Sermon: Accept What God Allows

This Week’s Theme: He is Sovereign

This Week’s Word is God’s Sovereignty: The fact that God is free and able to do all that he wills; that he reigns over all creation and that his will is the final cause of all things. This is often expressed in the language of kingship.

Memory Verse: Psalm 115:3 “3 But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.”

Essence of the Text in a Sentence: Job responds in his integrity to his wife after Satan afflicts him with boils.

Sermon Proposition: When afflicted Christians should respond by speaking and living according to God’s Word.

Sermon Objective: I want those in attendance to craft statements of acceptance and affirmation of God to use in the difficulties of life.

Sermon Text: Job 2:7-10

Job 2:7–10 NKJV

7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes. 9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

INTRODUCTION:

TRANSITION:

I. ACCEPT GOD

Job 2:10;

Job 2:10 NKJV

10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

REMEMBER THE WORDS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST IN JOHN CHAPTER 3 VERSE 27

John 3:27 NKJV

27 John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

GOD GIVES AND TAKES ACCORDING TO HIS CHARACTER AND PURPOSE.

ACCEPT GOD’S ALMS

Psalm 39:1 NKJV

1 I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.”

GOD’S AFFLICTIONS

Job 14:1 NKJV

1 “Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.

Ecclesiastes 2:23 NKJV

23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Genesis 47:9 NKJV

9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Proverbs 3:11–12 NKJV

11 My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor detest His correction; 12 For whom the Lord loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights.

Illustrate: [show an example of doing, trusting, or loving/hating according to the passage]

Apply the text to lives: [How do do/trust/embrace this truth about God or man]

II. AFFIRM GOD

Job 2:10;

Job 2:10 NKJV

10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Explain the text through the point highlighting what it reveals about the will and ways of God/Christ/Holy Spirit and about believers, unbelievers good or bad]

HIS AUTHORITY

Psalm 115:3 NKJV

3 But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.

Job 42:2 NKJV

2 “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.

Psalm 135:6 NKJV

6 Whatever the Lord pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places.

HIS ASTUTENESS

Job 12:13 NKJV

13 “With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.

Psalm 104:24 NKJV

24 O Lord, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions—

Romans 11:33 NKJV

33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

HIS APPROPRIATENESS

What God does is appropriate. He does what is right.

2 Corinthians 12:9–10 NKJV

9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Hebrews 12:7–13 NKJV

7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Illustrate: [show an example of doing, trusting, or loving/hating according to the passage]

Apply: [embrace this about God / embrace this about man]

III. ACT BECAUSE OF GOD

Job 2:10;

Job 2:9–10 NKJV

9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Explain the text through the point highlighting what it reveals about the will and ways of God/Christ/Holy Spirit and about believers, unbelievers good or bad]

Psalm 39:1 NKJV

1 I said, “I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me.”

Proverbs 11:3 NKJV

3 The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.

Proverbs 20:7 NKJV

7 The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

Job 14:1 NKJV

1 “Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.

Psalm 119:50 NKJV

50 This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.

Psalm 119:143 NKJV

143 Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, Yet Your commandments are my delights.

Romans 8:18 NKJV

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Illustrate: [show an example of doing, trusting, or loving/hating according to the passage]

Apply: [embrace this about God / embrace this about man]

Conclusion: A concluding statement to recapture interest (a reason to remember).

Restatement of main idea and summary of main points so that the listeners will respond (specific action or attitude change) to God’s will.

What new truth did you learn from the sermon?

After hearing the sermon, what thoughts, feelings, desires, and/or actions did the Holy Spirit convict you of today? (Do the 7 A’s)

What thoughts, feelings, desires, and/or actions need to change this week because of the sermon?

What will you do to change your thoughts, feelings, desires, and/or actions this week? (Do you need to Avoid, Remove (it), Replace (it), Remind (Word say), Rely (on God))

Write out a plan.