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3. H EALTH AND H EALING

4. Health and Healing CONTENTS 1. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow! 2. The Power of Choice 3. Celebrating Spiritual and Physical Fitness 4. The Water of Life 5. The Environment 6. Faith and Healing 7. Rest and Restoration 8. The Atmosphere of Praise 9. Temperance 10. Integrity: Wholeness and Holiness 11. Optimism: Happiness and Healing 12. Nutrition in the Bible 13. Social Support: The Tie That Binds

5. Health and Healing “THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODIES” {180} THE PROMISE OF immunity from Egypt’s diseases was given to the children of Israel soon after they left their captivity. This promise was based on the natural laws of health. If they followed what the Lord commanded them to do in the area of health and sanitation, they would be spared the ailments that afflicted the Egyptians.

6. Health and Healing “THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODIES” {180} Here, we can see God’s concern for not just the spiritual well-being of His people but for their physical well-being, their health, as well. This idea also is found in the Hebrew word shalom, commonly translated as “peace.” The word conveys a deeper sense, that of a completeness, of a wholeness and a fullness that involves the total person, physical health included.

7. Health and Healing “THE REDEMPTION OF OUR BODIES” {181} It makes perfect sense that God would care about our physical health. After all, He created us as physical beings. Before the Fall, we were already in the flesh. Our bodies aren’t evil, or bad. Our bodies are wonderful gifts from a loving God who created us in His image and who wants us to enjoy our physical existence, as much as possible in this fallen world.

8. Health and Healing OUR GOAL {181} WE ARE GOING to look at what’s often been a neglected aspect of the wonderful truths God has given us as a movement, and that is the health message. The Lord reveal these principles to us for the same reason He died for us, because He loves us and wants what’s in our best interest.

9. Health and Healing LESSON 1, APRIL 3 Health and Healing LESSON 1, APRIL 3 Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow!

10. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow! KEY TEXT Psalm 103:1 NKJV “BLESS THE LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name!” “Let all that I am praise the LORD, with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.” NLT

11. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow! INITIAL WORDS {184} GOD’S GREAT LOVE and grace were in operation for us even before our existence. God knew what was going to happen, and in His love and wisdom, He had the plan of salvation in place to meet the crisis when it arrived. At the center of that plan was the sacrificial death of Jesus in our stead. Nothing else would have sufficed; nothing else could have. Jesus was willing to pay it in our behalf.

12. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow! QUICK LOOK 1. Loving the Lord (Matthew 22:37, 38) 2. Praising the Lord (Psalm 65:1) 3. Serving the Lord (Romans 12:1)

13. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow! 1. LOVING THE LORD Matthew 22:37, 38 NKJV “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.”

14. 1.Loving the Lord A LOVE RELATIONSHIP {188} ACCORDING TO JESUS, the most important of all commandments isn’t to keep the Sabbath, nor is it any of the prohibitions against killing, stealing, and adultery. The most important of all the commandments deals with what is in our hearts; it deals with what is inside of us and not with our outward actions, however important they might be.

15. 1.Loving the Lord A LOVE RELATIONSHIP {188} If the most important commandment deals with our love to God, then the foundation of all the commandments deals with a relationship. After all, what is love if not a relationship— one in which we love God above and beyond everyone and everything else?

16. 1.Loving the Lord A LOVE RELATIONSHIP {188} God had purposed from the start that humanity would be capable of enjoying a special relationship with Him. None of the other creatures was made in His image. We are special, and part of that specialness is revealed in the love relationship that we are called to have with God, something that the animals and plants are not capable of experiencing.

17. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow! 2. PRAISING THE LORD Psalm 65:1a NKJV “PRAISE IS WAITING You, O God, in Zion.” “What mighty praise, O God, belongs to you in Zion.” NLT

18. 2. Praising the Lord OUR FIRST WORK {190} “BE JOYFUL IN God.... Accustom yourselves to speak the praise of God. Make others happy. This is your first work. It will strengthen the best traits of character.”—Advent Review and Sabbath Herald April 7 1904.

19. As Christians we have much to praise God for; that is, whatever our struggles, whatever our fears, whatever our pains, whatever our losses and disappointments, we all have much to be thankful to God for. No matter what our situation is, we still have the hope and promise of eternal life in Jesus. That alone, gives us reasons to praise. 2. Praising the Lord OUR FIRST WORK {190}

20. Before we can praise in sincerity, we need to personally have experienced the goodness of the Lord. We need to know for ourselves the reality of God and the reality of God’s love for us as individuals. And once we come to know that goodness and that love, how could we help but praise the Lord? 2. Praising the Lord OUR FIRST WORK {190}

21. Romans 12:1 NKJV “I BESEECH YOU therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow! 3. SERVING GOD

22. 3. Serving God “REASONABLE SERVICE” {192} TRUE PRAISE FOR God involves the whole being. We praise God not only on spiritual, emotional, and mental levels but with our physical bodies too. Application of healthful habits in life gives us clarity of mind, the balance to the whole.

23. We give our God praise from the whole of our being by offering our whole life as a living sacrifice. How might lifestyle choices be a means of praising God? At the same time, how might wrong lifestyle choices be a way of denying God? 3. Serving God “REASONABLE SERVICE” {192}

24. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow! FINAL WORDS {191} AS YOU CONSIDER your own spiritual experience, what evidence is there that you are dying to your natural selfish tendencies but living on the purposes of God? If you cannot consider your life to be a “living sacrifice” at this time, what changes can you allow God to make that will transform your life into one?