Monthly Archives: October 2017

Sunday School — November 5, 2017

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Faithful God, Unfaithful People

Numbers 25:10-13  And the LORD said to Moses,  (11)  “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.  (12)  Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace,  (13)  and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”

1 Samuel 2:30-36  Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.  (31)  Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.  (32)  Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.  (33)  The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men.  (34)  And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.  (35)  And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.  (36)  And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests’ places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

 

Sunday School — October 29, 2017

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God’s Covenant with the Returned Exiles

Nehemiah 9:32-38  “Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.  (33)  Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.  (34)  Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.  (35)  Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.  (36)  Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.  (37)  And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.  (38)  “Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

Nehemiah 10:28-29  “The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,  (29)  join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.

Sunday School — October 22, 2017

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God’s Covenant with David

2 Samuel 7:1-6  Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,  (2)  the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.”  (3)  And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”  (4)  But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,  (5)  “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?  (6)  I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.

2 Samuel 7:8-10  Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.  (9)  And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.  (10)  And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,

2 Samuel 7:12-16  When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.  (13)  He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.  (14)  I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,  (15)  but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.  (16)  And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”

 

Sunday School — October 15, 2017

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Obeying God’s Law

Exodus 20:18-26  Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off  (19)  and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”  (20)  Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”  (21)  The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.  (22)  And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.  (23)  You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.  (24)  An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.  (25)  If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.  (26)  And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’