Truly Free Bible Study Guide: Breaking the Snares That So Easily Entangle - Softcover

Morris, Robert

 
9780718028572: Truly Free Bible Study Guide: Breaking the Snares That So Easily Entangle
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0718028570 ISBN 13: 9780718028572
Verlag: HarperChristian Resources, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

What Is Keeping You from Being Truly Free?

Jesus said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” (Matthew 28:18). As believers, we have Christ and never need to be afraid, yet we are not immune to the effects of evil. Even if we’re saved and trust in Christ, we may still find areas in which we just can’t get victory. Maybe it’s a sin we’ve confessed again and again, or a constant struggle with depression, anger, or lust. These long-imbedded patterns of shameful living continue to entangle us day after day, month after month, and even year after year. 

In Truly Free, bestselling author Robert Morris invites us into a glorious truth—that the promise of being set free from the slavery of sin is a promise to be set free completely. Although evil is real, we have the promise that the one who is in us is greater than the one who is in the world (1 John 4:4). Jesus saves us, trains us to resist the power of evil, and delivers us from anything that holds us back. With Jesus, we can be finally free forever.

This study guide includes leader helps, discussion questions, conversation starters, and between-session activities to enhance application of Robert’s teaching.

Sessions include:

  1. Greater Is He
  2. Three Big Warning Signs
  3. Beware the Chaldeans
  4. Breaking the Snare of Pride
  5. Breaking the Snare of Lust
  6. Set Free

Designed for use with the Truly Free DVD 9780718028749 (sold separately).

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

ROBERT MORRIS is the founding senior pastor of Gateway Church, a multicampus church in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. He is featured on the weekly television program The Blessed Life and is the bestselling author of twelve books, including The Blessed Life, From Dream to Destiny, The God I Never Knew, and The Blessed Church. Robert and his wife, Debbie, have been married thirty-five years and are blessed with one married daughter, two married sons, and six grandchildren. Follow Robert on Twitter @PsRobertMorris.

 



Kevin G. Harney?is lead pastor of Shoreline Church in Monterey, California. He is the author of many books, including?No Is a Beautiful Word,?Seismic Shifts, and the Organic Outreach?Trilogy, as well as more than a hundred small group guides, curriculum, and numerous articles written in partnership with Sherry. Kevin and his wife Sherry are co-founders of Organic Outreach International, a ministry that trains and resources global leaders to do evangelism in natural and effective ways. He also does extensive teaching and speaking both nationally and internationally.



Sherry Harney is an author and a speaker who serves as the Spiritual Formation and Discipleship Director at Shoreline Church in Monterey, California. She is also the cofounder of Organic Outreach International. For over three decades Sherry has spoken for local, national, and international groups and events. She focuses on prayer, spiritual formation, leadership, and organic outreach.

Over the past three decades Sherry and Kevin have coauthored and partnered with writers such as Ann Voskamp, Max Lucado, Nabeel Qureshi, Jim Cymbala, Miles McPherson, Mark Batterson, Chrystal Evans Hurst, Christine Caine, Gary Thomas, N.T. Wright, Laura Story, Craig Groeschel, Dallas Willard and many others. Kevin and Sherry have three married sons, and three grandchildren.

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Truly Free Study Guide

Breaking the Snares That So Easily Entangle

By Robert Morris, Kevin Harney, Sherry Harney

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Copyright © 2015 Robert Morris
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-7180-2857-2

Contents

Introduction: Free at Last, 7, 
Session 1 Greater Is He, 9, 
Session 2 Three Big Warning Signs, 25, 
Session 3 Beware the Chaldeans, 41, 
Session 4 Breaking the Snare of Pride, 57, 
Session 5 Breaking the Snare of Lust, 73, 
Session 6 Set Free, 91, 
Small Group Leader Helps, 107,


CHAPTER 1

GREATER IS HE

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but ... against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 6:12


TRULY FREE STUDY GUIDE

Introduction

We live in a dangerous world. Just turn on the news, check the top stories online, or listen to people talking around the office or your neighborhood. The world is a perilous place and growing more so with each passing day. Going through an airport reminds us terrorism is real because everything is scanned, searched, and scrutinized. War rages around our planet, and reports are given twenty-four hours a day on cable news. Sickness and disease loom, financial crisis threatens, and political turmoil is ever present.

You might expect people to be paralyzed with fear and sobered by the reality of all the potential disaster surrounding them. But this does not seem to be the case. We have learned to adapt and press on. Consumers head to the mall and shop online with increasing optimism. Many people hop on planes with confident certainty everything will be fine. Viewers watch cooking shows, sitcoms, reality programs, and talent shows day after day as if everything is fine.

Let's be honest—pressing on and acting like things are okay are ways of coping. If we fixate on all the danger and trouble in the world, we will be consumed with it. We still need to sing, play, go to church, shop, raise families, and live our lives ... even when the world is in turmoil. Part of survival involves not letting these realities dominate our lives or control our thinking.

But wait! When it comes to the spiritual battles and dangers around us, we can't take the same posture. If we ignore the spiritual attacks, land mines, and dangers around us, it will cost us more than we imagine.

We can't look the other way, become numb, or just move along with our lives. We must wake up, pay attention, and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. If we look the other way, we will find ourselves in spiritual bondage. If we want to be truly free, we need to face the battle and resist the work of the devil in this world. To do this we must walk in the power of the One who is greater and infinitely more powerful than the enemy of our souls.

When we understand this, we are on the path to freedom.


Talk About It

Welcome to the first session of Truly Free: Breaking the Snares That So Easily Entangle. If you or any of your fellow group members do not know one another, take some time to introduce yourselves. To get things started, discuss one of the following questions:

• What are some of the battles, dangers, and struggles in this world we often learn to live with and press through?

• What are some of the spiritual battles Christians face today that must not be ignored or treated lightly?


Video Teaching Notes

As you watch the video teaching segment for session one, use the following outline to record anything that stands out to you. In particular, ask the Holy Spirit to help you honestly assess where you need to experience freedom and what steps you need to take to become truly free.

God's power is greater than the power of Satan!

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There really are demons. However, while it's wrong thinking to believe demons are not real, it's also wrong thinking to believe Satan is behind everything.

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Demons really do enter people, and they can even influence and oppress believers. There is a real danger in leaving doors open even a crack.

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But Jesus really does cast demons out!

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We really only have two options when it comes to demons: cast them out or leave them in.

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Bible Study and Group Discussion

Take a few minutes with your group members to discuss what you just watched and explore these concepts in Scripture.

1. Tell about one great thing God has done in your life or in the life of someone you know and care about. How did God reveal His presence and power when He did this great thing?

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2. Read 1 John 4:1–4. In this short passage, John refers to spirits, false prophets, and the antichrist. He is crystal clear that evil spiritual beings are at work today. Tell about how you have seen the enemy at work in the world, your community, or even your life.

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3. After acknowledging the very real and present activity of evil and demonic beings, John declares with absolute confidence that "He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world" (1 John 4:4). How should this spiritual reality impact the way you view the work of the enemy in our world today?

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How have you seen the amazing and infinite power of God unleashed against the work of Satan as you have walked on your journey with Jesus?

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4. Read Mark 5:1–13. What do you learn about the reality of the presence and work of demons in this passage?

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What do you discover about the power and authority of Jesus in relationship to these evil spiritual...

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Verlag
HarperChristian Resources
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0718028570
ISBN 13 
9780718028572
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
112
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