Memory Verse: Psalm 1:1-3
Bible Study: John 15:1-11Core Truth
How does a disciple grow in Christ on a daily basis?
Just as Jesus went to a "solitary place" to meet with his Father (Mark 1:35), so a disciple should daily pull away from the busyness of life for a quiet time, a personal rendezvous with the Lord and Saviour.
1. Identify key words or phrases in the question and answer above, and state their meaning in your own words.
2. Restate the core truth in your own words.
3. What questions or issues does the core truth raise for you?
Memory Verse Study Guide
Healthy fruit in our lives is the byproduct of well-nourished and cultivated roots. If we sink our inner life deep into the truth of God's Word, life will blossom on us.
1. Putting it in context: Read Psalm 1. In what ways are the wicked contrasted with the righteous?
2. The memory verse are Psalm 1:1-3. Copy these verses verbatim.
3. The blessed man is first definted by what he does not do. What is the blessed man to avoid?
4. What does it mean to delight in the law of the Lord?
5. What comparison is made in verse 3?
6. What does this image teach us about how fruit grows and is nurtured in our lives?
7. How would you define prospers (v3)?
8. How have these verses spoken to you this week?
Inductive Bible Study Guide
Jesus also selects an organic image to describe the kind of relationship that we are to have with him if we are to bear fruit. Jesus says that he is the vine and we are the branches (John 15:5).
1. Read John 15:1-11. The word "remain" defines the connection between the vine and the branches (vv. 4-7,9-10). According to these verses, what does it mean to remain?
2. What do we do to remain in the vine?
3. Our purpose, according to Jesus, is to bear fruit (v.8). What is the nature of the fruit that is to be produced through our lives?
4. Pruning is a necessary proces in order to produce more fruit (v2). What does the Lord use to prune us of the 'dead' branches in our lives?
5. Jesus issues a warning that those branches that do not remain are cut off, thrown into the fire and burned (vv 2, 6). What does Jesus mean by this?
6. What does Jesus mean when he says, "Apart from me you can do nothing"?
7. Jesus states in verse 11 that the intent of these instruction is to implant his joy in us and bring it to completion. What was the joy of Jesus that he wanted us to have?
8. What verse or verses have particularly impacted you? Rewrite key verses in your own words.
CORE TRUTH
ReplyDelete1. Key words: disciple, grow in Christ, daily. If we are Christians then we ARE disciples. Disciples by default are growing in Christ daily. This requires a constant check-in with Him.. But it's more than a check-in thing. The best way to describe my understanding of this would be an analogue signal verses a digital signal. Digital signals are composed of multiple data points over a set time. The more data points, the more precise. But an analogue signal is continuous. Similarly, while it's nice to check-in with God at the beginning of the day; I think it's vital to be 'practising the presence of God' (as per Brother Lawrence). But there is definitely something to be said for quiet time with God.. Same way, I need quite time with my fiancee.
2. This world is full of distractions; we need to calibrate our ears/eyes/hearts to Christ - otherwise we're just playing logically good people not 'being' Christians.
3. God always has GREATER things in store. I just need to make sure that I'm tuned in. Am I spending enough time in silence? or time talking to Him? Just today, I met with someone to do some work on the charity start up. I always find that my work is so much more productive and focused whenever I talk it through with people. In the same way, it's clear that my life becomes so much clearer if I just take some time to be still and wait on the Lord for direction. But I feel as if society looks down on the people employed less than full time hours. Must work past that..
MEMORY VERSE
1. Righteous: will prosper with the LORD's presence watching over vs. Wicked: will perish
2. Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinner or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water which yield its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
3. Avoid the counsel of the wicked, sinners and mockers... But what if these are the very people that you work and do life with?
4. Delight: to take great pleasure or to give keen enjoyment. How to do that with the law of the Lord? Study it, internalize it. Spend time with it. I think of things that I take great pleasure with or keen enjoyment. I make time for these things and look forward to it. So it should be the same with the Word of God. Sadly; I don't think this is the case the vast majority of the time.
5. The righteous man is compared to a tree planted by streams of water; thriving and ultimately flourishing under God's provision.
6. Fruit takes time to grow and you have to be strategically stationed in nourishing places. E.g. Must surround myself with good men who can call me out on things and push me to surrender more and more to God
7. Prosper: have remain in God's presence.
8. I haven't been spending enough time in His word for some time now. Really need to get on top of this. Hopefully, I'll be able to obsess over this and really begin to reap the rewards of Bible study. but for now, I'm super exhausted...night time....
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DeleteFruit does take time to grow! I also am taking a guess here... It can only grow in certain seasons, once the season passes that fruit can't be grown until the next time. If we aren't diligent, we may miss a chance to grow and be fruitful. Yes, as we spend time with good men focused on the Lord, we have an environment to promote healthy big fruit!
That is SO true... Thanks for that reminder that helps make sense of certain seasons of darkness and seeingly no growth... On a totally other random note, went snowshoeing today and it was beautiful seeing evergreen trees covered in snow. But I bet these trees don't think they are going anywhere soon... But come spring; they'll be coming back to life stronger than the year before.... God is certainly bigger than us... Thanks for that perspective Patrick!
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ReplyDelete1. I think of a boundary that we stay within. e.g. remain inside the house. That's where we're supposed to stay. Same deal, Jesus is saying, stay connected to me. Because the spiritual is beyond the physical, it is still possible to go all over the place without getting all tangled up.. I'm just picturing a dog on a leash going all over the place...
2. Practise the presence of God... Understand that God's presence is everywhere and that we're to be led by Him.
3. Nature of fruit is to share love. By this all people will know that God is there since God is love
4. The pruning process can be painful. I think of amputations. Despite never having a limb amputated. I've had piece of cuticles removed from my fingers... It does hurt, but only for a moment and it's for the better. So I guess that's the same... Spiritually, I think this involves taking some rebuke. I've once heard this said "when the rebukes stop, that's when they've given up on you" - or something similar to that.. but that's so true; hence the importance of mens
5. There are no spectators in the Kingdom of Heaven. Shape up or (be) ship(ped) out.
6. We're dead without him.... This can be kind of difficult to grasp without an eternal perspective on life. Cause there are so many things in life that just go on regardless of whether you acknowledge God in it or not. E.g. you don't pray before a meal. Doesn't mean that you're going to get sick and die... (Which begs the question, why do you do it?). Not to digress though; it's important to be reminded of the eternal perspective; makes all the other issues of this world grow strangely dim to ake the words of the hynmnist...
7. The joy of living without the pressures of this world upon us. I think a lot of times, I get bogged down in what people think. But the truth is, I can't spend my life worrying about what people think cause everyone is going to have a different perspective. I've been realizing this in wedding planning these days. Everyone has a different perspective on what looks good or what should be done. But the bottom line is just making sure that it is right before God and pleasing to my future wife! =)
8. The whole passage. It's deep stuff here... I can do NOTHING on my own... Internalizing that an living that is an exercise in faith. But with a guarantee of real LIFE!
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DeleteThis is a rude awakening, like Jesus mentions in revelations, if you are neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth... How are we keeping ourselves in shape?
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ReplyDelete1. To meet with his Father, busyness of life
- meeting with your father, meeting with your own flesh and blood, in this case, the same spirit.
- busyness of life. Busy because time occurs in our existence, and we can only handle one task at a time.
2. Christ grew up knowing his heavenly Father daily, as disciples, we need to meet up with Heavenly Father as well, by Christ's example.
3. What makes us busy is what we place importance on. If we feel like we need to be busy cleaning the house, we place its importance over something else such as praying or reading. There are many things in life and they will ALWAYS be with you until the end of your life. But there is something Eternal also, more important and requires immediate attention.
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***Memory Verse**
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1. The righteous delights in the Lord. Meditates on his law day and night. Like a tree planted by streams, always watered and producing fruit.
Wicked are like chaff, wind blows them away, they have no ground/foundation. Grow then plucked.
2. Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. //**DAY AND NIGHT!**//
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does no wither. Whatever he does prospers.
3. He avoids the aura/nature/spirit of the wicked, the sinners, and mockers.
4. Delighting in the law of the Lord means one is happy and receives it joyfully, and puts it to practice and yearns to understand it.
5. Delighting in the law is like a tree by a river, always watered, producing fruit in season. Prosperous.
6. Fruit is grown from watered trees, like so, disciples bear fruit when they receive nutrition(the word of God.)
7. Prospers: To multiply/produce what you are supposed to do.
8. Discipline is one of the keys. It is easy to get caught in the crowd, we also don't have much of a choice since we work with others.
We can work with them to get the job done, but we avoid things they do, or the way the do things. We choose to exemplify the Lord's way. We will receive criticism and bullying from others, but we are required to stand strong with the Lord, then he will cause his work in us to prosper.
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**BIBLE STUDY**
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1. To remain in the Lord is to believe in him. Only by continued belief can we remain in him. Even when hardships come to lure us away, we need to remain in him. He will natually remain in us.
2. Remain in the vine is to Remain in him and his word, we are the branches of the vine and we get life from him. We will die without sustenance.
3. Bearing fruit shows what you are, an apple tree or something else. So the fruit we produce must represent a life with Jesus and God.
4. The Lord CUTS off dead branches and BURNS them.
5. BURNED branches have no more chance at life. A branch fallen off a tree can still be regrafted but if its burned its over. There comes a point in life when we CANNOT be reconnected to the vine if separated. (The physical death.)
6. Without Jesus (him, his word, his presence, his all), the things we do are temporal, and thus become meaningless.
7. The Joy is to know Jesus is Lord, and this life is not so meaningless.
8. Verse 8. This is to my Father's Glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
Father in Heaven wishes for each of us to display the fruit that shows Jesus as the Truth, that we follow him, and we are joyful in him.
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