The morning Manna
will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying Ephesians in
the SSnet.org series Lesson 6, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your
heart.
The Topic today
is: “From Chief of Apostles to Chief of Sinners in Paul and what scars of sin
do to our memory 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 75.
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_06.pdf
---Or
try in alternative this one: https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less06.html
---Rulers and
authorities in heavenly places. The word is the Sanctuary. The word “places” is
added by those who guess. It is a location but the Sanctuary. ---There is a
court scene going on in the Sanctuary
= ouraneoi. The jury is watching. ---Who is the
jury? The rulers and authorities of the unfallen worlds. ---Are they
evil? Walla Walla professor suggested so. ---I rather see
them as the jury having insights in what is happening on earth and the Books in
Heaven of human behavior that is investigated and brought up for consideration
as part of the Conflict of the Ages
“cleansing”. ---Cleansing the
Sanctuary (Daniel 8:14). ---It is
interesting to see how Paul is speaking that he is the Chief of Apostles and
that he is considering himself at the end of his life as the chief of sinners. ---Ellen White
had a beautiful statement to make regarding this transformation to adulthood of
the sanctified Christian. The transformed sinner to saint. ---“The closer
you come to Jesus, the more faulty you will appear in your own eyes; for your
vision will be clearer, and your imperfections will be seen in broad and
distinct contrast to His perfect nature.”—Steps
to Christ, p. 64. ---Does it mean
that you are really faulty? No. Behavior wise not. It is in your own memory
that the scars of sin remain. ---Salvation
does not remove the scars of sin. Our memory is lightened by Satan on this
sensitive and soft spot. We ourselves feel uncomfortable about them. ---At first as
sinner we did not care. But now that we are walking the path of righteousness
and walk in the way of the Law of God to holiness and perfection of character,
now the scars bother us. ---Augustine and
Luther saw the scars in their memories and called them original sin inherited
from Adam. ---It is a
misnomer for their own sins forgiven but scars of memory remaining. ---Many
Christians makes this same mistake. ---They see the
scars of forgiven sins in memory and lament: O, I can never be perfect in
character. ---So they spin
out, against the Word of God that called Henoch, Noah, Abraham, David “perfect”
and use the words of Bertrand Russell that due to relativism no one can be
perfect. ---So they deny
perfection. ---Ellen White
encourage all towards behaviorism but they then take her statements and the
perfection statements of the Bible and federalism it. ---Federalism is
to give everything to Christ and accept no responsibility. ---They cross
out the behaviorism commands of God in the Old and New Testament and cry that
federalism of Christ will cover up or take care of it or did already. ---Once saved,
always saved. ---We cannot
substitute what is expected from us by God explicitly in His Word for dumping
everything on Christ in heaven when God did not say so. ---There are
statements that gave everything to Christ in both the Word of God and in Spirit
of Prophecy. That is biblical federalism and we cannot turn that into
behaviorism crossing out what Christ did already for us. ---But the
reverse is also true. Correct? ---Is your
pastor trying to give you a “cheap grace, cheap gospel slogan?” ---Is he turning
the blood of Christ from the cross into sweet honey? ---Move. When?
Now.