
Join It Is Written Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and this quarter’s author, John C. Peckham, as they provide additional insights into this week’s Sabbath School lesson.”

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Join It Is Written Sabbath School host Eric Flickinger and this quarter’s author, John C. Peckham, as they provide additional insights into this week’s Sabbath School lesson.”
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View an in-depth discussion of Free Will, Love, and Divine Providence/a> in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris.
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With thanks to Hope Channel – Television that will change your life.
Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/8-free-will-love-and-divine-providence-hope-sabbath-school-video-discussion/
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The studies in this quarters pamphlet encourage us to see God’s Love and Justice, just as we may sing in
Hymn 79 – O Love of God, How Strong and True! which is a beautiful theme hymn for our studies.
Our memory text this week shows us that we may have
Wonderful Peace – Hymn 466.
With all the choices we make as humans, we wish to
Trust And Obey – Hymn 590 and follow where God wants to lead us, for our own best. The time of learning in Monday’s study shows us that “God is all-powerful (omnipotent)”, as does
Hymn 84 – God The Omnipotent.
Tuesday has us singing
The Wonder Of It All – Hymn 75, the wonder of God’s love, as do
Hymn 79 – O Love Of God,
How Strong And True! and
Hymn 77 – O Love Of God Most Full. This love is so freely given as is found in verse 2 of
Hymn 189 – All That Thrills My Soul.
“Christ Has Overcome The World” (Thursday’s title) is sung in
Hymn 491 – In The Hour Of Trial and then gives the beauty of John 16:33 where “Christ has overcome the world”. Oh,
What A Wonderful Saviour – Hymn 335.
The Final Thought on Friday gives us the blessed assurance story,
For God So Loved The World – Hymn 78.
Please continue to search the scriptures this week to be blessed, and to bless 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.”
Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/8-free-will-love-and-divine-providence-singing-with-inspiration/
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Key Thought : While God is omnipotent, He does not determine everything that happens. But God can transform a terrible situation into a blessing.
February 22, 2025
(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).
Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/8-free-will-love-and-divine-providence-teaching-plan/
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Daily Lesson for Monday 17th of February 2025
Throughout Scripture, God’s amazing power is made manifest. The Bible includes countless narratives of His exercising His power and working miracles. And yet, despite this, many things happen that God does not want to happen.
These texts and others teach that God is all-powerful and that He sustains the world by His power. Indeed, Revelation repeatedly refers to God as the “Lord God Almighty” (for example, Revelation 11:17; compare with 2 Corinthians 6:18, Revelation 1:8, Revelation 16:14, Revelation 19:15, Revelation 21:22) and the word translated “Almighty” (pantokrator) literally means “all-powerful.” The fact that God is all-powerful is not only affirmed in words but also manifest in the many amazing instances in which God uses His power to deliver His people or otherwise miraculously intervenes in the world.
However, to say God is “all-powerful” does not mean that God can do anything whatsoever. Scripture teaches that there are some things God cannot do; for example, 2 Timothy 2:13 declares, God “cannot deny Himself” (NKJV).
Accordingly, most Christians agree that God is all-powerful (omnipotent), meaning that God has the power to do anything that does not involve a contradiction—that is, anything that is logically possible and consistent with God’s nature. That some things are not possible for God because they would involve a contradiction is apparent in Christ’s prayer in Gethsemane. While Christ affirmed that “with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:26), He also prayed to the Father as the crucifixion neared, “ ‘O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will’ ” (Matthew 26:39, NKJV).
Of course, the Father possessed the sheer power to deliver Christ from suffering on the cross, but He could not do this while also saving sinners. It had to be one or the other, not both.
Scripture also teaches that God wants to save everyone (for example, 1 Timothy 2:4-6, Titus 2:11, 2 Peter 3:9, Ezekiel 33:11), but not everyone will be saved. What does this fact teach about the reality of free will and the limits of God’s power with beings granted free will? |