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Monday
First Lesson
Jeremiah 3:19-25
19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give
thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?
and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn
away from me.
20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband,
so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith
the LORD.
21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications
of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way,
and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22 Return,
ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold,
we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from
the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the
salvation of Israel.
24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our
youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 We
lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we
have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from
our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of
the LORD our God.
1st Lesson Questions -
Some folk believe their sins are so bad that even God cannot forgive them. Do I believe that, too? What, specifically, do I think He will not forgive? Am I walking toward Christ or sliding back from Him? (V. 22) When was the last time I lay down in my shame? (V. 25) What is it? RESOLVE.
Second
Lesson
John 9:1-23
1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his
birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this
man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents:
but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day:
the night cometh, when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay
of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with
the clay,
7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is
by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed,
and came seeing.
8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him
that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he
said, I am he.
10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay,
and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam,
and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened
his eyes.
15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received
his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and
I washed, and do see.
16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God,
because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can
a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division
among them.
17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him,
that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been
blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents
of him that had received his sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say
was born blind? how then doth he now see?
20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our
son, and that he was born blind:
21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened
his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak
for himself.
22 These
words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the
Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he
was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Why did the Pharisees react to the man's healing in this way? What was their primary sin? How often do I act in like fashion? The parents of the once blind man feared the Jews, and therefore did not answer their question directly. (V. 22) Have I ever beat around the bush about Jesus Christ to someone, for fear of their response to me? RESOLVE.