The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

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

The Topic today is: "Giving is followed by the heart for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Managing for the Master till 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 34 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page not available yet.

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 don’t you click on this link right now:

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

---When we give our heart is also with our giving.

---That is what Ellen White said in her passage today.

---Our heart follows our giving.

---An example was Cornelius the centurion that always gave and God saw his acts of giving and his heart in Acts 10.

---An angel appeared to him telling him that God is pleased with what he did.

---When we give, God not only count what we gave but look at the intention or heart behind the giving.

---Peter got involved in the verses followed this with sermons to them and in verse 47-48 Peter said that nothing prevent them to be baptized who is accepted by the Holy Spirit.

---Peter took a long time to understand that God not only saves Jews but also other nations.

---Cornelius was the Italian. So a Roman. Speaking also Latin. Will God accept him. God did.

---So what happened is that Peter asked them to be baptized.

---The Reformer Johannes Oecolampadius is known for his skills in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. He wrote many commentaries before he died at the age of 47.

---But in 1525 he wrote a dispute against some pastors who came to him to talk about Adult baptism and he tried to defend Infant baptism.

---He came to Cornelius and said that maybe, just maybe there were children also in Cornelius house so they were also baptized. Therefore, Infant baptism is also fine.

---Biblically? No. Just on assumption.

---He said that circumcision took the place of Baptism. So some of the pastors in Basel asked Oecolampadius why Jesus was both circumcised and baptized?

---It was a difficult question and we wait until today for the answer. He could not answer without swinging around clear texts.

---It was the worst exegesis of Baptism that I have read in a long time. I lost my admiration for Oecolampadius because of his reasoning in these online 11 pages written in High-German.

---Are you baptized? Only as a baby sprinkled? That is not baptism. See the Eunuch and Philip case of baptism. Better speak to an Adventist pastor for adult baptism like Cornelius. Right? His heart was right.