50 Days with Jesus in the Upper Room

Day 34 – Monday, March 19, 2018

 

Today’s Assignment – Please read John 16:25-33 and answer the following questions.

 

1. How does Jesus describe His language to His disciples?

 

 

 

2. How does Jesus describe the disciples’ relationship with the Father?

 

 

 

3. What does Jesus predict will happen to the disciples?

 

 

4. What is your and my normal response to persecution?

 

 

5. In spite of persecution what disposition are we commanded to possess?

 

 

 

Today’s Quote –“ Even in the hour of his greatest suffering he had an unshakable confidence in the victorious purpose of God. Jesus did not overlook the trial that would affect them as well as himself, for that was inevitable in a world alienated from God. He did proclaim victory over it.” Dr. Merrill Tenney

 

This Week’s Memory Verse – These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33

 

So?…..What’s it to me? – As a result of today’s study I will…

In Judges 11:12-28 (see the full text below) the King of the Ammonites and Israel’s Judge, Jephthah have a negotiation in order to avoid war (v. 12) The Ammonite King’s beef was that the nation of Israel occupied land that was, in his view, rightfully the Ammonites (v. 13). Jephthah proceeds to give a history lesson to the king with the end being “God gave it to us, we ain’t giving it back!”(vs. 23-25).

In the spiritual battles of lives our God gives us territory along the way as He wins the battle for us. Those territories have names like “a clean conscience”, “a whole heart”, “a free from addiction body”, or “a clear mind”. The enemy is in a constant struggle to get these arenas back from us. You can almost hear he and his minions whisper “quit fighting” or “give in just a little and I’ll leave you alone”. Learn a lesson from Jephthah, you and the Lord won that territory fair and square. Never, I mean never, give back to the enemy the land that the Lord has given to you in the spiritual battles of life in order to avoid further confrontation or to gain a temporary peace.

Your mind may have been the the flesh’s playground. God saved and changed you. Don’t give that land back! Your family may have been in this world’s pocket, living for and looking like the mess that the world is. God turned things around. It was tough. Don’t you dare give that land back. Your work life may have been where you most “gave place to the devil”. Jesus changed all that. Please, keep that land. Never, I mean never, give back to the enemy the land that the Lord has given to you in the spiritual battles of life in order to avoid further confrontation or to gain a temporary peace.

How do you keep the territory? Do what Jephthah did. Go to war. Put on the whole armor of God, be strong in the Lord and the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10-20) and go at it but never give back to the enemy the land that the Lord has given to you in the spiritual battles of life in order to avoid further confrontation or to gain a temporary peace.

Judges 11:12–28 (ESV)

¹² Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?” ¹³ And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.” ¹⁴ Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites ¹⁵ and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites, ¹⁶ but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. ¹⁷ Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

¹⁸ “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab. ¹⁹ Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to our country,’ ²⁰ but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel. ²¹ And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country. ²² And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. ²³ So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them? ²⁴ Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess. ²⁵ Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them? ²⁶ While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time? ²⁷ I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.” ²⁸ But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.

 

50 Days with Jesus in the Upper Room

Day 33 – Sunday, March 18, 2018

 

Today’s Assignment – Please read John 16:17-24 and answer the following questions.

 

1. What didn’t the disciples understand?

 

 

2. How did Jesus respond to them and their refusal to ask their question?

 

 

3. What will be the response of the world and of the disciples at His departure.?

 

 

4. What image does Jesus use to illustrate their future joy?

 

 

 

5. What do we learn about joy in these verses?

 

 

 

Today’s Quote: “The words in My name are not a magical formula which enable the user to get his will done; instead those words tied the requests to the work of the Son in doing the Father’s will (See “in My name” in 14:13-14; 15:16; 16:24, 26).”

– Dr. Edwin Blum

 

This Week’s Memory Verse – These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33

 

So?…..What’s it to me? – As a result of today’s study I will…

Proverbs 17:3 – The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.

1 Samuel 16:7 – But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

50 Days with Jesus in the Upper Room

Day 32 – Saturday, March 17, 2018

 

Today’s Assignment – Please read John 16:12-16 and answer the following questions.

 

1. What is the Holy Spirit’s job with reference to the disciples?

 

 

2. How will the Holy Spirit do this?

 

 

 

3. What is the Holy Spirit’s job with reference to Jesus Christ?

 

 

 

4. What should we expect of people and ministries that claim to be Spirit controlled?

 

 

 

Quote of the Day: “When you compare John 14:26 with 16:13, you see the wonderful way that God arranged for the writing of the New Testament Scriptures. The Spirit would remind them of what Jesus had taught them; this gives us the four Gospels. The Spirit would also “guide” them into all truth; and this would result in the epistles. “He will show you things to come” refers to the prophetic Scriptures, especially the Book of Revelation.“

– Dr. Warren Wiersbe

 

This Week’s Memory Verse – These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” – John 16:33

 

So?…..What’s it to me? – As a result of today’s study I will…

50 Days with Jesus in the Upper Room

Day 31 – Friday, March 16, 2018

 

Today’s Assignment – Please read John 16:5-11 and answer the following questions.

 

1. Why does Jesus say His leaving is to the advantage of the disciples?

 

 

 

2. What three things does the Holy Spirit convict the world of?

 

 

 

3. Why will He convict the world of these things?

 

 

 

4. As we witness to individuals, whose job is it to touch their hearts?

 

 

Quote of the Day : “When the Holy Spirit is come, He will convict the world in the way a judge or a prosecuting attorney presents evidence to bring a conviction. The Spirit of God wants to present evidence in your heart and in my heart to bring us to a place of conviction, and that, of course, means a place of decision. There must be a conviction before we can turn in faith and trust to Jesus Christ”. – Dr.  J. Vernon McGee

 

This Week’s Memory Verse – These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

– John 16:33

 

So?…..What’s it to me? – As a result of today’s study I will…

Friday, March 16th, 2018

8:00 P.M – “In His Presence, All Church Prayer Meeting”

7:30 P.M. – DIVAS and CHAMPIONS dinner

8:00 P.M. – DIVAS and CHAMPIONS, program for young women and men ages 13-18 years of age.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Church Membership Class – 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. – 26 Maple Pkwy Conference Room

Noon – 2:00 P.M. – Tutoring for students of PS 44

Sunday, March 18th, 2018

9:00 A.M. – Worship Celebration – “Thriving as a Believer in an Unbelieving World – Be Confronting – 2 Peter 3:1-10″

10:15 A.M. – Angie’s Connection Café
Life Groups
Youth Life – Teens
THRIVE – Young Adults
BLAST – Adults

11:15 A.M. – Worship Celebration – “Thriving as a Believer in an Unbelieving World – Be Confronting – 2 Peter 3:1-10″

 1:00 P.M. – Leadership Team Meeting – 26 Maple Pkwy Conference Room

Our 11:15 A.M. Worship Service is streamed live at http://www.calvarychapelsi.org and facebook at @calvarychapelsi and is also carried live on 570AM The Mission and at http://www.wmca.com and http://www.iheartradio.com, beginning at 11:30 A.M.

50 Days with Jesus in the Upper Room

Day 30 – Thursday, March 15, 2018

 

Today’s Assignment – Read John 16:1-4 and answer the following questions.

 

1. What is Jesus’ reason for speaking these words?

 

 

2. What does Jesus predict will happen to the disciples?

 

 

3. Why will individuals persecute believers this way?

 

 

4. Should we be surprised by persecution today?

 

 

 

5. Why would someone persecute Christians in 2006?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today’s Quote: “The hatred would be so strong that eventually they would be excommunicated from the synagogue. This meant isolation from the social life of Israel. It meant loss of employment and rejection by their own families.” – Dr. Edward Dobson

 

 

This Week’s Memory Verse – These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

– John 16:33

 

So?…..What’s it to me? – As a result of today’s study I will…

The Law of the Leadership Vaccum – When no fruit producing leaders are willing to step up, inevitably a fruitless leader, one who has little to offer in terms of pleasant fruit but only thorns, will step in to fill the leadership vaccum and things will get prickly.

JUDGES 9 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family, 2“Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”3 And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him. 5 And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. 6 And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem. 7 When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you. 8 The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’9 But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?’10 And the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and reign over us.’11 But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?’12 And the trees said to the vine, ‘You come and reign over us.’13 But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’14 Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘You come and reign over us.’15 And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’