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

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 2, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is:  Ephesians sacrificial blood points to Sanctuary 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 16.

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_02.pdf

---It is very important to put the Book of Ephesians inside the Book of Hebrews 7-9. That is what all our Pioneers did.

---O. L. Crosier placed Ephesians 1:7 together with his discussion of the Sanctuary in Heaven in January 17,n1846 (Day Star Extra).

---J. N. Andrews on July 7, 1853 (RH) connected Colossians 1:14 and Ephesians 1:7 to Hebrews 9:15.

---W. W. Prescott said in February 17, 1895 in RH “Now the lesson that God would teach his people in the sanctuary was the forgiveness, the taking away of sin. So we read in Ephesians 1:7….”

---“Through His blood” is a sacrificial Lamb of God of Isaiah 53 jargon that is strongly connected to the Sanctuary services before the cross and the Heavenly Meditorial Work of Christ on our behalf discussed fully by Paul in Hebrews 7-10. See Paul clarifying Ephesians 1:7 in Hebrews 9:26. “For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the World has He appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of Himself”.

---When the door of Mercy is going to close, the expression in Ephesians 1:10 “that in the economy (oikonomian) of the fullness (pleromatos) of times” everything is going to be given unto Christ as Uriah Smith also interpreted from Psalm 110 of which the Father (Lord) said to Christ (Lord) that He will finally give everything to him (mentioning Ephesians 1: 20-23 on February 10, 1885 in RH.

---Be very careful of not making humans too sinful that they cannot keep the law with the help of the Holy Spirit.

--That is what Augustine did and the pseudepigrapha on the basis of Greek philosophers like Plato and Euripides and Augustine’s own feelings.

---Christ came to show us through His example that we can also keep the Law after conversion. After submission of our complete self and all sins that we have accumulated through the years. Right?

---Humans are so sinful that they cannot save themselves. But they are not so sinful that the Holy Spirit cannot transform them to perfection. Oops! You say.

---No it is completely biblical. Said a few times by nearly all apostles and Jesus Himself.

---So do not use Bertrand Russell’s relativism and agnostic denial of perfection of anyone as a template to be put over the Bible and perfection texts suppressed or squashed or hidden by those observations.

---Atheists and agnostics and Greek philosophy was wrong. There is a human potential to be reached. A goal to go towards and an Example to follow.

---There is a law to be kept and that fully and completely.

---Unto salvation? No, not because of salvation but unto honor of Jesus Who did show us how to. Right?

---But what about my smoking habit? Quit. Dance on your cigarette right now. Make an offering to God. Burn all of them. Pray and laugh while you do it.

---Cold water shower and hot water relay until all nicotine is out of your system.

---Then after sweat, tears, agony and prayer, the victory arrived!

---Many of my friends and relatives did it. You too. When? Right now.