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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Lawlessness combined with a persuasive influence over laws of the land is a strange and unholy and dangerous mix. The same is true for preachers who focus on love rather than truth. Ezra focused on the laws and love of God. His life led to the king authorizing the laws of the land be in accordance with the laws of God. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, continued to demonstrate how the skin teaches spiritual principles. Today’s focus was the nerves. (Read more below.)
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Wellness: Biblical Skin Physiology, Pt 4
TOPICS THIS WEEK – April 30 – May 6
Worship Sunday – The Unseen Watcher; Monday – The Return of the Exiles; Tuesday – The Prophets of God Helping Them; Wednesday – Joshua and the Angel; Thursday – Not by Might, nor by Power; Friday – In the Days of Queen Esther; Saturday, the Sabbath – Ezra, the Priest and Scribe [All topics per Prophets and Kings by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Chemotherapy: Immediate effects, lasting results; Monday – Overcome Disease the REFRESHING Way; Tuesday – Biblical Skin Physiology, Pt 1; Wednesday – Your Health Questions Answered Live; Thursday – Biblical Skin Physiology, Pt 2; Friday – Biblical Skin Physiology, Pt 3; Saturday, the Sabbath – Biblical Skin Physiology, Pt 4
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Words of Encouragement
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Proverbs 6:22-23 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light. …
For Heaven’s Sake…
“Born of the sons of Aaron, Ezra had been given a priestly training; and in addition to this he had acquired a familiarity with the writings of the magicians, the astrologers, and the wise men of the Medo-Persian realm. But he was not satisfied with his spiritual condition. He longed to be in full harmony with God; he longed for wisdom to carry out the divine will. And so he ‘prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it.’ Ezra 7:10. This led him to apply himself diligently to a study of the history of God’s people, as recorded in the writings of prophets and kings. He searched the historical and poetical books of the Bible to learn why the Lord had permitted Jerusalem to be destroyed and His people carried captive into a heathen land. PK 608.1
“To the experiences of Israel from the time the promise was made to Abraham, Ezra gave special thought. He studied the instruction given at Mount Sinai and through the long period of wilderness wandering. As he learned more and still more concerning God’s dealings with His children, and comprehended the sacredness of the law given at Sinai, Ezra’s heart was stirred. He experienced a new and thorough conversion and determined to master the records of sacred history, that he might use this knowledge to bring blessing and light to his people. PK 608.2
“Ezra endeavored to gain a heart preparation for the work he believed was before him. He sought God earnestly, that he might be a wise teacher in Israel. As he learned to yield mind and will to divine control, there were brought into his life the principles of true sanctification, which, in later years, had a molding influence, not only upon the youth who sought his instruction, but upon all others associated with him. PK 608.3
“God chose Ezra to be an instrument of good to Israel, that He might put honor upon the priesthood, the glory of which had been greatly eclipsed during the captivity. Ezra developed into a man of extraordinary learning and became ‘a ready scribe in the law of Moses.’ Verse 6. These qualifications made him an eminent man in the Medo-Persian kingdom. PK 609.1
“Ezra became a mouthpiece for God, educating those about him in the principles that govern heaven. During the remaining years of his life, whether near the court of the king of Medo-Persia or at Jerusalem, his principal work was that of a teacher. As he communicated to others the truths he learned, his capacity for labor increased. He became a man of piety and zeal. He was the Lord’s witness to the world of the power of Bible truth to ennoble the daily life. PK 609.2
“The efforts of Ezra to revive an interest in the study of the Scriptures were given permanency by his painstaking, lifelong work of preserving and multiplying the Sacred Writings. He gathered all the copies of the law that he could find and had these transcribed and distributed. The pure word, thus multiplied and placed in the hands of many people, gave knowledge that was of inestimable value.” PK 609.3
This led to the decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. It was the third issued since the seventy years of captivity had closed. It was “a remarkable document for its expressions regarding the God of heaven, for its recognition of the attainments of Ezra, and for the liberality of the grants made to the remnant people of God. Artaxerxes refers to Ezra as ‘the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of His statutes to Israel;’ ‘a scribe of the law of the God of heaven.’ The king united with his counselors in offering freely ‘unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem;’ and in addition he made provision for meeting many heavy expenses by ordering that they be paid ‘out of the king’s treasure house.’ Verses 11, 12, 15, 20. PK 610.1
“‘Thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counselors,’ Artaxerxes declared to Ezra, ‘to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand.’ And he further decreed: ‘Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?’ Verses 14, 23.” PK 610.2
(This study is based on chapter 50, “Ezra, the Priest and Scribe” in Prophets and Kings (PK), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
“The skin has nerves,” says Pastor Flemons. The skin represents how we are to govern emotions. The nerves, which allow the feeling of heat, cold, friction, pressure and pain, represent our emotions. The emotion represented by heat is anger. The emotion represented by cold is hatred, including ignoring or belittling others, as though “the person is unworthy of notice,” says Pastor Flemons. The emotion represented by friction is the feeling that results from people rubbing people the wrong way. The emotion represented by pressure is that which results from being forced to do something. The emotion represented by pain is that hurt you feel when someone, purposely or not, hurts you emotionally or physically.
Our responses to these various emotional issues are taught in the Bible and are exemplified in the physiology of the skin. For heat or anger, read Exodus 32:19. For cold or hatred, read Matthew 24:12. For friction, read Mark 9:34. For pressure, read John 6:15. For pain, read Matthew 13:21. For tribulation and persecution, which come from the penalties of secular government and the penalties of the church, respectively, read two Bible references each: Judges 10:14; John 16:33; and Matthew 5:12; 23:37.
In all these emotional issues, the answer is Jesus. The skin expresses this in that in all of these emotional issues, blood rushes to the surface of the skin. We need the blood of Jesus in all our issues of life. When the skin is hot, the glands produce sweat that is salty. Matthew 5:13 provides the proper response. Even our speech is to be graced and seasoned with salt, says Colossians 4:6. Galatians 5:1 advises that restoration is to be done in the spirit of meekness.
In instances of cold or fear, the skin responds with goose bumps. The hair stands up. This is due to the muscle that is attached to the hair follicle. It demonstrates that during periods of stress or crises, the true character of the person is revealed.
Pastor Flemons says these and many other spiritual principles are taught by the physiology of the skin.