Allen Jackson NOW

Allen Jackson: April 15, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

April 15, 2025 | S25:E415

Television is filled with dysfunction, and the world is drowning in it. Negativity has saturated people of all ages, fed by competition to the bottom on social media. What if someone new came along with a fresh operating principle? A person who has travelled the world, seen the worst of it but deals strictly with how to move forward. An honest and inspiring leader who has lived the full Christian life as a pastor and uses his wisdom to inspire others. Meet Allen Jackson.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: April 15, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | April 15, 2025

I'm excited about our guest today.
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He's an expert on the
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On the subject matter, but he's also a friend.
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Jordan. rubin. welcome. thanks for having me.
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I'm excited to be here.
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I mean, you are synonymous with health and nutrition,
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But you also wrap that around
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A very strong respect for the authority of scripture.
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So i know this has been a lifelong journey for you.
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Maybe for those that are listening
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That don't know your story.
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To start with how this all became
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So mission critical for you.
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Well, i'd love to.
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I think the passage that says to whom much is
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Given, much is required or expected, is really
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An appropriate way to describe why i do what i do.
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My upbringing was rather unique.
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I'm jewish 100%, or rather 99.
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I apparently there was a moabite us and an inn keeper
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In my lineage, but,
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My parents came to know the lord when i was two.
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So i grew up a little bit confused,
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Thinking that i celebrate christmas and hanukkah.
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But the truth is,
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We didn't celebrate christmas, so i was a messianic jew.
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But i definitely came to
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Know a relationship with jesus more in a baptist church
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And a bible study called experience in god
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By henry black 80 years ago.
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And it was an amazing, subtle, yet powerful shift
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That at 16 years of age,
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I could have a relationship with a living god.
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Thank god that it turns out i already had one
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From a younger age.
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I just didn't know how to articulate it.
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And when i was a teenager, i really committed to following
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God. that led me to college, where
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I was very involved in church.
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I would minister to people in the student copy center,
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And for those who don't know what a copy is, we,
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We we used to actually
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Make photocopies, not scans or take pictures
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On our smartphones that we didn't have.
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But i really woke up every morning in college asking
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God to give me opportunities to share his goodness.
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And it was a really awesome experience for me.
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And i remember thinking, and i don't recommend anyone
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Follow suit here, that because i'm young and i'm
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Skewing the things of the world and following god at this age,
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My life is going to go sort of perfectly up from here.
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I didn't mean that in a worldly sense.
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Just god would take me from glory to glory.
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What i didn't realize is the glory.
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The glory process is usually more like this.
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And, for those of you who are listening,
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My hands waving really high
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And really low, and it seems like months later,
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I was a counselor at a christian summer camp
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When i started to develop symptoms,
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Digestive
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Symptoms, and a fever that ultimately developed
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Into a diagnosis of crohn's disease or crohn's colitis.
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And mind you, this was
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Almost through.
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I was 30 years ago where hardly anyone knew about this disease.
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It's an embarrassing bowel disease
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Where you're in the bathroom all day,
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And in some cases, like mine, i became emaciated and weak.
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It's a life threatening. it's.
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And now you see it.
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If you're watching a sporting event, there's three commercials
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Or five for ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease medications.
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Back then, it wasn't talked about.
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But for me, i had such a severe case that i lost 80 pounds.
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I was down to 104 pounds in a wheelchair.
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My dad is a naturopathy doctor
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And a chiropractor, so we had a healthy lifestyle
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Until i went away to college and changed that a little bit.
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And he had a lot of resources to help me on the natural side,
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But i had to go the conventional route,
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Had to go the medication route,
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And i
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Was on dangerous medications, and my doctors were telling me,
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You can maybe have children,
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But you have to be off this medication
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And you can be on this medication. it's incurable.
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And here i am, 19 years old, thinking,
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What happened to god, having good plans for me to prosper
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Me and not to harm me, to give me a future and a hope.
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I kind of believed it was like a cold
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Or a flu, that it was going to go away.
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But that didn't happen.
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And days turned into weeks.
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Months. and i was ill for two years.
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And when i say ill, no remission every day.
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Constantly sick, feeling like i was
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Getting surgery done on my gut without anesthesia.
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People said to me, were you the press?
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Were you suicidal?
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I wasn't suicidal, but i also didn't want to live.
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I wanted to be with god.
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I went from being kind of the life of the party
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To someone who,
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When i went out of my home in a wheelchair,
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People would be repulsed by, you know, maybe i had something
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That they could catch or communicable.
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I mean, it looked like someone with aids
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Or what others would say, a holocaust survivor.
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And an amazing thing happened during the midst of my illness.
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Probably the worst part.
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My eyes started to not work well because
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I was losing so much muscle and so much vitality,
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And a friend of mine was badgering me to come visit.
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I didn't want anyone to see me, much less hang around.
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But she came and she was reading the bible to me, and a verse
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Popped out that became, at the time, my life.
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Scripture. hebrews 11 one.
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Faith is the substance of things
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Hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
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And i was sitting there with every good excuse in the book.
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But i'm reading about faith,
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And then i read without faith it is impossible to please god.
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And i also knew that faith comes by hearing the word of god.
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And then the toughest scripture
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Of all for me faith without action or works is dead.
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Now i'm living in my parents home, being taken
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Care of like an infant had to drop out of college.
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My whole life's turned upside down and
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For me to walk from my bedroom to the bathroom,
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I fainted a few times face down because my iron or ferritin
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Level was zero.
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Like there's corpses that have a better iron level than that.
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And i'm thinking, what can i do?
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What kind of action can i take that shows faith?
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I mean, i'm sick, i'm broke, i'm busted, disgusted, whatever.
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I'm a failure according to every measure of the world.
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But something inside of me got me up in my boxer shorts
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And my beard.
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Not because it was fashionable, but because i couldn't
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Have the strength to shave or afford to lose any blood.
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I walked those seven steps and i called to
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My mom to take my picture, and she came.
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What's wrong? what's wrong?
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I said, mom, please take my picture.
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And she said, i don't want to take your picture.
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It breaks my heart just to look at you.
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And i said, mom, take the picture.
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And she said, why do you insist?
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Can't we wait until you're well?
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And i said, mom,
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You need to take this picture
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Because the world's
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Not going to believe what god's about to do in my life.
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And i wish that everyone listening and watching thought
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That i had this kind of faith the whole time.
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It was fleeting. it was mustard seed size.
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I fell in the water after walking on it,
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But my mom took my picture with an old school camera.
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And that photograph,
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In that act of faith, didn't cause me to get
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Well the next day or next week or next month.
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But about a year later, i met a man by phone.
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The 70th expert
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I consulted with, seven zero
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Went all over the world trying to get well,
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And he said, jordan, if you will follow a diet
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Based on the bible, you can be well.
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And i had
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I didn't get saved during my
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Illness, but my relationship with god deepened in a sense.
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Some of which was because
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I was angry, some of which was because i was desperate.
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But i got so much hope from what this man said,
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Because earlier,
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When i knew my illness was not a cold
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Or a flu or going away in a week,
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I made a commitment that if god would heal me
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And i could help
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Just one person overcome disease or better yet, avoid it,
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Then this living hell will have all been worth it.
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I realize how valuable your health is.
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I was an immortal teenager.
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Nothing could go wrong and i knew in my heart
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And my spirit that whatever helped me,
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I would help others with and praise god.
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It was something that was
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Teachable, reproducible, and only he could gain the glory.
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Teachable, reproducible, and only he could gain the glory.
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So it was still following god on that curve.
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Oh yeah, definitely. i'm on the upswing right now.
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That's a good thing.
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But you have i mean, so you have really spent your adult life,
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Understanding and helping other people understand
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How what we eat impacts the whole of our life.
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I know you've got some principles
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That you share with that.
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Can you give us an overview of kind of the shortcut on.
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Absolutely. to somewhere before we. even get into food?
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If you look at sort of
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What god did in my life and i didn't mention this
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Because it would be an entirely other program.
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But years later, i went through a terminal cancer
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Battle that god healed me from and it would have been
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15 years after.
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And i tried not to be like the israelites, or
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I should say, like the disciples
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When they watched
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5000 men being fed
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And they wondered how jesus was going to feed 4000,
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I still still try to wrack my brain saying,
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Is this the same story they tell?
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But it seems like it's two different occasions.
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So i, i use some of the faith i learned during that
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Journey as well.
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But what i would say before i talk about food is that
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Forgiveness is absolutely critical.
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I watched my grandmother die with bitterness
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Because her
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Sisters in their family were gunned down by the nazis
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In poland. and i get it.
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I can't imagine it.
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I don't oh, i'm not able to have empathy.
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But when i was explaining to her and trying to minister
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To her at the end of life that this isn't what god did,
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This is the result of a fallen world, etc., i realized how
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Powerful that unforgiveness scenario is
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And we were talking about, oh are you?
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I was in an oh, are you conference?
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And somebody said that
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If you harbor unforgiveness towards
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Somebody that turns to bitterness,
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It's like drinking poison and expecting it to kill them.
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And i quoted it so many times and sleep sleeps another one.
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And i'm giving people
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These freebies because health is more than eating.
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I talk about,
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I'll call it a positive mindset, but it's really, as a man
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Thinks in his heart, so is he.
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And out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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I see people saying that i have cancer or
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My son is autistic or my sister's diabetic.
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We use these terms as if we own these diseases
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And i am very careful.
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I learned this during the cancer battle
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That life and death is in the power of the tongue.
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And so i try to be very careful
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What i say and what i watch and what i hear.
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But that's really critical,
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Because if i meet someone with cancer
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And they talk about cancer
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A thousand times a day and
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Talk about being healed once, the odds are not good.
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And so before we get into food, i want people to understand
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Those areas are important.
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I think exercise is incredibly important.
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Sunshine is important.
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These are all free
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And these are therapies
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That our ancestors engaged in without thinking twice
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The diet stuff, you're going to step on some toes.
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But i've talked about this many times.
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I believe we should eat what god created for food.
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I don't think that involves pork and shellfish.
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I think the old testament is anything but old.
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We were talking about scripture and how
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Revelatory it is, no matter when it was written.
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As revelatory today as it was yesterday,
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The day before, and will be forever.
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So i think god created us, and he knows what's best.
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So i don't recommend eating pork and shellfish and squid
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And eel and things like that.
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I know those are delicacies and why wouldn't they be?
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The world celebrates what god hates.
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I think eating diets, sweeteners are bad.
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I believe that that's now being more understood
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Because when they came out, when we started,
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This was back in the day with my great aunt, with her
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Sweet and low on the strawberries,
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But pink, yellow and blue packets.
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They're not going to help you lose weight,
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And they're made in a laboratory.
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And i think god created good sweet things
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Like honey and dates and fruit, etc..
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Maple sirup.
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And then i tell people to avoid processed
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Vegetable oils or what's now being called seed oils in the,
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Steak and shakes of the world.
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It's amazing how
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This is becoming commonplace, but those are the big three.
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I do believe sugar is dangerous, but consuming sugar in
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Its natural form is far better than something synthetic.
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And there's there's more,
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You know,
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White flour where you take the nutrients out
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And add things that don't belong.
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But i believe we have to take
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God at his word, but also understand our creation.
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The bible is not a nutrition book,
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But if you ask god to show you how to eat and live,
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There's an outline there that i've tried to share
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With people over the course of years.
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And i've seen so many people set free.
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There's a mutual friend we have, who's a legendary pastor here.
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Don pinto is going to be 95, and he's one of the first people
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Along with you that i sent my book.
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And don is an amazing human being.
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And the fact that he read it
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In like one sitting and he said to me, jordan,
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I've been following your plan for 20 years, but
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I've learned new things, i've taken notes.
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I'm so excited.
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And i watch as he walks up his steep driveway and soon
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To be 95 years old, and i say, that's a modern day caleb.
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He's going to israel. he's going to the middle east.
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He's arguably more effective for the kingdom today
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Than he was when he was a pastor here at a big church.
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And that's what i aspire to be.
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And it isn't just about living long, it's
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About living a life like moses or caleb, where
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Towards the end of it,
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They say they're as
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Strong as they ever were.
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Strong as they ever were.
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You know, for full disclosure,
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We bumped into one another casually at an event
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Into the year,
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And i made a comment to you
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That i wanted to get a little healthier.
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And you were very gracious to me to give me a little coaching.
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And so i'm a few months into this,
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And it really does make a difference.
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And for those that
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Listen to me very much, they know i'm a big advocate
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For oreos and cheese doodles and all sorts of things.
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That and you're, you have said to me many times,
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No judgment here.
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Well, pastor allen,
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I almost reached out to you two weeks ago and said,
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Your clothes are looking too big.
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So congratulations. i've given
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Health advice to a lot of people.
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And you can imagine,
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Like in your line of work, not everybody listens.
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But you have done great.
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And i trust that it's helping you do what you're called to do
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More effectively.
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Not everyone is called to share a message of health,
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Just like not everyone is called to preach.
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But i love to play a small role in that.
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I had a good friend of mine
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Who's a chiropractor and an evangelist a year
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Younger than me, called me up a couple of months ago.
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We had a great talk on a friday.
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On a monday he called me with slurred speech, diagnosed
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With glioblastoma, given maybe a year to live.
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And, we rallied around him and he's like family to me.
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And yesterday, after, i would say a relatively short
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Time of prayer, of
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Doing some of the things that
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I've encouraged you to do that we talk about
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In an upcoming book, the biblio diet.
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I was at dinner yesterday when i got a text
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That he had just visited an oncologist,
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And he said, praise god, i'm cancer free, all caps.
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And i started crying at the dinner table
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And i don't cry much.
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And my kids, some of them get sensitive to that.
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But what an opportunity to see this.
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This is someone who has has, since covid done 500
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Zoom crusades to pakistan and to india and to africa.
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And they set slaves free in the brick trade.
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And he was stricken with something where i listened to
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Some, recordings from dr.
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Anderson, a top cancer clinic, flippantly saying that
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There's an upper limit of seven years,
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If you will do this, this and this,
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And this is someone who's
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48 years old with his wife on and has four children.
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And to be able to play a role
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In someone's life like that, it's
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The most exhilarating,
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Exciting, best thing, best gift i could ever have.
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And that's what i, i want to do.
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Now, on the flip side,
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Not every person turns out that way,
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But i've seen much more often than not when people
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Will follow god's plan in body, mind, and spirit,
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They're going to be healed in a sense that they are going
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To be much better than they ever could have been.
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And we've seen so many miracles and,
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It's it's just an awesome thing.
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And we talked on a previous program
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About this country being more conducive to
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Caring for our health, to ending what is now an epidemic,
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And autism spectrum disorders, which by the way, has mirrored
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Inflammatory bowel disease, crohn's and ulcerative colitis.
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I think it's increased a thousand fold.
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No one admits that.
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But somebody is going to admit it now
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Because secretary kennedy, he's going to come out
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With some things, folks, that are going to be astounding.
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Cancer and heart disease, out of control, diabetes,
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Our diabetes.
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Financial
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Ramifications are more than most nations entire budget.
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And i think we're going to see some of this change quickly.
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And i'd love to see the church be the catalyst.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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I'm excited about your new project.
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It's the biblio diet.
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When is that going to be available?
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It'll be august september timeline.
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And, you were one of about ten who received our first,
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Manuscript.
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And i'm really excited about the truth that's coming.
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And i do have a hidden agenda in that
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I love that
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Bobby kennedy is doing so much, and i love that
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The trump administration is allowing it.
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But health was not their idea. it's god's idea.
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And i want people to say i am following the bible,
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The name, the biblio diet, because biblio means book.
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People don't realize that the bible
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Is called the bible because it's the book.
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It was really the tanakh and the heart of shaw.
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But i want people to go around saying,
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I'm following the biblio diet because years ago
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People said they were following the paleo diet.
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And i remember
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I was talking to an amazing christian woman who asked me
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To write the foreword to her health book, pastor's wife,
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And she talked about the paleo diet.
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And i said, please forgive me.
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You're an amazing teacher.
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And so wonderful, but i don't like the idea
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Of promoting the paleo diet because it presupposes
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That we were on the earth
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For millions and billions of years,
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And it's very evolutionary, and it's construct.
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And so i said, instead of the paleo diet,
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Let's talk about the biblio diet took me years to introduce it.
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But the idea is by following the biblio diet,
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You are eating by the book
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And we say you can live long, master metabolism,
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Fight depression, reduce pain, and conquer
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Cancer with the healing secrets from the bible.
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Well, i thank you for your persistent message.
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You've made a difference in my life,
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And i know you're making a difference
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In millions of lives across the country,
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So i very much appreciate it.
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Thank you so much for having me, pastor.
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You know the assignment.
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I think god is in the midst of making america healthy again,
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Fundamentally, spiritually healthy.
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And if we all make those choices to cooperate with the truth
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That we know, if you'll start with that truth,
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With the simple biblical principles
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That you already know, and you'll begin to practice them,
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I believe that we'll become
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Healthier emotionally, spiritually, physically,
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And that that can change our nation.
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It's not a political problem we have.
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It's a spiritual problem.
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And jordan rubin, i thank you for your voice.
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It's been great to be here. thank you so much for having me
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Allen Jackson: April 15, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

April 15, 2025 | S25:E415

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