How to Receive a
Rebuke – Set
7 meeting 2
Listen to
Teaching CD (16 min)
Personal
examples of times you have been rebuked by the Lord or others, and what you
learned from those experiences
Sword Drill
2 Samuel 12:
1 – 13
Job 5: 17
Proverbs 1:
23 – 33
Proverbs 3:
11 – 12
Matthew 7: 3
– 5
Hebrews 12:
6 – 10
Revelation
3:19
Main Concepts
No one likes
being rebuked, but correction is an important part of the process of being
conformed to the image of Christ. The
challenge is to stop thinking of rebukes as something negative, and begin
seeing how God uses them for our good.
The key to
applying this lesson is having humility.
If we have humble spirts, we will be able to admit that we have faults
and need to grow – and even thank those who rebuke us!
Purpose now
that from this day forward you will respond to all rebukes in a way that is
totally different from your natural inclination. Listen.
Think before you speak. Show
humility. Determine to think seriously
about what the person says to you, and seek the Lord regarding what He is
trying to teach you.
Often
rebukes come from our authorities.
Having the right attitude towards authority can help us have the right
attitude when we are rebuked.
God’s Word
is a tool for our correction and training (2 Tim. 3:16). We should take seriously the rebukes and
instructions that God has written in the Bible.
“My son, despise not the chastening
of the LORD; neither be weary of His correction; for whom the LORD loveth He correcteth; even
as a father the son in who He delighteth.”
Prov. 3: 11-12
Activities
1. Practice humility…write down 3 things that
you dislike doing (and that you don’t usually have to do) and then choose one
of them to do in the coming week.
2. When we purpose to obey God in some
particular area, tests will surely come our way. Record any situations this next couple weeks
between meetings where you receive a “rebuke” from your parents, the Lord, or
someone else – no matter how small the rebuke.
Evaluate how you responded to each one.
If you respond in a wrong way, determine what you will do differently
next time!
3. Younger girls in one group, older ones in
another. Older girls do something silly
to their appearance (shirt on backwards, hair in sill style, roll up on sleeve,
etc…) Younger girls make negative
comments about their appearance and older girls first demonstrate a wrong
response, and then a right response.
Younger girls also make positive comments to practice encouraging others
even when they see problems.
4. Several examples of rebukes acted out in
skits…demonstrate right and wrong ways to receive rebukes.
Tea
