April 24, 2023
Grow-Go-Sow Lesson 17
THE JUDGES
Text: Judges 2:11–3:6
Topic(s): Disobedience, Discipline
Big Idea of the Message: God used the nations Israel chose not to drive out of the land as a means to bring them back to obedience.
Application Point: Halfway obedience opens the door to our estrangement from God and his divine discipline.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. What does this passage teach us about the importance of obedience?
3. What are potential testing points in your life? How are you handling them?
4. In which areas of your life have you had the greatest spiritual success? Which ones have produced the greatest struggle?
5. Are there any spiritual patterns you are stuck in?
Before leaving earth, Jesus commands his followers to make disciples of all nations.
Jesus rose again, his physical body made alive again. Although Thomas had his doubts about the resurrection, Jesus presented him with the evidence he needed.
All of Scripture points to Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.
Though innocent, Jesus was crucified to fulfill God’s promise of redemption.
At the Passover meal, Jesus instituted the practice of Communion—a vital ritual that reminds us of the atonement.
In this passage, Jesus explains that following him involves being willing to embrace enormous sacrifices.
Jesus didn’t come to destroy God’s work in the Old Testament but to fulfill what it had been always pointing toward: a pure righteousness through Jesus Christ.
Jesus displayed his power to heal spiritually by healing physically.
As Jesus explains to Nicodemus, it is only through being recreated by the Spirit (made possible by Jesus’s ministry) that one can be made right before God.
Jesus’s baptism and temptation represent his identification with humanity’s failures and sin, as well as his anointing and preparation to preach the gospel.
