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Amazing Facts

Healing, Health, and Holiness

Doug Batchelor

Healing, Health, and Holiness Pt. 1

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In January 2010, a minivan struck and killed a man crossing the Brooklyn street, Especially tragic because this was no ordinary man.

Joe Rolino would have been 105 years old in March.

His friends said he was the model of health.

A World War II vet with 3 purple hearts, Rolino got his start in the 1920s at the Coney Island Carnival, billed as the strongest man in the world.

5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, for his size he was 1 of the strongest men ever.

He could move 3, 200 pounds with his back, lift 475 pounds with his teeth, and 635 pounds he could lift with 1 finger.

At Joe Rolino's 103rd birthday party, a friend gave him a quarter and Rolino bent it with his fingers.

He then apologized because he used to do it with a dime.

Did I mention that Joe Rolino didn't drink or smoke.

He exercised daily and he was a lifelong vegetarian.

You know, the Bible also makes a connection between a very strong man and a unique lifestyle.

The Bible says Samson did not drink and he stayed away from unclean foods.

Anything is possible when we follow God's health plan.

So Join me now as we take a deeper look into this life changing subject.

Tonight I'm going to be sharing a topic that I think The Christian world is long overdue to understand this issue and people have suffered greatly because they do not understand this principle from the Bible that is very practical.

Now our message tonight is dealing with the subject of healing, health and holiness it begins with a story that you find in a book of prophecy and it's in Daniel chapter 1, it tells that after King Nebuchadnezzar had conquered Babylon, he took some of the brightest and the best of the nation and he brought them with him back to Babylon and he said, look we're going to train you in the language of the Chaldeans, we're going to feed you from our cafeteria for 3 years and we're going to prepare you to be ambassadors representing your part of the world and go to the University of Babylon." And you think, well, that would be really good to be eating from the Babylonian cafeteria.

Babylonians ate things that God had told his people they're not supposed to eat.

So Daniel and his 3 friends that had been carried off to Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, their Hebrew names were Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, they said, we can't eat that.

Please let us eat pulse or vegetables and just give us a chance.

And the man who was in charge of the eunuchs, he said, I can't do that because if you start looking scrawny and sick, I'm responsible for your health and education, my head will be on the block.

Notice it says in Daniel 1 verse 8, Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile, he would not what?

Defile himself with a portion of the king's meat.

So they proposed to Ashkenaz, prince of the eunuchs, prove your servants, test us for 10 days, let us have pulse to eat and water to drink, we're not going to eat the Babylonian food and the fermented wine, and the Bible says he consented to that, And then at the end of 10 days, their countenances appeared fair and fatter in flesh, you know, they had just come across the desert, and he found them 10 times better, smarter, than all the magicians and the astrologers that were in the realm.

And the first chapter of Daniel closes by saying and Daniel continued until the time of King Cyrus, Daniel lived to about a hundred years of age he must have been 15 to 17 when he was carried off.

So it's interesting that at this very important book of prophecy it would make a point that Daniel and his friends had purposed they would take care of their bodies even when they were tempted by their surroundings and even though there was social pressure to compromise, they said, no, this is what God says about treating our bodies as the temple of the Holy Spirit and we will not defile our bodies.

This is a truth that has been lost by much of the Christian church and it's an area where there needs to be revival and reformation and that's also true even within our denomination.

Let's look at our lesson, it's going to bring out a number of points.

First question, what was the original diet that God designed for humans?

You read in Genesis 1 verse 29 and God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed and in every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you which will be for meat.

And the word meat there, that's King James, just means for food.

And so the original diet that God gave to man was a vegetarian diet containing, it was actually fruits, grains and nuts, beans.

After Adam and Eve sinned, and they were evicted from the Garden of Eden, they could no longer eat from the Tree of Life, God then said, all right, I want to give you something supplemental.

What was added to their diet at that point?

Genesis 3 verse 18, he said, you shall eat the herb of the field, meaning vegetables.

Now, I find sometimes people don't know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable.

Onion, vegetable, Brussels sprouts, inedible.

It's real simple that anything that is the product of the blossom is the fruit And anything that's any other part of the plant, whether it's the stalk or the leaves or the bulbs, that's a vegetable.

And so after Adam and Eve and a lot of kids out there are really sorry that Adam and Eve sinned because they didn't want vegetables added to their diet.

But after they sinned and they were told they could no longer stay in the garden, God said you can also eat the herb of the field.

But the original diet for man was a vegetarian diet.

And I'll just tell you right now, I'm biased.

The Bible does not require you to be a vegetarian, but are you aware that we will be vegetarians in heaven?

When God asked Adam to name the animals, he did not look at the cow and say, whopper, and he did not look at the chickens and say, McNuggets.

You know, he was supposed to protect them, he wasn't supposed to think about eating them, and it wasn't until after sin and especially after the flood that animals became a part of the diet.

I told you I'm a vegetarian I encourage that, but the Bible does say you're going to eat meat but then it says if you're going to eat meat there's some criteria You can read about this in Leviticus 11 verse 3, whatever parts the hoof and is cloven footed and chews the cud, these you can eat.

So it needed to have a cloven hoof, needed both characteristics, not just 1.

Now I know some of you are really bothered by that because you're going to have to go take the camel out of your fridge tonight, right after the program.

But you know, this was a problem in Christ's time.

He said, you strain a gnat and you swallow a camel, which is unclean.

He said, you're worried about getting a little bitty bug in your water, but then you go eat camel steak when you go home, and God says it's unclean.

Now, some things, they chew the cud, but they don't have a cloven hoof.

And then there's a couple of animals that have a cloven hoof, but they don't chew the cud.

Puercal, the pig, the hog, the swine, though it divides the hoof, having clove in the hoofs, yet it does not chew the cud, it is unclean to you.

He goes on to say, their flesh you shall not eat, their carcass you shall not touch.

I used to take care of my neighbor's pigs when he would go on vacation and you know, I always try and find some new word to describe it, but all I can come up with is to tell you that pigs are pigs.

Their name is the definition and you can't improve on it.

You ever been by, you're driven by a pig slaughterhouse?

Even the Bible says, like the sow that was washed returns the wallowing in the mire.

God made some animals that are scavengers, and they're made to kind of clean up the environment.

You wouldn't eat garbage, but you'll eat the garbage can when you eat a pig.

Healing, Health, and Holiness Pt. 2

Nuclear submarines or boomers are modern engineering wonders equivalent to a tightly packed self-contained city where a crew of 140 share the space of a three-bedroom house.

A nuclear sub can stay submerged up to 90 days.

There's little contact with family during this time.

Along with the pressure being prepared to launch nuclear weapons, it's 1 of the most stressful military assignments.

To compensate, the Navy trains the best chefs for these subs.

A meal might be prime ribs, sauteed mushrooms, baked potatoes, fresh bread, and real chocolate cake.

They say an army travels on its stomach, and that's why the military spends millions evaluating what their soldiers eat.

Why is it that many Christians think God doesn't care what his soldiers eat?

The Bible teaches that whether you eat or drink, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Since our bodies are God's temple, we should present them to him as a living sacrifice and not abuse them with gluttony, especially since we're soldiers in his army.

So join me today for this program as we uncover more amazing health facts from the word of God.

Welcome friends to our Foundations of Faith program, so glad to see each of you here.

And we've been talking about if the Reformation was to continue, what are some messages that the Christian world really needs to hear?

But I like to always start with an amazing fact.

I'm going to need to read some of this from my notes tonight because there's just a lot of details I can't remember.

The most powerful supercomputer used to be in the U.S.

It's the 93 petaflop Sunway Tailu Lite installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China.

It has more than 10.5 million locally made processor cores, 1 computer.

At its peak, the computer can perform 93 trillion calculations per second, which is a whole room of super processors, air conditioners, and power cables.

Still, this is only .4% of what 1 human brain can do in processing in a second, which means this super computer is about half as smart as a mouse brain.

You know, the Bible tells us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

You know, in your brain, that 2 1⁄2 pound electrochemical computer, it's filled with, you know, billions of neurons, And they've discovered now that within the neurons are these dendrites and they used to think that they were just kind of interconnecting cables.

But the scientists have come to discover that each 1 of these little dendrites, which are just super microscopic cables within the neurons, actually each is a computer in itself.

And so the statistics that they had about the computing ability of the human brain, they're finding out that it was much more than they even thought.

Which makes sense, because we're going to be learning through eternity.

That's 1 reason I just could never accept evolution.

Why would You evolve a brain that you don't even use 70% of it in 1 life.

Why would you evolve with so much extra capacity?

Now our message tonight is dealing with the subject of healing, health and holiness.

First question, why is God concerned with our physical health?

Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Jesus spent almost as much time healing as He did teaching.

You read in 3 John, verse 2, Beloved, I wish above all things that you might prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers.

How important is physical prosperity to God?

Because God communicates to you through your brain.

Your brain is sort of like the bridge between your physical body and God.

He doesn't communicate to you through your toes or through your elbow, and you might think He speaks to you through your stomach, but God speaks to you through your head.

And your head is a combination of some kind of a spiritual organ, and they still don't know if thoughts are physical.

Look at all the things that are happening now, right now in this room, in your minds and in mine, while I'm talking to you and I'm taking in things visually and watching some of you yawn and think what that does to me while I'm talking.

And I'm seeing all of this and I'm thinking about what I've got to say next and there's Thousands of things going on in my mind and are those tangible when the Holy Spirit inspires you Is that just a computer process or is there something outside influencing your brain?

But your brain is also an organ It's fed by blood.

It's interesting it's the center of all the nerves in your body all kind of end in your brain, but your brain doesn't feel.

If you take care of your body and your mind is clear, it is easier for you to be a witness for the Lord.

You will feel better, which makes you a happier person, which makes you a better witness.

If your head is clear, you understand spiritual things better.

It's easier for you to live a Christian life and comprehend the will of God if your mind is clear.

And so the devil is working overtime to try to fog up the minds of his people and make them sick so that they're just not able to let their light shine the way he wants them to.

John 10, verse 10, I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

He's not only skiing, he's skiing barefoot.

He obviously doesn't have dentures because he's holding the rope in his teeth.

I'd like to sprinkle a few amazing facts here.

I was reading back in 2014 about Jeanette and Alan Murray, who set a record for running the most consecutive marathons of anybody in history together, starting January 1, 2013.

Every day through the year, they ran a marathon, and they ran completely around Australia and Tasmania, running 366, they did 1 extra for good measure, marathons, 26.2 miles every day.

And along the way they consumed 10, 000 bananas, thousands of avocados, smoothies.

They're both vegetarians, vegan vegetarians.

Part of the reason they did this was to promote a vegetarian diet because she believed it was largely responsible for her recovery from cancer.

In spite of what you may be hearing from some of the meat and dairy industry, a vegetarian diet is definitely healthier for people.

I learned this the hard way years ago and I'll maybe say more about that later.

God promised the children of Israel when He brought them out of Egypt that if they would serve and obey Him, He would remove all sickness from them.

They ate angel's food from God every day.

And after 40 years of following the laws of health and sanitation that God had given Moses.

You know what the testimony is in Psalm 105 verse 37?

Among this people, this nation, of up to 2000000 people, says He brought them forth, there was not 1 feeble person among their tribes.

Can you imagine 2000000 people in a city and the hospital is empty?

You know, the nurses and doctors are just kind of folding their arms and they're watching the clock because there's nobody to take care of because everybody's well.

You know 1 reason that there's a health care crisis in North America is because, you know, even if you take care of yourself and you follow all the best health laws, you'll eventually get old and die.

But God doesn't want you to spend the last 30 years of your life dying.

You read in the Bible about Moses, it says Moses climbed a mountain, 120 years old, God says, Moses, time to die, I want you to climb that mountain and we'll deal with it up there.

Moses climbs the mountain, God leaves him to rest and it says, his strength was not abated, his vision was still clear, 120 years old, active, productive, clear, and then all of a sudden at the very end, he dies.

I know so many dear old people that took care of their health and just kind of fell over in their garden.

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