Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The Ten Commandments are the transcript of God’s character, which He wants reflected in us. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Keeping the laws of health are essentially keeping the Ten Commandments. (Read more below.)
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Words of Encouragement
Lamentations 3:32-33 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly not grieve the children of men.
1 Samuel 1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
Exodus 20:1-17
And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
For Health’s Sake…
The same is true when we brake the laws of health, we brake the Ten Commandments, says Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness.
- 1. Do not make a god out of your taste buds. People who choose their bellies before they choose God become enemies of the cross. “Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things” (Philippians 3:19).
2. Be mindful of the image being created, when molding and shaping and fashioning dough or other foods in the kitchen. Obeying the dictates of your appetite is serving it and making a graven image right in your own kitchen. “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” (Romans 6:16)
3. You should look and act like a Christian and not simply say that you are. Eating whenever you want, however much you want, and whatever you want destroys a healthy body. Dressing so that blood vessels are constricted hinders proper blood circulation. Tight-fitting clothing and exposed extremities and other body parts cause blood constriction. “In that day seven women [church people in every denomination] shall take hold of one man [Jesus], saying We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach” (Isaiah 4:1).
4. Remember to follow the Owner’s manual for preserving God’s creation: the human body. Keep it healthy, according to the Bible. After God made everything else, He made man and gave man his diet; all of “it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). Then God gave the Sabbath in honor of and as a reminder of His creatorship. When we violate the manual for human preservation, we violate the law of the Creator: God.
5. Honor thy Father by honoring His temple: your body. “Know ye not ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16) When we willfully violate health principles, we are not honoring our Father: God.
6. Don’t commit murder and suicide. When we consume and serve to others toxic foods and drinks and otherwise don’t take care of ourselves by getting enough sleep, air, sun, prayer, or the WORD, we are committing murder and suicide on the installment plan.
7. Be faithful to God’s plan for your health. When you aren’t, your disobedience is playing the harlot or whoredom with Satan. It is adultery.
8. Don’t cut short your life violating health laws. It is stealing. It robs God, your family, your church, and your community of service you could have provided.
9. Don’t be a false witness. Be a Christian in your dietary and lifestyle habits and encourage others to do the same.
10. Do not nurse unreasonable desires for that which you should not have or does not belong to you. It is being covetous.