This coming Sabbath is Spirit of Prophecy/Adventist Heritage Day. It is a special day to commemorate how Adventism began and how God has been leading the church. In The General Conference Bulletin, 1893, p. 24, Ellen White wrote: "In reviewing our past history, having traveled over every step of advance to our present standing, I can say, 'Praise God!' As I see what God has wrought, I am filled with astonishment and with confidence in Christ as Leader. We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us and His teaching in our past history. We are now a strong people if we will put our trust in the Lord, for we are handling the mighty truths of the word of God. We have everything to be thankful for." Indeed, it is good to remember how God has led us in the past and how He has taught us His mighty truths in the Bible. For this reason, we commemorate the Adventist heritage and value the gift of the Spirit of Prophecy. In Revelation 12:17, we read: "And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Now, what is the testimony of Jesus? Revelation 19:10 says it is "the spirit of prophecy." What a timely and important gift! Yet, Ellen White warns us in Selected Messages Book 2, p. 78: "The very last deception of Satan will be to make of none effect the testimony of the Spirit of God…Satan will work ingeniously, in different ways and through different agencies, to unsettle the confidence of God's remnant people in the true testimony. He will bring in spurious visions to mislead and will mingle the false with the true, and so disgust people that they will regard everything that bears the name of visions as a species of fanaticism; but honest souls, by contrasting false and true, will be enabled to distinguish between them…" Meanwhile, the Spirit of Prophecy is not the Bible, nor is it equal to it. But, as White says, it leads us to the Bible. And it is inspired by the testimony of Jesus. According to the Selected Messages Book 1, p. 41, "Through His Holy Spirit, the voice of God has come to us continually in warning and instruction, to confirm the faith of the believers in the Spirit of prophecy. Repeatedly the word has come, 'Write the things that I have given you to confirm the faith of My people in the position they have taken.' Time and trial have not made void the instruction given, but through years of suffering and self-sacrifice have established the truth of the testimony given. The instruction that was given in the early days of the message is to be held as safe instruction to follow in these closing days." Now, the testimony of Jesus is part of the Advent movement. It is a gift from God, centered in Christ and all that represents – salvation, grace, and ministry in the heavenly sanctuary. As we near the end of time, we need to stay close to God by studying His Word and following His counsels in the Spirit of Prophecy. This testimony serves as the lesser light that leads to the greater light of God's Word. With this, may God bless you as you discover the wonderful gift He has given you through the Spirit of Prophecy. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW2Ng547Vmk
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Meditazione a cura di Orazio Berretta Registrato presso la comunità di Firenze il 09 ottobre 2021 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX8pjqQG6gQ
Catering, Cosmetics, and Climate-Smart Farming
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Source: https://www.adventistreview.org/church-news/story16928-catering-cosmetics-and-climate-smart-farming
Daily Living | Do the Tools of Your Trade Define You?
Have you ever noticed how the tools in your toolbox have an uncanny way of defining you? For example, a teacher’s tools are not the same as the tools of a nurse. So, how does the toolbox of a Christian differ from that of a non-Christian? Get the complete message by clicking on the link to today's Daily Living video. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k04VO4NJnbs
News Briefs for October 14, 2021
News reports from ADRA, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Southern University, North America Division, LifeTalk Radio Party’s Over for This Fungi As a result of the flood disaster in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, toxins and pollutants washed ashore which settled in houses and gardens. The Adventist Development and Disaster Aid […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-october-14-2021/
3.THE EVERLASTING COVENANT – PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
3.THE EVERLASTING COVENANT |
The Almighty wants to connect himself with his creatures. |
Memory Text:
Genesis 17:7 – And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
Content:
3.0 Introduction
3.1 The Covenant and the Gospel
3.2 The Covenant and Israel
3.3 The Book of the Covenant
3.4 His Special People
3.5 Other Images
3.6 Summary
My God bless you today and always.
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3.6 Summary – THE EVERLASTING COVENANT | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series PRESENT TRUTH IN DEUTERONOMY with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
3.THE EVERLASTING COVENANT |
The Almighty wants to connect himself with his creatures.
Memory Text:
Genesis 17:7 – And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
3.6 Summary
If a prince is willing to marry an ordinary young lady, newspapers will report about it. Even more sensational is God`s love for us as human beings.
My God bless you today and always.
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Source: https://fulfilleddesire.net/3-6-summary-the-everlasting-covenant-pastor-kurt-piesslinger-m-a/
Inside Story: Lebanon ~ Good After Beirut Blast?
Good After Beirut Blast?
By Kathie Lichtenwalter
I barely noticed the first thud and shudder.
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We’d had breezes all afternoon that rattled our front door. But the second, unfamiliar thud-shudder was unmistakable. In a politically fragile world, I know the possibilities well: Fireworks? A machine-gun? A car bomb? A fighter jet flying over? While nothing had ever involved me personally, I had learned that every sound has a meaning, sometimes tragic.
I thought nothing of stepping out onto the front porch to investigate. From my hilly outpost above the campus of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Middle East University, I looked across the sprawling city of Beirut below, past the port, and toward the Mediterranean Sea. I noticed clouds — a mushroom, it seemed — dispersing in high-speed flourishes across the sky overhead. Not normal. Not good.
I stepped further out onto the porch just as a massive explosion enveloped me. A wall of wind with dust and debris lifted me forcefully and threw me back into the house. I grabbed the door but couldn’t get a grip to close it. The force seemed to blow straight through the walls. The window curtains twisted crazily around me. I could hardly stand.
I wanted to look out the window, but I didn’t know if more was coming. I wanted to be safe, but where was safety? So I paced the hallway, my hands shaking. I started breathing again. Everything was eerily silent. Normal.
Minutes later, Osman called. I had taught him an online violin lesson just before the explosion. Now he was calling back, his eyes wild, his face sweaty, his phone jerking around to show me the destruction of his family’s tiny apartment. “It is all broken,” he said. “All broken, Miss.”
That wasn’t new to him. His family had been bombed out of Syria six years earlier. For him, the August 2020 warehouse explosion that killed at least 200 wasn’t his broken apartment. It was the familiar cycle of loss.
It’s a cycle I can’t break. I can’t numb the pain, reclaim the losses, rebuild a country. Nobody can. But we are not helpless; we are not victims. We stand in the presence of God, interceding for what is beyond our power to change and giving Him permission to defy the evil that is flexing and fuming. Good can come of this. Let God’s name be honored through my life, on our Middle East University campus, for dear Lebanon and into the uttermost parts of our reeling world.
Kathie Lichtenwalter works for the tentmaking initiative at the Middle East and North Africa Union. This mission story illustrates Mission Objective No. 2 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s “I Will Go” strategic plan: “To strengthen and diversify Adventist outreach in large cities, across the 10/40 Window, among unreached and under-reached people groups, and to non-Christian religions.” Learn more at IWillGo2020.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 Everlasting Covenant
Further Thought:
“The spirit of bondage is engendered by seeking to live in accordance with legal religion, through striving to fulfill the claims of the law in our own strength. There is hope for us only as we come under the Abrahamic covenant, which is the covenant of grace by faith in Christ Jesus.
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The gospel preached to Abraham, through which he had hope, was the same gospel that is preached to us today, through which we have hope. Abraham looked unto Jesus, who is also the Author and the Finisher of our faith.” — Ellen G. White Comments, The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, p. 1077.
“Before the foundations of the earth were laid, the Father and the Son had united in a covenant to redeem man if he should be overcome by Satan. They had clasped Their hands in a solemn pledge that Christ should become the surety for the human race. This pledge Christ has fulfilled. When upon the cross He cried out, ‘It is finished,’ He addressed the Father. The compact had been fully carried out. Now He declares: Father, it is finished. I have done Thy will, O My God. I have completed the work of redemption. If Thy justice is satisfied, ‘I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am.’ John 19:30; John 17:24.” — Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 834.
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