God Wins Again!

God Wins Again!

Lesson 8

Memory Verse

"Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord (Psalm 23 :6).

The Message

When God wins, we are winners.

Debriefing

David turned to God for help because he knew God would show him what to do.

Multiple Choice

How many large gemstones did the ephod of priest Abiathar have?

Poll

True or False

200 soldiers were too tired to go any farther?

Poll

Did the Egyptian help David and his men find the Amalekites?

The Message

When God wins we are winners.

Multiple Choice

Who won the battle?

• David

• God

• Soldiers

Multiple Choice

Memory Verse

"Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the ____ of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Psalm 23:6).

• Nights

• Mornings

• Evenings

• Days

Bible Study

Read (1 Samuel 27: 1-3).

David among the Philistines27 But David thought to himself, ‘One of these days I shall be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.’

² So David and the six hundred men with him left and went over to Achish son of Maok king of Gath. ³ David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.

Read Matthew 20: 1-15.

The parable of the workers in the vineyard

20 ‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² He agreed to pay them a denarius^[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

³ ‘About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the market-place doing nothing. ⁴ He told them, “You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.” ⁵ So they went.

‘He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. ⁶ About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, “Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?”

⁷ ‘“Because no one has hired us,” they answered.

‘He said to them, “You also go and work in my vineyard.”

⁸ ‘When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.”

Continue

⁹ ‘The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. ¹⁰ So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. ¹¹ When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ¹² “These who were hired last worked only one hour,” they said, “and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.”

¹³ ‘But he answered one of them, “I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. ¹⁵ Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?”