Women of Grace Spring Semester ‘04

With the Master in the Upper Room

Homework for Lesson Twenty One: John 16:25-33

Christ’s Final Words to the Eleven

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 16:32

 

1) (a) Read John 16 and list all the promises you find. Put a star in front of Christ's final promise to the eleven.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) What do you think the reason was for this promise at this time?

 

 

 

 

2) (a) What does Jesus tell His disciples in John 16:26?

 

 

 

 

(b) Are Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25, and I John 2:1 a contradiction to John 16:26?

 

 

 

(c) How do you resolve this?

 

 

3) (a) What do the following verses say about God's love?

Deut. 7:6-10

 

 

Jer. 31:3

 

 

John 3:16

 

 

John 16:27

 

 

Romans 5:5

 

 

Romans 8:35-39

 

 

Eph. 2:4-7

 

 

I John 4:7-10

 

 

I John 4:16

 

 

I John 4:19

 

 

(b) What comfort do these verses give?

 

 

(c) What are some of the ways the Father has expressed His love to you recently? Take the time to thank Him for each of His expressions of love.

 

4) (a) What had Jesus been telling the world as well as the disciples according to John 6:33; 6:61,62; 7:29; 8:42?

 

 

(b) Why do the disciples appear to finally "get it" in verses 28-30?

 

 

(c) How does this give you hope for the things Christ has repeated to you in your own life?

 

 

5) (a) Jesus tells the disciples in John 16:33 to be of good cheer, because He has overcome the world. In the following passages whom does Jesus tell to be of good cheer and why? Mt. 9:2,22

 

 

Mt. 9:22

 

 

Mark 6:50

 

 

Mark 10:49-52

 

 

Acts 23:11

 

 

(b) What do these passages teach you?

 

 

 

6) (a) What are the disciples sure of in 16:30?

 

 

 

(b) Yet what does Jesus say will happen in verses 31,32?

 

 

 

(c) What does this teach you about being over-confident in our flesh? (See I Cor. 10:12, 13)

 

 

(d) What steps can you take to make sure you do not become over-confident in your own flesh? (Use Scripture to support your answer.)

 

 

 

 

7) (a) What has Christ said in the Upper Room to bring peace to the disciples?

 

 

 

(b) In what ways do these things also bring you peace?

 

 

 

8) (a) How did Christ overcome the world? (16:33) Support your answer from the Word.

 

 

(b) How are you overcoming the world?

 

 

 

9) How is verse 32 of chapter 16 a personal comfort to you during difficult times?

 

 

 

10) (a) How have you been challenged as a result of this lesson?

 

 

 

 

(b) Put your need in the form of a prayer request for your partner.

 

 

 

 

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