WINDSOR FULL GOSPEL MISSION CHURCH
GROUP BIBLE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

John 1:19-28 (D)

1.1) Why have the Israel people been waiting for a prophet? (Hebrews 1:1-2)

   2) Why have the Israel people been waiting for Elijah? (2 King 2:11)

   3) Who else was taken up to heaven directly in the human history? (Genesis 5:21-24)

   4) What is the characteristic of Enoch?

 

2.  What does it mean to “make straight the way for the Lord”?

      1)                                       2)

 

3. What kinds of hindrance can you think of? (Matthew 13:4-6)

 

1)                                         2)

         

4. What are the characteristics of a path?

(1)                             (2)                               (3)

 

5. What causes the hardened soil?

1) Spiritual hardening,

    (1)                                    (2)

 

2) Intellectual hardening,

    (1)

 

6. What are the characteristics of a rocky ground?

 

7. Can you give illustrations for the following obstacles of repentance in your heart?

(1)                            (2)                                (3)                                (4)

 

8. What would God say about the above excuses not to repent? (Proverbs 21:2)

 

9. What kind of heart is the good soil referred in Matthew 13:8? (James 1:21)

 

10. How can you produce the fruit of repentance? (Luke 3:8)

 

11. What is the meaning for John the Baptist’s Water Baptism?

    

12. Why didn’t Pharisees and other religious leaders receive John’s Water Baptism?

     

13. What is the difference between John’s Water Baptism and Jesus’ Water Baptism?

 

Life application:

 

1. Are you waiting for Jesus’ return just as the Israelites were waiting for the return of Elijah?

 

2. Do you believe that you will be taken up to heaven in the future at Jesus’ return in air, as happened to Elijah and Enoch?

 

3. What kind of soil (heart) do you have, path like ground, rocky soil, or good soil?

 

4. What kind of obstacles do you have for your repentance?

 

Prayer:

 

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for my salvation through Jesus Christ. Thank you for the Holy Spirit within me. As I grow in the knowledge of Jesus, help me to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit to help me repent my lack of faith in you and lack of faithfulness in serving you. Help me not to have hope in this world but in Jesus who will return in air in the future to take me up into heaven, where I will be with Him forever.  I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen!