Worship: For Heaven’s Sake True holiness, to some, means having absolutely no interests in temporal needs. To them, it is a sin to work. The Apostle Paul says that if you won’t work, neither should you eat. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, detailed his medical missionary experience in the Amish community, particularly the fever bath, which strengthens the immune system and kills cancer. Cancer doesn’t handle heat well. Please listen to his amazing story on the recording.
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TOPICS THIS WEEK – September 10 – 16
Worship Sunday – A Message of Warning and Entreaty; Monday – Called to Reach a Higher Standard – Tuesday – The Message Heeded; Wednesday – A Liberal Church; Thursday – Laboring Under Difficulties; Friday – A Consecrated Ministry; Saturday, the Sabbath – Salvation to the Jews [All topics per The Acts of the Apostles by Ellen G. White.]
Wellness Sunday – Helping Others Improves Your Health; Monday – The Importance of Medical Missionary Work; Tuesday – A Call to Medical Evangelism; Wednesday – Hypertension and the ABC and D of Beet Juice; Thursday – My First Fever Bath in an Amish Home
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Words of Encouragement
Psalm 121:2-3 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
For Heaven’s Sake…
“In his second letter to the believers in Corinth, written after he had raised up a strong church there, Paul reviewed his manner of life among them. ‘Have I committed an offense,’ he asked, ‘in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.’ 2 Corinthians 11:7-10. AA 350.2
“Paul tells why he had followed this course in Corinth. It was that he might give no cause for reproach to ‘them which desire occasion.’ 2 Corinthians 11:12. While he had worked at tentmaking he had also labored faithfully in the proclamation of the gospel. He himself declares of his labors, ‘Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.’ And he adds, ‘For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong. Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you. . . . And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you.’ 2 Corinthians 12:12-15. AA 350.3
“During the long period of his ministry in Ephesus, where for three years he carried forward an aggressive evangelistic effort throughout that region, Paul again worked at his trade. In Ephesus, as in Corinth, the apostle was cheered by the presence of Aquila and Priscilla, who had accompanied him on his return to Asia at the close of his second missionary journey. AA 351.1
“There were some who objected to Paul’s toiling with his hands, declaring that it was inconsistent with the work of a gospel minister. Why should Paul, a minister of the highest rank, thus connect mechanical work with the preaching of the word? Was not the laborer worthy of his hire? Why should he spend in making tents time that to all appearance could be put to better account? AA 351.2
“But Paul did not regard as lost the time thus spent. As he worked with Aquila he kept in touch with the Great Teacher, losing no opportunity of witnessing for the Saviour, and of helping those who needed help. His mind was ever reaching out for spiritual knowledge. He gave his fellow workers instruction in spiritual things, and he also set an example of industry and thoroughness. He was a quick, skillful worker, diligent in business, ‘fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.’ Romans 12:11. As he worked at his trade, the apostle had access to a class of people that he could not otherwise have reached. He showed his associates that skill in the common arts is a gift from God, who provides both the gift and the wisdom to use it aright. He taught that even in everyday toil God is to be honored. His toil-hardened hands detracted nothing from the force of his pathetic appeals as a Christian minister. AA 351.3
“Paul sometimes worked night and day, not only for his own support, but that he might assist his fellow laborers. He shared his earnings with Luke, and he helped Timothy. He even suffered hunger at times, that he might relieve the necessities of others. His was an unselfish life. Toward the close of his ministry, on the occasion of his farewell talk to the elders of Ephesus, at Miletus, he could lift up before them his toilworn hands, and say, ‘I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel. Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ Acts 20:33-35. AA 352.2
(This study is based on the chapter 33, “Laboring Under Difficulties” in The Acts of the Apostles (AA), by Ellen G. White.)