The Sunday School Lesson God's Word Cites Outside Sources by David McGee
May 21, 2023
God's Word Cites Outside Sources (40:58)
Referenced Scriptures: Joshua 10:6-14; 2 Samuel 1:17-27; Acts 17:16-32; Titus 1:7-14; Jude 1:11-16
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Joshua 10:6-14
6) The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don‘t slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
7) So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
8) Yahweh said to Joshua, Don‘t fear them: for I have delivered them into your hands; there shall not a man of them stand before you.
9) Joshua therefore came on them suddenly; [for] he went up from Gilgal all the night.
10) Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.
11) It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
12) Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still on Gibeon; You, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
13) The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn‘t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn‘t hurry to go down about a whole day.
14) There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel.
2 Samuel 1:17-27
17) David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
18) (and he bade them teach the children of Judah [the song of] the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
19) Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!
20) Don‘t tell it in Gath, Don‘t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
21) You mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
22) From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan didn‘t turn back, The sword of Saul didn‘t return empty.
23) Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, In their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
24) You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet delicately, Who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
25) How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
26) I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant have you been to me: Your love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.
27) How are the mighty fallen, The weapons of war perished!
Acts 17:16-32
16) Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
17) So he reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
18) Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign demons," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19) They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?
20) For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
21) Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
22) Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
23) For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.‘ What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
24) The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,
25) neither is he served by men‘s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
26) He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation,
27) that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28) ‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.‘ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.‘
29) Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and device of man.
30) The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all men everywhere should repent,
31) because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."
32) Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you yet again concerning this."
Titus 1:7-14
7) For the overseer must be blameless, as God‘s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
8) but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober-minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
9) holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
10) For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
11) whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain‘s sake.
12) One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons."
13) This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
14) not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
Jude 1:11-16
11) Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah‘s rebellion.
12) These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13) wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
14) To these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
15) to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
16) These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.
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