July 23, 2023 – John’s Writings – Loved into Glory

Loved into Glory

Exodus 40:21-35 - New International Version (NIV)

²¹ Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle and hung the shielding curtain and shielded the ark of the covenant law, as the Lord commanded him.

²² Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain ²³ and set out the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.

²⁴ He placed the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle ²⁵ and set up the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord commanded him.

²⁶ Moses placed the gold altar in the tent of meeting in front of the curtain ²⁷ and burned fragrant incense on it, as the Lord commanded him.

²⁸ Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle. ²⁹ He set the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it burnt offerings and grain offerings, as the Lord commanded him.

³⁰ He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing, ³¹ and Moses and Aaron and his sons used it to wash their hands and feet. ³² They washed whenever they entered the tent of meeting or approached the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses.

³³ Then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the curtain at the entrance to the courtyard. And so Moses finished the work.

³⁴ Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. ³⁵ Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

What did Moses do after he “brought the ark into the tabernacle” (verse 21)?

Where was the table placed in relation to the curtain (verse 22)?

What did Moses set out on the table (verse 23)?

Where did Moses place the lampstand (verse 24)?

Where did Moses place the “gold alter” (verse 26)?

What did Moses burn on the alter (verse 27)?

Where did Moses place the next curtain (verse 28)?

What did Moses set up “near the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting” (verse 29)?

Why did Moses do these things (verses 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29)?

When did Moses and Aaron and Aaron’s sons wash their hands and feet (verses 30 through 32)?

What did Moses finish (verse 33)?

What filled the tabernacle (verse 34)?

Why could Moses not enter the tent of meeting (verse 35)?

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

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about entering God’s glory?

John 12:20-28 - New International Version (NIV)

²⁰ Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. ²¹ They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” ²² Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.

²³ Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴ Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. ²⁵ Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. ²⁶ Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.

²⁷ “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 

Who was “among those who went up to worship at the festival” (verse 20)?

What did they request of Philip (verse 21)?

What hour did Jesus say has come (verse 23)?

How can a kernel of wheat produce many seeds (verse 24)?

Who will lose their life (verse 25)?

Who will keep their life for eternal life (verse 26)?

How was Jesus’s soul (verse 27)?

In your opinion, what was the reason that Jesus “came to this hour” (verse 27)?

How did the voice from heaven respond to Jesus saying “Father, glorify your name” (verse 28)?

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

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about entering God’s glory?

In your opinion, what is the connection between the reason that Jesus came to this hour in John 12:20-28 and the fact that the glory of God kept everyone, including Moses, from entering the tabernacle in Exodus 40:21-35?

1 John 4:7-15 – New International Version (NIV)

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

¹³ This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 

Who is John writing to (verse 7)?

What does John instruct (verse 7)?

Where does love come from (verse 7)?

Who does not know God (verse 8)?

How did God show “his love among us” (verse 9)?

What is love (verse 10)?

Why should we “love one another” (verse 11)?

When does God live in us (verse 12)?

How do “we know that we live in him and he in us” (verse 13)?

What has John seen and testifies to (verse 14)?

When does God live in people (verse 15)?

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

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about entering God’s glory?

In your opinion, what is shown by the fact that in Exodus 40:21-35 no one could enter the tabernacle when “the glory of God filled” it but 1 John 4:7-15 says ” If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God”?

In your opinion, what does 1 John 4:7-15 help us understand about what Jesus meant in John 12:20-28 when He said “, it was for this very reason I came to this hour”?

Revelation 21:22-27 – New International Version (NIV)

²² I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. ²⁵ On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. ²⁶ The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. ²⁷ Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

What didn’t John see in the city (verse 22)?

Who is the temple (verse 22)?

Why does the city “not need the sun or the moon to shine on it” (verse 23)?

What will walk by the light of the city (verse 24)?

Why will the gates never be shut (verse 25)?

What will be brought into the city (verse 26)?

What will never enter the city (verse 27)?

Who will never enter the city (verse 27)?

Who will enter the city (verse 27)?

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

In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about entering God’s glory?

In your opinion, how do the differences between the tabernacle in Exodus 40:21-35 and the city of God in Revelation 21:22-27 illustrate what Jesus has done?

In your opinion, what does Jesus’s statement in John 12:20-28 that “anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life” help us understand about “those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life”?

In your opinion, how is God’s love for us revealed in 1 John 4:7-15 related to the names that are written in the Lamb’s book of life, the list of people that can enter into the New Jerusalem of Revelation 21:22-27? 

In your opinion, what do these passages from Exodus, John, 1 John and Revelation teach us about how we can be transformed from people excluded from God’s glory to people whose lives are lit up by God’s glory?

In your opinion, how can we glorify God’s name?

 

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