---The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. ---The Topic
today is: "The Sign of the Abrahamic Covenant- Circumcision". Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 7, the Holy Spirit is the speaker. ---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 88 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 59. ---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. ---One of the
famous professors of Andrews University, said once "Why must I be a big
fish in a small tank, when I can be a small fish in a big tank". So he left and
went to a liturgical church seminary and taught there. ---Sadly, he
adopted their way of thinking. ---He got his
big tank ---Another
University professor over there had the opportunity to write a commentary for
Adventism on one of the Books of the Bible. "Well, he thought, Why should
I write to a small audience? ---There are
many out there in the big USA market. Maybe I will gain a lot of many through
sales if I write it for a non-SDA audience". ---Sadly, he
did. ---He got his
book. Adventists got their deviation from Adventism through his books. ---Abraham
sometimes lived the same way. God gave him the circumcision so that he could be
distinguished from the other nations. ---Circumcision
was not replaced by infant baptism as non-SDA churches think, because girls are
not circumcised but they are baptized properly as adults. ---No Jew could
sin without a non-believing women telling him that he is a Jew, reminding him
that he is sinning. That he is supposed to be different. ---God told spiritual Israel: "Do not live like the Canaanites around you". ---"Do not intermarry with them or marry a Philistine like Samson did".