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Thursday
The First
Lesson
Micah 6:9-16
9 The LORD'S voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom
shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.
10 Are
there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the scant measure that is abominable?
11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with
the bag of deceitful weights?
12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants
thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their
mouth.
13 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making
thee desolate because of thy sins.
14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down
shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but
shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give
up to the sword.
15 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread
the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet
wine, but shalt not drink wine.
16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the
house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make
thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore
ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
1st Lesson Questions -
What "treasures of wickedness" are in my house? (V. 10) RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Romans 7:1-13
1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,)
how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
2 For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to
her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead,
she is loosed from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another
man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be
dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress,
though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law
by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another,
even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring
forth fruit unto God.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were
by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto
death.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein
we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and
not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I
had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust,
except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me
all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to
be unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me,
and by it slew me.
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just,
and good.
13 Was
then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin,
that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is
good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Why is "sin by the commandment... exceeding sinful"? (V. 13) RESOLVE.