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Studying On Death Dying and the Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 12, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Biblical Wordlview and agnostic attitudes at our Adventist Institution 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_12.pdf

---“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23, NKJV).

---Break down the text carefully.

---Who is sanctifying completely? God. Is complete sanctification possible? Yes. Why? God is doing it.

---Are the listeners completely sanctified according to Paul? No. That is why he said “May”. “May” means “for not are you”. Is that you?

---Can God sanctify the dead bones in the grave? Completely sanctified in the grave? No.

---Does and can God sanctify you completely while you are living? Yes.

---Is the Second Coming while you are living? For Ellen White? No. She died before the Second Coming. Does Paul wish Ellen White to be completely sanctified before the Second Coming? Yes.

---Here is the rule: you can only be completely sanctified at the Second Coming if you are completely sanctified while you were still alive and you are only alive while you did not die yet and death may be before the Second Coming.

---Thus, complete sanctification or perfection before the Second Coming.

---What happens to the spirit, soul and body? It is preserved blameless. Where in heaven? No. After death in heaven preserved? No. When? While you are living before you die.

---If you die the body disintegrates and is not preserved. The soul stops to exist. That is conditional immortality. Immortality at the Second Coming if, if you are faithful.

---Did you hear people say, Oh, no-one can be perfection so perfection is only at the Second Coming of Christ.

---It uses the word “preserve”. What is attained is preserved. What does not exist is “switched on”. Does the text say at the Second Coming perfection will be switched on or preserved what is already there?

---Can you see what Paul is saying about perfection or sanctification or holiness?

---Martin Luther could not accept it and neither could Catholic Augustine. “Same time saint and same time sinner” was their motto.

---Hans LaRondelle taught that “same time saint and same time sinner until the Second Coming and then absolute perfection”

---In a way he is correct since bones get new flesh at the Second Coming of the old form. But the reasoning here is in a way not biblical here. The Bible calls Noah perfect, Henoch, Job, David. Perfection while they were living, not after they died. 

---The text is staying that your holiness is kept constant after attaining before the Second Coming until the Second Coming or until you breath your last breath.

---Paul is saying, while you are alive, may you be perfect, sanctified, holy and stay that way (preserved) so that at the Second Coming the blamelessness that you had as saint is the same as when you breathed your last breath.

---Character perfection is what we attain while we are living not after we died or at the Second Coming. Body perfection is what we will get at Resurrection. That is Adventism 4.1 and Hans LaRondelle’s view on this topic is Reformed Theology 1.1 via G. Berkhouwer, his ecumenical Calvinistic teacher.

---Did God use H. LaRondelle in the Adventist church? Yes. Were many people converted by him? Yes. Baptized? Yes. Was Luther a man of God used by Him? Yes. Was he correct in everything he said? No.

---Every person is a “person of his/her times”. Talents are ploughed in for God as sole object.

---Are you working for an Adventist Institution but is agnostic?

---You “lied” to them because their MOU (memorandum of understanding) is that you agreed at the beginning that you are an Adventist, following their principles and doctrines and wish to spill it over to their clients who are not Adventists.

---Is it right to proseletize? To evangelize non-believers? Freedom of Religion is advocated by modern legal societies. 

---That is fine. Business is done with the same laws. Is it permissible to advertise your product on the market and hope the person will buy what you advertise? Of course. Then it is permissible to proseletize and evangelize as well.

---Students who are selected to come to study at the Christian University accepted the MOU of attending the religious functions provided when they write the entrance exams and got the green light at the interview.

---They knew very well what they put themselves into. They were not babies but adults.

---You are free to go to the toilet. Free to stand at the door. Free not to listen or cognitively “switch-off”.

---But it is unethical if they try to use outside laws of the country to force the breaking of the initial MOU contract of acceptance to that Christian University. Is this clear? It is biblical.

---So it is time for you to change. When? Right now