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The Bible Study is every Tuesday evening @ 9pm Central


This is lesson 3 of a 12 lesson study. Please read ahead and do the study. If you do not have a Bible I have provided a link to the verses we will be studying.

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=job...7-21&version=NIV

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job...10:7&version=NIV

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joh...1:14&version=NIV

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!




Lesson 4 If God Were Only Human!

Job 7:7—21; 9:14—10:7


When the bottom falls out of life, we cry: “Where is God when I am hurting? Does he really understand? Can he do anything?’ Does God dwell in heaven unmoved by our cries?”

Some times the Bible presents the most important truths not in a frontal attach or a prophetic pronouncement, but in a pregnant hint. This study is a case in point. It takes us one step farther to the edge of the greatest of all discoveries, the gospel itself—That God should become a human being, making himself totally accessible to his own creature.



1. Try to remember your first pictures or impressions of God. Was God distant, close, awesomely different, totally unlike anyone human, or very similar to your earthly father or mother? Explain.



2. Job’s friends talk about God: Job talks to God. Read Job 7:7—21. Job now turns from complaining about his friends to complaining about his God—to God. In a few words summarize the matters Job raises with God. Which complaints can you personally identify with?



3. Job is concerned that God will eventually discover that Job can not be found (v. 8) if God keeps up the pressure. What does this tell us about Jobs view of God?



4. Psychologists sometimes affirm that letting deep feelings spill out is emotionally healthy. Is it spiritually healthy? Explain why or why not.


Do you think God gets angry when we speak to him so negatively?
Explain.




5. Job believes in God, but he can not believe God is for him. What would Job’s suffering be like without a believe in God?



6. Read Job 9:14—10:7. Why does Job feel it is becoming pointless to
complain to God (vv. 14-20)?

Why is it equally pointless to put on a happy face (vv. 9:27-31)?



7. What does Job feel is wrong about his God (v. 9:32-35 and v. 10:1-7)?



8. What specific benefits would Job gain if God were human (v. 9:32) after all?



9. In none of his petitions does Job ask for his sickness to be cured. Describe what it is he wants from God?



10. In what ways has Jesus Christ made Job’s deepest dream a reality?



11. When tragedy strikes, what difference does it make to know that God has come in the flesh (John 1:14)?
I don’t know who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember the answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to someone—or something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. From that moment I have known what it means “not to look back,” and “to take no thought for the morrow.” Dag Hammarskjold