Life

Life 1-18-09 Sara Lincoln

Please bring your ideas about these two items to Sunday School:
About 2000 years ago, the Apostle Paul was concerned about idolatry in Athens, Greece.
What is ‘idolatry’? ______ What are some examples of idolatry where you live? ______

Paul could have condemned the people for their idolatry, but he did something more useful. What did he do? Acts 17: 15-19, 22-25, 28 (to;)


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People don’t want to ‘bow down to idols.’ They just want a promise of protection and progress which the human mind cannot provide. God does promise and provide protection and progress when we are singing. Singing? The Psalmist says it needs to be‘a new song.’ Ps. 40: 1-3. What is the ‘new song’ we need to sing if we want protection and progress?

God gives us more than just new ways to express gratitude. God gives us “the sense of Life that knows no death, -- the Life that maketh all things new.” Hymn 218.
According to St. John, in the book of Revelation, God says we can behold (see clearly) that “I make ______ __________ ________.” (Rev. 21: 5-6)

One ‘new thing’ God gave to mankind in 1875 was __________________________.
What forever true new thing about God and man does it reveal? SH 468: 8-15
Pick one forever true new idea about ‘being’ that you especially like: ___________


Our textbook also affirms these forever true new ideas about Creator and Creation:
“________ makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away and ‘all things are become new.’” SH 201: 7-9
“Life is _______________.” SH 487: 3
Man reflects Life, God. “Man is ____________ , _____________.” SH 266: 29

A grandson of Noah named Enoch knew these things. He lived for 365 years then
“God took him.” That does not mean that Enoch died because Enoch ____________ _______ ________ Gen. 5: 23-24
Enoch did not base his view of life on the evidence before his ___________ _________ SH 214: 5.

The prophet Elijah lived hundreds of years after Enoch and he also proved that life is deathless, man is deathless. During a time of drought, God told Elijah to go to the city of Zarephath where a widow woman would give him food. She gave him all the food she had and Elijah rewarded her generosity. He told her God’s promise that she would always have food, that the “barrel of meal (wheat) shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail.” I Kings 17: 9-16.
Was the life of the widow and her son sustained by matter, the wheat and oil needed for making bread? _________ Their lives were sustained by ………………………….

Our textbook explains that “Life is self-sustained.”
What is it that ‘produces apparent discord’? __________ _____ _______
SH 390: 4-9
What is it that ‘restores harmony’?


Christ Jesus lived hundreds of years after Elijah and he proved the same spiritual truths, that life is deathless, man is deathless. A Jewish ruler came to Jesus and said, my daughter has died, but if you lay your hand on her, she will live. Jesus did take her ‘by the hand and the maid arose.’ She did not come back to life just because Jesus ‘took her by the hand,’ but because Christ Jesus knew …………………………….. SH 369: 16-22

Because Christ Jesus understood that life is deathless, man is deathless, he healed many people. What was the very important event when Christ Jesus healed himself?
I Cor. 15: 1, 3, 4, 12, 14, 15, 20

Why did Christ Jesus allow himself to be crucified? SH 289: 14
What did he want to teach us? SH 289: 31-32
“Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit, -- of __________, not of ___________.”