Jan. 05, 2025
A New Day Dawning
January 4-5, 2025Primary Text: Revelation 22:12–17
Last Teaching: Time Anew
1) Time Renewed
Joel 2:25 KJV: And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.
DQ 1) Did you ever squander years of your life in sin and bring judgment upon yourself?
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2) A Time for Everything
Ecclesiastes 3:1–8: There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot… a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
DQ 2) What season of life are you in now? Has it changed significantly in the last five years? How so?
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3) Timeless
Ecclesiastes 3:11: He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Psalm 139:16: All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
DQ 3) Do you live with an eternal mindset or a worldly, temporal perspective?
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This Week’s Teaching:
1) New Every Morning
Lamentations 3:22-23: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
DQ 1) What are God’s “compassions”? How are they new every morning?
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2) A New Day Dawning
Isaiah 60:1-3 (CEV): "Jerusalem, stand up! Shine! Your new day is dawning. The glory of the LORD shines brightly on you." The earth and its people are covered with darkness, but the glory of the Lord is shining upon you. Nations and kings will come to the light of your dawning day.
Isaiah 60:1–3 (NIV): Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.
DQ 2) What would it mean for a new day to dawn in your life?
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3) The Bright Morning Star
Revelation 22:12–17: “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.” Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!”
DQ 3) Why was Satan called a “morning star” in Isaiah 14:12?
DQ 4) Why is Jesus THE Morning Star?
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