CRS REVISION SUMMARY NOTE YEAR 4

July 06, 2020

GOD SPEAKS TO US

MEMORY VERSE: MATTHEW 7:24 “Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock..."

VARIOUS WAYS GOD SPEAKS TO US

The following are some of the ways through which God speaks to us:

1. Dreams 2. Vision 3. Voice 4. Through the Prophets 5. Through His word (Bible)

REASONS WHY GOD SPEAKS TO US

God speaks to us for different reasons; some of the reasons are:

1. To lead us in the right path

2. To tell us what will happen in the future

3. To give us an assignment

4. To save us from danger

Moral Lesson: God speaks to us in various ways. We must be patient to hear Him when He speaks

GOD IS OUR FATHER WHO TAKES CARE OF US

Memory verse: Psalm 20:7 "Some boast of chariots and some boast of horses, but we boast of the name of the Lord our God."

To trust is to believe in somebody who can care for us and help us when we are in difficulty.

God cares for us

Jesus said God; our Father cares for everything in the world. He even cares for birds and flowers.

The birds of the air do not grow food, God, is the one that feeds them, He gives them fruits, fish and insects as food. In the same vein, He made the flowers beautiful. The colours are more beautiful than all our dresses.

Therefore, Jesus said God will care for us in the same way He cares for birds and flowers. We should not worry about what to eat drink or wear but put our trust in God. And He will always provide for us.

THE CALL OF ABRAHAM

MEMORY VERSE:

Genesis 12:1 "Go from your country and kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you."

Terah, was the father of Abraham. They lived in Ur in the Southern Mesopotamia.

After the death of Terah, God called Abraham to leave his country to a new land that He would show Him. He was seventy-five years old when God called him. When he was ninety-nine years old, God made a covenant with him. During this covenant that God changed his name from Abram to Abraham meaning "Father of a multitude."

When God called Abraham, He promised him the following:

1. I will make of you a great nation

2. I will bless you

3. I will make your name great

4. I will bless those who bless you and him who curses you, I will curse.

5. By you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves.

THE STORY OF JOSEPH (1)

MEMORY VERSE:

Genesis: 37:10 "What is this that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers bow down to you?”

Joseph was one of the twelve Sons of Jacob. His mother's name was Rachael and he had a younger brother called Benjamin. He was is his father's favourite son because he was an obedient boy. His father made a long-sleeved robe of many colours for him.

Joseph had two dreams:

Joseph dreamt that he and his brothers were binding sheaves in the field and his brothers' sheaves bowed down to his own.

In the second dream, Joseph saw the sun, moon and eleven stars worshipping him.

His brothers do not like Joseph because of the following reasons:

v Because he was his father's favourite son.

v Because of his dream of greatness

Joseph’s brothers were in Dothan looking after the flock when Jacob sent Joseph to go and give them food. When they saw him and they planned to kill him but Reuben, one of the brothers advised them not to kill Joseph but to throw him into a nearby dry pit. After a while, they brought him out of the pit and sold him to some traders (Ishmaelite) going to Egypt at twenty shekels of silver.

JOSEPH AS THE SERVANT OF PORTIPHAR

Genesis39:9 "How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God."

JOSEPH IN PORTIPHAR'S HOUSE

Portiphar was an officer of the king of Egypt. He bought Joseph as a slave. He was a good man but his wife was a bad woman. One day, she told Joseph to sleep with her but Joseph refused and this angered her and she lied against Joseph that Joseph wanted to rape her. She told her husband who believed her and put Joseph in Prison.

JOSEPH IN PRISON

While Joseph was in prison, he helped the chief butler and baker to interpret their dreams. Joseph told the chief butler to remember him after regaining his freedom. While the chief baker was killed three days after he was released, the butler was given back his job at the palace.

JOSEPH INTERPRETS PHARAOH'S DREAMS

Two years after Joseph was put in prison, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt had two dreams:

v He saw seven bad cows eating seven good cows.

v He saw seven thin maize destroying seven good maize.

No one in Egypt was able to tell the meaning and then the chief butler remembered Joseph and told the king about him.

When Joseph came, he interpreted the dreams thus:

v "There would be seven years of plenty food and thereafter, there would be seven years of famine".

He advised the king to store plenty food against the seven years of famine. The king was pleased with him and decided to make Joseph the governor of Egypt.