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Newington Three Angels Church

Eric Walsh

Slave Food: Countering Culture Through Holistic Healing

And I wanna just thank Pastor Spann for inviting me to speak to you all today.

I've enjoyed my conversations with him and appreciate the work my partner, Dr.

Hope you enjoyed the introduction he just gave.

I'm going to get right into our message today.

Pastor Spann told me how much time I have, and so I'm going to get right into this and just thank you all and hope to see you all live.

We're supposed to do that when the coronavirus pandemic hit and we weren't able to.

But I appreciate you and really I'm looking forward to fellowship being with you further.

Our scripture reading for this message is taken from Exodus chapter 15 and verse 26.

Exodus chapter 15 and verse 26 says, And said, if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and will do that which is right in his sight and will give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes.

I will put none of the diseases, none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians.

A message for you on this Sunday, slave food, countering culture through holistic healing.

Countering culture through holistic healing.

We thank you for this opportunity to just study your word Lord I said you make me just a nail upon the wall a Rusty sorry nail Lord, but upon that nail Lord.

I asked that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Instead, Father, let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

All right, so we're gonna jump to the book of Numbers.

We're dealing with the children of Israel after they have left Egypt.

God had brought them out with a mighty hand.

And these former slaves were now in a wilderness.

As slaves, their food was easy to come by and they desired the food, the foods of their masters.

But here in the wilderness, they began to get angry with God.

See what God did was God provided them with something called manna.

I'm going to talk about how God provides food today.

God provided them with something called manna.

In fact, David in the book of Psalms says that this was angels food.

They're tired of the manna, they're tired of what God gave them.

There are secrets in there because in understanding the manna because God only gave it twice a day.

There's a lot of talk now about intermittent fasting.

I can tell you that in the scripture when God feeds people, he feeds them twice a day.

The ravens visited the prophet Elijah twice a day, the man of fell twice a day.

There's something about that that says that we are to have a rest in between meals, but that's another issue.

But that's a biblical construct when you look at it.

But as they were getting angry, God said to Moses that he would give him, he would give the children of Israel meat to eat.

Are you gonna gather up all the fish out of the sea?

God was angry and almost like, look, do you think there's something I can't do?

The Bible says in Numbers 11, 31, and God, of course, was not happy that the food he had told them to eat and given them to eat for food they had rejected.

In Numbers 11 and verse 31, And there went forth a wind from the Lord, brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp.

So a day's journey in any direction outside of the camp.

And as it were, 2 cubits high upon the face of the earth.

So much quail fell that it was like something you'd have to walk through, like knee-deep quail.

The Bible says in Numbers 11 and verse 32, And the people stood up all that day and all that night and all the next day, and they gathered the quails.

He that gathered the least gathered 10 homers and they spread them all abroad for themselves, round about the camp.

They caught the birds and boy, they were ready to have some fun with these birds.

They were getting ready to, you know, if there were any Jamaicans, they were ready to jerk them.

Maybe if they were from Oklahoma, they were ready to barbecue them.

You know, if they were from Kentucky, they were ready to fry them.

The Bible says, in verse 33, and while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

We are in a plague now, the plague of the pandemic that is coronavirus.

God has allowed this virus to bring the entire world to its knees.

The coronavirus, in my opinion, is not a punishment.

It is warning, warning the world that God is still on the throne, that God's Son, Jesus Christ, is still Lord of lords and King of kings and soon to return.

This plague hit And they began to be sick and die.

And it says in verse 34, and he called the name of that place, Kibrath Hattava, because there they buried the people that lusted.

That's where they buried the people who lusted.

I want to submit to you that when it comes to diet and appetite, the Bible is very clear.

Appetite is plagues the children of Israel as they crave slave food, the food of their masters back in Egypt.

But appetite is also the first great victory that Christ gains in the wilderness of temptation when Christ fasts for 40 days and 40 nights and is met there by the tempter, Satan himself, told to turn the stone to bread and refuses to do so, conquering appetite where Adam and Eve fell.

Here again, it says that they lusted 1 great preacher, a good friend of mine, Dr.

James Kyle, a preacher and a physician, pastor of a church and full-time physician.

He said in a talk on health, I heard him preach once, he said, your body will conspire to kill you.

If you give your body everything it wants, your body will conspire to kill you.

They lusted, they craved it, they desired it in a way that was ungodly.

Because what they were saying is, God, what you've given isn't enough.

We lust after the birds, the flesh, the flesh pots of Egypt.

They cried, the Bible says, oh, that we were in Egypt by the flesh pots.

But what they didn't understand was that Egypt was sick.

In fact, some of my talks actually show CT scans of mummies from ancient Egypt that had atherosclerotic plaques in their arteries and in the carotid arteries, the coronary arteries, that showing that they died of heart attacks and strokes, just like we do today, that they had the very same disease progressions, cancers and so forth existed then, just as it does now.

So I wanna make the point that in fact, America itself is sick, church.

And in need of resuscitation, the demand of disease on the country is great.

The coronavirus has done well here, in part because we have a pro-inflammatory diet and the virus kills by sending you into a hyper-inflammatory state.

Here's 1 cartoon that says, why are healthcare costs higher than other countries?

And Uncle Sam can't even hear what they're saying.

He's so, he's been so made big by the food.

He's got a piece of bird in 1 hand, looked like a turkey leg, and a super big gulp in the other 1.

And America spends more than all other nations that are developed around the world on healthcare costs.

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