For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. (1 Cor. 11:30)

SPIRITUAL AILMENTS Many of the Corinthians were spiritually sick at the time Paul wrote the first of his two epistles to them. We don’t know what spiritual sicknesses they had, but there are many such diseases, which continue to plague men and women today.

SPIRITUAL AILMENTS HYPOCHONDRIA ELEPHANTIASIS HYPEROPIA CHILLS LETHARGIC ENCEPHALITIS ATROPHY ITCH INFARCTION CANCER CARDITIS MYOPIA RACHITIS FEVER HYDROPHOBIA SUNDAY SICKNESS ANEURISM CLINICAL DEPRESSION

HYPOCHONDRIA Morbid anxiety as to one's own health, with conjuring up of imaginary ailments. Some people imagine they have been mistreated; they take their exercise jumping to conclusions. Some imagine they cannot do things for the Lord. Their defeat is due to their mental outlook. They are like the ten spies and the one-talent man.

HYPOCHONDRIA But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

HYPOCHONDRIA "There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." (Num. 13:31-33) "'And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.'" (Matt. 25:25)

SPIRITUAL AILMENTS HYPOCHONDRIA ELEPHANTIASIS HYPEROPIA CHILLS LETHARGIC ENCEPHALITIS ATROPHY ITCH INFARCTION CANCER CARDITIS MYOPIA RACHITIS FEVER HYDROPHOBIA SUNDAY SICKNESS ANEURISM CLINICAL DEPRESSION

CARDITIS Inflammation of the muscular substance of the heart; heart trouble. Evil conduct is due to an evil heart. "For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies." (Matt. 15:19) Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life. (Prov. 4:23)

SPIRITUAL AILMENTS HYPOCHONDRIA ELEPHANTIASIS HYPEROPIA CHILLS LETHARGIC ENCEPHALITIS ATROPHY ITCH INFARCTION CANCER CARDITIS MYOPIA RACHITIS FEVER HYDROPHOBIA SUNDAY SICKNESS ANEURISM CLINICAL DEPRESSION

ELEPHANTIASIS The skin becomes thick and hard like an elephant's skin. People afflicted with this disease have thick skins, are hard to reach. Should be compassionate and tender.

ELEPHANTIASIS Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. (1 Pet. 3:8)

ELEPHANTIASIS Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. (Col. 3:12) Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. (Rom. 12:15)

ELEPHANTIASIS The skin becomes thick and hard like an elephant's skin. People afflicted with this disease have thick skins, are hard to reach. Should be compassionate and tender. Should be easily reached.

ELEPHANTIASIS This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. (Eph. 4:17-19)

ELEPHANTIASIS Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

ELEPHANTIASIS But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. (James 3:13-18)

SPIRITUAL AILMENTS HYPOCHONDRIA ELEPHANTIASIS HYPEROPIA CHILLS LETHARGIC ENCEPHALITIS ATROPHY ITCH INFARCTION CANCER CARDITIS MYOPIA RACHITIS FEVER HYDROPHOBIA SUNDAY SICKNESS ANEURISM CLINICAL DEPRESSION

MYOPIA Nearsightedness, seeing distinctly at short distances only. Spiritually, farsighted vision is essential to survival. He who fails to add the Christians graces has spiritual myopia.

MYOPIA But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. (2 Pet. 1:5-9)