Assess Your Learning 8 • Lesson 133
Small and Steady Lab
Look back over Isaiah and Jeremiah: the titles of Jesus Christ, His promise in Isaiah 1:18, and what you would say to a friend who feels beyond forgiveness.
“Small, steady, incremental spiritual improvements are the steps the Lord would have us take.” — Elder David A. Bednar
Search the scriptures
Titles of Jesus Christ
Each verse below gives the Saviour a name or title. Open the verse if you would like to, then choose the title it gives. The first two are from Lesson 113; the others are from Isaiah 41, 53 and 54.
“Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name …” Isaiah 7:14
Which title does this verse give?
“his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, …” Isaiah 9:6
Which title does this verse give?
“I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy …, the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 41:14
Which title does this verse give?
“He is despised and rejected of men; a …, and acquainted with grief” Isaiah 53:3
Which title does this verse give?
“For thy Maker is thine …; the Lord of hosts is his name” Isaiah 54:5
Which title does this verse give?
Choose the title each verse gives. You can change any answer.
Look again at Isaiah 1:18
From scarlet to snow
Read Isaiah 1:18 again. Decide which phrases describe what we bring and which describe what the Lord offers. Then choose the statement the verse supports.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord”
“though your sins be as scarlet”
“they shall be as white as snow”
“though they be red like crimson”
“they shall be as wool”
Which statement does Isaiah 1:18 support?
Choose one.
First complete activity 1, then sort Isaiah 1:18.
Choose a passage
What would help a friend?
The three sentences below are invented examples of what a friend who feels beyond the Lord’s forgiveness might say. All three passages are true. For each friend, choose the one that answers most directly what that friend said. Read them first: Isaiah 1:18, Isaiah 53:3–5, Jeremiah 3:12–15.
“What I did has left a mark that will never come out.”
Which passage would you share?
“I walked away from Him. He won’t want me back.”
Which passage would you share?
“Nobody understands what this feels like.”
Which passage would you share?
First complete activity 2, then choose a passage for each friend.
Take it to the journal
A letter to a friend
Imagine that you have a friend who feels beyond the Lord’s forgiveness. Choose a scripture for your letter and how you would begin. Together they shape a page for your own journal.
A scripture for my letter:
How I would begin:
Complete activities 1 to 3, then choose one option from each row.
