Rejoice and Be Glad
Isaiah 25:1-9 - New International
Version (NIV)
1 Lord, you are
my God;
I
will exalt you and praise your name,
for in perfect faithfulness
you
have done wonderful things,
things
planned long ago.
2 You have made the city a heap of rubble,
the
fortified town a ruin,
the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more;
it
will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you;
cities
of ruthless nations will revere you.
4 You have been a refuge for the poor,
a
refuge for the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the storm
and
a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless
is
like a storm driving against a wall
5 and like the heat of the desert.
You silence the uproar of foreigners;
as
heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
so
the song of the ruthless is stilled.
6 On this mountain the Lord Almighty
will prepare
a
feast of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
the
best of meats and the finest of wines.
7 On this mountain he will destroy
the
shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
8 he will swallow
up death forever.
The Sovereign Lord will
wipe away the tears
from
all faces;
he will remove his people’s disgrace
from
all the earth.
The Lord has spoken.
9 In that day they will say,
“Surely this is our God;
we
trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the Lord, we trusted
in him;
let
us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
When were the “wonderful things” the Lord has done planned (verse
1)?
What has the Lord made of the fortified town (verse
2)?
Who will revere the Lord (verse 3)?
What is the Lord to the “needy in their distress”
(verse 4)?
How is the “song of the ruthless” stilled
(verse 5)?
Who will the Lord prepare “a feast of rich
food” for (verse 6)?
Where will the Lord destroy “the shroud that
enfolds all peoples” (verse 7)?
What will the Lord do to death (verse 8)?
How should we respond to what “our God”
has done (verse 9)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage reveal to
us about the power the Lord has over death?
John 5:21-29 – New International Version (NIV)
21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them
life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give
it. 22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has
entrusted all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor
the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not
honor the Father, who sent him.
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.
What
does the Father give the dead (verse 21)?
Who
does the Son give life to (verse 21)?
Who
has the Father entrusted “all judgment” to (verse 22)?
Who
“does not honor the Father” (verse 23)?
What does the one who “hears my word
and believes him who sent me” have (verse 24)?
Who will not “be judged” (verse
24)?
What time “has now come” (verse
25)?
Who
has “granted the Son also to have life in himself” (verse 26)?
Why
has the Father “given him authority to judge” (verse 27)?
What
will “all who are in their graves” hear (verse 28)?
Who
will “rise to live” (verse 29)?
Who
will “rise to be condemned” (verse 29)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In
your opinion, what does this passage reveal to us about the power the Lord has
over death?
In
your opinion, how does John 5:21-29 help us understand the Lord Almighty’s
promise in Isaiah 25:1-9 to “swallow up death forever”?
1
Corinthians 15:50-57 - New International Version (NIV)
50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable
inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a
mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in
a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will
sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be
changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself
with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When
the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in
victory.”
55 “Where, O death, is your
victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the
law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
What cannot “inherit the kingdom of God” (verse
50)?
In your opinion, why is it impossible for the “perishable”
to inherit the “imperishable” (verse 50)?
What will happen to everyone (verse 51)?
When will the dead “be raised imperishable” (verse
52)?
In your opinion, will everyone, regardless of their
status with Jesus, “be raised imperishable” (verse 52)?
What must the mortal clothe itself with (verse 53)?
When will the saying “death has been swallowed up
in victory” come true (verse 54)?
In your opinion, where is death’s victory (verse 55)?
What is the “power of sin” (verse 56)?
Why should we thank God (verse 57)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage reveal to us about the power the Lord has over death?
In
your opinion, how does 1 Corinthians 15:50-57 help us understand the salvation
that is promised by the swallowing up of death in Isaiah 25:1-9?
Revelation
2:8-11 –
New International Version (NIV)
8 “To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and
the Last, who died and came to life again. 9 I know
your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the
slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of
Satan. 10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to
suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test
you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be
faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your
victor’s crown.
11 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the
churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second
death.
Who was the letter to (verse 8)?
How
is Jesus described (verse 8)?
Who
is rich (verse 9)?
Who
are “those who say they are Jews” (verse 9)?
What
are they not to “be afraid of” (verse 10)?
Who
will put some of them in prison (verse 10)?
In
your opinion, why is it significant that the persecution is limited to “ten
days” (verse 10)?
What
will those who are faithful, “even to the point of death” receive (verse
10)?
Who
will not “be hurt at all by the second death” (verse 11)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
reveal to us about the power the Lord has over death?
In your opinion, what does John 5:21-29
reveal to us about the people that Revelation 2:8-11 calls “victorious”?
In your opinion, how is the discussion
about the perishable and imperishable in 1 Corinthians 15:50-57 different from
the discussion of death and life in Revelation 2:8-11?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Isaiah, John, 1 Corinthians, and Revelation
teach us about how can we be both imperishable and victorious?
In your
opinion, how does God swallowing up death give us the
ability to “rejoice and be glad in his salvation”?
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