Sunday School

CENTRAL THOUGHT Consider the LORD that endured such contradiction of sinners, and faint not. HYMN: HO! MY COMRADES! SEE THE SIGNAL… TEXT: Numbers 14:1-4, 1 King 19:2-4, 15-18, Matt. 11:2-6 INTRODUCTION      The Reader’s Digest Great Illustrated Dictionary defines “discourage” as “to cause someone to lose confidence, hope, enthusiasm or spirit; to be disheartened or daunted; to dissuade or deter”. Discouragement therefore means the act of discouraging. Everyone who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord is called to a race, a pilgrimage, a way of life on earth. This requires a daily exercise of confidence in God’s character and His word. Based on this confidence, we are expected to pattern our lives according to His word and to seek to please Him daily in every area. However, there are experiences that could make us lose our confidence in God or cause our zeal or enthusiasm to diminish or cease altogether. When this happens, we may inwardly develop doubts about God’s character and faithfulness to His word. The individual may gradually become lukewarm or indifferent to the things of God though maintaining an outward appearance of religion. In this lesson we shall look at the experiences of God’s people in the scriptures and seek to understand such situations and how best...

CENTRAL THOUGHTGod will use a man that is yielded to Him. HYMN: TAKE MY LIFE, AND LET IT BE TEXT: Daniel 1:8, 6:1-5; Luke 14:25-27; Ephesians 2:10, 5:17; 2 Timothy 2:19-21 INTRODUCTION The Scripture is full of the accounts of men and women who encountered God, experienced transformed lives and were used mightily by Him. From Abraham, Daniel, Esther, in the Old Testament to Peter and Paul in the New Testament; these were men and women of like passions like us but who had encounters with God that set them apart for His use. While it is God who takes the initiative to reach out to man, the Scriptures show that how well or how useful we are in God’s hands depends largely on us: the states of our hearts, our innate desires and the daily exercise/submission of our wills. The Scriptures state in 1 Corinthians 12 that everyone who gets saved belongs to the body of Christ since we are all baptized by His Spirit into His body. It further shows that every part of the body is useful. Every part has a predetermined function which God intends for it to grow up maximally into. But what happens if the members of the body are ignorant or the...

CENTRAL THOUGHT Jesus Christ, our Great and Eternal High Priest. HYMN: CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US TEXT: Heb 4:14-16; 5:1-6; 7:23-28 INTRODUCTION The position of the High priest in the Old Testament was a key one. The High priest was a mediator between the Most High God and men. He supervised and ensured that sacrifices were carried out well and as when due. Though the High Priest offered sacrifices, they were not sufficient to cleanse man from his/her sins. All the sacrifices done were to cover the iniquities and not to purge them out of men. These sacrifices were for himself (i.e. the High Priest) and the entire congregation of Israel, by using animals that had no defect/ blemish. The New Testament church is not left without a High Priest. In this study, we shall be looking at the Lord Jesus Christ our only Great and Eternal High Priest. LESSON OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study are: Know who a High Priest was in Old Testament and his duties.Understand the superiority of Christ’s priesthood.Appreciate how Christ is touched by the feelings of our infirmities.Understand the sinless nature of Christ and the challenges it poses for the Christians of today.Know the present ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the benefit to the...