The Contrite and Humble in Spirit

Saturday, August 29, 2015
Isaiah 57:10-12 NIV 

10 You wearied yourself by such going about, but you would not say, 'It is hopeless.' You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint. 11 "Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have not been true to me, and have neither remembered me nor taken this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me? 12 I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) After declaring His idolotrous people had transgressed against Him, what else did the Lord say about His rebellious people? (v.10)
2) What does the Lord ask those who have transgressed against Him? (v.11)
3) What else does the Lord declare about His wayward people? (v.12)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) Do you know of any professing believer(s) who has (have) forsaken the way of the Lord to pursue their own way? If so, what do you think will become of them?

LIFE LESSONS
5) The Lord wants what is best for His people. Those who reject His will and His way, reject Him as Savior and Lord.
6) Do not dismiss the Lord because He has been silent. He has appointed a day of judgment for all who forsake Him.
7) The Lord will not remember the sins of those who are humble and penitent.

God Protects Those Born of God

Saturday, April 25, 2015
1 John 5:16-21 KJV

16 If any man see his brother sin a sin [which is] not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. 18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 19 [And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) The Apostle John mentions two types of sin, what are they and which sin should we pray for? (v.16)
2) What does the apostle write concerning all unrighteousness and sin that leads to death? (v.17)
3) Why do those believers, born of God, refrain from practicing sin? (v.18)
4) What do we know about the children of God and the children of the world? (v.19)
5) What do we know about Jesus? (v.20)
6) What is John's warning to the children of God? (v.21)  

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) Do you willfully practice sin? If so, will you confess and repent of your sins to the Father to avoid spiritual death?

LIFE LESSONS
8) Those who willfully practice sin are not born of God.
9) Willful disobedience (rebellion) against God, leads to spiritual death.