Word of Life
Deuteronomy 8:1-10 – New International Version (NIV)
1 Be careful to follow every
command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may
enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. 2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the
wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what
was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing
you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your
ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on
bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. 4 Your clothes did not wear out
and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that
as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
6 Observe the commands of
the Lord your God, walking in
obedience to him and revering him. 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a
land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and
hills; 8 a land with wheat and
barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will
not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron
and you can dig copper out of the hills.
10 When you have eaten and are
satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
What do the Israelite people need to do
to “live and increase” (verse 1)?
Why did the Lord
lead them into the “wilderness these forty years” (verse 2)?
Who caused the
Israelites to hunger (verse 3)?
What does man “live
on” (verse 3)?
How long did the
Israelites clothes last (verse 4)?
Where are they to
know that the Lord disciplines them (verse 5)?
Who were the
Israelites to revere (verse 6)?
What kind of land is
the Lord bringing them into (verse 7)?
What will the
Israelites lack in the land (verse 9)?
What are the
Israelites to do after they “have eaten and are satisfied” (verse 10)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
do we learn about God’s Word in this passage?
Matthew 4:1-4 - New International
Version (NIV)
1 Then Jesus
was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the
devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty
nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him
and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
4 Jesus
answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every
word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Who led Jesus “into the wilderness” (verse 1)?
What was going to happen to Jesus in the wilderness (verse 1)?
Why was
Jesus hungry (verse 2)?
Who came to Jesus (verse 3)?
What was Jesus to do if He was “the Son of God” (verse 3)?
What was written (verse 4)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what do we learn about God’s Word in this passage?
In your opinion, what can we learn from the fact that Moses gave the Israelite
people the instruction about living on “every word that comes from the mouth
of the Lord” as they were preparing to leave the forty years they had spent
in the wilderness in Deuteronomy 8:1-10 and Jesus quoted it to the tempter
after forty days of fasting in the wilderness in Matthew 4:1-4?
John 1:1-5 – New International
Version (NIV)
1 In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He
was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things
were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In
him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
When “was
the Word” (verse 1)?
Where was “the
Word” (verse 1)?
What was “the
Word” (verse 1)?
Who was the
Word with “in the beginning” (verse 2)?
What was made
through the Word (verse 3)?
What was made
without the Word (verse 3)?
Where was the
“life that was the light of all mankind” (verse 4)?
Where does
the light shine (verse 5)?
What has not
overcome the light (verse 5)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what do we learn about God’s Word in
this passage?
In your
opinion, how is the word that Moses talks about in Deuteronomy 8:1-8 related to
the Word that John introduces in John 1:1-5?
In your
opinion, how does Jesus’s answer to the tempter in Matthew 4:1-4 become more
powerful when you consider that the Word is the creator, the life, and the light
of humanity?
1 John 1:1-4 – New International Version (NIV)
1 That which was from the
beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which
we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the
Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it
and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was
with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to
you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with
us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We
write this to make our joy complete.
What does John do with “that which was from the beginning, which
we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and
our hands have touched” (verse 1)?
What appeared (verse 2)?
What does John proclaim to (verse 2)?
Where was the life (verse 2)?
Why does John proclaim “what we have seen and heard”
(verse 3)?
Who is in fellowship with John (verse 3)?
Why does John write (verse 4)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what do we learn about God’s Word in this passage?
In your opinion, how are the commands of Moses to the Israelites in
Deuteronomy 8:1-10 being fulfilled by John in 1 John 1:1-4 as he proclaims the
Word of life?
In
your opinion, how is the living “that comes from the mouth of God” in
Matthew 4:1-4 more fully explained in 1 John 1:1-4? How would you compare it to the life that
comes from eating bread?
In your opinion, how
is John’s theologically important discussion of the Word in John 1:1-5 made real
by his testimony in 1 John 1:1-4?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Deuteronomy, Matthew,
John and 1 John teach about what gives us life?
In your
opinion, when is Jesus’s answer to the tempter appropriate for us to give today?
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