12: Please Show Me Your Glory-Sabbath School Lesson Teaching Plan

Prepared by William Earnhardt for Sabbath School Class on 20 September 2025.

Main Theme: This week, we study how Moses, through knowing and following God’s instructions, was growing in his walk with the Lord.

Read in Class: Exodus 33:12-17. Ask the class to share the main idea of this passage.

Study: What did Moses ask the Lord to teach him? Why did he demand God’s presence to guide them?

Apply: Do you know God, or do you just know about Him? What is the crucial difference between the two?

Share: Your friend says that Romans 2:4 tells us the goodness of God leads us to repentance. Your friend asks how God revealed His goodness in the book of Exodus. What do you tell your friend?

Read in Class: Exodus 33:18-23. Ask the class to share the main idea of this passage.

Study: How did God answer Moses’ request to see His glory?

Apply: How much time do you spend focusing on the Cross and what it tells you about the character of God?

Share: Your friend asks, How does your church reflect the glory of God to others. What do you tell your friend?

Read in Class: Exodus 34:6-9. Ask the class to identify the main idea of this passage.

Study: How did God reveal His glory to Moses?

Apply: How can we preach a merciful and forgiving God without it being confused with what is referred to as “cheap grace?”

Share: Your friend says that to reflect the proper balance of God’s holiness and compassion, we should be conservative towards ourselves and liberal towards others. Do you agree with your friend? Was Jesus conservative towards Himself while being liberal towards others? What do you tell your friend?

Read in Class: Exodus 34:29-35. Ask the class to share the main idea of this passage.

Study: What was the cause of Moses’ radiant face?

Apply: What areas of your character need to reflect the character of God better? Probably every area, right? However, how can focusing on the Cross, and what it means, give you encouragement and assurance of salvation?

Share: Tell about someone who reflected God’s glory to you like Moses did to Israel.

7: Mission to my Neighbor-Sabbath School Lesson Teaching Plan

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Prepared by William Earnhardt, for Sabbath School Class, November 18, 2023.

Main Theme: Our mission is to put the theory of the Gospel into practice.

Read in Class: Luke 10:25-26. Define the main idea of this passage.

Study: What did the lawyer ask and what was Jesus’ answer?

Apply: Jesus did not give his own opinion or philosophy when asked this important question. He directed the seeker straight to God’s Word to find the answer. What can we learn from this for when we are asked important questions regarding truth? Can we help people find the answer in the Word of God?

Share: Share a time a friend or even stranger was talking to you about a secular topic and you were able to use that secular topic as a springboard to share to Jesus.

Read in Class: Acts 17:11 and 2 Timothy 3:16. Define the common thread of these passages.

Study: How do these verses help us understand Jesus’ response to the lawyer in Luke 10:26?

Apply: Jesus, the Word of God made flesh, always pointed people back to the Written Word. What should this tell us about the importance of the Bible and why we must reject any philosophical or theological reasoning that lessens our trust in the Bible?

Share: Your friend tells you that while the Adventist church teachers the Bible over tradition that some traditions are not bad. He also insinuates that some Adventists have their own traditions apart from the Bible. Is your friend right? What do you tell your friend?

Read in Class: Luke 10:27-28. Define the main idea of this passage. Define the main idea of this passage.

Study: What was the lawyer’s answer to his own question?

Apply: Read James 1:26 and James 2:17-22. How do these verses relate to what Jesus told the lawyer? How successful are you at putting God’s Word into practice? Especially when it come to showing love and compassion to those who may not be too loveable?

Share: Share a time you were a good Samaritan. Don’t be shy. We are not bragging we are encouraging others to put the Gospel into practice.

Read in Class: Luke 10:30-37. Define the main idea of this passage.

Study: How would you summarize Jesus’ meaning in the story here?

Challenge: Begin praying daily for someone who is different from you, or even for someone you may not personally like.

Challenge Up: List at least three names of your acquaintances (non-Adventists); identify their needs (emotional, physical, social), and consider how you can minister personally to those needs. What can you do practically for them in the coming week?