Key Passage: Romans 8:1-4
Romans 7:19-25
Galatians 3:3

Chapters 1-2: All guilty of condemnation. Jew and Gentile.
Chapters 3-4: Jesus’ work on the cross is applied in our lives through our faith in Him, resulting in our forgiveness.
Chapters 5-7: After forgiveness, the working out of the power of sin in our lives.

Romans 8: Crown Jewel of Romans

"Perhaps it is so well loved because it addresses human beings’ greatest sense of need—the need for protection, security, and safety." —Kenneth Boa and William Kruidenier, Romans
To understand the hope of Romans 8, you need to understand the despair of Romans 7.

We typically deal with this problem one of two ways: Rule follower, or Rule Reducer

Hope from Jesus to overcome our body of death

We then, through faith, walk by the Spirit.

"The Christian life is essentially life in the Spirit, that is to say, a life that is animated, sustained, directed and enriched by the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, true Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, indeed impossible." —John Stott

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 29:10-29, 1 Corinthians 12
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 30, 1 Corinthians 13
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 31, 1 Corinthians 14
Thursday: 1 Corinthians 15
Friday: Genesis 21
Saturday: Psalm 103-104, Proverbs 23
Sunday: Jeremiah 9-19

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 8:31-39

Slides + Notes

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 29:10-29, 1 Corinthians 12
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 30, 1 Corinthians 13
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 31, 1 Corinthians 14
Thursday: 1 Corinthians 15
Friday: Genesis 21
Saturday: Psalm 103-104, Proverbs 23
Sunday: Jeremiah 9-19

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

James 3:2-12
1 Thessalonians 5:11
1 Thessalonians 5:14
Proverbs 12:25
Hebrews 12:15
Proverbs 11:14
Proverbs 13:20
Hebrews 3:13
Proverbs 25:11

Encouragement as a Second Language for Christians
Our tongues can be blessings or cursings: Christians should bless.
Encouragement: Grace-infused words
The human soul is prone toward chaos

1. We can easily, on our own, have weak faith.
2. We can easily lack joy and peace.
3. We can quickly grow bitter
4. We can easily lack wisdom, and someone else's words can change our perspectives in an instant.
5. Most people do not suffer from an abundance of encouragement, but rather voices that are neutral or discouraging.

So how can we encourage people?
1. Ministry of presence
2. Words of encouragement
Mac Lake anatomy of encouragment
Sincere, Specific
Community of Encouragers

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 21:10-23, Romans 15
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 22, Romans 16, 1 Corinthians 1
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 23, 1 Corinthians 2
Thursday: Deuteronomy 24, 1 Corinthians 3
Friday: Deuteronomy 25, 1 Corinthians 4-5
Saturday: Psalm 96-99
Sunday: Isaiah 51-66

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

1 Corinthians 2:1-5
Acts 1:8
Ephesians 6:18-20

Care, Share, Prayer, Outreach
We are a community on mission
Evangelism: It is the giving of the good news of Jesus Christ to those who have not committed themselves to Him
If we are to be a community on mission, we will also be a community dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit
B.L.E.S.S: Personal Evangelism Equipping
Let us bless, let God convert
Core truth: Evangelism starts with intercession
Learn, Serve, Earn the right to be heard

B: Begin with prayer
L: Listen
E:Eat
S: Serve
S:Story

4 H’s

• History-Tell me your story
• Heart-What do you care about most right now?
• Habits-What does a normal week look like?
• Hurts-What's been hard lately?

Four Types of Needs

• Relational—Loneliness, belonging
• Physical—Meals, rides, help
• Emotional—Encouragement, presence 
• Spiritual—Prayer, Scripture, invitation

3 Part testimony:

• Before Jesus
• How I met Jesus
• After Jesus

People who feel listened to are 3x more likely to open up about spiritual matters.  

• Source: Harvard Human Flourishing Program, The Power of Listening, 2018.

Sharing six meals with someone increases relational trust by 60%.  

• Source: Dr. Robin Dunbar, Oxford University, Social Eating & Trust, 2017.

79% of non‑Christians say they would be more open to Christianity if they saw Christians consistently live out love and service.  

• Source: Barna Group, The Connected Generation, 2019.

55% of people prefer hearing a personal faith story over a theological explanation.  

• Source: Lifeway Research, Sharing Faith Study, 2016.

Monday: Deuteronomy 16:18-22, Romans 9
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 17, Romans 10
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 18, Romans 11
Thursday: Deuteronomy 19, Romans 12-13
Friday: Deuteronomy 20:1-21:1-9, Romans 14
Saturday: Psalm 92-95, Proverbs 21
Sunday: Isaiah 39-50

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

John 4:23
Romans 12:1-2
Ephesians 5:18-20
2 Kings 3:15
Matthew 26:30
Colossians 3:16
Ephesians 5:19
1 Samuel 16:23

God is building a community of worshippers
This is done in the heart: Spirit and truth
Music is an instrument to fill us with the Spirit of God
Worshipping in community is a must in the Kingdom of God
Jesus did it with His disciples
We are commanded in Scripture
There is a vertical and horizontal
We are looking up with worship towards God
And then we address one another and teach and admonish one another
How can we increase worshipful affection through music in the church?
Psalms: The Song Book of the People of God
Hymns
Spiritual Songs
Worship together!
Study and understand the different types of music, and then wisely choose them as needed in your life.
Ultimately, your heart will love what you want to feed it. Ask God to give you a heart devoted to Him.

John Chrysostom (347–407 AD), known as the greatest preacher of the ancient church, in these words: "Do you wish to be happy? Do you want to know how to spend the day truly blessed? I offer you a drink that is spiritual. This is not a drink for drunkenness that would cut off even meaningful speech. This does not cause us to babble. It does not disturb our vision. Here it is: Learn to sing Psalms! Then you will see pleasure indeed. Those who have learned to sing with the psalms are easily filled with the Holy Spirit."

Lament: Songs to express sorrow and confusion to God
Example: Psalms 3, 13, 22, 42–43, 88

Thanksgiving: When your heart bursts with Gratitude, or to fan into flame more gratitude.
Examples: Psalms 30, 34, 40, 116

Praise: Songs that Highlight the Wonders of God
Examples: Psalms 8, 19, 29, 100, 145–150

Imprecatory Psalms: Justice for God’s people
Examples: Psalms 35, 69, 109, 137

Royal Psalms: Messianic Ruler prayer of blessing
Examples: Psalms 2, 45, 72, 110

Wisdom Psalms: Psalms written to help teach how to live.
Examples: Psalm 112, Psalm 1

Torah/Scripture Psalms: Psalms written to highlight the glory of the word
Examples: Psalm 1, Psalm 19, Psalm 119

Historical Psalms: Recount God’s dealings with His people, and how they responded.
Examples: Psalms 78, 105, 106, 135, 136

Confidence Psalms: Psalms singing in the trust in God
Example: Psalm 23,11,16

Penitent Psalms: Psalms written on how to grieve over your sin, and find forgiveness and hope in God.
Examples: Psalms 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143

Zion Psalms: Rejoicing over the place God has for His people
Examples: Psalms 46, 48, 76, 84, 87, 122

Enthronement Psalms: Worshipping God who is in charge over all creation.
Examples: Psalms 47, 93, 96–99

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 11:26-32, Romans 4
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 12-13, Romans 5
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 14, Romans 6
Thursday: Deuteronomy 15, Romans 7
Friday: Deuteronomy 16:1-7, Romans 8
Saturday: Psalm 90-91
Sunday: Isaiah 27-38

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 8:26-29
Exodus 2:23-25
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
Genesis 50:20
Romans 12:2
Romans 8:29
Isaiah 45:25

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 21:10-23, Romans 15
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 22, Romans 16, 1 Corinthians 1
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 23, 1 Corinthians 2
Thursday: Deuteronomy 24, 1 Corinthians 3
Friday: Deuteronomy 25, 1 Corinthians 4-5
Saturday: Psalm 96-99
Sunday: Isaiah 51-66

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 8:18-25
Hebrews 12:1

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 21:10-23, Romans 15
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 22, Romans 16, 1 Corinthians 1
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 23, 1 Corinthians 2
Thursday: Deuteronomy 24, 1 Corinthians 3
Friday: Deuteronomy 25, 1 Corinthians 4-5
Saturday: Psalm 96-99
Sunday: Isaiah 51-66

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 8:12-17
Ephesians 6:17
2 Corinthians 4:17

Where are you still obeying a master that Jesus has already set you free
from?
What sin have I stopped fighting?
Holy Spirit, what are you killing in me?

J. I. Packer: “Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers.”

A slave says: “I better obey or the master will punish me.”
A son says: “I don't want anything between me and my Father.”

Do you relate to God more like a slave trying to earn His approval, or like a son or
daughter who already knows the love of their Father?

HOW DOES THE SPIRIT BEAR WITNESS?
1. We cry “Father” — vs.15
2. We begin to hate our sin — vs.13–14
3. The Spirit points us to Christ — John 15:26

What evidence can you see in your life that the Spirit of God is at work in you?

What are you unwilling to suffer or surrender now because you've lost sight
of the glory that is coming?

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 16:18-22, Romans 9
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 17, Romans 10
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 18, Romans 11
Thursday: Deuteronomy 19, Romans 12-13
Friday: Deuteronomy 20:1-21:1-9, Romans 14
Saturday: Psalm 92-95, Proverbs 21
Sunday: Isaiah 39-50

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 8:5-11

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 11:26-32, Romans 4
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 12-13, Romans 5
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 14, Romans 6
Thursday: Deuteronomy 15, Romans 7
Friday: Deuteronomy 16:1-7, Romans 8
Saturday: Psalm 90-91
Sunday: Isaiah 27-38

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 8:1-4
Romans 7:24
Colossians 2:13-14

BIG IDEA: No condemnation is God's declaration of freedom over your life.

Movements of the Gospel in Romans 8:3-4:
God Sent His Son
God Sent His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
God sent His Son for sin
God condemned sin in the flesh
Righteous requirement of law is fulfilled in us

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 7:12-26, Acts 27
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 8, Acts 28
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 9
Thursday: Deuteronomy 10, Romans 1
Friday: Deuteronomy 11:1-25, Romans 2-3
Saturday: Psalm 88-89, Proverbs 20
Sunday: Isaiah 11-26

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Psalm 13
1 Corinthians 15:26
1 Samuel 14:29
1 Corinthians 15:50-58

PAIN
PRAYER
PRAISE

Sadness is the feeling
Grief is the condition
Lament is the expression

CSB: “Restore brightness to my eyes”
NLT: “Restore the sparkle to my eyes”

BUT God (Ephesians 2)
Dead in my tresspasses and sins … BUT GOD made us alive together in Christ
BUT I TRUST

1. But I TRUST
2. My heart shall rejoice
3. I WILL SING

“The moment we address our lament upward to the God and Father of Jesus, our prayer becomes something more than outpouring of human sorrow. It contains within itself, by the ministry of the Spirit of God, who groans in and through our prayers, the seeds of a future rescue and therefore even of present praise. For praise is the appropriation in the present of truths that will be consummated only in the future. We praise not because the present is triumphant but because the future is glorious.” —Christopher Ash, The Psalms: Volume 2

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 3:23-29
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 4, Acts 23
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 5, Acts 24
Thursday: Deuteronomy 6, Acts 25
Friday: Deuteronomy 7:1-11, Acts 26
Saturday: Psalm 85-87, Proverbs 19
Sunday: Song of Solomon 3-8, Isaiah 1-10

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Psalm 37
James 1:19-20
Psalm 103:8

1. What is anger?
2. Is anger a sin?
3. How should we respond to our anger?
-Trust God instead of taking control.
-Give your problem to God & wait.
-Turn from anger.
4. How does God respond to our anger?
-God is patient with us.
-Jesus forgives us – He carried our sin.
-The Holy Spirit changes us.

 

Monday: Deuteronomy 1, Acts 19
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 2
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 3:1-22, Acts 20
Thursday: Acts 21
Friday: Acts 22
Saturday: Psalm 81-84
Sunday: Job 40-42, Ecclesiastes 1-12, Song of Solomon 1-2

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Titus 2:11-15

Who is Titus?
God’s Grace is for All People
God’s Grace is for everyone, and it changes everyone
Future Hope helps us overcome this present age
We are now His people, zealous for good works

 

Monday: Numbers 30, Acts 15
Tuesday: Numbers 31-32
Wednesday: Numbers 33, Acts 16
Thursday: Numbers 34, Acts 17
Friday: Numbers 35-36, Acts 18
Saturday: Psalm 79-80, Proverbs 18
Sunday: Job 23-39

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Psalm 103

1. Remember His Provision
2. Remember His Person
3. Remember His Power

 

Monday: Numbers 30, Acts 15
Tuesday: Numbers 31-32
Wednesday: Numbers 33, Acts 16
Thursday: Numbers 34, Acts 17
Friday: Numbers 35-36, Acts 18
Saturday: Psalm 79-80, Proverbs 18
Sunday: Job 23-39

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Psalm 8
Matthew 21
Genesis 8:1, 30:22
1 Samuel 1:19
Exodus 2:24-25
Hebrews 2:5-8

Joy

Hallelujah is a Hebrew expression from two words combined to mean: “Praise the LORD!”

• hallel — “praise,” “boast in,” or “celebrate”
• Yah — a shortened form of Yahweh, the covenant name of God

REMBERING
Mindful = compassionate and purposeful
God’s remembering ALWAYS implies movement towards that object he is remembering.
The father is mindful towards us, remembers us.
He MOVES towards us.

God uses weak voices, sees small people, and gives them a royal purpose through Jesus—so that his name will be seen as majestic in all the earth.

 

Monday: Numbers 25:10-18, Numbers 26
Tuesday: Numbers 27, Acts 11
Wednesday: Numbers 28, Acts 12
Thursday: Numbers 29, Acts 13
Friday: Acts 14
Saturday: Psalm 78, Proverbs 17
Sunday: Job 5-22

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Psalm 112

 

Monday: Numbers 25:10-18, Numbers 26
Tuesday: Numbers 27, Acts 11
Wednesday: Numbers 28, Acts 12
Thursday: Numbers 29, Acts 13
Friday: Acts 14
Saturday: Psalm 78, Proverbs 17
Sunday: Job 5-22

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Psalm 112
Psalm 111:10
Romans 8:31-32
Acts 20:35
Romans 12:8
2 Corinthians 9:6-15

“We are never more like God than when we give.” - A.W. Tozer

 

Monday: Numbers 19, Acts 7
Tuesday: Numbers 20-21
Wednesday: Numbers 22, Acts 8
Thursday: Numbers 23, Acts 9
Friday: Numbers 24, Numbers 25:1-9, Acts 10
Saturday: Psalm 75-77
Sunday: Esther 1-10, Job 1-4

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Psalm 27

Fear

What happens when we bring God’s presence into the space of our deepest fears?

 

Monday: Numbers 19, Acts 7
Tuesday: Numbers 20-21
Wednesday: Numbers 22, Acts 8
Thursday: Numbers 23, Acts 9
Friday: Numbers 24, Numbers 25:1-9, Acts 10
Saturday: Psalm 75-77
Sunday: Esther 1-10, Job 1-4

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Psalm 25

Summary of Praying the Bible—by Donald Whitney
*Book and audio book available on Hoopla App through the Charleston County Library

Big idea:
Prayer often becomes repetitive, distracted, and thin because we keep saying the same things about the same concerns. Whitney’s remedy is simple: let Scripture supply the words, themes, and direction for your prayers. Pray through a passage, especially a Psalm, turning its words into your own conversation with God.

The core method
1. Open the Bible—usually to a Psalm.
The Psalms are the best starting place because they were written as God-given songs and prayers and express the whole emotional range of life: praise, fear, confession, grief, trust, anger, hope, and joy.
2. Read one verse or phrase slowly.
3. Pause and pray whatever that verse brings to mind.
Use the verse’s language and theme, but speak naturally:

• praise God for what the verse reveals about him;
• confess where your life contradicts it;
• thank him for his gifts;
• ask for help;
• pray it over your family, church, neighbors, or a specific situation.

4. When your thoughts run out, move to the next line.
You are not required to extract something profound from every phrase. Pray what arises; then continue. The passage becomes the track that keeps your mind from wandering.
5. Stop when your time is up.
Finishing the Psalm is optional. The goal is communion with God, not completing an assignment.

Example: Psalm 23:1 “The LORD is my shepherd…”

• “Lord, thank you that I am not left to lead myself.”
• “Shepherd me in this decision I need to make.”
• “Shepherd and guide me, our children, our friends, and our church.”
• “Forgive me for acting as though I must control everything.”
• “Make our church a people who recognize and follow your voice.”

Then move to: “I shall not want.”

Simple daily Psalms rhythm
Whitney recommends using the date to select five Psalms, spaced thirty Psalms apart, then quickly scanning them and choosing the one that most leads you to prayer that day. For the 19th day of the month, scan: Psalm 19, 49, 79, 109, 139

Resources:
Other Psalms that deal with sin/guilt: Psalm 32, 51
Other Psalms that deal with loneliness: Psalm 142, 69

“Praying the Bible” by Donald Whitney. Available for free through the Hoopla App and the Charleston County Library.

“Let the Psalms Teach You to Pray” A Gospel Coalition teaching by Tim Keller. This is a helpful general summary and charge to support this series.

Book referenced in the sermon:
The Toxic War on Masculinity by Nancy Pearcey.
Study referenced found on p. 208

Monday: Acts 3
Tuesday: Numbers 16, Acts 4
Wednesday: Numbers 17
Thursday: Numbers 18, Acts 5
Friday: Acts 6
Saturday: Psalm 73-74, Proverbs 16
Sunday: Nehemiah 5-13

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

For discussion around table and home groups:
Instead of discussion, use the time to pray.
Use the example from Don Whitney on the opposite page and walk through that model in collective prayer. After you finish, make observations together about what you learned.

Key Passage: Romans 11
Romans 11:5-6 NLT
Deuteronomy 7:6-9
Romans 8:30

God’s mercy is hidden when the moment in history looks hopeless
God’s mercy comes to outsiders without making them superior
God’s mercy is severe enough to humble us and kind enough to save us

“I mention these only because while these details may sound terrible to us, this was part of the heroism of the ancient world … Homer does not account for our modern sensibility and the reason for that is that our modern ethical assumptions have a very distinct biblical tone to them…We can assume that tossing babies off of walls, killing unarmed civilians, [assaulting] and enslaving, torturing and dismembering, are things people ought not to do … But we think this because of the last 2 thousand years of Christian ethics whispering in our ears. People of the past may have thought these acts heroic, not horrific.” —Wes Huff

Monday: John 19
Tuesday: Numbers 13, John 20
Wednesday: Numbers 14, John 21
Thursday: Numbers 15, Acts 1
Friday: Acts 2
Saturday: Psalm 71-72
Sunday: Ezra 5-10, Nehemiah 1-4

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

1. Re-read the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 18-19.  Elijah thought he was alone, but God told him there were still 7,000 who had not bowed to Baal. Why is it hard for us to trust God’s hidden work when the moment looks hopeless?
2. Romans 11:5–6 says the remnant is “chosen by grace,” and if it is by grace, it is not by works. What are some ways religious people can still try to make salvation about performance, pedigree, knowledge, or “being better”?(see also: Ephesians 2:8–9)
3. Paul says Gentile believers are like wild olive branches grafted into Israel’s tree. What does this picture teach us about being an “outsider” welcomed by grace? Where do you personally need to receive that mercy?
4. Romans 11 warns Gentile Christians not to become arrogant toward Jewish people or toward anyone else. How can grace itself get twisted into pride? 
5. Romans 11:22 says to consider both the kindness and severity of God. Which one are you more likely to minimize: God’s kindness or God’s severity? What happens to our faith when we lose either one?
6. Read together the doxology at the end of Romans 11 and pray.  In that time, give thanks to God for specific acts of mercy that he has highlighted through this chapter and sermon.

Key Passage: Psalm 23

 

Monday: Numbers 8, John 15
Tuesday: Numbers 9, John 16
Wednesday: Numbers 10, John 17
Thursday: Numbers 11, John 18
Friday: Numbers 12
Saturday: Psalm 69-70, Proverbs 15
Sunday: 2 Chronicles 32-36, Ezra 1-4

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 10
Romans 1:18-20
Jude 1:22-23

1. Righteousness is received by faith, not achieved by effort
2. Salvation comes when we give our loyalty to Jesus
3. The gospel saves when the gospel is heard

"The essence of Paul’s argument is seen if we put his six verbs in the opposite order:  Christ sends heralds; heralds preach; people hear; hearers believe; believers call; and those who call are saved. And the relentless logic of Paul’s case for evangelism is felt most forcibly when the stages are stated negatively and each is seen to be essential to the next. Thus, unless come people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preaching; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not hear Christ’s message and voice; unless they hear him, they will not believe the truths of his death and resurrection; unless they believe these truths, they will not call on him; and unless they call on his name, they will not be saved." -John Stott, The Message of Romans

Practical application: Go, Send, Pray, Welcome

Monday: Numbers 8, John 15
Tuesday: Numbers 9, John 16
Wednesday: Numbers 10, John 17
Thursday: Numbers 11, John 18
Friday: Numbers 12
Saturday: Psalm 69-70, Proverbs 15
Sunday: 2 Chronicles 32-36, Ezra 1-4

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Romans 15:5-6
Galatians 6:9
Philippians 1:9-10
John 17:20-21

Unity Takes Action from God

1. The Harvest is Ripe
2. It’s going to take continued endurance
3. But there is encouragement
4. Harmony will cause God to be glorified, and will be a sign and wonder.

 

Monday: Numbers 4:21-49, John 11
Tuesday: Numbers 5, John 12
Wednesday: Numbers 6, John 13
Thursday: John 14
Friday: Numbers 7
Saturday: Psalm 67-68
Sunday: 2 Chronicles 22-31

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 9:1-26
Luke 14:26
Matthew 13:37

THINGS KIDS SAY (and adults):

• No (two letters, two year olds say it a lot)
• That’s not ______.
• It’s not my ______.

“If there were any way I could be cursed by the Messiah so they could be blessed by him, I’d do it in a minute.” (MSG — Romans 9:2)

Question #1 — Has God’s promise failed? (Romans 9:6-13)
Answer: No.

Question #2 — Is God unfair in How He shows mercy? (Romans 9:14-18)
Answer: No.

Question #3 — Is God unjust in holding us accountable? (Romans 9:19-29)
Answer: No.

Story of Pharaoh
3:19–20 —  “I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand…”
4:21 —“But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.”
7:3–4 — “I will harden Pharaoh’s heart… Pharaoh will not listen to you.”
7:13–14 — “Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened… Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.”
7:22 —“So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them…”
8:15 —“When Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart…”
8:19 — “But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them…”
8:32 — But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also…”
9:7 —  “But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.”
9:12 — “But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh…”
9:34–35 — “He sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened…”
10:20, 27; 11:10 — “But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart…”
14:4 —  “And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them…”
14:8 —  “And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt…”
14:17 — “And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them…”

Application: What God’s Sovereignty Should Produce
1. God’s sovereignty should humble us.
2. God’s sovereignty should stabilize and reassure us.
3. From this place, we walk in confident obedience.

Sovereignty leads us to humility.
Humility leads us to security.
Security leads us to obedience.

"Does God know the day you will die? Yes.Has he appointed that day? Yes. Can you do anything to change that day? No. Then why do you eat? To Live. What happens if you don’t eat? You die. Then if you don’t eat, and die, then would that be the day that God had appointed for you to die? Quit asking stupid questions and just eat.  Eating is the pre-ordained way God has appointed for living." -A.A. Hodge

 

Monday: Numbers 4:21-49, John 11
Tuesday: Numbers 5, John 12
Wednesday: Numbers 6, John 13
Thursday: John 14
Friday: Numbers 7
Saturday: Psalm 67-68
Sunday: 2 Chronicles 22-31

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?

Key Passage: Romans 6:12-23

Verse 12: Sin Wants to Reign
Verse 13: Who Are You Continually Presenting Yourself To?
Verse 14: Grace Breaks Sin’s Dominion
Verse 15: Does Grace Lead to Carelessness?
Verse 16: You Become the Servant of What You Obey
Verse 17: Grace Changes the Heart
Verse 18-19: A New Master and a New Direction
Verse 20: What Fruit Did Sin Actually Produce?
Verse 21: The Fruit of Sin (see chart below)
Verse 22: The Fruit of Christ’s Reign (see chart below)
Verse 23: Wages vs. Gift

 

Monday: Numbers 1, John 5
Tuesday: Numbers 2
Wednesday: John 6
Thursday: Numbers 3
Friday: Numbers 4:1-20, John 7
Saturday: Psalm 60-63
Sunday: 1 Chronicles 28-29, 2 Chronicles 1-9

3DQ - 3 discipleship questions to ask each other: What is God saying to you? What are you going to do about it? How can I help?