Loving Mercy
Micah 6:1-8 – New International Version (NIV)
1 Listen to what the Lord says:
“Stand up, plead my case before the
mountains;
let the hills hear what you have to say.
2 “Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s accusation;
listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth.
For the Lord has a
case against his people;
he is lodging a charge against Israel.
3 “My people, what have I done to you?
How have I burdened you? Answer me.
4 I brought you up out of Egypt
and redeemed you from the land of slavery.
I sent Moses to lead you,
also Aaron and Miriam.
5 My people, remember
what Balak king of Moab plotted
and what Balaam son of Beor answered.
Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.”
6 With what shall I come
before the Lord
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?
7 Will the Lord be
pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require
of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Who does the Lord tell Micah to “plead my case” before (verse
1)?
Who is the Lord “lodging a charge against” (verse 2)?
What does the Lord want to know (verse 3)?
Where did the Lord redeem Israel from (verse 4)?
Who answered “Balak king of Moab” (verse 5)?
In your opinion, why does the Micah ask the questions in verses 6
and 7?
“And what does the Lord require of you” (verse 8)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what does this
passage teach us about receiving mercy?
Matthew 9:9-13 - New International
Version (NIV)
9 As Jesus
went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s
booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While
Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners
came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the
Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with
tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On
hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but
the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire
mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but
sinners.”
Who saw Matthew (verse
9)?
Where
was Matthew sitting (verse 9)?
What did Matthew do (verse 9)?
Who was at the dinner at Matthew’s house (verse 10)?
Who ask the disciples “why does your teacher eat with tax collectors
and sinners” (verse 11)?
Who did Jesus say needs “a doctor” (verse 12)?
What did Jesus say they needed to learn the meaning of (verse 13)?
Who had Jesus “come to call” (verse 13)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about receiving mercy?
In your opinion, how does the Lord’s requirement to act justly, love
mercy and walk humbly with Him in Micah 6:1-8 strengthen Jesus’s saying “I
desire mercy, not sacrifice” to the Pharisees in Matthew 9:9-13?
Titus 3:3-11 - New International Version (NIV)
3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient,
deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in
malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the
kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because
of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved
us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on
us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been
justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of
eternal life. 8 This is a trustworthy
saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have
trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is
good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.
9 But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies
and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are
unprofitable and useless. 10 Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a
second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. 11 You may be sure that such
people are warped and sinful; they are self-condemned.
Who was “foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all
kinds of passions and pleasures” (verse 9)?
Whose “kindness and love” appeared (verse 4)?
Why did God save “us” (verse 5)?
How was the Holy Spirit “poured out on us generously” (verses
5 and 6)?
What do the heirs have “hope of” (verse 7)?
What did Paul want those “who have trusted in God” to
devote themselves to (verse 8)?
Why did Paul want “foolish controversies and genealogies
and arguments and quarrels about the law” avoided (verse 9)?
When should Titus “have nothing to do” with a
divisive person (verse 10?
Who is “self condemned” (verse 11)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what does this passage teach us about receiving mercy?
In your opinion, how do the sacrifices mentioned in Micah
6:1-8 figure into the salvation that Paul is writing about in Titus 3:3-11? Where does the acting justly, loving mercy
and walking humbly from Micah fit into what Paul was saying?
In
your opinion, what does Titus 3:3-11 help us understand about the people that Jesus
said He came “to call” in Matthew 9:9-13?
1 Peter 1:3-9 - New International Version (NIV)
3 Praise be to
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he
has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an
inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is
kept in heaven for you, 5 who through
faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the
salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this
you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had
to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have
come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than
gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory
and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you
have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you
believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are
receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
In what has the “God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” given
us “new birth into a living hope” (verse 3)?
Where is the “inheritance that can never perish, spoil
or fade” kept (verse 4)?
What shields Christians “until the coming of the
salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time” (verse 5)?
What do Christians have to suffer “in all kinds of
trials” (verse 6)?
What is “of greater worth than gold” (verse 7)?
What will the trials result in “when Jesus Christ is
revealed” (verse 7)?
How do the Christians Peter is writing to feel about Jesus even
though they “have not seen him” (verse 8)?
What do the Christians Peter is writing to receive as “the
end result” of their faith (verse 9?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what does this passage teach us about receiving mercy?
In your opinion, if God
would ask Christians “My people, what have I done
to you?” as He did the Israelite people in
Micah 6:1-8 what does 1 Peter 1:3-9 reveal that should be listed in the
answer?
In your opinion, how
does the dinner at Matthew’s house in Matthew 9:9-13 reveal about who will receive
the “inexpressible and glorious joy” that 1 Peter 1:3-9 says fills
Christians?
In your opinion, what
do both Titus 3:3-11 and 1 Peter 1:3-9 reveal about the fruit of God’s mercy to
those who “have trusted in God”?
In your opinion, what do these Scriptures from Micah, Matthew,
Titus, and 1 Peter reveal about what God has done for those He can make a case
against?
In your
opinion, how should we respond to God’s loving mercy?
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