Every believer
has a voice and it's the Voice
of Victory. ♪ ♪ My God has made a way for me Praise God everybody, this is the Believer's Voice
of Victory broadcast. I'm Kenneth Copeland,
you probably figured that out by now. Jesus is Lord! Father, we thank
You again today. Glory to God, we give
You praise and honor, for Your Word states very
clearly that Your people are destroyed for a
lack of knowledge. Yet You said, Jesus, you
shall know the truth and the truth will
make you free. So we are finding out the
truth about some things, we're finding out the Holy
Spirit truth about some things, and we praise You for
it and we thank You for it. In the name of
Jesus, glory to God. Amen. Welcome Dr. Colbert-
- Thank you. - oh, Mary,
that's your name. I haven't known you
but 39, 72 years. How old is Kyle? - Thirty seven. - Thirty seven. Well, I've known you 38 years- - Thirty eight. - because I held
him in my arms. - Right. That's right. It's been a long time. - It's been a long time. - A wonderfully long time. - We're celebrating 40
years of our marriage. - Praise God! - This weekend. Forty. - Forty years? Well, you're still
behind though. - I know. You're at sixty-something. - I'll point right at
it, we're... April '59. - Praise God! - If you count the six months we
went together, we're 67. Hello everybody. Dr. Colbert's
Healthy Gut Zone. This is the area,
the most important, this is what I've
learned over the years, a lot from you and the Lord
and a lot of things from my mother and my dad. This area, the top two,
the brain, the heart, then the gut, for health. Right? - Exactly. If you have a healthy gut,
you'll generally have a healthy brain and
a healthy heart. - That's the point. - Yes. - Now the reason that
I'm an only child, my dad and mother got
married when she was 16, she didn't quite
finish high school. The reason why is right
here, she was an athlete. She loved to play basketball. Her appendix ruptured on
the basketball court because they didn't know how
to eat anything but ham, biscuits and gravy. - Wow. - She didn't know any
better, raised on a farm. They just ate
what they raised. Then the doctor opened her up
and saw what a mess it was in. He didn't even sew her up. He just used cadaver clamps
because she had to die. Now my grandfather,
full-blood Cherokee Indian, in times like this
he didn't talk much. When things got bad, the
Indian came out of him, he just stopped
to think, grunt. He walked in there to him and
gave him some encouragement. He said, she dies you die. So he didn't even
bother to fix her up. He sewed her up. Now listen to this right here. Common enemy number
eight: constipation. Because of the situation, they
told her she couldn't live but 10 years, don't ever
try to have children. This is the reason
I'm an only child. She suffered constipation so
bad, I mean, all the time. She lived on animals. Then she later went to school
and became a naturopath and a chiropractor. Then she learned nutrition
and learned what the problem actually was and why
she was like she was. She tried to have another
baby and they stopped it. They wouldn't let her do it. I wound up being
an only child. Can you see, in the audience,
can you see how what she ate changed my life, how
it affected my life? I had no brothers and sisters
because of what she ate. Back then, it wasn't
a little fang scar. - Yeah, right. - You should've
seen her midsection. She was born in 1911. She was operated
on when she was 16. She was cut from stem to
stern, this terrible scar. She kept her weight down. - She learned how to
eat the right food. - She learned how to eat- - Praise God! - and that
prolonged her life. - Yes. She lived 71 years, excuse
me, 61 years past that. She was 77. - Yeah. - That's amazing! - That's amazing. - That's miraculous
there, back in the day, to live that long. - My grandfather died
of heart trouble. Then she died of
heart trouble. When I started going that same
direction, I was way ahead. I look like the Owens,
my DNA was Owens. When I was a young
boy they thought, I'll be with my uncle. They thought I was his son. I looked more like him
than his own sons do. That's where my DNA went. They diagnosed me with the
same heart problems that she had because in the
beginning of all of this, I didn't know how to eat
either because she taught me and I refused to
do what she said. - You know, most heart
disease is due to inflammation. The inflammation is usually
due to the inflammatory foods we eat. Sugar is one of the most
inflammatory foods we can eat. Yet it's the most
tempting food. So many people come to see me
every day and I always do an inventory of their diet. The thing 99% of
people crave is sugar. I tell them the root cause
of your disease is sugar. Always, 95% of the
time, I would say. Literally they say,
I can't give it up. I love it too much. I'd rather have my sugar
than have my health. - That's what I'm
talking about, that's what we were talking
about in my dressing room back there. - They say, help
me to hate sugar. I said, you got to do that. I can't do that for you. You've got to do it. You've got to lay
sugar on the altar. - I challenge you. I knew I had a spirit
of gluttony about me. I knew that. I didn't have to be a
scientist to figure that out because I couldn't
quit eating anything. From what I weighed
this morning, I didn't have to
stay there very long, but there was a time I
weighed a hundred pounds more than that. I weighed right around
162 this morning. - That's great. - I weighed 263 at one time. I found gluttony and drunkard
in the same scriptures. It's the same problem. Most of you know, I have a
weird way of renewing my mind. When I found out this
was a living sacrifice, for a long time I didn't
call this my body. I called it my sacrifice. I decided sugar
is out of my life. It's gone right now,
just made the decision. The decision is yours. God can't make the
decision for you. - I think that is a good
point because a lot of people want God to do it. - Right. - They want God to do it. - Take the desire away. - Yet God says, no, I've
given you the authority over you. You do it. - You can't leave up to him what he's left up to us. - That's right. - Right. - He created every living
thing to eat food. He created it. He created the same
system, particularly in warm blooded animals. He created this same system,
one form or another, in all of them. He controls what they eat
because they can't choose their own. They have their babies at the
same time of year, every year. We have free choice. People started offering me
cake and pie and all the stuff that I craved. I would smile and say, no
thank you, I don't drink. What? What does that have to
do with anything about this coconut pie? Sometimes they ask me and then
I refer to those scriptures in the book of Proverbs and
say, I'm done with sugar. I never was hung
up on alcohol. I didn't like it
to start with. It wasn't that I was above
it, I didn't like it. I didn't like to lose my
consciousness over anything. I liked to eat. Isn't this the
Christian problem? You get delivered from alcohol
and the next thing you got is the sugar bowl. - Amen. Substitute one
addiction for another. Well, hear this-
- Listen to this. - this tells it so well. The scripture you're referring
to is in Proverbs 23, verse 21, the drunkard and the
glutton shall come to poverty. He puts them in
the same category. They're both addictions,
sugar addictions, alcohol addictions. Then in Philippians chapter
3, verse 19 it says, whose God is their belly. It goes on to say, who set
their mind on earthly things. To be carnally
minded is death. To be spiritually minded
is life and peace. When we set our minds on the
earthly things, on the flesh, we are asking for death. Excessive sugar leads
to death, yet they say, I crave it. Let me tell you
why you crave it. So many people ask me,
why do I crave sugar? Why do I crave these
processed carbs and starches? It's what's on the inside
of you, in your colon, in your gut. Let me explain it. There are four key classes,
families of bacteria that live inside your colon. In fact, we have over a
hundred trillion of these little teeny bacteria that
literally helped to train our immune system. - Is that what
you call a flora? - That's called
the microbiome. That's literally the good
flora in our gut that helps our immune system. What happens is,
unfortunately, when we eat a lot of
sugars, carbs and starches, it causes our body to shift to
having lots of this one family called the Firmicutes. The Firmicutes are a type of
family of bacteria in the gut that causes us to extract more
calories out of the food. It actually changes our
tastes so that we crave more super sweetness. We start craving
that ice cream. We start craving that
sugar, that cake, that pie, all of those sweets, because
these Firmicutes do- - I remember this. I didn't realize
I was craving it. I just enjoy it. - And what happened? - Then the next time
it came out, I think, I shouldn't eat that. One more time is all right. - The flesh says, just a
little and what happens? People cannot take one bite. - I know one that can. - That's rare. That's very rare! - That little blonde headed
woman right over there? When we first got married- - She's strong-willed, - I've never known
anyone like her. - This was back when
she wash dishes... - Here is one right here. - And there was no such
thing as a dishwasher in our house in those days. Somebody is always sending
us some candy and stuff, so she'd take it out. One of my favorite candy
bars was a Baby Ruth. She'd pinch off a
little end of it, take the wrapper and set
it in the window sill. The next time she would
come in to wash dishes, probably at the
evening meal... Now this happened
three days ago, I went in to the freezer and
there are some I'm talking about blueberry Blue Bell
ice cream in little cups. - Oh yeah. - Three spoonful cups,
for me, one tablespoon. I opened one of them and
there was a little corner out of that. I took that in there, I said,
Gloria, did you eat that? - Yes. She took the corner. - That's amazing. Ninety-nine point nine percent
of people could not have just one tiny taste. They would have to
have the whole thing. - And you lick the box. - That's right. (laughs) Let me paint the picture so
people understand what is happening here. They did a study in 2013
and they had human twins. They took the microbiome,
the good bacteria, the bacteria out of the
colon, of the human twins. One was obese. One was slender. They transplanted into
mice that were slender. The mice that got the
bacteria from the microbiome of the obese twin, they
all got obese. The mice that received the
microbiome of the slender twin stayed slender. They analyze the microbiome,
the bacteria that were in these animals' colons. - Isn't that amazing. - They found that the
animals that were fat had a predominance of
Firmicutes. The mice that were lean had a
predominance of Bacteroidetes. These are family
of good bacteria. - What's the difference
between them? - The Firmicutes are a
family that make you fat. They extract more
calories out of the food. They change your
taste perceptions. You literally crave
super sweetness. The Bacteroidetes,
on the other hand, you don't have the
sugar cravings, you crave healthy foods. What happened is they found
that they can literally examine your microbiome,
your gut bacteria, and they can tell about 90%
whether you'll be obese or not based on what you have a
predominance of in your gut. What happened to my wife last
year is she got strep throat and she took an antibiotic, a
real strong one and she said, I got an antibiotic. I tried to treat. I said, Mary, you don't
want an antibiotic, please don't take
an antibiotic. She says, no, this
hurts too bad. Finally I consented, very
reluctantly, but then, you want to tell
them what happened, after taking that antibiotic? - One of the things Don
talks about in the book, which is going to help you
get so many answers here, because I'm telling you, when
this revelation gets to the general public, we're
going to see America shrink. They're going to be getting
skinnier and thinner because they're going to get this
revelation of what's happening in their body. Now they're going to know
how to fix it without having to use medicine,
drugs, surgeries. There are things in this book
that's going to give you the answers of how you can
shift what's going on in your GI tract. But with me, when I
got the sore throat, it felt like shards
of glass in my throat. I mean, it was the
most painful thing. I've never had it before. I didn't know what it was. We'd been flying. We'd been in North
Carolina and I had been in cold and hot. - I treat this
naturally all the time. - All the time, but I said, no, I hate pain. Y'all have to understand. I hate pain. I said, just give me the guns. Give me the guns so
it'll be gone tomorrow. Well, what happened is- - It'll get you later! - I had no idea what
was coming later. Those guns destroyed all of
my good bacteria- - Most of them. - in my GI tract and
everything I put in my body, no matter what it was I ate, I
grew welts on my arms and my legs and I was on fire. It was like somebody had- - She said it was
like someone used a blow torch,
burning her skin. She couldn't sleep at night. - I woke up in the middle of
the night thinking someone had set my arms on fire. - Every time you ate
sugar, tell what happened. - I don't really
eat a lot of sugar, but anything that converted
to sugar of some sort, it set me on fire. He had to start looking at
every ingredient to everything that could possibly convert. - Any food high in histamine,
like strawberries- - Strawberry is a good one. Strawberries are good. But for me, I would
eat a strawberry and I was set on fire. - Even healthy foods, if they
were high histamine foods, they set her on fire. tomatoes, tomato sauce,
anything like that. - Spinach would set her on fire. - He says Mary, we've
got to heal your gut. We've just got to heal you've
gut and you'll be fine. It's going to take 30 days. You're going to
need to be patient. - You've got to give
her a time limit. - I have got to go
through this for 30 days? I thought I'll never take
another antibiotic as long as I live! He literally- - Salads, salads, salads. - Within 30 days,
salads, olive oil... - No tomatoes,
couldn't take tomatoes. - No tomatoes, nothing
anti-histamine. - No histamine. - It was day 31, the
fiber or collagen... - She would have that fire
and I would say, Mary, go in there, take that
fiber, take your probiotic, take that collagen. It's going to heal the lining
and just trust me within... Go ahead. - Literally, 31 days,
I woke up, gone. - One day longer than I said. - It was gone. I was totally healed. I could eat anything again. It was totally gone. I said, Don, my GI is healed. - Let me tell you
what happened here. Those antibiotics created
tremendous leaky gut. Let me explain leaky gut
and pray we have time. Leaky gut is called increased
intestinal permeability. It is the root cause of most
every disease that we see. GI disease and
systemic disease, I go in detail in that. Again, our body, according to
Psalms 150 is fearfully and wonderfully made. God has put our septic system
right next to the blood. One cell thickness
separates it. He has designed our small
intestine to be finger-like projections. In-between the cells of your
gut are tight junctions. When you get antibiotics, when
you get anti-inflammatory meds, when you get
acid-blocking meds, the three most
common meds, usually, that most doctors prescribe
every day with most patients, they disrupt these
tight junctions. These tight junctions meant
to keep our sewage from our blood, open up with
thousands, tens of thousands, millions of tiny little holes. Undigested foods start
to go through there. - Oh, brother. - Also, instead of just amino
acids and fatty acids and monosaccharides, you start
getting whole proteins and peptides coming
through there. It creates inflammation,
food sensitivities and eventually leads- - No wonder tomatoes set it off. - Yes, - So much acid. - Yes, acid. It eventually leads to
systemic inflammation, systemic disease,
autoimmune disease. What is happening is the
whole key causes leaky gut. What we do now is
we remove that. We identify and remove the
foods that trigger it. I've told you the main
three meds that trigger and is mainly caused by
doctors like myself. I won't tell my testimony
what happened in 1990 when I developed psoriasis. The Lord dealt with me and
gave me that insatiable desire to find the knowledge. I went to a dermatologist, he
looked at me and he said, Don, you're going to have
this rest of your life. You've got psoriasis, the
heartbreak of psoriasis, get ready to deal with it. Just smear this cream
all over your body, this Aquafor that made
me stink like road tar. Finally I got fed up
with it and I said, I know God healed me before. He held me out of a heat
stroke and muscles that literally disintegrated. He restored it and he
led me into the key. I talk about it in my
book, but what I did, I healed the gut
within approximately
three to six months, psoriasis totally gone. That was back around 1991. That was 30 years ago. - What's amazing is,
from healing the gut, your cravings are
going to disappear. - Right. - You're going to shift from
where all these carbs and sugars you're wanting, you
won't want them anymore. - Let me add, let me
add something to that. - Yeah. - Communion is extremely
important in this. You take this wonderful
book and this wonderful, God-backed knowledge,
and you read it. We're out of time. I'll take it up
right here tomorrow. Okay, come on, Jeremy son! Thank you, Pawpaw. Folks, we are seeing
the connection. When you have a healthy
digestive system, you will have a healthy
brain and heart. The good news is you get to
choose what are the right things to do and eat, but
no one can make that decision for you. God gave you the
power to choose. Look to his Word and his
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this week on the broadcast. We know God's will is healing. We know that. Yet so many people seem to be
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practical steps towards God's promise of healing. Dr. Colbert shares insight
about how all healing begins in the gut. Through science, he proves
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