Key verses Luke 22:47-53 Acts 17:26-27 John 18:3-8 Luke 22:3 Romans 8:28

Questions for discussion

1. What does it mean to you that there is a divine timetable to life?

2. How do you see that divine timetable working out in the life of Jesus, especially during the final week leading up to the cross?

3. What are the purposes for God’s appointed times and events throughout history?

4. Contrast the person who responds to an event out of faith with the person who reacts in fear to an event.

5. Can you share one positive trait and one negative trait that you have experienced during the current global crisis?

6. How can we turn the uncertainty of our current global crisis into an opportunity for the gospel?

7. Throughout the Passover meal, and during the appearance of the soldiers and officials in the garden, how can you tell that Jesus was not caught off guard?

8. In what ways did the betrayal and arrest of Jesus fulfill the purposes of God, not frustrate them? How do they demonstrate to us who He is?