Text: John 18:28-40  (read as group)
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Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text
1. How and why is Jesus a Righteous King?
2. How and why is Jesus a spiritual King?
3. How and why is Jesus a self-sacrificing King?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.

Suggested verse for meditation: “Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.””
‭‭John‬ ‭18:36‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/jhn.18.36.esv

Text: John 18:1-12  (read as group)
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*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Spend time comparing and contrasting: The Setting, The Temptations, and The Results of the garden of Eden (The first Adam) with the garden of Gethsemane (The second Adam)
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.

Note: In the following verse, give special attention to the cup that Christ says he will drink as it is symbolic of the cup that is used in the Lord’s Supper. The cup of judgement was drank by Christ through His suffering and death.
Suggested verse for meditation: “So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?””
‭‭John‬ ‭18:11‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/jhn.18.11.esv

Text: 1 Cor 11:17-34  (read as group)
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*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. List and discuss each of the 7 points listed in the Sermon on How the Lords Supper is to be Observed.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.

Suggested verse for meditation: “and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭11:24-26‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/1co.11.24-26.esv

Text: John 17:20-26  (read as group)
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*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. How can you bring about unity amongst other Christians around you that are not a part of Emmaus? Furthermore, how are you bringing about unity with other Christians who have differing theological beliefs?
2. What are/is the defining factor(s) when unity must cease and division begin between two proclaiming Christians?
3. Discuss the following statement from the sermon, “Jesus divides, doctrine unites”.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.

Suggested verse for meditation: “that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”
‭‭John‬ ‭17:21‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/jhn.17.21.esv

Text: John 17:6-19 (read as group)
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*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Who is Jesus specifically praying for? Why is this important?
2. What is Jesus specially praying for in verses 6-19?
3. What does it mean to be “sanctified” by the Father, as Jesus prayed in verse 17?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.

Suggested verse for meditation: “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.”
‭‭John‬ ‭17:6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/jhn.17.6.esv

Text: John 17:1-5  (read as group)
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*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. What does Jesus’ prayer to the Father reveal about himself? About His Church?
2. Explain what “The Hour” resembled when Jesus said “The hour has come”?
3. How does Jesus describe eternal life in this passage?
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.

Suggested verse for meditation: “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”
‭‭John‬ ‭17:3‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/jhn.17.3.esv

Text: John 16:16-33  (read as group)
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*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. Are you currently wrestling with fear? What? Why? Share with your group.
2. How does this passage bring comfort and peace to the child of God? Discuss.
3. Explain the quote from the sermon that “suffering will lead to life”.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.

Suggested verse for meditation: “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.””
‭‭John‬ ‭16:33‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/jhn.16.33.esv

Text: John 15:18-27  (read as group)
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*Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text*
1. What does Jesus mean when he says ““If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” In John‬ ‭15:18-19‬ ‭ESV‬‬? Explain.
2. Do you have non Christian friends in which you minister to on a regular basis? Share.
3. What does it mean practically to be in the world, but not of the world pertaining to Christ? Share, explain, and discuss.
Family Application: Discuss this week’s Catechism questions and share how to communicate these truths to your family.
Gospel Sharing Application: Share about ways in which you have been able to share, proclaim, display, or model the Gospel during this last week.

Suggested verse for meditation:
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.”
‭‭John‬ ‭15:26-27‬ ‭ESV‬‬