Are you ready for the coming storm? Are you prepared to meet it with the sword of God? This #short video from Pastor Ted Wilson’s weekly message reminds us that, in order to prepare and be ready for the coming storm, we should take on the sword of God, as Ephesians 6:17 says, “And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” Listen to Pastor Ted Wilson’s message reminding us to be ready for the storm, taking up the sword of the Lord to be victorious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6auLZNEAsg&list=PL-k2Gb-DBYo_ANrUJhHN2_4bSlMDTjuqQ&index=69 ———————————————————————————— The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been an established denomination since 1863. It is a global Christian family with over 21 million members who hold the Bible as the ultimate authority. We are Christians who promise to help people understand the Bible to find freedom, healing, and hope in Jesus. Want to learn more about the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Visit our website at: https://www.adventist.org/ Click the notification bell so that you never miss a new video! Find us on social media by following the links below:
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1 Thessalonians 1:2
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Deuteronomio 3:24 – Domenica 20 novembre 2022
Dio, SIGNORE, tu hai cominciato a mostrare al tuo servo la tua grandezza e la tua mano potente; poiché, quale dio, in cielo o sulla terra, può fare opere e prodigi pari a quelli che fai tu? Meditazione giornaliera Apri la porta del tuo cuore, autori vari, presentazione di Abbie Miguel Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoeJeE5u9Co
Jesus Saves People Whose Spirits are Crushed
Greg and Jill Sangster’s family and personal lives were devastated in every way possible. They faced physical, psychological and financial ruin, yet a God, Who was far more compassionate than they knew, pursued and rescued them and healed their crushed spirits. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLXqzsk5Ymc
Sunday: The Rich man and Lazarus
Read Luke 16:19-31. Why is this story not a literal description of the afterlife?
Some scholars suggest that Luke 16:19-31 should be interpreted literally, that is, as describing the state of the dead. But this view would lead to several unbiblical conclusions and would contradict many of the passages that we have already looked at.
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First, we would have to admit that heaven and hell are close enough to allow a conversation between the dwellers of both places (Luke 16:23-31). We would also have to suppose that, in the afterlife, while the body lies in the grave, there remains a conscious form of the spiritual soul with “eyes,” a “finger,” a “tongue,” and which even feels thirst (Luke 16:23-24).
If this passage were a description of the human state in death, then heaven would certainly not be a place of joy and happiness because the saved could closely follow the endless sufferings of their lost loved ones, and even dialogue with them (Luke 16:23-31). How could a mother be happy in heaven while beholding the incessant agonies of her beloved child in hell? In such a context, it would be virtually impossible for God’s promise of no more sorrow, crying, and pain to be fulfilled (Revelation 21:4).
Due to such incoherencies, many modern biblical scholars regard the story of the rich man and Lazarus as a parable from which not every detail can be interpreted literally. George E. Ladd, though a non-Adventist, certainly sounds like one here when he says that this story was probably “a parable which made use of current Jewish thinking and is not intended to teach anything about the state of the dead.” — G. E. L[add], “Eschatology,” in The New Bible Dictionary, edited by J. D. Douglas (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1962), p. 388.
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus presents a sharp contrast between a well-dressed “rich man” and “a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores” (Luke 16:19-20, , NKJV). The account teaches that 1. status and social recognition in the present are not the criteria for the future reward, and 2. the eternal destiny of each person is decided in this life and cannot be reversed in the afterlife (Luke 16:25-26).
| “But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead’” (Luke 16:31, NKJV). What message from Jesus’ powerful words should we take for ourselves regarding the authority of the Bible and how we respond to it? |
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