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Q4. (John 3:16) Why is this verse so famous? What does it teach us about God? What does it teach us about salvation? Since

Q3. (John 3:5-7) What does it mean to be

Q2. (John 3:3-5) What does

Q1. (John 3:3, 5) What does Jesus teach here about the nature of the Kingdom of God? Do you think Nicodemus understands him? Why or why not? Jesus is teaching that the nature of the Kingdom of God is Spiritual. Nicodemus will not understand what Jesus is saying because he has not been born again. Nicodemus will not understand the nature of the Kingdom of God until he accepts Jesus Christ as the Messiah, the Son of God and Savior of the world, and then he will be able to enter the Kingdom of God in this respect.

Q4. Why are we so afraid to obey God when he puts on our heart to do something decisive? How are we to deal with fear when we feel it? What is the relationship of fear to courage? Why is courage required in leaders and disciples? I have fear to obey God when he puts on my heart to something decisive because I know that God usually commands me to do things that I may feel uncomfortable with, but the ultimate reason is for my own good and what will glorify god. Living righteously can be a fearful thing sometimes when I have to face certain trials and temptations that may result in a embarrassment situation or circumstance, losing out on certain pleasures, wealth, or human pride in life that may be once my passion for if I obey God. Example - My fear is to share the gospel with everyone other than the people I know, so even God had called me to share gospel with everyone, I am afraid what the other people will think, losing my pride, so I end up disobeying God in this matter. I do believe that fearing something or someone so much can help us to develop courage because we have to overcome this fear, and by overcoming this fear, we have to first have to courage to do so. Leaders and disciples is required to have courage because we are in a spiritual warfare, we need guidance and courage to win, if we continue to live in fear or become cowards, we will easily lose our faith in his word and God himself.

Q3. (Exodus 4:13-14a) Why is God angry with Moses? What is Moses basic sin? Unbelief, fear, or disobedience? Has the Lord ever been angry with you, do you think? How did Moses appease Gods anger? God is angry with Moses because after coaching him on what to say, helping him with both delivery and content, Moses tries to wriggle out of the call, and had series of excuses and "what ifs", Who Am I, what if they ask your name? What if they don't believe me, But I'm not eloquent, and people will kill me and etc.... after each of these what ifs were answered by god, God had responded in anger. Moses basic sin was disobedience, fear and unbelief since he did not want to do it what God had call him to do, fear of what would happen, and not believing that God would call him, and not believing that God will be with him while he is on duty. Yes, I solemnly believe I have anger God since I know I had failed to obey his words many times in my life, so numerous I can not even count all the offenses. Moses appease God's anger, since God provided a second way to convince Moses to take the assignment - his brother Aaron, since he is willing to work with us and find ways to fill in for our weaknesses, so that he can use our strengths, in this case Moses weakness in speech. Finally Moses makes plans to return to Egypt after be convinced and rebuked.

Q2. (Exodus 3:10-12) Does Moses

Q1. (Exodus 2:11-15a) What do we learn about Moses’ motivations, character, and leadership ability from the incident of him killing the cruel Egyptian taskmaster? What positive things do you see in his character? What negative things do you discern? Moses realized and identify himself as a Hebrew, and killing the cruel Egyptian taskmaster because he witnessed this taskmaster beating a Hebrew, his motivation was anger towards this taskmaster for mistreating his own kind, his charactive was an heroic act, but was impulsive, out of control showing some form of rage and anger, he did not think about the consequences he may have to face due to his action, and the result was to flee from Egypt. He showed righteous anger and strong sense of basic justice towards others being mistreated. He was in charge of this situation, but his decision was rash, and since he did not know about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob at the time, he seems to have no sense yet of acting for God. Even though he was a Prince of Egypt, I don't think this incident portray any leadership ability, he may had took the lead to determine the fate of the taskmaster, but he was nor recognized and appreciated by the Hebrews at this time in his life for his actions.

Q4. What does Jesus teach us about the value and worth of the Kingdom? Why are we tempted to value it so little? What helps us to appreciate its true value? How might your testimony help a seeking friend to value the Kingdom more? Jesus teach us that the value and worth of the kingdom is not that we can buy it through anything we might pay or do, the kingdom is a gift of God's grace. We can accept this salvation, and looking forward to follow, obey and do God's will, but sometimes we don't do it, then the value is little to us, but to appreciate its true value, we must study, meditate, pray and learn and follow God through bible study and fellowship with god and his followers, and then its value will be truly immense and greater than anything we own and have. Well, my testimony is that believing in God's salvation is free, all we have to do is take it without earning it, since we can never earn our salvation by doing good things since we can not measure up to God's standard of righteousness and holiness, but with God's grace we are saved indeed. Praise God almighty!

Q3. (Mark 10:22) Why is poverty and self-sacrifice an inadequate religion? Why does Jesus ask the man to follow him? In what senses was this a great privilege that the man was offered? Why did he reject the offer? Poverty and self-sacrifice is not a religion or an adequate religion anyways since we don't worship poverty, self-sacrifice means sacrificing ourselves for something, and what is that something, it can be anything, but if we sacrifice our wealth for God, then that means something since we may receive God's salvation and want to follow him, but still self-sacrifice alone is not a religion or even come close to being a religion. Jesus asked the man to follow him because when Jesus looked at this man and loved him, and is inviting this rich young man to join him on his journeys, to become of disciples who enjoy the immense and unspeakable privilege of spending time with Jesus and learning from him on a day-by day basis. The rich young man reject the offer because he can not go with Jesus and his disciples because he can loves one thing more - his money and riches and can not leave it behind or give it all to the poor.

Q2. (Mark 10:21) Why do you think Jesus requires the rich young ruler to divest himself of his fortune? Why does this trouble us so much? If there was no other way for the man to be saved, what does that say about the spiritual dangers of wealth? Jesus requires the rich young ruler to divest himself of his fortune because with all his wealth and fortune, he won't be able to follow Jesus/God wholeheartedly, and not willing to surrender to him and trust that Jesus/God will provide and give. We are troubled with fear because we sense that we are not fully surrender to Jesus/God. The spiritual dangers of wealth is that we can forsake our salvation for temporary wealth on earth. Our wealth can cause us to worship money instead of God or replace God, or even worship money and God equally, but God command us to only worship him alone, since that will distract us in truly worship and surrendering to God only.

Q1. (Matthew 13:44-46) What do the Parables of the Hidden Treasure and Pearl of Great Price have in common? What is the main point of these parables? How should it affect our values? Our lives? The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and Pearl of Great price are twin parables recorded by the Gospel writer, and both of these parables are short,only a sentence or two long, and both have similar teaching about the costliness of the Kingdom. Let's examine them in greater detail. These two parables main point is a man will sell everything or parting with everything we have and own, to obtain this hidden treasure or this pearl since the value is so exceedingly much greater. These parables teaches us this incredible value of salvation that far surpasses any amount a poor man might able to scrape together to try to acquire it. That what we own and have in this life is not worth having compare to our salvation or the kingdom of God. We should leave everything behind just for the sake of this salvation which is permanent and eternal.

Q4. (Luke 17:33-36) What does our passage teach about the separation and judgment that will occur when the Kingdom comes? How should this affect our lives? Our testimony? Our love for our neighbors? The passage teach about the separation and judgment that will occur when the kingdom comes is that those who are taken along with him are saved from the catastrophe, but those who are left are destroyed by the impending judgment. This certainly affects our lives since it seems that one group is taken away to be saved, and others are left to experience terrible destruction and punishment. There won't be time to get right with God. This separation will take place instantly, without warning. We must be ready for the coming of the Son of man. Our testimony is to repent and to really have faith and trust in him or it will be too late, our testimony is to share our christian faith with others, that is our calling or else it would be too late. We should love our neighbors by sharing the gospel with them so that we have more taken away to be saved, and less of them to be left behind for destruction and punishment.

Q3. (Luke 17:24-32) What indications does Jesus give in this passage that he will suddenly come in his Kingdom without further warning? What are the implications of this for our attitude? For our lives? Jesus will come like the days of Noah which means people are going about their normal lives as if nothing is going to happen, and on that particular day destruction from God occurs suddenly and with further warning. Our Attitudes should be like the warning that Jesus warns his disciples that when this day suddenly appears, they aren't to rush off or turn away to get something. The implications is that on this day we should not worry about our things on that day, else they become a snare to us and cause us to miss out on the deliverance he offers.

Q2. (Luke 17:22-24) What do Jesus words about lightning teach us about the nature of the coming of his Kingdom? Jesus' words about lightning will teach us that the nature of the coming of his kingdom won't appear to just a few or in secret. He will be visible to all believer and unbeliever alike since lightning can be seen at great distance and lights up a huge area. Jesus says it "lights up the sky from one end to the other. Everyone will see him.

Q1. (Luke 17:21) In what sense was the Kingdom of God present in the Person and ministry of Jesus? In what sense is the Kingdom of God present today? The Kingdom of God is present in the Person and ministry of Jesus since the kingdom is among you which is explained in lesson 4, that Jesus said the kingdom was present among them in Jesus himself. That the kingdom had already begun as Jesus teaches, gathers disciples, and exercises God's authority here on earth. Also in Matthew and Luke " If I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you (Matthew 12:28, " If I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you." (Luke 11:20) The kingdom of God , Jesus is saying, is not only a future reality. The Kingdom is present now in his very Person and will be fully revealed in the future.

Q4. (Matthew 11:12; Luke 16:16) Admittedly, this is a hard passage to interpret. However, if you take the

Q3. (Matthew 7:7-8) Why is continual asking, seeking, and knocking so essential to our looking forward to the Kingdom? Why do we give up so easily? How do we gain boldness and persistence in prayer? This verse is very relevant to the reason(s) why we should continual asking, seeking, and knocking so essential to our looking forward to the kingdom "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (Matthew 7:7-8), since we have to be persistent about it, it is hard work, God created the heaven, earth and us by working, since we are created in his image, we also should work, even though salvation is free, but still we need to work hard to maintain our salvation and love for God, that is the reason we need to study, meditate and memorize his word, and put it in our heart so we know more about him. Just like if you want to know about your wife, you will have to work in a relationship, there is no difference in knowing God as well. We can gain boldness and persistence in prayer by doing the following: We aren't to pray with a whimper or a whine or a whisper. No. We are to come with a confident, bold, persistent asking, seeking, and knocking. God our Father desires to hear our petitions and we are to be entirely open with him. Prayer is not a time to hide what is going on inside us, but to share it openly -- warts and all -- with our Father who, as we know, loves us and understands us and seeks good for us. We can trust him, even though we might misunderstand an issue, or ask for the wrong thing.

Q2. (Matthew 6:33) What does it mean in verse 33 to

Q1. (Matthew 6:24) Jesus seems to make it sound like you cant seek wealth and God simultaneously. Does he really mean this? Is this hyperbole? Figurative? Literal? Can wealthy people serve God in actual fact? It depends on a person, some people can seek God even when they are wealthy, but the truth of the matter is that when someone have money or is financially wealthy, a person will probably shift their worship somewhat since they may be happy with their financial situation that sometimes forget about asking God for things or praying since his or her financial wealth had taken his or her time to pursue other endeavors which may or may not be God's will. There will be a smudge or a spot some how on a person's heart once a person have wealth. He will not be 100% faithful to the lord, but then there are some people out there giving away there wealth for the kingdom of god also. I don't understand the meaning of hyperbole, figurative or literal , but I know that this is difficult to achieve true worship on earth if we don't have true faith in God in the 1st place. It is just like you can not serve two masters, you can only serve one, you will have to give up the other to gain the other. I don't think you can have them both equally.

Q4. What did Jesus intend the Parable of the Soils to teach us about the

Q3. (Matthew 13:23) Even good soil can have factors that hinder growth in various parts of the field, or make some areas grow taller and fuller wheat. What factors make a disciple especially good soil for the growth of the word or message of the Kingdom? What might be the reasons for 30-fold, 60-fold, and 100-fold growth? Factors that make a disciple especially good soil for growth are to have complete submission to God's will, waiting on Him for guidance and directions, being aware of the gifts of the Spirit, and making sure that we put these into good use in accordance with His leading; humility and being humble, knowing that ultimately, it is God Himself by His grace who directs our path where to sow and find the good soil where to plant His Word, that it is by His grace that changes a person's life, it is therefore with much prayers and supplication that we go through our task sowing the seeds of His Word.

Q2. (Matthew 13:22; Luke 8:14) Which of the thorns that Jesus mentions do you think is the most dangerous: Riches, worries/cares, or pleasures? Why do you think so? All three thorns is equal in weight to being dangerous in my opinion, but I think pleasures is the most dangerous since it can be addictive. We should trust God with all our possessions, but when we abuse God's gift to us with riches, and if our worries/cares or pleasures interfere with our devotional life, we are double minded people that God is no longer our true love or it won't be true worship to God only anymore, then we are not putting God first in our lives, or having faith and trust in God to take care of our needs like worries/problems.

Q1. (Matthew 13:20-21) Why, according to Jesus