Studying Death, Dying and Future Hope in the SSnet.org
series Lesson 12, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: “Getting Ready for the Second Coming for
Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Death, Dying and Future Hope”. The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God." The Teacher’s Edition is on page 153 and for the laymen edition or
Standard Edition, on page 99. 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=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_12.pdf ---Ready for his appearing. Paul was talking all the time about it.
Peter did and so did John. ---All of them stressed that transformation of our sinful habits
and passions and lusts and desires and thinking is very important before the
Second Coming. ---Hear John: “And you know that He appeared [First Coming] in
order to take away sins and in Him there is no sin” Sinless [actions] human
nature of Christ. [But sinful human nature just as we are without any desire to
sin although tempted to because of downprayed help from the Third being in
heaven, the Holy Spirit]. (1 John 3:5). ---“No one who abides in Him sins, no one who sins [acts, thoughts,
desires, passions, behaviors] has seen Him or knows Him”. (1 John 3:6) Is it
just Christ in heaven as Status in our place or Substitution all the way? ---Clarification is in 1 John 3:7 “Little children, let no one
deceive you, [and now the truth as of Jesus through John] the one who practices
righteousness is righteous just as He is righteous”. [Is holy just as He is
holy; is perfect just as He is perfect]. How? Practices? Yes, behavior, acts,
thoughts, passions, desires, overcoming, transformation successfully. ---There is no room for weakling-theology: “Oh, I can never be
perfect!” ---Overcoming is to be ready. Can one say: “I am stopping to smoke.
I can stop smoking 39 cigarettes a day but just one I do now and then?” Is that
overcoming smoke habit? ---Can one say: “I quit alcohol but just now and then one beer?” Is
that quitting totally? Is that proper overcoming? ---“The one who practices sin is of the devil” (1 John 3:8). Clear
is it not? ---Did any preacher told you it does not matter how you are, just
cling to Jesus? It is half the truth. Now that you cling to Jesus let the Holy
Spirit also on earth work on you. ---Pastor Charles Brooks use to say: “Now that the fish is caught,
it needs to be scaled. Conversion will clean you house, clean your teeth, pull
up your tie, it will wash your face and you will be a different person.” ---The gospel is free and cheap and simple and available to anyone
immediately. Now. Right now find the nearest Adventist church. Make you
phonecall to the elder or pastor.