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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 18^th 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:

https://archive.org/details/decadesofhenrybu0102bull