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Worship: The Call of Isaiah – How to Avoid Making Mistakes
Wellness: Rheumatoid Arthritis, A Biblical Wellness Perspective
TOPICS THIS WEEK – April 9 – 15
Worship Sunday – The Assyrian Captivity; Monday – Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge; Tuesday – The Call of Isaiah; Wednesday – “Behold Your God!”; Thursday – Ahaz; Friday – Hezekiah; Saturday, the Sabbath – The Ambassador From Babylon
[All topics per Prophets and Kings by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Saturday, the Sabbath – Diseases of the Skeletal System from a Biblical Wellness Perspective: Sunday – Arthritis; Monday – Osteopenia and Osteoporosis; Tuesday – Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Words of Encouragement
Exodus 23:25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Ezekiel 33:19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Presumption and apostasy are greater evils than those that are outward. Humility and obedience are required, for God’s blessings are conditional. Living like the world, putting God and His prophets aside, does not bring true prosperity.
Two hundred years had passed since the death of Solomon. Prosperity among God’s people was the greatest since then. Uzziah was now reigning over Judah and Benjamin. For many years he had ruled with discretion, until he was rich and famous and proud. It was then that he presumed to officiate as a priest in the holy place of the sanctuary. That ended in leprosy for him for the rest of his life, because he expressed wrath that he, the king, should be rebuked for his sin.
“God is no respecter of persons. ‘The soul that doeth aught presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.’ Numbers 15:30.PK 304.3
“The judgment that befell Uzziah seemed to have a restraining influence on his son. Jotham bore heavy responsibilities during the later years of his father’s reign and succeeded to the throne after Uzziah’s death. Of Jotham it is written: ‘He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places.’ 2 Kings 15:34, 35.PK 305.1
The corrupting influences of oppression, wealth, “love of display, gross drunkeness and a spirit of revelry” seized the people of God, when they should have been standing firm for Him. Instead of standing as light bearers, they lived so as to invite the judgments of God. In their wealth, they disregarded the social conditions of the people. To the poor, they showed no pity. (Read Isaiah 3:14, 15.) “Even the magistrates, whose duty it was to protect the helpless, turned a deaf ear to the cries of the poor and needy, the widows and the fatherless. See Isaiah 10:1, 2. PK 306.1”
In this state of affairs, “Isaiah was called to bear to Judah God’s messages of warning and reproof, he shrank from the responsibility. He well knew that he would encounter obstinate resistance. As he realized his own inability to meet the situation and thought of the stubbornness and unbelief of the people for whom he was to labor, his task seemed hopeless. Should he in despair relinquish his mission and leave Judah undisturbed to their idolatry? Were the gods of Nineveh to rule the earth in defiance of the God of heaven?PK 306
“Such thoughts as these were crowding through Isaiah’s mind as he stood under the portico of the temple. Suddenly the gate and the inner veil of the temple seemed to be uplifted or withdrawn, and he was permitted to gaze within, upon the holy of holies, where even the prophet’s feet might not enter. There rose up before him a vision of Jehovah sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, while the train of His glory filled the temple. On each side of the throne hovered the seraphim, their faces veiled in adoration, as they ministered before their Maker and united in the solemn invocation, ‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory,’ until post and pillar and cedar gate seemed shaken with the sound, and the house was filled with their tribute of praise. Isaiah 6:3.PK 307.1
“As Isaiah beheld this revelation of the glory and majesty of his Lord, he was overwhelmed with a sense of the purity and holiness of God. How sharp the contrast between the matchless perfection of his Creator, and the sinful course of those who, with himself, had long been numbered among the chosen people of Israel and Judah! ‘Woe is me!’ he cried; ‘for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.’ Verse 5. Standing, as it were, in the full light of the divine presence within the inner sanctuary, he realized that if left to his own imperfection and inefficiency, he would be utterly unable to accomplish the mission to which he had been called. But a seraph was sent to relieve him of his distress and to fit him for his great mission. A living coal from the altar was laid upon his lips, with the words, ‘Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.’ Then the voice of God was heard saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ and Isaiah responded, ‘Here am I; send me.’ Verses 7, 8.PK 307.2″
(This study is based on chapter 25, “The Call of Isaiah” in Prophets and Kings (PK), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
Rheumatoid arthritis is called arthritis only because of its affect on the joints. Like osteoarthritis, it causes inflammation in the joints. Otherwise, it is an autoimmune disease.
Modern medicine says the origin or cause of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown. The Bible says the curse causeless will not come. (Read Proverbs 26:2, the last part.) The cause is due to toxins introduced into the system through diet and lifestyle. Impurities have so weakened and confused the immune system that it is out of control and acts to destroy the body.
“People need to be taught that drugs do not cure disease. It is true that they sometimes afford present relief, and the patient appears to recover as the result of their use; this is because nature has sufficient vital force to expel the poison and to correct the conditions that caused the disease. Health is recovered in spite of the drug. But in most cases the drug only changes the form and location of the disease. Often the effect of the poison seems to be overcome for a time, but the results remain in the system and work great harm at some later period.MH 126.3
“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″
The answer is in expelling the impurities or toxins and helping the body to reestablish proper balances. That will be discussed during the final two weeks of this month. Next week we will discuss lifestyle. The following week we will discuss natural means to help the body reestablish right conditions in the system. That will cover biblical wellness.