The Loving Lamb
Ezekiel
21:1-7 - New International Version (NIV)
1 The word of
the Lord came to
me: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem
and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of
Israel 3 and say to her: ‘This is what the Lord says: I am against you. I
will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous
and the wicked. 4 Because I am going to cut off the
righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone
from south to north. 5 Then all people will know that I
the Lord have drawn my
sword from its sheath; it will not return again.’
6 “Therefore groan, son of man! Groan before them with broken heart
and bitter grief. 7 And when they ask you, ‘Why are you
groaning?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will
melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become
faint and every leg will be wet with urine.’ It is coming! It will
surely take place, declares the Sovereign Lord.”
Whose
word came to Ezekiel (verse 1)?
What was Ezekiel to “preach against” (verse
2)?
Who was Ezekiel to “prophesy against” (verse
2)?
What is the Lord going to cut off from Israel (verse
3)?
Who will the Lord’s sword be unsheathed against
(verse 4)?
Who will know that the Lord has drawn His sword
from its sheath (verse 5)?
How was Ezekiel supposed to “groan before
them” (verse 6)?
Why was Ezekiel groaning (verse 7)?
Who declares “it will surely take place” (verse
7)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what can we learn about the
love of the Lamb of God from this passage?
John 6:1-15 - New
International Version (NIV)
1 Some time
after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the
Sea of Tiberias), 2 and a great crowd of people followed
him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. 3 Then
Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. 4 The
Jewish Passover Festival was near.
5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he
said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He
asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to
do.
7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s
wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”
8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s
brother, spoke up, 9 “Here is a boy with five small
barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty
of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were
there). 11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave
thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted.
He did the same with the fish.
12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his
disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.” 13 So
they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley
loaves left over by those who had eaten.
14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to
say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” 15 Jesus,
knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew
again to a mountain by himself.
Where did Jesus cross to (verse 1)?
Why did “a great crowd of people”
follow him (verse 2)?
Who did Jesus sit down with (verse 3)?
In your opinion, why do you think that
John mentions that the Jewish Passover Festival was near (verse 4)?
How did Jesus test Philip (verses 5 and 6)?
In your opinion, how would you compare
the answers of Philip and Andrew (verses 7 through 9)?
How many men sat down (verse 10)?
What did Jesus do after he “took the
loaves, gave thanks” (verse 11)?
Why did Jesus want the left over pieces
gathered up (verse 12)?
How much was left over (verse 13)?
In your opinion, were the people right
when they began to say “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the
world” (verse 14)? In your opinion,
could they be right in what they said and wrong in what they believed and
wanted? How?
Why did Jesus withdraw “to a mountain
by himself” (verse 15)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, what
can we learn about the love of the Lamb of God from this passage?
In your opinion, how can the Lord who was going to “cut
off the righteous and the wicked” in Ezekiel 21:1-7 be the same person who
fed five thousand in John 6:1-15?
2
John 4-10 –
New International Version (NIV)
4 It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in
the truth, just as the Father commanded us. 5 And
now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the
beginning. I ask that we love one another. 6 And this
is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard
from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus
Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any
such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch
out that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be
rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not
continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in
the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone
comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house
or welcome them.
What has given John “great joy” (verse 4)?
What is John “not writing” to the dear Lady (verse
5)?
What does John ask (verse 5)?
How does John define love (verse 6)?
How does John define deceivers (verse 7)?
Where have the “many deceivers” gone
(verse
7)?
What
additional title does John give deceivers (verse 7)?
What
does John want the readers to “not lose” (verse 8)?
Who
“does not have God” (verse 9)?
Who
“has both the Father and the Son” (verse 9)?
How
are Christians supposed to respond to those who “do not acknowledge Jesus
Christ as coming in the flesh” (verse 10)?
In
your opinion, is there conflict between the instruction to “love one
another” in verse 5 and the instruction to not take the one who does not “continue
in the teaching of Christ” “into your house or welcome them” in
verse 10?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what can we learn about the
love of the Lamb of God from this passage?
In your opinion, how could the righteous who were going to be cut off in
Ezekiel 21:1-7 be obedient to obey God’s command in 2 John 4-10 to “walk in
love”?
In your opinion, how
does the right statement about Jesus voiced by people with wrong motives that led
Jesus to withdraw to the mountain in John 6:1-15 help us begin to understand
how deceivers and antichrists can run ahead and “not continue in the
teaching of Christ” in 2 John 4-10?
Revelation
6:1-8 – New International Version (NIV)
1 I watched
as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of
the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2 I
looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and
he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living
creature say, “Come!” 4 Then another horse came out,
a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the
earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.
5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living
creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black
horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6 Then
I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying,
“Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and
six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the
oil and the wine!”
7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the
fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 I looked, and
there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and
Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth
of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the
earth.
What did the Lamb open (verse 1)?
Who said “in a voice like thunder, “Come”!” (verse
1)?
How did the rider of the white horse, who held a bow
and was given a crown, ride out (verse 2)?
Who said “Come!” when the Lamb opened the
second seal (verse 3)?
What was the second rider given (verse 4)?
Who said “Come!” when the Lamb opened the
third seal (verse 5)?
What was the rider of the black horse holding (verse 5)?
In your opinion, what does “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s
wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not
damage the oil and the wine” mean (verse 6)?
Who said “Come!” when the Lamb opened the
fourth seal (verse 7)?
What was the rider of the pale horse named (verse 8)?
Who followed the pale horse and its rider (verse 8)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what can we learn about
the love of the Lamb of God from this passage?
In your opinion, what
does the prophesy against all Israel in Ezekiel 21:1-7 help us understand about
the prophesies against the whole world in Revelation 6:1-8?
In your opinion, what can
we learn from the fact that the Lamb (who had been slain) who is opening the
seals in Revelation 6:1-8 is the same person as the One who fed the five
thousand just before the Jewish Passover Festival?
In your opinion, how do these passages from Ezekiel,
John, 2 John and Revelation show us that the Lamb of God is different from the
world?
In your opinion, how does understanding that
difference help us to understand how we, as Christians, are to react to
God? How does understanding the
difference between the Lamb of God and the world help us understand how we, as
Christians, are to react to the world?
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