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Studying Managing for the Master until He comes in the SSnet.org series Lesson 4 may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Tapped into Christ you experience blessings and a portion is given for offerings how you feel for Morning Manna in the Sabbath School Series Managing for the Master until He comes

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 32.

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https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2023:1Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ123_04.pdf

---How much should we give for the offering? What is the biblical principle behind it?

---Deuteronomy 16:17 is given but the text really starts in 16:16:

“and they do not appear before Jehovah (Lord) empty;

17 each according to the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of Jehovah (Lord) your God, which He has given to you.” (Young’s Literal Translation adapted).

---The first principle is, coming to church, the believer does not want to come to the Lord empty in hands.

---So what does the believer do? The believer plan to go to the Lord with something that we call offerings.

---Daily you offer yourself as available to the Lord for that day, in whomever you meet, you will mirror His agape (Godly) love to them. You offer yourself to be an instrument for Him and His Spirit in you to shine to them.

---You do not know what to say or do, but you do not need to. At the point you will do things that will surprise yourself later thinking about it. The Spirit did it for you through you.

---Do you know that is what happened to Ellen White writing Desire of Ages?

---The Encyclopaedia or Dictionary on Ellen White, did not include the famous Testimony on Ellen White in 1955 at the Oregon Campmeeting in a sermon delivered by M. E. L. Andreasen.

---These days Andreasen is ostracized for his views. He was a man with a temper and had problems and stress with the leaders. Why? Because he felt the church was compromised in 1954-1957 with the QOD publication by the GC.

---He told them that they are citing Ellen White incomplete in the QOD because if you read further to what she wrote she emphasize the importance of not only our status in heaven but also sanctification and overcoming all habits and all sins unto perfection before Jesus comes. She says that Jesus came to show us how to do it. The leaders paid no attention to what he said, says J. Zurcher in his study of it in Touched by His Feelings.

---Sorry for the Andreasen background. The stress gave him stomach problems and he died of it shortly afterwards. God will hold those accountable who did it. May God have mercy on them.

---Andreasen was a doctoral student in English Literature at Chicago University at the end of the Victorian Period. He got Desire of Ages of mrs. White and read it.

---He could not believe his eyes. How can she write like this? “Jesus is unborrowed…” statement? Where did she get this deep theology? He wanted to know.

---He said in the testimony he asked Ellen White to stay with her to see how she writes. She gave him 90 days to stay with her. [And to think our Dictionary or Encyclopaedia did not include this testimony transcribed!]

---Who were the Editors? Why? Do they have an anti-Andreasen bias?

---He said he was there every day. He asked her about some things she wrote in Desire of Ages.

---She said to him, “You know what, I have to also study it as you do to see what I wrote”.

---And did she write it or her stenographers or helpers? Andreasen said she did. Her helpers would take it and correct grammar but, they had to bring it back to her to see if it was still the same as she was given by the Spirit.

---He said he lost all his skepticism about her.

---Ellen White principle here: you cannot give something from the Lord if you are not surrendered to the Lord.

---And that is what offerings are. Your eyes will know what the Lord did to you so you give back to God with a happy and joyful heart for the Lord likes a joyful and happy willing giver.

---How much? It is up to you. There are people who give a second tithe as a fixed principle about this in their lives. It is up to you.