Harvest truly is plenteous,
but the laborers are few.
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Pray ye therefore
the Lord of the harvest,
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that He will, He will
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send forth
laborers into His harvest.
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Also I heard the
voice of the Lord saying,
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"Whom shall I send?
And who will go for us?"
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Then said I, "Here
am I. Send me, send me!"
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Life on the edge will enable you
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to be infected
harvest before Lord.
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We now invite you into
our classrooms to come,
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experience life.
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Welcome, once again to the
Lay Institute for Evangelism.
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Right now we're gonna be,
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going into the second half
of our health presentation.
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We've done the first half,
we kind of laid a foundation
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there of showing that,
that God does care what we eat
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He wants our
bodies to be healthy,
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He wants us to be healthy
both spiritually and physically.
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I'll let you know in
between our break here
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that someone brought
me a cup of carrot juice
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and I swallowed that down
and wash it down with water.
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No, actually I
like fresh carrot juice
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and I was telling you
about my friend, Wolkeray,
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and he makes carrot juice,
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he puts a little few
other things in with it.
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I understand from Anida here
they actually put an apple in
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when they mix
their carrot juice up,
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run a apple through the grinder
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to make it apple juice,
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I suppose when
you run it through.
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And it goes in with carrot juice
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and it sweetens it up a
little bit but, you know,
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we do strive to be
healthy and I love,
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I love the way I feel
since I started eating right.
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And, and for
those of you at home
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if you've never experience that,
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if you've never really
ate according to the Bible
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and understand
what I am talking about,
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it may be a little difficult.
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And as we're going
through this study,
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you understand that this
is not just a study on health,
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but it's also a study on
how we can better serve God.
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And that's the purpose of
that principle in the Bible.
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If God has
something in the Bible for us,
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that's for our better good.
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Then I think
it's beneficial to us
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to follow what He has for us.
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And we're gonna do a
quick review here just now,
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overall what you
may have missed it,
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you didn't see the
first part of the study
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and you're picking
up the second half.
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You notice the screen here,
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we are studying health and
the abbreviation for the Bible
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marking part of it is
"H", once again it is "H".
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And the purpose of it
is to show that God cares
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about not only our spiritual
but our physical health.
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And that is a new-- that was,
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I got to admit that
was a new revelation for me
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after I first become a
Christian, the fact that,
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that God wants me to
be healthy physically.
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After all you remember I
had, I had misunderstanding
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about what happens when you die?
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And if you think about it
God would-- if you believe that
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you go straight to
heaven right after you die?
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And God want you to be with him
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then He would want you
to be healthy wouldn't He?
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He will die quicker and he
will get you see quicker right
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to be with you quicker.
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But that's not
His purpose right,
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because we know
that you're laying
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in the grave
waiting on the resurrection.
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But why are you here?
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God wants us to be
healthy and able to serve Him
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to be able to go
out and do the work
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that He has given us to do
and that's to preach the gospel
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in all the world,
it's hard to do that,
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if you're unhealthy and you're
not feeling well and you're,
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and you're drug
down all the time.
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Oh, I thank the Lord
for this health message,
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you know, you guys
here know pretty well,
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my hours are usually
from before day light
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to well after dark
before I actually get home.
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I do have a wife
for the last 15 years,
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I think that's one of
the things that's helped
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keep us
together, I'm never there.
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I'm just kidding, we
spend a lot of time together,
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we spend a lot of time together.
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But seriously the more you,
you tax your body as far as,
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as far as mentally and
physically of doing things
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you need to be healthier
and eating healthier things
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right to stay, to stay going.
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And so I thank
the Lord for this,
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for the health
message and the principles
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that He has given to us.
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The Center It part
of the study again is
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"Jesus wants us to be healthy?"
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Jesus wants us to be healthy
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both physically and spiritually.
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Now, we left off the last time
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in Leviticus
Chapter 11 in verse 47.
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Leviticus Chapter
11, we're gonna go back
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to Leviticus 11 now.
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So, if I can get you that,
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turning your Bibles with
me to the Book of Leviticus,
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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
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Leviticus the 11th Chapter.
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And, we had, I
believe it was Darleen
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or who has read verse
47 was that you Darleen?
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Where it says,
"To make a difference
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between the clean and
the unclean and the beast
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that may be eaten
and not be eaten."
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That was Shalida, okay,
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that was Shalida that read that.
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So, God had just
told us there that,
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that He has it-- there
is a difference between
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clean and unclean and then
we went to the Book of Genesis
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and we found out that it
wasn't just for the Jews,
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but actually before there
was every Jew on the earth,
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all the way back
in the Book of Genesis
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in the days of Noah,
God had made a distinction
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between the clean
and the unclean animals,
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do you remember saying that?
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And then He told
us in Genesis again,
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Genesis Chapter 8 I
believe this is where we're at?
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Genesis Chapter 8
and He says, you know,
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I've given you-- Genesis 9,
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Genesis 9 verses 1, 2,
3, that's where it was.
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He says I've
given you every animal,
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everything that
moves is food for you
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even as the green herb
and we discovered there that,
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that when it says
even as the green herb
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that there are some
green herbs that if you ate,
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it would kill you, for
instance "Poison hemlock".
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You know, hemlock and other
herbs that, that are poison
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and there are certain
animals that are poison too
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and that's where
we're going to now.
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We're gonna find out that
God did give us certain animals
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that He said
hey, you know, what?
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This will kill you.
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So, don't--
therefore don't eat from that
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and we're gonna
find out right now
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what those animals are?
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As we look at one of them now,
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the first one we're going to is
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Leviticus Chapter
11 and its verse 3,
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if you're-- you don't have
to take notes on this part,
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because I've just
wrote Leviticus 11 up there
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and we're gonna go
through these animals,
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but it's not just verse 3,
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it's, it's, it's several
verses as we go through that
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describe both
mammals and fish and birds,
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where God says, if you
insist on eating these things
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there's certain ones
I don't want you to eat,
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certain ones it's
okay for you to eat.
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And now, we're gonna
look at the first one
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as we pick up in
Leviticus Chapter 11.
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I'm gonna read verses
1 through 3 right now.
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"And the Lord spoken to Moses
and Aaron, saying unto them."
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"Speak to the
children of Israel, saying,
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these are the
beasts which you shall eat
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among the beasts
that are on the earth."
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These are the
beasts that you shall eat.
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Now, before we go any
further, let me ask you just,
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just so we can get
the thought process
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going a little bit here.
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Is God gonna, is
God giving these,
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these, these laws to
them right now for the Jews,
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as He given to them,
because He doesn't want them,
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He wants them to eat
certain foods and not,
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not-- certain foods
because He's like punish them,
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like, you know,
like there is certain,
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there are certain
animals out there that may not,
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that may taste
really, really good
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and God doesn't
want him to have it,
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so He's gonna punish them and
say you can eat these animals,
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is this the purpose behind this?
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No, the purpose behind
this is we're gonna find out,
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is there are certain
ones that are an abomination
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they are unclean,
says please don't eat this.
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And there's
other ones He says now,
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if you got to eat one
at least eat these becuase
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these what we will call
clean or a little more healthy.
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A little more
healthy, you know, and that's,
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that's the purpose of
this, because some people say
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and I've heard it
said that these unclean
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and clean dietary
laws was only for the Jews.
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But the question I have
to have is if the purpose
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behind giving the law
is that health purpose
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that God has given them.
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If it's a health
purpose, it's the Jew's body,
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if I had a Jewish fellow
standing here next to me,
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is his body different than mine?
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We're like okay,
he can't eat this,
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but I can because I
have a different body,
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it won't affect me
but it will affect him,
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is that what the
purpose of the law?
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No, if the purposes
of these laws are given,
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so that you and
I can be healthy,
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then it will be for everybody
and not just for the Jews.
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Does that make
sense? And that's why
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He gave it all way
back in the days of Noah,
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it hasn't changed.
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And we'll get into
some difficult texts
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as we get to the end
of this because I can hear
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the objections
coming up even now.
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Verse 3,
"Whatsoever parts the hoof,
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and is cloven
footed, and chews the cud,
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among the beast,
these that you shall eat."
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Among the beast
that you shall eat.
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What must they be
before you can eat them,
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they must do what?
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Parts of hoof and chew the cud.
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Does anybody know
what part the hoof means?
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And a split hoof like a deer
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or a cow or a
pig has a split hoof.
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Okay, so these
animals all have split hoofs,
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but it also said not
only must have a split hoof
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but it also must "chew the cud".
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Now, what's "chewing the cud?"
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anybody know what chewing"
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now I got these
Kentuckians over there,
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they are not
chewing the cud, is right?
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Pick that microphone
and try it again Mike.
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Wow, it's an
animal that grazes. Yeah.
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And then they--
They-- what they do is, yeah,
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they regurgitate the
food back up in their mouth
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and chew it some
more and swallow it back
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down into another
stomach or something
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and it digest a
little more and a,
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and a they split it
back up in their mouth again
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and it chew on it some more
and they swallow it back down,
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it's chewing the cud.
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And it helps in digestion,
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animal must split the
hoof and chew the cud.
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So, if you gonna eat an animal
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according to the
biblical laws here
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you know, what God has given
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as far as health principles go.
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If you're gonna eat an animal
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that's of the beast of
the field it must be both,
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chew the cud and be split hoof.
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Even though the pig,
you know, it's split a hoof,
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it doesn't chew the
cud and it's interesting
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the descriptions that God gives,
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I mean, you think and
now what's that have to do
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with clean or unclean.
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And it's fascinating to
me as we go through this
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and you'll see
this, that, the animals
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that God gives
in this description
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all like the
nasty scavenger animals,
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you know, the ones
that, that don't fit in this
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what we're looking at the ones
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that don't fit are
really pretty nasty
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when you look at
their lifestyle, right?
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But the ones that do
fit up we tend to think
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they're more
little more cleaner,
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for instance a cow?
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A cow doesn't go
around eating all the garbage,
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what's it eat? The
grass and things like that,
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so it's not like a
scavenger out there just eating
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whatever you
through down in front of it.
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And so, that
it's fascinating to me
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when you find how
God categorize this.
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He just said simply this
is the things to look for,
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you think
what's the part of hoof
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have to do with chewing the cud,
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what God's like or being
clean in God's like well,
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when ever I created animals,
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I made it a point to make the
ones that had the parted hoof
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and chewing the cud
ones they are gonna be clean.
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It's like the way I created
them and it's fascinating
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how all the
categories do fit with animals.
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So, let me give
you few examples,
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can we eat a deer?
If you gonna eat this,
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can, is a deer okay,
the deer is clean right.
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How about a cow? Yes. All right.
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How about a camel?
No, according to this why
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because a camel has a hoof,
even though it chews the cud,
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cud, it has the hoof
like a horse and so therefore
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horse obviously is unclean
or is unclean to eat too.
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So, what we've looked
at so far as the animals
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that in the field
they must both chew the cud
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and be parted at the hoof.
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Now, I'm gonna read on down here
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a little more into this.
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Let us continue on says verse 4,
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"Nevertheless these
shall you not eat of them
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that chew the cud" so
the ones that chew the cud
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that you're not
allowed to eat "of them
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that divides the
hoof, as the camel"
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don't eat the camel, you know,
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what you gonna do now don't you?
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Go home and
clear that freezer out
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all those camel stakes you got,
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"because he chews the
cud, but divides not the hoof,
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he is unclean to you."
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"And the coney" oh, you know,
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what that means?
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No more hot dogs,
it says right there
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that you can't eat the coney.
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Oh, common now
everybody follow along with me,
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you know, what
the coney is right?
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A coney is a hot dog and
it makes a perfect sense--
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you've heard a Coney Island?
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Right, it's
talking about the hotdog,
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and I think it's
interesting in the King James,
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I just think that's hilarious
myself when you read that.
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It says you can't eat the coney.
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Now, it's not talking
about a hotdog obviously,
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its talking
about like there's a,
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it's like some kind
of a, my understanding
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it's sort of like a,
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does may have
different translation,
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it gives another name for it
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because I think it's something
if I remember right, Tom?
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The rock hyrax, right, hyrax,
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yeah I thought it
was like a mountain,
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like almost like
a badge or something
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that lived up in the mountains.
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Leopards and rock badger.
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Rock badger, yeah,
something like that,
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so you're not
to eat that either,
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because it's unclean.
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And I think it's
funny though because
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we can apply that
to today's language
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and just you call it a coney.
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You know what a hotdog is right?
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Whatever it is
whether its beef or whatever
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they just take the
innards and whatever is left
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after they scrape up
everything on the fort
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end of the day, they
are thrown into machine
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run it through a
grinder and out comes a hotdog.
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You know, I love aggravating,
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I love
aggravating the vegetarians
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do they eat vegelinks.
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You know what a
vegelink hotdog is?
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It's all the scraps
at the end of the day
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at the broccoli
factory, you know,
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it's thrown all in
and you run through there
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and that's what
comes out as a hotdog.
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It's all the, it's
all the nasty stuff
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that's left, right?
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I'm just kidding.
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But you get the point, you know,
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hotdogs are unclean, you know,
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as far as biblical
goes, because it is,
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it's not, it has the part
you are not supposed to eat
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as far as the flesh hotdog goes.
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I can take a
little bit that one says
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allow me to turkey dog,
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oh great you're
eating the turkey guts.
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All right, then the
turkey blood and what's left?
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You ever noticed that is,
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it doesn't look
nothing like a turkey,
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you know, a turkey dough
looks nothing like a turkey,
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you've ever noticed
that? You open it up
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than it doesn't look like
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a breast meat or
anything like that,
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it's pretty nasty.
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And if you ever go
to one of those places
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in my understanding I
have a, there was a guy,
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I had the
privilege of baptizing.
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Oh, actually know it
wasn't him it was his friend,
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the other guy that
didn't get baptized
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because he worked at a factory
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where they processed pigs.
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And, you know, and
they put them in the,
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in different, different animals
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I understand as well but they--
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he done all that work, you know,
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butchering and everything
like that putting them
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in the machines and he
will not eat meat that stuffing.
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He is like, do you
saw what this stuff was,
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you won't touch it and
so if you ever think that,
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that oh there is nothing
wrong with eating this stuff,
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go talk to somebody that
works in one of those places,
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there are like all vegetarians.
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Anyway not all
but I would be and,
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and the lot of
them are, a lot of them
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are they see what
goes on there, you know.
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Could you imagine
at the end of the day,
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they just or
whatever they just take
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left over's of
everything that left over
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and they put it in a machine,
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they make hotdogs out of
it, and then you eat this.
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Okay, so we're looking here now
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as we're going on you're
not allowed to have the coney,
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no more hotdogs,
because he choose the cud
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but divide us not the hoof.
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So, even though the--
even though the coney or the,
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or the rock badge as
you said and the camel,
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even though, even
though they chew a cud
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their hoofs aren't
divided, so no eat them.
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And then in verse 6 it says,
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or the hare,
now what's the hare?
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Oh, man, eat nothing
better than the rabbit is there?
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Eating it, now it depends
on where you're from, right?
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Remember, I grow, we,
we if it moved we ate it.
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And so, and so it
says don't eat the rabbit,
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don't eat the hare because,
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because the rabbit even
though it chews the cud,
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he has a paw, and its so cute,
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that's what the girls say.
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Because he chews the cud
but does not divide the hoof,
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he is unclean to you.
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And the pig or the
swine, now meddling aren't they?
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Now, from the
beginning of the study,
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from the very
beginning God says,
00:14:03.64\00:14:04.88
hey the principle here
is I want you to prosper
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in being good health
even as your soul prospers
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and so He gives dietary laws,
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He gives certain laws,
He says if you obey these,
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you'll be healthier.
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And so as you
read down through this,
00:14:16.84\00:14:18.07
as you're giving a study
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or you're preaching
or whatever you're doing,
00:14:19.13\00:14:20.29
as you're reading down
through these keep in mind
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that's the purpose of this.
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Sometimes we can, we
can kind of fall over into,
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yeah and stop eating
this and stop eating that,
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if you eat that
you're going to hell.
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No, that's not the
point, the point is with the,
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with the laws
that God has given us
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is that God
wants us to be healthy.
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Now, if you would
were not eat these things
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and you become
healthier, is it worth it?
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I mean even if you, even you
00:14:42.84\00:14:43.83
set the spiritual part aside,
00:14:43.84\00:14:45.38
I mean, just I'm
not willing to do
00:14:45.39\00:14:46.51
that right but if
you set that aside
00:14:46.52\00:14:48.04
and you're just like
living out in the world
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and you're just
living for yourself
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and it's all about the
here and now being and,
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and having your
money and things like that,
00:14:53.24\00:14:54.67
what good is it
to have your money
00:14:54.68\00:14:56.59
if you can't
enjoy with good health.
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So, even if, even if
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someone were to take
this spiritual aspect
00:14:59.78\00:15:01.09
of this whole
thing and put it aside
00:15:01.10\00:15:02.26
then serving of God which
God wants us to be healthy
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and serve Him in health.
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Science even the day,
good science actually,
00:15:05.73\00:15:08.24
you know,
teaches us the same thing
00:15:08.25\00:15:09.64
that the Bible
tell us all along,
00:15:09.65\00:15:10.87
the best diet is not
to be eating these things.
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You know, your
high cholesterol things
00:15:14.14\00:15:15.43
like that it
comes from eating things
00:15:15.44\00:15:16.70
that God says don't eat.
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I think I told you guys at
the beginning of the first study
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that I had like
cholesterol of almost,
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it was like 200 and something
00:15:23.34\00:15:24.92
and it was pretty
high I remember that.
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And ever since I quit,
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changed my diet
everything is fine.
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No, no problems,
you know, I feel good.
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So, and so I am totally sold on
00:15:33.70\00:15:35.73
what the Bible
has given us here,
00:15:35.74\00:15:37.05
because I've
tried what God has said
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and given the
example, I know, that it works.
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You know, it's funny to me
00:15:42.43\00:15:43.77
because very ones
that mark me for doing this
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are the ones
that never tried it.
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You know, they would say oh,
00:15:48.19\00:15:49.39
that's a bunch of
boney, bunch of boney
00:15:49.40\00:15:50.67
and they're taking the
blood pressure medication
00:15:50.68\00:15:52.66
and getting their insulin
shots and all this kind of stuff
00:15:52.67\00:15:55.76
and they originally
have these problems.
00:15:55.77\00:15:57.93
The doctors have
realized that it comes upon
00:15:57.94\00:15:59.73
because of their,
because of their diet,
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the way they have
been living and eating
00:16:01.34\00:16:02.36
and not exercising
and these kind of things
00:16:02.37\00:16:04.11
but yet those
are the very people
00:16:04.12\00:16:05.68
that make fun of me
for living like this.
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Something strange about the way
00:16:08.89\00:16:09.90
we live in this world, isn't it?
00:16:09.91\00:16:11.90
All right, let's
carry on verse 7,
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"And swine, though
he divides the hoof,
00:16:13.74\00:16:15.23
"he is not clovenfooted,
yet he choose not the cud,
00:16:15.24\00:16:17.76
he is unclean to you."
00:16:17.77\00:16:19.51
"Or their flesh, of their flesh,
00:16:19.52\00:16:21.99
"he shall not
eat, and their carcass
00:16:22.00\00:16:24.05
"you shall you not touch,
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they are unclean to you."
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So, just stay
away from this stuff
00:16:27.25\00:16:28.58
as disease that's what He says.
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"These," verse 9
"These shall you eat of all
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that are in the waters."
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So now we're gonna start
talking about the fish here
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the things that
are in the waters,
00:16:37.93\00:16:39.69
that's okay and not okay to eat
00:16:39.70\00:16:41.41
according to the Bible.
00:16:41.42\00:16:42.77
Now, let me, let me just,
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we just throw it
out here and, and,
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and we'll go over some examples,
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"whatsoever has fins
and scales in the waters,
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"and in the seas,
and in the rivers,
00:16:50.55\00:16:52.25
them shall you eat."
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That's pretty simply isn't it?
00:16:53.31\00:16:55.01
I was listening to
Mark Finley preach one time
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and he was
telling the story about,
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I understand after a World War I
00:16:59.88\00:17:01.64
before World War
I and World War II,
00:17:01.65\00:17:03.19
you know, like the time
World War II is breaking out,
00:17:03.20\00:17:04.72
or something along those lines.
00:17:04.73\00:17:06.11
That the government
had a problem they said,
00:17:06.12\00:17:07.98
you know, while our
pilots have gone down in the,
00:17:07.99\00:17:10.10
in the ocean and things
like that close to islands
00:17:10.11\00:17:12.61
and they and they--
they would go to an island
00:17:12.62\00:17:15.32
they would get there
and they be by themselves
00:17:15.33\00:17:16.64
and then they
would end up eating
00:17:16.65\00:17:17.99
something out of the water or
something that we killed them.
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And so they wanted to
come up with the handbook
00:17:20.63\00:17:21.93
that the pilots
could have that if they,
00:17:21.94\00:17:24.19
if they were to
be stranded somewhere
00:17:24.20\00:17:25.54
and while they were
waiting to be rescued,
00:17:25.55\00:17:27.12
they can use that
handbook to figure out
00:17:27.13\00:17:28.58
what will be okay, not
okay to eat in the waters
00:17:28.59\00:17:30.91
if they caught something to eat.
00:17:30.92\00:17:32.19
And so they, they went
00:17:32.20\00:17:33.60
and they paid this guy
lots of money, you know,
00:17:33.61\00:17:35.12
hundreds and
thousands of dollars
00:17:35.13\00:17:36.36
or whatever it was, you know,
00:17:36.37\00:17:37.34
and they done this
research and everything
00:17:37.35\00:17:38.37
and they come up
with this handbook
00:17:38.38\00:17:40.16
and he was telling
him the story to come up
00:17:40.17\00:17:41.43
the handbook like that thick
00:17:41.44\00:17:42.80
and the pilots
can keep it with them
00:17:42.81\00:17:44.13
and if they went
down they can always look
00:17:44.14\00:17:45.16
in their handbook and
see if it's okay to eat this,
00:17:45.17\00:17:46.98
how to prepare the
food and stuff like that.
00:17:46.99\00:17:48.81
And in the handbook
itself they had a statement
00:17:48.82\00:17:51.91
like at the end of it.
00:17:51.92\00:17:53.29
If you loose your
handbook and you're stranded
00:17:53.30\00:17:56.59
and you don't want
to do if it doesn't have
00:17:56.60\00:17:58.30
fins and scales just stay
away from it, you'll be safe.
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I could have saved them
00:18:01.97\00:18:02.94
hundred and
thousands of dollars, right?
00:18:02.95\00:18:04.76
And just said hey if you
open up the Leviticus 11,
00:18:04.77\00:18:07.02
that's exactly what God said.
00:18:07.03\00:18:09.39
So, it has to
have fins and scales.
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Let me give you
guys a quick quiz,
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now, I'm a fisherman myself.
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And there, I understand for sure
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that there are
certain foods that are clean
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and certain ones
that are unclean, right?
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As far as fish goes, now used to
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up until recent
time not to long ago
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I used to eat clean fish, okay?
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I will go catch them fish myself
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and when I'm
pulling those big fish, now,
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I had this friend, I
always went fishing with Bob,
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and he really taught
me how to fish really good
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and we're gonna go
to the screen here now
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and we're gonna
see on the screen here
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a picture of Bob, up there.
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And he was, he was
actually get that picture of him
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and he's not as
good at catching fish
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as some of the rest of us are,
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you see those
little thing he has there?
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He calls that a fish
and you'll see the lure
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he is using, is actually almost
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as big as the fish he caught is.
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And so, and so Bob
he had survived on fish,
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he doesn't do so well.
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And I'm about the same
way often times myself,
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when I will go fishing
if-- if I had to survive
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on that we would
have been hungry.
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So, you know, it
may tell you something
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even though fish is not
plentiful for me and for others.
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The, the fruits
and the vegetables
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and grains and nuts since
I can get plenty of those,
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I never had one
get away, all right.
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But there are certain
fish if you gonna eat them
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and the one like you see
there with that Bob there,
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that was a Bass and a
Bass is that clean or unclean?
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So we throw up back or keep it
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although he would
haven't threw that back,
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because this is too
small and it's against the law
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that keep them that small.
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So, is it okay or
not okay to keep a Bass?
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It's okay, because it
has fins and scales, right?
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How about, now here's one
that get some people some times
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and we're gonna eat
one. How about a carp?
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It's clean
exactly right and carp,
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you know,
everybody thinks oh, carp,
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they are always nasty fish
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but it has a mud
vein in the back of it,
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you know, those of
you there are fisherman
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and understand a
little bit about it,
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but they have fins and scales.
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And it is kind of interesting
because all the nasty stuff
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gets in that mud rain
as far as I know,you know,
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but they, they are pretty nasty
looking as far as that goes.
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All right, how about a catfish?
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So, biblically
can we eat a catfish?
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No, let me tell you a
story about a catfish.
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I was fishing down on
the Kentucky river one time
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and ran into these guys
and tell me a story about,
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they was out there in their boat
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and they look up
the way up the river
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and they see the
water moving around,
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turning up there, up ways,
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it looks like
something is out in the water,
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but looks like someone is
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laying on the
bank close to them.
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And so they take their
boat and they didn't want to go
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running up to real fast
wide open with their motor
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and they are both
scare whatever it was away,
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so they kind of
just creep up there
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real soon as they
get closer and closer
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and they start seeing something,
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its like what is that?
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And they finally get close
enough and they see what it is.
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On a bank is a
dead dog, you know,
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a big, a big dead dog like this
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and this is
gonna sound disgusting,
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I hope you're not eating at home
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because if you are, you
might want to leave the room,
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I'll give you a
second, okay, times up.
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And this dog is laying
there with its guts hanging out,
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right it's
rotting, its half decayed,
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its been dead there,
with its guts hanging out
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and what was moving in the water
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was his two big
cat fish were up there
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and they were eating
that guts out of that dog
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that was left leg
like half in the water
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and half on the bank.
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And you know what lot of
people would do with that point?
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They would catch those catfish
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and take them home and eat them.
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What do you think
you're comfortable with that,
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that's pretty
disgusting isn't it?
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But now, here's what
fascinating about this.
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A catfish what makes it unclean,
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is it because it
eat those things?
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Because it has no skills,
when God designed the fish,
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He says, okay, the
things that are gonna be
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scavengers they are gonna
be eating all the garbage,
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I'm gonna
designed it a certain way
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so that you and I just
can look at it and say,
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no, no I can't eat that,
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you know, if I'm hungry and
there is nothing else to eat
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I can't eat that
because it's unclean,
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and it's a
scavenger, it can kill you.
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And so you have that, that
case there with the catfish.
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Now no one was ever gonna want
to eat catfish again are they?
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Like when they see
that country fried catfish.
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And then now hear this
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and they were feels I
hear this or I get letter.
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But that's farm race catfish.
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You know, they
don't go eating dogs,
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they eat other garbage.
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God has said, don't eat it,
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because He wants
you to be healthy.
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You know, it's fascinating
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is that like my understanding
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and I've read about this before
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that some of the
highest cholesterol animal
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of all the animal
that most people will eat,
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but one of the, one of the ones
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would like the
highest cholesterol, you know,
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what it is lobster. I
understand that lobster
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is almost like the
highest cholesterol,
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you know, it's like.
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And you know
what the lobster does,
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it's pretty nasty, you
know, how they catch like crab
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and offspring
things like that, right.
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They just get a
bunch of dead stuff,
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they put it in a cage and
they will come and eat it.
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That's what their
job is to clean up
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the dead stuff
out of the oceans.
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And then we go
and we take the thing
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that's been eating all
the dead stuff out of ocean,
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the dead and decaying things.
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And they would say,
oh, this stuff is so good.
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All right, but that's not
the best thing for us, is it.
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If God wants us to be
healthy, we must obey His rules.
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I mean, if we want to be
healthy as God wants us to be,
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we must obey His rules.
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"So these shall ye eat of
all that are in the waters,
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whatsoever hath fins.
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Leviticus Chapter 11
verse 9, "it has to have
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"fins and scales in the waters.
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"And all that have not
fins and scales in the seas,
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"and in the rivers, of
all that move in the waters,
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"and in living thing
which are in the waters,
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they shall be an
abomination to you."
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Does God change? No.
God doesn't change, does He?
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So if God says,
it's an abomination
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that's a
serious word doesn't it?
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Does God say, okay,
there's no longer abomination
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my followers can eat it, this
is not abomination any more,
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it makes no sense
whatsoever, does it?
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It just, well, I got to admit
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when I first started
understanding this myself,
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I had a lot of
trouble with this,
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it's very hard, it
was very hard for me.
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And I had to just
say, Lord, not my will,
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but yours be done.
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If God does
asking you or asking me
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not to eat or to eat something
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then it will be
very beneficial us,
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beneficial for us obviously
since He is the creator,
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so He is the one
that wrote the handbook.
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I don't want to take
this body that He is given me
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and try to turn it back into Him
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all messed up and everything
say, can you fixed it.
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I want to obey the handbook
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or as the illustration we
use the earlier with a car.
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You know, we want
to do what the people
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that designed the car
tells what to do with it,
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so it could be best for the car,
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this is what God has given us.
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And so these things that
we are going over right now,
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I'm try to make it as
light hearted as I can,
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but, yeah, it is serious thing.
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You know, when I give this study
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especially in
certain parts of the country,
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you know, that
there are certain people
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that they depend on
even in United States
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it maybe hard for
some people to understand.
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But they depend on
the things they catch
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and the things they
kill for food throughout
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times in their
life because that's just
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their means of
getting foods still.
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And they around the
world that's the same way,
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so God says if
you're going to eat this,
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please, I want
you to be healthy,
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there is no good to
eat things and stay alive
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if you're going die of multiple,
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you know, problems
with heart and lungs
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and arteries and things
like that clogging up is there,
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it doesn't do as much good.
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And so He does
give us His principles
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because He wants
us to be healthy.
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All right, now we're
going on, we're moving on here,
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we're still in
Leviticus Chapter 11,
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and we just got done
with the fish part of it.
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Now we're gonna
look at the birds,
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the birds, verse 13.
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"And these are they which
ye shall have in abomination
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among the fowls or the birds,
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they shall not be eaten,
they are an abomination."
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And it starts giving examples
of certain kinds of birds
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that you will notice
something about these birds,
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they are all scavengers,
they are all predators,
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they are all the
ones that are hunting
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and killing
things and eating them.
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For instance, it
says, the vulture,
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oh, let me
backup the eagle first,
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and then
Ossifrage, now that's not,
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that's not an
ostrich, but in the King James,
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it's a Ossifrage,
and does anybody have
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a different
translation there to give me
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another name for that bird?
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Nobody. Vulture.
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Okay, a vulture and the osprey,
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now they have those in Florida.
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Oh, osprey, now
those are the things
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we have in Florida,
Heron, as the white birds
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with its spit tale
coming out like that,
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does it what they are, osprey,
I think is what they are called.
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You know, it's
very, it's very sad to me,
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I was, I was golfing
with the Pastor's Scot
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and couple other guys
one day on the golf course.
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And, of course, you
golf from the golf course.
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But anyway we were
standing there and I see,
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I hear a noise and
I just as I look over,
00:25:52.32\00:25:55.15
Scot, says, look at that,
we look over and this osprey,
00:25:55.16\00:25:57.60
he comes down and he
dives right down to the corner
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of this tree and
grabs the sparrow
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and starts flying off
with the sparrow in its close,
00:26:01.64\00:26:04.29
and the sparrow just
squalling and squalling
00:26:04.30\00:26:06.16
and the other sparrows are
trying to hit that big bird,
00:26:06.17\00:26:07.87
and knock over the
bird and it is just like,
00:26:07.88\00:26:09.67
if I had someone
just stopping that,
00:26:09.68\00:26:10.99
you know, I couldn't stop it,
00:26:11.00\00:26:11.97
but you know,
what the osprey did?
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It went and ate that sparrow.
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So no one has a problem
not eating osprey, do they?
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Actually, if I would
like to kill the thing myself,
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if I had an opportunity,
yeah, that would have,
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if I had, I had impact
00:26:24.17\00:26:25.40
I want to save the
sparrow, but I couldn't.
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So anyway, you
think about these animals
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and the birds that
were looking at here
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and here's what
funny most people,
00:26:33.75\00:26:35.69
you say, don't eat a crow,
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of course, I'm
not gonna eat a crow.
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Don't eat it,
don't eat it black bird,
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I'm not gonna eat the
black bird, or a vulture,
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ooh, nasty, right?
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Don't eat a pig, why?
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For the same reason
you don't eat a bird
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or you know, the same reason
you don't eat a black bird
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or vulture or one
of those things right?
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Because God says though.
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All right, and the
owl, and the night hawk,
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the cuckow, how we say that,
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and the hawk after
his kind, the little owl,
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the cormorant,
and the great owl,
00:27:04.94\00:27:06.92
the swan, the
pelican, and the gier eagle,
00:27:06.93\00:27:09.56
the stork, the
heron after his kind,
00:27:09.57\00:27:11.58
and lapwing, and
the bat after his kind.
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And all fowls that
creep, upon all fours,
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shall be an abomination to you.
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All right, so let's
look at over couple of birds,
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it just gives a list
of birds that are unclean,
00:27:20.60\00:27:23.30
would a bird that is a forager
that fit in this category.
00:27:23.31\00:27:27.86
Forager is like a chicken
right, chicken clean or unclean?
00:27:27.87\00:27:33.95
Biblically it is clean
right? How about a dove?
00:27:33.96\00:27:39.52
You know, dove is clean,
because we sacrifice them right,
00:27:39.53\00:27:41.73
they wouldn't, we wouldn't
sacrifice unclean animals.
00:27:41.74\00:27:44.26
And so, you also
have that the pigeon,
00:27:44.27\00:27:47.30
the same category as a dove.
00:27:47.31\00:27:48.77
All right, so you can eat
these things, if you insist.
00:27:48.78\00:27:50.82
But, God has said
the best diet is what?
00:27:50.83\00:27:54.44
Stay away from these things,
stay away from them even.
00:27:54.45\00:27:57.22
So these are
things that are clean,
00:27:57.23\00:27:58.93
if you want to go and
eat, how about turkey?
00:27:58.94\00:28:01.78
Turkey is clean,
yeah, these may you eat
00:28:01.79\00:28:05.15
of everything
that creeping upon,
00:28:05.16\00:28:06.38
that goes upon earth are four,
00:28:06.39\00:28:07.90
which have legs
above their feet.
00:28:07.91\00:28:09.46
I've almost have
struck with that,
00:28:09.47\00:28:11.26
just reading out
in the King James,
00:28:11.27\00:28:12.24
I've never went
looked at up any other place
00:28:12.25\00:28:13.49
but something has
legs above its feet.
00:28:13.50\00:28:16.20
I don't know
anything doesn't have
00:28:16.21\00:28:17.18
a leg above his feet.
00:28:17.19\00:28:19.35
Well, there must be
something that I'm missing there
00:28:19.36\00:28:21.69
which have legs
above their feet to leap
00:28:21.70\00:28:23.43
with all upon
the earth, verse 22.
00:28:23.44\00:28:25.27
"Even these of them may you eat,
00:28:25.28\00:28:27.69
the locust after their kind,
00:28:27.70\00:28:29.15
and the bald
locust after his kind,
00:28:29.16\00:28:30.51
and the beetle after his kind,
00:28:30.52\00:28:31.98
and the
grasshopper after his kind.
00:28:31.99\00:28:33.29
Hey, Mike, have
all the grasshoppers
00:28:33.30\00:28:35.11
you want brother,
as matter of fact,
00:28:35.12\00:28:36.29
you can have mine too.
00:28:36.30\00:28:37.65
Yeah, so you need these
things if you insist locust
00:28:37.66\00:28:40.30
and you
remember John the Baptist
00:28:40.31\00:28:41.37
come along eating
what? Locust and wild honey.
00:28:41.38\00:28:43.79
Now I've had people say,
well, that's locust bean.
00:28:43.80\00:28:45.55
Well, I've never
been to prove that
00:28:45.56\00:28:46.93
and no one has ever shown
it to me either from the Bible.
00:28:46.94\00:28:48.77
So may get a letter, someone can
00:28:48.78\00:28:49.80
actually send me a
letter and show me,
00:28:49.81\00:28:51.68
oh, this is why it is.
00:28:51.69\00:28:52.73
I've had people try to
just make that statements said,
00:28:52.74\00:28:55.05
John the Baptist,
so we can eat that,
00:28:55.06\00:28:56.40
what was called the locust
being and honey and I say,
00:28:56.41\00:28:59.60
well, locust
bean, is that sweet?
00:28:59.61\00:29:00.72
Yeah, so you're eating
honey and sweet locust beans.
00:29:00.73\00:29:05.14
All right, so they're warning
there when you look it up,
00:29:05.15\00:29:09.27
it actually, when I looked it
up in the concordance it said,
00:29:09.28\00:29:11.72
it was like the bug, the locust
bug, like the grasshopper.
00:29:11.73\00:29:14.80
So if he wasn't eating
that, if he was locust bean,
00:29:14.81\00:29:17.24
I'm fine with that
too, I'm just trying to
00:29:17.25\00:29:18.76
my best to stick
with the scriptures here
00:29:18.77\00:29:20.28
and go by that.
00:29:20.29\00:29:22.27
So if you want to eat the bugs
00:29:22.28\00:29:24.82
you can eat a locust
or grasshopper or an ant.
00:29:24.83\00:29:29.12
You can still eat your chocolate
00:29:29.13\00:29:30.26
with couple of
ants I understand,
00:29:30.27\00:29:32.39
but actually you
shouldn't have the chocolate.
00:29:32.40\00:29:35.63
All right, now
we cover the bugs,
00:29:35.64\00:29:37.78
we've covered all
that stuff and verse 23,
00:29:37.79\00:29:39.33
"But all other
flying creeping things,
00:29:39.34\00:29:40.96
which shall go
upon all four feet,
00:29:40.97\00:29:43.04
shall be an abomination to you."
00:29:43.05\00:29:44.94
Now comes the difficult part,
00:29:44.95\00:29:48.05
because lot of people would say,
00:29:48.06\00:29:49.03
okay, I'm
following the scriptures,
00:29:49.04\00:29:51.82
I'm following the
Bible, I'm eating healthy
00:29:51.83\00:29:53.72
and I'm eating my cow, my
deer and these kind of things.
00:29:53.73\00:29:56.05
But didyou know, that
when you eat those things
00:29:56.06\00:29:59.36
today in our
country, especially in around
00:29:59.37\00:30:01.54
and lot of
places around the world.
00:30:01.55\00:30:02.65
You're not actually
eating clean animals
00:30:02.66\00:30:05.18
because the Bible also forbids
the eating of blood and a fat.
00:30:05.19\00:30:09.72
Let us go to our next text here,
00:30:09.73\00:30:11.08
Leviticus 3:17, and
whom I'm going to get to
00:30:11.09\00:30:13.21
read Leviticus
3:17, as we turned there
00:30:13.22\00:30:15.69
Leviticus Chapter 3,
Anida, would you like to
00:30:15.70\00:30:17.66
read that for us?
00:30:17.67\00:30:21.93
This is also another
part of this message,
00:30:21.94\00:30:24.74
you know, well,
we'll just get into this,
00:30:24.75\00:30:26.58
go ahead as soon
as you get there.
00:30:26.59\00:30:28.85
"It shall be a perpetual
statute for your generations
00:30:28.86\00:30:31.76
"throughout all your dwellings,
00:30:31.77\00:30:33.13
that ye eat
neither fat nor blood."
00:30:33.14\00:30:35.95
So The Bible says here,
"You eat neither," what?
00:30:35.96\00:30:38.19
Fat. Fat or blood?
00:30:38.20\00:30:39.25
And,you know, when you
go to the grocery store,
00:30:39.26\00:30:41.10
and you see, you're
in the meat section there
00:30:41.11\00:30:43.97
of your local
index or whatever it is
00:30:43.98\00:30:45.85
or the Wal-Mart or the Kruger
00:30:45.86\00:30:47.22
whatever you're
in the meat section.
00:30:47.23\00:30:48.23
And you see that, you
see that nice big display
00:30:48.24\00:30:51.18
of all that good
looking tasteful cow,
00:30:51.19\00:30:54.78
and all these
other kind of hands
00:30:54.79\00:30:56.33
and things over there right.
00:30:56.34\00:30:57.38
And you like at them,
they're red and juicy,
00:30:57.39\00:30:59.22
you know what's
the juice is right?
00:30:59.23\00:31:00.78
It's blood.
00:31:00.79\00:31:01.96
And you know,
what's in the blood?
00:31:01.97\00:31:04.29
Urine, you know, when
you eat a big juicy steak,
00:31:04.30\00:31:07.63
you're eating blood and urine.
00:31:07.64\00:31:10.02
Doesn't it sound good?
00:31:10.03\00:31:12.14
Somebody, I know people that
love to eating their steaks,
00:31:12.15\00:31:14.98
almost rare, and you
like just little brown on top
00:31:14.99\00:31:17.85
and the bottom
eating all the juicy things.
00:31:17.86\00:31:19.38
They're just like animals,
when you're eating like that,
00:31:19.39\00:31:22.55
you are just like an animal.
00:31:22.56\00:31:24.06
And so, the Bible says,
00:31:24.07\00:31:25.14
"Don't eat the
blood or the fats."
00:31:25.15\00:31:26.13
So if you're eating
that big fat juicy steak
00:31:26.14\00:31:28.55
and you're eating
the fat around the edge,
00:31:28.56\00:31:30.89
you're disobeying
what God asks you to do.
00:31:30.90\00:31:34.64
You're disobeying God.
00:31:34.65\00:31:36.51
I never thought of
that like that before,
00:31:36.52\00:31:37.74
probably have you,
early some people haven't,
00:31:37.75\00:31:39.57
you know, may be listening this,
00:31:39.58\00:31:40.56
never they thought like
that, but its simple principle,
00:31:40.57\00:31:42.57
I'm doing what God
has asked me not to do.
00:31:42.58\00:31:44.97
Do you think God
is gonna bless that?
00:31:44.98\00:31:47.86
No, I know that,
it's going to be come up
00:31:47.87\00:31:48.84
and say, wait a
minute, the Bible says,
00:31:48.85\00:31:50.51
as long as you prayed it
is blessed, no it doesn't.
00:31:50.52\00:31:53.50
We'll go there, it's
in 1st Timothy Chapter 4,
00:31:53.51\00:31:56.03
and we'll go there
later on in the answers,
00:31:56.04\00:31:58.12
answer part of this section.
00:31:58.13\00:31:59.56
But just kind
of think it's true,
00:31:59.57\00:32:01.30
is God gonna contradict Himself?
00:32:01.31\00:32:03.06
Is He gonna say, one places
in abomination to do this,
00:32:03.07\00:32:05.28
in other place He
says, oh, yeah, go ahead,
00:32:05.29\00:32:07.00
eat whatever you want.
00:32:07.01\00:32:07.98
That is not the God
that's in the Bible.
00:32:07.99\00:32:10.56
He says, "I'm the
Lord and I do not change."
00:32:10.57\00:32:12.98
He does not change. So He says,
00:32:12.99\00:32:14.77
"Don't eat the
blood or the fat."
00:32:14.78\00:32:15.97
And then we're
going to Deuteronomy
00:32:15.98\00:32:16.98
Chapter 12 and Verse 23.
00:32:16.99\00:32:18.61
Deuteronomy, it's
on the screen there,
00:32:18.62\00:32:21.04
from Leviticus, where do
we go to get Deuteronomy?
00:32:21.05\00:32:24.43
To the right one book, yeah,
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
00:32:24.44\00:32:27.64
and Numbers,
Deuteronomy Chapter 12,
00:32:27.65\00:32:30.54
Deuteronomy Chapter 12.
00:32:30.55\00:32:34.75
And we can get
somebody to read that?
00:32:34.76\00:32:40.17
Mike, you want to read that,
00:32:40.18\00:32:41.15
Deuteronomy Chapter
12 and read verse 23?
00:32:41.16\00:32:44.23
"Only be sure that
thou eat not the blood,
00:32:46.69\00:32:49.06
for the blood is the life,
00:32:49.07\00:32:50.48
and thou mayest not eat
the life with the flesh."
00:32:50.49\00:32:53.04
Okay, what's another
reason that He gives us
00:32:53.05\00:32:55.04
besides a health reason
I'm not eating the blood?
00:32:55.05\00:32:58.07
That's what the life is.
00:32:58.08\00:32:59.47
That's the life of the
animals in the blood and,
00:32:59.48\00:33:01.15
you know, what God says,
"I don't want you eating that,
00:33:01.16\00:33:02.69
I don't want to eat that."
00:33:02.70\00:33:03.67
And if you
remember in a sacrifices,
00:33:03.68\00:33:05.28
when they would kill the animal,
00:33:05.29\00:33:06.46
they would take the blood.
00:33:06.47\00:33:08.00
And they would use
that as a symbol of the sin
00:33:08.01\00:33:10.73
being
transferred from the animal
00:33:10.74\00:33:12.68
that you just
confessed your sins over
00:33:12.69\00:33:14.19
into the holy place
and he would sprinkle
00:33:14.20\00:33:15.62
in the holy place there right.
00:33:15.63\00:33:17.45
So in the blood, is the
symbolism and also the sin.
00:33:17.46\00:33:21.97
And then it would
take, and He says,
00:33:21.98\00:33:23.06
"I don't want
you eating a blood,
00:33:23.07\00:33:24.25
that's where the
life of the animal is,
00:33:24.26\00:33:25.43
that's where the life
is, you can eat the carcass.
00:33:25.44\00:33:28.22
And He say, like
that, it sounds a lot,
00:33:28.23\00:33:29.65
lot more like, I
don't want to have it,
00:33:29.66\00:33:30.84
but you can eat the
carcass of the animals He says,
00:33:30.85\00:33:33.19
but don't eat the blood.
00:33:33.20\00:33:34.22
And you cannot
hardly find food today,
00:33:34.23\00:33:39.02
as far as flesh food
goes without the blood in it.
00:33:39.03\00:33:41.45
Have you had
kosher meat, I mean,
00:33:43.48\00:33:45.53
completely kosher
without the fat or the blood.
00:33:45.54\00:33:48.02
You know, I think
beef churkey is probably
00:33:48.03\00:33:49.36
about close as you
can come to having that.
00:33:49.37\00:33:50.82
You know, and no more
reason it has any flavor to it,
00:33:50.83\00:33:52.69
because they put spices in it.
00:33:52.70\00:33:56.00
So the fried juicy steaks
and things like that is not
00:33:56.01\00:33:59.05
what you called
kosher in the Bible.
00:33:59.06\00:34:01.27
You're still disobeying God.
00:34:01.28\00:34:03.39
I mean, if He says, don't
eat the fat and the blood,
00:34:03.40\00:34:04.96
and you eat the
fat and the blood,
00:34:04.97\00:34:05.94
that's the same thing as
eating something unclean.
00:34:05.95\00:34:07.68
So all of us
out there that says,
00:34:09.44\00:34:10.95
oh, yeah, I'm
following the Bible,
00:34:10.96\00:34:12.62
I'm not eating unclean foods.
00:34:12.63\00:34:14.68
You are, if you're
eating them in an unclean way,
00:34:14.69\00:34:16.50
you can eat a clean
food in the wrong way,
00:34:16.51\00:34:18.02
and it would be unclean.
00:34:18.03\00:34:20.67
Have you thought
of that one before,
00:34:20.68\00:34:22.93
pretty serious isn't it?
00:34:22.94\00:34:25.22
But I'm just presenting this
00:34:25.23\00:34:26.79
because I want
everybody to understand
00:34:26.80\00:34:28.41
as well as what
the Bible is giving us
00:34:28.42\00:34:30.19
that God wants us to be healthy,
00:34:30.20\00:34:31.53
but He doesn't
wants us disobeying Him.
00:34:31.54\00:34:33.91
Have you been doing
these things all along,
00:34:33.92\00:34:35.76
may be it's time to do
what God wants us to do.
00:34:35.77\00:34:37.54
Again this study here
is about for the people
00:34:39.05\00:34:42.14
that have that
relationship with the Lord,
00:34:42.15\00:34:44.22
and they want to please Him.
00:34:44.23\00:34:46.49
I made a statement little early
00:34:46.50\00:34:48.50
before we had class
and I was telling them,
00:34:48.51\00:34:49.82
telling my students
I've had people tell me,
00:34:49.83\00:34:51.90
when I tell them that, you know,
00:34:51.91\00:34:52.95
I want to keep the
Sabbath and I want to obey God
00:34:52.96\00:34:56.05
with the health principles
and I want to do these things
00:34:56.06\00:34:57.91
because I love God,
and I've had people say,
00:34:57.92\00:34:59.56
you're trying to
earn your salvation.
00:34:59.57\00:35:01.41
You're trying to do
things so that God will love you
00:35:01.42\00:35:03.15
and you don't understand
that God already loves you.
00:35:03.16\00:35:05.14
And in fact the Lord gave
me something just yesterday
00:35:05.15\00:35:06.85
and I want to share right now,
00:35:06.86\00:35:07.90
because I think this is
the good place to share it.
00:35:07.91\00:35:10.34
You know, when I
was dating my wife,
00:35:10.35\00:35:12.41
we did not have
a relationship yet.
00:35:12.42\00:35:13.95
We were just, like I
just started like seeing her
00:35:13.96\00:35:16.62
and I was doing
all kinds of things
00:35:16.63\00:35:17.96
to try to get her
to love me, right.
00:35:17.97\00:35:20.21
I'll be doing things for her
00:35:20.22\00:35:21.19
to try to get her
to love me, right?
00:35:21.20\00:35:22.78
But now after we've been married
00:35:22.79\00:35:24.83
and we were
married for sometime,
00:35:24.84\00:35:26.46
they coming up tomorrow again
00:35:26.47\00:35:27.85
is our 15th wedding anniversary.
00:35:27.86\00:35:29.56
Tomorrow, you know,
even during different times
00:35:29.57\00:35:32.30
in my life, I do
good things for her,
00:35:32.31\00:35:33.82
am I then doing
good things for her
00:35:33.83\00:35:35.17
to try to get her to love me.
00:35:35.18\00:35:36.72
No because she already does,
00:35:36.73\00:35:37.70
why am I doing good
things for her then?
00:35:37.71\00:35:39.49
Because we already do love her
and my argument back now that,
00:35:39.50\00:35:43.35
this is like,
this is just epiphany,
00:35:43.36\00:35:45.21
like God give me
this Revelation here,
00:35:45.22\00:35:47.31
is when someone
tells me that's claiming
00:35:47.32\00:35:48.96
to be a Christian,
00:35:48.97\00:35:49.94
they're claiming they
love God and serving God.
00:35:49.95\00:35:51.29
And they come to me and say,
00:35:51.30\00:35:52.31
the only reason
you're doing these things
00:35:52.32\00:35:53.78
is to try to
get God to love you,
00:35:53.79\00:35:55.15
because you don't
understand He already loves you.
00:35:55.16\00:35:56.94
You know, it's
like they're telling me,
00:35:56.95\00:35:59.26
they don't really have
a relationship with God
00:35:59.27\00:36:01.13
and they see that,
if they do anything
00:36:01.14\00:36:02.69
to try to do anything for God,
00:36:02.70\00:36:04.33
they're gonna be
doing it for God,
00:36:04.34\00:36:05.48
in order try to
get Him to love them,
00:36:05.49\00:36:07.03
because they really don't
have that relationship with Him
00:36:07.04\00:36:08.54
because if they did,
they would understand
00:36:08.55\00:36:10.24
that I'm doing things for
God because I already love Him
00:36:10.25\00:36:12.46
and He already loves me, just
like I do things for my wife
00:36:12.47\00:36:14.78
because she already loves
me and I already love her.
00:36:14.79\00:36:17.11
When you first start doing that,
00:36:17.12\00:36:18.82
when you first see your wife,
00:36:18.83\00:36:19.97
you're trying to get
her to love you, right?
00:36:19.98\00:36:21.65
And when people
first come to Jesus
00:36:21.66\00:36:22.95
and they may not
understand the gospel,
00:36:22.96\00:36:24.26
they may want to start doing
things for the wrong reason.
00:36:24.27\00:36:26.62
They may want to
start doing things thinking
00:36:26.63\00:36:27.86
if I do these
good things for God,
00:36:27.87\00:36:29.25
He wanted to love me.
00:36:29.26\00:36:30.31
He wants to love me
more that way, right?
00:36:30.32\00:36:32.02
And they don't
understand the relationship
00:36:32.03\00:36:33.64
and those people may be
never grow in their walk
00:36:33.65\00:36:35.27
with the Lord and
they never understand
00:36:35.28\00:36:36.53
why somebody else
can be doing things
00:36:36.54\00:36:39.47
and wanting to just
give up things in their life,
00:36:39.48\00:36:41.68
wanting to do
things to make Him happy.
00:36:41.69\00:36:44.36
And it's not to try
to get Him to love me.
00:36:44.37\00:36:46.71
It's because He
already does love me
00:36:46.72\00:36:48.28
and I already love Him.
00:36:48.29\00:36:50.40
That's the
difference in the reasoning
00:36:50.41\00:36:52.80
between for a lot of people.
00:36:52.81\00:36:53.99
So I just want to
throw that out right here
00:36:54.00\00:36:56.22
because I often
times I'll say, yeah,
00:36:56.23\00:36:57.82
you just try to
earn your salvation,
00:36:57.83\00:36:59.13
you're trying to
get God to love you.
00:36:59.14\00:37:01.17
No, I believe He created
me, I believe He redeemed me
00:37:01.18\00:37:06.43
and out of
appreciation and love for what
00:37:06.44\00:37:08.07
He's already done for me
and how much He loves me.
00:37:08.08\00:37:10.32
I want to please Him.
00:37:10.33\00:37:11.88
That's the
relationship with God.
00:37:11.89\00:37:14.22
I want to continue
on here to our next
00:37:14.23\00:37:15.87
Proverbs Chapter 23 verse 29.
00:37:15.88\00:37:18.69
We're going now and
making the transition here
00:37:18.70\00:37:20.31
a little bit,
Proverbs 23, did you know that
00:37:20.32\00:37:22.59
God is interested
in what you drink,
00:37:22.60\00:37:24.95
as well as what you eat.
00:37:24.96\00:37:27.52
Some people think
that drinking alcohol
00:37:27.53\00:37:30.10
is an okay thing, you know,
00:37:30.11\00:37:31.40
the Bible says,
contrary to that.
00:37:31.41\00:37:33.62
So we're gonna go to
the Book of Proverbs.
00:37:33.63\00:37:34.93
Does anybody know
which direction we go
00:37:34.94\00:37:36.63
from Deuteronomy
to get to Proverbs.
00:37:36.64\00:37:38.82
Right. I'm in Ezekiel which way
00:37:38.83\00:37:40.61
I need to go? Left, left.
00:37:40.62\00:37:42.33
All right, I'm
in Isaiah. Solomon.
00:37:42.34\00:37:45.36
Solomon, Proverbs.
00:37:45.37\00:37:49.71
All right, they're
move me back to the left
00:37:49.72\00:37:51.92
from Ezekiel and Isaiah,
you keep going back to left
00:37:51.93\00:37:53.94
and you get to Proverbs
00:37:53.95\00:37:54.92
and we're going
to the 23rd Proverbs
00:37:54.93\00:37:57.66
Chapter 23 verse 29 through 35.
00:37:57.67\00:38:01.03
And I believe
Vanessa can read that for us.
00:38:01.04\00:38:05.19
Twenty-nine through thirty-five.
00:38:08.96\00:38:10.32
Yeah, and I'll probably
interrupt you quite a bit, okay.
00:38:10.33\00:38:12.22
All right, don't
laugh at me, you just,
00:38:12.23\00:38:13.97
you just
concentrate on your reading.
00:38:13.98\00:38:15.07
All right, all right.
00:38:15.08\00:38:16.15
"Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow?
00:38:18.29\00:38:22.51
Who hath
contentions? Who hath babbling?
00:38:22.52\00:38:26.87
Who hath wounds without cause?
00:38:26.88\00:38:29.94
Who hath redness of eyes?"
00:38:29.95\00:38:31.96
Well, the only
person I've ever known
00:38:31.97\00:38:33.22
like that was the
friends, I used to run around
00:38:33.23\00:38:34.81
with before I
become a Christian.
00:38:34.82\00:38:37.62
They had all these things.
00:38:37.63\00:38:38.63
You know when they
headed on, you know,
00:38:38.64\00:38:39.62
when they add these
things happening to them
00:38:39.63\00:38:41.35
every weekend, right?
00:38:41.36\00:38:43.20
I was always the
designated driver until I said,
00:38:43.21\00:38:45.57
you know, one night,
I'm going to end up in jail
00:38:45.58\00:38:47.04
with the bunch of drunk,
so I quit designating driving
00:38:47.05\00:38:48.72
for them, you guys
just go on, carry on."
00:38:48.73\00:38:50.92
"They that tarry
long at the wine,
00:38:52.53\00:38:55.74
they that go to
seek mixed wine."
00:38:55.75\00:38:58.23
So, who has the red
eyes and all these problems?
00:38:58.24\00:39:01.39
The people that are
drinking wine, right?
00:39:01.40\00:39:02.68
All right, keep going.
00:39:02.69\00:39:04.60
"Look not thou upon
the wine when it is red,
00:39:04.61\00:39:09.36
when it giveth his
colour in the cup, when it move,
00:39:09.37\00:39:13.54
moveth itself aright.
00:39:13.55\00:39:16.86
At the last it
biteth like a serpent,
00:39:16.87\00:39:21.74
and stingeth like an adder.
00:39:21.75\00:39:25.14
Thine eyes shall
behold strange women,
00:39:25.15\00:39:29.62
and thine heart shall
utter perverse things."
00:39:29.63\00:39:34.18
Okay, hold on just a second.
00:39:34.19\00:39:35.93
The people that spend
their time drinking the alcohol,
00:39:35.94\00:39:38.14
the wine, now I want you
to understand in the Bible,
00:39:38.15\00:39:41.72
very rarely and
anyway makes the distinction
00:39:41.73\00:39:43.76
between what will be,
we will call fermented wine
00:39:43.77\00:39:46.55
and unfermented wine, right?
00:39:46.56\00:39:48.56
So something like, what
we may call grape juice,
00:39:48.57\00:39:50.53
the Bible will call the
fruit of the wine or wine,
00:39:50.54\00:39:52.89
but now it's making a
distinction right here
00:39:52.90\00:39:54.22
what you're reading
its taking about that wine
00:39:54.23\00:39:55.70
when it turns red,
don't look upon it.
00:39:55.71\00:39:57.30
In other words,
when it's alcohol
00:39:57.31\00:39:58.38
and when it's turned to alcohol
00:39:58.39\00:39:59.36
and it's fermenting,
00:39:59.37\00:40:00.34
don't even look upon
it, and the people that do,
00:40:00.35\00:40:03.20
they're morals
decline quite a bit,
00:40:03.21\00:40:07.16
because, you
know, you start looking
00:40:07.17\00:40:08.14
upon strange women,
they have the red eyes,
00:40:08.15\00:40:10.43
they have things
that happening to them,
00:40:10.44\00:40:11.50
they don't even
remember, keep reading.
00:40:11.51\00:40:12.94
"Yea, thou shalt be
as he that lieth down
00:40:14.80\00:40:17.92
in the midst of the
sea, or as he that lieth
00:40:17.93\00:40:22.06
upon the top of a mast.
00:40:22.07\00:40:25.24
They have stricken
me, shalt thou say,
00:40:25.25\00:40:29.08
and I was not sick,
they have beaten me,
00:40:29.09\00:40:33.07
and I felt it not,
when shall I awake?
00:40:33.08\00:40:38.23
I will seek it yet again."
00:40:38.24\00:40:40.95
What they are
talking about here?
00:40:40.96\00:40:42.75
He is talking about someone
that's addicted to alcohol.
00:40:42.76\00:40:45.40
You know, like I'll go ahead
00:40:45.41\00:40:47.00
and I'll take this
stuff, and then when I wake up,
00:40:47.01\00:40:48.56
I want it again because I just,
00:40:48.57\00:40:50.31
I just have this thirst
for this alcohol, right?
00:40:50.32\00:40:52.57
But, when I have
it, people beat me up,
00:40:52.58\00:40:54.30
I don't recognize it, you know,
00:40:54.31\00:40:55.63
I lay with strange,
women, I didn't recognize it,
00:40:55.64\00:40:57.75
that cause a lot of problems.
00:40:57.76\00:41:00.24
You know, if you
just took, at this point,
00:41:00.25\00:41:03.16
we're not gonna talk
about the other things
00:41:03.17\00:41:04.59
that destroy our
bodies beside just the foods.
00:41:04.60\00:41:06.74
and I'm, I'm little more
passionate about this here too,
00:41:06.75\00:41:08.72
even a little,
little farther than
00:41:08.73\00:41:11.16
I was about the food thing,
00:41:11.17\00:41:12.27
but I want you to
think about something.
00:41:12.28\00:41:13.59
If we just took the Bible and
none of us had a Bible at all,
00:41:13.60\00:41:16.22
and we're just
living through this world,
00:41:16.23\00:41:17.46
living our lives
through this world,
00:41:17.47\00:41:18.44
and we're just
trying to find out
00:41:18.45\00:41:19.66
a way through and find out
what's best and what's worst,
00:41:19.67\00:41:22.76
common sense that
God has given you,
00:41:22.77\00:41:24.92
tells you that you
just stay away from alcohol,
00:41:24.93\00:41:27.07
all the arguments
that He try to say well,
00:41:27.08\00:41:28.94
a little wine is
good for the belly,
00:41:28.95\00:41:30.32
And all this kind
of stuff and they say,
00:41:30.33\00:41:31.42
"Is He talking about
fermented or unfermented."
00:41:31.43\00:41:33.04
Oh, it must be
talking about fermented,
00:41:33.05\00:41:34.81
God doesn't care if I
was drinking fermented wine.
00:41:34.82\00:41:37.08
Let me tell you something,
00:41:37.09\00:41:38.58
statistically one
in every five people
00:41:38.59\00:41:40.87
that taste
alcohol become addicted,
00:41:40.88\00:41:43.79
one in every five.
00:41:43.80\00:41:45.61
Now, I'm preaching now, I
got to preach here because
00:41:45.62\00:41:47.19
I'm little more
passionate about this,
00:41:47.20\00:41:48.42
and when I give the Bible study,
00:41:48.43\00:41:49.65
if I'm dealing with somebody
00:41:49.66\00:41:50.63
that does have alcohol issues,
00:41:50.64\00:41:51.78
I get very
passionate with him too,
00:41:51.79\00:41:53.23
because I care about their soul.
00:41:53.24\00:41:54.96
When you gives Bible studies,
00:41:54.97\00:41:56.04
if you don't
care about their soul,
00:41:56.05\00:41:57.06
your Bible study is not
gonna be affective anyway,
00:41:57.07\00:41:59.66
you understand,
if it's just words
00:41:59.67\00:42:00.83
that you're giving
and there is nothing
00:42:00.84\00:42:02.27
that's in your heart
that God is giving you
00:42:02.28\00:42:03.80
for a passion, for
the soul of this person
00:42:03.81\00:42:05.84
that you're studying with
00:42:05.85\00:42:06.82
or you're preaching
to or whatever it maybe.
00:42:06.83\00:42:08.43
If you don't have
us, if you don't have
00:42:08.44\00:42:09.41
a burden for their soul,
00:42:09.42\00:42:10.60
it's gonna be
pointless anyway because
00:42:10.61\00:42:11.74
the Spirit of God is
not gonna be there working.
00:42:11.75\00:42:13.91
So I'm gonna be a little
more passionate right here,
00:42:13.92\00:42:15.53
but I want you to
think about something.
00:42:15.54\00:42:16.93
If one out of every five people
00:42:16.94\00:42:19.01
get addicted to alcohol
they taste it statistically,
00:42:19.02\00:42:21.51
would you keep
a dog in your yard
00:42:21.52\00:42:22.83
bit one out of every five people
00:42:22.84\00:42:24.12
that came by, or it depends
on who was it came by, right?
00:42:24.13\00:42:27.89
You know, I think
it was that salesman
00:42:27.90\00:42:29.08
that won't go
away or whatever it is,
00:42:29.09\00:42:30.13
yeah, I wouldn't mind
it, but you'll be sued.
00:42:30.14\00:42:31.85
You understand what I
was talking about here.
00:42:33.12\00:42:35.15
And they say, you know, I
don't think we go to that.
00:42:35.16\00:42:37.47
Let me see here, no we don't.
00:42:37.48\00:42:39.07
That story about
Jesus in the Book of John,
00:42:39.08\00:42:41.72
his first miracle, he
changed his water to--
00:42:41.73\00:42:43.99
Wine. Wine and
I've heard people,
00:42:44.00\00:42:46.09
actually trying to
argue, and make the point that,
00:42:46.10\00:42:48.84
it was fermented
wine because they said,
00:42:48.85\00:42:51.64
"Hey, you save the
best stuff to last, like,
00:42:51.65\00:42:53.64
like the best stuff is
the most alcohol firmament
00:42:53.65\00:42:55.77
or whatever is there."
00:42:55.78\00:42:56.78
No, the best stuff is
the freshest grape juice
00:42:56.79\00:42:58.85
that we'll be talking
about, think about it.
00:42:58.86\00:43:00.66
Would Jesus give His blessings
00:43:00.67\00:43:02.66
to a wild drunken
party of where he make
00:43:02.67\00:43:04.82
gallons and gallons
of fermented alcohol?
00:43:04.83\00:43:06.75
That's just ridiculous,
00:43:08.01\00:43:08.99
I mean, that's
just so ludicrous,
00:43:09.00\00:43:10.00
I almost feel
embarrassed saying it,
00:43:10.01\00:43:11.24
but I've dealt with
people that's try to argue
00:43:11.25\00:43:12.91
that that was the point,
that that's what he done,
00:43:12.92\00:43:15.48
he created alcohol,
it's okay to have it.
00:43:15.49\00:43:18.24
No, no. You know, the
violent crimes and rapes
00:43:18.25\00:43:23.17
and almost
everything that you find
00:43:23.18\00:43:25.39
going on has
alcohol tide right to it,
00:43:25.40\00:43:28.33
all the major crimes, all
the things they're going on,
00:43:28.34\00:43:29.95
the people were on
some form of alcohol,
00:43:29.96\00:43:32.72
it destroys your
body, it destroys your mind,
00:43:32.73\00:43:36.10
you don't think
clearly, you do stupid things,
00:43:36.11\00:43:39.62
and they were church people.
00:43:39.63\00:43:41.21
For church people, actually say,
00:43:41.22\00:43:42.41
it's okay to have a
little that is foolishness,
00:43:42.42\00:43:44.96
just common sense. Now,
let's go back to the Bible,
00:43:47.05\00:43:49.16
I'm just, I'm just
talking common sense,
00:43:49.17\00:43:50.80
and you know, I know
this for a fact because,
00:43:53.92\00:43:56.74
I was, I wasn't
drinking the alcohol
00:43:56.75\00:43:58.25
or anything like
that, I was even before
00:43:58.26\00:43:59.88
I became a
Christian, I kept myself clean,
00:43:59.89\00:44:01.91
you know, I just, you know,
00:44:01.92\00:44:02.89
you wondered why
I kept myself clean
00:44:02.90\00:44:04.00
mostly because I knew
it will disappoint my dad
00:44:04.01\00:44:05.79
if he found out
I was doing things.
00:44:05.80\00:44:07.11
Even when I was away from home
00:44:08.50\00:44:09.49
or whatever moved away,
00:44:09.50\00:44:10.61
I was, I was, I was going
00:44:10.62\00:44:11.74
to my the electronic
school in Lexington, Kentucky
00:44:11.75\00:44:13.88
and moved away from
home, I still in my mind,
00:44:13.89\00:44:16.63
could not do things like
that because I was, I knew,
00:44:16.64\00:44:18.56
if he found out,
he'll be so disappointed.
00:44:18.57\00:44:20.85
But now the rest of
the guys I went around
00:44:20.86\00:44:22.68
with did plenty of
that stuff, you know,
00:44:22.69\00:44:24.01
and I saw plenty of it,
00:44:24.02\00:44:25.09
and I saw how
dump it made them act.
00:44:25.10\00:44:26.57
You know, I got admit,
00:44:28.04\00:44:30.20
I did try it or
like twice there,
00:44:30.21\00:44:32.65
and I thought this is so stupid.
00:44:32.66\00:44:34.62
You know, we all messed up
from time-to-time and move,
00:44:35.85\00:44:37.63
but not, not since
becoming a Christian,
00:44:37.64\00:44:39.57
I'd never even consider that.
00:44:39.58\00:44:41.26
You know, because
now it's not afraid
00:44:41.27\00:44:43.32
if my dad's going to find out,
00:44:43.33\00:44:44.85
now I know that my
real dad does see it.
00:44:44.86\00:44:47.04
And so without even
going in all the details
00:44:49.06\00:44:51.22
of the alcohol
part, and the arguments
00:44:51.23\00:44:52.80
that people try
to make, you know,
00:44:52.81\00:44:54.85
if you're a
born again Christian,
00:44:54.86\00:44:56.55
if you've faith for
the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:44:56.56\00:44:58.97
this is an even,
not even an issue.
00:44:58.98\00:45:00.58
You know, and
the people that say,
00:45:02.77\00:45:04.49
well, it doesn't matter,
00:45:04.50\00:45:05.91
you continue along that road,
00:45:05.92\00:45:07.57
that's the same
thing that Eve said
00:45:07.58\00:45:08.67
when she looked at the
fruit, it doesn't matter.
00:45:08.68\00:45:10.91
You know, it's very dangerous,
00:45:10.92\00:45:13.81
I just feel, to me
it's almost embracing
00:45:13.82\00:45:15.84
that Christians
actually had to bring this up
00:45:15.85\00:45:17.57
and talk to other Christians
about not drinking alcohol
00:45:17.58\00:45:19.37
that it is sinful, and its wrong
00:45:19.38\00:45:20.89
and its destroying your body.
00:45:20.90\00:45:22.30
When you drink alcohol,
it destroys brain cells.
00:45:22.31\00:45:25.04
I need all the
brain cells I can get.
00:45:25.05\00:45:27.81
So does God want
us to whatever we do,
00:45:27.82\00:45:30.36
whatever we do, whatever we eat,
00:45:30.37\00:45:31.38
drink, whatever we do,
00:45:31.39\00:45:32.51
must we do all
to the glory of God.
00:45:32.52\00:45:34.92
And it's not
bringing glory to God,
00:45:34.93\00:45:36.41
when you drink
alcohol and act like a fool
00:45:36.42\00:45:38.21
and to say, well, I just drink
00:45:38.22\00:45:39.22
to get a little buzz, well,
I just drink for the flavor,
00:45:39.23\00:45:41.11
I don't get drunk at
all, I don't get a buzz.
00:45:41.12\00:45:42.97
Then why do you
drink? Why do you drink?
00:45:42.98\00:45:47.14
I mean, if you don't
drink to get to have,
00:45:47.15\00:45:49.15
even get a buzz or
what everything like that
00:45:49.16\00:45:50.74
then drink fresh grape juice.
00:45:50.75\00:45:52.28
You know, you
drinking to in order
00:45:53.32\00:45:54.40
to get that
numbness in your mind,
00:45:54.41\00:45:55.73
that numb feeling you get,
00:45:55.74\00:45:56.72
whatever it is
when you're drinking,
00:45:56.73\00:45:58.01
you drink for that.
00:45:58.02\00:45:59.12
And you, what you're
doing is you're taking yourself
00:45:59.13\00:46:01.26
and you're lowering your morals
00:46:01.27\00:46:02.98
and things like as you put
00:46:02.99\00:46:03.96
that stuff in your body.
00:46:03.97\00:46:05.04
And you're gonna do things,
that's disappointing to God,
00:46:05.05\00:46:07.29
I don't want to
take that chance.
00:46:07.30\00:46:08.37
It's hard enough
to fight the devil off
00:46:09.41\00:46:10.73
with the clean
mind and clean heart
00:46:10.74\00:46:12.24
and serving him much
less to start lowering
00:46:12.25\00:46:14.89
my abilities purposefully
00:46:14.90\00:46:17.59
in order to and
still try to serving Him,
00:46:17.60\00:46:20.45
it's foolishness
that's my sermon on it.
00:46:20.46\00:46:23.65
But think about it, most
auto accident are from what?
00:46:25.48\00:46:28.91
Drinking, they
are already in this,
00:46:28.92\00:46:31.52
in fact they are mail texting--
00:46:31.53\00:46:32.84
with distracted
driving, you know,
00:46:35.51\00:46:36.65
whatever it is, but
alcohol does it to you.
00:46:36.66\00:46:39.47
So we're gonna continue on here
00:46:39.48\00:46:41.25
to the next text Proverbs 20:1,
00:46:41.26\00:46:43.31
we're gonna hammer on
this just a little bit,
00:46:43.32\00:46:45.08
Proverbs 20 and verse 1,
00:46:45.09\00:46:48.77
oh, man we're
gonna run out of time,
00:46:48.78\00:46:51.49
I'll read this one,
Proverbs 20 verse 1,
00:46:51.50\00:46:53.64
"Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging,
00:46:53.65\00:46:56.68
whosoever is deceived
thereby is very wise."
00:46:56.69\00:47:00.92
Oh, did I misread that,
yeah, they are not wise.
00:47:00.93\00:47:03.92
And what's it called, what
does the Bible called wine?
00:47:03.93\00:47:06.87
A mocker and he says,
you're deceived by it.
00:47:06.88\00:47:10.17
In other words deception,
remember what we said,
00:47:10.18\00:47:11.80
deception was.
00:47:11.81\00:47:12.87
Thinking everything
is okay when its not.
00:47:12.88\00:47:15.16
Brothers and sisters,
for those you at home,
00:47:15.17\00:47:18.38
I remember my friends
when I run around with them
00:47:18.39\00:47:21.46
they were doing the alcohol,
00:47:21.47\00:47:23.37
they thought everything was fine
00:47:23.38\00:47:24.76
when actually it wasn't.
00:47:24.77\00:47:25.76
They were very
deceived by alcohol.
00:47:27.31\00:47:30.01
And if you think
its okay to use that,
00:47:30.02\00:47:31.84
you're going totally
against the scripture
00:47:31.85\00:47:33.41
here and common sense.
00:47:33.42\00:47:35.30
First Corinthians 6:10,
00:47:35.31\00:47:36.97
1 Corinthians
Chapter 6 and verse 10,
00:47:36.98\00:47:41.33
look what it
says. There was a guy
00:47:41.34\00:47:43.87
come to my church one day
00:47:43.88\00:47:46.45
and he was a homeless guy,
00:47:46.46\00:47:50.04
he was a drunk
guy off the street.
00:47:50.05\00:47:51.76
And he
interrupted the church service
00:47:51.77\00:47:53.60
and few things
like that and he says,
00:47:53.61\00:47:55.26
he yells out, he says, I
want to get help with my,
00:47:55.27\00:47:57.97
with my problems, my alcohol,
00:47:57.98\00:47:59.39
Michael was there that day
and he just was yelling out,
00:47:59.40\00:48:01.01
disrupting the
church. So we took him back,
00:48:01.02\00:48:02.75
we had a conversation with him
00:48:02.76\00:48:03.90
and we pray with him and
we were trying to help him out
00:48:03.91\00:48:05.95
and things like that.
00:48:05.96\00:48:06.93
And you know, you
know what the guy told me,
00:48:06.94\00:48:08.59
he told everyone of us.
00:48:08.60\00:48:09.93
He said, this is not a
issue of whether or not
00:48:09.94\00:48:12.53
I'm gonna be save, he
says, I've already been saved,
00:48:12.54\00:48:15.30
I was baptized
and the Bible teaches,
00:48:15.31\00:48:16.79
once saved always saved.
00:48:16.80\00:48:17.77
He says, so I can keep
drinking alcohol all I want,
00:48:17.78\00:48:20.68
because I've been, you know,
00:48:20.69\00:48:21.94
he was taught from
the people that taught him
00:48:21.95\00:48:23.34
from the Bible
that it didn't matter,
00:48:23.35\00:48:24.83
you can drink alcohol,
00:48:24.84\00:48:25.81
you do whatever you want to do,
00:48:25.82\00:48:26.79
because he is saved.
00:48:26.80\00:48:28.07
Ludicrous isn't it?
00:48:30.56\00:48:31.53
Because look what the
Bible has to say about that.
00:48:31.54\00:48:32.87
First Corinthians 6:10,
00:48:32.88\00:48:34.42
this is what we quoted
him, he said didn't matter.
00:48:34.43\00:48:35.98
Robert, you want to do that one,
00:48:39.13\00:48:40.22
First Corinthians
Chapter 6 and verse 10,
00:48:41.90\00:48:45.13
this is about,
speaking about the people
00:48:45.14\00:48:46.44
that are not gonna be in heaven.
00:48:46.45\00:48:48.97
Okay, the people that are
not going to be in heaven.
00:48:48.98\00:48:51.09
"Nor thieves, nor covetous,
00:48:52.98\00:48:58.82
nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor extortioners,
00:48:58.83\00:49:05.62
will inherit
the kingdom of God."
00:49:05.63\00:49:08.52
So the Bible says, and
thank you so much, Robert,
00:49:08.53\00:49:11.42
there for reading that for us.
00:49:11.43\00:49:12.70
That drunkards,
revilers, and extortioners
00:49:12.71\00:49:16.08
will not inherit
the kingdom of God.
00:49:16.09\00:49:17.95
Will drunkards be
in the kingdom of God?
00:49:17.96\00:49:19.79
No. So is it safe
to drink alcohol? No.
00:49:19.80\00:49:23.06
I mean, even if you're
drinking not to get drunk,
00:49:23.07\00:49:25.36
but there is a chance
you may get addicted to it,
00:49:25.37\00:49:26.79
is it safe?
00:49:26.80\00:49:27.77
I mean, if there was a one,
00:49:27.78\00:49:29.26
one in one
thousand percent chance,
00:49:29.27\00:49:31.46
one chance in one thousand,
00:49:31.47\00:49:32.48
if it was one in
one thousand chance
00:49:32.49\00:49:34.59
that you may
become addicted to alcohol
00:49:34.60\00:49:36.15
and end up being
lost to be a drunkard,
00:49:36.16\00:49:37.64
would you want to
take that chance? No.
00:49:37.65\00:49:39.40
No, not even close.
00:49:39.41\00:49:41.56
So the Bible is very
clear that the people
00:49:41.57\00:49:43.07
that are doing these
things are not gonna be
00:49:43.08\00:49:44.97
in the kingdom of God
and I want to make sure
00:49:44.98\00:49:47.02
I'm in the
kingdom of God, don't you?
00:49:47.03\00:49:48.92
So God has given
us principles to both
00:49:48.93\00:49:50.45
on how we eat and
how we should drink.
00:49:50.46\00:49:52.49
Let me ask you just a
few things in general.
00:49:52.50\00:49:54.36
Do you think, now
we've learned this
00:49:54.37\00:49:55.70
that its okay
to smoke marijuana,
00:49:55.71\00:49:57.88
just a little bit.
00:49:57.89\00:50:00.29
All right, how about this one,
00:50:00.30\00:50:01.66
is it safe to do a
little bit of cocaine,
00:50:01.67\00:50:05.68
how about just a
little bit of morphine,
00:50:05.69\00:50:07.94
you know, just like everyday
00:50:07.95\00:50:08.93
you get a little bit
morphine to keep that,
00:50:08.94\00:50:10.31
keep that feeling,
is it okay for that?
00:50:10.32\00:50:12.21
How about just
a little caffeine.
00:50:12.22\00:50:14.24
Oh, oh, you guys
didn't give me such a reply.
00:50:16.07\00:50:19.10
You know somebody is
throwing stuff to television.
00:50:19.11\00:50:22.00
Look, drugs are classified
00:50:22.01\00:50:23.60
by the last three
letters of their name.
00:50:23.61\00:50:26.38
If you're taking,
you put up on a screen
00:50:26.39\00:50:27.94
and you have, you have cocaine,
00:50:27.95\00:50:29.64
it ends with ine,
00:50:29.65\00:50:31.14
you have
morphine it ends with ine.
00:50:31.15\00:50:33.40
You put up there
caffeine it ends in ine,
00:50:33.41\00:50:36.71
it's just a milder form of that.
00:50:36.72\00:50:38.13
Did you know, you
can overdose on caffeine,
00:50:38.14\00:50:40.35
did you know that's possible?
00:50:40.36\00:50:42.04
Yeah, you can get too
much Caffeine in overdose.
00:50:42.05\00:50:43.83
Now I want you to think about
00:50:43.84\00:50:44.81
what's going on in our country,
00:50:44.82\00:50:45.79
in our world today. We got
all these drinks out there,
00:50:45.80\00:50:47.94
they are putting out for people,
00:50:47.95\00:50:49.09
and they are
loading people, young people
00:50:49.10\00:50:50.80
on caffeine just like.
00:50:50.81\00:50:51.86
I mean, They're like becoming
00:50:51.87\00:50:52.84
totally addicted to caffeine.
00:50:52.85\00:50:54.76
And they're going
to school that way,
00:50:54.77\00:50:58.81
you know, they go
stop in the morning
00:50:58.82\00:50:59.91
on the way to school
and they drink one of those
00:50:59.92\00:51:01.43
what they called
Surge, or something like that,
00:51:01.44\00:51:03.94
Monster, yeah,
I've seen those things
00:51:03.95\00:51:05.22
and one called Red
Bull or something like,
00:51:05.23\00:51:07.05
I've seen their advertisements,
but I don't touch the stuff.
00:51:07.06\00:51:09.39
Can you imagine
me on caffeine? No.
00:51:09.40\00:51:11.27
Like I don't touch the
stuff, I stay away from it.
00:51:11.28\00:51:13.13
I mean, you will be
just like this, you know,
00:51:13.14\00:51:14.52
I love that at least
I can make them laugh.
00:51:15.91\00:51:17.55
But, could you
imagine me on caffeine?
00:51:19.11\00:51:21.03
I used to be, oh, man,
00:51:21.04\00:51:23.26
I was like this
all the time, you know,
00:51:23.27\00:51:25.61
and I can remember when
I first learn this truth,
00:51:25.62\00:51:28.42
I've been in the church sometime
00:51:28.43\00:51:29.83
and no one had told
me that caffeine was bad.
00:51:29.84\00:51:32.27
And then somebody
come along and said,
00:51:32.28\00:51:33.25
they saw me drinking
like my mountain dew,
00:51:33.26\00:51:34.98
you know my, my
big thing mountain dew
00:51:34.99\00:51:36.38
and I have
couple of them in a day
00:51:36.39\00:51:37.49
and just wired up
all the time, right.
00:51:37.50\00:51:40.47
And I wouldn't
sleeping well, and I just,
00:51:40.48\00:51:42.28
I was just, can you
imagine I was hyperactive.
00:51:42.29\00:51:45.39
You should have
heard how fast I talked
00:51:45.40\00:51:47.06
when I was on caffeine.
00:51:47.07\00:51:49.50
And they said, hey,
00:51:49.51\00:51:50.85
You're not supposed
to have that? I say why?
00:51:50.86\00:51:52.94
I don't see
anything Bible says that,
00:51:52.95\00:51:54.71
And then they
start to explaining to me
00:51:54.72\00:51:56.08
that it was a drug, and
it was affecting my body.
00:51:56.09\00:51:57.79
And that drugs
change things in your body,
00:51:57.80\00:52:00.60
you know like even though
it doesn't say in the Bible
00:52:00.61\00:52:03.50
not to smoke marijuana.
00:52:03.51\00:52:06.40
We know that, even though
00:52:06.41\00:52:07.74
that Bible
doesn't say to do that,
00:52:07.75\00:52:08.72
that is wrong
because it effects you
00:52:08.73\00:52:10.20
and destroys brain
cells and it changes things,
00:52:10.21\00:52:13.82
chemical things in your
body, in your mind, right.
00:52:13.83\00:52:15.57
Same with cocaine
and same with heroin
00:52:15.58\00:52:17.91
and this kind of
drugs we don't do those
00:52:17.92\00:52:19.29
because we know that the
Bible principle teach us,
00:52:19.30\00:52:21.41
we shouldn't have those things.
00:52:21.42\00:52:23.01
I say, wow, and
caffeine is the same way,
00:52:23.02\00:52:24.91
they said, yeah, I said, okay.
00:52:24.92\00:52:27.30
Now this is why I
have a real bad problem
00:52:27.31\00:52:30.75
in being a
minister in the ministry.
00:52:30.76\00:52:34.30
The reason I have
a real bad problem
00:52:34.31\00:52:35.63
right here with
this, is because I know,
00:52:35.64\00:52:38.31
I can't relate to
someone that says,
00:52:38.32\00:52:41.31
I'm just addicted
I can't let go this.
00:52:41.32\00:52:43.53
When they told
me I needed to quit
00:52:43.54\00:52:44.78
doing the caffeine,
you know what I did.
00:52:44.79\00:52:46.77
I quit doing the caffeine,
as I quit drinking mountain dew.
00:52:46.78\00:52:49.37
They said, didn't
you have headaches? No.
00:52:49.38\00:52:51.44
Oh, didn't you
have, didn't you have
00:52:51.45\00:52:52.73
like withdrawals.
00:52:52.74\00:52:54.67
Not that I can think of.
00:52:54.68\00:52:56.44
And so I just quit doing,
00:52:56.45\00:52:58.24
I just quit doing
the caffeine all together
00:52:58.25\00:53:00.33
and it was no problem,
I didn't have a problem.
00:53:00.34\00:53:02.49
So when I have to
deal with somebody
00:53:02.50\00:53:03.93
and they say, you know,
00:53:03.94\00:53:04.91
I just can't get
the victory over this,
00:53:04.92\00:53:06.59
I just can't seem
to get rid of caffeine.
00:53:06.60\00:53:08.90
I say, well, you know what,
00:53:08.91\00:53:10.28
I can't relate to you
00:53:10.29\00:53:11.31
but I know somebody that can,
00:53:11.32\00:53:13.38
you see the Bible teach us.
00:53:13.39\00:53:14.36
So let's go to our next
text, Romans Chapter 13,
00:53:14.37\00:53:16.93
Romans 13th
Chapter, is our next text.
00:53:16.94\00:53:22.30
First of all, the Bible tell us,
00:53:22.31\00:53:24.79
who has Romans
13 ready by the way.
00:53:24.80\00:53:26.65
Romans, the 13th Chapter,
00:53:28.65\00:53:29.62
everybody be turning
with their texts with this.
00:53:29.63\00:53:33.35
Acts, Romans 13,
Chapter 13 and verse 14.
00:53:33.36\00:53:38.04
All right, I'm there by myself,
00:53:41.70\00:53:43.04
Gloria, would you
like to read that for me?
00:53:43.05\00:53:44.40
Gloria, I have it,
I'll do to it, I'm sorry,
00:53:53.08\00:53:55.70
because we're
running short of time,
00:53:55.71\00:53:56.78
I will go ahead
and grab it for you.
00:53:56.79\00:53:58.04
"But put ye on
the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:53:58.05\00:54:00.55
and make no
provision for the flesh,
00:54:00.56\00:54:02.56
to fulfill the lusts thereof."
00:54:02.57\00:54:05.45
So the Bible
tells us that we're not,
00:54:05.46\00:54:07.69
we're not to make
provision for the flesh.
00:54:07.70\00:54:09.92
In other words if
you have a problem
00:54:09.93\00:54:11.22
with being
addicted to something,
00:54:11.23\00:54:12.36
say it's
caffeine or whatever it is
00:54:12.37\00:54:14.23
and you're
addicted to something.
00:54:14.24\00:54:15.55
The Bible says,
"Don't go to that thing
00:54:15.56\00:54:17.61
and make provisions to be there,
00:54:17.62\00:54:19.04
flee from it, get away from it."
00:54:19.05\00:54:20.76
Like if I have problem let say,
00:54:20.77\00:54:22.94
for instance smoking,
you know the best thing
00:54:22.95\00:54:24.78
I can do to quit smoking
00:54:24.79\00:54:25.89
is don't buy cigarettes anymore.
00:54:25.90\00:54:28.17
And then what I'm
going to withdrawals,
00:54:28.18\00:54:29.55
I'm having a bad time with it
00:54:29.56\00:54:30.66
or things like that.
00:54:30.67\00:54:31.71
You know, I
don't have with there
00:54:31.72\00:54:33.01
so I can't smoke it right.
00:54:33.02\00:54:34.18
But wait a minute,
00:54:34.19\00:54:35.22
what if its too much
for me, I can't handle them.
00:54:35.23\00:54:36.82
I'm just gonna
have a nervous breakdown
00:54:36.83\00:54:37.97
if I don't have one.
00:54:37.98\00:54:39.21
Look at the promise from
the Bible Philippians 4:13,
00:54:39.22\00:54:42.04
look what the Bible promises.
00:54:42.05\00:54:43.06
Now again this study here
is for Christians isn't? Right.
00:54:43.07\00:54:47.57
And so if you are Christian,
00:54:47.58\00:54:48.55
you can believe the
Bible and trust in the Bible
00:54:48.56\00:54:50.14
can't you?
00:54:50.15\00:54:51.35
So we're gonna find
out what the Bible tells us
00:54:51.36\00:54:53.27
in the Book of Philippians
Chapter 4 and verse 13,
00:54:53.28\00:54:56.72
if you think,
feel like that just
00:54:56.73\00:54:57.80
by not making provision
for the flesh, you're staying
00:54:57.81\00:55:00.06
away from it, will help you.
00:55:00.07\00:55:01.37
The Bible says,
00:55:01.38\00:55:02.48
you got a promise
from a word of God,
00:55:02.49\00:55:03.91
Philippians
Chapter 4 and verse 13,
00:55:03.92\00:55:06.18
I'm gonna go ahead
and read that one too.
00:55:06.19\00:55:08.56
I can do all things
except give up cigarettes
00:55:08.57\00:55:11.54
and caffeine and
eating pig through Christ
00:55:11.55\00:55:14.22
that strengthens me.
00:55:14.23\00:55:16.32
Oh, it doesn't
say that, does it?
00:55:16.33\00:55:18.04
What does it actually say?
00:55:18.05\00:55:19.79
I can do all things
period through Christ
00:55:19.80\00:55:23.36
who strengthens me.
00:55:23.37\00:55:24.53
In other words God can give me
00:55:24.54\00:55:25.91
the victory over whatever
it is I'm having trouble with,
00:55:25.92\00:55:28.60
no matter what it is,
00:55:28.61\00:55:29.73
no matter what
I'm struggling with.
00:55:29.74\00:55:30.83
God has promised that
He can, He can help us,
00:55:30.84\00:55:32.62
He can get us through it,
00:55:32.63\00:55:33.69
He can give us the
victory over whatever it is
00:55:33.70\00:55:36.90
that we need victory over.
00:55:36.91\00:55:38.51
Now some people
say, but you know,
00:55:38.52\00:55:42.02
I really like
these things, I mean,
00:55:42.03\00:55:45.08
I really love it.
00:55:45.09\00:55:46.30
Why would God
takes something from me
00:55:46.31\00:55:47.76
I like so well.
00:55:47.77\00:55:49.67
You know, doesn't
the pig taste good?
00:55:49.68\00:55:52.69
Oh, man, I'll tell you
00:55:52.70\00:55:53.67
there is nothing
better than a pork chop,
00:55:53.68\00:55:54.81
it's delicious.
00:55:54.82\00:55:56.38
And so why is God
taking these things from me?
00:55:56.39\00:55:58.72
God says, I'm not
asking you to give up anything.
00:55:58.73\00:56:01.18
Psalm 84:11,
00:56:01.19\00:56:03.19
Psalm 84 and verse 11,
00:56:03.20\00:56:11.39
"For the Lord God
is a sun and a shield,
00:56:11.40\00:56:15.50
The Lord will
give grace and glory
00:56:15.51\00:56:17.30
and no good thing
will he withhold from them
00:56:17.31\00:56:20.44
that walk uprightly.
00:56:20.45\00:56:22.22
Is God going to,
is God gonna hold
00:56:22.23\00:56:23.62
any good thing from you?
00:56:23.63\00:56:25.29
No, in other words when we think
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there is something good for us.
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By faith we must believe
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that when God say
its not, then its not.
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Are you understanding That?
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He's not gonna
withhold any good thing from us,
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He's gonna make sure that,
whatever it is that's good,
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He has provided for us.
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The problem is that
often times we have an idea
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of what we think is
good and what we want
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and it's not what
God wants us to have.
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Let's go to our closing text,
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1 Thessalonians
Chapter 5 and verse 23,
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when you given this study,
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you're gonna have
a lot of objections.
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Especially if the
person has not being converted.
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You know, if the
person doesn't understand
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the whole principle
between loving God enough
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to one that serve Him
more than anything else.
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You understand what I'm saying,
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1 Thessalonians 5 and verse 23,
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"And the very God of
peace sanctify you wholly,
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and I pray God your
whole spirit, soul, and body
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be preserved blameless
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into the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Paul's appeal to us,
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as he wants us to
be preserved blameless,
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he doesn't want our
bodies to be defiled
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by the things of this world
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whether it's
physical or spiritual.
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God is calling for
you and for me right now
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to surrender all things
to Him and He has promised
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He will give us the
strength to overcome.
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I want to invite you
people at home to continue
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to go along with us
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as we continue
to study the Bible.
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