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Would You Eat That?

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Participants: John Lomacang & John Stanton

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00:01 Hello friends, grab your Bible and a friend
00:03 and sit back as we explore God's word together
00:05 on this edition of House Calls.
00:21 Hello and welcome to the best program on earth
00:24 at this present hour at least I believe that,
00:26 that's why I'm here and we gonna thank you
00:28 for tuning into House Calls.
00:30 This is the place where God says to you,
00:31 get your Bibles, get your pens,
00:34 get your notebook and hit the record button,
00:35 because you don't want to miss the topic today,
00:37 it's about "Would you eat that."
00:40 And while you are trying to figure out what that is,
00:42 welcome again to House Calls program.
00:43 I'm here with my good friend Pastor C.A.
00:45 Good to have you here today.
00:46 Always good to be with you, John.
00:47 And to be in God's house and to do what God wants us to do
00:51 and that is to be in God's will.
00:52 You know, I'm pastor being in God's house
00:53 is what we do every Sabbath.
00:56 Repeating God's will is what we want to be today
00:58 and I'm glad that you're sitting in with me
01:01 substituting that is for my good friend, John Stanton.
01:04 And as you know friends, he is not really a substitute,
01:07 he has quiet a bit of experience.
01:09 He was my youth pastor and I'm his pastor,
01:11 so we're paying each other back.
01:15 You're returning the pain as it where.
01:16 Returning the pain as it where.
01:17 You know, just think about it
01:18 real quick John, I was talking with
01:20 another good friend of us, Pastor John Nixon,
01:22 who is the pastor down at Southern University. Yes.
01:24 That little youth church produced a number of pastors,
01:26 yourself, John Nixon, Tim Nixon of Andrews University.
01:30 That was quiet a little productive youth church
01:31 we had back there.
01:32 That's right and it's been the place
01:35 where God has shaped us to be what we're today
01:36 and praise the Lord for that. Indeed.
01:38 And, you know, we've a lot of Bible questions
01:40 and lot of things that we do on this program,
01:42 but before we dive into anything,
01:44 we're gonna invite you to bow your heads
01:46 as C.A. has our prayer for us today.
01:48 Gracious Father, we do thank you
01:50 so very much for the blessed opportunity
01:52 that we've to lift up the name of Jesus.
01:54 We thank you for the study of the word
01:56 and for the truth that we can find each and every time
01:59 we go into Your words.
02:00 We just ask that Christ will be seen and felt
02:03 and experienced today as we answer questions,
02:05 as we look at what you'll for our lives,
02:07 may we'll be faithful and we thank you in Jesus' name, amen.
02:11 Amen. As you know friends,
02:13 your Bible questions are significant to this program.
02:16 As a matter of fact always our first half is about
02:19 the Bible questions, so keep sending them in.
02:21 And if you have any questions,
02:23 you like to send us by email today,
02:24 you can send those questions to housecalls@3abn.org,
02:28 that's housecalls@3abn.org that means organized I believe.
02:33 So try to be as organized as you can with your thoughts,
02:35 make it shorten to the point.
02:37 Many of you are very excited and you want to send us
02:39 a doctoral dissertation and those are very heavy.
02:42 Sometimes we look at those and it overwhelms us
02:44 and we don't get to it.
02:45 So we do wanna answer your questions,
02:47 try to be concise into the point.
02:49 And if you don't have email we do accept snail mails,
02:53 so send those too.
02:55 We appreciate anything you send,
02:57 but the same rule applies,
02:59 try to write on the inside of the envelope,
03:01 not so much on the outside.
03:03 And we appreciate it very much.
03:05 You know, we've some excited viewers and listeners
03:07 to this program and C.A. sometimes they get carried away
03:11 and before they even, before the letter gets to us,
03:14 before we open it, there's a question
03:16 on the outside of the envelope. Wow!
03:17 And so such is the case here today
03:19 and I won't really start with that one,
03:21 but we've a question, this one comes up from time to time.
03:25 But I think it's good to revisit at this juncture,
03:28 because somebody may not have heard the last the last answer.
03:32 The last answer, its entitled I call it baptizing in the name.
03:36 And let me go and read the question.
03:38 Go to Mathew 28, verse 19. Oh yes.
03:41 If you've your Bibles turned there with us today,
03:42 Mathew 28, we call that the Great Commission
03:47 and remember it's not the great omission,
03:49 it includes everybody.
03:51 I really enjoy your program.
03:52 My question is in Mathew 28, verse 19.
03:56 Jesus told the disciples to go into all nations
03:59 baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
04:03 and of the Holy Spirit to make disciples of all nations.
04:07 In Luke 24:47 also and that repentance and remission
04:12 of sins should be preached in Jesus name.
04:16 So when Peter enacts to verse 38 said to them
04:18 repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus
04:21 for the remission of sins and you shall receive
04:23 the holy gift of the Holy Spirit.
04:26 Is there any reason why Peter didn't say
04:28 the name of the Father, and of the Son,
04:30 and of the Holy Spirit?
04:32 Or did Peter realize that in the name of the Father,
04:35 and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
04:38 So the question is in the name,
04:41 let's start up by reading the text
04:42 and I'll let you begin with the commentary.
04:44 "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
04:47 baptizing them in the name of the Father,
04:49 and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"
04:54 that's 19 and then verse 20,
04:55 "Teaches them to observe all things
04:57 whatsoever I have commanded you and, lo,
04:58 I am with you all way, even unto
05:00 the end of the age of the world." Okay.
05:04 Obviously we, we've a command here to baptize
05:08 in name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
05:10 And of course when the Lord gives us command,
05:13 it's important that we follow, follow it through.
05:16 And I think verse 20 is important, it says,
05:19 "Teach them to observe all things."
05:23 All other things are important.
05:26 You know, when you, if someone is going to join
05:28 something, they need to know every aspect of it.
05:31 So that, they know specifically and completely
05:34 what they are joining and what it's all about,
05:37 and so we've this command, he'll be baptized in
05:39 name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost.
05:41 Just because the Father is not mentioned in that
05:44 particular reference, it doesn't really mean that
05:47 Peter was omitting it.
05:48 I have to read the whole text to get
05:50 the complete understanding,
05:51 but He did baptized in name of the Father,
05:53 rather in the Son and the Holy Ghost.
05:55 And I assume for a circumstances whatever
05:59 were in his mind, he didn't mentioned the Father,
06:00 but that doesn't mean or wasn't recorded,
06:02 it doesn't accept me if that wasn't mentioned. Yeah.
06:05 And the other thing and sometimes this becomes
06:09 such a stumbling block, there's some churches that
06:11 decide just to baptize in the name of Jesus. Yeah.
06:15 There are other people that say when I get baptized,
06:17 I don't want to join a church,
06:18 I just want to be baptized into Jesus.
06:21 And so name of, name of, name of,
06:25 so you get down to this another point of arguing.
06:28 What is the name of the Father, what is the name of Son,
06:31 what is the name of the Holy Spirit?
06:33 Well, if you do your research even further
06:34 to show you that there's no discrepancy between what
06:37 Peter said and what commission Jesus gave,
06:41 the word there name of is from the Greek phrase
06:43 authority of, so it's not so much.
06:48 Naming them. Right naming like C.A,
06:52 or John, or Ben, or whomever.
06:56 It's not so much choosing a particular name
06:58 as much as it is the authority.
07:01 And so when it comes to authority,
07:03 the authority of Jesus, and the authority of the
07:05 Holy Spirit, and the authority of the Father
07:07 is equal across the board.
07:09 Surely, yeah.
07:10 So when I knock on your door, if somebody says,
07:11 who is it, you know,
07:12 I'm here in the authority of.
07:14 I don't care if their name is Frank,
07:16 you know, or Jeff.
07:18 The authority behind them is more important
07:20 than anything else. Yeah.
07:22 And so that's actually what's happened here,
07:24 there's an authority factor that's going on.
07:26 And remember, also there's another phrase which says,
07:30 well, not another phrase, but another text.
07:31 There is no other name given among men
07:35 whereby wemust be saved.
07:37 And so when the Bible says all power the word there
07:39 is Dunamis. Yes.
07:40 Also means all authority. Authority.
07:43 And when it says in the name of exusia,
07:46 right there name of. Yes.
07:48 That's ecclesiastical authority,
07:50 which is more important like we say the Pope.
07:53 Well, what's his name, it doesn't matter. Yeah.
07:56 The office you're talking about, yeah.
07:58 Right, so-- Yeah that's a good point.
08:02 So and it excludes them from heaven to name
08:04 each particular names like someone comes to you,
08:06 I'm doing this in the name of the law. Right.
08:08 You don't have to mention to Sheriff,
08:09 you don't have to mention a Deputy,
08:11 doesn't mention Governor or the Mayor.
08:13 That's the power that backs what I'm doing,
08:15 when we marry people. Right.
08:17 You say by the power vested in me.
08:18 I'm giving that power by the word of God
08:20 and the law of the land. Right.
08:23 That's the power that, that I carry
08:24 to consummate this marriage.
08:25 So it follows in that same, in that same vein.
08:28 That's right so, so friends its less of,
08:31 its less of an issue of the name that is whether
08:35 you call Him Emmanuel, whether you call Him Jesus,
08:40 whether you use the phrase,
08:41 the Son of God, or the Son of Man.
08:44 Whatever you call Him, you'll discover
08:47 in the Old Testament, the Old Testament writers at
08:49 particular times referred to the authority office of
08:53 the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley.
08:56 He was also referred to that Rock was Christ.
08:59 So He's called the Rock
09:01 and then He's also called the Messiah.
09:04 At that particular moment what does the Messiah do?
09:06 The Messiah is the anointed one.
09:08 So depending on whatever is happening
09:09 at that particular moment. Yeah.
09:11 Call His name, Jesus,
09:12 for He'll save His people from their sins.
09:14 Then few verses down call His name Emmanuel. Right.
09:17 Meaning God with us. Yes, surely.
09:19 So the name you could get into that,
09:21 and there's a particular denomination that will nail you
09:23 against the wall if you gonna use the word Jehovah. Yeah.
09:26 Don't want to mention which one that is.
09:28 But, so that's the whole point,
09:30 it's not about the name per say,
09:34 but it's about the office in the authority
09:36 which does not change. Good point.
09:38 Okay, here's another one.
09:39 This one is a very, I like the phrase you use
09:43 ecclesiastical obiter dictum is that,
09:46 is that the phrase you use?
09:47 Ecclesiastical obiter dictum.
09:48 Okay, and if you like an explanation for that
09:51 send the question to House Calls anyway.
09:54 But this is one that's really important,
09:56 because first of all, we're gonna break this
09:58 down into particular sections and the question begins.
10:01 Does the rapture take place pre-trib or post-trib?
10:06 Before we get into pre, post or a millennialism,
10:11 let's first answer the beginning part of the question.
10:14 Is there a rapture? And that phrase is used,
10:18 let's go to the text First Thessalonians.
10:23 This is probably one of the most commonly used texts,
10:27 when it comes to talking about the rapture.
10:30 And bear with us in few moments there,
10:32 because some of you may be saying.
10:34 Now is there one or isn't there one.
10:37 Let's just follow through.
10:38 I suspect you're in First Thessalonians Chapter 4.
10:42 And if you would for us, read.
10:48 Let's read verse 16,
10:51 that's the "rapture" verse,
10:55 that's often referred to, go for it.
11:00 First Thessalonians 4 verse 16.
11:02 Now I'm in First Thessalonians 4,
11:04 oh looking at verse 4. Okay.
11:07 "For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven
11:08 with a shout, with the voice of the archangel
11:11 and with the trumpet of God,
11:12 and the dead in Christ shall rise first."
11:15 And verse 17, "Then we who are alive and remain shall
11:17 be caught up together to meet them in the clouds,
11:22 to meet the Lord in the air, caught up together with them
11:26 in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air
11:29 and so shall we ever be with the Lord." Okay.
11:33 Couple of things, you want to begin by
11:34 commenting on that, or what is this actually.
11:37 Is this an event that's, is this what we referred
11:40 to as the rapture?
11:42 We don't refer to this as the rapture. Okay.
11:45 This is the sequence of events that take place
11:48 at the second coming of the Lord. Okay.
11:50 So we have, we have a sequence and an order.
11:54 "The Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout,
11:56 with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God,
11:59 the dead in Christ shall rise first." Okay.
12:03 That's pretty solid, pretty plain, pretty straight.
12:07 So we've a resurrection taking place?
12:08 Precisely, "Then we were to alive and remain
12:13 shall be caught up together with Him in the clouds
12:16 to meet the Lord in the air,
12:18 and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
12:21 It doesn't bespeak a secret coming,
12:25 first of all. Right.
12:28 "The Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout,
12:32 the voice of the archangel and the trump of God.
12:35 That doesn't say to me anything secret is gonna happen.
12:38 This seems to be a very broad, a very vocal, a very visual,
12:42 visual event that is not going to be secret.
12:47 So this sort of puts to rest the idea that the
12:49 Lord is gonna sneak in here and sneak some people out.
12:52 We're talking about descending from heaven with a shout,
12:55 voice of the archangel, trump of God,
12:58 very loud, very vocal, very visual.
13:00 So the idea of secret is dispelled
13:03 by this particular text.
13:04 You know, I'm glad you--that's the first answer to that.
13:07 First of all, it's not a secret.
13:09 And I know you used the word rapture,
13:10 but we must assume, that in many cases
13:13 when people say rapture, they mean secret rapture,
13:15 because that's the connotation is taken on.
13:18 Well, when is a rapture gonna place?
13:19 And you hear many ministers saying, well,
13:21 it could happen any day now,
13:23 or it could happen in any moment.
13:26 It could happen during my sermon,
13:28 half the congregation could be gone.
13:30 Yeah, yeah.
13:31 It will be said, if the pastor is still back there
13:32 saying well, the rapture just happened.
13:34 You know, I missed it.
13:35 He missed it, so-
13:37 Let me just say one more thing in there John.
13:38 Go ahead. I'm in Revelation 1:7.
13:39 Revelation 1:7 "Behold, he cometh with clouds
13:42 and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him
13:47 and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him,
13:50 even so, Amen."
13:51 So again we get this idea, this is not a secret event.
13:53 No, not at all.
13:54 This is an event that ends the age
13:56 in which we'll not find ourselves.
13:58 So its not going to be a secret event,
13:59 not a quiet event, not event that you've got to
14:02 read, see and then look at see and to find out about.
14:05 Every eye is gonna see Him, shout, trump,
14:08 voice of the archangel, this is a very public,
14:10 a very world changing event and everybody is
14:14 gonna know about it. That's right.
14:15 As a matter of fact, it's gonna to be so un-secret,
14:18 As Psalms 50 and verse 3 says, "Our God shall come,
14:21 and shall not keep silent." Precisely.
14:25 "A fire will devour before Him,
14:28 and it shall be very tempestuous all around Him."
14:31 So and if you just look at First Thessalonians 4,
14:34 "The Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout,
14:36 with the voice, with the trumpet."
14:38 Audible, very audible, then the earth changing
14:40 event is a resurrection.
14:42 All over the planet graves are going to be opening up.
14:46 And then those who are still alive are gonna be
14:49 caught up together. Yes.
14:52 One's not going before the other. Precisely.
14:54 The secret rapture, presupposes that,
14:57 people are just flying off to heaven like streams of light.
15:00 But that's not what's going to happen.
15:02 Yeah, and that's a very, very important point John.
15:04 The idea that we'll be caught up together. Right.
15:07 Not he goes one day and you go to next,
15:10 or he goes one time, or you're flying a plane,
15:12 he disappears and we're still on a plane wondering
15:13 what's going on pilot is not here.
15:15 We all are caught up together,
15:16 so when Christ comes in, comes back He's going to
15:20 take us on mass, dead and alive.
15:24 The dead of course will be resurrected and the alive
15:26 will continue to be alive, to glory with Him. That's right.
15:31 Yeah, powerful, powerful text.
15:32 You remember September 11, something happened in the world
15:35 that had never happened before at least
15:37 in United States, every flying,
15:39 every plane was grounded.
15:41 There was for the first time zero air traffic.
15:45 Let me encourage you when Jesus comes,
15:47 I don't believe there is gonna be any air traffic
15:50 on the day Jesus comes.
15:53 Because the earth what happened on September 11th,
15:55 was an event in New York,
15:57 and Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania,
15:59 some of those spots around the nation.
16:01 But when the Lord comes, the world is gonna be in
16:03 such a tribulation, such a chaotic setting,
16:08 men's hearts failing them for fear,
16:10 anguish and perplexity. Yes.
16:12 The seas and waves roaring.
16:13 The earth is gonna be in such a chaotic setting,
16:16 that they're going to be, I can guarantee you,
16:19 nobody is gonna be flying a Cessna 182
16:22 and there's gonna be no 747 over the Pacific Ocean
16:25 as folk disappearing from it.
16:28 Yeah. Because this gonna be, I mean the sun is gonna be
16:30 darkened, the moon not gonna give its light,
16:32 the stars are going to fall,
16:33 the powers of heaven is gonna be shaken out of
16:35 their very courses, so everything that dictates
16:37 our magnetic setting is gonna be thrown of course.
16:40 There's gonna be no activity where people are at a bar
16:43 somewhere, or at a club somewhere,
16:45 or at a restaurant somewhere saying,
16:47 what's that. Yeah, yeah!
16:48 The Bible gives indication of an event
16:51 that is so encompassing, so world altering that
16:54 business life as we know is going to come to halt.
16:59 Everybody is going to be looking up prepared
17:03 for this and some of course, who don't know what this
17:06 is for shadowing, you're talking about start terror.
17:09 Oh yeah. But for those who--
17:11 Anguish. Who know and are looking for the coming
17:12 of the Lord, joy inexpressible.
17:15 So everybody is gonna be in of two camps,
17:17 either you're saying, Lord, this is our God,
17:19 we waited for Him, He is going to save us
17:21 or you're going to be running to the
17:22 rocks and mountains that fall on him.
17:23 Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him
17:25 that sits on the throne.
17:26 So, its not gonna be any banking or any commerce
17:29 and nobody at the amusement parks,
17:31 or you know, nobody in theatres or the shows,
17:33 this is going to be an event that ends the age in
17:36 which we now find ourselves and everybody is
17:38 going to be aware, it's not going to be a secret thing.
17:41 That's right, so when you say and the other thing we
17:43 want to add to that you said,
17:44 post tribulation or pre-tribulation.
17:48 Well, let's just look at the word tribulation in
17:51 Mathew Chapter 24 verse 21,
17:55 just to give you an idea of how difficult this is going to be.
17:57 The Bible itself gives a context to the tribulation.
18:02 What's it gonna be like? How bad is it going to be?
18:05 Well notice, what Mathew 24, 21 says,
18:08 "For then there will be great tribulation,
18:12 such as has not been since the beginning of the world
18:15 until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
18:19 And unless those days were shortened,
18:21 no flesh would be saved, but for the elect's sake
18:25 those days will be shortened.
18:28 "So you're talking about a situation,
18:31 a cataclysmic earth, an earth gripped
18:35 by as Luke adds his part, to Luke Chapter 21,
18:39 anguish and perplexity, a world without answers.
18:44 But let's go back to the question,
18:45 because does the rapture,
18:46 lets go ahead and change that phrase now.
18:48 We're gonna use the second coming as the proper phrase.
18:52 Rather than the single word, the rapture.
18:54 Does the second coming take place before
18:56 the tribulation or after the tribulation.
18:59 Now as a theologian you know these terms.
19:03 We have post-tribulation, premillennialist,
19:07 we've pre-tribulation, premillennialist.
19:11 We and this in context to the second coming of Christ,
19:15 we're post-tribulation, premillennialist. Correct.
19:19 Meaning after the tribulation and before the thousand years.
19:23 Yeah. Jesus is coming in the middle, expand on that.
19:26 We don't really fall hard into any category,
19:29 because the terms are so loaded. Right.
19:32 But to be as pure as you can that's where we are.
19:35 There is going to be distress.
19:38 There is going to be tribulation
19:39 on the face of the earth, economic tribulation,
19:42 social tribulation, ecclesiological tribulation.
19:45 There's going to be an overturning of the order
19:48 as we now know it. Right.
19:49 These are harbingers of the coming of Christ.
19:52 Christ will come after that time. That's right.
19:55 But it is His coming that inaugurates the millennium,
19:59 so we're technically post-trib pre-millennium. Exactly.
20:04 But as I said sometimes those terms are so loaded,
20:07 so you've to explain your way through them,
20:09 because if you just say, we're post-trib.
20:11 Some people take that in a whole other basket of fruit
20:14 that we're not part of. Right.
20:15 But the Bible does give indication that this world
20:17 is going to be rocking to and fro.
20:19 We can see the birth banks as it were even now.
20:22 That's right. But it's going to get worse.
20:25 As a pastor, you know, when we were growing up,
20:28 it was, it was not as tough to pastor a church,
20:32 to get folk to unite to do things together.
20:34 The world in which the church finds itself is so
20:37 hostile now and as we move down towards the closest
20:41 earth history, the world is just a tougher place to live.
20:43 It's easier to die than it was when we are kids.
20:47 There are more things that will take your life.
20:48 There are more drugs in the world,
20:49 there are more kind of things.
20:51 It's easier to die, it's easier to get in trouble,
20:54 than it was when we were kids.
20:55 You know, we did, you had saline shots and when if
20:58 there was a fight between kids.
21:00 Water balloons. You know, you knuckled it out,
21:03 but now kids are bringing guns to school,
21:06 you've drugs in school, it's just,
21:08 it's a harder world now. That's right.
21:12 You can make one mistake.
21:13 When we were kids and to be honest with you,
21:16 one of the worse thing is for young lady to get pregnant.
21:19 You know, if you have a one night stand with a
21:22 fellow nowadays and all you cumbereth is a baby,
21:26 you need to praise God, because you can make one
21:29 mistake that will cost you a life. That's right.
21:32 You know, there are diseases now that will
21:34 take your life for one mistake.
21:36 It's a harder world now and it's gonna get worse
21:39 before Christ comes.
21:41 We can see it in the world, we can see it in society.
21:43 We're using up our air, our water, our land
21:46 at an incredible rate.
21:47 We can't keep on going like this.
21:49 So the world is going to be rocking and reeling and
21:51 men are at each others throats and, you know,
21:54 as this program is being taped,
21:56 we've got tsunamis and we've got earthquakes,
21:58 all of these things are-- Pre-curses.
22:01 Pre-curses, good word to the coming of the Lord,
22:05 so there is a tribulation time upon us,
22:08 that tribulation will end in the second coming of Christ,
22:11 which will open up a millennial period.
22:13 Thank God we'll be at Jesus forever. That's right.
22:15 And we've--that's wonderful synopsis of it,
22:20 but man I'll tell when it actually happens just like
22:22 saying, a blizzard is coming.
22:25 Well, being in that blizzard is completely different story,
22:29 being mushroomed down in the middle of Utah desert
22:33 with no gasoline and your car is stuck
22:36 and the next exit is 45 miles away
22:39 and you've no water, that's blizzard conditions. Yeah.
22:43 But then it gets down to perplexity and anguish,
22:45 you are just marooned you're cutoff.
22:47 So you're at the point your cell phone is on last
22:51 notch and there's no transmissions coming in
22:53 and you can't see the sky, because of the wide out,
22:55 that's blizzard. Yeah, yeah.
22:57 It's like saying fast, well fast in the sense of
22:59 a guy walking fast or jet just passing by your house.
23:02 So takes on a completely different contest when we
23:06 arrived in the middle of it.
23:07 But so if I've to say, that we don't have to worry,
23:11 but I'm glad you mentioned this earlier to
23:12 set this stage to use the word post-tribulation is
23:16 to bring with that an entire drawer full of meanings,
23:20 because the phrase tribulation in the
23:22 minds of many means a seven-year period of,
23:26 you know, the rapture happening and the antichrist
23:30 making a covenant with the Jews.
23:35 You know, Jerusalem being rebuilt
23:37 and the sacrificial system being restarted.
23:39 So we don't bind to that, the Bible doesn't teach that.
23:42 We're not looking forward to go on to the Middle East,
23:44 we're looking forward going to the New Jerusalem.
23:45 Amen, amen.
23:46 I don't care what's happened in the Middle East.
23:48 I mean, I love the people there,
23:50 but God is not coming, Jesus is not coming to dwell with us.
23:54 He's coming to take us that were I am there you maybe also.
23:58 You know the text, it says
23:59 "Then there shall be great tribulation.
24:02 "Doesn't specify a great tribulation or particular type,
24:05 but the Bible is talking about the condition of planet earth
24:09 prior to the second coming of Christ. That's right.
24:11 So we're talking about global catastrophe,
24:14 global upturn of the economical social systems.
24:19 We're talking about problems across the board
24:22 that can only end with the coming of the Lord.
24:25 That's right, cascading. Precisely.
24:27 You know, being at the top of the water fall
24:29 is one thing is pretty for being at the bottom,
24:31 something all together different.
24:33 I don't' think anyone goes to the base of the waterfall
24:35 and say what a beautiful waterfall.
24:37 Well the world is cascading downward.
24:39 Economically we talk about multiple trillions of
24:42 dollars of debt almost like it's just a minimal balance.
24:45 And we're talking about the ozone layer depleting.
24:48 We're talking about icecaps melting.
24:49 We're talking about sea levels rising.
24:51 We're talking about economic, we're talking about
24:53 a possible what they call it cyber shockwave.
24:58 There is so much on horizon, that if you look at it,
25:01 you'll be afraid to get out of your house in the morning.
25:02 You know, this question it says,
25:04 has thrown a sort of down this quarter,
25:06 but you look at the problems that we have and man solutions
25:09 and each one of them simply creates another problem.
25:12 I was listening the other day about this one town,
25:15 where they were having for several years attack of
25:20 certain beetles and bugs that were destroying the crops.
25:22 And so they just increased their pesticide use.
25:26 Well now the pesticides have leached down into that
25:30 water systems and so they're getting babies born
25:34 with defects because of pesticides
25:38 in now the food chain.
25:40 So you correct one problem and you get another problem
25:44 and then you try to correct that problem
25:45 and you get another problem,
25:46 because all of our answers,
25:48 pastor are just sort of stop gap measures,
25:50 we don't have the ultimate solution.
25:53 And so we're heaping, we're getting into
25:56 problems that we simply don't have answers for. Right
25:59 There's no way to get us out of it.
26:02 We're using fossil fuels, they're coming to an end.
26:05 They're not going to be there forever.
26:07 We're heating up our earth,
26:08 yet we got to drive, you know,
26:11 who's gonna park their car,
26:13 I got to go to the market to get food.
26:14 So we've got this cycle of problems that we simply
26:17 have no answer for.
26:18 And that's what the Bible says,
26:19 God is going to cut this in short. That's right.
26:21 Because if He doesn't, humanity will destroy itself.
26:24 You know, we'll just cease
26:27 our own existence by our own genius.
26:31 By share, by exhaustion of natural resource.
26:34 Yeah, we're just running out of solution,
26:35 so God saying, I got to cut this short,
26:37 these people are just gonna wipe themselves out.
26:38 That's right. There will be nobody left to say,
26:40 unless I cut this thing short.
26:41 So God in His love is not going to let this thing go
26:44 on forever, He cannot and in love He's gonna cut it
26:47 short and praise God for it.
26:49 You know, I remember Pastor C.D.
26:50 Brooks once said, "The earth is like an old pair of jeans.
26:54 It tears in one place and you sew it up,
26:56 it tears in other place, you stitch it up.
26:58 "I don't know in this world today,
27:00 it seems like a fad to wear jeans that are fallen apart
27:03 that look like they've been in five generations,
27:06 but what happens is when that final tear happens, yeah.
27:09 You just got to discard the entire garment.
27:11 You got to discard.
27:12 And our world is being torn apart
27:13 by one tragedy or the other.
27:15 So let me, let me now end this talk with the idea that well,
27:18 if it's a post-tribulation or pre-tribulation.
27:21 Let me end it with this thought,
27:22 John 14, verse 27, "Peace I leave with you,
27:26 my peace I give to you,
27:28 not as the world gives do I give to you.
27:31 Let not your heart be troubled,
27:33 neither let it be afraid," I love it.
27:35 You know, we got a God that is not going to allow
27:37 us to go down the drain, He's got a strainer there.
27:41 When all the problems of the world are gone down
27:43 the drain, He's gonna shake us off and take us to heaven.
27:46 One of my favorite text, just to add a little cherry on it
27:48 on Sunday there, John 16:33,
27:53 "These things I have spoken unto you that in me
27:55 ye might have peace.
27:56 In the world ye shall have tribulation
27:58 but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
28:01 That's right. Yeah.
28:02 It's not and the beauty of it pastor is not something
28:05 that Jesus sits back and says,
28:07 "Now what would I do."
28:09 I'm glad I don't serve that kind of Jesus, amen.
28:11 He knows where it's headed,
28:12 that's why He has predicted it,
28:14 but He's also predicted the end.
28:15 Praise the Lord. Thank you for the questions.
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28:41 this program what it is.
28:43 Well, today we've a very
28:45 interesting topic that we're gonna cover.
28:47 We're gonna try to do as much as we can
28:48 in the time remaining.
28:50 And let me just say the title is one that may
28:52 bring a smile to your face,
28:54 but I hope it also brings a sober attitude to your mind
28:57 because as a person who wants have
28:59 optimum health in the world today concerned about health.
29:01 This program is entitled to eat or not to eat,
29:04 that's the question. that is the question.
29:06 You know, that takes me down that thought
29:09 the philosophical route to be or not to be, wow!
29:14 You know, because it's on the planet,
29:17 do we eat it because it breeds and moves
29:21 is it intended to be food.
29:23 Are there certain things that you do just
29:26 because it's available?
29:28 What's the reason why you do, what you do?
29:30 What is the reason why you eat,
29:32 what you eat and what has God intended for us
29:36 to have as our daily food supply.
29:39 You know, with medical costs going up,
29:41 right now there's a big debate in our country
29:43 about health costs and how to take care of those.
29:45 And I'll suggest you that in the midst of all that,
29:49 just recently a survey came out saying that
29:52 in schools one of the reasons why children can't
29:54 concentrate as much as they do,
29:55 is because the high sugar levels in juice
29:58 and high sugar levels in soda.
30:00 Well, if something like juice and soda
30:03 is becoming a concern, the Bible gives us
30:06 a larger plate of things that we should avoid,
30:09 but also an equally larger plate of things
30:11 that we can include, yeah.
30:13 Let's begin with the principle though,
30:14 let's start in 3rd John verse 2, 3rd John verse 2
30:19 What does the Bible say about this particular principle?
30:22 Let's begin with the principle.
30:23 "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou
30:26 mayest prosper and be in health,
30:28 even as thy soul prospereth."
30:32 Pastor, do you know anybody that doesn't want to prosper?
30:35 I can't think of anybody.
30:36 You know, can you imagine, guy says, I'm going to school
30:39 and after I get my degree, I'm gonna fail, can we?
30:43 There is not a person we know that plans for failure.
30:47 Now there are few vegetables and few nuts out there,
30:51 they are just really loose canons
30:52 that are suicidal in nature,
30:54 but for the most part even they hope
30:56 to succeed in their suicide--
30:57 You have a same rational person, they want to do well.
31:00 Right. They want to prosper.
31:03 And, of course, this is not some would make it
31:06 a guarantee of wealth, health, and longevity.
31:09 There are some who would say when you come to Lord,
31:10 this text guarantee that no, this is God's wish,
31:13 but this is His wish, I want you
31:16 to prosper even as a soul prosper.
31:19 And so the really, the burden of this text actual is,
31:24 actually is soul prospering.
31:26 He saying, I'm assuming that
31:29 you are in good spiritual condition.
31:31 I want your physical life to match your spiritual life.
31:36 But this presupposes that you've got
31:38 a good working relation with God.
31:40 Because it's a competitive text, even has your soul,
31:43 I know you love the Lord,
31:44 I know you right with the Lord.
31:46 I hope and pray that your physical life
31:49 mirrors your spiritual life.
31:51 That's right. Yeah.
31:52 And that's good, I like that comparison,
31:54 one is leaning on the fact of the other,
31:58 if in fact the first one is a fact.
32:00 Since you're doing well financially,
32:01 how you're doing physically,
32:03 that's the question has being led here.
32:05 But the age in which we live, and this is something that
32:07 I wanna make this question age appropriate,
32:09 no not so much what your age is,
32:11 but the age in which we live.
32:13 Correct, because we are living
32:14 in a very conscious society nowadays
32:16 when it comes to health,
32:17 everybody wants to be in health,
32:19 there are books by the thousands
32:20 maybe hundred or thousands are written
32:23 on how to have optimum health.
32:25 I would doubt somebody would buy a Mercedes,
32:26 or any kind of new vehicle,
32:28 or any vehicle at all whether new or used
32:30 and say I want this vehicle to breakdown
32:34 after about a week.
32:37 Right, I doubt anybody would buy a horse
32:40 that they would consider a farming horse or race horse
32:44 and feed that horse snicker bars,
32:47 Pepsi, keep him up late, giving chewing tobacco
32:50 and hope he gets up the next day
32:52 and performs as a race horse should,
32:54 I doubt that. Yeah.
32:56 But in very many cases
32:57 the things that we don't do to our horses
32:59 and we don't do to our cars,
33:01 we do almost voluntarily to our bodies
33:04 and expect for there to be optimum recovery
33:08 and optimum conditioning and optimum performance
33:11 and it really doesn't matter, yeah.
33:12 I mean, it really doesn't match.
33:14 So let's go to this verse,
33:15 before we go to the second question,
33:17 why do God give health rules to His people?
33:20 Let's go to Revelation Chapter 14
33:24 and I want to look at verse 6
33:26 and then we're gonna go
33:27 to 1st Corinthians 10 and verse 31.
33:29 And notice that in an age where God is saying
33:34 there's something that I am worthy of
33:38 how and what way and what many forms
33:42 can we give God exactly what He deserves.
33:45 Notice, how they got been. I'm gonna go ahead
33:47 and have the text read first, okay.
33:50 Revelation Chapter 14 and we're gonna read
33:54 verse 6 and verse 7. Okay, Revelation 14.
33:57 You have one of those big Bibles.
33:59 Yeah, I've got this brand new,
34:00 brand new Bible, uses from that much. Verse 6 and 7.
34:03 Okay, here we go Revelation 14,
34:05 I'm at verse 6. Okay.
34:07 "Saying with a loud voice,
34:08 Fear God, and give glory to him,
34:10 for the hour of his judgment is come,
34:13 and worship him that made the heaven,
34:15 and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."
34:18 Okay, that's verse 7, so that's key,
34:19 the key there is verse 6 includes
34:21 preaching the everlasting gospel
34:23 and what has being said is,
34:24 "Fear God, and give glory to Him."
34:28 Now Christian friend, and you may be Christian
34:31 and I'm just assuming that some of you
34:34 who are watching are Christians,
34:36 if you're not follow along with me.
34:38 Giving God glory is something every Christian wants to do.
34:43 But I want to now take you
34:45 to 1st Corinthians 10 and verse 31,
34:47 because a lot people believe that,
34:49 through our songs, through our sermons,
34:53 through our service,
34:54 through our financial giving,
34:56 through our outreach and our missionary work,
34:59 those are the means that God
35:00 is ordained to give Him glory, yeah.
35:02 But pastor, go to 1st Corinthians 10:31,
35:04 I know you have thought, go ahead and share with us.
35:06 Yeah, I say and they are, you are so right, they are.
35:09 The problem is or the challenge is,
35:11 they are not the only means, that's right.
35:12 If you limited to that, and lo, lot of things
35:15 that what we do in church on any given day.
35:18 We pray to Him, we praise Him verbally,
35:22 we preach about Him, we lift our hands to Him
35:26 in some instances and all of that is good and right
35:28 and just, but that's not all
35:31 that's continence by giving glory to God.
35:34 And this text you picked is so appropriate, okay.
35:38 Eat that--I'm sorry, "Whether therefore you eat,
35:42 or drink, or whatsoever you do,
35:45 do all to the glory of God."
35:49 I saw a program on very famous talk show hosts
35:54 and they were talking about how this one lady
35:57 for so many years was seen as a neat, clean,
36:01 all put together professional lady.
36:03 She had a very high position in her company.
36:07 And when you drove pass her house,
36:08 yard was manicured, beautiful landscaping,
36:11 but on the inside of the house
36:13 it was a trap of insanity.
36:15 This lady was, she hadn't cleaned her house
36:19 for seven or at least eight years,
36:21 hadn't cleaned it.
36:22 That means dishes had not been washed,
36:24 she had many animals, many cats.
36:27 So let's go ahead and talk about all the things
36:29 that are laying everywhere,
36:31 there was even cat droppings in the bottom
36:32 of the shower that she used each day
36:35 to take her shower before she went to work.
36:37 Let's go further even in her bed,
36:41 she slept on one half of the bed
36:42 the other half of the bed
36:43 had droppings from her animals in her closets.
36:46 When they came to the spot to clean it,
36:50 people would periodically turn quickly,
36:52 because a mouse is running probably
36:54 after another mouse just this house was so messy.
36:58 And they ask the lady
37:00 how can you allow this to happen?
37:03 And she was giving all the logical answers
37:05 and the talk show host says, you know,
37:07 what the problem is, you know exactly what to say,
37:10 but you don't even know what you could,
37:11 you don't even know how bad your condition is.
37:14 So what was in essence saying is,
37:15 you may look good on the outside,
37:18 but based on what you are neglecting about the inside,
37:21 you can be a Christian
37:23 that has all the external trappings of the person
37:26 that's living the right life, but internally your organs
37:29 could be falling apart,
37:30 your body could be in shambles,
37:32 because you have ignored what this verse says,
37:35 eating and drinking to the glory of God.
37:36 Yeah, yeah, what's interesting about that,
37:39 and that's a frightening example but very, very app.
37:44 Everything that touches us
37:46 as you well know it touches God.
37:48 Everything that concerns us concerns God's.
37:51 God is concerned about Christians
37:53 to the minutest detail.
37:56 And if we are doing things that destroy
37:59 our body that, we're gonna come to some text
38:02 that verify this in a little bit,
38:04 that's got be of concerned to God.
38:06 If Christ die to pay for you, to purchase you,
38:11 to redeem you, then He has of course,
38:14 concerned about the kind of shape you are in.
38:16 That's right, because the kind of shape
38:18 you are in bespeaks the kind of God you serve.
38:21 And if you're in better physical and mental health,
38:25 you can do, I remember,
38:28 I think it was George Washington or Ben Franklin
38:31 had said God can use any tool,
38:34 He can use sharper axe
38:35 a little better, you know. High pad.
38:37 And so he wants you to be a sharp axe,
38:40 you know. Right.
38:41 So that you can be a powerful witness for Him.
38:44 If you are lazy, and sluggish,
38:46 and in bad shape, what does that say
38:48 about the God that, you're trying to serve.
38:50 That's right, yeah, You cannot use,
38:52 you would not use a racing car
38:54 that's sputtering if you want to win. Precisely.
38:57 And so the principles
38:59 and the reason I mention this, because the principles
39:01 that we naturally applied to vehicles in our homes,
39:05 in our cars and all the things
39:07 that we want to function right.
39:08 You won't put your cell phone in the bath tub
39:10 and expected to respond when you make a phone call.
39:13 You know, the things that should be avoided,
39:15 but on the same side a lot of people believe
39:17 that they could just treat their body any oh, how, yeah.
39:21 And it doesn't really matter and in some sense,
39:24 C.A, some people believe, well, I'm a Christian,
39:27 God's going to give me another body anyhow.
39:29 So what I do with this one
39:31 really, really doesn't matter.
39:34 And that's sad, that's sad.
39:35 You know, so I send somebody just rent you their house
39:37 and what you would do with that one
39:38 since they got other houses, right, just trash it?
39:41 They're going to get another, they have others anyway.
39:43 Just a rental. Yeah. It's not mine.
39:45 Some people think that way though.
39:46 They do, indeed they do,
39:48 that's why doctors will always have jobs,
39:51 because there are those who abuse their body
39:53 and they figure a pill can change it, or fix it.
39:56 I read something the other day I really like,
39:58 it said the secret of your future
39:59 is hidden in your daily routine,
40:01 that's what you put in your body
40:03 and what you do with your body every single day
40:05 that determines your longevity.
40:07 I mean, your genes and genetics
40:08 have a lot to do with it.
40:09 But how we treat it everyday
40:11 has more or as much to do with it,
40:13 as the genetic makeup that we are given, yeah.
40:17 Let's go to 1st Corinthians Chapter 6.
40:19 We're still laying some principles
40:20 and let me gonna hit on some things very quickly.
40:22 And we also may extend this topic to a number
40:25 of other upcoming programs,
40:26 because the Lord want you to be in good health.
40:29 But how that happens, we could simply say,
40:31 go get a pill, we live in a pill driven society. Oh, yes.
40:34 You know, take two and call me in the morning.
40:36 Well, if you wakeup the next day
40:38 that's the whole issue.
40:39 But here let's go to 1st Corinthians Chapter 6.
40:42 And you have the King James Version,
40:46 I want you to read--
40:47 I brought King James. King James,
40:49 I want you to read in that translation,
40:51 because I like the way that Paul begins verse 19.
40:56 He begins it with
40:57 somewhat of a startling single word. Yeah.
41:00 You know, what I'm talking about.
41:02 And I want you to give it,
41:03 I want you to give it with the New Year flavor
41:05 when you use that first word, okay.
41:07 First Corinthians Chapter 6 verse 19 start with that,
41:11 give us New Year flavor.
41:12 It says, what or as we said, New York,
41:14 what, you know that kind of thing. Right.
41:17 "Know ye not that your body is a temple
41:20 of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
41:22 which ye have of God?
41:23 And ye are not your own." Okay.
41:25 You know, I'm glad he said what,
41:27 don't you know that, your body belongs to God?
41:30 He's talking to Corinthians. Yeah.
41:31 He is talking to Christians
41:33 in the Corinthians setting a port city,
41:35 many different people of different nationalities
41:37 all gather there, a place of commerce. Yeah.
41:40 And but he is saying to, it's almost like a shot,
41:42 what, don't you know? Yeah. It's almost like,
41:45 how could you as a Christian not know. Yeah.
41:48 That you don't belong to you.
41:50 If you think that your house belongs to you,
41:53 stop paying taxes. Precisely.
41:54 The government will tell you,
41:56 we're coming to get our house.
41:57 They will stop by saying. Or the bank would say.
41:59 They would stop by saying what,
42:01 don't you know that this land belongs to the government?
42:04 You see, there is no eminent domain
42:05 when it comes to ownership of our bodies.
42:07 But break it down again and he goes on,
42:10 he says your body is what?
42:13 It's the temple. That's right.
42:14 The temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you,
42:18 and ye have of God?
42:19 I like it, you are not your own,
42:22 you don't-- and because that,
42:23 that knocks the pegs up
42:24 from that line that's my body. Yeah.
42:27 Oh, no, it's not,
42:28 you've been purchased with the price,
42:29 somebody has brought you,
42:31 you don't belong totally to yourself.
42:34 That's right. Yeah, you are not your own.
42:36 And if you think you're your own,
42:38 ask yourself when did you manufactured you--
42:43 In the beginning God created,
42:44 one of the problems in our world today is,
42:46 we dismiss responsibility and stewardship by saying
42:51 we are some evolutionary process,
42:52 some biological birth.
42:54 That's not the facts, because there is too much
42:56 order here to come out of chaos.
42:58 You can have all this function
42:59 down to the minutest infinitesimal cell
43:02 and think that it happend
43:03 by some exploitation somewhere. Yes, yeah.
43:05 And the fact of the matter is you are not your own
43:06 and when doctors get together,
43:08 and scientist get together, they let you know that,
43:09 what's happening on the inside of your body,
43:11 this regenerative process is being interrupted,
43:14 because you are not paying attention
43:15 to the very things that would happen in the right way
43:18 if you follow this particular principles.
43:20 Yeah, yeah there are so many things here,
43:23 you're bought with a price, verse 20 says.
43:25 So you have been paid for,
43:27 and you are the property of a loving God,
43:31 and whenever you buy something kind of complex,
43:33 you know, I'd bought a piece of furniture the other day.
43:36 And, you know, you try to be macho,
43:38 I'm gonna put this thing together
43:39 without reading the manual, you know. I like that.
43:42 I'm gonna put it together,
43:43 because I can do this, I went to college,
43:45 I can do this, you know, so you've got Flange A,
43:47 to Tab B and you got screws and you get done,
43:50 you got a handful of screws left
43:51 and it didn't working right, it's just not right,
43:53 because you didn't read the manual. Right.
43:55 Well, the manufacturer gave you a manual. Specific.
43:58 Precisely, and if you follow the manual,
44:01 it's going to work out fine. God has given us a manual,
44:04 we have it in our hands. That's right.
44:05 It tells us what to do, what not to do,
44:08 what to put in our body, what not to put in our body,
44:11 and it gives us the effect of,
44:13 if we do it right,
44:14 and if we do it wrong. That's right.
44:16 So we know what to do the things,
44:18 are you gonna follow the manual,
44:19 or you gonna try to put it together Flange A and Tab B
44:22 by yourself and then you come out
44:24 with something that's not gonna be right.
44:25 That's a great illustration,
44:26 because you know, how many times I'm pretty,
44:29 I'm mechanically geared, mechanically inclined
44:31 and many of us are, you know,
44:33 don't tell a guy that
44:34 he can't put it together. Right.
44:35 You know, he's got tools
44:38 that he just bought at Wal-Mart
44:40 and he knows how to make
44:41 those ratchets, ratchet. Yeah.
44:43 So the worse thing that a women could do
44:46 is say to her husband, you don't know
44:48 what you are doing?
44:49 You've just driven him to prove his insanity. Yeah.
44:52 Because she's kind of try to prove you wrong,
44:53 am I correct?
44:54 Very true, you're gonna try to put it together.
44:56 So what you want to do to get a dysfunctional
44:59 living room set instead of try to challenge
45:01 your husband to put it together without reading.
45:04 He's gonna say, I got this and before you know,
45:06 that couch is gonna be on the 45 degree angle.
45:08 And that table is going to be out
45:09 and you will have a handful of screws
45:12 and nuts and bolts left over. Yeah.
45:14 Because I sat down one day
45:16 and I looked at the instructions
45:18 and its scares you in the beginning
45:19 because you get all the stuff in plastic shrink wrapped.
45:22 And you look at these screws and for the glance
45:24 they looked the same length as this one,
45:26 but these have a single slice
45:28 head for the standard screwdriver,
45:30 these have a Philips head,
45:31 these have the wood pre-cut type of screws. Right.
45:34 These have the metal type of threading.
45:36 You get them all mixed up, you try to put a metal screw,
45:39 wood screw into a metal nut and you messed up,
45:42 but you force it to work and in the very same way
45:45 people are putting things in their body
45:47 without realizing there is a certain way
45:49 that it needs to be done.
45:51 Let's go to 1st Corinthians 3 verse 16
45:53 and 17 to add another facet to this. Yeah.
45:56 Because, yes, God is a particular God,
45:58 just as you are particular.
46:00 If you are not particular and you're having dinner,
46:02 let your son put his basketball
46:04 sneakers on the table at Thanksgiving and say,
46:07 "Mom, it's just, it's not really toxic,
46:11 it will be just fine."
46:12 You'll show me exactly how particular you are. Yeah.
46:15 Is God particular, notice what the Lord
46:16 and I think this is what you do to your son
46:18 if he ignore you?
46:19 Yeah, this is the companion text 16, 19 and 20.
46:22 That's right. "If any man defile the temple of--
46:25 " Well, first verse 16. You want 16, okay.
46:28 "Know you not, that you are the temple of God,
46:31 and that the spirit of God dwelt in you?"
46:35 If any man, I'm in 17 now,
46:37 "Defile the temple of God him shall God destory,
46:40 for the temple of God is holy,
46:42 which temple ye are." That's right.
46:46 In another words the Bible is saying,
46:48 not in other words, but clearly,
46:51 "Your body is God's temple."
46:53 Now let's go ahead and make this very clear
46:55 because God is not in the business
46:57 of just fly swatting people,
47:00 but some of us fly swat ourselves.
47:02 There you go, that's an important part.
47:04 Talk about that for a moment. Yeah.
47:05 How we break ourselves.
47:06 You may come over with, okay, God's gonna destroy me.
47:08 He didn't have to,
47:09 because if you are constantly
47:10 pumping things into your body,
47:12 you're gonna destroy yourself. Right.
47:13 Now what he may not do is answer
47:16 your prayer for healing
47:17 unless you have a change of mind.
47:19 Why should God heal you for you to go back
47:22 and re-pump in those same things that destroyed
47:24 you in the first place.
47:25 So we're not talking about a God,
47:28 who is sitting in the heaven and saying okay,
47:29 I'm gonna destroy her, I'm gonna destroy him.
47:32 No your habits are destroying you. That's right.
47:35 Your bad habits are destroying your health.
47:39 If you are smoking, and smoking, and smoking,
47:43 you may not get lung cancer. That's right.
47:45 You may not, but odds are you will. That's right.
47:48 You know, so if you're smoking,
47:50 does it make sense for you to say God heal me of this,
47:54 so I can smoke some more. Why would you do that?
47:58 You know, so you are destroying the temple,
48:01 God is simply letting you feel
48:04 the consequences of your actions.
48:06 That's right. Yeah.
48:07 And so naturally we know that in the same
48:11 in the world of physics,
48:13 for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
48:17 So, you can't throw the ball,
48:19 you cannot stand two feet away from the ball
48:21 and throw a super ball at the wall
48:22 and I expect it come back
48:23 and knock you out. Yeah, okay.
48:25 You cannot throw something out of glass window
48:27 that's above your head and I expect the glass
48:30 would rain down and cut you up.
48:32 So for every action there is an equal,
48:34 at least an equal and opposite reaction. Yes.
48:37 So let's not think of our body as the place
48:40 where that principle is exempt,
48:42 because it applies in everything else.
48:43 Yeah, and that's what sad. Yeah.
48:46 God has made us so fearfully
48:47 and wonderfully that your body
48:48 can take an off lot of abuse for off a longtime.
48:51 I think of one of the great boxers,
48:53 Muhammad Ali, and I don't know exactly
48:55 all the reasons why his challenge in the way
48:58 he is today great guy, you know,
48:59 people love him and we all still applaud him
49:02 for his many accomplishments.
49:03 And when you mentioned the name Ali,
49:04 he's still known no matter what,
49:07 the greatest, you know, that's just the bottom line.
49:09 But I would say that probably
49:11 and this is just my limited understanding,
49:12 probably the years of that pounding to his head.
49:16 And I saw one of those shots one day where,
49:19 George Foreman, and I'm not saying that was the shot,
49:21 but George Foreman hit him one day
49:23 and I remember very well, no sorry Joe Frazier hit
49:27 him one day and he says Joe Frazier
49:28 would decapitate the normal man,
49:32 he hit him so hard.
49:33 Now the pounding to the skull,
49:36 when the brain is held by some very,
49:38 very light tendons that, you know,
49:40 like you don't throw your brain pressuring
49:44 against you at, if you do,
49:45 you need to go see a doctor right away?
49:46 But that brain is held together
49:48 to the sides by some very thin,
49:50 we called it threads,
49:52 but in fact those are nerves that are holding it together.
49:54 If I swing your head faster than that brain could adjust,
49:56 I'm gonna tear something, I'm gonna injure something.
49:58 Yeah, or you're gonna bruise it
49:59 which is a concussion. Right.
50:01 You know, and you had concussion upon
50:03 concussion in football today,
50:05 if you have two or three, four,
50:06 but they tell you to stop playing. Right.
50:07 You got to find another occupation
50:09 and of course, taking a pounding
50:10 like that he probably will see many, many concussion.
50:13 So there is a price to be paid for treating
50:16 your body a certain way, we idolize price fighters,
50:19 but you are paying Russian with your future
50:24 when you're in that kind of support.
50:25 Truly and that's why, you have the joke when,
50:28 you know, we talk about football players, we go,
50:31 because they have been hit so much sometimes
50:33 and we know they are very intellectual
50:34 I apologize if you're football player,
50:36 I know you're not, you know, you are not missing
50:38 any intellectual abilities there.
50:41 But that was the joke throughout the years,
50:42 you know, you mention football players you do,
50:44 because they have been hit so much to the head,
50:46 that's why I stopped playing football
50:48 as you can tell I'm not built for sport,
50:50 I thought I could be a wide receiver
50:52 just running and getting away,
50:54 I found out that there are guys there were twice
50:55 my weight could run just as fast.
50:57 I got hit one day and I thought you know
50:59 for me to have sense
51:00 when I'm in my 30s, and 40s, and 50s. Yeah.
51:02 I need to take up checkers.
51:03 I did the same thing in high school.
51:05 First of all, I said, you know,
51:06 this is not my sport.
51:07 I thought I'll play something else,
51:09 like we indecision of playing basketball too,
51:11 but that's unintentional, right.
51:13 Football, you trying to hurt someone,
51:14 or hit somebody, or knock somebody down.
51:16 Because cheerleaders to football players
51:18 are nurses into skies, you're gonna need a nurse
51:20 when you get hit on the football field,
51:22 so we're in essence saying we're starting
51:23 this programming by saying,
51:25 "Take note of what you're doing to your body." Yes.
51:30 We're not gonna lay down the do's
51:32 and don'ts get about what to eat
51:33 and what not to eat?
51:34 But take note as to what you are doing to your body
51:37 and if you want that body
51:38 like that car that you polish.
51:42 If you want that car, well that body to shine
51:45 and perform like that car
51:46 that you're taking care of, changing the oil,
51:47 the transmission fluid. Yeah.
51:49 Put in it what you expect to get out of it.
51:51 Precisely, and not only,
51:53 but pastor what you are doing,
51:55 what you are not doing. That's right.
51:57 At this age, I think of exercise as medicine. Oh.
52:00 You know, whetheryou like or not it's immaterial.
52:03 The fact is its integral to good health. That's right.
52:07 So, you've got to get up off the couch
52:08 and do something, because it pays dividends,
52:12 its medicine, it will help you.
52:15 Anything else you're doing,
52:17 coupled with exercise will be better for you.
52:19 If you are eating light, if you are getting rest,
52:21 if you're getting good air and sunlight
52:23 and exercise it will help you,
52:26 it can't hurt you.
52:27 It cannot, in the same way there are people
52:29 that talk about investments
52:30 in the stock market you know that.
52:31 The greatest investment is in your personal health
52:34 and well being, because some people say,
52:36 well, I have $45,0000, well, you can't walk.
52:40 I got a million dollars investments,
52:42 but you can't see, yeah.
52:43 And you got there by abusing
52:44 your body with drug, and alcohol
52:47 and late night sleeping,
52:49 and things that we're just pumping your adrenal up
52:52 one day and down the other, there is a--
52:53 I went to a mall the other day
52:55 and we were so thirsty and he said,
52:59 oh, great there is a soda machine,
53:01 but then you can buy a water
53:03 and we wanted to get it water,
53:04 I'm not gonna mentioned the kind,
53:05 we like the Sannine.
53:07 And so we said let's put that,
53:09 you know, money in the, we put in there
53:11 and something it comes out called blast.
53:15 And I said, I pressed this on,
53:17 but I didn't even to see anything, I'm gonna blast.
53:20 Well, I read the label, twice the sugar,
53:24 double the caffeine. Yeah.
53:26 And under that there is ridiculous,
53:29 if you wanna feel like your energy has been
53:31 boosted and last longer during the day,
53:34 I still have that can in my trunk,
53:36 I don't want to anybody to see it,
53:37 to even think I drink that stuff. Yeah, yeah.
53:39 Because we deplete ourselves in one end
53:41 and hope that there is more on the other.
53:43 It's like cutting the blanket off
53:44 and sowing it to the other side
53:45 and say we have a longer blanket.
53:46 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we haven't even gone into,
53:49 what to eat and what not to eat,
53:50 I think we're giving general principles
53:51 and one that I tend to abuse and I'm really getting
53:55 on myself about that is adequate sleep, that's right.
53:57 Yeah, the exercise, you eat right and go to bed,
54:01 this idea, I'm gonna night out,
54:03 you're burned it on this end,
54:05 you are cutting it off the back end, that's right.
54:07 And having done little study in this,
54:10 the kinds of problems,
54:12 John, that come from lack of sleep,
54:14 the kinds of things you are building up in your body,
54:17 where you are not allowing your body
54:18 to do is incredible, the kinds of aches,
54:21 and pains, and illnesses that accrue from just not
54:24 going to bed or going to bed too late.
54:26 Your body can't function on four or five hours
54:29 of sleep a night, you think you can. Right.
54:31 But sooner or later, your body is gonna tell you,
54:33 I'm not having this anymore, we're not gonna do it.
54:35 And I'm glad you mentioned
54:36 that because after after I came back from Africa,
54:38 and I went to bed every night I had routine.
54:40 It's hard for me to break that routine
54:42 and go back to late hours, but I've discovered that,
54:44 when I wake up in the morning.
54:46 When you get the adequate rest,
54:47 you don't really need an alarm clock
54:50 because your body says, "You've got enough, get up."
54:52 But when you throw your body into tailspin,
54:55 you need an alarm clock and people need coffee
54:57 to get themselves going, they need sleeping pills
54:59 to stop themselves from going,
55:01 they're so boost with caffeine all day long
55:03 that the body is racing,
55:04 then they've got to press the breaks on with,
55:06 the sleeping pills and you are not really
55:09 functioning based on the natural body chemistry.
55:11 Precisely. You've beaten yourself up
55:13 then you've thrown yourself down,
55:14 you're like a ragdoll that's tied to his string,
55:16 there is some kid that has no sense
55:17 is pulling and stopping, pulling and stopping.
55:20 And that's why I want to end
55:21 with this particular text to show you
55:22 that as we lay the foundation for the principles,
55:25 God is serious that our bodies will last a longtime,
55:29 if we do with that as He intends.
55:31 Don't ignore the manuscript,
55:33 don't ignore the manual.
55:34 Romans 12 verse 1 and 2, "I beseech you therefore,
55:38 brethren, by the mercies of God."
55:40 God is saying, "Please have mercy on yourself."
55:43 You know that?
55:45 "That you present your bodies a living sacrifice."
55:50 'Cause the opposite of that is a death sacrifice. Yes.
55:52 And you can't do anything with that.
55:54 How should that living sacrifice be holy?
55:58 Acceptable to God
56:00 which is your reasonable service.
56:01 You want to serve God, you could serve Him
56:03 best with the body that works.
56:05 And verse 2, I don't know if you're there,
56:07 but it says "And do not be conformed to this world,
56:11 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind
56:14 that you may prove what is that good,
56:16 and acceptable, and perfect will of God." Yes.
56:19 Registering on that,
56:20 how could we make this happen?
56:22 Powerful, one don't be conformed to this world.
56:26 Don't be swallowed up by popular culture,
56:29 what you see going on,
56:30 but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
56:32 So you've got to step out of the culture
56:35 that surrounds you and answer to God
56:37 and order your life, your mind, your soul,
56:40 your body in accordance with God's will.
56:43 That's right. Yeah.
56:44 And it's gonna make a difference,
56:45 you'll notice here at House Calls,
56:46 we believe that firmly, that's why we try to get
56:49 you notice everything we did today
56:50 was from the word of God given you solid principles
56:53 and it's like reading for you from the manual made
56:57 by Ford or by, you know, whatever car manufacture.
57:01 Follow these things
57:03 and the warranty will not be voided.
57:06 The service plan will stick. God's got a service plan.
57:09 So, friends, follow these principles,
57:12 get the optimum treatment from the body
57:14 that God intends for it to be,
57:16 because one day when the Lord comes,
57:18 He's gonna make a House Call on your life
57:20 and you want to meet Him, not only in peace,
57:23 but in optimum health and good health.
57:26 Make those decisions today
57:28 because we believe that the coming
57:30 of our Lord is very, very near,
57:31 so have a great day in Christ.


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