Key Thought: The Old Testament hope is grounded on the final resurrection of the dead. If God was able to create life in the first place, why shouldn’t we believe in His capacity to recreate life and restore its original identity?
October 22, 2022

1. Have a volunteer read Job 19:25-27.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. Under what circumstances was Job expecting t see God and when?
3. Personal Application: What kind of faith do we need to trust God when things aren’t going our way?. Share your thoughts..
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “How did Job know about the resurrection and second coming of Jesus, when He hadn’t come and died on the cross yet?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Psalm 49:11-15..

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. In what ways have you seen the folly of those who trust in their wealth and accomplishments?
3. Personal Application: How do you know that God is going to redeem you from the power of the grave? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Shouldn’t a person try to accomplish a lot in life and doesn’t everyone strive for economic and financial security and make a difference in their community? What is the difference between David and other self-indulgent rulers?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Isaiah 26:14,19

1. Ask class members to share a short
2. What is the contrast between those who will perish forever and those that receive eternal life?
3. Personal Application: How do you want to be remembered, and by whom? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “Did the ones before the cross believe in their redemption because of their relationship with God through obedience or through faith? If faith, how did they know what to have faith in?” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read Daniel 12:1,2.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What does Michael standing up have to do with the resurrection of th dead, both of the just and the unjust?
3. Personal Application: Do you want to live to see Jesus coming or sleep in the dust until the resurrection? What factors might be involved? 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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Read Psalm 71:1-24. What did David imply when he asked God to bring him up “again from the depths of the earth” (Psalm 71:20, NKJV)?

In Psalm 49:1-20 we found a touching expression of hope in the resurrection, in contrast to the false assurance of the fool who trusted in his wealth. In Psalm 71:1-24, David seeks security and hope from God while surrounded by enemies and false accusers who say that God has forsaken him (Psalm 71:10-11).

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Amid his trials, David finds comfort and assurance in recalling how God had cared for him in the past. First, he realizes that God had upheld him from birth and even took him out of his mother’s womb (Psalm 71:6). Then, he acknowledges that God had taught him from his youth (Psalm 71:17).

With the certainty that God was his rock and his fortress, David pleads with Him, “Be my strong refuge, to which I may resort continually” (Psalm 71:3, NKJV). “Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails” (Psalm 71:9, NKJV). “O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!” (Psalm 71:12, NKJV). And then David adds, “You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and bring me up again from the depths of the earth” (Psalm 71:20, NKJV).

The expression “from the depths of the earth” could be understood literally as an allusion to the future physical resurrection of the psalmist. But the context seems to favor a metaphorical description of David’s condition of deep depression as if the earth were swallowing him (compare with Psalm 88:6 and Psalm 130:1). So, we could say that “it is primarily figurative speech, but also hints at a physical resurrection.” — Andrews Study Bible, p. 726, note on Psalm 71:20.

In the end, what’s important to grasp is that, whatever our situation, God is there, He cares, and ultimately, our hope isn’t found in this life but in the life to come — the eternal life we have in Jesus after our resurrection at His return.

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