1. Working Behind the Scenes
Lesson 2
1st Quarter
2017

2. Week’s Memory Text
John writes 16:14 (the Holy Spirit)
‘He will glorify Me,
for He will take of what
is Mine and declare it to you.’

3. who is born of the Spirit."
John write’s 3:5  Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Verse 8  The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone
who is born of the Spirit." 
Sunday

4. Genesis 1:2 ‘And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.’ Moses writes
Monday

5. Exodus 31:2, Moses writes
See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: 
Exodus 25:8 
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them
Verse 3
And I have filled
him with the spirit of God,
in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all
manner of workmanship,
Tuesday

6. John writes 15:26 
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, He shall testify of Me:
John 16:13 When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:.. and he will shew you things to come. 
Wednesday

7. Luke writes 1:34,35  Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? 
And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow you: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of you
shall be called the
Son of God.
Thursday

8. Luke 3:21, 22 ”…Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened. 
And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased." 

9. Luke writes 4:1  And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 

10. 1 Peter writes 3:18 
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that
He might bring
us to God,
indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit; 

11. ‘While the wind is itself invisible, it produces effects that are seen and felt. So the work of the Spirit upon the soul will reveal itself in every act of him who has felt its saving power.
When the Spirit of God takes possession of the heart, it transforms the life. Sinful thoughts are put away, evil deeds are renounced;
love, humility, and peace take the
place of anger, envy, and strife.
Joy takes the place of sadness, and the countenance reflects the light of heaven.
Desire of Ages p173
Friday