Why do you think that the Pharisees were ridiculing Jesus (16:14)?

Why do you think that the Bible warns against the love of money in such strong terms (1 Timothy 6:10, Ecclesiastes 5:10)? Why is it so dangerous?

What kinds of characteristics and behaviors serve to justify us before other people? What kinds of characteristics and behaviors serve to justify us before God? How are they similar? How are they different?

What do you think Jesus means when he says the everyone “forces their way” into the Kingdom of God (16:16)?

In what ways is it easy to believe and obey the gospel? In what ways is it difficult to believe and obey the gospel?

How are we, as Christians in the New Covenant, to interact with the Law of God? In what sense is the Law of God still applicable to us today? Is there a sense in which the Law no longer applies to us?

How would you summarize the Bible’s teaching on divorce and remarriage? (Consider 16:18, as well as other texts like Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:1-9, 1 Corinthians 7:1-16.)

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