Hello, my name is Dwayne Lemon.
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And I'm Lance Wilbur.
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And we'd like to welcome
you to another program on TKS,
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A True Knowledge of Self,
where we get to know ourselves
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from a biblical perspective.
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We thank you
again for joining us
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as we're
continuing in the word of God.
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We had a very in-depth
study as we were looking at
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a thought process that
the Bible introduces to us
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that for many has
never been considered.
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You know, we live in a
world, we live in a culture
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where there is indulgences
is almost the middle name
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of our experiences day by day.
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We have appetites, we
have appetites for fashion,
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we have appetites for
power, money, prestige,
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whatever it may be.
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And we most
importantly understand appetite
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as it relates to
eating and drinking.
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And we've been
studying the Bible to look at
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what does the word of God say
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when it comes to
the subject of appetite
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and then the experience
of indulgence in appetite.
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We were looking
at the word of God
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to get an idea, to understand
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what does God say
to us on this point.
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You know, growing
up I know that for me,
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especially me and my father,
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we would eat whatever we
could find that could move.
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And there's a lot of
people who have this experience
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and we don't consider
what is it doing to our body,
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what is it doing to our minds,
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how does it
affect our walk with God?
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Does it affect
our walk with God?
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And this is why we're
studying this subject out
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because with the
true knowledge of self,
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when we understand
ourselves, our weaknesses,
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our frailties, our intemperance,
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we can begin to
see that we need to tap
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into a power
source outside of us,
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so that we can
get that temperance,
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that self control on
the points of appetite
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because if we can get control
on the point of appetite,
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it is the most
perhaps one of the greatest
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stepping stones that prepares us
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to get victory over a
lot of other appetites
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beyond eating and drinking.
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So we've been
looking at the Bible,
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we looked at the
subject of Babylon
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and we saw that
this was one of the plans
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of Nebuchadnezzar
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when he tried to introduce
the indulgence of appetite
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to Daniel and his fellows.
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And we saw the Daniel
demonstrated the discipline
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that was very, very
necessary because he understood
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the great controversy he was in.
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And, friends, we are
realizing more and more that
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we're in a great controversy.
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We're realizing that
in urban culture today,
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a lot of the
influences that come,
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connected to hip-hop culture
and lifestyle as we look at it,
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we see that there're
all sorts of indulgences
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that we can put our
hands to at a moment's notice
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and we can partake of it
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in many respects to the point
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that we can take
no more to our full.
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God wants us to be
people of temperance.
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He wants us to be
people of self control.
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This was the life of
Jesus and for Christians,
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this is to be our life as well.
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So we were studying
and looking at the fact
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that the body is
the temple of God
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and we saw that
God made it clear
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that he has a plan for us
as it relates to the temple.
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And He wants us to
make sure that we do nothing
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that would bring
any defilement to it,
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so that we would be
unfit to do His work,
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fulfill His will and His ways.
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And we're gonna continue
to pick back up on this now
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because we've been fairly
general for the most part.
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We're talking about
specifically appetite
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as it relates to
eating and drinking,
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but what we're doing
now in this session is
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we're gonna deal
more with the specifics.
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I remember when I was still
in the entertainment industry
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and I remember going
through some experiences
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that I'm gonna talk
about in our session today
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with Brother Lance
where I learned some things
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as it related to my body
and what God requires of me
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to put in it and not put in it
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and the reasons
why that blew me away.
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And I remember learning
these things over 20 years ago
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and it's amazing to me
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how God has allowed
me to see these blessings
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realize in my life as a
result of following His will.
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We want this for you too.
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So we're gonna go ahead
and transition now, Lance,
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and we're gonna
start getting into the word
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and looking at this,
you were talking to us
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about the body being the temple,
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you were talking to us about
how God takes very seriously
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how we take care
of His body temple
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and the fact that there
can be some ramifications
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if we don't take
care of it properly.
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And therefore
the question is this,
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does the Bible speak
about specific things.
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You know,
sometimes we're very generic.
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It's kind of like a
parent telling to a child,
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now that I'm a
father especially of four,
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I've learn it's enough
to tell a child what to do
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but it's also important
to show them how to do it.
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Yeah, stay out of
trouble. That's right.
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You know, so if you just tell
a child to stay out of trouble,
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you have to
define what trouble is.
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And then when
the child understand
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what trouble is then they know
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that they need to
stay away from that.
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Well, we've been
talking about the body,
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temple, appetite, defiling
and all these other things,
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but now the question is,
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you know, what are
the specific things
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that the Bible does address
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that God says
this is what I mean,
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don't put these
things inside of you,
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don't put these things upon
you because these are the things
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that can debilitate
the mind, fever the blood
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and causes not to
understand God and His law
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and to be faithful to Him
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in these very last
moments of earth's history.
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All right, so we're
gonna be going to several text
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but as we discussed that,
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you know,
sometimes we think that,
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well, you know, God's not
really concern with the body.
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Okay, the body is gonna die
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and it's almost
that dualistic mentality,
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you know, that ancient
philosophical mentality.
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But, on the other
hand, if God created us,
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then He knows how
best to govern our being.
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He knows what is the best
nutrients to provide energy
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and essentially this is
what we're talking about,
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we're talking about
eating and drinking.
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We're talking about what does
my body need to produce energy?
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Right, because we
don't eat an apple
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and the apple magically
goes into our body parts,
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the body extracts the nutrients
and absorbs the nutrients,
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the vitamins, the minerals,
the carbohydrates etcetera
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out of the food to
deliver to our cells
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because our cells need
the energy to function.
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Our life can't exist without it,
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the water and so and so forth.
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So God is trying to give
us the best possible fuel
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to provide the
best possible energy,
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the most efficient
energy for our body's function.
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And if our body functions,
then again it affects the mind
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and so on and so forth.
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So if we're using
this analogy of the temple
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that the Bible uses, we
didn't make it up, right?
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Right.
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And so this brings to the
mind of the Bible student,
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well, God had a temple,
a physical temple, okay.
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Began with Moses,
right in Exodus 25:8,
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"Let them make me a sanctuary
that I may dwell among them."
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But we know that God
desire to dwell closer than that
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and eventually He
desired to dwell in
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each and everyone
of us as individuals
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through His spirit.
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Well, are there
rules and regulations
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that governed the administration
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of the physical
tabernacle in the wilderness,
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the physical
temple that Solomon built
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and all these things?
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Absolutely,
there's entire chapter
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is dedicated to it,
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in the Book of
Exodus, the Book of Leviticus,
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there's entire chapters
and verses dedicated strictly
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to how the temple
is to administered
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down to the
fabric and the layout,
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the measurements,
the materials used,
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the garments of the priest,
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all of these things
that were strictly guarded
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because God wanted to
show how important it was
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to keep the temple
clear from defilement.
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Because it was a representation
of God's presence amongst men
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and God does not
mingle with uncleanness
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if you will, with filth.
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And even at that
level, so if that's the case,
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is it true for our bodies.
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I think we've
concluded already that it is
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but we want to
get more specific.
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And there's a verse in
a Book of 2 Chronicles.
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We're looking at
2 Chronicles 23:19
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that kind of summarizes,
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it's just one text of many
that shows how important it was
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that God kept a
things, unclean things
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outside of the
physical temple at that time,
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the physical
temple, the literal temple.
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And in 2
Chronicles 23:19, it says,
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"And he set the porters
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at the gates of
the house of the Lord,
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that none which was unclean
in any thing should enter in."
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So at this point there were
guardians placed at the temple,
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at the door of the
temple if you will,
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to make sure
that nothing unclean,
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nothing unclean whatsoever
entered in at any time.
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So, this is an
important principle
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and that was for a temple
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that God was just
using as an illustration,
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a teaching of His plan
of salvation that eventually
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when Christ came,
was no longer necessary,
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the sacrificial
system in the temple economy
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if you will.
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And now we're seeing
that I'm going to dwell in you
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through my
spirit, as an individual
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your body will become my temple,
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your mind if you
will, will become my temple.
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And so, do the same rules apply?
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And I think there is, you know,
well, let's just to the Bible
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and we're looking at
the Book of Leviticus
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because the Book of
Leviticus has a strict guidance.
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Remember, it's very important,
I guess that people understand
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that we don't
have time to go through
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and build all the
graphics and what not.
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But the Book of Leviticus
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is actually the most important
book of the five books of Moses
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what's refereed to as the Torah.
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You know,
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
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Numbers, Deuteronomy.
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Leviticus is actually
the most important book
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and again there you have to,
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you know, it will take
me some time to explain why
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but we can study that
perhaps at some future moment.
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And you're referring
to the chiastic structure
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that this is what
you're dealing with
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but we can build on
that at a different time
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'cause it requires
a lot of explanation.
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Yeah, this is a literally
device that Moses used,
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you know, through
inspiration to highlight.
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You know, it's like
if we make something bold
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and underline it
and put it all caps.
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We want to highlight that thing
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so when you're reading
the narrative or the document,
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all of the sudden there
is this thing that stands out
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is highlighted.
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Well, they used
different literally devices
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a little more sophisticated
than we do, very simple,
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but nevertheless
so that the reader,
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the student of the
word would understand
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what is the highlighted point.
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And Leviticus is
the highlighted book
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of the five books of the Torah.
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All right because
in it in Chapter 16
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is the Day of Atonement,
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the atonement where
God cleans the temple
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from all sin and defilement
from the blood if you will
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from the
sacrifices once per year.
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So that was actually the
apex of the Book of Leviticus 16
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and so this is where God
is directing the importance.
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So Leviticus is
all about how to live.
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It's practical instruction
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and how Israel
was to govern itself.
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How the priests were to operate,
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the religious
system was to operate.
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How your festivals
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and all of the religious
celebrations were to operate.
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How your
household was to operate.
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How to keep your
house hygienic and clean?
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How to deal with
sanitation and sewage
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and all these things?
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And how to deal
with cuts and wounds?
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How to deal with
disease and all these things?
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All of these instructions are
given in the Book of Leviticus
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and there's also instruction
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in regards to
eating and drinking.
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So we're gonna to the chapter,
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one of the chapters that
deals with these Levitical,
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this health instruction,
this health instruction.
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And we're going to Leviticus 11
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because Leviticus
11 clearly outlines
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what would be clean or unclean
for the children of God to eat.
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And let's make this clear,
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when we're talking about clean
and unclean in this context,
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we're talking about
healthy versus unhealthy
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to make it very simple, right?
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So God is going to say,
this is healthy for you to eat,
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this is not
healthy for you to eat.
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You know, it's
that simple. Okay.
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In the practical,
God is very practical.
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So Leviticus 11
and we're gonna read,
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you know, several verses here,
just to kind of get an outline,
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does God get specific?
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Yes, He does. All right.
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Leviticus 11 and I'm
going to just read verses,
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we're not gonna read
through the whole thing
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but I have some
verses that we selected
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and I'm going through verse 3.
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Leviticus 11 and I'm
reading from verse 3, it says,
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"Whatsoever parteth the
hoof, and is clovenfooted,
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and cheweth the
cud, among the beasts,
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that shall ye eat.
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Again there's a little,
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you know, some
archaic language there,
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this is the King James Version.
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But I'm just gonna ask
you as you understand it.
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What does it mean cloven hoofed,
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parteth the hoof, clovenfooted?
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Yeah, when you
look at in animal,
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if you look at the foot,
you would see that there would,
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if this is the whole foot,
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there would be a
clove that would come down
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and it would kind of
create almost a section here,
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a section here for
lack of better terms.
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It would be a clove in between,
so it's a clove and hoof.
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Right, so it's the hoof
and the split in the middle
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and it kind of
looks like two parts.
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Correct. All right.
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So I was talking
about, number one,
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the first criteria is
the beast of the field,
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animals that
have that style hoof.
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Now, if we were, if
we were to consider that,
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then let say, we take
this principle now and we say,
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all right, well, let
start looking at animals.
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You know, let say
I'm a person that,
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you know, I like to
eat meat or what have you.
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If I'm looking at
animals, then what I'm getting
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from what you're
reading here is that,
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if I'm going to consume,
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you know, animals that
it God's instruction was
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that there should be a
split hoof or cloven hoof
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and then it must
also chew the cud
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which is another
term for let say grass.
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Yeah, like
grazing. Yeah, grazing.
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Herbivore. Okay.
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Something like that, yeah.
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So and these two
have to be combined,
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it couldn't be
like it chews the grass
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but it doesn't
have the cloven hoof
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or it couldn't be
that it has a cloven hoof
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but it doesn't chew the
grass, it would have to be both.
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So then when I look at that
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and see this is very interesting
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because then
what this means then
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is that when I
look at things like,
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okay, one product of food
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that I know I grew
up on eating was pork.
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And in eating pork,
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you know, I then
would come to realize
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after I review these studies
that according to the Bible
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then a pig does not do
what you just read there.
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And these, what you
just read was the animals
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that were permissible to eat.
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If they're cloven hoof
and then also chews the cud.
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So therefore pork
would not be included.
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Right. And the reason why?
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The pig has the cloven hoof
but it doesn't chew the cud.
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It is pretty much anything.
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Yeah, it's kind of a
forager, scavenger, it digs,
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you know, and
so, it doesn't fit.
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Now, here's the thing
that's very interesting.
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You remember in
the previous programs,
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we were talking about how,
you know, there are sometimes
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the mixture of good and evil.
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Whenever we were looking at
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the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil
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and false education
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and that evil is not
always gonna come out
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100 percent evil but
it's one of the greatest evils
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is when it tries to mix
or blend itself with good
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because it makes
it less apparent.
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And it has a deceptive affect
upon the minds of the hearers.
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Well, here is that this
is one of those points now
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because you're showing us that,
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you know, when it
comes to the pig especially
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that this is an
animal that does not fit
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within the picture
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of what God gave as
it related to the animals
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He permitted man to eat
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with the cloven hoof
and the chewing of the cud.
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And, you know, when you talk
about the chewing of the cud,
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you mentioned about them
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eating of the herbs or
the grass but, you know,
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there is additions
to that, is that right?
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Right.
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Those kind of animals
basically consume the food
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and then they have a
process of regurgitation
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which then become, you
know, they eat it several times
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over after
regurgitating, eating again.
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So this is included in the idea
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or the concept
of chewing the cud.
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Okay. And we know for
sure the pig does not do that.
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So therefore it is
definitely a pig would be put
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under the picture of
an animal that is unclean.
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You would definitely
say that without a doubt.
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Now, when we look at
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the influences
in hip-hop culture,
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this is one of those
areas where they teach good.
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This is one of those
areas where we definitely see
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for the most part when
it comes to knowledge itself
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and dealing with
the various points
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of eastern influence
with eastern religion
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that we see they
definitely identify this
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and that was something
both you and I identified with.
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I remember when even though
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I was very much
in hip-hop culture,
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I would not eat a piece of
pork because that's not good.
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I stopped eating pork
years and years before
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I ever heard of, you
know, Adventist or Christianity.
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Exactly, and it became a
point of confusion for me
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because I would look at
Christians and I say, okay,
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you believe the Bible but
it's written in your Bible,
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you know, that we are not
supposed to be consuming this
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and God never redeemed
the pig, he redeemed people,
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but he didn't redeemed the pig.
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If the pig was
unclean from day one,
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it's still unclean today,
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so, you know, in my mind
that always challenged me.
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And so, we find that,
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you know, and we can
include a lot of other things,
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dogs and cats and horses
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and, you know, I mean
there's lots of land animals
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that do not fit
under what you just read
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in Leviticus Chapter
11, but we highlight pork
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because there's a large chance
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that there are
many of our viewers
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who more than likely
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may partake of these
type of things and therefore
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this is a major
point of education for them
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to see, wow, I didn't know that
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and then there are some
in hip-hop culture that say,
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yeah, that's right, that's true.
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So there are
things that are taught
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in hip-hop
culture that are correct
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but the dangers are
is that there's a mixture
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of the right and wrong,
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the good and the evil,
the truth and the error.
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So, you know, we went through it
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and God set a standard
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and he doesn't make
it that complicated,
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it's very simple.
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If it fits in this category,
it's healthy for you to eat.
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If it doesn't
fit in this category,
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don't eat, it's not healthy,
it's unclean for you, right.
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So, if we go down to verse 9
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'cause God
doesn't just deal with,
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what is classified as
the beasts of the field,
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then we discussed some of them.
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Some have the cloven
hoof but don't chew the cud.
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Some chew the cud,
don't have the cloven hoof.
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Now, he goes
into the sea animals,
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I don't know what you
want to refer to them as.
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So, we classify them as fish
and going back in Leviticus 11
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and skipping down to verse
9, Leviticus 11:9, it says,
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"These shall ye eat of
all that are in the waters:
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whatsoever hath fins
and scales in the waters,
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in the seas, and in the
rivers, them shall ye eat."
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So it talks about
freshwater and saltwater,
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all the animals
that dwell in the water.
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The classification here
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for healthy
that you can consume,
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it has to have fins and scales.
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If it doesn't, it's
unhealthy or unclean.
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Now, this was the
point of contradiction for me
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when I came to this revelation,
the very night that I was,
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I remember being in my
room and here it is that
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I'm heavily influenced
by the hip-hop culture
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and Nuwaupu, and, you know,
00:19:03.44\00:19:06.11
this movement called
Nuwaupu which was kind of like,
00:19:06.14\00:19:09.04
you know, the
Five-Percent of movement
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and I remember going
through this battle in my mind,
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I had the Egyptian
tablets as it were here
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and then I had the Bible
here and I'm praying to God
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and saying, Lord,
what do you want me to do?
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And the following day a
friend of mine finds a flyer,
00:19:21.86\00:19:24.56
laying on the
street and she takes me,
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it's a flyer telling
me about the tent meeting
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taking place 15
minutes from my house.
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And the subject that night
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was called the
African-American and the pig.
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You know, I'll never forget it.
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So here I am, I'm at
this stage of my life
00:19:37.34\00:19:39.11
where I'm trying
to figure out myself
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and get a knowledge of myself.
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And here it is
that I get this flyer,
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so it was 15 minutes from
my house, so I said, I'm going.
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Was a Christian meeting.
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That's why, it's
a Christian meeting,
00:19:48.05\00:19:49.38
I'm not a Christian,
I'm right at the point
00:19:49.42\00:19:51.05
where I'm leaving
Christian influence all together
00:19:51.09\00:19:53.19
because the Nuwaupu Movement
was very, very attractive
00:19:53.22\00:19:56.62
and appealing to me.
00:19:56.66\00:19:57.99
Well here it is that
as I'm getting ready to--
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As I go down there, I'm
listening to the minister.
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And he is going
over these points
00:20:02.20\00:20:03.53
like you just
read in Leviticus 11,
00:20:03.57\00:20:05.17
first dealing with the pig.
00:20:05.20\00:20:06.53
When he dealt with
the pig, it blew my mind
00:20:06.57\00:20:09.60
because I'm saying to myself
Christians actually teach this
00:20:09.64\00:20:13.41
because, you know,
everywhere else I went
00:20:13.44\00:20:14.81
from Baptist to
Methodist to Pentecostal
00:20:14.84\00:20:17.25
or what you have, you
know, when there was potluck,
00:20:17.28\00:20:20.02
pork was always on the
table, you know, always.
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And as he is going
through the verses,
00:20:22.42\00:20:23.79
what is your reaction
as you're sitting there?
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Yeah, I mean he is
going through the verses
00:20:25.42\00:20:26.82
and as he is
saying the pig is this,
00:20:26.86\00:20:28.99
the pig is
that, I got so excited
00:20:29.02\00:20:31.19
that I became a little
disruptive in the meeting
00:20:31.23\00:20:32.73
because I'm like,
that's right preacher,
00:20:32.76\00:20:34.43
that's right
preacher, tell these Christians,
00:20:34.46\00:20:36.06
you know,
because I'm feeling like
00:20:36.10\00:20:37.43
there's a vengeance in my heart
00:20:37.47\00:20:38.80
coming against all
these ignorant Christians,
00:20:38.83\00:20:40.34
that was going on in my mind.
00:20:40.37\00:20:41.97
And, you know, I'm
just in total agreement
00:20:42.00\00:20:45.01
with this minister as
he's showing from the Bible
00:20:45.04\00:20:47.58
in a Christian meeting
00:20:47.61\00:20:49.04
that the pig was never designed
for mankind to consume as food.
00:20:49.08\00:20:54.02
Well, when he did that,
00:20:54.05\00:20:55.38
I was like,
wow, this is amazing.
00:20:55.42\00:20:56.99
But here's the problem.
00:20:57.02\00:20:58.52
Myself and many others
who were heavily influenced,
00:20:58.55\00:21:01.46
heavily influenced
through the hip-hop culture
00:21:01.49\00:21:04.19
and the teachings of Nuwaupu
and the Five-Percent Movement,
00:21:04.23\00:21:07.70
many of us, though
we didn't eat pork,
00:21:07.73\00:21:09.40
often we would be found
at the Chinese restaurant
00:21:09.43\00:21:11.60
ordering shrimp with
broccoli or sometimes getting,
00:21:11.63\00:21:14.34
you know, shrimp
with lobster sauce on it,
00:21:14.37\00:21:16.71
you know, and all
these different things,
00:21:16.74\00:21:18.07
so we were eating
shellfish, so it was different.
00:21:18.11\00:21:20.88
It was like I was never
taught through hip-hop culture
00:21:20.91\00:21:24.01
that I was exposed to,
00:21:24.05\00:21:25.38
I'm not saying that
they don't teach it at all,
00:21:25.41\00:21:26.85
but I would say from
what I was exposed to,
00:21:26.88\00:21:28.85
never saw or heard
anyone refute shrimp and lobster
00:21:28.88\00:21:33.05
and crab and all
these other things,
00:21:33.09\00:21:34.56
but the pork was
always clear as day.
00:21:34.59\00:21:36.96
Well, here it is, the minister
is going on the pork thing
00:21:36.99\00:21:38.76
and I'm like that's
right, that's right.
00:21:38.79\00:21:40.40
But then he says,
and also the shrimp,
00:21:40.43\00:21:43.60
the lobster and the crab
and he read the same verses
00:21:43.63\00:21:45.37
you just read
and I was like, what?
00:21:45.40\00:21:47.67
And I mean, man,
that thing blew my mind.
00:21:47.70\00:21:50.84
And I was like,
I can't believe it,
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that's in the Bible too.
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And you got to understand,
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I was a seafood
lover par excellence.
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I was the kind of
guy that on my birthday,
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every March 22nd I
would go to Red Lobster
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and I would
order a shrimp platter
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and I would get a cream soda
and I would get a cheese cake
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from Junior's in
Brooklyn, New York
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and that would be
my birthday gift to me.
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So you're talking about a
guy who really loved seafood.
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So this was devastating to me
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when I found this out initially,
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but it was a
blessing to me because now,
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you know, I stand
before you at 40 years of age
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and, you know,
diabetes and high blood pressure
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runs down my father's line
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and cancer run
down in my mother's line
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and I'm thankful that as
a black man at the age of 40
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that God still has blessed me
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with the total
clean bill of health.
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My mind has never been sharper,
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my body has never felt so strong
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and I've never been more
available for God service
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than I have been at
this stage of my life.
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So I'm very
thankful for the benefits now
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of understanding
that my body is a temple.
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I need to keep it clean
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and God does not
want me to put anything
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that is unclean.
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And the things
that we once loved,
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through the powerof Christ
we can hate and we can choose
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not to put in our system anymore
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for the glory and honor of God.
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We can eat and
drink to the glory of God.
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So there's a powerful blessing.
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This is good news
what you're sharing.
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This is not
news of condemnation.
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This is not news of depression.
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It's definitely
a news of change,
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but through Christ we
can make those changes
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and we will see the
benefits practically.
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Yeah, so we
talked about this now,
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so we have the
cloven hoof, chew the cud,
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now we have fins and scales,
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so anything that
doesn't that lives in the water,
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no fins and scales,
both unclean, unhealthy
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including all
shellfish you mentioned
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and other things
catfish and others, right?
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Now, skipping down Leviticus 11
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and we're looking
at verses 13 to 20
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because it talks about
now the birds if you will,
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the fowls, right.
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And we're starting at verse
13 of Leviticus 11 and it says,
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"And these are
they which ye shall have
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in abomination among the
fowls, they shall not be eaten,
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they are an abomination:
the eagle, the ossifrage-- "
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And again some of these,
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well, I'll keep reading
and then we'll talk about it.
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And the
ossifrage, and the vulture,
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and the kite after his kind,
every raven after his kind,
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and the own, and the night hawk,
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and the cuckow,
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and the hawk after his
kind, and the little own,
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and the
cormorant, and the great owl,
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and the swan,
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and the pelican,
and the gier eagle,
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and the stork,
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the heron after her kind,
and the lapwing, and the bat,
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all the fowls that
creep, going upon all four,
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shall be an
abomination unto you."
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So it now highlights, it just
lists all of these particular
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and most of them are birds
of prey or scavenger birds.
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Right, for the most part. Yeah.
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Yes, some of these, you
know, in the translation,
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there's questions asked
is it specifically this bird,
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specifically that bird
but, you know, most people know,
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most people don't
eat, you know, heron,
00:24:45.35\00:24:48.68
great blue herons
and pelicans, you know,
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people eat chicken in
the poultry and turkey
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and things like that
and pheasants, so, you know,
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most people don't have
a problem with not eating
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birds of prey or vultures.
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Right.
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It doesn't even come
to most people's mind,
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I'm sure there's some
people that will eat anything.
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So the Bible
gives in every category
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of the animal kingdom,
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God gives guidelines,
this is healthy, this is not,
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this is healthy, this is not.
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And again, it's not punishment.
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It's for man's benefit because
God knows what's best for man
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because He created us
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and not only did He
created us but He purchased us
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with the blood of His Son.
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Amen. Amen.
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So this is the goal
that God wants to accomplish.
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God knows that it's
not enough to just give
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open abstract instructions
because mankind's mind,
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we are very frail people
00:25:40.17\00:25:41.50
and we are very easy
to private interpretation,
00:25:41.54\00:25:44.37
this is why the Bible
had to specifically say
00:25:44.41\00:25:47.08
that the scriptures
cannot by the will of man
00:25:47.11\00:25:49.81
or by any
private interpretation,
00:25:49.84\00:25:51.88
the holy men of God spake
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as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost.
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This is the reason why
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God does not want
to leave it up to us.
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He wants to spell it out
so it can be clear enough,
00:25:58.05\00:26:01.32
succinct enough
that we can see it,
00:26:01.36\00:26:03.29
understand it and then put
our will on the side of God,
00:26:03.32\00:26:07.23
so that we may follow His
will and receive the benefits
00:26:07.26\00:26:10.53
of following His will.
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Right and let's-- You know,
there is no confusion here.
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Again we talked about Eve
and the senses, the stimulus.
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We're not talking about
feeling or preference here.
00:26:18.74\00:26:20.88
And we're not saying
that anything that God says
00:26:20.91\00:26:23.11
not to eat doesn't taste good.
00:26:23.14\00:26:25.31
There's all kinds of
indulgences that we can engage
00:26:25.35\00:26:28.15
in that feel good or look
good or taste good, right?
00:26:28.18\00:26:30.85
That's right.
00:26:30.89\00:26:32.22
So this is not what
we're dealing over here.
00:26:32.25\00:26:33.59
We're dealing with
biblical principle.
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God knows better
00:26:35.52\00:26:36.86
because He created
and designed my body,
00:26:36.89\00:26:38.23
He knows best and I'm
going to taken for His word.
00:26:38.26\00:26:40.86
So this is what
we're about on that side.
00:26:40.90\00:26:42.76
And now, going forward,
00:26:42.80\00:26:44.67
there's many
objections people have
00:26:44.70\00:26:46.90
and we're going to
deal with those objections
00:26:46.94\00:26:48.54
in the next episode.
00:26:48.57\00:26:49.90
People have
objections, they say,
00:26:49.94\00:26:51.27
well, the Bible
says this and the Bible,
00:26:51.31\00:26:52.64
what about this
and what about that,
00:26:52.67\00:26:54.01
God changed some of this,
00:26:54.04\00:26:55.38
this is for the
Jews, not for us.
00:26:55.41\00:26:56.75
What does the Bible say?
00:26:56.78\00:26:58.11
We're going to go over
some of those objections
00:26:58.15\00:26:59.48
and I think it
will get some clarity.
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Yeah.
00:27:00.88\00:27:02.22
And I really forward to
it because I know for me,
00:27:02.25\00:27:04.12
one of the things I was
tired of was being confused.
00:27:04.15\00:27:06.92
I don't like being confused,
I like things to be clear,
00:27:06.96\00:27:09.32
I like things to be plain,
most importantly practical.
00:27:09.36\00:27:12.49
And therefore, it is important
00:27:12.53\00:27:14.13
because I can assure you
that there are individuals
00:27:14.16\00:27:16.50
who more than
likely are listening to us
00:27:16.53\00:27:18.03
and they're
thinking to themselves,
00:27:18.07\00:27:19.97
never heard this before
00:27:20.00\00:27:21.34
or atleast maybe I never
heard it this clear before
00:27:21.37\00:27:23.81
so straight and therefore
it can have an affect on them
00:27:23.84\00:27:27.04
to the point
that they're saying,
00:27:27.08\00:27:29.28
what about these things I heard,
00:27:29.31\00:27:30.65
whether be from
ministers, friends, family
00:27:30.68\00:27:32.91
and the list goes on,
00:27:32.95\00:27:34.28
so I'm thankful that we have
an opportunity where we can by
00:27:34.32\00:27:36.32
God's grace bring some
clarity on some of these points.
00:27:36.35\00:27:39.19
Well, friends, we
got to another point
00:27:39.22\00:27:41.42
where we're
right at that climax,
00:27:41.46\00:27:43.26
that cliffhanger if you would
00:27:43.29\00:27:44.86
and we're just on
the edges of our seat,
00:27:44.89\00:27:46.86
wanting to
understand these words,
00:27:46.90\00:27:48.63
but we're gonna ask you
to just continue to hold on,
00:27:48.66\00:27:51.23
tune and come back
for out next episode
00:27:51.27\00:27:53.10
where we'll go
deeper into these points.
00:27:53.13\00:27:54.90
And always
remember Proverbs 2 and 6,
00:27:54.94\00:27:57.11
that it's the Lord that gives
wisdom and out of His mouth
00:27:57.14\00:27:59.57
comes knowledge
and understanding.
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God bless.
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