Transcript WHAT IS CONFIRMATION?

LESSON 11
THE SECOND
AND THIRD
COMMANDMENTS
THE SECOND
COMMANDMENT:
Love for
God’s Name
WHAT IS
GOD’S NAME?
Exodus 20:7
7
"You shall not misuse the name of
the LORD your God, for the LORD
will not hold anyone guiltless who
misuses his name.
WHAT IS GOD’S NAME?
EVERYTHING
THAT STANDS
FOR GOD
WHAT GOD’S
PEOPLE DON’T
WANT TO DO:
WHAT GOD’S PEOPLE
DON’T WANT TO DO:
Use God’s name in vain, that is,
uselessly, carelessly, or for an evil
purpose
James 3:10
10Out
of the same mouth come
praise and cursing. My brothers,
this should not be.
What God’s People Don’t
Want To Do
1. By cursing (wishing evil from God on
someone or something)
1 Samuel 17
1
Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at
Socoh in Judah. They pitched camp at Ephes Dammim, between
Socoh and Azekah. 2 Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in
the Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines.
3 The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the
valley between them.
4 A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the
Philistine camp. He was over nine feet tall. 5 He had a bronze helmet
on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five
thousand shekels; 6 on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze
javelin was slung on his back. 7 His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod,
and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went
ahead of him.
8 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why do you come
out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the
servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. 9 If he
is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I
overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve
us." 10 Then the Philistine said, "This day I defy the ranks of Israel!
Give me a man and let us fight each other." 11 On hearing the
Philistine's words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and
terrified.
1 Samuel 17
12
Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from
Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time he was
old and well advanced in years. 13 Jesse's three oldest sons had
followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second,
Abinadab; and the third, Shammah. 14 David was the youngest. The
three oldest followed Saul, 15 but David went back and forth from Saul
to tend his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
16 For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and
evening and took his stand.
17 Now Jesse said to his son David, "Take this ephah of roasted grain
and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their
camp. 18 Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit.
See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them.
19 They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah,
fighting against the Philistines."
20 Early in the morning David left the flock with a shepherd, loaded up
and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army
was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. 21 Israel and
the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other.
1 Samuel 17
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David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle
lines and greeted his brothers. 23 As he was talking with them, Goliath,
the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and
shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. 24 When the Israelites
saw the man, they all ran from him in great fear.
25 Now the Israelites had been saying, "Do you see how this man keeps
coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great
wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in
marriage and will exempt his father's family from taxes in Israel."
26 David asked the men standing near him, "What will be done for the
man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel?
Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of
the living God?"
27 They repeated to him what they had been saying and told him, "This
is what will be done for the man who kills him."
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1 Samuel 17
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When Eliab, David's oldest brother, heard him speaking with the
men, he burned with anger at him and asked, "Why have you come
down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the
desert? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is;
you came down only to watch the battle."
29 "Now what have I done?" said David. "Can't I even speak?" 30 He
then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter,
and the men answered him as before. 31 What David said was
overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
32 David said to Saul, "Let no one lose heart on account of this
Philistine; your servant will go and fight him."
33 Saul replied, "You are not able to go out against this Philistine and
fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his
youth."
34 But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's
sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the
flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth.
When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36
Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised
Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of
the living God.
28
1 Samuel 17
37
The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of
the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine."
Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you."
38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on
him and a bronze helmet on his head. 39 David fastened on his sword
over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to
them.
"I cannot go in these," he said to Saul, "because I am not used to
them." So he took them off. 40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose
five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his
shepherd's bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the
Philistine.
41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him,
kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked David over and saw that he
was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him. 43 He said
to David, "Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?" And the
Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 "Come here," he said, "and
I'll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!"
45 David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and
spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the
LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you
have defied.
1 Samuel 17
46
This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down
and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine
army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole
world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here
will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the
battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."
48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly
toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking
out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The
stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone;
without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed
him.
51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine's sword
and drew it from the scabbard. After he killed him, he cut off his head
with the sword.
When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and
ran. 52 Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout
and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of
Ekron. Their dead were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and
Ekron.
1 Samuel 17
53
When the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines, they
plundered their camp. 54 David took the Philistine's head and brought
it to Jerusalem, and he put the Philistine's weapons in his own tent.
55 As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to
Abner, commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is that young
man?"
Abner replied, "As surely as you live, O king, I don't know."
56 The king said, "Find out whose son this young man is."
57 As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took
him and brought him before Saul, with David still holding the
Philistine's head.
58 "Whose son are you, young man?" Saul asked him.
David said, "I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem."
What God’s People Don’t
Want To Do
1. By cursing (wishing evil from God on someone or
something)
2. By blaspheming (mocking God)
Mark 6:21-28
21Finally
the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a
banquet for his high officials and military commanders and the
leading men of Galilee. 22When the daughter of Herodias came in
and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests.
23The king said to the girl, "Ask me for anything you want, and I'll
give it to you." And he promised her with an oath, "Whatever
you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom."
24She went out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?"
"The head of John the Baptist," she answered.
25At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: "I want
you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."
26The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths
and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. 27So he
immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head.
The man went, beheaded John in the prison, 28and brought back his
head on a platter. He presented it to the girl, and she gave it to her
mother.
What God’s People Don’t
Want To Do
1. By cursing (wishing evil from God on someone or
something)
2. By blaspheming (mocking God)
3. By swearing (taking an oath) falsely or unnecessarily
1 Samuel 28: 13-25
13
The king said to her, "Don't be afraid. What do you see?"
The woman said, "I see a spirit coming up out of the ground."
14 "What does he look like?" he asked.
"An old man wearing a robe is coming up," she said.
Then Saul knew it was Samuel, and he bowed down and prostrated himself
with his face to the ground.
15 Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?"
"I am in great distress," Saul said. "The Philistines are fighting against me, and
God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or
by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do."
16 Samuel said, "Why do you consult me, now that the LORD has turned away
from you and become your enemy? 17 The LORD has done what he predicted
through me. The LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hands and given it to
one of your neighbors-to David. 18 Because you did not obey the LORD or carry
out his fierce wrath against the Amalekites, the LORD has done this to you
today. 19 The LORD will hand over both Israel and you to the Philistines, and
tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The LORD will also hand over
the army of Israel to the Philistines."
1 Samuel 28: 13-25
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Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, filled with fear
because of Samuel's words. His strength was gone, for he had eaten
nothing all that day and night.
21 When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken,
she said, "Look, your maidservant has obeyed you. I took my life in my
hands and did what you told me to do. 22 Now please listen to your
servant and let me give you some food so you may eat and have the
strength to go on your way."
23 He refused and said, "I will not eat."
But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them.
He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.
24 The woman had a fattened calf at the house, which she butchered at
once. She took some flour, kneaded it and baked bread without yeast.
25 Then she set it before Saul and his men, and they ate. That same
night they got up and left.
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What God’s People Don’t
Want To Do
1. By cursing (wishing evil from God on someone or
something)
2. By blaspheming (mocking God)
3. By swearing (taking an oath) falsely or unnecessarily
4. By turning to superstition (trusting something other
than God’s Word)
Matthew 15:1-9
1Then
some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from
Jerusalem and asked, 2"Why do your disciples break the tradition of
the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!"
3Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the
sake of your tradition? 4For God said, 'Honor your father and mother'
and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
5But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help
you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,'
6he is not to 'honor his father ' with it. Thus you nullify the word of
God for the sake of your tradition. 7You hypocrites! Isaiah was right
when he prophesied about you:
8" 'These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
9They worship me in vain;
their teachings are but rules taught by men.' "
What God’s People Don’t
Want To Do
1. By cursing (wishing evil from God on someone or
something)
2. By blaspheming (mocking God)
3. By swearing (taking an oath) falsely or unnecessarily
4. By turning to superstition (trusting something other
than God’s Word)
5. By teaching false doctrine (teaching against the Bible)
Acts 5:1-11
1Now
a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of
property. 2With his wife's full knowledge he kept back part of the money for
himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles' feet.
3Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you
have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you
received for the land? 4Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was
sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a
thing? You have not lied to men but to God."
5When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who
heard what had happened. 6Then the young men came forward, wrapped up his
body, and carried him out and buried him.
7About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8Peter
asked her, "Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?"
"Yes," she said, "that is the price."
9Peter said to her, "How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The
feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you
out also."
10At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in
and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11Great
fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.
What God’s People Don’t
Want To Do
1. By cursing (wishing evil from God on someone or
something)
2. By blaspheming (mocking God)
3. By swearing (taking an oath) falsely or unnecessarily
4. By turning to superstition (trusting something other
than God’s Word)
5. By teaching false doctrine (teaching against the Bible)
6. By hypocrisy (pretending to be a believer, deceiving
people)
WHAT GOD
WANTS TO SEE
IN HIS
PEOPLE
Psalm 50:15
15
and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
What God Wants To See in His
People
1. Sincere prayer
Psalm 103:1-2
1
Praise the LORD , O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD , O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits-
Psalm 118:1
1
Give thanks to the LORD , for he is good;
his love endures forever.
What God Wants To See in His
People
1. Sincere prayer
2. Joyful praise and thanksgiving
1 Peter 2:9
 9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you
may declare the praises of him who called you out
of darkness into his wonderful light.
What God Wants To See in His
People
1. Sincere prayer
2. Joyful praise and thanksgiving
3. Praising Jesus to others
(witnessing)
WHY GOD’S
CHILDREN
LOVE TO USE
GOD’S NAME
RIGHTLY
Psalm 103:1-3
 1 Praise the LORD , O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD , O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
Why God’s Children Love To
Use God’s Name Rightly
1. God revealed His name to
save us
2. We therefore love Him and His
holy name
3. We want others to love
Him too
THE THIRD
COMMANDMENT:
Love for God’s Word
and Worship
Words to Know
1. SABBATH
REST
2. KEEP HOLY
SET APART FOR
SACRED USE, FOR
GOD’S PURPOSES
WHAT GOD
REQUIRES:
That we set apart time
for Him, His Word, and
His worship
Matthew 11:28-29
28"Come
to me, all you who are weary and
burdened, and I
will give you
rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn
from me, for I am gentle and humble in
heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
What God Requires
1. To get spiritual rest through forgiveness
John 8:47

47He
who belongs to God hears what God says. The
reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to
God."
Psalm 122:1
 1 I rejoiced with those who said to me,
"Let us go to the house of the LORD ."
What God Requires
1. To get spiritual rest through forgiveness
2. To gladly hear and learn His Word
Hebrews 10:24-26
24And
let us consider how we may spur one another
on toward love and good deeds. 25Let us not give
up meeting together, as some are in the habit of
doing, but let us encourage one another--and
all the more as you see the Day approaching. 26If
we deliberately keep on sinning after we have
received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for
sins is left,
What God Requires
1. To get spiritual rest through forgiveness
2. To gladly hear and learn His Word
3. To assemble with fellow believers
Psalm 100:2-3

Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
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What God Requires
1. To get spiritual rest through forgiveness
2. To gladly hear and learn His Word
3. To assemble with fellow believers
4. To publicly worship and serve Him
WHY GOD’S
CHILDREN
LOVE
GOD’S WORD
AND
GOD’S DAY
Why God’s Children Love
God’s Word and God’s Day
1. We want spiritual rest in Christ
2 Peter 3:18

18But
grow in the grace and knowledge of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory
both now and forever! Amen.
Why God’s Children Love
God’s Word and God’s Day
1. We want spiritual rest in Christ
2. We want to grow in grace and
Bible knowledge
Colossians 3:16

16Let
the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you
teach and admonish one another with all
wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and
spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to
God.
Why God’s Children Love
God’s Word and God’s Day
1. We want spiritual rest in Christ
2. We want to grow in grace and
Bible knowledge
3. We want to serve one another
4. We want to publicly praise God
before others
FOR DISCUSSION
1. The right day for worship –
Colossians 2:16-17
Colossians 2:16-17
16Therefore
do not let anyone judge you by what you
eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a
New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17These
are a shadow of the things that were to come; the
reality, however, is found in Christ.
FOR DISCUSSION
1. The right day for worship –
Colossians 2:16-17
2. Worship on Sunday
3. Proper behavior in church
4. How to get the most out of a sermon
5. The Order of Service
6. The Church Year
ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK
1.
Study carefully the notes you have taken in class; be sure you understand
them.
2.
Study carefully questions # 41-62 in the Catechism. Be able to answer these
questions in your own words.
3.
Complete the “Working with God’s Word” section. Parents, please check .
4.
Memorize these Bible verses:
VIP Psalm 103:1-2 – “Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being,
praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits.”
Hebrews 10:25 – “Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the
habit of doing, but let us encourage on another - - and all the more as you see
the Day approaching.”
5.
Memorize the 4th and 5th Commandments and What Does This Mean?
6.
Complete Worksheet #11 at home and have your parents correct it with the
Answer Key.
ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT WEEK
7. Complete Key Truths Sheet and be ready to
take a quiz at our review session
on Wednesday, December 8th.
KEY TRUTHS
God’s Name is __________ that stands for
God. God gave his name to ________to
him, joyfully ________ him and to
______ to others. Sabbath means
______. We find spiritual rest only in the
_________ of sins through Jesus. We
hear of that rest only in the ______ of God.
God wants us to gather to ______ and
_______ his word, and _______ and
_________ him.
Closing Prayer
 Dear Father in heaven, I want to grow in my
knowledge of you. That will only happen as I’m in
your holy Bible. Help me to do my work faithfully
this week, out of love for you. Amen.