How to Love God with Your Soul
Group Questions
What do you want to remember about this past week?
What do you talk to yourself about?
When are you the happiest?
Text Questions
Read Mark 12:29-31
How do we love God with all of our soul?
Read Mark 8:36
What does it mean to gain the whole world?
What does it mean to forfeit your soul?
What do we learn about the value of our soul?
What is your soul?
Read 2 Corinthians 6:16
How are we the temple of the living God?
How are we God’s people?
Read Hebrews 6:19
What does it mean we have this hope as an anchor of our soul?
What does it mean that it is firm and secure?
What was behind the curtain in the temple?
What does it mean that Jesus is our forerunner?
How has Jesus entered on our behalf?
How is Jesus the High Priest?
Read 1 Peter 1:8
Who do we not see?
What are they filled with?
What is the end result of our faith?
Personal Questions
What do you understand about your soul?
Do you love God with all of your soul?
Do you want to love God with all of your soul?
Do you live like you are the temple of God?
Do you have inexpressible and glorious joy because of your faith in Christ?
Application
Take inventory on your soul
Ask God for protect your soul
Commit to loving God with all your soul daily
Befriend people who love God
Verses
Mark 12:29-31
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”
Mark 8:36 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
2 Corinthians 6:16 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:“I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
Hebrews 6:19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 20 where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
1 Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
