Category: Lessons

The Eschatological Day of Atonement

• Lesson 10 for the week of November 30 to December 7

Scripture: Daniel 8-9 Leading Question: How can Jesus help us address the issues in Daniel 8? In addressing the multiple issues connected with Daniel 8, let’s start with the answers instead of the questions, and here Jesus...

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The Pre-Advent Judgment

• Lesson 9 for the week of November 23 to November 30

Scripture: Lev 16; Dan 7-9; Rev 14:6-12 Leading Question: Why don’t other Christians understand the heavenly sanctuary in the same way that Adventists do? In this quarter’s lessons on the Sanctuary, lessons 9 through 11 bring the more...

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Christ, Our Priest

• Lesson 8 for the week of November 16 to November 23

Scripture: Ps 110; Matt 22:41-45; Heb 7; John 16:25-27 Leading Question: How can a Messiah from the line of Judah also be a priest, for according to Scripture, the priests were to be from the line of Levi? The...

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Christ, Our Sacrifice

• Lesson 7 for the week of November 9 to November 16

Scripture: Isa 53; Luke 22:36-37; Acts 8:32-33; 1 Pet 2:21-25 Leading Question: Before his death on the cross, neither the disciples nor the people in general accepted Jesus’ teaching that he must suffer and die. How did the resurrection turn...

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The Day of Atonement

• Lesson 6 for the week of November 2 to November 9

Scripture: Lev 16; 23:26-32 Leading Question: In the narrative portions of the Old Testament, why is the Day of Atonement never mentioned? The popular Christian view of Old Testament history envisions three annual pilgrim festivals as the...

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Atonement: Purification Offering

• Lesson 5 for the week of October 26 to November 2

Scripture: Lev 12:5-8; Num 15:22-31; Mic 7:18-20; Heb 9:22; 1 Pet 1:18-19 Leading Question: Why does Scripture give us so many stories of restored sinners who seem to have no relationship to the earthly sanctuary service? Basic Rule: We should always treat...

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Lessons from the Sanctuary

• Lesson 4 for the week of October 19 to October 26

Scripture: Exod 25:8; Num 6:22-27; Deut 5:22-33; Ps 73:1-17; 1 John 1:1-4 Leading Question: How does a holy God bring sinners into His presence? The whole organization of the sanctuary structure illustrated the gulf between a holy God and ordinary people....

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Sacrifice

• Lesson 3 for the week of October 12 to October 19

Scripture: Gen 4; 22; Isa 1:11-17; Hos 6:6; Amos 5:21-24; Mic 6:6-8; Heb 8-10 Leading Question: Why does the practice of bloody sacrifice stir up such strong passions today? The first life-taking sacrifice in Scripture isn’t even mentioned as a sacrifice,...

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“Heaven” on Earth

• Lesson 2 for the week of October 5 to October 12

Scripture: Exod. 25:8-9; Heb. 8:5; 1 Cor. 3:16-17; 12 Leading Question: Do heavenly things tell us about things on earth? Or is it the other way around: things on earth tell us about things in heaven? The official study guide...

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The Heavenly Sanctuary

• Lesson 1 for the week of September 28 to October 5

Scripture: 1 Kings 8:27-30; Rev. 4-5; 21:22; Ps. 11:4-7; Heb. 8:1-2 Leading Question: How can the sanctuary idea and the picture of a sanctuary be helpful in our search for God? 1. Mental Pictures. In both Testaments, the concept of “sanctuary” is...

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The Promised Revival: God’s Mission Completed

• Lesson 13 for the week of September 21 to September 28

Leading Question: What are we supposed to know about the timing of the Lord’s return? Four key chapters in the New Testament address the question of when Jesus will return: Matthew 24, 25, Acts 1,...

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Reformation: Healing Broken Relationships

• Lesson 12 for the week of September 14 to September 21

Leading Question: Can a broken relationship be healed without forgiveness? Our lesson for this week focuses on five different kinds of broken relationships, and encourages to ponder ways in which our commitment to Jesus Christ can...

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Reformation: Thinking New Thoughts

• Lesson 11 for the week of September 7 to September 14

dLeading Question: What does thinking new thoughts have to do with Christian growth? Our lesson this week includes several crucial New Testament passages that have a real bearing on Christian growth. Here these passages are spelled...

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Reformation: The Willingness to Grow and Change

• Lesson 10 for the week of August 31 to September 7

Leading Question: Which is more striking and valuable to the onlooker, seeing changes in new converts as they become more and more like their Lord, or changes in those who have grown up in the church...

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