March 5, 2017 – Genesis and John (Gospel and Revelation) – Rainbows and Reality

Rainbows and Reality

Genesis 9:8-16 – New International Version (NIV)

⁸ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: ⁹ “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you ¹⁰ and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. ¹¹ I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

¹² And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: ¹³ I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵ I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. ¹⁶ Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

Who did God speak to (verse 8)?

What did God establish (verse 9)?

In your opinion, why are the living creatures included in the covenant (verse 10)?

What is the covenant (verse 11)?

How many generations is the covenant with (verse 12)?

What has God set as a sign of the covenant (verse 13)?

When will God remember the covenant (verses 14, 15 and 16)?

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

John 16:5-15 - New International Version (NIV)

⁵ but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶ Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. ⁷ But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. ⁸ When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹ about sin, because people do not believe in me; ¹⁰ about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; ¹¹ and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. ¹³ But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

Where is Jesus going (verse 5)?

What are the disciples filled with (verse 6)?

In your opinion, why is it good that Jesus in going away (verse 7)?

What will the Advocate prove the world to be wrong in (verse 8)?

Why is the world wrong about sin (verse 9)?

Why is the world wrong about righteousness (verse 10)?

Why is the world wrong about judgment (verse 11)?

In your opinion, why can the disciples not bear to hear more of what Jesus has to say (verse 12)?

What will the Spirit of truth do (verse 13)?

What will the Spirit of truth speak (verse 13)?

How will the Spirit of truth glorify Jesus (verse 14)?

What belongs to Jesus (verse 15)?

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

In your opinion, how is Jesus’ promise to send the Advocate in John 16:5-15 an extension of the promise for the future shown in the covenant that God makes in Genesis 9:8-16?

Colossians 2:6-17 - New International Version (NIV)

⁶ So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

⁸ See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

⁹ For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, ¹⁰ and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. ¹¹ In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, ¹² having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

¹³ When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, ¹⁴ having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

¹⁶ Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. ¹⁷ These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

What are the Colossians to continue in (verse 6)?

How are the Colossians to be rooted (verse 7)?

What were the Colossians to overflow with (verse 7)?

In your opinion, how could “hollow and deceptive philosophy” take someone captive (verse 8)?

What lives in Christ (verse 9)?

What have the Colossians been brought to in Christ (verse 10)?

In your opinion, what does the “circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands” mean (verse 11)?

How were the Colossians “buried with him” (verse 12)?

How were the Colossians “raised with him” (verse 12)?

What did God do when the Colossians were dead in their sins (verse 13)?

How did God cancel our legal indebtedness (verse 14)?

What did God do after He disarmed the powers and authorities (verse 15)?

What were the Colossians not to let anyone judge them by (verse 16)?

Where is the reality found (verse 17)?

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

In your opinion, how is Jesus’ promise that the Spirit will guide us into all truth in John 16:5-15 shown to be fulfilled as Paul talks about faith, life and forgiveness of sins in Colossians 2:6-17?

In your opinion, how is the promise of the rainbow that all life will not be taken in a flood in Genesis 9:8-16 dwarfed by the opportunity of new life through Christ as we are shown by Paul in Colossians 2:6-17?

Revelation 4:1-11 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” ² At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. ³ And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. ⁴ Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. ⁵ From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. ⁶ Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.

In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. ⁷ The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. ⁸ Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying:

“‘Holy, holy, holy

is the Lord God Almighty,’

who was, and is, and is to come.”

⁹ Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, ¹⁰ the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

¹¹ “You are worthy, our Lord and God,
    to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
    and by your will they were created
    and have their being.”

Where did John see the open door (verse 1)?

What was before John when he was in the Spirit (verse 2)?

What encircled the throne (verse 3)?

Who were seated on the 24 thrones (verse 4)?

Who is the seven lamps (verse 5)?

What covered the four living creatures (verse 6)?

What were the four living creatures like (verse 7)?

What did the four living creatures always say (verse 8)?

Who falls down before the throne and worship “him who lives for ever and ever” (verse 10)?

Who is worthy to “receive glory and honor and power” (verse 11)?

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

In your opinion, how does the grandeur of God portrayed in Revelation 4:1-11, and shown by Paul in Colossians 2:6-17 to be the opposite of human tradition and elemental spiritual forces of this world, help us to avoid hollow and deceptive philosophy?

In your opinion, how does Jesus, through John in Revelation 4:1-11, answer the question “where are you going” that He said no one was asking in John 16:5-15?

In your opinion, why is it significant that the rainbow, a reminder of the covenant in Genesis 9:8-16, encircled the throne in Revelation 4:1-11?

In your opinion, how do these passages from Genesis, John, Colossians and Revelation help us move from the promise not to destroy all life in the flood to the celebration in heave of the God who “created all things”  and in who all things “have their being”?

In your opinion, how do these passages help us to contrast the hollow promises of the world with the magnificent promises of God?                                                                                                                         

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February 26, 2017 – Genesis and John (Gospel and Revelation) – Triumph Over the Tomb

Triumph Over the Tomb

Genesis 14:13-20 – New International Version (NIV)

¹³ A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram. ¹⁴ When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. ¹⁵ During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. ¹⁶ He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

¹⁷ After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

¹⁸ Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, ¹⁹ and he blessed Abram, saying,

“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
    Creator of heaven and earth.
²⁰ And praise be to God Most High,
    who delivered your enemies into your hand.”

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

What did the man who had escaped do (verse 13)?

Who was called “the Hebrew” (verse 13)?

How did Abram respond to the report that his relative had been taken captive (verse 14)?

When did Abram divide his men and attack (verse 15)?

How did the attack go (verse 15)?

What did Abram bring back (verse 16)?

Who came out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh (verses 17 and 18)?

In what two ways was Melchizedek described (verse 18)?

How did Melchizedek describe God Most High when he blessed Abram (verse 19)?

Who did Melchizedek give credit to for Abram’s victory (verse 20)?

How did Abram respond to the blessing by Melchizedek (verse 20)?

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

John 11:32-44 - New International Version (NIV)

³² When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. ³⁴ “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

³⁵ Jesus wept.

³⁶ Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

³⁸ Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. ³⁹ “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”

⁴⁰ Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴ The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

What did Mary believe (verse 32)?

How did the weeping of Mary and the Jews who were with her effect Jesus (verse 33)?

In your opinion, why did Jesus weep (verse 35)?

What did the Jews think when they saw Jesus weeping (verse 36)?

In your opinion, what would saying “could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man kept this man from dying” done Jesus’ reputation (verse 37)?

What was the tomb (verse 38)?

Why was Martha worried about taking away the stone (verse 39)?

How did Jesus respond to Martha’s concerns (verse 40)?

Where did Jesus look when He said “Father, I thank you that you have heard me” (verse 41)?

Why did Jesus say this (verse 42)?

What did Jesus say “in a loud voice” (verse 43)?

Where were the strips of linen and the cloth (verse 44)?

What did Jesus say (verse)?

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

In your opinion, how is Abram’s bringing back Lot in Genesis 14:13-20 similar to Jesus going up to the cave with the stone laid across the entrance and calling for Lazarus to come out in John 11:32-44?

Hebrews 7:11-22 - New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron? ¹² For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also. ¹³ He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar. ¹⁴ For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests. ¹⁵ And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears, ¹⁶ one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. ¹⁷ For it is declared:

“You are a priest forever,
    in the order of Melchizedek.”

¹⁸ The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless ¹⁹ (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

²⁰ And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, ²¹ but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him:

“The Lord has sworn
    and will not change his mind:
    ‘You are a priest forever.’”

²² Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

In your opinion, what could not be attained through Levitical priesthood (verse 11)?

What must change when the priesthood is changed (verse 12)?

Where did “no one from that tribe” ever serve (verse 13)?

What tribe, that Moses said nothing about priests in, did our Lord descend from (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what is the difference between one who becomes a priest on the basis of a regulation versus one who becomes a priest “on the basis of the power of an indestructible life” (verse 16)?

What is declared (verse 17)?

Why is the former regulation set aside (verse 18)?

How do we draw near to God (verse 19)?

How did others become priests (verse 20)?

Who made an oath that “you are a priest forever” (verse 21)?

What has Jesus become (verse 22)?

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

In your opinion, how does the power and authority that Jesus demonstrated in John 11:32-44 when He called Lazarus from the dead demonstrate the better hope that Paul says in Hebrews 7:11-22 we can have in Jesus, the priest in the order of Melchizedek?

In your opinion, what are some of the similarities between King Melchizedek, who we meet in Genesis 14:13-20, and Jesus, who Paul talks about in Hebrews 7:11-22?

Revelation 5:1-5 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals. ² And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” ³ But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. ⁴ I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. ⁵ Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

What did John see in the “right hand of him who sat on the throne” (verse 1)?

Who ask the question “who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll” (verse 2)?

How many people “in heaven or on earth or under the earth” could open the scroll or look inside (verse 3)?

Why did John weep (verse 4)?

Who told John not to weep (verse 5)?

What has “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David” done (verse 5)?

What can “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David” do (verse 5)?

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

In your opinion, what does the “power of an indestructible life” that Paul describes in Hebrews 7:11-20 have in common with the triumph that Revelation 5:1-5 says that the “Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David” has obtained?

In your opinion, how is Jesus weeping before calling Lazarus from the tomb in John 11:32-44 similar to John weeping because no one could be found to open the scroll in Revelation 5:1-5?

In your opinion, how does the uniqueness of Melchizedek, the priest of God, in Genesis 14:13-20, similar to the uniqueness of “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David” in Revelation 5:1-5?

In your opinion, what do these passages from Genesis, John, Hebrews and Revelation help us understand about Jesus triumph in His recovery of those captured by sin and death?

In your opinion, how do these passages help us to be priests, for Jesus, today?                                             

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February 19, 2017 – Genesis and John (Gospel and Revelation) – An Invitation to the Promised Land

An Invitation to the Promised Land

Genesis 12:1-8 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.

² “I will make you into a great nation,
    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.
³ I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.”

⁴ So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. ⁵ He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

⁶ Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. ⁷ The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

⁸ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

Where is Abram to go (verse 1)?

What will God make Abram into (verse 2)?

Who will God bless (verse 3)?

In your opinion, how will “all peoples on earth” be blessed through Abram (verse 3)?

How old was Abram when he set out (verse 4)?

Who did Abram take with him (verse 5)?

Who was “in the land” (verse 6)?

How did Abram react when the Lord told him “to your offspring I will give this land” (verse 7)?

What did Abram do after he “pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east” (verse 8)?

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

John 14:15-24 - New International Version (NIV)

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands. ¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ²⁰ On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

²² Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. ²⁴ Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

In your opinion, what will we do if we love Jesus (verse 15)?

What will the advocate the Father gives us do (verse 16)?

Why can the world not accept the advocate (verse 17)?

Where will the advocate live and be (verse 17)?

What will Jesus do (verse 18)?

In your opinion, what does Jesus mean when He says “because I live, you also will live” (verse 19)?

When will “you realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you” (verse 20)?

Who loves Jesus (verse 21)?

What did Judas (not Judas Iscariot) ask (verse 22)?

Where will the Father and Jesus make their home (verse 23)?

Who will not obey Jesus’ teaching (verse 24)?

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

In your opinion, how does Abram’s response to God’s command in Genesis 12:1-8 illustrate how we are to respond according to Jesus in John 14:15-24?

Galatians 3:1-14 - New International Version (NIV)

¹ You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. ² I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? ³ Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? ⁴ Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain? ⁵ So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard? ⁶ So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

⁷ Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham. ⁸ Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” ⁹ So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

¹⁰ For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” ¹¹ Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because “the righteous will live by faith.” ¹² The law is not based on faith; on the contrary, it says, “The person who does these things will live by them.” ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.” ¹⁴ He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

What was portrayed before the eyes of the Galatians (verse 1)?

How many things does Paul want to learn from the Galatians (verse 2)?

In your opinion, what does Paul mean when he asks if the Galatians had begun by the means of the Spirit and are trying to finish by means of the flesh (verse 3)?

In your opinion, does God give His Spirit by works of the law or by believing (verse 5)?

Why was righteousness credited to Abraham (verse 6)?

Who are those who have faith (verse 7)?

What did the Scripture foresee (verse 8)?

Who is blessed (verse 9)?

Who is under a curse (verse 10)?

How will the righteous live (verse 11)?

What does the law say (verse 12)?

How did Christ redeem us “from the curse of the law” (verse 13)?

How do we receive the “promise of the Spirit” (verse 14)?

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

In your opinion, what does Paul in Galatians 3:1-14 help us understand about the commands that Jesus tells us we must keep in John 14:15-24?

In your opinion, how does Abram leaving the land that he was familiar with and going to the place that God showed him in Genesis 12:1-8 demonstrate the faith that Paul illustrates in Galatians 3:1-14?

Revelation 22:1-7 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb ² down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. ³ No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. ⁴ They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ⁵ There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever

⁶ The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God who inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place.”

⁷ “Look, I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy written in this scroll.”

What did the angel show John (verse 1)?

When does the tree of life yield its fruit (verse 2)?

What are the leaves of the tree of life for (verse 2)?

What is “no longer” (verse 3)?

Where is the throne of God and of the Lamb (verse 3)?

In your opinion, why is it important that God’s servants will see His face (verse 4)?

Why is there no more need for light from a lamp or from the sun (verse 5)?

When will the things take place (verse 6)?

Who is blessed (verse 7)?

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

In your opinion, how does Galatians 3:1-14 help us to understand about why there is no curse in the heavenly city as portrayed in Revelation 22:1-7?

In your opinion, how is Jesus’ promise in John 14:15-24 that He and the Father would dwell with those who love Him and obey His teaching fulfilled in Revelation 22:1-7?

In your opinion, how does Abram’s faith leading him to follow God’s instruction and travel to the Promised Land in Genesis 12:1-8 help us understand about how we get to the heavenly city of Revelation 22:1-7?

In your opinion, what do these passages from Genesis, John, Galatians and Revelation help us understand about obedience to Jesus’ commands versus works of the law?

In your opinion, how do these passages help us understand faith and living in the Spirit?                            

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