April 11-13 in the Philippines
Dear family, brethren, and friends,
Monday, April 11, started our second week of classes for preachers. The students are enduring hardness as good soldiers of Christ as the all-day studies continue. My first period dealt with outlining passages for textual sermons. As a starter we outlined Genesis 1 on the creation. I noted the chapter is not consistent with evolution’s theory of the earth’s origin because each day consisted of 12 hours of darkness and 12 hour of light, not millions of years. Millions of years of darkness followed by millions of years of daylight would kill every form of life twice over! We noted how the often perfection of God’s work is emphasized by repeated statements that what He made was “good” and “very good.” This chapter is the foundation for everything else taught in the Bible. After outlining the chapter, we discussed some applications which could be made – such as, conformity to God’s laws brings great blessings while defying His will results in self-destruction. This is true both in the physical and the spiritual realms.
In the basic Bible doctrine study we observed the names or designations of God’s people both individually and collectively, and the importance of avoiding denominational names and organizations which divide professed followers of Christ.
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