Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Slander may blacken your reputation, but it cannot stain your character. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Sometimes you can seem to get worse before you get better, says Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness and naturopathy. (Read more below.)
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Words of Encouragement
John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Jesus warned His disciples and all those who would become His followers:
Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Commenting on this verse in the book Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, Ellen White wrote these inspired words:
“Ever since his fall, Satan has worked by means of deception. As he has misrepresented God, so, through his agents, he misrepresents the children of God. The Saviour says, ‘The reproaches of them that reproached Thee are fallen upon Me.’ Psalm 69:9. In like manner they fall upon His disciples. (MB 31.2)
“There was never one who walked among men more cruelly slandered than the Son of man. He was derided and mocked because of His unswerving obedience to the principles of God’s holy law. They hated Him without a cause. Yet He stood calmly before His enemies, declaring that reproach is a part of the Christian’s legacy, counseling His followers how to meet the arrows of malice, bidding them not to faint under persecution. (MB 32.1)
“While slander may blacken the reputation, it cannot stain the character. That is in God’s keeping. So long as we do not consent to sin, there is no power, whether human or satanic, that can bring a stain upon the soul. A man whose heart is stayed upon God is just the same in the hour of his most afflicting trials and most discouraging surroundings as when he was in prosperity, when the light and favor of God seemed to be upon him. His words, his motives, his actions, may be misrepresented and falsified, but he does not mind it, because he has greater interests at stake. Like Moses, he endures as “seeing Him who is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27); looking “not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen” (2 Corinthians 4:18). (MB 32.2)
“Christ is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misrepresented by men. His children can afford to wait in calm patience and trust, no matter how much maligned and despised; for nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest, and those who honor God shall be honored by Him in the presence of men and angels. (MB 32.3)
“’When men shall revile you, and persecute you,’ said Jesus, ‘rejoice, and be exceeding glad.’ And He pointed His hearers to the prophets who had spoken in the name of the Lord, as ‘an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.’ James 5:10. Abel, the very first Christian of Adam’s children, died a martyr. Enoch walked with God, and the world knew him not. Noah was mocked as a fanatic and an alarmist. ‘Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment.’ ‘Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.’ Hebrews 11:36, 35. (MB 33.1)”
“Every test you pass,” says Pastor Flemons, “makes the next test easier. Every test you fail, makes the next failure easier. But there is always power in the blood.” Just because you failed today, doesn’t mean you are doomed to fail tomorrow.
(The book Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing may be accessed online at this link: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/mb/mb2.html.)
For Health’s Sake…
Just as sweeping stirs up dust against a glass door before it is opened and the floor is finally swept clean, ridding toxins from the body can cause the person to feel sick. The body can react with the following symptoms: weakness, nausea, vomiting, sweats, diarrhea, dizziness, headaches. The answer is found in increasing the channels of elimination. Enemas might be required.
Assistance might be recommended in some cases. This is where wellness retreats help. If you can persevere through the crisis, you can succeed, says Pastor Flemons. Aborting the cleansing process, he warns, can abort the healing process.
(Visit this link to the first of the two-part series, “Channels of Elimination,” https://torwm.org/2016/08/04/worship-religious-liberty-part-1-wellness-7-channels-of-elimination/.)