Amazing Adventures

Gods Super Food

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00:11 You know, friends,
00:12 there's some super food out there
00:14 that a lot of young people don't know about,
00:15 and there are some athletes that know about these secrets.
00:18 For example, there's Scott Jurek,
00:20 he's an American ultra marathon runner and winner
00:23 of 16 prestigious ultra marathon titles.
00:26 He holds a personal record of running, to catch this,
00:30 165 miles in a 24 hour period,
00:35 averaging 8.42 seconds per mile.
00:39 Jurek started his transition from meat and potatoes
00:41 to a fully vegan diet
00:43 by looking at all the health problems
00:44 he saw in his family.
00:45 Then you have tennis legend Venus Williams,
00:48 who's one of the most successful
00:49 tennis players in history.
00:51 She is a vegan vegetarian. Then you have David Haye.
00:54 He's a British boxer with world titles
00:56 in two weight categories.
00:58 In 2008, he won three of the four
01:01 major boxing world titles at Cruiserweight.
01:04 He is a vegan vegetarian.
01:06 There's the famous American snowboarder,
01:08 who's a three time Olympic medalist,
01:10 Hannah Teter.
01:12 She also is a vegetarian.
01:14 And then Barny du Plessis, bodybuilding champion in 2014
01:17 Mr. Universe talks about the super food
01:20 of being a vegan vegetarian.
01:22 And then there's the famous
01:24 track and field Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis,
01:27 who is also a vegetarian.
01:29 You know, it seems like these super athletes
01:31 learned about God's super food.
01:33 And we're gonna learn about it right from the Garden of Eden,
01:36 the Word of God.
01:37 So join me now for an amazing adventure.
01:58 Good evening, boys and girls.
02:00 And welcome again to Amazing Adventure,
02:03 A Journey for Life with Jesus.
02:04 I like to welcome all of those of you
02:06 here in Michigan and also our friends
02:08 who are joining us across the country
02:09 and around the world,
02:11 part of our Amazing Discovery Adventure into Bible truth.
02:15 Well, we have a very important lesson.
02:17 I think you're gonna enjoy it tonight.
02:19 It's very practical.
02:20 Well, before we get to our song this evening,
02:23 we need to invite Pastor Doug to come forward on stage.
02:25 So, Pastor Doug, come on out.
02:28 Good evening, Pastor Doug.
02:32 All hands on deck.
02:35 Good evening, boys and girls, and friends, who are watching.
02:38 Welcome to an Amazing Adventure.
02:40 We have an amazing program tonight too.
02:42 We do, an important one. So let's stand, kids.
02:44 We're gonna sing our theme song.
02:45 We'd like to invite
02:47 the song leaders to come forward.
02:48 Life is an adventure following the King.
02:51 I think we all know the words and the tune by now.
02:53 So let's sing it. "Life is an Adventure."
03:01 Life is an adventure Following the King
03:06 Every day with Jesus Makes us want to sing
03:11 Walking in the spirit He will lead the way
03:15 With his words to guide us Glowing deep inside us
03:21 Nothing can divide us Following the King
03:27 Life is an adventure Following the King
03:32 Every day with Jesus Makes us want to sing
03:37 Conquering with kindness Everywhere we go
03:42 Voices we are raising
03:45 Jesus we are praising
03:47 Life is so amazing Following the King
03:54 Life is so amazing Following the King
04:04 Amen. Thank you very much.
04:05 You may be seated. All right.
04:08 Well, we have some Bible questions
04:10 that come in every night from kids around the country,
04:13 and I'm always excited to hear.
04:16 What kind of questions are coming up?
04:17 We got four great video questions
04:19 that had come in.
04:21 And so we're ready to take a look
04:22 at our first question this evening.
04:24 My name is Mateo.
04:26 I am from Michigan.
04:27 My Bible question is, how can I be saved?
04:30 All right.
04:32 Very important question, did y'all catch it?
04:33 His question is, how can I be saved?
04:35 And, of course,
04:37 that's the purpose of these meetings,
04:38 Pastor Doug, to talk about how a person can be saved?
04:41 You know, the Bible tells us first of all,
04:44 we have a problem.
04:45 The problem is sin. Jesus has the answer.
04:49 It's His salvation. The penalty for sin is death.
04:55 But Jesus said, I don't want you to die
04:57 because I love You so much.
04:58 I will die in your place for your sins.
05:01 I will take the punishment for your sins,
05:04 if you believe and accept it, then I will forgive You,
05:08 and if you then confess your sins,
05:11 tell the Lord you're sorry, repent of your sins.
05:14 He gives you the Holy Spirit to live a new life,
05:17 to walk in a new life.
05:19 So you ask, you believe,
05:21 you receive the gift of eternal life.
05:24 And the Bible says, "You become a new creature."
05:26 It's like a new birth. And you start to follow Jesus.
05:30 And that's the real amazing adventure.
05:31 And we have one of our lessons
05:33 that specifically talks about this science of salvation.
05:37 Okay.
05:39 And we're ready for our next question.
05:40 Hi, my name is Vasti.
05:42 And I live in Ypsilanti, North Dakota.
05:45 My question is, did unicorns ever exist?
05:49 Oh, good question.
05:51 Does the Bible say anything about unicorns existing?
05:55 I think in some translations, it actually talks about,
05:58 I think, the word unicorn does appear.
06:00 It may be the King James Version.
06:02 And many scholars wondered,
06:03 well what was that talking about?
06:07 The word "Uni" means one, like a unicycle.
06:09 Mrs. Batchelor rides a unicycle, it's got one wheel.
06:13 A unicorn is talking about one horn or a single horn.
06:17 They wondered if it was referring to not a horse like
06:20 creature riding on rainbows with wings,
06:24 but talking about the rhinoceros.
06:26 And so if that word unicorn there in the Bible
06:29 was talking about a creature,
06:31 it's probably not talking about
06:33 that mythical horse that you see.
06:35 But it's probably talking about that large African rhinoceros.
06:38 And, you know, long ago
06:40 they not only had rhinoceros in...
06:42 what's the plural? You're from Africa, rhinoceros.
06:44 What's more than one rhinoceros?
06:45 Rhinoceroses? It is?
06:47 Rhinos. Rhinos. There you go.
06:50 But not only did they have them in Africa,
06:52 but they found a lot of skeletons
06:54 of what they called woolly rhinos
06:56 and other rhinos that were even through Europe.
06:58 So ancient Bible writers like Job,
07:01 they were acquainted
07:02 with some of these powerful creatures
07:04 that had one horn.
07:05 Now some of the rhinos have two horns.
07:07 And then there's another kind that actually just has one.
07:09 That's right. Yeah.
07:10 And there's an Indian Rhino too.
07:12 That's right. Yeah.
07:13 Different kinds. All right.
07:14 Ready for our next question.
07:16 Hi, my name is Jude.
07:18 I'm 11 years old, and I'm from Missouri.
07:20 My question is, how do you talk to God
07:23 in a way that He can answer back?
07:25 Okay.
07:27 The question is, how do we talk to God,
07:28 talking about prayer.
07:30 And how do we know if God is answering us back?
07:34 Well, God knows everything, right?
07:38 Jesus said, "Your heavenly Father knows
07:40 what things you have need of before you even ask Him."
07:43 So we're not asking, so that God can be informed,
07:46 you don't have to pray louder for God to hear you, do you?
07:50 He can hear when you whisper a prayer.
07:53 So whenever you pray, God hears you.
07:56 But if you want answers to your prayer,
07:58 there's some guidelines.
07:59 First of all, you talk to God reverently.
08:03 We pray to God in Jesus' name.
08:05 We're not asking God to answer our prayers
08:07 because we earned it or we've deserved it,
08:09 but we're asking for His mercy
08:11 because of His love for His Son
08:13 and Jesus' sacrifice and love for us.
08:15 We pray in Jesus' name.
08:16 Jesus said, "Whatever things you ask in My name,
08:18 believe and you will receive."
08:20 And then pray according to God's will.
08:24 You don't wanna be saying, "You know, Lord,
08:25 I wanna have a million dollars,"
08:26 well, you may not be able to handle a million dollars.
08:29 So you pray for things.
08:30 The Bible says, "Ask for the Holy Spirit,
08:33 if you being evil know
08:35 how to give good gifts to your children,
08:37 how much more will your Father in heaven
08:39 give the Holy Spirit to those that ask?"
08:41 Ask for the good things that will help you
08:43 to have true happiness which is walking with God.
08:46 But God hears every prayer.
08:48 It's good. Spend time on your own.
08:51 Talk to God reverently.
08:52 Do you spend time in the morning,
08:54 you should kneel.
08:55 You might kneel on your bed or by your bed.
08:57 I knew a little girl.
08:59 I should say, I knew about a little girl
09:00 that she was afraid,
09:02 she'd forget to pray before school.
09:03 So when she went to sleep at night,
09:05 she threw her shoes under her bed.
09:07 And when she got on her knees to find her shoes,
09:09 she remembered to pray.
09:11 So you wanna always remember to talk to God,
09:13 give Him your life and your heart every day.
09:15 And He will answer your prayers.
09:16 You will see answers to prayer.
09:18 Amen. Absolutely. All right.
09:20 We have our final question for today.
09:23 Hello, my name is Jonica.
09:25 I'm 10 years old. I'm from California.
09:28 And my Bible question is, how shall we outreach
09:30 and tell other people about Jesus?
09:33 Okay.
09:35 Well, that is a question that comes from
09:36 one of our church members over there in California.
09:38 That's right.
09:39 And she's asking how do we outreach
09:41 or share our faith with others?
09:42 Well, the first thing is when you're committed to Jesus,
09:47 you'll be letting your light shine by your example.
09:50 The Bible also tells us that we should study His Word,
09:54 so we know how to give answers.
09:56 Now, you don't have to know everything to share your faith.
10:02 If you know your laws and you were found
10:04 by God's grace,
10:05 you share what Jesus has done for you.
10:07 That He's given you a peace in your heart.
10:09 And so you can be a witness, you can get literature,
10:13 give Christian tracts out, and you can learn
10:16 how to give Bible studies, give out Christian books,
10:18 you can give out amazing facts, study guides,
10:21 like the ones that go with this series.
10:22 So all this is great or DVDs and things like that.
10:25 And so there's a lot of things you can do.
10:27 Talk to people when you get a chance
10:29 and don't be afraid to say you believe in God.
10:32 Everybody in the world today is being intimidated
10:34 by the devil to hide their light under a bush.
10:37 Don't be afraid to let your light shine
10:39 and speak up for Jesus.
10:41 You know what Jesus said?
10:42 "If you're not ashamed of Me,
10:45 in this evil and adulterous generation,
10:47 I will confess your name before My Father
10:50 and the angels in heaven."
10:51 And the Book of Job tells us that
10:53 God was confessing the name of Job in heaven,
10:56 because Job was so faithful on earth.
10:58 So wouldn't you like God to brag about you in heaven?
11:01 Be faithful here. Don't be afraid.
11:03 Don't be ashamed, even in the world
11:05 where people tease you for being a Christian.
11:07 Okay.
11:08 Well, that's it for our Bible questions for today.
11:10 And we'll have some more for tomorrow.
11:11 And I think a few of the questions tomorrow
11:13 are actually gonna be from
11:15 some in our group right here in Michigan.
11:16 All right. So watch for that.
11:17 Answer your Bible questions.
11:19 Well, thank you very much, kids.
11:20 We've got a very important lesson.
11:22 I think we're gonna have
11:23 some fun tonight learning something.
11:24 Now, this lesson can change your life.
11:28 So you actually do live longer.
11:30 We're gonna be talking about God's Super Foods tonight.
11:34 And I wish... Oh, how I wish?
11:38 When I was your age that I knew what I know now.
11:42 But I grew up and I didn't understand
11:44 what the Bible says about God's super foods,
11:47 and I had all kinds of health problems because of it.
11:50 But I feel better now at 60 something years old
11:55 than I did as a kid, before I knew these things.
11:58 Remember our scripture reading,
11:59 "There whatever you eat, or drink, or whatever you do,
12:02 do it all to the glory of God."
12:04 Now, if it's possible for you
12:07 to eat to the glory of God
12:10 and to drink to the glory of God,
12:11 that means it's possible for you to not eat and drink
12:14 to the glory of God.
12:16 Now the best thing to do is to eat the diet
12:19 that God designed for you.
12:20 You know, I think I hear that
12:21 somebody is in the captain's cabin.
12:24 We've got a special guest that's come again tonight
12:27 from the Repto Company and let's see who's coming.
12:31 Oh, Kurt's got a friend.
12:33 All right.
12:35 Now I was introduced
12:37 a little earlier to Kurt's friend.
12:39 We have a couple of young people
12:40 who wanna get an up close personal.
12:41 If you have not been up here before...
12:43 Raise your hands if you have not been up here before.
12:45 You just about jumped out of your seat.
12:47 You can come up, that's okay.
12:48 And you can come up. And you can come up.
12:52 And you can come up. Okay.
12:54 I just had to run up you all. And this is...
12:57 What's his name? His name is Demolition Dan.
13:00 Demolition Dan.
13:02 And I understand that
13:03 he's got great powers of escape.
13:06 Yes.
13:07 He could actually break through like walls in your house
13:09 like sheet rock, you know,
13:11 stuff like that, walls, stone walls.
13:13 And the Lord made Dan
13:14 where he's got just built-in armor.
13:17 And even here on his hand, on the front, he's got like
13:20 burrowing through and this also protects him,
13:22 I suppose when animals bother him.
13:23 Yes. Yup.
13:24 And you guys, kids, wanna feel him?
13:28 I'm just kidding.
13:30 Its shell is hard. Yeah.
13:33 And what kind of tortoise is he?
13:35 He is a Sulcata tortoise.
13:37 A Sulcata? Yes.
13:38 That is actually the third largest
13:40 species of tortoise in the world,
13:41 behind the GalA!pagos.
13:42 And they come from what island?
13:44 They come from Africa. A continent of Africa?
13:45 Yes. Okay.
13:47 And how long do they live? Eighty years.
13:49 Well, estimated 80 years. Wow!
13:52 And is he a carnivore? No.
13:54 He actually eats lots of grasses and vegetable.
13:57 He's a vegetarian.
13:58 He lives a long time, doesn't he?
13:59 Yeah.
14:01 And God made him where he knows
14:02 how to hide himself.
14:03 Can you get him to... Sure.
14:05 Look how far in he can tuck.
14:08 Try to get him. There we go.
14:10 Just about this, animals wanna,
14:11 they can kick him around like a football,
14:13 but they can't hardly get in and it hurts them.
14:15 You want to feel him, kids?
14:17 Go ahead.
14:18 Matter of fact, after you touch him,
14:20 I'm gonna let you guys sit down.
14:21 I'm gonna invite Kurt...
14:23 He's gonna take him up
14:24 the aisle and those of you on the edges,
14:25 if you wanna just get a closer look at Demo Dan,
14:28 you can do that.
14:29 Now, let's give him a hand, okay?
14:30 Thank him for doing that. Thank you very much.
14:34 You know, the most important decision
14:36 a young person can make
14:37 is that decision to follow Jesus
14:39 and begin that amazing adventure to eternity.
14:42 That's why we're so excited to tell you about
14:44 the new Amazing Adventure programs that are available.
14:47 During these nearly 10 hours
14:49 of exciting high definition programs,
14:51 the young people will do science experiments,
14:53 learn about history, nature, encounter some wild animals,
14:57 and most of all, they'll learn about Jesus
14:59 from the Word of God.
15:01 There's a beautifully illustrated Bible Study Guide
15:03 to go along with each of the video presentations.
15:06 These beautiful illustrated
15:08 study guides are full of pictures,
15:09 and puzzles, and Bible stories.
15:11 They'll lead your kids through an
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15:15 And for me, the most exciting thing
15:16 is this new Amazing Adventure series
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15:21 The Bible, the study guides, the DVDs are all designed
15:25 to lead your young person
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15:35 Mrs. Batchelor and I took a picture of this tortoise,
15:38 it was at the Australia zoo.
15:41 Guess how old this tortoise was?
15:45 A hundred and seventy four when we took the picture.
15:49 And he lived, she lived to 176.
15:54 This tortoise was part of three tortoises
15:58 that Charles Darwin and like 1835,
16:00 he picked up in the GalA!pagos Islands.
16:02 It's a GalA!pagos tortoise,
16:04 they're as big as dinner plates.
16:05 He named them Tom, Dick and Harry.
16:08 Took them to England,
16:09 they're only about five years old then.
16:12 And they didn't do very well
16:13 in the cold wet climate of England
16:15 because they were used to the warm islands.
16:16 So he then sent them back to Australia
16:19 where they were in the Botanical Gardens.
16:21 And they lived and outlived a lot of people
16:25 and keepers one by one.
16:26 Tom and Dick died.
16:28 And then Harry, they thought Harry was Harry
16:31 and they kept trying to get Harry
16:32 to get married and have babies.
16:34 And years later, they found that Harry was Harriet.
16:39 Now, Harry was a vegetarian.
16:42 See, I got pictures over there eating her salad.
16:45 This is the best and the original diet for man.
16:48 That's gonna take us right into our questions.
16:50 Number one.
16:52 Does God care about our bodies and our health?
16:56 Or did Jesus only came to save our souls.
16:59 Does He care about our health and our bodies?
17:01 The Bible says, through a letter of John,
17:04 it says, in Chapter 1:2,
17:07 "I pray that you might prosper in all things,
17:10 just as your soul prospers."
17:12 He says, I pray that you'll prosper
17:14 and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
17:18 And then Jesus, Matthew 4:23, Jesus' ministry,
17:22 "He went around all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
17:26 preaching the gospel of the kingdom.
17:28 He went teaching and preaching in the church and the country,
17:31 healing all kinds of sickness
17:33 and all kinds of disease among the people."
17:36 Do you ever been sick? Have been really sick?
17:41 And it's no fun to be sick, is it?
17:43 Sometimes you pretend you're sick
17:45 because you didn't do your homework.
17:46 And there's a test at school,
17:48 but sometimes you've really been sick.
17:51 I remember, I went to summer camp.
17:53 The day I got on the bus,
17:55 I was so excited about summer camp.
17:57 I even brought my guinea pig with me.
17:59 The day I got on the bus.
18:01 When I got off the bus, I have a couple little bumps.
18:05 And one of the teacher said, "What's that?"
18:07 I said, "I don't know, it itches."
18:09 They said, "You got chicken pox."
18:12 They put me in the camp infirmary
18:14 and I had to stay in there, just me and my guinea pig
18:17 for the first week of camp, I was so depressed.
18:20 Everyone's laughing and screaming
18:21 outside the window.
18:23 And I was sick.
18:24 You know, Jesus knows it's no fun to be sick,
18:27 and He came to heal our sickness.
18:30 And the Bible says, John 10:10, Christ said,
18:32 "I have come that you might have life,
18:35 and you might have it more abundantly."
18:37 He wants us to have a full exciting life.
18:39 God gave us bodies and He wants us to use them.
18:43 So I need a volunteer.
18:45 I'm gonna go around the backside here.
18:48 I sometimes... Okay, you can come up.
18:51 I want you to look in the chest and see
18:52 if you can find a body?
18:55 What? Absolutely.
19:00 You see a body in there? You did.
19:03 It's a little body.
19:05 You can bring that over here.
19:07 All right.
19:08 Now, God gave us all a body.
19:11 We were made in the image of God.
19:12 And that body, it's actually got
19:14 movable arms and legs.
19:15 Artists use this to draw...
19:17 Don't be afraid.
19:19 I mean, you can move him around a little bit.
19:21 See, pick up the legs, you can make him
19:23 look like he's running.
19:24 I don't think you can turn the head.
19:26 But you got a foot, you got a hand you got legs,
19:30 you got arms, you get elbows, you get toes.
19:33 Now if you lose your arm, can you still be saved?
19:38 Yes.
19:40 If you lose an arm and a leg, can you be saved?
19:43 Yes.
19:45 If you lose an arm,
19:46 a leg and a hand on the other arm,
19:48 can you still be saved?
19:50 Yes.
19:51 If you lose your head, can you be saved?
19:53 No. Yes.
19:55 Who said, "Yes"? No.
20:00 You can't think without your head.
20:03 This is the most important part of your body.
20:05 What's your name? Joshua.
20:06 Joshua. That's good name.
20:08 You know how to say that in Greek?
20:09 Jesus. That's right.
20:13 Yeshua is the Hebrew way of saying Jesus,
20:17 it's just Jesus name.
20:18 It's good name. It means God is Savior.
20:21 This of all the parts of your body,
20:24 these parts of the body are taking commands
20:26 from this part of the body.
20:28 So, hold that with one hand.
20:30 Just hold it with one hand, like with the other hand,
20:32 take your left hand, that's his hand.
20:34 Close your eyes. Hold that one finger.
20:36 Don't open your eyes. Just hold out one finger.
20:38 There you see, you look at that.
20:40 That told that what to do. You can open your eyes now.
20:44 Lift up one foot. Lift up the other foot.
20:48 Now lift them both up at the same time.
20:51 There you go, you see.
20:52 The brain told him what to do.
20:55 The most important part of your body
20:57 is what you've got behind your eyes
20:59 and between your ears,
21:00 it's what's giving commands to all the rest of the body.
21:03 Let's give Joshua a hand.
21:05 You can keep the body that was in the trunk.
21:09 Just don't play with it.
21:12 Your brain is a...
21:14 When you grow up,
21:15 it's about a two and a half pound
21:17 electro chemical computer that is amazing.
21:19 You know, they still don't have a computer that will do
21:21 what the human brain does.
21:23 If they were to build a computer that did
21:25 what the human brain does, it would need to be
21:28 as big as the Empire State Building to hold it.
21:31 You would need the power of Niagara Falls to power it
21:35 and you need the water of Niagara Falls to cool it
21:37 because it would put out so much steam.
21:40 When I'm talking, you know what's happening right now?
21:42 You're hearing, you're translating the sounds
21:44 that are going through the ear.
21:46 You're looking, you're reading my body language
21:47 because as I'm talking,
21:48 I'm giving you physical expressions
21:50 and you're reading all that, you're calculating all that,
21:52 you're putting in and then you're making
21:53 abstract thoughts out of that, you're getting understanding.
21:56 That's a miracle.
21:57 And while you're doing that, your brain is still telling
21:59 your lungs to breathe, your heart to beat.
22:02 And you can feel your friend next to you
22:04 that was pulling the hair on your arm.
22:06 So you also...
22:07 I knew you do that as soon as I said that.
22:11 Your brain is amazing.
22:14 The most important part of your body is here.
22:17 And the devil is attacking the brains of young people.
22:23 Because he doesn't care so much
22:25 about your arms and your legs and your feet
22:26 as much as he cares about your brain.
22:29 If you take care of your brain,
22:30 everything else is gonna be better.
22:33 What you eat, you ever heard the expression,
22:35 you are what you eat?
22:36 What you eat determines a lot about how you feel.
22:41 What kind of food plan did God have for people
22:44 when He made Adam and Eve in creation?
22:47 The Bible says, God told them in Genesis 1:29.
22:51 "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed."
22:56 Those were the nuts obviously.
22:58 "And every tree whose fruit yields seed.
23:01 You got fruits and you have nuts
23:03 and you have grains.
23:04 The original diet for man was fruits, nuts and grains,
23:08 then after sin because God said man could no longer eat
23:11 from the tree of life, what happened?
23:13 He added something else to the diet.
23:16 It says in Genesis 3:18,
23:18 "And you will eat the herb of the field."
23:20 Who knows what another word for that is?
23:22 Vegetables.
23:24 And you think that's a curse, don't you?
23:26 The Bible tells us in Deuteronomy 6:24,
23:28 "The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes
23:31 for our good always,
23:34 that He might preserve us alive."
23:36 The reason God designs what the best food is for us,
23:39 is to help us feel better and live longer.
23:42 When the children of Israel went through the wilderness
23:44 and they ate the food that God gave them for 40 years.
23:47 You know what the Bible says in Psalms 105,
23:49 "After they came out of Egypt,
23:51 and there was not
23:53 one feeble person among His tribes.
23:56 Can you imagine, 2 million people not one sick
23:59 because they'd been following God's health laws.
24:02 Drinking the water that God gave them,
24:04 eating the bread that God gave them,
24:06 you might say, they were eating angels' food.
24:08 Now, in Daniel Chapter 1, it's a very important story
24:12 about young people using self control in what they eat.
24:16 The people of Israel were conquered by the Babylonians.
24:20 The Babylonians decided to take the very brightest
24:23 and best of the royal seed.
24:26 And they would pick some of them out
24:28 and they would train them in the Babylonian culture
24:31 and languages to be representatives
24:33 in the palace for the king.
24:35 And they were allowed to go to the king's palace
24:38 and go to the king's university
24:39 and eat from the king's cafeteria.
24:42 Most of the other slaves were not treated so well.
24:46 But these three...
24:47 actually four young men.
24:49 You know, what their names were?
24:51 Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah.
24:55 Their Babylonian names Belteshazzar, Shadrach,
25:00 Meshach, and Abednego.
25:03 Now when the chief of the young man,
25:06 he's got the chief of the eunuchs.
25:07 He came and he told the young men, all right,
25:09 here's what you're gonna do.
25:10 Here's your study schedule, and here's your diet schedule,
25:12 and you'll be eating from the cafeteria.
25:14 Daniel and his friends said, "We gonna have a problem
25:17 with that because the king's drink is alcoholic
25:20 and we don't do that.
25:22 "And his food, it's, the Bible says, is unclean.
25:26 And it says, Daniel and his friends
25:29 purposed in his heart,
25:30 that he would not defile himself.
25:33 That means you can defile means to make something dirty.
25:37 He would not defile His body with the king's food.
25:40 Even though everyone in Babylon thought it was good.
25:43 Or with the portion of the king's meat
25:45 or the wine which he drank.
25:48 They said, we're not gonna eat that.
25:49 Now, they didn't wanna insult the king.
25:51 They were very thankful that they were
25:52 able to stay in the palace.
25:54 But he knew that God had said,
25:56 "You're not to eat these things
25:58 and you're not to drink these things."
26:00 Some people say, "Well,
26:01 when you're in Rome, you do what the Romans do.
26:03 Or when you're in Babylon,
26:05 you do what the Babylonians do."
26:06 But they said, "No,
26:08 my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit,
26:10 we're not going to defile our bodies."
26:11 That's 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, "Don't you know
26:16 that you are the temple of God
26:18 and that the spirit of God dwells in you?"
26:21 Notice this, "If anyone defiles the temple of God,
26:25 him will God," what?
26:28 "Destroy, for the temple of God is holy,
26:32 which temple you are."
26:34 You are an amazing, miraculous creation of God.
26:36 And He wants you to care for your body,
26:38 take care of your body,
26:40 not only because you'll feel better,
26:41 but so you can glorify Him
26:43 in your body that belongs to Him.
26:45 So what did Daniel and his friends do?
26:48 They told, Asphenez,
26:50 the chief of the eunuchs, they said,
26:51 "Look, we make a deal with you.
26:53 Give us 10 days."
26:56 Prove your services... "Test us for 10 days.
26:59 Let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.
27:03 And then you check us out."
27:04 And after 10 days, you see, if we don't look healthier than
27:08 all of the other young people that are eating
27:10 from the king's cafeteria,
27:12 where they have the unclean animals
27:13 and the alcoholic wine,
27:15 food that have been sacrificed to idols.
27:18 He said, "Let's prove it."
27:21 So he said, "Well, that doesn't sound dangerous."
27:24 And he saw they were good young men,
27:26 they were very polite in their request.
27:28 Notice what the Bible says.
27:31 "At the end of the ten days, their features appeared
27:35 better and fair and fatter in flesh
27:38 than all of the young men who ate the portion
27:41 of the king's delicacies.
27:43 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about
27:47 which the king examined them.
27:49 He found them, Daniel and his three friends
27:51 were ten times better
27:54 than all of the astrologers and the magicians,
27:56 all the wise men and all of his kingdom."
27:59 These young men, by eating right,
28:02 they felt so much better.
28:03 Now when I grew up,
28:05 I didn't know much about eating.
28:07 You know, we ate all kinds of pagan things
28:11 and I never felt very good
28:13 and I didn't do good at the school.
28:14 I think half of it is because I wasn't eating very good.
28:16 I didn't know. My mother would work late.
28:19 My brother and I would get ourselves breakfast
28:21 and I would eat a Hostess Twinkie,
28:23 a Fig Newton, a cup of tea or coffee.
28:25 And go to school and I'd be.
28:28 And I couldn't pay attention, and my grades were bad.
28:30 I went to 14 different schools,
28:33 because I got in so much trouble,
28:34 I had bad grades.
28:35 After I learned
28:37 what the Bible says about health,
28:39 I went back to college, and I had a 4.0 average,
28:44 which is about the highest score you can get.
28:46 Because I was eating better and taking care of myself
28:50 and I had a much better success then.
28:54 So, why did Daniel and his friends
28:56 refuse the drink the king's wine?
29:00 "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler,
29:04 and whoever is led astray by it is not wise."
29:09 The Bible says, "No drunkards will enter
29:11 the kingdom of God."
29:13 Alcohol is bad news.
29:16 Listen, you know the story of John the Baptist?
29:18 When the angel came to Zachariah and said,
29:20 you're gonna have a son,
29:22 he's gonna be filled with the Holy Spirit.
29:23 He's going to introduce Jesus.
29:26 But he said, he will drink neither wine or strong drink,
29:30 but he will be filled with the Holy Spirit.
29:32 Notice the difference.
29:34 Which spirit do you wanna be full of?
29:36 Have any of you ever noticed you drive by liquor store?
29:39 And they'll be a sign that says wine, beer, spirits.
29:43 Have you ever seen that? Wine, beer and spirits.
29:46 Why wouldn't a drink, they're not good spirits.
29:49 You got to pick what kind of spirit you want.
29:51 You want the Holy Spirit?
29:52 The Spirit that comes on people
29:54 when they're drunk is really a disgusting spirit.
29:57 Christians should not drink any alcohol.
30:00 But didn't Jesus turn the water into wine?
30:02 He turned water into pure grape juice
30:05 because it represented His blood.
30:07 And at the last supper, Jesus said,
30:09 "I'm gonna give you this grape juice."
30:11 He uses the word wine because that's the only word
30:13 for grape juice in the Bible.
30:14 "I'm gonna give it to you, and I will not drink it again
30:17 until I drink it with you new wine,
30:20 like grape juice in My Father's Kingdom."
30:22 Christians should not drink any alcohol.
30:25 It causes so much suffering.
30:27 Strongest man in the world, who was he?
30:29 Samson.
30:30 What did the angel say to Samson's mother?
30:31 What was the name of Samson's mother?
30:33 Who knows?
30:35 It doesn't say. That's just a trick question.
30:38 She's called Manoah's wife.
30:40 But the angel appears to her and he says,
30:43 "Therefore be careful and drink no wine
30:45 or strong drink and eat nothing unclean.
30:48 And you're going to have a son that is gonna end up
30:51 being the strongest physical human
30:53 that ever lived."
30:55 And, you know, when Samson got in trouble,
30:58 he was at Delilah's house and he started to drink again.
31:01 He started to hang around with the vineyards
31:03 and he lost his hair and he lost his strength,
31:05 until he repented.
31:07 Christian should not drink.
31:09 What was it about the king's meat
31:12 that Daniel knew would defile him?
31:14 Now, Daniel was said, "He will not defile himself
31:17 with a portion of the king's meat."
31:19 What was it?
31:20 Are there some meats that are unclean?
31:22 Yes.
31:23 The best diet for humans is a vegetarian diet.
31:28 You may have heard a few years ago,
31:30 the National Geographic did the study to find out
31:34 where in the world are the people
31:35 who live the longest.
31:37 There are three places in the world,
31:39 the study called the Blue Zones.
31:41 Who are the people that live the longest?
31:43 You've got the people in Okinawa, Japan.
31:47 They live a long time. I've been there.
31:49 You've got the people that live in Sardinia.
31:52 They eat a very simple Mediterranean diet.
31:55 And the other group was
31:57 Seventh-day Adventists in Southern California.
31:59 A concentration of Seventh-day Adventists,
32:01 Loma Linda had the longest lifespan
32:03 and it was connected
32:04 with not only their keeping the Sabbath,
32:06 but their vegetarian, healthy eating habits.
32:10 You will live a longer, stronger life.
32:12 But God said, "Look, if you're gonna eat meat,
32:16 do it very sparingly
32:17 and it needed to be the clean meat.
32:19 God allowed some things not because he wanted it,
32:22 but because of the hardness of our hearts,
32:23 He made certain laws.
32:25 He said, when they entered the ark,
32:28 Noah took the animals how?
32:30 Two by two, if they were unclean.
32:35 Now people sing the song and the animals went on two
32:37 by two, two by two, two by two
32:38 and they forget about the sevens.
32:40 The Bible says, "You'll take with you
32:42 seven of each clean animal, the male and his female."
32:46 That's Genesis 7:2, "Take two of the animals
32:49 that are unclean, the male and his female."
32:52 Now right after the flood or before the flood,
32:55 how long were people living?
32:58 Noah, 950 years.
33:02 Adam, 930 years.
33:05 Methuselah, who knows, 969 years.
33:09 But during the flood all the vegetation was destroyed.
33:13 Noah took the clean animals by sevens on the ark.
33:16 And so as an emergency, whenever they did a sacrifice
33:19 they were allowed to eat of the clean animals.
33:21 They didn't do it very often.
33:23 But look at what happened to the lifespan of man.
33:26 In this chart here.
33:28 Those guys are the ones who lived 900 years,
33:30 each of those lines
33:31 is 100 years right after the flood,
33:32 look at how the lifespan went from 900 to 70.
33:36 And from the days when King David rode,
33:39 our days are threescore and 10, that means 70, a score is 20.
33:43 And if by reason of strength we live fourscore that's 80.
33:47 It's with pain and struggles.
33:51 But look, they started eating meat as a regular
33:53 part of the diet and their life spans went...
33:57 In heaven, are we going to eat animals?
33:59 No.
34:00 Are you gonna be running around in heaven
34:01 trying to catch a chicken and cut off its head and...?
34:05 When Adam named the animals,
34:08 did Adam look at the cow and say, Big Mac.
34:12 And then he looked at the chicken,
34:14 he said, Big Nuggets and KFC?
34:17 No, they were his friends.
34:19 They didn't kill and eat the animals.
34:20 That was something that came because of sin.
34:21 Now God said, "If you gonna eat animals,"
34:23 He said, "Here's the rule, only the clean animals,"
34:27 and notice, "Among the animals which divide the hoof,
34:30 a cloven hoof and chewing the cud,
34:33 you may eat."
34:34 And that would be goat.
34:36 You had to have both characteristics,
34:38 not just the...
34:39 A camel chews the cud, but it doesn't divide the hoof.
34:41 It's unclean.
34:43 And Jesus made fun
34:45 of the scribes and the Pharisees
34:46 because they were straining
34:47 their water to get the bugs out.
34:49 But then they were eating camel steak.
34:51 He said, you're hypocrites, you're straining a gnat
34:54 and swallowing a camel.
34:55 You're not supposed to eat camel, they're unclean.
34:57 And some animals have a cloven hoof,
34:59 but they don't chew the cud.
35:01 What's that? Pigs, swine, hogs.
35:05 "The swine, the pig is unclean for you
35:07 because it does have a cloven hoof,
35:09 but it does not chew the cud.
35:12 You shall not eat their flesh,
35:13 you shall not touch their bodies."
35:15 The Bible says, "They are an abomination."
35:17 And yet a lot of people eat
35:20 prosciutto, bacon, pork, ham,
35:24 chitlins, and they eat every part of the pig.
35:27 They eat its snout to its tail, pickle pig's feet, its head.
35:33 Now you see it all that.
35:35 When I was living with my dad, I told you,
35:37 I ate like a pagan.
35:38 We ate turtle steak. I've eaten rattlesnake.
35:42 I've eaten frog's legs.
35:43 I've eaten all the snails, the escargot.
35:47 I look back now.
35:48 That's a long time ago, but I was sick all the time.
35:52 You know, they took out my tonsils.
35:55 There would have been nothing wrong with them.
35:57 But they took out my tonsils
35:58 because I always had a sore throat.
36:01 Well, the reason I always had a sore throat is
36:03 because I was eating all kinds of candy and ice cream
36:05 and if I've just been eating right,
36:07 I'd probably still have my tonsils today.
36:10 And I'd be able to sing better.
36:11 How many of you know that your parents ever say that you,
36:14 this little piggy, they take your toes when you're little.
36:17 They go, this little piggy went to the market.
36:19 This little piggy stayed home.
36:21 This little piggy had roast beef.
36:24 See a pig won't even eat pork.
36:26 The pig was eating roast beef.
36:30 Pigs, you know,
36:32 when you don't take care of your room,
36:34 your mother comes in, she looks at your room
36:35 and she says, this looks like a deer meadow.
36:38 Oh, she never says that.
36:39 She says, it looks like a what?
36:41 A pig van.
36:43 Because pigs are about the filthiest animals.
36:45 Now, pigs are smart so are dogs,
36:48 but you're not supposed to eat dogs
36:49 and you're not supposed to eat pigs.
36:52 Now certain animals God has are scavengers.
36:56 You're not supposed to eat the scavengers.
36:59 Sharks, scavengers, they're unclean.
37:01 Skunks, scavengers, they're unclean.
37:04 I was driving down the road on the way here the other night,
37:07 a dear got hit by a car, very sad,
37:10 but a vulture was there having lunch.
37:14 Vultures, scavengers. Would you eat a vulture?
37:17 No. Pigs eat garbage.
37:20 Why would you eat a garbage can?
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38:24 You know, the Bible says,
38:27 I'll read it to you, Isaiah 66:17,
38:30 "For with fire and with My sword
38:32 I will plead with all flesh says the Lord.
38:34 Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves,
38:38 who go to the gardens after an idol in its mists,
38:41 eating swine,"
38:43 you know what a swine is, "swine's flesh,
38:45 the abomination and the mouse."
38:48 People will eat a ham sandwich, would you eat a mouse sandwich?
38:51 They do in some parts of the world.
38:54 There are people in places, they eat rats, they dogs,
38:57 they eat all kinds of things.
38:59 And the Bible says, "It's unclean."
39:01 Now you never gonna guess who this is.
39:02 I don't know if you can see it in the picture there.
39:06 That's me.
39:08 When I was a little younger, and I had a business,
39:12 I would drive around, I had a refrigerated cooler
39:16 in the back of my car.
39:18 You can't read the sign, but it says,
39:19 "Doug Batchelor's wholesale prime beef steaks."
39:22 And I used to sell steak around Southern California
39:26 in the deserts there.
39:27 And they were with their prime steaks
39:29 and I'd buy them from the meat packers
39:31 and I butchered them up myself
39:33 and I'd sell them prime choice inspected.
39:36 And one of my customers said,
39:37 can you get me some USDA inspected pork?
39:40 I said, well, I'll check and I was young.
39:42 I didn't know much.
39:43 I went and talked to a friend, he laughed.
39:44 He said, Doug, you can't get graded pork that way.
39:47 He said, when they sell pork,
39:49 they sell papers that tell you to cook it well
39:52 because you can get Trichina worms.
39:56 Pigs, they got a lot of disease.
39:59 And the Bible says, "You should never eat
40:00 the blood of any animal or the fat."
40:03 And a lot of disease in our country comes
40:06 because of people eating so many animal products
40:08 and now they're giving the animals in the farms
40:10 injections and antibiotics
40:11 and then that affects us as we eat it.
40:14 And I guess you can tell how I feel, but I'm telling you
40:17 because I've learned the hard way.
40:18 I've been on both sides.
40:20 I am so much better off now physically
40:22 because I follow God's practices.
40:24 Now the animals, two rules for the animals.
40:27 If you're gonna eat an animal that needed
40:29 cloven hoof and what else?
40:31 Chew the cud.
40:33 If you're gonna eat a fish, what did it need?
40:35 Fins and scales.
40:37 These you can eat of all that are in the waters
40:39 whatever has fins and scales, it needed both.
40:42 Tuna, it's got really little scales,
40:43 but tuna had fins and scales.
40:45 Catfish, unclean, they're scavengers.
40:49 My brother and I were fishing when he was about your age,
40:53 off the back porch.
40:54 My dad's house was right on the bay in Miami Beach.
40:57 Brother caught a catfish,
40:58 he's trying to take the hook out.
40:59 The spine, the dorsal fin from the catfish
41:02 poke my brother's finger.
41:03 The infection was so bad, and the toxin so bad,
41:06 he can never bend his finger again
41:09 from the toxins in a catfish, and so nasty.
41:13 The Bible says,
41:14 "If it didn't have fins and scales,
41:15 all these in the seas or rivers that does not have
41:18 fins and scales that move in all of the waters,"
41:22 it says, "they are an abomination to you."
41:25 Shrimp and crab and snails and clams
41:28 and I heard a report on the news yesterday.
41:32 They're having people in the Chesapeake Bay area,
41:35 they're getting what they call a flesh eating bacteria
41:38 that kills people makes them sick.
41:40 They amputate their limbs because of the bacteria.
41:43 And it comes from shellfish.
41:45 They said that on the news yesterday.
41:47 God knew what He was talking about.
41:49 So that's the rule for the fish.
41:51 What about birds?
41:53 The rule for the bird is really a principle.
41:56 The birds that were unclean for food.
41:58 It says every raven after its kind,
42:00 the owl the nighthawk,
42:02 the cuckow, the hawk after its kind."
42:04 The vulture, the eagles, the raptors, carnivorous birds,
42:08 ducks, don't eat.
42:09 A foraging bird, chicken, turkey, quail,
42:14 you could technically...
42:16 Now New York City, we used to have
42:17 tens of thousands of pigeons.
42:19 Technically they're clean,
42:20 but I'd never eat a New York pigeon.
42:22 I won't tell you why.
42:24 Anyway, so these animals, they said,
42:27 if you're gonna eat an animal, it had to be a clean animal.
42:29 But today, I'm not so sure that safe to eat any animals.
42:32 What does God say about our food?
42:35 "The Lord commanded us to observe these statutes
42:38 and to fear the Lord our God, for our good always,
42:43 that He might preserve us alive."
42:45 Now, we talked about the clear black and white
42:48 idea of what you should eat, what's clean, what's unclean.
42:51 But what about eating temperately using some wisdom?
42:56 All right.
42:57 I need my table up here for our crew.
43:03 And I need... Let me think.
43:05 I need four kids I guess.
43:10 If you've raised your hand before.
43:12 I'm not been up.
43:13 You're voting, you wanna come up?
43:15 You can come up. Okay.
43:16 You can. I know.
43:17 Let me see here. Pastor Doug, I'm not been up.
43:19 You're gonna come up or you haven't been up, yet?
43:20 All right.
43:22 since you said nicely, you come on up.
43:23 Three and I'll get one from over here.
43:25 This group's been quieter than that group.
43:28 So, all right, let me see. You right here on the inside.
43:30 Yep, sorry. Yep, there we go. Pastor Doug.
43:33 Did I pick, like one girl from right there.
43:34 Come on.
43:35 Let's see here what we got going on.
43:37 All right.
43:39 Stand behind the table here, boys.
43:40 We're gonna do a little experiment, boys and girl.
43:44 I'm sure you guys have never seen this stuff before.
43:47 Yes.
43:53 Okay, I don't need to advertise.
43:55 I love Sprite. Now don't say it, yet.
43:58 You might be sorry you did.
44:06 Delicious.
44:09 All right.
44:13 Let's see here.
44:15 I just want you to see this yourself.
44:23 Do you have any idea how much sugar
44:25 is in this stuff that people are eating?
44:28 No. Well, let's find out here.
44:32 What's your name? Philip.
44:33 Philip, you got the spoon?
44:36 How many teaspoons of sugar
44:37 do you think are in this candy?
44:38 You've never eaten one of these, have you?
44:40 I have. You have?
44:41 I appreciate your honesty.
44:42 I have too, but it's been a long time.
44:45 Okay. All right.
44:48 I want you to put a teaspoon in here.
44:49 Let's count how many he puts in.
44:51 Let's start with one. He put a full teaspoon in.
44:53 All right. Just try not to spill too much.
44:55 There we go.
44:56 One, how much, let's count together.
44:58 Two. Keep going.
45:00 Three, four,
45:05 five, six.
45:08 Now put half of a teaspoon in it.
45:11 That's good.
45:13 All right. Six and three quarters roughly.
45:17 And that's how much sugar is in one candy bar.
45:21 Let's not count the oils in there.
45:22 Okay, we're not done. No, wait.
45:24 Let's say, let's suppose you had that for lunch
45:26 and you wanted to wash it down with a Sprite.
45:30 So I tell you what?
45:31 Start putting teaspoons in it.
45:32 So how many we got in here so far?
45:34 Six and three quarters.
45:36 All right. Put in another one.
45:37 That you will say a full tea spoons now.
45:39 Come on, don't mess around.
45:42 Seven, eight.
45:44 Three, let me just... three, keep going.
45:46 Keep going.
45:47 Four, five.
45:49 I'm counting up the soda.
45:51 Six.
45:53 Keep going. Seven.
45:54 Keep going.
45:56 Eight, nine, ten.
45:59 All right.
46:01 When do you think we're going to stop?
46:02 Keep going, 11, 12.
46:05 All right. Hang on a second.
46:07 We're not done.
46:08 Keep going,
46:10 13, 14, 15.
46:15 You've not done a cooking show yet, have you?
46:17 Sixteen. One more.
46:18 That's good. All right. Great.
46:20 Yeah, but half of its on the table.
46:23 Now if you were sitting down for breakfast,
46:26 and you got some cereal,
46:28 you guys you don't like
46:29 eat sugar frosted flakes, your coco puffs.
46:31 I eat coco puffs. Coco puffs.
46:34 Yeah. I eat coco puffs.
46:39 If you sat down with your coco puffs
46:40 and you said, okay, mom,
46:42 I'm gonna put a little more sugar on my cereal.
46:43 And you went one, two, three, would she stopped you?
46:47 Yes. Yes.
46:49 No, if my dad was there.
46:52 My mom would, but my dad wouldn't.
46:53 Your mom would and your dad wouldn't.
46:56 Okay, if you have a candy bar and a 7Up,
47:00 this is how much sugar you have.
47:02 But now the coke has got...
47:05 Add another one for the coke.
47:06 Add one more for the coke.
47:10 One more. Yeah.
47:12 All right.
47:14 So the coke has got 16.
47:16 And add two more now for the Pepsi.
47:22 Yeah.
47:24 So if you have a snickers candy bar
47:25 and a Pepsi,
47:27 this is how much sugar you're putting in your body.
47:28 You realize sugar is a chemical.
47:30 This has a chemical reaction on your body.
47:33 And people are getting diabetes
47:35 in epidemic proportions for that.
47:38 Now, the Reese's, if you were to eat the Snickers
47:42 and the Reese's, we'd have to call 911.
47:46 Because this has got 6.75 teaspoons of sugar
47:50 that's got 9.5 teaspoons of sugar in it.
47:54 And kids go to school,
47:55 and they wonder why they can't pay attention.
47:58 The parents are getting a medication,
48:00 and they go on to the doctor.
48:01 And they're getting colds, they got a sore throat,
48:02 their nose is running you gonna...
48:04 What's the problem?
48:05 One candy bar is this completely.
48:09 I've been thinking. Let me show you.
48:11 All right.
48:12 Let me show you something here. I'll put on the screen.
48:15 A 12-ounce can of soda, 39 grams of sugar,
48:18 that's 9 1/3 teaspoons.
48:21 And look how much sugar.
48:23 See the screen up here.
48:26 Look at how much sugar kids ate in 1820,
48:30 the average American in a year eats six pounds of sugar.
48:34 That's all year.
48:35 Now, the average American eats 150 pounds of sugar.
48:40 That's three pounds, one person, a week.
48:43 And some of you are eating mine
48:45 because I'm not eating that much.
48:47 So some people are eating 200 pounds of sugar a year.
48:52 Four pounds a week.
48:54 You guys think I'm gonna let you
48:55 take that back to your seats?
48:57 You better think again? No.
48:59 I'm not giving that away, am I?
49:01 Why? I'm telling you guys...
49:02 No, no, you don't get the candy bar.
49:04 Especially you. You're already wired.
49:06 Okay, thank you. Let's give them a hand.
49:13 Well, give me something.
49:17 Thank you very much.
49:18 You know, I love you too much to give you that stuff.
49:21 Now I know some of you haven't,
49:23 but I want you to think about what the dangers are.
49:25 The Bible says, "Eat that which is good."
49:28 Now some people say, well,
49:29 Pastor Doug, aren't we supposed to eat meat?
49:31 Because we've got these canine teeth,
49:34 which means we're carnivores.
49:36 You know, we're supposed to rip and tear meat.
49:37 That's nonsense.
49:39 You know this guy?
49:41 Does he have canine teeth? Yes.
49:43 He's a vegetarian.
49:45 One of the most powerful animals.
49:48 Giraffe, tallest animal, vegetarian.
49:51 Elephant, biggest animal, vegetarian.
49:54 How bigger an elephant's teeth?
49:56 He got tusks.
49:58 So the idea that we're designed to eat meat is not true.
50:01 The humans' digestive system
50:02 is designed to be a vegetarian system.
50:05 And it's already proven now.
50:06 Some of the marathon runners
50:08 and the best athletes are not only vegetarians,
50:10 they are vegan vegetarians.
50:12 I'm a vegan vegetarian now
50:13 because I learned so much about it.
50:15 What should guide me in choosing
50:17 how I live and eat?
50:19 "Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,
50:22 do all to the glory of God."
50:24 This lady in the picture was a member of our church,
50:26 her name was Viola Cook.
50:28 She lived to 111 years of age.
50:31 Actually, she's 111 in this picture here
50:33 was a vegetarian her whole life.
50:36 Does God's word have more secrets
50:38 for a longer, stronger life?
50:40 Let's go through some of these very quickly.
50:42 First of all, "Eat regular meals."
50:45 The Bible says,
50:47 "Feast at the proper time for strength,
50:49 not for drunkenness."
50:50 B, "Have self control."
50:54 As Paul said, "I discipline my body
50:56 and I bring it into subjection."
50:57 1 Corinthians. You need to get exercise.
50:59 And don't overeat.
51:02 I hope that's a vegan burger.
51:05 Something else that will make you live longer.
51:08 "A merry heart does good like a medicine," Be joyful.
51:13 It actually releases endorphins
51:14 that keeps you healthy and fights disease.
51:17 Helping others will help you live longer
51:19 and be healthy.
51:21 Share your bread with a hungry.
51:23 And it says, "Your health will spring forth speedily."
51:27 And it says, "Then trust in the Lord,
51:29 fear the Lord, depart from evil."
51:31 Notice what it does for you.
51:32 "It will be health to your flesh,
51:35 and strength to your bones."
51:38 Trust and honor God, live a holy life.
51:41 Something else very important in good health.
51:44 Six days thou shalt labor.
51:49 It's not only do we keep the Sabbath.
51:51 He says, "Six days you shall labor."
51:53 God wants us to be doing our work.
51:55 And then of course not only do we work,
51:58 "The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
52:01 If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat."
52:04 But then we also gonna need to rest.
52:07 There is a big problem in North America
52:09 and a lot of places we travel, India, Mexico...
52:12 Do you know what country
52:14 in the world consumes the most sugar?
52:16 North America, Germany is next, Mexico is number eight,
52:21 just pounds and pounds of sugar.
52:23 And there's an epidemic of diabetes
52:26 that is gonna bankrupt the medical expenses
52:29 of our country in a few years, if something doesn't happen.
52:32 Kids are just eating so much sweets and sugar
52:35 and oil and stuff.
52:36 And chemicals, it's not just the sugar
52:41 in the Pepsi and the Coke.
52:43 You know, it's not just the caffeine
52:44 that wires people out,
52:46 but there's even phosphoric acid
52:47 and things in there that you can use
52:50 that to clean the battery terminals on a car.
52:52 I mean, it's very powerful stuff
52:54 and kids and everyone are consuming these things,
52:56 because the commercials make them think it's good.
52:59 Another important point in living
53:01 a long healthy strong life, water.
53:04 Drink plenty of water.
53:06 Now you guys are all getting a gift tonight.
53:07 I told you,
53:09 everybody's gonna get something.
53:12 You're all gonna get
53:13 an Amazing Adventure water bottle here,
53:15 okay, tonight for your backpacks.
53:22 When you go and you got your whistles,
53:24 I know your parents
53:26 love you're going around camp and whistling like that.
53:29 They're gonna really like us.
53:31 "Don't use anything that harms your body.
53:34 Listen carefully to me.
53:36 Eat what is good."
53:38 And not only do we eat good, you need fresh air.
53:41 And why would you want to pollute the air
53:44 that you're breathing?
53:46 Pastor Doug used to smoke.
53:48 I'm glad that I praise the Lord that He helped me quit smoking.
53:52 But cigarettes are bad news.
53:56 Smoking is the number one disease
53:58 that is avoidable.
54:00 It costs so much disease or sickness
54:02 and problems that are easily avoidable.
54:04 "Be temperate in all things.
54:07 Everyone who competes for the prize
54:08 is temperate in all things.
54:11 And our bodies need rest."
54:13 Now I'm gonna have
54:15 one more young person come up here.
54:17 And well, maybe two. All right.
54:20 You can come up.
54:21 See if you can find something
54:23 that's drivable in the chest there.
54:25 And you haven't been up yet?
54:27 I haven't been up yet.
54:28 I was pointing to him, but nice try.
54:30 Come on up. All right. Look in the chest.
54:32 See, if you find something
54:33 you can drive in the chest here.
54:34 And I'll close with this story.
54:36 But I want you all be good now. Listen.
54:39 So somebody comes...
54:40 Keep looking. There you go.
54:42 Somebody comes and they say, Pastor Doug,
54:46 can I borrow your truck?
54:48 We've got to take a little mission trip.
54:50 And we're gonna use it for a week.
54:51 And I say, okay.
54:52 So just hold those for a second.
54:54 You can turn it around so people can see it.
54:56 Okay.
54:57 So I lend them my new car.
55:00 So they take my car and they drive it
55:04 and they don't check the oil.
55:06 And they don't check the air in the tires
55:08 and they don't check the water in the radiator
55:10 and they run it and run it.
55:11 They don't stay on the road.
55:13 They go off road, they go cross country,
55:14 but it's not a four wheel drive.
55:16 And they beat the smithereens out of my car
55:18 and they run it into trees and other cars.
55:20 Finally after a week, they come back
55:24 and the car I can see it coming over the hill
55:29 is making this terrible banging noise.
55:32 Smoke is billowing out from the tailpipe.
55:36 The tires are worn off
55:38 and sparks are flying out from the rim
55:39 because they're driving on the rims,
55:41 there's not even any tires left.
55:43 One headlight is hanging out like a dislocated eyeball.
55:48 The broken windshield, they get out of the car,
55:50 they slammed the door, it falls off.
55:53 The hood pops up, steam is issuing out.
55:56 And they say thanks, Pastor Doug,
55:58 for lending me your car.
55:59 We had a great time.
56:01 Can we borrow it again next month?
56:04 Am I gonna lend them my car? No.
56:08 All right. Listen now. Yes.
56:11 You got one life, you have one body,
56:15 you've only got one chance with that one body.
56:17 Jesus is offering you an eternal body when He comes.
56:22 If you don't take care of the one He's given you,
56:26 He's not very likely to give you
56:28 a glorified eternal body,
56:29 if you deliberately wreck the one He's given you.
56:32 You need to glorify God in your body,
56:34 whatever you eat,
56:35 whatever you drink, do all to the glory of God.
56:38 Are you willing to do that, friends?
57:29 You know, the most important decision
57:31 a young person can make is that decision
57:33 to follow Jesus and begin
57:35 that amazing adventure to eternity.
57:38 That's why we're so excited to tell you
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