Versetto introduttivo: Isaia 61:1 Meditazione a cura di: Franca Petrilli Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QlnM4zUFXo
Perché adoriamo Dio – Un Dio affidabile e costante
Mini devotional n. 9 – Un Dio affidabile e costante della serie Perché adoriamo Dio. I ritmi dell’alternanza giorno-notte, i mesi, le stagioni, il tempo della semina e quello della raccolta, sono cicli creati da un Dio affidabile e costante! La storia dell'olio e della farina della vedova sunamita è una testimonianza forte e chiara che le compassioni di Dio non vengono mai meno e rinnovano ogni mattina… Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN5GE0neBZA
Inside Story: Gospel Calling
Gospel Calling
By Andrew McChesney
Khamla, the bread winner of his family, fell ill in rural Laos. His legs became so heavy that he could not walk. He was confined to his house for three months.
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With no money to see a doctor, Khamla (not his real name) resorted to all sorts of herbal medicine and traditional healers, including the shaman, or spirit doctor, in his village. Nothing helped.
Finally, seeing his desperation, someone told him about a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who had helped many people by cell phone. The man called up Pastor Sadua Lee (pictured) and asked for help.
Now, it wasn’t simply a phone call. Phone calls were something of a luxury, costing 700 Laotian Kips (8 U.S. cents) per minute. At the time, a third of the population was living on less than U.S.$1.25 a day, and nearly two-thirds were living on less than $2 a day.
The ill man begged Pastor Sadua to heal him.
“I am nobody,” the pastor replied. “I cannot heal you. But my God, who is called Jesus, can heal you if it is His will. All we have to do is ask Him.”
Khamla requested prayer, and the pastor prayed for him over the phone.
The next day, the pastor called the man to offer prayer for him again. Khamla was so excited. “I can walk!” he exclaimed.
Although his legs were weak, he was able to walk for the first time in three months. He had already gone out to work on his farm.
“Your God is so powerful,” he said. “How can I worship your God, who is called Jesus?”
The pastor told him that he could, and should, worship Jesus all the time and added that Jesus had set aside a special day for worship, the seventh-day Sabbath. The man agreed to stop work on Sabbath to worship Jesus. Seeing that he lived far from a church, he asked the pastor to help him worship on Sabbaths. That meant that the pastor would have to call every Sabbath — but he didn’t mind. If Jesus could provide Khamla with healing, He also would provide the means to pay for the calls.
Thank you for your Sabbath School mission offerings that help spread the gospel to people in Laos and other countries of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division, which will receive this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering.
Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org
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Friday: Further Thought ~ Jesus, the Perfect Sacrifice
Further Thought:
Read Ellen G. White, “Calvary,” Pages 741-757; “It Is Finished,” Pages 758-764, in The Desire of Ages.
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Professor Jiri Moskala has explained the nature of this pre-Advent judgment. God “is not there in order to display my sins like in a shop window. He will, on the contrary, point first of all to His amazing transforming powerful grace, and in front of the whole universe He, as the true Witness of my entire life, will explain my attitude toward God, my inner motives, my thinking, my deeds, my orientation and direction of life. He will demonstrate it all. Jesus will testify that I made many mistakes, that I transgressed His holy law, but also that I repented, asked for forgiveness, and was changed by His grace. He will proclaim: ‘My blood is sufficient for the sinner Moskala, his orientation of life is on Me, his attitude toward Me and other people is warm and unselfish, he is trustworthy, he is My good and faithful servant.’ ” — “Toward a Biblical Theology of God’s Judgment: A Celebration of the Cross in Seven Phases of Divine Universal Judgment,” Journal of the Adventist Theological Society 15 (Spring 2004): p. 155.
“Both the redeemed and the unfallen beings will find in the cross of Christ their science and their song. It will be seen that the glory shining in the face of Jesus is the glory of self-sacrificing love. In the light from Calvary it will be seen that the law of self-renouncing love is the law of life for earth and heaven; that the love which ‘seeketh not her own’ has its source in the heart of God; and that in the meek and lowly One is manifested the character of Him who dwelleth in the light which no man can approach unto.” — Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, Pages 19, 20.
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9.JESUS, THE PERFECT SACRIFICE – THE MESSAGE OF HEBREWS | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series THE MESSAGE OF HEBREWS with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
9.JESUS, THE PERFECT SACRIFICE
The sacrifice of Jesus is of the highest value. Without it nobody could be saved.
Memory Text: Hebrews 10:14 – For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Content:
9.0 Introduction
9.1 Why Were Sacrifices Needed?
9.2 Diverse Kinds of Sacrifices
9.3 Jesus’ Perfect Sacrifice
9.4 The Cross and the Cost of Forgiveness
9.5 Judgment and the Character of God
9.6 Summary
My God bless you today and always.
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