March 23, 2014 - The Great Commission - A Study of Matthew – Rebuking and Authority

March 23, 2014 - The Great Commission - A Study of Matthew – Rebuking and Authority

Matthew 28 - New International Version (NIV) – The Great Commission

^“18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Rebuking and Authority

Matthew 8:23-27 - New International Version (NIV)

^23 “Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. ²⁴ Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. ²⁵ The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”

²⁶ He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the                 winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.

²⁷ The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the                     waves obey him!”

Where did Jesus go (verse 23)?

Who followed Him (verse 23)?

What caused waves to sweep over the boat (verse 24)?

Why did Jesus not do anything (verse 24)?

In your opinion, why did the disciples combine “Lord, save us”, a request of faith, with “We’re going to drown”, a statement without hope (verse 25)?

In your opinion, why did Jesus “rebuke” (a word of discipline) the winds and the waves (verse 26)?

What did the winds and the waves do after the rebuke (verse 26)?

How did the disciples react to the new reality (verse 27)?

In your opinion, why did they ask “What kind of man is this” (verse 27)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Matthew 8:23-27 show us about the Great Commission?

Isaiah 37 - New International Version (NIV)

“When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord. ² He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. ³ They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. ⁴ It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”

⁵ When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah, ⁶ Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ⁷ Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’”

⁸ When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and             found the king fighting against Libnah.

⁹ Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: ¹⁰ “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’ ¹¹ Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? ¹² Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”

¹⁴ Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: ¹⁶ “Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ¹⁷ Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.

¹⁸ “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands. ¹⁹ They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. ²⁰ Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are the only God.”

²¹ Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, ²² this is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

“Virgin Daughter Zion
    despises and mocks you.
Daughter Jerusalem
    tosses her head as you flee.
²³ Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
    Against the Holy One of Israel!
²⁴ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.
²⁵ I have dug wells in foreign lands
    and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
    I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’

²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.
²⁷ Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass sprouting on the roof,
    scorched before it grows up.

²⁸ “But I know where you are
    and when you come and go
    and how you rage against me.
²⁹ Because you rage against me
    and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
    and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you return
    by the way you came.

³⁰ “This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap,
    plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
³¹ Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root below and bear fruit above.
³² For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

³³ “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:

“He will not enter this city
    or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
    or build a siege ramp against it.
³⁴ By the way that he came he will return;
    he will not enter this city,”
declares the Lord.
³⁵ “I will defend this city and save it,
    for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!”

³⁶ Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! ³⁷ So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

³⁸ One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.”

Who tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and went into the temple (verse 1)?

Who did Eliakim, Shebna and the leading priests go to see (verse 2)?

What kind of day did Hezekiah say it was (verse 3)?

In your opinion, why is it a day “as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them” (verse 3)?

What might cause the living God to rebuke the field commander of Assyria (verse 4)?

Who is supposed to be prayed for (verse 4)?

What was the Lord’s message to Hezekiah through Isaiah (verse 6)?

What did Hezekiah take to the temple and spread out before the Lord (verse 14)?

In your opinion, how is the plea of the disciples in Matthew 8:25 “Lord, save us” similar to Hezekiah’s prayer in Isaiah 37:15-20?

In your opinion, how is Jesus response in Matthew 8:26 similar to God’s response in Isaiah 37:21-38?

In your opinion, what can we learn today from these two incidents?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Isaiah and the passage from Matthew 8:23-27 teach us about the ability of God to rebuke situations in the world today?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Isaiah show us about the Great Commission?

Jude 1:3-22 - New International Version (NIV)

³ Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. ⁴ For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.

⁵ Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. ⁷ In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

⁸ In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. ⁹ But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.

¹¹ Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s              error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.

¹² These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead. ¹³ They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

¹⁴ Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones ¹⁵ to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” ¹⁶ These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.

¹⁷ But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. ¹⁸ They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” ¹⁹ These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

²⁰ But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

²² Be merciful to those who doubt; ²³ save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.

What was Jude eager to write about (verse 3)?

What was Jude compelled to write and urge (verse 3)?

Who has slipped in (verse 4)?

In your opinion, how do they “pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ” (verse 4)?

What happened to the people who were delivered from Egypt but who did not believe (verse 5)?

What happened to angels who “abandoned the proper dwelling” (verse 6)?

Who gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion and serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire (verse 7)?

In your opinion, why does Jude say “on the strength of their dreams” these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings (verse 8)?

Who said “The Lord rebuke you” when disputing with the devil for the body of Moses (verse 9)?

In your opinion, why would “the very things they do understand by instinct” destroy the people who dream and slander (verse 10)?

In your opinion, what is meant by “shepherds who feed only themselves”, “clouds without rain”, “autumn trees without fruit”, “wild waves of the sea”, and “wandering stars” (verses 12 & 13)?

What is the Lord and thousands upon thousands of his holy ones coming to do (verses 14 & 15)?

Who foretold, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires” (verses 17 & 18)?

How does Jude indicate that we should respond to those scoffers (verses 20-23)?

What is to be hated (verse 23)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Jude teach us about responding to people who scoff and take without giving?

In your opinion, how do Jude’s comments here expand on Matthew 8:23-27?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Jude show us about the Great Commission?

Revelation 19:11-16 – New International Version (NIV)

^11 “I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. ¹² His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. ¹³ He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. ¹⁴ The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵ Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶ On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:

king of kings and lord of lords.”

What stands open (verse 11)?

Who is on the white horse (verse 11)?

How does He judge and wage war (verse 11)?

In your opinion, why are His eyes described as “like blazing fire” (verse 12)?

What is His robe dipped in (verse 13)?

What is His name (verse 13)?

How are “the armies of heaven” described (verse 14)?

In your opinion, why is a sharp sword coming out of His mouth (verse 15)?

What does He tread (verse 15)?

What name is written on His robe and His thigh (verses 16)?

In your opinion, what can this passage from Revelation teach us about Jude 1:9, where the archangel Michael in his battle with the devil said “The Lord rebuke you”?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Revelation teach us about the Son of Man rebuking the winds and the waves and having authority over them in Matthew 8:23-27?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Revelation show us about the Great Commission?

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March 16, 2014 - The Great Commission - A Study of Matthew – Priorities

March 16, 2014 - The Great Commission - A Study of Matthew – Priorities

Matthew 28 - New International Version (NIV) – The Great Commission

^“18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Priorities

Matthew 8:18-22 - New International Version (NIV)

^18 “When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. ¹⁹ Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

²⁰ Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

²¹ Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

²² But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Who did Jesus see (verse 18)?

What orders did He give (verse 18)?

Who came up to Him (verse 19)?

What did the teacher of the law promise to do (verse 19)?

In your opinion, why would the teacher of the law make that promise (verse 19)?

How did Jesus respond to the teacher of the law (verse 20)?

In your opinion, why would Jesus say this to the teacher of the law (verse 20)?

What was the other disciple’s response to Jesus (verse 21)?

How did Jesus respond to this disciple (verse 22)?

In your opinion, what did Jesus mean when He said “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead” (verse 22)

In your opinion, what does this passage from Matthew 8:18-22 show us about the Great Commission?

Psalm 27 - New International Version (NIV)

^1 “The Lord is my light and my salvation—
    whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
    of whom shall I be afraid?

² When the wicked advance against me
    to devour me,
it is my enemies and my foes
    who will stumble and fall.
³ Though an army besiege me,
    my heart will not fear;
though war break out against me,
    even then I will be confident.

⁴ One thing I ask from the Lord,
    this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
    and to seek him in his temple.
⁵ For in the day of trouble
    he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent
    and set me high upon a rock.

⁶ Then my head will be exalted
    above the enemies who surround me;
at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;
    I will sing and make music to the Lord.

⁷ Hear my voice when I call, Lord;
    be merciful to me and answer me.
⁸ My heart says of you, “Seek his face!”
    Your face, Lord, I will seek.
⁹ Do not hide your face from me,
    do not turn your servant away in anger;
    you have been my helper.
Do not reject me or forsake me,
    God my Savior.
¹⁰ Though my father and mother forsake me,
    the Lord will receive me.
¹¹ Teach me your way, Lord;
    lead me in a straight path
    because of my oppressors.
¹² Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
    for false witnesses rise up against me,
    spouting malicious accusations.

¹³ I remain confident of this:
    I will see the goodness of the Lord
    in the land of the living.
¹⁴ Wait for the Lord;
    be strong and take heart
    and wait for the Lord.”

What is the Lord to David (verse 1)?

In your opinion, why does David twice question who he should fear after stating what the Lord is to him (verse 1)?

What will happen when the wicked advance on David (verse 2)?

When an army besieges or a war breaks out, how will David feel (verse 3)?

What one thing will David ask God for (verse 4)?

In your opinion, what does it mean when the one thing that David asks for (verse 4) is said to be not available by Jesus in Matthew 8:20?

When the day of trouble comes how will the Lord treat David (verse 5)?

In your opinion, why is David confident of this (verse 5)?

How will David respond when his “head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me” (verse 6)?

When David calls to God how does he want God to respond (verse 7)?

In your opinion, why would David request that God “be merciful to me and answer me” (verse 7)?

Why will David seek the Lord’s face (verse 8)?

What does David ask of the Lord (verse 9)?

Even though he might be forsaken by his father and mother, what does David anticipate that the Lord will do (verse 10)?

Where does David want the Lord to lead him “because of my oppressors” (verse 11)?

Who is rising up against David (verse 12)?

What is David confident of (verse 13)?

In your opinion, why did David say he would see the goodness of the Lord “in the land of the living” (verse 13)?

In your opinion, what did David mean by “be strong” (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what did David mean by “take heart” (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what did David mean by “wait” (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Psalms teach us about having a place to lay your head from Matthew 8:18-22?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Psalms show us about the Great Commission?

Philippians 3:7-14 - New International Version (NIV)

^7 “But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. ¹⁰ I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹ and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

What does Paul consider everything that he had done or become (verse 7)?

Who is he willing to give up everything for the “surpassing worth of knowing” (verse 8)?

What has Paul found “through faith in Christ” (verse 9)?

In your opinion, why does Paul want to know “the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings” (verse 10)?

What does Paul want to obtain (verse 11)?

What does “press on to take hold of” (verse 12)?

In your opinion, why does Paul forget what is behind (verse 13)?

In your opinion, why does Paul strain toward what is ahead (verse 13)?

What does Paul press on toward (verse 14)?

Who has God called Paul heavenward in (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Philippians teach us about Matthew 8:18-22?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Philippians show us about the Great Commission?

1 Peter 1:3-9 – 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.”

Who does Peter say we are to praise (verse 3)?

God, in His great mercy, has given us new birth into what (verse 3)?

In your opinion, why does Peter say that we have a new birth “through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (verse 3)?

Where is our inheritance “that can never perish, spoil or fade” being kept (verse 4)?

How are we “shielded by God’s power” (verse 5)?

What are we to greatly rejoice in even, “though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials” (verses 3, 4, 5 and 6)?

Why have the trials come (verse 7)?

In your opinion, why will the genuineness of our faith “result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed” (verse 7)?

How do we react to Jesus even “Though you have not seen him” (verse 8)?

What is the “end result of your faith” that we are receiving (verses 9)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from 1 Peter teach us about the Son of Man having no place to lay His head and about letting the dead burying the dead in Matthew 8:18-22?

In your opinion, what does this passage from 1 Peter show us about the Great Commission?

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March 9, 2014 - The Great Commission - A Study of Matthew – Healing and Purchasing

March 9, 2014 - The Great Commission - A Study of Matthew – Healing and Purchasing

Matthew 28 - New International Version (NIV) – The Great Commission

^“18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Healing and Purchasing

Matthew 8:5-17 - New International Version (NIV)

^5 “When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. ⁶ “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.”

⁷ Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?”

⁸ The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. ⁹ For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

¹⁰ When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. ¹¹ I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. ¹² But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

¹³ Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.

¹⁴ When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. ¹⁵ He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.

¹⁶ When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. ¹⁷ This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:

“He took up our infirmities
    and bore our diseases.”

What town did Jesus enter (verse 5)?

Who came to Jesus (verse 5)?

What did the man ask for (verse 5)?

In your opinion, what can we learn about the centurion that he would come to Jesus and ask for help for a servant (verses 5 & 6)?

How did the centurion describe the servant’s problem (verse 6)?

What was Jesus question to the centurion (verse 7)?

How did the centurion respond to Jesus’ question (verse 8)?

In your opinion, why would the centurion say “I do not deserve to have you come under my roof” (verse 8)?

What does the centurion understand about the authority that Jesus possesses (verse 9)?

In your opinion, what amazed Jesus about the centurion’s faith (verse 10)?

In your opinion, who will come from the east and the west to feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (verse 11)?

Where will the subjects of the kingdom be thrown (verse 12)?

How does Jesus respond to the centurion’s plea for help (verse 13)?

Who is ill in Peter’s house (verse 14)?

How does Peter’s mother-in-law respond when she is healed (verse 15)?

What did Jesus do when evening came (verse 16)?

In your opinion, how does this fulfill the prophecy from Isaiah (verse 17)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Matthew 8:5-17 show us about the Great Commission?

Isaiah 53:1-12 - New International Version (NIV)

^4 “Surely he took up our pain
    and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
    stricken by him, and afflicted.
⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
    and by his wounds we are healed.
⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
    each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
    and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.
⁸ By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
    Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
    for the transgression of my people he was punished.
⁹ He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
    and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
    nor was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
    and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
    and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
¹¹ After he has suffered,
    he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
    and he will bear their iniquities.
¹² Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
    and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
    and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
    and made intercession for the transgressors.”

What did “the Servant” take up and bear (verse 4)?

In your opinion, why would someone who “took up our pain and bore our suffering” be considered “punished by God” (verse 4)?

For whose transgressions and iniquities was He pierced and crushed (verse 5)?

What do we receive due to His punishment and wounds (verse 5)?

In your opinion, why does Isaiah say that we have turned astray “like sheep” (verse 6)?

How did He react to being “oppressed and afflicted” (verse 7)?

Why was He punished (verse 8)?

Where was His grave (verse 9)?

Whose will was it to “crush him and cause him to suffer” (verse 10)?

What will happen “After he has suffered” (verse 11)?

Why will Isaiah “give him a portion among the great” (verse 12)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Isaiah teach us about Matthew 8:5-17?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Isaiah show us about the Great Commission?

Philippians 2:5-11 - New International Version (NIV)

^5 “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

⁶ Who, being in very nature God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
⁷ rather, he made himself nothing
    by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness.
⁸ And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!

⁹ Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
¹¹ and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.”

Who are we to have the same mindset as (verse 5)?

What nature did Jesus have (verse 6)?

In your opinion, why does Paul say that Jesus did not consider equality with God as “something to be used to his own advantage” (verse 6)?

How did Jesus make “himself nothing” (verse 7)?

When Jesus was “in appearance as a man” what did he do (verse 8)?

What did God do for Jesus after the obedience to death (verse 9)?

In your opinion, why will every knee bow at the name of Jesus (verse 10)?

What will every tongue do (verse 11)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Philippians teach us about Matthew 8:5-17?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Philippians show us about the Great Commission?

Revelation 5:6-14 – New International Version (NIV)

^6 “Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing at the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ⁷ He went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne. ⁸ And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. ⁹ And they sang a new song, saying:

“You are worthy to take the scroll
    and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
    and with your blood you purchased for God
    persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.
¹⁰ You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
    and they will reign on the earth.”

¹¹ Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. ¹² In a loud voice they were saying:

“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain,
    to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
    and honor and glory and praise!”

¹³ Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
    be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!”

¹⁴ The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.”

 What was standing in the center of the elders looking like it had been slain (verse 6)?

What are the seven horns and the seven eyes (verse 6)?

In your opinion, why does God send the seven spirits out into all the earth (verse 6)?

What does the Lamb take from the right hand of “him who sat on the throne” (verse 7)?

In your opinion, what is in the scroll (verse 7)?

Who falls down before the Lamb when He takes the scroll (verse 8)?

What is the incense that fills the golden bowls (verse 8)?

In your opinion, why would the Lamb taking the scroll from God cause the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders to sing “a new song” (verse 9)?

Why, according to the song, is the Lamb worthy to take the scroll and open its seals (verse 9)?

What does the Lamb make the persons purchased with His blood into (verse 10)?

How many angles were there (verses 11)?

What do the angels say the Lamb is worthy to receive (verse 12)?

What does “every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them” say about the one who sits on the throne and about the Lamb (verse 13)?

In your opinion, why do the only the four living creatures say “Amen” and only the elders fall down and worship (verse 14)?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Revelation teach us about Matthew 8:5-17?

In your opinion, what does this passage from Revelation show us about the Great Commission?

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