Adult Christian Life: October- December 2022

By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

Adult Christian Life is a best-selling quarterly study guide that is specially written for practical adult life experiences. These lessons provide clear, biblical interpretations and stimulating discussions for everyday living. It follows the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outline from the National Council of Churches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781681679600

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Vol. 126 • No. 4

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Adult Christian LIFE

FOURTH QUARTER 2022 • Vol. 126, No. 4

Adult Christian Life contains Sunday school material for mature believers. The exposition of the Scripture, with life-centered insights, is preceded by an introduction to the lesson designed to help learners gain a greater understanding of the text under discussion relative to context, content, and meaning of life.

Lesson material is based on the International Uniform Sunday School Lesson Outlines, copyrighted by the Division of Christian Education, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and is used with permission.

Scriptures taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Standard Features

INSIDE

ADULT CHRISTIAN LIFE

The Adult Christian Life quarterly has many features that appeal to adult students.

Printed Scripture Passage: The King James Version and the New Revised Standard Version are listed side by side so learners can compare traditional and contemporary translations of God’s Word. The main thought verse is highlighted in bold text.

Suggested Opening Exercises: This feature, standard to all R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation Sunday school quarterlies, remains popular among learners and leaders alike.

Quarterly Overview: This gives a general description of the lessons to be studied during the quarter.

Know It: Contextualizes the lesson and expands on its truths to stimulate additional questions, interest, or action on the part of the learners.

Remember It: Summary section that emphasizes the most relevant points of the lesson and highlights how the lesson applies to learners.

Hear It: An opportunity to listen to the relevant message of the lesson through music.

Live It: Suggestions for learners to take specific action to make the lesson a personal opportunity for spiritual enlightenment.

Share It: Suggestions for learners to spread the Bible truth learned through various mediums, such as social media or one-on-one talks.

Daily Devotional Readings: Daily Bible readings to prepare learners for the Sunday lesson experience.

Online Extras: Activities, quizzes, and additional resources for outside study via www.rhboyd.com.

Contents for Fourth Quarter

UNIT I — OUT OF SLAVERY TO NATIONHOOD

UNIT II — WE ARE GOD’S ARTWORK

UNIT III — GOD PREPARES THE WAY

Seeking God’s Guidance

Suggested Opening Exercises

1. Usual Signal for Beginning

2. Prayer (Closing with the Lord’s Prayer)

3. Singing (Song to be Selected)

4. Scripture Reading:

Psalm 124 (KJV)

Director: If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;

School: If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Director: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

School: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Director: Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

School: Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Director: Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

All: Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Recitation in Concert:

1 Thessalonians 4:4–9 (KJV)

4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

CLOSING WORK

1. Singing

2. Sentences:

Deuteronomy 10:17–21 (KJV)

17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

18 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

3. Dismissal with Prayer

Bible Study for Week of October 2, 2022

Lesson 1

A PROTECTIVE FAMILY

BACKGROUND PASSAGE: EXODUS 2:1–10, 15–22 PRINT PASSAGE: EXODUS 2:1–10

RESOURCES: New National Baptist Hymnal 21st Century Edition, Boyd’s Commentary for the Sunday School

KEY VERSE: And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. Exodus 2:2, KJV

Intro

The trauma of injustice gives birth to creative courage. From the beginning, our enslaved ancestors had to boldly create new ways to cope under the horrific oppression brought upon them through the bonds of slavery. These creative measures and courageous acts of defiance were motivated by the innate desire we all have as human beings to preserve and protect our lives. From the cryptic messages they sang in the hymns of the field, to the innovative practices of repurposing the scraps of their master’s table, our ancestors learned how to leverage all they had to survive. Perhaps they had been inspired by the creative courage demonstrated by Jochebed, Moses’ mother.

At the time of our lesson, the Pharaoh of Egypt had issued an edict requiring all male children born to the Hebrew women to be killed (1:16). They were to be thrown into the Nile River as soon as they were birthed from the womb (1:22). Moses was born under these circumstances. To preserve his life, which in turn vouchsafed his destiny, Moses’ mother had to think quickly and creatively.

This lesson features the birth and adoption of Moses that resulted, not only in the preservation of his own life, but ultimate deliverance of his people. It is a narrative that reveals the extreme lengths that one will go to protect their own and how God