June 22, 2014 – The Great Commission
– A Study of Matthew – Hiding and Revealing
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.”
Hiding and
Revealing
Matthew 11:25-30
– New International Version (NIV)
25 “At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and
learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father,
for this is what you were pleased to do.
27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one
knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and
those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will
give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For
my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Who
did Jesus praise (verse 25)?
In
your opinion, why would something be hidden from “the wise and learned” and yet be revealed to “little children” (verse 25)?
What
has been committed to Jesus by the Father (verse
27)?
Who knows the Son (verse 27)?
Who knows the Father (verse 27)?
Where are the weary and burdened to
go to receive rest (verse 28)?
In your opinion, why does Jesus talk
about finding rest in one sentence and taking His yoke in the next sentence (verses
28 and 29)?
How does Jesus describe Himself
(verse 29)?
What will the weary and burdened
find in Jesus (verse 29)?
In your opinion, how will the yoke
of Jesus be easy and the burden of Jesus be light (verse 30)?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from Matthew 11:25-30 show us about the Great Commission?
Psalm 135:13-21 – New International Version (NIV)
13 “Your name, Lord, endures forever,
your renown, Lord, through all generations.
14 For the Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants.
your renown, Lord, through all generations.
14 For the Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants.
15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
made by human hands.
16 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
17 They have ears, but cannot hear,
nor is there breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
made by human hands.
16 They have mouths, but cannot speak,
eyes, but cannot see.
17 They have ears, but cannot hear,
nor is there breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them will be like them,
and so will all who trust in them.
19 All you Israelites, praise the Lord;
house of Aaron, praise the Lord;
20 house of Levi, praise the Lord;
you who fear him, praise the Lord.
21 Praise be to the Lord from Zion,
to him who dwells in Jerusalem.
house of Aaron, praise the Lord;
20 house of Levi, praise the Lord;
you who fear him, praise the Lord.
21 Praise be to the Lord from Zion,
to him who dwells in Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord.”
Whose name “endures forever” (verse 13)?
What will the Lord have “on his servants” (verse 14)?
In your opinion, why do people worship
idols that other people, “human hands”, make
(verse 15)?
Why do the idols of the nations have
mouths but can’t speak and have eyes but can’t see (verse 16)?
What does it mean to say “nor is there breath in their mouths”
(verse 17)?
In your opinion, why will those who make
them and those who trust in them “be like
them” (verse 18)?
How are the Israelites, those of the
house of Aaron, and those of the house of Levi to respond to the Lord (verses 19
and 20)?
How are those who fear the Lord to
respond to the Lord (verse 20)?
In your opinion, why does this Psalm
that deals with idols and their ineffectiveness end with the simple statement
to “Praise the Lord” (verse 21)?
In your opinion, how does Psalm 135 that
says that all who make or trust in idols will become like them help us
understand why the Lord of heaven and earth has “hidden these things from the
wise and learned” in Matthew 11:25-30?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from Psalms show us about the Great Commission?
1 Corinthians
2:6-16 – New
International Version (NIV)
6 “We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,
but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to
nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been
hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None
of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have
crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:
“What
no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The
Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For
who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same
way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What
we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from
God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This
is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by
the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The
person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit
of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they
are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the
Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to
merely human judgments, 16 for,
“Who
has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
so as to instruct him?”
But
we have the mind of Christ.”
What kind of message does Paul say is
being spoken (verse 6)?
In your opinion, why does God destine a
mystery that has been hidden for our glory (verse 7)?
How many rulers of the time that Paul
lived understood the mystery (verse 8)?
Has any human mind conceived the things
that God has prepared for those who love Him (verse 9)?
In your opinion, how can the Spirit of God
reveal things that the mind can not conceive (verse 10)?
Who knows the thoughts of God (verse 11)?
Why do we receive the Spirit of God
(verse 12)?
How are spiritual realities explained (verse 13)?
Who considers the things that come from
the Spirit of God as foolishness (verse 14)?
What does the person with the Spirit
make about all things (verse 15)?
What do we, as Christians, have (verse 16)?
In your opinion, what does 1 Corinthians
2:6-16 help us to understand about the people of Psalm 135 who become like the
idols they worship?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from 1 Corinthians help us to understand about the Jesus said in Matthew
11:25-30 who the Son would reveal the Father to?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from 1 Corinthians show us about the Great Commission?
Galatian 5:1
& 13-18 –
New International Version (NIV)
1 “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm,
then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do
not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in
love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one
command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and
devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the
desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary
to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in
conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But
if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”
Why does Christ set us free (verse 1)?
How do we avoid letting ourselves “be burdened again by a yoke of slavery”
(verse 1)?
What were we called to be (verse 13)?
What should we avoid using our freedom
for (verse 13)?
How should we serve each other (verse 13)?
What command fulfills the entire law (verse
14)?
In your opinion, how does biting and
devouring each other get us closer to destroying each other (verse 15)?
Where should we walk (verse 16)?
How are the flesh and the Spirit related
(verse 17)?
Where are we in the law if we are led by
the Spirit (verse 18)?
In your opinion, how does comparing
Paul’s discussion of being led by the Spirit in Galatians 5 and his discussion
about revelation in 1 Corinthians 2 help us understand both being led and
revelation?
In your opinion, what does the conflict
between the flesh and the Spirit in Galatians 5 help us to understand about the
difference between the idols and God in Psalm 135?
In your opinion, what does Paul’s
instructions about freedom in Galatians 5 help us to understand about the yoke
and burden that Jesus talked about in Matthew 11:25-30?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from Galatians show us about the Great Commission?
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