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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake We should live, eat, dress like Christians. Moreso, we should be Christians. It is more important to have the Holy Spirit than to be fanatical about looking like a Christian outwardly and be devoid of the Holy Spirit inwardly. That’s how even the priesthood became corrupt. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says water and sunlight give you healthy skin. (Read more below.)
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Worship: The Chosen People
Wellness: Water and Sunlight for Healthy Skin
TOPICS THIS WEEK – May 14 – 20
Worship Sunday – The Coming of a Deliverer; Monday – The House of Israel; Tuesday – Visions of Future Glory; Wednesday – God With Us; Thursday – The Chosen People; Friday – The Fullness of Time; Saturday, the Sabbath – Unto You a Saviour [All topics per Prophets and Kings or Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Principles of Biblical Wellness: Sunday – How Stress Affects Your Skin; Monday – Eat Healthy for Your Skin; Tuesday – Fresh Air and Rest for Healthy Skin; Wednesday – Exercise and Self-Control for Healthy Skin; Water and Sunlight for Healthy Skin
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Words of Encouragement
Psalm 97:10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Jeremiah 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
For Heaven’s Sake…
God’s people were chosen to safeguard His word. They were to preserve the knowledge of God law, as well as the symbols and prophecies. “What Abraham was in the land of his sojourn, what Joseph was in Egypt, and Daniel in the courts of Babylon, the Hebrew people were to be among the nations. They were to reveal God to men. DA 27.2
“Had Israel been true to God, He could have accomplished His purpose through their honor and exaltation. If they had walked in the ways of obedience, He would have made them ‘high above all nations which He hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor.’ ‘All people of the earth,’ said Moses, ‘shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.’ ‘The nations which shall hear all these statutes’ shall say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ Deut. 26:19; 28:10; 4:6. But because of their unfaithfulness, God’s purpose could be wrought out only through continued adversity and humiliation. DA 28.2
“As they departed from God, the Jews in a great degree lost sight of the teaching of the ritual service. That service had been instituted by Christ Himself. In every part it was a symbol of Him; and it had been full of vitality and spiritual beauty. But the Jews lost the spiritual life from their ceremonies, and clung to the dead forms. They trusted to the sacrifices and ordinances themselves, instead of resting upon Him to whom they pointed. In order to supply the place of that which they had lost, the priests and rabbis multiplied requirements of their own; and the more rigid they grew, the less of the love of God was manifested. They measured their holiness by the multitude of their ceremonies, while their hearts were filled with pride and hypocrisy. DA 29.2
“With all their minute and burdensome injunctions, it was an impossibility to keep the law. Those who desired to serve God, and who tried to observe the rabbinical precepts, toiled under a heavy burden. They could find no rest from the accusings of a troubled conscience. Thus Satan worked to discourage the people, to lower their conception of the character of God, and to bring the faith of Israel into contempt. He hoped to establish the claim put forth when he rebelled in heaven,–that the requirements of God were unjust, and could not be obeyed. Even Israel, he declared, did not keep the law. DA 29.3
“While the Jews desired the advent of the Messiah, they had no true conception of His mission. They did not seek redemption from sin, but deliverance from the Romans. They looked for the Messiah to come as a conqueror, to break the oppressor’s power, and exalt Israel to universal dominion. Thus the way was prepared for them to reject the Saviour. DA 29.4
“At the time of the birth of Christ the nation was chafing under the rule of her foreign masters, and racked with internal strife. The Jews had been permitted to maintain the form of a separate government; but nothing could disguise the fact that they were under the Roman yoke, or reconcile them to the restriction of their power. The Romans claimed the right of appointing and removing the high priest, and the office was often secured by fraud, bribery, and even murder. Thus the priesthood became more and more corrupt. Yet the priests still possessed great power, and they employed it for selfish and mercenary ends. The people were subjected to their merciless demands, and were also heavily taxed by the Romans. This state of affairs caused widespread discontent. Popular outbreaks were frequent. Greed and violence, distrust and spiritual apathy, were eating out the very heart of the nation. DA 30.1
“Hatred of the Romans, and national and spiritual pride, led the Jews still to adhere rigorously to their forms of worship. The priests tried to maintain a reputation for sanctity by scrupulous attention to the ceremonies of religion. The people, in their darkness and oppression, and the rulers, thirsting for power, longed for the coming of One who would vanquish their enemies and restore the kingdom to Israel. They had studied the prophecies, but without spiritual insight. Thus they overlooked those scriptures that point to the humiliation of Christ’s first advent, and misapplied those that speak of the glory of His second coming. Pride obscured their vision. They interpreted prophecy in accordance with their selfish desires.” DA 30.2
(This study is based on chapter 2, “The Chosen People” in The Desire of Ages (DA), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
Water is indispensable. Water is needed for the proper function of every organ in the body. The five organs of elimination (lungs, skin, kidneys, colon, and liver) need water for respiration, perspiration, urination, defecation, and detoxification.
Without enough water, there is a general buildup of toxins in the body system. Without enough water, toxins get caught in the pores of the skin and manifest as a skin condition. In fact, wrinkles are the result of dehydration.
Skin is healthier when a person drinks at least half of his or her body’s weight in ounces every day. Unsweetened herbal tea, unless sweetened with Stevia, counts toward the daily intake of pure water.
Sunlight is healthy for the skin, as it turns cholesterol in the skin into vitamin D. There is no other natural source of vitamin D. It is recommended that you get at least twenty minutes of sunlight daily. Only the face and hands need be exposed to sunlight to absorb sufficient rays.
Sunlight, however popular the belief, is not the culprit of skin cancer, says Pastor Flemons. The problem is in eating an excess of greasy foods. The oil surfaces in the skin and becomes rancid. The sun bakes the toxic, rancid oil and causes free radical damage, leading to cancer.
However, meeting the daily minimums of water intake and sun exposure will help satisfy the skin for a healthy glow.