Prepared by William Earnhardt, for Sabbath School class, March 9, 2024.

Main Theme: Each generation of God’s people plays a small but significant part in the grand historical unfolding of God’s sovereign purposes in the great controversy.

Read in Class: Psalm 105. Define the main idea of this passage.

Study:  What historical events and their lessons are highlighted in this psalm?

Apply: How should we, as Seventh-day Adventists, see ourselves in this line of people, from Abraham on? (See Galatians 3:29.) What lessons should we learn from this history?

Share: Your friend asks, why do we need to study the stories of the Old Testament when those laws don’t deal with us anymore. We are in the New Testament now? What do you tell your friend?

Read in Class: Psalm 106:1-23. Define the main idea of this passage.

Study: What historical events and their lessons are highlighted in this psalm?

Apply: Psalms 106:13 reads: “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel” (NKJV). Why is that so easy for us to do in our own lives, as well?

Share: Your friend mentiones that Pslam 106:12 says they sang praises and Exodus 15 says Mirriam the prophetess led the people in singing and celebrating the Egytpians demise in the Red Sea. Why were they celebrating the death of the wicked? We aren’t supposed to celebrate anyone’s death are we? What do you tell your friend?

Read in Class: Psalm 80. Define the main idea of this passage.

Study: How are God’s people portrayed in this psalm, and what great hope do they plead for?

Apply: How have you experienced for yourself repentance as a return to God?

Share: Your friend says he has done too many bady things and it is too late in life for him to seek forgiveness and change his ways. What do you tell your friend?

Read in Class: Psalm 135. Define the main idea of this passage.

Study: What historical events are highlighted in the psalm? What lessons does the psalmist draw from them?

Apply: How can we make sure that we don’t have idols in our own lives? Why might idolatry be easier to do than we realize?

Share: Your friend says the reason history repeats itself is because human nature is the same regardless of place and time. Studying history is actually studying human nature. She asks what lessons history (In the Bible and even our history school books) has taught you, and how studying history has stopped you from repeating the mistakes of those we lived befroe us? What do you tell your friend?