Recap & Apply - Lesson #9

This lesson is supposed to be about Ruth - but I'm skipping it. Steve did a great sermon based on Ruth - it's all you need, so find that, and you're good to go. So in this class, we revisited one of the fundamental problems faced by the people during the period of the Judges - and one which we also share: ignorance and disobedience. We are ignorant of God's Torah and the stories contained there. We don't teach our kids because we don't know any better ourselves. If the Judges-period-people had stayed close to the Torah and the lessons there, they would have avoided immense problems, pain, suffering and seperation from God. Same with us - we MUST dedicate ourselves to God's Torah! In an effort to demonstrate this, I returned us to 1 corinthians 10, where we re-examined Paul's lessons in context - then went back to a couple stories we missed earlier: the story of the snakes (Numbers 21) and the story of Spring Break in Moab (Numbers 25). To be clear: Satan doesn't have to get us by fighting or cursing. All he has to do is offer us some pleasure and in no time at all we forget to follow God. The question is: can you acknowledge your weaknesses and beg for help to avoid these temptations?