Jun 24
29

Discussion Questions: Luke 12:4-7

  1. What is sanctification (see Baptist Catechism 38 and/or Second London Confession 13)? Whose work is it? Where in us must sanctification reach if it is to protect against hypocrisy?
  2. What is the fear of man? 
  3. How can the fear of man lead to hypocrisy?
  4. What are the three remedies to the fear of man that Christ presents in Luke 12:4-7?
  5. What does it mean to fear God? 
  6. Why is the fear of God the beginning of knowledge and wisdom (Proverbs 1:7, 9:10)
  7. How is the fear of the Lord that the non-believer experiences different from the fear of the Lord that the one who has faith in Christ experiences?
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Jun 24
29

Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 26

  1. In Baptist Catechism 24 and 25, we considered the person and natures of Christ. What about Christ are we considering in question 26?
  2. What is an office?
  3. Where in the Bible do we learn about prophets, priests, and kings? What was the work of prophets, priests, and kings – what was their job?
  4. There were many prophets, priests, and kings under the Old Covenant. What is unique about Christ as it pertains to these offices?
  5. Why is it helpful to consider the work of Christ the Redeemer by looking at him through the lens of these offices?
  6. How does it encourage your heart to think of Christ as our great prophet, priest, and king?   
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Jun 24
24

Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 25

  1. What does it mean that the Son of God took to himself a true body and reasonable soul? What does this tell us about Christ’s human nature?
  2. Christ is really and truly human. He is also really and truly God. How so?
  3. When our catechism says that the Son of God became man, are we to think that something changed within God? (See James 1:17. The second half of Baptist Catechism A: 24 might be of some help to you. Also, see Second London Confession 8.2.)  
  4. How did the person of the eternal Son assume a human nature? What was the process or mechanism? (see Luke 1:26ff.)
  5. What is the phrase, “yet without sin”, important? How is it that Jesus Christ, a true human, was born without the guilt and corruption of sin?
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Jun 24
23

Discussion Questions: Luke 12:1-3

  1. What is Luke 12:1-53 about? Upon whom does Christ focus his attention? What topics does he address? For what purpose?
  2. What does it mean to be a hypocrite?
  3. Does being a sinner necessarily make a person a hypocrite?
  4. Christ is the only real solution to the problem of hypocrisy. How so?
  5. Man-centered, legalistic, Christless religion is bound to produce hypocrisy. Why?
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Jun 24
16

Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 24

  1. What does the word ”Redeemer” mean? What does Christ redeem us from? What and who does he redeem us to?
  2. Who is Jesus? (Think person) 
  3. What is Jesus? (Think nature)
  4. Why is it important to say that the divine and human natures of Christ are not mixed so as to become a third thing?
  5. Why is it important to say that human nature and divine nature are inseparably joined in the person of the Son? (There are many reasons. One of them can be brought out by the question, did Jesus suffer from a multiple personality disorder?)
  6. What does the second part of the answer to Baptist Catechism 24 have to do with the first? In other words, what do the natures and person of Christ have to do with the fact that he is the only Redeemer of God’s elect?
  7. Why does our catechism say that Christ is the only Redeemer of God’s elect? What is meant by elect? For whom did Christ die? Who did he come to save? By the way, your interpretation of John 3:16 had better agree with John 6:25ff., John 10:7-18; and John 17. The is no contradiction between the statement of John 3:16 and the fact that Christ came to lay down his life for the elect. 
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Jun 24
16

Discussion Questions: Luke 11:45-54

  1. Who were the lawyers that Jesus addressed in Luke 11:45? In other words, what were they known for? What did they do?
  2. Jesus pronounced three “woes” upon these lawyers. The first is found in Luke 11:46. Please read this verse and discuss its meaning. Focus especially on Jesus’ condemnation of the lawyers for loading people with burdens hard to bear.  
  3. The second “woe” is found in Luke 11:47-51. Please read this passage and discuss its meaning one verse at a time. Especially discuss why the blood of all the prophets from Able to Zechariah would be required of that generation. 
  4. The third “woe” is found in Luke 11:52. Please read this verse and discuss its meaning. Especially answer the question, what is the key of knowledge and why must a person have it?
  5. What does the key of knowledge have to do with Luke 24:44-47 and Luke’s stated purpose for writing in Luke 1:1?
  6. Do you have the key of knowledge?
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Jun 24
9

Discussion Questions: Baptist Catechism 23

  1. Why is it significant that the answer to Baptist Catichem 23 begins with the word, “God”?
  2. What “motivated” God to save sinners? When did God decide to save sinners?
  3. Through which covenant is salvation from the estate of sin and misery made available? When was this covenant formally enacted? 
  4. When were the blessings of this covenant made available? How were the blessings of this covenant made available before the making of this covenant?
  5. In the Covenant of Grace, sinners are delivered out of the estate of sin and misery. Review Baptist Catechism questions 20-22 and discuss all that Christ has saved us from. 
  6. In the Covenant of Grace, sinners are brought into an estate of salvation. The blessings of this state of salvation will be presented in questions 35-43. You may preview those questions and discuss the blessings that Christ brings his people.
  7. Who rescues us from the estate of sin and misery and brings us into this estate of salvation?
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Jun 24
9

Discussion Questions: Luke 11:37-44

  1. Why was the Pharisee astonished that Jesus did not wash before dinner? Why did Jesus choose not to wash?
  2. Jesus’ rebuke of the Pharisees begins in verse 39. What did he mean when he said, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.” (Luke 11:39)
  3. What did Christ mean when he said, “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.” (Luke 11:42)
  4. What did he mean when he said, “Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.” (Luke 11:43).
  5. And what about these words: “Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.” (Luke 11:44)
  6. The trouble with the Pharisees was not their religious devotion. Every Christian should strive to be religiously devout. Where then did the Pharisees go wrong?
  7. How does this text apply to you? What have you learned from the bad example of the Pharisees? How does this text point to our need for Christ?
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