Monthly Archives: November 2017

Sunday School — December 3, 2017

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Faith in Jesus

Acts 3:11-21  While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s.  (12)  And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?  (13)  The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.  (14)  But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,  (15)  and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.  (16)  And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.  (17)  “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.  (18)  But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.  (19)  Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,  (20)  that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,  (21)  whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

 

Sunday School — November 26, 2017

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Remembering the Covenant

1 Corinthians 11:23-34  For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,  (24)  and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”  (25)  In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”  (26)  For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.  (27)  Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.  (28)  Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.  (29)  For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.  (30)  That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.  (31)  But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.  (32)  But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.  (33)  So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—  (34)  if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.

Sunday School — November 19, 2017

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Mediator of the New Covenant

Hebrews 12:14-15  Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.  (15)  See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

Hebrews 12:18-29  For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest  (19)  and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.  (20)  For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”  (21)  Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”  (22)  But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,  (23)  and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,  (24)  and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.  (25)  See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.  (26)  At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”  (27)  This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.  (28)  Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,  (29)  for our God is a consuming fire.

Sunday School — November 12, 2017

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Promise of a New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:27-34  “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.  (28)  And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.  (29)  In those days they shall no longer say: “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’  (30)  But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.  (31)  “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,  (32)  not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.  (33)  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  (34)  And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”