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“Whole Counsel” Spiritual Healthcare Acts 20:26-27

Salvation and Medicine Jesus is the Chief Physician Mark 2:17 And hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.“

Salvation and Medicine Jesus is the Chief Physician 1 Peter 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

Salvation and Medicine Jesus is the Chief Physician He is chief caregiver and restorer of the soul He directs all care to this effort

Salvation and Medicine Scriptures are the cure Psalm 107:20 He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Salvation and Medicine Scriptures are the cure Proverbs 4:20-22 My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body.

Salvation and Medicine Scriptures are the cure They are a prescription with directions They possess the ability to revive the lost

Salvation and Medicine The church is like a hospital 1 Timothy 3:15 but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Salvation and Medicine The church is like a hospital 1 Timothy 3:15 but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. hospital medicine

Salvation and Medicine The church is like a hospital It is a location of the medicine of salvation It is the building built by the Chief Physician It is NOT the cure, but it is built around it

Salvation and Medicine We are at once patients, students AND staff Acts 3:16-19 Healed, learning and teaching at once Ac 3:16 "And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 17 "Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.18 "But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Salvation and Medicine How do we approach this “health care”? Acts 20:26-27 "Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. Answer –WHOLE COUNSEL Healthcare

Whole Counsel Healthcare Covering ALL aspects of Spiritual Health Matthew 23:23-24 1 Timothy 5:21 1Ti 5:21 I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality. Mt 23:23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 "Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Whole Counsel Healthcare Covering ALL aspects of Spiritual Health Focusing most attentively on the need Example: Paul focused on the needs of: Circumcision (7 of 12) Racism (4 of 12) Sexual Immorality (8 of 12)

Half Counsel Healthcare Problems in churches 2000 years ago: 1 Timothy 4:1-6 2 Timothy 3:1-5 2 Timothy 4:1-4 Examples of preaching to the choir: searching church websites, they may have ten lessons on homosexual marriage but none on MDR or giving or liberalism or

Half Counsel Healthcare Problems in churches 2000 years ago: Avoiding a “whole counsel” approach Apostolic solution: directed preaching Examples of preaching to the choir: searching church websites, they may have ten lessons on homosexual marriage but none on MDR or giving or liberalism or

Half Counsel Healthcare Looking at churches today: They may preach lessons on popular issues They avoid offensive doctrines “Preaching to the choir” Reportedly, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when the Christian Church and the church of Christ were in the process of becoming separate bodies, a church sent a prospective local preacher a list of questions to ascertain his views on the divisive issues of the day. One query asked his position on the use of instrumental music in worship. Supposedly, he brazenly replied, “Tell me how you stand, and I will preach it that way. I can preach it equally well either way.” Examples of preaching to the choir: searching church websites, they may have ten lessons on homosexual marriage but none on MDR or giving or liberalism or

Applications Practice “Whole Counsel Healthcare” You are the doctor for the lost They need HARD TRUTHS to be saved You must give them ALL they need There are 40 passages on heaven and 50 passages on hell (Don Adair). See the balance of these things

Applications Practice “Whole Counsel Healthcare” Support “Whole Counsel Healthcare” Too often we cringe at “hard preaching” We may undermine its effect We may support “half counsel” care

Applications Practice “Whole Counsel Healthcare” Support “Whole Counsel Healthcare” Shun “Half-Counsel Healthcare” Reject half truth as a failure

God’s Healthcare Plan A restoration of health through the Gospel Acts 3:16-19 – Perfect Health A Spiritual HMO of Christ-like living Romans 12:1-2 – Continued Renovation Ro 12:1 ¶ Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed 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.