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His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Peo ple could see Jesus and talk to Him and love Him while He was here on earth. That is just what God wanted them to do. But even before Jesus came, God loved all of us and wanted to help us. Sometimes, in those long:ago days, the heavenly Father would speak to people, and they would kndw it was God’s voice that they heard, even though they could not see any One who was speaking. In that Way, God taught His people many lessons. At one of these times, God spoke to a little boy named > Samuel, and gave him a very important message. We know about Samuel: how he stayed in the temple, or church, to help Eli, the minister,; and how God spoke to him in the night (vs. 1-10). When morning came, Eli aske'3 Samuel what God had said to him. At first, Samuel did not want to an swer, because he knew Eli would be sorry to hear the words. God had said that Eli had done wrong, be cause he had not made his children mind! “You did not make your children do right things,” God said in words something like these, “and your sons have grown up to be willful, bad men. Now all of you must be punished.” This was God’s message to Eli, arid to little Samuel, and to all of us. God is speaking to us today through His Word, the Bible, and He wants us to do what He says, and to love Him with all our hearts.
assist us today. We will put them on the board where they Were when we closed the last lesson. We learned last week that because of the priest’s weakness, he did not do all that God wanted him to do. Because of the priest’s failure, God said, “I will raise me up a faithful priest . . . and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever” (1 Sam. 2:35). In today’s lesson we are to learn how God in another way tried to touch the nation of Israel. Here is a trian gle marked “PROPHET.”' You will notice that it reaches 'from God to the nation of Israel. The work of the, prophet differed from the work of the priest. The priest was supposed to represent the nation before God— making confession and sacrifice for their sins. The prophet was God’s representative before men—delivering God’s message to the’ nation of Israel. Samuel was one of Israel’s great prophets. Through him Israel had many victories. It was he who, after a victory, set up a stone and “called . . . it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (1 Sam. 7:12). Samuel was quick to realize that the Lord’s m i g h t y power gave victory rather than the strength and wisdom of men. Some of the greatest men of the Old Testament were God’s prophets; but even they did not accomplish all that God desired, because of the sin fulness of the nation Israel. Next week we shall set another way in which the Lord reached His people, Israel.
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OBJECTS: The circle and triangles ùsed in the last lesson, and another triangle the same size, mounted on flannel, on which the word “PROPH ET” is printed. LESSON: We have the circle and triangles from last week’s lesson to
AUGUST 27, 1944 ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 S amuel 9, 10, 11
1 Samuel 9:15 Now the Lord had told Samuel In this ear a day before Saul came, saying, 16 Tomorrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry Is come unto me. 17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said unto him. Behold thè man whom I spake to thee ofI this same shall reign over my people. 18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel In the gate, and said Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is. 19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me today,
and tomorrow I will fet thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart. 20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house? 21 And Saul answered and said. Am not I a Benjamlte, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least, of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? where fore then speakest thou so to me? 10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the oeople away, every man to his house. 26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
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