Life Giving God
Exodus 4:19-23 – New International Version (NIV)
19 Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to
Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead.” 20 So Moses took his wife and
sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the
staff of God in his hand.
21 The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see
that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power
to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then say to Pharaoh, ‘This is
what the Lord says: Israel is my
firstborn son, 23 and I told you, “Let my son
go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will
kill your firstborn son.’”
Where was Moses when God talked to him (verse
19)?
Why could Moses go
back to Egypt (verse 19)?
Who did Moses take
when he started to Egypt (verse 20)?
What did Moses take (verse
20)?
Who was Moses to “perform”
“all the wonders I have given you the power to do” before (verse 21)?
Why was the Pharaoh
not going to “let the people go” (verse 21)?
Who was Moses to
tell the Pharaoh that the Lord’s “firstborn son” is (verse 22)?
What will happen
because the Pharaoh refused to let God’s firstborn go to worship God (verse 23)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about living for God?
Matthew 2:19-23 - New International
Version (NIV)
19 After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a
dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the
land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”
21 So he got up, took the child and his mother and went to the land
of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of
his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Having been warned in a
dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, 23 and he went
and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said
through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
When did the “angel of the Lord” appear to Joseph in
a dream (verse 19)?
Where
was Joseph when the angel appeared to him (verse 20)?
Who was Joseph to take “to the land of Israel” (verse 20)?
What did Joseph do (verse 21)?
Why was Joseph afraid to go to Judea (verse 22)?
Where did Joseph go instead (verse 23)?
How was what “was said through the prophets” fulfilled (verse 23)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about living for God?
In your opinion, how do the challenges Moses would face in Egypt in
Exodus 4:19-23, and the challenges Joseph, Mary and Jesus would face in Judea
in Matthew 2:19-23, help us understand the challenges we may have today?
Acts 2:22-36 - New International
Version (NIV)
22 “Fellow
Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God
to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through
him, as you yourselves know. 23 This man was handed
over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the
help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. 24 But
God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because
it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. 25 David
said about him:
“‘I saw
the Lord always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.
26 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest in hope,
27 because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
you will not let your holy one see decay.
28 You have made known to me the paths of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence.’
29 “Fellow
Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died
and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30 But
he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place
one of his descendants on his throne. 31 Seeing what was
to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned
to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. 32 God
has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. 33 Exalted to
the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised
Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. 34 For
David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,
“‘The
Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
35 until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”’
36 “Therefore
let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified,
both Lord and Messiah.”
How was Jesus of Nazareth accredited
to the Israelites by God (verse 22)?
What was done “by God’s deliberate plan” (verse 23)?
What did
God free Jesus from (verse 24)?
Why will David “not be shaken” (verse 25)?
Where will his body rest (verse 26)?
Where will he not be abandoned (verse 27)?
What has been made known (verse 28)?
Who could Peter “confidently” say died (verse 29)?
What had God “promised him on oath” (verse 30)?
Who had David spoken of “that he was not abandoned
to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay” (verse 31)?
What was Peter a witness of (verse 32)?
What had Jesus “poured out” (verse 33)?
Who said, “to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I
make your enemies a footstool for your feet.” (verses 34 and 35)?
What has God “made this Jesus” (verse 36)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about
living for God?
In your opinion, what does the contrast of God sending
Moses back to Egypt because “all those who wanted to kill you are dead” in
Exodus 4:19-23 but in Acts 2:22-36 Jesus was handed over to be killed “by
God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge” teach us about God’s plan?
In your
opinion, how does Jesus being protected from Herod in Matthew 2:19-23 foreshadow
Jesus being freed “from the agony of death” in Acts 2:22-36?
1 Peter 1:3-12 – New International Version
(NIV)
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new
birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is
kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are
shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is
ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this you greatly
rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer
grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven
genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even
though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus
Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him,
you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in
him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end
result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who
spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and
with the greatest care, 11 trying to find out the time
and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when
he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would
follow. 12 It was revealed to them that
they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things
that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to
you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look
into these things.
What has “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” given
us (verse 3)?
Through what has He given this to us (verse 3)?
Where is the inheritance kept (verse 4)?
What shields people of faith (verse 5)?
What may we have to suffer (verse 6)?
What does “the proven genuineness of your faith” result
in (verse 7)?
How are those who believe in Jesus, without seeing Him,
filled (verse 8)?
What is “the end result of your faith” (verse 9)?
Who searched for salvation “intently and with the
greatest care” (verse 10)?
What were they trying to find (verse 11)?
Who else longs “to look into these things” (verse
12)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion,
what does this passage teach us about living for God?
In
your opinion, how can the fact that Jesus went from being threatened by Herod
to being threatened by Archelaus in Matthew 2:19-23 and was later killed by
others help us understand the trails that 1 Peter 1:3-13 says that we may suffer?
In your opinion, how
does the fact that “it was impossible for death to keep its hold on”
Jesus in Acts 2:22-36 make the “new birth into a living hope through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an
inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade” in 1 Peter 1:3-12 possible?
In your opinion, what do these passages from Exodus, Matthew,
Acts and 1 Peter teach us about God’s control over life and death?
In your
opinion, how can we live as if “it is impossible for death to keep its hold
on” us today?
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