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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Acquaint Yourself with God

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Knowing God as Creator

03 Knowing God as Redeemer

04 Higher than the Highest

05 Unselfishness and True Development

06 Adventist Education

07 Education and Character

08 Education and Faith

09 Education and Sabbath

10 The School of the Sanctuary

11 The Schools of the Prophets

12 The School of Life

13 The Revolution of Jesus Christ

What is it, and how did you pronounce it?

We'll find out on this episode of Inverse.

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

It's the second largest education system in the world.

It's the Seventh-day Adventist education system.

Now, as boring as that may sound, it's talking about an eschatological system of education.

As I said at the top of the show, in the teaser, it's talking about last day events.

Seventh-day Adventists are all about Jesus coming the second time, and we believe in an education system that will prepare people for Jesus' second coming and there's a particular philosophy that comes along with it and that's our topic for this episode of Inverse.

I want to acknowledge my friends who are in the studio with me and our dear sister Callie who's joining us from afar.

And we're going to hear from her soon when she prays for us.

Father in heaven, we thank you so much for being here with us, and we thank you for the time that we can be together and study Your Word.

I pray that as we study, as we discuss, and as we discover things together, that Your Holy Spirit would guide us, guide our words, guide our hearts and our minds, and may we leave this time more educated in the most Christ-centered way.

Israel, what are some episodes that you remember that we've already covered that have really hit you?

Some of these things, just great thoughts, bombs, and we need to bring those bombs back in again.

That was a weird analogy, but you know what I'm saying.

We've talked about how the foundation of education requires an acquaintance with God.

God holds the monopoly on truth, the monopoly on knowledge.

What is, When we discover God, when we discover what knowledge is, what do we find?

When he created the world, the basis of creation is love.

And so education, the purpose of it is to teach us about the love of God, and then to teach us to love like God.

And 1 of my favorite studies was the studies of that teach us about the understanding of God.

Also, the fact that we are to love our fellow men as, and women as, you know, God loves us in Scripture.

And so that's what we've been talking about.

Yeah we've hit these highlights on this topic of education and to be honest when I first saw that we're going to be talking about education I'm like this is going to be some didactic you know weird you know no offense to all the educators out there, we love you who you are, but this is not my thing.

But going through each episode, this has been a very profound study.

Not about education, not about academia, not about knowledge and how to understand things, but it's really about life, really about salvation, really about redemption, spirituality.

We're looking at the topic of Adventist education.

We're not talking about the actual system, the actual denomination, but there is a particular philosophy behind it that was intended.

So we want to encourage you for those of you who may not be familiar with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, check out, there are PBS documentaries.

This is a very unique take on Adventist education, And it's not just going to school.

It is school, but there is a particular, and these are the particulars that we want to study on this episode.

So, Jonathan, let's go to Revelation Chapter 14, where we get the kind of the mission statement for the Adventist movement.

Revelation 14 verse 6, it says, Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come, and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water." Okay, this is our mission statement, and this is where Adventists, where Adventists are all about the Second Coming, or another word, another long weird word is eschatological, eschaton, last days.

And people who are living in last days need to have a particular point of view, a worldview, a perspective in education.

What is going on in Revelation and how does that impact education?

Revelation 14, especially if you talk to any Seventh-day Adventist around the world, this is a passage that every Adventist will be familiar with.

As you said it's the mission statement of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in many ways and what we believe as Seventh-day Adventists is that this is a unique message that we have an understanding of that we grasp and that has become really the the basis upon which we operate.

This is what separates us, doesn't make us better, but what separates us from the rest of other, you know, Christendom.

Now, specifically speaking to Seventh-day Adventists, when we think about this, we think about this from a missological perspective.

This is the mission of the Church, or a theological perspective.

But on many different levels this is the actually, this is the blueprint, the philosophical blueprint of Advent, of what it means to be educated.

And there's a couple of things if I can just quickly point out.

First of all, when you look at the first component of Revelation 14, it talks about a group of people also known as the 144, 000.

These individuals have, it says, the Father's name written on the forehead.

That's like a symbolic way of saying the character of God has been reproduced in their lives, they think like Jesus, they think they have the...

So this isn't literal, it's not that God's name is like tattooed on the foreheads as some people assert, but this is God's name, His character written, written by the Spirit of God on their foreheads and their thinking.

And it also says that they follow the Lamb wherever He goes.

In other words, they have had an experience with God.

And that's probably the reason why they have the character of God, because they have experienced the experience of God.

Also when you get past Revelation 14, 12, it also describes them later on as these are the people that have, here's the patience of the saints, here are they that keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus.

In future episodes we're going to talk about the importance of faith in education.

And so when you look at the language of Revelation 14, it's not only...

It doesn't just have a missions component to it, but it also has a very critical...

If you look at it, it has education language written all over it, when you look at it through that lens.

So you're saying these aren't just mere goals of which we be achieving, but there are...

There's a very spiritual development component going on here.

I mean, I want to hear what you've got to say.

And so ultimately, ultimately, ultimately when we think about education we think about it as a system.

We think about it in its mission, but we never think about it as a theology.

We never think about it as a theological, philosophical foundation.

And this is what Revelation points out as as sure as there is an Adventist theology and mission There is a unique Adventist educational philosophy and that philosophy is ultimately the reproduction of the faith of Jesus in the life of the student that then enables that person to be a...

So that the goal of Adventist education, not denomination, not talking about organizations, but in terms of these people who are living in the last days, is to have the name of God, the character of God imprinted on the inside.

Because essentially really the point of education is redemption.

We talked about this in previous episodes.

We realized that education is just the way God wants us to live in knowing him and being acquainted with him and having a deep connection relationship with him.

And as we grow in that relationship, a benefit of that relationship on this side of heaven is salvation.

And so for those who are living, us all of us living in these last days, we have a very special purpose in preparing the world, helping people to have that kind of education that really matters, which is character transformation.

It is the becoming like Jesus in character, the faith of Jesus, having the love of Christ in their hearts, having a selfless, I think the previous episode we talked about selfless character.

So it's a beautiful work that God is doing in his way of education in transforming lives and bringing them to the point where they are ready to receive their Savior when He comes.

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

05 Unselfishness and True Development

28m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2023: Adventist Heritage

05 The Great Controversy

29m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

02 Knowing God as Creator

27m

Gardening, Mission, and the End

Gardening, Mission, and the End- Part 5

48m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

11 The Schools of the Prophets

28m

InVerse, 1st Quarter 2023: God First

06 Jacob: The Promising Giver

28m

InVerse, 4th Quarter 2023: Adventist Heritage

13 Go Tell the World

29m

Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

09 Interconnectedness

27m

Continuing the Reformation

Educational Reform

1h

InVerse, 3rd Quarter 2020: Foundations of Discipleship

07-Process of Discipleship - Plant

27m

GYC SE 2012 Seminar: Education

End-time Education, Part 1

56m

GYC SE 2012 Seminar: Education

End-time Education, Part 2

49m

Sound Doctrine