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Week 3, One Year Bible Challenge: “Brotherly Love”

Christ the Rock Community Church, Saturday Morning Men’s Group

  • Men’s Bible Study meets every Saturday Morning at Christ the Rock Community Church, 11000 Stirling Road, Cooper City, FL 33328
  • 8am to 10am every Saturday morning
  • For More information, contact Tom Truex @ the church office, 954.680.7779

This Week’s Reading (January 15-21)
WEEK 3
Genesis 31:17-43:34
Matthew 10:24-14:12
Psalm 13:1-18:36
Proverbs 3:16-4:10

Next Week’s Reading (January 15-21)
WEEK 4
Genesis 44:1–Exodus 7:25
Matthew 14:13-19:12
Psalm 18:37-23:6
Proverbs 4:11-5:23

Discussion Questions:
Old Testament

  1. Why isn’t Reuben’s sin with Bilhah (Genesis 35:22), dealt with more directly, rather many years later (Genesis 49:4).
  2. Both Jacob and his wife, Rachel, engaged in deceit when they flet Laban. Genesis 31:17-24. How does deception revisit the family later, and what are we to make of it? See Genesis 34:13-31, Genesis 37:12-36, and Genesis 38:12-30.
  3. In the story of Judah and Tamar, why was the punishment for the daughter-in-law’s sin to be death (Genesis 38:24), but there was no punishment for the same sin, committed by Judah? Genesis 38.
  4. Why didn’t Joseph tell Potiphar what happened in the incident with Potiphar’s wife, so as to avoid being thrown in prison? Genesis 39:7-20.

New Testament

  1. What did Christ mean when he said, “I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.” Matthew 10:34-36.
  2. Why didn’t Jesus just answer yes or no when John the Baptist two of his disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?” Matthew 11:1-6.
  3. What did Jesus mean when he said, “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest…” Matthew 11:28-30

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Week 2, One Year Bible Challenge: “Fire and Brimstone”

Christ the Rock Community Church, Saturday Morning Men’s Group

  • Men’s Bible Study meets at Christ the Rock Community Church, 11000 Stirling Road, Cooper City, FL 33328
  • 8am to 10am every Saturday morning
  • For More information, contact Tom Truex @ the church office, 954.680.7779

This Week’s Reading (January 15-21)
WEEK 2

Meeting of Jacob and Esau, by Francesco Hayez, 1844
Meeting of Jacob and Esau, by Francesco Hayez, 1844

Genesis 18:16-31:16
Matthew 6:25-10:23
Psalm 8:1-12:8
Proverbs 2:6-13:15
Next Week’s Reading (January 15-21)
WEEK 3
Genesis 31:17-43:34
Matthew 10:24-14:12
Psalm 13:1-18:36
Proverbs 3:16-4:10

Discussion Questions:
Old Testament

  1. In Genesis 19:8, Lot offered his two daughters to the mob in place of the two angels. What was Lot thinking in order to make such an offer? Read Genesis 19:1-26.
  2. Why doesn’t the Bible seem to condemn or punish the great sin of Lot’s daughters. Did Lot share any part in this sin? Genesis 19:30-38.
  3. Did Rebekah have a choice in going with Abraham’s servant to marry Isaac?. Why was the servant is such a hurry to go home? Read Genesis 24:51-57.
  4. Why did Jacob have to work 7 years in order to marry Rachel (Genesis 29:16-18)? His father did not have to work for his bride, Rebekah.
  5. Jacob’s two wives,1 and each of their servants had children with Jacob. Read Genesis 29:31-30:24. Was it a sin for him to have multiple wives, and to have children with women who were not his wives? See also 1 Timothy 3:2 and Titus 1:6.

New Testament

  1. According to Matthew 6:19-21; and 6:25-34 is it a sin to plan for your future? Can you take your planning too far?
  2. Matthew 7:1 says “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” But aren’t Christians called on to make judgments about lots of things about other people? Is it OK to judge on some things? If so, what?
  3. A disciple of Jesus wanted to bury his dead father before he followed Jesus. Jesus told him to follow Him (Jesus) and “Leave the dead to bury their own dead.” Does this response seem harsh? Could you imagine someone today addressing a fellow believer in this manner? Matthew 8:19-22
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FOOTNOTE:

  1. The sisters, Leah and Rachel ↩

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Week 2, One Year Bible Challenge: “Fire and Brimstone”

Christ the Rock Community Church, Saturday Morning Men’s Group

Sodom
John Martin, Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, (1852)
This week’s reading (January 8-14)
WEEK 02
Genesis 18:16-31:16
Matthew 6:25-10:23
Psalm 8:1-12:8
Proverbs 2:6-13:15
Next Week’s Reading (January 15-21)
WEEK 03
Genesis 31:17-43:34
Matthew 10:24-14:12
Psalm 13:1-18:36
Proverbs 3:16-4:10

Discussion Questions:

Old Testament

  1. Who was Eliezer (see Genesis Chapter 24), and in what way did he exhibit the traits of a “true servant?”
  2. Why doesn’t the Bible openly condemn Lot and his daughters for their behavior? Genesis 19:30-38.
  3. Why did Jacob have to work to pay for his wife? Genesis 29:16-28

New Testament

  1. Why did Jesus tell the paralysed man that his sins were forgiven? Matthew 9:2
  2. Jesus sent his twelve disciples to the Jews to preach, heal, and cast out demons. Why did he instruct them, “Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet?” Matthew 10:5-14
  3. What, if anything, is wrong with judging others? When, if ever, is judging others appropriate? See Matthew 7:1-5

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