NUTRITION (1)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) We have seen that God's original plan for our lives is to live healthily and happily with intimate fellowship with him in the Garden of Eden. However due to sin, there are various causes that will bring sickness and a shortened lifespan. Now we will explore to see what is God's nutritional design for us which will enable us to be only healthy and happy for his glory.
b) God designed life to begin and to be maintained at the celluar level. The human body is made up of around one hundred trillion cells. The health of a single cell holds the key to the health of the whole organism. Cells made strongly through good nutrition will go along way in giving us an immune system that will resist the illness so prevalent in our society. If the cell's needs are properly met, each cell will live healthy and function properly, ultimately reproducing and replacing itself with a new healthy strong cell. This is how God made our bodies to function. So if we want to have abundant energy, good physical strength and experience freedom from sickness, then we must take care of our cells so that they will function as God intended. God had also designed within nature, the provision for all the necessary nutrients to meet all human cellular needs. This will grant mankind a healthy body which can out live the God appointed years and fulfill all of God's calling in our lives.
1. God's original design
a) Many Christians today do not think that God has a design for our optimal nutrition. Therefore, Christian has got no word from the Lord or guidance in the matter of the food we eat, and thus follows the world in totality. This results in God's people experiencing the same sickness of the world.
b) Does God has a design for our food? Definitely yes. It is such a major area of life, how can God be silent on it.
#1) The original diet
i) Genesis 1: 29 tells us exactly what God originally intended for mankind's food.
@1. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat(Genesis 1:29 KJV). It includes all sort of: 1) grains, wheat barley, rice, oats, millet, rye etc. 2) legumes, peas, beans. 3) bush and vine bearing fruits and vegetables, melons, grapes, berries, squash, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber etc.
ii) Genesis 2:9 KJV says, "9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." ... fruits & nuts.
iii) Genesis 2:16 KJV says, "16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat." ... fruits & nuts.
#2) Diet included immediately after the fall
i) 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field (Genesis 3:18 KJV). This includes leafy vegetables and herbs of all kinds; cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, asparagus etc. and tubers; yam, potatoes, carrots, beets etc.
#3) Other references to God's design for our food
i) 19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them? 20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls. (Deuteronomy 20:19-20 NIV)
ii) 9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields. (Ecclesiastes 5:9 NIV)
iii) 19 Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord. (Ezekiel 16:19 NIV)
c) From all these above references, it is shown that God's original diet was natural whole food taken from the garden.
d) Even the vision given to Ezekiel concerning the future temple tells of food derived from trees. "12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.” (Ezekiel 47:12 NIV)
e) Natural produce of the earth is the fuel on which men was created to run. God's original food in their natural raw state, has all the necessary nutrients for our body cells. God's natural produce contains carbohydrate, proteins, minerals, enzymes, vitamins, vegetable, oil etc. in their right proportion and combination for optimum production of energy, maintenance of health and prolonging life.
The End ...
0. Introduction a) We have seen that God's original plan for our lives is to live healthily and happily with intimate fellowship with him in the Garden of Eden. However due to sin, there are various causes that will bring sickness and a shortened lifespan. Now we will explore to see what is God's nutritional design for us which will enable us to be only healthy and happy for his glory.
b) God designed life to begin and to be maintained at the celluar level. The human body is made up of around one hundred trillion cells. The health of a single cell holds the key to the health of the whole organism. Cells made strongly through good nutrition will go along way in giving us an immune system that will resist the illness so prevalent in our society. If the cell's needs are properly met, each cell will live healthy and function properly, ultimately reproducing and replacing itself with a new healthy strong cell. This is how God made our bodies to function. So if we want to have abundant energy, good physical strength and experience freedom from sickness, then we must take care of our cells so that they will function as God intended. God had also designed within nature, the provision for all the necessary nutrients to meet all human cellular needs. This will grant mankind a healthy body which can out live the God appointed years and fulfill all of God's calling in our lives.
1. God's original design
a) Many Christians today do not think that God has a design for our optimal nutrition. Therefore, Christian has got no word from the Lord or guidance in the matter of the food we eat, and thus follows the world in totality. This results in God's people experiencing the same sickness of the world.
b) Does God has a design for our food? Definitely yes. It is such a major area of life, how can God be silent on it.
#1) The original diet
i) Genesis 1: 29 tells us exactly what God originally intended for mankind's food.
@1. 29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat(Genesis 1:29 KJV). It includes all sort of: 1) grains, wheat barley, rice, oats, millet, rye etc. 2) legumes, peas, beans. 3) bush and vine bearing fruits and vegetables, melons, grapes, berries, squash, tomatoes, eggplant, cucumber etc.
ii) Genesis 2:9 KJV says, "9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." ... fruits & nuts.
iii) Genesis 2:16 KJV says, "16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou may freely eat." ... fruits & nuts.
#2) Diet included immediately after the fall
i) 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field (Genesis 3:18 KJV). This includes leafy vegetables and herbs of all kinds; cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, asparagus etc. and tubers; yam, potatoes, carrots, beets etc.
#3) Other references to God's design for our food
i) 19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them? 20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls. (Deuteronomy 20:19-20 NIV)
ii) 9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields. (Ecclesiastes 5:9 NIV)
iii) 19 Also the food I provided for you—the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat—you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord. (Ezekiel 16:19 NIV)
c) From all these above references, it is shown that God's original diet was natural whole food taken from the garden.
d) Even the vision given to Ezekiel concerning the future temple tells of food derived from trees. "12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.” (Ezekiel 47:12 NIV)
e) Natural produce of the earth is the fuel on which men was created to run. God's original food in their natural raw state, has all the necessary nutrients for our body cells. God's natural produce contains carbohydrate, proteins, minerals, enzymes, vitamins, vegetable, oil etc. in their right proportion and combination for optimum production of energy, maintenance of health and prolonging life.
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