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When Jesus is coming back? How to prepare for His coming? Many people discuss the coming of Jesus. But does the Bible reveals anything regarding Christ's second coming? Is it stated in the Bible when Jesus will return? This #short clip from the movie Tell the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2r0J5VbL4 shares that only through the Bible's pages we can discover the path that God intended for us to take. He sheds light on His Second Coming, a day that everyone anxiously awaits. Tell the World shares the beginnings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church through the stories of those that helped form and shape it into what it is now a global movement of over 20 million members. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2r0J5VbL4 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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Unity in Christ [What Does the Bible Teach Us?] – Pastor Ted Wilson
In this episode, Pastor Ted Wilson is with his fellow General Conference executive officers, Erton Kohler and Paul Douglas, to talk about unity in the body of Christ which constitutes our church’s fourteenth fundamental belief. Unity among believers began with Christ Himself. The night before His crucifixion, Jesus prayed to His Father: "Keep through Your name those whom You have given Me; that they may be one as We are" (John 17:11). However, He did not pray only for the disciples but also for us that we “may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me" (John 17:21). Through this unity of Christ’s believers, the world will accept the good news we share. But what does this unity look like and how can it be achieved? Ellen White writes in the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, volume 5, page 1148, "What a wonderful statement! The unity that exists between Christ and His disciples does not destroy the personality of either. In mind, in purpose, in character, they are one, but not in person. By partaking of the Spirit of God, conforming to the law of God, man becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ brings His disciples into a living union with Himself and with the Father. Through the working of the Holy Spirit upon the human mind, man is made complete in Christ Jesus. Unity with Christ establishes a bond of unity with one another. This unity is the most convincing proof to the world of the majesty and virtue of Christ, and of His power to take away sin." Jesus’ disciples had different backgrounds, personalities, and ways of doing things. Hence, they sometimes fought over who would be the greatest. Jesus knew all this and He had a mission for them. But He knew they could never accomplish this mission until they were united. So, He prayed for them. And in Acts 2:1, "when the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord…" It doesn’t mean merely being physically together but more importantly, being together in heart, mind, and soul. In her book The Acts of the Apostles, page 36, Ellen White says, "As the disciples waited for the fulfillment of the promise, they humbled their hearts in true repentance and confessed their unbelief." On page 37, she continues, "The disciples prayed with intense earnestness for a fitness to…speak words that would lead sinners to Christ. Putting away all differences, all desire for the supremacy, they came close together in Christian fellowship." Also, "the disciples felt their spiritual need and cried to the Lord for the holy function that was to fit them for the work of soul saving…They were weighted with the burden of the salvation of souls. They realized that the gospel was to be carried to the world, and they claimed the power that Christ had promised." But how did this transformation take place? "Under the training of Christ, the disciples had been led to feel their need of the Spirit. Under the Spirit's teaching, they received the final qualification, and went forth to their lifework…No longer were they a collection of independent units or discordant, conflicting elements. No longer were their hopes set on worldly greatness. They were of 'one accord,' 'of one heart and of one soul'…Christ filled their thoughts; the advancement of His kingdom was their aim. In mind and character, they had become like their Master, and men 'took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus'" (Acts of the Apostles, page 45). This is the kind of unity we need in the church today. Amid our differences in culture, nationality, language, and so on, God calls us to unite in one message and mission to save souls through His power. Our fourteenth fundamental belief states: "The church is one body with many members, called from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. In Christ, we are a new creation; distinctions of race, culture, learning, and nationality, and differences between high and low, rich and poor, male and female, must not be divisive among us. We are all equal in Christ, Who, by one Spirit, has bonded us into one fellowship with Him and with one another; we are to serve and be served without partiality or reservation. Through the revelation of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures, we share the same faith and hope and reach out in one witness to all. This unity has its source in the oneness of the triune God, Who has adopted us as His children." As we follow the steps of the early disciples, let’s set aside our own desires and ambitions, yield to Christ, and pray earnestly for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. By then, He will give us wisdom, strength, and courage to proclaim the gospel to the entire world. And the end will come. To learn more about the fourteenth fundamental belief of the Seventh-day Adventists, go to www.adventist.org/unity-in-the-body-of-christ/. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng2-h_0sGZI
Perchè adoriamo Dio – L’appello del maestro
Mini devotional n. 4/2 trimestre 2022 – L'appello del Maestro della serie Perché adoriamo Dio. Un capitano durante la navigazione notturna intravede una luce fioca nel buio. Subito prende la radio e comunica. La risposta dell’interlocutore sconosciuto “Modificate la vostra rotta di 10 gradi nord”… Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWrmoL9PUEk
4.THE FLOOD – GENESIS–THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series GENESIS – THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
4.THE FLOOD |
The flood happened because mankind committed one sin after the other. |
Memory Text: Matthew 27:34 – If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.
Content:
4.0 Introduction
Whenever bad deeds are done, God will not look the other way for a long time.
4.1 Preparation for the flood
That is interesting! God informs his people before the tragedy happens.
4.2 The event of the flood
This catastrophy is beyond words.
4.3 The end of the flood
God does not harm those, who trust in him.
4.4 The covenant: part one
The most High enters into a league with creation.
4.5 The covenant: part two
God`s word creates safety towards future.
4.6 Summary
The catastrophy happened, because people did not want to listen to God`s word.
My God bless you today and always.
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Inside Story: Faithful Grandparents
Faithful Grandparents
By Andrew McChesney
In the evening, after it was too dark to work in the maize field, the Reyneke family gathered around a large kitchen table for supper on their small farmhouse in central South Africa. Father, Mother and their seven boys and four girls ate homegrown food every evening: maize porridge along with potatoes, pumpkin, and meat. Afterward, the children cleared away the dishes, and Father opened his Dutch Bible for family worship.
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On this particular evening, Father opened the Bible to Exodus 20 and read, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work” (Exodus 20:8-10; NKJV).
“Listen,” Father said, puzzled. “It says here, ’Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest.’” The idea of resting on the seventh day was new to him. He and the family had always observed the first day, Sunday, as the Sabbath, but the Bible said otherwise.
Father made a note in the margin of his Bible. Beside the words, “Six days you shall labor,” he wrote, “Plow time.” Beside the words, “On the seventh day you shall rest” he wrote, “Rest time.” The matter was clear to him. His family started keeping the seventh-day Sabbath. Families took notice on the neighboring farms, and soon three of them also were keeping the Sabbath.
Time passed, and a Seventh-day Adventist literature evangelist stopped by the farm and sold Father a little Dutch-language book titled, “God’s Covenant With Man.”
Through the book, Father and Mother learned about the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the first time. They understood that other people also worshiped on the seventh-day Sabbath.
While there is no historical record of Father and Mother joining the Seventh-day Adventist Church, four of their 11 children became Adventists. One of their grandsons is Gideon Reyneke, a pastor who helps oversee mission work in South Africa and 14 other countries as executive secretary of the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division.
Gideon said he owes his Adventist heritage to faithful grandparents who simply read the Bible and obeyed it in the 1920s. “We pray that by telling this story from generation to generation, it will yield results and bring many more people to Jesus Christ,” he said.
This quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will help spread the gospel in Gideon Reyneke’s home Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division. Thank you for planning a generous offering.
Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org
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4.6 Summary – THE FLOOD | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series GENESIS – THE BOOK OF THE BEGINNING with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
4.THE FLOOD |
The flood happened because mankind committed one sin after the other. |
Memory Text: Matthew 27:34 – If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.
4.6 Summary
The catastrophy happened, because people did not want to listen to God`s word.
My God bless you today and always.
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Friday: Further Thought ~ The Flood
Further Thought:
A comparison between the mentality and the behavior of the people and the state of the world before the Flood and that of the people in our days is particularly instructive. To be sure, human wickedness is not a new phenomenon. Look at the parallels between their time and ours.
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“The sins that called for vengeance upon the antediluvian world exist today. The fear of God is banished from the hearts of men, and His law is treated with indifference and contempt. The intense worldliness of that generation is equaled by that of the generation now living … God did not condemn the antediluvians for eating and drinking … Their sin consisted in taking these gifts without gratitude to the Giver, and debasing themselves by indulging appetite without restraint. It was lawful for them to marry. Marriage was in God’s order; it was one of the first institutions which He established. He gave special directions concerning this ordinance, clothing it with sanctity and beauty; but these directions were forgotten, and marriage was perverted and made to minister to passion. A similar condition of things exists now. That which is lawful in itself is carried to excess … Fraud and bribery and theft stalk unrebuked in high places and in low. The issues of the press teem with records of murder … The spirit of anarchy is permeating all nations, and the outbreaks that from time to time excite the horror of the world are but indications of the pent-up fires of passion and lawlessness that, having once escaped control, will fill the earth with woe and desolation. The picture which Inspiration has given of the antediluvian world represents too truly the condition to which modern society is fast hastening. Even now, in the present century, and in professedly Christian lands, there are crimes daily perpetrated as black and terrible as those for which the old-world sinners were destroyed.” — Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, Pages 101, 102.
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Are You Growing in God’s Grace? [Sermon] #shorts
Have you ever met a Christian who knows everything about their faith but has never experienced God? This #short clip from the Global Campmeeting sermon “How Do We Know Our Way to Salvation” by Jill Marikone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQScCqQMdc&list=PL-k2Gb-DBYo9tb9fHW_AxGxJ1R8MpNnpa&index=9 presents that grace causes us to grow in character development and knowledge; it leads us to grow in holiness for many Christians today are knowledgeable about the Scripture and our faith and we understand it well, but we have no idea what it is like to walk and live with God. 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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Belief #14: Unity in Christ [What Does the Bible Teach Us?] – Pastor Ted Wilson
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In this episode, Pastor Ted Wilson is with his fellow General Conference executive officers, Erton Kohler and Paul Douglas, to talk about unity in the body of Christ which constitutes our church’s fourteenth fundamental belief.
Unity among believers began with Christ Himself.
The night before His crucifixion, Jesus prayed to His Father: “Keep through Your name those whom You have given Me; that they may be one as We are” (John 17:11). However, He did not pray only for the disciples but also for us that we “may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me” (John 17:21).
Through this unity of Christ’s believers, the world will accept the good news we share. But what does this unity look like and how can it be achieved?
Ellen White writes in the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, volume 5, page 1148, “What a wonderful statement! The unity that exists between Christ and His disciples does not destroy the personality of either. In mind, in purpose, in character, they are one, but not in person. By partaking of the Spirit of God, conforming to the law of God, man becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Christ brings His disciples into a living union with Himself and with the Father. Through the working of the Holy Spirit upon the human mind, man is made complete in Christ Jesus. Unity with Christ establishes a bond of unity with one another. This unity is the most convincing proof to the world of the majesty and virtue of Christ, and of His power to take away sin.”
Jesus’ disciples had different backgrounds, personalities, and ways of doing things. Hence, they sometimes fought over who would be the greatest. Jesus knew all this and He had a mission for them. But He knew they could never accomplish this mission until they were united.
So, He prayed for them. And in Acts 2:1, “when the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord…” It doesn’t mean merely being physically together but more importantly, being together in heart, mind, and soul.
In her book The Acts of the Apostles, page 36, Ellen White says, “As the disciples waited for the fulfillment of the promise, they humbled their hearts in true repentance and confessed their unbelief.”
On page 37, she continues, “The disciples prayed with intense earnestness for a fitness to…speak words that would lead sinners to Christ. Putting away all differences, all desire for the supremacy, they came close together in Christian fellowship.” Also, “the disciples felt their spiritual need and cried to the Lord for the holy function that was to fit them for the work of soul saving…They were weighted with the burden of the salvation of souls. They realized that the gospel was to be carried to the world, and they claimed the power that Christ had promised.”
But how did this transformation take place?
“Under the training of Christ, the disciples had been led to feel their need of the Spirit. Under the Spirit’s teaching, they received the final qualification, and went forth to their lifework…No longer were they a collection of independent units or discordant, conflicting elements. No longer were their hopes set on worldly greatness. They were of ‘one accord,’ ‘of one heart and of one soul’…Christ filled their thoughts; the advancement of His kingdom was their aim. In mind and character, they had become like their Master, and men ‘took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus’” (Acts of the Apostles, page 45).
This is the kind of unity we need in the church today. Amid our differences in culture, nationality, language, and so on, God calls us to unite in one message and mission to save souls through His power.
Our fourteenth fundamental belief states: “The church is one body with many members, called from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. In Christ, we are a new creation; distinctions of race, culture, learning, and nationality, and differences between high and low, rich and poor, male and female, must not be divisive among us. We are all equal in Christ, Who, by one Spirit, has bonded us into one fellowship with Him and with one another; we are to serve and be served without partiality or reservation. Through the revelation of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures, we share the same faith and hope and reach out in one witness to all. This unity has its source in the oneness of the triune God, Who has adopted us as His children.”
As we follow the steps of the early disciples, let’s set aside our own desires and ambitions, yield to Christ, and pray earnestly for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. By then, He will give us wisdom, strength, and courage to proclaim the gospel to the entire world. And the end will come.
To learn more about the fourteenth fundamental belief of the Seventh-day Adventists, go to www.adventist.org/unity-in-the-body-of-christ/.
ADVENTIST COMMUNITY SERVICES CONTINUING RESPONSE TO UKRAINIAN CRISIS
Over the coming months, BUC News will be featuring the plans, initiatives and interventions across the British Union Conference (BUC) as our Church community responds to the developing Ukrainian crisis.
This week, we are interviewing Sharon Platt-McDonald, BUC Director for Adventist Community Services, Health, and Women’s Ministries.
SD – Sharon, can you share with our readers what you have been doing so far regarding our Church’s response to the refugee crisis?
SPM – Firstly, I want to…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-04-21/1131/
