The Bride
Isaiah 54:11-55:1 - New International
Version (NIV)
11 “Afflicted city,
lashed by storms and not comforted,
I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,
your foundations with lapis lazuli.
12 I will make your battlements of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your children will be taught by the Lord,
and great will be their peace.
14 In righteousness you will be established:
Tyranny will be far from you;
you will have nothing to fear.
Terror will be far removed;
it will not come near you.
15 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;
whoever attacks you will surrender to you.
16 “See, it is I who
created the blacksmith
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its work.
And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;
17 no weapon forged against you will
prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the Lord.
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
What is “lashed by storms and not
comforted” (verse 11)?
How will it be rebuilt (verse 11)?
What will the walls be made of (verse 12)?
Who will teach “all your children” (verse
13)?
How will they “be established” (verse 14)?
What will people who attack do (verse 15)?
Who “created the destroyer to wreak havoc”
(verse 16)?
How will the people respond to “every tongue
that accuses” (verse 17)?
Who is to come (verse 1)?
How are they to “buy wine and milk”
(verse 1)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
John
17:20-26 - New
International Version (NIV)
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will
believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them
may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they
also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I
have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are
one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be
brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and
have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I
am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you
loved me before the creation of the world.
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know
you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made
you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that
the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
Who is Jesus praying for (verse 20)?
What does Jesus pray for (verse 21)?
How does Jesus describe His relationship with the
Father (verse 21)?
Why does Jesus want the people He is praying for to “also
be in us” (verse 21)?
What has Jesus given the ones He is praying for (verse
22)?
What will the world know when those Jesus is praying
for have Jesus in them the way that Jesus has the Father in Him (verse 23)?
Who does Jesus want “to be with me where I am”
(verse 24)?
When did the Father give Jesus glory (verse 24)?
What does the world know (verse 25)?
Why will Jesus continue to make the Righteous Father
known (verse 26)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about the church, “the bride, the wife of the
Lamb”?
In
your opinion, will the people who Jesus prayed that the world will know He sent
and loved according to John 17:20-26 have a heritage like the “afflicted city,
lashed by storms and not comforted” of Isaiah 54:11-55:1?
1 John 4:1-6 – New International Version (NIV)
1 Dear friends, do not believe every
spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because
many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This
is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but
every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the
spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is
already in the world.
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome
them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in
the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore
speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We
are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God
does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of
truth and the spirit of falsehood.
What
are John’s “dear friends” not to believe (verse 1)?
Who
has “gone out into the world” (verse 1)?
How
can the Spirit of God be recognized (verse 2)?
Who
is not from God (verse 3)?
Who is in the world (verse 3)?
How have the “dear children” overcome the
false prophets (verse 4)?
Who listens to the
false prophets (verse 5)?
Where is John from (verse
6)?
Who listens to John
(verse 6)?
Who does not listen to
John (verse 6)?
In your opinion, what
is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, how is
the “heritage of the servants of the Lord” that Isaiah proclaims to the “afflicted
city” of Isaiah 54:11-55:1 similar to the way the “dear children” of
1 John 4:1-6 have overcome the “spirit of the antichrist”?
In
your opinion, how does 1 John 4:1-6 show that Jesus’s prayer in John 17:20-26
was answered?
Revelation 21:9-21 – New International
Version (NIV)
9 One of the seven angels
who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to
me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And
he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and
showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It
shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very
precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It
had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the
gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of
Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on
the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14 The
wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the
twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 The angel who talked
with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its
gates and its walls. 16 The city was laid out like a
square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it
to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17 The
angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144
cubits thick. 18 The wall was made of
jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The
foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious
stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the
third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the
sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the
tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The
twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl.
The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
In your opinion, what, or who, is “the bride, the
wife of the Lamb” (verse 9)?
Where
was John carried to (verse 10)?
Where
was “the Holy City, Jerusalem” coming down from (verse 10)?
How
did the “the Holy City” shine (verse 11)?
What
was written on the twelve gates (verse 12)?
Where
were the gates (verse 13)?
What
was written on the twelve foundations (verse 14)?
What
was John to do with the “measuring rod of gold” (verse 15)?
How
big was the city (verse 16)?
How
wide was the wall (verse 17)?
What
was the city made of (verse 18)?
How
were the foundations of the wall decorated (verse 19)?
What
were the gates of the city made of (verse 21)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
teach us about the church, “the bride, the wife of the Lamb”?
In your opinion, how are the prayers of
Jesus in John 17:20-26 answered by the events of Revelation 21:9-21?
In your opinion, what does Revelation
21:9-21 reveal about the discussion in 1 John 4:1-6 about “overcoming them”?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Isaiah, John, 1 John and Revelation help
us understand about how those who come to God because they are thirsty are
transformed into the beautiful bride?
In your
opinion, why is the church described as the bride?
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