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0:00 I love my message. Let's get healthy part 2. Breaking free from a food and drug system. The food and drug system. Now,0:12 I have been having a lot of feedback for this series, and I've only done 1 message. A lot of people were triggered 2 weeks ago when I started smashing0:23 food. Of course, somebody got some Cheez Whiz in the eye, so I don't fault them necessarily. I pray that they do come back. Didn't mean to do that. I was0:35 taunted by somebody in the audience to do the Cheez Whiz, so I blame them. In the third service, I did maple syrup. It was not the real maple syrup. It got0:47 all over me. So I learned my lesson. But I do have the sledge o matic backstage if anybody wants me to smash anything. No. We won't do that tonight. But I've been getting0:58 testimonies. First off, after Sunday, me and my wife went to lunch and went to a Healthy Choice lunch and, I I ran into 2 of you. I don't know where you guys are. Maybe you're in the service, maybe not, but, they came1:09 running up to me while I was waiting to get my food. They said, pastor, just wanna let you know what I had for lunch today. So I wrote it down. No. And I've been getting a lot of1:20 testimonies of from a lot of people, emails and Facebook Facebook messages, and I wanna positive reaction to this series has been overwhelming, which is telling1:32 me it was timely and necessary. We had somebody today in our first service in North Attleboro, and all the other locations will see this video at some point of his testimony. He1:44 got delivered from opioid addiction. Praise God for that. Then he he caught me in the hallway after his baptism, and he said, pastor, I'm so1:56 thankful for this series. It's right in time for me. Do you know that God didn't just deliver me from opioids, but a month ago, God delivered me from Skittles?2:08 Hey. Come on somebody. Reject the rainbow. Come on. So, you know, some some of you, that's what you need. You need deliverance from something other than, you know, the2:20 carcinogens and so on and so forth. There's there's a lot of deliverance that God wants to do in our lives. Then, we, I've been hearing story again after story of just life change and things that are already happening.2:32 By the way, that guy is down 100 pounds ever since he stopped eating stick, Skittles. And then our stagehand backstage, he actually told me before I walked out2:44 this morning that he stopped eating cookies as a result of part 1 of this series, and he switched over to grapes and fruits. And he says he's never felt better and there's no addictive2:56 quality to fruit. That's how you know you should eat the food because you can't get addicted to it. If there's no blanks anonymous for it, you can eat it.3:08 That's a really simple rule. There is no such thing as oranges anonymous. Right? So eat them. And the amazing thing is you eat them and they're they're gonna satisfy3:19 you with 1, maybe 2. Anyway, I am a big mango fan. Any mango lovers? My work. I was introduced to this fruit a couple of years ago, and I am3:32 I have an addiction to that. I am mango addicted. But it is a good addiction. Lots of vitamins, lots of good things are happening. Anyway, I wanna talk to you on the subject of breaking free from the3:44 food and drug system because there is a system that is trying to enslave us, and we need to call it out. It's not in your notes, it's in the screen. Here's the question that I wanna3:55 start with today. Why does our government have a food and drug administration? 1 subset of our government is charged of both the foods and the drugs.4:07 It reminds me of a story of a guy who went and bought himself a zoo. And he decided to, you know, invite people to come and visit a zoo. So he set admission prices at 100 dollars a pop. Nobody4:19 came. So maybe admission is too high. So he lowered it to 70 75 dollars. Nobody still came. Lowered it to 50. Still nobody came. 25 dollars a a person. Nobody came to the zoo.4:31 So he came up with a different idea, different game plan. Free admission to the zoo. Thousands of people showed up in the zoo. And then when they were all there, he locked the gates, opened4:43 the lion enclosure, and charged 100 dollars for people to exit. They all paid willingly. Now that's a parable that I wanna use to4:55 talk about the system of the food and drug administration in our government. These 2 organizations should not be on the same team.5:06 Could it be that the same hand that feeds you is the 1 that sells you the cure for the poison they gave you in the first place? Recent5:18 headlines are starting to finally come to the fore of how corrupt our government is. I give you a headline from the Washington Post September5:29 2023. It reads this, many of today's unhealthy foods were brought to you by big tobacco. A new study suggests tobacco companies who were skilled at marketing5:40 cigarettes use similar strategies to hook people on processed foods. I told you it was a drug 2 weeks ago. And somebody said this to me, you know, it's real5:52 simple. Just avoid the center of the grocery store and you're all set. Just go around the edges to where all the things is fresh and, you know, kinda fresh and, you know, freshly made and so on and so forth.6:03 Avoid the aisles of enslavement. Couple days ago, went to go get some buffalo wings because I I love Tabasco. And, I6:15 went to go get some blue cheese dressing, and then I read the ingredients, and I saw all the ingredients, all the things I couldn't pronounce. I said, I gotta put that 1 away now. That can't be part of what's going into6:27 my body. And I just think that this is part of the par problem with America is that we're just so inclined to accept things as they are and then get poisoned by the food system. And maybe6:39 it's intentional this way so that we so that we run like lab rats to the drug system. And there's no in there's no incentive for either6:50 part of that system to make us well. The 19 eighties, the biggest tobacco company, Philip Morris, 1 of the other largest tobacco companies, RJ Reynolds,7:02 giants in selling cigarettes, strategically acquired food companies like Kool Aid, Oreos, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, and others, and use those expertise7:14 industry models for advertisement and addiction to target specific demographics of the American population. I wanna ask you a question. If you want to target a7:25 specific demographic in your in this country that's gonna make you the most money over the long term, what demographic do you target? The children. Get them hooked young, and you7:37 have a customer for life. Step 1, target the children with friendly mascots. So Joe Camel becomes the big fat Kool Aid7:49 man, and the Marlboro man becomes Tony the tire. They're Greeks. Yeah. That brings me to step 2. Captivate the minds of8:01 young children through flashy commercials and catchy slogans intent on driving the youngest consumers to your product. Catchy mantras. And8:13 I actually think that some of you, I could say the first part of some of these and you'll finish it without even blinking. Silly rabbit. Yeah.8:25 Once you pop, you can't stop. Didn't know that 1 that well. Kid test it. What kind of crazy nonsense has kids test something?8:39 Taste the He likes it. Who likes it? Yeah. You knew that 1. A lot of childish from the children from the seventies here. Let's try a little jingle. Are you ready? Give me a break.8:51 Give me a break. Oh, you need this message series. I'm telling you right now, you need this message series. Interestingly9:02 enough, did you know that tobacco companies Camel, Camel cigarettes actually used to offer you vouchers that you would take and you would redeem with something called Camel Cash. That became9:14 cereal box tops that kids could then redeem for prizes and rewards. It's the same stinking company. These are the companies who in the 19 seventies testified under oath9:26 before congress that they had no idea nicotine was addictive. And then because of the process of disclosure and the legalities regarding that, their actual internal documents came to fore and real and and9:38 proved that these companies knew very darn well that their product was addictive and enslaving to the American population. And what did our food and drug industry do? It decided to hand them the keys to the car to9:50 the health of the next generation. You gotta break free from this. I want you to write this down on top of your notes. Jesus calls us out of the systems of this world. Now we have no problem.10:02 Absolutely agreeing with that when it comes to the system of the devil's kingdom. Jesus calls us out of the system of the devil's kingdom. We say Peter says that he calls10:14 us out of darkness into the kingdom of his marvelous light. And everybody who's been delivered from the kingdom of darkness, say a good amen. Amen. We also believe that Jesus calls us out of things like drug addiction10:25 and alcoholism and opioid addiction and so on and so forth. And thank God for the freedom, empowerment that comes through the mighty name of Jesus.10:37 How many know the power of Jesus is stronger than the power of sin and darkness? Now we have no problem believing in that. We also have no problem believing that Jesus takes us out of the10:49 more, I would say, culturally acceptable forms of enslavement. Enslavement to sins and other habits that are destructive. Although the culture might not have any problem with it, we know what it does to our11:00 spirits. But here's where the silence is deafening in the church, the enslavement to terrible food. And I wanna tell you something, there's a system to this11:12 nonsense that is absolutely intent on drugging you and then offering you the cure. First, the food poisons and then you spend the rest of your life seeking for the11:24 cure. So if high cholesterol is your problem, we've got Lipitor, Crestor, and Zocor. Obesity, just jab yourself up with Ozempic or11:35 Wegovy. Acid reflux, Nexium, Prilosec, Prevacid. Depression or anxiety, Zoloft, Prozac, Lexapro.11:47 Inflammation, joint pain, Papadvil, and Aleve or Celebrex. Chronic pain, now you gotta up the ante and turn to hydrocodone and oxycodone. The average11:58 American the average American is on 4 prescriptions concurrently right now. 4. That means that a lot more people than you12:10 realize are on 8 to 10 prescriptions. Popping pills. Now I got to tell you something that you might not even think about, but you gotta think about this. Prescription drug12:22 companies do not make long term money on you by fixing the problem, just by solving the temporal symptom.12:34 They know what they're doing, and we need to get wise. If you're over 65 of age 65 years of age, you're on 6 5 to 6 prescriptions concurrently.12:46 And the amount of prescription medication that has been, prescribed to America's population is up 10 percent over the last 20 years. In other words, we're12:58 sicker than ever before and we're more drugged than ever before. We gotta break free from the food and drug system of this world.13:09 It does not have your best interests in mind. Now understand that Mark Twain once said, for all of those who are getting angry that I talk about this, he said it's13:21 easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled. And I think some people, they just they're fooled and they don't wanna be told the truth. Because it13:33 hurts to know that you've been living alive for so many years in your life. But I share this not to harm you or hate on you. I share this to heal you. Jesus wants to heal.13:45 He came to set you free. He whom the son sets free is what? Free indeed. Not just in your mind, not just in your heart, but in your13:57 deeds, in how your body operates. I told you I've made some changes recently and I've been in a progressive change. I I'd like to think that my whole life has been a progressive14:08 change. I think that's what discipleship is, is progressive change over the years and decades of your life. I've made some serious changes over this past year. 2025 has been a banner year for me health14:20 wise in terms of what I eat, and when I eat, and how I eat. And I told you that I went from popping 3 Advils a night just to fall asleep to no Advils at all. This year, I have to qualify14:32 that. I I thought I broke my toe. It really swollen up, and so I took some Advil to put to, heal that a little bit or fix that a little bit, but I haven't been on it on a regular basis. And I've never felt14:44 better in my life. I feel more healthy today at my age 48 than I had felt at 28, and I am looking to feeling better as I continue to treat God's temple14:55 more properly in my future. That's the impetus behind this series. You don't need to live with the conditions that you think you're supposed to live in. It could be that you have fallen into the15:07 trap of the system without even realizing it. And Jesus wants to call you out. Now in John chapter 5, we have a picture. A picture of a man who was enslaved to a system. Here's how the text opens. Jesus,15:19 after this verse 1, went to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. In verse 2, it says there was a gate called the sheep gate. We talked about the sheep gate in Nehemiah. This was be rebuilt by Nehemiah. It was15:31 beautified by a guy named Herod the Great. And near that sheep gate was a pool in Aramaic called Bethsaida, and it had 5 roof colonies. Now that that phrase, 5 roof colonies, 5 roof colonies actually got15:43 the bible in trouble with bible skeptics for generations. Let me explain. For many generations, the remains, the archaeological discoveries around the ancient city of Jerusalem that are still there15:54 today could not pinpoint this place called the Pool of Bethesda because there was no archaeological discovery finding 5 roofed colonnades. So consequently, many people said, see, this is why you can't trust the New16:06 Testament because they even talk about places that did not exist. Until 2005, an archaeological dig in the sun in the city of of Jerusalem uncovered an16:18 area and wouldn't you know there was 5 big open colonies in those archaeological discoveries And wouldn't you know also, there was a big old pool right next to them. I was in16:30 Jerusalem in 2018 walking right by exactly where this happened, and my Jewish non Christian tour guide said, this is where Jesus healed the man by the pool of Bethesda.16:42 I always love it when archaeology catches up to the bible. I'm trying to tell you is you can trust that this actually happened. John wants us to know where and when. And he says in verse16:54 3, in this place, in these colonies, lay a multitude, underlined multitude of who? Of invalids. People who couldn't move. You could say these are people for17:06 with chronic conditions that immobilize them. The blind, the lame, and the paralyzed. And 1 man had been there for 38 years. Alright. Here's point number 1. Write this down. It's easy to17:18 get hooked on a system. It's you you don't have to you don't have to try hard to get addicted to something. It just happens. Why does it happen? Why do people get addicted to drugs? Why do people get enslaved to17:30 immorality? Why why does that happen? Because there's a sin nature inside of us. It's a brokenness that that is inherent in every single child, every single man and woman. It comes from17:42 our great granddaddy Adam. He failed in the garden and then ever since then we've been enslaved to sin. So any kind of titillating appetite can be turned into a controlling17:53 force in our lives. And then once it controls us, it can enslave us and then it can subdue us. Before you know it, we waste decades of our life dealing with a condition18:05 that we didn't even need to have and wasn't supposed to be ours. Particularly in this man's case, again, verse 5 says, he had been there for 38 years.18:17 Now if you are an astute churchgoer here at Waters Church, are there any astute people in the house at all18:29 locations? Not so much confidence over here. Not so much over here. And I don't know what happened in our other18:41 locations, but if you were astute while we were reading the text, you should've had a question for me. John chapter 5 verse 1, John chapter 5 verse 2, John chapter 5 verse 3, it's in your bible. You can18:53 look there. Anybody knows anything weird? There's no verse 4. That's kinda strange. Where's verse 4? Who stole verse 4? Alright. Let me let me give you some,19:05 you know, seminary knowledge for you. What we have here is a gloss. A gloss in ancient literature is what we refer to as a later scribal19:17 addition to the original, more reliable manuscripts. In the study of ancient texts, the older the manuscript, the more reliable it is because19:29 that was written down closer to the time of the actual events. Does that make sense? Well, some scribes took liberty to reference maybe some more unreliable19:41 manuscripts that were in circulation and copy a gloss that had been added in a later manuscript. And usually when this happens in your bible, good news for all of you, in your paper bibles,19:54 there is usually a footnote or a notation or maybe even a heading that says, something to the effect of, the earliest and most reliable manuscripts do not include such and such of a vid of a20:05 verse. It doesn't mean that it wasn't true and it doesn't actually at all, wherever these glosses exist, it doesn't at all upend the apple cart with what the bible is20:17 teaching. It just sometimes provides a little bit more clarity about what that text is telling us. I say all that to tell you what this gloss actually says. It's found in the20:29 King James and New King James version. Let's read it together from the screen. It says this in verse 4. For an angel now remember, they're sitting next to a pool, the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. For an angel went20:40 down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. Then whoever stepped in first after stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had. Later in the text, we find out that this man20:52 that Jesus has a conversation with, and this is not a glossus in the text, gives us a little more clarity and it says in verse 7 that he tells Jesus, when the water is stirred and while I am going down, someone always21:01 steps in front of me and gets the healing. Now I want you to know something about this man. He is a already a part of a system of perpetual21:13 immobilization. Can you put the picture together here? Imagine, you know, it says a multitude. So I I look at this crowd or another location. This is a multitude. Now21:24 suppose you're all sick and infirm. You're all indigent. You can't get up and can't move on your own. And there's a pool up here in the front. And you're all under the belief, you're all under the suspicion21:36 that when the water is stirred and and people will say, well, was it true? I don't think it was true at all. Water can get stirred any number of ways. Underground spring in the ancient world, that was common. Somebody21:45 could and, you know, something could fall from the colony, the covered colonies into the water, and people would just have this superstitious belief. And can you imagine your chances of being an infirm, invalid a21:56 paralyzed layman amongst a multitude of people all hanging around the same pool waiting for this momentary stirring of the waters that may or may not come? What do22:08 you think your chances are of getting healed? Slim to none. What I'm trying to tell you is this man was trapped into a system, and he was so trapped, he had been waiting22:20 for almost 4 decades. I don't know how long you'd wait if that was your case. I don't know how long I'd wait, but this22:32 man waited a whole heck of a long time for a system that wasn't even true. The systems of our world,22:44 they immobilize us. I I wanna tell you about another system that's immobilizing us. It's this 1. It's your phone. This is a mobile phone that22:55 immobilizes your life. It's called screen addiction, screen time. And there's a science behind it. I you you don't even23:07 know there's a science. It was a Stanford research scientist named, BJ Goff who formulated the formula of behavioral modification. You23:19 you modify someone's behavior through 3 ways, prompt, ability ability, and motivation. You prompt them to do something, something easy. They do it, they23:30 experience a temporary reward, and they go back to the prompt and do it again. Creates motivation and over time that motivation becomes behavior. So every time you get a little bit bored, you pick up your phone and it's23:42 so easy, isn't it? A prompt, you text, you you get a text, you tap, you get a notification from your social media, you tap, you go to it, and before you know it, what are you doing? You're doing these simple little23:52 abiddly things. You you tap or you pull down and you release and you get a whole new reward of free information that you just got through some small ability. And and and then you do it again, you get rewarded, the24:04 dopamine spike hits, it's temporary, you do it again, dopamine spike hits, and before you know it, you have doomscrolled your way into depression after 45 minutes. Anybody ever find themselves doing this? Don't raise24:15 your hand. We all do. It's immobilizing us. It's robbing us. We'll talk about that in just a moment. But here's what I'm trying to do. Here's what Jesus does in this moment. Write this24:27 down. Point number 2, Jesus challenges our condition. He challenges the systems of the world. Jesus challenges the assumed realities. I24:38 I can't overstate this. Just because you're living a certain way doesn't mean you should be living a certain way. Just because everybody is okay with what24:50 we're doing doesn't mean everything we're doing is okay. So Jesus steps into this system and it says in verse 6, he saw this man lying there25:02 and he knew. Would you circle the word saw and knew? I love this because here's the word of Christ for you today. He sees you, he knows you. Some of you think he's forgotten you. No, he hasn't.25:14 You are here by divine design. Yes. Yes. Not a single person is listening to this message by accident. God has orchestrated the order of the universe25:26 to revolve around this moment for you to hear from his son Jesus Christ who's come to set you free. I believe that with all my heart. He walks in, he finds this25:38 man, and he asks him, what a question. Do you want to be healed? Now before we get to that question, I have to unpack 1 little25:49 phrase that John throws at us in verse 3. This man had been there for how long? 38 years. There's only 1 other passage in all of scripture where 38 years shows up, and I don't believe it was without intention that Jesus26:01 picked the guy who had been there for 38 years, because he's trying to teach us something even bigger than we realize. Way back in the old testament, God delivers his people Israel out of Egypt. 400 years26:13 of enslavement to pharaoh and his task masters. Raises up a guy named Moses, 10 mighty plagues, break the back of pharaoh's will, and he sends them out of the land. Now they were26:25 supposed to go all the way into the promised land, but they had to get through the wilderness. They first come into the wilderness and they meet up with God at the mount called Sinai. They get the 10 commandments.26:37 They get the law. God sends Moses down and says, okay. Now lead these people into the promise land. Brings them to the edge of the promise land. They came up with a brilliant stupid idea. And they say, let's go26:49 send some scouts. Some of you know this story. Let's go send some scouts into the promise. They send 12 scouts, 1 for each tribe, and they explore the promised land for 40 days. They come back, and27:01 10 of those spies say, man, it's beautiful, but we can't do it. Their cities are fortified. Their armies are trained and well27:12 able, and we look like grasshoppers to them. 2 spies, Joshua and Caleb, I wrote a book about these guys. They say, we surely can do it. God is with the same God27:24 who broke pharaoh's back can break their back. Guess what happens? The people vote with the majority and 10 spies stop their destiny. And then God says, enough27:36 is enough. And he pronounces judgment on that unbelieving generation. In Deuteronomy chapter 2, Moses sums this up in verse 14, and he says, from that time leaving Cadesh27:48 Barnea until we crossed the book of Zerod was what? 38 years until the entire generation, that is the men of war, had perished from the camp. And God says, your generation's gonna die, and I'm gonna raise up your27:58 children to do what you refuse to do. 38 years. This guy has been sitting in the same condition for 38 years. You could say he was in a physical wilderness, emblematic28:10 of so much of life. So much of life we can't we don't even realize until 1 day we wake up and we say, why am I here? This doesn't feel right. What am28:22 I doing? Doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results. This is the definition of insanity. And this is where the people of Israel were, and this is where this guy was. And into that moment walks28:33 the Lord Jesus Christ and asks him such a piercing question. Wanna put it on the screen. Do you want to be healed? Why that question?28:45 This is the only man that Jesus ever asked that question of. I had some wrestling in my thoughts and my mind this week about that. Why that question? And here's a couple of things that I came up with in my own estimation28:57 because I think it's true. Are you ready? I think some people don't wanna be healed. I think some people like life as it29:08 is under the conditions that they presently live. Because if you get healed as a paralytic, you gotta go get a job.29:22 You gotta start taking care of you. And who knows if this man wasn't awfully comfortable laying the blame for his condition on other people. We're gonna hear him actually say that from his own mouth. What does he say29:33 to Jesus in the next verse? I have no man to help me. Some people don't wanna be healed. I think some people don't wanna be healed because their29:45 condition this is not everybody, so don't get at me. But this is some people that their condition gives them a convenient excuse29:57 for never taking responsibility for their lives. Oh, you got depression? Well, here's a mental health day off for you. I miss the days30:09 we used to just fake sniffles and lie to our boss over the phone. Come on, somebody. Now we just have to call them and say, I feel sad. You have30:21 anxiety? No. Of course, you don't have to show up on time to work. We don't wanna cause unnecessary grief and pain to your precious little spirit. Of course, if you had parents that actually spanked you when30:33 you were growing up, you'd show up on time and respect the time of your fellow employees and coworkers. I don't know. I might be triggering some people,30:47 but I think that the whole big old I have anxiety thing is a fat scam Pushed on us by the drug companies so that they can sell us their products30:58 and willfully and blissfully accepted by the young people who sometimes get nervous with taking the next stage of life. I remember when I was31:10 nervous, nobody gave me the framework of anxiety. I could've got away with a lot more things than I did. I remember getting publicly humiliated inside of my first boss in front of all my coworkers when I showed up31:22 late for the third time in a row, and she said to me, we show up on time here, Tim, last morning. Of course, if I lived in this generation, I'd have been able to say, I'm sorry. You're making me anxious right31:34 now, and I need to go to my safe space. I'm just31:46 telling you that some people don't wanna get healed. Some people don't wanna get healed. Don't know if I should go here. You're gonna regret it. You're gonna regret31:58 it. And then and and then I'm gonna get bad reviews, and then people are gonna leave the church. Okay. Alright. You asked for it. Just like the Cheez Its guy the you Cheez Whiz guy, you asked for32:09 this. I don't know. Alright. I'll do it. Just don't clap.32:22 My child has autism. I told you I shouldn't have gone here. Because I think that some of this stuff is32:34 appetite related, sugar related, processed food related, vaccine related. And32:46 some parents refuse to hold their children accountable. And it's a convenient excuse32:58 to never have to discipline your child. My friends, your child is a devil. Everybody's child is. You33:10 say they're precious. That's a viper in a diaper, my bay my friend. That's a viper in a diaper. The reason why God makes them cute is so that you don't kill them. That's why. I'm telling you. If their outward appearance33:21 reflected their inward nature, you would never raise them. You'd just let them starve. You deserve to die. Do you want to take33:33 responsibility and be healed? Because they go hand in hand. Now that I've got this moment as tense as possible, let me bring somebody in to help me make a point with you. His name is33:45 Joe Kadeka, and he works for what used to be TV 12 and now it's called Total Body Body Recovery. And he is actually a guy who has helped me with my mobility. Would you welcome Joe Kadeka to the stage everybody?33:59 How's that how's that moment? Do feel like you owe attention in the air? Oh, love it.34:03 Yeah. They're they're so welcoming.34:05 This is perfect. Let's ask I wanna ask him 3 questions and then we're done, but here we go. Joe, why should we listen to you? You're a physical therapist. We're talking about diet, but they do go hand in hand and tell us34:14 your story.34:15 Yes. They do go hand in hand. And, you know, I got my doctorate in physical therapy at University of Connecticut. That was a great foundation for my education. But really, my clinical skills got enhanced to34:27 look at healing from a holistic standpoint when I worked for Tom Brady's, personal, recovery, company, his physical therapy company. And that that's TB 12. And so I got to work directly34:38 for his body coach, Alex Guerrero. And I just loved the way that they were taking care of Brady and other athletes and and many other people. You know, moms and dads just34:50 dealing with back pain as they engage with their kids. Every person who came into contact with us, we wanted to work on their muscles and their joints and restore their range of motion. But we would talk with them about35:02 their what are they eating every day? How much water were they drinking? How much sleep were they getting? And were they doing exercises and movements that was adding to them or taking away? So,35:13 professionally, I I've been in this world of taking care of people holistically. But from a personal standpoint35:19 Yeah.35:20 In in my young to mid twenties, I was battling, severe GI symptoms. Really bad symptoms, intestinal bleeding I was dealing with. And on the outside, I I was35:31 fit. I did a lot of exercise. I was really over consuming lots of junk food though because I thought I could get away with it because I I I looked fine. I looked muscular. I was trying to gain muscle, but35:43 my insides were being destroyed, and and I was developing a disease. And so at the young age of 25, I had to get a colonoscopy, way too young Way35:53 too young.35:54 To go through a procedure like that. And, you know, the doctor said, you've you've got borderline Crohn's disease. You've got bleeding in your intestines. It's you've got chronic colitis. Chronic meaning it's never gonna36:04 go away, and it's just inflammation of your intestines. Here's here are the medicines I want you to take and you'll have to take this forever, just to maintain healing.36:13 So you're looking at a 60 to 70 year life term, basically, of prescription drugs and medication. You asked the doctor, what else can I do and he said basically nothing? Take the drug.36:23 That's right. Yeah. I I asked can we change my diet because I know I'm not eating the best way I can and he just scoffed at that.36:29 So He said no. Doctor said no. Food and Drug Administration goes to work.36:32 That's right.36:33 Let's enslave you for life And that's not what they're saying, but that's what they're doing. And so what did you do instead?36:39 This is good. Yeah. I I took things into my own hands and I decided to research, how can I use food as medicine for my body? And so my mom had given me a book called The Maker's Diet, and36:50 it was a, a Christian author. He had battled Crohn's disease, and he had turned to food. And and basically he eliminated all processed foods, all added sugars, and he only ate37:02 whole natural foods that he prepared for himself. And it was a biblical based diet, and he he very much shared his testimony in it. And this was a season of my life where I was taking these early37:14 faith steps towards Christ. And I thank him for this trial because that trial brought me to my knees at the feet of Jesus. And so I battled in prayer. But over the course of 2 months of of37:26 strictly following this eating plan, was just eating natural whole foods, all my GI symptoms went away and the Lord healed me. He healed me. Yeah. And I never feltShow more
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