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Watch our July 31, 2022 adult Sunday school class taught by Tom Cantor (Matthew 24:15-18)

Watch our July 31, 2022 adult Sunday school class taught by Tom Cantor (Matthew 24:15-18).

Tom taught from Matthew 24, specifically Matthew 24:15-18. First, he gave a review of the chapter and background. Then, he noted the dangers of deception (24:4) and that lies often come with truth and look good. He also pointed out that spiritual deception most often attacks the truth of Jesus Christ is God. He added that one way to detect deception was to stay immersed in the Word of Truth.

Tom then pointed out that we can’t know all the details of prophecy we can still learn. Other points he made were why people perish (unbelief), and connected the rapture to the pattern of Noah and the ark and Lot and his family at Sodom.

Finally, Tom noted the importance of being ready in this fallen world (II Peter 3:11).

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Watch our July 24, 2022 adult Sunday school class taught by Tom Cantor (Matthew 24)

Watch our July 24, 2022 adult Sunday school class taught by Tom Cantor (Matthew 24).

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Mission Valley Community Chapel a small multigenerational Bible believing Christian church, an Open Plymouth Brethren (Christian Brethren) assembly. All leadership is volunteer, enabling the majority of our giving to go to evangelists and missionaries worldwide. There are opportunities to serve for those interested in participating, including outreach, hospitality, and music.

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Watch our June 19, 2022 adult Sunday school class taught by Tom Cantor (Matthew 23:14)

Watch our June 19, 2022 adult Sunday school class taught by Tom Cantor (Matthew 23:14).

 

Widows

Tom Cantor started by reading Matthew 23:14. Then Tom covered three main points. First, he spoke of the prayers and promises to widows in the Bible. Tom reference passages like psalm 68:5, Luke 7:11, Deuteronomy 14:28, and the widows mite.

Prayer

Next, he spoke of pretense in prayer. He noted that there are good and bad ways of praying. We shouldn’t pray to show off or use vain reputations. He gave the rosary as an example of vain repetitions. Tom compared prayers like the way his wife would write letters. She would take great care in what she said. He gave three points from her letter writing that might help prayer. First, be clear. Second, be to the point. Third, use the best words. He referenced passages of people who believed what they would receive (Matthew 20:29–34; Matthew 9:27–30) and those who struggled with belief (Mark 9: 20–24).

Judgement

Finally, Tom addressed the last part of the verse about the “greater damnation.” He gave some biblical descriptions of hell, and pointed out no one needed to go there. He critiqued “fatalistic predestination” (Calvinism) as being not true and that everyone has a chance to go to heaven. Tom pointed out that hell was not created for us but for the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41). Next, he stressed how Christ died for everyone and there is provision for everyone. He used to do an Old Testament passages including those about Jesus being “the Lamb of God” for the world (John 1:29) and the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:21). Why hell? They choose to hold onto their sins. He critiqued Calvinism and TULIP using passages like Isaiah 53:4 and Romans 5:8, talking on “the unbelievable love of God.”

Tom closed referring to the Gopsel, “A person has to fight his way into Hell”, and God‘s will that all be saved.

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Watch our May 22, 2022 adult Sunday school class by Tom Cantor (Matthew 23:13)

Watch our May 22, 2022 adult Sunday school class taught by Tom Cantor (Matthew 23:13).

 

This Sunday, Tom Cantor taughtfrom Matthew 23:13. Tom started by reading Matthew 23:13–33 to get the context. He then looked back at the previous background. He noted that the Lord cleanse the temple of thieves of property, and now he was cleansing it of the thieves of souls.

Tom Cantor also made the important point that the Lord Jesus Christ was having compassion on them for scribes and Pharisees even in his criticism of them. The Lord Jesus his criticism was like the warning of a trumpet (Amos 3:6). Tom noted that their problem was that they were playing religion, being hypocrites. He then went on to contrast the way of works versus the way of Christ – the gospel. He pointed out that the scribes and Pharisees were in a position to be a great blessing (Matthew 23:2–3). This is something they should’ve taken advantage of.

Tom Cantor connected this passage with Jewish evangelism. Tom gave an example from his personal life when interacting with a rabbi. He said there are now two ways that the kingdom of God is “shut up“ to the Jewish community. The first is the pressure of the wall along with the “oral law.” The second is the nourishing of a prejudice against Christ. He said he calls his Israel Restoration Ministries “prejudice counselors.”

Tom also emphasize that some of the Jewish leaders did believe on Jesus (John 7:47–48). He concluded with five reasons people resist Jesus whether Jews or gentiles.

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