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THE K I N G ' S BUS I NE S S BLACKBOARD SKETCHES By Em Hansell The theme of this lesson is found in the Golden Text. Ps. 34:7. Explain the lesson drawing the picture as you explain. ¿¡e.: : M m THE FRIENDSHIP TEST It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend of His faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and stab him with words: but so to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words,— that is friendship. But few have such friends. Our enemies usually teach us what we are, at the point of the sword.
MARCH 5, 1922 JEHOVAH’S MERCY TO A HEATHEN CITY
Golden Text: Let the wicked forsake his way, and thé unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God for he will abundantly pardon. Isa. 55:7. LESSON TEXT Jonah 3:1-10. (Read Jonah 3:1-4:11; Ps. 117; 145; Isa. 45:20-25; 49:5-7- Jonah 1:1-2:10: Mai. 1:10. 11: Jno. 3:16.1
(1) And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, (2) Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. (3) So Jonah arose, and went unto Nine veh, according to the word o f the LORD. Now Nineveh was an ex ceeding great city, o f three days’ journey. V (4) And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Y et forty days, and Nineveh shall be over thrown. (6) So the people o f Nine veh believed God, and they pro claimed a fast, and put on sack cloth, from the greatest o f them even to the least o f them. (6) For word came unto the king of Nine veh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat Outline: (!)■ Jonah’s Second Commission,' VS.; 1, 2. (2) Jonah’s Compliance; vs. 3, 4
in ashes. (7) And he caused it to~.^ be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink w ater: (8) But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry m ightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. (9) Who can tell if God Will not turn and repent, and turn a w a y . from his fierce anger, that we perish not? (10) And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil w ay; ,and God re pented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not'. (3) Introduction: Two effects were produced by Jonah’s fall. His official relation with the
Nineveh's Confession, vs. 5-10
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