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Monday
The First
Lesson
1 Samuel 1:12-20
12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD,
that Eli marked her mouth.
13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but
her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put
away thy wine from thee.
15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of
a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink,
but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
16 Count
not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance
of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel
grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight.
So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was
no more sad.
19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before
the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and
Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after
Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name
Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
1st Lesson Questions -
When was the last time I, "out of the abundance of... complaint and grief" (V. 16) similarly petitioned God? What was Hannah praying for? RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Luke 11:37-54
37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with
him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not
first washed before dinner.
39 And
the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside
of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening
and wickedness.
40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make
that which is within also?
41 But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold,
all things are clean unto you.
42 But
woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner
of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought
ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
43 Woe
unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues,
and greetings in the markets.
44 Woe
unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves
which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware
of them.
45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master,
thus saying thou reproachest us also.
46 And
he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with
burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the
burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe
unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your
fathers killed them.
48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers:
for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets
and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the
foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which
perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto
you, It shall be required of this generation.
52 Woe
unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:
ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in
ye hindered.
53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the
Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to
speak of many things:
54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of
his mouth, that they might accuse him.
2nd Lesson Questions -
What's the cleanest part of me - my outside or inside? (V. 39) Which of the "woes" hit me most squarely? (V. 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 52) RESOLVE.