QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• How did Christ fulfill the moral law?
• How did Christ fulfill the civil and ceremonial laws of Moses?
• Discuss some of the ways that the Law of Moses pointed forward to Christ and prepared the way for him?
• When we speak of Christ’s passive obedience we have in view the way that he submitted to the will of the Father to suffer in the place of sinners. What do we mean when we speak of Christ’s active obedience? Why does his active obedience matter? 
• What gave Jesus Christ the right to rise from the dead and to give eternal life to those who come to him? 
• Are you united to Christ by faith?

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• What are the three uses of the moral law of God?
• What are ways that God uses his moral law to restrain evil in the world today?
• What do the judicial laws of Old Covenant Israel and the judicial laws of all other (common) nations share in common?
• What was unique about the law code given to Old Covenant Isreal?
• According to the covenant that God made with creation in the days of Noah (Genesis 9),  what are common governments to concern themselves with in their law codes? 
• It is one thing to know what God’s law is. It is another thing to know how it is to be used. Discuss possible misuses of God’s law and the potential ramifications.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• What is the unchanging, moral law of the fourth commandment?
• What part of the fourth commandment is to be considered “positive law”?
• Why does Sabbath-keeping remain today? Why has the day changed? 
• What benefits come to God’s people from the observance of the Sabbath day?
• When will there be no more Sabbath-keeping? Why?

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• The law is good. Discuss.
• What does the third commandment forbid? What does it require?
• What does it mean to handle something in a vain way?
• Give examples of violations of the third commandment. 
• How can we grow in our keeping of the third commandment?

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• What does the first commandment forbid? What does it require?
• What are sins of omission? What are sins of commission? And how do we violate the first commandment in both of these ways?
• Violations of the first commandment are rather easy to see when they take the form of idolatry. But it is possible, and even common, to break the first commandment in the heart. How so?
• How is God’s law useful to the Christian?
• What needs to change in your life as it pertains to the first commandment?

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• What difference does it make if people view the scriptures in general, and God’s law in particular, as having their origin in man rather than God? 
• Why are the Ten Commandments given to Israel first? Why did God speak these laws to Israel directly? Why did he write this with his own hand?
• The Old Covenant was a covenant of works substantially, but God’s grace was certainly present. How so? Discuss. 
• What was God doing with Israel when he gave them the Ten Commandments (and all of the other laws)? 
• Why was Israel especially obligated to keep God’s law?
• How does this passage apply to us under the New Covenant?

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION AT HOME OR IN GOSPEL COMMUNITY GROUPS

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• How are the covenants that God has made with man similar to the covenants that we humans make with each other? How are they different? 
• What were the terms of the covenant that God entered into with Israel? 
• Was the Mosaic Covenant a covenant of works or a covenant grace? 
• Does this mean that the saving grace of God was not available to men in those days? Discuss. 
• Why did God enter into this covenant with Israel? What was the purpose?