March
15, 2015 – The Great Commission – A Study of Matthew – A House of Prayer and
Exaltation
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.”
A House of Prayer
and Exaltation
Matthew 21:12-17 –
New International Version (NIV)
12 “Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were
buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and
the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said
to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a
den of robbers.’”
14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he
healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of
the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple
courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.
16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked
him.
“Yes,”
replied Jesus, “have you never read,
“‘From
the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where
he spent the night.”
Where did Jesus enter
(verse 12)?
Who
did He drive out (verse 12)?
How
did He treat the money changers and the sellers of doves (verse 12)?
What did He say that “My house” would be called (verse 13)?
In your opinion, why did Jesus say
they were making it “a den of robbers”
(verse 13)?
Who came to Jesus in the temple
courts (verse 14)?
In your opinion, why did the chief
priests and the teachers of the law become “indignant”
(verse 15)?
How did Jesus reply to the question “Do you hear what these children are saying”
(verse 16)?
Where did Jesus go to spend the
night (verse 17)?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from Matthew 21:12-17 show us about the Great Commission?
Isaiah 56:3-8 - New
International Version (NIV)
3 “Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.”
And let no eunuch complain,
“I am only a dry tree.”
“The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.”
And let no eunuch complain,
“I am only a dry tree.”
4 For this is what the Lord
says:
“To
the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose what pleases me
and hold fast to my covenant—
5 to them I will give within my temple and its walls
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that will endure forever.
6 And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord
to minister to him,
to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold fast to my covenant—
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.”
8 The Sovereign Lord declares—
he who gathers the exiles of Israel:
“I will gather still others to them
besides those already gathered.”
who choose what pleases me
and hold fast to my covenant—
5 to them I will give within my temple and its walls
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that will endure forever.
6 And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord
to minister to him,
to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold fast to my covenant—
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.”
8 The Sovereign Lord declares—
he who gathers the exiles of Israel:
“I will gather still others to them
besides those already gathered.”
Who is not to say “The Lord will surely exclude me from his
people”
(verse 3)?
Who is not to say “I am only a
dry tree” (verse
3)?
In your opinion, why
is the promise to the eunuchs in verses 4 and 5 an amazing promise?
In your opinion, why does the promise that
the “foreigners who bind themselves to
the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his
servants . . . their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my
altar” represent a seismic shift in temple worship ideas (verses 6 and 7)?
Whose house will be “a house of prayer for all nations” (verse 7)?
Who has the Sovereign Lord already begun
to gather (verse 8)?
Who else will the Sovereign Lord gather (verse
8)?
In your opinion, how does understanding
the promise of a temple for foreigners and eunuchs in Isaiah 56:3-8 help to
understand why Jesus would become upset at the limitations to worship that the
money changing and the buying and selling would have represented to the
gentiles by having their court taken up with these activities in Matthew
21:12-17?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from Isaiah show us about the Great Commission?
John 17:20-26 –
New International Version (NIV)
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who
will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them
may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in
us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I
have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—
23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to
complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them
even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where
I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me
before the creation of the world.
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I
know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made
you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love
you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
Who is Jesus
praying for (verse 20)?
What is the request of Jesus for those He
was praying for (verse 21)?
How has Jesus made it possible for His
request to be fulfilled (verse 22)?
In your opinion, why will the world know
that God sent Jesus and loved Christians because of the unity of Christians (verse
23)?
Where does Jesus want “those you have given to me” to be (verse 24)?
What do those given to Jesus know about
the Righteous Father (verse 25)?
Why will Jesus make the Righteous Father
known to Christians (verse 26)?
In your opinion, how is the promise to
gather those who do not have the right parents or who are flawed and incomplete
in Isaiah 56:3-8 become even more wonderful when we understand that all of
these who don’t have the right parents or who are flawed and incomplete are
included into being one with Jesus and the Righteous Father in the prayer of
Jesus in John 17:20-26?
In your opinion, how does the love and
sense of oneness that Jesus feels with the Righteous Father and with all who
believe in Him as shown in His prayer from John 17:20-26 help us understand the
passion that He displayed in Matthew 21:12-17 against the corruption of the
place where gentiles could go to worship?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from John show us about the Great Commission?
Philippians 2:5-11
– New
International Version (NIV)
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same
mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 “Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.”
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.”
What nature did Christ Jesus have (verse 6)?
How did Christ Jesus take “the very nature of a servant” (verse 7)?
Where did the humbling and obedience of
Christ Jesus take Him (verse 8)?
In your opinion, what is it about the
obedience of Christ Jesus that caused God to exalt “him to the highest place” (verse 9)?
How great is the “name of Jesus” (verse 10)?
What will every tongue acknowledge (verse
11)?
In your opinion, how amazing is the
request that Jesus makes in John 17:20-26 that “I want those you have given me to be with me where I am” when you consider
that “God exalted him to the highest place” in Philippians
2:5-11?
In your opinion, how does the wonderfully
all-encompassing prophecy in Isaiah 56:3-8 that “my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations” take on an even
more amazing tone when combined with the promise of Philippians 2:5-11 that “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that
Jesus Christ is Lord”?
In
your opinion, how are the praises of the children in Matthew 21:12-17 that said “Hosanna to
the Son of David”
like the promise in Philippians 2:5-11 that “every
tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord”?
In your opinion, what does this passage
from Philippians show us about the Great Commission?
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