Key Thought: The individual worship of God feeds the communal worship with renewed praise. Individual worship develops its full potential in close relationships with the community. This communal worshipping experience permeates every aspect of their existence.
March 23, 2024

1. Have a volunteer read Psalm 33:3; 40:3; 96:1; Revelation 5:9; 14:3.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What is the common motif in these texts?
3. Personal Application: What do these texts tell, us about a new song? What is a new song anyway? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “Has anything in your life changed because you are a Christian that you can sing about? Or are things pretty much the same daily and year to year? What things in your life would give you the impetus to sing a new song?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Psalm 15; 24:3-6; 101:1-3.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Who are the people worthy of worshipping in God’s presence? What does it
   mean to be holy?
3. Personal Application: How can we make conscious choices to avoid the things that push or draw us away from God? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “What are some of the things that keep us from having a close relationship with God and can draw us away from Him? How can we avoid being caught up in them?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Psalm 96.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What manifold aspects of worship are mentioned in this psalm?
3. Personal Application: How can we make sure we, with knowledge and light, make sure that we don’t fall into the trap that knowing the truth and going through church rituals is enough? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “In what ways does this psalm compare to the three angels’ messages in Revelation 14? Does it teach the same basic truths as the end-time message that we are to give to the world?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Psalm 40:6-8; 51:16-19.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What important issue do these texts address? Why does God not delight in the sacrifices that He prescribed in His word?
3. Personal Application: Why doesn’t God accept worship if it isn’t in the right way, as in Cain’s case? Or on the right day as in the end-time message? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Consider 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 Sunday 17th of March 2024

Psalms 134:1-3 recalls the Aaronic priestly blessing in Numbers 6:24-26 (also Psalms 67:1) and highlights blessing as the underlying principle and outcome of the relationship between God and Israel.

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The people bless God in the sanctuary, and God blesses His people from Zion. The blessings extend to all of life because the Lord is the Creator of heaven and earth. The mention of Zion as the place of divine special blessings underlines the Lord’s covenantal bond with His people. It is thus within the covenant of grace that Israel exercises the privilege to bless the Lord and is blessed by Him.

The Psalms often depict the worshipers as the servants of the Lord. “Who by night stand in the house of the Lord” (Psalms 134:1, NKJV) likely refers to the night guard of the Levites (1 Chronicles 9:23-27) or to the praise that was offered to God by the Levites both day and night (1 Chronicles 9:33).

Because the Israelites worshiped the invisible God, who could not be represented in the form of any image, the sanctuary served to reflect the glory of the Lord and provide a secure environment for sinful people to approach their holy King. This encounter is initiated by the Lord Himself and is regulated by His statutes and decrees.

“Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 2:4-5, NKJV). What we see here, in the words of Peter, is a New Testament expression of the same ideas presented in these psalms, that of God’s people, now a holy priesthood, offering praise and thanksgiving to their Lord Jesus Christ, their Creator and Redeemer, for all the good things that He had done for them.

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