[I have to deal with graduation coming up this week and then we go on vacation so I thought I'd post early]

Memory Text: Exodus 15:26 NIV “I am the LORD, who heals you."”

Sunday, May 27 To Be in Health
3 John 1:2 -- New Jerusalem “My dear friend, I hope everything is going happily with you and that you are as well physically as you are spiritually.”
Reasons for each of us to take care of our health:
1. We may be pleasing to God - Romans 12:1 -- New Jerusalem “I urge you, then, brothers, remembering the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, dedicated and acceptable to God; that is the kind of worship for you, as sensible people.”
2. We don’t live to ourselves in this world - Romans 14:7 -- New International “For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone.”
3. We must not abuse God’s property - 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 NRSV “16 ¶ Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.”
4. God has redeemed us - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NRSV “19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.”
5. We usually don’t hate ourselves – Ephesians 5:29 -- Living Bible“No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body the Church, of which we are parts.”
Ephesians 5:29 SDA BIBLE COMMENTARY “Paul is stating a general truth. A man must be mentally unbalanced to hate his flesh.” [Yet this is what the Church required of its monks and nuns during the Dark Ages]
6. We may be prospering all around - 3 John 1:2 -- New American “Beloved, I hope you are prospering in every respect and are in good health, just as your soul is prospering.”

Monday, May 28 Health and Restoration
Romans 6:4 NKJV “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
Romans 6:9-11 NKJV “9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For [the death] that He died, He died to sin once for all; but [the life] that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
1 Corinthians 15:51-57 NKJV “51 ¶ Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal [must] put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." 55 "O Death, where [is] your sting? O Hades, where [is] your victory?" 56 The sting of death [is] sin, and the strength of sin [is] the law. 57 But thanks [be] to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-20 God’s Word to the Nations “18 God has done all this. He has restored our relationship with him through Christ, and has given us this ministry of restoring relationships. 19 In other words, God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. He didn’t hold people’s faults against them, and he has given us this message of restored relationships to tell others. 20 Therefore, we are Christ’s representatives, and through us God is calling you. We beg you on behalf of Christ to become reunited with God.”
Colossians 1:20-21 -- Simple English “20 and, through Christ, to bring everything back to Him. God used the blood of the cross of Christ to make peace with everything on earth and everything in the heavenly world. 21 In the past, you did evil things. You were strangers and enemies in your mind.”
Colossians 3:8-10 KJ21 “8 ¶ But now ye also put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him,”
1 John 3:2 -- New Jerusalem “My dear friends, we are already God's children, but what we shall be in the future has not yet been revealed. We are well aware that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he really is.”

Tuesday, May 29 Jesus, the Great Healer
How central was healing to Jesus in His earthly ministry?Matthew 4:23 -- New American “He went around all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness among the people.”
Luke 6:7-19 MKJV (selected verses) “7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him [to see] if He would heal on the sabbath day, so that they might find an accusation against Him. 8 But He knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand, Rise up and stand in the middle. And he arose and stood. 9 Then Jesus said to them, I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil, to save life, or to destroy [it]? 10 And looking around on them all, He said to the man, Stretch out your hand! And he did so. And his hand was restored whole like the other. 11 And they were filled [with] madness, and talked with one another [as to] what they might do to Jesus. 12 ¶ And it happened in those days that He went out into a mountain to pray, 17 And coming down with them, He stood on a level place. And a crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon (who came to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases) were there; 18 also those tormented by unclean spirits; and they were healed. 19 And all the crowd sought to touch Him, for power went out of Him and healed [them] all.”
Luke 9:11 -- New American Standard “But the multitudes were aware of this and followed Him; and welcoming them, He began speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who had need of healing.”
What was the purpose and ministry of Jesus?
Luke 4:16-21 God’s Word to the Nations “16 Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. As usual he went into the synagogue on the day of worship. He stood up to read the lesson. 17 The attendant gave him the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened it and found the place where it read: 18 "The Spirit of the Lord is with me. He has anointed me to tell the Good News to the poor. He has sent me to announce forgiveness to the prisoners of sin and the restoring of sight to the blind, to forgive those who have been shattered by sin, 19 to announce the year of the Lord’s favor." 20 Jesus closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. Everyone in the synagogue watched him closely. 21 Then he said to them, "This passage came true today when you heard me read it."”
Luke 4:18 SDA BIBLE COMMENTARY “The poor were usually at the mercy of unscrupulous officials, businessmen, and neighbors. Further, it was generally supposed that the suffering of poverty was due to the curse of God—that their unfortunate state was their own fault. Few felt sympathetic toward them in their unhappy plight. Jesus’ marked love for the poor was one of the great evidences of His Messiahship.”

Wednesday, May 30 Moderation in All Things
Philippians 4:4-9 NRSV “4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. 6 Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.”
1 Corinthians 9:25 -- Revised Standard “Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.”
1 Corinthians 9:25 SDA BIBLE COMMENTARY “To have any hope of victory in the games, an athletic competitor must be able to control his desires and appetites.”
Galatians 5:23 KJV “Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
Titus 1:8 -- Simple English “must love people enough to invite them into his home, must love what is good, must be wise, must be fair, must be a holy man, must have control of himself.”
Titus 2:2 -- New American Standard “Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.”

Thursday, May 31 Healthy Relationships – and Love
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Living Bible “4 ¶ Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6 It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
1 John 4:7 -- Revised Standard “Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.”
1 John 4:18 -- New American “There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment, and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love.”
1 John 4:18 SDA BIBLE COMMENTARY As we learn to know the Lord we begin to love Him, and our fear changes from a haunting dread of a powerful and avenging God to a “clean” (Ps. 19:9) fear that does not wish to disappoint a friend. The more we grow in love, the less we fear. When our love is perfectly developed and freed from all trace of self, we shall be without craven fear of God or man.

Friday, June 1 Further Study
Ellen White, Ministry of Healing, p. 234 – “The greater number, however, suffer because of their own wrong course of action. They disregard the principles of health by their habits of eating, drinking, dressing, and working. Their transgression of nature’s laws produces the sure result; and when sickness comes upon them, many do not credit their suffering to the true cause, but murmur against God because of their afflictions. But God is not responsible for the suffering that follows disregard of natural law.”
Ellen White, Ministry of Healing, p. 236 – “Some make themselves sick by overwork. For these, rest, freedom from care, and a spare diet, are essential to restoration of health.”