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 spiritual bargains 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 115.
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
---Bargains. At Supermarkets. 2 +1 or 1+1
sales. ---That is what Paul is telling us today
at the end of the Ephesians 5. ---The Trinity promise to us take 1 get 2
more. ---Worship the Father and you get Jesus
and the Holy Spirit also. ---Worship Jesus and you get the Father
and Holy Spirit also. ---Worship the Holy Spirit and you get
Jesus and the Father also. ---Anyway you win. Are you starting for
your spiritual bargains? ---Paul also says carpe diem. Grab the time. Time is short. Do not waste it on
nothing. ---Horace was the Roman Poet during the
time of Augustus Octavian who used the phrase the first for enjoying your life
while you can. ---It means “pluck the day”. Use your time
effectively. Paul is saying the same in Ephesians 5:16 “making the best use of
your times”. ---Horace died four years before Christ
was born. In 8 BC. ---Horace served hedonism. Paul served
God. ---Make the best of your sensuous life,
says Horace. Make the best of your relationship with God. ---Enjoy sex while you can, says Horace.
Do not walk in the way of sexual promiscuity, says Paul. ---Two men, one looking down and one
looking up. --- Two
men sat behind bars [human limits] The
one saw mud [Horace] The
other one stars [Paul]. ---What about foreplay by yourself? In
Romans 13:14 Paul says no. ---First one is to clothe yourself with
the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Devils can see you. You immediately disappear and
temptation is gone. ---Secondly, to not fore-think, dream,
imagine [the word pronoian]. Do not think in advance of desire how it can be or
may be if….Paul says. Do not think or imagine. ---He says this imagination of sexual
actions or activities do not do. Me poiesthestha. ---No doing of what one imagines. ---What should not be done? Forethinking
of what? Of the carnal flesh the desires. Tes sarkes (of the flesh)….epithumias (the
desires). ---For many people this is a tough call.
But the key is the clothing with the Lord Jesus Christ because it is the magic
immediate power of switching off what has started! ---So when in trouble, what do you do
immediately? Call out: “But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ” and
boom, power cut out all temptations. Devils are gone. Peace of mind and
happiness. ---That is what overcoming by the power of
Christ means Jude 24. ---Are you ready to use the key? When?
Immediately.