Small Group Questions | Proverbs - Part 12
October 20, 2023

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Date: October 22, 2023
Series: Proverbs – The Wisdom of God for Today’s Issues
Sermon Title: Overcoming Failure
Scripture: Proverbs 28:13-14
Speaker: Pastor Mark Pospisil

Questions:

  1. Proverbs 29:1 warns against ignoring a rebuke against you. Describe a time when someone rebuked you or confronted you about something you did or said, and how that rebuke or correction helped you to better obey the Lord.

  2. Proverbs 28:13-14 is clear that hardening our hearts to sin will never end well. What are some of the evils we risk facing if we ignore or otherwise try to justify our sins?

  3. 1 John 1:9 promises that if we confess (literally, “say the same thing” as God says) our sins, that the Lord is faithful and just to forgive (“send away”) our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What is involved in the “cleansing” from that unrighteous behavior? (An example: I am speeding in a school zone. I am pulled over and given a ticket. I confess that wrong to the Lord. I am forgiven immediately. But the cleansing would also include me paying the fine for the ticket, risking a higher insurance premium, etc)

  4. When thinking about repentance, the vital action involved is turning—turning away from the wrong path of sin and all of its trappings, and turning to the right path of faithful obedience to God’s commands. Explain in your own words why turning is such a vital aspect of repentance.

  5. Proverbs 26:11 graphically illustrates someone who repeatedly returns to behave in a foolish way. What are ways one can try in order to avoid returning to the foolish behavior?

  6. Proverbs 24:16 describes how a righteous man, even after falling seven times, being able to rise again, describing how God graciously restores a repentant person. How is knowing that God can enable you to “rise again” even after you stumble an encouragement to you?

  7. Proverbs 21:3 states that doing righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22 states that obedience is greater than sacrifice in God’s eyes). Why do you think this is the case?

  8. Philippians 1:6 states that God, who began a good work in you, will continue to work until it is completed in Christ. When thinking about your own needs to confess sins and repent from them, how does this truth—that because God began a good work in you, that He will relentlessly work in you until that work is completed—help to encourage you?

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