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The Scripture
Reading
Scriptural Texts
Luke 252 Mark 1230-31 Psalm 13913-14 I
Corinthians 316-17 612, 19-20 1031 Matthew
611 I Corinthians 927a (NLT)
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• So Jesus grew both in height and in wisdom, and
  he was loved by God and by all who knew him.
• And you must love the Lord your God with all your
  heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your
  strength.
• The second is equally important Love your
  neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is
  greater than these.

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13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my
body and knit me together in my mothers womb. 14
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelousand how well I know
it. 16 Dont you realize that all of you together
are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God
lives in you?
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17 God will bring ruin upon anyone who ruins this
temple. For Gods temple is holy, and you
Christians are that temple. 12 You may say, I am
allowed to do anything. But I reply, Not
everything is good for you. And even though I
am allowed to do anything, I must not become a
slave to anything.
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19 Or dont you know that your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was
given to you by God? You do not belong to
yourself, 20 For God bought you with a high
price. So you must honor God with your
body. 31 Whatever you eat or drink or whatever
you do, you must do all for the glory of God.
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• Give us our food for today,
• 27a I discipline my body like an athlete,
  training it to do what it should.

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• Let the church say,
• Amen
• Let the church say,
• Amen
• Let the church say,
• Amen, Amen, Amen!

The Message
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The CHOICES Program and Bible Study, (Changing
Health Outcomes by Improving Cardiovascular
Education and Screenings), the Reverend Carolyn
L. ONeils life and unexpected death, and our
FIT 4 LIFE CHALLENGE Month all deal directly with
Gods Design for Physical Fitness.
FIT 4 LIFE CHALLENGE Month
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FIT 4 LIFE CHALLENGE
Week 1 Sunday, May 1 Friday, May 6, 2005
Gods Design for Spiritual Fitness requires that
you and I

• Establish SPIRITUAL COMMITMENT
• Exemplify SPIRITUAL PERSEVERANCE
• Evidence SPIRITUAL GROWTH
• Esteem SPIRITUAL MATURITY
• Exercise SPIRITUAL FITNESS

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FIT 4 LIFE CHALLENGE
Week 2 Saturday, May 7 Friday, May 13, 2005
Gods Design for Relational Fitness

• Revolves around LOVE
• Reveals that GOD IS RELATIONAL
• Reveals that GOD PLANNED FOR YOU AND ME TO BE
  RELATIONAL
• Reveals that JESUS CHRIST COMMANDS THAT YOU AND I
  ARE TO BE IN LOVING RELATIONSHIPS WITH FELLOW
  DISCIPLES
• Reveals that CHRISTIANS IN THE CHURCH MUST BE
  REAL IN OUR LOVING RELATIONSHIPS

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• Our first foundational Scriptural Reference is
  Luke 252 (NLT) which reads,

So Jesus grew both in height and in wisdom, and
he was loved by God by all
who knew him.
The Lukan reference to Jesusheight stands for
His Physical Fitness.
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• Our second foundational Scriptural Reference is
  Mark 1230-31 (NLT) which reads,

And you must love the Lord your God with all
your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all
your strength. The second is equally important
Love your neighbor as yourself. No other
commandment is greater than these.
Jesus reference to all your strength focuses on
a persons Physical Energy.
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The latest statistics on the Physical Fitness of
Americans from childhood to senior citizenship
indicate that most of us are OVERWEIGHT and OUT
OF SHAPE.
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Listen to the second Healthy Heart Fact cited in
7 STEPS To A Spiritually And Physically Healthy
Heart
Losing five pounds can lower your blood pressure
by as much as a 5-20 mmHg units of pressure.
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FIT 4 LIFE CHALLENGE
The word for this weekend is
Part 3 Gods Design for Physical Fitness

• Scriptural Texts
  Luke 252 Mark 1230-31
  Genesis 126 Psalm
  13913-14 I Corinthians 316-17 612, 19-20
  Matthew 611 I Corinthians 927a (NLT)

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• First, Gods Design for Physical Fitness
  testifies through the Word that you and I are
  DIVINELY CREATED OFF THE CHAIN.

Psalm 13913-14 (NLT) reads, You made all the
delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me
together in my mothers womb. Thank you for
making me so wonderfully complex! Your
workmanship is marvelousand how well I know it.
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• Believe it or not! You and I are just as OFF
  THE CHAIN in Gods sight as Usher, Beyonce,
  Will Smith, Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Oprah
  Winfrey, Sidney Poitier and Lena Horne because

• God designed us delicately.
• God designed us wonderfully complex.
• God designed us marvelously.

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• Second, Gods Design for Physical Fitness tells
  us through the Word that you and I as Christians
  are DIVINELY CALLED TO BE HIS PERSONAL CHURCH
  HOUSES.

I Corinthians 316-17 (NLT) reads, Dont you
realize that all of you together are the temple
of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
God will bring ruin upon anyone who ruins this
temple. For Gods temple is holy, and you
Christians are that temple.
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I Corinthians 619-20 (NLT) reads, Or dont you
know that your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit who lives in you and was given to you by
God? You do not belong to yourself, for God
bought you with a high price. So you must honor
God with your body.
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• Three truths arise from these two passages of
  Scripture

• Each Christian is a personal temple for God
  housing His Holy Spirit.
• Each Christian is to be a preserver of Gods
  personal temple which makes our physical bodies
  holy.
• Each Christian is the personal property of God
  purchased by His Sons body.

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• Third, Gods Design for Physical Fitness teaches
  us through the Word that BEING HEALTHY IS MOST
  OFTEN A CHOICE FOR YOU AND ME.

I Corinthians 612 (NLT) reads, You may say, I
am allowed to do anything. But I reply, Not
everything is good for you. And even though I
am allowed to do anything, I must nor become a
slave to anything.
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I Corinthians 1031 (NLT) points out, Whatever
you eat or drink or whatever you do, you must do
all for the glory of God.
Jesus taught us in the Model Prayer in Matthew
611 (NLT) to pray to our Father-God,
Give us our food for today, . . .
The Apostle Paul wrote in I Corinthians 927a
(NLT), I discipline my body like an athlete,
training it to do what it should.
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• Several CHOICES you and I will have to make to
  fulfill Gods Design for Physical Fitness are

• CHOOSE the good over the bad
• CHOOSE to glory for God in all that you and I do
• CHOOSE to ask God to give you and me food daily
• CHOOSE to get started BEING HEALTHY by

• Checking your weight
• Choosing to move more
• Choosing to lose weight the right way

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FIT 4 LIFE CHALLENGE
The word for this weekend is
Part 3 Gods Design for Physical Fitness

• Scriptural Texts
  Luke 252 Mark 1230-31
  Genesis 126 Psalm
  13913-14 I Corinthians 316-17 612, 19-20
  Matthew 611 I Corinthians 927a (NLT)

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Gods Design for Physical Fitness

• Testifies through the Word that you and I are
  DIVINELY CREATED OFF THE CHAIN.
• Tells us through the Word that you and I as
  Christians are DIVINELY CALLED TO BE HIS PERSONAL
  CHURCH HOUSES .
• Teaches us through the Word that BEING HEALTHY IS
  MOST OFTEN A CHOICE FOR YOU AND ME.

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STEP FIVE, DAY 4 in 7 STEPS is titled,
Choose to Move
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Dr. A Elaine Crawford writes on page 128,
We can walk, run, take classes, stretch, lift
weights there are any number of options!
Choose to move. Exercise takes discipline,
denial, and sometimes it may feel like you have
to take authority over your fleshly desire not to
move.
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So, like Ludacris told millions of his listeners
a few months ago, I say to you,
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WHEN I MOVE
YOU MOVE,
JUST LIKE THAT!
for Gods Design for Physical Fitness