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Speaker 1: Daily Hope. Well today we continue in our series called
Speaker 1: God's Prescription for a Healthy Life. In it, Pastor Rick
Speaker 1: will show you how to improve your health physically, spiritually, relationally,
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Speaker 1: Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part one of a
Speaker 1: message called God's Prescription for Health.
Speaker 3: This week, I want us to look at your physical
Speaker 3: health and we're gonna look at God's Prescription for physical help.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Before we look at this, I need to begin with
Speaker 3: a confession. I grew up in a family where we
Speaker 3: were taught you don't drink, smoke, cuss, chew, or run
Speaker 3: around with girls that do.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: In my lifetime, I've never smoked a cigarette. I've never
Speaker 3: tasted alcohol. I've never taken an illicit drug. But I
Speaker 3: love pasta, and that's why they call me pasta rick.
Speaker 3: All right, Now, we all have our drug of choice,
Speaker 3: and my drug of choice.
Speaker 2: Has been food.
Speaker 3: Now, I grew up in a family with the centerpiece
Speaker 3: that literally dominated all the other furniture in our house
Speaker 3: was the dining room table. Now I'm not just talking
Speaker 3: about a little kitchenette. This thing was twelve maybe fourteen
Speaker 3: feet long. It was at least five feet wide. I'm
Speaker 3: not making this up. It was a four inch thick
Speaker 3: slab of a single piece of redwood. I grew up
Speaker 3: in northern California, in the Redwoods, in a little town
Speaker 3: called Redwood Valley, and we had a lumberman who actually
Speaker 3: milled this from a single tree. The dining room table
Speaker 3: at the Warren home dominated not just the dining room,
Speaker 3: but the room and every other room of the house,
Speaker 3: and every major function of our house. Revolved around that table.
Speaker 3: Every happy memory in my life growing up was connected
Speaker 3: to food. Every sad memory in my life was connected
Speaker 3: to food. Everything between those two extremes was connected to food.
Speaker 3: And so while we didn't drink some custome, we certainly
Speaker 3: did enjoy a lot of food. My mom liked to cook,
Speaker 3: my dad grew at least an acre in garden, We
Speaker 3: raised their own cattle, and there was always plenty on
Speaker 3: the table. And I have to be honest with you,
Speaker 3: I've never really paid much attention to my health until
Speaker 3: my mid twenties. I was as skinny as a bean pole.
Speaker 3: I mean, I was one of those guys you hate
Speaker 3: who you could literally eat everything and not gain an ounce.
Speaker 3: And that's why it was. And then I got married.
Speaker 3: Now I'm not blaming k she has no responsibility that
Speaker 3: she's an incredible cook, but I don't know. Something slowed
Speaker 3: down in me and I started packing on the palace
Speaker 3: and honestly, never really did pay much attention to my
Speaker 3: health until this year. I had a little epiphany, a
Speaker 3: Damascus road experience. The light kind of finally clicked on
Speaker 3: in my mind. And it happened the day that a
Speaker 3: few months ago I baptized on a single day, over
Speaker 3: eight hundred of you.
Speaker 2: Now, by the way, at the end of that day.
Speaker 3: I was stith, can shoot, I think I'm going to
Speaker 3: become a Catholic. I like this thing about the sprinkle
Speaker 3: little water, you know, this thing about dipping them underwater. Shoot,
Speaker 3: Methodist Presbyterian, I like that. You know, forget what Jesus did.
Speaker 3: Let's just do it the easy way. Okay, let's just
Speaker 3: throw a little water on. Let me get a fire
Speaker 3: hydrant and you know, gota maybe we'll throw in a
Speaker 3: car washed.
Speaker 2: With it, you know, And no, we're not going to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: But after baptizing eight hundred people in our church by immersion,
Speaker 3: I realized we're all getting heavy. This is your father's saddleback.
Speaker 3: And so I started doing a little research on this,
Speaker 3: and I discovered that nearly seven in ten Americans, sixty
Speaker 3: nine percent of Americans are overweight.
Speaker 2: Overweight.
Speaker 3: I discovered that diabetes and heart disease have exploded as
Speaker 3: pandemic diseases because of weight related issues. We now have
Speaker 3: eighty million people in America who are diabetic or pre diabetic.
Speaker 3: That's phenomenally large number compared to even just ten years ago.
Speaker 3: I studied some CDC Center for Disease Control statistics and
Speaker 3: learned that in nineteen ninety five, there was not a
Speaker 3: single state in all fifty states that had more than
Speaker 3: twenty percent obese in their state. Today, there's not a
Speaker 3: single state that doesn't have at least twenty percent obese
Speaker 3: in their state. We are packing on the pounds. And
Speaker 3: then as I thought about globally, as we've traveled around
Speaker 3: the world in these one hundred and ninety five nations
Speaker 3: in the last seventy seven years, and you know, peace
Speaker 3: stands for plant churches, equipped leaders, assist the poor, care
Speaker 3: for the sick, educate the next generation and the sea,
Speaker 3: and care for the sick. We have focused almost exclusively
Speaker 3: on infectious diseases for the past seven years in the
Speaker 3: Peace Plant and so we've helped people with measles and
Speaker 3: mumps and malaria and yellow fever and typhus and polio
Speaker 3: and aids and their infectious diseases, water born eye diseases
Speaker 3: and things like that. And I discovered that actually infectious
Speaker 3: diseases in the world are actually going down, and chronic
Speaker 3: diseases are going up. In other words, by the end
Speaker 3: of this decade, twenty million people a year will die
Speaker 3: from infectious diseases in the world. Now, that's unacceptable, but
Speaker 3: fifty million a year will die from weight related diseases.
Speaker 2: More people are.
Speaker 3: Going to die from diabetes and from heart disease than
Speaker 3: from infectious diseases, a totally manageable problem. And then I
Speaker 3: discovered another amazing statistic that right now globally in the world,
Speaker 3: as many people are dying from obesity as are dying
Speaker 3: from malnutrition first time in history, one point one billion.
Speaker 2: In each category.
Speaker 3: As many people today are dying from being overweight as
Speaker 3: are dying from malnutrition in the world today. So I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: I cannot ask our church to get healthy. If I
Speaker 3: don't get serious about this, if I don't do something
Speaker 3: about myself, I cannot. I've never asked you to do
Speaker 3: anything that I haven't already modeled. Now the truth is,
Speaker 3: you already know what to do. This is not rocket science.
Speaker 3: It's not brain surgery. To get healthy, you've got to
Speaker 3: eat healthy, and you've got to eat less.
Speaker 2: You've got to get moving.
Speaker 3: You've got to move it okay, You've got to get
Speaker 3: proper sleep, and you've got to lower the stress and
Speaker 3: get more rest in your life. This is not rocket science.
Speaker 3: You know this, so there's nothing I can teach you
Speaker 3: on that today. But what I want to do today
Speaker 3: is to focus on the motivation, the.
Speaker 2: Why why do you not stick?
Speaker 3: And why do I stick with get in shape programs,
Speaker 3: get healthy programs, diets, exercise and whatever. How many times
Speaker 3: have you set a resolution to get in shape and
Speaker 3: a month later it's out the window? And the reason
Speaker 3: why is if you don't have the right motivation, you
Speaker 3: will not stick with it.
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Speaker 3: All right, first, let's look at what God says about
Speaker 3: the importance of your physical health. And the Bible says this.
Speaker 3: First Corinthians, chapter six is the classic passage on the body.
Speaker 3: Here it is on the screen. Everything is permissible for me,
Speaker 3: but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me.
Speaker 3: In other words, I got the freedom to do anything,
Speaker 3: but I will not be mastered by anything. What does
Speaker 3: God saying here? He said, you know some things in life,
Speaker 3: they're just not necessarily wrong. They're just not necessary. Does
Speaker 3: that make sense? Okay, You're free to do whatever you want,
Speaker 3: but not everything is beneficial or or. And I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna be mastered by anything. I'm not gonna let it
Speaker 3: dominate me. I'm not gonna be addicted to anything. Food
Speaker 3: is for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but
Speaker 3: God's going to destroy both. In other words, they're not
Speaker 3: gonna last forever. So that's not the real reason you're here.
Speaker 3: Then he says, the body is not meant for sexual immorality,
Speaker 3: but for the.
Speaker 2: Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Speaker 3: By his power, God raised the Lord from the dead,
Speaker 3: and he's gonna raise us up.
Speaker 2: I mean, He's gonna physically raise up your body.
Speaker 3: Do you not know that your bodies are members of
Speaker 3: Christ himself? Now flee, The Bible says, from sexual immorality.
Speaker 3: All other sins a man commits are outside his body.
Speaker 3: But he has sent sexually sins against his own body.
Speaker 3: It's a different class. Do you not know that you're
Speaker 3: your body is a temple? This is where that phrase
Speaker 3: comes from. Do you not know that your body is
Speaker 3: a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,
Speaker 3: whom you have received from God. You are not your own.
Speaker 3: You were bought at a price Jesus paid for you. Therefore,
Speaker 3: honor God with your body. Now, this passage teaches us
Speaker 3: six radical counterculture things about your body.
Speaker 2: You need to write these down.
Speaker 3: This is the exact opposite of what culture teaches you today,
Speaker 3: what the media teaches you today about your body.
Speaker 2: Okay, here they are number one.
Speaker 3: The first thing is that God expects me to manage
Speaker 3: my body. God expects me to manage my body.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not the owner. I'm the manager.
Speaker 3: God is the owner of my body, but I am
Speaker 3: the manager. The Bible word is the word steward. Stewardship
Speaker 3: is the Old English word for management, and we're talking
Speaker 3: about the stewardship of health today. In other words, I
Speaker 3: cannot blame other people for how I use or misuse
Speaker 3: or abuse my body. I can't blame anybody else. I'm
Speaker 3: the manager. My body is a gift from God on loan.
Speaker 3: God owns it and then he loans it to me.
Speaker 3: And one day I'm going to give an account. One
Speaker 3: day I'm going to stand before God and he's going
Speaker 3: to say, what did you do with what I gave you? Okay,
Speaker 3: We've talked about this many times, that life is a test,
Speaker 3: It is preparation for eternity, and God is seeing what
Speaker 3: he can trust you with. What did you do with
Speaker 3: the help I gave you? What did you do with
Speaker 3: the mind I gave you? What did you do with
Speaker 3: the opportunities, the abilities, the freedom, the wealth, all the things?
Speaker 3: What did you do with what I gave you. And
Speaker 3: one of the things is going to say is what
Speaker 3: did you do with the body that I gave you?
Speaker 3: And God is watching to see what you do.
Speaker 2: So I'm a.
Speaker 3: Caretaker of my body. God expects me to manage it.
Speaker 3: Number two, my body is God's property. Now that's fighting
Speaker 3: words here in America because all of us were taught
Speaker 3: growing up. My body is my own body, and it's
Speaker 3: my body, and I'll do what I want to with it,
Speaker 3: and God says, no, you won't. It's not your body.
Speaker 3: It's my body. I just loaned it to you. It's
Speaker 3: not yours because you didn't create it. Everything that you
Speaker 3: see was created by God and the creator owns it all.
Speaker 3: You don't own anything. It's loaned to you. Just like
Speaker 3: we talked about your money last week. You don't own
Speaker 3: your money. It's loaned to you for about eighty years.
Speaker 3: It was somebody else before you were born. It's going
Speaker 3: to be somebody else after you die. You just use
Speaker 3: it while you're here. He owns it and he loans it.
Speaker 3: And my body is God's property. The body, the Bible says,
Speaker 3: is not meant for sexual limorlity, but for the Lord.
Speaker 3: Why because it's his and the Lord for the body.
Speaker 3: In other words, I don't have the right to just
Speaker 3: share my body with anybody, and neither do you. Now
Speaker 3: that's a radical concept. See what Americans do today that
Speaker 3: make the common mistakes that the Greeks did, which is
Speaker 3: called dualism. Back in the days of Aristotle and Socrates
Speaker 3: and Plato, the Greeks believed in dualism, which was we separate.
Speaker 2: The mind and the body.
Speaker 3: And they said, you know, really what matters is just
Speaker 3: that your spirit or your mind, your spirit is.
Speaker 2: Right with God.
Speaker 3: And if your spirit is right with God, doesn't really
Speaker 3: matter what you do with your body. They devalued the body.
Speaker 3: In fact, they taught the body is evil, so really
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter if you mess up your body because
Speaker 3: it's just evil. What only really matters is your spirit.
Speaker 3: And the Bible says that's absolutely false.
Speaker 2: Your body is not evil.
Speaker 3: Your body is holy because God made it, and everything
Speaker 3: God makes he makes for a purpose. God has never
Speaker 3: made anything else without a purpose. And so don't compartmentalize that.
Speaker 3: You know, all it really matters is my spirit, not
Speaker 3: my body. It both matters.
Speaker 2: That's a myth.
Speaker 3: Now I have to admit that growing up in a
Speaker 3: church home, I never in my entire life heard a
Speaker 3: single sermon on the body, not one. I've never heard one.
Speaker 3: I've heard him talk about the importance of your spirit,
Speaker 3: the importance of your soul, the importance of your mind,
Speaker 3: the importance of your character, the importance of your values.
Speaker 3: I'd never heard a single sermon on the importance of
Speaker 3: your body. So most Christians have no theology of health.
Speaker 3: But the fact is God owns your God He's the
Speaker 3: boss of your body. You may not like it, but
Speaker 3: it's a truth. God owns it and expects you to
Speaker 3: manage it well. Number Three, the third thing this passage
Speaker 3: teaches is that my body will be resurrected after I die.
Speaker 3: My body will be resurrected after I die. Now, God
Speaker 3: never waste anything. He never wastes a hurt. If you'll
Speaker 3: give it to him, He'll take even the hurt things
Speaker 3: in your life and turn them around and use them
Speaker 3: for good. He doesn't waste any God recycles and God says,
Speaker 3: I'm not you think that body gave you that's just it. No, No,
Speaker 3: we're gonna We're gonna recycle it. Right now, you're living
Speaker 3: in version one point oh. In heaven, you're gonna get
Speaker 3: version two point oh, but you will have a body.
Speaker 3: Some people think that when you get to heaven you're
Speaker 3: just gonna be this. I'm more for a spirit, just
Speaker 3: kind of floating around like me, the forest be with you.
Speaker 3: Other people think they're gonna be angels. You're not going
Speaker 3: to be an angel. Angels or angels. People are people.
Speaker 3: A lot of times people get their idea of heaven
Speaker 3: is white, robe wings, playing a harp, sitting on a cloud.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 3: To me, that would be hell. I can't think of
Speaker 3: anything more boring than that. And why is heaven all white?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Who do you think created color? God did? Who do
Speaker 3: you think created taste buds?
Speaker 2: God did?
Speaker 3: Who do you he ain't created all the sights and
Speaker 3: sounds and gave us music?
Speaker 2: God did?
Speaker 3: Who do you think created all of beauty and gave
Speaker 3: us eyes to see it?
Speaker 2: God did?
Speaker 3: And if the world is broken and it's this beautiful,
Speaker 3: what do you think Heaven's going to be? Like multicolor extravaganza?
Speaker 2: Like you can't believe? Not some white cloud thing?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right now, the Bible says this one Corinthia
Speaker 3: six fourteen by his power. God raised the Lord from
Speaker 3: the dead, and he will raise us up. Also, do
Speaker 3: you see how important your body is? God says, I'm
Speaker 3: not through with this. You know, I'm gonna resurrect your body. Said, well,
Speaker 3: what is it gonna get all the kid in the ground? Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: or you might be cremated. But God says, I'm still
Speaker 3: going to resurrect it. I'm gonna put it together in
Speaker 3: version two point zero. And he can do anything if
Speaker 3: you created a universe, he said, what's my resurrected body
Speaker 3: going to be?
Speaker 2: Like, well, we don't really know. We do know that.
Speaker 3: After Jesus was resurrected and he walked around Jerusalem for
Speaker 3: forty days one time was seen by five hundre people
Speaker 3: and talk to them different people that he could actually
Speaker 3: his body had some kind of capability to dematerialize, because
Speaker 3: he could appear in a room without walking through the door.
Speaker 3: That'd be kind of cool, okay, kind of like Star Trek,
Speaker 3: you know, de materialized. But everybody recognized him. They recognized him,
Speaker 3: and so that gives us a clue that when you
Speaker 3: get to heaven, you're going to have a different kind
Speaker 3: of body than you've got right now. But everybody's going
Speaker 3: to know who you are. You're still going to be you.
Speaker 3: You're just going to be you version two point zero
Speaker 3: with no blemishes, perfect in every form. You're going to
Speaker 3: be you in perfect format. Now, no, I want you
Speaker 3: to circle on this phrase. The phrase by his power.
Speaker 3: By his power, God raised the Lord from the dead. See,
Speaker 3: this is one of the three reasons why we don't
Speaker 3: stick with diets, one of the three reasons we don't
Speaker 3: stick with our get healthy programs, And the first reason
Speaker 3: is we use willpower instead of God power. Now, willpower, friends,
Speaker 3: works for about three weeks, and then you get tired
Speaker 3: and you go off the diet, you start smoking again
Speaker 3: because willpower is not enough to change.
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