This week we’ll be taking a look at who Jesus is, picking sides, and what’s worth fighting over. Start your week off by reading the 11th chapter of Luke.
What two “sides” does Jesus talk about in verse 23? Which “side” does He want you to choose?
What does it really mean to be on Jesus’ side? What are the things that we do because we have chosen Jesus? What are some of the things that we no longer do because we have chosen Jesus?
Begin to prepare your hearts and minds for tomorrow’s gathering by reading Matthew 12, concentrating on the words in verses 22-37.
What does Jesus mean in verse 30 when He says that “Whoever is not with me is against me”?
How do people that are ‘against Jesus’ scatter? (verse 30) What are they scattering? Can you think of ways today that people that are against Christianity are ‘scattering’? I guess the big question for the church is, how do we stop the scattering? (What Would Jesus Do?)
Read Mark 9:38-41. In verse 40, Jesus says that anyone that is not against them is for them. How is this different from what He says in Matthew 12:30?
Read Exodus 8.
What ‘action’ is Moses doing in this chapter – what is he doing for God?
How about Aaron – what is he doing?
While Moses is “talking,” and Aaron is “stretching out his hand with the staff,” what is God doing?
Wouldn’t you like to be involved in an exciting project like that with God? If so, stop and think again, what’s in your hand that God could use?
Moses had a brother named Aaron who also plays a major part in the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt. Let’s read part of his story in Exodus 7.
What is Aaron told to do in verse 19? Does he do it? What happens?
Let’s take a better look at Moses by reading Exodus 4.
Moses starts this chapter off still making excuses. What reason does he give in verse 1? How does God respond in verse 2?
This is really the most important key to following God’s will for your life: remember that God can take whatever you have – no matter how insignificant it may seem – and do mighty things, if you are only willing to obey Him!
What’s in your hand that God could use?
Read about God ‘calling’ Moses in Exodus 3.
How did Moses respond when he saw the burning bush?
How did he respond when God called His name? (verse 4)
What did Moses do after God told him who He was? (verse 6)
After God lays out the situation in Egypt and tells Moses what he needs him to do, how does Moses respond? (verse 11)
How would you describe Moses’s willingness to do what God wants from him? (Is he still making excuses in verse 13?)
Read Luke 6.
What two things does Jesus tell the man to do? What attitude do you think he has when he does them? (Do you think he obeyed reluctantly, or enthusiastically?)
How do you respond when God wants you to do something?
Begin to prepare your hearts and minds for tomorrow’s gathering by reading Matthew 12:9-14.
God wants to partner with us in doing ministry, so I have one simple question for you today: where is God telling you to “stretch out your hand”?
Read Matthew 27.
This chapter details the end of Jesus’s physical ministry on the earth.
Based on this chapter, who do the following think Jesus is?
On Sunday we talked a little bit about how people like to rate/compare/judge things in our world. The first chapter of John contains one of my very favorite Bible stories – the calling of Nathaniel. Read John 1 for today.
How did Nathaniel first react to the news about Jesus? (Verse 46)
How did Nathaniel feel about Jesus in verse 49?
What did Jesus do that really seemed to impress Nathaniel? How did Jesus respond in verse 50?
What great things have you seen God do? Do you believe that you’re going to see greater things?
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