Sabbath School Today, Volume 9 - Paul E. Penno

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Chapter 27 You Will Be My Witnesses The "grandest" thing that ever happened in the Seventh-day Adventist Church is introduced to us in the next 13 weeks of Bible study. Wednesday's lesson "Preparing for Pentecost" alludes to it. "Grandest"? Well, that depends on how you think of the Day of Pentecost in the Book of Acts. Heaven came down and the apostles "were all filled with the Holy Spirit." The great gospel commission to all the world began. That light has shown throughout the long centuries since. It was "the former rain" of the Holy Spirit. Ellen White said the message "the Lord in His great mercy sent" in 1888 was Pentecost repeated. The message itself was the initial "showers from heaven of the latter rain," "the beginning" of the Loud Cry yet to "lighten the earth with glory," the fulfillment of Revelation 18. [1] "Another angel" must come down from heaven having "great power." If you had lived 2000 years ago, you wouldn't want to sleep through the great Day of Pentecost, would you? Our problem now is that "we" did not receive the Latter Rain when God tried to give it to us. We still await its coming. But the message has been preserved in the archives, and thousands worldwide are discovering why Ellen White was overjoyed to hear it. The intimate revelation of Jesus in Acts will be the essence of the "most precious message" that Ellen White said will in a phenomenal way "carry the 109
truth to the world as the apostles proclaimed it after the day of Pentecost." She says it will be "the light that is to lighten the whole earth with its glory." [2] That's far greater than all our evangelistic efforts combined-thus far in our denominational history. That final message that will bring to a glorious close the gospel proclamation to "every nation, kindred, tongue, and people," will transcend the fear-curdling impact that we have always assumed will scare people at last to "come out of Babylon." That great and seemingly impossible "if" of John 12:32, 33 which has for nearly 2000 years limited the best efforts of the church of all ages to truthfully fulfill Christ's commission, will at last be bridged in the repentance of the ages: "Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all [people] unto Me. This He said, signifying what death he should die." Thus the message of Revelation 18 will be a "lifting up" of Christ as crucified and dying. "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). This is what Ellen White says in direct context with the 1888 message: "The theme that attracts the heart of the sinner is Christ, and Him crucified. ... Present Him thus to the hungering multitudes, and the light of His love [agape] will win men from darkness to light, from transgression to obedience and true holiness." [3] As the "remnant" church of Revelation 12:17 and 14:12 finally receives the "most precious message" which "the Lord in His great mercy sent" to us in 1888, every Seventh-day Adventist church in the world will be transformed and acquire the reputation of being the place to go to hear Christ uplifted. It will be a new public image that replaces our old reputation of being the church where "we have preached the law until we are as dry as the hills of Gilboa," says Ellen White. [4] Implicit in the next 13 weeks of 110
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SABBATH SCHOOL TODAY VOLUME 9 Paul
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did you make? Christ reverses our m
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Peter's thing when he denied Christ
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Chapter 2 I See, I Want, I Take The
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the faith of Jesus; therefore it is
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Chapter 3 God or Mammon A fundament
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preamble, when we appreciate what t
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elieve in the power of God to deliv
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ighteousness. Only when we allow ou
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92. 6. A. T. Jones, "The Third Ange
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Jeremiah (31:22); and what He wants
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Second, to consider Christ continua
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Chapter 6 The Marks of a Steward Th
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not the source your pleasures that
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Chapter 7 Honesty With God Is there
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nothing like it presented publicly
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and the same. ... God's covenants w
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olster our sagging self-esteem. In
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God to die for us on His cross. Tha
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which worketh by love" (Gal. 5:6; I
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through us. We plead on Christ's be
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His righteousness. It is a message
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ealized that, he took a deep breath
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When the Father gave His Son, Chris
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His Father wakened Him morning by m
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Chapter 13 The Result of Stewardshi
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LORD which exercise lovingkindness,
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nature, "sin shall not have dominio
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Chapter 15 Daniel and the End Time
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take the righteousness of Christ as
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impossible. What we need to do is g
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a man, to use a common expression,
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international strife. Two world war
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you just couldn't sit still. The to
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Chapter 40 Creation and Fall Not a
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Are we sinful? Of course we are! Bu
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Chapter 41 Causes of Disunity How p
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If the Lord was capable of sending
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In summation, any message of righte
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In the celebrated 1848 Sabbath Conf
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Chapter 43 Christ, the Key to Unity
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you shall die") that the day Adam s
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--Ann Walper Endnotes: [1] Ellen G.
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"the former rain," and the "latter
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Chapter 45 Images of Unity The Bibl
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Since the only flesh that there is
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Chapter 46 When Conflicts Arise The
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Those who "seemed to be pillars" (C
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Chapter 47 Unity in Faith The Quart
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H. Kellogg at Battle Creek, and inf
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common temptations and inclinations
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[9] Ellen G. White, The Desire of A
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proclaim the gospel for two thousan
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... "Christ desires unity, but He d
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John 4:10). Truly this "propitiatio
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Here is where the "gospel" comes in
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Chapter 50 Unity in Worship Meeting
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oth you and the sons of Israel; and
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Chapter 51 Church Organization and
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years of Ellen White's long lifetim
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of organization; it is the collecti
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accordingly. They are the ones who
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present age, while we wait for the
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