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Sabbath Afternoon

Read for This Week’s Study: Hebrews 13:1-25, Romans 12:13, Ephesians 5:3–5, 1 Peter 5:1–4, Hebrews 2:9, Hebrews 4:16, Galatians 2:20.

Memory Text: “Let brotherly love continue” (Hebrews 13:1).

Hebrews chapter 13 presents the apostle’s concluding admonition: “Let brotherly love continue” (Hebrews 13:1). He has affirmed throughout the epistle that we are of the household of the King-High Priest, Jesus, His brothers and sisters. The author does not conceive of the audience only as a group of individuals who work on their salvation in a one-to-one relationship with Jesus, but as a family, or household, saved together. Paul has characterized the work of Jesus for us as “brotherly love”: He was “not ashamed to call them brothers” (Hebrews 2:11, ESV). Thus, believers should do for one another what Jesus did for them.

Throughout the letter, brotherly love involved “exhorting one another” so that no one would fall short of the grace of God (Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:24-25; Hebrews 12:15-17). In chapter 13 it involves numerous elements: hospitality (Hebrews 13:2), visiting and supporting prisoners and those who had been mistreated (Hebrews 13:3), honoring marriage (Hebrews 13:4), avoiding covetousness (Hebrews 13:5-6), remembering and obeying the leaders of the church (Hebrews 13:7-17), and praying for the author himself (Hebrews 13:18-19).

Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, March 26.

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Support for the mission activities of the Seventh-day Adventist church has always been part of the Sabbath School program. This video is Mission Spotlight for this week.
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This video is produced by the South Pacific Division Discipleship team.

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You can view an in-depth discussion of Receiving an Unshakeable Kingdom; in the Hope Sabbath School class led by Pastor Derek Morris. Click on the image to view:

With thanks to Hope Channel – Television that will change your life.

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Perfect Health

By Andrew McChesney

Noy was a wealthy woman who oversaw more than 100 workers at a family-owned coffee plantation in Laos. But then she fell ill with a mystery disease in her village.

Her physician couldn’t identify the illness.

Noy went to many medical doctors across southern Laos, but no one could help.

Her health grew worse and worse until she could not even walk and was confined to her bed. More than that, she nearly lost her mind. Many times, she could not remember people in her own family.

All her workers left because she did not pay their salaries. Villagers told her and her husband that she would not survive.

At this low point in Noy’s life, a visitor arrived from Laos’ capital, Vientiane. The visitor, like Noy, was not a Christian, but her son and daughter-in-law were Seventh-day Adventists. She told Noy about Jesus.

“Maybe Jesus can save your life,” she said.

With assistance from her husband, Noy found the telephone number of an Adventist pastor in the south and called him for help.

The pastor traveled to Noy’s village and prayed with her.

Noy was encouraged by the prayer, and she decided to move temporarily to Vientiane. She wanted to meet Adventist church members and get to know them.

When she arrived, she could not get off the bed, and she struggled to think clearly. Church members met and prayed with her regularly. Gradually, her health improved. She started to sit, stand, and walk.

Five months after falling ill, Noy returned to her home village in perfect health.

The villagers were surprised at what they saw. They had expected her to die, but she was alive and fully healed. Astonished, they asked her what happened.

“Jesus saved me from death,” Noy said.

Now many villagers are interested in knowing more about Jesus, the powerful physician who can heal all who ask Him.

Thank you for your Sabbath School mission offering that will help spread the gospel to the people of Laos and other countries of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division. Part of this quarter’s Thirteenth Sabbath Offering will help open an elementary school in Laos.

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 … among unreached and under-reached people groups, and to non-Christian religions.” Learn more at IWillGo2020[dot].org.

Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org

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