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

Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test

1. What further reasons were given this week in support of keeping, honoring, and obeying the sabbath?
2. Read as a group the LBC of 1689 22:7 and 8 (as listed and discussed in the sermon) and discuss its meaning and applications.
3. Below are the 5 points from Sunday’s sermon. Review and discuss each one as a group and their applications to the Christian life.
-1. Under Moses the Sabbath day remained substantially the same.
-2. Under Moses the Sabbath day contained a gospel promise and a word of condemnation.
-3. Under Moses the Sabbath day was a day for convocation.
-4. Under Moses Sabbath observance was more rigorous.
-5. Under Moses there was an expectation that the Sabbath would remain and yet be altered with
the coming of the Messiah and the establishment of the New Covenant.

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 reflection/meditation-
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. (Genesis 2:1-3)

Sermon: The Sabbath: From Moses to Christ:  Genesis 2:1-3

Text: 2 Tim 2 (read as group)

Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test

1. Discuss each of Pauls 3 analogies (Soldier, Athlete, Farmer) and the implications and applications of each. Which analogy was the most impactful and why?
2. Paul clearly displays that all that he did in his Christian life was for the sake of the gospel of Christ. Regardless of what you do for a living: 1. Are you currently abiding with Christ being your central focus? And 2. What are some practical things in your life that display Christ’s headship in all things?
3. Paul says in vs. 18 that the irreverent babble that was leading to ungodliness was the teaching that the resurrection had taken place. What are some additional examples of “irreverent babble” that might take place in the Church 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 reflection/meditation-
8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound! 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. (2 Tim 2:8-10)

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

Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test

1. What things about the sabbath make it very simple? What things about the sabbath make it complex? Discuss.
2. What changes did the sabbath undergo in the days of Moses under Israel’s deliverance from Egypt? At the time of man’s fall from innocence into sin?
3. In 3 words or less, state “WHY” we should keep and observe the sabbath day. 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.

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.” (Genesis 2:1–3, ESV)

Sermon: The Sabbath: From Adam to Moses: Genesis 2:1-3

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

Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test

1.Why was the sabbath created, according to Gen 2:1-3?
2. When was the sabbath instituted and why is this important?
3. How should the sabbath be observed? Take time to share with your group certain things you (and your family) do to honor this day and be obedient to the command.

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.

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.” (Genesis 2:1–3, ESV)

Sermon Notes- https://emmausrbc.org/2018/07/08/sermon-the-sabbath-as-old-as-creation-genesis-21-3/

Text: Isaiah 53:10 (read as group)
 Notes: emmausrbc.org/sermons
Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test
1. What specific insights and applications did you gain in looking at Isaiah 52-53 in more detail?
2. How did the sermon answer the paradoxical question of “why” it pleased the Lord to “crush” the Christ?

3. Do you often ponder that which Christ endured for the sake of our sin? Why or why not? How much or how often should a believer reflect upon the concept of Christ’s atonement and why? Share.

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: Isaiah 53:10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

Text: Gen 1:26-27 (read as group)
 Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Test
1. What do we learn specifically about God and His nature in Gen 1:26-27?
2. What does it mean that man was “created in the image of God?

3. In what ways did the Fall mar God’s image in man and how does God’s image still continue to shine through man’s nature post fall?

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: Gen 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

Sermon: Man Made In God’s Image, Not God Made In Man’s: Genesis 1:26-27

Text: Rev 19:11-21 (read as group)
Notes: emmauscf.org/sermons
Begin with sharing general thoughts about the Sermon/Sermon Text
1. Who is the “Rider on the White Horse” in Rev 19 and what does he represent? 
2. What is the central message given in Rev 19:11-21? Briefly summarize and share. 
3. What is the most comforting truth that you have learned in studying Revelation thus far? Share.

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: “Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself. He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses. From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭19:11-16‬ ‭ESV‬‬
http://bible.com/59/rev.19.11-16.esv