What does eating have to do
with our spiritual life anyways?
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And what does our diet
have to do with our salvation?
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And can standing for good health
principles actually make a
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difference in our
ability to share the Gospel?
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In today's story, we are
shown by a group of teens
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just how big a
difference our health can make
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not only for our personal health
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but also for a witness to
those around us of God's desire
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for us to be a special
people. Come on in and join us.
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Welcome to another
edition of Bible Alive.
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My name is Dwight Hall
and I like to introduce you,
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a friend of mine,
Pastor Mark Howard, my co host.
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Pastor, it's good
to have you here today.
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- Yeah, it's good to
be here as always, Dwight.
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And we have an
exciting story to look at today
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in the Book of Daniel, don't we?
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- Absolutely, it's gonna
be, it is exciting and we'll
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get into it. Dane? - Yes sir!
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How are you doing today?
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- Wonderful, if I was any
better, I would be illegal.
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- I thought you
were going to say
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if it's gonna be
better you would be me.
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That's what I..
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I know I'm not
that well but that's ok.
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I'm working on it.
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- It's good to have you
here. - It's good to be here.
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- And again, Dane you are from..
You have a ministry called
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Lifestyle Matters. - Yes!
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And you teach and
preach all over the world about
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Lifestyle Matters, which is?
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- How to use biblical
principles of living to have
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a better life. cuz Jesus said,
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"I have come that they might
have life lived abundantly"
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so we've got to have clues
in the Bible how to get it.
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- So this ought to be
kind of a favorite subject
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Daniel one today?
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- I'm looking for
it, man. Got to be good.
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- And I will just go back
to you just a minute, Pastor.
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You don't only
pastor a church but you have
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a Ministry where young
people or anybody or...
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- Actually, we have a
training school, an institute,
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Emmanuel Institute of Evangelism
where we actually train people
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to be effective soul
winners. Teach them how to
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share their faith.
Teach them how to be
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more grounded in and
understanding the Bible,
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reading the Bible especially
Bible prophecies but not limited
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to Bible prophecies.
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Just really understanding their
faith and being comfortable
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with sharing their
faith with others and
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leading people to Christ.
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- And if anybody wants to
know more about that then,
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WWW.EMMANUELINSTITUTE.ORG
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.ORG
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And that's E-M-M-A-N-U-E-L.
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- Good, well, I'm sure
they'll put that on the screen.
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- That's right. - Okay.
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And Dane, I got to come back to
you one more time then they can
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get to see more
about what you do on.
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- They can go to
LIFESTYLEMATTERS.COM.
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- Okay. LIFESTYLEMATTERS.COM
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- Yup. - Okay.
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Now that we got
that all taken cared of.
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Let's have a word prayer.
Before you open the Bible,
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you always want to have a prayer
before you open God's Words.
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so let's bow. Father in Heaven.
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Oh, what a blessed day it
is. I'm so anxious about this
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message that we're going to
be learning in Daniel chapter 1.
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And Father I just pray now
that each one that is viewing
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that you will touch their
hearts right now, this moment.
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Not just touch it,
Father, but their hearts will be
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will be surrendered and
open. That you might give them
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understanding that
they might walk away saying,
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What must I do to be saved?
Father I pray that you push
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those evil angels away and that
this will make sense that the
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Bible truly will come alive.
Father I thank you for answering
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this prayer because I pray in
the name of Jesus and in faith.
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Amen, Okay.
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Now, if you haven't got your
Bibles you need to get them.
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I'm going to get in on
the screen here and type in
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Daniel so that we can get it
on the screen and you need to
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open it up. Not
Daniel 2 but Daniel 1.
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Okay. So now that we're there.
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I think we'll
start out with you Dane
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because since this
kind of Lifestyle Matters.
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What is this, what is
Daniel 1 really all about?
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- Well, it maybe shocking
to some people when you look,
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we have two major
prophetic books in the Bible.
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Daniel in the Old Testament,
Revelation in the New Testament.
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It always.. It seems
strange to some people that God
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would put Daniel 1, as
Daniel 1 and not Daniel 12.
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It's just about diet.
It's just about appetite.
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Why did God made Daniel 1,
Daniel 1 and not Daniel 12.
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Here's an after thought.
Dwight, I think that God put
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it here cuz He wants
to tell us something.
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He's trying to tell
us, "I will honor those
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who honor me. " When
you show me that even
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the little
things I ask you to do,
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seemingly little things
are important enough to risk
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your life for. 'Coz
Daniel didn't know they'd
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been killed by.
Nebuchadnezzar was not an
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equal opportunity employer.
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That's exactly right.
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- I mean he was not an
easy guy to work with for.
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He had a violent temper as
we saw in Daniel chapter 3.
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But God says if you stand
for me in the little things,
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I'll honor you with big things.
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I've had people come
up to me, cause I teach
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prophesy seminars
all around the world.
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And other people say, Dane
I can't understand prophesy.
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Sometimes, not always,
sometimes the Lord will just
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impress me to ask them,
What's your lifestyle like?
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Are you exercising? Are
you eating the right things?
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Are you getting
proper sleep? And they say,
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No that's not important.
I know where the problem is.
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Because our brain
responds to what we feed it.
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How we treat it.
Exercise, proper rest,
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proper nutrition.
It affects the brain
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and how we
think. And in order to
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understand prophesy you
got to have a sharp brain.
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That's why God made
Daniel one when he put it.
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- In a sharp brain but we
need to have the Spirit of God
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which means that we have
to be open to those things.
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If we're tired with not enough
sleep, with not enough water,
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or sunlight. All those,
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those natural things
that God has given us for help
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then how are you
gonna understand?
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- And you know, I heard
people say, Well, that's works.
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You're talking
works. I've taken right the
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1st Corinthians Chapter
9. The greatest preacher
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of righteousness by
faith, Paul. Next to Jesus.
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The greatest preacher
of righteous by faith.
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Says in 1st
Corinthians 9 he says,
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"I keep my body under
and bring into subjections,"
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"less after I've preached to
others I myself should become"
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"a castaway. "
What Paul saying is,
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I'm not doing this to be
saved. That's a free gift.
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I'm doing it so I
don't lose salvation.
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Because I need to keep
my mind in tune with God.
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I even do what
God tells me to do.
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And I want to keep
my body in subjection
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to the higher powers
of Logic and thinking.
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So that I can hear God's
voice and when we eat wrong
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and live wrong
our brain responds.
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- Wrong! - Wrong.
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- The same what Apostle
says in 1st Corinthians 10:31
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"whatever you eat or
drink or whatever you do,"
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"do all to the glory of God. "
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That's right.
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- Which means we can eat
and drink to the glory of God
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and we can also eat and
drink not to the glory of God.
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- I think it's Philippians
that says. " Who's God is their
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"belly whose end is destruction"
Because so often food can
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become, you know, my wife
and I have a fitness center
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for 13 years or whatever.
And if people are discouraged
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they tend to eat. If
they've lost a loved one
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they tend to eat. I mean,
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there's a lot of a
reason for people eating.
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It's kind of a, it's a way
out. And the thing of it is,
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if we're not eating
to the Glory of God,
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it's going to get best of us.
I mean, we have a nation today,
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United States, that is obese.
And there's a reason for that.
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Satan wants the minds of
individuals because it's the
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character that
gets to get in heaven.
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These old bodies and
that's the excuse I've heard.
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Well, we're not
gonna take these old bodies
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to heaven so
therefore it really doesn't
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matter what we eat. But
it matters about everything.
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It's not about this old
body. It's about this brain.
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It's about the
character development and so
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that's what we're
going to talk about.
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- One thing I want to
say right off the bat here.
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I don't want anybody,
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and know none of use
do, anybody watching today
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who may have this struggle with
diet to be discouraged today.
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Ohhh... Absolutely.
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- Because God loves you
and God has a plan to free you
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from the addiction.
Food is an addiction.
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It operates the same
way in the brain as cocaine,
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alcohol, tobacco.
It triggers addiction
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pathways in the brain
and we have people say,
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I've struggled all my
life trying to get this up
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and I can't.
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It's because it's an
addictive process but God
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has a way of escape and that's
what we're gonna look at today.
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That's right.
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- Well, let's look at the
story here Daniel chapter 1.
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Just a little bit of background.
Daniel has been taken captive
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as a young man in Babylon
somewhere between 16 and 18
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years of age, of course,
Jeremiah had foretold this
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captivity for years
and the captivity has come.
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Daniel and a number of other
Hebrews, several thousands,
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are brought in to
Babylon as captives.
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Nebuchadnezzar,
the king of Babylon,
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spots out some of
these promising young men to
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of the Hebrews that he could
train to use in his kingdom.
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And Daniel is one of
those and he has three friends,
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Hananiah, Mishael and
Azariah that are also brought in
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together with him. And
as these men come in to
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Nebuchadnezzar's court,
the Bible says in verse 5
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Now we need to understand
that this was not an insult.
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Right.
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- This was a high privilege
to eat at the king's table,
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to eat of the king's delicacies.
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This is not
servant's quarters here.
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The king is
training these young men.
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This is he's mindset and
so he's appointed for them
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these privileges. Verse 6 is,
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Which means there
were others. - Right!
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But verse 8 it says,
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- Now I have a
question. Right there.
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I think this is, at
least, my first question.
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We know that
appetite is important.
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I mean, honestly,
with Adam and Eve,
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look at the first
sin. It was with appetite.
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Look at Jesus, His first, He had
three main issues, temptations.
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The first one
was what? - Appetite.
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- It was appetite.
Make these stones into
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loaves of bread.
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You have the children of
Israel coming out of Egypt which
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represents sin.
Going to the land of
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Canaan which represents
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the heavenly kingdom and
they have this sanctification
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process, this 40 years, and God
gave them the best food that you
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can give me. He
gave them manna and so..
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And it just goes..
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We can go on and on and
on. Look at Samson, he was...
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There was instruction to his
parents to give him certain food
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not let him drink
wine and certain things.
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I mean, it's just all
through the Bible here.
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So my question is, was it only,
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Was this food, I
mean, obviously we knew that
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the Jews back then they had,
in numbers, I think chapter 11.
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There is a dietary
message there about, of clean
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and unclean food but it
just says the delicacies.
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I'm not sure everyone of those
in those delicacies were bad
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food but it says that he
ate pulse, which is what?
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Vegetables.
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- Vegetables and he didn't have
the wine and there was probably
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a number of good things that
wasn't maybe considered bad but
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they had a special
calling. Obviously,
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we'll see this later on.
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- I think one of the things
that Daniel was referring to is,
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if you look in Proverbs
chapter 23 verse 1, it says,
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Then verse 3 says,
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Now, Daniel knew this passage.
He's parents have raised him
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in the scriptures, but Daniel
also knew that certain amount
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food was
offered to idols. - Yes.
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- And knew that he
couldn't abide that either.
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But it wasn't.. that
wasn't the whole issue.
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Daniel realized, Dwight,
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that he was surrounded
by seductive influences.
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Babylon was the wealthiest
nation on the face of the Earth.
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The most powerful nation
on the face of the Earth.
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He knew that he was
gonna be hit with temptations
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like he had before.
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And he said, God I
need to keep my brain
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so clear that I
can hear Your voice.
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So he realized simple diet.
I need to keep my diet simple
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because there's a nerve
that, we call the Vegas nerve,
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runs from the stomach to the
brain and the condition of the
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stomach affects and
the condition of the brain,
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physiologically, and if we dump,
if we dump too much food into
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the stomach or the wrong
types of food into the stomach,
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it affects how we think. It
affects the addiction pathway
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in the brain if we continue
on one specific type of diet
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over a period of
time. We know these
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things, scientifically.
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- In other words,
they didn't know back then.
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They just trusted
God. He said don't do it,
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they didn't do it
because they love God.
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Today, there are
scientific evidence
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that is saying this,
actually, this stuff is true.
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- That's right! You and
I are both pilots. - Yes!
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- Okay, we know that when you
get into a high performance sync
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of twin, I use to fly a Cessna
310, and they said that you
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use a hundred low lead
gas in that airplane, why?
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Because the owner's manual says
that those engines are designed
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to run a hundred low lead.
What if I said, gas is gas.
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It cost a hundred low
lead that's $3.50 a gallon.
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I'll put in
regular gas. Gas is gas.
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What's gonna happen
when I get up in my airplane?
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The engines gonna
stop. You know the propellers
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on the front of the plane?
Keeps the pilot from sweating.
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Those babies start turning,
we start sweating every time.
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But you know you
can't say gas is gas.
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You can't say food is
food. God designed our bodies
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a certain way. And He knows what
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they need for
optimal performance.
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And science is
starting to bear this out.
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- And I want to back up just a
little bit too with the viewers.
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You know, we
talked about Lot before.
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In other episodes, we've
talked about other people.
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The parents do not, they have a
tremendous influence, you know.
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If you take Lot, his
influence with his family
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was not good and
basically lost his family.
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Daniel's, we aren't told
much about anything really about
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Daniel's parents but Daniel
just didn't, automatically,
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he was not just persuaded,
neither were the three worthies.
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He had to have strong parental
influence so when they were...
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He's parents could have been
killed for all we knew at the
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siege but Daniel
was what? 17 or 18?
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He was just a young man.
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- And another important
thing we're seeing here, Dwight,
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is the importance of
banding together like believers.
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We don't know if Daniel and
these three boys were friends
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in Jerusalem. But
somehow they formed a
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friendship in Babylon that
they hadn't been friends before.
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Because they are smart,
young people, they said,
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It's easier... The Bible says,
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One person alone will
fall easily but a threefold
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chord's not easily broken.
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So if we're alone in our
belief, if we're alone in
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our convictions,
we need to search out
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somebody else who believes
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because there's power there.
They could stand together so
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don't try to fight the
battle of faith on your own.
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Yes, Jesus is always with us,
the Holy spirit is always there.
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But even Jesus sent out
the disciples, two by two,
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not one by one.
So find someone who..
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This is where the Bible says,
"Forsake not the assembling
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of yourself together. " Why?
00:15:20.12\00:15:22.03
There's strength
in numbers because
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we help each other.
We encourage each other.
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That's what Daniel
and the buddies did.
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- All these and we're
still on verse 7, right.
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- So the story goes on
that Daniel and his friends ask
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for a special diet.
They're not gonna eat the king's
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delicacies and of
course Daniel brought this out.
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We might want to
highlight it a little bit.
00:15:43.28\00:15:45.23
Even in the New Testament,
Mathew 19, some people came
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and asked Jesus about
divorce and how God has given
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allowance for divorce, and
we talked about the clean and
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the unclean meats in the
Bible talks about that not, and
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some people think
it came with Israel.
00:15:57.55\00:15:58.98
But gave directions of
clean and unclean way back
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at the time of the building
of the Ark and then taking
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the animals on there, but it
was an allowance that God made.
00:16:04.84\00:16:08.76
If you go all the way back to
Genesis and I was going to say
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Mathew 19, they were
asking about divorce Jesus said,
00:16:11.15\00:16:14.16
you know God gave you..
permitted divorce because the
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hardness of your hearts.
He says something interesting.
00:16:16.66\00:16:18.62
He says from the
beginning it was not so.
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And His point was
there are allowances
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God has made but God wants us
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to strive for the ideal, not
for His sake but for our sake.
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Daniel seemed
to understand that.
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And like Dane said, he knew
he was in an idolatress nation.
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He knew he was in a
place where he was going to be
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severely tempted and tested.
And so he strove for the ideal
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and he went, he and his friends.
They asked for an special diet,
00:16:40.43\00:16:43.32
a vegetarian diet, which
is interesting because he's..
00:16:43.35\00:16:46.32
going back to Eden that's
how God gave the original diet
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for men, the fuel he intended
for these aircrafts, so to speak
00:16:49.44\00:16:52.64
- And this could be the
fuel in heaven, by the way,
00:16:52.67\00:16:55.40
the tree of life.
00:16:55.43\00:16:56.40
- That's right. You
know, the Bible makes it
00:16:56.41\00:16:57.92
very clear nothing's
going to die in heaven and so..
00:16:57.95\00:16:59.85
Maybe Daniel is trying
his taste buds for heaven.
00:16:59.88\00:17:02.00
- Well, Jesus was trying
to get the children of Israel
00:17:02.03\00:17:05.80
to get in the right
diet before they got into the
00:17:05.83\00:17:07.61
land of Canaan. I
mean to give them,
00:17:07.64\00:17:09.98
so I mean all
through it. I mean,
00:17:10.01\00:17:10.98
He is giving us the diet, why?
For our benefit but not for His.
00:17:10.99\00:17:14.39
- So Daniel takes this ideal
and he goes to the chief of
00:17:14.42\00:17:17.88
the Eunuchs and of
course the chief of the Eunuchs
00:17:17.91\00:17:19.55
responds like so many people
today may respond to this.
00:17:19.58\00:17:22.73
They say, Well, Daniel how are
you going about your protein.
00:17:22.76\00:17:24.85
Daniel, how are
you going about your...
00:17:24.88\00:17:25.85
- You're gonna
shrivel up and blow away.
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- Yeah, you're gonna be..
And so there was a concern
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here and you have to understand.
First of all, Daniel asking for
00:17:30.80\00:17:34.53
this diet was risking his
life. Again, the king gave
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him a privilege,
sitting at his tables.
00:17:39.06\00:17:42.03
So for Daniel to even
come across that he might not
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appreciative of that
could have cost him his life
00:17:44.44\00:17:47.34
and Daniel knew that. You know,
00:17:47.37\00:17:49.12
Sometimes people would go when,
00:17:49.15\00:17:51.10
we talked about
the idea, I've shared.
00:17:51.13\00:17:52.86
Dane you've shared this.
00:17:52.89\00:17:53.86
I think we've all shared this
with people before about God's
00:17:53.87\00:17:56.37
ideal diet for men and
I've had people go to Romans
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Chapter 14 and it
says, There's a man who's
00:18:00.19\00:18:02.72
weak in faith. Who
eats only vegetables.
00:18:02.75\00:18:05.11
And I say that's for a weak
faith and for people who are
00:18:05.14\00:18:07.63
weak in faith. Well, you know,
00:18:07.66\00:18:08.97
you' go to Daniel and
Daniel was not weak in faith.
00:18:09.00\00:18:12.77
Daniel was strong in faith
so obviously Romans 14 is not
00:18:12.80\00:18:16.02
drawing a parallel
to somebody like Daniel.
00:18:16.05\00:18:19.15
Daniel strength in faith led him
to ask for a special diet that
00:18:19.18\00:18:24.58
even the one who has put
over Daniel and the other
00:18:24.61\00:18:31.45
Eunuchs was concerned. Not
only that Daniel would lose
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his life but he
had lose his own life.
00:18:34.59\00:18:36.47
He said, If I feed you this,
00:18:36.50\00:18:37.47
you're gonna be sick
and weakly and Daniel said,
00:18:37.62\00:18:41.43
Listen, test us for ten
days. Try us for ten days.
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Yeah, incredible.
Which is what happens
00:18:45.69\00:18:47.72
so he gave them, granted him his
00:18:47.75\00:18:48.95
ten days and at the
end of those ten days.
00:18:48.98\00:18:50.89
Daniel and his friends
were tested and they were,
00:18:50.92\00:18:53.17
the Bible says they were
00:18:53.20\00:18:54.22
And after three years,
00:18:58.58\00:19:00.44
They were ten times wiser.
00:19:00.47\00:19:01.52
The Bible says they
were ten times wiser
00:19:01.55\00:19:03.22
than all of the others.
00:19:03.25\00:19:04.28
- You know, it's
interesting Pastor on that,
00:19:04.31\00:19:05.63
there's a medical
researcher, Dr. Dean Ornish
00:19:05.66\00:19:08.05
at the University of
California in San Francisco.
00:19:08.08\00:19:10.13
He's a cardiologist. He
thinks, you know, it's weird
00:19:10.16\00:19:13.13
to cut people open and
try to fix their heart.
00:19:13.16\00:19:14.77
Maybe we can fix
them with diet lifestyle.
00:19:14.80\00:19:17.32
He took these people who had
major coronary artery blockage.
00:19:17.35\00:19:20.44
They were candidates
for open heart surgery.
00:19:20.47\00:19:22.49
Guess what he did?
Put them on a vegan diet,
00:19:22.52\00:19:25.35
plant based diet.
00:19:25.38\00:19:27.16
Exercise and stress control.
These are people who couldn't
00:19:27.19\00:19:30.47
walk a short distance without
major, without them starting
00:19:30.50\00:19:34.29
feeling chest pain.
Guess how, just take a wild
00:19:34.32\00:19:37.26
guess how long it took
them to start feeling better.
00:19:37.29\00:19:39.14
- 10 days? - 14 days.
00:19:39.17\00:19:40.72
14 days and this is
written up in medical journals.
00:19:40.75\00:19:44.50
- So from being that
bad in health just 14 days.
00:19:44.53\00:19:48.24
And so Daniel
somehow at a young age
00:19:48.27\00:19:54.61
understood this
principle that he's
00:19:54.64\00:19:57.26
gonna be in the city of Babylon
where not like where he was.
00:19:57.29\00:20:00.97
He's going to have to stand up.
00:20:01.00\00:20:02.92
He doesn't have
his folks anymore.
00:20:02.95\00:20:04.45
He knew he needed special
attention, sort to speak.
00:20:04.48\00:20:10.19
And he understood that and
I think sometimes we forget
00:20:10.22\00:20:13.25
that to be a whole
being. It's body, mind and soul.
00:20:13.28\00:20:17.46
Physical, mental, spiritual.
We can't let the physical part
00:20:17.49\00:20:21.66
out, because we are will
be the life of the flesh,
00:20:21.69\00:20:24.92
the Bible says is
where? in the blood.
00:20:24.95\00:20:26.69
I mean, you can go all through
this and it isn't because again,
00:20:26.72\00:20:29.57
you're not being a
legalist. I mean, some people
00:20:29.60\00:20:31.59
certainly could be.
You can be a legalist on
00:20:31.62\00:20:34.11
anything if you want. -
Paul was not a legalist.
00:20:34.14\00:20:36.37
- Yeah! In 1st Corinthians
9 he says, I watch what I eat.
00:20:36.41\00:20:38.91
I watch what I do.
Do you know what I find
00:20:38.94\00:20:40.98
interesting about this story?
00:20:41.01\00:20:43.44
Many times, as
Christian parents,
00:20:43.48\00:20:44.87
we put a lot of
emphasis on Christian education
00:20:44.91\00:20:46.95
and we should. It's very,
00:20:46.98\00:20:48.29
I'm not downing
Christian education like all
00:20:48.32\00:20:49.93
of our children should
receive a Christian education.
00:20:49.96\00:20:52.22
But we're careless with our diet
Daniel went to a worldly school
00:20:52.25\00:20:57.88
but he was careful of his
diet. Now that's interesting.
00:20:57.91\00:21:02.08
That's another subject.
00:21:02.11\00:21:03.08
- You know, Dane,
you brought up a point.
00:21:03.09\00:21:05.21
- I think it needs to be brought
00:21:05.25\00:21:06.65
up again that at two great
00:21:06.69\00:21:08.26
prophetic books in the
Bible: Daniel and Revelation.
00:21:08.29\00:21:10.39
Here Daniel starts out
with this issue that people
00:21:10.42\00:21:14.09
would think should be...
in chapter 12, if in the book
00:21:14.12\00:21:16.82
at all, God puts it
right there in the beginning.
00:21:16.85\00:21:19.48
And it's interesting that
it was the ones, 'coz there are
00:21:19.51\00:21:22.12
are other Hebrews
there. But it was the ones
00:21:22.15\00:21:24.02
who were faithful in this little
00:21:24.05\00:21:26.67
area of diet that
were the ones who didn't
00:21:26.70\00:21:29.22
bowed down to the
image in Daniel chapter 3.
00:21:29.25\00:21:32.17
And you know the in time
scenario in Revelation talks
00:21:32.20\00:21:34.47
about Babylon, talks
about bowing down to an image,
00:21:34.50\00:21:37.27
talks about giving glory to God.
And we talked about fear God
00:21:37.30\00:21:40.23
and give Him glory.
It says in Revelation 14.
00:21:40.26\00:21:42.19
Paul says we give glory
to God whether we eat, drink,
00:21:42.22\00:21:44.58
whatever we do and I
think there's a tie in there.
00:21:44.61\00:21:47.12
- That's right. I
think it's interesting in
00:21:47.15\00:21:49.38
1 Corinthians 3:16,17,18.
00:21:49.41\00:21:52.98
Paul talks about
this whole issue of
00:21:53.01\00:21:54.79
diet and then he says,
"Let no man deceive himself. "
00:21:54.82\00:21:58.29
He knew that Satan
would try to come in and say,
00:21:58.32\00:22:01.09
It doesn't matter what you eat.
00:22:01.12\00:22:02.68
That's what he
told Eve, isn't it?
00:22:02.71\00:22:04.37
Eve it didn't
matter what you eat.
00:22:04.40\00:22:05.60
- You know really,
when it comes down to it,
00:22:05.63\00:22:09.18
and I was thinking about this
00:22:09.21\00:22:10.18
as you are all
talking, that God could have
00:22:10.20\00:22:13.24
made human beings eat wood, or
maybe not eat anything at all.
00:22:13.27\00:22:17.87
I mean, why could, I
mean, God's so powerful.
00:22:17.90\00:22:20.38
He could have just made us and
we'd never had to eat and you
00:22:20.41\00:22:22.59
have more time
to do other things.
00:22:22.62\00:22:24.01
But God is in the
business of saving us.
00:22:24.04\00:22:27.69
But there's has to be test so
that they'll never be sin again.
00:22:27.72\00:22:30.59
It's all about character
development and He realized,
00:22:30.62\00:22:34.39
and Satan obviously understood
this because what was his
00:22:34.42\00:22:38.20
first temptation? The
temptation of appetite.
00:22:38.23\00:22:41.00
And appetites
might not always be food.
00:22:41.03\00:22:43.55
It can be our
emotions and our tempers.
00:22:43.58\00:22:46.88
There's lots of
appetites in there.
00:22:46.91\00:22:48.54
I mean, if you go to Galatians,
the fruits of the Spirit.
00:22:48.57\00:22:51.62
But the thing of it is,
00:22:51.65\00:22:53.14
is that we need to be
faithful and if we are and
00:22:53.17\00:22:55.68
being in Chapter 1 makes
it vitally important because
00:22:55.71\00:22:58.45
who had anymore dreams
than Daniel did about such an
00:22:58.48\00:23:01.82
important time
about the end of time.
00:23:01.85\00:23:02.87
- Let's see, the take
home message for me in Daniel 1
00:23:02.90\00:23:05.37
is if God says
it, it's important.
00:23:05.40\00:23:08.55
And people might
say, It's not a big deal.
00:23:08.58\00:23:12.51
Don't worry about it. If
God says it, it's important.
00:23:12.54\00:23:15.71
But the good news
is is of God said it,
00:23:15.74\00:23:18.37
who gave you the power to do it.
00:23:18.40\00:23:19.80
- Absolutely.
Well, we're gonna take
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Time is going so fast
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to an entirely new level.
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E.G. White is now included.
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Bible text. As you
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provoking nuggets
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text and offers Spirit-filled
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in an inspiring
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If we stopped right
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prophecies in
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and the 2300 Day Prophecy.
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the 20 included topics
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placed to the side of the text
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to be read. After
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the verse, a
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and the chain is found
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E.G. White. We
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We have gone to great links
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Will you accept the challenge
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Equip yourself today!
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I'm glad that you stayed with us
and we're going to wrap this up
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with a couple of
points here. Pastor Howard.
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- You know, I just think
it's important to note that
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there were other Hebrews
that were there that day.
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They were in
that test situation.
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Daniel didn't even allow himself
to be influenced by his peers
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as much as he allowed
himself to be influenced by the
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Word of God. He
made the Word of God
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paramount in his experience.
And I think that's essential.
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- That's tremendous. Dane.
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- I think what impresses
me most about Daniel story is
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everyone must have
thought this was a small thing
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except Daniel and his three
friends and they were willing
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to take a stand for
God and God stood for them.
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Honored them ten times
wiser than anybody else in
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the kingdom. That's
a good take home story.
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- And so however small you think
something is, you know, God says
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that He laughs at men's
big things because God does
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not see as man sees.
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Never think that
the little things,
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he got his faith from what?
That which is least is faith
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on that which is much.
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Don't ever let the
little things out of your life.
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Give it to the Lord.
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And until next
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better way of life
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