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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

David Wright

Why Are You Adventists So Obsessed with Health?

Today we're taking a break from the series on Paul and we're talking about health because I was told I need to talk about health and so I like to do what I'm told when I can as much as possible and so I'm actually stealing a illustration that Pastor Hyman used earlier this week with the kids.

And so I have pictured here 1 of the most expensive cars.

And I didn't spend a lot of time trying to decide which is the most expensive and all the rest.

This 1 is priced very reasonably at just 13 million.

It's a Bugatti, made in Germany, but if you keep digging, it's really just a polished up Volkswagen, as they're the parent company.

Top speed of 250 miles an hour, so they say.

And so let's suppose you have this car or you've been given this car.

That's the 1 I had in college back there in the left.

It was really embarrassing to drive to work.

But anyway, you get this car, you have the owner's manual, and I know as all of you men do when you buy any appliance, you pour through and you read the owner's manual cover to cover, right, Pastor Hyman?

In fact, on the way here this morning, we were in fact going to be on time, and then I had a little notification that 1 of my tires was flat on our van.

We've never had a car that would tell us any of these things.

You just had to wait till you heard the rim, and I don't know.

Anyway, so I got out at the first stop sign, and I did the whole, you know, kick the tire thing.

Well, I didn't have to look at this 1 tire in the back.

Well, before I even did that, the reason I'm telling you this story is that there was a symbol on my dash.

Anyway, she pulled out the owner's manual.

And she says, oh, that means 1 of our tires is low.

Owner's manual can be good to have around.

In fact, it can be very helpful to pay close attention to the fluids that go into your vehicle and some vehicles are very specific, only this kind of power steering fluid or whatever it might be.

And if you just ignore the owner's manual on how to care for your brand new $13 million Bugatti Volkswagen, what will happen to your car?

And you might say, well, that's too much of a pain to have to find my nearest Bugatti dealer.

I'll just put in whatever fluids I want to.

I can use some of this leftover oil that I found, you know, and I can pour in some of this other water and some of these other things, and I have some old sets of brakes that I didn't use on another car, I probably can just apply them to this car.

And then they probably need to replace these tires every 500 miles or so, but I still have a lot of good wear on my truck tires.

What would soon happen to this vehicle if you just ignored everything in the manual?

And of course you see where we're going with all of this.

But it would be to the detriment of this car.

And very quickly, how much would this car be worth in a very short amount of time.

I've known individuals who have not checked the oil on their car, the lifeblood of the engine, and they're going down the road and all of a sudden the heat indicator spikes, the whole engine locks up, and virtually the engine is destroyed.

All because they didn't pay attention to the owner's manual.

We serve a Creator God of heaven who created a beautiful world and at the end of his creation, he made man in his own image, the crowning masterpiece, if you will, of creation.

If anybody knows how our body best functions, I would think he would be the creator God of the entire universe.

But we have all kinds of other things vying for us to purchase and buy and ingest sugar and all the rest.

I'm really surprised ketchup isn't up here.

If we want optimal performance, if we want to reach 250 miles an hour, then we really need to put in and pay attention to what we put into our bodies.

So, at this mini medical school, and you heard all that they learned about the body system and how interconnected everything is, how color and food is important for vitamins and minerals, the importance of exercise, how to minimize sugar intake, how to read labels, how to avoid certain foods, and what things are actually poisonous to the body.

Yet we have a culture and a society out there that says, who cares?

If it tastes good, if it feels good, do it and enjoy it.

Have you known people that have taken that motto and how they live their life?

If it tastes good, if it feels good, enjoy it.

And they enjoy it for a season, but that season passes all too quickly.

I really wonder if there could be such a thing as truth in advertising, if you could show a product and then fast forward and show the end result of that product.

You'll be grabbing your toilet before morning.

What know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God, and ye are not your own." Continuing on, "'For you are bought with a price.

Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are whose?

God's.'" Back to this stewardship idea that even my own body truly does not belong to me, but it is God's.

It is what he wants to inhabit with his Holy Spirit.

You know, if you were to calculate the worth of the human body, People have tried to do this.

In fact, and this is to sell parts of the body is not ethical, it's illegal, it's not even fully possible to get everything because we are so, in fact, interconnected.

However, insurance likes to estimate and hospitals estimate.

So, if we were to calculate various parts of the body, it would go something like this.

If you're a woman, your egg cells over 8 years is 214, 000.

If you add everything up, the value of the human body, 45 million dollars.

You are incredibly and wonderfully made at the hand of the Creator God.

And at the end of the day you cannot put a worth or a value on your health and on your life.

Our bodies are in fact the temple of the Holy Spirit.

We are to treat our bodies as the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Our bodies belong to God, both through creation and through redemption.

And so I do believe God cares about how we treat what He has given to us.

So we have 3 diets in the Bible, if you will, or 3 categories.

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