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Filemon Igor in Indonesia shared this video from his YouTube Channel:Hi family, Happy Sabbath to all! I would like to sh...
14/09/2026

Filemon Igor in Indonesia shared this video from his YouTube Channel:

Hi family, Happy Sabbath to all!

I would like to share a testimony and a beautiful perspective I’ve been holding onto for a few months.

Many stories in the Old Testament have done a complete 180 for me since I was exposed to this group. But one story in particular impressed me most, and I feel it's a lesson our society urgently needs to understand.

It’s the story of Solomon's judgment in 1 Kings 3. In the past, I always believed I understood what wisdom was. I thought my SDA knowledge gave me a better chance of being like the five wise virgins, or in this specific story, the kind, real mother or solomon himself.

But as I learned more about the true nature of judgment, justice, retaliation, and suffering ... especially looking at world in 2026 : I started to feel like this story just superficial. Then one day, it clicked with me. I was out riding my motorcycle through our busy, materialistic world, thinking about this story and the lessons on God’s character I learned here in Father-of-Love.

I realized that there is a huge posibility we are called to be like King Solomon not only to discern and judge where the true Love is but to recognize whether a voice or an influence is from God or from the enemy.

And even more

ITS : How we pass sentences to the unfortunate transgessor (the bad, lying, thief mother)

I actually turned this experience into a video to frame this perspective. I use my own voice.
I think This might be a controversial take for others, but not here

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Everyone can make PowerPoints (Slide Deck) with NotebookLM! Try it! If you feel unable to speak, this can help you. Remember what God said to Moses:

​"The Lord said to him, 'Who gave human beings their mouths?... Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.'" (Exodus 4:11-12)

Christ came to the world with the accumulated love of eternity. Sweeping away the exactions which had encumbered the law...
09/09/2026

Christ came to the world with the accumulated love of eternity. Sweeping away the exactions which had encumbered the law of God, He showed that the law is a law of love, an expression of the Divine Goodness. He showed that in obedience to its principles is involved the happiness of mankind, and with it the stability, the very foundation and framework, of human society.

So far from making arbitrary requirements, God’s law is given to men as a hedge, a shield. Whoever accepts its principles is preserved from evil. Fidelity to God involves fidelity to man. Thus the law guards the rights, the individuality, of every human being. It restrains the superior from oppression, and the subordinate from disobedience. It ensures man’s well-being, both for this world and for the world to come. To the obedient it is the pledge of eternal life, for it expresses the principles that endure forever.

Christ came to demonstrate the value of the divine principles by revealing their power for the regeneration of humanity. He came to teach how these principles are to be developed and applied. Ed 76.3 - Ed 77.1

The failure with many people is that they make a distinction between the cross of Christ and their own crosses. There is...
22/08/2026

The failure with many people is that they make a distinction between the cross of Christ and their own crosses. There is no cross that comes to any person on earth, except the cross of Christ. If we will always remember this, it will be life and joy to us.

The Lord does not give us some crosses of our own,—little crosses adapted to different ones,—one having one cross and another another. We cannot separate Christ from His cross. Christ is crucified; He is the only crucified one; therefore whatever cross comes to us must be the cross of Christ; and that cross is with us continually. But in the cross of Christ we find Christ Himself.

What do we get through the cross?—Forgiveness of sins, reconciliation. “Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18. “That He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross.” It is the cross, then, that unites us to God, and makes us one with Him. Everything then that is a real cross is life to us, because it brings us to God. Take the things that come to us; new duties, perhaps, are revealed to us; sins, it may be, are shown to us, that must be denied. Different things come up that cut directly across our habits and our own way and convenience. We can take them in a hard and cheerless way, groaning over our religion, and giving everybody that comes near a the idea that it does not agree with us, but that we must endure the service of Christ, hoping that by and by we shall get something better, when we get out of this grinding service. Or we can find joy in the cross, and salvation and peace and rest, by recognising that cross as the cross of Christ.

PTUK February 22, 1894

17/08/2026

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