Worship: For Heaven’s Sake GOD is holy. Holiness demands reverent worship, particularly from those entrusted with sacred leadership responsibilities. Nadab and Abihu were without excuse. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, taught the physiology of arteries and veins. (Read more below.)
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When the church speaks, laws are enacted. Religious freedom ceases. Worship is forced. Dissenters are persecuted. That is church history. That is Bible prophecy, according to Revelation 13:15. What else could President Trump mean when he vows to make good on his campaign promise to give the church its voice back?
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TOPICS THIS WEEK
Worship: January 29 – Satan’s Enmity Against the Law; January 30 – The Final Test; January 31 – Can’t Trump Truth; February 1 – The Gospel in the Circulatory System; February 2 – The Tabernacle and Its Services; February 3 – The Sin of Nadab and Abihu; February 4 – The Law and the Covenants [All topics per Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen G. White, accessible at this link: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/pp/pp.asp]
Wellness: January 30 – Why Learn About Diseases and Natural Remedies; 31 – Cancer Deaths Rising Among the Poor; February 1 – February 4 – The Circulatory System
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Words of Encouragement
Psalm 46:4-5 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Their free use of wine rendered them useless in their sacred responsibilities. They offered strange fire before the LORD, instead of the sacred fire that GOD kindled.
“Next to Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu had stood highest in Israel. They had been especially honored by the Lord, having been permitted with the seventy elders to behold His glory in the mount. But their transgression was not therefore to be excused or lightly regarded. All this rendered their sin more grievous. Because men have received great light, because they have, like the princes of Israel, ascended to the mount, and been privileged to have communion with God, and to dwell in the light of His glory, let them not flatter themselves that they can afterward sin with impunity, that because they have been thus honored, God will not be strict to punish their iniquity. This is a fatal deception. The great light and privileges bestowed require returns of virtue and holiness corresponding to the light given. Anything short of this, God cannot accept. Great blessings or privileges should never lull to security or carelessness. They should never give license to sin or cause the recipients to feel that God will not be exact with them. All the advantages which God has given are His means to throw ardor into the spirit, zeal into effort, and vigor into the carrying out of His holy will.PP 359.3
“Nadab and Abihu had not in their youth been trained to habits of self-control. The father’s yielding disposition, his lack of firmness for right, had led him to neglect the discipline of his children. His sons had been permitted to follow inclination. Habits of self-indulgence, long cherished, obtained a hold upon them which even the responsibility of the most sacred office had not power to break. They had not been taught to respect the authority of their father, and they did not realize the necessity of exact obedience to the requirements of God. Aaron’s mistaken indulgence of his sons prepared them to become the subjects of the divine judgments.PP 360.1
“God designed to teach the people that they must approach Him with reverence and awe, and in His own appointed manner. He cannot accept partial obedience. It was not enough that in this solemn season of worship nearly everything was done as He had directed. God has pronounced a curse upon those who depart from His commandments, and put no difference between common and holy things. He declares by the prophet: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness! … woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! … which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! … They have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.” Isaiah 5:20-24. Let no one deceive himself with the belief that a part of God’s commandments are nonessential, or that He will accept a substitute for that which He has required. Said the prophet Jeremiah, “Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?” Lamentations 3:37. God has placed in His word no command which men may obey or disobey at will and not suffer the consequences. If men choose any other path than that of strict obedience, they will find that ‘the end thereof are the ways of death.’ Proverbs 14:12.PP 360.2″
(This study is based on Leviticus 10:1-11. Please read chapter 31, “The Sin of Nadab and Abihu” in Patriarchs and Prophets (PP), by Ellen G. White, available at this link: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/pp/pp.asp.)
For Health’s Sake…
The aorta, which is the largest artery branches out into smaller arteries. Arteries branch out to smaller arterioles, which branch out to even smaller capillaries.
The capillary is where the nutrients are released from the blood on the artery side and bathes the cells of the surrounding area. Here the cells release toxins and other wastes, which then get picked up by the blue side of the capillary and get taken back to the venous side of the capillary. The venous side of the capillary picks up the blood and takes it back to the heart. The veins do not transport as much blood as the arteries. The lymph takes the excess fluid and filters it and detoxifies it before returning it back to the vein.
Arteries carry blood that is propelled by the beating heart. Veins carry blood propelled by the contraction of muscle against the venous wall. Arteries show up as red. Veins show up as blue. Arteries and veins go in opposite order.
Venous capillaries pick up the toxic blood and empties it into larger veins, which in turn empty the blood into the larger superior and inferior vena cavas. The superior vena cavas, which is the largest vein, brings the blood down from the top of the head. The inferior vena cavas brings the blood up from the bottom of the feet. They are simply large trunks into which veins empty toxic blood and start the process of blood purification all over again.
These must sometimes amazingly defy gravity to keep blood circulating. Check valves within the vein prevent the blood from sliding backward. And the blood continues to circulate throughout the body, as the heart beats and muscles properly contract. Thus nutrient-rich, oxygenated blood feeds the body from head to toe.