Friday, May 29, 2015
2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 KJV
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have [free] course, and be glorified, even as [it is] with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all [men] have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep [you] from evil. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What did the Apostle Paul ask the readers to do and why? (v.1-2)
2) What did Paul write about the Lord and what He will do for His people? (v.3)
3) What was the apostle confident of concerning his readers' obedience to the apostles commands and the Lord's direction in their lives? (v.4-5)
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) Are you obedient to the direction of your spiritual leader(s) and to the direction of the Lord within your heart?
LIFE LESSONS
5) The Lord directs the hearts of His people to love what He loves and to wait patiently on the coming of the Lord.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
2 Thessalonians 3:1-5 KJV
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have [free] course, and be glorified, even as [it is] with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all [men] have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep [you] from evil. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What three (3) things did Apostle Paul ask his readers to pray for and why? (v.1-2)
2) What does the aposte write about our Lord and what he will do for His followers? (v.3)
3) What else is Paul confident that the Lord will do for His followers? (v.4-5)
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) Have you ever been in the company of a professing believer who acted as one who had no faith in God? If so, please describe one such time and what you did in response.
LIFE LESSONS
5) We manifest the love of God toward the faithless when we pray for them and demonstrate God's love for them despite their faithlessness.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
1 John 4:13-5:5
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) How do we know that God lives in us and that we live in God? (v.13)
2) To what had the Apostle John seen and testified? (v.14)
3) How do we know that the Spirit of the Living God lives in us? (v.15-16)
4) Why is the love of God perfected (brought to maturation) in believers? (v.17)
5) How do we know that the love of God has not been perfected in us? (v.18)
6) Why do we love God? (v.19)
7) If we truly love God, how will that love be manifested? (v.20)
8) What command has the Lord given us? (v.21)
9) How do we know that we are born of God (born again)? (5:1)
10) How do we know that we love God's children? (v.2)
11) How is the love of God manifested? (v.3)
12) What do the children of God do? (v.4a)
13) What is the victory that overcomes the world? (v4b)
14) Who overcomes the world (v.5)
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
15) Are you able to love everyone the Lord sends into your home, church, workplace, or community? Why, or why not?
16) Have you been grown in your love for others since first coming to faith in Christ? If so, How do you know?
17) Are you ever fearful of, or intimidated by, other believers? If so, why?
LIFE LESSONS
18) The Lord perfects His love in us, over time, by driving out the darkness within our souls (e.g. fear, unforgiveness, jealousy, anger, lust, pride).
19) The Holy Spirit of God is manifested through our lives as we love others.
20) The Holy Spirit emboldens us to love others, as we love God.
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Romans 8:31-39 KJV
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. 34 Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What does the Apostle Paul write concerning the heirs of salvation? (v.31)
2) Why does the Lord "freely give us all things"? (v.32)
3) What is the result of our justification? (v.33)
4) Who can condemn us? Why not? (v.34)
5) What can hardships in life does the apostle write about? Can those hardships separate us from the love of Christ? Why not? (v.35-36)
6) What is the apostle persuaded of? (v.37-39)
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) Were the hardships or difficulties that you've faced in your life able to separate you from the love of God?
LIFE LESSONS
8) The love of God is freely given to the heirs of salvation, despite the trials that we endure in this life.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
1John 3:1-5 KJV
1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What has the love of God done for His children and what is the result of that? Why? (v.1)
2) What has yet to be revealed to the sons (children) of God and when will it be manifested? (v.2)
3) What should those of us who hope to be His sons (children) do? Why? (v.3-5)
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) Do you still sin? If so, what do you do to purify (cleanse) yourself.
LIFE LESSONS
5) The sons (children) of God are manifested through the love of God in our hearts and by the purification of our hearts, as well as our deeds, by the Spirit of God.
