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More Than Conquerors

 

Life In Christ Bible Study
Presents
More Than Conquerors
October 7, 2023
Romans 8:28-39

Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

  1. *How do you explain why bad things happen to nice people?
  2. What causes people to lose their faith in God?

Explore It

  1. *How does God work in all the situations and events of a person’s life? (8:28)
  2. For whom does God promise to work all things for good? (8:28)
  3. Who is our ultimate example? (8:29)
  4. How does God seek to change His people? (8:29)
  5. What does God want each person to become? (8:29)
  6. What has God done to make people what He wants them to be? (8:30)
  7. What made Paul confident that God takes care of His people? (8:31-32)
  8. *Why should we feel confident that God is not against us or condemning us? (8:31-34)
  9. Where is Jesus Christ right now? (8:34)
  10. *What possible tragedies or hardships are unable to separate us from the love of Christ? (8:35-39)
  11. What kind of persecutions have God’s people often faced? (8:36)
  12. How are God’s people to respond to persecutions and tragedies? (8:37)
  13. What gives God’s people the ability to respond in triumph to persecution? (8:37)

Get It

  1. How can God produce good results out of bad situations?
  2. What is God’s intention and plan for each Christian?
  3. In what practical ways can each of us be like Christ?
  4. How can we be sure God really loves us?
  5. What can Christians expect God to do for them?
  6. How important should the opinions of others be to a Christian?
  7. *How can a person be sure that bad times aren’t a signal of God’s displeasure with him or her?
  8. *What gives Christians confidence as they go through hard times?
  9. In what situations do you need God’s conquering power?
  10. How have you experienced God’s never-ending love in your life?
     

Apply It

  1. *How can you commit your difficult circumstances to God this week?
  2. How can you show trust in God to work out your circumstances for good?

 

Scripture References:

Romans 8:28-39 (NKJV)
Ro 28  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
29  For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30  Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
31  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32  He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
33  Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
34  Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36  As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37  Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38  For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39  nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Doing Good to All

Life In Christ Bible Study
Presents
Doing Good to All
August 5, 2023
Galatians 6:1-10
Presented by Michael Webb

 

Open It

  1. *How easily do you share your time and skills with others?
  2. What’s hardest about serving others?
  3. How do you feel when you aren’t thanked for going out of your way to help someone?

Explore It

  1. What did Paul say about helping a Christian overtaken by sin? (6:1)
  2. What warning about sin do strong Christians need to heed? (6:1)
  3. *How should Christians support each other? (6:2)
  4. What is the law of Christ? (6:2)
  5. *What is the antidote to self-deception? (6:3-4)
  6. How is carrying one’s own load different from bearing the burdens of others? (6:5)
  7. What is the responsibility of church members toward their teaching elders? (6:6)
  8. How did Paul warn against a lack of financial support for the Christian workers in the Galatian churches? (6:7-8)
  9. How did Paul encourage the Christians to endure in service? (6:9)
  10. What did Paul say about a Christian’s social responsibility? (6:10)
  11. *What responsibility do believers have toward each other? (6:10)

Get It

  1. *What is the best approach to helping a Christian brother or sister caught in sin?
  2. How is your view of yourself in line with God’s?
  3. *What encourages you to keep going in Christian service even when you feel like giving up?
  4. How would you evaluate your history of tithing?
  5. How can you help meet the needs of others outside the church?

Apply It

  1. *How can you help a member of your church this week with a particular burden he or she has?
  2. This week, what can you do to support someone in missions in a way that will please the Spirit?

 

 

Scripture References:

 

 

Galatians 6:1-10 (NKJV)
Gal 1  Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
2  Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
3  For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4  But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
5  For each one shall bear his own load.
6  Let him who is taught the word share in all good things with him who teaches.
7  Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
8  For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
9  And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
10  Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

 

643 Sins and counting

Life In Christ Bible Study
Presents
643 Sins … and counting!
July 8, 2023
Multiple Scripture References
Presented by Michael Webb

One of the Holy Spirit’s roles is to make believers aware of attitudes and actions that are contrary to God’s will. If we decide to resist conviction, we will naturally try to quiet the Spirit’s voice–which often means giving the Lord less of our time or none at all. Then, unconfessed sin will cause us to walk away from the Father instead of delighting in our relationship with Him.

Sin usually feels good in some way, at least for a while and sometimes a long while. For example, we can feel justified in our bitterness when the other person has wronged us. Sometimes we want to hold on to resentment and prolong our sense of validation. But as believers, we cannot run our lives by emotion. We must consider God’s truth:

Satan tempts us with sins that are likely to look and feel good to our natural selves–a habit that gives pleasure or solace is easier to justify than one that seems repulsive. But no sinner is truly happy chasing after wickedness. Authentic joy is found only in a friendship with the Lord.

Galations 6:
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. 4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, 5 for each one should carry their own load. 6 Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor. 7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.

1 Corinthians 6:19,20

19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

Sins that are committed on a daily basis which bring pleasure:
Galatians 6:7, 8 and 1 Corinthians 6:19,20 (What do they say?)

1. Telling the untruth (lying)
2. Taking what’s not yours (stilling)
3. Drinking until drunk (drunkard, wino)
4. Using narcotics (drugs)
5. Manipulating People (verbal)
6. Lusting for one another (physical attraction)
7. Adultery (Sex outside your marriage relationship)
8. Fornication (Sex outside of marriage)
9. Masturbation (Sex with one’s self (self-abuse) – outside the marriage rela- tionship) 10. Homosexuality (man to man and woman to woman relation- ships)
11. Boasting of our abilities (Proclaiming ourselves as oppose to glorifying God)
12. Argumentative (Being Contentious – only my point of view is correct) 13. Seeking Revenge (Doing evil for evil)
14. Not resisting Temptation (In Alcohol, sex, drugs, tongue lashing)
15. Glutton (Eating everything in sight)
16. Gossiping (spreading stories about others)
17. Pornography (Watching and reading leads to sexual immorality)
18. Pride (Wanting the praise and attention of others — see. Proverbs 11:2) 19. Haughty Attitude (arrogant, snooty and conceit or just Stuck up)
20. Need to be right (Attribute of people who fear being wrong – associate with Pride)

List of the Sins that are committed that provides us with a good sensation.

(Just a few items that are considered sinful)

11.ARGUING Prov 17:14; 18:6; Titus 3:9; 2 Tim 2:23
Proverbs 18:6 (KJV) A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

59.PUTTING CARES OF THIS WORLD BEFORE GOD Mk 4:19; Lk 8:14; 21:34
Mark 4:19 (KJV) And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

(SINS PERTAINING TO CLOTHING) 69 to 74

69. WEARING THE CLOTHING OF THE OPPOSITE SEX Deut 22:5

Deuteronomy 22:5 (KJV) The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

70. DRESSING INDECENTLY 1 Tim 2:9; Prov 7:10

1 Timothy 2:9 (KJV) In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
Proverbs 7:10 Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.

71. LOVE FANCY CLOTHING TO SHOW OFF-TO BE ADMIRED BY MEN Mk 12:38
Mark 12:38 (KJV) And he said unto them in his doctrine, beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,

77. NOT HAVING COMPASSION 1 Pe 3:8

1 Peter 3:8 (KJV) Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

79. COMPLAINING ABOUT HARDSHIPS Num 11:1 NIV

Numbers 11:1 (NKJV) Now when the people complained, it displeased the Lord; for the Lord heard it, and His anger was aroused. So the fire of the Lord burned among them, and consumed some in the outskirts of the camp.

80. COMPLAINING ABOUT WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE Num 11:4-6; 21:5

Numbers 21:5 (NKJV) And the people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.”

85. NOT BEING CONTENT WITH WHAT YOU HAVE Heb 13:5

(SINS PERTAINING TO CONVERSATION) 86 TO 111

96. SPEAKING EVIL OF BROTHERS Ja 4:11

James 4:11 (NKJV) Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

99. FILTHY CONVERSATION Col 3:8

Colossians 3:9 (NKJV) Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds,

154. GETTING INVOLVED IN THE DOCTRINES OF DEVILS 1 Tim 4:1

1 Timothy 4:1 (NKJV) Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,

155. GETTING INVOLVED IN ANY DOCTRINES OTHER THAN SOUND DOCTRINE 1 Tim 1:10
1 Timothy 1:10 (NKJV) for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

157. DRINKING 1 Tim 3:3; Prov 20:1
1 Timothy 3:3 (NKJV) not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

159. GETTING DRUNK (DRUNKEN) Lk 12:45,46; Ro 13:13; 1 Cor 6:10
1 Corinthians 6:10 (NKJV) nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

160. BEING DISCONTENT Phili 4:11; 1 Tim 6:8; Lk 3:14

1 Timothy 6:9 (NKJV) But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

164.EMPLOYEES, ARGUING WITH EMPLOYERS Titus 2:9

Titus 2:9 (NKJV) Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,

165. EMPLOYEES, NOT BEING OBEDIENT TO YOUR EMPLOYER Col 3:22,23; Eph 6:5-8

Colossians 3:22 (NKJV) Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.

167. EMPLOYERS, NOT GIVING THAT WHICH IS JUST AND EQUAL Col 4:1
Colossians 4:1 (NKJV) Masters, give your bondservants what is just and fair, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

169. NOT FEEDING YOUR ENEMY AND GIVING HIM DRINK Ro 12:20

Romans 12:20 (NKJV) Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

176. HEARING EVIL 1 Tim 5:13; Ps 101:5; Acts 17:21
1 Timothy 5:13 (NKJV) And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

180. REWARDING EVIL FOR EVIL Ro 12:17

Romans 12:17 (NKJV) Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.

187. WHATSOEVER IS NOT OF FAITH IS SIN Ro 14:23

Romans 12:17 (NKJV) Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.

188. PARTAKING OF FALSE DOCTRINES 2 Jn 10; Jude 4; Ro 16:17,18; Prov 19:27
2 John 1:10 (NKJV) If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him;

191.BEING A FALSE WITNESS Ex 20:16; Mt 15:19; Mt 19:18

Matthew 15:19 (NKJV) For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

193. CALLING A MAN YOUR FATHER UPON THE EARTH Mt 23:9

Matthew 23:9 (NKJV) Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

194. FAULTFINDERS Jude 16 NIV

Jude 1:16 (NKJV) These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.

202. WALKING AFTER THE FLESH Ro 8:1,5,13

Romans 8:1 (NKJV) There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

203. FOLLOWING THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH Eph 2:3

Ephesians 2:3 (NKJV) among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

211. NOT FORGIVING OTHERS Mt 6:14,15; Mk 11:25,26; Lk 17:4
Luke 17:4 (NKJV) And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

212. FORNICATION Acts 15:20; Mk 7:21; Ro 1:29

Acts 15:20 (NKJV) but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

214. FORTUNE-TELLING Acts 16:16-18 NIV; Deut 18:10,11

Deuteronomy 18:10 (NKJV) There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

218. GAMBLING Lk 12:15

Luke 12:15 (NKJV) And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”

220. GIVING GRUDGINGLY 2 Cor 9:7

2 Corinthians 9:7 (NKJV) So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

221. GIVING TO THE POOR TO BE SEEN BY MEN Mt 6:1-4

Matthew 6:1 (NKJV) “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

241.KNOWING GOD’S WILL BUT NOT DOING IT Lk 12:47; Ja 4:17

James 4:17 (NKJV) Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

244. NOT DOING EVERYTHING AS UNTO THE LORD Col 3:23

Colossians 3:24 (NKJV) knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

245. NOT DOING GOD’S WILL Mt 7:21; 1 Jn 2:17

Matthew 7:21 (NKJV) “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.

250. NOT GIVING GOD THE GLORY Lk 17:17,18; Ro 1:21; Acts 12:23
Acts 12:23 (NKJV) Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.
Romans 1:21 (NKJV) because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

256. NOT LOVING GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, SOUL, AND MIND Mt 22:37; Deut 6:5
Matthew 22:37 (NKJV) Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

289.ROB GOD NOT GIVING 10% PLUS OFFERINGS (CURSED) Mal 3:8,9

Malachi 3:8 (NKJV) “Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, ‘In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.

294. THINKING GODLINESS IS MEANS TO FINANCIAL GAIN 1 Tim 6:5 NIV

1 Timothy 6:5 (NKJV) useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

295. TRUSTING IN MAN, NOT GOD Jer 17:5

Jeremiah 17:5 (NKJV) Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord.

296. TRUSTING IN RICHES, NOT GOD Ps 52:7

Psalms 52:7 (NKJV) “Here is the man who did not make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

301. HEARKEN TO THE VOICE OF YOUR WIFE INSTEAD OF GOD Gen 3:17

Genesis 3:17 (NKJV) Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.

302. WORSHIPPING ANGELS RATHER THAN GOD Col 2:18 NIV

Colossians 2:18 (NKJV) Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

307. CARRYING A GRUDGE 1 Pe 4:9; Ja 5:9

1 Peter 4:10 (NKJV) As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.\
309: Breaking of the Law, being guilty of all Sin Ja 2:10
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

314. REFUSING INSTRUCTION (NOT HEARING INSTRUCTION) Prov 8:33

Proverbs 8:34 (NKJV) Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.

333. HONORING MEN AS GODS OR AS INFALLIBLE Acts 14:11-18

Acts 14:11 (NKJV) Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”

344. HYPOCRITICAL Mt 15:7-9; 23:3

Matthew 15:8 (NKJV7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
8 “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’[a]”

346.BEING IDLE (NOT WORKING WHEN WORK IS AVAILABLE)1 Tim 5:13; Mt 20:6,7; 2 Thes 3:10
2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NKJV) For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

356.RETURNING INSULT FOR INSULT 1 Pe 3:9 NIV
1 Peter 3:9 (NKJV) not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

381. NOT TO LOVE IN DEED AND IN TRUTH (LOVING JUST IN WORDS) 1 Jn 3:18
1 John 3:18 (NKJV) My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but indeed and in truth.

399. BAD MANNERS 1 Cor 15:33

1 Cor 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

400. NOT SUBMITTING TO MAN’S LAWS Ro 13:2,3; 1 Pe 2:13-15

Romans 13:2 (NKJV) Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.

401. ABSTAINING FROM EATING MEAT 1 Tim 4:1-4

1 Timothy 4:3 (NKJV) forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

418. STUDYING THE OCCULT Deut 18:9-14; Lev 20:6; Isa 8:19, Isa 47:13,14
Leviticus 20:6 (NKJV) ‘And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.

429. NOT BEING PATIENT Lk 21:19; 1 Tim 3:3; 2 Tim 2:24; Heb 10:36; Ja 5:8
2 Timothy 2:24 (NKJV) And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,

431.CAUSING A WEAK BROTHER TO PERISH 1 Cor 8:11,12
1 Corinthians 8:11-12 (NKJV) 11 And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

433. PHILOSOPHY Col 2:8

Colossians 2:8 (NKJV) Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

435.LIVING IN PLEASURE 1 Tim 5:6; Ja 5:5
James 5:5 (NKJV) 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. [a]

448.THE PRAYER TO CONSUME WHAT YOU ASK FOR ON YOUR LUSTS Ja 4:3
James 4:3 (NKJV) You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

457. GOING TO PREACHERS OR TEACHERS THAT DO NOT TEACH SOUND DOCTRINE, WHO SAY WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR 2 Tim 4:3

2 Timothy 4:3 (NKJV) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

459. TO DEPART FROM A PREACHER THAT IS TEACHING GOD’S WORD BECAUSE THE WORD IS TAUGHT UNCOMPROMISED Jn 6:60,66; 2 Tim 4:3,4,10

2 Timothy 4:3, 4 (NKJV) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

461. PREACHING, SEEKING THE GLORY OF MEN 1 Thes 2:4-6

1 Thessalonians 2:4 (NKJV) But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts.

462.PREACHING TO PLEASE MEN 1 Thes 2:4-6
1 Thessalonians 2:5-6 (NKJV) 5 For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak for covetousness–God is witness. 6 Nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, when we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.

495.RICHES, REFUSING TO KEEP FREE FROM THE LOVE OF MONEY Heb 13:5
Hebrews 13:5 (NKJV) Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

496.RICHES, THE LOVE OF MONEY (FILTHY LUCRE-COVETOUS) 1 Tim 3:3; 6:10; 2 Tim 3:2

1 Timothy 6:10 (NKJV) For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

499.RICHES, SEEKING TO BE RICH 1 Tim 6:9

1 Timothy 6:9 (NKJV) But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

500. RICHES, TRUSTING IN RICHES Mk 10:24; 1 Tim 6:17

1 Timothy 6:17 (NKJV) Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

508. TO SAY, THE LORD HATH FORSAKEN THE EARTH Ezek 8:12.

Ezekiel 8:12 (NKJV) Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’ “

514. SELFISHNESS Phili 2:21; 2 Tim 3:2; 3 Jn 9-11
Philippians 2:22 (NKJV) But you know his proven character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel.

522. SEX WITH A VIRGIN-MARRY HER Deut 22:28,29

Deuteronomy 22:29 (NKJV) then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days.

537.NOT CONFESSING YOUR SIN 1 Jn 1:9; Ja 5:16; Ps 32:5; Prov 28:13
1 John 1:10 (NKJV) If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

540.SAY YOU HAVE NOT SINNED 1 Jn 1:10

1 John 1:10 (NKJV) If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

541.REFUSE TO ADMIT YOU ARE A SINNER 1 Jn 1:8,10; Jer 8:6

1 John 1:10 (NKJV) If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

567. BEING QUICK-TEMPERED Prov 14:17

Proverbs 14:18 (NKJV) The simple inherit folly, But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

568. CAUSING TENSION (STRIFE) Phili 2:3

Philippians 2:3 (NKJV) Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

569. NOT GIVING THANKS IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, NOT THANKFUL TO GOD 1 Thes 5:18; Ro 1:21
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NKJV) 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

575. EVIL THOUGHTS Mt 15:19; Mk 7:21

Matthew 15:19 (NKJV) For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

577.TONGUE, CALLING EVIL GOOD AND GOOD EVIL Isa 5:20

Isaiah 5:20 (NKJV) Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

578. TONGUE, CURSING THEM THAT HATE YOU Job 31:29,30; Mt 5:44

Matthew 5:44 (NKJV) But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,

597.MAKING A VOW AND NOT KEEPING IT Ecc 5:4-6
Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 (NKJV) 4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; For He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed– 5 Better not to vow than to vow and not pay. 6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?

(SINS AGAINST THE WORD) 612 TO 648

612. ADDING OR TAKING AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THE BOOK OF THIS PROPHECY Rev 22:18,19
Revelation 22:18-19 (NKJV) 18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

619. NOT TURNING AWAY FROM FALSE SCIENCE THAT CONTRADICTS GOD’S WORD 1 Tim 6:20
1 Timothy 6:20 (NKJV) O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—

1 Timothy 6:20 (KJV) O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

624. NOT BELIEVING ALL OF THE BIBLE (ALL OF GOD’S WORD) (FOOL) 1 Jn 5:10; Lk 24:25; Jn 8:47; 10:26; 12:48 John 12:48 (KJV) He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
634.

NOT STUDYING GOD’S WORD Prov 4:4,5,20,21; Jos 1:8; 2 Tim 2:15
Proverbs 4:4-5 (KJV) 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

639. REJECTING THE WORD OF GOD 1 Sam 15:23,24; Jer 8:9; Lk 7:30

Jeremiah 8:9 (KJV) The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

643. TAKING AWAY FROM THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY Rev 22:19

Revelation 22:19 (KJV) And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

(SINS RELATING TO THE WORLD) 650 TO 663)

666. LETTING THE SUN GO DOWN ON YOUR WRATH Eph 4:26; Heb 3:13
Hebrews 3:13 (KJV) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Punishment for Sexual Sin

Life In Christ Bible Study
Presents
Punishment for Sin
Leviticus 20:1-27
June 3, 2023

Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

  1. *What is your favorite childhood memory?
  2. What do most people you know think is God’s view of sex (positive, negative, etc.)?
  3. Why do you think some people are drawn into the occult?

Explore It

  1. *What happened to people who gave their children to Molech? (20:1-2)
  2. *Why were the consequences so severe to those who gave their children to Molech? (20:3)
  3. *When people closed their eyes to what was happening to children, what resulted? (20:4-5)
  4. What did God think of people who listened to spiritists and mediums? (20:6)
  5. Why was Israel told to be holy? (20:7-8)
  6. What are the consequences of cursing a mother or father? (20:9)
  7. What were the consequences of having unlawful sexual relations? (20:10-13)
  8. Why did God forbid a man to marry both a woman and her mother? (20:14)
  9. What were the laws concerning sexual contact with animals? (20:15-16)
  10. How might a man dishonor his sister? (20:17)
  11. What restrictions did God place on a man’s sexual relations with a woman during her period? (20:18)
  12. How were relatives dishonored by unlawful sexual relationships? (20:19-21)
  13. What did God promise Israel for abiding by His laws? (20:22-24)
  14. What type of distinction did God ask the people to make between certain animals? (20:25)
  15. Why did the Lord set the nation of Israel apart from the other nations? (20:26)
  16. How were mediums and spiritists put to death? (20:27)

Get It

  1. What are certain practices in our world today that God says are detestable?
  2. *How do you think God feels when He sees children destroyed by their parents?
  3. What makes it wrong when we close our eyes to evil?
  4. How can God’s people make a difference in this world by standing up for righteousness?
  5. What did God want to guard against by forbidding unlawful sexual practices?
  6. How can bad sexual decisions lead to severe consequences?
  7. *What are positive ways we can protect and nurture our children?
  8. What does this passage say about God’s love for children?
  9. Why is it dangerous to dabble in fortune-telling?

Apply It

  1. *What can you do to stand up for the rights of innocent children?
  2. In which of your present circumstances do you need to show child-like faith?

Scripture Reference:

Leviticus 20:1-27 (KJV)
Lev 1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2  Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3  And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4  And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
5  Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
6  And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
7  Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
8  And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
9  For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
10  And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
11  And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
12  And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
13  If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
14  And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
15  And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
16  And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
17  And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
18  And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
19  And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
20  And if a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21  And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
22  Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
23  And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
24  But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
25  Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
26  And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
27  A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

 

Life Through The Spirit

Believers Life Style Bible Study
May 6, 2023
Life through the Spirit
Romans 8:1-17
Presented by Michael Webb

 

Open It 

  1. *If you were released from a three-year captivity as a hostage, what would you do during your first week of freedom?
  2. What impact can a good father or a bad father have on a person’s life?

Explore It 

  1. What is the status of a person who trusts in Jesus Christ? (8:1)
  2. *How is a person set free from the law of sin and death? (8:2)
  3. What did God do that the Law was powerless to do? (8:3-5)
  4. What is the difference between those who live according to their sinful nature and those who live according to the Spirit? (8:5-8)
  5. *How can a person know if he or she is controlled by the sinful nature or by the Spirit? (8:9)
  6. What promise is given to people living in the Spirit? (8:11)
  7. What kind of obligation do Christians have? (8:12-14)
  8. What happens to the person who lives according to the sinful nature? (8:13)
  9. *By what means can a person find life? (8:13)
  10. What is true of people who are led by God’s Spirit? (8:14)
  11. What kind of spirit do God’s children have? (8:15)
  12. What are the benefits of being a child of God? (8:15-17)

Get It 

  1. What feelings of condemnation and rejection may Christians feel?
  2. *In what ways does knowing Christ set us free?
  3. How does living for Christ change the desires of our heart?
  4. What have you seen the Spirit of God do in a person’s life?
  5. *What does unchecked sin and selfishness produce in a person’s life?
  6. How does seeing and experiencing God as a loving Father change your understanding of what it means to live as a Christian?
  7. What benefits does God give to His children?

 

Apply It

  1. What area of your life do you need to turn over to God’s mighty power? How will you?
  2. *What changes have you been resisting in your life that you are now willing to allow your loving heavenly Father to complete?

 

Romans 8:1-17 (NKJV)
1  There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
3  For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,
4  that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5  For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6  For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
8  So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9  But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
10  And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11  But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
12  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors–not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13  For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
15  For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
16  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17  and if children, then heirs–heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

 

 

Pray Like This

 

Life In Christ Bible Study
Presents
Pray Like This
Matthew 6:5-15
April 1, 2023
Presented by Michael Webb

 

Open It

  1. What images or thoughts spring to mind when you hear the word “prayer”?
  2. *What role did prayer play in your family’s life when you were growing up?

Explore It

  1. According to Jesus, what wrong motivation prompts some individuals to pray? (6:5)
  2. *What name did Jesus call people who pray for show? Why? (6:5)
  3. Where do hypocrites prefer to do their praying? (6:5)
  4. What type of reward will religious showmanship bring? (6:5)
  5. *How did Jesus command His followers to pray? (6:6)
  6. Where did Jesus suggest we talk to God? (6:6)
  7. *What type of reward will humility in prayer bring? (6:6)
  8. What did Jesus have to say about repetitive or long, windy prayers? (6:7)
  9. What insights or facts about God are revealed in this passage? (6:6, 8, 9)
  10. To whom did Jesus tell us to pray? (6:9)
  11. What should be our attitude toward God? (6:9)
  12. What should be our attitude toward God’s kingdom and will? (6:10)
  13. What should be our attitude toward life’s necessities? (6:11)
  14. What should be our attitude toward those who have wronged us? (6:12)
  15. What should be our attitude toward temptation? (6:13)
  16. Why is it crucial for us to forgive those who wrong us? (6:14-15)

Get It

  1. What common or overused phrases do you hear frequently repeated in people’s prayers?
  2. If God knows what we need before we ask, why should we pray?
  3. *If Jesus commands us to pray in secret, what is the value of public prayer?
  4. Why do many Christians feel uncomfortable praying out loud?
  5. *When you pray in front of a group, how can you concentrate fully on what you are saying to God rather than how your prayers sound to others?
  6. Why do we often use special language or words for talking to God?
  7. What sins or offenses by others do we find especially difficult to forgive?

Apply It

  1. *What changes do you need to make in your prayer life?
  2. What strained relationship will you seek to repair this week by forgiving an offense?

Scripture Reference:

Matthew 6:1-4 (KJV)
Mt 1  Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
2  Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
3  But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
4  That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

Matthew 6:5-6 (KJV)
Mt 5  And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6  But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Matthew 6:7-8 (KJV)
Mt 7  But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Matthew 6:9-13 (KJV)
Mt 9  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11  Give us this day our daily bread.
12  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Matthew 6:14-15 (KJV)
Mt 14  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
15  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

The Children of God

Believers Life Style Bible Study
February 4, 2023
Children of God
1st John 2:28- 3:10
Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

  1. What kind of bread do you like most?
  2. *How do people attempt to satisfy their need to feel secure and significant in life?
  3. What needs do you spend the majority of your time trying to satisfy?

Explore It

  1. *Why did the crowd seek Jesus? (6:26)
  2. What did Jesus say the Son of Man would give to these people? (6:27)
  3. What did Jesus say was the work of God? (6:28-29)
  4. What did the crowd ask Jesus to do? (6:30-31)
  5. Who did Jesus say was the true bread of life? (6:32-33)
  6. *What did Jesus say would be the result of coming to Him? (6:35)
  7. What did Jesus say He would never do to those who came to Him? (6:37)
  8. Why did Jesus come down from heaven? (6:38)
  9. What did Jesus say is the Father’s will? (6:39-40)
  10. Why did the Jews begin to grumble? (6:41-42)
  11. Who did Jesus say could come to Him? (6:43-44)
  12. What did Jesus say would be the result of believing? (6:47)
  13. *What contrast does Jesus make between manna and the bread of life? (6:48-51, 58)
  14. What did Jesus say about His flesh and His blood? (6:53-57)

Get It

  1. *What things do we seek from Jesus?
  2. In what ways do you have a demanding attitude toward God?
  3. When and why did you come to Jesus?
  4. *In what way has Jesus satisfied your hunger and thirst for acceptance and meaning in life?
  5. In what ways do you still feel empty?
  6. What situations cause you to feel insecure?
  7. When do you feel secure in your relationship with God? Why?
  8. How has the Christian life turned out to be different from what you expected?
  9. In what way is Jesus an example for us to follow?

Apply It

  1. *What can you do today to rely on God, rather than on things or people, to satisfy your needs?
  2. What demanding attitudes do you need to ask God to help you change?

 

The Bible Scripture for the Lesson:

1 John 2:28–3:9 (NKJV)

The Children of God

28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

3 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

Sin and the Child of God

Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

 

 

God’s Love and Our Love

Life In Christ Bible Study
What’s Love Got to do with it
God’s Love and Our Love
Scripture: 1 John 4:7-21
December 3, 2022

Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

  1. Which do you think is a more powerful motivator—love, fear, or hate? Why?
  2. What popular figure alive today or from history used hate to motivate people?
  3. When have you been motivated by love?

Explore It

  1. What were the readers of 1 John encouraged to do? (4:7)
  2. *What is the relationship between loving and knowing God? (4:7-8)
  3. How did God show His love? (4:9)
  4. Why did God send His Son? (4:9)
  5. What is love? (4:10)
  6. Why should Christians love one another? (4:11)
  7. What is the result of loving one another? (4:12)
  8. *How can believers know that they live in God and God lives in them? (4:13)
  9. What did John testify concerning? (4:14)
  10. What happens when we acknowledge that Jesus is the Son of God? (4:15)
  11. Why is love important? (4:16-17)
  12. How is love made complete? (4:17)
  13. What does perfect love do? Why? (4:18)
  14. *Why should we love? (4:19)
  15. What is the relationship between loving God and loving one’s brother? (4:20-21)

Get It

  1. *How can we demonstrate our love for God?
  2. What example has Jesus set for us to follow?
  3. How should God’s love motivate you to love others?
  4. How do you know that God lives in you?
  5. What does it mean to live in God?
  6. Why is it be easier to love God than other Christians?
  7. *When you have difficulty loving other believers, what is it that makes it difficult?
  8. *How can we demonstrate our love for others?
  9. What are you afraid of?
  10. How can we overcome our fears?
  11. How does love drive out fear?

Apply It

  1. Who is someone that you have a difficult time getting along with that you need to ask God to help you love this week?
  2. What fear will you ask God to help you overcome?
  3. *What specific steps will you take this week to demonstrate your love for another believer?

 

Scripture:

1 John 4:7-21 (KJV)
7  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14  And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15  Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19  We love him, because he first loved us.
20  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

 

The Power of Love: Part II

Life In Christ Bible Study
Power of Love: Part II (Continuation)
Scripture: Song of Solomon 8:5-14
November 5, 2022

Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

  1. *What do you consider to be the most powerful emotion? Why?
  2. What kinds of problems crop up in a relationship sooner or later?
  3. When does romantic love tend to fade from a relationship? Why?

Explore It

  1. What question did the Friends ask? (Song 8:5)
  2. What events happened under the apple tree? (Song 8:5)
  3. *What did the Beloved ask the Lover to do? ( Song 8:6)
  4. *How did the Beloved describe love? ( Song 8:6-7)
  5. What question did the Friends ask about their sister? ( Song 8:8-9)
  6. Who helped the Beloved prepare for the day of her marriage? ( Song 8:8-9)
  7. What had the Beloved become like to Solomon? ( Song 8:10)
  8. What did the Beloved say that Solomon had? ( Song 8:11)
  9. What did the Beloved say she had? ( Song 8:12)
  10. What did the Lover say he wanted to hear? ( Song 8:13)
  11. *What did the Beloved invite her Lover to do? ( Song 8:14)

Get It

  1. *In what way is love strong and unyielding?
  2. How is love like a blazing fire?
  3. In what way is love unquenchable?
  4. How does the Beloved reflect upon her childhood and her courtship?
  5. What do the words of the Lover and Beloved in 8:13-14 recall about their relationship?
  6. *What do the verses and this book say about physical love between a husband and his wife?
  7. In what ways do we take love for granted?
  8. How can we keep the passion and commitment in our marriage?

Apply It

  1. What can you do this week to rekindle the flame of romantic love in your marriage?
  2. *What commitment will you make to honor love and sex within marriage and not to abuse it?

 

Scripture:

Song of Songs 8:5-14 (KJV)
5  Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
6  Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7  Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
8  We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9  If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
10  I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11  Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12  My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13  Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
14  Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

 

The Power of Love

Life In Christ Bible Study
Power of Love
Scripture: Song of Solomon 8:5-14
October 1, 2022

Presented by Michael Webb

Open It

  1. *What do you consider to be the most powerful emotion? Why?
  2. What kinds of problems crop up in a relationship sooner or later?
  3. When does romantic love tend to fade from a relationship? Why?

Explore It

  1. What question did the Friends ask? (Song 8:5)
  2. What events happened under the apple tree? (Song 8:5)
  3. *What did the Beloved ask the Lover to do? ( Song 8:6)
  4. *How did the Beloved describe love? ( Song 8:6-7)
  5. What question did the Friends ask about their sister? ( Song 8:8-9)
  6. Who helped the Beloved prepare for the day of her marriage? ( Song 8:8-9)
  7. What had the Beloved become like to Solomon? ( Song 8:10)
  8. What did the Beloved say that Solomon had? ( Song 8:11)
  9. What did the Beloved say she had? ( Song 8:12)
  10. What did the Lover say he wanted to hear? ( Song 8:13)
  11. *What did the Beloved invite her Lover to do? ( Song 8:14)

Get It

  1. *In what way is love strong and unyielding?
  2. How is love like a blazing fire?
  3. In what way is love unquenchable?
  4. How does the Beloved reflect upon her childhood and her courtship?
  5. What do the words of the Lover and Beloved in 8:13-14 recall about their relationship?
  6. *What do the verses and this book say about physical love between a husband and his wife?
  7. In what ways do we take love for granted?
  8. How can we keep the passion and commitment in our marriage?

Apply It

  1. What can you do this week to rekindle the flame of romantic love in your marriage?
  2. *What commitment will you make to honor love and sex within marriage and not to abuse it?

 

Scripture:

Song of Songs 8:5-14 (KJV)
5  Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
6  Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7  Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
8  We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9  If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
10  I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11  Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12  My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13  Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
14  Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.