bible lesson?

Question

I'm supposed to write a bible lesson but there is so many to choose from! Please help... I'm looking for something along the lines of Having Joy, Keeping Christ in Your Life, The Beatitudes or something like that. Something that is common, easy to research, simple, and wont take long. What do you suggest? Thanks!

also, i need to be able to write 10 questions about the lesson so I can quiz others

Answer 1

Read I Corinthinas 13 and do a study on the word "agapao".

Answer 2

Why not make a lesson out of what you are reading in your own personal bible study time?

Why are you wanting to go with "common, easy, simple, and won't take long"?

Your giving a lesson - not something that has been repeatedly taught from the same perspective over and over. You are accountable to God for what you teach. Consider the following verses:

2Ti 2:24 And it is necessary [for] a servant of the Lord not to be fighting [fig., disputing; or, fig., quarrelsome], _but_ to be gentle towards all, skillful at teaching, tolerant [or, patient when wronged],
2Ti 2:25 in gentleness [or, humility] instructing the ones opposing, [if] perhaps God shall grant to them repentance [leading] to a full [or, true] knowledge [or, an acknowledging] of the truth,
2Ti 2:26 and they regain their senses [and escape] from the Devil's snare, having been captured alive to [do] that one's will.

To teach is to be taken seriously, with much prayer, and research. You never know the condition of those that you are suppose to be teaching.

Answer 3

I would suggest picking a chapter and exploring it. Romans would be good or if you want a little controversy try "Songs of Solomon"

Answer 4

Keep it focused on Jesus.

Paul calls him the "image of the invisible God"

In all aspects, if you want to know what God is like, you can look to Jesus.

Answer 5

Beatitudes would be perfect.

Answer 6

How about: Is God A Criminal?

The Bible Atrocities:
1. God gets angry with all of the people on Earth, and kills every living thing on Earth, with a few notable exceptions (Genesis 6 & 7).
2. God heeded the prayers of the Jews and helped the Jews to "utterly destroy" the Canaanites. Later, God told the Jews that they would leave "no survivors" (including women and children) from among the whole people when they battled the followers of King Og of Bashan. In between those two, the Jews battled the followers of King Sihon of Heshbon, who "God had given him a resistant spirit and stubborn determination" so that he would not surrender his people, and for "even the women and children; there was not a single survivor." (Numbers, Chapter 21; and Deuteronomy, Chapters 2 and 3.)
3. When the Jews fought the Midianites, the Jewish army killed all of the men, but brought back all of the women and children to Moses, who was then furious at this disobedience of God. Moses ordered all of the male children killed, and all of the females who were not virgins. 32,000 virgin females remained alive; all of the other Midianite people were killed. It is unclear from the text whether or not 32 of these virgins were sacrificed to God (human sacrifice). The Jews enslaved all of the virgin females who lived. (Numbers, Chapters 25 and 31.)
4. God instructed the Jews that when they invaded the territory that God had granted to them, as for the inhabitants, "you must utterly annihilate them. Make no covenant with them nor show them compassion!" (Deuteronomy, Chapter 7.) God instructed the Jews that, when confronting other people who lived on land other than that granted to the Jews, they could give them an offer of perpetual slavery for their whole population, or else they could kill all the males and take the women and little children as slaves. (Deuteronomy, Chapter 20.) God set rules for male Jews who desired to take a wife from among these captives. (Deuteronomy, Chapter 21.)
5. When invading Jericho, as instructed by God, the Jews "annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well cattle, sheep, and donkeys." (Joshua, Chapter 6.)
6. When taking Ai, as instructed by God, the Jews "annihilated all who lived in Ai," including all of the men, women, and children. (Joshua, Chapter 8.)
7. Acting on God's instructions, the Jews "annihilated everyone who lived in" Makkedah. At Libnah, they again "left no survivors." At Lachish, "they put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah." At Eglon, "they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish." At Hebron, "they annihilated it and all who lived there." Again at Debir, "they annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors." "Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded." (Joshua, Chapter 10.)
8. At Hazor, "They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword—no one who breathed remained." "The Israelites plundered all the loot of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live." "Moses the Lord's servant passed on the Lord's commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the Lord had given Moses." "No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon); they had to conquer all of them," "for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses." (Joshua, Chapter 11.)
9. King Saul of Israel, acting on God's orders, "captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all his people with the sword." (Later, God got angry for this "disobedience" of leaving the king alive and for other matters.) (I Samuel, Chapter 15.)

By any measure, a person condoning these acts would be a criminal, so is God exempt from punishment?

Answer 7

I suggest your lesson to be on forgiveness...

We all need it...and we all need to give it.

Best wishes!