Health handout for Divine Service

Medical Missionary Work/

Simple Remedies & Emergency Situations
7-21-12
BIBLE:
...HEAL THE SICK...(Matthew 10:8)
SOP:
WE HAVE COME TO A TIME WHEN EVERY MEMBER OF THE CHURCH SHOULD
TAKE HOLD OF MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK. The world is a lazar house filled with victims
of both physical and spiritual disease. Everywhere people are perishing for lack of a knowledge of the
truths that have been committed to us. The members of the church are in need of an awakening, that
they may realize their responsibility to impart these truths...{7T 62.1}
THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK GIVEN US TO DO MEANS SOMETHING TO
EVERY ONE OF US...{CH 320.3}
EVERY PERSON SHOULD HAVE A KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE'S REMEDIAL AGENCIES
AND HOW TO APPLY THEM. IT IS ESSENTIAL BOTH TO UNDERSTAND THE
PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN THE TREATMENT OF THE SICK AND TO HAVE A
PRACTICAL TRAINING THAT WILL ENABLE ONE RIGHTLY TO USE THIS
KNOWLEDGE. {MH 127.2}
The use of natural remedies requires an amount of care and effort that many are not willing to
give. Nature's process of healing and upbuilding is gradual, and to the impatient it seems slow.
{MH 127.3}
There are many ways of practicing the healing art, but THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY THAT
HEAVEN APPROVES. GOD'S REMEDIES ARE THE SIMPLE AGENCIES OF NATURE
THAT WILL NOT TAX OR DEBILITATE THE SYSTEM THROUGH THEIR POWERFUL
PROPERTIES...{5T 443.1}
Christ left the courts of heaven that He might minister to the sick and suffering of earth. We must
cooperate with the Chief of physicians, walking in all humility of mind before Him. Then the
Lord will bless our earnest efforts to relieve suffering humanity. IT IS NOT BY THE USE OF
POISONOUS DRUGS THAT THIS WILL BE DONE, BUT BY THE USE OF SIMPLE
REMEDIES. We should seek to correct false habits and practices, and teach the lessons of selfdenial. ...{MM 85.2}
NATURE'S SIMPLE REMEDIES WILL AID IN RECOVERY WITHOUT LEAVING THE
DEADLY AFTEREFFECTS SO OFTEN FELT BY THOSE WHO USE POISONOUS DRUGS.
They destroy the power of the patient to help himself...{2SM 281.3}
THE LORD HAS GIVEN SOME SIMPLE HERBS OF THE FIELD THAT AT TIMES ARE
BENEFICIAL; AND IF EVERY FAMILY WERE EDUCATED IN HOW TO USE THESE
HERBS IN CASE OF SICKNESS, MUCH SUFFERING MIGHT BE PREVENTED, AND NO
DOCTORE NEED BE CALLED. THESE OLD-FASHIONED, SIMPLE HERBS, USED
INTELLIGENTLY, WOULD HAVE RECOVERED MANY SICK WHO HAVE DIED UNDER
DRUG MEDICATION.{2SM 294.1}

GOD HAS CAUSED TO GROW OUT OF THE GROUND, HERBS FOR THE USE OF MAN,
AND IF WE UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF THOSE ROOTS AND HERBS, AND MAKE A
RIGHT USE OF THEM, THERE WOULD NOT BE A NECESSITY OF RUNNING FOR THE
DOCTOR SO FREQUENTLY, AND PEOPLE WOULD BE IN MUCH BETTER HEALTH
THAN THEY ARE TODAY.--Letter 35, 1890 (To a worker in an overseas field). {2SM 297.9}
...I WISH TO SAY THAT THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK IS GOD'S WORK...TAKE
HOLD OF THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY WORK, AND IT WILL GIVE YOU ACCESS TO
THE PEOPLE. THEIR HEARTS WILL BE TOUCHED AS YOU MINISTER TO THEIR
NECESSITIES... {CH 533.3}
Christ appointed His disciples. Let them labor as evangelists, scattering our publications, and talking
of the truth to those they meet. LET THEM PRAY FOR THE SICK, MINISTERING TO THEIR
NECESSITIES, NOT WITH DRUGS, BUT WITH NATURE'S REMEDIES, AND TEACHING
THEM HOW TO REGAIN HEALTH and avoid disease.--Testimonies, Vol. 9, pp. 171, 172.
AS YOU RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERINGS, YOU WILL FIND OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK
TO THEM OF THE LOVE OF JESUS.--Counsels on Health, p. 533. (1901) {Ev 523.5}
QUESTIONS FOR ALL OF US TO ASK OURSELVES:
Q #1: There is a great work to be done. Are you doing all you can to help? God has given us a
commission which angels might envy. Medical missionary work is to be done. Thousands upon
thousands of human beings are perishing. The compassion of God is moved. All heaven is looking
on with intense interest to see what stamp medical missionary work will assume under the
supervision of human beings. Will men make merchandise of God's ordained plan for reaching
the dark parts of the earth with a manifestation of His benevolence?{MM 131.2}
Q #2: ARE WE PREPARED FOR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SITUATIONS?
the first thing they must do is to make themselves practical, all-round useful men and women, who IN
AN EMERGENCY CAN DO THE WORK NECESSARY TO BE DONE...{SpM 54.6}

THINK OF SOME MEDICAL EMERGENCIES THAT MAY COME UP. WHAT WOULD
YOU DO? WOULD YOU BE EQUIPPED? WOULD YOU BE PREPARED?

7T = Testimonies For The Church, Volume 7

CH = Cousels on Health
MH = Ministry of Healing
5T = Testimonies For The Church, Volume 5
MM = Medical Ministry
2SM = Selected Messages, Volume 2
EV = Evangelism
SpM = Spalding and Magan