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What the Bible Says about Health
by Pastor Mike Fortune
February 28, 2015
Video: "The Art of Aging"
Video: "Why I am a Weekday Vegetarian"
God wants us to be healthy (3 John 1:2; John 10:10; Matthew 4:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
To eat and drink to God’s glory (1 Corinthians 10:31; Genesis 1:29-30; Leviticus 11:44; Micah 2:11; Romans 14:21; Proverbs 31:4-5; Proverbs 23:31-32
So we can live well longer to tell the story of Jesus (Romans 12:1-2)
All Scripture taken from NKJV
3 John 2
2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
John 10:10
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
Matthew 4:23
23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price.
1 Corinthians 10:31
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Genesis 1:29-30
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.” 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
Leviticus 11:44
44 For I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves…
Micah 2:11
If a man should walk in a false spirit and speak a lie, saying, ‘I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,’ even he would be the prattler of this people.
Romans 14:21
21 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
Proverbs 31:4-5
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes intoxicating drink; 5 lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the justice of all the afflicted.
Proverbs 23:31-32
31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly; 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.
Romans 12:1-2
12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.