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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Open sin is becoming the norm everywhere. But that is just one sign that the coming of Christ is near. Jesus mentioned other signs as well, including the persecution of His faithful followers. All those who live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. (See Matthew 24 and 2 Timothy 3:12.) (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, interviewed Erin Garrett, a nurse practitioner and member of the new juice feast group in Indianapolis. All had watched the documentary “What the Health” and committed themselves to being healthy. (Read more below.)
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Special Prayer was offered for call-in listener Sister Erin and the Feast Group in Indianapolis. Pray that their 14-day feast is more than successful, that they not only reach their wellness goals but that God will grant them the Holy Spirit and spiritual blessings beyond their expectations.
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – July 23 – July 29
Worship Sunday – In the Outer Court; Monday – On the Mount of Olives – Tuesday – The Least of These My Brethren; Wednesday – A Servant of Servants; Thursday – In Remembrance of Me; Friday – Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled; Saturday, the Sabbath – Gethsemane [All topics per Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White.]
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Words of Encouragement
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Luke 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
For Heaven’s Sake…
“Christ’s words had been spoken in the hearing of a large number of people; but when He was alone, Peter, John, James, and Andrew came to Him as He sat upon the Mount of Olives. ‘Tell us,’ they said, ‘when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?’ Jesus did not answer His disciples by taking up separately the destruction of Jerusalem and the great day of His coming. He mingled the description of these two events. Had He opened to His disciples future events as He beheld them, they would have been unable to endure the sight. In mercy to them He blended the description of the two great crises, leaving the disciples to study out the meaning for themselves. When He referred to the destruction of Jerusalem, His prophetic words reached beyond that event to the final conflagration in that day when the Lord shall rise out of His place to punish the world for their iniquity, when the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. This entire discourse was given, not for the disciples only, but for those who should live in the last scenes of this earth’s history. DA 628.1
“Turning to the disciples, Christ said, ‘Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.’ Many false messiahs will appear, claiming to work miracles, and declaring that the time of the deliverance of the Jewish nation has come. These will mislead many. Christ’s words were fulfilled. Between His death and the siege of Jerusalem many false messiahs appeared. But this warning was given also to those who live in this age of the world. The same deceptions practiced prior to the destruction of Jerusalem have been practiced through the ages, and will be practiced again. DA 628.2
“‘And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.’ Prior to the destruction of Jerusalem, men wrestled for the supremacy. Emperors were murdered. Those supposed to be standing next the throne were slain. There were wars and rumors of wars. ‘All these things must come to pass,’ said Christ, ‘but the end [of the Jewish nation as a nation] is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.’ Christ said, As the rabbis see these signs, they will declare them to be God’s judgments upon the nations for holding in bondage His chosen people. They will declare that these signs are the token of the advent of the Messiah. Be not deceived; they are the beginning of His judgments. The people have looked to themselves. They have not repented and been converted that I should heal them. The signs that they represent as tokens of their release from bondage are signs of their destruction. DA 628.3
“‘Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for My name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.’ All this the Christians suffered. Fathers and mothers betrayed their children. Children betrayed their parents. Friends delivered their friends up to the Sanhedrin. The persecutors wrought out their purpose by killing Stephen, James, and other Christians. DA 629.1
“Through His servants, God gave the Jewish people a last opportunity to repent. He manifested Himself through His witnesses in their arrest, in their trial, and in their imprisonment. Yet their judges pronounced on them the death sentence. They were men of whom the world was not worthy, and by killing them the Jews crucified afresh the Son of God. So it will be again. The authorities will make laws to restrict religious liberty. They will assume the right that is God’s alone. They will think they can force the conscience, which God alone should control. Even now they are making a beginning; this work they will continue to carry forward till they reach a boundary over which they cannot step. God will interpose in behalf of His loyal, commandment-keeping people. DA 630.1
“On every occasion when persecution takes place, those who witness it make decisions either for Christ or against Him. Those who manifest sympathy for the ones wrongly condemned show their attachment for Christ. Others are offended because the principles of truth cut directly across their practice. Many stumble and fall, apostatizing from the faith they once advocated. Those who apostatize in time of trial will, to secure their own safety, bear false witness, and betray their brethren. Christ has warned us of this, that we may not be surprised at the unnatural, cruel course of those who reject the light. DA 630.2
“After He had given the signs of His coming, Christ said, ‘When ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.’ ‘Take ye heed, watch and pray.’ God has always given men warning of coming judgments. Those who had faith in His message for their time, and who acted out their faith, in obedience to His commandments, escaped the judgments that fell upon the disobedient and unbelieving. The word came to Noah, ‘Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me.’ Noah obeyed and was saved. The message came to Lot, ‘Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city.’ Gen. 7:1; 19:14. Lot placed himself under the guardianship of the heavenly messengers, and was saved. So Christ’s disciples were given warning of the destruction of Jerusalem. Those who watched for the sign of the coming ruin, and fled from the city, escaped the destruction. So now we are given warning of Christ’s second coming and of the destruction to fall upon the world. Those who heed the warning will be saved. DA 634.1”
(This study is based on Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21:5-38; and chapter 69, “On the Mount of Olives” in The Desire of Ages (DA), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
Like many today who have health challenges that are not being met by modern medicine, Erin has turned to biblical wellness. Carlene Archie, a former health guest of Times of Refreshing Wellness Ministry, is convicted of biblical wellness and is taking the movement to a new level. Carlene, along with Joi Harmon, initiated a local juice feast group in Indianapolis, Indiana. And Pastor Flemons, director of Times of Refreshing, traveled from Georgia to meet, teach and help the group get started. Erin was there. “It was a phenomenal event!” she said.
Although not everyone was slated to begin the feast on the same day, everyone attended the group session Sunday, July 23. Although the meeting was slated for only three hours, no one left until about twelve hours later. The meeting turned into a nearly all-night working session. Together they prepared vegetables: washing and cutting them. And then they juiced for hours. Using three different juicers, they worked until everyone could leave with what they needed to get started. They brought and bought water. They made coffee and cut the cloths for enemas to flush the liver.
Their combined resources and efforts were all for one major goal: keeping the body temple in order. Erin said, “We’re moving into a higher level of being with the LORD. This is for the future. We’re planning to live and not die!”
(Listen to the recording to hear the full interview.)