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: “Living a more sanctified life 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_09.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less09.html

---Ephesians 5 is Paul unpacking about living a sanctified life.

---He asked for a proper navigation. Walk properly.

---For proper eating and drinking habits. [Ephesians 5:18]

---For avoiding wrong places and wrong entertainments.

---Avoid all sexual enticements of all kinds. Period. Stay away. Walk away.

---They have to reprove the unfruitful works of darkness. [Ephesians 5:11]

---There is a list of no-heaven people: [Ephesians 5:5]

no whoremonger,

nor unclean person,

nor covetous man,

idolater.

---Body cleanness, mind cleanness, soul cleanness. SQ and IQ and EQ must function properly.

---Let us say the intellectual IQ is fine, the Emotional life is find EQ but the spiritual life is horrible (SQ). That life is in ruins.

---Smoking is a killing habit. It is the same as jumping from a high building. It just takes longer. That is what a minus SQ life do to the IQ and EQ of people.

---Paul knows it very well and chapter 5 is elaborating on this.

---Not talking irresponsible: Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting (Ephesians 5:4).

---Think about it, Pliny the Younger had 500 slaves (Carcopino page 70 source: https://archive.org/stream/dailylifeinancie035465mbp/dailylifeinancie035465mbp_djvu.txt

---Outside of Rome the Middle classes still knew the value of work but inside Rome the people lost all confidence of it (page 74).

---“Having given up the habit of controlling their children, they let the children govern them, and took pleasure in bleeding themselves white to gratify the expensive whims of their offspring” p. 79. Permissiveness.  

---“Revisiting the arenas of Rome after nearly two thousand years of Christianity, we feel as if we were descending into the Hades of antiquity. The amphitheatre demands more than reproach. It is beyond our understanding that the Roman people should have made the human sacrifice, the munus, a festival joyously celebrated by the whole city, or come to prefer above all other entertainment the slaughter of men armed to kill and be killed for their amusement.” (P. 231)

---There were large scale of slaughter of animals for shows in Titus and Trajan time. “5,000 beasts were killed in one day of the munera with which Titus inaugurated the Colosseum in 80 A.D.; 2,246 and 443 in two munera of Trajan” (p. 239).

---Entertainment was popular in Rome.

---And with us? Do we not see all these on www.youtube.com? Good morning.

---It is time to read Paul carefully and adjust ourselves accordingly. Correct?