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of the Church in the Community Lesson 5 * July 23-29 Jesus  on  Community Outreach Sabbath Afternoon Read for This Week’s Study:   Luke 4:16-19 , 10:25-37 ,  Matt. 5:13 ,  Isa. 2:8 ,  John 4:35-38 ,  Matt. 13:3-9 . Memory Text:  “Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people”  ( Matthew 4:23, NKJV ) . Robert Louis Stevenson, best known for his adventure story  Treasure Island,  had been a sickly boy who couldn’t go to school regularly. Finally his parents hired a teacher to teach him and a nanny to help with his personal needs. One night when his nanny came to check on him before he went to bed, he was out of bed, and his hands and nose were pressed against the window. His nanny firmly told him to get back in bed before he got a chill. Robert said to her, “Come to the window, and see what I’...

Friday July 22 Further Thought:  Read  Jeremiah 22:1-16 ; Ezekiel 16:49 ;  Zechariah 7:9-10 . Read Ellen G. White Comments,  pp. 1165, 1166, in  The SDA Bible Commentary , vol. 4 ; “God’s Design in Our Sanitariums,”  pp. 227, 228, in  Testimonies for the Church , vol. 6 . “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God”  ( Mic. 6:8, NIV ) . How much clearer could the Lord be in regard to what He asks of His people? God has shown us what is “good,” and this “good” is the same word used again and again in Genesis 1:1-31 , referring to the pre-Fall Creation. Thus, implicitly we are pointed back to the ideal, to what God originally had for us and, ultimately, what He will restore to us after Jesus returns. The phrase translated “require of you” could also be (and perhaps more accurately) translated as “seek from you.” That is, what does God “seek fr...

Thursday July 21 The Church-A Change Agent Read   Micah 6:1-16 . What is the Lord speaking out against here? Micah joins the other Old Testament prophets who emphasize that external forms of religion that lack a humble and intentional manifestation of justice and mercy are never acceptable to a just and merciful God. What  is the crucial message of  Micah 6:8 ? “True religion is practical. To be sure, it includes the rites and ceremonies of the church, but . . . it is not so much a matter of abstaining from food as it is of sharing food with the hungry. Practical godliness is the only kind of religion recognized at the judgment bar of God ( Matt. 25:34-46 ).” - Ellen G. White,  The SDA Bible Commentary , vol. 4, p. 306 . Today God continues to reject the apostasy of an external religion that excludes the practical godliness expressed in  Micah 6:8 . Our religious forms are not an end in and of themselves; they are a means to an end, and that end ...

Wednesday July 20 Jubilee Promises The Old Testament is filled with the idea that those who have been blessed materially and spiritually will reach out to those who have not. Read   Isaiah 61:1-11 . What is God saying to His people here, and how can we apply what’s said here to ourselves and to our calling before the Lord?  See also  Luke 4:18 . Isaiah 61:1-11  begins with a declaration that the Spirit of the Lord works through the Anointed One to preach good news to the poor, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness and despair for the prisoners  ( Isa. 61:1 ) . All of the elements of this promise have their fulfillment in the “year of the LORD’s favor.” The “year of the LORD’s favor” is a reference to the year of jubilee, which we already saw was filled with implications for the necessity of ministering to the needs of the poor. Thus, the mourners who are comforted, the grieving ones in Zion who are pr...

Tuesday July 19 The Church: A Source of Life “Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish . . .; where the river flows everything will live” ( Ezek. 47:9, NIV ) . Ezekiel’s prophecy illustrates that where the river that comes from God’s church flows, there is life.  Ezekiel 47:10  adds to the amazement of it all. What a strange sight that would be: a body of water known as being without fish because nothing can live there suddenly becomes a place where fishermen will be casting their nets and catching many fish. The whole point is that through the power of God working in His people, life can exist where before there was none. “Where God is at work there is no hopeless situation, no group of people who are beyond redemption, no heritage from an unhappy past which need condemn us to a future delivered over to despair.”-The Interpreter’s Bible, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1956), vol. 6, p. 328. God’s amazing grac...

Wednesday  July 13 Prophetic Voice: Part 2 Isaiah 58 provides a special prophetic message of rebuke and hope for God’s people in Isaiah’s time and for us today. After  an announcement that He is upset with His people (see  Isa. 58:1 ), what is God’s description of those He is addressing? Read  Isaiah 58:2 . Though we don’t know the exact “tone of voice” expressed here, it is clear that the Lord is condemning their outward shows of piety and faith because He knows how false it all is. The NIV translates it like this: “ ‘For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God’ ” ( Isa. 58:2, NIV ). Read   Isaiah 58:3–14 . What else is the Lord saying to these people about what’s wrong with their religious forms (in this case fasting)? What’s the bigger issue here? Notice something crucial here: so often worship can be self-centered: Lord...

Monday  July 11 Universal Concerns Read   Genesis 2:1–3 . What does this tell us about the universality of the Sabbath? If we truly observe the Sabbath, we will not remain satisfied with only our own rest ( Exod. 23:12 ), redemption ( Deut. 5:12–15 ), and ultimate restoration in the new earth ( Isa. 66:22 ,  23 ). Indeed, the seventh-day Sabbath tells us that God is the Creator and Rest Provider of all who live on this earth. The universality of the Sabbath rest implies a commonality among all of us, rich or poor. The common Fatherhood of God means a common equality and concern among human beings. Also, as we saw yesterday, the concern for justice extends from weekly Sabbaths to sabbatical years and to the year of jubilee. The principles behind the three Sabbaths portrayed in Leviticus 23 and 25 extend to Christians as well. The seventh-day Sabbath will forever point back to Creation, as well as forward to the Cross and new earth. It will strengthen our re...

Sunday  July 10 Mercy and Justice: Earmarks of God’s People Even in early Israel, social justice was very much a part of God’s laws and His ideal for His people. Justice is God’s original intention for human society: a world in which basic needs are met, people flourish, and peace reigns. Read  the following texts and summarize what they say about mercy and justice. Exod. 22:21–23 ,  23:2–9 ,  Lev. 19:10 ,  Prov. 14:31 ,  29:7 . Mercy and justice also are highlighted in the Sabbath laws given to ancient Israel. God outlined three types of Sabbaths. How  is the idea of mercy and justice reflected in each of these Sabbaths?  Exod. 20:8–10 ;  23:10 ,  11 ;  Lev. 25:8–55 . Instructions in keeping the seventh-day Sabbath included providing equal opportunity for everyone to rest, including servants, animals, and foreigners. Every seven years, the Sabbath year was a time for canceling debts, for showing concern for the po...

Wednesday, June 29 - The supreme masterpiece. morning young "With Christ I am crucified" (Galatians 2: 20, RV95). In his book A minute to the absurd, Anthony de Mello tells the story of a teacher who tells the painter: -Any Painter who wants to succeed has d and work tirelessly for countless hours. But only a few are given free of his ego while painting. And when that happens, the masterpiece emerges. A while later, one of his disciples approached the teacher and asked: Who is a teacher? And the teacher said, Anyone who is given free of his ego. And since then, the life of that person will be a masterpiece. What are you committed? In "paint a masterpiece 'or make your" life a masterpiece "? To paint well nothing else you have to work "tirelessly for countless hours." However, "free" of the ego is a somewhat more complex issue. The problem is that the ego is so "good" that no one is released from it by his own s...

Friday July 22 Further Thought:  Read  Jeremiah 22:1-16 ; Ezekiel 16:49 ;  Zechariah 7:9-10 . Read Ellen G. White Comments,  pp. 1165, 1166, in  The SDA Bible Commentary , vol. 4 ; “God’s Design in Our Sanitariums,”  pp. 227, 228, in  Testimonies for the Church , vol. 6 . “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God”  ( Mic. 6:8, NIV ) . How much clearer could the Lord be in regard to what He asks of His people? God has shown us what is “good,” and this “good” is the same word used again and again in Genesis 1:1-31 , referring to the pre-Fall Creation. Thus, implicitly we are pointed back to the ideal, to what God originally had for us and, ultimately, what He will restore to us after Jesus returns. The phrase translated “require of you” could also be (and perhaps more accurately) translated as “seek from you.” That is, what does God “seek f...