20220820 | Rebuilding The Temple | Pastor John Lomacang

thank you CJ for a little bit of education on and that's true a lot of times we sing songs about how depressed we are and I need you Lord and we need strength and guidance but sometimes when we just pause and praise the lord we find that the clouds are lifted and the presence of God is nearer than when we believe I'm mindful that whenever I stand up to speak so there are so many forces at work and I want to pray this morning that our minds would be focused and our hearts would be tuned in to the Lord that we may hear what a spirit has to say to us today loving father gracious God it is truly a blessing to be able to say holy holy holy is the Lord that's a fact but Lord today help us to realize that we are called to be holy as The Lord Is Holy to be the temple not made with brick and stones and wood to be the Abiding Place of your holiness now speak to our hearts and minds and I pray that you'll find fertile soil in the lives of those who hear what your spirit has to say in Jesus name amen a lot of times when I get a chance to look back at the sermons I just periodically check them out on YouTube and I find out I'm shinier than a doornail so uh I'ma have somebody work on me one day before I get up here but if I'm shiny I'm letting my light shine for the Lord this uh I want to just stop with a little basic conversation with you before I dive into the message to help you understand what's happening in my life sometimes God has to bring us to an event for help for us to recalibrate that's a word I like to use recalibrate but you'll never know the blessing of that recalibration unless you get to that event and how ironic it is in our world today you know when covet hit it took so many of us down a path that we didn't want to go down some got vaccinated some didn't some War Mass some didn't some did everything they could only to realize that there's really nothing you can do to prevent yourself from getting coveted and um confession is good for the soul but hard on the reputation and I had this struggle with barbecue potato chips I like barbecue potato chips and my wife would always get the healthy ones she said these are baked these are more natural than that and I said but there's nothing like Lay's barbecue potato chips and so I periodically in the store I'd the checkout line at Walmart and I'm almost there just about to get the Victory and to my right it's a bag of barbecue potato chips and depending on where you buy them like in a convenience store maybe a gas station they're like mid-sized then sometimes they're really small with nothing but air and you open to their four chips inside and then when you remember that you go to Walmart and you get the family size that lasts for two and a half days and you realize oh why am I so bloated and I read the ingredients and everything that was in the bag is unnatural some things that you cannot even pronunciate and I remember I could hear in the back of my mind Dr Han's deal saying if it doesn't come out of the ground don't eat it and in our minds we try to reason but it did come out of the ground but it took a left turn and got a little bit of dressing but it did start on the ground that's what we do to ourselves am I right I mean you know what I'm talking about we reason ourselves into unhealthy practices and then I started noticing my suits getting Tighter and Tighter and Tighter and I'm generally a 40 long but then I started buying 42s to accommodate my potato chips and when covet hit God said I need to get your attention so covet hit and you know what happens with covet you don't eat you don't really desire and you start changing things and after covet I went into my closet and pulled out a suit and it was back to the size that I normally wear I said this is nice I just gained like 28 more suits that I could wear I must confess I have over 50 suits but that's not only because I'm visible all the time don't get nervous and I thought man I could get back into my normal size here's one of them today come on say Amen somebody help me out so I thought you know what it's either all that money I spent for my suits and I can't wear them or you got to go and our reason am I okay well okay let's do this at moderation since it's not one of those red things it's not pork it's not alcohol it's not tobacco so I am presently in the battle like many of you you see God has an ideal does he not and we are as a songwriter said somewhere between the hot and the cold somewhere between the new and the old somewhere between what I am and what I need to be I'm somewhere in the middle so this is not just about me talking to you but I've discovered that if I've talked to myself you might learn something and this sermon is a lot about talking to myself but also including you in the conversation and it reminded me that we are supposed to be above all other Christians the healthiest and the question is why aren't we because we know what God's ideal is and many years ago I remember when Dr John McDougall came out and the whole world praised John McDougall you may not know who that is and then Dr esselstein and a number of other people then the fork Over Knives and all these other wonderful videos came out and people started saying wow what great massively beautiful information only to realize we had it before some of them were born and are not doing with it what we should thank you Jasmine for pulling our coattails here in Thompsonville keep on doing that because we need to be a people that remember that although we are going to get new bodies we cannot serve God while we're sick and normalist dead we've got to be the best we can be and you know what time takes its toll come on say amen's about I'm not going to be as fit as I was when I was 27 or 30 or 45 and that's all I'm going to tell you about my age but we can be the best that we can be right and that requires some effort on our part I don't want to be just a person who believes a message I'm going to be a person who focuses on that ideal and as Paul said I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus and I told you that when we got to Australia a number of years ago we were in customs and the Customs officer said do you have any medication to declare I said no he looked at my wife do you have any medication to declare she said no he said I'm going to ask you one more time do you have any medication to declare we said no he said everybody from America has medication to declare and I said we don't and I said praise God we don't need medication now it may happen for other reasons but my knees ain't hurting my back is only hurting because I'm a tall man I have tall man's disease my fulcrum point I need to go back and do my sit-ups and push-ups and get my arms strong you know when you stop picking up stuff that never used to be heavy and it starts getting heavy that means time to get back in the gym God wants us to be healthy and so this is about this beautiful Temple God has given to us this this car this vehicle that's worth more than the most beautiful Bentley the most ostentatious Lamborghini the most sparkling Ferrari or Mercedes we only got one and God wants us to be the best we can be so we can be fit to carry the gospel because Paul the Apostle says physical exercise profits little if you just want to be healthy for the sake of being healthy and you sit home you've wasted your time but if you want to be healthy so that you can be fit to carry the gospel for the Lord then you have done it the way that God intends now I say again God's plan is the ideal but thank the Lord for his grace because we won't always reach the ideal but we must must harmonize with those principles and scriptures that we know are in the red category to leave it alone the yellow category to back away a little bit and the green category you'll never hear anybody say oh I'm having a broccoli attack you never hear anybody say I need a carrot I'm leaving the room to get a carrot because God created those things for our bodies to respond you can't eat too many carrots and end up in the emergency room now you might start turning orange but you can't eat you can't go to you know emergency oh he ate four carrots get him some oxygen that's not gonna happen but there are certain scriptures that when we give ourselves to Christ when we say you are my God and I'm your son he says now son don't just walk with me I want you to learn the way that I walk amen somebody so there's an ideal and we may not always be at the ideal but I want us to be able to move in the direction of God's ideal so that we don't be stagnant wondering why people that you know what amazes me there are people that don't even mention God they're atheists they are non-believers they're agnostics there are Satan worshipers that are healthier than some of us because vegan vegan vegan vegan vegan vegan vegan is popping up all over the place but let me make a point you don't get to heaven kosher vegan you get to heaven because Jesus is your savior and he's forgiven your sins the lifestyle is not the salvation however you can hinder your salvation by ignoring the counsel of God all right that's the Preamble I didn't start preaching yet start counting from now the Apostle Paul is going to be in the sermon today but we're going to begin with second chronicles the scripture reading for today and I'd like you to read it with me and the message today is entitled rebuilding the temple what is the message today rebuilding the temple you should get a chance to read the story when Solomon decided to build a temple to the glory of God wow it will make you sit back and realize that there's nothing built today that was as ostentatious and as glorious as the temple that Solomon was going to build for the Lord the only problem is today we still call it Solomon's Temple we don't call it God's Temple because somewhere along the way Solomon says I need me one of those and he built himself a house also but Solomon in second Chronicles 2 verse 5 and the Bible says together and the temple which I will which I build will be what great for our God is what greater than all gods today my brothers and sisters I'm challenging you to build a temple rebuild your temple because the god you serve is greater than all gods the God we serve is greater than all gods and it should at least be a part of the way we live not just doctrinally but physically when Solomon made that statement his Focus was on building God a temple and when you study the pages of antiquity Solomon built a temple that amazed at the kings of all the surrounding Nations he left nothing to chance he worked on every possible detail and when people came to Solomon's the golden torches the the hanging plants the the artesian wells the the kind of material he used just dazzled the mind of those who came to visit man visit him and before they heard about his wisdom they saw the greatness of the God that he served and when I read about that I thought wow wouldn't it be wonderful that when we go to hospital or go to places like I I was at the periodically I could go get checks checkups you know check up to make sure everything is doing well and um getting a checkup I had stayed away from this physician too long so they had me fill out a new form you know those forms when you go to the Doctor Ramona they give you all these new pages they say well we know you've been here before but we've changed our system so they give you like 11 pages and you sit in the waiting room like what up what are they not going to ask me and then you go on that page with all the ailments do you have records crickets are you Hydrophobia claustrophobia Are You Afraid of the Dark you're afraid of the light I mean they ask you all do you have cancer that means put all these things and when you finish filling that out you thought I did not know there were so many things that people struggle with come on Mark you can come on in you just sneak on it had to point him out come on tomorrow we love you so I went through those five pages of all do you have do you have do you have check check and I walked up to the counter and the nurse flipped up she said my goodness at least you could have picked one of them I said I don't have any of that stuff amen I don't have any of that stuff she says and what's your date of birth that really does when I give up my date of birth she looks up like and you don't have anything no I want to if I go to my grave I want to be like Abraham I want to be like Moses with none of my health with none of my strength abated if I die I want to die of old age and my prayers Lord if everything else breaks down just give me my mind anybody ever say that I don't want to be walking around seeing stuff that nobody understands I'm saying that very respectfully because some of my family members have gone through that and nothing is more challenging than a person you love locked into the shell that you know they're there and and health and disease have done its part so I say that without even belittling that but I'm praying God I want to be like Pastor Turner a hundred and two and still standing up amen that's a Testament now some of us came into this message later on in life some of them some of us were not raised in Adventist homes so we were well in our 20s 30s 40s some 50s when we heard about this message so we're now trying to undo and rebuild all that stuff that we never heard about God understands some people smoke for 35 years 40 years and all of a sudden they quit and then they got to clear all that out God understands so we won't always get to the ideal but the good news is one day we won't have to worry about hospitals or medication ever again so so and so when Solomon decided to build this Temple I thought about it and I said Solomon what a temple you built but I want to say today nothing Solomon's Temple cannot compare with this prototype that God built called John lomike you know there are no two John Lowe mccains on the planet help me out somebody there's not enough room in the world for two people like me I wouldn't want another guy like me walking around the planet and you know what each one of us is a prototype Eric aren't you glad your wife is not like you and Abby you don't have to say anything but I know you're glad you're not like Eric but you love each other every one of us is different we must appreciate all of our differences but God When God Made You there was no second person like you your fingerprint is unique to you and we're going to talk about all that today your DNA all these different things so when Solomon decided to build a temple God said Solomon do your best but you'll never be able to build a Solomon you'll get that on Tuesday when Solomon built the temple he didn't know the scripture but we know it the Apostle Paul says First Corinthians chapter 6 verse 19 and 20. and this is the King James version and I like what he starts with because Paul is flabbergasted that the Corinthians don't know this he says what no ye not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost what which is in you which you have of God and ye are not your own why because God saw us on the on the trash heap of Satan and brought us back come on say Amen for ye are bought with a price this is the part that many Christians Miss therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are gods when you read what the Apostle Paul says we need to abandon the idea Robbie D that we belong to ourselves we don't belong to us any more than our car takes us where it wants us to go I know you turn that car on real quick Mary Kay if on the way home your car decides to drive you down to Southern California God has given us the best owner's manual his word and if we simply follow it as he said to the children of Israel if you do what I've asked you to do I will put none of the diseases on you that I've put on the Egyptians and by the way when they studied the sarcophagus is that they unearth there in Cairo Egypt they discover that many of the things that the Egyptian Dynasty Kings died of are things that people suffer from today heart disease arterial sclerosis all these bone arthritis yes all these diseases they're not unique to Egyptians these diseases are unique to people that don't follow God's plan and I said many of you come into this and age takes this role sometimes age will catch you no matter what medication you get arthritis is going to move in but when you think about how much Paul talks about the body being the temple when you think about how much Solomon paid or put into building God's Temple all the wealth that went in there the question begs to ask how much did God pay to build us Peter says it this way First Peter 1 verse 18 and 19. knowing that you are not redeemed with what corruptable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot come on say Amen Jesus didn't ask for an auto loan to build us he put the best in building me sometimes I know sin and all the practices of my mom and dad I was raised by two non-christians later on my mom got baptized and she died in the faith I met her after 26 years she smoked two to three packs of cigarettes a day she was an alcoholic largely due to the decisions she made to abandon her children she dealt with the mental guilt of these things and tried to sedate herself with all the chemicals of life until the day she found the Lord and when we finally met the this phrase freed her mom I forgive you she discovered at that moment she no longer needed any chemicals to inebriate her from the pain of her decisions and I said Mom pray for God to deliver you and she went and prayed had a pastor pray for her there in the Virgin Islands in Saint Thomas she called me one day when we were living in the northern California area up in the mountains and she said I'm on my way to visit you and I thought wow how am I gonna deal with two to three packs of cigarettes a day alcohol my mom in our own words said I have at least seven demons in my life and I'm coming to move in with you I thought how's this going to work oh by the way she said I've got one more thing to tell you remember you told me to pray for God to deliver me I said yes I I told you to pray for that she said I want you to know six months ago I had a pastor pray for me and since he prayed for me I haven't had the desire for alcohol or cigarette since and I noticed her voice was lighter sounded softer you know that Smoker's voice sounded lighter she said oh but I got one more thing that I hope you don't mind she said when I met you I was about a size one I'm a size 10 now is that okay I said mom you're fit and when I met my mom she was the picture of Health her cheeks were Rosy no pun intended because her name was Rosario they call her Rosie in family Rosario Maria lomakan there I met her in Redding California the picture of Health voice clean she said I don't even have a desire and my sister the same thing when my sister got a new kidney they said you will either kill this kidney or this kidney Will Survive but we're not going to give you this kidney if you're going to smoke she quit cold turkey and she said I don't even like the smell of cigarettes I don't even let my friends smoke in my car and if they come to visit me go out on the balcony and smoke don't smoke around me see the body is built in such a way that when you decide that this is God's Temple brothers and sisters and those of you that are listening and watching God can do a work in you to help rebuild that Temple to his glory and honor but you got to want to but we don't belong to ourselves and when you consider how beautiful we can be and that our bodies are under a Santa satanic attack all we need to do is pause and ask the question how much are we worth in the sight of God and what blueprint did God use to build us the Bible answers the question the blueprint that God used to build us when I thought about it in that way I thought wow I really am unique Ron Donna God look at the blueprint he used to build us Genesis 1 27 so God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him let's make no mistake about how the text ends male and female he created them that's how we were made and any alteration is a violation of the blueprint who is God God is your blueprint mark there's no two marks on the planet there's no two lonnies on the planet there are no Two Brians of celestines on the planet there are no two Timothy second timothies we don't have room in our church for two timothies outside My Bodyguard there is no body like you right honey there are no two answers like that you know years ago a lot of friends of mine said man I want to give me a wife like yours I said well don't think about mine because she's already taken so a good friend to pass to mine he says I finally got me an Angie and his wife was standing right there and her name is not Angie I said he said I finally found me an Angie praise God I've been blessed with an Angie Angel a love you honey but God loved us so much my brothers and sisters I want you to grab this he didn't go to Ford or Mercedes or General Motors or Honda for that matter he said there is nothing that man can write down for me that's going to be good enough for the prototypes I'm going to make I think I will use myself as the blueprint come on say Amen you are the result of God the blueprint Jason you're God's blueprint Jason I had a chance to visit last week on Sunday out in the yard appreciating his journey because God said Jason I made you because I'm your blueprint Kevin God made you because he is your blueprint he's got plans for you to be just like him we are all God's blueprint no wonder the body is under such attack today if you think about the way the body is being abused that's going to be my third part to this sermon today I'm talking about the health aspect but when we consider the function of the body it's fascinating when we reflect on the abilities we have we possess above all other created things the inventive capacity to conceive things this came from a mind the mind that God created everything that we have somebody thought about it conceived it it's amazing we get into this aluminum tube and fly through the air at five six hundred miles an hour somebody thought about it and it works so Angela don't worry about it we're trying to get Angela on a plane she's going to go but we are all endowed with creative abilities because we are the result of a blueprint called God that creates galaxies on his days off so I'm nobody's accident I am not a biological burp I'm not the result of some amoeba that became a paramecium and crawled out of some slimy pit somewhere and all of a sudden sprung legs I'm Not The Offspring or the the 19th generation of some monkey that swung from some tree somewhere I am a son of God we are children of the most high God one of the reasons why people act the way they are is they're told that they are not from any higher source that's why I love this I'm gonna I'm gonna burn a hole in your forehead for a moment here so stick with me I had a chance to do some research so I'm going to get into your intellect a little bit here as I introduce you to something that you may have heard about deoxy ribo nucleic acid you know it as together D and a what an amazing creation of God DNA is amazing let me give you some facts about DNA DNA is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth development functioning and reproduction of every known living organism that is bugs plants flowers Birds snakes that's right everything that moves everything that lives everything that breathes all have DNA deoxy ribonucleic acid let's say that together deoxyribou nucleic acid when you go to Walmart wow somebody with that word deoxyribonucleic acid doing excuse me what aisle is that in God is amazing but let's keep going because when I studied and I am not a scientist but I'm going to tell you when I started finding out about this I found this gigantic hole Jasmine I kept going deeper and deeper to come to appreciate how God made me look at this every human shares 99 of their DNA with every other human the one percent difference is so unique that scientists can isolate the likelihood of you being present at the scene of a crime isn't that amazing have you heard all these Unsolved Mysteries until DNA came along and police officers had gone back to many Unsolved Mysteries and they found a piece of gum with somebody's saliva on it decades later a Q-tip a glass that somebody handled God has created us so uniquely that just lifting your fingerprints off of a glass can eliminate the possibility of you being or not being there and just to hear follicle from your brush or from your comb or they could have gone to your car and just take some samples of your dry skin from your steering wheel and determine whether or not you did commit the crime or didn't because as is the case of the blood of Abel when the Lord says your brother's blood cries to me from the ground God was saying to Cain his blood is so unique that you can't hide him even though you bury him because God put in the human blood something that is so amazing when you look at this statistic no wonder Dr Luke writes these words in Acts 17 26 the Bible says and he has made that as God has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the faith of the Earth that's why each one of us should love everybody else because if you turn around the person sitting next to you has 99 of the DNA that you have regardless of their skin color their country of origin their language somebody could speak Russian and we share 99 of the same DNA or Spanish and we still share 99 of the DNA so you might ask yourself the question what about what what about that other one percent what's that for well let's continue DNA a parent and a child share 99.5 of the same DNA so with that last one percent left half of that goes to your children Solani your son is a 99.5 for Mark sorry you're just a 99. so as close as the ottolani her son has a closer physiological deoxyribonucleic connection than you will ever have when you have a child the parent two and a half percent two and a half percent and it goes into the child five point five percent point two five percent combining point five percent so your child the child that you both have more DNA that connects you to her than the person sitting on the same aisle with you but let's go on further because I want to kind of I want you to go home later and need to take a rest because I want to get into your head about how beautiful we are made scientists say that the human genome is is the complete set of genetic instructions found in each cell I want you to pay attention to this each genome contains all the information needed to build that organism and allow it to grow and develop now while you're sitting here there are explosions happening in your body you don't feel it but cells are dying and cells are replacing those cells because every cell has instructions in it to to replace it every cell has instructions in it to say when I die and make another one just like me and God has programmed it so that the cells don't just die off and say well sorry I can't replace you now there's something that happens and I'll talk about this later on will we get rid of cells that cannot be replaced but generally speaking we have a human genome and in that human genome is all the instructions we need so making that very simple when you were created and you were in your mother's womb and your father and your mother's cells got together to start creating a child what was happening was all those instructions were Consulting one another do this do that fingers this length hear that color arms this long feet this big and it was happening not by coincidence but by God fearfully and wonderfully designing us matter of fact scientists say just to give you an idea about the human genome they said if you could type 60 words per minute eight hours a day the instructions are so detailed that it would take you 50 years to type the human genome and by the way just to make your head hurt that's in one cell let's keep going each human cell has around six feet of DNA in each purse at that six feet if each person had 10 trillion cells that would equal 10 billion miles of DNA in each human I know that just stopped your heart because you can't wrap your head around that now let me now let me mess you up you don't have 10 trillion cells scientists suggest you have between 40 and 50 trillion cells and let's add that up six feet of DNA in each cell times 40 to 50 trillion and each cell has enough DNA that's six feet long Curtis don't try to figure it out that is why scientists say if you put all the DNA molecules in your body end to end the DNA would reach from Earth to the Sun and back over 600 times so don't go home and try to stretch that out because we won't see you for a long time is God amazing and by the way the reason why God didn't allow that to happen is because the reason why God doesn't stretch these genomes out these these DNA cells out is because can you imagine I'm only six two and a half and there's enough DNA in one cell deck if you stretch it out to six feet long and I've got about 40 trillion cells how tall will I be let's not try to figure it out but only God can put six feet of DNA in a Cell put 40 trillion cells in your body and store it all in a six foot two frame that should make you say that we can't understand that that's why David Asama says in Psalm 139 verse 14 I will praise you for I am together fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous audio works and that my soul knows very well but I found one very interesting fact that explains to me why certain people behave the way they do because out of all the things on the planet you would not be able to guess what on the planet shares most of our DNA and I want to ask you because you'll be here all day long let me just help you out humans and cabbage share about 40 to 50 percent of the common DNA that's why some people behave they are the way they do they just have a head of cabbage that may explain why some people behave the way they do because not not monkeys cabbage has more common DNA with us than any animal on the planet that's amazing when I get to heaven I'm going to ask God why is that and he might say there are certain things about you that only I know that's why you behave like a cabbage at times but when God established Humanity God gave the best health plan we find this in Genesis 1 verse 29 and by the way when we read this keep this in mind when God makes something like when you buy these vehicles that are expensive one of the reasons I don't buy those very very expensive Vehicles is because you have to put premium in there only and who can afford premium gas when regular gas is expensive as it is but people that buy those expensive Vehicles put premium in it because the manufacturer says to do that what did God say Genesis 1 29 and God said see I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the Earth and every tree whose fruit yields seed to you it shall be for what food so when God created Adam and Eve when God created man can you imagine we are thousands of years away from Perfection we haven't really seen a perfect peach Brian we haven't really seen a fully Big Orange Brian loves oranges we haven't really seen a perfect mangle can you imagine what kind of fruit or existing Ramona when creation was perfect now we got all the stuff that's genetically altered just to try to produce it thousands of years removed from creation however something went wrong you know the entrance of sin brought terrible results Adam lived 930 years and he died and then surely Before the Flood to sustain Humanity on the other side of the flood God established a pattern you see Before the Flood all the vegetables all the fruits all the grains all the nuts they were all there matter of fact if you study further back archaeologists said before the flood diamonds diamonds were on the ground just like regular stones you could pick up a diamond why because it was simply a part of God's creation it had no particular value it was a part of the creation walk around the street and say hey catch this and it's a diamond but God to sustain Humanity knowing that all vegetation would be destroyed in the flood he gave this command in Genesis chapter 7 and verse 2. and Noah said as God instructed him you shall take with you seven each of every clean animal a male and his female to each of animals that are unclean a male and his female and The Logical question would be what's God saying here if I only take two of the unclean and we eat them on the ark they won't make it on the other they won't be on the other side but obviously God was saying take more of the clean and less of the unclean and many people don't know clean For What and unclean for what every now and then I drive down new Lake Road when I'm driving down I see a gigantic buzzer or Crow and we drove up the our driver the other day we saw a beautiful big owl he just stood there and went beautiful but they hunt they are scavengers they are God's sanitation department God has a sanitation department on the land and in the sea and praise God for that because there's no sanitation department that I know that's going to go 20 or 30 000 feet in the ocean to keep the ocean clean God says I got that covered when a deer gets hit you could tell whether you could tell where the deer is dead because you see the birds they God programmed them to look from the skies and see lunch don't go to Subway today there's something on new Lake Road and God intends for the Buzzard not us to eat that in The Book of Leviticus chapter 11 verse 3 and 4. and by the way let me just share this with you I don't take for granted that every Adventist knows this because I've seen some people rushed into the church baptized before fully understanding and they bring into it the same habits they had prior to that they don't understand the body Temple and how God designed it and what God has for us and what God does not have for us these are instructions that are not Mosaic but they are for the human body period Leviticus 11 verse 3 and 4 Leviticus 11 verse 3 and 4 among the animals the Lord said whatever divides the hoof having cloven Hooves and chewing the cud that you may eat now there are certain animals that don't have that like camels have a cloven Hood cloven hoof pigs have a cloven hoof but they don't chew the cut you'll see it very carefully nevertheless these you shall not eat among those that chew the cud or those that have cloven Hooves they have to have both chew the Cod and have cloven Hooves and the Lord says the camel because it chews the cud but does not have cloven Hooves it is what unclean to you so I choose the cud stores it brings it back up but it doesn't have cloven hooves and so we see that the Lord made it very very clear when we follow the Bible there are certain animals that God says these are okay for consumption but these are not and let me put a little let me put a little asterisk right here it's hard to find anything today among this list that we can consume that's clean I felt so bad the other day we were driving down 57 and I saw all these little piggies sticking their nose right through the little holes and I thought hmm here they come Burger King here they come Wendy's so sad they're on the way to be slaughtered to end up on somebody's BLT somebody somewhere told somebody to put bacon on everything have you noticed that lettuce and tomatoes BLT no just give me lettuce and tomatoes don't eat any bacon on it that's the only animal that they eat from end to end from the nose to the tail that's the only app they eat everything they don't throw away anything no I remember growing up in a West Indian home don't get sick we used to eat cow tongue anybody know what I'm talking about I meet people in Southern Illinois that eat anything there was a guy coming to our house to work on our in our yard and he pointed to a red squirrel on our deck and he said you ever ate a red squirrel them some good eating leave my red squirrel alone that's Rocky I feed him every day I like my squirrel my wife don't like squirrels because they eat the bird food I said honey they want they need food just as badly as the birds do and at night last night I heard a lot of sound on the on the balcony and I looked out there with two little cute raccoons eating eating black oil seeds yeah I better leave those raccoons alone they're God's creatures if you don't want to feed them don't put stuff out there but he looked at me like to say please don't stop me and I said go ahead go ahead and eat God didn't make raccoons to be eaten neither squirrels and the instruction continues the Coney though it chews the cud does not have a split hoof it is unclean for you the rabbit though I choose the cud does not have a split hoof it is unclean for you and the pig though it has a split hoof completely divided does not chew the cud it is unclean for you thank you Coney is a rabbit thank you honey you could get a pig give them a bath spray with perfume or cologne depending on the gender put a red ribbon around it but the moment you let that chain loose it's going to go behind Walmart there's a pig looking for his daily lunch there's only one word to describe a pig a pig there is no other word they are designed by God to do what they do a rattlesnake can bite that pig and he'll go on his way because his vein system is not built like a human system it'll go right to our circulatory system and paralyze us a pig said what was that oh how you doing and he just continues eating whatever he's eating and if it's dead or alive if it's by an outhouse or by a dump he'll eat it because God designed the pig to be responsible for keeping the neighborhood clean amen for pigs you could have a pig pet but don't eat it because the pig is just like a dog don't eat the dog either and the instruction continues what about sea creatures Deuteronomy 14 verses 9 and 10. these you may eat of all that are in the waters you may eat all that have together what fins and scales and whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat it is unclean for you now we live in Southern Illinois you've heard me say that people love catfish out here one guy Matt said he goes fishing without a fishing rod he just puts his hand in the water close to the bank and goes like this and he says put some food in his hand he says the catfish is going to bite it he's going to take that catfish home he uses his arm as the bait with some food in his hand the reason why catfish likes to be in mud because it's eating the filth of all the other fish to keep the waters clean shark don't eat shark dolphin if it doesn't have fins and scales the Bible says we should not eat it that's why here's a picture of the things that we should need some of you don't know about it now to be honest I had Lobster once well not before I was I was growing up in a home where you know we had to have Venice and not Adventist and I went with a non-adventist ad to Connecticut and they went to a seafood restaurant and they brought me Lobster and I tried it I got as sick as a dog you got the lobster you got the clams the oysters the crab the shrimp that's God's sanitation department that's why their shells are hard so they could store in their garbage cans things that don't kill them they are designed to hold toxins if you eat those toxins it gets into your bloodstream and you wonder why you're fighting with what you're fighting with because you're eating garbage in animals that were designed for garbage now let's follow that you wonder why the oceans are getting dirtier because we're taking all of the shrimps and lobsters and crabs and oysters out of the ocean they are there to clean the ocean you're getting rid of the sanitation department wondering why the ocean is getting filthier because it's all about money he is he is what's not on God's menu lobsters crabs catfish clams shrimp oysters eels and all shellfish swordfish sharks pigs camels frogs all squirrels rabbits horses dogs and cats that's just in a bridgeless oh there's something I forgot to put on that list the mouse the mouse don't eat the mouse now you might think this is a joke but in some countries you can order fried rats this is common in Asia oh yeah go on YouTube and look at those videos where they just grab them cut them too and throw them in the pot change your slide so you vegetarians don't die but this is a delicacy in certain parts of the world I was in Singapore I was shocked to see what's on the stands they had seahorse everything that was in the ocean they had it right there for sale and whether in some places you could eat a live roach or a dead roach depending on how you wanted a new soup and they say if you're a real man you eat it while it's alive that's in Korea anyway chocolate covered ants all the the list goes on and on why does God prevent us from eating these things the psalmist Davis says in Psalms 84 verse 11 no good thing will he withhold from those who walk how uprightly when you walk right you'll live right that's what he says in his word and Psalm 84 verse 11. beloved actually this is third John 1 2. third John 1 2. beloved I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul does what prospers you can't eating a saddle like that you won't end up in emergency room you really won't and my wife makes some of the best salads but some people don't eat salads they don't realize that salads are God's natural steel wool for the body it scrubs the intestines it scrubs the corpuscles the vessels it goes through there and and just shhh cleans it all up so that you could be healthy so when you eat include salads and the bigger the better but now some people read that and say well you know what but didn't God didn't God make it okay to eat anything it's amazing that some people try to get God to say well God never said and one of those examples is the vision of Peter because I had somebody once said to me what about Peter's vision let's go to Acts chapter 10. let's see something Acts chapter 10. let's see what God says some people try to use this like one of my elders said to somebody once who's using this he said don't stop there keep reading when you stop you can make any Doctrine up Acts chapter 10 let's look at this together starting verse 9 to 13. the next day as they went on their journey and Drew near the city Peter went up on the housetop to pray about the sixth hour that's about noon and he became very hungry and wanted to eat but while they made ready he fell into a trance and while as in this trance verse 11 says and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the Four Corners descending to him and led down to the Earth in it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth wild beasts creeping things and birds of the air and a voice came to him came to him rise Peter kill and eat and right there is where most people stop I've had passes and people have other denominations see God said we could eat it that's not good he said did God say that Peter could eat that I said yes he did so that's why I'm eating it don't stop there it's important as you read the story The response of Peter look at verse 14 to 16. but Peter said not so Lord for I have never eaten anything common or unclean and he was a fisherman and a voice spoke to him again the second time what God has cleansed you must not call Common this was done three times and the object was taken up into heaven again and somebody would say see God kept telling him eat it eat it eat it eat it and they would say as one person said God don't have to tell me three times that's why I'm eating it no that's not what the issue was God was trying to remove something that existed among the apostles among the Jews the Jews wouldn't mix with the Gentiles they had no communication with people of other races and God was getting Peter ready for an expanding Ministry and Peter had to learn that the ideology he came from could not exist if God is going to reach Every Nation Kindred tongue and people so about that time when Peter woke up he woke up and he was invited there was a knock to the door he was invited to a man's house by the name of Cornelius Cornelius was a gentile but he was a Godly Man but because of prejudice this actually happened in those days Jewish leaders accompanied some of these Apostles when they went on their visits just to make sure that they were not fraternize him with the Gentiles can you imagine that so they went to see whether or not Peter was legitimately going on a visit and then the Bible made it very clear as to what in fact was happening so when Peter arrived at cornelius's house and he was elated that Peter had arrived because Peter representing the gospel comes to the house of a gentile and they immediately felt unworthy but notice God had taken care of that look at acts 10 verse 28 God had already preempted Peter's mindset he said to them Peter's saying to the occupants of cornelius's household you know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another Nation but God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean can the Church Say Amen that's why it troubles me with this political rhetoric today how we are villainizing certain Graces on this planet you can't be a Christian and do that because God says there's nobody common or unclean in the eyes of the Lord that's why the Apostle Paul says in Galatians 3 verse 28 in Christ there is neither what you know Gentile Juno Greek there is neither slave nor free there is neither male nor female for you are all how one in Christ Jesus make sure that when you meet a person regardless of their races regardless of what they're wearing that they are a child of God or a potential child for the kingdom don't treat them like oh I don't want to be around him look at how he dressed look at how they dress look at what they smell like look what they look like oh you can't you can't help somebody that you can't hug you can't help somebody that you can't get close to let the Jesus in you rub off on them so that the Jesus that's in you that loves them as they are let the Jesus in you change them don't you try to do that because some people go I don't want to be around that person when you when you clean up no no no God finds us as we are but praise God he changes us you see the truth is complex our bodies are complex but God is the owner and he gives us Specific Instructions now something else is happening something else is happening in the church that I never thought would happen we lived in on the west coast and in California I'm saddened to say this but there's some Adventist Christians that think it's okay to drink wine and alcohol and it's not just in California it's starting to permeate the mindset of different people around the around the country there are some Churches where you can smoke and drink and do whatever you want I don't want to be very I don't want to make people feel uncomfortable but there's certain clergy that smoke and drink there are certain churches that give alcohol for communion service but not Adventists I was pastoring a church in the northern California Conference my first real Church well I always wanted we rented the church out on Sunday and I won't mention the denomination but I one Sunday morning I remember I forgot something in church and I went to the back door in the fellowship hall to get it when I opened the back door I got hit with a wall of alcohol I felt like I just stepped into a an alcohol a liquor store and like what is that and I followed the smell to the sanctuary and they had the communion set up for church that day it was the kind of communion Mary Kay that you could not attend because as a former as an AAA member you got away from that you would have gone right back that day you can't use alcohol to represent Jesus he's the lamb without blemish and without spot so what does the Bible say what does the Bible say about wine and alcohol the Bible is clear the Bible is clear if you believe your body Belongs to the Lord here's what the Bible says Proverbs 20 and verse 1. the wise man Solomon says wine is a mocker strong drink is Raging and whoever is deceived thereby is what not wise why can God say that because your body belongs to him he goes on further Proverbs 23 verse 31 to 33 the Lord says do not look on wine when it is read that's when it's hitting the fermenting stage when it sparkles in the cup when it swirls around smoothly at the last it bites like a serpent and stings like a what Viper your eyes will see strange things and your heart will pervert will utter perverse things that's why people say I don't know what I said what did I do yesterday man I was I tell you too much about my life I got to cut that out I was a casual drinker what does that mean I didn't buy alcohol I never bought beer never bought a bottle of whiskey I would only drink when I went to parties I was one of those guys that drink those sophisticated drinks like slow gin fizz and Tequila Sunrise you hide the alcohol and the sweetness anybody got delivered from that come and help me out somebody you all couldn't have been born holy I got delivered from that but we had we had tenants in our house in Brooklyn and we had a man Kenneth Carter he was Barbados Barbadian he had a strong Barbadian accent one day my my dad and I are sitting in the in the kitchen and we hear what was that we went out in the backyard and Carter was so drunk he walked out the window and fell three stories landed on the Chute in the backyard that they used to open up to deliver coal to the boiler thank the Lord he didn't land on the concrete he got up uninjured fell three stories scared us to the third floor and back we went outside oh we heard in the dark Papa said who is that he turned his flashlight on it's Carter it didn't knock him out he didn't break a bone that's what happens to people that are inebriated they get into their cars kill a whole family and they walk away unscathed you know why because the effect of alcohol in the body it relaxes everything and they're like a gigantic jellyfish and they are so multiple and pliable that there's no tension there they just and he was saying stuff that didn't make any sense let me share some statistics with you about this we had a guy I don't know I'm looking back on this honey my wife and I talk about this my father rented rooms to a lot of drunk people we had a man that was we heard noise one day we were just about to go on a church picnic on Saturday night we heard this noise in the front yard one of the guys was sleeping in my mother's Garden his name was Biven what does that sound so my dad to fix that he cut all the bushes down it was just amazing I survived all that thank you for not saying amen what about alcohol what about alcohol according to the carbon treatment centers they deal specifically with issues of alcohol they said alcohol also known as ethanol or ethyl alcohol is a psychoactive drug that acts as a central nervous system depressant to continue alcohol interferes with communication between nerve cells these beautiful DNA cells that God took the time to design and all other cells and affects various centers in the brain even moderate consumption of alcohol causes immediate effects such as lowering inhibitions that's why guys like to get girls drunk before they abuse them increasing relaxation and dulled senses but what about alcohol in moderation because some people say everything in moderation they didn't leave this out alcohol in moderation heightened emotional response lack of coordination poor balance slurred speech dizziness Disturbed speech or disturb sleep nausea and vomiting what about alcohol and stages relaxation Euphoria excitement confusion stupor why would you put in your body something that has all those effects then it goes on further what about the short-term impact of alcohol on the stomach alcohol irritates the stomach and intestine lining and increases stomach acid secretion this causes vomiting that's why people throw up the next day they continue what about the effect on the skin alcohol increases blood flow to the skin causing users to sweat and appear flushed and what about the muscles alcohol reduces blood flow to the muscles causing muscle ache most notably felt as the alcohol leaves the system this effect is often called what hangovers and you know what millions of dollars are being put into helping people detox get away from alcohol but the but the industry that is only thinking about money they find other creative ways that's why don't worry about just the hard drinks avoid wine coolers can somebody say Amen they try to find these creative ways I made a mistake one day and bought a wine cooler didn't know because it has great flavor you know watermelon I thought oh I need a watermelon watermelon drink right now I popped that thing open in the car I went what is that it had a sting to it my wife and I were in Napa Valley when we lived in California and we drove people around we had family members they said let's go to Napa Valley I was the designated driver so one day we decided just the two of us to go and we went to a winery we said now do you have any non-alcoholic grape juice they said of course we do because we get Martinelli's but we want to get something else esoteric you know like from Napa Valley so we got some Zinfandel Peach and grape and they said it's non-alcoholic we said okay okay the grape and the you know Peach we got home on special occasion opened up the peach and a little bit of ice and started drinking and we started smiling unnecessarily honey honey the meal was really good tonight what did you put in it two percent alcohol just that two percent sent me bonkers now you know I could have said nine nobody in church gonna know about this so let's just go ahead and get rid of this because we paid like 17 for this thing let's just no we stopped we've stopped immediately and said no this is not going to continue amen so avoid those drinks that seem to be like innocuous and uh it's not a big deal it's only two percent now in New York City we had ynos that could not afford to buy alcohol you know what they bought NyQuil because it has 25 alcohol we had people that got drunk off a NyQuil you got to watch out today understand what you're putting in your body you know when Jesus was on the cross he made a decision when John the Baptist was being born God gave instruction about John the Baptist look at the instruction that he gave Luke 1 verse 15 for he will be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither what wine nor strong drink he will also be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb okay you got the wrong spirits or you have the Holy Spirit and the two don't live in the same place that's why when Jesus was on the cross I'm winding up now when Jesus was on the cross when he was on the cross and he was dying he said I'm thirsty they tried to give him cheap Romans wine to drink and what does the Bible say Mark 15 verse 23 then they gave him wine mingled with myrrh to drink but he did not take it who's our example now so far most of you have benefits I don't have to worry about anything that he said so let me talk about the preferred drug for Adventists you thought I forgot didn't you oh yeah avoid harmful stimulants we live in a we live in a a Starbucks generation I'm gonna stand right behind this just in case stuff stopped flying up here because you know what happened I don't like us to step on their little babies this is a Starbucks generation but we don't understand I'm gonna invite my good friend Dr Jonathan Sewell to come one day and just do a seminar on the effects of caffeine he was a caffeine addict he's a neurosurgeon and he said I can tell you stuff about caffeine that will make your hair stand up he studied this scientifically and medically but just some of the short negative effects of caffeine on the body increases your blood pressure brain it affects your brain the dosages skin kidney stones stomach the acid that's secreted into your blood system into your stomach where you get either ulcers or gallstones the liver it doesn't easily get rid of caffeine caffeine depletes calcium if you that's why when people some people get older they have osteoporosis because they've been drinking caffeine all their lives my brother's girlfriend can't start today without caffeine she has a sister says don't talk to me I haven't had my coffee yet and she means it it increases cholesterol buildup in the system and if you take vitamins you might as well stop it if you drink coffee because it depletes the vitamins that's just a nutshell so if you if you tend to be one of those people that have all the different styles and nowadays you don't just get basic coffee you got latte this and lattes Adam mocha latte this and all that you got all this lackadaisical stuff that deliver the devil's trying to find creative ways to make money and mess up your body Temple and you wonder when you get older when you're young it doesn't affect you as quickly but when you get old and you look back and you say man alive why are my bones breaking so easily and then people take vitamins while they drink coffee thinking that they could take calcium to help it out and the calcium says not so fast you go straight out I live here study it quickly doesn't even need a science project for this one smoking comes under the category of what say it together thou shall not click kill that includes yourself Exodus 20 and verse 13. what is the principle as I close let me invite the praise team to come up what is the principle that I am communicating with you today my brethren this is the principle we are fearfully and wonderfully made are we not my brothers and sisters and the Apostle Paul says I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is your what reasonable service you never knew that your body is where church service happens right did you ever know that the Lord has your body he conducts his services in your body you come to church for service God says I want service to happen in your body that's my temple I want to live there and he's so serious about that he says in First Corinthians chapter 3 verse 16 and 17 do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you how serious is he if anyone defiles the temple of God God will destroy him for the temple of God is what holy which Temple you are I could put clothes on it I could run with it but I does this doesn't belong to me I'm learning that I have to treat this body the way that God wants me to why because it's not just about health he says if you keep it up if you keep ignoring my principles for a healthy life when he says I'll destroy you he will remove his protecting care God cannot give you health if you insist on unhealthy practices he's not going to just zap you and knock you out on the next term the freeway he said I can't help you and some people Ellen White talks about this I'll share some quotations in the next series so that the Lord says when you pray for people that are knowingly violating their body Temple it will accomplish nothing because they are practicing that which is debilitating and destroying to their Temple she says don't pray for such a one until they are willing to abandon those practices because it will Avail absolutely nothing and on all the heels of all this Iris sometimes it's not what you're eating sometimes this was eating you right sometimes it's not not what's going in but what's coming out so lastly let's all say this together are you ready Church First Corinthians 10 31 thus puts a month into this therefore whether you eat or drink do how much all to the glory of God how many of you want to aim for the ideal now you may get there but if you don't get there you got to move in the direction where your health is becoming where your life is becoming where your mind is becoming one of the reasons we can't receive impressions of the spirit of God because we're clogged that's why Daniel said I'm not going to defile myself and Daniel was ten times wiser the Hebrews 10 times wiser because they chose not to defile themselves this is your receptor your antenna God wants to get to this but he can't get to it if it's clogged my brethren I pray that you now undertake a journey where you start rebuilding the temple is that your desire why did you stand with me as we sing this closing him we got to go in the direction that God wants us to go and build on the plan of God let's sing this together [Music] what are we building on on Christmas [Music] your sinking standing [Music] when darkness seems to fell asleep I rest on his unchanging Grace [Music] the ground is sinking sand let's make an open Covenant here's all this Covenant supports me in the flood when all around my eyes [Music] now the coming of the Lord when he shall come with trumpet sounds [Music] God Christ is [Music] sinking how much [Music] just before I pray I told you this is part of my journey I haven't reached the ideal yet but I'm moving it I've turned my car around because I want to be healthy I don't want pains that I can't explain and feelings that I don't know where they're coming from because you know the older you get we start making excuses for the things that we've done for years and we've failed to realize it finally caught up with us my brother and my sisters start you young folk say praise God for this message you could start now some of us start one way 50 and 60 years old some of you young folks you live healthy your body will take care of you I can still play basketball 91 years old still play basketball not really I'm a lot younger than that but here's my point I don't take Joint medication nothing if you live right your body will bless you but you cannot ignore God's plan and expect God to bless you who wants to Covenant with me today to say I'm moving in God's Direction I want to be what God knows I can be I want to be that Heavenly Lamborghini that could shift gears and keep going Father in Heaven your people you made us you designed us you know what's best for us sometimes we take detours and yes we get that barbecue chips every now and then all the late night five bowls of ice cream we just don't understand temperance some of us overdo things that are not a red light and then the negative effects come in our health begins to wane and we wonder what medication we can take and even the doctors cannot reverse it so Lord help us to recognize the great physician you have already given us a plan if we would simply follow it we will be healthier wiser more fit vessels to go forth and labor in your Vineyard so Lord guide us give us a focus on the ideal and help us take those steps to move toward the heart the high calling for Health and Wellness in Christ Jesus and we want to glorify you Lord we want you to dwell within us we want you to come and live there without fear of any competing spirits give us that willingness we pray and may you be glorified may we do all things to your glory in Jesus name we pray and God's people said amen amen

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