Teaching the Truth
Isaiah 54:11-17 - New International
Version (NIV)
11 “Afflicted city,
lashed by storms and not comforted,
I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,
your foundations with lapis lazuli.
12 I will make your battlements of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your children will be taught
by the Lord,
and great will be their peace.
14 In righteousness you will be established:
Tyranny will be far from you;
you will have nothing to fear.
Terror will be far removed;
it will not come near you.
15 If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;
whoever attacks you will surrender to you.
16 “See, it is I who
created the blacksmith
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its work.
And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;
17 no weapon forged against you will
prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the Lord.
What will the Lord do for the “afflicted city, lashed by storms
and not comforted” (verse 11)?
What will the gates be made of (verse 12)?
Who will teach the children (verse 13)?
How will the “afflicted city” be
established (verse 14)?
What will those who attack the city do (verse 15)?
Who “created the destroyer to wreak havoc”
(verse 16)?
What will be refuted (verse 17)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage help us understand
about being “taught by the Lord”?
John 6:35-51 – New International Version (NIV)
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of
life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever
believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I
told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All
those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will
never drive away. 38 For I have come down from
heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And
this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has
given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For
my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him
shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he
said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They
said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we
know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No
one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will
raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the
Prophets: ‘They will all
be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned
from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except
the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 Very
truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I
am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in
the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the bread
that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I
am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this
bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life
of the world.”
What
does Jesus declare about Himself (verse 35)?
How
did seeing Jesus change the beliefs of those He is speaking to (verse 36)?
Who
will come to Jesus (verse 37)?
What
had Jesus “come down” to do (verse 38)?
What “is the will of him who sent me”
(verse 39)?
Who “shall have eternal life”
(verse 40)?
Why did “the Jews there” begin to
grumble (verse 41)?
What did they know about Jesus (verse 42)?
What did Jesus tell the Jews to stop
doing (verse 43)?
Who comes to Jesus (verse 45)?
Who has “seen the Father” (verse
46)?
Who “has eternal life” (verse
47)?
What is Jesus (verse 48)?
What will Jesus give “for the life of
the world” (verse 51)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In
your opinion, what does this passage help us understand about being “taught
by the Lord”?
In
your opinion, what does John 6:35-51 help us understand about who the “children”
who will be taught by the Lord in Isaiah 54:11-17 are?
1
Corinthians 2:9-16 - New International Version (NIV)
9 However,
as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all
things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a
person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same
way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What
we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who
is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This
is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words
taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught
words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept
the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them
foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only
through the Spirit. 15 The person with the
Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject
to merely human judgments, 16 for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
What has “no human mind” conceived (verse 9)?
How are
these things revealed to us (verse 10)?
What does
the Spirit search (verse 10)?
Who knows “the
thoughts of God” (verse 11)?
Why have we received “the Spirit who is from God”
(verse 12)?
What does Paul speak “in words taught by the
Spirit” (verse 13)?
How does the person without the Spirit consider the “things
that come from the Spirit of God” (verse 14)?
Why can’t they “understand them” (verse 14)?
What things does “the person with the Spirit” make
judgments about (verse 15)?
Whose mind do Christians have (verse 16)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage help us understand about being “taught by the Lord”?
In your opinion, what does 1 Corinthians
2:9-16 help us understand about the way God will accomplish the teaching
promised in Isaiah 54:11-17?
In your opinion, what does 1 Corinthians
2:9-16 reveal about what will be “taught by God” as promised by Jesus in
John 6:35-51?
1 John 2:20-27 – New International Version (NIV)
20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of
you know the truth. 21 I do not write to you because you
do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes
from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies
that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father
and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father;
whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
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.
What
do the people John is writing have that enables them to “know the truth” (verse
20)?
Why
was John writing to them (verse 21)?
“Who is the liar” (verse 22)?
What does the liar, who is the
antichrist, deny (verse 22)?
Who “has the Father also” (verse 23)?
What does John instruct the readers of 1
John to do with what they “heard from the beginning” (verse 24)?
What has God “promised us” (verse 25)?
Who was John writing these things about
(verse 26)?
What does “his anointing” teach (verse
27)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
help us understand about being “taught by the Lord”?
In your opinion, what
does 1 John 2:20-27 reveal to us about the way “children will be taught by
the Lord” as prophesied in Isaiah 54:11-17?
In your opinion, what does John 6:35-51
reveal about the truth that 1 John 2:20-27 says the children it is written to “all
know”?
In your opinion, what does 1 Corinthians
2:9-16 help us understand about the difference between those in 1 John 2:20-27 described
as knowing the truth and those who deny “the Father and the Son”?
In your opinion, what do these passages
from Isaiah, John, 1 Corinthians and 1 John teach us about the “heritage of
the servants of the Lord” (Isaiah 54:17)?
In your opinion, how should Christians react to
afflictions today?
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