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Inside Story: God’s Perfect Timing
God’s Perfect Timing
By Eliane Hosokawa Imayuki
Marcia Yuassa, one of the thousands of Brazilian immigrants working long hours at factories in central Japan, was forced to stay at home after falling ill.
Suffering severe pain, she didn’t know how she could take care of her family or even survive. She cried out to God not to let her die.
Unable to do much in her ill condition, she spent a lot of time on the Internet.
One day, she stumbled across an online series of Bible-based health courses by a Seventh-day Adventist physician in Brazil. She watched every YouTube video that she could find and, as she learned about various aspects of a healthy lifestyle, she also heard about the seventh-day Sabbath.
Then, while looking on social media for friends from her youth in Brazil, she found a former classmate who recently had created a profile. Marcia happily reconnected with her old friend and enthusiastically told her in a call about her new findings about health and the Sabbath.
The friend listened attentively and, when Marcia finished, said she worshipped Jesus on the Sabbath. She had become a Seventh-day Adventist after losing contact with Marcia. The two women began to study the Bible together.
After some time, the friend sent contact information for an Adventist church and its pastor in her region. But when Marcia looked up the church’s address, she realized that it was in another city, too far away to visit because she did not drive. Still she called the church and spoke with me, the pastor’s wife.
To her surprise, I informed her that a small Bible study group had been formed in Iwata, the city where she lived, and would meet for the first time that same week.
Three days later, the group met less than a mile (a kilometer) from Marcia’s house, so close that she could walk there. God has healed her illness, and Marcia, 54, has not missed a meeting since.
Marcia learned about the seventh-day Sabbath through the Internet. Part of this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will go to a project to help many Japanese people, especially young people, learn about Jesus through the Internet. Thank you for planning a generous offering.
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Friday: Further Thought ~ Deuteronomy in the Later Writings
Further Thought:
“This [Micah 6:1-8] is one of the great passages of the OT. It, like Amos 5:24 and Hosea 6:6, epitomizes the message of the eighth-century prophets.
The passage opens with a beautiful example of a covenant lawsuit in which the prophet summons the people to hear the charge Yahweh has against them. The mountains and hills are the jury because they have been around a long time and have witnessed God’s dealing with Israel. Rather than directly charging Israel with breaking the covenant, God asks Israel if they have any charges against him. ‘What have I done? How have I wearied you?’ In the face of injustice some of the poor people may have become ‘weary in well doing.’ In the face of opportunities to get rich quick some of the land-owners might have grown weary of keeping the covenant laws.” — Ralph L. Smith, Word Biblical Commentary, Micah-Malachi, (Grand Rapids, MI: Word Books, 1984), vol. 32, p. 50.
“In the reformation that followed, the king [Josiah] turned his attention to the destruction of every vestige of idolatry that remained. So long had the inhabitants of the land followed the customs of the surrounding nations in bowing down to images of wood and stone, that it seemed almost beyond the power of man to remove every trace of these evils. But Josiah persevered in his effort to cleanse the land.” — Ellen G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 401.
Discussion Questions:
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- Sure, we’re Seventh-day Adventists, and with our present truth message, we see ourselves and (rightly so) in the same place that ancient Israel had been in: having truths that the world around them needed to hear. It’s a great privilege for us. How well, though, do you think we are living up to the responsibilities that come with such privilege?
- In class go over the 70-week prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27. What role does the covenant have in that prophecy, and why is the idea of covenant so important to it — and to us?
- Imagine being Daniel, having seen your nation invaded and defeated, and knowing that the temple, the center of your whole religious faith, was destroyed by idolatrous pagans. How, though, could knowledge of the book of Deuteronomy been very faith-sustaining for him (or any other Jew) at this time? That is, how did the book help him understand all that was happening and why it happened? In a similar way, how does our understanding of Scripture as a whole help us deal with trying times and events that otherwise, without our knowledge of Scripture, could be very discouraging to us? What should the answer teach us about how central the Bible must be to our faith?
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Southern German Union Approves Women’s Ordination
9 December 2022 | The following is a statement from the South German Union: In its regular meeting on December 6, the Executive Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Southern Germany (South German Union/SDV) voted to allow the equal ordination of men and women in pastoral ministry. In doing so, the Church has made ordination […] Source: https://atoday.org/southern-german-union-approves-womens-ordination/
11.DEUTERONOMY IN THE LATER WRITINGS – PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
11.DEUTERONOMY IN THE LATER WRITINGS
Quotations from Deuteronomy you can find in other parts of the Old Testament.
Memory Text:
Deuteronomy 10:15 – The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
Content:
11.0 Introduction
11.1 The Book of the Law
11.2 The Heaven of Heavens
11.3 Deuteronomy in Jeremiah
11.4 What Does the Lord Require?
11.5 Daniel’s Prayer
11.6 Summary
My God bless you today and always.
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11.6 Summary – DEUTERONOMY IN THE LATER WRITINGS | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
11.DEUTERONOMY IN THE LATER WRITINGS
Quotations from Deuteronomy you can find in other parts of the Old Testament.
Memory Text:
Deuteronomy 10:15 – The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
11.6 Summary
Josiah, a king as reformator, accomplishes what is recommended in Deuteronnomy.
My God bless you today and always.
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No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town!
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Disability Inclusion | ADRA Insider Podcast
In this episode of the ADRA Insider, Heather Grbic talks with Peggy Caesar about ADRA's work with the Albinism Community in Tanzania as an example of how ADRA includes people with disabilities in all of the projects that we do. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKaHNXk5QWk
Scuola del Sabato n. 11 – 11 dicembre 2021
La verità presente nel libro del Deuteronomio Approfondimento della lezione della Scuola del Sabato numero 11 – IV trimestre 2021 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOKyjc-DIPQ
Video Giornale Avventista – 11 dicembre 2021
Il presidente della Regione Emilia-Romagna ha visitato la casa di riposo Casa Mia di Forlì. Presenti anche il sindaco della città e il presidente della Chiesa avventista. Un giovane avventista della chiesa di Asti è stato l’ospite speciale alla presentazione del libro “Campioni Oltre” che racconta le storie di vita e umanità dei fuoriclasse dello sport. Integrazione e lavoro sono la motivazione che spinge il coordinamento ADRA di Ragusa a organizzare il “Corso di Alfabetizzazione per Stranieri con indirizzo lavorativo”, giunto alla sesta edizione. Alla consegna degli attestati era presente anche il sindaco di Ragusa e l’assessore allo sviluppo. Queste notizie ed altre ancora. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDlRAePz7jw