Ideas for "Probation After Death" for April 23, 2017

Dear Friends, In this week's Lesson, notice words like way, pathway, footsteps, path, walk, feet, Jesus as the Way, etc. It seems to be a theme running through the Lesson.

Also the word "righteousness" is used frequently. 

Righteousness in Hebrew is tsdaqah which means "rightness, rectitude, justice, moral virtue, right, piety, virtue."

Righteousness in the 1828 Webster's Dictionary means "adhering to moral principles; purity of heart and rectitude of life; conformity of heart and life to the divine law; equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy principles and affections of heart."

Word Study for Probation After Death 4.17.2017

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Here is some research for the coming week's Lesson. (from Responsive Reading)

Psalm 119 general information

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I Cor 15. 51 to 54 the trump shall sound

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Research: Matt 4.17 and Mat 5.6.8.48 (two beatitudes)

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Research on "Dives and Lazarus" but not super inspiring. The most inspiring comes from the periodicals below:

Research: Luke-19-Lazarus-beggar-and-rich-man

FROM THE CS PERIODICALS ON "LAZARUS (the poor man) and DIVES (the rich man)

"Dives and Lazarus" by Anita St. John Kelly, June 1944, CSJ

Chart. rich man and lazarus parable Luke 16 19 to 26

"The Unbridgeable Gulf" by Douglas Roberts, September 6, 1947, CSS

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Luke 7.11-15.Raising of widow's son

raise the dead sheet Blank sheet                answers to raise the dead sheet

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SH 428:22 The great spiritual fact . . .

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This is part of the teaching that Peter gives to Cornelius' house in Caesarea Maritima about Jesus' resurrection. His whole house is converted and the Holy Ghost comes upon them. This is the beginning of preaching freely to the Gentiles.

Acts 10: 38 to 41

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CHILDREN'S IDEAS:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3uNEVAAKowpcktZQmh4WEQxYnc/view

http://www.biblefunforkids.com/2017/04/413-great-catch-of-fish-breakfast-with.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FNIpgVA+%28Bible+Fun+For+Kids%29

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Beatitude chart  to study the Beatitudes pg 1

Beatitude chart.page 2

Blessed is makarios

Flashcards  page 1  (from www.biblosfoundation.org)

Flash cards page 2 (from Biblos Foundation)

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Hope these ideas are helpful!

Kathy

"Substance" for Sept. 11, 2016 plus ideas on teaching the Beatitudes

Dear Friends, For me, a main theme in this week's Lesson is blessed and blessings. Each section is built around one or more of the Beatitudes, which includes the word "blessed." Here is a word study for some of those main ideas.

Word Study for the Lesson on substance

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Research for this Lesson:

Research on the Beatitudes

Dummelow's Commentary has a wonderful, long section on the Beatitudes, starting at page 638. Here is one quotation from Dummelow's:

"Blessedness is higher than happiness. Happiness comes from without, and is dependent on circumstances: blessedness is an inward fountain of joy in the soul itself, which no outward circumstances can seriously affect. Blessedness consists in standing in a right relation to God, and so realizing the true law of a man's being." (Dummelow 639).

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Matt 15: Healing of the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman

Notice on the map of Palestine (from biblosfoundation.org) where Tyre and Sidon were. Jesus rarely goes up this far out of Israel, but in this instance, he is found in Gentile territory.

map of palestine

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Acts 15: The Jerusalem Council

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CHILDREN'S IDEAS:

Here is a blank chart to fill in as you study the Beatitudes more deeply. Looking up each word in Greek—looking up things about them in the periodicals, seeing what Mrs. Eddy has to say about them, taking notes in general, can all be put on these charts. Some of my research on them can be found on the "Answers to Beatitude Charts."

Beatitude chart page 1           Beatitude chart page 2

Answers to Beatitude Chart page 1

Answers to Beatitude Chart page2

Sometimes it is helpful to see how someone studies ideas in the Bible. Long ago, I started working on understanding the beatitudes in a deeper way. Here are my first sheets with notes taken from my research:

Kathy's page 1 beatitude study          Kathy's page 2 beatitude study

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These word charts could go up in a Sunday School class to teach the main words in Greek in the Beatitudes:

Charts of main words

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These are flash facts of the Beatitudes created by Biblos Foundation. They are no longer for sale there, but they do have a Teaching Children section with other flash facts for sale.

Beatitudes Flash Facts page 1               Beatitudes Flash Facts page 2

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Beatitude Concentration Game

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www.biblefunforkids has a whole unit on teaching the Beatitudes to very young children. You might want to take a look. You can print off templates, etc. Be sure to read through everything to ensure the theology is one that you agree with.

Click on the link and click again when it comes up in blue:

http://www.biblefunforkids.com/2015/04/the-beatitudes-bee-attitudes-bulletin.html#more

Here is a sample of one of their activities:

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Sermon on the Mount in two pages

"To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice" (’01 11:16-19).

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I hope these ideas are helpful!

Kathy