WHAT CHILD... is this? (Part 3) - Pastor Rob

Isaiah 9.1-7 

PATH

This child is GOD…in FLESH, the SON, who GOVERNS, who COUNSELS, of MIGHT, the FATHER, of PEACE and of DAVID

 

POINTS

This child is GOD…who GOVERNS

 

Read the following passages and consider God’s sovereignty over human governments...Gn 45.4-9; 1 Kgs 11.26-40; Dan 2.21, 4.17; Ps 2.1-12; Mt 28.18; Col 1.15-16; Rev 1.5

o   Discuss how God’s sovereignty should affect our view of and response to the current state of unrest, injustice, evil, etc. in our government and various world governments.

 

Read Romans 13.1-7

o   Do you struggle with submitting to the government? If so why or in what ways?

o   Discuss some of the current issues that our government has made permissible that God would prohibit.

• Do you know where in the Bible God has prohibited these acts?

• Would you be willing to suffer the loss of property or arrest for obeying God over the government?

o   Do you currently vote on local, state and national issues? If not why?

o   Do you consider the issues you vote on from a biblical perspective?

o   Discuss the importance of Christian involvement in the government. Do you think this may be one of the ways God “governs?”

 

This child is GOD…who COUNSELS

 

Read Job 12.13; Ps 16.7, 33.11, 73.23-26, 119.24; Is 28.29, 46.8-10; Jer 32.18-19; Jn 14.15-17, 14.26, 15.26, 16.7 [“Helper” can also be translated “Counselor”]

o   Who do you go to most often for counsel? If not God why?

o   Do you primarily seek God’s counsel in times of crisis and desperation or do you also seek Him regularly for wisdom and direction? Why?

o   When and How do you draw near to God? Is it daily through the Bible and prayer? If not why?

o   What changes could you make to meet with God more often in 2016?

o   Challenge the members of your Life Group to develop a daily devotional plan for 2016 that you can each mutually hold one another accountable to.

 

PONDER

Meditate on 1 Peter 2.13-17 and Psalm 1