Dealing With Disappointment
Attitude of Gratitude
Part 3
Group Questions
What do you want to remember about this past week?
Who tells the best stories in your family?
When are you most at peace?
Text Questions
Where does true peace come from?
Read Matthew 2:1-8,16
What question did they ask Herod first?
How did Herod react to this information?
What did Herod want to find out about the Messiah?
What did the chief priests and teachers of the law tell him?
What did he tell the Magi to do?
Why was Herod furious?
What did Herod order to be done?
Read Luke 1:67-79
Who is Zechariah?
Who is his son?
What does he say his son will do?
Where does he say we will be guided too?
Read John 14:27
Who is speaking?
What peace does the world give?
What peace does Jesus give?
What does Jesus tell us not to do?
Personal Questions
Who is Lord in your life? Why?
Do you get excited about the things of God?
Do you have the world's peace or Jesus' peace?
Application
Do not be fooled by the worlds offer of peace
It's a choice to where you turn when trouble and fear come
What stuck out to you and what do you want to share?
Verses
Matthew 2:1-8,16 1.After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: 6 “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.”7 Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8 He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” 16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.
