A Son is Given
Isaiah 9:2-7 - New International
Version (NIV)
2 The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of
deep darkness
a light has dawned.
3 You have enlarged the nation
and increased their joy;
they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the harvest,
as warriors rejoice
when dividing the plunder.
4 For as in the day of Midian’s defeat,
you have shattered
the yoke that burdens
them,
the bar across their shoulders,
the rod of their oppressor.
5 Every warrior’s boot used in battle
and every garment rolled in blood
will be destined for burning,
will be fuel for the fire.
6 For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on
his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince
of Peace.
7 Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s
throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
Who has “seen a great light” (verse 2)?
What has God increased (verse 3)?
What has God shattered (verse 4)?
What is the destiny of “every warrior’s boot
used in battle and every garment rolled in blood”
(verse 5)?
Who is a child born for (verse 6)?
What will be on the Son’s shoulders (verse 6)?
What will the Son be called (verse 6)?
When will “the greatness of his government
and peace” end (verse 7)?
What will accomplish this (verse 7)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
Matthew 1:18-23 – New International Version (NIV)
18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother
Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she
was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because
Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose
her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be
afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from
the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you
are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their
sins.”
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through
the prophet: 23 “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son,
and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”).
Whose birth are we reading about (verse 18)?
When
was Mary “found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit” (verse 18)?
What
kind of man was Joseph (verse 19)?
How
did Joseph respond to Mary’s pregnancy (verse 19)?
How did the angel identify Joseph (verse
20)?
What was Joseph not to be afraid to do
(verse 20)?
Who will Mary’s son save “from their sins”
(verse 21)?
Who
would “give birth to a son” (verse 23)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In
your opinion, what does this passage teach us about the transformation caused
by the birth of the Son?
In
your opinion, how does the prophecy from Isaiah 9:2-7 add context to the birth
that is recorded in Matthew 1:18-23?
Romans
1:1-7 - New
International Version (NIV)
1 Paul, a
servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for
the gospel of God— 2 the gospel he promised
beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding
his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4 and
who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in
power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 Through
him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the
obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake. 6 And
you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy
people:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and
from the Lord Jesus Christ.
How does Paul describe himself (verse 1)?
How was the gospel promised (verse 2)?
Who was “his Son” in His earthly life (verse 3)?
How was He appointed “Jesus Christ our Lord” (verse
4)?
What did Paul receive that enabled him to “call
all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake”
(verse 5)?
Who are the Gentiles Paul is writing to called to
belong to (verse 6)?
Where does Paul pray for the blessings of grace and
peace to come from (verse 7)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, how are the titles given
to the “Son” in Isaiah 9:2-7 affirmed by the accomplishment that Paul
claims for Him in Romans 1:1-7?
In
your opinion, how do Matthew 1:18-23 and Romans 1:1-7 reveal Jesus as “God
with us”?
Revelation 12:1-11 – New International Version (NIV)
1 A great sign appeared in heaven: a
woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve
stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out
in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then
another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven
heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its
tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the
earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth,
so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She
gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron
scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his
throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness to a place
prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But
he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The
great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the
devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled
to the earth, and his angels with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the
salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
11 They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death.
What
was the great sign that “appeared in heaven” (verse 1)?
Why did the woman cry “out in pain”
(verse 2)?
What other sign “appeared in heaven”
(verse 3)?
Why did the dragon stand in front of the
woman (verse 4)?
Who did the woman give birth to (verse
5)?
What happened in heaven (verse 7)?
Who was “hurled to the earth”
(verse 9)?
What does the “loud voice in heaven”
say has come (verse 10)?
Who does “the loud voice in heaven”
say has been hurled down (verse 10)?
How did “our brothers and sisters”
triumph (verse 11)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach
us about the transformation caused by the birth of the Son?
In your opinion, what
does Revelation 12:1-11 reveal about the “great light” that people
walking in darkness were promised in Isaiah 9:2-7?
In your opinion, how does the miraculous
birth recorded in Matthew 1:18-23 take on timeless importance when you consider
what is revealed by Revelation 12:1-11?
In your opinion, how does Revelation
12:1-11 help us understand why Paul can say “Grace and peace to you from God
our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ” in Romans 1:1-7?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Isaiah, Matthew, Romans, and Revelation
reveal about the Son of David who is also the Son of God?
In your
opinion, how do we live triumphantly in the Son
today?
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