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Jan 5, 2025
God’s Purpose will NOT be Thwarted – Romans 8:28-30
By: Ben Lairamore
Series: Romans
Questions for Discussion & Application
  1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
  2. What is the big focus of chapter 8 of Romans? How does today’s passage fit into this bigger focus?
  3. How have you seen God take bad circumstances in your own life and work through them for your spiritual growth and ultimate good?
  4. We see in this passage that God is sovereign over our salvation from beginning to end? Why is this Biblical truth so important?  
  5. How does it impact you to know that God’s purpose of salvation in your own life as a Christian cannot be thwarted?
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  • Jan 5, 2025God’s Purpose will NOT be Thwarted – Romans 8:28-30
    Jan 5, 2025
    God’s Purpose will NOT be Thwarted – Romans 8:28-30
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Romans
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. What is the big focus of chapter 8 of Romans? How does today’s passage fit into this bigger focus?
    3. How have you seen God take bad circumstances in your own life and work through them for your spiritual growth and ultimate good?
    4. We see in this passage that God is sovereign over our salvation from beginning to end? Why is this Biblical truth so important?  
    5. How does it impact you to know that God’s purpose of salvation in your own life as a Christian cannot be thwarted?
  • Dec 29, 2024Following the Humble King – John 13:12-17
    Dec 29, 2024
    Following the Humble King – John 13:12-17
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: John
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. What was significant about Jesus washing His disciple’s feet?
    3. What are some similar acts of humble service in our own culture?
    4. What motivates you to follow the humble example of Jesus?
    5. What blessing is Jesus speaking of in verse 17? How have you experienced this blessing in your own life?
    6. How can you better follow Jesus’ example of humble servanthood in the coming year?
  • Dec 22, 2024The Child in the Manger – Luke 2:8-14
    Dec 22, 2024
    The Child in the Manger – Luke 2:8-14
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Sunday Morning Message
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. What is significant about Jesus’ birth being announced to shepherds?
    3. How is Jesus a radically different kind of King? What does this mean for us who belong to His Kingdom? 
    4. What three titles are given to Jesus in verse 11? What is significant about each one of these titles? 
    5. How are the humble circumstances of Jesus’ birth contrasted with the celebration of the heavenly host that we see in verses 13-14? What might this contrast teach us about the nature of Jesus’ Kingdom?
    6. Is Jesus your Savior and Lord? If so, when did you first put your trust in the child in the manger?  
  • Dec 15, 2024The Spirit’s Help in Prayer – Romans 8:26-27
    Dec 15, 2024
    The Spirit’s Help in Prayer – Romans 8:26-27
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Romans
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. What are the many different ways that we see the Spirit’s ministry to believers in Romans 8?
    3. Have you ever felt weakness in prayer? If so, how? 
    4. Have you ever felt unsure what you should pray for or unclear what would be God’s will to pray for?
    5. When have you experienced God saying “no” to what you requested in prayer? Are you now able to recognize that God’s “no” was an expression of His love?
    6. How does it encourage you to know that your weakness in prayer will not thwart God’s good purpose from being carried out in your life?  
  • Dec 8, 2024Hearts filled with HOPE – Romans 8:17-25
    Dec 8, 2024
    Hearts filled with HOPE – Romans 8:17-25
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Romans
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. As heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, what is the inheritance that we look forward to? (See Revelation 21:1-5 & I Corinthians 15:51-57)
    3. All people suffer in this fallen world, but how do Christians suffer because they are Christians?
    4. How have you experienced suffering as a Christian?
    5. Why might suffering be a necessary part of the journey to our future glory?
    6. What helps us to endure suffering as Christians? (See verse 18.)
    7. What does it mean to have the “firstfruits of the Spirit”? What evidence do you see of the Spirit’s presence in your own life?  How does the Spirit’s presence in your life strengthen your hope that you will one day receive the promised future inheritance?
    8. What does it mean to “groan inwardly” as we await our future inheritance?
    9. What does this groaning look like in your own life?    
  • Nov 24, 20244 Things to Know about Yourself as a Christian – Romans 8:9-16
    Nov 24, 2024
    4 Things to Know about Yourself as a Christian – Romans 8:9-16
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Romans
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. According to verse 9, the Holy Spirit lives in the Christian. In Romans 8:1-16, what is the evidence that the Spirit lives in the Christian?
    3. What evidence can you see in your own life that the Spirit lives in you?
    4. As a Christian, how does it encourage you to know that God cares about your physical body and will resurrect it as Jesus’ body was raised?
    5. According to verse 12, the Christian is not a debtor to the sinful flesh? What does this mean?
    6. How does it encourage you, as a Christian, to be reminded that you are not a debtor to the sinful flesh?
    7. Since Christians are adopted children of God, we have an intimate relationship with God as our Father. What example can you see from your own life of this closeness with God?          
  • Nov 17, 2024Jesus Saves, Not the Law – Romans 8:1-8
    Nov 17, 2024
    Jesus Saves, Not the Law – Romans 8:1-8
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Romans
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. If you are a Christian, how does it encourage you to be reminded that there is NO condemnation for you? Is there a sin from your past or a struggle with sin in your life currently that you need to be reminded of the truth that you are not condemned?
    3. What has God done to rescue the Christian from being condemned under the law? (See Romans 8:3.)
    4. According to verses 4-8, what will happen in the life of the one who is in Christ? What will happen in the life of the one who is still in the flesh? 
    5. What kinds of attitudes and behaviors characterize the person whose mind is set on the flesh and the person whose mind is set on the Spirit? (See Galatians 5:16-26.) 
    6. What is the evidence in your own life that you have been set free from the law of sin and death and have your mind set on the things of the Spirit?
  • Nov 10, 2024Three Questions about the Law – Romans 7:7-25
    Nov 10, 2024
    Three Questions about the Law – Romans 7:7-25
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Romans
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. Have you ever felt provoked to do something wrong because of an emphasis on a command or rule not to do it? What example can you give? 
    3. According to 7:7 what does the law expose? How have you experienced this in your own life?  How might Jesus’ further elaboration upon the commands of God in Matthew 5-7 intensify this exposure?   
    4. According to 7:12, God’s law is holy, righteous, and good. Why does God’s law, which is good, lead to death? 
    5. In 7:14-25 we see that the law (without the Spirit of Christ) does NOT have the power to save or transform people. What is the solution for this dilemma according to 7:24-25? 
    6. How is the gospel of Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit empowering you to grow as a servant of righteousness.
    7. How might the teaching of Galatians 5:16-24 shed light on today’s passage?
  • Nov 3, 2024Dead to the Law – Romans 7:1-6
    Nov 3, 2024
    Dead to the Law – Romans 7:1-6
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Romans
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. What is the law? Who is the law NOT binding on?
    3. How did Paul illustrate this principle in verses 2-3?
    4. What does Paul say has happened to fellow believers concerning the law?
    5. Since the believer has died to the law, who does he now belong to?
    6. What is the result of belonging to and being united with Jesus?
    7. When we were still living in and controlled by our old sinful nature, what impact did the law have on us? Why does this teach us that people need the Gospel and not just a list of rules? 
    8. What does it mean to serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code? As a believer, what does this change look like in your own life? 
  • Oct 27, 2024What are you a slave to? – Romans 6:15-23
    Oct 27, 2024
    What are you a slave to? – Romans 6:15-23
    By: Ben Lairamore
    Series: Romans
    Questions for Discussion & Application
    1. What questions do you have about today’s passage?
    2. What does it look like to be a slave to sin?
    3. What is the ultimate outcome of being a slave to sin? How do people experience now, a foretaste of sin’s destructive outcome?  What examples can you provide? 
    4. What does it look like to be a slave to righteousness? How does the true Christian move from being a slave to sin to become a slave of God?  (See verses 17-18.)
    5. How is the Christian to live in light of who he is a slave to? (See verse 19.)
    6. How does Paul argue in today’s passage that being under grace does not encourage the believer to sin?
    7. What evidence can you see in your own life that you have been delivered from slavery to sin and have become a slave of God?  
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