Week 1

Week 1

As we begin this journey together I want to encourage you to start each day of your study with prayer. So often I am in a hurry to complete my bible study homework that I skip praying and then I am left wondering why I receive little or no revelation, and have no deep life change. My prayer for us is that He would reveal to us the areas of our hearts and lives that need…no must be surrendered and that we would be bold enough to be obedient to His call.

This week I want to start with John 3:16-21. I know John 3:16 seems a bit basic but I want to go here for two reasons:

 1) If you have never professed Christ as your Savior this is the most simply summed up definition of the Good News…The Gospel. God loved you so much and desires a relationship with you so much that He sent His only Son to die so that He might know you and so that you will have eternal life. If this is a relationship that you have not entered into I encourage you to speak with your bible study leader or pastor about this. This is the single most important decision you will ever make.

2) As a believer having grown up in church my entire life I lose sight of the cross and the price that was paid for my redemption. I grow apathetic, often taking for granted the provision that God made so that I may Know Him, Love Him, Serve Him, and Worship Him. I need to be reminded of my Salvation…my First Love.

So let’s get started.

John 3:16-21 (ESV)

¹⁶ “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. ²⁰ For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. ²¹ But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Let us surrender ourselves to the Holy Spirit as we study His Word. Let us come with great expectation and hope, willing to receive a word and ready to walk in obedience.

Day 1:  Initial Read/Context

              - What stands out to you at first glance in this passage?

              - Who is this passage written to, what was going on before, during and after, and what is

                 being said and thought?

Day2:  Truths

               -What does this passage teach me about the author?

               -What does this passage teach me about God?

               -What can I learn about who I am in Christ?

  

 Day 3:  Promises

               -What promises are being given in this passage?

 Day 4:  Commands

               -What commands am I being given?

 Day 5;  Apply

              -How can I specifically apply what I have learned from this passage to how I am living

               today?

               -What is God revealing to me about Himself?

             -What is God revealing to me about myself and who I am in Him?

This week I wanted to find a place that we can return to throughout this study...a place of foundational Truth, a place of remembrance and hope, but also a calling.

Let us press into Him, Rest in Him, and Pursue Him with every fiber of our being.