The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 7, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Grow into the full man 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 89ff.
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_07.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less07.html
---Church. From
the word ekklessia of which ek = “out of” and klessia is from kaleo meaning
“calling”. ---The church
are people who are individually called out of the world of sin and darkness to
repentance and light. ---In Ephesians
4:1 Paul was saying that he asked all of them to walk worthy of the calling
they have been called. Also the word kaleo = calling is used in the opening of
the chapter. ---So if you
find yourself right now in an Adventist church or not, you were called. But you
do not have the right doctrine if you are in another church. ---Why? Because
you cannot keep doctrines that Christ did not keep. Like Sunday as day of
worship. ---You have to
come into the unity of doctrine says Paul in Ephesians 4:13 “unity of faith” he
says. You saw that? ---Unity of
faith when someone is going to church on Sunday and another on Saturday? When
someone is baptizing babies and another adults, like Jesus was baptized by John
the Baptist. ---You have to
follow the Bible. Not a person like Luther or Calvin or Augustine, not a
confession like the Heidelberg Confession or the Westminster Confession or the
like. ---If a group of
theologians made an error with the confession by calling the wrong day of the
Lord the Lord’s day, then you should leave. When? Immediately. ---Yes, but my
pastor will be very angry. No, you pastor should know better. If not, you may
eventually be the one who make him think of joining you. It happened. ---Now each one
who was called out of the world was cleansed by the Spirit of God and by water
of immersion baptism like John and Jesus and then crafted into the right Root
and Stem, Jesus Christ to bear fruit from now on. ---Paul used the
metaphor of a body. Members are becoming functional parts of the body where
Christ is the head. ---You cannot go
back to the ways of the World. Why? You were called out. Do not go back. What if
you did? Then come out again. ---Ask the Holy
Spirit to help you and I can guarantee you, you will be called out completely.
The things that got you wrong in the first place the Holy Spirit will reveal to
you. ---A blind
pastor came to Ienaka church in Tochigi where I was worshiping. He said that
in Japan during Hamatsuri festival people are carrying gods. But in
Christianity God is carrying us. What an insight for a blind man. Not so? ---So you need
carrying? You just heard the answer. Ask God to carry you too. ---When? Right
now.