“He leadeth
me beside the still waters” KJV Psalm 23:2b
1 Chronicles
11:15-19 – New International Version (NIV)
15 Three of the thirty chiefs came down to David to the rock at
the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of
Rephaim. 16 At that time David was in the stronghold, and the
Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem. 17 David longed for water
and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near
the gate of Bethlehem!” 18 So the Three broke through the
Philistine lines, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and
carried it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out
to the Lord. 19 “God
forbid that I should do this!” he said. “Should I drink the blood of these men
who went at the risk of their lives?” Because they risked their lives to bring
it back, David would not drink it.
Such
were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.
Who came down to
David at the cave of Adullam (verse 15)?
Where was the
Philistine garrison (verse 16)?
What did David
long for (verse 17)?
In your opinion,
why did David say “oh, that someone would
get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem” (verse 17)?
Who “broke through the Philistine lines, drew
water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem and carried it back to David”
(verse 18)?
What did David do
with the water (verse 18)?
Why would David
not drink the water (verse 19)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
John 4:4-14 - New
International Version (NIV)
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he
came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had
given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus,
tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to
her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into
the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a
Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate
with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it
is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given
you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and
the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are
you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it
himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be
thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will
never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of
water welling up to eternal life.”
Where did Jesus
have to go (verse 4)?
What town did He
come to (verse 5)?
Why did Jesus sit
down by the well (verse 6)?
What did Jesus ask
the Samaritan woman (verse 7)?
Where were the
disciples (verse 8)?
What did the
Samaritan woman ask Jesus (verse 9)?
What would Jesus
have given the Samaritan woman if she “knew
the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink” and if she ask Him (verse 10)?
In your opinion,
where would Jesus get this “living water”
(verse 11)?
What will happen
to people who drink water from Jacob’s well (verse 13)?
What will the
water that Jesus gives people become (verse 14)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, what is similar between
the water that David poured out in 1 Chronicles 11:15-19 and the living water
that Jesus offered the Samaritan woman in John 14:4-14?
Ephesians 5:25-33
- New International Version (NIV)
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the
church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy,
cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and
to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any
other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way,
husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife
loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body,
but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for
we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will
leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become
one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking
about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also
must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
How should husbands love their wives (verse 25)?
How did Christ make the church holy (verses
25 and 26)?
What will the “radiant church” not have (verse 27)?
How should
husbands love their wives (verse 28)?
In your opinion, what does Paul mean when
he says “no one ever hated their own
body” (verse 29)?
What are we members of (verse 30)?
Who will become one flesh (verse 31)?
In your opinion, what profound mystery is
Paul talking about (verse 32)?
How should husbands love their wives
(verse 33)?
How should wives view their husbands
(verse 33)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, how would the Samaritan
woman in John 4:4-14 have felt about the profound mystery of Jesus loving the
church so much that He gave Himself up to make her holy by washing her with
water through the word as Paul explains in Ephesians 5:25-33?
In
your opinion, how does David pouring out the water that blood was risked to
obtain in 1 Chronicles 11:15-19 help us to understand the value of the water
that Paul says Jesus washes the church with in Ephesians 5:25-33?
Revelation 22:1-5;
17 – 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.
17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And
let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the
one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.
Where does the “river
of the water of life” flow from (verse 1)?
What is on each side of the river (verse 2)?
In your opinion, why is there no longer
any curse (verse 3)?
What will His servants see (verse 4)?
Who will give them light (verse 5)?
Who says “come” (verse 17)?
What is the one who is thirsty to do
(verse 17)?
Who can “take the free gift of the water of life” (verse 17)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message
of this passage?
In your opinion, why
does the bride, the church that Paul says in Ephesians 5:25-33 was cleansed by
Christ who washed her with the water through the word, join with the Spirit to
say “come” to the thirsty in
Revelation 22:1-5; 17?
In your opinion, how
are the water of life that John portrays in Revelation 22:1-5; 17 and the
living water that Jesus tells the Samaritan woman about in John 4:4-14 related?
In your opinion, how
is the yearning for the water from the “well
near the gate of Bethlehem” in 1 Chronicles 11:15-19 similar to the
thirsting of the one receiving the invitation to “come” in Revelation 22:1-5; 17?
In your opinion, what do these passages
from 1 Chronicles, John, Ephesians and Revelation teach us about today’s
passage from Psalm 23, “He leadeth me
beside the still waters”?
In your opinion, what
do these passages help us to understand about our relationship to the living
water that Jesus offered to the Samaritan woman at the well?
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