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Questions Jesus Asked…

Questions Jesus Asked…. YOU!. ________________, 2012. Questions Jesus Asked…. YOU!. As the Master Teacher, Jesus knew exactly what His audience needed to hear. It wasn’t always what they wanted to hear! They weren’t even always supposed to understand Him. Questions Jesus Asked…. YOU!.

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Questions Jesus Asked…

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  1. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! ________________, 2012

  2. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • As the Master Teacher, Jesus knew exactly what His audience needed to hear. • It wasn’t always what they wanted to hear! • They weren’t even always supposed to understand Him.

  3. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • One of the best teaching techniques Jesus employed was the use of questions. • It is not simply a rhetorical technique – it is also initiates a cognitive process. • When we read Jesus’ questions, we are not merely spectators of the event – we are part of it!

  4. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • From now on, whenever you come across a question in the Bible…answer it! • The Scriptures are not merely historical or narrative documents, but they tell our story as well. • Jesus asked numerous questions that we must answer – some of them you will see this morning…

  5. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • “Could you not watch with Me one hour?” – Matthew 26:40 • One of the greatest investments we make in our lives is with our time! • Matthew 6:21; Ephesians 5:16

  6. Matthew 6:21 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” • Are you spending most of your time tending to physical things or spiritual matters?

  7. Ephesians 5:16 “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”

  8. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • “For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves?” – Luke 22:27 • Satan has fooled us into thinking that being served is what we deserve. • John 13:12-15

  9. John 13:12-15 “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.”

  10. Service “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  11. Service “When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  12. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • “Do you not yet understand?” – Matthew 16:8 • How long do we have to hear the gospel until we understand? • Hebrews 6:1; Matthew 17:17

  13. Hebrews 6:1 “Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God”

  14. Matthew 17:17 “Then Jesus answered and said, ‘O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?’”

  15. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • “Do you also want to go away?” – John 6:67 • Sometimes it doesn’t take much to get us to leave Christ. • Luke 9:57-62

  16. Luke 9:57-58 “Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, ‘Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.’ 58 And Jesus said to him, ‘Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.’”

  17. Luke 9:59-60 “Then He said to another, ‘Follow Me.’ But he said, ‘Lord, let me first go and bury my father.’ 60 Jesus said to him, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.’”

  18. Luke 9:61-62 “And another also said, ‘Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.’ 62 But Jesus said to him, ‘No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.’”

  19. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • “But who do you say that I am?” – Matthew 16:15 • Your relationship with Christ (or lack of one) is based on whom you believe Him to be. • Matthew 16:13-14; John 20:27-28

  20. Matthew 16:13-14 “When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, ‘Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?’ 14 So they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’”

  21. John 20:27-28 “Then He said to Thomas, ‘Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.’ 28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, ‘My Lord and my God!’”

  22. Questions Jesus Asked… YOU! • “Could you not watch with Me one hour?” • “For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves?” • “Do you not yet understand?” • “Do you also want to go away?” • “But who do you say that I am?”

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