The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Psalms
in the SSnet.org series Lesson 8, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart.
The Topic today
is: “Psalms Righteous living and evil ID checking for Sabbath School Lesson on
the Psalms”.
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 98-102.
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_08.pdf
------Obedience: “God requires prompt and
unquestioning obedience of His law; but men are asleep or paralyzed by the
deceptions of Satan, who suggests excuses and subterfuges, and conquers their
scruples, saying as he said to Eve in the garden: ‘Ye shall not surely die.’
Disobedience not only hardens the heart and conscience of the guilty one, but
it tends to corrupt the faith of others. That which looked very wrong to them
at first, gradually loses this appearance by being constantly before them, till
finally they question whether it is really sin and unconsciously fall into the
same error.”—Ellen G. White, Testimonies
for the Church, vol. 4, p. 146 ---Result? Obedience is a must not a maybe. ---Is it a case of “Oops, I did it again!“ ---In the Bible there is no room for Oops.
If you did it again, you are a starter and Paul was complaining with some
Christians that were still babies when they were to be fed with more advanced
studies. ---By beholding you become changed. Right or
wrong. Depends on Who or who you are looking at or what. ---Solution: Identify the temptation and
start to starve your eyes for it. ---Result: You wipe out of your brain any
reminders of the temptation. ---People who eat beef cannot talk about a
good vegetarian diet. Can they? ---People who are smoking cannot talk about
the values of being not a smoker. ---Psalms plead with all of us to see the
value of obedience. ---Help for the way of obedience is the Holy
Spirit. ---But some of us are like dogs wanting to
run down the way of obedience but we do not want to untie the rope that is
around our neck. ---In 1974 the preacher Helmut Thielicke
wrote a book on The Relation of Theology to Modern Thought Forms. On page 38-39
and 51 I found this: ---That Immanuel Kant who lived at the time
of the Deadly wound of the papacy in 1798 said that God’s dignity is at stake
when it comes to obedience. ---“For God does not want to force us as a
heteronomous tyrant.” ---He does not want servile [slave]
obedience. He want filial [family of God] obedience. ---When Christ lost His life, He stopped the
eternal continuation of sin. ---In biblical concepts of obedience,
freedom from the law means living out the law in full. ---The law only kicks in to complain or
condemn the person when they do not follow the guidance of the law. ---You do not get a car ticket from keeping
by the rules. It is when you break the rules that you get a ticket and the
rules condemn you. ---Trials are a means for God to test our
commitment to be obedient. You say you are obedient to what the Lord expects
from you, let’s test you. ---It is about God’s dignity and when you
passed the test, you have dignity in the eyes of the Universe as well. Psalm
105:19 talking about the Hebrew word tsarab or test. The word that Moses had in
his vocabulary in Egyptian for test was se-jep. ---The seesaw of the Bible is a row between
obedience with God and disobedience with evil and Satan. ---Karl Barth did not have Satan in his
theology and that crippled his whole theological system. It does not matter how
much you emphasize Christ, if you do not understand His war with Satan and
Satan’s war with us the believers, your theology is skew. Sorry Barth. ---The same with Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It does
not matter how many Nazis you fight, if you do not recognize that God is God in
our world as well and see Him as a kind of non-entity or absentee, you are not
obedient to God but to the evil. ---Scholars are saying that Bonhoeffer was a
factive atheist as his letters are indicating. Despite all the beautiful
stories about him in prison and his song he wrote that people like to sing. He
is an atheist ---do not believe in God in our sphere although he does believe
in a God somewhere else. ---That is not biblical. ---The wicked has schemes. Everyone who is a
long-time Adventist knows about the saga with Walter Martin in 1952 when he
wanted to list Adventism as a sect. ---Well, said Raymond Cottrell, in those
days Martin asked from the three Froom, Anderson and Read that they produce a
book that he could use to defend in the Evangelical Society that Adventists are
not a sect. ---So they asked Cottrell who was the first
Adventist who became an Evangelical member, to review all the works of Martin. ---He presented to the three designers of
Questions on Doctrine a frame. They took the frame, produced the book,
submitted the book to Martin. He liked it. He removed Adventism from the sect
list. And accreditation was achieved and great money was to come from 1972 from
the government to our hospitals, schools and institutions. Success? Or sellout?
Editor of Liberty magazine said it was almost a “crime” for those who know
prophetic messages in Adventism. ---Cottrell said that when QOD was published,
the criticism among Adventism was so great, that he stopped its publication.
Oops. ---And today George Knight declares to
everyone how great this book is. And that our theology is served by this book.
No it is not, it is eclectic Adventism. ---Evil play the game of apple shining. In
the process secularism slips in. As the lesson says, slowly the member becomes
so permissive that they do not realize the are standing in the space of the evil.
---Psalm 141 is about that. --So where are you this coming Sabbath? On
the golf-course? No. At the parkinglot of the nearest Adventist church. Is your
nagivation out? When? Now.