1. God Wants Us to Prosper and Be in Good Health.
3 John 1:2 Beloved, I pray that in all ______________ you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul ______________.
2. Sanctification Includes the Body, Mind, and Emotions As Well As Spiritual Faculties.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be ________________ ______________, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
3. Present Your Body As a Living Sacrifice.
Romans 12:1-2 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy ________________, acceptable to God, which is your ________________ service of worship. [2] And do not be ________________ to this world, but be ___________________ by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
4. Your Body Is the Temple of God.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? [20] For you have been __________ with a price: ________________ ____________ God in your body.
5. Whatever You Eat Or Drink, Do All to the Glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 ____________, then, you eat or drink or ______________ you do, do all to the glory of God.
6. Wine Is a Mocker and Strong Drink Is a Raging.
Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, And ____________ is ___________________ by it is not wise.
7. Wine Causes All Kinds of Problems.
Proverbs 23:29-32 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has ___________________? Who has ___________________? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? [30] Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine. [31] Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it ______________ in the cup, When it goes down ______________; [32] At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.
8. Woe to Those Intoxicated with Wine.
Isaiah 5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the ____________ that wine may ____________ them!
9. Excessive Wine Leads to Violence.
Proverbs 4:17 For they eat the bread of __________________ And drink the wine of ______________.
10. Wine Perverts the Judgment of Kings.
Proverbs 31:4-5 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Or for rulers to desire strong drink, [5] For they will drink and forget what is decreed, And ____________ the rights of all the ________________.
11. Since We Are Kings and Priests Unto God, We Need Clear Minds.
Revelation 5:10 "You have made them to be a ____________ and ____________ to our God; and they will reign upon the earth."
12. God's Original Diet Was a Vegetarian Diet.
Genesis 1:29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the ____________ of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it _________ be food for you;
13. Noah Understood the Difference Between Clean and Unclean Animals.
after the Flood God Gave Permission to Eat Clean Animals.
Genesis 7:2 "You shall take with you of every clean animal by __________, a male and his female; and of the ____________ that are not clean two, a male and his female;
14. Clean Animals Must Have a Split, Or Divided Hoof and Chew Their Cud. Unclean Animals Are Those Like the Pig That Does Not Have Both Features Just Mentioned.
Leviticus 11:1-8 The LORD spoke again to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, [2] "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'These are the ________________ which you may eat from all the animals that are on the earth. [3] '______________ divides a hoof, thus making split hoofs, and chews the cud, among the animals, that you may eat. [4] '_____________________, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the _________, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you. [5] '______________, the ____________, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you; [6] the __________ also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you; [7] and the pig, for though it divides the hoof, thus making a split hoof, it does not chew cud, it is unclean to you. [8] 'You _________ not eat of their _________ nor touch their ________________; they are unclean to you.
15. Clean Sea Animals Must Have Both Fins and Scales.
Leviticus 11:9-12 'These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat. [10] 'But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the ____________ life of the water, and among all the __________ ________________ that are in the water, they are detestable __________ to you, [11] and they shall be abhorrent to you; you may not eat of their _________, and their ________________ you shall detest. [12] 'Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is abhorrent to you.
16. Those Who Rebel Against God's Dietary Standards Will Not Be in the Kingdom.
Isaiah 66:15-17 For behold, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots like the ________________, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire. [16] For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many. [17] "Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the gardens, ________________ one in the center, Who eat swine's flesh, __________________ things and mice, Will come to an end __________________," ______________ the LORD.
17. God Links Eating Unclean Foods to Heathen Idolatry.
Isaiah 65:1-5 "I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me; I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here am I, here am I,' To a nation which did not call on My name. [2] "I have spread out My hands all day long to a __________________ people, Who walk in the way which is not good, ________________ their own ______________, [3] A people who ___________________ provoke Me to My face, Offering __________________ in gardens and ____________ incense on bricks; [4] Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places; Who eat ____________ flesh, And the broth of ____________ meat is in their pots. [5] "Who say, 'Keep to yourself, do not come near me, For I am holier than you!' These are smoke in My ______________, A fire that burns all the day.
18. Peter Had a Vision of a Sheet with All Kinds of Unclean Animals Which God Told Him to Eat.
Acts 10:9-16 On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. [10] But he became hungry and was ______________ to eat; but while they were making _____________________, he fell into a trance; [11] and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, [12] and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and ______________ ________________ of the earth and birds of the air. [13] A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!" [14] But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten ______________ unholy and unclean." [15] Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has ______________, no longer ______________ unholy." [16] This ______________ three times, and ___________________ the object was taken up into the sky.
19. Peter Later Understands That the Vision Does Not Apply to Food But to the Jewish Practice of Calling Gentiles Unclean. God Is Breaking Down Racial Barriers.
Acts 10:28 And he said to them, "You __________________ know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a ________________ or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean.
20. Jesus Provides Spiritual Strength to Overcome Physical Habits.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all __________ through Him who ___________________ me.
21. Jesus Was Tempted Like We Are. He Fasted 40 Days and Overcame So That We, Too, May Receive His Power to Overcome.
Hebrews 4:15-16 For we do not have a high priest who cannot __________________ with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. [16] Therefore let us draw near with __________________ to the throne of grace, so that we may ____________ mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Next Bible Study: 24-Questions Regarding Health
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