The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Psalms
in the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart.
The Topic today
is: “How can we sing the Lord’s song with a Presbyterian/Baptist Celebration
style using drums and electronic acoustics that silence the Holy Spirit?”.
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 pages
until page 57-58.
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=2024:1Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ124_05.pdf
---“As sin corrupts the world more and more,
the earth has increasingly become ‘a strange land’ to God’s people. This reality
creates a problem for the psalmist: How does one live a life of faith in a
strange land?” ---The author of the Lesson is making what
was the Exilic people on the banks of the river Tigris asking them after a long
walk to sing them songs of their country, into song of the whole earth sang by
anyone in any generation even ours. Well? OK. ---Let us change the tune of the Psalmist:
How shall we sing the Lord’s song as Adventist with a Yonsei-Presbyterian
Celebration style with drums and cymbals and electric guitar and acoustics
turned high to silence the Holy Spirit speaking softly in our minds as Romans
8:26 says? ---Wow. What are you talking about? ---SAY. They are introducing drums and
electronic tricks to raise the excitement of the passions and emotions and hope
that this spirit is the right Spirit. Well, according to Adventist history, the
Indiana experience that Stephen Haskell’s wife reported on in 1899 in the book The Crisis to Victory by Owen in 1966,
not. ---From the time Ellen White left the USA a
team of pastors tried to introduce an experiential worship style with dancing
and movement and shouting halleluyah and amen between 1891-1900. ---So now in my congregation, depending on
the pastor, the moves by certain characters in the congregation is to push for
these Presbyterian/Baptist Celebration songs to be sung during an Adventist
service. ---They sing Adventist song + Adventist song
+ Celebration song that is totally foreign to our concepts. ---How can we sing to the Lord with a
strange worship style? ---These university students then go to
their country churches where there moms and dads are worshipping on Sabbath
with a non-celebration style. Typical Adventism as it is proper. ---What happened? They sit at the back of
the church, head down or twitter in their smartphones. Hello. And they are
studying Theology. ---Can you see what the Lord is asking us to
wake up from? Laodicean sleep. ---While the saints are sleeping the enemy
is busy sowing the thistles. ---They are breeding a generation that is
foreign to Adventism and when they grow up they are going to create major
problems for the regular proper Adventists because they focus on commitment and
not content also. ---As long as you have a thin sauce of
salvation cries you are OK. Study the prophecies or Bible truths that the Holy
Spirit wants to broaden ourselves to? Nothing. Not interested. ---In 1818 a Moravian missionary visited
South Africa in Genadedal. There was a Lutheran church and mission. ---He attended the worship. The organist
played the war marches of Joseph Hayden. He was shocked. That for worship? ---The pastor preached that he hoped the
young people will convert that they can live out their Christian life more
properly. The Moravian missionary agreed. ---John Calvin in 1547 wrote a letter
concerning problems with young people. Calvin complained
that young people are corrupt for running after fashion to make holes in their
clothes “And the state of our young people,
especially, is very corrupt; so that, when we will not allow them every
license, they go from bad to worse. ---Of late, they were sorely enraged under
cover of a small matter. ---It was because they were not allowed to
wear slashed breeches, which has been prohibited in the town for these twelve
years past. ---Not that we would make overmuch of this,
but because we see that, by the loop-holes of the breeches, they wish to bring
in all manner of disorders. ---We have protested, however, in the
meantime, that the slashing of their breeches was but a mere piece of foppery, which was not worth speaking about, but that
we had quite another end in view, which was to curb and to repress their
follies. ---During this little
conflict, the devil has interjected others, so that there has been great
murmuring. ---And because they perceived in us more
courage than they could have wished, and more determination to resist them, the
venom which some of them had concealed within their heart burst forth. ---But this is nought but smoke; for their
threats are nothing else but a splutter of the pride of Moab, who is powerless
to execute what he thus presumes to threaten.” CCII.—To the Faithful of France. This 24th of July 1547 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45463/45463-h/45463-h.htm#Page_128 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600%E2%80%931650_in_Western_fashion https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/slashing/ ---Well there you have it. Young people
problems of fashion in 1547 for Calvin, young people problems in 1818 for the Moravian
visitor to a Lutheran church in South Africa and us in 2023 with the SAY
experiment on Campus. ---How come Satan is always involved in
creating problems around us? If we are asleep the enemy sows tares and
thistles. ---Are you asleep? Grab your phone and
navigate to the nearest Adventist Church. You need to be there at 9h20 because
then they start studying the Psalms. See you there.