Overcoming by Faith
Jeremiah 23:1-6 - New International
Version (NIV)
1 “Woe to the
shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my
pasture!” declares the Lord. 2 Therefore
this is what the Lord, the
God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Because you have
scattered my flock and driven them away and have not bestowed care on
them, I will bestow punishment on you for the evil you have done,”
declares the Lord. 3 “I
myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where
I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they
will be fruitful and increase in number. 4 I will place
shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be
afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.
5 “The days are coming,”
declares the Lord,
“when I will raise up for David a righteous
Branch,
a King who will reign wisely
and do what is just and right in the land.
6 In his days Judah will be saved
and Israel will live in safety.
This is the name by which he will be called:
The Lord Our Righteous Savior.
Who is the “woe” to (verse 1)?
What will the Lord bestow on the shepherds (verse
2)?
Where will the Lord gather “the remnant”
from (verse 3)?
What will the flock no longer be (verse 4)?
Who will the Lord “raise up” (verse 5)?
How will this King reign (verse 5)?
What will the name of this King be (verse 6)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about how God will gather His people?
John
6:35-44 - New
International Version (NIV)
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of
life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever
believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I
told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All
those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will
never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not
to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And
this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has
given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For
my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him
shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he
said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They
said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we
know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No
one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will
raise them up at the last day.
Who declared “I am the bread of life” (verse 35)?
Who will “never be thirsty” (verse 35)?
What do the listeners not do (verse 36)?
Who will never be driven away (verse 37)?
Whose will did Jesus come to do (verse 38)?
What will Jesus do on the last day (verse 39)?
Who has eternal life (verse 40)?
Why did the Jews who were there grumble about Jesus (verse
41)?
Who did they say Jesus was (verse 42)?
How did Jesus answer the Jews who were there (verse 43)?
Who will Jesus raise “up at the last day”
(verse 44)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about how God will gather His people?
In
your opinion, what title does Jeremiah 23:1-6 give to the One who calls Himself
the “bread of life” in John 6:35-44?
1 John 5:1-5 – New International Version (NIV)
1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is
born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is
how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and
carrying out his commands. 3 In
fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not
burdensome, 4 for everyone born of
God overcomes the world. This is the victory
that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who
is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son
of God.
Who
is “born of God” (verse 1)?
Who
“loves his child as well” (verse 1)?
How
do we “know that we love the children of God” (verse 2)?
What
is “love for God” (verse 3)?
In your opinion, why are God’s commands “not
burdensome” (verse 3)?
Who “overcomes the world” (verse 4)?
What is “the victory
that has overcome the world” (verse 4)?
“Who is it that overcomes
the world” (verse 5)?
In your opinion, what
is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about how God will gather His people?
In your opinion, what
does 1 John 5:1-5 teach us about how the one who Jeremiah 23:1-6 calls “the
Lord our Righteous Savior” will be able to gather the remnant from all the
countries where they have been scattered?
In
your opinion, what do the grumbling Jews in John 6:35-44 help us understand about
what it means to be those who are “born of God” and to overcome the
world as promised by 1 John 5:1-5?
Revelation 20:7-15 – New International
Version (NIV)
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from
his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the
nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them
for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They
marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s
people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and
devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived
them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the
beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented
day and night for ever and ever.
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it.
The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place
for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and
small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another
book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were
judged according to what they had done as recorded in the
books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and
death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person
was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then
death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of
fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not
found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Who
will be released when the thousand years are over (verse 7)?
What
will he gather the nations of the world for (verse 8)?
Who
will they surround (verse 9)?
How
are they devoured (verse 9)?
Where
is the devil thrown (verse 10)?
What
did John see (verse 11)?
Who
was standing “before the throne” (verse 12)?
What
was opened (verse 12)?
Who
were judged “according to what they had done as recorded in the books” (verse
12)?
How
was each person judged (verse 13)?
What
is the lake of fire (verse 14)?
Who
is thrown into the lake of fire (verse 15)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
teach us about how God will gather His people?
In your opinion, how does the opening of
the book of life in Revelation 20:7-15 a fulfillment of the promise made by
Jesus in John 6:35-40 that He “shall lose none of
all those he has given me”?
In your opinion, what does Revelation
20:7-15 help us understand about the statement in 1 John 5:1-5 that “this is the victory that has
overcome the world, even our faith”?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Jeremiah, John, 1 John and Revelation
teach us about the battle between Satan and “the Lord Our
Righteous Savior”?
In your
opinion, what is our part in that battle?
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