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7.THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM – GENESIS–THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.

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Series GENESIS – THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |

7.THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM |
The Abrahamic covenant is the second one after the covenant with Noah.

Memory Text: Genesis 15:2 – But Abram said, ‘Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

Content:
7.0 Introduction
When a mighty one enters into a coalition with a weak one we are astonished.

7.1 The Faith of Abraham
Looking up to the stars is good for us. Then we understand better who is God.

7.2 Abram`s Doubts
If it takes a long time till a promise is fulfilled, doubts will creep in more and more.

7.3 The Sign of the Abrahamic Covenant
Circumcision is a sign that cannot be overlooked.

7.4 The Son of Promise
The longer you have to wait the greater the joy when you reach your goal.

7.5 Lot in Sodom
It is the last night of Sodom. God`s people are warned beforehand.

7.6 Summary
Abraham`s faith in God is beyond measure. His patience is greater than we can imagine. Nevertheless even Abraham`s life is mixed with failures.

My God bless you today and always.

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Source: https://fulfilleddesire.net/7-the-covenant-with-abraham-genesis-the-book-of-the-beginning-pastor-kurt-piesslinger-m-a/

7.6 Summary – THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.

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Series GENESIS – THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |

7.THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM |
The Abrahamic covenant is the second one after the covenant with Noah. |

Memory Text: Genesis 15:2 – But Abram said, ‘Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

7.6 Summary
Abraham`s faith in God is beyond measure. His patience is greater than we can imagine. Nevertheless even Abraham`s life is mixed with failures.

My God bless you today and always.

 

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Source: https://fulfilleddesire.net/7-6-summary-the-covenant-with-abraham-pastor-kurt-piesslinger-m-a/

News Briefs for May 12, 2022

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News stories from Loma Linda University Health, Southern Adventist University, the Trans-European Division, Albania and Papua New Guinea.  Straight As From a LLUH press release:  Loma Linda University Medical Center and East Campus hospitals received their 7th and 8th consecutive “A” safety ratings, respectively, from the Leapfrog Group for spring 2022. This national distinction recognizes […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-may-12-2022/

The Lord’s Supper [What Does the Bible Say?] – Pastor Ted Wilson

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In this episode, Pastor Ted Wilson talks about the Lord's Supper based on the sixteenth fundamental belief of the Seventh-day Adventists. The Lord's Supper is a participation in the emblems of the body and blood of Jesus as an expression of faith in Him. In this experience, Christ is present to meet and strengthen His people. And as we partake in it, we "proclaim the Lord's death till He comes" (1 Corinthians 11:26). Preparation for this communion includes self-examination, repentance, and confession. These are manifested in the service of foot washing, signifying renewed cleansing and willingness to serve one another in Christlike humility and unite our hearts in love. The Lord's Supper follows Jesus' demonstration of love when He washed His disciples' feet like a servant. By doing this, He showed an example of kindness and unconditional love. "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you" (John 13:14-15). Aside from washing one another's feet, the three significant parts of the communion service involve eating unleavened bread and drinking grape juice. All these are symbolic of Christ's sacrifice to save us and the servant-like example He set. Also, these actions follow Jesus' words to His disciples: "Do this in remembrance of Me" (Luke 22:19). The bread represents Christ's body broken for us. "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, 'Take, eat; this is My body.'" (Matthew 26:26). Jesus said in John 6:48, "I am the Bread of life." In verse 51, He continued, "I am the living Bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world." This bread, as used in the communion service, is unleavened. Why? During the Passover, God instructed the Israelites to get ready to leave Egypt soon as Pharaoh permitted. So, they baked unleavened cakes of dough. Through the years, they used unleavened bread in celebrating the Passover as a reminder of their exodus from Egypt. Meanwhile, Apostle added another meaning to this. "Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore, purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump since you truly are unleavened. For indeed, Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep the feast not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" (1 Corinthians 5:6-8). On the other hand, the fruit of the vine symbolizes Jesus' blood "which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28). "Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins" (Hebrews 9:22). This fruit of the vine, as used in Passover, was unfermented grape juice. Jesus said in Matthew 26:29, "I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom." With this, the Bible condemns fermented wine. In Proverbs 20:1, we read that "wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise." Also, "do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly; at the last, it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper" (Proverbs 23:31-32). As such, only pure grape juice, freshly squeezed from the vine, fits the symbol of the perfect blood of Christ. Jesus instituted the Lord's Supper to commemorate our deliverance from sin. It is the new covenant service that continues the Passover celebration. The communion is the perfect time to think about how we can grow in Christ and honor Him with our lives. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoqpgmOb0GI

How to Find Hope When You’re Feeling Hopeless

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Let me ask you a personal question: If you have ever sinned against someone else, how did you feel?
Guilty, ashamed, hopeless, like giving up. Some people even feel suicidal because they are so ashamed of themselves.
Whenever you find yourself feeling like a hopeless failure, remember, God is with you, even when you don’t know it. He has a solution for you. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBKwpx1CdVo

La donna negli occhi di Dio

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Non e' vero che Dio abbia affidato un ruolo marginale alla donna. Anzi come l'uomo la valorizza, se ne prende cura e la difende. Meditazione a cura di Dag Pontvik, registrata presso la comunita' di Cesena il Sabato 7 Maggio 2022 Evento legato al programma Bibbia Festival 2022 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSGmsZT4NPM

Inside Story: A Teacher’s Prayer

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A Teacher’s Prayer

By Andrew McChesney

A school friend told Selinah that she should worship Jesus. “You need to go to church because Jesus is coming and, when He comes, He will take His own,” she said. The friend also said only two churches exist in the world — the Seventh-day Adventist Church and another church. Selinah, whose parents were not particularly religious, chose the other church because it had the larger building in her village in northern Botswana.

Selinah Oreneile Nkwae

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After some time, a relative, a boy around her age, invited Selinah to the Adventist church. Selinah’s friends at the other church cautioned her against going. “Don’t go to that church,” said one. “You won’t come back to your own church,” said another. “Why would I leave my church?” Selinah said.

On Sabbath morning, Selinah walked with the boy to church. The worship service had begun when they arrived. It was so different to Selinah. The preacher talked to God like he was talking to a friend. The handshakes after the worship service surprised her. It was as if the church members had been expecting her. Learning that the preacher would conduct a series of sermons, she came back for what turned out to be an evangelistic series. She listened with amazement as the preacher used slides to show that the beasts of Daniel chapter 7 represented world kingdoms up through Jesus’ second coming. After the meetings ended, she never returned to her former church. She was baptized and joined the Adventist Church.

Selinah Oreneile Nkwae grew up and became a schoolteacher. More than anything she wanted to teach children about Jesus at an Adventist school. But there was no Adventist school, so she taught at government schools for 34 years. After retiring, she prayed earnestly about how to be a good witness for God, and she led several evangelistic efforts that resulted in a number of baptisms. But she couldn’t forget her desire to teach at an Adventist school.

One day, her husband saw a newspaper advertisement seeking teachers for a new Adventist school in Francistown. Selinah applied and was accepted at Eastern Gate Primary School, which was constructed with a Thirteenth Sabbath Offering in 2015. God had answered her prayers. “The daily prayer of all the teachers is for the kids see God’s character in us,” Selinah said.

This mission story illustrates the following components of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s “I Will Go” strategic plan: Mission Objective No. 4, “To strengthen Seventh-day Adventist institutions in upholding freedom, wholistic health, and hope through Jesus, and restoring in people the image of God,” and Spiritual Growth Objective No. 6, “To increase accession, retention, reclamation, and participation of children, youth, and young adults.” Read more: IWillGo2020[dot]org.

Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org

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Friday: Further Thought ~ The Covenant With Abraham

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Further Thought:

Read Ellen G. White, “The Law and the Covenants,” Pages 370-373, in Patriarchs and Prophets.

Abraham’s patient and tenacious plea with God on behalf of the people of Sodom (Genesis 18:22-33) should encourage us to pray for the wicked, even though they appear to be in a hopeless condition of sin.

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Furthermore, God’s attentive response to Abraham’s insistence, and His willingness to forgive for the sake of only “ten” righteous men is a “revolutionary” concept, as pointed out by Gerhard Hasel:

“In an extremely revolutionary manner the old collective thinking, which brought the guiltless member of the guilty association under punishment, has been transposed into something new: the presence of a remnant of righteous people could have a preserving function for the whole … For the sake of the righteous remnant Yahweh would in his righteousness [tsedaqah] forgive the wicked city. This notion is widely expanded in the prophetic utterance of the Servant of Yahweh who works salvation ‘for many.’” — Gerhard F. Hasel, The Remnant: The History and Theology of the Remnant Idea From Genesis to Isaiah, 3rd edition (Berrien Springs, MI: Andrews University Press, 1980), Pages 150, 151.

“All around us are souls going down to ruin as hopeless, as terrible, as that which befell Sodom. Every day the probation of some is closing. Every hour some are passing beyond the reach of mercy. And where are the voices of warning and entreaty to bid the sinner flee from this fearful doom? Where are the hands stretched out to draw him back from death? Where are those who with humility and persevering faith are pleading with God for him? The spirit of Abraham was the spirit of Christ. The Son of God is Himself the great Intercessor in the sinner’s behalf. He who has paid the price for its redemption knows the worth of the human soul.” — Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 140.

Discussion Questions:
  1. Only the rainbow and circumcision are called “sign of the covenant.” What are the common points and the differences between the two covenants?
  2. Though called of God, and though often used in the New Testament as the example of what it means to live by faith, Abraham at times faltered. What lessons should we learn and not learn from his example?
  3. Some people argue against the idea that God will punish the lost, saying that this act would be against God’s love. How do we, as those who believe that, yes, God will punish the lost, respond to the argument that He doesn’t?

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Keys to Proclaiming the Gospel Effectively #Sermon #shorts

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Are you willing to take on the challenge of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ? This #short clip from the Global Campmeeting sermon “How Can We Effectively Bring the Message to the Cities?” by Mark Finley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1wboSHTtD4&list=PL-k2Gb-DBYo9tb9fHW_AxGxJ1R8MpNnpa&index=3 presents that God does not need us to have a certification or a university degree. All He wants is our willingness to witness and testify for Him. Study His Word fervently and pray continually, for revival and genuine witnessing for Jesus can only happen through the power of the Holy Spirit. Today is the right day for us to be His instrument to share love, hope, peace, and salvation with others. Want to learn more about the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Let us help you understand the Bible to find freedom, healing and hope in Jesus. Visit our website at: https://www.adventist.org/ Click the notification bell so that you never miss a new video! Find us on social media by following the links below:
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ATSS: Dr. Robert Johnston on Jesus as Parabler

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11 May 2022  | Please read these rabbinic parables to prepare for Dr. Johnston’s class. From a literary standpoint the parables of Jesus were like those of his contemporaries, but their purpose and effect were dramatically different. This presentation will examine the importance of the parables, the narrative technique of Jesus, and how they should […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-dr-robert-johnston-on-jesus-as-parabler/

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