Berean Sunday Sermons

1. What is the context of this passage? What problem was Jesus trying to address in the previous passages? 

2. Why do you think the disciples were trying to prevent people from bringing their children to be blessed by Jesus?

3. What is it about a child or an infant that Jesus is referring to that we need to be like to receive the Kingdom of God?

1. Can you think of another situation in life where the undeserving gets rewarded and the hard worker is punished? How would you best explain the doctrine of justification to an unbeliever that thinks what this verse says seems unjust?

2. In what way do you find yourself wanting to be exalted? How does pride manifest in your life?

3. How do you practically humble yourself? What are some things that you can do to humble yourself?

1. What was the primary problem of the people that Jeus was addressing?

2. Who did they compare their righteousness to? (v.11)

3. Who were they praying to and what was the content of their prayer?

4. Name three characteristics of genuine repentance that is presented here by Jesus?

1. What is the context in which Jesus was giving this parable of prayer? What was Jesus preparing His disciples for?

2. What is the contrast between the Judge and the widow?

3. Why does God want us to persist in prayer like the widow? The judge was reluctant to help her but God is more than eager to answer our prayers. So why would we need to persist if he's eager to listen to our prayers?

4. What does persistent prayer reveal according to verse 8?

1. What is the word used for life in this passage?

2. In what way is the pursuit of "life" leading to death?

3. How do we find true life?

4. What does true life produce in us?

1. The content of this verse is repeated in all four gospels. Where else do you see similar themes in the New and Old Testament?

2. Why would the pursuit of life lead to death?

3. What does it mean to lose your life? How does that produce real life?

4. What different words are used in the bible to explain life?

5. What word for life is used in this verse?

1. What about Lot's wife are we to remember?

2. Why do the disciples ask "where" rather then "when" after Jesus warns them about the judgment coming?

3. What is Jesus warning his disciples to do or not to do? Is he referring to a specific event or is this a general caution about how we should live?

1. What were the four things from last week's sermon that Jesus said to look out for to know about Jesus' secong coming?

2. Name at least two more things that we should know about Jesus' second coming?

3. Why does Jesus not mention the sins during Noah's age and the sins of Sodom before the judgment came upon them?

1. Who is Jesus addressing in this passage? Why did He tell the Pharisees that the Kingdom of God will not come with signs to be observed but to the disciples he told them what to look for?

2. Why was it so important for the disciples to be eagerly looking for Jesus' second coming? How important is the eager waiting and looking for His second coming to our spiritual health?

3. What does Jesus mean when He says that the second coming will be like the coming of lightning?

4. Why does Jesus say that He MUST be rejected by this generation before His second coming?