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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The influence of Jeroboam lingered long after his death in a war with the tribe of Judah under the kingship of Abijah, Rehoboam’s successor. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, discussed the value of sunlight to the health of the reproductive system. (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 -Jeroboam; 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
Ezekiel 20:19-20 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgents, and do them; And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
Proverbs 13:13 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Jeroboam’s son, Nadab, became king. But his evil career lasted only a few months. He was slain, along with all of those who would succeed him. Thus God put an end to the house of Jeroboam. Even so, Israel’s spiritual decline was steady under rulers who continued in the same evil idolatrous practices over the following forty years, until Elijah, the prophet.
During much of the same period, Asa was king over Judah. And the kingdom existed peaceably. Because of Asa’s faithfulness to God, three of the tribes of Israel defected to Judah, where they could worship. Asa had shown his trust in God when Zerah the Ethiopian invaded the kingdom. It was a severe test.
The Ethiopian host numbered a thousand thousand with three hundred chariots. “From every human viewpoint the vast host from Egypt would sweep everything before it. But in time of peace Asa had not been giving himself to amusement and pleasure; he had been preparing for any emergency. He had an army trained for conflict; he had endeavored to lead his people to make their peace with God. And now, although his forces were fewer in number than the enemy, his faith in the One whom he had made his trust did not weaken. PK 110.3
“Having sought the Lord in the days of prosperity, the king could now rely upon Him in the day of adversity. His petitions showed that he was not a stranger to God’s wonderful power. “It is nothing with Thee to help,” he pleaded, “whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on Thee, and in Thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, Thou art our God; let not man prevail against Thee.” Verse 11.PK 111.1
“The prayer of Asa is one that every Christian believer may fittingly offer. We fight in a warfare, not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and against spiritual wickedness in high places. See Ephesians 6:12. In life’s conflict we must meet evil agencies that have arrayed themselves against the right. Our hope is not in man, but in the living God. With full assurance of faith we may expect that He will unite His omnipotence with the efforts of human instrumentalities, for the glory of His name. Clad with the armor of His righteousness, we may gain the victory over every foe.PK 111.2″
Asa was victorious. As a result, when he gathered all of Judah and Benjamin together, strangers from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon joined them. They had seen that the LORD was with him. Sadly, however, Asa’s long record of faithfulness was marred by some mistakes in which he failed to fully trust God, including during his time of disease. He sought the physicians and not God. He soon died, and Jehoshaphat, his son, succeeded him.
Two years prior to Asa’s death, Ahab began to rule the kingdom of Israel. His reign brought in gross apostasies under the heathen influence of his wife Jezebel, the daughter of the high priest of Baal. Ahab “‘did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him,’ acting ‘as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam.'” 1 Kings 16:33, 31 and PK 114.1
“Nothing short of the miracle-working power of God could preserve the nation from utter destruction. Israel had voluntarily separated herself from Jehovah, yet the Lord in compassion still yearned after those who had been led into sin, and He was about to send to them one of the mightiest of His prophets, through whom many were to be led back to allegiance to the God of their fathers.” PK 116.2
That prophet would be the great prophet Elijah, the Tishbite.
(This study is based on chapter 8, “National Apostasy,” in Prophets and Kings. (PK), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
Sunlight is nature’s vitamin D. Vitamin D is critical to reproductive health, because it lowers estrogen dominance, which is the main cause of diseases of the reproductive system. It also increases calcium absorption, which is needed more during pregnancy. It supports killer cells of the immune system. These killer cells seek out and destroy pathogens.
Pastor Flemons shared a portion of the article, “Top 5 Reasons Vitamin D Makes Women Bullet Proof,” on Blog.BulletProof.com. It stated that vitamin D prevents breast cancer. It reported that a study determined vitamin-D deficiency to be in most women who suffer from polycystic ovarian syndrome. Without vitamin D women face a higher risk of infertility, preclampsia, gestational diabetes, an increased rate of C-Section, and bacterial vaginosis.
“The only hope of better things is in the education of the people in right principles. Let physicians teach the people that restorative power is not in drugs, but in nature. Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health. In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system. MH 127.1″
We call it the REFRESHING Way lifestyle. R-E-F-R-E-S-H-I-N-G: The R is Rely on God; E – Eat healthy; F – Fresh air; R – Rest; E – Exercise; S – Self-control; H – H2O, Drink water; I – In the sun; N – Never give up; and G – Give to others.
That’s biblical wellness.