Daily Lesson for Monday 9th of February 2026

Unlike the enemies of the Cross, who “set their mind on earthly things” and have no greater god than their bellies (Philippians 3:19), Christian citizenship is in heaven, and our ruler is Jesus Christ Himself.

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To underscore the point, Paul highlights the need for “these humble bodies of ours” (Philippians 3:21, NET), subject to disease, deterioration, and death, to be transformed to be like Christ’s glorious resurrection body.

• Job 19:25-27

• Luke 24:39

• 1 Corinthians 15:42-44

• 1 Corinthians 15:50-54

• Colossians 3:4

In the end, through Jesus, death, “the last enemy,” will be destroyed (1 Corinthians 15:26). And that is our greatest hope, the ultimate promise that we have been given in Jesus—not only the end of death but a whole new body, even a “glorious body” (Philippians 3:21, ESV).

In a book about how to find “salvation” without God, which argued, rather foolishly, that overcoming the fear of death is “salvation,” author Luc Ferry does admit that Christianity “enables us not only to transcend the fear of death, but also to beat death itself. And by doing so in terms of individual identity, rather than anonymity or abstraction, it seems to be the only version that offers a truly definitive victory of personal immortality over our condition as mortals.”—Ferry, A Brief History of Thought (New York: HarperCollins, 2011, Kindle edition), p. 90. Quite an admission, coming from an atheist.

Thus, for Paul, our heavenly citizenship includes the promise of the resurrection and eternal life in a whole new existence that we can barely imagine now.

<–Sunday Tuesday–>

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The great lesson we learn from dear Paul this quarter is that we are to 
Stand Up! Stand Up For Jesus! – Hymn 618. This is a beautiful theme hymn to give us a great reminder of what we need in our world that is falling apart these days.

We gain wonderful help in our memory verse encouraging us to put everything to God in prayer and supplication just as we can in singing 
Hymn 510 – ‘Tis The Blessed Hour Of Prayer. Paul then shares with us the “secrets of living a joyful Christian life”: 
Hymn 12 – Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.  The instructions from Paul keep us learning and we are then able to find “He will supply everything we need”:  
Hymn 104 – My Shepherd Will Supply My Need. Our Sabbath introduction then concludes with our citizenship having wonderful privileges 
When We All Get To Heaven – Hymn 633.

We each have had a role model (Sunday) to some degree in our lives with our best Role Model helping us to sing 
I Would Be Like Jesus – Hymn 311. Our Dear Saviour, Jesus, knows 
I Need Thee Every Hour – Hymn 483 and 
I Need Thee, Precious Jesus – Hymn 484 to help me along life’s pathway. 

Our theme hymn helps us to “Stand Fast in the Lord” (Monday) as does 
Hymn 610 – Stand Like The Brave.

With all this wonderful help from our Saviour, we can really 
Rejoice, The Lord Is King – Hymn 221 (Tuesday) “because He cares for you” – 1 Peter 5:7, ESV. We may still ask 
Does Jesus Care? – Hymn 181, oh, yes, He cares! And we know 
Christ Is Coming – Hymn 201 to take all the cares of this world away forever. It is with such wonder that we are then able to understand God alone can give us peace: 
Wonderful Peace – Hymn 466. Wednesday points out this wonderful peace, as well so that we are able to “practice what we have learned”; i.e., practice what we preach.

To keep growing with all we have learned so far this week, we can then see 
Faith Is The Victory – Hymn 608, especially 
Just When I Need Him Most – Hymn 512.

Please continue to search the scriptures this week to be blessed, and to bless others.

To learn unknown hymns, you will find the accompaniment music for each one at: https://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/

Another great resource is for when there is a hymn you wish to sing but can’t find it in your hymnal. Go to https://www.sdahymnal.org/Search and in the search bar type a special word in that is in the hymn. I am sure you will be amazed at the help you will be given.

 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV – “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

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