Title: Healthy Faith and Healthy Eating
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41. All wild animals that crawl on the ground are detestable and must not be eaten.
42. Of all the creeping things that creep on the ground, that which protrude by belly, or that walk on four legs, or that have many feet, you shall not eat them, for these are abominations.
43. Do not make yourselves detestable because of creeping things, nor do you defile yourselves because of them.
44. I am the LORD your God; I am holy; set yourselves apart and sanctify yourself, and do not defile yourselves with any creeping beasts that creep on the ground.
45. I am the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. Be holy, for I am holy.
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23. You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of immortal seed, by the word of the living and abiding God.
24. Therefore all flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall.
25. But the word of the Lord endures forever. This is the gospel that was preached to you.
1. Therefore put away all malice, and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander,
2. Like newborn babies, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that through it you may grow up to salvation.
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Title: Healthy Faith and Healthy Food
Text: Lev 11:41-45, 1 Peter 1:23-2:2
I think of healthy faith as the first. Healthy faith is “with the Bible,” the Word of God (2 Timothy 3:15-17). It is the means by which God the Holy Spirit, the author of the Bible, “makes us perfect” and “to perfect” our actions. The beginning of faith is hearing the word of the Lord (Romans 10:17). It is the point of being born again (John 3:3,5; 1 Peter 1:23-25). The birth of all life leads to growth. There are things that are necessary in this process of being born again and growing. Let's call it the peeling of the old skin and the continuing newness. There are five shells to take off. It is the character and habit of an old man. “Abandoning all malice, and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander” (1 Peter 2:1). “Like newborn children, long for pure and spiritual milk.” It is the condition of growth that leads to salvation (1 Peter 2:2).
Food is important in terms of health. What?, When?, and How? are important. Food is also important to regain lost health. Hippocrates is said to be the father of medicine. ‘A disease that cannot be cured by food cannot be cured by anything else.’ If the method of healing is in plants, it means that the method of disease prevention is also in plants, and the cause of disease is also related to plants. Health (健康, health) refers to the state of being strong mentally and physically without any problems. It refers to the absence of defects in physical, mental, emotional, and social abilities. It's not just about not being sick or infirm. It refers to the state of having the ability to adapt well to daily life beyond the state of survival and to cope well with changes. Of course, the content of that life is the practice of love.
Christians seek the best before God. It is about accepting God's best for us (John 3:16) and conforming to the best realization for our neighbors (1 John 3:16). The best that Christianity pursues is the realization of agape love (1 Peter 1:22). These are the love of neighbor in the Old Testament (Leviticus 19:17,18) and the practice of the new commandment in the New Testament (John 13:34,35). The practice of this differentiated life is possible only with a healthy faith. The habit required for healthy faith is a distinct diet (Leviticus 11:41-45; 1 Peter 2:1-2). Distinction of food for body and soul health. God's prescription for the health of the soul is the Word of God (1 Peter 2:2; Hebrews 5:14). The prescription for health restoration for the soul who has lost health is also the word of God (Hebrews 4:12). ‘How sweet are your words to me? It is sweeter than honey to my mouth” (Psalm 119:103). Of course, it is the admiration of healthy faith.