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…

LESSON: MATTHEW 9:18-26 The gospel of God which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, the gospel concerning His Son. Romans 1:1‒3 You know that the Gospel is nothing else but the proclamation of the one single person who is called Christ. Although at various times many other books have been written…

TRINITY – WEEK 23 – SATURDAY LESSON: 1 JOHN 5:6‒12 Let God be true, but every man a liar. Romans 3:4 Someone may ask: What will happen if we cannot trust anyone? We must have some involvement and dealings with others; how otherwise could human society continue? We must buy and sell and distribute our…

TRINITY – WEEK 23 – FRIDAY LESSON: PSALM 40:1‒5 Thus says the Lord; “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the Lord.” Jeremiah 17:5 The less a man is trained in the ways of the world, the less he is opposed to God. Those…