“It was a long-overdue homecoming,” said Maryland Governor Wes Moore during his visit to the Takoma Park Seventh-day Adventist Church on the last weekend of July 2023. Addressing the packed congregati…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/maryland-governor-has-homecoming-at-takoma-park-church
Какова цель уроков субботней школы?
Элвин Масарира | 16 марта 2023 | Согласно статистике Генеральной Конференции, более 20 миллионов членов Церкви Адвентистов седьмого дня в более чем 200 странах поклоняются в более чем 52 000 общинах. Каждая община уникальна, и было бы трудно точно узнать, как различные члены церкви по всему миру относятся к руководству по изучению Библии на Субботней […] Source: https://atoday.org/%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d1%86%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8c-%d1%83%d1%80%d0%be%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b2-%d1%81%d1%83%d0%b1%d0%b1%d0%be%d1%82%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b9-%d1%88%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%8b/
What’s My Role? #Short
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¿El bautismo significa que soy miembro de la iglesia?
Hace muchos años llegué a un distrito nuevo de la iglesia y empecé a visitar a los miembros de mi congregación, incluidos aquellos (en todas las iglesias los hay) cuyos nombres figuran en la lista, pero nadie sabe muy bien quiénes son. Así que me detengo en el camino de entrada de una casa normal […] Source: https://atoday.org/el-bautismo-significa-que-soy-miembro-de-la-iglesia/
Tuesday: The Exalted Christ, Giver of Gifts
“However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. That is why the Scriptures say,
‘When he ascended to the heights,
he led a crowd of captives
and gave gifts to his people.’”
“Notice that it says ‘he ascended.’ This clearly means that Christ also descended to our lowly world. And the same one who descended is the one who ascended higher than all the heavens, so that he might fill the entire universe with himself” (Ephesians 4:7-10, NLT). What is happening here, and what is Paul’s point in these verses?
Paul here quoted Psalm 68:18, which reads: “When you ascended to the heights, you led a crowd of captives. You received gifts from the people, even from those who rebelled against you” (NLT). Psalm 68:18 portrays the Lord, Yahweh, as a conquering general who, having conquered His enemies, ascends the hill on which His capital city is built, with the captives of battle in His train (see Psalm 68:1-2).
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He then receives tribute (“received gifts”) from His conquered foes (noting that Paul adjusts this imagery to the exalted Christ “giving gifts,” based on the wider context of the Psalm, see Psalm 68:35).
If we follow the order of Psalm 68:18, the ascent — Christ’s ascension to heaven (Ephesians 1:21-23) — occurs first, followed by the descent in which the risen, exalted Jesus gives gifts and fills all things. This is Paul’s way of depicting the Pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2:1-47). This view is confirmed by Ephesians 4:11-12, which identify the gifts provided by the exalted Jesus as gifts of the Spirit.
“Christ ascended on high, leading captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. When, after Christ’s ascension, the Spirit came down as promised, like a rushing, mighty wind, filling the whole place where the disciples were assembled, what was the effect? Thousands were converted in a day.” — Ellen G. White, Ye Shall Receive Power, p. 158.
| However deep these few verses in Ephesians may be, how can we learn to draw comfort from what they show Christ has done for us and will do, especially when He will fill “all things everywhere with himself” (Ephesians 1:23, NLT)? |
Amen!
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