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Monday
First Lesson
Genesis 37:3-28, 36
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because
he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many
colours.
4 And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more
than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably
unto him.
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and
they hated him yet the more.
6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I
have dreamed:
7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo,
my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves
stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over
us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated
him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren,
and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the
sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his
father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that
thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed
come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the
flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he
said to him, Here am I.
14 And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well
with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word
again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came
to Shechem.
15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering
in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
16 And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where
they feed their flocks.
17 And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them
say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren,
and found them in Dothan.
18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto
them, they conspired against him to slay him.
19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.
20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into
some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him:
and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
21 And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands;
and said, Let us not kill him.
22 And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into
this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him;
that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his
father again.
23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren,
that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours
that was on him;
24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was
empty, there was no water in it.
25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes
and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead
with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to
carry it down to Egypt.
26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we
slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not
our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And
his brethren were content.
28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew
and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites
for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer
of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.
1st Lesson Questions -
What sin(s) motivated Joseph's brothers? Did Joseph's dreams come true? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
1 Corinthians 9:15-27
15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written
these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were
better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying
void.
16 For
though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity
is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if
against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto
me.
18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel,
I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse
not my power in the gospel.
19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself
servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the
Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that
I might gain them that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without
law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them
that are without law.
22 To
the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made
all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker
thereof with you.
24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one
receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in
all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but
we an incorruptible.
26 I
therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one
that beateth the air:
27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest
that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should
be a castaway.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Paul said the gospel laid necessity upon him (V. 16). What necessity of the gospel is laid upon me? How can I, like Paul did, become more closely all things to all men in my life? (V. 22) Who, specifically, might I bring into the Church in that way? Does verses 26-27 describe my life? If not, why not? RESOLVE.