Transforming Love
Psalm 2:1-12 – New International Version (NIV)
1 Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the Lord and against his
anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their chains
and throw off their shackles.”
4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.
5 He rebukes them in his anger
and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 “I have installed my king
on Zion, my holy mountain.”
7 I will proclaim the Lord’s decree:
He said to
me, “You are my son;
today I have become your father.
8 Ask me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance,
the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You will break them with a rod of iron;
you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”
10 Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be warned, you rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear
and celebrate his rule with trembling.
12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry
and your way will lead to your destruction,
for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Who conspires (verse 1)?
Who bands together “against
the Lord and against his anointed” (verse 2)?
What do they want to
“throw off” (verse 3)?
How does “the One
enthroned in heaven” respond (verse 4)?
How do they react to
“his wrath” (verse 5)?
Who has the Lord
installed “on Zion, my holy mountain” (verse 6)?
What is the Lord’s
decree (verse 7)?
When will the Lord
make “the nations your inheritance” (verse 8)?
How will they be
broken (verse 9)?
Who should “be
warned” (verse 10)?
How should the Lord’s
rule be celebrated (verse 11)?
Who is blessed
(verse 12)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage reveal about the Son of God?
Isaiah 11:1-11 - New International
Version (NIV)
1 A
shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;
from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
2 The Spirit of the Lord will
rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—
3 and he will delight in the fear of the Lord.
He will
not judge by what he sees with his eyes,
or decide by what he hears with his ears;
4 but with righteousness he will judge the needy,
with justice he will give decisions for the
poor of the earth.
He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;
with the breath of his lips he will slay the
wicked.
5 Righteousness will be his belt
and faithfulness the sash around his waist.
6 The wolf
will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
and the young child will put its hand into the
viper’s nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
10 In that
day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples;
the nations will rally to him, and his resting place will be
glorious. 11 In that day the Lord will reach out his
hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from
Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from
Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of
the Mediterranean.
Where will the shoot “come up from” (verse 1)?
What will “rest on him” (verse 2)?
What will
He “delight in” (verse 3)?
How will He “strike the earth” (verse 4)?
What will “be his belt” (verse 5)?
Where will the lamb live (verse 6)?
What will the lion eat (verse 7)?
Where will the young child put its hand (verse 8)?
What will the earth be filled with “as the waters cover the sea”
(verse 9)?
Who will “stand as a banner for the peoples” (verse 10)?
Who will the Lord “reach out his hand a second time to reclaim”
(verse 11)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage reveal about the Son of God?
In your opinion, why would the kings of the earth “band together against the Lord and against
his anointed” in Psalm 2:1-12 when Isaiah 11:1-11 says that His Anointed will have “the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit
of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord” and will judge with
righteousness?
Matthew 3:13-17 – New International
Version (NIV)
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John
tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to
me?”
15 Jesus replied, “Let it be
so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At
that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of
God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice
from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well
pleased.”
Where did
Jesus come to (verse 13)?
What did
Jesus come to do (verse 13)?
How did John
react to Jesus’s purpose (verse 14)?
What did John
think he needed (verse 14)?
How did John
react when Jesus said, “Let it be so now, it is proper for us to do this to
fulfill all righteousness” (verse 15)?
When was
heaven opened (verse 16)?
What did
Jesus see (verse 16)?
What did the
voice from heaven say (verse 17)?
In your
opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage reveal about the
Son of God?
In your
opinion, how does Psalm 2:1-12 help us understand reluctance of John to baptize
Jesus in Matthew 3:13-17?
In your
opinion, how is the shoot that “will come up from the stump of Jesse” in
Isaiah 11:1-11 revealed to be so much more with the words from heaven in
Matthew 3:13-17?
Ephesians 1:18-2:10 – New International Version (NIV)
18 I pray that
the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the
hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious
inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who
believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the
dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far
above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that
is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And
God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be
head over everything for the church, 23 which is his
body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
2 1As for you, you were dead in your
transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to
live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the
kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are
disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one
time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires
and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But
because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made
us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace
you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with
Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ
Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show
the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us
in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For
we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Which eyes did Paul pray “may be enlightened” (verse 18)?
What did Paul pray that the enlightenment would enable
Christians to know (verses 18 and 19)?
What did God do when he exerted His “mighty strength” (verses
19 and 20)?
What is Christ seated far above (verse 21)?
Where is Christ appointed (verse 22)?
What is Christ’s body (verses 22 and 23)?
How had Christians been in their “transgressions and
sins” (verse 1)?
What did Christians used to follow (verse 2)?
What were Christians “by nature deserving of” (verse
3)?
What did God, who has “great love for us” and is “rich
in mercy” do “even when we were dead in transgressions” (verses 4
and 5)?
How have we been saved (verse 5)?
Where did God seat us after raising “us up with Christ”
(verse 6)?
What will God show “in the coming ages” (verse 7)?
What “is the gift of God” (verse 8)?
Why can no one boast (verse 9)?
What has God “prepared in advance for us to do”
(verse 10)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage reveal about the Son of God?
In your opinion, how does Ephesian 1:18-2:10 help us understand the
blessings received by those who follow the recommendation to “take refuge” in
the Son in Psalm 2:1-12?
In
your opinion, how is the transformation accomplished by the power of God as
described in Ephesians 1:18-2:10 shown in Isaiah 11:1-11 to be only the
beginning of the transformations that God’s power will accomplish?
In your opinion, how
does the baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3:13-17 anticipate the mighty power of God
raising Jesus from the dead and seating Him in the heavenly realms as described
in Ephesians 1:18-2:10?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Psalms, Isaiah,
Matthew, and Ephesians teach us about what the Son of God has and will
accomplish?
In your
opinion, how do our lives today show that the eyes of our hearts have been
enlightened?
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