The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Mission in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 6, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Mission as people resolute willing to change 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
page 72-74.
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_06.pdf
---What switched
people on for Mission?
---Change.
---They changed
their lives and focus and motivation in life.
---How does the
paradigm-shift happen?
---Theodore
Bezae, the friend and successor of John Calvin did a mistake in 1588 to come
out with a book on God selecting some to die and some to be saved. He would
answer our question that God made the shift happen.
---Then two
pastors object to what Bezae wrote and started publishing a protest.
---Jacobus
Arminius was a Dutch Reform Calvinist Pastor at that time and was asked to
confront the opposition to Bezae and Calvin.
---He did but
slowly came to understand that both Bezae and Calvin got it wrong.
---If you follow
the church-fathers, you end up with predestination but if you follow the Bible
only without them, there is free will.
---So Arminius
would answer that one has to choose to change. Then God will use his Holy
Spirit to change the person.
---Calvinists
argued that God converted the person so the person change. First God then the
person do what He makes the person to do.
---Not so, said
Arminius. God appealed for the person to change. The person responded by free
will a choice and now the Holy Spirit cooperatively works together to change
the person.
---Arminius was
quite a learned man. Gomarus was a professor and in the 1602 plaque, two of his
colleages in the Theology department died and they brought Jacobus Arminius as
lecturer.
---Gomarus was a
strong Calvinist. They differed.
---Arminius was
investigated for his non-Calvinistic views by the High Court in downtown but
they found him innocent of accusations against him.
---He preached
on Romans 7 and 9 not the same as Calvinists and another series of accusations
followed.
---They wanted
him to be branded a heretic. So accusers were writing wrong things he never
said.
---Gomarus
turned against him even when he was sick in his last year in 1609. He died of
Tuberculosis.
---People
reacted very much because Arminius was kind, friendly, caring, popular but
Gomarus was difficult in personality.
---The Council
of Dort in 1618 was to declare Arminius wrong and Gomarus helped them.
---Arminius had
five points that they summarized after his death in 1610 of which we will
mention one: some depravity but not total depravity. Conditional election not
absolute election.
---Do you know
that the lifestyle of a person affects what the person shall be: Adventist traditional
Arminianism (according to Denis Fortin of Andrews Advenitsts are Arminianism)
or LaRondelle, Knight Adventist “Calvinism/Reformed style”.
---Why?
Lifestyle.
---It is amaybe
that people who are divorced and remarried are tending to have an anti-Establishment
syndrome in their subconscious views.
---Canright,
Cotttrell, and ….and…
---Larondelle
was not remarried but studied under the ecumenist Berkhouwer at the Free
University of Amsterdam.
---What his
reason was we do not know.
---Are these men
faithful? Yes. They all try to be saved one day.
---So the
disciples had their twists and turns.
---Peter was wondering
a lot after he saw the tomb of Jesus is empty.
---It was
changing day for him.
---Reality
arrived point blank with the women coming with their news and he seeing the
tomb empty.
---The disciples’
lifestyle had much to be shaken off as well. They were also wondering and Jesus
had to physically appear to them to confirm their faith.
---Christ told
them that the Law, the prophets and Psalms were packed with signals that He had
to follow to identify Him as the true Messiah. It was done by the Holy Spirit
the Editor of the Bible. Nice. Correct?
---So now you
and I are sitting with the Book of the Holy Spirit in our hands. Reality knocks
on our doors.
---It is
paradigm shift day for us. When? Now. Call the pastor of the Adventist church
nearest to you and say to him that you want to hear more about this requirement
to live for Christ and change by the Holy Spirit. Is your phone in your hand?