With All Your Heart September 4, 2011 Lesson: Proverbs 3:1–12 Key Verse: Proverbs 3:5 aaa Introduction When we say “I trust you,” do we really mean it in the Biblical sense? The Bible calls us to “Trust in the Lord!” This word, TRUST, means to attach oneself to something or someone, to feel safe, ...
Debate thy Cause September 25, 2011 Lesson: Proverbs 25:1–10 Key Verse: Proverbs 25:9 aaa Introduction Wisdom writes that we are to “Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself” (25:9). To ‘debate’ means to defend, wrangle, contend, which tells us that we must be able, first of all, to discern what is right and ...
Ignore not Instruction September 18, 2011 Lesson: Proverbs 15:19–33 Key Verse: Proverbs 15:32 aaa Introduction The Word of God feeds the soul which our Lord has redeemed that we may know God and what is required of us as those made after the image of God: “He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own ...
A Place of Refuge August 21, 2011 Lesson: Ruth 2:1–23 Key Verse: Ruth 2:12 aa Introduction Elimelech and his two sons had died in Moab. Naomi had remained in Moab for ten years after her husband Elimelech’s death, along with her daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth. Orpah had remained in Moab while Ruth ...
God’s Chosen Deliverer August 7, 2011 Lesson: Judges 13:1–8, 24–25 Key Verses: Judges 13:24–25 aaaa Introduction: Samson, the son of Manoah, from the town of Zorah in the tribe of Dan, fulfilled the office of judge for twenty years. The Lord had chosen Samson as His servant at birth. Manoah bore a ...
An Inheritance August 28, 2011 Lesson: Ruth 4:1–10 Key Verse: Ruth 4:5 aaa Introduction Boaz was chosen as Naomi’s kinsman. Job was easily condemned by his so-called friends: “How long will ye torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?” (Job 19:1). They were playing ‘god’ with the life of ...
Your God is My God August 14, 2011 Lesson: Ruth 1:1–22 Key Verse: Ruth 1:16 aaa Introduction The book of Ruth begins, “Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled.” Judges were raised to administer the laws of God (Judges 2:16–19). However, how quickly the people of God ...
Who Shall Be Worshiped? July 31, 2011 Lesson: Judges 10:6-16 Key Verse: Judges 10:16 Introduction Again and again Israel turned to the idols for worship rather than keeping their faith in the Lord of Israel. Again and again the Lord raised up judges to bring deliverance to His people: “there arose to defend Israel Tola ...
God is our Refuge July 24, 2011 Lesson: Judges 7:1-25 Key Verses: Judges 7:7, 15 Introduction “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. …Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in all the earth. The Lord of hosts ...
The Deliverer July 17, 2011 Lesson: Judges 3:12-30 Key Verse: Judges 3:15 Introduction Again the children of Israel “did evil in the sight of the Lord.” Again the Lord in His longsuffering and mercy raises up a judge who would be a deliverer in the His hand. The judge was Ehud of the tribe of ...