The Children’s Class
Each of the following quotations is a part of a verse in Acts, chapters 20-28.
1. “A conscience void of offense.”
2.“Whose I am, and whom serve.”
3.“Preaching the kingdom of God.”
4.“Thou shouldest know His will.”
5. “Faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”
6.“Repent and turn to God.”
7.“Be of good cheer, Paul.”
The Young People’s Class Life
Only God can give life. Men can make wonderful machinery, the operation of which seems almost like the human, but they cannot create life. Thy cannot make the tiniest seed, nor can they make one of God’s seeds grow. The magicians of Egypt had to admit long ago that life was by the finger of God, and men are not any nearer to the secret of life today than they were then. It is something which God has kept to Himself. The breath of life is in His hand and always will be.
This makes life a very serious thing, because our life is only loaned to us, and we are responsible how we use it. Belshazzar was told, “The God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, host. thou not glorified.” Daniel 5:2323But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: (Daniel 5:23). He had used his life as though it were his own, leaving God out, and God was about to judge him for his recklessness.
Dear reader, how have you used your life? Have you just lived for self and forgotten God; or have you owned His claims over you? Have you confessed your sin and enmity before Him, and been cleansed in Christ’s most precious blood? If so, you have received a new life—eternal life—as a free gift from God; but remember, if you have not, then as soon as your breath leaves your body it will be forever too late—your eternal destiny will be fixed.
1.How did man get his life? Genesis
2.What is better than life? Psalm 63.
3.What was true “life” to Paul? Philiians.
4.Where is the believer’s life hid? Coloians.
5.Can we KNOW that we have eternal life? 1 John.
6.What do we need to live by, as well os food? Matthew.
7.Is death the cessation of existence? Luke 20.
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