The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Keeping the Law and Sabbath according to our lesson and according to
Calvinist Reformer Heinrich Bullinger for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School
Lesson Ephesians”.
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 60.
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://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_05.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less02.html
---Today’s
lesson was very well written. It is well balanced and typical Adventist. Or
biblical truth. ---Christ did
not abrogate the ten commandments or the Sabbath. He kept it. Whether it is the
Old or New Testament, the law of God and the Sabbath is necessary. ---That is
standard Adventism ever since its beginning and in this lesson of 2023. Nice.
Now listen to this. ---Heinrich
Bullinger was born on the 18th of July 1504 and this Reformer
followed Ulrich Zwingli as pastor in Zurich church. ---He married a
nun and had seven boys and all of them became pastors. Wow. ---He wrote more
than Calvin and Luther combined. ---From decade
2, he started to preach the law. ---“Unlike the
ceremonial laws, the moral laws were not abrogated by Christ. ---“The Ten
Commandments, Bullinger argued, are the ‘absolute and everlasting rule of true
righteousness and all virtues set down for all places, men, and ages, frame
themselves by’ (ii.211). ---“The sum of
the Ten Commandments is for men and women to show their love for God and one
another, and that is what God requires at all times, and everywhere and of all
people. ---“The
distinction between the moral and the judicial and ceremonial is its particular
place in the Ten Commandments. ---“The
ceremonial and judicial were revealed to Moses by the angels, and then by Moses
to the people. ---“The moral
law, however, was revealed by God himself on Mount Sinai. God spoke them ‘word
for word’ (ii.212). ---“Bullinger’s
extended treatment of the law in the second and third Decade is a discourse on
the whole of religion. ---“He addressed
all the different forms of the law and their place in Christian revelation. ---“An example
of this approach is found in his discussion of the fourth commandment
concerning the Sabbath, which he interprets as belonging to the outward and
inward service of the Lord. ---“The Sabbath
has various meanings, above all that humans should rest and cease from labor
that is for their own purposes. ---“It is a
particular day set aside to allow God to work in the individual. ---“Together
with the inner spiritual growth through rest, Bullinger understood the Sabbath
to be instituted by God in order that men and women might have the proper outward
form of religion (Bullinger 1849–52: ii.255). ---“Because the
worshipping of God cannot be without a time, he wrote, ‘wherein we should
abstain from outward or bodily works: but so yet that we should have leisure to
attend to our spiritual business. ---“For that
cause is the outward rest commanded, that the spiritual work should not be
hindered by the bodily business’ (ii.255). ---“By outward
form of religion, Bullinger referenced the public reading and expounding of
scripture, public prayers, and petitions, the administration of the sacraments,
and the ‘gathering of every man’s benevolence’. ---“The
practical approach taken by the head of the Zurich church to the exposition of
the laws is evident in his concluding words of sermon 14. ---“Having
declared that the first table of the commandments sets down the true worship of
God, Bullinger concluded ‘they are not the children of God who know his mind,
but they who do it’ (Bullinger 1849–52: ii.267).” ---Is it not
nice? Calvinist Bullinger in 1560 and Adventist Walla Walla professor in 2023
and both are talking the same Word of God the same way! ---Is your
pastor avoiding the Sabbath? Avoiding the law? Does he run circles around
overcoming or a life of sanctification? Move. When? Now.
Source: The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology
edited by Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain. Copyright © 2020 by Michael Allen
and Scott R. Swain and published by Oxford University Press. All rights
reserved. For the book cited as 1849 please see link and download at archive: