The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 5, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “Peace with Christ and peace to come 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 42.
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_05.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less02.html
---When He came
(elthoon = aorist participle) He preached peace to those far and near (2:17). ---Through the
Spirit there is access to the one Spirit together (amphoteroi) with Christ
having access to the Father. (2:18). Nice right? ---The Adventist
theology is very similar to that of Bullinger. There is no difference in the way
of salvation of the Old and New Testaments. ---In Bullinger’s
thinking, there was only one eternal covenant. The one of salvation. ---So the way of
salvation for Ellen White and the Bible and Bullinger is the same in the Old
Testament and the New Testament. ---That means
that Christ did not come in 27-31 AD to change what was before but fulfill what
was predicted. Can you see the difference? ---It is not
like old Calvinists use to say, the Old Testament was salvation by works and
now Christ came and it is salvation by grace. ---Bullinger,
Ellen White and the Bible says that salvation was always by faith in the coming
Messiah (Old Testament times) and faith in Christ (New Testament times). ---There never
was another system to be truly saved! Right? ---But was it
not only Jews who were saved before Christ and now Everyone? ---No. God
intended the Jews to be a vehicle or instrument explaining the Tabernacle or
Sanctuary system to the world. ---Sometimes
they did and sometimes they did not. (Psalm 18 is probably an example of this,
Ruth the Moabite). ---Many Hebrews
had Ammonite names. Why? How? ---The Hebrews
of the Old Testament was not a pure blood at all. Mixed like they are today. No
difference. ---So salvation
was the same. No difference. ---You can find
the gospel in all Moses’ books and in the synoptic gospels. It is all about
Jesus and His preaching. ---He taught and
preached the peace of God. ---Cheap peace
is only concerned with horizontal peace. Other nations, neighbors, friends,
family, relationships. ---Real peace is
interested in vertical relationships especially and only through God. ---That is
Maslow’s sixth need. It was left out from his five needs model. ---So societies
all over the world is working with a handicap model to create “heaven on earth”.
It never works. Correct? ---The gospel
writer Matthew recorded that Christ was Immanuel and the angels sang to the
shepherds in the fields in 4 BC when He was born in Bethlehem that He is
bringing “peace on earth”. ---Now get a
reality fact. As long as Satan and evil is roaming on this earth, there will be
no peace. How did Christ bring peace? ---Physical
reconciliation between us and God and between human and human where possible.
Beautiful when possible. Tears when not. ---But a future
hope of peace is in the heart waiting for a future specific date when He will
return to kick in peace properly forever. Nice.