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what it says. We read, “DANGER, STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN.” This is a good-warning wheh we are tempted to be angry.
children of Israel because he had struck the rock in anger, instead of speaking to it as God had commanded. Let us turn the signal over, and see
“Moses, and you children of Israel-— you can gothfcsty now, because you did;not trust and obey Me.” No, He gave them water from the rock—all that they needed. He wanted them to know how much He loved them. He wants us to know that, too, and to think of it whenever'we lift to our lips a cup of fresh water. These little cups w ill help us tp.rememher.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1943 AB ID ING VALUES FROM ISRAEL’S HISTORY D e u t e r o n o m y 1 t o 3, 11
Deuteronomy 11:13 And It shall come to pass, if ye shall hearkeri diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 That I yvlll give you the rain of your land in his due season, the-first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest garner In thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship, them; 17 And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be. no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in you^ soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. .19 And ye shall teach, them your children, speaking of them when *thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou llest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk In all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23 Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: foi* the Lord your God shall lay fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. LESSON TE X T : Deut. 11:13-25. GOLDEN T E X T : “ Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin Is a reproach to any people” (Prov. 14:34). DEVOTIONAL READING: Deut. 10:12-22. Outline and Exposition I. T h e P r o m is e (13-17) I N THESE verses there is set forth a conditional promise, the fu lfill ment of which depended upon how the people treated the Lord their God. Other promises w e r e unconditional, such as those given to Noah, Abraham, and others. B LA C K B O A R D LESSON 40ue pass may be rrwiTiPuu).- EUERS PUKE — yoUR FEET SHALLTWADSMAU BE yOURVDfUT.Mli-H-M nuMUGiUE you* raid -flflD-6EnD GRASS— 4 / " / / / mfm
To love God, as was commanded, would mean to put Him first in all things. It™would mean He would be trusted, however strange His provi dences,might appear. Such love would be manifested also in serving Him. If they would thus love and serve Him, their material prosperity would be assured (vs. 14, 15). Increase of crops and herds, wealth and stability, peace and security, all would be theirs, if they would fu lfill the conditions. Along with the promise went a warning (vs. 16, 17). I t would be easy for them to forget their God and turn aside from Him to other gods when their wealth increased ana their pros perity grew. But they were warned that turning aside from Him would result in His withholding the natural elements that gave them prosperity. This lesson from Israel’s history is ap plicable for modern times. I t T h e M ethod ( 18 - 21 ) The directions from God are always simple and plain and heed not be mis understood. Likewise, the method of fulfilling the conditions for pleasing God is simply acquaintance with His Word. That Word should be in the heart and soul, so that it controls both the hand and the mind (v. 18). It is one thing to have the Word of God between the covers of a book, and quite another thing to have it in the heart as the governing principle of the purposes of life. If it is within the heart and soul, then the hand w ill be engaged in nothing contrary to God’s will. To preserve the nation in the enjoy ment of the promise from God, the children must be taught and trained. Hence the Word of God must be su preme w i t h i n the home, and the natural topic of conversation in the family (v. 19). Not only in the family, but also in business and social inter course, the Word must be the con trolling principle of the life (v. 20). The promise was enlarged to include life upon the earth in the matter of years (v. 21). Such living and serving, with attention to the Word of God, would bring the result of their days on earth being “ as the ’days o f heaven” (v. 21). The days of heaven are days of praise (cf. Rev. 5:9) rising out of joyous contentment, days of service gladly rendered.for the very sake of serving, and days of fullest satisfac tion because nothing more is desired.
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OBJECT: A railroad crossing signal, made of white cardboard. (Use 5 pieces of light cardboard 1x5 inches and 1 piece 1x6% inches. Put the ends to gether, perforate, ^tnd fasten together with a paper rivet, with the longest piece on top. This piece w ill be the upright. The piece on the bottom w ill be Jhe extension of the upright. On the upright, printing down, write the let ters “ER,” just below the rivet. On the extension print, “DANG.” On the first piece under the upright write “LEAD,” on the second, “ ANG,” on the third, "WAT,” and on the fourth, “ SADD.” Fan these pieces out, in the order mentioned, to represent a railroad crossing signal. Turn over and write “DANG,” on the top of the upright, , and “ER” on the lower part. On the arms write, “ STOP,” "LOOK,” "AND,” “LISTEN.” ) LESSON: Would you like to see me make a railroad crossing signal this morning? It may be different from any you have seen. Here is the upright, which says, “DANGER.” Next we swing .a piece out which when placed straight up says, "LEADER.” This reminds us of Moses, the great leader of Israel. (Turn around until this piece reaches the lower right-hand position.) Moses was in danger of doing something wrong. We will.turn the next apiece of paper around, and we now read, “ANGER.” You w ill remember how Moses struck the rock, when God had commanded him to speak to it, be cause he was angry with the people. | As we turn the third piece of paper around, we see that it spells, “WATER.” Even though Mosefe was angry, the people received the water. (Turn this piece back to the lower left-hand posi tion.) There is one more piece in the railroad crossing signal. When we turn it up it says, “SADDER.” Moses was made sad when God told him he could not enter the promised land with the
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