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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

Education not provided by intelligence, but that which is invincible 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.

True education is not determined by capacity of intelligence, but an invisible thing.

On this episode we're looking at the capacity of faith.

We're so happy that you are here with us and here in the studio with me are my friends and spiritually we have Callie with us by streaming physically, spiritually, and mentally, all those components.

Anyway, so let's go into our episode today.

Callie, if you can pray for us, we'd appreciate it.

Father in heaven, we thank you so much for this time that we can study your Word together.

I pray that you would open our eyes, that we would see what you want us to see, that we'd better understand faith, not just to know, but to live a life of faith.

We are in this arc, this overarching topic of education, and we've talked about a lot of stuff, yes?

And so Israel, fly by and help us to see the mountains and the valleys and where we've been.

We've been all over the universe with education and we're not talking about education.

Again, we're gonna sound like a broken record.

We are not talking about education in terms of homework and a grades and 4.0 GPA and a resume.

But we're talking about education as in the meaning of life is what we're discovering here.

We start off by talking about the foundation of education.

God as a creator, God as a redeemer, knowing God is the most critical part of education.

The foundation, the means of education, and ultimately the end of education.

Because at the foundation of all these elements, we discover that God is love.

And so love is the foundation of education, not just love for God, but also love for man.

And God developed it, designed it in such a way so that as we live lives of unselfishness, we actually develop our own selves.

We looked at the story of the Good Samaritan, when we help others, that action in and of itself is the means by which we are developed.

In many ways, this kind of parallels the self-development, self-help books out there when you go to the bookstores and that section is very large.

But ultimately that world falls upon itself because of the premises that we've talked about this entire season.

And this is God's own means of development.

And in terms of character development, self-development, but all the things, and this is what I think we always come back to, these are all the things that humanity has been striving for and really providing the answers for.

Well, let's go to Hebrews chapter 11, and at the top of the show I talked about this is an invisible thing.

We'll find in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 1 and Sebastian if you can read up to verse 11 it would be appreciated.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it he being dead still speaks.

By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, and was not found because God had taken him.

For before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

But without faith it is impossible to please him.

For he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness, which is according to faith.

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which, sorry, which he would receive as an inheritance and he went out not knowing where he was going.

By faith he dwelt in the land of promise, as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

For he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged him faithful who had promised." And the chapter continues and it's 1 of the most famous passages in Scripture, the faith chapter.

You know, you have this motif of by faith and by faith.

And you know, this is just the master Bible study.

Like, let me give you a Bible study on the Old Testament.

And he's just do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do in 1 chapter.

So as elementary as This question may sound, but it is fundamental.

What is faith and what does it play in a role in education?

Well, we've talked about education in the last 2 episodes.

And 2 episodes ago you asked that question, you know, what makes Adventist education unique from everything else.

And we looked at our last episode, we looked at the component of character.

These are unique contributions from Adventism to the world, to the field of education.

And when we talk about faith, we're talking about the author of Hebrews talks about faith being the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Throughout Scripture, the definition that emerges of what faith is, simply put, faith is trusting God, believing that He loves us and that He knows best what is for our good.

And as a result of that, it causes us to surrender our weakness for His strength.

It causes us to surrender our ignorance for His wisdom.

By the way, we really want to encourage you to all go to hope tv dot org slash universe to see past episodes.

You can go to the season on education and go to episode 6.

And we talk about Adventist education, Adventist education, not in terms of the denominational system, but the philosophy from this eschatological movement of Seventh-day Adventists, those who are waiting for Jesus.

And we understand education a little bit differently from the Bible.

We really want to encourage you to see the whole season and in other quarters as well.

By the way, there's also another website called inversebible.org where we actually have the Bible study guides.

So you may want to have those things and gives you a little bit of context for this episode as well.

Yeah, I was going to add that when you take the component of faith and that word there in the Greek in verse 1 about the substance, right?

It's like the title deed as if it was the deed to a house or to a car.

And when you take that idea that the Word of God is central to the component of faith, every single person in this chapter was responding to something that God had said.

And so faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God as we learn in the book of Romans, references this very point.

But in this chapter it's interesting as we've already kind of alluded to in previous episodes of the centrality of the Word of God to education, to knowing God, which is the ultimate foundation of it, and faith is how that knowledge is obtained.

Because when you look in verse 2 of Hebrews 11, it says, that for by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God so that the things which are seen were not made of the things which are visible.

So it was faith that gave the understanding.

So you needed the word of God and you needed to have that trust in the fact that God can be trustworthy in what he has said and has promised as we ended the passage.

Your comment totally connects with episode 1 that we've had about knowing God and in this relationship of knowing God and there is another party, another entity on our spiritual walk that whatever he says will happen and we're banking on those promises and we're banking on that contract.

We may not see the evidence yet, but it will happen based on the goodness and the character of God.

So I appreciate that, the relational component.

And that's kind of the basis of our reality, right, which is what we've dealt with with God as Creator, as Redeemer, etc., etc.

Is that there's a component of confronting reality as it actually is and God bringing us back to that perception.

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05 Unselfishness and True Development

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12 Covenant Love: The Discipline Component

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11 Life or Death

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

02 Knowing God as Creator

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

07 Education and Character

27m

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11 The Schools of the Prophets

28m

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InVerse, 1st Quarter 2022: Hebrews

02 The Message of Hebrews

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

06 Adventist Education

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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

12 The School of Life

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