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

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 6, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “From Chief of Apostles to Chief of Sinners in Paul and what scars of sin do to our memory 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 75.

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_06.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less06.html

---Rulers and authorities in heavenly places. The word is the Sanctuary. The word “places” is added by those who guess. It is a location but the Sanctuary.

---There is a court scene going on in the Sanctuary = ouraneoi. The jury is watching.

---Who is the jury? The rulers and authorities of the unfallen worlds.

---Are they evil? Walla Walla professor suggested so.

---I rather see them as the jury having insights in what is happening on earth and the Books in Heaven of human behavior that is investigated and brought up for consideration as part of the Conflict of the Ages “cleansing”.

---Cleansing the Sanctuary (Daniel 8:14).

---It is interesting to see how Paul is speaking that he is the Chief of Apostles and that he is considering himself at the end of his life as the chief of sinners.

---Ellen White had a beautiful statement to make regarding this transformation to adulthood of the sanctified Christian. The transformed sinner to saint.

---“The closer you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and distinct contrast to His perfect nature.”—Steps to Christ, p. 64.

---Does it mean that you are really faulty? No. Behavior wise not. It is in your own memory that the scars of sin remain.

---Salvation does not remove the scars of sin. Our memory is lightened by Satan on this sensitive and soft spot. We ourselves feel uncomfortable about them.

---At first as sinner we did not care. But now that we are walking the path of righteousness and walk in the way of the Law of God to holiness and perfection of character, now the scars bother us.

---Augustine and Luther saw the scars in their memories and called them original sin inherited from Adam.

---It is a misnomer for their own sins forgiven but scars of memory remaining.

---Many Christians makes this same mistake.

---They see the scars of forgiven sins in memory and lament: O, I can never be perfect in character.

---So they spin out, against the Word of God that called Henoch, Noah, Abraham, David “perfect” and use the words of Bertrand Russell that due to relativism no one can be perfect.

---So they deny perfection.

---Ellen White encourage all towards behaviorism but they then take her statements and the perfection statements of the Bible and federalism it.

---Federalism is to give everything to Christ and accept no responsibility.

---They cross out the behaviorism commands of God in the Old and New Testament and cry that federalism of Christ will cover up or take care of it or did already.

---Once saved, always saved.

---We cannot substitute what is expected from us by God explicitly in His Word for dumping everything on Christ in heaven when God did not say so.

---There are statements that gave everything to Christ in both the Word of God and in Spirit of Prophecy. That is biblical federalism and we cannot turn that into behaviorism crossing out what Christ did already for us.

---But the reverse is also true. Correct?

---Is your pastor trying to give you a “cheap grace, cheap gospel slogan?”

---Is he turning the blood of Christ from the cross into sweet honey?

---Move. When? Now.