Sabbath: Salvation and the End Time
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Read for This Week’s Study: John 14:9; Zeph. 3:17; John 1:1-3; Rom. 8:38-39; Ps. 91:15-16; Rev. 14:6-7; Eph. 1:4-5.
Memory Text: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10, NIV).
One fascinating but crucial difference between Christianity and non-Christian religions is that while the others emphasize what their founders have taught them, they do not emphasize what their founders have done for them . And that’s because whatever their founders may have done for them, it cannot save them. All these leaders could do was try to teach the people how to “save” themselves.
In contrast, Christians emphasize not only what Jesus taught but what He did, because what Christ did provides the only means by which we are saved. Christ’s incarnation in human flesh (Rom. 8:3), His death on the cross (Rom. 5:8), His resurrection (1 Pet. 1:3) and His ministry in heaven (Heb. 7:25) — these acts alone are what saves us. It’s certainly not anything in ourselves. “If you would gather together everything that is good and holy and noble and lovely in man and then present the subject to the angels of God as acting a part in the salvation of the human soul or in merit, the proposition would be rejected as treason”. — Ellen G. White, Faith and Works,p. 24.
This wonderful truth is especially important for us amid the perils and deceptions of the last days.
Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, April 28.
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Agape defined (self emptying love defined)
He loved us. Why should He love us?
He loves us because it is His nature to love
Love must follow action
Sent his Son
In my life it's very rare I will send my son and daughter to die for a people who would reject them, yet that's exactly what the Father did. He sent his son. Unto His own but His own rejected him and crucified Him.
Atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Christ willingly laid down His life so we would have a relationship with Him and the Father.
John 20:17
“Don’t cling to me,” Jesus told her, “since I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God”
The Love of God is contradictory to human nature and is found only manifested in Christ.
We Christians are called to manifest that love by abiding In Him.
This week's memory text and today's lesson hilights the important distinction between Christianity and other religions - that the God of Christianity actually brings about salvation as opposed to only taking about how it might be achieved.
The memory verse mentions that God sent Jesus as "an atoning sacrifice/propitiation for sins" (1 Jn 4:10).
What does this phrase from 1 Jn 4:10 actually mean? What is it about 'sin/s' that makes atoning sacrifice/propitiation necessary? And how does atoning sacrifice/propitiation fix the 'sin/s' problem?
It is the sin that our first parents sinned of disobeying God and thereafter falling.Their relationship with the Father broke up thereby only the blood of Christ could atone and bring us back to the Father.