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4: Standing for the Truth – Teaching Plan

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Key Thought: Through the centuries men and women have been willing to experience martyrdom rather than give up their faith in Christ.
April 27, 2024

1. Have a volunteer read Jude 3,4; Revelation 2:10.

  1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
  2. What is the warni9ng here and how did it apply to the later Christian church?
  3. Personal Application: What encourages you in challenging times? What scares you? What promises can you claim during these times? Share your thoughts.
  4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “How can I have any faith in God’s promises to help me or save me when I face death itself? What promises does He give us that I can believe in?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Acts 5:28-32, Revelation 3:11, Ephesians 6:10-12.

  1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
  2. What basic principle is found in these texts?
  3. Personal Application: How can we reflect the light of Christ and shine in our community? Share your thoughts
  4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Do new discoveries of truth conflict with previous truths or with what the Bible teaches?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Psalms 19:7-11, 119:140, Jeremiah 15:16, 2 Timothy 2:1-3.

  1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
  2. What similar attitudes did David and Jeremiah have toward the Word of God that shows the cornerstone of the Reformation?.
  3. Personal Application:: How do you deal with values, ideas, and morals in your culture that conflict with the Word of God? Share your thoughts.
  4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “What did Paul say to Timothy regarding sharing the Word of God? Can’t Christians just live a good life to influence others? It is scary and pushy to rry to tell others what the Bible says.” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Hebrews 2:14,15; John 5:24; 11:25,26; I John 5:11-13.

  1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
  2. How did believers in the Middle Ages experience the reality of the great controversy? What lessons can we learn from the Reformers that can help us in the last days?
  3. Personal Application: What assurances do these promises give you personally? How do they help us in the trials of life? Share your thoughts.
  4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Monday: Light Vanquishes the Darkness

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Daily Lesson for Monday 22nd of April 2024

Read Jude 1:3-4. What’s the warning here and how did it apply to the later Christian church?

The book of Jude was written sometime before a.d. 65 to faithful Christians who were “sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ” (Jude 1:1, NKJV). These faithful believers were urged to “contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

A Hand of JesusStopping the Darkness

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For certain men have crept in unnoticed, . . . who turn the grace of our God into lewdness” (Jude 1:3-4, NKJV). This admonition meant even more to believers in the Middle Ages after pagan practices had flooded into the church and human traditions compromised the Word of God. For many centuries, people, such as the Waldenses, stood as champions for the truths of Scripture. They believed that Christ was their only mediator and the Bible their sole source of authority. “In every age there were witnesses for God—men who cherished faith in Christ as the only mediator between God and man, who held the Bible as the only rule of life, and hallowed the true Sabbath.”—Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 61.

Read Revelation 2:10. What promise does God give those who are faithful to Him in the face of death itself?

These words were written to the church at Smyrna. One of the city’s patron gods was Dionysius, the god of festivity and fertility. When the priests of Dionysius died, a crown was placed on their heads in their funeral procession. John contrasts this earthly crown placed on the head at death with the crown of life placed on the heads of those who are victorious over the forces of evil. The crown of life is presented to those who endured trials, difficulties, suffering, and death itself for Christ’s sake.

The crown of life inspires these faithful believers to endure death itself for Christ’s sake. The crown of life always motivates believers in challenging circumstances. It inspired the Waldenses through pain and persecution. They knew they would see Jesus one day and live with Him forever. The crown of life also speaks to us: we may go through trials now, but a crown of life awaits us as we keep our eyes fixed on Jesus.

What encourages you in challenging times? What frightens you? What promises can you claim for those times?

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The Only Way to Win

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This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Joshua 1:8.

If men will walk in the path that God has marked out for them, they will have a counselor whose wisdom is far above any human wisdom. Joshua was a wise general because God was his guide. The first sword that Joshua used was the sword of the Spirit, the Word of God….

It was because the strongest influences were to be brought to bear against his principles of righteousness that the Lord in mercy charged him not to turn to the right hand or to the left. He was to follow a course of strictest integrity…. If there had been no peril before Joshua, God would not over and over again have charged him to be of good courage. But amid all his cares, Joshua had his God to guide Him.

There is no greater deception than for man to suppose that in any difficulty he can find a better guide than God, a wiser counselor in any emergency, a stronger defense under any circumstance….

The Lord has a great work to be done in our world. To every man He has given His work for man to do. But man is not to make man his guide, lest he be led astray; this is always unsafe. While Bible religion embodies the principles of activity in service, at the same time there is the necessity of asking for wisdom daily from the Source of all wisdom. What was Joshua’s victory? Thou shalt meditate upon the Word of God day and night. The word of the Lord came to Joshua just before he passed over Jordan…. This was the secret of Joshua’s victory. He made God his Guide.26The S.D.A. Bible Commentary 2:993.

Those holding the positions of counselors should be unselfish men, men of faith, men of prayer, men that will not dare to rely upon their own human wisdom, but will seek earnestly for light and intelligence as to what is the best manner of conducting their business. Joshua, the commander of Israel, searched the books diligently in which Moses had faithfully chronicled the directions given by God,—His requirements, reproofs, and restrictions,—lest he should move unadvisedly.27Ibid., 993, 994.
Conflict and Courage p. 116
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Prayer Requests
—-Please pray for Hannah and her family. Her husband’s parents and grandma were burned to death this morning when their house burned down. Rose
—-Please pray for Maggie as she travels to be with her sister and family during the death of Cindy’s grandson. Rose
—-Please pray for my brother Jacques. He does not have much time to live. Pray that God will visit him and he gives his heart to Jesus. Andree
—-I really need double prayers for my niece and my sister. Mom and daughter. My niece is having back surgery tomorrow removing old hardware and fixing another bulging disc and my sister lost her walking because she has a bulging disc in her back and it has pinched off her nerve. Kim is my niece and my sister is named Chris Sylvia
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Dear Friends,

As Ron and I were driving home from work one evening, Ron began laughing heartily. Puzzled, I asked the reason. He answered, “You see how nice and green the grass is in that field? Well, we just passed a cow that was down on her knees with her head poked through the fence eating the dry, brown grass on the outside.”

What a silly cow! She was surrounded with nice, fresh grass but desired the old, withered stalks on the outside of the fence. Yet, upon reflection I realized that cow is no different than many of us. Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Matt 6:24 God has provided the the way to eternal life, but how often we would rather have the “dry grass” this world has to offer even though we know we know that “the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” 2 Peter 3:10

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” 1 John 2:15-17 Paul advises, “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. . . . Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.” Col 3:1-17

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Rom 12:1, 2

Rose

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Sunday: Persecuted Yet Triumphant

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Daily Lesson for Sunday 21st of April 2024

Read Daniel 7:23-25 and Revelation 12:6,14. What prophetic time periods are referred to in these passages?

Whenever God’s people remain faithful to Him, Satan is enraged. Persecution often follows. The prophet Daniel described a time, still future to him, when the medieval church would “make war against” and “persecute” God’s people (Daniel 7:21,25, NKJV).

Peter and Apostles Released from Prison

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The prophet John described this same period as a time when God’s church would be forced to flee into the wilderness, where she would be “nourished for a time and times and half a time” (Revelation 12:14, NKJV). Revelation 12:6 adds, “The woman [the church] fled into the wilderness where she has a place prepared by God” (NKJV). God’s people were nourished in the wilderness. His Word strengthened and sustained them as the great controversy raged on during this long and dark period of papal domination.

God’s people found a “place prepared” for them by God. In life’s greatest challenges, God always prepares a place for His faithful followers. During the times of their greatest trial, His people have found refuge in His love and care. (See Psalms 46:1-11.)

The 1,260 days and the time, times, and half a time in Revelation 12:6,14 are both referring to the same period (3½ times or years x 360 days per year = 1,260 days). Biblical prophecy is often written in symbols. In the prophetic portions of Daniel and Revelation, one prophetic day equals one literal year. We find this day-year principle in Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6.

The day-year principle rests not on these two texts only, but on a broad scriptural foundation. William Shea, chronologist and Old Testament scholar, gives twenty-three lines of biblical evidence throughout the Old Testament for this principle. Bible interpreters have used it throughout the centuries.

The Visigoths, Vandals, and Ostrogoths were tribes that believed doctrines differently than Rome’s official teaching. The 1,260 days began when the last of these barbarian tribes, the Ostrogoths, were driven out of Rome in a.d. 538. This period of spiritual darkness continued until a.d. 1798, when the Napolean’s general Berthier removed the pope from Rome. Countless Christians were martyred during this long period because they obeyed the Word of God. Even in death, they triumphed. In Christ they were free from the guilt and the dominion of sin, overcoming “through the blood of the Lamb.” Christ’s victory over Satan on the cross was their victory. Though they died, their death is only a rest until the return of Christ.

How has fulfilled Bible prophecy strengthened your faith?

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Psalm 99:3

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Psalm 99:3

Let them praise your great and awesome name— he is holy.

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