I'd like to begin
tonight by inviting you
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to use your
imagination, I want you to
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pretend you have
been given three wishes
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to ask for anything
in life that you want.
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With those three
wishes as you're thinking now
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what would you
choose to wish for
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how many of you would
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seriously
consider using one of your
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wishes to wish
for perfect health
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for the rest of your
life could I see your hands
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oh look at all those
hands that are up, so I think
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we all agree that
good health is important
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and when you think about
it, it is a key ingredient to
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happiness. one of the most
wonderful truths about God is
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that He loves and cares
for us in a very personal
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and a very intimate way and
you will find that He has given
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us principles in scripture
of how to live a happy healthy,
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and abundant life I want you
totake your Bibles and turn with
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me to John chapter 10 and
verse 10 this will be one our
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foundational text tonight. Now
I'm going to read this off the
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screen John 10 verse 10 these
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are the words of
Jesus. The bible says
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Now who is the thief
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that Jesus is talking about
here? well tha is the devil
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Satan would like nothing more
than to steal our Joy, to get us
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to engage in practices
that would destroy our minds and
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bodies so that we cannot connect
with God see the devil wants to
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tear down Jesus wants to
build up and he says he has come
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so that we can
life more abundantly
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in fact more than
that, just a few years later
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John wrote these words in his
letter to the christian church
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3rd John chapter 1
verse 2 he bible says
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See, one of the things you
find about God is He isn't only
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interested in our spiritual
health but also interested in
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our physical health. You
say now why would that be?
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Why would God be interested in
my physical health. Because God
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is a loving parent see actually
there is actually three is
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reasons I want to put them on
the screen for us to take a look
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at. Reason #1 Is
that God loves us.
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I want uou to think about
your mother. How many of you
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had Mother's who stood
by you at the kitchen table
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and insisted that you
eat all the vegetables
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on your plate. Can I see your
hands oh my many of us, listen
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my mother would stand
there and she was so fearful
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that I wouldn't eat enough to
keep a bird alive you know what
she would call me in
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I just wanted eat a couple bites
and go back and play with my
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friends like any kid would want
to do and she got so scared she
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keep calling up the doctor
saying doctor he wouldn't eat
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anything he would eat and
she did this over and over again
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until finally the doctor got
tired of it and said mam listen,
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when the boy is
hungry the boy will eat
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and she finally my mother
learned to accepted that, so why
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do you think our mother did
that? Because they're
restrictive because they
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what to force us to do thing
we don't like to do. Because
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they love us and want us to
be bif and strong and healthy
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and in some ways God is
the very same way he is like a
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loving parent. Reason # 1
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God understands that
it is hard to be happy
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when you are in poor health
isn't it? It is not impossible
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but when you have aches and
pains and your suffering, you
can't do the things that
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that you want to do it's
hard to be happy and God wants
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better better for us than
that. and of course reason
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#3 is We can't serve
the Lord to are fullest
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potential when we're in poor
health. I can't tell how many
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people have said to me, I wish I
could do more for the Lord but I
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can't do things I used
to do because of my health
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God says he wants us to
prosper and He wants us to be in
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health. But,here is the question
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if God wants me to
live an abundant life
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then why is the opposite
happening in our world today
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why is our health
in such sad state of
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affairs healthcare has problems
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our bodies are
dying and deteriorating
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every nursing home is usually
overflowing every hospital
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so if God wants me to
prosper and be in health
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what is the problem and the
conclusion we come to is this
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is it possible that God
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has given this world
some principles of health that
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we have been over looking?
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is it possible that God has
given a health plan to human
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family that the
world has been ignoring
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and the answer is yes that why
tonight we are going to study
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God's health plan for human
family so I want you to take
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your Bibles and we're going
to look at the three pronged
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approached of God's plan
for the human family all three
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of these healthprinciple
are found in the book of 1st
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Corinthians so take your bibles
and we are going to go to 1st
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Corinthians chapter 10 and
we are going to begin in verse
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31 The Bible says, Therefore
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whether you eat
or whether you drink
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or whatever you do,
do all to the (what?)
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glory of God and that
is just one sentence long
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the bible basically telling
whatever we do whether it's
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eating drinking whatever
practice we engage in it ought
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to be positive and
brings glory and brings
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honor to God that
is health principle #1
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Health principle
#2 is still found in
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1st Corinthians but it is
in chapter 6, lets go there
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1st Corinthians
chapter 6 and in verse
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19 Paul writes
this and the bible
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says Or do you not know that
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your body is the (what?)
temple temple of the Holy
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Spirit within you,
whom you have from God,
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and you are not your own?
for you were bought at a price
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therefore
glorify God in your body
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and in your spirit
which are God's Now we got
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to stop there for second
there is a principle in that
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verse that many people
in the world don't like
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it is telling us that my
body doesn't belong to me
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and I do not have the
right to do it whatever
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I wish. See that is a
a hard conncept because
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when you think about
it who created the body
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of course God did. I didn't
create my own body I didn't form
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My heart and my lungs and
my veins and my capillaries
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God did that so not
only did he create my body
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but the Bible says he died
for me on the cross of calvary
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so there is two ways he
owns me. Creation and by
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redemption, Can you say
Amen. so see many times people
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say it is my body I'll do what
I want as long as it doesn't
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hurt anybody else.
Actually that's not true
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my body, your body, is
the temple of the Holy Spirit
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it is where God wants
to dwell so this passage
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is telling us that we need
to honor God with our bodies
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and take care of them because
really when you think about
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it it makes a lot of sense how
many bodies do we get on earth
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you get one so if I mess
it up I don't get another
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one until the day of the
resurrection. So thst is pricple
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#2. principle #3
is a couple pages back
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in chapter 3 1st
Corinthians chapter 3
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and verse 16
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The Bible says, Do you not know
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that you are the temple
of God and that the spirit
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of God dwells in you
if anyone defiles the
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temple of God, God will
destroy him, for the temple
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of God is holy,
which temple you are
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this kind of reiterates a little
bit more what the last verse
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said what the Bible is telling
us is simply saying, don't do
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anything that would
destroy the body or the
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mind not only because it
belongs to Gods but He also
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given it to us to you to use
on this earth. Can you say amen?
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and when we destroy
that body or mind it is
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going to affect our happiness
even right here and right now,
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so God loves us enough
to give us these principles
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in fact lets put
all three on the screen
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#1 Our helth
habits should glorify God.
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# 2 Our is holy
it belongs to Him
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therefor we should take
care of it. And principle #3
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we are not to
engage in any that destroys
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the body, that is it.
That's God's health plan
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for the human family
See if you were read all
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the healthcare laws and bills
today you would likely read
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about hundreds and hundreds of
pages filled things and complex
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language. God is pretty simple
Amen three principles He doesn't
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tell us 100,000 things we
can and can't do he says listen,
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here are the principles,you
apply it to your life in
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your situation, and God's
Holy Spirit will guide you.
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three simple things
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now let me ask you
a question how many
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of you would like to own a
Mercedes Benz? Come on you can
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be honest. how many would
like to have someone give them a
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Mercedes Benz only half of you
cause half don't have your hand
up, if someone offered it to me
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free I would take it. Now
Mercedes Benz it is known to be
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one of the best automobile in
the world it is put through
hundreds of quality
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tests so when you
finally get one you know
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yor're getting
soemthing good but lets suppose
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when I got Mercedes Benz ,
in the glove box should be a
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(what?) an owners
manual, that owners manual
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details for me how to
take care of this car how often
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to change the oil, the
air filter what kind of gas,
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to put in it all these
things I need to know to keep
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it good,running and
healthy, but would what happen
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if when I went to the gas
station I though you know what
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instead of put diesel in here
because that cost money I'm just
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going to put regular gas in.
What would happen to my Mercedes
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Benz? pretty soon it
would be in the repair shop
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with a big bill. Now can can
I blame Mercedes Benz for that?
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I can't beacuse
I ignored the owner
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manual. sometimes
thats the way we are with God
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we ignore his health
principles and then blame God
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when something
negative or bad happens to us
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that not fair but
see what God has said
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even if we engage in unhealthful
practices, He said I still love
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you I'm going to deliver
you and I want to set you free
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if you will let me. Can you say
amen? So here is what we're
going to do tonight
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We are going to take
these three simple principles
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and we're going to
apply them to specific things
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that people struggle with
in our world today, Now I want
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to let you know ahead of time
that we're probably we're going
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to tread on sensitive
subjects it is not meant to hurt
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or offend anyone or make them
feel bad because the truth is
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every person setting here
right now including myself
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we all have some some king
of addiction in our live is that
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not true for some its physical
that is just more visible or
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others it maybe a spititual some
kind of emotional that no body
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else can really see we
all have faults and our
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weaknesses. God wants to
give us victory over them all
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and no person is better
than anyone else in God eyes
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can we all agree on that
so here is what we're going do
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i wanna tell you a story
about to lead into this about
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Doctor Richard
Walden. He was a physician
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in california and he got
tired of all his patients coming
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to him and asking for
some kind of pills or medicine
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to take away their
aches and pains while still
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continuing their unhealthy
practices that causing it
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beginning and he couldn't
seem to get through his patients
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you need to make different
lifestyle choices so here is
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what he did he wrote a
little booklet He put it in his
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waiting room and
titled it, I'll tell you
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how to die younger
can you imagine that
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this a bold physician,
cause you know waiting room
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what are you usually
doing, your're waiting and
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reading so he knew his so knew
his patients would pick it up
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he listed about 10 things. This
is the first thing that he put
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in his booklet about
to die younger, he wrote,
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Now we are going to
pause here for a second
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because manytimes a person may
say now wait a minute the bible
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does not say thou shall
not smoke,it's true the bible
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doesn't say the bible also
doesn't say thou shall stuff
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cocaine or thou shall
inject heroine but there
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are principles in the
Bible that will help us
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make our decisions. The
thing is we want to understand
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I know many beautiful
christians who love God with all
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their heart and have
struggled with this particular
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practice. In fact I have had
People tell me this is one of
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hardest addictions to able stop
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but you know God
has something better
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lets just take a look at
some scientific and medical
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facts about smoking that
probably won't surprise any body
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We are are told
18 active poisons
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in tobacco alone, the
main ones nicotine and tar
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Did you know that
half drop of raw nicotine
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would kill a
rabbit, just half a drop
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and there is 21/2 drops of
nicotine in every cigarette
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you say way doesn't it
kill us instantly you know
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why? Because the
Bible says our bodies
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are fearfully nad wonderfully
made amen? its amazing
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that whenever something negative
happens to the body God created
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it to start healing
itself already properties
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and agencies go into place
and we cut ourself or a foreign
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substance goes in and the body
starts making itself well by
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God's grace however,
one we start doing things
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over and over, over a
long period of time eventually
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it catches up
with us. Since 1937
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death from lung
cancer has increased 4 times
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there is 700,000
people who die from
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cigarette related
diseases it's a mind and body
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destroying habit, and you
notice the Surgeon Gemeral
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you know and government
standards aren't exactly the
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highest, but even the Surgeon
General puts a warning on every
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single pack of
cigarettes now just
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looking at those statistics
alone knowing what it does
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to one's mind and
body, if we were to applied
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the three health
principles from the bible.
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what do you think? Smoking is
it a health habit that glorifies
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God, Yes or No? Not
really, our body is Holly
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and belongs to God is smoking
taking care of the body? Yes or
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No not really is it something
that destroys the mind and body?
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Yes! So according
health principle of the bible
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Not my opinion or Marks,
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is smoking something God wants
to be in are life? It is not!
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you say but
Pastor Dave I've known
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that I want to be
able to stop I can't seam
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to be able do it, bother
and sister I want you to know
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I can understand that, and there
is something I want you to hear
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load and clear Regardless
what anybody else may tell you
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God does not love you any less
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because you smoke. Can you say
Amen. and He not going love you
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any more when quit,
He already love now as
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much as He possibly can,
because sometimes we get the
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impression oh, someone who
smokes or who struggles this
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health habit they are inferior
there are love they are less by
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God that is that is absolutely
untrue, God won't love you
anymore when stop whatever
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that health practice is, you
say well then why should stop
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if a person stops, it
isn't becasue it gains them
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righteousness it is because
it go to make God love more
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or their going to get into
heaven easier ti they to stop
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it's because inside they have
been conviction and there're I
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want to care of mind and body
I'm surrendering to You and I'm
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asking You to take this out of
my life, it is a response to the
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love of God you to
make God love you,I choose
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to stop becasue we are
responding to what He did on the
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cross calvary, if that
makes sense can you say amen
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but you know smoking is not the
only thing we can struggle with
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notice the seocnd
thing that is listed in
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Dr. Walter's pamphlet, I love to
hold get ahold of this pamphlet,
but i have been able find it
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#2 He said if you
want to die younger
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drink alcohol even in moderation
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now we perhaps
should tread softly
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here right now alcohol
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is probably a
billion dollar business
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in this country and in
this world probably more
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it is also the
number one drug problem
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that exists. So
the the question is
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how does God look at the idea of
alcohol because there are mixed
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opinions about this. Now the the
bible speaks specifically on it
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but first lets just start
with some scientific and medical
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facts most of us are
probably aware of anyway
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fact # 1 this that
alcohol cost billions dollars
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in lost work medical
expense and auto accidents
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there is a 100,000
deaths do to alcohol
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800,000 on the
road in auto accidents
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it is a
significant factor in violent
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crimes like rape and
murder etc. and you kow the one
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that realy struck me 61 million
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families have been by alcohol
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in a negative
way, how many families
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have been torn
apart because of something
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done or said by a
person that was nfluence
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something else
words that could never
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taken back actions that
that you could never undo
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61 million families and I
would guaranty you the number
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is higher than that because
that is only the cases that been
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reported that doesn'teven count
the secret things that happen
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silence every single day
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that is world statistics
but does God say anything
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about this? And He
does I want to invite you
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Turn in your bibles to the book
of Proverbs. What book are we
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going? to
Proverbs chapter 20 and
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and we are going look a
verse one. The Bible says,
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wine is a (what?) mocker,
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and strong drink
is a brawler, and
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whoever is led
astray by it is not wise
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Now let me ask you, before we
dig into doe's that sound like
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positive or negative comment
on alcohol what do you think?
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now that is pretty negative. I
mean God come right out He says
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listen alcohol will
mock you, it will make a fool
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of you and if
you ever see someone
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who is under the
influence whether your self
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at inopportune munite
or someone else we realize
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what alcohol can do. See when
someone is under the influence
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they no longer have control of
their mind they usally go one of
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two ways either A,
alcohol mocks them,
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because they lose control and
they either do something silly
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or something stupid
or something humiliate
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for the rest of their life
because they are not thinking
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any more but those
who are not something
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silly or humiliating something
the would never do under normal
00:23:05.51\00:23:09.52
circumstances if you go to other
side of continuum there are
00:23:09.52\00:23:13.52
those those that don't
silly they get mean and angry
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and nasty. Because
what else did Solomon write?
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strong drink is
a (what?) brawler,
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how many bar room
fights have there been because
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how many bar room fights have
there been because of alcohol
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and you know
what is sad how much
00:23:33.54\00:23:37.55
spousal and child
abuse has been a result
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of somebody being under
influence doing something
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they would never do
under normal circumstance
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when lose control one
time it came effect you
00:23:49.56\00:23:53.56
for the rest of your life,
because your giving your mind
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over to something
else and that's why
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God loves us too much
to stay silent about it.
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He says it is not wise to be
led astray by wine or alcohol
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stay away from it, it's
not going to help us live a
00:24:09.64\00:24:13.65
healthy happy
abundant life that God wants
00:24:13.65\00:24:17.65
buy you know something
that really disturbs me
00:24:17.65\00:24:21.66
when I hear people
and even churches says
00:24:21.66\00:24:25.66
oh now wait a
minute Jesus drank alcohol
00:24:25.66\00:24:29.63
and He provided for the
people at the wedding of Cana
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friends I can tell you that from
the bible and the bible alone
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that is absolutely untrue
that is just the Devil's way
00:24:37.64\00:24:41.68
that is teh devil's
way of twisting things
00:24:41.68\00:24:45.68
that he can use to take control
00:24:45.68\00:24:49.68
Jesus never drank alcoholic wine
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how do you know
that? Two reasons just read
00:24:53.69\00:24:57.69
something in the book of Poverbs
didn't we? Let me ask you
00:24:57.69\00:25:01.73
something you do we agree that
Jesus lived a sinless life? Yes
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or No do we agree that
Jesus lived in harmony with
00:25:05.73\00:25:09.74
all the principles of
scripture? Yes or No? indeed!
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they had the old
testament at that time, they the
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book of Proverbs, I am
not willing to say that Jesus
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purposely ignored what was
written right here Proverbs
00:25:21.78\00:25:25.79
and went ahead and
drank alcohol left it as
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an example for future
generations after He would have
00:25:29.79\00:25:33.80
read exactly what Solomon wrote,
because if Solomon wrote it
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Solomon was inspired
of who? The Holy Spirit
00:25:37.77\00:25:41.77
Jesus left the Holy Spirit for
us. Jesus wouldn't contradict
00:25:41.77\00:25:45.77
His own word by
word of by example
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that is reason #1. reason #2
00:25:49.78\00:25:53.78
something sometimes
that confuses people is this
00:25:53.78\00:25:57.82
something sometimes
that confuses people is this
00:25:57.82\00:26:01.89
the Bible uses the word
wine to describe both the
00:26:01.89\00:26:05.89
alcohol and grape
juice, did you know it uses
00:26:05.89\00:26:09.86
the same word wine can
describe fermented wine which is
00:26:09.86\00:26:13.87
alcohol but it can also the
describe unfermented which is
00:26:13.87\00:26:17.87
pure juice of the grape, it uses
the the same word the english
00:26:17.87\00:26:21.91
version does not make a
differentiation you say how
00:26:21.91\00:26:25.91
are you suppose to know which
kind of wine it's talking about
00:26:25.91\00:26:29.92
the Bible uses that word how
do you know if it is speaking of
00:26:29.92\00:26:33.92
alcohol or the fruit of the
vine you have to look at context
00:26:33.92\00:26:37.93
and it will usually be very
clear, for example sense we are
right here in Proverbs
00:26:37.93\00:26:41.90
Proverbs 21 it said wine
00:26:41.90\00:26:45.90
is mocker and so far it
hadn't which kind of wine
00:26:45.90\00:26:49.90
but if you read the very
next sentence it clarifies
00:26:49.90\00:26:53.91
strong drink is a brawler or
some version say intoxicating
00:26:53.91\00:26:57.91
drinks. Well what strong drink
be, would that be grape juice?
00:26:57.91\00:27:01.98
Now obviously that's
talking the about alcoholic
00:27:01.98\00:27:06.02
wine and the bible say stay away
00:27:06.02\00:27:10.03
from it. So see when
the bible speaks of Jesus
00:27:10.03\00:27:14.00
providing wine at the wedding
Canae, that's not alcoholic
00:27:14.00\00:27:18.00
wine you think He would
ignore Proverbs and provide
00:27:18.00\00:27:22.00
something like for the people
in the weeding Cana when He
00:27:22.00\00:27:26.04
is the Son of God it
is talking about pure
00:27:26.04\00:27:30.05
fruit of the vine see
that is why important to
00:27:30.05\00:27:34.05
study the Bible in its
context not just pick out one
00:27:34.05\00:27:38.05
verse, but go to all verses
that talk about this subject
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then we will
discover Bible truth amen?
00:27:42.06\00:27:46.06
actually while we're here there
is one more verse in Proverbs
00:27:46.06\00:27:50.03
that talks about alcohol
it is rather poetic actually
00:27:50.03\00:27:54.04
lets go Proverbs
chapter 23 and verse 29
00:27:54.04\00:27:58.04
The Bible says Who has woe?
00:27:58.04\00:28:02.14
Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions?
00:28:02.14\00:28:06.15
and who has complaints?
Who has wounds without cause?
00:28:06.15\00:28:10.15
who has redness of
the eyes those who linger
00:28:10.15\00:28:14.16
long at the wine those
who go in search of mixed
00:28:14.16\00:28:18.16
wine do not look
on wine when it is red
00:28:18.16\00:28:22.13
when it sparkles in the
cup, when it swirls smoothly
00:28:22.13\00:28:26.13
at the last it bits like a
serpent and stings like a viper
00:28:26.13\00:28:30.17
your eyes will see
strange things and your heart
00:28:30.17\00:28:34.18
will utter perverse things. WOW
00:28:34.18\00:28:38.18
that sounds like someone
experience who has experienced
00:28:38.18\00:28:42.18
that doesn't it? I mean
just notice the summary what he
00:28:42.18\00:28:46.19
writes in 4 or 5 simpleverse.The
Bible says, Alcohol causes woe
00:28:46.19\00:28:50.19
sorrow and contention in peoples
lives, I think King James
00:28:50.19\00:28:54.20
babbling. Have you ever heard
try to talk when they are under
00:28:54.20\00:28:58.20
the influence It causes us to
see strange things, we will say
00:28:58.20\00:29:02.27
cruel or perverse
things and it is compared to
00:29:02.27\00:29:06.27
the poison of a
snake I mean what it say?
00:29:06.27\00:29:10.28
it stings like viper or
some version say like an adder
00:29:10.28\00:29:14.28
see I have heard people
say oh well it's ok just in
00:29:14.28\00:29:18.29
moderation does
the Bible say that?
00:29:18.29\00:29:22.32
or is that just man's
theory I mean if I stood up
00:29:22.32\00:29:26.33
here and said you know
I have cup here of venom
00:29:26.33\00:29:30.27
Cobra, who would like to drink
it, how many people would raise
00:29:30.27\00:29:34.30
there hand? Nobody,
but suppose I said you know
00:29:34.30\00:29:38.31
just have a little bit, just
drink it in moderation would you
00:29:38.31\00:29:42.31
still raise your hand
certainly not, why would we want
00:29:42.31\00:29:46.31
even a little bit of
poison, why would even
00:29:46.31\00:29:50.32
a little bit of a
drink that does these things
00:29:50.32\00:29:54.32
It causes sorrow and
woes takes control of our mind
00:29:54.32\00:29:58.33
thank about who would
invent a drink that does all
00:29:58.33\00:30:02.30
these things and cause us
to lose control of the mind
00:30:02.30\00:30:06.33
Would God invent that for
us? No. That would be the Devil
00:30:06.33\00:30:10.34
it is his way of
trying to get us to
00:30:10.34\00:30:14.34
hand our decision
making ability over to someone
00:30:14.34\00:30:18.35
or something else
cause once we surrender that
00:30:18.35\00:30:22.35
control believe me that
is how the Devil well be
00:30:22.35\00:30:26.35
happy to step in. I
00:30:26.35\00:30:30.39
remember when I was a teenager
my first year of college
00:30:30.39\00:30:34.36
the first couple years I didn't
go to christian college I went
00:30:34.36\00:30:38.37
to public college a lot of
times I can remember on Monday
00:30:38.37\00:30:42.37
mornings seating in a class room
waiting for class to start and
some of other students
00:30:42.37\00:30:46.37
would be talking about you know
what they did on the weekend
00:30:46.37\00:30:50.41
I would kinda set there and
listen, I guess I eavesdropping
00:30:50.41\00:30:54.42
since i was eavesdropping, I
want to here they say, they say
00:30:54.42\00:30:58.42
like aw yeah man I went out
to party, man I drink it up and
00:30:58.42\00:31:02.49
that night I was just puke in
the toilet Man I had agreat time
00:31:02.49\00:31:06.49
now I'm setting thinking
to my self, now wait a minute
00:31:06.49\00:31:10.47
you went to a party and
you drank so much alcohol
00:31:10.47\00:31:14.50
you spend the night sicking your
head your head nasty old toilet
00:31:14.50\00:31:18.47
with who knows what
inside puking your guts out
00:31:18.47\00:31:22.51
That fun? I mean
even if I wasn't a
00:31:22.51\00:31:26.51
a believer I would a a
hard time think that's fun
00:31:26.51\00:31:30.52
In fact I would hear people say,
well you know I got to drink to
00:31:30.52\00:31:34.52
have a goodtime Ya but
the day after you don't
00:31:34.52\00:31:38.53
even remember the good time that
you think you had, see I don't
00:31:38.53\00:31:42.50
understand that in fact you may
find that you did or said some
00:31:42.50\00:31:46.53
things that you are going to
regret for rest of your life and
00:31:46.53\00:31:50.54
it happens
frequently, listen my friend
00:31:50.54\00:31:54.54
Kevin, when I was probably about
20 years old,my best friend
00:31:54.54\00:31:58.55
was a guy name Kevin,
now Kevin wasn't christian
00:31:58.55\00:32:02.62
I am how a Christian and
non christian became such great
00:32:02.62\00:32:06.62
we were great friends, I guess
that is just God bring opposite
00:32:06.62\00:32:10.63
together so we could some how
help each other, well he was
good friend of mine
00:32:10.63\00:32:14.63
and I remember one day my
mom handed me the newspaper
00:32:14.63\00:32:18.63
and said is this Kevin? I said
what are talking about? Now I
00:32:18.63\00:32:22.64
don't know if they still do this
today, in some newspapers they
00:32:22.64\00:32:26.64
actually list the people who
were arrested in town and what
they were arrested for
00:32:26.64\00:32:30.65
I don't know if just do that to
shame them or what so I remember
00:32:30.65\00:32:34.65
seeing my friends in
there, I said nah that can't
00:32:34.65\00:32:38.69
that can't be the Kavin I know,
I said well come to think of it
00:32:38.69\00:32:42.69
I haven't seen him in
the last couple days, so I
00:32:42.69\00:32:46.70
walked across the street to
where his grandparents because
he stayed there alot
00:32:46.70\00:32:50.67
and I said where is
Kavin and his grandpa
00:32:50.67\00:32:54.67
said come here I got to
tell you something, oh boy
00:32:54.67\00:32:58.71
Kevin, was in jail
00:32:58.71\00:33:02.78
In jail for what?
00:33:02.78\00:33:06.78
He said doesn't want you to
come out and see him, but if
00:33:06.78\00:33:10.79
but if you insist I'll take you
out, I'm like he is best friend
00:33:10.79\00:33:14.79
I don't care what he said
I'm going out to see him and I
00:33:14.79\00:33:18.79
remember we took a trip out to
the county jail and I went into
the little visitation
00:33:18.79\00:33:22.80
room where you got to speak, you
know between the thick glass,
00:33:22.80\00:33:26.80
you can only talk on the phone
you can't see or touch each
other and I remember he
00:33:26.80\00:33:30.81
came out with his hands cuffs
and his orange jumpsuit and
00:33:30.81\00:33:34.81
and as soon saw me he was mad,
he turned around and tried to go
00:33:34.81\00:33:38.78
back Dave I told you not come, I
said Kavin what are you talking
00:33:38.78\00:33:42.85
about I'm your best
friend you should have told me
00:33:42.85\00:33:46.86
I remember when he calmed down,
he finally sat there and he told
00:33:46.86\00:33:50.86
me his story I'll
forget it as long as I live
00:33:50.86\00:33:54.86
His girl friend
had broken up with him
00:33:54.86\00:33:58.87
brake ups as a teenager that not
fun, well it's not fun at any
00:33:58.87\00:34:02.94
age but you know it
devastated him so much
00:34:02.94\00:34:06.94
that for the next three days he
went out with another buddy of
00:34:06.94\00:34:10.95
his and they went on a drinking
binge until 2 o'clock in the
00:34:10.95\00:34:14.98
morning and when they
got kicked out of the bar
00:34:14.98\00:34:18.99
they then went out
and vandalized numerous
00:34:18.99\00:34:22.99
cars and houses for
three nights in a row
00:34:22.99\00:34:27.00
eventually the police
caught up to them now he
00:34:27.00\00:34:31.00
he is in jail, and you what
he told me, he look me straight
00:34:31.00\00:34:35.00
in the eyes and he
said Dave, I don,t even
00:34:35.00\00:34:39.01
remember doing it
00:34:39.01\00:34:43.01
you see friends God
has something better for us
00:34:43.01\00:34:47.02
it's the happy healthy
an abundant life. Now listen
00:34:47.02\00:34:51.05
before we move on. I know
for many people whither it be an
00:34:51.05\00:34:55.09
any kind addiction or struggle
did you know that God has
00:34:55.09\00:34:59.13
a plan for victory for all of
us. Can you say amen? He has got
00:34:59.13\00:35:03.20
a five step plan and I want
to share that with you and this
00:35:03.20\00:35:07.20
good for whatever weakness that
we're trying to overcome, cause
God doesn't present us
00:35:07.20\00:35:11.21
things like this and say you
know what you got yourself into
00:35:11.21\00:35:15.28
the mess tough luck you get
yourself out of it, God doesn't
work that way. He says listen
00:35:15.28\00:35:19.28
it was your choose, it maybe
your fault, but you know what
00:35:19.28\00:35:23.32
I am right here beside
you, I will hold your hand
00:35:23.32\00:35:26.86
and I will walk you
through it, He never leaves us
00:35:26.86\00:35:30.89
nor forsakes us,
people might sometimes the
00:35:30.89\00:35:34.86
church might, but Jesus
wouldn't. Can you say amen?
00:35:34.86\00:35:38.90
Let's go through those 5
principles I mean I could spend
all night on the 5 principles
00:35:38.90\00:35:42.90
but we're do them rather
quickly here principle #1
00:35:42.90\00:35:46.94
tell God you've made a desision
to quit,whatever it is, smoking,
00:35:46.94\00:35:50.95
alcohol pornography, bad
temper you name it, it begins
00:35:50.95\00:35:54.98
with you, with
me making a choice
00:35:54.98\00:35:59.02
because before God can
help us, not because He can't
00:35:59.02\00:36:03.09
because He won't
unless we chose to let Him
00:36:03.09\00:36:07.76
God will not force us
to make any choices or
00:36:07.76\00:36:11.77
give anyhting up it against our
will, it has to start with our
00:36:11.77\00:36:15.80
so I have to say
God I am choosing today
00:36:15.80\00:36:19.81
to quit, I don't how I'm going
to do that, but I'm choosing
00:36:19.81\00:36:23.81
today I no longer what them in
my life, I would to quit and I
need You to take it away
00:36:23.81\00:36:27.85
That is #1, Step #2
00:36:27.85\00:36:31.85
Now I go to God I ask
Him to remove the desire
00:36:31.85\00:36:35.89
and I just start thanking
Him for the victory, what do you
00:36:35.89\00:36:39.89
mean I thank him
before it happens? Yes, that's
00:36:39.89\00:36:43.87
faith, see lets be
honest whatever the addiction
00:36:43.87\00:36:47.90
my be, why do we do it? What?
00:36:47.90\00:36:51.91
That is not a hard question
why do we do? We like it.
00:36:51.91\00:36:55.94
It's pleasurable to human nature
00:36:55.94\00:36:59.95
so we have to ask
God to change that,
00:36:59.95\00:37:04.05
remove that desire, and
give us a desire for something
00:37:04.05\00:37:08.06
else, does that make sense? Give
Him permission to take it away
00:37:08.06\00:37:12.09
and then start thanking that
He is going to doing it. Step #3
00:37:12.09\00:37:16.06
Remember that you
are dead to sin. When
00:37:16.06\00:37:20.07
tempted stop and do
what? Pray. You know why
00:37:20.07\00:37:24.11
it my seem cleshay but
I tell, it's offly hard to
00:37:24.11\00:37:28.11
pray and sin at the
same time, It's possible
00:37:28.11\00:37:32.11
but it's very difficult ,
in fact you need prayer partner
00:37:32.11\00:37:36.15
whatever it is your
seeking to overcome you trust
00:37:36.15\00:37:40.16
implicitly that when you sense
the desire coming, you can sense
00:37:40.16\00:37:44.13
when temptation coming you
go to them you call them and say
00:37:44.13\00:37:48.13
listen will pray for me, I feel
the temptation coming see prayer
00:37:48.13\00:37:52.13
God's divine intervention,is
what will take that desire
00:37:52.13\00:37:56.17
away. step #4
00:37:56.17\00:38:00.28
Now this is just common sense,
don't provide for the desire.
00:38:00.28\00:38:04.31
in other words avoid
temping situation, so I say
00:38:04.31\00:38:08.32
Lord, I'm choosing to quit
alcohol I want You to give me
00:38:08.32\00:38:12.32
the victory. What step do
I need to take? That right
00:38:12.32\00:38:16.32
get rid of all alcohol
in my home, stay out of bars
00:38:16.32\00:38:20.40
you probably don't need to hang
other people who are drinking
heavily because it is crazy
00:38:20.40\00:38:24.40
to ask God to deliver
us and then to purposely
00:38:24.40\00:38:28.40
put ourselves in a
tempting situations. That like
00:38:28.40\00:38:32.44
saying well God going keep a
stash here right at my house
just in case you deliver me
00:38:32.44\00:38:36.44
well we have already lost
faith right there don't provide
00:38:36.44\00:38:40.48
for the desire. Step #5
00:38:40.48\00:38:44.49
also actually by the way
when it come to pornography
00:38:44.49\00:38:48.52
another way we don't
provide for the desire
00:38:48.52\00:38:52.53
watch certain kinds of
movies or sitcoms on television
00:38:52.53\00:38:56.50
that going make
that well up inside us
00:38:56.50\00:39:00.64
and finally step
#5 most important
00:39:00.64\00:39:04.64
Spend time with God
everyday, send time in a
00:39:04.64\00:39:08.71
daily devotional life, because
the only thing that is going to
00:39:08.71\00:39:12.68
change my heart, the only
thing that is going me strength
00:39:12.68\00:39:16.75
to make is not
going to be my will power
00:39:16.75\00:39:20.79
the only thing that
going to it is Jesus Christ
00:39:20.79\00:39:24.79
and His Holy Spirit living
in me the way I open my life
00:39:24.79\00:39:28.86
to the Holy Spirit is buy
opening the bible and opening
00:39:28.86\00:39:32.83
my life to God in prayer
that's how we give Him access
00:39:32.83\00:39:36.84
into our life that is
why the daily devotional life
00:39:36.84\00:39:40.88
is one single most important
thing that every christian can
00:39:40.88\00:39:44.88
be doing it
opens the heart to God
00:39:44.88\00:39:48.88
So that is 5
step plan for victory
00:39:48.88\00:39:52.89
I'm not saying it will happen in
a day, though it has happened
that way for some people,
00:39:52.89\00:39:56.89
but you go one step at
a time and God is willing
00:39:56.89\00:40:00.90
God is able He
wants to set you free
00:40:00.90\00:40:04.90
he loves you now while your're
struggling but He knows your are
00:40:04.90\00:40:08.90
going to be even happier
when He has set you free from
00:40:08.90\00:40:12.91
whatever has been hold you back
and enslaving you, see that is
00:40:12.91\00:40:16.91
the God we serve He
loves as we are, He accept
00:40:16.91\00:40:20.92
as we are but He
doesn't want us to stay
00:40:20.92\00:40:24.92
the way we are,
cause He has got something
00:40:24.92\00:40:28.92
better. Now we could go all
night with addictions, we all
00:40:28.92\00:40:32.93
have them, but what
about our daily life?
00:40:32.93\00:40:36.90
Has the bible given us
some principles of what we do
00:40:36.90\00:40:40.94
or even eat on a
daily basics?, Actually
00:40:40.94\00:40:44.94
yes! I want you to turn to
very interesting verse back in
00:40:44.94\00:40:48.94
book of Genesis,
this the week of creation
00:40:48.94\00:40:52.95
Notice what God says to
Adam and Eve, Genesis 1 verse 29
00:40:52.95\00:40:56.95
The Bible says: "And
00:40:56.95\00:41:01.02
God said, See, I
have given you every
00:41:01.02\00:41:05.03
herb yielding seed,
which is upon the face of all
00:41:05.03\00:41:09.00
the earth, and every
tree, whose fruit yields
00:41:09.00\00:41:13.03
seed to you it
shall be for food.
00:41:13.03\00:41:17.01
Do you notice the
original diet God give mankind
00:41:17.01\00:41:21.01
it says I have given you every
herb or the plants the field
00:41:21.01\00:41:25.05
and every fruit, you know the
fruit in tree that yield seed
00:41:25.05\00:41:29.05
interestingly
enough it is basically
00:41:29.05\00:41:33.05
a vegetarian diet
that was God's original
00:41:33.05\00:41:37.06
plan because when you
think about it really,
00:41:37.06\00:41:41.06
what would eating meat
have require? killing animals
00:41:41.06\00:41:45.07
was there any killing of
any kind in the Garden of Eden
00:41:45.07\00:41:49.04
absolute none, so that make
sense, now understand however
00:41:49.04\00:41:53.07
it is not a sin to eat meat
00:41:53.07\00:41:57.08
you will not find that verse in
the bible. I myself I choose to
00:41:57.08\00:42:01.15
be vegetarian, not because I
think that God is going to love
me more, but because I figure
00:42:01.15\00:42:05.15
you know what if that was God's
original plan before sin entered
00:42:05.15\00:42:09.16
and since God created the body
and knows what is best for us
00:42:09.16\00:42:13.13
I want to follow that plan
because thats is the one God had
00:42:13.13\00:42:17.13
in the beginning. Now
when you go on in the Bible
00:42:17.13\00:42:21.17
clearly God gave permission
to eat some meats but because
00:42:21.17\00:42:25.17
he loves us you will
find he also gave us some
00:42:25.17\00:42:29.18
principles to follow
to help us to choose which
00:42:29.18\00:42:33.18
would be acceptable for human
consumption and which would not
00:42:33.18\00:42:37.19
be acceptable or human
consumption this is where we get
00:42:37.19\00:42:41.19
into principles of clean
and unclean foods. Now sometimes
00:42:41.19\00:42:45.19
there is a bit of a
misunderstanding here because
00:42:45.19\00:42:49.16
the prevailing theology says
well you know clean and unclean
00:42:49.16\00:42:53.17
foods that was just for
Moses and the Israelites and
00:42:53.17\00:42:57.21
ceremonial law but I want take
you a very interesting verse in
00:42:57.21\00:43:01.28
the bible It's right here in the
book Genesis just go to chapter
00:43:01.28\00:43:05.28
7 chapter 7
00:43:05.28\00:43:09.28
and verse 1 The Bible says
00:43:09.28\00:43:13.29
Then the Lord said to Noah,come
00:43:13.29\00:43:17.33
into the ark, you
and all your household,
00:43:17.33\00:43:21.30
because I have seen that you
are righteous before Me in this
00:43:21.30\00:43:25.27
generation. (now notice
verse 2) You shall take with you
00:43:25.27\00:43:29.30
seven each of every
(what?) clean animal,
00:43:29.30\00:43:33.31
a male and his female;
two each of animals that are
00:43:33.31\00:43:37.31
unclean, a male and his female;
00:43:37.31\00:43:41.32
lets pause there
for a second. As God
00:43:41.32\00:43:45.29
was calling the
animals into the ark He also
00:43:45.29\00:43:49.36
told Noah I want
you to take 7 of what
00:43:49.36\00:43:53.36
kind? Clean and two of
00:43:53.36\00:43:57.33
unclean animals so apparently
there was a distinction of
00:43:57.33\00:44:01.40
clean and
unclean long before Moses
00:44:01.40\00:44:05.41
and the Jewish
nation ever existed
00:44:05.41\00:44:09.41
see cause even after
sin entered into the world,
00:44:09.41\00:44:13.45
God gave man principles
to follow on how to a happy,
00:44:13.45\00:44:17.45
health and abundant life see
00:44:17.45\00:44:21.46
the reason God said 7 clean,
now think about that, when flood
00:44:21.46\00:44:25.46
done and the water subside, and
they finally get out of the Ark
00:44:25.46\00:44:29.43
What going to be there
for them to eat? Nothing!
00:44:29.43\00:44:33.44
vegetation well be gone or
will just be starting sprout
00:44:33.44\00:44:37.47
in order to survive they're
going have to eat some of those
00:44:37.47\00:44:41.48
animals and so they 7 clean
animals because they can eat
00:44:41.48\00:44:45.48
some of them but there
is only two unclean, because
00:44:45.48\00:44:49.48
God does plan for them to eat
the unclean. You know why? If
00:44:49.48\00:44:53.49
you have male and female and you
eat one of them what's is going
00:44:53.49\00:44:57.49
to happen? there're go
extinct, so here you have clean
00:44:57.49\00:45:01.53
and unclean even
back at the time of Noah
00:45:01.53\00:45:05.57
and when you think about
God is such a good God, He
00:45:05.57\00:45:09.57
could say to us, you know what
I don't care, eat whatever you
00:45:09.57\00:45:13.58
want, put whatever in body I
don't care what consequence
comes from it, that's not our
00:45:13.58\00:45:17.58
God he's too
personal, he's too loving, he's
00:45:17.58\00:45:21.58
caring to do that, so he listen,
I'm going to give you some
00:45:21.58\00:45:25.59
principle to follow, now is
He is not going send Gabriel
00:45:25.59\00:45:29.59
to open my refrigerator or
follow out to Walmart to see
00:45:29.59\00:45:33.63
what Im' going buy God gives
us a free well it is our choice
00:45:33.63\00:45:37.60
but He gives us some ever
interesting principles here I
00:45:37.60\00:45:41.60
want you to go Leviticus
chapter 11 I just love the way
00:45:41.60\00:45:45.61
God is simple He doen't
make things complicated go to
00:45:45.61\00:45:49.61
Leviticus chapter
11 and God gives us
00:45:49.61\00:45:53.65
a principle to
follow on clean and unclean
00:45:53.65\00:45:57.62
foods Leviticus 11
00:45:57.62\00:46:01.69
and verse 2
00:46:01.69\00:46:05.73
The Bible says, speak to
00:46:05.73\00:46:09.66
to the children of Israel,
saying, 'These are the animals
00:46:09.66\00:46:13.70
that are on the earth:Among
the animals, whatever divides
00:46:13.70\00:46:17.74
he hoof, having cloven
hooves and chewing the cud
00:46:17.74\00:46:21.74
that you may eat.
Well that is a pretty easy
00:46:21.74\00:46:25.75
prinicple, whatever has
a divdied hoof and chews
00:46:25.75\00:46:29.75
cud is clean and
acceptable for human
00:46:29.75\00:46:33.79
consumption wow.
You say, why does God
00:46:33.79\00:46:37.79
use that? You know
what is interesting?
00:46:37.79\00:46:41.76
Most animals that have divided
hoof and chew cud are basically
00:46:41.76\00:46:45.77
herbivores they eat
the plants and veggies etc
00:46:45.77\00:46:49.77
so when eat them we're
just get plants second hand
00:46:49.77\00:46:53.78
God said that will be acceptable
for human consumption.
00:46:53.78\00:46:57.81
God gave us the the ideal in
the garden of Eden, but if we
00:46:57.81\00:47:01.85
have to, He says here are
principels to follow about other
00:47:01.85\00:47:05.89
foods the animals
that do not have divided
00:47:05.89\00:47:09.89
hoof and do not chew cud. Do
youknow what most of them are?
00:47:09.89\00:47:13.90
carnivores, carnivores
they eat other animals
00:47:13.90\00:47:17.90
they eat meat of dead
carcases, see their bodies
00:47:17.90\00:47:21.90
are designed to handle those
things nut if I eat that animal
00:47:21.90\00:47:25.91
I'm eating everything that
animal ate and put it into my
00:47:25.91\00:47:29.91
body which God do
not design to handle it
00:47:29.91\00:47:33.95
and therefore it will bring
disease, it will filth into my
00:47:33.95\00:47:37.95
mind and my body and God says
and God says I love too much not
00:47:37.95\00:47:41.96
to worn you
about, that's our loving
00:47:41.96\00:47:45.96
God. Then He goes on,
now just for fun of it
00:47:45.96\00:47:49.93
He mentions specific animals
here,now some of the animals
00:47:49.93\00:47:53.97
well be no problem because
some the ones that are listed I
00:47:53.97\00:47:58.01
wouldnt touch with a ten foot
pole anyway, but lets go to
verse 4 let have some fun
00:47:58.01\00:48:02.08
with this, I'm sorry
verse 5, Levitcus 11 verse 5
00:48:02.08\00:48:06.08
he names some unclean
animals, He says the rock hyrax
00:48:06.08\00:48:10.09
(which is basically a
badger) because it chews the cud
00:48:10.09\00:48:14.09
but does not have cloven
hooves, is unclean to you
00:48:14.09\00:48:18.13
well I'm not going to pitch over
that because I don't planing eat
00:48:18.13\00:48:22.10
a badger any way. What
does the on say? The hare
00:48:22.10\00:48:26.10
(or the rabbit) because it chews
the cud but does not have cloven
00:48:26.10\00:48:30.14
hooves, is unclean to you;
not that one don't bother me
00:48:30.14\00:48:34.14
but you know there verse 7
00:48:34.14\00:48:38.18
is a bit of a problem, verse 7
00:48:38.18\00:48:42.18
and the swine,
though it divides the hoof
00:48:42.18\00:48:46.22
having cloven hooves,
yet does not chew the cud,
00:48:46.22\00:48:50.23
it is (what?) unclean to you. OH
00:48:50.23\00:48:54.20
Why God, He
takes away one of our
00:48:54.20\00:48:58.23
favorite foods. He
takes away Miss piggy
00:48:58.23\00:49:02.30
Why Lord are you doing
that? Is because God is cruel?
00:49:02.30\00:49:06.31
Is because God is restrictive?
00:49:06.31\00:49:10.35
Because God new something before
the doctor ever new it. He loves
00:49:10.35\00:49:14.35
us to much God new the pig would
be unfit for human consumption
00:49:14.35\00:49:18.35
when think about medical science
has finially cought up with what
00:49:18.35\00:49:22.39
God said thousand of years
ago if you have serious disease,
00:49:22.39\00:49:26.39
heart problem whatever. What is
the first thing your doctor
tells you to stay away from
00:49:26.39\00:49:30.37
He tell you to stay away from
pork. What about the animals in
00:49:30.37\00:49:34.40
the sea? Did God say anything
about that? Actually He does, He
00:49:34.40\00:49:38.41
gives us a neat principle
here, lt's got to Leviticus 11
00:49:38.41\00:49:42.44
let just read
verse 9 Leviticus 11
00:49:42.44\00:49:46.45
and verse 9 The Bible says,
00:49:46.45\00:49:50.49
'These you may
eat of all that are
00:49:50.49\00:49:54.49
in the water: whatever in
the water has fins and scales,
00:49:54.49\00:49:58.49
whether in the seas or
in the rivers-that you may
00:49:58.49\00:50:02.50
eat. well that is
not complected, He said
00:50:02.50\00:50:06.53
if it got fins if it
got scale it is acceptable
00:50:06.53\00:50:10.54
for human
consumption You say what's the
00:50:10.54\00:50:14.58
logic behind that? Because
God know something we didn't
00:50:14.58\00:50:18.58
know in the being, we know
now because science and marine
00:50:18.58\00:50:22.62
biologist but you know most of
seafood animals that don't have
00:50:22.62\00:50:26.65
fins and scales, ones
we tend to love so well
00:50:26.65\00:50:30.66
crab, oyster, shrimp,
00:50:30.66\00:50:34.66
lobster clam
and things like that
00:50:34.66\00:50:38.70
and some of us were about ready
jump off seat and say oh God why
00:50:38.70\00:50:42.74
those are some of the most
delectable things, but God knows
00:50:42.74\00:50:46.74
something, all of those animals
just mentioned that don't have
00:50:46.74\00:50:50.78
fins and scale, any
marine biologist well tell you
00:50:50.78\00:50:54.78
they are
scavenger of the ocean floor
00:50:54.78\00:50:58.79
they created eat
and clean up all that
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filth that is there, that
is what God created them to do
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and so when eat
them, I'm eating all
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garbage and filth the have
ingested and God say listen
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I care for that
something you probably aught
00:51:15.00\00:51:19.01
to stay away from because not
to bring health and abundance
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to your body or to your mind
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I'm glad God loves us
much aren't you. Real quick
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prevention
magazine wrote this, it said
00:51:31.15\00:51:35.16
God says hey, I
don't want you to suffer
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I don't want you to get that
filth in your body, I something
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better for you. Here's
the principles God says use it
00:52:22.70\00:52:26.71
and prosper and be in
health. Can you say amen?
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See we are tempted to
look at these things and say
00:52:30.75\00:52:34.78
oh, thats so legalitic.
Lesten it has got nothing
00:52:34.78\00:52:38.82
to do with you being righteous.
It has got nothing to do with
00:52:38.82\00:52:42.82
God loving you more or thinking
you're superior and get to
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heaven first what we eat has
nothing to do with that these
00:52:46.86\00:52:50.87
principles have to do with
that God is my creator, that God
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love me and He wants me to
have an abundant life on this
00:52:54.90\00:52:58.94
earth and when I choose to
follow it, it's not because I'm
00:52:58.94\00:53:03.04
trying to get heaven, Jesus
already paid that price. If I
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choose follow it, it's may
response to everything that
00:53:07.08\00:53:11.12
Jesus done for me, because
I am surrender my mind and my
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body to him. Can you say
amen. It is always to remember
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the motivation and the
reason for which we do these
00:53:19.19\00:53:23.20
things God can't love
you more than he already
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loves you now.
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There is one more thing I to
cover though, because if don't
it will come in the question box
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There is a couple
of perplexing passages
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in the bible, that on the
surface seem to contradict
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everything we just said. And
I would like to cover one them
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as an example of a
proper way to study the Bible.
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Remember Peters
vision in Acts chapter 10
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we need to review that now
I'm not going to read 21 verses
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here but I would like
you to turn Acts chapter 10
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instead of just picking
one sentence out and trying to
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develope a a doctrine
around it lets at the context
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Act chapter 10 and
beginning in verse 9
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really the whole chapter here
is what is going on, here is the
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quick summery
Cornelius is a Italian soldier
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he loves God of heaven,
he believes in Jewish faith
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and Jewish religion. He
is devout man the bible says
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because of that God sends an
angel to Cornelius and tells him
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he is to send for
Peter who needs to tell his
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family something important.
God intended for Peter to share
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the gospel with this gentile
family, so while Cornelius
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dispatches an
envoy to go find Peter,
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God knows that Peter not
going to go because Peter
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was brought up
and steeped in Judaism
00:54:55.52\00:54:59.53
he was taught from the
time a little kid that Gentiles
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are unclean and that you do
not to go to their house and and
00:55:03.60\00:55:07.60
that you do not eat with them or
you will be unclean, see Peter
wasn't over that yet
00:55:07.60\00:55:11.61
So God knew He had do something
to help Peter see the light
00:55:11.61\00:55:15.61
so Peter gets a
vision of a blanket
00:55:15.61\00:55:19.61
that lets down a bunch of four
footed beasts that are unclean
00:55:19.61\00:55:23.62
and God says rise Peter kill
and eat and what does Peter say?
00:55:23.62\00:55:27.66
I have never eaten
unclean, notice by the way
00:55:27.66\00:55:31.66
that was Peter
first response, This is
00:55:31.66\00:55:35.63
guy that walked with
Jesus for 3.5 years, so
00:55:35.63\00:55:39.63
apparently Peter
did not believe that
00:55:39.63\00:55:43.64
unclean and clean was done away
with at the cross because that
was his first response
00:55:43.64\00:55:47.68
and he was with Jesus everyday.
You keep going on there
00:55:47.68\00:55:51.68
notice what happens God says
listen don't call unclean that
00:55:51.68\00:55:55.68
God has called it
clean, and we stop there
00:55:55.68\00:55:59.69
and we want to pull that and say
see God made all foods clean now
00:55:59.69\00:56:03.79
it doesn't matter. Listen if
it wasnt good for the body in
00:56:03.79\00:56:07.76
leviticus it's not good for the
body now. Did Jesus died on the
00:56:07.76\00:56:11.77
cross to to cleanse from sins or
to cleanse food? To cleanse us
00:56:11.77\00:56:15.77
from sin. You know
what was going on here?
00:56:15.77\00:56:19.81
God was trying to show Peter,
00:56:19.81\00:56:23.81
the wall between gentile and Jew
00:56:23.81\00:56:27.82
is coming down
that he should not call
00:56:27.82\00:56:31.82
gentile unclean and
so he went to Cornelius
00:56:31.82\00:56:35.86
house and he shared the gospel
of Christ with them and you can
00:56:35.86\00:56:39.86
read it there it says the Holy
Spiirt fell upon them they
accepted the Lord Jesus
00:56:39.86\00:56:43.83
Christ, they were baptized
and at the end of this story
00:56:43.83\00:56:47.87
Peter tells us himself in
verse 28 what the point was
00:56:47.87\00:56:51.87
Acts chapter 10
verse 28 the Bible says
00:56:51.87\00:56:55.88
then he said to
them, you know how unlawful
00:56:55.88\00:56:59.88
it is for a Jew man
to keep company with
00:56:59.88\00:57:03.99
or go to one of
another nation but God
00:57:03.99\00:57:07.99
has shown me that
I should not call any
00:57:07.99\00:57:11.99
(waht?) man, common or
00:57:11.99\00:57:15.96
unclean. he
vision had nothing to do
00:57:15.96\00:57:20.00
with cleansing food,
what it did something with
00:57:20.00\00:57:24.01
is cleansing sin.The Gentiles
00:57:24.01\00:57:28.04
are not to be considered
unclean we are all one in Jesus
00:57:28.04\00:57:32.05
Christ. The wall of seperation
comes down we are not to call
00:57:32.05\00:57:36.05
any man common or unclean
00:57:36.05\00:57:40.09
see when you take the
Bible and read in its context
00:57:40.09\00:57:44.09
it makes prefect sense.
00:57:44.09\00:57:48.10
Folks tonight we havelearned
that God loves us so much
00:57:48.10\00:57:52.10
that He gave health plan to the
human Family, a plan He wants us
00:57:52.10\00:57:56.14
to use so
prosper and be in health
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I would like to close with this
vesre from Romans chapter 12
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verse 1 The Bible says
00:58:04.21\00:58:08.22
see God invites
us to give ourselves
00:58:19.46\00:58:23.40
as a living sacrifice to Him. To
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