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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake “True reverence for God is inspired by a sense of His infinite greatness and a realization of His presence. … ‘Holy and reverend is His name.'”(PK 48.3) With true reverence, Mount Moriah was leveled and the temple was built. It took seven years. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, discussed how stress affects the reproductive system and how relying on God has therapeutic value for it. (Read more below.)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – March 19-25
Worship Sunday – The Temple and Its Dedication; Monday – Pride of Prosperity; Tuesday – Results of Transgression; Wednesday – Solomon’s Repentance; Thursday – The Rending of the Kingdom; Friday -Jereboam; Saturday, the Sabbath – National Apostasy
[All topics per Prophets and Kings by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Saturday, the Sabbath – The REFRESHING Lifestyle and the Reproductive System: Sunday – Rely on God; Monday – Eat Healthy; Tuesday – Fresh Air and Rest; Wednesday – Exercise; Thursday – Self-Control; Friday – (H2O) Water; Sabbath – In the Sun, Never Give Up and Give to Others
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Words of Encouragement
Matthew 14:19-20 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
John 4:28-30 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Many thousands were involved in the seven-year production, and the building was still solemn and sacred. It was noiseless. No hammer, ax or tools of iron were heard in the building of the temple. The great stones were perfectly prepared before they were brought to Mount Moriah and upreared. (Read 1 Kings 6:7.)
“Of surpassing beauty and unrivaled splendor was the palatial building which Solomon and his associates erected for God and His worship. Garnished with precious stones, surrounded by spacious courts with magnificent approaches, and lined with carved cedar and burnished gold, the temple structure, with its broidered hangings and rich furnishings, was a fit emblem of the living church of God on earth, which through the ages has been building in accordance with the divine pattern, with materials that have been likened to ‘gold, silver, precious stones,’ ‘polished after the similitude of a palace.’ 1 Corinthians 3:12; Psalm 144:12. Of this spiritual temple Christ is ‘the chief Cornerstone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.’ Ephesians 2:20, 21.PK 36.1
“The spot on which the temple was built had long been regarded as a consecrated place. It was here that Abraham, the father of the faithful, had revealed his willingness to sacrifice his only son in obedience to the command of Jehovah. Here God had renewed with Abraham the covenant of blessing, which included the glorious Messianic promise to the human race of deliverance through the sacrifice of the Son of the Most High. See Genesis 22:9, 16-18. Here it was that when David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings to stay the avenging sword of the destroying angel, God had answered him by fire from heaven. See 1 Chronicles 21. And now once more the worshipers of Jehovah were here to meet their God and renew their vows of allegiance to Him.PK 37.2″
The time chosen for the dedication of the temple was during the Feast of Tabernacles, when people flowed into Jerusalem from all parts of the kingdom. “Richly clad representatives” from foreign nations assembled in the courts of the temple. The ark of the testament was brought into the temple with a grand procession of Levites, among the assemblage of the elders of Israel, heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel. The priests carried the ark into the most holy place and placed it under the wings of the cherubim.
Levites, both singers and one hundred and twenty priests with trumpets, sounded as one in praise. And the glory of the LORD filled the house of GOD so much so that the priests could not stand to minister. In response, Solomon consecrated the temple with a prayer, afterwhich fire came down from heaven. All of Israel “bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.” (See 2 Chronicles 5 -7.)
“Both in public and in private worship it is our privilege to bow on our knees before God when we offer our petitions to Him. Jesus, our example, ‘kneeled down, and prayed.’ Luke 22:41. Of His disciples it is recorded that they, too, ‘kneeled down, and prayed.’ Acts 9:40. Paul declared, ‘I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ Ephesians 3:14. In confessing before God the sins of Israel, Ezra knelt. See Ezra 9:5. Daniel ‘kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God.’ Daniel 6:10.PK 48.2
“Well would it be for old and young to ponder those words of Scripture that show how the place marked by God’s special presence should be regarded. ‘Put off thy shoes from off thy feet,’ He commanded Moses at the burning bush, ‘for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.’ Exodus 3:5. Jacob, after beholding the vision of the angel, exclaimed, ‘The Lord is in this place; and I knew it not…. This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.’ Genesis 28:16, 17.PK 49.1″
(This study is based on chapter 2, “The Temple and Its Dedication,” in Prophets and Kings. (PK), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
Essentially, relying on God relieves stress, which will kill you. Stress specifically affects the reproductive system by causing increased blood loss in women with fibroids. Stress causes more toxins to develop in the system and causes an increase in estrogen in both women and men.
Stress causes progesterone to turn into cortisol. When this happens, estrogen becomes dominant, which is dangerous, as estrogen dominance leads to cancer. Excess estrogen causes the more potent form of testosterone to increase until the tissues are enlarged and develop cancer in men. Excess estrogen in the womb tends to fibroids and endometriosis in women. Excess estrogen in breast tissue leads to breast cancer in both men and women.
Trusting and relying on God can help prevent this.