Participants: Pr. Richard Daly (Host), Pr. John Lomacang
Series Code: 16LON
Program Code: 16LON000010A
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00:10 I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
00:13 "Whom shall I send and who will go for us?" 00:17 Then I said, "Here am I, send me." 00:34 Three Angels Broadcasting Network 00:36 and the South England conference, 00:38 presents London 2016. 00:45 Good evening. 00:47 We continue along our amazing Biblical journey of truth 00:52 this evening, 00:53 as Pastor Lomacang presents to us 00:57 the topic of Abundant Living. 00:59 But before that, we're going to be blessed 01:02 and ministered, too, by Brother Tim Partor. 01:21 Far away in the depths 01:26 Of my spirit tonight 01:31 Rolls a melody 01:34 Sweeter than psalm 01:41 In celestial-like strains 01:46 It unceasingly falls 01:51 O'er my soul 01:55 Like an infinite calm 02:04 Peace, peace 02:09 Wonderful peace 02:14 Coming down 02:17 From the Father above 02:25 Sweep over my spirit 02:32 Forever, I pray 02:38 In fathomless 02:42 Billows of love 02:54 I am resting tonight 02:58 In this wonderful peace 03:04 I'm resting sweetly in Jesus' control 03:13 For I'm kept from all danger 03:20 By night and by day 03:25 And His glory 03:29 Is flooding my soul 03:35 So I seeing peace 03:42 Peace, wonderful peace 03:50 Coming down From the Father above 04:01 Sweep over my spirit 04:06 Forever I pray 04:16 In fathomless 04:21 Billows of love. 04:38 Amen. 04:45 Amen again. 04:46 Amen. 04:48 That's what we're talking about tonight 04:49 having peace, wonderful peace. 04:52 Bow your heads with me tonight as we, 04:55 as we open word God's word together. 04:59 Loving Father in heaven what everybody needs is peace, 05:04 and what the world cannot to offer to us 05:05 is lasting peace, wonderful peace. 05:11 And so, Lord Jesus, tonight, 05:13 come near to us as you have on every occasion up to this 05:18 and bring us into that place where we can find peace, 05:22 because of the word that you have accomplished 05:24 and continue to do in our lives. 05:27 We submit now to the work of your spirits 05:29 speak to our hearts, that your name 05:32 and your purpose may be accomplished and glorified, 05:38 in Jesus name we pray. 05:40 Amen. 05:42 Amen. 05:44 Thank you so much, Tim. 05:47 I really appreciate that song "Wonderful peace", 05:49 it takes me back growing up I would... 05:53 I don't play piano, don't just get that idea 05:56 but I would just mess around on the piano 05:57 and that song would always remind me of the peace 06:01 that the world couldn't give me, 06:03 but the peace I eventually found 06:04 when I gave my life to Jesus. 06:07 Now last night we talked about the best financial plan. 06:13 What did we talk about last night? 06:15 The best financial plan. 06:18 Tonight, we're gonna talk about the best health plan. 06:22 Now who would not want those two components 06:26 raining supreme in their lives. 06:28 If I can have the best financial plan 06:32 and the best health plan, 06:34 I think I can capture the world. 06:37 I mean, what else can you want? 06:39 The best financial plan, 06:41 there is nothing that you cannot access. 06:44 And the best health, and the best health plan 06:47 that when you access it, 06:49 you'll be around long enough to enjoy it. 06:52 Last night, the best health plan 06:56 showing how God 06:57 and God alone is able to provide 07:00 how much of our need? 07:02 All of our need according to his riches and glory. 07:06 But tonight, let's begin 07:07 with the very wonderful scripture 07:09 that shows the contrast 07:12 between a life without God and a life with God. 07:16 What the world cannot give to us, 07:18 and what God promises he can give to us, John 10:10, 07:23 the Bible says, let's read this together. 07:26 "The thief does not come except to do what? 07:30 Steal, to what else? 07:31 Kill, and to what else? 07:33 Destroy. 07:35 But Jesus continues, 07:36 I have come that they may have what? 07:38 Life. 07:40 And that they may have it what? 07:42 More abundantly." 07:44 Now I'm not going to boost, 07:45 I'm not going to tell you my age. 07:48 But I'm past 50 and I'm under 60. 07:51 Come on, help me out, somebody. 07:53 And I play basketball every week. 07:56 I have no knee pains, I have no elbow pains. 07:59 I don't take any medication. 08:01 When my wife and I went to Australia 08:03 and we went through customs, 08:05 the first question they asked is 08:06 "Do you have any medications to declare?" 08:09 I said, "No, I don't." 08:11 They said, "You're from America, 08:13 everybody from America has medication." 08:15 I said, "I'm from America, 08:17 and I don't have any medication." 08:18 They said, "Are you sure 08:19 because it may not be legal here?" 08:21 I said, "I don't have any medication." 08:24 And so at this age, 08:25 I can say by following God's perfect health plan, 08:31 we can live a life of abundance. 08:33 Because God never intended for us get away 08:37 certain point in our lives 08:39 and then be bent over in ailments 08:41 and disease and suffering and the loss of our eyesight, 08:46 and the loss of our strength. 08:47 God always intended as this text says, 08:50 that we might have life and have it how? 08:53 More abundantly. 08:55 But one of the great challenges in our world today is health. 08:59 Strangely enough, 09:00 the rising health cause are often connected to diseases 09:04 that can be prevented or reversed. 09:08 We had a lady that came to our church, 09:10 I told you about the couple that came in their late 70s 09:12 and asked, "How old is too old to be baptized?" 09:15 When the wife came, she was on nine medications, 09:20 all kinds of ailments. 09:22 One medication to handle 09:24 the side effects of the other medication. 09:29 But in about three months, 09:31 she met a lady in our church 09:32 that worked with her for three months 09:34 that was into health, 09:35 and she narrowed down to only one mediation 09:38 which because of her age, the doctor said, 09:41 "This would be something good at your age 09:43 to maintain your vitamin levels." 09:45 But all the things that she was taking for high blood pressure, 09:49 she was able to stabilize her blood pressure, 09:51 though the right diet 09:53 and exercise even in her late 70s. 09:57 God has made an amazing body. 10:00 But the world that we live in is very intemperate. 10:03 Anything and everything that crosses our plate, 10:07 the world says, "You can eat it." 10:10 I was in Asia once, 10:11 and I was walking through down town Singapore. 10:15 And I walked pass one of their outdoor stores, 10:18 and I saw things from the sea 10:23 that I never thought anybody would dare to eat. 10:26 And then I also came to discover that 10:29 when you go to some of the restaurants, 10:30 they eat sea, let me use the right term, 10:34 somebody called it a sea roach, I don't know what that is. 10:38 But it's big and it's wiggly. 10:40 And they eat it in the soup while it is alive. 10:44 And to prove that you're a man, 10:45 you got to bite it in half while it's alive. 10:49 And some basketball players from an American team 10:51 was invited by one of the guys from Korea 10:53 to go overseas with them, 10:55 to see how much of man they were. 10:56 He said, "Okay, if you're really a man 10:58 like you're on the basketball court, 10:59 you'll eat this thing while it is alive." 11:02 And he looked down at the soup 11:03 and it's crawling with all kind of inebriates, 11:07 alive and well. 11:09 And you've got to end its life by cutting its head off 11:12 and then swallowing while it's alive. 11:14 There are some places in our world 11:16 that people eat things that dogs won't eat. 11:20 So tonight, we're gonna find out 11:21 about God's the best healthcare plan 11:24 that ever was introduced to mankind, 11:27 can somebody say amen? 11:29 The fact of the matter is 11:30 people don't think much about what they do to their bodies 11:33 until they begin to see the negative effects 11:37 on their health. 11:39 I've been to bed side of some people 11:40 that would do anything that doctor suggest, 11:43 "Just tell me what I need to do to reverse this condition." 11:48 And then before that point, 11:49 they had a different philosophy, 11:51 "It's my body, I can do whatever I want." 11:53 But when they're on their death bed, 11:55 when they can hardly breathe, 11:57 hardly swallow and all that joy of life is ebbing away, 12:01 they'll do whatever they could 12:03 just to grasp that last bit of abundant life 12:07 that's still available. 12:08 But I would suggest you tonight, 12:10 God has introduced the best healthcare plan, 12:14 so let's go to the book of Genesis 12:16 and see how this enfolds in the Word of God. 12:19 The best healthcare plan 12:21 that God has ever introduced to mankind 12:24 and if there was ever a generation. 12:27 We need God's healthcare plan. 12:28 Look at Genesis 1:29, 12:31 "And God said, 'See, I have given you how many herbs? 12:37 Every herb that yields seed, 12:42 which is on the face of all the earth. 12:43 And how many trees? 12:46 Every tree whose fruit yields seed, 12:49 to you it shall be for what?" 12:51 Now follow me very carefully, to you it shall be for food. 12:54 The same lie that Adam that Satan told to Eve 12:59 when he ask Eve, 13:01 "Did God say that you cannot eat off every tree?" 13:04 No God said, "You can eat off every tree." 13:08 But just like an Eve, 13:10 Satan makes it appears those as though, 13:13 those who eat a healthy diet can eat anything. 13:18 And some of us, Christians, always say to people, 13:20 "Well, I can't eat that, and I can't eat that, 13:24 and I can't drink that, and I can't smoke that.' 13:28 And all they know is 13:30 as this people that can't do stuff. 13:32 But if we show them what doing the right thing does to us, 13:36 they'll say, "Well, whatever you're doing, 13:38 I want to do that." 13:40 They can see that you can still run up and down. 13:42 We have some guys in southern Illinois, 13:44 I need to say I mean I like basketball, 13:46 I should be compensated 13:47 because every injury I've ever had 13:49 was from basketball. 13:53 But we have some young guys 13:54 that come to our gym on Tuesday nights, 13:56 we like to get together and play with the community guys, 13:58 kind of our outreach. 13:59 Danny Shelton, still at this age, 14:01 loves to play basketball. 14:03 And we had a 27-year-old guy come to the gym, 14:05 I just saw him recently, 14:06 he works at the hospital, he's 34 now. 14:09 And he came to the gym one night, 27 years old, 14:11 I was in the beginning of my 50s at that time 14:15 and he played one game and ran outside the gym, 14:18 and then he came back 14:20 and we said, "Are you all right?" 14:22 And he asked Danny Shelton 14:24 for a copy of his license to prove his age. 14:27 And he didn't come back and I said, 14:30 when I saw him, I said, "What happened?" 14:32 He said, "You old guys are going to kill me." 14:38 And we have other guys that come to our gym, 14:40 34 years old, there's a young man who said, 14:42 he hung up his sneakers, 14:44 in other words his basketball shoes. 14:46 And he said to me, "I hope I'm alive 14:49 when I get to your age let alone playing basketball." 14:52 Well, if you follow God's healthcare plan, 14:54 you'll not only be alive but you'll be kicking. 14:57 Amen. Amen. 14:59 God's got the best healthcare plan. 15:02 Everywhere that Adam and Eve scanned, 15:05 God established food for them from all the plant life 15:08 that he created to be eaten. 15:11 Everywhere they loved. 15:13 By the way 15:14 God is the manufacture of our bodies. 15:18 Each of us is unique, 15:20 and the reason why God has the authority to tell us 15:22 what to eat is found in Genesis 1:27, 15:25 notice what the Bible says, 15:28 "So God created man in His won what? 15:31 In his own image, 15:33 in the image of God He created him, 15:37 male and female, He created what? 15:40 Them." 15:41 What that in essence is saying the maleness of God, 15:45 the very image of God 15:47 was separated into the maleness of man 15:51 and the femaleness of women. 15:54 So one of the reasons why God ordained 15:55 for man and women to be married 15:57 is whenever man and women is joined together in marriage, 16:00 it completes the image of God in the human race. 16:04 So it's not just about I love him or I love her, 16:06 it's not about physical affections 16:07 or emotional affections, 16:09 it is about representing the image of God 16:11 in the human race. 16:13 And God made them in his image. 16:15 But when you consider 16:16 the functions of the human body, 16:18 I was thinking about this, 16:19 and I always like to reading preparation for the sermons 16:21 that I do even though I have this basic knowledge 16:24 when I think of how our bodies 16:26 have search capacities and capabilities. 16:28 Did any of you just look at the Olympics? 16:31 These are super athletes 16:33 the best of the best of the best, 16:35 they put their bodies to the extreme test, 16:39 and they condition themselves 16:40 so that whatever situation they face, 16:43 they are preconditioned to outlast and outrun, 16:46 and outmaneuver and out jump, and out manipulate, 16:49 and out swim, they are super athletes. 16:52 And when you study this super athlete, 16:54 their diets are more closely associated 16:57 with God's original diet 16:59 than any other person on the planet. 17:02 They find out the best fuel. 17:04 Listen to the runners that are endurance runners, 17:06 they are primarily in some cases 17:09 almost totally vegan, but definitely vegetarian, 17:12 because they said they find the best fuel 17:14 at the higher athletes they train, 17:16 at the higher altitudes they train, 17:18 these are super athletes. 17:20 Also when you reflect 17:21 on the invented capacity of the mind, it is intriguing, 17:25 and you'll understand that God is the one 17:27 behind this great and awesome design. 17:31 We're all are awesome, each one of us is unique. 17:34 You know what? 17:35 There is nobody on the planet just like you. 17:40 No two people just like you, you are a prototype. 17:43 Can you imagine all the people ever created 17:45 nobody is just like you. 17:47 You have your own signature. 17:49 As a matter fact, 17:51 it's called deoxyribonucleic acid, 17:54 also known as DNA. 17:57 I did some small research 17:59 before I dive into the depth of the sermon. 18:01 I did some small research on DNA, 18:03 and I discovered some very interesting facts. 18:06 You see DNA is the molecule 18:08 that carries the genetic instructions 18:12 that is used in the growth, 18:13 development, functioning, and reproduction 18:15 of every known living organism, DNA. 18:19 Amazingly though, 18:21 99% of us, 99% of all humans 18:26 share the same kind of DNA. 18:30 Now follow carefully, 99%, what percentage did I say? 18:34 Ninety-nine. 18:35 But DNA is so unique 18:38 that the 1% difference is so vastly different 18:41 from the person sitting next to you, 18:43 that scientists can isolate the likelihood 18:47 of you being present at a scene of a crime. 18:51 Just by the 1%, 18:53 then they're not looking at the 99%, 18:55 they're looking at that one genome 18:57 that's different from all the other factors 19:00 that no one else has. 19:01 And so they often say, 19:03 "There is a 10.1 billion percent chance 19:05 that you were not here." 19:08 And they're not 10.1 billion people on the planet. 19:13 Very interesting also is the child shares 99.5% 19:17 of the same DNA with the parent. 19:19 They also mention that 19:20 if you put the DNA molecules together, this blew my mind, 19:24 that if you put the DNA molecules together end to end 19:28 the DNA would reach from the earth to the sun 19:31 and back. 19:34 That's 93 million miles. 19:36 Can somebody say amen? Amen. 19:38 But that's not half the story, 19:40 it'll reach to the earth and the sun 600 times. 19:45 The DNA that's found in your single human body. 19:49 Scientists say that's 100 trillion times, 19:52 60 divided 92 million, you do the math. 19:58 They also say that DNA is so complex 20:01 that if you typed 60 words a minute for 8 hours a day, 20:04 it will take you 50 years 20:07 to type out the complete instruction 20:09 found in 1 molecule in DNA. 20:14 That's why I could understand why David and Psalms wrote 20:19 what he did in Psalms 139:14, he said, come on together, 20:23 "I will praise you, for I am what? 20:25 Fearfully and what else? 20:27 Wonderfully made, marvelous are Your works, 20:31 and that my soul knows very well." 20:33 One strange fact about DNA is humans and cabbage 20:40 share about 40% to 50% of the same kind of DNA. 20:44 Humans and cabbage, 20:45 that's why some people think like cabbage. 20:49 Use more of your mind come on, amen, somebody. 20:52 The Bible also teaches that when we fail to acknowledge 20:56 that God owns everything, 20:59 we fall into the trap of saying, 21:01 "I will do with my body as I please, 21:04 nobody can tell me what to do with it. 21:07 I only have one body." 21:09 I've had people say to me, "Look, I'm going to die anyway, 21:12 so whatever I die from, it doesn't really... 21:15 If I die from high blood pressure 21:16 or cholesterol or get hit by a car or fall off a bus, 21:20 it doesn't really matter, I'm going to die anyway." 21:22 But when they're on their death bed, 21:24 they want to reverse that. 21:25 We've got to acknowledge the fact 21:26 that we don't belong to ourselves, 21:29 we belong to God, 21:31 and He loves us so much that He says 21:34 He wants us to experience optimum health. 21:37 Look at 1 Corinthian 6:19 and 20, 21:40 He says exactly what He wants us to do 21:43 in these two amazing verses. 21:45 The Bible says, "Or do you not know that your what? 21:49 Your body is the what? 21:51 Temple of the Holy Spirit who was where? 21:54 In you, whom you have from God, and what? 21:58 You are not your own? 22:00 Why? 22:02 For you were bought at a price. 22:03 Therefore, together glorify God in your body and in your what? 22:09 Spirit, which are God's." 22:10 Even Christians that say, "I'm in the spirit." 22:13 God wants you also to be in the body. 22:15 Amen, somebody. Amen. 22:16 It's not how high you jump, 22:18 it's how straight you walk when you hit the ground. 22:21 Some people, "I'm in the spirit." 22:23 But spirit never leaves you to lead a radical life 22:26 to injure the very organism, 22:28 the very great gift God gave to you. 22:30 And unlike a car, 22:32 you can't change your body in for a newer model. 22:37 Some people think they could, 22:39 we have a nation that is enamored 22:41 and almost possessed by plastic surgery. 22:44 Nipping and tucking and adding 22:46 and sowing in and weaving in 22:48 and weaving out and altering and... 22:52 One of my good friend said, 22:54 "Be careful with your DNA and all the alterations 22:57 and all the surgeries you get 22:58 because your children will remind you 23:00 how ugly you really are." 23:05 They remind you what you used to look like. 23:08 We should reflect the glory of God 23:10 and the more natural, the more beautiful. 23:14 Somebody talked about his wife going on their wedding nighty, 23:16 she went in and changed and came out 23:19 and he said to the lady, 23:21 he saw after she came out the restroom, he said, 23:23 "Can you go inside and get my wife? 23:25 She is in there somewhere." 23:27 She had so much stuff. 23:29 We were down at Harrods the other day. 23:32 We saw these beautiful people, 23:35 but I said to my wife, 23:36 "I would love to see what they look like, 23:38 what are all that stuff?" 23:42 Like God made a mistake 23:44 and our world has so prestige into that mole 23:46 that we get to the point where we think 23:48 that we the more unlike everybody else we look, 23:51 the more unique we really are. 23:52 In fact, all you've got to do today the be unique 23:55 is have no marks on your body at all. 23:58 That's unique. 24:01 So we need to abandon the idea 24:03 that we have dominion over our bodies. 24:06 And with that very mindset, 24:07 you take that attitude to the car manufacturer 24:10 when you put gas, 24:11 when you put petrol in the radiator of your car, 24:16 and water in the gas tank. 24:19 If you don't put the right fluids in the right place, 24:21 and you say to the manufacturer, 24:23 "Well, fix my car." And he said, "What did you do?" 24:24 "Well, I put salt in the radiator, 24:27 I put water in the petrol tank." 24:28 He will say, "You violated the warrantee, 24:31 therefore we will not cover it." 24:33 But some people violate the warrantee 24:34 that God has given to them. 24:36 Some people violate God's word and then they say, 24:39 "Fix it anyhow." 24:40 Do you know that you can go beyond a particular point 24:44 that your condition can become irreversible. 24:48 God can forgive you for what you've done 24:49 but there are certain things that we go beyond 24:51 that cannot be reversed. 24:53 Matter of fact, 24:54 did you know that the mortality rate is 100%, 24:56 did you know that? 24:59 In other words, 100% of everybody 25:01 that was ever born for the with the exception of 25:05 Enoch and Elisha will die. 25:11 Everybody will die. 25:13 The mortality rate is 100%. 25:16 Let me even give you a more sobering fact. 25:19 If the Lord doesn't come in 120 years, 25:22 everybody here tonight will be dead. 25:27 Wow, I shouldn't have said that. 25:30 I feel very moral now. 25:35 But with that reality, we should make decisions that 25:39 no matter how much time we have left, 25:41 we should live so we can enjoy every moment. 25:46 And God promises, 25:48 "Everything that's good, I'm going to give to you." 25:49 Look at Psalms 84:11, God is a good God, 25:53 He says to us, "No good thing, what three words together? 25:58 No good thing will He with hold from those who do what? 26:03 Walk uprightly." 26:05 God gave Adam and Eve the perfect diet, 26:09 fruits, grains, and nuts. 26:11 After sin, He added the bitter herb, 26:14 that's why some people today, 26:15 they don't like watercress or Brussels sprouts or spinach. 26:20 The bitter herb was added after the entrance of sin. 26:25 Then at the time of the flood, God made provision 26:27 because He knew that the world will be destroyed. 26:30 Every vegetation, 26:31 every plant life would be destroyed by the great DeLuise. 26:35 So God put together a diet 26:37 that would sustain Noah and his family post flood. 26:43 The entire world was covered with water. 26:46 God recognized and I want to professes by saying 26:50 what you're about to read has no application to the Jew 26:54 because there were no Jews in Noah's day. 26:56 Amen for that one. 26:58 Some people think that, 26:59 "Well, these health principles are just for Jews." 27:02 Show me a Jew that has a different heart than I have. 27:06 The Jew needs my blood, and I need his blood, 27:08 if I need a transfusion. 27:10 The Jews heart and lungs and physical capacities 27:13 are just the same as mine. 27:14 God is not a bias God, 27:16 He doesn't give the Jews a different kind of body 27:18 and give us, our own. 27:21 We are all made in the image of God. 27:24 But in provision for the post flood era, 27:27 listen to what the Bible says, in Genesis 7:2, 27:32 the Lord said to Noah, 27:33 "You shall take with you, what's the next word? 27:36 Seven each of every what kind of animal? 27:40 Clean animal. 27:41 A male and his female, 27:43 so that they can continue to reproduce. 27:47 And then he says, two each of animals that are what? 27:51 Unclean, a male and his female." 27:54 Now why would God give seven male and female of clean, 27:59 six times more than the unclean, 28:02 the fact that the logical reason is 28:04 God knew that they would need food. 28:07 So God said, 28:09 "These are the animals that are clean for food." 28:11 But the reason why God also says, 28:14 that you need the unclean animals 28:15 what people don't recognize is that 28:17 God created his own sanitation department. 28:23 Amen. 28:25 So you don't have to go out into the forest 28:28 and clean up a dead animal. 28:30 If an animal dies, God's sanitation department 28:33 finds that animal and eats it up, 28:35 and you won't even see it in about a week. 28:37 They call vultures and eagles and all these birds of prey, 28:41 and dogs, all these scavenger beasts 28:45 are God's sanitation department. 28:48 The reason why the ocean relatively is still clean, 28:51 it's because God's got creatures in that ocean, 28:54 that doesn't wait for men to get the vacuum cleaner 28:56 like they'd clean a pool, 28:58 God's got his own sanitation department 29:00 24 hours a day, every day of the week 29:03 cleaning up the ocean. 29:04 Isn't God good? Amen. 29:06 So tonight we're not talking about 29:08 a denominational health plan, 29:11 we're not talking about a religious health plan, 29:13 we're talking about a health plan 29:14 that everybody will benefit from. 29:18 When you go to the hospital, 29:19 they don't ask you what your denomination is. 29:21 They said what's your condition. 29:23 Whatever your condition, 29:24 you're hoping that they have an answer, ain't that right? 29:27 Look at how God lay this out so wonderfully, 29:29 God in His manual, in His what? 29:33 In His operating manual, His instruction book, 29:36 He gave specific instructions on what should 29:40 and should not be put in our human bodies. 29:43 Leviticus 11:5-7, notice the Word of God. 29:47 "The rock hyrax, because it chews the cud 29:51 but does not have cloven hooves, 29:54 is unclean to you; 29:56 the hare or the rabbit, because it chews the cud 30:01 but does not have cloven hooves, 30:03 is unclean to you; and the swine." 30:06 What is another word for swine? 30:09 Pig. 30:10 Somebody once said, "I don't eat ham, 30:12 I eat beacon." 30:15 Same thing. 30:16 "And the swine though it divides the hoof, 30:20 having cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud, 30:24 it is what? 30:25 Unclean." 30:27 The principle the formula as simply as this, 30:28 the Lord says, when you look at the animal kingdom, 30:30 if it has cloven hooves but does not chew it's cud, 30:35 that in other words when it eats it regurgitates 30:37 and minces that, at master case 30:39 and pulls all the nutrients out of what it ate. 30:43 If that animal does both, it has both properties, 30:46 it's safe for food. 30:47 Now today, you've got to really be careful 30:49 because today in this society in which we live, 30:53 animals are injected with all kinds of hormones 30:56 and all kinds of additives. 30:59 Matter fact even vegetables, 31:00 I think that the UK did something 31:03 that America should do. 31:05 I believe if I'm following very carefully 31:06 because I study this not in depth, 31:08 but I believe the UK banned genetically-modified foods. 31:17 May be you have it, 31:19 but I read that there was seeking to ban 31:21 genetically-modified foods. 31:23 That's foods engineered in the laboratory, 31:26 so when you buy a tomato that's dark red 31:30 or corn that's bright yellow 31:33 or things that are bursting green, 31:36 those are generally genetically modified. 31:39 And they also create situations in the body 31:41 when the body sees 31:42 these genetically modified organisms coming in, 31:45 the body consider those things foreign bodies, 31:48 and they begin to attack it. 31:49 One parent once said, she says, 31:51 she was giving her two little boys corn to eat. 31:54 And she noticed that they were having 31:56 terrible stomach conditions. 31:58 They could hardly stay home, 32:00 they could hardly go to school, it was so severe. 32:02 And when she took them to the doctor 32:03 and had them tested, the doctor said, 32:06 "They are being affected by genetically-modified corn." 32:11 And when she took them off of that, 32:12 all the conditions that they had 32:14 immediately resolved themselves. 32:16 The body saw them as foreign bodies. 32:18 Into the very same way, 32:21 whenever we put anything in our bodies 32:22 that God says should not be there, 32:24 there's going to be some negative impact. 32:28 For example, let me use, 32:29 since I know a little bit more about 32:31 this particular cute little creature, 32:33 by the way, you can have a pig as a pet. 32:35 But don't put them in your frying pan. 32:37 Come on, help me out somebody. 32:39 'Cause the pig is a pig on any day. 32:41 You can wash a pig up, get them a nice bath, 32:45 spray them with Cologne, if it's a guy 32:47 or perfume if it's girl, give them a bed to sleep, 32:50 and but the moment that you lose that chain, 32:52 he's going to find 32:54 the nastiest pile of junk to eat. 32:57 And not only that, 32:59 a pig is one of the only animals 33:00 that can be bitten by a rattle snake and not die. 33:04 The body absorbs the poisons. 33:07 So it stores all those poisons in its body, 33:10 and then you just go and you cut it up, 33:12 and you put in a pan, 33:14 whatever you want to have it as. 33:16 And then you, all of a sudden, have arthritis. 33:20 What you don't know is the poisons in that animal 33:23 and other unclean animals 33:25 gather around the joints of your body 33:27 and you think it's arthritis but what in fact it is, 33:30 it's the poisons from these animals 33:32 that cannot be digested, 33:34 that are now located on your elbows, 33:36 around your fingers, and all the joints, 33:39 the body can't digest it. 33:40 So it stores these poisons and you think it's arthritis 33:43 when in fact 33:44 it's not only what you ate, but it's now what's eating you. 33:48 Amen. 33:50 So when gives us these instructions 33:52 and what amazes me is sometimes you read this 33:55 and people will say, 33:56 "Well, that's what your church teaches." 33:58 You go to the next car manufacturer, 34:01 ignore everything that they told you 34:03 about operating your vehicle, 34:05 and then say to him as he was saying Jamaica, "Be feisty." 34:10 And say to him, "No, I paid for this car, 34:13 I could do what I want, you just fix it." 34:14 He'll say, "Your warrantee is void. 34:18 Anything you've done to this car 34:19 is going to cost you." 34:22 The health cost don't have to be put out, 34:26 you can go on vacation rather than your doctor. 34:32 Some people, the doctors love people. 34:36 Because they just give you pills. 34:38 We're in the most pill popping society 34:40 the world has ever known. 34:42 A pill for this and a pill for that, 34:45 and if that pill doesn't work, 34:46 we give you a pill to help that pill. 34:48 And if that pill offsets this pill, 34:50 we'll give you a pill that get those two pills in line. 34:53 And that one is now out of line. 34:56 And some people medicine cabinets look like a pharmacy, 34:59 where as you say it chemists, 35:02 and they're wondering as Elvis, 35:04 I remember the story about Elvis's, 35:06 Elvis had so many medications 35:08 that his body was poisoned after a while, 35:10 could not handle the continue barrage of medications. 35:14 What a difference he would have had 35:16 if he simply followed God's perfect health plan? 35:20 The Bible not only gives the list of the land animals 35:23 but look what it says about the sea animals. 35:26 Deuteronomy 14:9 and 10, 35:28 Deuteronomy 14:9 and 10, the Bible says, 35:30 "These you may eat of all that are in the waters: 35:34 you may eat all that have, together, 35:36 fins and what else? 35:38 Scales. 35:39 And whatever does not have fins and scales 35:42 you shall not eat; why? 35:45 It is unclean to you." 35:48 Has the same impact, 35:51 the same effect to be specific 35:53 according to God's word, are you ready? 35:55 I put a little list together just in case you miss, 35:59 just in case you can't come but you own, 36:01 you might want to play this back 36:02 and look at my list and broaden it 36:05 as you continue studying 36:06 the outline that you'll get will have more specifics. 36:10 But here is just a small list according to God's word, 36:13 lobsters, crabs, catfish, clams, shrimps, 36:15 oysters, eels, and all shell fish, sword fish, 36:18 sharks, pigs, rats, and mice, 36:20 that's right get rid of your rats and mice. 36:23 Frogs, all squirrels, rabbits, horses, dogs, and cats, 36:27 get rid of your cat burgers starting tonight. 36:31 All should be avoided 36:33 because they are all unclean 36:35 for God's perfect specimen of the image of God, 36:40 our bodies. 36:46 And the key principle there it has to have fins and scales, 36:50 fins and scales. 36:52 In the ocean or in the rivers, 36:54 which means crocodiles are off the list. 36:58 We were in Perth, Australia, somebody went, "Man." 37:02 We were in Perth, Australia, 37:05 went to a nice restaurant, and I was blown away, 37:08 they had crocodile on the menu. 37:12 I said, "Honey, we've got alligators in America, 37:15 but we don't have alligators on our menu, 37:17 they had crocodiles on the menu." 37:19 And I said please. 37:20 They said, "Would like some 37:22 what do you call that hors d'oeuvres 37:23 or the pre-food, 37:25 what do you call, finger foods?" 37:26 And they mention, "Well..." 37:27 I said what's in it they mention it's a no, 37:29 'cause they mentioned crocodile. 37:31 And then there is... 37:32 And then sometimes in America 37:34 you know, years ago, and I grew out of some of this. 37:36 I mean, there was a time and as growing up 37:39 I want to experiment life, I tried some of these things 37:41 but I never had crocodile. 37:51 The fact of the matter is 37:52 no matter what your denomination, 37:54 no matter what your philosophy, 37:55 you can be an atheist but I don't know anybody 37:58 that does not want to have abundant life. 38:01 Do you know anybody 38:02 that doesn't want to have abundant life? 38:04 Everybody wants to be healthy, ain't that right? 38:07 Nobody wants to be in the doctor's office 38:09 all-day long 38:10 and also people really don't care 38:12 what the denomination beliefs of your doctor is, 38:15 he could be Hindu, Buddhist, atheist, 38:17 non-atheist, Seventh-day Adventist anything he is, 38:20 you really don't care what he is 38:21 as long as he has a remedy for your ailment. 38:25 If we would listen to the master physician 38:28 like we would listen to our physician, 38:30 we would have a more glorious life. 38:32 Can somebody say amen? Amen. 38:34 But there is some people that say, 38:36 "Well, wait a minute, wait a minute, 38:37 as I read my Bible, I think God suspended all these laws 38:41 and so it really doesn't matter what we eat anymore 38:43 according to the New Testament." 38:45 Well, some people have followed this particular 38:47 story about a vision that God gave to Peter 38:50 and when you misunderstand the story 38:52 and don't read the whole thing, 38:54 you can come up with your own philosophy. 38:56 But if you read the whole thing, 38:57 that's why I say, whenever you study the Bible, 39:00 read the whole story. 39:03 Let's look at that story together. 39:04 This is often used to say, 39:06 "Well, we could eat anything now." 39:08 Acts 10:9-13, let's begin the story, 39:11 let's examine the story. 39:13 The vision that God gave to Peter. 39:16 And the Bible says, "The next day, 39:19 as they went on their journey and drew near the city, 39:23 Peter went up on the housetop to do what? 39:27 He went to pray, about the sixth hour. 39:29 That's about noon. 39:32 Then he became very what? 39:34 Hungry and wanted to eat. 39:36 But while they made ready, he fell into a what? 39:40 He fell into a Trance. 39:42 And saw heaven opened 39:43 and an object like a great sheet 39:45 bound at the four corners, 39:47 descending to him and let down to the earth. 39:51 In it were all kinds of 39:52 four-footed animals of the earth, 39:54 all kinds you name it, it was there. 39:57 Wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. 40:01 And a voice came to him, and what did the voice say? 40:04 Let's read together, what? 40:05 'Rise, Peter; kill and eat.' 40:08 "If the story ended there, you could eat whatever. 40:12 But that ain't the last verse. 40:14 Let's keep going, remember now, 40:17 Peter is in vision and look at Peter's response 40:20 to the command of God to raise, kill and eat, 14:16. 40:25 "But Peter said, what did he say? 40:28 'Not so, Lord! For I have never done, what? 40:31 Eaten anything common or unclean.' 40:35 And the voice spoke to him again the second time, 40:38 'What God has cleansed you must not call common.' 40:42 This was done three times. 40:45 And the object was taken up into heaven again." 40:48 So three times God said raise and kill. 40:51 Peter said, no. 40:52 God said, raise and kill and eat. 40:54 Peter said, no. 40:55 God said, raise and kill and eat. 40:56 And Peter said, no. 40:58 Three times and then gosh, took the sheet up 41:00 and everything that was in the vision disappeared. 41:04 The Bible says in Acts 10:17, 41:08 after Peter awoke he was in a quandary. 41:09 The Bible says, 41:11 "Now while Peter wondered within himself 41:12 what this vision which he had seen meant, 41:15 behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius 41:19 had made inquiry for Simon's house, 41:22 and they stood before the gate." 41:24 In other words, let me put the context together. 41:27 While Peter is in vision, God is setting him up, 41:31 to be able to minister to people that are not Jewish. 41:35 And just like in some places of the world, 41:39 the hindrance just spreading the gospel, 41:41 there was class and race division. 41:44 That's why when Jesus met the women at the well 41:46 the Samaritan woman, you know what he did? 41:48 He sent his disciples away 41:50 because they are not yet come to the place 41:52 where they would accept 41:53 mingling with people of other races. 41:55 As a matter fact, 41:56 they even said to Jesus on one occasion, 41:57 why do you throw the children's food to the dogs. 42:01 That's how they felt about people 42:03 that were not of their same class and same race. 42:06 And so now for the gospel to go, 42:08 the Lord has to break down in the minds of his apostles 42:11 that it doesn't matter what their nationality, 42:13 they need the truth to, amen somebody. 42:15 Amen. 42:17 So he gets invitation, 42:18 and now he goes to the house of Cornelius 42:21 and he meets him there, 42:22 and if you read the story also in Acts 11, 42:25 to prove that Peter had a legitimate reason 42:27 to visit a non-Jew, 42:30 they would have send men with him 42:32 to prove that he had a legitimate reason 42:34 to go visit a non-Jew. 42:36 And look what he said when he got 42:37 to the house of Cornelius. 42:39 Acts 10:28, 42:41 "Then he said to them, 42:43 'You know how unlawful it is 42:45 for a Jewish man to do, what? 42:48 Keep company with or go to one of another nation. 42:53 But God has shown me 42:55 that I should not call any, what? 42:58 Any man common or unclean." 43:02 Amen. 43:03 God was not talking about animals 43:06 but the disciples were affected by a society 43:09 that said these are unclean folk, 43:12 these are clean folk, we can associate with that race 43:15 but don't associate with that race 43:17 and still to this very day, in Brooklyn where I was born, 43:21 the Jews have their own neighborhood. 43:23 they don't deal with people then 43:25 that are of whether ethnic races. 43:27 They'll sell your stuff 43:28 but they ain't hanging out with you, 43:30 the same mind set to this very day. 43:33 even in Acts 13, 43:34 when Paul and Barnabas preached in anti arch 43:37 when the whole town together to hear God's word, 43:40 the Jews, was so angry 43:41 that gentiles wanted to hear the message 43:45 that they spoke against Paul and Barnabas. 43:47 and then he said, it was necessary 43:49 that God would give the gospel to you first, 43:51 but since you judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, 43:54 low return to the gentiles, so this is not about 43:58 the removal of dietary restriction, 44:00 this is about the removal of class restriction, 44:03 somebody got to say amen. 44:05 Doesn't matter what your race is 44:06 God is saying everybody needs the gospel. 44:09 Look at Galatians 3:28, 44:12 Galatians 3:28, Lord made it clear. 44:17 "There is neither what? 44:19 Jew nor what else? 44:21 Greek, there is neither, what? 44:24 Slave nor what else? 44:26 Free. 44:27 There is neither what? 44:28 Male nor what else? 44:30 Female, together, for you are all what? 44:34 One in Christ Jesus." 44:40 For you are all one in Christ Jesus. 44:43 Can everybody once say amen? 44:45 Doesn't matter where you're from. 44:47 From one blood came all nations, 44:50 when we walk through the gates into the new Jerusalem, 44:53 there is not going to be an Italian gate 44:55 and a Trinidadian gate, and a Jamaican gate. 44:57 Come on somebody. 44:58 There is going to be gates 45:00 based on the things you've overcome. 45:02 This is going to be Issachar gate and a Dan gate 45:03 and a Benjamin gate, and a Simon and Levi gate. 45:06 These gates that we go through 45:08 best describe the thing, 45:10 the sin that we overcame not our nationality. 45:17 So today God wants us to be specific 45:19 about how we handle His creation, 45:21 and you know, when I think about this, 45:23 I thought about this in particular 45:25 because it's a very, 45:26 when I thought about this, I said, "Lord, 45:28 if you love me so much 45:29 for me to, for me, for you to give me the best plan 45:32 to be in good health, 45:34 why would I even remotely get upset?" 45:38 If the doctors said to you, 45:39 "Sister, you no longer have any ailments, 45:43 every medication I ever gave you, throw it away, 45:45 you've got 45 more years ahead of you. 45:48 If at the least at the minimum 45:51 and you're going to have good quality 45:52 no more, rickets and hydrophobia 45:54 and claustrophobia, 45:56 you're going to have great health." 45:57 Would you be upset, 45:59 if you're doctor gave you a clean bill and health. 46:01 Come on, tell to me. Would you be upset? 46:03 So when God gives us the plan, this is one of those, 46:07 this is one of those sermons that people say, 46:09 "Oh, man, we could, 46:11 couldn't we've talked about the mark of the Beast 46:13 rather than diet?" 46:15 And mark of the beast is not as important to you 46:18 as your health is. 46:19 When you're on your death bed, 46:20 you don't care about the four kingdoms, 46:22 you care about the outcome of your prognosis. 46:25 What do you say? 46:26 The God gave us the instructions, 46:30 and the danger is 46:33 not only defiling God's and master piece 46:36 but the danger is 46:38 when we refuse God's instructions, 46:40 there is only one outcome, 46:42 there is only one thing that God can do 46:43 when we refuse his instructions for optimum health, here it is. 46:47 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 17, notice what the Bible says, 46:52 notice what the Bible says... 46:57 the Bible says, "Do you not know 46:59 that you are the what? 47:01 Temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells where? 47:05 In you. 47:07 If anyone, If how many? 47:10 Anyone defiles the temple of God, 47:13 God will do what? 47:15 Destroy him. 47:17 For the temple of God is holy, which temple what? 47:19 You are." 47:20 What happens when a car can no longer function, 47:23 what did they do with these cars? 47:28 Ship it to Japan, 47:30 ship it to some country that needs scrap metal. 47:33 We don't want to be scrap metal, 47:34 we want to proclaim the praises of him, 47:38 who brought us out of darkness into this what kind of life? 47:41 Marvelous life. 47:43 And I tell you some of us 47:46 have these traditions in our lives 47:48 that are hard to break, 47:50 but I want to tell you when you get to heaven, 47:54 when you get to heaven, 47:56 thanksgiving is not going to be a crisis for the turkeys. 48:03 Did you know that? 48:06 They'll be no crisis in heaven, 48:08 animals are not going to be running from us 48:09 in the new earth. 48:11 Look how here come those Adventists. 48:15 Here we got a whole lot of things 48:17 we have to unlearn and relearn. 48:19 So can he eat clean meats. 48:21 But be temperate, 48:23 because your body is not naturally designed 48:25 to handle these things. 48:27 God is saying, you'll get the best health, 48:31 you'll the most optimum living if you simply follow 48:34 the best plan I have, for your life. 48:37 Ain't that a wonderful thing? 48:39 God loves us so much. 48:40 I was in a hospital once, I was looking at, 48:43 went to visit somebody, 48:45 and I saw lady as I was walking past her bed, 48:47 I saw a lady there and her body was white with ash. 48:51 And I couldn't help it ask the one of the nurses team, 48:56 what she's suffering from. 48:59 They said now we're can't really 49:01 give patient information, 49:03 we can't tell you the specifics 49:05 but let me just say it this way, 49:08 "She got that way from eating pork." 49:10 I said, "What do you mean?" 49:12 She brought the chicken that there's kind of larva worm. 49:15 Some people think that by cooking pork, 49:17 you can kill the larva. 49:19 They hide themselves in a little encasement 49:22 so that while you'll think that they're dying, 49:24 they're actually saying, "Boys, it's really hot in here. 49:28 Can't wait till they cut this out." 49:30 And then eat it 49:31 and they release themselves in your bloodstream, 49:34 and they come out in many different ways, 49:36 ways that are unimaginable. 49:38 And also I need to say this even in clean things, 49:40 you got to be very, very careful, 49:42 how you prepare your food. 49:44 Blood and fat should not be in God's children's system 49:47 because blood transfers diseases to our systems, 49:50 and before we know we're sick and don't know why. 49:53 Fat should not be eaten by God's people. 49:56 The diseases are stored in the fat. 49:58 And when we ingest it, 49:59 fat just gets stored in our bodies, 50:01 it's there and it starts to create 50:03 because it brings with it the diseases. 50:06 And somebody say, 50:07 "Well, how am I going to gain weight?" 50:08 Ask the cow how he gained weight. 50:11 Amen. 50:12 So our document of today, the largest apes in the world 50:17 in the mountains, the high mountains that have 50:19 the largest apes in the world are vegetarians. 50:23 The strongest animals on the earth are what? 50:26 Vegetarians. 50:27 Not a bad idea at all, 50:29 that means when I meet that ape, 50:30 he might not like me but he ain't going to eat me. 50:32 Amen somebody. 50:35 Recognizing the complexity of our bodies 50:37 the truth of the matter is God is the owner 50:39 and not only meats but God also calls us 50:42 to stay free from pollutants and intoxicating things. 50:47 Look at Proverbs 20:1, 50:49 the Bible says, together, "Wine is a what? 50:53 Mocker. 50:55 Strong drink is what? 50:56 Raging. 50:57 And whoever is deceived thereby is what? 51:00 Not wise." 51:02 You know the Bible gives another story that said, 51:03 give strong drink to him who's ready to perish. 51:09 They say when you drink that alcohol, 51:11 it starts to process, 51:12 it starts killing cells in your brain 51:14 that will never be reproduced. 51:16 And people often have done things 51:18 under the influence of alcohol, 51:19 drunk drivers have killed numerous people 51:21 and their bodies are so relax from the inebriation 51:24 that they always survive, 51:25 they bounce around like a rubber ball. 51:28 But the other person loses his or her life. 51:30 And they say, "Well, I couldn't see the road, 51:32 well, I didn't see what was coming, 51:33 I had no control, 51:35 people beat up their wives, and their children 51:36 and they blame it all on the alcohol." 51:38 It is a mocker, it is raging, you cannot control it, 51:41 don't put anything in your body 51:43 that will alter the natural functions of the body. 51:46 It mocks you and then it turns you around 51:49 and in a very real way, it makes a fool out of you. 51:53 That's why Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6:10, 51:55 notice what he says, 51:57 "Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God." 52:00 Somebody reads that and say, 52:01 "Well, I don't drink enough to get drunk." 52:05 "Drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God." 52:11 1 Corinthians 6:10 will not inherit the kingdom of god. 52:16 So what happened is some people might say, 52:19 "Well, I don't drink enough to get drunk." 52:22 Anytime you introduce any alcohol in to your stream, 52:27 it starts killing brain cells that will never be reproduced. 52:32 That's why when I saw 52:33 what it did to friends of mine in the city, 52:35 I decided, "Well, I'm going to party and have fun, 52:38 but I'm not going to any of that 52:39 because when I get old 52:41 I need all the brain cells that I have." 52:42 Amen somebody. 52:44 Because the natural process of life 52:45 is going to mess you up anyhow. 52:47 You're going to start losing the capacities, 52:49 you need to maintain these things. 52:51 And then the Bible also says, 52:53 Exodus 20:13, let's read this together. 52:56 Exodus 20:13, let's read this together, 52:57 are you ready, what does it say? 52:59 "Thou shalt not kill." 53:00 That means to back hold... 53:04 we saw on the street here in London, 53:06 a cigarette boxes, my wife and I were walking, 53:09 a cigarette box, and on the front of it says, 53:12 "Tobacco kills". 53:14 But the cigarette box was empty. 53:16 Somebody saw it and still smoked it, empty, 53:19 tobacco kills. 53:23 Marijuana harmful stimulants. 53:27 All those things that are insidious 53:29 and slowly breaks down the human body, 53:31 when the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill", 53:33 it also includes yourself, amen. 53:37 But there is something else that we can get, 53:39 not only physical healing 53:42 but emotional health 53:43 is also a health benefit in following Jesus. 53:46 You know why? 53:48 Remember this, if you remember nothing else, remember this. 53:50 Sometimes, it's not what you're eating, 53:53 sometimes, it's what eating you. 53:56 You mental attitude can be also a hindrance to your health. 54:00 Some people are eaten up by years of guilt 54:02 and things they've done and in problems 54:05 they've never let go 54:06 and issues they've never given to Jesus. 54:08 They're fighting battles 54:10 that could've been won a long time ago, 54:11 if they simply trust in the freedom 54:13 found only in Jesus. 54:15 So sometimes it's on your plate, 54:17 it's in your mind. 54:19 Not just what goes, into your veins 54:21 and into your mouth and into your stomach, 54:24 but sometimes what is haunting you 54:26 that you refuse to lay down and give to Jesus. 54:31 But in these closing hours of earth's history, 54:32 there is a message that God is calling us back to, 54:34 here is how the Bible says it, 54:38 let's read this together. 54:39 "Fear God and do what? 54:42 Give glory to him." 54:44 So here is my closing question, 54:46 how can we give glory to God 54:49 in these closing moments of earth's history? 54:53 I said, a few nights ago, 54:54 about your love and your attitude 54:57 and your and the way that you treat people. 54:59 If it's not working for you, nobody wants it. 55:02 If it's not working for you, nobody wants it. 55:04 You know, there are places in the world 55:05 that I cannot preach about Jesus, 55:08 but those same places will invite me to talk about health. 55:13 You can't go to Saudi Arabia and Dubai 55:15 and talk about Jesus in the streets, 55:17 but they'll invite you to talk about health. 55:20 Because when it really comes down to it, 55:23 they want good health. 55:24 How can we give God the glory, 55:26 in these closing moments of earth's history, 55:30 our final text. 55:32 Let's read this together, 1 Corinthians 10:31, 55:34 let's put some strength behind it, are you ready? 55:37 "Therefore, whether you what? 55:39 Eat or drink or what? 55:43 Whatever you do, do all to the what? 55:47 Glory of God." 55:50 I'm going to have Tim sing a few words of that song. 55:55 What's the name of that song, Tim? 55:57 Have thine on way. 55:59 Tonight somebody wants Jesus to have 56:00 His own way in your life? 56:02 Anybody tonight? 56:03 Now last night, everybody want it 56:05 God's perfect financial plan. 56:08 Everybody was excited about that, 56:10 but tonight if you're watching if you're on the stream, 56:14 they're watching it on 3ABN 56:15 and you want God's perfect health plan, 56:19 I'm going to ask you to make some decisions tonight. 56:21 Have Thine own way 56:23 just sing a verse of that chorus with me, 56:24 may be chorus Tim, Have Thine own way. 56:26 Have Thine own way, Lord 56:33 Have Thine own way 56:40 Thou art the Potter 56:48 I am the clay 56:55 Mold me and make me 57:03 After Thy will 57:10 While I am waiting 57:18 Yielded, and still. 57:24 Let's bow heads tonight, Father in heaven, 57:27 we want You to have Your own way in our lives, 57:29 but some of us are creatures of having 57:30 we've done things for so long 57:33 that when we hear message like this, 57:35 we sometimes narrow it down to denomination or religion, 57:38 when the fact of the matter is 57:40 nobody wants to die of a disease 57:42 that they could have prevented. 57:44 And when we're confronted with things like cancer 57:47 and heart disease and lung disease and arthritis, 57:51 all these things that could have been prevented 57:54 by a healthier life we say, "Doc, I'll do whatever", 57:57 but Lord tonight, we pray that our hearts, 58:01 our minds will be willing to listen to the master physician. 58:06 And follow his plan, follow his operating manual, 58:10 if we love in Lord, if we love you Lord, 58:13 we will follow Your word 58:15 give us that willingness to be willing, 58:17 that we can experience this abundant life. 58:20 And, Father, finally we know 58:21 it's not something done by our own actions, 58:24 not a reformation in our thoughts, 58:26 but by inviting Jesus Christ to come in. 58:29 And I pray this in Jesus name, and all of God's people said... 58:32 Amen. 58:33 Amen and amen. |
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