Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Twelve spies returned from the promised land of Canaan with two different views. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, helped listeners understand hypertension with one focus: vascular resistance. (Read more below.)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK
Worship: February 5 – From Sinai to Kadesh; February 6 – The Twelve Spies; February 7 – The Rebellion of Korah; February 8 – In the Wilderness; February 9 – The Smitten Rock; February 10 – The Journey Around Edom; February 11 – The Conquest of Bashan [All topics per Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen G. White, accessible at this link: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/pp/pp.asp]
Wellness: February 5 – February 11 – Pathology of the Circulatory System; February 5 – Understanding Hypertension, Cardiac Output; February 6 – Understanding Hypertension, Vascular Resistance
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Words of Encouragement
Isaiah 46:9-10 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, ad there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Psalm 46:8-9 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Each spy represented a tribe of Israel. Moses had directed them to “go and see the country, what it was, its situation and natural advantages; and the people that dwelt therein, whether they were strong or weak, few or many; also to observe the nature of the soil and its productiveness and to bring of the fruit of the land.PP 387.1″ They were gone forty days. They returned with fruit samples of the land: grapes, figs, and pomegranates. One cluster of grapes was so heavy that it had to be carried by two men on a stick between them.
All spies agreed that the land was good and prosperous. Nevertheless, beyond that point they disagreed. Only Caleb and Joshua believed God enough that they could go up against the inhabitants of the land and be victorious. All the other spies only trusted to the extent of what they themselves could do. They did not consider the power of God. They only saw themselves as grasshoppers. They believed the “giant” inhabitants saw them as grasshoppers too.
When all the people heard the negative report and recommendation, they all cried and murmured that they would have been better off to have died in Egypt or in the wilderness. Immediately, they were ready to return to Egypt. Immediately, they clamored for a new leader. Moses and Aaron fell on their faces. But Caleb and Joshua insisted on taking “the exceeding good land.” Here’s what they said and how the people responded:
Numbers 14:8-10 If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
Unselfish Moses entered into the tabernacle and learned that God would smite and disinherit all of them and make of Moses a great nation. Unmoved by personal gain, Moses showed he had developed the character of God. With a merciful heart of love, Moses pleaded with God on behalf of the fearful disbelieving, rebellious Israelites. And God forgave them. But because of their unbelief and rash decision to turn their backs on God and the promised land, God gave them their due. He promised they would never possess the land. He sentenced them to forty years of wandering in the wilderness: a year for every day the spies searched the land.
Upon hearing their sentence, the rebels once again defied God. All night, they mourned the thought of wandering another forty years in the wilderness. The next morning, they rushed to the top of the mountain and cried for war. Suddenly they insisted on fighting the giants and taking possession of the promised land.
They had another lesson to learn: presumption is not faith. With God they could have been victorious in the battle from the first report. But they went against His word twice: upon hearing the negative advice and upon hearing the forty-year sentence. Too late, they believed that God could win the battle for them. Too late they went up to battle. They went up full of presumption. They miserably lost the battle and could not take possession of the promised land. True to their rash prayer, they all died in the wilderness over the next forty years. Of that generation, only Caleb and Joshua lived.
(This study is based on chapters 13 and 14 of Numbers and chapter 34, “The Twelve Spies” 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…
Vascular resistance is the resistance of the artery against the blood that is coming through it. Blood vessels constrict as a result of emotional and physical stress and a buildup of cholesterol and other fats that have become plaque.
Emotional stress affect the vessels. The blood vessels decrease in diameter, which increases pressure. The vessels are part of the autonomic (or involuntary) nerve stimulation of sympathetic nerves.
Physical stress can also affect the vessels. Hypoglycemia (an excessive drop in blood sugar) causes the body to stimulate the adrenal glands, which lead to a conversion of stored sugar into immediately usable sugar. This causes the same changes in the blood vessels as emotional stress. The heart rate increases. The blood vessels constrict. Pressure is increased. Eating too much sugar activates the same system to raise the blood pressure.
Toxins cause free radical damage within the walls of the arteries. In the body’s effort to compensate for the damage, cholesterol is produced and applied at the site of the damaged wall. With a continued diet of animal products (including fats), too much sugar and emotional stress, cholesterol is increased. A buildup of cholesterol turns to plaque, which clogs the arteries.