Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The book of Job reveals everyone's opinions about the reason for suffering and how God runs the world. Job has challenged that God has not treated him fairly. He does not think that God has not been right toward him because Job has been blameless and upright. Job's friends have an opinion that Job must […] The post The Humility To See God When Suffering (Job 38-39) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have taken a break in our study of the gospel through the lens of the book of Romans. But we are returning to this wonderful book and we are going to see in Romans 7-8 the good life that God has promised to those who belong to Christ Jesus. Romans 7 is considered a […] The post The Freedom of the Gospel (Romans 7) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Job has said many words that need to be addressed. Elihu is in the process of challenging Job on the words Job has said against God. Elihu has been defending God from what Job has said during the time of this trial. Elihu is speaking on God's behalf (Job 36:2). Further, Elihu declares that he […] The post God Is Not Powerless When Suffering (Job 36-37) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Does God care when we are suffering? Does it matter to God when are going through severe trials? When we are going through trials we can be tempted to wonder if God cares about what we are experiencing. We can look around and think that God simply has no concern about what is happening to […] The post God Is Not Uncaring When Suffering (Job 35) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Jehoshaphat was king over the nation of Judah. He walked in the footsteps of David, seeking the Lord and being his commands. But his association with Ahab, the king of Israel, has caused him to compromise. His faithfulness to the Lord was negatively impacted because he wanted to be connected to Ahab. Jehoshaphat was condemned […] The post The Battle Is The Lord’s…Remember? (2 Chronicles 19-20) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Job has said many words that need to be addressed. In Job 32-33 Elihu responds to Job who has contended that God was silent throughout his suffering. God is not silent in suffering but is speaking through suffering. Trials are protective and corrective, not punitive, transforming us and moving us closer to the image of […] The post God Is Not Unjust When Suffering (Job 34) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Have you ever had a strong start at doing something, only to give out a little bit later? Maybe you started a project and you were excited to accomplish the task. But then the project, for whatever reason, remains unfinished. Maybe you started something but then found yourself in over your head. So you stopped […] The post Strong Start, Subtle Drift (2 Chronicles 17-18) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. For thirty-one chapters we have read about a lot of questions about suffering and the way God runs the world. The friends of Job have insisted that the way God runs the world is that the wicked suffer and the righteous do not suffering. Therefore, Job must have sinned. However, we know this is wrong […] The post God Is Not Silent When Suffering (Job 32-33) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Job has been proclaiming the need for faithfulness when suffering. In Job 28 we see Job proclaiming to anyone who will listen that the fear of the Lord is wisdom. Turning away from evil is understanding (cf. Job 28:28). The friends of Job believed they had come to Job with wisdom to comfort and correct […] The post Faithful Through Suffering (Job 29-31) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are going to look at the final lament of this book. Please open your copies of God's word to Lamentations 5. As you are turning to the final lamentation, I want to remind of us the grief journey Jeremiah has taken his people through. Lamentations 1 encouraged the people to honestly express to the […] The post Restoration After Grief (Lamentations 5) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. There is a section in the book of Job in which we see Job moving away from arguing with his friends. We might falsely over summarize the book and think that the middle is just Job and his friends arguing with each other. But the discourses with each other end in chapter 27. Each of […] The post Wisdom Through Suffering (Job 28) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Why doesn't the book of Lamentations end with Lamentations 3? Why not end on the high note of Lamentations 3? Why not stop at Lamentations 3:22-23? The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness! Why can't we end on […] The post Accepting Our Grief (Lamentations 4) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been looking at the suffering of Job. We have noted that his suffering and pain have been extraordinary. Further, Job's friends have come to comfort and show sympathy to Job. But rather than succeeding, they have been miserable comforters to him. We have also noticed that Job's suffering has caused him to feel […] The post I Know My Redeemer Lives (Job 9-19) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Lamentations 3 is a description on how to have hope while grieving. Jeremiah and the people of Judah are grieving and broken over the destruction of Jerusalem. It is a time of shock, loss, and anguish. We have seen in our study of Lamentations that grief is not a straight line. We saw the prophet […] The post Hope In The Darkness of Grief – Part 2 (Lamentations 3:29-66) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The purpose of Job's three friends coming to see Job was to offer him comfort and sympathy (cf. Job 2:11). The friends have had many things to say to Job by the time we come to Job 16. Job has not found his friends to sympathizers or comforters. Listen to what Job says: Then Job […] The post Bad Counsel When Suffering (Job 4-27) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. There is a temptation when reading or studying the book of Job to want to get to the end of the book. We are people who just want to get to the bottom line. We will be tempted to cut out the middle of this book and run to chapter 38 where God shows us […] The post No Easy Answers When Suffering (Job 4-27) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been moving through the book of Lamentations looking at how the author of this book is teaching the people to grieve their suffering. Jerusalem has been destroyed. God had given the people over to the Babylonians because of their sinning against him. Even Jeremiah himself is having difficulties processing what he is seeing […] The post Hope In The Darkness of Grief (Lamentations 3:1-28) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Job has lost everything. Job has lost his possessions and wealth. Job has lost his way of life. Job has lost his ten children. Job has lost his health. Satan has taken Job to the edge of his life, yet Job still breathes. Job's wife has told Job that if God is not going to […] The post Lamenting Our Suffering (Job 3) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The book of Leviticus ends with hopeful instructions for the people. The message of Leviticus has been the message of holiness and atonement. God is holy and the people must therefore be holy. God will make the people holy through atonement and by giving them instructions to follow so that they can remain in fellowship […] The post REWIND: Hope In Jubilee (Leviticus 25-27) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The book of Leviticus is the manual for knowing how we can remain in fellowship with God. God has come down and the glory of the Lord has filled the tabernacle (Exodus 40). Now that God is among his people, directions must be given for how the people can dwell with him without being consumed […] The post REWIND: The Need for a Priest (Leviticus 6-8) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The book of Lamentations takes the reader on a journey of grief. In our last lesson we introduced the concept that the people of God are frequently pictured as expressing their grief. More than one-third of the Psalms are considered psalms of lament and grief. The book of Lamentations contains five poems proclaiming grief on […] The post The Struggle of Grief (Lamentations 2) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. How bad can your life get before you would challenge God and give up on him? How bad does the trial have to be before it would cause you to break? Satan is attempting to find out what it takes to break Job and his faith. We could read the first chapter of the book […] The post The Rejection of Suffering (Job 2:1-10) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Please open your copies of God's word to Job 1. In our message last week we notice the question of suffering. The question of suffering regards your motivation for serving God. Suffering asks the question if we serve God for God or if we have ulterior motives. Suffering shows if we serve God for his […] The post The Response To Suffering (Job 1:12-22) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We knew something was wrong but we did not know what. After having two other children, we knew that there was something that was not quite right. Our concerns were dismissed but we knew something was amiss with our third child. We went to all kinds of specialists, trying to determine what was the cause […] The post The Loneliness of Grief (Lamentations 1) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are beginning a new series called God In The Storm in which we are going to look at the key teachings about suffering and trials from the book of Job. I want to state at the outset of this series that it is not my goal to cover every verse in the book of […] The post The Question of Suffering (Job 1:1-11) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been looking at the regrettable decisions people made when they encountered Jesus. Imagine if you had the opportunity to hear Jesus teach. What would you think? Imagine if you had the chance to see Jesus perform a miracle. What would you have done? But I want you to imagine a slightly different opportunity. […] The post Judas and Guilt (Matthew 27:3-10) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. The prophecy of Jeremiah has been a book of failure. As we come to the end of our study of Jeremiah we are taking a moment to look back at the failure of the people of Judah. They have traded the Lord for things that are not gods (Jeremiah 2:10-11). They have exchanged the fountain […] The post Graciously Freed (Jeremiah 50-52) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have spending our time looking at the regrettable decisions people made when they encountered Jesus. Imagine that you had the opportunity to speak to Jesus. Imagine if you had the opportunity to see one of Jesus' miracles. Imagine if you could ask Jesus one question. In Mark 10 we are going to read about […] The post Rejecting Repentance (Mark 10:17-31) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We have been looking at different encounters that people had with Jesus. In today's lesson we are going to look at a group of people who started following Jesus. As we look at this group, I want us to think about this question. Is there a wrong way to follow Jesus? Is it possible to […] The post The Following Crowd (John 6:22-27) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. As you open your copies of God's word to Jeremiah 46, I want us to notice how this section of the book of Jeremiah begins. It simply reads, “The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations” (Jeremiah 46:1). The majority of the book of Jeremiah has been God's gracious […] The post Destroying Pride (Jeremiah 46-49) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are looking at the regrettable decisions people made when they encountered Jesus. Last week we noticed the person who interrupted Jesus' sermon with his concern about receiving his portion of the inheritance. We are going to look at another encounter with Jesus. Open your copies of God's word to Luke 4 and we are […] The post Nazareth's Question (Luke 4:16-30) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. We are starting a new series for our new year called, Should've, Could've, Would've: Regrettable Decisions When Encountering Jesus. What we are going to study in this series are different people who were given the opportunity to speak to Jesus and consider their encounter and what we can learn from that discussion. Each week what […] The post The Man With An Inheritance appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

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Speaker: Brent Kercheville. As we move into a new year, it is popular to make resolutions regarding how we will do things differently next year. A new year encourages us to think about having a fresh start, live different, and purpose to make some important changes in our lives. But we more importantly need to use this time […] The post Onward: Launching Into a New Year (Colossians 3:15-17) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. What gives us the strength to be faithful and trust God to the end? All of us want to be faithful of our whole lives. We want to be strong in our faith and even stronger as we come to the end of our walk with the Lord. But how can we trust him all […] The post Trust Him To The End (2 Chronicles 14-16) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Romans 6 is showing us how we are to live differently because Christ set us free from the power of sin. In the first lesson we looked at how we have died to sin and are to live a new life. Our baptism represents this change as we unite ourselves to Christ. In the second […] The post The Fruit of the Gospel (Romans 6:15-23) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. How we look at our lives makes a big impact on the direction for our lives. We even use such illustrations in our culture to try to communicate that idea. For example, we will ask if a glass is half full or half empty. Obviously the answer is that both are true. But how you […] The post Seeking Great Things (Jeremiah 44-45) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.

Speaker: Brent Kercheville. Romans 5 has proclaimed the powerful work of Christ to reverse our condition as we were under the power of sin. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). But Christ's magnificent, saving work requires a response. In our last lesson we noted the apostle Paul teaching that our baptism means something. […] The post Dying With the Gospel (Romans 6:6-14) appeared first on Biblical Truths from West Palm Beach church of Christ.