Ultimate Christmas Party: Save the Date

Selected Scriptures

Connect:

• Share how you have seen God in the Highs and Lows of your week.

Prayer:

Pray that God would lead your discussion time and bring fresh insight, conviction, and hope through your time together.

Review:

This series moves us into the Christmas Season, culminating in the Sone of God, Jesus Christ’s birth as a baby in Bethlehem! This weekend we looked at how God knew from all eternity past what was going to happen, that this was His Sovereign plan! Let’s talk about what that means for us…

The Grand Tour of the message: Thinking back on what you heard this Sunday…

o What did you learn about God?

o What did you learn about people?

o What did you learn about yourself?

o What do you want to commit to putting into practice?

Reflection:

Personal Experience:

• God sees our whole past, present and future… and He is present in all of it. He knows all the good, all the bad all the ugly. he knows our attempts to live somewhere between His permissive and perfect will, and He has good works prepared for us to walk in! How does that make you feel, to remember that God is completely outside of time, fully aware, never surprised? Hopeful? Ashamed? Confused? Talk about that.

  Group Discussion:

• Read John 17:5, John 1:1-2, Revelation 13:8

  • Lets say that a 12 year old asked you, “Who was Jesus before He was born?” How would you respond?

  • The verse in Revelation talks about the Lamb Who was slain “before the foundation of the world.” What does that mean, and what good does it do anyone for a “Lamb” to be “Slain”? What’s happening here?

  • Scott mentioned that Jesus death was not an accident; it was part of a plan. What was that plan, starting with Genesis 3:14-15?

• Read Isaiah 7:14, Micah 5:2, Matthew 1:20-23, Luke 2:13-15

  • Scott talked about the probability of 300 prophecies about Jesus all coming to pass as akin to covering the state of Texas 2 feet deep in quarters and finding the ONE quarter with an X on it! The point was that God does not leave anything to chance. Discuss how this impacts our faith; does it sound impossible, does it strengthen our faith, give us hope…? Why does it have that effect?

  • If God knows with such very specific detail how our life will/would/could unfold, how might this affect our walk of faith? Are we more likely ti “trust and obey” when we feel led to do something, or are we likely to just “sit back and let it all happen” leaving it all to fate?

• Read Revelation 21:1-4

  • This is where it is all going, where our story becomes one with God’s Own story!

  • Scott talked about this passage as an invitation. How would you use reference to a verse like this when sharing about the hope you have in Jesus with someone?

Response: 

In Christ, our future is secure. We will actually be there when these things John speaks about in Revelation come to pass! Spend some time thanking God for the hope we have in Him, and ask Him for opportunities to share that hope with someone else this season!

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