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Q3. (Isaiah 9:6-7) What in the text convinces us that the Child/Son is the Messiah himself? What do you learn about the Messiah from the four word pairs describing him? Which of these saving attributes do you need most in your life right now? He is the messiah Himself because He is described in the passage as the "mighty God, everlasting Father," The Messiah is the Prince of peace= through Him and in Him we and the whole world can attain peace He is the Mighty God= He is the Great God of war, strong and might to fight and win battles for us. Wonderful Counsellor= His plans and wisdom are unusual, awesome and divine and cause some to wonder about such awesome attributes. I need all the attributes of the Messiah.

Q2. (Isaiah 8:14-15) In what sense is Yahweh (and his Messiah Jesus) a "stumbling stone" and "a trap and a snare"? In what way are people broken in this stumbling? Why do you think people stumble over a God who is almighty and righteous and must be obeyed? Yahweh is a stumbling stone and a snare in the sense that we either align with Him and go by His plans or be destroyed. He is a stumbling block and a snare in the sense that He abandons us to our enemy Satan and his his human agents that will destroy those who do not harken to His word. People stumble over a God that is our protector because of their rebellious human nature and also because they yield to Satan who tempts them into disobedience.

Q1. (Isaiah 7-8) What was the gist of Isaiah's prophetic instruction to Ahaz? Why do you think Ahaz chose to disregard it? What did Ahaz do instead? What was the consequence of this disobedience? Why do we sometimes seem to think that we're smarter than God? Why is it sometimes so hard to do what God tells us to do? God sent a message to Ahaz that he should not be afraid because Israel and Syria would not attack his land as the Lord God was with him to protect him. But Ahaz was scared of the might of Assyrians that he stripped the gold and silver of the temple and sent to the Assyrian king asking him to come and fight Israel and Syria. The Assyrian responded and destroyed Israel and Syria but God punished Judah for her dis- belief by allowing Assyria to invade Judah We often choose to fear and respond to the physical threat we see and fail to trust God that we cannot see.

Q6. (Isaiah 6:9-10) How do you make sense out of these verses? Is Isaiah called to an impossible mission? Why will Isaiah's prophecy make the task worse? In which parable did Jesus quote this passage (Matthew 13:1-23)? In Jesus' parable, is there any frustration in preaching the gospel? Is there any hope? Isaiah is called to a difficult assignment but a possible one, I think. The people who are rebellious will further harden their hearts on hearing the message from the Lord God. There is frustration most times in preaching the word of God as the expectant fruitful outcome does not usually come.

Q5. (Isaiah 6:5-8) What is Isaiah's reaction to the vision? How does God deal with Isaiah's fear? What question follows Isaiah's cleansing? What is Isaiah's response to God's question? What is your response when you sense God calling you? Isaiah's reaction after seeing the glorious, holy and awesome God was that of fear that a sinful man like him had seen God and lived. he declared himself as a man with unclean lips. But God touched his lips with a coal of fire to cleans him - sign of forgiveness of sin. God asked of anyone available to be sent for some assignment and, Isaiah said, here I am Lord, send me. He made himself available, a challenge to us. I ( and most Christians) are like Jonah, the first reaction when we hear God calling is to hide ourselves or give many excuses why it should be some else and not us.

Q4. (Isaiah 6:1-4) Why do you think Yahweh revealed himself in this way to Isaiah? In what ways does this vision reveal God's majesty? What do we learn about Yahweh from the serphaim's chant? To reveal to Isaiah that he is awesome, majestic, splendid, holy, mighty, powerful- a God of war and great (so unimaginably big!) From the angelic chant, our God is holy and mighty.

Q3. (Isaiah 5:1-6) What was the vintner's vision for the vineyard? What did he do to accomplish his vision? What happened when the crop came in? What did the vintner say he would do with the vineyard? What does this parable mean? God did much for His children- Israel giving them freedom from slavery, land and prospered them but they were oppressive to the poor and orphans. "the garden He prepared and planted vines protected by a hedge was production of good fruits but when the crop came, it was bad fruits that tasted bad" God then passed judment on his rebellious children saying He would exposed them by taking off His protection allowing them to be destroyed by the enemy. The lesson we learn is that God has saved us from the power and hands fo Satan and we should live righteous lives or esle He would abandon us to the bashing of the enemy- Sartan.

Q2. (Isaiah 2:1-5) What does this prophecy of the future Jerusalem tell us about God's plan for the Gentiles? About God's plan for the Jews? About spiritual hunger? About peace? God will cause a hunger for revival amongs the nations including the gentiles and a returning to one God intead of the different gods worhiped by the geintile nations. War will cease as God reigns among the nations bringing divine peace from above which is no achieved by war. As regards God's people, He will purge them of their sin and restore them back to Him again.

Judah was reared by God but the people of Judah have rebelled against their maker. They do not know their maker and are therefore worst than animals who know their owners and listen to their owners in obedience. Christians will loose God's protection if they do not turn to their maker but continue in their rebelious ways. God accused his people for oppressing the pooor and the widows and for showing no justice them. God cautions his people for being unreasonable and for not realising their poor satate and ultimate doom. He offers them forgivenss and restoration if they repent and return to Him.

Some churches avoid church discipline because they do not want hurt the 'milk cows'of the church and thereby have their source of revenue fall. If church discipline is properly administered in love, it will correct the problem that the discipline was meant to correct. If on the other hand, a church fails to take the appropriate discipline to correct a problem, the church will tot away.

Some churches avoid church discipline because they do not want hurt the 'milk cows'of the church and thereby have their source of revenue fall. If church discipline is properly administered in love, it will correct the problem that the discipline was meant to correct. If on the other hand, a church fails to take the appropriate discipline to correct a problem, the church will tot away.

Paul's warning that any one that does not work should not eat was not meant to starve people but it was to discourage laziness by those who are healthy, able, strong but choose to sit idle to depend on others. One of the positive results of the command "no work no food" was productivity of the those that were fit to work. Another positive result was that there would be more food available to those who were sick or could not work.

Paul, though had the right to be taken care of his needs as an a minister of God but chose work hard to earn his living. He did this to show the young church in Thessalonica an example that every Christian should work hard and not to be lazy or idle.

The Bible is clear about the need for every believer that is able to work hard so as to provide for himself, his family and the poor or who are not able work due to disability. Failure to do this, idlers are seriously warned to have a change of heart or be sanctioned by the church leadership.

As wickedness continue to take its toll on the christians, perseverance and trusting in God's ability to deliver us from the wicked one and wicked men otherwise discouragement and fear will set in and cause backsliding. If backsliding gains momentum, the church growth and health will decline. Prayers and moral support for oneanother will be required to ecourage the brethren to stand firm and not to give up.

The characteristics of the Antichrist are: He is lawless, rebellious, will exalt himself in pride, will set himsef up in the temple of god and claim to be God etc. revelation adds that he is a beast that comes out of the sea, a paupet of satan and will wage war with Christians

Christians should look forward to the resurrection because we will be raised with resurrection bodies that are imperishable, with/ in glory, incorruptable, with power and spiritual not natural anymore. Many Christians do not look forward to this because they think that there won't be any thing left of our present natural bodies due to decomposition and/ or other factors when Jesus returns.

Our resurrection bodies will be like that of Christ when he resurrected like our present physical boieds but glorified and with spiritual abilities to navigate through structures and in both heaven and earth, without spots or diseases. We will be given the glorified bodies with all the attributes already listed earlier beacuse we will be priests and will rule the new earth with Christ.

At resurrection, our natural, weak, mortal, perishable bodies will be raised incorruptable, strong, with glory and in the spirit.

Christians will be with the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven immediately after death. That is where they will wait for the day of the Lord.

The word used for 'rapture' in the Bible is "resurrection" The resurrection will take place when the trumpet sounds and the Lord appears, then the dead will rise with a resurrection body while those alive will be changed. All will be gathered to the great judment. The just to glory with the Lord while the wicked to destruction.

In our service in God's vine yard we should be steadfast and immoveable because we have a hope in a reward awaiting us when the Lord comes and we will be raised too just as he was. Our labour is for his work which is done in obedience to him is not in vain because of the hope we have to rise to meet him and there is reward for us.

The assurance I have that i will be raised from the dead is because Jesus christ was raised and the Bible says that believers in Christ will also be raised. I believe. Jesus Christ is call the first fruit because he was the first rise from the dead bodily and remained with dying again again. Lazarus and others were raised from the dead but they all died again.

By our baptism we show our being dead and burried with Christ (emersion into water) and our resurrection with him into a new life where sin will no longer be our god/ master (as we come come out of water) and are then seated with Christ at the right hand of God. Our union with Christ imparts his Spirit power even the power of God that raised Christ from the dead is available for us that believe.

Christ's resurrection validates our salvation in that our salvation was hinged on him coming, dying rising again. Thus the resurrection completed the expected events that would take place to ensure our salvation. If we doubt Christ's salvation we will automatically doubt our own resurrection. It is that power of God that raised Christ from the dead that will raise us from the dead.