Hello, my name is Dwayne Lemon.
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And I am Lance Wilbur.
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And we like to welcome
you to another program on TKS,
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a True Knowledge of Self,
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where we get to know ourselves
from a biblical perspective.
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We thank you
again for joining us
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as we are
continuing in the Word of God.
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We had a very in depth study
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as we were looking
at a thought process
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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 this indulgence
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,
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prestige 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
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to look at 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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And 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
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I know that for me,
specially 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 mind?
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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 a
true knowledge of self
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when we understand ourselves,
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our weakness, our
frailties, our intemperance,
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we can begin to see
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that we need to tap 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
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perhaps one of the
greatest stepping stones
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that prepares us 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 that 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
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that we are in a
great controversy.
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We are realizing that
in urban culture today
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a lot of the influences
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that come
connected to hip-hop culture
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and lifestyle as we look at it,
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we see that there are
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
in many respects to the point
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that we can take
no more to our folk.
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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,
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and for Christians 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
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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
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is 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
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where I learned some
things as it related to my body
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and what God requires of me
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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realized 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.
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You were talking to us
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 their child,
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you know, now that I'm a
father especially of four,
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I've learned it's not 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
understands what trouble is,
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then they know that they
need to stay away from that.
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Well, we've been talking about
the body, temple, appetite,
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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,"
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because these are the things
that can debilitate the mind,
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fever the blood and
cause us not to understand God
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and His law 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,
that dualistic mentality,
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you know, the 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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That's right.
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He knows what is
the best nutrients
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to provide
energy and essentially
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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
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to produce energy, right?
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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 on 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
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then again it affects the
mind 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 this Bible student.
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Well, God had a temple,
a physical temple, okay,
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it 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 desired
to dwell closer than that
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and eventually
He desired to dwell
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in each and every one of us
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as individuals
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 chapters dedicated to it,
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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 be 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 priests,
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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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That's right.
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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
the Book of 2 Chronicles.
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We're looking
at 2 Chronicles 23,
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2 Chronicles 23:19,
that kind of summarizes,
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it's just one text of many
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that shows how important
it was that God kept things,
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unclean things
outside of the physical temple
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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 anything should enter in."
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So at this point
there were guardians
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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
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that eventually when Christ came
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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 He's saying that
I'm going to dwell in you
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through My Spirit.
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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...
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Well, let's just go 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
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I guess that
people understand it,
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we don't have time to go through
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and build all the, in
the graphics and what not,
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but the Book of Leviticus
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is actually the
most important book
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of the five books of Moses,
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what's referred 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 it's
there, you have to,
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you know, it would take
me some time to explain why,
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but we can study it out
perhaps in some future moment.
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And you're referring
to the chiastic structure,
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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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because it requires
a lot of explanation.
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Yeah, there's a
literary 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 underlined 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 sudden there's this thing
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that stands out, is highlighted.
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Well, they use
different literary devices,
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a little more
sophisticated than we do,
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a very simple
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but nevertheless
so that the reader,
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the student of the word
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would understand 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
cleanse the temple from all sin,
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and defilement from the "blood,"
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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, the festivals
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and all of the
religious celebrations
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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
structures are given
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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
go to the chapter,
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one of the chapters that
deals with these "Levitical,"
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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, all right?
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Yes.
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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.
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Okay.
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In that practical and
God is very practical,
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so Leviticus 11 and
we're going to 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? Yes, He does.
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All right, Leviticus 11
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and I'm going to
just read verses,
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we're not going to
read through the whole thing
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but I got some
verses that we've selected
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and I'm going to verse 3.
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Okay.
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Leviticus 11 and I'm
reading from verse 3.
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It says,
"Whatsoever parteth the hoof,
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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 an 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 there would be a clove
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that would come down
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and it will kind of
create almost a section here,
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a section here for
lack of better terms,
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it will be a clove in
between, so it's a cloven hoof.
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Right, so it's the hoof
and it's split in the middle
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and it's two, it's kind
of looks like two parts.
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Correct.
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All right, so it was
talking about number 1,
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the first criteria is
the beasts 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's say we
take this principle now
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and we say, all right, well,
let's start looking at animals.
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You know, let's
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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then if I'm looking at animals
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then what I'm getting
from what you're reading here
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is that if I am
going to consume,
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you know, animals
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that God's instruction was that
there should be a split hoof
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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's say grass or...
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Yeah, like
grazing. Yeah, grazing.
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Herbivore. Okay.
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Something like that.
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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 a cloven hoof,
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or it couldn't be
that 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,
this is very interesting
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because then what
this means then is that
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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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Yeah.
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And in eating pork, you know,
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I then would come to realize
after I review these studies
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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 chew the cud,
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so therefore pork
would not be included.
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Right and the reason why
the pig has the cloven foot
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but it doesn't chew the cud.
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It eats pretty much anything.
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Yeah, it's kind of a
forager, a scavenger, a digs,
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you know, and so it doesn't fit.
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Now here is the thing
that's very interesting,
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you remember in
a previous programs
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we were talking about how,
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you know, there are sometimes
the mixture of good and evil
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when we were looking
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at 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 100% evil
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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 effect
upon the minds of the hearers.
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Well, here it 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 specifically
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that this is an
animal that does not fit
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within the
picture of what God gave
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as it related to the animals
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He permitted man to
eat with the cloven hoof
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and the chewing of the cud.
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Right.
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And, you know, when you talk
about the chewing of the cud,
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you mention about them
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eating of the herbs of the grass
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but, you know, there's additions
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to that, is that right?
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Right, 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 becomes,
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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 of the concept
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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
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would be put under the...
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under the picture of
an animal that is unclean.
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We would definitely
say that without a doubt.
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Now when we look
at the influences
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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 of self
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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 I understood.
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Yeah, I stopped
eating pork years and years
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before I ever heard of,
00:16:37.59\00:16:38.93
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
00:16:42.36\00:16:44.00
and I say, "Okay,
you believe the Bible
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but it's written in your Bible,
00:16:45.40\00:16:47.44
you know, that
we are not supposed
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to be consuming this
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and God never redeemed the pig,
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He redeemed people 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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Right.
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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 and,
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you know, I mean
there's lots of land animals
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that do not fit under what
you just read in Leviticus 11,
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but we highlight pork
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because there's
a large chance that
00:17:12.13\00:17:14.30
there are many of our viewers
00:17:14.33\00:17:16.10
who more than likely may partake
00:17:16.13\00:17:17.83
of these type of
things and therefore
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this is a major point of
education for them to see,
00:17:19.77\00:17:22.47
"Wow, I didn't know that,"
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and then there are some
in hip-hop culture that say,
00:17:24.44\00:17:27.01
"Yeah, that's
right, that's true."
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So there are things
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that are taught
in hip-hop culture
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that are correct
00:17:31.78\00:17:33.11
but the dangers are
is that there's a mixture
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of the right and
wrong, the good and the evil,
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the truth and the error.
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Right.
00:17:38.22\00:17:39.55
So, you know, we went through it
00:17:39.59\00:17:41.16
and God set the standard
00:17:41.19\00:17:43.59
and He doesn't make
it that complicated,
00:17:43.63\00:17:46.56
it's very simple, if
it fits in this category,
00:17:46.59\00:17:48.83
it's healthy for you to eat,
00:17:48.86\00:17:50.37
if it doesn't
fit in this category,
00:17:50.40\00:17:51.97
don't eat it, it's not
healthy, it's unclean for you.
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Right?
00:17:53.70\00:17:55.04
So if we go down to verse 9
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'cause God doesn't just
deal with what is classified
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as the beasts of the field
and 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.
00:18:04.25\00:18:06.31
Now He goes into sea
animals. The sea animals.
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Sea animals, I don't know
00:18:09.68\00:18:11.05
what you want to
refer to them as it,
00:18:11.09\00:18:12.65
so we classify them as fish.
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Going back in Leviticus 11
and skipping down to verse 9,
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Leviticus 11:9, it says,
00:18:20.03\00:18:24.53
"These shall ye eat of
all that are in the waters,
00:18:24.57\00:18:28.74
whatsoever hath fins
and scales in the waters,
00:18:28.77\00:18:34.28
in the seas, and in the
rivers, them shall ye eat."
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So He talks about
fresh water and salt water,
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all the animals
that dwell in the water.
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The
classification here for healthy
00:18:41.32\00:18:43.99
that you can consume,
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it has to have fins
and scales, if it doesn't,
00:18:45.39\00:18:49.92
it's unhealthy or unclean.
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Now this was a point
of contradiction for me
00:18:51.83\00:18:54.50
when I came to this revelation,
the very night that I was,
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I remember being in my room
00:18:57.33\00:18:59.23
and here it is that
I'm heavily influenced
00:18:59.27\00:19:01.70
by the hip-hop
culture and Nuwaupu
00:19:01.74\00:19:05.14
and, you know, this,
this movement called Nuwaupu
00:19:05.17\00:19:07.94
which was kind of like,
00:19:07.98\00:19:09.31
you know, the
Five-Percenter movement
00:19:09.34\00:19:10.68
and I remember going
through this battle in my mind.
00:19:10.71\00:19:13.75
I had the Egyptian
tablets as it were here
00:19:13.78\00:19:17.99
and then I had the Bible here
00:19:18.02\00:19:19.35
and I'm praying
to God and saying,
00:19:19.39\00:19:20.72
Lord, what do You want me to do,
00:19:20.76\00:19:22.09
and the following
day a friend of mine
00:19:22.12\00:19:23.46
finds a flyer
laying on the street
00:19:23.49\00:19:25.56
and she takes me,
00:19:25.59\00:19:26.96
it's a flier telling me
00:19:27.00\00:19:28.33
about a tent meeting
taking place 15 minutes
00:19:28.36\00:19:30.30
from my house
00:19:30.33\00:19:31.67
and the subject
that night was called
00:19:31.70\00:19:33.90
the
African-American and the pig,
00:19:33.94\00:19:35.67
you know, I'll never forget it.
00:19:35.70\00:19:37.04
Right.
00:19:37.07\00:19:38.41
So here I am, I'm at
this stage in my life
00:19:38.44\00:19:39.77
where I'm trying
to figure out myself
00:19:39.81\00:19:41.14
and get a knowledge of myself,
00:19:41.18\00:19:42.51
and here it is
that I get this flyer,
00:19:42.54\00:19:44.35
so it was 15
minutes from my house
00:19:44.38\00:19:45.71
so I said I'm going.
00:19:45.75\00:19:47.08
It's a Christian meeting.
00:19:47.12\00:19:48.45
That's right, it's
a Christian meeting,
00:19:48.48\00:19:49.82
I'm not a Christian
00:19:49.85\00:19:51.19
and I'm right at the
point where I'm leaving
00:19:51.22\00:19:52.55
Christian influence all together
00:19:52.59\00:19:53.92
because the Nuwaupu movement
was very, very attractive
00:19:53.96\00:19:56.66
and appealing to me.
00:19:56.69\00:19:58.03
Well, here it is that
as I'm getting ready to,
00:19:58.06\00:19:59.76
as I go down there,
00:19:59.79\00:20:01.13
I'm listening to the minister
00:20:01.16\00:20:02.50
and he's going over these points
00:20:02.53\00:20:03.87
like you just
read in Leviticus 11,
00:20:03.90\00:20:05.23
first dealing with the pig.
00:20:05.27\00:20:06.60
When he dealt with the pig,
00:20:06.63\00:20:08.17
it blew my mind
because I'm saying to myself
00:20:08.20\00:20:10.67
Christians
actually teach this 'cause,
00:20:10.71\00:20:13.64
you know, everywhere else I went
00:20:13.68\00:20:15.01
from Baptist to
Methodist to Pentecostal
00:20:15.04\00:20:17.05
or what have you,
00:20:17.08\00:20:18.41
you know, when
it was potluck pork
00:20:18.45\00:20:20.28
was always on the
table, you know, always.
00:20:20.32\00:20:22.38
And as he's going
through the verses
00:20:22.42\00:20:23.89
what is your
reaction as you sit in there?
00:20:23.92\00:20:25.35
Yeah, I mean he's
going through the verses
00:20:25.39\00:20:26.89
and as he's saying
00:20:26.92\00:20:28.26
the pig is
this, the pig is that,
00:20:28.29\00:20:29.62
I got so excited that I became
00:20:29.66\00:20:31.59
a little
disruptive in the meeting
00:20:31.63\00:20:32.96
because I'm like
that's right preacher,
00:20:32.99\00:20:34.33
that's right preacher
tell these Christians,
00:20:34.36\00:20:36.10
you know,
because I'm feeling like
00:20:36.13\00:20:37.47
there's a vengeance in my heart
00:20:37.50\00:20:38.83
coming against all
these ignorant Christians
00:20:38.87\00:20:40.37
that was going on in my mind
00:20:40.40\00:20:41.84
and, you know, I am
just in total agreement
00:20:41.87\00:20:44.81
with this
minister as he's showing
00:20:44.84\00:20:46.74
from the Bible in
a Christian meeting
00:20:46.78\00:20:49.01
that the pig was never designed
for mankind to consume as food.
00:20:49.04\00:20:54.15
Well, when he
did that I was like,
00:20:54.18\00:20:55.52
wow, this is amazing
but here's the problem,
00:20:55.55\00:20:58.25
myself and many others
who were heavily influenced,
00:20:58.29\00:21:01.32
heavily influence
through the hip-hop culture
00:21:01.36\00:21:04.13
and the teachings of Nuwaupu
and the Five-Percent movement,
00:21:04.16\00:21:07.73
many of us though
we didn't eat pork,
00:21:07.76\00:21:09.30
often we would be
found at a Chinese restaurant
00:21:09.33\00:21:11.53
ordering shrimp with
broccoli or sometimes getting,
00:21:11.57\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\00:21:20.81
it was like I was never taught
00:21:20.84\00:21:22.91
through hip-hop
culture that I was exposed to,
00:21:22.94\00:21:25.05
I'm not saying that
they don't teach it at all,
00:21:25.08\00:21:26.82
but I would say
from what I was exposed
00:21:26.85\00:21:28.38
to never saw or
heard anyone refute shrimp
00:21:28.42\00:21:32.49
and lobster and crab
and all these other things
00:21:32.52\00:21:34.52
but the pork was
always clear as day.
00:21:34.56\00:21:36.06
Yeah.
00:21:36.09\00:21:37.43
Well hear it is,
the minister's going
00:21:37.46\00:21:38.79
on the pork thing and
I'm like that's right,
00:21:38.83\00:21:40.16
that's right but then he
says and also the shrimp,
00:21:40.20\00:21:43.60
the lobster, 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\00:21:47.60
And, I mean, man,
that thing blew my mind
00:21:47.64\00:21:50.81
and I was like
I can't believe it
00:21:50.84\00:21:52.57
that's in the Bible too
and you got to understand
00:21:52.61\00:21:55.58
I was a seafood
love par-excellence.
00:21:55.61\00:21:58.91
I was the kind of
guy that on my birthday
00:21:58.95\00:22:00.58
every March 22,
00:22:00.62\00:22:01.95
I would go to Red Lobster
00:22:01.98\00:22:03.32
and I would
order a shrimp platter
00:22:03.35\00:22:05.42
and I would get a cream soda
00:22:05.45\00:22:07.02
and I would get a cheesecake
00:22:07.06\00:22:08.39
from Juniors in
Brooklyn, New York
00:22:08.42\00:22:09.76
and that would be
my birthday gift to me,
00:22:09.79\00:22:11.39
so you're talking about a
guy who really loved seafood,
00:22:11.43\00:22:15.13
so this was devastating to me
00:22:15.16\00:22:16.67
when I found this out initially,
00:22:16.70\00:22:18.27
but it was a
blessing to me because now,
00:22:18.30\00:22:20.00
you know, I stand
before you at 40 years of age
00:22:20.04\00:22:23.00
and you know diabetes
00:22:23.04\00:22:24.37
and high blood pressure
runs down my father's line
00:22:24.41\00:22:26.41
and cancer run
down my mother line
00:22:26.44\00:22:28.11
and I'm thankful
that as a black man
00:22:28.14\00:22:30.65
at the age of 40 that
God still has blessed me
00:22:30.68\00:22:33.68
with a total
clean bill of health.
00:22:33.72\00:22:35.35
My mind has never been sharper,
00:22:35.38\00:22:36.72
my body has
never felt so strong,
00:22:36.75\00:22:38.29
and I've never
been more available
00:22:38.32\00:22:39.65
for God's service
00:22:39.69\00:22:41.02
than I have been at
this stage in my life.
00:22:41.06\00:22:42.39
So I'm very thankful
00:22:42.42\00:22:43.76
for the benefits
now of understanding
00:22:43.79\00:22:46.09
that my body is a temple,
00:22:46.13\00:22:47.50
I need to keep it clean
00:22:47.53\00:22:48.86
and God does not
want me to put anything
00:22:48.90\00:22:50.23
that is unclean,
00:22:50.27\00:22:51.60
and the things
that we once loved
00:22:51.63\00:22:52.97
through the power of Christ
00:22:53.00\00:22:54.34
we can hate and we
can choose not to put it
00:22:54.37\00:22:55.70
in our system any more for
the glory and honor of God,
00:22:55.74\00:22:57.61
we can eat and
drink to the glory of God,
00:22:57.64\00:22:59.64
so it's a powerful blessing.
00:22:59.67\00:23:01.01
This is good news
what you're sharing,
00:23:01.04\00:23:03.21
this is not
news of condemnation,
00:23:03.24\00:23:05.41
this is not news of depression,
00:23:05.45\00:23:07.38
it's definitely
a news of change,
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.38
but through Christ we
can make those changes,
00:23:09.42\00:23:11.29
and we will see the
benefits practically.
00:23:11.32\00:23:13.62
Yeah, so we
talked about this now
00:23:13.66\00:23:15.19
so we have the
cloven hoof, chew the cud,
00:23:15.22\00:23:18.13
now we have fins and scales
00:23:18.16\00:23:19.89
or anything that
doesn't that lives in the water
00:23:19.93\00:23:21.40
no fins and scales both unclean,
00:23:21.43\00:23:24.17
unhealthy including
all shellfish you mentioned
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.77
and other things
catfish and others, right?
00:23:26.80\00:23:29.34
Yes.
00:23:29.37\00:23:30.71
Now skipping down Leviticus 11
00:23:30.74\00:23:32.07
and we're looking
at verses 13 to 20
00:23:32.11\00:23:35.14
because it talks about
now the birds if you will,
00:23:35.18\00:23:38.05
the fowls, right?
00:23:38.08\00:23:39.71
And we're starting at verse
13 of Leviticus 11 and it says,
00:23:39.75\00:23:43.82
"And these are
they which ye shall have
00:23:43.85\00:23:46.72
in abomination among the fowls,
00:23:46.76\00:23:49.06
they shall not be
eaten, they are an abomination,
00:23:49.09\00:23:52.39
the eagle, the ossifrage,"
00:23:52.43\00:23:54.36
and again some of these,
00:23:54.40\00:23:55.73
well, I'll keep reading
and then we'll talk about it,
00:23:55.76\00:23:57.83
"and the
ospray, and the vulture,
00:23:57.87\00:24:00.37
and the kite after his kind,
every raven after his kind,
00:24:00.40\00:24:04.41
and the owl, and the night hawk,
00:24:04.44\00:24:06.07
and the cuckoo, and
the hawk after his kind,
00:24:06.11\00:24:09.21
and the little
owl, and the cormorant,
00:24:09.24\00:24:11.01
and the great owl, and the swan,
00:24:11.05\00:24:12.98
and the pelican,
and the gier eagle,
00:24:13.01\00:24:15.05
and the stork, the
heron after her kind,
00:24:15.08\00:24:17.52
and the lapwing, and the bats,
00:24:17.55\00:24:19.52
all the fowls that creep,
00:24:19.55\00:24:21.29
going upon all four shall
be an abomination unto you."
00:24:21.32\00:24:26.16
So it now highlights
all and it just lists
00:24:26.19\00:24:28.83
all of these particular
00:24:28.86\00:24:30.27
and most of them
are birds of prey
00:24:30.30\00:24:31.87
or scavenger birds, right?
00:24:31.90\00:24:33.50
For the most part. Yeah.
00:24:33.54\00:24:35.40
Yes, some of these,
00:24:35.44\00:24:37.81
you know, in the translation
there's questions ask to is,
00:24:37.84\00:24:40.71
is it specifically this
bird, specifically that bird
00:24:40.74\00:24:43.78
but you know most people
know most people don't eat,
00:24:43.81\00:24:47.45
you know, heron,
great blue herons,
00:24:47.48\00:24:49.45
Right.
00:24:49.48\00:24:50.82
And pelicans,
00:24:50.85\00:24:52.19
you know, people eat chicken
00:24:52.22\00:24:53.86
and, you know,
poultry and turkey
00:24:53.89\00:24:56.32
and things like
that and pheasants.
00:24:56.36\00:24:58.06
So, you know, most
people don't have a problem
00:24:58.09\00:24:59.66
with not eating
birds of prey or vultures.
00:24:59.69\00:25:01.60
Right.
00:25:01.63\00:25:02.96
It's doesn't even come
to most people's minds,
00:25:03.00\00:25:05.17
I'm sure there're some
people that will eat anything.
00:25:05.20\00:25:06.84
Yeah.
00:25:06.87\00:25:08.20
So the Bible
gives in every category
00:25:08.24\00:25:10.31
of the animal kingdom,
00:25:10.34\00:25:12.24
God gives
guidelines this is healthy,
00:25:12.27\00:25:15.24
this is not, this is
healthy, this is not.
00:25:15.28\00:25:18.18
And again it's not punishment,
00:25:18.21\00:25:20.32
it's for man's
benefit because God knows
00:25:20.35\00:25:23.59
what's best for man
because He created us,
00:25:23.62\00:25:26.59
and not only did He create us
00:25:26.62\00:25:27.96
but He purchased us with
the blood of His own Son.
00:25:27.99\00:25:30.66
Amen, amen.
00:25:30.69\00:25:32.03
So this is the goal
that God wants to accomplish.
00:25:32.06\00:25:34.43
God knows that it's not enough
00:25:34.46\00:25:36.10
to just give open
abstract instructions
00:25:36.13\00:25:38.30
because mankind's mind,
00:25:38.33\00:25:40.14
we're very frail people
00:25:40.17\00:25:41.50
and we are very easy
to private interpretation.
00:25:41.54\00:25:44.34
This is why the Bible
had to specifically say
00:25:44.37\00:25:47.14
that the scriptures
came not by the will of man
00:25:47.18\00:25:49.74
or by any private interpretation
00:25:49.78\00:25:51.75
but holy men of God speak
00:25:51.78\00:25:53.15
as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost.
00:25:53.18\00:25:54.52
This is the reason
00:25:54.55\00:25:55.88
why God does not
want to leave it up to us.
00:25:55.92\00:25:58.02
He wants to spell it out
so it can be clear enough,
00:25:58.05\00:26:01.22
succinct enough
that we can see it,
00:26:01.26\00:26:03.06
understand it
00:26:03.09\00:26:04.43
and then put our
will on the side of God
00:26:04.46\00:26:07.26
so that we may follow His will
00:26:07.30\00:26:09.26
and receive the
benefits of following His will.
00:26:09.30\00:26:11.53
Right and let's, you
know, there's no confusion here,
00:26:11.57\00:26:14.57
we're not,
again, we talked about
00:26:14.60\00:26:15.94
eve and the senses, the stimulus
00:26:15.97\00:26:18.07
and we're not
talking about feeling
00:26:18.11\00:26:19.77
or preference here
00:26:19.81\00:26:21.14
and we're not
saying that anything
00:26:21.18\00:26:22.51
that God says not to
eat doesn't taste good.
00:26:22.54\00:26:25.28
There's all kinds of indulgences
00:26:25.31\00:26:27.02
that we can
engage in that feel good
00:26:27.05\00:26:29.22
or look good or
taste good, right?
00:26:29.25\00:26:30.59
That's right.
00:26:30.62\00:26:31.95
So that's not, that's
not we're dealing with here,
00:26:31.99\00:26:33.56
we're dealing with
biblical principle,
00:26:33.59\00:26:35.22
God knows better
00:26:35.26\00:26:36.59
because He created
and design my body,
00:26:36.62\00:26:37.96
He knows best and I'm
going to take Him for His word.
00:26:37.99\00:26:40.80
So this is what we're
talking about on that side
00:26:40.83\00:26:42.63
and now going forward,
00:26:42.66\00:26:44.67
there's many
objections people have,
00:26:44.70\00:26:46.53
and we're gonna deal
00:26:46.57\00:26:47.90
with those
objections in the next episode.
00:26:47.94\00:26:49.70
People have objection, they say,
00:26:49.74\00:26:51.07
well, the Bible says
this and the Bible says
00:26:51.11\00:26:52.47
what about this
and what about that.
00:26:52.51\00:26:53.84
God change some of these,
00:26:53.88\00:26:55.21
this was for
the Jews not for us.
00:26:55.24\00:26:56.81
What does the Bible say?
00:26:56.85\00:26:58.18
We're gonna go over
some of those objections
00:26:58.21\00:26:59.55
and I think it
will get some clarity.
00:26:59.58\00:27:00.95
Yeah, and I
really look forward to it
00:27:00.98\00:27:02.32
because I know for
me one of the things
00:27:02.35\00:27:04.69
I was tired of
was being confused,
00:27:04.72\00:27:06.76
I don't like being confused,
I like things to be clear,
00:27:06.79\00:27:09.29
I like things to be plain,
most importantly practical,
00:27:09.32\00:27:12.29
and therefore it is important
because I can assure you
00:27:12.33\00:27:15.23
that there are individuals
00:27:15.26\00:27:16.60
who more than
likely are listening to us
00:27:16.63\00:27:18.07
and they are
thinking to themselves,
00:27:18.10\00:27:19.87
"Never heard this before,"
00:27:19.90\00:27:21.24
or at least, "maybe
I've never heard this clear
00:27:21.27\00:27:22.90
before so straight,"
00:27:22.94\00:27:24.77
and therefore it can
have an effect on them
00:27:24.81\00:27:27.01
to the point
that they're saying,
00:27:27.04\00:27:28.98
"but what about
these things I heard
00:27:29.01\00:27:30.68
whether it be from
ministers, friends, family,"
00:27:30.71\00:27:32.75
and the list goes on.
00:27:32.78\00:27:34.12
So I am thankful that
we have an opportunity
00:27:34.15\00:27:35.48
where we can by
God's grace bring
00:27:35.52\00:27:36.85
some clarity on
some of these points.
00:27:36.89\00:27:38.22
Yeah.
00:27:38.25\00:27:39.59
Well, friends, we
got to another point
00:27:39.62\00:27:41.49
where we're
right at that climax,
00:27:41.52\00:27:43.29
that cliff-hanger if you would,
00:27:43.32\00:27:44.69
and we're just on
the edges of our seat
00:27:44.73\00:27:46.86
wanting to
understand these words,
00:27:46.90\00:27:48.46
but we're gonna ask you
to just continue to hold on,
00:27:48.50\00:27:51.03
tune in, come back
for our next episode
00:27:51.07\00:27:53.13
where we will go
deeper into these points,
00:27:53.17\00:27:54.67
and always remember Proverbs 2:6
00:27:54.70\00:27:56.94
that it's "The
Lord that gives wisdom
00:27:56.97\00:27:58.47
and out of his mouth
00:27:58.51\00:27:59.84
comes knowledge
and understanding."
00:27:59.87\00:28:01.24
God bless.
00:28:01.28\00:28:02.61