As we launch our Week of ADRA Emphasis for 2022, Pastor Paul Llewellyn, President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, shares a Sabbath morning message on Creating a Just World. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mYhjAOcgSI
Sunday: Mysticism
Our world has been flooded by the strong waves of mysticism. The word “mysticism” is a complex term that encapsulates a huge variety of ideas. From a religious perspective, the word implies the union of the individual with the Divine or Absolute in some kind of spiritual experience or trance. This characterizes the worship experience of even certain churches. The phenomena can vary in form and intensity, but the tendency always is to replace the authority of the Written Word of God by one’s own subjective experiences. In any case, the Bible loses much of its doctrinal function, and the Christian remains vulnerable to his or her own experiences. This kind of subjective religion does not provide a safeguard against any deception, especially end-time ones.
Read Matthew 7:21-27. In light of Jesus’ own words, what does it mean to build our spiritual house “on the rock” and to build it “on the sand”?
There is a strong tendency in the postmodern Christian world to downplay the relevance of biblical doctrines, regarding them as tedious echoes of an obsolete form of religion. In this process, the teachings of Christ are artificially replaced by the person of Christ — arguing, for instance, that some biblical story or another cannot be true because Jesus, as they perceive Him, would never have allowed that to happen as it is written. Personal feelings and taste end up being the criteria for interpreting the Scriptures or even for rejecting outright what the Bible clearly teaches, often about obedience to God, which as Jesus said is so essential to building one’s house on the rock.
Those who think that it matters not what they believe in doctrine, so long as they believe in Jesus Christ, are on dangerous ground. The Roman Inquisitors who condemned to death untold numbers of Protestants believed in Jesus Christ. Those who had “cast out demons” in Christ’s name (Matthew 7:22, NKJV). had believed in Him. “The position that it is of no consequence what men believe is one of Satan’s most successful deceptions. He knows that the truth, received in the love of it, sanctifies the soul of the receiver; therefore he is constantly seeking to substitute false theories, fables, another gospel.” — Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 520.
How can we fight the very human tendency to let our emotions and desires cause us to do things contrary to the Word of God? |
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A Page from the Angels’ Playbook
A Page from the Angels’ Playbook Source: https://pmcdata.s3.amazonaws.com/pmc-audio/2022-12-03.mp3
11.1 Mysticism – END-TIME DECEPTIONS | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series ON DEATH, DYING, AND THE FUTURE HOPE with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
11.END-TIME DECEPTIONS |
The devil is the father of lies. |
Memory Text: 2 Corinthians 11:14.15 – And no wonder! Even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match their deeds.
11.1 Mysticism
Mysterious, occult and very dangerous…
My God bless you today and always.
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Source: https://fulfilleddesire.net/11-1-mysticism-end-time-deceptions-pastor-kurt-piesslinger-m-a/
Scuola del Sabato – Lezione 11 – IV trimestre 2022
Gli inganni degli ultimi tempi. Approfondimento della lezione della Scuola del Sabato numero 10 – IV trimestre 2022 con Mariarosa Cavalieri, Nino Plano e Roberta Vittori Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjhK5BWglM