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Sabbath: Jesus, the Giver of Rest
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Sabbath Afternoon,
Read for This Week’s Study: Genesis 15:13–21; Hebrews 3:12–19; Hebrews 4:6–11; Hebrews 4:1, Hebrews 4:3, Hebrews 4:5, Hebrews 4:10; Deuteronomy 5:12–15; Hebrews 4:8-11.
Memory Text: “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God” (Hebrews 4:9, NKJV).
Hebrews 1 and 2 focused on the enthronement of Jesus as the ruler and liberator of God’s people. Hebrews 3 and 4 introduce Jesus as the one who will provide rest for us. This progression makes sense once we remember that the Davidic covenant promised that God would give the promised king and his people “rest” from their enemies (2 Samuel 7:10-11). This rest is available to us now that Jesus is seated at the right hand of God.
Hebrews describes the rest both as a rest that belongs to God and as a Sabbath rest (Hebrews 4:1-11). God made this rest, which was His, available to Adam and Eve. The first Sabbath was the experience of perfection with the one who made that perfection possible. God also promises a Sabbath rest because true Sabbath observance embodies the promise that God will bring that perfection back.
When we keep the Sabbath, we remember that God made perfect provision for us when He created the world and when He redeemed it at the cross. True Sabbath observance, however, besides first and foremost pointing us back to Creation, offers us a foretaste, in this imperfect world, of the future that God has promised.
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, January 29.
Amen!
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Online Adventist Speed Dating Aims to Turn Virtual Encounters into Real Connections
2 online speed dating events targeted specifically at Adventists coming up. Online speed dating allows people to interact with potential matches instantly, according to spokesperson for Lynk. People who might otherwise never cross paths can meet through online speed dating, according to the Love Potluck. 21 January 2022 | Love is in the air — […] Source: https://atoday.org/online-adventist-speed-dating-aims-to-turn-virtual-encounters-into-real-connections/
2022 BUC Orientation Seminar
The BUC Orientation Seminar has just come to a close, having taken place over the past six days at the British Union office, Stanborough Park, Watford. The six-day event began on Sabbath 15 January and ended on Thursday 20 January.
The attendees this year had the privilege of being hosted by the former Ministerial Association Secretary, now BUC President, Pastor Eglan Brooks, with significant assistance by Pastors Samuel Ouadjo (South England Conference) and Michael Simpson, (North England…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-01-20/1046/
200 Afghan families at Stanborough Park
“You took Me in”
“For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink;
I was a stranger and you took Me in;….” Matthew 25:35
On Sunday 16 January 2022, One Vision hosted an Afghanistan traditional dinner event at the Stanborough Park Secondary School, attended by over 200 Afghan refugee families.
Just imagine with me for a moment, that you are fleeing your country of origin. The place of your birth has become the place of potential untimely death, so escape is the…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-01-20/1045/
