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: “When the text speaks, do it 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 76-8.

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

---One thing we learn from the lesson very well, is that Ellen White in her last statement calls for the acceptance of God as He offers, as He commands, as He promises, as He requires in the text of His word.

---His text says it, it is true, it will happen, it must happen, I will do it, He will give me, there is no if and but.

---Perfection.

---“Well that is another story”.

---Is it?

---No.

---Also required. By whom? Christ.

---“How can we harmonize our dwarfed spiritual condition with the presentation of our text [Eph. 3:14–19] that describes the fullness of knowledge it is our privilege to possess? How can Heaven look upon us, who have had every spiritual and temporal advantage that we might grow in grace, when we have not improved our opportunities?” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald October 1 1889.

---Nice question by Ellen White. If we are skew, and the Bible and Paul says be straight, how can we straighten ourselves?

---Answer: we cannot.

---That is half the answer. The other half is, we can. If we follow the opportunities provided from the Holy Spirit, Christ and the Father in our hearts and minds.

---The Trinity is not like Satan and his demons. They do not push themselves onto your will bending you, pushing you, forcing you, clinging to you,

---Satan uses fear God uses love. Godly love.

---Kindness is not love if it is serving Satan eventually.

---True kindness is sometimes strongly connected to sacrifice and deprivation rather than joining in and participation.

---Is it biblical? Is it moral?

---You cannot say, the woman is lonely, so I am going to be kind and stay with her and end up immoral. That is sin not kindness.

---Christ did not do it. Not even for one moment was there in Him any thought or passion for sin.

---Then He was not human.

---Do not say it. The Bible says He took upon Himself the form of a sinful flesh (Romans 8:1).

---Did you read sinful flesh?

---So when Ellen White is asking us to do homework to adapt to Ephesians 3:14-19, that is what it means. Take the text seriously and believe that God can fix things for you.

---There was a laypreacher from the United States with the name of Andrew Kang in our Union in Korea.

---His uncle was a very powerful speaker. Logical, simple, clear, and had a large following.

---But his uncle wanted to be separate from the SDA organized movement, yet SDA.

---He did not agree on this with his uncle.

---Then he sold his property in the USA as Engineer and came as laypreacher to Korea.

---He studied at Sahmyook University and got his Preacher Certificate from Sahmyook Theological Department.

---He preached the overcoming, perfection calling, obedience calling message as an ability and not as an impossibility.

---A committee was set up to allocated whether he is a heretic or not.

---They gave him all the liberal theologians in Adventism to read. Zurcher, Priebe, Douglass, Batchelor, was not there.

---They gave him Knight, who does not have a degree in theology but in Education.

---They gave him LaRondelle who was negative on the possibility of perfection in line with his Doctor Vater G. Berkhouwer and both in line with Luther and Luther in line with Aquinas and Aquinas in line with Augustine. Now you know.

---For months he studied it and wrote his points to them.

---They send him over a hundred objections.

---A professor in New Testament from Southern Adventist University emeritus heard about it and wrote a letter that they should not make any decision against Andrew Kang because that is the standard approach by the GC on this matter.

---The Committee continues their deliberations. They did not call him a “heretic” but did not pronounce him “hands off” either.

---The Union president and members of this committee went last month to a BRI meeting in a neighboring country.

---He asked them: If someone preachers Perfection attainable before the Second Coming, does the 2003 ruling of the GC still stands that there are two issues on the nature of Christ and salvation in Adventism and that the two groups should not blame each other?

---BRI spokesman for GC said: Yes. It still applies.

---Everyone heard it. Many members of the “heretic assessment committee” as well.

---If the GC ruling of 2003 still stands, and if the BRI representative at the 2023 meeting is supporting it, the Union president of Korea made a decision: Andrew Kang will be declared “Not a heretic”.

---He came back, held a meeting with another conference included as well and other high officials and church elders and they decided unanimously that according to the procedure books of the GC, “Andrew Kang is not a heretic and may not be called so”.

---Wonderful how the Spirit of God works. Correct?

---Andrew Kang is very successful as a preacher because of what? Content. What content? The unpopular content for secular minded people.

---Those with high salaries and mercs and beamers and shiny cars. And houses, large palaces. They are not interested in “overcoming”, “obedience in all”, “go and sin not more” (sorry Jesus). ---Is your pastor a merc driving careless shepherd who preaches just about the love of God but not about our responsibilities about that love? Move. When? Now.