FOURTH DAY: Read Matthew 20:17-34.
Q8.
a.
What did Jesus tell His disciples would happen when they went to Jerusalem?
The Son of Man will be
delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will
condemn him to death and will hand him over to
the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will
be raised to life!”
b. Read Mark 10:35-45; Luke 18:34.
How did the disciples’ desire for
greatness show that they did not understand what the cross would mean for
Jesus and His followers?
They desired to sit at the
second seat beside Jesus when Jesus receives His glory. Then Jesus asked them.
“Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” they answered “We can” show that they
did not understand any of this.
c. How did Jesus point to Himself
as the example of true greatness?
Jesus knows He will be delivered over to the chief priests and the
teachers of the law. He will be condemned to death, be mocked and flogged and
crucified; it is the cup from God. And Jesus is the true greatness because the
cup only He could take.
Q9.
a.
(Challenge) Read Psalm 75:7-8; Isaiah 51:17. Explain what it means to drink
God’s cup.
Psalm 75:7-8 It
is God who judges: He brings one down, he
exalts another. In
the hand of the Lord is a cup full of foaming
wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink
it down to its very dregs.
Isaiah 51:17 The
Cup of the Lord’s Wrath
Awake, awake! Rise up, Jerusalem, you who have
drunk from the hand of the Lord the cup of his wrath,
you who have drained to its dregs the goblet that makes people stagger
The
cup filled with the wine of God’s wrath. To drink God’s cup means to take the
punishment for our sins.
This is what the LORD, the God of
Israel, said to me: "Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my
wrath and make all the nations to whom I
send you drink it.
I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath I made them
drunk and poured their blood on the
ground."
b. Read Matthew
20:28; John 18:11; 1 Peter 2:24. Why did Jesus drink this cup?
Just as the Son of Man did
not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for
many.
Jesus commanded Peter, “Put your
sword away! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?
“He himself bore our sins” in
his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness;
“by his wounds you have been healed.”
Jesus
drank the cup from the Father that given his life as a ransom to bear
our sins.
c. Read Acts 12:1-2; Revelation
1:9. How did the sons of Zebedee share Jesus’ cup?
James
was persecuted and killed by King Herod because he belonged to the church. John
was banished on the island of Patmos for his testimony of Jesus and the word of
God.
d. Read Matthew 26:27-29. Because
Jesus fully atoned for our sin, from what cup may believers drink?
We
are drinking the blood of Jesus who paid the Atonement for our sins.
Q10. What truth from the story of the
two blind men will you apply to your life this week? (See also Mark 10:46-52.)
Bravely
tell Jesus what we want Him to do for us in or prayers.
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