Scripture Study Course: Covenant, Wisdom and Practice
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Twelve original student study lessons. Scripture itself is the source of authority. These are NOT Kerry and Karen Battle sermon transcripts or claims that a recording exists. Read each whole passage in a Bible or Bible reader, identify audience and setting, and distinguish direct text from interpretations. Use the appropriate learning level.
Lesson 1: Hearing and Doing
Read: Deuteronomy 6:4–9
Context and teaching focus: Identify the instruction to teach Yahuah’s words diligently and keep them in the heart.
Foundations: Draw a family reading and tell one instruction.
Builders: Summarize the passage and its daily practices.
Advancing: Compare the passage with Deuteronomy 11:18–21 in context.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 2: Wisdom and Knowledge
Read: Proverbs 1:1–7
Context and teaching focus: The opening defines purposes of Proverbs and introduces reverence for Yahuah.
Foundations: Retell one reason to seek wisdom.
Builders: Identify two purposes stated in verses 2–6.
Advancing: Explain how Proverbs 1:7 frames the book.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 3: Diligence
Read: Proverbs 6:6–11
Context and teaching focus: Read the ant example and the surrounding warning about laziness.
Foundations: Draw and describe the ant.
Builders: Identify the comparison and warning.
Advancing: Explain the literary form and limits of applying a proverb as an absolute guarantee.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 4: Truthful Speech
Read: Proverbs 12:17–22
Context and teaching focus: The proverbs contrast truth and falsehood.
Foundations: Describe a truthful fictional response.
Builders: Write two contrasts and one appropriate application.
Advancing: Analyze the parallel statements and their meaning in context.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 5: Listening Before Answering
Read: Proverbs 18:13–17
Context and teaching focus: Read the warning about answering before hearing a matter.
Foundations: Act out careful listening.
Builders: Write three questions that seek evidence.
Advancing: Explain what verse 17 adds and where a modern application has limits.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 6: Remembrance and Obedience
Read: Numbers 15:37–41
Context and teaching focus: Identify the command to Israel and its stated purpose of remembering and doing commandments.
Foundations: Tell what a reminder does.
Builders: Identify the commands in verses 39–40.
Advancing: Discuss Numbers 13–15 as surrounding context without inventing historical details.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 7: Honest Weights
Read: Deuteronomy 25:13–16
Context and teaching focus: Examine the context of fair measures.
Foundations: Draw two fair weighing examples.
Builders: Write how false measurement harms neighbors.
Advancing: Distinguish covenant law and principles of integrity from modern metric instruction.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 8: Justice and Mercy
Read: Micah 6:6–8
Context and teaching focus: Read the prophetic rhetorical questions and stated requirement.
Foundations: Explain one kind action.
Builders: Compare the proposed offerings and requirements.
Advancing: Explain the prophetic setting and avoid isolating verse 8 from Torah.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 9: Yahusha and Torah
Read: Matthew 5:17–20
Context and teaching focus: Read Yahusha’s words within the Sermon on the Mount.
Foundations: Retell one point after listening.
Builders: Summarize two statements Yahusha makes about the Law and Prophets.
Advancing: Discuss audience, literary setting and interpretive differences.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 10: Private Devotion
Read: Matthew 6:1–18
Context and teaching focus: Study giving, prayer and fasting, considering motives.
Foundations: Name an example of a good action without showing off.
Builders: Compare three examples and their common warning.
Advancing: Explain repeated structures and context without claiming a completed Assembly lesson.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 11: Hearing and Doing
Read: Matthew 7:24–27
Context and teaching focus: Compare the two builders at the close of the Sermon.
Foundations: Draw both houses and describe the difference.
Builders: Explain what each builder does and what results.
Advancing: Analyze the story’s function as a conclusion to Matthew 5–7.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Lesson 12: Independent Study
Read: Deuteronomy 6:4–9; Proverbs 18:13; Matthew 7:24–27
Context and teaching focus: Compare three texts in their own settings. Cite each accurately.
Foundations: Tell one idea from each passage.
Builders: Write three summaries and one cautious application.
Advancing: Write 250–300 words comparing teaching, listening and doing, with precise references.
Study questions: Who is addressing whom? What is the main instruction or warning? What would be an unsupported statement about this passage? Explain or write your answer independently.
Study Review
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