Burning but not Burnt Out

Blessing of Health #6

Sixth Commandment

• Éxo 20:12

Thou shalt not kill.

Slowly but Surely

• Whether we kill ourselves quickly (a bullet to the head)

• Or slowly (poor food to the mouth)• Still counted a suicide in the books

of heaven while it may still be called lifestyle disease on earth

How seriously?

• Pro 23:1, 2 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

• And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

How seriously?

• Pro 23:8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

Which “sweet” words

• Sal 19:7, 10 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul… More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Mind-Body Connection

• One’s state of health affects in a significant manner his state of mind, thus the ability to keep the ten commandments.

Be temperate

• Pro_25:16 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Be temperate

• Col 2:21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

• This command enjoins complete abstinence from the bad.

Be temperate

• True temperance is complete abstinence from that which is bad and judicious use of that which is good.

Be temperate

• 1 Cor 9:25, 27 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things… But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Burning but not burnt out

• We may work but we should not overwork.

• Sleep but do not over do it.• Eat , but that which is

sufficient for thee.

1.) What does temperance

means?

2.) What are the present benefits of

being temperate?

3.) What is the ultimate

price of intemperance

?

Questions