Worship: For Heaven’s Sake “The expulsion of sin is the act of the soul itself.” Pastor Flemons said, “That sounds like salvation by works.” Then he explained the quote in detail. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Addiction is Satan’s attempt to keep us in bondage to sin. Gluttony is an addiction to food and is sin. The Bible says those whose belly is their God are enemies of God. (Read more below.)
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Let’s look at the full paragraph from which the quote was taken:
In the work of redemption there is no compulsion. No external force is employed. Under the influence of the Spirit of God, man is left free to choose whom he will serve. In the change that takes place when the soul surrenders to Christ, there is the highest sense of freedom. The expulsion of sin is the act of the soul itself. True, we have no power to free ourselves from Satan’s control; but when we desire to be set free from sin, and in our great need cry out for a power out of and above ourselves, the powers of the soul are imbued with the divine energy of the Holy Spirit, and they obey the dictates of the will in fulfilling the will of God. {DA 466.4} (Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 466.4)
God will deliver you from sin, whatever it takes, says Pastor Flemons. “But you must surrender to Him.”
James 4:7-10 explains how to surrender this way:
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
It is a choice. It is not force or fear.
Proverbs 2:1-5 lets us know that the fear of God is really knowledge:
1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Pastor Flemons says, “You will never go to heaven because you are scared of hell.” That said, he told of a speaking experience, after which he was thanked by one of the listeners, who told him, “You scared me to life!”
The choice is still yours.
For Health’s Sake…
“God has heard many a prayer from a crack addict that wanted to be set free,” says Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness and naturopathy. That sincere prayer was all it took to begin the process of being set free from his addiction. And it is a process.
Gluttony, on the other hand, is encouraged, particularly during festive occasions and holidays. But gluttony is associated with drunkeness, according to Matthew 11:19. It is intemperance–not taking care of God’s temple. The glutton may scoff at the crack addict. Yet the crack addict will make it to heaven, if he continues to walk in the strength of the Holy Spirit to purify his life. But that will not so with the glutton, who may never have touched illegal drugs. He was simply comfortable, even proud, in his sin of gluttony and never sought the help of the Lord.