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Week 11: Bible Study Questions for Group DiscussionUNDERSTANDING THE SHAPING & “GREAT THEMES” OF GOD’S WORDSPIRIT:INTIMACY WITH THE LORDTHE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE LORD HAS “ALWAYS BEEN WITH HIS COVENANT PEOPLE”GOD’S WORD: Psalm 51:1-12DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:Who and why was this Old Covenant believer so concerned about forgiveness and the Holy Spirit?Why does divine forgiveness seem to be an essential condition for receiving divine power in the Holy Spirit?What is the real significance of the name for the very first Passover celebration?JESUS PROMISED THE HOLY SPIRIT, “THE PRESENCE OF OUR ETERNAL PARENT”GOD’S WORD: ??15? “If you love me, you will obey what I command. ?16? And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— ?17? the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. ?18? I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. ?19? Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. ?20? On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. ?21? Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” 25? “All this I have spoken while still with you. ?26? But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. ?27? Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. ?38? Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ?39? The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” (John 14:15-21, 25-27; Acts 2:38-39, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:How was Jesus like a counselor and parent to the followers with him for three and one/half years?How far reaching is the promise to send the Holy Spirit beyond the original Apostles of Jesus?THE HOLY SPIRIT “KILLS OUT SENSUALITY AND GIVES BIRTH TO SPIRITUALITY”GOD’S WORD: ??19? The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ?20? idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ?21? and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. ?22? But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ?23? gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. ?24? Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. ?25? Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. (Galatians 5:19-25, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: How would I define the acts of the sinful nature: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, rage, selfishness, dissensions, factions, envy drunkenness, orgies?How would I define each aspect of the fruit which the Spirit gives birth to in a believer’s life: love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control?What does it mean that the Spirit “crucifies the sinful nature with its passions and desires”?THE HOLY SPIRIT “MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE IN POWER, NOT WEAKNESS”GOD’S WORD: Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. . .?5? Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. ?6? The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; ?7? the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ?8? Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. ?9? You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. ?10? But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. ?11? And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. ?12? Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. ?13? For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, ?14? because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ?15? For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” ?16? The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. (Romans 8:1, 5-16, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:What is meant by this promise: “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”?What is meant by this promise: “The Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you; he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies”?Is this just another saying same: “If by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live”?NOTHING IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN “LIVING IN CHRIST’S RESURRECTION POWER”GOD’S WORD: ?7? But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ?8? What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ ?9? and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. ?10? I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ?11? and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. (Philippians 3:7-11, NIV)DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:How did the Apostle Paul compare his life in Christ with the life he knew before he knew Christ?What is meant by this great gift promise: “not righteousness that comes from law, but righteousness that comes from God by faith”?What might be one practical and lifestyle meaning of this great desire of Paul: “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection”? ................
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