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Zephaniah - Marriage Applications
The "Married Couples Small Groups" ministry aims to expose married couples to God's Word and help them incorporate it into their marriage. In addition, the document's purpose is to provide you (the small group leader) with suggested applications.
These are just suggestions to help you prepare for your group. If you have a different application, please use it. We acknowledge that finding an application to teach can be complex, so these are provided as support to you, not as a directive to teach.
Please take note of the "Call to Action" for each application. A good opening activity would be to hear how volunteers answered the call.
How has God blessed their marriage?
What are they hearing from God?
There are three chapters in this book. The Bible Study will usually cover a single chapter of the Bible in each 90-minute session. So, this book has three applications, one on each of the following pages.
Introduction:
The Prophesy of Zephaniah was written in the 7th Century B.C. as a recording of the word of God to the people of Judah. We are told that this was written while Josiah was King of Judah. The king before Josiah. (his father) had only served two years as king before his servants conspired to kill him. II Chronicles documents King Josiah's legacy:
- Josiah was the great-grandson of Hezekiah. God caused a great victory for the nation during his rule because the leaders listened to God. (II Chronicles 30-32)
- His Grandfather Manasseh ignored all the great things that God had done when Israel obeyed God and started idol worship and all sorts of evil in the sight of God. God humbled them by allowing the Assyrians to capture them before they repented. (II Chronicles 33:1-20)
- His father, Amon, ignored the great things God was doing because of the nation's repentance and instead did evil. (II Chronicles 33:21-25)
- Josiah was moved by God to rid the nation of evil, just in time to avoid destruction from God's wrath. (II Chronicles 34)
These days are those days, and those days are these days. We need to listen to the prophets; they tell us the way, the truth, and the life.