Like a Child
Isaiah 28:7-16 - New International
Version (NIV)
7 And these also
stagger from wine
and reel from beer:
Priests and prophets stagger from beer
and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
they stagger when seeing visions,
they stumble when rendering decisions.
8 All the tables are covered with vomit
and there is not a spot without filth.
9 “Who is it he is trying
to teach?
To whom is he explaining his message?
To children weaned from their milk,
to those just taken from the breast?
10 For it is:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that;
a little here, a little there.”
11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
God will speak to this people,
12 to whom he said,
“This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;
and, “This is the place of repose”—
but they would not listen.
13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that;
a little here, a little there—
so that as they go they will fall backward;
they will be injured and snared and captured.
14 Therefore hear the word
of the Lord, you
scoffers
who rule this people in Jerusalem.
15 You boast, “We have entered into a covenant with death,
with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.
When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by,
it cannot touch us,
for we have made a lie our refuge
and falsehood our hiding place.”
16 So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;
the one who relies on it
will never be stricken with panic.
Who will “stumble when rendering decisions” (verse 7)?
What are the tables covered with (verse 8)?
In your opinion, what does it mean to, “Do
this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there”
(verse 10)?
How will God speak to this people (verse 11)?
How did “this people” respond when God
said “this is a place of repose” (verses 11 and 12)?
What will the word of the Lord become to them (verse
13)?
What will happen to the people (verse 13)?
Who is to “hear the word of the Lord” (verse
14)?
Why do the rulers of Jerusalem say “when an
overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us” (verse 15)?
Who “will never be stricken with panic” (verse
16)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
Luke 18:9-17 – New International Version (NIV)
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and
looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two
men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax
collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and
prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers,
adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I
fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look
up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a
sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home
justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and
those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
15 People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his
hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. 16 But
Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come
to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as
these. 17 Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive
the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
Who
did Jesus tell “this parable” to (verse 9)?
What
did the Pharisee and the tax collector do (verse 10)?
What
was the Pharisee thankful for (verse 11)?
When
did the Pharisee fast (verse 12)?
Where would the tax collector not look
(verse 13)?
What did the tax collector pray (verse
13)?
Who “went home justified before God”
(verse 14)?
Who will be humbled (verse
14)?
Who
will be exalted (verse 14)?
How
did the disciples react to the people “bringing babies to Jesus for him to
place his hands on them” (verse 15)?
What
did Jesus say when He “called the children to him” (verses 16 and 17)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In
your opinion, what does this passage reveal about the conflict between worldly
people and the Lord?
In
your opinion, who is Luke 18:9-17 is most like the “priests and prophets”
of Isaiah 28:7-16?
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Corinthians 14:20-26 - New International Version (NIV)
20 Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard
to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. 21 In
the Law it is written:
“With other tongues
and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people,
but even then they will
not listen to me,
says the Lord.”
22 Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers;
prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers. 23 So
if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and
inquirers or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your
mind? 24 But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in
while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under
judgment by all, 25 as the secrets of their hearts
are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, “God is
really among you!”
26 What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come
together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a
revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so
that the church may be built up.
What does Paul tell the “brothers and sisters” to
stop doing (verse 20)?
Where is it written, “With other tongues and
through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they
will not listen to me, says the Lord” (verse 21)?
Who are tongues a sign for (verse 22)?
Who is prophecy for (verse 22)?
What will “inquirers or unbelievers” say if
they come in and everyone is speaking in tongues (verse 23)?
How will “an unbeliever or an inquirer” be
affected if everyone is prophesying (verses 24 and 25)?
Why must “everything” be done (verse 26)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what does Isaiah 28:7-16
help us understand about Paul’s statement in 1 Corinthians 14:20-26 that “tongues,
then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers”?
In
your opinion, how is receiving “the kingdom of God like a little child”
which Jesus encourages in Luke 18:9-17 different from “thinking like little
children” which Paul instructs us to stop doing in 1 Corinthians 14:20-26?
Philippians
2:5-11 –
New International Version (NIV)
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as
Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very
nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be
used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted
him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Where are we to have “the same mindset and Christ
Jesus” (verse 5)?
What
did Jesus not consider as “something to be used to his own advantage” (verse
6)?
What
nature did Jesus take (verse 7)?
How
did Jesus “humble himself” (verse 8)?
Where
did God exalt Jesus to (verse 9)?
What
will “every knee” do (verse 10)?
What
will “every tongue acknowledge” (verse 11)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
reveal about the conflict between worldly people and the Lord?
In your opinion, how
is the mindset of the “priests and prophets” in Isaiah 28:7-16 different
from the mindset of Christ that Paul describes in Philippians 2:5-11?
In your opinion, what do both Luke
18:9-17 and Philippians 2:5-11 help us understand about who God exalts?
In your opinion, how does Philippians
2:5-11 help us understand what our tongues can do to fulfill the instruction of
1 Corinthians 14:20-26 that “Everything must be done so that the church may
be built up”?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Isaiah, Luke, 1 Corinthians, and Philippians
teach us about how we can “receive the kingdom of
God like a little child”?
In your
opinion, once we are in the kingdom, how do avoid the
pitfalls of the world so that we can bring “glory to God the Father”?
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