The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

Studying Mission in the SSnet.org series Lesson 1, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Mission as God’s wish to be with us not with bondaged wills but free wills of all creatures for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Mission”.

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 pages 12.

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=2023:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ423_01.pdf

---“God did not ordain that sin should exist, but He foresaw its existence, and made provision to meet the terrible emergency” Ellen White Desire of Ages page 22 (1889).

---This sentence you must pack in your brain if you are an Adventist and also if you are not.

---It was the Jacobus Arminius argument against Calvinism. Arminius died in 1609 and the Synod of Dort around 1618 was to decide whether he is a heretic or not.

---Because Calvinism like that of Theodore Bezae is clinging to monothelism (one Will, and that will is God), they cannot accept duothelism (two wills). 

---There is a good will and a bad will. God does not will the bad. That is what Ellen White says.

---Calvinism’s mathematics work with the monothelism apriori.

---They say there is only one will and that is God, therefore whether good or bad both are willed by God. Therefore, in salvation from this mixed bunch, God in His sovereignty selects some for heaven and others for Hell.

---That is what their Confessions are saying, and there is a whole string of them, also the Heidelberg Confessions.

---God so love [agape] the world that He [Ancient of Days in Daniel 7:10-13 thus the Judge loves the victims of sin! Wow] gave His only begotten [begotten for the purpose He Himself suggested to the Father to go] Son [and now the punchline] sothat anyone who believes in Him [anyone? All? Unselected? Unelected? Free choice? Free Will?] shall not perish but shall have everlasting life”. John 3:16.

---Jacobus Arminius said to Calvinism: see, there you have it. Duothelism. Two wills, good will and bad will.

---Arminius said that God does not want sin, does not will it, does not ordain evil. But He foresaw it. Hello. This is Adventism in full force.

---Salvation talking of a Calvinist with monothelism or one will scenario is not the same as an Adventist salvation talking with a duothelism or two will scenario. Get it?

---Why? In the salvation process of the individual the will of a creature, half-good, no good, fully good is an essential ingredient in the course Heaven is going to be operative by the Divine Trio to get the person saved.

---That is for Adventism and Ellen White explained this very well. Ask Herbert Douglass and Denis Priebe and Dough Batchelor and Ted Wilson and Jesus, Paul, Peter, James, John, Jude, Luke. They all preached the same gospel.

---But not for Theodore Bezae, not for Calvinism who upholds only the Will of God who ordains everything and will it and foresee what He willed. Hello eager Evangelical supporting scholars in Adventism.

---This is why the sounds of the gospel in Calvinism and Adventism rings the same bell but there is a difference that one is a pick and choose religion arbitrary by God with no impact from the human choice and the other religion, Adventism is a Great Controversy in Heaven and on earth theme religion.

---Good will and evil will is locked in battle. God for love and to be with us. Satan for self and self-proving.

---In Calvinism all actions on earth is God-acts. Disaster, Flood, Pests, earthquakes, Tornadoes, Hail, Rain, Electrical Thunderstorms.

---In Adventism only the good actions are from God, like the beautiful nature. The disasters, floods, pests, earthquakes are from Satan or Lucifer in heaven where he began his origin of evil.

---But individuals are free independent choosers while in Calvinism they are machines, programmed by God Who wills them to the be saved or not saved.

---In Adventism people are people. In Calvinism people are AI robots programmed by God.

---Can you see why salvation with Adventism is not the same as salvation by Calvinism even if the two pastors are almost preaching the same words from the pulpit.

---The deeper content is different. The one is Confessional, the other is biblical.

---There is now a new book out at Andrews University with the title God with Us. Written by Brian Peckham.

---Peckham found that all our doctrines, Creation, Incarnation, Sanctuary, Baptism, Conditional State of the Dead biblical truth, all this is because God wants to be with us! Wow.

---Peckham touch upon the truth here of the Bible and the Trinity.

---How Peckham differs from Norman Gulley, I do not know. From Douglass? I do not know. From Knight? I do not know. But these important questions will become clear as time goes on.

---Whether he is an evangelical like Raymond Cottrell that rejected the Investigative Judgment (also Ford) or whether he is a true Adventist as we all know it. We will see.

---Is there someone who tries to cling to Calvinistic concepts of salvation in your congregation and play down the citations of Ellen White where the will and choice of man plays an ingredient part in sanctification and ultimately of one’s personal salvation with the help from God and God only? Help him/her.