Check here each week for information to prepare your heart for the upcoming sermon and follow-up questions you can use after the sermon to dig deeper and disciple your family!
Sin's deceit & God's power
Sin’s deceit & God’s power – Joshua 9
Notes:
1) -vv3-13
2) -vv14-21
3) -vv22-27
Digging Deeper:
- How does Satan use deception to steal, kill, and destroy?
- When are you most tempted to handle things yourself rather than seeking wisdom or prayer?
- How do we see God’s purposes prevail even in the face of sin and opposition?
Other passages to consider:
Deut 7:1-4; 20:10-20; Ps 119:105; Prov 3:5-6; Acts 4:24-28; Rom 8:28-29; 2 Cor 11:3,14; Eph 6:10-18; Jam 1:5; 1 Pet 5:8.
Delivered by Christ
Delivered by Christ – Matthew 12:22-32
Sermon Notes:
Digging Deeper:
- What did Jesus casting out the demon demonstrate?
- When did Christ defeat Satan? How is Jesus currently plundering Satan’s house?
- Why is it not possible to remain neutral about Christ?
Other passages to consider:
Luke 4:17-21; 2 Cor 4:3-7; Eph 2:1-10; 4:8-10; 6:10-20; Phil 2:6-11; Col 1:13-14; 2:15; Titus 3:3-7
The Obedient Son, The Triumphant Savior
The Obedient Son, The Triumphant Savior - Matt 4:1-11
Digging Deeper:
- Why did the Spirit lead Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted?
- What was Satan trying to get Jesus to doubt about the Father?
- In the third temptation, what is Satan tempting Jesus to abandon?
- Why is it significant that Jesus obeyed where Israel had failed?
- How does Jesus’s victory here point toward His saving triumph over Satan?
- How do these temptations make Jesus a sympathetic High Priest?
- How did Jesus resist these temptations? Do we have the same resources available to us?
Other Passages to Consider:
Ex 17:1-7; Deut 6; 8:1-3; Ps 2:7-8; 91; 72:8-11; Dan 7:13-14; Matt 12:28-29; 16:21-23; 27:40-44; Col 1:13-14; Heb 2:17-18; 5:7-9
Promised Defeat of Satan
Sermon – Promised Defeat of Satan – Genesis 3:15
Preparing your heart for the sermon:
- Notice the context in which the promise of Genesis 3:15 is given. Why is this significant?
- How do we see the prophesied enmity between the offspring of the woman and the serpent manifested in Scripture?
- Who brings the ultimate defeat of the serpent? What does Gen 3:15 tell us about this victory?
Other passages to consider: Gen 3-4; Matt 4:1-11; John 15:18-27; Rom 5:18-21; 16:20; Col 2:13-15; Heb 2:14-18; 1 Jn 3:1-18; Rev 12:1-16; 20:1-10
Digging Deeper:
- Why does the world hate believers? How does Gen 3:15 remind us that God is sovereign over this evil?
- How did Christ defeat Satan? How did Genesis 3:15’s description of that victory prove true?
- How can we live in light of Christ’s victory now in this present evil world?
- When will our final deliverance from evil take place?