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Trumpets, Blood, Cloud, and Fire

• Lesson 4 for the week of October 17 to October 24

Concern for the Non-Hebrews (Numbers 9-10) TEXT: Numbers 9:4-5, 14 4 So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover, 5 and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth...

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Worship and Dedication

• Lesson 3 for the week of October 10 to October 17

Services in the Tent of Meeting (Num. 7-8) TEXT: Numbers 8:1-4 1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ”When you set up the seven lamps, they are to...

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Preparing a People

• Lesson 2 for the week of October 3 to October 10

People Special to God (Numbers 5-6) TEXT: Numbers 6:1-6 1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ”If a man or woman wants to make a special vow,...

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A New Order

• Lesson 1 for the week of September 26 to October 3

People on the Move (Numbers 1-3) TEXT: Hosea 2:14-15 Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back...

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John’s Letter to the Chosen Lady

• Lesson 12 for the week of September 11 to September 19

Observations for discussion and questions: The text of 2 John has been translated directly from the Greek in order to get a more literal rendition. Notice that the same sort of style regarding densities of...

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Important Themes in First John

• Lesson 11 for the week of September 5 to September 12

Observations for discussion and questions: The Godhead: The clearest examples of triadic formulation of the Godhead are found in Matt 28:19 and 2 Cor 3:14, but even there we do not have any attempt to...

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Confidence

• Lesson 10 for the week of August 29 to September 5

Observations for discussion and questions: The overall unity of this passage may be seen in the density of recurrences of the clause we know that. The subunit of 5:14-17 defined by the recurrences of the...

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Believing in the Son of God

• Lesson 9 for the week of August 22 to August 29

Observations for discussion and questions: The following passage as a whole is delimited by three recurrences of belief in relation to Jesus: who believes that Jesus is the Son of God (5:5), who believes in...

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Walking in the Light: Keeping His Commandments

• Lesson 4 for the week of August 18 to July 25

Observations for discussion and questions: Here again we see John ministering to a community that are suffering from the impact of the schism he mentions later in this chapter. He gives them tests both as...

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Loving Brothers and Sisters

• Lesson 8 for the week of August 15 to August 22

Observations for discussion and questions: The topic of this lesson focuses on two major passages, 1 John 3:11-24 and 1 John 4:7-5:4. 1 John 3:11-24 is carefully structured by the overall recurrences of we should...

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Living as Children of God

• Lesson 7 for the week of August 8 to August 15

Observations for discussion and questions: The overall unity of 1 John 2:28-3:10 is supported by the recurrences of manifested, everyone, who does/does not do right, children of God, born of him/God. The subsections are demarcated...

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Walking in the Light: Rejecting Antichrists

• Lesson 6 for the week of August 1 to August 8

Observations for discussion and questions: The principle occasion for the writing of 1 John was most likely a serious schism of the Johannine community over teaching about Christ. There are two well defined passages that...

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Walking in the Light: Renouncing Worldliness

• Lesson 5 for the week of July 25 to August 1

Observations for discussion and questions: 1 John 2:12-14 is puzzling. The fact that the author says almost the same thing in each stanza with a shift of verb tense in “writing” and “wrote” may be...

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Walking in the Light: Turning Away From Sin

• Lesson 3 for the week of July 11 to July 18

Observations: 1 John 1:5-2:2 is carefully crafted in terms of structure where between an introductory proposition and a concluding application and exposition we have three false claims reflected in if-clauses, “if we say that we…,”...

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