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!
God Will Build His Church!
God will build His Church! – Zechariah 4
Notes:
Why were the people in Zechariah’s day discouraged? How was this vision in Zechariah 4 an encouragement to them?
How are we tempted to despise the “day of small things” when it comes to the growth of the church? What is the biblical response?
What challenges face us as we seek to make disciples? How does Zech 4 encourage us?
How is the church built? What role do we have?
Other passages to consider:
2 Chron 16:9; Ez 3:8-13; 4:1-6; 5:1-2; 6:14-15; Isa 40:4; 45:2; Hag 1:6,14; Mt 16:18; Eph 2:12-22; 1 Pet 2:4-10; Rev 11:3-4.
Purified to Enjoy and Serve God
Purified to Enjoy and Serve God- Zechariah 3
Notes:
1) _____________ Condition – vv1,3
2) Gracious _________________ – vv2,4-7
3) Promised _________ bringing permanent __________ – vv8-10
- As our great High Priest, what has Christ accomplished for us?
- How is Joshua’s experience in this passage a picture of what God does for us in Christ?
- What truths do you need to remember when Satan accuses you or your own conscience condemns you?
- How does God’s grace to us in the Gospel free us to enjoy and serve God?
Other passages to consider:
Ex 28:9-11,36-38; Lev 16; Jer 23:5; Rom 3:21-26; 8:33-34; 12:1; Heb 7:22-27; 9:6-14; 10:1-14; Rev 7:13-14.
Our Perfect Priest
Our Perfect Priest – Hebrews 4:14-16
Notes:
1) We have an exalted high priest who ___________________________.
Let us then, ____________________.
2) We have a sympathetic high priest who ________________________________.
Let us then, ________________________.
- What did OT priests do? How is Jesus superior to them?
- How does Jesus’s incarnation enable Him to minister to us now?
- How does this passage encourage you in your walk with Christ?
Other passages to consider:
Lev 16; Isa 6:1; 66:1; Mt 4:1-11; 27:51; Heb 2:17-3:1; 5:1-10; 6:19-20; 7:26-28; 10:19-21.
Our Salvation Story
Our Salvation Story - Titus 3:3-7
Notes:
1) What we were - v3
2) What God did - vv4-6
3) What we become – v7
• What was not the grounds for our salvation? On what basis does God save us?
• How do you see glimpses of v3 in you through your remaining sin? What might you be like now if God had not saved you?
• What did you used to believe about Jesus? How has your view changed?
• How does this text describe all three members of Godhead active in our salvation?
Other passages to consider:
Isa 9:2; 53:6; Ezk 36:25-27; Lk 19:10; Jn 3:1-8; 8:34-36; Rom 6:17-19; 2 Cor 4:4-6; Eph 2:1-10; Col 3:7; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 4:10.