Can you believe it? Can
you build your faith on it.
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The promises of God's word
are sure. They do not fail.
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This book has
stood the test of time.
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Tonight we thank you,
for the great sacrifice
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that You made for us
on the old rugged cross.
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We ask Lord that this evening
as we look at the provisions
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you've made for us to
be healthy, to be happy.
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We pray that You
will give us understanding
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and give us the
wisdom that we need
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that we might seek Your guidance
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and Your direction and
give us the faith to follow.
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For this we pray
in Christ name. Amen.
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Gordon and
Donna Kline and myself
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had gone over to a town.
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We were looking
for some material,
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a material to put in
some curtains in a motor home.
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And we had gone to
this particular store
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and was looking at the
material and the young lady
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that was waiting
on us was quite obese.
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I mean, quite
large and in the course
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of the conversation we
were talking about it and--
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and she was
telling us what a problem
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it was to her in
being so heavy and all,
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and we found it to be
interesting that the comment
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that she made and I
think it's kind of illustrates
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some of the
thinking that we have today,
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'cause she said that
when she was in school,
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she had a terrible
time when it came time
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for a prom or
something like this
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that she couldn't
find a dress to fit her.
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Just couldn't find one.
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And--and so she said
I've solved my problem.
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And we said, well, how
did you solve your problem?
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She said, "oh, I learned to sow"
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and I think that's pretty much
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the concept today
rather than to take a look
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at what I'm doing
and what's causing me
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to put on the weight and
say well I just learn to sow.
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No, God's word make some
rare things very-very clear.
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I'm going to share with
you some of the circumstances
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and some of the
things that we face today
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as people in this country.
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And why I've
referred to this subject
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as the 'Fattening of America'.
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To begin with, 55% of the adult
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American
population is overweight.
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Okay. Fifty five
percent of the adult
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American population
is overweight today.
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What does that mean?
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Being overweight does
that-- does that carry
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any consequences or
should I just simply say well,
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uh, that's genetically the
way I am and I--I can't help it.
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What consequences does it carry?
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Well, obesity is on the rise.
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In the last ten
years-- in the last ten years
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obesity has risen
32%, in the last ten years.
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So that in itself
should tell you and I
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that we're doing something.
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We're doing
something that's causing this.
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I mean, there has to
be a reason for this.
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And so what is
bringing that about.
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Well, look at this.
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Excess body mass is
related to premature death
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from all illnesses
up to the age of 75.
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Put it down, premature death.
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How--how does that affect.
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I was invited to speak to
a convocation of retirees.
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And I went there,
walked into this room
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to speak to these people
and here were about 300 of them
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and I looked out
across the audience.
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And in the entire audience
of 300 people, I saw 22 men.
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All the rest were women.
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And there wasn't one heavy
man in there among those 22.
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I don't know if you're getting
what I'm trying to tell you.
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All the rest of them had died.
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And I'm just trying to be
very honest with you tonight
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and face where we are.
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Excess body mass is
related to premature death
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from all illnesses
up to the age of 75.
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So if you and I are
carrying excess body weight,
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then dear friend don't think
that it is going to affect you.
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Fat Tax article,
300,000 people a year
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die due to weight complications.
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Three hundred
thousand die every year
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due to weight complications
which include heart disease,
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diabetes,
hypertension and stroke.
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All that because
of excess weight.
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In the United States,
this is by Hamer and Copeland,
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Kenneth
Copeland, and he's has done
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tremendous amount of
study and this is what he says,
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"United States spends
approximately $40 billion a year
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on diet foods, weight-loss
books and exercise videos."
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Now folks if
you don't understand
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what I'm going to get
across here is American people,
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people in this country
we have the greatest amount
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of obesity of any
country and we spend more money
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on exercise
equipment and on diet foods
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than anybody in the world.
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You talk about
something that's not right,
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I mean here we buy all
kinds of exercise equipment.
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We buy diet
foods. We do all this,
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and yet we are the
most obese people on earth.
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Why? This is what he said.
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Copeland--Hamer and Copeland,
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"The only thing growing faster
than the national waistline
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is the bottom line of
the weight control industry."
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It's the only
thing is growing faster.
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So what-- where are we
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and what does this
mean to you and I tonight.
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Watch, look, this is
what's happening folks.
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I'm talking about
non-communicable diseases.
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Okay, these are not diseases
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that are spread
by communication.
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They are non, what they
call non-communicable diseases,
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such as cancer, heart disease,
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diabetes. Okay. Watch,
watch and begin to understand
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what's
happening in this country.
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This kills most of our
people in this country, okay.
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Watch. Non-communicable
diseases killed 58%
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of the world's
population in 1998.
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Fifty eight percent of all
the people that died in 1958
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died from
non-communicable diseases, okay.
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I'm saying worldwide. Now, look.
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Eighty one
percent in rich countries,
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81 percent of
the people that die
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in rich countries die
from non-communicable diseases.
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That is cancer,
heart disease, diabetes
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and that is directly in
relationship to how you eat.
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That's directly in
relationship to how you eat.
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39.8 percent in poor
and middle income countries.
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So in poor and
middle income countries,
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far less people die from
non-communicable diseases.
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Why? Because they can't eat.
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Okay. They're poor.
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We--we can eat and so we
kill ourselves with our mouth.
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We need to learn what--
what God has to say about it.
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Well, how do we stand what
takes place because of this?
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The average
American male adult has 53%
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more body fat
than what is ideal.
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The average American male adult
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has 53% more body fat
than is what is ideal for him,
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and the women
aren't much better.
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The average female adult has 50%
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more body fat
than what is ideal.
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And that's the situation
that we find ourselves in today.
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So what's the
problem, what's causing this?
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Well, let me tell
you what's causing this.
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High carbohydrate low fat diet.
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Now, why, why
for the last 15 years
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has the medical community
and the nutritional community
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pushed a high fat--a high
carbohydrate low fat diet.
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Why have they pushed that?
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Well, they pushed that
because they felt they needed
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to lower to try and
do something to lower
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the health care
cost in this country.
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They felt if they can
lower the health care cost
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then that would help the
whole country tremendously
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and so they felt
that was the way to go
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and so you now have what
is called a food pyramid.
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Have you looked
at your food pyramid?
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Where your food pyramid says
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have high
carbohydrate low fat diet.
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And people have
tried to follow that
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and because they've been
following that as a result
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the weight has been going up.
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That's what brought it about.
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Now, what is the case?
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Well, you have what is called
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macro
nutrients, macro nutrients.
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There are three of them.
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You ought to learn those three
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and they have a
great-great affect upon you.
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Those three are simply this.
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One is
carbohydrates. It's one of them.
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The other is,
protein and the other is fat.
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Those are the
three macro nutrients.
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Carbohydrates, protein, fat.
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If you eat a high
carbohydrate diet low fat diet,
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what is wrong with that?
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Well, you just bypass protein.
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Now, folks let me just tell
you a simple little fact here.
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You can say all you want to deny
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and you will never
convince me differently, okay.
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What I'm trying to
tell you is God knew
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what He was
doing when He made you.
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Okay. And when God made you,
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He gave you
certain things to eat,
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but He gave them to
you to be eaten balanced.
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They have to be balanced.
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And if I have anything
to stress to you tonight
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is you got to take
these macro nutrients
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and balance
them and if you don't
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balance them you're in trouble.
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Carbohydrates.
Okay, let's take a look.
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Carbohydrates
given to us to eat.
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What are carbohydrates?
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You know what carbohydrates are?
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Well, bread, pasta,
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okay, cake, cookies,
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you ought to know it--
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can you name some
other carbohydrates?
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Let me name some most
people don't think about.
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Fruit, vegetables,
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those are all
carbohydrates. Okay.
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So you have to balance
what you're going to eat.
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Your muscles, muscles
in your body will store
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300 to 400
grams of carbohydrates
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can be stored in your muscles.
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That's the most
it can store, okay.
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That's all you can store.
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Now, I'm gonna
ask you a question.
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What happens if you sit
down to a great big meal,
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a pasta and in
that meal of pasta,
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you eat about 7-800
grams of carbohydrates.
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All that your muscles can
store is 300 to 400 grams, okay.
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Your brain--your
brain and that's all it uses
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is glucose which is a
carbohydrate that's all.
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And all that your brain
can use is 80 to 90 grams
00:15:05.24\00:15:09.47
of carbohydrates
that's all your brain can use.
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So here I've eaten 7-800
grams of carbohydrates in pasta
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and my muscles have
taken 3 or 400 grams,
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my brain had 80 to 90,
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what's going to
happen to the rest of it.
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It all goes to your
body, all excess carbohydrates
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are stored in the body as
fat. That's where it goes.
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You see you have a
hormone in your body
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that when you eat
too many carbohydrates,
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it raises the
insulin in your body.
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Insulin in your body
folks lowers blood sugar, okay,
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carbohydrates raise blood sugar.
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So God made you, He said,
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all these people
have lost their cookies,
00:16:01.46\00:16:03.56
they're eating too
many carbohydrates and--
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and, I've got to do something,
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the Lord gave you body
insulin so it lowers it,
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but insulin does it
double whammy on you.
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Insulin says, take
all those carbohydrates
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and store them as fat.
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And then the insulin
says, don't let them out.
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And that's the reason you
have hard time losing weight,
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because the insulin
says don't let them out.
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That's carbohydrates, okay.
00:16:35.61\00:16:39.38
All carbohydrates as I
mentioned to you are fruits,
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vegetables,
grain, pasta, so forth.
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All these carbohydrates have
what is called a glycemic index.
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Let me try to explain
what a glycemic index is.
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A glycemic index
just means how fast
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those carbohydrates
enter the blood stream.
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Some enter the blood
stream much faster than others.
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Okay. That's what
glycemic index means.
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And there are basically
three types of carbohydrates.
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One is called glucose.
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Now folks, all your brain
uses is glucose, that's it.
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It's a glucose form, okay.
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So, that's all your
brain will uses glucose.
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So if you eat some carbohydrates
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that are glucose
then that goes directly
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into your blood
stream, into your brain.
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It enters it very-very fast
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that is called a
high glycemic index.
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You're with me. Okay.
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There are others that don't--
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that don't have as
high they as glucose does
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and this one is called fructose.
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Why does it not have as
high glycemic index as glucose,
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is because your
brain only uses glucose.
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So when you eat fruit,
it has to go to the liver
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and be converted into glucose
before it can go to your brain.
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So it goes in the
bloodstream much slower, okay.
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The other type of
carbohydrate is that,
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that is called galactose.
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That comes from milk products.
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And again same thing.
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Got to go to the
liver, be converted
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before it can go on to the brain
00:18:39.17\00:18:40.80
so it has it's
lower glycemic index.
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I'll give you an illustration.
00:18:45.44\00:18:46.86
I have a friend who,
worked at where I lived
00:18:46.89\00:18:54.66
and so I invited him
anytime he's out there to come
00:18:54.69\00:18:57.78
and stay with me, any day.
00:18:57.81\00:19:00.66
My friend is quite
heavy, and I came home
00:19:00.69\00:19:06.51
and he came in a
little later and as he came in
00:19:06.54\00:19:09.87
he was carrying
three bags of rice cakes.
00:19:09.90\00:19:14.99
You know what I'm
talking about, rice cakes in it.
00:19:15.02\00:19:17.66
And I said to him, I said,
what are you doing with those?
00:19:17.69\00:19:20.97
He said, uh, he said,
I'm having such a hard time
00:19:21.00\00:19:23.99
with this weight
problem and he said,
00:19:24.02\00:19:26.12
I'm just going to
eat rice cakes tonight.
00:19:26.15\00:19:28.21
He said that way it's
high carbohydrate low fat.
00:19:28.24\00:19:32.63
And I said, you know,
you would be much better off,
00:19:32.66\00:19:38.02
to take those back to the store
00:19:38.05\00:19:40.13
and buy you a half
a gallon of ice-cream.
00:19:40.16\00:19:46.23
And he looked at me
like I was crazy, okay.
00:19:46.26\00:19:50.19
You see the highest glycemic
index there is, is rice cakes.
00:19:50.22\00:19:58.01
And, he would
have been better off
00:19:58.04\00:19:59.72
to buy a half
gallon of ice-cream.
00:19:59.75\00:20:01.74
We do things folk that are
foolish, absolutely foolish.
00:20:01.77\00:20:07.26
And then we
wonder why we struggle
00:20:07.29\00:20:09.43
with the weight
problem that we have
00:20:09.46\00:20:11.61
and it's simply
because we are not doing
00:20:11.64\00:20:14.56
what God laid out
for us to do. Okay.
00:20:14.59\00:20:21.00
What's God's original diet?
00:20:21.03\00:20:23.71
Now, follow carefully
what God gave man to eat.
00:20:23.74\00:20:30.56
Genesis 1:29, "And God said,
00:20:30.59\00:20:33.10
'See I have given you
every herb that yields seed
00:20:33.13\00:20:37.26
which is on the
face of all the earth
00:20:37.29\00:20:40.72
and every tree
whose fruit yields seed
00:20:40.75\00:20:43.52
to you it shall be for food.'"
00:20:43.55\00:20:46.72
So when God created man,
00:20:46.75\00:20:48.26
He gave him
fruits, grains, nuts.
00:20:48.29\00:20:52.78
That's what God gave man to eat.
00:20:52.81\00:20:56.72
Now, folks say
whatever you want to say,
00:20:56.75\00:21:00.57
but you're not going
to improve on that diet.
00:21:00.60\00:21:05.14
You're not going
to improve on it.
00:21:05.17\00:21:07.37
That's what God
gave for man to eat.
00:21:07.40\00:21:10.25
Now, true enough
you've got to use
00:21:10.28\00:21:12.38
your head as to how you do it.
00:21:12.41\00:21:15.07
God didn't give you
just carbohydrates to eat.
00:21:15.10\00:21:18.43
Or He didn't give
you just grains to eat.
00:21:18.46\00:21:21.24
He gave all three of those
00:21:21.27\00:21:23.65
and God just simply
says they are to be eaten.
00:21:23.68\00:21:26.36
You see fruit is carbohydrates,
00:21:26.39\00:21:30.46
but fruit has carbohydrates
is also high in fiber.
00:21:30.49\00:21:36.68
Okay. Two things
happen when you eat fruit.
00:21:36.71\00:21:39.71
One, it cannot go
directly into your bloodstream,
00:21:39.74\00:21:43.24
it has to go to the
liver and be converted
00:21:43.27\00:21:45.04
to glucose before it does.
00:21:45.07\00:21:46.89
And secondly
fiber also slows down
00:21:46.92\00:21:50.64
its entrance
into the bloodstream,
00:21:50.67\00:21:53.03
so the glycemic index
on fruit is much lower.
00:21:53.06\00:21:58.06
Okay. God understood
that, He made it that way.
00:21:58.09\00:22:02.48
So that's one reason,
fresh fruits good for you.
00:22:02.51\00:22:05.55
Secondly, God gave grains.
00:22:05.58\00:22:10.25
Complex, listen to
me. Complex carbohydrates.
00:22:10.28\00:22:15.99
What are complex carbohydrates?
00:22:16.02\00:22:19.78
Complex carbohydrates are
such thing as oatmeal, okay.
00:22:19.81\00:22:26.81
Lentils, peas, beans.
00:22:26.84\00:22:34.61
All those are
complex carbohydrates,
00:22:34.64\00:22:39.48
but they also contain protein.
00:22:39.51\00:22:43.14
If you don't believe me then
when you go to the store, okay,
00:22:43.17\00:22:47.89
when you go to the
store get a can of beans,
00:22:47.92\00:22:50.79
turn it over to the back
and on the back it will list
00:22:50.82\00:22:53.51
how many
carbohydrates are in it,
00:22:53.54\00:22:55.05
how much proteins
in it and you'll see
00:22:55.08\00:22:58.01
that it has carbohydrates,
00:22:58.04\00:22:59.74
it has good amount
of protein in it, okay.
00:22:59.77\00:23:03.84
So they contain both, all right.
00:23:03.87\00:23:07.41
He also gave you nuts to eat.
00:23:07.44\00:23:12.03
Nuts contain two things.
00:23:12.06\00:23:15.72
Nuts contain protein and fat.
00:23:15.75\00:23:20.52
So God just simply
gave that all three of those
00:23:20.55\00:23:24.55
macro nutrients are there.
00:23:24.58\00:23:27.64
If you eat too
many carbohydrates
00:23:27.67\00:23:30.39
what's going to happen?
00:23:30.42\00:23:33.38
Your blood sugar
is going to go up
00:23:33.41\00:23:36.83
and your body is
going to have to secrete
00:23:36.86\00:23:38.82
insulin to lower it, okay.
00:23:38.85\00:23:43.89
But if you eat
protein which you need to eat,
00:23:43.92\00:23:48.20
well then that affects
a hormone called glucagon
00:23:48.23\00:23:54.62
and the glucagon
raises blood sugar,
00:23:54.65\00:23:57.54
so that balances the insulin
and the blood sugar, okay.
00:23:57.57\00:24:02.40
Fat unbeknownst to
many people fat is neutral.
00:24:02.43\00:24:07.13
It doesn't raise
your blood sugar,
00:24:07.16\00:24:08.75
it doesn't lower
your blood sugar.
00:24:08.78\00:24:10.15
All it does is its
quite high in calories.
00:24:10.18\00:24:13.44
But you have to
have some fat folks
00:24:13.47\00:24:16.27
and I can't go into
all the details of that
00:24:16.30\00:24:19.15
because you have a
hormone in your body
00:24:19.18\00:24:22.74
that's extremely important.
00:24:22.77\00:24:24.72
You have a whole family
of hormones in your body
00:24:24.75\00:24:29.84
that are tremendously important
00:24:29.87\00:24:31.87
and much of the
medical research today
00:24:31.90\00:24:34.22
that's being
done is in this area
00:24:34.25\00:24:36.35
and this family of
hormones is called eicosanoids.
00:24:36.38\00:24:41.08
And eicosanoids can only
operate in a fatty acid base
00:24:41.11\00:24:47.64
and if you don't
eat fat they won't work
00:24:47.67\00:24:50.14
and you really, I'm sorry,
00:24:50.17\00:24:52.98
some people are
going to think I'm crazy,
00:24:53.01\00:24:55.45
but you can't really lose
weight unless you eat fat.
00:24:55.48\00:25:00.54
So you got to have some fat.
00:25:00.57\00:25:02.24
Don't misunderstand
me, I'm talking about lot,
00:25:02.27\00:25:05.31
but you got to have it balanced
if it's going to work, okay.
00:25:05.34\00:25:09.85
Now folks, if you take
what I've just given you
00:25:09.88\00:25:15.25
and you go home and study
it, it can change your life.
00:25:15.28\00:25:19.83
Now, I'm sure that
there are some of you
00:25:19.86\00:25:21.23
sitting out there
they are saying well,
00:25:21.26\00:25:24.92
what about meat as a protein.
00:25:24.95\00:25:29.60
What about meat as a
protein. Well, let's see.
00:25:29.63\00:25:34.56
It is a source of protein, okay.
00:25:34.59\00:25:37.89
But the scripture, the
word of God has something
00:25:37.92\00:25:42.01
to say about meat and if you
are a follower of Jesus Christ,
00:25:42.04\00:25:48.86
then you need to understand
00:25:48.89\00:25:50.83
what the scripture
says about meat, okay.
00:25:50.86\00:25:54.15
Let's look and
see what it tells you.
00:25:54.18\00:25:56.92
Leviticus 3:17. "There
shall be a perpetual statute
00:25:56.95\00:26:01.70
throughout your generations
in all your dwellings."
00:26:01.73\00:26:05.21
That means it goes on forever.
00:26:05.24\00:26:07.89
"You shall eat
neither fat nor blood."
00:26:07.92\00:26:12.14
Number one, God says don't eat
00:26:12.17\00:26:16.34
fat or blood of an animal.
00:26:16.37\00:26:21.00
And you and I don't really need
a big explanation about that.
00:26:21.03\00:26:24.70
We understand that
if you eat animal fat,
00:26:24.73\00:26:27.44
it raises your
what? Your cholesterol.
00:26:27.47\00:26:31.82
We understand that blood,
00:26:31.85\00:26:34.15
chances of
disease are much greater.
00:26:34.18\00:26:36.33
So God just simply said,
if you're gonna eat an animal,
00:26:36.36\00:26:39.17
you don't eat the fat,
you don't eat the blood.
00:26:39.20\00:26:43.53
And I have some
dear people say to me,
00:26:43.56\00:26:45.50
oh, Brother Cox, that
was written for the Jew.
00:26:45.53\00:26:49.44
Well, let me tell you something.
00:26:49.47\00:26:50.88
The only difference I
know between my stomach
00:26:50.91\00:26:54.87
and a Jewish stomach is
mine might be a little bigger.
00:26:54.90\00:26:58.08
That's the only
question I know, okay.
00:26:58.11\00:27:01.82
God said don't eat it
00:27:01.85\00:27:03.41
and that is simply what He meant
00:27:03.44\00:27:04.97
when He said don't eat it.
All right, let's go on now.
00:27:05.00\00:27:09.36
God says there are
some animals that are clean.
00:27:09.39\00:27:14.40
That means as far as
scripture is concerned
00:27:14.43\00:27:18.25
they are okay to eat, okay.
00:27:18.28\00:27:22.98
And God says,
there are some animals
00:27:23.01\00:27:25.90
that are not to be eaten
00:27:25.93\00:27:27.45
and the scripture
calls them unclean.
00:27:27.48\00:27:31.28
They are not a very
inviting list, okay.
00:27:31.31\00:27:34.81
They are unclean.
Scripture says don't eat them.
00:27:34.84\00:27:38.74
And I can tell you
right now dear friend,
00:27:38.77\00:27:41.04
your health will
be much better off
00:27:41.07\00:27:44.68
if you listen to the Lord, okay.
00:27:44.71\00:27:47.69
Let's see what the
Lord has to say about it.
00:27:47.72\00:27:51.38
Yeah, I have people like
I said that say well clean
00:27:51.41\00:27:53.98
and unclean business
that was given to the Jew.
00:27:54.01\00:27:56.64
No, it wasn't. It was
given before the Jew existed.
00:27:56.67\00:28:01.80
You ever read about Noah.
00:28:01.83\00:28:04.99
Listen to what He says to Noah.
00:28:05.02\00:28:09.37
Genesis 7:2. "You
shall take with you seven
00:28:09.40\00:28:14.06
each of every clean animal."
00:28:14.09\00:28:18.80
You were told, weren't you?
00:28:18.83\00:28:20.86
The animals went
into the ark two by two.
00:28:20.89\00:28:23.62
No, they didn't. The unclean
went in the ark by two's.
00:28:23.65\00:28:28.37
The clean went in
the ark by seven's.
00:28:28.40\00:28:32.03
A male and his female,
two each of the animals
00:28:32.06\00:28:36.44
that are unclean a
male and his female.
00:28:36.47\00:28:39.94
So God just sent--made a
clear distinction way back
00:28:39.97\00:28:43.01
then in the beginning
that the clean were there
00:28:43.04\00:28:46.53
and the unclean
there and God has never
00:28:46.56\00:28:49.28
changed that, friends, at all.
00:28:49.31\00:28:51.76
So when you go to
the Book of Leviticus,
00:28:51.79\00:28:53.80
you begin to see
what the scripture says.
00:28:53.83\00:28:55.81
"Also seven each of birds
00:28:55.84\00:28:58.57
of the air male and
female to keep the species alive
00:28:58.60\00:29:01.97
on the face of the earth."
00:29:02.00\00:29:03.84
Okay, Leviticus, this is
what it says about the animals.
00:29:03.87\00:29:07.84
"Among the animals
whatever divides the hoof,
00:29:07.87\00:29:13.69
having cloven
hooves and chewing the cud
00:29:13.72\00:29:16.91
that you may eat." Very simple.
00:29:16.94\00:29:21.95
An animal is clean
that has divided hoof
00:29:21.98\00:29:26.31
and it has to chew the cud.
00:29:26.34\00:29:28.57
Those are the two
things it has to do.
00:29:28.60\00:29:31.14
Not one or the other,
but both of them, okay.
00:29:31.17\00:29:34.63
God named some of them for you.
00:29:34.66\00:29:37.92
"Nevertheless,
these you shall not eat
00:29:37.95\00:29:40.40
among those that chew the cud--
00:29:40.43\00:29:42.07
chew the cud or those
that have cloven hooves.
00:29:42.10\00:29:45.08
The camel,
because it chews the cud,
00:29:45.11\00:29:47.38
but does not have cloven
hooves is unclean to you."
00:29:47.41\00:29:50.70
I don't see there are
many people eating camels.
00:29:50.73\00:29:55.84
Have you ever
looked at a camel, uh?
00:29:55.87\00:29:59.05
They are strange animals,
camels are. You know, really.
00:29:59.08\00:30:04.99
You know, what
they remind me of.
00:30:05.02\00:30:07.58
They remind me of a horse
00:30:07.61\00:30:08.98
that's been put
together by a committee.
00:30:09.01\00:30:10.96
Is what they remind me of, okay.
00:30:10.99\00:30:13.31
But God said, don't eat them.
00:30:13.34\00:30:15.93
Leave them
alone, okay. Secondly:
00:30:15.96\00:30:19.82
"The rock hyrax,"
that's the rock badger,
00:30:19.85\00:30:22.63
if you don't know what that is,
00:30:22.66\00:30:24.38
"because it chews
the cud but does not have
00:30:24.41\00:30:26.71
cloven hooves is unclean to you.
00:30:26.74\00:30:28.62
So God says don't
eat the rock badger.
00:30:28.65\00:30:32.21
The hare, that's
the rabbit, okay,
00:30:32.24\00:30:35.24
because it chews the cud
00:30:35.27\00:30:36.77
but does not have
cloven hooves is unclean to you
00:30:36.80\00:30:41.43
and the swine," that's the pig.
00:30:41.46\00:30:44.43
This is the one we eat Mr. Piggy
00:30:44.46\00:30:48.00
from the tail to the
snout, you know, okay.
00:30:48.03\00:30:51.99
"The swine though it divides
the hoof having cloven hooves
00:30:52.02\00:30:56.52
yet does not chew the
cud is unclean to you.
00:30:56.55\00:31:02.74
God says, do not
eat it. It's unclean.
00:31:02.77\00:31:07.83
When I became a Christian,
I had a real problem here.
00:31:11.85\00:31:18.37
My problem was as I
told you another night,
00:31:18.40\00:31:23.18
I belong to
something called the FFA,
00:31:23.21\00:31:26.88
Future Farmers of America.
00:31:26.91\00:31:30.30
And one thing I had
done is I had bought a pig,
00:31:30.33\00:31:35.47
I don't know if you know
what rested Duroc-Jersey pig is,
00:31:35.50\00:31:39.82
but it's so--if you
ever go to county fair
00:31:39.85\00:31:41.42
you can go look at
them they are red in color,
00:31:41.45\00:31:43.19
that's what they are.
00:31:43.22\00:31:44.99
I had bought one to raise
to show at the county fair
00:31:45.02\00:31:48.50
and had won the
county fair with it.
00:31:48.53\00:31:52.06
My father also had one,
00:31:52.09\00:31:53.76
so we both had sows
that we raise pigs from.
00:31:53.79\00:31:58.59
I got to read in
God's word, you know,
00:31:58.62\00:32:01.15
I was just a young person
and I was reading a scripture
00:32:01.18\00:32:04.23
and here I began to read
00:32:04.26\00:32:05.63
what it had to say
about the pig in here.
00:32:05.66\00:32:08.86
And from reading that I decided
00:32:08.89\00:32:10.72
it wasn't right
for me to eat it.
00:32:10.75\00:32:14.74
And then I got in a
conviction 'cause I didn't know
00:32:14.77\00:32:16.96
what to do with
the pig, you see.
00:32:16.99\00:32:19.85
And my father
was not a Christian.
00:32:19.88\00:32:22.64
My father was
violently opposed to what I did.
00:32:22.67\00:32:28.80
And I knew that if I
killed that pig he'll kill me.
00:32:28.83\00:32:34.86
So I didn't know
what to do with it.
00:32:34.89\00:32:36.26
A fellow offered to
trade me a calf for it,
00:32:36.29\00:32:38.45
I wouldn't even do that.
00:32:38.48\00:32:40.74
I just didn't know
what to do with it.
00:32:40.77\00:32:42.57
That plagued me
folks, bothered me.
00:32:42.60\00:32:46.50
Finally one night,
I went in the bedroom
00:32:46.53\00:32:50.01
and I shut the door
and I got down on my knees
00:32:50.04\00:32:53.94
and I said, Lord, I don't
know what to do with this pig.
00:32:53.97\00:32:58.47
I know that my dad
would just--no telling
00:32:58.50\00:33:02.52
what he would do
if I kill that pig.
00:33:02.55\00:33:05.42
And I said, I
don't know what to do it.
00:33:05.45\00:33:07.31
I don't feel
right about keeping it.
00:33:07.34\00:33:11.12
I don't know how
to get rid of it,
00:33:11.15\00:33:13.07
so Lord I made up my
mind I'm giving it to you,
00:33:13.10\00:33:17.66
it's not my pig
anymore. And that's what I did.
00:33:17.69\00:33:23.85
Just gave it to Him and
said it's your pig, not mine.
00:33:23.88\00:33:27.90
The next morning I went out
00:33:27.93\00:33:30.28
on the back porch
picked up a slop bucket,
00:33:30.31\00:33:33.14
go out have to feed
the pigs walked out there
00:33:33.17\00:33:36.31
and mine was lying in pen dead.
00:33:36.34\00:33:39.81
And dad just ran
around took care of him.
00:33:39.84\00:33:43.91
What I'm trying
to get across to you
00:33:43.94\00:33:46.46
is God is very clear
folks He just tells you and I
00:33:46.49\00:33:50.31
we're not to
eat it. Let's go on.
00:33:50.34\00:33:54.18
"Their flesh you shall not eat
00:33:54.21\00:33:56.71
and their carcasses
you shall not touch.
00:33:56.74\00:33:58.79
They are unclean to you."
00:33:58.82\00:34:02.11
Okay. What about sea life.
00:34:02.14\00:34:06.08
What does the
scripture say there?
00:34:06.11\00:34:07.68
God gave you two
rules for an animal.
00:34:07.71\00:34:10.73
They have to divide the
hoof, they have to chew the cud.
00:34:10.76\00:34:12.98
When it comes to sea
life, he gives you two rules.
00:34:13.01\00:34:15.65
Let's see what they are.
00:34:15.68\00:34:18.11
"These you may eat of
all that are in the water,
00:34:18.14\00:34:21.49
whatsoever in the water
that has fins and scales,
00:34:21.52\00:34:25.95
these whether in the sea
00:34:25.98\00:34:27.97
or in the rivers
that you may eat."
00:34:28.00\00:34:30.11
So the rule is, they've got
to have fins and scales, both.
00:34:30.14\00:34:35.80
Not one or the other.
They got to have both.
00:34:35.83\00:34:40.19
"But all in the
sea or in the river
00:34:40.22\00:34:42.27
that do not
have fins and scales,
00:34:42.30\00:34:45.71
all that move in the
water or any living thing
00:34:45.74\00:34:48.18
which is in the water they
are an abomination to you."
00:34:48.21\00:34:51.12
So God says, if they don't have
00:34:51.15\00:34:52.98
fins and scales,
you can't eat them.
00:34:53.01\00:34:56.02
And if you look at most of
them folks they're scavengers.
00:34:56.05\00:35:00.67
Okay. I have
people say to me well,
00:35:00.70\00:35:03.29
why did God create the pig?
00:35:03.32\00:35:06.44
Well, very easy,
for garbage disposal.
00:35:06.47\00:35:10.67
That's why He created the pig.
00:35:10.70\00:35:13.50
That's also why He
created these such things
00:35:13.53\00:35:16.34
as crabs and oysters and--and,
00:35:16.37\00:35:19.72
cat fish and these thing
that don't have fins and scales
00:35:19.75\00:35:23.42
'cause they're scavengers.
00:35:23.45\00:35:24.82
There's what they cleans
up the bottom of the river,
00:35:24.85\00:35:27.68
in the bottom of the pond.
00:35:27.71\00:35:29.26
And God says don't eat them.
00:35:29.29\00:35:31.66
If they have fins and
scales they are clean,
00:35:31.69\00:35:35.69
clean to be eaten, okay.
00:35:35.72\00:35:38.15
When we take a look and it says:
00:35:38.18\00:35:41.34
"And these you shall regard
00:35:41.37\00:35:42.76
as an
abomination among the birds."
00:35:42.79\00:35:45.91
Now when it comes to the
birds, God doesn't give a rule.
00:35:45.94\00:35:49.58
He just name them
what you are not to eat.
00:35:49.61\00:35:53.56
Among the birds
that shall not be eaten:
00:35:53.59\00:35:56.36
They are an abomination
to you and he says the eagle,
00:35:56.39\00:35:59.09
the vulture, the buzzard,
the kite, the cormorant,
00:35:59.12\00:36:02.20
the cuckoo, pelican,
goes on and names them.
00:36:02.23\00:36:05.31
He says these are unclean.
00:36:05.34\00:36:07.17
Most of them
folks are birds of prey.
00:36:07.20\00:36:11.51
That's what most of them are.
00:36:11.54\00:36:12.91
They are birds of prey
and God says, don't eat them.
00:36:12.94\00:36:17.37
Okay, so that's
simply when it comes to meat.
00:36:17.40\00:36:19.77
If you're going to talk
about meat as a protein,
00:36:19.80\00:36:23.64
those are the things that
God counsels us concerning meat.
00:36:23.67\00:36:29.72
Because you're going
to use meat as a protein
00:36:29.75\00:36:32.80
then you need to
follow the scripture
00:36:32.83\00:36:34.77
in junction about
it and I'll just say,
00:36:34.80\00:36:37.79
when God wrote that He told you
00:36:37.82\00:36:41.03
to begin with that this
His diet for you was fruits,
00:36:41.06\00:36:46.71
grains, and nuts, and
later he added vegetables.
00:36:46.74\00:36:51.91
This day and age, I
think you take great risk
00:36:51.94\00:36:57.11
with meat being
as deceased as it is.
00:36:57.14\00:37:01.01
I think you're
running great risk, okay.
00:37:01.04\00:37:04.41
So you need to be clear
on what the scripture says.
00:37:04.44\00:37:08.32
And by the way, the
ones that are unclean
00:37:08.35\00:37:13.00
like the camel and the pig,
00:37:13.03\00:37:19.76
and the seagull, and the mouse
you know, I don't find them
00:37:19.79\00:37:24.96
served in the best
restaurants. Do you?
00:37:24.99\00:37:28.48
I don't find people
going in ordering roasted camel
00:37:28.51\00:37:32.32
or seagull a la King,
or breaded mouse, you know.
00:37:32.35\00:37:38.96
Most of those things are things
00:37:38.99\00:37:40.36
that God says leave
them alone. Don't eat them.
00:37:40.39\00:37:44.23
What does the New
Testament say about it?
00:37:44.26\00:37:46.51
Well, people say well
that's the Old Testament.
00:37:46.54\00:37:48.41
We don't go by
the Old Testament,
00:37:48.44\00:37:50.12
we go by the New Testament.
00:37:50.15\00:37:51.69
Well, let's look at the New
Testament. See what it says.
00:37:51.72\00:37:56.08
Second Corinthians
6:16. "What agreement
00:37:56.11\00:37:59.22
has the temple of God
with idols? Listen carefully.
00:37:59.25\00:38:03.66
"For you are the
temple of the living God."
00:38:03.69\00:38:07.48
So He makes it very clear
when He says what agreement
00:38:07.51\00:38:09.94
has the temple
of God with idols.
00:38:09.97\00:38:11.59
He's talking about
what? Talking about you.
00:38:11.62\00:38:14.99
He's talking
about your body, okay.
00:38:15.02\00:38:16.95
You are the
temple of the living God.
00:38:16.98\00:38:20.27
"As God has said, 'I will dwell
in them and walk among them.
00:38:20.30\00:38:23.59
I will be their God and
they shall be my people.
00:38:23.62\00:38:28.37
"Therefore come out
come out from among them
00:38:28.40\00:38:30.74
and be separate, says the Lord.
00:38:30.77\00:38:32.57
Do not touch what is unclean
and I will receive you.'"
00:38:32.60\00:38:37.52
God is very clear
in the New Testament.
00:38:37.55\00:38:40.00
He said, leave it alone.
00:38:40.03\00:38:42.05
Don't be touching, don't be
eating what He list as unclean.
00:38:42.08\00:38:47.66
He says it's no to
be. You'll say well,
00:38:47.69\00:38:51.98
"I will be a Father
to you, you shall be
00:38:52.01\00:38:53.92
my son and daughter
says the Lord almighty."
00:38:53.95\00:38:56.28
You say well, didn't Peter,
00:38:56.31\00:39:00.17
didn't Peter have
some kind of a vision
00:39:00.20\00:39:01.91
where he cleaned it all up, uh.
00:39:01.94\00:39:04.50
Have you ever read Acts
10, where Peter had this vision
00:39:04.53\00:39:08.41
and the sheath was
let down out of heaven
00:39:08.44\00:39:10.43
and in the sheath was
all manner of unclean animals
00:39:10.46\00:39:15.54
and a voice said
rise Peter kill and eat.
00:39:15.57\00:39:20.43
And Peter said, not so Lord,
00:39:20.46\00:39:23.67
I've never eaten
anything common or unclean.
00:39:23.70\00:39:26.74
That was done three times.
00:39:26.77\00:39:29.11
And the voice said Peter
00:39:29.14\00:39:31.49
what I have cleansed
don't you call common.
00:39:31.52\00:39:37.86
"But peter said, 'Not so Lord!
00:39:37.89\00:39:40.38
For I have never eaten
anything common or unclean."
00:39:40.41\00:39:44.52
Peter can't
figure this out folks.
00:39:44.55\00:39:47.02
He can't understand
because this is direct--
00:39:47.05\00:39:49.72
a direct contrary
to the word of God.
00:39:49.75\00:39:53.49
And so it says in
scripture while he is trying
00:39:53.52\00:39:56.01
to get all this put together,
there's a knock at the door.
00:39:56.04\00:40:00.14
And there are some men
there from Cornelius' house.
00:40:00.17\00:40:03.73
Cornelius is a Roman soldier.
00:40:03.76\00:40:06.37
He's a
Centurion. He's had a dream.
00:40:06.40\00:40:11.13
And in the dream he's been
told to send these men to Peter,
00:40:11.16\00:40:15.15
to get Peter from
Joppa. Bring Peter back.
00:40:15.18\00:40:19.53
So he sent them there,
they knock on the door,
00:40:19.56\00:40:22.27
Peter invites men, they tell him
that Cornelius' had the dream
00:40:22.30\00:40:26.23
and so they spend
the night with Peter
00:40:26.26\00:40:27.76
and the next day they go back,
00:40:27.79\00:40:30.45
or Peter goes with them
back to Cornelius' house.
00:40:30.48\00:40:33.62
Cornelius is a
Roman soldier folks.
00:40:33.65\00:40:36.70
He's a Gentile. Do
you understand that?
00:40:36.73\00:40:40.43
Okay, listen. Listen
to the words of Peter,
00:40:40.46\00:40:43.92
he'll tell you
what the dream meant.
00:40:43.95\00:40:47.49
Acts 10:28.
"Then he said to them,
00:40:47.52\00:40:50.84
'You know how
unlawful it is for a Jewish man
00:40:50.87\00:40:55.28
to keep company or go
to one of another nation."
00:40:55.31\00:41:02.69
So you know
that's out of keeping.
00:41:02.72\00:41:05.05
"But God has what? Shown me
00:41:05.08\00:41:08.78
that I should not call
any man common or unclean."
00:41:08.81\00:41:13.52
God weren't trying to say
Peter, it's okay to eat the pig.
00:41:13.55\00:41:17.70
He was saying Peter, you need
00:41:17.73\00:41:19.78
to take the
Gospel to the Gentiles.
00:41:19.81\00:41:22.50
That's what He was telling him.
00:41:22.53\00:41:23.90
He wasn't telling
unclean animals were now clean,
00:41:23.93\00:41:27.30
He was saying you need to
take the Gospel to the Gentile.
00:41:27.33\00:41:30.68
Preach it to them.
That's what it was about.
00:41:30.71\00:41:33.59
You see the New Testament
says, First Corinthians 6:19.
00:41:33.62\00:41:37.52
"Do you not know that
your body is the temple
00:41:37.55\00:41:41.41
of the Holy
Spirit who is in you,
00:41:41.44\00:41:45.25
whom you have from God
and you are not your own?"
00:41:45.28\00:41:49.61
So when you accept Jesus Christ,
00:41:49.64\00:41:52.45
this body of yours becomes
the temple of the Holy Spirit,
00:41:52.48\00:41:57.31
that's what the scripture says.
00:41:57.34\00:41:58.71
You are not your own,
00:41:58.74\00:42:01.81
your body belongs
to the Lord, it's His.
00:42:01.84\00:42:07.00
And he gives you some very good
00:42:07.03\00:42:08.44
counsel about taking care of it.
00:42:08.47\00:42:13.18
"For you were bought at a price,
00:42:13.21\00:42:16.89
therefore
glorify God in your body
00:42:16.92\00:42:19.57
and in your
spirit which are God's."
00:42:19.60\00:42:23.71
He said, you've
been bought with a price,
00:42:23.74\00:42:26.23
glorify God in
your what? In your body.
00:42:26.26\00:42:31.05
That means that
I'm to keep this body
00:42:31.08\00:42:33.39
as healthy as I
possibly can keep it
00:42:33.42\00:42:36.61
for the Lord,
that's what it means.
00:42:36.64\00:42:39.50
"Do you not know that
you are the temple of God
00:42:39.53\00:42:42.32
and that the Spirit of
God what? Dwells in you.
00:42:42.35\00:42:47.15
If anyone defiles
the temple of God,
00:42:47.18\00:42:50.47
God will destroy him.
00:42:50.50\00:42:52.02
For the temple of God is
holy, which temple you are."
00:42:52.05\00:42:57.30
And so your body,
what makes your body holy?
00:42:57.33\00:43:01.30
Do you know that,
what makes your body holy?
00:43:04.33\00:43:07.72
The Holy Spirit. Holy
Spirit dwells within you
00:43:07.75\00:43:11.44
and because he
dwells in you that's what
00:43:11.47\00:43:13.72
makes your body
holy and God says,
00:43:13.75\00:43:15.67
you need to take care of it.
00:43:15.70\00:43:17.40
You need to treat it right.
00:43:17.43\00:43:19.10
You need to make sure that
it's cared for as it should be.
00:43:19.13\00:43:23.26
So I am not to put
in things that harm it.
00:43:23.29\00:43:26.95
And in this country we do
a lot of things that harm it.
00:43:26.98\00:43:31.39
We put things in our body.
00:43:31.42\00:43:32.79
Christ would not
go along with that.
00:43:32.82\00:43:35.84
Jesus is hanging on the cross.
00:43:35.87\00:43:38.56
I told you that other
night about the tremendous agony
00:43:38.59\00:43:41.38
that He went through,
what crucifixion was like.
00:43:41.41\00:43:45.59
They've offered to
Him, they've offered Him
00:43:45.62\00:43:49.06
sour wine mingled with gall.
00:43:49.09\00:43:52.95
You know what gal
is? Gall is a poison.
00:43:52.98\00:43:59.13
That's what it
is. Also deadens pain.
00:43:59.16\00:44:04.55
They offered Him
that, mingled gall.
00:44:04.58\00:44:08.60
"They gave Him sour wine
mingled with gall to drink,
00:44:08.63\00:44:12.44
but when He had tasted
it, He would not drink."
00:44:12.47\00:44:17.78
He wouldn't drink it.
00:44:17.81\00:44:19.80
Now dear friend,
God makes it very clear
00:44:19.83\00:44:24.14
in the word that you
and I are not to put things
00:44:24.17\00:44:27.67
into our body that
are harmful to you.
00:44:27.70\00:44:30.72
And one of the things that we do
00:44:30.75\00:44:32.23
quite often is that of tobacco.
00:44:32.26\00:44:37.45
Tobacco is an insidious poison.
00:44:37.48\00:44:44.08
Tobacco has 27 poisons in it,
00:44:44.11\00:44:51.31
nicotine being the worst.
00:44:51.34\00:44:55.61
You and I should not
harm our bodies that way.
00:44:55.64\00:45:03.56
In America, cigarettes killed--
00:45:03.59\00:45:06.85
cigarettes killed
582,000 people in 1998.
00:45:06.88\00:45:12.74
You know, why I'm saying?
00:45:12.77\00:45:15.05
Cigarettes in 1998 folks killed
over a half a million people
00:45:15.08\00:45:22.62
in the United States,
half a million people.
00:45:22.65\00:45:30.04
If we had a half a million
people dying from some disease,
00:45:30.07\00:45:34.08
we would call that an
epidemic and yet we go
00:45:34.11\00:45:37.74
right around here
and we manufacture them
00:45:37.77\00:45:39.97
and we pass them
out to the children
00:45:40.00\00:45:41.94
so they can get hooked on them.
00:45:41.97\00:45:44.50
And we think that's all right.
00:45:44.53\00:45:47.60
Surgeon General's warning.
00:45:50.98\00:45:53.23
Smoking by pregnant women
may result in fetal injury,
00:45:53.26\00:45:58.79
premature birth
and low birth weight.
00:45:58.82\00:46:06.12
Boy you talk about water
down. That is really water down.
00:46:06.15\00:46:12.23
It shouldn't say that, it
should say this will kill you.
00:46:12.26\00:46:17.27
That's what it needs to
say, this will kill you.
00:46:17.30\00:46:20.49
No questions about it.
00:46:20.52\00:46:24.20
God doesn't expect
us, He doesn't want us
00:46:24.23\00:46:28.18
to use something
that is poisonous
00:46:28.21\00:46:31.05
or harmful to our body.
It's very clear on that.
00:46:31.08\00:46:35.71
Cigarette
smoking, what does it do?
00:46:35.74\00:46:39.15
It contributes to strokes.
00:46:39.18\00:46:43.41
Secondly,
emphysema. Heart disease.
00:46:43.44\00:46:49.86
I'm just telling
you what cigarettes do.
00:46:49.89\00:46:52.44
You talk about
them being good for you.
00:46:52.47\00:46:56.59
Various forms of cancer.
00:46:56.62\00:47:00.71
All that in
smoking. Poor circulation.
00:47:00.74\00:47:07.93
Premature births.
00:47:07.96\00:47:11.43
All that happens by smoking,
00:47:11.46\00:47:14.40
Shortness of breath.
00:47:14.43\00:47:17.12
Now, dear friends, the Lord came
00:47:17.15\00:47:21.21
to help you in that respect.
00:47:21.24\00:47:24.79
He came to give you life
00:47:24.82\00:47:26.75
and give it to you much happier.
00:47:26.78\00:47:31.22
We take hundreds,
hundreds, and hundreds,
00:47:31.25\00:47:35.04
and hundreds of people
off of tobacco every year.
00:47:35.07\00:47:40.09
Every meeting we hold, we
take people off of tobacco.
00:47:40.12\00:47:44.70
And starting
Friday night right here,
00:47:44.73\00:47:48.01
we will be conducting a
program if you want to quit it,
00:47:48.04\00:47:52.30
we'll be glad to help you
and I'll just tell you this,
00:47:52.33\00:47:54.23
if you do what we tell
you to do for five days,
00:47:54.26\00:47:58.16
you'll be off
completely and feeling good.
00:47:58.19\00:48:01.00
I promise that. So
we'll talk more about that.
00:48:01.03\00:48:05.04
Something else
that we're faced with,
00:48:05.07\00:48:09.54
some things that we
do that the Bible says,
00:48:09.57\00:48:12.47
this is what wise people do.
00:48:12.50\00:48:15.35
"Wise people's lives
get better and better.
00:48:15.38\00:48:19.22
They avoid whatever
would cause their death."
00:48:19.25\00:48:24.12
Wise people do that.
00:48:24.30\00:48:25.98
Their lives get better
and better because they avoid
00:48:26.01\00:48:28.91
what would cause
their death, okay.
00:48:28.94\00:48:32.02
The other thing
is that of alcohol.
00:48:32.05\00:48:38.18
Folks, you can give me
all the excuses in the world
00:48:38.21\00:48:44.94
for using alcohol
00:48:44.97\00:48:47.92
and I'll tell you
that you are ill-informed.
00:48:47.95\00:48:52.29
You're ill-informed.
I'm--I will say this.
00:48:54.50\00:48:59.61
I'm glad that
one of the candidates
00:48:59.64\00:49:02.42
that's running for the
President of United States
00:49:02.45\00:49:05.48
had enough sense to
say, I will not drink.
00:49:05.51\00:49:12.66
I'm at least glad that one
does because there's no way.
00:49:12.69\00:49:18.44
All you got to do
is take a walk with me
00:49:18.47\00:49:20.15
in the certain
sector of the town
00:49:20.18\00:49:21.55
and I'll show you what
alcohol does to people.
00:49:21.58\00:49:26.93
Ephesians 5:18.
00:49:26.96\00:49:28.70
"Do not be drunk with
wine, in which is dissipation,
00:49:28.73\00:49:33.95
but be filled with the Spirit."
00:49:33.98\00:49:39.13
"Do you not know
that the unrighteous
00:49:39.16\00:49:41.78
will not inherit
the kingdom of God?
00:49:41.81\00:49:44.13
Do not be deceived
neither fornicators,
00:49:44.16\00:49:48.08
nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
00:49:48.11\00:49:49.83
nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
00:49:49.86\00:49:53.25
nor thieve, nor
covetous, nor what?
00:49:53.28\00:49:56.47
Drunkards, nor revilers,
00:49:56.50\00:49:58.31
nor extortioners will
inherit the kingdom of God."
00:49:58.34\00:50:02.09
Scripture is
very-very clear on that,
00:50:02.12\00:50:06.04
but I cannot use
that kind of thing
00:50:06.07\00:50:09.37
and make it into
the kingdom of heaven.
00:50:09.40\00:50:11.77
Proverbs,
listen. Proverbs 23:31.
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"Do not look at
wine when it is red,
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when it sparkles in the cup,
when it swirls around smoothly,
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at last it bites like a serpent
and stings like a viper."
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God says, don't use it
when it is intoxicating.
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That's what that text is saying.
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When it moves itself
God says, don't use it.
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Proverbs 20:1.
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"Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is a brawler
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and whoever is led
astray by it is not wise."
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I mean the scripture is crystal
clear on this question, folks.
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Alcohol is estimated
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to cause the United
States economy $86 what?
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$86 billion a year outstripping.
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now listen folks,
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outstripping illegal
drugs by $30 billion.
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And you hear the country
talk about doing something
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about the drugs and
that needs to be done,
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don't misunderstand me,
but they don't want to say
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anything about the alcohol.
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This is the
problem that we face.
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The Bible says that you
and I are to abstain from it.
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That means leave it alone.
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It won't help you, it
doesn't make you healthy,
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it doesn't make you happy,
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it does not
contribute to your life.
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This doesn't do that.
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Alcohol is responsible
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for roughly 10%
of all U.S. deaths.
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Ten percent of every person
that dies in the United States
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is the result of alcohol.
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What does the Lord
want to do for you?
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This is what He
wants to do for you.
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"The thief does not
come except to steal
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and to kill and destroy." Okay.
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"I have come that
they may have life
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and that they might
have it more abundantly."
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You want to be happy,
you want to be healthy,
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you want to enjoy life.
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Well, then dear friends,
listen carefully what God says
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about what you're to eat.
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Balance, as the scripture
give it balance what you eat.
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Leave the tobacco,
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the alcohol, the drugs alone.
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Dear friend, let
me tell you something,
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if you do that, you'll find your
health will increase immensely.
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You'll find yourself happy.
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You'll find that the
whole thing will change
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and God will simply come in
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and touch your life
in a very special way.
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Listen as Maddy
sings, 'He touched me'.
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Shackled by a heavy burden
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Neath a load of guilt and shame
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Then the hand
of Jesus touched me
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And now I am no longer the same
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Three questions I
want you to look at me.
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First question says,
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I understand what scripture
teaches about unclean meats.
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I've shared with you.
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The scripture is very clear
on what's clean and unclean.
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If you understand that tonight,
put a check by number one.
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Let me--let me
take just a moment
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to explain something to you.
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Folks, what I'm
telling you tonight
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God--or principles that God
gave to help you be healthy.
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Salvation doesn't come this way.
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You can't eat
your way into heaven,
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I hope you
understand that. Okay.
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But if you want to be
healthy, you want to be happy.
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If you want to
follow what God says,
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then follow it.
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So if you understand what
it teaches about unclean meats,
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put a check by number one.
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Second questions says, I need
help with chemical dependency.
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If you need help
with chemical dependency
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then put a check by number two.
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Third question, I'd like
to accept Christ as my Savior.
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You may do some of
these things by willpower,
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but I'll tell you,
it's a thousand times easier
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if you give your
heart to the Lord
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and let the Holy
Spirit work in your life.
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So tonight if you don't
know Christ as your Savior,
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I'd like to invite
you to accept Jesus Christ
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as your personal Savior.
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He touched me
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Oh He touched me
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And all that joy
that floods my soul
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Something
happened and now I know
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He touched me and made me whole
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Let's bow our
heads for word of prayer.
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Heavenly Father, we thank you
that not only do You love us,
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not only do You
provide salvation for us,
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but You've give in ways
in which we can be healthy,
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we can be happy, we
can enjoy this life.
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I pray that You'll
bless each one here,
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and may they find in
Christ constant help.
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