Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Sin forever changed the history of the earth. All heaven was heartbroken. Earth’s first beings were doomed to die. Decay was already seizing their once perfect world. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, explained digestion in the small intestine. (Read more below.)
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Words of Encouragement
2 Corinthians 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Isaiah 13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Thankfully, God had a plan. Adam and Eve were informed of the plan for their redemption. Because of their sin, the transgression of God’s law, someone had to die to save them from an eternal death. That someone had to be Jesus. They then understood that the law of God is as sacred as God Himself.
They witnessed the immediate results of their sin. They witnessed as God cursed the serpent. Satan had used the serpent to cause the fall of man. God revealed the weakness of the serpent: his head. But God also revealed that Satan would bruise the heel of man and thereby affect man’s walk with God. (Read Genesis 3:15.)
This plan of redemption, however, included how man’s walk with God could be perfected. This meant that Jesus would have to live a perfect life as a human being. Only in absolute perfect obedience to God’s law could Jesus provide a sure path to God for mankind.
John 3:16 God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
As such, Jesus, as a human, would then Himself become Satan’s target. Satan’s plan of attack upon Christ went into effect when Jesus was only a defenseless infant. In his rage, Satan killed all baby boys within two years old just to be sure the Messiah would not live long enough to die on behalf of man and save the human race from sin and eternal death.
But Satan was unsuccessful. Instead, “we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man” (Romans 2:9). (Also read verses 7 and 8.)
Romans 5:6-8 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
For Health’s Sake…
A full ninety percent of the absorption of nutrition takes place within the small intestine. It is an elongated tubular organ that is about 15 to 20 feet long. In it carbohydrates are fully digested. Carbs begin to be digested in the mouth. But this is the first and only place in which fats get digested.
The small intestine has three parts: the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum. Its outer wall consists of involuntary smooth muscle. Peristalsis happens in the small intestine more than anywhere else. The small intestine separates foods into a bunch of little sacs and moves them along, like the cars of a train. This segmentation allows concentrated digestion and absorption to the maximum potential.
Because protein is not digested in the small intestine, it is critical to eat the right foods and avoid deep fried foods, in particular. In deep fried foods, the protein molecule is engulfed by the fat molecule. When consumed, they enter the small intestine, where only the fat gets digested. The protein is left undigested, which leads to health complications like allergies, leaky gut syndrome, and a myriad of autoimmune diseases.