Feb. 16, 2025

Grow Up!

Peace

February 15 & 16, 2025

Primary Text:  John 14:27    

Last Teaching:  Grow Up! – Patience & Kindness

1)  Forbearance

1 Corinthians 13:4:  Love is patient, love is kind.

DQ 1) Define patience and kindness.

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2)  Utmost Patience

2 Peter 3:9:  The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.  He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.  

Romans 2:4:  Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance?

DQ 2) Why is God patient with fickle, sinful humans?

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3)  Patient With Everyone

1 Thessalonians 5:14-15:  And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone.  Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else.

DQ 3) What things really test your patience?  Why?

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This Week’s Teaching:

1)  Fruitfulness

Galatians 5:22-23:  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  Against such things there is no law

DQ 1) Define different types of peace.

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2)  False Peace

Ezekiel 13:3, 10:  “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!’”...  “Because they lead my people astray, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace….”

Jeremiah 6:13–14:  “From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.  They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.”

DQ 2) What is false peace for a country, society, and an individual?

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3)  Stayed on You

Isaiah 26:3-4 (NIV84):  You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.  Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal.

Isaiah 26:3-4 (NKJV):  You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.  Trust in the Lord forever, For in Yah, the Lord, is everlasting strength.

Isaiah 48:22:  “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

DQ 3) What robs you of peace?  Why?

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4)  My Peace

John 14:27:  “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

John 16:33:  “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world.”

DQ 4) What did Jesus mean when He said, “my peace I give you”?

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DQ 5)  What is true peace?

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5)  Beyond Understanding

Philippians 4:5-7:  The Lord is near.  Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 

DQ 6) What things tend to undermine your peace?  Why?

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DQ 7) What instills peace in your soul?

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