Life With | Week 5

Session 5 Life With God

The Big Picture of a Personal God.

Introduction: The Bible is a big picture of a personal God.

• What would say is your favorite book in the Bible? Why?

• If you were asked “what is the Bible about,” how would you explain it?

Read Exodus 3:4-5 & 14

When the LORD saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!” “Here I am!” Moses replied. “Do not come any closer,” the LORD warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground.

14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

1. What do these verses tell about who God is?

2. What is one bible story that you can recall that showed God’s power?

Read Exodus 32:7-8a & 35

The LORD told Moses, “Quick! Go down the mountain! Your people whom you brought from the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned away from the way I commanded them to live!

35 And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

3. What strikes you about God in these verses?

4. How is God being a “God of love” just as important as him being a “God of justice”?

Read Exodus 6:6-8

“Therefore, say to the people of Israel: ‘I am the Lord. I will free you from your oppression and will rescue you from your slavery in Egypt. I will redeem you with a powerful arm and great acts of judgment. I will claim you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God who has freed you from your oppression in Egypt. 8I will bring you into the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as your very own possession. I am the Lord!’”

5. Has there ever been a time where God seemed very personal towards you?

6. How does Jesus reflect the same attributes of God?

Read John 10:18

No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again.

Read 1 Peter 3:18

Christ suffered for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God.

7. How do these verses reflect Jesus’ power and his love for you?

8. What is the BIG PICTURE you see from the Bible?

Romans 5:8

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.