I t is a great thing to be a child of God, and a joint-heir with Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings. God looks upon the heart. You must seek Him earnestly, and raise your standard of piety high, or you will certainly fail of everlasting life.
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds; it must settled between God and your own soul. Don't lean upon your own judgment and experience but examine your own heart for the evidence of the Spirit of God, and the evidence of God acceptance of your character.
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
and having shod your feet
with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the
fiery darts of the wicked one.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of
God;
praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and
supplication for all the saints--
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Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our
bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful...
Hebrews 10:22‑23 NIV
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Contents and Introduction
Lesson 1
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March 29–April 4
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
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May 10–16
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Lesson 10
Lesson 11
Lesson 12
Lesson 13
Solomon was writing at the end of his life, a life full of bitterness and anger at himself and his apostasy. What's unique about the book is that in some places Solomon is writing from the perspective of someone alienated from God. Like modern authors, he's giving us thoughts that flow directly from his head. We see the world as it appears through his eyes.
"Those portions of Ecclesiastes that relate the experience and reasoning of [Solomon's] years of apostasy are not to be taken as representing the mind and will of the Spirit. Nevertheless, they are an inspired record of what he actually thought and did during that time (see Prophets and Kings, p. 79), and that record constitutes a sober warning against the wrong kind of thought and action. . . . Passages such as these should not be wrested from their context and made to teach some supposed truth that Inspiration never intended them to teach."—The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 3, p. 1060
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