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Friday: Further Thought ~ Jesus Opens the Way Through the Veil

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Further Thought:

“Christ’s ascension to heaven was the signal that His followers were to receive the promised blessing. For this they were to wait before they entered upon their work. When Christ passed within the heavenly gates, He was enthroned amidst the adoration of the angels.

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As soon as this ceremony was completed, the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples in rich currents, and Christ was indeed glorified, even with the glory which He had with the Father from all eternity. The Pentecostal outpouring was Heaven’s communication that the Redeemer’s inauguration was accomplished. According to His promise He had sent the Holy Spirit from heaven to His followers as a token that He had, as priest and king, received all authority in heaven and on earth, and was the Anointed One over His people. …

They could speak the name of Jesus with assurance; for was He not their Friend and Elder Brother? Brought into close communion with Christ, they sat with Him in heavenly places. With what burning language they clothed their ideas as they bore witness for Him!” — Ellen G. White, The Acts of the Apostles, Pages 38, 46.

Discussion Questions:
  1. The psalmist said: “My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?” (Psalm 42:2, ESV). How can we have the same thirst to come into the presence of God? If we don’t rejoice now in the presence of God as we worship Him and come before His presence in faith, will we rejoice in the future? What are the factors that lead to joy before God?
  2. In a book mocking faith, someone created a robot that supposedly did our believing for us. Though this was a spoof, how can we be careful not to do as Israel did in the desert, and that is to request for intermediaries between us and God? We tend to allow other people to study the Bible in our behalf and find the gems of truth in the Bible. Some people may feel tempted to think that the prayers of others in their behalf carry more weight before God than their own prayers. Why should we avoid this spiritual trap? Why, because of Jesus, can we approach God without the need of anyone else?
  3. Hebrews is about assurance of salvation. How, though, must we be careful not to mistake presumption for assurance?

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Scottish Mission launches ambitious Ukraine humanitarian fundraising drive

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The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Scotland is launching a fundraising drive across its territory to rapidly raise emergency funds to help with the immediate relief efforts for those affected by the Ukraine Conflict. Funds will be distributed by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency to relief efforts that they are co-ordinating in countries around Ukraine
An appeal is being made for individual church members and local churches to make a significant contribution to this relief work that…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-03-03/scottish-mission-launches-ambitious-ukraine-humanitarian-fundraising-drive/

Love

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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 1 John 3:1.

John says, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” No language can express this love; we can describe but a faint degree of love that passeth knowledge. It would require the language of the Infinite to express the love that has made it possible for us to be called the sons of God. In becoming a Christian, a man does not step down. There is no shame in having connection with the living God.

Jesus bore the humiliation and shame and reproach that justly belonged to the sinner. He was the Majesty of heaven, He was the King of glory, He was equal with the Father; and yet He clothed His divinity with humanity, that humanity might touch humanity, that divinity might lay hold of divinity. Had He come as an angel, He could not have been a partaker with us of our sufferings, could not have been tempted in all points like as we are, He could not have sympathized with our sorrows; but He came in the garb of our humanity, that as our substitute and surety, He might overcome the prince of darkness in our behalf, and make us victors through His merits.

[As we stand] under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, the inspiration of His love fills our hearts. When I look upon Him whom my sins have pierced, the inspiration from on high comes upon me; and this inspiration may come upon each one of you through the Holy Spirit. Unless you receive the Holy Spirit, you cannot have the love of God in the soul; but through a living connection with Christ, we are inspired with love and zeal and earnestness.

We are not as a block of marble, which may reflect the light of the sun, but cannot be imbued with life. We are capable of responding to the bright beams of the Sun of righteousness; for as Christ illuminates our souls, He gives light and life. We drink in the love of Christ as the branch draws nourishment from the vine. If we are grafted into Christ, if fiber by fiber we have been united with the living Vine, we shall give evidence of this fact by bearing rich clusters of fruit.—The Review and Herald, September 27, 1892.
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Prayer Requests
—-Please pray for E and her children. R
—-Please pray for the family of Kevin L who passed away this week. K

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News Briefs for March 3, 2022

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News reports from Australia, Brazil, Mexico, the United States. Hanging On for Dear Life Extreme rainfall across South Queensland Conference (SQC) and North New South Wales (NNSW) Conference in Australia has seen Adventist churches and schools evacuated and thousands of homes flooded. According to NNSW Adventist Church President Adrian Raethel, Murwillumbah Seventh-day Adventist church, Tweed […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-march-3-2022/

Friedensau Takes in Refugee Students from Ukrainian SDA College

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by Andreas Bochmann  |  3 March 2022  | (Late report: A reliable source says that the UACHE Campus was bombed last night, March 2. Students are gone, but the campus is being used as housing for Internally Displaced Persons. Dr. Bochmann has promised information later today as to how you can contribute to Friedensau’s refugee […] Source: https://atoday.org/friedensau-takes-in-refugee-students-from-ukrainian-sda-college/

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