Tamil Sabbath School

For the first 18 centuries of Christian history, most Christians were comfortable with biblical prophecy, and there was a surprising level of agreement on what the key messages of the prophecies were. This is how God intended it to be.

God’s law is not a set of abstract principles but commands and instructions intended for our flourishing. God’s law is, in its totality, an expression of love as God Himself expresses it.

God loves justice. Accordingly, if we love God, we will love justice, as well. Likewise, if we love God, we will love one another.

Where is God when there is suffering? If God is good, why is there so much evil? The cosmic conflict sheds light on this crucial issue.

Behind the false “gods” of the nations, then, were actually demons in disguise. This means, then, that all of the texts of Scripture dealing with idolatry and the foreign gods are “cosmic conflict” texts.

Where does Scripture teach that there is a cosmic conflict between God and Satan? According to Scripture, what is the nature of the conflict?

God grants humans free will, even to the point where they (and angels) can choose to act directly against His will.

The God of the Bible is entirely good, and we can trust Him—even despite the evil that so infects our fallen world.

Yahweh is deeply concerned about evil, suffering, injustice, and oppression—all of which He constantly and unequivocally condemns.

Divine wrath is righteous indignation motivated by perfect goodness and love, and it seeks the flourishing of all creation.

God’s love for us is a deeply emotional love, it should not be thought of as identical to emotions as humans expe­rience them.

God does not look upon us, or the gifts that we bring Him, with the attitude of that father. On the contrary, we can be pleasing to God, but only through Christ.

God’s love is not unilateral but deeply relational, in that it makes a profound difference to God whether or not humans reflect His love back to Him and to others.

The ultimate question that God poses to each one of us in our time and place is, Do you love Me? Everything depends on our answer to that question.

We will look at some of this Gospel’s key points, which can help us move beyond the mere head knowledge of Jesus to, instead, knowing Him better and more closely abiding in Him and in His Word.

John presents the Cross as the enthronement of Jesus, particularly tied to the idea of the hour, which is referred to numerous times throughout the book.

This week’s lesson looks at how the Gospel of John presents the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but now within the context of the farewell discourse.

This week’s lesson will begin with the purpose of the farewell discourse and its introduction with the significant episode of Jesus’ washing His disciples’ feet.

This week, we will more fully explore the flip side of things, in which, despite the powerful evidence for Jesus as the Messiah, some rejected Him.

This week we will look at more ways John revealed Jesus as the Messiah, and also, we will look at why some people still continued to reject Him, despite all the powerful reasons affirming Him as the Christ.

Who were some of the blessed people, and why did they testify as they did to the identity of Jesus? Find out more today.

This week’s lesson looks at some of those who witnessed and testified about Jesus. In each of these incidents, some aspects of who Jesus really is are revealed, and together they create a deeper vision of Jesus, the Messiah.

John recounts the encounter between Jesus, the woman at the well, and the people of the Samaritan city of Sychar.

This lesson will highlight the testimony of a few eyewitnesses of Jesus, such as John the Baptist and his two disciples. We will also consider the eyewitness of Philip and Nathanael, and the witness of Nicodemus, a Pharisee, who opened his heart to the light of God’s truth.

This week’s lesson will begin with the Prologue and summarise its major themes. These themes will then be looked at in other places in John’s Gospel, as well.

Jesus not only said things that revealed His divinity but backed up His words with works that manifested His divinity.

John calls Jesus’ miracles “signs”—miraculous events that point toward the deeper reality that Jesus is the Messiah.

The topics for this week include a discussion of the disciples’ experience in believing in Jesus Christ as the risen Lord.

This week’s lesson presents the trial of Jesus, His condemnation, the mockery by the soldiers, His crucifixion, and then His death and burial.

This week’s study analyzes the anointing of Jesus with costly perfume, Peter’s forsaking of Jesus and Jesus’ suffering as a direct fulfillment of prophecy.

The main topic for study this week is the eschatological material of Mark 13 or the analysis of its inner context and the perspective of Ellen G. White on this topic.

This week’s study considers some significant incidents in Jesus’ life that transpire in Jerusalem, most specifically concerning the temple.

Our study this week addresses the question of how we may enter the kingdom of God. We also look at the challenges that people face in their intention to enter the kingdom or to experience the kingdom now.

This week’s study covers the priority of Jesus’ mission in light of God’s redemptive plan and the glory of God’s kingdom as portrayed, specifically, in the event of the Transfiguration.

Jesus stirs up controversy by His rejection of religious tradition. However, He does it in a way that is strikingly supportive of something deeply relevant to Christian life today.

This week’s study considers two miracles of Jesus. The first account is the story of a man, a member of a Gentile community, who was possessed by an unclean spirit. The other narrative is the story of an “unclean” woman who is a member of the Jewish community.

This week's study is on the parables in Mark 4, how to interpret what they mean, why Jesus used them, what kind of lessons they were intended to reveal, and how literally they were to be taken.

In Mark 2 and 3, the author highlights the fact that some religious teachers misapprehended and distrusted Jesus’ message.

The emphasis in the beginning of the Gospel of Mark is on action, particularly of Jesus’ healing of people. Mark often uses the word immediately to illustrate the fast-action movement of Jesus’ ministry.

This week’s lesson will focus on the identity of Mark as recorded in Scripture, from his early failure to becoming a restored missionary.

This week’s lesson wraps up our study, highlighting the final developments in the cosmic war between God and Satan.

This week, we focus on several key elements of the end-time preparation of God’s people.

Biblical prophecy forewarns that the long cosmic conflict between the two opposite, irreconcilable forces, God and the devil, is drawing to a close and will culminate in a final battle. This last battle will be over issues of authority and worship.

Spiritualism is part of the devil’s scheme to promote the diabolical theory that we are gods and can live without God. Thus, spiritualism is the devil’s device to keep humanity on his side of the great controversy.

The law of God, which includes the Sabbath, is eternal and immutable because it represents God’s being, character, status as Creator and King of the universe, and His principles for life and relationships. The heavenly sanctuary is the seat of God’s government and of His salvation.

Seventh-day Adventists realized that the doctrine of the heavenly sanctuary was not only an important biblical teaching but was the central tenet of a biblical theology that connected other doctrines.

The “present truth” message as discovered by William Miller through a literal reading of Scripture focused on the hope in the soon appearing of the Messiah.

This study centers on the foundational role, authority, and power of the Word of God in the great controversy. Specifically, we will focus our attention on the Word of God as represented by the two witnesses who preached in sackcloth for the prophetic period of 1,260 years.

The study this week highlights three central principles that characterize the great controversy.

This week, we continue to witness the church’s stand on the side of God in the great controversy, throughout the periods of the Middle Ages and during the Reformation.