The Holy Spirit and Health

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The Holy Spirit and Health

• A study of the principles of health and healing.

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Exodus 1526

• And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to
  the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that
  which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to
  his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I
  will put none of these diseases upon thee, which
  I have brought upon the Egyptians for I am the
  LORD that healeth thee.

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Microzymas

• Enzyme like proteins found on every body cell
  wall, including our red blood cells
• Purpose is to maintain health of,
• and repair damage to cells
• pH of our body, acid/alkaline must stay balanced
  for them to work for us
• Trauma/abuse activates microzymas to work against
  the body.

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• Morph into bacteria to do cleanup
• Egg and the apple---
• What lowers the pH?
• Acids from various actions...incomplete
  digestion etc.
• Selfishness or negative thoughts/actions
• lowers pH more than any other physical influence
• Selfishness equated with sin and leprosy
• Leprosy result of a bacterium

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• The work of Christ in cleansing the leper from
  his terrible disease is an illustration of His
  work in cleansing the soul from sin. The man who
  came to Jesus was "full of leprosy." Its deadly
  poison permeated his whole body. The disciples
  sought to prevent their Master from touching him
  for he who touched a leper became himself
  unclean. But in laying His hand upon the leper,
  Jesus received no defilement. His touch imparted
  life-giving power. The leprosy was cleansed.

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• Thus it is with the leprosy of
  sin,--deep-rooted, deadly, and impossible to be
  cleansed by human power. "The whole head is sick,
  and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the
  foot even unto the head there is no soundness in
  it but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying
  sores." Isaiah 15, 6. But Jesus, coming to dwell
  in humanity, receives no pollution. His presence
  has healing virtue for the sinner. Whoever will
  fall at His feet, saying in faith, "Lord, if Thou
  wilt, Thou canst make me clean," shall hear the
  answer, "I will be thou made clean." Matthew
  82, 3, R. V. DA 266.1

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Gods law and the way of health

• Master, which is the great commandment in the
  law?
• Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy
  God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
  and with all thy mind.
• This is the first and great commandment.
• And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love
  thy neighbor as thyself.
• On these two commandments hang all the law and
  the prophets. Mathew 2236-40

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Gods love is unselfish love

• Love is a principle of action, a driving force of
  our thoughts and behavior
• Opposite of self-seeking
• Definition of love for us---
• Doing for others what ever their need,
  regardless of the cost to ourselves.

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• Romans 1310 Love worketh no ill to his
  neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the
  law. (living out, a result of)
• 1John 47 Beloved, let us love one another for
  love is of God and every one that loveth is born
  of God, and knoweth God.
• 1 Corinthians 134-8 Remember the qualities of
  love?

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• Suffers long--to submit, endure, undergo,
  experience, pass through, have power to resist or
  sustain, tolerate, put up with
• Kind--tender, gracious, compassion, disposed to
  promote the prosperity and happiness of others
• Envies not--resentful, begrudges, covet, jealous
• Vaunteth not itself--No boasting, pride
• Not puffed up--not think higher of oneself

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• Not behave unseemly--improper, inappropriate,
  unbecoming indecorous in speech, conduct, or
  appearance inappropriate for time or place
• Seeks not her own--esteems others above self, not
  selfish, regarding and caring for others needs at
  whatever expense to oneself (without complaining)
• Not easily provoked--patient, tolerant, not
  frustrated, refusing to pass judgment, takes no
  slights, deflects cruel words

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• Rejoices in the truth not iniquity--looks at
  other in the best possible light, quick to
  forgive ALL, chooses to believe good, not gossip
  about the person, and when in question still
  looks for the best
• Bears all things--does not run away from trials,
  capacity to endure, acceptance of suffering,
  patient under fire
• Believes all things--no doubting or
  rationalizing accepts truth, looks at the good
  only, about others, functions in FAITH
• Hopes all things--all good things, desire with
  expectation of obtaining, holds out hope in
  Christ about His word in ALL things, trust,
  reliance

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• Endures all things--He that endureth unto the end
  shall be saved Mathew 1022 Whole
  chapter is dealing with how to handle persecution
• Endureth in what? LOVE
• LOVE Never faileth in all of the above! Why?
• Who does all of this sound like?

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When you have Jesus, you have everything!!!

• It will be seen that the glory shining in the
  face of Jesus is the glory of self-sacrificing
  love. In the light from the Calvary it will be
  seen that the law of self-renouncing love is the
  law of life for earth and heaven... DA 20
• For God is love, and love is life. COL 258
• Sickness, disease of every kind, ruined
  constitutions, premature decay, untimely
  deaths,--these are a result of a violation of
  nature's laws.-- U. T., Aug. 30, 1896. HL 24.2

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Commandments Express Greatest Love

• The ten holy precepts spoken by Christ upon
  Sinais mount were the revelation of the
  character of God, and made known to the world the
  fact that He had jurisdiction over the whole
  human heritage. That law of ten precepts of the
  greatest love that can be presented to man is the
  voice of God from Heaven speaking to the soul in
  promise, This do, and you will not come under
  the dominion and control of Satan. There is not
  a negative in that law, although it may appear
  thus. It is DO, and LIVE. 1BC 1105

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The Holy Spirit Renews the Body

• Sin brings physical and spiritual disease and
  weakness. Christ has made it possible for us to
  free ourselves from this curse. The Lord
  promises, by the medium of truth, to renovate the
  soul. The Holy Spirit will make all who are
  willing to be educated able to communicate the
  truth with power. It will renew every organ of
  the body, that God's servants may work acceptably
  and successfully. Vitality increases under the
  influence of the Spirit's action. Let us, then,
  by this power lift ourselves into a higher,
  holier atmosphere, that we may do well our
  appointed work.--R.H., Jan. 14, 1902. MM 12.2

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The law of God embraces the whole being

• His law is written by His own finger upon every
  nerve, every muscle, every fiber of our being,
  upon every faculty which has been entrusted to
  man. These gifts are bestowed, not to be abused
  and corrupted, but to be used to His honor and
  glory in the uplifting of humanity... OCH 266
• The youth should be taught that the laws of
  nature are the laws of God-as truly divine as are
  the precepts of the Decalogue. The laws that
  govern our physical organism, God has written
  upon every nerve, muscle, and fiber of the body.
  Every careless or willful violation of these laws
  is a sin against our creator. Ed 196

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There is health in obedience to Gods law.1BC
1105

• Let it be made plain that the way of Gods
  commandments is the way of life. God has
  established the laws of nature, but His laws are
  not arbitrary exactions. Every thou shalt not,
  whether in physical or in moral law, implies a
  promise. If we obey it, blessing will attend our
  steps. God never forces us to do right, but He
  seeks to save us from the evil and lead us to do
  good.
• Let attention be called to the laws that were
  taught in Israel. God gave them definite
  instruction in regard to their habits of life.
  He made known to

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• them the laws relating to both physical and
  spiritual well-being and on condition of
  obedience He assured them, the Lord will take
  away from thee all sickness. Deut. 715. Set
  your hearts unto all the words which I testify
  among you this day. For they are life unto
  those that find them, and health to all their
  flesh. MH 114 Deuteronomy 3246, Proverbs 422
• Had men ever been obedient to the law of Ten
  Commandments, carrying out in their lives the
  principles of those precepts, the curse of
  disease now flooding the world would not be. 3T
  161

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• 37. The transgression of physical law is
  transgression of God's law. Our Creator is Jesus
  Christ. He is the author of our being. He is the
  author of the physical law as he is the author of
  the moral law. And the human being who is
  careless and reckless of the habits and practices
  that concern his physical life and health, sins
  against God. God is not reverenced, respected, or
  recognized. This is shown by the injury done to
  the body in violation of physical law.-- U. T.,
  May 19, 1897. HL 17.4

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Transgression of law foundation of disease

• Sin is the transgression of the law. 1Jn. 34
• Selfishness basis of all sin Is. 536 we have
  turned everyone to his own way...
• Under the general heading of selfishness came
  every other sin. 4T 384
• Selfishness breaks the Circuit of Beneficence
• In heaven itself this law was broken. Sin
  originated in self-seeking. DA 21-22

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Selfishness isthe Way of Decay and Death

• Selfishness is death. No organ of the body
  could live should it confine its service to
  itself. The heart, failing to send its lifeblood
  to the hand and the head, would quickly lose its
  power. As our lifeblood, so is the love of
  Christ diffused through every part of His
  mystical body. We are members one of another,
  and the soul that refuses to impart will perish.
  DA 417
• In living for self he has rejected that divine
  love which would have flowed out in mercy to his
  fellow men. Thus he has rejected life. For God
  is love , and LOVE IS LIFE.

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Death is the Natural Fruit of Selfishness

• Every Characteristic of selfishness, self-love,
  self-esteem, every act of self-indulgence, will
  bring forth a like harvest. He who lives for
  self is sowing to the flesh, and of the flesh he
  will reap corruption. God destroys no man.
  Everyone who is destroyed will have destroyed
  himself. COL 84

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Sicknessis the Result of Transgression

• Sickness is caused by violating the laws of
  health it is the result of violating natures
  laws of health...Our first duty...is to obey the
  laws of God, which include the laws of health.
  3T 164
• All our enjoyment or suffering may be traced to
  obedience or transgression of natural law. 3T
  161

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• Psalms 10717 Fools because of their
  transgression, and because of their iniquities,
  are afflicted.
• 10718 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat
  and they draw near unto the gates of death.
• 10719 Then they cry unto the LORD in their
  trouble, and he saveth them out of their
  distresses.
• 10720 He sent his word, and healed them, and
  delivered them from their destructions.

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• The paralytic found in Christ healing for both
  the soul and the body. The spiritual healing was
  followed by physical restoration. This lesson
  should not be overlooked. There are today
  thousands suffering from physical disease, who,
  like the paralytic, are longing for the message,
  "Thy sins are forgiven." The burden of sin, with
  its unrest and unsatisfied desires, is the
  foundation of their maladies. They can find no
  relief until they come to the Healer of the soul.
  The peace which He alone can give, would impart
  vigor to the mind, and health to the body. DA
  270.1

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• Jesus came to "destroy the works of the devil."
  "In Him was life," and He says, "I am come that
  they might have life, and that they might have it
  more abundantly." He is "a quickening spirit." 1
  John 38 John 14 1010 1 Corinthians 1545.
  And He still has the same life-giving power as
  when on earth He healed the sick, and spoke
  forgiveness to the sinner. He "forgiveth all
  thine iniquities," He "healeth all thy diseases."
  Psalm 1033. DA 270.2

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• When the gospel is received in its purity and
  power, it is a cure for the maladies that
  originated in sin. The Sun of Righteousness
  arises, "with healing in His wings." Malachi 42.
  Not all this world bestows can heal a broken
  heart, or impart peace of mind, or remove care,
  or banish disease. Fame, genius, talent--all are
  powerless to gladden the sorrowful heart or to
  restore the wasted life. The life of God in the
  soul is man's only hope. MH 115.2

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• The love which Christ diffuses through the whole
  being is a vitalizing power. Every vital
  part--the brain, the heart, the nerves--it
  touches with healing. By it the highest energies
  of the being are roused to activity. It frees the
  soul from the guilt and sorrow, the anxiety and
  care, that crush the life forces. With it come
  serenity and composure. It implants in the soul,
  joy that nothing earthly can destroy,--joy in the
  Holy Spirit,--health-giving, life-giving joy.
  MH 115.3

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Untimely and premature death

• The violation of physical law, with its
  consequent suffering and premature death, has so
  long prevailed that these results are regarded as
  the appointed lot of humanity but God did not
  create the race in such a feeble condition. This
  state of things is not the work of Providence,
  but of man. It has been brought about by wrong
  habits,by violating the laws that God has made
  to govern man's existence.

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• Every misuse of any part of our organism is a
  violation of the law which God designs shall
  govern us in these matters and by violating this
  law, human beings corrupt themselves. Sickness,
  disease of every kind, ruined constitutions,
  premature decay, untimely deaths,--these are a
  result of a violation of nature's laws.-- U. T.,
  Aug. 30, 1896. HL 24.2

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The Effect on the Electrical Currents of the Brain

• The relation that exists between mind and body
  is very intimate when one is affected, the
  other is always more or less in sympathy. It is
  impossible for men, while under the power of
  sinful, health-destroying habits, to appreciate
  sacred truths. When the intellect is clouded,
  the moral powers are enfeebled, the sin does not
  look sinful. The most ennobling, grand, and
  glorious themes of Gods Word seem but idle
  tales. Satan can then easily snatch away the
  good seed that has been sown in the heart for
  the soul is in no condition to comprehend or
  understand its true value.

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• It is thus that selfish, health-destroying
  indulgences are counteracting the influence of
  the message which is to prepare a people for the
  great day of God. OHC 266
• The brain nerves that connect with the whole
  system are the medium through which heaven
  communicates with man and affects the inmost
  life. Whatever hinders the circulation of the
  electric currents in the nervous system, thus
  weakening the vital powers and lessening mental
  susceptibility, makes it more difficult to arouse
  the moral nature. Ed. 209

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Adam had 20 Times the Vital Force

• God endowed man with so great vital force that
  he has withstood the accumulation of disease
  brought upon the race in consequence of perverted
  habits, and has continued for six thousand years.
  This fact of itself is enough to evidence to us
  the strength and electrical energy that God gave
  to man at his creation. It took more than two
  thousand years of crime and indulgence of base
  passions to bring bodily disease upon the race to
  any great extent. If Adam, at his creation, had
  not been endowed with twenty times as much vital
  force as men now have, the race, with their
  present habits of living in violation of natural
  law, would have become extinct. 3T 138, 9

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Electrical Power of the Brain Vital to Health

• The electric power of the brain, promoted by
  mental activity, vitalizes the whole system, and
  is thus an invaluable aid in resisting disease.
  This should be made plain. The power of the will
  and the importance of self-control, both in the
  preservation and in the recovery of health, the
  depressing and even ruinous effect of anger,
  discontent, selfishness, or impurity, and , on
  the other hand, the marvelous life-giving power
  to be found in cheerfulness, unselfishness,
  gratitude, should also be shown. Ed. 197

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Healing

• In some instances of healing, Jesus did not at
  once grant the blessing sought. But in the case
  of leprosy, no sooner was the appeal made than it
  was granted. When we pray for earthly blessings,
  the answer to our prayer may be delayed, or God
  may give us something other than we ask, but not
  so when we ask for deliverance from sin. It is
  His will to cleanse us from sin, to make us His
  children, and to enable us to live a holy life.

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• Christ "gave Himself for our sins, that He might
  deliver us from this present evil world,
  according to the will of God and our Father."
  Galatians 14. And "this is the confidence that
  we have in Him, that, if we ask anything
  according to His will, He heareth us and if we
  know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know
  that we have the petitions that we desired of
  Him." 1 John 514, 15.

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• "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just
  to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
  all unrighteousness." 1 John 19. DA 266.2
• In the healing of the paralytic at Capernaum,
  Christ again taught the same truth. It was to
  manifest His power to forgive sins that the
  miracle was performed. And the healing of the
  paralytic also illustrates other precious truths.
  It is full of hope and encouragement, and from
  its connection with the caviling Pharisees it has
  a lesson of warning as well. DA 267.1

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An Essential Part of the Third Angels Message

• To make plain natural law, and urge the
  obedience of it, is the work that accompanies the
  third angels message, to prepare a people for
  the coming of the Lord. 3T 161