Week 7 – Rotten Roots
Challenge: How’s your “foundation”? Are there any sandy spots?
Words To Hide In Your Heart This Week:
“He was pierced by our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was laid on him and by his stripes we are healed
-Isaiah 53:5
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall.
-Matthew 7:26-27
From Last Week | For Next Week
Isaiah Chp. 40-43; 48-53Isaiah Chp. 54-61
2 Corinthians 5Matthew 7
Galatians 3Proverbs 16
1 Corinthians 10
The Chosen Episode 7, scriptural considerations (for further gospel study, if desired):
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/filmchat/2020/07/the-chosen-season-one-episode-six.htmlDiscussion Questions “The Chosen Lesson 7”
What did you HIGHLIGHT in your bible since last time? Why?
Faith and reasons are not opposites. However faith, not reason, invites us to move beyond our own finite levels of comprehension and control. Can you describe a time when your faith invited you to move beyond your own capacity to reason? (AKA – God moved you to do something and you didn’t know how or why, but it turned out greater than you could imagine.)
Isaiah 13, 43, and 47 show God using “wicked people” like Babylonians and Chaldeans to punish other wicked people (like disobedient Israelites). What do you think about that?
In what ways have you built your house on sand? Note even after we’ve decided to follow Jesus, we’re still capable of “sand dwelling”. (Matthew 7)
In Episode 7, Nicodemus quotes Psalms 2:12 and Jesus finishes the Psalm. What does it mean to take refuge in Jesus? How is that related to His teaching of building your life on a rock?
Simon was skeptical about Matthew becoming a Jesus-follower. Have you ever been like Simon thinking its your right/responsibility to judge other followers of Jesus?
Read Colossians 2:6-7 Explain the difference between being knowing about Jesus and being an established believer.
What prayers have been answered for you this week?
