Created in God’s imageDesigned for righteousness

Designed for health

God

Love Worth

SecuritySignificance

Love Worth

SecuritySignificance

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Righteousness1. You shall have no other gods before me.

2. You shall not make for yourself an idol

3. You shall not misuse the name of the LORD

4. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

5. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

6. You shall not murder.

7. You shall not commit adultery.

8. You shall not steal.

9. You shall not lie.

10. You shall not covet

Exodus 20:2-17

• Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment.

• And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.‘

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

• Matthew 22:37-40

Peace Joy

Deuteronomy 7:12-15

• If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers. The LORD will keep you free from every disease.

• for I am the LORD, who heals you." Exodus 15:26

Designed for health

• To love and receive love, security, worth, significance from God

• To engage appropriately with the world and others for supplemental needs

►Optimal conditions for physical/emotional health.

• To miss out on God meeting my basic needs

• To desperately pursue love, worth, security and significance from the world

►Optimal conditions for disease and physical/emotional malfunctions

God 1. I’m empty, gotta get my needs met in the world

2. Use others

3. Misuse things

4. Don’t like myself

Love Worth

SecuritySignificance

Instead of loving God, appropriate self-love and loving others

• We try to use others for our own benefit• Not many cooperate• Most ignore, resist or oppose our attempt to use

them. Anger at others and circumstances Fear of others and of circumstances Anger at ourselves for being so inadequate,

pathetic True guilt for the way we’re living so that we

Expect circumstantial punishmentOpen the door for our physical system to impose

sentence within our bodies.

Stress Response‘fight or flight syndrome’

• Anger and fear stimulate the physiological stress response and it has been found that most illness is related to unrelieved stress. (IVF.com)

• The long term activation of the stress response system can disrupt almost all your body’s processes increasing your risk of obesity, insomnia, digestive problems, heart disease, depression, memory impairment, physical illnesses and other complications. The immune system can run unchecked attacking your own body’s healthy cells. MayoClinic.com

James 5:14-161. confess your sins to each other

2. and pray for each other so that you may be healed. you sins will be forgiven.

3. Still sick? Ask Elders to pray for you the sick person will become well; the Lord will raise him up.

Confession 1 John 1:8-9• If we claim to be without sin, we deceive

ourselves and the truth is not in us.

• If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

• Confess – homologeo – to speak the same thing, to acknowledge or to admit one’s sin,

• When confronted with God’s word describing an attitude or behavior as sin, I agree that my attitude or behavior is sin

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

Jesus’ healing

• When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.

• Luke 4:40-41

James 5:14-16

• Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.

• Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Deuteronomy 28:15; 20-22• However, if you do not obey the LORD your God

and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

• The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

James 4:1-6

• What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

• You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

• "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."