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Monday
First Lesson
Jeremiah 13:15-27
15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
16 Give
glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before
your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look
for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross
darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places
for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with
tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
18 Say
unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down:
for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your
glory.
19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open
them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall
be wholly carried away captive.
20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north:
where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?
21 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast
taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not
sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
22 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things
upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered,
and thy heels made bare.
23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
24 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth
away by the wind of the wilderness.
25 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith
the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
26 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy
shame may appear.
27 I
have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of
thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields.
Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when
shall it once be?
1st Lesson Questions -
How do I give glory (V. 16) to the Lord? How's my humility? (V. 18) Am I pretty proud of it? How is life in my country akin to that described in verse 27? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Mark 12:18-27
18 Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection;
and they asked him, saying,
19 Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave
his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother
should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
20 Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife,
and dying left no seed.
21 And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed:
and the third likewise.
22 And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman
died also.
23 In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose
wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err,
because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
25 For
when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are
given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read
in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying,
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob?
27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living:
ye therefore do greatly err.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Why is there no marrying in heaven? (V. 25) RESOLVE.