8/30 Bankrupt- The Story of Job, Job 38-42

Introduction:

• Where did we leave off in the story?
• If you were God, would you have come to explain yourself to Job? When would you have done it?
• For whatever reason, now is the time for God to show up and to give all the answers that they were looking for

Lesson

Job 38-39

• God doesn’t sit Job down in a nice comfy chair and ask him to go through all of his problems. Instead God starts by stating exactly who He is, and exactly what He does.
• Do you think God wants to go on one of these explanations when we start to whine and complain?
• God continues His’ statements in chapter 40-41.

Job 42:1-6

• Throughout the book of Job, his friends tried to get Job to repent from his sin. Job finally repents here, but it is not the kind called for by his friends. He did not ask for forgiveness for committing secret sins, but for questioning God’s sovereignty and justice.

Job 42:7-9

• God turns his attention to the friends. He says that they are not speaking the truth and telling Job what God was actually doing. In our society, do you think there are people like Job’s friends who either intentionally, or unintentionally say things on the behalf of God that are completely false?
• How can this be a warning to us?

Job 42:10-17

• God replenishes what he took from Job. Why?
• Does this mean anytime something bad happens we will receive everything back?

Application

• What are your thoughts on the ending of the book of Job?
• What lessons have you learned throughout this study of Job?