Jun. 25, 2023

Personal Chaos

Confronting the Chaos Series 

Primary Text:  Psalm 139:13-14    

Last Teaching: Parental Chaos

1)  Gifts from the Lord

Psalm 127:3 (NASB):  Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.  

DQ 1)  In what ways are children gifts from the Lord?

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2)  Modeling

Deuteronomy 6:4-9:  Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.  Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.  These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.  Impress them on your children.  Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.  Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.   

DQ 2)  Why is the ‘example’ of your life the most important part of parenting?

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This Week’s Teaching: 

1)  Who Am I? 

2 Corinthians 5:16-17:  So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!  

DQ 1)  How does the modern world define “self”?  In other words, what does the world say are the determinants of who and what we are?  

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2)  Wonderfully Made

Genesis 1:27:  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 

DQ 2)  Identify wonderful attributes of all humans.  

DQ 3)  What unique characteristics does God specifically 

            give to each person?

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3)  Predestined

Romans 8:28-30:  And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.  For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.  And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.  

DQ 4)  How are redeemed humans trophies of God’s grace? 

DQ 5)  What does it mean to be “conformed to the likeness” of Christ?

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4)  Advanced Preparation

Ephesians 2:10:  For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. 

DQ 6)  What are “good works” that have eternal value? 

DQ 7)  How is each person uniquely created to do good works?

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5)  Eternal Purposes

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17:  For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.  After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And so we will be with the Lord forever. 

DQ 8)  Does your soul long for heaven?  Why?

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