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Saturday
The First
Lesson
Habakkuk 3:2-6, 10-13, 18-19a
2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive
thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years
make known; in wrath remember mercy.
3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah.
His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his
praise.
4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out
of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth
at his feet.
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder
the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the
perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing
of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted
up his hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light
of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering
spear.
12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst
thresh the heathen in anger.
13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for
salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of
the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the
neck. Selah.
18 Yet
I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
19 The
LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds'
feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
1st Lesson Questions -
Do I always ask God to be my strength, or do I at times try to go it on my own? (V. 19) Do I rejoice in the LORD always? (V. 18) RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Romans 11:22-36
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them
which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue
in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall
be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by
nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive
tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches,
be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness
in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles
be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There
shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness
from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away
their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes:
but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers'
sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now
obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your
mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For
God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy
upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge
of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past
finding out!
34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been
his counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed
unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to
whom be glory for ever. Amen.
2nd Lesson Questions -
"For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all ...." (V. 32) What does that mean? RESOLVE.