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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, April 28, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 17

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Responsive Service.

By C. C. L.

For Opening Exercises in the Sabbath-School.

Punishment of the Wicked.

[The following exercise is used by the Battle Creek Sabbath-school in place of the second opening song. All standing, the superintendent repeats the text or question assigned to him, and the school join in the response, being led by a clear, strong voice. This service will be used during the present quarter; and its object is to fix firmly in the mind the leading texts upon the subject of last quarter's lessons. Next quarter an exercise upon the Saints' Inheritance will take its place.—C. C. L.]
Superintendent.—For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 1 Pet. 4:17.
School.—For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. Phil. 3:18, 19.
Supt.—What other text speaks of the end of the wicked?
School.—But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. Heb. 6:8.
Supt.—And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 1 Pet. 4:18.
School.—The ungodly are not so; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the Judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Ps. 1:4-6.
Supt.—Are the wicked now being punished?
School.—The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of Judgment to be punished. 2 Pet. 2:9.
Supt.—What sentence will be pronounced upon the wicked?
School.—Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his angels. Matt. 25:41.
Supt.—What example can you give of eternal fire?
School.—Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 7.
Supt.—Of what was the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah an example?
Teachers.—And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly. 2 Pet. 2:6.
Supt.—What will be the fate of the wicked?
School.—And these shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal. Matt. 25:46.
Supt.—What is everlasting punishment?
Teachers.—The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. 2 Thess. 1:7-9.
Supt.—How will this destruction of the wicked be accomplished?
School.—For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Mal. 4:1.
Supt.—Describe the final gathering of the wicked, and their destruction?
Teachers.—And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. Rev. 20:9.
Supt.—Repeat the anthem of praise which will then ascend from a redeemed universe.
All.—And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Rev. 5:13.