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00:12 (music ends) 00:16 >>Welcome to "Sabbath School," 00:17 brought to you by It Is Written. 00:20 We are journeying through the book of Ephesians, 00:23 and we have been for the last 13 weeks. 00:25 This week, lesson number 14, "Ephesians in the Heart." 00:30 This is going to be the culmination of our journey, 00:33 but by the grace of God, 00:35 not the culmination of your study of the book of Ephesians. 00:37 In fact, we trust and hope 00:39 and pray it is only the beginning. 00:41 But let's begin our study today with prayer. 00:44 Father, thank You. 00:46 Thank You for leading us through this study 00:49 of the book of Ephesians. 00:50 And thank You for helping us 00:52 to understand the great major themes of the book, 00:55 as well as how they apply to our lives today. 00:58 And we ask that You'll guide us 00:59 through our last study together. 01:01 We thank You for doing so. 01:03 In Jesus' name, amen. 01:05 >>Amen. >>Well, here to lead us 01:07 through our final study is the author 01:09 of this quarter's Sabbath school lesson, Dr. John McVay. 01:12 He is, of course, the president of Walla Walla University. 01:16 And we thank you for taking 01:19 13 weeks--14 weeks--in order to lead us through this, 01:24 and of course, the much time, the many years 01:27 that it took you to study this all through yourself 01:30 in the guidance of the Holy Spirit 01:31 and bringing it all together. 01:33 So we're grateful. 01:34 And here we are in lesson 14, our last one together. 01:38 And it's a significant one, "Ephesians in the Heart." 01:43 >>Mm. 01:44 >>Give us a little idea of where we're going with this. 01:47 We've seen Paul lead us through some themes. 01:51 He's talked about unity. 01:52 He's talked about the church. 01:55 I should expect that getting to the very end of this, 01:57 we're gonna see a lot of this come together. 02:00 >>Sure. Lesson 14 is just a retrospective. 02:03 It's a chance to look back on 13 weeks 02:06 of studying this grand epistle, 02:09 this great piece of literature, 02:11 this inspired document from Scripture, 02:14 and to ponder it again as a whole 02:18 and to reflect on our study together. 02:20 One thing that we can do, Eric, is ask, 02:22 are there any life texts here? 02:26 In your study through Ephesians, 02:28 has there been one, two, maybe three passages, 02:32 maybe brief, maybe a little longer, 02:34 that have really impacted you, have changed your thinking, 02:36 have drawn you closer to Christ, 02:39 have ignited, as Paul was hoping to do 02:41 for those Ephesian believers, 02:42 have ignited afresh your faith and your confidence in God 02:47 and in His church and in the mission 02:49 in which the church is engaged? 02:52 This lesson gives us an opportunity 02:54 to gather up the manna, if you will, from Ephesians 02:59 and carefully store it away in our hearts and our minds 03:02 so that it can be available to us. 03:04 >>And there's a lot in this book that allows us to do that. 03:08 As we mentioned some weeks ago, 03:11 you could read through this book 03:13 in a fairly short period of time, 03:15 45 minutes, maybe less, of doing that, 03:18 depending on how quick a reader one happened to be. 03:22 It was meant to be read in a church service, 03:24 as it were-- >>Mm-hmm. 03:25 >>...to get some significant points across 03:29 to those who needed the encouragement in their walk. 03:33 One of the things that, as you've mentioned, 03:35 Paul is emphasizing here is the significance, 03:37 the importance of the church. 03:39 >>Yes. >>The role 03:40 that the church plays. >>Yes. 03:41 >>Let's walk through Ephesians a little bit 03:45 and kind of bring back the importance of this theme. 03:49 >>Okay. >>Because Paul spends time, 03:52 effort, ink-- >>Mm-hmm. 03:54 >>...trying to help us understand this. 03:56 And in the world today, there are a lot of Christians 03:59 who maybe don't see the significance, the importance 04:02 of church, as it were. >>Sure. Sure. 04:04 >>"I'm a spiritual individual. 04:06 I love Jesus, I'm good"-- 04:09 >>Yes, yes. >>...as it were. 04:10 But Paul has a very different take on that, doesn't he? 04:13 >>Yes, he does. 04:14 And I think this is a good strategy 04:16 to review the entirety of Ephesians to choose a theme. 04:19 And we could choose a number of different themes, 04:21 but the theme of the church in Ephesians 04:23 is certainly an appropriate way 04:25 to review the content of this great letter. 04:28 So let's do that. 04:29 Let's move through the letter 04:31 and let's review the theme of the church in Ephesians. 04:34 Could we start with Ephesians, chapter 3, verse 10, 04:39 where Paul gives a kind of job description 04:43 for the church? 04:44 So in chapter 3, verse 10, 04:49 Paul writes about the mystery hidden for the ages. 04:54 "So that"--start of verse 10-- 04:57 "through the church the manifold wisdom of God 05:01 "might now be made known to the rulers 05:04 and authorities in the heavenly places." 05:06 Let me read that again: 05:08 "So that through the church the manifold wisdom 05:13 "of God might now be made known to the rulers 05:15 and authorities in the heavenly places." 05:19 That's a kind of job description for the church buried 05:23 at the heart of the letter there in chapter 3, verse 10. 05:26 So, I would have four questions to ask you 05:31 and our listeners about that. 05:33 What is the essential role of the church, according 05:38 to Ephesians 3, verse 10? 05:40 >>Here in Ephesians 3, verse 10, 05:42 he says one of the big things that he wants to do 05:44 is to make manifest the wisdom 05:46 of God to principalities and powers in heavenly places. 05:50 >>Yeah. >>So it has a purpose. 05:52 There is a reason for the church. 05:53 >>The church is to be an instrument of revelation. 05:57 Isn't that interesting? 05:59 An instrument of revealing truth to others. 06:03 The church is not to be self-serving. 06:07 It's not supposed to go forth proclaiming a message 06:10 about itself, but to be God-centered, 06:13 to be proclaiming a message about God. 06:17 The church is an instrument of revelation, 06:21 not an object of it. Okay? 06:24 A second question that I'd have for you: 06:27 What is the church to reveal? 06:29 >>That's to reveal the truth. 06:31 >>The truth, 06:32 and it puts it here in some interesting way, doesn't it? 06:36 "The manifold wisdom of God." 06:41 So that manifold, that multifaceted 06:45 will of God, we're to manifest the manifold-- 06:49 wisdom, I should say--of God. 06:51 So it's like holding a large 06:53 and beautiful diamond up to the light 06:56 and turning its facets so that we can see them one by one, 07:00 and the glint, the light glints off of one 07:03 and then off the other. 07:05 And we are to reveal, to talk about, to share, 07:10 to illustrate, to personify 07:12 the multifaceted wisdom of God. 07:16 What does Paul mean by that? 07:19 What I think he means, in this context-- 07:22 you'll remember that we're right here in chapter 3, 07:25 where he's talking about Jews and Gentiles 07:28 and the makeup of the church out of Jews and Gentiles 07:31 as part of God's mystery, as part of His plan. 07:34 So we reveal 07:37 the multifaceted glimmer of God's wisdom. 07:42 By being the church, 07:45 by being formed of diverse peoples, 07:49 by being in agreement and collaboration 07:52 and community with one another in our diversity, 07:55 we actually become a source of revelation 08:00 of the manifold wisdom of God. 08:02 >>So this manifold wisdom of God 08:05 is not a two-dimensional shallow thing, 08:07 but it becomes very real, very deep 08:10 as we live Christ's plan for us. 08:14 >>Absolutely. So, by its very composition, 08:18 its unprecedented unity amidst great diversity, 08:23 the church reveals, exhibits, and illustrates 08:26 God's grand purpose, Ephesians 1, verses 9-10, 08:30 to unify everything in Christ. 08:32 So we reveal the manifold wisdom of God. 08:36 So you, of course, know the answer to this question, 08:39 but it's a startling answer. 08:41 To whom is the church to reveal this truth? 08:44 Your neighbors down the street in Ephesus, 08:48 the church members in that new house church over there 08:51 in Cenchreae near Corinth? 08:54 Who are we trying to reveal this to? 08:56 >>Well, I think yes, yes, yes, and yes. 08:58 >>[Dr. McVay] Yeah, (laughs) of course. 08:59 >>He wants us to reveal this truth, 09:01 this manifold wisdom of God, to the world. 09:05 >>Yes, but he has a special audience 09:08 in mind here, doesn't he? 09:09 >>He says, "The principalities 09:10 and the powers in the heavenly places." 09:12 >>Isn't that strange? >>Powerful. 09:15 >>That is--we are the prophets. (laughs) 09:20 And our audience is these manifest-- 09:23 these powers in the heavenly places 09:26 that manifest themselves in heavenly places. 09:30 We are to bear witness somehow, 09:32 to reveal God's manifold wisdom to them. 09:36 A final question isn't so easy 09:39 because Paul doesn't directly address it. For what purpose? 09:43 Why is this the job description of the church? 09:45 Why are we engaged in, involved in this activity 09:49 and to this particular audience? 09:51 And to me, if we want to seek an answer there, 09:55 we have to go to chapter 6. 09:58 And we have to learn that these powers 10:00 are malevolent, evil powers that are in competition 10:05 with Christ and His church, battling Christ and His church. 10:09 And if we are to communicate 10:13 the manifold wisdom of God in establishing the church 10:16 out of Jews and Gentiles as one new humanity, 10:21 the most logical answer for us to come, 10:25 as to the purpose of this, 10:27 is that they would be put on notice 10:30 that God's grand plan to unite everything in Christ 10:34 is underway, and that they are doomed. 10:38 Okay? So again, Ephesians 1:9-10, 10:42 the purpose of God is to unite everything in Christ. 10:45 And the powers look at this church, 10:47 and they see that it has been created 10:50 and crafted out of diverse elements of humankind, 10:54 Jews on the one hand and Gentiles on the other, 10:57 and that they are living happily and peacefully 11:00 and in a self-sacrificial, 11:03 Christ-imitating way. 11:06 And they say, oops, our time is about up. 11:09 God's plan is underway. 11:13 >>And we get to be a part of that. 11:14 >>We get to be a part of it. >>We get to be a part of it, 11:16 which is huge. >>We do, yeah. 11:18 >>And when Paul uses the word "church"-- 11:21 >>Mm-hmm. >>...let's revisit this again 11:23 because different people have different interpretations 11:27 of church. >>Sure, sure. 11:29 >>What is Paul's-- 11:31 what idea of church is Paul trying to get across here? 11:35 >>In his earlier letters, the word "ekklesia"-- 11:40 we get a lot of English words like "ecclesiastical" 11:43 and terms like that from the Greek word "ekklesia"-- 11:47 is used primarily in Paul's earlier letters 11:50 to designate individual congregations, 11:53 the church of Corinth, the churches in Galatia, 11:56 the church here and there in Thessalonica. 12:00 But in Colossians and Ephesians, that meaning shifts, 12:05 and particularly in Ephesians, 12:07 the term "ekklesia," or "church," means something bigger 12:12 and broader than just the individual congregation. 12:17 The way I express it sometimes, Eric, 12:18 is it's the church writ large. 12:22 It's the church universal, is one way to express it 12:25 without perhaps inheriting all the theological concepts 12:28 behind that. But it's the church writ large. 12:31 He's thinking more broadly and more in a cosmic context 12:36 than just the local congregation. 12:38 >>Very helpful in getting a better understanding 12:41 of the church as it is here in the book of Ephesians. 12:47 We are in the very last lesson of the last part 12:50 of our study of the book of Ephesians. 12:53 And I don't wanna let this opportunity slip by you 12:56 without giving you one more opportunity 12:58 to get more out of your study of the book of Ephesians. 13:02 And that is by picking up the companion book 13:04 to this quarter's Sabbath school lesson. 13:06 It, of course, as you know by now, 13:08 is called "Ephesians" by John McVay. 13:11 And you can pick this up to get deeper, 13:13 more broad, greater depth, more insight 13:18 into the book of Ephesians by picking up the companion book. 13:22 Where do you do it? 13:23 At itiswritten.shop. 13:25 Again, itiswritten.shop. 13:27 You can pick this up and continue your study 13:30 of the book of Ephesians. 13:32 But our study today is not quite finished yet. 13:35 We still have one more short segment 13:37 that we're going to go through as we look at the last part 13:40 of the last lesson in this quarter, 13:42 and we'll be right back to do that. 13:44 (uplifting theme music swells and ends) 13:49 >>[John Bradshaw] Thousands of years ago on a lonely island, 13:52 a weathered hand wrote words of divine instruction 13:56 to the early Christians. 13:57 One by one, these inspired messages 14:00 from God admonished, counseled, 14:02 and encouraged six different churches in the ancient world. 14:07 Finally, Jesus addressed the seventh and last church, 14:10 the church of Laodicea. 14:12 His closing words to Laodicea served as a parallel warning 14:16 to the church that would exist 14:17 at the close of earth's history. 14:19 "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot.... 14:23 "You say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, 14:25 "and have need of nothing,'-- 14:27 "and do not know that you are wretched, 14:29 miserable, poor, blind, and naked." 14:32 Don't miss the final episode 14:34 of "The Seven Churches of Revelation" series: "Laodicea." 14:38 Discover how a broken church can eventually 14:40 dine with Christ at His table. 14:42 "The Seven Churches of Revelation: Laodicea," 14:46 brought to you by It Is Written TV. 14:49 (uplifting music) 14:54 >>[Eric Flickinger] Welcome back to "Sabbath School," 14:55 brought to you by It Is Written. 14:57 We are looking at the very tail end now 15:00 of our study of the book of Ephesians. 15:03 And, John, I wanna spend a little bit of time 15:05 reviewing some of the great themes, the metaphors 15:09 that Paul has used here in talking about the church 15:13 and the role of the church in the book of Ephesians. 15:17 Now, I think many of us know what a metaphor is, 15:19 but let's--what is Paul doing here in using these, 15:23 well, these metaphors? 15:25 >>Sure. Well, to turn into an English teacher 15:27 for just a few moments here, if I say to you, 15:33 "People are like wolves," 15:36 that is not a metaphor. >>That's a simile. 15:38 >>That's a simile or an analogy, isn't it? 15:41 But if I say, "People are wolves," 15:45 that is, "People equals wolves," 15:47 that then forms a metaphor, doesn't it? 15:50 And so one definition of a metaphor that has been provided 15:54 is that a metaphor is a figure of speech 15:58 in which we speak about one thing 16:01 in terms which are seen to be suggestive of another. 16:05 So to give just a little illustration, 16:09 if you and I are watching a group of younger people out 16:13 on the basketball court (chuckles) playing their hearts out, 16:16 and someone is getting the three-point baskets 16:19 one right after another, you might say to me, 16:23 "He is playing hot." 16:26 So what we're doing there is we're mapping the domain 16:29 of temperature terms on sports performance, right? 16:34 We're seeing one thing through terms 16:38 that are associated with another. And when that same person 16:42 in three minutes goes absolutely cold 16:44 and starts to miss every one-- 16:46 see, I used the word "cold," didn't I?-- 16:48 we would use those temperature terms, 16:50 and we'd say, "Well, he sure is cold now." 16:52 >>That's right. 16:53 >>So metaphors are complicated. 16:55 We use internal mental metaphors 16:58 to shape our understanding of reality all the time, 17:04 cognitive metaphors. 17:05 And so when we talk about metaphors for the church, 17:08 it's not simply a literary phenomenon. 17:11 We want to bring our cognition, our understandings 17:16 of church to Scripture here. 17:19 And we want our understandings of church to be enriched 17:22 by the Bible's metaphors and understandings 17:25 so that we might operate and function 17:28 on a different cognitive understanding 17:31 of what the church really is 17:33 than perhaps we do in the moment. 17:36 >>And so Paul does that. He uses these several metaphors. 17:40 >>Mm-hmm. >>And we've talked about them 17:41 as we've gone through this, 17:42 but it'd be good to revisit these as we go through. 17:45 What are some of the metaphors that Paul uses 17:47 to help us understand the breadth 17:48 and the scope of the church in his day and in ours? 17:52 >>Well, let's recap the four major metaphors, 17:54 the ones which he develops most fully. 17:58 And the first of those would be a metaphor 18:00 that he uses earlier in the Corinthian correspondence, 18:04 in Romans: the body of Christ. 18:07 The church is the body of Christ. 18:11 Now, we almost can intuit some of what that means, right? 18:16 To be the body of Christ means that we are all part 18:19 of one project, we're contributing to it in different ways, 18:23 and we're related to one another 18:25 as body parts are related to one another 18:28 in a single human body. So it's communicating 18:31 some really important ideas to us. 18:35 Paul uses the metaphor in Ephesians in chapter 1, 18:40 at the end of chapter 1 in verses 22 and 23, 18:44 chapter 2, verse 16, 18:46 and chapter 4, verses 1-16, 18:50 as well as joined with the bridal metaphor 18:54 in chapter 5, verses 29-30. 18:56 So he uses this one quite a lot in Ephesians 19:00 and in different ways in the different contexts. 19:04 But in chapter 4, verses 1-16, 19:07 where he develops it more fully, 19:09 he's using it to explore relationships among members. 19:14 And he's especially interested in the role 19:17 of these ministers of the Word--apostles, prophets, 19:21 evangelists, pastor, teachers--and how they function. 19:25 He's anxious that church members appreciate 19:30 and honor these ministers of the Word 19:33 for their important function among them. 19:35 And it's a unifying function. 19:37 He actually elaborates the body metaphor. 19:39 He extends it here. 19:41 And these ministers of the Word are connective tissue, 19:44 ligaments, and tendons, that unify the body 19:48 and bring unity to the human body. 19:51 And so he spends a good deal of time here with this. 19:55 He also saw another new feature, 19:58 that Christ is now the head. 20:00 And so not only is the body metaphor used 20:03 to explore relationships among members, 20:06 but it's also to explore our cohesion to the head. 20:10 Are we being loyal to the head, the one that brings power 20:15 and resources to the body and helps the body grow? 20:21 Are we honoring the head of the body? 20:23 Are we obeying the head of the body? 20:25 The second major metaphor is the church 20:28 as the temple of God. 20:30 And the principle place, the place, 20:32 in Ephesians where it's used, 20:34 is at the end of chapter 2, verses 19-22. 20:39 And you'll recall that he is celebrating the church. 20:43 I mean, Paul is so excited about the church. 20:46 And it takes us a little work, I think, 20:48 to live into his excitement. 20:50 But he's been telling us in chapter 2 20:53 that Christ dies on the cross to bring Jews 20:57 and Gentiles together in the church, 21:00 to give them shared access to the Father in heaven. 21:04 And for him, this is at the heart 21:06 of the mystery of the gospel. 21:07 "Can you believe it?" Paul says. 21:09 "The church is made up of both Jews and Gentiles. 21:14 Can this possibly be? 21:16 What a wondrous act of God's grace this is." 21:19 Takes us a little while to work our way into that, 21:22 begin to hear the lilt in Paul's voice as he does that. 21:26 But he now celebrates that church 21:29 through a temple building, temple metaphor 21:33 at the end of chapter 2. 21:35 And he talks about it as, "Built on the foundation 21:38 of the apostles and prophets." 21:40 And by being built, he's talking about the church members 21:43 as the building materials in the temple. 21:45 "Built on the foundation of the apostles and [the] prophets, 21:49 "Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, 21:54 "in whom the whole structure, being joined together, 21:58 "grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22:02 In Him you also"--you Gentiles, you Jews-- 22:06 "are being built together into a dwelling place 22:09 [of] God by the Spirit." 22:11 So, these Gentiles who were once excluded 22:14 from the temple in Jerusalem by that balustrade, 22:17 or that fence, that fence has been knocked down 22:20 and demolished by Christ's work on the cross, 22:23 and now they become the temple in which God is worshiped, 22:29 so a beautiful metaphor there. 22:30 So the first one is the church is body; 22:33 the second one, the church is temple. 22:35 >>When I'm picturing this body, 22:38 we all are parts of that body. 22:40 We're called to be parts of the body. 22:41 A body works best if all the parts are working together. 22:46 And if a part is separated from the body, 22:49 it's neither good for that part nor for the body. 22:53 And so God wants His people to be together 22:55 and working together. And that beautiful picture 22:58 of the temple being built together goes into that as well. 23:01 What about the third metaphor? 23:03 >>The third metaphor is the church is the bride of Christ. 23:06 And we've looked at this one. 23:07 It's such an intimate portrait of the relationship 23:09 between Christ and the church. 23:11 Christ isn't just the groom. 23:13 He is that, but He's the bride price. 23:16 He's the best man in giving the bride away to Himself. 23:20 He takes the role of preparing 23:22 and bathing the bride for the marriage ceremony. 23:26 He is everything to this bride. 23:28 He's the one who speaks the word of promise, on and on. 23:32 All the elements and roles of the ancient wedding service 23:35 are concentrated in Jesus, teaching us the lesson 23:40 that He's everything to His church. 23:42 But the metaphor also teaches 23:44 about the close intimate relationship 23:47 that God wishes to have with His church, with believers. 23:51 >>So Paul is using different metaphors 23:53 to tease out different elements, different aspects. 23:57 >>Absolutely. >>And here we are 23:58 in one sentence saying that the church 24:00 is the bride of Christ, but then in the next, 24:02 Paul uses this metaphor of the church as a militia. 24:07 >>Mm-hmm. >>And it's difficult 24:08 to take a bride and militia-- 24:10 >>It is, it is. >>...and run 'em together, 24:11 but that they're just different elements. 24:14 >>Yes. >>Talk about the militia 24:15 for a moment. 24:16 >>Yeah, so the army of the Lord, 24:18 the militia of Christ, chapter 6, verses 10-20, 24:21 we spent our last two lessons studying that passage, 24:25 but it, too, serves 24:28 as a final culminating image 24:31 of the church, the church militant, if you will. 24:34 Now, it's militant in a special way, isn't it? 24:36 Because right at the heart of that passage, 24:37 Paul tells us that we are to put on our feet 24:40 that which will help us to proclaim the gospel of peace. 24:44 So it's a peace-waging army. 24:47 It's not a conventional army using conventional weapons. 24:50 It is a peace-waging army using the wonderful assets 24:54 of God's presence and prayer and kindness 24:58 and gentleness to one another 25:00 and all those kinds of "weapons" in waging peace. 25:04 But it does portray the energetic engagement 25:09 that's required of us as disciples in the battle 25:12 as we become combatants in the great controversy, 25:15 albeit in the interest of waging peace. 25:19 The passage represents a great call to arms 25:23 and encourages us that God has provisioned us 25:26 with all we need, with the right weapons, with His presence, 25:30 and we will be part of a triumphant victory at the end. 25:35 >>That theme of unity that Paul has woven 25:39 through this book, we have just a couple of minutes left. 25:43 I wonder if you might dwell on that theme of unity 25:47 for just a moment. >>Sure. 25:48 >>We're tying everything together here. 25:49 And if there is someone who's listening to this 25:52 and struggling with seeing how they fit in, 25:56 and maybe there's some things they're concerned about, 25:59 how could we bring this whole thing together 26:02 for that person who wants to be encouraged, 26:05 who wants to be uplifted, 26:08 who wants to feel a part of what God is doing? 26:11 >>So this is the fast-over flight. 26:12 >>The fast-over flight. >>Chapter 1, verses 9 and 10, 26:14 God's grand plan: Unite everything in Christ. 26:17 We get to Christ's exaltation over the powers. 26:21 He's given to the church as the One over all things. 26:24 What Christ chooses to do on the cross, chapter 2, 26:27 is to join Jews and Gentiles together. 26:30 And through this grand diversity, chapter 3, verse 10, 26:33 witness to the powers that God's plan 26:36 to unite everything is underway. 26:38 And then in chapters 4 and 5, 26:40 we have detailed instructions of how to behave 26:43 within the Christian congregations 26:45 and the Christian family in ways that unify 26:47 and draw ones together. 26:49 All of that is celebrated in the unity of an army. 26:52 An army requires unity, chapter 6, verses 10-20. 26:56 So I would hope that those watching us, Eric, 27:00 would feel a poignant pathos-filled call 27:03 from Jesus Christ Himself to join the army, 27:07 to become part of the body, to become part of the building, 27:11 to be part of the bride of Christ. 27:13 There is a place for you in God's church. 27:16 It is a wondrous, wondrous place of cosmic significance. 27:21 I would encourage each person listening to us 27:24 to reinvest themselves in church or join in the church. 27:28 It is the place to be. It is where the action is. 27:31 >>Amen. John, thank you so much 27:33 for leading us through this study 27:35 over the course of the last 14 weeks. 27:37 And thank you for joining us on this journey as well. 27:40 We trust and pray that it has been a blessing to you. 27:44 It most certainly has been to us. 27:46 May God bless you, and we look forward 27:48 to seeing you again next week here on "Sabbath School," 27:50 brought to you by It Is Written. 27:53 (uplifting theme music) 28:26 (music ends) |
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