Women of Grace Spring Semester ‘04

With the Master in the Upper Room

Homework for Lesson Fourteen: John 15:12-17

What a Friend We Have in Jesus!

Your Homework is Not Only to Sharpen Your Understanding of the Bible but a Ministry to Others in Your Small Groups! Be Faithful to Give Careful Thought to Each Answer with the Expectation of Sharing with Others What You have Discovered.

 

 

Memory Work-John 15:13, 14

 

1) (a) Read John 15 and list all the commandments you find.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How are you obeying these commandments?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Read John 15:12-17. Why does Christ repeat verse 12 in verse 17?

 

 

 

2) Read Mt. 22:34-40.

(a) What is the greatest commandment?

 

 

 

(b) What is the second greatest?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) What did Jesus mean by "on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets"?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(d) How does the Matthew passage relate to what Jesus says in John 15:12-14?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) John 15:14 says "Ye are my friends, if you do whatever I command you." (a) Who is called the friend of God in Isaiah 41:8; 2 Chronicles 20:7 and James 2:23?

 

 

 

 

(b) Why was Abraham called the "friend of God" according to James 2:21-24?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Read Genesis 18:16-33 and Genesis 22, and list other reasons that would cause God to call Abraham His friend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(d) How does this relate to the qualities that Jesus lists for His friends in John 15:12-17?

 

 

 

 

 

4) (a) What were the reasons Christ chose the disciples, according to John 15:16?

 

 

 

 

 

(b) When did Christ choose all who would be His disciples, according to Ephesians 1:4?

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Why did He choose us? Deut 7:7,8; I John 4:10

 

 

 

 

 

(d) Did we have anything to do with choosing God? Prove your answer from the Word of God.

 

 

 

 

 

5) (a) Do you think you would lay down your life for your friends?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) What qualities in your friends would inspire/motivate you to die for them?

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Christ laid down His life for you, His friend. What qualities are present in you, that would cause Him to die for you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6) How do you know you are a friend of Jesus according to this passage?

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) Write a prayer request after prayerfully considering the following questions: Are you loving others as Christ loved you? Are you obeying God? Are you bringing forth fruit? Are you experiencing answered prayer?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come with a request so that we might pray for you.