ICEBREAKER

Who is the most famous person you ever met? What was it like to be in the presence of “greatness”?

KEY POINTS

In Jesus’s day, any claim that Jesus is greater than Moses would have raised more than eyebrows. It would have raised religious rage.
Nearly every author of the New Testament claimed that Jesus is greater than Moses.
Any explanation of Jesus’s superiority to Moses must be grounded in Jesus’s flawless moral life and in his resurrection.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Moses was delivered from Pharaoh who was killing all the newborn Hebrew babies. Jesus and his family fled to Egypt after he was born. How are the two events similar?
If shadows are never clear and discernable can Moses and his role be fully understood?
Why did we have the Law if Jesus was always the plan? Why not just give us Jesus first?
Why do you suppose it was so important to show Jesus as superior to Moses in the New Testament?
If Moses represented the Law, did Jesus complete the Law? How exactly did he do this?
Read 2 CORINTHIANS 3:1-6 and answer how the gift of the Holy Spirit changes the role of the Law?
In EXODUS 34:29-35 Moses covers up the glory of God with a veil so that the people cannot completely see it, but in the Gospels, Jesus tears the veil of the temple that blocks God’s presence from his people. What do we now have because the veil is gone that they did not?

TO DO THIS WEEK

Wednesday, April 20
Read the essay. What other important leaders is Jesus superior to?

Thursday, April 21
Memorize DEUTERONOMY 18:18.

Friday, April 22
Read EXODUS 2–3. How did Jesus fulfill Moses’ purpose?

Monday, April25
What can you determine about Jesus and Moses from JOHN 5:45–47; ACTS 13:39; 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1–4.

Tuesday, April 26
Ask a neighbor or someone at work who he or she thinks is the GOAT in sports, movies, music, etc. After that person answers, consider sharing why you believe that Jesus is the greatest leader of all time.

Overachiever Challenge
Memorize ACTS 13:39.