Key Thought: What have people seen in your house? What kind of spirit is in our residences? Will someone who visits walk away thinking Jesus is in your house?

June 22, 2019

1. Have a volunteer read 2 Chronicles 32:25,31; Isaiah 38:39..

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What lessons can we learn about our faithfulness to God and appreciation of His goodness from the experience of Hezekiah?
3. Personal Application: In what ways are you able to use your home to witness to others? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states: “I would like to open my home to those in need of help and for hospitality, but I am concerned about the safety and well-being of my family. How do I correlate the two and make balanced and wise decisions?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read John 1:40-42.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. How important is it to share your faith with your own family members?
3. Personal Application: What methods may work better in reaching your own family members with your faith? What methods have people tried that haven’t worked so well? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Theoretical Christianity is ideal, but there are so many pressures, distractions, and challenges in the home that make the ideal seem impossible. How can I witness to my own family when they can see my faults and weaknesses?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read I Corinthians 7:12-15.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. What might be the limitations of a spouse’s responsibility to a nonbelieving partner?
3. Personal Application: How can we help church members who may have a non-believing spouse? Share your thoughts
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states, “I want to join your church because I believe what you are teaching about Bible truth, but my husband isn’t convinced yet. So I want to wait until he decides to join as well so we can come in together.” How would you reply to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read 1 Corinthians 4:16.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the main idea of this text is.
2. How important is it to model the gospel in your own life in witnessing to others?
3. Personal Application: In what ways does your home life reflect your own spiritual condition? 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 the account of Hezekiah’s healing and the visit of the Babylonian ambassadors. 2 Chron. 32:25, Isaiah 38:1-39:11; 2 Chron. 32:31

Scripture points out that the messengers were interested in the miraculous recovery of King Hezekiah. However, Hezekiah seems to have been silent about his healing experience. He didn’t emphasize the things that would have opened the hearts of these inquiring ambassadors to the knowledge of the true God.

Hezekiah

The contrast between his gratitude for being healed in chapter 38 and his silence about it in chapter 39 is striking.

“God left him to test him”.This state visit was a most significant occasion; yet, there is no record of Hezekiah seeking special guidance about it in prayer from prophets or from priests. Nor did God intervene. Alone, out of the public eye, with no consultation with spiritual advisers, Hezekiah apparently let the work of God in his life and in the life of his nation recede from his mind. The intent of the historian in 2 Chronicles 32:31 may have been to show how easily God’s blessing can be taken for granted and how prone the recipients of His mercy are to becoming self-sufficient.

Below are some lessons about faithfulness in home life that can be gleaned from the experience of Hezekiah. What others can you think of?

Every visit to the homes of Christians is an opportunity for people to meet followers of Christ. Few visitors are likely to open conversation about spiritual things. Christians must find ways that are sensitive and appropriate to the occasion to share the good news.

Christians are not called to show off their material prosperity or accomplishments, though they may recognize these as blessings from God. They are called to “declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light” (1 Pet. 2:9, NIV) or, to use Hezekiah’s experience as a symbol, to declare that they were dying, but Christ has healed them; they were dead in sin, and Christ resurrected them and seated them in heavenly places (Eph. 2:4-6).

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