Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Following up on the tradition-versus-the-Bible issue, Pastor Flemons shared various supporting scriptures, noting that in order to be saved, one must have principles.
Wellness: For Health’s Sake “Health is wholeness,” asserts Pastor Flemons. Wellness, as such, must be achieved from a complete approach. There is a problem when an approach to healing destroys good cells along with the targeted bad cells and places the body at risk for a multitude of other diseases.
Q&A Alternative substances for toothpaste sparked a robust and informative exchange.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
There is a movement structured to suppress religious freedom in America. God blessed the nation of America so that religious freedom could prevail. But the nation is prophesied to turn against God. In the movement, leaders would be thinking that they are doing God a favor. Whereas those using the Bible to call sin by its right name would be accused of hate speech. The Bible doesn’t support hating people; it does support the hatred of sin. God requires his people to warn people of sin and its deception.
Further, Jesus warned us in Matthew 15:9 that a vain form of worship exists, “teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Placing tradition above the Bible, according to Matthew 15:6, makes the commandment of GOD to have no effect.
“Sin,” according to 1 John 3:4, “is the transgression of the law.” It also says, “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law.” And “him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17). Sin is simply this: breaking GOD’s law.
The wages of sin, or breaking GOD’s law, is death, according to Romans 6:23.
Jesus came to save people from their sin and its penalty. His gift to us transfers our guilt and the punishment of our sin to Him. But there is something we must do to lay claim to the gift: confess our sin.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).
However, a system has been set up: that of confessing one’s sin to another man, rather than God.
For Health’s Sake…
Pastor Flemons often asks, “How can a drug that makes a well person sick, make a sick person well?” That is the question.
Quoting from Ministry of Healing, p. 127, Pastor Flemons reminded listeners that “disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health.” Further on the same page, it says, “In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.
“Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in divine power–these are the true remedies. Every person should have a knowledge of nature’s remedial agencies and how to apply them. It is essential both to understand the principles involved in the treatment of the sick and to have a practical training that will enable one rightly to use this knowledge.
“The use of natural remedies requires an amount of care and effort that many are not willing to give. Nature’s process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient is seems slow. The surrender of hurtful indulgences requires sacrifice. But in the end it will be found that nature, untrammeled, does her work well. Those who persevere in obedience to her laws will reap the reward in health of body and health of mind.”
Diatomaceous earth, which comes from an area of high fossilization and which should never be sniffed or inhaled into the lungs, is a wonderful remedy for ridding the body of toxins. A fine powdered substance, it should only be used as an additive to a liquid: water, juice, smoothies. It is tasteless.
Using a suitable facial mask to prevent inhaling its dust, diatomaceous earth is excellent in ridding the home of pests when it is applied in its powdered form along baseboards and in crevices where pests normally frequent or hide.