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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Allen Lloyd

Soul Salvation

If you come to Weimar University, you'll see at the very front of Haskell Hall, this text, Jesus went about all the cities and even the smaller places.

He proclaimed the good news of the kingdom.

Christianity has largely caught up with the second part, preaching the gospel.

They've understood that Christianity and the gospel do go together.

At least most Christians have figured that out.

Many Christians have figured out the educational institutions.

Do you know this is an educational institution?

It's a Christian-based educational institution and there are many throughout the world.

But far less have figured out the healing ministry of Christ and what he was really doing with medical missionary work.

In fact, most Christians kind of somewhat ridicule the health message.

I remember speaking to a nice Baptist pastor who was going into McDonald's and eating, and he said, when I go through those golden arches, I know I'm on my way to the pearly gates.

That means he's gonna die sooner in his mind.

By the way, it's important to understand what death is.

And by the way, if they don't understand that, they don't completely understand the gospel.

He said, I didn't come up with this gospel, I got it from inspiration.

And you have to understand all 5 words of that gospel to understand the gospel.

But it starts out with Christ, the second word is died, so you have to know what death is to understand the gospel for our sins.

That is the gospel and we can quote the Bible on that every time.

But of course sin is the transgression of the law, we have to understand that as well.

And so I don't understand Christians who ridicule the health message.

It's kind of like the health message is about having life and having it more abundantly.

Or do you really think it's better to die sooner?

Christ's healing ministry has largely been neglected by Christianity and I think he's made it abundantly clear he's not coming back until Christianity picks up this aspect of his message.

I think they were discussed in Sabbath school today.

Those are the reasons why Christ came to this earth.

When he was there with his crown of thorns, blood streaming down his face and Pilate asking him, recognizing he was not a mere human being, but Pilate saying, "'Why are you here?

"'Why did you come to this earth?' And he answered, "'I came to bear witness to the truth.

"'Everyone that is of the truth, heareth my voice.'" Truth is why he came, but it's also love that he came.

God is a God of love and we discussed free will at Sabbath school today, and you can't have love without free will.

And God actually prioritized love over not dying.

You know, it was a voluntary act for him too.

He didn't have to come save us, but he chose to love us and to reveal truth to us even though it would have wiped him out.

That's why the Bible says God cannot lie.

Maybe he could, he's a free moral agent, but he puts truth above himself.

So truth is an important aspect, and we should always be searching for and understanding truth better, but always speaking the truth in love, which is what Christ did.

We're told the influence of the Spirit of God is the very best medicine for disease.

What's the very best medicine for disease?

The more deeply heavenly influences are realized, the more sure will be the recovering of the believing invalid.

It's important that that Spirit of God be present in yourself as a medical missionary and also in your team as a medical missionary.

And the more deeply those heavenly influences are realized, the more sure will be the recovery.

We're told sickness of the mind prevails everywhere.

And before the decades of mental health, or I should say mental illness exploding.

Nine-tenths of the diseases from which men suffer have their foundation here.

You know, when the residential depression and anxiety recovery program was started back in 2002, many people were worried because of the stigma.

Are they going to come to a place that says depression and anxiety recovery because they don't want to be stigmatized?

Now, particularly all the young people that come to our program tell us that if 1 of their peers is mentally healthy, they're the abnormal 1.

Because all of them have significant, many of them, or at least in their minds all of them, have significant mental health challenges.

But you might say, well, why was it 9 out of 10 in her day?

Well, when we know how to prevent heart disease, in fact, I remember going to the first international conference on the elimination of coronary artery disease in Tucson, Arizona in 1991.

And it was great presenters telling us how we could eliminate this disease.

I fully thought it would be eliminated so that 25 years later when I saw a heart attack in the ER I would be taking a medical student and saying maybe this is the only time you'll see this in your lifetime, but I used to see this all the time.

They told us how to eliminate heart disease, but it's still the number 1 killer in the world, not because it's heart disease, but because it's lack of self-control to put into practice what is best for our heart.

When Harvard says 80% of cancers could be prevented, and it's still the number 1 cause of death in those under the age of 85.

That's not a physical problem, that's a mental problem.

Perhaps some living home trouble is like a canker, calling to the very soul and weakening the life forces.

Remorse for sin sometimes undermines the constitution and unbalances the mind.

There are erroneous doctrines also of that of eternally burning hell.

Giving exaggerated and distorted views of the character of God have produced the same result upon sensitive minds.

It reminds me of another critical care case I saw.

And she's now waking up in the critical care unit after doing that.

The year before, on that very day, her mother had died from an automobile accident.

And she told me she wanted to see her mother.

And as the physician, remember, speak the truth in love.

If you would have been successful, you would not have seen your mother.

You would have been dead in the grave awaiting the resurrection.

If I would have known that, I never would have wanted to take my life.

Her dad comes out of the room, embraces me And says, Dr.

Nedley, I'm so glad you told her that, but I just want you to know our religion doesn't believe that, and we haven't taught her that.

But he says, I'm not going to disagree at all with you when I go back into that room.

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