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: Inheritance now (de facto) and to come (de
iure) 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 18. 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 ---“Inheritance” is the Law of Property or Property
Law. ---There are two phrases in law that you need to
understand: de iure and de facto. ---An inheritance or property is de iure when it is
promised or considered promised but not yet realized in full. ---An inheritance or property is de facto when it
really is given or was given. ---During the action of conversion, the sinner
becomes de facto a child of God and is promised de iure an inheritance of
eternal life, space to live forever in future. Nice right? ---When I was working in Japan, my Boss said to me
that I am her “merchandise”. It is the same as inheritance. ---We become the inheritance of God when the Spirit
moves into our hearts and starts to transform our lives with character
building. ---The plan of God is the prophetic chart of events
in the Last Days with the Sanctuary or temple service figurative on earth and
real in heaven in mind. ---The role of Christ coming out and receive His
kingship at the end of Revelation 14 with a crown on His head on a cloud
outside the Temple, is the point that is in mind here by Paul also just as John
did. ---It is actually a biblical theme. It is the eschatological
Messianic Kingship of the Old Testament prophets to deal with the enemies
finally. In fact, Psalm 110 plays a role in the mind of Paul as it does in
Hebrews too. ---Evil is the Great Controversy wrapping paper
around history done by Lucifer/Satan. ---God dealt with it and will deal with it still.
Christ will. ---Ellen White says: “Our will is to be yielded to
Him, that we may receive it again, purified and refined, and so linked in
sympathy with the Divine that He can pour through us the tides of His love and
power”. Thoughts from the Mount of
Blessing, 61-62. ---Our will becomes His will which is purified and
given back! Calvin had no idea of this. Augustine did not have this idea at
all. ---There was a scholar with the name of Bayne who
wrote a commentary on Ephesians in 1643 but the Victorian Age scholars rejected
him because he was constantly discussing the views of Jacob Arminius. This is
the person who is against the views of Predestination of Calvin. ---In 1882 a certain Dale wrote on the Ethics in the
Book of Ephesians but scholars hated him because they did not like it that he
was against Calvin. They felt that he was unfair regarding Calvin. ---It is not beyond the limits of Ephesians’ text
when we ask readers to put Ephesians in Paul’s other book, Hebrews 7-10 with
the clear explanation of Christ’s role in the heavenly places or heavenly
sanctuary with its divisions. Epouranios
can only be properly understood this way. ---Although the Sanctuary doctrine is an Adventist
hobby horse, it is not going off on Adventism when we put this into our
discussions on Ephesians. Right? ---Scholars called Harless and his 1834 commentary
on Ephesians good but that he often had a bias for his own Lutheran Church
doctrine. It is not bias when we talk about the Sanctuary Message of Hebrews
7-10. It is Pauline. ---In 1921-22 Karl Barth gave lectures on Ephesians
and when he came to epouranios he
liked the thinking of Calvin a lot on it. Calvin felt it was the present benefits
that the Christian has in Christ on our behalf. ---Barth mentioned a number of scholars and like
Hoffman’s idea of 1870 in his commentary that epouranios “heavenly places” is “In the most spacious of all rooms”..
Problem with Barth is that he did not believe in Satan or Lucifer or the Devil.
---Ephesians 1:11 does not swallow up the will of
man and AI robot them in their futures. God is very special with our wills as
Ellen White indicated supra. ---Have you surrendered your will to Christ to be
purified and given back to you? Do it now. Right?