Greetings, friends! Have you ever had the experience of being out somewhere in nature—perhaps in the mountains, or desert, or some other out-of-the-way place–where there are no buildings, no street la……
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Mission Spotlight for October 9
Support for the mission activities of the Seventh-day Adventist church has always been part of the Sabbath School program. This video is Mission Spotlight for this week.
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Creation [How Do We Celebrate It Through Nature?] – Pastor Ted Wilson
Have you experienced going out in nature? Let's say on a mountain, desert, or anywhere there are no manmade structures – just beautiful sceneries of God's creation. What about looking up in the vast sky? Sometimes you try to count the stars. But you realize it's impossible to determine. Having mentioned the sky and the stars, the scientists say that the Milky Way Galaxy alone has 100 to 400 billion stars. Then, including trillions of other galaxies, there are at least ten billion stars in the entire universe. Can you imagine that? Well, that's how amazing God's creation is. As Psalm 19:1-3 says, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard." Yet, space is just one aspect of nature that reveals God's excellent work of creation. Another one is the biology of living organisms like humans. Studying the human body through molecular biology, we can see trillions of cells and octillions of atoms. The organized and integrated systems interact with each other to facilitate bodily functions. With this, the Psalmist writes in Psalm 139:13-14: "You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Because of this, it's good to know that we didn't simply evolve out of anything or by accident like what the theory of evolution claims. Instead, God the Creator handcrafted us. For this reason, Pastor Ted invites you to celebrate God's creation through the Creation Sabbath this October 22. This event is organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Geoscience Research Institute (GRI). Creation Sabbath is a special Sabbath set aside for us to focus on the central theme of the Bible – our Creator loves us, has earned salvation for us, and offers us eternal life. It is a special time of celebration to rejoice at what God has done, praise Him for the gifts He has provided us, and rest with Him in the beauty of creation. With all these, let's join our worldwide church family in celebrating this special Sabbath. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saOXCWo9y2I
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Do You Love Yourself? | October 7, 2021
"Love your neighbor as yourself." Have you wondered why this can be so difficult? Your anger and resentment toward others may be a result of you hating yourself. In 5 minutes or less, let us see how the 2 "greatest commandments" can teach us it is important to be at peace with yourself before you can learn how to love others. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpV9QQxcPDI
2.MOSES’ HISTORY LESSON – PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
2.MOSES’ HISTORY LESSON |
What happened to the Israelites in the desert? What may we learn about it? |
Memory Text:
1 Corinthians 10:3.4 – And they “all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ
Content:
2.0 Introduction
2.1 The Ministry of Moses
2.2 Fulfilled Prophecy
2.3 A Thousand Times More Numerous
2.4 Kadesh Barnea
2.5 The Iniquity of the Amorite
2.6 Summary
My God bless you today and always.
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2.6 Summary – MOSES’ HISTORY LESSON | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
2.MOSES’ HISTORY LESSON |
What happened to the Israelites in the desert? What may we learn about it? |
Memory Text:
1 Corinthians 10:3.4 – And they “all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ
2.6 Summary
Why should we know history? You may learn about the mistakes of the past in order not to repeat them.
My God bless you today and always.
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Inside Story: South Korea
My Mother’s Heritage
By Park Yeon-sook
My mother turned to me as she was dying from gallbladder cancer.
“You must go to church,” she said.
Mother had taken me to church every Sabbath since I was a young girl, but I had stopped attending as I got busy with my shop in Hanam, a suburb of South Korea’s capital, Seoul.
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Mother’s words troubled me as I struggled to both work and raise my son, daughter, and three nephews. I realized that I could not succeed on my own, and I returned to Jesus.
As my love grew for Jesus, He gave me a heart to care for needy neighbors. A relative introduced me to Hong Soon-mi. A year after we met, Soon-mi’s husband was diagnosed with bone-marrow cancer. When I learned that he couldn’t afford surgery, I set up a donation box on the street outside my shop. Many people ridiculed me, saying, “Why are you raising money for someone who isn’t a relative?” But I kept the donation box in place.
On Soon-mi’s birthday, I presented her while a 45-pound (20-kilogram) bag of rice. “Take this gift from my shop,” I said. She later told me that her whole family cried when they saw the gift.
Soon-mi didn’t come to church right away. But she read the Adventist magazines that I gave her and learned that Seventh-day Adventists love Jesus and people. I put Soon-mi in charge of my shop and provided her with a salary and daily necessities such as fruit and rice for about two years. After that, I made her the manager of a small restaurant that I ran. A year after managing the restaurant, she asked, “Why don’t you invite me to church?”
“Why?” I said. “You know that you are welcome.”
“Then I’ll go,” she said.
After six years of friendship, Soon-mi visited West Hanam Seventh-day Adventist Church for the first time. Three years later, she became a deaconess, and later her husband and son were baptized.
When I first opened my shop, I was the only Adventist in the neighborhood. Now seven merchants are Adventist. The church has a good reputation in the area. I thank my mother for giving me a heritage of faith, and I give all glory to God for using Adventist merchants like me for His good.
This mission story illustrates Mission Objective No. 1 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s “I Will Go” strategic plan: “To revive the concept of worldwide mission and sacrifice for mission as a way of life involving not only pastors but every church member.” Learn more at IWillGo2020.org. This quarter, your Thirteenth Sabbath offering will support two mission projects in South Korea. Read more about Soon-mi last week.
Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org
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Friday: Further Thought ~ Moses’ History Lesson
Further Thought:
Here’s how one scholar seeks to answer the hard questions about what the Israelites did to some of these nations:
“As Creator of all things and all human beings and as sovereign over all, God can do anything [He] wants with anyone and be right in doing so. … The ways of God are a mystery.
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Since we will never completely understand [Him], we might as well relax with the questions in our minds. Isaiah 55:8-9 offers some consolation. According to the biblical picture of the Canaanites, these peoples were extremely wicked, and their annihilation represented God’s judgment for their sin. The destruction of the Canaanites was neither the first nor the last time God would do this. The differences between the Canaanites’ fate and the fate of humanity (except for Noah’s family) as described in Genesis 6-9 involve scale and agency. … God never intended for the Israelites to make the policy of herem [the total destruction] as a general policy toward outsiders. Deuteronomy 7:1 expressly identifies and thereby delimits the target peoples. The Israelites were not to follow these policies against Aramaeans or Edomites or Egyptians, or anyone else (cf. Deuteronomy 20:10-18). … The Canaanites suffered a fate that ultimately all sinners will face: the judgment of God. … God’s elimination of the Canaanites was a necessary step in the history of salvation. … Although the Canaanites as a whole were targets of God’s judgment, they had at least forty years of advance warning (see Rahab’s confession in Joshua 2:8-11).” — Daniel I. Block, The NIV Application Commentary: Deuteronomy (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2012), pages 98, 99.
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