In 1963 a man named Dr. S.I. McMillen wrote a book entitled None of These Diseases. The title of the book is based on the text in Exodus 15:26 which says, "If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee."

In the book the author tells stories of patients who were cured of all kinds of diseases simply by following the health laws that God has given in the Bible. It is only in recent years that modern medical science has begun to understand and advocate some of the principles that God had revealed to his people thousands of years ago.

It is a wonderful thing that society in general is beginning to be concerned with the principles of healthful living. It is probably because they have discovered it is cheaper to stay well than it is to get well. In this context there is a growing interest in natural and homeopathic medicines. Studies are being made of herbs and their use down through the ages as treatments for disease.

It is interesting how often we consider herbs as "natural" remedies while other medicines are considered to be drugs although frequently the medicines that we call drugs are actually manufactured from the compounds found in plants.

Many people are very careful about the amount of regular medicine they take but seem to think that the more herbs they take the better. I personally believe we should be careful. There is a growing amount of evidence that in many cases it is possible to poison ourselves with herbs just as we can do harm to ourselves from certain kinds of prescription medicines.

In an age of extremes, I believe it is important that we make every effort to be balanced in our thinking and in our practice. Whether they be what we would call regular medicine or if they be herbs or other so called natural remedies, we do well to remember that there are good ones and bad ones in both categories. In both categories there are those that fit the particular disease and those that don't. We must be just as sensitive about overdosing ourselves on what we call natural remedies as we would any other medicine.

While I am commenting on these things from a purely personal perspective. Let me say something about what are called the Eight Natural Remedies. Again this happens to be the way that I look at it personally. If you don't happen to agree with what I am saying just be patient I will be getting on with the sermon in just a few minutes. I hope though that I haven't said anything yet that was too bad.

Now about the Eight Natural Remedies- The word "remedy" to me means cure. I looked the word up in the Thesaurus and there are other meanings that are less that a cure. One is even the word treatment. But for the average person the term "Eight Natural Remedies" sounds like they are things that if you do them they will cure disease and I don't need to tell you when a person is affected with a life threatening disease they are desperate to find a cure.

Please don't misunderstand me, but generally I think it would be more positive to refer to the Eight Natural Remedies as eight natural ways to encourage good health rather than to think that they are eight natural ways to cure any and every disease. I believe that in and of themselves the Eight Natural Remedies will do more to prevent disease than they will do to cure disease once it becomes full blown.

On this subject I speak only as a laymen but please hear me out. A friend of mine has MS. MS is a degenerative disease. Of course a person with a disease like Multiple Sclerosis is anxious to try everything and anything to get well. There are books out there that tell you there is a cure for MS. For that matter there are even books out there that tell us that there are cures for cancer that the medical profession is suppressing.

The proof for the claims that are being made is that there are people who have been cured when they do whatever the book tells them to do. Now here is the point that I would respectfully like to make. If something is really an effective cure then doesn't it seem reasonable to you that it would have to be effective in most of the cases or shall we say half of the case or even twenty five percent of the cases?

We are thankful when anyone is cured of anything. But I wonder about the ethic of it all when something is advertised as being a cure for cancer, MS or some other awful disease and, as happens so often, the reason the people give for the cure not being made available to the public is because the American Medical Association wants to keep it secret because they are making so much money from other ineffective treatments.

Now in all fairness, if someone is making money at the expense of the suffering ones it seems to me that it would be everyone including the ones selling books on what might be called natural cures. I don't want to be disrespectful but have you checked out the price of the herb remedies lately?

Doctors have told me that on occasion diseases simply go into what is called spontaneous remission. That is they just stop, diminish or disappear. This occurs in ways that we don't understand but nevertheless we rejoice in it. It is easy to see then how a person could be eating dandelion greens when their disease went into spontaneous remission and so an industry in dandelion extract is born and people would then write books on how to get well out of your front yard.

I am not saying these things to be disrespectful or not appreciative of the attempts that are being made to cure the diseases that are killing us and causing our families untold grief, neither am I trying to be disrespectful to a person who consciously is trying to earn a livelihood according to their own convictions. What I do think is that we who are the consumers must be careful lest in our desperation we become candidates for anyone who would make us think something is the gospel truth when it is an exception and not the rule.

While I am at it I would be only fair to say that this same principle applies to those of us who represent ourselves as gospel ministers. Though, hopefully, we are not dispensing medicines and herb remedies on the side, we are nevertheless, dealing with the sick and the afflicted and in a way we dispense supposed healing but from supernatural forces.

I recognized that when we are sick, we and our families are desperate to find a cure. If not in one medicine or remedy then another and of course if a person never prays a day in their life they will definitely tend to begin to pray when they are in a life threatening situation. What I am leading up to, as far as the ministry is concerned, is we must be careful as we pray for the sick and encourage them to pray that we don't reduce the whole thing to "if you just have enough faith God will answer your prayer".

Some of the so-called faith healers speak this way. They pray for the people and when the sick one is not healed they are told that the problem was that they simply didn't have enough faith. Personally I don't think this is fair. Why some of the sick recover as an answer to prayer and others don't is something that is in the hands of the Almighty and I am content to leave it there.

The title of this sermon is "None of These Diseases". There is no doubt in my mind that when we follow the instruction that God has given us in His Word the result will be improved health. I say improved health as opposed to total health because we must bear in mind that there are environmental considerations which are unhealthy and over which we have no control. Like what happened to the people as a result of the melt-down at Chernobyl. There are also other factors which we are learning more about that have to do with heredity. It now seems apparent that a person can be born with a genetic disposition to certain kinds of diseases. Of course the greatest killer of all and something to which we will all eventually fall victim is old age.

I thank God for my health. My mother lived to be 84 and my dad 87. Yet the wages of sin between here and the coming of Jesus is death and the mortality rate for this race with the exception of Enoch and Elijah up to this time has been 100%.

I heard someone say one time that one of the most practical reasons for following a healthy lifestyle is to shorten the time of our disability. My father-in-law died almost instantly at the age of 88 of a massive brain hemorrhage, other people are not so fortunate. The process leading to death may take painful years. Yet we have the promises that there will be a resurrection and that the time is coming when God will wipe away all tears from our eyes and the text says that there will be no more pain tears or suffering.

The promise that God gave the children of Israel was that if they would follow the health plan He gave to them they would not be afflicted with the same kinds of disease that afflicted the nations around them. Yet we must not forget God gave them not only the rules for physical health but also He gave them the principles, which are the foundation of emotional and spiritual health.

I am glad there is a great awakening in the world to the principles of healthfully living. Even the New Agers who believe that they are their own gods are into the principles of the Eight Natural Remedies. Yet while there is a move in the society toward physical health there seems to be a moving away from following the principles that God gave us in order to be able to enjoy moral and emotional health. This may even be true among us to claim to obey the Word of God.

It is no secret that through the years our church has been a leader in healthy living. But something must be going wrong. We must be following only part of what is called the health message. I say this because while the Adventist church has been a leader in the field of a healthy lifestyle, of late we have not been a leader in the field of emotional and spiritual health. As a consequence we are suffering the same kinds of emotional and spiritual diseases that those who make no claim to serve God.

I believe the great indication something vital is being left out of our lives is that Christians are having about the same rate of divorce as those who have no religion. When I mention divorce I do not mean to condemn those who may be here who have been through the experience of a broken home either as an affected spouse or as a child of divorced parents.

The things I am about to say are not meant to make matters worse but come from a sincere desire to understand what has gone wrong. After all, studies have shown that Adventist have less cancer and live longer than the population in general and yet increasingly our homes are not lasting any longer than those of the rest of society. In my heart of hearts I believe those who follow the Word of God should not only be healthier physically but it seems to me they should be healthier in that which has to do with human relationships as well.

Of all the relationships on this earth the home is where it all begins. Sometimes I ask a congregation how many of them are grandparents and a certain number will raise their hands. Then I will ask how many of them are parents and more raise their hands. Then finally I ask how many of them are children and the young people raise their hands. But then I remind the congregation that though only some of us are grandparents and only some of us are parents, everyone of us are children.

These days there is a tremendous sensitivity in things having to do with the environment. Some poor little species of owl can close down a timber industry. Unfortunately there is not the same sensitivity to the well-being of the home. Our homes are increasingly being broken up and what do we get. Go to a greeting card display in a pharmacy or a card store and you will be able to buy cards that say, "Congratulations on your Divorce". Now that may be appropriate for one of the spouses who is happy to, as they say, "get out of a bad relationship" but where in the card display are there cards of condolence for the children who are involved.

I don't need to tell you , especially those of you who are children of divorced parents, that though you may have been able to adjust, the pain a broken home is something from which you can never recover. I have talked with spouses who are parties in a divorce and they have told me that it is something like a death only worse because death takes the dear one away. In death, love is broken by forces out of itself. While in the case of divorce it is itself the death of love.

Though I have been married to my wife Betty for more than forty years we have both felt the cold fingers of divorce as they have reached into the lives of close family members. As a minister of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ I feel the time has come for the church to rise up to protect our families. We have the promise of the resurrection from those who die from physical disease but where is the promise of the resurrection when that which is dead is love. I know there are cases in which the affected parties are able to get a new start. But the question that I have is do the children ever get a new start?

I was talking with a Academy teacher one time. She told me at the end of the year, when graduation time rolls around, one of the graduation weekend events is when the graduates pin a rose on their parents. I don't know if they still have this custom or not. Anyway, she told me that though this event would take place in May or June already at the beginning of the school year the young people were going through the emotional trauma of how it was going to be pinning a rose on mom and her new husband in one part of the auditorium and dad and his girlfriend in another part of the auditorium.

Let me repeat, I am not saying these things to rub salt in the wound that the passing of time is trying to heal. It is just that the forest fire of divorce is sweeping across our land and even sweeping into the church. Will we sit back and just get used to it or will we do our best to mitigate the damage that has already been caused and at the same time launch out with vigor to quench the conflagration?

You may think what I am about to say next is naive, uninformed, or simply unworkable, but I believe that just as God gave us his Word to show us how to be healthy so He has given us his Word as a guide as to how to conduct our homes and marriages so that they will be able to endure the changing times. I must also conclude that inasmuch as it is impossible that he would give us principles that don't work, if we are suffering the ravages of the broken home it must be that we are simply not doing what he has told us to do.

You may not agree, but there is not a situation in life that the Scripture doesn't cover. You can't get yourself into a situation so bad that the Scripture doesn't tell you how to get through it to the glory of God.

1Corinthians 10:13 "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."

There is something in our hearts that naturally resists the Word of God. If someone is having problems in their lives and you tell them what Dr. Laura says that they should do or refer to an article from Better Homes and Gardens the person will probably not bat an eyelash. But when someone is having problems and we say that the Scripture says this or that, there is often an immediate tension or a kind of rolling of the eyes.

Many times I have commented it is strange to me that you can preach a sermon from the daily newspaper or the Readers Digest and few will complain but use the Spirit of Prophecy and the place gets tense.

This generation doesn't mind authority as long as the authority is down at its own level. One of the ways that people have used through the years to avoid the authority of God in their lives is simply to say they don't believe in God or that they don't believe in such and such a text or that a particular text was for another time.

It is pathetic. God is gracious and merciful and longsuffering. It is a good thing he is not easily offended. This time of year in this country we are paying our taxes. Someone has said that there are two things that are certain, death and taxes. The government has established an agency to collect its taxes and that is the Internal Revenue Department.

Though we don't like it and though we may resent it I think there are few of us who would say that the Internal Revenue Department doesn't exist. But that is what some will often try to do to avoid obeying the Word of God. They simply deny that God exists. We can say we don't agree with the tax code but we are still subject to it. In the same way we may disagree with the Word of God but it is still the truth, like it or not, and we are all subject to it.

I was on an airplane some time ago. Someone was commenting that an airplane is two million different pieces flying together in close formation. Planes are made by many different companies, they are big and little, luxurious or simply made to carry freight or to make war, yet every heavier than air object has one thing in common with every other one and that is that it must obey the laws of aerodynamics.

Every plane that is designed must be in conformity to certain laws or they simply won't fly or if they do it won't be for long. In the same way every pilot must fly his plane in agreement with the same laws. He is not free to fly the plane as he sees fit. He must fly it as it was designed to fly and it was designed to fly in accordance with the laws of aerodynamics.

Do I need to say more? It is ridiculous to think that though we must fly airplanes according to fixed laws. I say, it is ridiculous to think that we can live our lives and make up the rules as we go along. There are laws for living that are just as unforgiving as the law of gravity. Every law that we break that has to do with faith and morals has an immediate though often not apparent result.

I know that the devil was the originator of sin which, as you know, by the simplest of all definitions, is the breaking of the law. Yet I believe that we are giving him more credit than he deserves when we say that such and such a thing happened to us because of the devil. There is no doubt that the devil is the originator and the on-going promoter of lawlessness yet somewhere along the line we must see to a large extent what is happening to us in this life is largely the result of our own choices.

If you are piloting a plane and you are flying at 25 thousand feet and you push the stick forward and keep it there you are going to hit the ground. The laws of aerodynamics and gravity have decreed it so. There are a lot of awful things happening to us these days that are simply the results of cause and effect. The law was in place when we were born, somewhere along the line we apparently decided that we would ignore it or obey it later or that we used to obey it but now we won't. I am sure the devil is delighted but I am not sure that we should say that he is in the short term, at least, the one who is to blame.

I recognize that things can happen to us that we didn't initiate. We can be on a flight where the mechanics have not done their job right and our lives can be lost due to no fault of our own. Yet on a day-to-day basis our lives tend to be comprised of the decisions we make that either represent our own initiatives or are reactions to the initiatives of others.

The life that we live is comprised of our actions and reactions and these will always be either in harmony or a violation to what we might call natural law. Now here is where the plot thickens because nature as a whole is built around natural law. The other living creatures do not tend to violate the laws of nature because the laws of nature are built into them. We call it instinct.

The highest order of God's creation unfortunately doesn't have instinct. If you get a kitten at the age of eight weeks you don't have to worry. The cat will know how to be a cat without having to go to cat school. Monkeys know how to be monkeys and birds know how to be birds, but people don't know how to be what they were suppose to be unless someone teaches them. You don't have to teach a cat to be hygienic or to wash its face. If you don't teach a person to wash his face he probably won't.

There is a text in 2 Timothy 3:15 that says: "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."

The wisdom that comes from scripture makes us wise not only unto the future salvation that is to come but it will save us from a host of problems in this life. Speaking of knowing the Holy Scripture from childhood. It is sad that the only wisdom that many children are getting these days is from their peers. I don't mean to reminisce but there was a time in which studying the Sabbath school lesson and learning the memory verses for the whole quarter was what we did. Unfortunately someone must have decided that we didn't need to memorize the Bible any more. We seem to have forgotten the promised which says, "Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee."

Our children these days are overwhelmed by the emotional trauma of the breaking or the broken home and are over-stimulated by television and computer games. What are being diagnosed as learning disabilities are in many cases the result of the home environment. You tell me how could you if you were 9 years old and your parents were screaming at each other and at you and your escape was television programs and hyper active computer games concentrate on your studies?

As a generation we seem to have forgotten that we will reap what we sow. Is it too late for us? Have we gone too far. No, where there is life there is hope. Though we must bear the scars of the past we do not need to continue the way we are. But if there is to be a change it must be that we must return to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. If there is to be a change we must return to His Word, which He has given to be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.

There is a text in 2 Peter 1: 19-21 which says, "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

This text is not just about foretelling the future. The word prophecy in Scripture refers to the Word of the God to man. The prophets were those who were messengers of God. The texts then is saying that we do well to take heed to the messages from God because they will be like having a flashlight when the electricity goes off in the middle of the night.

The problem in our generation is not that we have not chosen to believe it is just that we have chosen to believe the word of someone else and not the Word of God. Our children are not having trouble because they are not being taught, the trouble is that they are being taught the wrong things.

God knew that we were all born into a world of darkness. He did not leave us alone. Listen to this, "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, of instruction in righteousness: that the man of god may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3:16. In Hebrews 4:12, 13 we read "For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerneer of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."

We are spending huge sums of money that would not have had to have been spent had we simply been faithful to the Word of God. It costs less to change the oil than it does to have a new engine put in and so our lives are more and more the result of simply not implementing the free instruction that God has given us by his Spirit through his Word.

I was thinking about it and suddenly it occurred to me that in the first place the scriptures were given to us to help us prevent our problems. We have somehow gotten to the place where we will turn to the Bible like we would call the fire department when the house is on fire. Like I was mentioning earlier, the Eight Natural Remedies where to be more eight natural preventatives than they were to be eight natural ways to get well when you get sick.

It is the will of God that we have none of the diseases that are afflicting modern society whether it be cancer, AIDS or a broken home. Of course he has promised never to leave us or forsake us. That means t if we have smoked all our lives, or are promiscuous or our home is breaking up he has promised he will not stop ministering to us. The pity is we have and continue to ignore his Word and so in many instances our pain is simply self induced.

Many of us have come to the place in our lives where all we are doing is what might be called "putting out fires". We go from one crisis to the next and so when we do go to the Word of God for a solution we are looking only for the solution for a particular problem.

When I was a child I used to get poison ivy almost every summer. I don't know if you have every had poison Ivy or not. To my knowledge there is still no cure for it. It is a three leafed plant. There is a variety that grows along the ground and a variety that grows on the trunks of trees. The ground variety is called poison ivy, the variety that grows on trees is called poison oak.

The problem is an oil that is in the leaf. There is danger of getting exposed to this oil even when the plant is being burned. I had a friend who ripped up some poison ivy and burned it. He got in the smoke and got so covered with the rash that he had to go to the hospital. I have even heard stories of people who have gotten poison ivy from petting animals who have somehow gotten the oil on their fur.

Fortunately when you know that you have touched the plant you can wash with a strong soap before the oil has had a chance to soak into the skin. When I was a child I used to get some poison ivy almost every summer. A bad case of poison ivy itches so bad and scratching it seems to only spread it. To relieve the itching, you won't believe this, but it helps to take an oatmeal bath.

Well, enough about poison ivy. The point is when you get it, you've got it. To my knowledge there is no cure for it. It just has to run its course and depending on how bad you have it, it is miserable. I don't get it anymore. I haven't had it in years. It isn't that I have somehow outgrown it nor have I become immune to it. I have simply learned what it looks like. When I am in areas where it is known to grow I am on the look out for it. The bottom line is I don't get it anymore because I stay out of it.

Life is about cause and effect. If we don't know what cause certain things we are going to go through life suffering the effects. Sometimes we will literally spend a fortune treating the effect and all the time give little attention to what causes it or even if we know once the itch is gone we will return to the very things that brought on the suffering in the first place.

We have been born into a world of suffering and sin. The wages of sin is death and this race is afflicted with it. The Scripture says that it is appointed for a person once to die. The Lord has been gracious and merciful with this poor suffering race even to the point where He sent his only begotten Son to live among us and to suffer with us. I love the text in Lamentations 3:22,23, " It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning;" Then the prophets exclaims, "Great is thy faithfulness."

God has given us his Word. If we follow his Word it will mitigate the suffering in this present life and it will ensure that we will be participants in the life that is to come. Yet here we are. As a society, and increasingly in the church, we are turning our back on his Word. We have chosen to listen to the voices that tell us what we want to hear. We were promised that if we would be true to the Lord we would suffering none of these diseases yet increasingly we are suffering as it were all of these diseases and frighteningly we are putting at risk the salvation that we are to receive in the life to come,

I suppose it should come as no surprise to us that this would happen. Listen to this: 2 Timothy 4:1-12, "I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine."

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

Those days have come. Prophecy is being fulfilled before our faces. You know I am more concerned with the fact that we have turned our back on the truth than I am about the Christian Coalition or even the fact that there may be someday a Sunday law. Another prophecy is being fulfilled that to me is as significant as a sign of the times as was hurricane Andrew.

"Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way."

"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved."

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

Though the fires of hell have not yet began to burn we are, in a way, suffering the fires of hell in this life and we are suffering because we have largely ceased to receive the truth that we might be saved. We are on a sinking ship. This planet is going down but God graciously provided a life boat that is big enough for whosoever will and for some reason that I don't understand even some of those who once got in are getting back on board the sinking ship.

Oh, this is not to say that they don't still come to church. This is not to say that they might not even be officers in the church but in our heads many of us nowadays are like Lots wife. We appear to be fleeing the world but our hearts are still there and many of us are stopping and looking back and as a consequence, as it were, some of us are suffering spiritually and even sometimes physically the experience of Lots wife.

My brother, My sister. We can say that the devil is doing it to us. Surely the devil is at war with us. He goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour but what is happening to us is because we refuse to believe the truth and what can God do for those who reject his Word and return to the perspective and philosophies of the world.

Can the words of 2 Peter 2:20 be referring to us when they say, "For if after they have escaped the pollution of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."

"But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."

By now you might be saying, Come on Pastor O'Ffill give us a break. You are not affirming us and accepting us the way we are. This kind of talk is damaging to our self esteem. You are to blame for what is happening because you are talking negative.

Friend, all I know is we are suffering the same things the people who don't profess to follow Christ are suffering. The promise was that if we would obey the Lord we wouldn't suffer as the world suffers. We are, so we must be doing something wrong.

Someone may , "But we are saved by faith. Christ has done it all" and so we are and so he has. But if we are saved by faith and He has done it all then tell that to the children from Christian homes whose lives are being forever marred because the parents decided that having brought them into the world they would now go find a mate that would fulfill their needs and bring them happiness.

O my brother, my sister. Listen to the word of the Lord in Isaiah 55:6-7 "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."

You may say that text is not for us, that we are not wicked or unrighteous. May this be so but I greatly suspect that though we don't think of ourselves as the wicked or the unrighteous, nevertheless we have done wickedly and committed unrighteousness.

Men and brethern. Ladies and sisters, what shall we do. Listen to the words of Jesus for us. Revelation 3:14-20 " And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."

"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:"

"I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see."

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me."

Friend there is hope for us. We have not gone to far. Jesus stands at the door of our hearts. He promises that if we will let him things will be different. To let Jesus into our hearts means that we must let his Word into our hearts and lives.

God's will is that suffer none of these diseases. It is my prayer that we will allow Him who healed hearts and bodies when he walked this earth 2000 years ago to heal our hearts and bodies though His Word.

To Him be glory and honor in the church, now and forever more, Amen.