The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 8, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Sola Fide not in the Bible for
Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians”.
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 104.
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://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_08.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less08.html
---Paul is more and more unpacking the
responsibilities of someone who is repented and saved by Grace. ---Six vices should be totally “all”
removed. Anger is one of them. ---The kindness of the Holy Spirit is to
be taken seriously. ---There were people who left Christian
life for 30 years and then got converted and came back! What a pleasant day for
the Holy Spirit who through the 30 years were waiting kindly. ---Those who are older Adventists. Can you
remember the Des Ford years between 1974-1980? ---The purple, blue, green, yellow and red
Spectrums that were printed in 1977 to expound Lutherism on a plate for
Adventism: sola Scriptura, sola Gratia, sola Fide and, and? ---And then in 1980 the Glazier View
conference came together with hundreds of our scholars and teachers and pastors
and admin. ---Des Ford was branded a heretic and lost
his license. ---Why? He tried to lutheranize the
Adventist church with sauces of preterism over everything, from Little Horn,
Sanctuary in Heaven, Atonement and Second Coming of Christ. ----Well, what Adventist may not know
about, is that at the same time as these storms were in the Adventist church,
storms were at Westminster Theological Seminary between 1974-1982. ---As Ford and others were pushing for the
Question and Answers paradigm shift
from Douglas, Andreasen views to that of Froom and others since 1957, insisting
everything at the cross with sola fide of Luther, so the opposite happened with
a systematic theology professor at Westminster Theological Seminar in
Pennsylvania. ---Norman Shepherd was a systematic
theology professor of fame at WTS between 1962-1982. In 1974 he questioned
whether Luther had the right to speak of justification sola fide since the word
sola does not appear in the Bible. Paul did not use it. ---In fact, Shepherd basically wanted to
Douglasize or Ellen White-tise Calvinism, by saying that James 2:24 said
explicitly that salvation is not by faith only. James used the word only. ---Therefore, although we are saved by the
merits of Christ there is a responsibility of good works and obedience expected
of us. ---For seven years between 1974-1981 they
were trying to remove Shepherd from the seminary. Every committee found him
innocent. He was speaking like Reformed Theology and like the Westminster
Confession. ---But in November 1981 he was suddenly
dismissed. ---Everyone thought that he was wrong
then. ---But in 2009 appeared a review doctoral
on Norman Shepherd and it was found that he was accused wrongly and that he was
right. ---To demonize the Catholics position of
good works in his day, Luther invented the sola
fide principle. He invented sola.
---Source: https://www.academia.edu/27241586/Norman_Shepherd_and_The_Justification_Controversy_at_Westminster_Theological_Seminary_The_Years_1974_1982 ---Adventists did the right thing to
remove Desmond Ford from his role in 1980. Calvinists did wrong to remove
Norman Shepherd from his role at Westminster Theological Seminary in November
1981. But the doctoral in 2009 by Ian Hewitson displayed that the decision in
November 1981 was wrong. Truth triumphant. ---Is you pastor preaching one-sided
playing the Luther harp? Does he say anything about obedience and keeping the
law, keeping Sabbath? ---Is he watering down doctrines at every
baptism ceremony? ---If that is the trend, move. When? Now.