Jesus provides healing for both soul and body. This lesson examines three accounts from the gospels in which Jesus performed miraculous healing‘s. The first story is about a paralytic man brought to Jesus by four friends, and Jesus healed him. The second story is a bout a man with a...
Jesus can cure physical and spiritual blindness. All of the miracles of Jesus had spiritual significance, and this is especially evident in his healing of the blind. Implicit in every instance in which Jesus healed someone of physical blindness, is the message that he also heals of spiritual blindness. Many...
Jesus came into the world to destroy the works of the devil. Perhaps no miracle of Jesus was as mysterious as the casting of demons out of people. This confirmed the reality of evil spirits taking up residence in people, but still we know little about the invisible spirit realm...
Jesus has all power, even over death. The topic of death prompts a wide range of emotions and responses from the Christian, such as grief, compassion, and hope. In this lesson, each of these comes into view as we examine two miracles of Jesus in which he raised the dead....
We are to love and minister to all people as Jesus did. My subtitle: don’t be prejudice. A common practice of humans is to compare one person or group with another, and then to pass judgment on the value (worth) of each. This happened in the time of Jesus. Generally,...
True Christianity is evidenced by a lifestyle of faithfulness, obedience, and reverence to God. The name Malachi means “my messenger”; it may be an abbreviation of Malachiah , which means “the messenger of the Lord.” Though we are told nothing about the prophet else where in the Old Testament, his...
Christians welcome God’s presence by forsaking sin, receiving spiritual cleansing, and walking in the Spirit. Golden Text: Zechariah 4:6 This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Both Zechariah and Haggai minister to the...
(Habakkuk) Faith in God enables us to persevere in troubled times. The book of Habakkuk is a specially noteworthy for the difficult questions the prophet posed to God. As a result, this lesson can be especially helpful to students facing difficult circumstances, dealing with the questions that often accompany such...
(Obadiah and Nahum) God judges evil, but He is merciful to those who seek Him. Mat 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Question: what does it mean to seek and what are we seeking for? Look...
Trusting in Christ, we are saved by grace and live by grace. This lesson is about one of the great themes of the New Testament: God’s grace. John wrote, “the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (John 1:17). The grace of God is...
