The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

Studying Mission in the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Mission as pastor Jonah with a lot of motion but no movement and learning to be a proper pastor to go for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Mission”.

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 pages 62.

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=2023:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ423_05.pdf

---Why was Jonah included in the Bible?

---For unwilling Missionaries and pastors. For bad pastors and bad missionaries.

---Will you take the Sabbath School Lesson for us this week in church? Oh. No. I have another appointment that day. My children from another town is visiting and we are not sure where we will go.

---Will you go? I need to do business in Tarsus.

---What is the Tarsus excuse in your life? What is the call of God in your life?

---Can you pray in church this Sabbath? I am so sorry but…[bla, bla, blip, gulp].

---Jonah!

---But the book is not about conversion of the unexpected out there in the field of harvest. It is about the conversion of the unexpected situation with the pastor. Pastor Jonah.

---Pastor Jonah did everything wrong in the Church Manual for Workers and Ministers.

---He did not follow one single rule. When he sit, stand, speak, walk, talk, pray, he is out of step with God. Correct?

---It is the worst pastor that is not a model for us but an example of a pastor that is taken from laziness to new insights in God.

---God so love the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for us and live for us…

---That is what Jonah said he knew…and ran away from! He admitted it in his prayer in Jonah 2.

---The Isaiah 6 call is daily: Who shall we send and who shall go for us?

---What vision did Isaiah receive in his day? Of the end of the Investigative Judgment work of Christ when He will be crowned with glory and His glory will fill the temple before He goes out as described in the last part of Revelation 14. Correct?

---When is that? Soon. Violence, war, earthquakes, Covid, 911, 211 (Japan), floods, strange rain patterns, leadership drain (Isaiah 24), is around us and the Investigative Judgment is still going on but nearing its end.

---Who shall go for us [it is asked in Isaiah 6 for people to prepare? To get ready.

---To go to church.

---At the age of 21 or 22 John Calvin began to see that what Luther wrote and other Reformers sermons, made sense. It was around 1527/8.

---He accepted Justification and Christ only in his life then. But, he loved the church that was wrong. What now?

---The 18^th of October the General Assembly of the Dutch Reform Church in South Africa embrazed homosexuals in their church and gay weddings.

---The dolering congregations, more than 153 of them wants to separate from this decision to cling to culture and worldliness rather than the biblical precepts.

---There decision is: break away or stay>

---Who shall go for us? That is the voice to the true believers of the Bible who should break away from this wrong church as Calvin struggled to break away from the Catholic Church in 1529.

---The Anabaptists were burned by the Catholics and as monk he was standing in the audience in 1529. They appeared as a sect against Infant Baptism and freedom of the will by Johannes Denck in 1926. “No man may truly know Christ, except he follow him in life’ [mit dem Leben]”, Denck said.

---Another Anabaptist Bernhard Rothmann said: “And if we, with constant diligence, earnestly do what we understand we will daily be taught further by God”.

---Anabaptist (Adult baptizer) Hans Hut said that “attaining to the truth was a process that took place in following the footsteps of Christ, not by attending the universities in Paris or Wittenberg. The readiness to obey Christ's words is prerequisite to understanding them. Thus all the sophistication of interpretive methodology will be of no avail if the reader and interpreter of Scripture is not ready to obey Christ's words in his life.”

---But because of Hut’s revolutionary eschatolology views of applying the Bible literally in a wrong way, not historicistically but futuristically, they wanted to create by politics the kingdom of God on earth like the Baptists did in wars in the Middle East.

---Calvin felt that they were innocent and biblicists or Bible believing individuals and that burning them was wrong. Some was right and some were wrong.

---After some studies in law he was trying to defend their lives in 1533.

---He liked their piety. That is why Calvin can pray very well until his death.

---But, then in 1534 Calvin at the age of 25, unfortunately dedicated some work of his to Emperor Frederick saying to him just the opposite!

---He said that the problems that Frederick is experiencing in society, is not the Reformers but these crazy and chaotic Anabaptists! 180 degrees change. To political gain!

---From tolerance for the Anabaptists to intolerance.

Source: https://archive.org/stream/essaysonbiblical01swar/essaysonbiblical01swar_djvu.txt

---He would reject adult baptism and be less outspoken on sanctification slightly from this point on. He would cling to Luther’s solas.

---Remember that sola is invented and carried into the Bible. There is no sola in the Bible!

---The only sola is that you cannot have any other god than God! God only.

---So Calvin may have lost his vision from this time on and although Reformers told him about the Sanctuary in Heaven he grew strange to the messages of Hebrews 7-10.

---Example: See for Hebrews 9:5 where he said:

“Of which we cannot now, etc. As nothing can satisfy, curious men, the apostle cuts off every occasion for refinements unsuitable to his present purpose, and lest a longer discussion of these things should break off the thread of his argument. If, therefore, any one should disregard the Apostle’s example, and dwell more minutely on the subject, he would be acting very unreasonably. There might be, indeed, an occasion for doing this elsewhere; but it is now better to attend to the subject of which he treats: it may further be said, that to philosophize beyond just limits, which some do, is not only useless, but also dangerous. There are some things which are not obscure and fitted for the edification of faith; but discretion and sobriety ought to be observed, lest we seek to be wise above what God has been pleased to reveal.”

Source: https://ccel.org/ccel/c/calvin/calcom44/cache/calcom44.pdf

---In another example J. Fisher demonstrate that Calvin told some Reformers not to waste time on the detail of the Sanctuary in the Book of Hebrews. 

---The issue is: churches are wrong and people cannot just sit in those wrong churches? Correct? Jonah was biblically wrong and one cannot just let him be wrong functioning in the church paid by tithes and offerings. Because it is a lot of motion…but no movement. That is why.

---What need people do when their church is not following the Bible? Leave. When? Immediately. Is your phone ready to call an Adventist church near you?