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

Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: "Painted into the corner” in Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson In the Crucible with Christ”.

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 113 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 74.

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=2022:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ322_08.pdf

---I once heard a story of three dumb men building a house. I was still a kid. When they finished the house, they realized they are all inside and there is no windows or doors. Trapped but did not know how to get out.

---Koreans are sometimes building panelrooms that way, but then they cut out the door place and the space for the window. Trapped but found a way out.

---So our lesson talks about an idiom to be painted into a corner and to have to walk over the paint to get out.

---There is a true story of a team of painters who was studied by Römer, that painted actually the day after the Exodus of Israel from the house of Thutmosis III who died that morning in March in 1450 BC and was never found. But what about the mummy in Chicago Institute Museum? Not Thutmosis III because Wente et al showed it to be only 35 years old. The oldest son who died at Midnight. Thutmosis III was never found says Psalm.

---Thutmosis III, the god of Egyptians not found! The Israelites who built his tomb all gone? A new team had to continue painting that day in March in Thutmosis III’s tomb to finish it where the Israelite painters left it, all scared and superstitious Egyptians who knew spells were clinging to Egypt’s palace and the tomb.

---So they painted in a hurry, causing many drops to fall to the ground and did not clean it up. They drew pictures very unprofessional with thin lines and no muscles. Römer concluded that these people just wanted to get out. Painting they had to, but no pharaoh who died is there to be put in the tomb! The gods must be crazy, they thought. They would be next? They thought. Römer did not say it the way I do but that something went wrong in the tomb is a fact.

---Faith brings us to a place where we have to fight superstition. Elijah had to do it with noisy worshippers shouting for their god Baal on mount Carmel.

---“Shout for joy to God, all the earth! Sing the glory of his name; make his praise glorious!” (Ps. 66:1, 2, NIV).

---I once heard Hallelujah shouting musicians trying to make Adventists raise their hands and shout Amen and Hallelujah during singing saying Psalm 66 ask them to do so. Not at all.

---The dancing David did before the ark was outside the temple not inside. The Holy Spirit says Romans 8:26 works with unspoken sounds thus silence in worship. Just the opposite of the style we find at Yonsei Central Baptist Church on Youtube.

---Our music teachers at Kindergarten, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools and now College students are imitating these dancing or yoga styles for the future of Adventism? Think of Baal dancing around the altar against Elijah. Think of dancing and noisy worship around the golden calf against Moses.

---Praise the Lord in such a way that there is no repetitive music that brings the audience into a mass hysteria or frenzy. No loud acoustics overpowering the audience so they cannot hear the Holy Spirit speaks in their own minds interpreting God and the Bible for them.

---Who needs the Bible hardcopy when you have a Smartphone. They think.

---They paint themselves with their faith in a corner. Like the superstitious painters of the dead Thutmosis III after the Exodus.