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Thursday
First Lesson
Proverbs 23:20-21,29-35
20
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and
drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath
babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of
eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed
wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth
his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an
adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall
utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the
sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick;
they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I
will seek it yet again.
1st Lesson Questions:
Proverbs 23:20-21,29-35. Do I hang out with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh? (V. 20) Have I ever been one myself? Have I taken this passage to heart, in life? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Colossians 2:20-3:11
20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of
the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject
to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments
and doctrines of men?
23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will worship,
and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to
the satisfying of the flesh.
1 If
ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also
appear with him in glory.
5 Mortify
therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness,
which is idolatry:
6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children
of disobedience:
7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,
filthy communication out of your mouth.
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old
man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge
after the image of him that created him:
11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision,
Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in
all.
2nd Lesson Questions:
Colossians 2:20-3:11. Do I always seek those things which are above? (3:1) What stops me from doing so more often? Have I put off the things listed in Vs. 5-9? RESOLVE.