SUNDAY SCHOOL, EBCC DELHI
Date: 24 February, 2013 (Sunday)
Time: 11 A.M.
Place: EBC Church, Nasirpur, New Delhi
The Worship Service started with the Local Pastor reading from the Scripture and having the opening prayer. This was followed by mass prayer and Upa Damsawmthang dedicated the monetary offerings to the Lord. Praise and Worship was led by the Worship Team..
The Local Secretary, Upa Kamsuanthang read out the names of new members of the Church and the Local Pastor had for induction prayer for them. This Sunday’s program is Sunday School and the lesson is from Mark 1-3. The Pastor gave a brief explanation on the important parts of the passages.
Chapter 1:
A. John, the Baptist and his Message (1-8): The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah,the Son of God, was expressed through the prophet like Isaiah in the Old Testament. What “voice in the wilderness” signifies in Isiah is John, the Baptist. John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. He baptised with water.
B. Baptism of Jesus (9-13): Why Jesus was baptised-to follow the law, to prove that He is the Son of God, to proclaim that He is the Messiah and (iv) to prove that his not just God in the garb of man but a real human being. When Jesus was baptized, heaven opened and the Spirit descended on Him like a dove. He was in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by Satan.
C. Commencement of work and calling of the first disciples (14-20): Jesus started his work in Galilee. He called his first disciples Simon, Andrew, James and John.
D. Driving out an impure spirit in Capernaum (21-28): This happens on the day of Sabbath.
E. Healing of Simon’s mother-in-law (29-34): Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with fever. Jesus took her hand, helped her up and then she was healed. Jesus also healed many others there.
F. Jesus prays in solitary place (35-39): Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Simon and his companions went to look for him, and when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!”. Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.” So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.
G. Healing of a leprosy patient (40-45): Jesus healed a man with leprosy and told him to go to the priest and not tell anyone. But the man instead went out and spread the news.
Chapter 2:
A. Healing of paralysed man (1-12): When Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” The question arises whether it is right to heal on the day of Sabbath. Pharisees saw only people’s wrongdoing during Sabbath, but Jesus heals and do good deeds.
B. Jesus calls Levi (13-17): This Levi is believed to be Matthew. Jesus had dinner at Levi’s house with many tax collectors and sinners. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners? Jesus replied, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
C. Jesus questioned about fasting (18-22): Jesus was asked, “How is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees are fasting, but yours are not?” Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.
D. Jesus questioned about Sabbath (23-28): One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
Chapter 3:
A. Jesus heals on the Sabbath (1-12): When Jesus healed on the Sabbath, he was questioned. Jesus answered, “Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?”
B. Appointment of Twelve Disciples (13-19): Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve (i) that they might be with him (ii) that he might send them out to preach and (iii) to have authority to drive out demons.
C. Jesus accused of possessed by demon (20-30): When the teachers of the law accused Him that He is possessed by Beelzebul as he is driving out demons, Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come. In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s house. Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
D. Right Brotherhood (31-35): A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”
After the Sunday School class was completed, the service concluded with the congregation saying the the Lord’s Prayer.
-Joyful Tonsing,
(Media Team)
