Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Book Report: Due Monday, Nov. 14 (report on TurnItIn.com; Art Project @ start of class)
- Devotion 1 Presentation: Be ready to present on your day! See class schedule.
Journal:
- On the page 6 of your unit handout…
- - Read Proverbs 11:1-4
- - Answer questions 11-15
- When done: In the blank space at the bottom of this page,
- - 16) Describe how sinful pride affects junior high students- Give an example.
- - 17) Describe how humbleness affects JH students— Give an example.
- If all done with that: Answer the Questions 1-9
Memory Quiz Review:
- Your Verses: Proverbs 11:1-4
- - Disgrace: Dishonor, Shame, A loss of respect
- - Integrity: To be unified & whole, especially morally
- - Crookedness: Bent/twisted out of shape, morally
- - Treacherous: To be faithless, To betray
- Your Questions: Based upon our classroom discussion and your thoughtful reflection, use complete sentences to answer the following:
- - 1) Describe the effect of pride on our life. Give a Jr. High example.
- - - The verses say, "When pride comes, then comes disgrace."
- - - - Pride is... selfish arrogance, 'thinking you're all that' or thinking you are the absolute best at something, being 'full of yourself'
- - - - The effect of this is disgrace!
- - - - - This is similar to another popular phrase, 'Pride comes before the fall.'
- - - - - Being arrogant and proud causes us to not be careful, not accept or receive help, and in the end we just disgrace ourselves
- - - Provide an example from Jr. High life that shows how pride disgraces people
- - 2) Describe the effect of humbleness. Give a Jr. High example.
- - - The verses say, "with the humble is wisdom."
- - - - Humbleness is the opposite of pride, you don't brag, recognizing that you are not the best & that you need others
- - - - One of the effects of humbleness is that we gain wisdom!
- - - - - Think about it, if you don't think you know everything you'll accept help from others, you'll even ask people for help, you'll research and read to learn more, you'll pay more attention to life (instead of just yourself) and learn from your experiences
- - - Like before, provide an example from Jr. High life that shows how we can gain wisdom from being humble.
Other things to know about this verse:
What are some dishonest ways Jr. Highers are tempted to ‘weigh’ things today?
- The verses say, "A false balance is an abomination to the LORD"
- - Abomination: "An object of hatred or disgust"
- - A False Balance: This refers to scales used to weigh out money in the ancient world
- - - It was a scale that had two plates, one of the left, one on the right, that you put things
- - - - If something was set on one side, it should move down, unless you balance it with weight on the other side.
- - - People had weights equal the weight of a specific amount of 'money' (usually gold or silver)
- - - - People could lie about how much a weight represented; they could also make it so that the scales were imbalanced in their favor.
- - - - When someone then bought something from them, they would pay more than it actually cost
- - - Making these false combines both lying & cheating to hurt another person.
- - - - This is what God abhors
- - - Bearing all of that in mind, what are some dishonest ways Jr. Highers are be tempted to both cheat people out of things and lie?
- - - - Perhaps trading pencils when you have a lousy one and they have a good one?
- - - - Perhaps saying you cleaned your room when you only shoved stuff out of the way?
- - - - Perhaps using fake money in a vending machine?
- - - - There are other ways that such temptations come! You need to have at least one. Remember, these aren't good things! God abhors them!
- The Day of Wrath:
- - v4 mentions this. It references a coming time of God's judgment and punishment toward sinners.
- - History has had many 'days of wrath,' ultimately Christians understand that Gods ultimate 'Day of Wrath' is in the end times
Exodus 5-11 – Study Packet, Page 2: Pharaoh vs. God
10 Plagues:
- These plagues serve 3 main purposes:- - 1) Introduce God & His complete & authority (over all of creation!)
- - 2) Demonstrate the impotence (weakness, powerlessness) of Egypt’s gods/men (e.g. magicians & Pharaoh)
- - 3) Judge Egypt for their crimes against Israel
- So, what are the plagues? They are… (copy these onto your Study Packet, Page 7)
- Plague 1: Water to Blood: For the Nile River, the streams, canals, ponds, reservoirs, and even water in wooden buckets & stone jars!
- - Magicians copy it
- - Pharaoh's heart is hardened and he won't let them go
- Plague 2: Frogs
- - Magicians copy it
- - Pharaoh asks Moses to pray to the LORD that they go & Pharaoh will then let Israel go; then Pharaoh changed his mind when they were really gone
- Plague 3: Gnats
- - The magicians cannot copy this or any others to come
- - Pharaoh: Hard heart, won't listen.
- Plague 4: Flies
- - Pharaoh: Sacrifice in this land, don't leave it (Moses refused); Next Pharaoh lied like in the 2nd plague
- Plague 5: Livestock Dies
- - Pharaoh: Hard heart, will not let them go
- Plague 6: Boils
- - Pharaoh: Hard heart, won't listen
- Plague 7: Hail & lightening
- - Pharaoh 'Repents,' says they can go when the hail stops--again he changes his mind
- Plague 8: Locust
- - Before the plague, Pharaoh says he can go, but only the men (Moses refuses)
- - After the plague, then Pharaoh 'fake repents' again & then has a hard heart & won't let them go
- Plague 9: Darkness
- - Pharaoh again 'fake repents,' & then has a hard heart & changes his mind
- Plague 10: Firstborn Dies
- - We'll get to the results of this later...
- Some notes on the plagues
- - Moses’ Initial Request: 3-Day trip
- - - Pharaoh continually refused this—kind of…
- - The Magicians’ Responses:
- - - Just as they copied the staff turning into a snake, they could copy the 1st 2 plagues
- - - - However, they were never able to 'stop' or 'counteract' the plagues!
- - - Ex 8:18-19) Then on the 3rd plague and every one after it, they could no longer copy it!
- - - - They recognized to Pharaoh that this was the 'finger of God'
- - - 9:11) To make things even worse, on the plague of boils--the boils were so bad on them, that they couldn't even appear before Moses & Aaron!
- - Pharaoh’s Responses:
- - - He continually refused to let Israel go
- - - Sometimes he would agree, only to change his mind after the plague was removed
- - - Sometimes he tried to compromise, letting only some go (just men, or just people, no animals), yet Moses would not accept this
- - - Finally after the 10th plague Pharaoh agrees to let them all go, sort of… (we'll get back to this later)
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