Tag: Alden Thompson

The Law of God and the Law of Christ

• Lesson 8 for the week of May 17 to May 24

Leading Question: “If Jesus is God in the flesh, God incarnate, why should we have a lesson that distinguishes between the law of God and the law of Christ?” Introduction to the Issue: Christianity required...

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Christ the End of the Law

• Lesson 7 for the week of May 10 to May 17

Leading Question: “What does Paul mean when he says in Romans 10:4 that Christ is the end of the law? Introduction to the Issue: It is possible that the question raised by the title/topic of...

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Christ’s Death and the Law

• Lesson 6 for the week of May 3 to May 10

Leading Question: “Does the death of Christ nullify the law?” Introduction to the Issue: When one links Christ’s death with the law, the clear implication is that the law is an instrument of condemnation, not...

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Christ and the Sabbath

• Lesson 5 for the week of April 26 to May 3

Leading Question: “What did Jesus do to transform the human understanding of the Sabbath?” Introduction to the Issue. In our modern world the idea of sacred time has nearly vanished. “Remember the Sabbath to keep...

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Christ and the Law in the Sermon on the Mount

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

Leading question: Does the Sermon on the Mount make keeping the law harder or easier? Introduction to the Issue: Jesus’ treatment of the law in Matthew 5 (Sermon on the Mount) raises acute questions, not...

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Christ and Religious Tradition

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

Leading Question: “How do we know which traditions to keep and which ones we can safely ignore?” Introduction to the issue. When addressing the questions of what laws and traditions we should retain and which...

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Christ and the Law of Moses

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

Leading Question: “Where does Moses talk about Jesus?” Introduction to the Issue: In John 5:46 Jesus states that Moses “wrote about me.” But how could that be? Perhaps only in the sense that the principles...

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Laws in Christ’s Day

• Lesson 1 for the week of March 29 to April 5

Leading Question: “Should believers respond to civil law in the same way that they respond to religious law? Introduction to the Issue: This week’s lesson gives us the opportunity to look at “law” in a...

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Exhortations from the Sanctuary

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

Scripture: Heb 10:19-25 Leading Question: What would happen to our understanding of God and our responsibilities before him if the book of Hebrews were simply to disappear from our Bibles? 1. The Special Content of the...

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The Cosmic Conflict Over God’s Character

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

Scripture: Rev 12:7-12 Leading Question: How can a good and all-powerful God produce a world like this one? “Theodicy” is a word that describes the issue posed in our leading question. Given the fact that the world...

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Our Prophetic Heritage

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

Scripture: Rev 10; 14:6-12 Leading Question: What is the most effective way today to direct attention to the work of Jesus in the heavenly sanctuary? Several issues present themselves in connection with the study of the three...

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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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