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

Studying Psalms in the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Suffering and God in Psalm 88 and us for the Sabbath School Lesson on the Psalms”.

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 until page 59.

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=2024:1Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ124_05.pdf

---Death is a fact of life and a punishement allocated by God for selling themselves and this creation out to Satan in the Garden of Eden. Is it fair? Absolutely.

---Agape love cannot coexist with sin.

---He is without strength. He is withering like grass. He is unable to eat. He is set apart with the dead. He is lying like the slain in the grave. He is repulsive to to his friends. He is suffering and in despair. His bones cling to his skin.

---Some Psalms makes it clear that it is because of disobedience that there are suffering. It is punishment for disobedience. And that is sometimes true.

---Some suffering is just a fact of life related to Adam’s general sin condition in Eden. So actual disobedience does not play a role.

---Other suffering is related to one’s inherited history through the DNA.

---In Psalm 88:6-8 God is said of bringing the person near to death. It can be. For didactic reasons? For corrective reasons.

---Does not matter what the complaint is, the person has strong faith. Same as Job. And Moses through Job.

---Suffering is under the umbrella of God’s control. He knows about it fully and can do something about it.

---That ability qualifies God to be the One to stick around with. Does it not?

---Christ can restore the health of a child and he did.

---“Despite his sense of being stricken by God, the psalmist clings to God.” This is very beautifully said by the Lesson this week.  

---Although he suffers, he does not deny God’s love and knows that God is his only salvation.

---Like all people the Psalmist also know suffering. But unlike all people he knows God’s grace very well.

---“Both God’s permitting of suffering and His deliverance are demonstrations of His ultimate sovereignty.”

---“Knowing that God is in control inspires hope.”

---Christ did it all, that we suffer, for us. Nice correct?

---So where are you this week?

---Church on Saturday 9h20. Why? To study Psalms. Is the navigation and taxi ordered or the car full of gas? Did you call the elder or pastor? Do you have Collier’s Chart of prophetic events? Do you know the three principles of studying Psalms? You need to be there. See you there.