Key Passage: Romans 5:1-11
Romans 3:21-22
Numbers 21:4-9
John 3:14-18
2 Corinthians 5:21
Romans 8:31-32
Ephesians 2:5-8
James 1:2-4

I. Peace with God Through Justification (vv. 1–2)
II. Joy in Suffering (vv. 3-5)
III. The Depths of God's Love in Christ (vv. 6-8)
IV. Assurance of Final Salvation (vv. 9-11)

Two Benefits of Justification
1. Peace with God
2. Immeasurable Grace

"Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace." -Charles Spurgeon

"The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven." -Charles Spurgeon

"God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him—especially in suffering." -John Piper

  

Monday: Luke 14
Tuesday: Leviticus 12
Wednesday: Leviticus 13, Luke 15
Thursday: Leviticus 14, Luke 16
Friday: Leviticus 15, Luke 17
Saturday: Psalm 48-50, Proverbs 11
Sunday: 2 Kings 14-21

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 5:12-21

παράπτωμα (trespass) = a false step, a fall, an offense
παράβασις (transgression) = an overstepping, a crossing of the line

πλεονάζω (pleonazō) — “to increase,” “to multiply”
ὑπερπερισσεύω (hyperperisseuō) — “to abound beyond measure,” “to overflow,” “to super-abound”

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
O! Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble,
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
- "Were You There?" (Hymn from 1899)

"Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. Such infinite majesty, and yet such meekness and grace, and all for sinners, even the chief! Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in His beams. Feel His all-seeing eye settled on you in love, and [rest] in His almighty arms . . . Let the Holy Spirit fill every chamber of your heart; and so there will be no room for folly, or the world, or Satan, or the flesh." - Robert Murray-McCheyne

  

Monday: Luke 14
Tuesday: Leviticus 12
Wednesday: Leviticus 13, Luke 15
Thursday: Leviticus 14, Luke 16
Friday: Leviticus 15, Luke 17
Saturday: Psalm 48-50, Proverbs 11
Sunday: 2 Kings 14-21

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 4:13-25
Galatians 6:3
Galatians 3:10
Galatians 4:9–11
Galatians 1:10; 2:12
Galatians 6:12–13
Galatians 5:15
Galatians 2:13–14
Galatians 1:6–7

1. Introduction
2. Quick Recap of Romans So Far
3. The Problem Paul Is Confronting (Romans 4:13-16
4. Why We Default to DIY Spirituality
5. What It Produces (Consequences of DIY Spirituality)
-Pride and self-deception start the process
-Perfection becomes the standard… or everything falls apart
-Priorities become skewed
-Pleasing others becomes the goal
-We begin measuring the wrong things
-Comparison turns into competition
-Hypocrisy becomes inevitable
-Christianity without Christ becomes normal
6. What Real Faith Looks Like (Abraham – v.17–21)
7. Application

  

Monday: Leviticus 9
Tuesday: Leviticus 10, Luke 11
Wednesday: Leviticus 11
Thursday: Luke 12
Friday: Luke 13
Saturday: Psalm 45-47
Sunday: 2 Kings 6-13

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?

Key Passage: Romans 5:1-11
Romans 3:21-22
Numbers 21:4-9
John 3:14-18
2 Corinthians 5:21
Romans 8:31-32
Ephesians 2:5-8
James 1:2-4

I. Peace with God Through Justification (vv. 1–2)
II. Joy in Suffering (vv. 3-5)
III. The Depths of God's Love in Christ (vv. 6-8)
IV. Assurance of Final Salvation (vv. 9-11)

Two Benefits of Justification
1. Peace with God
2. Immeasurable Grace

"Between here and heaven, every minute that the Christian lives will be a minute of grace." -Charles Spurgeon

"The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven." -Charles Spurgeon

"God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him—especially in suffering." -John Piper

  

Monday: Leviticus 9
Tuesday: Leviticus 10, Luke 11
Wednesday: Leviticus 11
Thursday: Luke 12
Friday: Luke 13
Saturday: Psalm 45-47
Sunday: 2 Kings 6-13

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?

Key Passage: 1 Peter 1:3-9
1 Peter 1:19
1 Timothy 1:1
Romans 8:23
2 Corinthians 1:22

1. God’s Rescue Pattern
2. Our Story
3. Born Again to a Living Hope
4. In the Wilderness — But Not Alone
5. The Best Day Is Still Coming
6. The Invitation

Step One: Passover (Death)
Step Two: The Red Sea
Step Three: Mount Sinai

  

Monday: Luke 8
Tuesday: Luke 9
Wednesday: Exodus 13:17-22, Exodus 14-15
Thursday: Deuteronomy 15:19-23, Deuteronomy 16:1-17
Friday: Luke 10
Saturday: Psalm 42-44, Proverbs 10
Sunday: 1 Kings 20-22, 2 Kings 1-5

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 4:13-25
Galatians 3:18
Psalm 8:3-5

The gospel is:
A promise rooted in grace
that produces trust based on evidence
and a love that is secure because of righteousness.

Unbelief is the root of all sin

• If I am getting angry when life feels interrupted or out of control,
   the unbelief is: “God is not wise enough to be trusted with this moment, so I must take control.”
• If I am worried about the future, money, provision
   the unbelief is: “God will not really provide what I need.”
• If I am unforgiving toward someone else,
   the unbelief is: “God’s grace toward me is not enough to free me to forgive.”
• If I am crushed by criticism or controlled by people’s opinions,
   the unbelief is: “God’s acceptance of me is not enough.”

"As Abraham contemplated his age and Sarah's barrenness, he neither turned a blind eye to these problems nor underestimated them. But he reminded himself of God’s power and faithfulness. Faith always looks at the problems in the light of the promises." -John Stott

BETTY THE BOTANIST ILLUSTRATION
-- Glen Scrivener
And so, one story I tell about science is, “Well, imagine the scene. You're in the laboratory. You're watching Betty the botanist. And she goes over to Gareth, the lab assistant, and she says, ‘Gareth, thank you so much yesterday for giving me that botanical specimen. I've run all sorts of tests on it. I've discovered those pharmacological properties that are going to help us in the fight against Alzheimer's. I've mapped the genome of this botanical specimen, which is a first for this particular species, and I just can't thank you enough for giving me the botanical specimen.’
And Gareth says, ‘Betty, yesterday was February 14. It was a long-stemmed rose, Betty. Do you understand what I gave to you?’”
And the question is, does Betty understand the rose? And on one level, does she understand the rose? She understands the rose better than anyone else on planet Earth. On the other hand, does she understand the rose? No. Betty is a moron. Betty just doesn't get it. And she is even more of a moron if she tells Gareth it can't be a romantic gesture because it's a botanical specimen. That doesn't work, Betty. That doesn't work. It can both be a botanical specimen and a romantic gesture. But to understand that romantic side of things will require more from you than just running a spectral analysis. It will require you to understand the rose more fully, more richly. And then you say, “What if this world is like that rose? What if it's been given to us as a love gift?” Sure, go into the laboratory, study all you can, but do not think that by studying the world scientifically, you have exhausted the meaning of the rose. Unless you want to be like Betty. You don't want to be like Betty, do you? Immerse them in the story and then say, “Who are you in the story?”

  

Monday: Luke 8
Tuesday: Luke 9
Wednesday: Exodus 13:17-22, Exodus 14-15
Thursday: Deuteronomy 15:19-23, Deuteronomy 16:1-17
Friday: Luke 10
Saturday: Psalm 42-44, Proverbs 10
Sunday: 1 Kings 20-22, 2 Kings 1-5

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. Unbelief is the root of all sin (all the way back to the Genesis 3 and the Garden of Eden).  Where do we see that in ordinary life—in anger, worry, control, bitterness, or people-pleasing? What lie about God are we tempted to believe in those moments? Take turns responding to each other by replacing the lie with the truth.

2. Abraham looked honestly at what seemed “dead,” yet he still trusted God’s promise. What feels impossible, barren, or beyond repair in your life right now? How can we face reality truthfully without giving up hope in the God who gives life to the dead?  What words from this passage can you meditate on to strengthen you?

3. If we are truly secure in Christ, then boldness should follow. As a home group or family, where might God be calling us to step out in faith this week—to forgive, serve, speak about Christ, endure suffering, or love someone sacrificially? What would it look like to act like people who are already fully loved?

Extended Study (Taken From N.T. Wright’s “Romans For Everyone”)

Read back through Romans 1.  Then consider the parallels between how sin affected the world and Abrahms’ faith.

This is how it works. Humans ignored God, the creator (1.20, 25); 
Abraham believed in God as creator and life-giver (4.17). 

Humans knew about God’s power, but didn’t worship him as God (1.20); 
Abraham recognized God’s power, and trusted him to use it (4.21). 

Human beings did not give God the glory he was due (1.21); 
Abraham gave God the glory (4.20). 

Human beings dishonoured their own bodies by worshipping beings that were not divine (1.24); 
Abraham, through worshipping the God who gives new life, found that his own body regained its power even though he was long past the age for fathering children. The result in each case is telling. 

Humans dishonour their bodies by females and males turning away from one another into same-sex relationships (1.26–27); 
Abraham and Sarah, through their trust in God’s promises, are given power to conceive a child (4.19). Deep within the heart of God’s covenant promise lies the fulfilment of the basic command back in Genesis 1, the command which goes with the creation of male and female in God’s image: Be fruitful and multiply.

Key Passage: Romans 4:1-12

We are made right with God by faith, not by earning.

Promise → Faith

1. God makes a promise…
2. We respond with faith…
3. God makes us righteous…
4. Then we begin to obey.

We don’t obey to become righteous. We obey because we already are.

Saved by… → FAITH
Not by… → EARNING
Faith first… → OBEDIENCE FOLLOWS
Inside-out… → NOT OUTSIDE-IN

Monday: Leviticus 6, Luke 5
Tuesday: Leviticus 7
Wednesday: Leviticus 8, Luke 6
Thursday: Exodus 12:21-51, Luke 7
Friday: Leviticus 22:26-33, Leviticus 23
Saturday: Psalm 39-41, Proverbs 9
Sunday: 1 Kings 13-19

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: Matthew 28:19-20
Genesis 3:15

Monday: Leviticus 6, Luke 5
Tuesday: Leviticus 7
Wednesday: Leviticus 8, Luke 6
Thursday: Exodus 12:21-51, Luke 7
Friday: Leviticus 22:26-33, Leviticus 23
Saturday: Psalm 39-41, Proverbs 9
Sunday: 1 Kings 13-19

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?

Monday: Exodus 35, Mark 14
Tuesday: Exodus 36-37
Wednesday: Exodus 38, Mark 15
Thursday: Exodus 39, Mark 16
Friday: Exodus 40, Luke 1
Saturday: Psalm 35-36, Proverbs 8
Sunday: 2 Samuel 23-24, 1 Kings 1-6

Key Passage: Romans 3:1-20

1. Jewish Privilege Does Not Equal Innocence
2. God’s Faithfulness Is Not Cancelled by Human Unfaithfulness
3. Twisting Grace Into an Excuse for Sin
4. The Case Against Humanity
5. The Law Silences Every Defense
Conclusion: Feeling the Weight So We See the Savior

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 3:21-31
Proverbs 31:8

Righteous = right with God, justified

Slave Market Redemption (v. 24)
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

*Les Miserables
Jean Valjean: Why are you doing this?
Priest: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil. With this silver, I've bought your soul. I've ransomed you from fear and hatred. And now I give you back to God!

Temple Sacrifice (v. 25)
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

Propitiation = mercy seat, atonement sacrifice, sacrifice for sin

*Day of Atonement - Yom Kippur - Leviticus 16

• The spotless blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat.

Law Court Justice (v. 26)
26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

*Chariots of Fire
“Now in one hours time I will be out there again. I will raise my eyes and look down that corridor,  4 feet wide, with 10 lonely seconds to justify my whole existence. But will I?”  
- Harold Abrahams, in the movie Chariots of Fire

Justified freely = free justification
Justification is more than just forgiveness

• Forgiveness is a negative - free from liability of punishment
• Justification is a positive - bestowal of a status with all the rights and privileges

"The voice that spells forgiveness will say: “You may go; you have been let off the penalty which your sin deserves.’   But the verdict which means acceptance (justification) will say: “you may come; you are welcome to all my love and my presence.” —Sir Marcus Loane, The Surpassing Excellence

Monday: Exodus 35, Mark 14
Tuesday: Exodus 36-37
Wednesday: Exodus 38, Mark 15
Thursday: Exodus 39, Mark 16
Friday: Exodus 40, Luke 1
Saturday: Psalm 35-36, Proverbs 8
Sunday: 2 Samuel 23-24, 1 Kings 1-6

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?

What are some things people boast about besides Christ?
(Strength, family, morality, success, ethnicity, nationality, reputation, being admired) Where do you see the tendency to boast or “justify yourself” in everyday life?

Which picture of the gospel helps you most right now:  redemption from slavery, sacrifice in the temple, or justification in the courtroom?  Why?

Why is it important that God is both “just” and the “justifier” of the one who has faith in Jesus?  How does the cross show that God did not ignore sin, but dealt with it fully?

How does boasting in Christ destroy both pride and despair? Why does the gospel humble us on the one hand and make us deeply secure on the other?

What would it look like this week to live as someone who is already accepted by God in Christ?  How would that change the way you handle failure, repentance, relationships, or people who are different from you?

Monday: Exodus 30:11-38
Tuesday: Exodus 31, Mark 11
Wednesday: Exodus 32, Mark 12
Thursday: Exodus 33, Mark 13
Friday: Exodus 34
Saturday: Psalm 33-34, Proverbs 7
Sunday: 2 Samuel 15-22

Key Passage: Romans 2:17-29
Genesis 3:21
Genesis 15:17
Deuteronomy 10:16
Deuteronomy 30:6
Galatians 3:24, 27-28
Galatians 5:6
Isaiah 61:10
Jeremiah 31:33

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?

Monday: Exodus 30:11-38
Tuesday: Exodus 31, Mark 11
Wednesday: Exodus 32, Mark 12
Thursday: Exodus 33, Mark 13
Friday: Exodus 34
Saturday: Psalm 33-34, Proverbs 7
Sunday: 2 Samuel 15-22

Key Passage: Romans 3:1-20
Psalm 130:3-4 NLT
Proverbs 9:10
Psalm 8:3-4

Righteous = right with God
Self-esteem = Success ÷ Standards

Question: 3 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
Answer: 2 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Question: 3 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
Answer: 4 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written,
“That you may be justified in your words,
    and prevail when you are judged.”

Question: 5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)
Answer: 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

Question: 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

The movement of Romans 1–3 is:

• Gentiles are guilty (Rom. 1:18–32)
• Moralists are guilty (Rom. 2:1–16)
• Jews are guilty (Rom. 2:17–3:8)
• Everyone is guilty (Rom. 3:9–20)

Therefore … Everyone needs the gospel.

All are under sin (3:9–18)

• Legal standing: none righteous
• Mind: no one understands
• Motives: no one seeks God
• Will: all have turned aside
• Speech: mouth is full of curses and bitterness
• Relationships: the way of peace they have not known
• Worship: no fear of God before their eyes

"In our natures we totally lack spiritual good before God: It is not just that some parts of us are sinful and others are pure. Rather, every part of our being is affected by sin -- our intellects, our emotions and desires, our hearts (the center of our desires and decisions -making processes), our goals and motives, and even our physical bodies …
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?
In [passages like these] Scriptures is not denying that unbelievers can do good in human society in some senses. But it is denying that they can do any spiritual good or be good in terms of a relationship with God. Separate from the work of Christ in our lives, we are like all other unbelievers who are “darkened in their understand, alienated from the life of God because of ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart. (Eph 4:18)" — Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology

“No one is as bad as he or she might be” and at the same time “no action of ours is as good as it should be.” — JI Packer summary in Concise Theology

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?

Monday: Exodus 27:20-22, Mark 7
Tuesday: Exodus 28, Mark 8
Wednesday: Mark 9
Thursday: Exodus 29
Friday: Exodus 30:1-10, Mark 10
Saturday: Psalm 31-32
Sunday: 1 Samuel 26-31, 2 Samuel 6-14

Key Passage: Romans 2:1-16
Romans 1:28-32

1. evil, 
2. covetousness, 
3. malice. (They are full of)
4. envy, 
5. murder, 
6. strife, 
7. deceit, 
8. maliciousness. 
9. They are gossips, 
10. slanderers, 
11. haters of God, 
12. insolent, 
13. haughty, 
14. boastful, 
15. inventors of evil, 
16. disobedient to parents, 
17. foolish, 
18. faithless, 
19. heartless, 
20. ruthless. 

1. God is the righteous judge and everyone will get what they deserve.
2. Bring all of your life into the light of God’s Word and you will find mercy to rest in or repentance to walk in.

1. Glory-seeking perseverance (v.7)
2. Self-seeking disobedience (v.8)

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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. In Romans 2:1, what are some common ways we “pass judgment” on others—while excusing ourselves? We often judge others by actions but ourselves by intentions. Where do you see that in your own life (traffic-level everyday examples count)?
2. Romans 2:4 says God’s kindness is meant to lead to repentance. What’s the difference between receiving kindness as permission and receiving kindness as an invitation? What are signs (practically) that a person is becoming hardened rather than tender under God’s patience (2:5)?
3. Romans 2:6–8 describes two trajectories. Which “seeking” (glory-seeking vs self-seeking) most exposes what drives you this season? Why?
4. Conscience can accuse or excuse (2:15). Which danger do you lean toward: wrongfully excusing or wrongfully condemning? 
5. What is one step of obedience that you can take this week in light of the truth you have received?

Monday: Exodus 27:20-22, Mark 7
Tuesday: Exodus 28, Mark 8
Wednesday: Mark 9
Thursday: Exodus 29
Friday: Exodus 30:1-10, Mark 10
Saturday: Psalm 31-32
Sunday: 1 Samuel 26-31, 2 Samuel 6-14

Key Passage: Romans 2:17-29
Deuteronomy 7:7-9
Deuteronomy 28:1-2
Deuteronomy 31:27, 29
Deuteronomy 30:4-6
Isaiah 52:5
Exodus 36:22
Matthew 23:27-28
Deuteronomy 10:12-16
Colossians 2:11-14

1. Writing to people with the privilege of religious identity
2. The futility of external signs

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?

Monday: Exodus 25
Tuesday: Exodus 26
Wednesday: Exodus 27:1-19, Mark 4
Thursday: Mark 5
Friday: Mark 6
Saturday: Psalm 27-30, Proverbs 6
Sunday: 1 Samuel 26-31, 2 Samuel 1-5

Key Passage: Romans 1

Introduction to Epistle to the Romans
Paul’s Passion for Those to Whom He is Called
Paul’s Unashamed Obligation
God’s Righteousness Given

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?

Monday: Exodus 25
Tuesday: Exodus 26
Wednesday: Exodus 27:1-19, Mark 4
Thursday: Mark 5
Friday: Mark 6
Saturday: Psalm 27-30, Proverbs 6
Sunday: 1 Samuel 26-31, 2 Samuel 1-5

Key Passage: Romans 2:1-16
Romans 1:28-32

1. evil, 
2. covetousness, 
3. malice. (They are full of)
4. envy, 
5. murder, 
6. strife, 
7. deceit, 
8. maliciousness. 
9. They are gossips, 
10. slanderers, 
11. haters of God, 
12. insolent, 
13. haughty, 
14. boastful, 
15. inventors of evil, 
16. disobedient to parents, 
17. foolish, 
18. faithless, 
19. heartless, 
20. ruthless. 

1. God is the righteous judge and everyone will get what they deserve.
2. Bring all of your life into the light of God’s Word and you will find mercy to rest in or repentance to walk in.

1. Glory-seeking perseverance (v.7)
2. Self-seeking disobedience (v.8)

“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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. In Romans 2:1, what are some common ways we “pass judgment” on others—while excusing ourselves? We often judge others by actions but ourselves by intentions. Where do you see that in your own life (traffic-level everyday examples count)?
2. Romans 2:4 says God’s kindness is meant to lead to repentance. What’s the difference between receiving kindness as permission and receiving kindness as an invitation? What are signs (practically) that a person is becoming hardened rather than tender under God’s patience (2:5)?
3. Romans 2:6–8 describes two trajectories. Which “seeking” (glory-seeking vs self-seeking) most exposes what drives you this season? Why?
4. Conscience can accuse or excuse (2:15). Which danger do you lean toward: wrongfully excusing or wrongfully condemning? 
5. What is one step of obedience that you can take this week in light of the truth you have received?

Monday: Exodus 17
Tuesday: Exodus 18, Matthew 25
Wednesday: Exodus 19
Thursday: Exodus 20
Friday: Matthew 26
Saturday: Psalm 21-23, Proverbs 5
Sunday: 1 Samuel 9-17

Key Passage: Acts 19:8-21

δύναμις (dunamis) is a broad “power” word that ranges from inherent ability/capacity to power put on display—especially God’s power at work
(120 occurrences of δύναμις in the NT.)

• Acts 19:11 - Paul was doing extraordinary extraordinary, unusual, or special miracles [dunamis]
• Romans 15:19 - by the power [dunamis] of signs and wonders
• Luke 4: 14 And Jesus returned in the power [dunamis] of the Spirit to Galilee
• Acts 1:8 – But you will receive power [dunamis] when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 

Romans 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power [dunamis] of God for salvation to everyone who believes,

Encouragement towards a Spirit-empowered life & potential barriers:
1. Get in the game 
(Barrier: too much theory, not enough practice)
2. Give grace to grow -- to yourself and each others
(Barrier: Low resilience for failure and disappointment)
3. Open your hands in repentance 
(Barrier: unrepentant sin)
4. Fix your eyes on Jesus
(Barrier: eyes on the gifts or signs instead of the giver)

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. Be reminded of your “only God” moments. Take a moment around the group/table to share stories of God coming through in your life in powerful ways.
2. Of the encouragements (and barriers) to the spirit empowered life. Which one do you think you most needed to hear the most and why?
3. How can we pray for signs and wonders with real faith while keeping our focus on Christ, not the experience?
4. Read all of Romans 1 multiple times as you prepare for next week’s teaching. How does Paul describe them? What are the elements of the gospel story presented in his opening of the letter? Write down questions that you have about the text as you read.

Monday: Exodus 10, Matthew 16
Tuesday: Exodus 11, Matthew 17
Wednesday: Exodus 12, Matthew 18
Thursday: Exodus 13:1-16, Matthew 19
Friday: Matthew 20
Saturday: Psalm 17-18
Sunday: Judges 14-21, Ruth 1

Key Passage: Acts 16:25-34
Romans 15:18-19
Acts 16:19-24
Galatians 5:13-14
1 Corinthians 9:19
Hebrews 12:2
Proverbs 11:25

The Story in Philippi: Suffering Love in a Roman Colony
Love for God That Becomes a Witness
Love That Restrains Its Own Freedom
Love That Prepares the Way for the Word

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?

Monday: Exodus 10, Matthew 16
Tuesday: Exodus 11, Matthew 17
Wednesday: Exodus 12, Matthew 18
Thursday: Exodus 13:1-16, Matthew 19
Friday: Matthew 20
Saturday: Psalm 17-18
Sunday: Judges 14-21, Ruth 1

Key Passage: Acts 16:25-34
Acts 16:9-10, 14-18, 22-24
Acts 10:38
James 2:19
Philippians 2:1-15

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?

Monday: Exodus 6
Tuesday: Exodus 7, Matthew 13
Wednesday: Exodus 8
Thursday: Exodus 9, Matthew 14
Friday: Exodus 5, Matthew 15
Saturday: Psalm 12-16, Proverbs 3
Sunday: Judges 6-13

Key Passage: Acts 13:7-49
Isaiah 41:10
Isaiah 49:6
Luke 10:6, 17-20
Psalm 119:11, 105
Psalm 19:10
John 1:1, 14
Romans 10:17
2 Timothy 3:16-17

Introduction: From Prayer to Proclamation
An Update on Paul and Barnabas
Two Antiochs, Two Worlds
Paul Enters the Synagogue
The First Response: Faith Begins to Spread
The Result: A City Gathered
A Dividing Line Appears
Boldness Clarifies the Mission
Joy Marks the Open Door
The Outcome: The Word Advances
Personal Application: Receiving and Releasing the Word
A Simple, Faithful Practice

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?

Monday: Exodus 6
Tuesday: Exodus 7, Matthew 13
Wednesday: Exodus 8
Thursday: Exodus 9, Matthew 14
Friday: Exodus 5, Matthew 15
Saturday: Psalm 12-16, Proverbs 3
Sunday: Judges 6-13

Key Passage: Acts 13:23-52
Acts 6:7
Acts 11:1
Acts 12:24
Acts 13:23-41
Psalm 2:7
Psalm 55:3
Psalm 16:10

The Five Tenets of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD)

1. A god exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on earth.
2. God wants people to be good, nice, and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.
3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.
4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
5. Good people go to heaven when they die.

Acts 13:16-22
God is the subject of nearly ALL of the verbs.
“The God of this people Israel chose our fathers” (v.17)
“made the people great” (v.17)
“led them out” (v.17)
“put up with them in the wilderness” (v.18)
“destroyed seven nations” (v.19)
“gave them their land as an inheritance” (v.19)
“gave them judges” (v.20)
“God gave them Saul” (v.21)
“ removed him” (v.22)
“raised up David” (v.22)
“God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus” (v.23)

Then on the third at break of dawn
The Son of heaven rose again
O trampled death where is your sting
The angels roar for Christ the King

Diagnostic questions to ask of every gospel you speak or hear:

• Is God the main character—or am I?
• Is the resurrection of Jesus the climax of the story?
• Is salvation something God accomplished—or something I activated or earned?

The Word we proclaim is the story of what God has done through the risen Christ—and the resurrection changes everything.

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?

Monday: Exodus 1, Matthew 8
Tuesday: Exodus 2, Matthew 9
Wednesday: Exodus 3, Matthew 10
Thursday: Exodus 4, Matthew 11
Friday: Exodus 5, Matthew 12
Saturday: Psalm 9-11, Proverbs 2
Sunday: Joshua 22-24, Judges 1-5

Key Passage: Acts 4:23-31
Psalm 2:4
Psalm 33:10-11, 16-17

Part 1: You Are Sovereign Lord over everything
Part 2: You have said
Part 3: It is true (You said it and it is true therefore: you are in control, you can be trusted.)
Part 4: Strengthen us to obey

John 16:33 — “In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
2 Timothy 3:12 — “All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”
Hebrews 13:5 — “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Isaiah 41:10 — “Fear not, for I am with you… I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
John 10:10 — “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life.”
Ephesians 6:12 — “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood…”
Isaiah 55:11 — “My word… shall not return to me empty.”
Matthew 16:18 — “I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Jeremiah 33:3 — “Call to me and I will answer you.”
Romans 8:23 - And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

"A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all." ― J.I. Packer, Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God

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?

Monday: Exodus 1, Matthew 8
Tuesday: Exodus 2, Matthew 9
Wednesday: Exodus 3, Matthew 10
Thursday: Exodus 4, Matthew 11
Friday: Exodus 5, Matthew 12
Saturday: Psalm 9-11, Proverbs 2
Sunday: Joshua 22-24, Judges 1-5

Key Passage: Psalm 78:1-8
Psalm 145:1-4, 10-11, 14, 18-19
Psalm 71:18
John 14:2-3

"Just because you have a multi-generational gathering does not mean you have a multi-generational ministry." — Pastor Herbert Tan

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?

Monday: Genesis 47:28-33, Matthew 4
Tuesday: Genesis 48, Matthew 5
Wednesday: Genesis 49
Thursday: Genesis 50, Matthew 6
Friday: Matthew 7
Saturday: Psalm 6-8
Sunday: Joshua 10-21

Key Passage: Matthew 12:46-50
Matthew 28:19-20
1 Peter 3:15
John 13:35

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?

Monday: Genesis 47:28-33, Matthew 4
Tuesday: Genesis 48, Matthew 5
Wednesday: Genesis 49
Thursday: Genesis 50, Matthew 6
Friday: Matthew 7
Saturday: Psalm 6-8
Sunday: Joshua 10-21

Key Passage: Acts 4:23-31
Psalm 2:4
Psalm 33:10-11, 16-17

Part 1: You Are Sovereign Lord over everything
Part 2: You have said
Part 3: It is true (You said it and it is true therefore: you are in control, you can be trusted.)
Part 4: Strengthen us to obey

John 16:33 — “In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
2 Timothy 3:12 — “All who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”
Hebrews 13:5 — “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Isaiah 41:10 — “Fear not, for I am with you… I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
John 10:10 — “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life.”
Ephesians 6:12 — “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood…”
Isaiah 55:11 — “My word… shall not return to me empty.”
Matthew 16:18 — “I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Jeremiah 33:3 — “Call to me and I will answer you.”
Romans 8:23 - And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

"A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all." ― J.I. Packer, Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God

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?