Matthew 12

Read Matthew 12

What day of the week was the Sabbath during this time?  ____________________________________

Will this change after Christ dies on the cross? _____________________________________________

Why are the Pharisees upset in Vs. 2?  ____________________________________________________

How does Jesus respond? ______________________________________________________________

Read 1 Samuel 3-6:  What does David ask for and why? _______________________________________

                What does the Priest give him? ____________________________________________________

(God was not offended by David’s act during a time of need. )

Why is the Son of Man “Lord of the Sabbath”? ______________________________________________

Jesus continued to heal people – but what did He warn them in vs. 16? ___________________________

Why did He warn them?________________________________________________________________

Compare vs. 18-21 to Isaiah 42:1-8

                He will not quarrel or cry out….   What does this reference mean? ______________________________

Battered reed (used by shepherds to fasi=hion a small musical instrument – once cracked or worn out …it was useless.  A smoldering wick was also useless for giving light. 

                Christ came to take useless and broken people and RESTORE them…HE came to show mercy to the weak.

Why did the Pharisees call Jesus ___________________ in vs. 24? _____________________________________

In vs. 32, who cannot be forgiven? _______________________________________________________________

(These are people who have been told and have the intellectual knowledge, but still deny the True God).

In vs. 36, what does HE mean by “every careless word”? ____________________________________________

(even the most minor sin is enough to cast us into hell without belief and surrender to Christ).

Read James 3:6-8 ….. What does this tell us about the tongue? _______________________________________

Each person will give an account for everything they have spoken or done that’s sinful.

Read Luke 6:45 ……the mouth speaks from that which fills _______________________________

Jer. 17:9 – what does this say about the heart? _________________________________________

Prob. 13:3 – Whoever guards his mouth ….does what to his life?  _______________________________

Have you ever said something you wish you would not have said? _____________________  How do we respond?

Matt. 12:37 Some will be __________________ by their words and some will be _______________________ by words.

In Matt. 12:33 What is good fruit?  __________________________ What is bad fruit? _________________________

In Matt. 40 What is Jesus talking about? ______________________________________________________________

Who remembers the account of what happened with Jonah and the people of Nineveh?  

What did the people do?  _________________________________________________________________

In vs. 43 what is an unclean spirit? ____________________________________________

In vs. 44 what does it mean by he will return to my house? _______________________________

What does an unoccupied house represent? _________________________________________

If a person has gotten rid of the strong idol in their life….there is a hole inside them that only the Holy Spirit can fill.   If the unclean spirit comes back and the Holy Spirit is not in that person….guess what happens???

Would 7 more unclean spirits make this person better or worse? ________________________

Who were Jesus brothers?  Read Matthew 13: 55

                _________________________________   _______________________________________

                ________________________________                     _______________________________________

In vs. 50 who does Jesus call his brother, sister and mother? _____________________________________

Story boards:

                #1           Jesus’s disciples eating grain from field

                #2           Sabbath day was what day of the week?

                #3           Jesus heals someones hand

                #4           Jesus heals demon possessed man who was blind and  mute

                #5           Pharisees call Jesus a demon

                #6           Good fruit and bad fruit

                #7           Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks

                #8           Jonah in whale for 3 days

               

                #9           People of Nineveh repent

                #10        Unclean spirit leaves and returns with 7 more – if the man (house) is empty

                #11        If we do the Father’s will – we are all brothers and sisters of Christ