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Wednesday
First Lesson
Proverbs 22:1-6, 17-25
1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving
favour rather than silver and gold.
2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them
all.
3 A prudent
man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass
on, and are punished.
4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour,
and life.
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth
keep his soul shall be far from them.
6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old,
he will not depart from it.
17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply
thine heart unto my knowledge.
18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee;
they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee
this day, even to thee.
20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and
knowledge,
21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of
truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that
send unto thee?
22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the
afflicted in the gate:
23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of
those that spoiled them.
24 Make
no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou
shalt not go:
25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
1st Lesson Questions:
Proverbs 22:1-6,17-25. Do I foresee evil, most of the time, or get hit by it? (V. 3) Have I always taken the advice of verses 24-25? If not, why not? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Colossians 2:6-19
6
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as
ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware
lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after
the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not
after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality
and power:
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made
without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh
by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with
him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised
him from the dead.
13 And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against
us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing
it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show
of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath
days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility
and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which
he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints
and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth
with the increase of God.
2nd Lesson Questions:
Colossians 2:6-19. With whom do I walk? (V. 6) What are the vain deceit and the tradition of men verse 8 talks about? Are those things easy to spot? Do I believe verses 13-15? Can others tell, by watching me? RESOLVE.