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

Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 12, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Dying to self to live for God as a seed” in Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson In the Crucible with Christ”.

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 150 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 96

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://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ322_12.pdf

---Today is In the Crucible with Christ compared to a dying and living seed.

---The lesson is very beautifully explained. I cannot improve on the style.

---John 12:24 say “unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains alone…but if it dies, it produces much grain”.

---Jesus speaks very powerful. My father use to speak about this seed analogy of Jesus many times in Sabbath School and in Sermons.

---First, there is the falling.

---The kernel that falls from the wheat stalk has no control over where or how it falls to the ground.

---It has no control over the ground that surrounds and then presses over it.

---Second, there is the waiting.

---As the kernel lies in the earth, it does not know what the future holds.

---It cannot “imagine” what life will be like in the future, for it is only a kernel of wheat.

---Third, there is the dying.

---The kernel cannot possibly become a wheat stalk unless it gives up its safe, comfortable situation as a kernel.

---It must “die” = it must give up what it has always been before so it may be transformed from a seed into a fruit-bearing plant.

---My father use to say, you have to die to self. Self has to be sacrificed, given up to the will of God.

---Total surrender is necessary. Half-heartedness is not going to work.

---A mustard seed is very small but it becomes a very big tree.

---How does biology explain the dying of a seed to live and grow?

---Archaeology has uncovered seeds of 4000 years before and they grew! How can biology explain that? Look on Youtube in Israel.

---If ever there is evidence that God “switch-on” life in every seed it is this dying living seed.

---It is a lesson for us what resurrection is going to be.

---It is also showing His power to transform lives,