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Pride Destroyed in the Jew and Gentile
Sermon Application
Please remember -- these are meant to be a helpful guide and should lead you to ask your own questions (not simply regurgitate our questions supplied to you). If you like the aim of these questions, please use them. Most of the fruit of these are in the discussions that the questions help you to begin. Make sure to be conversational in these discussions and avoid merely working through the questions in a robotic way.
1. In Romans 11, the Jews are described as hardened and rebellious towards God and now jealous towards Gentiles who are being softened towards God and saved. Are there ways that you can empathize with the Jews who are jealous towards saved Gentiles?
Where (or in what ways) can you empathize with Jews experiencing this sentiment? Are there any categories of people who you struggle in being jealous towards? Describe.
2. Are there any groups (or types) of people that you struggle to love and struggle to want to see converted? Describe.
3. Romans 11 is largely about exposing pride and cultivating humility regarding our salvation from both Jews and Gentiles. How is God presently working in your life to uproot pride in your heart? In what areas/ways are you presently tempted to be proud, arrogant, and braggadocious? ---> Rather than brag, we are to fear (v20). What does this mean and how are we doing "fearing" instead of "boasting?"
4. (v24 exposes that we ought to be expectant and hope-filled. What hinders your hope? What deflates your hope? Describe.
5. Discuss together whether you believe Romans 11 teaches that there will be a large ingathering of all Jews one day or whether Paul means to teach something different. Can you prove your position Biblically? How much does this matter to you? (be honest). Do you enjoy or disdain these kinds of hard/rigorous/tedious/complicated/technical theological discussions? Why/not do you enjoy them? Is it hard for you to engage deeply in theologically technical conversations? Why (what about them makes it difficult or unenjoyable)? --> What do you believe God has for you (specifically) in giving you passages in His Word like Romans 11?
6. Regarding our salvation, at the end of the day, Jews and Gentiles alike (all) have only MERCY (the mercy of God) to cling to. Read together Romans 11:33-36. Does this sentiment ("Oh, the riches and wisdom of God...") resonate with you? Is this where your own heart is presently in regard to your great salvation from God? What stops you from possessing this kind of gratitude?
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Please remember -- these are meant to be a helpful guide and should lead you to ask your own questions (not simply regurgitate our questions supplied to you). If you like the aim of these questions, please use them. Most of the fruit of these are in the discussions that the questions help you to begin. Make sure to be conversational in these discussions and avoid merely working through the questions in a robotic way.
1. In Romans 11, the Jews are described as hardened and rebellious towards God and now jealous towards Gentiles who are being softened towards God and saved. Are there ways that you can empathize with the Jews who are jealous towards saved Gentiles?
Where (or in what ways) can you empathize with Jews experiencing this sentiment? Are there any categories of people who you struggle in being jealous towards? Describe.
2. Are there any groups (or types) of people that you struggle to love and struggle to want to see converted? Describe.
3. Romans 11 is largely about exposing pride and cultivating humility regarding our salvation from both Jews and Gentiles. How is God presently working in your life to uproot pride in your heart? In what areas/ways are you presently tempted to be proud, arrogant, and braggadocious? ---> Rather than brag, we are to fear (v20). What does this mean and how are we doing "fearing" instead of "boasting?"
4. (v24 exposes that we ought to be expectant and hope-filled. What hinders your hope? What deflates your hope? Describe.
5. Discuss together whether you believe Romans 11 teaches that there will be a large ingathering of all Jews one day or whether Paul means to teach something different. Can you prove your position Biblically? How much does this matter to you? (be honest). Do you enjoy or disdain these kinds of hard/rigorous/tedious/complicated/technical theological discussions? Why/not do you enjoy them? Is it hard for you to engage deeply in theologically technical conversations? Why (what about them makes it difficult or unenjoyable)? --> What do you believe God has for you (specifically) in giving you passages in His Word like Romans 11?
6. Regarding our salvation, at the end of the day, Jews and Gentiles alike (all) have only MERCY (the mercy of God) to cling to. Read together Romans 11:33-36. Does this sentiment ("Oh, the riches and wisdom of God...") resonate with you? Is this where your own heart is presently in regard to your great salvation from God? What stops you from possessing this kind of gratitude?