24. Reincarnation – John 5:16-30

Oct 25, 2024

Read John 5:16-30 and pages 103-106 of A.S.K.

Questions from the Bible reading

1. What is meant by ‘Sabbath’ and why were the Jews angry with Jesus about it? (v16-17)

2. What made Jesus’s enemies even angrier with him? (v18)

3. What does Jesus say directs him in the work that does in his ministry? (v19-20)

4. What tasks has God the Father given to His Son, and how should the Son be treated as a result? (v21-23)

5. What must we do to gain eternal life? (v24)

6. Why does Jesus call himself the “Son of Man”, do you think? (v27-28)

7. What guides Jesus is his judgement of people at the end of time? (v29-30)

8. Draw a picture, or write a description, of what will happen when Jesus calls out on the last day (v25-26)

Questions from the book

1. What do Buddhists think happens to us when we die?

2. What do Hindus believe about our souls and how is that different from the Bible?

3. What must everybody in the world face one day?

4. What does Jesus mean when he says that the “good will rise to live” (John 5:29)?

5. What is righteousness and why does the Bible call our righteousness “filthy rags”?

6. Write a prayer in which someone asks the Lord to prepare them for judgement day.

Questions to do at home

1. Ask a Christian you know to tell you their view on what judgement day will be like.

2. Think about your reply to a friend who says to you, “I think my pet dog was a person in a previous life”.

3. What might be different about our resurrection bodies when compared with the ones we have here?