Watch the “Lord’s Day Live!” and “Scripture Explains Itself!” videos then copy the following “Doodle Bible School,” “Application Sermon Questions,” and “Scripture Explains Itself!” questions. Click the “Submit Answers” button below each set of questions and paste the questions into the email. Answer the questions and send them to us. Read “To Keep the Faith” then follow the same instructions to submit the “To Keep the Faith Questions.”
Doodle Bible School
Lesson 3
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1. What is the theme of Joshua 3-4?
2. Can you doodle the picture clue?
3. What did the priests carry into the Jordan River? (3:13)
4. Can you quote the memory verse?
5. From where were the twelve men to be selected? (3:12)
6. What part of the priest’s body started the miracle? (3:13)
7. What happened when the priests entered the Jordan? (3:13)
8. What happened to the Jordan when it was the time of the harvest? (3:15)
9. Opposite what city did the people cross the Jordan? (3:16)
10. Did you ever damn up a stream of water? Do you think it took faith to cross when the Jordan stopped flowing?
Application Sermon Questions
Lesson 3
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1. What was the title of this lesson?
2. What was the first point made within this lesson? (Joshua 3:15)
3. What was the second point made within this lesson? (Joshua 3:17)
4. What three men survived a fiery furnace because God was with them in the midst of the fire?
5. What was the third point made within this lesson? (Joshua 4:6)
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Home Church Worship Guide – Joshua 3-4
Scripture Explains Itself!
Lesson 3
Were you able to watch the entire lesson?
1. To whom is the Holy Spirit addressing this message?
2. What was stated as the greatest principle of Biblical interpretation?
3. Can you list three of the key words discussed in this lesson?
Reading Assignment
Lesson 3
Conversion (Part 2)
Understanding Sin, Sacrifice, and Self-discipline
The Holy Spirit describes conversion as a death, a burial, and a rebirth; three of the most traumatic moments in the human experience. Coming to Christ includes many things, but convenience is not one of them!
Notice the following passage. Please give special attention to the vivid illustration and dramatic description the Spirit assigns to the salvation process.
Romans 6:3-4 (NKJV)
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Death is final. It is marked by a specific time and place. Death is traumatic. It is marked by specific loss and separation. In order for baptism to be the death described in Romans 6:3-4, it must be more than a casual church initiation service. The Holy Spirit says that baptism marks the moment of death as well as the beginning of new life. Baptism is a salvation marker! Anything less is too casual to be a full recognition of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
So what can we conclude from all of this? Do we save ourselves through baptism? Absolutely not! Does God save us through our free-will choice to join with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection? Absolutely! God does the saving when we join Christ in the sacrifice. Notice again the words of our passage, “buried WITH Him through baptism into death.” Coming to Christ is anything but convenient. It hurts. It involves loss, humiliation, and surrender. Conversion is born of crisis. Conversion is a crucifixion.*
*Borrowed from “To Keep the Faith” by Sonny Childs
NOTE: If you missed the first two lessons in this series, you can go here (lesson 1) and here (lesson 2) to catch up.
To Keep the Faith Questions
Lesson 3
1. How does the Holy Spirit describe conversion or the salvation process? Who do we join in His death, burial, and resurrection? Who saves us through our free-will choice to join Him?
2. What does Romans 6:3-4 teach us about baptism? Since baptism marks our salvation (death and beginning of new life), what significance should we place on it?
3. What should you, as a homemaker, teach your family about becoming a Christian and serving Jesus the rest of their lives? Using the last paragraph, how would you explain to children the convenience of conversion?