Physical Health | Philip Anthony Mitchell

hi and welcome to the victory Church podcast this ministry has been a blessing for you please consider supporting the spread of the gospel by visiting us online and choosing the given option that works best for you and you have a testimony we'd love to hear it send us an email to share at victory Church ATL that boy again thank you for tuning in and we hope you enjoyed this message if you're watching this message again on youtube if you're watching on our app if you're listening to me driving in the car wherever you are we want to welcome you our online audience that has been growing we want to welcome you and welcome everybody here for the first time to our series called what the health into week three of our series called what the health let me tell you what we've done in this series real quick before I jump into this teaching if you're here for the very first time so in week one we talked about mental health the condition of our minds and our thoughts and the warfare that happens in our minds that message is available online if you didn't get a chance to miss that message and I talked about how we can grow in our mental health last week we talked about emotional health the dramas that we deal with in our heart I said because we cannot flee our feelings we have to learn to manage them and so I taught about how we properly manage our emotions and if you missed that message that message available to on YouTube you can watch right after this message you can click over and watch the other one if you missed it it's also available online or YouTube if you miss that message today I want to talk to you about physical health I want to talk to you about physical health and I know for some of you you think that this is not important but it is absolutely very important and before I jump into this message I want to just make a disclaimer that my purpose in this sermon is not to condemn you about your diet I'm not gonna condemn you about exercise I'm not gonna condemn you about way you ate this morning before you got here if you're going to Golden Corral when this is over all right if you already got plans to go downtown and eat you got I'm not my goal is not going to condemn you about any of that stuff so just breathe easy so all my type airs and everybody who's in a not because I said physical health if you worried that I'm about to make you feel bad because I'm I'm not I'm not coming to condemn you so that's not my aim in this message my aim in this message is to drive home one truth that I want you to meditate on when you leave here today and at the end of this message I want to ask you two questions there will be rhetorical questions and I'm gonna give you those two questions for you to go home and think about this week so the year is AD 90 and the man is the Apostle John and I taught you in week one of the series he wrote to a man named Gaius who was a church leader and he wrote to Gaius his prayers and he wrote him a very short letter that we call third John and in third John chapter well it is only one shot third John chapter one the Apostle John ad 90 wrote these letters I wrote these words to Gaius he said the elder and first one to my dear friend Gaius whom I love in the truth dear friend I pray that you may enjoy good health and that you may go well or things may go well with you even as your soul is get along well and another translation says I pray you would enjoy good health even as your soul prospers now in week one of this series I taught you right from this text which is our foundational text that the Apostle John underneath the inspiration of the Holy Spirit was praying that Gaius would be healthy in three places he was praying that he will be healthy in his soul which is his mind and his emotions but that he was also praying that he will be healthy in his physical body I pray that you would enjoy good health now what we did not look at in week one is the reason for why he was praying that he would enjoy good health and it is the next two verses that we did not look at that gives us insight as to why John will be praying that Gaius would enjoy good health and so the next two verses says this it gave me great joy watch this to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness in the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth and I have greater joy to hear that my children are walking in the truth now if you study the Word of God if you're a Bible junkie like me or if you have any ability to pay attention to the Scriptures you will notice that there's a keyword that keeps jumping out in this text that there's a word that appears three times in this text and the word is truth he says it gave me great joy to hear that you're still walking in the truth you're still faithful of the truth and I have joy to hear that my children are walking in the truth now if you study the Scriptures words like that should jump out at you that if you see the Apostle or the writer it's mentioned in three times this one word truth truth truth he mentions that three times that should signal us who are the readers okay why is he keep mentioning the word truth to him okay why is John telling him that I'm glad to hear that you're walking in truth I'm glad to hear that you're still being faithful to the truth I have joy to hear that my children are still walking in the truth and he says this about the truth watch after he tells him I'm praying for your physical health well the year is 1898 it is the first century AD okay Jesus has preached his ministry has been illustrious he has died he has been buried he has been resurrected he has saw his brothers and sisters he has been taken back to heaven and then the church is born in the 1st century AD with the preaching of Peters sermon the church grows by the thousands with just a number of serving the church is flourishing the church is exploding and then enter into the narrative our believers who think they are smarter than the Apostles and so they start to do what a lot of us do they start to create their own doctrines right and so now you have like if you watch Marvel you have you have shield and now you have Hydra like a parasite inside of shield so now you have the church exploding in the first century AD and now you have this parasite growing inside the church this group of Christians this group of teachers who started this doctrine called Gnosticism right and Gnosticism was the most dangerous and one of the most heretical doctrines that was taught during the first century in fact this doctrine was taught for three centuries 300 years this doctrine was preached and what Gnosticism was this is powerful what Gnosticism was was believers preachers men of God because we love preaching but we don't read the Bible right we love preaching but we don't check behind people so we never read the scriptures for ourselves so somebody say it and we just run with it right and so the church is blowing up the Apostles who have the truth are preaching Jesus and then you have these other group of men preaching Gnosticism and what Gnosticism was saying it was saying watch it was saying spirituality is in pucon my god this is important spirituality is important but everything that is physical is evil Jesus wasn't God and man he was only a spirit so they're preaching against the resurrection of Jesus they're preaching he was only a spirit they're preaching against the hypostatic Union they are saying everything that has matter watch this this is powerful everything that has matter is evil so only your spirit is really important your body does not matter and this is what they were preaching for 300 years now people begin to buy into that my spirit is important my body doesn't matter my spirit is important my body doesn't matter my spirit is important but my body is evil and so as people begin to buy into the lie that only their spirit man is important but their body's an evil it begins to give birth to two things watch indulgence with the body and neglect of the body so now people are just focus sent on this spirit man but they're not focusing on their physical man and so now you have a growing group of Christians large numbers right they they know the Scriptures they're praying in languages but they're either indulging and stuff with their bodies or they're completely neglecting their bodies now by the third century this teaching it dies out right because we understand that Jesus was resurrected so this teaching their eyes are by watch the practical issue surrounding that teaching does not die out watch it continues to grow past the third century into the fourth century into the fifth century into the tenth century into the 18th century into the 21st century and now what we have now because of Gnosticism today is the body of Christ especially in America man we fast pray preach read the Bible go to church serve I'm a deacon I'm an elder I'm a pastor bill my ministry all of that and a dying of stuff that is treatable in my body I'm mighty in spirit but the house where my spirit is falling apart so we have this hyper focus on the spirit but no focus on the thing that holds the spirit and so all across America we have all this preaching all these sermons all these conferences all these books we have people growing in spiritual formation but the thing that's holding their spirit is disintegrating not because of age but because of neglect and not because of age but because of indulgence so let me let me give you let me give an example of how this works so um for example you know I thought to myself man what is that what is the number one reasons people are dying in America so all with gun violence because of what's happened in Chicago people getting shot and killed man it's all kind of danger danger around the corner that's why people are people are dying and going to hell let me show you why people are dying and going to hell the number one reason people are dying in America number one heart disease number two cancer no gun violence number three chronic respiratory linked to smoking number four accidents number five strokes number six Alzheimer's disease number seven diabetes number eight influenza number nine kidney disease number ten suicide put them all up there together okay number ten suicide let's go back to the first list right I want you to notice go back to number one I want you to do it and go put all them down and it can fit okay just stop right there I want you to notice in the top five reasons people are dying in the United States three of them are linked to physical health the top three reasons people are dying in the United States are linked to physical health so I'm mighty in the spirit but the thing that's older my spirit is falling apart the top three things are linked to physical health go to six seven eight nine and ten and then rounding out the next list diabetes kidney disease number ten is suicide I found it interesting that six things on this list are implicated in this series mental and emotional health linked to suicide and five things which people are dying from in this country are linked to physical health indulgence and neglect now you say oh now that's just for the unbeliever mmm but but believers are among this number two a pastor of a church in California was being interviewed by a magazine called charisma and he wrote this in a magazine this is what he said in this magazine he he said this as stated in the past article although I believed I was healthy and fit by the time I reached my 22nd birthday my 6 foot 2 inch frame has skyrocketed to 270 pounds and I was diagnosed with borderline hypoglycemia my blood pressure and my cholesterol levels were high my health was rapidly deteriorating I was told I might have to take medication for the rest of my life as a result I was denied life insurance and I was instructed by my physician to go on a strict diet I was shocked I knew that if I didn't change my life my life would change me if I didn't change my life my life would change me it's okay look what he says the physical health of our bodies definitely plays a role in our overall health mentally emotionally and spiritually taking care of one body that God has given us is wise stewardship it affects our entire lives although spiritual health is first and foremost and Paul taught that to Timothy in 1st Timothy 4 our physical health also plays a vital role in our productivity according to many experts many diseases are preventable through proper nutrition and exercise to suggest that the health should not be a priority is to suggest that God isn't concerned with this area of our lives my brothers and sisters God created your physical body God created your body to be the house that your spirit and your soul lives in it is through the physical body that you and I carry out the purposes of I think about it you say oh I'm called and I'm chosen how are you gonna carry that out if the house that holds your soul disintegrates on you if I can't move my physical body if I die prematurely because of sickness then my purpose is cut short in the earth if I'm tired if I'm weary if I have no energy if I'm always sick if I'm always laid up if I'm incapacitated if I die prematurely because of my own neglect or indulgence then my purpose and God is cut short because we talk about purpose but we don't talk about the thing that gives you the vehicle to handle your purpose the vehicle to fulfill your purpose is the house that you live in it is your physical body right God created it God gave it to you and holds your soul and holds your mind it holds everything on the inside of you right and there is a direct link between your spiritual health and your physical health and as followers of Jesus we have to care about our physical bodies now okay why should we care about our physical health I'm gonna speed through this really quick should we care about our physical health just so I could get buff right like I'm gonna care about my physical health so I could just get smoked up in the gym right I'm a care by my physical health so yo imma imma care about my physical health after the sermon so I could get swelled up in the gym or I could look tight in a bikini right I want to get down from whatever size to whatever size so I'm gonna physical health right just so I can either be diesel or I could be small or whatever it may be and so right I wouldn't has this big love affair with health and fitness for all of these things don't have vanity but my goal is not to knock you about your diet my goal is to give you a better reason to care about your physical health not so you could be buff not so you can look nice in a bathing suit but I don't want to give you a good reason to care a bunch of physical health just one reason to care about your physical health so if the Scriptures doesn't have a lot to say about physical health you probably won't so he won't go see the words physical health in the Bible but but there was a teaching that Paul sent to a church named Corinth about their bodies and I wanted to just read to you really quickly what he said to them and I want to show you why you should care about your physical health so 1st Corinthians chapter 6 he said this everything is permissible for me but not everything is beneficial everything is permissible for me but I will not be mastered by anything and so Paul if you see that there is quotations around everything is permissible for me so as I read the scriptures you understand that that's not language coming from Paul he is quoting language from the people of Corinth they have taken the doctrine watch a freedom in Christ and they have expanded that doctrine to say well because I'm free in Jesus and we do this watch I can take my body and do whatever I want with it so I can indulge as much as I want I can neglect it as much as I want because I'm free in Jesus I could do whatever I want with my body I could treat it nice or I can treat it mean because I have freedom right and then he goes on to say this right food for the stomach and the stomach for food but God will destroy them both the body is not meant for sexual immorality but the Lord and the Lord is meant for the body so he's saying your body has a purpose beyond vanity next verse he says by his power God raised the Lord from the dead and he will raise you also next verse do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute never next verse do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you whom you have received from God you are not your own pause you are not your own next verse you were bought at a price all the Christians in the room lift your hands now you don't want to be shy now no no don't be shy lift your hands ha ha ha ha you're owned Oh God owns my stuff so I need to be a good steward over my stuff God owns you you were bought with a price therefore honor God with your body now let me just point out five things in this text that I think is very important number one is this everything is not beneficial for your physical body that's what the text says watch you have freedom in Christ but wisdom should dictate how much you use your freedom because the scripture says Paul says yes you have freedom but everything is not good for you so yes you can do what you want with your body but everything is not good for you yes you have freedom but everything is not good for you so the scripture dictates that although I have freedom to mature believer exercised wisdom over their freedom so my wisdom becomes the leash for my freedom your freedom is the dog and wisdom is the leash you can walk the dog wherever he wants but when he starts pulling you got to sit on you can't go that far I know you can have that but I don't want you to have that today no you ain't having that this year you know what you ain't having that no more so yes you have freedom but everything is not good for you ok another thing I want you to notice in this text your physical body it's so valuable it will be resurrected and recreated so listen to me carefully I don't have time to get into this just trust me because I study the Bible right when you die your spirit and soul leaves your body the Bible says to be absent from the body is to be present from the Lord so the minute you die your spirit leaves your body if you're not saved your soul is separated from God in a place of torment immediately you go down if you are safe immediately you go to be with the President of the Lord watch this as a spirit your body stays here in the earth in whatever condition it was left when it dies cremated buried burned cut up or dismembered it stays the matter cannot be destroyed it doesn't matter what anyone does to the body it will remain on the ground it cannot be destroyed even if it's burnt to dust then the scripture teaches when the Lord returns he will descend with the voice of an archangel and those who are dead in Christ not your spirit your body wherever it is in the earth if it's dust is gonna come back together like this if it's buried in the ocean it's gonna rise out of the water if it's in a grave is gonna bust through the casket wherever your body was left it's gonna come back together and it's gonna come out together and the Bible says the dead in Christ they will be raised first you will see bodies all over the place busting out of the ocean coming out of urns coming out of grains they're gonna be raised crying you're gonna see bodies raised then the Bible says if we who are alive when that happens which is gonna be caught up with Christ in the air then the scripture says something powerful happens it says in a moment in the twinkling of an eye your body is going to be recreated and you're gonna be given a brand new body watch sit for eternity why because the scripture teaches that God is gonna recreate the earth we're not gonna be in heaven forever don't believe you're not gonna be floating around on clouds and playing a harp forever we have to read the scriptures heaven is temporary we will go there for a season don't know how long that is and the Bible says God will recreate the earth trees people life nations water then the Bible says the abode of God will come down from heaven and we'll be in the new earth he will make his dwelling in the new earth and those who were with Christ will reign with him over cities nation some of us would be governmental leaders now listen you can slide in and hold the door and listen if I get in I hold the door I'm happy to hold the door and I want rule I want to rule I don't know about you I want to be faithful now so when I come I want to rule that's another of my sermon okay [Applause] but your physical body watch the house that you in right your body is so valuable that God is not gonna leave it here your body is so valuable so precious so priceless God is gonna resurrect it and recreate it you will leave it for season and be reunited with a brand-new body that thing that you're in is so valuable girl you're light-skinned your brown skin your dark skin your frame you tall you short you thick you skinny whatever your frame is it's so valuable it's gonna be we created when you stare at it in the mirror you got to look at that thing like man I was fearfully man this thing right here was fearfully and wonderfully made I'll never be over six feet tall in this life but I'm fearfully and wonderfully made and wherever this body is left it's gonna be recreated I hope with five more inches but it's gonna be replayed so you said man I don't like these blemishes you're not gonna have them in your new body I don't like this pain in my elbow you're not gonna have any a new body so it now is passive whoa that all that don't make no sense Jesus on a cross on a cross watch I'm almost done all on the cross taking his last breath watch what he says he says father into your hands I commit my spirit hangs his head his spirit leaves his body and is with the father his body remains on the cross he's gone that shell was just a shell he's gone it's just hanging there on a cross blooded the sland up for you but he's gone he is now in the presence of his father rich men come and take it down the shell but the shell is precious that's why he walked a lot that's why he ain't fitten okay the shell is precious they take the show and they lay it in a tomb but he's in heaven they wrapped the shell with with spices but he's in heaven they put it in a cloth but he's in heaven they put a stone in front of the tomb but he's in heaven but the body was so valuable that the Bible says God when he was ready on the morning of the dark day the Holy Spirit and they did that too the Bible says the Holy Spirit of God and fainted that to watch and resurrected the three day dead body of the Lord Jesus Christ and reunited the spirit with the body and the Christ stood up again the body didn't remain here it was returned to its owner the body was so valuable it wasn't left here it was returned to its owner and he came out that tomb on Sunday morning and changed the world with his body and was resurrected with his body and ate fish and bread with his disciples in his body and came through a wall and his body and said here is my final commandment to go into all the world preach this gospel to all creation baptizing in the name of the Father Son and the Holy Spirit teaching them everything I've commanded you and I will be with you always to the very end of the age and then he leaves in his next one your physical body is united with Krause so in my body I am I am theologically in my body join to Jesus so what if I do in my body I am effecting Jesus so if Jesus that I'm a hand on the body of Jesus so what if I do it my hand is affects my body I can even smack myself we keep smacking Jesus with the stupidity in our body or I could function to where I'm supposed to and grab what the father wants me to grab because my body is a part of the Lord Jesus Christ next your physical body is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit okay watch watch this all eyes on me like Tupac watch Old Testament everybody watch Old Testament watch God creates human beings but he lives in heaven God creates me but he lives in heaven but he wants to be in on the action he wants to get into the earth so he tells Moses built a tabernacle and build me a box overlaid with the best wood this is powerful put gold all around that joint put the two sugar beam on top of it and when you build it I'm gonna come live in the box it was called the Ark not a child in the wilderness I'm gonna come and live among you in the box so now here's my people in the tabernacle and he is with them in the box in the wilderness and then Solomon comes along and builds him a magnificent temple and builds a place called the Holy of Holies and takes the Ark of the Covenant and puts it in the holy Oh so the presence of God is with his people in a box and then when the box gets stolen people touch it and die because the box was valuable because God's Spirit was in the box so they touch it wrong and people died and a David went and he recovered the box and he brought it back to the City of David and he danced himself out of his clothes because he was so happy that's what the scripture says the scripture said his wife looked out the window and saw him dancing because he was so happy that he had the Ark of the Covenant God was in the box because he went to be with his people Jesus comes and fries this presence of God from the box no longer is the presence of God in the box but he still wants to be with his people so no longer does he live in a box or he doesn't live in a building he said now I'm gonna find me a new apartment [Applause] upgrade on my house I wanna upgrade on my apartment where can I find an upgrade I know Chiana I'm coming in her I know Cheyenne I'm coming in her I know Milton I'm coming in him Oh Jordan I'm coming in Phillip I'm about to get all up in you so no longer do I want to live in a box but I still want to be my people now I'm gonna take up residency in my people so now every time one of them puts their faith in me I take a piece of me and I put it in them they put their faith in me I put myself in them I no longer live in a box now the presence of God the new Ark are the hundreds of people in this room over hundreds like all these hundreds and hundreds of hundreds of Arc's in this room walking around and Kroger going to work driving down the highway Spirit of God in you [Music] afraid of what the devil said what I'm driving around with the Spirit of God in me I'm at my job with the Spirit of God and me I'm on the football field with the Spirit of God in me I'm in class with the Spirit of God in me I'm at the kitchen sink washing dishes with the Spirit of God in me I'm cutting grass with the Spirit of God and me I got my beat solo on with the Spirit of God in me I'm cooking food carry with the Spirit of God don't want to gather that rice in peace with the Spirit of God that's why you can't be dead you alive because the Spirit of God is in you your body is so valuable God used it as his new apartment apartment because he's gonna crash this one and then you're gonna get the eternal one and that will be like the house the upgrade you are steward of your physical body the scripture says that you were one but so that means that frame that you have you are actually responsible for managing that frame now you know I I was watching this video on YouTube but this guy he took like this big spray can and he walked up to a side of a building and he's he was doing graffiti on the side of the building and spraying the building and I said Lena look at this guy member that slipper this guy's spraying that big red I don't know if he was in a gang spraying all that red on the side of building I was like dag man like how could he do that to that building and I'm mad at him for vandalizing a building but what about my building I've analyzed my own building well how am I mad at somebody vandalizing something that don't matter but the building my spirit lives in we vandalized that all the time and don't care cuz we don't feel no responsibility to take care of the house that God has given us so Paul says before it because you was bought almost done you should honor God with your body let me begin to land a plane on this sermon saying we should answer the question like how am I gonna honor God with my body you can find 55 things on the Internet I don't care I just want to tell you what I think is real not a laundry list three things this is listen because you were bought because you're owned because your body is so valuable because all those things I just showed you the Bible says you should honor God with your body how do you honor God with your body number 1 by offering your body I offer it up why because it doesn't belong to me I put it on the altar of God what does that mean I said God you gave me this body I give it back to you for your service whatever you want me to do in my life I will do it because the life that I have is actually in the body so God whatever you want me to do I'm gonna do it for you Romans 12:1 therefore write I urge you brothers and sisters in view of God's mercy offer your bodies as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual act of worship do not conform any longer to the pattern Whistler but be transformed by renewing your mind then you will be able to test and approve what is God's will is perfect pleasing to we'll now everybody look at me really quickly when when when Paul wrote this almost done when Paul wrote this he wrote this to people who were Jewish so for you you here watch you here you here offer your bodies a living sacrifice and I'm like okay doesn't really resonate with me I know what that looks like but if I was a first century Jew you know what they had to do before Jesus every time they sinned they had to go get an animal from the house drag this animal to the priests bring it to an altar watch this and they would take the animal alive throw it on an altar and watch as the priest took knife in hand and sliced that animal blood splattered everywhere bloody and they stood there and watched it it's like it's like a barbarian bath blood everywhere and that was the forgiving citizens and that was their lifestyle so they understood this but watch their sacrifices came to the altar alive and left dead your sacrifice comes to the altar dead and leaves alive so their sacrifices came alive and left dead I'm when I'm not safe I come to his altar dead living sacrifices and I leave so you offer your body how is that God you gave me this body who gave him his life whatever you want me to do with my life I would do it for you I am a living sacrifice number two how else do you honor your body by caring for your body okay this is the part where I know nobody's gonna say Amen and you're gonna get mad and I'm not worried about that I'm just gonna tell you honestly listen we need to care for our bodies okay you know can you and you already know how this go down right like Karen for your body this is not like this is not really spiritual this not really deep you know you care for your body you know how does go down alright don't abuse it right like you know we abuse our bodies whether substances toxins or we put all kind of stuff in there we beat it down we abuse our body with substances man we mistreat our bodies you know physical activity is how you care for your body listen even if you walk around the corner once in a while physical activity is good for your body physical activity hypership we preserve it helps heal sickness you know I'm not I can't give you a scripture for exercise but physical activities scientifically healthy for you I mean I mean Jesus he almost didn't got like on a donkey one time he walked everyplace else he went you know so I I don't have a scripture for you I could just tell you walk moves have life in the spirit can't be a couch potato and be healthy right move physical activity helps the body in fact studies show that when you're physically active it keeps sicknesses at bay okay so we got like physical activity or what about recuperation for the body those of us who stay up late and get up early fill up bad for the body bad your body repairs when it sleeps I've said this three times i'ma say it again sleepless holy get some of it rest is holy get I had a nap yesterday for like four hours whoa man I came out from just my last bit of pray and study Saturday morning I get up early I would review my sermon on Sunday morning I came upstairs I'm looking at my kids I'm looking at my wife I said I'm not messing with y'all right now I was tired I laid down I did something real spiritual I took a nap sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is go to sleep you up late tirana and your brain not even working no more go to sleep you know the Bible says he gives his beloved sleep the Bible says is vain to stay up late and rise up early you up till 4:00 in the morning then God get up at 5:00 to go to work you got to get rest that's not godly I know you think it's godly but it's not all right you sir give me the scripture for that okay uh uh if you want to go read the Bible yourself first Timothy 4:8 Paul said to Timothy he said physical as some physical activity is good for the body but then he goes on to talk about the spirit so there's your exercise sermon the exercise scripture and then the last one let me let me finish up with this one last one you're gonna care for your body you have to you have to offer it you have to take care of it you have to manage it you are steward of this body have to manage it well the last one is nourishing your body she okay that's not everybody feel right now never seen anybody oh my god don't talk to me about what I'm about to eat no pass don't get ready to go to the restaurant oh can I just give you the definition of nourish nourish means to this is so like the part of Thurman that's almost like carnal right like so yeah I think this is not spiritual nourish me is to supply watch this almost done what is necessary not gluttony what is necessary for life health growth it means to cherish strengthen build up and keep alive to nourish now III don't I don't know if you ever noticed this so I you know for food and drink is very significant for the body without food and drink we will die we need food and drink to die too much of the wrong food and drink we will die right but what was God's intention when he created food I don't know if you ever peep this but Genesis 1:28 let me just show you this real quick all right God blessed him so God God created a body out of the ground he breathed into it life the body becomes a living being and then he says this to them God blessed them and said to them be fruitful and increase in number fill the earth and subdue it almost done rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the every and creature that moves on the ground stop so watch God created a body he put himself in the body breathe into the body living soul became a living soul so boom I made a body boom I gave it my spirit next I gave it a commandment and instructions for life this is your purpose do these things and then what's the very next thing God says to him I made you I gave you directions for your life and the very next thing he says to him was not going build churches but he said this he said the very next thing he said then God said to them I'd give you every seed-bearing plan on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it they will be yours for food so he gives me purpose and he gives me diet it gives me purpose for my physical body fill the earth subdue it work then he gives me diet ok next thing he says it didn't register next verse next verse yeah yeah update crying give me my next Genesis 2:8 Genesis 2 a the Lord God went into the garden they are winded the Lord God planted a garden toward the east and Eden almost finishes my last point and there he placed a man whom he had formed out of the ground the Lord God caused to work the garden out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the site and was good for food so God makes the body gives purpose for the body and the next thing he does he gives a diet right but watch watch everybody watch me almost done this is before Genesis 3 this is before sin this is before the fall so in their perfect state God gave them everything they needed for nourishment for life for health for energy for strength what did he give them trees seeds plants fruits vegetables watch and with and that's all he gave them and watch for the work of filling the whole earth he gave them trees why would God design that diet because he designed a body so he knew what was best for nourishment now in the New Testament we have freedom to [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] let me help you Danny let me help y'all let me help you I gotta get you out of here let me help you but this is what I was waiting for [Laughter] look before I get to the New Testament I can't just throw this in there and I don't want to make waves and I'm not trying to beat nobody down but could I just say something to you just I know I'm gonna get email I know they're gonna be on my Instagram on my Twitter I already know they're not gonna like me for what I'm about to say I'm gonna meet before I get to the New Testament can I just throw this out there just for you to think about I just want you to think about this without sin we're all vegetarians cela okay let me get to the new she's looking at me like how all right let me explain to you she's looking at me like how is that possible I'll listen in Genesis 1 and 2 there is no sin and because there's no sin there's no murder because if you read Genesis 1:30 it gave animals the same diet plants so watch if there's no killing there's no eating of meat Genesis 3 sin enters in the world and now God has to kill the first animal to cover their nakedness and now killing is born now our diet changes now we become herbivores to becoming Connor now we just eat meat consequently meat is the number one cause of cancer and heart disease and all manner of issues now I'm not listening to me now now let me give you a New Testament now in the New Testament listen listen God knew that is why even read Leviticus even when the people come out of slavery he let them eat meat when he told him what meat not to eat why because he designed their bodies he knew what was optimal for life health strength and energy so I'm just gonna leave that right there okay now listen before you have a heart attack in the New Testament the scripture lifts all those bad you are free to eat whatever you want Paul so as long as you pray over your food you can eat whatever you want so look have the steak eat the cheese potatoes with the asparagus sip the wine and order the vanilla cake God is not gonna be mad the only thing I can encourage you as a New Testament believer it's just Stuart should diet with wisdom that's all I could say I have no scripture to control your diet I could just tell you can Stuart your diet with wisdom but without sin we're all green fruit nuts but eat would have eat the steak have the cheese potatoes sip the wine ordered a vanilla cake this is what Paul says give me my next verse Paul says in in 1st Corinthians 10:31 so whatever you eat or drink whatever you do do it all for the glory of God that is the way you handle your body your food you exercise all of that he says do it for the glory of God for the glory of God let me give you two statements and I'm done the pursuit of physical health is not about vanity it is about glory should care for your body because of glory it's not about being barf or getting into a bathing suit it's not about oh yeah that's good but really when I think about my physical health is not about I got to lose a few pounds to it's a my steward in my body for the glory of God because the body is so valuable to God we should give attention to our physical health so let me just close this message with these two questions number one it's the current stewardship of my body wise and glorifying to the Lord I want you to think about that this week because I want you to be as live as long as you can it's the current stewardship of my body wise and pleasing to the Lord and in the last question if not what is the first step I can take towards better physical health because I mean you could preach about calling and anointings and gifting and all of that but if you prematurely die what good is that gonna be you could talk about man I'm a mighty whatever but if you don't got no energy what good is that guy he says serve the Lord God with all your mind but only soul know your heart and we don't think about that last one with all your strength strength means my ability my physical body why should you care about your physical health because your body is valuable to the Lord he bought it he gave it to you he's gonna recreate it I just want you to think about are you being a wise steward with your physical body what you put it in there what you do with it where you take it what's laying down with where it's going when this is over are you being a wise steward with your body we're gonna give an account for that and if you're not men I don't saying change your diet tomorrow I'm just saying man what is maybe just one thing you can do maybe just one thing one thing I can say no one starting tomorrow starting this year I'm going to whatever what is the first step I can make on a journey towards physical health that's why you didn't preach about spiritual health because you hear that all year round every year your life the word fast pray come to church we're all growing spiritually but are we growing mentally we don't hear sermons about the mind are we growing emotionally we don't hear sermons about the emotions and we damn sure don't hear sermons about the body the mental health the emotion of your physical health next week I'll close the series with something very special for you you don't want to miss it you are going to enjoy it you should care about your physical health because it is the house that God gave you to fulfill your purpose on the earth it is your vehicle of vitality Amen my brothers and sisters we hope this message was a blessing for you and you have a testimony please email us at share a victory church 8 co.org again thank you for tuning in we look forward to seeing you next week [Music]

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Published: Mon Mar 19 2018