·      Are you all in? 
·      Do we serve God because of what he does for us, or because we love him? 
·       Job 1:4-5 - 4 His sons used to hold feasts in their
homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom.
·       If you serve God to cover your bets, do you really have a relationship? 
·       Religion is about being “good enough; ”relationship is about “the with-God life.” 
·       Job 13:20-22 - 20 “Only grant me these two things, God, and then I will not hide from you: 21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your
terrors. 22 Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply to me.
·       Job 29:1-5 - Job continued his discourse: 2 “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, 3 when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness! 4 Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God’s
intimate friendship blessed my house, 5 when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me.
·       Job 30:16-23 - 16 “And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me. 17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest. 18 In his great power God
becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment. 19 He throws me into the mud, and I am
reduced to dust and ashes. 20 “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me. 21 You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me. 22 You snatch me up and drive me
before the wind; you toss me about in the storm. 23 I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
·       Deeper faith is being more real with God. 
·       Job 31:7-8 - 7 if my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has been led by my eyes, or if my hands have been defiled, 8 then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.
·      Job 31:35-37 - 35 (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me! I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser put his indictment in writing. 36 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown. 37 I would give him an account of my every step; I would present it to him as to a ruler.
·      Are you all in with God? 
·      Heavenly Father, I am all in.
LIFE GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Starter Question: Has there been a time in your life when you were desperate for God?  What was going on?
 1.     How do you think Job feels after arguing with his friends? Is his suffering better or worse? 
2.      Read Job 29:1-5
3.      Why do you think Job is remembering the “good old days?” 
4.      Read Job 30:16-23
5.      This is Job’s description of how God has treated him. 
Do you feel Job is right?  Is it right to blame God when things go wrong?
6.      Read Job 31:35-37
7.      Does Job sound prideful in these verses?
8.      If you were God, how would you react to Job’s demand to answer him?              
9.      In your opinion, why has Job reached the point of being desperate for God?

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