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

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 1, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Ephesians by Paul by the hand of a good Greek scribe 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 10.

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=2023:3Q:TE:PDFs:ETQ323_01.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less01.html

---Paul speaks in long sentences. Karl Barth did the same. Ellen White could say in three sentences what Karl Barth had to say in nearly ten. That was the experience of the dissertation at the University of South Africa comparing Ellen White on Creation and Karl Barth, by Jack Blanco in the 1970’s.

---In Ephesians Paul use long sentences. There is a reason to this technique in Paul’s days.

---The soldier that is going to stop Tychicus will read the letter if it is a rebellion genre to overthrow the Roman Empire. Long sentences make it difficult to understand. So, “you can pass”.

---Paul is the author of the letter but the non-Paul words are from Tychicus.

---If one compares parallel ideas in Ephesians 2:11-18 and Colossians 1:20-22, both of them speaks about the separation of two parties and the removal of a barrier between them which has a result on their union.

---In Colossians the two parties are God and man. In Ephesians the two parties are Jews and Gentiles.

---Another difference between Colossians and Ephesians focus of the word pleroma or fullness, is that Colossians is going to look at fullness in the divine person of Christ in heaven. Ephesians is going to focus on the fullness = pleroma as it affects the spiritual life of the church on earth.

---So Paul is going to focus on some other aspects for Ephesians than he focused on in Colossians.

---Parallelism is good for us to understand Paul properly. If only the scholars through the ages understood this principle!

---Is Romans 7 speaking of Saul or of Paul? Augustine, Luther and LaRondelle says it speaks of Paul.

---However…Ephesians 2:2-3 explains it very clearly to us in a form of parallelism. People are bad in former times when they followed the World. So Saul was bad in former times when he followed Judaism, thus Romans 7.

---We need to know that people studying at other universities get infected by the environment and they bring into Adventism “strange fire” that was not part of the pioneers, not part of Ellen White, not part of GC positions and Sabbath School Quarterly positions until well into the 1970’s. So we need to be careful what people, pastors, professors at our universities are saying or trying to say.

---How can I contribute in safeguarding the truth of the Bible? Copy all the archives of the Sabbath School Lesson Quarterlies since 1896 on the www.ssnet.org site. You can compare strange ideas with previous lessons in the history of Adventism! Nice right?

---Is your pastor preaching strange? Legal permissiveness is not biblical law. Do not confuse civil law and biblical law. The one is right the other is wrong. Always follow the Bible though the heavens will fall. Right?