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    Master Teacher: 2nd Quarter 2017
    Master Teacher: 2nd Quarter 2017
    Master Teacher: 2nd Quarter 2017
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    Master Teacher: 2nd Quarter 2017

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    Master Teacher is the teacher’s quarterly to be used with Adult Christian Life and College and Career. Each lesson contains extensive biblical exposition and specific instructions for the teacher. The outline of the lesson is reader-friendly, and includes suggestions for maximizing teacher/student interaction and topics for making the study informative and enriching.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
    Release dateJan 23, 2017
    ISBN9781681672403
    Master Teacher: 2nd Quarter 2017

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      Master Teacher - R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

      LESSON 1 FOR WEEK OF APRIL 2, 2017

      I’VE GOT YOUR BACK!

      UNIFYING TOPIC:

      God as Our Shepherd

      LESSON TEXT

      I. Trusting God for Leadership

      (Psalm 23:1–2)

      II. Trusting God for Restoration

      (Psalm 23:3–4)

      III. Trusting God for Provision

      (Psalm 23:5–6)

      THE MAIN THOUGHT

      The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. (Psalm 23:1, KJV)

      UNIFYING PRINCIPLE

      People face challenges that may seem too difficult to endure. Where can they find the support and reassurance to face these challenges? The psalmist promises that God’s love provides what is necessary to confront any difficulties and to live in a fulfilling and intimate relationship with God.

      LESSON AIM

      To examine ways that God shows goodness and mercy to people when they face challenges.

      LIFE AIM

      To trust God’s guidance through challenges and difficulties.

      BEFORE YOU TEACH

      Consider . . .

      Focus for College and Career—Young adults experience new challenges at this stage of life. They will need to learn to depend on God’s mercy and goodness.

      Focus for Adult Christian Life—Adults can see connections between their present situations and their past circumstances. They benefit from sharing with others how God has led them through difficult times.

      Supplementary Study Materials

      For further reference, see today’s lesson from Boyd’s Commentary, New National Baptist Hymnal, 21st Century Edition, #237 (NNBH, #289), and God’s Promises Bible.

      Teacher Helps

      For teaching supplements visit http://www.rhboydpublishing.com.

      First Step: Introduction. Have a class member read the Scriptures. Ask other class members to comment on any special knowledge they received as they studied these Scriptures. Open class with prayer.

      Second Step: Have your students discuss how they have had to depend on God to help them get through difficult situations at work, school, or home. How did God shepherd them in their search for peace and strength?

      Third Step: Have the entire class take 5–10 minutes to find some passages in the Bible that directly refer to God as our Shepherd. Once this task is complete, highlight 3–5 passages that everyone can use in troubling times.

      Fourth Step: Have the class divide into two or three groups and discuss how they can lead unsaved friends and family members to trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Chief Shepherd of their lives.

      Fifth Step: Close class with prayer thanking God for His leadership, restoration, and provision.

      God’s Word in Life

      One of the very first subjects any business major will study is that of leadership. There are many interpretations of leadership in the world today. There are various ways to exercise leadership: autocratic, permissive, charismatic or transformational. The best Leader to ever walk the earth was Jesus Christ. He led by displaying godly love and giving His life to save sinners from eternal death. Jesus Christ is the Chief Shepherd. He transforms lives. The people of God are the beneficiaries of His goodness and mercy. †

      — EXPOSITION —

      Introduction

      There are many people who wander aimlessly through life without any guidance in their lives. They mostly exist in a state of joylessness upon this earth. But this is not to be the way that God’s people are to experience life. We have Jesus Christ as our Lord and Chief Shepherd. He gives us unspeakable joy. His everlasting mercy and goodness is displayed toward us every day of our lives upon this earth. Jesus brings Good News to His followers. The people of God must always keep joy and happiness deep in their hearts. We must not let the bad news and bad things of this world discourage us and make us depressed.

      Christians can spread joy as a gift to wherever they go and to whomever they meet. Joy is a present that the people of God should be sharing with the world. The psalmist said, Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright (Ps. 33:1, KJV). There is already enough sadness in this world. God’s people need to be displaying the goodness of God to people who are trapped in this world’s darkness. There is a better way in Jesus Christ. Once Jesus Christ comes into a person’s heart, his or her life can be happier and better, too.

      I. Trusting God for Leadership (Psalm 23:1–2)

      Today’s text begins with words we are all familiar with: The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want (Ps. 23:1, KJV). This fact will never change. We can trust the Lord and His leadership. There is no better leader that one can have in life than God almighty. His leadership brings peace and joy into lives that otherwise would be controlled by the chaos of this world.

      William P. Brown explains it this way, A song of trust, Ps 23 introduces new, albeit complementary, imagery for the saving God of the previous psalm, namely, that of a shepherd, who provides security in ‘green pastures,’ guidance along the ‘right paths’, and abundant provision amid grave danger (Psalms, Book of in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. 4 [Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009], 669). Without God’s leadership and His everlasting peace, His people would be in a perpetual state of confusion, wandering without purpose in the world.

      Christians need God’s joy and peace in their lives. While it is human to make mistakes, we can make fewer mistakes when we trust Jesus Christ. We live more peaceably in the world. When we trust Jesus Christ to take lead in our lives, we will follow and live by the ways of God and not the ways of this world. The peace of God can keep us from making the same mistakes that so many people in the world repeatedly make in their lives. The devil tricks worldly people into doing foolish things, but the people of God must learn to follow His leadership and trust Jesus Christ to keep them from harm and danger. A child of God can rely on God’s peace, always. We must keep the love of God and the peace of Jesus Christ deep in our hearts and minds, to avoid doing wrong to others and ourselves.

      The Word of God tells believers that they have the Spirit of truth in them. As the Apostle John wrote, We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error (1 John 4:6, KJV). All Christians must learn to trust God and to seek only the things that are of Jesus Christ. God wants His people to enjoy His peace and joy. Every Christian can live in peace, free from fear, and in the Kingdom of God. A child of God must live for Jesus Christ only and never resort to the ways of this world. The people of God must live peaceably at all times before God and thereby glorify Jesus Christ who is the Lord of their lives (see John 14:27). God does not want His people returning to evil.

      For more information about THE PSALTER, visit www.rhboydpublishing.com.

      II. Trusting God for Restoration (Psalm 23:3–4)

      Today’s text contains good news for the people of God: He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake (Ps. 23:3, KJV). The world tears people down. The world wants people to work 50–60 hours a week, just to barely make a living and with no time to restore ourselves. The world even prefers when people work on weekends and take no vacations, all year long. But this is not the way that God wants His people to exist. The Lord wants to restore all people to His love. He intends that all people enjoy life at all times. As Matthew Henry has written, The believer is taught to express his satisfaction in the care of the great Pastor of the universe and the Redeemer and Preserver of men. . . . The consolations of the Holy Spirit are the still waters by which the saints are led (Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible; http://bit.ly/21eSks1). The Holy Spirit restores our souls as we follow after Jesus Christ. All we have to do is follow Him in all things, while allowing the Holy Spirit to dwell in us to enjoy the privilege of being restored.

      Christians must learn to pray more in order to keep the joyfulness of Jesus Christ deep in their hearts. God seeks to remove our burdens: Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you (John 14:1–2, KJV). The Lord wants His people to be glad even when they are experiencing great trials and tribulations. No child of God should let the evil of this world overshadow the joy they have in Jesus Christ. The psalmist explained it like this, I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety (Ps. 4:8, KJV). God desires that we experience the abundant life of the Kingdom. To do this, we must remain in prayer, in contact with our Lord. We must keep our hope in Jesus Christ’s ability to protect us. As the Apostle Paul wrote, For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (Rom. 8:18, KJV). All Christians face suffering sometimes. But by praying to God and trusting in His love, any Christian can experience the victory in Jesus Christ. When prayers go up, great blessings come back down. There will eventually be some trouble in every Christian’s life. But in the times of our worst trials and tribulation we need to stay in prayer, resting in the love of Jesus Christ, and holding God’s gladness in our hearts, along with the help of the Holy Spirit.

      SHEPHERD

      (Hebrew: ra’ah)

      As John A. Thompson notes, The analogy of the shepherd and the flock finds rich expression in Psalm 23, Ezekiel 34, and John 10. God was the Shepherd of Israel (Gn 49:24; Pss 23:1; 80:1; Is 40:11). When unfaithful shepherds failed Israel, God intervened and appointed his servant David as a faithful shepherd over them (Ez 34:11–16, 23, 24) (Trades and Occupations, in Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible [Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1988], 2091). In Psalm 23, interestingly, this word is not a noun. It is a verb that, in addition to pasture or graze, can also mean to be a friend or companion to.

      III. Trusting God for Provision (Psalm 23:5–6)

      David concluded with trust in God’s provision: Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever (Ps. 23:6, KJV). There is simply no end to the mercies of God toward His people when we are going through bad times. God

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