What ruling principle in their hearts led them to this design? Ps. xlix. 11. What is said of the pomp and glory of man in Ps. xlix. 17? Where should you desire to have a name and a place? Will this be taken away at death? 5. Did the Lord notice this design of the children of men? What is probably meant by the expression "the Lord came down to see ?" What is written in Prov. xv. 3? 6. What did the Lord say concerning the people? What did he say of their ability to do whatever they imagined? What sort of actions would they be most likely to imagine? Gen. viii. 21. Why can people who are one, and have one language, do more than those who are divided? 7. What did the Lord say he would go down and do? How is this language of God, "let us go down," to be accounted for? John i. 1, 2. What is meant here by "confound their language?" How would that oblige them to stop? 8. What did the Lord then do to the chil dren of men? Did they go on with the city and tower? 9. What was the name of that place therefore called? Why was it called so? What is meant by the word "Babel ?" What was this city afterwards called? What was its character, and how is it spoken of in the Bible? Is this city still remaining? What other great city was built about the same time? Gen. x. 11. Does not the variety of languages spoken throughout the earth impede the progress of the Gospel? What are Christians doing to overcome this difficulty? How did God provide against this in the first ages of the Christian church, on the day of Pentecost? Verses 27-32. 27. From which of Noah's sons was Terah descended? What were the names of Terah's three sons? What was the name of Haran's son? What relation then was Lot to Abram? 28. When and where did Haran die? What is meant by the land of his nativity? Where was Ur situated? Did Terah and his family worship the true God? Josh. xxiv. 2. 29. What was the name of Abram's wife? What was the name of Nahor's wife, and whose daughter was she? 30. Had Sarai any children? 31. Whom did Terah take with him when he went out from Ur of the Chaldees? Into what land were they going? What was the reason of their removal? Gen. xii. 1. To what place did Terah and his family come? What is this place called in the New Testament, Acts vii. 4? 32. How old was Terah? Where did he die? LESSON X. Genesis, Chap. xii. verses 1-5, Chap. xiii. verses 14-18, and Chap. xv. verses 1—6. The Calling of Abram. 1. Of whom does this lesson give an account? What had the Lord said to Abram? In what country did Abram live? By what other name is Abram's country called in Acts vii. 2? Had Abram obeyed God's command, and left his country? At what place did he stop on his way to Canaan? Did God tell Abram to what country he was to go? For what purpose did the Lord choose Abram, and bring him out from among idolaters? What are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in Luke xiv. 33? What directions are given to Christians respecting the people and customs of the world in 2 Cor. vi. 17? Can any person be a real Christian if his conduct is like that of the people of the world, who are not Christians? 2. What did the Lord promise to make of Abram? What was meant by this promise? Do you find any account of the fulfilment of this promise in the Bible? What besides did the Lord promise to do for Abram? How has the name of Abram been made great according to this promise? What does the Lord call Abram in Isaiah xli. 8? What did God say he should be? What is it to be a blessing? How have Abram and his nation been a blessing to us How must we conduct ourselves, if we would be blessing to those around us? 3. What did the Lord declare he would de towards Abram's friends and enemies? Will not God thus take the part of all who follow Abram's faith-or all true believers ? What farther promise is made to Abram in the third verse? Who came from Abram's family to bless all the nations of the earth? What did the Apostle Peter say about this promise to the Jews, in Acts iii. 25, 26? What is written concerning this promise in Gal. iii. 8? Had Abram a belief in a Saviour to come? John viii. 56. 4. Did Abram leave his country at God's command? Did he know any thing of the country to which he was going? Upon whose word did he depend? What is written of him in this particular in Heb. xi. 8? Does God call you to come out from an ungodly world, and seek another country even a heavenly? Why do so few obey the call of God, and still cleave to sin and the world? Who went with Abram? Who was Lot? How old was Abram at this time? Repeat Stephen's account of the calling and removal of Abram in Acts vii. 2-4. 5. What and whom did Abram take with him besides Lot? What is meant by "their substance that they had gathered?" Gen. xiii. 25. Into what land did they go? What were the boundaries of Canaan? Why was it afterwards called Palestine ? By what other names was this land afterwards called? Chap. xiii. verses 14-18. 14. What did the Lord tell Ahram to do, after Lot was separated from him? Why did Abram and Lot separate? Read verses 6-13. What place did Lot choose? What sort of people lived there? 15. What did the Lord say he would give Abram? To whom, besides Abram, did God promise the land? What glorious place has God promised to all that believe and obey him? Had Abram any children at this time? 16. What promise did the Lord give Abram concerning the number of his seed? |