The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Ephesians 5 and Isaiah 60:1-3 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 114.
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_09.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less09.html
---Paul is today citing from Isaiah
60:1-3. ---Resurrection morning is in mind. ---How do you know? ---https://www.academia.edu/38566625/Devotional_commentary_on_Isaiah
pages 628ff. ---“Ellen White said about the same
chapter “This message will close with power and strength far exceeding
the midnight cry” Ellen White, Early Writings page
278 as cited by M. L. Andreasen in 1929 in his Sabbath School Quarterly on Isaiah page 20. Andreasen said: “This chapter
deals with the glorious finishing of the work, and with the new earth
state”. What is to come is bigger than what was in 1844, says Ellen White.” ---When God says: “Arise and shine for
your light has come” (v. 1a), it means that resurrection morning has
arrived. The dead arise and they perceive light.” (629). ---“Just before the Second Coming, the
final time of death or darkness upon the earth will approach ‘darkness
will cover the earth’ (v. 2a). It does not mean all in the remnant
will die. “Deep darkness the peoples” (v. 2b) but in the world’s
darkest hour, since it is the Time of Trouble, “the Lord will
rise upon you” (v. 2c)” (page 629). ---“Delitzsch in Vol. II 1890 pages
382-383 wanted to make the darkness sin and wretchedness and the light of the
Lord coming. He is mixing historicistic coming of the Lord [Second coming] with
hard-core preterism [end of exile restoration] with soft-core preterism of the idealistic
model [darkness as sinful condition].He is not certain what to say” (page 630). ---Is your pastor or teacher in the
Sabbath School trying to make what is resurrection just a spiritual revival? ---It is typical of liberals that they
wish to look past the literal simple clear text and they want to make it
allegorical or metaphorical or symbolical so that they do not have to really do
it. They do not really want to change themselves. ---Change? Yes. Holy Behaviorism is the
essence of the Old Testament and the essence of the New Testament with the good
news of the Trinity’s involvement with our Salvation through Christ and His
role included. ---Jesus said in John 8 to the woman
caught in adultery and set free by Him: “Go and sin no more”. Holy Behaviorism.
Packaged by Christ Himself. ---So when you read the federal
Justification quotes from Ellen White, here and there in Christ Object Lessons, Selected
Messages and Steps to Christ,
also Great Controversy 473, do not
think that she did not wrap this message in a paper called holy Behaviorism. ---Even Paul who says that you are saved
by faith without works [which is the Heidelberg Catechism with a Federal
Justification view only, faith only insistence] says in Galatians 5:7 that “faith
works in love.” ---Faith works says Paul just like James 2:24
says that salvation is not only by faith but also by works. ---Is your pastor preaching around the
messages of the Bible on topics that just touch and go here and there? Get out.
When? Immediately.