The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying On Death Dying and the Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 9,
may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Contrary
Passages about Resurrection 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 111 and for the
laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 72. 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_07.pdf ---In
the opening part of this week’s lesson, the author dealt with the What? Why?
Who? and How? of contrary passages. ---The
topic is still Resurrection. But there are contrary passage used by other
denominations. One cannot turn the head sideways and just continue. ---“You
search the Scriptures (people do) for in them you think you have eternal life”
(purpose people cling to the Word of God and they are right). ---Now
the next is either the people or the scriptural passages “these are they which testify of Me” (John 5:39). The Greek
supports the passages that witness of Christ. ---This
means that when the Holy Spirit as Editor packed the suitcase of the Old
Testament, He placed in them highlights of the future Life of Christ in them. ---Saw
a presentation using Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the well in John 4
compared to Nicodemus in John 3 last night. Very well, except all the pictures
of Christ are depicting Him too old. Jesus was not 45 he was 33. ---Paul
asked people to preach the Word. Word-focused. Why? “Be ready in season and out
of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine”. ---Like
inventing new ways e.g. women ordination. It is culture, not Scripture. Right?
NAD says no it is not following culture. Other divisions says yes you do. ---There
will be a time when they will invent the doctrine of independency. Each
division must be independent from the others-idea. Not biblical. All are one
composite part of one body. Not many bodies Paul said. ---Division
“Apartheid” is not biblical. Sound doctrine under fire from within the church. ---Peter
said the same. Be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for
the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15). ---How
should one defend? Ellen White said: “Christ Himself did not suppress one word
of truth, but He spoke it always in love….He was never rude, never needlessly
spoke a severe word, never gave needless pain to a sensitive soul. He did not
censure human weakness” (Desire of Ages
353). ---Higher
Criticism was attacking the Bible as nonsense. Karl Barth as young student
decided to defend the Bible. He will defend Christ. ---So
Karl Barth invented a Transcendental Philosophy by making Christ the Superior One
through which lenses the whole Bible should be read. Wonderful, is it not? ---It
is great and many Protestant churches followed him or were influenced by him. ---But
he was Liberal. He was against vegetarianism and was smoking a pipe. So much
for Paul’s statement that your bodies is a living temple for the Holy Spirit. ---Point
is: if you have to get rid of harmful lusts and fleshly living, surely you
should also of harmful contaminants use as well. ---Karl
Barth also did not believe in Satan. A fairy tale, he thought and dropped it in
his discussion and theology. ---Result?
A skew focus on Christ. Protestants in the late 1970’s dropped Satan but
recently some are coming back to that realization of him as a player in this
cosmic drama between Christ and Satan. ---Emil
Brunner and Rudolph Bultman invented their Immanental Philosophy by making the
human being the main focus of judging everything in the Bible, heaven and
elsewhere. ---Mixing
two wrong is not going to make it right. ---Culture
or philosophy are not the glasses needed for the reading of the Word of God. It
is the Spirit-filled life and “spiritual sensitivity” that is needed. ---Would
you believe that there is a professor that is defending Rudolph Bultman as if
he is a prophet, and he is teaching at our University. ---So
Contrary Passages is what we need to look at his week. ---Is
your Bible out? Do you start reading? Are you intending to be spiritual
sensitive? Start now.