November 30, 2014 – The Great Commission – A Study of Matthew – Grief and Encouragement
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.”
Grief and
Encouragement
Matthew 17:22-23 –
New International Version (NIV)
22 “When they came together in Galilee, he
said to them, “The
Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. 23 They will kill
him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.”
And the disciples were filled with grief.”
Where
did they come together (verse 22)?
Who
did Jesus say the “Son of Man” would
be delivered to (verse 22)?
What
will the “hands of men” do to the “Son of Man” (verse 23)?
When will the “Son of Man” be raised to life (verse 23)?
In your opinion, why, when this
passage ends with something joyful, were the disciples filled with grief (verse
23)?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from Matthew 17:22-23 show us about the Great Commission?
Judges 11:29-40 - New
International Version (NIV)
29 “Then the Spirit of the Lord
came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of
Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. 30 And
Jephthah made a vow to the Lord:
“If you give the Ammonites into my hands, 31 whatever comes out
of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites
will be the Lord’s, and I will
sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”
32 Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into his hands. 33 He
devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel
Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.
34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should
come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She
was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 When
he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have
brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the Lord that I cannot break.”
36 “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me just as you promised, now
that the Lord has avenged you of
your enemies, the Ammonites. 37 But grant me this one request,”
she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends,
because I will never marry.”
38 “You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She
and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry. 39 After
the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed.
And she was a virgin.
From
this comes the Israelite tradition 40 that each year the young
women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah
the Gileadite.”
Who came upon
Jephthah (verse 29)?
What did Jephthah do (verse 29)?
Who did Jephthah make a vow to (verse 30)?
What vow did Jephthah make (verse 31)?
In your opinion, why did Jephthah make a
vow (verse 31)?
How did the battle go (verse 32)?
How many towns did Jephthah devastate to
subdue Ammon (verse 33)?
Who came out to meet Jephthah (verse 34)?
Why did Jephthah tear his clothes (verse 35)?
In your opinion, why does Jephthah's
daughter respond as she does (verse 36)?
What is her request (verse 37)?
Why did she weep (verse 38)?
What did she do after two months (verse
39)?
Who continues to remember the daughter of
Jephthah the Gileadite (verse 40)?
In your opinion, what is the difference
between the grief of the Jephthah and his daughter in Judges 11:29-40 and the
grief of the disciples in Matthew 17:22-23?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from Judges show us about the Great Commission?
2 Corinthians 2:1-11
– New
International Version (NIV)
1 “So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful
visit to you. 2 For if I grieve you, who is left to make me
glad but you whom I have grieved? 3 I wrote as I did, so that
when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice.
I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. 4 For
I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not
to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
5 If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as
he has grieved all of you to some extent—not to put it too severely. 6 The
punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient. 7 Now
instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be
overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 8 I urge you, therefore, to
reaffirm your love for him. 9 Another reason I wrote you was to
see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. 10 Anyone
you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven—if there was anything to
forgive—I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, 11 in
order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.”
What was Paul not
going to do (verse 1)?
Why did Paul write as he did (verse 3)?
How does Paul feel about the Corinthian
Christians (verse 3)?
In your opinion, why was Paul in “great distress and anguish of heart”
when he wrote the Corinthians (verse 4)?
What did Paul want to show when he wrote (verse
4)?
Who has the person who has caused grief
grieved (verse 5)?
Who inflicted the punishment (verse 6)?
Why should the Corinthian Christians “forgive and comfort him” (verse 7)?
In your opinion, why did Paul urge them to
“reaffirm your love for him” (verse 8)?
What was Paul’s other reason to write (verse
9)?
Who does Paul forgive (verse 10)?
Why has Paul forgiven “in the sight of Christ for your sake” (verse 11)?
In your opinion, what is different about
the grief that Paul caused in writing to the Corinthians that he refers to in 2
Corinthians 2:1-11 and the grief that Jephthah caused by his vow to the Lord in
Judges 11:29-40?
In your opinion, how is the grief of the
Corinthians in 2 Corinthians 2:1-11 different from the grief of the disciples
in Matthew 17:22-23?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from 2 Corinthians show us about the Great Commission?
1 Thessalonians
4:13-18 – New
International Version (NIV)
13 “Brothers and sisters, we do not want you
to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like
the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep
in him. 15 According to the Lord’s
word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of
the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven,
with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call
of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After
that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord
forever. 18 Therefore encourage one
another with these words.”
Why does Paul not want the Thessalonians
to be uninformed “about those who sleep
in death” (verse 13)?
What do those who are uninformed not have (verse
13)?
Who died and rose again (verse 14)?
In your opinion, why do we believe that “God will bring with Jesus those who have
fallen asleep in him” (verse 14)?
Who will not precede those who have fallen
asleep (verse 15)?
Where will the Lord come down from (verse 16)?
What will happen with “a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet
call of God” (verse 16)?
What will happen “after that” (verse 17)?
Where will we be forever (verse 17)?
In your opinion, why should we “encourage one another with these words”
(verse 17)?
In your opinion, what is different about
the grief “like the rest of mankind”
in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and the grief of the Corinthians that Paul’s letter
caused in 2 Corinthians 2:1-11?
In your
opinion, what is the difference in the relationship with God that Paul
demonstrated in the discussion about resurrection 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and
Jephthah who bargains with God as he prepares to fight the Ammonites in Judges
11:29-40?
In your
opinion, how it a fulfillment of the words of Jesus in Matthew 17:22-23 that “they will kill him, and on the
third day he will be raised to life” for Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 to
say that “we believe that
Jesus died and rose again”?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from 1 Thessalonians show us about the Great Commission?
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