The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying On Death Dying and the Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 10,
may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "After death,
then what? for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson On Death Dying and the Future Hope. 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 120 and for the
laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 80. 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 don’t you click on this link right
now: https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_10.pdf ---People are curious as to what happens
to people after they die. ---This week’s lesson will answer that
question. ---Hopping out of the Bible and reading
too much Classical Greek poets and philosophers, the Middle Age church
developed strange ideas of what happen to the soul after death. ---First they swallowed Homer and Plato’s
ideas of the immortality of the soul. ---Then putting on these Greek “glasses”
of immortality, they went to the Bible and grabbed what they thought is
supporting their view, making a parable literal as in the case of the Rich man
and Lazarus. ---The moment people accept all kinds of
theories that are outside the Bible, they become agnostic. ---Agnostic means that the human now
decides what is right and wrong and no longer God in His Word. ---“I don’t care” is the motto. “No one
must prescribe to me what I shall do or not”. “Do not tell me how I should
think” they say. ---“You do your religion but leave me
alone”. ---“I have a right not to go to church
or attend chapel even though I work for an Adventist Institution”. ---“The government is supporting my
freedom of independency and to be left alone non-mandatory”. ---“I will do my minimum but then stay
away with your religion”. ---For these agnostics at our
Institutions, the work at the University is just a “job”. It is not a calling. ---Many times the problem is they are
not married and do not have children. ---But single life is not an excuse.
Many people in the Bible were single and great people of faith. Great apostle
Paul. ---Because they have this box of ideas
in the brain, Satan helps them to have a lifestyle of “night-life” albeit
secretly, so that the Religious Institution do not hear about it. ---But the emptiness inside them
prevails. ---They fool themselves with hooking up
with friends that share their views. ---They are hedonistic,
Sabbath-breaking, shopping and dining and playing sports on Sabbath, off-campus
though. ---Trapped by Satan the Holy Spirit
silently and patiently waits for a moment of sanity. Biblical sanity. ---They have the educational backing to
be used by the Religious Institution, but inside their thinking, ideas, morals
have deteriorated leaving them with critical, pessimistic feelings about all
the faithful eyes around them looking at them. ---So what do they do on the busy
faithful Sabbath on campus? They jump in their cars and go and enjoy themselves
in the world of entertainment and come back late on Sabbath evening. ---Do I know of people like that now? ---No. I was also single for many years
and saw them in those days. ---It is worse when married couple share
this outlook. When both are agnostic. ---So Dante wrote his book on the Hell
or Inferno in the 13th century. ---The soul does not die but work his
way through hell up to God. ---And the Catholic Church loved what he
wrote and cherished it. ---Protestants after the Reformation
kept to these ideas. ---One of these Reformers was George
Joye who wrote a Daniel commentary in 1541. ---In the last chapter of the commentary
he said a lot about the immortality of the soul which he supported. ---He was the editor for the Tyndale
Bible but got in a fight with Tyndale that broke their relationship and gave
him a bad reputation. ---Joye changed the text of Tyndale in the
manuscript and published it like that, changed! So the story goes. ---Do you belong to a church? ---Are you agnostic, “leave me alone you
religionists” attitude? ---It is time to join the family of God.
Care is what you need. Humans need humans, not people who extort you for your
money, pleasure, wasted time. ---Begin to have quality time and a
quality lifestyle. Learn to know God and His agape Love. ---Your life will change forever. The
joy is amazing. ---Start now. “I am sorry God, that I
wasted my life. Now let us walk and talk together. Amen”. That is it.
Congratulations. You are part of the family of God.