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Doodle Bible School
Lesson 4
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1. What is the theme of Joshua 5?
2. Can you doodle the picture clue?
3. What did they do until they were healed? (5:8)
4. Can you quote the memory verse?
5. From what did Joshua make knives? (5:2-3)
6. Who had not been circumcised? (5:5)
7. How long had they walked in the wilderness? (5:6)
8. Why did the men of war perish in the wilderness? (5:6)
9. The goodness of the promised land was described in what way? (5:6)
10. Have you ever seen a sharp piece of flint? How effective would it be for a surgery?
Application Sermon Questions
Lesson 4
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1. What was the title of this lesson?
2. What was the first point made within this lesson? (Joshua 5:7)
3. What was the second point made within this lesson? (Joshua 5:11-12)
4. What did they no longer receive once they entered Canaan? (Joshua 5:12
5. What was the third point made within this lesson? (Joshua 5:15)
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Home Church Worship Guide – Joshua 5
Scripture Explains Itself!
Lesson 4
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1. What was Paul trying to obtain? (Philippians 3:11)
2. What key words does Paul use that indicate effort on his part? (Philippians 3:12-13)
3. What are two types of works in the Bible? (Ephesians 2:8-9)
Reading Assignment
Lesson 4
Conversion (Part 3)
Understanding Sin, Sacrifice, and Self-discipline
In our last lesson, we looked at baptism and how coming to Christ is not convenient. We learned that conversion is traumatic, hurts, involves loss, humiliation and surrender, is born of crisis, and is a crucifixion. In this lesson, we will continue that theme by looking at the entry point of grace and how it happened at the beginning of the church as described by Luke, an apostle of Jesus Christ.
What’s the Conclusion?
The entry point of grace is nothing less than traumatic. In order for young people to experience true conversion, and thereby make a lasting investment in the church, they must first count the cost. They must be taught the price of sin, the pain of sacrifice, and the necessity of self-discipline.
Please notice the expressions of spiritual trauma used to describe converts on the very first day of the church. This description of conversion must be duplicated in the lives of our young people if they are to remain loyal to the Bride of Christ.
According to the biblical record, the entry point of grace involves:
Difficult discoveries – “God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.” (Acts 2:36, NKJV)
Gut-wrenching guilt – “Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart….” (Acts 2:37, NKJV)
Response of desperation – “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” (Acts 2:37, NKJV)
Life-changing sacrifice – “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized….” (Acts 2:38, NKJV)
Submission to a new Master – “…baptized in the name of Jesus Christ….” (Acts 2:38, NKJV)
Acceptable terms of surrender – “…for the remission of sins.” (Acts 2:38, NKJV)
The entry point of grace requires nothing less than a death to self (Romans 6:3-4) and an emergency surgery at the very hands of Jesus (Colossians 2:11-12). The entry point of grace involves trauma to the spiritual man. Just as a person who is experiencing physical loss must take time to grieve, a person experiencing radical spiritual transformation must take time to acknowledge the trauma. Without the biblical steps mentioned above, partial converts walk around in a self-delusional haze of spiritual denial. In order for the church to be an effective support group for spiritual recovery, we must start at the beginning.
When the entry point of grace is reduced to a convenient absolution of conscience through the recitation of a pre-scripted “sinner’s prayer,” the cross is reduced to verbal jewelry and the Divine torture of Calvary becomes little more than religious history. When the entry point of grace becomes an after-the-fact ceremony of symbolic gestures (“outward sign of an inward grace”), the celebration overwhelms the journey and the “let it go!” rushes past the “let Him in!”
The young need more than a convenient Lord and a casual Savior. They need to learn the truth about the glory and the sacrifice of true conversion, the metamorphosis of grace. *
*Borrowed from “To Keep the Faith” by Sonny Childs
NOTE: If you missed the first three lessons in this series, you can go here (lesson 1), here (lesson 2), and here (lesson3) to catch up.
To Keep the Faith Questions
Lesson 4
1. What must a person do to experience true conversion and make a lasting investment in the church?
2. What spiritual trauma did the early converts experience at the beginning of the church (6 things found in Acts 2)? Why do people today need to duplicate this “description of conversion”?
3. What does the entry point of grace require? Without experiencing these things, what happens to the “partial convert”?
4. What things in the religious world reduce the entry point of grace (baptism) to convenience and casualness instead of a true, traumatic conversion?
5. As a Homemaker Hero, you must give your family more than a __________ Lord and a __________ Savior. They need to learn what from you?