Here is the link to Lesson #1:

http://www.ssnet.org/lessons/19c/less01.html

Why is the Sabbath school thread not of interest to anyone?

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Lesson 3 is all about the Sabbath:

http://www.ssnet.org/lessons/19c/less03.html

The title is "Sabbath: A Day of Freedom"

What I meant was that threads about the lessons never seem to stir the interest of the members. A curious phenomenon given that SDA project themselves as delighting in all things pertaining to the Sabbath, including, one would suppose, a Bible study done for that day. Why then do all I hear is the cricket?

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Maybe you've missed some in the past.

Commenting on last week's study: The Sabbath is a day of freedom in a similar manner that the Law, as in the Ten Commandments, is a law of liberty.

This week's study is titled, "Mercy and Justice in Psalms and Proverbs"

http://www.ssnet.org/lessons/19c/less04.html

We are not going to be judged by the Ten Commandments, but by its moral opposite: the Law of Liberty, i.e. THE SCALES OF MERCY. To the extent that we forgive, we shall be forgiven, that we show compassion, it will be shown to us. It's called the Law of Liberty because the atonement provided by Christ has freed us from the condemnation we were under while we strove vainly to be perfect. We will not be judged by a standard of perfection but by something better, greater, something that promises hope and life anew to the extent that we do for others what we wish for ourselves.

As Paul cries out, "I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord!" Rom. 7:21-24

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The law of sin -- are you calling God's Holy Law which Paul declares to just and holy -- the law of sin? I hope not.

Romans 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
- Romans 7:22-23?For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.?
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid


The contrast is between the holy law of God AND ANOTHER LAW of sin that dwells in the flesh.

People experience conflicting desires?the desire to please God and the fleshly desire to sin
So do we get rid of God's law to escape those conflicting desires?

Paul emphatically declares " "God forbid!" The law points out what sin is. We won't know what sin is except for the law.

What God seeks to free us from is from the BONDAGE OF SIN. Sin is a very cruel and strong taskmaster and 6000 years of sin has left a lot of evil propensities in our human minds and hearts.

Freedom from sin?s bondage does not mean we will no longer have a battle with the carnal desires of the flesh before God glorifies us and gives us new bodies, . But because we have been justified in Christ?declared righteous in Him alone?we can walk in newness of life with Christ. We walk with Him on the path of sanctification . As we walk this road and the Holy Spirit conforms us to Christ, we live in the already and the not yet. Already the power of sin has been broken, the closer we walk with Christ the more we experience freedom from sins power, BUT that freedom is only in Christ, if we start walking apart from him, the law of the flesh immediately starts clamoring against the law of God which the Holy Spirit seeks to write in our minds and hearts, making it a delightful way to live.. Thus on earth we experience freedom' right now, but not fully yet. Sometimes we lose battles with the flesh. But in Christ Jesus our Lord, we will win the war (Rom. 7:14?25).