The New Thing
Isaiah
43:18-19 - New International Version (NIV)
18 “Forget the
former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive
it?
I am making a way in the
wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
What is to be forgotten (verse 18)?
Where should the hearer not dwell (verse 18)?
What is God doing (verse 19)?
In your opinion, why wouldn’t the hearer
perceive what “springs up” (verse 19)?
What
is God making in the wilderness (verse 19)?
In
your opinion, how will the wasteland be changed by the streams God is making in
it (verse 19)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
Mark 8:31-9:1 - New
International Version (NIV)
31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer
many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the
teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three
days rise again. 32 He spoke plainly about this,
and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked
Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind
the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and
said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up
their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save
their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the
gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to
gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what
can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38 If anyone
is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son
of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s
glory with the holy angels.”
1 And he said to them, “Truly I tell you,
some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the
kingdom of God has come with power.”
Who did Jesus
teach them would reject the Son of Man (verse 31)?
What would
happen to the Son of Man three days after He was killed (verse 31)?
Who took Jesus
“aside and began to rebuke him” (verse 32)?
In your
opinion, why did Jesus tell Peter “you do not have in mind the concerns of
God, but merely human concerns” (verse 33)?
What does
Jesus tell the disciples that those who want to be His disciple need to do (verse
34)?
Who will lose
their life (verse 35)?
Who will save
their life (verse 35)?
In your
opinion, “what good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit
their soul?” (verse 36)?
Who will the
Son of Man be ashamed of (verse 38)?
Who will “see
that the kingdom of God has come with power” (verse 1)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how is Isaiah’s prophecy about
a “new thing” in Isaiah 43:18-19 reflected in what Jesus is talking
about in Mark 8:31-9:1?
Acts
5:17-20 –
New International Version (NIV)
17 Then the
high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the
Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. 18 They arrested the apostles and put them in the
public jail. 19 But during the
night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought
them out. 20 “Go, stand in the
temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”
Who was filled with jealousy (verse 17)?
What did they do to the
apostles (verse 18)?
When did the angel of the Lord open the doors and bring them
out (verse 19)?
Where were the disciples to go (verse 20)?
What new thing were the disciples to tell the people about
(verse 20)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, who in Acts 5:17-20 is not listening to the
command in Isaiah 43:18-19 to “forget the former things; do not dwell on the
past”? In your opinion, why would
they not want to forget the past?
In your opinion, how is Peter in Mark 8:31-9:1 like the high
priest and his associates in Acts 5:17-20?
What can we learn from the fact that Peter went from being rebuked in
Mark to being jailed for filling the high priest with jealousy in Acts?
2 Corinthians
5:16-21 –
New International Version (NIV)
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 will Paul now regard from a “worldly
point of view” (verse 16)?
How has the
way Paul regarded Christ changed (verse 16)?
What has come
for anyone who “is in Christ” (verse 17)?
What has gone
(verse 17)?
How did God
reconcile “us to himself” (verse 18)?
In your
opinion, what does “not counting people’s sins against them” have to do
with God “reconciling the world to himself” (verse 19)?
What has God
committed Paul to (verse 19)?
How does Paul
view himself (verse 20)?
What can we
become through the One who had no sin and was made to be sin (verse 21)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how are Jesus’s statements about who will
save their lives and who will lose their lives in Mark 8:31-9:1 affirmed by
Paul’s discussion of reconciliation and new creations in 2 Corinthians 5:16-21?
In your
opinion, who, in Acts 5:17-20, is regarding people from the “worldly point
of view” that Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 he “once regarded
Christ” with?
In your
opinion, how could we tell if we were regarding people and the world from the “worldly
point of view” today?
In your
opinion, what do these passages from Isaiah, Mark, Acts and 2 Corinthians
reveal to us about people are changed by the “new thing” that God is
doing?
In your
opinion, how do we become “new creations” in an old world today?
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