Watch the “Lord’s Day Live!” and “The Joy of Doodling” videos then copy the following “Doodle Bible School,” “Application Sermon Questions,” and take a photo of your drawing for “The Joy of Doodling” class. Click the “Submit Answers” button below each set of questions and paste the questions into the email. Answer the questions and send them to us. Read “Why Your Family Needs to the Know the Biblical Timeline… ” then follow the same instructions to submit the “Biblical Timeline Questions.”
Doodle Bible School
Lesson 46
Were you able to watch the entire lesson?
1. What is the theme of Leviticus 19-25?
2. Can you doodle the picture clue?
3. In what way were the people to be like the Lord? (19:2)
4. Can you quote the memory verse?
5. How were they to be different than the nations God drove out? (20:23)
6. How did God describe the bounty of the land? (20:24)
7. What were they to separate? (20:25)
8. Why did God call them to be holy? (20:26)
9. God wanted them to be what when they were separated from the other peoples? (20:26)
10. What does it mean to be holy? Why is it important to God?
Application Sermon Questions
Lesson 46
Were you able to watch the entire lesson?
1. Why does God expect His people to be holy? (Leviticus 19:2; 1 Peter 1:16)
2. God’s holiness calls us to revere who? (Leviticus 19:3)
3. What sin against parents did Paul list along with being haters of God? (Romans 1:30)
4. God’s holiness calls us to honor what with regards to work? (Leviticus 19:3)
5. In this passage, God specifically forbids what kind of idols? (Leviticus 19:4)
For additional ways to capitalize on the information in the chapter above, click the link below.
Home Church Worship Guide – Leviticus 19-25
The Joy of Doodling Assignment
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Reading Assignment
Lesson 14
Q: Why is it important for a woman to make sure her family appreciates the story of Paul’s imprisonment?
A: Because each person needs to know that when they choose to live for God, He will use their life for good things.
Our story today continues in the book of Acts and Paul will be the main character. I will begin in Acts 20:16 when Paul was trying to get to Jerusalem.
For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost. (Acts 20:16, ESV)
Here we see that Paul wanted to get to Jerusalem in time for Pentecost. However, in Acts 21, we find out that the disciples that he stays with tell him not to go to Jerusalem, through the leading of the Holy Spirit.
And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. (Acts 21:4, ESV)
Then later, in Acts 21, a prophet named Agabus demonstrates what will happen to Paul if he goes to Jerusalem.
While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’” When we heard this, we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “Let the will of the Lord be done.” (Acts 21:10-14, ESV)
Notice that, after Agabus’s warning, not only were the people there urging Paul to stay away from Jerusalem, but the other men with him on this missionary journey also began urging him not to go. Paul, however, would not listen. We can take this two ways: 1) Paul was not listening to the Holy Spirit’s leading or taking the message as a heads up as to what would happen, or 2) the people with him did not want anything bad to happen to Paul and, therefore, misunderstood the leading of the Holy Spirit.
In whatever way you take these passages, the important thing to note is how God took care of Paul. Yes, he went on to Jerusalem and was arrested. Yes, he was threatened by men who took an oath to kill him. Yes, he was kept in prison for several years in Caesarea. Yes, he was put on a prison ship that was shipwrecked. Yes, he was bitten by a snake. Yes, he was imprisoned in Rome. But look at all the ways God used Paul during these times.
- He spoke to the crowd in Jerusalem before he was arrested, then to the chief priests and all the council. (Acts 22-23)
- After this, we read that the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.” (Acts 23:11, ESV) Paul knew that God was with him and would continue to be with him.
- As for the men who took an oath to kill Paul, it never happened. God allowed Paul’s nephew to overhear the plot to ambush him and gave Paul a way of escape. (Acts 23:12-35)
- He was taken to Caesarea, where he was protected in prison and had the opportunity to spread the Gospel before governors and a king and other people. (Acts 23-26)
- On the way to Rome, even though Paul was a prisoner on a prison ship, he was able to tell the men about the God he worshipped. (Acts 27)
- After the ship wrecked, everyone on board survived and were taken care of by the people of Malta. It was on this island that Paul was bitten by a snake and the people believed he would die, however, he did not. This gave him the opportunity to heal the father of the chief man of the island, which also led to Paul healing the rest of the sick on the island. (Acts 28:1-10)
- Finally, he reached Rome, where he was allowed to live in a house with a soldier who guarded him, and for 2 years, he welcomed all who came to him, proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance. (Acts 28:30-31)
We have no way of knowing what would have happened if Paul had listened to those who begged him not to go to Jerusalem. It is certainly possible that he would have gone to Rome and spread the Gospel there, but it could have been a much easier journey and he may not have been a prisoner while in Rome. There is, however, the possibility that he would not have had the same opportunities to speak with governors and kings, sailors, soldiers and prisoners, people on the island of Malta and to have healed all of the sick there. All we do know is that God took the decision that Paul made and turned it into something good.
He can do the same for us. There have been times when my family and I have been so afraid we would make the wrong decision that we were basically “paralyzed.” Other times, we ran ahead of God and made things more difficult on ourselves. Through these situations, we have learned that God can take our indecisions, our misunderstandings, our mistakes and turn them into something good for His kingdom.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. (Roman 8:28, ESV)
The key here, I believe, is that God works good through us because we love Him and we were willing to answer Him when He called us. Just like God worked good through Paul, because he loved God and gave his life to follow Him, God does the same with us.
How does this apply to you, as a homemaker? You have answered God’s call to be a Christian. You have been called to help your husband, to teach your children, to love your family, to learn from God’s Word, and teach younger women how to do the same. (Titus 2:3-5) You may not always make the best decisions, but God can turn even your worst decisions into something good when you are ready and willing to follow Him! (By worst decision, I’m not talking about sinful decisions or intentionally doing something against God’s will.) Your family needs to know that when they choose to live for God, He will use them for good things.
Biblical Timeline Questions
Lesson 14
1. Why is it important for you, as a homemaker, to make sure your family appreciates the story of Paul’s imprisonment?
2. What was Paul being warned not to do in Acts 21:4, 10-14?
3. In Acts 21:13, what does Paul say he is ready to do?
4. Even if Paul went against the Holy Spirit by going to Jerusalem, what did God do for Paul? Why did God do this?
5. As a Christian homemaker, what have you been called to do and what lesson does your family need to learn from you?