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Thursday
The First
Lesson
Numbers 23:13-26
13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another
place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the
utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me
them from thence.
14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of
Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram
on every altar.
15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering,
while I meet the LORD yonder.
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and
said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering,
and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What
hath the LORD spoken?
18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and
hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:
19 God
is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that
he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath
he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath
blessed: and I cannot reverse it.
21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen
perverseness in Israel; the LORD his God is with him, and the
shout of a king is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength
of an unicorn.
23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there
any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall
be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift
up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat
of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor
bless them at all.
26 But
Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying,
All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
1st Lesson Questions -
Numbers 23:13-26. Verse 19 shows what God is like, while in verse 26, Balaam refused to do what Balak requested in the previous verse. Was Balaam more like God in this action, or man? RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Luke 4:1-13
1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan,
and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
2 Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he
did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
3 And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command
this stone that it be made bread.
4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall
not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed
unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee,
and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to
whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan:
for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him
only shalt thou serve.
9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle
of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God,
cast thyself down from hence:
10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee,
to keep thee:
11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time
thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt
not tempt the Lord thy God.
13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed
from him for a season.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Luke 4:1-13. Apply the temptations of this passage to life in Christ today. Are they still alive and well? RESOLVE.