The escalation of global
terrorism, crime, immorality
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and natural disasters,
seems to indicate our world
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is spiraling towards its
ultimate hour with destiny.
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Who, if anyone, will
survive Earth's final events?
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Discover what Bible prophecy
reveals about the rapture,
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the mark of the
beast, and Armageddon.
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Though shrouded in
mystery for centuries,
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the book of Revelation
can be understood today.
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Peer into the future,
and see what wonderful things
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God has planned for His people.
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And now, Pastor Brian
McMahon presents the powerful
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Bible seminar
"Revelation Speaks Hope".
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Our subject for this evening is:
"Bible Secrets to good health."
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This subject that
we're going to study tonight
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is a very
practical one in its nature.
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There is a belief that
is going around in many
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Christian churches that
God isn't really interested
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in the physical aspect of men,
that God is simply interested
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in your spirit, and He
wants to save your spirit,
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and the things that have to
do with the physical, they say
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that God isn't really interested
with, and we can't take
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that position as Christians
because among other places
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the Bible teaches that
the Lord is our shepherd,
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and God is concerned
with the sheep of His pasture.
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A shepherd is concerned that
the sheep eat good, green grass,
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that they don't eat
any poisonous things,
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that they drink pure
water, and these kinds of things
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a shepherd would naturally
want to do for his flock.
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So in the same way,
Jesus being the Good Shepherd,
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is wanting to make sure
that we are in physical health,
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as well as mental
and spiritual health.
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So the Bible teaches
that Jesus spent as much time
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in dealing with healing
people as He did in preaching
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to people. Let's
take a look at some
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of those passages in
Matthew 4:23 it says:
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[text on screen]
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So Jesus spent a lot of
time in healing, not just
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in simply preaching to
people. We've talked a lot
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about God's laws in the
seminar, and we've talked about
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the fact that when you
break God's laws you end up
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hurting yourself.
Well, when you break God's
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laws of health, you
also end up hurting yourself.
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For example, if you go a certain
amount of time without food,
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you start to break
down. If you go a certain
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amount of time without
sleep, you start to break down.
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If you go a certain
amount of time without water
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you'll dehydrate.
There are certain laws
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of cause and effect
that God has put into place
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in this universe, and He
expects us to follow those,
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and there are
consequences when we don't.
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So the Scripture tells us
that Jesus came to bring us
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abundant life.
John 10:10, Jesus says:
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[text on screen]
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Another well known
verse on this is in 3 John 2:
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[text on screen]
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So notice what the Bible
is saying, John is saying:
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"I wish you to be in health
physically, even as you are"
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"to be in health spiritually."
If a person wants to smoke
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cigarettes, pack
after pack, year after year,
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and they end up getting
lung cancer, it wasn't chance
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that brought that
about, it was tobacco that did
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them in. So a lot
of people get sick
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and then they go to the
doctor and they say: "Doctor,"
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"what do I need?
Give me a pill, give me"
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"an injection, give me a drug,
give me something to make me"
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"better, because I want to
go back out and start doing"
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"the things that I used to do."
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So once again, what we
need is a new lifestyle.
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We don't need pills, we
don't need drugs, we don't need
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all kinds of things that
the world wants to push on us,
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what we really need is
to change our life and live
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according to God's
ways. In Exodus 15:26 here's
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what we read: [text on screen]
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So the Lord is saying
that "if you will obey Me,"
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He's taking this to His people,
Israel, "then you will not"
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"suffer the same kinds of
sicknesses that the Egyptians"
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"have, that the heathens have,
that those Amalekites have."
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He says "You will live
a different kind of life."
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That was the promise,
does God keep His promises?
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Yes, He always does.
Look at Psalm 105:37,
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it says, speaking of the ancient
Israelites: [text on screen]
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There could have been up to
2 million Israelites that were
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out there in the desert.
The Bible says there wasn't
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a sick person among
them. Can you imagine
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a city the size of 2 million
people, maybe even a couple
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sizes larger than Sacramento,
and not 1 single sick person
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in all of those people? I
think we can learn something
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from God's principles.
Certainly we can learn
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that God looks after His people.
Turn with me in the Scriptures
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to 1 Corinthians 6, God
had health principles back then
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and there are principles
that we can live by now.
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God is not promising that if we
eat enough vitamin A, B, C and D
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that we're never going
to get old and get wrinkles,
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but He is telling us
that there are certain things
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we can do, that will
make us a better instrument
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in His hands.
Today in America there's
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an enormous amount of
money spent on health care.
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If we could just understand
some of these principles,
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we'd really save some
money. Look what it says here
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in 1 Corinthians
6:19: [text on screen]
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Not just the mind, but the
entire body is spoken of here,
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it says: [text on screen]
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We belong to God, don't we?
He purchased us by the precious
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blood of His Son,
Jesus, at the cross of Calvary,
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He bought us back to Him.
So we are to be the dwelling
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place of the Holy Spirit,
and the Holy Spirit wants
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to dwell in holy
temples, does that make sense?
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So God is going to teach
us in Scripture how we can be
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Holy Spirit filled Christians.
The Devil wants to confused us
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by putting things into
our body through various kinds
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of agents that confuse the
thinking, that confuse the mind.
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The Holy Spirit is
going to speak to us, but how
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does the Holy
Spirit speak to us?
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Does the Holy Spirit
speak to us through our fingers
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and our toes? No;
through our elbows
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and our knees? No,
how does the Holy Spirit
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speak to us? Well,
it's through the mind.
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So the Devil is hard at work
trying to cloud the faculties
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of the mind so that we
no longer can hear the sweet
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voice, and sense
that of the Holy Spirit.
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Scripture tells us
in 1 Corinthians 6:19,
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which we've just
read, that we are the temple
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of the Holy Spirit,
and we are to glorify God.
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How can we glorify God?
What does it really mean
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to glorify God?
Well, we can glorify God
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in many ways, through
the ways in which we live,
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but one of the ways is
how we treat the body temple.
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We have a foundational
text that will set the tone
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for everything else that
we'll study tonight, it's found
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in 1 Corinthians
10:31: [text on screen]
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We're told in Romans 12:1 that
we are to present our bodies
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a living sacrifice unto
God, holy and acceptable,
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which is our reasonable
service, so when we become
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Christians, and enlist under
the banner of Jesus Christ,
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we are to present our
bodies unto Him because we are
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to live with the
Holy Spirit within us.
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So how does one do that?
We have an example of that
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in the Old Testament, well known
example in the book of Daniel.
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Daniel 1:8 tells us the
story of Daniel and his 3 Hebrew
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friends that were taken
into captivity into the Babylon.
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In Daniel 1:8 here's
what it says: [text on screen]
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Which means a
portion of the kings food,
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it says: [text on screen]
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So Daniel and his friends
are making a decision early on
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in their captivity that they
are not going to take certain
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things into their
body. In other words they're
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going to treat the body
in a certain way that will
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glorify God. Later
on they had to make
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a spiritual stand
for Him, didn't they?
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In Daniel 3 and in Daniel
6 they made a very sure stand
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for their God, but we realize
that they made an early stand
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physically that they might have
greater strength to serve Him
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spiritually. Is the
Christian church going
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to have to make some hard
decisions before Jesus comes
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back where they're
going to stand on issues?
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Amen, we are, and therefore
we also should be concerned
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with the physical aspect of
us, so that we can therefore
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make better stands for Jesus,
and better decisions for Him
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in the spiritual sense.
So let's talk about some
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of the things that we
eat and drink according to
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1 Corinthians 10:31.
What does the Bible say
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about that? Well,
one of the more obvious
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ones that we can talk
about would be alcohol,
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that's always talked about,
what does the Bible actually
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say about that? I
get questions about that
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so we're going to cover
that first and foremost.
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In Proverbs 20:1 we
read this Scripture, it says:
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[text on screen]
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Alcohol is deceptive,
it's a poison to the body.
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As soon as alcohol comes into
the body, immediate it attacks
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the nervous system, it attacks
the faculties of the brain
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that make decision, which
is reason, judgment center,
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the conscience, the will,
all of those areas of the brain
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that help us to make
good, moral decisions for God,
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immediately alcohol
attacks that, that's why people
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under alcohol find themselves
doing things that they know
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they shouldn't be
doing, because they don't have
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that ability to reason.
The brain cells of the mind
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immediately start to be
affected when alcohol goes into
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the system. What
else does alcohol do?
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[text on screen]
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I'm going to add my own
statistic to that, I've been
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in many institutions
and talked to many inmates,
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and I've asked the question:
"How many of you are here"
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"because of something you did
under the influence of alcohol?"
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You should see all of the
hands go up, it's amazing.
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It is said that
alcohol is: [text on screen]
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It is said that there are some
17,000 deaths every single year
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in this country
because of drunk driving.
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I know that there are some
that don't believe that alcohol
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is something that...they
might say that: "I don't take"
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"a lot of alcohol, I just
take it in small amounts."
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Friends, even small
amounts is enough to effect your
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relationship with
God. [text on screen]
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1 other statistic I'm going
to give you from the Washington
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Monthly publication,
it says: [text on screen]
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Amazing. Proverbs
23:31-33 says this,
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the wise man, Solomon
says: [text on screen]
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It's talking about those
things that are done under
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the influence of alcohol
because that part of the body,
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that 3 pound electrochemical
organ called the brain
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that produces the
miracle that we call the mind
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is very highly
affected by that substance.
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People will wonder, they'll say:
"Doesn't the Bible sometimes"
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"praise wine? Doesn't it
sometimes speak well of wine?"
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Yes, sometimes it does,
and sometimes it doesn't.
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Why do we get
sometimes yes and sometimes no?
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Because the Bible speaks
of wine in 2 different senses.
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Let's take a look at that in
Isaiah 65:8: [text on screen]
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If I had a cluster of
grapes up here in my hand
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and I gave it a great
big squeeze, what's going
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to run out of it?
Grape juice, the Bible here
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is calling it wine, so it
says as is found the cluster,
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it says destroy it
not, [text on screen]
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So there's a blessing in
the juice of the pure grape,
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but didn't Jesus turn
water into wine at the marriage
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supper of Canaan?
So doesn't that mean
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that Jesus approves of it
if He turned water into wine?
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Friends, when you go
back and read that story
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you can see that when
they filled those 6 stone jars
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the estimates of how big
those jars are by what's give
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in Scripture, means that
they could have held between
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120-180 gallons of liquid.
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If Jesus turned the water into
wine, and that was 180 gallons
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of wine, true fermented
wine, that would be enough
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to get everyone there
good and drunk, wouldn't it?
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And it probably would
have happened, but the Bible
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condemns drunkenness,
calls it a sin, so who would lay
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at the feet of Jesus the
fact that that was His work
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to make all those people drunk?
I wouldn't do it, and I'm sure
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you wouldn't either.
Some people will say:
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"But didn't Jesus at
the last supper drink wine?"
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Once again, we
want to be careful here.
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At the last supper Jesus
said this in Matthew 26:29,
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Jesus said: [text on screen]
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Notice what Jesus
called the liquid folks,
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"fruit of the
vine", [text on screen]
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So Jesus said: "What is in this
cup, I am going to drink it"
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"again when we get to heaven."
Fermentation was a symbol of sin
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so Jesus would have never
held up something before His
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disciples which proverbs
told us was a symbol of adders
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and snakes, bites like
an adder, stings like these
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poisonous serpents.
Jesus would never have
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held that and said that
represents Him, absolutely not,
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but the pure juice of the grape,
He says: "We will share this"
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"in My Father's kingdom
when we will meet again."
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While we're on poisonous
substances, let's take up
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another big killer in our
society, and that is the subject
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of smoking. We
may have some people
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here tonight that are smokers,
if you are, just be comfortable
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and study along with us,
and don't think that we're here
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to condemn anybody, we're not
here to condemn anybody tonight,
00:15:41.78\00:15:44.46
we're here to be a blessing
and teach the Father's will.
00:15:44.49\00:15:47.52
Well, what are some of the
problems that cigarettes have,
00:15:47.56\00:15:50.73
and we're talking about
all kinds of tobacco products?
00:15:50.76\00:15:53.90
[text on screen]
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There's almost nothing in
the body, and almost no organ
00:16:01.78\00:16:04.70
in the body that cigarettes
don't adversely affect.
00:16:04.74\00:16:07.63
Nicotine causes
the arteries to shrink.
00:16:07.66\00:16:10.24
when the arteries shrink
what happens is smaller clots
00:16:10.28\00:16:13.92
that get into the blood,
they start getting caught,
00:16:13.95\00:16:17.56
and people get
strokes and heart attacks.
00:16:17.59\00:16:19.80
So people that smoke put
them self at a very high risk
00:16:19.84\00:16:24.38
of these various
things. Tobacco has been called
00:16:24.41\00:16:27.56
[text on screen]
00:16:27.59\00:16:29.47
You can probably guess what the
first is, and that's alcohol.
00:16:31.32\00:16:35.55
Here is a statistic
that absolutely astounded me
00:16:35.58\00:16:38.74
when I first saw
it: [text on screen]
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You've heard that
term "Dying for a smoke",
00:17:03.69\00:17:06.17
it's actually a pretty
accurate term, isn't it?
00:17:06.21\00:17:08.62
Here's the good news for
you though if you're a smoker,
00:17:08.66\00:17:11.55
when you stop smoking,
your body is such a marvelous
00:17:11.59\00:17:14.41
machine it immediately tries
to heal itself from the damage
00:17:14.45\00:17:17.49
that has been
caused. [text on screen]
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All these things start to
improve, that's because the body
00:17:22.12\00:17:25.32
is such a magnificent
thing. Have you ever seen
00:17:25.35\00:17:28.34
a picture of a smoker's
lung? Well you're going to see
00:17:28.38\00:17:30.84
one now. A lot of people smoke
00:17:30.87\00:17:33.57
because they can't really see
the damage that's being caused,
00:17:33.61\00:17:36.09
not right away.
They might see it later,
00:17:36.12\00:17:37.38
but not right away.
But if you could actually
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see what's going on,
you'd think: "Oh no, I can't"
00:17:39.31\00:17:42.07
"do that and glorify
God." There are some lifestyles
00:17:42.11\00:17:45.44
that are just destroying
our bodies, alcohol is one,
00:17:45.47\00:17:48.34
cigarettes are another.
I know that there are some
00:17:48.37\00:17:50.56
that might be saying:
"But I've tried to quit,"
00:17:50.59\00:17:52.71
"I really have, I don't want
to smoke, I've tried to quit,"
00:17:52.75\00:17:55.69
"I just can't."
Friends, let me ask you
00:17:55.72\00:17:58.17
the question: which is
more powerful, is tobacco
00:17:58.21\00:18:02.56
more powerful than the
power of God, yes or no?
00:18:02.60\00:18:07.02
No, absolutely not. If
you really want to quit
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God can give you the
power to quit, can't He?
00:18:10.47\00:18:13.78
He has given it to
millions and millions of others,
00:18:13.82\00:18:15.94
won't He give it to other
people right here tonight?
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He certainly
will. The Bible tells us
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that we can do how
many things through Christ?
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All things through Christ, does
that include stopping smoking?
00:18:22.89\00:18:25.85
Yes it does. God
doesn't leave that one out.
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I love this text I shared with
you this last Saturday morning,
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we had a service here, and
I shared with you this text
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in 1 Corinthians 10:13,
it says: [text on screen]
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Friends, listen, that way
of escape includes the escaping
00:18:50.95\00:18:54.02
of cigarette
smoking. This is one instance
00:18:54.05\00:18:57.06
where quitters always
win, maybe not in other places,
00:18:57.10\00:19:00.71
but in this place, you
can. Have you noticed how
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these words all end?
Morphine, codeine, nicotine,
00:19:05.52\00:19:10.20
Heroin - that's how it
sounds, it's not spelt that way,
00:19:10.24\00:19:12.83
they took the "e" off, because
then you'd have a different
00:19:12.86\00:19:16.26
word, but same thing...have
you noticed all those "ine"s?
00:19:16.30\00:19:19.71
They're all cousins, right?
You've got codeine, morphine,
00:19:19.74\00:19:23.12
heroin, nicotine,
how about another one?
00:19:23.15\00:19:27.37
What about caffeine?
00:19:27.40\00:19:31.55
If you took caffeine,
which is also a type of poison,
00:19:31.59\00:19:34.75
and you injected it straight
into a person, you could
00:19:34.78\00:19:37.90
kill them, but what we
do is we take a little bit
00:19:37.93\00:19:40.98
at a time, little doses,
and the body is a magnificent
00:19:41.02\00:19:44.90
machine, it tries to handle it,
but it does have adverse effects
00:19:44.94\00:19:48.83
on the body.
What are some of those
00:19:48.86\00:19:51.02
adverse effects? I've
got a file about 1 inch
00:19:51.06\00:19:52.85
thick with all kinds of
negative reports on caffeine,
00:19:52.89\00:19:55.70
but it damages the body
more than people realize.
00:19:55.73\00:19:58.51
It is: [text on screen]
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Affects all kinds of things,
lest you think that I don't
00:20:02.29\00:20:04.81
know what I'm talking
about, you're looking at
00:20:04.84\00:20:05.99
an ex-caffeine addict up here.
There was a time when I drank
00:20:06.03\00:20:09.63
about 10-14 cups a day during
a certain kind of business
00:20:09.66\00:20:12.90
I once had, and that was
just a social thing that we did.
00:20:12.94\00:20:15.52
Every time a client came
in we'd have a cup of coffee,
00:20:15.55\00:20:18.10
another client came
in, have a cup of coffee,
00:20:18.13\00:20:19.57
get there early in the
morning, have a couple of cups,
00:20:19.61\00:20:20.97
and a couple cups
before we went to bed at night.
00:20:21.00\00:20:23.02
We were wired out.
But what exactly is in
00:20:23.05\00:20:27.34
that cup of coffee?
Here's one article that said:
00:20:27.38\00:20:29.94
[text on screen]
00:20:29.97\00:20:32.06
So it goes on and it
just talks about how caffeine
00:20:49.19\00:20:52.32
really is a negative
thing to put into your bodies.
00:20:52.36\00:20:55.46
[text on screen]
00:20:55.49\00:20:57.59
So people know that this is not
something that is good for you,
00:21:01.66\00:21:04.50
we need to be aware
of those kinds of things
00:21:04.53\00:21:06.64
that sneak in to our
lifestyle without us really
00:21:06.68\00:21:09.03
even knowing about it.
We've talked, and I've gone
00:21:09.06\00:21:12.44
briefly for a reason here,
we've talked about alcohol,
00:21:12.47\00:21:15.78
and tobacco, some of these big
ones that people really stumble
00:21:15.82\00:21:19.39
about and have a hard
time with, but the Bible says
00:21:19.42\00:21:23.50
in 1 Corinthians
10:31: [text on screen]
00:21:23.53\00:21:26.82
So we can't just talk
about what we drink, or smoke
00:21:32.13\00:21:34.82
as the case may be,
when I say smoke I'm talking
00:21:34.85\00:21:37.47
about various forms of
tobacco, marijuana, those kinds
00:21:37.51\00:21:40.33
of things; the Bible
even goes into what we eat.
00:21:40.36\00:21:45.76
Leviticus 11:1, it says:
"The Lord spake unto Moses"
00:21:45.80\00:21:49.90
"and unto Aaron saying
unto them," [text on screen]
00:21:49.94\00:21:54.01
"beasts" - remember that
word, we'll see it again,
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[continues to read]
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So it says: "If you're going
to eat of the animal kingdom,"
00:22:10.16\00:22:12.12
"it needs to have 2 things,
it needs to part the hoof"
00:22:12.15\00:22:15.88
"and chew the
cud." There are a number
00:22:15.91\00:22:18.17
of animals that have
that. Cattle have that, those
00:22:18.21\00:22:22.08
2 aspects, deer, goats,
buffalo, all those things
00:22:22.11\00:22:25.38
are considered to be
clean as the Bible gives
00:22:25.42\00:22:28.30
this instruction, then
it goes on and it says:
00:22:28.33\00:22:31.18
[text on screen]
00:22:31.21\00:22:33.18
In other words, it's got to
have both, it can't just have
00:22:41.56\00:22:44.48
1 of those 2 aspects,
it's got to have both.
00:22:44.51\00:22:46.94
The camel has 1 but it
doesn't have the other,
00:22:46.97\00:22:49.33
so it says the camel is
out. Sometimes people wonder
00:22:49.37\00:22:52.57
about this, and they
say: "Why would God tells us"
00:22:52.61\00:22:55.78
"not to eat certain
things? Scripture tell us"
00:22:55.82\00:22:58.19
" 'no good thing would
He withhold from them' "
00:22:58.23\00:23:00.85
" 'that walk uprightly.'
" That's Psalm 84:11,
00:23:00.89\00:23:03.44
so the Lord isn't interested
in simply taking away things
00:23:03.48\00:23:05.85
arbitrarily with no
reason, there is good science
00:23:05.88\00:23:08.41
behind what we're
reading here. Let's go on
00:23:08.44\00:23:10.35
to verse 6, it
says: [text on screen]
00:23:10.38\00:23:15.45
I didn't grow up eating
rabbit, but I did have friends
00:23:24.74\00:23:27.41
that ate rabbit, I always
wondered after reading this:
00:23:27.44\00:23:30.08
why did the Bible say
that they weren't to eat
00:23:30.11\00:23:32.20
of the rabbit
family? And then I found out
00:23:32.23\00:23:34.25
that there are certain
diseases, infectious diseases,
00:23:34.29\00:23:37.26
that can be transmitted
from the animal to the person
00:23:37.29\00:23:40.19
that eats them, and one of them
is found in the rabbit family,
00:23:40.23\00:23:44.06
so God is simply protecting
us and saying He doesn't want us
00:23:44.09\00:23:47.89
to have these problems.
In Leviticus 11:7 it goes
00:23:47.92\00:23:52.71
on and it says
here: [text on screen]
00:23:52.74\00:23:56.56
That's talking about Ms.
Piggy, just so we don't have
00:23:59.65\00:24:04.16
any misunderstanding here.
Have you seen those commercials
00:24:04.20\00:24:07.97
that are on TV, not so much
anymore, but they really ran
00:24:08.00\00:24:11.74
heavy for a while:
"Pork, the other white meat",
00:24:11.77\00:24:14.15
and "Pork is good food for you".
00:24:14.18\00:24:15.77
Isn't it amazing that the
advertisers think they know
00:24:15.81\00:24:18.40
better than God knows.
Well, let's go on, it says:
00:24:18.43\00:24:20.99
[text on screen]
00:24:21.02\00:24:23.01
So it says: "of this particular
creature called the swine,"
00:24:34.51\00:24:38.68
"the pig, whatever name you
want to put on them, he is out."
00:24:38.72\00:24:42.86
He is not something
that we should eat of.
00:24:42.89\00:24:45.83
So Scripture is drawing
a line between the animals.
00:24:45.87\00:24:49.04
It's saying that some are
considered clean, those are
00:24:49.07\00:24:52.21
acceptable to eat,
some are considered unclean
00:24:52.24\00:24:54.80
and the Bible is saying
those are not acceptable.
00:24:54.83\00:24:58.30
Now, of course, cows
falls into the acceptable one,
00:24:58.33\00:25:01.59
that's one of the
biggest things that are eaten
00:25:01.63\00:25:04.66
in this country
under the category of meat,
00:25:04.70\00:25:07.66
but there's other things
that the Bible speaks about,
00:25:07.70\00:25:10.15
let's go on to verse 9,
it says: [text on screen]
00:25:10.18\00:25:12.60
So now God has dealt
with the land creatures,
00:25:15.26\00:25:17.77
He's going to deal with
those that are in the seas:
00:25:17.81\00:25:19.81
[text on screen]
00:25:19.84\00:25:21.91
So once again, the
Lord is giving us 2 things
00:25:26.22\00:25:29.77
that must be found in
the creatures of the waters
00:25:29.81\00:25:33.33
in order to make
them acceptable for food,
00:25:33.36\00:25:35.29
it says them must have
fins and they must have scales.
00:25:35.33\00:25:38.50
There are a number of things
that do have fins and scales,
00:25:38.53\00:25:41.67
bass, salmon, trout,
and I'm sure you could name
00:25:41.70\00:25:43.81
a lot more, so yes, there
are things that are acceptable
00:25:43.85\00:25:46.84
in the waters. Then
it goes on and it says
00:25:46.87\00:25:48.90
in verse 10: [text on screen]
00:25:48.93\00:25:52.63
"living thing" - so God
is being very specific here,
00:25:59.99\00:26:03.26
[text on screen]
00:26:03.29\00:26:05.52
They shall be a
what? Abomination!
00:26:06.76\00:26:09.10
The word "abomination",
it literally means
00:26:09.14\00:26:13.11
"a detestable thing".
In the English language you
00:26:13.15\00:26:17.33
might say "I don't like
something", you might even say
00:26:17.37\00:26:21.05
"I hate something", "I abhor
something", but when you say
00:26:21.08\00:26:24.73
"I detest that", that's
about the strongest language
00:26:24.76\00:26:28.14
you could us. Let's go
on, it says in verse 11
00:26:28.17\00:26:31.70
[text on screen]
00:26:31.73\00:26:33.80
The Lord is telling us
that these things are considered
00:26:49.78\00:26:53.89
an abomination, there is
never a time when God calls
00:26:53.93\00:26:57.97
something an "abomination"
where there is ever a cleansing
00:26:58.01\00:27:02.15
ceremony, or purification
rites that can be done
00:27:02.18\00:27:05.32
to make something unabominable.
It's not just these things
00:27:05.36\00:27:09.12
that are called an abomination.
Practices like homosexuality
00:27:09.15\00:27:12.88
are called abomination,
incest are called abomination,
00:27:12.91\00:27:15.47
and there's some other things
that God calls abomination,
00:27:15.51\00:27:18.67
and if God calls it abomination,
it always is abomination
00:27:18.71\00:27:21.84
before God, but there
is a common denominator
00:27:21.87\00:27:25.07
between those things
that God says we're not to put
00:27:25.11\00:27:27.77
into our bodies, that
common denominator is that
00:27:27.81\00:27:30.40
these creatures that God
says not to eat are scavengers.
00:27:30.44\00:27:34.66
Another word, we might call
them "God's garbage collectors".
00:27:34.70\00:27:38.89
Here's the question
to us: where these laws,
00:27:38.92\00:27:42.19
these health laws, were
they nailed to the cross
00:27:42.22\00:27:45.37
when Jesus died?
Well, to show you an answer
00:27:45.40\00:27:48.94
go to Genesis 7:1. It
says: [text on screen]
00:27:48.98\00:27:52.49
Notice, not Moses,
but Noah, [text on screen]
00:27:55.07\00:27:58.32
The Bible says some went in
2 by 2, and some went in by 7s.
00:28:13.49\00:28:17.48
You know dear friends, I
think that the Devil has caused
00:28:17.51\00:28:22.19
people to misunderstand
this subject by purposefully
00:28:22.22\00:28:25.99
causing them to think
that everything went in 2 by 2,
00:28:26.02\00:28:28.98
because if they knew
that some things went in by 2s
00:28:29.02\00:28:31.91
and they knew that some
things went in by 7s, they would
00:28:31.95\00:28:34.16
naturally ask the
question: why the difference?
00:28:34.19\00:28:36.82
They would have to
think about the fact that some
00:28:36.85\00:28:39.02
were clean and some were
unclean, and then they would
00:28:39.06\00:28:42.20
have that understanding.
So without that understanding
00:28:42.24\00:28:45.35
people don't realize
that they are not to eat
00:28:45.38\00:28:47.73
certain creatures,
some are acceptable.
00:28:47.76\00:28:50.45
Let's go back to Genesis
7:8, it says: [text on screen]
00:28:50.49\00:28:57.61
Naturally, they weren't
going to eat of the unclean
00:29:04.04\00:29:06.10
because there only was
2, the male and the female,
00:29:06.13\00:29:08.16
and if they were
to eat of either one,
00:29:08.19\00:29:09.74
we wouldn't have those
species around today, would we?
00:29:09.78\00:29:12.18
So we realize that God
instructed Noah to bring
00:29:12.21\00:29:15.97
these creatures into the
Ark, both clean and unclean,
00:29:16.01\00:29:19.02
and they weren't
going to eat of the unclean.
00:29:19.05\00:29:21.48
They had extra of the
clean because they did
00:29:21.51\00:29:23.87
start to eat after they
got off the Ark, and they had
00:29:23.91\00:29:27.00
some also for sacrifice, So
all of this was taking place
00:29:27.04\00:29:30.37
in the time before the Jews,
and the time before Abraham,
00:29:30.40\00:29:33.70
and the time before
Moses, in the pre-Jewish era
00:29:33.73\00:29:36.75
there was clean and unclean
animals; and if it was in
00:29:36.79\00:29:39.97
the time before Moses,
it certainly is in the time
00:29:40.00\00:29:43.15
after him as well.
Why can't we eat pork?
00:29:43.18\00:29:47.77
God said not to eat it, that's
very plain, but why can't we
00:29:47.81\00:29:50.37
eat pork? Well,
it's because they have
00:29:50.40\00:29:52.84
examined the substance, and
they've realized that there is
00:29:52.88\00:29:56.12
good science behind
God's command not to eat it.
00:29:56.15\00:30:00.24
1 particular study
that was done found that
00:30:00.27\00:30:02.63
1 in every 4 pork
specimens was found to have
00:30:02.67\00:30:04.96
living trichina larvae in
it. You say: "Well what's"
00:30:05.00\00:30:08.19
"trichina larvae?" The
trichina larvae are little
00:30:08.23\00:30:11.35
tiny worms, parasite worms,
that borough themselves into
00:30:11.39\00:30:15.61
the flesh of certain animals,
usually the ones that scavenge,
00:30:15.65\00:30:19.36
and there they lay,
and they are still alive,
00:30:19.39\00:30:23.51
and when someone eats
of that flesh, that cyst
00:30:23.55\00:30:27.60
where the larvae is entombed
dissolves, and those things
00:30:27.64\00:30:30.57
get into the person's
blood stream that eats it,
00:30:30.60\00:30:32.78
and they work their
way into the tissue of that
00:30:32.82\00:30:35.05
particular person,
and they encyst themselves
00:30:35.08\00:30:37.24
again, and they can cause
all kinds of problems there.
00:30:37.28\00:30:39.82
[text on screen]
00:30:39.85\00:30:41.98
When you eat that good
old piece of bacon or pork,
00:31:05.21\00:31:08.42
whatever, there is bound
to be some problems with it
00:31:08.46\00:31:11.60
because it's been really loaded
with all kinds of preservatives
00:31:11.64\00:31:17.33
and other additives.
This particular article
00:31:17.36\00:31:20.90
talked about bacon, and
it said this, this is in
00:31:20.93\00:31:24.32
Newsweek Magazine, it
said: [text on screen]
00:31:24.35\00:31:27.71
"It didn't belong to any food
group at all, it was a salty,"
00:31:31.61\00:31:35.68
"nitrate ridden, fat
laden, carcinogenic thing."
00:31:35.71\00:31:39.41
Pork has been known to
have the highest fat content
00:31:39.45\00:31:43.12
of all the
various kinds of meat.
00:31:43.15\00:31:45.51
I don't think that when God
told Moses: "Moses, some things"
00:31:45.55\00:31:49.87
"are going to be clean, and some
things are going to be unclean",
00:31:49.91\00:31:51.95
I don't believe Moses
could look at these things under
00:31:51.98\00:31:53.95
a microscope, in fact
I know that they didn't,
00:31:53.98\00:31:57.08
Moses had to take by
faith that God knew what He
00:31:57.11\00:32:01.14
was talking about. In
Psalm 84:11 we're told
00:32:01.17\00:32:05.17
[text on screen]
00:32:05.20\00:32:07.27
Is it really a serious thing?
Is God really serious about
00:32:15.64\00:32:19.49
this topic? Well,
if you've got seatbelts
00:32:19.52\00:32:21.95
on those pews, put them
on right now because we're
00:32:21.99\00:32:24.55
going to go through a
text that's really a good one.
00:32:24.58\00:32:27.11
Isaiah 66:15.
00:32:27.14\00:32:36.07
It says: [text on screen]
00:32:36.89\00:32:39.76
He came the first time as
a lowly babe in Bethlehem,
00:32:40.13\00:32:44.97
this time He says He's coming
with fire, [continues to read]
00:32:45.01\00:32:48.62
So we're seeing a future event,
very important to the context
00:32:53.32\00:32:56.37
of what we're discussing
here. Speaking of a future event
00:32:56.41\00:32:59.43
it says: [text on screen]
00:32:59.46\00:33:01.95
Now get verse 17, who are
these slain that he's talking
00:33:07.32\00:33:11.29
about here, it
says: [text on screen]
00:33:11.32\00:33:14.08
It didn't say "sayeth
Pastor McMahon", it said
00:33:31.97\00:33:35.40
"sayeth the Lord".
What the doctors say
00:33:35.43\00:33:38.11
about pork, if that wouldn't
make me quit, this verse would,
00:33:38.15\00:33:41.97
I've got to be
really honest with you.
00:33:42.00\00:33:44.19
How could we go on
doing something that is
00:33:44.23\00:33:46.35
so displeasing to the Lord
that He would write this down.
00:33:46.39\00:33:50.10
I know that the Lord
loves you, and He loves me,
00:33:50.13\00:33:52.62
you know why?
Because sometimes out of love
00:33:52.65\00:33:56.69
you give a
person strong medicine.
00:33:56.72\00:33:59.70
So we realize that all the
time, and I want to be sure
00:33:59.74\00:34:04.01
to say this, all the time
you didn't know any better
00:34:04.04\00:34:08.48
the Lord says: "I loved
you then and I love you now",
00:34:08.52\00:34:11.96
God loved you before you
walked in this room and knew
00:34:12.00\00:34:15.41
all these things, and
God loves you as you study
00:34:15.44\00:34:17.58
with us right now,
but sometimes we do things
00:34:17.62\00:34:19.69
without knowing better, and
the Lord says: "that's okay,"
00:34:19.73\00:34:22.66
"you are going to come
to a Bible study and you're"
00:34:22.69\00:34:24.88
"going to learn different",
and I want you to realize
00:34:24.91\00:34:27.28
that everything that God
asks us to do, isn't it for our
00:34:27.32\00:34:29.66
own good anyway? It
always is for our own good.
00:34:29.69\00:34:34.15
The Lord is putting things
together for our understanding,
00:34:34.19\00:34:37.67
it says they're eating
swine's flesh, the abomination,
00:34:37.71\00:34:41.16
and the mouse.
We don't eat mice in
00:34:41.19\00:34:43.84
the western culture, but
people do eat swine's flesh.
00:34:43.88\00:34:47.06
And they do eat a lot of
other things that the Bible
00:34:47.10\00:34:50.51
says we're not to eat.
You see, Scripture tells us
00:34:50.54\00:34:53.92
in Leviticus
3:17: [text on screen]
00:34:53.95\00:34:56.65
What are the health
magazines coming out with today?
00:35:02.32\00:35:06.17
They're saying "trim the
fat, fat's not good for you",
00:35:06.20\00:35:09.47
and then they're saying
"cut back on the red meat",
00:35:09.51\00:35:12.71
here's one from the
cancer society, an article that
00:35:12.74\00:35:15.37
came out from the
Associated Press, and it says
00:35:15.41\00:35:17.97
in this article that we should
not eat red meat or alcohol.
00:35:18.01\00:35:22.49
It said: [text on screen]
00:35:22.52\00:35:24.61
Isn't it amazing that
modern science and the news is
00:35:27.26\00:35:30.99
catching up with what God
wrote thousands of years ago?
00:35:31.03\00:35:34.16
God says: "don't eat the
fat, don't eat the blood".
00:35:34.19\00:35:37.28
Red meat is red because of
the blood that is in there.
00:35:37.32\00:35:40.38
You see, you can't
catch a cold from a plant,
00:35:40.41\00:35:43.73
a plant can't catch a
cold from you, but you can
00:35:43.76\00:35:46.52
get diseases and certain
illnesses from the animal
00:35:46.55\00:35:49.24
kingdom, but it's not just
the animal kingdom, it's even
00:35:49.28\00:35:51.63
the things in the
waters that we read about.
00:35:51.66\00:35:53.41
Let's go back to them for a
moment before we're through.
00:35:53.45\00:35:55.94
In Leviticus 11:11,12
it says: [text on screen]
00:35:55.97\00:35:59.63
People don't listen to
that and they start eating
00:36:03.82\00:36:06.20
those things that do
not have fins and scales
00:36:06.24\00:36:08.55
and they get sick, here's
one from my native province
00:36:08.59\00:36:11.68
up in Canada, and the Sunday
paper is called the "Province",
00:36:11.72\00:36:16.30
it says: [headline on screen]
00:36:16.33\00:36:18.59
In other words, they were
eating shellfish, they got sick.
00:36:19.60\00:36:22.95
Here's another one, in 1988,
it's really an amazing thing,
00:36:22.98\00:36:26.30
they were eating things
over in China and it said:
00:36:26.33\00:36:29.84
[text on screen]
00:36:29.87\00:36:32.10
Now what's the
problem with clams?
00:36:36.30\00:36:37.95
Well, clams, oysters,
muscles, other things that are
00:36:37.99\00:36:41.96
like that, they
are filter feeders.
00:36:41.99\00:36:44.57
What that means is they
suck in the polluted sea water
00:36:44.61\00:36:47.60
into their system, and
the contaminants get trapped
00:36:47.63\00:36:50.53
in their system like
impurities would on the filter
00:36:50.56\00:36:53.34
of a furnace, and then
they spit out the clean water,
00:36:53.37\00:36:56.12
that's their job,
right? But they're filled with
00:36:56.15\00:36:58.44
contaminants.
Here's an article to show
00:36:58.47\00:37:00.74
you that, Prevention
Magazine said: [text on screen]
00:37:00.78\00:37:04.37
So here it's saying that they're
sucking in the contaminants
00:37:25.09\00:37:28.59
and they're being eaten,
and then people are wondering
00:37:28.62\00:37:31.70
"Why am I getting
sick?" Well, they're eating
00:37:31.73\00:37:35.48
a dirty filter. Again,
like a lobster or a crab,
00:37:35.52\00:37:39.20
they don't swim like the
things with fins and scales,
00:37:39.24\00:37:42.23
they crawl, and if all kinds of
pollution gets put in the waters
00:37:42.27\00:37:45.77
and it filters on down to the
bottom, and these things crawl
00:37:45.80\00:37:48.82
along the bottom, and they
eat it, and people are wondering
00:37:48.85\00:37:51.84
"Why am I getting
sick?" Have you ever wondered
00:37:51.87\00:37:55.89
why these
creatures look like they do?
00:37:55.92\00:37:59.17
[Audience laughs] I
want to ask you something,
00:37:59.21\00:38:02.98
is that ugly or
what? [Audience laughs]
00:38:03.01\00:38:05.78
Isn't it true? I
want to share with you
00:38:05.81\00:38:08.51
a friend of mine, I kept
in my pocket, here he is.
00:38:08.55\00:38:14.94
Here's a friend of mine,
I brought him to show you.
00:38:17.67\00:38:21.10
God says don't eat this.
Take a good look, is he pretty?
00:38:21.14\00:38:27.32
I mean, is he really
pretty? He's got these beady
00:38:28.43\00:38:31.90
little eyes, I don't even
like to touch those things,
00:38:31.93\00:38:35.37
these long tentacles,
and these big, huge claws,
00:38:35.40\00:38:39.65
that is about the ugliest
thing. I think God made them
00:38:39.69\00:38:44.33
extra ugly as a way of
saying "Leave them alone".
00:38:44.36\00:38:48.72
[Audience laughs]
"They're not fit for food".
00:38:48.76\00:38:53.09
It almost screams
at you "don't eat me".
00:38:53.12\00:38:56.64
It almost screams at
you "I'm not proper food".
00:38:56.68\00:39:01.42
I'm going to put him right
here so he can look at you,
00:39:01.46\00:39:03.77
and you can look at
him. Having said all of that,
00:39:03.80\00:39:10.51
people will still say:
"But didn't Peter have a vision"
00:39:10.55\00:39:13.03
"over in Acts 10, and didn't
that mean that everything"
00:39:13.07\00:39:15.52
"could be eaten now?
Let's go ahead and get to it
00:39:15.55\00:39:17.79
because if I don't get to this
then people are going to think
00:39:17.83\00:39:19.46
that I left something
out. So let's go to Acts 10.
00:39:19.49\00:39:24.81
We want to make
sure we cover this.
00:39:24.84\00:39:27.09
The Bible is full of common
sense, and I heard someone say
00:39:27.13\00:39:30.79
one time "common sense is
getting a whole lot less common"
00:39:30.82\00:39:34.45
but nevertheless, when
God says not to eat something,
00:39:34.48\00:39:37.94
there's a reason for it,
would you agree with that?
00:39:37.98\00:39:41.37
Acts 10, the reason we're
going here is that people will
00:39:41.41\00:39:44.11
sometimes say that this
passage means that they can eat
00:39:44.14\00:39:46.77
anything that they want, but
this passage that is really used
00:39:46.81\00:39:52.86
by a lot of people to try
and defend their pork eating,
00:39:52.89\00:39:56.40
or anything else,
really says the exact opposite,
00:39:56.43\00:39:59.13
but they missed that.
Just to shorten it for the sake
00:39:59.17\00:40:01.80
of time, there's a man named
Cornelius, a sincere, Godly man,
00:40:01.84\00:40:06.13
who needs to be taught truth.
He has a desire to worship God,
00:40:06.17\00:40:10.43
he's a Gentiles man,
that means he's a non Jew,
00:40:10.46\00:40:13.61
but he doesn't have
the truth of the true God
00:40:13.64\00:40:16.79
as the Jews do. So
the Lord if commissioning
00:40:16.82\00:40:19.90
His servants to be sent over
to the home of Peter the apostle
00:40:19.94\00:40:23.05
to bring him back to
teach this man more truth.
00:40:23.08\00:40:25.37
That's what's happening
here and we pick up the story
00:40:25.41\00:40:28.53
in Acts 10:9, it
says: [text on screen]
00:40:28.56\00:40:31.33
So there we have it, look
what it goes on next, it says:
00:41:10.60\00:41:13.69
[text on screen]
00:41:13.72\00:41:15.89
Let me pause there,
Peter says "Not so Lord,"
00:41:19.94\00:41:24.07
"I've never eaten those
things." Would Peter have argued
00:41:24.11\00:41:27.37
with the Lord if it had
already been the practice
00:41:27.40\00:41:29.77
of the Christian
church to eat those things?
00:41:29.80\00:41:31.85
No, he wouldn't have said
that, and he wouldn't have
00:41:31.89\00:41:34.25
argued with the Lord if
he had eaten those things.
00:41:34.28\00:41:36.92
So Peter looked at all
of those unclean creatures
00:41:36.96\00:41:40.22
and he says: "I'm not
supposed to eat those things,"
00:41:40.26\00:41:43.49
"not so Lord, I know
that." So now it goes on,
00:41:43.52\00:41:48.17
it says in verse
17: [text on screen]
00:41:48.20\00:41:50.87
You see, Peter was
doubting, "What does this mean?"
00:42:04.20\00:42:07.37
"I don't understand it, I
know I'm not supposed to eat"
00:42:07.40\00:42:10.54
"those things, why
is God showing me this?"
00:42:10.57\00:42:13.39
So even he didn't understand
it, it's amazing how many
00:42:13.43\00:42:16.00
people today think
they understood better than
00:42:16.03\00:42:17.78
Peter did, but Peter
saw these things and said:
00:42:17.82\00:42:19.50
"I know I'm not supposed
to eat it, what does it mean?"
00:42:19.54\00:42:21.50
"What is it all about?"
And at that exact moment
00:42:21.53\00:42:24.19
that he was wondering,
who should come to the gate,
00:42:24.22\00:42:27.57
but gentiles saying
"come teach us the gospel".
00:42:27.61\00:42:30.58
The Bible says 3 times
what this vision means,
00:42:30.62\00:42:33.34
lest anyone should
have any doubt whatsoever,
00:42:33.38\00:42:36.03
3 times the Bible interprets
it to us, and every single time
00:42:36.07\00:42:38.84
it's talking about the same
thing, and here's one of them
00:42:38.87\00:42:41.83
in verse 28, it means
this and it means nothing more.
00:42:41.87\00:42:45.50
Peter says "...but God
hath showed me" - when did God
00:42:45.54\00:42:49.14
show him? In the vision.
00:42:49.17\00:42:51.66
[text on screen]
00:42:51.69\00:42:54.10
Here's how many
people like to read this:
00:42:56.33\00:42:58.20
"But God hath showed me that
I should not called any pig"
00:42:58.24\00:43:00.72
"common or
unclean." [Audience laughs]
00:43:00.75\00:43:02.69
Does it say that? No.
00:43:02.72\00:43:05.37
But it goes on and it
says: [text on screen]
00:43:05.41\00:43:08.18
So Peter says: "I can
now see through this vision"
00:43:11.58\00:43:15.01
"that I need to change my
attitude, not towards food"
00:43:15.05\00:43:18.22
"but towards people."
Peter considered the Gentiles
00:43:18.25\00:43:21.35
unclean, just as God had shown
him these things were unclean,
00:43:21.39\00:43:25.13
but Peter knew that he wasn't
supposed to eat these things,
00:43:25.17\00:43:28.88
but God is saying: "don't
call these people common."
00:43:28.91\00:43:33.68
There's actually 2 words used
in that passage where Peter says
00:43:33.72\00:43:36.23
"I've not eaten
anything common or unclean",
00:43:36.26\00:43:38.69
there's actually 2
different words and they mean
00:43:38.72\00:43:41.12
2 different
things. "Unclean" meaning
00:43:41.15\00:43:43.61
unclean in and of
itself, as the food was there
00:43:43.65\00:43:46.66
in Leviticus 11, but "common"
means common through association
00:43:46.70\00:43:51.02
and the Jews considered the
Gentiles that kind of unclean,
00:43:51.06\00:43:55.35
and God says: "Don't
consider them that anymore."
00:43:55.38\00:43:58.20
The issue wasn't about food
at all, God was showing Peter
00:43:58.24\00:44:01.07
that he needed to change the
attitude towards the Gentiles
00:44:01.11\00:44:05.48
so they could get the gospel.
Well, there's another verse
00:44:05.51\00:44:11.02
I want to cover with you.
It's found in 1 Timothy 4:4,
00:44:11.06\00:44:16.54
it says: [text on screen]
00:44:16.57\00:44:18.68
People will stop there and
they'll say: "See, we could eat"
00:44:22.35\00:44:25.76
"anything we want."
Folks, there's an old saying:
00:44:25.79\00:44:30.31
"If a verse proves too
much, it proves nothing at all."
00:44:30.35\00:44:36.52
What does that
mean? It means if you take
00:44:36.55\00:44:37.99
someone's interpretation
of a passage and it proves
00:44:38.03\00:44:42.72
more than what is sensible,
then that's not the intended
00:44:42.76\00:44:45.72
meaning of the passage.
You see, if it goes for pork,
00:44:45.75\00:44:48.33
if you say: "Every creature
of God is good, and I can"
00:44:48.36\00:44:50.87
"therefore take it", then that
would go for every creature.
00:44:50.91\00:44:53.39
And that way, if a
person wanted to stand behind
00:44:53.42\00:44:55.62
that verse and say they could
eat anything that they wanted,
00:44:55.66\00:44:58.11
well then I'd just
invite them over to my home
00:44:58.14\00:45:00.98
and I told you my wife's a
good cook, and so we could have
00:45:01.02\00:45:03.97
a fondues of bats and
roaches, and worms, and beetles,
00:45:04.01\00:45:07.35
and spiders, because hey,
every creature of God is good,
00:45:07.39\00:45:10.70
nothing to be
refused, so bon appetite.
00:45:10.73\00:45:13.39
It proves too much
friends, that's not the intended
00:45:14.35\00:45:16.76
meaning of the verse at all.
See it goes on, let's not stop
00:45:16.80\00:45:19.82
as many do: [text on screen]
00:45:19.85\00:45:22.15
Have you ever heard someone
say this to you, they say
00:45:30.58\00:45:32.01
"Well I can eat it
because I prayed over it."
00:45:32.04\00:45:35.55
Friends, you can't
say a prayer over what God
00:45:35.58\00:45:39.06
calls
abomination and make it good.
00:45:39.09\00:45:42.69
That's called presumption, and
God doesn't say that we can pray
00:45:42.73\00:45:47.51
presumptuous prayers and
think that He's going to bless.
00:45:47.54\00:45:50.55
The Bible says it is
sanctified by the word of God.
00:45:50.58\00:45:53.96
The word of God sets it
aside and if the word of God
00:45:53.99\00:45:56.70
sets it aside and approves
it, then we can pray over it
00:45:56.74\00:46:00.40
and ask God's blessing on
it. So it has to have 2 things,
00:46:00.44\00:46:04.07
not just prayer, but
the word of God's approval,
00:46:04.10\00:46:06.81
and then we pray and we say:
"Lord, thank You for this food."
00:46:06.85\00:46:10.75
Isn't it amazing how the
food that God says not to eat
00:46:10.78\00:46:13.97
looks a lot different from
the food that He says to eat?
00:46:14.00\00:46:17.16
Just the very visual
kind of gives you a picture.
00:46:17.19\00:46:20.28
I know that someone might
ask this question, so let me
00:46:20.32\00:46:22.20
cover it with you, they'll
say: "did not Jesus at one time"
00:46:22.24\00:46:27.64
"say that it's not that
which goes into a man that"
00:46:27.67\00:46:30.26
"defiles him, but
that which cometh out?"
00:46:30.29\00:46:31.99
"So therefore I can eat
everything because I'm not"
00:46:32.03\00:46:33.45
"defiled if I eat
it?" Friends, if you look
00:46:33.48\00:46:35.70
at the context of Matthew
15, it's also found in Mark 7,
00:46:35.74\00:46:39.47
the whole discussion
really wasn't about food at all.
00:46:39.50\00:46:44.14
It wasn't about food, it
was talking about the Pharisees
00:46:44.18\00:46:48.04
criticizing the disciples
for eating with unwashed hands.
00:46:48.08\00:46:51.91
They were talking
about ceremonial defilement,
00:46:51.94\00:46:54.20
and they were concerned
about that, Jesus said:
00:46:54.24\00:46:56.16
"that's not what you
should be concerned about,"
00:46:56.20\00:46:58.90
"it's moral defilement."
Jesus said in Matthew 15,
00:46:58.93\00:47:01.60
it says: [text on screen]
00:47:01.63\00:47:04.48
So the whole discussion
had nothing to do with food,
00:47:19.29\00:47:22.27
it had to do with
the Pharisees ceremonial
00:47:22.30\00:47:25.79
defilement, supposedly, and
the true defilement, which is
00:47:25.83\00:47:30.60
the unclean heart,
and Jesus was setting them
00:47:30.63\00:47:33.36
straight with that. So
don't let someone fool you
00:47:33.40\00:47:36.10
into thinking that
you can quote that verse,
00:47:36.13\00:47:38.42
"it's not that which goes
into a man that defiles him."
00:47:38.46\00:47:40.52
Friends, if that was true, than
you could offer someone a glass
00:47:40.56\00:47:42.55
of strychnine poison and say
"here, drink it up, it's not"
00:47:42.59\00:47:46.34
"that which goes into
a man that defiles him."
00:47:46.37\00:47:50.07
It doesn't make sense.
God gave us His wonderful
00:47:50.11\00:47:54.56
diet in the beginning.
Genesis 1:29 tells us this:
00:47:54.60\00:47:59.02
[text on screen]
00:47:59.05\00:48:01.13
"for meat" - that's just the
King James way of saying "food",
00:48:10.27\00:48:13.02
God gave us a perfect
diet in the Garden of Eden.
00:48:13.05\00:48:18.63
It goes on and it
tells us that it was to be
00:48:18.66\00:48:20.75
a vegetarian diet, it didn't
use the word "vegetarian",
00:48:20.79\00:48:23.05
but it means it was
to be a non meat diet.
00:48:23.08\00:48:26.30
Now I share that
with you for this reason,
00:48:26.33\00:48:29.48
God way is always the
best way. The Bible does teach
00:48:29.52\00:48:35.24
that we can eat some
clean meats since the time
00:48:35.27\00:48:39.26
of the flood, but isn't
it interesting that humanity
00:48:39.30\00:48:44.22
has been affected since
that time in a very drastic way?
00:48:44.26\00:48:48.92
It is true that since the time
of the flood people have been
00:48:48.96\00:48:53.59
getting smaller and
smaller, and living less years,
00:48:53.62\00:49:00.85
the true Eden diet
was a vegetarian diet.
00:49:00.88\00:49:05.69
You're looking up at me
here, I grew up eating all kinds
00:49:05.73\00:49:09.61
of different meats, I have been
a vegetarian now for 20 years,
00:49:09.65\00:49:13.53
I've not eaten
meat for 20 years.
00:49:13.56\00:49:15.18
People will always ask me,
they'll say: "But you can't be"
00:49:15.22\00:49:18.51
"a vegetarian because you
have to get adequate protein."
00:49:18.54\00:49:21.86
Do I look like I'm lacking
protein? [Audience laughs]
00:49:21.89\00:49:25.47
Do I look sick - now
please say no. [Audience laughs]
00:49:25.51\00:49:29.06
I won't use myself, my
wife, Heidi, I don't know
00:49:29.09\00:49:31.39
if she's in this room yet,
but she grew up as a vegetarian,
00:49:31.43\00:49:36.31
I think she looks pretty good,
you don't need to have meat
00:49:36.35\00:49:41.20
just for the sake of
protein. The largest creatures
00:49:41.23\00:49:44.04
on the earth are vegetarians:
the elephant, the blue whale
00:49:44.08\00:49:48.49
in the seas, the hippopotamus,
and all these huge creatures,
00:49:48.52\00:49:52.59
they are vegetarian creatures.
But when you put God's diet
00:49:52.62\00:49:56.66
next to the unclean diet,
it's a tremendous contrast.
00:49:56.69\00:50:00.90
God's ways are always
the best ways, aren't they?
00:50:00.94\00:50:04.22
God says: "I've given
you the beautiful fruits,"
00:50:04.25\00:50:07.47
and after man sinned, He
said: "I gave you the herb"
00:50:07.51\00:50:10.36
"of the field, the vegetables,
you've got the grains,"
00:50:10.39\00:50:13.21
"and you've got the
nuts, and you've got these"
00:50:13.24\00:50:15.35
"wonderful things."
There are 3 diets in the Bible,
00:50:15.39\00:50:17.91
let me share them with
you. There's the ideal diet,
00:50:17.94\00:50:21.08
which is the Eden diet.
Then there's what we might call
00:50:21.12\00:50:24.23
the "acceptable diet",
that's what God gave man
00:50:24.26\00:50:27.63
after the flood, and
then there's what we call
00:50:27.67\00:50:30.54
the "unacceptable diet",
He said "you can't have this!"
00:50:30.58\00:50:33.29
There's the ideal, the
acceptable, and unacceptable,
00:50:33.33\00:50:35.50
there's another way of
putting this, and I call it
00:50:35.53\00:50:37.67
"The 3 'P's". There
is the "perfect" diet,
00:50:37.70\00:50:40.94
and then there is
the "permissible" diet
00:50:40.98\00:50:44.15
which God gave, and
then there is what we call
00:50:44.19\00:50:46.72
the "prohibited" diet,
meaning you can't have this.
00:50:46.76\00:50:51.13
Even though there is
the prohibited, and even
00:50:51.16\00:50:53.42
the permissible, it is always
God's plan to lead us back
00:50:53.46\00:50:57.07
to the perfect
diet. He says that's what
00:50:57.10\00:51:00.95
we're going to have. Why?
00:51:00.98\00:51:02.22
Because in heaven there
isn't going to be Burger king.
00:51:02.26\00:51:06.66
[Audience laughs]
There isn't going to be
00:51:06.69\00:51:08.77
Wendy's, there isn't
going to be McDonalds,
00:51:08.81\00:51:10.82
sorry dear friends, in case
you got your hopes dashed there.
00:51:10.86\00:51:14.31
Adam and Eve were not jumping
on a cow for their evening meal.
00:51:14.34\00:51:17.76
[Audience laughs] They weren't.
00:51:17.79\00:51:20.42
And we pray the Lord's
prayer: "Thy will be done"
00:51:20.46\00:51:22.67
"on earth as it is in heaven."
So that's why some people,
00:51:22.71\00:51:26.82
including myself, have
chosen to get a head start.
00:51:26.85\00:51:29.61
It's not saying that it's a
sin to eat clean meats at all,
00:51:29.65\00:51:31.60
I'm not saying that, but
I'm saying that some people
00:51:31.63\00:51:33.44
have chosen to get a
head start because I believe
00:51:33.48\00:51:36.69
Jesus is coming soon
and I want to get adjusted.
00:51:36.73\00:51:39.08
Once again, it was
after the flood that we saw
00:51:39.12\00:51:41.40
tremendous changes occur
when people started eating
00:51:41.44\00:51:44.34
a heavy meat diet, because
it affects people more than
00:51:44.38\00:51:47.25
they realize. There was one time
00:51:47.28\00:51:50.19
when I was working in a
large food retail chain store,
00:51:50.23\00:51:56.58
I'm not going to say the name,
but you have it in Sacramento,
00:51:56.62\00:52:01.67
and I'll just say that,
and I was a retail clerk here,
00:52:01.70\00:52:06.49
so when I wanted to
shop for groceries I thought
00:52:06.52\00:52:08.71
I'll patronize the
store where I work.
00:52:08.74\00:52:10.16
So I've got my grocery cart,
and I'm going around the aisles
00:52:10.20\00:52:12.46
and I come down to
the meat aisle, and I say:
00:52:12.49\00:52:14.16
"I want hamburgers for supper",
and I grabbed a big thing
00:52:14.20\00:52:16.28
of hamburgers, and I
put it in my grocery cart.
00:52:16.31\00:52:19.09
No sooner had it
hit the grocery cart,
00:52:19.12\00:52:21.20
then the meat clerk behind
the counter called out to me
00:52:21.24\00:52:23.78
because I worked at
the store and she said:
00:52:23.81\00:52:26.52
"Brian", I turned around
and said: "Oh, hi there",
00:52:26.56\00:52:28.40
she said: "Don't
buy that, put it back."
00:52:28.43\00:52:32.61
I said: "What?! I'm
hungry, I want hamburgers"
00:52:32.65\00:52:35.42
"for dinner tonight."
She says: "Put it back!"
00:52:35.46\00:52:38.20
"Trust me!" This
is the meat clerk.
00:52:38.23\00:52:42.86
I said alright, I
put it back, she says:
00:52:42.90\00:52:45.41
"Come with me." So
I went around the back
00:52:45.45\00:52:48.11
and she took a big
piece of fresh meat,
00:52:48.15\00:52:50.41
and she ground it
up, and she packaged it,
00:52:50.44\00:52:52.67
and she said:
"You take this home."
00:52:52.70\00:52:55.08
She wasn't just being nice
to me for the sake of giving me
00:52:55.12\00:52:57.56
something like that.
What I found out later was
00:52:57.59\00:53:00.95
a lot of times the meat like
that putrefies and putrefies,
00:53:00.99\00:53:04.09
and pretty soon it turns
brown and they can't sell it,
00:53:04.12\00:53:07.19
so they take it back
in the back room, and they
00:53:07.22\00:53:09.14
mix it up with some fresh blood
to give it that red color again,
00:53:09.18\00:53:12.86
and then they repackage
it and put it back out.
00:53:12.89\00:53:14.99
- [Audience] Awww.
- Have you noticed how
00:53:15.02\00:53:18.12
the articles in the Newsweek
and Times are bringing out
00:53:18.16\00:53:23.51
the very fact that the meat
industry what it used to be?
00:53:23.54\00:53:28.86
Newsweek Magazine:
[headline on screen]
00:53:28.89\00:53:31.64
Then there's what they
might call "Mad Pig" disease,
00:53:37.37\00:53:39.91
absolutely incredible things
going on in other categories
00:53:39.95\00:53:43.09
other than just
the cow industry.
00:53:43.12\00:53:45.24
USA Today ran an article
that said: "Meat Safety,"
00:53:45.28\00:53:48.05
"Critics say that new
regulations won't work",
00:53:48.08\00:53:50.82
why? Because they don't have
00:53:50.85\00:53:52.50
enough people who do
that kind of inspection.
00:53:52.54\00:53:56.01
US News and World Report,
another one [headline on screen]
00:53:56.05\00:53:59.24
It's just over and
over, showing us that sin
00:54:00.24\00:54:03.15
has affected not only
the human family, but also
00:54:03.19\00:54:06.51
the animal kingdom. E.
coli alert, you're seeing
00:54:06.55\00:54:09.84
that over and over,
we're seeing the fact
00:54:09.87\00:54:14.71
that God's way is the best way.
00:54:14.74\00:54:18.31
1 more here: [text on screen]
00:54:18.35\00:54:21.89
If you saw how they
processed it, you would realize
00:54:31.61\00:54:34.21
that it's probably going
to escape detection somewhere
00:54:34.25\00:54:36.82
along the time. Here's one more
00:54:36.85\00:54:38.89
from 1 newspaper, the
Austin American-Statesman,
00:54:38.93\00:54:41.93
it says there on the
side: "US finds one-fifth"
00:54:41.97\00:54:44.90
"of seafood tainted", in
other words not fit for food.
00:54:44.94\00:54:49.70
You might be
sitting there tonight saying
00:54:50.31\00:54:52.93
"Well, I've learned what I've
learned, and I just don't know"
00:54:52.97\00:54:57.38
"if I can change. This
is so much new information."
00:54:57.41\00:55:01.85
"I've always lived this way
and I just don't know if I can"
00:55:01.89\00:55:04.50
"ever change."
Friends, God can make what seems
00:55:04.53\00:55:09.77
impossible possible, right?
00:55:09.80\00:55:13.34
Look at this verse in
the Luke 18:27, and He said:
00:55:13.38\00:55:19.27
[text on screen]
00:55:19.30\00:55:21.40
How is it possible with God?
Because God doesn't leave us
00:55:23.41\00:55:26.02
without the power
we need. In John 1:12,
00:55:26.05\00:55:29.83
we looked at this the
3rd night of the seminar,
00:55:29.87\00:55:31.56
it says: [text on screen]
00:55:31.59\00:55:33.73
Have you received Jesus
into your heart tonight?
00:55:33.77\00:55:36.97
It says: [text on screen]
00:55:37.00\00:55:39.12
Jesus gives you power to
live as He asks us to live.
00:55:42.69\00:55:47.27
Tonight I know that many
of you have never heard this
00:55:47.30\00:55:51.81
before and you're wondering
"Lord, what am I going to do?"
00:55:51.85\00:55:54.56
You might have a whole
freezer full of pork at home,
00:55:54.59\00:55:58.00
I might have all kinds of
Christmas hams and other things
00:55:58.04\00:56:03.40
that the Bible says
not to eat, all prepared,
00:56:03.43\00:56:05.17
ready to go, well folks
listen: God is always ready
00:56:05.21\00:56:09.83
to give us a new
start in life, isn't He?
00:56:09.86\00:56:12.20
I love God for that,
He's a God of new beginnings.
00:56:12.24\00:56:15.56
He's a God that calls us
to understandings of truth,
00:56:15.59\00:56:18.25
and when He calls us to
an understanding of truth,
00:56:18.29\00:56:21.25
all we have to say is:
"Lord, change our hearts",
00:56:21.28\00:56:24.17
because that's what matters.
The Lord has got the power,
00:56:24.21\00:56:27.77
what we need is the
desire to follow God.
00:56:27.80\00:56:30.79
So we say: "Lord,
change my heart, make me new,"
00:56:30.83\00:56:35.01
"make me follow you, and I
know that I'll love that which"
00:56:35.05\00:56:39.52
"You ask of me." Would
you please pray with me.
00:56:39.55\00:56:43.00
Loving Father in
heaven, we do want to get ready
00:56:44.05\00:56:49.55
for heaven, because of
that we desire to change
00:56:49.58\00:56:54.12
our environment from
things that we know are wrong,
00:56:54.15\00:56:58.66
we desire to change
even our words if we need
00:56:58.69\00:57:02.32
to speak more purely,
and Lord, even our diet.
00:57:02.36\00:57:05.92
If this is something
that is important, then change
00:57:05.96\00:57:09.60
our heart, O Lord, because
we want to be holy people
00:57:09.63\00:57:14.20
with holy vessels for
the Holy Spirit to dwell in.
00:57:14.23\00:57:18.57
So dear Lord, prepare us
for heaven, give us hearts
00:57:18.60\00:57:22.91
that are brand new.
I'm so thankful tonight
00:57:22.94\00:57:26.10
that You are a God of
new beginnings, and wherever
00:57:26.14\00:57:29.43
we have come from tonight,
whatever has our past been,
00:57:29.47\00:57:32.73
You can give us a
brand new start tonight,
00:57:32.76\00:57:35.30
so give us that new
start Lord, that we can walk
00:57:35.34\00:57:38.06
through it, that the past
can be forgiven that we've done
00:57:38.10\00:57:41.26
in ignorance, and we can
have a brand new, fresh start,
00:57:41.30\00:57:44.76
as we leave this place tonight.
To this end we thank You
00:57:44.79\00:57:48.22
for the instruction
from Your word, dismiss us
00:57:48.25\00:57:50.76
from this place Lord,
but not from Thy presence.
00:57:50.79\00:57:53.21
Bring us back again
tomorrow night, for we ask it
00:57:53.25\00:57:55.64
in Jesus' name, amen.
00:57:55.67\00:57:58.87