WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.480 Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, 2 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:09.320 equip the saints and impact our culture. 3 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.080 Hey listen, this is no commercial, but do you eat too much? 4 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:16.120 Do you find yourself feeling bloated, sleeping difficult at night? 5 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:21.080 Well stay tuned because we've got to cure for you and that is what about your body? 6 00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:27.080 How are we to be living and how are you to be ready when Jesus perhaps gives you the 911 call 7 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:29.120 to do something for him in the moment? 8 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.520 Will you be able to respond or will your body get in the way? 9 00:00:35.720 --> 00:00:42.200 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. 10 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:48.240 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, 11 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.480 then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 12 00:00:51.480 --> 00:00:58.040 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 13 00:00:58.040 --> 00:01:01.400 Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 14 00:01:01.400 --> 00:01:03.320 Here is Jack Hibb's. 15 00:01:04.440 --> 00:01:10.680 Hey, welcome to the podcast today and I would think that you are probably getting pretty used to us 16 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:13.720 talking about straightforward, hard-hitting things. 17 00:01:13.720 --> 00:01:21.400 And yet I don't know if you're ready for this next episode of our podcast together. 18 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:27.080 I'm not sure if I'm ready for it and I say that with tongue in cheek so to speak 19 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:36.040 because there's not enough research I could do on this topic because it's almost endless. 20 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:41.320 And I am actually not going to tell you exactly what the topic is up front. 21 00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:46.280 We're going to get to it and when I get to it I'm going to say and this is the topic for today. 22 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.760 We're going to start with this in Luke's Gospel chapter 7 verse 34. 23 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:51.560 Listen carefully. 24 00:01:52.680 --> 00:02:01.560 Jesus is responding to the attacks and to the just the heel nipping if I could put it that way. 25 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:05.400 Heal nipping. You know like a little dog biting on the heels. 26 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:14.040 I see the Pharisees and the scribes and the students of the law nipping on Jesus's heels like a little 27 00:02:14.040 --> 00:02:16.280 like a little nuisance dogs. 28 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:23.000 And Jesus responds to them and says in verse 34, Luke 7, 29 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:30.840 the son of man has come eating and drinking and you say look a glutton and a wine bipper, 30 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.400 a friend of text collectors and sinners. 31 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:41.640 And what's interesting about that is the next verse says, but wisdom is justified by her children. 32 00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:42.760 I love that statement. 33 00:02:42.760 --> 00:02:44.760 Wisdom is justified by her children. 34 00:02:44.760 --> 00:02:51.480 In other words, wisdom has her offspring and her offspring conduct themselves wisely. 35 00:02:51.480 --> 00:02:55.880 I love I love that wrapping that bow that he puts on top of a very interesting thing 36 00:02:56.600 --> 00:02:58.040 that we're going to talk about today. 37 00:02:58.040 --> 00:02:59.080 It's extremely rare. 38 00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:09.880 You may not like what I have to say, but you must admit that it's in the Bible and you've not heard, 39 00:03:10.440 --> 00:03:12.760 you've never heard a sermon on this, I would think. 40 00:03:13.720 --> 00:03:21.800 And if ever even a podcast, at least in this Christian genre, maybe a podcast in some 41 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:28.440 health type of forum, but so Jesus says, you guys are blaming me for eating 42 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:35.560 and being a glutton and drinking and so being a wine bipper. 43 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.720 And so let's talk about that. 44 00:03:40.600 --> 00:03:43.400 Let's talk about what they're actually accusing them of. 45 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:44.920 And I'm wondering if you're aware of that. 46 00:03:44.920 --> 00:03:49.640 They are accusing Jesus of being out of control. 47 00:03:50.200 --> 00:03:55.400 If you're the Jesus that's doing all this stuff and you're from God, 48 00:03:56.200 --> 00:04:00.680 how can you be doing all of this stuff when you hang out with sinners 49 00:04:02.200 --> 00:04:08.200 and common people, publicans, they flock to you. 50 00:04:08.200 --> 00:04:10.280 So we don't like that right from the get go. 51 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:17.640 You need to be holy like us where nobody likes us because we're so righteous and holy and 52 00:04:17.640 --> 00:04:22.840 stuck up in just full of arrogance and self-righteousness. 53 00:04:22.840 --> 00:04:25.560 We're pretty disgusting to people see how holy we are. 54 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.600 That's a holy we are. Everybody hates us because we're so holy. 55 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:32.360 And Jesus wasn't like that. 56 00:04:32.840 --> 00:04:40.280 Jesus without compromise, listen to this, without Jesus compromising his incredible presence, 57 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.840 God incarnate, he not only didn't compromise. 58 00:04:44.840 --> 00:04:47.560 He didn't even get close to the fence, okay? 59 00:04:48.200 --> 00:04:50.200 So what are we talking about here? 60 00:04:50.200 --> 00:04:53.480 We're talking about Jesus having such a loving, awesome, 61 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:58.520 win some spirit about himself that children wanted to get near him, 62 00:04:59.400 --> 00:05:01.160 common people wanted to get near him, 63 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:04.360 and sinners wanted to get near him. 64 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:05.880 That's the person of Jesus. 65 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:08.040 So just settle that in right now. 66 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:18.040 Jesus didn't, Jesus didn't dress up like in some gang member outfit to go minister to the gang 67 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:23.720 members. He didn't dress up like a fisherman to reach out to Peter and James and John. 68 00:05:24.440 --> 00:05:34.120 Jesus didn't, you know, throw Moltaf cocktails into the windows like, you know, James the zealot. 69 00:05:34.200 --> 00:05:37.240 He didn't do that stuff. 70 00:05:38.200 --> 00:05:40.280 Jesus was authentic. 71 00:05:42.200 --> 00:05:48.360 And he revealed how a human was supposed to be under the power of God. 72 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:50.280 Think about that. That's Jesus. 73 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.400 Jesus shows us what it's like to be a human 74 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:57.560 under the power of the Holy Spirit of God. 75 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:03.240 But here's two words or a connection, I should say, because there's the words eating and 76 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:07.320 gluttony and drinking and wine beaver. Two words, really four words. 77 00:06:07.320 --> 00:06:09.240 So let's talk about eating. 78 00:06:09.960 --> 00:06:13.880 They accuse him of eating to be a glutton. 79 00:06:14.840 --> 00:06:15.960 So he's eating. 80 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:20.760 And Jesus didn't have like, apparently he didn't have like one olive 81 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:26.520 and one one falafel dipped in hummus, right? He would have eaten those things. 82 00:06:27.320 --> 00:06:35.640 He might have been sitting down and talking and, you know, being around a table like you do 83 00:06:35.640 --> 00:06:39.880 and talking and maybe it's going on for hours and he'll just, you know, 84 00:06:39.880 --> 00:06:45.080 pop in and all live in their talking and he might take some pita and he's dipping that in their 85 00:06:45.080 --> 00:06:53.000 talking. It's not on Jesus's mind to clear the table and to stack up, you know, all this food 86 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:59.160 around him like he's some sort of jaba and star wars and he's going to eat all this stuff 87 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:02.360 and he's a glutton. But they accuse him of that. 88 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:08.200 And I think Jesus was a man's man and I think Jesus took care of himself because 89 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:13.160 we want to take care of ourselves and we're going to talk as to the reason why. 90 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:17.320 But here's where this gets kind of rough for some people. 91 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:24.440 And I want you to think about this as I begin to talk about eating and drinking. 92 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:34.520 Gluttony and wine bibbing is first of all, if you have a medical condition, 93 00:07:35.880 --> 00:07:46.600 maybe you were born with it, maybe it was an onset disease or issue and it has affected your 94 00:07:47.640 --> 00:07:56.280 body. You have a legitimate reason why somebody might say, oh, you're just a glutton. 95 00:07:57.400 --> 00:08:02.280 Implying you're overweight, that's all you do is eat. You don't take care of yourself. 96 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:13.160 They might accuse you of that but they don't know that you actually have a gland problem or you 97 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:19.160 have a birth problem. There's something wrong in your chemistry or your thyroid or your 98 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:25.480 hormone problem. And that's not who I'm talking about today. If you have a medical condition 99 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:33.320 because of some ailment that causes what we would say is obesity, I'm not talking to you today. 100 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:39.160 I pray God's healing power on you. I pray God's mercy upon you and I'm very sorry that you have 101 00:08:39.160 --> 00:08:44.600 to battle that. I can't imagine that's going to be so, so hard. And you're not who I'm talking to. 102 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:51.560 I pray God's blessing upon your life abundantly. I'm talking about the person who 103 00:08:53.080 --> 00:09:01.400 eats because they, they for all kinds of reasons won't stop eating. They eat when they're worried. 104 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:09.320 They eat. They eat when they're anxious. They eat when they're happy. They eat when they're sad. 105 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:17.400 They just eat. They won't stop and they, they, and you know that you weren't like that before, 106 00:09:17.400 --> 00:09:26.280 but it's increasingly happened to you and you find it easier to eat and be comforted 107 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:33.400 than to pray. Let's reverse it this way. Some people would come home from work or from a really 108 00:09:33.400 --> 00:09:40.840 rough day and they would say, oh, what a day. Oh boy, my beat. What a rough day. And you got to crack 109 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:50.040 open a beer or you got to crack open a martini to calm your nerves. Okay. This is the same thing. 110 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:58.280 If if you were doing these things because you find comfort in these things because you find 111 00:09:58.280 --> 00:10:03.880 rest in these things because you unplugged from reality in these things. Let's talk about what 112 00:10:03.880 --> 00:10:08.440 you're doing to yourself. And I'm talking to the Christian. I'm not talking to the non, 113 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:13.960 nonbeliever right now to the Christian. Here's what we're doing. When we're not eating right, 114 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:24.600 we are inflicting our bodies. How so? We are introducing into our bodies, fats that are not healthy, 115 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:33.240 a combination of the various either nutrients or chemicals or 116 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:40.520 characteristics that come with the particular food of any type. Maybe it's too much rice. Maybe 117 00:10:40.520 --> 00:10:45.880 it's too much flour. Maybe it's too much whatever. Look, you can have too much protein. It doesn't 118 00:10:45.880 --> 00:10:52.520 matter what it is. If you take this stuff in, you start to feel funny. You start to feel weird. Look, 119 00:10:52.520 --> 00:11:00.040 I'm going to be really honest with you right now to hopefully put a little grace into this. I try 120 00:11:00.040 --> 00:11:07.560 to take care of myself, not very hard though. It's just me. I'm always on the go. I think that helps 121 00:11:07.560 --> 00:11:20.600 me kind of keep control of my weight. But I don't jog. I don't work out. But I know that I should 122 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:26.200 eat better. I can feel it. Even without a blood test or without going to see my doctor, I can just 123 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:36.920 tell. So for example, today, this morning, up until from 8 a.m. to about one o'clock, 124 00:11:36.920 --> 00:11:43.800 from about 8 a.m. to one, I was up in the Altadena Pasadena fire ravaged regions up there with 125 00:11:43.800 --> 00:11:49.240 Samaritan's purse. Did not have breakfast. That's not good of some sorts. I should have had breakfast. 126 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:57.800 I didn't drove up there. We did filming. We met with devastated families. We had a team meeting with 127 00:11:57.800 --> 00:12:05.640 Samaritan's purse and then drove back home. And on the way home, the film crew, they, 128 00:12:05.640 --> 00:12:13.480 somebody had the idea, hey, there's, there's the hat. There's the hat. Pull over. Let's eat lunch. 129 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:17.560 We're starving. Okay. If you don't know in Southern California, everybody knows in Southern 130 00:12:17.640 --> 00:12:28.440 California, the, the hat is off the chart, food predominantly pastrami, like renown, not good for 131 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:37.720 you. And it's this big. And they have French fries with gravy poured on top of them. I mean, 132 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:43.000 that's a heart attack. I think every cardiologist wants their patients to probably go there, you know? 133 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:54.120 It's not good. And so what did I do? I said to myself, well, I didn't eat breakfast. And this 134 00:12:54.120 --> 00:13:02.120 is so big. I probably won't eat dinner. And I even while I was free to eat it, I ate it all 135 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:09.320 the while. Did I enjoy it? No. Why? Because it was the introduction of stuff that I know is not 136 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:15.560 good for me. Because why should I care? Because I want to be usable to God. I want to be able to 137 00:13:15.560 --> 00:13:23.080 have my body be used for what he wants to do at the drop of a hat. No one intended the hat, 138 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:32.920 get it? The hat drop of a hat. Anyway, when we find some sort of comfort in comfort food, 139 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:39.560 or we just reach for, look, the last time I checked lace potato chips, I probably shouldn't say 140 00:13:39.560 --> 00:13:48.920 that. I'll get sued. Generic potato chips, eating a bag of those, you know, with Pepsi, not a good 141 00:13:48.920 --> 00:13:54.520 idea. Just because you can buy it. And just because you can get it all in your mouth doesn't mean 142 00:13:54.520 --> 00:14:01.880 it's good for you. But if you have to do that, okay, you may have a gluttony problem. You say, 143 00:14:01.880 --> 00:14:10.120 how dare you say this? Listen, the Bible tells us that gluttony is a sin. And in America, 144 00:14:10.920 --> 00:14:21.640 in America, we are very guilty of finding comfort and passing time by eating unnecessarily. And 145 00:14:21.640 --> 00:14:27.240 it's not that I have to care. I'm not saying that I'm telling you how to eat. I'm telling you 146 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:34.440 that you and I are supposed to keep our bodies ready for the 911 call from Jesus to go do this, 147 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:39.560 to go do that. So we sleep well, which is, you know, hard enough for me anyway, because I have 148 00:14:39.560 --> 00:14:46.280 insomnia, but just sleeping well. What you eat matters. And when, when you see people that are 149 00:14:46.280 --> 00:14:54.520 unnecessarily overweight, they can't be running on all eight cylinders, so to speak, to physically 150 00:14:54.520 --> 00:15:01.080 use their energies for God. Why? Because when we're off in this area, when our hematology is off 151 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:09.160 and our sugars are off and our fats are off, our body is working so hard to correct all that. 152 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:14.840 And God bless our bodies. They're working so hard. They're trying to fix all this. And then down 153 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:21.720 the shoot comes a big shovel of grease. And then it's got to start all over again. We need to keep 154 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:27.400 our bodies usable. And for some of us, I'm 10 pounds overweight. You say, how do you know you? 155 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:37.960 Because I know my body. I'm 511 at 190 is my perfect fighting weight, okay? 190. That's what I'm 156 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:47.240 supposed to be at. Okay, since the holidays, right? I'm exactly at 200. I got to get back to the 190. 157 00:15:47.880 --> 00:15:53.960 I can feel it. It bothers me when I bend over. It bothers me when I sit down. I can just 158 00:15:53.960 --> 00:16:00.680 feel it. And I feel sluggish. And I feel I feel more often sleepy. I'll catch myself yawning. 159 00:16:00.680 --> 00:16:05.640 I just don't feel tuned up ready to go, right? So you say, Jack, that's just preference. That's 160 00:16:05.640 --> 00:16:11.640 that's not because we are all to keep ourselves usable for what the Lord would have us to do. And 161 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:18.680 we got to be healthy. And so what causes this podcast to happen? I just watched the grilling. 162 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:27.000 All of these Democrats are attacking Robert F. Kennedy, a junior, because he wants to get 163 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:35.720 America healthy again. And I couldn't believe some of these people for crying out loud. There's 164 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:41.480 people that were attacking him. And you would have thought that they were fighting over a bag of chips 165 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:48.360 so that he wouldn't get near their chips. I mean, people like, like, like, oh, I forget his name. 166 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:54.680 I mean, there's these people are 50, 100 pounds overweight. And they're, they're scolding him and 167 00:16:54.680 --> 00:17:00.200 scolding him about getting America healthy. And they're all offended. So they're attacking him. 168 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:05.320 What's wrong with us getting back to being healthy? What's wrong with the church getting back 169 00:17:05.320 --> 00:17:11.400 to being healthy? What if we had just the mindset, not another ministry, not starting to health 170 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:16.600 ministry? But for us to have enough self-control to say, I'm going to start taking care of myself. 171 00:17:16.600 --> 00:17:20.840 I'm even convicted right now about what he's saying. I have to get up in the morning. I have to have 172 00:17:20.840 --> 00:17:28.680 16 ounces of Pepsi. Your liver is screaming. Please help me. Don't do that to me. 173 00:17:30.120 --> 00:17:38.040 I think it's very, very wise that what we do is that we make sure that we avoid gluttony. It's a 174 00:17:38.040 --> 00:17:46.120 bad witness. And we want to keep ourselves usable. That we're able body. And listen, hope you don't 175 00:17:46.120 --> 00:17:52.600 get mad. I guess you're already mad. How about this? I think we should go to bed earlier. 176 00:17:52.600 --> 00:17:57.720 If you can, some people work graveyard. Some people work night shift. I understand that. That's 177 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:04.520 tough. That's hard, but I get it. But if you can go to bed earlier, the Bible says you should go 178 00:18:04.520 --> 00:18:09.640 to bed earlier. And the Bible says you should get up earlier. Did you know that? I'm pretty clear 179 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:14.840 from the scripture. The Bible tells us that Jesus woke up before the sun came up. He woke up in the 180 00:18:14.840 --> 00:18:23.400 dark. I don't think anybody wants to wake up in the dark. But I fight hard to wake my body up 181 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:28.840 while it's still in the dark in the morning. Why? Because Jesus, that's what I understand. And 182 00:18:28.840 --> 00:18:35.720 you see, well, Jesus walked on water too. I would love to walk on water. I just don't have the faith 183 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.640 to try it. I don't know what good would come out of it. Even if I did it, except I'd write a book 184 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:45.880 on how I walked on water. And you can't do and 5vZ lessons. But I know this. I'm not 185 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:50.920 able to walk on water, but I know that Jesus wants me to go to bed earlier. And he wants me to get 186 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:57.240 up earlier. If I can, some of you have different timetables and work schedules. I know this, 187 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:05.000 that from the scripture, that I should eat in a way that keeps me alive, but I shouldn't be 188 00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:21.640 living to eat. My life shouldn't be dedicated to being a foodie. And plotting my time that belongs 189 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:31.160 to Jesus as to how I'm going to eat where next. What if we adopted a discipline that we lived by 190 00:19:31.160 --> 00:19:38.920 where we eat to stay alive? But we're not living to eat. There's a big difference in that. 191 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:47.080 Where if I am eating to stay alive, then my body is subjected to my control, my timetable. 192 00:19:48.280 --> 00:19:57.240 Are you with me? My disciplines. And why is that important? Because all of these vices, there are 193 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:06.200 vices that we have perhaps the liberty to do, but they're not good for us. And when I say 194 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:13.640 vice, I mean that very loosely, I guess, because I am not going to talk about people who smoke. 195 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:21.560 And somebody who has their beer or their wine with their dinner, I'm not going to talk about that. 196 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:30.040 But I will say this, the Bible tells us that we cannot get buzzed. You can't come under the 197 00:20:30.040 --> 00:20:36.840 influence of any foreign entity, the scripture teaches us. But and we cannot stumble somebody else 198 00:20:36.840 --> 00:20:46.920 by our actions. Okay. So far so much so that I read this morning in my devotional time in Romans, 199 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:52.440 I think it was Romans 15, where Paul the Apostle said, if you're hanging out with a Christian brother 200 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:59.880 and he's a vegetarian and you like eating meat, he said, don't eat your meat in front of the 201 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:06.680 vegetarian and stumble him. But because he is very conscientious about his vegetarianism, 202 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:12.920 Paul says, don't stumble him, put up with him. And what does that mean? It means eat a salad so 203 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:17.720 the guy doesn't freak out. And then when you say goodbye, then swing by in and out burger and get 204 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:25.240 get a double double. You just care about other people. So the thing is that we want to exercise self 205 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:34.920 control. Self-control is a requirement for leadership. Self-control is what we want to be able to 206 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:43.800 communicate to people that I've got this, I can do the job. If we cannot control our food intake, 207 00:21:44.600 --> 00:21:52.520 then how can we or how can an employer expect us to handle our temper or a rough situation or 208 00:21:52.520 --> 00:21:58.280 long hours? What if the project goes crazy and you just got done working seven hours and something 209 00:21:58.280 --> 00:22:02.200 went wrong and you're going to have to work another eight hours to fix it? Now I don't even know 210 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:08.760 if that happens in the world anymore. It sure did happen where I worked. But you got to be able 211 00:22:08.760 --> 00:22:14.120 to pivot like that. And so you want to make sure that you're not enslaved to anything, 212 00:22:15.320 --> 00:22:22.200 but that you control everything so that you might present yourself a living sacrifice wholly 213 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:27.880 and acceptable unto the Lord, which is your reasonable worship. And so I know this might sound 214 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:39.000 brutal to some people. But as I watched RFK Jr. get beat up today about how he wants to make 215 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:48.280 America healthy, the church should lead the way on being healthy, the church should look healthier, 216 00:22:48.280 --> 00:22:54.280 the church should be healthier. We should be very conscientious about our health for this reason. 217 00:22:54.760 --> 00:23:01.800 I want to be used by God until the last moment. Because let's be honest, if we're Christians, 218 00:23:01.800 --> 00:23:07.080 we don't want to live on this planet long forever. You want to live here for 120 years? I have some 219 00:23:07.080 --> 00:23:12.280 guy tell me that he's going to live 120 years here in this earth. Good luck. I don't want to be 220 00:23:12.280 --> 00:23:17.000 dragging my body around like that. Listen, I want to go on the day that God's got my number. He's got 221 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:25.720 your number. Be living healthy so that you can be active all the way through to the day that 222 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:34.680 your number pops up. Now, look, my number could pop up tonight. God knows you. If you say, 223 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:42.120 oh, look, he ate that pastrami sandwich today and then he died six hours later. Listen, 224 00:23:42.120 --> 00:23:45.560 you're not going to die too late and you're not going to die too early. You're going to die right 225 00:23:45.560 --> 00:23:53.880 on time. And only God knows that time. In the meantime, let's do our best to avoid donuts for 226 00:23:53.880 --> 00:24:05.320 breakfast and ice cream for dinner and cupcakes for lunch. Because if we don't, we're going to drive 227 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:19.880 our God-given body into an incredible reactionary cycle of defending itself against all these 228 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:28.520 poisonous entities that we are ingesting. And I think that is just vitally important. 229 00:24:29.320 --> 00:24:35.240 And so this may be a really weird podcast. It is, I understand, strange in that way, but 230 00:24:36.120 --> 00:24:49.320 I will say this, if you travel around it all, Mexico. Let me see, I'm thinking of Mexico. I'm thinking 231 00:24:49.880 --> 00:25:06.040 of many parts of Canada, Israel, while Jordan. Listen, I Europe, I'm thinking of places, 232 00:25:06.040 --> 00:25:13.160 and I can see these places in my head where I've been. And it's pretty hard to find an overweight 233 00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:21.800 obese person in those countries. You might find a few, a couple, maybe. But it's kind of hard to 234 00:25:21.800 --> 00:25:34.040 find. And if you might want to put this tough talk to a test, when you go out on your next drive 235 00:25:34.040 --> 00:25:40.840 or where you go to the next stop at the store somewhere, take a look around and see how many of us 236 00:25:40.840 --> 00:25:51.400 Americans are not healthy. And I end by saying this, you might be unhealthy right now, but you 237 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:58.600 don't feel it because you're younger. I want you to know something. And I'll be the first to 238 00:25:58.600 --> 00:26:04.920 tell you, how about that? And I'm not even a doctor. If you're 30 years old, 25 years old, 239 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:10.600 if you're 20, if you're 18 and you're overweight, because of a lack of self control, 240 00:26:12.760 --> 00:26:17.080 you're not healthy. Even though you even though you think you feel okay, guess what? 241 00:26:17.800 --> 00:26:23.400 If you got control of your body and stopped listening to it and telling it what to do, 242 00:26:24.280 --> 00:26:31.000 you'd feel so much better. And then listen, the reason why you feel okay is because you're 243 00:26:31.080 --> 00:26:39.640 borrowing from your future, your future energy, your spending now, so that when you get to your 244 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:44.200 future, if it's five years from now, 10 years from now, you're going to be an absolute physical 245 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:49.880 wreck. You're going to be a diabetic. You're going to have all kinds of problems. And you're liver, 246 00:26:50.760 --> 00:26:59.160 your kidneys, your gallbladder is going to be shipwrecked. And I know that pastors don't talk 247 00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:05.640 like this. And I'm not a health care professional. I'm just telling you that after I ate that pastrami 248 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:12.200 today, I've been feeling sick to my stomach all day. Okay, I can't wait to get over the effect 249 00:27:13.320 --> 00:27:23.480 of that stuff sloshing around inside of me. And so maybe that was the genesis of us talking about 250 00:27:23.560 --> 00:27:30.360 what we're talking about right now. It matters what we ingest. So is true regarding the spirit. 251 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:38.280 If we take in spiritual trash, we're going to be thinking trashy. We're going to be thinking weak. 252 00:27:38.280 --> 00:27:44.040 We're going to be thinking, uh, enemic. If we take in spiritual meat and potatoes, 253 00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:49.800 we're going to be thinking strong. We're going to be thinking power. We're going to be thinking 254 00:27:49.800 --> 00:28:00.680 faith. It matters. Body, soul and spirit. And guess what? I am selling today this special diet 255 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:05.080 I'm kidding. Of course, I said all of this with nothing to sell. 256 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:14.440 It's because I care. I care for me. I care for you. Let's live strong until Jesus comes again. 257 00:28:14.600 --> 00:28:21.080 When it be great to be active to the moment he takes us in Jesus name Amen, right? Amen. 258 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:30.760 This Jack Kibb's podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener 259 00:28:30.760 --> 00:28:37.880 supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibb's.com 260 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.080 to learn more and stay connected.