Riflessione giornata n. 3 per i 10 giorni di preghiera 2021 Questo video è a cura di Tamara Predii Le riflessioni dei 10 giorni di preghiera 2021 sono state registrate proponendo ai coniugi di pastore e pastori impegnati nell’Unione italiana di presentare un proprio contributo. La proposta ha lo scopo di offrire una condivisione di fede e di preghiera alternativa a quella a cui siamo abituati. Per questo ringraziamo tutte e tutti coloro che hanno accettato di partecipare al progetto con il loro intervento. Oltre ai video originali ed unici che visionate qui, la Conferenza Generale ha preparato alcuni testi di riflessione sul tema “Vogliamo rinascere” oggetto dei 10 giorni di preghiera che trovate tradotti in italiano andando a consultare questo link gestionecristianadellavita.avventista.it/10giornidipreghiera Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtSDaedGMZk
The Scriptures Testify of God
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. John 5:39.
The study book of the highest value is that which contains the instruction of Christ, the Teacher of teachers.—Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 389.
The words of the living God are the highest of all education.—Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 381.
The Author of nature is the Author of the Bible. Creation and Christianity have one God. God is revealed in nature, and God is revealed in His Word. In clear rays the light shines from the sacred page, showing us the living God, as represented in the laws of His government, in the creation of the world, in the heavens that He has garnished. His power is to be recognized as the only means of redeeming the world from the degrading superstitions that are so dishonoring to God and man….
When the Bible is made the guide and counselor, it exerts an ennobling influence upon the mind. Its study more than any other will refine and elevate. It will enlarge the mind of the candid student, endowing it with new impulses and fresh vigor. It will give greater efficiency to the faculties by bringing them in contact with grand, far-reaching truths…. Let the Bible be received as the food of the soul, the best and most effectual means of purifying and strengthening the intellect.—Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 395, 396.
In God’s Word only do we behold the power that laid the foundations of the earth, and that stretched out the heavens…. In the Word of God the mind finds subjects for the deepest thought, the loftiest aspirations. Here we may hold communion with patriarchs and prophets, and listen to the voice of the Eternal as He speaks with men.—Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 52.
With God at Dawn p. 10
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Prayer Requests
—-Pray for my friend and her family. Her nephew wants to do her harm although she is nice to them. Rosemary
—-Please pray that Ron will pass his test on Monday. Rose
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Dear Friends,
Before I retired, I worked in the court system. I really liked my job as it had a lot of variety both in the defendants we processed and also in the types of crimes, so I didn’t get bored. Often the defendants that came into our office complained that they have to wait for an interview. They did not feel that they should have to be inconvenienced. They seemed to think that they were getting picked on and did not consider the inconvenience and heartaches that they had caused others.
One time we had a defendant come in whose type of case took longer than some others, so she had a longer wait. The longer she waited, the more upset she became. As she saw defendants who had come in to the office after her, leave before her, she complained louder and longer. She was very annoying.
When her turn came for her interview, however, her whole demeanor changed. She was polite and cooperative to the court service officer. As soon as she left his presence, however, she changed back into the her old self and proclaimed that the whole thing was stupid. I am sure we all know people like that, who are nice in front of others but quite the opposite at home.
That’s what sin does. It muddles our thinking. It makes us selfish and self-centered, so that we do not consider that we have done wrong or made others’ lives unpleasant. Sin takes away our care and concern for others. We become like the Pharisees who appeared righteous to the common people but behind closed doors they were full of iniquity. Yet, their eyes were blinded to that fact. They considered themselves better and more deserving of all good things than were the common people.
Even though they fooled the people, they could not fool the Judge of all the earth. Jesus rebuked them over and over again. “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? . . . . Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.” Matt 23:13-38
We read of those men who lived so long ago and feel that we could never be as they, yet how often the sin in our own lives muddles our thinking, makes us selfish, causes us to have a form of godliness, but not allow the Holy Spirit to change us from within.
Let us come to Jesus for the cleansing that we so much need. (1 John 1:9-2:3 Let us remember that the Great Judge of the Universe is watching all that we do, all that we think, and all that we say.
Rose
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Psalm 27:3
Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.
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Pastor Wilson Reminds Us of the Firm Foundation of the Bible
In this video, you will learn about a young man named William Hunter. William was only 19 years old when he was chained to a wooden stake and burned alive. His crime? Reading the Bible. Two decades earlier, Tyndale’s Bible — the first Bible to be printed in the English language, had been smuggled into England from Germany, where Oxford scholar William Tyndale had fled to complete his important work of translating the Bible into the language of the people. By the time William was apprenticed to a silk weaver in London, he was aware that, contrary to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church, the wafer used during the Mass did not turn into the actual body of Christ. Consequently, when a royal edict went throughout the City of London requiring everyone to attend the weekly Mass, William refused. Because of this, he lost his job and returned to his parents’ home. William longed to read more from God’s Word, so he sometimes slipped into the old medieval chapel where he quietly read from the “Great Bible” that was chained there. One day the servant of the Bishop caught William reading the forbidden book. On Sabbath, March 26, 1555, William Hunter was burned at the stake because he loved God’s Word and refused to relinquish the truths he had found in the Bible. During the Reformation, the eyes of thousands were opened as the Bible was, for the first time ever, made available to the people in their mother tongues—many times at the cost of great suffering to those brave enough to translate the Bible from the Greek and Hebrew text into the common languages, making the Scriptures accessible to everyone. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, from its beginning, found its direction, its purpose, and its very foundation in the Word of God. Shining through the darkness of the Great Disappointment of October 22, 1844, the early believers turned to their Bibles in comfort and hope. As they continued to be led by God’s Word, they discovered more Bible truths and the small group of believers grew rapidly. By taking the Protestant principles of accepting the plain reading of the text and allowing the Bible to interpret itself, most of our foundational truths—the Sabbath, the state of the dead, the sanctuary and the investigative judgment—were established by the time the Seventh-day Adventist Church was officially organized in 1863. Of course, there was more to learn, and as time went on, Seventh-day Adventists continued to discover other important truths such as our health message, the importance of Christian education, and our mission to reach the world. Today, we continue to base our faith and beliefs on the timeless Word of God. The Bible, which has been faithfully preserved and sealed with the blood of martyrs, transcends time and culture. It is God’s living Word, and through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we can find the answers for which we are seeking. More than 450 years ago, young William Hunter, and many others, sealed their belief in God and His Word with their lives. Today, we know a storm is coming. Now is the time to build upon the firm foundation of God’s Word. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCRRQ4Dq-58
Anticipating AT1–January 8, 2020
A new year gives us a new start. Will 2021 be about what we have to have to be happy, or will it be about generous service, greater simplicity, and deeper love? Will the fruit of the Spirit be our guide as we make our way through these next 12 months? We’re so delighted […] Source: https://atoday.org/anticipating-at1-january-8-2020/