What do the mysterious images
of Daniel and Revelation mean?
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When will the Anti-Christ appear
and make his final move? How can
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I be ready for the final events
of earth's history? You'll be
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amazed and encouraged by what
the Bible reveals. Join us as
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Pastor Brian McMahon
leads out in Prophecy Unsealed.
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Welcome again to our Prophecy
Unsealed seminar. Our subject
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tonight is entitled Bible
Secrets to Good Health and the
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subject that we're dealing
is one that's very practical in
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it's nature. There's a
philosophy that's going around
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in churches today that says God
is interested in your spirit and
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wants to save your spirit
and the things that do with the
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physical health really isn't
important to God. And isn't a
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shepherd concerned about
the condition of his sheep? The
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shepherd wants to make sure that
the sheep eat good green grass
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and no poisonous thing, and the
sheep drink good, clean water
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and just as an earthly
shepherd's concerned about the
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condition of the sheep, so God
is concerned about us. The truth
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is friends that there's a lot
in the Bible about our health.
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Christ was interested in how
people felt, and in fact, the
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scholars that examined the
gospels believed that Jesus
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spent as much or maybe even more
time in the physical healing of
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people than he did in preaching
to people. Now we talked in the
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seminar about God's law and
about breaking God's law, but
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you know when it comes to the
laws of health, if we break the
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laws of health, you really end
up breaking yourself. And if you
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go too long without food, you
start to break down. If you go
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too long without sleep, you
start to break down. If you go
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too long without water, you
dehydrate. There are certain
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physical laws of cause and
effect that God has put into
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place, and he desires that we
live by those laws. Now here in
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Matthew chapter 4 and verse 43,
it says: And Jesus went about
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all Galilee, teaching in their
synagogues, and preaching the
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gospel of the kingdom, and
healing all manner of sickness
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and all manner of disease among
the people. So certainly Jesus
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wanted people to be well. Jesus
said: I am come that they may
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have life, and that they
may have it more how friends?
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Abundantly. Sure. God wants us
to have abundant life and it's
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hard to have abundant when
you're sick. Beloved I wish
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above all things that thou
mayest prosper and be in health,
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even as thy soul prospers. I
think more and more as we get
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knowledge of what health
is people are wanting to be in
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their best health and they're
being more careful than ever
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before but the thing to notice
is that health is not just a
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matter of chance. Today people
think well you know the finger
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of fate points at me and I
happen to get sick, well that's
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just too bad, you know. But you
know if you drink alcohol and
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you get drunk and drive your car
into a tree and get paralyzed
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it's not that the finger of fate
pointed at you and did you in.
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Alcohol did you in, Amen? If you
eat a really high-fat diet, you
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know and don't watch your health
you end up getting heart disease
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you know it's not that the
finger of fate pointed at you
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if you all of a sudden got sick.
No. Your diet did you in. People
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want to go to the doctor today
and they say you know, give me a
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pill or give me an injection.
Give me some kind of quick fix
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and they're going to go right
back to the way they live. It's
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not a quick fix we need. What
we need is a new lifestyle. We
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can't just disobey God's laws
and live however we want to suit
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us. We've got to say, No Lord,
what is your will for our bodies
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So the laws of health are laws
of cause and effect. Let's to
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Exodus 15 verse 26 together.
Here it says:...If thou will
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diligently hearken to the voice
of the Lord thy God, and will do
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that which is right in his
sight and will give ear to his
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commandments, and keep all
his statutes, I will put none of
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these diseases upon thee,
which I have brought upon the
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Egyptians: for I am the Lord
that heals thee. God promised
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that if they would obey, he
would keep them from having that
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kind of suffering. You know
they've been able to look at
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these mummified corpses of
the ancients, and they found out
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that in those cultures, they
suffered from a lot of the same
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sicknesses that are suffered
from today. They've been able to
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look at the tissues of them
and they've been able to examine
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them in ways that they couldn't
before, and they realized that
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they had a lot of diseases back
then. They had atherosclerosis
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and heart disease, obesity,
cancer, tooth decay, and stress.
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They had those diseases
back then. Again, God keeps his
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promises. Look at Psalm
105 verse 37. Here is says: He
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brought them forth also with
silver and gold: and there was
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not one feeble person among
their tribes. Now conservative
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estimates say that when Israel
came out of Egypt, you know,
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they tended to count the
men only. Then you have to
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extrapolate that for how many
ladies there were and children,
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but there could have been
as many as two to three million
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Israelites out there in the
wilderness wandering. Now that's
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a good number of people and not
one single sick person in all of
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that population. And yet that's
what God had. Don't you think it
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would be wise to talk about how
to keep from getting sick? What
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is a good Bible rule for
healthful living? Here it is in
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1 Corinthians 6 and in verse 19.
It says: What? know ye not that
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your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost, which is in you,
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which you have of God, and you
are not your own. For you are
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bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your where? In
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your body, and in your spirit,
which are God's. So who do we
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really belong to? We are bought
with the precious price of
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Calvary weren't we. We are told
that we are the temple of the
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Holy Spirit, and we're to
glorify God in this body temple.
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Now what does it really mean to
glorify God? Well, there's a lot
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of ways we can give God glory.
But one of the ways is found in
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1 Corinthians 10 and in verse 31
Whether, therefore, you eat, or
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drink, or whatsoever you do,
do all to the glory of God. Now
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think about it with me. If it's
possible to eat and drink to the
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glory of God wouldn't it also be
possible that there'd be certain
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things that we could eat and
drink that would not be to the
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glory of God. Absolutely friends
The Bible speaks about it in
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Romans chapter 12 and verse 1.
We are to:...present our bodies
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a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable unto God, which is
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your reasonable service, which
means your expected service as
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Christians. You know they
say the problem with living
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sacrifices. They keep crawling
off the altar. You know, people
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give themselves to God and take
it back again, right? We give
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ourselves to God, we take it
back again. Well, God wants us
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to give ourself to him and
let it stay that way, right? So
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again, people think that because
of the sacrifice of Jesus that
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we can eat or drink anything we
want. Folks, that's not why he
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came at all. Well, go just for
a little bit here to the book of
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Daniel. The book of Daniel's
a fascinating book, and often we
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read stories to children from
the book of Daniel; Daniel in
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the Lion's Den, or the three
Hebrew men that went into the
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fiery furnace. These are
interesting stories that teach
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moral lessons, but the book
of Daniel is more than that. The
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book of Daniel shows us that
there are certain things that
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the church is going to
pass through before Jesus comes.
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They're object lessons for us
as the church, and when the book
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opens us and in the very
first chapter, there is clear
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information that diet is
important to God. Here it is:
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Daniel 1 and verse 8. It says:
But Daniel purposed in his heart
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that he would not defile himself
with the portion of the king's
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meat...Now, meat means the
king's food...nor with the wine
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which he drank; therefore, he
requested of the prince of the
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eunuchs that he might not defile
himself So Daniel made it very
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clear that he understood that
there were certain that would
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not be glorifying to God if he
put it in his body. Of course,
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the other men with him said the
same thing You know, he could
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have said as that old saying
goes, When in Rome do as the
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Romans. So when in Babylon, do
as the Babylonians but he knew
that he had to take
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a stand for God physically and
it was important in his overall
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life. And later on in the book
of Daniel did Daniel have to
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take a stand for God spiritually
Absolutely. He had a lot on the
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line, and yet he was able to
stand there and hold firm on his
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principles, even though they
threw him into a lion's den.
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He came out victorious, but
early in his life, he was just a
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very young man at this time, he
said no. Physical defilement is
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important to God, and I will not
give in to this. What does the
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Bible say about alcohol? Here
we see in Proverbs 20 verse 1
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this text: Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging: and
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whosoever is deceived thereby is
not wise. Now several times in
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scripture we're told this.
It says: I would not have you to
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be ignorant brethren, right? God
doesn't want ignorant sons and
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daughters. He wants wise
children. We're to build our
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lives upon the word of
God, we're told to be wise unto
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salvation. So here we're told
that alcohol is a problem for us
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in that way. Why would God
be against this poison? Alcohol
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attacks the nervous system.
It robs the brain of oxygen.
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Immediately it has a
debilitating effect upon the
mind. This amazing control
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center, this living computer.
Alcohol attacks it, so we can't
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fight back, and that's why with
every drink of alcohol we have
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less and less ability to control
our thinking and people find
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themselves doing things under
the influence of alcohol that
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they know they shouldn't be
doing. God doesn't communicate
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to us through our elbows and
our knees, right? God doesn't
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communicate to us through
our fingers and our toes. He
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communicates to us how?
Through this amazing, 3-pound
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electrochemical organ called
the brain that produces that
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mind. So the first thing
the alcohol does it attack that
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living computer and all of
the millions upon millions of
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intricate connections that
are going on there and all of a
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sudden, that relationship
that we once had is severed. So
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anything that impairs
our judgment is attacking our
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relationship with God. And of
course, alcohol truly does that.
I think folks to be
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really candid with you, I think
the devil brewed up this idea of
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alcohol in the laboratories of
evil because he knew it would be
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one of the greatest downfalls
of man that he could ever come
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up with. Here's another verse
from scripture, Proverbs 23:31
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Look not thou upon the wine when
it is red, when it giveth his
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color in the cup, when it moves
itself aright. At last it bites
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like a serpent and stings like
an Adder. So God is comparing
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the influence of alcohol to the
sting of poisonous snakes, and
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that can't be very good.
You know the word of God doesn't
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have very good things to say
about alcohol, but someone will
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always say, But wait a minute
Pastor. Didn't Jesus change the
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water into wine at the wedding
supper of Cana. And doesn't that
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mean that Jesus approves
of alcohol. Now, if Jesus had
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turned that water to alcohol,
an alcoholic type of wine, that
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would have been plenty enough
substance to get everybody at
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that wedding good and drunk.
right? Can you lay that at the
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feet of Jesus. You know woe
unto him that gives his neighbor
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drink. In other words, anyone
that had gotten drunk from that
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wine and done something sinful
then of course Jesus would have
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been responsible because he
would have been the root cause
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of that. He would have created
that substance. So no fiends
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there's absolutely no excuse to
say that Jesus turned that water
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into alcoholic beverage. When
the governor of the feast tasted
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that Jesus had turned it from
water into the very freshest
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juice of the grape. The
same kind of juice that we'd get
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right from the harvest, right?
And the governor tasted it and
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he said, My, this is a lot
better than what they're used to
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serving. He knew it was
good grape juice, but it wasn't
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alcohol friends. Absolutely
not. Would he have made a mind
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numbing substance at the wedding
and then refuse to take one when
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he was on the cross in all that
physical agony. Of course not
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friends. Now, where is
the confusion on this, though?
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The Bible uses the word
wine to refer to two distinctly
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different types of beverages,
one unfermented and the other
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fermented. It's kind of like our
English word cider. You can have
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an alcoholic cider, or you
could have a nonalcoholic cider,
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depending on how you use it
or how you speak about it. The
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context would determine what
you're talking about. But wine
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is the same way in the Bible.
You can have an unfermented wine
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and you can have a fermented
wine and the proof is just in
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this text right here. You can't
assume automatically that it's
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fermented. Here it is in Isaiah
65 and verse 8: Thus saith the
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Lord, As the new wine is found
in the where? The cluster, and
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one saith, Destroy it not, for a
blessing is in it: So will I do
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for my servants' sake,
that I may not destroy them all.
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So here it's saying wine is
found in the cluster. Now if I
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had a cluster of grapes up
here in my hand, and I gave it a
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great big squeeze, right? What's
going to run out of it? Grape
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juice, right? But the Bible
calls it wine, so wine is used
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in different senses in the
Bible. So you have to look at
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the context and see how
it's used. Sometimes the Bible
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praises wine sometimes it
condemns wine. Well, when it
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praises it, it's talking about
the fresh juice of the grape.
When it condemns it,
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it's talking about the fermented
kind. Now here is another
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instance that always comes to
my mind when people talk about
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this. They bring it up to me.
It says but didn't Jesus have
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wine at the last supper with his
disciples. Let's go take a look
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at what he said here. Matthew
26 verse 29. But I say unto you,
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I will not drink henceforth of
this fruit of the vine,...that's
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what Jesus called that substance
in the cup...until that day when
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I drink it new with you in
my Father's kingdom. So is the
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fruit of the vine alcohol?
Is that what he's talking about.
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No. The fruit of the vine
is grape juice. Alcohol is the
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unnatural. It's the fruit of
fermentation and decay is what
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it is. Now would Jesus ask
us to pray, Do not lead us into
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temptation and then put alcohol
before his disciples. Of course
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not. Would he want their minds
numbed by alcohol before they
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go out and witness his passion
there in Gethsemane. Of course
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not. You see friends that was
the time of the Passover. At the
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time of the Passover, they were
to put all leaven out of the
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house. They had no symbols of
sin in the home and the alcohol
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or fermentation was one of them.
So there would be no chance that
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that wine that he spoke of would
be alcohol. Not at all. Would
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Jesus held up a cup that had
within it, what the Bible says
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is a symbol of adders and
snakes. Right? And then say that
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what is in that cup represents
him the Sinless One. Or course
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not. Now another thing to think
about is that he said I would
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not drink it again till I drink
it new with you in my kingdom.
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Now in heaven, we're not going
to have any drunkenness there.
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Drunkenness is a sin, right? So
we're not going to have any kind
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of alcoholic parties up there in
heaven. So obviously, he wasn't
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talking about alcohol here. Not
at all. When Jesus condemns it
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and the Bible condemns it, he's
talking about fermentation. When
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the Bible praises wine, it's
talking about the unfermented
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kind. Now here is something very
interesting. The CNN article
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says, from London, England,
there was a study that says:
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Alcohol ranks the most harmful
among a list of 20 drugs,
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beating out crack and heroin,
according to study results
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released by a British medical
journal. A panel of experts
weighed the physical,
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psychological and social
problems caused by the drugs
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and determined that alcohol
was the most harmful overall,
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according to an article on
the study released by the Lancet
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Sunday. Can you imagine that
friends. Taking everything into
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account, they say the alcohol
does the most damage of anything
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I have been in places preaching,
talking to the men there and
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I've said to them how many
of you here are here because of
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something you did under the
influence of alcohol? You should
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see all the hands go up.
Amazing friends. And as a pastor
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most of the sad family histories
I have to counsel and deal with
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have to do because alcohol is
involved in some way, shape, or
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form. From December 2015,
it says Americans are drinking
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themselves to death at
record rates. Alcohol is killing
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Americans at a rate not seen in
the last 35 years, according to
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new federal data. Last
year, more than 30,700 Americans
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died from alcohol-induced
causes, including alcohol
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poisoning and cirrhosis, which
is primarily caused by alcohol
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use. In 2014, there were
9.6 deaths from these alcohol-
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induced causes per 100,000
people, an increase of 37
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percent since 2002. This tally
of alcohol-induced fatalities
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excludes deaths from drunk
driving, other accidents, and
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homicides committed under the
influence of alcohol. If those
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numbers were included the annual
toll of deaths directly or
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indirectly caused by alcohol
would be closer to 90,000
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according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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In recent years, public health
experts have focused extensively
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on overdose deaths from heroin
and prescription painkillers,
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which have risen rapidly since
the early 2000s. But in 2014,
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more people died from alcohol-
induced causes (30,722) than
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from overdoses of prescription
painkillers and heroin combined.
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Wow! Leviticus chapter 10, we're
going to get off the alcohol
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right now, but I'm going to
give you one more thing to think
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about. Leviticus 10 verses 8-10
says: And the Lord spake unto
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saying, Do not drink wine nor
strong drink, thou, nor thy sons
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with thee, when ye go into the
tabernacle of the congregation,
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lest ye die; it shall be a
statute forever throughout your
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generations: And that ye may
put difference between holy and
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unholy, and between unclean and
clean. So here were priests and
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he says when you go on duty, you
cannot be under the influence of
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alcohol. All right? All right.
Now that was what God desires
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for his priests. But what about
us today? What about the modern
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day priest, the Christian. Let's
go take a look here. 1 Peter 2
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verse 9. He says of the
Christian: But you are a chosen
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generation, a royal what?
Priesthood, a holy nation. So,
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folks, as long as we're on duty
for God, as long as we want our
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minds sharp, right? As long as
we want to witness for him, he
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says don't be under the
influence of alcohol. Now let's
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apply what we've learned to
another big, big killer in our
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society today. Nicotine or
smoking, any form of nicotine at
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all. Some years ago, those of
you...some of you here are old
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enough to remember this, you saw
ads like this in magazines. More
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doctors smoke Camels than any
other cigarette. Do you remember
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these? I mean, it's amazing.
And they were all out there. I
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remember seeing them myself.
See, there were time when they
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didn't know. At least they
didn't pretend to know. They
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pretended not to know the
effects of smoking. But now it's
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pretty clear, isn't it? Even
second hand smoke is a big, big
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factor and a big risk as well.
Now it says causes lung cancer,
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heart disease, emphysema, and
may complicate pregnancy. Well
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that was not too bad, but now
they just come right out Smoking
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Kills. They just get right to
the point now. Tobacco is called
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the second most costly drug
addiction in North America. Now
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alcohol is number one,
but tobacco has risen so much
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that they're almost neck and
neck. Tobacco use remains the
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single largest preventable cause
of death and disease in the
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United States. Cigarette
smoking kills more than 480,000
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Americans each year with more
than 41,000 of these deaths from
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exposure to secondhand smoke.
In addition, smoking-related
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illness in the United States
costs more than $300 billion a
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year, including nearly $170
billion in direct medical care
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for adults and $156 billion in
lost productivity. You've heard
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that term dying for a smoke, not
too far from the truth. Isn't
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that right. Have you ever seen
a healthy lung versus a smoker's
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lung. It's not a pretty sight.
I mean they don't see it, right?
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It's hidden from view. There
will always be somebody who will
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say to me: Pastor, you can't
show me a text in the Bible that
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says Thou shalt not smoke.
Right? I say no, I can't. But I
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can show you a text that says
Thou shalt not kill. And you are
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killing yourself. We call it
suicide on the installment plan.
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You're going to get there
eventually, you're just taking
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your time. Why do we know that?
Because it has been estimated
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that for every smoke, every
cigarette a person has they're
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taking approximately 14.5
minutes off their life. So to
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shorten your live intentionally
is a kind of suicide again.
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Think of all the
cancer-producing chemicals. They
say there's about 29 cancer-
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producing chemicals in every
single cigarette. Would Jesus
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use tobacco? Would Jesus
smoke any kind of that? Can you
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imagine someone walking the
streets of gold up in heaven
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with a big wad of chewing
tobacco in their cheek, you know
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and they're walking along and
(mimics spitting) You know. Can
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you imagine these beautiful
glittering streets and there's
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a cigarette butt over here, a
crumpled up beer can over there
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right? Some tobacco juice spit
out over here. I mean, is there
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going to be anything in heaven
that defiles? Not at all. Heaven
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is a clean place. Amen? Right?
There's not going to be all that
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stuff up there. I mean, can
you imagine someone taking a big
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drag if puff off a cigarette,
blowing it up in the air and the
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angels having to waft
their wings. That's not going to
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happen friends. When we pray the
Lord's Prayer, we say they will
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be done on earth as it is in
heaven. Sure. So, we want to be
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sure that we are already getting
ready for that wonderful clean
00:21:08.20\00:21:11.87
place that we call heaven.
Someone may say well, Pastor,
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I'd love to stop smoking, but I
can't. Now, dear friend of mine,
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is the power of tobacco greater
than the power of the Lord? Of
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course not. The Lord has given
millions of people, the victory
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over cigarettes and any kind of
nicotine, and if God has given
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it to them, he certainly will
be willing to give it to you. If
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you need to quit smoking,
and I'm going to extend this
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invitation to all of you
watching at home too. If you
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need to quit smoking or have
some kind of nicotine addiction
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please let us know. We'll be
happy to take you through a very
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simple and biblical plan, and
God can give you a victory just
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as he has given it to countless
others already. He'll do it for
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you. Philippians 4 verse 13:
I can do...how many things...all
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things through Christ, which
what? Strengthens me. And I made
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a decision a long time ago. I
didn't want to have 2 ounces of
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tongue controlling 200 pounds
of body. I wanted the mind in
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control of the body, and not
the body in control of the mind.
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Because when the body is in
control of the mind, now you got
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the situation of a drug addict
right? Or some kind of addict.
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So if we're going to be addicted
to anything, shouldn't it be the
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word of God. Right? So
let's go take a look back at
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1 Corinthians 10:31. Whether
therefore, you eat, or drink, or
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whatsoever you do, do all to the
glory of God. Now we talked a
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little bit about the drinking
of alcohol and the smoking, but
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what about the eating, right?
Does God have a plan for the
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refrigerator. I guess that
a way of putting the question.
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Be brave enough to open up the
refrigerator door, take a look
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inside and see if there's
something in there that might
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just not be according to God's
plan for our wonderful body that
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he's given us here. So let's go
back in the Bible to the book of
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Leviticus. And someone might say
well, why are you going back to
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that Old Testament? Now hang on.
If you ever thought that this
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isn't valuable information just
hold on and see that this really
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is for you and for me today.
Leviticus chapter 11, and let's
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start here, as we would want to
in verse 1. And the Bible says:
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And the Lord spake unto Moses
and to Aaron, saying unto them,
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speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, These are the
00:23:16.46\00:23:19.19
beasts which ye shall eat among
all the beasts that are on the
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earth. Whatsoever parteth the
hoof, and is cloven-footed, and
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cheweth the cud, among the
beasts that shall you eat. So
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God is saying, if you're going
to eat of the land animals, it's
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got to at least have two things.
It's got to have a split hoof
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and chew the cud, that extra
stomach for digestion. Verse 4:
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Nevertheless, these shall ye not
eat of them that chew the cud,
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or of them that divide the
hoof: as the camel, because he
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chews the cud, but divides not
the hoof; he is unclean unto you
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So God is making it very clear
that when it comes to the animal
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kingdom, it can't just have
one aspect, either split hoof or
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chew the cud. It's got to have
both and the camel has one, but
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not the other. Now is that bad
news for you? You have to give
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up eating camel tonight. Ladies
that are here, you have to go
00:24:02.77\00:24:06.84
home and throw out all
those camel sandwiches that you
00:24:06.88\00:24:09.01
prepared for your husband. No.
Probably not a big deal. In some
00:24:09.04\00:24:12.08
parts of the world, it might
be a big deal, but probably not
00:24:12.11\00:24:15.98
here. And so we'll just kind of
go on by the camel for a moment.
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Now the next verse says, And
the Coney. Now, another word for
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Coney, sometimes he's called a
rock hyrax or a rock badger. He
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is not seen in these parts, but
in some parts of the world. It
00:24:27.10\00:24:30.87
says: And the Coney, because he
chews the cud, but divides not
00:24:30.90\00:24:32.73
the hoof; he is unclean unto
you. He kind of looks like a big
00:24:32.77\00:24:35.67
rat really. You know, he's
really, not that attractive guy
00:24:35.70\00:24:38.91
but again, it's probably not
something that you're used to
00:24:38.94\00:24:41.38
eating, and so I don't think
we'd have a big problem with it
00:24:41.41\00:24:44.01
here in our western world. But
now the next one here, verse 6:
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And the hare...or we could
say the whole rabbit family...
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because he chews the cud,
but divides not the hoof, he is
00:24:52.35\00:24:54.56
unclean unto you. Now I didn't
grow up eating rabbit in my
00:24:54.59\00:24:56.76
family and I did know
some friends that did and would
00:24:56.79\00:24:59.76
wonder why does the Bible say
to not eat of that. But then I
00:24:59.79\00:25:02.43
learned that there are certain
infectious diseases that can be
00:25:02.46\00:25:05.83
transmitted right from the
animal to the human family if we
00:25:05.87\00:25:09.07
eat if those things. You've
heard of maybe rabbit fever and
00:25:09.10\00:25:11.57
some things like that. So God
knew that, and he said no, don't
00:25:11.61\00:25:15.44
eat this creature because it's
bad for you. Now the next one is
00:25:15.48\00:25:19.28
really big here, and it says:
And the what? Swine, right?
00:25:19.31\00:25:24.75
That's Miss Piggy, if you didn't
know. Though he divide the hoof,
00:25:24.79\00:25:29.02
and be cloven-footed, yet he
chews not the cud; he is unclean
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unto you. Once again, he has one
aspect but not the other. God
00:25:31.79\00:25:34.83
said he had to have two things.
He's got the cloven foot, but he
00:25:34.86\00:25:38.10
doesn't chew the cud. Now you
know they had some commercials
00:25:38.13\00:25:41.40
on not to long ago that talked
about pork, the other white meat
00:25:41.44\00:25:44.34
and pork is good food for you.
They thought they knew better
00:25:44.37\00:25:46.37
than God did, right? It goes on
in verse 8: Of their flesh shall
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you not eat, and their carcass
shall you not touch; they are
00:25:50.95\00:25:53.45
unclean to you. Now is God just
arbitrary with us. He just said
00:25:53.48\00:25:58.62
ah, you know I'm just giving
these things to you because I
00:25:58.65\00:26:00.46
can. God doesn't withhold things
from us just because he wants
00:26:00.49\00:26:05.26
to. Psalm 84:11...no good thing
will he withhold from them that
00:26:05.29\00:26:08.93
walk uprightly. So God isn't
trying to withhold from us just
00:26:08.96\00:26:11.90
because he can. He's saying no
there's a reason for all of this
00:26:11.93\00:26:14.87
and we're going to get into it.
There are certain animals that
00:26:14.90\00:26:18.04
are called clean. There are
certain animals that are called
00:26:18.07\00:26:20.81
unclean and the swine, or
the pig falls in the unclean
00:26:20.84\00:26:25.68
category. Cows are called clean.
They have the split hoof and
00:26:25.71\00:26:27.68
chew the cud. The deer family.
Sheep and goats, buffalo, elk. I
00:26:27.72\00:26:32.35
mean there's lots of animals
that do have both aspects and
00:26:32.39\00:26:35.76
are considered clean or
appropriate to eat. Let us go on
00:26:35.79\00:26:39.39
now to the waters. We'll leave
the land for a moment here on to
00:26:39.43\00:26:42.76
the waters in verse 9: These
shall you eat of all that are in
00:26:42.80\00:26:45.50
the water: whatsoever has
fins and scales...Again, two
00:26:45.53\00:26:48.50
things... in the waters, in the
seas, and in the rivers, them
00:26:48.54\00:26:51.71
shall ye eat Aren't you glad God
doesn't make it complicated? He
00:26:51.74\00:26:55.81
doesn't say it has to have these
14 things. Right? Because that
00:26:55.84\00:26:59.38
would really make it difficult.
No he says two. Two things for
00:26:59.41\00:27:02.35
the land creatures, two things
for the water creatures. God
00:27:02.38\00:27:04.85
makes it very simple for us. He
says it's got to have fins and
00:27:04.89\00:27:07.49
scales. Verse 10: And all that
have not fins and scales in the
00:27:07.52\00:27:11.29
seas, and in the rivers, of all
that move in the waters, and of
00:27:11.33\00:27:16.53
any living thing which is in the
waters... that's
important...they shall be
00:27:16.56\00:27:18.97
and abomination unto you. So
God is making it very clear that
00:27:19.00\00:27:22.67
just to make sure there's no
question about it, if it doesn't
00:27:22.70\00:27:28.08
have fins and scales of
any living creature, pretty all
00:27:28.11\00:27:31.75
encompassing, then don't eat it.
It's got to have fins and scales
00:27:31.78\00:27:34.15
Let's keep going. It says
abomination by those things. Now
00:27:34.18\00:27:38.12
verse 11: They shall be even an
abomination unto you;...that's
00:27:38.15\00:27:41.82
the second time he says it...
You shall not eat of their flesh
00:27:41.86\00:27:44.19
but you shall have their
carcasses in abomination.
00:27:44.23\00:27:47.46
There's the third time. Now just
let me mention something to you
00:27:47.50\00:27:51.10
about this word abomination. In
the English, if we say I don't
00:27:51.13\00:27:56.91
like that, it's pretty mild,
right? I don't like it. If we
00:27:56.94\00:27:59.54
say I hate it, that's a lot
stronger term, but if we say I
00:27:59.57\00:28:04.98
detest it, that's probably
the strongest way you could show
00:28:05.01\00:28:08.18
dislike. I detest it! The word
abomination literally means a
00:28:08.22\00:28:14.96
detestable thing. So when God is
saying you shall consider it a
00:28:14.99\00:28:19.36
detestable thing, it's about
as strong a language as God can
00:28:19.39\00:28:23.20
use. Incest was considered
abomination. Homosexuality is
00:28:23.23\00:28:26.84
called abomination. There is
nothing in the Bible, this is
00:28:26.87\00:28:29.77
important, that's called
abomination that is ever made
00:28:29.80\00:28:35.18
unabominable, is that a word?
I don't know if that's a word.
00:28:35.21\00:28:37.35
but I'm going to use it anyway.
There's nothing in the Bible
00:28:37.38\00:28:40.12
that's called an abomination
that can ever be made
00:28:40.15\00:28:41.82
unabominable through some kind
of ceremonial cleansing or some
00:28:41.85\00:28:46.15
purification act. If it's
abomination from God, it stays
00:28:46.19\00:28:49.16
abomination. And these things
are called abomination. And then
00:28:49.19\00:28:52.96
it goes on to verse 12:
Whatsoever has no fins nor
00:28:52.99\00:28:55.13
scales in the waters, that
shall be an abomination to you.
00:28:55.16\00:28:57.73
There's the fourth time he
uses it. Have you noticed that
00:28:57.77\00:28:59.87
everything that God says man
should not eat, right, Satan has
00:28:59.90\00:29:06.68
made a delicacy? I mean, you
know he takes snails and calls
00:29:06.71\00:29:11.25
them escargot, right? And we
could say a lot of that. Satan
00:29:11.28\00:29:15.95
has made the greatest delicacies
out of things, at least in man's
00:29:15.98\00:29:19.92
mind are things that God
forbids. I mean he takes pork
00:29:19.95\00:29:23.83
and you got pork chips and
pickled pigs' feet, and I mean
00:29:23.86\00:29:28.36
everything on the pig is eaten,
right? And God says no, no,
that's not the way.
00:29:28.40\00:29:32.53
Some animals are made for beauty
some perhaps for labor, some for
00:29:32.57\00:29:37.61
food, but not all were made
for food. Some were made for
00:29:37.64\00:29:40.01
scavengers. When it comes to the
hog, the greatest scavenger in
00:29:40.04\00:29:44.71
the world is the hog. I mean
there's nothing like it. I mean
00:29:44.75\00:29:48.82
what a dog would not eat, a
pig will gobble down. Isn't that
00:29:48.85\00:29:52.52
true? Absolutely. And you say
well, why did God put the pig
00:29:52.55\00:29:57.16
here? The same reason he put the
vulture here, to clean up, right
00:29:57.19\00:30:00.50
I mean, these were God's garbage
disposal system before we had
00:30:00.53\00:30:05.83
the modern waste management.
Right? I don't know what you
00:30:05.87\00:30:08.50
call it here in this city, but
some company comes curbside, and
00:30:08.54\00:30:13.61
they pick it up and they carry
it away but God had to have a
00:30:13.64\00:30:14.98
system long before this so he
put some vultures up in the sky
00:30:15.01\00:30:17.48
and they take care of it from
up there and he put some in the
00:30:17.51\00:30:20.62
seas and they take care of it
down there. And he put some here
00:30:20.65\00:30:23.79
on the land and he gave them a
shovel for a nose, right, and he
00:30:23.82\00:30:27.36
says they clean up down
here. They are God's garbage
00:30:27.39\00:30:31.96
collectors. They are unfit for
human consumption friends. And
00:30:31.99\00:30:35.13
in the sea, I mean the lobster,
he doesn't swim. He crawls along
00:30:35.16\00:30:39.03
right and all filth that goes
in the waters that filters down
00:30:39.07\00:30:42.40
to the bottom. What happens?
These things that crawl around
00:30:42.44\00:30:44.41
on the bottom of the oceans and
the rivers they clean out the
00:30:44.44\00:30:47.91
mud, they clean out all the
filth that goes down there. God
00:30:47.94\00:30:49.94
had a way of dealing with
the environment right? God is
00:30:49.98\00:30:55.08
environment friendly so he says
no, I got creatures to take care
00:30:55.12\00:30:57.75
of that too. But let's go down
to verse 45 of Leviticus 11:
00:30:57.79\00:31:03.09
For I am the Lord that bringeth
you out of the land of Egypt,
00:31:03.12\00:31:07.43
to be your God. This is coming
at the end of the chapter, so
00:31:07.46\00:31:10.80
he's going through all of these
things and then he says: You
00:31:10.83\00:31:13.34
shall therefore be holy, for
I am holy. So friends, when we
00:31:13.37\00:31:18.64
study this as Bible students,
those of us who love God and
00:31:18.67\00:31:23.35
want to please God, it's
not just a health issue. It's a
00:31:23.38\00:31:26.28
holiness issue. God is telling
us that when we apply this to
00:31:26.31\00:31:30.85
our lives, he is well pleased
because he is a holy God, and he
00:31:30.89\00:31:35.36
wants to dwell with his Holy
Spirit in holy vessels, right?
00:31:35.39\00:31:37.99
And so he's saying don't put
those garbage creatures inside
00:31:38.03\00:31:41.33
of you. Verse 46: This is the
law of the beasts, and of the
00:31:41.36\00:31:45.20
fowl, and of every living
creature that moves in the
00:31:45.23\00:31:47.57
waters, and of every creature
that creepeth upon the earth.
00:31:47.60\00:31:49.70
Now, when it comes to the fowls,
the birds God doesn't say what's
00:31:49.74\00:31:54.58
clean. He tells us what's
not clean. He talks about the
00:31:54.61\00:31:57.75
scavenger creatures here. So
generally, the birds' forage are
00:31:57.78\00:32:03.25
considered to be clean, chickens
turkeys, quail, pheasant. Those
00:32:03.28\00:32:05.92
are considered to be clean
fowl and acceptable to be eaten.
00:32:05.95\00:32:10.26
Verse 47: To make a difference
between the unclean and the
00:32:10.29\00:32:13.73
clean, and between the beast
that may be eaten and the beast
00:32:13.76\00:32:16.23
that may not be eaten. So God
is saying this is important to
00:32:16.26\00:32:20.50
understand what you can consume
and what you can't. Now there be
00:32:20.54\00:32:23.17
those but all of this ended when
Jesus died, right? Now the Bible
00:32:23.20\00:32:27.24
says the sow that is washed goes
back to wallowing in her mire.
00:32:27.28\00:32:31.28
Did the nature of the
pig change after the time of
00:32:31.71\00:32:35.12
Calvary? Absolutely not friends.
Go back to Genesis with me for a
00:32:35.15\00:32:37.99
moment. Genesis chapter 7.
It says: And the Lord said unto
00:32:38.02\00:32:42.82
Noah...the Lord said unto
whom?.. Noah. Come thou and all
00:32:42.86\00:32:47.70
thy house into the ark: for thee
have I seen righteous before me
00:32:47.73\00:32:49.86
in this generation. Speaking
to Noah now. Not to Moses. There
00:32:49.90\00:32:54.90
were no Jews in Noah's day.
There were no Jews for hundreds
00:32:54.94\00:32:59.51
and hundreds and hundreds
of years after Noah. So he's
00:32:59.54\00:33:03.85
talking to Noah, and then he
says in verse 2: Of every clean
00:33:03.88\00:33:08.05
beast shalt thou take to thee by
sevens, the male and his female:
00:33:08.08\00:33:10.29
and the beasts that are not
clean by two, the male and his
00:33:10.32\00:33:13.19
female. So he's talking to Noah
and notice he doesn't have to
00:33:13.22\00:33:17.49
explain clean and unclean to
Noah. Noah knows all about it.
00:33:17.53\00:33:20.46
He just says Noah, take some of
the clean by sevens and the ones
00:33:20.50\00:33:24.47
that are not clean take by
twos and Noah understood this
00:33:24.50\00:33:27.80
perfectly. So on they went. Now
I want you to think about this
00:33:27.84\00:33:32.11
with me. They obviously were
not going to eat of the unclean
00:33:32.14\00:33:36.78
because if they ate of the
unclean, there only was two, the
00:33:36.81\00:33:39.91
male and the female, and after
that they wouldn't have any left
00:33:39.95\00:33:41.72
for reproduction, so they
weren't going to eat of the
00:33:41.75\00:33:44.19
unclean. And after the flood
was over, they weren't going to
00:33:44.22\00:33:47.82
sacrifice the unclean because
again the same issue. There were
00:33:47.86\00:33:50.59
only was two of them. They have
to have time to reproduce. So
00:33:50.63\00:33:53.46
have you noticed that when it
comes to the ark a lot of
cartoonish stuff has come
00:33:53.50\00:33:57.60
out on that. And they paint
the ark, I mean obviously in
00:33:57.63\00:34:03.24
children's books, they make
it very fairy tale like and they
00:34:03.27\00:34:06.27
always have everything going
in two by two, right? Yes, some
00:34:06.31\00:34:11.98
things went in two by two. But
did everything go in two by two?
00:34:12.01\00:34:14.92
No. Some things went in two by
two, and some things went in by
00:34:14.95\00:34:18.15
seven. But when they have the
ark, they always picture it some
00:34:18.19\00:34:20.26
cartoonish way. You know
sometimes it gets a little
00:34:20.29\00:34:23.99
extreme. But there's never seven
of something there. It's always
00:34:24.03\00:34:26.76
only by two. You know the clean
went in by sevens, the unclean
00:34:26.80\00:34:31.63
by twos. Children being
naturally curious might have
00:34:31.67\00:34:33.84
turned to their parents and said
mom or dad, why did some things
00:34:33.87\00:34:37.07
go in by twos and some things
go in by sevens. And then the
00:34:37.11\00:34:39.91
parents would have to think
about that, right? Well there
00:34:39.94\00:34:42.54
must be a reason for that. And
they would understand the clean
00:34:42.58\00:34:45.61
and the unclean. Of clean beasts
and of beasts that are not clean
00:34:45.65\00:34:49.08
and of fowls, and of everything
that creepeth upon the earth.
00:34:49.12\00:34:52.72
So God instructed Noah to take
the clean and the unclean in and
00:34:52.75\00:34:55.72
the unclean animals were
not a type that was later to be
00:34:55.76\00:35:00.30
cancelled by some kind
of antitype, right. Like the
00:35:00.33\00:35:03.37
sacrificial system was. Was
Noah's stomach any different
00:35:03.40\00:35:06.47
than our stomach? No. Now how
many of you here are somehow a
00:35:06.50\00:35:10.41
descendant of Noah? You better
put of your hand or I'm going to
00:35:10.44\00:35:12.61
worry about you. Okay. Now we're
all a descendant of Noah, right?
00:35:12.64\00:35:16.44
Noah's children and then of
course his posterity. We finally
00:35:16.48\00:35:20.38
came down to us. So if Noah's
stomach was the same as our
00:35:20.42\00:35:24.45
stomach, which it was, then we
have to say okay, are we again
00:35:24.49\00:35:30.16
to have that same diet that he
had? That same understanding. So
00:35:30.19\00:35:33.19
there were clean and unclean
animals, and it goes before
00:35:33.23\00:35:35.43
Moses This is in the pre-Jewish
days. That means it survives the
00:35:35.46\00:35:40.64
Mosaic system of sacrifice
and all the other meat and drink
00:35:40.67\00:35:44.54
things that went with it. Now
you might say, well, why did God
00:35:44.57\00:35:47.28
say not to eat the swine, right?
Why would he say that? Well when
00:35:47.31\00:35:53.65
you eat that good old piece
of bacon or ham or you know
00:35:53.68\00:35:57.09
Canadian back bacon, whatever it
is there is a possible problem
00:35:57.12\00:36:01.79
in that substance, and that is
that animals that are scavengers
00:36:01.82\00:36:06.49
that eat garbage and filth right
They can be susceptible to a
00:36:06.53\00:36:11.47
kind of parasitical worm called
the Trichina Larvae. And that
00:36:11.50\00:36:14.87
gets into the flesh and it
encysts itself there. If you eat
00:36:14.90\00:36:21.18
of that flesh, and it happens
to contain that parasite that
00:36:21.21\00:36:23.24
parasite can get dissolved and
it goes through the blood stream
00:36:23.28\00:36:24.61
of the one that ate it, and it
re-encysts itself in the muscle
00:36:24.65\00:36:26.98
tissue of the one that consumed
it. And that why, of course, you
00:36:27.02\00:36:30.22
can get what's called the
disease of trichinosis. It means
00:36:30.25\00:36:35.16
that that parasitical worm has
encysted itself in the flesh of
00:36:35.19\00:36:38.39
that person. Now these are just
the things we know about. What
00:36:38.43\00:36:41.06
about the things we don't even
know about, right? So the fact
00:36:41.10\00:36:45.07
is that when God says something
is not good, we should leave it
00:36:45.10\00:36:50.37
alone friend. Because sometimes
people say well, I'll just cook
00:36:50.41\00:36:54.21
it well, you know. Well, I don't
like the idea of eating dead
00:36:54.24\00:36:57.15
worms, even if they are cooked
and well done. Do you? No, not
00:36:57.18\00:37:01.38
for me. So again God had his
system to help people understand
00:37:01.42\00:37:08.16
what was safe and what was not
safe. Trichinosis is a disease
00:37:08.19\00:37:10.23
that can result from eating that
parasite. It can be transmitted
00:37:10.26\00:37:13.80
directly to us if we eat that
creature. God knows what's best
00:37:13.83\00:37:16.63
for us, doesn't he? Absolutely.
Now, a pig, a swine, was never
00:37:16.67\00:37:22.10
to be considered proper food and
our western culture, it's become
00:37:22.14\00:37:25.47
a very big part of western diet.
But a pig will eat infection, it
00:37:25.51\00:37:30.35
will eat filth and garbage. This
is kind of gross, but it will
00:37:30.38\00:37:33.35
eat its own dead baby. It will
eat a person that happens to
00:37:33.38\00:37:36.28
fall into the pen and gets
unconscious, a pig will eat that
00:37:36.32\00:37:38.85
person. It doesn't care,
it's a scavenger, right? Now the
00:37:38.89\00:37:44.03
problem is that the pig forms
flesh very, very quickly. In
00:37:44.06\00:37:48.90
four hours, it can eat food
and form flesh from it. Now the
00:37:48.93\00:37:51.03
reason that's bad is that that
pig might eat something that's
00:37:51.07\00:37:56.34
really terrible, some kind
of infection and filth, and then
00:37:56.37\00:37:58.27
it gets slaughtered, and it goes
off, and it can be on someone's
00:37:58.31\00:38:01.64
table to be eaten very quickly.
And whatever that filth that it
00:38:01.68\00:38:07.72
had consumed it hasn't been
cleansed from the animal and
00:38:07.75\00:38:10.02
that person is eating of that,
right? Now, a cow's digestive
00:38:10.05\00:38:15.12
system is 24 hours, right?
Now think about it. Four hours
00:38:15.16\00:38:18.33
versus 24 hours. And it eats
good clean vegetation, and it
00:38:18.36\00:38:23.67
has a system designed to
again produce flesh that can be
00:38:23.70\00:38:27.90
consumed. Now, when Moses wrote
all these things down for us I
00:38:27.94\00:38:29.94
don't think he had a microscope.
I don't think he examined the
00:38:29.97\00:38:33.07
flesh of the pig and said okay,
he's got worms, he's out, and
00:38:33.11\00:38:37.05
the cow, he doesn't, so he's in.
Moses had to take God by faith,
00:38:37.08\00:38:40.38
didn't he? That God knew what
he was talking about, and if God
00:38:40.42\00:38:43.95
said it's this way, then God
must know what he's doing. Again
00:38:43.99\00:38:49.46
it has a very poor digestive
system and that's bad when it
00:38:49.49\00:38:51.13
comes to eating it's flesh. Cows
are clean. So remember, we are
00:38:51.16\00:38:54.96
holy, we are to be God's temple.
What do you think God feels like
00:38:55.00\00:38:59.87
when he looks down from heaven
to us as his children and he
00:38:59.90\00:39:03.04
sees us rummaging around in the
garbage creatures of this world
00:39:03.07\00:39:06.54
and consuming them. He's saying
my son or my daughter, I didn't
00:39:06.57\00:39:09.98
put those things there for you
to eat. Health is important to
00:39:10.01\00:39:13.68
God. Diet is important to God.
Now 34 year ago I changed my
00:39:13.72\00:39:16.82
diet for the sake of wanting
to follow what the Bible says.
00:39:16.85\00:39:19.45
And I wanted to honor God.
I wanted to follow his divine
00:39:19.49\00:39:22.39
counsel and God has blessed
me friends. I know he's blessed
00:39:22.42\00:39:25.33
many of you here as well that
are listening to this. I feel
00:39:25.36\00:39:28.73
if I will take care of what I
know to do right God will help
00:39:28.76\00:39:32.03
me with what I don't know. Amen?
Ay? Amen. See if I will do what
00:39:32.07\00:39:37.24
I know is right, God will help
me with what I don't know. Now
00:39:37.27\00:39:43.31
the Bible says not to eat water
creatures that don't have fins
00:39:43.35\00:39:45.78
and scales. You probably don't
consume that guy. But there are
00:39:45.81\00:39:50.22
some other things that are
really consumed in our society:
00:39:50.25\00:39:53.79
shrimp, crabs, lobsters, oysters
These are shellfish creatures.
00:39:53.82\00:39:57.99
They live at the bottom of the
water system, right, and they...
00:39:58.03\00:40:02.30
the shell fish they act like
filters on your furnace, right?
00:40:02.33\00:40:07.24
You are changing the filter on
your furnace every year aren't
00:40:07.27\00:40:09.20
you gentlemen? Right. Don't
forget that now. So you pull out
00:40:09.24\00:40:12.41
that filter and it's just filled
with contaminants, right? That's
00:40:12.44\00:40:16.11
the filter's job. It sucks in
the dirty air. Contaminants get
00:40:16.14\00:40:19.41
trapped in it, and it spits out
clean air. And these creatures
00:40:19.45\00:40:22.58
do the same thing. They
suck in the filthy water. The
00:40:22.62\00:40:28.26
contaminants get trapped in
their body, and they spit out
00:40:28.29\00:40:29.62
the clean water. That's their
job. They're put there by God to
00:40:29.66\00:40:31.93
do a work. Now the Bible
says not to eat of those things
00:40:31.96\00:40:35.10
there. Leviticus 11 verse 12. It
says if it doesn't have fins and
00:40:35.13\00:40:37.90
scales it is to be
an abomination unto us.
00:40:37.93\00:40:39.57
Prevention Magazine: Shellfish
are dirty and dangerous. The
00:40:39.60\00:40:43.30
polluted aspect of their habitat
is one danger. The fact that
00:40:43.34\00:40:46.71
they are filter
feeders compounds the danger...
00:40:46.74\00:40:48.98
Oysters, for instance, because
of their way of obtaining and
00:40:49.01\00:40:52.25
absorbing food, have been found
to concentrate polio virus up to
00:40:52.28\00:40:55.85
20 to 60 times the level of the
surrounding seawater. Wow 20 to
00:40:55.88\00:41:00.59
60 times. That's something I
wouldn't want to...Now take a
00:41:00.62\00:41:04.13
look at this article from CNN.
It says: The Chesapeake Bay,
00:41:04.16\00:41:07.03
which is the United States
largest estuary, covering more
00:41:07.06\00:41:09.96
than 64,000 square miles
spanning across several states,
00:41:10.00\00:41:14.30
has seen its fish, crab, and
oyster stocks dwindle in part,
00:41:14.34\00:41:19.17
because of pollution over
the past several decades...I've
00:41:19.21\00:41:23.14
been a waterman for over 20
years, this man says. Leggett
00:41:23.18\00:41:26.68
sells oysters he harvests to
local restaurants. Let me pause
00:41:26.72\00:41:30.59
right there. He sells the
oysters he harvests to what?
00:41:30.62\00:41:36.09
Say it out loud. Local
restaurants. You got that. Okay
00:41:36.12\00:41:41.16
let's go back to the article.
...growing about 100,000 a year
00:41:41.20\00:41:45.57
as a part-time business. Oysters
filter the water, and they
00:41:45.60\00:41:48.80
provide habitat for other
species. If we don't restore
00:41:48.84\00:41:53.54
oysters, we're not going to
restore the Bay, Leggett says.
00:41:53.58\00:41:55.88
He wants to make sure people
understand what just one single
00:41:55.91\00:41:58.71
oyster can do...One oyster
out here in one of our bags can
00:41:58.75\00:42:01.88
filter as much as 50 gallons
of water a day. By filtering the
00:42:01.92\00:42:06.52
water, this important shellfish
can take away deadly pollutants.
00:42:06.55\00:42:10.03
Stop. The oysters filter the
water, and they take in deadly
00:42:10.06\00:42:18.60
what? Pollutants. He
sells the oysters to local what?
00:42:18.63\00:42:22.77
Restaurants. It's like that two
and two equals four thing right?
00:42:22.80\00:42:27.71
We just got to put it together
now. And people are going to
00:42:27.74\00:42:30.11
these local restaurants and
they're eating this stuff and
00:42:30.15\00:42:31.48
they're saying why am I getting
sick? Right. Let's go back.
00:42:31.51\00:42:36.08
They take away deadly pollutants
that eventually could deplete
00:42:36.12\00:42:40.62
the crab and fish stocks, which
in turn can leave fishermen
00:42:40.66\00:42:43.29
without work. These scavengers
sit at the bottom of the ocean.
00:42:43.32\00:42:46.73
When filth gets in there what
do they do? They go right to the
00:42:46.76\00:42:50.47
bottom, right? And again
they take in all this dirty
00:42:50.50\00:42:52.50
contaminated stuff. And when you
look at these creatures, now be
00:42:52.53\00:42:55.80
honest with me tonight. When you
look at these creatures, do they
00:42:55.84\00:43:00.28
look like something God intended
for us to eat? I mean, I
00:43:00.31\00:43:06.75
honestly think that God might
have made them extra ugly so we
00:43:06.78\00:43:10.02
could leave them alone, right?
You look at them, and they
00:43:10.05\00:43:14.16
almost scream at you, Don't eat
me, I'm not fit for food, right?
00:43:14.19\00:43:19.19
I mean they've got these beady
little eyes and these great big
00:43:19.23\00:43:22.53
claws and these long tentacles
and spindly legs, I mean,
00:43:22.56\00:43:27.20
they're just the most ugly
looking things, right? Now, dear
00:43:27.24\00:43:32.37
friends and Bible students,
I got to tell you something. If
00:43:32.41\00:43:33.81
you're learning this for the
first time and I had to learn it
00:43:33.84\00:43:35.38
for the first time too, because
I ate these things, but we ought
00:43:35.41\00:43:39.78
to thank God for this knowledge.
We ought to praise God that we
00:43:39.81\00:43:42.98
can give up these things, right?
Jesus asks us to give it up
00:43:43.02\00:43:46.86
because it's not good for us
and he tells us in Matthew, we
00:43:46.89\00:43:51.36
looked at this just in a
previous program that we are to
00:43:51.39\00:43:55.10
go out and teach all nations
right. Giving them the wonderful
00:43:55.13\00:43:59.57
will and gospel of the heavenly
father and so we go out and we
00:43:59.60\00:44:02.80
teach these things. We should
be thanking God. Lord, thank you
00:44:02.84\00:44:05.94
for teaching me, thank you for
giving this information because
00:44:05.97\00:44:09.08
the Lord is warning us, yea, he
commands us not to eat of those
00:44:09.11\00:44:14.68
polluted things. And that's a
heavenly Father, right? In his
00:44:14.72\00:44:19.09
love, he tells us these
things. So I hope you won't feel
00:44:19.12\00:44:21.12
embarrassed by it. I hope you
won't feel uncomfortable by it.
00:44:21.16\00:44:23.93
Because that's not our desire
here to embarrass anybody, but
00:44:23.96\00:44:27.53
we just want to teach people the
wonderful will of our heavenly
00:44:27.56\00:44:30.27
Father. Amen. Now when you buy
a car, I don't care if it's Ford
00:44:30.30\00:44:34.87
or General Motors or Toyota,
whatever it is you go into that
00:44:34.90\00:44:38.47
car and you're going to find an
owner's manual. When you go into
00:44:38.51\00:44:41.14
that owner's manual it's going
to teach you things about that
00:44:41.18\00:44:44.01
car isn't it? It's going to say
put this kind of gas in. It's
00:44:44.05\00:44:47.05
going to say this kind of oil
goes in it. Do maintenance at
00:44:47.08\00:44:50.29
this level, this kind. They say
we made that car, and we know
00:44:50.32\00:44:54.29
how it should run, and if
you follow our instructions it
00:44:54.32\00:44:58.39
should treat you right over the
life of that vehicle. Now people
00:44:58.43\00:45:03.80
take that vehicle, and they wash
and they wax it and you polish
00:45:03.83\00:45:06.87
it and vacuum it out, and those
kinds of things, and what is
00:45:06.90\00:45:09.40
this car? It's made of steel and
rubber and maybe some wood and
00:45:09.44\00:45:12.77
some chrome and so on. It
doesn't have a brain. I don't
00:45:12.81\00:45:15.68
care what kind of computer
in it, it can't match the human
00:45:15.71\00:45:19.51
brain. It doesn't have a
conscience. It can't communicate
00:45:19.55\00:45:21.65
with God and God can't
communicate with it his will.
And yet people come to
00:45:21.68\00:45:26.19
the human body, and they think,
oh well, you know it doesn't
00:45:26.22\00:45:28.52
matter what you put in it. I'll
just put in whatever I want to
00:45:28.56\00:45:30.83
eat or whatever I want to drink
and I can just smoke whatever I
00:45:30.86\00:45:33.80
want and all of a sudden they
get's sick and they're in the
00:45:33.83\00:45:38.23
hospital and they're suffering
from some kind of malady and
00:45:38.27\00:45:41.00
maybe they've got emphysema
because they smoked for 50 years
00:45:41.04\00:45:44.11
and they lift up their fist
and they say God, why did you do
00:45:44.14\00:45:47.41
this to me, right? And our
heavenly Father looks down and
00:45:47.44\00:45:51.41
says my son, my daughter, I
didn't do that to you. You did
00:45:51.45\00:45:55.05
that to you You did not read the
owners manual, amen? The owner's
00:45:55.08\00:46:01.82
manual is there for us. It's
for us to follow. It's for us to
00:46:01.86\00:46:05.33
learn by and if we would just
read it, God will tell us the
00:46:05.36\00:46:09.63
information that we want to
know. Now some people ignore it,
00:46:09.66\00:46:14.00
but at a high cost. Again, we're
to go out and teach all nations
00:46:14.04\00:46:18.27
the wonderful will of our
heavenly Father. Sometimes, when
00:46:18.31\00:46:21.78
God wants to get his point
across to us, he gives us some
strong medicine. What
00:46:21.81\00:46:26.35
I mean by that is he gives a
strong verse of scripture. So,
00:46:26.38\00:46:29.98
let's go to that verse right
here. It's found in Isaiah 66
00:46:30.02\00:46:33.56
and verse 15. It says: For
behold, the Lord will come with
00:46:33.59\00:46:39.29
fire...now he didn't come with
fire the first time, this is in
00:46:39.33\00:46:41.96
context of the second coming...
and with his chariots like a
00:46:42.00\00:46:43.53
whirlwind, to render his anger
with fury, and his rebuke with
00:46:43.57\00:46:45.90
flames of fire. For by fire and
by his sword will the Lord plead
00:46:45.93\00:46:50.47
with all flesh: and the slain
of the Lord shall be many. So
00:46:50.51\00:46:54.51
there's going to be a lot of
slaughter here. What's going on?
00:46:54.54\00:46:57.95
Next verse: They that sanctify
themselves,...we'll come back to
00:46:57.98\00:47:02.08
that...and purify themselves in
the gardens behind one tree in
00:47:02.12\00:47:05.05
the midst, eating swine's flesh,
and the abomination, and the
00:47:05.09\00:47:08.79
mouse, shall be consumed
together saith the Lord.
00:47:08.82\00:47:11.43
Whew. Now let me tell you what.
If what the doctors say about
00:47:11.46\00:47:16.36
pork wouldn't make me give it
up that verse would right there.
00:47:16.40\00:47:19.27
How can we go on doing something
that is so displeasing to God
00:47:19.30\00:47:23.14
that he's saying that when he
comes of all the sins that God
00:47:23.17\00:47:26.68
could name, he says, they're
eating swine's flesh and the
00:47:26.71\00:47:31.05
abomination? There it is again.
And the mouse. You know some
00:47:31.08\00:47:33.85
people still eat mice today.
Yeah, they do. I mean, it's not
00:47:33.88\00:47:37.85
appealing to my appetite, but in
some parts of the world, they'll
00:47:37.89\00:47:41.59
take little baby mice while
their bones are still soft and
00:47:41.62\00:47:44.39
you know they're just infant
mice, and they'll take them by
00:47:44.43\00:47:49.26
the tail, and they'll dip them
in warm honey like you would a
00:47:49.30\00:47:50.63
French fries in Ketchup and then
they'll just go whuup (shudders)
00:47:50.67\00:47:56.17
But you know it's an abomination
And God tells us how can we go
00:47:56.20\00:48:03.45
on eating something willingly,
presumptuously. God says: They
00:48:03.48\00:48:07.75
that do this are sanctifying
themselves. Now, can we really
00:48:07.78\00:48:11.39
sanctify ourselves? No. The
Bible says all our righteousness
00:48:11.42\00:48:15.66
is as what? Filthy rags. So
we can't sanctify ourselves. But
00:48:15.69\00:48:18.83
when they say I want to
determine what I want to eat,
00:48:18.86\00:48:21.00
and I want to determine what I
want to drink, and I will smoke
00:48:21.03\00:48:24.87
if I want to. He says, well
if you insist, you know, you go
00:48:24.90\00:48:28.17
ahead. You know you sanctify
yourself is that's what you want
00:48:28.20\00:48:31.01
but it won't do any good. Right,
it won't do you any good. So,
00:48:31.04\00:48:38.85
having said all of this, there
will always be those who will
00:48:38.88\00:48:41.92
say, well, wait a minute,
Pastor. Didn't Peter have a
00:48:41.95\00:48:45.42
vision over there in Acts
chapter 10? And doesn't that
00:48:45.45\00:48:47.92
mean that we can now eat
everything because God cleansed
00:48:47.96\00:48:50.53
it all. Now it's amazing, people
pass on things that they really
00:48:50.56\00:48:54.06
haven't studied And when we
go to Acts chapter 10, we don't
00:48:54.10\00:48:56.97
have time to read the entire
chapter. Did God tell Peter not
00:48:57.00\00:49:00.60
to call any food unclean? And
Christians will pick up on this
00:49:00.64\00:49:03.77
and they'll say because of what
happened here they can eat
whatever they want.
00:49:03.81\00:49:05.94
But let's go take a look at it
shall we? Here is Cornelius, a
00:49:05.97\00:49:09.21
sincere man, a Gentile.
God knows that, and he gives
00:49:09.24\00:49:13.88
Cornelius the vision to go and
send servants to get Peter so
00:49:13.92\00:49:17.89
Peter can come back to his house
and teach them the Gospel. So we
00:49:17.92\00:49:21.02
pick it up here in verse 9. It
says: On the morrow, as they...
00:49:21.06\00:49:24.53
that's Cornelius's servants when
on their journey and drew nigh
00:49:24.56\00:49:26.96
unto the city, Peter went up
upon the housetop to pray about
00:49:27.00\00:49:30.27
the sixth hour: And he became
very hungry, and he would have
00:49:30.30\00:49:33.20
eaten, but while they made ready
he fell into a trance and saw
00:49:33.23\00:49:36.24
heaven open and a certain vessel
descending upon him, as it had
00:49:36.30\00:49:39.27
been a great sheet knit at the
four corners, and let down to
00:49:39.31\00:49:42.11
earth: Wherein were all manner
of four-footed beasts of the
00:49:42.14\00:49:45.28
earth, and wild beasts, and
creeping things, and fowls of
00:49:45.31\00:49:46.78
the air. And there came a voice
to him, Rise, Peter, kill and
00:49:46.82\00:49:49.42
eat. But Peter says, Not
so, Lord, for I have never eaten
00:49:49.45\00:49:52.99
anything that is common
or unclean. Would Peter have
00:49:53.02\00:49:57.13
protested to God, I have never
eaten anything that's common or
00:49:57.16\00:49:59.63
unclean if it had already been
the practice of the Christian
00:49:59.66\00:50:01.93
Church to eat unclean things?
Right? Huh? No, of course not.
00:50:01.96\00:50:04.83
Peter looked at that, and he
said I know I'm not supposed to
00:50:04.87\00:50:07.20
eat that. So Peter knew nothing
about this teaching that the pig
00:50:07.24\00:50:10.94
was now clean for food. Verse
15 And the voice spake unto him
00:50:10.97\00:50:13.91
again the second time, What God
hath cleansed that call not thou
00:50:13.94\00:50:17.38
common. This was done thrice...
which means three times...and
00:50:17.41\00:50:20.58
the vessel was received up into
heaven. And then it says: Now
00:50:20.62\00:50:25.25
while Peter doubted in himself
what this vision which he had
00:50:25.29\00:50:28.59
seen should mean, behold the men
which were sent from Cornelius
00:50:28.62\00:50:31.73
had made inquiry for Simon's
house, and stood before the gate
00:50:31.76\00:50:34.50
The moment that Peter was
wondering I know that I'm not to
00:50:34.53\00:50:38.13
eat of that, so what is the
meaning that God wants me to
00:50:38.17\00:50:41.20
have. At the moment, he's
wondering, knocking at the door.
00:50:41.24\00:50:45.17
there's the Gentiles, and
they're saying come preach to us
00:50:45.21\00:50:48.04
the gospel. Peter was pretty
close to the situation, you'd
00:50:48.08\00:50:52.05
have to agree. A lot closer than
we are now. And Peter interprets
00:50:52.08\00:50:58.65
this vision now, once, not
twice, but three times in the
00:50:58.69\00:51:02.32
Bible, he gives us the meaning
of the vision. And yet with
00:51:02.36\00:51:06.70
three times interpreted to
us and three times are the same
00:51:06.73\00:51:09.00
with no exception, people still
go off from that and say well
00:51:09.03\00:51:10.37
that means you can eat anything.
Let's go take a look here, verse
00:51:10.40\00:51:14.14
28 is one of those times. And it
says: And he said unto them, You
00:51:14.17\00:51:17.07
know how that it is an unlawful
thing for a man that is a Jew to
00:51:17.11\00:51:20.31
keep company, or come unto
one of another nation, but hath
00:51:20.34\00:51:22.74
showed me that I should not call
any pig common or unclean. Is
00:51:22.78\00:51:26.38
that what it says? No. That's
what people read into it, right,
00:51:26.41\00:51:29.32
because they want to read that
into it. It says I should not
00:51:29.35\00:51:31.52
can any man common or unclean?
It doesn't say anything about
00:51:31.55\00:51:35.12
not calling any animal common
or unclean. People are imposing
00:51:35.16\00:51:38.69
that upon the text. Peter says
no. Peter looked at that. He
00:51:38.73\00:51:42.63
says Peter knew he had to change
his opinion toward people, not
00:51:42.66\00:51:47.54
toward food or animals, not in
his diet. And then he says again
00:51:47.57\00:51:50.67
in verse 34, Then Peter opened
his mouth, and said, of a truth
00:51:50.71\00:51:53.38
I perceive that God is no
respecter of persons. He doesn't
00:51:53.41\00:51:56.61
say God is no respecter of
animals. But in every nation, he
00:51:56.64\00:52:00.45
that feareth him, and worketh
righteousness is accepted with
00:52:00.48\00:52:02.02
him. Peter was prejudiced
against the Gentiles, and God
00:52:02.05\00:52:07.39
had to break through that
prejudice and he used that
00:52:07.42\00:52:09.72
vision to do that. And he says,
no, I understand now. I can go
00:52:09.76\00:52:12.23
to them I can preach the gospel
to them. But the rest of the
00:52:12.26\00:52:17.07
Bible still talks about unclean
things. Why would Paul tell them
00:52:17.10\00:52:20.14
to touch not the unclean thing
if there weren't any unclean
00:52:20.17\00:52:24.24
things. What goes into your body
is going to be passed through,
00:52:24.27\00:52:26.17
and it's gone but that which
is heart, that remains, and it's
00:52:26.21\00:52:28.41
defiling you it's rotting you
from the inside out. Right. So
00:52:28.44\00:52:32.48
Jesus is talking about moral
defilement versus the supposed
00:52:32.51\00:52:36.55
ceremonial defilement, the
Pharisees were caught up in. So
00:52:36.58\00:52:39.25
that was the discussion. This
whole thing has nothing to do
00:52:39.29\00:52:42.52
with clean or unclean or even
food per se. People try to make
00:52:42.56\00:52:45.46
it that, but it's simply not the
case. So we'll keep moving here.
00:52:45.49\00:52:50.30
There was an article that came
out from National Geographic
00:52:50.33\00:52:54.00
called The Secrets of Living
Longer. Maybe you saw this,
00:52:54.04\00:52:57.57
friends. And they said
researchers studied a group of
Seventh-day Adventists
00:52:57.61\00:53:00.21
who rank among America's
longevity all-stars. It says:
00:53:00.24\00:53:05.01
They have a high rate of
centenarians,...people who live
00:53:05.05\00:53:08.58
to be 100 years of age...They
suffer a fraction of the
00:53:08.62\00:53:11.42
diseases that commonly kill
people in other parts of the
00:53:11.45\00:53:13.19
developed world, and enjoy more
healthy years of life. Now they
00:53:13.22\00:53:18.66
must be doing something right
in order to have the kind of
00:53:18.69\00:53:22.00
wonderful benefit. Time Magazine
February 26, 2018, This is the
00:53:22.03\00:53:29.30
current magazine right here.
This is very recent. How to Live
00:53:29.34\00:53:32.41
Longer Better. You want to see
something up to date. Here it is
00:53:32.44\00:53:37.11
Secrets of the world's longest
living people. Global life
00:53:37.15\00:53:42.18
expectancy averages out to 71.4
years. That means, of course,
00:53:42.22\00:53:46.29
that some parts of the world see
much shorter life spans, while
00:53:46.32\00:53:49.82
others enjoy far
greater longevity Five places in
00:53:49.86\00:53:54.20
particular falls into the latter
category. They're known as Blue
00:53:54.23\00:53:57.07
Zones, and they're home to some
of the oldest and healthiest
00:53:57.10\00:54:00.30
people in the world. The United
States only Blue Zone is a haven
00:54:00.34\00:54:04.04
for the Seventh-day
Adventist Church, a Protestant
00:54:04.07\00:54:06.94
denomination. A shared
set of principles, emphasis on
00:54:06.98\00:54:10.11
community and adherence
the Sabbath, a day of rest,
00:54:10.15\00:54:13.11
reflection and recharging-help
Loma Linda Adventists love 10
00:54:13.15\00:54:16.35
years longer than their fellow
Americans. Many avoid meat and
00:54:16.38\00:54:19.85
eat plenty of plants, whole
grains and nuts. You know what
00:54:19.89\00:54:22.92
they say in the south, friends.
The proof is in the pudding.
00:54:22.96\00:54:25.86
right. Here's a group of people
that have been studied over and
00:54:25.89\00:54:28.63
over because they consistently
outlive by a long shot the
00:54:28.66\00:54:34.40
normal American population. What
was the Eden diet? According to
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Archives of Internal Medicine:
Studies of 34,000 people reveal
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that men who follow an Eden diet
have a life expectancy of 83.3
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years and women 85.7 years.
Let's go back just for a minute
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here and see what the Eden diet
was. Genesis 1:29: And God said,
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Behold, I have given you every
herb bearing seed, which is upon
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the face of all the earth,
and every tree, in which is the
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fruit of a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat,...
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which of course means for food.
So when God gave Adam and Eve
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their original diet it was
a vegetarian diet. Now shortly
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after sin of course he added
something to it, Genesis 3:18:
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Thorns also and thistles shall
it bring forth to thee; and thou
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shalt eat the herb of the field.
Again, remaining vegetarian here
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So the Eden diet was a
vegetarian diet. Do you know
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that's why a lot of Christians
have decided to kind of get a
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head start on heaven. Did
you know that? Because, again in
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heaven, we're not going to have
Burger King, amen, huh. We're
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not going to have McDonald's,
we're not going to have big Macs
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I don't know if that disappoints
you or not. But Adam and Eve
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were not jumping on some cow for
their evening meal, right? No.
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And there's no death in Eden
before sin. There's going to be
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no death in heaven, not a
single animal will give its
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life for food.
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No butcher shops there. So some
people get a little bit of a
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head start. They want to kind of
get their diet more in line with
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Eden. So the Bible way is the
best way. But have you noticed
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something here that's very
interesting when you look at
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what God gave us to eat.
Isn't it attractive? Isn't it
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colorful? Isn't it varied?
You look at all these wonderful
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things. God says we can eat
that, but just don't eat that.
Is there a difference
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in just how it looks to us,
right? He says you can eat that,
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boy, that looks good, doesn't
it? But don't eat that. I mean
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God is just presenting it to us
a different way. I mean, you can
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eat the grains and the nuts, all
these beautiful things, but he
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says that! Nope. Put that aside.
Don't eat things like that. Eat
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that, but don't eat that.
You can tell I'm enjoying this,
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can't you? Right? Okay. Eat,
Eat, Don't Eat All right. Is
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there a difference Of course.
Eat that, yes. Wonderful food.
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Eat that. Oh yes wonderful food.
No. Don't eat that guy. Let him
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alone. He's screaming at you,
not fit for food. You know, in
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the beginning friends, three
diets in the Bible. There was
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what we call the ideal diet.
There's what we call the
acceptable diet and
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then there is the Unacceptable
diet. Isn't that right? God
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wants the ideal, but there is
the acceptable. It's not a sin
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to eat the clean meats that God
gave us, but there's something
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that he's forbidden. There's
another way of saying this.
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There's the perfect diet.
There's the permissible diet.
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This is called the three Ps. And
there is the what? Prohibited
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diet. But it always God's
intention to get us eventually
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back to the what? The perfect
diet. Whether, therefore, you
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eat or drink, or whatsoever ye
do, do all to the what friends?
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Glory of God. Every time we have
this subject it's inevitable
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that somebody just consumed
something of this nature, right
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before they came here. And we
understand that. But we serve a
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merciful God that longs to
cleanse us and give us a brand
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new start.
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