Lesson 11: Walking Humbly with God

Lesson 11

Walking Humbly with God

Open Ended

Proverbs 2:10

Open Ended

Catechism Q11: Can you see God?

Minor Prophets

• Today we will learn about Jonah, Micah, Nahum, and Habakkuk

• Jonah and Nahum spoke about God's judgement against Nineveh

• Micah and Habakkuk prophesied to Judah about God's judgement

Inquire 11: Jonah's Journeys

• Follow Jonah's journey by completing the activities.

Jonah's Message: What did Jonah say to the people of Nineveh?

Jonah 3:4

Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

How did the people in Nineveh respond to Jonah's message?

• They believed his message

• The king repented and issued a proclamation for everyone to repent

What did God do?

• God had mercy and did not destroy them

• Jonah was angry because Nineveh was an enemy of Israel

Jonah and the Vine

• God used a vine to teach Jonah a lesson

• God said (Jonah 4:11): "And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?"

• God has mercy and concern for people who are lost

Inquire 11: Micah's Message

• Read Micah 1:1 and fill in the blanks

• The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem

• Read Micah's message to the people

Micah delivered bad news and good news

• Bad news: God's people will be punished because of their sins

• Good news: God will not punish them forever. He will have mercy and forgive them.

What does God expect us to do?

• Do justice! - do the right thing even if it's hard

• Love kindness! - be kind to others, be considerate and merciful and understanding

• Walk humbly with your God! - remember who God is, submit to God, listen to his instructions

Inquire 11- Nahum: God Rules!

• God spared Nineveh when Jonah prophesied to them

• Some time later Nahum also prophesied that they would be destroyed for their wickedness

• This time God fulfilled Nahum's prophecy and Nineveh was destroyed

Inquire 11-Habakkuk's Questions

• Habakkuk lived during the same time as Jeremiah

• Israel had already fallen to the Assyrians in the north (see picture)

• In the south, Judah continued to sin

• Habakkuk asked God some hard questions and God answered him

How did Habakkuk feel about God's answer?

• Habakkuk 3:16

• I hear, and my body trembles;

      my lips quiver at the sound;

  rottenness enters into my bones;

      my legs tremble beneath me.

  Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble

      to come upon people who invade us.

• He was afraid but willing to trust God and wait patiently

Habakkuk's Hymn

Habakkuk 3:17-18

Though the fig tree should not blossom,

    nor fruit be on the vines,

the produce of the olive fail

    and the fields yield no food,

the flock be cut off from the fold

    and there be no herd in the stalls,

yet I will rejoice in the Lord;

    I will take joy in the God of my salvation.

Review Proverbs 2:1-10

1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

3 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,

5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

8 guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

10 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Catechism Q12: Does God know all things?

Yes. Nothing can be hidden from God.