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December Devotional D E C E M B E R Memory Verse 1 CORINTHIANS 15:58 THE BIBLE IS ALL ONE STORY... BUT IT'S HARD TO READ IT THAT WAY. Try using the Bible Project's videos to give you an overview in a stylish, entertaining lesson. visit BibleProject.com or YouTube search Bible Project You can search books of the Bible, what the difference in Bible translations are, and many Bible topics. {Seamless} Month Four WEEK ONE, DAY ONE Verse Memorization This month our verse is 1 Corinthians 15:58 § Look up it up in your Bible and in 2 other versions. Try the Message, NIV, CSB or New King James versions online. § To get a better understanding of the verses’ context, read the paragraph it is a part of. § Now read all of 1 Corinthians 15. § In your journal, write a brief summary of the passage you just read. § In your journal, write out your memory verse in one of the versions given above. § Every day that you spend doing your Bible Study, commit to memorizing 1 Corinthians 15:58. You’ll be reciting it at our Light Meeting in December! Smith, Angie. Seamless: Understanding the Bible as One Complete Story. Nashville, TN Adult Ministry Publishing LifeWay Church Resources ©2015 Angie Smith {Seamless} Month Four WEEK ONE, DAY TWO We’ve watched the Israelites form as a nation and leave Egypt for the promised land. They’ve entered, divided up the land, and made progress in defeating the inhabitants. Unfortunately, they haven’t conquered all of the people of the land and the remaining groups are a bad influence on the Hebrews. And the 12 tribes are just that – divided groups of people. No nation. God wants the Israelites (and all of us) to be monotheistic, believing in and worshiping the one true God. The inhabitants of Canaan and surrounding areas are polytheistic, meaning they worship many gods. Sound like somewhere we live right now? The Israelites demand a king so they can be powerful and look to a man for leadership – which will inevitably lead them to look less at God. Samuel warns them that demanding a kind is an awful decision, but the Israelites don’t care. King Saul Read 1 Samuel 9. So we meet the man who will become their first king, and the story starts out nicely. Saul is incredibly handsome, tall, and wealthy. For a few chapters, we’ll see Saul as a victorious leader as he dominates many enemies in battle. That is, until Saul disobeys Samuel’s instructions about an offering. He acts out of his own will instead of God’s command, and as a result, Samuel delivers a powerful blow in the form of a prophesy. Read 1 Samuel 13:13-14 Describe what Samuel tells Saul will happen. How does Samuel describe the man that will take Saul’s place? Depending on your translation, you may have said “a man loyal to God” or “a man after God’s heart.” Saul continues to make poor choices, and eventually God intervenes and tells Samuel to strip the kingdom from him. Read 1 Samuel 15:24 Saul’s response is unusual. Do you ever let other people’s opinions to shape your actions? How does that work out for you? Smith, Angie. Seamless: Understanding the Bible as One Complete Story. Nashville, TN Adult Ministry Publishing LifeWay Church Resources ©2015 Angie Smith {Seamless} Month Four WEEK ONE, DAY THREE Read 1 Samuel 16 Typically kings ruled until death and were replaced by a son, but in this case, God removed kingship from Saul’s family because of sin. We will get to meet Jonathan, Saul’s son, a bit later, and he’s a good warrior like his dad, but he won’t ever get crowned king. Instead God tells Samuel to go to the house of Jesse because He has chosen one of Jesse’s sons to be king. What does Samuel think when he meets Jesse’s son Eliab? Why does he think that and what does the Lord tell him in response? How many times have we seen this happen? Making conclusions based on appearances and not listening to God doesn’t always work out. Jesse brings David to Samuel and the rest is history. Samuel knows he has found his guy. It won’t happen right away, but he has no question: David the shepherd will reign over Israel as king. In the meantime, Saul has gone crazy. The Spirit of the Lord has left him and he has become a madman. His servants tell him they have a great idea: they’ll bring in a musician. Harp music will calm Saul down. One of the servants knows of a young man particularly skilled with the harp, so Saul sends word to the boy’s father to see if something can be arranged. Who does Jesse send to care for Saul? Time passes and the next time we see Saul, the Israelites are fighting the Philistines. They’ve come up against rather formidable foe and one day while David is out looking for his brothers, he happens upon a battle scene. He asks what’s going on and the soldiers explain that they’re trying to kill a giant named Goliath. Many of us have heard of David & Goliath. Read 1 Samuel 17:38-51 What happens? After this, Saul’s son Jonathan and David become really good friends & Saul becomes overcome with jealousy because of all the attention focused on David. In fact, Saul wants David dead. Smith, Angie. Seamless: Understanding the Bible as One Complete Story. Nashville, TN Adult Ministry Publishing LifeWay Church Resources ©2015 Angie Smith {Seamless} Month Four WEEK ONE, DAY FOUR David On The Run Jonathan warns his friend of his dad’s intentions, David flees, and he spends more than a decade of his young adult years running from king Saul. In the process David writes several of the Psalms. Psalms are songs of worship expressing all types of emotions. Read Psalm 59 Remember the Bible doesn’t always list things in chronological order. Here is a great example. Even though it may feel like we’re moving slowly. David wrote a good bit of the Book of Psalms, with several of them commemorating different events in his life. Eight of the Psalms discuss the time period when David was fleeing from Saul. Saul is furious that David is still alive. In his rage, he decides to find a psychic to conjure up Samuel’s dead spirit. Read 1 Samuel 28:19 As predicted, during battle the next day Saul receives word that his three eldest sons have been killed and his is warned that the Philistines are closing in on him. He doesn’t want them to the ones who take credit for his death, so he asks his assistant to kill him. Saul winds up ending his own life by falling on his sword. That ends 1 Samuel… Now we’ll dive into 2 Samuel where we’ll spend some time with one of the most important men of Scripture. Smith, Angie. Seamless: Understanding the Bible as One Complete Story. Nashville, TN Adult Ministry Publishing LifeWay Church Resources ©2015 Angie Smith {Seamless} Month Four WEEK ONE, DAY FIVE Quick Review Describe each of these important characters in a sentence or two. Maybe list a fun fact or something you hadn’t known about them before this study. Adam & Eve ________________________________________________________________ Noah ______________________________________________________________________ Abraham ___________________________________________________________________ Isaac ______________________________________________________________________ Jacob ______________________________________________________________________ Joseph _____________________________________________________________________ Moses _____________________________________________________________________ Smith, Angie. Seamless: Understanding the Bible as One Complete Story. Nashville, TN Adult Ministry Publishing LifeWay Church Resources ©2015 Angie Smith {Seamless} Month Four WEEK TWO, DAY ONE King David David was just a shepherd boy to most people, and a wonderful harpist to others, but the truth is that he was hand-picked by God to play a pivotal role in the narrative of Scripture. God obviously love the underdog. And although David’s dad might have looked past him, his Father never did. The people love David, and after Saul dies, they make him king. At this point, Judah is on board (David is from the tribe of Judah, remember?) but the Northern tribes don’t go for it for seven and a half years. They pick one of Saul’s sons to be their king, but eventually everyone comes together as one nation & David as their king. David was able to unite the tribes into a single nation. He captured Jerusalem and made it the capital, and then he uttered words from the most humble spirit: “See now, I dwell in a house made of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.” (2 Samuel 7:2) What do you think David meant by that? To whom was David speaking? For hundreds of years the Israelites had seen God as living in the tent called the tabernacle. David wants to build something permanent to house the ark of the covenant, and his friend Nathan prays about it, later confirming God desires for this structure to be built. In the same vision, God tells Nathan to convey something else to David. Read 2 Samuel 7:8-18 What did God promise regarding David and his family? What was David’s response? What was his attitude? This is where we draw a line in the lifetime of David. Second Samuel chapters 1-10 are all about his humility, his longing for God’s righteousness, and his success as a leader. But in chapter 11 we see a shift that marks him forever.
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