From Death to Life
Ezekiel 37:1-10 - New International
Version (NIV)
1 The hand of
the Lord was on
me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it
was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them,
and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very
dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry
bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This
is what the Sovereign Lord says
to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to
life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon
you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to
life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying,
there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to
bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them
and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of
man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and
breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I
prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life
and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
What was in the valley that the Spirit of
the Lord brought Ezekiel to (verse 1)?
In your opinion, what does it mean that they “were
very dry” (verse 2)?
How did Ezekiel respond to the Lord’s question “can
these bones live” (verse 3)?
Whose words were the bones to hear (verse 4)?
What will happen when the Lord makes breath
enter the bones (verse 5)?
What will the bones know (verse 6)?
What did Ezekiel hear as he prophesied (verse 7)?
What did the bones not have after the tendons
and flesh appeared and were covered with skin (verse 8)?
What was Ezekiel to prophesy to (verse 9)?
Why were the four winds to breathe into the
slain (verse 9)?
What happened when Ezekiel prophesied as
commanded (verse 10)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about God’s ability to give life?
John
5:24-30 - New
International Version (NIV)
24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who
sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed
over from death to life. 25 Very truly I tell you, a time
is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the
Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the
Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in
himself. 27 And he has given him authority to
judge because he is the Son of Man.
28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who
are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come
out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done
what is evil will rise to be condemned. 30 By myself I can
do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I
seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
Who has eternal life (verse 24)?
What has the one who has eternal life crossed over (verse
24)?
What time has now come (verse 25)?
In your opinion, who are the dead (verse 25)?
When do the dead live (verse 25)?
What has the Father granted the Son (verse 26)?
Who has authority to judge (verse 27)?
What time is coming (verse 28)?
In your opinion, what is the difference between the
dead (verse 25) and those in the graves (verse 28)?
What will those who rise from their graves rise to
(verse 29)?
Who does Jesus seek to please (verse 30)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about God’s ability to give life?
In
your opinion, are the dry bones that come to life in Ezekiel 37:1-10
representative of the ones that Jesus says in John 5:24-30 are dead, or the
ones that Jesus said are “in their graves”? Why?
1 John 2:24-3:3 – 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.
3 See what great love the Father has lavished on us,
that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The
reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear
friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet
been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like
him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have
this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
What
does John say that Christians are to see “remains in you” so that they “remain
in the Son and in the Father” (verse 24)?
What
did Jesus promise us (verse 25)?
Who
is John writing about (verse 26)?
What
remains in Christians (verse 27)?
What
teaches Christians “all things” (verse 27)?
Who will be “confident and unashamed before him as
his coming” (verse 28)?
How do we know that “everyone who does what is
right has been born of him” (verse
29)?
In your opinion, what
does it mean to you that the Father has lavished great love on you (verse
3:1)?
What has not been made
known (verse 2)?
When will we know
(verse 2)?
Who purifies themselves
(verse 3)?
In your opinion, what
is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about God’s ability to give life?
In your opinion, how are
the four winds breathing into the slain in Ezekiel 37:1-10 and the anointing in
1 John 2:24-3:3 similar?
In
your opinion, how does Jesus’s promise in John 5:24-30 that “whoever hears my word
and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but
has crossed over from death to life” help us understand how great the love is that God
lavished on the “children of God” in 1 John 2:24-3:3?
Revelation 20:1-6 – New International
Version (NIV)
1 And I saw
an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and
holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon,
that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a
thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and
locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore
until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a
short time.
4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given
authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been
beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the
word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and
had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to
life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 (The
rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.)
This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy
are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no
power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will
reign with him for a thousand years.
What
two things did the “angel coming down out of heaven” have (verse 1)?
How
long did the angel bind Satan (verse 2)?
Where
did he throw Satan (verse 3)?
What
was Satan unable to do (verse 3)?
Who
were seated on the thrones (verse 4)?
Who
“reigned with Christ a thousand years” (verse 4)?
Who
“did not come to life until the thousand years were ended” (verse 5)?
What
is the “first resurrection” (verses 4 and 5)?
Who
is “blessed and holy” (verse 6)?
What
has no power over the “blessed and holy” (verse 6)?
What
will the “blessed and holy” do (verse 6)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
teach us about God’s ability to give life?
In your opinion, where does the one who
Jesus says in John 5:24-30 “hears my word and
believes him who sent me” fit into the Revelation 20:1-6 discussion
of first resurrection and second death?
In your opinion, what does 1 John
2:24-3:3 help us understand about those who won’t be affected by the “second
death” that Revelation 20:1-6 talks about?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Ezekiel, John, 1 John and Revelation teach
about spiritual death and life?
In your
opinion, how enduring is the spiritual life that God gives?
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