How to Love God with Your Strength
Group Questions
What do you want to remember about this past week?
What is a hard job you have had?
When are you the most awake?
Text Questions
Read Mark 12:29-31
How do we love God with all our strength?
Read 2 Thessalonians 3:11
What do we learn about these idle church members?
Read 2 Chronicles 3:7
What are the two pillars in the Temple named?
Who are Boaz and Jokin?
Read Ruth 2:11-12, 4:9-10,13-16
What sticks out to you from these verses?
What is Ruth's story?
Who is Boaz?
What does Boaz do?
Read 1 Chronicles 24:17
What sticks out to you from these verses?
What sticks out to you from these verses?
What do we learn about Jakin?
Read Ezra 5:22
What sticks out to you from these verses?
Who is Zerubbabel?
How is Zerubbabel connected to Jakin?
Read Zecharia 4:8-10
What sticks out to you from these verses?
What sticks out to you from these verses?
What do we learn about Zerubbabel
Read Colossians 3:17
What sticks out to you from these verses?
How are we to use our strength at Christians?
Personal Questions
How do you spend your time?
How do you spend your energy?
How do you use your knowledge?
How do you use your skill?
Application
Take inventory on your strength
Ask to help you use your strength for Him
Commit to loving God with all your strength daily
Befriend people who love God
Verses
Two Pillars
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.”
2 Thessalonians 3:6-11 6 In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, 8 nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. 9 We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. 10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.
2 Chronicles 3:7 He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz
Ruth 2:11-12, 4:9-10,13-16 Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. 12 May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, “Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!
1 Chronicles 24:17 (Sons of Aaron the High Preist) 17 the twenty-first to Jakin,
Ezra 5:22 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jozadak set to work to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.
Zecharia 4:8-10 8 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
