Lesson 1: "spiritual things... are spiritually discerned"
Introduction into the whole seminar based on the quote:
"Character building is the most important work ever entrusted to human beings; and never before was its diligent study so important as now."
Education, p. 225
Each quote has been used as a chapter marker in the DVD and iPOD format. It’s time location is indicated below in blue just after the reference for the quote. Quotes which don’t have markers indicated, were in the Compilation of the Scripture And Spirit Of Prophecy References used during the live presentation, but not quoted by Pastor Wallace during the lecture due to time limitations. They are made available here as valuable additional resource material.
Lesson #1: “Spiritual Things…Are Spiritually Discerned”
(1 Corinthians 2:14)
Education 225 Marker 2: 5’12”
Character building is the most important work ever entrusted to human beings; and never before was its diligent study so important as now.
1 Corinthians 2:13, 14* Marker 3a: 16’26”, (b)
13) These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14) But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
*(NKJV –as throughout unless noted otherwise)
John 8:32 Marker 4: 18’36”
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 17:17 Marker 5: 19’24”
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
Romans 8:7 Marker 6: 26’06”
…the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
Revelation 3:17 Marker 7a: 37’44”, (b)
14) And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God:
15) I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16) So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
17) Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked
Review and Herald, September 25, 1888 Marker 8a: 52’24”, (b, c, d, e)
…unless those who profess to believe the truth are sanctified through it, and exalted in thought and character, they are not in as favorable a position before God as the sinner who has never been enlightened in regard to its claims. We are rapidly approaching the close of this world’s history. Every moment is of the most solemn importance to the child of God. The questions that should come to every heart are, “Am I a Christian? Is the word of God my study? Is Christ dwelling in my heart by faith? Is the law of God the rule of my life? Do the searching truths I profess to believe, penetrate into the very secret places of my life? Do I carry out its principles in my business life? Is the influence I exert, having a saving power on those with whom I associate? Unless the truth does have a marked and decided influence upon the character and life of its recipient, it is not doing its work in the life, as it should be; and those who are not being sanctified through obedience to the truth, must be converted, or they will be lost.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
John 6:51, 63
51) I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.
63) It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
Desire of Ages 390, 391
As our physical life is sustained by food, so our spiritual life is sustained by the word of God. And every soul is to receive life from God’s word for himself…. We should carefully study the Bible, asking God for the aid of the Holy Spirit, that we may understand His word. We should take one verse, and concentrate the mind on the task of ascertaining the thought which God has put in that verse for us. We should dwell upon the thought until it becomes our own, and we know “what saith the Lord.” … As faith thus receives and assimilates the principles of truth, they become a part of the being and the motive power of the life. The word of God, received into the soul, molds the thoughts, and enters into the development of character.
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