My big challenge this whole week and even
this morning, I was up at 4 a
.m. and fell back asleep and up again,
is I have enough information for a book.
So going down from, you know, seven hours
to six hours to five to four to
three to two to try to get this
an hour, hour and 15, I'm trying to
get as much information as I can.
So I edited some things out.
I'm going to recommend some good books, some
things to get some more information.
But the title is Healthy Eating, What Does
the Bible Say?
Now CDs will be available if you want
to get this to a friend.
I would encourage you to listen to it
again and again.
The notes, everything I'm talking about, I was
sent it to Susie this morning, so the
office will have it.
We'll post it underneath the video when it
goes on our website.
I've got some free books you can grab
on your way out that would help.
We're also putting together a support group of
people who want to meet and just, you
know, accountability and iron sharpens iron.
And when you're meeting once a week it
helps a great deal.
So we've got all that out in the
lobby.
And as many of you know, we are
at the crossroads.
Opioid and alcohol abuse are leaving a path
of destruction in their wake.
Obesity is skyrocketing and plaguing the young as
well as the old.
It has reached epidemic levels in children now.
Caffeine, sugar have taken us captive.
Diabetes is plaguing millions.
And cancer and heart disease are the number
one killers in America.
Is there an answer?
And my whole premise this morning is, yes
there is.
What does the Lord say?
Well, I like Jeremiah 6.
Stand at the crossroads and look.
Ask for the ancient paths.
Ask where the good way is and walk
in it and you will find rest for
your souls.
My thought is we need to go back
to the old paths to truly find freedom
and deliverance.
Now obviously Jeremiah, the context, is talking about
walking in moral purity, walking in God's commandments.
But the overlapping principle still applies in this
area because when we go back to what
does God's Word say in this area, there
is safety, there is peace.
Now just a little bit of background.
I had to really edit all this down.
Many of you know I had a background
with 24-hour fitness and when I was
there I studied under an organization called the
National Academy of Sports Medicine.
Everything from kinesiology to biology to physical therapy
and different things and would read their literature,
would talk to the representatives.
Never got a degree in that but I
studied underneath them.
As a result I wrote my first book,
What Works When Diets Don't.
The reason is being in the fitness industry
I see people go from almost going in
the hospital to now running marathons in six
months.
Off their diabetes medication, off six, seven different
medications, now back to good health.
Blood pressure, cholesterol, mental illness, everything was changing
by the way they took care of their
body.
A lot of it was.
Now in that though, I wanted to say
you look at what works, what doesn't, and
why from a biblical perspective.
So I had this manuscript, I sent it
to a large publisher and they were interested.
And we met in Orange County.
Jack Hayford came out of the room right
when I went in and talked with them
and it didn't, it just didn't, it didn't
fit.
It didn't, looking back now it's because God
didn't call me to do that.
So I declined their offer and then they
happened to pick up a manuscript instead called
The Maker's Diet.
Have you heard of that one?
Best-selling, millions of copies.
My wife is probably going, why didn't you
take that off?
You know so he's Jordan Rubin has became
a household name in the area of nutrition
and God didn't have that calling for me.
And I actually ran into him a year
ago and I told him you need to
thank me for the publisher picking up your
manuscript.
So we had a good talk.
And I've just always had a passion for
that, working in 24-hour fitness, seeing this.
Now I should clarify, this can become a
point of idolatry when we were too focused
on our body.
We're too focused on our looks.
We're too focused on measuring the rice and
the chicken breast and it can get, it
can get obsessive.
But the other end of that is we
just don't care anymore and we don't care
what we do to our body.
We're just going to indulge, indulge, indulge.
So trying to find that middle ground.
I was 275 pounds at my height.
That was when I was also on a
lot of steroids.
Growth hormone, testosterone, decadirabolin, antivar, anadrol, Winstrel-V
from a veterinarian.
And at that time I was actually denied
life insurance and I actually ended up in
the hospital with myopericarditis.
It's an inflammation of the heart muscle.
In my 20s and I went into the
emergency room.
I could have a hard time breathing and
this is, this is what I look like
going in the emergency room.
And she, you know, she goes, okay we'll
just have a seat for an hour, right?
So they finally put a test on me
and they go, oh my gosh EKG cardi,
we need a cardiologist stat.
And they start wheeling me into this room
and so it became very apparent that maybe
it was a heart issue, heart attack, something
was happening in my 20s.
But it was strep throat had went to
my heart as a secondary viral infection around
the heart muscle.
And I had to jump on that one
pretty quickly.
So looking back, I'm very thankful for what
God has brought me through.
Four days in the hospital.
So that's kind of my background of health
and fitness, nutrition, wanting to help people in
this area.
Here's what's happening.
This is a confusing area, isn't it?
Confusion leads to discouragement.
Discouragement leads to failure.
Because, I mean, I can tell you, take
you to wonderful programs right now that say
don't eat meat.
Don't eat dairy.
Don't eat lectins, which are mainly nuts and
grains.
Don't eat grains.
And so we're left with water and salad.
That's what we, you know, basically.
So I wanted to put together what works,
what doesn't, and why.
We also lack motivation.
We are not prepared for the battle ahead.
That's what happens.
And I've seen it.
I helped thousands of weight loss clients.
And those who succeeded and those who failed,
it all rested on this.
Motivation.
Because we don't eat perfectly, do we?
If you would have saw me at the
father-daughter dance, you know, that's not perfect.
I didn't eat perfect.
I don't promote that because it can become
my doltrine.
I want to enjoy the evening with my
daughters.
But we have to, people say, Shane, that's
too drastic.
And I say, no.
Cutting you right here and opening up your
ribcage and doing surgery, that's drastic.
Let me show you what a heart looks
like in an obese person that passed away.
That is the fat that is wrapped around
the heart because of a diet that is
very unhealthy.
I guess this will tie into a little
bit with my testimony.
A year and a half ago, because I
can get off track too, a year and
a half ago I weighed 240 pounds preaching.
Now I'm about 210.
So I've lost 30 pounds in a year
and a half.
And some of that motivation was the doctor
said, your testosterone is low for your age.
This might be why you're gaining weight, why
you're not feeling good.
So instead of looking at diet, what do
they say?
Here's some androgel.
Okay, start putting that on.
It's really steroids.
So I was a little excited, right?
Get back in, lifting weights again.
But I told my wife, I think it
was after two weeks, I said, I can't,
I'm just an angry guy.
Knowing that, and I texted my doctor, fortunately
I have a cell phone.
And he said, oh yeah, that happens in
about 3%.
And I'm going to say, no, probably 90%.
If you're, you're adding that testosterone back.
So I said, this isn't working.
So I said, what?
Well, I know what works, you know.
So I got back on track.
Had it tested two weeks ago, it was
500 and something.
So now you're fine.
I said, see, but without that drug.
Without that.
I also wanted to, at that time, I
went to a doctor office here in Lancaster
on Avenue N.
I'll leave it there.
And he gave me, he did my blood
pressure and said, oh my gosh, you're way
too high.
And started pulling out medication from the cabinet.
And he laid it on the, I remember,
like this one's for this, there's two a
day, and I'll write it down.
I said, wait a minute, I think she
used a small cuff to measure my arm.
Can we try the big cuff?
And he goes, oh, she didn't use a
big cuff?
Yeah, let me do that.
Oh, 120 over 85, you're good.
You almost just put me on all this
stuff.
Now I'm going to get to that in
a little bit.
Don't give me, I'm going to get ahead
here.
So I have a passion for this, because
I think we're lacking wisdom.
My people perish for lack of wisdom.
Now but shame, that applies to God's word,
how we live right.
But again, the overlapping principle.
When we lack wisdom, we will perish.
So here's the biblical view.
I'm not prescribing a diet, I'm actually prescribing
a lifestyle.
That we look at food as stewardship, and
not being mastered by it.
Paul says we shouldn't be, not be mastered
by anything.
If anything begins to control you, it becomes,
begins to master you.
So I've labeled this down to ten points.
Ten points, this would make a great outline
for a book.
Here's the first chapter, or the first point.
Food here, this really is helpful.
Food is primarily about fuel and nutrients.
It's about stewardship.
That's the main reason for fuel.
God said I will give you this food
for fuel, for nutrients, to keep the body
alive.
However, it's also connected in the Bible to
enjoyment, right?
To come together and feast, and and come
together, and fellowship over food.
The problem is we put the feasting first.
The fellowship is first.
So it's all about the food, and the
fellowship, and the feasting.
That, we're actually, no, no, that comes, that's
later.
The whole point of food is nutrition and
fuel for the body.
This is why I don't agree with, and
I get post any, it just has happened
this month, posting this on Facebook.
You know, I hope you know that not
everybody is, is, is a fan of Shane
Eidelman, right?
There's a lot of people out there who
just don't like anything about our ministry or
the church, and they let us know very
clearly.
Especially when I teach on fasting, I get
rebukes all the time from Christians.
I'm gonna join my hamburger, you're off base,
and all this stuff.
The problem is they're convicted, and they need
to change, and they don't want to admit
it.
But anyway, this guy posted this, or said
something along these lines.
God, Shane, God doesn't care about what I
consume.
He doesn't care about what I eat.
But to me, that's really just an excuse
to indulge.
It shows a lack of restraint, and a
lack of wisdom.
God cares about what we put into your
body.
Pray this, if you doubt me.
Would you rather have me, Lord, would you
rather have me eat food you created, or
food that man altered in order to hit
revenue numbers?
Food he has damaged and destroyed?
Food that has little or zero life-giving
benefit?
Lord, what would you rather have me to
do?
Pray it yourself.
I'm convinced that God is concerned with what
we consume, what we put into our body.
Therefore, my focus today is, I believe that
God wants us to take care of this
gift, this wonderful gift he has given us.
God wants us to take care of it.
Here's my challenge, though.
When we talk about health, from a biblical
perspective, it can be affected by three or
four different things, looking at the Bible.
A person's health can be declining because of
demonic attack.
People, watch us online, they're going to disregard
this point, especially if they're not Christians.
There's no devil, and there's no Santa Claus,
and all those things.
We believe that there is a spiritual battle.
We believe, like Jesus said, Woman, thou art
loose from your infirmities.
Why is this daughter of Abraham, why is
she bound by the devil for 17 years?
We know that the epileptic, Jesus would cast
that demonic element, that demon, out, and the
child would be healed.
So we know that there's a demonic element,
sometimes, to illness.
We also know that, this is maybe not
a surprise to most of you, but some
it is, the way your emotional health is,
they tie anger to heart attacks.
Have you ever seen an angry, there's a
doctor saying, you know what, don't worry about
your anger and your stress, it doesn't affect
your heart whatsoever.
No, even the medical industry knows it.
Like, unforgiveness, bitterness, anger, besetting sin.
We know that these things harm the body.
Paul, or actually it was James Paul in
talking about communion, but James in talking about
people being sick, he said some of you
are sick among you and suffering because you're
holding on to besetting sin.
So we know that, but we also know
that we are affected by what we consume,
what we put in.
So that's my focus today.
I don't want anybody leaving here thinking, oh,
Shane is just only health oriented.
No, I'm going against the demonic realm, I'm
going against our thought life, I'm going against
besetting sin, and I'm also concerned with what
we're putting in to our bodies.
So, but that's the focus this morning, this
afternoon.
And if you need more information on any
of these other areas I mentioned, search our
website.
Put in the topic and it'll come up
a sermon I probably preach in all those
different areas.
So, how does the body work in five
minutes?
Here's how it works.
You're either storing the food and utilizing it,
or you are burning the food that you're
consuming.
So when I consume something, the energy is
being used, it's being stored, it's being burned.
And how the body works, I don't know,
some of you might know this, but even
sleeping you're burning energy.
Your body doesn't just shut down completely.
It's 24-7 all the time.
Your brain function, when you're dreaming, when you're
sleeping, your body is burning energy.
Some people burn more than others.
They will call this the basal metabolic rate,
how much energy your body is burning at
rest.
And then you add to that exercise, that
will burn energy.
And then there's something called the NEAT principle,
non-exercise activity thermogenesis, meaning cleaning your yard,
not exercising, you know, things you're doing around
the house, just doing nothing, you will burn
energy.
I guess I can sum it up in
one thing, we can all go home.
The big thing is, we consume too much
energy and we don't burn it.
That's the problem with the weight problem in
our nation, is the energy is coming in,
but the energy is not going out.
Now remember, the primary role is nutrients and
fuel.
And there's three macronutrients everybody knows about, right?
Carbohydrates, protein, and fat.
A macronutrient are these items, a micronutrient, micronutrients
are the minerals, the vitamins, and things like
this.
So the three big things, these are at
the head of every weight loss program, every
diet, carbohydrates, right?
They're the sugar, the starches, the cellulose, it's
the main source of energy for the body.
So you consume carbohydrates, it's converted into glucose,
and then it's converted into glycogen, which is
a longer chain of the glucose, and it's
converted into the glycogen for energy.
Now that glycogen is stored in my liver,
and it's stored in my muscle.
So more muscle, more storage, right?
So what happens when my liver is full
and my muscles full?
That's the deal with carbohydrates.
The problem with them is we eat primarily
carbohydrates, we eat too many.
And what happens, insulin tells the body to
start using the energy.
If the body doesn't use it, it is
stored as excess energy.
These can be too taxing on the body.
Have you ever heard the phrase insulin resistance?
It means the insulin can no longer penetrate
the cells to deliver this.
So you're insulin resistant, you have become tolerant.
It's too much, too much, and it's broken
down the body, you become resistant to insulin.
So they pump you with more insulin, hoping
that will fix the problem.
Then we have proteins.
These are the amino acids, the essential building
block of our bodies.
Muscle, hair, collagen, all these things.
Enzymes, antibodies, that's the protein.
The problem with protein, when you consume more
than your body can use for protein synthesis,
meaning when the protein is broken down, it'll
be used.
Amino acids, they're used and they're converted to
where the body needs them.
But if you don't need them, then they're
converted to fuel.
And if you don't need that fuel, guess
what it's converted to?
Yep.
Fat.
So now let's talk about fat.
Fat is stored energy.
It helps the body absorb necessary fat-soluble
vitamins and protects our organs.
Brain development and it also helps with inflammation.
So I get a little, I don't like
the no fat, low fat diet things because
you need good essential fats.
I will actually put fat into a protein
shake.
Omega-3, Omega-6, fatty acids, flaxseed oil,
organic olive oil, grapeseed oil.
I'll put it in there on purpose.
I'll eat nuts and avocados because that good
fat is very important to the body.
So here's the problem we all know with
fat.
It's converted to triglycerides.
So when somebody's triglycerides are high, they say
go off the fat instead of looking at
the overall diet.
You don't just go off fat to prevent
triglycerides because your body is really good at
producing its own things in this area.
So obviously removing something doesn't always help.
So the fat is converted into triglycerides.
At that point it's either burned for energy
or it's stored as fat.
So the problem is junk fat is hard
on the system as is excess.
Let me give you an example.
Western Bacon Double Cheeseburger.
Used 55 grams of fat.
But I can eat 4 ounces of lean,
grass-fed, organic good meat and it only
has 10 grams of fat.
So what are we consuming?
We're consuming these things in abundance the wrong
thing.
By the way, that is 1,100 calories
so you can sit on your bike for
two and a half hours to burn that.
One hamburger.
You see how the body works.
That's how the body works.
So in five minutes, hopefully stay within five
minutes, the protein, the fat, the carbohydrates are
all essential.
It's got how God designed us.
But the problem is too much of certain
things and the wrong things are causing damage.
So that was number one.
Number two is we have a storage problem
and a moving problem.
We have a storage problem and a moving
problem.
We store too much.
Do you know this?
If I have 20 pounds of fat on
me, 20 pounds of fat, that means I
have 70,000, 70,000 calories I can
use.
I can stop eating for weeks and use
those 70,000 calories.
So that's all fat is.
It's stored energy for later.
See, we weren't created to eat every three
hours or four hours, every time we're hungry.
If you think back, there's no convenience store
on every corner in the Bible.
You didn't stop Del Taco and by the
way, I just heard that Del Taco on
their meat rating was right above dog food.
So just keep these things.
I shouldn't go there, should I?
But that's what it was.
It's right above, it's the bar above dog
food and when they rate meat.
We weren't designed to eat every three or
four hours, so we have a storage problem.
Carbohydrates, 500 grams I told you are stored
in the muscle and the liver.
So once that storage is full, it will
be converted to fat.
Now, I said something in my book, first
book, and I still stand by it even
though it's caught a lot of flack, especially
nowadays because people say it's not that simple,
but it is in this regard.
The key really is to eat less and
move more.
Eat less junk and move a lot more.
That's the biblical model.
Now, you can't just throw that at somebody
and hope they succeed.
They need a plan.
So eat more or eat less.
Now, but people take it this way, eat
less.
You know, like a little mouse and I'm
always gonna be hungry.
I'm talking about eating less of the wrong
things.
Less of the wrong things and more of
the right things and move a lot more.
And when we do Q&A a little
bit later, I think Luke and Tony, I'll
announce them in a little bit, but Luke,
who's gonna do some of the Q&A,
he eats like 2,500 to 3,000
calories a day and still stays, you know,
the way he stays because of moving and
because of the type of caloric intake.
Now, I should explain that.
Maybe calorie, you know what a calorie is?
It just means a unit of energy.
It's really how heat is burned and gets
a little technical, but a calorie is just
one unit of energy.
So it's all about burning that energy.
How God, in His design, it's incredible.
Let me give you seed-bearing food.
Take that grapes, those grapes.
Take that sweet potato.
That's your glycogen, your glucose.
That's gonna give you the immediate energy.
Eat that protein.
That's gonna build your muscle and sustain your
hair and your collagen levels.
Eat that fat for health and we consume
these life-giving foods.
That's how we were created.
That's how we were designed.
And also, movement is medicine.
Movement is medicine.
At a computer, eight hours a day will
hurt the body.
Have you ever heard the phrase, if you
don't use it, you will?
Well, that is so true because when you
don't use muscle, you lose it.
When you don't move in your body, your
cells deteriorate.
They degrade.
The whole body basically just falls apart.
So movement is medicine.
Now, we also have a consuming problem, right?
We have a storage problem.
We have a moving problem.
We have a consuming problem.
In the Bible, it's called gluttony.
Now, I've been a glutton before, so I'm
not preaching at you.
I'm preaching to us.
This is an area that will lead to
poor health because it enslaves us.
It's feed me, feed me, feed me, and
it enslaves us.
So what does the Bible say about this
area of food?
Let me read.
In the beginning, most of you know this.
I'm gonna go to Genesis 1.
God said, I have given you every plant
yielding seed that is on the surface of
all the earth and every tree which has
fruit yielding seed.
It shall be food for you and every
beast of the earth and every bird of
the sky and everything that moves on the
earth which has life.
I have given them and you every green
plant for food.
So I hate to be the bearer of
bad news, but as we were originally created,
meat was not in the equation.
We can get the same amount of nutrients
from the plant bearing, from the seed bearing,
from the fruit, from the trees.
Now, I'm also not gonna argue veganism, paleo,
ketogenic diet, Atkins diet.
I'm not arguing.
I'm just showing you basically what the Bible
says because people have strong convictions in certain
areas.
But most diets also, you have to keep
this in mind, they are written from an
evolutionary perspective.
I listened to one very popular one.
I think it's a paleo one.
Have you heard of that one?
You always hear of a new one.
They just recycle sometimes.
But the guy said 99.9% of
our genes were formed before the development of
farming, agriculture.
So his thing is farming came in later
so we're only supposed to eat scavengers like
animals, meat, nuts.
Not the seed bearing.
Well, from an evolutionary perspective, but from a
biblical perspective, we see that the seed bearing
was actually, the food was actually created before
man was.
Man came into the garden to consume those
things.
So I have to just throw that out
right there in the hogwash category.
After the fall.
Now, this is interesting.
After the fall and after the flood.
Now, we don't know what happened between the
fall of Adam and Eve and the flood.
Did people eat meat?
Did the dinosaurs eat other dinosaurs?
You know, there's controversy there.
But we do know that after the flood,
Noah, coming out of the ark, probably not
a lot of land, right?
Not a lot of vegetation growing.
He and his family are going out.
God said this to them, everything that lives
and moves will be food for you.
Just as I gave you the green plants,
I now give you everything.
But you must not eat meat that has
its lifeblood still in it.
That's basically why they drain blood from the
meat, because you're eating the life of that
animal in the blood.
It's not good, it's not healthy.
So that's why they drain the meat, drain
the blood, it's just the meat.
So why could they not eat meat?
Why could they eat meat now?
Well, I'm going to let you toy with
that one all day, because I could not
find a good answer.
Now, personally, I wrote down a few.
God said, now I give you, is it
permissible, but is it ideal?
Now I give you meat to eat, because
there might not have been a lot of
vegetation, there might not have been a lot
of food available.
It's permissible, but it's not ideal.
I created you to eat the seed-bearing
food.
However, you can eat meat.
You guys have fallen, human nature has fallen,
it's part of the Adamic nature now to
kill and to eat.
Should it be consumed sparingly?
Does it balance out nature?
You know, do you know how many deer,
now I'm not going against those who don't,
you know, a lot of people don't believe
in hunting and things like that, but the
downside to that is there would be an
excess of everything.
If things, imagine if things never died and
were killed or hunted, it would be, there
would be excess of everything, animals running everywhere.
Look, go to the Hindu, where they don't
kill cows and different things.
It's just a mess.
There's too much there.
So I don't have the answer on that.
All I know is that God said, now
I give you all this for food.
Now we don't, throughout the Bible, look, there's
like 212 scriptures on food and different things.
I did a lot of studying on it,
and I didn't really see meat representing healing.
I did see meat representing strength, you know,
the meat strength of the body, protein, you
know, the muscle.
But healing was often found in the herbs
or in the fruit or in the vegetables
or in the healing foods of the body.
And it's interesting, in 1 Timothy 4.34,
he says, in the latter days, the Spirit
says, in the latter days, these deceiving spirits
will forbid marriage, and they will command you
to abstain from foods which God has created
to be received with thanksgiving by those who
believe and know the truth.
You know, your King James will say meat,
that they will forbid you from eating meat,
but the Greek word is broma.
It means food in any kind.
So there will come organizations or groups that
will forbid you to eat food, certain kinds
of food.
So you look at some of these diets,
that's my concern with some of these diets.
That was one of my big concerns was
say, forks over knives.
Meat, casein, C-A-S-S-E-I
-N, that kind of, the protein that comes
from milk, dairy.
Meat, dairy is causing cancer.
That was their statement.
And I kind of, a couple of paws
of concern about that because they're saying avoid
these things at all cost.
Don't eat these things.
Now, unclean foods in the Bible, you might
be asking.
It's still good not to eat like lobster.
I know that's hard to hear.
Shrimp, you might want to avoid the pig
and the swine.
See, all these things, it's interesting.
These are unclean and they're also unhealthy.
Isn't that interesting?
Because lobster, shrimp, what they do, they basically
eat off the bottom of the ocean or
wherever you find them.
That's why the fish with scales are healthier.
They're swimming around eating healthy things.
These actually eat the toxic debris on the
bottom of the ocean.
And what you eat, you receive, right?
So that's the thing about unclean foods.
As you gave, many of you are thinking
probably the vision that Peter got, these unclean
foods coming down.
Peter said, no, Lord, I'm not going to
eat.
Peter said, God said, whatever I've called clean,
Peter, you shall eat, you shall consume.
The whole point of that was for Peter
to go to the Gentiles.
That was the context of that.
But it's still an interesting point here.
That unclean foods are still unclean.
Permitted possibly, but I would avoid them.
So the third point.
Now, this is biggie.
People might just think it's no big deal.
I just threw it in there.
But I think it's vitally important.
Pray for guidance and direction.
I truly believe that God will show you
in this area.
Because I argue with people all the time,
whether it's vegan, vegetarian, paleo, ketogenic diet, Atkins
diet, everybody's got their strong beliefs, right?
God has told me to avoid meat.
Take it to Him.
Pray for guidance and direction.
I truly believe that God will show you.
The problem is most are listening to the
world's influence.
What does the world say to do?
And we gravitate to a diet.
I mean, this bulletproof book that's out everywhere,
it's just coffee.
Putting a whole bunch of butter and coffee
is what started out.
Not healthy, right?
Maybe grass-fed butter and coffee, there's something.
So now this is the new crave.
And then it was Atkins diet, right?
Eat all the eggs and steak you want
and avoid these foods.
And then it was, you know, Weight Watchers
comes in.
And then it's always a new thing.
So you have to be careful who and
what you're listening to.
Why do we pray for wisdom in other
areas of our lives but not this area?
I've prayed for wisdom in this area and
God has clearly told me many times that
I've had this sense that I don't want
to fast, avoid coffee, avoid all the sugar,
eat God-given food, meat and dairy in
moderation, minimal supplementation.
When I seek God, He tends to guide
me in this area.
So I don't want people to say, well,
I'm going to try this, seek God.
What is He doing?
Because He knows what's going on for you.
You might actually need more good meat.
You might need to switch to raw dairy.
You might need to do these things.
So seek Him.
I'm going to get to that in a
minute.
The fourth point, the perversion of food and
the altering of it is what is causing
the damage, in my opinion?
They're taking the life, the nutrition and the
health out of the food.
So that's number four.
The perversion of food and the altering of
it, that's where all this disease and illness,
much of it is coming from.
Where are you getting your information from, right?
Who are you talking to?
Are you reading an article about coffee from
Starbucks or from an unbiased group?
Because I don't know if you know this
or not, but the milk and dairy industry
will put out articles praising milk and dairy.
And then the meat industry will put out
this.
And then some diets have an agenda, Mother
Earth but no Father God, right, to get
rid of animal products.
And they have agendas and they will skew
things.
Because no matter what you read online, it's
either, it's not true or it is, organic
food, God-given food is the way to
go.
Others say, no, it really shows no significant
increase in our health.
And then you read this article, avoid caffeine.
This one says, oh, you can have as
much as you want.
And then you read, it's just, there's, it
just uses common sense and wisdom.
I believe that God has given us knowledge,
but you have to apply wisdom.
What do we know?
A hundred years ago, they thought smoking was
great.
What happened?
We know.
So as we take the wisdom we are
gaining, we need to apply that to our
lives.
And don't get me wrong, I love physicians.
They know a lot more than I know
in regard to medicine.
But often they are taught how to respond
with medication rather than nutrition.
To treat the symptom rather than the cause.
For example, here's the things that drive me
a little crazy.
People go in and they'll say, take this
for your blood pressure and your high LDL.
LDL is low-density lipids.
It's a type of cholesterol that will bind
to your arteries, so they say.
And the high-density HDL lipids are what
take that away and back to be processed
to the liver.
So they want that ratio to be good.
But they'll say, take this for your high
blood pressure.
Instead of, tell me about your diet and
your eating habits.
Tell me about what you're putting in.
I mean, if it were me, if I
was a physician, I would be a holistic
physician focusing first on, let me see what
you're consuming first.
Give me 30 days, give me 60 days.
Let's take a look at it and see
if we can alter what's happening.
Because the pill, the statin drugs that just
affect the liver and they actually take away
the cholesterol.
Have you ever read the side effects of
those?
And the side effects are just as dangerous
as what's coming.
And instead of getting rid of the junk
that you're putting in or I'm putting in
that's causing it, we take a pill to
fix it.
So all you do is fix the symptom.
What about this?
I love this one.
Take this pill for your anxiety.
No, you might want to get off a
thousand milligrams of caffeine a day.
That might be a good place to start.
You might want to start feeding your body
what it needs to operate properly.
You might want to start bringing nutrition back
in.
Take this for your type 2 diabetes.
Now this point I can get a little
passionate about because type 2, type 1 is
when they need the insulin.
They're born that way, genetic predispositions.
But type 2 is a diet driven disease.
A majority of the time you can cure
type 2 diabetes by changing your diet because
it's diet driven.
Too much carbohydrates, too much sugar, too much
insulin.
Now your cells have become damaged.
It can't take the insulin anymore so what
do they do?
They pump in the insulin.
It's like giving an alcoholic more alcohol.
And then that, usually what they start with
type 2 diabetes is they'll start with medication
and then they'll up the medication.
They'll give a different medication.
Then they have to start them on insulin.
And then after insulin then blindness might come
and even early death and dialysis.
See people are progressing.
They don't get better taking these things.
You don't have somebody say I just started
this medication now I'm completely free and my
body don't have it anymore.
So the medication gets progressively more strenuous and
more, the person gets more desperate and they
have to take more and more and more.
Just study it.
Just research it.
Or take this to lower your cholesterol instead
of looking at what they're doing.
It's the funny thing about cholesterol.
People say I'm avoiding cholesterol.
Well guess what?
Your body makes it.
It's a very good thing.
Cholesterol, read the benefits and what cholesterol does
in the body.
Very good.
Cook your egg in coconut oil, right?
Good.
I mean, so you say I'm going to
avoid it.
Well then your body produces it and it's
producing more because it's lacking and then you
go to the doctor.
What's happening?
I have high cholesterol.
I don't know.
I changed my diet.
Well take this drug.
So just be careful because the altering of
food, the perversion of food and responding to
the symptom rather than the cause is causing
a lot of damage.
Number five, it appears that meat and dairy,
I'm getting into the good stuff now, it
appears to me, reading through all the scriptures,
212 and counting, it appears that meat and
dairy were used but God created us to
eat seed bearing as the primary staple.
Seed bearing includes fats such as nuts and
avocados.
Now here's where it gets tricky.
People leave here and say Shane said I
can do this, right?
Now depending on where a person is, that's
why you pray for wisdom.
You look at your own individual situation and
if a person let's say is 70, 80,
90, 100 pounds overweight, I would have them
follow something different.
I would want them to get into what
they call a ketonic state or ketosis or
ketones where actually the main fuel of your
body then becomes your fat storage and all
these carbohydrates you're pumping in.
So I would change their diet to more
focused on less carbohydrates and more good fat
and protein to get their body in that
state of weight loss.
So this person over here might be, because
I can tell you I ate, I don't
know if I should say this, three cups
of cooked rice the other day.
We're talking carbohydrate grams plus some.
You know but I just did a two
hour bike ride and burned 800 calories.
So I was putting back in the fuel
that was converted for fuel.
So see how you can't, it's not just
a blanket statement.
You just can't, you've got to look at
each person individually and we can help you
afterwards if you need help afterwards in this
area.
Those needing to lose weight, I just wrote,
I just said this, should avoid a high
carbohydrate in abundance diet for the very reasons
I just mentioned.
Now here's an interesting thing.
You have very healthy people, tribes of people.
You can investigate this.
There are tribes of people on plant based
only.
They look great at 80 and 90.
On plant based only.
No meat, no dairy.
But then I can take you to groups
in the Himalayas who they are fit as
Moses at 80 on dairy and meat.
I'm going to tell you why in a
minute.
I'm building to something here.
This is why energy expenditure comes into play.
These people, do you think these people in
the Himalayas for example are just sitting watching
TV?
Or are they plowing some land?
Are they working?
That's why you don't see the people moving
a lot, having a lot of problems.
Because they're expending the energy that is being
stored.
They're physically fit because they're moving.
Meats, sweets, alcohol in the Bible are often
tied to unhealthy lust, cravings and gluttony.
I saw that consistently.
The king's delicacies, right?
Daniel.
I'm going to avoid the king's delicacies.
They call it a Daniel fast now.
Too much of a good thing is often
a bad thing.
Too much of a good thing is often
a bad thing.
So let me get to number six.
Hold it if you need to go to
the restroom.
I'm trying to get through this.
Number six, consume the food and here's the
way he created it.
This is where you need to make the
major change.
Consume food not packaged by man in a
factory, altered, but actually how God created.
A great book, I've got like twelve copies
out there.
You can order this online.
I'll promote it until the day I die.
What the Bible Says About Healthy Living by
Dr. Rex Russell.
He breaks it down.
What the Bible says about healthy eating.
From unclean animals to clean animals to many
different things.
Consume the food and it's God given state
the way he created it.
I've got a picture here for you.
If he shouldn't breathe it, why should we
eat it?
You're going to eat that.
See I'm not sure we have a gluten
problem.
I think we have a pesticide and poison
problem.
Because research is too, if you go to
organic gluten, gluten is just part of the
wheat stock and how wheat was created.
Now if people are gluten intolerant and it
works for you, wonderful.
But be careful because the food is actually
being altered.
And we're consuming this so we think I
have a carbohydrate problem.
No I have a poison problem.
I have a gluten problem.
No I have a poison problem.
And here's what happens.
This, many people take this right into the
store and they consume it.
I'm surprised we're not dropping dead like flies
to be honest with you.
Why?
Because we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
And this never happened.
Pesticides are all, I think blueberries are finding
have nine different pesticides on them.
Nine different chemicals on them that we're putting
in.
So consume the food and it's life and
it's God given state the way He created
it.
I'd rather brush off, it might be gross,
but I'd rather brush off a little bug
off my apple.
I mean the best grapes I've ever had
we have in our backyard.
And I have to share them with the
ants.
And the little birds like to come down.
Right?
But they taste like heaven.
Because it's how God created it.
And I won't say the name of the
store but they will inject dye into their
oranges so they look nice.
Have you ever wondered why all the oranges
are the same exact size?
Same exact color?
If you get organic oranges straight from a
tree, they're this big, this, this weird.
How God created it.
So here's the key.
The common denominator.
I've watched Forks Over Knives twice now.
I've read Atkins.
The Paleo videos and books.
I've read them.
The ketogenic diet.
I've studied that.
I've read that.
And just maybe in case you're not sure.
The ketogenic diet is talking about ketones.
It's a diet that focuses on burning fat.
So in this diet they are more concerned
about the macronutrient ratios.
They want protein and fat high.
Where the Paleo diet doesn't care necessarily about
your carbs, fat and protein.
They just say eat Paleo the way the
early ancestors did millions of years ago.
Just meat mainly and some berries and nuts.
So they differ in different things.
But why are they working for people?
Why are people satisfied?
Here's what I found out in my opinion.
They eliminate junk food.
They eliminate man-made, man-manipulated food and
they just add their own spin to it.
So they're all encouraging.
I mean if you watch Forks Over Knives,
they have an agenda I don't want to
get into.
But they are promoting, they are encouraging life
-giving food.
All these other diets I mentioned.
They're promoting life-giving food the way, they
won't say how God created.
They'll say Mother Nature, not Father God.
So all these diets that are working focus
on getting people a healthier lifestyle, healthier eating.
So that's where the benefits are coming from.
So you're probably wondering when it comes to
eating, what is my rule of thumb?
What do I recommend?
Well I'm glad you asked because I'm going
to share it with you.
Now this doesn't work for everybody.
There's still people that might not agree.
But from my reading of the Bible, from
my reading of all these other diets, this
is what I've come up with.
This is actually what I do.
Notice the key word here.
My kids will tell you what I aim
for.
I actually blew it.
I'm going to admit this.
I'm going to just admit this.
I blew it at McDonald's two months ago.
We came back, we were up at Silverwood
Lake all day, out by the lake, and
I was starving.
I was like, alright, I'm going to McDonald's
for you guys.
I got a chicken sandwich grilled.
I just was sick all the way home.
I'm just not used to that.
My big struggle sometimes would be donuts and
coffee.
Love it.
So see, I'm right there with you.
I feel the struggle.
But I also know there's hope.
I know there's hope.
So here's a rule of thumb looking at
all the diets.
The Bible says here's what I agree for,
what I would shoot for.
Aim for organic, grass-fed meat and raw
dairy.
Not every day and definitely not every meal
in moderation.
Okay?
Now I can already hear it.
Here comes the emails.
Raw dairy?
Everybody's going to get sick.
Haven't you heard of Louis Pasteur and the
pasteurized milk?
Come on, Shane.
Haven't you heard of it?
Again, the way God designed it, God-given
food.
What the animal eats, you eat.
So when you're eating the cow that has
been given tons of steroids and hormones and
growth hormones and eating GMO corn, genetically modified
organisms, the corn, all this corn, this big
fat cow, you're consuming those things versus a
cow that is grass-fed, no pesticides.
I should have mentioned that too.
Right?
And just eating clean, the meat is clean.
And I also put on here, it's not
every day.
I don't eat this every day.
And I don't eat it, definitely not every
meal.
Now here's something interesting.
You might want to research this.
The journal.
Now this is just a journal of allergy
and clinical immunology about the immune system.
Okay?
It's from their journal.
It has shown that the consuming of raw
milk will not in fact be a death
sentence.
Researchers, doctors, and other medical professionals from across
Europe joined forces to investigate the effects of
consuming raw milk and revealed that raw milk
isn't just non-toxic but also yields some
impressive health benefits.
Essentially, raw milk helps to decrease inflammation while
processed milk creates more inflammation.
Many say that raw milk and honey are
the perfect food.
Have you ever heard that?
How can a child survive a year on
just mom's milk?
And they say honey from bees, the perfect
food.
Is it ironic that God says I will
give you a land flowing with milk and
honey?
Now here's a problem.
You might be thinking, what happened with raw
milk, Shane?
What happened here?
Well, here's what happened.
Raw milk contains over 60 beneficial enzymes for
digestion, immune system support, and growth.
See, when you consume that raw, those enzymes
help in digestion and your immune system.
Pasteurization.
Here's what pasteurization is.
It heats up the milk so everything is
killed.
So you're basically drinking sugar water when you
drink pasteurized milk.
The life-giving force of that food is
gone because you killed it in the heating
process.
That's just the truth.
You can look, you can compare breast milk
and you compare raw milk and they're just
all these enzymes, all these benefits.
And then you get into raw and you
get into pasteurized and everything is gone and
missing.
So why did that happen?
Well, and again, people have their own convictions
here.
Is it risky to eat raw?
Yeah, it's risky to eat raw anything.
There's no way about that.
Raw chicken touches the wrong thing.
Wrong, wrong, spinach.
You know, people get sick from spinach and
salad, from the bacteria.
But the healthier a person is, the better
able they are to fight off those things.
When something comes in, the body attacks it
because it's built up and it's strong.
Here's what happened with the, I don't know
why I'm getting on this milk kick because,
but it is good to know.
Does a mother's, does a mother's diet affect
her breast milk?
You ever seen a baby come off of
a, come from a mother addicted to crack?
It's a nightmare.
Just cries, just tremendous pain.
So what happened is they saw that the
cows, the living condition of the cows, I
think it was a hundred and some years
ago, was deplorable, eating their own feces, all
these things.
So that cow was contaminated, giving it contaminated
milk.
Let me read you something I found from
the Department of Agriculture in 1907.
The Bureau, through its dairy, biochemical and pathological
divisions, has made a special investigation of the
milk supply in the city of Washington, in
cooperation with the district authorities, with the result
that very unsatisfactory conditions have been disclosed.
So what was happening is the cows, the
animals in terrible conditions were producing toxic milk.
So the answer then is to kill the
milk.
Kill all bacteria, kill everything.
Here it's pasteurized.
So you won't get the benefits, is my
point.
You won't get the benefits because it's not
how God created, you're giving the, you're receiving
the living enzymes.
I mean, I know it might be funny,
but I'll buy, I'll get a quart of,
of, of raw goat milk and it's gone
that day.
It just, and, and, you know, I, I
drink, if I don't drink, if I can't
have raw dairy, I usually don't have dairy.
Now, father-daughter dance, right?
A couple days ago, right?
I mean, it's just, it's not perfect, but
these are the goals we shoot for.
Now, if you're going to, if you're going
to argue this point, all I'm saying is
do your research.
I told you, do your research.
Look at raw.
Just look at the benefits of raw dairy.
Look at the benefits of, and I'll actually
have, okay, on this note, my snack.
Raw yogurt, but no flavor.
Raw yogurt, no flavor, and then a teaspoon
of honey and a whole bunch of blueberries
and organic whole grain, the way it was
designed, granola.
Very good.
Very healthy.
Good for the body.
And you don't crave, you don't keep craving.
Then, of course, fruit and vegetables in abundance,
but clean, not with all that stuff.
It's, it's funny, people always say, shame, but
it costs more.
Yeah, but so does cancer.
It costs, and I think we went shopping
yesterday for, for some of the food out
front there.
It's probably was $20 more for organic.
So, you have to say, well, you know,
I, I, and people, it's funny, the people
who say that spend $4 a day at,
at Starbucks.
Hey, there's $120 a month.
I can just, you're right there.
You can switch.
Oh, no, I don't want to do that.
See, motivation is the key, right?
Motivation is the key.
I actually had somebody tell me, I don't
care if I die early, I love a
nut burger.
So, we're just, motivation, motivation.
So, fruit, vegetables, grains.
See, I'm a big proponent of grains.
I love whole organic pasta or breads that
are yeast.
There's four ingredients.
You don't need 1,400 or 40 ingredients
on the back.
Just whole grain, the way God designed it.
And you'll hear the low glycemic, high glycemic
index, right?
You ever heard that?
Food such as white bread, with everything removed,
just white bread, it gets into your body,
boom, your blood sugar just shoots up because
it's easily broken down.
But if that bread is in its whole
state, say Ezekiel bread is probably pretty close,
or bread you make, and it's got the,
the grains, the enzymes, the nutrition, the fiber,
the bulk, when your body is, is, is
absorbing it, it's low glycemic.
It means your blood sugar levels don't spike
up because that fat, that subsidence to the,
to the bread slows down the absorption.
Everything is slow and done right.
See, it's all this junk.
It's all this junk that's causing diabetes.
It's all the junk, I believe, that's causing
disease and different things.
Now, snacks.
I told you what I do for snacks.
Raw yogurt with honey, granola, blueberries.
I'll have a snack, so I'll eat a
lot of nuts, a lot of nuts with
raisins.
And, and, and, and here's the thing, here's
the thing I want to encourage you, because
I know many people are going, oh my
gosh, that does not sound good.
You can actually change your taste buds.
You can change what you crave.
We see it all the time in the
spiritual, right?
We, we didn't like the things of God,
now we crave the things of God.
Once we're reborn, once we're filled with the
Spirit, we begin to crave.
So once you begin to make these choices,
your body starts to change, you're feeling better.
I actually, I know it's silly, but I
crave broccoli dipped in hummus.
Where does that come from?
Bell peppers cut up with, with red, green,
yellow bell peppers cut up and mixed with
rice, with, with cumin, with salt, with, with
healthy, where, where does that, the body wants
that.
Does it want the hamburger?
Yeah, I mean, of course it's right there,
you know, but it's not this driving force
that my body has to have, because it's,
it's more set on the good things.
Now, question comes up, supplementation and protein drinks.
Now, there's a lot of debate on this,
just be careful on supplementation.
Too much of a good thing can, can
be a bad thing.
I don't know if we need tons of
supplementation unless you know what you're doing, because,
for example, the body, here's another pet peeve
of mine with juicing, even though I do
juice, and I will juice tonight, a little
bit maybe, but you're not, you're not maybe
supposed to have 14 cucumbers and 28 carrots
at one time, right, because the body doesn't
know what to do with all that nutrients.
It's, we weren't designed to do that, so
when it comes to nutrients, Shane, should I
take 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C, oregano
oil, echinacea, elderberry, clodial silver, and just, you
know, just be careful, because the body, some
of those things are very good, but in
abundance, we can actually do harm, and I
do believe in protein drinks.
I've got some examples out in the foyer
of what I use.
It's organic, if it's plant-based, or it's
grass-fed organic, if it's whey, if it's
casein from dairy, protein, you can get it
from either source.
Oh gosh, I could just stay here for
a while too, but I'll say this.
Plant-based protein, people say, you know, protein's
protein, but not really.
Plant-based protein is missing some of the
things that animal protein offers.
Vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin, different vitamin, fat
-soluble vitamins, certain things, glutamine, you're not going
to get from plant-based, so there are
things you're missing when you don't have that
meat.
Let's get to this real quick.
Refined sugar is not how God created, so
just go ahead and throw that out.
Just get rid of it.
There are now 56 names for sugar.
Corn syrup, it's all, it's all just garbage.
If I told you where some of this
stuff comes from, I don't want to misspeak
here, but I think it's, I think it's
corn syrup or something, maybe we can clarify
it in the Q&A if one of
the guys knows, but it's, or high fructose,
it's like a derivative, it's like a leftover
from factories, or they're doing something with it,
so hey, let's just sell it to food
companies.
I mean, it's not even for food, and
that's what we're consuming.
Mercury now is being found in everything from
donuts, not just fish, to all this stuff
because of all this toxicity.
Now I was going to bring on this
example, I'm going to give you an example.
In 1800, in 1800s, the average person consumed
5 teaspoons of sugar.
Any guess what it is now?
56 teaspoons, and I was going to go
to the store and buy 56 plastic spoons,
and I was going to spill them all
right here for you, for an example.
56 teaspoons a day, and they said that's,
that's average.
Now you can go over that with all
these cola drinkers that are having 10-15
teaspoons in one soda.
So the reason I'm bringing this up is
motivation.
You see where the problem is, right?
Getting away from how God designed us.
Sugar and junk food is the problem.
Junk meat and junk dairy is the problem.
Junk carbohydrates, all that is the problem.
They rob our health rather than invest in
our health.
Now you add to that alcohol, medication, caffeine,
we've created a very unhealthy environment.
All those things.
Remember medication, they're fixing, and I'm not one
person that is against never taking medication ever,
ever, but I think the majority of people
need to look very carefully at what they're
taking because the downside of medication, it's actually
called side effects, and you can read all
about them on the bottle.
So once you take something, it's actually a
toxic aspirin.
Oh, take an aspirin for your heart, it
thins the blood.
Well, it's actually a toxic thing that's hard
to produce.
Your liver has to, here's what your body
has to do with, I don't understand this,
I don't know what this is, I have
to try to get rid of this, and
it taxes the body.
It's difficult on the body.
And I love the people that come up
to me, yeah, but my grandma lived to
be 93 drinking scotch and smoking cigars.
Wonderful.
The exception, not the rule.
The fact that proves there's a rule, right?
There's a rule to taking care of our
body.
Here's an interesting thing, your body will call,
on the phone, not really, I'm just showing
you an example, your body will call from
your joints and from your bones and other
areas of your body when it needs nutrients.
See, when your body needs calcium or something,
it's going to get it.
Where does it get it?
Bye bye bones.
Oral health is affected, our immune system is
affected.
Your body will rob from other areas to
get what it needs.
I mean, it breaks my heart when I
go to the schools or when I go
to different things.
Nothing they are eating, basically, is giving any
life to the body.
Here's what food does.
You eat the apple, right?
Those enzymes, those vitamins, those minerals, the living
apple.
As soon as you take it from the
tree, the apple begins to die because it's
no longer connected to the source.
You take that living food and you consume
it and it gives your body that same
life, the vitamins, the minerals.
You take that avocado, you take that banana,
you take the food as God designed it,
you take Captain Crunch and pasteurized milk.
I don't even know how we get through.
There's just nothing substantiated.
There's just nothing in there that gives life
to the body.
Disease and cancer are on the rise because
we are deficient in our nutrients and the
things that actually fight cancer.
Now, here's the thing.
We're talking about fighting disease.
I'm going to give you a big surprise
here.
Nobody's divided on this issue.
Nobody.
No physician I've ever read, no book I've
ever seen.
Here is what will fight cancer and disease.
Are you ready for these?
No, it wasn't too encouraging.
All right.
Straw hat, Mexican food, In-N-Out Burger,
Carl's Jr. Oh, wrong list.
Leafy green vegetables.
Why?
Because that green, those enzymes, those vitamins and
minerals, they go and they fight the disease.
The key for disease and any disease is
you are either fighting it or you are
fueling it if it's health related.
You're either fighting the disease with nutrients or
you're fueling it by junk.
Leafy greens, berries, bright orange colored fruits and
veggies, citrus fruits, squash, sweet potatoes, fresh herbs
and spices.
Herbs and spices, you'd be amazed at what
like cumin does or turmeric.
These spices, oregano oil, these spices that will
just kill.
It's just like acid on disease because God
gave them to us.
Organic meats, cultured dairy products.
Cultured means fermented.
Fermentation was practiced thousands of years ago.
It's very good for the digestive system to
have something that is, I like to have
sauerkraut that is organic and fermented.
Kabocha, be careful, it's got a high, there's
alcohol content and caffeine but that is one
drink.
Q&A, so this is all for the
Q&A.
Nuts and seeds, these all fight cancer.
Now something that stood out, organic meats.
What's he talking about?
Well, Dr. Axe, popular guy right now, he
said organic meats including beef or chicken liver
are recommended on many cancer fighting diets since
they are considered some of the most nutrient
dense foods on the planet.
Extremely high in B12.
Consuming organic meats is part of a nosetail
approach to eating animal proteins.
Provides minerals that help cleanse the liver and
enhance the ability to remove toxins from the
blood and the digestive tract.
They're rich in psyllium, zinc, vitamin B.
It helps to purify the blood.
So that's their take.
So we might say, great, I'll go to
a place, I'll go get something good at
Costco or McDonald's or Sharky's over there, right?
No, it's not organic grass fed.
But Sharky says all natural.
It's not organic grass fed.
All natural is a trick.
It's a little trick of the trade.
All natural.
Means we didn't do anything to it, but
whoever we bought it from probably did a
lot to it.
You know, so look these things up.
Do your own research.
Number seven.
Oh, goodness gracious.
I'm going to go quick.
I'm sorry.
I know you're, well, let me just, I
have to do number seven.
Hit the reset button often.
Well, Shane, what is that?
Reset means to realign, to bring back, to
restore, right?
Here's the reset button.
It's not going to be popular.
Let me turn away this way when I
say the word.
Fasting.
Oh my goodness.
Fasting hits the reset button.
When you give, when you pray, and when
you fast.
God said, now it's interesting.
We love the spiritual benefits, right?
But the physical benefits are amazing.
Amazing.
I'm just going to read this.
Dr. Yuri Nikolayev, a psychiatrist at the University
of Moscow, treated schizophrenic patients with water fast
only for 25 to 30 days, followed by
eating foods in their purest form for 30
days.
70% of his patients remained free from
symptoms for the duration of the six year
study.
And I've got study after study after study.
Why?
Because we were not designed to be in
feasting mode all the time.
Your body was designed to consume, store, and
go without for a season.
It gives your immune system a break.
It gives your digestive system a break.
Your body begins to heal itself.
It says, I need fuel.
I'm going to your fat for fuel.
And I might grab those diseased cancer cells.
That's what I'm going after first for the
fuel.
Your body begins to consume all these things.
So fasting is not starvation.
Fasting is actually completely natural.
Eating all the time is not.
Here's what fasting does, right?
You switch from primarily carbohydrates to burning your
fat.
So fasting is not starvation.
It's switching your energy source.
And it's cleansing the body.
Because what happens, they call it de novo
lipogenesis.
De novo means created.
Genesis means in the beginning.
So your body will actually create lipogenesis.
Your body will create fat if too much
is consumed.
De novo is a Latin word.
It means to create.
So your body creates fat.
The thing we want to get rid of,
your body creates it when we have too
much.
So fasting kills all of this.
Biblical speaking, people moved a lot more.
They fasted.
They didn't eat for days.
Now we say, oh my gosh, it's so
hard.
And it's so hard.
And don't worry, I've got answers for you.
Here's the encouragement.
Start slow.
Miss a meal.
Then miss two.
It does, your body begins to adjust.
For example, I ate yesterday.
And I might eat again later today.
And I won't go until tomorrow evening.
Because when I'm preaching, I like to just
empty something.
But your body begins to listen.
And if it's a clean running system, you
don't get the headaches and the severe withdrawals
if you're off of these things that cause
it.
Sugar, caffeine, all these things.
You have to get the body in a
state that it's ready.
So it takes time.
A book I want to recommend, God's Chosen
Fast.
God's Chosen Fast.
And from that book, he said this, there
are multitudes of disease which have their origin
in fullness and they might have their end
in fasting.
Now as an example, two weeks ago, I
told some of you, I mentioned it at
the sermon.
I went seven days with water only.
And you will not die.
Right?
I actually lost eight pounds, gained about three
back.
That's it.
Maintaining a healthy diet.
I didn't splurge.
The body was ready.
And the funny thing is, I can't wait
to do it again.
You're like, what?
Because after two days or so, three days,
your body begins to burn the fat as
fuel.
And it's something called ghrelin.
Ghrelin.
It sounds like gorilla.
Ghrelin is a hunger hormone that begins to,
grumbling, ghrelin, right?
Here's a hunger hormone.
But that will actually subside and go back
to base levels after a few days.
And on day six, I felt like I
was in heaven.
I cleaned the house, cleaned the backyard, went
and worked out.
No food for six days.
Because the body gets into a ketonic state
where now the ketones, the fat is being
used as fuel.
And it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, that's how
we were created.
It just, you get on your camel with
your cranberries and your walnuts and you might
not eat for two more days.
It's just, you walk and you, but now
we're so inundated with food.
So be careful in this area.
I've got a whole thing on fasting, but
go to our website and put in fasting
if you want more information.
It definitely helps insulin levels and diabetes.
Of course, be careful.
Do some research first.
Talk to your physician.
They won't actually recommend fasting.
They'll probably look down on you.
So don't tell too many people when you
do it.
You're like, well, what are you doing that
for?
You're starving yourself?
No, I'm actually healing myself.
I'm converting this energy that, the longest recorded
fast, a water only.
You ready for this?
382 days.
He was 450 pounds.
He dropped 180 and he went back to
196 and maintained there.
He was under doctor supervision.
The only thing he took was a supplement,
but you think three, let's just say 300
pounds overweight.
I can't even do the math.
Times 300 times 3,500, 3,500 calories
in a pound of fat.
So this guy's at, who knows, times 3
,500 times 300.
He had that much reserves.
It's, I know people that have went 40
days.
I, Tony, who's going to do the Q
and A's went 14 days, water only.
Talk to these people.
And here's where you got to be careful
though.
It's not legalism.
It's not rules.
It's not, you know, this it's, it's enjoyment.
I have a hunger for God.
That's why I do it because the flesh
is all the natural cravings are gone or
minimized when you're fasting and you're spiritually in
tune with God.
You're, you're, you're, you feel so much better,
but I don't want to come into this,
this legalistic.
You have to do it.
It's something we should want to do.
And actually it's natural.
It's quite natural for the body to fast.
It's interesting, 24, 36 hours, your carbohydrate storage
are depleted.
Now your body shifts to ketones and fat
for fuel.
It's just like that.
But the reason we can't do it is
because we're so toxic.
Headache the first day.
So you wean off caffeine.
You wean off, right when I go into
a fast, usually I'm just fruits, nuts, whole
salads, tons of, of, of bear, you know,
berries, avocado.
And I go into a fast trying to
already have the body clean and ready.
And I love the benefits to me.
And I have these books talk about, there's
a book on all the benefits that people,
testimonies from fasting.
It would take, it would eat, they would
have maybe a, a boil or something on
their leg or a cancer tumor.
It would just consume it.
It would consume their facial, their, their, their
face.
They would look 10 years younger.
All these testimonies because the body is repairing
itself.
When you fast, another thing interesting, your growth
hormone levels skyrocket.
That prevents aging.
Testo, because we age because our testosterone, our
growth hormone, all those things begin to die.
Fasting increases those.
So the strength increase, it's a wonderful thing.
It's a missing, it's a missing element.
Many people don't want to talk about it
because it's hard to talk about what you
don't practice.
A good book I, I listen to, it's
called The Complete Guide to Fasting by Dr.
Jason Fung.
The Complete Guide to Fasting took me seven
hours on Audible and I did, do my
fast to keep me motivated.
So you can do things like that.
Now, the only reason I'm recommending it is
for about 90% of it.
10% of it I don't agree with
because they come from a evolutionary background.
It's funny, they'll say, well, Mother Earth created
this way.
I say, no, God did.
I mean, look, it's just crystal clear.
It's crystal clear.
And he, he loves to have, he, he
recommends having a big, strong, black cup of
coffee first thing in the morning on your
fast.
Bad idea.
The problem is many of these, many physicians
are addicted to caffeine.
And they don't want to give it up.
I go to the local cardiologist, I go
sit in the office, a huge big cup
of coffee brewing, it says, big words, do
not have before your cardio tests.
Why is that?
Now, not to mention the chemicals and the
things, and even decaf.
The eighth point, well, I'll leave you with
this and then get to 9-10, remove
your addictions.
If you want to take care of your
body, remove the sugar, the nicotine, the alcohol,
the medications, and the caffeine.
Remove these things.
And I wish I had time to go
through the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual for Mental
Disorders.
It lists caffeine-related disorders such as caffeine
intoxication, caffeine-induced anxiety disorder, and caffeine-induced
sleep disorder, all causing havoc on our families.
Read the book, Caffeine Blues, if you're interested.
He breaks down all these testimonies.
He even made a statement that I had
to highlight here for you.
He said, I have counseled, he's a doctor,
I have counseled more than 9,000 patients
and kept careful records regarding their compliance and
level of success.
All of my recommendations, including weight loss, dietary
changes, exercise, and stress management, no single factor
matched the impact of caffeine reduction.
So he said, I can recommend a good
diet, I can recommend all these things, but
nothing made a bigger impact.
And if you still like your caffeine, then
have a green tea.
Organic green tea.
I could just stay here for a while,
too.
You see that guy spraying stuff?
They spray it all over coffee beans.
All over coffee beans, all over tea.
Tea has herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides.
You put the teabag right into your water,
you drink those chemicals.
So it's very important to get organic, not
sprayed.
Just say, don't touch it.
My goodness, folks, don't touch it.
How did God put it together?
How did God do it?
Well, we have to kill all the little
insects, right?
Because you want to sell 1,000 tons
of that, not 90,000 tons, because 10
,000 tons might be damaged by insects.
See, it's all money driven.
All of it's money driven.
Revenue, how can we increase our revenue?
That's why that happens.
Do you know that's why they do it?
They'll have to throw away 25% of
their produce because of little worms, little insects.
So it's all money driven.
So remove those addictions.
Number nine, feed your motivation.
You've got to feed your motivation.
Articles, books, sermons.
Get this CD.
Another book I recommend, Dr. Michael Brown.
He wrote an incredible book, Breaking the Stronghold
of Food.
Breaking the Stronghold of Food.
Great read.
So on this area, feed your motivation.
Be not conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Keep the motivation coming.
And for a parent, what about our children?
I just read an article, obesity among young,
the youth is skyrocketing.
We are setting them up for failure before
life even begins.
And that's my concern.
Here's the thing with motivation.
Parents, if there's a problem in our kids
in this area, we're to blame.
We're to blame.
If it's in the pantry, it's in the
refrigerator, we put it there.
They're consuming it.
I'm just shooting you straight.
You'd be amazed that when there's grapes and
carrots and apples in there, what do the
kids grab?
My son just got so mad three days
ago, there's nothing here to eat.
Okay, let me make you a list.
Buckwheat organic pancakes.
Whole organic cereal.
Rice and beans, organic.
I can cook it for you.
Fruits, veggies, and all the nuts you want.
See, I had a list of ten things
they could eat.
You remember, huh?
Ten things they could eat.
I don't like it, but you've got to
train them.
Train them, right?
And do they get the McDonald's ice cream
now and then?
Yes.
Father-daughter dance.
Yes.
See, it doesn't become a...
I mean, it's hard to find the balance
though.
I mean, you're either going to just go
hog wild or you're gonna have to put
some disciplines in place and be called a
little fanatical.
Well, that's a little hard.
Well, here comes Shane.
I can't eat my chocolate bar.
I tell him, eat your chocolate bar.
I don't care.
It's funny.
It's hard for me to go, oh, Shane's
here.
Oh, don't care.
Ask my wife.
I don't go around judging people at all.
I know what I need to do.
I don't look at what they're eating or
consuming.
I mean, if it were up to me,
that coffee thing next door would not exist.
Watching little kids drink caffeine, it breaks my
heart.
That is hurting them.
A Coke for a five-year-old will
harm them.
Read the research.
They're little bodies.
They're on crack.
And the last point, I want to just
throw this out there.
You have to fall forward.
Our relationship with God is far more important.
And knowing most of you in this room,
I know that you already know Him.
But if you don't know Him, if you've
never repented, you don't know God, this is
pales in comparison.
This means nothing.
You've got to get your life right with
God.
Fix that disease first.
Fix that ailment first.
And then you have to fall forward.
Here's what I mean by that.
The only difference between those who succeed and
those who fail is that they keep getting
up.
They fall forward.
I mess up every single week.
There's not a week that goes by that
I don't, shouldn't have ate that.
But then here's what we do.
Well, I'll just blow it tonight then.
I'll go to Cold Stone.
Well, I had Cold Stone last night.
Here comes Krispy Kreme.
While you're at it, strong black coffee.
I'm gonna get back on that black stuff.
I need the energy.
And then what the heck?
Let's stop by wherever.
Pollo Loco or Carl's Jr. Now forget it.
I'm just a mess.
Now I'm three pounds heavier on the scale.
I'm just a depressed mess.
No, you fall forward.
You fall.
It's not about perfection.
It's about wanting to invest.
And actually, here's the funny thing.
We take a vacation, right?
And we've already told the kids, we know
you can get one choice a day.
You know, you want an ice cream cone?
You want some chocolate?
You know, let's just, we're gonna enjoy it.
But it doesn't become, because if you're not
careful, it becomes an addiction.
Have you ever been addicted to chocolate?
That's a hard one.
The hardest thing I've ever, I still struggle
with it, I'm honest, is coffee and caffeine.
It's a hard, alcohol is no problem.
You get that stuff, it's like, because it
doesn't ruin families, right?
You're not gonna get a D.U.C.
driving under coffee.
You know, it's pretty, it's pretty, but it,
so these things are hard, so I'm right
there with you.
But no temptation is too great.
As a Christian, no temptation has overtaken you.
But what is common to all men, but
God is faithful, will provide a way.
That's why I love fasting.
You come out of fasting, you are empowered,
you are strengthened.
I could actually kept going if my wife
and family didn't come back from visiting Hume
Lake.
I could have just kept going on that
fast, because the body's in submission.
See, it takes a few days where you
got to beat up that, you know, you
got to fight, it's warfare.
Where did we tell, where did it change
from Christians as warfare to Christians as pansies?
Is that word okay?
I don't know, I didn't look it up.
But we changed from these fighting warriors that
fought the flesh to these wimp people that
just passive and grace filled and give up
and let the flesh dominate in every area
of life.
I read the words of Paul that we
are to take every thought captive to the
obedience of Christ, that we're to fight the
good fight, that we're to not be enslaved
to anything.
But most of us are enslaved.
Your body will change, it takes time.
Here's the key, what steps are you going
to take today?
Here's what I love about right choices.
It fuels more right choices.
When I go to bed last night saying
I have a handful of walnuts and a
cut-up watermelon, I get up wanting to
continue that pattern.
When I go on a long bike ride,
do I want to go to In-N
-Out Burger?
Or do I want to make a protein
shake with flax seed oil or flax seed
and fiber content, a little bit of organic
peanut butter and a banana and feed those
nutrients?
And see, right choices fuel more right choices.
So you just get back, so my advice
today, starting today, eat some of those snacks
instead of lunch.
And it will take time, it will take
time.
So on that note, I want to pray
with you after the Q&A, you can
take your life back, you can get back
on track in this area.