 Amen. Alright. Keep your place there in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, so tonight we're going to talk about your body, your physical body. We're going to talk about tonight. I'm going to depress you even further. Do you understand why we're not doing a series on violence though, by the way, because that's just, that's a hard topic to talk about. Okay. 1 Corinthians chapter 6, we're going to talk about the physical importance of your body tonight. You know, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6, you know, 15, it says, No, you're not that your bodies are the members of Christ. So your bodies are the members of Christ. And in verse 19, he says, Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. And guess what? The Bible says that your body is not yours. It says that it doesn't belong to you. You were bought, you were paid for. If you're saved tonight, you were purchased. And you were purchased with a heavy price. So the Bible doesn't talk a lot about, you know, it doesn't put a lot of emphasis on the physical. But I'm going to show you tonight that there's things in the Bible and things that there's reasons that God is telling us to do certain things in the Bible. They're there to protect us. They're there to protect our lives. They're there to protect us against death, even physical death. Okay. So tonight, we're going to talk about the physical importance of following a biblical lifestyle. The first thing I want to talk about tonight, turn to James chapter one. So I've mentioned this many times in sermons, but basically, you know, God's laws, he doesn't have all these laws that are just there because God just wants to watch a bunch of puppets on a string dance. You know, God's laws actually make a lot of sense for us. They actually are there to help and protect us. All right. And the first point I want to make tonight as you're turning to James chapter one is that sin itself, meaning the transgression of God's law will destroy your physical body. Sin will destroy your physical body. Look at James one in verse number 15. The Bible says, then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death. Of course, you know, Romans 6 23 says the wages of sin is death. You know, we talk about that second death, but look, sin can actually cause you to physically die. Right. Now it could be the judgment of God that's actually killing you. You know, like God has killed some saved people in the Bible, you know, God could actually be chastising you, but sin itself will destroy you physically in many ways. Okay. Now the context of first Corinthians chapter six, when he's talking about your body being the temple of the Holy Ghost, he's actually talking about the sin of fornication. It's a very specific sin. Look back at first Corinthians chapter six and look at verse number 18 where the Bible says it says flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committed fornication sinneth against his own body. So the Bible says that there's a unique thing about fornication, that fornication is you actually sinning against your physical self. It's going to actually hurt you physically. Look at verse number 15 where he says, know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of an harlot? God forbid. So in the context, he's preaching against fornication, talking about taking care of your body. So if we look at what's happening today around us, are people around us living a biblical lifestyle? Is a biblical lifestyle common in the United States? No, it's not. People are leaving the biblical lifestyle. People are not getting married anymore. People have never gotten married at later, at older ages than the United States right now. In the history of the United States, the married age has never been older than it is now. People are living in fornication. Fornication is normal for kids in school. It's accepted. And people as adults, it's just an accepted thing to just live in fornication with a girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever. But guess what? This is destroying people's bodies. From the CDC, I mean all of these different STDs, the Bible or not the Bible, but the CDC actually says that are on like one of them is on a 20% increase since 2014. You know, 63% increase for another one. Syphilis, which I actually thought didn't even exist anymore, is a 71% increase in the United States. And that can be passed to babies from childbirth from their mothers. You know, 50% of kids ages 18 to 24 will get a sexually transmitted disease. 50%, that's half. Currently 110 million Americans have an STD. Americans, by being so smart and so enlightened, leaving the biblical lifestyle are destroying themselves. 110 million. There's 320 million people in the United States. That's one in three, folks. You know, so that's the irony. The irony of like what's happening today is that we're already a nation full of sickness. We're already a nation full of sickness. And by the way, you just couldn't help but run into this when you're looking through all these CDC stats, but they're the biggest spreaders of disease or homosexuals. There's always like a star asterisk where it says, oh, by the way, at most risk are you know, homosexuals, you know, with multiple anonymous partners and use of the illegal drugs because you know, all those three things go together. I mean, it's ridiculous, you know, but they're nice people. Nice people. That's just a side note. But my point I'm trying to make is that fornication as the Bible actually says, literally destroys you physically. It destroys your body. It causes, you know, it ends up causing cancer. It ends up causing, you know, infertility, all these different things. It literally ruins your body. That's why it says that he that committed fornication sineth against his own body. It literally destroys your body, flee from it, run from it, the Bible says. I mean, there's huge pressures out there today. One of the biggest benefits of separation and a separated family and a homeschooled family and a separated church is this one right here, is that you could flee fornication, that these kids will grow up and there will not be that pressure. There will not be that they'll be raised in a proper environment. But it's important. It's important that you separate from what's normally happening out there or it's a flip of a coin. What's going to happen to your children. You can separate them from it. That's why we teach separation here. Okay. These things could literally destroy your children physically, literally. But not just for the children, you know, even the adults out there. Now this look, this was a big debate in the Bible. Turn to Acts 15. Acts 15. If you remember in Acts 15, here you had Paul, you know, he's out preaching to the Gentiles and he comes to Jerusalem and there's all these Pharisees saying that, hey, what are we going to do with all these Gentiles that are getting saved? You know, they don't follow all these rules, all these laws like we do. You know, the Jews had a very, a very strict lifestyle and everything that they ate and how they acted and all these different things. So there's this big debate. And then of course, it got pushed into salvation, right? I mean, do you need to be, you know, circumcised to be saved and all these things? But mainly the issue was, what do we do with these Gentiles once they get saved? What do we do? And after the debate, James, you know, the brother of Jesus who is, you know, he just, he just lays down the law and he says, after everybody said their piece in verse number 20, James says this, he says, but that we write unto them, his is his sentence, that they abstain from pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood. Look, fornication made the short, the short list here. So we're sitting here and we're deciding, hey, what do we do with all these heathens, these Gentiles that are getting saved? You know, do we have to make them like follow all the rules of the Jews? And he's like, no, he's like, we'll just tell him to do these four things. And fornication was one of them because it was a sin against their own body and he knew that it was a, it was a big deal. It wasn't about salvation here. It's just, how do we teach them to live after they've got, they've accepted the gospel? Okay. Now look, turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. Don't think God will protect you because you're saved. Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 10. Actually, turn to Numbers chapter 25 and I'm just going to read for you 1 Corinthians chapter 10. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 is talking about a story from Numbers chapter 25. And in 1 Corinthians chapter 10, in verse number 8, the Bible says, neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell in one day three and 20,000. Turn to Numbers chapter 25. So this is referring to a story in the Old Testament where the children of Israel committed fornication with these heathen people and God brought judgment upon them. Look at Numbers chapter 25 in verse number 1 where the Bible says, in Israel abode and shittim and the people began to commit hordom with the daughters of Moab. They were not to, you know, mix with the people, even marry with them, but they were not marrying them here. They were committing fornication. And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods and the people did eat and bowed down to their gods. And Israel joined himself unto Baal Pior and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, slay everyone his men that were joined unto Baal Pior. And behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midian-Idesh woman in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So this guy was not obeying. He's just like, whatever, I'm going to do what I want to do. And you guys aren't going to tell me what to do. And when Phineas, the son of Eliezer, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it. He rose up from among the congregation. He took a javelin in his hand and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and thrust both of them through. The man of Israel and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. Now we have a Bible contradiction here. Let me just get this out of the way. So we have twenty three thousand in 1 Corinthians chapter ten and verse number eight and numbers twenty five verse nine. Everyone's like, the Bible's contradicting itself. But what is 1 Corinthians chapter ten and eight says? It says, it fell in one day three and twenty thousand. So in one day twenty three thousand people died, but total twenty four thousand died. There you go. It's not rocket surgery, right? All right. So God judges fornication. Back to my point. God judges fornication. Flee from it. Other sins, other than fornication, turn to Proverbs chapter twenty three. Other sins that will destroy your body, your physical body. Look, God's rules make sense. They make sense. Look at Proverbs twenty three. Look at verse number twenty nine. Look, I all all I hear about people doing these days is just staying home and just getting drunk. I mean, that's what people are doing at home from my perspective. I mean, they're just like they better not close the liquor stores. I mean, there is so many people in this city, in this state, in this country that they're just they're just drinking and now they're drinking way more than they used to because they're just sitting home and that's all they want to do is drink. Proverbs twenty three. Look at verse twenty nine. The Bible says this. Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who have contentions? Who have babbling? Who have wounds without cause? Who have redness of eyes? Look, these are all like physical conditions, right? I mean, you're do we really even need doctors when we have this kind of like, I mean, look at this. You'll be depressed. You'll you'll you'll have family problems. The second one who have you mean, you'll say stupid things. You'll just get hurt and you won't even know why wounds without a cause redness of eyes. They that tarry long at the wine. They that go to seek mixed wine. Look, not upon the wine when it is red. When it give a color in the cup, it moveth itself a right redness of eyes. It literally when you drink, it literally like burst the blood, blood, the tiny little blood vessels in your eyes. That's why people that they drink their eyes are red because their eyes are literally bleeding. They're just inflamed these blood vessels. First number thirty two. At last it biteeth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. And then it ties again with fortification. Thirty three. Thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Yay thou shalt be as he that lie down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. They have stricken me thou shalt say and I was not sick. They have beaten me and I felt it not. When shall I wake? I will seek it again. Look, it says people are going to beat you up physically and you're not even going to know what's happening. Think of that. Drunkenness and not being sober are actually tied to fornication and filth in the Bible. And that's exactly what the CDC will tell you as well. When you come look at stats and like just behavior that's you know causes all these STDs and all of this. Look there's long term physical effects as well. I mean you say that okay the the all these things happening to you is like you know one day or one night that happened but there's long term physical effects to alcohol as well. The you know the Mayo Clinic says drinking too much alcohol can raise blood pressure to unhealthy levels and if you keep drinking alcohol you'll end up with you can end up with chronic blood pressure problems meaning your blood pressure raises when you drink alcohol but then if you just you drink all the time you're it just your your arteries harden not to get into it but I mean you'll just have high blood pressure period it'll just it'll just stay that way. Substance abuse and hypertension is a huge problem. Substance abuse and hypertension are important health concern especially in adolescent and young adults presenting with elevated just think about it young people with elevated blood pressure and associated cardiovascular conditions elicit drugs including cocaine marijuana and feta means and I can't even pronounce that one remain potential sources of acute and newly diagnosed hypertension and all of this leads to what they call heart disease in the United States. Now heart disease is tied to high blood pressure diabetes drinking alcohol also causes diabetes by the way but heart disease is a cause of 647,000 deaths in the United States every single year heart disease that's one in four deaths in the United States is from heart disease and all of these things you know increase it from Harvard Health alcohol abuse drunkenness is a cause of all these things dementia depression anxiety suicide family problems I mean so far the bible caught most of these already family problems unemployment cancer of the mouth throat liver colon and breast cirrhosis of the liver and diabetes is the biggest one so all these things well I mean the use of alcohol illegal drugs is they'll destroy your body they will destroy your body and the longer that you do it the more damage that there will be drugs look just look at these people walking around California I mean just look at these people I used to tell Vladi when we were standing outside the church you know we would literally we're watching these people die years and years we're standing outside being ushers and we see the same guy go to the methadone clinic and get high and do heroin or whatever and we're literally watching these people wither away and die in front of our very eyes but I told Vladi one time I was like man I was like it's it's amazing what the human body can take you just watch these people wither away into these skeletons and just they're just destroyed they're they're not the right color anymore they their minds don't work anymore their bodies are broken and you're just like it's amazing what what the human body can take but it will kill them it will eventually physically kill them you know smoking destroys your your heart your lungs so all of these things all of these you know being sober that's why the bible says be sober and it covers everything it covers all the drugs alcohol everything so the whole argument about whether or not you know oh is this wine here in the bible alcohol and this it's it's stupid the bible says be sober period and when you're drinking alcohol you're not sober so the bible says be sober and if you're not sober if you're drinking alcohol doing drugs it will destroy you physically is the point of this sermon my third point is this you should stay in physical condition or in physical shape turn to proverbs chapter 31 you should be physically active you should try to keep yourself in some sort of shape that is biblical okay i'm going to show you now i'm going to i'm going to come after the ladies here then i'm going to get on the guys go to proverbs 31 so proverbs 31 of course the virtuous woman is who we're talking about but look at what the bible says about the virtuous woman so the virtuous woman does all these things she's she's very hard-working she's she's supporting her family she's doing all these things she gets up early you know her husband prays with her children and her husband call her blessed i mean there's so many great things but look at verse 16 of proverbs 31 where the bible says she considereth a field in biathet with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard she girdeth her loins with strength and strengtheneth her arms the the virtuous woman is no weakling she's a strong woman physically i mean she's doing all this thing and by the way turn to ruth chapter 2 there's only one woman in the bible that that the bible actually says is a virtuous woman and that's ruth so let's look and see if there's a correlation here the bible says in proverbs 31 that the that the virtuous woman is physically strong i mean it makes sense when you read proverbs 31 and you see all the things that this woman is doing she can't possibly be just just this weakling or this person that you know just lays around and can't even you know walk across the room without getting tired i mean it's not possible so look at ruth chapter 2 and verse number 15 of course ruth came with her her mother-in-law Naomi and ruth goes to take care of her mother-in-law and in verse number 15 the bible says and when she was risen up to glean i bet she rose up early by the way when she was risen up to glean boas commanded his young man saying let her glean even among the sheaves and reproach her not and let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her and leave them that she may glean them and rebuke her not so she gleaned in the field until even and beat out that she had gleaned and it was about an ifa of barley so i mean just think about this do you guys know what a barley plant looks like it's like it's got a head on it like that right so it's it's not a huge thing it's not a huge thing you just pick up i mean she's literally like either on her hands and knees or bending down constantly all day picking up these little heads of barley or these and they probably weren't even full heads of barley she's gleaning they've already harvested boas was nice she'd already done it and boas was nice and said hey throw some on the on the ground for her throw some extra on the ground for her but she's literally going and she's picking up these pieces all day long and then she's not done right she's not done in order to you know the combine comes in today you know it takes the head of wheat or barley and then it beats it and it gets all that the chaff off and that the kernels fall out right we used to when we were kids we would take it and a head of wheat we would rub it in our hands and then we would we would blow the chaff away and then you would have all the wheat kernels in your hand and then you could eat it we would always do that as kids during harvest time but what she did was she gleaned all these heads of barley and then she went and she beat it all out and and clean the chaff out i mean she worked until late at night i'm sure here okay so she must have had some considerable strength turned to a ruth chapter three and it fits perfectly because if you look at ruth chapter three in verse number 11 when ruth goes in to ask bow as you know if he would you know do his duty and marry her he says this in ruth chapter 3 11 and now my daughter fear not i will do to the all that thou require us for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a proverbs 31 virtuous woman so here we see that ruth you know she was no physical weakling okay so it was important and it's part of being a virtuous woman so there's reason to keep yourself in shape ladies there's reason for that now let's look at the men turn to second samuel chapter 23 this is where it gets depressing man so get ready second samuel chapter 23 second samuel chapter 23 second samuel 23 is the the the describing the mighty men of david the mighty men of david and if you ever want to feel like not so much of a man just read this chapter second samuel chapter 23 just look down at verse number eight we'll just read a couple verses these be the names of the mighty men whom david had the takamite that sat on the seat chief among the captains the same was a dino the as night he lift up his spear against 800 and you know you're saying okay he slew 800 men like in his life no at whom he slew at one time so in one battle this man slew 800 men can you imagine how physically hard that must have been i mean that's a lot of work to actually you know physically battle 800 people verse number nine and after him was eliezer the son of dodo the oh oh height one of the three mighty men with david when they defied when they defied the philistines that were there gathered together in battle and the men of israel were gone away he arose and smoked the philip philistines until his hand was weary in his hand clave unto the stored and the lord wrought a great victory that day and the people returned after him only to spoil he fought so hard brother trevor talked about this last night that he literally couldn't open his hand anymore this has happened to me i remember it happened to me when i was a teenager wrestling matches you would you would just six minutes right six minutes and after the wrestling matches over your your your gripping your forearm so much that i would literally have to go up against a wall and go like this to get my hands to open again because your your muscles just lock up that's what happened to him he fought and fought and fought until his hand wouldn't let go of the sword anymore that's how hard he was gripping the sword and how long he was gripping the sword so look these were obviously very extremely physically strong men in in the bible now let's look at the u.s today there's something happening in the united states today from a 2017 article in forbes magazine testosterone levels are dropping on average by one percent per year since the 1980s that's depressing a 2016 study study showed that the average 20 to 34 year old man could apply 98 pounds of force with a right hand grip and this was down from 117 pounds in 1985 so in 2016 men could apply with their right hand 198 pounds in 2016 and in 1985 on average that was 117 pounds so men are getting weaker testosterone levels are dropping by the way just a side note you know the bible says in revelation turn to revelation 13 13 16 and causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads talking about the mark of the beast guess what why the right hand you ever think about that we're something to think about like 90 to 98 percent of people depending on who you ask are right handed not me left handed anyway but i mean that's just uh just a thought okay but look men are getting weaker in this country men are getting weaker in this country turn to Jeremiah 51 turn to Jeremiah 51 the bible talks about this too this could be judgment men are getting weaker Jeremiah 51 look down at verse number 30 Jeremiah 51 is talking about the judgment coming to Babylon now Jeremiah 51 and verse number 30 the mighty men of Babylon have forebored to fight they have remained in their holds their might have failed they're getting weaker they became as women they have burned her dwelling places her bars are broken so you say you know that's depressing what can we do well here's some advice from the endocrine society a new study finds that a drop in testosterone levels over time is more likely to result from a man's behavioral and health changes then by aging so they're starting to think they're starting to realize that this whole phenomenon that's happening here just from a scientific level is not just because you're getting older all right it's because of your lifestyle and the things that you're consuming and you know what this goes back to alcohol as well because there's a lot of alcohol consumed in this country and it has proven that that will drop your testosterone levels all right so many times this is also associated with obesity diabetes and depression now there's so many factors involved but one thing that a lot of them agree on is that lifestyle in general along with increased consumption of low standard food are major contributors to this testosterone drop in the united states people literally agree on that it's what you eat and how you live period is what's doing it it's the common denominator so a common denominator actually what we're all we're talking about whether it's it's alcohol drugs or you know low testosterone levels is diabetes too diabetes is huge in the united states from the cdc now this is shocking i did not know this more than a hundred million us adults are now living with diabetes or pre diabetes pre diabetes means that you will have diabetes in five years a hundred million us adults there's i mean that's that's there's 320 million people in the united states all right this report finds that as of 2015 30 million americans 10 percent of the u.s population have diabetes another 84 million have pre diabetes a condition that if not treated often leads to type 2 diabetes within five years look we are not healthy in this country now here's one thing that you know with diabetes that i will tell you right now that is true about the united states we eat way more sugar in this country than any other country in the world we put sugar on everything everything that we have is based in sugar and you know let me tell you something aside from diabetes itself there's so many new studies coming out saying that sugar aids and cancer growth sugar just depletes your i mean look at the the doctor from faithful word la talking about how to protect against the coronavirus she said you know what the worst thing you could do is eat a lot of sugar she said don't even drink orange juice because even though the vitamin c is good for you the sugar that's in the orange juice will just negate the vitamin c because it attacks you look sugar is i mean i'm going to confess my faults here sugar is a problem you know that i need to get rid of in my life but it's look it's a huge problem for americans it's a lifestyle thing there's immune system studies now i mean sugar destroys your body period eat healthy natural food don't become a food nazi but eat healthy natural food one person told me one time that you should never eat anything out of a cardboard box that's pretty good advice i'm not saying that i follow it but it's pretty good advice turn to first timothy chapter four first timothy chapter four first timothy chapter four there is something to the sugar thing i'm telling you that there's it's coming up in in real studies especially the cancer thing the cancer thing i mean i mean i don't like the keto thing but the keto thing is basically the opposite of a sugar diet right i mean you're not having any carbs and the keto thing has proven to you know fix all sorts of ailments from diabetes to you know helping you know get rid of cancer and all sorts of things but it's you know it's the it's no sugar basically it's no carbohydrates all right look at first timothy four and verse number eight where the bible says for bodily exercise profiteth little but godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come look it says bother bodily effort exercise profiteth little but i mean there's still profit there all right there's still profit there so we should exercise we should eat right look to be absent from the bodies to be present from the lord we get that but hey i just don't want to end my life here because of sin and an unhealthy lifestyle let's put it that way i'm not afraid to die but i don't want to die because i ate twinkies my whole life you know and i only lived to be sixty i don't want to die because i smoked you know five packs of cigarettes a day you know i don't want to end my life that way look this body is a gift right this body is a gift it was it was and it's not ours it's it's purchased right turn to first Corinthians chapter 15 and guess what it's corruptible it's corruptible first Corinthians chapter 15 look at verse number 53 i mean you can corrupt this thing is basically the whole point of this sermon you have a body you know your body is not yours it was bought with a price the price of the you know the blood of christ and it's corruptible you can corrupt it look at verse 53 for this corruptible must put on incorruption one day we're going to have you know a glorified body you know we're going to put on incorruption but not now it's not what i have now this thing right here is corruptible and this mortal must put on immortality so when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory but look you can corrupt this thing you can corrupt it through sin through fornication through poisoning it you can corrupt it you can corrupt it through your lifestyle through a sedimentary lifestyle by the way you know it's it says they're finding out lately and this is a little depressing as well but it is as bad to have a sedimentary office job as it is to smoke you're starting to see like stand-up desks everywhere you know in the office environments and all that kind of thing because they're coming out with all these studies that says you know what you might as well smoke if you have a office job where you sit in front of a computer all day because it's killing you just the same just this sedimentary lifestyle so look maybe maybe just a thought but maybe there's nothing wrong with working by the sweat of your face maybe there's nothing wrong with that but are we told that today i mean if you have a job where you actually have to get up and you know grab a tool and actually do something i mean that's frowned upon today in america no you got to get one of these jobs where you sit down and you just you know get hemorrhoids and die basically i mean i guess you know i mean but that's what the united states and all these studies are coming up saying it's it's terrible for you it's terrible for you but the bible says that you should work by the sweat of your face you know work hard and guess what you know then you'll live and i have men in my family that that's true you know ships and men rust at port in conclusion you know people you know you'll see a lot of people who are young and they're in they're just doing whatever they want because they think you know what i can get away with it and you know i'm young and nothing ever is wrong with me because i'm you know 20 30 years old but guess what you're going to be 80 one day and then you're going to reap the whirlwind of what you sowed today now calib is a great example for us in the bible i love this guy he doesn't get enough mention in my in my opinion but turn to joshua chapter 14 calib you remember calib he was with joshua right he was one of the spies calib was one of the spies he was one of the faithful men that came back and wasn't in that head faith and said you know what they are big and they are but you know what the lord is with us and he he was one of the you know one of the men that was with joshua look at joshua 14 in verse number seven calib is talking here and calib says 40 years old was i when moses the servant of the lord sent me from catish barnia to spy out the land and i brought him word again as it was in my heart nevertheless my brother and went up with me and made the heart of the people melt but i holy followed the lord my god and moses swear that day saying surely the land where thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance and thy children's forever because thou has holy followed the lord my god and now behold the lord kept me alive and he said these 40 and five years even since the lord spake this word unto moses while the children of israel wandered in the wilderness and now lo i am this day four score and five years old he's saying you know what he's already gone into the promised land you know he's fought the battles and you know what he's 85 years old now it's 45 years later and look what he says in verse number 11 this reminds me of my grandfather it's verse number 11 here he says as yet i am as strong this day as i was in the day that moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war both to go out and to come in he's saying i can still fight i remember my grandpa was still alive we moved out before we took over the farm we lived like just a few miles from my grandpa because i was like you know what i'll be able to help him out on the farm he's 90 i'll be able to help him out with you know the fencing and all this but he would always just call me out after everything was done all the time and i was so annoyed with it but he'd go and he'd be like i put that fence post in with this sledgehammer by myself can you do that he's 90 you know he reminded me of Caleb i hope that i am this strong when i am 85 you know i hope that you know that that the lord would bless me with that but look if you destroy your body when you're young you have no chance at being Caleb here so you have to be a good steward of what of this temple of the holy ghost right i'm not talking about being vain but i'm talking about just being a good steward of what god has given you and teach your children to be good stewards you'll find that healthy parents will have healthy children because they're learning the lifestyle through you you know what you do is more important than what you say and if you say ice cream is bad and then you're always going out for ice cream i know i'll fix it but what you do is more important than what you say okay so the more time look the more time you spend in these bad things the worst it will be for you you know and just just keep in mind that you know you young people keep in mind you will be old one day and those things that you did in your youth will come back to you they'll come back around it's it's reaping and sowing it's just a it's a great physical example of reaping in sowing what you sow today you will reap when you're 80 and as we see today you know you want to be strong when you're older because this world is constantly attacking your body and you know just you want to be strong you want to be like Caleb when you're old so your physical body is not you know the most important thing the inside of the cup is obviously more important but you know your physical body is important you know and it's important that you know you you keep yourself healthy and you do these things and just don't fall into all the sin of this world that will destroy your body it will destroy you know your children and remember that these laws that god has put in the bible are there to protect us and protect us physically and spiritually but physically as well all right let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer dear heavenly father we thank you for this evening we thank you for all these people that would be faithful to the house of god lord uh i just thank you for your word and all the things that that are in it for us and for our safety and for our protection i asked that you would just just help us to to read it and learn it and understand it lord lord i asked that you you know you bless the rest of our week and keep us all safe and healthy in jesus name we pray amen