The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 3, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Ephesians 1:19 the heart of the division between Calvinism and Methodism 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
31-39.
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?
---Real Adventist Edition(today pages 39)
[pioneer support, proper holistic biblical theological analysis] Edition https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ323_02.pdf
---Pro-Reformed [Calvinism, Lutheranism,
minimalist ontological] Edition (today until page 31)
https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_02.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less02.html
---The text that made Calvinism and
Methodism stand against each other is Ephesians 1:19. ---“And what [is] the exceeding greatness
of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty
power,” ---Power… believe… power. ---Calvin read it as A then B then B1 or
B->B1. ---Jacob Armenius read it as A then B then
A1 with the B totally independent from the activities of God with a free will
action. ---For Calvin, God predestinated some to
believe and make them believe so that they will be saved and others He did not
predestinated to believe and they will not be saved. ---For Jacob Armenius, God foreknows who
will be believing but He does not touch their wills which is a free will choice
to believe. ---For Armenius, the power of God that He
display is in and around Christ. ---For Calvin, the power God displays is
in us to make us believe. ---Let us explain it again: This is the point where Calvin and Jacobus
Arminius separated ways. Calvin connected the last phrase with the faith but
Jacobus saw it as a synonymous parallelism of what was said in the first
phrase. Jacobus saw it as an A then B then A1. Calvin saw it as an A then B
then B1. Sow the dialectical Calvinism and Methodism was born. The bondage of
the will only God’s predestination versus the free will believer choice. ---The energizing working in us is not God
making us believe says Arminius against Calvin but the Holy Spirit working in us.
---Let us say it again: Jacobus saw it as the internal activeness
of the Spirit of God given to us to work in us by sanctification but Calvin saw
it as the internal working of fruits of thankfulness for everything God is
doing in Christ in Heaven on our behalf, not on earth or even in us. ---Can you see how easy people can misread
the Bible? So for example pastors are scared to invite Andrew Kang to preach in
their churches but laymen invite him left right and center in the country-side.
---It was the same with Elijah. Yahwism at
the palace with Ahab/Jezebel was tainted with “oops I did it again-gospel”. ---Not Elijah: Choose whom you want to
believe, God or Baalism but not both. “Be ye perfect as I am perfect-gospel of
Jesus”. Right? ---So which gospel is your local pastor
preaching every Sabbath? ---Elijah or Jezebel? ---Make sure and move. When? Now.