ADVENT – WEEK 1 – SATURDAY LESSON: PSALM 25:11-22 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! – 2 Corinthians 9:15 The daughter of Zion receives twofold gifts from Christ. The first is faith and the Spirit in the heart, whereby she is cleansed and freed from sins. The second is Christ himself. And she…

ADVENT – WEEK 1 – FRIDAY LESSON: 1 PETER 2:21-25 To you. Matthew 21:5 “Your king is coming to you.” You do not seek Him, you do not find Him, He finds you; for the preachers come from Him, not from you; their preaching come from Him, not from you; your faith comes from Him,…

ADVENT – WEEK 1 – THURSDAY  LESSON: PSALM 25:1-10 “Your king is coming to you.” Matthew 21:5 Learn from this Gospel what happens when God begins to make us godly, and what is the beginning of becoming godly. There is no other beginning but the fact that your King comes to you and begins to…

ADVENT – WEEK 1 – WEDNESDAY LESSON: PSALM 24 “Your king.” Matthew 21:5 Here this King is separated from all other kings. He is “your king,” the one promised to you and whose own you are. He is the one who rules you and no one else. But His rule is a spiritual, not a secular,…

ADVENT – WEEK 1 – TUESDAY LESSON: HEBREWS 10:19-25 “Behold!” Matthew 21:5 “Behold!” Mark this word well. With this word the Holy Spirit wakens us from sleep and unbelief as one who wants to set forth something important, strange, and noteworthy which one has long desired and should receive with joy. And we really need such an…

ADVENT – WEEK 1 – MONDAY LESSON: LUKE 1:68-79 Faith apart from works is dead. James 2:26 Faith is of two sorts. The first is that you believe that Christ is a man like the Christ described and proclaimed in the whole Gospel, but you do not actually believe that He is such a man for…

ADVENT – WEEK 1 – SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 21:1-9  “Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on an ass, and on a colt, the foal of an ass.” Matthew 21:5   This Gospel in a special manner arouses and demands faith. It portrays Christ in His coming grace. No one can really receive and accept…

LESSON: REVELATION 7:9‒12 Whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. 1 John 5:4 You cannot train the youth in particular for God’s kingdom without proper schools nor uphold the Word of God without preaching it from the pulpit. If one allows schools and…

LESSON: MATTHEW 10:32‒33 We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in the body. 2 Corinthians 5:10 Those hearts are established and sure which await Christ’s judgment seat joyfully and with a good conscience. For they belong to…

LESSON: 1 THESSALONIANS 2:11‒13 You are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:7 Our Lord, come! 1 Corinthians 16:22 See to it that you are always numbered among those who are good and merciful for Christ’s sake, or suffering for His sake….