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TOPICS THIS WEEK – April 2 – 8
Worship Sunday – The Fall of the House of Ahab; Monday – The Call of Elisha; Tuesday – The Healing of the Waters; Wednesday – A Prophet of Peace; Thursday – Naaman Friday – Elisha’s Closing Ministry; Saturday, the Sabbath – “Nineveh, That Great City”
[All topics per Prophets and Kings by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Saturday, the Sabbath – The Skeletal System
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Words of Encouragement
Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.
Psalm 37:18-19 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Ahab and his wicked wife, Jezebel, lived to rule or ruin. That is the spirit of Satan. When Naboth refused to sell his vineyard because it belonged to his fathers, Ahab became physically ill. Jezebel then went into wicked action to secure the vineyard for Ahab.
Jezebel “wrote letters in the name of the king, sealed them with his signet, and sent them to the elders and nobles of the city where Naboth dwelt, saying: ‘Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.’PK 205.4
“The command was obeyed. ‘The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles, … did as Jezebel had … written in the letters which she had sent unto them.’ Then Jezebel went to the king and bade him arise and take the vineyard. And Ahab, heedless of the consequences, blindly followed her counsel and went down to take possession of the coveted property.PK 206.1
God, however, determined that no mercy be shown to Ahab. His house was to be utterly destroyed. And Jezebel was to be eaten by dogs by the wall of Jezreel. When the prophet Elijah delivered the sentence to Ahab, he finally humbled himself before the Lord. The merciful God decided to not execute the sentence until after Ahab’s death. Within three years, Ahab died during Israel’s war with the Syrians.
Ahab’s wicked son Ahaziah followed in the ways of his father and mother and quickly provoked the anger of God against him. He fell and seriously injured himself. Wanting to know whether or not he would recover, he inquired of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron. The servants returned with a message for the king, but it was from God. Elijah had met the servants and given them a message from God that Ahaziah would surely die.
King Ahaziah sent a company of soldiers to intimidate the prophet, but fire came down from heaven and consumed all fifty men. The unrepentant, rebellious king repeated the order and the same thing happened again. The third company of soldiers humbly approached the prophet and lived. Nevertheless, the rebellious king died, according to the word of the LORD’s prophet. At the appointed time, all of the house of Ahab was slain. None of his descendants was left.
Lessons for us today are these: (1) Kings, princes, priests, and leaders should be respected but never blindly obeyed when wicked orders are given. “True authority comes only by being in harmony with the will of God,” says Pastor Flemons. (2) Only God’s word is to be consulted about the future–never spirit mediums, regardless of how sophisticated have become their methods. (3) The taking of a life affects generations. So should the penalty. (4) Regardless of the offense, where there is true repentance, mercy must be shown.
(This study is based on 1 Kings 21; 2 Kings 1; and chapter 16, “The Fall of the House of Ahab” in Prophets and Kings (PK), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
“Some who make a high profession do not understand the sin of self-abuse and its sure results. Long-established habit has blinded their understanding. They do not realize the exceeding sinfulness of this degrading sin, which is enervating the system and destroying their brain nerve power. Moral principle is exceedingly weak when it conflicts with established habit. Solemn messages from heaven cannot forcibly impress the heart that is not fortified against the indulgence of this degrading vice. The sensitive nerves of the brain have lost their healthy tone by morbid excitation to gratify an unnatural desire for sensual indulgence.168CCh 109.5
“Moral pollution has done more than every other evil to cause the race to degenerate. It is practiced to an alarming extent and brings on disease of almost every description. CCh 110.1
“Parents do not generally suspect that their children understand anything about this vice. In very many cases the parents are the real sinners. They have abused their marriage privileges, and by indulgence have strengthened their animal passions. And as these have strengthened, the moral and intellectual faculties have become weak. The spiritual has been overborne by the brutish. Children are born with the animal propensities largely developed, the parents’ own stamp of character having been given to them. Children born to these parents will almost invariably take naturally to the disgusting habits of secret vice. The sins of the parents will be visited upon their children because the parents have given them the stamp of their own lustful propensities. CCh 110.2
“Those who have become fully established in this soul-and-body-destroying vice can seldom rest until their burden of secret evil is imparted to those with whom they associate. Curiosity is at once aroused, and the knowledge of vice is passed from youth to youth, from child to child, until there is scarcely one to be found ignorant of the practice of this degrading sin.169CCh 110.3
“The practice of secret habits surely destroys the vital forces of the system. All unnecessary vital action will be followed by corresponding depression. Among the young the vital capital, the brain, is so severely taxed at an early age that there is a deficiency and great exhaustion, which leaves the system exposed to disease of various kinds. CCh 110.4
“If the practice is continued from the ages of fifteen and upward, nature will protest against the abuse she has suffered, and continues to suffer, and will make them pay the penalty for the transgression of her laws, especially from the ages of thirty to forty-five, by numerous pains in the system and various diseases, such as affection of the liver and lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, affection of the spine, diseased kidneys, and cancerous humors. Some of nature’s fine machinery gives way, leaving a heavier task for the remaining to perform, which disorders nature’s fine arrangement; and there is often a sudden breaking down of the constitution, and death is the result. CCh 110.5” Ellen G. White, “The Result of Moral Pollution,” Counsels for the Church.