- Hello, I'm Jim. - I'm Ginnie.
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We are the Hakes.
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And we want to welcome
you to, Pathway to Life.
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Whether you are
watching on YouTube, 3ABN,
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or live
streaming, or Good News TV,
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welcome to the Paradise Valley
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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We are in for a very
special treat tonight.
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Paradise Valley's own
Mary Norman will share
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her musical talents
for special music tonight.
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In fact, her special music is an
original piece that she wrote.
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It's entitled, Free Indeed.
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And following that,
Pastor Lomacang's message of,
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Abundant Living.
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But before we invite Mary
to come out and sing for us,
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as our practice, let's begin
with a word of prayer, shall we.
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Gracious heavenly Father,
we thank You for the privilege
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to come and to
hear beautiful music,
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to open the Word of
God, to gather, to be blessed
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by Your plan and
purpose for our life.
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And so it is indeed our
prayer that Your Holy Spirit
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will lead and bless in
everything that is done here
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in this meeting today.
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And we thank You, for
we've asked it in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty;
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there is freedom in
the glory of the cross.
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For the love of
God is there revealed
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on that cross of Calvary
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where the Son of God
has died to save the lost.
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We're freed from
guilt and condemnation
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when we accept
God's great salvation.
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Free, free, we are all set free.
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At the cross of Christ,
what glory and salvation.
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Free, free, we are all set free.
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In Christ we're free indeed.
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While we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
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And by His death
He won the victory.
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Through the presence of
His Spirit He abides in us,
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till face to face
His glory we shall see.
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Christ Jesus was
our perfect sacrifice;
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dying our death that
we might live His life.
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Free, free, we are all set free
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At the cross of Christ,
what glory and salvation.
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Free, free, we are all set free.
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In Christ we're free indeed.
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And if God's before
us, who can be against us?
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We are more than conquerors
through Him that loves us,
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through Him that loves us.
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Free, free, yes
we are all set free.
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At the cross of Christ,
what glory and salvation.
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Free, free, we are all set free.
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In Christ we're free indeed.
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In Christ we're free indeed.
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Thank you so much.
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- Can we say amen again? ~ Amen.
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What a beautiful song.
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Good evening, everyone.
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I know there are
more of you than that.
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- Good evening,
everyone. ~ Good evening.
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Glad to see your smiling faces.
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I won't tell our viewing
audience what night it is,
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because it's a different
time all over the world.
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And you may not know
that, but this is being seen
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in Asia, the Caribbean,
Australia, New Guinea.
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You just name it,
it's all over the world.
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God has given us an
opportunity to say hello
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to those and welcome to
those who are joining us
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from all over the world.
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This is
Paradise Valley, Phoenix.
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But tonight we're going to
talk about abundant living.
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And we want to ask for the
Lord's blessing to be with us.
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So as on each
night, let's pray together.
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Loving Father in heaven,
thank You for the blessing
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of abundant living.
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And we pray tonight
as we open Your Word
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that yes,
You'll open our hearts.
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Send Your Holy Spirit,
not only into this place,
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but into the hearts and
lives of all who are watching
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and listening to this program.
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And we pray for
Jesus to be uplifted,
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for the truth to be clear,
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and for us to find
an abundant relationship
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with Christ,
our Lord and Savior.
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In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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I don't know of anyone who
doesn't want to be healthy.
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I really don't.
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People may not make
that decision to be healthy
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while they are in
the prime of their lives,
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but I've never
visited anyone in the hospital
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that said, "I
wish I was more ill."
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It's amazing how
much we think about health
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during the closing
moments of our lives
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or when something
tragic happens that we are
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no longer in control of.
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That's why we have to
remember that Jesus is
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not only the
Savior, but He wants to be
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the Lord of our lives.
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And the Lord of our lives
is the one who is in charge.
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The Landlord of our
lives is the one who wants to
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be in charge of our lives.
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And He has a wonderful
plan for every one of us.
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So we need to understand
a number of other reasons
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why Jesus came.
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Notice one of the
reasons that He states
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in the book of John 10:10.
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Jesus said...
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Today when we think about
one of the greatest challenges,
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not only in our
nation, but around the world
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is the health crisis.
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There's always some
kind of political controversy
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or debate about
health issues in America.
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But what people don't
realize is, many of the things
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that affect our health
are preventable if we simply
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connect those
things to lifestyle.
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That's why I really appreciate
Dr. Lela and all our health
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presenters every evening.
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They talk about ways...
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These are not
pre-programmed presentations.
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But these are
benefits to every one of us
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if we would follow the
plan that God established
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from the very beginning.
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When we go back to the Bible,
we notice that God gave the best
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health plan in
the book of Genesis.
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On the heels of
creation, the Lord said...
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Now we know, as we look
back, God gave man what I call,
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the optimum diet.
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When we think
about expensive cars...
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And I don't own
an expensive car.
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As a matter of fact,
the car that we rented
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we had to put air in the
tires on the way over here.
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But whether it's a
$5000 car a $100,000 car,
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it comes with a
manufacturer's warranty
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and an owner's manual.
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If we follow the owner's manual,
as the manufacturer establishes,
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then we know the
warranty will not be void.
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But if we ignore the warranty,
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or ignore the
manufacturer's manual,
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which in fact
for us is the Bible,
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then the
warranty could be voided.
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If you put
sugar in the gas tank,
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and oil where the gas should be,
and gas where the oil should be,
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you could destroy the
most expensive vehicle.
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But the thing about that is
you could replace a vehicle,
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but you cannot replace
your body once it breaks down.
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So if we would
treat, if we would give...
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If you had a million
dollar horse, would you give him
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Fritos and Coca-Cola the
night before his best race?
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You really wouldn't.
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You'll say, "He needs
the best diet and sleep
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in order to win
the race the next day."
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God wants us to win the race.
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Can you say amen?
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And we have to
understand, when He created us
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the reason why He gave
us the kind of plan He did
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is because each one of
us is created in His image.
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In other words, what
amazes me is God put together
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a fantabulous divine plan.
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We are, as it
were, made in the image.
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When you think about
it, from the Creator's hand
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God meticulously carved
us out, put everything in us
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we would need,
and then He gave us
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His image to reflect.
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Notice how
Genesis 1:27 says this.
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And when I think of
the fascinating capability
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of the mind, think of the
things that man can create.
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I mean, we can come up with...
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If you look at all
this equipment and all these
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cameras, and all the
wireless devices we have today,
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that's what man can conceive.
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We've got an intellect
that's not coincidental,
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did not happen by happenstance,
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but it happened by a
plan that is phenomenal.
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Tonight let me walk you through
something that may amaze you,
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as it amazed me, when I talked
about just one of the most
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simplistic aspects of
why the human body functions
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so magnificently.
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Something called, DNA.
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid.
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Say that together with
me. Deoxyribonucleic Acid.
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Now that you've swallowed
your tongue, you can listen.
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DNA; we all know this as DNA.
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And I'm not a doctor, but
information is available today.
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And when I studied what I
did and learned what I did
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about DNA, my mind was captured.
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Now I don't want to be a doctor.
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I praise God for doctors.
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But the Doctor of doctors
of doctors is Jesus Christ.
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And notice the
machine that He made.
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Let's look at DNA.
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Some facts about DNA.
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Every animal has
DNA, every plant has DNA.
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Everything God
created has a DNA code.
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Let's keep going.
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One percent.
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And they'll say, there
is no chance in 99 million,
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or 1.6 billion, or
whatever the numbers are,
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they'll narrow it
down so much they'll say,
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"There's no way that you
could not have been there.
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Because this matches your DNA."
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You've heard that before.
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But let's look at
something else fascinating.
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That's why whenever
there's a question about
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who the parent is, they
say, "Let us take a DNA test."
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Because God put a
signature in there
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that you cannot hide.
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You may have seen some of
these shows about crimes that
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were committed like 20
years ago, or before DNA,
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and they go and exhume the body
and they take little samples,
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like even from ashes.
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I was amazed, I saw one where
they took ashes of somebody
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that has been cremated
shortly after the crime
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because the person
perpetrating it thought
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if you burn them up,
you can't find out about it.
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But in the ashes was preserved
molecular chemical compositions
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that identified that, even
that body after being burned up,
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it still maintained
that DNA code in the ashes.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Let's keep going.
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I know your head is hurting.
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I know that. I understand that.
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I mean, this is
fascinating to me.
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So when a doctor stands
before me and they take lab,
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you know, they say,
"We've got the lab results."
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I look at the long
list of lab results.
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How much blood I
have, how much my iron is.
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And you know, all the
other things that they get.
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I'm fascinated.
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And they find that out
with just little drops of blood.
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God is amazing, is He not.
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Since I'm fascinating
you, let me keep it up.
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Now I just introduced a
phrase you may not know.
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The human genome.
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Let's look at this.
What is the human genome?
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So when that DNA is
working, it is saying,
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"Do this. Don't do that."
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"Don't do that. Do this."
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And by the way, this
is one of the reasons why
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when I spoke to a
person that was an atheist,
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and I talked to him about DNA.
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And then science has verified
that all of the components
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needed to build a cell had to be
present at the same exact time.
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They could not be
present a year later
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or a million years later.
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They could not evolve.
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For that organism
to come into being,
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every enzyme needed had to be
present at the very same time.
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Amen?
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Think about it.
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How many of you like cabbage?
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Well you should like
cabbage more after I tell you
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the very next statistic.
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...common DNA.
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That may explain why
we think the way we do.
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Not any other thing,
not any other vegetables.
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We are all cabbage
heads somehow, somewhere.
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But when you think about
this magnificent statistic,
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I understand why
David the psalmist said,
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read this with
me, Psalm 139:14...
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I mean, we've all had injuries
at one point or the other.
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You get a cut, and in a
matter of time the body says,
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"Fix that."
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So it sends all
the white blood cells,
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it sends an army of
physicians to that spot,
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and in a matter of time it
closes up, the blood clots.
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And in a matter of
days you start saying,
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"Well, I feel pretty good."
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Even though a scar may
remain, the body is programmed
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in such a way that
it preserves itself.
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That's why when
you are about to die
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there are certain
things that happen.
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And when you have a trauma,
all of a sudden this adrenaline
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boost comes in
because the body says,
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"We need help."
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And God did that.
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That could not
have been a coincidence.
00:19:00.60\00:19:02.90
But let's think about
the most important factor
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of why our bodies
really don't belong to us.
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Paul the apostle says
in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20...
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When we think about that
fact, when we think about this
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magnificent Designer...
00:19:37.34\00:19:38.97
The guy that made
Ford, or Tesla, or Porsche,
00:19:39.34\00:19:42.64
they often talk about
these inventors, and we say,
00:19:43.01\00:19:45.45
"It's an honor to meet
you," the man that made Porsche,
00:19:45.48\00:19:48.52
"It's an honor to meet
you," the man that made
00:19:48.55\00:19:50.49
the Shelby engine for Ford.
00:19:50.52\00:19:52.09
We feel honored to
meet that individual.
00:19:52.49\00:19:54.76
But they die off and pass away.
00:19:54.79\00:19:57.13
And somebody else comes
along with a better invention.
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But nobody has been able to
come up with a better invention
00:19:59.56\00:20:02.86
than the human body.
00:20:02.90\00:20:04.23
And the Maker, by the
way, He's still alive.
00:20:05.60\00:20:08.20
So we have to abandon this idea
that we belong to ourselves.
00:20:09.67\00:20:15.98
When you think about all the
things like Brussels sprouts,
00:20:16.01\00:20:19.15
and watercress, and
spinach, you'll discover also
00:20:19.18\00:20:25.12
that after sin entered in
the world, before sin entered
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we were primarily
fruits, grains, and nuts.
00:20:28.99\00:20:31.99
Before sin entered the world.
00:20:32.53\00:20:33.86
After sin entered the
world the bitter herb was added.
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That's why some
people don't like
00:20:37.43\00:20:38.77
certain kinds of vegetables.
00:20:38.97\00:20:40.30
They say, "Ugh."
00:20:40.34\00:20:41.67
They don't like
the way it tastes.
00:20:41.70\00:20:43.04
It was not a part
of the original diet.
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But when you think
about the time of the flood,
00:20:44.97\00:20:46.84
you'll discover
also, in preparation for
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what was going to happen on
the other side of the flood,
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knowing that all
vegetation would be destroyed,
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God had a plan.
00:20:55.22\00:20:57.82
Notice what it says in
the Bible, Genesis 7:2.
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He said to Noah...
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The great question is, clean
for what and unclean for what?
00:21:15.20\00:21:19.84
And let me pause right
here and say something.
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There were no Jews
in the days of Noah.
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There were no Jews
in the Garden of Eden.
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And the reason I say that
is because a lot of people say,
00:21:29.65\00:21:32.12
"Well when you follow the
dietary plan of the Bible,
00:21:32.15\00:21:35.69
you're following
that old Jewish code."
00:21:35.89\00:21:38.19
They say the same
thing about the Sabbath.
00:21:38.29\00:21:39.83
"Oh that Jewish law."
00:21:39.86\00:21:41.56
Well you know what?
It's not bad to be a Jew.
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Amen, somebody.
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God gave them the
oracles that if they had
00:21:46.10\00:21:48.70
shared that with the
world, the world would have been
00:21:48.74\00:21:51.74
far more advanced
now in many other areas
00:21:51.77\00:21:54.44
than it is right now.
00:21:54.48\00:21:55.81
So don't make it seem like
it's a bad thing to be Jew.
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All the Bible writers,
think about their origin.
00:22:00.02\00:22:02.48
But clean for what
and unclean for what?
00:22:03.08\00:22:04.75
The Bible is clear on this also.
00:22:04.79\00:22:06.39
God instructed Noah to
bring both clean and unclean
00:22:06.72\00:22:09.19
animals into the ark.
00:22:09.22\00:22:10.56
Why? Here is what the Bible
says in the book of Leviticus.
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Notice, both dividing the hoof,
having cloven hoof, that is,
00:22:24.51\00:22:29.38
and chewing the cud.
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It can't have
just one or the other.
00:22:30.78\00:22:32.55
Like a camel has one, but
it doesn't have the other.
00:22:32.75\00:22:35.65
A pig has one, but it
doesn't have the other.
00:22:35.68\00:22:38.29
Let's follow carefully.
00:22:38.49\00:22:39.82
Meaning, one or the other.
00:22:49.66\00:22:51.00
"It is unclean to you."
00:23:01.14\00:23:02.94
When you think
about this, let's go on.
00:23:02.98\00:23:04.65
Leviticus 11:5-7
00:23:05.55\00:23:07.92
You know what's amazing today?
00:23:32.37\00:23:33.71
Sometimes you go to restaurants,
if you hear the word, "club,"
00:23:33.74\00:23:36.78
anytime you buy a sandwich
and you hear the word, "club,"
00:23:37.61\00:23:40.38
that means it's going to
be some kind of pork in it.
00:23:40.42\00:23:42.78
Double cheese club.
00:23:43.89\00:23:45.42
"Club," that
means it's bacon in it.
00:23:45.82\00:23:47.92
The pig...
00:23:50.13\00:23:51.56
And let me tell you
why God said not eat these.
00:23:53.93\00:23:56.13
God created His own
sanitation department.
00:23:56.16\00:24:00.30
Really, think about it.
00:24:04.31\00:24:05.64
He knew that there are
places that humans can never go.
00:24:06.04\00:24:09.58
Can you imagine if there
was not a sanitation department
00:24:09.61\00:24:15.08
in the ocean, we
could never clean it.
00:24:15.18\00:24:18.12
You will see buzzards...
You ever seen buzzards?
00:24:19.65\00:24:22.12
When you see a
buzzard, what do you know?
00:24:22.32\00:24:24.13
Something died.
00:24:24.49\00:24:26.03
So the buzzards say,
"Hey, there's a dead whatever
00:24:26.06\00:24:30.00
on wherever.
00:24:30.03\00:24:31.43
Let's go clean it up."
00:24:31.47\00:24:33.27
And in a matter of
time, there they are.
00:24:33.74\00:24:36.14
When you see sometimes
a carcass on the ground,
00:24:36.37\00:24:38.97
all of a sudden in a
matter of time you see maggots.
00:24:39.01\00:24:41.94
They know that's their job.
00:24:42.14\00:24:43.61
I'm not going to
get you sick tonight,
00:24:43.75\00:24:45.08
but if you do get sick, we
do have a doctor in the house.
00:24:45.11\00:24:47.08
Dr. Lela, I'll call on you
in just a moment of necessary.
00:24:48.82\00:24:51.95
But the point of the matter is,
God has a sanitation department
00:24:52.45\00:24:57.03
already in place.
00:24:57.06\00:24:59.03
You can spray cologne
on a pig, give him a bow,
00:24:59.26\00:25:02.76
buy him a bicycle,
do whatever you want,
00:25:02.80\00:25:05.30
but the moment you let a
pig go, they go right to the,
00:25:05.33\00:25:07.97
"Oink, oink, oink."
00:25:08.00\00:25:09.34
Right to where the garbage is.
00:25:09.37\00:25:10.77
It's their nature.
God made them that way.
00:25:10.81\00:25:13.38
So now, we wouldn't eat garbage.
00:25:13.41\00:25:16.78
So why do we eat
what eats garbage?
00:25:17.51\00:25:20.22
I didn't even ask
for one, but thank you.
00:25:23.42\00:25:25.09
Praise the Lord.
00:25:25.32\00:25:26.65
This pig, they
just like garbage.
00:25:26.69\00:25:29.09
And you know what?
00:25:29.12\00:25:30.46
A poisonous snake could
bite a pig, and it will not die.
00:25:30.49\00:25:35.23
Because it doesn't have
a vein system like ours.
00:25:37.13\00:25:39.80
It just absorbs the poison.
00:25:40.00\00:25:41.57
Because God created
it to absorb the poison.
00:25:41.60\00:25:45.27
It's a garbage
can with four legs.
00:25:45.61\00:25:48.21
And you know what?
00:25:48.81\00:25:50.15
The pig is the only animal that
people eat every part of it,
00:25:50.18\00:25:55.58
from the tail to the snout.
00:25:55.78\00:25:58.02
From pig tail to pig nostrils.
00:25:58.52\00:26:01.09
What about the ocean?
00:26:06.29\00:26:07.86
Deuteronomy 14:9-10
00:26:07.90\00:26:10.00
Let's go on.
00:26:18.14\00:26:19.47
That's why you think of
lobsters, crabs, shrimps,
00:26:25.81\00:26:30.09
scallops, muscles, octopus;
the list goes on and on.
00:26:30.12\00:26:34.62
Seahorse; the
list goes on and on.
00:26:34.66\00:26:37.56
God has a massive
sanitation department
00:26:37.59\00:26:41.86
to keep the ocean clean.
00:26:41.90\00:26:43.23
Sharks.
00:26:43.26\00:26:44.60
They'll eat anything.
00:26:46.47\00:26:47.90
Sharks have been opened up and
they have found cans in there,
00:26:47.94\00:26:50.97
phones in
there, plastic bottles.
00:26:51.41\00:26:54.18
Whatever falls in the ocean,
if they just open their mouth
00:26:54.28\00:26:56.88
and swim by, it's all in there.
00:26:56.91\00:26:59.65
And it doesn't kill them.
00:26:59.68\00:27:01.02
Because they are designed
to be a sanitation department
00:27:02.02\00:27:05.65
for the ocean.
00:27:05.85\00:27:07.19
Let's go on further.
00:27:07.22\00:27:08.56
Look at what's
not on God's menu.
00:27:08.59\00:27:10.03
I hope I'm not
eliminating your diet.
00:27:20.97\00:27:22.90
We live in southern Illinois.
00:27:29.54\00:27:31.08
I'm just laughing
thinking about it.
00:27:33.72\00:27:35.42
And we had some guys come
by that was going to give us
00:27:36.08\00:27:38.69
a price to cut our
trees down in the back yard.
00:27:38.72\00:27:41.19
And he came into our living room
and we have a nice view there.
00:27:42.12\00:27:45.09
You can see a little
pond in our back yard.
00:27:45.73\00:27:47.33
And we feed the squirrels.
00:27:47.36\00:27:49.20
We don't eat them, we feed them.
00:27:49.76\00:27:51.90
We feed the
raccoons, the squirrels,
00:27:52.33\00:27:54.04
the birds of every kind.
00:27:54.07\00:27:55.70
We have a raccoon
friend that comes every night.
00:27:55.90\00:27:59.01
He knows us so well, he
takes the food out of our hands.
00:27:59.04\00:28:02.18
We feed all the animals.
00:28:04.28\00:28:05.71
They love us.
00:28:05.75\00:28:07.08
So this guy is
looking at our squirrel.
00:28:07.45\00:28:10.22
And he said with that
southern Illinois accent,
00:28:10.52\00:28:12.75
"That's some real
good eatin' right there."
00:28:12.79\00:28:14.99
I said, "What?"
00:28:16.79\00:28:18.13
He said, "That there
squirrel right there."
00:28:18.16\00:28:19.69
He said, "I eat many of 'em."
00:28:20.40\00:28:22.00
I can't do it all
because I'm from New York.
00:28:22.03\00:28:23.90
I'm like right now going
through a crisis right now.
00:28:24.23\00:28:27.67
But he said, "That
there is some good eatin'."
00:28:27.97\00:28:30.41
And I said, "You eat squirrel?"
"Oh, all kinds of squirrel."
00:28:30.44\00:28:33.01
He said the best
kind is the red ones.
00:28:33.04\00:28:35.08
And I thought, "Is
there a difference?"
00:28:35.84\00:28:37.18
He said, "All kinds of
them. We eat them all the time."
00:28:37.21\00:28:39.05
And I thought,
"Don't eat our squirrels."
00:28:39.08\00:28:41.48
And they know us.
00:28:43.22\00:28:44.55
While we're eating
breakfast sometimes our squirrel
00:28:44.59\00:28:47.09
will come, if we forget
to put his black oil seeds
00:28:47.12\00:28:49.22
out there he'll come
and look at us like this...
00:28:49.26\00:28:51.49
And if we can't catch it,
he'll wag his tail real fast
00:28:53.26\00:28:56.10
so we can see
it, like, "I'm here.
00:28:56.13\00:28:57.97
You're eating. I need to eat."
00:28:58.30\00:28:59.97
God says, "Don't eat
them. Be nice to them."
00:29:00.97\00:29:05.57
Now, nobody here
tonight, I can probably be sure,
00:29:05.61\00:29:12.41
would say, "Honey,
tonight, I'm on my way home,
00:29:12.51\00:29:16.85
I would like to
have a mouse for dinner."
00:29:16.89\00:29:19.15
Now you're laughing.
00:29:23.22\00:29:24.63
And I'm not laughing, but
I'm going to tell you something.
00:29:25.56\00:29:28.03
I'm going to tell you something.
00:29:28.50\00:29:29.83
It might be something that
you don't even think about,
00:29:29.86\00:29:32.17
however, around the
world it's a delicacy.
00:29:32.20\00:29:37.81
It is a delicacy
around the world.
00:29:38.97\00:29:41.41
Let me change the
slide before all of you guys
00:29:41.51\00:29:43.81
become vegetarians instantly.
00:29:43.85\00:29:45.85
Would not be a
bad thing, by the way,
00:29:46.65\00:29:48.18
because that's the best diet.
00:29:48.22\00:29:49.55
But so you think
you wouldn't do that.
00:29:49.65\00:29:51.79
But there they are.
00:29:54.12\00:29:55.46
Now why does God give us
the kind of plan He does?
00:29:56.66\00:30:00.40
Notice what He
said in Psalm 84:11.
00:30:00.43\00:30:04.10
You wouldn't do
that to... Things...
00:30:15.74\00:30:18.55
I mean, some of the
things we eat in America.
00:30:18.58\00:30:20.75
I've traveled, my wife and I
have traveled around the world.
00:30:20.78\00:30:23.18
There are places...
00:30:23.69\00:30:25.02
Just before the program
one of our guys was saying
00:30:25.05\00:30:27.29
he saw a guy
recently just pick up a frog
00:30:27.89\00:30:29.82
and threw it in my
mouth while he was alive.
00:30:29.86\00:30:32.39
And to be a man in
some of the Asian countries,
00:30:33.40\00:30:36.06
they give you soup
with hissing roaches in it.
00:30:36.20\00:30:39.83
And you've got to pick, to be a
man you've got to pick it up and
00:30:40.87\00:30:43.84
bite it and kill
it, and then swallow it.
00:30:43.87\00:30:46.31
We're going to get a lot of
vegetarians out of this program.
00:30:48.04\00:30:50.45
But you know what?
00:30:52.58\00:30:53.92
Your plate should be a place
where you receive strength,
00:30:54.32\00:30:58.55
not where you are
poisoning yourself slowly,
00:30:59.09\00:31:02.16
and then wondering
many, many years later
00:31:02.26\00:31:04.29
why you're so ill.
00:31:04.33\00:31:05.66
Often times you
don't need medication.
00:31:06.73\00:31:09.43
You just need
to eat differently.
00:31:09.46\00:31:11.73
And God's got the best plan.
00:31:12.03\00:31:13.94
You don't have to worry about,
"Well now, what should I eat?
00:31:14.30\00:31:16.50
What shouldn't I eat?"
00:31:16.54\00:31:17.87
And by the way, if you think
this is just a Bible message,
00:31:17.91\00:31:20.21
or an Adventist
message, or a Christian message,
00:31:20.24\00:31:22.01
atheists, people that
worship trees and rocks,
00:31:22.71\00:31:27.52
are predominately in
many cases better vegetarians
00:31:28.62\00:31:32.15
than Christians.
00:31:32.19\00:31:33.52
So this is not
about, this is not just a
00:31:34.62\00:31:37.23
message about what God has said.
00:31:37.26\00:31:38.99
This is about health.
00:31:39.03\00:31:40.83
If you want to be in health
and you want to have the lowest
00:31:41.56\00:31:43.63
medical bill, make
sure that you put things
00:31:43.67\00:31:47.14
on your plate that's
going to be good for you
00:31:47.17\00:31:49.24
and not poison.
00:31:49.34\00:31:50.67
But some people say,
and I've heard Christians
00:31:50.87\00:31:53.11
that have argued with me,
that, "No, God changed these
00:31:53.14\00:31:56.98
principles in
the New Testament."
00:31:57.01\00:31:58.68
And one of the
stories that they use is found
00:31:58.91\00:32:01.48
in the book of Acts.
00:32:01.68\00:32:03.02
God says of all of us,
in 3 John 1:2 He says...
00:32:03.05\00:32:06.82
In other words, if you
have a financial blessing,
00:32:16.10\00:32:18.90
if you have a nice
house, if you have a nice car,
00:32:18.93\00:32:22.17
if you have a great education,
if you're living a good life,
00:32:22.20\00:32:24.37
he says the things that
will really be a benefit
00:32:24.41\00:32:26.41
above all of that
is if you have health.
00:32:26.44\00:32:29.61
What sense is
there to have a nice car
00:32:30.05\00:32:31.61
and you can't even walk?
00:32:31.65\00:32:33.31
Or you have all these good
things and you can't enjoy them
00:32:34.32\00:32:37.02
because you are so ill?
00:32:37.05\00:32:38.72
But here's one of
the reasons why...
00:32:39.55\00:32:40.89
This is one of the passages
in the Bible, by the way,
00:32:41.26\00:32:43.43
that many Christians use to try
to say that God changed His idea
00:32:43.46\00:32:48.06
about what we
should and should not eat.
00:32:48.10\00:32:50.23
In the book of Acts
there's a vision by Peter.
00:32:50.43\00:32:52.70
We find this in Acts chapter 10.
00:32:53.30\00:32:55.04
We're going to walk through
it all the way to verse 28,
00:32:55.07\00:32:56.97
but I've taken out components.
00:32:57.01\00:32:58.34
You can read the entire story.
00:32:58.37\00:32:59.74
But I've left nothing main
out of this approach tonight.
00:32:59.77\00:33:03.98
Peter was hungry.
00:33:04.31\00:33:05.65
Peter was hungry, he was
looking for something to eat.
00:33:06.92\00:33:09.22
That's noon.
00:33:18.16\00:33:19.49
That's why most
Christians get hungry at noon.
00:33:24.63\00:33:27.60
Not really.
00:33:29.64\00:33:30.97
Now I've seen
people tell me this story,
00:34:02.14\00:34:05.17
and a lot of
pastors, they stop right here.
00:34:05.37\00:34:07.78
And they say, "See,
we can eat anything."
00:34:08.04\00:34:10.45
But I say, "Keep on reading."
00:34:11.18\00:34:13.48
But Peter said...
00:34:16.72\00:34:18.05
They say, "Yep, see,
God cleaned it all up."
00:34:32.53\00:34:34.47
If a mouse is running across
your plate, hit it, eat it.
00:34:34.64\00:34:38.44
I mean, why not?
00:34:40.48\00:34:41.81
If everything is
clean, eat anything.
00:34:41.84\00:34:44.21
Watch out for your
little, you know, toy dogs.
00:34:45.68\00:34:48.18
If this concept is accepted,
00:34:50.15\00:34:51.49
even your little
dogs are in trouble.
00:34:51.52\00:34:53.12
But go on.
00:34:53.99\00:34:55.32
The Bible not only
gave the story, but Peter,
00:35:00.70\00:35:04.47
after this vision
someone came to the house
00:35:05.00\00:35:07.50
where Peter was
staying and said to him,
00:35:07.54\00:35:09.80
"The Lord has sent me here for
you to go and talk to somebody."
00:35:10.94\00:35:14.58
And the Jewish leaders
that were with Peter said,
00:35:14.94\00:35:17.98
"Where you going?"
00:35:18.01\00:35:19.35
He said, "I'm going to
the house of a Gentile."
00:35:19.38\00:35:21.78
They went with him because
they did not believe that the
00:35:22.88\00:35:25.69
Jews and the Gentiles had any
right to communicate together.
00:35:25.72\00:35:30.09
So just to show that
Peter was being legit,
00:35:31.46\00:35:34.10
they sent representatives
with him to make sure he was not
00:35:34.20\00:35:37.80
doing something that
they did not authorize.
00:35:37.90\00:35:40.64
That's why the vision was given.
00:35:40.94\00:35:42.40
Notice the rest of the story.
00:35:42.44\00:35:44.84
This was not about
dietary restriction.
00:36:09.13\00:36:12.90
This was about
racial restriction.
00:36:12.93\00:36:16.40
The Lord was trying to get
His disciples ready to carry
00:36:17.17\00:36:19.87
the gospel to the world.
00:36:19.91\00:36:21.24
How can you go to the
whole world if you don't like
00:36:21.28\00:36:24.75
people of other races?
00:36:24.78\00:36:26.21
That's the reason why
eventually, and you'll read
00:36:26.95\00:36:29.58
the story in the
Bible, that's the reason why
00:36:29.62\00:36:31.52
eventually the Lord had
to abandon the Jewish leaders
00:36:31.55\00:36:35.29
and pick Him some fishermen
and some hard-headed people
00:36:35.32\00:36:38.23
and convert them and
send them to the world.
00:36:38.26\00:36:40.53
Because the very nation that
He entrusted the message to,
00:36:40.56\00:36:43.37
they were prejudiced.
00:36:43.40\00:36:45.27
They didn't like other races.
00:36:45.73\00:36:47.07
And today, and today...
00:36:47.10\00:36:48.90
We have a lot of good
friends when I go to BH
00:36:48.94\00:36:51.11
in New York City.
00:36:51.14\00:36:52.47
B&H is an electronic
store that is owned by Jews.
00:36:52.87\00:36:56.51
They'll do business
with you, but they don't mix
00:36:56.54\00:36:59.71
with people that are not Jews.
00:36:59.75\00:37:01.48
In New York
City, go to Brooklyn.
00:37:02.18\00:37:04.25
Brooklyn has so many
Jews living in Brooklyn.
00:37:04.29\00:37:06.29
Wonderful people,
great businessmen.
00:37:06.55\00:37:08.72
But they won't mix with people
that do not share the same
00:37:08.99\00:37:12.26
convictions that they do.
00:37:12.29\00:37:13.86
That's why, let
me share something.
00:37:14.06\00:37:15.93
We could learn a
lesson from that.
00:37:16.23\00:37:17.80
We must share this
message with people who believe
00:37:19.00\00:37:22.70
or don't
believe what we believe.
00:37:22.74\00:37:25.01
Let me say it again.
00:37:25.81\00:37:27.14
God has not called us
to be an exclusive club.
00:37:27.44\00:37:30.01
God has called us to be
an ambassador to everybody.
00:37:30.05\00:37:33.31
"And the gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached
00:37:34.42\00:37:36.02
in all the world as a
witness to all nations."
00:37:36.05\00:37:39.82
But that's not the only part.
00:37:40.86\00:37:42.19
When you think
about the beauty of it,
00:37:42.22\00:37:43.63
you think about another area.
00:37:44.06\00:37:45.99
God gave specific
instructions in other areas.
00:37:46.03\00:37:48.46
That's why he says
in Galatians 3:28...
00:37:49.06\00:37:51.30
But here's the question tonight.
00:38:05.31\00:38:06.98
What about wine and alcohol?
00:38:07.02\00:38:09.18
What about wine and alcohol?
00:38:10.25\00:38:12.15
The Bible also gives
instructions in this area.
00:38:12.19\00:38:15.46
Notice what the Bible
says in Proverbs 20:1.
00:38:16.02\00:38:18.86
But the wise man Solomon
continues in Proverbs 23:31-33.
00:38:29.34\00:38:34.98
That means, it's in the
process of fermentation.
00:38:41.35\00:38:43.85
I know that to be a fact.
00:38:56.56\00:38:58.43
Not that I got drunk,
but I use to drink casually.
00:38:58.47\00:39:02.97
When I was in the
party scene, the club scene,
00:39:03.17\00:39:05.47
when I was a disc jockey, I
would drink those mixed drinks
00:39:05.51\00:39:08.24
like the slow gin
fizz and tequila sunrise.
00:39:08.28\00:39:10.51
They put sweet stuff so
that you don't taste the gin.
00:39:10.55\00:39:13.28
But I walked across the
highway one Friday night
00:39:13.78\00:39:15.82
in Long Island New
York, almost got hit by a car.
00:39:15.85\00:39:18.22
I didn't know until
my friend yelled my name.
00:39:18.32\00:39:21.59
I said, "I'm not drunk."
00:39:21.96\00:39:23.49
He said, "That
car almost hit you."
00:39:23.86\00:39:25.29
And all I felt was it
brushed my long coattail.
00:39:25.33\00:39:28.16
Beeeep...
00:39:28.63\00:39:30.13
You know how the horn beeps.
00:39:30.90\00:39:32.23
But I said, "I'm not drunk."
00:39:34.34\00:39:35.70
Many of us don't understand
the impact of alcohol.
00:39:38.64\00:39:41.44
And let me share
something tonight.
00:39:41.54\00:39:42.88
Even if you don't know Greek,
or Hebrew, or Aramaic at all,
00:39:42.91\00:39:46.25
listen to those
who are not Christian
00:39:46.85\00:39:49.55
about the research of
alcohol in moderate forms
00:39:49.58\00:39:53.49
as well as in extreme forms.
00:39:53.52\00:39:55.46
It's amazing.
00:39:55.49\00:39:56.83
The effects of alcohol by
the CARON Treatment Centers.
00:39:57.03\00:40:00.50
To get this information in
full so that you could see that
00:40:00.53\00:40:03.47
I'm not putting this together to
kind of leave out certain facts,
00:40:03.50\00:40:06.80
you can go to
this website yourself.
00:40:06.84\00:40:08.47
caron.org
00:40:08.50\00:40:10.61
This is a center that treats
people that have been moderate,
00:40:10.64\00:40:15.01
heavy, or extremely
heavy alcohol users.
00:40:15.84\00:40:19.51
From wine coolers all
the way to gin and to vodka.
00:40:19.75\00:40:24.15
They've put
together this research.
00:40:24.29\00:40:25.72
And they have
centers all over the nation
00:40:25.75\00:40:27.39
that treat people that say,
"Well I'm just a moderate user."
00:40:27.42\00:40:29.86
Look at what they said.
00:40:29.89\00:40:31.23
And they talk about this
in the sense of moderate.
00:40:52.28\00:40:54.25
Let's go on.
00:40:54.28\00:40:55.72
That's why unfortunately some
guy that has ill intentions,
00:41:05.03\00:41:08.66
they'll go to a club and
they'll try to get a girl drunk,
00:41:08.70\00:41:11.33
or they'll try
to get her to drink,
00:41:12.17\00:41:13.84
because they know it
begins to affect you right away.
00:41:13.87\00:41:17.31
Let's keep going.
00:41:23.04\00:41:24.38
This is alcohol in moderate use.
00:41:24.41\00:41:26.88
That's why the police always
say, "Walk a straight line."
00:41:34.56\00:41:37.73
And this is in moderate
use, this is not extreme.
00:41:47.34\00:41:50.41
Let's keep going.
00:41:50.44\00:41:51.77
This is the effect
of alcohol in stages.
00:41:51.97\00:41:55.21
And let's keep going.
00:42:02.18\00:42:03.52
And the short
term impact of alcohol.
00:42:03.55\00:42:06.42
When you see a
person that has had alcohol
00:42:20.10\00:42:22.84
even casually
throughout the years,
00:42:22.87\00:42:24.57
you'll notice the
skin is drying up.
00:42:24.61\00:42:26.81
The same impact
that smoking has.
00:42:26.84\00:42:29.54
That's why when people
start drinking, they say,
00:42:36.89\00:42:38.35
"I'm getting warm."
00:42:38.39\00:42:39.95
Going on, what about
the impact to the muscle?
00:42:40.36\00:42:42.72
So when you drink alcohol,
even beers and wine coolers,
00:42:57.81\00:43:01.11
that's exactly what's
happening to the human body.
00:43:01.14\00:43:03.91
It's going through
the impact of these things
00:43:03.95\00:43:08.55
on the body system.
00:43:08.65\00:43:10.49
When I was growing
up, I never bought beer.
00:43:10.79\00:43:15.32
I didn't like beer.
00:43:15.36\00:43:16.69
I wouldn't drink strong drinks.
00:43:16.89\00:43:18.76
And I would never label
myself as a person that was
00:43:18.96\00:43:21.50
involved in alcohol at all.
00:43:21.53\00:43:23.13
But I noticed the number
of things that take place
00:43:23.16\00:43:27.57
when a person gets
involved in alcohol.
00:43:27.77\00:43:30.71
It always begins in moderation.
00:43:30.74\00:43:34.38
I must admit a
few things publicly.
00:43:34.64\00:43:37.45
And you know, they said
confession is good for the soul,
00:43:37.71\00:43:40.38
but hard on the reputation.
00:43:40.42\00:43:41.75
I was raised in a home
where the lady raising me was a
00:43:41.98\00:43:44.52
Seventh-day Adventist Christian,
but her husband wasn't.
00:43:44.55\00:43:47.32
And during Thanksgiving
he would buy Manischewitz,
00:43:47.36\00:43:50.26
which was Jewish wine.
00:43:50.46\00:43:51.99
He would like to
have that with his meal.
00:43:52.03\00:43:54.20
And whenever we
would put the dishes away,
00:43:54.56\00:43:57.30
he'd leave a little bit
in the cup and we'd sip it,
00:43:59.10\00:44:00.67
and I'd go...
00:44:00.70\00:44:02.04
Whoa.
00:44:02.10\00:44:03.44
I didn't
understand just little sips.
00:44:03.47\00:44:05.74
My wife and I, when
we lived in California,
00:44:06.47\00:44:08.24
she'd have family that
would come and visit us.
00:44:08.54\00:44:11.08
And they'd say, "We
want to go to Napa Valley."
00:44:11.95\00:44:14.12
Napa Valley is known for what?
00:44:14.15\00:44:15.85
Some of the best wine
country in the nation.
00:44:15.95\00:44:19.65
So I would say, "Okay."
00:44:20.62\00:44:22.42
So when I took
them to Napa Valley,
00:44:22.46\00:44:24.23
they would give me a sticker.
00:44:24.26\00:44:25.59
I was the designated driver.
00:44:25.63\00:44:27.30
Because I'm not going to drink.
00:44:27.76\00:44:29.10
So I'd come home, and
after the people we took
00:44:30.87\00:44:35.77
went through all these
different wine tastings,
00:44:35.80\00:44:37.84
they're fast asleep in
the back seat of the car.
00:44:37.87\00:44:40.88
And I had a Honda
Prelude at the time.
00:44:41.08\00:44:42.88
I little sports car, five speed.
00:44:42.91\00:44:44.81
And we're getting
close to home, and you know,
00:44:45.25\00:44:47.55
one person is sleeping this way,
00:44:47.58\00:44:48.95
the other person
sleeping that way.
00:44:48.98\00:44:50.32
And they were not
drinking bottles of alcohol.
00:44:50.39\00:44:52.92
They were just
sipping these little glasses,
00:44:52.95\00:44:55.12
little things here and there.
00:44:55.16\00:44:56.49
But it knocked them out.
00:44:56.56\00:44:57.89
Every sign that you
saw talked about there,
00:44:57.93\00:45:00.23
it affected them in that way.
00:45:00.26\00:45:02.06
And I saw when it
was coming on because
00:45:02.10\00:45:04.70
they'd be talking to me,
and I'd say, "What did you say?"
00:45:04.73\00:45:06.84
"I don't
remember what I just said.
00:45:06.87\00:45:08.47
I don't know. What did I say?"
00:45:10.24\00:45:11.67
And I'd repeat it back
to them. "Did I say that?"
00:45:11.77\00:45:13.78
And before you know
it, they're sleeping.
00:45:13.84\00:45:15.18
But I told my wife, I
said, one day I was bringing
00:45:15.21\00:45:17.18
her cousin back and her friend,
and I said, "You know what?
00:45:17.21\00:45:19.58
I'm going to wake them up.
00:45:19.61\00:45:20.95
Nobody is sleeping on
me while I'm driving."
00:45:20.98\00:45:23.05
So there is close
to Benicia, California
00:45:23.72\00:45:28.32
they were working on the
road, and the road kind of
00:45:28.92\00:45:30.69
goes like this and
it has a sudden dip,
00:45:30.73\00:45:32.39
and it comes back up.
00:45:32.43\00:45:33.76
Well most people
that live in the area know
00:45:33.80\00:45:35.50
that is where you're most
likely to go airborne safely.
00:45:35.53\00:45:38.53
So I decided they are
not going to sleep on me,
00:45:39.77\00:45:42.94
not while I'm driving.
00:45:42.97\00:45:44.44
So I went ahead and
just kind of shifted down and
00:45:48.61\00:45:50.91
coming down the hill, and
went airborne just slowly.
00:45:51.21\00:45:54.38
Safe enough to
land on all fours.
00:45:54.42\00:45:56.69
And they woke up and they said,
00:45:56.79\00:45:58.12
"How long have
we been sleeping?"
00:45:58.15\00:45:59.62
And I said, "About
almost an hour and a half."
00:46:00.56\00:46:03.29
Let me tell you something.
00:46:03.53\00:46:04.86
It always begins in,
what you may refer to as,
00:46:05.39\00:46:10.43
a casual way.
00:46:10.47\00:46:12.23
And everything that we begin as
a practice, follow me carefully,
00:46:12.53\00:46:16.87
becomes a habit.
00:46:17.17\00:46:18.51
A habit becomes a character,
a character becomes a destiny.
00:46:18.67\00:46:23.61
A destiny
determines which way you go.
00:46:23.71\00:46:26.35
And what I thought about
when I put this together,
00:46:26.45\00:46:28.95
I thought to myself, it is
amazing that we look at the
00:46:28.98\00:46:31.35
Bible in the way we do.
00:46:31.39\00:46:32.72
You know that the wine coolers,
these intoxicating drinks,
00:46:32.75\00:46:36.06
it's not about moderation,
according to the Bible.
00:46:36.26\00:46:39.13
It is about abstinence.
00:46:39.16\00:46:41.53
Look at some powerful
scriptures that you may have
00:46:41.63\00:46:43.77
never thought had any impact
on what we put in our bodies.
00:46:43.80\00:46:48.80
For example, let's look at
John the Baptist, his birth.
00:46:48.94\00:46:53.11
Luke 1:15, notice
what the Lord said
00:46:53.17\00:46:56.04
about a man that He
called to preach the gospel.
00:46:56.08\00:46:59.91
Notice what He said.
00:46:59.95\00:47:01.28
Speaking of John the Baptist,
speaking to his parents...
00:47:01.65\00:47:04.72
So somebody might say, "Well
that was not alcoholic wine."
00:47:15.46\00:47:17.63
The Lord said, "I don't
want him to drink either one."
00:47:17.67\00:47:19.70
Now follow me carefully.
00:47:20.24\00:47:21.57
Why did He say what He did?
00:47:21.60\00:47:23.27
Why did He say
neither wine nor strong drink?
00:47:23.30\00:47:25.47
In their day they did
not have the preservation
00:47:25.77\00:47:28.78
like we do today;
we have refrigerators.
00:47:28.81\00:47:30.71
Like when you make,
my family use to make
00:47:30.75\00:47:33.72
homemade grape juice.
00:47:33.75\00:47:35.55
Or sometimes for
thanksgiving have you ever made
00:47:36.55\00:47:38.89
homemade apple cider?
00:47:38.92\00:47:40.29
You ever had that
fresh apple cider?
00:47:40.79\00:47:42.12
It's nice and cold.
00:47:42.16\00:47:43.49
But you forget to put it in
the fridge when you open it,
00:47:43.53\00:47:45.56
so you leave it out overnight.
00:47:45.59\00:47:47.03
And the next day you open
the top, and it goes, sshhh.
00:47:47.06\00:47:50.63
And you say, "We'll just
get some ice and drink it."
00:47:51.70\00:47:53.94
You know what I'm talking about?
00:47:53.97\00:47:55.30
And all of a sudden you say,
00:47:55.34\00:47:56.67
"Whoa, it tastes
better than it did yesterday."
00:47:56.71\00:47:58.07
Because it starts
fermenting immediately.
00:47:58.87\00:48:01.98
The Lord said, now
this is very powerful,
00:48:02.21\00:48:04.28
the Lord said don't drink
neither wine nor strong drink.
00:48:04.31\00:48:07.52
Because in those days...
00:48:07.55\00:48:09.02
When you talk about
the parable, Jesus says,
00:48:09.05\00:48:11.45
"Do not put new
wine in old wineskins."
00:48:11.49\00:48:15.86
The reason why He
said that is because
00:48:15.89\00:48:17.49
the fermentation
begins immediately.
00:48:17.53\00:48:20.23
If you don't drink it the
moment you turn it into juice,
00:48:20.76\00:48:23.37
fermentation begins immediately.
00:48:23.40\00:48:26.20
That's the reason why
Jesus waited to the last day
00:48:26.43\00:48:32.17
of the wedding feast to
turn the water into wine.
00:48:32.21\00:48:36.14
Because if He did
it on the first day
00:48:37.05\00:48:38.78
it would have
fermented for six days.
00:48:39.35\00:48:42.52
And the last day
they would have said...
00:48:42.75\00:48:44.99
And I do not want
to be sacrilegious.
00:48:45.12\00:48:47.32
But you can look back at
that and you could accuse Jesus
00:48:47.36\00:48:50.43
of creating a situation
where the people got fermented
00:48:50.46\00:48:53.80
and drunk and intoxicated
from wine He made at the
00:48:53.90\00:48:57.27
beginning of the feast.
00:48:57.30\00:48:58.80
Understand the principles.
00:48:58.83\00:49:00.24
He waited till the end.
00:49:00.27\00:49:02.37
And they said,
"This is the best."
00:49:03.24\00:49:05.97
He saved the best for last.
00:49:06.01\00:49:08.91
He gave them
fresh fruit of the vine.
00:49:09.08\00:49:12.48
But let's even
go deeper than that.
00:49:12.88\00:49:14.52
Let's look at how the
Bible makes this point
00:49:14.62\00:49:16.18
very, very clear.
00:49:16.22\00:49:17.69
That's John the Baptist.
00:49:17.92\00:49:19.29
But what about Jesus at
the time of His crucifixion?
00:49:19.32\00:49:23.02
Mark 15:23
00:49:24.03\00:49:26.09
When Jesus was on the cross
in agony, His body is in pain,
00:49:27.63\00:49:31.60
writhing, even
saying, "My God, My God,
00:49:32.03\00:49:35.47
why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
00:49:35.50\00:49:37.41
Jesus said, "I thirst."
00:49:39.21\00:49:41.61
And what did they do?
00:49:41.64\00:49:43.14
They put a rag,
they dipped it in...
00:49:43.18\00:49:45.61
The Bible tells you here.
00:49:45.81\00:49:47.15
Matthew says, "...with gall."
00:49:52.22\00:49:54.42
He did not drink it.
00:49:58.49\00:49:59.83
Let me tell you why.
00:50:00.23\00:50:01.56
This is the amazing aspect
of the plan of redemption.
00:50:04.50\00:50:08.04
The devil knew that
all that Jesus had to be
00:50:09.17\00:50:12.91
was a defiled sacrifice.
00:50:12.94\00:50:16.28
I want you to hear me carefully.
00:50:16.54\00:50:17.88
He's a lamb without
spot and without blemish.
00:50:18.28\00:50:22.22
But if the devil could
have led them to do anything to
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make Him a defiled sacrifice,
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at the moment of
His greatest agony,
00:50:31.03\00:50:33.83
what would you want
more than anything else
00:50:33.86\00:50:36.36
when you are thirsting
and hanging on a cross, dying,
00:50:36.40\00:50:39.63
with all the sins of
the world on your shoulder?
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"I thirst, I thirst."
00:50:41.97\00:50:43.87
The devil says,
"Good. We've got Him now.
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Give Him some alcohol."
00:50:46.81\00:50:48.18
And they gave it to Him,
but He would not drink it.
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Why did He not drink it?
00:50:52.71\00:50:54.05
He didn't drink it because He
all of a sudden lost His thirst.
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He did not drink it because
He knew even the slightest,
00:50:56.79\00:50:59.82
hear me tonight,
even the slightest
00:50:59.85\00:51:03.36
in His body temple
would have caused Him
00:51:04.99\00:51:09.90
to be a defiled sacrifice.
00:51:09.93\00:51:13.07
Now hear me,
brothers and sisters,
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those you of
listening and watching.
00:51:15.67\00:51:17.17
If Jesus refused in the
moment of His greatest agony
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even a smidgen of
ingesting alcohol or any kind of
00:51:24.78\00:51:30.25
wine in His system,
why would Christians seek
00:51:30.29\00:51:34.46
to participate in what
Jesus rejected all together?
00:51:34.49\00:51:38.73
But they say it's moderation.
00:51:40.40\00:51:41.96
With that principle in mind,
you know what we're saying?
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When we say, "It's
not about getting drunk,
00:51:44.50\00:51:47.07
it's about moderation," well
you tell that to the researchers
00:51:47.10\00:51:50.37
who say even moderate
use of alcohol begins to
00:51:50.41\00:51:53.61
impair our judgments,
lower our inhibitions,
00:51:53.64\00:51:57.18
and begins to destroy brain
cells that are not replaceable
00:51:57.21\00:52:00.78
by any medical means whatsoever.
00:52:00.82\00:52:04.12
Why would Christians
insist on participating in
00:52:04.92\00:52:09.22
what Christ Himself repulsed and
did not participate in at all?
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And here's the other question.
00:52:16.30\00:52:17.73
If He told John the Baptist's
parents not to give him wine
00:52:18.33\00:52:22.84
or strong drink, why
would Christians want something
00:52:22.94\00:52:27.84
that will do to
them what it would have
00:52:31.01\00:52:32.58
done to John the Baptist?
00:52:32.61\00:52:34.32
The spirit that we
should be filled with,
00:52:34.35\00:52:36.28
like John the
Baptist, is not wine spirits,
00:52:36.32\00:52:40.09
or beer spirits, or
wine cooler spirits,
00:52:40.12\00:52:43.46
but the Holy Spirit.
00:52:43.49\00:52:45.33
God wants to communicate to us.
00:52:46.83\00:52:48.56
And any impairment at
all would disqualify us
00:52:48.60\00:52:52.47
from being a fit
vessel for the Lord
00:52:52.50\00:52:55.64
to communicate to us.
00:52:55.67\00:52:57.24
That's why tonight this is
not about just whether or not
00:52:57.27\00:53:01.21
I can handle it or not.
00:53:01.24\00:53:02.58
With that moderation idea,
are we saying that we should
00:53:02.74\00:53:07.02
smoke in moderation?
00:53:07.05\00:53:08.58
No. Should we eat
pork in moderation?
00:53:08.85\00:53:11.55
No. Should we take drugs
and cocaine in moderation?
00:53:11.59\00:53:16.32
No.
00:53:16.36\00:53:17.69
The same thing applies
to anything that debilitates
00:53:17.73\00:53:20.40
the human body and
compromises its ability
00:53:20.43\00:53:24.20
to be at its optimum health.
00:53:24.23\00:53:26.20
That's why let
me be clear tonight,
00:53:26.67\00:53:28.00
since you're
going to hang me anyway.
00:53:28.04\00:53:29.44
There are some of you
that worship and you are
00:53:31.17\00:53:34.64
hooked on caffeine.
00:53:34.84\00:53:37.95
Hooked hopelessly on caffeine.
00:53:39.21\00:53:42.15
Because any time
you say to the body,
00:53:42.18\00:53:45.02
"No, I can handle
this," and you decide to start
00:53:45.05\00:53:47.76
getting off of caffeine, the
body immediately goes through
00:53:47.79\00:53:50.93
what they call a withdrawal.
00:53:50.96\00:53:52.76
And it's the most painful
thing when the body starts to
00:53:52.79\00:53:55.96
try to purify itself.
00:53:56.00\00:53:57.33
Why would it be so painful
00:53:57.43\00:53:58.97
if what you did to
it was not harmful?
00:53:59.00\00:54:01.00
The Bible says, once
again, what about smoking?
00:54:02.04\00:54:04.47
"Though shalt not
kill." That includes yourself.
00:54:04.51\00:54:07.04
Any explanation there?
00:54:07.24\00:54:08.74
When the surgeon general says it
will cause you death and cancer,
00:54:09.24\00:54:12.31
why put it in your body at all?
00:54:12.35\00:54:14.42
And here's the
overwhelming principles
00:54:14.45\00:54:16.28
to everything I covered tonight.
00:54:16.32\00:54:17.72
Together, the Bible
says in Romans 12:1...
00:54:18.15\00:54:20.19
And finally, the Lord says...
00:54:33.50\00:54:34.84
You could not use a
defiled lamb for the sacrifice.
00:54:44.98\00:54:48.35
The Lord wants us
not to be defiled,
00:54:48.55\00:54:50.45
but to be used for His service.
00:54:50.49\00:54:51.82
And finally, in an
hour when the world is not
00:54:56.09\00:54:59.16
giving God glory, and He says,
00:54:59.19\00:55:01.73
"Fear God and
give glory to Him,"
00:55:01.76\00:55:03.93
did you not know
1 Corinthians 10:31?
00:55:03.97\00:55:08.00
The Bible says,
let's read this together...
00:55:08.80\00:55:10.91
While what we eat
and drink is important,
00:55:20.85\00:55:23.22
how we live our lives sometimes
is not what you're eating,
00:55:23.25\00:55:27.56
but it's what's eating you.
00:55:27.59\00:55:29.26
Emotional health
is also important.
00:55:29.92\00:55:32.49
Tonight I'm going to
ask for the song to be sung,
00:55:32.53\00:55:35.70
Live Out Thy Life Within Me.
00:55:35.73\00:55:37.47
That's tonight's message.
00:55:37.50\00:55:38.83
Allow the Lord to live
out His life within you.
00:55:38.87\00:55:42.00
Live out Thy life within
me, O Jesus, King of kings!
00:55:51.98\00:56:01.52
Be Thou Thyself the
answer to all my questionings.
00:56:01.76\00:56:11.50
Live out Thy life within
me; in all things have Thy way.
00:56:11.73\00:56:21.71
I, the transparent medium,
00:56:22.28\00:56:28.22
Thy glory to display.
00:56:28.25\00:56:35.02
As the song is played
softly, how many of you want to
00:56:35.49\00:56:37.66
live out the life that
the Lord wants you to live?
00:56:37.69\00:56:40.40
If you want to be a Cadillac
with the best performance,
00:56:41.06\00:56:44.93
you want to be a
Mercedes with no hindrance,
00:56:45.37\00:56:47.90
but even more than those
things that rust and fade away,
00:56:47.94\00:56:50.87
you want to be a
vessel of honor to God.
00:56:50.91\00:56:55.44
I pray that tonight the
message was not only clear,
00:56:55.91\00:56:58.35
but that the Lord
opened your heart to say,
00:56:58.38\00:57:01.38
"I want to be a person
that experiences abundant life."
00:57:01.42\00:57:06.25
I pray that you have
accepted the Word of God
00:57:06.82\00:57:09.09
as He has made it clear to you,
and that one day when He comes
00:57:09.12\00:57:13.90
you'll meet Him in
peace because you have lived
00:57:14.13\00:57:16.60
that abundant life in Christ.
00:57:16.63\00:57:19.40