Behold the Lamb Presents

Health and Nutrition

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00:39 Hello and welcome to Behold the Lamb Presents,
00:41 I am Chris Shelton, your host, and I'm so thankful
00:44 that you've chosen to tune in and to study with us.
00:48 Today we are going to be looking at lesson five
00:51 and it is entitled "Health and Nutrition,"
00:54 something that is near and dear to my heart,
00:57 and it is a lesson in one of 25 lessons
01:01 that are in this book,
01:02 "Sharing God's Love, What the Bible Says."
01:06 This was produced for mass distribution
01:08 by our dear brother in Christ, Brother Richard Bland.
01:12 He's at the United Prison Ministries
01:14 and so we've decided to take
01:16 each and every one of his lessons
01:17 and turn them into an hour of study.
01:20 Today again is health and nutrition.
01:25 You know, an accord to letter
01:26 that we find in 3 John 1:2,
01:31 it reads "Beloved, I wish above all things
01:35 that thou mayest prosper and be in health,
01:38 even as thy soul prospereth."
01:40 You know, friend, I have often read that verse
01:43 and I know that it was a cordial introduction
01:47 to his brother Gaius who he loved.
01:49 But you know, I believe prosper and be in health
01:52 is an expression through John from our heavenly Father
01:56 to each and every one of us.
01:59 I truly believe that God wants us to prosper,
02:01 He wants us to be in good health.
02:04 You know, the Bible also teaches,
02:07 "That He's the potter and we're the clay."
02:09 Let's look at Isaiah 64:8, it reads
02:13 "But now, O Lord, thou art our father,
02:16 we are the clay, and thou are our potter,
02:20 and we are all the work of thy hand."
02:23 You know as you think about a potter and clay
02:25 on that spinning wheel,
02:27 it's the potter that's molding and making.
02:30 He's the one that knows what goes into the clay
02:32 to make it just right,
02:34 he adds just enough water to mold it and to shape it
02:37 into something beautiful, something wonderful
02:42 that people would be able to treasure
02:44 for maybe the rest of their lives.
02:46 Same holds true for our heavenly Father,
02:49 He molded us,
02:51 He made us and He knows what's best for you and us.
02:55 He is making us into His image, He's renewing our heart,
02:59 He's renewing our mind
03:01 through health and through nutrition.
03:04 But before we listen to Pastor Kenny today,
03:07 we're going to visit the 3ABN Worship Center
03:10 and we're going to listen to a song
03:12 and please listen to the words of this song,
03:15 it is entitled "More like You"
03:18 and it is sung by Brother Steve Darmody.
03:42 By chiseling the stones
03:45 That built this house
03:49 And carving out a home
03:52 I only dream about
03:55 You're painting me a view
03:59 That I can't live without
04:03 I can't live without
04:09 But you're making me
04:14 More like You
04:17 Creating me into someone who
04:23 Knows the awesome power
04:27 of what love can do
04:31 You're making me
04:34 Making me more like You
04:45 By molding me the hands
04:49 That desire to serve
04:52 And giving me the voice
04:55 That wants to share Your word
04:59 And offering the hope
05:02 That I don't deserve
05:07 I don't deserve
05:12 But you're making me
05:17 more like You
05:20 Creating me
05:23 Into someone who
05:26 Knows the awesome power
05:29 Of what love can do
05:34 You're making me
05:37 Making me more like You
05:55 But you're making me
05:59 more like You
06:02 Creating me
06:05 Into someone who
06:08 Knows the awesome power
06:11 Of what love can do
06:16 You're making me
06:19 Making me more like You
06:31 You're making me
06:35 Making me more
06:40 Like You
06:58 Thank you for joining us once again
06:59 here at Behold the Lamb Ministries.
07:01 We really appreciate, you folks,
07:02 we want you to know that and we appreciate your cards,
07:05 and your letters, and your phone calls.
07:07 You know, we love to hear here how God is working with you,
07:11 day by day drawing you closer to Him for His soon coming.
07:15 The today's lesson,
07:16 and I want you to get a pencil and paper
07:18 so you can jot some things down.
07:19 I mentioned every time we have a program,
07:21 we move rather quickly on some of these
07:23 quotes and things.
07:24 Be sure and write them down
07:25 and go back and study them for yourself.
07:28 We're going to be talking about health and nutrition.
07:31 You know, what a time that we live in
07:32 we need to be healthy, we need to eat the right things
07:34 and so may God help us as we study the Word together.
07:37 And I sure appreciated, Brother Steve Darmody's song
07:40 in the very beginning "More like You."
07:43 And it talks about how He's molding us
07:45 and shaping us into becoming more like Jesus everyday
07:48 and that was such a blessing.
07:50 Always before we go into the study of God's Word,
07:52 we always kneel and have prayer together
07:54 and I invite you, bless your hearts,
07:56 I enjoy hearing that some of you,
07:58 well, you can, you kneel with us
08:00 while we pray together,
08:01 so I'm going to invite you to do that as we pray together.
08:06 Loving Father in heaven, again,
08:08 we thank You for the privilege of prayer,
08:09 we thank You that we can call upon Thee in our time of need.
08:12 Certainly we need Your power, Thy Holy Spirit.
08:15 Lord, help my mind today,
08:16 help me as to read the Word of God
08:18 we pray that it'll be clear.
08:20 It'll come forth in people's hearts
08:22 and their minds and they'll be drawn close to you,
08:24 that they'll learn more
08:27 maybe than what they ever have before
08:29 as the Holy Spirit speaks
08:30 to their heart and to their life.
08:32 Bless us now, we pray to this and we're going to thank You
08:34 in advance for what You're going to do
08:36 in getting our hearts and minds be open
08:38 to that which You for us today, in Jesus' name,
08:40 amen.
08:43 You have your Bible, I want you to turn quickly
08:44 with me to 2 Peter.
08:46 Going to read just a couple of verses here.
08:48 Remember, everything that we start
08:49 talking about here in the beginning of our study,
08:52 it will see how it fits together
08:54 as we get closer to the end.
08:56 So keep all of these things in mind
08:58 because they are to build one on top of the other.
09:02 In this passage of 2 Peter Chapter 1,
09:04 I'm going to just read four,
09:06 maybe three verses here that will help us.
09:08 You've read it many times but in 5, 6, and 7.
09:12 2 Peter 1:5, 6, and 7, the Bible says,
09:16 "And besides this, giving all diligence,
09:19 add to your faith" what?
09:21 "Virtue, and to your virtue knowledge."
09:24 Notice this, "And to knowledge temperance,
09:27 and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness,
09:32 and to godliness brotherly kindness,
09:34 and to brotherly kindness charity."
09:36 Or love.
09:37 Notice, knowledge and temperance,
09:40 this is very important,
09:41 we keep this in our minds and our hearts
09:43 as we study together.
09:44 It's very interesting here,
09:46 Spirit of Prophecy gives just
09:48 about two lines I want you to pay
09:49 close attention to letter 44, written in 1903.
09:54 You know, it really doesn't matter
09:55 how long ago something's been written,
09:57 if it's truth, it's truth, and it remains truth.
09:59 It never changes, but notice just a couple of line, says,
10:03 "Those who disregard"
10:05 notice "His or Jesus' expressed commands
10:08 will form characters
10:10 like the propensities that they indulge."
10:13 Think about it, if we do what?
10:15 Disregard God's expressed commands.
10:20 So if God has commanded it, if God is speaking to us,
10:23 we read it from the Word of God,
10:25 then we decide to disregard it,
10:27 we become just like those things that we are,
10:30 you know, beholding,
10:31 not certainly taking in like we should be.
10:34 So keep that in mind as we study together.
10:36 We are talking about health and nutrition.
10:39 I don't think that I've ever met an individual
10:42 who doesn't want to be healthy.
10:44 I don't think I've ever met anyone.
10:47 Everybody you meet, they say, "But I want to have health."
10:51 And if you would offer them health or even finances,
10:55 majority of people would take what?
10:58 Health above money because we find in the days
11:01 where people who have a lot of money
11:03 and there's something wrong with them,
11:04 they're willing to give what?
11:06 Give everything so that they can back it up,
11:08 so that they can have health.
11:10 The world that we live in is an interesting world.
11:15 Almost everybody that I meet, they are health conscious.
11:19 You know, in the world health conscious today,
11:21 we find that we want to look good,
11:24 we want to feel good,
11:26 and we want to live a long healthy prosperous life.
11:30 So those are kind of the three things that we find
11:32 that is contagious around the world today
11:37 is to spend billions of dollars to look good.
11:40 We'd spend billions if we had it,
11:41 so we could live longer.
11:43 We want to be healthy, we want to be happy.
11:45 And that's no different than what the Bible says
11:47 in this sense, in 3 John 2,
11:50 passage says, "Beloved, I wish above" what?
11:53 "All things that thou mayest prosper and be" where?
11:57 "And be in health," notice this,
12:00 "even as thy soul prospereth."
12:03 So notice the things that are there in there.
12:05 I want you, above all things,
12:07 you prosper and that you be in health
12:10 and he doesn't go on and just say that's it,
12:12 he goes on and talks about the soul's health.
12:15 Very interesting,
12:17 but there's things that have to add up
12:18 in order for our souls to be healthy,
12:22 and we're going to talk about those things.
12:24 Look what John is covering in these verses quickly.
12:27 Certainly he's covering health, and he's covering prosperity
12:30 but notice, he's looking at
12:35 spiritual wellbeing.
12:37 If you have to weigh them all out,
12:38 which one would you choose if you could only have one?
12:41 John wants us to be as he stresses here.
12:44 He said, "I want you to be successful.
12:46 I want you to be prosperous."
12:48 Notice that.
12:49 Even in the temporal things, even things of this life.
12:52 So we are not saying that
12:54 there's lot of things out there,
12:55 they're not bad within themselves, it's our attitude
12:57 and our motive towards those things.
13:00 So he's saying, "Even in the temporal things
13:02 I want to go well for you.
13:03 I want you to have money,
13:05 I want you to have things of this world
13:06 if you can handle it.
13:08 But also, I want you to have
13:09 good spiritual connection with God."
13:11 That's very, very important in this passage.
13:14 Why?
13:15 Because John realizes this
13:17 which we must realize as Christians.
13:20 He realizes the connection between the mind and the body.
13:25 Is there a connection? Absolutely.
13:27 Absolutely between the mind and the body
13:29 or we say when the soul prospers,
13:33 the body is better able to be healthy.
13:38 Does that make sense?
13:39 We're feeling good, we're feeling healthy.
13:42 It makes a difference
13:44 on how we want to spend time with God,
13:46 how we read the Word of God and what we do as Christians.
13:50 Health and nutrition and the importance of it.
13:53 We could say, and someone puts up,
13:55 yeah, we're on the other side of the coin,
13:57 the other side of the coin.
13:59 So in other words, if we're feeling good,
14:00 our spiritual life is better.
14:02 On the other side,
14:03 is if we're not feeling so well,
14:04 sometime we suffer spiritually,
14:07 we can't seem to get in the Word,
14:09 we neglect the Word.
14:12 If we neglect our physical wellbeing,
14:15 you know, it bothers us,
14:16 maybe we just can't sit down
14:18 and we can't read the Word of God.
14:20 We may be going along and getting some bad habits
14:24 in our hearts and in our life
14:26 rather than some of the good things.
14:29 Our religion suffers, our belief in God suffers
14:32 when we go the wrong direction.
14:34 I heard someone say this,
14:37 "It's not enough for the gardener
14:41 to love flowers, he has to hate weeds."
14:45 Does that make sense?
14:46 It's not just, "Oh, I love flowers,
14:47 I love flowers, you've got to hate the weeds."
14:50 As Proverbs tells us in Proverbs14:13, jot it down,
14:55 it's very interesting, notice this,
14:56 it starts out this way "A sound heart..."
15:00 It's very interesting that we have
15:01 and we need a sound heart
15:03 because sound means it's a cured heart.
15:08 We're talking about health and nutrition.
15:10 We have to have a heart that is cured,
15:12 notice this, cured, that means a wholesome heart,
15:16 that means a mended heart.
15:18 And I thought how interesting this is,
15:21 a heart that has been mended by stitches,
15:26 maybe a heart that has been broken,
15:28 maybe a heart who's had physical problems,
15:31 but it can be mended, but he said by stitches.
15:34 This is what he's talking about when he said a sound heart.
15:38 It may not start out that way, may not because of...
15:40 But it can be changed into that sound heart.
15:43 It is the life of the flesh,
15:45 so sound heart then is the life of the what?
15:48 Of the flesh, the verse goes on, it says,
15:50 I don't want to miss this, says,
15:52 "But envy the rottenness of the bones."
15:55 Jealousy.
15:56 Jealousy is a horrible thing, so we want to be mended,
16:00 we want to be wholesome,
16:02 we want to be strong in the Lord.
16:04 Beautiful book that I like Ministry of Healing,
16:06 we find this quote, page 280,
16:10 "That which corrupts the body..."
16:13 Notice the word.
16:14 "That which corrupts the body," that which destroys it,
16:17 that which breaks it, that which is, you know,
16:22 somehow would break down and make it weaker,
16:24 we need to be careful,
16:26 "the body tends to corrupt the soul."
16:28 Whatever breaks down what? The body.
16:30 The body that breaks down, it tends to corrupt the soul.
16:35 Notice how it goes,
16:36 "It unfits the user for communion with God,
16:40 it unfits him for the high and holy service."
16:43 Two things I want you to just remember on that,
16:46 we're looking about it here, Ministry of Healings, page 280.
16:49 First of all if we take anything or do anything
16:52 that corrupts the body, it's going to affect the soul.
16:56 And here's how it does it,
16:57 it affects our communication with God,
16:59 it affects our prayer life with God
17:02 if we're taking the wrong things in.
17:03 We're doing the wrong thing,
17:05 it affects our communication with God.
17:07 And then secondly, you noticed what?
17:10 I become unfit.
17:11 You become unfit because of our life,
17:15 you know, what we're doing in our life,
17:16 things we're taking into our body, fit for service.
17:19 Because when we get ourselves in the position
17:21 to where we cannot go out and do those things
17:24 that God would have us to be doing.
17:26 So we're unfit for service with God.
17:29 This fits in with Leviticus in the old chapter, 20:23.
17:35 Now this was dealing with flesh
17:37 and it's dealing with morality here.
17:39 Leviticus 20:3, God's giving us a warning here,
17:43 "Ye shall not walk in the manner of the nations,
17:47 which I cast out before you: for they" notice,
17:50 "they committed all these things,
17:53 and therefore I abhorred them."
17:56 It's interesting the words that come out
17:57 when we're thinking about, what we're talking about
17:59 health and happiness and, you know,
18:00 things that we eat,
18:02 the things that we take in and so on and so forth.
18:03 God is telling us here right now, He said,
18:06 "Don't be like the other nations.
18:08 I'm looking at a people who are different,
18:09 who'll be different, who'll act different,
18:11 talk different, eat differently,
18:13 will be different from that of the world."
18:16 He said, "Those people of the world I cast out."
18:18 Did you notice that? I cast them out.
18:20 And He used the word, God said, "I abhorred them."
18:23 Whoo, that's strong language for God to use,
18:26 when He said no, because I told them,
18:29 I warned them, 'notice that I abhorred them.
18:32 Now, God makes this strong statement here or two
18:34 in Deuteronomy 7:26
18:36 that I think would help to balance it out.
18:38 Deuteronomy 7:26,
18:41 "Neither shalt thou bring
18:43 an abomination into thine house."
18:46 Interesting what we might want to think as an abomination.
18:50 There's a lot of things that are an abomination to God
18:53 but isn't it wonderful, in His Word,
18:55 He always tells us, this is an abomination.
18:58 This is abomination, and how He said,
19:01 "Don't bring abomination into thine house,
19:04 lest thou be a cursed thing like it."
19:08 Think about that,
19:10 He's called certain things an abomination.
19:13 He said, "If you bring that abomination into your house,
19:16 you are a cursed abomination just like it is."
19:19 That's pretty strong language for us to chew on
19:22 and how far does it go.
19:24 How far does it go
19:25 when we're talking about this subject field for today?
19:28 Very, very interesting.
19:30 You know, this also as we look at,
19:32 to me it sets us for another text
19:34 when we look at it here, in the New Testament.
19:37 In the New Testament,
19:38 it's a lesson set forth by the Holy Spirit,
19:40 I thought was interesting.
19:42 This is one familiar that you know
19:43 found in 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 17.
19:49 Remember we have to hang on every word.
19:52 We have to go line upon line, precept upon precept.
19:54 So things that we've discussed and covered, God said,
19:57 "There are things that are abominations."
19:59 There are things that we shouldn't even bring
20:00 into our house.
20:02 He said, "We have to be careful
20:03 about what we put into our body,"
20:04 because it affects our thinking and our relationship with Him.
20:08 I think that boils it down.
20:09 You know God has not changed regards to what men may say,
20:13 "Well, God's changed, says, we're not the same today."
20:15 Bible is the same as it always has been,
20:17 the truth is always the same, it will never change.
20:20 Bible tells us 1 Corinthians 3:16 and 17,
20:23 "Know ye not that ye are the" what?
20:25 Temple of God.
20:26 I like it, "You're the temple of God."
20:28 Don't you know, He's telling you.
20:30 Don't you know "You're the temple of God
20:32 and the Spirit of God dwells in you?"
20:34 I can tell you this today,
20:36 that either the Spirit of God dwells in you
20:38 or the spirit of enemy.
20:39 It is one of the other, it's not just,
20:40 well a little bit of this, a little bit of that,
20:42 one or the other.
20:43 Bitter and sweet water can't come from the same place.
20:46 So he's telling us here, write quick,
20:49 does Holy Spirit wants to dwell in you.
20:51 Now, "If any man defile that temple."
20:55 He just said you were the temple,
20:57 that's where the Holy Spirit wants to dwell.
20:59 But if you are defiling it, what is God going to do?
21:03 "Him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy."
21:08 Our temple then, our body should be what?
21:11 It should be holy unto God.
21:13 So we cannot willfully take in things into our body
21:16 or use things that's going to affect us
21:19 mentally, physically and spiritually
21:21 because they work together.
21:23 So as we see this, God says, "I'm going to destroy..."
21:26 The temple is holy and which temple?
21:28 You are.
21:29 So there it makes it very, very clear
21:32 that God wants us to examine these things,
21:35 so that we can be in the best,
21:37 you know, working condition for Him.
21:40 So our relationship can be right.
21:42 Again, little book,
21:43 Ministry of Healing, I love this book.
21:46 Page 310 says this.
21:47 There's a pretty good paragraph.
21:48 But please, listen, because it says
21:50 just what scripture has already told us.
21:52 I've often said...
21:53 People say, "Well, you read Bible,
21:55 then you read some Spirit of Prophecy."
21:56 You know, I always read, what?
21:58 The Bible says first and then what I read to you
22:00 if what gels with the Bible.
22:02 If it doesn't, I'm gonna throw it out.
22:03 But this is gelling
22:05 with what the Bible has already said.
22:07 It says here,
22:08 "Our bodies are Christ's purchased possession."
22:11 He says what? You're the temple.
22:13 And now the Holy Spirit wants to dwell in you.
22:15 Because what?
22:16 We're not our own, isn't that right?
22:18 It says here, "You are His purchased possession."
22:20 Yes.
22:22 Think about it, you're not your own,
22:23 you're purchased by Him, by His blood.
22:27 "We are not at liberty,"
22:29 notice this "to do with them as we please."
22:32 How often have you heard someone say,
22:35 "I'll do as I please with my body."
22:37 You see, that just shows
22:39 they don't know the Word of God.
22:41 "I'll do what I please."
22:42 You may do as you please,
22:44 but there's a consequence at the end of it.
22:46 And you may not only suffer what?
22:48 In the life to come, but in this life,
22:50 you'll also suffer if you go against
22:51 what God Has already said in His Word.
22:53 Why?
22:55 Because you've been purchased by Him, He owns you.
22:57 He created you, He owns you.
22:59 Notice, you're not at liberty to do with them as you please.
23:02 "All who understand," careful now, listen,
23:04 "the laws of health should realize their obligation
23:08 to obey these laws
23:10 which God has established in their being."
23:13 Notice this, "Obedience" I like this,
23:15 "to the laws of health
23:17 is to be made a matter of personal duty."
23:21 Our duty is to make sure we understand the laws of what?
23:24 Health.
23:26 The laws of health, this is very important,
23:27 let's build on it.
23:28 The laws of health we need to know
23:30 and obedience to those laws of health.
23:32 If we...
23:34 Notice this, ourselves, if not,
23:35 "We ourselves must suffer the results of violated laws.
23:40 We must individually answer to God
23:42 for our habits and our practices."
23:46 That makes sense, doesn't it?
23:47 We have to answer to God for what?
23:48 Our habits and our practices, whatever they may be.
23:52 You have a choice, you can do what you want,
23:54 but God reveals strongly in His Word
23:57 the path that we must take.
23:59 If we violate these laws,
24:01 we shall suffer even in this life.
24:05 Did you get it?
24:06 Even in this life we shall suffer.
24:08 So we must learn to, in my opinion,
24:11 we must learn to be what the Bible says
24:13 in 1 Corinthians, temperate in how many things?
24:17 1 Corinthians 9:25,
24:19 "Must be temperate in all things."
24:22 What God wants people to be,
24:23 is to be able to balance His Word properly.
24:27 Not go overboard right and left and they talk,
24:29 you know, in politics a lot of times,
24:32 there are the right,
24:33 there are the left, there are...
24:34 We need to learn how to balance the Word of God
24:36 based upon the Word of God here.
24:39 And that means, temperate means,
24:41 I need to learn some self restraint.
24:44 That's what temperate,
24:45 self restraint has to do
24:48 with containing our self.
24:52 This is what God said to be temperate in all things,
24:54 dealing with, we're talking about diet and morality,
24:58 how they work hand in hand.
25:01 Just give a little example about diet, for instance.
25:06 You realize that a person who sits at their job
25:09 needs to be more careful
25:11 of what they take into their body
25:12 than one who is out physically working.
25:14 Does that make sense to us?
25:16 You know, some may get jealous
25:17 but different people have different job,
25:19 that's just the way it is.
25:20 So to help along that line, you say,
25:22 "Well my job is basically using my brain."
25:24 And I said, if we do that?
25:27 What it says, I though very interesting.
25:29 We are to take just two
25:30 or three kinds of food at a meal.
25:34 This will help us if we want to balance it out.
25:37 Just two or three kinds of food,
25:40 we take at one time at each meal.
25:42 Simple food.
25:43 And we eat no more than to satisfy our hunger.
25:47 You know, how a lot of time, we say,
25:48 "Well, I want to eat little more
25:50 because I'm not" what?
25:51 I'm not full yet.
25:52 I'm gonna have another bite of this,
25:54 I'm gonna have another bite of that.
25:56 Many times we've done, "Oh, this tastes good,
25:57 I'm gonna have a little bit more."
25:59 But we are talking about to be healthy
26:01 and have ourselves in the best condition
26:04 that God can use us.
26:05 Is that we need to be careful if our job is sedentary,
26:08 that we...
26:09 And millions and millions that have that job.
26:12 So we just eat simple food,
26:13 just two or three items, one time.
26:16 And then we naturally, we don't eat,
26:18 you know, till we're real full.
26:20 Because, you know, the gauge on that sometime is what?
26:23 After what we are eating,
26:24 and just say for about 10 minutes
26:26 you gonna say, ooh, I'm full, if you didn't eat another drop.
26:28 But right at that same time, you're not really feeling it,
26:30 it's kind of delayed response.
26:32 And then number three, is exercise.
26:35 Exercise every day.
26:38 Spirit of Prophecy says,
26:39 we need to exercise everyday of our life.
26:42 Now remember the things that we just read here,
26:44 the things that God has made plain,
26:45 and we refuse to do those things,
26:47 we would we held accountable for that.
26:50 This is the best way to have optimal health.
26:53 Now think about it, don't raise your hand,
26:54 if I say, now how many exercise on a regular basis?
26:57 Probably very few will raise their hand.
26:58 How many just choose one, or two, or three
27:00 different kind of food?
27:03 Well, we need to look at it and say,
27:04 "Now how healthy do I want to be?
27:06 And how much brain power do I really need?
27:10 You know, how can I be better fit
27:11 to be a servant of God?"
27:14 But now, on the other hand, those who are outside working
27:17 and those who burn a lot of calories,
27:19 those who are climbing, and stretching,
27:21 and muscling things, whatever,
27:23 you don't have to be quiet so particular.
27:25 Remember, I'm still talking about,
27:27 I'm talking about the clean.
27:28 I'm never talking about the unclean here.
27:30 God made a distinction,
27:31 I'll bring that up a little bit later.
27:33 There's distinction between the clean,
27:34 and the unclean when we are talking about here.
27:37 But we need to just look at it here,
27:38 we need to regardless of what your work
27:41 or position is, because I know myself,
27:43 when I was in construction for years.
27:44 And I work outside in the sun, or whatever it is.
27:46 You sweat an awful lot.
27:48 Man, you can eat an awful lot and you need that's all about
27:50 three squares to keep you going.
27:52 That doesn't mean everybody does,
27:54 because they are not burning, often doing what you are doing.
27:56 But you still need to be careful what you eat,
27:59 and what you drink, is what God said.
28:00 So here's a question, so what should we eat?
28:03 We're talking about health and nutrition.
28:05 What should we eat according to the Bible?
28:07 Either the Bible is changed, or has not changed.
28:10 It either is right, or it's wrong.
28:13 Or have we changed?
28:14 So what should we really eat?
28:16 Turn with your Bible,
28:17 I'm gonna turn to Genesis Chapter 1.
28:19 We always go back to the beginning,
28:20 if you want to find out truth.
28:22 Is that right?
28:23 You always go back the way God set it up,
28:24 and then we find out, it's where we are at now.
28:26 What in the world has happened?
28:29 Genesis 1:29.
28:32 We'll just read that verse here and look at it quickly.
28:35 Genesis 1:29, it says
28:37 "And God said, behold I have given you every" what?
28:42 A herb, "Herb to be bearing seed,
28:44 which is upon the face of the earth,
28:46 every tree, in which is the fruit
28:49 of a tree yielding seed,
28:51 to you it shall be for meat or food."
28:53 This is what God said, the One who created us.
28:57 This is nothing new for most,
28:59 but people sometime, we just don't get it.
29:01 We say, "Well, I know what He did.
29:02 I know, He created us.
29:04 He knows us inside and out.
29:06 He knows what is best for us."
29:07 Here He said, "I created you,
29:09 here's what I want you to eat right here.
29:11 I want you to eat every herb bearing seed
29:13 which is upon the face of the earth and every tree
29:16 in which there's the fruit of the tree."
29:18 Notice that, as we look at it.
29:21 And God said, if you back up a verse to 27, notice it.
29:26 It says, "So God created man in His" what?
29:28 Own image.
29:30 "His own image, in the image of God created He him,
29:33 male and female created He them."
29:36 Just simply once again to reiterate what?
29:38 He created us.
29:40 He knows what we are, who we are,
29:42 what we're made up of,
29:43 and what will make you tick better.
29:45 Right.
29:46 And when we choose to go the other way,
29:48 what are we really saying?
29:50 What are we really saying?
29:51 God, I know better than you know.
29:53 I know what You said back here,
29:55 and I know that it's truth back here.
29:56 But I'm gonna do what I want to do,
29:58 because my taste buds say so.
30:00 We had to be very careful because it says,
30:02 "We're gonna reap what we sow."
30:05 And when God has given specific commands,
30:07 He's gonna hold us accountable for those things.
30:10 It just makes sense,
30:11 thanks that we've been over for, maybe, many times.
30:13 God created man.
30:16 So He goes on to tell us
30:18 certain things there, didn't He?
30:19 What we basically, we read in verse 29,
30:21 what we should be eating.
30:24 Remember, when it says "Every herb,"
30:25 notice this, "Man was to eat from the tree
30:29 and from the" what?
30:31 The field.
30:32 "The tree and the field."
30:33 That means grains, nuts, and fruit in the beginning.
30:37 Is that true?
30:38 God set it up that way, He said that simple.
30:41 Animals, notice this,
30:42 animals were to eat every green herb.
30:46 Did you get that?
30:47 The animals were to eat every green.
30:48 That means vegetables, or green plants, or grass,
30:52 that's what the animals were to eat.
30:54 God never gave us that to in beginning, did He?
30:56 He said what?
30:57 Grains, nuts, and fruit so, clear teaching of scripture
31:01 is death entered in through what?
31:04 The world through sin.
31:05 Death did what?
31:07 That God had for us,
31:08 if we do all right, we'd been obedient,
31:10 it I'll be good to last for eternity, would it not?
31:13 But now we see sin has come in,
31:15 and death came in because of sin,
31:18 because of appetite.
31:20 And there was sin in the beginning?
31:22 Appetite got them thrown out of the garden.
31:24 Appetite will get us thrown out of the kingdom.
31:27 Think about it, if we really want to balance it up here.
31:29 And again, this is one thing most people can't really do
31:32 is appetite and money,
31:34 they have difficult time to comprehend for some reason.
31:36 And we really shouldn't,
31:38 because it's so clear the way God set it up.
31:40 So notice what it says here, clear teaching and scripture
31:43 shows that God in the beginning did what?
31:46 He did not intend for man or animals
31:50 should take the life of another,
31:52 in order to feed them self.
31:54 He never intended for another animals
31:55 to kill other animals for food.
31:58 He never intended for us to kill animals for food,
32:01 because that was not in the diet to begin with.
32:03 Does that make sense?
32:05 We know things have...
32:06 Well, things have changed.
32:08 Yes, they have. Who changed them?
32:09 That's what we have to look at.
32:10 Who really changed these things?
32:12 You know, this must have been God's plan,
32:14 because I read it from the Word of God.
32:16 In Genesis 1:31, the Bible says
32:20 "Behold, it was" what?
32:22 "It was very good."
32:23 Everything God did, it says what?
32:26 "Behold, it was very good."
32:28 Now remember, those who gel,
32:30 those who want to be what God wants them to be.
32:33 This I'll be music to our ears, and just a, you know,
32:35 reminder of how God set it up,
32:37 to those who do not want to listen,
32:40 you're not going to listen anyway, we understand that.
32:42 This may be new to a lot of different ones
32:44 who view or who watch, and you'll say,
32:46 "Man, I never heard this before."
32:48 But if He use us to get back into the Word of God
32:50 and begin to read it and see what it says,
32:53 because God just simply said in Genesis 1:31,
32:56 "Behold, everything He'd done, behold, it was very good."
33:00 So I'd have to say, the diet that He chose
33:02 for mankind was very good.
33:04 Why? Because God said so.
33:06 So that makes sense, no reason for me to argue with that.
33:09 In fact, He doesn't leave it at that,
33:11 He goes on in several different verses.
33:17 In verse 4, and 10, and 12,
33:19 and 18, and 21, and 25, and 31,
33:23 God says it's very good.
33:25 So on and on, it's very good.
33:27 He didn't want Brother Mark,
33:28 or Brother Kenny, or John or somebody to say,
33:30 "Well, I didn't know it was very good.
33:33 God said "It was very good."
33:35 So when Adam and Eve then left Eden.
33:37 Man was given, remember, what was man given?
33:41 To gain for his livelihood as God said,
33:43 this is what I want you to do, I want you to go out and what?
33:45 Till the ground.
33:46 Right, when they were thrown out of the garden,
33:48 he said now you are to till the soil.
33:51 Now you are to till the ground under...
33:54 Now, remember, when they till the ground,
33:55 it was under the curse of what?
33:57 It was under the curse of sin, it wasn't just easy.
34:00 Then man received permission to eat the herbs of the field.
34:06 Then and only then, when God said, now go out
34:09 and, you now, Adam and Eve, Adam, it's what you gonna do,
34:12 you're gonna till the soil.
34:14 That wouldn't make sense to go till the soil
34:16 and plant crops and then don't eat it.
34:18 God didn't say that.
34:19 You're gonna till the soil, and now you can eat so.
34:21 Now notice that, what did He do?
34:23 Now man's diet is what?
34:25 Grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables.
34:29 Still good.
34:31 Still God for us, notice that.
34:33 Second Testimonies 352 written in 1869,
34:38 notice what it says?
34:39 "If ever there was a time when the diet should be
34:42 of the most simple kind, it is now."
34:45 Lord have mercy.
34:47 That's almost 150 years ago when things were probably,
34:52 pretty decent.
34:54 Is that okay for me to say that?
34:55 Probably it was so much better than it is today.
34:58 More in the natural state,
34:59 more the way that it should be taken in.
35:02 More it says right now, notice, the simple kind, it's now,
35:05 if there ever was a time
35:06 that diet should be the most simple, it's now.
35:09 Wow!
35:11 Seven Testimonies 125.6 says this,
35:14 "God is working in behalf of His people.
35:17 He does," notice this "He does not desire them,"
35:20 Oh, my, "to be without resources."
35:24 He is bringing them back to the diet,
35:27 originally given to man.
35:30 What is God doing?
35:32 You know what?
35:33 What they say about the horse?
35:35 You can lead him to water, but you can't make him drink.
35:38 May sound a little bit goofy, but all right, listen.
35:41 This is what God has said in His Word.
35:43 Here is the diet, here is what you can eat,
35:46 this is what's best for you.
35:48 And then He goes on and says
35:50 right through the Spirit of Prophecy.
35:52 He's bringing us back to our what?
35:54 Original diet that He gave to man.
35:58 So what would that original diet be?
35:59 Well, we should know that.
36:01 In the Book of Daniel, you turn there quickly,
36:03 I'm not, can't read all of it because of our time.
36:05 But the Book of Daniel,
36:07 Daniel Chapter 1 is very interesting,
36:10 because we understand what Daniel went through.
36:12 You remember what Daniel went through?
36:14 What was he supposed to do?
36:16 He's supposed to eat the king's meat, wasn't he?
36:19 He's supposed to eat what was set before him,
36:20 but he had purposed in his heart
36:22 that he wasn't gonna do that.
36:23 Now did it work a miracle for him?
36:26 Was it good for him?
36:27 Absolutely, it worked well for him as he ate
36:30 what God had impressed him to be eating.
36:34 He comes out smarter, and stronger, and better
36:36 in person that he didn't have to eat that.
36:38 So we don't have time to read all those,
36:40 just read all of those verses and you can see
36:43 how God will bless if we follow His plan.
36:47 But see, this is all that really
36:49 basically all that is, is matter of here,
36:51 is the matter of our taste buds.
36:54 Our taste buds need to be converted.
36:56 I'm talking about myself,
36:58 I'm talking about anybody who wants to...
36:59 I'm not trying to judge anybody,
37:01 say you're doing this or doing that.
37:02 Our taste buds need to be converted
37:04 to what is most healthy for us,
37:06 so that we can be of better service for Jesus.
37:09 This is what it's really all about,
37:11 but most people would just say, I've heard people say,
37:13 "If I have to give up certain thing to eat,
37:15 I don't want to go to heaven."
37:17 Well, bless your heart, you don't know about heaven,
37:18 and evidently you don't know about God.
37:21 You don't know the Word of God.
37:22 You don't have a Christian experience,
37:23 when we make comments like that.
37:25 Bless their hearts, they may be in ignorance,
37:27 you know, to the Word of God.
37:29 And they're saying it out of ignorance,
37:30 I'd say not knowing.
37:32 But who would really say that, well if I have to give this up,
37:34 I don't want to go to heaven.
37:37 Yeah.
37:38 Interesting, what people's thoughts are.
37:41 You know, surely God is better, right?
37:42 His thoughts are better than ours.
37:44 His ways are not our ways.
37:46 Four Testimonies, page 515, moving along quickly, 516.
37:50 Four T, 515 and 516.
37:53 Talking about, we're just reading about
37:55 in Daniel Chapter 1 about the eating and so on.
37:58 Says, "Daniel's clearness of mind
38:00 and firmness of purpose,
38:02 his strength and intellect in acquiring knowledge
38:05 were due to a great degree to the plainness of his diet
38:10 and connection with a life of prayer."
38:13 Two things, keen, sharp,
38:16 put in the high position of a ruler, right?
38:18 As taken into captivity, think about,
38:20 that's impossible with man.
38:22 But God elevated him up.
38:24 His strength, and his intellect,
38:25 his knowledge was due basically through what?
38:28 His diet.
38:30 And his prayer and communion with God,
38:32 so we need certainly, them both.
38:34 This is a powerful statement,
38:35 I don't want you to miss this right here,
38:37 'cause we want to try to balance it up,
38:39 a powerful statement.
38:40 It's found in Review and Herald,
38:43 May 27, 1902.
38:45 Notice this.
38:46 My wife and I've talked about this a lot,
38:48 see what you think about this.
38:50 "Shall we who have had such great opportunities
38:53 allow the people of the world to go in advance of us
38:58 in health reform?"
39:00 I'm here today, say, they have.
39:02 The world...
39:04 Because we would not do our job,
39:07 which we should have, God gave it to Israel,
39:09 God gave it to the Jews, God gave this health message
39:12 to the last-day church that the world
39:14 is ahead of us now in health reform.
39:18 All you've to do is to be studying
39:19 and reading some of the things that we see
39:21 and we hear all the time.
39:22 They may be still sort of
39:24 fighting the clean, and the unclean.
39:25 Some of the stuff is unbelievable
39:26 that have out there that we're not approaching.
39:28 Notice this, "Shall we who have had such great opportunities
39:31 allow the people of the world to go advance of us
39:34 in health reform?
39:36 Shall we cheapen our minds and abuse our talents
39:39 by wrong eating?"
39:42 Wow, that's pretty heavy.
39:44 Again a challenge, Second Testimonies 400,
39:48 "All who are partakers of divine nature."
39:51 So if I say to you, is there anybody here,
39:53 you know, want to partake of the divine nature?
39:56 Surely all of us would say "Yes," right?
39:59 Amen.
40:00 We don't want the fleshly nature,
40:02 we want divine nature,
40:03 the nature of Christ, isn't it right?
40:05 If we're going to repopulate heaven,
40:07 we need the nature of Jesus Christ here.
40:09 So "All who are partakers of divine nature..."
40:11 I assume all of us here, raise your hand.
40:13 "Yes Lord.
40:15 Yes, yes, yes, I want double potion.
40:18 Give me that nature." Amen.
40:20 Notice, "Will escape,
40:22 if you do will escape the corruption
40:24 that is in the world through lust."
40:28 That's of course you find in 2 Peter 1:4,
40:30 but notice it is impossible, here's where it gets down.
40:33 Here's where the rubber meets the road.
40:35 Here's where it really gets touchy.
40:37 Here's where it upsets some people,
40:39 I don't know why that it should.
40:42 Either determined by the grace of God to do it, or I don't,
40:44 how about you?
40:46 Either purpose, and we've asked purpose in our heart,
40:48 "Lord, I want to follow You.
40:50 I know Your way is the best.
40:51 I submit to Your authority."
40:53 There's nothing wrong with that, I submit to God.
40:56 You don't have to submit to mankind.
40:58 Submit to God, because He knows best.
41:01 You say, "Well, yeah,
41:03 I've lived quite a while, I'm done.
41:04 Look how much better you could have been,
41:06 if you just follow the plan, that'd still be a plus.
41:09 Okay, if you lived to be 150 or 500,
41:12 you can live longer if you follow God's plan.
41:14 I think you get the point.
41:16 Notice what is says, "It is impossible..."
41:18 I've marked the word,
41:20 "It is impossible for those who indulge the appetite."
41:23 It is impossible for those who do what?
41:25 "Who indulge the appetite
41:27 to attain to Christian perfection."
41:30 Now, that's pretty heavy duty, but we need it.
41:35 But it's not a subject most people are interested in.
41:38 Most people don't want to hear about.
41:40 But you realize, we can't...
41:42 Oh! Lord have mercy, can't we realize what was lost
41:46 in the Garden of Eden because of appetite.
41:49 Look at this world and the mess that we're in.
41:53 Look at the billions of people that died, look at the rash,
41:56 look at the mess that's going on
41:57 in the world today.
41:58 And it can be traced back
42:00 because they made a wrong decision
42:01 about appetite.
42:03 The Spirit of Prophecy says,
42:05 they made a wrong choice on appetite
42:06 and they weren't even hungry.
42:08 Somebody stay with me.
42:11 You can almost say, somebody is starving to death,
42:13 look out, you know, but there's still no excuse,
42:15 but you know what I mean.
42:17 Spirit of Prophecy says that was the least test
42:20 that God could've given them, and they failed it.
42:25 And look at us today, when the least...
42:27 Just a matter of umm, that tastes good,
42:29 smells good so, but it's not good.
42:32 And it is proven by the world that it's not good.
42:34 God already said that it wasn't good.
42:36 Notice this, if we do this thing,
42:38 indulge the appetite,
42:40 we cannot attain to Christian perfection.
42:42 And without that, heaven will never be our home.
42:48 Heaven will never be our home.
42:52 It has to deal, I mean, how often,
42:54 as the world said you are what you eat.
42:57 Isn't that what you heard from the world?
42:59 Even before you know, you say, well, you're an Adventist,
43:01 you know before that.
43:03 You are what you eat, here's what you become.
43:05 Whatever you eat that's what you become like.
43:08 And it's proven to be a fact.
43:10 What you feed upon spiritually is what you become like.
43:14 What you behold, what you become like.
43:19 Let's kind of get down to the nitty-gritty,
43:21 nail it down, I love to nail things down,
43:22 so there's just no confusion.
43:24 Little article in Youth instructor
43:27 in 531, 1894 says this,
43:29 "Eating and drinking, and dressing
43:33 have a direct bearing
43:35 upon our spiritual advancement."
43:38 How we dress has a bearing on our advancement.
43:43 What we drink has a bearing.
43:44 What we eat has a bearing.
43:46 Eat and drink.
43:47 Proverbs 9:10 says, "The fear of the Lord is the,"
43:52 come on someone say beginning, "is the beginning of wisdom."
43:55 The fear of what?
43:57 The fear of the Lord on this subject
43:59 is the beginning of wisdom.
44:00 If not, we're gonna find our self short.
44:03 This is what the Bible said, we find our self short.
44:05 And we realize some of these things are progressive here,
44:07 we need to learn them,
44:09 we need to become acquainted with them
44:10 and, you know, I implore you to have mercy
44:11 for those who have never understood the health message.
44:14 But for those of us who understood it.
44:16 You know, lot of time people say,"
44:17 Well, don't give the message
44:19 because it's gonna offend those who never have."
44:20 We need to know, 'cause we heard it for so long
44:22 and yet we neglected it.
44:24 Then may God help us and call us back.
44:27 Three Testimonies 491 and 492 says this,
44:30 "The controlling power of the appetite
44:33 will prove the ruin of thousands,
44:36 when, if they had conquered on this point,
44:39 they would have had moral power to gain victory
44:42 over every other temptation of Satan."
44:46 If just in our appetite, by the grace of our God,
44:49 help me to do the right thing.
44:51 It's not easy to do the right thing.
44:52 No one said, it's easy to do the right thing.
44:56 If I go by and I see a candy bar on one
45:00 and an apple on the other my Tenzi goes to the candy bar.
45:05 Is that all right?
45:07 But I don't choose the candy bar,
45:09 you see, the difference,
45:10 the humanness wants the stuff that's not good.
45:13 There's a choice there, I have to make that choice.
45:17 And I'm going to either be blessed,
45:18 by making the right choice or it might be a curse
45:21 in the long run, if you see what I'm talking about.
45:23 2 Corinthians 7:1, eight minutes or so left,
45:25 notice, "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved,
45:28 let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness,"
45:31 notice this, "of the flesh and spirit,
45:34 perfecting holiness in the fear of God."
45:38 Think about that, Counsels on Diet and Food, 118,
45:41 notice this, "When men take any course," when men do what?
45:46 "Take any course needlessly expends their vitality
45:50 or beclouds their intellect, they sin against God,
45:54 they do not glorify Him in their body
45:57 and spirit which are His."
45:59 Did you get it?
46:00 When we take any course
46:02 that needlessly expends our vitality.
46:05 Some need to think on that.
46:06 Doing things as eating us up.
46:09 Doing the wrong thing, mentally, physically,
46:10 whatever it might be.
46:12 And then notice right here, that we sin against what?
46:14 That's something that beclouds the intellect.
46:16 I know if I drink this, it kind beclouds in my mind,
46:19 and if I eat this, it beclouds in my mind.
46:20 We sin against God
46:21 is what the Spirit of Prophecy says.
46:24 Something we need to really look at closely, real closely.
46:28 Same page Counsel on Diets on page 118, notice this,
46:32 "A continual transgression of nature's laws
46:36 is a continual transgression of the law of God."
46:41 What is it now?
46:43 Notice, a continuum, they say, well, I didn't want,
46:46 let's balance it up church, come on.
46:49 Continue doing that which you know
46:51 you should not be doing.
46:53 Nature said,
46:54 it's a transgression of the law of God.
46:56 That's pretty heavy duty.
46:58 Make it heavy on my mind.
46:59 I want to be heavy on yours.
47:01 1 Corinthians 6:19 and 20, very familiar.
47:03 Again it tells us this, "The body is the temple,"
47:06 of the what?
47:07 "Of the Holy Ghost.
47:09 We are bought with a price, therefore glorify God" where?
47:12 "In your body, and in your spirit,
47:14 which are God's."
47:15 If you just come to this point, you are not your own.
47:18 You are bought with a price.
47:19 We glorify God, right, by letting Him come in
47:22 through the spirit, and live in us.
47:23 To help us make the right choice or decision
47:26 'cause I tell you, my brothers and sisters,
47:27 you can't do, I can't do it on my own.
47:29 I can't do it on my own, it's a challenge every day.
47:32 See, this verse tells me this, quickly.
47:34 Whether you are a believer
47:36 or whether you are an unbeliever,
47:38 all men are the Lord's property.
47:41 Now, I mean, all men are the Lord's property.
47:43 We're all called for service, you know that, for God and man.
47:48 And the day will come when we must render an account
47:50 to God for things that are done, where?
47:52 In this body.
47:54 You read that, Romans 2:6,
47:56 we're gonna have to give an account.
47:58 Ephesians 4: 22 through 24,
48:01 "That ye put off concerning
48:02 the former conversation of the old man,"
48:05 too much of the old man here, notice this,
48:07 "which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts."
48:10 Ephesians 4:23, notice this,
48:12 "And be renewed in the spirit of your mind."
48:15 Let the mind be what? Renewed.
48:17 Renewed, we need to renew here.
48:19 We need to come back to God.
48:21 Verse 24, "And that ye put on the new man," I like this,
48:26 "which after God is created in righteousness
48:29 and true holiness."
48:30 Notice that.
48:31 Health and nutrition is bigger and more important
48:33 than most people think.
48:35 God is calling us back to Eden.
48:38 He's calling us back to His original diet.
48:41 So we can better be used in His service.
48:44 Plus be healthy, plus be happy.
48:48 Many don't understand the importance of this.
48:50 And I'm begging and pleading, at least, let think about this.
48:53 They are not convinced
48:55 on God's plan of eating and drinking.
48:58 And, you know, someone's asked a question,
49:01 some ask the question,
49:02 "Well, when did God give permission to eat flesh?"
49:04 Let's just use that quickly in our last five minutes.
49:06 When did God give permission to eat flesh?
49:08 When we know it was not till after what?
49:10 Flood.
49:11 Not till after the flood, you remember that.
49:13 When all the green was destroyed,
49:14 there was nothing left to eat.
49:17 And again, when God did, He made in the very beginning,
49:19 He made a distinction between the clean and the unclean.
49:22 Notice that.
49:23 In the beginning.
49:25 In the beginning the Lord showed man in Eden,
49:28 which diet is best, is that good?
49:29 Let's sum it up.
49:31 In the very beginning what?
49:32 God showed man, what was the best diet for him.
49:35 As He travelled along, He thought Israel,
49:37 you remember the same lesson.
49:39 When they left Egypt, you remember that?
49:41 He provided manna, the bread of heaven for them.
49:44 They desired a flesh diet
49:46 and they suffered the consequences.
49:48 They reaped the benefit and the un-benefit,
49:50 you would say,
49:52 nothing good happened, except they died.
49:55 They wanted a diet that God did not give them.
49:59 Reformed diet should be progressive.
50:01 Some of you are trying to change and make,
50:03 you know, may be vegetarian without meat, it's progressive.
50:06 Keep that in mind.
50:07 Diseases entered in the world, why?
50:09 Because the diseases of animal is progressing along kingdom.
50:12 It's increasing.
50:14 They are becoming more and more unsafe to eat,
50:16 which leads us to this point.
50:18 Should we, or at this time, to give up flesh food.
50:22 Is it time that we really give up flesh food?
50:24 We want to be healthy.
50:26 Nutrition, we want to be best for the King.
50:30 We want to be used by God.
50:32 I think we need to look at it closely.
50:34 Someone asked, I think it was last week.
50:36 We talked about a certain quote about meat eating.
50:40 I'll share with you here and for all of us to consider.
50:43 This is found in the Christian Temperance
50:46 and Bible Hygiene, 1890, notice what it says simply.
50:49 "Among those who are waiting for the coming of the Lord..."
50:52 Is there anyone waiting for the coming of the Lord?
50:54 See we all can agree with that.
50:55 Well, yes, Lord.
50:58 "Meat-eating will eventually be done away,
51:01 flesh will cease to be form of a part of our diet."
51:05 Now that's pretty simple to me.
51:07 For those who know,
51:08 bless your heart for those of you who don't,
51:10 I'm not trying to lay too much on you,
51:11 but those of you who know.
51:13 Did you get that? Did you get that?
51:14 "If you're waiting for the Lord to come," yes, I am.
51:16 "Meat-eating will eventually be done away,
51:19 flesh will cease to be form of the diet
51:21 because it's too diseased nowadays.
51:23 Yes, God said, this is clean, and you could years ago.
51:26 What has happened to the meat?
51:27 What's happened to the chicken? What's happened to the cow?
51:30 Oh! It's contaminated, it's diseased right now.
51:33 Cancer and tumor and all these things
51:34 come from that.
51:36 Manuscript quickly 115, 1903,
51:40 "Not an ounce of flesh meat should enter our stomachs.
51:43 The eating of flesh is unnatural.
51:46 We are to return to God's original purpose
51:48 in the creation of man."
51:50 We're to do what?
51:52 We're to return to what the creator set up
51:54 in the beginning.
51:55 Not an ounce of it should be in our stomachs.
51:57 It's unnatural.
51:59 Review and Herald, May 27, 1902
52:02 "There are those who ought to be awake
52:03 to the danger of meat eating," Are you still with me?
52:06 "Who are still eating the flesh of animals,
52:09 thus endangering the physical, mental, and spiritual health.
52:14 Oh! Listen, now somebody listen.
52:17 "Many who are now only half converted
52:20 on the question of meat eating will go from God's people,
52:24 to walk no more with them."
52:27 That's just about as plain as it can get.
52:29 They're going to live, half converted on it,
52:31 "Well, maybe I should, maybe I shouldn't."
52:32 Time will come, if you don't get,
52:34 you're not going to able to walk
52:35 with God's people anymore.
52:37 Last one, Manuscript 3, 1897,
52:39 "The meat diet is the serious question.
52:43 Shall human beings live on the flesh of dead animals?
52:46 She answers, "The answer, from the light
52:49 that God has given me
52:51 is, No, decidedly no."
52:57 I could read quote, quote, quote, quote,
52:59 dozen, dozen, dozen, dozen of those same thing
53:01 and somehow, we've overlooked those things.
53:06 The scripture is clear on it.
53:08 The Spirit of Prophecy is clear on it.
53:11 Listen from the light that God has given me, she says,
53:15 it should not be part of our diet.
53:17 It's too diseased.
53:19 You think you're getting away with it,
53:20 but time will come, you'll see.
53:22 The blessings of God will come as we are obedient to Him.
53:26 You want health, and happiness, and good nutrition.
53:30 We start and go back to the beginning,
53:32 as God has said.
53:34 Some of you are making a decision
53:35 to do that right now, I know that you are,
53:36 I'm gonna pray for you before we close out our time.
53:38 Would you just pray with me right now?
53:40 Some need some prayer because they need some help,
53:42 special help, right now.
53:44 Father in heaven, we thank You in the name of Jesus
53:45 for Your Word, cleared, straight pointed,
53:47 praying for those who are making
53:49 that decision right now, they realize they want to
53:51 correct their diet, they want a change,
53:53 they want a reformation, only You can give them that.
53:55 And I pray that You'd put that on their heart and mind
53:57 and give them victory, and I'm gonna thank you
53:59 in advance in Jesus' name,
54:00 amen.
54:02 We thank you for joining us here at Behold the Lamb
54:04 and we do again, once again thank you
54:05 for your cards, and your letters,
54:07 your prayers, and your support.
54:08 God bless you and we look forward to seeing you
54:11 next time.
54:14 Hello and welcome back, friends.
54:16 You know, in 1 Corinthians 6:19,
54:20 I' m gonna read you what the Bible says.
54:23 It says, "What?
54:24 Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
54:28 which is in you, which ye have of God,
54:31 and ye are not your own?"
54:34 Brothers and sisters,
54:35 we've all been bought with a price.
54:37 We belong to our heavenly Father, if we just choose to.
54:41 He wants you.
54:42 He's calling you and He wants to share His love
54:46 in and through you.
54:47 And part of that is knowing about health,
54:50 knowing about nutrition.
54:51 You know, we live in a world,
54:53 there's so many people that are so sick
54:56 and we have concerns even about our food.
54:58 We have concerns about our water.
55:00 And the good news is, we can go back to the Bible.
55:03 We can see how God set it up in the beginning.
55:06 And we can begin to align our lives closer and closer
55:11 to how the potter made it to be.
55:14 So that our bodies would be strong and healthy
55:16 and that the Holy Spirit can come in and renew our mind
55:21 and renew our heart,
55:22 so that we can be stronger and healthier
55:25 for Him to work in and through us.
55:27 If you would like to have this single DVD message.
55:31 It is entitled again, "Health and Nutrition."
55:33 We're also going to send with it,
55:35 "Sharing God's Love, What the Bible Says."
55:38 It has 25 wonderful Bible studies and in the back,
55:42 it also has many, many, many passages
55:45 of wonderful Bible stories that you can look through
55:48 and read over and over.
55:51 In fact you can take these and give them away,
55:53 like the leaves of autumn.
55:55 And if you would like to have just this one message,
55:58 we're going to give it to you
56:00 for a love gift of just $8 or more.
56:04 However, I've not said anything about a whole bundle.
56:08 But there will be 25 Bible studies,
56:12 by the time we are finished.
56:13 I had to stop and think for a moment, but there are 25.
56:17 And if you would like to have that wonderful set,
56:20 if you pay $8, if you gave a love gift of just $8
56:24 that would come up to $200 for all 25.
56:27 But we're gonna offer them to you for a love gift
56:29 of just $175 for all 25.
56:34 You can use them in your Bible services at church
56:38 for Wednesday Night Bible Study or something.
56:40 Or have people come into your home
56:42 and go through an hour lesson, step by step,
56:46 covering all of these lessons together.
56:49 And I hope you'll get encouraged
56:50 to want to share with others what the Bible says.
56:54 If you would like to order the single or all 25,
56:58 you may do so by calling us
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57:46 Until next time, may our precious Lord
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