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Wednesday
First Lesson
Wisdom 6:12-21
12 Wisdom is glorious, and never fadeth away: year, she is easily
seen of them that love her, and found of such as seek her.
13 She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first
known unto them.
14 Whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail: for he
shall find her sitting at his doors.
15 To think therefore upon her is perfection of wisdom: and whoso
watcheth for her shall quickly be without care.
16 For she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her, sheweth
herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in
every thought.
17 For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline;
and the care of discipline is love;
18 And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto
her laws is the assurance of incorruption;
19 And incorruption maketh us near unto God:
20 Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.
21 If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres, O ye kings
of the people, honour wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore.
1st Lesson Questions:
Wisdom 6:12-21. What are my thoughts about wisdom? Are they as godly and lofty as these words? To whom or what do I look for wisdom most often - books of the world, or Holy Writ? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither
by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the
day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not
come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of
sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called
God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you
these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed
in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who
now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with
the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that
they might be saved.
11 And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they
should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2nd Lesson Questions:
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. Has this passage's "strong delusion" (V. 11) already arrived in some places? RESOLVE.