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Let’s Work! Tuesday Bible Study – Luke 19:1-27
2021 Planning Meeting via Zoom
Denarius of God – Luke 20:19-26
Annual Church Meeting
Tuesday Bible Study – 2020.10.13
His Terms – John 18:28-40
John 18:33-38 NIV
28 Then the Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial uncleanness they did not enter the palace, because they wanted to be able to eat the Passover.
29 So Pilate came out to them and asked, “What charges are you bringing against this man?”
30 “If he were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed him over to you.”
31 Pilate said, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”
“But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. 32 This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?”
35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?”
36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate.
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. 39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
40 They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising.
Discussion questions as we reflect on John 18:28-40:
1) Share a time when you regretted a deal or sale because you failed to read the “terms and conditions.”
2) After asking the question in v.29, what do you think was the idea formed in the mind of Pilate regarding Jesus? Was his expectation confirmed when he saw Jesus face to face?
3) When you say, “Jesus is my King,” what do you exactly mean by that?
4) Upon interrogation of Jesus, Pilate stated John 18:37, what are his possible conclusions regarding Jesus?
5) What is Jesus’ confident assertion in his reply to Pilate (still in verse 37)?
6) We come to King Jesus based on his terms. How did Jesus’ terms affect Pilate? Jesus, himself? us, today?
Contradiction in Devotion – Malachi 1:6-14
What: Zoom Bible Study – Zoom ID: 420-774-082
When: October 2, 2020, Friday, 7:30PM (ET)
Title: Contradiction in Devotion
Text: Malachi 1:6-14
Malachi 1:6-14
6″A son honors his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD Almighty. “It is you priests who show contempt for my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’ 7″By offering defiled food on my altar. “But you ask, ‘How have we defiled you?’ “By saying that the LORD’s table is contemptible. 8When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice lame or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?” says the LORD Almighty. 9″Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?”-says the LORD Almighty. 10″Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD Almighty, “and I will accept no offering from your hands. 11My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD Almighty. 12″But you profane it by saying, ‘The LORD’s table is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food is contemptible.’ 13And you say, ‘What a burden!’ and you sniff at it contemptuously,” says the LORD Almighty. “When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them from your hands?” says the LORD. 14″Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the LORD. For I am a great king,” says the LORD Almighty, “and my name is to be feared among the nations.
Discussion questions:
1) What was the argument of the Lord and what was the people’s response in v. 6?
2) What was the Lord’s rebuttal?
3) In the same manner, what are the actions we take that dishonor and disrespect God?
4) What was the height of their disrespect of God? (v. 9)
5) What is the Lord implying in v.11? (Hint: The ‘nations’ are the non-Jews. How can they give honor to God when they are not Israel?)
6) Suggest ways we can give the Lord the devotion He deserves.