Fall Quarter 2022
Learning to Honor God
Beginning with Obedience
September 4 Obedience in Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exodus 3:1-12
September 11 Obedient to Remember . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Exodus 12:1-14
September 18 Promise of Obedience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exodus 19:1-6; 24:3-8
Obedience in Worship
September 25 Obedience and Respect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Exodus 19:16-25
October 2 Obedience in Worshipping God Alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Exodus 20:1-11
October 9 Obedience in Building the Tabernacle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exodus 40:16-21, 29-30, 34, 38
October 16 Obedience on the day of Atonement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leviticus 16:11-19
October 23 Obedience in Offerings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leviticus 22:17-25, 31-33
October 30 Obedience in Feasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leviticus 23:33-43
Obedience in Society
November 6 Obedience in Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exodus 23:1-9
November 13 Obedience in Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exodus 31:12-18
November 20 Obedience Among Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leviticus 19:9-18, 33-37
November 27 Obedience in Celebration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leviticus 25:1-12
This quarter is titled “Learning to Honor God,” and we learn how to honor Him from seeing how His people Israel learned (or failed to learn) this vital imperative. Honoring God cannot be done apart from obedience to Him, and the obedience that honors God is the obedience of faith. He is not interested in outward expressions of duty that do not spring from the heart.
We start in unit I, “Beginning with Obedience,” with three lessons on how God’s people began their journey. Lesson 1 looks at the call of Moses to deliver Israel from Egyptian bondage and how he learned to obey that call. Lesson 2 covers the instructions God gave His people for the first Passover and stresses how important it was that they remember this great event for all generations to come.
In lesson 3 we see the people of Israel promise their obedience to God in response to His making a covenant with them. It was a promise that was soon broken, and this would happen over and over again through their history, but God never broke His promises to them or abandoned His covenant.
With lesson 4, we begin a new unit, “Obedience in Worship.” We cannot worship God rightly without true knowledge of who He is, and Israel was given a spectacular (though distant) glimpse of His power and glory.
In the days that followed, God built on what he had revealed by declaring His underlying requirements (lesson 5), providing instructions on building a place for His holiness to reside safely among them (lesson 6), showing how their sinfulness would be covered in the Day of Atonement (lesson 7), teaching them to honor His holiness with their offerings (lesson 8), and ordaining festivals in which they would remember His goodness to them and rejoice before Him (lesson 9).
The final unit, “Obedience in Society,” shows how honoring and obeying God affects our day-to-day living with one another. Treating everyone with justice and truth (lesson 10) matters greatly to God. Honoring Him by setting aside the day He ordained for that purpose (lesson 11) is equally vital. Loving our neighbor is at the heart of living in obedience to God’s law (lesson 12). And although we do not observe Sabbath Years or Jubilee Years as Israel did, lesson 13 drives home the truth that God owns everything. We are responsible to Him in how we use what He has given us.