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This session does NOT follow the typical Discovery Bible format. Instead, participants are shown a series of passages and asked to identify how Jesus exalted the Father.
Get into groups of 3-4 people and share how did with the goals you set at our last meeting:
One of Christ’s unique priorities was to continually exalt His Father in every area of life. This was evident early in His ministry, as Jesus stated: “But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God” (John 3:21).
Toward the end of His ministry, Jesus still acknowledged that everything He had came from the Father: “Now they know that everything you have given me comes from You” (John 17:7).
Ask individuals to read the verses and state how Jesus exalted the Father.
Previous groups have said:
What do each of these verses tell you about how Jesus exalted His Father?
19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.
16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.18 Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.
28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,
49 For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.50 I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
Every part of Jesus’ life exalted the Father and His union with His Father. In the same way we are to exalt the Father in all that we do.
In Acts 2:42 the new church continued steadfastly in this priority as they devoted themselves to the “breaking of bread” — communion, remembering Christ’s death and resurrection and its impact on their lives.
Biblical worship is exalting who God is, what He has done for us, and who we are in Christ. As we lift Him up, He will draw all men to Himself.
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