Sunday Re-cap (13th Nov 2005)

Being Healthy and Wholesome
By Joseph Chow

1 Thess 5:23

God desires that we be superabundant in quality and superior in quantity.

• Spirit-pneuma


• Our spirit is pneuma which is the part that worships and communicates with God (Jn 4:23).


• Jn 3:3,6 Born again-to have the pneuma to see, commune and experience God.


• Soul-psuake


• From which the word psychology comes from is made up of three parts i.e. mind, will and emotions.


• Healthy Will-able to make reasonably wise and quick decisions.


• Healthy Emotions-able to love and accept love. Loving someone does not necessarily mean liking them. We are called to love even and especially people we don’t like.


• Body-soma

It’s important that we know these and God desires that each part be healthy. This is our inheritance in the LORD.
Examples of Abraham having healthy body, soul and spirit are found in Gen 15:6, Gen 25:8, Gen 13:2 and Gen 23:16

How to maintain our health and wholesomeness and remain so?
Under the OT health codes, the following are known to be unhealthy. These are also proven by modern medical science.

• FAT. Lev 7:22-23


• Spiritual aspect-FAT is meant to be an offering to God.


• Medical aspect-cholesterol and heart blockage problems.


• Traumatized Animals (hunted, killed, accident). Lev 7:24-25.


• Secrete chemical that are hazardous to health.


• Blood. Lev 7:26-27


• Transmission of diseases.


• Pork and sea creatures (non scale and with skin). Lev 11.9.


• Bacteria in pork.


• Sea creatures are scavengers.


• The Law of Isolation. Lev 13.45-46


• Modern day-Quarantine in cases like leprosy, TB. Etc.

How to balance this with NT?

• 1 Tim 4:3-everything God created is good. We need to sanctify with Word of God and prayer.


• We can eat these things on occasions that we have no other choice. Use wisdom.


• Do not avoid these foods just for the sake of a show of holiness of self righteousness.

Conclusion

• God wants us to have health and wholesomeness in every area of our lives.


• God has already given us some keys to maintaining health and wholesomeness in the Word of God.


• If we follow the pattern of sound teaching, we will be healthy and wholesome all the days of our lives. This is our inheritance from the LORD.