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This Individual Sabbath School Offering Goal chart
will appear in each Quarterly. Systematic giving week by
week is becoming more and more a practice, and this
chart is inserted by request. Many Sabbath school mem-
bers are giving a dollar or more each week, and this goal
chart will enable them to keep an accurate record of their
covenant with God.
Sabbath School Lesson Quarterly, No. 191, January-March, 1943. 25 cents a year in
U. S. A.; 40 cents a year in Canada and foreign countries. Published in the U. S. A.
by Pacific Press Publishing Association (a corporation of S. D. A.), Mountain View,
California. Entered as second-class matter Oct. 13, 1904, at the post office in Moun-
tain View, California, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for
mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, and
authorized Sept. 18, 1918.
Copyright, 1943. by Pacific Press Publishing Association
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Sabbath School Lesson Quarterly
Lessons From the Days of the Patriarchs and Prophets
Introductory Note
In these days it is important that we understand the simple truth concerning God
ind nature. The enemy of God and righteousness has led multitudes of present-day
The Creator
1. How do the Scriptures introduce the true God? Gen. 1:1.
2. How does Isaiah identify God as one who can render infinite help?
Isa. 42:5; 45:18.
The Trinity
3. How did the Trinity unite in the work of creation? John 1:3; Eph.
3:9; Gen. 1:2.
NOTE.—" 'When He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all
truth.' Only by the aid of that Spirit who in the beginning 'was brooding upon
the face of the waters;' of that Word by whom 'all things were made;' of that
'true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world,' can the testi-
mony of science be rightly interpreted. Only by their guidance can its deepest
truths be discerned. Only under the direction of the Omniscient One shall we,
in the study of His works, be enabled to think His thoughts after Him."—
Education, page 134.
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4. How do the members of the Godhead work together for the salvation
of sinners? John 3:16; Eph. 2:18.
NOTE.—a. "God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son."
b. Jesus "gave Himself for our sins." c. "Through the eternal Spirit" (Heb.
9:14) Christ offered Himself to God. Therefore the Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit are united in the salvation of man through the new creation as they
were united in the original creation. "The Godhead was stirred with pity for
the race, and the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit gave Themselves to the
working out of the plan of redemption."—Counsels on Health, page 222.
5. How does Paul speak of God and of Christ? Eph. 1:3,17.
6. How did the Father address His Son? Heb. 1:8.
7. Who is associated with God the Father and God the Son in the work
of creation and re-creation? Matt. 28:19.
NOTE.—Associated with God the Father, and God the Son, is the Holy
Spirit, the third person of the Godhead. The closeness of that association is in-
dicated in Christ's instruction to the disciples to baptize in the name of the
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Also He speaks to His disciples of the Spirit as
His and the Father's representative among His followers until His return. "I
will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may
abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth." John 14:16, 17. That the
Comforter is Christ's representative is indicated. "I will not leave you com-
fortless: I will come to you." Verse 18. A similar statement is made in John
16:13, 14. The Comforter, the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Spirit are one and
the same. See John 14:26.
The Unity of the Trinity
8. In the plan of redemption, how is the work of the Son related to that
of the Father? John 8:28, 29; 5:19.
9. How is the work of the Holy Spirit related to that of the Son? John
16:13, 14.
10. How is the work of the Holy Spirit related to the work of the
Father? John 14:26; 15:26.
NOTE.—The Father sends the Spirit in the name of the Son, that is, as the
Son's representative. The Spirit "proceedeth from the Father," to do His work
in the earth. Hence both "Father and Son send the Spirit.
11. What important place does the Son share in the Godhead? Col. 2:9;
John 14:10.
12. How is the unity of the Godhead expressed? John 10:30; 14:11.
NOTE.—"The personality of the Father and the Son, also the unity that
exists between Them, are presented in the seventeenth chapter of John, in the
prayer of Christ for His disciples: 'Neither pray I for these alone, but for them
also which shall believe on Me through their word; that they all may be one;
as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us:
that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me.' The unity that exists be-
tween Christ and His disciples does not destroy the personality of either. They
are one in purpose, in mind, in character, but not in person. It is thus that God
and Christ are one."—The Ministry of Healing, pages 421, 422.
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13. How may the believer enter into this unity? Eph. 3:17-19; 1 John
4:15.
NOTE.—"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us"
in employing all the powers of the Godhead to save us from the power and
penalty of sin. Nothing that divine love could devise to rescue us from sin
has been left undone.
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The Sabbath school lessons during the first and, second quarters will
refer frequently to various books in the Conflict of the Ages series.
You will derive double enjoyment from the lessons this quarter by ,
studying these enlightening passages from this set and from other
spirit of prophecy books.
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