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Friday
The First
Lesson
Micah 2
1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their
beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it
is in the power of their hand.
2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses,
and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even
a man and his heritage.
3 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family
do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks;
neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament
with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he
hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it
from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot
in the congregation of the LORD.
6 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall
not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of
the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do
good to him that walketh uprightly?
8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off
the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as
men averse from war.
9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant
houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it
is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying,
I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall
even be the prophet of this people.
12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely
gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the
sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they
shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.
13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and
have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their
king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
1st Lesson Questions -
Micah's Israel was socially and morally bankrupt. Are there any parallels today? What? RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Romans 3:21-31
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ
unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith
in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission
of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he
might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without
the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles?
Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision
by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea,
we establish the law.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Do I believe that I am justified by grace "through faith in his blood"? (V. 24) RESOLVE.