Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Service Project: The 10 hours, 2 forms, and 1 essay are due on Apr 23, 2017
- Devotion Assignment Key Due Dates: Preparation Part 2 (Oct 9, submitted in-class), Outline Form (Oct 16, typed submitted to TurnItIn.com by 8am)
Journal:
- On your Study Packet, page 12…
- - Work on the bottom section, “Psalm 139”
- - Read the verses & answer the questions.
- - NOTE: This will help you with next week’s quiz— which is on WEDNESDAY
- All done?
- - Work on Studying for Devotion 1, Part 2
- - This is due on MONDAY
Psalm 139 Review:
- 8) What does the Lord not know about us?
- - Nothing
- - This points out God's omniscience (all-knowing) quality
- - There is nothing that God doesn't know about us!
- 9) Can we say things that surprise the Lord? (v4)
- - Nope! He knows it before we speak it!
- 10) What are verses 5-7 emphasizing?
- - That God is in all places!
- - He is Omnipresent (All-present)
- 11) How does the Lord “guide” us? (v10)
- - By the hand! Like a parent walking with their loved child
- - This points toward God's omni-benevolence (His 'all-loving' nature)
- 12) When did God begin working on you? (v13)
- - Even in our mother’s womb!
- - How does this relate to abortion? In the womb, we are already unique & special in God's eyes!
- - Already in the womb God had a special plan & purpose for us; we were a unique and marvelous creation of His! If God cared for us so much in the womb, shouldn’t we similarly care for others? How could we not value something that God values so much?
- 13) With what qualities did God make you? (v14)
- - The NLT words v14) “Thank you for making me so marvelously complex! Your workmanship is marvelous, how well I know it.”
- - Wonderfully & marvelously! (Marvelously complex!)
- - You are each a masterpiece of God's creation!
- - - Personally and lovingly created by Him!
- - - Again this emphasizes His omni-benevolence
- 14) Who is really in control of our ‘days’? (v16)
- - God!
- - This points out God's omnipotence (all-powerful) quality!
Quiz Preparation:
- Your Verses: Psalm 139:1-3, 13-14
- - Discern: Understood
- - Acquainted: To know
- Your Questions: Based upon our class discussion & your personal reflection, use complete sentences and your own words to specifically answer:
- - 1) In general, what types of things does this psalm say that God knows about us? Give at least three different ideas.
- - - Looking at these verses we see God knows when we... sit, rise, go out, or lay down; He knows our ways, he understands our thoughts
- - - In general you can see that He knows...
- - - - Our actions (sit, rise, lay down, ways)
- - - - - Including our words!
- - - - Our thoughts (thoughts & ways)
- - - - - Including who we are 'on the inside'
- - - - Our location (going out, laying down, rising or sitting),
- - - - Our future (& presumably our past)
- - - In general he knows everything there is to know about us! But you'll need to pick out at least two things to describe, not too general ('He knows everything') nor too specific ('When I sit').
- - - Make sure you describe it & don't just 'list' it.
- - 2) Explain two reasons this psalm gives for why we should value human life, even the unborn.
- - - The NLT words v14 as: “Thank you for making me so marvelously complex! Your workmanship is marvelous, how well I know it.”
- - - Some things we talked about...
- - - - We are created and personally known by God, even in the womb! (You can see how a child in the womb is a unique individual already!)
- - - - God cared for us in the womb, shouldn't we care for others similarly?
- - - - God made us marvelously & wonderfully complex!
- - - - Since each of us is uniquely created by God, in His image--how could we not value something that God values so much?
Genesis 29-31: Jacob & Laban: Study packet, page 2
- Jacob Gets Married: Jacob gets up to Paddan-Aram (Haran)
- - At the well, Jacob encounters and helps Rachel
- - - She takes him to her house and Jacob meets Laban (Rebekah’s brother)
- - After about a month of freely working for Laban…
- - - Jacob and Laban make a deal—
- - - - Jacob will work for 7 years to marry Laban’s beautiful younger daughter, Rachel—
- - - - He already greatly loves her!
- - - - - “So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.” - Gen 29:20 (ESV)
- Jacob Gets Married: Jacob gets up to Paddan-Aram (Haran)
- - At the well, Jacob encounters and helps Rachel
- - - She takes him to her house and Jacob meets Laban (Rebekah’s brother)
- - After about a month of freely working for Laban…
- - - Jacob and Laban make a deal—
- - - - Jacob will work for 7 years to marry Laban’s beautiful younger daughter, Rachel—
- - - - He already greatly loves her!
- - - - - “So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.” - Gen 29:20 (ESV)
- - 7 years later, on the wedding night…
- - - Laban somehow deceives Jacob into marrying Leah!
- - - - Laban’s eldest and not-as-beautiful (to Jacob) daughter
- - - - She was probably wearing a veil... and didn’t talk... It was also likely dark... maybe Laban even got Jacob drunk...
- - - - We don’t really know how Laban did it!
- - - Laban will still let Jacob marry Rachel if…
- - - - Leah’s gets her 1-week honeymoon and…
- - - - Jacob promises to work another 7 years!
- - - Jacob agrees to work another
- - - - 7 years to marry Rachel
- - - - - Laban gives his daughter’s servants to them
- - - - - - Leah’s servant: Zilpah
- - - - - - Rachel’s servant: Bilhah
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