The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 8, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Clothes to become invisible to demons 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
99-100ff.
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_08.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less08.html
---There is a
lifestyle of sin that is really a spiral downward. ---Whether you
are a learned scholar, a student, a pastor, a teacher, a housewife, a homeless:
the way you live affects the way you think and the way you think determines
your methods of doing things and your methods ultimately determines all your
products, your thoughts, ideas, talk, twitter, chat, gossip, books, articles,
sermons, witnesses, testimonies, everything you produce. ---Thus, taking
your book, it is possible for us to analyze it and say how you live! ---Hendrik
Stoker was a Calvinist Christian Philosopher and I learned this first from him
in a book he wrote. ---Arthur
Patrick of Avondale College liked it so much that he put it in one of his
footnotes of one of the last articles he wrote before he died. ---So the lesson
asked us to present our lives to the Spirit. Lay down the old man and take up
the new. ---Clothing is
used to explain this. The same as in Romans 13:14 Paul hopes that people will
dress up with the Lord Jesus Christ in their lives. ---Why is
clothed with Christ important? Because if you pray to be clothed while you are
tempted or attacked by demons then the Holy Spirit throw them out and
immediately you are clothed with Christ’s righteousness as garment and my guess
is this: demons can no longer find you because if you are in Christ’s glory,
you are invisible to the demons. ---They look
around and say to each other, I imagine, “She/he was just now here, but is
gone. Where did she/he go?” ---I have
enjoyed great victory for this prayer and experienced real victory in matter of
seconds. ---Pray the
first part of Romans 13:14. Clothing part. And that is what the lesson in
Ephesians 4 is also saying. ---According to
a Calvinistic commentary I read, the most difficult verse in Ephesians to
explain for Calvinists views is Ephesians 4:13. “Unto a perfect man”. ---It is because
they all believe that Augustine had it right that we are all sinners who come
short of the glory of God. ---But this is
what I learned: The Old Latin and Jerome in the Vulgate Latin translated Romans
5:12 with the Greek eph hoi wrongly. They said “because”. ---Calvin was a
very careful translator and differed with Augustine’s acceptance of the Old
Latin (Itala) and Jerome’s translation the same (Vulgate). He said that it was
not translated correctly. ---So did
Calvin’s successor Theodor Bezae and his successor Vermigli and also Zwingli’s
successor Johannes Bullinger in Zurich. ---The
independent scholar Andrew Willet who wrote his commentary on Romans in 1611,
different with all of them. ---Dissiderius
Erasmus, the Greek humanist translated Romans 5:12 differently rejecting the
translation of the Old Latin and Jerome’s Vulgate Latin as errors. ---Erasmus
taught a Greek Eastern Church Theology which was against the Latin Western
Church Theology as one finds in Augustine. ---Erasmus said
that what we got from Adam and Christ is not inheritance of sin or imputation
of Righteousness but imitation of sin and imitation of Righteousness. ---Andrew Willet
disagreed with Erasmus. But Erasmus claimed that Origen, Ambrose, Theophylact
and Chrysostom all shared the same criticism that he had of Augustine’s slant. ---Erasmus said
that the problem with Augustine is that he read all his Scriptural prooftexts
with an anti-Pelagius agenda and that makes the theology of Augustine
unacceptable. Source: Pollock, Darren M.,
"Early Stuart Polemical Hermeneutics: Andrew Willet's 1611 Romans
Hexapla." (2016). See pp. 128-144
for Original Sin discussions among the Reformers. .
44. Calvin Theological Seminary Dissertations. 44 https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/cts_dissertations/44 For the Original
Sin wrong translation by Augustine and Jerome and the Itala or Old Latin
recognized universally by nearly all Reformers according to Andrew Willet a careful
scholar in 1611, a wrong translation of Romans 5:12, see the long discussion in
full detail by Darren M. Pollock in 2016 pp. 128-144. ---So who
understood Romans 5:12 correctly? The Greek Eastern church said it is about
mortalis originale. Death to all. The Latin Western church said it is about
peccatum orignale. Sin to all. Ellen White is more in line with the Eastern
church here than with the Western church. So is Herbert Douglas, Denis Priebe,
Dough Batchelor, M. L. Andreasen, Andrew Kang, myself. ---Those who
cling to the Reformed scholars like Calvin and Luther cling to Augustine
thoughts, but they do not know that even Calvin and other of his successors
disagreed with Augustine’s Latin reading of Romans 5:12, but they advocate
still Augustine’s total depravity based on Romans 5:12 doctrine! Many pastors
in Adventism speaks this similar to Calvinism not realizing what is going on
here. ---Is your
pastor preaching like Augustine, the wrong reader of Romans 5:12? ---There needs
to be a change. Either he changes or you leave. Correct?