Exodus 34:29-35 - New International Version (NIV)
29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the
covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because
he had spoken with the Lord. 30 When
Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were
afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called to them; so
Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to
them. 32 Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and
he gave them all the commands the Lord
had given him on Mount Sinai.
33 When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face.
34 But whenever he entered the Lord’s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until
he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been
commanded, 35 they saw that his face was radiant. Then
Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord.
When was
Moses’s face radiant (verse 29)?
Who was afraid
to come near Moses because of his radiant face (verse 30)?
What did Aaron
and the community leaders do when Moses called them (verse 31)?
What did Moses
do when all the Israelites came near him (verse
32)?
When did Moses
put a veil over his face (verse 33)?
In your
opinion, why did Moses take the veil off “whenever he entered the Lord’s
presence to speak with him” (verse 34)?
When would
Moses put the veil back over his face (verse 35)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
Mark 4:21-25 - New
International Version (NIV)
21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or
a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? 22 For
whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant
to be brought out into the open. 23 If anyone has ears
to hear, let them hear.”
24 “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the
measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. 25 Whoever
has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be
taken from them.”
Where is a
lamp put (verse 21)?
What is “meant
to be disclosed” (verse 22)?
Where is “whatever
is concealed” meant to be (verse 22)?
In your
opinion, why does Jesus say “if anyone has ears to hear, let them hear” (verse
23)?
How will what
we hear be measured (verse 24)?
What will
happen for “whoever has” (verse 25)?
What will be
taken away from “whoever does not have” (verse 25)?
In your
opinion, “has” or “does not have” what (verse 25)?
In your opinion, how does Moses’s face that he
received when he entered the Lord’s presence in Exodus 34:29-35 help us
understand what it means to be the lamp that Jesus refers to in Mark 4:21-25?
4 The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down
to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus. 5 When they
arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.
John was with them as their helper.
6 They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos.
There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus, 7 who
was an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an
intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word
of God. 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his
name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith. 9 Then
Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at
Elymas and said, 10 “You are a child of the devil and an
enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and
trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? 11 Now
the hand of the Lord is against you. You are going to be blind for a time, not
even able to see the light of the sun.”
Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and
he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand. 12 When
the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was amazed at the teaching
about the Lord.
How were Barnabas and
Saul “sent on their way” (verse 4)?
What did they proclaim
in Salamis in the Jewish synagogues (verse 5)?
Who is Bar-Jesus (verse 6)?
Why did the proconsul send for Barnabas and Saul (verse 7)?
Who opposed them (verse 8)?
What filled Paul (verse 9)?
How did Paul describe Elymas (verse 10)?
What was going to be the proof that the hand of the Lord was
against Elymas (verse 11)?
Why did Elymas grope about (verse 11)?
Why did the proconsul believe (verse 12)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what is the difference between Moses
speaking with the Lord and having a radiant face when he talked with the people
in Exodus 34:29-35 and Paul being filled with the Holy Spirt and amazing the proconsul
in Acts 13:4-12?
In your opinion, how is Elymas being made blind in Acts
13:4-12 an example of Jesus’s statement in Mark 4:21-25 that “whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken
from them”?
7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in
letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look
steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, 8 will
not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 9 If
the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is
the ministry that brings righteousness! 10 For what was
glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. 11 And
if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that
which lasts!
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 13 We
are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the
Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 14 But
their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old
covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken
away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil
covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to the
Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the
Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And
we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are
being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from
the Lord, who is the Spirit.
What was
transitory but still brought so much glory that the Israelites could not look
steadily at the face of Moses (verse 7)?
What will be
even more glorious (verse 8)?
In your
opinion, what is the ministry that brought condemnation (verse 9)?
In your
opinion, what is the ministry that brings righteousness (verse 9)?
Why can we be
very bold (verse 12)?
Who “put a
veil over his face to” (verse 13)?
What happened
to the minds of the Israelites because of the veil (verse 14)?
How is the
veil taken away (verse 14)?
What happens
when Moses is read (verse 15)?
When is the
veil taken away (verse 16)?
Where is there
freedom (verse 17)?
What is
happening to those who “with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory” (verse
18)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how does Jesus’s lesson in Mark 4:21-25 relate
to those who have turned to the Lord and are being transformed as described in
2 Corinthians 3:7-18?
In your
opinion, what should those who have turned to the Lord as described in 2 Corinthians
3:7-18 learn from the opposition of Elymas to Barnabas and Paul who were full
of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 13:4-12?
In your
opinion, what do these passages from Exodus, Mark, Acts and 2 Corinthians teach
us about what it means to be a radiant Christian?
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