Episode 2776 - Lesson 10 - Saturday May 30 - Repentance and Forgiveness

Sabbath AfternoonRead for This Week’s Study: Isa. 61:10; Hosea 6; Acts 3:18-19; Exod. 34:1-10; Rom. 6:23; Matt. 22:1-14Memory Text: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9, NKJV).The Promised Land seemed so far away to the Israelites, who camped beneath the pillar of cloud on the plain. Moses had ascended into the thick darkness, which had covered the top of the mountain many days earlier. Surely their leader had died by now, they reasoned, if not from starvation then perhaps from the consuming fire on its peak. The mixed multitude (the Israelites along with those who left Egypt with them on the Exodus) among them felt restless and impatient, ready to move on to the land flowing with milk and honey. Although these same people had, just a few days earlier, made a solemn covenant with God to obey Him, they wanted an image they could see. And so, they rallied around Aaron’s tent and demanded that he create an idol for them. Fearing for his own safety, Aaron agreed. In Exodus 32-34, we read how this sad story unravels.This account is just one story from Scripture that teaches us about repentance and forgiveness, the theme of this week’s lesson study. Keep the theme of this week’s memory verse in your mind as you go through each day’s study. Yes, we sin, but thanks to Jesus’ death on the cross and the plan of salvation, forgiveness is there for the sincere confessing and repentant sinner.*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, June 6.