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Worship: Naaman the Leper
Wellness: Biblical Physiology – The Skeletal System, Pt 2
TOPICS THIS WEEK – April 2 – 8
Worship Sunday – The Fall of the House of Ahab; Monday – The Call of Elisha; Tuesday – The Healing of the Waters; Wednesday – A Prophet of Peace; Thursday – Naaman; Friday – Elisha’s Closing Ministry; Saturday, the Sabbath – “Nineveh, That Great City”
[All topics per Prophets and Kings by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Saturday, the Sabbath – The Skeletal System
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Words of Encouragement
1 Corinthians 15:57-58 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Ruth 2:12 The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
“There is no higher trust than that committed to fathers and mothers in the care and training of their children. Parents have to do with the very foundations of habit and character. By their example and teaching the future of their children is largely decided.PK 245.1
“We know not in what line our children may be called to serve. They may spend their lives within the circle of the home; they may engage in life’s common vocations, or go as teachers of the gospel to heathen lands; but all are alike called to be missionaries for God, ministers of mercy to the world. They are to obtain an education that will help them to stand by the side of Christ in unselfish service.PK 245.3
“The parents of that Hebrew maid, as they taught her of God, did not know the destiny that would be hers. But they were faithful to their trust; and in the home of the captain of the Syrian host, their child bore witness to the God whom she had learned to honor.PK 246.1″
As a result, Naaman was sent to Elisha the prophet and healed of his leprosy. Although he was fiercely angry because he expected the prophet of God to heal him in some grand ceremonial way, before it was too late, he humbled himself and obeyed. The prescription for healing was simple. Naaman was to bathe in the Jordan seven times. Healthy and clean (or detoxified) flesh would return to him. He obeyed and was healed.
“In accordance with the custom of the times, Naaman now asked Elisha to accept a costly present. But the prophet refused. It was not for him to take payment for a blessing that God had in mercy bestowed. ‘As the Lord liveth,’ he said, ‘I will receive none.’ The Syrian ‘urged him to take it; but he refused.’PK 250.1″
Sadly, however, Elisha’s servant Gehazi had failed to appreciate heavenly things. “The best gifts of Heaven had long been within his reach; yet turning from these, he had coveted instead the base alloy of worldly wealth.” The servant of Elisha concocted a story for Naaman to elicit from him gifts of silver and garments. Overcome with longings of the tokens of wealth, Gehazi then ran after Naaman.
“When Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? And he said, All is well.” Then Gehazi uttered a deliberate lie. ‘My master,’ he said, ‘hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from Mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.’ To the request Naaman gladly acceded, pressing upon Gehazi two talents of silver instead of one, ‘with two changes of garments,’ and commissioning servants to bear the treasure back.PK 251.1
“As Gehazi neared Elisha’s home, he dismissed the servants and placed the silver and the garments in hiding. This accomplished, ‘he went in, and stood before his master;’ and, to shield himself from censure, he uttered a second lie. In response to the inquiry of the prophet, ‘Whence comest thou?’ Gehazi answered, ‘Thy servant went no whither.’PK 251.2
As though unaware that Elisha was a prophet of God and that God would uncover the truth to Elisha, Gehazi needlessly trapped himself in lies. Elisha told Gehazi all the details of the scene between him and Naaman. “For the deception practiced by Gehazi there could be pleaded no excuse. To the day of his death he remained a leper, cursed of God and shunned by his fellow men.” PK 252.1
“A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.” Proverbs 19:5.
“Centuries after Naaman returned to his Syrian home, healed in body and converted in spirit, his wonderful faith was referred to and commended by the Saviour as an object lesson for all who claim to serve God. ‘Many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet,’ the Saviour declared; ‘and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.’ Luke 4:27. God passed over the many lepers in Israel because their unbelief closed the door of good to them. A heathen nobleman who had been true to his convictions of right, and who felt his need of help, was in the sight of God more worthy of His blessing than were the afflicted in Israel, who had slighted and despised their God-given privileges. God works for those who appreciate His favors and respond to the light given them from heaven.PK 252.4″
(This study is based on 2 Kings 4 and chapter 20, “Naaman” in Prophets and Kings (PK), by Ellen G. White.)