Words and Wondering
Isaiah 55:1-11 - New International
Version (NIV)
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,
come
to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come,
buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without
money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and
your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and
you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
listen, that
you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised
to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the
peoples,
a
ruler and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know
not,
and
nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your
God,
the
Holy One of Israel,
for
he has endowed you with splendor.”
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on
him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and
the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he
will have mercy on them,
and
to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither
are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so
are my ways higher than your ways
and
my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come
down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without
watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so
that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my
mouth:
It
will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and
achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Who are to “come to the waters” (verse 1)?
What was “promised to David” (verse 3)?
Who is He made “a witness to” (verse 4)?
Who will “come running to you” (verse 5)?
When should we “seek the Lord” (verse 6)?
What will happen to the wicked and the
unrighteous if they “turn to the Lord” (verse 7)?
What are not our thoughts or our ways (verse 8)?
How different are the Lord’s ways than our ways
(verse 9)?
What do the rain and snow do before returning
to heaven (verse 10)?
What will the “word that goes out” from
God’s mouth accomplish (verse 11)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, which words of this passage are important
to remember in the times we wonder what is happening?
Luke 24:1-12 – New International Version (NIV)
1 On the first day of the week, very early in the
morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the
tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the
tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body
of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this,
suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside
them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their
faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living
among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember
how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The
Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified
and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8 Then they
remembered his words.
9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to
the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary
Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who
told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not
believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. 12 Peter,
however, got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the strips of linen
lying by themselves, and he went away, wondering to himself what had
happened.
When
did the women take “the spices they had prepared” to the tomb (verse 1)?
What
did they find (verse 2)?
What
did they not find (verse 3)?
Who
appeared “while they were wondering about this” (verse 4)?
How did the women react (verse 5)?
Why was Jesus not in the tomb (verse 6)?
What
had Jesus told them while they were in Galilee (verse 7)?
Who
did they tell “all these things” to (verse 9)?
Who
were the women (verse 10)?
Why
did the Eleven not believe the women (verse 11)?
What
was Peter doing when he left the tomb, after seeing “the strips of linen
lying by themselves” (verse 12)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In
your opinion, which words of this passage are important to remember in the
times we wonder what is happening?
In
your opinion, how is the truth that the women told on Easter morning that
seemed to the Eleven to be nonsense in Luke 24:1-12 the fulfillment of the “faithful
love promised to David” in Isaiah 55:1-11?
Acts
13:32-41 –
New International Version (NIV)
32 “We tell you the good news: What God promised our
ancestors 33 he has fulfilled for us, their children, by
raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm:
“‘You are my son;
today I have become your father.’
34 God raised him from the dead so that he will never be subject to
decay. As God has said,
“‘I will give you the holy
and sure blessings promised to David.’
35 So it is also stated elsewhere:
“‘You will not let your holy one see decay.’
36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he
fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body
decayed. 37 But the one whom God raised from the
dead did not see decay.
38 “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the
forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him
everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were
not able to obtain under the law of Moses. 40 Take care
that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:
41 “‘Look, you scoffers,
wonder and perish,
for I am going to do something in your days
that you would never believe,
even if someone told you.’”
What is Paul telling (verse 32)?
How has God fulfilled what was “promised to our
ancestors” (verses 32 and 33)?
Why will He “never be subject to decay” (verse
34)?
Who did God promise the “holy and sure blessings” to
(verse 34)?
What will the “holy one” not see (verse 35)?
What happened “when David had served God’s purpose
in his own generation” (verse 36)?
Who “did not see decay” (verse 37)?
What is proclaimed “through Jesus” (verse 38)?
Who “is set free from every sin” (verse 39)?
Who will “wonder and perish” because they will
never believe (verse 41)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In
your opinion, how does Acts 13:32-41 prove the truth of Isaiah 55:1-11 that God’s
word does “accomplish what” He
desires, achieves “the purpose for which” He sent it, and fulfills
the “faithful love promised to David”?
In
your opinion, how does Paul in Acts 13:32-41 help us in our wondering as Peter
did in Luke 24:1-12 about “what had happened” that the strips of linen
were lying by themselves in an empty tomb?
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.
Who
does Paul serve (verse 1)?
What
is Paul “set apart for” (verse 1)?
How
was the gospel “promised beforehand” (verse 2)?
Who
is God’s Son “as to his earthly life” (verse 3)?
Who was Jesus appointed as “in power
by his resurrection from the dead” (verse 4)?
Why did Paul receive “grace and apostleship”
(verse 5)?
Who are the people Paul is writing to (verse
6)?
What blessing does Paul give to those he
is writing to who have been “called to be his holy people” (verse 7)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, which words of this passage
are important to remember in the times we wonder what is happening?
In your opinion, how does Paul in Romans
1:1-7 use the empty tomb of Luke 24:1-12 to define who Jesus is appointed to be?
In your opinion, how is the resurrection at
the heart of the good news of Acts 13:32-41 and the gospel of Romans 1:1-7?
In
your opinion, what do these passages from Isaiah, Luke, Acts and Romans teach
us about the high thoughts and transforming love of God as displayed by the
empty tomb?
In your opinion, how does remembering God’s words,
like the women at the tomb help us when we wonder about things today?
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