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Matthew 24 (Part 1)

Read Matthew Chapter 24
1. Where was Jesus according to Matthew 24:1?

2. Why would Jesus have been in the Temple (Sanctuary)?

3. What do His disciples point out to Him as they are leaving the Temple?

4. What does Jesus respond to them in Matthew 24:2? To what future event is He referring?

5. Where does Jesus go after He leaves the Temple according to Matthew 24:3? How far is this from the Temple?

6. What do the disciples begin asking Jesus according to Matthew 24:3?

7. How does Jesus respond in Matthew 24:4-5?

8. What signs or indicators does Jesus speak of in the following verses?
Matthew 24:6

Matthew 24:7-8

Matthew 24:9

Matthew 24:10

Matthew 24:11

Matthew 24:12

Matthew 24:15

9. Copy Matthew 24:13-14. Meditate on this. Record your thoughts and impressions.

10. What sign prophesied by the Prophet Daniel does Jesus say to look for in Matthew 24:15?

11. What application can we make from the teachings in this chapter?

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The Word of God

Matthew 23

Read Matthew Chapter 23
1. What command does Jesus give with regard to the Pharisees in Matthew 23:1-3?

2. What does Jesus say about the Pharisees in the following verses?
Matthew 23:4

Matthew 23:5

Matthew 23:6-7

3. What command does Jesus give the multitudes in the following verses?
Matthew 23:8

Matthew 23:9

Matthew 23:10

4. Copy Matthew 23:11-12. Mediate on this. Record your thoughts and impressions.

5. What woe to the scribes and Pharisees does Jesus deliver in the following verses?
Matthew 23:13

Matthew 23:14

Matthew 23:15

Matthew 23:25-26

Matthew 23:27-28

Matthew 23:29-33

6. What does Jesus say about their oaths they swear in Matthew 23:16-22?

7. What prophecy is Jesus speaking in Matthew 23:34-36?

8. Copy Matthew 23:37. Meditate on this. What is Jesus referring to? (Provide scriptures to support your answer.)

9. What do you learn from the following verses?
Psalm 17:8

Psalm 91:4

10. What prophecy does Jesus speak over Jerusalem in the final verses of this chapter?

11. How do Jesus’ words relate to the prophecy of Jeremiah 12:7?

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God is King!

Matthew 22 (Part 2)

1. What was the reaction of the Pharisees according to Matthew 22:22?

2. Who were the Sadducees? What did they believe about the resurrection of the dead?

3. What question do the Sadducees pose to Jesus in Matthew 22:23-28?

4. How does Jesus respond in Matthew 22:29-32?

5. What is the reaction of the multitudes according to Matthew 22:33?

6. What question does the lawyer ask Jesus according to Matthew 22:34?

7. What is Jesus’ response in Matthew 22:37-40?

8. What question does Jesus ask the Pharisees in Matthew 22:42? How do they respond?

9. What follow-up question does Jesus ask in Matthew 22:43-45?

10. What psalm is Jesus quoting?

11. What do you learn from Matthew 22:46?

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Matthew 22 (Part 1)

Read Matthew Chapter 22
1. What is the parable that Jesus gives in Matthew 22:1-14?

2. What is the spiritual message of the parable?

3. What do you learn from the following verses?
Hosea 2:23

Acts 28:28

1 Peter 2:9-11

4. Who are the Pharisees?

5. What do you learn about the Pharisees from Matthew 22:15?

6. What question do they ask Jesus according to Matthew 22:17?

7. What does Jesus ask them in Matthew 22:18-19?

8. What do they show Him in Matthew 22:19?

9. What does He ask in Matthew 22:20? What is their response?

10. Copy Jesus statement in Matthew 22:21. Meditate on this. How might this apply to your life today?

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Emanuel

Emanuel
“Come, O Come,” we sing
Emanuel
come be our King

Emanuel
God born below
Emanuel
with seeds to sow

a babe
an infant
Emanuel
small, soft, warm
God in human form

a boy
a youth
Emanuel
He begins to show
a destiny His parents know

a youth
a man
Emanuel
His Father’s work
He’ll never shirk

a man
a rabbi
Emanuel
with healing hands
comes to touch
not make a stand

Emanuel
He’s been betrayed
taken roughly
as He prayed

Emanuel
shows no fight
shows no power
shows no might

Emanuel
God with us
hangs bruised and beaten
all is lost

Emanuel
He’s in the tomb
and we’re all hiding in a room

Emanuel
is this your plan?
Maybe God shouldn’t be a man

Glory shines from
an empty tomb
and none can ever sing our doom
for God was man–Emanuel
and now He’s conquered death as well

O come, O come Emanuel
and ransom captive, Israel
again.

–Mary Beth

It was love, mere love; it was free love that brought the Lord Jesus Christ into our world. What, shall we not remember the birth of our Jesus? Shall we yearly celebrate the birth of our temporal king, and shall that of the King of Kings be quite forgotten? Shall that only, which ought to be had chiefly in remembrance, be quite forgotten? God forbid!

No, my dear brethren, let us celebrate and keep this festival of our church with joy in our hearts: let the birth of a Redeemer, which redeemed us from sin, from wrath, from death, from hell, be always remembered; may this Savior’s love never be forgotten! But may we sing forth all his love and glory as long as life shall last here, and through an endless eternity in the world above! May we chant forth the wonders of redeeming love and the riches of free grace, amidst angels and archangels, cherubim and seraphim, without intermission, forever and ever!

And as, my brethren, the time for keeping this festival is approaching, let us consider our duty in the true observation thereof, of the right way for the glory of God, and the good of immortal souls, to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ; an event which ought to be had in eternal remembrance.

George Whitefield, Selected Sermons of George Whitefield

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1. What does Matthew say about the city of Jerusalem when Jesus entered?

2. What happened when Jesus entered the temple according to Matthew 21:12-13?

3. Copy Isaiah 56:7. Meditate on this. Record your thoughts and impressions.

Going deeper: How was this not a description of the Temple (Sanctuary) at the time of Jesus? What was happening in the Temple (on the Temple grounds) that Jesus was objecting to? Why?

4. Who came to Jesus in the temple? What did He do?

5. What do you learn from Matthew 21:15-16?

6. Copy Psalm 8:1-2. Meditate on this. What was Jesus’ point in quoting this to the chief priests and scribes?

7. Where does Jesus go to spend the night? How far is that from the Temple?

8. What happens in the morning when Jesus returns to the city according to Matthew 21:18-20?

9. What does Jesus tell them in Matthew 21:21-22?

10. Who comes to Jesus as He was teaching according to Matthew 21:23? What do they ask?

11. How does Jesus respond according to Matthew 21:24-25?

12. What is the response of the chief priests and elders ? Why?

13. What parable does Jesus tell in Matthew 21:28-31?

14. What is the spiritual teaching of the parable?

15. How does Jesus apply the parable to the chief priest and elders in Matthew 21:32?

16. What parable to does Jesus tell in Matthew 21:33-41?

17. What is the spiritual teaching of the parable?

18. How does Jesus apply the parable to the chief priest and elders in Matthew 21:42-44?

19. What is the reaction of the chief priests and the Pharisees (elders) according to Matthew 21:45-46?

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