Good Word is an invitation. An invitation to explore biblical and theological topics presented in regularly published Bible Study guides. The Bible awaits our continued study and investigation; Good Word provides one way to approach it.
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What does the future hold for you? the SS Quarterly asks. Seventh-day Adventists, rightly or wrongly, done well or poorly, often use the double-edged sword: the shortness of time and the uncertainty of life, to motivate people. The shortness of time is urged as an incentive for us to seek righteousness, and to make Christ our friend. This is not the great motive. It savors of selfishness. Is it necessary that the terrors of the day of God be held before us to compel us through fear to right action? This ought not to be. Jesus is attractive. Review and ...
Sharing Jesus with others has more to do with how we are built by God, instead of with how we must force ourselves to do what we are reluctant to do. What do I mean by this statement? Matt. 5:14-15 “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15 No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 2Cor. 4:13 But just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture— ...
Something we hate to admit is that we are the ones who often create our own setbacks! Yes, we live in a sin-damaged world and sin wreaks havoc on all, but: Luke 6:46-49 NLT “So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say? 47 I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it. 48 It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it ...
Sin is first and foremost a killer! If God had not intervened, anyone and everyone who sinned would die immediately. The only reason we sinners are not dead yet is because God stepped in and regifted us life; He did this in such a way that there was no gap between the time in which we humans sinned and the next smallest amount of time imaginable! From the outside, it simply looked like we had just kept on living. God’s grace gave us time, our lifetime--whatever that may be, but grace does not erase all of sin’s damages; now they ...
