Berean Sunday Sermons

1. What is the reason given in this text why we need to live intentionally? 2. What is the difference between being wise and unwise? Is there a difference of what wisdom looks like for believers verses rest of the world? 3. Is this passage calling the church to have better time management or something else? What different words are translated as time in the New Testament? What is the word used her...

1. What does it mean for Jesus to not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped? 2. What did Jesus have to empty himself of to put on humanity? Try to name as many things you can think of that he had to empty Himself of for his incarnation to happen? 3. What is the application that Paul desired the church to practice in light of Jesus' incarnation?

1. Why do you think some asked Jesus who would be saved? What prompted them to ask this question? 2. Who are the people who will not enter into the coming Kingdom? Why will they not enter? 3. How is the final judgment described? What does gnashing teeth describe? 4. How is the final restoration described? What does the restoration point to that was lost becasue of sin?

1. What is your understanding of the Kingdom of God? How did the Jews of Jesus' time understand what the Kingdom of God was? 2. Is the parable of the leaven in the dough meant to be a positive parable mirroring the teaching of the first parable of the mustard seed, or is the parable of the leaven meant to be a negative illustration given as a warning? Try to back up your answer from scripture. 3....

Questions 1. What three points were covered last week about what a legalist is or is not? 2. What is the primary sin of a legalist? How does Jesus rebuke the synagogue leader? 3. How did the ruler and others who opposed Him react to Jesus' rebuke compared to the rest of the crowd?

Questions 1. What was Jesus doing when Jesus decided to heal the woman? What do you think He was teaching? 2. Who initiated this healing? What does that reveal about the possible intent of this healing? 3. Why do you think the synagogue ruler was more concerned about the healing on Sabbath than the miracle of the healing itself? 4. What hypocrisy does Jesus reveal about the synagogue rulers attitu...

1. In the previous passage Jesus warned the crowd about being spiritually alert. How does what he says here connect to that? 2. In what way are the two events Jesus refers to similar and in what way are they different? 3. How is the parable of the fig tree not bearing fruit relate to his call to repentance?

1. What is the spiritual discernment that Jesus was rebuking the crowd of not having? 2. What do you think is the reason that they were so good at predicting weather and so bad at understanding the signs of the time? 3. Who is the Judge in the parable and what needs to be reconciled before going to court? How does this relate to the spiritual discernment that the crowd should have had?

1. What does fire often represent in the bible? 2. Why does Jesus say He wishes that the fire was already kindled? 3. What needs to take place for this fire to be kindled? 4. Jesus is referred to as the Prince of Peace in Isaiah. Why does Jesus say that He didn't come to bring peace? 5. Is the division Jesus refers to here descriptive or prescriptive?

1. What is the source of anxiousness, or worry, according to this passage? 2. How are we to combat anxiousness? 3. What does anxiousness say about our faith? v.28 4. What is the reason why we ought not to be anxious? What does anxiousness cause God's people to do or not do?

1. How does this passage connect to the previous passage? Is this the same crowd that is mentioned in the previous passage? 2. What does the man's question reveal about the man himself? 3. How did Jesus respond to him? Is it ever wrong to save for retirement or to save money for the future? What is the guiding principle Jesus is giving about how we ought to handle finances?

1. Who are the three groups that Jesus said would do the persecution? What is the significance in the distinction between these groups? 2. What did Jesus say not to worry about? 3. Who will be the one that will equip them in what they ought to say and when will that happen?

1. Who is Jesus referring to when he says not to fear those who can only kill the body? 2. What reasons are we given to fear God? 3. What does God's care over the sparrows and counting every strand of hair have to do with fearing God?

1. What circumstance prompted Jesus to say what He says in this passage? 2. Who was Jesus speaking to in this passage? How does who Jesus speaks to help understand what He is saying and why he is saying it in this passage? 3. What does hypocrisy have to do with uncovering hidden speech?