I Am with You
Jeremiah 30:11-17 - New International
Version (NIV)
11 I am with you and will save
you,’
declares
the Lord.
‘Though I completely destroy all the nations
among
which I scatter you,
I
will not completely destroy you.
I will discipline you but only in due measure;
I
will not let you go entirely unpunished.’
12 “This is what the Lord says:
“‘Your wound is
incurable,
your
injury beyond healing.
13 There is no one to plead your cause,
no
remedy for your sore,
no
healing for you.
14 All your allies have forgotten you;
they
care nothing for you.
I have struck you as an enemy would
and
punished you as would the cruel,
because your guilt is so great
and
your sins so many.
15 Why do you cry out over your wound,
your
pain that has no cure?
Because of your great guilt and many sins
I
have done these things to you.
16 “‘But all who devour you will be devoured;
all
your enemies will go into exile.
Those who plunder you will be plundered;
all
who make spoil of you I will despoil.
17 But I will restore you to health
and
heal your wounds,’
declares the Lord,
‘because you are called an outcast,
Zion
for whom no one cares.’
Where does the Lord declare that He is (verse 11)?
How will the Lord discipline Israel and Judah (verse
11)?
In your opinion, why does the Lord say “Your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing” (verse
12)?
How many are there to plead for Israel and
Judah (verse 13)?
Why has the Lord struck and punished Israel and
Judah (verse 14)?
Why has the Lord done these things to Israel
and Judah (verse 15)?
Who will be devoured (verse 16)?
Who will restore Israel and Judah (verse 17)?
Why will the Lord heal the wounds of Israel and
Judah (verse 17)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
John
10:1-5 - New
International Version (NIV)
1 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter
the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a
robber. 2 The one
who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the
sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them
out. 4 When he has brought out all
his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know
his voice. 5 But they will never
follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not
recognize a stranger’s voice.”
Who is Jesus giving this message to (verse 1)?
What is “anyone who does not enter the sheep pen
by the gate, but climbs in by some other way” (verse 1)?
Who is the “shepherd of the sheep” (verse 2)?
What does the gatekeeper do for the “shepherd of
the sheep” (verse 3)?
What do the sheep do for the “shepherd of the
sheep” (verse 3)?
What does the “shepherd of the sheep” do (verse
3)?
Where does the “shepherd of the sheep go” (verse
4)?
Why do “his sheep” follow Him (verse 4)?
How will “his sheep” react to a stranger (verse
5)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about the compatibility of God’s people with the
world?
In
your opinion, how does Jeremiah 30:11-17 help us understand the sheep pen that
the shepherd in John 10:1-5 calls the sheep out of?
1 John 2:24-29 – New International Version (NIV)
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.
28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he
appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.
29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who
does what is right has been born of him.
What
are the “dear children” who John is writing to make sure remains in them
(verse 24)?
If
it remains in them, where will they remain (verse 24)?
What
has God “promised us” (verse 25)?
What
are people trying to do to the “dear children” (verse 26)?
Where
does “the anointing you received from him” remain (verse 27)?
What does “his anointing” teach (verse 27)?
Since the anointing is
real, where are the “dear children” to remain (verse 27)?
If we remain in Him
what will we be like when He appears (verse 28)?
Who does what is right
(verse 29)?
In your opinion, what
is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how is
God’s promise to the scattered remnant of Israel and Judah that “I am with you and will save you”
in Jeremiah 30:11-17 related to the instruction to believers in 1 John 2:24-29
to “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”?
In
your opinion, how are the sheep recognizing the Shepherd’s voice and following
Him in John 10:1-5 and the anointing believers have 1 John 2:24-29 similar?
Revelation 16:1-7 – New International
Version (NIV)
1 Then I
heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go,
pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.”
2 The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and
ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the
beast and worshiped its image.
3 The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned
into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.
4 The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of
water, and they became blood. 5 Then I heard the
angel in charge of the waters say:
“You are just in these judgments, O Holy One,
you who are and who were;
6 for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your
prophets,
and you have given them blood to drink as they
deserve.”
7 And I heard the altar respond:
“Yes, Lord God Almighty,
true and just are your judgments.”
What did “a
loud voice from the temple” say to the seven angels (verse 1)?
Who
did the “ugly, festering sores” break out on when the first angel poured
out his bowl (verse 2)?
What
died when the second angel poured out his bowl (verse 3)?
What
turned to blood when the third angel poured out his bowl (verse 4)?
Who
did the angel in charge of the waters say was “just in these judgments”
(verse 5)?
What
have the people being punished done to “your holy people and your prophets”
(verse 6)?
How
did the altar view God’s judgments (verse 7)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
teach us about the compatibility of God’s people with the world?
In your opinion, how is the promise to
the remnants of Israel and Judah that “all who devour you will be devoured” in
Jeremiah 30:11-17 related to the pouring out of the bowls of wrath on the earth
in Revelation 16:1-7?
In your opinion, what is the difference
between the people who hear the voice of the Shepherd and are led out of the
sheep pen in John 10:1-5 and the people who “ugly, festering sores broke out
on” in Revelation 16:1-7?
In your opinion, how do the passages of 1
John 2:24-29 and Revelation 16:1-7 demonstrate the drastic differences between
those holy people whose blood the world would shed and those of the world who
would shed the blood of holy people?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Jeremiah, John, 1 John and Revelation
help us understand about the dangers of the world for God’s people?
In
your opinion, how is God’s promise that “I am with
you and will save you” carried through each of
these very different passages?
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