WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:06.519 Hello, and thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:10.080 Daily Hope. Well today we continue in our series called 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.160 God's Prescription for a Healthy Life. In it, Pastor Rick 4 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:18.839 will show you how to improve your health physically, spiritually, relationally, 5 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:23.320 and emotionally by applying the five essentials needed. 6 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:24.800 For a more vibrant life. 7 00:00:25.079 --> 00:00:27.000 If you want to have what it takes to live 8 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:29.960 out your calling in life, stay with us for this 9 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:33.799 amazing series. In just a few moments, we're going to 10 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:37.119 tell you about Pastor Rick Warren's best selling book called 11 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:41.600 The Daniel Plan. 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That's Pastorick dot com or the 17 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.480 Daily to eight hundred six hundred five thousand and four. 18 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:08.200 Right now, here's Pastor Rick with part one of a 19 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.319 message called God's Prescription for Health. 20 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:14.599 This week, I want us to look at your physical 21 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:19.079 health and we're gonna look at God's Prescription for physical help. 22 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:19.760 Now. 23 00:01:20.120 --> 00:01:22.719 Before we look at this, I need to begin with 24 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:31.840 a confession. I grew up in a family where we 25 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:36.400 were taught you don't drink, smoke, cuss, chew, or run 26 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:38.000 around with girls that do. 27 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:41.239 So. 28 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:46.319 In my lifetime, I've never smoked a cigarette. I've never 29 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:54.120 tasted alcohol. I've never taken an illicit drug. But I 30 00:01:54.200 --> 00:02:01.000 love pasta, and that's why they call me pasta rick. 31 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:13.919 All right, Now, we all have our drug of choice, 32 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.560 and my drug of choice. 33 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:16.199 Has been food. 34 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.759 Now, I grew up in a family with the centerpiece 35 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:24.159 that literally dominated all the other furniture in our house 36 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:28.719 was the dining room table. Now I'm not just talking 37 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:33.719 about a little kitchenette. This thing was twelve maybe fourteen 38 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:37.080 feet long. It was at least five feet wide. I'm 39 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:40.840 not making this up. It was a four inch thick 40 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:45.680 slab of a single piece of redwood. I grew up 41 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:47.919 in northern California, in the Redwoods, in a little town 42 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:51.520 called Redwood Valley, and we had a lumberman who actually 43 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.960 milled this from a single tree. The dining room table 44 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:58.840 at the Warren home dominated not just the dining room, 45 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:02.400 but the room and every other room of the house, 46 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:08.599 and every major function of our house. Revolved around that table. 47 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:14.639 Every happy memory in my life growing up was connected 48 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:23.000 to food. Every sad memory in my life was connected 49 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:29.479 to food. Everything between those two extremes was connected to food. 50 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.120 And so while we didn't drink some custome, we certainly 51 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:37.800 did enjoy a lot of food. My mom liked to cook, 52 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.039 my dad grew at least an acre in garden, We 53 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:43.080 raised their own cattle, and there was always plenty on 54 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.599 the table. And I have to be honest with you, 55 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:50.400 I've never really paid much attention to my health until 56 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.560 my mid twenties. I was as skinny as a bean pole. 57 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:55.439 I mean, I was one of those guys you hate 58 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:59.400 who you could literally eat everything and not gain an ounce. 59 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:02.919 And that's why it was. And then I got married. 60 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:08.000 Now I'm not blaming k she has no responsibility that 61 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.319 she's an incredible cook, but I don't know. Something slowed 62 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.360 down in me and I started packing on the palace 63 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.279 and honestly, never really did pay much attention to my 64 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:25.240 health until this year. I had a little epiphany, a 65 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:28.759 Damascus road experience. The light kind of finally clicked on 66 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:32.839 in my mind. And it happened the day that a 67 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:37.279 few months ago I baptized on a single day, over 68 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:38.079 eight hundred of you. 69 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:42.839 Now, by the way, at the end of that day. 70 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:44.000 I was stith, can shoot, I think I'm going to 71 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.040 become a Catholic. I like this thing about the sprinkle 72 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:50.720 little water, you know, this thing about dipping them underwater. Shoot, 73 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:55.439 Methodist Presbyterian, I like that. You know, forget what Jesus did. 74 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.040 Let's just do it the easy way. Okay, let's just 75 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.680 throw a little water on. Let me get a fire 76 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:04.199 hydrant and you know, gota maybe we'll throw in a 77 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:05.079 car washed. 78 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:07.959 With it, you know, And no, we're not going to 79 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:08.240 do that. 80 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:14.199 But after baptizing eight hundred people in our church by immersion, 81 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:25.319 I realized we're all getting heavy. This is your father's saddleback. 82 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:28.879 And so I started doing a little research on this, 83 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:33.600 and I discovered that nearly seven in ten Americans, sixty 84 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.279 nine percent of Americans are overweight. 85 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:37.920 Overweight. 86 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:44.720 I discovered that diabetes and heart disease have exploded as 87 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:51.000 pandemic diseases because of weight related issues. We now have 88 00:05:51.079 --> 00:05:54.720 eighty million people in America who are diabetic or pre diabetic. 89 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:59.720 That's phenomenally large number compared to even just ten years ago. 90 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:04.360 I studied some CDC Center for Disease Control statistics and 91 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:08.279 learned that in nineteen ninety five, there was not a 92 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:11.480 single state in all fifty states that had more than 93 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:16.480 twenty percent obese in their state. Today, there's not a 94 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:20.839 single state that doesn't have at least twenty percent obese 95 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:26.040 in their state. We are packing on the pounds. And 96 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:29.519 then as I thought about globally, as we've traveled around 97 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:31.879 the world in these one hundred and ninety five nations 98 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:36.240 in the last seventy seven years, and you know, peace 99 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:41.120 stands for plant churches, equipped leaders, assist the poor, care 100 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:43.439 for the sick, educate the next generation and the sea, 101 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:47.160 and care for the sick. We have focused almost exclusively 102 00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:50.800 on infectious diseases for the past seven years in the 103 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:53.680 Peace Plant and so we've helped people with measles and 104 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:57.839 mumps and malaria and yellow fever and typhus and polio 105 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:03.120 and aids and their infectious diseases, water born eye diseases 106 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:07.600 and things like that. And I discovered that actually infectious 107 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:11.759 diseases in the world are actually going down, and chronic 108 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.959 diseases are going up. In other words, by the end 109 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:19.600 of this decade, twenty million people a year will die 110 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:24.040 from infectious diseases in the world. Now, that's unacceptable, but 111 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:28.439 fifty million a year will die from weight related diseases. 112 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:31.040 More people are. 113 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:36.199 Going to die from diabetes and from heart disease than 114 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:42.240 from infectious diseases, a totally manageable problem. And then I 115 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:48.079 discovered another amazing statistic that right now globally in the world, 116 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:52.759 as many people are dying from obesity as are dying 117 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:58.519 from malnutrition first time in history, one point one billion. 118 00:07:58.360 --> 00:07:59.480 In each category. 119 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.879 As many people today are dying from being overweight as 120 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:09.319 are dying from malnutrition in the world today. So I'm thinking, 121 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:13.680 I cannot ask our church to get healthy. If I 122 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.639 don't get serious about this, if I don't do something 123 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:19.079 about myself, I cannot. I've never asked you to do 124 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:23.639 anything that I haven't already modeled. Now the truth is, 125 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:27.160 you already know what to do. This is not rocket science. 126 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.399 It's not brain surgery. To get healthy, you've got to 127 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:33.440 eat healthy, and you've got to eat less. 128 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:36.080 You've got to get moving. 129 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:41.200 You've got to move it okay, You've got to get 130 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:44.240 proper sleep, and you've got to lower the stress and 131 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.039 get more rest in your life. This is not rocket science. 132 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:48.879 You know this, so there's nothing I can teach you 133 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.480 on that today. But what I want to do today 134 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.919 is to focus on the motivation, the. 135 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.960 Why why do you not stick? 136 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:02.519 And why do I stick with get in shape programs, 137 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:06.720 get healthy programs, diets, exercise and whatever. How many times 138 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:09.159 have you set a resolution to get in shape and 139 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:12.879 a month later it's out the window? And the reason 140 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:17.799 why is if you don't have the right motivation, you 141 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:18.879 will not stick with it. 142 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:25.559 You're listening to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Rick will be 143 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:28.440 back in just a moment with the rest of today's lesson. 144 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.600 If you've missed any part of today's teaching, you can 145 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:38.080 listen online anytime at pastorick dot com. That's pastorick dot com. 146 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.559 Thanks for joining us today for Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. 147 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.720 A short time back, God put it on Pastor Rick's 148 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.600 heart to connect with the team of leading health experts 149 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:49.519 to create the Daniel Plan. 150 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:50.679 Meet Joel. 151 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:53.559 I tried to lose weight. I tried to make the changes, 152 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:55.960 and nothing seemed to work because it was all based 153 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.840 on my willpower. When I started with the program, I 154 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.159 immediately noticed changes mainly because I wanted to be healthy. 155 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:08.320 I had the tools to eat properly, I understood exercise, 156 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:11.919 and I had motivation. I saw that I could get 157 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:14.840 healthy finally, that I could make the changes that I 158 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:16.559 tried my whole life to make. 159 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.120 More than one hundred and eighty thousand people are following 160 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:23.759 the Daniel Plan to lose weight, increase their energy, and 161 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:27.679 improve their relationships, all while growing closer to the Lord. 162 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.600 With the Daniel Plan, I've lost seventy five pounds and 163 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.639 I've reached what I think is my ideal weight where 164 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:37.759 I feel healthy. In fact, I just recently competed in 165 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:41.720 an Ironman triathlon competition that's one hundred and forty point 166 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.799 six miles of racing. 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There are only two days 179 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.440 left to get this special offer and receive the Daniel 180 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.679 Planned Book, So act now and call one eight hundred 181 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:29.080 six hundred five thousand and four or visit pastor Rick 182 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:31.840 dot com. 183 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:33.840 Once again, here's Pastor Rick. 184 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.279 All right, first, let's look at what God says about 185 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:44.000 the importance of your physical health. And the Bible says this. 186 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.840 First Corinthians, chapter six is the classic passage on the body. 187 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:51.360 Here it is on the screen. Everything is permissible for me, 188 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:56.480 but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me. 189 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:58.159 In other words, I got the freedom to do anything, 190 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:02.080 but I will not be mastered by anything. What does 191 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.320 God saying here? He said, you know some things in life, 192 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:09.039 they're just not necessarily wrong. They're just not necessary. Does 193 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.320 that make sense? Okay, You're free to do whatever you want, 194 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:16.519 but not everything is beneficial or or. And I'm not 195 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.080 gonna be mastered by anything. I'm not gonna let it 196 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:21.759 dominate me. I'm not gonna be addicted to anything. Food 197 00:12:21.840 --> 00:12:23.679 is for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but 198 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:25.480 God's going to destroy both. In other words, they're not 199 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:28.320 gonna last forever. So that's not the real reason you're here. 200 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.600 Then he says, the body is not meant for sexual immorality, 201 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:32.120 but for the. 202 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:35.480 Lord, and the Lord for the body. 203 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.320 By his power, God raised the Lord from the dead, 204 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:40.279 and he's gonna raise us up. 205 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:42.879 I mean, He's gonna physically raise up your body. 206 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:45.440 Do you not know that your bodies are members of 207 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:51.080 Christ himself? Now flee, The Bible says, from sexual immorality. 208 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:53.600 All other sins a man commits are outside his body. 209 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:57.000 But he has sent sexually sins against his own body. 210 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.960 It's a different class. Do you not know that you're 211 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:03.360 your body is a temple? This is where that phrase 212 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:05.360 comes from. Do you not know that your body is 213 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.000 a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, 214 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:14.799 whom you have received from God. You are not your own. 215 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:20.120 You were bought at a price Jesus paid for you. Therefore, 216 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:26.200 honor God with your body. Now, this passage teaches us 217 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:31.399 six radical counterculture things about your body. 218 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:32.840 You need to write these down. 219 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.200 This is the exact opposite of what culture teaches you today, 220 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:38.519 what the media teaches you today about your body. 221 00:13:38.600 --> 00:13:39.799 Okay, here they are number one. 222 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:43.000 The first thing is that God expects me to manage 223 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:49.440 my body. God expects me to manage my body. 224 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:52.200 Now I'm not the owner. I'm the manager. 225 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.279 God is the owner of my body, but I am 226 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:59.320 the manager. The Bible word is the word steward. Stewardship 227 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.039 is the Old English word for management, and we're talking 228 00:14:02.039 --> 00:14:05.840 about the stewardship of health today. In other words, I 229 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.840 cannot blame other people for how I use or misuse 230 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.799 or abuse my body. I can't blame anybody else. I'm 231 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.679 the manager. My body is a gift from God on loan. 232 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.639 God owns it and then he loans it to me. 233 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.080 And one day I'm going to give an account. One 234 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:24.879 day I'm going to stand before God and he's going 235 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:29.919 to say, what did you do with what I gave you? Okay, 236 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:32.559 We've talked about this many times, that life is a test, 237 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.440 It is preparation for eternity, and God is seeing what 238 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:38.519 he can trust you with. What did you do with 239 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.240 the help I gave you? What did you do with 240 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:41.799 the mind I gave you? What did you do with 241 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:46.240 the opportunities, the abilities, the freedom, the wealth, all the things? 242 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:48.200 What did you do with what I gave you. And 243 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:49.399 one of the things is going to say is what 244 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.759 did you do with the body that I gave you? 245 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:54.799 And God is watching to see what you do. 246 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:55.399 So I'm a. 247 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:58.159 Caretaker of my body. God expects me to manage it. 248 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:03.440 Number two, my body is God's property. Now that's fighting 249 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.399 words here in America because all of us were taught 250 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:11.399 growing up. My body is my own body, and it's 251 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.799 my body, and I'll do what I want to with it, 252 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:17.360 and God says, no, you won't. It's not your body. 253 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:19.720 It's my body. I just loaned it to you. It's 254 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:24.039 not yours because you didn't create it. Everything that you 255 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:27.639 see was created by God and the creator owns it all. 256 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.399 You don't own anything. It's loaned to you. Just like 257 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.720 we talked about your money last week. You don't own 258 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:35.840 your money. It's loaned to you for about eighty years. 259 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:37.639 It was somebody else before you were born. It's going 260 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:40.120 to be somebody else after you die. You just use 261 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.840 it while you're here. He owns it and he loans it. 262 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:47.320 And my body is God's property. The body, the Bible says, 263 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:50.799 is not meant for sexual limorlity, but for the Lord. 264 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:53.879 Why because it's his and the Lord for the body. 265 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:55.519 In other words, I don't have the right to just 266 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:58.440 share my body with anybody, and neither do you. Now 267 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.960 that's a radical concept. See what Americans do today that 268 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:04.360 make the common mistakes that the Greeks did, which is 269 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:09.600 called dualism. Back in the days of Aristotle and Socrates 270 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:15.159 and Plato, the Greeks believed in dualism, which was we separate. 271 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:16.720 The mind and the body. 272 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:19.480 And they said, you know, really what matters is just 273 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:23.120 that your spirit or your mind, your spirit is. 274 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:23.799 Right with God. 275 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:26.519 And if your spirit is right with God, doesn't really 276 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.720 matter what you do with your body. They devalued the body. 277 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:34.320 In fact, they taught the body is evil, so really 278 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:36.279 it doesn't matter if you mess up your body because 279 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:39.519 it's just evil. What only really matters is your spirit. 280 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:42.519 And the Bible says that's absolutely false. 281 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:44.360 Your body is not evil. 282 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:48.240 Your body is holy because God made it, and everything 283 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.960 God makes he makes for a purpose. God has never 284 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:54.559 made anything else without a purpose. And so don't compartmentalize that. 285 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:56.519 You know, all it really matters is my spirit, not 286 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:59.080 my body. It both matters. 287 00:16:59.159 --> 00:16:59.759 That's a myth. 288 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:04.039 Now I have to admit that growing up in a 289 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.640 church home, I never in my entire life heard a 290 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:12.119 single sermon on the body, not one. I've never heard one. 291 00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:14.839 I've heard him talk about the importance of your spirit, 292 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:17.519 the importance of your soul, the importance of your mind, 293 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:20.119 the importance of your character, the importance of your values. 294 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:24.000 I'd never heard a single sermon on the importance of 295 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.599 your body. So most Christians have no theology of health. 296 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:33.799 But the fact is God owns your God He's the 297 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.599 boss of your body. You may not like it, but 298 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.680 it's a truth. God owns it and expects you to 299 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:43.279 manage it well. Number Three, the third thing this passage 300 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:48.240 teaches is that my body will be resurrected after I die. 301 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:53.599 My body will be resurrected after I die. Now, God 302 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:58.519 never waste anything. He never wastes a hurt. If you'll 303 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.279 give it to him, He'll take even the hurt things 304 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:01.720 in your life and turn them around and use them 305 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:07.559 for good. He doesn't waste any God recycles and God says, 306 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:09.720 I'm not you think that body gave you that's just it. No, No, 307 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:13.359 we're gonna We're gonna recycle it. Right now, you're living 308 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:17.720 in version one point oh. In heaven, you're gonna get 309 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.240 version two point oh, but you will have a body. 310 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:22.400 Some people think that when you get to heaven you're 311 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:24.200 just gonna be this. I'm more for a spirit, just 312 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:26.759 kind of floating around like me, the forest be with you. 313 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:30.559 Other people think they're gonna be angels. You're not going 314 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.519 to be an angel. Angels or angels. People are people. 315 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:35.359 A lot of times people get their idea of heaven 316 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:44.440 is white, robe wings, playing a harp, sitting on a cloud. 317 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:45.759 Friends. 318 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:50.680 To me, that would be hell. I can't think of 319 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:54.799 anything more boring than that. And why is heaven all white? 320 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:55.119 Now? 321 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:57.599 Who do you think created color? God did? Who do 322 00:18:57.640 --> 00:18:58.960 you think created taste buds? 323 00:18:59.000 --> 00:18:59.559 God did? 324 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.200 Who do you he ain't created all the sights and 325 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:02.400 sounds and gave us music? 326 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:02.960 God did? 327 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:05.279 Who do you think created all of beauty and gave 328 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:06.079 us eyes to see it? 329 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:06.640 God did? 330 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:09.720 And if the world is broken and it's this beautiful, 331 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:14.759 what do you think Heaven's going to be? Like multicolor extravaganza? 332 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:18.319 Like you can't believe? Not some white cloud thing? 333 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:24.640 Okay, all right now, the Bible says this one Corinthia 334 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:28.680 six fourteen by his power. God raised the Lord from 335 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.960 the dead, and he will raise us up. Also, do 336 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.200 you see how important your body is? God says, I'm 337 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.400 not through with this. You know, I'm gonna resurrect your body. Said, well, 338 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:40.160 what is it gonna get all the kid in the ground? Well, yeah, 339 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.240 or you might be cremated. But God says, I'm still 340 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:44.200 going to resurrect it. I'm gonna put it together in 341 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:46.400 version two point zero. And he can do anything if 342 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:50.839 you created a universe, he said, what's my resurrected body 343 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:51.240 going to be? 344 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:54.880 Like, well, we don't really know. We do know that. 345 00:19:54.839 --> 00:19:58.160 After Jesus was resurrected and he walked around Jerusalem for 346 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:00.440 forty days one time was seen by five hundre people 347 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:03.440 and talk to them different people that he could actually 348 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:08.039 his body had some kind of capability to dematerialize, because 349 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.960 he could appear in a room without walking through the door. 350 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.599 That'd be kind of cool, okay, kind of like Star Trek, 351 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:21.279 you know, de materialized. But everybody recognized him. They recognized him, 352 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:25.400 and so that gives us a clue that when you 353 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:28.359 get to heaven, you're going to have a different kind 354 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:31.559 of body than you've got right now. But everybody's going 355 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:35.079 to know who you are. You're still going to be you. 356 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:37.680 You're just going to be you version two point zero 357 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:43.000 with no blemishes, perfect in every form. You're going to 358 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:46.319 be you in perfect format. Now, no, I want you 359 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:49.160 to circle on this phrase. The phrase by his power. 360 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:53.680 By his power, God raised the Lord from the dead. See, 361 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:56.200 this is one of the three reasons why we don't 362 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:59.039 stick with diets, one of the three reasons we don't 363 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:03.279 stick with our get healthy programs, And the first reason 364 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:09.400 is we use willpower instead of God power. Now, willpower, friends, 365 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:12.720 works for about three weeks, and then you get tired 366 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:15.519 and you go off the diet, you start smoking again 367 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:22.279 because willpower is not enough to change. 368 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.400 This is Pastor Rick's daily hope. We're so thankful that 369 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.359 you've chosen to spend time with us. If you've missed 370 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.920 any part of this broadcast, including portions we didn't have 371 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.079 time for today, just go to Pastorrick dot com and 372 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:41.759 listen online anytime. Rick will be back to close out 373 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:45.839 our time today. 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Here's Pastor 392 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:59.000 Rick with a letter from one of our listeners. 393 00:22:59.319 --> 00:22:59.599 Today. 394 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:01.920 I share a letter from John who says he's been 395 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:05.759 reading the Daily Hope Devotionals for ten years. Wow. Great John. 396 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:09.680 John says he uses these written devotionals every morning to 397 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:12.119 start his daily prayer and Bible reading, and he writes this, 398 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:16.000 Pastor Rick, I started receiving your Daily Hope devotionals about 399 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:19.200 ten years ago. Not only did they bless my life 400 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:21.880 and help me with my daily walk, I would save 401 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:24.279