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Tuesday
First Lesson
Jeremiah 5:1-9
1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see
now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can
find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh
the truth; and I will pardon it.
2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken
them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but
they have refused to receive correction: they have made their
faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish:
for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their
God.
5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them;
for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of
their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst
the bonds.
6 Wherefore
a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings
shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every
one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their
transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken
me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to
the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves
by troops in the harlots' houses.
8 They
were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his
neighbour's wife.
9 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
1st Lesson Questions -
Are my transgressions many, and my backslidings increased? (V. 6) When was the last time I neighed after my neighbour's spouse? (V. 8) RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
John 10:22-38
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it
was winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How
long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell
us plainly.
25 Jesus
answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that
I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said
unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no
man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from
my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee
not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest
thyself God.
34 Jesus
answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are
gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and
the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into
the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of
God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works:
that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and
I in him.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Do my works bear witness to my beliefs, as Christ's do? (V. 25) "I said, ye are gods?" (V. 34) quotes Ps 82:6. How does that Ps apply to what Jesus was doing and experiencing? RESOLVE.