1) God created life on Earth and cares for all his creations, from sparrows to humans. He gave laws and teachings to help people live healthy lives. 2) Humans are both physical and spiritual beings. To live fully, one must accept new spiritual birth through Christ to gain eternal life. 3) God created people to live in community with others. True happiness comes from cultivating social relationships and using one's gifts to bless others.

1. LIFE Lesson 4

2. HOW DID LIFE EMERGE? “ Thus says the Lord, The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: …I have made the earth, and created man on it. I -- My hands -- stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded” Isaiah, 45: 11-12

3. God is still creating and keeping life in this planet For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed; And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. Psalm 139: 13, 16

4. “ Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father; And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered, So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows” Matthew, 10: 29-31 God looks after each individual life He created

5. How did God take care of man’s physical welfare? He made laws about resting (Sabbath) and free-time . He made laws about hygiene . He made laws about diet . Jesus healed people. Jesus prepared resting for his disciples . Jesus fed the crowds. He gave us a special message through Ellen White for the End Time: the health reform .

6. Do you take care of your body as God does? “ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your body and your spirit, which are God's” 1 Corinthians, 6: 19-20

7. If we want to life more than this short physical life, we have to be born again as God’s sons and daughters . This new birth takes place when we accept the gift of eternal life in Christ . SPIRITUAL LIFE

8. “ The power of Christ alone can work the transformation in heart and mind that all must experience who would partake with Him of the new life in the kingdom of God.... In order to serve Him aright, we must be born of the divine Spirit. This will purify the heart and renew the mind and give us a new capacity for knowing and loving God. It will give us willing obedience to all His requirements. This is true worship” E.G.W. ( In heavenly places, December 31 )

9. God created us as social beings PERSON COUPLE FAMILY FRIENDS CHURCH COMMUNITY NATION HUMANITY

10. “ As a people, we lose much by lack of sympathy and sociability with one another. He who talks of independence and shuts himself up to himself is not filling the position that God designed he should. We are children of God, mutually dependent upon one another for happiness. The claims of God and of humanity are upon us. We must all act our part in this life. It is the proper cultivation of the social elements of our nature that brings us into sympathy with our brethren and affords us happiness in our efforts to bless others. The happiness of heaven will consist in the pure communion of holy beings, the harmonious social life with the blessed angels and with the redeemed who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” E.G.W. (Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, pg. 72-73)

11. Only in Christ we find life to the full . This abundant life doesn’t depend on external or material circumstances . We live to the full when Christ lives within us, giving us inner peace . “ I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” John, 10: 10

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