Worship: For Heaven’s Sake A time of trouble such as the world has never seen is coming upon the whole world. It is likened to the time of Jacob’s trouble. And just like Jacob, every erring mortal human being may prevail with the Majesty of heaven. But it takes true humiliation and repentance and full self-surrender. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, informed listeners that “the president of the American Heart Association had a heart attack during the organization’s flagship scientific conference,” according to the NYDailyNews.com article he reviewed. The 52-year-old John Warner assumed his presidential role at the AHA this past July, but has been CEO of UT Southwestern University Hospitals in Dallas since 2012. He is a practicing cardiologist.
“Most of Warner’s career before becoming CEO of the health care system for UT Southwestern University Hospitals was spent working as an interventional cardiologist, often performing the exact procedure he underwent on Monday.” “Doctors inserted a stent to open up a clogged artery.” It is being called a minor episode.
Pastor Flemons says that it need not have happened. The proper plant-based diet, which excludes the flesh of animals and their byproducts, with the REFRESHING Way lifestyle prevents such episodes.
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Special Prayer was offered for call-in listeners Yvonne Chester and Stella David(health issues) and King family (bereavement).
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – November 12 – 18
Worship Sunday – Liberty of Conscience Threatened; Monday – The Impending Conflict; Tuesday – The Scriptures a Safeguard; Wednesday – The Final Warning; Thursday – The Time of Trouble, Pt. 1; Friday – The Time of Trouble, Pt. 2; Saturday, the Sabbath – Time of Trouble, Pt. 3 [All topics per The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Scared Straight! Monday – Hormone-Blocking Therapy for Breast Cancer; Tuesday – Why Nearly 50% Americans Have HBP; Wednesday – Benefits of Pomegranates; Thursday – Brain Tumor Shrunk; Friday – American Heart Association President Had a Heart Attack
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Words of Encouragement
Luke 12: 11-12 And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Luke 12:32-34 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“As Satan influenced Esau to march against Jacob, so he will stir up the wicked to destroy God’s people in the time of trouble. And as he accused Jacob, he will urge his accusations against the people of God. He numbers the world as his subjects; but the little company who keep the commandments of God are resisting his supremacy. If he could blot them from the earth, his triumph would be complete. He sees that holy angels are guarding them, and he infers that their sins have been pardoned; but he does not know that their cases have been decided in the sanctuary above. He has an accurate knowledge of the sins which he has tempted them to commit, and he presents these before God in the most exaggerated light, representing this people to be just as deserving as himself of exclusion from the favor of God. He declares that the Lord cannot in justice forgive their sins and yet destroy him and his angels. He claims them as his prey and demands that they be given into his hands to destroy. {GC 618.2}
“As Satan accuses the people of God on account of their sins, the Lord permits him to try them to the uttermost. Their confidence in God, their faith and firmness, will be severely tested. As they review the past, their hopes sink; for in their whole lives they can see little good. They are fully conscious of their weakness and unworthiness. Satan endeavors to terrify them with the thought that their cases are hopeless, that the stain of their defilement will never be washed away. He hopes so to destroy their faith that they will yield to his temptations and turn from their allegiance to God. {GC 618.3}
“Though God’s people will be surrounded by enemies who are bent upon their destruction, yet the anguish which they suffer is not a dread of persecution for the truth’s sake; they fear that every sin has not been repented of, and that through some fault in themselves they will fail to realize the fulfillment of the Saviour’s promise: I ‘will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world.’ Revelation 3:10. If they could have the assurance of pardon they would not shrink from torture or death; but should they prove unworthy, and lose their lives because of their own defects of character, then God’s holy name would be reproached. {GC 619.1}
“They afflict their souls before God, pointing to their past repentance of their many sins, and pleading the Saviour’s promise: ‘Let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.’ Isaiah 27:5. Their faith does not fail because their prayers are not immediately answered. Though suffering the keenest anxiety, terror, and distress, they do not cease their intercessions. They lay hold of the strength of God as Jacob laid hold of the Angel; and the language of their souls is: ‘I will not let Thee go, except Thou bless me.’” {GC 619.3}
(This study is based on chapter 39, “The Time of Trouble” in the book The Great Controversy (GC), by Ellen G. White.)