Healing, Health, & Holiness, Part 1 with Doug Batchelor

this presentation is brought to you by the friends of the amazing facts ministry [Music] in january 2010 a minivan struck and killed a man crossing the brooklyn street especially tragic because this was no ordinary man joe rolino would have been 105 years old in march his friend said he was the model of health a world war ii vet with three purple hearts rolino got his start in the 1920s at the coney island carnival billed as the strongest man in the world five feet five inches tall and weighing 150 pounds for his size he was one of the strongest men ever he could move 3200 pounds with his back lift 475 pounds with his teeth and 635 pounds he could lift with one finger at joe rolino's 103rd birthday party a friend gave him a quarter and rollino bent it with his fingers he then apologized because he used to do it with a dime did i mention that joe rolino didn't drink or smoke he exercised daily and he was a lifelong vegetarian you know the bible also makes a connection between a very strong man and a unique lifestyle the bible says samson did not drink and he stayed away from unclean foods would you like to live to a healthy 100 anything is possible when we follow god's health plan so join me now as we take a deeper look into this life-changing subject [Music] tonight i'm going to be sharing a topic that i think the christian world is long overdue to understand this issue and people have suffered greatly because they do not understand this principle from the bible that is very practical now our message tonight is dealing with the subject of healing health and holiness it begins with a story that you find in a book of prophecy and it's in daniel chapter one it tells that after king nebuchadnezzar had conquered babylon he took some of the the brightest and the best of the nation and he brought them with him back to babylon and he said look we're going to train you in the language of the chaldeans we're going to feed you from our cafeteria for three years and we're going to prepare you to be ambassadors representing your part of the world and go to the university of babylon and you think well that would be really good to be eating from the babylonian cafeteria but uh there's a problem with that babylonians ate things that god had told his people they're not supposed to eat so daniel and his three friends that had been carried off to babylon shadrach meshach abednego their hebrew names were hananiah and michelle azariah they said we can't eat that please let us eat pulse or vegetables and just give us a chance and uh the man who was in charge of the eunuchs he said i can't do that because if if you start looking scrawny and sick i'm responsible for your health and education my head will be on the block they said you give us 10 days notice it says in daniel 1 verse 8 daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile he would not what defile himself with a portion of the king's meat so they proposed to astronauts prince of the eunuchs prove your servants test us for 10 days let us have pulse to eat and water to drink we're not going to eat the babylonian food and the fermented wine and the bible says he consented to that and then at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fair and fatter in flesh you know they just come across the desert and he found them ten times better smarter than all the magicians and the astrologers that were in the realm and the first chapter of daniel closes by saying and daniel continued until the time of king cyrus daniel lived to about 100 years of age he must have been 15 to 17 when he was carried off so it's interesting that at this very important book of prophecy it would make a point that daniel and his friends had purpose they would take care of their bodies even when they were tempted by their surroundings and even though there was social pressure to compromise they said no this is what god says about treating our bodies as the temple of the holy spirit and we will not defile our bodies this is a truth that has been lost by much of the christian church and it's an area where there needs to be revival and reformation and that's also true even within our denomination let's look at our lesson it's going to bring out a number of points first question what was the original diet that god designed for humans you read in genesis 1 verse 29 and god said behold i've given you every herb bearing seed and in every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you it shall be for meat and the word meat there it's king james this means for food and so the original diet that god gave to man was a vegetarian diet contained was actually fruits grains and nuts beans but later god expanded the diet that's the next question after adam and eve sinned and they were evicted from the garden of eden they could no longer eat from the tree of life god then said all right i want to give you something supplemental what was added to their diet at that point genesis 3 verse 18 he said you shall eat the herb of the field meaning vegetables now i find sometimes people don't know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable let me test you apple fruit orange zucchini see fruit onion vegetable brussels sprouts inedible uh it's real simple that anything that is the product of the blossom is the fruit and anything that's any other part of the plant whether it's the stalk or the leaves or the bulbs that's a vegetable and so after adam and eve uh and you know a lot of kids out there really sorry that adam and eve sinned because they didn't want vegetables added to their diet but after they sinned and they were told they could no longer stay in the garden god said you can also eat the herb of the field but the original diet for man was a vegetarian diet and i'll just tell you right now i'm biased i am a vegetarian i encourage people to consider it the bible does not require you to be a vegetarian but are you aware that we will be vegetarians in heaven when god asked adam to name the animals he did not look at the cow and say whopper and he did not look at the chickens and say mcnuggets you know he was supposed to protect them he wasn't supposed to think about eating them and it wasn't until after sin and especially after the flood that animals became a part of the diet what mammals does god say we could eat and i told you i'm a vegetarian i encourage that but the bible does say you're going to eat meat but then it says if you're going to eat meat there's some criteria you can read about this in leviticus 11 3. whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud these you can eat so it needed to have a cloven hoof needed both characteristics not just one um but even some meat is not healthy for instance you know a camel camel cheese is a cut but it's got a paw now i know some of you are really bothered by that because you're gonna have to go take the camel out of your fridge tonight right after the program but you know this was a problem in christ's time he said you straining that you swallow a camel which is unclean he said you're worried about getting a little bitty bug in your water but then you go eat camel steak when you go home and god says it's unclean have you ever been around camels i have you know yeah i want to eat one now if some things they chew the cud but they don't have uh a cloven hoof and then there's a couple of animals that have a cloven hoof but they don't chew the cut you know what's in that category ah this one's very popular puerto rico the pig the hog the swine though it divides the hoof having cloven hoofs yet it does not chew the cud it is unclean to you he goes on to say their flesh you shall not eat their carcass you shall not touch there's an abomination pigs are filthy i used to take care of my neighbor's pigs when he would go on vacation and you know i always try and find some new word to describe it but all i can come up with is to tell you the pigs are pigs their name is the definition and you can't improve on it you ever been by you're driven by a pig slaughterhouse even the bible says like the sow that was washed returns the wallowing in the mire and and their flesh is full of disease but they're scavengers god made some animals that are scavengers and they're made to kind of clean up the environment they eat garbage why would you you want to eat garbage but you'll eat the garbage can we need a pig how many of you remember this this little piggy went to the market this little piggy stayed home this little piggy had roast beef even a pig won't eat pork see that you know i i remember reading once i think it was one out of five autopsies done in north america they found out that the divers had symptoms or evidence of trichine poisoning trichinosis is a very tricky disease in that when the muscle tissue containing trichinosis are eaten by a human it says the sister then digested in the stomach then release the larvae which migrate to the intestine begin a new life cycle female trekking worms live about six weeks and in that time they might release fifteen thousand larvae the migration and insistment of larvae can cause fever pain even death it can cause stiffness in joints and knees and pain and it's often misdiagnosed a person thinks i've got bursitis or arthritis and they've got pigitis that's what it is it's from it's very common around the world there's a picture of a fellow he's got his lunch on his box back of his bike one nutritionist wrote a few years ago and this is an old article but i like the way he worded it september 6 1999 a nutritionist said bacon wasn't technically meat anymore it didn't belong to any food group at all it was a salt a nitrate-ridden fat-laden carcinogenic thing why would you want to eat a carcinogenic thing because it tastes good are you going to be controlled by the spirit or by the flesh now some of you are saying pastor doug you're coming down pretty hard on those of us who you know eat meat and stuff like that you know god designed humans to eat meat and that's why we've got these canine teeth you know as i've heard that argument before that's nonsense this fellow's got canine teeth too he's a vegetarian as is the hippo and the elephant i don't know how far i want to take this illustration but uh and actually the digestive system of a cat or a carnivore or a dog is very smooth vegetarian animals have a more complex digestive system where they've got the the broken up intestine and uh we're in that category we thrive on the vegetarian diet and people say to me all the time oh pastor doug you know you can't be healthy if you're vegetarian you're not going to get enough b12 and protein that is a myth that is totally an uneducated statement i've been a vegetarian for 40 years i love when i go to subway and i order a veggie and they say wanting cheese i said no i'm a vegan too i said no no i'll just old veggies i say i'm a vegetarian really said yep i said do i look 90 years old and they go wow you're not i usually confess that i'm kidding at that point notice i didn't say i was 90 i said do i look 90. of course once i said do i look 17 they said yeah about them so i had to up it a little bit but no you know i really have i've been a vegetarian 40 years and i feel great you get you know if you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich has everything you need if you use strawberry preserves you got your fruits grains and nuts right there the whole thing you got protein you got b12 you've got everything you need and so this oh you won't get enough i don't believe that for a minute look what happened here in the bible this is it's kind of a primitive chart but you see here these are the people who lived in the days before the flood you got seth methuselah noah their lives were measured in hundreds of years after the flood all the vegetation was destroyed remember god took the clean animals on the ark by sevens and they ostensibly would sacrifice them they were allowed to eat of the sacrifice but meat eating became a lot more predominant after the flood and look what happened to the lifespan one of the places in the world where people live the longest is the hundreds of people in the hunza valley in india largely vegetarian very common for them to live over 100 years of age they don't have a fraction of the modern diseases that we experience [Music] don't forget to request today's life-changing free resource not only can you receive this free gift in the mail you can download a digital copy straight to your computer or mobile device to get your copy of today's free gift simply call us and ask for the offer number shown on your screen or visit the web address and download a digital copy and be sure to select the digital download option on the request page it's now easier than ever for you to study god's word with amazing facts wherever and whenever you want and most important to share it with others now if you're going to talk about we talked about the mammals it had to have a cloven hoof and chew the cud what about the sea creatures what types of fish or seafood are claimed biblically you read in leviticus 11 verse 9 these you can eat of all that are in the waters whatever has fins and scales then you shall eat you know i understand that the navy did some research back after world war ii because a number of pilots and sailors were floating around in the ocean they didn't know what they could and couldn't eat of the fish that kind of gathered around their life rafts and they said we need to give them some criteria that they can remember something simple and they did all this research and one of them said you know it says in the bible that if it has fins and scales it's safe and they say well let's see what that looks like and did all the research they said that's probably the best rule of thumb or we can tell the sailors they found a lot of toxins in the scavengers catfish do not have scales my brother and i used to catch catfish off my dad's back porch he was right on biscayne bay in miami beach and taking the hook out of the catfish my brother's finger got poked by the dorsal fin and it was so toxic he could never bend his finger again and people eat those things we ate them too back then sharks they've got cartilage on the outside they're scavengers some of you are wondering what about tuna tuna has scales very small but they've got scales and so they needed these things so what would be unclean but in the seas and leviticus 11 10 still in all the seas of the rivers those that do not have fins and scales all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water they are an abomination to you now there's no time in the bible when god calls something abomination in one part that it has been blessed in another part anything that's declared by god an abomination stays an abomination and by the way these are not laws just for one group of people these are laws that god gave to humanity in the beginning what about the the birds if you can eat meat what birds are clean well the way they raise some birds i want to eat anything but biblically it needed to be a foraging bird the ones that are unclean it says every raven after its kind and the owl and the nighthawk in the cockah and the hawk after its kind the scavengers the the raptors they were unclean the omnivores the foraging birds like the pheasant and the quail and the chicken and the turkey you'll be happy to know are in the clean category pigeon is clean which means they'll never starve in new york city i want to need any of those though but they were typically in that category so are the laws about the clean and unclean animals part of moses ceremonial law that ended at the cross this is the argument have you heard this before no you read in genesis 7 when god was telling noah to bring the animals on the ark everyone says oh yeah they went on the ark two by two not all of them the unclean animals went by two the clean animals went by seven come you and all your house into the ark and it says of the beasts that are not clean they'll bring by two of the clean beasts they come by sevens like you might have the stag and seven does you have the bowl or six cows in the bowl and so they may have divided it up like that and so how many here related to noah i'd be all of you how many of you never raise your hand when the pastor asks a question some of you are honest enough to finally raise your hand for that question but we're all related to noah so god makes a distinction of clean and unclean right back there in the beginning and these things and we know today that there's health principles by the way national geographic did an article a few years ago called the blue zones did any of you here ever see this magazine talked about the areas of the world where people lived the longest they came up with three groups the people that live in sardinia the mediterranean the people that live in okinawa japan some of the oldest in the world and the third category was seventh-day adventists that live in loma linda or seventh-day adventists but that's just a lone it's a an enclave down there and so they saw there was a concentration and so they specifically said seventh-day adventists what do they attribute that to their healthy lifestyle following the biblical criteria among other things having a day of rest helps also and they live a lot longer i was visiting a sister today 93 years old up and around doing fine this is a picture of one of my church members 111 still going viola cook and um it just was amazing to me her brother-in-law told me art read gave me some good advice if you forget everything i say tonight remember this i said all right how come you're so old and so healthy he said three things stop eating while you're still a little hungry wake up when you're still a little sleepy and stop talking when you still have something left to say secret to life does god say that uh eating unclean food is a serious offense and some people think well you know the bible laws about health are recommendations bible doesn't call them recommendations call them laws listen to what the bible says in isaiah 66 15 and 17 for behold the lord will come with fire and with his chariot like a whirlwind to render his anger with fury those that sanctify themselves and purify themselves they're declaring themselves sanctified in pure eating swine's flesh and the abomination and the mouse will be consumed together says the lord oh pastor doug are you telling me that my blt sin which is no more it tastes so good you know when you really think about it there are so many good things to eat i'm surprised people say to me pastor you're vegetarian what do you eat i great lots of things it's just you grow up learning a certain way and you think that's the only way you've got to just learn to do good learn a new way and you'll be fine some people think well if god doesn't want us to eat it why did he make it and it's almost like a bumper sticker that you would find somewhere on bubba's truck god made it so we can kill it and eat it he didn't make any of the animals for us to kill and eat people quote this verse in first timothy 4 4 for every creature of god is good have you heard this before nothing to be refused if it's received with thanksgiving and prayer now they don't read the context they don't read what it says before or after it says first of all it'll be sanctified by the word of god that means the creatures that are approved in the word of god can be sanctified by prayer but this notion that christians believe and this is where boy i hope this sinks in with thinking christians out there the idea that we're free now from the laws about health because we just pray and god blesses whatever we eat you would not accept that from your children how many are parents out there are they raising their hands if you were getting ready for work one day and your kids were fixing their own breakfast you know they're a little older and you see that they're pouring sugar frosted flakes in their bowl then they're putting sugar on top of it then they go in the freezer and they get a scoop of chocolate ice cream then they get some caramel syrup and you say what in the world do you think you're doing don't worry mom dad i'm gonna ask jesus to bless it would you tell okay it's okay as long as you pray over it that'll be okay how many would accept that but why do we think that we can tempt the lord by going against the basic principles of health on the bible and say well i prayed over it when the bible talks about that it's talking about there was a big contest between the jewish christians and the gentile christians and the jewish christians said oh that meat had been offered to an idol you can't eat it and paul said look the idol is nothing you pray over he was talking about clean animals that maybe they had bought in a gentile marketplace goat or turkey or sheep or whatever it was and the jews had a very sensitive conscience they said but it was a gentile marketplace they butchered things and and they offer them to gods before they butcher them and paul said look it's sanctified by the word of god god's word said you can eat that goat that sheep and you've prayed over it don't worry about it how many of you eat chinese food in chinese restaurant i do i did this week and when i went in there was a buddha in the restaurant now some christians might have a problem with that and they might say i can't eat in there there's a buddha i'll be supporting buddha if i eat in that restaurant paul is saying look you pray over your food don't worry about what they think about the cook might be a buddhist it's not going to hurt you this was the issue it wasn't saying you could eat anything that's irresponsible we all know better than that what you eat is going to affect your health how much you eat is going to affect your health some will say what about the vision that peter had in acts chapter 10. some of you remember tells us a cornelius a gentile and his family full of gentiles an angel says you must hear from peter they send messengers to peter normally jews did not preach to the gentiles in those early days peter's up on the roof he's praying he's hungry god gives him a vision of a sheet comes down from heaven full of all these unclean animals and god says arise and eat notice what peter says not so lord i have never eaten anything common or unclean and the bible says do not call unclaimed what i have cleansed and he's wondering this happens three times he never takes anything out of the sheet it's a vision you can't eat a vision he never takes anything out of the sheet he never eats it and he's wondering what the vision means and some gentiles knock on the door downstairs and peter explains what this vision is about he said god has told me not to call any man that's a funny way to spell pig he doesn't say god show me he'd call any swine unclean he says not to call a man unclean because the jews were calling the gentiles unclean this vision had nothing to do with food it had to do with taking the gospel to the gentiles so pastors that say that they're being dishonest they know that's not what was really happening there doesn't make a difference what we eat do you know why we're all having problems with sin and temptation because our first parents ate something they weren't supposed to eat [Music] don't forget to request today's life-changing free resource not only can you receive this free gift in the mail you can download a digital copy straight to your computer or mobile device to get your digital copy of today's free gift simply text the keyword on your screen to 40544 or visit the web address shown on your screen and be sure to select the digital download option on the request page it's now easier than ever for you to study god's word with amazing facts wherever and whenever you want and most important to share it with others what if you could know the future what would you do what would you change to see the future you must understand the past this intriguing documentary hosted by pastor doug bacheler explores the most striking bible prophecies that have been dramatically fulfilled throughout history kingdoms in time for more information visit kingdomsandtime.com and thank you for your continued support as we take the gospel of jesus christ to the world we hope you'll join us next week as we delve deep into the word of god to explore more amazing facts [Music] this presentation was brought to you by the friends of the amazing facts ministry

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Published: Mon Oct 12 2020