March 19, 2023 – John’s Writings – Seeing Salvation

Seeing Salvation

Exodus 14:26-15:3 - New International Version (NIV)

²⁶ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.” ²⁷ Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. ²⁸ The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

²⁹ But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. ³⁰ That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. ³¹ And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.

15 ¹Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord:

“I will sing to the Lord,
    for he is highly exalted.
Both horse and driver
    he has hurled into the sea.

² “The Lord is my strength and my defense;
    he has become my salvation.
He is my God, and I will praise him,
    my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
³ The Lord is a warrior;
    the Lord is his name.

What was Moses to do “so that the waters my flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen” (verse 26)?

Who swept the Egyptians “into the sea” (verse 27)?

How many Egyptians survived (verse 28)?

What was the sea like when the Israelites went through (verse 29)?

Who saved “Israel from the hands of the Egyptians” (verse 30)?

How did the Israelites respond to seeing “the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians” (verse 31)?

Who “sang this song to the Lord” (verse 1)?

What does the song say the Lord has become (verse 2)?

Why will they praise the Lord (verse 2)?

What is the Lord (verse 3)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about salvation?

John 9:35-41 - New International Version (NIV)

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

³⁶ “Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”

³⁷ Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”

³⁸ Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

³⁹ Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”

⁴⁰ Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”

⁴¹ Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.

What did Jesus hear (verse 35)?

Who did Jesus ask “do you believe in the Son of Man” (verse 35)?

What did the man want to know so that he could believe (verse 36)?

In your opinion, why is the statement “you have now seen him” a very powerful testimony to this man (verse 37)?

How did the man respond to Jesus (verse 38)?

Why did Jesus say He had “come into this world” (verse 39)?

In your opinion, what does Jesus mean by “so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind” (verse 39)?

What did the Pharisees who heard Jesus ask (verse 40)?

Why does the Pharisees’ guilt remain (verse 41)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about salvation?

In your opinion, how is the Israelites reaction to God in Exodus 14:26-15:3 different from the reaction of the man who had been given his sight to Jesus in John 9:35-41?

1 John 2:15-23 – New International Version (NIV)

¹⁵ Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. ¹⁶ For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. ¹⁷ The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

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.

What are we not to love (verse 15)?

Who does not have “love for the Father” (verse 15)?

What does not come from the Father (verse 16)?

Who will live forever (verse 17)?

What time is it (verse 18)?

Who has already come (verse 18)?

How did they know the antichrists did not belong (verse 19)?

What do Christians have (verse 20)?

What do Christians know (verse 20)?

Why did John write to Christians (verse 21)?

Who is the antichrist (verse 22)?

Who “has the Father also” (verse 23)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about salvation?

In your opinion, how are the miracle of the Lord becoming the “salvation” of Moses and the Israelites by taking them through the sea in Exodus 14:26-15:3 and the miracle of Jesus transforming people from loving the world to loving the Father in 1 John 2:15-23 similar?

In your opinion, what does 1 John 2:15-23 help us understand about the judgment that Jesus says in John 9:35-41 he came into the world for?

Revelation 15:1-8 – New International Version (NIV)

¹ I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. ² And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God ³ and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:

“Great and marvelous are your deeds,
    Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
    King of the nations.
⁴ Who will not fear you, Lord,
    and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
    and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

⁵ After this I looked, and I saw in heaven the temple—that is, the tabernacle of the covenant law—and it was opened. ⁶ Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. ⁷ Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. ⁸ And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Why are these the “seven last plagues” (verse 1)?

Who are those who are “standing beside the sea” (verse 2)?

Whose song did they sing (verse 3)?

Who is holy (verse 4)?

Why will all nations “come and worship before you” (verse 4)?

What is the other name given to the temple in heaven that was opened (verse 5)?

Who came out of the temple (verse 6)?

What was given to the angels (verse 7)?

Where could no one enter “until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed” (verse 8)?

In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about salvation?

In your opinion, how are the song of Moses and the Israelites who had been saved from the Egyptians in Exodus 14:26-15:3 and the song of “those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name” in Revelation 15:1-8 similar?

In your opinion, how are the man who saw Jesus and believed in John 9:35-41 and “those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name” in Revelation 15:1-8 similar?

In your opinion, what does 1 John 2:15-23 help us understand about “those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name” in Revelation 15:1-8? 

In your opinion, what do these passages from Exodus, John, 1 John and Revelation help us see about ourselves?

In your opinion, how can a lost, blind person who loves the world be transformed and become one of those who are “victorious of the beast and its image and over the number of its name”?

 

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