Closer To Heaven
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Join the Hit the Mark panel as they discuss Sabbath School Lesson 13 – Love Is the Fulfillment of the Law. It’s the fastest hour of the week!
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by Jim Burklo | 26 March 2025 | In the Roman empire, sexual abuse was rampant. Male slave-owners regularly raped their male and female slaves. “Homosexuality” did not exist as a distinct social category at the time: it was common for otherwise heterosexual men to engage occasionally in homosexual acts. Consensual, committed, long-term homosexual relationships […] Source: https://atoday.org/drink-deeply-o-lovers/
Why does Jesus’ second coming matter? It’s our personal rescue from this world and all the pain that comes with it! Praise God for Jesus’ promised return! Share this good news today! Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIG5dg0oies
26 March 2025 | Galatians is a short book with some fascinating content. But reading through it could raise some questions in your mind. Paul starts some of his books with praise and appreciation. Why does he start this book with a scolding? What’s significant about Paul’s conversion story that he has to add it […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-maury-jackson-the-greatest-hits-of-the-epistle-to-the-galatians/
26 March 2025 | “The last GC session was revolutionary in the digital media sphere,” said Sam Neves, associate director of communication at the General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “This year’s session will be evolutionary.” According to the General Conference publication Adventist News Network (ANN), the communication department plans to utilize social […] Source: https://atoday.org/new-gc-session-app-will-be-offered-in-seven-languages/
Daily Lesson for Thursday 27th of March 2025
If love is the fulfillment of the law, then one cannot keep God’s law in the full sense simply by refraining from doing wrong things. The law of love itself (expressed in the fullness of Scripture) not only commands us to refrain from doing evil but the law prompts us to do acts that reveal the love of God to others—not only to other church members but also to the world at large, which is so desperately in need of a true Christian witness.
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Here, James strongly decries injustice in society, specifically identifying the dishonoring of the poor and oppression by some who are rich. Then, he calls attention to the law of love for one’s neighbor, saying if you fulfill this law, then “you do well” (James 2:8, NKJV).
As Ellen G. White has expressed it: “Love to man is the earthward manifestation of the love of God. It was to implant this love, to make us children of one family, that the King of glory became one with us. And when His parting words are fulfilled, ‘Love one another, as I have loved you’ (John 15:12); when we love the world as He has loved it, then for us His mission is accomplished. We are fitted for heaven; for we have heaven in our hearts.”—Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages p. 641.
When we love the world, as Christ has loved the world—then we are fitted for heaven. What a powerful expression of what it means to be a follower of Jesus!
Jesus commands His followers to “ ‘love one another;’ ” even as “ ‘I have loved you’ ” (John 13:34, NKJV). Jesus also proclaims: “ ‘By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another’ ” (John 13:35, NKJV). Love is so central to Christian faith because God is love (1 John 4:8,16). And those who claim to love God must love one another (compare with 1 John 3:11; 1 John 4:20-21).
Accordingly, 1 Peter 4:8 exhorts Christians: “And above all things have fervent love for one another, for ‘love will cover a multitude of sins’ ” (NKJV; see also Hebrews 10:24 and 1 Thessalonians 3:12).
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Dwell more on the idea of loving the world as Christ loved the world. How might this help us better understand the concept of Christian perfection and how we are made fit for eternal life? Bring your answer to class on Sabbath. |
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Una casa per madre e bimbo – La missione nella Divisione Asia-Pacifico del nord. Missioni dal mondo 12° episodio – I trimestre 2025 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzyD0iQhU-Q
Una nuova scuola nel campus – La missione nella Divisione Asia-Pacifico del nord. Missioni dal mondo 13° episodio – I trimestre 2025 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-j6dgWqRI4
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