The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 14, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Ephesians 6 and taking up the arms for God in the life of 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 181
and 174 in the Teacher’s edition (alternative one below).
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_14.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less14.html
---Ephesians 6 is about calling the church
to take up the arms for God. ---Arms? Faith, Truth, Word of God those
things. ---But what about army and guns and those
things? No. ---Do not think that when you walk as a
soldier in army clothes to fight the other country’s enemy that you are doing
what Paul asks in Ephesians 6. That is misapplying Paul. Get it? ---When you are using the things of this
World as if they are the things of God, you are misapplying the biblical text. ---Martin Luther thought that every time he
is doing the Eucharist it was the very body of Christ and His blood that he was
handling. Just like Catholics! ---Heinrich Bullinger did not like that. He
disagreed with Luther here. ---Bullinger was a monk that got married to
a nun and they had five daughters and six sons. Five of the six sons all became
pastors. What a blessing. ---At the age of 11 his father sent him to a
Latin school at St. Martin. But, he did not pay him food money and told him to
beg for food for three years to learn what poverty is. ---He read Jerome, Horace, Virgil all Latin
texts. He was influenced by the Brethren of the Common Life which emphasized
the reading of the Bible and Christian living style. Hello. At the age of
11-13. ---In 1519 at the age of 14 he went to the
University of Cologne. He was aware of Martin Luther and the Leipzig
Disputation in that year. ---When he read Peter Lombard he saw that
the church fathers read the Bible. So he decided that he wants to also read the
Bible and Luther and Phillip Melanchton’s works. At 15 years old. Hello. ---In Modern Society of our time parents
feel that they should not interfere with kids and is happy if they go to the
game rooms. As long as they are happy. They think. Even beyond 20 they are
still playing their time away in game rooms. Hello Bullinger. Where are we in
our age? ---He was then converted to Protestantism. ---He felt that he was compelled to accept
Protestantism because of humanist teachers that he had. He was well read on the
theology of the church fathers between Cyprian and Thomas Aquinas. ---At the age of 18 he earned his Master of
Arts degree. He did not like Martin Luther’s Eucharist ideas. ---At the age of 18 he went home and he got
a work at an abbey but he found the monks so licentious and worldly that he
went back home. When a person has a proper relationship with God, the person does
not like these two aspects. Why? Obey God is the key. Not let go and be sorry. ---At the age of 19 he was employed as a
teacher but he told them on one condition, he will not take the vows at the
monastery and he will not attend their mass. ---He started reading the Bible
systematically. He also did exegesis at 19 years old. Hello. What are young people
do at 19 in our day? ---He helped the monks reading the Bible.
They stop taking the mass. In 1525 they took their first Reformed Eucharist. ---He was under the influence of Zwingli and
the Waldensians. Hello Adventists. ---Later when he became pastor of Zurich
church he preached 12 sermons per week. Hello modern pastors! ---He had a total of 28000 sermons. Hello
modern pastors! Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Bullinger