A. May cause 7 ill effects on body health.
1. Body muscle and join problem.
2. Heart and lung problem.
3. Hair and skin.
4. Intestines and stomach.
5. Shoulder and head.
6. Immune system.
7. Psychological.
(World Journal News Report March 13, 2021.)
B. Stress as psychological energy!
1. This energy can pressure the body into action!
2. This is why stress is also call as pressure!
3. Such as a pressure cooker as a bomb to hurt people as they did in Boston some years ago!
4. Good people use it to save time and energy in cooking cow tendon!
C. For success in life we create stress for ourselves!
1. Such as last Sunday we begin with day light saving time!
2. This is to force our bodies to wake up one hour early to work!
3. Because Governing officials thought this way we can improve national GDP output!
Otherwise, why do you think US with a faction of population to China but GDP four times of China!
America has the most stressful workers on this earth!
Many think America is heaven on earth but many commit suicide!
4. Such as regulations are set to force people to move on to a better life!
5. In Flushing 46 years I have seen Stop signs keep adding up...
Each time someone killed by accident at the cross section a stop sign erected!
6. Each stop sign create stress for drivers to drive more carefully!
This way fewer people get hurt by car accident!
7. Such as set time for worship service!
All worshipers are forced to meet in the same time at the same place!
8. Being civil means forcing people to live with many more rules!
D. Stress makes longer body life!
1. Prolong stress shorten body life! Item A is about this one!
2. Set your own time to become a member of the church of Christ!
3. This can energize you to listen carefully to Bible teaching!
4. This can energize you to participate more in church activities!
5. This can energize you to establish a Bible reading habit in daily life!
6. This can help you increase your faith in the Lord!
E. Church of Christ is built so body life lives longer! Often I say: Good man must live longer!
1. God gave some apostles; some, prophets; some, evangelists; some, pastors and teachers. Eph.4:11
2. For the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ, till
we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a full grown man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Eph.4:12-13
3. That we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error. Eph.4:14
4. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. James 1:2
5. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience. James 1:3
6. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:4
7. This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of
God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 1Jn.5:3-4
8. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 1Jn.5:5
F. Conclusion!
1. As the word of God stress is also a two-edged sword!
2. Stress can shorten body life in 7 ways as the report says!
3. Stress can help your body to live longer!
It depends on whether you accept Jesus’ teaching to regulate your behavior! Jn.10:27-28
4. God promised: Stress is for good for those who love God! Ro.8:28
May the Lord bless you and keep you always! Preach this March 21. 2021.
VIDEO SERMON BY BROTHER CHAN ON March 21, 2021