Women of Grace Spring Semester ‘04

With the Master in the Upper Room

Homework for Lesson Sixteen: John 15:21-27

The Three Witnesses

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 15:26

 

1) Read John 15:22-27.

(a) What caused the world to hate the Lord?

 

 

 

 

 

(b) What causes the world to hate you?

 

 

 

 

 

2) (a) Jesus says in John 15:22, that if He had not spoken to them (the world) they would have no sin. Read the following verses, listing the things Jesus said to the unbelieving world that would have exposed their sin, and what their response was to His words.

John 5:31-47

 

 

 

 

 

John 6:25-59

 

 

 

 

 

John 7:16-38

 

 

 

 

 

John chapter 8

 

 

 

 

 

 

John chapter 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

John 12:37-50

 

 

 

 

 

(b) What does the phrase, "they had not had sin" mean in verses 22 and 24?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) How does the world respond to your words?

 

 

 

 

 

3) (a) What does Jesus say about His works in the following passages? John 5:17-20

 

 

 

 

 

John 5:36

 

 

 

 

 

John 10:25,26

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) Why do you think His works caused a response of hate from the Jews?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) In what ways have your works caused hatred from the world?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) In what ways did the Holy Spirit "testify of Christ" (John 15:26) when He came in Acts chapter 2?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) The disciples were told that they too would be a witness for Christ. Find two or three examples in Acts where this was true, and what you learn about their witness?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6) Can you effectively share the gospel of Jesus Christ with a lost person? What would you say?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7) Please come with a prayer request on how you might be a better witness for the Lord.

 

 

 

 

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