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First Lesson
Exodus 2:1-22
1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife
a daughter of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him
that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an
ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and
put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's
brink.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to
him.
5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and
when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch
it.
6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold,
the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This
is one of the Hebrews' children.
7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and
call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse
the child for thee?
8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and
called the child's mother.
9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away,
and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the
woman took the child, and nursed it.
10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter,
and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she
said, Because I drew him out of the water.
11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that
he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and
he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that
there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest
thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared,
and said, Surely this thing is known.
15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land
of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came
and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's
flock.
17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood
up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is
it that ye are come so soon today?
19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of
the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered
the flock.
20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it
that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
Zipporah his daughter.
22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for
he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
1st Lesson Questions -
God took Moses - an ordinary man - and made him anything but ordinary. Can He do the same with me? Would I allow Him? Moses' sin was the murdering of the man. What's mine? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached
unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,
how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once;
of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are
fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out
of due time.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be
called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which
was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly
than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with
me.
11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so
ye believed.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Paul calls himself the least of the apostles because he persecuted the Church, and yet God used him in an extraordinarily powerful way. Do I believe I, too, can be used by God for the furtherance of His kingdom? In what ways have I persecuted - or inhibited - the Church? RESOLVE.