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

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 4, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: A New Life in Christ and thanks to Him and the Holy Spirit and the Father’s involvement 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 18.

The SSnet.org allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.

Why don’t you click on this link right now:

https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_04.pdf

---I cannot emphasize more the problem with the Walla Walla professor’s dealing with the book of Ephesians.

---It is very clear that he allowed himself to be led by Preteristic Reformed Theology Bible Commentaries.

---Heavenly (places) is not a place for supernatural spirits like he is suggesting on page 31. “since “the air” (or “the heavenly places”) is identified as the location of supernatural powers, including evil ones (compare Eph. 1:3, Eph. 3:10, Eph. 6:12)”. Am I reading him wrong here?

---In the previous lesson it was said that everything was placed under Christ. However, Hebrews 2:8 put brakes Paul put brakes on the concept: “but how we see not yet (ou-poo) all things put under Him”.

---Notice also the difference is reading by John Calvin and Reformed theology and James Armenius/Wesley reading of Ephesians 2:1: It is a case of being dead (ontas nekrous) in trespasses and in sins which is the Calvinistic KJV reading in English or the Armenius/Wesley understanding of being dead through trespasses and through sins. The one is born with and the other is done later by willful activation.

---The one is original sin with Augustine and the other is when you choose to sin later in your life when you are at the age of been held accountable.

---People do not die because they have original sin. They die because they have the death decree over them since Adam. God did not want sin to be eternal so He pronounced death over everything in this earth, good or bad.

---Notice in Ephesians 2:3 that the nature that is children of the wrath is adult decisions. Not original sin babies accountability.

---We had our conversations in the past, when we were worldly, with Satan as prince of the air, in the lusts of our flesh and our participating in it, “fulfilling the desires of the flesh” (baby is out of the question here), and of the mind (baby is out of the question here, sorry Calvin, Luther).

---Like others, we were also children of wrath or children of the prince of the air or of Satan.

---God has sunezoopoiesen us. It is the putting together of three words: preposition “with/together” + verb “making alive” + verb “making”. A real sosatie case of putting the food into a stick, adding more.

---The Sumerian language was like that about 2000 years before Paul. Agglutination. That is the phenomenon similar when you string words together to form a new word.

---God kickstarted the dead salvation engine says Paul. Nice. Right?