What initial applications, encouragements, or convictions did you get from this passage in light of the sermon?

When it comes to your spiritual progress (or lack thereof), are you more tempted to pride or despair? Why? How can you tell?

How does your experience of salvation and receiving the Holy Spirit by faith challenge you to repent of your pride and/or despair?

Are you more likely to respond to blessings in your life by being suspicious of God or by being critical of God? Why is that?

How does the blessing of Abraham by faith encourage you to enjoy God’s blessings and receive them with praise and thanksgiving?

When bad things happen to you or to those you love, how will you remind yourself (or others) that you are not being cursed? How will you remember that Jesus became cursed, so that by faith in him you become blessed?