GETTING TO KNOW GOD


Sunday Morning Bible Class Series


GETTING TO KNOW GOD

The enclosed series of lessons will be used as a format for the in-class teaching of adults and young people for the next three months. Our teachers have prepared lesson plans for these lessons. This program of teaching is designed as an aid to the parents' personal obligation of home study with their children.

Your part in this study will be to give your children ten to twenty minutes of study each day, five days a week. Each day study one daily study selection from the next Sunday's lesson, thereby covering all five daily studies each week. It is suggested that you use the Memory Work the first day, so it may be learned through repetition the following days.

To assist you in relating the verses to the coming Sunday's class, these lesson outlines are provided to you in advance for the entire 13 weeks.

Do not let your children down . . . . . . Set aside a certain portion of each day for Bible study (such as each evening after supper). Make it a Habit and be Consistent, and your children will reap the benefits the rest of their lives. The remembrance of these few minutes will cause them to be thankful always.

Each child will be given credit in class each week for memory work and participation in all five daily studies. This recognition is arranged so that he may make up any previous week's work missed when absent.


"We would like to give credit to the author(s) of the material contained in this quarter's lessons, if we knew who to credit. The material has been passed around among various congregations, with each one editing it for its own teaching program. We have made our own changes where we felt it would improve the material" -- Edward O. Bragwell.
WEEK 1

Course Title: Getting To Know God

Lesson Title: Our Father-God The Almighty

Memory Verse: "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!" -- Rev. 4:8


Day 1

God the Father is eternal.

1. Discuss the memorial name of God, "Jehovah," as it is first given and defined by Himself. (Ex. 3:13-15). Literally the mean of "I AM" is "I Exist (past, present, and future tense), therefore his name means "I Eternally Exist because I Eternally Exist."

2. The Apostle John's view of God's throne in Heaven. (Rev. 4:1-11).

3. The New Testament frequently uses the term "Father" to denote God, while the term "I AM," which is pronounce "Jehovah" is used only by Moses and the prophets. (Matt. 6:1).


Day 2

God is King of all the earth.

1. God the Father is King and Ruler of all the nations. (Isa. 40:15-17; Psa. 47:7-8; 66:7; 67:4).

2. King Nebuchadnezzar learned of God's Power over nations. (Dan. 4:19-37); this is still true today. (Acts 17:26).

3. The Father is God of Heaven, earth, and the "dead." (Luke 10:21; Matt. 22:32; Jer. 10:12-13).


Day 3

God the Father is all Powerful.

1. The Father's power and wisdom is made known through his creation of the countless billions times billions of stars. (Isa. 40:25-28).

2. He has no comparison among men. (Jer. 10:6-7; Psa. 92:5-6; Is. 55:8-9)

3. The Father both created and spoke to the world through Christ. (Jer. 32:17; Heb. 1:2).


Day 4

God our Father planned our world.

1. God made the earth for mankind. (Psa. 8:3-9; 115:15-16).

2. He preplanned to give spiritual blessings to those who would be holy. This was his design before the world was formed. (Eph. 1:3-5).

3. Even the good works we are to do were designed before the earth was made. (Eph. 2:10).


Day 5

Because of Who He is, the Father is to be honored in worship.

1. The word "God" means an object of worship, thus deity. (Matt. 4:10).

2. God the Father is the only god to be worshiped. (Psa. 29:1-2; Psa. 115:1-8; Matt. 22:24-40).


WEEK 2

Course Title: Getting To Know God

Lesson Title: God is Love

Memory Verse: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." -- John 3:16.


Day 1

God is love.

1. Love is the attitude that makes one always act in the best interest of that which he loves.

2. The Father taught us what love is through His example of giving Jesus to die in our stead. (Rom. 5:8; Eph. 2:4-5; 1 John 4:8-10).

3. We are to love one another as God loved us. (1 John 4:11-21).


Day 2

If we want the Father to love us forever, we must obey His commandments given through Jesus.

(John 14:21; John 14:23-24; 16:27; Psa. 103:13; Psa. 146:8; Prov. 3:1-4.


Day 3

The Father shows His love by giving us spiritual blessings.

1. The Father gives all spiritual blessings "in Christ." Eph. 1:3; 1 Cor. 2:2-10; John 14:21-23.

2. Adoption, redemption, and forgiveness all are gifts of the Father through Christ. (Eph. 1:5-8; 1 John 3:1; Rom. 5:3).

3. The gift of everlasting life. (John 3:16).

4. Now we receive the blessings from His love with comfort and hope. (Psa. 103:1-6; 2 Thess. 2:16).


Day 4

We are more than conquerors though God who loved us.

1. All heaven rejoices over one lost person returning to God, the parable of the Lost Sheep. (Luke 15:4-7).

2. As his sheep we are more than conquerors through His love. (Rom. 8:35-39).


Day 5

The Father disciplines those whom he loves.

(Psa. 119:75-77; Prov. 3:11-12; Heb. 12:5-11; Rev. 3:19).


WEEK 3

Course Title: Getting To Know God

Lesson Title: God Hates

Memory Verse: "You love righteousness and hate wickedness." -- (Psa. 45:7).


Day 1

God hates the evil and sin in people's lives.

1. Hate is defined as an intense dislike of an action or thing. God loves people, but hates the sins they commit. One cannot love without the ability to hate. If we love someone very much, we will hate that which destroys that person. Hatred is good if used rightly. We are to hate the things God hates.

2. God hates the many evil ways of people. (Prov. 6:16-19; Psa. 5:4-6).

3. Jesus also hates wickedness, as does the Father. (Psa. 45:7).


Day 2

God hates false and empty worship.

1. Hypocritical worship. (Amos 5:21-24).

2. Vain and empty worship. (Isa. 1:13-20).

3. Idolatry and false worship. (Jer. 44:2-6; Deut. 12:9-32).


Day 3

God hates the works of those who do not love their neighbors.

1. Those who devise evil and give false oaths. (Zech. 8:17).

2. Those who do not keep laws (iniquity). (Isa. 61:8).

3. Divorce. (Mal. 2:14-16).


Day 4

We are to hate, the same as God.

1. We also are to hate evil ways of man. (Amos 5:15; Psa. 97:10; 101:1-8; Prov. 8:13).

2. The knowledge of what to hate comes from God's law. (Psa. 119:104-106, 127-128, 163-165).

3. Many people have their love and hate reversed. (Micah 3:1-4).


Day 5

The world hates God.