Passing on the Truth

Bible Study Questions 10301

PASSAGE: Psalm 78:1-19

COMMENT: This passage teaches us the supreme importance of passing the truth of God from one generation to another. It also describes what happens when a generation of God’s people rejects Him.

WHAT DOES IT SAY?

1. The psalmist declared, “I will open my mouth in a ____________, I will utter dark _____________ of old.”

2. The people were encouraged to set their ________ in God and not forget the _________ of God.

3. They kept not the ___________ of God, and refused to walk in his ________.

4. God ____________ the sea and caused the Israelites to pass through.

5. God caused waters to run down like __________.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

1. Find at least four different generations in verses 3 through 6. Also, find four generations of teachers and learners in 2Timothy 2:2.

2. Verse 8 describes a generation of people. Describe this generation in your own words. Tell how this generation is like the people of today.

3. Verse 9 states, “The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.” What is this talking about? What spiritual lesson can we learn from this?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ME?

1. Psalm 78:6 states, “That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children.” In what ways are you passing God’s truth to the next generation? List some additional ways you could do so.

2. Read verses 17-19. What are the three sins of Israel listed in these three verses? How do people commit these sins today? Give examples. Are you guilty of any of these sins? If so, confess them to God right now.

SUGGESTED MEMORY VERSES: Psalm 78:6, 19

TEXT: Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

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