June 15
Lesson 3
LIVE PURE LIVES
DEVOTIONAL READING: 1 Peter 1:13–21
BACKGROUND SCRIPTURE: Haggai 2:10–19
HAGGAI 2:10–19
12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
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KEY VERSE
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.—Haggai 2:19
THE PEOPLE OF GOD SET PRIORITIES
Unit 1: Hope and Confidence Come from God
LESSONS 1–4
LESSON AIMS
After participating in this lesson, each student will be able to:
1. Explain God’s instructions through Haggai about purity and its impact on the rebuilding of the temple.
2. Compare and contrast the effects of the people’s impurity on their “success” with the impact purity and impurity have on people’s successes and failures today.
3. Identify one area in his or her life where purity is compromised and make a plan for change.
LESSON OUTLINE
Introduction
A. Some Assembly Required
B. Lesson Background
I. Asking Questions (HAGGAI 2:10–13)
A. About Purity (vv. 10–12)
B. About Defilement (v. 13)
That Which Contaminates
II. Applying the Answers (HAGGAI 2:14–19)
A. The People’s Problem (v. 14)
B. The Lord’s Punishment (vv. 15–17)
The Lord Still Controls
C. The Lord’s Provision (vv. 18, 19)
Conclusion
A. Purity Then
B. Purity Now
C. Prayer
D. Thought to Remember
Redford, Douglas et al. “Live Pure Lives.” The KJV Standard Lesson Commentary, 2013–2014. Ed. Ronald L. Nickelson & Jonathan Underwood. Vol. 61. Cincinnati, OH: Standard Publishing, 2013. 358. Print.
Redford, Douglas et al. “Live Pure Lives.” The KJV Standard Lesson Commentary, 2013–2014. Ed. Ronald L. Nickelson & Jonathan Underwood. Vol. 61. Cincinnati, OH: Standard Publishing, 2013. 357. Print.
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