Wednesday Night Bible Study - February 8, 2012

1. Deeds, Claims and Promises of Jesus.
Read Matthew Chapter 11

1. Jesus said to tell John the Baptist:
a. The _________receive their sight.
b. The _________walk.
c. The __________are cleansed.
b. The __________hear.
e. The ___________are raised up.
f. The __________have the gospel preached to them.

2. Jesus said "Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be
_____________in me."

3. John the Baptist came neither ____________or
_______________.

4. Jesus was called______________and a ____________,
a friend of_________________and sinners.

5. Jesus said "come unto me all ye that ________________
and are __________, and I will give you ______________.

2. Inheritance in Christ
Read Book of 2 Corinthians

Chapters 1 and 2 Paul uses his experience of suffering to comfort the Corinthian believers. He had also experienced God as the source of comfort in his afflictions. He assures them that God will comfort them in their sufferings for the sake of the gospel.

Chapters 3 and 4 Paul claims to be a minister of the new light, when compared with the glory God was storing up for him as an eternal reward.

covenant of grace, which is far superior to the old covenant of law. The sufferings he faced in living out his destiny in Christ were Chapter 5
Pauls ministry is part of the divine plan where God sent His Son Jesus Christ to reconcile sinners to Himself through His atoning death on the cross. Paul reminded the Corinthian believers that all Christians, including himself, were "ambasadors for Christ." ( An ambassador is a representative or spokesman of a nation or its ruler.) Those who follow Christ are commissioned as His messengers to an unbelieving world.

Chapter 6
Paul wants them to understand that troubles and tribulations are a natural result of serving Christ.
He instructs that they are not to be "unequally yoked with unbelievers."

Chapters 8 and 9
Paul reminded the Corinthians of Jesus' example of giving His life unselfishly on their behalf. The love of Christ is the controlling motive for all giving.

Chapters 10 and 11
Paul warns against deceitful teachers who would lead the Corinthian believers to follow them rather than point the church to Christ.
He lists the various tribulations he has suffered as a minister of the gospel.

Chapters 12 and 13
Paul talks of a "thorn in the flesh" - the messenger of Satan (the Judaizers who were "buffeting" him wherever he went). After pleading with the Lord three times to take this problem away, he came to the revelation that God's power is made perfect in human weakness. Therefore servants of the Lord must depend on His never-failing strength.

Affirmations (Repeat and Meditaton on These as You Go Throughout the Day):

II Corinthians 3:18 - As the Spirit of the Lord works in me, I become more and more like Him.

II Corinthians 4:1 - Since God, in His mercy, has given me this wonderful ministry, I never give up.

II Corinthians 4:6 - For God who said “let the light shine out of darkness”, made His light shine in my heart to give me the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

II Corinthians 4:10 - Every day I experience something of the death of Jesus, so that I may also show the power of the life of Jesus in my body.

II Corinthians 4:18 - My eyes are fixed, not on the things that are seen, but on the things that are unseen: for what is seen passes away; what is unseen in eternal.

II Corinthians 5:15 - He died for me so that I who live - having received eternal life from Him - might live no longer for myself, to please myself; but to spend my life pleasing Christ who died and rose again for me.

II Corinthians 5:17 - Since I am ingrafted in Christ I am a new creature altogether: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

11 Corinthians 5:18 - God has given me the ministry of reconciliation, that through Jesus Christ, I might bring others into harmony with Him.

11 Corinthians 5:20 - I am an ambasador for Christ.

II Corinthians 5:21 - God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him I might become the righteousness of God.

II Corinthians 3:6 - I am a minister of the Spirit since God has made me fit and worthy and sufficient as a minister and dispenser of the new covenant.

II Corinthians 6:16 - I am the temple of the living God.

3. Dunamis Life

What Do You Mean, 'If You Can'?

Mark 9:23 -- "What do you mean, 'If you can'? said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes.

Faith is having a knowing on the inside. Faith knows you are healed even when you don't feel it yet.

Faith knows you're safe even when tragedy happens nearby. Faith knows you have peace even when everyone around you is afraid.

Faith doesn't deny the circumstances. Faith Believes in the Higher Truth of God's word in spite of the circumstances.

Mark 4:39 -- He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?"

Into Action

List 3 times in your life that you could have (or did) applied faith to.

4. The Deeper Life

Read, pray and meditate on the following: http://mltp.ly/3xscupi

5. Matthew Chapter 11 Quiz Answers

1. Blind, lame, leppers, deaf, dead, poor

2. Offended

3. Eating, Drinking

4. Gluttonus, winebibber, putlican

5. Labor, heaven laden, rest