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Week 7: Bible Study Questions UNDERSTANDING THE SHAPING & “GREAT THEMES” OF GOD’S WORDREBELLION:DEPTH OF THE CRISIS FOR EVEN THE LORD’S PEOPLEISRAEL SOON BECAME “REBELLIOUS AGAINST THE LORD”GOD’S WORD: (Exodus 32:1-4, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:Why did the people of Israel become impatient with Moses and with the Lord at Mount Sinai?What was the very ungodly request which these impatient Israelites brought to Aaron?Who is Aaron and why would they have come to him for spiritual leadership?What was the greatest sin of Aaron in doing what he did while Moses was away?What is the real significance of the name for the very first Passover celebration?THE LORD DEALT DECISIVELY WITH “REBELLION IN ISRAEL”GOD’S WORD: (Exodus 32:25-29, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:In what ways did the people of Israel get out of control while Moses was receiving the Commandments?Who was held uniquely responsible for the rebellion of these people and why?How seriously must spiritual leaders, among the Lord’s people, take their responsibility for keeping the Lord’s people faithful to the Lord and his word? (Clue: see Hebrews 13:7, 17)How does rebellion among the Lord’s people cause them to become a laughing stock to unbelievers?What was the incredibly decisive challenge Moses put to the people Israel and why?Which tribe of Israel rallied to Moses’ challenge and took an uncompromising stand for the Lord’s truth? How decisively and impartially did the Lord command these people to discipline rebellion in Israel?THE LORD REPEATEDLY DEALT DECISIVELY WITH “REBELLION IN ISRAEL”GOD’S WORD: ?(Ezekiel 36:16-20, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: How did the nation of ancient Israel defile the land by their conduct and actions?How did they defile the land by shedding innocent blood?In what ways might our nation be guilty of shedding innocent blood even with Constitutional Protection?What is the highest Law which must govern the faithful people of the Lord no matter where they live?How did ancient Israel defile their land with idols?How do the people of our land give greater honor to things above uncompromised devotion to the Lords?What was the great disciplinary act of the Lord for their rebellion during the days of Prophet Ezekiel?Why was this such humiliating discipline for those who claimed to be the true people of the Lord?THERE REMAINS A REBEL “INSIDE THE MOST FAITHFUL CHRIST-FOLLOWERS”GOD’S WORD: ?14? We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. ?15? I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. ?16? And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. ?17? As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. ?18? I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. ?19? For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. ?20? Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. ??21? So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ?22? For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; ?23? but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. ?24? What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? ?25? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus… ?(Romans 7:14-8:1, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:Even though I believe I love the spiritual law of the Lord, do I sometimes feel I am also a slave to sin, like there is a Civil War raging inside of me when I try to faithfully serve the Lord?Why do I and others find it so difficult to do the right things even though we love the Lord?What do I understand about the power of sin over anyone who does not possess the Holy Spirit?How did Paul answer: “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”Am I, as a Christ-follower, am I free from condemnation because I am law-abiding or pardoned?What is the essential role of the Holy Spirit to help me live the life of faith and faithfulness?REBELLION AMONG CHRIST-FOLLOWERS IS TO “BE HANDLED DECISIVELY”GOD’S WORD: It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife… ??4? When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, ?5? hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature? may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord… ?9? I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— ?10? not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. ?11? But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. (1 Corinthians 5:3-5, 9-11, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:What was the specific sin which required this act of spiritual discipline in the Corinthian congregation?Is the final act of corrective discipline in the community of faith to be done privately or publicly?Is the design of such spiritual discipline designed to punish or to restore a rebellious brother or sister?How much social interaction should Christ-follower have with rebels among their members?What sins might fall under the designation of sexual immorality, greed, swindling, idolatry, drunkenness, and slander?Would I want to be part of a congregation that did not take these kinds of sins seriously among its own?Would being part of a loving, yet disciplining, fellowship of believers help or hinder my faithfulness?THE LORD’S DISCIPLINE OF SIN AMONG HIS PEOPLE IS AN “ACT OF GRACE & MERCY”Hypocrisy, greed and deceit have always found their way into the community of faith The Lord does not want his people to waste their lives outside of his purposes for themThe greatest rebellion against the Lord is any attempt to destroy his community of faith ................
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