Tehachapi Seventh Day Adventist Church

Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra Fall concert Sunday November 1, 2020 at 4 pm. Live stream on TSO Facebook page!

October 31st. 2020. Happy Sabbath Church Family. Sabbath School will be via Zoom. Please check the Comments for zoom link around 9:15 - 9:30 am. Sabbath School will be from 9:30-10:30. Check out ssnet.org if you don’t have a lesson quarterly. Karen Towns will be facilitating. Study and Share. Divine Service at 11:00 am. Pastor Gutierrez sermon will be on FACEBOOK Page Live. Under Attack is the topic of his sermon. Special Music by Dee Dee Stoller. Intercessory Prayer by LIn...da Kirk. Children Sabbath School will continue on Zoom at 4 pm. Vespers at 6:30 pm. Bring your face mask. Announcements: *Tithe and Offerings can be given online via adventistgiving.org or mail to Tehachapi Sda Church. P.0. Box 1456. Tehachapi, Ca. 93561. *Gloria Sipes is accepting donations for non-perishable foods and sign-ups for perishables in preparation for our Thanksgiving Baskets up to November 14th. Anyone you know need a basket? Please let Gloria know. *Gina Furbeyre has began publishing our Church newsletter. Thanks Gina. ***Next Sabbath NOVEMBER 7th. we will be having an abbreviate church worship service @11 am inside the church building 2 sabbaths out of the month. Bring your Face Mask. At risk individuals or those exposed to Covid-19 are ask to remained at home. Service will be live streamed. All other meetings will be held on Zoom until further notice. See more

Mary had been looked upon as a great sinner, but Christ knew the circumstances that had shaped her life. He might have extinguished every spark of hope in her soul, but He did not. It was He who had lifted her from despair and ruin. Seven times she had heard His rebuke of the demons that controlled her heart and mind. She had heard His strong cries to the Father in her behalf. She knew how offensive is sin to His unsullied purity, and in His strength she had overcome. When ...to human eyes her case appeared hopeless, Christ saw in Mary capabilities for good. He saw the better traits of her character. The plan of redemption has invested humanity with great possibilities, and in Mary these possibilities were to be realized. Through His grace she became a partaker of the divine nature. The one who had fallen, and whose mind had been a habitation of demons, was brought very near to the Saviour in fellowship and ministry. It was Mary who sat at His feet and learned of Him. It was Mary who poured upon His head the precious anointing oil, and bathed His feet with her tears. Mary stood beside the cross, and followed Him to the sepulcher. Mary was first at the tomb after His resurrection. It was Mary who first proclaimed a risen Saviour. Jesus knows the circumstances of every soul. You may say, I am sinful, very sinful. You may be; but the worse you are, the more you need Jesus. He turns no weeping, contrite one away. He does not tell to any all that He might reveal, but He bids every trembling soul take courage. Freely will He pardon all who come to Him for forgiveness and restoration.... He is today standing at the altar of incense, presenting before God the prayers of those who desire His help. The souls that turn to Him for refuge, Jesus lifts above the accusing and the strife of tongues. No man or evil angel can impeach these souls. Christ unites them to His own divine-human nature. They stand beside the great Sin Bearer, in the light proceeding from the throne of God.49Ibid., 568. . CC 309.2-CC 309.5 See more

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Simon the host had been influenced by the criticism of Judas upon Mary's gift, and he was surprised at the conduct of Jesus. His Pharisaic pride was offended. He knew that many of his guests were looking upon Christ with distrust and displeasure. Simon said in his heart, This Man, if He were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth Him: for she is a sinner. By curing Simon of leprosy, Christ had saved him from a living death. But now ...Simon questioned whether the Saviour were a prophet.... Jesus knows nothing of this woman who is so free in her demonstrations, he thought, or He would not allow her to touch Him.... As did Nathan with David, Christ concealed His home thrust under the veil of a parable. He threw upon His host the burden of pronouncing sentence upon himself. Simon had led into sin the woman he now despised. She had been deeply wronged by him.... But Simon felt himself more righteous than Mary, and Jesus desired him to see how great his guilt really was. He would show him that his sin was greater than hers, as much greater as a debt of five hundred pence exceeds a debt of fifty pence.... Simon's coldness and neglect toward the Saviour showed how little he appreciated the mercy he had received. He had thought he honored Jesus by inviting Him to his house. But he now saw himself as he really was.... His religion had been a robe of Pharisaism.... While Mary was a sinner pardoned, he was a sinner unpardoned. The rigid rule of justice he had desired to enforce against her condemned him. Simon was touched by the kindness of Jesus in not openly rebuking him before the guests. He had not been treated as he desired Mary to be treated.... Stern denunciation would have hardened Simon against repentance, but patient admonition convinced him of his error. He saw the magnitude of the debt which he owed his Lord. His pride was humbled, he repented, and the proud Pharisee became a lowly, self-sacrificing disciple.48Ibid., 566-568. . CC 308.2-CC 308.6 See more

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Christ delighted in the earnest desire of Mary to do the will of her Lord. He accepted the wealth of pure affection which His disciples did not, would not, understand. The desire that Mary had to do this service for her Lord was of more value to Christ than all the precious ointment in the world, because it expressed her appreciation of the world's Redeemer. It was the love of Christ that constrained her. The matchless excellence of the character of Christ filled her soul. Th...at ointment was a symbol of the heart of the giver. It was the outward demonstration of a love fed by heavenly streams until it overflowed. The work of Mary was just the lesson the disciples needed to show them that the expression of their love for Him would be pleasing to Christ. He had been everything to them, and they did not realize that soon they would be deprived of His presence, that soon they could offer Him no token of their gratitude for His great love. The loneliness of Christ, separated from the heavenly courts, living the life of humanity, was never understood or appreciated by the disciples as it should have been.... Their afterknowledge gave them a true sense of the many things they might have done for Jesus expressive of the love and gratitude of their hearts.... When Jesus was no longer with them, ... they began to see how they might have shown Him attentions that would have brought gladness to His heart. They no longer cast blame upon Mary, but upon themselves. Oh, if they could have taken back their censuring, their presenting the poor as more worthy of the gift than was Christ! They felt the reproof keenly as they took from the cross the bruised body of their Lord. The same want is evident in our world today. But few appreciate all that Christ is to them. If they did, the great love of Mary would be expressed, the anointing would be freely bestowed. The expensive ointment would not be called a waste. Nothing would be thought too costly to give for Christ, no self-denial or self-sacrifice too great to be endured for His sake.47Ibid., 564, 565. . CC 307.2-CC 307.5 See more

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Simon of Bethany was accounted a disciple of Jesus. He was one of the few Pharisees who had openly joined Christ's followers. He acknowledged Jesus as a teacher, and hoped that He might be the Messiah, but he had not accepted Him as a Saviour. His character was not transformed; his principles were unchanged. Simon had been healed of the leprosy, and it was this that had drawn him to Jesus. He desired to show his gratitude, and at Christ's last visit to Bethany he made a fea...st for the Saviour and His disciples.... At the table the Saviour sat with Simon ... on one side, and Lazarus ... on the other. Martha served at the table, but Mary was earnestly listening to every word from the lips of Jesus. In His mercy, Jesus had pardoned her sins, He had called forth her beloved brother from the grave, and Mary's heart was filled with gratitude. She had heard Jesus speak of His approaching death, and in her deep love and sorrow she had longed to show Him honor. At great personal sacrifice she had purchased an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very costly, with which to anoint His body. But now many were declaring that He was about to be crowned king. Her grief was turned to joy, and she was eager to be first in honoring her Lord. Breaking her box of ointment, she poured its contents upon the head and feet of Jesus; then, as she knelt weeping, moistening them with her tears, she wiped His feet with her long, flowing hair.... Judas looked upon this act with great displeasure.... He asked, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? ... The murmur passed round the table, To what purpose is this waste? ... Mary heard the words of criticism.... She was about to shrink away, when the voice of her Lord was heard, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? ... Lifting His voice above the murmur of criticism, He said, She hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. 45The Desire of Ages, 557-560. . CC 305.2-CC 305.4 See more

As Christ gave His wonderful lessons, Mary sat at His feet, a reverent and devoted listener. On one occasion, Martha, perplexed with the care of preparing the meal, went to Christ, saying, Lord, dost Thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. This was the time of Christ's first visit to Bethany. The Saviour and His disciples had just made the toilsome journey on foot from Jericho. Martha was anxious to provide for their com...fort, and in her anxiety she forgot the courtesy due to her Guest.... The one thing that Martha needed was a calm, devotional spirit, a deeper anxiety for knowledge concerning the future, immortal life, and the graces necessary for spiritual advancement. She needed less anxiety for the things which pass away, and more for those things which endure forever. Jesus would teach His children to seize every opportunity of gaining that knowledge which will make them wise unto salvation. The cause of Christ needs careful, energetic workers. There is a wide field for the Marthas, with their zeal in active religious work. But let them first sit with Mary at the feet of Jesus. Let diligence, promptness, and energy be sanctified by the grace of Christ; then the life will be an unconquerable power for good.43Ibid., 525. The reason why the youth, and even those of mature years, are so easily led into temptation and sin, is that they do not study the word of God and meditate upon it as they should. The lack of firm, decided will power, which is manifest in life and character, results from neglect of the sacred instruction of God's word. They do not by earnest effort direct the mind to that which would inspire pure, holy thought and divert it from that which is impure and untrue. There are few who choose the better part, who sit at the feet of Jesus, as did Mary, to learn of the divine Teacher. Few treasure His words in the heart and practice them in the life.44The Ministry of Healing, 458. . CC 304.2-CC 304.4 See more

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