SPEAKER_01: Hey, I'm Pastor Steve Hole.
SPEAKER_01: I want to empower you today to walk in your true identity as a worshiper and warrior.
SPEAKER_01: Today, embrace the power of God's Word and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Born for War podcast.
SPEAKER_01: The reason we have censorship in our land is because there are movements that want to shut down truth.
SPEAKER_01: And this is also in our health care.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: How we go from fear to confident faith.
SPEAKER_01: But I want to conclude this series on kingdom health by saying this.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody's going to like to hear this, but it's true.
SPEAKER_01: America's the sickest nation in the world.
SPEAKER_01: So here we are, the most prosperous nation in the world.
SPEAKER_01: We have more hospitals per capita than any nation in the world.
SPEAKER_01: And by the way, let me just say this about the medical field that is positive.
SPEAKER_01: We are probably the best in emergency room and emergency care of any nation in the world.
SPEAKER_01: And the reason is because of what I'm talking about, it's because we have so many emergencies.
SPEAKER_01: This was less than 1% 50 years ago.
SPEAKER_01: 70% of our diet today is ultra-processed food.
SPEAKER_01: These are foods created with sugars and salt that make your food addictive.
SPEAKER_01: In other words, the food, big food, the food industry puts additives into your food to get you hooked on eating that crummy food.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, they would never do that.
SPEAKER_01: 74% of Americans are overweight and obese.
SPEAKER_01: 50% of Americans have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes.
SPEAKER_01: In 1950, less than 1% had diabetes.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And now it's one of the main things that they do.
SPEAKER_01: Cancer is skyrocketing.
SPEAKER_01: Young adult cancers are up 79% in the last two years.
SPEAKER_01: Autism is now 1 in 36 among kids, and it was 1 in 1,500 in the year 2000.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: All of this is driven by metabolic dysfunction.
SPEAKER_01: So if you take notes, you don't forget this.
SPEAKER_01: All of this is because of metabolic dysfunction.
SPEAKER_01: It's all about how bodies function on the cellular level.
SPEAKER_01: It's all driven by our toxic food system and our toxic environment.
SPEAKER_01: Now listen to what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01: When I say toxic environment, I'm not talking primarily about pollution.
SPEAKER_01: I've been all over the world.
SPEAKER_01: I've been in some of the most pollution-driven, pollution-ridden nations of the world.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about toxic environments in our relationships.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about unforgiveness.
SPEAKER_01: Walking in anxiety and fear because you can't forgive this person or your parents or whatever it is.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody's been hurt.
SPEAKER_01: Look at your neighbor and said, I've been hurt.
SPEAKER_01: We've all been hurt.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna extend forgiveness and I'm gonna move on.
SPEAKER_01: So forgiveness does not mean trust.
SPEAKER_01: Forgiveness does not mean trust.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So here's my thesis.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And if you want to listen to the other two that I've done, you can go back in the sermon series.
SPEAKER_01: Thesis.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Because it really matters how you live, it really matters how you think.
SPEAKER_01: So, in health perspective number one, a few weeks ago, I said seek the first thing first.
SPEAKER_01: I talked about seeking the kingdom of God first.
SPEAKER_01: Health perspective number two, new thoughts, new life.
SPEAKER_01: New thoughts, new life.
SPEAKER_01: Romans 12, 2.
SPEAKER_01: Then we talked about health perspective number three, meditation and obedience in truth.
SPEAKER_01: Joshua 1.9.
SPEAKER_01: Remember, I wasn't talking about Eastern meditation where you get in a lotus position, palms up and hum.
SPEAKER_01: Not talking about that.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking about actually Joshua 1.9 and Psalm 1, meditating in truth.
SPEAKER_01: Ladies and gentlemen, the best way to drive out falsehood is to meditate and believe truth, not rebuke falsehood.
SPEAKER_01: I just re I rebuke that spirit of da-da-da.
SPEAKER_01: That's fine.
SPEAKER_01: But what's more important is that you drive it out by crowding it out.
SPEAKER_01: You crowd it out with truth.
SPEAKER_01: And so meditation and truth.
SPEAKER_01: So here's today.
SPEAKER_01: Today, and I'm gonna conclude with a couple things today.
SPEAKER_01: Health perspective number four, you can heal yourself.
SPEAKER_01: Health perspective number four, we can heal ourselves.
SPEAKER_01: We can.
SPEAKER_01: God made your body to heal itself.
SPEAKER_01: So John wrote, Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Now I want to have a caveat here, because this is really important because there's a lot of different views out there.
SPEAKER_01: But here's the caveat from us here at the road, and that is those that have been born with mental and physical challenges.
SPEAKER_01: We should be the most compassionate, loving people to those kids and those adults that have struggled with that their whole life.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So I'm talking about to us here.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, amen.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking to us here that have the ability to make some changes in our life.
SPEAKER_01: Your body, this is important, your body is made to heal itself.
SPEAKER_01: It's called an immune system.
SPEAKER_01: God has put an immune system in you.
SPEAKER_01: And guess what?
SPEAKER_01: Getting sick, every time you get sick, is not a bad thing.
SPEAKER_01: It actually can build up your immune system with the antibodies that come from getting sick.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Let's get some chicken pox, man.
SPEAKER_01: You know, and that's the way I was raised.
SPEAKER_01: And so God has made your body to heal itself if we'll cooperate with it.
SPEAKER_01: Now, in the time of Jesus, it was an agrarian culture.
SPEAKER_01: So they understood maybe better than we do, that when you plant a seed, you grow a plant.
SPEAKER_01: When you put a seed in the ground, whatever seed that is, that particular plant comes forth.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody thought that was miraculous or supernatural.
SPEAKER_01: That's the way God designed.
SPEAKER_01: It's called sowing and reaping.
SPEAKER_01: Sowing and reaping.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: You got the residual of a salary that you build your life on.
SPEAKER_01: But for those in an agrarian culture, they totally understood it.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And I remember driving with my grandfather on this ranch and his farm, and he would make comments.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: That is the crummiest looking field I've ever seen.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So that's the way I was raised, you guys.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so now turn to Galatians chapter 6.
SPEAKER_01: Galatians chapter 6, because Paul understood that the Galatians understood the principle of sowing and reaping.
SPEAKER_01: So that's what we're gonna talk about today as it relates to our physical, mental, emotional, spiritual health.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Galatians 6, verse 7.
SPEAKER_01: Galatians 6, verse 7.
SPEAKER_01: Do not be deceived.
SPEAKER_01: God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, he will also reap.
SPEAKER_01: For he who sows to his flesh, okay, with toxic relationships or healthy relationships, with toxic food or healthy food, with forgiveness or unforgiveness.
SPEAKER_01: That's that sowing to the flesh or the spirit sows.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So we reap what we sow.
SPEAKER_01: So I want you to see this diagram.
SPEAKER_01: I'm calling this root causes of toxic unhealth.
SPEAKER_01: Root causes of toxic unhealth.
SPEAKER_01: So what I've designed here is a root structure that corresponds with our life.
SPEAKER_01: You'll notice it's not a very healthy tree.
SPEAKER_01: And these are some of the top struggles in America today insomnia, diabetes, depression, cancer, autoimmune, heart, mental breakdowns, high blood pressure, anxiety.
SPEAKER_01: Now, everybody in this room probably at some point has struggled with some of these.
SPEAKER_01: And some of you are carrying cancer right now and you may be depressed.
SPEAKER_01: Well, I've got good news for you.
SPEAKER_01: The good news is you can change.
SPEAKER_01: Hello, you can change.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So these are some of the roots.
SPEAKER_01: Stressful responses.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Now, if you get up and walk out right now, we all know who you are, so don't do that.
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
SPEAKER_01: Hear me out, hear me out.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: But here's what I want you to notice about the roots.
SPEAKER_01: This root structure is very integrated.
SPEAKER_01: It's not just food.
SPEAKER_01: It's not just relationships, it's not just your relationship with God.
SPEAKER_01: You know, I know people who have a fantastic relationship with God.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So nobody's perfect.
SPEAKER_01: This is the human condition.
SPEAKER_01: But I feel like our desire here is to be the healthiest church in America.
SPEAKER_01: Why not be the healthiest church in America mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and even physically.
SPEAKER_01: So we eat crummy food.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, we eat crummy food, a lot of us do.
SPEAKER_01: There are three additives in processed food.
SPEAKER_01: Let me give you these.
SPEAKER_01: Number one, added sugar and corn syrup.
SPEAKER_01: Your body was not created by God to process the type of additives of sugar and corn syrup into your system.
SPEAKER_01: Big food has made your food addictive.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Great interview.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And Big Tobacco decided they needed to do something to change how they made money.
SPEAKER_01: So they started moving away from cigarettes, away from big tobacco, and guess what they did?
SPEAKER_01: They bought food companies.
SPEAKER_01: Now they kept the same chemist on staff and said, just as you made tobacco and cigarettes addictive, make it with food.
SPEAKER_01: Add stuff to food to make the food addictive.
SPEAKER_01: And that's what they did in cooperation with the FDA who didn't check on them.
SPEAKER_01: And they still don't check on any of these people because they're all in cahoots with each other.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's number one.
SPEAKER_01: Number two, ultra-processed grains are heated and manufactured with almost all of their vitamins and minerals sucked out.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: They're actually oil additives like lubricants in your vehicle.
SPEAKER_01: Your body can't process those oils.
SPEAKER_01: It's got to do something.
SPEAKER_01: It's got to go somewhere.
SPEAKER_01: Well, guess where it goes?
SPEAKER_01: It goes into diabetes, it goes into making you obese, it goes into chronic mental illness, autoimmune, ADHD, OCD, etc.
SPEAKER_01: We have free lunches for kids.
SPEAKER_01: Guess what?
SPEAKER_01: One of those lunches is so lacking in minerals and vitamins and supplements for the kids.
SPEAKER_01: One kid to have what they need for their daily allowance, but they have to eat 300 plus of those meals each day.
SPEAKER_01: That's how bad they are.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying anybody here is any of those things.
SPEAKER_01: This is from her book, okay?
SPEAKER_01: Don't email me that I said that.
SPEAKER_01: This is interesting though.
SPEAKER_01: According to Stett, with the supplementation of organic foods and vitamin supplements, violent acts in prison dropped 70% in two weeks.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Because what's happening is your body just can't take it.
SPEAKER_01: It just can't, and so guess when the chickens come to roost?
SPEAKER_01: About 55.
SPEAKER_01: Right around 50, you start having all these things.
SPEAKER_01: I never had that before.
SPEAKER_01: I've got one problem after another.
SPEAKER_01: Well, the chickens have come home to roost because your body can't contain the amount of chemicals that you've put in there.
SPEAKER_01: But yet, Psalm 103.3 says God heals us of all our diseases.
SPEAKER_01: Psalm 103.3 says God heals us of all of our diseases.
SPEAKER_01: So why are we not getting healed?
SPEAKER_01: You're reaping what you sow.
SPEAKER_01: You reap what you sow.
SPEAKER_01: If you put dirt in your gas tank, you might have some engine problems.
SPEAKER_01: And yet on food, somehow, because of our success and because of our prosperity of having anything we want, we've lost self-control.
SPEAKER_01: We've lost self-control.
SPEAKER_01: So I remember about a month, month and a half ago, I woke up with vertigo.
SPEAKER_01: I was dizzy, and it made no sense to me.
SPEAKER_01: I knew I wasn't dehydrated.
SPEAKER_01: I knew that I'd um that there wasn't anything that I'd done that had created except for one thing.
SPEAKER_01: We ate out.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't organic, it was not an organic restaurant.
SPEAKER_01: And so I needed to lay down for another hour, drank a lot of water, it went away.
SPEAKER_01: But it was direct, it was a direct correlation with where we had eaten.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: It was 45 days of 10 things that you had to do every day, intensive.
SPEAKER_01: I think we had about 500 that signed up and 75 that passed.
SPEAKER_01: Um, and nearly all of those men and women told me they lost between 20 and 30 pounds during that training.
SPEAKER_01: And they are, and I think it made a difference in their lives.
SPEAKER_01: So exercise, solid relationships.
SPEAKER_01: And I could go through a whole study.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: They just find that again and again.
SPEAKER_01: And that's a scientific study not based in the Christian community, but based in the medical community, how important that is.
SPEAKER_01: So we can heal ourselves if we follow God's design for total health.
SPEAKER_01: We can heal ourselves.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody say that.
SPEAKER_01: We can heal ourselves if we follow God's design for total health.
SPEAKER_01: So now look at a new diagram.
SPEAKER_01: So here's a new diagram for us.
SPEAKER_01: So here we see the root causes of kingdom health.
SPEAKER_01: I like this.
SPEAKER_01: How about you?
SPEAKER_01: Pretty good, huh?
SPEAKER_01: That does not happen because you just say it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to be healthy.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to eat better.
SPEAKER_01: No, you've got to actually do it.
SPEAKER_01: You've got to develop habits in your life.
SPEAKER_01: And so these are the root causes of this kind of kingdom health.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: That got me fired up.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be growing older and going like this.
SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: So strong EQ, that means strong relationships in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Staying fit.
SPEAKER_01: Body heals quickly.
SPEAKER_01: Rarely sick.
SPEAKER_01: Strong immune system.
SPEAKER_01: Few fears.
SPEAKER_01: I like that one a lot.
SPEAKER_01: Vision and purpose.
SPEAKER_01: Strong and courageous, fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentle, self-control.
SPEAKER_01: And excited about God and His people.
SPEAKER_01: Well, here's how you get there.
SPEAKER_01: You don't just name it.
SPEAKER_01: You gotta do it.
SPEAKER_01: Renewing your mind every day.
SPEAKER_01: Resting and sleeping.
SPEAKER_01: Getting good sleep.
SPEAKER_01: Seven to eight hours a day.
SPEAKER_01: Prayer, Bible, and journal, PBJ, wholehearted mindset, growing relationship with God and with people.
SPEAKER_01: Forgiveness.
SPEAKER_01: Really huge.
SPEAKER_01: Blessing to allies, repentance.
SPEAKER_01: Eating organic foods.
SPEAKER_01: You say, Well, we can't afford that.
SPEAKER_01: Okay, pay me now or pay me later.
SPEAKER_01: Either pay a few dollars more.
SPEAKER_01: And by the way, like at King Supers, they're taking over.
SPEAKER_01: The organic food section is just taking over, which is really exciting to me.
SPEAKER_01: It's not that much more, but you go see a doctor, you can pay him if you want to.
SPEAKER_01: He'll be happy to take your money.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Repentance.
SPEAKER_01: Obedience to truth, seeking first the kingdom, meditation to we've covered all these things.
SPEAKER_01: Does that make sense?
SPEAKER_01: I feel like I'd be remiss if we didn't talk about this kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe not everything, but you can heal yourself in remarkable ways by following kingdom values and living a kingdom life.
SPEAKER_01: And I think what's interesting here is the integration.
SPEAKER_01: That's why I designed it this way.
SPEAKER_01: It's the integration, it's not just one thing.
SPEAKER_01: It's kind of a combination of all these things.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So here's the Venn diagram.
SPEAKER_01: So let me show you the Venn diagram again.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Loving God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors ourself.
SPEAKER_01: That's the key to overall kingdom health.
SPEAKER_01: So now I'm running out of time.
SPEAKER_01: Kingdom perspective number five.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I go into a lot of this in a lot more detail.
SPEAKER_01: So health perspective number five, my final one.
SPEAKER_01: Get outside.
SPEAKER_01: Get outside and work out.
SPEAKER_01: Now, those are actually two different categories, but I'm going to cover it real quickly together.
SPEAKER_01: Get outside, get your daily dose of vitamin D.
SPEAKER_01: It's called sunshine vitamins.
SPEAKER_01: It's called the sunshine vitamin.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Now here's what some of you are gonna do.
SPEAKER_01: You're gonna run with that and go, see, I need to be outside getting canned all the time.
SPEAKER_01: And after 30 minutes, that's when you start moving into skin cancer, so don't do that.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't say that.
SPEAKER_01: So here's what vitamin D does for you: three things.
SPEAKER_01: Vitamin D does three things.
SPEAKER_01: Getting outside and increasing your vitamin D fights disease and sickness.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: He's a bone guy, right?
SPEAKER_01: And he says, You have a torn ACL.
SPEAKER_01: Here's the picture.
SPEAKER_01: And you can't heal a torn ACL because there's very little blood flow in there.
SPEAKER_01: And I said, Wait, didn't I hear that?
SPEAKER_01: And I already done my research.
SPEAKER_01: For at least one minute I was smarter than him.
SPEAKER_01: And I explained some things about athletes who didn't get surgery.
SPEAKER_01: So I never got surgery.
SPEAKER_01: I still ski to this day, and I'm just fine.
SPEAKER_01: But I had to strengthen it myself, okay, with air squats and things like that and leg lifts and all that.
SPEAKER_01: So vitamin D increases your calcium.
SPEAKER_01: Number two, getting outside and getting vitamin D reduces depression.
SPEAKER_01: All the studies show that by being in the like interesting.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And then number three, getting outside and getting vitamin D boost weight loss.
SPEAKER_01: So get outside, guys.
SPEAKER_01: Take walks, ride bikes, go skiing, whatever it is you like to do, get outside and be in the sun.
SPEAKER_01: It's really good for you.
SPEAKER_01: And then lastly, work out.
SPEAKER_01: I challenge you to work out.
SPEAKER_01: I worked out this morning.
SPEAKER_01: This was my ab day.
SPEAKER_01: So I didn't, if you some of you saw what I do for the abs, you go, that's so lame.
SPEAKER_01: Okay?
SPEAKER_01: And it probably is, because here's my motto.
SPEAKER_01: Here's my motto.
SPEAKER_01: A little done a lot is better than a lot done a little.
SPEAKER_01: So I can't work out.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just so out of shape and da-da-da-da.
SPEAKER_01: And so here's how you start.
SPEAKER_01: Watch.
SPEAKER_01: You can do that.
SPEAKER_01: And you can have the strongest index finger in El Paso County.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, start with something, is what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01: Start with something.
SPEAKER_01: Move, man.
SPEAKER_01: Move, move, move.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Look what God will do.
SPEAKER_01: You'll get hooked on it.
SPEAKER_01: It's good for you.
SPEAKER_01: It oxygenates your brain, increases your IQ.
SPEAKER_01: Whenever I speak, wherever I'm at speaking, I always work out in the morning right before I speak.
SPEAKER_01: Because it just makes me, I can think clearer, I'm I feel better, I'm more excited, I'm not lethargic.
SPEAKER_01: Anyone wake up a little lethargic?
SPEAKER_01: Hello?
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: So I do too, just like everybody else.
SPEAKER_01: But to drink that water and do those exercises is really important.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to the Corn for War podcast.
SPEAKER_00: We hope today's message has empowered you to make a difference in your world.
SPEAKER_00: To connect with Pastor Steve's sermons, books, and blog, visit Steveholtonline.org.
SPEAKER_00: God bless.