-
The
Living Righteously for God
Jeremiah 31:30-34 - New International Version (NIV)
30 Instead, everyone will die for their own sin; whoever eats sour
grapes—their own teeth will be set on edge.
31 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the Lord.
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
32 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,”
declares the Lord.
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
Who
will die for their own sin (verse 30)?
When will the Lord make “a new covenant” (verse 31)?
What did Israel’s ancestors do with the old covenant (verse 32)?
In your opinion, what does the Lord mean when He says “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts” (verse 33)?
What will the people be (verse 33)?
Why will people not tell their neighbor “know the Lord” (verse 34)?
What will the Lord forgive (verse 34)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
1 A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum,
the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such
large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he
preached the word to them. 3 Some men came, bringing to him a
paralyzed man, carried by four of them. 4 Since they could not
get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above
Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. 5 When
Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are
forgiven.”
6 Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to
themselves, 7 “Why does this fellow talk like that? He’s
blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8 Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were
thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, “Why are you thinking these
things? 9 Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man,
‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’? 10 But
I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.”
So he said to the man, 11 “I tell you, get up, take your
mat and go home.” 12 He got up, took his mat and walked
out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God,
saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”
What
did the people hear (verse 1)?
Why was there “no room left” (verse 2)?
How did they they get the paralyzed man to Jesus (verses 3 and 4)?
What did Jesus say when He “saw their faith” (verse 5)?
In your opinion, why did the teachers of the law think “He’s blaspheming!” (verses 6 and 7)?
What did Jesus know “in his spirit” (verse 8)?
In your opinion, why did Jesus ask “Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, take your mat and walk’” (verse 9)?
What did Jesus want the teachers of the law to know (verse 10)?
What did Jesus tell the paralyzed man (verse 11)?
Why was everyone amazed (verse 12)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how does Jesus healing the paralyzed man whose sin He had forgiven in Mark 2:1-12 prove His authority to replace the old covenant that was broken with the new covenant that was promised in Jeremiah 31:30-34?
2 Corinthians 5:15-21 – New International Version (NIV)
15 And he died for all, that
those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for
them and was raised again.
16 So from now on we regard
no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this
way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All
this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the
ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling
the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he
has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We
are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal
through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.
Who did Jesus die for (verse 15)?
In your opinion, what does it mean to “regard no one from a worldly point of view”
(verse 16)?
When has “the new creation” come (verse 17)?
How did God reconcile us to Himself (verse
18)?
What is God not counting against
people (verse 19)?
What does Paul implore “on Christ’s behalf” (verse 20)?
How can we “become the righteousness of God” (verse 21)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, what
does 2 Corinthians 5:15-21 help us understand about how the promise that God
made in Jeremiah 31:30-34 to “remember
their sins no more” is fulfilled by Jesus?
In your opinion, what does 2 Corinthians 5:15-21 help us understand about what Jesus did to get the “authority on earth to forgive sins” that He claimed in Mark 2:1-12?
James 1:19-27 – New International Version (NIV)
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should
be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because
human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. 21 Therefore,
get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept
the word planted in you, which can save you.
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do
what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does
not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and,
after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that
gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but
doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a
tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is
worthless. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as
pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress
and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Who
should be “quick to listen, slow to speak
and slow to become angry” (verse 19)?
What does human anger not produce (verse 20)?
How should we accept the word planted in us (verse 21)?
In your opinion, how can we deceive ourselves by merely listening “to the word” (verse 22)?
What is someone “who listens to the word but does not do what it says” like (verses 23 and 24)?
Who will be blessed (verse 25)?
Whose “religion is worthless” (verse 26)?
What does God accept “as pure and faultless” (verse 27)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does Jeremiah 31:30-34’s discussion about the two covenants help us understand about the word James 1:19-27 says we are to “humbly accept” being planted into us?
In your opinion, how does Jesus telling the man whose sins He had forgiven in Mark 2:1-12 to “get up, take your mat and go home” foreshadow James telling us not to just listen to the word “which can save us” but to “do what it says” in James 1:19-27?
In your opinion, what can following the teachings in James 1:19-27 which instructs us to look “intently into the perfect law that gives freedom” and continue in it help us to not regard anyone, including ourselves, “from a worldly point of view” as Paul indicates he will no longer do in 2 Corinthians 5:15-21?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Jeremiah, Mark, 2 Corinthians and James help us understand about how Jesus can remember our “sins no more”?
In your opinion, how do we move from merely hearing the word to having it written on our hearts and then living it?
(sprucewhispers.blogspot.com)
No comments:
Post a Comment