Sabbath School Quarterly Commentary

Q2 Genesis #05 All Nations and Babel

What example do we have from history, or even the present, of the trouble that can come from those who seek to make a name for themselves?

Q2 Genesis #04 The Flood

What lesson can we learn from the Noah story regarding our role in warning the world about coming judgment?

Q2 Genesis #03 Cain and His Legacy

Why must we do all that we can in God’s power to eradicate sin from our lives?

Q2 Genesis #02 The Fall

If Satan was able to deceive a sinless Eve in Eden, how much more vulnerable are we? What is our best defence against his deceptions?

Q2 Genesis #01 The Creation

The book of Genesis and, hence, the whole Bible begins with God’s acts of Creation. This fact is very important because it means that our creation marks the beginning of human and biblical history. This truth also implies that the Genesis Creation story has the same historical veracity as other events of human and biblical history. The two Creation texts in Genesis 1 and 2 contain lessons about God and humanity. As we study this week, we will understand better the profound meaning of the seventh...

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #13 Let Brotherly Love Continue

Why is it important to remember that God is leading us as a group? What are my responsibilities to the group? What are the best indicators that brotherly love is strong in a congregation?

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #12 Receiving an Unshakeable Kingdom

The shaking of the heavens and the earth means, then, the destruction of the earthly powers that persecute God’s people and, more importantly, the destruction of the evil powers (Satan and his angels) who stand behind the earthly powers and control them.

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #11 Jesus, Author and Perfecter of Our Faith

Why is it important to recognize that our faith results from and feeds on God’s faithfulness? How can we learn more to trust in His faithfulness to us and to the promises He has made to us?

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #10 Jesus Opens the Way Through the Veil

Why should the reality of what Christ has done, not only on the cross but what He is doing now in heaven, give us assurance of salvation?

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #09 Jesus, the Perfect Sacrifice

The sanctuary sacrifices teach us that the experience of salvation is more than just accepting Jesus as our Substitute. We also need to “feed” on Him, share His benefits with others, and provide reparation to those whom we have wronged.

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #08 Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant

By living a perfect life, and then by dying in our place, Jesus mediated a new, better covenant between us and God. Through His death, Jesus canceled the penalty of death that our trespasses demanded and made possible the new covenant.

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #07 Jesus, the Anchor of the Soul

What do you feel when you think that God has made an oath to you? Why should that thought alone help give you assurance of salvation, even when you feel unworthy?

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #06 Jesus, the Faithful Priest

God is holy, and sin cannot exist in His presence; so, our own corrupted nature separated us from God. This week, we are going to study the amazing things the Father and the Son did to bridge that gulf.

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #05 Jesus, the Giver of Rest

What two things does the Sabbath rest commemorate, and how are they related?

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #04 Jesus, Our Faithful Brother

What are ways that you can learn to experience more deeply that reality of just how close Christ can be to you? Why is having this experience so important to your faith?

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #03 The Promised Son

Right after Adam and Eve sinned, God promised them a “seed,” a Son who would deliver them from the enemy, recover the inheritance that had been lost, and fulfill the purpose for which they had been created (Gen. 3:15). This Son would both represent and redeem them by taking their place and, ultimately, by destroying the serpent.

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #02 The Message of Hebrews

A Jewish document written a few decades after Hebrews, around a.d. 100, contains a prayer: “All this I have spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that it was for us that you created this world. . . . And now, O Lord, behold, these nations, which are reputed as nothing, domineer over us and devour us. But we your people, whom you have called your first-born, only begotten, zealous for you, and most dear, have been given into their hands.”—James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament P...

Q1 In These Last Days: The Message of Hebrews #01 The Letter to the Hebrews and to Us

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to hear Jesus, or one of the apostles, preach? We possess written excerpts and summaries of some of their sermons, but these provide only a limited idea of what it was like to hear them. God, however, preserved in the Scriptures at least one complete sermon for us: Paul’s letter to the Hebrews.

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #13 The Resurrection of Moses

How does the story of Moses’ death and later resurrection show us how the New Testament, though often based on the Old Testament, does take us further than the Old Testament and can indeed shed much new light upon it?

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #12 Deuteronomy in the New Testament

Whether using direct Old Testament quotations, or allusions, or references to stories or prophecies, the New Testament writers constantly used the Old Testament to buttress, even justify, their claims.

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #11 Deuteronomy in the Later Writings

This week we will focus on how the book was used by later writers. What parts of Deuteronomy did they use, and what points were they making that have relevance for us today?

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #10 Remember Do Not Forget

God often tells His people to remember all the things that He has done for them; to remember His grace for them and His goodness toward them. How easy it is to forget what God has done for us.

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #09 Turn Their Hearts

Because we are sinful, repentance should be a central part of our Christian existence. And, this week, we will see the idea of repentance as expressed in Deuteronomy.

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #08 Choose Life

Right from the start, the Bible presents us with just one of two options: eternal life, which is what we were originally supposed to have, and eternal death, which in a sense is merely going back to the nothingness out of which we first came.

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #07 Law and Grace

Deuteronomy could be seen as one big object lesson in grace and law. By grace God redeems us, doing for us what we couldn’t do for ourselves, and in response we live, by faith, a life of obedience to Him and to His law.

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #06 For What Nation Is There So Great?

What does it mean to add or to take away from God’s commands? Outside of the obvious, such as the attempted change of the Sabbath, how might something like that happen so subtly we don’t even realize what is happening?

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #05 The Stranger in Your Gates

Loving your neighbour as yourself is the highest expression of God’s law.

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #04 To Love The Lord Your God

Loving God with all the heart and soul and strength means that our love for Him should be supreme over our love for everything and everyone else, because He is the foundation and ground of all our being and existence and everything else.

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #03 The Everlasting Covenant

God out of His saving grace and love offers you a salvation that you do not deserve and cannot possibly earn; and you, in response, love Him back “with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30, NKJV), a love that is made manifest by obedience to His law: “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments” (1 John 5:3, NKJV).

Q4 Present Truth in Deuteronomy #02 Moses’ History Lesson