It is wonderful to travel through John Mark’s life and see the beautiful story climax with 
Christ The Lord Is Risen Today – Hymn 166, therefore 
Go, Preach My Gospel – Hymn 378. These two hymns give us a purpose all during this quarter to hasten the coming of our Lord Jesus. May you enjoy these hymns for your theme hymn from which to choose.

 Compared to last weeks’ lesson with so much sadness, we have a joyful week with our risen Lord. We rejoice because 
The Strife Is O’er – Hymn 172, in response to 
Christ The Lord Is Risen Today – Hymn 166. Now we can report
Look You Saints! The Sight Is Glorious – Hymn 165.

 The conclusion of Sabbath afternoon is opened up to us on Thursday to 
Go, Preach My Gospel – Hymn 378.

 Sunday is the time we sing with gusto 
Hymn 166 – Christ The Lord Is Risen Today.

Monday tells of the empty tomb. We are able to rejoice that the stone was rolled away, showing the empty tomb to all:  
Hymn 171 – Thine Is The Glory opens this up to us.

As we read of the doubts of the ladies and disciples regarding the empty tomb, we are encouraged to 
Come, You Faithful – Hymn 169 seeing as we have all the evidence given to us in the Bible.

Thursday encourages us to 
Go Forth, Go Forth With Christ – Hymn 377 and spread the Gospel to the world.

Please continue to search the scriptures this week to be blessed, and to bless many 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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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/13-the-risen-lord-singing-with-inspiration/

Daily Lesson for Monday 23rd of September 2024

The story of the resurrection appears in each of the Gospels. Each Gospel writer presents the story from a different perspective, but they all contain the core concepts that appear also in 1 Corinthians 15:1-8.

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Four ideas appear again and again—died, buried, risen, seen. In Mark, “died” and “buried” are in chapter 15. The “risen” and “seen” appear in chapter 16, but with a twist. Mark 16:7 speaks of a meeting in Galilee, and there you will see Him (see John 21:1-25).

Some people find it incredible that Christians believe in a risen Lord. But the evidence for His resurrection is substantial and consistent with reason.

For starters, all one has to do is believe in God as the Creator (see Genesis 1:1-31 and 2) and the idea of the resurrection, of a miracle, becomes reasonable. The God who created the universe, and then life on earth, certainly had the power, if He chose, to resurrect Jesus. The existence of God doesn’t make the resurrection of Jesus inevitable, only reasonable.

Next, the tomb was definitely empty. Even atheist historians accept that fact. If it were not, the claim about His resurrection would fail right from the start because the existence of His body there would destroy any claims of His having risen.

Next, the explanation that His disciples stole the body does not work. The disciples surely couldn’t have gotten past the guards. And even if they had done so and got the body, why were the disciples never arrested for stealing it? The answer is that the religious leaders knew that the disciples had not done it.

Also, numerous people testified that they saw the risen Christ. Many, including the disciples, did not at first believe. And one very solid enemy, Paul, not only claims to have seen the risen Lord but that this experience changed the whole trajectory of his life—in very radical ways, too.

Finally (though there are many other reasons), how does one explain the rise of the Christian church, founded by people who claimed to have seen the risen Lord? Why would these people have been willing to die for what they knew was a lie? Their consistent testimony, both right after His death (Acts 3:15) and years later (1 Peter 1:3), provides powerful evidence for His resurrection.

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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/24c-13-the-stone-was-rolled-away/