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Discussion Questions for Sermon Preached on 3/24/19: Genesis 9:1-17

  • Explore the connection between the blessing and commissioning  of Noah and his sons and the blessing and commissioning of Adam and Eve in Genesis 1.
  • Why was Noah forbidden to eat blood? What did this have to do with Christ?
  • What kind of covenant is the Noahic Covenant?  With whom is it made? What are the terms and conditions?
  • Why did  God establish the  Noahic Covenant?
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Discussion Questions for Sermon Preached on 3/17/19: Genesis 8

  • The gospel has been revealed by God in words. But he  has also put the gospel on display through historical events which painted a picture ahead of time of the salvation that Christ would accomplish for his people. The flood was one of those events. Discuss how this is so.
  • What do we learn about the final judgement by considering the waters of the flood?
  • What do we learn about our salvation in Christ by considering God’s provision of the ark?
  • What do we learn about the new heavens and earth by considering the world after the flood waters receded?
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Discussion Questions for Sermon Preached on 3/3/19: Genesis 6:9-22

  • Why should we believe that the flood was a true historical event?
  • What did the flood event reveal concerning the final judgement?
  • Clearly the story of Noah, his ark, and the covenant established with him was about the preservation of the human race and the animal kingdom. How is it also about Christ and our redemption in him?
  • The ark was a replica of the cosmos, a miniature version of the sanctuary of Eden and of the temple of Israel. Discuss.
  • The ark was a picture of the Christ who was to come. Discuss.
  • Noah was delivered from the flood  waters of judgement via the ark. How was he delivered from the judgment of God due to him for his sins? (See Heb. 11:6-7)
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Gospel Community Group Discussion Questions, Week of January 20, 2019

Sermon Text: Genesis 3:14-21

  • What new beginning is described to us in Genesis 3:14-21?
  • In what way is the world we live in today the same as the world that God created in the beginning? How is it different?
  • Discuss the effects of our fall into sin upon the world in general. Discuss the effects of our fall into sin upon humanity in particular.
  • In what ways does the text of Genesis 3:14-21 announce good news?
  • How does this passage point forward to Christ?
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Sermon Qs 09/02

Sermon Qs 09/02

Text: Isaiah 58 (read as group)

Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text

1. Continue to discuss how your view of the sabbath has changed over this teaching series on the sabbath, and what new additions or subtractions you (and your family) have purposed in your observance of the Lord’s day (and why). Spend time discussing and sharing with your group.

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.

Verse for meditation: 13 “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure[c] on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
or seeking your own pleasure,[d] or talking idly;[e]
14 then you shall take delight in the Lord,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;[f]
I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” (Isaiah 58:13-14)

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Sermon Qs 08/26

Sermon Qs 08/26

Text: Hebrews 3:7-4:11 (read as group)

Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text

1. Discuss and display the NT support of the continued sabbath keeping (Hebrews 3:7-4:11)
2. How does Heb 3:7-4:11 shed light on the practical application of the sabbath? In other words, how does this scripture text better helps us in knowing “how” to keep the sabbath?
3. What are some recent additions or subtractions that you have made in your sabbath practice as a family and/or individual? Share with your group based on what you have learned about the sabbath through this series?

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.

Verse for meditation: 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; 10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,[e] just as God did from his. 11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. (Heb 4:8-11)

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Sermon Qs 08/19

Text: Acts 20:7-16 (read as group)

Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test

1. Discuss how your perspective of the sabbath has changed (or been further confirmed) during this study on the sabbath.
2. Discuss what Acts 20 when Paul is preaching reveals about the NT practice of meeting on the Lord’s day and observing the sabbath.
3. What are some recent additions or subtractions that you have made in your sabbath practice as a family and/or individual? Share with your group.

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.

Verse for meditation: 7 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread… (Acts 20:7a)

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Sermon Qs 08/05

Text: Gen 2:1-3 (read as group)

Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test

1. In what specific and practical ways did Christ keep the Sabbath Perfectly?
2. In what specific ways did Christ correct or change the legalistic teachings of the pharisees concerning the Sabbath? Give examples and discuss.
3. Christ taught in Matthew 12:7 that the Sabbath Day was to be used to show “mercy”. What does this mean and how does that apply practically to believers today?

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.

Verse for meditation: 7 And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. (Matt 12:7)

Sermon: The Sabbath: As Observed By Christ Prior To His Resurrection: Genesis 2:1-3

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