Curse the Day – Teaching Plan
Key Thought: From Job’s suffering, we can learn about death and life and how God in Christ conquered death and sin.
1. Have a volunteer read Job 3:1-5.
Job Talking to God
a. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
b. How would you as a Christian answer the question, What is man?
c. Personal Application : Have you ever wished you hadn’t been born? How important is it for us to remember we have the hope of things improving? Share your thoughts.
d. Case Study : One of your relatives states: “I know a lot of people have suffered horribly and have been disfigured, marred, losing limbs – but still they cling to life even though they don’t believe in God. Why is that?” How would you respond to your relatives?
2. Have a volunteer read Job 3:23-26.
a. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
b. How can we learn to remember the good times of the past and draw comfort from them in present sufferings?
c. Personal Application : How much comfort do you get from others who show empathy in your sufferings? Share your thoughts.
d. Case Study : One of your friends states, “Did Satan tempt Job to the limit by putting on him the very things Job feared the most? Will Satan tempt us in that which we fear most?” How would you respond to your friend?
3. Have a volunteer read Job 7:8-11.
a. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
b. What does Job write about those who die?
c. Personal Application: How do you respond to those who believe that when you die, your spirit is still alive? Share your thoughts.
d. Case Study : One of your neighbors states, “My house is haunted. I think ghosts from someone who died in it years ago are there. We are going to ask our priest to anoint the house and clean away the ghosts. What do you think?” How would you respond to your neighbor?
4. Have a volunteer read Job 7:17-21.
a. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
b. Why does Job ask God why He doesn’t pardon his transgressions and forgive his sins?
c. Personal Application : How do we know God has forgiven our sins and pardoned our wrongdoings? Share your thoughts.
d. Case Study : Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.
(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).
