11: Waging Love – SPD Discipleship Video
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11: Waging Love – Singing with Inspiration
As the Israelites forgot about God and followed so many other gods and nations, God remained faithful to them, with Isaiah and many other prophets working so hard for God to turn His people around, hence I will choose Hymn 100 – Great Is Thy Faithfulness as a theme hymn for this quarter. Secondary to this … Continue reading –>
11: Waging Love – Teaching Plan
Key Thought: Isaiah appeals to the people to give up their thoughts and ways and return to God. He insists the pardoned be merciful because of the gift of God’s forgiveness. March 13, 2021 1. Have a volunteer read Isaiah 55:1-7. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point … Continue reading –>
Tuesday: Fast Friends
Isaiah 58:1-8 What is the “fast” referred to in Isaiah 58:3? This must be the fast of the Day of Atonement, the only fast commanded by God (Lev: 16:29, Leviticus 16:31; Lev: 23:27-32). This is confirmed in Isaiah 58:3 by the parallel expression “humble ourselves” (NRSV), which follows the terminology of Leviticus. Humbling/afflicting oneself referred to various forms of self-denial, including fasting (compare Ps: 35:13; … Continue reading –>
Monday: High Thoughts and Ways
Isaiah 55:6-13 Why does God say His thoughts and ways are higher than ours, “as the heavens are higher than the earth” ( Isaiah 55.8-9, NRSV)? What do you think that means? There’s no question that the God who created a universe in which even some of the simplest things contain mysteries that our minds cannot begin … Continue reading –>
Sunday: Buy Something Free?
Isa: 55:1-7 Read this text: “Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat!” (Isa: 55:1, NRSV). What contradiction do you see there? Suppose you took food and stood on the street in a big city and announced to the hungry and homeless there: “Yo, you who have … Continue reading –>
Sabbath: Waging Love
Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study: Isa: 55:1-7; Isa: 55:6-13; Isa: 58:1-12; Isaiah 58.13-14. Memory Text: “If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noonday” (Isaiah 58:10). A Jewish cantor (worship leader) and his wife who lived in Lincoln, … Continue reading –>
10: Doing the Unthinkable – A discussion with the Author
This is a discussion between Pr John Bradshaw, speaker for “It is Written: and Dr Roy Gane, the author of this quarter’s lesson study series. https://itiswritten.tv/programs/sabbath-school/2020-q1-lesson-10-doing-the-unthinkable This program is produced by “It is Written” (4)
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Further Study: “Christ bore our sins in His own body on the tree. … What must sin be, if no finite being could make atonement? What must its curse be if Deity alone could exhaust it? The cross of Christ testifies to every man that the penalty of sin is death. … Oh, must there … Continue reading –>
Thursday: A Transforming Reparation Offering
Isa: 53:10-12 What does it mean that the Servant’s life is “an offering for sin” (Isa: 53:10, NRSV)? The Hebrew word refers to a “guilt/reparation offering” (Lev: 5:14-6:7, Lev: 7:1-7), which could atone for deliberate wrongs against other people ( Leviticus 6:2-3). Such sins were singled out by Isaiah ( Isaiah 1:1-3:26; Isaiah 10.1-2; Isaiah 58:1-14). Also, the sinner must restore … Continue reading –>