LESSON: MARK 13:14-23 “False Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.” Matthew 24:24 These are choice, earnest, but also terrible words that these preachers of works will push such teaching into the people with such outward glitter and emphasis that…

LESSON: GALATIANS 3:10-14 “If anyone says to you, ‘Lo, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it.” Matthew 24:23 We should know and understand this passage and similar ones very well. There have always been those who have tried to gain currency for their ideas of the kingdom of Christ by…

LESSON: LUKE 19:41-44 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and that temple you are. 1 Corinthians 3:16‒17 When Christ ascended into heaven, He did not lock up His kingdom in the…

LESSON: MATTHEW 24:15-28 “When you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; let him who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house; and let him…

LESSON: TITUS 2:11-14 He saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of His own mercy, . . . through Jesus Christ our Savior. Titus 3:5‒6 He who wants to have a cheerful conscience which does not fear sin, death, hell, or God’s wrath must not push this Mediator,…

LESSON: GALATIANS 1:6-9 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelation 1:8 This week’s Gospel (Matthew 9:18‒26) teaches us that Christ is elevated as the greatest and highest person in the whole world, not to terrify men but that…

THURSDAY LESSON: GALATIANS 3:23-29 To all who received Him, who believed in His name, He gave power to become children of God. John 1:12 If one takes the word in its strict meaning, we should always recognize a Christian from the fact that he receives from Christ alone and has Christ in him, for that…

LESSON: EPHESIANS 4:11-16 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, he it is that bears much…

LESSON: PSALM 145:8-13 When He saw the crowds, He had compassion for them. Matthew 9:36 In this Gospel (Matthew 9:18‒26), Christ is pictured to us as mingling with the people and drawing all men to Himself by His sweet doctrine. They could really have clung to Him with their whole hearts and entrusted themselves to…

LESSON: 2 CORINTHIANS 4:1-6 We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:23‒24 God has determined it as His will that all men should adhere to the one…