Jul 1, 2008 Posted by JGG on Jul 1, 2008 in Health Reform, Theology, Three Angel's Messages | 0 comments

Failure to Practice Health Reform Disqualifies For the Ministry

A thought based upon a cou­ple of scrip­tures and a quote from the Spirit of Prophecy. There are many teach­ers and preach­ers who main­tain their posi­tion of author­ity as instruc­tors in the word  of God, while  mak­ing them­selves unfit for the posi­tion because they fail to heed the mes­sage found in the Bib­li­cal teach­ing of the health mes­sage. Whether in will­ful igno­rance or in direct con­flict with the word of God, many refuse to take their posi­tion as the head and not the tail by fol­low­ing the coun­sel to live a life of a health reformer.This may seam hard and cut­ting but often truth makes it pres­ence felt in just such a man­ner in order to arrest our atten­tion. This is a solemn and impor­tant thought wor­thy of fur­ther study and the type of prayer found in 2 Chron­i­cle 7:14.

Luke 16:10 He that is faith­ful in that which is least is faith­ful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

James : 4:17 There­fore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

Hosea  4:6 My peo­ple are destroyed for lack of knowl­edge: because thou hast rejected knowl­edge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: see­ing thou hast for­got­ten the law of thy God, I will also for­get thy children.

Jere­miah 29:19 Because they have not hear­kened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my ser­vants the prophets, ris­ing up early and send­ing [them]; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

Fail­ure to Prac­tice Health Reform Dis­qual­i­fies For the Min­istry :
Why do some of our min­is­ter­ing brethren man­i­fest so lit­tle inter­est in health reform? It is because instruc­tion on tem­per­ance in all things is opposed to their prac­tice of self-​​indulgence. In some places this has been the great stum­bling block in the way of our bring­ing the peo­ple to inves­ti­gate and prac­tice and teach health reform. No man should be set apart as a teacher of the peo­ple while his own teach­ing or exam­ple con­tra­dicts the tes­ti­mony God has given His ser­vants to bear in regard to diet, for this will bring con­fu­sion. His dis­re­gard of health reform unfits him to stand as the Lord’s mes­sen­ger.  {CD 453.4}
The light that the Lord has given on this sub­ject in His word is plain, and men will be tested and tried in many ways to see if they will heed it. Every church, every fam­ily, needs to be instructed in regard to Chris­t­ian tem­per­ance. All should know how to eat and drink in order to pre­serve health. We are amid the clos­ing scenes of this world’s his­tory; and there should be har­mo­nious action in the ranks of Sab­bath­keep­ers. Those who stand aloof from the great work of instruct­ing the peo­ple upon this ques­tion, do not fol­low where the Great Physi­cian leads the way. “If any man will come after Me,” Christ said, “let him deny him­self, and take up his cross, and fol­low Me.” Matthew 16:24.  {CD 454.1}

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