Lives of Sacrifice
/God calls you to respond to the world’s hostility by remembering you who are and imitating Jesus in living lives of sacrifice and love.
Read MoreGod calls you to respond to the world’s hostility by remembering you who are and imitating Jesus in living lives of sacrifice and love.
Read MoreBecause God loves us, he disciplines us.
Why Discipline? (vv. 1-4)
The Danger of an Undisciplined Life
The Many Forms of Discipline (vv. 1-4)
The Heart (vv. 5-17)
The Motive of Discipline (vv. 5-11)
Responding to Discipline (vv. 12-17; 1 Timothy 5:20; 1 Corinthians 11:31)
Look to Jesus (v. 2)
Discussion Starters
Monday—Have you ever prayed for patience? What happened? What should you expect if you pray for righteousness?
Tuesday—What is the danger of raising a child without discipline? Where does a lack of discipline lead? Are you grateful or resentful for your parents’ discipline?
Wednesday—What are some different forms that discipline takes? How do you tend to respond to adversity? To a friend’s correction? What do you think when you see the church exercising discipline?
Thursday—Why does God discipline his children? What would it mean for us if God stopped disciplining us? Would that be an act of love?
Friday—How do you respond to correction? Does your response encourage or discourage others from speaking into your life? Where is the Lord calling you to grow in this regard?
True repentance admits guilt and responsibility, yielding all rights, hoping only for grace which is not deserved.
Our Struggle with Repentance
Humbling
Incriminating
Yields all Rights
A Call to the Church (vv. 12-13, 15-16)
For Whom the Horn Blows? (vv. 12-13, 15-16)
Judgment Begins in the House of God (1 Peter 4:17; Revelation 2-3)
Defender of the Defenseless (vv. 13-14, 17)
What Repentance Looks Like
Sincere Sorrow (vv. 12-13)
Turning from the World (v. 16)
A Contrite Heart He Will Not Despise (v. 14; Psalm 51:15-17)
Discussion Starters
Monday—Why do we like it when others repent, but hate to repent ourselves?
Tuesday—Why is it important to remember that the call to repentance in the book of Joel is addressed at the church? What is the danger of the church forgetting that it needs to repent regularly?
Wednesday—Why do you think we struggle with the idea of corporate repentance? Is the Bible opposed to the idea of corporate repentance?
Thursday—What does it mean to rend your hearts and not your garments? What does true repentance look like?
Friday—What does it mean that our worthiness is found in admitting our unworthiness? Why is that which scares us the most, the only way to find comfort?
The gospel calls us to love and serve one another and not to quarrel over opinions.
Read MoreGod gives discipline for the reverence of His name, the restraint and rescue of the flock, and the restoration of the sinner.
Read MoreGiving is an issue of freedom which is to be done with joy and a heart transformed by the gospel.
Giving is an act of worship—done as a result of and in response to the gospel.
Officers in the church are given as servants of Christ for the purpose of discipleship and ought, therefore, to reflect Christ as appropriate to their particular callings.
Unity is a gift that God has given the church and therefore requires that we give ourselves to guarding and protecting it.
The Ruling Elder, serves the church in a kingly office, under the authority of Christ the Great King.
The leper discovers that healing comes through faith and faith is increased as the Lord allows us to see how needy we really are and how great he really is.
Christ has come and set the Law aside by fulfilling it, bearing, in his flesh, the curse of the Law and thus establishing peace between God and man (and within the church).
Paul makes it clear that the Gentiles were not formerly a part of the people of God and with that came five disadvantages, but now they are included and that is to drive them to praise God.
We will see that the Deacons have the unique role guarding the holiness of God’s name by caring for the hurting in the flock.
The office of the deacon is established as a part of the church (which is the New Israel) and, in so doing, it displaces the older priestly order.
Joshua, the high priest, serves as a sign that God will come and suffer in order to establish his kingdom and bless his people.
Christ redeems a people to himself by taking their iniquity upon himself and by renewing them in his own image.
Christ came as the final revelation of the Father to do that which the Law could not do – show God’s heavenly kindness in fullness and bring salvation.
Officers are given to the church by God and must therefore serve him in their oversight and the congregation must render submission unto their officers as unto the Lord.
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