Key Thought : Israel was depressed by long bondage, encumbered with women, children, and herds, terrified and disheartened. God led those of little faith in compassion and judgment.
August 9, 2025

1. Have a volunteer read Exodus 12:31-36.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What strange request does Pharaoh make and why, even as he allows them all to leave?
3. Personal Application: How often have we repented because of consequences and not because we thought they were wrong? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “How can we learn to be sorry for sins that we get away with, or nobody finds out? Do our consciences work on us in that situation?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Exodus 13:16-14:12.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Why the commandment to perpetually remember the Passover, and what should it mean to us today?
3. Personal Application: Why were the commandments to be put between their eyes and also on their hands? How does this symbolise that we must not only have faith, but that we must act upon it? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Why are people so much like Israel coming out of Egypt? We have some faith and believe in God, but when faced with trouble or the unknown, we worry, fret, and complain and don’t act on the faith we claim to have.” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Exodus 14:13-31.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Despite their lack of faith, what did God do for them?
3. Personal Application: In the good times of our lives, do we thank God enough for our protection and deliverance when we don’t see it? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “What does it mean when the Bible tells us to stand still when we face perilous or difficult times when help doesn’t seem to come right away?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Exodus 15:1-21.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is the content of Moses’ song?
3. Personal Application: What does justice mean to you in understanding that there is an afterlife and you have faith in God? Is there any faith in justice if there is no afterlife? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Inform the class about your plans for the week and share them 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 3rd of August 2025

On the night of Passover, divine judgment fell on those not covered by the blood (Exodus 12:1-12). No one escaped because of position, education, social status, or gender. Punishment struck all families, from Pharaoh to slaves, and even the firstborn of the animals. The pride of Egypt was in the dust.

How interesting that Pharaoh, in telling the Hebrews to go and worship, adds this request: “And bless me also.”

And bless me also?

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Why would he, the king of Egypt, a “god” on earth among his people, ask that? It sounds as if he’s finally catching on to the power of the Hebrew God and would like to benefit from it. However, how can God bless him while he is steeped in rebellion, stubbornness, sin, and pride? Sure, he finally gave his consent, but it wasn’t out of submission to the will of Yahweh. It was, instead, out of defeat. He wasn’t repentant—as his later actions will reveal. He simply wanted to stop the devastation that was destroying his kingdom.

Pharaoh was humiliated. And, given the tragic circumstances from the worst plague of all, he gives permission for Israel to leave Egypt. What he refused to grant all previous times, and no matter the suffering his actions brought upon his nation, he now permits.

And the Egyptian people, understandably, are eager for the Hebrews to go, as well. As they said, please leave, or else “we shall all be dead.”

God, meanwhile, made provision so that the Israelites did not leave Egypt empty-handed but with things they would need for what, in the end, would turn out to be a much longer sojourn than anticipated. The Egyptians gave the Jews these precious articles only to hurry the people out of the country, but the items were wages that were long denied the Israelites for centuries of slave labor. Surely for the Egyptians, the price of getting the Hebrews out of their land was cheap enough.

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25c-06-go-and-worship-the-lord/

Daily Lesson for Sabbath 2nd of August 2025

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Read for This Week’s Study: Exodus 12:31-36, James 2:17-20, Exodus 13:1-22; Exodus 14:1-31, Hebrews 11:22, Exodus 15:1-21, Revelation 15:2-4.

Memory Text:

“And Moses said to the people, ‘Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will ac­complish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace’ ” (Exodus 14:13-14, NKJV).

The Exodus is the most dramatic and glorious experience of God’s people in the Old Testament. This event is the divine model of how God defeated the Hebrews’ enemies and brought the Israelites victoriously into the Promised Land. It’s also a symbol of salvation and redemption in Christ.

From a human standpoint, the children of Israel were in a desperate, even impossible, situation—one that they, in and of themselves, could not save themselves from. If they were to be delivered, it would have to be by a divine act. It’s the same with us and sin: in and of ourselves, we are in a hopeless situation. We need something even more dramatic than the Exodus. And we’ve got it: the cross of Christ and what Christ did there for us all.

The events of Israel’s departure from the land of Goshen, mentioned in Exodus 12:1-51—until the song of Moses, joyously sung in Exodus 15:1-27—are breathtaking and incredible. God’s signs, wonders, and miraculous redeeming works are at their peak.

But even these do not compare to what Christ did for us at the cross, of which the drama of the Exodus was a mere foreshadowing.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, August 9.

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Our Sabbath School program has always been linked to the support of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission program. This video provides a little insight into this important work.

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/mission-spotlight-for-august-2/

Inside Story for Friday 1st of August 2025

By Andrew McChesney

Silva Langa, a high school student in Mozambique, loved soccer. The sport was his god, and he played whenever he could. He was a skillful player and dreamed about a big-league career.

Then a friend surprised him by saying, bluntly, “You have many good qualities, but you lack God.” Silva’s surprise grew when the friend, Hodes, invited him to church on Saturday. Silva had never heard of a church that worshiped on Saturdays. In addition, Saturday wasn’t a good day for him to go to church. It was the day he most often played soccer matches.

Hodes, however, was a good friend, and Silva accompanied him to church on the next Saturday that he was free. Silva was surprised again. Church members showered him with love and affection. The hymns touched his heart. He studied the Bible, and he gave his heart to Jesus in baptism.

Many of Silva’s relatives and friends couldn’t understand why he had stopped playing soccer on Saturdays.

“You have a crazy faith,” said one.

“Why would anyone go to church instead of a soccer game?” said another.

Silva explained his faith as best as he could.

His parents became worried when Silva skipped university entrance exams on a Saturday. They questioned his mental health, asking him why he was willing to risk his future for the Sabbath. It was a severe trial for Silva, but he decided to adopt the courage of Peter and other apostles and declare like them, “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29, NKJV).

The dismay of his parents grew when the school called to ask why he wasn’t going to Friday night classes. Several relatives pleaded with local Adventist leaders to tell Silva to study on Friday nights. The leaders did not offer a Bible study on the Sabbath. Instead, they offered assurances that God would not leave the teen and that he would graduate from high school.

Before long, Silva was able to transfer to an Adventist high school, where he no longer faced Sabbath conflicts. He graduated from the high school.

Today, Silva is an entrepreneur who has no regrets about giving up his god of soccer for the God of heaven. His life of faithfulness has led two of his sisters and other people to baptism.

“God has blessed my life,” Silva said. “I thank God that today my family respects my beliefs.”

Pray for the gospel to be proclaimed in Mozambique and other countries in the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division, which will receive this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering.

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25c-05-inside-story-swapping-soccer-for-god/