The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying Managing for the Master till He comes in the SSnet.org series
Lesson 4, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Giving is
followed by the heart for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Managing for the Master till He comes. 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 34 and for the laymen
edition or Standard Edition, on page not available yet. 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=2023:1Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ123_04.pdf ---When we give our heart is also with
our giving. ---That is what Ellen White said in her
passage today. ---Our heart follows our giving. ---An example was Cornelius the
centurion that always gave and God saw his acts of giving and his heart in Acts
10. ---An angel appeared to him telling him
that God is pleased with what he did. ---When we give, God not only count what
we gave but look at the intention or heart behind the giving. ---Peter got involved in the verses
followed this with sermons to them and in verse 47-48 Peter said that nothing
prevent them to be baptized who is accepted by the Holy Spirit. ---Peter took a long time to understand
that God not only saves Jews but also other nations. ---Cornelius was the Italian. So a
Roman. Speaking also Latin. Will God accept him. God did. ---So what happened is that Peter asked
them to be baptized. ---The Reformer Johannes Oecolampadius
is known for his skills in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. He wrote many commentaries
before he died at the age of 47. ---But in 1525 he wrote a dispute
against some pastors who came to him to talk about Adult baptism and he tried
to defend Infant baptism. ---He came to Cornelius and said that
maybe, just maybe there were children also in Cornelius house so they were also
baptized. Therefore, Infant baptism is also fine. ---Biblically? No. Just on assumption. ---He said that circumcision took the
place of Baptism. So some of the pastors in Basel asked Oecolampadius why Jesus
was both circumcised and baptized? ---It was a difficult question and we
wait until today for the answer. He could not answer without swinging around
clear texts. ---It was the worst exegesis of Baptism
that I have read in a long time. I lost my admiration for Oecolampadius because
of his reasoning in these online 11 pages written in High-German. ---Are you baptized? Only as a baby
sprinkled? That is not baptism. See the Eunuch and Philip case of baptism. Better
speak to an Adventist pastor for adult baptism like Cornelius. Right? His heart
was right.