Revisit (4 min.): Use the ideas for discussion. Then present and discuss the video Why Study the Bible ?, but do not play it (th lec. 9).
PUBLISHER: Good afternoon Julian. How are you?
STUDENT: Good afternoon Alberto. Very good, how are you?
PUBLISHER: Well, excited to be able to talk to you again. We always have very pleasant conversations.
STUDENT: Thank you Alberto, I am also enjoying talking to you, and I am learning many things about the Bible that I did not know before.
PUBLISHER: I'm glad it's like that, Julián. Do you remember what we were talking about the other day?
STUDENT: Yes, I remember and today you were going to tell me why we can be sure that God will fulfill his purpose.
PUBLISHER: That's right, and for this we are going to first read a biblical text as we usually do. In this case it is Isaiah 55:11, would you like to read it? here I have it.
STUDENT: It says… “this is what the word that comes out of my mouth will be like. It won't come back to me without results; without fail, she will do what I want and will successfully accomplish what I have sent her to do ”.
PUBLISHER: Have you noticed? What is calling your attention? These words refer to what God says and will do.
STUDENT: Well, look ... "the one who will do what God wants", generates in me a very deep feeling ...
PUBLISHER: May God care about each one of us and want the best for us, right?
STUDENT: Yes, how do you know? I do not know how to express it but it has impacted me, it is something very deep.
PUBLISHER: It is the love of God. It is a very great love, like that of a father or a mother. If we love him, he shows his loyal love for each of us, and watches over us at all times.
STUDENT: To have a faith like that, in these words… I understand why you are sure that it will be fulfilled.
PUBLISHER: Jehovah, that is, God, wishes to do his will over the whole earth, over all of us, and he will succeed in everything he says. When you want something, what do you do your best to get it?
STUDENT: Yes, I do everything I can to achieve it.
PUBLISHER: And many times you do not?
STUDENT: Yes, in the end with perseverance and work great things can be achieved.
PUBLISHER: Well imagine what God can achieve with all the power he has, who has created everything. There will be nothing you cannot do or accomplish.
STUDENT: It is as the text says, it will have results, right?
PUBLISHER: That's right. Because it is not just any word, it is the word of God. A mother with her child wishes the best for him, and all that comes out of her mouth is to care for, protect and love her child, right?
STUDENT: It should be, yes, I can't imagine a good mother who wants her child to suffer.
PUBLISHER: Well, the same happens with the word that comes from the mouth of God. It is not just any word, it is a word that will be fulfilled and in the end, all people who believe in God and love him are like his children.
STUDENT: And Alberto, what is all that God promises us? The previous week you already told me something, but how it will happen, I don't know ... there are many things ...
PUBLISHER: Julián, look at this nice postcard… would you like to live here without worries?
STUDENT: Of course Alberto, and who doesn't? If I could I would go on vacation there every year ...
PUBLISHER: Well, when God's will is fulfilled, you won't need to take a vacation because we'll live in beautiful places like this ...
STUDENT: You tell me many times that: "when God's will is accomplished", "in the near future" and similar phrases like that, but how can we be sure that there is little left or that there will come a day when we can see it if we die before?
PUBLISHER: I understand Julián that there are many questions, many unknowns and many concerns ... and that as we see the current situation, all this may even seem like a utopia ... but it is not and there is a way to understand all this.
STUDENT: Which way?
PUBLISHER: Let me show you a very short video… It's titled: “Why Study the Bible?”… Look… The best way to find all the answers and understand what is happening and what the Bible tells us about it is by studying it.
STUDENT: I see ... in these short conversations that we have had, I have learned a lot from the texts that you have shown me ...
PUBLISHER: I'm glad, because with a Bible course, free and flexible to your situation, similar to what we are doing now with these conversations, surely you will be able to get more out of what the Bible says ... think about it and tell me in the next conversation and we see "What will life be like when God carries out his purpose?"
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