Pastor Don Mackintosh, Pastor of the Weimar Campus Church, discusses what the scripture says on how education should be taught. The current education system does not follow scriptural guidelines. As we study the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy, our method of how we educate the youth should fall inline as we enter the end of time.

<p>Pastor Don Mackintosh, Pastor of the Weimar Campus Church, discusses what the scripture says on how education should be taught. The current education system does not follow scriptural guidelines. As we study the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy, our method of how we educate the youth should fall inline as we enter the end of time.</p>

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Weimar University

Don Mackintosh

The Bible and End Time Education

Elijah had a problem with his appendix and I don't know that he's having surgery but he's in the hospital so let's keep him in prayer this morning and let's just borrow our hands and pray for him and then we'll get started this morning.

Father in heaven, Lord, thank you today for the opportunity we have to come and learn.

And We ask that your presence could be with us here, but we also ask that your presence through power of the spirit and through your angels could be around John, or rather Elijah Hartman this morning who's sick, also around Rita and Del and others that may be struggling with sickness or need your special attention just now.

And then if possible, we'd like you to be here as well.

And we know that is possible and we ask for that specifically.

Today I thought since we're starting a new Sabbath school quarter and it's going to be focusing on education.

But I'd talk a little bit about education today.

And a lot of you are here because you're seeking education.

Of course, in Latin, the word education is educare.

And maybe Some of you are characters, but God wants to change your character.

Really this is why Weimar exists, to educate.

And in Matthew chapter 4 verse 23 that says Jesus went about teaching, preaching, and healing and all manner of sickness and disease among the people.

So he went out teaching, preaching and healing, first of all healing.

And as he would heal There, Matthew chapter 4 verse 23 is followed by what?

What comes after Matthew chapter 4 verse 23?

Okay, so you've got, you've got this healing and then everybody wants to hear someone then teach.

My great-grandfather went and prayed for someone at a camp meeting and the person was healed.

And they wanted to hear him preach, not the preacher that day.

They told the preacher that day, just sit down, we wanna listen to the guy that God used to heal someone.

So Jesus was healing, and then everybody wanted to listen to his teaching, and 1 of the words for teaching in Deuteronomy, the word teaching means to cause them to want to know.

So it's a hyphal form, cause them to want to know.

And then he started out in Galilee and Judea, an area that was 40 miles wide by 70 miles long.

How many of you have met people that think they have to travel everywhere?

They're like what I call God's grasshoppers.

The danger in it is that nobody really learns who you are so you don't get your character changed.

Because that's when people really know who you are, figure out that you are a character that needs to be changed, that you get confronted.

But anyway, in Matthew chapter 9 verse 35 it says, he went everywhere teaching and preaching.

So everywhere he went meant, first of all, in the Galilee and then not too much further, 40 miles by 70 miles.

And sometimes we think, we can't really do much.

How many people lived in Nazareth when Jesus lived there?

So don't think you have to be in a big city to do big things.

How many think he could change the world even staying at Weimar for a little while?

Yeah, he ran a school then, 3 and a half years.

You're going to be here about 3 and a half years, many of you.

And then all the disciples wrote the notes from that school.

They didn't have time during the school because they were too busy out in the community.

And they wrote the notes for that school, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

And of course, Paul started a school, 2 years, the school of Tyrannus.

And nobody had time to write stuff out, he didn't either.

But they finally did, they wrote out the epistles and the pastoral epistles, and that's where there are textbooks.

Of course, the Advent movement started schools, And we have some textbooks from that.

It's called the Conflict of the Ages series and the Testimonies, right?

Now, what I wanted to now drill down on is, number of years ago there was actually a president here who no longer even is an Adventist Christian, not even a Christian.

And I could tell by reading what he was writing while he was here how he kind of changed.

And he came to the opinion that sociology trumps theology.

In other words, what society says is more important than what God says.

And where you get your sense of right and wrong is from Society.

And there's a lot of people that believe that, of course.

The Bible is plainly read and interpreted, cannot provide direction, he comes to this conclusion.

Of course, I'm not believing these things, I'm telling you that this is what he said.

The 2300 days, day for your principle, 666, they're all bogus, he said.

There's too much sentimental attachment to throw it away yet.

I wouldn't play with it in adult company.

It's like a toy that I used to play with.

That divine truth can be known, I don't believe that, he says.

We proclaimed our truth claims to the whole world, and this was wrong.

We should not have told people the truth because we don't know the truth.

And we are supposed to believe that that's the truth.

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