Responding to a Glorious God
Ezra
1:5-11 - New International Version (NIV)
5 Then the family heads of Judah and
Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared
to go up and build the house of the Lord in
Jerusalem. 6 All their neighbors assisted them with
articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuable
gifts, in addition to all the freewill offerings.
7 Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles belonging to the
temple of the Lord, which
Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of
his god. 8 Cyrus king of Persia had them brought by
Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince
of Judah.
9 This was the inventory:
|
gold dishes |
30 |
|
silver dishes |
1,000 |
|
silver pans |
29 |
|
10 gold bowls |
30 |
|
matching silver bowls |
410 |
|
other articles |
1,000 |
11 In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of silver.
Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came up from
Babylon to Jerusalem.
How
are the “family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites” described
(verse 5)?
What did they prepare to do (verse 5)?
Who assisted them (verse 6)?
How did they assist them (verse 6)?
What did King Cyrus bring out (verse 7)?
Who were the articles “counted” out to (verse
8)?
How many articles were there (verse 11)?
What happened to the articles (verse 11)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how does this passage show a
response to the glory of God?
John 1:14-18 - New
International Version (NIV)
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have
seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the
Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This
is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me
because he was before me.’”) 16 Out of his
fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already
given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace
and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever
seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in
closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
What
did “the Word” become (verse 14)?
Where did “the Word” make His
dwelling (verse 14)?
What have “we” seen (verse 14)?
Who testified “concerning him” (verse
15)?
Why did John say that “He who comes
after me has surpassed me” (verse 15)?
Where has the grace “we have all
received” come from (verse 16)?
What was given through Moses (verse 17)?
Where did “grace and truth” come
from (verse 17)?
Who has seen God (verse 18)?
What has the “one and only Son” made
known (verse 18)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, how
does this passage show a response to the glory of God?
1
John 1:5-10 –
New International Version (NIV)
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to
you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If
we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie
and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the
truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not
sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.
What is God (verse 5)?
How much darkness is in God (verse 5)?
When do we lie (verse 6)?
What do we have if we “walk in the light, as he is
in the light” (verse 7)?
In your opinion, why does the “blood of Jesus” purify
us from sin if we walk in the light (verse 7)?
When do we “deceive ourselves” (verse 8)?
What
happens if we “confess our sins” (verse 9)?
How
can we “make him out to be a liar” (verse 10)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how does this passage show a
response to the glory of God?
Revelation
1:9-20 – New International Version (NIV)
9 I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and
kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the
island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of
Jesus. 10 On the Lord’s Day I was in the
Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, 11 which
said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to
Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and
Laodicea.”
12 I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when
I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and among the
lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching
down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest. 14 The
hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like
blazing fire. 15 His feet were like bronze glowing in a
furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16 In
his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a
sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all
its brilliance.
17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he
placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am
the First and the Last. 18 I am the Living One; I was
dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys
of death and Hades.
19 “Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what
will take place later. 20 The mystery of the seven stars
that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is
this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the
seven lampstands are the seven churches.
How does John identify himself (verse 9)?
Why was John on the island of Patmos (verse 9)?
Where was John on the Lord’s Day (verse 10)?
What was John to write and send to the seven churches
(verse 11)?
Why did John turn around (verse 12)?
Where was the one “like a son of man” (verse
13)?
In your opinion, how does the description of the one “like
a son of man” make you feel (verses 13, 14 and 15)?
What did He hold (verse 16)?
When did the one “like a son of man” place His
right hand on John and say “do not be afraid” (verse 17)?
In your opinion, why does the on “like a son of
man” say “I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for
ever and ever!” {verse 18)?
What is John to write (verse 19)?
What are the seven stars and the seven lampstands
(verse 20)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, how does this passage
show a response to the glory of God?
In your opinion, what does the difference between the
“house of the Lord in Jerusalem” that the people in Ezra 1:5-11 were
going to build and the dwelling that John says “the Word” made among us
in John 1:14-18 teach us about where and how we can have a relationship with
God?
In your opinion, what
does the difference between a people gathering wealth to go to Jerusalem to
build a house for the Lord in Ezra 1:5-11 to an inspiring and transformed Jesus
standing in the midst of the churches with the angels in His hand in Revelation
1:9-20 help us understand about how to worship today?
In your opinion, how is
the grace that John says comes, along with truth, through Jesus Christ in John
1:14-18 connected to the confession, forgiveness and purification he talks
about in 1 John 1:5-10?
In your opinion, what
does Revelation 1:9-10 help us understand about the “glory of the one and
only Son” that John said he had seen in John 1:14-18?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Ezra,
John, 1 John and Revelation teach us about how we, who have sin in our lives
and who live in a world where there is suffering, should respond to the glory
of God today?
In your opinion, how is God moving in your heart
today?
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