OFFENSES & OPPRESSORS 

BIBLE STUDY WRITTEN BY

PASTOR JANICE L. WILLIAMS 

 BIBLE

• B=BASIC
• I=INSTRUCTIONS
• B=BEFORE
• L=LEAVING
• E=EARTH

BIBLE TRANSLATIONS USED FOR THIS BIBLE STUDY:

 NIV = NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION 

NLT = NEW LIVING TRANSLATION 

KJV = KING JAMES VERSION

NKJV = NEW KING JAMES VERSION

LUKE 17:1 thru 4 KJV * 1/Then said he [JESUS] unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!  2/It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.  3/Take heed to yourselves:  If thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.  4/And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

  SCRIPTURES PRINTED IN RED ARE WORDS SPOKEN BY JESUS

WEEKLY

BIBLE STUDY

FOR

WEDNESDAY 

APRIL 6th-13th-20th, 2011

Palm Sunday {4-17-2011} * is the Sunday before the Christian festival of Resurrection Sunday {commonly called Easter}, that commemorates Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem through a crowd waving palm branches. Palm fronds are distributed at some church services on this day.

John 12:12-15 NKJV
12/The next day a great
multitude that had come to the
feast, when they heard that
Jesus was coming to
Jerusalem, 13/took branches
of palm trees and went out to
meet, Him; and cried out:
"Hosanna!  "Blessed is He who
comes in the name of
the LORD!' The King of Israel!"
14/Then Jesus, when He had
found a young donkey, sat on
it; as it is written: 15/"Fear not,
daughter of Zion; Behold,
your King is coming, sitting on
a donkey's colt."{this prophecy
that Jesus fulfilled is found in Zechariah 9:9}

Happy Palm Sunday to all!

Jewish Passover begins @ sunset Monday 4-18-11 

PASSOVER:  a Jewish festival lasting for 7 or 8 days
in memory of the exodus of the
Hebrew slaves [Israelites]
from captivity in Egypt.
Translation of Hebrew Pesaḥ , “to pass without affecting,” alluding to the Bible (Exodus 12:5–27 KJV) where God, seeing the blood of a sacrificial lamb on the two side posts & upper door post of their houses, passes over the Israelites, while the firstborn of other families are killed.]
 

1st CORINTHIANS 5:7 KJV
JESUS CHRIST
OUR PASSOVER 
 PLEASE REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY#4 "NO GREATER LOVE"

HAPPY PASSOVER TO ALL! 

DEALING WITH OFFENSES

Matthew 18:15 thru 17 NLT * 15/"If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the fault.  If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back.  16/ But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.  17/If that person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church.  If the church decides you are right, but the other person won't accept it, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector" [have nothing more to do with them, or give them up to God]

Matthew 5:23-24 NLT * 23/"So if you are standing before the altar in the Temple, offering a sacrifice to God, and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, 24/leave your sacrifice there beside the altar.  Go and be reconciled to that person.  Then come and offer your sacrifice to God.

James 1:22-25 NIV * 22/Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.  Do what it says.  23/Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24/and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.  25/But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it-he will be blessed in what he does.     

 OPPRESSORS

Proverbs 14:31 NKJV * He that oppresses the poor reproches his Maker, but he who honors Him [he who honors God] has mercy on the needy.

Proverbs 22:16 NKJV * He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.

Proverbs 28:3 KJV * A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Deuteronomy 24:14 NKJV * "You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates.

please review Weekly Bible #10 *7 Deadly Sins* 

Romans 13:6 NLT * Pay your taxes too, for these same reasons.  For government workers need to be paid so they can keep on doing the work God intended them to do.

FIGHTING OPPRESSORS

Numbers 10:9 NIV * When you go into battle in your own land [on a job, in school, or where ever/against whoever] against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast [Make your case clearly known and easily understood, by all who hear of it, throughout your land, and everywhere else.] on the trumpets.  Then you will be remembered by the LORD your God and rescued from your enemies. 

 [LORD is substituted many times in various Bibles for our Heavenly Father's name YHWH/Yahweh (Jehovah is an English translation also used for Father God's name which is YHWH/Yahweh) & JESUS (Yahshua) ARE ONE. JOHN 10:30 KJV

1st CORINTHIANS 12:3 KJV-JESUS IS LORD]



 PLEASE REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #20 "FRET NOT THYSELF"

THE HERITAGE OF OPPRESSORS 

Job 27:13 thru 23 KJV * 13/This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.  14/If his children be multiplied it is for the sword:  and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.  15/Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.  16/Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare rainment as the clay; 17/He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.  18/He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.  19/The rich man shall lie down but he shall not be gathered? he openeth his eyes, and he is not.  20/Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.  21/The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth:  and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.  22/For God shall cast upon him, and not spare:  he would fain flee out of his hand.  23/Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. 

  REMEMBER TO REVIEW WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY #20 "FRET NOT THYSELF", IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO.