The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 14, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Ephesians as the church of the living God as extension for the Remnant of the
Old Testament as extrapolated mainly but not solely from the Jewish Nation 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 179
and 184 in the Teacher’s edition (alternative one below).
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_14.pdf
---Or try in
alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less14.html
---The Church of
the living God.
---Gerhard Hasel
was Dean of Theology at Andrews University since the early 1970’s for the
purpose to remove liberal theologians from the spider web that was influencing
Adventism at Andrews University. General Conference President Robert Pierson asked
for it after returning from the Mission Fields after 30 years.
---Hasel wrote
on the Remnant Motif in the Old
Testament which is extrapolating from the Jewish Nation only the Spiritual
ones. Get it? That is God’s interest. Remember this.
---And the
liberal left one by one. Maybe sometimes by plan?
---Is washing
dirty clothes with a lauidramat using proper soap beneficial for clothes or
not? That is the answer.
---But how can
you say they are “dirty clothes”?
---Higher
Crticism sherished, Ellen White criticized or rejected, Investigative Judgment
under critique as by Raymond Cottrell are just a few examples that made moving
essential.
---Biblical
dates for the Exodus is 1450 or near that by S. Horn and E. Thiele and S.
Schwantes, and D. Waterhouse, as 1445. But to shift it to 1290 or criticize
this century which is strictly biblical chronology, is to be a liberal. Move.
---To have an “open
mind” is to have a close mind. I understand Hasel and Fernando Canale
(philosophy professor at Andrews University) are the two who said that
Adventists are true post-modernists. Modernism was the criticism of the Bible
people, like Rudolph Bultmann.
---Bultmann
denied the Second Coming, the Resurrection, the miracles, the Judgment, Jesus’
Virgin birth. Red Card, correct?
---One professor
at Avondale University said to me that he is happy to teach Rudolph Bultmann to
his students, in 2011 when I was there. Red Card. And I told him that in public
with nearly all professors attending.
---So here we are
with Paul talking about a unified church but one unified not with handshaking
among ecumenical desireables. It is not unified to have Catholics, Baptists,
Greek Orthodox, Jewish, Islam and add then Adventists? No. Impossible.
---Paul sayd in
Ephesians the unity of the church is in one faith and one baptism. Not Adult
baptism and infant baptism together.
---So what is
the salespoint then? Correct truth from the doctrines of the Bible. That is
unity.
---But
Adventists keep Saturday as Sabbath and not Sunday the Lord’s Day.
---How can they
unify with other believers at the end of time when Christ come?
---Many will
understand the correct beliefs and then change.
---Massive
change?
---We do not
know exactly how it is going to work but God does not embrace everytone without
biblical discression.
---The reason He
spent time with Israel until the time of the coming of the Messiah is because
they were to be examples of what we should and should not be.
---God chose one
nation to demonstrate His continuous interaction with humans.
---Did they
succeed? Many times. Did they fail. Many times.
---Are these reports
essential for us? Absolutely. Cannot go without them.
---That is the
whole purpose. Learn from other’s mistakes because they are yours as well. Got
it?
---Then do what?
180 degrees change. The opposite direction please.
---Many examples
in the Jewish nations tell us how God reacted when they did that.
---God is more
eager to save us than we are dreaming to be saved. Know that well.
---Are you eager
to be saved? You need the Agape love of God. Of Christ. Of the Holy Spirit in
you. Go to 1 Corinthians 13 and learn what that love is.
---Even if you
know the truth well and doctrines but you do not have agape Godly love, it is a
red card situation. Cannot.
---You cannot be
just a “cultural Adventist”. Doing the right things of church but you have not
relation with God personally? Well…red card. Cannot.
---So do you not
know how to find God or speak to Him personally? Call your nearest Adventist
pastor. Do it right now. Is your smartphone out?