Witnesses Who Understand
Isaiah 52:13-15 - New International
Version (NIV)
13 See, my
servant will act wisely;
he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.
14 Just as there were many who were appalled at him—
his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of
any human being
and his form marred beyond human likeness—
15 so he will sprinkle many nations,
and kings will shut their mouths because of
him.
For what they were not
told, they will see,
and what they have not heard, they will understand.
How will God’s servant act (verse 13)?
What will His servant be (verse 13)?
How will “many” feel about him (verse 14)?
What will “his appearance” be like (verse
14)?
What will “he” sprinkle (verse 15)?
What will “they see” (verse 16)?
What will “they understand” (verse 16)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage teach us about Jesus?
Luke 24:36-49 – New International Version (NIV)
36 While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood
among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
37 They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a
ghost. 38 He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and
why do doubts rise in your minds? 39 Look at my hands and
my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and
bones, as you see I have.”
40 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 And
while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked
them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” 42 They
gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and
ate it in their presence.
44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still
with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in
the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the
Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is
written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third
day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be
preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You
are witnesses of these things. 49 I am going to send
you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been
clothed with power from on high.”
When
did Jesus stand “among them” (verse 36)?
What
did Jesus say to them (verse 36)?
How
did they react (verse 37)?
Where
did Jesus want them to look (verse 39)?
What did Jesus show them (verse 40)?
Why did they still “not believe”
(verse 41)?
What
did Jesus do “in their presence” (verses 42 and 43)?
How
much of what was written about Jesus “in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and
the Psalms” must be fulfilled (verse 44)?
How
were the disciples changed when Jesus “opened their minds” (verse 45)?
“What
is written” (verse 46)?
What
“will be preached in his name to all nations” (verse 47)?
Who
“are witnesses” of these things (verse 48)?
When
could they leave the city (verse 49)?
In
your opinion, what is the basic message of this passage?
In
your opinion, what does this passage teach us about Jesus?
In
your opinion, how does Jesus opening the minds of those in Luke 24:36-49 help us
understand what will happen to kings in Isaiah 52:13-15?
Romans
15:14-21 - New
International Version (NIV)
14 I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you
yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent
to instruct one another. 15 Yet I have written you quite
boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God
gave me 16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the
Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of
God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God,
sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
17 Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. 18 I
will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished
through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said
and done— 19 by the power of signs and
wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from
Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the
gospel of Christ. 20 It has always been my ambition to
preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be
building on someone else’s foundation. 21 Rather, as it is
written:
“Those who were not told
about him will see,
and those who have not heard will understand.”
Who is
convinced that the Christians in Rome “are full of goodness, filled with
knowledge and competent to instruct one another” (verse 14)?
Why has
Paul written “quite boldly on some points” (verse 15)?
What “priestly
duty” has God given Paul (verse 16)?
What were “the
Gentiles” to become (verse 16)?
Where does Paul “glory in Christ Jesus” (verse
17)?
What is the only thing that Paul will “venture to
speak of” (verse 18)?
What has Paul “fully proclaimed” (verse 19)?
Why was it Paul’s “ambition to preach the gospel
where Christ was not known” (verse 20)?
Who “will understand” (verse 21)?
In your opinion, what is the basic message of this
passage?
In your opinion, what
does this passage teach us about Jesus?
In your opinion, how are the kings in Isaiah
52:13-15 like the Christians in Romans 15:14-21?
In your opinion, what does Luke 24:36-49
reveal about the gospel of Christ that Paul says in Romans 15:14-21 it is his
ambition to preach?
1 Corinthians 15:1-11 – New International Version (NIV)
1 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you
of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you
have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are
saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise,
you have believed in vain.
3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first
importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was
raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and
that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. 6 After
that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the
same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then
he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8 and
last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to
be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But
by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not
without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace
of God that was with me. 11 Whether, then, it is I or
they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.
What
does Paul want to remind the Corinthians Christians of (verse 1)?
How
are they saved (verse 2)?
What happens if they don’t “hold
firmly to the word” Paul preached to them (verse 2)?
Who did “Christ” die for (verse 3)?
When was Christ “raised” (verse 4)?
Who did Christ appear to (verse 5)?
Who else did Christ appear to (verses 6
and 7)?
Who was the last person that Christ
appeared to (verse 8)?
Why does Paul say he does “not even
deserve to be called an apostle” (verse 9)?
How is Paul what he is (verse 10)?
What had the Corinthian Christians
believed (verse 11)?
In your opinion, what is the basic
message of this passage?
In your opinion, what does this passage
teach us about Jesus?
In your opinion, how does comparing the
message Jesus gave to those with Him in Luke 24:36-49 to the message Paul shared
with the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 show that Jesus opened Paul’s
mind to understand the Scriptures?
In your opinion, how do both Romans
15:14-21 and 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 show that Jesus is at the foundation of who
Paul is and what he does?
In your opinion, what do these passages
from Isaiah, Luke, Romans and 1 Corinthians help us understand about what we
should hold firmly to today?
In your opinion, how can we be witnesses to Jesus
today?
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