Worship: For Heaven’s Sake God instituted reforms after 1798 to prepare His people for the world’s final crisis, which will occur just prior to the Second Coming of Christ. Country living is just one of those reforms. It follows talks on Bible reform, the Spirit of Prophecy reform, Sanctuary reform, Sabbath reform, and Worship reform in the series “Preparation for the Final Crisis.”
God’s original plan is still His plan for us today. The Garden of Eden was the home chosen of God for our first parents: Adam and Eve. They were to dress it and maintain it. They were safe there until, they ventured away. Today is no different in that we must still keep our families away from temptations to sin.
“Better sacrifice any and every worldly consideration than to imperil the precious souls committed to your care. They will be assailed by temptations, and should be taught to meet them; but it is your duty to cut off every influence, to break up every habit, to sunder every tie, that keeps you from the most free, open, and hearty committal of yourselves and your family to God. {CL 5.3}
“Instead of the crowded city, seek some retired situation where your children will be, so far as possible, shielded from temptation, and there train and educate them for usefulness. . . .—Testimonies for the Church 5:232, 233 (1882).” {CL 5.4}
Pastor Flemons says that people believe the first signal is yet to come with the Sunday Law crisis. However, the first signal to get out of the city happened in 1888, the year of America’s first Sunday Law crisis. He says to not be deceived by the last statement in the book Country Living, which says:
“It is no time now for God’s people to be fixing their affections or laying up their treasure in the world. The time is not far distant, when, like the early disciples, we shall be forced to seek a refuge in desolate and solitary places. As the siege of Jerusalem by the Roman armies was the signal for flight to the Judean Christians, so the assumption of power on the part of our nation, in the decree enforcing the papal Sabbath, will be a warning to us. It will then be time to leave the large cities, preparatory to leaving the smaller ones for retired homes in secluded places among the mountains. And now, instead of seeking expensive dwellings here, we should be preparing to move to a better country, even a heavenly. Instead of spending our means in self-gratification, we should be studying to economize.—Testimonies for the Church 5:464, 465 (1885).” {CL 32.1}
Make preparations with the right mindset, says Pastor Flemons. Pray. Pray. Pray. You don’t want to enter into the country with the wrong people. Pray toward it. Look toward it. Move toward it now. The final movements we have been warned will be rapid ones. Country living, however, is only part of the preparation for the final crisis.
[For additional details, please read Genesis 2:8; Country Living, by Ellen G. White, CL 5; and CL 31. Also, listen to the recording to hear the commentary of Pastor Flemons, who sang Hymn 93, “All Things Bright and Beautiful.”]
Worship: For Health’s Sake Shelem Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says that eating healthy for the first time for some people may be weakening. Why is that? Pastor Flemons shared his own testimony and explained.
Some are uneducated, he says, and are simply doing it wrong. All products in a health food store are not healthy. Pastor Flemons testified about eating junk food from a health food store, while still in his teens. He says, “People think just because it’s not meat, it’s good to eat.” That is just not so.
You must eat the right foods, he says. Eat lots of fresh produce, lots of sprouts, lettuce, tomatoes, all kinds of vegetables and whole grains. However, some people will say that they did all of that and still got weak. To that, Pastor Flemons says you need to know that animal products are stimulating. It’s like a bellows, he says, that keeps a fire going. Meat-eating is similar to that. It causes the body to race, producing an energetic feeling. But the body is only trying to rush the toxins out of the system. A plant-based diet will help the body calm down. At first, you will not feel your normal energy. However, in time, the body will respond, and you will feel your new normal. Then, it will be great.
(For additional details, please listen to the recording.)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – March 17 – 23
Worship Sunday – Spirit of Prophecy Reform; Monday – Sanctuary Reform; Tuesday – Sabbath Reform; Wednesday – Worship Reform; Thursday – Worship Reform 2; Friday – Country Living Reform
Wellness Sunday – From Masturbation to Mental Illness; Monday – Exercise in Fresh Air; Tuesday – Why You Need an Alkaline Diet; Wednesday – Medical Thermography; Thursday – Rely on God for Health; Friday – Tried a Plant-Based Diet? Got Weak? Here’s Why
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Words of Encouragement
Exodus 3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. (Also read Conflict and Courage, CC 87.)
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. (Also read With God at Dawn, WGD 83.)