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CENTRAL THOUGHT As we await the Lord’s return, we should use our God-given gift/talents to His glory.   Text Luke 19:11-27   Introduction: The believers in Christ, as pilgrims in this world are enjoined by the Master to live as ambassadors of the kingdom of God in all spheres of life. This implies that every believer should use his or her gifts/talents in its fullness, knowing that one day he/she will render account of stewardship to the Master.       LESSON OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study are: To know what it means to occupy To understand the various ways a Christian can be occupied To know some of the things that could hinder a believer from occupying To examine the consequences of not occupying To appreciate the benefits of occupying       Bible Truth   Q1. WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY THE PHRASE “OCCUPY TILL I COME”? Luke 19:13 “Occupy till I come” means doing God’s business, working hard, being diligent, serving others, sharing the blessing He has given us with others, witnessing to our neighbors, telling them about Him and making disciples of others until He comes. He wants us to be living epistles read by all men until He comes. This story showed Jesus’...

  CENTRAL THOUGHT The one who hears and obeys God’s word builds his faith on the solid foundation.   Text: Matthew 7:24-29, 1 Corinthians 3:9-15   Introduction: The word “build” is defined in many ways in the English language dictionary. One of such definition’s states “to develop and give form to, according to a definite plan or process; to fashion, mold, create”. Therefore, building as used in the context of our scriptural text has to do with a conscious effort to put materials together (blocks, cement, roads etc.) to erect a structure (ex. A house) that can withstand all forms of environmental stress. An important aspect of building a house Is the foundation upon which the materials being used for the building are laid. The believer is involved in building his or her life for God on a daily basis. Our lives must be built on the foundation of obedience to His word. Hence, in the text for this lesson, the LORD compares the believer who listens to and obeys HIS word to the man who built his house upon a rock and when the floods came beating upon the house, the building stood firm. When our lives are built upon the solid foundation of obedience to God’s word...

  CENTRAL THOUGHT Gratitude expressed from the heart produces joy and attracts more blessings.   Text: Luke 17:11-19, Mark 14:3-9   Introduction: Our Lord Jesus Christ commended the only man who came back to give thanks to Him for cleansing him of leprosy out of the ten that were healed of the same ailment. According to Matthew Henry’s commentary “The rest were made whole by the power of Christ, in compassion to their distress, and in answer to their prayer: but he was made whole by his faith, by which Christ saw him distinguished from the rest. …Temporal mercies are then doubled and sweetened to us when they are ferried in by the prayers of faith, and returned by the praise of faith”. We are today living in a world where many humans are very selfish and self-centered. It is a part of the signs of the end time to fail to appreciate the good done to us for any reason. The fact remains that Christ as our example appreciated Peter for allowing Him the use of his boat to preach, by making him to catch “a great multitude of fishes” after an earlier fruitless effort. Part of the Lord’s reasons for this could be to teach the lesson...