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 and how and why and towards is the call for unity 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 180
and 185 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
---“that we
should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every
wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of
deceitful plotting” (Eph. 4:14, NKJV)
---Let us get
the message straight here: Christ ascended to heaven to fill a number of things
(4:10).
---Christ gave
many talents (4:11) to people to be functional for the gospel.
---Why? Why all
these talents to people? To sit quiet in church and listen to the pastor
reading his sermon from his tablet. Really?
---For the
“perfecting of the saints” (4:12). Oops. I thought perfection is not possible
on earth. The word is katartismon which is, some say,
“adjustment onto proper working order”. Proper? How proper? If the fanbelt of a
car is not working it is not working. Correct?
---Why all this
is happening? “Till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, [what knowledge? AGAPE = Godly love = relationship right
now] unto a perfect man [andri teleion], unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ”. Christ is filling. Remember? 4:10.
---Does this now
make sense?
---Fill my cup
till it overflows, Lord.
---Why is this
filling and fullness of Christ necessary?
---So that we do
not shake out of the truth. 4:14.
---There are
opinions, theories, wondering ideas, suggestions, dogmatic statements,
experiential sensibility, but all of these are loaded with “every wind of
doctrine, by the trickery of men, the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting”
(4:14).
---So I cannot
open my mouth in Sabbath School to give my own view? No, you can. Why? You
studied the lesson, you used the Word of God and you prayed for the navigation
of the Holy Spirit. So your opinions, theories and ideas and suggestions are
washed and cleansed from Worldliness [measured from the Bible], from skewness
[measured by the Bible]. You are invited to speak.
---Keep quiet? No. Speak. But, if you did not do your homework, speak with humbleness and be attentive to listen if you are not maybe wrong. Then adjust after investigation in the Bible.