Eric Walsh, M.D. - "A bowl of pride"

all right happy Sabbath good to see all of you out this afternoon we'll get right to it and get into our message for this afternoon this morning I did comment on the fact that what the corona virus going around how you know the there's a bit of panic in some people but you got to keep it in perspective you know over everyday over 26,000 people die of cancer 24,000 dart disease and one of the statistics a Jesus born is that every day like 1300 people are actually killed by other people so and that's not because they sneezed on them it's because they like meant to kill them you know so keep it in perspective and wash your hands that's like the biggest thing all we can do is wash our hands the Bible tells us that these things would happen amen so we as Christians should not be surprised let's get right into this we're gonna go to the book of Hebrews the twelfth chapter for our scripture reading he was trapped at 12 starting at verse 16 says lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright for he know that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears a message this afternoon is entitled a bowl of pride a bowl of pride let us pray father God we thank you for this opportunity to serve you and to and to study a word I asked now Lord that you make me just a nail upon the wall a rusty sari nail Lord but upon that nail once again I asked Lord that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ let Eric Walsh not be seen or heard instead father let us hear word from the throne room of grace so our prayer in Jesus is precious and Holy Name let the church say Amen so we're gonna jump to the book of Genesis Genesis chapter 25 starting at verse 28 the Bible says and I Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison but Rebekah loved Jacob so our story starts with a dysfunctional family here's a family where twins are born the Father loves one twin and the mother loves the other twin it's a problem because the twins were in sibling rivalry from the womb do you remember the story that when when they were being born and Esau is coming out first Jacob is still in the womb and he reaches out to try and grab his brothers foot like hey I want to be first coming out and ever since that the two of them had a rivalry it's a sibling rivalry that existed between Esau and Jacob but they were very different in temperament one was a hunter that was Esau he was fearless his father loved that about him because he would bring his father back food and he would have killed in the hunt and the connection don't miss this the connection between father and son Isaac and Esau was a connection around food and the Bible says Isaac loved Esau because Esau ate his venison it's a connection around food but Rebekah loved Jacob and he says nothing else the reason it says nothing else is because when Jacob was being named his name actually means deceiver Jacob was the one always trying to figure out a way to get over he was always one figuring out the loophole he was always the one trying to figure things out he probably was not as big and strapping and strong as Esau but he was more clever Bible says in verse 29 and Jacob saw pottage and Esau came from the field and he was faint and Esau said to Jacob feed me I pray thee with that same red pottage for I am faint therefore was his name called Edom so Esau is out there he's hunting he comes back maybe he caught something maybe he didn't he gets back and Jacob is cook and as they say like in black churches they say you know he put his foot in it you know that food was pretty pretty tasty put all the spices and seasonings in it probably like some Cajun lentils I'm not sure and and so when he comes back it's the food is the the smell of it is is is rifting to the air and here comes esau famished as it were he says listen feed me the bible gives you another little thing here it says that Esau's name was also Edom which means red and it goes back to Adam which is also into the root of the word red so there are those who say that Adams name really means like red man that that and you could argue that if you looked at Adam he would look like a composite of all ethnicities and all races he wouldn't have been black or white it'd have been red probably would have looked like some of the indigenous peoples from different parts of the world Bible says in verse 31 and Jacob said sell me this day your birthright remember what he is he's a deceiver so his brothers hungry he didn't beat his mother brother to get out of the womb first so he'd be the one against the birthright Jacob has been conspiring his entire life as to how does he win back the birthright he didn't win at the time when they were born and I would bet he was sitting there planning this thing and he probably made sure to make some really delicious food so when his brother came back hungry he had him a set up a trap to get him on food he knew his brother loved to eat he's to sell me a birthright verse 32 says in Esau said Behold I am at the point to die and what profit shall this birthright do to me this is what some of us say you know you come with me say I'm starving and we live in America so most of us are not starving whatsoever in fact some of us could go six seven days without food we'd be just fine some of us even longer and but this attitude like look I've got to eat right now I'm gonna die if I don't get something to eat and he says and then he says something profound he says and what does it profit me if I have this birth or what profit is this birthright to me if I die of hunger here and Jacob said look swear to me this day that's in other words make a contract and swear on any swear unto Him and he said his birth and he swore he sold his birthright unto Jacob verse 34 then jacob gave esau bread and a pottage of lentils and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way the Bible then says and thus Esau despised his birthright also important about the birthright well one of the things that was so important about the birthright is it meant that you got a double portion of your father's inheritance now I want you to know Isaac was quite wealthy because you would remember Abraham was also very wealthy so for you to sell two-thirds of your father's estate for a pot of food says a lot number two you also became the judge over the family that mean you got to make the decisions if there were any disputes and third you became the priests of the family if you had to birthright you were two priests in other words God would speak directly to you all of that he sold for nothing this is from maryam publications a jewish publication they say in the famous soup scene where Esau receives his nickname Edom the author seems to engage in wordplay the word for soup in Hebrew is the word azide it comes from the verb zhù or zid meaning to boil so the word for soup means like a boiling it makes sense right soup boils in the literal sense that's what it means but figuratively it means to act proudly or presumptuously the verb is used in the sense of boiling only one time in the Old Testament and that's in this scene with Esau and Jacob all other occurrences of this verb have to do with arrogance or otherwise aggressive attitudes it stands to reason that a Hebrew audience understood the aggression to be the literal meaning of this verb and the meaning of it of to boiled the figurative one in other words what it's saying is when you took a boil a bowl soup and you gave it to someone and you called it a boiling xud what will say it is you gave him a bowl of pride a bowl of self a bowl of arrogance his in other words what the Bible was word playing for the Hebrew audience is when he demanded this bowl of soup he was doing it to his own arrogance don't know why says and for a dish of pottage he parted with his birthright and confirmed the transaction transaction by an oath a short time at most would have secured him food in his father's tents but to satisfy the desire of the moment he carelessly bartered the glorious heritage that God himself had promised to his father's his whole interest was only in the what in the present this is how the devil gets us you no longer think or act mindfully is the word that the world uses now you think and act for pleasure and so instead of saying look I can let me wait and get a proper meal let me get something healthy a lot of times what we say is look I'll eat this snack food now this junk food now because like Esau said I'm starving he was ready to sacrifice their heavenly to the earthly to exchange a future good for a momentary indulgence thus Esau despised his birthright in disposing of it he felt a sense of relief now his way was unobstructed he could do as he liked for this wild pleasure miss called freedom otherwise says how many are still selling their birthright to an inheritance pure and undefiled eternal in the heavens well I taught a smoking class for our hospital a few weeks ago and I was talking to the the smokers about waiting and trying to wait until the urge for nicotine passes the study shows that the average person who smokes a cigarette is so good at getting a cigarette in their mouth and the urge has only last 2530 seconds depending on what study but an average person who smokes has their cigarettes in the place that's why they put the pockets here on shirts people put the cigarette here pack of cigarettes here you can get a cigarette out of the pack lighted it into your mouth some people can do it in under ten or twelve seconds so what happens is the craving in the moment has to be filled and you forget to think about the long-term consequences because here's the truth one cigarette won't kill you just like one Twinkie won't kill you one bag of french fries won't kill you one bag of Doritos won't kill you but guess what every time we go to eat or knowing we shouldn't knowing we need to lose weight or we need to live healthier what happens to us is we say this one won't kill me and we develop habits as we're going to talk about in a second and after a while what one thing wouldn't kill you becomes the norm the three things the devil does I want you get these three things the devil does to make it so we can't control our appetites three things he does to gain control over our appetites the first thing is he causes us to confuse pleasure for purpose in America and I see this at work all the time people believe that the reason you go to work the reason you work hard and get a check the reason that you struggle to do this is so that you can buy pleasure for yourself now I mean I work a pretty stressful job and I've heard nurses over the years and other people I work with now it'll be Tuesday and literally they'll say listen I can't wait for Friday night and I said well yeah yeah we can't be good but it's only Tuesday they said I can't wait for Friday night because I cannot wait to get my drink on I'll get my check and I don't go get my drink on literally their whole week is designed around getting to the point where they can actually have alcohol the whole week all they do is work hard so that on Friday night maybe Saturday night they can dress up they can put on good stuff and they can go out and do it we have we have set up a time the internet went down on these things we have set up a time where people are more concerned about feeling good than being good and here's the thing many of us have lost we have no purpose in life our only purpose is to figure out a way literally to figure out a way to make sure we can buy the next thing that pleases us not that was Esau's problem so one of the Bible verses that goes to this is Philippians 3 and verse 19 Philippians 3 and verse 19 says this whose end is destruction whose God is their belly and whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things the Bible says that in fact if you're not careful you can make your appetite your belly your God and what you start to do is you look for an OP you look for a way to make it so that so that I think it might be working again you look for a way to make it so that you can always feed your desire to be pleased now we see that in our society have you noticed in Hollywood movies more and more of them they're smoking weed people are doing cocaine I mean like literally they're normalizing these things let me say one of the greatest threats to America right now in my opinion to the health of America long-term is the legalizing of marijuana people are teaching that this stuff is harmless that is that it's medical that it'll it'll do all this good for you and let me tell you they're not telling you that we have new diseases because of the introduction of marijuana on a wholesale in America one of them is cannabis induced hyperemesis syndrome have you heard of that I've seen multiple patients with that the marijuana of today is so high in tetrahydrocannabinol or THC that when people smoke it regularly and consistently which many people do now it actually causes a reaction where people can't stop throwing up but I've seen people retching nothing coming out and it's because they smoke so much marijuana but they also don't tell you about cannabis induced psychosis have you heard of that one in fact what we have now is that we're seeing people and this isn't even in my notes but I'm saying is good maybe somebody needs to hear it we're seeing it on we see it now but there are people who are smoking marijuana and they're literally becoming psychotic I saw a patient just earlier this year came in for something unrelated but when I was asking he had like a bronchitis and I said do you smoke and he said not cigarettes when people say I smoked but not when you actually would've a moment I say not cigarettes they basically say I'm smoke weed that that's that's what I mean and I said really and he said yeah I said does it affect you he says not he said it doesn't affect me physically he said it affects me socially I said what do you mean he says I'm starting to hear voices I'm starting to have hallucinations I said are you still smoking he said yeah I'm gonna quit there's a story I want you to get this about marijuana and the legalizing of marijuana there's a story about a young man who came from one of the Midwest states one of the more conservative states that hadn't legalized marijuana at the time probably still has it and Colorado had legalized marijuana so this kid in order to have his time with marijuana right he could need us to sneak around in his home state he got on a plane and flew to Colorado to have a marijuana vacation yeah I'm missing this thing boy he wanted to smoke weed at will eat weed brownies and all kinds of stuff and so he went he got a hotel room up on one of the high floors at a hotel he went to the weed shop and he bought a marijuana brownie the person selling them to brownie said listen this thing is quite potent do not eat it all at once do not do what know eat it all at once is too much weed in it and he said you got to eat one force at a time and he told him you can you got to space it out like every eight hours when that boy got back to the hotel you think he did that he was from okey doke country from way out in the woods somewhere and he got back to the hotel and he had our giant marijuana brownie and he ate the whole brownie at one sitting probably washed it down a glass of milk and it was too much within a short period of time he began to have the hallucinations he began to see things the boy went into acute cannabis induced psychosis and he jumped from the hotel window to his death we are living in a time when people are simply looking for how they can be pleased why let me tell you why I learned this from the veterans when I was working in addiction medicine at a VA hospital in Loma Linda California and after a group session they began to do these chants and one of the chance was God made the human heart so big that only he can fill it I said to him afterwards what does that mean and one of the veterans said to me he said listen God made your heart so big that the only thing that can make you ever feel satisfied is to feel the god-sized hole in your heart with God he said if you try and fill it with anything else you will be an addict to that thing whether it's pornography marijuana cocaine it doesn't matter you become addicted to that thing because there's a god-sized hole in all of our hearts and if you don't fill it with the right thing your appetite for that thing becomes your God in fact one preacher said it best when he said there's dr. James Kyle a physician and pastor he said your body will conspire to kill you if you give yourself everything you want your body will conspire to kill you every desire every demand this is why we have sexually transmitted diseases now that we are we have no way to treat people used to say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas not herpes that comes home with you gonorrhea we are down to one antibiotic to treat gonorrhea now so you got to be careful what you do on Saturday night everybody wants to be a baller and a shot-caller and then they come to my to come to the office and I'm like I got to give you a shot of Rocephin and grown 20-something year old men crying cuz they scare the needles that's the world we live in their consequences to these things and if you give every time your body craves something it wants them it desires something whether it's that cheesecake that cheesecake looks so good the cheesecake calls your name but watch this the cheesecake is that that desire for the cheesecake is a manifestation of your body conspiring against you because if every time you want you ate what you wanted to smoke what you wanted to drink what you wanted to ultimately it will literally kill you but your body craves it anyway Ellen White says this great controversy page 388 338 this is the chapter where she has she's given um the the talk Satan gives to his imps oh this is really like she's talking and and let you know what Satan is saying to his imps it says we must exert all our wisdoms what Satan says and subtlety to deceive and ensnare those who honor the true Sabbath we can separate many from Christ by worldliness lust and pride they may think themselves safe because they believe the truth but indulgence of appetite or the lower passions will confuse judgment and destroy discrimination this will cause their fail their fall otherwise says that in fact Satan understands that some of us know the truth we've studied the Bible we've gone through the Revelation seminars we get with the truth she says in order to get them to fall we've got a we've got to try and get their lower passions to take over we've got to get their appetite to be in control and that's how we're getting them to fall that's how he saw fell that's how Eve fell that's not all but Daniel and the three Hebrew boys fell in in Babylon they fell on a point of appetite so how does that happen the second point is habits the devil tricks you into forming habits that work against you and habits are designed to make things easier habits exist in the basal ganglia it exists in the part of the brain that is way that is further download down here the frontal cortex is out in this area and so in here is where you find emotions and pattern recognition and memories the prefrontal cortex this is the most holy place if your body's a sanctuary this is the most holy place of your body and this is where decisions are made where you reason Isaiah 1:18 says come let us reason together so the devil is always attacking the part of your brain where your reason because reasoning is how salvation happens when you reason and come to the conclusion like the prodigal that I'm a mess and I need to go home to my father so the devil wants to mess up this part of your brain this is where alcohol hits it blocks the release of a chemical in your brain I'll show you a picture in a second called gaba and gaba is an inhibiting chemical at marijuana and alcohol stop the release of gaba in your brain so you become disinhibited so that you act from the lower part of your brain that's why drunk people act so foolish we were on the plane coming down here and there was like there was a couple with some really fancy masks on and then one guy a seat in front of them got totally drunk he was wasted by the end of the flight he got up and he looked at the lady almost staggering trying to find his luggage and he said you don't have to worry about the coronavirus it's nothing I mean loud he says I've got HIV and I'm fine my grandmother used to say my Jamaican grandmother would say a drunk man's tongue is a sober man's mind that's why the devil the Bible says the drunk will not inherit the kingdom of God alcohol is one of the great ways that the devil gets into the frontal cortex and so when these habits of former God gave us the ability to make habits because what happens is it actually gives us extra ability to create it with through mountains little sacks of acetylcholine which causes us to have deeper grooves in our mind around an action so when you learn to play the piano there are grooves in your mind that are formed to make it easier to play the piano so every time you play the piano you get better and better and better at playing a piano acetylcholine through through the Buddha and the basal ganglia does that when that happened you can turn off the frontal lobe on that issue so you no longer a great pianist doesn't have to think about where to put their fingers or how to play they can focus on what the singers doing and adjust a great typist doesn't have to think about the keys and what they're typing they can type while they're thinking about what to type God gave us that ability because it separates us from the animals our human brain is 33% frontal lobe an animal's brain the smartest animal that the porpoise or the chimpanzee is only 13% frontal lobe you are fearfully and wonderfully made this ability to do this is powerful but the devil hijacks it and he takes this and he realizes if I can get you to smoke cigarettes you also form a habit and it becomes easier and easier and easier and harder and harder to stop if when you come home from school young people you plop down in front of TV grab a bag of Doritos every day you do that guess what happens before long you don't even think about it unless there's no Doritos left in the cupboard and then you're yelling who ate the last Doritos it becomes automatic and this is where the devil wants to leave us in fact here's an electron micrograph of the same thing those are bout ins when we develop a habit we literally change the anatomy of our brains I want you to get that if you form a habit around something you change the anatomy of your brain and you here's the thing the science says you can never undo that habit once those bonds are formed is permanent but the good news is if you form new habits better habits healthier habits they can run deeper grooves in your brain and you'll revert to those habits rather than the dangerous ones Ellen White says it like this when the signs of the times August 6 1912 she says it is by a reputation a repetition of acts that habits are established and character confirmed our habits make our character and what is the only thing you get to hit take to heaven with you your character are you starting to see how this plays out why the devil wants you in bad habits because if you can get you in the wrong habits like not praying every day not having family worship if we can get you out of those habits and into other habits where you're watching reality TV or Keeping Up with the Kardashians rather than keeping up with the Lord and the Holy Spirit those habits form your character Paul says it like this and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that she that she that she but that she may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God I want to show you this real quick this is this is dopamine so when someone does cocaine nicotine it is this green pathway dopamine in the brain that gives you pleasure dopamine you get pleasure from when you drink water and you release dopamine you eat food it releases dopamine you do cocaine it releases a truckload of dopamine sex is the highest natural dopamine that's why you can become addicted to sex and that's why God intended that we are raised our pure sexually and then we get married so that the connection with dopamine between husband and wife that's the only form of that highest form of natural pleasure is connected to the face of that person in conjunction with the hormone oxytocin so there's a bond form between husband and wife that is actually neuro chemical y'all missing this thing the problem is when you sleepin with everybody and you're doing you know you you running through the no-tell motels of Miami and you make a connection with everybody you leave a piece of yourself with all of those people neurochemically and then when you go to get married now is difficult to be happily married because you've been over connected with all those other people and your neurotransmitter system can connect flex sexual pleasure with other people other than your spouse but here is gaba this one is to inhibit so that you behave differently so you have more control that's what alcohol on a block so what happens well the devil figured he can hijack even the addiction pathway of food and one great example out is though is the Dorito now you got to think about it's really no such thing as a Dorito this is a man-made entity there's no Dorito trees no Dorito farms not even a Dorito animals but what they found out and the guy's name who writes the book I forgot it in first service his name is Michael Moss and the book is called salt sugar fat he shows you how the food industry in America has designed food that is addicting did you get that a Dorito is a great example of that try neat one Dorito I dare you you get one Dorito in a few seconds you're like you know what I need another one of them Jones well that was my whole head is tingling after that Dorito that cheesy salty spicy then of course they start putting like jalapeno Doritos and all kind of trying to overload you but they design I want you to get this they design this food in a factory chemicals engineers designed the food a chemist designer food so it has a great crunch so you think like an Apple crunches crunch it's fresh then what they do is they make salt sugar in fact and the combination of the three releases more dopamine in the brain because before they could manufacture food like this you the body was designed to look for those substances in nature so they hijacked that pathway now when you eat a Dorito it's like edible crack seem like a honey bun like a like a Twinkie the food is like a Twinkie is a Twinkie real food a Twinkie is not real food I challenge you go get if they still sell Twinkies do they still sell Twinkies if they still sell true I challenge you to put one or go online and look up Twinkies how long a Twinkie or a Happy Meal alas you could put a Twinkie or a happy meal in the cupboard of your house this new year and next New Year's Eve you could pull down that Twinkie that thing is still spongy and soft the Happy Meals still it looks like you just picked it up but McDonald's and you got to ask yourself how can food not spoil in 365 days the answer is it's not real food as Michael Pollard calls it Pollan calls it it's a food like substance and the reason the food can last 365 days plus and still look the same is because even the bacteria and the fungus understand it's not real food they won't even eat it you eaten food fungus mony I want you to think about that for a second designer food look at this one marketing habit bad habits so they start teaching the 2017 black teen saw more than twice as many asks for unhealthy food products as white teens but read oh let's read the whole thing food companies have introduced healthier products and established corporate responsibility programs to support health and wellness among their customers but this study shows that they continue to spend eight out of ten TV advertising dollars on fast food candy sugary drinks and unhealthy student snacks with even more advertising for these products targeted to black and Hispanic youth this was a study done at the University of Connecticut so what do they do you're going to the hood and there's a there's a sign up top childhood obesity don't take it lightly your child is gonna get diabetes and die feed your child right and right underneath my kind of shopping spree that lady is double-fisting two bags of McDonald's even better is this one this are you not rapido por $1 in other words listen you can get your fix fast at McDonald's me encanta they trying to say listen you better love it this is Avatar this is magic people driving down a highway people nearly crash some people see any signs the third thing the food industry does it has created foods that will disrupt your system for satiation some of us battle feeling fool you can eat and eat and eat and you never get food and you wonder why is that I'm about to show you what has happened to food in the modern era compared to how God designed food to be and why some of us it feels like you can eat and you just never get fooled you can eat right again right back again here's what happens so in the system here this is where you take food if your food is high in fiber as the Bible says it should be all of a sudden what happens you're in your colon you're the gut biome all of the healthy bacteria in your gut will take that food and it will create short chain fatty acids they go through a process that gives a signal for you to signal for you to eat less and to and and you start to stop eating the signal that comes out then you you might show your food intake goes down your fiber intake goes down this process goes around and you get another symbol signal here to eat more food notice that having low fiber is the trigger to make you want to eat again that's the natural way we were designed to eat we were designed by a God who understood our bodies I'm about to show you this in Genesis 1:29 this is what the Bible says about what we should eat behold I have given you every herb bearing seed fruits have seeds in them which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for me inherently right there is nuts seeds and fruits in the Garden of Eden that was what the diet was and it was a perfect diet they would have lived forever on that diet then what happened is they sinned and when they sinned they got kicked out of what kicked out of the garden but what else began to happen in the world deterioration things began to spoil and rot things begin to oxidize even and the Bible says here that God says then thorns and thistles shall it bring forth unto you you shall eat the what the herb of the field what is the herb of the field as vegetables so the Bible says if you started off with fruits nuts and seeds but then it says you got to eat now you got to eat the herb of the field which is the vegetable and its root right so potatoes yuca cassava and all of green leafy vegetables that grow cucumbers all that stuff that's what the God said and then I said bread which tells you if grains were good to eat Daniel 1:12 then says that when he was going against Nebuchadnezzar the Bible says beseech thee 10 days and let them give us pulse to eat and water to drink what does pulse actually mean it's beans lentils the Bible gives you a clear description of what you're supposed to eat fruits nuts seeds grains vegetables root foods and beans that is the diet guy designed all high in fiber now watch this there's something called the Latino paradox I don't know if you've ever read this or studied it but the Latino paradox tries to explain how Latinos who don't really live often in the best socio-economic situations often live longer than their white counterparts and people can't understand it one study and if they're probably more than one study now suggests that in fact this is because Latinos eat more beans and beans have that much of a protective effect that's how powerful beans are so what happens when you stop do eating those high fiber foods well you can see you block the fiber intake here all of this falls off and you have no fiber and all you get is the signal to keep eating more that's the only signal you get so those of us who are eating a low fiber standard American diet a sad diet what happens is you never feel full because you're not eating enough fiber the way God intended because when American food companies make food they pull the fiber out of it they pull the nutrients out of it so it can have more shelf life that's why that happy meal can sit there for a year they've stripped it of everything that anyone should want to eat if you put it back your weight will naturally come down and you'll get healthier if you add all that fiber back to your diet as the Bible says about Proverbs 23 1,000 to one is before thee and put a knife to your throat if you be a man given to appetite be not desires of his dainty's for they are what they're deceitful me 12% of us calories come from plants now that's it we don't barely eat plants like God said this is what a whole food plant-based food pyramid would look like this is the way the Bible says that we should eat notice that even here they say unlimited amounts of vegetables and plenty of leafy greens and plenty of fruits that's the way we're supposed to eat and so they've introduced and said to cut these foods like hot cheetos where you get vanishing caloric density they've made a Cheeto this is where cheeto gets you and it's funny because you know it's flu season and i get some families where they bring the kids and every week with a cold and i say what you know it doesn't make sense your kid is always sick I said what do you feed your child and they all you know just the regular stuff the kid is guilty hand is red from the hot cheetos he still got rahat Cheetos stains on his hand he rubbing hot cheeto on his leg I said man you can't just eat feed the child Hachi he's not pac-man you you got actually give him real food I was preaching I'll tell him this morning I preached in a San Diego like three weeks ago at a black church and boy you think this is hard here try and preach this at a black church talking bad about cheese and lord have mercy and I got onto the hot cheetos whoa this one sister stood up in the middle of the sermon I started talking with hot cheeto she stood up and she said oh you're not gonna talk about I'm not gonna listen you talk about my hot cheetos and she walked right out but she was doing this the whole way out to church nah nah don't you be talking about my hot cheetos after church he came up to me she said I'm sorry pastor I'm sorry I walked out on you talking about hot cheetos but I love hot cheetos I said I said ma'am you know we all have our thing she said I've only had seven strokes I said you might want to give up the hot cheetos mam they full of salt and cholesterol they fatty and terrible but what the food industry has figured out when you crunch the cheeto then it melts in your mouth this is the concept of the vanishing caloric density the brain is told listen to this when food melts in your mouth it tells your brain you didn't the calories that's why you can just eat hot cheetos all day because it's like your brain is saying I didn't eat anything I heard a crunch there nothing where's the food these are the hormone I was skip through some of this this is about leptin resistance but here's what Paul says for those of us who struggle with weight Oh wretched man that I am Who Shall deliver me from the body of this death he says that after he says he said Paul says the good that I would I do not in that which I would not that I do he says o wretched man that I am Who Shall deliver me from the body of this death again your body will conspire to kill you if you give your body everything at once it will have you laid up in the hospital getting heart catheterizations it'll have you in the hospital trying to recover from a stroke your body will do that to you I know why says the world is given to Self Indulgence errors and fables abound Satan's snares for destroying Souls are multiplied all all who would perfect holiness in the fear of God must learn the lessons of temperance and self-control the appetites and passions must be held in subjection to the higher powers of the mind the frontal lobe this self-discipline is essential to the mental strength and spiritual insight which will enable us to understand and to practice the sacred truths of God's Word for this reason temperance finds its place in the work of preparation for the for Christ's second coming I want to submit to you that if you want to be ready when Jesus comes it's the battle with appetite is a battle you must wage it is one of the most difficult battles do you believe Jesus is coming soon let me tell you something we watch fires burn in Australia and over a billion animals died unprecedented prophetic fulfillment we're watching as Jesus said that in the last days pestilence would come you're watching pestilence as the carota and this isn't the first coronavirus remember SARS that was a corona virus MERS Middle East respiratory syndrome that was a corona virus this corona virus is just the right type to circle the globe let me tell you something weird this afraid of this virus and it only has a case fatality rate of 2% what happens when the next one comes in it's case fatality rate is 15 or 20 percent I'm telling you that the world is ready to go into panic that much of what we understand and prophesy is about to be fulfilled you're watching it on the news every night and my Bible is telling me that God wants a people who are prepared to see him who have a character just like Christ and Christ had a character that was temperate when Satan tempted him on the issue of appetite he said it is written man should not live by bread alone so how do you win this vac battle well one of them is you avoid processed food you exercise you exercise not because exercise that makes you lose weight but because exercise reduces stress and makes you feel better you should fast intermittently they all talk about intermittent fasting the Bible teaches intermittent fasting did you know that g-god only served people food twice a day the Ravens came to Elisha twice a day and the manna fell twice a day intermittent fasting make sure you get your sleep that's one of reasons caffeine is so dangerous I was talking to this morning about caffeine reduces cerebral blood flow blood flow to your brain by up to 23 percent with every caffeinated drink you have and they have caffeine drinks now that are super caffeinated like monster drinks these drinks actually are taking the lives of young athletes and when you drink caffeine even if you just have a cup of coffee in the morning it will affect your sleep that night but again in like I said eat lots of fiber Ecclesiastes 10:17 says blessed are you when your prince has eaten due season what are we supposed to eat for as princes in the house of God for strength and not for drunkenness let me finish with a quote from Ellen White multitudes are selling their birthright for sensual indulgence health is sacrifice the mental faculties are enfeebled and heaven is forfeited and all for a mere temporary pleasure on indulgence and indulgence at once both weakening and debasing in its character as Esau awoke to see the folly of his rash exchange when it was too late to recover his loss so it will be in the day of God and those who have bartered their airship to heaven for self-gratification z-- and I'll leave you with this do not sell your heavenly birthright for Satan's pot of pride and imma finish by giving you a little bit of my story most of the times I have in his church when people come and they give these testimonies they've been skinny their whole lives they were raised on beat sand and straw grass and you know they do it all of the adventists things they do to stay super healthy some of them lived out in a country you never know what it's like to live in the city and they come into your church and they're like listen you all are sitting because you eat too much that's easy for you to say if you grew up in a house where you never had the temptation of Pop Tarts and stuff like I did that's difficult stuff so some of us know what it's like to struggle with food and I'm one of them I was born 10 pounds 14 ounces I've been big my whole life I wasn't a phenomenal football player I have two cousins who played in the NFL I was a phenomenal football player but there's a point you get to where the devil begins to control you by controlling how and what you eat in fact as Paul says food becomes so important that you sitting in church and rather than thinking about was being preached or saying you trying to figure out just how much seasoning you're gonna put on that chicken when you get home food becomes all-encompassing and we live to eat rather than eating to live and I want you to understand that for me I had to draw a line last year as the year is coming to an end I just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger we went to my brother was a famous cricket player Courtney Walsh used to be the captain of the West Indian cricket team and my brother and I we went down and my wife went down to Antigua to his wedding and I came home and looked at the pictures from the wedding and I was aghast I wanted to repent I couldn't even repent it was that bad I said Lord this sin is so big I'm not sure how to repent on this one and I began to pray and talk to God I said listen I need a strategy Lord I got to get out of this I got to find a way to lose weight and I began to reread some of my books I reread counsels on diets and foods by Ellen White I reread ministry of healing I went back and reread some books by dr. Fuhrman and dr. Michael Greger I began to reread some of these things and I began to say I don't have to be trapped like this God must have a way then when I went and studied the scripture and I began to look at how God designed for us to eat I think we had to realize America is like Babylon like sitting in front of Nebuchadnezzar they have designed a meal to strip you of your spiritual potency and we are sitting at the table eating babylons meat and drinking its wine and saying I love you Jesus I said that's got to stop I've got to excuse myself from babylons table I began to take out the processed foods even to process veggie meat somebody missing this thing I know them gorillas tastes good and them chicken nuggets and all that stuff but it's high sodium processed food I began to substitute jackfruit for that stuff mushrooms for that stuff began to remove that stuff then the Bible says when when Jesus cast out the demoniac boy the Bible says when the disciples came to him said why couldn't we cast him out jesus said some things come only by prayer and fasting and I said listen I've tried to move this mountain by myself and the mountain just keeps getting bigger Lord fast and began to Institute and I went on a juice fast and I began to just go through this thing and I said listen Lord I need victory and I don't need short-term victory that's easy I need a life long victory because that's what's difficult Mark Twain you know what Mark Twain the great author said about cigarettes he said quitting cigarettes is the easiest thing I've ever done I've done it a thousand times it's like me he losing rates the easiest thing I've ever done I've lost weight a thousand times how do you stay there the secret is in the Bible the literally victory is in the scripture and so when I did all that I started off at 350 pounds I stand before you today down 300 pounds this I couldn't even button this suit my if I got stopped wearing this suit it's very nice suit to I like this suit I want you to understand what I'm not coming to you telling you about diet and temperance and and health because I'm some high and mighty person who can swoop down and point out all of your fault I'm telling you like Paul said I am chief among sinners but I am also a Christian who believes that there is power in the Word of God I'm a Christian who believes that there's power in the blood of Jesus Christ and some of us are struggling with food somebody is struggling with maybe a marijuana or alcohol I'm here today to tell you that there's power wonder-working power in the precious blood of the Lamb and if you want victory today I challenge you to claim victory in Jesus Christ and as I close if there's somebody who wants that victory I just want you to stand where you are and we have a special prayer right now that God would give you victory over whatever thing it is you're struggling some of you there's not food I know but whatever it is we don't need to know what you're struggling with just stand where you are we're gonna pray and ask God to give us victory that we would be healthy in 2020 that we would take this health message that God has given us seriously and walk in that light as every head is bowed in every eyes close father God we thank you Lord for this opportunity to study a word Lord you know we have failed you in the area of temperance many of us maybe most of us Lord we failed you over and over again with empty promises Lord with guilt and shame as we look in the mirror at our pictures and Lord we go around and around and around in this thing hoping one day to magically we get a victory your father God there's no magic for this we need to walk closer to you our righteousness comes by our faith so we've got a trust in you so father God the folk who are standing right now there's something in their lives they want to give up it could be caffeine it could be alcohol it could be marijuana cocaine I don't know what it is Lord it could be food it could be fast food junk food it could be a certain type of cake I don't know what they're struggling with Lord I just know that I know the one who can help them win the struggle so father God today I'm asking for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit I am asking Lord for you to give us not just the unction to do this but lord give us the plan help us to go back into your word to go back into what you meant for us that we would go back to your original diet the original way you wanted us to live and that we might live so that we are better prepared so that we have the character of Christ when Christ comes bless your people with that give us victory today we pray in Jesus's name Amen

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Length: 51min 53sec (3113 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 09 2020