LAUDZERMM's video: Heaven Education and Eternal Learning Sabbath School Lesson 13 December 26 2020

Heaven, Education, and Eternal Learning 1 Corinthians 2:9, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. Learning in the hereafter: ❖ How long will we keep learning? The last stage in our learning path will begin with our transformation and resurrection the dead. In John 6:45, Jesus made the requirement for resurrection clear: eating His flesh and drinking His blood. John 3:16 that is, accepting His redeeming sacrifice on the cross. Now we have limited time in this life in heaven, Jesus will give us an unlimited time for limitless learning from Him ❖ What will life be like? There are many obstacles to successful learning today: imperfect teachers, flawed programs, limited intellectual ability, personal and family issue. In the hereafter, sin and death will be no more, so life will be perfect. There will be no flaws in our new learning path. We will also be transformed and made perfect by God. 1 Corinthians 15:42-49 Our intellectual ability will be incomparably superior to our current one. The school in the hereafter: ❖ Enrollment. God wants to reopen Eden’s school once this pause that sin caused ends for good. John 3:16 Everyone is encouraged to enrol. How can we enrol and get accepted into this school? (1) Acts 16:13 - Accept Jesus as our Savior by faith (2) Hebrews 10:23 - Trust in His promises (3) James 1:21-22- Live up to the light that we have (4) Matthew 24:13 - Endure unto the end ❖ The study program. The learning program and the content of our “textbooks” will be quite different in a world free of the effects of sin. Zechariah 13:6 Above all, the most important subject in our curriculum will be the plan of Redemption and the great love of God. ❖ The Teacher. Isaiah 54:13 Jesus will still be our Teacher in our school in the hereafter. He will be our tutor and will lead us to better understand His character and His Creation. We’ll have unlimited time to learn, so God will gradually reveal to us more deeply and gloriously. The more we’ll learn about His character, the more we’ll admire Him and the more intense our songs of praise will be. Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 678 Then, “From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, [will] declare that God is love.” Winding-up “There immortal minds will study with never-failing delight the wonders of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love […] Every faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies. There the grandest enterprises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized; and still, there will arise new heights to surmount, new wonders to admire, new truths to comprehend, fresh objects to call forth the powers of mind and soul and body.” E.G.W. (The Story of Redemption, cp. 67, p. 432)