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Village SDA Church

Ron Kelly

The Evolution from Head to Tails

Father, thank you for the blessings of gathering in your name.

And I'm asking now, Lord, that you would anoint our hearts, our minds, our ears, in my case, my lips.

And I pray, Lord, may I have the freedom to express in a Christ-centered way the call to higher ground for our lives.

God always had in mind that the excellence of His relationship with His people would produce unavoidable, clear results.

So at the end of the story of the 5 books of Moses, you have the blessings and the curses.

And God made this promise, said the Lord will make you the head and not the tail.

If you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.

This morning, I'm coming to you to speak about present truth, especially to Seventh-day Adventists.

Now if you're not a Seventh-day Adventist We surely hope you're blessed by the message, but if you're here today Pursuing a knowledge of God.

I want to let you know that Jesus wants to give you the most vibrant beautiful life that stands out as a sweet and positive witness in a dark and souring world.

But that call is to higher ground, and there is a cross that is involved in our daily living.

If the cross doesn't make its way into our daily living, the power of the sanctifying presence of Jesus won't be with us.

The cross not only assures us, but it empowers us to a life of fuller surrender.

We die daily as a living sacrifice, offering up our very actions and thoughts to God.

God wants to have a beautiful fragrance amongst his people and he's looking to change his heart, mind, and soul.

So as I'm in 1 of the final messages of Jesus on promise, we have to ask ourself, does it matter how we live in these apocalyptic days.

It's so important that we answer this question the right way, because the failure to answer it could be our loss eternally and the loss of others.

Now, I don't want to make it more than it is, but I don't want to make it less than it is.

Inside Adventist circles, it's become quite chic to downplay holy living.

And so it could be entertainment, it could be dress, it could be music, it could be diet.

Well, this morning, I'm here to talk with you about lifestyle, especially healthy living.

More than diet, But I'm here to call you to higher ground in this age of supposed enlightenment.

Now, wouldn't it be sad that the people who have the gift of prophecy in their midst, who've had inspiration for years to know ahead of scientific revelation how to live, Wouldn't it be sad if the light became darkness to us?

Now I'm here to tell you that there is a general trend inside of Adventism.

I'm watching it happen generationally, where items that used to give us an advantage mentally, physically, spiritually, and perhaps even socially are not being taught, not being practiced, and consequentially the witness for Christ is being diminished.

So on my way into school this week, I was listening to National Public Radio, and I caught the last little bit of this piece they were doing.

Keeping your blood sugar in check could lower your Alzheimer's risk.

Now, I only got the last little bit, but I thought to myself, the link between mental health or brain health and eating.

The first thing that came to my mind was how the spirit of prophecy encourages us to have regular times to eat.

Some of the other things that have come to my mind are things like Dr.

Youngberg telling us, after you eat, go for a little 15 minute walk, it'll stabilize.

Of course, this is talking about a more aggravated blood sugar level but some of the things in the article and the news report were quite interesting I'd like to show them to you.

This is a PET scan of your brain metabolizing sugar.

All right, it's important for you to understand it needs a certain amount and not too much.

1 of the statements was that scientists are describing how mice fed a diet that includes lots of fat and sugar were more likely to develop both diabetes and memory impairment.

None of us want either of those things, especially as we age.

We know that both of them become increasingly a potential lifestyle disease for us.

It's important that we're not eating too much sugar and fat.

They went on to say sleep problems are another common feature of both Alzheimer's and diabetes, quoting Shannon Macaulay, professor of gerontology and geriatric medicine at Wake Forest School of University.

There's a reason that in our acronym New Start, which comprises lifestyle medicine, okay, how to be healthy, that we're not to be churning through our hours of sleep trying to do things to make more money or get better grades or whatever it might be.

You might do it occasionally, but regular sleep is a big deal for the rebuilding of the body.

And you don't want those amyloid proteins that goo up your brain and seem to be by everybody's assessment to be a key component to Alzheimer's and and dementia.

You don't want those things and what we're being reminded of here is that simple things appear with increasing revelation to be a part of the platform for developing those diseases.

Poor sleep is a known risk factor for Alzheimer's.

Make yourself get up early and make yourself do a little exercise and read the Bible and pray before you go to bed, and you'll be on the best track you can be on.

But it does matter, and science is telling us this.

Dan Buechner's book on the blue zones, you know, he identified 5 places, and 1 of the ones where people were living to 100, centenarians, we call them, was Loma Linda.

The unique thing about this is Loma Linda is the only place in the first world, not the developing world.

In other words, his 4 other spots tend to be places where the people were poor and removed from the opportunity to indulge.

Here's a little pie chart of how they ingested their carbohydrates and proteins.

He labeled Ikea or Icaria Greece, Okinawa, Sardinia, Italy, Nicoya Peninsula, and Costa Rica and Loma Linda.

But technically Loma Linda isn't of the real blue zone.

It gets that label because about a third of its 24, 000 residents are part of a close-knit community that values physical, mental, And spiritual, I would add, habits of helping them live longer, healthier, vibrant lives.

1 third of the population could put them on the map.

90 to 95% of your daily food intake should be fruits, veggies, grains, greens, and beans.

If you go to the Loma Linda market, you find all kinds of things to eat except 1 thing.

And if you walk into some of the other things you can find there, like their cafeteria, you're gonna find the same thing.

Of course, we don't need to go to Southern California.

We've got our own Andrews University, in which case you'll find our own Apple Valley and our own cafeteria, which is a fantastic place to enjoy food here.

And so it's important for us to understand what helps a person live to be 100.

As a matter of fact, several of you are vegan.

It's how my wife and I try to live, but occasionally it doesn't work out that way.

Because veganism, while it's not to be a religion, is to benefit you.

And Spirit of Prophecy does tell us as we come to the end of time, that even the animals that were once considered safe to eat will not be safe.

Listen, it wasn't that long ago that you could pick up a Newsweek periodical and you could read about them feeding cow manure to the chickens or chicken manure to the cows.

Does either 1 of those sound like the way you want to be getting your food secondhand?

Dairy, listen, everybody needs to know, full disclosure, I grew up not an Adventist.

I ate as many hamburgers as anybody else that lived to be 14 before they became a vegetarian.

I'm gonna tell you something you you test it out You go get a little margarine Vegan spread it on your bread Set the knife down Then go get yourself a stick of butter Spread it on your bread Set the knife down then go to the dish sink and see which 1 is harder to get off your stainless steel flatware.

I promise you, your veins and arteries aren't much different.

And the problem with circulatory disease is that by the time you've had it, your habits are well established, and changing your palate, what you like to eat, is much harder.

Yes, today I'm going to talk about 2 things.

I'm going to talk about the Adventist indulgences, and I'm going to talk about the indulgences of the world that are destroying us.

If you are in the habit of making fun of veganism, well, they kind of deserve it sometimes, don't we?

Now, not everybody deserves it, but just this week, I didn't plan this into the sermon.

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