(1540)Daily Lessons
(1540)(1540)Wednesday: If You Worship Me
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 26th of February 2025 Satan’s quest to usurp God’s throne is also revealed in the temptation narratives found in Matthew 4:1-25 and Luke 4:1-44. In the striking encounter between Jesus and the tempter, much is revealed about the nature of the conflict. Here we see the reality of the great controversy … Continue reading –>
Tuesday: The Origin of the Controversy in Heaven
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 25th of February 2025 Genesis 1:1-31; Genesis 2:1-25; Genesis 3:1-24 alone shows that evil existed before the fall of Adam and Eve. Even if evil was not a concrete reality in Eden, conceptually, “evil” has already appeared, in the name of “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis … Continue reading –>
Monday: The Origin of the Controversy on Earth
Daily Lesson for Monday 24th of February 2025 Parallel to the question in the parable—about why there is bad seed in the field if the owner planted only good seed—is another question: if God created the world entirely good, how did evil arise here? Read Genesis 1:31. What do God’s words reveal about the state … Continue reading –>
Sunday: An Enemy Has Done This
Daily Lesson for Sunday 23rd of February 2025 Read Matthew 13:24-27. How does the parable help us understand evil in our world? Jesus tells the story of a landowner who sows only good seeds in his field. However, tares spring up among the wheat. Upon seeing this, the servants of the owner ask him, “ … Continue reading –>
Sabbath: The Cosmic Conflict
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 22nd of February 2025 Read for This Week’s Study: Matthew 13:24-27; Genesis 1:31; Ezekiel 28:12-19; Isaiah 14:12-15; Matthew 4:1-11; John 8:44-45. Memory Text: “ ‘And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel’ … Continue reading –>
Inside Story: From Rumba to Church
Inside Story for Friday 21st of February 2025 By Andrew McChesney As a boy, Nelson was too young to go to rumba in Colombia. But he sensed something was wrong when his parents took him to church on December 31 and then left him at home so they could celebrate New Year’s Eve at rumba, … Continue reading –>
Friday: Further Thought – Free Will, Love, and Divine Providence
Daily Lesson for Friday 21st of February 2025 Read Ellen G. White, “ ‘God With Us,’ ” Pages 19–26, in The Desire of Ages. “The plan for our redemption was not an afterthought, a plan formulated after the fall of Adam. It was a revelation of ‘the mystery which hath been kept in silence through … Continue reading –>
Thursday: Christ Has Overcome the World
Daily Lesson for Thursday 20th of February 2025 If everything occurred according to God’s ideal will, there would never have been evil but only the perfect bliss of love and harmony. Eventually, the universe will be restored to this perfect, ideal will of God. In the meantime, God is working out His will in a … Continue reading –>
Wednesday: God’s Ideal and Remedial Wills
Daily Lesson for Wednesday 19th of February 2025 Read Ephesians 1:9-11. What is this text saying about predestination? Are some people predestined to be saved and others to be lost? The Greek term translated “predestination” here and elsewhere in Scripture (prohorizo) does not itself teach that God causally determines history. Rather, the Greek term simply … Continue reading –>
Tuesday: To Love God
Daily Lesson for Tuesday 18th of February 2025 That God is all-powerful does not mean that He can do the logically impossible. Accordingly, God cannot causally determine that someone freely love Him. If freely doing something means to do something without being determined to do it, then by definition it is impossible to make someone … Continue reading –>