I
Have Seen the Lord
Genesis 49:29-33 –
New International Version (NIV)
29 Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be
gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of
Ephron the Hittite, 30 the cave in the field of Machpelah, near
Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field as a burial place
from Ephron the Hittite. 31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah
were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried
Leah. 32 The field and the cave in it were bought from the
Hittites.”
33 When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he
drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his
people.
What words did
Jacob use to say he was about to die (verse
29)?
Who did Jacob want
to be buried with (verse 29)?
Why did Abraham
buy the field (verse 30)?
Who was buried in
the cave (verse 31)?
Who was the field
and the cave in it purchased from (verse 32)?
What did Jacob do
when he finished “giving instructions to
his sons” (verse 33)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
John 20:1-18 - New
International Version (NIV)
1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still
dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed
from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the
other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of
the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4 Both
were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He
bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6 Then
Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the
strips of linen lying there, 7 as well as the cloth that had
been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place,
separate from the linen. 8 Finally the other disciple, who had
reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 (They
still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) 10 Then
the disciples went back to where they were staying.
11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she
bent over to look into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white,
seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They
have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”
14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but
she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are
looking for?”
Thinking
he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me
where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She
turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
17 Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet
ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am
ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have
seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
When did Mary
Magdalene go to the tomb (verse 1)?
What did she find there (verse 1)?
Who did she tell “they have taken the Lord out of the tomb,
and we don’t know where they have put him” (verse 2)?
Who got to the
tomb first (verse 4)?
What did he see
when he looked into the tomb (verse 5)?
In your opinion,
why did he not go inside immediately (verse
5)?
What did Peter
find when he “went straight into the
tomb” (verses 6 and 7)?
What did the “other disciple, who had reached the tomb
first” do when he went inside (verse 8)?
In your opinion, what does it mean that “They still did not understand from
Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead” (verse 9)?
What did the disciples do next (verse 10)?
What did Mary do (verse 11)?
Who did Mary see (verse 12)?
Why was Mary crying (verse 13)?
In your opinion, why did Mary not
recognize Jesus (verse 14)?
What did Mary want from Jesus (verse 15)?
When did Mary recognize Jesus (verse 16)?
What was Mary to tell Jesus’s brothers
(verse 17)?
What did Mary tell the disciples (verse
18)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how would Mary Magdalene’s
heritage of hearing about Jacob’s instructions to his sons when he is preparing
to “be gathered to my people” in
Genesis 49:29-33 motivate her to go to Jesus tomb, but then make it harder for
her to recognize Jesus in John 20:1-18?
Romans 5:1-11 - New
International Version (NIV)
1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through
whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And
we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we
also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces
perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And
hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our
hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still
powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will
anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might
possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for
us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more
shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if,
while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his
Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Why do we have “peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (verse 1)?
What do we now stand in (verse 2)?
What do we also
glory in (verse 3)?
In your opinion, how
can our sufferings produce “perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope” (verses 3 and 4)?
Why does hope not put us to shame (verse 5)?
Who did Christ die for (verse 6)?
In your opinion, what does Paul mean when
he says “very rarely will anyone die for
a righteous person” (verse 7)?
How does God demonstrate his love for us
(verse 8)?
In your opinion, what does it mean to be
saved from God’s wrath through Jesus (verse 9)?
How are we saved (verse 10)?
How do we boast in God (verse 11)?
Through whom have we received
reconciliation (verse 11)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how does Paul in his
discussion in Romans 5:1-11 help us understand the significance of the empty
tomb that Mary, John and Peter saw in John 20:1-18?
In
your opinion, how does the matter-of-fact planning of Jacob as he prepares to be
gathered to his people in Genesis 49:29-33, help us to more completely
understand what Paul meant when he describe us in Romans 5:1-11 as powerless?
Revelation 1:9-18 –
New International Version (NIV)
9 I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and
kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of
Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 On
the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a
trumpet, 11 which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and
send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis,
Philadelphia and Laodicea.”
12 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me.
And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and among
the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down
to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 The hair
on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like
blazing fire. 15 His feet were like bronze glowing in a
furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16 In
his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp,
double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he
placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the
Last. 18 I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am
alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
How does John describe himself (verse 9)?
Why was John on the island of Patmos (verse
9)?
Where was John on the Lord’s Day (verse 10)?
What did the “loud voice like a trumpet” tell John to write on a scroll (verse 11)?
What was the first thing that John saw
when he turned around (verse 12)?
In your opinion, who is the one “like a son of man, dressed in a robe
reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest” (verse 13)?
What was the hair on His head like (verse
14)?
How was His voice described (verse 15)?
What was His face like (verse 16)?
When did John fall “at his feet as though dead” (verse 17)?
What is the first thing that Jesus tells
John (verse 17)?
How does Jesus describe Himself (verse
18)?
What does Jesus hold (verse 18)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how
does John seeing Jesus in heaven in Revelation 1:9-18 help us understand more
completely what Paul meant in Romans 5:1-11 when he said “if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him
through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we
be saved through his life”?
In your opinion, what is similar between
Mary Magdalene seeing the Lord on Easter morning in John 20:1-18 and John, who
had seen the empty tomb on Easter morning, seeing Jesus in heaven in Revelation
1:9-18?
In your opinion, what
is difference between Jacob’s understanding of death saying he was to be “gathered to my people” in Genesis
49:29-33 and John’s understanding of death after hearing Jesus say “I am the Living One; I was dead, and
now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.”?
In your opinion, what do these passages
from Genesis, John, Romans and Revelation help us understand about how the
empty tomb on Easter morning changed everything?
In your opinion, how
should Mary Magdalene’s wonderful message to the disciples help us respond to
the risen Christ in our lives today?
No comments:
Post a Comment