Where Is Justice?

Family Time Get-Together

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Week 16

Where Is Justice?

Help Solomon's scribe straighten out his definitions

Print the Definitions Puzzle

Read the Scripture passage

	Read Ecclesiastes 3 (Follow link to BibleGateway.com)
	Listen for Solomon’s three conclusions about injustice.

Answer the questions to the right

(Based on a sermon by Dr. David Barker, Heritage Seminary)

Base your answers on the passage

Printer friendly version of questions.

1. List some things that have happened to people you know that you considered unfair or unjust. Discuss feelings or thoughts you have had about why God allows injustice.

2. How did Solomon describe this kind of situation in verse 16?

3. Look at the first 8 verses. How many things does he say there is a time for?

4. Now in verse 17, what will there also be a time for?

5. How does it help you to be assured that God is not blind to justice … that justice will ultimately prevail?

6. To what does Solomon compare the existence of man? In what ways does he say we are like them?

7. Injustice prevails so we may know for certain our fragile, failed, and sinful condition. Write what you would tell an unbeliever the facts of how God has remedied our sinful condition?

8. According to verse 22, what does God intend to be the lot of man?

9. What would the existence of injustice in the world suggest to you about why the Creator and not the creation should be the source of our joy and satisfaction.

10. Pray together that each member of your family will experience full joy in his or her activities and responsibilities. Pray that you will seek that joy in knowing and serving God and not in the temporal things of this world. Thank God for His power and authority and love – His withholding of the judgment (justice) that we deserve and the forgiveness He offers.

Activities

View this video from Voice of the Martyrs about people treated injustly

Pray for believers who are persecuted for their faith

Read about courageous young people who suffer for their beliefs in Christ. Pray for them also.

Put together the parts of a puzzle for Eccl. 3:22

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