Lesson 13: Fresh Air and Exercise

 A Healthy Lifestyle for Your and Your Family

Lesson 13: Fresh Air and Exercise

Fresh Air

1. What caused man to become a living soul? Genesis 2:7

2. What gave life to man when he was created? Job 33:4

3. What is it that keeps us breathing? Isaiah 42:5

4. What happens to a person when they die? Psalm 104:29

5. Where does the breath go when man dies? Ecclesiastes 12:7

God made man a living machine but it had to be jump-started. God breathed in his nostrils, sending a spark of life into the machine and making Adam a living creature. He also began the lungs working, breathing in oxygen, so necessary to the maintenance of life.

6. What happens to the body after death? Ecclesiastes 3:20

“And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit” 1 Corinthians 15:45. Adam became a living soul when God’s breath was breathed into his nostrils.

7. Does man have any power over death? Ecclesiastes 8:8

8. What else happens to a person when they cease breathing and die? Psalm 146:4

“For now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be” Job 7:21. 

9. How much do the dead know? Ecclesiastes 9:5

“Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun” Ecclesiastes 9:6.

10. Is man the only living thing that breathes? Genesis 7:15

11. What do men and animals have in common? Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20

12. How is man different from the animals? Ecclesiastes 3:21

God did not form the animals with His hands and breathe into their nostrils the breath of life as He did with man. When man dies, his breath, or spirit goes upward, back to the God who gave it, while the body goes back to the dust from which it was made. The breath or spirit of the animals goes down with them into the grave.

13. In Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones, the bones came together, then were joined together by the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, which were finally covered with skin. They were whole but still dead. What made them live? Ezekiel 37:10

The air we breathe is essential to life. If we stop breathing, our heart will cease to beat within a few minutes. Brain cells begin to die in large numbers after about four minutes without oxygen. It is also important that we breathe in full, deep inspirations into our lungs. As much as possible, we should breathe air that is pure and clean. There are many kinds of gases in the atmosphere surrounding us. Some of the gases found in polluted air are poisonous to the body. Polluted air may also contain fine particles of heavy metals such as lead that are harmful to the body.

14. Does God breath? Psalm 33:6; 18:15

15. What can the breath of God do? 

A. Job 37:10

B. Job 4:8, 9

C. Psalm 18:15

D. Exodus 15:8

E. Psalm 33:6

16. What is another word used in the Bible which means breath or breath of life? 

Old Testament — Job 27:3

New Testament — Luke 8:55

The Hebrew word ruwach used in the Old Testament means wind: breath; by extension it can also mean life of the mind. The Greek word pneuma found in the New Testament means a current of air; breath, breeze, mental disposition. Both words also mean a spirit, as a rational being.

17. During creation week who moved upon the face of the waters? Genesis 1:2

18. Paul tells us that the Spirit of God dwells where? 1 Corinthians 3:16

19. How did Jesus describe the work of the Holy Spirit in man? John 3:8

Ruwach and Pneuma are the words used in the Bible for the Holy Spirit. Jesus compares the work of the Spirit to the wind which we can hear and feel but cannot see.

20. How willing is God to give us His Spirit? Luke 11:13

21. How important is it for us to have the Holy Spirit? Zechariah 4:6

22. What has God promised to do? Ezekiel 36:26

Exercise

23. Where did God put Adam and Eve when He created them? Genesis 2:8

24. What occupation did God give Adam and Eve when He created them? Genesis 2:15

The word dress comes from the Hebrew word âbad meaning to work. God didn’t make man to sit about idly doing nothing. He was given work to do that would exercise his muscles and his mind.

25. What did Paul say about exercise? 1 Timothy 4:8

26. Why did he say it was unprofitable? 1 Timothy 4:7

Paul was not saying that exercising the body was a useless and unnecessary undertaking, but that it does not have the promise of bringing one eternal life.

27. What activity did the apostle Paul tell us to do? 1 Corinthians 9:24

28. Why did he tell us to run? 1 Corinthians 9:25

29. What kind of running did he mean? 1 Corinthians 9:27

The runners in the ancient Olympic games had to practice a temperate lifestyle to become a swift runner. Paul is telling us that we must be as temperate as were those ancient runners. We, too, must keep our bodies in subjection to the laws of health if we will receive a crown of life.

30. In the days when the Bible was being written, what was the principle method of travel? Judges 5:6; Mark 16:12

Walking is still considered one of the best all around forms of exercise.

31. What activities has man done through the ages that have provided exercise for the body? 

A. Mark 16:12

B. Isaiah 28:24-26

C. Proverbs 28:19

It has only been in modern times that people in the developed Western nations have needed to make an effort to get exercise. We have become sedentary, often sitting for long periods while working. We ride everywhere we go rather than walk. Modern conveniences have removed the need to do much work by hand, thereby eliminating the exercise that it gave our bodies. Now we must resort to gyms and exercise machines that have been designed to do for our bodies what the modern inventions have taken away.

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