November 22, 2009 – Morning Worship

Monday Galatians 4:21-31; Exodus 16
Freedom vs. bondage: what did Israel prefer? What were the Galatians in danger of preferring? Why is bondage so attractive?

Tuesday Genesis 16; 21
Read the passages on Hagar and Sarah; what lessons do you see for us?

Wednesday I Samuel 13; Matthew 16:21-23
What happens when we try to accomplish God’s purposes without warrant from His word? How do we guard against it?

Thursday Psalm 48; Galatians 4:26; Hebrews 12:22; Revelation 3:12; 21:2, 10
Jerusalem above vs. Jerusalem below (i.e., the present Jerusalem): what’s the difference? How does it apply to us?

Friday Psalm 132; Isaiah 1; Jeremiah 7:1-29; Matthew 15:1-9
How did Israel and the Jewish leaders at the time of Christ misuse the “present Jerusalem”? How do we do the same thing?

Saturday Galatians 4:26; Luke 15; John 8:31-38; Romans 6
The Jerusalem above is free. What does that mean for us as Christians?