REALLIFE STUDY GROUP

“Bind Up!”

ICEBREAKER: Tell us a time when you or your family had a need for medical help.

CONFESSION: Like the pages of a book are bound up together, my story is bound up and united together with God’s story. I am bound to the promises of God. I am inseparably bound up to the healing love of God. Nothing can separate me from His encircling, enwrapping, enveloping and encompassing grace. My Father God is a healing specialist that binds the brokenhearted with the healing ointment of His oil and wine.

DEFINITION: Hebrew (Bind Up) Chabash – to bind up, restrain

English dictionary: Bind – bind v. bound (bound), binding, binds vs. tr.

1. To tie or secure, as with a rope or cord

2. To fasten or wrap by encircling, as with a belt or ribbon

3. To bandage: bound up their wounds

4. To hold or restrain with or as if with bonds

5. To compel, obligate, or unite: bound by a deep sense of duty; bound by a common interest

6. Law to place under legal obligation by contract or oath

7. To make certain or irrevocable: bind the deal with a down payment

8. To apprentice or indenture: was bound out as a servant

9. To cause to cohere or stick together in a mass: Bind the dry ingredients with milk and eggs

10. To enclose and fasten (a book or other printed material) between covers

11. To furnish with an edge or border for protection, reinforcement, or ornamentation

OUTLINE: The Good Samaritan

The Good Samaritan Saw him (a man beaten and left for dead), had Compassion on him and Went to him and Bound his wounds, pouring oil and wine.

Binding Up is a three step process:

1. See

2. Feel

3. Act

The Good Samaritan’s mode for us:

1. Make the Difference

2. Take the Risk

3. Shake the System

4. Bind the Wounds (pouring oil and wine)

5. Break the Bank

6. Cover the Shame

TEXT: Luke 10: 25-37

Isaiah 61:1 – The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to BIND UP the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound;

Ezekiel 34:16 – I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will BIND UP [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

Isaiah 8:1 – BIND UP the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Deuteronomy 11:18 – Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets BIND THEM between your eyes.

Matthew 16:19 - And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt BIND on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Psalm 147:3 (New International Version) – He heals the broken hearted and BINDS UP their wounds.

Job 5:18 (New Living Translation) – For he wounds, but he also BINDS UP; he injures, but his hands also heal.

Hosea 6:1 (New International Version) – Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will BIND UP our wounds.

STUDY GROUP QUESTIONS:

1. Look at Job 5:18 again. In what context do you think that God would wound us in order to heal us? Has this ever happened in your life? Explain.

2. Isaiah 61:1 says, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to....bind up the broken hearted....” Name a reason that people are brokenhearted in our society today.

3. In Luke 10:25-37 what risk did the Good Samaritan take and what did it cost him in terms of time, resources and emotional investment?

4. Why do you think that good people like the priest and the Levite often walk right by the wounded, damaged and broken without stopping and helping?

5. Matthew 16:19 speaks of binding and losing. Name something that we as Christians are called bind and something we are called to loose.

6. If we actually would become the instruments or agents of healing that God has called us to become, identify something or someone that could change in our society or our world.

PRAISE REPORTS & PRAYER REQUESTS:

ACTION POINT: This week I will open my eyes to see the wounded, open my ears to really hear their cries, open my hands to pour out the oil and wine and pay the bill if needed and open my mouth to speak the words of hope and encouragement.