Sep. 29, 2024

Familiar With Suffering

Primary Text:  Romans 8: 18–19, 28–30    

Last Teaching:  The Tomb

1)  The Sign of Jonah

Matthew 12:38–39:  Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a miraculous sign from you.”  He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign!  But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah” 

DQ 1) What is the “sign of Jonah”?

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2)  Paradise

Luke 23:40–43:  But the other criminal rebuked him.  “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence?  We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve.  But this man has done nothing wrong.”  Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”  Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”  

DQ 2) Is “Paradise” the same as heaven?  

DQ 3) How did the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection impact the disciples?

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This Week’s Teaching:

1)  Suffer Many Things 

Matthew 16:21:  From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.  

Isaiah 53:3-5:  He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.  Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.  But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. 

DQ 1) Why did Jesus have to suffer so much?

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