Goals

  1. Equip you and answer your questions.

  2. Help you be confindent in your faith.

  3. Remove Objections as you share the gospel

  4. Go make disciples

  1. Evil is the absence of Good

  2. Everything was created good, with a capacity for rebellion

  3. God planned redemption

  4. The Bible agrees Evil is a problem

  5. Every system has to answer this question

  6. God suffers with us

  7. We can trust in the goodness of God

The Bible is a composition of

66 Books

39 OT

27 NT books

over 40 authors

3 languages

1600 years. 

It is written in major literary categories

The Law

Historical Books

Poetry and wisdom

Prophets

The Gospels

Church History

Epistles

Prophecy

All of God is not contained within the text as He is

Omnipotent- All Powerful

Omniscient- All Knowing

Omnipresent- Present in All Places

Job 1:13-22

13 Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 14 and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants[c] with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 16 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 17 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.” 18 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house, 19 and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

20 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

22 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

Job 13:13-15

13 “Let me have silence, and I will speak,

    and let come on me what may.

14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth

    and put my life in my hand?

15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him;[a]

yet I will argue my ways to his face. 

Job 42:1-6

42 Then Job answered the Lord and said:

2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,    things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;    I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,    but now my eye sees you;
6 therefore I despise myself,    and repent in[a] dust and ashes.”

7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.” 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job's prayer.

10 And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil[b] that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money[c] and a ring of gold.

12 And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch. 15 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers. 16 And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. 17 And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

    1. Do you have any questions or thoughts from this lesson and what stood out to you most?

    2. What does it practically look like to anchor your faith in God's character instead of your own understanding?

    3. Job grieved deeply, yet still worshiped. What does this teach us about the relationship between grief and faith?

    4. God never explains the reason for Job's suffering. Why do you think that is?

    5. How can we help those around us wrestle with the problem of evil?

    6. How do we tangibly live this series out?


    1. How was your emotional and physical health this week?

    2. What is a serious stressor in your life?

    3. How has your personal time with God been this week?

    4. Would you like to share your personal temptations and how can we help you overcome them?

    5. Is there anything that we need to discuss that we have not already?

    6. How can we pray for each other this week?

    Pray for one another, invite each person to pray even if it is just a few sentences.