When God Speaks

Text: Job 38:1-41

Introduction: Have you ever looked up in the heavens at night and seen the innumerable stars? How did they get there? Who controls them? What holds them together? How many can you see without a telescope? How many are there beyond the human eye and even the most sophisticated scopes? Finally, God breaks His silence to speak to His servant Job. Afterwards, Job is speechless and dumbfounded with the magnificence of God’s creation. By the way, Jesus holds it ALL together (Col 1:16, 17)!

1. God reveals His creation – the sea! (Job 38:8)

“8Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? 9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it.”

2. God reveals His creation – the light and darkness! (Job 38:19, 20)

“Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, 20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?”

3. God reveals His creation – the number of our days! (Job 38:21)

“1Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?”

4. God reveals His creation – the snow and hail! (Job 38:22)

“22Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail.”

5. God reveals His creation – the lightning and thunder! (Job 38:25)

“Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder.”

6. God reveals His creation – the rain! (Job 38:26)

“26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man.”

7. God reveals His creation – the grass and plants! (Job 38:27)

“27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?”

8. God reveals His creation – the dew and ice! (Job 38:28, 29)

“Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?”

8. God reveals His creation – the stars – Pleiades & Orion! (Job 38:31)

“31Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?”

9. God reveals His creation – the stars – Arcturus! (Job 38:32)

“32Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?”

10. God reveals His creation – the lion and the raven! (Job 38:39-41)

“Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, 40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? 41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.”

Conclusion: When God speaks, we ought to listen! His creation is speaking. Are we listening?
 
Love y’all,
Dr. Randy Reese