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Thursday
The First
Lesson
Micah 1:1-7a
1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the
days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he
saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein
is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from
his holy temple.
3 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will
come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys
shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that
are poured down a steep place.
5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins
of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is
it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they
not Jerusalem?
6 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and
as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof
into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces,
and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and
all the idols thereof will I lay desolate.
1st Lesson Questions -
Micah was a commoner, and yet he became God's prophet. Do I believe God raises up common folk to do uncommon things for Him? What has He given me to do in my time and place? RESOLVE.
The Second
Lesson
Romans 3:1-20
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision?
2 Much
every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the
oracles of God.
3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make
the faith of God without effect?
4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as
it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings,
and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God,
what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I
speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
7 For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto
his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some
affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose
damnation is just.
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we
have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all
under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh
after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become
unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they
have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith
to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
2nd Lesson Questions -
What does Romans mean by saying that the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God? (V. 2) RESOLVE.