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[size=x-large]Trust Not in Deceptive Words. The Prophets and Worship[/size]
Read for This Week's Study: Isa. 1:11-15, 6:1-8, Isaiah 44, 58:1-10, Jer. 7:1-10, Mic. 6:1-8.
Memory Text: "Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come - yes, let him foretell what will come" (Isaiah 44:7, NIV).
Russian author Ivan Turgenev, in his story Fathers and Sons, put these words in the mouth of a character: 'The life of each of us hangs by a thread, an abyss may gape beneath us any minute, and yet we go out of our way to cook up all sorts of trouble for ourselves and to mess up our lives.' Fathers and Sons (New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2005), p. 131.
Of course, the Lord offers a better way to live. He offer us the opportunity to follow Him, to love Him, to worship Him, and hence spare ourselves many of the problems that we would otherwise bring upon ourselves.
Yet, merely professing to follow the Lord is not what the Christian life is about. This week, we will look at what a few prophets said about those who thought that their 'worship' of the true God, in the true temple on the true Sabbath day was all that mattered, regardless of how they lived the rest of the week. As the prophets show, this is a deception, a good way to cook up all sorts of trouble for ourselves.
With Permission From; http://www.ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/11c/less09.html
Read for This Week's Study: Isa. 1:11-15, 6:1-8, Isaiah 44, 58:1-10, Jer. 7:1-10, Mic. 6:1-8.
Memory Text: "Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come - yes, let him foretell what will come" (Isaiah 44:7, NIV).
Russian author Ivan Turgenev, in his story Fathers and Sons, put these words in the mouth of a character: 'The life of each of us hangs by a thread, an abyss may gape beneath us any minute, and yet we go out of our way to cook up all sorts of trouble for ourselves and to mess up our lives.' Fathers and Sons (New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2005), p. 131.
Of course, the Lord offers a better way to live. He offer us the opportunity to follow Him, to love Him, to worship Him, and hence spare ourselves many of the problems that we would otherwise bring upon ourselves.
Yet, merely professing to follow the Lord is not what the Christian life is about. This week, we will look at what a few prophets said about those who thought that their 'worship' of the true God, in the true temple on the true Sabbath day was all that mattered, regardless of how they lived the rest of the week. As the prophets show, this is a deception, a good way to cook up all sorts of trouble for ourselves.
With Permission From; http://www.ssnet.org/qrtrly/eng/11c/less09.html