Summons is a gathering of God’s people via the airwaves to study the Word of God. We gather to worship. We gather to be equipped for ministry. We gather to reach the world for Christ. Just as God's chosen people knew how to respond depending on the tone of the shofar, so...

As Job is in the throws of unimaginable suffering, he asks this heart-wrenching question: “If a man dies, will he live again?” Pastor Terry gives us a sober reminder today that all of us will one day face death. Because death is a mathematical certainty, it would behoove us all to be spiritually prepared for that day which can come at any moment. Jesus says that He is the resurrection and the life...

The world is tough, but God never intended it to be this way. When the Lord created the earth, everything was pristine and perfect. However, when sin entered into the world, the fall brought with it death and decay. Jesus came to earth and defeated death first at Lazarus’s grave and then again and for always at the empty tomb. Pastor Terry teaches us that just as Jesus called out to Lazarus to “co...

Pastor Terry preaches another powerful message from the book of Job today. We learn that as Job endures great tragedy and suffering, he gains much wisdom and insight. He also is gifted an eternal perspective that helps him see through his pain. If these fruits of suffering were granted to Job, then we who are in Christ can expect no less. As we face trials and are refined, we look more and more li...

As we continue through the book of Job, we learn that suffering Job longed for a day and even foresaw it when a redeemer would come to help mankind. Pastor Terry preaches the Good News that Jesus is that Redeemer. Christ willingly left His heavenly station to become a lowly baby. God became one of us so He could pay the purchase price and free us from our slavery to sin. Christ did not do this beg...

As we continue to study Job’s story today, we will learn that God is never wasteful. God uses the good things in our lives to bless us, but the Lord also uses the trials and suffering that come our way to make us more like Jesus. Pastor Terry teaches us that through suffering, Jesus refines us and rids us of impurity just as gold is refined by fire. Trials also keep us humble and reliant upon the...

Job suffered the loss of his wealth and family. When learning of Job’s troubles, his friends came to try and console him. However, as soon as the friends open their mouths, they throw accusation after accusation at him. They believed that in order for Job to suffer so devastatingly, he must have done something to offend the Lord. They were wrong. Pastor Terry points out that we should never approa...

The book of Job is full of question marks because it is also full of pain and suffering. Among all the questions of “Why is this happening?”, and, “Why me?”, Job also asks the most important question of all time: “How can a man be right with God?” Pastor Terry begins to answer Job’s question in today’s message by teaching us what does not make us right with God. We cannot earn our way to heaven by...

Pastor Terry preaches from the Book of Job today to shares the Gospel. Try as we might, none of us, not a single person that has ever walked the face of the earth has ever lived a perfect life: except Jesus Christ. Because God is just, He demands that payment be made for our mistakes, or our sin. We all stand guilty before a holy God. However, sinless perfect Jesus died on the cross to pay just th...

In the midst of Job’s suffering, he has a moment of terrible clarity. Job laments that he needs a mediator that would speak for him to God. Job knows that a wall of sin separates him from a holy God. Pastor Terry recognizes the wisdom in Job’s words and uses them to point us to Christ. Jesus is the God-man. He is the perfect chosen One that was fully human, but also fully God. Jesus lived a sinles...

In the book of Job, we hear Job long for a mediator between God and man. God gave that gift in the Person of Jesus Christ. The Bible says that Jesus was a man of sorrows. He was acquainted with grief. Pastor Terry reminds us today that there is no human experience that Jesus did not live through. Christ was hungry, thirsty, felt rejection and unspeakable loss. Because our Savior lived a fully huma...

Have you ever wondered why God allows so much suffering and pain in the world? Most people have at some point in their life, and sadly, many people will use this question and what they think is an incomplete answer to turn away from God! But Pastor Terry has a different take on the topic in today’s message: God didn’t create evil. Rather, he created people with free will, and therefore created the...

We can never see the whole picture, especially when we are in the middle of the heartache that inevitably comes with life in a fallen world. God, on the other hand, sees well beyond what we can, and orchestrates everything for a greater purpose. Pastor Terry wants to reassure us today that God has not made a mistake in creating humans; rather, God has created opportunities for people to FREELY cho...

A week after Job lost everything he had, he finally found a little strength to speak to his friends. Pastor Terry reads through Job’s laments in chapter three and teaches us that what Job says and feels in these verses is very much akin to what many people do and say during grief. Job is so downtrodden that he wishes he had never been born. Job is also very angry. Although Job is a very strong man...

When we are hit by the throws of grief, it can take everything we have not to be swallowed up. Pastor Terry teaches us to look to Job’s example when we are battling through suffering. Although Job was angry, downtrodden, and grieving, he never once gave up fighting. He also took solace in the Lord. As Christians, we can also take comfort in the fact that when we are sad and grieving, the Lord prom...

When someone we love is grieving, it can be difficult to know what to do or say. Fortunately, we can turn to the Word for guidance. Today Pastor Terry examines the behavior of suffering Job’s friends to teach us what to do and what not to do when we are in the company of those who mourn. The first thing Job’s friends do is show up at his house and sit with Job silently for an entire week. Their si...

Today Pastor Terry tells us to bring every emotion and every feeling that we have to Lord. He teaches that in the book of Psalm we will find a chapter that relates to every single one of these emotions. Not only can God relate to them, but He wants to heal them. No matter if it is depression, sadness, sickness, anger or fear. He wants to help you with every single one. Pastor Terry encourages us t...

Have you read and studied the book of Job? Today Pastor Terry reminds us of the importance of this book. This book talks about very serious but real issues regarding suffering. It shows us that although we will have tough times, we can persevere and trust in the Lord. Job suffered worse than anyone ever has. He lost everything and persevered through. Let him be your example in the word of God as y...

Today we learn from Pastor Terry that we will all have trials that include suffering. It is part of the world that we live in. We hear that Job suffered more greatly than anyone. He lost everything. Although Job was a blameless man who loved the Lord he still went through this time in his life. The lesson for us is how he responded. Job trusted the Lord. Never once did he curse Him or turn from Hi...

Job was a Godly man, one who was looked at in his time and by us today as a “spiritual giant”, as Pastor Terry puts it. Job didn’t deserve anything that happened to him – and yet, he suffered more in one day than most people do in a life time! Yet, as we are reminded in today’s message, Job never once abandoned his faith, even when it looked like all hope was lost. Job was unaware of what was happ...