A People of New Hearts
Ezekiel 36:24-32 - New International Version (NIV)
24 “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you
from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from
all your idols. 26 I will give you
a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart
of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And
I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be
careful to keep my laws. 28 Then
you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my
people, and I will be your God. 29 I
will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and make it
plentiful and will not bring famine upon you. 30 I will increase the fruit of the trees and the
crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the
nations because of famine. 31 Then
you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe
yourselves for your sins and detestable practices. 32 I want you to know that I am not doing this for
your sake, declares the Sovereign Lord. Be
ashamed and disgraced for your conduct, people of Israel!
Where will the Lord gather his people
from (verse 24)?
Where will He bring them back to (verse 24)?
When will the people be clean (verse 25)?
What will they be cleansed from (verse 25)?
What kind of heart will the people be given (verse
26)?
How is their current heart described (verse 26)?
Whose Spirit will be put into the people (verse
27)?
What will the relationship between the people and
God be (verse 28)?
What will God save the people from (verse 29)?
Why will the people no longer suffer disgrace
because of famine (verse 30)?
Why will the people loathe themselves (verse
31)?
Who will these things not be done for (verse
32)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about God’s kingdom?
John
18:33-38 - New
International Version (NIV)
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and
asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others
talk to you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests
handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”
36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it
were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish
leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus
answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and
came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of
truth listens to me.”
38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to
the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
Where did Pilate go (verse 33)?
What did Pilate ask Jesus (verse 33)?
In your opinion, why did Jesus ask “is that your
own idea” (verse 34)?
How did Pilate respond to the question (verse 35)?
What did Jesus say about His kingdom (verse 36)?
What did Pilate conclude about Jesus (verse 37)?
Why did Jesus say that He “was born and came into
the world” (verse 37)?
Who listens to Jesus (verse 37)?
In your opinion, why did Pilate say “what is
truth” (verse 38)?
Who did Pilate tell “I find no basis for a charge
against him” (verse 38)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about God’s kingdom?
In
your opinion, does Jesus’s statement in John 18:33-38 that “my kingdom is
not of this world” your understanding of the prophesy “I will gather you
from all the countries” in Ezekiel 36:24-32?
1 John 3:11-18 – New International Version (NIV)
11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We
should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who
belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he
murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were
righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, my brothers and
sisters, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we
have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who
does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates a
brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has
eternal life residing in him.
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life
for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and
sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a
brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God
be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love
with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
What
is the message “you heard from the beginning” (verse 11)?
Who
“belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother” (verse 12)?
Why
did he murder his brother (verse 12)?
What
should Christians not be surprised by (verse 13)?
What do Christians know “because we love each
other” (verse 14)?
Who is a murderer (verse 15)?
What does no murderer
have residing in themselves (verse 15)?
How do we “know what
love is” (verse 16)?
Who can love not be in
(verse 17)?
How are we commanded to
love (verse 18)?
In your opinion, what
is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about God’s kingdom?
In your opinion, how
does 1 John 3:11-18 help us understand the new heart and new spirit that
Ezekiel 36:24-32 says will be given those who are cleansed?
In
your opinion, how is the truth that Jesus says that He came to testify to in
John 18:33-38 represented in 1 John 3:11-18?
Revelation 21:1-8 – New International
Version (NIV)
1 Then I saw
“a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth
had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I
saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And
I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now
among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people,
and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He
will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or
mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything
new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and
true.”
6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without
cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those
who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they
will be my children. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving,
the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts,
the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning
sulfur. This is the second death.”
What did John see (verse 1)?
What
had happened to “the first heaven and the first earth” (verse 1)?
Where
was the Holy City coming from (verse 2)?
How
was the Holy City prepared (verse 2)?
Where
is God’s dwelling place (verse 3)?
Why
is there “no more death or mourning or crying or pain” (verse 4)?
Who
says “I am making everything new” (verse 5)?
What
will “the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End” give without
cost (verse 6)?
Who
will “inherit all this” (verse 7)?
What
are “the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually
immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars” consigned
to and what is it (verse 8)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
teach us about God’s kingdom?
In your opinion, how is the kingdom
Jesus spoke of in John 18:33-38 revealed in Revelation 21:1-8?
In your opinion, for those who 1 John
3:11-18 says are hated by the world, how is everything transformed by the
promises of Revelation 21:1-8?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Ezekiel, John, 1 John and Revelation help
us understand about the hearts of the people of the kingdom of God and of the
people who hate them?
In your
opinion, how do people move from hate to love?
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