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GYC Canada

George Cho

The Cross Connection and the Laws of Health

So you know in the church we have the health message which is supposed to be healthy but many people have an unhealthy relationship with the health message.

All right and we're gonna explore the rightful place of the health message in our relationship with God.

All right, everyone recognize these folks?

Yes, Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande, you got athletes, actors, politicians, singers, all different things, but you know what, you know 1 thing they have in common?

Have you noticed recently that veganism is now in?

In fact, there was an article that came out in McLean's and they said, 2018, year of plant-based foods, showing that, which age group?

Millennials are taking veganism mainstream.

In fact, Dalhousie University did a study and they said that among Canadian millennials, veganism is exploding.

The explosion among Canadian young people.

They have very good reasons to champion veganism.

So less cruelty to animals, better for the environment, and of course it's better for health.

Do we believe in these things as a church?

Do we believe in environmental stewardship?

But in the church, we have a problem, okay.

According to the Adventist Health Study No.

2, They did a study and they looked at Adventists.

Only about a little over 30%, 35% whatever, are plant-based.

Which means that the vast majority of Santa Fe Adventists, though we have the health message, is not practicing the health message.

And you got a wide spectrum in the church today.

And I hope that some of us, most of us, will fall within somewhere in the middle.

But I got those who are saying the health message is just a bunch of suggestions.

It doesn't matter if you follow them or not.

The other extreme are those who follow the health message, but they have unnecessary guilt and extreme views.

And my goal is hopefully we can kind of explore what the Bible says and what the spirit of prophecy says and kind of try to land somewhere in the middle.

So I just want to share some very, very quick points with you, okay?

And if we have the mic, I'm going to try to get you guys to also read along with me, alright?

You got some pastors who are gung-ho about the health message.

A lot of pastors don't even talk about the health message because they don't practice the health message.

For instance, in my church, when I came to the church, almost nobody talked about the health message.

Potluck was vegetarian but nobody talked about it.

Okay, so there's reason for a lot of confusion.

I believe that a lot of young people are confused as well.

How many of you guys have had times where you guys had conflicting messages about the health message?

Do you believe in the spirit of prophecy?

Okay Of course GYC does But you know your answer to this question is going to determine your relationship with the health message.

Okay, this guy here does anyone recognize this individual?

Lee Sang-gu or Lee Sang-gu for this english anglicized version.

And he was treating, he had a very lucrative practice, but he noticed that his patients weren't getting better.

So he wanted, 1 day he stumbled across Ellen White's writings and where she talked about a vegan diet.

So what he did was he said hey, let's try this.

So he told his patients to stop eating cheese, stop drinking milk, stop eating meat, and guess what happened?

So this launched him on a mission to promote the health message.

He eventually became a doctor at Weimar Institute.

He became a doctor at Weimar and he became extremely famous among the Korean community.

In fact, if you go to any Korean Adventist adult above the age of 30 or 40, they're going to know this doctor.

In fact, he became so big that he did a documentary series with the biggest Korean broadcasting station in Korea.

Of course the meat and the food processing industry got really upset so they started putting a lot of pressure on KBS, the Korean Broadcasting Station, and they eventually cancelled his broadcast.

But then they retracted and put him back on.

He was a very strong believer in the spirit of prophecy and a strong believer in an Adventist.

Today for the last 3 years he is not an Adventist.

He doesn't believe in the spirit of prophecy and he eats meat.

A major change and when he converted out of Adventism and he started to eat meat again and started to disavow everything he had taught in the past, it was huge headlines in Korea.

But the point is, your Belief in the spirit of prophecy is going to dictate your understanding of the health message.

Because Boeing plant based and all this kind of stuff, you find it in the Bible, but the emphasis comes from the spirit of prophecy.

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