EXTRA! Concepts for Adults – Elisha: Seeing the Hand of God at Work – Session 4

**EXTRA helps the group plans within the Bible Research for Life chief guides.**

Date: Might 18, 2025

God’s Hand in Restoring Our Lives

The Level: God restores us as we’re obedient to Him.

Get Into the Examine

Share the next after discussing Query 1:

In early April, archaeologists in Egypt discovered the tomb of Prince Waserif Re, son of King Userkaf. The tomb was discovered behind a false door manufactured from pink granite. Secretary-Basic of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mohamed Ismail Khaled famous that that is the primary time a false door of this dimension, 4.5 meters tall and 1.15 meters vast, has been discovered. The door displayed hieroglyphic inscriptions bearing the prince’s identify and titles, akin to “inheritor prince.” The archeological group additionally found a pink granite providing desk that was inscribed with the providing lists left for the prince.

The tomb had a number of chambers that housed priceless artifacts, together with a black granite statue with inscriptions of the identify and titles of its proprietor. These inscriptions have been dated to the twenty sixth Dynasty, indicating Waserif’s tomb was possible reused almost two millennia after his interment.

As this tomb and its a number of chambers had been hidden, it’s attainable that it might have remained hidden for even longer if archeologists had been much less thorough of their examinations. Simply as they selected to look at all the small print, we too have to be cautious to not decide issues by how they seem. After we decide a e book by its cowl and never look beneath the floor, we run the chance of lacking out on one thing unimaginable, particularly when God chooses to reply prayers by way of surprising methods.

Get Into the Examine (Choice from Grownup Chief Information)

Upfront, play a video clip of somebody misjudging a e book by its cowl. Then ask Query #1.

Examine the Bible (Choice for Every day Discipleship Chief Information)

After studying 2 Kings 5:1-3, use this exercise to permit the group a chance to think about how they will put together for alternatives the place they often is the unlikely particular person God desires to make use of. Present a video clip of unlikely friendships—folks or animals— and discuss why these relationships are thought of unlikely. Level out how God usually makes use of issues that defy logic to perform His work of restoration in our lives.

Examine the Bible

Share the next after discussing Query 3:

Purple Pen Logic with Mr. B shared a publish from a self-proclaimed heretic who shared his concept of what God is like. The unique poster, Derek Myers, claimed that God can’t be good if He’s “concurrently Savior and Torturer of humanity,” stating {that a} love that’s each “a present and a menace” can’t be trusted. Myers calls God a “cosmic abuser,” saying that love and justice can not co-exist.

Mr. B solutions the arguments with Scripture and exposes Myers’ logical fallacies, starting with Romans 5:8-9, stating that “God exhibits His love for us in that whereas we have been nonetheless sinners, Christ died for us.” In his counterargument, Mr. B continues by addressing the 2 “straw-man” arguments Myers makes, that punishment and torture are the identical factor. Nonetheless, Mr. B argues that God’s goodness requires His justice. The second counterargument is that the gospel isn’t “love Me or else,” however that Christ supplies salvation for “lawbreakers who deserve justice.”

After we permit our delight to allow us to suppose we all know higher than God, we are likely to argue that we all know higher than He does. However as Scripture says in Isaiah 55:8-9, God’s methods aren’t our methods and His methods are larger than ours. After we let our delight get in the way in which of our understanding, we are able to fall into disobedience and miss out on God’s blessings and becoming a member of in His work.

EXTRA was written by Emily Duncan, a Southern California native presently dwelling in West Georgia together with her husband, daughter, and two canine. God saved her from Wicca when she was sixteen, and she or he now serves alongside her youth pastor husband as a ladies’ chief at New Hope First Baptist Church in Dallas, GA. Emily spends most of her time tangled in yarn whereas crocheting or studying outdoors within the hammock.

Further Questions

Ice Breaker

When has the restoration of an object, akin to a automotive or home, made a giant impression on you?
Does God have a course of for our restoration?
When have you ever misjudged a e book by its cowl?
What’s your favourite TV expertise present?

2 Kings 5:1-3

Why do some believers see themselves as unlikely candidates to be used in God’s kingdom?
When have you ever seen God work by way of an unlikely particular person?
When has God used somebody surprising that will help you in your religious development?
When has God used an unlikely particular person to direct you towards His will or His plan?
What does God’s use of unlikely folks for His functions inform us about God? About ourselves?
When have you ever discovered your self enjoying the function of the unlikely particular person utilized by God for His functions?

2 Kings 5:10-12

Why is humility essential to our obedient belief in God’s instructions?
How can we domesticate hearts which might be prepared to obey, even in seemingly foolish or mundane issues?
When has God led you to do a easy factor that become a a lot bigger blessing?
In what methods does the world reveal that obedience is non-compulsory?
When have you ever seen delight get in the way in which?

2 Kings 5:13-19a