GYC WEST 2019: Let These Stand

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GYC West

Diane Burnett

History and Heroes - Those That Stand: Part 2

Our Father in Heaven, we thank you for the sunshine of your love that warms us even when the world is cold.

We thank you that you draw us closer and closer to you and that your love just envelops us and melts us and transforms us.

Bless each 1 of us here and speak to each 1 of us.

So yesterday we started talking about history and heroes, and we're going to pick up where we left off yesterday.

So, all through history, even in the garden before the fall, we know that God had a divine standard.

He had a divine lifestyle for his people, that he would unfold with every movement that has gone before us.

And the purpose of that lifestyle, the purpose of God's principles for us, is to develop our character back to the divine image because we had been deformed by being trapped by the enemy.

And it is God's purpose to free us and to reform us and to elevate us back to that character that he originally gave us.

And we will be sealed forever, never ever again for any question to come up about God's character.

We talked about different things of the culture of a country and 1 of the things that tends to have the greatest impact on our character is our diet.

And as mentioned last night, which what I appreciated about when you mentioned temperance, Temperance isn't just self-control in food, but it's in all the things that we ingest, through our ears, through our eyes, through our nose, through our skin, and through our mouth.

So we need the temperance, we need to be able to say yes to what we should say yes and no to what we should say no to.

But the purpose of the standards that God gives us is for strength.

It's for many reasons, but we see in Ecclesiastes 10, 17 that it says, blessed art thou when thy princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness.

So just in this passage right here, we see a number of principles that are detailed in the Spirit of Prophecy.

There's a time to eat and there's a time to not eat.

And then how is it detailed in the Spirit of Prophecy?

2 things that are mentioned more than anything else in principles of diet, regularity, and simplicity.

Even more than what you eat, it's how you eat.

We're told that irregular hours for eating and sleeping sap the brain forces.

Then regularity in eating and sleeping so that this control on top of our shoulders, our frontal lobe, will have the strength to make the right decisions.

So our study should be what gives me strength and what pulls me down.

And when Sister White was writing about principles, she also says, and we read some of those passages last night, that people would come to her and say, give me a diet, tell me what to do.

You know, she would give principles, but what she could eat, others couldn't.

So there's general principles, like we, if, like God gave between the animal products.

There's clean and there's unclean, you know?

There's food that is proper in general, and then there's foods that, even in the proper foods, might not be the best for you.

And Especially in today's age, we have such broken systems.

Allergies, food sensitivities are maxed out.

I feel sorry for anyone that's in charge of a kitchen today.

Serving a group because, oh, I can't eat this.

Because I have, for different reasons, developed intolerances to the most common food, like garlic and onions.

You know, I just became where I could not tolerate them.

But that doesn't mean garlic and onions are bad.

So for each of you, it is your own responsibility to pray, Lord, what gives me strength?

Give me discernment to understand when I get a feeling of weakness.

My heart rises, my heart rate rises, I feel foggy headed.

What principle, what did I break of the laws of hell?

Or what in general in what I'm eating, what is causing this problem?

And I'm probably not going to have time to get into details, but what causes drunkenness?

Other things do also, but when we think of alcohol, you think of going down to the bar, you know, the liquor store and that type of things.

But can we have alcohol formed in our system from even the best foods?

From the wrong combinations, from the wrong time of eating.

Anything that Sister White tells us that causes fermentation, fermentation is the process that forms alcohol.

Eating too much, eating too many combinations, wrong combinations like, what's the top 1 that produces alcohol?

I was giving a talk 1 time and I had a neighbor who was a recovering alcoholic.

For every day of his life for the past 7 days, he went to AA.

And I was reviewing my talk with him and I was showing how milk and sugar produced alcohol.

And the light just went on his head, and he said, Diane, that's why in AA, when someone is going about to fall off the wagon and they call the crisis line, He said, you know what we tell them to do?

We tell them to go down to the Dairy Queen and get the biggest banana split with all the toppings they can have because it relieves their symptoms.

Because their body has produced the alcohol that the brain and the body is craving.

So, when it says not for drunkenness, it's like, oh no, I've come out of the world, I don't touch alcohol anymore.

Okay, but what I want to particularly highlight here is that God wants us to eat for strength.

So when we look at the progression through the years and the movements of God's people, we see that he gave a specific lifestyle and a specific diet.

And so you're all familiar with this, so I'm not going to take a lot of time to go through it.

But it gives the food the description of what God said to eat?

Those are like your flowering what we call vegetables.

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