The following
program presents principles
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designed to promote good health
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and is not
intended to take the place
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of personalized
professional care.
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The opinions and
ideas expressed are those of
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the speaker. Viewers
are encouraged to draw
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their own conclusions
about the information presented.
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Welcome to
Wonderfully Made my name is
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Dr. George Guthrie I'm
the Medical Director at
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Lifestyle Center of America.
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Have you ever
noticed that the Bible has
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some things to say
about what we eat about diet,
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as a matter of fact
there is more than one diet
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mentioned in the Bible.
Dr. Tim Arnott and myself,
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are here to discuss
this with you today.
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Welcome Tim. Thank you George,
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it's good to be with
you on Wonderfully Made.
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So, the Bible we
think of it more as a
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theological sort of a
book, but I guess through time,
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through the
scriptures we actually see some
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diets spoken of.
What's the first diet
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that you would
like to emphasize today?
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Well George, you know
it's very true that the Bible
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is not just a book of
doctrines and theology.
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But I like to think of
it as an owner's manual
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and something you
can turn to when you need
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practical information for
various areas of your life
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including health and
so we find that there are
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several diets. We look
actually at seven diets
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that are mentioned in
the Bible and I'm not saying
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that we have covered
them all, but these are seven
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that have come to surface.
The first diet we like to
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call it the seeds diet and
it's the original diet that
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the creator gave to
man in the Garden of Eden.
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You know we find this
diet in Genesis chapter one
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and verse 29 and we
read there in Genesis 1 and
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verse 29 and God
said, behold I have given
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you every herb
bearing seed. See there it is,
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herb bearing seed,
that's the whole grains,
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that the beans for example,
which is upon the face of
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all the earth, and
every tree in the which is the
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fruit of a tree yielding
there is that word again
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seed to you it
shall be for meat.
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And so here we find
that God has given to man
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at the beginning in a
perfect world a perfect man
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is perfect diet,
seeds. The whole grains,
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herb of the field,
bearing seed and then the fruit
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tree yielding fruit
whose seed is in itself,
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fruits and nuts.
Fruits, whole grains, nuts
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and perhaps even
beans were given to man
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in the beginning and
this was a diet that designed
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by the creator to
sustain life for how long
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Dr. Guthrie. Well, I
guess God intended people
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to leave forever,
forever. Absolutely.
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In my mind I see Adam
and Eve walking through
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the garden picking
the fruit and eating it,
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I wonder if they
did more grazing or
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if they actually
had sit down meals.
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Well, certainly we know
that they had enjoyable,
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enjoyable foods in fact
we are encouraged in one
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of the themes that
this program is going to be
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coming back to time
and time again is that the
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creator wants to lead
his children back to the
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original diet and
science bares out the reason
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for this, because the
original diet, the seeds diet
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and we will have an
edition here in a few minutes,
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that diet actually is the
most powerful at keeping you
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and I from the
killer diseases that we have
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to struggle with in
this world especially
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Western societies, the
heart disease, the cancer,
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the stroke, the
diabetes and so many of these
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chronic diseases
can best be dealt with,
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with a total plant diet
including the seeds diet.
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Now there is one more
component of the original
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diet that we wanna
mention and that's found in
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Genesis chapter 3 and verse 22.
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Genesis chapter 3
and verse 22, says here,
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And the Lord God
said behold the man has
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become as one of us,
to know good and evil
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and now lest he put
forth his hand and take also
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of the tree of life
and eat and live forever,
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so George what was the other
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component of the original diet.
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Well, it sounds like it
was the fruit from the tree
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of life. You
think that was an apple?
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Well, I hope it was a
mango, but you never know.
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Anyway we know that
probably the seeds diet
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just by itself was
not enough to give man
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eternal life. They
needed to eat daily perhaps
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or at least often
from the tree of life
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and it was because
that God did not want sin
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to continue for ever that
he removed the tree of life,
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so that man would
not have that continual
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existence in his sinful
state. Well, Dr. Guthrie
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you know God believes
in meeting felt needs.
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Yes, and as we know the
story a man was unfaithful
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and you know just bring us back,
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remind us of what
was the first temptation
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and what was the first
sin. It has something to do
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with diet I
understand. Well, its my memory
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that Eve left Adam
and found this tree of
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knowledge of good and evil,
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apparently she was
tempted to eat something
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that God has
recommended that she not eat.
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And having taken
it she went and shared
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it with her husband.
Then they went and hid,
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if I remember
the story correctly
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and God came looking for them.
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So, the first
temptation was a temptation
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of appetite. Taking
what God had forbidden
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and that's why
Jesus and the wilderness
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the first temptation
was in the area of appetite.
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He over came
appetite where we fell and so
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we can claim his
victory for our appetites
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that are frankly quite depraved.
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I speak by experience
you know, but you know God
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always comes with
something that man needs.
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When man has a need
God has that what he needs
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to sustain him and
bless him and so when sin
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entered man was more vulnerable.
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The environment was different.
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He was little more
insults and more toxins
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and more
potential damage to his body
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than ever before
and so we find that God
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added something.
What did you add George?
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Well, my memory is
he said you can now have
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the herbs of the
field. The herb of the field.
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Lets look at that in
Genesis chapter 3 and verse 18
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the second diet they
were gonna be looking at
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is actually the protection
diet. The protection diet
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because it adds
extra protection to man now
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in a sinful world says Thorns
and thistles shall it bring
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forth to thee, and thou
shalt eat the herb of the
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field, so now we are
seeing, it's not just the seed
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that man has been
given, but the actual fleshy
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parts of the plant at the
Lifestyle Center we like to
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say the leaf, the
flower and the stem vegetables,
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those above the
ground vegetables
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that you have
heard so much about.
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And these have
protective elements in them
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to help to protect
against the disease,
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that which we understand to be
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the result of sin in our world.
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Absolutely in fact if you
look at scientific studies.
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You will find a thread
that runs through diet,
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diet associations and
that is that the vegetables
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are basically the
most powerful protective
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food for heart
disease, for cancer and for even
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stroke perhaps and
the green leafy vegetables
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are the most powerful
vegetables of the plant
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or the vegetable
kingdom. It's the green leafy
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that actually have
been shown to be most
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protective against
cancer and heart disease.
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Very strong anti-oxygen
effect to kind of fight off
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the bad effects that
come from our environment
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and I guess our
internal environment as well.
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So the good news is
that when you have a need
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the creator has
something for that need.
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In this case man had a
need for further protection.
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Protection from heart
disease, cancers, stroke
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and even diabetes,
because frankly diabetes is a
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problem with insulin
resistance and too much
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of the free radical
damage, the oxidative damage
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and so green
leafy vegetables can be
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very helpful and protecting
us from those diseases.
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So, we have the protection
diet and then of course
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the story unfolds
was it the man's habit to
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follow the creator and
just keep getting closer
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and closer to him
as the world turned
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or what happened? My
memory is from scripture
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that man's minds
became continually evil
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and God said I'm
gonna have to destroy it.
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He chose a man by
the name of Noah put him
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afloat in a boat and
when the flood was over.
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There was a change in the diet.
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Now George how long
were individuals living
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at this time, 100
years, a couple 100 years,
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what was the life
span? Almost a 1000 years
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if I remember correctly.
So, almost a 1000 years
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7, 8, 9, 100 years
these individuals were living
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and so there's a
bit of a dilemma here,
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we have most of the
world very violent in fact
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we are told that
that's one of the reasons
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that God decided he
needed to destroy the earth
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was that man had
become so violent
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and man was living
several hundred years
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as you mentioned
almost a 1000 years.
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Can you imagine what
it must be like to put
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a check on evil, when
people who are intensely
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violent are
living 7, 8, 900 years,
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so there was a bit of
a dilemma here and that's
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what brought us to the next diet
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and of course
Noah. How many people got
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on that boat, was
that a popular boat there?
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It wasn't a very
popular boat there were
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just eight of
them. Just his family,
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wasn't it? That
and a bunch of animals.
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And a bunch of animals and
its very interesting George
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the kind of animals
that God told him to put on
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that boat that
brings us to the mercy diet.
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Let's go to Genesis
chapter 7 and verse 2.
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Genesis chapter
7 and verse 2 gives
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God's instructions, why
don't you read that for us
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George. Of every clean
beast thou shalt take to
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thee by sevens,
the male and his female
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and of beasts that
are not clean by two,
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the male and his
female. Now these were God's
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direct instructions to
Noah as to what kind of animals
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he should put on the
Ark. Now, there is a bit
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of a message here. Tell
us a little bit about what
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is the implicit
message that God has given Noah
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with these directions.
It sounds to me like there
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are some of the
animals which are safer to have
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around and I think
we will see safer to eat
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and there are some
animals which are understood
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to be unclean and
much less safe to ingest.
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Now, its very interesting
if you are Noah and you
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knew that these unclean animals,
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you only had two of
them on the Ark once
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you came out of
that boat and by the way
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one of the reasons that
God gave this mercy diet
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and we'll read about it
in just a few minutes was
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that there was
nothing for man to eat when he
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came out of that boat.
It had been all that green
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vegetation had
been totally destroyed.
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Everything was annihilated
and it was gonna take
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at least a season to get
those seeds in the ground
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and get a harvest and
so God changed the diet
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partly because he mercifully
provided for man's needs,
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but we are gonna
see in a few minutes
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there were some
other merciful reasons
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why God provided
this different diet
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and why don't we go
now and look at Genesis 9
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and verse 3 and 4 to better
highlight what was the next
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diet that man was given.
Genesis chapter 9 verse 3
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and 4. George
would you read that us?
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Every moving thing that
liveth shall be meat for
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you, even as the
green herb have I given you
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all things. But
flesh with the life thereof
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which is the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat.
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So here we see that
God has given man the
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flesh also to
consume after the flood,
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because there was
nothing else to eat,
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but it's very
interesting if you were Noah
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and you saw
those unclean animals
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and you only saw two of them.
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What would, you
think Noah would say
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lets I think he
was deciding whether we
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should take the
male unclean animal
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or the female
unclean animal to eat?
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That would have
annihilated them I suppose.
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It would have defeated
the purpose for actually
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putting those
animals even on the Ark,
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so Noah knew that
unclean animals were not to
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be eaten, because
there were two of them.
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He eat one you don't
have that species anymore
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and so it was
God's instruction not at
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the time the Moses,
not to with the children
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of Israel, but here
just after the flood there
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is a distinction
made between clean meats
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and unclean meats. And its
interesting Dr. David Macht
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at the Johns
Hopkins University did some
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very interesting
studies with cell cultures.
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He took cell
cultures and he took the flesh
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of the clean animals
and then he watched to
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see whether those
cell cultures whether
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would have an affect
on the cell culture growth
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and sure enough the
flesh of the clean animal
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decreased to some
extent the growth of those cell
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cultures. Then he took
the flesh of unclean animals
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and he added that to
the cell culture and lo
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and behold there
was an even further
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reduction in cell
growth after the addition of
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the unclean animal
flesh and what was even more
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interesting is that
Dr. David Macht found that
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the blood added to
cell culture always
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inhibited cell
culture growth more than
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the flesh. And so we
see that God had a little
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post script on this
new diet. What was the
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post script?
Don't eat the blood.
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Don't eat the blood.
Now it's very interesting,
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I think you would
agree George that red meat
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has not gotten a
lot of positive press in
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the scientific
literature. We understand that
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it's just not
very healthy at all.
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You know even those out of the
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Harvest School of
Public Health I shouldn't say
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even those, but I'll
say that's one of the places
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where I have seen a lot
of studies about red meat
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and how it will
increases the risk of diabetes,
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it increases the
risk of heart disease,
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it increases the
risk of Colon cancer.
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Red meat is really a
damaging food and here
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we see that God and
even after the flood
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centuries ago warned
man that red meat was not
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the way to go. And so
that final merciful act by
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our creator was to add
the meat and George tell us a
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little bit about perhaps
a reason that many people
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may have thought of
that the creator added this
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meat diet. What was
God having to deal with
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in order to put a
check on sin and keep sin
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under control? Yeah, I
think you were alluding
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to that earlier. The
fact that it tends to shorten
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life and as life was
shortened there were,
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there was less
time for people to get
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lost in sin and we
can put it that way.
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And more time for
those who were following God
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to actually have a
greater influence and so God
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did something merciful, it
may seem a little negative,
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but when you
think deeper about it,
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he was merciful, he
was putting a check on evil
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to give his plan of
salvation for this world
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a better chance.
Well, you know, the story
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of children of Abraham
swear basically the only
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people that were
following God and God had to
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move with his family
line in order to continue
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his plan of salvation
and they got stuck down in
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Egypt under slavery and
finally Moses was raised
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up to deliver these
people and they were brought
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from Egypt to Canaan
and they went through a
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number of
experiences on that journey and
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its interesting that those
experiences we're told have
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lessons for us. So
lets read about it in
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First Corinthians 10
and verse 6 and verse 11.
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Now these things were
our examples to the intent
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we should not lust
after evil things as they
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also lusted. Now,
all these things happened
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unto them for
examples and they are written
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for our admonition upon whom the
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ends of the world are
come. So, here we see that Paul
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is actually giving us
very important information,
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he is saying look at
the children of Israel,
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they went through a
number of experiences
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and if you watch them
you will know what you should
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do or what you shouldn't
do and its interesting,
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list five different
things that they were doing
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that he would not
recommend people living at the
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end of time to do, the
every first one is that
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they were craving or
lusting after things that were
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not for their best interest,
in fact Paul calls them
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evil things and
lets go now to numbers
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and actually look at
what was it that these
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children of Israel were
lusting after that we're
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told not to lust
after in these last days.
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Numbers chapter
11 and verse 4 and 5.
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Numbers go ahead George.
And the mixed multitude that
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was among them
fell a lusting and the
00:20:07.42\00:20:10.46
children of Israel
also wept again and said
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who shall give us
flesh to eat? So we remember
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the fish which we
did eat in Egypt freely.
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The cucumbers
and melons, the leeks
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and the onions and the garlic.
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And so here we
find that Paul in the
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Corinthians is saying
to people living at the end
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of time don't follow the
example of the Israelites,
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the children of
Israel, they were lusting after
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evil things and we
find that they were lusting
00:20:42.48\00:20:45.62
after a stimulating diet
which it says specifically
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they were lusting after
flesh and its interesting
00:20:50.08\00:20:52.39
George that the
flesh that they were most
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interested in was the
fish of course they lived
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on the Nile River,
that was really the flesh of
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their vicinity. There
were also lusting after
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some of those
important herbs and spices
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you might say. What
kind of diet did God
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provide these people why
did he provide such a diet?
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What he provided
them was something
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that they called
Manna which means
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as I understand what is
it? That is they weren't
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exactly sure what it
is and my understanding
00:21:23.04\00:21:26.02
is that while it was
tasty it didn't vary very much.
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Each morning they
picked it up. It was always the
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same flavor, no
vanilla and no strawberry
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and no chocolate.
Yes, it was actually a very
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simple diet and
that's actually the point.
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God knew that those
people needed and that
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we needed a simple
unstimulating diet that
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we might have the
best opportunity for
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advancement of character.
So, God wants us to move
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to a more
simple more plain diet,
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but the good news is
that he promises taste
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and see that the Lord is good.
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Now, this preparation
diet. Preparation to enter
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the Canaan and our
preparation for the
00:22:10.38\00:22:13.31
heavenly Canaan is
exemplified by of one
00:22:13.34\00:22:17.18
individual in
particular. George who was that
00:22:17.21\00:22:21.05
individual, who so well
adopted this preparation
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diet and we find
his story in Daniel?
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Oh that was a good
clue. Daniel had the choice
00:22:29.50\00:22:33.85
to make in Nebuchadnezzar's
court he choose to
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have a simple diet
rather than the more
00:22:37.78\00:22:40.45
stimulating complex
diet. The simplicity led to
00:22:40.48\00:22:44.09
him being ten times
wiser. Let's look at that choice
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that Daniel made in
Daniel chapter 1 and verse 8.
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But Daniel purposed in
his heart that he would
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not defile himself with
the portion of the King's meat,
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nor with the
wine which he drank.
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Therefore he
requested of the prince of the
00:23:03.43\00:23:06.84
eunuchs that he
might not defile himself.
00:23:06.87\00:23:10.19
So, here we see
that Daniel made a very
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important decision. He
decided for God's simple diet
00:23:14.21\00:23:19.76
and it's very
interesting George that words,
00:23:19.79\00:23:22.34
the word pulse
here that's used in the
00:23:22.37\00:23:25.10
King James Version
actually is related to the word
00:23:25.13\00:23:29.19
seed. In fact it
means to be planted.
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So, Daniel actually
choose the seeds diet
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and this is the diet of
fruits, grains, nuts, beans
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and probably
vegetables, but this is the diet
00:23:41.32\00:23:45.24
that has been shown
by the medical science to
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reverse heart disease, to
lower your risk of cancer,
00:23:48.22\00:23:51.53
you risk of stroke and
to give you a clear mind.
00:23:51.56\00:23:54.49
Daniel choose that, he
did not choose the wine,
00:23:54.52\00:23:56.89
he did not choose
the stimulating diet as
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George mentioned he
was found ten times wiser
00:23:59.63\00:24:02.43
than the magicians and
astrologers all of those
00:24:02.46\00:24:05.73
in the Nebuchadnezzar's
court, his think tank
00:24:05.76\00:24:10.90
if you will, he was much
wiser than those individuals
00:24:10.93\00:24:13.57
and he was prepared
using these simple diet
00:24:13.60\00:24:17.06
to stand through some
very difficult experiences
00:24:17.09\00:24:21.57
which are stories
and examples for us
00:24:21.60\00:24:24.81
who will also be facing
similar experiences in the
00:24:24.84\00:24:28.75
future. Well, let's move
on to the friendship diet
00:24:28.78\00:24:32.11
and we find this diet
actually spelled out by
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Paul to the
Romans. Romans chapter 14
00:24:37.07\00:24:40.45
and verse 15 and 16.
But if thy brother be
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grieved with thy
meat, now walkest thou not
00:24:45.42\00:24:49.16
charitably. Destroy
not him with thy meat,
00:24:49.19\00:24:52.69
for whom Christ died.
Let not then your good
00:24:52.72\00:24:57.36
be evil spoken of. So,
here we see a balancing
00:24:57.39\00:25:00.80
principle. If the
diet you have chosen,
00:25:00.83\00:25:03.66
if the food you have
chosen is driving someone
00:25:03.69\00:25:05.65
away from the savior
then you are on the wrong
00:25:05.68\00:25:09.47
track and so that's
why we see Christ example
00:25:09.50\00:25:12.70
given in Luke
chapter 24 verses 42 and 43.
00:25:12.73\00:25:18.03
he didn't let food get
in the way of leading others
00:25:18.06\00:25:22.11
to the Savior. And
they gave him a piece of
00:25:22.14\00:25:24.86
boiled fish and of an honeycomb.
00:25:24.89\00:25:27.53
And he took it and
did eat before them.
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So here we see that
Jesus followed his own advice.
00:25:29.67\00:25:33.28
People were important than food.
00:25:33.31\00:25:36.43
And sometimes we
need to air on the side of
00:25:36.46\00:25:39.78
people in order to
bring them to the Savior.
00:25:39.81\00:25:42.40
Now we wanna look
at the Restoration Diet
00:25:42.43\00:25:44.92
because as we have
mention the creator is trying
00:25:44.95\00:25:46.84
to bring us back
to his original diet.
00:25:46.87\00:25:48.89
Let's go to
Revelation 2 and verse 7 to see
00:25:48.92\00:25:52.78
what kind of things
we'll be eating in heaven.
00:25:52.81\00:25:55.68
He that hath an ear
let him hear what the
00:25:55.71\00:25:58.69
Spirit saith unto
the churches to him that
00:25:58.72\00:26:01.11
overcometh will I give
to eat of the tree of life,
00:26:01.14\00:26:03.99
which is in the midst
of the paradise of God.
00:26:04.02\00:26:07.01
And so we are
going to be going back
00:26:07.04\00:26:08.98
and eating that
fruit of the tree of life
00:26:09.01\00:26:11.40
which will allow
us to live forever.
00:26:11.43\00:26:15.01
Another principle,
another principle of these
00:26:15.04\00:26:18.11
final Restoration diet
is given in Revelation 21
00:26:18.14\00:26:22.04
and verse 4.
Revelation 21 and verse 4.
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And God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes
00:26:25.45\00:26:28.39
and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow,
00:26:28.42\00:26:31.39
nor crying, neither
shall there be any more
00:26:31.42\00:26:34.35
pain for the former
things are passed away.
00:26:34.38\00:26:36.88
And so if there is no
more pain, if there is no
00:26:36.91\00:26:39.66
more sorrow probably
there will not be anymore
00:26:39.69\00:26:43.44
butcher shops or
animal husbandry industry.
00:26:43.47\00:26:47.47
Finally let's look at
Isaiah 65 and verse 21.
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And they shall build
houses and inhabit them
00:26:52.75\00:26:55.42
and they shall plant
vineyards and eat the
00:26:55.45\00:26:58.14
fruit of them.
And down to verse 25.
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The wolf and the
lamb shall feed together
00:27:01.80\00:27:05.28
and the lion shall
eat straw like the bullock
00:27:05.31\00:27:07.51
and dust shall be
the serpent's meat.
00:27:07.54\00:27:10.90
They shall not
hurt nor destroy in all
00:27:10.93\00:27:13.69
my holy
mountain, saith the Lord.
00:27:13.72\00:27:16.50
So, here we see that
God wants to bring back
00:27:16.53\00:27:19.52
his original order
where there is no death,
00:27:19.55\00:27:22.39
there is sorrow, there
is no pain, there is cry,
00:27:22.42\00:27:25.18
not only in the human family,
00:27:25.21\00:27:26.89
but also in the
animal family and it's a diet
00:27:26.92\00:27:30.44
the seeds diet, the
vegetables added that
00:27:30.47\00:27:33.64
will give you the
very best health possible.
00:27:33.67\00:27:36.77
And so when ever we
had a need throughout
00:27:36.80\00:27:39.38
history God had a
diet to meet that need
00:27:39.41\00:27:42.99
and now he wants to
bring us back to his
00:27:43.02\00:27:45.20
original diet of
plants. Plant foods, they will
00:27:45.23\00:27:49.61
bring you health,
health like you have never
00:27:49.64\00:27:52.27
experienced before,
but just remember be sure
00:27:52.30\00:27:56.37
and take your Vitamin B
12 with those plant foods.
00:27:56.40\00:27:59.94
And so here again we see
how wonderfully we are made.
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