Discussion question: What is the peace Paul is talking about in v1?
Leader: look up the following verses on peace:
Matt 10:34, Mark 5:34, Acts 9:31, Acts 10:36,Luke 7:50, Luke 8:48, Luke 24:36, John 3:36, Col 1:21-22
Discussion question: What kind of peace can we expect to come from a “Therefore (after 4 chapters of condemnation) having been justified by faith”?
Leader: think about our “access to grace” (see Jeremiah 32:38-40 from Matthew 27:51)
Leader: look up the following verses on hope:
2 Cor 3:18, 1 John 3:1-3, 1 Tim 1:1
Discussion question: What kind of tribulations is Paul discussing in verse 3?
Leader: some references to tribulations: John 15:20 1 Thes 3:3 1 Peter 4:19, 16,Acts 14:22,Eph 3:13
Discussion question: How are we to endure these tribulations?
Leader: some references to our hope for tribulations and what we are called into: 2 cor 12:10, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Romans 5:6-9, Romans 1:16, John 10:10, Matt 16:24-26, Matt 19:17-30, Matt 20:28,Mark 9:45, Luke 12:15, John 1:4, Eph 4:22-32,Col 3:1-25
Discussion question: What is the explanation of verses 6-8?
Leader: some help: Even if there were a righteous man or a good man, someone possibly worthy of dying for, you probably couldn’t find someone on Earth who would actually die for him, but Christ died for us and we were lowly sinners!
