After listening to the sermon, what is one immediate encouragement, conviction, or practical application you are taking away from this passage?

What aspects of your personal life or the world around you do you need to view from God’s perspective (heaven’s perspective)? What practices, truths, or relationships help you gain this perspective?

Why is it essential to recognize Jesus as the central point and goal of your personal narrative and the bible’s story? How does worship with God’s people help you focus on this truth?

Where are you tempted to look for assurance of God’s love for you, other than the truth of the Gospel (Christ’s life, death, and resurrection)? What specific assurance does the reality of God’s justice being satisfied by Christ on the cross offer you? What are some concrete, practical steps you can take to anchor your thoughts and emotions in the reality of the cross?

How have you personally experienced Jesus as distinctly unique when compared to the false “idols” (things you have wrongly worshiped or given ultimate allegiance to) you have been tempted by? What has Jesus accomplished for you that nothing or no one else can do?