The old vs the new
Jesus summarised ALL of the commands into 2 most important ones. What are they?
Hint Matthew 22:36-40
Love the Lord with all your heart, mind and soul. Love your neighbour as yourself. This fulfills all the commands
True or False: We could die for each others sins. Why?
False - only Jesus could because he is perfect!
What do Christians look forward to?
New heaven and new earth where we can worship God face to face. No suffering, death or brokeness of this world.
This is our sure and confident hope! This helps us to keep running the race even though it might be hard to trust in God and live for him
Can even Cannibals be saved by God? How?
Yes, if they repent (turn back) to God and live for him. Jesus pays for all sins and desires everyone to enjoy his gift of eternal life.
True believers will accept this gift and live for him (obeying God, living like Jesus, repenting of sin, growing in relationship with God).
How is Jesus different from the Old Testament priests?
Hint: ULTIMATE
Ultimate priest, his sacrifice is more costly (his life) and effective, permanent impact, Jesus was raised to life, Jesus is perfect.
Bonus Q: When Jesus died, the curtain in the temple was separated, what did this symbolise?
In the story of the lame man, (Luke 5:17-26), Jesus says ‘your sins are forgiven’ why didn’t Jesus heal the man but forgive him instead?
Because the man’s greatest problem is sin
Bonus Q: Why were the Teachers of the Law so offended?
Why can we only have complete confidence in Jesus compared to the things of this world?
Things will fails, things are not perfect and won’t always go to our plan or last very long, because we / all people are sinful. E.g. sport, school, friendships, money, games, holidays
What does having faith in Jesus mean?
Trusting in him, living for him
We have faith in a chair, we sit on the chair
Bonus Q: Fill in the blank
It doesn’t matter ___ faith you have but ___ you put your faith in.
God lived with his people in the Tabernacle in the Old Testament, but how does God live with his people now?
By His Holy Spirit!
The Holy Spirit strengthens us to live like Jesus, we are not alone but are empowered to live obediently to God.
In the Garden before Jesus died, he asked God to take this cup away from him. What did the cup symbolize? (Luke 22:42)
God’s judgement
Jesus says, take this cup away from me. But not by my will but your will be done. Jesus chose to die in our place to save us
How are Christians to live now? Hint: Olympian
In faith, sharing the good news and persevering when it might be hard, being driven by the Spirit and growing our personal relationship with God by reading His Word, serving others with our gifts and being involved in a church community. Eyes fixed on our goal!
Can we earn our way to heaven?
Hint: Gifts and wages
No - no one can earn their way, it is only through accepting God’s gift of being saved and having eternal life. We are free from being slaves to sin in which the wages of sin is death.