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 Two People Present Health Message Sabbath morning Laurelbrook citizens woke up to a coating of snow with tree branches down all over the place. Fortunately, there were no power outages although the electricity blinked quite a few times during the morning services. At the church, Sabbath morning services began with a song service led by David (senior) and Maureen (9th grader), accompanied by Donna Kanna, Laurelbrook’s music teacher. Then Debbie Davis, an Adventist nurse, had a presentation on healthful living.
Following are notes from the speaker’s presentation:
1. God is our Creator, and it was done instantly, not over a long period of time.
2. Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
3. God promised the Hebrews that if they didn’t eat like the Egyptians they would not have the problems the Egyptians had.
4. Once you believe in God, any curses will be broken.
5. Genesis 1:29 “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.”
6. Meat came in temporarily after the Flood, but people accepted this as a permanent change in diet.
7. Noah was instructed to take clean beasts by sevens and unclean beasts by twos.
8. The blood and the fat should not be eaten when eating meat even if eating clean meat.
9. The life span of humans dropped drastically after the Flood. Most people are barely making it at age 70.
10. Don’t stop taking your medications until the Lord has convinced you and your doctor can see the change in you.
11. Grains, nuts, fruits, and vegetables should be our diet. Don’t settle for secondary food – eating the animal that eats the grass or whatever.
12. Grains need to be cooked at least two hours to get rid of chemicals they have that cause spots on the brain.
13. Vegetarians have greater endurance.
14. But many people still eat a transitional diet, still using milk and eggs.
15. Horses and elephants are vegetarians. Elephants have excellent memory and clear minds.
16. Big cats eat meat and are fast only for a short time but cannot sustain the speed for a long time.
17. Vegetarians have 15% fewer diseases. Most people have lots of medicines to take but neglect to drink water. They have fewer hospitalizations and take half the medications other people do.
18. The medical missionary program will be the last to close before Christ comes because worldly people need this. People are running out of money because they must pay for all the medications they take.
19. Animals will finally eat a vegetarian diet in heaven.
20. Revelation 22:1-2 “1 ¶ And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [manner of] fruits, [and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [were] for the healing of the nations.”
21. We should treat our bodies and minds carefully so we are true witnesses for Christ.
22. Useful labor is another aspect of good health. Gardening is one of the best exercises there is.
23. Movement is essential because it strengthens the heart, increases oxygen, improves circulation, strengthens bones and muscles, and gives a person a clearer mind.
24. It also lowers blood pressure and resting heart rate, lowers LDL cholesterol levels, banishes depression, helps maintain weight levels, relieves anxiety and stress, and helps us feel good.
25. Walking is the best exercises for working all the muscles and bones of the body.
26. If you work night shift, you need to keep a definite schedule for rest and relaxation.
27. Sleep is a good way to lose weight.
28. A regular course of meals at regular hours is good for the body. Eating at all hours messes up the body digestion system.
29. Round stomachs often come from eating late at night (after 6:00) because the food is fermenting in the body. You are making alcohol in your stomach.
30. Water on the outside of the body is essential – bathing, hydrotherapy, and fun.
31. Just before Christ comes, we will be the outcasts of society, but society will still need some of the information on health we know.
32. Our muscles are about 75% water, the brain 70-85% water, bones 50%, and our blood 93% water. We are more careful of our cars than our bodies.
33. Top see, hear, swallow, or blink our eyes – we need water.
34. If you make it a habit to drink about two hours after you eat, eventually your body will let you know when to drink.
35. God made the sun to rule the day and the moon for the night.
36. Sunlight provides Vitamin D, kills germs, elevates mood, enhances immune system, alleviates pain of arthritis, and lowers blood cholesterol levels.
37. Too much sun causes cancer and wrinkles the skin, but this is not true if you have a diet providing you the proper nutrition.
38. If you eat foods that are not nutritious, it robs you of whatever nutrition in order to decompose properly. Obesity is primarily malnutrition.
39. Every act of our lives we must make a choice for God.
40. Ellen White in Child Guidance says that true temperance means turning away from anything harmful and accepting what is good.
41. Breathe fresh air without any pollution and cigarette smoke. We must get out of the cities to a fresher existence so we can be closer to the Lord.
42. Don’t join Satan’s ranks because he has already lost.
43. The Lord rested on the 7th day, but can we really rest when we don’t follow the Lord’s program the rest of the week? We must cast all our cares on God. Our Creator is interested even in the little details of our lives.
44. There are four types of rest – daily rest, weekly rest, recreation, meditation.
45. Our bodies require us to get in bed about 9:30-10:00. We cannot do our work when we don’t have adequate rest.
46. We are supposed to be efficient in our use of time.
47. Not enough sleep decreases the function of the frontal lobe of the brain, the willpower is weakened, and we become irritable and impatient.
48. Sleep is worth more before midnight than after.
49. If we go to church, we live longer. Having a church family gives a person a personal network. Everyone needs to have somebody who takes an interest in him/her.
50. Right living is one of the best ways to prevent diseases – Ellen White in Ministry of Healing.
51. If you buy a water bottle, make sure it is the right type of plastic. Don’t reuse bottles water comes in.
52. Our bodies should be able to bound back from the viruses going around. The body’s defenses don’t work well when a person eats a lot of sugar.
53. Vaccines are not a cure for everything.
54. Many Christian people don’t know these things; we are responsible to teach them.
The church service proper began with an introit by Donna Kanna. Clinel Walker had the invocation. Chuck Hess welcomed everyone and made the necessary announcements. Next week a group of Southern students will be here for Friday night, Sabbath School, and church. Vespers today will be here at 5:30, a continuation of the health seminar.
The congregation sang “Take My Life and Let It Be”. Chuck Hess had the Morning Prayer and mentioned that an email altered him to the fact that most Adventist church buildings in Haiti are damaged or destroyed. Most of the church leadership survived – one person didn’t. Over 50 church properties are being used for church members who need help. ADRA is providing quite a bit of help. They want help for Haiti but want church members to give it through the church or ADRA.
David Moses called for the offering. Before the offering was collected, Laura Mae Zollinger mentioned a project involving jars that she had started to help the religious liberty cause. Daryll Ellis and Marvin Frey collected the morning offerings; the offering was for religious liberty. The congregation sang the doxology; David Moses had a prayer for the offering.
Debbie Davis told the children a story about getting a mango when she wasn’t supposed to on Sabbath morning as a child. A colony of bees swarmed her and bit her terribly. It pays to obey.
David Moses read the scripture reading from Deuteronomy 7:12-15 “12 ¶ Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all [them] that hate thee.”
The Laurelbrook Instrumental Ensemble with Donna Kanna at the piano played “In the Garden” for special music. Clinel Walker talked about “God’s Natural Remedy”, the congregation sang several stanzas of “Live Out Thy Life Within Me”, and David Moses had the benediction.
Plans for this health seminar call for a meeting on Sabbath afternoon at 4:00 and a cooking school on Sunday morning. Plans also call for the cooking school to meet in the nearby Center Building. Personnel Other Than Students:
Chuck Hess – retired Laurelbrook president
Clinel Walker – health seminar presenter, professional chef
Daryll Ellis – Laurelbrook graduate who is one of the managers at nearby Majestic Stone Company
David Moses – freshmen and junior academy Bible teacher, works with the wood crew at other times
Debbie Davis – health seminar presenter, nurse, mother of Erin and Eilish (two of Laurelbrook’s sophomores)
Laura Mae Zollinger – retired nurse living with her husband Glenn near the edge of the Laurelbrook property
Marvin Frey – Laurelbrook Nursing Home administrator
Notes on the sermon:
1. Yesterday I totaled my truck in a terrible accident, but the Lord spared my life.
2. Sickness never comes without a cause, according to Ellen White.
3. If we want to get rid of sickness, we need to find out the cause.
4. Most health care professionals treat the symptoms but don’t take care of the causes.
5. We teach from three perspectives – scientific, inspirational, Biblical. This shows people that when sickness comes they have violated natural or spiritual laws.
6. Any sickness may be for three reasons – natural laws have been violated, scientific laws have been violated, or the sickness is to the glory of God.
7. If the sickness is to glorify God, you don’t have to do anything about it. Take for example Job’s sickness, Paul’s affliction.
8. John 9 is a story about the blind man. The disciples realized that sickness can glorify God.
9. If you are comfortable taking medication, God does not have to do anything about the sickness.
10. Natural laws include lack of sleep causing tiredness and worse, too much water can give you a headache.
11. We want to focus on spiritual laws today.
12. If you want optimum health, you have to follow God’s spiritual laws.
13. Psalm 100:3 “Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
14. When sickness comes, we need to look at it from a spiritual perspective. It is not about food.
15. If you need to know information about a car or other product, we have to go to the dealer who sells the product, not the manufacturer who made the product.
16. Psalm 119:73 “Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.”
17. By disregard of health laws, we invite diseases into our systems.
18. Heredity does play a role in our lives, but we need to ignore this in our lives.
19. John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
20. Exodus 20:5 “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;”
21. If you hate God, a hereditary curse is passed down through the generations.
22. Exodus 20:6 “And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”
23. But if we love God, the curse is broken.
24. Sickness and disease is the enemy’s way of keeping God’s people in captivity.
Sickness and disease never comes without a cause.
25. If you believe in God, God will reward you. If you believe in a medication, the medication will be more likely to cure you.
26. The mind and the body is in very close connection. Whenever sickness appears, something is going on. Unforgiveness, evil speaking, anger can all cause physical reactions. When you hold on these, it causes the arteries to constrict and your weight to rise.
27. Four natural remedies include these.
28. Mark 11 is the story of the fig tree. Mark 11:12-14 “12 ¶ And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not [yet]. 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard [it].”
29. When we don’t find what we want, we often curse. This is what people believe Jesus did. But Jesus did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
30. What Jesus really did was to pray.
31. Mark 11:20-24 “20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive [them], and ye shall have [them].”
32. When you get a disease, there is a trigger for that sickness. Anger and other types of problems trigger disease.
33. Most of the time we want God to forgive us, but the problem still exists in our life. We need to go to our brother to get rid of the problem before we go to God.
34. Satan uses sickness to keep us in bondage.
35. When you put things in God’s hands, you get total restoration of health.
36. We all have mountains, different mountains for each individual, but God can remove all of them.
37. Believe in God. When you pray to God, believe that He will do it.
38. Mark 11:25 “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
39. You cannot go to heaven if you don’t forgive.
40. Four things hinder God’s people from getting blessings – not seeking God with a sincere heart, living according to the Bible, regarding sin in the heart, and making pledges and vows and not doing them or making the wrong pledges and vows.
41. If we avoid these things, we will get the blessings we need from God.
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