Questions to Guide You:

1. Last week, we read about temptation and Jesus’ fight with Satan’s temptations. How is this week’s reading a continuation of that fight? What actions attack the Devil’s kingdom and build Jesus’?
2. How does the Bible describe people before Jesus shows up on the scene? After?
3. Why does Jesus preach the same sermon John the Baptist did?
4. Jesus calls James, John, Andrew, and Peter to follow him. What does it mean to follow? How did they follow Jesus? How do we?
5. What did it cost the disciples to follow Jesus according to Matt 4 and Luke 18? What does it cost us? What sacrifices should we make?
6. What is so awesome that it is worth following Jesus and sacrificing?
7. What does Paul say about the people called by Jesus in 1 Cor 1? Does that sound accurate about the disciples? About us?
8. According to Ps. 103, what is God like? What does God do? What does God not do? How does Jesus fit the description in Ps 103?
9. What does 2 Cor 1:3-5 promise us in affliction? How have you experienced this?

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