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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Elijah was the voice of fearless reproof. God committed to him messages of condemnation and judgment. But to Elisha, God committed to him a more peaceful mission. He was to build up and strengthen the work Elijah had begun. He was to teach the people the way of the Lord. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, discussed the skeletal system, focusing on the balance of calcium and phosphorus and how various organs and hormones keep these minerals in perfect balance. As we heard this lecture, we were all impressed with the fact that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. One theme that ran throughout the lecture was how the amount of calcium lost in one area was replaced in another area to keep the body in balance. This is truly the Lord’s doing. It is a marvelous revelation. Please watch the video.
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Worship: At War or Peace? You Need a Prophet!
Wellness: Biblical Physiology – The Skeletal System
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
Jeremiah 32:41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
Psalm 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Although Elisha was known for his mild and kind spirit, he could deliver a stern rebuke. Sometimes only one swift stern response to evil will teach the required lesson. Such was the case in Elisha cursing rude children who mocked God’s servant. They had heard about Elijah’s ascension and had made a joke of it. They yelled at Elisha, “Go up, thou bald head! Go up, thou bald head!” Elisha pronounced the curse. Immediately, God sent two she-bears out of the woods that ripped forty-two of them. In the remainder of his fifty years of service, such rudeness was never repeated among the idle, rude, and dissolute crowds of children.
“Even kindness should have its limits. Authority must be maintained by a firm severity, or it will be received by many with mockery and contempt. The so-called tenderness, the coaxing and indulgence, used toward youth by parents and guardians, is one of the worst evils which can come upon them. In every family, firmness, decision, positive requirements, are essential.PK 236.2
“Reverence, in which the youth who mocked Elisha were so lacking, is a grace that should be carefully cherished. Every child should be taught to show true reverence for God. Never should His name be spoken lightly or thoughtlessly. Angels, as they speak it, veil their faces. With what reverence should we, who are fallen and sinful, take it upon our lips!PK 236.3
“Reverence should be shown for God’s representatives—for ministers, teachers, and parents, who are called to speak and act in His stead. In the respect shown them, God is honored.PK 237.1″
Nevertheless, “Holy and Reverend is His name.” No man is to be referred to as Holy or Reverend. (Read Psalm 111:9.) The Pope is not to be referred to as the Holy Father. That is God! Neither should any man or woman of the cloth be referred to as Reverend Jones, for instance. Refer to them as Pastor, Elder, or Minister Jones.
“Courtesy, also, is one of the graces of the Spirit and should be cultivated by all. It has power to soften natures which without it would grow hard and rough. Those who profess to be followers of Christ, and are at the same time rough, unkind, and uncourteous, have not learned of Jesus. Their sincerity may not be doubted, their uprightness may not be questioned; but sincerity and uprightness will not atone for a lack of kindness and courtesy.PK 237.2
“Like the Saviour of mankind, of whom he was a type, Elisha in his ministry among men combined the work of healing with that of teaching. Faithfully, untiringly, throughout his long and effective labors, Elisha endeavored to foster and advance the important educational work carried on by the schools of the prophets. In the providence of God his words of instruction to the earnest groups of young men assembled were confirmed by the deep movings of the Holy Spirit, and at times by other unmistakable evidences of his authority as a servant of Jehovah. PK 240.2”
(This study is based on 2 Kings 4 and chapter 19, “A Prophet of Peace” in Prophets and Kings (PK), by Ellen G. White.)