November 8, 2026 – A Study of Matthew – Lord Jesus

Lord Jesus

Psalm 110:1-7 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ The Lord says to my lord:

“Sit at my right hand
    until I make your enemies
    a footstool for your feet.”

² The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
    “Rule in the midst of your enemies!”
³ Your troops will be willing
    on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
    your young men will come to you
    like dew from the morning’s womb.

⁴ The Lord has sworn
    and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.”

⁵ The Lord is at your right hand;
    he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
⁶ He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead
    and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
⁷ He will drink from a brook along the way,
    and so he will lift his head high.

Who said “to my lord: sit at my right hand” (verse 1)?

Where will the “mighty scepter” be extended from (verse 2)?

Who “will be willing on your day of battle” (verse 3)?

What will the Lord “not change his mind” about (verse 4)?

Who will the Lord crush (verse 5)?

Who will He judge (verse 6)?

How will He hold his head (verse 7)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about Jesus as Lord?

Matthew 22:41-46 - New International Version (NIV)

⁴¹ While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, ⁴² “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?”

“The son of David,” they replied.

⁴³ He said to them, “How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him ‘Lord’? For he says,

⁴⁴ “‘The Lord said to my Lord:
    “Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
    under your feet.”’

⁴⁵ If then David calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?” ⁴⁶ No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Who were gathered together (verse 41)?

How did they answer the question, “Whose son is he?” (verse 42)?

What did Jesus say that David called the Messiah (verse 43)?

Who did the Lord tell to “sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet” (verse 44)?

What did Jesus ask them (verse 45)?

How did they respond (verse 46)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about Jesus as Lord?

In your opinion, what do the verses that come after the part of Psalm 110 that Jesus quotes in Matthew 22:41-46 help us understand about the positions Jesus fills?

Acts 2:29-39 - New International Version (NIV)

²⁹ “Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. ³⁰ But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. ³¹ Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. ³² God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. ³³ Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,

“‘The Lord said to my Lord:
    “Sit at my right hand
³⁵ until I make your enemies
    a footstool for your feet.”’

³⁶ “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”

³⁷ When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

³⁸ Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

What of David’s, “is here to this day” (verse 29)?

What did David know (verse 30)?

Who was not going to be “abandoned to the realm of the dead” (verse 31)?

What had God done for Jesus (verse 32)?

What has Jesus “poured out” (verse 33)?

Where did David not ascend to (verse 34)?

Who was the Lord going to make “a footstool for your feet” (verses 34 and 35)?

What has God made Jesus (verse 36)?

How did the people respond (verse 37)?

What did Peter say the people should do (verse 38)?

Who was the promise for (verse 39)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about Jesus as Lord?

In your opinion, what does Psalm 110 help us understand the titles of Lord and Messiah that Peter gives to Jesus in Acts 2:29-39?

In your opinion, why would the Pharisees in Matthew 22:41-46 respond to Jesus by not asking more questions, but the people in Acts 2:29-39 respond to Peter by saying “what shall we do?

Ephesians 1:15-23 - New International Version (NIV)

¹⁵ For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, ¹⁶ I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. ¹⁷ I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. ¹⁸ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, ¹⁹ and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength ²⁰ he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, ²¹ far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. ²² And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, ²³ which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

What had Paul “heard about” (verse 15)?

What had Paul not “stopped giving” (verse 16)?

Why was Paul asking for God to give them “the Spirit of wisdom and revelation” (verse 17)?

Why was Paul asking for the eyes of their hearts to “be enlightened” (verses 18 and 19)?

What has God’s “great power for us who believe” already done (verses 19 and 20)?

Where has Christ been raised to (verses 20 and 21)?

What has been placed us Christ’s feet (verse 22)?

What is the church (verses 22 and 23)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about Jesus as Lord?

In your opinion, what does Ephesians 1:15-23 reveal about the people in the kingdom of the priest/king that David called “Lord” in Psalm 110:1-7?

In your opinion, what can we learn from the contrast of the fear to ask questions in Matthew 22:41-46 and the blessings that Paul is asking for those who believe in Ephesians 1:15-23?

In your opinion, how does Ephesians 1:15-23 show what comes after responding to the instruction in Acts 2:29-39 to “repent and be baptized”?

In your opinion, what do these passages from Psalms, Matthew, Acts, and Ephesians teach us about how to react to Lord Jesus?

In your opinion, what can we know Lord Jesus better today?

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November 1, 2026 – A Study of Matthew – Complete Love

Complete Love

Deuteronomy 6:4-12 – New International Version (NIV)

⁴ Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ⁵ Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ⁶ These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. ⁷ Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ⁸ Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ⁹ Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

¹⁰ When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, ¹¹ houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, ¹² be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

Who “is one” (verse 4)?

How is Israel to “love the Lord” (verse 5)?

Where are the commandments to be (verse 6)?

How are they to be impressed on the children (verse 7)?

Where are they to be tied (verse 8)?

In your opinion, why would they be written on the doorframes and gates (verse 9)?

Who had the Lord sworn to that He’d bring the Israelites to “the land” (verse 10)?

What had the Israelites not done in the land (verse 11)?

What were the Israelites not to do (verse 12)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about love?

Matthew 22:34-40 - New International Version (NIV)

³⁴ Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. ³⁵ One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Who had Jesus silenced (verse 34)?

What did the Pharisees do (verse 34)?

What was the one who tested Jesus an expert in (verse 35)?

How did Jesus answer the question, “which is the greatest commandment in the Law” (verses 36 and 37)?

How does Jesus describe that commandment (verse 38)?

What is the second commandment (verse 39)?

How do the Law and the Prophets relate to these two commandments (verse 40)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about love?

In your opinion, how does Deuteronomy 6:4-12 help us understand what it means to follow what is the “greatest commandment” in Matthew 22:34-40?

Romans 13:8-10 - New International Version (NIV)

⁸ Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. ⁹ The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁰ Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

What debt should continue to be outstanding (verse 8)?

Which commandments are “summed up” in the command to “love your neighbor as yourself” (verse 9)?

Why is love “the fulfillment of the law” (verse 10)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about love?

In your opinion, how is the instruction to love expanded when Deuteronomy 6:4-12 and Romans 13:8-10 are read together?

In your opinion, how does Romans 13:8-10 help us understand why Jesus said in Matthew 22:34-40 that “all the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments”?

1 John 4:7-16 - New International Version (NIV)

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

¹³ This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. ¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 

Where does love come from (verse 7)?

Who does not know God (verse 8)?

How did God show “his love among us” (verse 9)?

What is love (verse 10)?

Why should we “love one another” (verse 11)?

What happens “if we love one another” (verse 12)?

How do we know “that we live in him and he in us” (verse 13)?

What had John seen that he testified to (verse 14)?

Who lives in God (verse 15)?

What do we “know and rely on” (verse 16)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about love?

In your opinion, how does 1 John 4:7-16 help us understand how it is possible for us to be obedient to the command in Deuteronomy 6:4-12 to “love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength”?

In your opinion, what does it change when you realize that the One who commands us to love in Matthew 22:34-40 is also the One that “love comes from” in 1 John 4:7-16?

In your opinion, how does the concept that we have a “continuing debt to love one another” in Romans 13:8-10 become more understandable when we consider the description of love in 1 John 4:7-16?

In your opinion, what do these passages from Deuteronomy, Matthew, Romans, and 1 John teach us about God’s love for us?

In your opinion, how can we respond to God’s love for us today?

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October 25, 2026 – A Study of Matthew – Our Resurrection

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Daniel 12:1-4 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. ² Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. ³ Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. ⁴ But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.”

Who will arise “at that time” (verse 1)?

What will the “multitudes who sleep” awaken to (verse 2)?

Who will “shine like the brightness of the heavens” (verse 3)?

How will “those who lead many to righteousness” shine (verse 3)?

What will people “go here and there” to do (verse 4)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about our resurrection?

Matthew 22:23-33 - New International Version (NIV)

²³ That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. ²⁴ “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. ²⁵ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶ The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. ²⁷ Finally, the woman died. ²⁸ Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”

²⁹ Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. ³⁰ At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. ³¹ But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”

³³ When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

What do the Sadducees “say” (verse 23)?

Who was supposed to marry the widow of a man with no children (verse 24)?

How many brothers married the woman and did not have any children (verses 25 and 26)?

In your opinion, why would the Sadducees ask who would be the widow’s husband “at the resurrection” (verse 28)?

Why were the Sadducees “in error” (verse 29)?

Who will people be like “at the resurrection” (verse 30)?

What had God said “about the resurrection of the dead” (verses 31 and 32)?

Who is God the God of (verse 32)?

What “astonished” the crowds (verse 33)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about our resurrection?

In your opinion, what does Matthew 22:23-33 help us understand about where the knowledge that Daniel 12:1-4 says many will seek can be found?

1 Corinthians 15:35-44 - New International Version (NIV)

³⁵ But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” ³⁶ How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷ When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸ But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. ³⁹ Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. ⁴⁰ There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. ⁴¹ The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

⁴² So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; ⁴³ it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

What will “someone” ask (verse 35)?

When does what is sowed come “to life” (verse 36)?

What is not planted “when you sow” (verse 37)?

Who determines the body that a seed will have (verse 38)?

What is not the same (verse 39)?

How do heavenly bodies and earthly bodies differ (verse 40)?

How is the body that is sown perishable raised (verse 42)?

How is the body that is sown in weakness raised (verse 43)?

How is the body that is sown as a natural body raised (verse 44)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about our resurrection?

In your opinion, what does 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 help us understand about the awakening of those that Daniel 12:1-4 says “sleep in the dust”?

In your opinion, how does 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 help us understand the resurrection that Jesus explained in Matthew 22:23-33?

2 Timothy 2:14-21 - New International Version (NIV)

¹⁴ Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. ¹⁵ Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. ¹⁶ Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. ¹⁷ Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, ¹⁸ who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some. ¹⁹ Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”

²⁰ In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. ²¹ Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

What is Timothy to warn “God’s people” about (verse 14)?

What does Paul want Timothy to “correctly” handle (verse 15)?

Who becomes “more and more ungodly” (verse 16)?

What lie are Hymenaeus and Philetus spreading that is destroying “the faith of some” (verse 18?

How does “God’s solid foundation” stand (verse 19)?

What must “everyone who confesses the name of the Lord” do (verse 19)?

How can the uses of articles in a large house be divided (verse 20)?

Who will be “instruments for special purposes” (verse 21)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about our resurrection?

In your opinion, how does 2 Timothy 2:14-21 explain what we need to do to avoid being those who Daniel 12:1-4 says are awakened to “shame and everlasting contempt”?

In your opinion, how is the importance of “God’s solid foundation” demonstrated by the different lies about the resurrection told by the Sadducees in Matthew 22:23-33 and by Hymenaeus and Philetus in 2 Timothy 2:14-2?

In your opinion, does the cleansing to be “instruments for special purposes” that 2 Timothy 2:14-21 talks about only apply to the resurrection body that 1 Corinthians 15:35-44 talks about, or does it also apply to the perishable natural body we have prior to resurrection?

In your opinion, what do these passages from Daniel, Matthew, 1 Corinthians, and 2 Timothy teach us about the ways that resurrection can be attacked by the world?

In your opinion, how do we present ourselves to God as one approved today?

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