11/04/17 - Teacher: Bro. Buie The Israel of God 520 W. 138th Street, Riverdale, IL. 60827 PH. 800-96-BIBLE 1 PRAYER: Proverbs 2:1-6 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; (2) So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; (3) Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; (4) If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; (5) Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. (6) For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. Husbandman = Are the Pastors Far country = heaven Fruits = good works Servants = the Prophets Other servants = Righteous servants Matthew 21:33-41, 45 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: (34) And when the time of the fruit My Beloved drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits Isaiah 5:1-7 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a of it. (35) And the husbandmen took his song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My servants, and beat one, and killed another, and wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful stoned another. (36) Again, he sent other hill: (2) And he fenced it, and gathered out the servants more than the first: and they did unto stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest them likewise. (37) But last of all he sent unto vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and them his son, saying, They will reverence my also made a winepress therein: and he looked son. (38) But when the husbandmen saw the that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought son, they said among themselves, This is the forth wild grapes. (3) And now, O inhabitants of heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray his inheritance. (39) And they caught him, and you, betwixt me and my vineyard. (4) What cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. (40) could have been done more to my vineyard, that When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked what will he do unto those husbandmen? (41) that it should bring forth grapes, brought it They say unto him, He will miserably destroy forth wild grapes? (5) And now go to; I will tell those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take unto other husbandmen, which shall render away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten him the fruits in their seasons. 45 And when up; and break down the wall thereof, and it the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his shall be trodden down: (6) And I will lay it parables, they perceived that he spake of them. waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but Notes: there shall come up briers and thorns: I will Householder = the LORD also command the clouds that they rain no rain Vineyard = Children of Israel upon it. (7) For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of 11/04/17 - Teacher: Bro. Buie The Israel of God 520 W. 138th Street, Riverdale, IL. 60827 PH. 800-96-BIBLE 2 Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for Solomon wrote this but it is talking about judgment, but behold oppression; for Jesus. righteousness, but behold a cry. Notes: Psalms 69:1, 4, 7-9 Save me, O God; for the Choicest vine = God's law waters are come in unto my soul. 4 They that Grapes = Righteous servants hate me without a cause are more than the Wild grapes = Rebellious servants hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: Jeremiah 12:7-10, 12 I have forsaken mine then I restored that which I took not away. 7 house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her shame hath covered my face. (8) I am become a enemies. (8) Mine heritage is unto me as a lion stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto in the foret; it crieth out against me: therefore my mother's children. (9) For the zeal of thine have I hated it. (9) Mine heritage is unto me as house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of a speckled bird, the birds round about are them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of Notes: the field, come to devour. (10) Many pastors They = Israel have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden Jesus restored Man's access to the 'the my portion under foot, they have made my Tree of Life (Salvation). pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 12 The Thee = The Father spoilers are come upon all high places through Me = Jesus the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall Reproaches = Sins devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace. Romans 15:2-3 Let every one of us please his Notes: neighbour for his good to edification. (3) For Mine House/Heritage = Israel even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is Beasts of the field = Nations written, The reproaches of them that Desolate wilderness = void of reproached thee fell on me. understanding/without God's law Notes: The sword of the Lord came upon Israel Adam took away salvation but Jesus gave for our iniquity. it back if we keep his commandments. Song of Solomon 1:1-6 The song of songs, which is Solomon's. (2) Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. (3) Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. (4) Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, Psalms 80:1, 7-16 Give ear, O Shepherd of we will remember thy love more than wine: the Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; upright love thee. (5) I am black, but comely, O thou that dwellest between the cherubims, ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of shine forth. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. (6) Look not and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be upon me, because I am black, because the sun saved. (8) Thou hast brought a vine out of hath looked upon me: my mother's children Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and were angry with me; they made me the keeper of planted it. (9) Thou preparedst room before it, the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled kept. the land. (10) The hills were covered with the Notes: shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like I = Jesus the goodly cedars. (11) She sent out her boughs My mother's children = Israel unto the sea, and her branches unto the river. (12) Why hast thou then broken down her Vineyards = other nations hedges, so that all they which pass by the way Kept = taken care of do pluck her? (13) The boar out of the wood 11/04/17 - Teacher: Bro. Buie The Israel of God 520 W. 138th Street, Riverdale, IL. 60827 PH. 800-96-BIBLE 3 doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: doth devour it. (14) Return, we beseech thee, O but they regard not the work of the LORD, God of hosts: look down from heaven, and neither consider the operation of his hands. (13) behold, and visit this vine; (15) And the Therefore my people are gone into captivity, vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, because they have no knowledge: and their and the branch that thou madest strong for honourable men are famished, and their thyself. (16) It is burned with fire, it is cut down: multitude dried up with thirst. (14) Therefore they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her Notes: mouth without measure: and their glory, and Shepherd of Israel = Jesus their multitude, and their pomp, and he that Vine out of Egypt = Israel rejoiceth, shall descend into it. Heathen = Nations Notes: Land = Canaan Honorable men = preachers/ministers Hedges = Protection/Angels Famished = lacking in knowledge Pluck her = rob, despise or hate her Hell = state of condition Beasts = Other nations Hosea 4:1-7, 13-14, 16-18 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. (2) By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and Noble Vine Degenerate Plant committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.