Transcript HYPOCHONDRIA - forest hills church of christ

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