Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The sanctuary’s one table in the holy place bore a double crown of gold. This double-crown border had a twofold significance. “A crown worn by a sovereign indicates authority and power. The Word of God, symbolized by the bread on the table, has dynamic power. Received into the heart, it changes the life. It ‘is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit.’ Heb. 4:12. It has authority. It brought the world into existence. . . . These crowns also fittingly represent the reward that those will receive who ‘always’ eat at the golden table.” The top crown represents Christ. The lower crown represents the redeemed. Interestingly, the double-crowned table was set with two stacks of bread, fittingly representing the Old and New Testaments as well as the spoken and written word of God, which always brings a double blessing, rather, a double reward for anyone given to the deep study of God’s Word.
[For additional details, please read Exodus 37:11,16; 25:25; 2 Peter 1:4; Hebrews 4:12; Psalm 33:6; John 17:17; and Genesis 32:41. Also read “Two Crowns of the Table” in The Path to the Throne of God: The Sanctuary, by Sarah Elizabeth Peck, PTG 120 original; PTG 168, 169 new edition; PTG 91 online. Also listen to the recording and hear Pastor Flemons sing Hymn 223, “Crown Him With Many Crowns.”
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says, “Those who eat and work intemperately act irrationally.” He says that appetite is so powerful that we cannot perfect Christian character, until we gain the victory over appetite. The basis of his statements is the passage he read from the book Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, by Ellen G. White, printed in full below. (Read more below.)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – July 15 – 21
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Words of Encouragement
Isaiah 40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Isaiah 40:10 Behold the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. (Also read COL 415.)
For Health’s Sake…
“Appetite and passion are overcoming thousands of Christ’s professed followers. Through familiarity with sin, their senses become so blunted that evil seems attractive to them, rather than abhorrent. The end of all things is at hand. God will not much longer bear with the crimes and debasing iniquity of the children of men. Their sins have reached unto heaven, and will soon be answered by the fearful plagues of God upon the earth. They will drink the cup of his wrath, unmixed with mercy. {CTBH 155.2}
Church Trials—The abuses of the stomach by the gratification of appetite are a fruitful source of most church trials. Those who eat and work intemperately and irrationally, talk and act irrationally. It is not necessary to drink alcoholic liquors in order to be intemperate. The sin of intemperate eating—eating too frequently, too much, and of rich, unwholesome food—destroys the healthy action of the digestive organs, affects the brain, and perverts the judgment, preventing rational, calm, healthy thinking and acting. In order for the people of God to be in an acceptable state with him, where they can glorify him in their bodies and spirits, which are his, they must with interest and zeal deny the gratification of appetite, and exercise temperance in all things. Then they can comprehend the truth in its beauty and clearness, and carry it out in their lives, and by a judicious, straight-forward course give the enemies of our faith no occasion to reproach the cause of truth. God requires all who believe the truth to make special, persevering efforts to place themselves in the best possible condition of bodily health, for a solemn and important work is before us. Health of mind and body is required in this work; it is as essential to a healthy religious experience, to advancement in the Christian life, to progress in holiness, as is the hand or foot to the human body. God requires his people to cleanse themselves ‘from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.’ [2 Corinthians 7:1.] All who are indifferent, and excuse themselves from this work, waiting for the Lord to do for them what he requires them to do for themselves, will be found wanting when the meek of the earth, who have wrought his judgments, are hid in the day of the Lord’s anger. {CTBH 155.3}
(For further details, please listen to the recording to hear Pastor Flemons comment on the reading. Also read the original statement here from which Pastor Flemons based his health presentation.)