Blessings For Your Life - Health (9 Sep 2007)
3 John 2, Exodus 15:26 Rev Yong Tai Tong


3 John 2 - Dear friend, I pary that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is gettting along well.

Ex 15:26 - He said, "If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.

It's very simple: God wants to bless us with good health!

Additional verses: Psalms 103:2-3, Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 1:3


But how can we receive the blessings of good health?
We need to accomplish these 3 things:

1) Lead A Healthy Lifestyle - Be A Disciplined Steward

2) Live A Holy Life - Deal With Sin

3) Look To The Healer - He Will Deliever Us From Sickness


1) Lead A Healthy Lifestyle - Be A Disciplied Steward

Ex 15:26b - ...pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees...

The bible has instructions or tips on how to stay healthy and remedies when sick or injured.

Diet - Lev 7:23
Hygiene - Deu 23:12-13
Infection - Lev 12-14
Rest - Ex 20:8-11

It is much easier to keep our health when we are young then trying to maintain our health when we are old.

a) exercise regularly
b) eat right
c) rest enough

How to be disciplined?

(i) Possession
- Our body does not belong to us.
- It has been loaned to us from God.
- It is God's body

1 Cor 6:19-20 - Do you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

(ii) Purpose
- We must fulfil God's purpose for us
- We cannot fulfil it if our body is unhealthy.

(iii) Partnership
- Partner with someone who is more disciplined

It is not too late to start again!


2) Live A Holy Life - Deal With Sin

Ex 15:26 - ...listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes...

Pro 3:7-8 - Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring thealth to your body and nourishment to your bones.

The bible often links sickness to sin

Deu 28:58-61- if you do not carefully follow all the words of this law... ...the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your decendants... ...and severe and lingering illnesses...

John 9:1 - Was it the blind man who sinned?

John 5:14 - "Stop sinning or something worse may happen" Jesus said.

James 5:14-16 - ...Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed...

Sinful attitudes, emotions and habits:

Worry and Anixiety
Matt 6:25-34
Phi 4:6-7

Greed and Envy
Gal 5:20-21
Col 3:5-6

Anger, Rage, Bitterness, Unforgiveness
Eph 4:26-32

If there is bitterness in our hearts, we might miss the Grace of God

These emotions are sinful if you let it control your lifestyle.


3) Look To The Healer
- He Will deliever Us From Sickness

Ex15:26c -"...for I am the Lord, who heals you."

Mark 1:40-42 - Story about a man with leprosy.

Num 21:4-9 - Story about the snake bites and bronze snake.

Isa 53:4-5 - "...by his wounds we are healed."

Therefore look to God for healing. He is our Healer!

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