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Sunday school lesson topic for 3 October

Persevering faith

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Sunday school lesson topic for 3 October

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  1. Persevering faith Key topic

  2. Prayer requests • Farmers, gardeners and vendors. • The Haitian migrants. • Guidance counselors. • Trauma patients. • Newly married couples.

  3. Key passage Hebrews 11

  4. Key verse Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

  5. Lesson outline • The child of promise. Genesis 17:19; 18:11-14; 21:1-2; Luke 2:36-38 • There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and

  6. Luke 2:36-38 • praying. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.

  7. The faith of the Old Testament saints • Their unwavering trust. Genesis 3:15; 12:1-4,7. • Their separated and pilgrim walk. Genesis 23:4; Psalm 39:12. • Their works and actions. Hebrews 11:14- 15. • The goal of faith. Hebrews 12:2-4.

  8. Fix our eyes on Jesus • The goal of faith is ‘Jesus.’ • The believer is to run ‘fixing our eyes on Jesus’. • He is the supreme example of steadfast faith- ‘who for the joy set before Him endured the cross’.

  9. Hebrews 12:2 • fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

  10. Hebrews 12:3 • 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

  11. Hebrews 12:4 •4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

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