Lesson 24 · 24 of 26Lessons ☰
January–June 1889
Old Testament History
- Quarter 1 · January–March 1889
- 1Shrinking from Duty
- 2Resisting the Truth
- 3Resisting the Truth
- 4God's Care for His People
- 5God's Care for His People
- 6Hardening Pharaoh's Heart
- 7The Departure from Egypt
- 8Crossing the Red Sea
- 9The Giving of Manna
- 10Water from the Rock
- 11The Giving of the Law
- 12Returning to Bondage
- 13Suggestions for Quarterly Review
- Quarter 2 · April–June 1889
- 14Free-Will Offerings
- 15The Tabernacle
- 16The Ark—Its Use and Significance
- 17Offerings for Sin
- 18Unsanctified Service, and the Result
- 19Unbelief and Its Punishment
- 20Miriam's Sin
- 21The Blindness of Unbelief
- 22The Rebellion of Korah
- 23The Sin of Moses
- 24Sin and Its Remedy
- 25The Wages of Unrighteousness
- 26Suggestions for Quartetly Review
Lesson 24 · June 15, 1889
Sin and Its Remedy
- 1.What troubled the people of Israel as they journeyed from Mount Hor by way of the Red Sea? .
- 2.What did they at once do? .
- 3.In the face of what especial help from God did they thus wickedly murmur? .
- 4.What punishment did the Lord send upon them for their murmurings? .
- 5.When the people confessed their sin, what did the Lord tell Moses to do? .
- 6.What was the result? .
- 7.By what were those saved who looked upon the serpent?
- 8.Of what was the lifting up of the serpent a figure? .
- 9.When the people murmured, against whom were they rebelling? .
- 10.Then when the people looked upon the brazen serpent, what did their act signify? Ans. That they now trusted Christ, their great Leader, and acknowledged that their punishment was due to lack of faith in him.
- 11.Until what time did the children of Israel preserve the brazen serpent? .
- 12.How had they come to regard it? .
- 13.What did Hezekiah call it?—, margin.
- 14.In thus worshiping the brazen serpent, what did the people do? .
- 15.When people lose faith, what will they inevitably do? , last part.
- 16.How alone can men live righteous lives? ; .
Notes
The performance of any ordinance by which we are directed to show our faith in God, becomes sin whenever faith does not prompt it. Instead of then being an act of worship to God, it becomes an act of idolatry. Thus the Lord's Supper has been perverted by the Roman Catholics into the idolatrous mass, the participating in which is generally thought to secure the pardon of sin. As the Jews made an idol of the brazen serpent, which was intended as an instrument of faith, so they often, and especially in the time of Christ and later, regarded their sacrifices much as the Catholics regard the mass.
Bible texts in this lesson
Numbers 21:4 · Numbers 21:5 · Numbers 21:1-3 · Numbers 21:6 · Numbers 21:7 · Numbers 21:8 · Numbers 21:9 · John 3:14 · John 3:15 · 1 Corinthians 10:9 · 2 Kings 18:1-4 · 2 Kings 18:4 · Romans 1:25 · Romans 14:23 · Habakkuk 2:4 · 1 John 5:4
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