Transforming Call
Isaiah 6:1-8 – New International Version (NIV)
1 In the year that King
Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a
throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were
seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces,
with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one
another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
the whole earth is full
of his glory.”
4 At the sound of their voices
the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I
am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people
of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew
to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the
altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth
and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and
your sin atoned for.”
8 Then I heard the
voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for
us?”
And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Who did Isaiah see “in the year that King Uzziah died” (verse
1)?
Where were the
seraphim (verse 2)?
What were the
seraphim calling to each other (verse 3)?
What did the
seraphim’s voices cause (verse 4)?
Why did Isaiah think
he was ruined (verse 5)?
How did the seraphim
take away Isaiah’s guilt (verses 6 and 7)?
What was Isaiah’s
response to the Lord saying “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us” (verse
8)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about God’s call?
Matthew 4:18-22 - New International Version (NIV)
18 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two
brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a
net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 19 “Come,
follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” 20 At once
they left their nets and followed him.
21 Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of
Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father
Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, 22 and
immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.
Where was Jesus walking (verse 18)?
Who did Jesus see (verse 18)?
Why were
they “casting a net into the lake” (verse 18)?
Where was Jesus going to send them (verse 19)?
How did they respond (verse 20)?
Who did Jesus see when He went “on from there” (verse 21)?
Where were they (verse 21)?
What did they do when Jesus called them (verses 21 and 22)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about God’s call?
In your opinion, what can we learn from the fact that the calling of
Isaiah was full of grandeur in Isaiah 6:1-8 but Peter, Andrew, James, and John were
simply called from their workplace in Matthew 4:18-22?
1 Corinthians 1:4-9 - New International
Version (NIV)
4 I always thank my God for you because of his
grace given you in Christ Jesus. 5 For in him you have been
enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge— 6 God thus confirming our testimony about
Christ among you. 7 Therefore you
do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus
Christ to be revealed. 8 He will
also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of
our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is
faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord.
Why does Paul “always thank my God” for the
Corinthian Christians (verse 4)?
How have they been enriched (verse 5)?
What do
the Corinthian Christians’ speech and knowledge confirm (verses 5 and 6)?
What do they not lack (verse 7)?
What do they “eagerly wait for” (verse 7)?
How will they be “on the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ” (verse 8)?
Who is faithful (verse 9)?
Where are the Corinthian Christians called (verse 9)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about
God’s call?
In your
opinion, how can we, as sinful people, find assurance of God’s grace in the
calling of Isaiah in Isaiah 6:1-8 and His faithfulness in 1 Corinthians 1:4-9?
In your
opinion, how does the enrichment of the Corinthian Christians with spiritual
gifts in 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 demonstrate how Jesus’s promise to transform Peter
and Andrew in Matthew 4:18-22 might have been fulfilled? What does Jesus promise that Peter and Andrew
that He would send them out to “fish for people” mean to the Corinthian
Christians, and to us?
1 Peter 1:13-25 – New International Version
(NIV)
13 Therefore,
with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace
to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. 14 As
obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when
you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you
is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written:
“Be holy, because I am holy.”
17 Since you
call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live
out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. 18 For
you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you
were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your
ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ,
a lamb without blemish or defect. 20 He was chosen
before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last
times for your sake. 21 Through him you believe in
God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your
faith and hope are in God.
22 Now that you
have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have
sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the
heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of
perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word
of God. 24 For,
“All people
are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25 but the word of the Lord endures
forever.”
And this is the word that was preached to you.
How should Christians’ minds be when they set their “hope on the
grace to be brought to your when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming” (verse
13)?
What should they not “conform to” (verse 14)?
How should Christians be in all they do (verse 15)?
What is written (verse 16)?
How are Christians to “live out” their time (verse 17)?
What redeemed Christians “from the empty way of life” (verses
18 and 19)?
When was Jesus chosen (verse 20)?
Where are Christians “faith and hope” (verse 21)?
How should Christians love other Christians (verse 22)?
What has happened to Christians “through the living and
enduring word of God” (verse 23)?
What endures forever (verse 24)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what does this passage teach us about God’s call?
In your opinion, how is God asking “Whom shall I send” in Isaiah 6:1-8 similar to Peter’s instruction in 1 Peter
1:13-25 to “love each other deeply, from the heart”?
In
your opinion, how does the transformation of Peter from a fisherman in Matthew
4:18-22 to one who provides words on grace and love and the “word of the
Lord” in 1 Peter 1:13-25 give hope to each of us today?
In your opinion, how
are the transformation of the two very drastically different personalities of
Paul and Peter, who were called in dramatically different ways, into people who
both share a message of God’s grace reassuring (Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 and
Peter in 1 Peter 1:13-25)?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Isaiah, Matthew,
1 Corinthians, and 1 Peter teach us about responding to God’s call?
In your
opinion, how is responding to God’s call the beginning of our own transformation?
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