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00:39 Hello, and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents.
00:41 I'm Chris Shelton, your host. 00:42 I wanna thank you for joining us. 00:44 Today's message is entitled "The Bible's Path to Health." 00:48 And it is lesson 21 out of 25 studies 00:51 that we're presenting from this Bible study guide 00:54 that is entitled 00:56 "Sharing God's Love Makes You Happier, 00:58 What the Bible Says." 01:00 This study guide was compiled by Brother Richard Bland 01:03 of United Prison Ministries. 01:05 And, friends, miracles have taken place 01:08 during the airing of this series. 01:10 Just recently a viewer called in 01:12 and shared that after watching lesson number 10, 01:16 that was entitled 01:17 "Take Control and Quit Smoking," 01:19 that he began to pray about the message 01:21 he had just heard and claim victory 01:24 from the habit of smoking and drinking, 01:26 that had held him in bondage for over 50 years. 01:31 Nothing, absolutely nothing that he had ever tried before 01:35 had ever worked, 01:36 but being led of the Holy Spirit 01:39 this time to pray to God. 01:41 After hearing this message, 01:43 he is now rejoicing in the fact 01:45 that the grips of these addictions 01:47 were totally taken from him after his prayer. 01:51 And it has been two weeks after viewing the message 01:54 that he finally called in, gave his testimony, 01:57 sharing with us that after watching the program 02:00 that he no longer even had the desire 02:04 to smoke or to drink 02:05 and we are just praising God along with him. 02:08 And I'm expecting 02:09 lives to be changed after today's message 02:12 just as well. 02:13 Why, you may ask. 02:14 Because God has promised in His Word 02:17 that His Word would not return 02:19 to Him void. 02:20 Let's read this promises found in Isaiah 55:11. 02:26 "So shall my word be that goeth forth 02:29 out of my mouth, 02:31 it shall not return unto me void, 02:33 but it shall accomplish that which I please, 02:38 and it shall prosper 02:39 and the thing whereto I sent it." 02:41 We are claiming that promise today 02:45 as we study "The Bible's Path to Health." 02:49 And we know that God's purpose for His children 02:52 is to prepare us to be citizens in His kingdom. 02:56 Therefore, we can be assured that His path to health 03:00 is most certainly the path that we should be following. 03:04 But before we join Pastor Kenny Shelton, 03:06 let's visit 3ABN for a blessing in music, 03:10 as sung by Pastor John Lomacang and Celestine Berry-Dickens 03:15 entitled "Gentle Healer." 03:25 Gentle Healer came 03:28 Into our town today 03:32 He touched blind eyes 03:35 And the darkness left to stay 03:40 But more than the blindness 03:44 He took their sins away 03:47 Gentle Healer came 03:50 Into our town today 03:58 Gentle Healer came 04:01 Into our town today 04:06 He spoke one word 04:08 That was all He had to say 04:12 And the one who had died 04:15 Just rose up straight away 04:20 The Gentle Healer came 04:23 Into our town today 04:43 Oh, He seems 04:45 Like just an ordinary man 04:51 With dirty feet and rough 04:53 But gentle hands 04:58 But the words He says 05:00 They're hard to understand 05:05 And, yet, He seems like just an ordinary man 05:16 The Gentle Healer 05:19 He left our town today 05:23 I just looked around and found 05:27 He'd gone away 05:30 Some folks from town Who followed Him 05:34 They say 05:39 The Gentle Healer is the truth, 05:43 The life, the way 05:47 The Gentle Healer is the truth, 05:51 The life 05:55 The way 06:01 Hello, and welcome once again 06:02 at Behold the Lamb Ministry. 06:04 We appreciate you tuning in today. 06:06 You know, it's a wonderful, wonderful blessing, 06:08 you know, be able to stay the Word of God 06:09 and some of these beautiful truths 06:11 that God has given to us. 06:13 Today, as you've already been mentioned, 06:14 we're gonna be studying the Word of God, 06:16 that what the Bible has to say the path to health. 06:19 Everyone wants to be healthy. 06:21 I think there's no question about that. 06:23 So before we get into this study, 06:25 and we always have prayer. 06:26 But I wanna just give you a little bit of background, 06:28 a little bit of a foundation 06:30 that we can build upon as we do this study together 06:33 before prayer. 06:35 I went to www.healthline.com. 06:38 This is what the... 06:40 I'm gonna say nice as I can, the world's view, 06:43 this is not Adventist review, or somebody else's, 06:47 whatever it might be of this subject, 06:49 but it's just, you know, out there in the health line, 06:51 here's what they had to say about health. 06:53 This is why we're doing this subject, by the way, 06:56 is that a balanced diet is important 06:59 because your organs and your tissues 07:02 need proper nutrition to work effectively. 07:06 Notice the wording. 07:07 Without good nutrition, 07:09 your body is more prone to disease, 07:12 infection, fatigue, and poor performance. 07:17 Notice this, 07:18 this poor performance can lead over 07:20 into our young people 07:21 in their academics at school too. 07:24 And they can also pursue you for the rest of your life. 07:27 So we wanna look at this subject 07:29 because we find out there's rising levels 07:32 of all of these diseases, 07:34 things that we've talked about, things that we will talk about, 07:36 as we go along in this study. 07:38 This is very interesting 07:39 but two things that this study brought out. 07:41 It said, there's two things, 07:42 the levels of the weight gain and diabetes in America, 07:46 notice this, are prime examples of poor diet 07:50 and lack of exercise. 07:52 See, some people say, "Well, you do this study 07:54 because it's a, you know, 07:56 this is what your church believes and so on." 07:57 We're talking about the world has given 07:58 this information right here. 08:00 This is the Center of Science in Public Interest 08:05 made this statement here. 08:06 It reports that 4 08:09 out of the top 10 leading causes of death 08:13 in the United States 08:14 is directly influenced by diet. 08:18 Kind of interesting, isn't it? 08:19 And they mentioned as we well know, 08:21 number one is heart disease, number two is cancer, 08:24 number three is stroke, number four is diabetes. 08:28 Here's what they said. 08:30 They said what we need is a balanced diet. 08:33 This is what the world was saying. 08:34 They're not bringing in the Bible. 08:35 They're just bringing them out, 08:37 you know, the things that they've studied, 08:38 people, the cases that's coming to the hospital. 08:40 They say we need a balanced diet. 08:42 And here's what they said. 08:43 They said number one, you need a lot of fruits, 08:45 you need vegetables, you need grains, 08:49 and you need protein. 08:50 And I thought was very interesting with protein 08:52 because you can go a lot of different directions. 08:54 But even beside where it said protein, 08:56 they said this on a diet. 08:58 A good source of protein are nuts and beans, 09:03 peas and lentils, and seeds. 09:07 I thought that was pretty neat 09:08 for the world to come up and say through our studies, 09:10 they're coming back to what God has said where? 09:13 In His Words. 09:14 I thought how interesting that is we do our study, 09:17 the Bible's path to health. 09:18 Let's pray, shall we 09:19 as we study the Word of God together? 09:21 Merciful Father in Heaven, 09:23 thank You for Your precious Word. 09:24 We ask now that Your Holy Spirit 09:26 will have Your will and Your way. 09:28 Pray that You'll illuminate these beautiful truths 09:29 in our hearts and our mind. 09:31 Help us to understand the importance of sound bodies, 09:34 to have sound minds 09:35 that we may make sound decisions. 09:36 Thank You, Lord, for hearing and answering prayer, 09:38 in Jesus' name. Amen. 09:41 Again, always have pencil and paper 09:43 and jot down as we move quickly along, 09:45 you know, time goes by, 09:46 at least to me very quickly as we study the Word of God, 09:48 so much information, Bible's pathway to health. 09:52 I've heard it said and I think 09:54 you might have heard this saying before. 09:55 They said, "Man made imitation foods," 09:58 man made what? 10:00 "Imitation foods are fine for imitation people." 10:05 Kind of an interesting thought, notice that. 10:07 So really we look at today information is empowering, 10:11 is it not? 10:12 So we're getting a lot of information out there, 10:14 we need to dissect it and information in God's Word. 10:17 Does God have a plan 10:19 that we might be healthy and happy Christians, 10:22 live longer? 10:24 I think He absolutely does. 10:25 You know, one study, 10:27 it's said that our land has been depleted. 10:30 You know, this is what grows our crops, 10:31 the things that we eat has been depleted 10:33 of most of the minerals that are in it. 10:36 And it simply have been depleted not only by erosion, 10:39 but by farming the land. 10:42 Farmers usually replace only three minerals. 10:46 Now thinking about that, 10:47 that's leaving dozens of minerals out, 10:50 but they replaced three main minerals here, 10:53 nitrogen, phosphorus, and also potassium. 10:57 Now, why? 10:58 Because they want to have these, 11:00 help produce rich crops. 11:02 Not necessarily saying, it's all healthy 11:05 because we're now mineral deficient, 11:08 as far back as 1936. 11:11 This is why this subject is important about our health. 11:14 Back as what? Thirty six. 11:16 That would be what? Eighty some odd years. 11:19 They made this statement. 11:20 Notice the one report stated this. 11:22 It said, "The farm soils are depleted of minerals," 11:27 notice this, "crops grown and eaten by people 11:31 become mineral deficient and subject," 11:35 notice this, 11:37 "to mineral deficient diseases." 11:40 Kind of interesting, isn't it? 11:42 The United States Surgeon General 11:45 in his report said this, 11:47 "Almost 70," listen carefully, 11:49 "almost 70% of all diseases 11:53 is diet related." 11:57 That's interesting, isn't it? 11:59 Diet related. 12:00 So it's very, very important 12:01 to see what God's plan is for us, 12:04 a lot of disease in the world. 12:07 You know, every time our body, 12:08 if you think about it, all I'm up here, 12:10 every time my hands go up and they go down, 12:12 or you nod your head or whatever you might, 12:14 you smile. 12:16 Every time the body moves, it uses energy. 12:20 And so the energy 12:21 or it's not using energy as it were, it still is, 12:23 it's breaking down tissue that needs to be rebuilt. 12:27 Think about that. 12:29 And so it's rebuilt by the food that we eat. 12:33 Think about it. 12:34 But now, not all foods are good to be, 12:37 we know that, we have to look them over. 12:39 All foods are not to nourish these things that, 12:42 you know, that nourishment that we need in our body. 12:45 So we might be able to say today good habits. 12:48 Hopefully you have some good habits 12:50 when it comes to eating. 12:52 Good habits can lead to good health. 12:56 But on the other side of the coin, 12:57 evil habits can lead to what? 12:59 Certainly bad health, we know that. 13:02 Just give you a couple of... 13:03 These are very simple illustrations 13:05 for instance, and you say, "Well, I didn't know that 13:07 or oh, well, we've known that for years." 13:09 You know, if you think about a stomach needs, 13:11 our stomach and digestive organs need rest. 13:14 And so we need to be careful 13:16 that we don't eat in between meals, 13:18 and it has to rest in order to be healthy. 13:22 How many think about millions of people have what? 13:25 Digestion problem, 13:27 prominent problems with the stomach. 13:29 Could possibly would be one 13:31 that we're not letting it, get its proper rest. 13:34 You know, we eat a lot at night, 13:35 we go to bed, we might go to sleep. 13:38 The stomach is what? 13:39 Process of working, working, working, 13:41 about time you wake up, you put more in it, 13:43 it's working, working. 13:44 It never gets its rest. 13:45 It needs to rest like we rest at night. 13:48 Another interesting, if we eat or drink things, 13:52 let's say too hot, 13:54 we eat too many spices, 13:57 you know, could be pepper or whatever it might be 14:00 because we love these things. 14:02 But you know, they really, they irritate the stomach. 14:05 Now there's just little things we're throwing out. 14:06 So you can say, 14:08 "I'm having irritation in the stomach." 14:09 It just might be some very little simple things 14:11 that we are putting on, 14:12 or maybe too much of it that can cause some problems. 14:15 Also, if we drink cold drinks, what happens? 14:19 Before the stomach can use that cold drink, 14:22 it has to warm it up first for digestion. 14:25 So it makes it work, work, work. 14:28 Today, I think we can be safe 14:30 to say most people want to have, 14:32 want to be healthy. 14:34 They want to be healthy. 14:36 And if we do, 14:37 if I said somebody raise your hand, 14:39 if you want to be healthy, 14:40 everybody probably would raise our hand. 14:43 But if we raise our hand today, we want to be healthy, 14:45 then we must be willing 14:47 to do something about it, right? 14:50 We have to be willing to do something about it, 14:53 something to bring it about. 14:55 It's not just, oh, I'm going to 14:56 and then just do what we want to do. 14:58 I think it's in Book of Ephesians Chapter 6, 15:01 the Bible says, verse 13, 15:03 basically the bottom at the end of that passage, 15:05 it says, "Having done all to stand." 15:08 God expects us to do what? 15:10 Do all that we understand 15:12 and know so that we might have health of body 15:16 and health of mind. 15:17 So it's not just saying, "Oh, we do this, 15:19 we're better than somebody else." 15:20 This is God's plan 15:22 that we might be healthy Christians. 15:24 So people that God can use to finish the work. 15:27 We want to live longer. We want to be happier. 15:31 We don't want to mistreat our bodies. 15:33 Do we realize, 15:35 if we're taking things into our body 15:36 that's not good for us, 15:37 we are mistreating our bodies? 15:40 No one would want to mistreat your body 15:42 because you know, and I know when you're sick, 15:44 you don't want to be sick. 15:46 You don't like it because you're sick. 15:48 And it may be because 15:49 and then sometimes sickness and things go around, 15:51 but sometime, maybe something we've taken into our body. 15:54 So God says, you know, be careful, 15:57 and I think I've neglected every one of these, 16:00 and so I'm trying by the grace of God 16:01 to do better, 16:03 and that's what we do. 16:04 Rather than be in denial, we look and say, 16:06 there can be some improvement. 16:08 Never say, "Oh, I can't improve it more 16:10 on doing that." 16:11 No, there can always be improvement. 16:13 So God wants us to have good habits 16:15 when it comes to working. 16:18 Huh? 16:19 Working, and eating and drinking. 16:22 It makes a difference. 16:23 Work too much, you can break down your system 16:25 just as if you're already eating the wrong things 16:28 because we're told in the Bible. 16:29 I love this in Genesis 1:27, it simply say, 16:33 "When God made us," he made us what? 16:36 "Into His, in His image." 16:39 That means you're special. 16:41 He made you in His image, not anything else in the world, 16:45 but just God's creation, His people. 16:47 He made him in His image. 16:49 And that goes along with Psalms 139. 16:51 Just jot it down quickly, Psalms 139:14. 16:55 I like the way it starts out. 16:57 It says, "I will praise," what? 16:59 "I will praise thee, 17:01 for I am fearfully and wonderfully," what? 17:04 "Made." 17:05 Notice the words, I am fearfully, that means, 17:08 notice this word, be careful with it, 17:10 I am exceedingly great. 17:13 That sound like, "Whoo! I'm exceedingly great." 17:15 We're given the praise to the Creator, aren't we? 17:18 It says here, you're exceedingly great 17:20 because God created you. 17:22 That's wonderful special touch from the hand of the Creator, 17:26 how wonderful it is. 17:27 You're wonderfully made 17:29 and I think certainly in other word 17:30 there is marvelous as we read the passage. 17:32 You are marvelously made. 17:35 Marvelously there or wonderfully means 17:37 you are set apart. 17:39 God touched you, God made you, He set you a part. 17:42 He distinguished you from everything else, 17:45 isn't that wonderful? 17:46 "And marvelous are thy works." 17:49 See, there's a reason why we're studying this 17:52 but a good foundation lets us understand, 17:54 why we need to get on this maybe more healthy diet, 17:57 something that will help us to live for Jesus. 18:00 The Psalmist is telling us something here 18:03 that we just read. 18:05 Once again, how wonderful and how great 18:08 is the human body? 18:10 Think about the human body, 18:12 and all the things that it takes 18:14 millions of things to function together 18:16 to have the mind and the body and every function of it, 18:19 to work the way God would have it to work. 18:21 It takes millions of things working together, 18:24 it couldn't just have happened. 18:25 There had to be a Creator, no doubt about it. 18:28 But when the Psalmist wrote these, 18:30 I thought so exciting. 18:31 When the Psalmist said, 18:33 you know, we're wonderfully made here, 18:34 we're fearfully made here. 18:36 Think about the years that have passed, 18:38 and now all of science that has come back and said, 18:42 the body is wonderfully made. 18:45 We have all of us now saying, 18:46 we just can't believe all of these things 18:48 how they're working together. 18:50 It proves that we were made by the Creator. 18:54 How wonderful that is. 18:55 The first question in our study simply says 18:58 what is the desire of our Heavenly Father 19:01 in regard to our physical well being? 19:04 Now if we know that God has a desire 19:06 or He wants us to be a certain way, 19:08 shouldn't we be interested? 19:10 Yes. Yes! 19:11 Take the Bible, 19:13 and this is the one that everybody gets 19:14 in every health talk. 19:15 Yeah, I think you probably would start out with it. 19:17 Is it 3 John 2? 19:20 3 John 2, the Bible said, notice this, "Beloved, 19:25 beloved, I wish," what? 19:28 "Above all things that thou mayest prosper 19:31 and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 19:36 So it's a combination of things, 19:38 that things that are going on here 19:40 that we need to kind of, 19:41 I think, put together just a little bit. 19:43 Number one, the Lord is mindful of my needs. 19:47 He's mindful of your needs, 19:49 before you ask, He knows all about it. 19:52 And we're talking about not only temporal needs, 19:55 but spiritual needs. 19:57 He's mindful of both, and then He says, here, 20:00 I want you to do something here in the spiritual. 20:02 2 Timothy 2:15, He says, "Study to shew thyself," what? 20:07 "Approved." 20:09 He's mindful of our physical, He's mindful of our spiritual. 20:11 But He says, "Kenny, what I want you to do 20:13 is learn to study the Word of God." 20:16 This is good. This comes together. 20:18 And it gels together, and it should, 20:20 because God said that it does. 20:23 I believe this with all my heart, 20:24 God wants us to be happy. 20:26 He doesn't want us to go around with long faces. 20:28 He doesn't want us to go around with our chin 20:31 dragging on this sidewalk. 20:32 All you do is gonna get a scab on your chin. 20:34 You know, what I'm talking about here. 20:36 You know, sometimes there are reasons, 20:37 some time there's sadness, but you understand what I mean? 20:40 We should be happy because we got up this morning. 20:43 We should be happy because we're walking around. 20:46 We should be happy that we came to church 20:48 on the seventh day Sabbath. 20:49 We should be happy and give Him praise 20:51 that you can think 20:53 and still make decisions for Him. 20:54 You can be happy because probation is still open 20:57 and the doors and we have an opportunity to come to Him. 21:00 We should be happy today and praising God, 21:02 because we have an opportunity 21:04 where we have fouled up to make it right. 21:07 That's exciting to me. 21:09 Think about it, we've had the opportunity, 21:11 the door's not shut yet, that we can come and say, 21:14 "Oh, I've messed up miserably, God." 21:15 And He's gonna say, 21:16 "Well, yes, I know, but come on." 21:18 He said to me, "Kenny, just redeem the time?" 21:21 Didn't go back and give me a whip and you see about it. 21:23 He didn't go back criticizing and condemning. 21:25 "Why'd you do all of that?" 21:27 He just said, "Redeem the time." 21:28 That means pick up from that moment 21:29 and just march on. 21:31 That's good news. 21:32 God wants us to be happy. 21:34 He daily, He sends us blessings after blessings. 21:38 There's not room enough to receive us. 21:40 And sometimes all we do is dwell on the negative 21:43 and the things that could happen, 21:44 that might happen. 21:45 I'm dwelling on those things that I know is gonna happen 21:48 based on the Word of God because it's good. 21:51 There's such a close connection, 21:53 we know between the mind and the body, right? 21:57 The mind and the body close connection there. 22:00 When the soul, no soul prospers about it, 22:03 you know the by passage just said, 22:05 the body is better able to be healthy. 22:08 Does that make sense? 22:10 When you have a smile and you're happy 22:12 and you have a good attitude, right? 22:15 The body seemed to be healthier. 22:17 You get along a lot better. 22:19 In Proverbs 14:30, the Bible says this, 22:22 jot it down quickly, 22:23 Proverbs 14:30. 22:25 Now notice this, it says, 22:27 "The heart or a sound heart 22:30 is the life of the flesh." 22:33 Now we realize as we go on 22:34 and read some other about the blood, 22:35 you know, in the life and so on. 22:37 But notice this passage, 22:38 "A sound heart is the life of the flesh." 22:41 Now let's reverse that just for a moment. 22:44 If you don't mind, reverse. 22:45 "An unsound heart," what happens? 22:48 "Is the death of the flesh." 22:51 Does that makes sense? 22:52 And it's talking about the blood. 22:54 It's talking about the blood, the heart 22:55 because it pumps what? 22:57 Blood to every, you know, avenue of the body, 23:00 you know, the mind too and also. 23:02 And we know this old saying 23:03 that we've heard all of our life. 23:05 I heard it when I were young, 23:06 they couldn't prove it like they can prove it today, 23:08 always could from the Word of God 23:09 because it's always been there. 23:12 But man always said, 23:13 "Now you're gonna be what you eat, son." 23:16 You gonna eat all this junk, 23:18 you're gonna turn out thinking... 23:20 Okay, you know what I'm talking about. 23:23 Yeah, you are what you eat. 23:25 Think about. 23:26 And a lot of us just kind of, you know, we think it's funny. 23:28 "Well, yeah, we are..." 23:30 But we still go ahead because we let our senses 23:32 and our smell and think whatever 23:34 lead us to do things we know we shouldn't do. 23:38 And I wanna be that part of our study today 23:40 as we need to be careful. 23:41 I have said it many times. 23:42 And God forgive me from 23:44 and I'm not gonna be saying that, 23:45 you know, I'll say, "Well, I know it's not good for me, 23:48 but I'm gonna eat it anyway 23:49 because it looks good, it smells good..." 23:52 Okay, all right, it's all right. 23:54 How many times have we maybe said that 23:57 more of a joking way and so on so far? 24:00 But you realize how sensitive the Word of God... 24:03 May I use that word sensitive? 24:04 The Word of God is on that subject. 24:07 Think about. I know it's not good for me. 24:10 But where do we stand between, 24:15 you know, between us and God at that point? 24:18 Him that know what to do good and do it not, to him it is? 24:21 To Him, it is sin. 24:23 You know, just think about the statements 24:26 as we study here, Proverbs 14:30, 24:28 "Sound heart is," what? 24:30 "Life of the flesh." 24:31 Ministry of Healing, in page 241, 24:34 it's just a little line here. 24:36 Notice what it said. 24:37 I like it because it talks about courage. 24:39 "We need courage to live in this world. 24:42 We need hope in this world. 24:45 We need faith in this world. 24:47 We need sympathy at times. 24:49 We need love." 24:51 You know, what it does? 24:53 These little words that I just use promote health 24:57 and prolong life. 24:59 Did you get it? 25:01 It prolongs the life. 25:03 It helps you to be healthy 25:04 if you have love and you can share love, 25:06 and you have hope and you have faith. 25:09 You find people who are discouraged really, 25:11 you find their life is shortened 25:12 because they're discouraged, 25:13 and they're down and out all the time. 25:15 I choose by the grace of God, do I look on the bright side 25:18 to know who sits upon the throne, 25:20 who's ruling the universe, 25:21 who's promised He's gonna be with us. 25:23 He's not gonna leave us, He's not gonna forsake us. 25:25 I'm gonna supply all your needs, 25:28 according to His riches in glory. 25:31 He didn't say some pauper. 25:33 He didn't say this parable of the rich man, 25:34 he said, "I'm gonna to supply and I own everything. 25:38 You want everything, I've got it." 25:40 Man, that's when we go to, praise God for that. 25:43 Proverbs 17:22, notice moving on, 25:46 you know this, Proverbs 17:22. 25:48 When I started out, you finish it with me. 25:49 The Bible says, "A merry heart doeth good like a..." 25:54 Now the notice the word translated, 25:55 a merry heart says a rejoicing heart. 25:59 A what kind of heart? A rejoicing heart. 26:01 You can't be rejoicing with a long face. 26:04 You can't be rejoicing with a heavy heart. 26:06 We realized there are times for all of these things. 26:09 There's time for tears. 26:10 There's times a heavy heart, 26:12 but we did take those to God and we give them to Him 26:14 and He cleans up this mess for us. 26:17 Praise God for that. 26:19 Merry heart doeth good like a medicine. 26:22 Interesting from the... 26:24 On the net you can go there, 26:25 it's WilmingtonHealth.Care says this, 26:29 oh, lot of information 26:30 but notice just this line what it says, 26:33 "Going along with the Bible, 26:35 blood is vital to the life." 26:40 Remember we talked about a sound heart, 26:42 the blood here they're going on 26:44 and the, you know, the doctors, right? 26:48 Scientists are looking and they're saying, 26:50 "Oh, my, you know, blood is vital to life." 26:54 The Bible said that in Leviticus 17, 26:56 you remember, verse 11. 26:58 It says here, 26:59 "For the life of the flesh is in the blood." 27:02 "For the life of," what? 27:04 "The flesh is in the blood." 27:06 What is it the first thing that doctor wants to do 27:08 when you go and you've got an ailment? 27:11 First thing they do is get the needle. 27:14 Don't let that scare you. That's good. 27:16 The first thing they wanna do is check your what? 27:19 Your blood. 27:21 Because the blood just reveals things 27:23 that's going on inside your body, 27:25 that's not showing yet. 27:27 We all need a blood test. 27:28 It's all right. 27:30 We need a heart test. 27:32 We need a spiritual test. 27:34 You see, we need to be examining 27:36 the Word of God to see where we fit, 27:38 whether we're in the faith or not. 27:40 And we can examine the blood because that's it. 27:43 Remember, the life is what? Is in the blood. 27:46 So then what you eat, when you eat it goes, what? 27:48 Gets into the bloodstream, doesn't it? 27:51 And then it's distributed 27:52 to the different sections of your body. 27:54 Thought very interesting with that. 27:56 We must remember that 27:58 when the health of the body is neglected. 28:01 Here we get into, notice. 28:02 When the health of the body is neglected, 28:05 what happens? 28:07 We become sick. 28:10 Yeah, we become sick 28:11 or when we neglect our health 28:13 and we by bad habits, 28:16 it also affects our spiritual life. 28:19 You see? 28:20 Interesting, it affects us 28:22 bad habits in eating or drinking, 28:24 all of a sudden it affects us spiritually. 28:27 Now think about it. 28:30 The religious life suffers, none of us want that for sure. 28:35 In the study about the Bible, in the path to health, 28:38 we need a good balance. 28:40 Let's do this. You know, it's more about them. 28:42 Most people say, when you do health, 28:43 you gonna say, "Well, this is what we're gonna study, 28:45 we're gonna eat this, we're not gonna eat this, 28:46 we're gonna do this, we're gonna do that." 28:48 There's a platform 28:49 that's being laid here, say, why? 28:51 Why should we eat certain things 28:53 and maybe certain things we should not eat? 28:56 Is it proven in the medical field now? 28:58 Yes, it is 28:59 as the Word of God always said it. 29:01 Yes, it always has. 29:02 Is God's way the best or is man's ways the best? 29:05 This is what we're deciding. 29:07 And we'll have to make a decision on that. 29:09 So I assume that we need a good balance between the two, 29:14 number one, a good health plan. 29:17 A good health plan. 29:19 We lay it out, well, how we wanna be healthy 29:20 and what God says in order to be healthy, 29:22 this is what we need to take into our body. 29:24 And then we also need a good spiritual plan. 29:28 And I wanna call it a spiritual advancement plan, 29:31 because our spiritual plan should always be what? 29:35 Advancing. 29:36 See, if you're sitting today 29:38 and your spiritual plans going backwards, 29:39 you're on the wrong road, you're making the wrong choice. 29:42 Things are going wrong. 29:44 Something's happening in our life, 29:45 because our plan spiritually should always be advancing, 29:50 advancing. 29:51 God never said stop. 29:52 God said go. 29:54 This is just what it's all about 29:55 when we look here, so we need that kind of a plan 29:58 that will help us to prepare for heaven, 30:01 while we're also what? 30:02 Getting the right think, so we can think properly, 30:05 make right decisions, 30:06 how the two work together so closely. 30:10 You know, praise God for that. 30:11 What a plan! We need that plan. 30:14 Now here's God's plan for us. 30:16 Have your Bible. 30:17 Be sure and turn quickly here with me, 30:19 the New Testament in John. 30:20 I think somebody talked about this today 30:22 for just a moment. 30:23 But anyway, I'm gonna talk about it right now. 30:25 John 10. 30:28 I think I'm in Romans, I better get back to John. 30:33 This is one that people quote all the time. 30:36 But let's just dig in just a little bit. 30:38 Now, I'm gonna read the last part of John 10:10. 30:42 Because notice this, 30:44 God's plan for us is given to in John 10:10 in a nutshell. 30:49 God's plan for us, notice what it says, 30:51 "I am come that they may have life 30:55 and they may have it more," what? 30:57 "Abundantly." 30:58 God's plan for us is that you have life 31:01 and you have it more abundantly. 31:03 And the word abundantly means, 31:05 it means, a super, 31:08 abundantly super bound. 31:12 There's excess of it. 31:13 There's more than enough to go around. 31:15 I love that. 31:17 One word there translated said, there's leftovers. 31:20 Somebody's not gonna get that one. 31:22 Yeah, there's leftovers. 31:23 God's doing plan, explain everything 31:25 that you can possibly need more abundant 31:27 and there's leftovers. 31:28 Praise God, they're spare. 31:32 That's how God were, He doesn't say, 31:33 "Oh, I cut it little short. 31:35 Somebody's gonna have to do without." 31:39 Somebody pray. 31:40 Now that's Christ plan for us, is that right? 31:44 That's Christ plan. 31:45 But the first part of that verse 31:46 is the devil's plan. 31:48 Remember if God has a plan, what? 31:50 If God has a plan, you can be sure 31:52 that the enemy has his plan. 31:54 He waits till God reveals His plan 31:55 and says, "Oh, now I know what I need to do." 31:59 John 10:10, the Bible said, "The thief," who's the thief? 32:02 The enemy. 32:03 "The enemy cometh not 32:05 but for steal, to kill and to," what? 32:08 "To destroy." 32:10 So the enemy's plan, is going to kill you. 32:11 He's wanna destroy you. 32:12 He doesn't care how he does it. 32:14 If he can do it in things you take into your body 32:16 that you eat and you drink, you breath, you snort, 32:18 whatever you might do, somebody with me. 32:20 He doesn't care. 32:22 He wants to make sure your life is shortened. 32:24 And make sure that you can't find Jesus here 32:26 about the one that says there, 32:28 "I've come that they may have life 32:29 and they may have it abundantly. 32:31 There's leftover." 32:33 Jesus said in the Book of Luke, it's a beautiful chapter. 32:36 Luke 12:23. 32:39 Notice this, notice, Luke 12:23. 32:42 "The life is more than meat." 32:45 Now notice this, 32:46 Bible students there and we should 32:48 but when you're beginning sometime, it's difficult. 32:50 When the Bible says, "Meat all the time," 32:52 it doesn't mean flesh food. 32:54 You've got to look at. 32:55 Here translate, the Bible said here, 32:57 the life is more than food. 32:59 That's the proper word here. 33:02 Life is more than food. 33:04 "The body is more than raiment." 33:07 Jesus just put it down line and said, 33:08 don't you realize life is much more important 33:11 than the things you put into this bodies. 33:12 Be careful, you know, you got to be careful with it 33:15 because as I mentioned while ago, 33:16 some people will just simply say, 33:18 "I choose food because it tastes good. 33:20 I choose food because it looks good. 33:22 I choose food because it tastes good, 33:25 not because it's good for me." 33:30 My dad said a long, long time ago 33:32 after he had his heart attack, 33:34 he had to change his diet. 33:38 And we couldn't figure out some time 33:39 when he's eating some kind of a cereal 33:41 or whatever it might be at that point in time. 33:42 He go to the faucet and he'd put water in it. 33:45 "Oh, Dad, come on." 33:48 Somebody not... 33:49 I don't have to go in detail. 33:51 He looked around several times, he'd say, 33:53 "Hey, I don't eat to live. 33:56 I don't live to eat. 33:59 I eat to live." 34:02 That makes a difference, doesn't it? 34:05 That's totally opposite than lot of times that we do 34:07 because the devil makes sure 34:08 that things are pleasing to the eye 34:10 and the smell and so on, 34:12 and so this is the things that we want. 34:15 Let me give you example. 34:16 Example, do you remember Eve? 34:18 Yeah. 34:20 What did Eve say? 34:21 Remember about the tree? 34:23 She said she looked at the tree 34:24 of the knowledge of good and evil, 34:26 and she saw that it was good for what? 34:29 She saw that it was good for food 34:31 and it was pleasant to the eye. 34:35 Did you see, 34:36 the enemy was already working, he's same thing today. 34:39 He said, "Oh, it's good for food. 34:40 Oh, this is gonna taste good, and also it looks good." 34:44 Same thing, enemy is using the plan today, 34:48 we have to be very careful about that. 34:52 Maybe the lesson is needed more today 34:54 than it was even needed 34:56 back when Jesus spoke the words, 34:59 pleasant to the eye, good for food. 35:03 I believe this that God has placed responsibility 35:07 on every one of us 35:09 to preserve our bodies in the best condition possible. 35:12 How about you? 35:14 What it is? 35:15 It's not just, "Well, I choose or I think or if I want to," 35:19 the Bible is gonna be so clear with this 35:21 as we study and get time to get through this right here. 35:23 That is not any longer, "Well, I choose." 35:25 Now you can choose do wrong if you want to, 35:27 but there's gonna be a payday 35:29 and maybe not the one that you're looking for. 35:31 Jesus makes it very clear because I've created you. 35:34 I've given you life. 35:35 I've taken care of you. 35:36 I'm meeting all your needs, 35:38 but you know there are conditions 35:40 and He let us so we have responsibility. 35:43 Remember, bodies, minds, what? 35:46 Working together 35:48 that we might make right choices for eternity. 35:52 1 Corinthians 6, very familiar verse 19 and 20. 35:56 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, "What? 36:01 Know ye not that your body is the," what? 36:03 Temple. 36:05 "Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, 36:07 which ye have of God and ye are not your own?" 36:10 Here it goes. It's saying right now. 36:12 You're not your own. 36:14 I'm on my own. I wanna do what I wanna do. 36:17 God's telling you right now, you are not your own. 36:19 You can't just make a choice. 36:20 You can do it, but you're gonna pay for it. 36:22 I'm going to pay for it, 36:24 whether it's in this life or the life to come. 36:27 Why don't you know 36:28 your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? 36:31 Where would the Holy Ghost want to dwell? 36:34 In your heart, in your body. 36:35 But Jesus is telling you something here, 36:37 notice, you're not your own. 36:39 Verse 20, 36:40 "For you are bought with a," what? "A price." 36:43 What's that price? 36:44 Christ. Christ Jesus. 36:46 "Therefore," here notice this. 36:47 We have an opportunity to "glorify God 36:49 in our, ooh, our body, 36:52 and in spirit, which are God's." 36:55 We have a responsibility, a duty to God 36:58 because He created us, 37:00 He redeemed us, He sustained us, 37:01 He wants us to be in heaven with Him someday. 37:04 That He said, you're not your own, 37:06 you're bought with a price, then how valuable that you are. 37:10 You're bought with the blood of Jesus Christ. 37:12 Nothing else can purchase that, only the blood of Jesus Christ. 37:16 How awesome that is. 37:18 And that's no different 37:19 if you compare that with Romans 12:1. 37:22 You know, it talks about here that 37:24 this is our reasonable service. 37:26 You know, think about our reasonable service, 37:29 you're to be a living. 37:31 He said, our bodies are to be a living sacrifice, 37:33 holy and acceptable to God, 37:36 which is your reasonable service. 37:38 Do you notice that? 37:40 He says our bodies have to be what? 37:44 Holy and acceptable to God. 37:46 Assuming I may say this, if you don't mind, 37:48 I'm saying you said, 37:50 be acceptable to God, 37:51 there's a way in which we could conduct ourselves 37:53 that will be unacceptable to God. 37:56 Anytime scripture says that, 37:58 it always leaves the other door open there to say, 37:59 we can conduct ourselves will be unreasonable. 38:02 God will not, you know, bless that. 38:06 We must understand, 38:08 I think the blessings from scripture 38:09 and passage of scripture, put them together. 38:12 Psalms 36, the Bible said, verse 9, 38:15 "For with thee," talking about with God, 38:17 in Psalms 36:9, 38:20 "For with thee," that means God, 38:22 "He is the fountain of life." 38:25 God is the fountain of life. 38:27 Where are you going today? Where am I going today? 38:29 What fountain are we drinking from? 38:32 You know, 38:33 you know, talking of drinking from fountain 38:35 that never runs dry? 38:36 Are we drinking from nothing it's just, 38:38 you know, overnight and this is it, 38:39 then that's gonna hurt us 38:41 and we'll get ourselves in a bunch of trouble. 38:42 God says come to Him, He's got the answer. 38:45 We realized from scripture that we just read 38:48 God is the originator of all things, 38:50 no question about it. 38:52 Again, it's for the sake of many 38:53 who maybe have not read scripture in a while 38:55 that God is the originator of all things. 38:58 He's the life of everything, do we believe that? 39:01 He's the life and the light of everything 39:03 because my Bible tells me so. 39:05 John 8:12, Jesus said, "I am the light of," what? 39:10 He said, "I'm the light of the world here." 39:13 So He's the light and the life of everything that lives. 39:17 Everything by Him lives and it moves and as our being. 39:21 Notice this, He's our life. 39:25 It's because of His death that we have eternal life. 39:29 So it's because of Him, 39:31 the food that grows we eat of it, 39:33 it grows because there's life in Christ, 39:36 it wouldn't grow without Him. 39:39 And we realized that the body and the mind, 39:41 we either when we're eating, 39:42 we're either building up the body and the mind 39:44 or we're tearing it down. 39:46 You have two choices, I do too. 39:49 What we eat either builds up the body and the mind 39:52 or it tears it down. 39:53 The devil just said here, what? 39:55 Jesus said, "I come to give you life 39:56 and have it more abundantly." 39:58 The devil said, "I come to kill, 39:59 steal and destroy." 40:01 So he says you can do the other, 40:02 eat wrong and so it will destroy you. 40:04 So it destroys your thinking, 40:05 so that you can't make right proper decisions. 40:08 See, this is vital. 40:09 This is life and death issue. 40:12 It's not just, "Well, I too." 40:13 This is life and death, we're talking about here. 40:17 John 1:4. 40:19 Remember it says, "In Him was life 40:21 and the light was the light of men." 40:25 So we can either come in harmony with God, 40:28 laws on health, 40:30 or you know what we can do? 40:31 We can tell Him 40:32 we have a better plan than you do. 40:35 Now who's gonna be bold enough to do that? 40:38 Not any God fearing person will. 40:41 Some unbeliever and some pagan might do it, 40:43 because they don't know any better. 40:44 Are you still there? 40:46 But not anyone in the right mind 40:47 that loves Jesus. 40:49 You're not gonna say, "Well, I have a better plan." 40:51 Not at all. 40:52 Education, page 195 says this. 40:55 "Whatever promotes physical health, 40:57 promotes the development of a strong mind 41:00 and well-balanced character." 41:02 Somebody needs to get this before we're done with it. 41:05 "Without health no one can," 41:07 notice, "as distinctly understand 41:10 or as completely fulfill the obligation to himself 41:14 or to his fellow human being or to his Creator. 41:19 Therefore," listen, 41:20 "therefore health should be as faithfully, 41:24 faithfully guarded as the character." 41:27 Did somebody get that? 41:29 What are we gonna take to heaven with us? 41:30 You've heard it all your life. 41:31 The only thing you can take is what? 41:33 All your money? No. 41:34 Only thing you can take with you is your character. 41:37 It's who you are. 41:39 It says our health that needs to be regard as closely, 41:42 because it's such a close relationship there. 41:44 Wow! 41:46 Again, let's be reminded of this 41:47 in case we've forgotten in 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 41:52 is what the Bible says, 41:55 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, tells us, 41:58 it says, "Ye are the temple of," what? 42:01 You're the temple of God. 42:03 "The Spirit of God dwells," where? 42:05 "In you. 42:06 If you defile this temple," somebody needs to listen, 42:10 "If you decide 42:11 you want to defile this temple," 42:13 oh-oh, "him shall God destroy." 42:17 Whoa! Wait. 42:18 Why? 42:19 In my notes, I put why at the end. 42:22 Because the Bible goes on and says because 42:24 "The temple of God is holy which temple ye are." 42:29 If you're born again Christian, you love Jesus. 42:31 There it tells very correctly, if you destroy it, 42:34 willfully destroy the temple right there, 42:36 said God shall destroy you. 42:37 God's temple is to be holy, 42:39 though we need to take the right things 42:40 into it for sure. 42:42 This leads us to the question number four. 42:44 What diet did the Creator originally planned for man? 42:46 I wish we had a lot more time. We don't. 42:48 Genesis 1:29, the Bible says, 42:51 "I have given you every," what? 42:55 "Herb bearing seed." 42:58 God's given us a diet here. 43:00 Oh, it's Old Testament here. 43:01 Same God sits on the throne, same as He did before, 43:05 same mind, 43:08 "I've given you every herb bearing seed, 43:11 every tree which is in the fruit of a tree 43:15 and yielding seed, 43:16 to you it shall be for," notice it says, "for meat." 43:20 It means food. 43:21 No meat involved here, it said food. 43:22 Did you get it? 43:24 We need to be careful that we translate the right way. 43:26 Notice this. 43:28 Interesting, God said right here, 43:29 what I want you to eat is 43:31 something that has seeds in it. 43:36 I want you to have seeds in it. 43:40 Every bearing seed, every tree 43:42 and the fruit of the tree and yielding seed. 43:45 Is it interesting that fine in our man made GMO world, 43:51 you can't find any seeds? 43:54 Okay, somebody's not with me. 43:58 Listen, the devil has a plan, don't you get it? 44:00 This is so important. 44:02 God said in His Word 44:03 things that have seeds in them as well, 44:04 He wants you to eat. 44:06 Now, man has come up and they, what? 44:08 The GMOs, right? Yeah. 44:11 Other thing right there, the enemy says, 44:13 "Oh, God said you gonna have seeds, 44:14 and I'm wanna have things that produced by man 44:18 that doesn't have any seeds in it." 44:20 Because you're leaving out a lot of nutrients 44:21 and a lot of things that are essential 44:23 for good health. 44:25 Oh! 44:26 They're gonna make it taste good. 44:27 Oh, I wanna say most of my research 44:30 and reading about some of these things. 44:32 I said a couple of times 44:33 and "Lord, forgive," I said, well, these people 44:35 who are producing this kind of things are liars. 44:39 Because you go to read about the GMOs 44:41 and they make you think like it's God given. 44:44 That there's never anything bad 44:45 if they say, it's better for you in some research, 44:47 better for you than that which God made with seeds in it 44:51 or something just wrong there. 44:53 That's the counterfeit for the truth. 44:55 So we need to do what God said. 44:57 This is what God said in the beginning, 44:58 He has not changed. 45:00 Genesis 3:18, the Bible says, 45:03 we have some 10 minutes, somebody's got to be... 45:05 Genesis 3:18, it says, 45:06 "After Adam and Eve have eaten from the tree," 45:09 notice it, 45:10 after Adam and Eve had eaten from the tree that means what? 45:12 Sin had already come in, isn't that right? 45:14 You know what God turned around and said to them, 45:16 "Thou shall," still as it were, "eat the herb of the field." 45:19 People say, "Well, after sinning, 45:21 they went on, you know, we can't do what?" 45:22 God said, "Here's your still your diet." 45:25 We can see from the Word of God that man uses, 45:28 notice that, to eat food from... 45:30 God intended for us to eat food from the ground, 45:33 from the tree, grain, nuts and fruit. 45:37 Notice this right here, to animals... 45:39 The Bible... even said about the animals, 45:41 he said, to eat every green herb, 45:43 vegetables, green plants and grass. 45:46 See, God lined it out. 45:47 But somehow we've taken God off the throne and decide, 45:49 oh, because we read a couple of passages 45:51 in the New Testament that apply. 45:53 Remember, once God has said this is clean, 45:55 that's unclean, it stays that way. 45:57 You cannot change it. Something is wrong. 46:00 The Word of God, some way people in there, 46:01 somebody's been tampering with something. 46:05 It's not God's will. 46:07 It was never God's will for man to kill animals. 46:09 Did you know that? 46:11 For food. 46:12 It was never God's plan 46:14 that animals should kill one another. 46:17 That came about after sin entered. 46:20 And it was, listen very carefully now, 46:23 it was not, I'm not trying to hurt anything or anybody 46:25 but we need to listen up, 46:26 if we hadn't thought about in a while. 46:28 Well, it was never, it was after the flood 46:31 that God gave permission for man 46:33 to eat flesh, is that true? 46:35 After the flood God gave man permission 46:38 to eat of the flesh food. 46:39 Notice though, when you read Genesis 9:3, 46:44 flesh was eaten by people 46:47 before the flood. 46:51 But notice the ones who ate the flesh were those 46:54 who were had rebelled against God 46:57 and they were noted in their rebelliousness. 47:00 Somebody with me. 47:02 Not trying to point fingers anything or anybody today. 47:05 But we have to rely history and studying with this, 47:08 you'll find there were people that certainly killing 47:10 but they weren't followers of God. 47:12 Because God said already 47:13 what we should eat, and what we should not eat. 47:16 Oh man, this is heavy duty. 47:19 What specific animals 47:21 as God forbid man to eat? 47:23 I wish we had time to go into. 47:25 But we need to in Leviticus Chapter 11. 47:27 It just simply says, 47:29 what we are to eat and what we should not eat. 47:32 We have no right to tear out any portion of scripture. 47:35 We have no right to say what's inspired 47:37 and what's not inspired in the Bible. 47:39 Because the Bible said all scriptures, 47:41 ooh, was given by God, by inspiration. 47:43 Now it's written down 47:44 by the power of the Holy Spirit. 47:46 So Holy Spirit's not gonna tell you 47:47 one thing in the Old Testament 47:49 and tell you something new in the New Testament. 47:50 It's not. 47:52 It's going to be these beautiful truths 47:53 that God has for us. 47:55 I want you to just really think about that. 47:57 I'd like to go through those things. 47:58 But you can read that in Leviticus Chapter 11. 48:01 Right on down that God says, 48:02 He talks about the fish and so on scales, 48:04 you know, fins and scales you can eat it, 48:06 talks about, you know, the ones that chews the cud 48:08 and then there's cloven hoof and so on. 48:10 So God just lays it out so clean 48:13 and clear for us 48:15 what He had said that you can eat this, 48:17 and then He says, don't eat that. 48:20 It makes sense. He's our Creator. 48:22 He made us. 48:23 When I have trouble with the car, 48:25 I go to the car manual, 48:26 isn't that right? 48:27 And because they made the car, 48:29 developed, they know what's best for it. 48:31 Now, you know, I think we're figuring out. 48:34 So as man is thinking, notice this, 48:37 as man thinks, it determines his actions. 48:41 He's thinking. 48:42 You think at first in there and then it comes out what? 48:45 In actions or in conduct. 48:46 It's first in the mind, 48:48 then it comes in and is played out. 48:50 If a man thinks know to right, 48:52 it's a good possibility that he's gonna do right. 48:55 If a man thinks on bad things, 48:57 his deeds will probably be bad. 49:00 Please think. 49:02 Does food affect the mind? 49:04 Absolutely, it does. 49:06 Does food affect the spirit spiritually? 49:08 Absolutely, it does. 49:10 Drinking the wrong thing? Absolutely, it does. 49:13 Overall, this is interesting. 49:15 Overall, the food God approves of 49:17 has been found to be the best, 49:20 isn't that beautiful? 49:21 The food that God has approved to heaven said, 49:23 this is what you eat to live and be healthy and happy. 49:26 It's basically approved. 49:27 I've noticed this, it found to be the best. 49:31 We don't have. Here's a key. 49:32 We don't have a disagreements on things 49:36 God approves of. 49:39 But we have disagreements on things that God forbids. 49:43 Somebody listen. 49:46 Notionally, not the things He approves that's the things 49:48 that God says, don't, 49:49 that we have the argument with God about it. 49:51 I wonder why that is, because we want it, 49:53 we like the way it tastes. 49:54 We don't care, even though we know it can hurt. 49:57 It's medically proven it will hurt. 49:58 Take the Bible, lay it on the shelf. 50:00 I don't mean that you really do that. 50:01 But you know what I'm saying here, 50:03 just read what scientists tell, read what doctors, 50:06 look at the reports, the first thing. 50:08 You go in the hospital the first thing you do 50:09 is take you off a pork and meat and different things like that 50:12 because they said that stuff will kill you. 50:16 But they turn around serve it to you 50:17 in the hospital. 50:20 That's all right. Nobody wanted to hear that. 50:21 I know it. 50:23 Got went all day long without saying that. 50:26 But that's what happens. 50:33 We need to be very, very careful 50:35 that we don't have a disagreement with God. 50:39 God gave four laws, 50:40 I'm not gonna have time even to go into it all. 50:42 Four different laws and we need to be careful, 50:43 we don't get them all confused. 50:45 When once He gave us the law of God, 50:47 which is The Ten Commandments, did He not? 50:49 Then He gave us a ceremonial laws, 50:51 you remember that? 50:52 A system of worship 50:54 pointing to Jesus who would come and die. 50:56 He gave us three the civil laws. 50:58 How we could, you know, treat one another. 51:02 In fact, you know, apply to it. 51:04 They say, well, it's applied to Israel only, 51:06 you know what, as long as there are nation 51:08 and so on and so forth. 51:09 Though the fundamentals of these 51:10 are the several things that God give. 51:12 The principles are still good today, 51:14 about taking care of that thing which is well almost same 51:16 which God says to take care of your body, they're good too. 51:18 Fourth, He gave us health laws. 51:20 No one wants to talk about that. 51:22 The health laws for to promote health 51:24 and longer life. 51:26 They're based on the human body, 51:29 the nature of man and the requirements of man, 51:34 which could not be affected by the cross. 51:37 Somebody gets that? 51:39 Well, at the cross, things changed. 51:42 Man's nature, did you get it, the human body, 51:45 the requirements of man 51:46 could not be affected by the, what? 51:48 By the cross 51:50 or Israel even being a nation in operation. 51:54 What was good for the body then is good for the body now, 51:58 as for today. 52:00 Bible says quickly, "Whatever we do, do all to the," what? 52:04 "To the glory of God." 52:05 1 Corinthians 10:31. 1 Corinthians 10:31. 52:09 Whatever you do, whatever you eat, 52:10 whatever you drink, do all to the glory of God. 52:12 How can we say, 52:14 "Well, I'm doing this to the glory of God 52:15 when it, you know, it affects your mind, 52:17 it affects your system, it affects your body? 52:19 1 Corinthians 9:27. 52:21 Paul said this, but he said, "I have kept my body," 52:24 notice that "under my body and bring it into subjection." 52:28 You notice this? 52:30 A sincere Christian today, are there sincere Christians? 52:33 I believe there are. 52:34 If we consider that our body 52:36 is the temple of the Holy Spirit, 52:39 we need to bring our bodies into subjection. 52:41 The scriptures tell us here, doing all to the glory of God. 52:45 So in order to be a consistent Christian, 52:49 with the Bible and Bible principle here, 52:52 we must accept what the Bible has to say 52:55 about the words in Leviticus Chapter 11. 52:58 We have to if we wanna be consistent with Bible 53:01 and principle of the Word of God, 53:02 if we really believe the Holy Spirit 53:04 is the temple of God. 53:07 Solomon brings up that a wise man. 53:09 Proverbs 20:1, as we wind it down. 53:11 He said, "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, 53:15 and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." 53:20 All drinks it talks about here, they're deception, 53:23 just like Eve was deceived. 53:26 You know, she thought that she was gonna have more wisdom. 53:29 She thought, things were gonna work out better, she ate. 53:32 Man sometime drinks and thinks 53:33 he's better than what he is. 53:34 And he's thinking properly when he's not. 53:37 On the www.activebeat.com says this, 53:41 "Negative effects of the brain materialize 53:43 only after a few drinks. 53:45 Heavy drinking and binge drinking can result 53:48 in permanent damage of brain and nervous system. 53:50 Long term, it can cause big problems 53:53 for our mental health. 53:56 You know, we need to really think about 53:57 and be praying about these things 53:58 that God has given us in His Word. 54:00 We haven't covered half of it but you know, 54:02 we need to be thinking along this line. 54:04 Today, you know, He has a door that's open 54:06 and He invites us to come in. 54:08 He invites us to make a decision today 54:10 of what we're gonna do. 54:11 Follow God's plan 54:13 when we wanna be healthy and happy. 54:14 And follow what God has said in His Word 54:16 or we're gonna follow the enemy's plan. 54:17 Big disappointment and heartache 54:19 not only in this life, but in the life to come. 54:22 It's up to you to make that choice 54:23 and that decision. 54:24 Don't do it by your eyes, don't do it by your nose 54:27 and by your ears or whatever it might be, 54:29 do it by thus saith the Lord. 54:31 I'm gonna say a quick prayer as we close, 54:33 a few seconds left. 54:34 I'd like if you pray with me please. 54:36 Father in Heaven, thank You for Your love and Your mercy. 54:38 Thank You for the Word that You've given us today. 54:40 Help us to accept it 54:41 and say thank You for it in Jesus' name. 54:43 Amen. 54:45 Good to spend this time with you. 54:46 Thank you for your prayers, your support. 54:48 We'll see you next time. 54:50 Hello and welcome back. 54:51 One thing is for certain, when it comes to knowing 54:54 and understanding spiritual matters, 54:56 we will never graduate from the School of Christ. 54:59 So many of God's children are totally unaware 55:02 of the wonderful principles of health, 55:04 our Creator God has given us in His Word. 55:07 Again, the message for today was entitled 55:09 "The Bible's Path to Health." 55:12 And how wonderful that God cares so very much 55:15 about the sufferings of His children. 55:17 So much so that He directed the Bible writers 55:21 through the power of the Holy Spirit 55:23 to give us sound direction 55:26 as to the importance of our body temples, 55:29 as well as the best nourishment for optimal health. 55:33 And who can argue with the original diet 55:36 given to man from our Creator, 55:38 and who would dare to say that habits such as 55:42 using tobacco, 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