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 overcoming your excuses 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 63.
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
---The topic is still Jonah but today it is
excuses. ---Excuses not to do something for the Lord.
---In his book Our High Priest, Adventist systematic theologian Edward Heppenstall
in chapter 7 on Judgment According to Works, wrote that thought alone is not
enough. ---It is not enough to just think that we
want to save people. Action is required. ---Quantity of action is not required. It is
not how much but that you participate. ---To be available is also action. ---To be there is action. ---Expounding from Ellen White and the
Bible, Heppenstall said that works take a man further than his thoughts (7 line
15). ---A deed is better or worse than the idea
(7 line 16). ---To give your life to good works is more
Christian than wishing (7 line 16). ---Loving thoughts are good for the thinker
but loving works affect more (7 line16). ---Desire for the Word of God but no study
cannot fulfill spirituality (7 line 18). ---There is no room for antinomian thought that
wants to abrogate the Law of God (7 line 19). There are many churches that are
actually preaching the end of the law every week for their congregations
creating a cheap gospel. Paul said in Romans that he is not canceling the law
by grace. God forbid. He said. Correct? ---The status of salvation is by Grace only
but the fitness of salvation is a proof of that status (7 line 30). ---In this Heppenstall is the same as the Anabaptists.
---Practice and biblical theology should go
together, the Anabaptists were teaching in 1524 by Hans Denck when they were
persecuted for saying that. ---Hans Denck the Anabaptist of 1524 said: “No
man may truly know Christ, except he follows him in life’ [mit dem Leben]”. ---Compare Heppenstall Our High Priest chapter 12 here: “The knowledge of biblical Truth
requires more than mere thinking”. And also” “Through the power and presence of
the Holy Spirit, God addresses man personally. He calls for an intelligent
personal involvement in harmony with the teachings revealed in the Word.” ---So this is the issue. Are you ready to
follow Christ? ---This is how the world works around you.
If you follow Christ you have thousands of angels to protect and help you with
all your needs. ---If you do not follow God and are agnostic
or atheistic, and refuse to think anything religious or God, you put yourself
in the domain of Satan and his angels. ---You say, I want to be neutral. I do not
choose either Satan or Christ. Sorry. It does not work that way. You will soon
find out. ---Since everyone sins, the problem in life
is how to solve your conscience problem. Faith does. Non-faith does not.
Correct? ---So what is your next step? Grab the phone
and navigate this Sabbath on Saturday morning to the nearest Adventist Church
near you. Why? Become a follower first and then a missionary about your
following joy. Correct? ---When? Immediately. Now.