Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Uncontrolled jealousy led Cain to kill his younger brother Abel. For that, God cursed him. He could no longer successfully reap from the ground. Cain left, therefore, and established Earth’s first city, east of Eden. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, discussed the amazing pancreas and its role in digestion. (Read more below.)
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Words of Encouragement
Ecclesiastes 9:8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
Isaiah 58:6-7 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?”
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For Heaven’s Sake…
He called the city Enoch. He named it in honor of his first son. There, Cain fathered an evil race of beautiful people. They included Earth’s first polygamists.
Meanwhile, Adam and Eve gave birth to another son: Seth. Seth fathered descendants who called upon the name of the LORD. They continued to fear God and be obedient to God’s commandments.
Over time, sons of Seth married the beautiful but evil daughters of Cain. Instead of the sons of Seth being the means of converting the daughters of Cain to God, they were led away from God. The world became so wicked that God destroyed the world and everyone in it, except Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wives.
Before the destruction of the world, another of Seth’s sons earned global fame for his walk with God. This is the Enoch, who so faithfully walked with God that God never allowed him to taste death. He was taken to heaven without ever dying. Only one other person in the history of mankind has ever been received into heaven without the experience of death.
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
(Read Genesis 4:25-6:2 for further study.)
For Health’s Sake…
Although only the size of a hand, the pancreas is a gland that is uniquely situated between a bend in the upper part of the small intestine (the duodenum) and the stomach. Also unique to the pancreas is its ability to both perform exocrine and endocrine functions. Glands generally do one or the other.
Because of having these two types of tissue, the pancreas is hard to be treated by modern medicine. Medicine, said to help its exocrine function, usually hurts its endocrine function and vice versa, says Pastor Flemons,. As part of the endocrine system, the pancreas secretes hormones into the blood. As part of the exocrine system, the pancreas secretes enzymes into ducts. All pancreatic functions, however, relate to digestion and the regulation of nutrients into the bloodstream–especially sugar, in the form of glucose. As blood sugar rises after a meal, the pancreas secretes insulin, which escorts the glucose into the body cells.
The pancreas secretes powerful enzymes into the duodenum via the pancreatic duct. These enzymes cut apart large nutrient molecules, making smaller molecules that can be absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of the intestine.
“Many of the enzymes secreted by the pancreas are actually protoenzymes. This means that they need to be activated by another substance in order to digest foods as a fully vested enzyme. The activators are secreted in the duodenum. This keeps these pancreatic enzymes from digesting the pancreas itself,” says Pastor Flemons.
The pancreas has five primary enzymes that are individually responsible for the breakdown of molecular amino acid chains, proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. Two of the enzymes break down protein molecules. Pancreatic juice alkalinizes digestive acids, as they enter the duodenum. Without this system, the highly acidic gastric juices would quickly destroy the body.
Taking its orders from the hormonal or nerve signals from many other parts of the body, the pancreas is a fearfully and wonderfully made complex gland that saves our lives every day. “She is a tree of life to them that lay hold of her: and happy is every one that retaineth her” Proverbs 3:18.