New Hope High School – Lesson 6 - The Great Commission - A Study of Matthew – Blessed Are those Who Hunger

New Hope High School – Lesson 6 - The Great Commission - A Study of Matthew – Blessed Are those Who Hunger

Matthew 28:18-20 - New International Version (NIV) – The Great Commission

¹⁸ Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 5:6 New International Version (NIV)

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
    for they will be filled.”

Who is blessed?

How will they be blessed?

In your opinion, what will they be filled with?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Matthew 5:6 show us about the Great Commission?

Psalm 42 New International Version (NIV)

^“1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
    so my soul pants for you, my God.
² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When can I go and meet with God?
³ My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”
⁴ These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
    under the protection of the Mighty One
with shouts of joy and praise
    among the festive throng.

⁵ Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.

⁶ My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
    the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls to deep
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.

⁸ By day the Lord directs his love,
    at night his song is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I say to God my Rock,
    “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
    oppressed by the enemy?”
¹⁰ My bones suffer mortal agony
    as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”

¹¹ Why, my soul, are you downcast?
    Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
    for I will yet praise him,
    my Savior and my God.”

In your opinion, why would a deer pant for streams of water (verse 1)?

In your opinion, why would a soul pant for God in that way (verse 1)?

What is the question that people are asking the psalmist (verse 3)?

In your opinion, what does it say about the psalmist that this question would be ask of him?

In your opinion, how does remembering the house of God and shouts of joy and praise and a festive throng make the psalmist seem even more forlorn (verse 4)?

What does the psalmist do to begin to move away from the questions “Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me?” (verse 5)?

In your opinion, what does “deep calls to deep” mean (verse 7)?

What does verse 8 say that the psalmist recognizes is happening, even while feeling forlorn?

Even though bad things are happening in verses 9 and 10, where does the psalmist end up in verse 11?

What In your opinion, what does this passage from Psalms teach us about Matthew 5:6?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Psalms show us about the Great Commission?

Isaiah 55:1-9 New International Version (NIV)

“Come, all you who are thirsty,
    come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
    come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
    without money and without cost.
² Why spend money on what is not bread,
    and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
    and you will delight in the richest of fare.
³ Give ear and come to me;
    listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
    my faithful love promised to David.
⁴ See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
    a ruler and commander of the peoples.
⁵ Surely you will summon nations you know not,
    and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
    the Holy One of Israel,
    for he has endowed you with splendor.”

⁶ Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call on him while he is near.
⁷ Let the wicked forsake their ways
    and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
    and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Who is supposed to come (verse 1)?

In your opinion, what is meant by buying wine and milk without money and without cost?

What are the hungry and thirsty to do to eat what is good and delight in the richest of fare (verse 2)?

What are the hungry and thirsty to do to live and have an everlasting covenant (verse 3)?

Who does verse 6 indicate that the hungry and thirsty should seek and call on?

In your opinion, what do the wicked and unrighteous of verse 7 have in common with the hungry and thirsty?

What do the wicked and unrighteous have to do to receive God’s mercy and pardon (verse 7)?

In your opinion, why does God have Isaiah contrast and compare His Thoughts and our thoughts (verses 8 and 9)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Isaiah teach us about Matthew 5:6?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Isaiah teach us about the Great Commission?

Titus 3:3-8 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.

Titus is written to further the faith of God’s elect, but what does verse 3 indicate that God’s elect were like?

What attributes did God our Savior have when He appeared to us to save us (verse 4)?

Did our righteous acts contribute to our salvation (verse 5)?

What did our Savior have that allowed our salvation (verse 5)?

In your opinion, why does Paul stress the washing of “rebirth and renewal” by the Holy Spirit (verse 5)?

How is the Holy Spirit poured out on us (verse 6)?

Through what are we justified (made right with God) (verse 7)?

After we are justified, what do we become (verse 7)?

In your opinion, why should those who trusted in God devote themselves to doing what is good (verse 8)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Titus teach us about Matthew 5:6?

            In your opinion, what does this passage from Titus teach us about the Great Commission?

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