Key Thought : God’s call can change the direction of a person’s life. But if they follow the call, it is always the best path for them. But sometimes it is not easy to follow God’s call.
July 12, 2025

1. Have a volunteer read Exodus 3:1-6.

1. a. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What is significant about the fact that God introduced Himself as the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob?
3. Personal Application: Moses needed 80 years before God deemed him ready for his task.? What might this teach us about patience? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “Why did Moses want to know God’s name, and what is the significance of His name? In what ways in your life have you experienced the closeness with God that He seeks with all who accept Him?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Exodus 3:7-12.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How did God explain to Moses why He wanted to intervene on behalf of the Israelites enslaved in Egypt?
3. Personal Application: Why is humility and a sense of our unworthiness so important to anyone who seeks to follow the Lord and do anything for Him? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Weren’t Moses’ excuses fairly reasonable? Or were they just excuses? Wasn’t he raised to be Pharaoh? Wasn’t he trained to be a military leader? Didn’t he speak Egyptian and Hebrew? Even if they were true excuses, shouldn’t Moses have exercised faith that when God calls, He enables the called?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Exodus 4:1-18.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What set of signs did God give to Moses to perform to strengthen his position as God’s messenger?
3. Personal Application: How does God respond to Moses? What lessons can we take from this for ourselves in whatever situation God calls us to? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “When God calls us to an easy, self-centered path, do we question whether it is the right path? How can we be sure that we are following His calling and vocation in life?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Exodus 4:18-31.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How do we understand this story and what lessons can we take from it?
3. Personal Application: Are there things we are neglecting that we know we should be doing? What changes need to be made? 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 Sunday 6th of July 2025

After Moses fled to Midian, he had a relatively easy life. He married, had two sons, Gershom and Eliezer (Exodus 18:3-4), and was part of the extended family of Jethro, his father-in-law and a priest in Midian. He spent 40 relaxed years being a shepherd, like David (2 Samuel 7:8), enjoying God’s presence, especially as revealed in nature.

Yet, this time was not simply for Moses to smell the flowers (or perhaps, in this case, the desert cactus?). These years of walking with the Lord changed him and prepared him for a leadership role. God also used Moses in this quiet wilderness to write, under divine inspiration, two of the oldest biblical books: Job and Genesis (see Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 251; Francis D. Nichol, et al., eds., The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 3, p. 1140).

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Moses also received from God crucial insights about the great controversy, the Creation, the Fall, the Flood, the patriarchs, and, most important, the plan of salvation. Thus, Moses was instrumental in passing on to all humanity the true knowledge of the living God, our Creator and Sustainer, and knowledge about what God is doing in view of the sin that has wreaked havoc on this planet. Biblical and salvation history make little sense apart from the crucial foundation that, under inspiration, Moses gave us, especially in the book of Genesis.

Moses saw that the burning bush was not being consumed by the fire, and thus he knew that he was seeing a miracle and that something dramatic and important must be taking place right before him. As he moved closer, the Lord told him to take his shoes off as a sign of deep respect because God’s presence made the place holy.

The Lord presented Himself to Moses as “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob” (Exodus 3:6). The Lord had promised these patriarchs that their descendants would inherit Canaan, a promise Moses surely knew about. Thus, even before saying it, God was already opening the way for Moses to know what was coming and what crucial role he was to play.

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Daily Lesson for Sabbath 5th of July 2025

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Read for This Week’s Study: Exodus 18:3-4; Exodus 3:1-22; Genesis 22:11,15-18; Exodus 6:3; Joel 2:32; Exodus 4:1-31; Genesis 17:10-11.

Memory Text:

“And the Lord said: ‘I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey’ ” (Exodus 3:7-8, NKJV).

God’s call to us will often change the direction of our lives. However, if we follow that call, then we discover that God’s path is always the best route for us. However, sometimes—at first—it isn’t easy to accept God’s call.

Such is the case for Moses and his call by God, which specifically began at the encounter with the Lord at the burning bush. Although Moses may or may not have known about the laws of combustion, he knew that what he was seeing was a miracle, and it certainly caught his attention. No question, the Lord was calling him to a specific task. The issue was: Would he answer the call, regardless of the radical new change in his life that this call would bring? At first, he was not very receptive to it.

You may recall instances when you had specific goals, but God re­directed those plans. It is true that we can be useful to God in many ways, but following God’s call in our lives, and doing what He leads us to do, is surely the path to the most satisfying existence. It might not always be easy, and it wasn’t easy for Moses, but how foolish to go our own way when God is calling us in another direction.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, July 12.

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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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Inside Story for Friday 4th of July 2025

By Andrew McChesney

Peter Siamikobo enjoyed digging for rats in a mountainous village in Zambia. The boy and his family ate the rodents with maize-meal porridge at mealtime. They also enjoyed eating pigs and bubble fish. Pork was always on the table at Christmas. Bubble fish was popular for its boneless meat.

So, it came as a surprise to Peter when he learned that the Bible prohibited his favorite meats.

He heard about unclean food for the first time when he traveled about 20 miles from his hometown to visit a brother who was working at a farm operated by Seventh-day Adventist missionaries from the United States. He stayed for Sabbath worship services, and the preacher spoke about the clean and unclean animals of Leviticus 11:1-47. Peter realized that he and his family were following a meal plan that didn’t match the Bible’s teaching.

After a while, the missionaries began to hold worship services in Peter’s elementary school on Sabbath afternoons. Peter attended the meetings, even though he had to walk two miles to reach the school.

His parents, however, discouraged him from going and reminded him that he had been baptized as a baby. Father even ordered him to work on the family farm on Saturdays. Peter didn’t know anything about Sabbath observance, and he quickly did his work in the morning so he go to the afternoon meeting.

In high school, Peter made new friends from Adventist families. He studied the Bible with them and gave his heart to Jesus in baptism by immersion. He stopped eating rats, pork, and bubble fish.

Over time, his parents grew to appreciate the seventh-day Sabbath. They understood why he didn’t eat unclean meat. Every Sabbath that he was at home, they encouraged him not to be late for Sabbath School.

Today, there is an Adventist church in Peter’s town. Through the Adventist influence, many townspeople have stopped eating unclean food.

Peter is grateful that he learned as a boy about the importance of healthy living and glorifying God with his diet. After all, 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (NKJV).

“Thank Jesus for saving me from unclean food,” said Peter, a church elder and head of the Social Sciences Department at Rusangu Secondary School, a Seventh-day Adventist high school, in Zambia.

Pray for the gospel to be proclaimed in Zambia and other countries in the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division, the recipient of this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering.

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