“God’s Mission – My Mission” consistently points us to our Gracious God and how He wishes us to portray what He has done for us. In response we will reach out to others:
Hymn 573 – I’ll Go Where You Want Me To Go, Dear Lord, hence our theme hymn. This is in response to
So Send I You – Hymn 573.

Our Memory Text instructs us to love one another.
Love Consecrates The Humblest Act – Hymn 406 and comes from us learning that
Jesus, Lover Of My Soul – Hymn 489/490.

Abraham was
Sent Forth By God’s Blessing – Hymn 407 so as to give
Showers of Blessing – Hymn 195 to all he met and lived amongst.

The story of Abraham continues showing
O Love of God Most Full – Hymn 77 moving our minds to see
O Love of God, How Strong And True – Hymn 79.

Prayer was a very large part of the life of Abraham, with all the family, friends and neighbours for whom he was praying:
For You I Am Praying – Hymn 284. We learn in our lesson study to pray more and more requesting
Come, Holy Spirit – Hymn 269.

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah increases our faith knowing that
Jesus Saves – Hymn 340.

Just as Abraham was called so long ago, today
Jesus Calls Us – Hymn 285. Submitting to God’s will gives us the
Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine – Hymn 462 (especially in verses 2 and 3).

Ellen White encourages us on Friday, that we too can
Come, Ye Sinners – Hymn 280 all because
Jesus, What A Friend Of Sinners – Hymn 187, knowing that I am
Chief Of Sinners – Hymn 295.

So, dear people, be encouraged to go forward so that we and all our friends and neighbors will be rejoicing
When We All Get To Heaven – Hymn 633.

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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Key Thought: Abraham pleads for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Hospitality, love, and prayer are the qualities Abraham exhibited in his mission.
October 28, 2023

A. Have a volunteer read Genesis 18:1-15.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What elements of hospitality are demonstrated in Abraham’s response to his guests?
3. Personal Application: What principles of Abraham’s hospitality can you emulate in your life? Share your thoughts..
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “I don’t think Abraham’s intercession fo5r Sodom and Gomorrah was successful at all. God destroyed the cities and only three made it out alive.” How would you respond to your relative?

B. Have a volunteer read Genesis 18:16-33.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How did Abraham exercise his love for all people without separating tribe, race, or ethnicity?
3. Personal Application: Why is intercessory prayer so important in our lives? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “How does praying for others in need help us grow spiritually and experience more the reality of God’s love for sinners?.” How would you respond to your friend?

C. Have a volunteer read Genesis 19:1-19..

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What was the result of Abraham’s spirit of hospitality, love, and prayer?
3. Personal Application: How can we learn not to be discouraged if we are not seeing th results that we want when we engage in mission work? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “How determined and dedicated are we to reaching outside our own little circle to help those around us to understand and receive the gospel of present truth?” How would you respond to your relative?

D. Have a volunteer read Genesis 12:1-9.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do these verses teach us about submitting to God’s will, even when the path ahead does not seem clear?
3. Personal Application: How can we learn to submit to God’s will when it conflicts with what we want to do?. 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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Daily Lesson for Sunday 22nd of October 2023

Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. This behavior was unusual. At that time of the day in summer, when the sun is at its zenith, everyone is looking for shade and for a fresh breeze. But, perhaps, Abraham was enduring the heat in order to help anyone who might be passing by.

While there, he saw three travelers. His practice, most likely, was to offer hospitality to strangers. This is why the initiative of the encounter was from Abraham: in the text he ran toward them from the entrance of his tent. That is, and this point is important: Abraham took the initiative to meet them even before they came to him.

“ ‘Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant’ ” (Genesis 18:4-5, NKJV).

Abraham was aware of his mission, which was to share with everyone the knowledge of the Lord in a world engulfed in paganism, idolatry, and polytheism. As we can see in this incident, his most immediate way to fulfill his mission was through hospitality toward these strangers, who seemed to have just appeared on the horizon.

Meanwhile, Abraham’s “great household consisted of more than a thousand souls, many of them heads of families, and not a few but newly converted from heathenism. Such a household required a firm hand at the helm. No weak, vacillating methods would suffice. . . . Abraham’s influence extended beyond his own household. Wherever he pitched his tent, he set up beside it the altar for sacrifice and worship. When the tent was removed, the altar remained; and many a roving Canaanite, whose knowledge of God had been gained from the life of Abraham His servant, tarried at that altar to offer sacrifice to Jehovah.”—Ellen. G. White, Education, p. 187.

From the start, this man understood that God had called him to mission, and that his going to the Promised Land was not for a vacation but to be a blessing to those around him and, through his seed, to the world.

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Daily Lesson for Saturday 21st of October 2023

Read for This Week’s Study

Genesis 18:1-33:1-33, James 5:16, Romans 8:34, Hebrews 7:25, Genesis 19:1-29, Genesis 12:1-9.

Memory Text:

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:34-35, NKJV).

From the start, Abraham wanted to be used by God for mission. This truth can been seen, for example, in Genesis 18:1-33:1-33, when God warned him about what was going to happen to Sodom and Gomorrah. “Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7, NKJV). And in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, “His servant the prophet” was Abraham.

Abraham was resting during the heat of the day when he saw three travelers. “Abraham had seen in his guests only three tired way­farers, little thinking that among them was One whom he might worship without sin.”—Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 138, 139.

Abraham, however, soon became personally involved in God’s mission. His involvement, as revealed in this chapter, was to pray for and intercede for the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. That is, he wanted to see if, somehow, these people, despite themselves, could be saved. In a sense, if that is not what mission is about—what is?

Throughout this chapter, three great spiritual qualities of Abraham are revealed: hospitality, love, and prayer—qualities that can greatly aid in mission, as well.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, October 28.

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By Andrew McChesney

Gina Wahlen was excited to visit a house church in a country where Christians face persecution for their faithfulness to God. She had arrived to collect mission stories for Adventist Mission.

The house church turned out to be a former home on the ground floor of an apartment building. The apartment had been gutted and turned into a church with a main sanctuary on one side and a small room on the other. Gina began interviewing people in the small side room with an interpreter.

The people were earnest and kind. But they didn’t seem to have any special stories, speaking instead about the technical aspects of a house church.

As time passed, Gina grew desperate. This was the only place where she had planned to collect stories in the country. “Dear Lord, please help me to find someone who has an inspiring story,” she prayed. “I don’t know how to find anyone because I don’t speak the language, and I don’t think that the interpreter can help. So, Lord, would You please send someone?”

Soon afterward, a woman stepped into the room. Gina felt impressed to speak with her and struck up a conversation through the interpreter.

“Have you been coming to this church for long?” Gina asked.

No, the woman hadn’t. She had been coming for only a few months.

Gina asked how she had learned about Seventh-day Adventists.

The woman said she had been walking with her children to the market on a Saturday. As they walked along the sidewalk, two neatly dressed men approached.

“The seventh day is the Sabbath,” said one.

“To learn more, look on the internet,” said the other. Then the men kept walking.

The woman went home and searched online. Somehow, she found a series of Adventist presentations by a U.S. evangelist that had been dubbed into her language. She watched many programs and was greatly blessed.

Then, she somehow found the house church. She showed up, prepared for baptism, and was baptized shortly before Gina’s arrival. “I was amazed when I heard her story and was so delighted that God answered my prayer in such a beautiful way,” Gina said.

Gina Wahlen served as Mission quarterlies editor at Adventist Mission for three years. Currently, she works as editor and project manager for the Office of the General Conference President. The house church featured in this mission story illustrates Mission Objective No. 2 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s “I Will Go” strategic plan, “To strengthen and diversify Adventist outreach in large cities, across the 10/40 Window, among unreached and under-reached people groups, and to non-Christian religions.” Read more: IWillGo2020[dot]org.

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