Participants: Pr. John Lomacang (Host), Pr. John Stanton
Series Code: HCL
Program Code: HCL100206A
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00:01 Hello friends, grab your Bible and a friend
00:04 and sit back as we explore God's word 00:06 together on this edition of House Calls. 00:25 Welcome, it's another wonderful day 00:27 in the neighborhood because the Lord is on the throne 00:29 and we are here ready to open our Bibles 00:33 and open our hearts and ask the Lord to lead us. 00:35 My name is John Lomacang and with me 00:37 in the studio today is my good friend. 00:39 John Stanton, it's great to be here again, John. 00:41 I tell you, it's amazing how time flies, 00:45 but how wonderful God's promises are and we can trust 00:48 in those promises all the time. 00:50 You know, we really got excited by the last program 00:53 friends and so get your Bibles, get your pens, 00:55 if you are recording this you want to hit that button 00:58 right now and not miss anything because 01:00 we are gonna dive into some further understandings 01:03 of the topic of health and what intension 01:06 God has for your body. We have some Bible questions 01:08 also and before we even give you our website address, 01:12 where you can send those questions, 01:13 we are gonna begin with some prayer. 01:15 So John, why don't you do that for us today? 01:17 That's sounds good; bow your heads with us. 01:19 Father in Heaven we just thank you again 01:20 for this opportunities, however, we consider the side 01:24 Lord and study your word as we pray, 01:26 that as you always do Lord that you will send 01:28 the Holy Spirit to give us understanding to walk us 01:31 through the scriptures Lord. 01:32 Now, we know that in the end we will be blessed 01:34 because we will find the truth therein 01:36 Jesus name we pray, amen. Amen. 01:39 Housecalls@3abn.org is where you send 01:44 your questions and we do appreciate that very much. 01:47 We know that we have talked about a number of things 01:50 in our last program that housecalls@3abn.org 01:54 anywhere from this planet, anywhere you are, 01:57 if you have a computer you can send your questions. 01:59 For those of you who send snail mail. 02:01 Most of you know, the 3ABN address, PO Box 220, 02:06 West. Frankfort, IL 62896. 02:08 You can send that if you don't have a computer, 02:10 I was surprised how many people I said e-mail me 02:12 and lot of people said, I don't have a computer 02:14 and some people said, well so let have your 02:17 daughter do it, my daughter doesn't have a computer. 02:19 Well, do you have a friend who has computer? 02:21 No, I don't have anybody who has computer; 02:22 I don't mess with those things. 02:23 Send me mail, send me mail. 02:26 But John we have some Bible questions 02:28 and we, we have a lot to cover. 02:30 We want to try to sow up this topic today on health 02:33 and we are gonna get a lot into the principles 02:35 that the Bible outlines, 02:37 so we won't just tell you the dos and don'ts. 02:39 What's our question for today? 02:41 John we are, this first question comes from a place 02:43 that you and I both love very much. 02:46 You have been there little more then I have, 02:47 Heaven, but the Caribbean. Woe! Man a lot. 02:51 Marline is from Barbados in the Caribbean, 02:55 and she has this question. She says that the redeemed 02:58 are carp to me Jesus in the air and shall spin 03:00 to thousand years in heaven with him, 03:02 had everyone is to be judged. 03:04 I understand that those who loose out on eternity 03:07 will be judged by the redeemed 03:08 at the end of the thousand years. 03:10 Of course, we see that in scripture, but where, 03:13 when are the redeemed judged? 03:15 And so, let's take a look at that, 03:17 when do the redeemed judged? 03:18 Well, as you know, 3ABN and this program advocates 03:23 very, very heavily and strongly you hear often we use 03:27 the term The Three Angels Messages. 03:29 The Three Angels Messages are messages that are given 03:32 to this world at the end of time 03:34 just before Christ coming. 03:36 And they are urgent messages, John aren't they? 03:39 That's right. Very urgent messages, very urgent, 03:40 once that you can just slough off, 03:42 you can't pretend they didn't happen, 03:43 they are essential for waking up this world 03:46 to the fact that Jesus is coming soon. Amen. 03:48 And the very first message is very keen 03:51 helping us understand when the judgment 03:53 of the redeemed actually occurs? 03:55 And so turn with me to Revelation chapter 14, 03:58 where we see the first message. 04:00 And I'm gonna read beginning in verse 6, 04:03 "Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven." 04:08 Now, John first of all before I go any further 04:10 what is an angel represent? What is it? 04:11 A messenger, it's a messenger, an angel is a messenger. 04:14 So, we know that this angel is flying throughout 04:17 in the midst of heaven has a message. 04:19 And it says that "He has the everlasting gospel 04:23 to preach, there is a message to those who dwell 04:26 on the face of the earth to every nation, 04:29 tribe, tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, 04:32 fear God, and give glory to Him; 04:35 for the hour of His judgment has come: 04:39 and worship Him who made heaven, and earth, the sea, 04:43 and springs of waters." The hour it says, 04:46 of his judgment has come, has come. 04:48 So, it's arrived, and this message is being 04:51 preached to everyone prior to Jesus coming. 04:55 That's right. So, now we know that judgment 04:57 does begin before Jesus comes. 04:59 Now, we also have seen and we could find 05:02 a very clearly in Revelation chapter 20, 05:05 that the wicked or judged after that all occurs, 05:08 and after the thousand years. 05:09 So, we know they are, has got to be two judgments. 05:12 There is another text that separates those judgments 05:15 that we all are, faced the judgment seed of Christ, 05:18 some come up to condemnation, 05:20 some come up to receive glory 05:23 and receive a kingdom, the eternal life. 05:25 And, so those two happen at different times. 05:28 We also see that there are two resurrections, 05:30 look at Revelation chapter 20 again. 05:32 We see the dead who in Christ who raised; 05:35 raised first also you find that in 05:38 First Thessalonians chapter 4, and then you also have 05:41 those who experience a second death. 05:43 That means to experience the second death 05:45 John you have to be raised once to die again. 05:48 That's right. So, there are two resurrections. 05:51 So, now let's take a look at this. 05:53 Go to our next text, if there are two judgments, 05:58 who gets judged first? Who gets judged first? 06:01 Turn with me to First Peter chapter 4, 06:05 first Peter chapter 4, I knew you would call on that, 06:10 you wanna read it for me? Sure, it says, 06:12 "For the time has come for judgment to begin 06:19 at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, 06:24 first, what will be the end be of those 06:26 who do not obey the gospel of God? 06:28 Now, if the righteous one is scarcely saved, 06:32 where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?" 06:35 Alright, so very interesting here we see judgment 06:39 is to begin at the house of God, and then it says, 06:42 and if it begins with us first then what's to happen 06:46 to those who aren't of the household of God. 06:48 Now, we know what happens to them? 06:50 Revelation 20 tells us that, so that's one text 06:53 that tell us the judgment does begin, 06:55 we have already seen that the judgment 06:57 has come prior to Christ coming as well. 07:00 Now, one of the text I'm gonna give you to get 07:02 some little more meet to this is Revelation chapter 11, 07:06 and it's says in verse 1, "Then I was given a reed 07:10 like a measuring rod and the angel stood, 07:13 saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, 07:15 the altar, and those who worship there, 07:19 but leave out the court which is outside the temple 07:23 and do not measure it, for it has been given to, who?" 07:27 The gentiles, gentiles, so, we see the judgment 07:30 there also occurs the measurement of God; 07:32 God's people those who worship him. 07:34 The standard, that's right. That's right, 07:37 so we see clearly here that there are, there are two 07:39 judgments that they happen in different times 07:41 and the judgment of the redeemed have to, 07:43 has to happen prior to Christ coming. 07:45 We know that because this is my last text 07:47 and I let you dive right in here John. 07:49 Okay, Do you want to say something? 07:50 You know, I'm, I'm just hovering. Revelation 22, 07:52 you probably already hovering there. 07:54 Revelation chapter 22, verse 11, verse 11 and 12, 08:06 12 is the one and I'm really, I really looking at. 08:08 The verse 11 says, "He who is unjust let him 08:12 be unjust still: he who is filthy, 08:14 let him be filthy still: he who is righteous, 08:17 let him be righteous still: 08:18 he who is holy, let him be holy still." 08:20 In other words, at this point whatever state 08:22 you are in, whether you are outside of the household 08:25 of God or inside, you will remain in that state. 08:27 Verse 12, the great dividing of time is to when 08:31 that happens especially the, 08:33 the redeemed finally receive the reward it says, 08:35 "If Christ behold, I am coming quickly, 08:37 and My reward is what? With Me, with me, 08:41 "To give to everyone according to his work." 08:44 So, therefore when Jesus comes, 08:46 he is bringing with him what? 08:47 His reward and if he is bringing a reward with him 08:50 does he have to judge people 08:52 before that reward is given. 08:54 As to whether or not they are redeemed 08:56 or they are lost. That's right. 08:58 And so knowing that I, I can think of often 09:02 that my parents and I don't ever recall a time John, 09:06 when my parents came to me and said to me. 09:08 John we have this wonderful gift for you. 09:11 Here is your reward and then said, but you know what, 09:16 but we want you to do this for it. 09:18 I never had my parents give me my reward prior 09:22 to giving me my challenge or my, my specific thing 09:26 that they wanted me to do. 09:28 And it always has come afterwards John 09:30 you clean up your house, your room, 09:31 John you make your bed, John you study 09:34 you got an annual report card, 09:35 whatever it is, here is your reward. 09:37 The reward comes after always, 09:40 and so Jesus is coming to give his reward 09:42 to the redeemed that is because 09:44 the redeemed have been judged. 09:46 Now, John I know there is a lot more to this, 09:48 we know that this all ties into the prophecy 09:51 of the 2,300 years, the period of 1844, 09:55 where judgment begins, the cleansing of the sanctuary, 09:57 I'm trying not to go there because we don't have 09:59 enough time for that, but I'm sure you have got 10:01 something's to add there to this whole mix as well, 10:04 they help us understand judgment. 10:05 Well, in Isaiah 58 verse 1. You know, the Bible talks 10:10 about the fact that the people of God must be aware 10:12 that danger is coming, there is a judgment coming. 10:17 Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 13 and 14. 10:21 The Bible says, "Fear God and keep his commandments: 10:25 for this is the whole duty of man. 10:27 For God shall bring every work into judgment, 10:30 with every secret thing, 10:32 whether it be good or whether it be evil." 10:34 That's Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 13 and verse 14. 10:38 Remember, now the creator in the days thy youth. 10:41 Once again in a statement saying that the, 10:43 the Lord is encouraging the young people to remember, 10:46 the creator, while they are young 10:49 and that applies not to just teenagers, 10:50 but the text actually means remember the creator 10:53 before you get any older, 10:55 but when you think of Isaiah 58, the Bible says verse 1 10:58 "A lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people 11:03 their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. 11:06 The reason, why the language is used lift up thy voice 11:09 like a trumpet, lift up your voice like a trumpet, 11:12 is before the Day of Judgment in the economy of Israel. 11:16 The trumpet was blown ten days before 11:19 the Day of Atonement services were all over. 11:22 And they knew that, when the atonement services 11:24 came and past, all those who sins were not atoned for. 11:28 We are now in, in condemnation, they were not 11:33 in reward as John use the comparison, condemnation, 11:37 and they were not looking for any good reward, 11:39 they were banished from the camp of the Israelites 11:41 as they celebrated the Feast of tabernacles, 11:45 they celebrated for seven days this wonderful riddance 11:50 of their sins, the blotting out of all their sins. 11:52 And so in, in short the saints are looking forward 11:56 to being in heaven celebrating 11:59 the removal of sin forever. 12:01 The blotting out of their sin and Peter 12:04 on the day of Pentecost, he says, repent 12:06 and be converted that your sins maybe blotted out. 12:09 When the time of refreshing comes 12:11 from the presence of the Lord. 12:12 So, the saints are in judgment now. 12:16 Now, here is the reason why? Somebody may say, 12:19 well if you are saint, why be in judgment because 12:21 your profession in other words what you profess to be, 12:25 and what you actually are, is what the issue is? 12:28 Some people say I'm Christian but people don't know 12:32 that in their lives outside of the visible life 12:34 they live, that they are not living Christian lives. 12:37 So, the Lord is saying, I'm going to examine your life, 12:40 so that when you are saved those who know 12:44 that you are saved, we will see that your life 12:46 in private measured up with your life in public, 12:49 but there those who are Christians in public 12:52 that are anything, but Christians in private. 12:55 And so the reason why the judgment begins 12:57 at God's house 12:59 is our profession must match our works, 13:05 not the other way around. 13:07 Our profession and our works must mess together. 13:10 So, God the reason why we are judged is God says, 13:14 I know you say you are Christians, 13:16 but the world needs to know what you really are. 13:19 And so when we are saved 13:21 and we are sealed as Revelation 22:11 says, 13:25 "If you are unjust, you see that where you are filthy, 13:27 you stay there with your righteous, 13:28 you stay there with your holy, you stay that way. 13:30 When we are sealed there is no more judgment, 13:32 so the word judgment has a number of, 13:34 of actual applications. One is investigation 13:38 a record scene, every acquisition, 13:40 there is an investigation all the evidence 13:43 is need to be produced, where are the evidences is in 13:45 this case being produced from the works in our lives. 13:49 Faith without works is dead. 13:51 So, our works must measure up with our profession. 13:55 That' right, so the things that are been written down 13:57 by the angels in the book. The Book of Life, 13:59 if there is a Book of Life there is also 14:02 a book of death, there is a book of remembrance. 14:04 So, the Bible eludes the Book of Death, 14:07 but we know that if you are not written in the 14:09 Book of Life then you are not gonna be saved, 14:11 if your name is not written there as the song writer 14:13 says, you won't be in the kingdom, but so your, 14:18 your works are being written there, but now 14:20 what is the blotting out have to do with anything? 14:22 All the things you have done wrong, 14:24 there is a clear record taken of that, 14:27 the Bible says, by your words shall you be 14:30 justified by your words, shall you be condemn, 14:33 but notice, there is an investigation before there 14:36 is condemnation, here is the beauty of thou friends. 14:39 John 3:17, "For God sent not his Son into the world 14:44 to condemn the world, but that the world through him 14:47 might be saved." So, Jesus was sent, not to condemn 14:50 John or I, but he was sent to all for salvation. 14:53 Were we lost before Jesus, we were already lost, 14:57 he didn't come to say to us, you lost, 14:59 and you are gonna say that way, 15:01 he came to say it was because you are lost, 15:04 I'm offering you different way. 15:05 Yeah, in the fact he goes on to say, 15:06 this is the condemnation. And what is the way, 15:10 the reason that they are condemned? 15:11 Because they love darkness rather than light. 15:13 They love darkness rather than light that means 15:14 that they actually chose themselves as to whether 15:17 or not they are lost or they are saved. 15:19 So, Jesus wasn't condemning them. 15:20 You know, I like the picture that you paint 15:22 there in fact; Matthew 22 paints also another picture. 15:25 Okay, of the judgment seen, which is he conscious 15:27 here in, in a parable of a wedding hall 15:30 that's filled with with guests. Okay 15:32 Chapter 22 and it begins around verse 1. 15:34 I'm not gonna read the whole thing here, 15:36 I'm gonna tell you the story. 15:38 The several invitations go out to people 15:40 to come to the wedding. Finally, the third invitation 15:41 comes out because the other first invitations 15:43 were not really received very well. 15:45 In fact, what happened was is they basically, 15:48 we are not interested, we are doing another things 15:50 that cares of this life. They were more concerned 15:52 about then joining and following Christ, 15:55 but here we have in the third call, verse 9 it says, 15:59 therefore, and this is the king saying, 16:02 "Go ye into the highways, and as many as you find, 16:05 invite to the wedding. So, the servants went out 16:07 into the highways, and gathered together 16:08 all whom they found, both what? Bad and good: 16:13 and the wedding hall was filled with guests. 16:17 In other words, in the wedding hall, in attendance 16:19 are the wheat and the tares, the bad and the good. 16:23 They have all profess Christ because the only way 16:25 you get into the wedding is to believe. 16:27 And I say that because if you have look at the parable 16:30 of the ten versions, it says, those that were ready 16:32 went in with in him to the wedding. 16:34 You can't get in unless you profess faith in Christ. 16:37 That's right. So, now this wedding hall is filled 16:40 with guests, but some are bad and some are good. 16:42 Yes, they all have been, have been the consciousness 16:45 have been pricked by the Holy Spirit, 16:47 and they have, they accept the Christ, 16:48 but now let's see if their fruits still bears way, 16:52 and that's what you are saying John profession 16:53 is one thing, but what are their works? 16:56 Then it's says in verse 11 in Matthew, Matthew 22, 16:59 "When the king came into see or inspect the guests, 17:04 he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding 17:07 garmet. So, we have said to him, Friend, 17:10 how did you come in here without a wedding garment? 17:12 And his friend was speechless and then he says, 17:16 bind his hand and foot and cast him in outer darkness. 17:19 Now, I believe John when he was speechless, 17:22 he looked down because he had a wedding garment in, 17:25 see what's the only way to get into the wedding? 17:27 Is for Christ to put a garment on you. 17:30 So, when he said, friend how did you get in here 17:32 without a wedding garment? 17:34 The friend looked down and said, Oh! I had one on, 17:36 he is thinking what? And he was speechless 17:39 because he expected to find it, but he did not find it. 17:43 Now, what happen to him? Well, judgment per se had 17:48 been rendered and he was cast out to outer darkness. 17:50 So, what we see here is this wedding hall 17:53 filled with guests, every time a believer professes 17:56 faith in Jesus Christ and accepts him as their savior, 17:59 they enter that wedding hall and they become a guest 18:03 at the wedding that is ongoing right now 18:05 in the heavens above, isn't that a beautiful picture? 18:07 It is, and you know, what's the wonderful about 18:09 that is that, we are invited, we are invited in, 18:12 but staying in is the real issue. So, this once saved 18:18 always saved idea is bunked by that very verse. 18:23 Because they were in there, but those who were 18:25 in the wedding hall, where good and bad 18:28 they have responded to the call like many people 18:31 responded to call, they come to the church. 18:33 And they were given a garment. 18:35 But here is where the problem was, 18:36 look at verse 15 of Revelation chapter 16. 18:39 "Behold, I am coming as a thief. 18:42 Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garment, 18:47 that's the point, you just made John. 18:48 That's right. He had on the garment, 18:50 but he didn't keep it, keeps his garment, 18:52 lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 18:57 The reason why he didn't have a thing to say, 18:59 he looked down and he saw his shame. Yeah. 19:03 And they said you can't go into the wedding feast. 19:06 Right, which is the reception hall for all those 19:10 who have been married to Christ in his kingdom. 19:12 That's right, spoke wonderful. 19:14 Amen beautiful picture. 19:15 You know, we spend all the time on this particular 19:16 question because this is a serious issue about 19:18 judgment about being saved, about being lost. 19:20 The beauty of this friends is John 3:17, 19:23 God didn't sent Jesus Christ to condemn us, 19:25 but that we might be saved. Condemnation comes 19:28 because the light comes and we were rather the darkness 19:31 than the light. I pray that you make a decision 19:33 to accept the light. And the light sometimes 19:36 is bright, but we don't wanna burn you with the light 19:39 that we have been sharing. 19:41 We want that light that comes from the word of God 19:43 to guide you. His word is a lamp to our feet 19:45 and a light to our path. 19:47 Anymore questions on the topic or any other questions 19:49 send those to Housecalls@3abn.Org 19:52 that's Housecalls@3abn.org. 19:55 We are gonna dive into our topic today, 19:57 John because we are gonna wind it up today. 19:58 There are lot of things that we are gonna talk about, 20:00 we ended, I think, how do we end our last program? 20:04 Well, we, we were talking about you know, 20:07 through the last program we talked about wine and, 20:08 and alcohol and so forth. We talked little bit about 20:11 foods clean and unclean, cigarettes, 20:13 and then, yeah, and cigarettes, 20:15 and then we got to the main point of the whole thing, 20:17 which is giving glory to God in our bodies. 20:19 And so now I think we are gonna kind a transition 20:21 to a conclusion of that, which is how do we give 20:23 glory to God in our bodies. Good idea. 20:25 And one of those things is the subject 20:27 of obedience itself. We give glory because 20:30 we respond to God's word and what God's word tells us. 20:33 Okay. And so you know, many will say, 20:35 well these things aren't important. 20:36 We can see them in God's word, but you know, I really 20:38 don't think that God would judge me in those matters. 20:41 Well we know judgment is beginning now like 20:44 we talked about. And our books are opened, 20:46 what's that phrase, I can read you like a, book, 20:51 open book, if our books are open then shouldn't we 20:55 then have that book the testimony of praise 20:57 to our Father and Jesus Christ, absolutely. 21:01 And so we do that in our lifestyle and so yes 21:04 we talked about alcohol, we talked about clean 21:06 and unclean foods, but there are some other things 21:08 you know one of the things that jumps out of me here, 21:10 John is that. You know, what we allow our eyes 21:13 to take in. You know, I know we are talking about 21:16 diet and so forth, but just let's touch briefly because 21:18 we are talking about giving glory to God in our bodies. 21:20 And, and Paul says, that when we, 21:22 when we engage in sexual immorality 21:25 We actually sin against our own body. 21:27 That's a very, very good point. 21:29 And the impact is that what we taking to our eyes, 21:32 affects also physically even our body. 21:36 And so, how should we conduct ourselves in areas 21:40 of being you know, clean. And being and looking 21:44 at pure things and so forth. 21:45 Of course, we read in, in Philippians. 21:48 Whatsoever things are. Oh! Philippians 4:8. 4:8 21:52 and whatsoever things are lovely, lovely. 21:54 I can't recite them exactly by heart, 21:56 whatsoever things are lovely, 21:57 whatsoever things are pure, 21:59 whatsoever things are honest, 22:00 whatsoever things are just, if there will be anything 22:03 good and anything worthy of praise, 22:05 think on these things. Yes. So, an essence, 22:08 notice what he said, think on these things. 22:10 In other words, what goes into the man's mind, 22:12 into the woman's mind, the boys mind; the girls mind 22:15 will become the subject of their thoughts? 22:17 And you know, Satan is in, what I call 22:20 the subliminal war of trying to setup a theatre 22:26 in our minds. He is trying to put the video tape 22:29 and that he wants to play over and over and over again. 22:32 And he does it subliminally through advertising, 22:34 through phrases that people may throw out 22:37 in a joking setting, that will plant a seed 22:40 that will germinate, if our minds are not guarded. 22:42 Yeah. And else way by the word of God. 22:45 You know, and I'm trying to tie the sin here, 22:47 you know, to the subject of diet, 22:48 which is what we are talking about because 22:50 we are not just talking about sexual immorality. 22:53 We are talking about the impact that the things 22:56 around us has on even our diet. So, I'm amazed John 23:00 outside to appear for a minute or back up. 23:03 I'm amazed how one side of Hollywood can say 23:07 that videos that kids playing stuff really doesn't have 23:11 any impact on, you know, shooting their friends 23:13 or shooting their teachers, and doing all the stuff. 23:15 You know, that's just something that they do it, 23:17 doesn't, they don't have to do that, 23:18 they doesn't make them respond in that way, 23:21 but my simple question for Hollywood is, 23:26 then what are commercials for? 23:28 If what you see doesn't cause a behavioral response, 23:33 what are commercials for? 23:36 There is no reason for commercials, 23:39 if this not gonna cause you to go buy their product. 23:42 Right. So, get rid off commercials Hollywood, 23:45 it doesn't make you do anything. 23:47 You know, how much millions as you may know, 23:49 millions and millions of dollars of research 23:53 going to commercials because 15 seconds, 23:56 20 seconds of minute, a minute is a long, 23:58 long eternity for commercial. 24:01 Yet that timeframe is given, short span of blurb, 24:05 you know, like the geico commercial. 24:07 It's just I'm not giving any notice to any, 24:11 just stressing your brain. If you state because, 24:13 it's the dumb as commercial. 24:14 Ice applied directly to the forehead, 24:16 apply directly to the forehead, 24:17 apply directly to the forehead, 24:19 I mean, how did you forget that? Yeah. You know, 24:23 and, and so the commercials do their jobs, 24:26 but Satan is behind lot of these things that he puts on 24:29 he puts on television to get our minds 24:32 to think in a certain way. 24:34 This is a very interesting statistics 24:36 and you mentioned videogames and I thought 24:37 that was very pretty interesting. 24:39 They try to side, why there are so much violence 24:41 in America, and a national pole pointed out that 24:44 because we have many violent videogames in America, 24:47 but somebody said well now if we follow that train 24:50 of thought, let's go ahead and apply that to the world. 24:53 And they said, while you go to Japan, 24:55 where violence is a very, very low 24:58 and they have tons of more videogames 25:01 with violent content then we do, 25:03 so what happened here that didn't happen there? 25:06 And they came to narrow it down with this reality. 25:09 Out of all the countries that are, that are modernized 25:12 and that have all the effect of the videogames, 25:14 whatever the culture that is, they said, one thing 25:17 that is true here that is not true in all those other 25:19 countries is the United States is the number one 25:22 exporting country of, of firearms in the world. 25:25 If so the very thing that we try to, 25:28 try to keep off the streets, is the very thing 25:31 that we are the heaviest market reserve 25:32 and not saying that you can't have them 25:35 and we know guns don't kill people, 25:37 but what happens is our society. 25:39 So, conditions itself, and is so available and where 25:42 I'm going with this is the thing that we make most 25:45 available to us, if our minds are not available to God, 25:48 those things become a bad and not a good. 25:51 Yeah, you know, and the other thing too is that, 25:53 we may not have seen the true fruit of this yet. 25:55 Oh! Not yet, this is just beginning, 25:57 I see that because sometimes it takes a while 26:00 to bears it's fruit. There are some also some studies 26:04 that show that even in America, where these violent 26:07 videos are that we aren't see an increase, 26:10 we actually see decrease in, in violent, 26:13 you know cases of, of murder or a crime. 26:17 And so then in the case, I'm wondering okay, 26:19 there is no correlation at all, but one of the things 26:22 that I know that Satan does that he is very subtle. 26:24 He is very deceptive, you know, if it was, 26:27 if it was a blatant all of this in turn on this picket, 26:29 lots of violence with these videos, what will we do, 26:32 get rid of the videos? 26:33 But he wants to ease us end of these things. 26:35 And so Jesus came, when he came 26:38 and he was talking to his disciples, 26:40 the followers initially in the Sermon on the Mount. 26:42 He didn't lower the bar on his turn, 26:45 he raised the bar and what do they say 26:46 in regard to murder, in regard to stealing, 26:50 regard to those things. He says if you think 26:53 evil in your heart, then you actually committed 26:57 that evil in real life. And I'm only paraphrasing 27:00 because he says that on a spectrum it's very large. 27:02 Right. Hatred, stealing, all those things, adultery, 27:07 we see these things and we think well just because 27:09 we sought we didn't really do it, 27:12 but what is Jesus saying that in heaven as recorded 27:15 the act, as if we have done it because 27:18 those things have come into our minds. 27:20 And so, should we be so deceived that we think 27:23 that just because we are playing a video 27:24 or doing another things and letting things in it, 27:26 we are not actually doing these things. 27:27 That somehow is not causing us harm, 27:30 it's causing us harm, I just don't think we have seen 27:32 the fruit of that fully yet. Right, 27:34 it's growing slowly, it's coming to fruition. 27:37 Yes. And that's why I said the fruit of that, 27:39 we see the, we know the roots are there, 27:42 we see the tree growing up but we haven't seen 27:45 the fruits yet. And unfortunately, if the tree 27:48 is cancerous, if the tree is, is, is infested 27:51 the fruits are going to be infested. 27:52 So, you can't get up good thing out of a bad thing. 27:56 The Lord says, bad trees cannot bring forth good fruit 28:00 and good trees can't bring forth bad fruit. 28:02 Now, the Lord can find bad people or good people 28:06 in bad cities or cause us to be changed, 28:09 but when it comes to fruit, the tree produces the 28:13 the fruit, if it's good, good fruit bad, bad fruit. 28:16 That's right, you know, it' just in Roman 6:16, 28:19 we can go to text here. Sure. And kind a stay 28:22 in line with our outline, but it says do you not know 28:25 that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey. 28:29 You are that one slaves whom you obey? 28:32 Where there sin leading to death 28:34 or obedience leading to righteousness. 28:37 So, when you yield just like going over, 28:40 just like going over sliding board, 28:42 have your ever been to those water parks, 28:44 where they have these big sliding boards John. 28:46 I mean you are so tall, lots of fun, 28:47 you are like a human sliding board yourself. 6:10, 28:50 he doesn't look that, but he is 6'10". 28:53 Actually, I'm about a half inch shy of that, 6-91/2 28:57 but you never see him barefooted, 29:00 6'10", but people always see me 29:03 and they say man you are tall, 29:05 I said, you haven't seen height, 29:06 you got to see my friend John Stanton, 29:08 he is tall. I looked short around him, 29:10 but my point is, sinners like a sliding board, 29:13 those are very deep sliding boards. 29:15 You know, the, the, the water is constantly 29:18 running to keep it lubricated. 29:19 And I, I never forget going to one of those 29:22 water parks, when I lived in Orlando, Florida 29:24 and laying flat, you lay flat and you put your 29:27 arm across, hands across your chest, 29:29 and the guys holding onto this mat, 29:31 and he says, are you ready? And before you say, yes, 29:34 he lets you go, and you think, I didn't say yes, yes. 29:39 There is no turning back. That's right. 29:40 It's a downhill slide, sin is often like that, 29:43 and you gain speed on you way down too, 29:45 you don't lose speed at first. 29:46 You go down fast, now follow the analogy here 29:49 because this has a, this has a point to it, 29:51 we often think of sin has something that takes us 29:53 higher and higher and higher and higher, 29:58 but when you are at the apex of your sin 30:00 you go down real fast. And so friends 30:03 that's how sin is just like a sliding board 30:05 that's constantly lubricated by temptation 30:08 and the devil says, are you ready before you even give 30:13 any acknowledgment you are going downhill 30:16 and you are going down fast. 30:17 So try to avoid the things that will cause us that, 30:21 here is the key that can cause you to go downhill. 30:24 People discuss, some people will say it won't 30:27 cause me to go downhill, but if you can avoid it. 30:29 And this isn't the principle of the whole thing anyway. 30:31 You are slaves to one to the other. 30:33 You know, there is no middle ground we can't say 30:35 you know, what I'm just gonna be my own person, 30:37 I'm not gonna be slave to anybody. 30:38 I am sorry you are slave to Christ 30:41 or you are slave to the enemy. 30:43 And so we've got to choose 30:44 and it's how we conduct our lives, John. 30:47 In diet, in all these things we're talking about, 30:51 all the lifestyle issues that determine whose slave 30:53 we are, that's what Roman 6:16 is saying. 30:56 Go head, go ahead, now. 30:59 But listen to this and I want to make this point 31:01 now I am saying this, I am saying praise God. 31:04 I haven't had a cold; that is cold in years. 31:07 Now why shouldn't I get a cold? 31:08 I haven't had a cold in years, but one of the reasons 31:10 why is because whenever my wife and I 31:13 are in any place and we are shaking hands, 31:14 we wash our hands frequently. 31:17 And you don't touch your face after you doing that? 31:19 We don't touch our face, put our fingers 31:20 in our mouths, you know, when you are in crowds 31:22 people do that they tend to touch surfaces 31:24 and put their hands in their mouth before they eat 31:26 food or eat their food without washing their hands 31:28 or some people sadly enough to use the rest room 31:30 and they don't wash their hands, germs are transmitted 31:32 so quickly and if you don't have a regimen in your life 31:35 or you may sure that whatever can contaminate 31:37 you wash it off then you will be affected by it, 31:41 so when the Lord says in 2 Corinthians 6 and verse 17, 31:44 listen to this in that context, 31:45 2 Corinthians 6 and verse 17, 31:48 Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, 31:52 says the LORD. Do not touch what is unclean 31:54 and I will receive you" so when you make sure 31:56 that the things that you touch or in touch, 31:59 which are not unclean then the germs will not spread 32:04 and the infection will not take root 32:07 and you know what John, you know very well, 32:08 the moment you get that tickle in your throat. 32:11 You know you are in trouble. 32:13 And then you say, oh, no, here it comes and you 32:18 realize it's too late by the time that tickle comes 32:21 people run to get medication they take their Tylenol. 32:26 They are going to the medicine cabinet 32:28 and not carry themselves the fence usually 32:30 by the time that tickles starts in the throat, 32:33 you know, that it has been there for a while, 32:35 but that's the first sign you got. 32:37 That's how sin often is. 32:38 He has been in there working on us, 32:40 but it gives you a sign and says, here I come. 32:44 It's like being on the top of that slide 32:46 and there it was like you are ready before you respond, 32:49 you are on your way down. 32:50 That's why the Lord says in 2 Corinthians 6:17, 32:53 these words, "Therefore, come out from among them 32:58 and be separate says the LORD. 33:00 Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you. 33:03 In another words, cleanse your hands you sinners; 33:07 and purify your hearts you double minded 33:09 that's what Jesus meant in the word. 33:11 You know the nice thing too is that saying 33:13 it's not saying be separate as in don't be involve 33:17 with the world at all. It says as you are in the world 33:20 don't touch what is unclean. In another words it's not, 33:23 it's not saying have no involvement to win sinners 33:27 and present the message, 33:28 the gospel to people who are lost, 33:30 and reach out and help and meet their needs. 33:33 It saying don't engage in the things that they do 33:35 that's what it means that we should not touch 33:39 what is unclean, in another words don't let 33:40 those things come into our lives, 33:42 don't make them part of your life, 33:43 don't touch what is unclean. 33:45 And in fact, we know that as Christians in this world 33:48 that can be difficult to do because sin is always 33:50 at our door. Seems like it is always a temptation, 33:53 but here what he says in 1 Peter 2:11, 1 Peter 2:11, 33:58 "Beloved, I beg a sojourners and pilgrims, 34:02 abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 34:05 Now that you are sojourner, you are a pilgrim, 34:08 you are in this world, you are part of this world, 34:10 but it does not mean you should take part of this world. 34:14 I like that. That's the difference. 34:16 Be in it, but not of it. Some people may say well, 34:18 how can you possibly live in New York city 34:21 and I'm using it, that's my city. 34:23 I love my city New York. But lot of people say to me, 34:25 when I say I'm from New York, 34:26 they say well that's a good place to be from. 34:28 There are lot of righteous people in New York city. 34:30 The odds though of the numbers of sin 34:33 that come against them and the influences 34:35 that they have to avoid is exponentially higher 34:38 than it is here in Thompsonville. 34:40 We go outside and drive down the road. 34:42 We see trees. You go down the road in New York city, 34:44 you hear music, you hear profanity, 34:47 your cars screech in, sirens going on, bill boards, 34:51 all kinds of medias just bombarding you, 34:53 advertisement that you can't look 34:56 at for more than 10 seconds and so we know 34:59 the influences are greater, but the Lord is not saying 35:01 that because your influences are around you that, 35:04 that means you have to fall. 35:06 See, you got to cleanse your hands, 35:08 you got to make sure that you abstain 35:09 from those things that war against the soul. 35:12 That's right, and you know, when it comes to all 35:14 these things, you know, kind of back to the subject 35:16 we're talking about the advertisement. 35:18 You know, they want us to buy more of their product. 35:20 They want us to do, of course, 35:24 they want to be successful on selling 35:25 what they got to sale, but you know we are so much 35:27 of that it seems like, hasn't seem like to you John 35:30 that our plates sizes and the things 35:33 that we are taking into us have gotten bigger. 35:35 Oh! Yeah. It seems like the things 35:37 that we are beginning to do, there is so much to eat 35:40 and there is so much selection there, 35:42 I mean you know go overseas and you see first hand 35:45 that people they don't have a lot to eat basically 35:47 they have a little rice, little beans maybe some bread 35:50 and that's they have all the time. 35:51 That's all they have to eat. 35:53 But we have got so much coming at us 35:55 and we are engaging so much stuff that, 35:57 that our appetite gets bigger. 35:58 And bigger and bigger and it affects us physically 36:01 and so you know, it's important that we moderate 36:05 the amount of food that we are taking to our body. 36:08 In fact, it says in Proverbs 23 and I know we have 36:11 looked at Proverbs 24, yeah verse 2, verse 2 and 3 36:14 it says "And put a knife to your throat 36:16 if you are a man given to appetite." 36:18 Do not desire his delicacies for their deceptive food. 36:23 What he saying is, you know don't put a knife to your 36:25 throat when you are just because you are hungry. 36:27 He is talking about the gluten here, isn't he? 36:30 That's exactly. 36:31 Someone who just eats and eats and eats 36:33 and eats and eats, there is, you got to say enough 36:35 already, you know, your body clearly doesn't need 36:37 anymore food, moderate be careful of 36:40 how much you taking in your body. 36:42 Somebody wants to say I am not broke, 36:43 I have more checks. 36:44 I am still hungry because there is more food. 36:47 You got to really be careful. 36:49 I know you and I have the same thing when it comes 36:51 to this eating thing. John and I will share something 36:53 in common not only are we the same race, 36:55 but whenever he is eating and he says the first chance 37:00 he gets this feeling of being full he stops, 37:02 and I am the same way. I could be sitting at the most 37:05 delicious food when my body says, oh! You are full. 37:09 I stop, I stop in the middle of a meal. 37:11 Somebody says what happen? Are you full? I am full? 37:14 I can't eat anymore. Well, finish, I mean like there 37:18 is so much more food left, I am done. I am full. 37:20 But there is some individuals that have turned 37:23 off that, that impulse to not go any further. 37:27 Yeah, not listening to their body that saying enough. 37:29 And you know your stomach will stretch. 37:31 Oh! Yeah, but I don't know. 37:32 You eat enough your stomach stretches 37:34 and you don't know that you are getting full 37:35 when your stomach keeps getting bigger and bigger 37:37 and bigger, we kind of adapt to that. 37:39 Have you notice what we've been talking 37:40 about mostly in this topic outside of the things 37:43 that we should avoid, we also been having talking 37:45 about the greatest issue of, the greatest issue 37:47 about the greatest issue of, the greatest issue 37:48 of the health issue. There are three categories; 37:50 the red light, the yellow light, and the green light. 37:52 The red light things we should avoid smoking, 37:54 unclean foods, alcohol, tobacco, cigarettes, drugs, 37:57 marijuana, cocaine all that stuff should be red light, 38:01 never in your body at all. Then the yellow light issues 38:04 things that we have to do in moderation. 38:07 Got to be careful. 38:09 Got to be moderate with those things like, okay, 38:10 sugar is good, but when I say good, 38:13 it's not, it tastes good, but you go ahead 38:16 and over do it, your body will pay you back. 38:19 Now notice I didn't put caffeine into that category 38:22 because it's a harmful stimulant. 38:24 That's a red light. It's a red light. 38:25 It shouldn't be in the body anything that stimulates 38:27 or gets in addiction going like the way doc always 38:31 says and I, I always laughing he does it, 38:33 doc bachelor that is. He says, you have never seen 38:36 anybody kicking a fit or having a withdrawals because 38:40 they, I need a banana, I need a banana, 38:42 I need a banana, I need a tomato, get me a tomato 38:46 I am gonna die if I haven't have a tomato. 38:48 You don't do that for things that are natural 38:50 That's right. 38:51 We do that for things that are unnatural. 38:53 That's why you have to keep sure that you make sure 38:56 that you are tempered in all things. 38:58 And then, the green things, let me finish this story. 39:00 Then the green things; the statistic has pointed out 39:04 recently one of the reasons why we are so heavy 39:08 in this country it's because we are in tempered. 39:12 It is not a gland problem, it is a mouth problem. 39:17 Hand-to-mouth disease, not ooof disease. 39:21 Hand-to-mouth is a biggest disease in America. 39:23 Well, like a tongue to tongue is as long 39:25 as this food we're going to eat it. 39:27 And there are some who don't metabolize this fast. 39:29 So, there are some medical issues 39:31 that are relating here, exceptions, 39:32 we are not saying that, but overall on the majority 39:34 that's exactly as you said, you know, John 39:36 I've have a sweet tooth and I think you have a sweet 39:39 tooth sometimes too. But you know sometimes, 39:41 sometimes as I am eating sweet, sweet things, 39:43 sometimes things are just too sweet. 39:45 I can't eat hot candy, I can't do it. 39:48 To me it's just too sweet in my mouth. 39:50 There are other things, I put in my mouth 39:53 and I've eaten couple of bites and say, 39:54 you know what it's just too sweet, 39:56 it's just too much in here, and we've seen in our 39:59 society increase to a degree or level, fever pitch, 40:02 where our sugar content in some of these sweets 40:06 is so high that you can almost eat one bite, 40:08 I mean you have touched the roof. 40:11 You know I am at the place now John, 40:12 where when I eat something sweet my head hurts 40:15 instantly I said Angie I said, right away. 40:18 I felt the effect of that you know, why because 40:20 I've avoided that so much my body has purified itself 40:23 from all these things. Sugar is also a stimulant that, 40:28 that's why children get sick. You send little Johnnie 40:31 to school, he is bouncing off the walls, 40:32 he is like a super ball, trace it back to his diet. 40:35 You know, so lot of people wants to say put a knife 40:38 to your throat, when you are person given to appetite 40:41 strangely enough. One of the twelve tribes of Israel, 40:44 his name was Asher, and the Bible says, 40:46 his bread shall be fat and his table shall 40:50 yield royal dentist. He had a problem with appetite 40:54 and so there those who have that struggle to overcome. 40:57 There are certain things that are not a sin 40:59 that you will be lost for. 41:01 But you will have a terribly low level of healthy life. 41:05 You will have arthritis. 41:07 You won't be clear in your mind. 41:08 In the first lesson by the way in prophecy in Daniel 1, 41:12 is that these young men had a pure diet 41:14 and they maintained that for clear minds. 41:16 You know the next text we are gonna get into 41:18 something that's kind of interesting and I remember 41:20 the thought or comment that you had said, 41:22 this was years ago back in Fairfield. 41:25 With regard to peoples personality and after their 41:29 aggressiveness just because of the blood and meat 41:32 content that they ate especially in children, 41:34 oh, amazing, and here we read in Leviticus 3:17, 41:37 it says, this shall be a perpetual statute throughout 41:40 your generations, in another words forever, 41:42 in all your dwellings, you shall eat neither 41:45 fat nor blood" that's right. 41:48 So they were eating meat but that meat was not to 41:50 contain any blood, exactly, so you know those 41:52 who are meat eaters out there, you know, 41:54 we are not saying that eating beef is a sin 41:59 it doesn't say that it is in the Bible, 42:00 we can't find that anywhere, but eating blood, 42:02 in another words eating it medium rare or where 42:05 to the point where bloods dripping out 42:06 that it says we should not do. 42:08 I know in your experiences you've seen some 42:12 of that happen and with some families 42:14 and with some kids the amount of food and meat 42:18 and even they are not cooking their meat totally, 42:21 can have an impact on their. 42:22 There character not the character, 42:25 but their personality. 42:26 There personality, their persona, you know, 42:28 let me just use as an example, 42:29 lets me use as a measurement of, let's just say 42:31 between my top hand and bottom hand 42:32 that's the measurement of the mood swings. 42:35 That's what I like to use. People that are not 42:38 meat eaters they have smaller mood swing. 42:40 People that are meat eaters have a larger mood swing. 42:44 They go from quite to ferocious. 42:47 They can go enraged in a heart beat 42:50 and you will find that among the meat eaters 42:53 those who are constant meat eaters 42:54 they can have a temper flare just like that. 42:57 But those who are not meat eaters their mood swings 43:00 are lot less, lot lower and let me also add 43:03 to that those who have less stimulants 43:05 in their diets because somebody may say, 43:07 hey, I am not a meat eater, so he is not a meat eater 43:09 or she is not, why hers, why are her swings so great. 43:12 You will discover that they have a lot more spicy foods 43:15 lot more pepper, lot more things that in flame even 43:19 cayenne pepper as good as it is. 43:21 For the body and its uses it still pepper. 43:25 Some people may say I don't eat red pepper, 43:28 I don't eat black pepper, but I eat cayenne pepper. 43:30 Anything that is a stimulant should be taken in 43:33 moderation, but meat in the inflaming, 43:36 think about that you have taken an animal 43:38 that's 2000 pounds, you take him into a slaughterhouse. 43:41 By the time he gets tied up and all locked 43:45 into this cage, he knows he is about to die. 43:48 By the time, you go to the place, 43:50 where you are gonna slit his throat 43:51 or whatever they use to kill this animal, 43:53 this cow he is inflame. Adrenalin releases. 43:56 His adrenalin releases his all through the purines, 43:59 get shot into his veins, into his system 44:03 and when he gets killed he gets killed 44:06 at the highest fever pitch point 44:08 because he is fighting to save his life, 44:10 and in body as replete with all these enzymes 44:13 and then when the meat gets cooked 44:16 here is an experiment; cook a piece of beef 44:19 and when you done cooking you take it in, 44:22 leave it in your car in a paper bag or in a plate, 44:26 but leave it in a paper bag and not plastic, 44:29 but paper so that it could air out and leave it 44:31 in your car go buy a hamburger and leave it 44:34 in your car one night. 44:36 And when you come back the next day 44:37 it's going to smell. I am not gonna get you sick, 44:40 but it's gonna smell like there was like 44:41 there is purine in your vehicle. 44:43 Because what you smell is the purines inside the beef, 44:48 which is as a result of these enzymes being released 44:52 into the flesh of the animal because at the time 44:55 of his death he was at the highest fever pitch. 44:58 Sounds kind of gross. 44:59 But that's what happens and when we eat that 45:01 and we wonder why children that eat meat grow faster 45:04 than vegetarians is because they are putting 45:06 all the stimulants and all these chemicals 45:09 in their bodies that would design 45:11 to be into 2000 pound beast, you see. 45:14 You know, and there is a principle here Proverbs 23 45:17 and it was lot to the same Proverbs 23. 45:19 Read that again. Verse 7, 45:21 "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: 45:23 Eat and drink, he said to you; 45:25 but his heart is not with you. 45:27 You know, I know obviously he is talking about 45:30 as we think, but you know also we are what we eat. 45:32 I mean the principle goes here is not just we are 45:35 as we think but we are as we eat. 45:37 And so here the comment connecting as we think, 45:40 but eat and drink I mean there is a connection here 45:43 and so we've got be careful that we will be put 45:45 in our bodies, is in causing us to be different people 45:48 then we would be. You know, had we eaten the way 45:51 the God has us designed for. 45:52 You know, I believe John that there are lot of people 45:55 incapable of really receiving the truths of God's word 45:59 and making decided decisions and committed decisions 46:01 to follow him because they are so numb 46:03 by what they put in their bodies. 46:05 That is a very good analysis. 46:07 And until they change that, the commitment 46:09 just forgot it won't be there as it should. 46:11 They can't receive spiritual things because 46:13 their mind is under duress that's the word 46:17 I want to use. For a person to sit down, 46:19 let's just think about this. 46:21 Let's look at the cycle in America and by the way 46:23 we are talking about principles here right now 46:25 when I go into eat or not eat. 46:27 All reiterate by saying this it's not a sin to eat 46:32 clean meats, but your preparation of those things 46:35 can really make a difference and you also have to 46:38 think about the society in which we are living today. 46:40 There is such a demand for meats that God forbid, 46:44 restaurants in one state 46:48 that demand beef, how all these restaurants all over 46:52 the world being supplying this beef. 46:54 There got be some natural practices 46:56 that get to seem to grow so quickly. 46:58 And the amount of stuff that they are taking in. 46:59 I think God was trying to teach Israel a point back 47:03 when they were asking for meat and he sent them quail, 47:08 remember how many quails he sent them? 47:11 There were on all the face of the desert. 47:13 There were on the face of the desert. 47:15 I think it was 3 meters almost high. 47:17 Now that wasn't quail to quail solid, 47:20 but we are talking about there was so much quail 47:22 that it was all over the place of this high. 47:24 And they ate so much of it that they became sick. 47:29 And God was trying to teach them through 47:32 that is that you want it, here you go. 47:34 But don't eat so much of it. 47:37 And it did make them sick. 47:39 They have learned lessons from that and I believe 47:40 in the way that God ask them to prepare the foods 47:43 among how much to eat of those foods and so forth 47:46 was principles and guidelines that he set forth 47:49 protect them from the damage that, 47:51 that meat could really do in their bodies. 47:54 So, although eating clean meat and we are talking 47:57 about clean meant is not a sin. 47:59 The amount of that meat that you take in your body 48:01 will have a major negative effect on you 48:04 if you allow it to and so that's why 48:07 we got to be very careful about 48:08 how much we are eating. 48:09 Because you have to digest it. 48:11 And it's very hard to digest, 48:13 not only that it stays with you a much longer 48:15 than it does then other foods do. 48:17 Think of an 8 ounce stack and before that's 48:21 digested another one is on the top of that 48:23 and it says it takes a body 8 hours for food 48:26 to be digested properly through the body pass 48:28 through the system. What do you think about that 48:30 you have one full lunch, you have another big one 48:32 for dinner and in America especially here in Midwest 48:35 you know people say I'm a meat and potato guy. 48:37 Well, potato is not too bad even the white potatoes 48:40 don't have as many good properties as sweet potatoes 48:42 and other red potatoes and those are mineral rich. 48:46 But you have that kind of a diet that really 48:48 stacks it on. Well, now just look around. 48:51 One good friend of mine says you can't be fit 48:53 like a fiddle if you shape like a shallow. 48:55 What happens is you get to the point we eat so much 48:58 so regularly that the body can't digest it fast enough, 49:01 so you can't move and who stalks looking more 49:05 like the cow, the person eating the cow 49:07 rather than the cow itself. But we have a lesson 49:09 to learn from the cow himself because 49:12 cows people may say, hey, how you guys gonna put 49:16 any weight on you don't eat any meat. 49:18 Tell that to the cow, who doesn't eat meat. 49:22 That's right and you can't eat a lot more food 49:25 and get plentiful on healthy foods. 49:28 Have you seen that deceptive commercial 49:29 they had lately, it's been on television 49:31 about a year now here in America, 49:33 where the guy is outside and the window is blowing 49:35 real strong and he gets blown away and the guys say, 49:38 what did you have for lunch today, 49:41 salad and some greens and all of a sudden 49:44 big wind comes and he gets blown away 49:45 and the other guys said I had meat and potatoes 49:47 and he stands firmly in this hurricane 49:49 or at the table little boy goes blows on the table 49:53 and his dad flies off the table because 49:54 all he had was vegetables and fruits and grains. 49:56 But the guy that ate the meat stays at the table 49:59 that's a deceptive advertisement 50:01 that's like saying pork is the other 50:03 white meat. You know that one. 50:06 Yeah, absolutely we don't understand and don't 50:09 look at whose behind these things, you know, 50:10 those who want to make money, 50:12 those in the business and you know if your life work 50:19 was a slaughterhouse. Would you even began to think 50:24 of advocating a vegetarian lifestyle, you know, 50:27 I mean even we see now a-days you've got cows 50:30 that are out there with signs that say eat chicken. 50:32 You know, I mean, they say that, they don't eat anything 50:37 but you know as far as if you are slaughterhouse owner 50:41 about to this what I got to offer, you know, 50:43 and so even it is a law that you cannot 50:48 slender food producing industries. In America. 50:53 In America, hope for God sued, for saying something 50:56 against the beef industry that's to lasted 50:58 for many years because it was against the law for you 51:02 to do that, and what happened to the meat industry. 51:04 They thought they were severely hurt by that. 51:06 So it's even not political, politically correct 51:09 to be able to say eat right be vegetarian or cut down 51:15 or at least cut down your meat, you know, 51:16 we are talking to people out there who have eaten meat 51:18 all their lives. We are saying at least cut back, 51:21 eat more stuff, eat of all the five food groups. 51:24 You know, the basic stuff and even the US Nutrition 51:28 Department wants to tell you now that it is important 51:30 for your health, eat that stuff. 51:31 You know, I love my family and I have some family 51:34 in the Virgin Islands there in French town 51:37 I want to just, this is a wonderful example 51:39 how the change in diet could really make the difference 51:42 in your life. My Uncle Leon, 51:44 happy, hello all those in French town 51:47 in the Virgin Islands and those down on main street, 51:50 we just love you all there in the Virgin Islands, 51:53 but my uncle Leon had a close call last year 51:57 or it was earlier this year, where he had 52:00 a heart attack, but he survived it. 52:03 And after that he has drastically 52:06 changed his diet, lost the lot of weight 52:08 and he said he is willing to do 52:10 anything to maintain a healthy lifestyle 52:12 and to live longer. You know, what most people 52:15 would find better if they adapt a healthier lifestyle 52:20 to avoid the heart attacks because you know 52:22 what they say sometimes the first sign 52:24 of a heart attack is a heart attack 52:26 and some people survive it, some people don't, 52:28 the sad reality is. 52:30 His brother died from the same thing of heart attack. 52:35 Here today gone tomorrow and when you think about it 52:39 and I want to just add this also there are those 52:41 when I wanna be very fair, there those who say well 52:44 I don't eat beef hardly at all 52:47 in the Virgin Islands there is not a heavy beef market 52:50 because it's has an import. 52:51 But there is a lot of fish. 52:52 And there those who eat shellfish, oysters, lobsters, 52:56 crabs, you know, they are high in cholesterol. 53:02 The garbage comes from the sea. 53:03 There are the garbage dump, 53:04 they are high in cholesterol, high in fats, 53:06 high in artery clogging food, 53:09 and artery clogging properties, and they are just 53:12 as much as culprit as the blood that gets introduced 53:16 into our bodies. Blood should be put into our veins 53:18 intravenously for the health of the body, 53:20 but not ingested into the digestive system. 53:24 You know, some I've heard say, 53:26 you have to die sometime. 53:28 You know, I just don't understand. 53:30 Until they are dying. 53:31 Interpreting, yeah, and some will, 53:34 here is another argument well, what's his name 53:37 with the cigar that lifts to leave to hundred. 53:39 Oh! George Burns 53:40 George Burns, well, you know, eat, eat, 53:42 live his whole life without, you know, cancer free 53:44 and everything. He never died until he was 100 53:47 and some, imagine how. And he smoked cigar. 53:49 As if that's a reason you just keep on smoking. 53:52 It's almost like you dismiss all of the things 53:54 that point to the fact that if you smoke 53:56 you will get cancer or chances are 80 percent 53:58 which are gonna develop cancer in your lifetime. 54:01 You know, there are doctors; there are doctors 54:02 that are probably listening to this program 54:04 that are probably saying, you know these guys 54:06 don't know what they are talking about. 54:07 If you ignore all that we've said and went ahead 54:12 and did opposite to what we have recommended 54:15 based on the scripture in the word of God. 54:17 You will begin to see that although we are not 54:19 physicians and dietitians and nutritionists, 54:22 the word of God gives us principles that tell us 54:24 to avoid going in the direction, 54:26 where you gonna need a doctor 54:27 or you are gonna need a nutritionist or you 54:29 are gonna need to health professional to recover you. 54:32 Because God is the nutritionist. 54:33 God is the nutritionist. 54:35 He is the ultimate nutritionist. 54:36 Last thing, I want to say about this 54:38 and this is a totally different category 54:39 to get but somewhere along the way 54:40 when you discover how to live a healthy lifestyle 54:43 and you are sitting down at your table 54:45 and you are eating together, 54:46 make that an enjoyable time. 54:49 Listen to this Ecclesiastes 3:13, 54:51 And also that every man should eat and drink, 54:54 and enjoy the good of all his labor, 54:57 it is the gift of God. You know friends 54:59 meal time in our homes should not be a stressful time, 55:02 try something, try to turn off your television 55:04 during the time you eat at the table, 55:06 try to turn off the radio, 55:08 try to put the newspaper down, 55:10 try to put your mail down, right, 55:12 try not to look at your bills 55:14 or get a terrible phone call, 55:16 put the phone on pause or on do not disturb 55:19 while you eating, so that you can eat, 55:21 you can drink, you can look into your spouses face 55:24 and say how was your day, honey, how was your day, 55:27 honey? You could enjoy the food and you know what 55:30 ladies make something that's good for your husband. 55:32 Husbands, if you are the cook make something good 55:35 for your wives, get your families together 55:37 and make dinner time a time, where everybody 55:39 re-acclaims his or herself with the other. 55:41 Yeah, you know, on closing out this program ultimately 55:43 what we are saying is that God wants you 55:45 to have life and to have it more abundantly. 55:48 John 10:10, John 10:10. 55:50 Read that for us by the way, that's a powerful text. 55:52 It says "The thief does not come except to steal, 55:54 kill, and destroy. I have come that they may have life 55:58 and that they may have it more abundantly. 56:00 So God wants abundant life for you and I, 56:03 and he has given these principles as we cover 56:06 many of them over the last few programs. 56:07 Finally, his word he is the nutritionist. 56:09 We don't have to be nutritionist 56:11 to just share a God's word. 56:12 We sit here and we know that, 56:14 he knows what is best. 56:15 And so that's we are giving you here. 56:16 It's not because you know, we want to take the fun 56:20 out of everything even his words says enjoy food, 56:23 enjoy life, enjoy these things that is something 56:26 we need to do, but what we just telling you 56:28 follow the guidelines that God has given you, 56:30 and you will have that abundant life 56:32 because you will live long and you also enjoy serving 56:35 the Lord because that's ultimately what he wants. 56:36 He wants us to serve him, doesn't he? 56:38 He wants us to serve him, 56:40 but he wants us to be healthy. 56:41 You know, what if your horse is sneezing and coughing 56:43 and burping and regurgitating, 56:46 he is not gonna win that race. 56:48 If your dog is just all lay back he cannot protect you. 56:52 If we are out of shape we cannot be fit 56:56 that's what for God who abide in, 56:58 and if we are doing it ourselves intentionally. 57:00 We are dishonoring the very temple 57:02 that God is interested to us. Friends, 57:03 we are saying eat, drink, and be merry, enjoy life, 57:08 but do it the way that God 57:10 has ordained it to be, right John. Amen. 57:12 And when you do that friends 57:14 you'll never have to worry about sneezing 57:16 all the time instead of your doctor going on vacation, 57:18 you will have the money to take yourself on vacation. 57:21 You will have the money to enjoy life, 57:23 so here at house calls for what is for us 57:26 God has come that we might have life 57:28 and have it more abundantly. 57:29 Consult his menu for the best diet. 57:33 God bless you and have a great 57:34 and abundant day in Jesus Christ. |
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