Friday | Further Study Jan 16, 2015 Further Study: “Satan offers to men the kingdoms of the world if they will yield to him the supremacy. Many do this and sacrifice heaven. It is better to die than to sin; better to want than to defraud; better to hunger than to lie.”—Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, p. 495. “Choose poverty, reproach, separation from friends, or any suffering rather than to defile the soul with sin. Death before dishonor or the transgression of God’s law should be the motto of every Christian. As a people professing to be reformers, treasuring the most solemn, purifying truths of God’s word, we must elevate the standard far higher than it is at the present time.”—Ellen G. White, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 147. Discussion Questions: How can we be serious about the gravity of sin without falling into the trap of fanaticism? At the same time, how can we be obedient to the law of God without falling into legalism? Read Exodus 20:1–17. How are all the Ten Commandments related to each other? Why, if we openly violate one commandment, are we likely to transgress other commandments, as well? (See James 2:11.) What examples can you find in which transgression of one commandment has led to the transgression of others? Dwell more on the idea of how people might use religion in order to justify wrong actions. It’s not that hard to do, especially if you tend to hold up “love” as the ultimate standard of right and wrong. After all, think about all the bad things done under the pretext of “love.” How, then, does the law continue to act as a way of protecting people, either from themselves or others, who might otherwise be led into sin? Look again at the question at the end of Sunday’s study, which deals with mistaking symbols for reality. How might we do that? For example, how might idolatry be one way of doing this? What traditions, which are symbols of spiritual truths, could be mistaken for those truths themselves?
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