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Sunday
First Lesson
Jeremiah 8:9-15, 18-9:1
9
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they
have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields
to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least
even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet
even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay,
they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore
shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation
they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be
no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf
shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass
away from them.
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter
into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the
LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall
to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We
looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health,
and behold trouble!
18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint
in me.
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because
of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion?
is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with
their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am
black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why
then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter
of my people!
1st Lesson Questions -
Who are the wise men of today? (V. 9) Is verse 15 true today? Why? RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
1 Corinthians 1:17-31
17
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel:
not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be
made of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;
but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer
of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew
not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock,
and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the
weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise
men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised,
hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought
things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto
us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That,
according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in
the Lord.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Has Jesus sent me to do anything? (V. 17) What? To whom? In whom - or what - do I glory, most of the time? (V. 31) RESOLVE.