REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“The Master’s Bedroom”

 

ICEBREAKER: How many pillows do you have on your bed?  What is your favorite food to eat in bed? (Nothing, popcorn, chips, fruit, ice cream)

 

DEFINITIONS: Yada (Hebrew) To know, to perceive, to learn, to understand, to recognize, to experience, to see

 

TEXT: John 17:3, Isaiah 43:10, Exodus 33:13, Genesis 4:1, Daniel 11:32b

 

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1.    The 1st dimension of yada intimacy is to know something or someone in complete detail.  What is one your favorite things you have learned about Jesus from reading about him in the Gospels?

a.    He put the haughty religious people in their place

b.   He loved children

c.    He cared for the down and out

d.   ___________________________________________

2.    The 2nd dimension of yada intimacy is to know something technically or how something or someone works.  Look up Exodus 33:13.  It talks about God’s ways. Name one of the ways God deals with you when he wants to speak to you.

3.    The 3rd dimension of yada intimacy is to know God by personal experience. Habakkuk 2:14 speaks of the knowledge (yada) of the glory of the Lord covering the earth.  What is the difference between knowing about someone and knowing him/her?  Why do you think that America knows about God but doesn’t really know Him anymore or do you think that is true?

4.    The 4th dimension of yada intimacy is to have a face to face encounter.  What can you tell about a person when you have a face to face encounter that you can’t tell from email or even a phone conversation?

5.    The 5th dimension of yada intimacy is sexual intimacy. You must be completely vulnerable and completely honest for this to be genuine intimacy. This is the word that is used when the Bible says that Adam knew Eve.  Adam made a deposit in Eve.  When we have spiritual intimacy with God, He often deposits a dream or idea of greatness in us. What is the greatest dream or encouraging word that God has placed in you?

6.    Read Psalm 139.  Describe at least 5 things that God intimately knows about us from reading that chapter.

7.    What keeps people from being completely open, honest and vulnerable with God?