Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 3 | THE OT WITNESS TO CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM: THE PROMISE GIVEN / 133

absolute determination to fulfill his Word? This is the ground of our faith, the heart of our worship, and the basis of our reading of the Scriptures. This divine promise coursed through the sacred history of the people of Israel until it was fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. He is the center and end of all salvific work that God conducts in this world. Isn’t it amazing that our God, this great God, is a God of promise who fulfilled it in the person of Jesus Christ? Isn’t it wonderful to know that the one who promised us will never change his mind, but will fulfill his sacred promise, to the glory of his name, and the salvation of his own? Let us declare our faith in the simple affirmation of the promise of the apostle, and live as if we believe it with all of our hearts and minds: 1 Thess. 5.23-24 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. [24] He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. The God who laid out his sovereign purpose for the world in the Garden, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, indeed, he is the original Promise Keeper ! After reciting and/or singing the Nicene Creed (located in the Appendix), pray the following prayer: O everlasting God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, grant us thy grace that we may study the Holy Scriptures diligently, and, with our whole heart, seek and find Christ therein, and through him obtain everlasting life; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Nicene Creed and Prayer

B i b l i ca l S tud i e s

~ John W. Doberstein, ed. A Lutheran Prayer Book. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1960. p. 102.

Scripture Memorization Review

Review with a partner, write out and/or recite the text for last class session’s assigned memory verse: Psalm 1.1-3.

Turn in your summary of the reading assignment for last week, that is, your brief response and explanation of the main points that the authors were seeking to make in the assigned reading (Reading Completion Sheet).

Assignments Due