This week's (Jan. 26) study through chapters 8, 9, 10 and 11 were in small group format. In the audio, Kyle reads off the following questions. If you would like them emailed to you, let us know!
Chapter 8
1. Have you ever really thought about what Jesus is actually doing at God’s right hand on a daily basis? What would your answer be if someone asked you that question?
2. What is the role of a mediator?
3. What is the role of an intercessor?
What is the difference between the two?
5. What do you think the author of our study book meant when he said “Intercession is the constant hitting “refresh” of our justification in the court of heaven?”
6. As our mediator/advocate, Jesus is fully familiar with both parties involved (God and humanity). How does that make you feel?
Chapter 9
Why is it important that Jesus is both an intercessor and an advocate? Not one or the other, but both?
What is the significance of the word “propitiation?”
On page 91 we read of Jesus’s heart, how does this change your daily life? Your sin? How you love your neighbor?
Chapter 10
• How has Jesus surprised you from when you first believed until now?
• Do you ever feel like the love of Jesus is too good?
• Do you just know intellectually that Jesus loves you or have you felt it?
• How can we know if we have felt the love of Christ?
Chapter 11
Have you ever thought about Jesus’ permanent humanity? What difference does it make?
What is your favorite story about Christ’s life? Why?
When we see Christ interacting with people in the gospels, “we are seeing who Jesus is for us today” (104).
Have folks read Matt. 20:29-34; Mark 1:40-41; Luke 7:11-13. What emotion are we seeing?
Ortlund tells a story about seeing a man with leprosy and feeling what he calls “tepid compassion.” He notes that the fall has ruined his emotions so that he does not feel appropriately. Can you relate? Jesus, however, being sinless, always experiences the appropriate emotion in perfect measure.
Have folks read Matt. 18:5-6; Matt. 23:13, 16, 23, 25, 27, 29; John 2:15. What emotion are we seeing?
How do you reconcile the two emotions?
How do you know whether he is angry or compassionate toward you?
