Worship: For Heaven’s Sake There was no excuse for the Jews, God’s chosen people, not to recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says, when one organ is injured, the others are affected. We must treat our organs good and obey the laws of health to stay well or to heal when we become sick. When sickness comes, the body is simply crying out for help to adjust the lifestyle. The sickness has come because of wrong habits of eating, working, living and dressing. If the body is cleaned up and circulation is equalized, you can be well. For more details that Pastor Flemons shared, read “The Use of Remedies” in Ministry of Healing or listen to the recording.
(NOTE: Before following any advice given here, please read our disclaimer on this page.)
Special Prayer was offered for 8673 and Missy and her family. Pray for these persons and any other previous requests as God leads you. Thank you.
Listeners Speak Out!
“I’ve been richly blessed from your topics.” —2412 (California)
“I thank God for allowing me to go to Times of Refreshing. It changed my life. I felt like a whole new person.” —Jason (The Jason Holt Story)
“This is a powerful ministry!”—0091 (Indiana)
“I love y’all! … It is no mistake that you are in my life.” —-Annette (Michigan)
“Thank you for [the] presentation. It hit home in many ways. It was confirmation for me for things that I have been praying about.” —-7587 (Virginia)
Listen
Watch Slides
FaceBook – Jesus in the Old Testament (Thessalonica)
FaceBook – How to Get Well
Playback: To listen by phone to former broadcasts, call (712) 770-4019. Access Code: 635270. Reference number for today’s broadcast: 595.
TOPICS THIS WEEK – September 3 – 9
Worship Sunday – Thessalonica; Monday – Berea and Athens – Tuesday – Corinth; Wednesday – The Thessalonian Letters; Thursday – Apollos at Corinth; Friday – Ephesus; Saturday, the Sabbath – Days of Toil and Trial [All topics per The Acts of the Apostles by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – How to Get Well
SHARE THIS PRESENTATION on your social media sites.
DONATE on this site. HELP expand this ministry.
***
Words of Encouragement
Daniel 7:18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“Plain and specific prophecies had been given regarding the appearance of the Promised One. To Adam was given an assurance of the coming of the Redeemer. The sentence pronounced on Satan, ‘I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel’ (Genesis 3:15), was to our first parents a promise of the redemption to be wrought out through Christ. AA 222.1
“To Abraham was given the promise that of his line [] [a] Saviour of the world should come: ‘In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.’ ‘He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.’ Genesis 22:18; Galatians 3:16. AA 222.2
“Moses, near the close of his work as a leader and teacher of Israel, plainly prophesied of the Messiah to come. ‘The Lord thy God,’ he declared to the assembled hosts of Israel, ‘will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto Him ye shall hearken.’ And Moses assured the Israelites that God Himself had revealed this to him while in Mount Horeb, saying, ‘I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in His mouth; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him.’ Deuteronomy 18:15, 18. AA 222.3
“The Messiah was to be of the royal line, for in the prophecy uttered by Jacob the Lord said, ‘The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be.’ Genesis 49:10. AA 223.1
“Isaiah prophesied: ‘There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots.’ ‘Incline your ear, and come unto Me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given Him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for He hath glorified thee.’ Isaiah 11:1; 55:3-5. AA 223.2
“Jeremiah also bore witness of the coming Redeemer as a Prince of the house of David: ‘Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name whereby He shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness.’ And again: ‘Thus saith the Lord: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.’ Jeremiah 23:5, 6; 33:17, 18. AA 223.3
“Even the birthplace of the Messiah was foretold: ‘Thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto Me that is to be Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.’ Micah 5:2. AA 223.4
“The work that the Saviour was to do on the earth had been fully outlined: ‘The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; and shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord.’ The One thus anointed was ‘to preach good tidings unto the meek; . . . to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified.'” Isaiah 11:2, 3; 61:1-3. AA 224.1
When all these prophecies and Jesus as the Christ were preached in Thessalonica, a multitude of devout Greeks believed. But the Jews who didn’t believe were moved with envy. They used the opportunity to gain favor for themselves with the Roman power. They sought to imprison Paul and Silas; but Paul and Silas couldn’t be found.
(This study is based on Acts 17:1-10 and chapter 22, “Thessalonica” in The Acts of the Apostles (AA), by Ellen G. White.)