The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying Three Cosmic Messages in the SSnet.org series Lesson 4, may the
Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: Striving for obedience is not legalism for
Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Three
Cosmic Messages. 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. The SSnet.org 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=2023:2Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ223_04.pdf --- Mark Finley says that these
passages in Deuteronomy 6:2 and Ecclessiastes 12:13-14 and Psalm 119:73-74
reveal a linkage between fearing God and keeping His commandments. Edward
Heppenstall in his book Christ our High
Priest said exactly the same as Finley here below. Adventists speaks the
same no matter from which generation. Right? ---Fearing God is an attitude of
reverential respect that leads us to obedience. Heaven’s urgent appeal is for
those saved by grace to be obedient to God’s commands (Eph. 2:8–10). ---Grace does not free us from obeying
the commands of God. ---The gospel sets us free from the
law’s condemnation, not from our responsibility to obey it. There are Sunday
keeping professors who said the same. ---Grace not only delivers us from the
guilt of our past, but it also empowers us to live godly, obedient lives in the
present. The apostle Paul declares that “we have received grace and apostleship
for obedience to the faith among all nations” (Rom. 1:5, NKJV). This is the
true double grace message of Adventism in balance. Calvin only emphasize the
first grace reception of Christ in heaven on our behalf and made that a gift to
us in us so that our deeds is not necessary to focus on. Not so, said Ellen
White in Salvation 4.1. Calvin is 1.1. Two sides of the same coin. Not only
one. Right? Reformer Bucer tried to tell Calvin that but he did not want to
listen properly on this. They were talking about Romans 8:3-4. In us. ---There are some people who have the
strange idea that salvation by grace somehow negates the law of God or
minimizes the necessity for obedience. They believe that any talk about
obedience is legalism. ---They have declared, “All I want is
Jesus.” The question is, which Jesus? A Jesus of our own making, or the Jesus
of Scripture? ---The Christ of Scripture never leads
us to downplay His law, which is the transcript of His character. ---The Christ of Scripture never leads
us to minimize the doctrines of the Bible, which reveal more clearly who He is
and His plan for this world. ---The Christ of Scripture never leads
us to reduce His teaching to pious platitudes that are nonessential. Christ is
the embodiment of all doctrinal truth. Jesus is truth incarnated. He is
doctrine lived out. ---Revelation’s final appeal calls us
through faith in Jesus to accept the fullness of everything He offers. It calls
us to “fear God,” which is expressed by faith in His redeeming power to empower
us to live godly, obedient lives. ---When a person is rich and secular and
downplay the role of obedience, lifestyle and keeping the law of God, then that
person is the same as a wolf in sheep-clothes. ---A wolf in sheep-clothes is a person
that acts like an Adventist but is actually in mind, heart and lifestyle not
one secretly when the other Adventists cannot see them. ---But by their fruits they will be
found out. ---What is a true Adventist then?
Sabbath keeping. And the fruits of the Spirit in Galatians 5 and the agape love
of God in 1 Corinthians 13. Then after that you will see other things like not
pig eating, vegetarianism impact, tithe consciousness, Sabbath School lesson
preparation, eager to go early to church. Keeping the Sabbath faithfully and
carefully.