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

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

The Topic today is: "Ellen White with the promise that no matter how difficult it is the school of character for heaven preparation"."

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 11 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 12.

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.

---Everyone is different. But everyone has a character that needs molding and shaping before Heaven arrived.

---Christ is in or with or near us constantly working towards improving our character.

---He has an active role in this transformation. His human character on earth is the Example towards which all humans are striving.

---Falling short is a regular pain and shock for the Christian but one must keep looking up to this Perfect Character of Christ.

---What will happen if some did not attain that Perfect Character? At a certain point, Christ put on His Perfect Character for them, says Ellen White so that they can enter the Kingdom of God. Messages to Young People pp. 63-64.

---Character formation is just as essential for Christianity as Justification by Faith is. One is our status for Heaven and the other one is our fitness for heaven.

---Problem is that George Knight in his book Pharisees tried to turn the roles cynically around. It is cynical when you take what is biblical and expounded by Spirit of Prophecy and try to argue that it can be the other way around. It is like telling God how He should have done it! Justification is not a work of a lifetime and Sanctification is not a work of a moment. Knight is not correct.

---Obedience is a call throughout your life. Justification by Faith is the key that starts the whole process because it is Christ our Substitute momentarily putting us on the right course.

---Trails and Temptations and set-backs (not spiritually though) is "building" our character.

---What is a danger for us is that Adventists want to follow the world to changing sayings about God into sayings for humans.

---When they try to create a theology without doctrine.

---A worship without old styles. From worship the biblical way to celebration and then to "festivals", all human creations "my [human] way". God said: I hate your festivals (prophets).

---It is to have a Sabbath School Time without a lesson or reading.

---Character cannot form properly with such a milieu in congregations.

---It is a secular theology. Not Christ-like or biblical.

---But when Christ is seen as with us, in us shaping us moment by moment towards a goal or image of Himself, then the power of the gospel has taken on the proper biblical meaning because that is what true obedience is.

---Fitness is a putting on of the Perfect Character of Christ, Ellen White said today in the citation. Eventually everyone will be the same!