Acts: The Spread of the Gospel

This study is taken from John MacArthur's "Acts: The Spread of the Gospel." My prayer and goal for this devo is that we will learn more about how the early church laid the foundation for what we possess today, and that we would allow God to use us to turn our world upside for Him!

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Monday, July 28, 2008

Obedient to Death - Part 2 - Devo for 07/29/08

Reading
John 19:25-42

Responsive Questions
1. How is Jesus' tender care for his mother evident even while he is dying (vv. 26-27)?
2. What is the significance of Jesus' cry in v. 30; see also John 17:4)?
3. What feelings and thoughts would have gone through your mind if you had helped prepare Jesus' body for burial?
4. Where are Jesus' disciples during his crucifixion and burial (see also John 16:32)?
5. Why do you think they are conspicuously absent?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. sad
2. because he was sad
3. i would be sad
4. in a room
5. because they don't want to be seen with Jesus

Anonymous said...

1. He made sure her mother will have someone who will look after her when he leaves.

2. He is marking the end of his mission.

3. Maybe disappointment because he was dead and also sadness.

4. Hidden because they didn't want to be killed too.

5. Because they didn't want to be captured and possibly killed.

Anonymous said...

responsive questions:

1.he had one of the disiples take his mother in and he found her someone to take care of her. he wanted her to have agood home because he was dying.

2.he is saying that everyones sins can be forgiven now just by asking God to forgive them and that all we have to do now is ask God into our hearts instead of offering a sacrifice.

3.why did he have to die?, what happens now?, and is he gone forever?, will i ever see him again?, will there still be a heaven?

4.they hid cuz they didnt want to be crusified also, but i think some were at the cross or at least one because it says that while Jesus was on the cross he told his mom mary to live with the desiple he loved and that that desiple was there at the cross with mary.

5.they didnt want to de killed of course.(but i dont look down on them for that cuz to be totaly honest i probebly would have done the same thing, they were only human.)

Anonymous said...

1.cause he wanted to make sure that his mom was ok and that there was someone there fro her when he died.

2.thats what he was doing before he was gone.

3.sadness, i would also be questioning myself.

4.to their own homes.

5.cause they didn't want to be killed or captured.

Anonymous said...

1. Jesus arranged for her care.
2. He had finished paying the price for mankind's sin.
3. "I didn't think it was going to end this way." "What am I going to do and believe now?"
4. Other than John, they were all MIA. (Missing in Action)
5. Scared to death!!!!

Anonymous said...

responsive
1.telling the diciple to take care of his mother.

2.he knew it his time to die.

3.stupid people who killed him and how awful it would have been.

4.they were at their own home.

5.because they didnt want to admit that they were Jesus followers and they were probably scared and sad.

Anonymous said...

1.He gave her someone to protect her and to take care of her in His place.

2.The work He had come to do was complete.

3.I would have been afraid of what was to come.

4.They all went their own ways.

5.THey were probably scared for their own lives.If they could kill their leader who was completely innocent, then what would that mean for them?

Anonymous said...

1. well he had someone to watch over her when he was gone.
2. that was the end of his mission.
3. why did he die for us sinners?
4. they hid because they didnt want to die with him.
5. because they didnt want to die so that they could begen to tell people about what he did for us.