Food
What is your favorite food? How does it taste? Many people like ice-cream or chocolate because it tastes sweety, I like it too. Other than ice-cream and chocolate, there are many kinds of food are also yummy yummy. Different countries make different flavors food that taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter, spicy… My mouth waters just thinking about these delicious treats. Another delicious food is many different kinds of fresh fruits. They lets us feel happy, enjoy and satisfied. Imagine you are in desert and feel very hot and thirsty, if someone gives you a bottle of ice-water, how do you feel? You would say “Ahh.. it is really cool and refreshing, quenches thirsty”.
Fresh Food
Actually, foods are not taste delicious only, but also contain essential nutrition materials for our body. Absorb those nutrition could let us grow strong and maintain body health, we need those materials to build and repair our body cells. Some people say we should avoid some nutrition or materials, otherwise you will have trouble of your health…
For example, the ingredients of ice-cream or chocolate contain sugar, and many people say we should avoid absorb sugar from this food or that food, otherwise it will affect your health. Yes, excessive intake of sugar can cause disease. But that’s not mean sugar itself is an evil thing. Sugar (Glucose) is the main and important material to provide energy for our brain and our cells. It is the important and essential nutrition what we need, sugar itself is by no means of evil.
I am not a nutrition expert and writing a book about nutrition, but I want to ask a scientific question, why can we taste sweet, salty, sour, bitter, spicy, fresh… of food? Why do we have those feeling? Why do we feel enjoy, satisfy and happy of food? On the other hand, have you ever smell the spoiled food? Like rotten eggs. Wow, you would say I wanna throw up. I agree, it smells really stinks. Why do we have this bad feeling?
Another question, why we taste sugar would feel “sweet”, not “sour” “bitter” “spicy” or “rotten food” taste? On the other side, why we smell rotten egg would have bad feeling? Why it not smell as flower fragrant? Maybe you would say, you are saying something disgusting. Haha, I am sorry but I think that is the truth. Actually, such as sugar and rotten egg these substances nature are neutral, our feeling not represent its’ nature. Our feeling of those substances are relative, and do not represent other living things’ feeling. For example, almost all living things like sugar, but for bacteria is deadly if they surrounded by sugar. We hate the rotten food, but for some living things are really love it, such as fly.
So why do the feeling are so different? The answer is simple: our Creator God Jehovah wants to direct us to eat the food benefit our health, so he created this chemical reaction (good taste and favor) in our brain, just like when we eat ice-cream we feel sweet and happy. On the other hand, if we smell rotten food, it makes us discomfort and gagging, not saying to take it. But why we have this strong feeling? It tells us : God directing us don’t eat those food, it will make us sick or may die. This strong discomfort “feeling” like a warning signal etched into our brain and heart, warning us do not eat rotten food.
In fact we are not talking about the nutrition or the taste of food, I want to explain the grace of God given to us, that is sexual relationship. Sexual relationship itself is neutral, for human is like the good taste food, let people enjoy and satisfied. Why we feel enjoy and satisfied? Same as ice-cream, God created the “chemical reaction“-“feeling” of enjoy and satisfied in our brain.
Maybe someone would say “it is an evil thing!”. Why people have this thought or concept? Just like eating ice-cream, would people think the sweet feeling is evil? Would people say “eating ice-cream” is evil? No, people would say ice-cream have good taste, they won’t feel evil.
Same reason, God makes us feel happy and enjoy about sexual relationship and we should not think “sexual relationship itself” is evil. Just as same as enjoying the ice-cream, sexual relationship itself has no evil, but good for people. But aren’t a lot of scriptures saying sexual relationships is evil?
Let’s see the beginning in Eden, Genesis 2:25 says “And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed”.
When Jehovah God created Adam and Eve, they were both naked and not ashamed. What does it mean? It means God give them good feeling and the righteous mind, no evil mind and bad feeling about naked(sex). Just like we see the naked animals, our mind won’t have any evil or bad feeling about them(naked).
But when Serpent deceived Eve to eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, Genesis 3:6 say Eve “…saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, …she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.”. Then what happened?
Genesis 3:7 “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths”.
Before and after they ate the fruit, they were still naked same as before no change, but the change was their mind. Evil mind(sin) came up and they had evil thought, specially about the “Sex” concept. And this improper concept(sin) only occurred on humans but not animals.
All things God created is good including “sexual relationship”, so “sexual relationship” itself is absolutely not equal to Evil. How do we think about sexual relationships itself? Although sexual relationships itself is neutral, but it has different outcomes depends on different creatures.
We concern : sexual relationship has good or evil outcome/effect for human, like fresh food or rotten food effect the healthy of human. Fresh food have good taste and good for health, but the rotten food is bad would make people sick. How to define what is “fresh food” and what is “rotten food” of sexual relationship? Marital sexual relationship is like the fresh food and sexual immorality is same as rotten food. Why can we say that ? Because Jesus said,
Matthew 19:4,5 “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?”
So God created “sexual relationships” for husband and wife is good, it is the “fresh food”, good for health good for both, it lets them “healthy and strong”. Then what is the “rotten food”?
Jesus at verse 9 said “I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery”.
So all sexual relationships other than husband and wife that are “rotten food”(sexual immorality). Apostle Paul said “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral,…nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality…will inherit the kingdom of God.”–1Corinthians 6:9,10
What happen if you eat the “fresh food”(symbolic sexual relationship of husband and wife)? You (both husband and wife) will be happy, your family will be strong and grow big, you will get the healthy and strong baby. Husband, wife, sons, daughters whole family will have a peace and warm, stable and strong, love and happiness… home. If you teach your sons and daughters eat “fresh food”, your family will grow bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger.
But do you know what will happen if people eat the “rotten food”? He(she) will “sick”, “diarrhea”, heart broken, family is unstable, weak and unhappy, just same as someone will be sick if he eat the “real” rotten food. Sexual relationship is related to life, God creates “sexual relationship“- itself means “life“, so God wants us to respect life with serious attitude, please read the another article “Good and Evil – Life” for more about it.
Unlike the real fresh food and rotten food, people can see and smell the difference of them. The chemical reaction will warn us when we see and smell it, it will guide us not to eat the rotten food but fresh food. But our mind can think freely, no physical rule to guide us and direct us what is good and what is evil. Moreover the whole world is affecting by Devil who deceives people to eat “rotten food”(sexual immorality). Then is there any “guide” can help us?
Yes, God’s commandments is the guide to direct us, just like God said “…neither shall you touch it”, “shall not eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”.
But Satan deceived Eve and said “…your eyes will be opened”, then Eve saw that the tree and “delight to her eyes”, she think this fruit is “good for food”… then she ate it. How did Satan deceive us?
Rev. 12:9 “And the great dragon… who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world.”. How does Satan deceive the whole world? Rev. 17:2,4 says “with (The Great Prostitute-the great Babylon) whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk…4 The woman was… holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality”.
Just same as Satan deceived Eve at the beginning, after that the “improper mind” of sex was entered. Bible tells us he deceives the whole world, and he mainly uses the “sexual immorality”.
Revelation 18:3,4 says “
For all nations have drunk
the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of her, my people,
lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;”
God’s people, how can we come out of her? We must obey God’s commandment “you shall not commit adultery”, not only forbit the “sexual immorality”, and also need to remove “sexual immorality” from our heart, our soul and our mind. However we are sinners, just same as Balaam, maybe we are like Balaam whom tried every method/ways to do what he wants, even Jehovah God stopped him to do that, even his donkey stopped him by avoid angel’s killing, but he still did what he wants. What did it teach us?
Jeremiah 17:9 says
“The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?”
We are sinners and our heart are deceitful, want to do what we wants like sexual immorality even we know it is evil. Maybe we have many excuses are come up, but we know as same as someone eats rotten food, he(she) “must be” sick and suffering, although it may not happens immediately. Jeremiah 17:10 says
“I YHWH search the heart
and test the mind,
to give every man according to his ways,
according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Maybe someone says I am Homosexuality, it’s my innate nature, not my fault. Yes, sexual relationship is the normal behavior for we have sexual desire, but God condemns sexual immorality, including extramarital sex, homosexuality… But how comes God create the sexual desire but not allow people to satisfy it? Why some people say their innate nature are homosexual?
And maybe someone says sexual desire is an innate instinct just like the desire of food, which naturally occurs on adults, and the “sexual immorality” occurs on many animals behavior in the nature world too. Why human cannot doing like this?
Yes, many animals do not have “sexual immorality” concept, and maybe they have sexual relationship as much as they can before they die, then make sure it’s offspring be more and more. This is created by Jehovah God and it is very important for the continuation of its’ species. Then why human couldn’t be the same?
Please think about it, if human live on earth for decades and then died, maybe it is not a big big problem although it’s really a big problem. But but if human can live forever, yes forever, what will happen? Can you imagine what will happen? Please imagine, they will have sexual relationship with… unlimited, their offspring will come from A,B,C… unlimited, and maybe their sexual relations are crossover to each others too, so what would happened? Can you imagine? Extremely confusion, discord, strife, broken…. Can they build a strong and peaceful family? Will they be happiness? The answer is very clear.
1 Corinthians 14:33 “For God is not a God of confusion but of peace”. Ephesians 3:14,15 “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named”. Family is like a tree, limiting sexual relationship is protecting the tree otherwise the tree will be become confusion, broken and then died. If we obey God’s commandment, our tree and family will be bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger.
Who are the Father of all creatures? Yes, He is YHWH God our Father and the Creator, he wants his family does not be confusion but peaceful, and we are a part of His big family. That’s why He forbids sexual immorality, He won’t give the grace of eternal life to those who commit adultery.
On the other hand, He prohibits sexual immorality, what does it tell us? It tell us He does not want us to lost the grace of eternal life, but very willing give it to us. And also He loves and respects the life(each individual), He loves us and wants every individuals having a happy life and living in a happiness family. Thanks our Father and He is the most goodness God. Amen.
If human have “eternal life“, then does the “sexual immorality” is needed to make sure the continuation of the species of human? No need absolutely! “Sexual immorality” not only helpless or affect the sustainability of human, but will destroy family of human beings too. That’s why God forbit the “sexual immorality”, God is goodness, will He withhold the goodness grace from us? Absolutely will not!
But if someone says he is homosexuality or has strong sexual desire but can’t get marriage, what can they do? Leviticus 16:15 “If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening.”. This give us the hint: if someone emission of semen, he should take a bathe and wash himself physically, and then he will be clean.
Also Mosaic Law stipulated that there should be fasting each year on the Day of Atonement, Leviticus 16:29-31 “29 And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. 30 For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the Lord from all your sins. 31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever”.
“Afflict yourselves” general means fasting. Although someone say they are innate nature love same-sex couples, or with strong sexual desire but can’t get marriage, they can be ” fasting(sexual desire)” in this period and wait for God’s salvation. God will solve it in new heaven and new earth.
Matthew 4:1-4
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written,
“‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
As people be fasting, they will have hunger, dizziness… uncomfortable feeling, but they won’t died but good for health. The same, the “sexual fasting” also won’t let people died but good for “spiritual health”. “Sexual fasting” means “fasting” the sexual immorality, “the sexually immoral, adulterers, homosexuality”–1 Corinthians 6:9. If you have the above problem, you have choice, choose “sexual fasting” to be a clean lifestyle now to please God, and it will good for you too, will inherit precious wealth of the future — eternal life.
Actually, man and woman are two different creatures, but they can combine together fitly and perfectly. God’s arrangement is good for both. Generally woman like talking, man like be the good listener. Man has good logical skill to work and earns money, for woman spends money to buy food, tidy the home, take care man’s health… husbands and wives accompany each other.
Please imagine the picture that there are a wrinkled old man and a old woman setting before a sunset together, you will feel sweet of them, right? But have you ever seen there are 2 wrinkled old men setting before a sunset together? Would you also feel they are sweet? God loves us and knows what is good for us, not only now a days but even people get old, even at the long long future. We faith in God, the marriage of man and woman is the best arrangement.
So we shall remove sexual immorality from our heart, mind and soul. Just like the basic rule of 1 + 1 = 2, “sexual immorality” = “rotten food”, the result must be equal. Galatians 6:7,8 says “7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”
As 1 + 1 = (must “equal to”) 2, someone who sows flesh, (must reap “equal to”) corruption from flesh. This is the foundation of truth, Balaam can’t change it, you can’t… no one can change it. Do you believe it? If yes, you are a wise man. We won’t think we are the exception because there is no exception.
On the other hand, did you have this experience, that was we could resisted sexual desire one time, two times…many times but sometime has overcome by sexual desire? It is very frustrating. Is there any method can remove it permanently? If really has method to remove sexual desire permanently, do you think what will Father saying to Jesus?
Maybe Father will say : “My be loved son, it seems the design of sexual desire is not perfect, because it has stopped but I want people can enjoy my grace and life eternally, can you improve sexual desire and makes it work eternally?”
Actually the design of sexual desire is perfect and can works eternally no need to improve it. That means we won’t expect “sexual desire” stop working on one day, same as “food desire” won’t stop too. If “sexual desire” won’t disappeared, then we have to “fasting”, “fasting” will make “sexual desire” slowly and slowly and paused but not remove it. We have to avoid seeing or touching those things to make sexual desire come up, such as pictures or videos from screen, books…. We must remove it from our mind(fasting “sexual desire”).
May we all obey and carry out God’s commandment, we must expect this is a very difficult war for we are against spiritual forces of evil. Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
If we do that we can come out of The Great Prostitute-the great Babylon. Never give up, failure is a normal process, for we are fighting against Devils who are the powerful evil spirits deceiving the whole world. Keep prayer, keep asking Father to forgive our sins, strength us, help us to remove evil mind. Never give up and with consistent effort, you can achieve the “fasting” state. Then we can come out of her(the great Babylon) finally. And it will back to normal, sin will be removed when the new heaven and new earth has come.
Amen.
Bacteria
There is an interesting non related side question, I am scary to eat food now, I want to ask Jesus a question : Lord Jesus, as you know our advancement of scientific knowledge, we discovered bacteria using microscopes, and sometimes social media broadcasts videos about many bacteria moving around not only on food but all things… It makes me scary and chills, it seems all things are dirty. I am scary to eat or touch those things… Why did you create…? Do you think what will Jesus answer?
“Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? 20 …But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.” – Matthew 15:17,20
“Maybe” Jesus would say, “what do you think, which one is much dirty? Is a glass of water or a dark brown drain?”. Surely you would say “the dark brown drain”.
“Then would a glass of water make a drain dirty? Surely it won’t, right? You know what I want to say? A dark drain is like our intestines full of billions and billions bacteria, but a glass of water only contain million bacteria, so can food or water will make your intestines dirty? surely won’t, right?”
“Actually it can’t use “dirty” to define bacteria, do you know what is the function of bacteria? As you know when you eat food, it will enter stomach for digestion, and then go into intestines. But we couldn’t absorb complex food nutrition directly until bacteria break it down into small nutrients like vitamins, fatty acids… That is its function, also Bacteria is the helper to make food like kimchi. If no bacteria, you even “can’t live any more” for you couldn’t absorb nutrition of food.”
“Actually there is a very complex bacteria combinations environment in your intestines, everyone have an unique bacteria environment. And it will interact with people’s “living place“(much more complex combinations of bacteria), the bacteria combination will got balance of between their intestines and their living place.”
“That’s why if you travel to an other country, you may feel uncomfortable of intestines(a different bacteria combination of that place), but if you stay one or two weeks you will be fine, because the both intestines and living place bacteria got balance.”
“So don’t worry about the bacteria, they are your helper and essential of your life, but they don’t look good that’s why I don’t let you to see them. But if you can “see” something is dirty you have to clean it, otherwise no need to worry something you can’t see. Do you faith in me? I know what I created.”
“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Although most bacteria won’t harm people health, but some bacteria really makes people sick, therefore if you sick find doctor. So let your environment clean and let bacteria be balance is fine, no worry about their existence.” – “Maybe” it is what Jesus answer.
Let’s Pray
Jehovah God our Heavenly Father, every good gift and every perfect gift is from you. Thank you Father let us taste sweet, fresh and delicious food, let us enjoy and happy, be health and strong. I pray to you and admit openly sincerely that we are sinners, and often sin against you, please forgive us and help us to deliver from evil. We know you are serious of sexual relationship, this grace you give us is related to life and need to respect, so you forbid sexual immorality. Under the control of the great prostitute(the great Babylon, the evil spirits), this world is pressing us into it’s wrong sexual immorality mold . Please help us to be clean by forbid sexual immorality. Please Lord Jesus forgive us and ask Father to forgive us too. Please send mighty angel throw the great Babylon into the sea. Amen.
Prayer is also in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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