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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake God’s church consists of those whose doctrinal beliefs are pure and true to the word of God. The people themselves may still be feeble, but they must be in the process of being purified. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, listed five purposes for having a healthy REFRESHING lifestyle that includes a plant-based diet. (Read more below.)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – August 13 – 19
Worship Sunday – God’s Purpose for His Church; Monday – The Training of the Twelve – Tuesday – The Great Commission; Wednesday – Pentecost; Thursday – The Gift of the Spirit; Friday – At the Temple Gate; Saturday, the Sabbath – A Warning Against Hypocrisy [All topics per The Acts of the Apostles by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – God’s Purpose for the Health Message
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Words of Encouragement
John 10:28-29 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
Colossians 3:9-10 Lie not to one another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“The church is God’s appointed agency for the salvation of men. It was organized for service, and its mission is to carry the gospel to the world. From the beginning it has been God’s plan that through His church shall be reflected to the world His fullness and His sufficiency. The members of the church, those whom He has called out of darkness into His marvelous light, are to show forth His glory. The church is the repository of the riches of the grace of Christ; and through the church will eventually be made manifest, even to ‘the principalities and powers in heavenly places,’ the final and full display of the love of God. Ephesians 3:10. AA 9.1
“The church is God’s fortress. His city of refuge, which He holds in a revolted world. Any betrayal of the church is treachery to Him who has bought mankind with the blood of His only-begotten Son. From the beginning, faithful souls have constituted the church on earth. In every age the Lord has had His watchmen, who have borne a faithful testimony to the generation in which they lived. These sentinels gave the message of warning; and when they were called to lay off their armor, others took up the work. God brought these witnesses into covenant relation with Himself, uniting the church on earth with the church in heaven. He has sent forth His angels to minister to His church, and the gates of hell have not been able to prevail against His people. AA 11.2
“Through centuries of persecution, conflict, and darkness, God has sustained His church. Not one cloud has fallen upon it that He has not prepared for; not one opposing force has risen to counterwork His work, that He has not foreseen. All has taken place as He predicted. He has not left His church forsaken, but has traced in prophetic declarations what would occur, and that which His Spirit inspired the prophets to foretell has been brought about. All His purposes will be fulfilled. His law is linked with His throne, and no power of evil can destroy it. Truth is inspired and guarded by God; and it will triumph over all opposition. AA 11.3
“From the beginning God has wrought through His people to bring blessing to the world. To the ancient Egyptian nation God made Joseph a fountain of life. Through the integrity of Joseph the life of that whole people was preserved. Through Daniel God saved the life of all the wise men of Babylon. And these deliverances are as object lessons; they illustrate the spiritual blessings offered to the world through connection with the God whom Joseph and Daniel worshiped. Everyone in whose heart Christ abides, everyone who will show forth His love to the world, is a worker together with God for the blessing of humanity. As he receives from the Saviour grace to impart to others, from his whole being flows forth the tide of spiritual life. AA 13.2
“But the people of Israel lost sight of their high privileges as God’s representatives. They forgot God and failed to fulfill their holy mission. The blessings they received brought no blessing to the world. All their advantages they appropriated for their own glorification. They shut themselves away from the world in order to escape temptation. The restrictions that God had placed upon their association with idolaters as a means of preventing them from conforming to the practices of the heathen, they used to build up a wall of separation between themselves and all other nations. They robbed God of the service He required of them, and they robbed their fellow men of religious guidance and a holy example. AA 14.2
“Priests and rulers became fixed in a rut of ceremonialism. They were satisfied with a legal religion, and it was impossible for them to give to others the living truths of heaven. They thought their own righteousness all-sufficient, and did not desire that a new element should be brought into their religion. The good will of God to men they did not accept as something apart from themselves, but connected it with their own merit because of their good works. The faith that works by love and purifies the soul could find no place for union with the religion of the Pharisees, made up of ceremonies and the injunctions of men. AA 15.1
“The Jewish leaders thought themselves too wise to need instruction, too righteous to need salvation, too highly honored to need the honor that comes from Christ. The Saviour turned from them to entrust to others the privileges they had abused and the work they had slighted. God’s glory must be revealed, His word established. Christ’s kingdom must be set up in the world. The salvation of God must be made known in the cities of the wilderness; and the disciples were called to do the work that the Jewish leaders had failed to do. AA 16.1
(This study is based on chapter 1, “God’s Purpose for His Church” in The Acts of the Apostles (AA), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake…
The REFRESHING Way lifestyle is primarily relying on God for health and healing. But it also means doing your best in eating a plant-based diet, getting fresh air daily, resting by 9:30 p.m. nightly, exercising daily outdoors, using self-control in everything, drinking at least half of your body’s weight in ounces of water daily, and being in the sunshine a minimum of 20 minutes daily. It also means never giving up and giving to others.
This lifestyle is the essence of the health message. God uses it to help us in (1) hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit; (2) staying healthy for ministry to others; (3) revealing the compassion of Christ in our lives; (4) reversing Satan’s plans to destroy the people of God; and (5) in opening doors to the hearts of those, particularly in the last days, who need to be ready for the second coming of Christ.