Feb 2, 2025
Respecting God’s Sovereignty – Romans 9:17-24
By: Ben Lairamore
Series: Romans
Questions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- What do we mean when we say that God is sovereign?
- How do we see God’s sovereignty in today’s passage?
- What is the great aim of God’s sovereignty as we look at verses 17 & 23?
- How would you seek to defend the goodness and rightness of God’s sovereignty to someone who argues against it?
- What are some of the ways that God’s sovereignty impacts us as believers in Jesus.
- How does this passage personally challenge you?
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- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- What do we mean when we say that God is sovereign?
- How do we see God’s sovereignty in today’s passage?
- What is the great aim of God’s sovereignty as we look at verses 17 & 23?
- How would you seek to defend the goodness and rightness of God’s sovereignty to someone who argues against it?
- What are some of the ways that God’s sovereignty impacts us as believers in Jesus.
- How does this passage personally challenge you?
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- Do you find anything in this passage difficult to understand or accept? How will you respond to this?
- Have you ever experienced an anguish for the lost similar to Paul’s anguish? How might such anguish of heart lead us to live differently?
- According to our passage, does God owe salvation to anyone? Does anyone deserve God’s salvation?
- What is the great purpose of both God’s mercy and God’s just wrath, according to verse 17?
- How might Matthew 20:1-16 relate to today’s passage?
- The emphasis of today’s passage exalts God and humbles humanity. What influences of our culture may make this emphasis difficult to accept?
- As those who are the recipients of God’s grace, what should be our attitude towards God’s undeserved, sovereign grace in our lives?
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- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
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- As a Christian, how have you experienced such attacks? How does it encourage you to know that no enemy can ever succeed at separating you from the love of Christ?
- When you go through difficult circumstances, what should give you certainty of God’s love?
- What all is included in the long list of things that can never separate us from God’s love?
- When you look back at your life as a Christian how can you see the faithfulness of God to save you, to keep you, to protect you, and to use you?
- What will help you to remember God’s faithful love even when you are tempted to feel condemned or tempted to feel discouraged by difficult circumstances?
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- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- What is the big focus of chapter 8 of Romans? How does today’s passage fit into this bigger focus?
- How have you seen God take bad circumstances in your own life and work through them for your spiritual growth and ultimate good?
- We see in this passage that God is sovereign over our salvation from beginning to end? Why is this Biblical truth so important?
- How does it impact you to know that God’s purpose of salvation in your own life as a Christian cannot be thwarted?
- Dec 15, 2024The Spirit’s Help in Prayer – Romans 8:26-27Dec 15, 2024The Spirit’s Help in Prayer – Romans 8:26-27By: Ben LairamoreSeries: RomansQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- What are the many different ways that we see the Spirit’s ministry to believers in Romans 8?
- Have you ever felt weakness in prayer? If so, how?
- Have you ever felt unsure what you should pray for or unclear what would be God’s will to pray for?
- 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?
- 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 8:17-25Dec 8, 2024Hearts filled with HOPE – Romans 8:17-25By: Ben LairamoreSeries: RomansQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- 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)
- All people suffer in this fallen world, but how do Christians suffer because they are Christians?
- How have you experienced suffering as a Christian?
- Why might suffering be a necessary part of the journey to our future glory?
- What helps us to endure suffering as Christians? (See verse 18.)
- 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?
- What does it mean to “groan inwardly” as we await our future inheritance?
- What does this groaning look like in your own life?
- Nov 24, 20244 Things to Know about Yourself as a Christian – Romans 8:9-16Nov 24, 20244 Things to Know about Yourself as a Christian – Romans 8:9-16By: Ben LairamoreSeries: RomansQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- 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?
- What evidence can you see in your own life that the Spirit lives in you?
- 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?
- According to verse 12, the Christian is not a debtor to the sinful flesh? What does this mean?
- How does it encourage you, as a Christian, to be reminded that you are not a debtor to the sinful flesh?
- 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 8:1-8Nov 17, 2024Jesus Saves, Not the Law – Romans 8:1-8By: Ben LairamoreSeries: RomansQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- 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?
- What has God done to rescue the Christian from being condemned under the law? (See Romans 8:3.)
- 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?
- 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.)
- 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 7:7-25Nov 10, 2024Three Questions about the Law – Romans 7:7-25By: Ben LairamoreSeries: RomansQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- 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?
- 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?
- According to 7:12, God’s law is holy, righteous, and good. Why does God’s law, which is good, lead to death?
- 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?
- How is the gospel of Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit empowering you to grow as a servant of righteousness.
- How might the teaching of Galatians 5:16-24 shed light on today’s passage?
- Nov 3, 2024Dead to the Law – Romans 7:1-6Nov 3, 2024Dead to the Law – Romans 7:1-6By: Ben LairamoreSeries: RomansQuestions for Discussion & Application
- What questions do you have about today’s passage?
- What is the law? Who is the law NOT binding on?
- How did Paul illustrate this principle in verses 2-3?
- What does Paul say has happened to fellow believers concerning the law?
- Since the believer has died to the law, who does he now belong to?
- What is the result of belonging to and being united with Jesus?
- 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?
- 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?
