The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying On Death Dying and the Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 11,
may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Rock and Roll
Mysticism Events instead of Rock of Ages cleft for me in Church as Endtime
Deception 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 138 and for the
laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 89. 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_11.pdf ---This week's lesson focuses on the
role of a phenomenon that is found in all religions. ---Judaism experienced Mysticism as a
phenomenon and preaching became "counting words", playing with
numbers in the biblical text, finding the middle, beginning to create a
doctrine of not what is in the text but in chiastic structures that are superimposed
from the individual onto the text. Described by Gershom Scholem in his book. ---Then Mysticism affected Catholics,
Protestants and there are some who want to bring it into Adventism. ---A definition of Mysticism is given by
Alberto Timm as: a. complex term b. a variety of ideas are brought
together c. It means the feeling of a union of
the individual with the Divine. d. In Worship experiences there should
then be a "religious trance" the moment the Holy Spirit enters the
worship. e. Pentecostalism and raising arms in
church and movement-tricks and acoustic-tricks are part of modern Mysticism. f. How do you recognize it? The Bible is
replaced by feelings and taste. g. Doctrines are not important any
longer only the Person of Christ. ---Stop. Says Timm. This subjective
experience focus of doctrine over passion with passion more important is a
dangerous form of worship. ---The personal feelings are considered
more important than what the Revelation of God packed in the suitcase of the
Written Word of God or Bible. ---It is ontology over epistemology. ---Many modern theologians write their
theology from ontology. Man is the center of theology and from man and his/her
thinking, "truth" starts. Not from an outside Source like the
"Written Word of God". ---If any book you read teaches this, you
know that it is countering the Word of God. ---If any pastor delivers a sermon this
way, you know that there are problems. ---Listen to Timm, "Personal
feelings and taste end up being the criteria for interpreting the Scriptures or
even for rejecting outright what the Bible clearly teaches, often about
obedience to God, which as Jesus said is so essential to building one’s house
on the rock." ---Is it Jesus His Person vs Doctrines?
Is it Faith rather than Doctrines? "No". Says Edward Heppenstall, the
Adventist Systematic Theologian. "Doctrines is the systemization of a
living faith". Faith comes from a systemization of doctrines. ---The Spirit spread the "doctrinal
system" out over the rest of the Bible. How? It is like someone carrying a
bundle of papers on a subject and the whole bundle of organized thoughts fell
to the floor and is lying all over the room. By picking them up, one by one and
putting them in order for one to get the whole picture again. That is what the
Spirit gave us in the Word of God. ---Otherwise it will be boring. The Holy
Spirit is very smart in this. Do you not agree? ---Search and you will understand, Jesus
said. ---Jesus said that those who cast out
demons were doing it in His name! ---To say that it does not matter What
you believe but Who you believe is one of Satan's Endtime deceptions. ---“The
position that it is of no consequence what men believe is one of Satan’s most
successful deceptions. He knows that the truth, received in the love of it,
sanctifies the soul of the receiver; therefore he is constantly seeking to
substitute false theories, fables, another gospel.”—Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 520. ---Next time when singers in front of
the church beg you to raise your hands and swing, or shout Hallelujah or raise
your hands to give you a warm feeling in worship, think again about the word
"Mysticism". ---Is this clear to you? ---Guard against "monkey
tricks" in worship style. ---The true worship is quiet, speaking
of the Holy Spirit through His Word (Romans 8:26).