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Key Thought : Within the Ten Commandments the Sabbath stands as its seal in that it identifies who God is, confirms the territory He rules, and reveals His right to rule.
May 20, 2023

1. Have a volunteer read Revelation 14:7, Revelation 14:10, James 2:8-13.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What does it mean when it says the hour of His judgment is (or has) come? Could this message be applied at any time in church history?
3. Personal Application: What does judgment having come imply about our accountability and responsibility? Share your thoughts..
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “What do our heredity and environment have to do with our daily choices? How can we be held accountable for character defects we didn’t choose to have? Is it possible to overcome them?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:9-11, Deuteronomy 5:12-15.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Why would you connect Sabbath worship with this call in Revelation 14:6,7 to worship Him who made the heavens, earth, and everything in them?
3. Personal Application: How does the Sabbath answer life’s important questions like where did I come from, why am I here, and where am I going? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Why do you Adventists emphasize the seventh-day Sabbath so much? Why do you think the day we worship is more important than the way we worship?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Psalm 33:6-9, Hebrews 11:3.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do these passages tell us about how God created the world?
3. Personal Application: What significance would the Sabbath have if God did not create the world in six twenty-four hour periods of time? Can one be an evolutionary Creationist and a Seventh-day Adventist? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “How can you believe that the world was created in six literal days when the scientific evidence points to a world that is millions or billions of years old?” How would you respond to your relative?

4. Have a volunteer read Isaiah 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, 2 Peter 3:13.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do these texts tell us about God’s creative and recreative power?
3. Personal Application: How can you personally make the Sabbath a foretaste of heaven in your own life and in your family? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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The great controversy, which began in heaven millennia ago, was over the question of God’s authority. The challenge remains the same today, as well.

Read Revelation 14:7, Revelation 14:9, and Revelation 14:12. Summarize these verses by completing the sentences on the lines below.

Revelation 14:7 is a call to _________________

Revelation 14:9 is a solemn appeal not to _________________

Revelation 14:12 describes a people who _________________

These passages make it clear that the central issue in the conflict in the last days between good and evil, Christ and Satan, is worship. Do we worship the Creator or the beast? And because Creation forms the ground of all our beliefs (after all, what do we believe that makes any sense apart from God as our Creator?), the seventh-day Sabbath — embedded in the Genesis Creation account itself (Genesis 2:1-3) — stands as the eternal and immutable sign of that Creation. It’s the most basic symbol of the most basic teaching. The only thing more fundamental to it is God Himself.

Hence, to usurp the seventh-day Sabbath is to usurp the Lord’s authority at the most prime level possible, that of Him as Creator. It’s to get behind everything and uproot it at the core. It is, indeed, to seek to take the place of God Himself (2 Thessalonians 2:4).

Of course, the real issue in the last days is our love and loyalty to Jesus. But according to the Bible, this love is expressed in obedience to the commandments (1 John 5:3, Revelation 14:12) — and the Sabbath alone among the commandments gets behind everything because it alone points to God as Creator (Exodus 20:8-11). No wonder it will be the outward symbol of the final divide between those who worship the Lord and those who worship the beast (Revelation 14:11-12). Considering how basic and fundamental the Sabbath is to everything else, it’s hard to see how the final issue of worshiping the Creator could be about anything else.

<–Tuesday Thursday–>

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