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SUGGESTED OPENING EXERCISES
1. Usual Signal for Beginning
2. Prayer (Closing with the Lord’s Prayer)
3. Singing (Songs to be Selected)
4. Scripture Reading: Psalm 100 (KJV)
Director: Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
School: Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Director: Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
School: Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
All: For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Recitation in Concert:
James 3:3–8 (KJV)
3Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
4Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Closing Work
1. Singing
2. Opening Sentences: Isaiah 9:6–10 (KJV)
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
3. Dismissal with Prayer
| STUDY FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 4, 2020 | LESSON 1 |
A TRUE FRIEND INTERVENES
Unifying Topic: Love and Devotion to Others
Focal Scripture: 1 Samuel 19:1–7 • Background Scripture: 1 Samuel 19:1–7; 23:1–18; 2 Samuel 9
LET’S GET STARTED
As young adults, hopefully, you respect your parents now more than ever. However, your parents are not as involved with whom you choose to become friends. Not that long ago, you knew when your parents did not approve of certain friends. Now you probably relate to your parents differently as young adults than you did in childhood. In today’s lesson, Jonathan, son of King Saul, was torn between family loyalty and commitment to do what was right in his eyes. Despite the fact that Saul behaved as an enemy of David, David chose to love Saul. Love is not always an easy prospect, especially in David’s situation. David’s love for Saul, who saw him as an enemy, and Jonathan’s devotion to do what was right are examples of inclusive love. God commands us to do both.
REMEMBER THIS
And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good.
1 Samuel 19:4, KJV
Additional Resource
Boyd’s Commentary for the Sunday School
Get into the Lesson
1. AN ADVOCATE IN JONATHAN
(1 SAMUEL 19:1–3)
| King James Version | New Revised Standard Version |
| AND Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. | SAUL spoke with his son Jonathan and with all his servants about killing David. But Saul’s son Jonathan took great delight in David. |
| 2 But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself: | 2 Jonathan told David, “My father Saul is trying to kill you; therefore be on guard tomorrow morning; stay in a secret place and hide yourself. |
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3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and
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