WEBVTT 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:07.360 Hey, I'm Pastor Steve Hole. 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:11.759 I want to empower you today to walk in your true identity as a worshiper and warrior. 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:15.839 Today, embrace the power of God's Word and the Holy Spirit. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.120 Welcome to the Born for War podcast. 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:37.039 The reason we have censorship in our land is because there are movements that want to shut down truth. 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:40.320 And this is also in our health care. 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:58.479 So this is the third and the final message on kingdom health that I'm going to do, and then we're going to move into the book of Habakkuk next week because I want to prepare you for October and November, where some of you in this room will be full of fear and anxiety. 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:08.719 And I want to show you from a great book in the Old Testament, only three chapters long, of how we turn fear into confident faith. 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.200 How we go from fear to confident faith. 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.599 But I want to conclude this series on kingdom health by saying this. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.439 Nobody's going to like to hear this, but it's true. 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:23.920 America's the sickest nation in the world. 00:01:24.319 --> 00:01:27.920 So here we are, the most prosperous nation in the world. 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:32.480 We have more hospitals per capita than any nation in the world. 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:37.200 And by the way, let me just say this about the medical field that is positive. 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:43.760 We are probably the best in emergency room and emergency care of any nation in the world. 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:49.120 And the reason is because of what I'm talking about, it's because we have so many emergencies. 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.519 This was less than 1% 50 years ago. 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:07.200 70% of our diet today is ultra-processed food. 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:12.960 These are foods created with sugars and salt that make your food addictive. 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:24.639 In other words, the food, big food, the food industry puts additives into your food to get you hooked on eating that crummy food. 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:27.680 Oh, they would never do that. 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:33.199 74% of Americans are overweight and obese. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:39.759 50% of Americans have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes. 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:44.639 In 1950, less than 1% had diabetes. 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:57.039 There were doctors, family doctors at that time, and I've listened to the testimonies and seen the stories, that never saw a diabetic in their entire career. 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.560 And now it's one of the main things that they do. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.680 Cancer is skyrocketing. 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:09.520 Young adult cancers are up 79% in the last two years. 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:18.800 Autism is now 1 in 36 among kids, and it was 1 in 1,500 in the year 2000. 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:29.280 We were number one in the world in healthcare in 1987, and by 2002, we were dead last for all industrialized nations, and we've remained there. 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:33.840 All of this is driven by metabolic dysfunction. 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:36.319 So if you take notes, you don't forget this. 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:40.479 All of this is because of metabolic dysfunction. 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:46.560 It's all about how bodies function on the cellular level. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:54.800 It's all driven by our toxic food system and our toxic environment. 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:56.240 Now listen to what I'm saying. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:01.520 When I say toxic environment, I'm not talking primarily about pollution. 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:03.120 I've been all over the world. 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:09.840 I've been in some of the most pollution-driven, pollution-ridden nations of the world. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:17.600 I've been to Beijing, I've been to Tokyo, I've been to LA in the 80s, I've been to all parts of Europe. 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:24.319 I'm talking about toxic environments in our relationships. 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.000 I'm talking about unforgiveness. 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:36.639 Walking in anxiety and fear because you can't forgive this person or your parents or whatever it is. 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:38.399 Everybody's been hurt. 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:41.839 Look at your neighbor and said, I've been hurt. 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.240 We've all been hurt. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:05:03.920 But where demons come in, you guys, where strongholds get built, is when you can't release that and begin to form new forgiven relationships because of your willingness to go that next step and say, I'm not gonna let that person control me anymore. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:07.199 I'm gonna extend forgiveness and I'm gonna move on. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.040 So forgiveness does not mean trust. 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:13.759 Forgiveness does not mean trust. 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:20.959 There's a lot of people I've forgiven in my life, but I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them, and they weigh a lot more than me. 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:35.439 So toxicity in always results in toxicity out, whether it's physical food, whether it's relationship with God or lack thereof or relationship with people. 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:37.600 So here's my thesis. 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:43.120 Here's my thesis that I gave two messages ago, and I'll just repeat it, and then I'm gonna go through real quickly. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:47.279 And if you want to listen to the other two that I've done, you can go back in the sermon series. 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:47.839 Thesis. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:06:00.720 The more you line up your life with the kingdom of God, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically, and socially, the more healthy, vibrant, and resilient your life will become. 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.759 Because it really matters how you live, it really matters how you think. 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:12.160 So, in health perspective number one, a few weeks ago, I said seek the first thing first. 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.519 I talked about seeking the kingdom of God first. 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.839 Health perspective number two, new thoughts, new life. 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:21.279 New thoughts, new life. 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:22.720 Romans 12, 2. 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:28.800 Then we talked about health perspective number three, meditation and obedience in truth. 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:29.839 Joshua 1.9. 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:35.759 Remember, I wasn't talking about Eastern meditation where you get in a lotus position, palms up and hum. 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:36.959 Not talking about that. 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:43.199 I'm talking about actually Joshua 1.9 and Psalm 1, meditating in truth. 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:53.680 Ladies and gentlemen, the best way to drive out falsehood is to meditate and believe truth, not rebuke falsehood. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.360 I just re I rebuke that spirit of da-da-da. 00:06:57.600 --> 00:06:58.319 That's fine. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:03.600 But what's more important is that you drive it out by crowding it out. 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.240 You crowd it out with truth. 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:08.480 And so meditation and truth. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:09.600 So here's today. 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:12.319 Today, and I'm gonna conclude with a couple things today. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:16.959 Health perspective number four, you can heal yourself. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:21.759 Health perspective number four, we can heal ourselves. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:22.560 We can. 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:24.879 God made your body to heal itself. 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:35.680 So John wrote, Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:50.399 So John, writing his last letter before Revelation, when he wrote that, he said, Look, I know that my prayer is that just as your spirit and your soul prospers, I'm also praying that you would be in good health. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:56.879 Now I want to have a caveat here, because this is really important because there's a lot of different views out there. 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:05.680 But here's the caveat from us here at the road, and that is those that have been born with mental and physical challenges. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:15.759 We should be the most compassionate, loving people to those kids and those adults that have struggled with that their whole life. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:27.360 It's not their fault that they're in that place, but I have so much passion for those parents who had those kids and have given their heart to raising them. 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:40.240 And I just want us to always be a church that cares for those babies, children, young adults, as well as mature adults that have had those challenges in their lives. 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:42.080 So I'm talking about to us here. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:43.519 Yeah, amen. 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:50.720 I'm talking to us here that have the ability to make some changes in our life. 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:56.879 Your body, this is important, your body is made to heal itself. 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.360 It's called an immune system. 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:01.919 God has put an immune system in you. 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:02.879 And guess what? 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:07.600 Getting sick, every time you get sick, is not a bad thing. 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:13.200 It actually can build up your immune system with the antibodies that come from getting sick. 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:27.759 So running to the doctor for every little thing can be a big mistake if you've raised your kids or you've raised yourself on constant chemical-driven antibodies that your body could already create. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:34.879 So, chicken pox is, you know, example of Liz and I always looking for somebody who had chicken pox when we had kids, and then we put them in the room with them. 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:36.720 Let's get some chicken pox, man. 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.200 You know, and that's the way I was raised. 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:44.480 And so God has made your body to heal itself if we'll cooperate with it. 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:48.240 Now, in the time of Jesus, it was an agrarian culture. 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:54.240 So they understood maybe better than we do, that when you plant a seed, you grow a plant. 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:59.679 When you put a seed in the ground, whatever seed that is, that particular plant comes forth. 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:02.480 Nobody thought that was miraculous or supernatural. 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:04.480 That's the way God designed. 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:06.960 It's called sowing and reaping. 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:08.639 Sowing and reaping. 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:21.039 But now we're in this stage of culture and life by which now you may, you don't really see sowing and reaping quite as much because you get a salary. 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.720 You got the residual of a salary that you build your life on. 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.600 But for those in an agrarian culture, they totally understood it. 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:38.879 If that farmer over there is dumb enough not to plant seeds, it doesn't matter how much he prays about it, nothing's gonna come up. 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:44.320 And I remember driving with my grandfather on this ranch and his farm, and he would make comments. 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:51.039 He'd make comments and he'd go, Oh, Willie, that's the dumbest, and he would say some things, other things that go with it. 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.000 That is the crummiest looking field I've ever seen. 00:10:54.080 --> 00:11:09.360 And then he would, he would announce to me, his little grandson, in the in the truck where he's going about 15 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour area with cars lining up behind us, and he would tell me all about Willie, never gets it, right? 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:17.279 And then people would start to pass him and he would open up his door as they're starting to pass so he could spit his chewing tobacco. 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.679 So that's the way I was raised, you guys. 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:23.200 Okay, so now turn to Galatians chapter 6. 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:34.159 Galatians chapter 6, because Paul understood that the Galatians understood the principle of sowing and reaping. 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:40.000 So that's what we're gonna talk about today as it relates to our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual health. 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:42.480 Look at Galatians 6, verse 7. 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:44.799 Galatians 6, verse 7. 00:11:45.039 --> 00:11:46.399 Do not be deceived. 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:51.440 God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, he will also reap. 00:11:51.679 --> 00:12:03.120 For he who sows to his flesh, okay, with toxic relationships or healthy relationships, with toxic food or healthy food, with forgiveness or unforgiveness. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.600 That's that sowing to the flesh or the spirit sows. 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:23.360 He will reap corruption, but he who sows to the spirit will of the spirit reap everlasting life, and let us not grow weary while doing good, and in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:25.440 So we reap what we sow. 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:27.679 So I want you to see this diagram. 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:31.279 I'm calling this root causes of toxic unhealth. 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:35.440 Root causes of toxic unhealth. 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:42.720 So what I've designed here is a root structure that corresponds with our life. 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:45.759 You'll notice it's not a very healthy tree. 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:59.039 And these are some of the top struggles in America today insomnia, diabetes, depression, cancer, autoimmune, heart, mental breakdowns, high blood pressure, anxiety. 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:05.840 Now, everybody in this room probably at some point has struggled with some of these. 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:09.919 And some of you are carrying cancer right now and you may be depressed. 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.159 Well, I've got good news for you. 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:16.000 The good news is you can change. 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:17.840 Hello, you can change. 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:27.440 All right, so here's some of the, this is what the studies show, and what I believe is biblical as to some of the reasons, not all of them. 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:42.399 I'm not gonna, I'm not a doctor, but I'm gonna tell you, well, I am a doctor, but I'm not a medical doctor, that I believe my job is to equip the saints, empower you to change the world, and maybe be here a little longer. 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.799 So these are some of the roots. 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.360 Stressful responses. 00:13:47.679 --> 00:14:08.399 No exercise, not getting outside, multitasking milkshake, unforgiveness, no relationship with God, compromised immune system, toxic thoughts, toxins in your diet, no blood-stained allies, eating, processed sugars, oils, and food. 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:13.519 Now, if you get up and walk out right now, we all know who you are, so don't do that. 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:14.000 Okay? 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:15.840 Hear me out, hear me out. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:26.960 There's good news in this because I know from just the reality of being an American, and I know it in my own life, that some of this is a little bit overly convicting. 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.559 But here's what I want you to notice about the roots. 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.399 This root structure is very integrated. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.240 It's not just food. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:40.480 It's not just relationships, it's not just your relationship with God. 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:45.039 You know, I know people who have a fantastic relationship with God. 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:54.720 They're seeking the kingdom first, they love God, they're always helping others, they serve around here like crazy, but they've also got other areas they need to work on. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:56.480 So nobody's perfect. 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:58.559 This is the human condition. 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:02.879 But I feel like our desire here is to be the healthiest church in America. 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:11.440 Why not be the healthiest church in America mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and even physically. 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:18.159 So we eat crummy food. 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:22.399 Okay, we eat crummy food, a lot of us do. 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.039 There are three additives in processed food. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.039 There are three additives in processed food. 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:29.919 Let me give you these. 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:33.519 Number one, added sugar and corn syrup. 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:45.679 Your body was not created by God to process the type of additives of sugar and corn syrup into your system. 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.320 Big food has made your food addictive. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:16:04.080 Okay, so if you listen to Tucker Carlson in his interview with Callie and Casey Means, the title of it, you can go to YouTube and put the title in How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick. 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:05.679 Great interview. 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:18.799 And they were talking about in the 70s and 80s, if you're old enough to remember, there was a huge full court press by health against the tobacco industry. 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:27.360 And Big Tobacco decided they needed to do something to change how they made money. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:33.200 So they started moving away from cigarettes, away from big tobacco, and guess what they did? 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:36.000 They bought food companies. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:46.960 Now they kept the same chemist on staff and said, just as you made tobacco and cigarettes addictive, make it with food. 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:50.879 Add stuff to food to make the food addictive. 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:56.000 And that's what they did in cooperation with the FDA who didn't check on them. 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:01.919 And they still don't check on any of these people because they're all in cahoots with each other. 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:03.200 Okay, that's number one. 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:14.720 Number two, ultra-processed grains are heated and manufactured with almost all of their vitamins and minerals sucked out. 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:22.799 So it may say it's wheat, it may say it's corn, but there's nothing in it, hardly at all, that's worth anything to you. 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:36.400 Number three, seed oils from plants, that would be canola oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, soybean, sunflower, etc., are actually harmful to your immune system. 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:44.240 They're actually oil additives like lubricants in your vehicle. 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.200 Your body can't process those oils. 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:48.480 It's got to do something. 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:49.839 It's got to go somewhere. 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.200 Well, guess where it goes? 00:17:51.440 --> 00:18:03.279 It goes into diabetes, it goes into making you obese, it goes into chronic mental illness, autoimmune, ADHD, OCD, etc. 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:06.160 We have free lunches for kids. 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:07.279 Guess what? 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:14.720 One of those lunches is so lacking in minerals and vitamins and supplements for the kids. 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:22.480 One kid to have what they need for their daily allowance, but they have to eat 300 plus of those meals each day. 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:24.640 That's how bad they are. 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:44.640 Best-selling author and recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award, Barbara Reed Stitt, in her book, quote, Food and Behavior, The Natural Connection, has written, quote, the one thing that criminals, parolees, and serial killers all had in common was that they bragged that they lived on junk food. 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:48.640 I'm not saying anybody here is any of those things. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:50.559 This is from her book, okay? 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.799 Don't email me that I said that. 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:57.359 This is interesting though. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:07.680 According to Stett, with the supplementation of organic foods and vitamin supplements, violent acts in prison dropped 70% in two weeks. 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:20.720 So what's happening is that with the chemicals laced into the food, the plastics and the oils that are in the food, it's amping us up, guys, and it's amping us down. 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:24.319 Because what's happening is your body just can't take it. 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:27.839 It just can't, and so guess when the chickens come to roost? 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:29.200 About 55. 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:33.359 Right around 50, you start having all these things. 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:35.519 I never had that before. 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:37.599 I've got one problem after another. 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:44.480 Well, the chickens have come home to roost because your body can't contain the amount of chemicals that you've put in there. 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:50.880 But yet, Psalm 103.3 says God heals us of all our diseases. 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.839 Psalm 103.3 says God heals us of all of our diseases. 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.160 So why are we not getting healed? 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:02.799 You're reaping what you sow. 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:05.119 You reap what you sow. 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:11.359 If you put dirt in your gas tank, you might have some engine problems. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:23.519 And yet on food, somehow, because of our success and because of our prosperity of having anything we want, we've lost self-control. 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:25.920 We've lost self-control. 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:31.759 So I remember about a month, month and a half ago, I woke up with vertigo. 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.039 I was dizzy, and it made no sense to me. 00:20:35.200 --> 00:20:37.119 I knew I wasn't dehydrated. 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:43.200 I knew that I'd um that there wasn't anything that I'd done that had created except for one thing. 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:44.559 We ate out. 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:53.519 And we ate out at a pretty good restaurant here in the city, and I knew that it was probably the seed oils or the preservatives that were in the food. 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:56.720 It wasn't organic, it was not an organic restaurant. 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:01.839 And so I needed to lay down for another hour, drank a lot of water, it went away. 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:06.000 But it was direct, it was a direct correlation with where we had eaten. 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:19.279 So in Whole Hard 45 at the beginning of the year, you that were part of the church back at the beginning of the year, we challenged the whole congregation, especially the men that come to the breakfast, to do wholeheart 45. 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:23.440 It was 45 days of 10 things that you had to do every day, intensive. 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:28.480 I think we had about 500 that signed up and 75 that passed. 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:35.680 Um, and nearly all of those men and women told me they lost between 20 and 30 pounds during that training. 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:38.960 And they are, and I think it made a difference in their lives. 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:43.519 So exercise, solid relationships. 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.160 And I could go through a whole study. 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:59.759 There's probably at least a dozen studies that I've read about just going to church, just being in a worshiping community at least three out of four weeks out of the month, how healthy that is for you. 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:02.960 They just find that again and again. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:09.920 And that's a scientific study not based in the Christian community, but based in the medical community, how important that is. 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:15.759 So we can heal ourselves if we follow God's design for total health. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:17.359 We can heal ourselves. 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:19.200 Everybody say that. 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:27.599 We can heal ourselves if we follow God's design for total health. 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:29.599 So now look at a new diagram. 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.839 So here's a new diagram for us. 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:37.359 So here we see the root causes of kingdom health. 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:38.799 I like this. 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:39.599 How about you? 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:41.200 Pretty good, huh? 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:44.480 That does not happen because you just say it. 00:22:44.799 --> 00:22:45.920 I'm going to be healthy. 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:47.039 I'm going to be healthy. 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:48.160 I'm going to be healthy. 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:49.440 I'm going to eat better. 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:50.799 No, you've got to actually do it. 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:52.799 You've got to develop habits in your life. 00:22:53.119 --> 00:23:00.240 And so these are the root causes of this kind of kingdom health. 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:12.079 So the thing that inspired me about three years ago to start working out every day, and I think I did it every day for about a year, and I felt like it was too much. 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:28.880 So I take one day off a week, was the studies that showed that physically working out, either isometric or with weight, actually continues to grow your IQ because it oxygenates your brain. 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:31.039 That got me fired up. 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:36.319 I don't want to be growing older and going like this. 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:40.079 Whatever. 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:40.720 Okay. 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:45.519 So strong EQ, that means strong relationships in your life. 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.119 Staying fit. 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:50.079 Body heals quickly. 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:51.440 Rarely sick. 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:52.799 Strong immune system. 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:54.000 Few fears. 00:23:54.319 --> 00:23:55.759 I like that one a lot. 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:57.680 Vision and purpose. 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:02.799 Strong and courageous, fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentle, self-control. 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:04.960 And excited about God and His people. 00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:07.200 Well, here's how you get there. 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:09.920 You don't just name it. 00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:11.279 You gotta do it. 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:13.519 Renewing your mind every day. 00:24:13.759 --> 00:24:14.960 Resting and sleeping. 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:16.079 Getting good sleep. 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:18.160 Seven to eight hours a day. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:26.160 Prayer, Bible, and journal, PBJ, wholehearted mindset, growing relationship with God and with people. 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:28.480 Forgiveness. 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:30.480 Really huge. 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:32.799 Blessing to allies, repentance. 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:34.240 Eating organic foods. 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:36.160 You say, Well, we can't afford that. 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:38.400 Okay, pay me now or pay me later. 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:40.799 Either pay a few dollars more. 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:43.599 And by the way, like at King Supers, they're taking over. 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:47.359 The organic food section is just taking over, which is really exciting to me. 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:52.799 It's not that much more, but you go see a doctor, you can pay him if you want to. 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:54.799 He'll be happy to take your money. 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:55.759 Okay. 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:56.880 Repentance. 00:24:57.119 --> 00:25:02.400 Obedience to truth, seeking first the kingdom, meditation to we've covered all these things. 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:04.079 Does that make sense? 00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:08.640 I feel like I'd be remiss if we didn't talk about this kind of stuff. 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:19.200 I know I'm not going to be the most popular pastor here in this city for saying these kind of things, but the reality is, is you can heal yourself. 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:27.359 Maybe not everything, but you can heal yourself in remarkable ways by following kingdom values and living a kingdom life. 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:30.240 And I think what's interesting here is the integration. 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:31.920 That's why I designed it this way. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:34.640 It's the integration, it's not just one thing. 00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:37.440 It's kind of a combination of all these things. 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:46.160 So it's not just eating organic foods, it's also renewing our mind and a wholehearted mindset and a growing relationship with God and with people. 00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:47.680 So here's the Venn diagram. 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:49.599 So let me show you the Venn diagram again. 00:25:50.240 --> 00:26:00.400 So this is what we talked about, the first two messages the importance of the integration of our whole life around the theme of love. 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:05.119 Loving God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors ourself. 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:09.440 That's the key to overall kingdom health. 00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:11.039 So now I'm running out of time. 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:13.359 Kingdom perspective number five. 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:21.359 And in my book, which is we haven't decided when it's going to come out, it's called Breakthrough Courage, Nine Habits to Conquer Fear and Build a Brave Heart. 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:24.960 I go into a lot of this in a lot more detail. 00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:28.240 So health perspective number five, my final one. 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:29.759 Get outside. 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.319 Get outside and work out. 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:33.920 Get outside and work out. 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:40.880 Now, those are actually two different categories, but I'm going to cover it real quickly together. 00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:44.880 Get outside, get your daily dose of vitamin D. 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:46.559 It's called sunshine vitamins. 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:48.400 It's called the sunshine vitamin. 00:26:48.559 --> 00:27:10.000 And even the National Institute of Health, even, even the National Institute of Health, which is pretty corrupt, actually recommends 30 minutes a day of being in the sun with no sunscreen and no sunglasses, because the main way vitamin D comes into your system is through your eyes. 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:11.680 Now here's what some of you are gonna do. 00:27:11.759 --> 00:27:15.680 You're gonna run with that and go, see, I need to be outside getting canned all the time. 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:20.079 And after 30 minutes, that's when you start moving into skin cancer, so don't do that. 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:21.279 I didn't say that. 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:24.000 So here's what vitamin D does for you: three things. 00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:25.599 Vitamin D does three things. 00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:30.720 Getting outside and increasing your vitamin D fights disease and sickness. 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:47.519 Vitamin D promotes calcium absorption in the gut and maintains adequate serum, calcium, and phosphate concentrations to enable normal bone mineralization, bone strengthening, and bone growth. 00:27:48.000 --> 00:28:01.599 So when I when I was skiing, I don't know, seven years ago, and maybe eight years ago, and I blew out my ACL doing moguls, I went to an orthopedic surgeon. 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:02.960 He's a bone guy, right? 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:06.000 And he says, You have a torn ACL. 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:07.119 Here's the picture. 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:12.000 And you can't heal a torn ACL because there's very little blood flow in there. 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:14.799 And I said, Wait, didn't I hear that? 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:17.119 And I already done my research. 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:21.759 For at least one minute I was smarter than him. 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:27.119 And I explained some things about athletes who didn't get surgery. 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:28.720 So I never got surgery. 00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:31.680 I still ski to this day, and I'm just fine. 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:38.319 But I had to strengthen it myself, okay, with air squats and things like that and leg lifts and all that. 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:43.119 So vitamin D increases your calcium. 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:47.440 Number two, getting outside and getting vitamin D reduces depression. 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:51.680 All the studies show that by being in the like interesting. 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:58.880 If you go to Manitou Springs and you look at some of those boards and it talks about how Manitou Springs was started, guess why it was started? 00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:09.519 Because of people who had tuberculosis and people who are anxious and depressed, they came to Manitou Springs, and if you look at the pictures, it shows them in the sun. 00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:19.920 It shows them drinking that mineral-laced water, which is still full of those minerals, because they even knew back then, 150 years ago, that was healthy. 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.559 And then number three, getting outside and getting vitamin D boost weight loss. 00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:26.240 So get outside, guys. 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:33.839 Take walks, ride bikes, go skiing, whatever it is you like to do, get outside and be in the sun. 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:34.640 It's really good for you. 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:36.000 And then lastly, work out. 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:37.839 I challenge you to work out. 00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:39.359 I worked out this morning. 00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:41.039 This was my ab day. 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:47.599 So I didn't, if you some of you saw what I do for the abs, you go, that's so lame. 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:48.240 Okay? 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:51.279 And it probably is, because here's my motto. 00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:52.799 Here's my motto. 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:57.359 A little done a lot is better than a lot done a little. 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:01.039 A little done a lot is better than a lot done a little. 00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.319 So I can't work out. 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:04.720 I'm just so out of shape and da-da-da-da. 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:06.319 And so here's how you start. 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:07.359 Watch. 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:12.720 You can do that. 00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:18.319 And you can have the strongest index finger in El Paso County. 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:20.720 I mean, start with something, is what I'm saying. 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:21.599 Start with something. 00:30:21.759 --> 00:30:22.559 Move, man. 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:24.480 Move, move, move. 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:34.640 So whether it's push-ups or sit-ups or doing weights or when my take your Bible, my book when it comes out, and just go. 00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:41.200 Look what God will do. 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:42.880 You'll get hooked on it. 00:30:43.200 --> 00:30:44.240 You'll get hooked on it. 00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:45.519 It's good for you. 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.799 It oxygenates your brain, increases your IQ. 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:54.960 Whenever I speak, wherever I'm at speaking, I always work out in the morning right before I speak. 00:30:55.119 --> 00:31:01.279 Because it just makes me, I can think clearer, I'm I feel better, I'm more excited, I'm not lethargic. 00:31:01.519 --> 00:31:03.680 Anyone wake up a little lethargic? 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:04.400 Hello? 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:05.119 Okay. 00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:08.240 So I do too, just like everybody else. 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:13.359 But to drink that water and do those exercises is really important. 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.279 Thank you for listening to the Corn for War podcast. 00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:24.880 We hope today's message has empowered you to make a difference in your world. 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:30.880 To connect with Pastor Steve's sermons, books, and blog, visit Steveholtonline.org. 00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:32.000 God bless.