The Scottish Mission launched its first-ever series of evangelistic meetings in Shetland, Scotland, on Mat 19–20, 2023. A small group of pastors, under the leadership of Anthony Kent, General Conferen…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/a-historic-first-for-the-shetland-isles-scotland
Lesson 11: The Seal of God and Mark of the Beast: Part 1 | Sabbath School with Author Mark Finley
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Lesson 11: The Seal of God and Mark of the Beast: Part 1 |
Memory Text: Revelation 7:2,3 – Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, ‘Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads. |
Content:
11.1 Steadfast Endurance
11.2 The Cosmic Struggle
11.3 The Ungodly Chain
11.4 Those Who Follow the Lamb
11.5 Jesus: Our Only Mediator
Vila Velha Adventist School Holds Hair Donation Campaign for Women with Cancer
A campaign held by the Ibes Adventist School, in Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, Brazil, will benefit several women fighting cancer. To celebrate Mother’s Day, the school unit decided to hold an awareness…… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/vila-velha-adventist-school-holds-hair-donation-campaign-for-women-with-cancer
Memorial Day in Worship? A Response to Loren Seibold’s Editorial
by Elliot Piñero | 3 June 2023 | In November of 2013 I was invited to preach at the Colorado Springs Adventist Church for their Veteran’s Day Sabbath service. I felt extremely honored to represent service men and women during this special occasion. It was also significant for me to preach wearing my Air Force […] Source: https://atoday.org/memorial-day-in-worship-a-response-to-loren-seibolds-editorial/
Monday: The Cosmic Struggle
Read Matthew 27:45-50. What does this teach us about what Christ had experienced on the cross? What did Jesus mean by asking God why He had forsaken Him, and how does this scene help us understand what it means to have “the faith of Jesus”?
Hanging on the cross, enshrouded in darkness, bearing the guilt, shame, and condemnation of the sins of the world, and shut off from the sense of His Father’s love, Jesus depended on the relationship that He had with the Father throughout His life. That is, through a life of complete dependence upon the Father, even in good times, Jesus had been prepared for the worst times, even the cross.
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The Savior trusted, even when all around Him the circumstances cried out for Him to doubt. Even when it seemed that God had forsaken Him, Jesus didn’t give up.
“Amid the awful darkness, apparently forsaken of God, Christ had drained the last dregs in the cup of human woe. In those dreadful hours He had relied upon the evidence of His Father’s acceptance heretofore given Him. … By faith, Christ was victor.” — Ellen G. White, Christ Triumphant, p. 277.
The faith of Jesus is a faith so deep, so trusting, so committed, that all the demons in the cosmos and all the trials on earth cannot shake it. It is a faith that trusts when it cannot see, believes when it cannot understand, hangs on when there is little to hang on to. This “faith of Jesus” is itself a gift we receive by faith and will carry us through the crisis ahead. It is “the faith of Jesus” dwelling in our hearts that enables us to worship Christ as supreme and steadfastly endure when Revelation’s mark of the beast is enforced.
And yet, it is not something that out of nowhere suddenly appears. God’s people have been learning to live by faith, day by day, now. In good times, in bad times, when God feels close, when God seems far away — it doesn’t matter. “The just shall live by faith” (Galatians 3:11; see also Habakkuk 2:4). The time for preparation is now. Every trial now, if endured in faith, can bear precious fruit in our lives.
| Think about a time when life seemed to crumble around you and all that you had was your faith. How did you get by? What lessons did you learn? What did you experience that could help others who might be going through something similar? |
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