Righteousness Apart from the Law
Jeremiah
31:31-34 - New International Version (NIV)
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.”
What new thing will the Lord make with the people of Israel and
Judah (verse 31)?
Who broke the old covenant (verse 32)?
Where will the Lord put the law (verse 33)?
What will the people be (verse 33)?
Why will they no longer “teach their
neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord’” (verse 34)?
What will the Lord “remember” no more (verse
34)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
Mark 14:12-21 - New
International Version (NIV)
12 On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was
customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him,
“Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”
13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the
city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say
to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room,
where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He
will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make
preparations for us there.”
16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as
Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
17 When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18 While
they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one
of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”
19 They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you
don’t mean me?”
20 “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips
bread into the bowl with me. 21 The Son of Man will
go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of
Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
When did the disciples ask Jesus “where
do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover” (verse
12)?
Who were the two disciples to follow (verse
13)?
What are they to ask the owner of the
house (verse 14)?
Where are the disciples to make
preparations (verse 15)?
What did the two disciples find (verse 16)?
When did Jesus arrive with the Twelve
(verse 17)?
Who did Jesus say would betray Him (verse
18)?
In your opinion, why were the disciples
saddened instead of angered (verse 19)?
Who did Jesus say would betray Him (verse
20)?
How will the “Son of Man” go
(verse 21)?
What will it be like for the one “who
betrays the Son of Man” (verse 21)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, how is the one who Jesus says will
betray Him in Mark 14:12-21 similar to the Israelites who were under the old
covenant that Jeremiah speaks of in Jeremiah 31:31-34? Were the ones who were not going to betray
Jesus also similar to the Israelites who were under the old covenant?
Acts
9:10-16 –
New International Version (NIV)
10 In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to
him in a vision, “Ananias!”
“Yes, Lord,” he answered.
11 The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight
Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. 12 In
a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him
to restore his sight.”
13 “Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard many reports about this
man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem. 14 And
he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who
call on your name.”
15 But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen
instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their
kings and to the people of Israel. 16 I will show him
how much he must suffer for my name.”
Where was the disciple “named Ananias” (verse 10)?
Who is Ananias to ask for in “the house of Judas
or Straight Street” (verse 11)?
What does the vision show will happen
when Ananias places “his hands on him” (verse 12)?
What
had Ananias heard (verses 13)?
Who
had the chief priests authorized the arrest of (verse 14)?
What
was the “chosen instrument” to do (verse 15)?
What
will the Lord “show him” (verse 16)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In
your opinion, how does the circumstances of Saul in Acts
9:10-16 demonstrate the truth of God’s statement about remembering sin in
Jeremiah 31:31-34?
In
your opinion, how are the two sides of our choice about Jesus shown by the
betrayal by the “one who dips bread into the bowl with me” in Mark
14:12-21 and Saul, who had authority to arrest Christians, praying in Acts
9:10-16 after his earlier meeting with Christ?
Romans
3:19-26 – New International Version (NIV)
19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it
says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be
silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20 Therefore
no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the
law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been
made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This
righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all
who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and
all are justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God
presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his
blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness,
because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he
did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just
and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Who does
the law speak to (verse 19)?
Who will be “held accountable to God” (verse 19)?
How many people will be declared righteous “by the
works of the law” (verse 20)?
How do we “become conscious of our sin” (verse
20)?
What has been made known “apart for the law” (verse
21)?
How is this righteousness given (verse 22)?
Who has sinned (verse 23)?
How are all “justified freely by his grace”
(verse 24)?
How did Jesus become “a sacrifice of atonement”
(verse 25)?
How is the “sacrifice of atonement” received (verse
25)?
What happens to those who “have faith in Jesus” (verse
26)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does Romans 3:19-26 show us that the covenant that Jeremiah 31:31-34 says the
people of Israel and Judah failed to keep is actually successful at
accomplishing?
In your opinion, how could the fact that “all
have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” according to Romans
3:19-26 help explain why all the disciples in Mark 14:12-21 “were saddened”?
In your opinion, how does
the salvation of Saul, who had done harm to Christians in Jerusalem in Acts
9:10-16 prove the statement that “all are justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” in Romans 3:19-26?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Jeremiah,
Mark, Acts and Romans teach us about how each of us has betrayed Jesus through
sin and about the promise that God has made to forgive sin?
In your opinion, how do we receive the promised forgiveness?
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