Yesterday morning I preached from Luke 22:63-23:16. I also discussed how to apply what was going on in the Luke text from an Old Testament passage, 2 Samuel 13. If you missed the sermon, you can catch it here later today or tomorrow.
Some questions to aid in your own personal application:
1. Read through Luke 22:63-23:16 again. What are some "key words" from your own personal vocabulary that come to mind as you read?
2. Why do you think Luke continues to stress that the authorities understood Jesus to be "not guilty"?
3. Read through 2 Samuel 13 again. What words come to mind as you think about Tamar's shame and what happened to her?
4. Read 2 Samuel 13:12-13. How would you answer Tamar's question?
5. What about areas in your own life where you are hiding shame? Where can you go with your shame?
6. Read Isaiah 53:4-6. How are you trying to 'prove yourself' to God? In what ways have you not, by faith, transferred your guilt and shame 'deserved punishment' over to Jesus?
Tim Keller said, "Jesus Christ is the Creator who came here not to smite us, but to be un-created so we could be re-created. . . the maker who came to be un-made so we could be re-made . . . the judge who came not to bring judgment, but to bear judgment, to take what we deserve so the Holy Spirit could come into our lives, once our sins are forgiven, and begin to remake us.”
7. What is preventing you from being set free? How is the Holy Spirit remaking you?
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