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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - Healing, Health, and Holiness (Part 1) | November 24, 2024
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- Doug batchelor: in january 2010, a minivan struck and killed a
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- Man crossing a brooklyn street - especially tragic because this
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- Was no ordinary man. joe rollino would have been
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- 105 years old in march. his friends said he was
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- The model of health. a world war ii vet with three
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- Purple hearts, rollino got his start in the 1920s at the coney
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- Island carnival, billed as 'the strongest man in the world'.
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- Five-feet five-inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, for his
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- Size he was one of the strongest men ever.
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- He could move 3200 pounds with his back, lift 475 pounds with
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- His teeth, and 635 pounds he could lift with one finger.
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- At joe rollino's 103rd birthday party, a friend gave him a
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- Quarter and rollino bent it with his fingers.
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- He then apologized because he used to do it with a dime.
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- Did i mention that joe rollino didn't drink or smoke, he
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- Exercised daily, and he was a life-long vegetarian?
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- You know, the bible also makes a connection between a very strong
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- Man and a unique lifestyle. the bible says samson did not
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- Drink and he stayed away from unclean foods.
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- Would you like to live to a healthy 100?
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- Anything is possible when we follow god's health plan.
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- So join me now, as we take a deeper look into this
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- Life-changing subject.
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- Doug: tonight i'm going to be sharing a topic
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- That i think the christian world is long overdue
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- To understand this issue and people have suffered greatly
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- Because they do not understand this principle from the bible
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- That is very practical. now, our message tonight is
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- Dealing with the subject of healing, health and holiness.
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- It begins with a story that you find in a book of prophecy and
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- It's in daniel chapter 1. it tells that after king
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- Nebuchadnezzar had conquered babylon, he took some of the -
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- The brightest and the best of the nation and he brought them
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- With him back to babylon and he said, 'look, we're going to
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- Train you in the language of the chaldeans.
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- We're going to feed you from our cafeteria for three years and
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- We're going to prepare to you to be ambassadors representing your
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- Part of the world and go to the university of babylon.' and you
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- Think, 'well, that will be really good.
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- You'd be eating from the babylonian cafeteria.'
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- But there's a problem with that. babylonians ate things that god
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- Had told his people they're not supposed to eat.
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- So daniel and his three friends that had been carried off to
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- Babylon: shadrach, meshach, abednego - their hebrew names
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- Were hananiah, mishael, azariah - they said, 'we can't eat that.
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- Please let us eat pulse' - or vegetables - 'and just give us a
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- Chance.' and the man who was in charge of the eunuchs, he said,
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- 'i can't do that because if you start looking scrawny and sick,
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- I'm responsible for your health and education - my head'll be on
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- The block.' they said, 'you give us ten days.' notice it says in
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- Daniel 1, verse 8, "but daniel purposed in his heart that he
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- Would not defile" - he would not what?
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- Congregation: defile. doug: "defile himself with a
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- Portion of the king's meat." so they proposed, to ashpenaz,
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- Prince of the eunuchs, "prove your servants" - 'test us' -
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- "for ten days, let us have pulse to eat and water to drink."
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- - 'we're not going to eat the babylonian food and the
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- Fermented wine.' and the bible says he consented to that - "and
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- At the end of the ten days their countenances appeared fairer and
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- Fatter in flesh" - you know, they had just come across the
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- Desert - and "...he found them ten times better" - smarter -
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- "than all the magicians and astrologers who
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- Were in all his realm."
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- And the first chapter of daniel
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- Closes by saying, "and daniel continued until the time of king
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- Cyrus" - daniel lived to about a hundred years of age.
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- He must have been 15 to 17 when he was carried off.
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- So, it's interesting that, at this very important book of
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- Prophecy it would make a point that daniel and his friends had
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- Purposed they would take care of their bodies even when they were
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- Tempted by their surroundings and even though there was social
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- Pressure to compromise, they said, 'no, this is what god says
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- About treating our bodies as the temple of the holy spirit and we
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- Will not defile our bodies. this is a truth that has been
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- Lost by much of the christian church and it's an area where
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- There needs to be revival and reformation, and that's
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- Also true even within our denomination.
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- Let's look at our lesson. it's going to bring
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- Out a number of points. first question: what was the
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- Original diet that god designed for humans?
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- You read in genesis 1, verse 29, "and god said, 'behold, i have
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- Given you every herb bearing seed and in every tree in which
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- Is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for
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- Meat." and the word 'meat' there, it's
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- King james - it just means 'for food'.
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- And so, the original diet that god gave to man was a vegetarian
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- Diet contain - it was actually fruits, grains, and nuts - beans
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- - but later god expanded the diet.
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- That's the next question: after adam and eve sinned, - when they
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- Were evicted from the garden of eden, they could no longer eat
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- From the tree of life. god then said, 'alright, i
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- Want to give you something supplemental.'
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- What was added to their diet at that point?
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- Genesis 3, verse 18
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- He said, "you shall eat the herb of the
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- Field." - meaning vegetables. now, i find sometimes people
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- Don't know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable.
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- Let me test you. apple. congregation: fruit.
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- Doug: fruit. orange? congregation: fruit.
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- Doug: zucchini? congregation: fruit. (laughter)
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- Doug: see? fruit. onion? congregation: vegetable.
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- Doug: vegetable. brussels sprouts?
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- Congregation: vegetable.
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- Doug: inedible. (laughter)
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- Doug: it's real simple: that anything that is the
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- Product of the blossom is the fruit.
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- And anything that's any other part of the plant, whether it's
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- The stalk or the leaves or the bulbs, it's a vegetable.
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- And so, after adam and eve and, you know, a lot of kids out
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- There are really sorry that adam and eve sinned because they
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- Didn't want vegetables added to their diet.
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- But after they sinned and they were told they could no longer
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- Stay in the garden, god said, 'you can also eat the herb of
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- The field.' but the original diet for man was a vegetarian
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- Diet. and - i'll just tell you
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- Right now, i am biased. i'm a vegetarian.
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- I encourage people to consider it.
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- The bible does not require you to be a vegetarian.
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- But are you aware that we will be vegetarians in heaven?
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- When god asked adam to name the animals, he did not look at
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- The cow and say, 'whopper'. (laughter) and he did not
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- Look at the chickens and say, 'mcnuggets'.
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- (laughter) you know, he was supposed to protect them, he
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- Wasn't supposed to think about eating them.
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- And it wasn't until after sin and especially after the flood
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- That animals became a part of the diet.
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- What mammals does god say we could eat?
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- Now, i told you i'm a vegetarian. i encourage that.
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- But the bible does say you're going to eat meat, but then it
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- Says if you're going to eat meat there are some criteria.
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- You can read about this in leviticus 11, verse 3, "whatever
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- Parts the hoof, and is cloven footed and chews the cud, these
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- You can eat." so it needed to have a
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- Cloven hoof - it needed both characteristics, not just one.
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- But even some meat is not healthy.
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- For instance, you know a camel?
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- A camel chews the cud but it's got a paw.
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- Now some of you are really bothered by that because you're
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- Going to have to take the camel out of your fridge tonight right
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- After (laughter) well, you know, this was a problem in christ's
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- Time. he said, 'you strain a gnat and
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- You swallow a camel' - which is unclean.
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- He said, 'you're worried about getting a little bitty bug in
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- Your water, but then you go eat camel steak when you go home and
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- God says it's unclean. have you ever been around camels? i have.
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- Yeah. i wouldn't want to eat one.
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- Now, some things, they chew the cud but they don't have a cloven
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- Hoof. and then there's a couple of
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- Animals that have a cloven hoof, but they don't chew the cud.
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- You know what's in that category?
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- Ah, this one's very popular. puerco - the pig, the hog, the
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- Swine - "though it divides the hoof, having cloven hooves,
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- Yet does not chew the cud, is unclean to you."
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- He goes on to say, "their flesh you shall not eat, and their
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- Carcass you shall not touch." there was an abomination.
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- Pigs are filthy. i used to take care of my
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- Neighbor's pigs when he would go on vacation and, you know, i'd
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- Always try and find some new word to describe it, but all i
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- Can come up with is to tell you that pigs are pigs.
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- Their name is the definition. you can't improve on it.
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- (laughter) you ever been by - or driven by a pig slaughter house?
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- Even the bible says - like the sow that was washed returns to
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- Wallowing in the mire. and their flesh is
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- Full of disease. they're scavengers.
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- God made some animals that are scavengers and they're made to,
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- Kind of, clean up the environment.
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- They eat garbage. why would you - you wouldn't
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- Eat garbage but you'll eat the garbage can (laughter)
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- When you eat a pig. how many of you remember this?
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- 'this little piggy went to the market' (laughter) 'this little
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- Piggy stayed home. this little piggy had roast
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- Beef' - even a pig won't eat pork.
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- (raucous laughter) you know i - i remember reading once - i
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- Think it was one out of five autopsies done in north america
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- - they found out that the cadavers had symptoms or
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- Evidence of trichina poisoning. trichinosis is a very tricky
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- Disease in that when the muscle tissue containing trichina cysts
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- Are eaten by a human, it says the cysts are then digested in
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- The stomach then release the larvae which "...migrate to the
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- Intestine, begin a new life cycle.
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- Female trichina worms live about six weeks and in that time they
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- May release 15,000 larvae. the migration and encystment of
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- Larvae can cause fever, pain, or even death."
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- It can cause stiffness in joints and knees and pain and it's
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- Often misdiagnosed. a person thinks, 'i've got
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- Bursitis' or 'arthritis' and they got pigitis is what it is
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- (laughter) it's from - it's very common around the world.
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- There's a picture of a fellow. he's got his lunch on his
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- Box - back of his bike. one nutritionist wrote a few
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- Years ago - and this is an old article, but i like
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- The way he worded it. september 6, 1999.
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- A "nutritionist said bacon wasn't technically meat anymore.
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- It didn't belong to any food group at all.
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- It was a salty nitrate-ridden, fat-laden carcinogenic thing."
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- Why would you want to eat a carcinogenic thing?
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- Because it tastes good. are you going to be controlled
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- By the spirit or by the flesh? now some of you are saying,
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- 'pastor doug, you're coming down pretty hard on those of us who
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- Are, you know, eating meat and stuff like that.
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- You know, god designed humans to eat meat and that's why we've
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- Got these canine teeth, you know?'
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- I've heard that argument before. that's nonsense.
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- This fella's got canine teeth too.
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- (raucous laughter) and he's a vegetarian.
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- As is the hippo and the elephant - i don't know how far i want to
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- Take this illustration but - and, actually, the digestive
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- System of a cat or a carnivore or a dog is very smooth.
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- Vegetarian animals have a more complex digestive system.
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- Where they've got the broken up intestine and we're in that
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- Category. we thrive on a vegetarian diet.
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- People say to me all the time, 'oh pastor doug, you know, you
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- Can't be healthy if you're vegetarian.
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- You're not going to get enough b-12 and protein.'
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- That is a myth. that is totally an uneducated statement.
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- I've been a vegetarian for forty years.
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- I love when i go to subway and i order a veggie and they say, 'do
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- You want any cheese?' i said, 'no.
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- I'm a vegan too.' i said, 'no, just all veggies.'
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- I say, 'i'm a vegetarian.' 'really?'
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- I said, 'yep.' i said, 'do i look 90 years old?'
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- (laughter) and they go, 'wow, you're not' - (raucous laughter)
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- I usually confess that i'm kidding at that point.
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- You notice i didn't say i was 90, i said, 'do i look 90?'
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- (laughter) of course, once i said, 'do i look 70?'
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- And they said, 'yeah, about 70.' (laughter) so i had to up it a
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- Little bit. but, no, you know, i really have
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- Been a vegetarian 40 years and i feel great.
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- You get - you know, if you - a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
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- Has everything you need. if you use strawberry preserves
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- You've got your fruits, grains, and nuts right there.
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- The whole thing. (laughter) you've got protein,
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- You've got b-12 - you've got everything you need.
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- And somebody says, 'you won't get enough,'
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- Don't believe that for a minute.
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- Doug: now, if you're going to talk about - we talked about the
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- Mammals that had to have a cloven hoof and chew the cud -
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- What about the sea creatures? what types of fish or seafood
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- Are clean, biblically? you read in leviticus 11, verse
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- 9, "these you can eat of all that are in the waters: whatever
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- Has fins and scales...them you shall eat."
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- You know, i understand that the navy did some research back
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- After world war ii because a number of pilots and sailors
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- Were floating around in the ocean - they didn't know what
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- They could and couldn't eat of the fish that kind of gathered
- 00:15:39.097 --> 00:15:41.532
- Around their life rafts and they said, 'we need to give them some
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- Criteria that they can remember - something simple.' and they
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- Did all this research and one of them said, 'you know, it says in
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- The bible that if it has fins and scales it's safe.' and they
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- Said, 'well, let's see what that looks like.' and did all the
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- Research. they said, 'that's probably the
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- Best rule of thumb we can tell the sailors.' they found a lot
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- Of toxins in the scavengers. catfish do not have scales.
- 00:16:02.620 --> 00:16:09.527
- My brother and i used to catch catfish off my dad's back porch.
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- He was right on biscayne bay in miami beach.
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- And, taking the hook out of the catfish, my brother's finger got
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- Poked by the dorsal fin and it was so toxic he could never bend
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- His finger again. and people eat those things.
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- We ate 'em too back then. sharks, they've got
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- Cartilage on the outside. they're scavengers.
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- And some of you are wondering, what about tuna.
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- Tuna has scales - very small, but they've got scales.
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- And so, they needed these things.
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- So what would be unclean? "but in the seas" - leviticus
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- 11:10 still - "in all the seas of the rivers those that do not
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- Have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living
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- Thing which is in the water, they are an abomination to you."
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- Now there's no time in the bible when god calls something an
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- Abomination in one part that it is then blessed in another part.
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- Anything that's declared by god an abomination stays an
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- Abomination. and, by the way, these are not
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- Laws just for one group of people, these are laws that
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- God gave to humanity in the beginning. what about the birds?
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- If you're going to eat meat, what birds are clean?
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- Well, the way they raise some birds, i don't want to eat
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- Anything but, biblically, it needed to be a foraging bird.
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- The ones that are unclean - it says, "every raven after its
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- Kind," - and the "owl, and the night hawk, and
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- The cuckaw, and the hawk after its kind."
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- - the scavengers - the raptors - they were unclean - the
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- Omnivores. the foraging birds like the
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- Pheasant and the quail and the chicken and the turkey, you'll
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- Be happy to know, are in the clean category. (laughter)
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- Pigeon is clean, which means they'll never starve in new york
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- City. (laughter) i wouldn't eat any of those, though.
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- But they were typically in that category.
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- So, are the laws about the clean and unclean animals part of
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- Moses' ceremonial law that ended at the cross?
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- This is the argument - have you heard this before?
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- No, you read in genesis 7, when god was telling noah to bring
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- The animals on the ark, everyone says, 'oh yeah, they went on the
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- Ark two by two.' not all of them.
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- The unclean animals went by two. the clean animals went by seven.
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- "come into the ark you and all your household..." and it says
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- Of the beasts that are not clean they'll bring by two.
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- Of the clean beasts, they come by sevens.
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- Like you might have the stag and seven does.
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- You have the bull and - or six cows and the bull - and so they
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- May have divided it up like that.
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- And so, how many here are related to noah?
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- That'd be all of you. (laughter) how many of you never
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- Raise your hand when the pastor asks a question?
- 00:18:57.061 --> 00:18:58.996
- (raucous laughter) some of you were honest enough to finally
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- Raise your hand for that question.
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- But we're all related to noah. so god makes a distinction of
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- Clean and unclean right back there in the beginning.
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- These things - we know today that there's health principles.
- 00:19:12.476 --> 00:19:16.514
- By the way, national geographic did an article a few years ago
- 00:19:16.514 --> 00:19:21.786
- Called the blue zones . did any of you here
- 00:19:21.786 --> 00:19:23.621
- Ever see this magazine? it talked about the areas of
- 00:19:23.621 --> 00:19:26.023
- The world where people live the longest.
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- They came up with three groups: the people that live in sardinia
- 00:19:28.526 --> 00:19:33.164
- - the mediterranean, the people that live in okinawa, japan -
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- Some of the oldest in the world, and the third category was
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- Seventh-day adventists that live in loma linda.
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- Or seventh-day adventists, but that's just an enclave down
- 00:19:43.007 --> 00:19:46.844
- There and so they saw there was a concentration.
- 00:19:46.844 --> 00:19:49.213
- And so, they specifically said seventh-day adventists.
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- What do they attribute that to? their healthy lifestyle.
- 00:19:52.450 --> 00:19:57.722
- Following the biblical
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- Criteria, among other things, having a day of rest helps also.
- 00:19:59.357 --> 00:20:03.928
- And they live a lot longer. i was visiting a sister today,
- 00:20:03.928 --> 00:20:09.834
- 93 years old up and around doing fine.
- 00:20:09.834 --> 00:20:13.504
- This is a picture of one of my church members, 111 and still
- 00:20:13.504 --> 00:20:17.508
- Going - viola cook. and it just was amazing to me,
- 00:20:17.508 --> 00:20:24.815
- Her brother-in-law told me - art reed - gave me some good advice
- 00:20:24.815 --> 00:20:29.453
- - if you forget everything i say tonight, remember this: i said,
- 00:20:29.453 --> 00:20:31.822
- 'art, how come you're so old and so healthy?'
- 00:20:31.822 --> 00:20:34.258
- He said, 'three things: stop eating while you're still a
- 00:20:34.258 --> 00:20:37.595
- Little hungry, wake up when you're still a little sleepy,
- 00:20:37.595 --> 00:20:42.400
- And stop talking when you still have something left to say.'
- 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:45.002
- (laughter) secret to life.
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- Does god say that eating unclean food is a serious offense?
- 00:20:49.807 --> 00:20:55.613
- Some people think, 'oh, the bible laws about health are
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- Recommendations.' the bible doesn't call them
- 00:20:58.049 --> 00:20:59.617
- Recommendations, it calls them laws.
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- Listen to what the bible says in isaiah 66, verses 15 and 17:
- 00:21:01.686 --> 00:21:05.523
- "for behold, the lord will come with fire and with his chariots,
- 00:21:05.523 --> 00:21:09.026
- Like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury.
- 00:21:09.026 --> 00:21:12.963
- Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves..."
- 00:21:12.963 --> 00:21:16.567
- - they're declaring themselves sanctified and pure - "'eating
- 00:21:16.567 --> 00:21:18.769
- Swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse, shall
- 00:21:18.769 --> 00:21:24.375
- Be consumed together,' says the lord."
- 00:21:24.375 --> 00:21:27.411
- 'oh, pastor doug, are you telling me that my blt sandwich
- 00:21:27.411 --> 00:21:30.514
- Is no more? it tastes so good.' you know,
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- When you really think about it, there are so many
- 00:21:35.986 --> 00:21:37.688
- Good things to eat. i'm surprised - people say to
- 00:21:37.688 --> 00:21:40.624
- Me, 'pastor doug, you're a vegetarian.
- 00:21:40.624 --> 00:21:42.526
- What do you eat?' (laughter) well, i eat great.
- 00:21:42.526 --> 00:21:48.766
- Lots of things. you grow up learning a certain
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- Way and you think that's the only way.
- 00:21:51.869 --> 00:21:53.738
- You've got to just learn to do good - learn a new way - and
- 00:21:53.738 --> 00:21:56.273
- You'll be fine. some people think, 'well, if god
- 00:21:56.273 --> 00:21:58.642
- Doesn't want us to eat it, why did he make it?'
- 00:21:58.642 --> 00:22:01.779
- And it's almost like a bumper sticker that you would find
- 00:22:01.779 --> 00:22:04.181
- Somewhere on bubba's truck: 'god made it so we can kill it and
- 00:22:04.181 --> 00:22:08.419
- Eat it.' he didn't make any of the
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- Animals for us to kill and eat.
- 00:22:10.888 --> 00:22:13.324
- People quote this verse in 1 timothy 4:4, "for every creature
- 00:22:13.324 --> 00:22:16.994
- Of god is good," - have you heard this before?
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- - "and nothing to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving
- 00:22:19.764 --> 00:22:23.434
- And prayer." now they don't read the context
- 00:22:23.434 --> 00:22:26.871
- - they don't read what it says before or after.
- 00:22:26.871 --> 00:22:28.406
- It says, first of all, that it'll be sanctified by the word
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- Of god. that means the creatures that
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- Are approved in the word of god can be sanctified by prayer.
- 00:22:32.676 --> 00:22:37.047
- But this notion that christians believe - and this is where -
- 00:22:37.047 --> 00:22:40.518
- Boy, i hope this sinks in with thinking christians out there -
- 00:22:40.518 --> 00:22:44.155
- The idea that we're free now from the laws about health
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- Because we just pray and god blesses whatever we eat.
- 00:22:47.892 --> 00:22:51.595
- You would not accept that from your children.
- 00:22:51.595 --> 00:22:54.398
- How many are parents out there? are they raising their hands?
- 00:22:54.398 --> 00:22:59.470
- If you were getting ready for work one day and your kids were
- 00:22:59.470 --> 00:23:02.473
- Fixing their own breakfast, you know, they're a little older,
- 00:23:02.473 --> 00:23:04.508
- And you see that they're pouring sugar frosted flakes in their
- 00:23:04.508 --> 00:23:10.681
- Bowl and they're putting sugar on top of it, then they go in
- 00:23:10.681 --> 00:23:13.517
- The freezer and get a scoop of chocolate ice cream, then they
- 00:23:13.517 --> 00:23:16.086
- Get some caramel syrup, and you say, 'what in the world do you
- 00:23:16.086 --> 00:23:19.190
- Think you're doing?' 'don't worry, mom, dad, i'm
- 00:23:19.190 --> 00:23:22.660
- Going to ask jesus to bless it.'
- 00:23:22.660 --> 00:23:24.361
- (laughter) would you say, 'well, that's
- 00:23:24.361 --> 00:23:28.199
- Okay, as long as you pray over it,
- 00:23:28.199 --> 00:23:29.667
- That'll be okay.' how many would accept that?
- 00:23:29.667 --> 00:23:33.270
- Then why do we think that we can tempt the lord by going against
- 00:23:33.270 --> 00:23:37.675
- The basic principles of health in the bible and say, 'but i
- 00:23:37.675 --> 00:23:40.177
- Prayed over it.' when the bible talks about that, it's talking
- 00:23:40.177 --> 00:23:44.582
- About there was a big contest between the jewish christians
- 00:23:44.582 --> 00:23:48.853
- And the gentile christians and the jewish christians said,
- 00:23:48.853 --> 00:23:51.088
- 'oh, that meat had been offered to an idol.
- 00:23:51.088 --> 00:23:53.224
- You can't eat it.' and paul said, 'look, the idol's
- 00:23:53.224 --> 00:23:55.092
- Nothing.' you pray over it - he was talking about clean animals
- 00:23:55.092 --> 00:23:58.128
- That maybe they had bought in a gentile marketplace - goat or
- 00:23:58.128 --> 00:24:01.832
- Turkey or sheep or whatever it was - and the jews had a very
- 00:24:01.832 --> 00:24:06.437
- Sensitive conscience, they said, 'but it was a gentile
- 00:24:06.437 --> 00:24:09.039
- Marketplace. they butcher things and they
- 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:10.774
- Offer them to gods before they butcher them.' paul said, 'look,
- 00:24:10.774 --> 00:24:14.712
- It's sanctified by the word of god.
- 00:24:14.712 --> 00:24:16.213
- God's word said you can eat that goat - that sheep - and you've
- 00:24:16.213 --> 00:24:19.049
- Prayed over it. don't worry about it.'
- 00:24:19.049 --> 00:24:20.684
- How many of you eat chinese food in a chinese restaurant?
- 00:24:20.684 --> 00:24:22.887
- I do. i did this week.
- 00:24:22.887 --> 00:24:24.655
- And when i went in, there was a buddha in the restaurant.
- 00:24:24.655 --> 00:24:30.528
- Now, some christians might have a problem with that.
- 00:24:30.528 --> 00:24:32.530
- They might say, 'i can't eat in there, there was a buddha.
- 00:24:32.530 --> 00:24:34.498
- I'll be supporting buddha if i eat in that restaurant.'
- 00:24:34.498 --> 00:24:37.134
- (laughter) paul was saying, 'look, you pray over your food.
- 00:24:37.134 --> 00:24:40.504
- Don't worry about what they think about - the cook might be
- 00:24:40.504 --> 00:24:42.907
- A buddhist - it's not going to hurt you.' this was the issue.
- 00:24:42.907 --> 00:24:46.176
- It wasn't saying you could eat anything.
- 00:24:46.176 --> 00:24:49.213
- That's irresponsible. we all know better than that.
- 00:24:49.213 --> 00:24:52.883
- What you eat is going to affect your health.
- 00:24:52.883 --> 00:24:55.185
- How much you eat is going to affect your health.
- 00:24:55.185 --> 00:24:58.822
- Some will say, 'what about the vision that peter had in acts
- 00:24:58.822 --> 00:25:01.525
- Chapter 10?' some of you remember, it tells
- 00:25:01.525 --> 00:25:05.296
- Us that cornelius, a gentile, and his family full of gentiles,
- 00:25:05.296 --> 00:25:09.767
- An angel says, 'you must hear from peter.'
- 00:25:09.767 --> 00:25:13.470
- They send messengers to peter. normally jews did not preach
- 00:25:13.470 --> 00:25:16.206
- To the gentiles in those early days.
- 00:25:16.206 --> 00:25:18.542
- Peter's up on the roof, he's praying, he's hungry.
- 00:25:18.542 --> 00:25:21.378
- God gives him a vision of a sheet that comes down from
- 00:25:21.378 --> 00:25:23.414
- Heaven, full of all these unclean animals and god says,
- 00:25:23.414 --> 00:25:26.150
- 'arise and eat.' notice what peter says: 'not so, lord.
- 00:25:26.150 --> 00:25:30.688
- I have never eaten anything common or unclean.' and the
- 00:25:30.688 --> 00:25:35.092
- Bible says, 'do not call unclean what i have cleansed.' and he's
- 00:25:35.092 --> 00:25:39.463
- Wondering - this happens three times - he never takes anything
- 00:25:39.463 --> 00:25:41.599
- Out of the sheet - it's a vision - you can't eat a vision.
- 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:44.034
- He never takes anything out of the sheet. he never eats it.
- 00:25:44.034 --> 00:25:47.471
- And he's wondering what the vision means.
- 00:25:47.471 --> 00:25:50.207
- And some gentiles knock on the door downstairs and peter
- 00:25:50.207 --> 00:25:53.177
- Explains what this vision is about.
- 00:25:53.177 --> 00:25:55.179
- He said, 'god has told me not to call any man' - that's a funny
- 00:25:55.179 --> 00:26:00.150
- Way to spell 'pig' - it doesn't say god showed me not to call
- 00:26:00.150 --> 00:26:04.121
- Any swine unclean.' he said not to call any man unclean because
- 00:26:04.121 --> 00:26:07.291
- The jews were calling the gentiles unclean.
- 00:26:07.291 --> 00:26:10.060
- This vision had nothing to do with food.
- 00:26:10.060 --> 00:26:12.830
- It had to do with taking the gospel to the gentiles.
- 00:26:12.830 --> 00:26:15.566
- So pastors that say that, they're being dishonest.
- 00:26:15.566 --> 00:26:18.936
- They know that's not what was really happening there.
- 00:26:18.936 --> 00:26:21.605
- Does it make a difference what we eat?
- 00:26:21.605 --> 00:26:24.141
- Do you know why we're all having problems with sin and
- 00:26:24.141 --> 00:26:26.076
- Temptation? because our first parents ate
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- Something they weren't supposed to eat.
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