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Sunday sermons from Berean Community Church. Based in Irvine, California, we are a medium-sized, multi-ethnic church devoted to God-centered worship, equipping members with God’s Word, loving community and accountability, and reaching the world with the gospel of Christ.
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1. Who was Jesus speaking to? Why do you think Jesus was giving them this difficult warning?2. How do you reconcile all the passages of honoring your father and mother with Jesus saying we must hate them to be his disciples?3. What two illustrations are given to illustrate why we must count the cost of following Christ? What do the illustrations reveal about what we're called to do?
1. What does the "big dinner" represent in Jesus' parable?2. What excuses were given by the characters in the parable? What do these excuses reveal about them?3. Who were the initial invitation given to? What group of people do they represent?4. Who do the poor, crippled, blind and lame represent? Who are the ones on the highways and along the hedges?
1. What is the context of this parable? Who was he referring to?2. What is the purpose of making a statement through a parable?3. What is the universal issue being addressed to the guests and to the host?4. What is the ultimate motivation for why a guest or the host would follow Jesus' teaching according to verse 15?
1. Where did this event take place and what is it's significance?2. What is dropsy? What is the modern day equivalent?3. What two questions did Jesus ask the Pharisees? Why could they not answer either question?4. What do these questions reveal about the way the Pharisees approached the law?
1. What was the motivation of the Pharisees for warning Jesus about Herod's intent to kill Him?2. Why did Jesus answer the Pharisees warning by telling them his ministry and plans to die in Jerusalem?3. Why does Jesus call Herod a fox? What is a fox known for?
1. What is the reason given in this text why we need to live intentionally?2. What is the difference between being wise and unwise? Is there a difference of what wisdom looks like for believers verses rest of the world?3. Is this passage calling the church to have better time management or something else? What different words are translated as time in the New Testament? What is the word used here for time? How do the other translations translate verse 16?
1. What does it mean for Jesus to not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped?2. What did Jesus have to empty himself of to put on humanity? Try to name as many things you can think of that he had to empty Himself of for his incarnation to happen?3. What is the application that Paul desired the church to practice in light of Jesus' incarnation?
1. Why do you think some asked Jesus who would be saved? What prompted them to ask this question?2. Who are the people who will not enter into the coming Kingdom? Why will they not enter?3. How is the final judgment described? What does gnashing teeth describe?4. How is the final restoration described? What does the restoration point to that was lost becasue of sin?
1. What is your understanding of the Kingdom of God? How did the Jews of Jesus' time understand what the Kingdom of God was?2. Is the parable of the leaven in the dough meant to be a positive parable mirroring the teaching of the first parable of the mustard seed, or is the parable of the leaven meant to be a negative illustration given as a warning? Try to back up your answer from scripture.3. What is the message of the parable if it is positive? What is the message and warning if it is negative?
Questions1. What three points were covered last week about what a legalist is or is not?2. What is the primary sin of a legalist? How does Jesus rebuke the synagogue leader?3. How did the ruler and others who opposed Him react to Jesus' rebuke compared to the rest of the crowd?
Questions1. What was Jesus doing when Jesus decided to heal the woman? What do you think He was teaching?2. Who initiated this healing? What does that reveal about the possible intent of this healing?3. Why do you think the synagogue ruler was more concerned about the healing on Sabbath than the miracle of the healing itself?4. What hypocrisy does Jesus reveal about the synagogue rulers attitude toward the woman healed and Jesus?
1. In the previous passage Jesus warned the crowd about being spiritually alert. How does what he says here connect to that?2. In what way are the two events Jesus refers to similar and in what way are they different?3. How is the parable of the fig tree not bearing fruit relate to his call to repentance?
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