Monday, July 6, 2015
Exodus 23:1-8 NIV
1 "Do not spread false reports. Do not help a guilty person by being a malicious witness. 2 "Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When you give testimony in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd, 3 and do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit. 4 "If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. 5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it. 6 "Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits. 7 Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty. 8 "Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the innocent.
OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What were the Lord's commands concerning false reports and false witnesses? (v.1)
2) What did the Lord command about doing the wrong that others do? (v.2)
3) What was the Lord's command about favoritism? (v.3)
4) What was the command concerning another's property (v.4-5)
5) What did the Lord command about lawsuits and bribery? What was God's reason for each law? (v.6-8)
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
6) Have you ever spread gossip against another individual without knowing all of the facts? If so, what happened?
LIFE LESSONS
7) God is the only absolutely Righteous Judge of any and every situation.
8) The Lord's commands were give to help His people to love Him and to love others.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Deuteronomy 6:1-8 KJV
1 Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Why did the Lord give commandments to His people? (v.1-3)
2) What did the Lord say about Himself and how His people are to respond to Him? Why? (v.4-5)
3) What were the people of God to do with the Lord's commands? (v.6-8)
APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) How much do you love the Lord? Why?
5) What do you do to remain obedient to the word (will) of the Lord? Why?
LIFE LESSONS
6) Our love for the Lord is demonstrated by our obedience to His word (will).
7) We remain obedient to God by hiding His word in our hearts and teaching our children to do the same.
8) Obedience to the Lord leads to His blessing over our lives.
