Accepting the Bread
Ezekiel 24:15-24 - New International
Version (NIV)
15 The word of the Lord came
to me: 16 “Son of man, with one blow I am about to
take away from you the delight of your eyes. Yet do not lament or weep or
shed any tears. 17 Groan quietly; do not mourn for
the dead. Keep your turban fastened and your sandals on your feet; do
not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners.”
18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my
wife died. The next morning I did as I had been commanded.
19 Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things
have to do with us? Why are you acting like this?”
20 So I said to them, “The word of the Lord came to me: 21 Say to the
people of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary—the
stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the
object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall
by the sword. 22 And you will do as I have done. You will
not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of
mourners. 23 You will keep your turbans on your heads
and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep but will
waste away because of your sins and groan among yourselves. 24 Ezekiel will
be a sign to you; you will do just as he has done. When this happens, you
will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.’
Whose word came to Ezekiel (verse 15)?
What will happen “with one blow” (verse 16)?
What was Ezekiel not to do (verse 16)?
How was Ezekiel commanded to act (verse 17)?
What did Ezekiel do on the morning after his
wife died (verse 18)?
Who ask Ezekiel “why are you acting like
this” (verse 19)?
What is the Sovereign Lord about to do to His
sanctuary (verse 21)?
How do the people view the sanctuary (verse 21)?
What will the people no do when their sons and
daughters “fall by the sword” (verses 21 and 22)?
Why will they “waste away” even though
they are not mourning or weeping (verse 23)?
What will the people know (verse 24)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how have people in this
passage strayed from God?
John
6:60-71 - New
International Version (NIV)
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard
teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to
them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then what if you see
the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63 The
Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken
to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. 64 Yet
there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from
the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 65 He
went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless
the Father has enabled them.”
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no
longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the
Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You
have the words of eternal life. 69 We have come to believe
and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve?
Yet one of you is a devil!” 71 (He meant Judas, the son of
Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
After hearing about eating the flesh and drinking the
blood of Jesus, who said “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” (verse 60)?
Who said “Does this offend you?” (verse 61)?
In your opinion, what difference would it make to see
“the Son of Man ascend to where he was before” (verse 62)?
What are the words that Jesus spoke to them full of (verse
63)?
What did Jesus know “from the beginning” (verse
64)?
Who can come to Jesus (verse 65)?
What did “many of his disciples” do (verse
66)?
Who did Jesus ask “you do not want to leave too,
do you” (verse 67)?
What words did Simon Peter say that Jesus had (verse 68)?
Who was the devil (verses 70 and 71)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, how have
people in this passage strayed from God?
In
your opinion, how are the people of Jerusalem that Ezekiel told “the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to desecrate
my sanctuary—the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your
eyes, the object of your affection” and the disciples who found Jesus’s
teaching hard and left Him in John 6:60-71 alike?
1 John 2:18-27 – New International Version (NIV)
18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard
that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have
come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They
went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had
belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that
none of them belonged to us.
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of
you know the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you
do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes
from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies
that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father
and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father;
whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the
beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and
in the Father. 25 And this is what he promised us—eternal
life.
26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to
lead you astray. 27 As for you, the anointing you
received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But
as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is
real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
What
have the “dear children” that John is writing to heard (verse 18)?
How
does John say that “we know it is the last hour” (verse 18)?
Where
did the antichrists go out from (verse 19)?
What
would they have done if “they had belonged to us” (verse 19)?
What
anointing do the “dear children” have (verse 20)?
Where
can “no lie” come from (verse 21)?
Who is the liar and the antichrist (verse 22)?
Who acknowledges the
Father (verse 23)?
What has Jesus promised
us (verse 23)?
How are believers
taught (verse 27)?
In your opinion, what
is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how have people in this
passage strayed from God?
In your opinion, how
are the people who took delight in the Lord’s sanctuary in Ezekiel 24:15-24
similar to those who go out from believers but then deny that Jesus is the
Christ in 1 John 2:18-27?
In
your opinion, what does 1 John 2:18-27 help us understand about how the Father “enabled”
disciples to come to Jesus in John 6:60-71, and also enables us today?
Revelation 9:1-12 – New International
Version (NIV)
1 The fifth
angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the
earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When
he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic
furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the
Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the
earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They
were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or
tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their
foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only
to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that
of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6 During
those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die,
but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their
heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human
faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth
were like lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like
breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of
many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had
tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to
torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over
them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and
in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
What was
the star given that fell from heaven when the fifth angel sounded his trumpet (verse
1)?
When
did smoke rise “like the smoke from a gigantic furnace” (verse 2)?
What
was darkened by the smoke (verse 2)?
What
power were the locusts that came out of the smoke given (verse 3)?
Who
were the locusts allowed to harm (verse 4)?
How
long could they torture them (verse 5)?
What
will people seek and not be able to find during that time (verse 6)?
In
your words, how would you describe the locusts (verses 7 through 10)?
Who
was the king over the locusts (verse 11)?
What
is yet to come (verse 12)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how have people in this
passage strayed from God?
In your opinion, how is wasting away of
the people of Jerusalem because of their sins in Ezekiel 24:15-24 like the
people of Revelation 9:1-12 who do not have “the seal of God on their
foreheads” and seek death but can’t find it?
In your opinion, how are the decisions
that people are making about God in Revelation 9:1-12 similar to the decisions
that Jesus’s disciples made in John 6:60-71?
In your opinion, how is the anointing
received by the believers in 1 John 2:18-27 similar to the “seal of God on
their foreheads” that protected some people during the first woe in
Revelation 9:1-12?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Ezekiel, John, 1 John and Revelation teach
us about how accepting the “hard teaching” that Jesus is the bread of
life for ourselves can change our understanding of what is happening in the
world around us?
In
your opinion, how can we acknowledge Jesus in our lives today?
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