The morning Manna will be provided at 6am.
Thanks. Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 8, may
the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Resurrection of
Christ and the Father’s interest in us”. The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit
of the Living God" The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable
from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 101 and for the laymen
edition or Standard Edition, on page 67. The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere
to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God
speaking also to your heart. Why do you not click on this now? https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ322_08.pdf ---In verse 18 of Ephesians 1, Paul says
that it is the heart (kardia) that is enlightened. The Spirit of God gave the
sinner a new heart at rebirth. It is the spiritual relationship with the Lord
aspect of the believer. Your spiritual life is enlightened. It includes body,
spirit and mind. The Holy Spirit dwells in all. Christ is all in all. ---It is the Father that Paul is
introducing to us here. ---When you were called to repent, the
Father has a hope about you. ---All are called but not all responded positively.
Those who respond positively are the riches of His glory. Riches because they
are precious for Him. ---Why? In the Investigative Judgment God
is under attack but also the saints and Christ and the overcoming saints are
the witnesses to His infinite glory and kindness. ---The saints receive His inheritance. The
whole universe can see the reaction and transformation and overcoming of the
saints after they accepted Christ in their lives. ---Verse 19 says that we experience as
believers the greatness of the power of God the Father unto us. How? According
to the working of His power of His might in us and of that all of us have
stories to tell, daily. ---We read the Scriptures, listened to the
sermons and read the Desire of Ages to see the how the Father raised Jesus from
the dead on Sunday morning early and brought Christ unto Himself. He brought
Him to the heavenly [sanctuary]. The literal Greek reads “in the heavenlies”.
But it is not just the word heaven, there is a preposition “upon” attached to
the word. It is a specific location in mind here and that we know is the place
of dwelling which is the sanctuary in heaven. ---The reality of a sanctuary in heaven is
denied by the Newbold professor J-C. Verrechia but affirmed by A. Treiyer. Both
studied at Strassbourg. The one accepted the truths of the Bible and the other
rejected it. When Treiyer came to Strassbourg he told Verrechia that he came to
study why non-Adventists cannot accept the view of a heavenly sanctuary in
heaven of Adventists and then to find a way to show them. Verrechia said that
he does not believe in a heavenly sanctuary and came to disprove it! Who was
selected to teach at Newbold? Verrechia! And students left the truth because of
him as their emails are showing. It is a serious matter in the eyes of God when
one tries to teach theology by denying the Bible. E. Heppenstall, D. Ford and
G. Phandl taught that they do not accept the furniture and divisions of the
sanctuary in heaven but a throne and glory around it as sanctuary they
accepted. They denied Revelation’s exact descriptions of the heavenly
sanctuary! How many people are walking around with the same nonsense ideas of
these teachers in the past! God does not want us to be deceived. He gave us the
revelation of Himself in the Word of God. All this was written because of the
special word epouranois used by Paul “heavenlies”. Sorry. ---Christ was exalted unimaginable for us.
He became the center of all centers Paul says in verse 21. He completed the
goals of the Trinity as they planned before history started. ---In verse 22 The Father did and is going
to place everything under Christ and make Him the head of all. The Father, just
like the Holy Spirit is immensely humble. Countries on earth and their rulers
fight their whole lives to retain their power of rule and never intend to give
it up. It has to be pulled away from them by opposing forces. Cases of this
giving power to the opposite is rare in history of mankind. I know of at least
one case. ---In
verse 23 Christ is a glorified human body and with the Holy Spirit indwelling
in all humans available He is filling all parts of the body and soul and mind
of all people. How foolish people are!