Hello and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Ministries.
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I'm Chris Shelton, your host,
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and I want to thank
you for joining us today.
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Today we're going to be
covering lesson number 10
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in this study
guide that was prepared
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by Brother Richard Bland
of United Prison Ministries.
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The study guide is entitled,
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"Sharing God's Love,
What the Bible Says."
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We are working
with Brother Richard
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to prepare one
hour lesson studies
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that correspond with each lesson
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in this study guide.
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In the back of the study guide,
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there are several
wonderful Bible story references
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that perhaps you've heard about
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and you weren't really
certain where to find them.
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This is a really
quick reference guide
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for all of those wonderful
character building stories
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that we find in God's Word.
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And with every
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in this series, we will send you
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one of these free
Bible study guide.
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Now let's talk
about today's study.
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It is entitled,
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"Can Take Control
and Quit Smoking."
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That's Take
Control and Quit Smoking.
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You know, for
many of us to smoke
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when we were younger
was a rite of passage,
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meaning that you
are now a cool adult
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if you smoked, and
you may still be a smoker
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and you may be wondering,
what's wrong with smoking.
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Smoking makes me feel good,
that's what I've heard, anyway,
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but, well, for one
thing we definitely know
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that there's
scientific evidence now
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that it shows just
how detrimental smoking
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truly is to the body.
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And many of us have
seen or experienced persons
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who have battled
with some type of cancer
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do in particular to smoking.
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So with that in mind,
please allow me to share
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from 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
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So that we may see
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just what God
thinks of our bodies
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and what He says our
bodies really are to Him?
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It reads, "What?
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Know ye not that your body
is the temple the Holy Ghost
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which is in you,
which ye have God,
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and ye are not your own?
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For ye are bought with a price:
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therefore
glorify God in your body,
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and in your
spirit, which are God's."
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Friends, God says,
Hey, I have bought you,
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I have given My Son for you.
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Your body is no longer your own,
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it's the temple
of the Holy Spirit.
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It's where I want to dwell.
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It's what I want to use
to communicate with you.
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Our bodies are special
to our Heavenly Father.
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But before we learn
more about this subject
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with Pastor Kenny Shelton,
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let's visit the
3ABN Worship Center
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and listen to a
song that is entitled,
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"He Who Trust's"
by Stephanie Dawn.
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These are
periled times we live in
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Trouble everywhere
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Weary hearts will often give in
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To this world's despair
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But high and overall
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Our Father knows our every care
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So in His Book, if you will look
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You'll find His promise there
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He who trusts in the Lord
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Mercy shall surround him
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He who trusts in the Lord
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Mercy shall surround him
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Be glad in the Lord and rejoice
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You upright in
heart, lift up your voice
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For great is His mercy toward
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All who trust in the Lord
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Soon will be the time
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When we will see the Holy One
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Oh, how sweet to
know that He'll complete
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What He's begun
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And blessed is the man
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Who stands forgiven in God's son
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And blessed are
they who in that day
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Will hear Him say, "Well done"
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He who trusts in the Lord
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Mercy shall surround him
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He who trusts in the Lord
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Mercy shall surround him
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Be glad in the Lord and rejoice
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You upright in
heart, lift up your voice
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For great is His mercy toward
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All who trust in the Lord
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Gracious is He and slow to anger
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His loving kindness
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Has no end
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With love to embrace
both friend and stranger
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He's reaching out to one and all
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Who upon His name will call
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For he who trusts in the Lord
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Mercy shall surround him
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He who trusts in the Lord
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Mercy shall surround him
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Be glad in the Lord and rejoice
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You upright in
heart, lift up your voice
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For great is His mercy toward
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All who trust in the Lord
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Mercy is His reward
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For all who trust,
for the pure and just
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Who put their trust
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In the Lord
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Mercy is His reward
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Greatest his mercy to all
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All who put their trust
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In the Lord
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Thanks for joining us once again
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here at Behold the Lamb.
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Thank you, thank you,
thank you so very much
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for all that you
do for the ministry.
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Keep us in your
prayers, you know that
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we need it desperately,
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and we'll be praying for you.
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Today's subject is
how to take control
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and quit smoking.
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This is subject, this,
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you know, I think
probably dear too many hearts.
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Many people have tried
over the years to quit smoking,
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and they just can't
seem to gain this victory.
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Today I guarantee you
based upon the Word of God,
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victory can be
yours, and why not today.
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Before we get in the
message, why don't we spend
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some time in prayer,
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I'm going to kneel and
if you can, kneel with me,
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if not, let's
still pray with me.
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Let's pray.
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Father in heaven, again,
we thank You for Your Word.
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We pray now Your Holy Spirit
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will enlighten us
these beautiful truths
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that You have in store for us.
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Bless us, give us strength
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and may today there be victories
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that would be gained
that's maybe many have said,
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oh, it's not possible,
thought it's not possible,
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but it is, because all
things are possible through You.
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Bless us now we pray,
give us heavenly wisdom
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and give us encouragement,
and strength, and victory today
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and we thank you
in Jesus' name, amen.
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We'll go to for our
first passage of scripture,
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the one that I'm
sure that in the beginning
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was given to you,
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that's found in 1 Corinthians,
1 Corinthians 6:19-20.
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What a beautiful
basis on which to build.
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I love it, when we talk
about any subject matter
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that you have a good foundation.
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Being a builder for
many years I understood
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or at least I thought I did,
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the basis of a good
foundation because without it,
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your building's going to
tip, it's going to fall over,
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it's not going to be very good,
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so a good
strong firm foundation.
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This is why we're
talking about this issue,
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the Bible said,
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1 Corinthians
6:19-20, says, "What?"
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Starts off what?
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Gets your attention, doesn't it?
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"Know ye not that
your body is," what?
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"The temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you,
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which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?"
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Very, very clear.
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First of all, that
your body is the temple,
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you are not your own.
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And it goes on in verse 20,
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to tell us why
that we're not our own.
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I've heard a lot of
independent thinking people say,
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I'm my own, my own man,
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I do what I want to
do when I want to do it.
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Jesus says, "You
are not your own."
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And He tells us why, verse 20,
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"For ye are
bought with a price..."
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And because we're bought
with a price, which is what?
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The blood of Jesus Christ.
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Notice this,
"Therefore we are to glorify God
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in your body,
and in your spirit,
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which are God's."
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So everything right
taken into our body,
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what we put on our
body should glorify whom?
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Should glorify God and
not mankind, man dresses,
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you know, what he
thinks is good and so,
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he's pleasing
and might look good,
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but this is all about
God and giving glory to Him.
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I thought was
very, very interesting
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because I've met a lot of people
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and I've seen that God
has given complete victory
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over those who want,
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you know, had this
habit of take control,
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quit smoking, they
want to, and you know,
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they ask God for and
sometimes immediately
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they're given that victory.
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And then there are others
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who struggle a
little bit with it,
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not because God's not
able, but sometime because maybe
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we fight it just a little bit
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and it takes a
little bit longer.
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But I guarantee you,
know how many years you smoke,
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no matter how many
years you've had this habit,
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you can gain the victory
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and today is
going to be the day,
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I know that for sure.
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I saw this
written down somewhere
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that was kind of interesting.
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It says this,
"Once you start smoking,
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once you start smoking,
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the consequences will find you."
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Does that make sense?
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Once you start the consequences,
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and there are
consequences to smoking,
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they will find you.
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I found this in The
Acts of the Apostle,
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Paul, this is about Paul
here, it says, "But he..."
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Paul, 307, The Acts
of the Apostles, 307,
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"Knew also that
in Christ crucified
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they were offered power
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sufficient to convert the soul
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and divinely
adapted to enable them
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to resist all
temptations of evil."
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This is just something,
it's kind of encouraging
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to read for those who
say, "Oh, I can, I can."
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Remember, Paul was
talking about it here, he said,
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"Through Jesus
Christ and Him," what?
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"Crucified.
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There's more than enough power
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to gain the
victory over any evil."
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That's good news,
isn't it? It can be gained.
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Praise God for that,
any kind of temptation.
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You know, there's
several individuals
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that were asked some questions
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about why did you begin smoking?
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What happened when you
began, you know, down this road?
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We call puffing
on the cigarette.
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And one of them said
this, his name was James,
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he said this.
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He said, "First
smoking stained my teeth."
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So he sounds
like someone who said,
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"I don't like the smoking
thing because first thing,
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it stained my teeth.
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And then it gave me gum disease.
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And then I began
to lose my teeth."
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So he said, "No, it's
not a good thing to start."
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Cecilia said
this, terrible deal,
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"Smoking not only
gave me early wrinkles,
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it also turned my
skin, my face grayish,
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and it's not worth it at all."
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Jackie said,
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"Smoking turned
my nails yellow."
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Other reviews mentioned this,
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"But I didn't
think it happened to me,
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and I'm just not
going to recommend it."
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Diane said this,
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"Disappointed, I
smoke and now my breath
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smells like an ashtray.
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I don't recommend
it." Well, these might...
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You might say
they're kind of small things,
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they're really not.
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A lot heavier duty thing
certainly that would follow.
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Many, many
hundreds and thousands
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we're talking about
have health diseases
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that are
associated with smoking.
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So I think first it would
be good to go over some smoking
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because some of the
people have the habit,
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they don't really
realize what smoke does
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and maybe some
of the health things
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that happened when we smoke.
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Notice, first of
all, we say, well,
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what's wrong with smoking?
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First of all, we could say
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that it's a
slow but sure poison.
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Remember, tobacco is a poison.
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None of us would
want to put poison
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if we understood
that into our system.
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Surely, we would
not want to do that,
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but there are
millions who do that.
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They look at it different,
they say, "Well, this is good,
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this calms my
nerve and nerves in...
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It makes me feel good and..."
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But it has the other effects
after that kind of calms down.
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A little book I found
I thought was very nice
00:14:50.42\00:14:52.35
called Spiritual
Gifts, volume 4, page 128.
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Now this gets pretty heavy.
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Excuse me. Pretty heavy duty.
00:14:58.43\00:15:00.53
So we're not
picking on people, remember,
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because maybe
you have this habit,
00:15:02.50\00:15:04.17
many people have other habits,
00:15:04.20\00:15:05.63
but this happened to
be the subject matter
00:15:05.67\00:15:08.20
and we need to
look at realistically,
00:15:08.24\00:15:10.21
this is what it
does, are you willing?
00:15:10.24\00:15:12.57
Are you willing?
How does God look at it?
00:15:12.61\00:15:14.71
How does heaven view it?
00:15:14.74\00:15:16.51
I heard a man say one time that
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"I think that smoking is fine,
I think it's gonna be fine."
00:15:17.91\00:15:21.45
In fact, he said, "I
think, when I get to heaven
00:15:21.48\00:15:23.62
there will be a room
says for smokers only."
00:15:23.65\00:15:27.46
Well, he belonged to a
church, he was in good standing.
00:15:27.49\00:15:29.52
But you know, that's
not good reasoning at all
00:15:29.56\00:15:31.69
to think about in
heaven, that you in heaven,
00:15:31.73\00:15:34.06
you know, going to
have a smoking room,
00:15:34.10\00:15:37.17
but it'd be sad if
you really believe that,
00:15:37.20\00:15:38.87
would it not be?
00:15:38.90\00:15:40.24
That would be very, very sad.
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This year was
underneath the heading
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by the way of tobacco use.
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Notice this,
tobacco use is suicide.
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Wow.
00:15:49.58\00:15:50.91
It's pretty
heavy duty, isn't it?
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And it starts off this way.
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It says here,
Spiritual Gifts, volume 4, 128,
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"Tobacco is a poison
of the most deceitful
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and malignant
kind, having an exciting,
00:16:01.56\00:16:05.09
and then
paralyzing," notice this,
00:16:05.13\00:16:07.43
"paralyzing influence
upon the nerves of the body.
00:16:07.46\00:16:11.93
It is all the more
dangerous because" notice this
00:16:11.97\00:16:15.64
"it effects upon the
system are so slow at first,"
00:16:15.67\00:16:20.21
notice this
"scarcely perceivable," notice,
00:16:20.24\00:16:23.41
they have surely...
00:16:23.45\00:16:25.61
This is a big word,
00:16:25.65\00:16:26.98
"They have surely
murdered themselves
00:16:27.02\00:16:29.05
by this slow poison.
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And we ask,
00:16:31.19\00:16:32.52
what will be their waking
in the resurrection morning?"
00:16:32.55\00:16:36.83
This is pretty
heavy duty to start out
00:16:36.86\00:16:38.56
when you talk about
gaining victory over smoking.
00:16:38.59\00:16:42.56
But sometime if
we don't realize,
00:16:42.60\00:16:44.77
what all takes place,
00:16:44.80\00:16:46.90
you see when we smoke
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all the things that
can happen to our health
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and what it does to
our body when we just read
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that our body is
not our own, right?
00:16:54.64\00:16:56.61
It belongs to God
because He paid for it,
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He paid a great prize.
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So therefore, we're to
keep it in top working order,
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aren't we?
00:17:03.05\00:17:04.39
And so it says
here, notice this,
00:17:04.42\00:17:05.75
that's called
murdering yourself.
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Magazine that I like
called Signs of the Times,
00:17:11.86\00:17:14.80
and October, this is
27, this is written in 1887.
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Notice what it says,
00:17:18.83\00:17:20.24
"Those who claim that
00:17:20.27\00:17:21.60
tobacco does not injure them..."
00:17:21.64\00:17:24.01
Have you ever
met someone who says,
00:17:24.04\00:17:25.37
this doesn't hurt me?
00:17:25.41\00:17:26.74
You know, I've
smoked for umpteen years,
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I'm still okay.
00:17:28.14\00:17:29.48
Nothing's wrong, look at
me now, I'm still healthy,
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I can do all of these things.
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Notice, well, it's
kind of a challenge here.
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Notice, "Those who claim that
tobacco does not injure them,
00:17:34.88\00:17:37.49
can be
convinced of their mistake
00:17:37.52\00:17:39.89
by depriving themselves
of it for just a few days."
00:17:39.92\00:17:44.19
Notice this, the
trembling nerves,
00:17:44.23\00:17:47.36
nerves they say, nerves on edge.
00:17:47.40\00:17:50.17
The giddish each
head, that means what?
00:17:50.20\00:17:52.80
That means kind of a light head,
00:17:52.83\00:17:55.34
they're kind of a dizzy
head, you're not normal,
00:17:55.37\00:17:58.34
you're not the same.
00:17:58.37\00:18:00.44
"The
irritability they're feeling,"
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you feel
irritable about everything,
00:18:02.74\00:18:05.05
"will prove to them
that this," notice this,
00:18:05.08\00:18:07.35
"this sinful indulgence
has bound them in slavery.
00:18:07.38\00:18:12.35
It has overcome will power.
00:18:12.39\00:18:15.12
They are in bondage to a vice
00:18:15.16\00:18:18.59
that is fearful in its results."
00:18:18.63\00:18:21.83
I mean, I know, it's heavy duty.
00:18:21.86\00:18:23.80
We have to rely
when we're smoking,
00:18:23.83\00:18:25.20
most people will
say, I can't give it up.
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What does that mean?
00:18:27.57\00:18:28.90
We are in
slavery to it, aren't we?
00:18:28.94\00:18:30.34
We're in bondage to
it. You can't give it up.
00:18:30.37\00:18:33.68
And it certainly
goes deeper than that
00:18:33.71\00:18:35.71
when they kind
of make light of it.
00:18:35.74\00:18:37.25
But it's something we
can't give up when it says,
00:18:37.28\00:18:39.45
"Thou shall have no
other gods before me."
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We need to be careful about
what we take into our body.
00:18:42.72\00:18:45.05
Another little book
I like is Intemperance,
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it's called
Intemperance, page 55 says this.
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Once again, it reiterate
what we've been talking about.
00:18:51.16\00:18:54.00
"Tobacco is a
slow insidious poison,
00:18:54.03\00:18:57.03
its effects are more
difficult to cleanse,"
00:18:57.07\00:19:00.37
notice this,
00:19:00.40\00:19:01.74
"from the system
than those of liquor."
00:19:01.77\00:19:05.64
Did you get it?
00:19:05.67\00:19:07.01
Smoking habit is worse
00:19:07.04\00:19:08.64
some or most people to quit that
00:19:08.68\00:19:10.51
than it is to
stop drinking alcohol.
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Interesting, it goes on,
00:19:13.98\00:19:15.32
"Those who use
tobacco in any form
00:19:15.35\00:19:19.45
are not clear before God."
00:19:19.49\00:19:21.76
So as many
Christians say, they do...
00:19:21.79\00:19:24.33
I can remember years ago, just,
00:19:24.36\00:19:26.36
we went downtown West Frankfort
00:19:26.39\00:19:29.00
may going to work,
that was on Sunday,
00:19:29.03\00:19:30.53
because we go on Saturday
and others go on Sunday.
00:19:30.57\00:19:33.44
Well, I say many of those
on the Sunday keeping church,
00:19:33.47\00:19:36.07
not trying to condemn that,
00:19:36.10\00:19:37.44
but simply
saying as a young person
00:19:37.47\00:19:38.84
look out there and
it's between 10:30 and 11,
00:19:38.87\00:19:41.51
they're having
their smoke break.
00:19:41.54\00:19:44.05
It's kind of interesting.
00:19:44.08\00:19:45.78
So as professed Christian
we have to be very careful
00:19:45.81\00:19:49.05
because we realized
tobacco in any form,
00:19:49.08\00:19:51.52
we are not clear before God,
00:19:51.55\00:19:53.56
because this is
hurting our system,
00:19:53.59\00:19:56.32
plugging our brain.
00:19:56.36\00:19:58.09
It's slowly
killing us and it will.
00:19:58.13\00:20:01.23
I'll give you some
more statistics on that.
00:20:01.26\00:20:04.60
So we could say today that
00:20:04.63\00:20:05.97
tobacco then has
reached epidemic proportions.
00:20:06.00\00:20:09.57
Even though we've tried, tried
00:20:09.60\00:20:10.94
and spend
billions on advertisement
00:20:10.97\00:20:12.57
and trying to
stop youth from smoking
00:20:12.61\00:20:15.18
so on and so
forth to give it up.
00:20:15.21\00:20:16.61
It's worldwide.
00:20:16.64\00:20:18.35
This is an
epidemic, it's worldwide
00:20:18.38\00:20:20.88
despite the effects
of reversing smoking,
00:20:20.92\00:20:23.62
we do know that.
00:20:23.65\00:20:25.19
But you know, smokers know this,
00:20:25.22\00:20:27.69
smokers, most smokers
know that it's harmful.
00:20:27.72\00:20:30.63
Have you met anyone that
says, "Well, I didn't know it?"
00:20:30.66\00:20:34.03
You know, we've
got new laws, right?
00:20:34.06\00:20:35.76
And so on and so forth,
00:20:35.80\00:20:37.13
it's written on the package now,
00:20:37.17\00:20:39.13
it's harmful, it
may cause cancer.
00:20:39.17\00:20:41.10
See, God is
bringing it to the front,
00:20:41.14\00:20:42.84
I do believe this,
so we're without excuse.
00:20:42.87\00:20:45.47
He's getting it out
there, is getting on the TV,
00:20:45.51\00:20:47.28
on the radio, advertisement on,
00:20:47.31\00:20:49.18
so we know before we begin this
00:20:49.21\00:20:51.95
that is going to
cause some issues
00:20:51.98\00:20:54.22
that it's not good
that it can kill us,
00:20:54.25\00:20:56.38
that it cause cancer,
it cause heart disease,
00:20:56.42\00:20:58.49
all kinds of things here.
00:20:58.52\00:21:00.06
But most know it, but
they ignore the warning.
00:21:00.09\00:21:04.89
And you notice in Scripture
00:21:04.93\00:21:06.26
we cannot ignore
the warnings of God,
00:21:06.29\00:21:08.90
and certainly,
there's little book I like,
00:21:08.93\00:21:10.73
Counsels on Health,
page 81, it says this,
00:21:10.77\00:21:13.74
notice this,
Counsels on Health, 81.
00:21:13.77\00:21:16.77
When the matter is set,
00:21:16.81\00:21:18.77
that's talking about
tobacco use before them,
00:21:18.81\00:21:21.38
or I might go as far to say
when anything is set before us,
00:21:21.41\00:21:25.15
but we know what
truth is of the issue,
00:21:25.18\00:21:27.42
not just tobacco
00:21:27.45\00:21:28.78
but anything that might hurt us,
00:21:28.82\00:21:31.32
any issue, notice this,
00:21:31.35\00:21:32.95
"When the matter
is set before us,
00:21:32.99\00:21:34.36
tobacco use, before
them in its true light,
00:21:34.39\00:21:37.13
then they are guilty before God
00:21:37.16\00:21:40.06
if they continue to
indulge this gross appetite,"
00:21:40.10\00:21:44.17
is called.
00:21:44.20\00:21:45.63
There again, sounds pretty tough
00:21:45.67\00:21:47.00
and you know what?
00:21:47.04\00:21:48.37
It is tough here
00:21:48.40\00:21:49.74
because many
people will not talk
00:21:49.77\00:21:51.11
about this subject,
00:21:51.14\00:21:52.47
they don't want to deal with it,
00:21:52.51\00:21:53.84
they let it go on
even in the church
00:21:53.88\00:21:55.21
and think it's going to be okay,
00:21:55.24\00:21:56.91
but God says otherwise
00:21:56.95\00:21:58.98
because of its proven fact
that it hurts and it kills us.
00:21:59.01\00:22:03.18
Just think about this
with me just for a moment.
00:22:03.22\00:22:06.35
There's about 6.5
trillion cigarettes
00:22:06.39\00:22:11.19
that are sold
around the world each year.
00:22:11.23\00:22:14.70
Say most of us don't...
00:22:14.73\00:22:16.13
We get lost in the millions
00:22:16.16\00:22:17.83
and then even
more in the billions,
00:22:17.87\00:22:19.60
and then we get
into the trillions,
00:22:19.63\00:22:21.47
6.5 trillion,
00:22:21.50\00:22:24.24
but notice this,
00:22:24.27\00:22:25.61
about 18 billion
cigarettes are sold a day,
00:22:25.64\00:22:29.78
18 billion per day.
00:22:29.81\00:22:32.85
It's estimated that
00:22:32.88\00:22:34.68
over 1 billion
people smoke in the world
00:22:34.72\00:22:39.19
with the population
left less than 7 billion,
00:22:39.22\00:22:41.92
isn't that right about?
00:22:41.96\00:22:43.29
It's 1/6 and 1/7 of
the world's population
00:22:43.32\00:22:46.59
are in trouble.
00:22:46.63\00:22:47.96
See this is the
issue, not condemning
00:22:48.00\00:22:49.63
and trying to judge
someone but they're in trouble.
00:22:49.66\00:22:51.87
They may not know
they're in trouble with this
00:22:51.90\00:22:54.04
between them and God
00:22:54.07\00:22:55.40
or maybe with
him and their health,
00:22:55.44\00:22:57.04
with him and their family
taking care of their family,
00:22:57.07\00:23:00.14
they may not be around as long
00:23:00.18\00:23:01.78
and that's certainly a
proven fact we'll look at.
00:23:01.81\00:23:05.28
Eighty percent of these
people live in," notice this,
00:23:05.31\00:23:09.45
"live in low and
middle income countries
00:23:09.48\00:23:13.22
that are smokers.
00:23:13.25\00:23:14.59
Notice this. They live in what?
00:23:14.62\00:23:16.12
Low or middle income countries.
00:23:16.16\00:23:19.83
There are about 33
million tobacco farm workers,
00:23:19.86\00:23:25.27
isn't that
interesting, how many?
00:23:25.30\00:23:27.20
Thirty three
million farm tobacco workers
00:23:27.24\00:23:32.54
and, of course, a
large part of their life
00:23:32.57\00:23:35.41
is in the poorest communities
of the region naturally.
00:23:35.44\00:23:39.21
Even some children are forced
to work on a tobacco farm.
00:23:39.25\00:23:45.12
That may not
sound like much to you,
00:23:45.15\00:23:46.55
but you know what?
00:23:46.59\00:23:47.92
That's pretty heavy duty.
00:23:47.96\00:23:50.09
These places, then
you know what happens is
00:23:50.13\00:23:53.43
when they work on
these tobacco farms,
00:23:53.46\00:23:55.36
there's a risk of something
00:23:55.40\00:23:57.63
and it's called
green tobacco sickness.
00:23:57.67\00:24:01.47
I don't know if
you've ever heard that
00:24:01.50\00:24:02.84
called green tobacco sickness.
00:24:02.87\00:24:06.51
It's an illness that's caused
by the absorption of nicotine
00:24:06.54\00:24:11.25
through the skin, you know,
00:24:11.28\00:24:12.85
and it's just from
handling the wet leaves.
00:24:12.88\00:24:15.35
When the leaves
are wet, you handle it,
00:24:15.38\00:24:16.79
it gets on your skin.
00:24:16.82\00:24:18.15
You think about
this, this can kill you,
00:24:18.19\00:24:20.16
this can hurt you,
00:24:20.19\00:24:21.52
this can cause
you to have diseases.
00:24:21.56\00:24:24.19
This right here
gets your system down
00:24:24.23\00:24:25.56
where you can't
fight it anymore.
00:24:25.59\00:24:27.43
And that's just
from handling it.
00:24:27.46\00:24:30.43
The United States with
all of its advertisement,
00:24:30.47\00:24:32.90
all of this we
need to be careful,
00:24:32.93\00:24:34.34
all this biz,
00:24:34.37\00:24:35.70
we are still the
fourth largest producer
00:24:35.74\00:24:38.71
in the world,
00:24:38.74\00:24:42.18
the fourth largest producer.
00:24:42.21\00:24:45.35
Now think about that.
00:24:45.38\00:24:46.72
That's in less than 40 years,
about 40 years ago we had,
00:24:46.75\00:24:53.09
where we have
10,000 farms right now,
00:24:53.12\00:24:55.76
we had 180,000 tobacco farmers
in less than 40 years ago.
00:24:55.79\00:25:02.30
Now it's down to
10,000. This is...
00:25:02.33\00:25:06.87
You know, we call
it despite the fact
00:25:06.90\00:25:08.77
we look at here of the
smoke related diseases,
00:25:08.80\00:25:12.47
we have to look at it.
00:25:12.51\00:25:13.84
And United States, it
costs the United States
00:25:13.88\00:25:16.38
over $300 billion per year.
00:25:16.41\00:25:22.18
And health costs
over 300 billion.
00:25:22.22\00:25:24.69
Where's all this
money coming from?
00:25:24.72\00:25:28.49
Now, you say, well,
if we're the fourth,
00:25:28.52\00:25:30.43
then who is the top three
producing cigarettes and so on.
00:25:30.46\00:25:35.93
China, India and Brazil,
00:25:35.96\00:25:38.97
the three largest
tobacco producing countries.
00:25:39.00\00:25:42.57
It's been found out
that the awareness of this,
00:25:42.60\00:25:46.11
the harmfulness of tobacco
00:25:46.14\00:25:48.08
is low in some of these
other regions of the world.
00:25:48.11\00:25:51.48
So United States,
there's no excuse.
00:25:51.51\00:25:53.05
Some of them didn't
have quite the advertisement
00:25:53.08\00:25:54.78
and all that we do here.
00:25:54.82\00:25:56.42
Give you an
example, 2009 China, China.
00:25:56.45\00:26:00.59
They did, you know, so
I'm asking questions on,
00:26:00.62\00:26:03.56
38% of smokers knew that
00:26:03.59\00:26:07.36
smoking could
cause heart disease,
00:26:07.40\00:26:10.37
only 38%.
00:26:10.40\00:26:12.13
Remember, they're one
of the largest producers,
00:26:12.17\00:26:14.04
but only 38% knew that
00:26:14.07\00:26:16.47
it could cause some
problems with heart disease.
00:26:16.50\00:26:20.44
Only 27% knew that it
could lead to a stroke,
00:26:20.48\00:26:26.68
because of what?
00:26:26.72\00:26:28.05
The lack of advertisement
00:26:28.08\00:26:29.42
because they didn't
know all the facts on that
00:26:29.45\00:26:31.69
you think that they would.
00:26:31.72\00:26:34.42
Only 25% of the population
in like Bangladesh, and India,
00:26:34.46\00:26:38.69
and the Netherlands,
and Russia, and Thailand,
00:26:38.73\00:26:41.36
and Vietnam were about smoking,
00:26:41.40\00:26:44.80
they didn't know
that smoking would cause
00:26:44.83\00:26:46.40
cardiovascular issues,
00:26:46.43\00:26:48.90
they didn't even know that.
00:26:48.94\00:26:50.71
So something's
not going on here.
00:26:50.74\00:26:52.11
Again, 25% that
would be one in four,
00:26:52.14\00:26:55.48
roughly one in four
that might cause some risk
00:26:55.51\00:26:58.38
they didn't know.
00:26:58.41\00:27:00.02
Seventeen percent of smokers
in New Zealand, 14% in France,
00:27:00.05\00:27:05.22
13% in the United
States, notice this,
00:27:05.25\00:27:08.46
were unaware
that the heart disease
00:27:08.49\00:27:11.69
is the number one
killer and not lung cancer.
00:27:11.73\00:27:18.20
United States
didn't know a whole lot,
00:27:18.23\00:27:19.60
didn't it, with 13%.
00:27:19.63\00:27:23.27
Heart disease is
the number one killer
00:27:23.30\00:27:27.21
of those who used tobacco.
00:27:27.24\00:27:29.48
Most people said
what? It was lung cancer.
00:27:29.51\00:27:34.68
A few more facts before
we get to about smoking.
00:27:34.72\00:27:38.02
This may help us to decide,
00:27:38.05\00:27:39.59
because unless we
have some of the facts down
00:27:39.62\00:27:41.62
what would make
us want to decide.
00:27:41.66\00:27:44.43
If it's healthy
then, hey, we need to do,
00:27:44.46\00:27:45.93
it's unhealthy, right?
00:27:45.96\00:27:47.40
If it hurts us, we
need to know why it hurts us
00:27:47.43\00:27:49.20
and what we can do about it.
00:27:49.23\00:27:52.57
We need to realize, again,
00:27:52.60\00:27:54.27
this is something not
just, it's recreational
00:27:54.30\00:27:56.14
and, hey, we can
have one and it's good,
00:27:56.17\00:27:58.07
sit down and smoke a
cigarette right here.
00:27:58.11\00:28:00.08
Tobacco kills about
one half of all smokers.
00:28:00.11\00:28:06.01
Half of the people
right, that smoke cigarettes,
00:28:06.05\00:28:08.18
they're going to
die because they smoked.
00:28:08.22\00:28:11.42
Globally,
globally around the world
00:28:11.45\00:28:13.76
tobacco causes 6
million deaths a year.
00:28:13.79\00:28:19.49
Did you get that?
00:28:19.53\00:28:21.16
Six million deaths a year,
00:28:21.20\00:28:23.63
that's one death
every five seconds.
00:28:23.67\00:28:28.14
Wow.
00:28:28.17\00:28:29.54
Attributed to tobacco,
do you see, it is harmful,
00:28:29.57\00:28:32.34
that's something that's killing.
00:28:32.37\00:28:33.71
This is something that the devil
00:28:33.74\00:28:35.08
who has come to
kill, steal and what?
00:28:35.11\00:28:37.45
And to destroy.
00:28:37.48\00:28:39.08
It's something we
need to stay with,
00:28:39.11\00:28:40.65
it's not looking cool,
00:28:40.68\00:28:42.02
because when you're a youngster
that you light up a cigarette,
00:28:42.05\00:28:44.62
it's anything but
cool, it's a killer.
00:28:44.65\00:28:47.76
Listen, the sad thing
here, even sadder maybe
00:28:50.79\00:28:53.53
is of that number,
00:28:53.56\00:28:55.20
of that number 600,000 that die
00:28:55.23\00:29:01.47
are among the non smokers,
00:29:01.50\00:29:03.91
but they live with a smoker.
00:29:03.94\00:29:05.44
Are you getting it?
00:29:05.47\00:29:06.81
They're breathing that air,
00:29:06.84\00:29:08.64
they're exposed
to second hand smoke.
00:29:08.68\00:29:11.65
So think about where
600,000 people a year die,
00:29:11.68\00:29:15.25
because they live
with someone who smokes,
00:29:15.28\00:29:17.85
or they're in an atmosphere
where they have to breathe it.
00:29:17.89\00:29:21.72
I don't know about you,
00:29:21.76\00:29:23.09
but for me, at least to breathe,
00:29:23.12\00:29:24.46
I can't even breathe it
for very long period of time.
00:29:24.49\00:29:26.80
It makes me sick.
00:29:26.83\00:29:28.16
I'm very grateful and thankful,
as it were, that you know,
00:29:28.20\00:29:30.40
was taught at an early age,
00:29:30.43\00:29:32.17
not everybody
would be as blessed maybe
00:29:32.20\00:29:34.10
and you have to go
through different things
00:29:34.14\00:29:35.60
or whatever in your home.
00:29:35.64\00:29:36.97
You have no control over
that as maybe as a young person.
00:29:37.01\00:29:40.94
But I know my aunt
was so allergic to smoke
00:29:40.98\00:29:44.78
that she got her in a room
with someone who was smoking,
00:29:44.81\00:29:47.45
her nose would begin to bleed.
00:29:47.48\00:29:49.65
So that means she
couldn't stay around,
00:29:49.68\00:29:51.02
and she had a
husband that smoked for,
00:29:51.05\00:29:52.39
you know, 50 years,
00:29:52.42\00:29:53.92
but he never smoked
one time in the house.
00:29:53.96\00:29:57.09
In the wintertime he
had to put his coat on
00:29:57.13\00:29:58.96
and his little ear muffs
00:29:58.99\00:30:00.33
and whatever it was and go away.
00:30:00.36\00:30:02.16
He didn't just
step outside the door,
00:30:02.20\00:30:04.27
he had to go quite a
distance from the house
00:30:04.30\00:30:06.70
because her nose
was so sensitive to it.
00:30:06.74\00:30:09.80
My mother was close
to that, it didn't bleed.
00:30:09.84\00:30:12.47
But she
couldn't hardly stand it,
00:30:12.51\00:30:13.84
because she got almost
immediate headache like I do,
00:30:13.88\00:30:16.21
if I'm around it.
00:30:16.24\00:30:18.15
And she said to
me at very early age
00:30:18.18\00:30:20.02
walking down the street,
00:30:20.05\00:30:21.72
I'm very grateful for
this and very thankful.
00:30:21.75\00:30:23.82
Walking down the street
holding my hand down there,
00:30:23.85\00:30:26.05
somebody ahead of
our way were smoking
00:30:26.09\00:30:27.72
and they threw
the cigarette down
00:30:27.76\00:30:29.52
and so on, stopped there.
00:30:29.56\00:30:30.89
And she, every time
she look at that down,
00:30:30.93\00:30:32.43
she look at me and she
say, Kenny, shoovy nasty.
00:30:32.46\00:30:38.63
Shoovy nasty.
00:30:38.67\00:30:40.34
At four, five years old,
every time I seen a cigarette,
00:30:40.37\00:30:43.07
I said, shoo, nasty, shoovy.
00:30:43.10\00:30:45.77
So I never had a desire,
so praise God at this point.
00:30:45.81\00:30:48.58
That didn't
make you good at all,
00:30:48.61\00:30:50.15
but, you know, I've
yet to smoke my first one,
00:30:50.18\00:30:51.75
so I don't know what it's like
00:30:51.78\00:30:53.11
and I'm not
about to find out now.
00:30:53.15\00:30:55.42
Got enough
issues, don't need that.
00:30:55.45\00:30:58.35
But I can tribute
it back to the home.
00:30:58.39\00:31:01.16
I can tribute it
back to where mother says,
00:31:01.19\00:31:02.62
shoovy nasty, this
is not good for you.
00:31:02.66\00:31:04.49
If the trend continues
on that we talked about,
00:31:08.73\00:31:13.30
you know, six
million people a year die.
00:31:13.34\00:31:17.27
To 2030, that's going
to go up to eight million,
00:31:17.31\00:31:21.78
that's a lot of
people a year, is it not,
00:31:21.81\00:31:24.11
contributed to smoking?
00:31:24.15\00:31:28.15
Talk about
smoking is a direct cause
00:31:28.18\00:31:31.39
of one out of every
five deaths in United States.
00:31:31.42\00:31:35.76
One out of every five
death is contributed to what?
00:31:35.79\00:31:40.06
Smoking.
00:31:40.10\00:31:41.43
That's 480,000 annually.
00:31:41.46\00:31:45.23
That's 1,300 smoking
relating deaths per day,
00:31:45.27\00:31:50.07
1,300 per day.
00:31:50.11\00:31:52.41
That's 54 deaths per hour.
00:31:52.44\00:31:56.04
That's almost
one death per minute
00:31:56.08\00:31:59.01
contributed to smoking.
00:31:59.05\00:32:01.95
That's a lot.
00:32:01.98\00:32:03.32
See may
statistic people don't lie,
00:32:03.35\00:32:04.69
but you know what,
this should help us.
00:32:04.72\00:32:06.45
Statistics always
helped me to make decision.
00:32:06.49\00:32:08.62
Statistics helped
me to make decision
00:32:08.66\00:32:10.49
when I played
sports, Brother Mark.
00:32:10.53\00:32:12.69
When you play sports,
00:32:12.73\00:32:14.06
when you play
football or baseball,
00:32:14.10\00:32:15.43
Heather, it's statistic,
what were they batting,
00:32:15.46\00:32:17.93
what was going on,
what was his right here?
00:32:17.97\00:32:19.63
We had to look
at all those issues
00:32:19.67\00:32:21.24
help to make a decision on
how we were going to react.
00:32:21.27\00:32:24.87
These things should
help us to make a decision,
00:32:24.91\00:32:26.84
it's harmful, it can hurt us,
00:32:26.88\00:32:29.14
not only physically
but certainly spiritually.
00:32:29.18\00:32:32.71
Every cigarette that is smoked
00:32:32.75\00:32:35.58
cuts between five
and eleven minutes
00:32:35.62\00:32:38.99
off of our life.
00:32:39.02\00:32:41.42
Think about it,
you want to die early?
00:32:41.46\00:32:44.63
Every cigarette that
you smoke cost between...
00:32:44.66\00:32:47.00
And we always
think we're an exception,
00:32:47.03\00:32:48.70
unless it didn't hurt me.
00:32:48.73\00:32:50.07
It's because it's
slow insidious poison,
00:32:50.10\00:32:53.34
it takes a while,
00:32:53.37\00:32:55.54
and it's not
until it's too late.
00:32:55.57\00:32:59.24
I've had to bury
several classmates of mine
00:32:59.27\00:33:01.58
I went to school with,
00:33:01.61\00:33:02.94
because I remember
they started smoking
00:33:02.98\00:33:04.31
when they were in school,
seventh and eighth grade.
00:33:04.35\00:33:06.95
And they're already dead.
I had some of the funerals.
00:33:06.98\00:33:11.35
And it contributed to smoking.
00:33:11.39\00:33:15.69
So 11 minutes or
in your lifetime,
00:33:15.72\00:33:18.26
that can reduce
your life expectancy
00:33:18.29\00:33:20.76
almost 12 years.
00:33:20.80\00:33:23.10
Take 12 years off your life,
you like, live like 12 years,
00:33:23.13\00:33:25.47
you want them to be what?
00:33:25.50\00:33:26.84
Good healthy
years, old too, don't you?
00:33:26.87\00:33:28.57
I know you do.
00:33:28.60\00:33:32.01
Twenty five percent of
all heart disease death,
00:33:32.04\00:33:35.18
75% of, notice that,
00:33:35.21\00:33:38.65
lung disease deaths
00:33:38.68\00:33:40.28
are directly
attributed to smoking,
00:33:40.32\00:33:43.69
irrespective of any other cause.
00:33:43.72\00:33:48.12
Every day in the United
States, think how sad this is,
00:33:48.16\00:33:51.29
every day, this
statistic is interesting,
00:33:51.33\00:33:54.36
3,200 use under the age of
18 light their first cigarette.
00:33:54.40\00:34:00.87
Every day, you get up,
00:34:00.90\00:34:02.24
every day 3,200 have
lit up their first one.
00:34:02.27\00:34:07.21
And out of that, over
2,100 are lifetime smokers,
00:34:07.24\00:34:11.95
they're hooked after
that first cigarette.
00:34:11.98\00:34:13.55
Four times more,
here's the challenge,
00:34:16.92\00:34:18.59
think about a challenge.
00:34:18.62\00:34:20.86
And this is a big challenge,
00:34:20.89\00:34:22.22
if you think we're
talking about something
00:34:22.26\00:34:23.59
that's kind of
touchy, and it may be.
00:34:23.63\00:34:24.99
But 70% of Americans
that smoke want to quit.
00:34:25.03\00:34:30.10
This is what
we're talking about.
00:34:30.13\00:34:31.47
A 70% want to quit,
40% have tried to quit,
00:34:31.50\00:34:37.07
but they can't seem to quit.
00:34:37.11\00:34:41.28
They made at
least one attempt on it.
00:34:41.31\00:34:42.94
But it's
interesting here, according to
00:34:42.98\00:34:44.78
John Hopkins
School of Public Health.
00:34:44.81\00:34:48.95
It says, those
who are trying to...
00:34:48.98\00:34:50.92
Now, we're not
talking by the grace of God,
00:34:50.95\00:34:52.62
those who are just
making an effort to stop,
00:34:52.65\00:34:55.66
it takes up to
at least 30 tries,
00:34:55.69\00:34:59.13
if you're trying on your own.
00:34:59.16\00:35:00.80
By God's grace and
following God's plan,
00:35:00.83\00:35:02.96
it can stop and
it can end today.
00:35:03.00\00:35:05.17
That's the good news.
00:35:05.20\00:35:07.90
But I would say this regardless
of how many years you smoke,
00:35:07.94\00:35:10.21
regardless of how many years
00:35:10.24\00:35:11.67
that, you know,
you've taken these things
00:35:11.71\00:35:14.68
into your body,
00:35:14.71\00:35:16.04
there's health
benefits when you quit.
00:35:16.08\00:35:19.15
There's health
benefits when you quit.
00:35:19.18\00:35:20.92
You say, Well,
I smoked too long,
00:35:20.95\00:35:22.28
all these years,
the damage is done.
00:35:22.32\00:35:23.92
It can be reversed.
00:35:23.95\00:35:25.69
The good thing,
that's how God has this body.
00:35:25.72\00:35:27.46
Isn't that
wonderful? It's never too late.
00:35:27.49\00:35:29.82
Some of you say,
00:35:32.93\00:35:34.26
well, I don't even
know what's in tobacco,
00:35:34.30\00:35:35.63
just little old tobacco
that makes it so deadly,
00:35:35.66\00:35:37.13
what is it?
00:35:37.17\00:35:38.50
You realize today,
00:35:38.53\00:35:40.04
I hope, we'll get
into some Bible passage,
00:35:40.07\00:35:41.57
but this is so...
00:35:41.60\00:35:43.64
My mind, it makes me think,
00:35:43.67\00:35:45.41
you realize, tobacco smoke
00:35:45.44\00:35:48.08
is made up of more
than 7,000 chemicals,
00:35:48.11\00:35:53.92
it seems impossible, doesn't it?
00:35:53.95\00:35:56.12
Tobacco is made up of what?
00:35:56.15\00:35:58.52
Over 7,000 chemicals.
00:35:58.55\00:36:00.59
We know chemicals
are not good for us,
00:36:00.62\00:36:02.56
at least when we're
taking them in like that.
00:36:02.59\00:36:04.73
And 70 of those are
known to cause cancer.
00:36:04.76\00:36:11.03
Couple of few of them
right quick, you'll know,
00:36:11.07\00:36:13.30
hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde,
00:36:13.34\00:36:17.67
lead, arsenic, ammonia,
00:36:17.71\00:36:22.38
radioactive
elements such as uranium,
00:36:22.41\00:36:25.98
nicotine the addictive drug,
00:36:26.01\00:36:29.05
one of the harshest
chemicals in tobacco smoke,
00:36:29.08\00:36:33.25
carbon monoxide,
00:36:33.29\00:36:35.49
many more just on and on and on.
00:36:35.52\00:36:37.59
Most substance come from
00:36:37.63\00:36:39.46
when you burn the tobacco leaves
00:36:39.49\00:36:41.33
naturally, when you light it up.
00:36:41.36\00:36:44.50
There are certainly
other cancer causing agents,
00:36:44.53\00:36:47.70
and those who say,
00:36:47.74\00:36:49.07
"Well, I once
smoked smokeless tobacco"
00:36:49.10\00:36:51.24
somebody advertised right there.
00:36:51.27\00:36:52.71
Listen, there's cancer
causing things in those too.
00:36:52.74\00:36:57.55
A snuff for instance,
where I just put little snuff,
00:36:57.58\00:37:00.32
and it's addictive,
00:37:00.35\00:37:02.82
and it's linked to several type,
00:37:02.85\00:37:04.59
if we have time, lots
of, several types of cancer.
00:37:04.62\00:37:10.23
There's no doubt
that smoking is harmful.
00:37:10.26\00:37:13.06
Just look all around,
all the laws has been passed,
00:37:13.09\00:37:16.60
to try to protect people
to stay away from this poison.
00:37:16.63\00:37:19.63
Maybe you've tried and
maybe you've just given up.
00:37:19.67\00:37:23.54
Maybe you've even tried,
you say this is foolproof,
00:37:23.57\00:37:25.24
I know you're gonna...
00:37:25.27\00:37:26.61
Yes, I'm going
to be able to quit,
00:37:26.64\00:37:27.98
but no, it didn't happen.
00:37:28.01\00:37:29.74
But how about
trying the Word of God?
00:37:29.78\00:37:32.51
How about, let's try
just the Word of God,
00:37:32.55\00:37:35.18
not all the stop
smoking clad, not all of this,
00:37:35.22\00:37:37.62
not all of that, you
know, without the Bible,
00:37:37.65\00:37:39.75
but just use the Bible
00:37:39.79\00:37:41.42
and claim the promises
that God has left here for us.
00:37:41.46\00:37:44.66
What do you have to lose?
00:37:44.69\00:37:46.03
All the others failed,
you've tried miserably,
00:37:46.06\00:37:47.70
you failed miserable
over and over and over.
00:37:47.73\00:37:49.16
You haven't got
anything to lose,
00:37:49.20\00:37:50.60
and everything to gain
by following God's plan.
00:37:50.63\00:37:55.90
But one thing for sure, if
you have the nicotine habit,
00:37:55.94\00:37:59.77
you are in bondage,
00:37:59.81\00:38:02.41
and you need to be
set free from that.
00:38:02.44\00:38:06.08
Philippians 4:13,
00:38:06.11\00:38:08.08
one of the favorite
passage of scriptures to me,
00:38:08.12\00:38:11.19
it starts off by
knowing we can have victory,
00:38:11.22\00:38:14.66
not starting off
like, well, we think,
00:38:14.69\00:38:16.16
maybe it's going to happen,
00:38:16.19\00:38:17.53
we can know we
can have victory, why?
00:38:17.56\00:38:19.29
Because the Bible said
so, and it doesn't matter.
00:38:19.33\00:38:22.50
Nicotine may not be
written in the cigarettes,
00:38:22.53\00:38:24.37
may not be written there,
but when God says all things,
00:38:24.40\00:38:26.90
that's exactly what He means.
00:38:26.94\00:38:29.40
You start off knowing
that victory is assured,
00:38:29.44\00:38:31.84
that God's going to do
His part if you do yours.
00:38:31.87\00:38:35.54
Simply says, "I can do," what?
00:38:35.58\00:38:37.55
"All things through
Christ which strengthens me."
00:38:37.58\00:38:40.88
That's just beautiful.
00:38:40.92\00:38:42.38
That's in every
area of your life,
00:38:42.42\00:38:44.35
no matter what it
is, how weak it might be,
00:38:44.39\00:38:46.62
no matter how
many times you fail,
00:38:46.65\00:38:48.32
you've fallen
short, victory is assured
00:38:48.36\00:38:50.69
because God said it was with you
00:38:50.73\00:38:52.59
working together
with Him, notice that.
00:38:52.63\00:38:55.36
I can do all
things through Christ.
00:38:55.40\00:38:57.23
So you says, I can't do
it, I've tried to. I can do it.
00:38:57.27\00:39:00.24
This is what we need to,
I can do it through Christ.
00:39:00.27\00:39:02.50
Christ said, I can do it.
00:39:02.54\00:39:03.97
Christ said, He'd
give me the strength
00:39:04.01\00:39:05.67
because He strengthens me.
00:39:05.71\00:39:07.34
I'm weak, I failed,
I've tried it without Him.
00:39:07.38\00:39:11.15
But now I'm
gonna try it with Him.
00:39:11.18\00:39:13.62
Man, the victory is assured.
00:39:13.65\00:39:16.08
Christ Object
Lesson 82 says this,
00:39:16.12\00:39:18.25
"We have a part to act."
00:39:18.29\00:39:20.26
See that's why I say, well,
okay, God take it away from me,
00:39:20.29\00:39:22.42
here we go, God
take it away from me.
00:39:22.46\00:39:24.03
In meantime, I'm
going to light one up.
00:39:24.06\00:39:25.59
"We have a part to act,
00:39:29.70\00:39:33.13
we must have the
power of divinity
00:39:33.17\00:39:35.44
to unite with us,
00:39:35.47\00:39:37.37
or our efforts will be in vain."
00:39:37.41\00:39:40.31
Did you get that?
Divinity, and what is it?
00:39:40.34\00:39:43.35
Humanity working together,
00:39:43.38\00:39:45.48
if not, it's
going to be in vain.
00:39:45.51\00:39:47.12
Reading on, wherever, notice it,
00:39:47.15\00:39:49.12
"Whenever man
accomplishes anything,"
00:39:49.15\00:39:52.55
If we accomplish
anything in this life,
00:39:52.59\00:39:54.39
"whether in
spiritual, or in temporal lines,
00:39:54.42\00:39:57.13
we should bear in mind
00:39:57.16\00:39:58.49
that he does it
through cooperation
00:39:58.53\00:40:01.40
with the Maker."
00:40:01.43\00:40:03.37
Any victory that is gained
00:40:03.40\00:40:05.10
is because we have a
Maker who cares for us,
00:40:05.13\00:40:08.37
who gives us the
strength in which to do it.
00:40:08.40\00:40:10.74
We cannot do it on our own
00:40:10.77\00:40:12.67
because the devil has
put throughout this thing
00:40:12.71\00:40:14.91
called nicotine as it were.
00:40:14.94\00:40:17.81
Tobacco, alcohol,
whatever it might be,
00:40:17.85\00:40:21.28
and he's caught us on
it, and he's reeling us in.
00:40:21.32\00:40:25.32
And with that string as it were,
00:40:25.35\00:40:27.49
that tie has to be,
that bondage has to be cut
00:40:27.52\00:40:29.92
in the name of Jesus.
00:40:29.96\00:40:31.66
Or he's going to
reel you're right on
00:40:31.69\00:40:33.03
into his kingdom
and not God's kingdom.
00:40:33.06\00:40:35.96
It's very clear about,
and we need to look at,
00:40:36.00\00:40:38.00
just forgive me if you
will if that's what it takes,
00:40:38.03\00:40:40.44
but this is life
and death matter.
00:40:40.47\00:40:42.57
This is issues that is not just,
00:40:42.60\00:40:44.57
well, I've smoked all my life,
00:40:44.61\00:40:45.94
I'll just continue on and
pray that God has mercy on me.
00:40:45.97\00:40:48.54
God's merciful, dear friend,
00:40:48.58\00:40:50.25
but He does not turn
from justice and, right?
00:40:50.28\00:40:52.91
He does not.
00:40:52.95\00:40:54.28
His justice, His mercy,
right, they meet, they kiss.
00:40:54.32\00:40:56.75
Has to call it
the way that it is.
00:40:59.82\00:41:03.69
I know we need to be playful,
do not trying to be hurtful.
00:41:03.73\00:41:08.90
But knowing what the world
00:41:08.93\00:41:10.87
or you know, I
know about tobacco.
00:41:10.90\00:41:14.60
We know that it really
does pollute the atmosphere.
00:41:14.64\00:41:17.74
I don't even like to be
around in the atmosphere
00:41:17.77\00:41:19.17
where I come by if
somebody's been smoking,
00:41:19.21\00:41:20.64
be honest.
00:41:20.68\00:41:22.01
It pollutes the
atmosphere, it kills.
00:41:22.04\00:41:24.78
Did you get it? It kills.
00:41:24.81\00:41:27.35
It defiles the temple of God.
00:41:27.38\00:41:32.39
And if we really want
to get right down to it,
00:41:32.42\00:41:34.56
and really get with the program
where the use of tobacco,
00:41:34.59\00:41:37.43
we could label it,
listen carefully, self murder.
00:41:37.46\00:41:42.86
Self, what?
00:41:42.90\00:41:44.80
We're killing ourselves
because we just write statistics
00:41:44.83\00:41:47.20
and proven fact medically,
00:41:47.24\00:41:48.70
so in scripture that
it destroys this temple.
00:41:48.74\00:41:53.31
It kills us,
causes of these diseases,
00:41:53.34\00:41:55.41
we die from it.
00:41:55.44\00:41:56.85
We're slowly killing
ourself, one cigarette at a time
00:41:56.88\00:42:00.42
and that could be in
many other areas too,
00:42:00.45\00:42:01.95
one drink at a
time, one drug at a time,
00:42:01.98\00:42:03.75
whatever it might be.
00:42:03.79\00:42:05.42
Temperance, page
65 and 66 says this,
00:42:05.45\00:42:08.92
"They, talk about,
profess to be serving God
00:42:08.96\00:42:12.69
while they are
committing idolatry."
00:42:12.73\00:42:14.96
Here, it's considered what?
00:42:15.00\00:42:17.83
Idolatry because
you have an idol.
00:42:17.87\00:42:20.57
If you can't
gain the victory over,
00:42:20.60\00:42:22.57
and you're tied into this thing,
00:42:22.60\00:42:25.07
it's your god, is it not?
00:42:25.11\00:42:26.51
It is an idol.
00:42:26.54\00:42:27.94
That's breaking one
of God's Commandments.
00:42:27.98\00:42:31.21
Commandment is a
commandment, isn't it?
00:42:31.25\00:42:33.18
It's breaking, we
cannot do by the grace of God.
00:42:33.21\00:42:35.28
God help us.
00:42:35.32\00:42:36.82
It says, "While
they're professing
00:42:36.85\00:42:38.82
to be serving God,
00:42:38.85\00:42:40.19
while they are
committing idolatry
00:42:40.22\00:42:42.62
by making a God
of their appetite.
00:42:42.66\00:42:47.50
Tobacco is their cherished idol,
00:42:47.53\00:42:50.27
they violate the
first commandment."
00:42:50.30\00:42:53.44
"Thou shall have no
other gods before Me."
00:42:53.47\00:42:56.44
If a person in this
Temperance, page 65, 66 says,
00:43:01.11\00:43:06.35
"He will," notice the Christian,
00:43:06.38\00:43:08.25
"he will not place
tobacco in his mouth,"
00:43:08.28\00:43:10.95
no one should,
00:43:10.99\00:43:12.32
"knowing that it
defiles God's temple."
00:43:12.35\00:43:14.89
We read that, didn't we?
00:43:14.92\00:43:16.26
1 Corinthians 6,
00:43:16.29\00:43:18.69
"An unnatural appetite for
that which poisons and kills
00:43:18.73\00:43:23.06
not only the user
00:43:23.10\00:43:24.60
but those to whom he transmits
his legacy of disease."
00:43:24.63\00:43:30.21
Mom and dad smoke, right?
00:43:30.24\00:43:31.57
They're
transmitting, what in the house?
00:43:31.61\00:43:33.81
The children grow up
smelling all this smoke
00:43:33.84\00:43:35.71
and in their lungs,
and so on and so forth.
00:43:35.74\00:43:39.01
Not trying to get criticized
or you know, hurt someone,
00:43:39.05\00:43:41.48
but that's what we do.
00:43:41.52\00:43:42.85
When we do that,
that secondhand smoke,
00:43:42.88\00:43:44.62
we are killing not only ourself,
00:43:44.65\00:43:46.25
we're killing our children.
00:43:46.29\00:43:48.36
We're killing others
that we're blowing the smoke
00:43:48.39\00:43:49.99
in their face as it were.
00:43:50.03\00:43:51.76
I can remember for
years, flying on airplanes,
00:43:51.79\00:43:55.53
I never did like to fly on
air, I like flying airplane,
00:43:55.56\00:43:57.33
but I never did
like to fly on it
00:43:57.37\00:43:58.70
because before they ban smoking.
00:43:58.73\00:44:02.47
Almost every time as
the devil would have it,
00:44:02.50\00:44:05.37
I would be at the seat
00:44:05.41\00:44:07.31
to where non
smokers are from here up
00:44:07.34\00:44:10.75
and right behind me
the smoking section began.
00:44:10.78\00:44:12.91
Okay, do you see
what I'm saying that?
00:44:17.95\00:44:22.76
It's right there,
I'm just not trying to,
00:44:22.79\00:44:25.36
you know, trying to make
things look good and so on so.
00:44:25.39\00:44:27.56
But now I'm glad
they banned them,
00:44:27.60\00:44:29.06
you know, it's a killer.
00:44:29.10\00:44:33.84
2 Corinthians 9:8 says this,
00:44:33.87\00:44:36.24
we have eight
minutes or so left.
00:44:36.27\00:44:37.61
2 Corinthians 9:8, it says,
"it's got help from the way."
00:44:37.64\00:44:40.74
Do you like this,
help is on the way,
00:44:40.78\00:44:42.31
you're looking for a
while, I wanting to quit,
00:44:42.34\00:44:43.75
help's on the
way, just claim this.
00:44:43.78\00:44:45.85
2 Corinthians 9:8 says,
00:44:45.88\00:44:47.98
"And God is able to make
all grace abound toward you,
00:44:48.02\00:44:51.85
that you always having
all sufficiency in all things,
00:44:51.89\00:44:55.49
may abound to every good work."
00:44:55.52\00:44:58.23
Do you like that?
God is able to what?
00:44:58.26\00:45:00.96
To make all grace abound,
God's able to give grace,
00:45:01.00\00:45:03.53
we thank toward you,
that having all sufficiency.
00:45:03.57\00:45:06.84
He has all
sufficiency in all things
00:45:06.87\00:45:08.84
and He gives it to us,
00:45:08.87\00:45:10.74
that we're going to
abound in every good work,
00:45:10.77\00:45:12.64
not bad work but what?
00:45:12.67\00:45:14.18
In every good work.
00:45:14.21\00:45:15.54
Gospel Workers 19 says this,
00:45:15.58\00:45:17.78
"Workers for Christ
are never to think..."
00:45:17.81\00:45:20.12
Listen carefully.
00:45:20.15\00:45:21.48
"Workers for
Christ are never to think,
00:45:21.52\00:45:23.59
much less speak of
failure in their work."
00:45:23.62\00:45:26.76
So today we're not
speaking about failure,
00:45:26.79\00:45:28.22
we're thinking
about victory here,
00:45:28.26\00:45:29.69
victory in the blood of Jesus.
00:45:29.72\00:45:31.23
Victory because Christ
wants you to have that victory,
00:45:31.26\00:45:33.56
when it comes to
tobacco, or alcohol, or drugs,
00:45:33.60\00:45:35.76
or any of those
things that hurts His temple.
00:45:35.80\00:45:38.87
Notice here, we're not to speak,
00:45:38.90\00:45:40.24
much less speak of
this failure in their work
00:45:40.27\00:45:42.74
"The Lord Jesus
is our efficiency
00:45:42.77\00:45:44.94
in all things,
00:45:44.97\00:45:46.64
we may draw upon His fullness,
00:45:46.68\00:45:48.48
and receive of that
grace which has no limit."
00:45:48.51\00:45:51.81
I know that's too much.
00:45:51.85\00:45:53.18
It's like our mindset, "Oh
my," who is our efficiency?
00:45:53.21\00:45:56.95
Christ is, we're not on our own.
00:45:56.99\00:45:58.85
He is our efficiency.
00:45:58.89\00:46:00.22
He's our
efficiency in all things,
00:46:00.26\00:46:02.09
not just
forgetting, Oh, I love this.
00:46:02.12\00:46:04.23
Now we, and we can
draw from His fullness.
00:46:04.26\00:46:07.03
Notice that, we can
receive from His grace
00:46:07.06\00:46:09.83
and which has no limit.
00:46:09.86\00:46:11.83
How wonderful we serve
a God that has no limit,
00:46:11.87\00:46:14.30
no matter how rough it gets,
00:46:14.34\00:46:15.67
no matter what
you're involved with,
00:46:15.70\00:46:17.41
God can give you
the victory here.
00:46:17.44\00:46:19.21
We're talking principle
day tobacco number one,
00:46:19.24\00:46:21.78
but in all principles,
everything what God says.
00:46:21.81\00:46:25.18
Philippians 3:13, notice this,
00:46:25.21\00:46:27.22
it says,
"Brethren, I count not myself
00:46:27.25\00:46:29.38
to have apprehended,
00:46:29.42\00:46:30.75
but one thing I do,
I'm forgetting," what?
00:46:30.79\00:46:34.06
"Those things which are behind."
00:46:34.09\00:46:35.62
I'm encouraging you
to forget those things
00:46:35.66\00:46:37.29
that are behind about yesterday,
00:46:37.33\00:46:39.89
"reaching forth
unto those things
00:46:39.93\00:46:42.20
which are before."
00:46:42.23\00:46:43.57
By faith, I'm
reaching by that before,
00:46:43.60\00:46:45.53
God give me the victory.
00:46:45.57\00:46:46.90
I'm no longer in
bondage anymore to the enemy.
00:46:46.94\00:46:49.90
I'm feeling of
freedom from this,
00:46:49.94\00:46:51.27
because God's
given me that freedom
00:46:51.31\00:46:52.64
because God wants me to have it.
00:46:52.67\00:46:54.01
He is the efficiency, right?
00:46:54.04\00:46:55.38
He's won the battle
already. I need to do my part.
00:46:55.41\00:46:59.61
We may have made a lot
of bad choices in our time.
00:46:59.65\00:47:02.52
Some of these choices
have affected us mentally,
00:47:02.55\00:47:05.65
and physically, and spiritually,
00:47:05.69\00:47:07.59
and even financially.
00:47:07.62\00:47:09.16
But God is able to
change and He's able to restore.
00:47:09.19\00:47:12.56
I want to encourage
you with that today.
00:47:12.59\00:47:14.10
Where he sees fit, He can do it.
00:47:14.13\00:47:17.63
Tobacco has a
death grip on millions.
00:47:17.67\00:47:21.40
And we need to
claim the converting power
00:47:21.44\00:47:23.94
and strength of
Jesus Christ to overcome.
00:47:23.97\00:47:27.14
Yeah, remember this,
you've read it before.
00:47:27.18\00:47:30.35
What you don't
overcome will what?
00:47:30.38\00:47:33.28
Overcome you. Overcomes you.
00:47:33.31\00:47:36.45
You think about it.
00:47:36.48\00:47:37.82
Temperance, 69
says, notice this,
00:47:37.85\00:47:39.52
this gets down to it,
00:47:39.55\00:47:40.89
it says, the
practice of using liquor.
00:47:40.92\00:47:42.96
I must gonna get down to
if you don't care right now.
00:47:42.99\00:47:44.96
I had a few other things in here
00:47:44.99\00:47:46.33
because this is what it says.
00:47:46.36\00:47:47.70
I think we need to be a
little bit more responsible
00:47:47.73\00:47:49.50
as Christians to say, you know,
00:47:49.53\00:47:50.87
God has a word
for us in due season.
00:47:50.90\00:47:52.83
Tobacco may not be my deal,
00:47:52.87\00:47:54.40
maybe, you know,
drinking is not my deal.
00:47:54.44\00:47:56.57
But there may be a couple
other little deals on here
00:47:56.60\00:47:58.71
that we need to deal with.
00:47:58.74\00:48:00.18
Because sometimes
these are things that we do
00:48:00.21\00:48:01.94
and we take in
00:48:01.98\00:48:03.35
and it causes a
craving for these other things.
00:48:03.38\00:48:05.81
Just let me read it,
00:48:05.85\00:48:07.18
you do what you
want to do with it.
00:48:07.22\00:48:08.65
Temperance, page 69,
"The practice of using liquor,
00:48:08.68\00:48:11.69
tobacco, tea, and coffee
00:48:11.72\00:48:14.72
must be overcome by the
converting power of God.
00:48:14.76\00:48:18.93
There shall nothing enter
00:48:18.96\00:48:20.46
into the kingdom
of God that," what?
00:48:20.50\00:48:22.76
"That defileth it."
00:48:22.80\00:48:24.27
Revelation 21:27, how
many times we read that?
00:48:24.30\00:48:28.30
We know that, don't we?
00:48:28.34\00:48:29.67
Nothing's going to
enter the kingdom that what?
00:48:29.70\00:48:31.87
That defiles it, and
here it says right here,
00:48:31.91\00:48:35.48
coffee and tea,
00:48:35.51\00:48:36.85
and it's talking
about the other here,
00:48:36.88\00:48:38.41
it says liquor and tobacco,
it's not going to enter there.
00:48:38.45\00:48:42.22
Victory needs to be gain.
00:48:42.25\00:48:43.59
God wants us to give
that victory right now.
00:48:43.62\00:48:44.95
Why?
00:48:44.99\00:48:46.32
Because that stuff works on us,
00:48:46.35\00:48:47.72
that caffeine
is related to what?
00:48:47.76\00:48:49.92
Caffeine and nicotine
and so on, they are all in,
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.59
i-n-e on the end,
they're all related.
00:48:52.63\00:48:55.76
And they all, the enemy
has out there to hurt us,
00:48:55.80\00:48:58.63
to make our bodies feel like
00:48:58.67\00:49:00.00
when they don't feel like
we get this into our body.
00:49:00.04\00:49:02.34
It makes us feel like we
want to go do these things.
00:49:02.37\00:49:04.77
But it's a false
strength, it's false power.
00:49:04.81\00:49:08.84
And when it wears
off, we're let down again,
00:49:08.88\00:49:11.31
and we wanna go back.
00:49:11.35\00:49:13.05
You know, we need to
recognize how great, and good,
00:49:13.08\00:49:15.58
and powerful God is.
00:49:15.62\00:49:17.49
Don't we? The next
passage we have here.
00:49:17.52\00:49:19.39
We can't read it
all because of our time.
00:49:19.42\00:49:20.76
Psalm 86,
00:49:20.79\00:49:22.12
the whole chapter is
left for us to investigate.
00:49:22.16\00:49:24.39
I love that. I
think there's verses 1-17.
00:49:24.43\00:49:27.46
Let me just read through them.
00:49:27.50\00:49:29.06
I said, let's just go and
pick out a couple of names.
00:49:29.10\00:49:31.43
Because recognizing
how powerful God is,
00:49:31.47\00:49:33.70
He's assuring
that we have victory
00:49:33.74\00:49:35.30
through Jesus Christ.
00:49:35.34\00:49:36.74
Let's paraphrase
this whole chapter,
00:49:36.77\00:49:38.27
shall we just do that?
00:49:38.31\00:49:39.64
Please read it yourself.
Psalm 86:1-17. He stated this.
00:49:39.67\00:49:44.08
Notice this, He said, "Hear
me, for I am poor and needy.
00:49:44.11\00:49:47.68
Be merciful unto me.
00:49:47.72\00:49:49.05
Thou art good,
and ready to forgive."
00:49:49.08\00:49:51.39
Notice, "There
is none like thee.
00:49:51.42\00:49:53.39
Thou art great."
00:49:53.42\00:49:54.76
Somebody prays,
"Teach me thy way.
00:49:54.79\00:49:57.23
I will praise thee.
00:49:57.26\00:49:58.59
Have mercy, give me
strength and comfort me."
00:49:58.63\00:50:01.96
Man, this is just a
couple of words out,
00:50:02.00\00:50:03.53
these verses it says,
God is able, is He not?
00:50:03.57\00:50:06.94
Exodus 14:14, "The
Lord shall fight for you,
00:50:06.97\00:50:10.37
and ye shall hold your peace."
00:50:10.41\00:50:13.54
Let God fight your battles.
God wants to fight your battle.
00:50:13.58\00:50:16.24
Victory is
assured. Exodus 14:14.
00:50:16.28\00:50:19.25
Mark 9:23, the Bible
said, "Jesus said unto him,
00:50:19.28\00:50:24.12
If thou canst," what?
00:50:24.15\00:50:26.45
"If thou canst
believe, all things," what?
00:50:26.49\00:50:29.09
What are they?
00:50:29.12\00:50:30.46
"All things are
possible to him that believeth."
00:50:30.49\00:50:33.96
Can you do this? Jesus
said, "Can you believe."
00:50:34.00\00:50:36.67
If you just believe
00:50:36.70\00:50:38.03
that God can help
you gain that victory,
00:50:38.07\00:50:40.14
you can have it. He
says, you can have it.
00:50:40.17\00:50:42.37
"All things are
possible to him that believeth."
00:50:42.40\00:50:44.54
Believeth to me, dear
friend, is an action word,
00:50:44.57\00:50:47.11
how about you?
00:50:47.14\00:50:48.48
It's assurance, it's faith,
it's fidelity, it's conviction,
00:50:48.51\00:50:53.01
it's consistency,
00:50:53.05\00:50:54.68
it's living up to what you know.
00:50:54.72\00:50:56.92
We have to do that
by the grace of God.
00:50:56.95\00:50:59.09
Christian Temperance
and Bible Hygiene 37, says,
00:50:59.12\00:51:02.52
"If men would become
temperate in all things,
00:51:02.56\00:51:06.19
if they," now listen carefully,
"if they would touch not,
00:51:06.23\00:51:09.46
taste not, handle not, tea,
coffee, tobacco, wines, opium,
00:51:09.50\00:51:15.00
and alcoholic
drinks, reason," notice this,
00:51:15.04\00:51:18.34
"would take the
reins of government
00:51:18.37\00:51:20.58
in her own hands,
00:51:20.61\00:51:21.94
and hold the appetites
and passions under control."
00:51:21.98\00:51:25.98
Through appetite,
Satan controls what?
00:51:26.01\00:51:30.69
What does he control? He
controls man, through what?
00:51:30.72\00:51:33.32
Through appetite.
00:51:33.36\00:51:34.69
He controls man
then the whole being,
00:51:34.72\00:51:36.32
it started where?
00:51:36.36\00:51:38.29
In Eden, did it not?
00:51:38.33\00:51:39.73
Take control today
00:51:39.76\00:51:41.10
and quit smoking
by the grace of God.
00:51:41.13\00:51:43.20
Leave you this passage
of scripture in John 15:16,
00:51:43.23\00:51:46.13
here's what the
Bible said, grab this.
00:51:46.17\00:51:48.44
Take control today.
00:51:48.47\00:51:49.80
God's going to help
you if you have, notice it,
00:51:49.84\00:51:52.54
"Ye have not
chosen me, but" what?
00:51:52.57\00:51:54.94
"But I have chosen
you, and ordained you,
00:51:54.98\00:51:57.48
that ye should go
and bring forth fruit,
00:51:57.51\00:52:00.78
and that your
fruit should remain,
00:52:00.82\00:52:02.92
that whatsoever ye shall
ask of the Father in my name,"
00:52:02.95\00:52:06.42
what will happen here?
00:52:06.45\00:52:08.42
"He may give it you."
00:52:08.46\00:52:10.76
This is what we're
going to grasp today,
00:52:10.79\00:52:12.46
for those who
want to take control
00:52:12.49\00:52:14.33
and to quit smoking
00:52:14.36\00:52:15.70
or other things that
you may have in your life,
00:52:15.73\00:52:17.57
that victory needs
to be gained right now.
00:52:17.60\00:52:20.14
He is assuring us right now.
00:52:20.17\00:52:22.50
Don't miss this opportunity
to say God's going to help us.
00:52:22.54\00:52:26.61
He's in control.
Let Him be in control.
00:52:26.64\00:52:28.94
Let Him drive.
Don't you drive anymore?
00:52:28.98\00:52:30.78
You don't get
yourself in trouble.
00:52:30.81\00:52:32.28
Let God do the driving.
00:52:32.31\00:52:34.12
And you remember,
I've chosen you. Amen.
00:52:34.15\00:52:37.29
I've chosen you,
He says right to you
00:52:37.32\00:52:39.45
and I've ordained you.
00:52:39.49\00:52:41.06
Praise God for that.
00:52:41.09\00:52:42.42
Let's pray a short
prayer right now in closing
00:52:42.46\00:52:43.93
because some of you right now
00:52:43.96\00:52:45.39
have made that
decision by the grace of God.
00:52:45.43\00:52:47.13
Let's thank God
for it, shall we?
00:52:47.16\00:52:49.26
Merciful God in heaven,
00:52:49.30\00:52:50.63
we thank You for
Your precious Word.
00:52:50.67\00:52:52.00
Thank You for hearing.
00:52:52.03\00:52:53.37
Thank You for answering
prayer for those by the hundreds
00:52:53.40\00:52:55.47
that made a decision right now.
00:52:55.50\00:52:57.01
I'm going to give this
up because it's hurting me,
00:52:57.04\00:52:58.97
it's hurting my family,
it's hurting me spiritually,
00:52:59.01\00:53:01.08
mentally, and
physically, and financially.
00:53:01.11\00:53:02.44
And today I give it to you
claim victory in Jesus' name.
00:53:02.48\00:53:05.25
Amen.
00:53:05.28\00:53:07.42
We thank you very
much for joining us here
00:53:07.45\00:53:08.92
at Behold the Lamb today.
00:53:08.95\00:53:10.29
We thank you for your prayers.
00:53:10.32\00:53:11.69
Thank you for your support
in all that you've done for us.
00:53:11.72\00:53:14.16
And God bless you.
00:53:14.19\00:53:15.52
And we look forward
to seeing you next time.
00:53:15.56\00:53:16.89
Hello and welcome back, friends,
00:53:19.69\00:53:21.46
take control and quit smoking.
00:53:21.50\00:53:23.57
That's really what needs
to be done with this habit.
00:53:23.60\00:53:26.50
But we realized that
we don't have the power
00:53:26.53\00:53:29.07
within ourselves.
00:53:29.10\00:53:30.51
So praise God for all
the wonderful Bible passages
00:53:30.54\00:53:34.01
that we just heard
with Pastor Kenny Shelton,
00:53:34.04\00:53:36.48
that helps us to realize
00:53:36.51\00:53:38.05
that we don't have
to do this on our own.
00:53:38.08\00:53:40.82
We have an
infinite source of strength
00:53:40.85\00:53:43.32
that wants to help us
with every step of the way.
00:53:43.35\00:53:47.19
In the beginning
of today's message,
00:53:47.22\00:53:48.79
I mentioned to
you that our bodies
00:53:48.82\00:53:50.46
are the temple
of the Holy Ghost.
00:53:50.49\00:53:52.49
It's where the
Holy Ghost comes in.
00:53:52.53\00:53:55.03
He takes control of
our minds and our thoughts
00:53:55.06\00:53:57.30
as we invite him to do so.
00:53:57.33\00:53:59.63
He strengthens us to
clean up these temple bodies
00:53:59.67\00:54:03.64
and to make them as
healthy as possible.
00:54:03.67\00:54:06.27
Let's look at a
verse in the Bible.
00:54:06.31\00:54:08.14
Psalm 86 and we're
going to start with verse 1,
00:54:08.18\00:54:11.71
"Bow down thine
ear, O Lord, hear me,
00:54:11.75\00:54:14.85
for I am poor and needy."
00:54:14.88\00:54:17.22
Friends, we are all in need,
00:54:17.25\00:54:19.55
as are those with
the habit of smoking,
00:54:19.59\00:54:21.52
all of us are in need.
00:54:21.56\00:54:23.09
You know, I had an
aunt, many years ago,
00:54:23.12\00:54:25.83
she was a prolific smoker.
00:54:25.86\00:54:27.73
She was a chain-smoker,
00:54:27.76\00:54:29.13
just one cigarette
right after another.
00:54:29.16\00:54:31.77
And if she went
for any length of time
00:54:31.80\00:54:33.74
without smoking,
00:54:33.77\00:54:35.10
her body would
literally begin to shake.
00:54:35.14\00:54:37.61
It was that encompassing
of her nervous system.
00:54:37.64\00:54:40.88
And if this is you,
00:54:40.91\00:54:43.35
I just want you to
know right now there's hope.
00:54:43.38\00:54:46.21
There is hope.
00:54:46.25\00:54:47.58
Years ago, we were told that
00:54:47.62\00:54:49.05
once the lung
tissues were damaged,
00:54:49.08\00:54:51.75
that was it, they
couldn't be repaired.
00:54:51.79\00:54:54.36
However, now
science has shown us
00:54:54.39\00:54:56.59
that if we do quit smoking,
00:54:56.62\00:54:58.63
the lung tissue can be repaired,
00:54:58.66\00:55:01.40
it can repair itself.
00:55:01.43\00:55:03.20
God made wonderful body temples.
00:55:03.23\00:55:05.83
We are poor, we are
needy, we need God's help.
00:55:05.87\00:55:10.71
And one thing you
don't want to do is
00:55:10.74\00:55:12.34
continue to smoke
and develop lung cancer.
00:55:12.37\00:55:15.64
That is one of the
most horrible deaths.
00:55:15.68\00:55:18.61
It's incredibly sad
to what someone literally
00:55:18.65\00:55:22.02
smothered a death
day after day after day.
00:55:22.05\00:55:26.42
Let's read on in Psalm 86.
00:55:26.45\00:55:28.12
We're gonna read in verse 3,
00:55:28.16\00:55:30.93
"Be merciful unto me, O Lord:
for I cry unto thee daily."
00:55:30.96\00:55:35.80
Jump down to verse 7,
00:55:35.83\00:55:37.53
"In the day of my
trouble I will call upon thee,
00:55:37.57\00:55:40.57
for thou will answer me."
00:55:40.60\00:55:43.37
He's there, friends.
00:55:43.41\00:55:45.04
He wants to answer
your prayers of help.
00:55:45.07\00:55:48.34
Let's close with verse 11.
00:55:48.38\00:55:51.05
"Teach me thy way, O Lord,
00:55:51.08\00:55:52.98
I will walk in thy truth:
00:55:53.01\00:55:54.58
unite my heart
to fear thy name."
00:55:54.62\00:55:58.05
You know, as we walk with
God, He continues to teach us,
00:55:58.09\00:56:02.42
He continues to strengthen us,
00:56:02.46\00:56:04.39
He continues to
give us direction.
00:56:04.43\00:56:07.00
My step dad, he was
also a chain-smoker,
00:56:07.03\00:56:10.30
and he drank all the time.
00:56:10.33\00:56:12.20
He drank alcohol
as if it were water.
00:56:12.23\00:56:14.97
You never saw him at work.
00:56:15.00\00:56:16.37
You never saw him in the home
without a beer can in his hand.
00:56:16.40\00:56:20.24
But once he came to
Christ, he cried out to God,
00:56:20.28\00:56:23.95
God took it
immediately from him.
00:56:23.98\00:56:26.98
And then there are others
that I've known in this life
00:56:27.02\00:56:29.88
that they just have
to prolong a bit longer,
00:56:29.92\00:56:33.12
in earnest prayer.
00:56:33.15\00:56:34.49
But, friends,
just never give up.
00:56:34.52\00:56:36.73
Never stop believing,
00:56:36.76\00:56:38.19
claim God's promises
for help as your very own.
00:56:38.23\00:56:42.76
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00:56:42.80\00:56:45.93
take control and quit smoking,
00:56:45.97\00:56:48.07
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