Discussion Questions: Luke 19:41-48

  1. Why did Jesus weep over Jerusalem? 
  2. What did Jesus predict would soon happen to Jerusalem?
  3. Why did Jesus drive those who sold out of the temple? What portion of the temple were these people selling in? What was the significance of Jesus cleansing this portion of the temple?
  4. Where is the temple of the New Covenant?
  5. What are the people of God to devote themselves tin the temple of the New Covenant?
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 62-64

  1. What is the fourth commandment?
  2. The first four commandments are about the worship of God. The first tells us who is to be worshiped. The second tells us how. The third commandment is about attitude. What is the fourth commandment about?
  3. When was the sabbath commandment first introduced?
  4. What was the Sabbath day a picture of when it was first given?
  5. What day of the week was the Sabbath from Adam to the resurrection of Christ?
  6. What day of the week is the Sabbath from the resurrection of Christ to the end of the world?
  7. Why did the day change? 
  8. When will the practice of Sabbath keeping come to an end?
  9. What should you do on the Lord’s Day Sabbath?
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Discussion Questions: Luke 19:28-40

  1. Why is it important to remember all that Jesus said earlier in Luke’s gospel regarding his purpose for going to Jerusalem?
  2. Why is it important to remember what Jesus taught in the parable of the minas regarding the invisibility of his inaugurated kingdom? What does this teaching have to do with Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem?  Should we expect the earthly city of Jerusalem to have anything to do with Christ’s inaugurated kingdom?
  3. How is Christ the fulfillment of the typological city of Jerusalem?
  4. How is Christ the fulfillment of the Davidic kingship?
  5. Which verbal/written prophecies did Christ fulfill when he entered Jerusalem?
  6. Why is it important, practically speaking, for Christians to understand the spiritual and invisible nature of Christ’s inaugurated kingdom?
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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 60 & 61

  1. What is the third commandment?
  2. The first four commandments are about the worship of God. The first tells us who is to be worshiped. The second tells us how. What aspect of worship does the third commandment address?
  3. What do you think most people would say if asked what the third commandment forbids?
  4. What does it mean to profane or abuse something, generally speaking? And what does the third commandment forbid us from profaning? 
  5. How has God made himself known (there are two ways, in general)?
  6. Discuss ways men and women might profane or abuse God’s revelation of himself to us.
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Discussion Questions: Luke 19:11-27

  1. Why are false expectations so dangerous?
  2. What were the false expectations held by many who followed Christ in the days of his earthly ministry?
  3. Was the kingdom of God present when Christ first came? Is it present today? How so?
  4. When will Christ’s kingdom appear or be made visible?
  5. What must the servants of Christ be doing in the meantime?
  6. What will Christ do when he returns?

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Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 58 & 59

  • What is the third commandment?
  • The first four commandments are about the worship of God. The first tells us who is to be worshipped. The second tells us how. What aspect of worship does the third commandment address?
  • What do you think most people would say if asked, what does the third commandment forbid?
  • How does question 59 of our catechism help us to see that the third commandment is about more than not using God’s name, or the name of Christ, as a swear word?
  • What does it mean to take the name of the LORD? And what does it mean to do so in vain?
  • Instead of taking the name of the LORD in vain, what should we do?
  • Have you kept this law perfectly? What then must we do to be saved?
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Discussion Questions: Luke 19:1-10

  1. Think of the rich young ruler of Luke 18:18-23, the blind beggar of Luke 18:35-43, and Zacchaeus the chief tax collector of Luke 19:1-10. Which of these would the Jews of Jesus’ day expect to have life eternal? Which of these did? Why?
  2. What does the story of Zacchaeus have to do with Jesus’ remark, “For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God… What is impossible with man is possible with God.” (Luke 18:25–27)
  3. What matters more, that Zacchaeus saw Jesus, or that Jesus fixed his eyes on Zacchaeus? Why?
  4. When Jesus called Zacchaeus to himself, “he hurried and came down and received [Jesus] joyfully” (Luke 19:6) and committed to give half his goods to the poor. Contrast this with the response of the rich young ruler of Luke 18:35-43. 
  5. What does it mean that the “Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” (Luke 19:10)
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Discussion Questions: Luke 18:35-43

  1. The Scriptures teach that we are spiritually blind because of sin (see Ephesians 4:17–19). What is it that we are unable to see?
  2.  Christ healed a man of his physical blindness. What spiritual truth does this illustrate?
  3. How does Christ heal our blindness in regeneration? What does he enable us to see?
  4. How does this spiritual enlightenment contribute to our sanctification? 
  5. How will this enlightenment culminate in glorification?
  6. How should those who are spiritually blind or ignorant of the things of God pray? What should they do?
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