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Doug Batchelor: In
January 2010, a minivan struck
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and killed a man
crossing a Brooklyn street,
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especially tragic because
this was no ordinary man.
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Joe Rollino would've
been 105 years old in March.
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His friend said he
was the model of health.
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A World War II vet
with three Purple Hearts,
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Rollino got his
start in the 1920s
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at the Coney
Island Carnival billed
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as the strongest
man in the world.
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Five feet five inches
tall and weighing 150 pounds,
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for his size, he was one
of the strongest men ever.
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He could move 3,200
pounds with his back,
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lift 475 pounds with his teeth,
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and 635 pounds he
could lift with one finger.
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At Joe Rollino's
103rd birthday party,
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a friend gave him a quarter,
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and Rollino bent
it with his fingers.
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He then apologized because
he used to do it with a dime.
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Did I mention that Joe
Rollino didn't drink or smoke,
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he exercised daily, and
he was a lifelong vegetarian?
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The Bible also
makes a connection
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between a very strong
man and a unique lifestyle.
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The Bible says
Samson did not drink,
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and he stayed away
from unclean foods.
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Would you like to
live to a healthy 100?
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Anything as possible when
we follow God's health plan.
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So join me now as
we take a deeper look
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into this life-changing subject.
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Doug: Well tonight,
we're going to be talking
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about the subject of
"Refusing Babylon's Buffet."
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So if you've got your Bibles,
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go ahead and turn to the
book of Daniel chapter one,
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and it tells us that, "In
the third year of the reign
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of Jehoiakim, king of
Judah, Nebuchadnezzar,
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the king of Babylon, came to
Jerusalem and he besieged it,
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and the Lord gave Jehoiakim,
king of Judah, into his hand,
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with some of the
articles from the house of God,
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that he carried
into the land of Shinar
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to the house of his God,
and he brought the articles
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from into the
treasure house of his God."
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First thing I want you to
notice about the book of Daniel,
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it is a battle between
two gods and two kingdoms.
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All through the book of Daniel,
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it's talking about the
gods of the world and the king
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of kings and who's going to
ultimately win in this battle.
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"Then the king instructed
Ashpenaz, master of the eunuchs,
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to bring some of
the children of Israel
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and some of the
king's descendants."
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Actually some of these are
descendants from he Hezekiah,
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and there had been a prophecy
made by Isaiah to Hezekiah,
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saying, "Some of your
descendants will be brought
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to the palace of Babylon and
be eunuchs serving the king."
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This was literally
fulfilled in the book of Daniel.
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"Some of the king's descendants
and some of the nobles
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and young men in whom there
was no blemish but good looking,
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gifted in all
wisdom, possessing knowledge
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and quick to understand,
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who had ability to
serve in the king's palace,
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and whom they
might teach the language
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and literature of the Chaldeans.
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And the king appointed
for them a daily provision
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of the king's delicacies
from the king's cafeteria.
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They would be fed as they
studied in the king's university
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to serve as
advisors and wise men."
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He said, "We're going to
get the brightest and the best."
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"Now from among those were
the sons of Judah were Daniel,
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Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
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To them, the chief of the
eunuchs gave the name to Daniel
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the name Belteshazzar,
then to Hananiah, Shadrach,
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to Mishael, Meshach,
to Azariah, Abednego.
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But Daniel
purposed in his heart he
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would not defile him himself
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with the portion of
the king's delicacies."
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Daniel was faced with
a little moral conundrum.
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He said, "I'm
thankful that of those
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who are carried away captive,
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we're going to be
having comfortable quarters
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somewhere in
the king's barracks.
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We'll be in this
Babylonian university.
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I'm thankful they're
offering to defeat us.
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They're not torturing us,
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that we'll be able to
serve in this capacity.
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But they want us to eat things,
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according to the word of
God, we are not supposed to eat
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and drink things,
according to the word of God,
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we are not supposed to drink
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that the Bible
says will defile us."
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Daniel was very wise,
came up with a solution,
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and he suggested to the
prince of the eunuchs, said,
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"Test your servants for 10 days,
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and let them give us vegetables
to eat and water to drink.
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Put us on a
vegetarian diet for 10 days."
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And so at first, the
prince of the eunuchs says,
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"I can't do that because
my job is to keep you healthy,
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and you're going to have to
eat the good Babylonian food
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if you want to be healthy.
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How can you be healthy
eating vegetables and pulse
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and beans and drinking water?"
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They'd got the idea that
somehow that the exotic food
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is going to be the healthiest
food, but that's not true.
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At the end of 10 days,
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their features appeared
better and fatter in flesh.
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Now you might be
thinking, "Pastor Doug,
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I don't want to
be fatter in flesh."
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What that means is they
had just made a grueling trip
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across the desert
to come to Babylon,
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and they were
probably worn thin,
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and they were able to fill out.
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They had elasticity in
their step and zip in the hip,
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and they just looked
like they were in good shape.
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And they looked much
better than all of the young men
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who ate the portion
of the king's delicacies.
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You could
visibly see a difference.
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Not only was there
a visible difference
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after just 10 days of
eating this diet, but it says,
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"In all matters of
wisdom and understanding
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about which the
king examined them,
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he found them 10 times
better than all of the magicians
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and astrologers
that were in his realm."
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10 times wiser, these young men.
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Notice the connection
between their perceptions,
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their intelligence, and
their diet that is being made.
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So why are we talking about
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this as we delve
into deep prophecies?
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Because clarity
of mind is actually
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going to help in
your understanding.
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The devil is trying to
befuddle this whole generation
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in the world with drugs
and dissipation and bad diets,
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so we just don't think straight,
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and it affects
our understanding.
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It affects every aspect of
our life and our relationships.
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And that's why this
is the first chapter
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that you find in
the book of Daniel.
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It's a lesson on self control,
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giving glory to
God with your body,
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and tells us that not only
did they live 10 times longer.
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You read on in that chapter,
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it says Daniel lived
until the time of King Cyrus,
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meaning Daniel
lived about 100 years.
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So he not only was sharp,
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and even you get
into Daniel chapter five.
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He's an old man, and he's
still brilliant at that time,
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and God is still
speaking through him.
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So let's find out what the Bible
says about how to take care
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of our bodies so that
we could have a longer,
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stronger, more
abundant life, and friends,
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when I began to learn these
things, it just changed my life,
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and I am just so
thankful that we have a chance
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to share this with you.
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We're going to have fun tonight.
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You want to know
what the Bible says, amen?
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- [Congregation] Amen.
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- And I think you're
going to be blessed by this.
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First of all,
question number one,
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what was the original diet
that God designed for humans?
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You read the
answer there, right?
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In the first
chapter of the Bible.
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It says in Genesis one
verse 29, "And God said,
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'See, I have given you
every herb that yields seed,
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and every tree whose
fruit yields seed to you,
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it shall be for food.'"
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The original diet
for man was fruits
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and nuts and maybe beans.
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But in the beginning, man
was certainly a vegetarian,
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and during that time,
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his lifespan was
measured in centuries.
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This was the
original diet for man.
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And now you might be
saying, "Pastor Doug,
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are you telling us
we've gotta be vegetarians?"
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Let me set the record straight.
No, I'm not telling you that.
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I'm saying this is
where we came from,
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and this is where
we're going in heaven.
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This is God's original plan,
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and since God
designed our bodies,
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He knows that this is the
best diet for the human body,
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and science now
is backing that up.
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Question two, after
Adam and Eve sinned,
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what supplemental food
did God add to their diets?
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You read in Genesis three,
and this is following sin,
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man could no longer
eat from the tree of life.
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He said, "And you will
eat the herb of the field."
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And that is better
known as what? Vegetables.
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In other words, at
first, it's just the fruits
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and the grains,
the water, of course,
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nuts, and then
He adds vegetables.
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Now you know the difference
between a fruit and a vegetable?
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Let me do a little
quiz with you real quick.
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Apple?
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- Fruit. - Fruit.
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Potato. - Vegetable.
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- Vegetable. Tomato. - Fruit.
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- They sound alike.
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Potato tomato, but
they're different, huh?
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Zucchini.
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- Fruit. - Vegetable.
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- I heard both
there. Zucchini's a fruit.
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Eggplant. - Fruit.
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- Fruit, yeah. Brussels sprouts.
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- Unedible.
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(audience laughs)
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So, you get the idea.
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Anything that is the product
of the blossom is a fruit.
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Any part of the plant, whether
it's a tuber, like a potato,
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and then you get
the carrots or the root
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or the stalk or the leaves,
that's part of the vegetation.
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That's a vegetable, and
so then God added vegetables.
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I know a lot of kids are really
sorry God added vegetables
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to man's diet, but this
was the original diet for man,
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and man was
originally a vegetarian.
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And it's been proven
and a lot of athletes
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have also
discovered that in that diet,
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you're going to have
less disease, less cancers.
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Your life will be
longer. The jury's in.
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How many of you have heard
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of the "National
Geographic" study that they did?
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It was in the
cover of their magazine
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called the blue
zones, the blue zones.
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These are areas of the world
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where people live unusually
long, much longer than average,
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and they did
some research and went
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around the world and
looked at the lifespans,
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looked at the
lifestyles of people
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that were living a long time,
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trying to evaluate
why do they live so long.
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I remember three out of
four of the principal areas,
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they had Sardinia
in the Mediterranean,
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people lived a very long time,
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they had people in Okinawa
that live a very long time,
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and then they had
Seventh Day Adventists
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in Loma, Linda, California,
that live a very long time.
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That was one of the
groups. The jury is in.
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It is a fact that if you
follow the biblical principles
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of health that you
find in the Word of God,
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you can avoid a lot of disease.
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Now, I know that
some of this is genetics,
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and someone said one of
the most important things you
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can do to increase your health
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is choose your
ancestors very carefully
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'cause there's some
things you can inherit,
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but you don't have
to have the same results
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as your ancestors.
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Even though you may
have inherited bad genetics,
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that was maybe
combined with a bad lifestyle.
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One reason I got
real excited about this
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is any of you
remember Jack LaLanne?
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(muffled speaking)
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He had the first aerobic
exercise program on television,
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and when he was a
boy, his father died
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when he was very
young from a heart attack.
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I don't know, he was
late 40s or something,
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and he later learned
it was from the lifestyle.
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And he went to a
lecture and he saw a man
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that was 60 years old
doing back handsprings
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across the stage, and he
was promoting a vegetarian diet,
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and Jack LaLanne said,
"I don't want to die young,"
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and he committed
himself to health.
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He ended up living into his 90s.
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He signed one of his books,
and he saw our TV program.
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He signed one of his
books and sent it to me,
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said, "Doug,
thinking of you healthfully."
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And when he was
like 75 years old,
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he pulled 75 kids
across San Francisco Bay
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in a boat by himself.
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He just had incredible health,
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but he learned that, in spite
of the genetics of his family,
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by changing his lifestyle,
he could prolong his life.
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So original
diet, vegetarian diet.
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Here's an amazing fact for you.
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A few years ago, Janette
and Alan Murray from Australia,
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Janette had survived cancer,
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and she thinks one reason
she had survived breast cancer
00:12:35.25\00:12:37.45
is because she had turned to
a vegetarian and a vegan diet,
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and they wanted to promote that.
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So she and her
husband Alan decided
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to do a marathon
around Australia,
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and they ran 365
marathons a day consecutively
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without missing a day.
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They went
11,000 miles completely
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around the country of Australia.
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They consumed, I think,
22,000 bananas. I forget.
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Lots of
vegetables, lots of fruit.
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They had a support crew that
would meet them along the way.
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They'd start early so
it wouldn't be too hot.
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Then they went to Tasmania.
They ran around Tasmania.
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They ended up running
consecutively 366 marathons in
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a row, making it through
the "Guinness Book of World
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Records," and the interesting
thing is Janette was 63 and
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he was 68 at the
time they did this.
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Vegetarians. People say, "Oh,
vegetarians can't be healthy.
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You don't get enough protein.
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You don't get enough vitamin B.
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Those are myths.
That's totally not true."
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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We'll be back in just a moment
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with the rest of
today's presentation.
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We spend billions every
year on goofy health fads
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that often end up hurting
our bodies more than helping.
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and learn some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
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Doug: So is God concerned
with our physical health?
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What does the Bible say?
00:14:55.99\00:14:57.33
Is it just spiritual
things or is it physical also?
00:14:58.59\00:15:03.03
You read in Matthew 4 verse 23,
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"And Jesus went
about all of Galilee,
00:15:06.33\00:15:08.57
teaching in their synagogues,
00:15:08.60\00:15:10.37
preaching the
gospel of the kingdom,
00:15:10.41\00:15:12.11
and healing all
kinds of sickness
00:15:12.14\00:15:15.11
and all kinds of
disease among the people."
00:15:15.14\00:15:17.68
Did Jesus want people
to be sick and diseased?
00:15:17.71\00:15:21.05
- No. - No.
00:15:21.08\00:15:22.38
He spent so much
time healing these things.
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"Beloved, I pray that
you may prosper in all things
00:15:24.35\00:15:28.32
and be in health just
as your soul prospers."
00:15:28.36\00:15:31.03
Now he's telling us that,
"Not only do I want your soul
00:15:31.06\00:15:34.56
to prosper, I want you to
prosper and be in health."
00:15:34.56\00:15:38.37
Now the apostle Paul said,
"It's true that bodily exercise
00:15:38.40\00:15:42.04
is not going to save your soul."
00:15:42.07\00:15:43.37
The most important thing
00:15:43.41\00:15:44.71
is that you are
spiritually healthy,
00:15:44.74\00:15:46.34
but that doesn't
discount the importance
00:15:46.37\00:15:48.38
of bodily exercise and health.
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Another little amazing fact.
00:15:51.21\00:15:53.42
The Williams
sister, Venus and Serena,
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I believe it was a Venus
who had an autoimmune deficiency
00:15:56.75\00:16:00.39
and that she had to get out
00:16:00.42\00:16:01.72
of her tennis
playing for a while.
00:16:01.76\00:16:03.79
She found that
the best results came
00:16:03.83\00:16:05.56
from turning to a
vegan and a vegetarian diet,
00:16:05.59\00:16:09.30
and it showed such
dramatic improvement
00:16:09.33\00:16:11.07
that her sister
Serena also adopted it,
00:16:11.10\00:16:13.64
and especially
when they're training,
00:16:13.67\00:16:15.87
they're very strict about it,
00:16:15.90\00:16:17.34
and they have won more
titles than any other pair
00:16:17.37\00:16:21.08
of women in tennis in history.
00:16:21.11\00:16:22.94
They're also in the "Guinness
Book of World Records,"
00:16:22.98\00:16:25.05
and I can go through a number
of athletes, triathlon people,
00:16:25.08\00:16:28.78
Carl Lewis, and
then they're learning
00:16:28.82\00:16:31.35
that the human
body functions better
00:16:31.39\00:16:34.82
with the diet that God designed.
00:16:34.86\00:16:38.26
When I wake up in
the morning, I typically,
00:16:38.29\00:16:40.83
before I go to
the office, Karen,
00:16:40.86\00:16:43.20
she usually has a
little bucket of grapes
00:16:43.23\00:16:44.87
for me or some fruit.
00:16:44.90\00:16:46.33
I'll dice up an apple
and eat a handful of nuts,
00:16:46.37\00:16:50.07
and boy, that just holds me.
00:16:50.11\00:16:52.04
My head is clear, I feel great,
00:16:52.07\00:16:54.14
and I can make it until
one o'clock just on that.
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That's Adam and Eve,
fruit, grains, and nuts.
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Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
00:16:59.45\00:17:00.98
if you got strawberry preserves.
00:17:02.22\00:17:03.69
Fruits, grains, and nuts,
all your basic fruit groups.
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You got your protein.
00:17:05.59\00:17:06.89
Everything's in
there and you feel great,
00:17:06.92\00:17:09.96
long as it's not too much sugar.
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Oh, I didn't ever
read the verse, John 10:10.
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Christ said, "I have
come that they might have life
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and they might have
it more abundantly."
00:17:17.37\00:17:18.97
God wants you to
have an abundant life.
00:17:19.00\00:17:21.17
God promised the
children of Israel
00:17:22.34\00:17:23.71
that if they would
serve and obey Him,
00:17:23.74\00:17:25.74
He'd remove all sickness.
00:17:25.77\00:17:28.21
Did He keep His promise? He did.
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You read in Psalm 105 verse 37,
00:17:32.18\00:17:35.38
"He brought them out, and
there was none feeble person,
00:17:35.42\00:17:39.49
not one sick
person among His tribes."
00:17:39.52\00:17:42.52
Tells us they had about
600,000 men in the army.
00:17:42.56\00:17:45.36
So if you got
600,000 fighting men
00:17:45.39\00:17:48.36
and then you figure
that there's some younger men
00:17:48.40\00:17:50.00
and older men and you got
the women and you got the kids,
00:17:50.03\00:17:52.20
you've got at
least two million people.
00:17:52.23\00:17:54.84
Can you imagine two million
people and not one clinic,
00:17:54.87\00:17:57.94
and the doctors just
sitting there all day,
00:17:57.97\00:17:59.34
tapping his foot
with nothing to do?
00:17:59.37\00:18:01.64
Wouldn't that be
wonderful? - Amen.
00:18:01.68\00:18:03.75
- Well, they spent 40
years following God's plan,
00:18:03.78\00:18:06.68
drinking the water from the rock
00:18:06.72\00:18:08.15
and eating the
bread from heaven,
00:18:08.18\00:18:09.88
and He did give them occasional
quail that would come in.
00:18:09.92\00:18:13.22
But following the
diet of God, they ended up,
00:18:13.25\00:18:16.62
they were getting exercise.
00:18:16.66\00:18:18.79
There's a world famous
Institute, their friends
00:18:18.83\00:18:21.40
of ours, just up the
hill, called Weimar Institute.
00:18:21.43\00:18:23.53
Have some of you
heard of Weimar Institute?
00:18:23.57\00:18:25.13
And they're famous for
an acronym called NEWSTART,
00:18:25.17\00:18:28.87
And each letter in
that acronym, NEWSTART,
00:18:28.90\00:18:31.44
represents one of the
biblical principles for health,
00:18:31.47\00:18:34.91
things like
nutrition and exercise
00:18:34.94\00:18:38.11
and water and sunlight,
ST, and temperance, A, air,
00:18:38.15\00:18:43.15
R, rest, T,
trust in divine power.
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Had to talk it out to myself
to remember what they were.
00:18:47.82\00:18:51.13
But you follow those things,
fresh air, exercise, sunlight,
00:18:51.16\00:18:55.26
water, trust in divine power,
00:18:55.30\00:18:58.03
and you know what?
00:18:58.07\00:18:59.37
You follow that program.
00:18:59.40\00:19:00.77
People come from around the
world to go to that institute
00:19:00.80\00:19:02.24
to recover their health by
following those principles,
00:19:02.27\00:19:05.31
and they're in the Bible.
00:19:05.34\00:19:07.04
It's Bible teachings.
00:19:07.08\00:19:09.18
When they came out,
00:19:09.21\00:19:10.68
there was not one feeble
person among their tribes.
00:19:10.71\00:19:13.18
Why is our health
so important to God?
00:19:13.21\00:19:15.85
We heard this come
up in our questions
00:19:15.88\00:19:17.65
with the people on the street.
00:19:17.69\00:19:19.75
It says in the Bible, I
Corinthians 6:19 and 20,
00:19:19.79\00:19:23.56
"Your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit.
00:19:23.59\00:19:27.46
Therefore,
glorify God in your body."
00:19:28.70\00:19:32.27
Now how many of
you are hoping that God
00:19:32.30\00:19:34.17
is going to give you a
new body when Jesus comes?
00:19:34.20\00:19:36.10
Anybody?
00:19:36.14\00:19:37.44
You don't care so
much when you're young,
00:19:37.47\00:19:39.34
but you get to be my
age, you start thinking,
00:19:39.37\00:19:40.68
"That sounds
pretty attractive to me.
00:19:40.71\00:19:42.58
I'd like to trade this in
on a newer model." Anyone else?
00:19:42.61\00:19:45.45
- Yeah. - Yes.
00:19:45.48\00:19:46.78
- All right, suppose
that you're my friend,
00:19:46.82\00:19:48.22
and you're going to
take a vacation in Mexico,
00:19:48.25\00:19:50.49
and you say, "Pastor Doug,
can I borrow your pickup truck?"
00:19:50.52\00:19:53.36
The pickup truck's
only a few years old,
00:19:53.39\00:19:54.82
and I say, "All right,
yeah," and you take the truck.
00:19:54.86\00:19:58.13
You're gone for three weeks.
00:19:58.16\00:19:59.63
You don't tell me you're
going to race the Baja 100.
00:19:59.66\00:20:01.86
And you come limping
back after a few weeks,
00:20:03.33\00:20:06.63
and I can hear you coming.
00:20:06.67\00:20:08.07
There's this
terrible knocking noise
00:20:08.10\00:20:09.54
that's coming from
what used to be my engine,
00:20:09.57\00:20:11.91
and as you drive up, one
of the doors is falling off.
00:20:11.94\00:20:14.41
Windshield's broken.
Headlight's hanging out.
00:20:14.44\00:20:17.08
Smoke's coming out
from under the hood.
00:20:17.11\00:20:18.95
You're making a
terrible squealing noise
00:20:18.98\00:20:21.08
because the tires are worn off
00:20:21.12\00:20:22.82
and you're driving on the rims.
00:20:22.85\00:20:24.22
You ever seen that before?
00:20:24.25\00:20:25.55
Sparks are
flying out everywhere,
00:20:25.59\00:20:27.59
and you come out
and you jump out,
00:20:29.12\00:20:30.99
and you hand me the keys
say, "Thanks so much, Doug.
00:20:31.03\00:20:32.86
I really appreciate
it. Had a great trip.
00:20:32.89\00:20:35.73
Can I borrow it
again in a month?"
00:20:35.76\00:20:37.63
Am I going to lend you my truck?
00:20:38.80\00:20:40.34
I can't afford to fix it anyway.
00:20:41.54\00:20:43.10
You are not your own.
You are bought with a price.
00:20:45.51\00:20:49.51
Christ owns you
'cause He is your Creator.
00:20:49.54\00:20:51.58
He owns you
because He's your Redeemer,
00:20:51.61\00:20:54.28
and we will give
an account to God
00:20:54.32\00:20:55.82
for what we do with the
bodies that He's given us.
00:20:55.85\00:20:58.42
If we're saying, "Lord, we
want You to give us a new body,"
00:20:58.45\00:21:01.32
and we're not caring
for the one that we've got,
00:21:01.36\00:21:04.39
well, why would you
think that He'd trust you
00:21:04.43\00:21:06.63
with a glorified eternal body?
00:21:06.66\00:21:08.86
Now some of you
didn't know these things,
00:21:08.90\00:21:10.53
and you're already
suffering the results
00:21:10.57\00:21:12.10
of bad life choice decisions.
00:21:12.13\00:21:14.37
God will forgive
you, but you want to start
00:21:14.40\00:21:16.67
where you're at now and
start taking care of your body.
00:21:16.71\00:21:20.48
Amen?
00:21:20.51\00:21:21.88
This is something you
don't hear Christians talk
00:21:21.91\00:21:23.21
about very often,
but it's in the Bible.
00:21:23.24\00:21:25.05
I'm going to show you
some more verses here.
00:21:25.08\00:21:27.18
Look at Romans
chapter 12, verse 1.
00:21:27.22\00:21:29.52
"Present your body
as a living sacrifice."
00:21:29.55\00:21:32.45
He doesn't want a dead one.
00:21:32.49\00:21:33.86
He wants a living
healthy sacrifice. "Holy."
00:21:33.89\00:21:36.19
Your body's a
temple of the Holy Spirit,
00:21:36.22\00:21:38.46
which is your
reasonable service.
00:21:38.49\00:21:40.03
It's reasonable for
you to do that and say,
00:21:40.06\00:21:41.56
"Lord, take my body.
00:21:41.60\00:21:43.73
Take my health."
00:21:43.77\00:21:45.23
Now, why do you want to
take care of your health?
00:21:45.27\00:21:48.40
Not just for you.
What's the great commandment?
00:21:48.44\00:21:51.07
Love the Lord
with all your heart.
00:21:52.74\00:21:54.58
Love your neighbor as yourself.
00:21:54.61\00:21:56.68
I want to take care of my body
00:21:57.88\00:21:59.18
'cause I love God
and I want to serve God.
00:21:59.21\00:22:01.28
I can serve Him
better if I'm in good health.
00:22:02.42\00:22:04.29
Does that make sense?
00:22:04.32\00:22:06.02
I want to take care of my body
00:22:06.05\00:22:07.52
'cause I love my neighbor and
I want to serve my fellow man.
00:22:07.56\00:22:10.43
I can serve my fellow man
better if I'm in good health.
00:22:10.46\00:22:13.86
We're doing these
programs and plus,
00:22:13.90\00:22:15.50
I've got my
other work that I do,
00:22:15.53\00:22:17.00
and it's rather demanding,
and I just know that every day,
00:22:17.03\00:22:20.17
I've gotta get some exercise.
00:22:20.20\00:22:21.50
I've gotta make sure I get rest.
00:22:21.54\00:22:23.00
I eat very carefully.
I've just eaten twice today.
00:22:23.04\00:22:26.04
If you eat too much,
you get food coma just
00:22:26.07\00:22:28.44
before you preach
and that doesn't work.
00:22:28.48\00:22:30.91
And so out of love for
you, out of love for God,
00:22:30.95\00:22:35.35
I try to take care of myself.
00:22:35.38\00:22:36.72
Isn't that the reason
to do it, first of all?
00:22:36.75\00:22:38.45
It's 'cause of love.
00:22:38.49\00:22:39.92
Are the Bible health principles
still practical today?
00:22:39.95\00:22:43.16
Answers, I'm going
to go through just some
00:22:43.19\00:22:44.63
of these very
quickly, and by the way,
00:22:44.66\00:22:47.13
these answers that
you're going to see,
00:22:47.13\00:22:48.93
this lesson was
written before the pandemic.
00:22:50.10\00:22:52.93
(laughs) I just
want you to know that.
00:22:52.97\00:22:54.57
This is not some
kind of statement
00:22:54.60\00:22:56.57
on what's
happening in the world today.
00:22:56.60\00:22:59.01
A, quarantine procedures
control contagious disease.
00:22:59.04\00:23:02.84
Church leaders in Europe
during the bubonic plague
00:23:02.88\00:23:05.05
finally turned to
the Bible and figured out
00:23:05.08\00:23:07.25
how to prevent the
bubonic plague from spreading.
00:23:07.28\00:23:10.02
Talks about isolation.
00:23:10.05\00:23:11.35
You read about that
in the laws of Moses.
00:23:11.39\00:23:13.89
Answer B, human
waste should be buried.
00:23:13.92\00:23:16.83
Basic sanitation.
00:23:17.73\00:23:19.09
You'd think
people would know that,
00:23:19.13\00:23:20.56
but I've been in a lot
of countries of the world
00:23:20.60\00:23:22.30
where they don't know it,
and they just have typhoid
00:23:22.33\00:23:25.10
and cholera and
all kinds of disease
00:23:25.13\00:23:27.24
'cause they're not
practicing biblical sanitation.
00:23:27.27\00:23:29.97
It says this back
in the Bible times.
00:23:30.01\00:23:32.51
Washing the body and
clothing controls germs.
00:23:32.54\00:23:36.44
God talked about the
importance of washing,
00:23:36.48\00:23:38.55
regularly washing your
body and your clothing.
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And I hope you'll write
down questions on this lesson.
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D, living morally helps
prevent sexual diseases.
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I think all of us know that
that's practical good sense.
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Answer E, animal
fat should not be eaten.
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Not only that, the
Bible says animal fat
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and blood should not be eaten.
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Disease can be transferred
from animal to animal.
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In fact, they're
still speculating
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that they're not exactly
sure what the animal was,
00:24:06.88\00:24:09.01
but they're pretty sure
that this pandemic originated
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in China and it had to
do with either a pangolin
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or a bat or some animal.
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Many of the flus, the
swine flu, the bird flu,
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it's because of people
getting disease from animals.
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You've never heard of
someone spreading a virus
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'cause they got
it from blueberries.
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You don't get a
virus from bananas.
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Another good,
simple rule for health.
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Anything you get addicted to
is probably not good for you.
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I've never seen a
person start shaking,
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and you say,
"What's the problem?"
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And they say, "I haven't
had Brussels sprouts all day."
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It just always
happens with the things
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that aren't good for you.
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Hatred and bitterness is
detrimental to one's health.
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So it's not just what you eat.
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Some people are unhealthy
because of what's eating them.
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God talks about
forgiveness, doesn't He?
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That's a health
practice in the Bible.
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Say amen. - Amen.
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- Overeating is harmful.
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We're living in a world in a
culture where more people now
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are dying from eating
too much than starvation.
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Isn't that shocking?
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We're eating in a time
in the world where our kids
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are more likely
to have shorter lives
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than us because
of their lifestyles.
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Childhood diabetes is
an epidemic right now,
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and overeating,
soda pop is liquid candy,
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and kids are always
walking around nursing sodas,
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and it's just a
really big problem.
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It's bankrupting our
country, too, the health issues.
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Answer H, our
bodies need proper rest.
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I, the importance of work.
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Not only does the Bible
say that you should be resting,
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but it says six
days, you should work,
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and when you work,
it gives you exercise.
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Wasn't work part of
God's original plan for Adam?
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In a world today
where some people,
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the only exercise they
get is putting batteries
00:25:53.65\00:25:55.65
in the mouse or
the remote control,
00:25:55.68\00:25:57.45
we don't get the
exercise we used to get,
00:25:58.52\00:26:00.26
and so we need to get out.
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If you're in a
sedentary job, get out.
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Use your muscles. Exercise.
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You've gotta make it
be disciplined about that
00:26:05.29\00:26:07.96
if you want your
body to function well.
00:26:07.96\00:26:09.90
A positive
attitude is good medicine.
00:26:11.07\00:26:13.54
That sometimes just
takes mental training.
00:26:13.57\00:26:15.54
Do not keep falling
into the trap about thinking
00:26:15.57\00:26:18.07
about the regrets and bitter
things and negative things.
00:26:18.11\00:26:21.44
Train yourself to be
grateful for your blessings.
00:26:21.48\00:26:24.21
It is better for your health,
00:26:24.25\00:26:26.31
and it's healthy to
laugh, releases endorphins.
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The other thing is
being a good influence.
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Parents' habits
affect the children.
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So a lot of people are unhealthy
00:26:36.83\00:26:38.59
because they adopted lifestyle
habits from their families.
00:26:38.63\00:26:42.26
They've not gotten the
victory over those things,
00:26:42.30\00:26:44.30
and so be careful that you
make those changes in your life,
00:26:44.33\00:26:47.77
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