Studying Death, Dying and Future Hope in the SSnet.org series Lesson 14, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Assurance by Status and Growth for Morning Manna in Death, Dying and Future Hope.

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God."

The Teacher’s Edition is on page 181 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 117.

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://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_14.pdf

---The name on the foreheads. What does it mean what Revelation 22:3-5 is saying for the saved ones in future?

---It is not a carved in the skin name of God on the forehead.

---It is not fastening a copy of a part of the law in a small box with leather on the forehead.

---It is not having a jewelry on your forehead.

---Or to tattoo a cross on your forehead.

---Are we going to be tattooed in heaven?

---God is against tattoos. It is taboo in the Bible. Cannot have it. Remove.

---That attainment of a moral character is to walk as Jesus walked on earth.

---When should we attain this moral perfection? Before the Second Coming or at the Second Coming?

---Before. When He comes we shall see Him as He is. A Glorified body. Glorified bodies are what we get at Resurrection. Going up to meet Him in the air means glorified body meets glorified Divine Body.

---We dealt with this already: Surrender and accepting Jesus has two phases not just one. Desmond Ford and his team wanted to Calvinize or Lutheranize salvation as just a case of Status change in heaven period.

---Ellen White long before said, stop the bus, it is about Status and Spirit-filled Growth in Christ.

---You will be judged by your growth in Christ or “works” after entering the Status part.

---It is de iure salvation (as promise) and de facto salvation (as growth in moral perfection of the character) before He comes.

---Christ will not hand out salvation to sinners otherwise that is Election which means sovereign selection of some sinners and rejection of other sinners. This kind of Calvinism is unbiblical. It is part of TULIP thinking. Cannot says the Bible.

---Jacobus Arminius reacted against this already.

---Ellen White is explicit and clear summing up what Paul, Peter, James and John and Jesus said about the matter: moral perfection in character without sin is what is needed before the Second Coming of Christ. Christ Object Lessons page 330.

---This is Adventism Salvation 4.1 and not Desmond Ford’s Calvinism Salvation 1.1 with an emphasis on Status only.

---Status assurance is not enough. It is both Status assurance and Growth assurance. Is that clear?

---So one should stop criticizing the Anointed of the Lord who preaches the importance of Growth just as the pioneers and Ellen White did.

---Those who follow Desmond Ford will ultimately reject Ellen White. Are there theologians who speak uncertain about the claims of Ellen White?

---Time to get straight and right with the Word of God.

---The “sleeping theology” of Laodicea has all to do with it. When they wander from the way of Adventism Salvation 4.1 and adopted the Calvinism Salvation 1.1 some in the Adventist movement went into a Laodicea sleep syndrome and fell asleep spiritually. They secularize. Focus became murky.

---Wake up and get back to a proper emphasis. Right? Right. When? Now.