Friday: Further Thought – Grace, Love, and Fellowship
Daily Lesson for Friday 25th of September 2026
Further Thought:
Read Ellen G. White, “ ‘Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled,’ ” Pages 662–680, in The Desire of Ages.
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“The grace of Jesus Christ alone can change the heart of stone to a heart of flesh, and make it alive unto God. . . . Men have no power to justify the soul, to sanctify the heart. Moral disease cannot be healed save through the power of the great Physician. The highest gift of heaven, even the Only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, is alone able to redeem the lost.”—Ellen G. White, in The Signs of the Times, May 2, 1892.
“ ‘God is love.’ 1 John 4:16. His nature, His law, is love. It ever has been; it ever will be. ‘The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,’ whose ‘ways are everlasting,’ changeth not. With Him ‘is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.’ Isaiah 57:15; Habakkuk 3:6; James 1:17. Every manifestation of creative power is an expression of infinite love. The sovereignty of God involves fullness of blessing to all created beings. . . . The history of the great conflict between good and evil, from the time it first began in heaven to the final overthrow of rebellion and the total eradication of sin, is also a demonstration of God’s unchanging love.”—Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 33.
“We need to realize that the Holy Spirit . . . is as much a person as God is a person. . . . The Holy Spirit has a personality, else He could not bear witness to our spirits and with our spirits that we are the children of God. He must also be a divine person, else He could not search out the secrets which lie hidden in the mind of God.”—Ellen G. White, The Faith I Live By, p. 52.
“There are three living persons of the heavenly trio; in the name of these three great powers—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—those who receive Christ by living faith are baptized, and these powers will cooperate with the obedient subjects of heaven in their efforts to live the new life in Christ.”—Ellen G. White, Evangelism, p. 615.
Discussion Questions
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I have made the point before that given a big enough flock of Galahs (Australia’s talkative pink and grey show-off cockatoos), and enough time, I could teach them to recite the New Testament. Imagine that: a whole flock of Galahs descending on a town screeching and chattering the Gospel. The point is of course, it that Galah’s for all their intelligence, would not understand a word they were saying. It would simply be parrot noise.
At the end of this week of study, some of us may have ended up with more knowledge about God, but that knowledge may be just spiritual parrot noise. James makes a telling statement:
My question for us at the end of this week is: How are going to use the knowledge we have expressed this week? Are we just show-off, spiritual Galah’s, looking good, sounding right, but just making parrot noises?