19 February 2024 | In response to the changing economic landscape following the pandemic, the Oregon Conference has announced a series of strategic budget and operational adjustments. Despite significant tithe contributions between 2021 and 2023, the conference faces challenges due to increased inflationary expenses, necessitating these changes for financial stability. Oregon Conference president Dan Linrud […] Source: https://atoday.org/oregon-conference-announces-budget-adjustments-and-staffing-changes-amid-economic-shifts/
Aunty, how should we Adventists regard all those “apostate” Christians?
19 February 2024 | Dear Aunt Sevvy, Adventists say that other Christians are officially “apostate.” So why do we invite them to take part in our communion service? Signed, Which Is It? Dear Which: Adventists have never quite known how to relate to Christians of other faiths. Officially, we disapprove of them: The Great Controversy […] Source: https://atoday.org/aunty-how-should-we-adventists-regard-all-those-apostate-christians/
Tuesday: The Lord’s Test
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 20th of February 2024
Read Psalms 81:7-8; Psalms 95:7-11; and Psalms 105:17-22. What does divine testing involve in these texts?
Meribah is the place where Israel tested God by challenging His faithfulness and power to provide for their needs (Exodus 17:1-7; Psalms 95:8-9). Psalms 81:1-16 makes an intriguing reversal and interprets the same event as the time when God tested Israel (Psalms 81:7). And, by their disobedience and lack of trust (Psalms 81:11), the people failed God’s test.
The reference to Meribah conveys a twofold message. First, God’s people must not repeat the mistakes of past generations. Instead, they are to trust God and to walk in His way (Psalms 81:13). Second, although the people failed the test, God came to their rescue when they were in trouble (Psalms 81:7). God’s saving grace in the past gives an assurance of God’s grace to new generations.
Psalms 105:1-45 shows that the trials were God’s means of testing Joseph’s trust in God’s foretelling of his future (Genesis 37:5-10, Psalms 105:19). The Hebrew tsarap, “tested,” in verse 19 conveys a sense of “purging,” “refining,” or “purifying.” Thus, the goal of God’s testing of Joseph’s faith was to remove any doubt in God’s promise and to strengthen Joseph’s trust in God’s guidance.
The goal of divine discipline is to strengthen God’s children and to prepare them for the fulfillment of the promise, as shown in Joseph’s example (Psalms 105:20-22).
However, rejection of God’s instruction results in growing stubbornness and hardening of an obstinate person’s heart.
“God requires prompt and unquestioning obedience of His law; but men are asleep or paralyzed by the deceptions of Satan, who suggests excuses and subterfuges, and conquers their scruples, saying as he said to Eve in the garden: ‘Ye shall not surely die.’ Disobedience not only hardens the heart and conscience of the guilty one, but it tends to corrupt the faith of others. That which looked very wrong to them at first, gradually loses this appearance by being constantly before them, till finally they question whether it is really sin and unconsciously fall into the same error.”—Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, p. 146.
What has been your own experience with how sin hardens the heart? Why should that thought drive us to the Cross, where we can find the power to obey?
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Song of Solomon 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
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8: Wisdom for Righteous Living – Singing with Inspiration
The beautiful picture on the front of our lesson pamphlet brings us our theme hymn for this quarter with it’s two variations in melody:
Hymn 552/546 – The Lord’s My Shepherd.
Psalm 67:4 – O, let the nations be glad and sing for joy!
Our studies so far this quarter are summarized in Sabbath afternoon’s introduction:
Hymn 109 – Marvelous Grace creating in us a clean heart to live by faith:
Hymn 517 – My Faith Looks Up To Thee and we are then blessed knowing that
Faith Is The Victory – Hymn 608
“The life of faith is maintained by walking in the law of God” says Sunday’s study:
Hymn 444 – I’m A Pilgrim and then we find
My Faith Has Found A Resting Place – Hymn 523. “The Psalmist delights in the law because the law assures him of God’s faithfulness,” says Psalm 119:77, 124:
Hymn 100 – Great Is Thy Faithfulness.
Savior, Teach Me – Hymn 193 is what Monday’s study portrays for us in our daily living and learning.
With all the pitfalls and failings in today’s society, the Blessings of Righteous Living (Thursday) comes with
Peace, Perfect Peace – Hymn 463. Ellen White, in Great Controversy p. 675 says we “shall find a home” as does
Hymn 420 – Jerusalem My Happy Home and
Hymn 436 – The Homeland, where we will have peace forevermore.
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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