May 8, 2023
Grow-Go-Sow Lesson 19
GOD IS IN CONTROL
Text: Psalm 23:1–6
Topic(s): Comfort, Provision
Big Idea of the Message: Penned by David, Psalm 23 emphasizes the Lord’s grace, provision, and comfort throughout life’s challenges and trials.
Application Point: God guides us spiritually, offering us grace, forgiveness, and hope; sustains us and offers us peace in difficulties; and cares for our needs.
Discussion Questions:
1. What is one thing that stood out to you from this week’s message?
2. How does Psalm 23 encourage you to face difficult situations?
3. Why does the Bible use shepherd imagery? What’s the significance?
4. What does Psalm 23 teach us about our personal relationship with the Lord?
5. Can you describe a trying time in your life when you knew God was with you?
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.
