Lesson 3: Light Shines in the Darkness

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How does the Word of God set us free from Satan’s deceptions? In this lesson we will dig into how to discern God's truth from Satan's lies. This study will discuss practical steps in separating the "sheep" from the "wolves". When facing the darkness of persecution and false doctrines, what light will guide us?
00:00 Opener
00:19 🙌 Welcome
01:25 📩 Letters and Emails
05:35 🎹 Theme Song
07:08 🙏🏻 Prayer
07:41 🎚 Lesson Study
56:52 Closing
57:21 🙏🏻 Prayer
58:05 Credits

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Lord I want to QUIT. Father give me strength I seem to bear the weight of the world on my shoulders as a single mom, I often face challenges that can seem insurmountable especially with raising two children with special needs. I’m trying to balance everything but Lord I’m struggling to make ends meet, to pay bills, and to put food on the table for my children. At times I want to give up but I know Jesus has and will protected me and my sons from homelessnes. Fear is from the devil I will keep faith no matter what. 💕

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I love your user name... Child of God. Never forget that. Even though for you it may seem insurmountable, it's not for God. God know's what you're going through, and will give you strength. We will keep you in our prayers!

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Lord Jesus Christ all-knowing all-loving all wise GOD... the nations are just but a 💧 of water in a bucket so in as much as we forget about your Greatness please remind through your Holy Spirit so that our anxiety disappear. Amen

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Good morning Hope Sabbath! I’m an American vacationing in Japan and is studying with you at 1:30AM. I don’t want to miss the opportunity. Since I am running around with the tour during the day time. It is wonderful to have your wonderful interpretation of the Scriptures. God bless your endeavors.

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Glad you were able to fit in HSS! Hope you enjoy Japan. What an awesome opportunity. What's been your favorite part so far??

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The favorite part has always been the interaction between the Sabbath School team members and the personal stories they share. So absolutely encouraging and rooted in the Word of God!

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TODAY, WAS SO BLESSED, AS I WAS ABLE TO LISTEN TO HOPE CHANNEL, BOTH IN MY HOME LANGUAGE FROM AMERICAN SAMOA, AND FROM MY USUAL AWESOME PASTOR DEREK AND TEAM! PRAYERS AND BLESSINGS GB🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💙💝👑🌹❌⭕️❌

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Thank you, Hope Sabbath School team. You are used by the Holy Spirit to help me and many others understand God's word through your discussion of the SS lessons. My humble take. God gives us brain that we use as an instrument to think and in exercise of our freewill - that HE GIFTED us. And this gift of how to think should not be used outside His Word but ingesting and be guided by it. Away from Jesus, human wisdom is not wisdom at all but a prelude to perdition. For Christ is the only TRUTH, away from it human beings will be deluded to nothingness. Again, thank you and God bless you more. 🙏

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Thanks for taking the time to write this out. I liked reading "your humble take." When we call this an interactive bible study, we include are viewers in that, and love to read the comments!

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Amen. Very very powerful study. We need to be conscious of how we spend our time indeed. Let’s abide in the light. Thanks. Blessings

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Thank you for your kind words. We do need to be careful on how we are spending our time, and making sure we are always uplifting Jesus. Thank you for that reminder.

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in reference to the reformers who fled the catholic/state church of rome and brought their denomination to america,the majority of them brought sunday worship

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Above all pray fervently for a love of the TRUTH (Jesus personified, as well as the Scriptures He has given) who/which only sanctifies or makes one holy as holiness is necessary for Heaven. See Hebrews 12:14

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Another issue is the interpretation of bible by many churches including our own church. It is clear that we are not supposed to add or remove anything from the scripture.

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You shall KNOW the Truth and the Truth shall MAKE you free. Sure Truth does set us free. But the most correct translation is make us free. This idea is better since it is all encompassing. It is a thorough process; very effective in its work. John 8:32

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Reading this on a Monday morning, so now I'll wish you a happy Monday, and a great week :)

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He Satan , left out to keep thee in all they ways

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Satisfy mean to set me apart to separate me from the enemy, Satan.

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yes, agreed! Thanks for actively participating in the study!

[@matno1949]

Something else the enemy leaves out is found in verse 11 - to keep you in all your ways. Jesus ALWAYS obeyed God, so His way would be to wait on God to tell Him what to do.

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Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. Thank you for such an amazing lesson discussion. Truly blessed to have watched it. 🙏

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Thank you for this reminder!

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[@edithdotson7603]

The multiplicity of different versions is one effective way that Satan is using in this end time. Many of the newer versions support deviant doctrines/teachings and even support a different deity like the New Age Bible and the Bibles specifically done for various categories of people. In some versions the authority of Jesus Christ is diminished by eliminating certain words or substituting some words.

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Our example is Jesus Christ our Saviour, He prayed for 40days and 40 days in preparation for deception.

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Yes, what a sacrifice he made! I think it would be hard to last 5 days!

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Before Namibia, it was called South West Africa until 1989

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oh, very interesting! thanks for sharing that fact with us.

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I love the interactive nature of this class. Would you mind doing notes and share?

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In my country some people call on the God of there pastor “ the God of (then put the pastor name)” I don’t know how that is brought out. Is there anywhere in the scripture like that. Maybe like the God of Moses will answer my prayers.

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You in

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How do you help a Catholic have more faith in the Bible that we have today? All they say is the original Bible has been hidden somewhere.

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Hi, That's a great question that we might not have the right answer for, but what I'd suggest is becoming their friend first. Maybe suggest studying the Bible together at some point, and learn together. When God is at the center of the discussion, He will lead you both to the truth always.

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@@HopeSabbathSchool Thank you for the insight

[@matno1949]

Two false teachings that came into the church is Christmas and Easter. All who love and believe a lie will be kept out of heaven. (Revelation 22:15) Both the Christmas and Easter celebrations are built around lies. Yes, Jesus was born but His birthday is not December 25 and Easter is based on the spring equinox while Jesus died on Friday, the day the Passover Lamb was sacrificed. We are told in scripture, "a little leaven (lie) leavens the whole loaf or the smallest lie inserted into something makes the entire idea a lie.

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Hi! Thank you for your comment and your interesting insight. Though the dates of Christmas and Easter may not be exact to what we're celebrating, they we still times we can gather together and read the story of Jesus birth or read the story of His resurrection.

[@matno1949]

@@HopeSabbathSchool They are, but every day is a day we can gather to discuss His birth and they aren't surround with the pagan trappings of Christmas and Easter. We must come to the point where we love the truth so much that we won't be sidelined into worldly ways. Christmas is the birthday of the pagan sun god, and we should not be intermingling the birth of Jesus with that.

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Counterfeit religions yes very much a part of the great controversy.😎

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Pretty overwhelming if you think on this material!

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Yes, it really can be - but by studying together we hope and pray the information can be understood clearly.

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Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise in the light of our lesson. God bless everyone.

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Pastor please come Bangladesh and visit our children ministry and church planning ministry in Bangladesh

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If the fruit of the Spirit is not displayed on professed followers of Christ, then they are NOT true followers of Christ.

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Why are you on the channel anyway???😢 Don’t be a device of satan. If you’re not gathering with the Lord you’re scattering. If you’re not for him you’re against him. Jesus Christ said people will give an account of every idle word they have spoken.

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