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Saturday
First Lesson
Hosea 4:1-2, 6-10
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD
hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because
there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By
swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing
adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou
hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt
be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy
God, I will also forget thy children.
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore
will I change their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart
on their iniquity.
9 And
there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them
for their ways, and reward them their doings.
10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit
whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off
to take heed to the LORD.
1st Lesson Questions -
How does today stack up with Hosea's day? How about the sins of V. 2? Are they still alive and well today? Is it a pithy truth today also, that "like people, like priest?" (V. 9) RESOLVE.
Second Lesson
Galatians 5:13-26
13
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not
liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be
not consumed one of another.
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil
the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that
ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
19 Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:
of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time
past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom
of God.
22 But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26 Let
us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying
one another.
2nd Lesson Questions -
What do I use my freedom for? When was the last time it was an occasion to the flesh? (V. 13) What are each of the sins contained in verses 19-21,26? Do I indulge in those more often than I do the fruit of the Spirit? (V. 22,23)
Are the sins of V. 26 a large temptation in my life? What can I do in order to disarm their power? RESOLVE.