Key Thought: Wisdom for righteous living is gained with God amid temptations and challenges. We need an ongoing commitment to walk in faithfulness to the Lord.
February 24, 2024

1. Have a volunteer read Psalm 81:7,8; 95:7-11; 105:17-22.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What does Divine testing involve in these texts?
3. Personal Application: What has been your own experience with how sin hardens our hearts? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of you relatives states, “.How and why should we keep God’s commandments? What blessings do we get for obeying Him? How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Psalm 119:1-16.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How did Christ demonstrate the power of God’s word in His life?
3. Personal Application: What do you think happens when people conscientiously and constantly reject God’s teaching? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Christ kept the commandments because He was God. The Bible tells us since we are sinners, we can’t keep God’s commandments/ He died on the cross to forgive our sins – past, present, and future. We focus on the cross, not on the commandments.” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Psalm 141.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What does the Psalmist pray for?
3. Personal Application: How does the cunning and progressive character of temptation afflict our souls and cause us distress? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “Why do the unrighteous and non-Christian seem to be doing very well? Why would their lives seem more desirable than those who diligently follow God?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Psalm 1:1-3; 112:1-9.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What blessings are promised for those who revere the Lord?
3. Personal Application: Why is the death of Christ on the cross the guarantee of the promises of what God has in store for us? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Daily Lesson for Monday 19th of February 2024

Fallen human existence is but a vapor in the light of eternity. A thousand years in God’s sight is “like a watch in the night,” which lasted three or four hours (Psalms 90:4, NKJV). Compared to divine time, a human lifetime flies away (Psalms 90:10).

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The strongest among humans are analogous to the weakest among plants (Psalms 90:5-6; Psalms 103:15-16). Yet, even that short life is filled with labor and sorrow (Psalms 90:10). Even secular people, who have no belief in God, mourn and lament the shortness of life, especially in contrast to the eternity that’s out there and that, they know, threatens to go on without them.

Psalms 90:1-17 places the human predicament in the context of God’s care for people as their Creator. The Lord has been the dwelling place of His people in all generations (Psalms 90:1-2). The Hebrew word ma‘on, “dwelling place,” portrays the Lord as the shelter or refuge of His people (Psalms 91:9).

God restrains His righteous wrath and extends His grace anew. The psalmist exclaims, “Who knows the power of Your anger?” (Psalms 90:11, NKJV), implying that no one has ever experienced the full effect of God’s anger against sin, and so, there is hope for people to repent and gain wisdom for righteous living.

Wisdom in the Bible depicts not merely intelligence but reverence for God. The wisdom that we need is knowing how “to number our days” (Psalms 90:12). If we can number our days, it means that our days are limited and that we know that they are limited. Wise living means living with an awareness of life’s transience that leads to faith and obedience. This wisdom is gained only through repentance (Psalms 90:8,12) and God’s gifts of forgiveness, compassion, and mercy (Psalms 90:13-14).

Our fundamental problem stems not from the fact that we are created as human beings but from sin and from what sin has wrought in our world. Its devastating effects are seen everywhere and in every person.

Thanks to Jesus, however, a way has been made for us out of our human predicament (John 1:29, John 3:14-21). Otherwise, we would have no hope at all.

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