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Worship: For Heaven’s Sake When greater care is shown for a dumb animal than for man, who is made in the image of God, then is illustrated the working of all false religions. “They originate in man’s desire to exalt himself above God, but they result in degrading man below the brute.” (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, says most common thyroid disorders are in the category of autoimmune diseases. (Read more below.)
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – June 11 – June 17
Worship Sunday – At Capernaum; Monday – “Thou Canst Make Me Clean”; Tuesday – “Levi-Matthew”; Wednesday – “The Sabbath”; Thursday – “He Ordained Twelve”; Friday – “The Sermon on the Mount”; Saturday, the Sabbath – “The Centurion” [All topics per Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – The Plan of Redemption in the Adrenals; Monday – The Plan of Redemption in the Pancreas; Tuesday – The Plan of Redemption in the Parathyroid Glands; Wednesday – Primary Thyroid Disorders
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Words of Encouragement
Malachi 3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Job 42:10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
For Heaven’s Sake…
Such was the case when Jesus healed a man’s withered hand on the Sabbath. “The Pharisees watched Him, eager to see what He would do. The Saviour well knew that in healing on the Sabbath He would be regarded as a transgressor, but He did not hesitate to break down the wall of traditional requirements that barricaded the Sabbath. Jesus bade the afflicted man stand forth, and then asked, ‘Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill?’ It was a maxim among the Jews that a failure to do good, when one had opportunity, was to do evil; to neglect to save life was to kill. Thus Jesus met the rabbis on their own ground. ‘But they held their peace. And when He had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, He saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.’ Mark 3:4, 5. DA 286.2
“When Jesus turned upon the Pharisees with the question whether it was lawful on the Sabbath day to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill, He confronted them with their own wicked purposes. They were hunting His life with bitter hatred, while He was saving life and bringing happiness to multitudes. Was it better to slay upon the Sabbath, as they were planning to do, than to heal the afflicted, as He had done? Was it more righteous to have murder in the heart upon God’s holy day than love to all men, which finds expression in deeds of mercy? DA 287.1
“In the healing of the withered hand, Jesus condemned the custom of the Jews, and left the fourth commandment standing as God had given it. ‘It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days,’ He declared. By sweeping away the senseless restrictions of the Jews, Christ honored the Sabbath, while those who complained of Him were dishonoring God’s holy day. DA 287.2
“Those who hold that Christ abolished the law teach that He broke the Sabbath and justified His disciples in doing the same. Thus they are really taking the same ground as did the caviling Jews. In this they contradict the testimony of Christ Himself, who declared, ‘I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love.’ John 15:10. Neither the Saviour nor His followers broke the law of the Sabbath. Christ was a living representative of the law. No violation of its holy precepts was found in His life. Looking upon a nation of witnesses who were seeking occasion to condemn Him, He could say unchallenged, ‘Which of you convicteth Me of sin?’ John 8:46, R. V. DA 287.3
“‘The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath,’ Jesus said. The institutions that God has established are for the benefit of mankind. ‘All things are for your sakes.’ . . . DA 288.1
“‘Wherefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath.’ These words are full of instruction and comfort. Because the Sabbath was made for man, it is the Lord’s day. It belongs to Christ. For ‘all things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.’ John 1:3. Since He made all things, He made the Sabbath. By Him it was set apart as a memorial of the work of creation. It points to Him as both the Creator and the Sanctifier. It declares that He who created all things in heaven and in earth, and by whom all things hold together, is the head of the church, and that by His power we are reconciled to God. For, speaking of Israel, He said, ‘I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them,’–make them holy. Ezek. 20:12. Then the Sabbath is a sign of Christ’s power to make us holy. And it is given to all whom Christ makes holy. As a sign of His sanctifying power, the Sabbath is given to all who through Christ become a part of the Israel of God. DA 288.2
“And the Lord says, ‘If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; . . . then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord.’ Isa. 58:13, 14. To all who receive the Sabbath as a sign of Christ’s creative and redeeming power, it will be a delight. Seeing Christ in it, they delight themselves in Him. The Sabbath points them to the works of creation as an evidence of His mighty power in redemption. While it calls to mind the lost peace of Eden, it tells of peace restored through the Saviour. And every object in nature repeats His invitation, ‘Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.’ Matt 11:28. DA 289.1
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: 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.” Exodus 20:8-11, KJV.
(This study is based on chapter 29, “The Sabbath,” in The Desire of Ages (DA), by Ellen G. White.)
For Health’s Sake. . .
That means that the immune system has been tricked into overactivity, which leads to self-destruction. The efforts of the immune system, while intending to protect the system, actually destroy the body system. There are two primary thyroid disorders in this category: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, a hypothyroid disorder and Graves’ disease, a hyperthyroid disorder.
Hypothyroidism happens when the thyroid produces too few hormones. Hyperthyroidism happens when the thyroid produces too many. The root of the problem is toxins. The first step in correcting the problem is to cleanse the system of toxins. Any autoimmune disease can be cured, says Pastor Flemons, although it is said that they are incurable.
Remember that the thyroid manages metabolism. Hypothyroidism manifests itself in everything being slowed down. The body is sluggish, including the bowels. Even the voice range may take a dip, and speech is slowed. The opposite is true for hyperthyroidism. Everything is in a race. The heart races. Blood pressure rises. The bowels have a diarrhea effect. And it can be life-threatening, due to the excessive pumping of blood, which weakens the blood vessels, which can lead to an aneurysm.
Although this not the week to focus on natural remedies for the thyroid, Pastor Flemons hastened to say that fasting is the solution to the problem. Cabbage and other cruciferous vegetable juices are very important in the healing regimen for hyperthyroidism. Eliminate or minimize these same vegetable juices for hypothyroidism. Because TOR recommends fasting on highly nutritious juices, we call it juice feasting.