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Weekly Guide：2022-2023 Week 12
March 27, 2022
Week 12 Day 1: Arrested and Tried ⇧ ⇩
Scripture Reading
Question
How did Judas betray Jesus?
Meditation: God’s Story
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Jesus left with His disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and He and His disciples went into it.
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Judas came to the garden, guiding a detachment of soldiers. They arrested Jesus and bound him.
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Peter’s first denial.
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Peter’s second and third denials.
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Jesus tried before Pilate. Pilate found no basis for a charge against Jesus.
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The Jews did not want to release Jesus but would rather release Barabbas, who had taken part in an uprising.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Jesus said He came to testify for the truth but Pilate retorted, “What is truth?” Do I believe there’s one absolute truth? What is my standard for truth?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 2: On the Cross ⇧ ⇩
Scripture Reading
Question
Why did the Jews put Jesus on the cross?
Meditation: God’s Story
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Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head and slapped Him in the face.
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The Jews shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!!”
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Jesus carried His own cross, went out to the place of the Skull. There they crucified Him.
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Jesus entrusted His mother to the disciple He loved.
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Not one of His bones will be broken.
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Jesus’ disciple Joseph took His body away and laid it in a new tomb.
Meditation: My Story
- Identity - Pilate wanted to release Jesus but crucified Him instead because the pressure from the Jews. We often face difficult decisions. What is my principle in making decisions? How are my decisions pleasing to God?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 3: Raised from Dead ⇧ ⇩
Scripture Reading
Question
Who witnessed Jesus’ resurrection?
Meditation: God’s Story
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Early in the morning, Mary went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed and thought someone had taken the Lord out of the tomb.
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Mary saw Jesus at the tomb.
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In the evening, Jesus stood among the disciples and showed them His hands and side.
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Thomas did not see Jesus and asked to see the nail marks. Jesus came and let Thomas to touch Him. Thomas said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
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Jesus appeared again to His disciples by the Sea of Galilee.
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Jesus told them to throw their net on the right side of the boat and will find some fishes.
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When Peter heard Jesus, he wrapped his outer garment around him and jumped into the water.
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Jesus ate fish and bread with the disciples by the fire.
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This was now the third time Jesus appeared to His disciples after He was raised from the dead.
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Jesus asked Peter three times, “Do you love me?” and said to him, “Take care of my sheep.”
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Jesus did many other things as well. Even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
Meditation: My Story
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Identity - After seeing His wounds, Thomas declared Jesus is the Lord and God. Where does my faith come from? Where does my knowledge of God come from?
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Identity - Jesus let Peter go fish in the water where He first called him. Jesus strengthened Peter’s faith again in the same way after He had risen from death. Why did Jesus do this? How may my faith be strengthened by going back to the original love of Christ?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 4: In the Beginning ⇧ ⇩
Question
Where did the universe come from?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Chapter 1 to chapter 2 verse 3 is the beginning of the Book of Genesis. It is prelude to the entire Bible.
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God create the world with His word. All was good and He created man and woman from His image; He rested on the 7th day and made that day Holy.
Meditation: My Story
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Walk with God - How does understanding that all things in the world are created by God’s word helps me to know the power of His word? Do I doubt the power of His word in transforming my own life?
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Identity - How does it help to know my own value and worth, knowing that God created me with His own image?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 5: Ancestor of Man ⇧ ⇩
Question
How did the man live when God created the world?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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Genesis 2:4-4:26 is the first of the ten segments of Adam and Eve’s family history.
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God created man and put him in the Garden of Eden. God also made Eve out of Adam’s rib for them to help each other and become one (2:4-25); The serpent deceived man and caused him to be separated from God (3:1-24); Man’s downfall continued with Cain’s murder of his brother Abel to Lamech’s arrogance. Only then, people began to call on the name of the Lord (4:1-26.)
Meditation: My Story
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Integrity - What does the downfall of Adam and Eve tell me? Am I doing things not to God’s liking due to my own pride and desire?
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Identity - Am I willing to call on God’s name and face my own heart?
Prayer
Notes and Responses
Week 12 Day 6: The Seth Family ⇧ ⇩
Question
How was the relationship between Adam and Eve’s offspring and God developed?
Scripture Reading
Meditation: God’s Story
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The second segment of Adam and Eve’s Family history is the account their other son, Seth and his family.
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Seth had Adam’s image; Adam died; Enoch walked faithfully with God; Noah “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands…”; Because of their wickedness, God “…will wipe from the face of the earth … the human race …” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.
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Contrast with Cain’s family.
Meditation: My Story
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Walk with God - Am I like Enoch, pray and live by God’s word? What is impeding me to walk with God?
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Integrity - How much of my thoughts are good? Are evil? How can I keep my thoughts good and pure?