1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Well, good evening everyone. Happy almost Sabbath. Let me just get this up on your screen. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 I hope you're doing well and I hope you can see the screen. 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:21,000 So this is supposed to be more an interactive session so we can by all means feel free to talk and ask questions and things like that. 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Thank you Kevin. I've been communicating with Kevin about coming here and it's a blessing to be here in Ringgold. 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:35,000 I have driven past Ringgold once. I have a friend who lives somewhere past the bridge. 6 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,000 If you keep going further up, I don't even know what the area is called. 7 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,000 So yeah, I didn't know the church was here so that's a blessing. 8 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 My name is Tapio. I did grow up in Zimbabwe. That's in southern Africa. 9 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Right next to South Africa, like up north. 10 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:59,000 And grew up also in England but the British accent is more or less gone by now. Sometimes it pops up. 11 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,000 So today we want to discuss, let me grab my Bible. 12 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 We want to talk a little bit about health. 13 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,000 And I know you're going through a health series. You've been dealing with the physical, the mental, and the spiritual. 14 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 I think you did the mental. So today we're more going through the physical aspect. 15 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:24,000 And again, the text that we've been looking at is Luke chapter 10 and verse 27. 16 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Where it says, and he answering said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, 17 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:39,000 with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. 18 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:45,000 So what does it mean? Now we're going to focus on all your strength. 19 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 What does it mean to love the Lord with all your strength? 20 00:01:50,000 --> 00:02:00,000 What do we think it means? 21 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Okay. Energy, ability, passion, all these things. 22 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:11,000 How many of you have ever woken up in the morning and you're like, I'm just so drained. I just, I'm done, right? 23 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Okay. So imagine that now and you open your Bible and you see love the Lord your God with all your, 24 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 now praise God, God says all your strength. 25 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:26,000 So if you've got 10 percent strength at that moment, God is like, okay, 10 percent, right? 26 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:31,000 But all your strength, we want to dig into kind of like the basis of this. 27 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Now, I was curious, I started looking at what impacts our strength. 28 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 And, you know, I just put in, I just selected just two verses. I didn't go into a lot. 29 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 But in Ecclesiastes 10-17, it says, Blessed are you, O land, when your king, 30 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:52,000 sorry, when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes eat in due season. 31 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Now notice they eat for what? For strength and not for drunkenness. 32 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,000 So one thing we learn from the Bible is eating affects our strength. 33 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 One way or the other. That's what the verse points that out, right? 34 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:18,000 But also another aspect is we have, but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 35 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:23,000 So you have, you know, the princes, they eat for strength and not for drunkenness. 36 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:29,000 So our physical strength also is impacted by what we eat. 37 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 But also our relationship with the Lord impacts also our strength. 38 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 So keep this in mind. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 39 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,000 Okay? Now, I want to go to something very basic. 40 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,000 What is health? How would you define health? 41 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 You're doing a health series. You need to talk about health. 42 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 So how would you define health? Well-being? Okay. 43 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Anything else? Oh, thank you. 44 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Health, well-being, could be good or bad. Okay. 45 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:09,000 That's a good point. Anything else? We'll take one more. 46 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Health. 47 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Okay. Yes. Go for it, sister. 48 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Okay. Being physically able to do things. 49 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 All right. Very interesting. So we have very different definitions of health. 50 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Notice how the World Health Organization defined health. 51 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Okay. I found this very interesting. 52 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,000 They said health basically said freedom from disease, 53 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,000 a state of complete physical, mental, and spiritual, and social well-being, 54 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,000 and not merely the absence of disease. 55 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Who thinks that's a very good definition? 56 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,000 It's okay, right? It's a fair definition. 57 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Physical, mental, spiritual, and social well-being, which I found interesting that they included that. 58 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 But let me cast your mind back to Genesis. 59 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:13,000 How would Adam and Eve define health? 60 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Okay. All right. Now, do you get the point that she's made just there? 61 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:25,000 Okay. Go for it, my brother. 62 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Uh-huh. 63 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Okay. Very good point. So before the fall. 64 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I didn't think that it might go to after the fall. That depends on the point. 65 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 So keep in mind, in our world, we tend to define something based on a negative. 66 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 So we will say, for example, health is the absence of disease. 67 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Now, but for Adam and Eve, when Adam was created, when Eve was created, 68 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:57,000 if you asked Adam or Eve, what is health, Adam would probably say health is normal. 69 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Like, he cannot define it based on disease because he's never had disease. 70 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,000 So this is why when we talk about health, health is something that in God's plan, 71 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 health was always to be the normal. 72 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:19,000 So now in our fallen world, when we talk about health, health is to be restored and regained. 73 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Health is not something that, you know, is just like, ah, it just happens by chance. 74 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:31,000 So mankind was created healthy, perfectly healthy. 75 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 And part of God's plan is to restore man to his original creation. 76 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 That's why health is so important. 77 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:44,000 But also we need to ask ourselves, why would God make humanity healthy in the very beginning? 78 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,000 What role does health play in terms of our own relationship with God? 79 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 And also, what is the state of mankind? 80 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Well, we already kind of answered that. 81 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Now, I want to share with you a story first about my good friend, Jonathan. 82 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 He's one of my best friends over there in Wildwood. 83 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Jonathan, when he was 22 years old, he's 6'3", his height, but he weighed 379 pounds and his BMI was 47. 84 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 He was severely obese. 85 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Okay. 86 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 That was Jonathan's story. 87 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Now, four years later, Jonathan had dropped to 255 pounds. 88 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:29,000 He was at 379, then he dropped to 255, and he was on this journey where he wanted to basically get to a certain weight. 89 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Now, the question always is, well, how did he do that? 90 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Everyone wants to know the how, but really the why he did that is also very important. 91 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 Okay. 92 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,000 And so, and I'll share that a little bit as we go on. 93 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Now, I want to begin by giving us a reality of what our world and what our country is going through right now. 94 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:58,000 That's supposed to say the cost of health, but when I transferred it, it messed up the screen. 95 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Now, this data is now a little bit old because it's from 2021, but I want you to notice the national health expenditure grew 2.7% 96 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:16,000 this is 2021, to $4.3 trillion, okay, national here in the States, okay. 97 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Then Medicare spending grew 8.4%, it's at $900.8 billion. 98 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Now, would you say health care is a costly business? 99 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:34,000 All right. Look at the figures we're talking about, like, $908 billion, $900.8 billion. 100 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Then out-of-pocket spending also grew to just over $430 billion. 101 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 That doesn't stop there. 102 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Prescription drug spending actually also went up, it's now $378 billion, 103 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:55,000 and the national health spending is projected to grow at an average rate of 5.4%. 104 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:02,000 They're projecting up to 2028, and they're saying that it would be about $6.2 trillion. 105 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:14,000 That's a lot of zeros to deal with, but as you can see, health comes at a cost, at least on a national perspective. 106 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Also, of the millions of dollars spent each year in the United States, or for Medicare, 107 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:27,000 it is estimated that 3% or less is actually spent on prevention of disease. 108 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:34,000 So keep this in mind. Over 97% is spent on someone's already sick, and we're dealing with that. 109 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Less than 3% on prevention, right? 110 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Now, what this means is simply put, money is being spent when people have actually become sick, 111 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,000 when it should have been spent before they become sick. 112 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:55,000 And in simple words, an ounce of prevention is always better than cure. 113 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Does that make sense? 114 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Now, think of it practically this way. 115 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:06,000 How many of you would rather get cancer and then be healed from cancer, 116 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:12,000 or you'd rather just, I'd just rather not even get it in the first place, right? 117 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Any sensible person would say, it's okay, I don't need to get it, I'd rather not get it. 118 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:23,000 So that's this aspect of prevention is always better than cure. 119 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Now, praise God, God will work with us and God wants to cure us if we find ourselves in that position, 120 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:37,000 but God would rather his children not go through it in the first place. 121 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Now, Proverbs 27, verse 17, I put the New Living Translation. 122 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,000 It says, a prudent person foresees the danger. 123 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,000 The danger ahead and takes precaution. 124 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:55,000 The simpleton will go on blindly and basically they will suffer the consequences. 125 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,000 So we see, basically imagine you see a tornado coming. 126 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:04,000 The prudent person sees tornado, shelter immediately. 127 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Now, it's saying the simpleton or the one who's not wise is going to keep walking towards that tornado 128 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,000 and things are not going to end well. 129 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Now, we need to take the same approach when it comes to health and sickness. 130 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:24,000 We need to be, again, being prudent, looking ahead and seeing what causes disease 131 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:31,000 and then by God's grace, we want to say, Lord, help me to be proactive, not to wait and then become reactive. 132 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:39,000 So I want you to imagine you leave this meeting, you get home and this is what welcomes you as you open your front door. 133 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Can somebody, I don't know if you can see the picture clearly, but you have like a flood in your home. 134 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Now, I once asked some lifestyle guests, we have some guests that come with health issues, 135 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 so I asked them, what would you do if you got home and this was the case? 136 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:59,000 One lady says, I would simply shut the door and walk away and I'm not coming back home. 137 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Now, what would you do? 138 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 This was your home? 139 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Turn off the faucet. 140 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Now, why would it not make sense for you to, first thing you do is run, you grab a bucket and you grab a mop and you start mopping. 141 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Okay. 142 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,000 It keeps coming back and that's the key right there. 143 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Whenever we deal with anything to do with health and disease, we want to actually address the cause. 144 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Now, unfortunately, most times we address the symptoms, we address the water that's flooding the floor, 145 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:42,000 but you want to actually get to the tap and turn the tap off because here the faucet is running. 146 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 That's the main issue there. 147 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:51,000 So when we think of disease, we want to understand what causes disease and how can we address that? 148 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 And why should we even care? 149 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 What's disease got to do with Luke 10, 27? 150 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Why does God tell me to love him with all my strength? 151 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Now, notice this from a book called Ministry of Healing. 152 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000 I recommend this book. 153 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 It says disease never comes without a cause. 154 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 So disease will never come without basically a cause. 155 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:22,000 It says the way is prepared and disease invited by disregard of the laws of health. 156 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 So imagine this. 157 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 I'm here today as your guest speaker. 158 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,000 I had to be invited in order to come. 159 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Now, what this is saying is the same principle works with disease. 160 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Disease actually needs to get an invitation for it to come, whether it's intentional or unintentional. 161 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Now, there is a promise that I find very interesting in the Bible. 162 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Again, this is the New Living Translation. 163 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 This is God speaking. 164 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,000 It says, if you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in his sight, 165 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 obeying his commands and keeping all his decrees, 166 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:10,000 then I will not make you to suffer the diseases I sent on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you. 167 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Now, I came from an area where I very much was interested in science. 168 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:23,000 When I read this verse, I wondered, well, what are the diseases of the Egyptians in the first place? 169 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 What is this talking about? 170 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:31,000 Now, in this world, there are people that have invested their life in studying these things. 171 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000 I say, God bless them. 172 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,000 I would never want such a job where I spend time looking at mummies and things like that. 173 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,000 But over in Manchester in England, we have Dr. Rosalie David from the University of Manchester. 174 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,000 All they did was basically they've been taking all these mummies that they can find. 175 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:55,000 There's also a French doctor called Claude Rufius who is basically doing more or less autopsies. 176 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:01,000 They're doing pathology studies on it. 177 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:07,000 They've come up with a list of top 10 diseases that killed the ancient Egyptians. 178 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Very, very interesting. 179 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Now, does anyone know the number one cause of death in America? 180 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Heart disease. 181 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 In fact, in the world, heart disease. 182 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 That's the number one. 183 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Cancer is there on the list. 184 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Now, guess what was the number one cause of death for the ancient Egyptians? 185 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Heart disease was top. 186 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:39,000 And they found cancer, vascular diseases, arthritis, hepatitis, tetanus, and there's others. 187 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 There's others that make up that top 10. 188 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Now, the thing now that's interesting about this is why do we find the same diseases in ancient Egypt as in now our modern, especially the modern Western world? 189 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Okay. 190 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:02,000 There is something similar about ancient Egypt and our time. 191 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:08,000 Yes, go for it. 192 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Definitely. 193 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 And you know, it's interesting. 194 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,000 The Bible tells us there's nothing new under the sun. 195 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:23,000 And so does anyone know the lifestyle of the Egyptians? 196 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 What? 197 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Sorry. 198 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Lavish. 199 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Okay. 200 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Sedentary, right? 201 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Now, keep this in mind. 202 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000 In ancient Egypt, remember they had the Israelites doing the work. 203 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:41,000 So the Egyptians were very, they were living a good sedentary, relaxed life, very lavish as well, right? 204 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:51,000 And you notice our time, the big challenge we have is we also now are going more towards a very sedentary lifestyle. 205 00:16:51,000 --> 00:17:01,000 In fact, there was a study that came out where they found that sitting down for long periods of time has a detrimental effect on you more than smoking 600 cigarettes. 206 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,000 The moment I heard that my friend I work with, he went and got a treadmill. 207 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 And he has a treadmill in his office. 208 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,000 So then I was saying, Esteban, you've got to lend me your treadmill. 209 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 I don't want to sit down that long. 210 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000 But I was shocked by that. 211 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,000 But again, we are made to move. 212 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Our bodies are actually made to move, right? 213 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:29,000 And again, here's the top 10 at least disease causing in the United States. 214 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Now, this is from, I think, 2021. 215 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Now, COVID was in there, but COVID really was not. 216 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,000 It's a whole big story. 217 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,000 So just ignore COVID at number three there. 218 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 But heart disease and cancer are the top. 219 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Heart disease has always been an issue. 220 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Now, I want to illustrate some of the laws. 221 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Remember the quotation that was there, it says that disease basically is invited by disregard of the laws of health. 222 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Now, in the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln made a very interesting statement. 223 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,000 He said, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, 224 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:14,000 that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, 225 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 226 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Now, we're not going into independence and all this kind of thing, 227 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:29,000 but I want you to notice this little word he uses is truths which are self-evident. 228 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Now, guess what? 229 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Within nature, God has also put truths which are self-evident, which are natural law. 230 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 So we have, for example, the stars in their orbit. 231 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:47,000 So later when it gets dark and you look outside, you're going to see the stars, if the sky is clear enough. 232 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:55,000 And guess what? No one tells the stars, hey, by the way, can you please be out in your position at certain time tonight? 233 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:00,000 It's there, the law is set, the stars, you will see them at that time. 234 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000 Also, they're changing seasons. 235 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Now, where I came from, you can have, in England, you can have basically, now you can have all seasons in one day. 236 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:15,000 So, you know, in your car you just take your winter coat in there, you take your summer thing as well. 237 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 You just never know what's coming. 238 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:23,000 But the seasons also are set by natural law. 239 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,000 We have migrating birds in winter. 240 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:32,000 So, you know, you see some geese show up and when winter is kicking in, they disappear for a while. 241 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Also, caterpillar to butterfly. 242 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,000 These are just things that naturally will take place. 243 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Then you have the duffel deals in spring, for those of you that love the flowers and the beauty, right? 244 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 So, this is natural law. 245 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:57,000 But guess what? Our bodies also, God has designed them with certain physical laws, natural laws. 246 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:03,000 So, for example, our body needs nutrition, proper nutrition. 247 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Also, we need to move. 248 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:13,000 If you ended up, say, in hospital and you were lying still for, let's say, one week, in fact, you don't even need to be in a hospital. 249 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:21,000 If you sit on your hand for one day, don't take it off, just sit on it, what happens to your hand? 250 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Yeah, falls asleep or it goes numb and things like that. 251 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Now, why does that happen? 252 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Circulation is cut off, right? 253 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:40,000 So, again, your blood is supposed to be servicing all parts, but if you just, say, took your entire body and you lay there for an entire week, did nothing, 254 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:47,000 sometimes you develop what they call bed sores because, again, you've been stagnant. 255 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 You need it to move. 256 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Then also, we need water, we need sunshine. 257 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 These are just basic things. 258 00:20:54,000 --> 00:21:01,000 My wife, you can tell it's summer because my wife, she's just so happy because she loves the sun. 259 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,000 She's out in the sun. 260 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:10,000 I even think sometimes that you're a different person in summer than you are in winter, but my wife grew up in Canada where it's very cold. 261 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,000 And so she's done with winter. 262 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000 She just wants to be where the sunshine. 263 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Also, we need to avoid harmful things and use wisely the things which are good for us. 264 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 These are natural laws. 265 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:32,000 We need oxygen, we need a rest, and believe it or not, many people miss this, but we also need trust to trust in God. 266 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,000 It's actually critical when we talk about health, and I'll share a scripture at the end. 267 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Now, I want you to think about this. 268 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,000 I saw a sheriff's car out there. 269 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:50,000 So I want you to imagine this road out here, the speed limit is, I don't even know, but let's say it's 20 miles per hour. 270 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:56,000 And let's say you're driving along this road and you're driving at 60. 271 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 The sheriff's car is right there across there. 272 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:04,000 What might happen and why? 273 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Okay. 274 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:10,000 You get pulled over because you broke the law. 275 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Now, it may be your lucky day. 276 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:16,000 The sheriff may come and say, listen, don't do it again. 277 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:19,000 I'll just give you a warning this time. 278 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 And you got away with it. 279 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 I had a friend from New York. 280 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 He was pulled over. 281 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 The police officer asked him for his license. 282 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 He gave it to him. 283 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 And the officer was like, ah, New Yorkers. 284 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 And he told him, look, you're not in New York. 285 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 You're in Georgia. 286 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,000 So I'm not going to give you a ticket, but I need to remind you, you're in Georgia. 287 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Drive like you're in Georgia. 288 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Don't drive like New York. 289 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 And my friend got away with it. 290 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Now, unfortunately, when it comes to the physical laws of our bodies, we cannot get away with it. 291 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 It's set. 292 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,000 So here's an example for you. 293 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:05,000 So I want you to imagine this sister, she's offered this amazing plate. 294 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Now, what do you think will happen when she eats it? 295 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,000 She gets very full. 296 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Okay. 297 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:19,000 You're going to say something? 298 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 She gets sick. 299 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 It's too much food. 300 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Okay. 301 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 She gains weight. 302 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,000 Okay. 303 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,000 All right. 304 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Okay. 305 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Now, I'm surprised none of you actually mentioned this, but if she really likes this, the first 306 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000 thing that's going to happen is she's going to have a great time. 307 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000 She's actually going to enjoy. 308 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:42,000 She's going to be like, oh, the initial thing is it seems like it's good. 309 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:48,000 But after a few hours, so let's imagine you eat a double cheeseburger, large fries, milkshake. 310 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 Basically, after a few minutes, guess what? 311 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Inside, our blood sugar shoots up. 312 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:00,000 And then also what we find also is your cholesterol levels also are going up over time. 313 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Right? 314 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:06,000 So that is the sure result of the cause. 315 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 You know? 316 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:14,000 So, again, a lot of times it was good at the time, but the effect will come. 317 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,000 So there's a cause and then there's an effect as well. 318 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:24,000 And, again, the issue of the sure result, if you exercise, your heart basically is going 319 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,000 to become strong, especially if we're doing the cardio ones. 320 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:34,000 And also it helps us with our weight, helps us with sleeping, and in general we're going 321 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,000 to be happier. 322 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,000 It's just like some sure results. 323 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Of course there's other things we'll deal with that. 324 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:45,000 And also if we go to bed early, just simple little tips and simple little habits, our 325 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:51,000 bodies will produce enough of the hormones that actually will help us in the long run. 326 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Okay? 327 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 Now, health does not depend on chance. 328 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:01,000 So the whole point of us meeting tonight, one of the things I need to try to convey to 329 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,000 us as a group is health is not something we leave to chance. 330 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,000 It's something that we need to be intentional about. 331 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Okay? 332 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,000 So it says it's a result of obedience to law, Ministry of Healing 128. 333 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 And what's the remedies? 334 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:22,000 We're told pure air, sunlight, abstentiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, 335 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,000 trust in divine power, these are the true remedies. 336 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Every person should have a knowledge of nature's remedial agencies and how to avoid them. 337 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,000 And how to apply them. 338 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:40,000 They sound so simple, but actually it's the simple things that actually give you the results. 339 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 Think about Adam in the Garden of Eden. 340 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Adam did not have Erlanger. 341 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,000 Adam did not have memorial. 342 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Adam did not have any system that he could turn to. 343 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000 He didn't have Wildwood. 344 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Yeah, none of those things, right? 345 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Think of the Exodus. 346 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,000 When God took them out on the Exodus, God put them on a healthcare program. 347 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,000 That, again, there were no lifestyle centers. 348 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 There were no hospitals. 349 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:10,000 There were no, you know, you couldn't say, well, okay, I'm going to go to my physician on that Exodus. 350 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:15,000 But what's interesting is on the Exodus, did they have a lot of air? 351 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 Oh, yes. 352 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:24,000 They had a lot of air, a lot of sunlight, a lot of self-control actually because guess what? 353 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:31,000 God was the one feeding them and guess who was in control of when the lights went out? 354 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000 It was God as well, right? 355 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:43,000 So you notice that God actually was moving his people along the way, but he was actually giving them all those remedies. 356 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:51,000 And what is incredible, if you ever read in I think in Psalm 178 or Psalm 105, no, Psalm 78 or Psalm 105, 357 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:57,000 when he comments on the Exodus, it says there was not a single feeble one among them. 358 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,000 The other word for feeble days, there was not a single sick person. 359 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,000 And again, I was interested. 360 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000 I was like, okay, so how many people in the Exodus? 361 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:14,000 And they estimate if you calculate by what the Bible gives you, it's around two million people on the Exodus 362 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:21,000 with no lifestyle center, with no hospitals, with no physicians offices, and there was not a single sick person. 363 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:26,000 So God was demonstrating his health care plan. 364 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,000 God was taking them and they were fine. 365 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Now, who is the healthiest person to ever live and die? 366 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:42,000 I hope I asked that question correctly. 367 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 The healthiest person. 368 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Moses. Okay, we have Moses in the back. 369 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Who? 370 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Christ. Okay. Okay. 371 00:27:53,000 --> 00:28:01,000 I think we have to give it to Christ because, you know, who could have been more healthy than Jesus? 372 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,000 And again, and I'm going to pull up something here. 373 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Usually, whenever we see pictures of Jesus, they tend to picture him as someone who who was weak or something. 374 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000 But Jesus was a carpenter. 375 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Jesus walked everywhere. 376 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,000 Jesus's body would have been strong and healthy. 377 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:29,000 And in Hebrews 10, verse five, speaking of Christ, it says, Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, 378 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:34,000 sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body has thou prepared me. 379 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Now, I want you to keep this in mind. 380 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:44,000 When Jesus came in the flesh, a body was prepared for him, a physical body. 381 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:52,000 And the question I want you to ask yourself is, so how did Jesus care for his physical body and why? 382 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Because, remember, Christ is our example in all things. 383 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 We want to be like Jesus. 384 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 That is our goal. 385 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:06,000 So if the father prepared a body for Jesus and then Jesus came and took care of that body, 386 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:11,000 the question always is, why did he invest time in taking care of that body? 387 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,000 If after everything, I mean, hey, he can easily just make another one. 388 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000 But he took care of it. 389 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Now, in this world, people pay good money to go and see paintings by famous artists. 390 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 This is in France in the Louvre. 391 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,000 This is the Mona Lisa. 392 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,000 And as you see there, people taking pictures and all this kind of stuff. 393 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,000 I have friends that love art. 394 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,000 For me, honestly, God bless you if you like art. 395 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 I just don't get it. 396 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,000 I just don't. 397 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000 I just see paint on a wall. 398 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,000 But, you know, some of you appreciate that. 399 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:54,000 Now, what's interesting is the artwork, like when people look at it, they're like, oh, like Picasso. 400 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000 He must have been thinking about this and that. 401 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:02,000 And they're fascinated by trying to figure out what the creator of that piece was thinking. 402 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:10,000 But have you ever wondered the greatest masterpiece ever made, which is the human body? 403 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,000 That's the greatest. 404 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:17,000 I don't want to call it an artwork, but it's a masterpiece from God. 405 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:23,000 Now, what is interesting is obviously God made, you know, made the male and female, 406 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:29,000 but also within the human body, especially because we're talking about all thy strength, 407 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:35,000 there is mysteries about the human body and facts that are just so amazing. 408 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Like if you just take time to wonder how does my eye actually operate? 409 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:47,000 How does, you know, why does it affect my balance if I were to lose my toe? 410 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:55,000 Why is it when my ears are affected that also can affect my balance and how do I move my fingers? 411 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:01,000 All those things, God, when he created the body, God thought about that. 412 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,000 And God designed it that way. 413 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 And when you think about all the organs in the body, guess what? 414 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000 They all work a certain way. 415 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:15,000 They have a certain function, a certain purpose. 416 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000 And disease disrupts that. 417 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:26,000 OK, so again, Christ was given a body which had organs and just like we do. 418 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,000 Now, what's interesting is I started looking at Jesus and the laws of hell. 419 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Now, what you will find is Christ had godly trust. 420 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000 Would we agree on that? 421 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:42,000 So if there was ever a person who depended on his father, Jesus did. 422 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,000 So Jesus had godly trust. 423 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,000 Jesus breathed the open air. 424 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000 It's very interesting. 425 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Jesus spent a lot of time in the open air. 426 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:55,000 He fed the multitude and Jesus got daily exercise. 427 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:00,000 You find Christ was walking everywhere with his disciples, right? 428 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Also, Jesus received sunshine by default. 429 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,000 He spent a lot of time outside and Jesus got proper rest. 430 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:15,000 It's amazing that even during a storm at sea, Jesus was sleeping peacefully. 431 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000 Also, he drank lots of water. 432 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000 In fact, the story with the woman at the well, Jesus asking for, give me some water. 433 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,000 And also, Christ was always temperate. 434 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000 And Christ ate food that was nutritious. 435 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,000 They did not have food like substances in Jesus' day. 436 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Jesus ate proper food. 437 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000 I had one time, just a quick story with you. 438 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:48,000 My grandmother, she passed away recently, but before time she came to visit us in England. 439 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,000 And when my grandmother came, I was so excited, I wanted her to try out some food from England. 440 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,000 So I went in and I got a pizza and I said, Grandma, here's some pizza. 441 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:04,000 My grandma grew up in a very rural area in Zimbabwe, like a village kind of rural area. 442 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,000 My grandmother sat there and she's scratching her head and she's like, 443 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000 You couldn't find any food for me? 444 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 And I was like, I'm so confused. 445 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000 My grandma, that's food. 446 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:22,000 And it's almost like she couldn't recognize it as food because for her, when she thought of food, 447 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:28,000 she just thought, oh, you know, potato, corn, and those kind of things, what she's used to, 448 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000 that's not necessarily processed. 449 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000 That's what she thought as food. 450 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:37,000 And I just started laughing because I thought to myself, wow, like, man, 451 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,000 I have food that my grandmother does not recognize. 452 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,000 And so, you know, they always say, when in doubt, just ask yourself, 453 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,000 would my grandma recognize this as food? 454 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000 When in doubt, okay. 455 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,000 And, you know, so Twinkies and things like that, it's not necessarily food. 456 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,000 It's a food-like substance, okay. 457 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,000 So notice this. 458 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000 This is a quote from Desire of Ages. 459 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,000 Again, a great book. If you've never read it, I encourage you to read it. 460 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000 Very, very good book. 461 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,000 It says, the offerings presented to the Lord were to be without blemish. 462 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000 These offerings represented Christ, okay. 463 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:17,000 And from this, it is evident that Jesus himself was free from physical deformity. 464 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000 He was the lamb without blemish and without spot, 1 Peter 1, 19. 465 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 His physical structure was not marred by any defect. 466 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Now, this is the interesting part, the part in yellow. 467 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:31,000 His body was strong and healthy. 468 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Christ's body was strong and healthy. 469 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,000 It says, and throughout his lifetime, he lived in conformity to nature's laws, 470 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,000 physically as well as spiritually. 471 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:47,000 He was an example of what God designed all humanity to be through obedience to his laws. 472 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000 So, again, keep this in mind. 473 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Jesus is our example in everything. 474 00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:02,000 We tend to just think of Jesus as our example just when it comes to, okay, just prayer life, just, you know, okay, ministry wise. 475 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,000 But no, no, no. Even in how he lived, Jesus was an example for us. 476 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Why? Because Christ is our forerunner and Jesus actually is preparing us to follow him where he's gone. 477 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Okay. So in the same way, Christ came. In fact, I'm going to read Isaiah 53 really quick for us. 478 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:37,000 There is an important text there that is often overlooked in Isaiah 53 and in verse four. 479 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000 It says, Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. 480 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:48,000 Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. Right. 481 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000 And then verse five says, But he was wounded for our transgressions. 482 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:57,000 He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. 483 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000 And by his stripes we are healed. 484 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Now, it's very interesting that some versions, the Hebrew, therefore, he has borne our griefs. 485 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,000 It actually says he has borne our sicknesses. 486 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:16,000 And what you find is Christ loves us so much that Jesus says, Listen, even your sicknesses, 487 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:22,000 I'll take those upon myself so that you don't need to go through them. 488 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,000 That has always been God's plan. 489 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,000 God has always wanted his people, his children. 490 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:33,000 Imagine those who are parents. You would not want your own child to go through something. 491 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,000 We have a baby boy like, you know, he had fever a few months back. 492 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,000 And as a father, I sat there and I wished that I was the one with the fever and not him. 493 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:52,000 And then I thought, if I, being an earthly father whose evil would want that, what more for God? 494 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Right. So don't think that God is doesn't care whenever we're sick. 495 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:02,000 God actually cares. God would rather. No, no, no. I took it upon myself. 496 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:07,000 I don't want you to go through that. That's how God views it. OK. 497 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:12,000 And then David writing says, I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 498 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:19,000 Again, just thinking about this human body that God made, that God made it for help. 499 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:26,000 But now comes the foundations of health or the foundations at least for your theme. 500 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,000 You're dealing with physical, mental and spiritual. 501 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Now, what is interesting, this is from a book called The Christian Experience by Julius Gilbert White. 502 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:42,000 And what is interesting is in Psalm 11, it says, if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? 503 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:47,000 Now, what is the role of foundations? 504 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:52,000 Support. OK. Stability. OK. 505 00:37:52,000 --> 00:38:00,000 So notice that the verse says, if the foundations are destroyed, basically, yeah, you're going to have a problem. 506 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:07,000 In fact, in 2016, there was an earthquake in Taiwan and something incredible happened. 507 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:13,000 There was one building. I think it was about 11 story building or more, if I'm not mistaken. 508 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:20,000 And this was the only building to collapse in that town. Completely the building was ruined. 509 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:27,000 And as the disaster response people and about 116 people lost their lives, as they were looking at this situation, 510 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:33,000 they were confused as to why did this building collapse? It was a relatively new building. 511 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000 All the other buildings around the old buildings were still OK. 512 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000 And so as they were digging through the rubble, they found something interesting. 513 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000 The foundations were not built properly. 514 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:53,000 In fact, the builders had put empty oil cans instead of concrete in the pillars in order to cut corners. 515 00:38:53,000 --> 00:39:00,000 And when the earthquake hit, guess what? It all crumbled because the foundations had been manipulated. 516 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:07,000 Now, it's very interesting that when we when we think about physical, mental and spiritual, 517 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:17,000 there is one way to actually access the mind or to access the person and literally is through your senses, 518 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:27,000 your sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. Those are the avenues that basically would affect your physical health, 519 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:37,000 if I can put it that way, which in turn would impact your mental powers, which in turn would impact your spiritual experience. 520 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,000 That's the connection that we're dealing with. 521 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:48,000 And again, we are told that when one organ is injured, all are affected. 522 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:55,000 Now, one of the challenges in health care that we have nowadays is if one day Kevin came and said, 523 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:02,000 well, my liver is hurting me, we're going to send him to a liver specialist. 524 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:09,000 And the liver specialist is just so focused on the liver that he's like, OK, I'm going to do everything it takes to stop whatever is happening with your liver. 525 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000 And he will do or she will do whatever it takes. 526 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:20,000 And maybe that stops that. But according to this, when one is injured, all are affected. 527 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:28,000 Guess what? They do everything for his liver. But now it creates a problem for his kidney. 528 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:34,000 So then now he's like, oh, now my kidneys bothering me. We can solve that. We'll send you to a kidney specialist. 529 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:40,000 So he goes to the kidney specialist, does their thing, and it's another thing, another specialist. 530 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:49,000 And the challenge is we have separated or we've divided the body into parts and we have experts for each part. 531 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:55,000 But the experts all need to be in one place in order to have the big picture. Does that make sense? 532 00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:00,000 And that's the challenge that we have in our approach nowadays. 533 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:07,000 Now, I want to just jump onto another reality. Now, for the men in the room, you'll be slightly shocked with this. 534 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:12,000 I don't share this to discourage you, but this is what the health studies are showing. 535 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:19,000 They're finding that there's a health gap between men and women, just like we're different in how we're created. 536 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:21,000 Health wise, the outcomes in America are different. 537 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:28,000 The Harvard Health Publishing says men die younger than women and they are more burdened by illness during life. 538 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,000 They fall ill at a younger age and have more chronic illnesses than women. 539 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:39,000 It's just in general in the population. Now, it doesn't stop there. 540 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,000 It says American men are about four times more likely to be hit by gout. 541 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:51,000 They are more than three times more likely than women to develop kidney stones, to become alcoholics, or to have bladder cancer. 542 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:58,000 And they are about twice as likely to suffer from emphysema or duodenal ulcers. 543 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,000 This is just what the data is showing them, just from research. 544 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:08,000 Then, interestingly enough, there's a health gap. There's gaps between the sexes in health. 545 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:14,000 Now, also interesting enough, the Pew Research, which deals with researching spiritual condition in America, 546 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:21,000 they also found that there is also a gender gap when it comes to religion around the world. 547 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:28,000 In general, women tend to be more spiritual than men, is what their study found. 548 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:40,000 And is it just by random coincidence that physically, physical health wise, the ladies are doing better, 549 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:45,000 and spiritual health wise, the ladies seem to be doing better? 550 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Would that be just by chance, or is there actually something to it? 551 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:55,000 Is the physical and the spiritual connected, and the mental as well? 552 00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:02,000 So notice here it says, in the United States, for example, women are more likely than men to say religion is very important in their lives. 553 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:09,000 And they're saying 60% versus 47%. And also women outnumber men in the pews of many US churches. 554 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,000 Those are just facts. It's factual, right? 555 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:19,000 And now, there is one thing where the men seem to be ahead. 556 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:29,000 It says, although women see doctors more often than men, men cost our society more for medical care beyond the age of 65. 557 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,000 Jeff found it. I was like, what? 558 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:40,000 But, so, us as men, after the age of 65, we cost more to the medical system than the ladies would, 559 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,000 even though in life the ladies see doctors more often. 560 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,000 Now, you may be wondering, well, what's the reasons for that? 561 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,000 So they're saying biological factors, social factors, and behavioral factors. 562 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,000 We're not going to go into those. 563 00:43:54,000 --> 00:44:02,000 But we are different, and those differences play a role also in some of the choices that we make. 564 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:09,000 So, for example, yeah, lack of routine, lack of medical care. 565 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:18,000 Normally, men will, we will only go to a doctor if we're dying or if our wife pushes us to go, at least in my case. 566 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:25,000 I was on a mission trip, and I got sick on the mission trip, and my wife was not there, and I was texting her, 567 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:31,000 telling her, my wife called me, and she said, you need to go to the doctor right now. 568 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:39,000 And I said, no, no, no, let me just go another week, see how, and she was so persistent, insistent that, no, 569 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:45,000 if you don't do something, I will call someone else, and I will get the physician there. 570 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,000 And it's very interesting, my wife, any little thing, she just wants a checkup. 571 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,000 She wants to go see, I know you were asking before about Dr. Sherman and Dr. Grievous. 572 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,000 She just wants to go and see them. 573 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000 I just want the doctor just to, you know, just make sure everything. 574 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:06,000 I, on the other hand, no, no, no, no, only if I'm at the point of, okay, I think I'm dying, 575 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,000 which is a little exaggerated, then I will go. 576 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:18,000 Okay, but there are all these differences, but also how we are approaching even the laws of health is key. 577 00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,000 So notice what some studies are showing us. 578 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:25,000 Exercise is more effective than medication for mental health. 579 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,000 Exercise. 580 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:33,000 And there is study after study after study, and we're not going to go into it because I know you've covered 581 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,000 a little bit on the laws of health already. 582 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:42,000 And again, just backing this up also from Australia, physical activity is known to help improve mental health, 583 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:50,000 yet despite the evidence, it has not been widely adopted as first choice treatment. 584 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000 Physical activity. 585 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,000 So back to my friend Jonathan. 586 00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:59,000 Jonathan went from 379 to 255. 587 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,000 Now, remember that there's a cost for health care. 588 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:13,000 Now, Jonathan before, when he was 379, he told me that actually he had gym memberships, but he never went. 589 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,000 He told me that we just started going through his laws of health. 590 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:23,000 So nutrition, Jonathan said like, yeah, he survived on McDonald's and KFC. 591 00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,000 That was his nutrition. 592 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,000 Like, okay. 593 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:36,000 Then when it came to exercise, he said he was paying for gym membership, but he never got the benefit of what he was paying for. 594 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,000 Water, he said he didn't drink water. 595 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,000 He only drank soda. 596 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,000 That was what he was having. 597 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:51,000 Then when it came to sunshine, sunshine, he said, well, you know, in Chicago, whenever he got some, that was it. 598 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:56,000 Then temperance, he said that, yeah, that's something that was nonexistent. 599 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:01,000 He said he started eating in the morning and basically continued eating until he fell asleep. 600 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,000 That was him. 601 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:07,000 Then air, he was living in Chicago, not the best kind of air. 602 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:12,000 Rest, he said, you know, he was on his computer all night, so he wasn't getting any rest as well. 603 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,000 So I asked him, okay, what about your trust in God? 604 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,000 This is very interesting. 605 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:23,000 He said that even though he had been brought up in a religious family, he had no relationship with God. 606 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:27,000 He said, in fact, he even stopped going to church on Sabbath. 607 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,000 And I found that interesting. 608 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:35,000 So now for his journey to get to 255 and beyond, it was very interesting. 609 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,000 He took those very same areas. 610 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:44,000 So nutrition, we started working with Jonathan like, okay, nutrition, let's give you something better. 611 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:50,000 Let's, you know, let's turn around from the KFCs and let's try the diet that Adam was given. 612 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,000 Let's try a plant-based diet and see how that works out for you. 613 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,000 So he started doing that. 614 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,000 And with that as well, Jonathan had a simple challenge. 615 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:04,000 So, you know, we didn't tell him, look, you need to stop your plate, the size of your plate. 616 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:10,000 We simply said, Jonathan, you need to match your plate with your salad and you eat your salad first. 617 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:16,000 So if his plate was going to be like that, his salad needed to be like that and he needed to eat his salad first. 618 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:27,000 And what's interesting is he would eat his salad first and he realized he didn't actually eat much of his plate because the salad was filling him up. 619 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,000 And eventually his portion sizes even started coming under control. 620 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:37,000 Exercise, Jonathan started walking, started doing 10,000 steps a day. 621 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,000 That's what he, that was his goal. 622 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:40,000 He started doing that. 623 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,000 Then water, Jonathan started drinking water. 624 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,000 He put aside the sodas for a bit and started drinking water. 625 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:52,000 And just from that he started seeing physical changes. 626 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,000 Sunshine, as he's walking outside, he's getting that as well. 627 00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,000 He moved from Chicago to Georgia, so that made a big difference. 628 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:08,000 Temperance, he decided to try, I think he wanted to try two meals a day, but he did three meals a day. 629 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,000 But he did a light meal in the evening. 630 00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:15,000 Then air, of course he's down in Georgia, good air, walking the trails. 631 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:19,000 Rest, over time he found he started sleeping better. 632 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:24,000 And as he started sleeping better he started having a regulated sleep schedule. 633 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,000 And trust in God, guess what? 634 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:34,000 If he slept well, he found that he was able to wake up in the morning and he wanted to open his Bible. 635 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,000 And that developed a relationship. 636 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,000 Jonathan actually got rebaptized. 637 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:48,000 But it's very interesting that his journey began from a physical and it went all the way to his spiritual well-being. 638 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,000 Now I have two more slides, then we'll close with some questions here. 639 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:59,000 It says, mental and moral power is dependent upon the physical health. 640 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,000 So it matters. 641 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:04,000 Physical health is actually very, very important. 642 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:10,000 I was working as a Bible worker and I would come to people and I want to study the Bible with them. 643 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,000 And they had a migraine. 644 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,000 And I don't know if you've ever tried to study the Bible with someone who has a migraine. 645 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,000 You can't do that. 646 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:26,000 The migraine is in the way and that's a physical problem that is hindering them from being able to study their Bible. 647 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,000 So we had to actually address them. 648 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:33,000 And I would always get so frustrated, I'm like, Lord, I'm just trying to give a Bible study, 649 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,000 there's nothing I can do. 650 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:42,000 And again, I did not appreciate the relation between the physical, mental and the spiritual at the time. 651 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:46,000 So notice it says, since the mind and the soul find expression through the body, 652 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:53,000 both mental and spiritual vigor are in great degree dependent upon physical strength and activity. 653 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,000 So we want to be well mentally, guess what? 654 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,000 We're dependent upon physical strength. 655 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,000 We want to be well spiritually. 656 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:04,000 It's also dependent on how we are doing physically. 657 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:12,000 And so it says, whatever promotes physical health promotes the development of a strong mind and a well balanced character. 658 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:20,000 And I want you to always think, there's a verse that's used for marriage because Jesus spoke it in the context of marriage. 659 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,000 What God has put together, let no man put asunder. 660 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:30,000 Well, God made man physical, mental and spiritual and what God has put together, let no man put asunder. 661 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:34,000 So you don't want to separate the physical, mental and spiritual. 662 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,000 It's one package. 663 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,000 And I'll close with this story. 664 00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,000 This man on your screen, Muhammad Ali, he passed away. 665 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,000 He was a famous boxer. 666 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:51,000 Now, back in the day when he was still known, it's in the 1960s, there was a piece that came out in the, 667 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:55,000 let's see if I have it on my notes. 668 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,000 I think it's the Wall Street Journal or something like that or the Times Magazine. 669 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:06,000 But the story is he was on a plane, on a flight, and he was going to a big fight. 670 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:12,000 So the air steward is walking past and he was not wearing his seat belt. 671 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,000 He had it buckled up his seat. 672 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:18,000 So she told him politely, buckle up your seat belt. 673 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:24,000 And his response to her was Superman does not need a seat belt. 674 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,000 She looked at him and she said, well, Superman does not need a plane either. 675 00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:31,000 And he quickly buckled up. 676 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:40,000 Now, I shared this story as illustrative for us that, you know, we may think like, well, you know, in heaven, 677 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:41,000 I don't need this body. 678 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,000 I'm getting a new body anyway. 679 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:50,000 But the reality is how can we get a new body if we can't take care of the old body? 680 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,000 You see, he that is faithful in that which is least will be faithful in that which is much. 681 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,000 So that's the principle. 682 00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:03,000 But when it comes to physical health, God wants us to be healthy because God made us to be healthy. 683 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,000 And when we have all our strength, guess what? 684 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:11,000 We live longer, we are happier, and we can serve God even longer. 685 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,000 That's the ultimate goal. 686 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:17,000 Physical health is not just for, OK, we're just healthy for the sake of being healthy. 687 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:22,000 No, we're healthy because we want to serve God longer with all our strength. 688 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:27,000 But also our neighbors can benefit the most. 689 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:37,000 OK, so I hope that at least there was something that someone got and that you're able to take and apply. 690 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:41,000 Maybe you've been thinking about, maybe it's time I need to start doing more exercise 691 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:46,000 or maybe it's time I need to start looking at eating differently and things like that. 692 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:51,000 And I just want to encourage you that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. 693 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,000 I grew up as a Burger King child. 694 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,000 I'm no longer a Burger King child by God's grace. 695 00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:04,000 So God is able to help us on that path to regaining health. 696 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:09,000 And we need it more and more. 697 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,000 I was in a country called Madagascar just a few weeks ago. 698 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:21,000 And in Madagascar, they have these people, they have these carts that they load up to one ton 699 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,000 of like whether it's like grains or whatever. 700 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:29,000 And they have men pulling that in the street, one ton. 701 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:34,000 They had like four guys pulling one ton in the street for miles. 702 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:39,000 And I was looking at them and I was thinking, what in the world? 703 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,000 They're just so physically strong. 704 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:46,000 I saw a man in his 80s with a 50 kilogram bag on his head. 705 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:50,000 He's just walking in the city just with it on his head. 706 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,000 And I was marveling. 707 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:56,000 I was like, I didn't know the human body can do that. 708 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,000 The neck muscles can be that strong. 709 00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:04,000 But again, God has gifted us a body. 710 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,000 He's prepared a body for us. 711 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:10,000 And by God's grace, God wants to help us to take care of that body. 712 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:17,000 And if we do that, we will reap the benefits not only physically, but mentally and spiritually as well. 713 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:22,000 And my prayer is that you would be healthy physically, 714 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:28,000 that you would prosper physically as you prosper spiritually, as the Bible says. 715 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:34,000 So I'm going to invite everyone to stand and we'll pray or are you coming back up here? 716 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:38,000 OK. All right. So let us pray. 717 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:45,000 Our Father in heaven, Lord, we thank you because as our creator in your wisdom, 718 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:53,000 you have given us, Lord, these masterpieces of human bodies, which you've not only just given them to us, 719 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,000 but you've also given us your wisdom in how to care for the body. 720 00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:02,000 And Father, we pray that you would fill us with your Holy Spirit, 721 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:09,000 give us a willingness to actually care for the body, to actually desire health, Father. 722 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,000 And you know, Lord, that without you, we cannot do anything. 723 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,000 So we cannot even be healthy without you. 724 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:21,000 And I pray, Lord, that you help us, you transform our mindset, 725 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:27,000 that we would appreciate the gift of health, but not only just for our sakes, Lord, 726 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,000 but also even for those around us, Lord. 727 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:35,000 There are people that need help. There are people that need whether it's just a good neighbor that will help them, 728 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:41,000 whether even just simple things like carrying stuff or mowing yards or just being there for them. 729 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:47,000 And we pray, Lord, that you help us as a people to invest in physical health, 730 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:52,000 so that, Lord, we may be a greater blessing to those around us. 731 00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:54,000 Please be with every person in this room. 732 00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,000 Give them strength in all the areas that they struggle in. 733 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:02,000 And I just pray, Lord, that they may be able to experience the victory of Christ in those areas. 734 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,000 I also pray for every family that is represented, Lord, 735 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:10,000 that you would extend your healing ministry into our homes 736 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:14,000 and that even our parents, our siblings, our children, 737 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:20,000 everyone would be able to benefit from seeing you in our lives. 738 00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:27,000 And I pray that, Lord, through the health of your people, we would become billboards for your goodness 739 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,000 and that people would see heaven in us and desire heaven as well. 740 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,000 So we thank you. And please bless this church. 741 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,000 Bless the program that is taking place. 742 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:40,000 And I pray even for tomorrow's program that you'll be with the speaker in a special way. 743 00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,000 Be with every attendee as well. 744 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,000 And, Father, let it be that by the end of this series, 745 00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:53,000 you would have a people that would embrace health and would be healthier in every aspect of their lives. 746 00:57:53,000 --> 00:58:08,000 In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen. Amen.