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T3: The Teen Timeline Bible Study:  Lesson 5,  Dec 10, 2008

 

I.  Opening prayer as a full group  – may use prayer in Leaders guide

 

II.  Introduction:                        Who                            Role                Form               Sign

Review:            1st covenant      Adam and Eve              Husband           marriage           Sabbath

                        2nd covenant     Noah                            Father              Family              Rainbow

                        3rd covenant      Abraham                      Chief                Tribe                circumcision

                        4th covenant      Moses                          Judge               Nation              Passover

Class Today     5th covenant      David                           King                 Kingdom          Throne

Future class      6th covenant      Jesus                            Royal High       Catholic            Eucharist

                                                                                       Priest               Church

                        7th covenant      Second Coming of Christ

 

            A.  Time Period Covered today  -- Royal Kingdom / Divided Kingdom

            B.  Where are we on our Journey – 1 & 2 Samuel, 1  Kings

            C.  Opening Question—Is my life about me or about God?

            C.  Verse to remember – 1 Samuel 16: 7  “…Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart.”

 

II  Lesson 3: DVD Disc 3 of 4, Session 5:  Royal Kingdom / Divided Kingdom –

DVD ~  34 min

1.  Royal Kingdom

2.  Portrait David

3.  A New Covenant

4.  Sin and Repentance

5.  Divided Kingdom

6.  The Prophets

7.  Portrait Jeremiah

8.  Reality of Sin

9.  Portrait Josiah

Consider Portraits:

a.  David – Leaders guide page 48

b. Jeremiah – Leaders guide page 50

c. Josiah – Leaders guide page 52

 

III Small groups: 

Additional Questions (numbers match above):

What struck you most in the DVD segment today?

1.    Royal Kingdom – Saul – 1st king, unites tribes under one nation.  Reigns 40 years.  Phillistines are main enemy.  Samuel goes to house of Jesse and finds his youngest son David – anoints as king as directed by God.  Saul does not obey God and loses Kingdom.  David becomes king. 

2.    David:  Portrait of Courage –  David and Goliath story:  1 Samuel 17 all (shorter story verses 32 – 51)  1 Samuel 17: 45 “…I come to you in the name of the Lord…”  Do you trust God?  Or do you rely on your own talent?  Glory of God or your own glory?  What is the Goliath in YOUR life – the obstacle to trusting God?  Name your Goliath and what are your 5 stones? 

3.    A New Covenant – God makes the 5th covenant with King David -- 2 Samuel 7: 8-17,  -- speaks through the prophet Nathan to David – Will make David famous, give his people a place, protect them,  establish a house such that when David dies his heir will inherit God’s favor and succession shall reign forever…………Jesus as the final heir.

4.    Sin and Repentance  -- Sin 2 Samuel 11 David and Bathsheba then Repentance 2 Samuel 12 Sackcloth and son that dies.   Role of the Psalms (by King David – the ups and downs of life – bridging the gap.)  Cycle of Sin:  Sin --- Servitude (enslaved by sin and cont to sin)--- Supplication (crying out to God for rescue)---- Salvation (relieve of sin or reconciled)-----Silence (period of silence where things are going well again and start relying on self instead of God leading to…)-----Sin repeat.  Solomon taxes, enslaves, takes land just as God had warned when the people wanted a king -- 1 Kings

5.    Divided Kingdom – 1 Kings  -- 10 of 12 tribes move north “Israel” with Jeroboam as king and other 2 tribes become “Judah” in the south with Jerusalem as capital and Rehoboam (son of Solomon) as king.

6.    The Prophets –“Prophet” = “mouth,” (mouth of God).  Northern Kingdom prophets and Southern Kingdom prophets.  Isaiah only volunteer.  The rest are drafted – life of prophet is hard.  Hosea marries prostitute – parallel to Israel’s unfaithfulness to God.  Isaiah is best prophet with which to start. 

7.    Portrait Jeremiah –  Also read Jeremiah.  (Jeremiah 1: 4-8 in DVD) How do I speak of my faith?  I’m too young? …

Jeremiah 20: 7  I don’t want to do this anymore but I can’t stop because the word of God is a fire in me.  .

8.    Reality of Sin – Culture of Moral relativism – confused freedom with moral truth – whatever I think is right is right (relativism) vs objective truth (there is a truth independent of me and what I think).  Good and evil are black and white – choose between doing what is good or evil NOT to define what is good or evil.

9.    Portrait Josiah – 2 Kings 22 (short chapter) – Bad grandfather into witchcraft and did not follow God.  Worshipped and sacrificed children to false god --  what about abortion and embryonic stem cell research today? – Josiah’s father also turns away from God.  Josiah becomes king at 8 years of age --- at age 16 years he sought out King David’s law and tore down the false god worship idols.  Josiah had courage and leadership and sincerely sought God and God rewarded him.  

IV  Regroup:

Recap and summary: 

 

V.  The Catholic Mass Revealed

 

 

                       

 

 

 

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