WEEK 32 – SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 2018.
TOPIC: HONOURING GOD WITH OUR POSSESSIONS
Review of Previous Lesson (5 Minutes)
a. What did you learn from the previous lesson?
b. How did you apply it to your life?
Main Text: Luke 12:13-21
Memory Verse: Honour the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest. – Proverbs 3:9 (HCSB)
Introduction
God expects that, apart from working hard to faithfully earn wealth, we recognise Him as the source of our possessions. Again He desires that we spend what we have in a manner that glorifies Him. Similarly, He expects us to be content with what we have, not to greedily seek after excessive wealth. He owns all things and distributes them as He wills. The Lord God Almighty is the source of every true wealth and expects those He blesses to honour Him with their money.
Questions for Discussion
1. What did Jesus ask the crowd to guard against? Verse 15
2. What does the statement, “One’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions” mean? Verse 15
3. What did the character in the parable seek to do after his great harvest? Verses 17-19
4. Why did Jesus say the attitude of the rich man was wrong? Verses 20, 21
5. What lessons have you learnt from today’s study?
Conclusion
Jesus asked his followers to guard against greed; the intense and selfish desire for money and wealth. It is certainly true that God is the source of life and no amount of possessions can prevent God from taking a person’s life away. We live not because of the many possessions but because God has granted us the privilege to be alive. The rich person in the parable sought to pride himself in his wealth; he neither acknowledged the grace of God nor thought about others. It is better to seek God and find Him. For He is the giver of wealth. In that case even when this life is lost there is hope of eternal life.
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WEEK 32 – SUNDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 2018.
TOPIC: AVOID ADULTERY IN THE HEART
Review of Previous Lesson (5 Minutes)
a. What did you learn from the previous lesson?
b. How did you apply it to your life?
a. What did you learn from the previous lesson?
b. How did you apply it to your life?
Main Text: Matthew 5:27-30
Memory Verse: But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. – Matthew 5:28
Memory Verse: But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. – Matthew 5:28
Introduction
From time immemorial, adultery has been a canker that plagues the moral fibre of societies. Adultery is a voluntary sexual activity between a married man and a woman other than his wife or between a married woman and a man other than her husband. Scripture speaks strongly against adultery and in the Old Testament, it was an offence punishable by death. No wonder when the Pharisees brought the woman caught in adultery to Jesus, they demanded she be stoned to death (John 8:4-5). Interestingly, in His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus expanded the discourse on adultery and its consequences. This study seeks to discuss the issue further.
Questions for Discussions
1. What law had the Pharisees heard of? Verse 27.
2. Identify the new addition that Jesus brought into the law? Verse 28.
3. What does it mean to look at a woman lustfully?
4. Discuss the remedy Jesus recommends for anything that causes us to stumble? Verses 29-30
5. How can we guard against adultery in the heart?
Conclusion
The Jews had always thought that adultery was committed only when a physical act of sex was involved. However, Jesus Christ lifted the standard by showing that adultery actually begins in the heart; from our hearts flow the issues of life. To look at a woman lustfully is to have amorous thoughts for her. That is why Jesus recommended that we ought to take drastic actions including cutting off anything that causes us to stumble, just like Job who made a covenant with his eyes not to look at a woman lustfully. We can guard against adultery in the heart by constantly meditating on God’s word and yielding to the Holy Spirit who helps us to control the gates to our souls. Again, we must avoid people, conversations, places, books, movies or pictures that trigger the quest for illicit sex.
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READ THROUGH THE BIBLE IN A YEAR GUIDE
Week 32 (Sunday 12th August to Saturday 18th August, 2018)
1. Sunday: Jeremiah 1-3
2. Monday: Jeremiah 4-5
3. Tuesday: Jeremiah 6-8
4. Wednesday: Jeremiah 9-11
5. Thursday: Jeremiah 12-14
6. Friday: Jeremiah 15-17
7. Saturday: Jeremiah 18-21
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