Easter is this coming Sunday! Is your group planning to do something together on Easter? Maybe bring your lawn chairs and sit together as a group!
Also, I hope you’re inviting someone to join you and your group this coming Sunday. Below is the “digital invite,” which we introduced a week or two ago. Just long tap on the image and choose “save as,” or “save to Photos.” That way, you can share the invite with a friend!
Discussion Questions
Psalm 113:5–8 (NLT)
5 Who can be compared with the Lord our God, who is enthroned on high?
6 He stoops to look down on heaven and on earth.
7 He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump.
8 He sets them among princes, even the princes of his own people!
How does Psalm 113:7-8 (“He raises the poor from the dust…”) remind you of the way God delivered the Israelites from slavery in Egypt?
How does this reflect Jesus’ mission in Luke 4:18–19 to “proclaim good news to the poor… set the oppressed free”?
Psalm 114:1–2 (NLT)
1 When the Israelites escaped from Egypt— when the family of Jacob left that foreign land—
2 the land of Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel became his kingdom.
Psalm 114:1-2 speaks of Israel leaving Egypt and becoming God’s sanctuary. How is this exodus a foreshadowing of the new covenant Jesus establishes? (reference 1 Peter 2:9-10 – Believers are now a “royal priesthood, a holy nation.”)
In what ways is Jesus like Moses as a mediator between God and His people?
The author of Hebrews compares Jesus directly to Moses, and finds Jesus to be better…
Hebrews 3:1–6 (NLT)
And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger and High Priest. 2 For he was faithful to God, who appointed him, just as Moses served faithfully when he was entrusted with God’s entire house.
3 But Jesus deserves far more glory than Moses, just as a person who builds a house deserves more praise than the house itself. 4 For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God.
5 Moses was certainly faithful in God’s house as a servant. His work was an illustration of the truths God would reveal later. 6 But Christ, as the Son, is in charge of God’s entire house. And we are God’s house, if we keep our courage and remain confident in our hope in Christ.
What do you think it means to keep a courageous confidence in Christ?
Psalm 114:3–5 (NLT)
3 The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way!
The water of the Jordan River turned away.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs!
5 What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way?
What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away?
Nature itself reacts to God’s presence! What does this tell us about God’s power in both Moses’ and Jesus’ ministries?
How does Jesus leading us out of sin compare to Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt?
Psalm 113:5–8 (NLT)
5 Who can be compared with the Lord our God, who is enthroned on high?
6 He stoops to look down on heaven and on earth.
7 He lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage dump.
8 He sets them among princes, even the princes of his own people!
This passage praises God’s transcendence and immanence. How do we see this in Jesus’ incarnation?
What is the significance of God lifting the needy “to sit with princes” (Psalm 113:8) in the context of our spiritual inheritance in Christ?
Psalm 114:7–8 (NLT)
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob.
8 He turned the rock into a pool of water; yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock.
How does the miracle of turning rock into water in Moses’ time point to Jesus as the source of living water?
Both Moses and Jesus led people into a new identity and purpose. How does your identity in Christ reflect the transformation Israel experienced after leaving Egypt?
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!