Tag: Bible Study

OT Journey 2.0: Leviticus

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There are 5 studies for the book of Leviticus, which you can find below. You can use them to continue leading a study through the Old Testament or to just lead a study on Leviticus. Be sure to read the introduction to OT Journey 2.0 at the bottom of the page here for more information. While not incorporated into this study, you might want to use the Bible Project overview video to introduce the study.

Study 1: Leviticus 1-7

Study 2: Leviticus 8-12

Study 3: Leviticus 13-17

Study 4: Leviticus 18-22

Study 5: Leviticus 23-27

May God bless you as you study His Word!

OT Journey 2.0: Exodus

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There are 8 studies for the book of Exodus, which you can find below. You can use them to continue leading a study through the Old Testament or to just lead a study on Exodus. Be sure to read the introduction to OT Journey 2.0 at the bottom of the page here for more information. You are encouraged to use the Bible Project overview videos (Exodus 1-18 and Exodus 19-40) at the beginning of Study #1 and Study #5.

Study 1: Exodus 1-5

Study 2: Exodus 6-10

Study 3: Exodus 11-15

Study 4: Exodus 16-20

Study 5: Exodus 21-24

Study 6: Exodus 25-30

Study 7: Exodus 31-34

Study 8: Exodus 35-40

May God bless you as you study His Word!

OT Journey 2.0: Genesis

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There are 10 studies for the book of Genesis, which you can find below. You can use them to start leading a study through the Old Testament or to just lead a study on Genesis. Be sure to read the introduction to OT Journey 2.0 at the bottom of the page here for more information. You are encouraged to use the Bible Project overview videos (Genesis 1-11 and Genesis 12-50) at the beginning of Study #1 and Study #3.

Study 1: Genesis 1-5

Study 2: Genesis 6-10

Study 3: Genesis 11-15

Study 4: Genesis 16-20

Study 5: Genesis 21-25

Study 6: Genesis 26-30

Study 7: Genesis 31-35

Study 8: Genesis 36-40

Study 9: Genesis 41-45

Study 10: Genesis 46-50

May God bless you as you study His Word!

Introducing OT Journey 2.0

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I am excited to introduce you to OT Journey 2.0 this summer. Bible Journey studies and reflections have been on this site for quite a while. This summer I am launching OT Journey 2.0 which is a reworking and revising of that earlier material. It is designed to help you take a group through the entire Old Testament (except Psalms) chapter by chapter in three years (150 lessons). You can find all the details for this new study (as well as the older one) on the Bible Journey page here. I plan to start posting studies next week. It would make a great study to start this Fall with your Sunday School class or small group Bible study.

Habakkuk 1-3: Trust in the Lord

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(1) What lament does Habakkuk bring to God (v2-4)?  When have you made a similar lament?

What answer does God give to his prayer (v5-11)?

Is this the answer Habakkuk was looking for (v12-17)?  What troubles him about God’s answer?  What troubles you about God’s answer?

(2) What is Habakkuk going to do (v1)?  How is this a good example for us?

God says that the righteous shall live by faith (v4).  In what ways does Habakkuk need faith in this situation?  What is the implied object of this faith?

How does the New Testament apply this faith in Romans 1:17 and Galatians 3:11?

The faith of the righteous is contrasted with the pride of the unrighteous (v4).  Why are pride and faith mutually exclusive?

God declares five woes upon Babylon for their sin (v6-20).  How would this encourage Habakkuk to trust God?

How do v18-20 contrast a person who trusts in idols with our trust in God?

(3) From Habakkuk’s prayer, how would you describe his view of God (v1-16)?  How would this understanding encourage him to trust God?  Encourage you to trust God?

How does trust enable joy in tough times (v17-19)?

(1-3) How do trust and prayer each require the other, and how does Habakkuk illustrate this?

In what situation do you need to trust God today?  What have you learned from this book to help you trust God in that situation?

Zephaniah 1-3: The Day of the Lord

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(1) The Day of the Lord is coming when God will bring judgment against Judah (v4–13) and one day the whole world (v2-3, 17-18).  What brings God’s judgment (v4-6, 8-9, 12, 17)?

Why do you think we are instructed to be silent before the Lord (v7)?

(2) God will judge the nations around Judah.  What brings God’s judgment (v7-11, 15)?

(3) God will judge Judah.  What brings God’s judgment (v1-7)?

From these three chapters, how would you summarize what brings God’s judgment?

What application do you see for us today?

(3) The Day of the Lord brings judgment, but also blessing.  What promise does God make to the nations for future blessing (v9-10)?

Why is this promise important for us?  How is it brought about (see Ephesians 2:11-13)?

Who will God remove and leave (v11-13)?

What further promises does God make for future blessing (v15-20)?

How does v17 encourage you?

How should we respond (v14)?  Why don’t we do this more?

(2) In response to the coming Day of the Lord, Zephaniah calls God’s people to seek three things (v3).  What are they?

In the context of the book, why these three things?

What would it look like for us to seek these things?

Nahum 1-3: Against The Enemy

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(1) What do you learn about God in v2-6?

What do you learn about God in v7?

Why must God be all the things in v2-6 in order to be all the things he is in v7?

Though Nineveh plots against God and is strong, God will destroy them (v8-14).  Why is this good news for Judah (v15, see also v12b-13)?  For us?

(2) Nineveh will be destroyed.  Why (v2, 13)?

Nineveh’s wealth will be plundered (v9).  What lesson is there for us in this?

(3) Again, Nineveh will be destroyed.  Why (v1, 5)?

God is against all people because of their sin (Romans 1:18).  What is our only hope, how does this change everything (Romans 8:1, 31)?

Who will grieve for Nineveh, and why (v7, 19)?

Thebes was a strong well-protected city, but it fell (v8-10).  What lesson is Nineveh to learn from this?

What lesson should we learn?

(1-3) Nahum’s name means “comfort.”  How would this short book be a comfort to Judah?

How can this book be a comfort to you?

Look again at 1:2-7.  How might these verses encourage you to trust God in your trials?

Praise God?

Fear God?

II Kings 21-23 & II Chronicles 33-35: Pay Attention

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(2K-21) Manasseh did what was evil in God’s sight (v2).  What evil did he do (v1-9)?

How did God respond (v10-15)?  What does this remind you about God?

(2Ch-33) Again we read of Manasseh’s evil in v1-9.  God confronted Manasseh, but Manasseh paid no attention (v10).  How did God finally get Manasseh’s attention (v11)?

Describe Manasseh’s response to his distress (v12-13).  What did God do (v13)?

How did Manasseh follow-through with his repentance after he returned to Jerusalem (v15-16)?

Why do you think it often takes a great trial for God to get someone’s attention?

(2K-21) Describe Amon’s reign (v19-22).  How was he like and unlike his father Manasseh?  What happened to him (v23)?

(2K-22) How did God get Josiah’s attention, and how did Josiah respond (v8-13)?

How is his response a good example for us (see Isaiah 66:2)?

What bad news and good news did God give through the prophetess to Josiah in v14-20?

(2K-23) How did Josiah further respond to God’s Word in v1-24?

Why was Josiah’s follow-through so important?

How is Josiah described in v25?  Are you giving your all to God?

How did God first get your attention?  How did you respond?

From Josiah’s example, how should we respond to the reading and hearing of God’s Word?  Be specific.

Micah 1-7: Judgment, Promise, Expectation

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(1-2, 6) What sins does God confront in 1:7; 2:1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11?

How does God respond to their sin (6:9-16)?  What does this tell you about God?

(3) What groups of people does God condemn, and why (v1-4, v5-7, v9-11)?  What would be the result (v12)?

How is Micah different (v8)?

In what ways is our role today as individual Christians and as a church similar to and different from Micah’s role in v8?

(4) What promises does God make for the future (v1-4, compare Isaiah 2:1-4)?

“All the peoples walk each in the name of its god” (v5a).  How do you see this today in America?

What does it look like for us to walk in the name of the Lord instead (v5b)?

(5) What promise is made in v2?  Who is this (see Matthew 2:6)?

What will he do (v4-5a)?

(6) What three things does God expect of his people (v8)?

Give examples of what each would look like in your daily life?  In your family and neighborhood?  At your job?

(7) Surrounded by ungodliness (v1-6), how does Micah respond (v7)?  How does this complement 3:8?  What other responses might we be tempted to make?

What important confession does Micah make in v9?  How should that affect our response to an ungodly world?

What will God do for his people (v18-20)?  How do you think we should respond?

Isaiah 58-66: A Glorious Future

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(58) Why was God not pleased with Israel’s fasting (v1-5)?

What did God expect the people to do along with their fasting (v6-7, see also the “If” statements in v9-10, 13)?

What would be the results (Then… in v8-12, 14)?

What application do you find in this chapter for us today?

(59) How does God describe their sin (v1-8, compare with Romans 3:10-18)?

How would you summarize the results (v2, 9-15a)?

How does God respond (v15b-19)?  How else does God respond (v20)?

(61) What will Messiah come to do (v1-3, see also Luke 4:16-21)?

What would be the results (v4-11, see also 62:1-5)?

(60) What words and ideas are frequently repeated in this chapter?

What phrases and ideas are also found in Revelation 21:1-22:5?

What do you learn about God’s promise for the future?

(65) What words and ideas are repeated in v17-25?

What more do we learn about the future?

(66) What words and ideas are repeated in v18-23?

What more do we learn about the future?

From these chapters, how would you summarize God’s future plans for his people?

What kind of people is God looking for (v2b)?  Why do you think this is?  How well does this describe you?