T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S A Brave Woman Helping a General. Judges 4:4-10, 12-15. Memory Verse: “ God is my helper.” Psalm 54:4. Approach: The blackboard can be used to good advantage in this lesson. Make a stroke with brown chalk to rep resent Barak as leader, with a large • number of soldiers BEGINNERS uaesig luasajdej oj AND PRIMARY pgj j 0 Mabel L. Merrill -SuiM.onoj the leader of the Canaanites, with two or three times as many soldiers as Barak had. Make a white mark for Deborah. (Use any color chalk you may have.) Lesson Story: I know you boys and girls all like to hear stories about sol diers and the brave generals who lead them, and today we have a wonderful story of two armies of men and their leaders. We remember in our story last week about the wonderful leader, Joshua, and how well he led the people, because he always did just as God told him to do, and he did it at once. After Joshua’s death God raised up men to help the people of Israel, and these men were called judges, and one of the judges God chose was a woman, whose name was Deborah. Now would you like to know why God picked her out for this important position? God sees all we do at all times wherever we may be, and while the children of Israel so often forgot the things God had told them, he saw that Deborah was always faithful and did just the things God wanted His people to do, and God knew He could trust Deborah. Many of the people would come to Deborah when in trouble and they did not know what to do, and she would tell them what to do, because she loved God and lived in a way that was pleasing to God, and that is why she always knew how to help the people that came to her. One time there was a great army of soldiers and lots and lots of chariots of war coming
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v. 11. Pitched his tent unto the plain. Sisera gathers his army down in the plain, Barak upon the mountain top. Thus always. The valley bottoms are the place of judgment. (Gen. 19:24, 25; Joel 3:12.) The mountain top is the place of fellowship and victory. (1 Kings 18.)g-Eliott. v. 14. This is the day. This is ex actly the purpose for which Barak wished Deborah to accompany him, for as the Septuagint states (v. 8), “ be cause I know not the day in the which God will send His angel to give me pros perity.”— Treasury. The Lord hath de livered. The thing is as sure to be done as if it were done already. If we have ground to believe that God goes before us, we ought to go on with courage and cheerfulness.—Henry. The Lord gone out before thee. Who of us need fear and who need hesitate in the face of difficulty if we are simply called upon to go in the wake of our Lord?— Meyer. Behind the .visible armies of men are the invisible armies of God.— Cook. Barak went out. It is a striking proof of the full confidence Barak and his troops reposed in Deborah’s assurance of victory that they relinquished their advantageous position and rushed into the plain in the face of the iron char iots they so much dreaded.— J. P. & B. v. 15. The Lord discomfited Sisera. Literally “ threw his army into confu sion” . The disorder was produced by a supernatural panic.— Jamieson. No tice that it was the Lord’s battle and not man’s. The panic was caused in a supernatural way as shown by 6:12.— Gray, (cf Ps. 83:9; Ex. 14:24; Josh. 10:10; 2 Sam. 22:15; Ps. 18:15.)—i Comp. Bible. A11 his chariots. What are nine hundred chariots when the Lord is against them?— Parker. Does your Sunday? School teachers knovj of "The King’s Business”? Pass on this copy
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