FBC Marshallville
September 13, 2026 Clay Burdette
  • In the presence of the Lord
  • Tell It To Jesus
  • His Name Is Wonderful

  • Response to Adversity

    Job 3
    We have seen Job’s response to loss
    When facing grave financial loss and the loss of his children
    Job’s response...
    Naked I came from my mother’s womb and naked I will return, Blessed be the name of the Lord.
    When facing the loss of his health
    Job’s response...
    Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?
    Then we see the 3 friends come and in horror they remain in Job’s presence for 7 days without saying a word.
    These were remarkable responses to the affliction Job was enduring.
    But today we see Job’s reaction after he had grown very weary of the pain and agony of His disease.
    Perhaps you too have grown weary due to the pain you are enduring.
    We see Job’s reaction to adversity and God’s response compared to others who endured adversity themselves.
    Job 3:1–3 NASB 95
    1 Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job said, 3 “Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
    Job 3:11 NASB 95
    11 “Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
    Pray

    Job’s Response to Adversity

    Job’s response is to curse the day of his birth and the night of conception wondering why he did not die at birth v.11.
    Job 3:11 NASB 95
    11 “Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
    We all suffer from wrong thinking.
    People kill themselves thinking this will finally end the problem
    It doesn’t
    It creates new problems.
    If the attempt fails well even more problems arise for the one who is trying to end the trouble.
    Wrong thinking-I can borrow my way out of this debt trouble.
    Usually this is a terrible idea.
    Unless you have fixed what got you into the problem.
    Job believed that the world would be better off if he had never been born.
    As though the night of his conception could just be erased.
    As though his birth could have not happened.
    Or maybe he should have died at birth.
    All of us understand the pity party.
    Job was having that.
    I am glad he did.
    Because Job’s pity party is written in the bible we get to commiserate with him.
    I am not like Joseph who seemed to walk with God in all his tragedy and struggle. (Gen 37:25-28, 39:1-6, 21-23,
    Or Daniel who did as Joseph did, trusting God in all he did, as well as, being exalted.
    Imprisoned against his will Daniel 1:3-5
    Forced to eat food against their will Daniel 1:8
    But here is Job with his pity party I can so Identify with.
    A man who loves God.
    But a man who wonders what life is all about.

    Job 3-37 Is Conversation between friends

    God’s Response to Adversity

    Questioning Job

    Job 38:1–7 NASB 95
    1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, 2 “Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge? 3 “Now gird up your loins like a man, And I will ask you, and you instruct Me! 4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding, 5 Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it? 6 “On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, 7 When the morning stars sang together And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
    When we have our pity party
    Remember who God really is.
    God was there when the foundations of the universe were laid out.
    God understands it measurements.
    God used technology far exceeding anything the world has ever know to put forth the universe.
    Remember who we really are.
    I am amazed at the dinosaur representations we have from a few fossilized bones.
    I marvel at the construction of man’s understanding of creation without the power of God.
    But when we forget who we are in comparison to who God is that is what happens,
    When we have our pity party we have elevated ourselves to God’s place.
    Isaiah 55:8–9 NASB 95
    8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.
    It is impossible to be God.
    But oh, how we try

    God illustrates His power

    Job 38:12–13 NASB 95
    12 “Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, And caused the dawn to know its place, 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?
    Look at God’s power
    A simple question:
    Can you, Can I cause dawn to come?
    Is it possible for us to influence the trajectory of the world on which we live.
    Can we manufacture the air we breath out of nothing at all?
    These questions remind me of a story I heard long ago.
    God was once approached by a scientist who said, “Listen, God, we’ve decided we don’t need you anymore. These days we can clone people, transplant organs, and do all sorts of things that used to be considered miraculous.”
    God replied, “Don’t need me huh? How about we put your theory to the test. Why don’t we have a competition to see who can make a human being.”
    The scientist agrees, so God declares they should do it as he did in the good old days when he created Adam.
    “Fine,” says the scientist as he bends down to scoop up a handful of dirt.
    “Whoa!” says God, shaking his head in disapproval. “Not so fast. You get your own dirt.”
    God does, indeed, have the power and we do not.

    God Addresses Job’s friends

    Job 42:7–8 NASB 95
    7 It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has. 8 Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”
    God addressed Eliphaz and Company about His wrath.
    The 3 friends of Job had a misconception of God and spoke it to Job.
    God said they were wrong.
    But His servant Job was right.
    In God’s address v.8. the 3 friends are told to make a burnt offering
    Take 7 bulls and 7 rams to Job for an offering.
    Ask Job to pray for you and I will accept Job’s prayer on your behalf.
    There is nothing like being put in your place.
    Especially not when God is doing the putting.

    God Restores Job

    Job 42:10–16 NASB 95
    10 The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold. 11 Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold. 12 The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. 15 In all the land no women were found so fair as Job’s daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. 16 After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.
    He restored Job’s fortune
    He restored Job’s relationships
    He even restored Job’s children with 7 boys and 3 girls that are described as fair and no one in all the land was like them.
    His daughters also recieved and inheritance which was unheard of in that day.
    Job lived 140 years beyond this time of adversity
    Are you and I prepared for God’s restoration?

    Conclusion

    We live in a world where adversity comes at us.
    No one likes adversity, we all want to be comfortable.
    But when adversity does come how do we respond?
    Do we wallow in self pity?
    Do we seek God in our adversity?
    Who am I, really?
    What role does God play in my everyday life?
    How important is my relationship with God really?
    i believe there may be someone who realizes I am selfish and have never surrendered my life to the Lord.
    Perhaps you realize you need to repent of your sin.

    294 Have Thine Own Way, Lord

    1.   Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Thou art the potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me after Thy will, While I am waiting, yielded and still.
    2.   Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Search me and try me, Master, today! Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now, As in Thy presence humbly I bow.
    3.   Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Wounded and weary, help me I pray! Power, all power, surely is Thine! Touch me and heal me, Savior divine!
    4.   Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Hold o'er my being absolute sway! Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see Christ only, always, living in me!

      • Job 3:1–3NASB95PARA

      • Job 3:11NASB95PARA

      • Job 3:11NASB95PARA

      • Job 38:1–7NASB95PARA

      • Isaiah 55:8–9NASB95PARA

      • Job 38:12–13NASB95PARA

      • Job 42:7–8NASB95PARA

      • Job 42:10–16NASB95PARA

  • Have Thine Own Way
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