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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Gabriel Arruda

Autoimmune Diseases and the Last Day Church

Father, we believe you're here and we'd like to ask that as you are here that you would have power on our hearts.

I ask that you please would use this feeble instrument as your mouthpiece to communicate your message clearly and powerfully and that we would have soft hearts to receive it.

We love you, we thank you for reaching out to us in your mercy and desiring to do good for us in our lives.

Well, the title of the message this evening is Autoimmune Diseases and the Last Day Church.

Well, today I'd like to talk about autoimmune diseases because they are an out-of-control epidemic.

Have you noticed the food sensitivities, especially in the children?

Have you noticed all the different people who, even healthy people, who have otherwise had great health coming down with all types of autoimmune diseases?

It is wreaking havoc in our Western world.

What is happening in the bodies of people with autoimmune diseases mirrors something that's happening spiritually in God's last day church.

But I'd like to share a testimony of my experience with autoimmune diseases and how it has affected my family.

Well in 1998, my mother started showing signs of liver disease.

She tried to fight it using many natural methods, but she just didn't know enough about her condition to really be able to treat it effectively at that time.

And she was eventually diagnosed with autoimmune liver cirrhosis.

Her symptoms gradually got worse and worse, until 1 Sabbath morning she woke me up because she had been vomiting and defecating blood.

She was rushed to the ER that morning and she almost died.

As a matter of fact, the doctor himself told our family that if they hadn't stopped the bleeding she probably would have died within minutes.

She was virtually saved by a miracle, I believe.

The next 9 months my mom would come close to death about 3 different times.

And praise the Lord, however, in the year 2000, she received a liver transplant.

And just before that, she would almost die just before that, but it saved her life, and I praise God for that.

Well, not knowing the real truth about her condition, we thought she was totally out of the woods.

Little did we know that new liver would last her 12 years.

And late in 2012, that same disease, autoimmune liver cirrhosis, came back again.

However, it came back much more aggressive the second time.

And during that next 7 months, She would be in and out of the hospital several times for bleeding issues.

We had just met a doctor friend of ours who opened up her own lifestyle program, and she specialized in treating, guess what types of diseases?

But as we met with her and counseled with her, she gave us a specialized program to treat my mother.

She was released from the hospital the last time, and the doctor told us, she does not have 1 week to live.

Be happy that your mom could go home and die at home with her family.

And she was in critical, critical condition.

But nonetheless, we administered this customized lifestyle program given to us by this doctor friend of ours, and friends, we almost saved her.

On April 23rd, 2013, My dear mother lost the battle with liver disease and passed away.

But we almost saved her with the program.

And as a matter of fact, I actually think we would have saved her.

The day she passed away, she was actually being taken off of hospice because They saw that she was healing, not dying.

But she was in such critical condition, I won't really get into it, but let's just say in her critical condition, we really couldn't afford any mistakes to be made on the program.

6 months after my mom died, I found out that I had the same autoimmune condition that killed my mother.

I started to show signs of liver issues as early as 2010, as a matter of fact.

You know, at 30, you really shouldn't have liver enzymes fluctuating like mine were.

And I had several other things, some things that were indicating I had jaundice.

And anyhow, I had several things showing that my liver was starting to have issues.

But back to that doctor friend that opened up that lifestyle center.

Thankfully, we had met her in 2012, just as this whole thing was starting to kick off, and it really was a divine appointment.

And 6 months after my mom passed away, she said, you know, you really ought to get tested to see if you have anything what your mother has, because these things can be inherited.

I did a certain test that found that I was having an autoimmune response to 15 different types of foods.

My body was just attacking, attacking all these different types of foods in my body along with it.

And this made sense to me because I had a skin infection for many years that for some strange reason would not respond to any of the remedies that it was supposed to respond to.

It just got worse and worse no matter what we did to it.

And I had just seen what happened to my mother, and I knew after I got this diagnosis that if I didn't do something different, I would soon be following her.

Well, we signed up for our friend's 10-day detox program, which was fantastic, which was great.

And then after that, she gave me a customized program that I spent the next 9 months self-administering, pretty much as a full-time job, to myself.

And at the end of the 9 months, I got blood work done, and on my blood work, every single autoimmune marker showed up negative.

I got blood work done again just recently and it showed up even better.

And friends, I stand here before you this evening praising the Lord in complete remission to my autoimmune disease.

And the skin issue I was dealing with is clearing up as well.

And now that I'm understanding all this, a lot of things that I had been dealing with really are starting to make sense and click why I had been dealing with those.

And if you're interested, our friend, our doctor friend, the name of her ministry is yearsrestored.com.

Yearsrestored.com if you're interested to find out more about this program.

If I could summarize it for you in a nutshell, it's essentially the body attacking itself.

If it's attacking the nerves, you have multiple sclerosis.

If it attacks the blood, you have leukemia.

If it attacks the intestines, you have Crohn's disease.

If it attacks the liver, you have eventually liver cirrhosis.

And there are a host of autoimmune diseases, friends.

Diabetes type 1 is actually an autoimmune disease.

There's Hashimoto's, PCOS, Celiac's, and the list just goes on.

Chances are, I bet every single person in here either has an autoimmune disease or knows someone that does.

If I could summarize it for you, it's essentially, it's when a foreign substance comes and enters the body.

I'll get back to what these foreign substances are.

You know, your body has an excellent, God has designed in you a very excellent defense system.

When something comes into the body that it does not recognize, it attacks it.

And if this foreign substance is coming into the body on a regular basis, the body attacks it on a regular basis.

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