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Q2. (Exodus 32:21-24) What was the nature of Aaron
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Q2. (Exodus 32:21-24) What was the nature of Aaron
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Q1. (Exodus 32:1-6) Why do you think the people of Israel were so quick to make idols, even after hearing the monotheism of the Ten Commandments that forbade graven images? Why do you think Aaron facilitated their sin? How do you think the golden calf made God feel? What idols do Christian churches allow that lead them away from pure worship of God in our day?
1. Fear, doubt and habit. Fear that Moses had taken God with him and left them; doubt that they had really seen the miracles God had done for the, the manna, quail, and water in the desert, and all the miricles leading to their journey; worshipping other gods was a habit acquired over 400 years in Egypt. Hard to break that habit.
2. He was trying to please the people, not God. He wanted to remain a popular leader, rather than a pious leader.
3. Angry, furious, probably sick with disgust.
4. Some churchs worship saintly people and pray to them. Some have more pride in their buildings and bank balances than pride in and love for God
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Q4. (1 John 5:21) Why does John exhort his "children" to "keep yourselves from idols"? What idols distract us from the true God? What idols compete with God for attention in your life?
1.He wants them to worship the one true God. He has seen the intermarriage of Gods children with pagons leading to idol worship. He knows, from Jesus that the evil one controls the world except for those God protects.
2. Now, in this time, we tend to put material things on a pedistal, even loved ones. We give them undue importance, striving to get "things" rather than striving for Gods kingdom.
3. Too many things. Family, home, retirement accounts, even church.
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Q3. (1 John 5:14-15) What are the two conditions to answered prayer in 1 John? (See also 3:22) How do we determine God's will so that we can pray boldly, confidently? How often will our prayers be answered when our main motive is to achieve our will?
1. Our obedience to God, and Gods will
2. We read the Bible, study Jesus life and words. It is hard to pray boldly, confidently because God has planned for us the best as long as we love and worship Him.
3. Gods will is always better than our will. When we have needs, such as food and water, we pray for them and God provides for ourneeds as He did for the Israelites in the desert.
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Q2. (1 John 5:11-12) What is the difference between saying "this life is in the Christian Church" and "this life is in his Son"? What should we be doing differently so that we teach a faith relationship rather than a religion? What is the difference between "faith" and "faith in Jesus"?
1. The church cannot give you eternal life, that can only be gotten thru Jesus,His death and resurection. The church will support and encourage you in your walk of faith,but only God can enter into a personal relationship with you
2. We must teachabout Jesus and His life, how the old testament foretells His coming, rather than bogging down in doctrines and laws and rules of religion.
3. You can have faith in many things (faith in your spouse, faith that your car will start) but only faith in Jesus, (belief in His resurection and His promise to come again for us) will give us eternity with Him.
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Q1. (1 John 5:4-5) How does a defeatist mentality differ from a belief that in Christ we have overcome the world? What part does faith have in this overcoming? What part does unbelief have in a defeatist mentality?
1. A defeatist attitude causes you to act passively. Lets things just drift in their lives. In our belief in Christ, we step out in faith, not just drift around passively. We trust in Gods mighty power.
2. Faith is the firm belief that God is with us, and promises to defeat our enemies, and the devil and his menions ARE our enemies.
3. If you don't believe in God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, you will never overcome your fears, your enemies. Time after time you will fail in anything you try to do.
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Q4. (Exodus 24:8; Matthew 26:27-28) What is the function of the
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Q3. (Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:9) In what sense is Israel a
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Q2. (Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:9) What did priests do in the Old Testament? In what sense are you a priest? How do you function as a priest? In what sense are you a
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Q1. (Exodus 19:5; 1 Peter 2:9) From an emotional standpoint, what does it feel like to take out and look over one of your treasured possessions? How was the idea of
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Q4. (1 John 4:11-18) What kind of fear should we have towards God? What kind of fear is extinguished by his love perfected in us? What kind of attitude should we have towards future judgment?
1. Fear of angering God after He has loved us so much and provided for us as He has.
2. Fear of dying, fear of earthly problems
3.Thankfulness that God loves us so much He arranged to come to earth as Jesus, and die for our sins so we could join Him forever.
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Q3. (1 John 4:7-8) Why is the statement, "God is love," so important? What does it say about God's nature? How does love being the essence of God's nature affect us? If we were created in God's image of love, but fell, what does this say about the road to healing in our lives? Why does love demand a willingness to forgive?
1. We know from that that God will act with love in whatever He does, whether helping us day by day or judging us when we sin and drift away from His teachings
2. He wants to pour out His amazing love on all the world, but He does expect love, worship and obedience in exchange.
3. We are told to love one another as He has loved us. We are not to hold on to anger, spite, selfcenteredness etc, but to love the ones causing us anger and pain and to forgive them as He forgives us.
4. For our spirit to be healed and become loving and wholesome again, we must first seek God again, pray for His forgiveness and for His healing, then forgive those who have sinned against us.
5. If you love God, you want to obey Him, live like Him, and love one another as He commands. You must loveand forgive others for God to love and forgive youl.
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Q2. (1 John 4:4) What in us is greater than false prophets and even Satan? In what sense have we overcome them? In what way will we overcome them in the future? How should this truth affect fear in our lives?
1. The Holy Spirit of God
2. By choosing to worship the one true God and by welcoming the Holy Spirit.
3. By letting God battle for us. No one, no foe is stronger.
4. We don't have to be afraid, we just lean on God and trust Him
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Q1. (1 John 4:1-3) Why is believing that Jesus was God in the flesh so important? Why doesn't Satan want us to believe that? What are the implications of the fact that Jesus could live out his divine life in a human body like ours? What significance does it bring to the crucifixion and to the resurrection? What is the significance for your Christian life?
1.By believing that Jesus was God in the flesh, we are able to know that He came and walked among us, teaching us, taking our sins upon Himself to the cross so we can be clean at judgement.
2. Satan wants us to belong to him for eternity so he and his followers want us to not believe in Jesus and His holiness.,
3. It proves He is willing to love us and to experience our feelings and day to day frustrations and joys.
4. Greater love has no man. He was willing to live with us and die for us, even while we were still sinners.
5. I have the perfect example of how God expects us to live, with love for all and a spirit of humbleness. Now it is up to me to try to daily live up to this example in my Christian life.
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Q4. (Exodus 18:13-27; Numbers 11:10-30) Why do you think it took Moses so long to delegate his judicial role to others? What were the qualifications of these judges? How is Moses
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Q3. (Exodus 16) Why did God provide manna for the people? Why did the manna finally cease? Why do you think that the people gradually began to take the manna for granted? What provision of God are you taking for granted?
1. They were hungry. He was proving to them that He could and would take care of them every day in every way.
2. They no longer needed it. They had reached a country where they could find grain to eat.
3. It was there, every day for 40 years, a certainty for them. They quit worrying about hunger and counted on God to provide for their every need.
4. So many times I count my blessings, but don't remember things like thanking God for putting me in the church I attend, my Bible study classes, things that mean so much to me. I am truely grateful to God for His mercies and grace. For healing us when we are sick, and providing our every need daily.
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Q4. (1 John 3:22) We know that God doesn't "owe" us anything. So what is the relationship between obedience and answered prayer? Do we "earn" God's favor through obedience?
1.God commands us to love one another. When we disobey Him and don't help, love and take care of His people, how can we expect God to favor us with answered
prayer.
2.Thruout history, God has punished His disobedient children. When they wander from Him and don't obey, He yanks them back to His way. When we love, and obey
Him He leads us day by day. He is with us and helps us in our daily lives. By being obedient to Him, I think we earn Gods favor. He loves us anyway, but helps us
when we are obedient.
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Q3. (1 John 3:16-18) What does it mean to "lay down your life for your brothers"? What are some concrete examples of this kind of love in action within the Christian community? If you are in a large congregation, how can you get to know other members so you'll be able to lay down your life for them -- and they for you?
1. Rather than physically dying, I think it means to die to self and spend your life as Jesus did, serving, helping, teaching and providing for others. This is
so hard to do in this day and time as we are so busy with our families, our jobs, and even our churches, that we fall by the wayside.
2. Local food banks, soup kitchens, church teachers and workers, hospital and nursing home volunteers, having a fund at your church to help people in need. Supporting our missionaries.
3. I'm in a small church, but have found that getting involved with Sunday school, choir, study groups, youth ministries, vacation Bible school etc., will help
you meet and enjoy other people.
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Q2. (Exodus 16:7-8) Why can grumbling against a leader really be a symptom of grumbling against the Lord? Are there any cases where this might not be true? Why do leaders tend to take complaints so personally? What does it take to learn that "it's not about you."
1.Because God is the supreme being,the one in charge, not the leader. The leader is just following Gods instructions. The people are never content, neither then, or now. Always wanting more.
2 Yes, when the leader is not following Gods instrctions.
3. Complaints make a person defensive, feel weakened, and feel at fault.
4. Remember to be humble, place the praise where it belongs, in Gods hands. He also has hands capable of handling the grumbling. We must keep a loving heat and a firm belief that God is in control.
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Q1. (Exodus 15:24) What are the reasons that people grumble and complain? How do fear and faith relate to grumbling? What symptoms of grumbling do you see in your own life? What should you do about it?
1.We grumble because we are afraid; for our lives, might starve, die of thirst, be killed, suffer, be mocked and ridiculed. We grumble at the slightest things. Sometimes it is jealousy of others.
2. We fear, that is human. We have faith to sustain us if we only ask for it. God is with us, providing for us. When our faith is low, doubts come into our hearts and we become discontent, start grumbling.
2. Impatience, irritability, jealousy are things I have to pray over. Wanting my own way, not Gods way.
4. Pray lean totally on God. Die to self. Learn complete trust
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Q2. (1 John 3:15) How can anger turn into hatred in our hearts? In what ways do anger and hatred relate to murder? How can we get rid of stored-up anger in our hearts so that we may love those who have offended us?
1.If we get angry with someone and hold on to that feeling rather than forgiving them and going on with our lives, the anger will fester and grow into hatred in our hearts. It is much easier to release feelings of anger than of hatred.
2. The same spirit is underlying both. Anger can grow to hatred which can fuel murderous rages and feelings
3. Prayer, Bible sudy, making a conscious effort to know them better. Remember always that God loves them, and we should too.
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Q1. (1 John 3:12-15) Why did Cain resent Abel? Why did Cain kill Abel? How does the story of Cain and Abel illustrate Jesus' explanation of why the world hates us?
God favored Abel. God could see Cains heart and wasn't pleased wih the spirit in which he offered his sacrifice to God.
2. Jealousy caused his anger to overwhelm him.
3. The world ecognizes it's own sins when it sees the love of Jesus in us, our love for one another.
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Q4. (Exodus 14:4, 17-18) Why is God
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