Well, I want to talk a little bit this afternoon about the body, and give us some truth from God's Word. We'll see if we can piece this together, if it makes sense to you. But some thoughts I think that are worth considering concerning our body. Genesis chapter 1, we know day 1, light was created. Day 2, the firmament, which is called heaven. Day 3, you had land and vegetation created. Day 4, you had the sun, the moon, and the stars. So let's look at Genesis 1 verse 20. Genesis 1 chapter number 20, let's see what happens on the 5th day. Day 5, Genesis 1 verse 20, and God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life. and fowl that may fly above the earth and the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, watch it again, which the waters brought forth abundantly." That's twice. You see that in verse 20, the waters bring forth. Verse number 21, the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and every winged fowl after his kind God saw that it was good. Where did those fish come forth from? Waters. Same thing in the next verse. The fowls and the fish. Fowls of the air and the fish of the sea. They all came forth abundantly from the waters. From the waters. Keep that in your mind. Because then day 6, what you had is land, animals, and man. And you ever think about the importance of water in life? I mean, you can't have fish in the sea without water. You can't have the birds in the air, they're not going to live without water. You can't have land animals, and you can't have man living without water. Our body is made of 70% what? Water! I think that's right. Is that right? It's a lot of water. We need water to live. Now, go to Genesis 2. Look at verse 10. Watch what it says in Genesis 2.10. They're in the garden, and the tree of life is in the midst of the garden. And the Bible says in verse 10, "...and a river went out of Eden to water the garden." And from thence it was parted and became into four heads. And then it goes on to describe where this water flows and the different areas that it adds water to. But man, at this point, is living in perfect harmony with God. Man is in a state of innocence. Man hasn't sinned. And water is bringing forth life. And water is being provided for everything by God. That's a blessing. You know what's going to happen during the Millennial Kingdom when Christ sits on His throne? Water is going to flow out from that throne. And you know what the state of the earth is going to be like? It's going to be like when Adam and Eve first were in the garden. And that is, peace and harmony will have been restored on earth. Adam and Eve didn't sin, and water is where the life is coming from. Water is representative of, look, it brought forth these animals. You're going to have the Millennial Kingdom, that throne. All that water is going to be flowing from the throne on which the Lord Jesus Christ sits. It's going to be a beautiful thing. Look at Revelation 22. I'll show you something else. All the way in the back. Last chapter of the Bible. Look at the first verse in Revelation 22. This is going to be after the new heavens and after the new earth are created. Watch what's going to flow. Verse one of Revelation 22, and he showed me a pure river of water of life. It's water of life, clear as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and of the lamb in the midst of the street of it on either side of the river. Was there the tree of life which bear 12 manner of fruits and yielded fruit every month? Leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations and there shall be no more curse. Before Adam and Eve sinned, the ground wasn't cursed. Watch it says, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him. So you have even after the new heavens and the new earth, you're going to have water flowing. The principle or what's described in the Bible is when man and God are in harmony, water is flowing. Water is flowing very freely. Hold that thought and go to John 7 concerning water. John 7, verse 37. John 7, verse 37. In the last days, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Do you have peace between God Well, if you've trusted Christ, you have peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what Jesus is speaking about. Are you thirsty? Come have the living water. If you have flowing water, if you have that living water, guess what you have? You have peace between God. That flowing water is what we're talking about. Now, go back to Genesis 2. Look at verse 21. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman. because she was taken out of man." There's a lot of good humor people get out of that verse. Well, you can say, what's a woman? It's a man with a womb. I've heard people say that. That's what a woman has, a womb. A womb man. Maybe I don't work. You heard the one before. He said, Why was she called woman? You've probably heard this one before. Because when God made her, Adam was like, whoa, man. You heard that one? But you have woman. And Adam says concerning the woman. Now, this is what I just said isn't in the Bible. But what I'm going to say now, it is in the Bible. So we get back on track. The jokes aren't humorous, but but this serious thing here. Adam says this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This we're talking about a physical body right now, right? We all understand that. We're also talking about physical bodies that don't have any sin in them. They haven't fall. The fall hasn't occurred yet. So. What don't we have mention of? Flesh, bone, There's no mention of blood. Now, why is that? I can't be 100% sure, but this is what I think is why. Nonetheless, I think we can agree that blood is not mentioned. There is no blood that's mentioned in conjunction with these scriptures. There's no blood of my blood. Look at Adam here in verse number 20. Just a few things here. Look at verse 20. And Adam gave names to all the cattle. Look at verse 21. And the Lord God calls the deep sleep to fall upon Adam. And then verse 23, we see what Adam said. We know that this is the first Adam. This is the physical Adam, the first Adam. And in verse number 24, it says at the end, therefore shall man leave his father and mother, and his wife, and they shall be one flesh. They're not called one blood. Blood doesn't show up anywhere. God could have very well just inserted the blood there. Hey, they shall be called one blood. But he doesn't. He says they shall be called One flesh. There's no blood mentioned. How do you and I stay alive? We've got to have blood flowing through our veins. That's the first Adam. Let's look at the last Adam. Let's look at the last Adam in Luke 24. Luke 24. When we read in Genesis 2, we all understand that that is a point in time where Adam and Eve had bodies that didn't have sin in their body. Everybody see that? They didn't fall yet. Look at verse 36 in Luke 24. Alright, I trust everybody is there. Look at verse 36. Now, this is Jesus Christ in His resurrected body. And it says, "...and as they spake, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them and saith unto them, Peace be unto you." I think that's very telling, Jesus saying peace. But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled, and why do your thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. It's flesh right there. Handle me, and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me. So they're seeing Jesus. He has a resurrected body. And what's mentioned, he says, is, look, I've got flesh and I have bones. Where's the blood? It's not mentioned. No blood is mentioned when you have Adam and Eve in a body that God created before they fell now. It's flesh and bone, no blood's mentioned. Why is that? Jesus Christ resurrected. He has a glorified body when He rose from the dead. He has flesh, He has bones mentioned. There's no blood that's mentioned. Go to Philippians 3. Philippians 3, verse 20. The Bible says, "...for our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." We have an upward look, by the way. That's the blessed hope. We understand that. That's what it's talking about. We're not earthly minded. And we have something to hope for. Watch what it says in verse 21, "...who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself." Well, when Jesus showed up in His resurrected body, flesh and bones are mentioned, what wasn't mentioned? I don't think blood was there. He had a glorified body. What's a glorified body? It's a body without sin. Did Adam and Eve, were they created before sin? They had a body without sin because they didn't sin until they sinned then something happened with their body Sin, right? Well Jesus Christ. He has got a resurrected body says flesh and bones. No bloods mentioned second Adam second Adam Have you trusted Christ? I've trusted Christ Are we going to get a glorious body like him? What is our body like now it's vile and It's vile. It's sinful. It weighs us down. It causes us to fight against what God wants us to do. We're going to get a body like His. It's not going to be vile anymore. It's going to be what, everybody? Glorified. It's going to be a glorified body. I think the glorified body is not only a body without sin, but it's a body without blood. When you get a new body and I get a new body, it's not going to have blood in it. Here's why I think that. I know you know the verse. Let's turn there. 1 Corinthians. Go to 1 Corinthians. Chapter 15. 1 Corinthians 15. Talk about the resurrection here in v. 42. 1 Corinthians 15, v. 42. I want to read some verses here. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in incorruption. It is raised and in corruption. It is sown... I'm sorry. Yeah, it is sown in corruption. It is raised and in corruption. It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. You're going to get a glorified body. It's going to be raised in glory. It is sown in weakness. It is raised in power. It is sown a natural body. It is raised a spiritual body. Our glorified body will be a spiritual body, right? We get that. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body. Well, amen. And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul. The last Adam was made a quickening spirit. How be it that was not first, which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and after that, which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy. The second man is the Lord from heaven. as is the earthy such are they that are earthy and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly and as we have borne the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly first adam versus last adam now i say this brethren watch this that flesh And blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Well, the body's been taken care of because it's not flesh, it's glorified. It's not vile, it's a glorified body. We see that in the text. But then we're told, so our body's going to be, the flesh will be taken care of. You're going to get something that you've never had before. It's not gonna be vile anymore, it's gonna be glorified. Okay, so fine, we got that taken care of. But if you got blood in you, you can't get in the kingdom of God. It says flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Now that spiritual kingdom, apparently we can't go there with blood in our system. There's something wrong. There's something wrong with our blood. Vile body has blood in it and sin in it. A glorified body, no sin in it, no blood in it. That's what I think. I also think that our problem is, our problem is our blood. We've got a blood problem. Go to Genesis chapter number 3. We're going to learn about the most organic, don't get mad at me, whole food No pesticides in the ground. None. It's in the garden. It's completely natural. It's organic. Genesis chapter 3. Look at verse number 1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. He said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden. And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit, of the trees of the garden. You couldn't have had more scrumptious, delicious fruit. But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And so they thought that that was the most natural and organic and scrumptious fruit out there. They were told, don't eat that. And Adam and Eve created something in their mind. They created a narrative in their mind that said, I've got to have that, because God said, don't have that. Tell them we don't do that a lot. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die, which was a lie. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat." Probably nobody knows this better than Will and Kimmy in nutrition and medical stuff. What you eat affects what? How you feel and your overall health. If you've got too much sugar in your blood, what happens? What you eat. Everything that you and I eat ends up in our blood system. How do people die? Blood problems. Artery stuff. You get into an accident. You lose blood to your brain. You lose blood to your heart. You hit 50 and you've got to get your blood checked because you can find out cancers in the blood. It's your blood. You can't stay alive unless you have good blood. You get a bad cancer, they're going to have to filter out your blood and they're going to have to filter in new, fresh, pure blood so that you can stay alive. Nobody can stay alive unless they have enough blood and the right blood with the right blood counts. And without that, we die. Who is tempting Eve in the garden? That would be the serpent, right? If you get bit by a venomous snake, what does it attack? What does it get into? It gets into your blood, man. It gets into your blood. There's something wrong with our blood. We got blood disease. We really do. We got major, major problems. We got venom in our blood. So what am I saying? I don't know. I don't see the first Adam, I don't see when he was created, no mention of blood. Now maybe there's another reason, rather than the reason I'm going to give you. So I don't know for sure. But I see that flesh and blood, And then I see Christ resurrected body, He's flesh and bones, flesh and bones and flesh and bones, right? First Adam, last Adam. And then I see in 1 Corinthians 15, hey look, blood cannot inherit, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. When you have peace between God, what shows up over and over in the Scriptures? We said in the beginning, water. What if Adam's circulatory system was pure water? Now, I'm not saying that for a hundred percent fact. All I'm saying is, I don't see any blood in his body when it's mentioned in Genesis. And I see flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. I see Christ coming back with a glorified body and it's no blood in it. There's no blood at all. And we're going to get a body like that. So our glorified body is going to be a body without blood in it. We got a blood problem. So he ate a piece of fruit and he went into diabetic shock. Amen. That's what Adam did. He ate that fruit, went into diabetic shock. What if his circulatory system got completely changed by eating organic, pesticide-free fruit? And just like that, it messed up his system. His blood is his problem. My blood is my problem. You know what? Every man and woman from Adam, we've got bad blood, we've got a bad seed. Now watch what God did in Genesis 3. You know what He did. We'll just read it together again. Look at verse 17. Watch what God does. In verse 17. And unto Adam he said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife..." My, my, my. My, my, my. There's some preaching right there. Roger, you aren't going to be yawning on this one. This is good preaching right here. Was Adam deceived, brother? Adam wasn't deceived. Eve was. But I tell you what, there's a lot of ladies that have deceived their husband and going away they shouldn't have gone. But Adam wasn't deceived. But he paid for it, because he hearkened unto the voice of his wife. I mean, you can preach that the other way too, where there should be some fellows that listen to their wives, because they're trying to be a help. There's that too. Both will preach. Both will preach, and both are right. And it says, "...hath eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it." Well, what's the consequence? Cursed is the what? ground. So God curses the ground for thy sake, and sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shalt bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the earth of the field." And it goes on. I want to eat as healthy as I can. So I'm not trying to talk anybody out of eating better. I think that we should. God gave us a body. Let's take care of it. Let's be a good steward of the vessel He allows us to be housed in. Take care of your body. I believe that's scriptural. I believe that's right. So, what I'm about to say isn't to try to talk someone out of eating better. If the ground is cursed, which God said He cursed the ground, and all of our food comes from the ground, guess what our food is? Cursed. It don't matter if you've got a bleached chicken or not a bleached chicken. I mean, I'd rather have the non-bleached chicken. But it comes from a cursed ground. I'd rather have meat from the Martinez's than meat from Walmart because I know it's not been injected with a bunch of stuff. That's what I want. I want to try to stay as healthy as I can. I think that's scriptural. That's a biblical principle. However, both of them come from a cursed ground. The food's cursed. And what happens? It gets in our blood. Our blood's messed up. Our blood's messed up. Everything we eat affects our circulatory system. And we can't live forever in this body. It's impossible. Who's going to cure your blood disease? Who's going to cure my blood disease? Jesus Christ as the great what? The great physician can cure your blood disease and my blood disease. I think our blood's the problem. In Exodus 7, the first public miracle that we see in the Old Testament was water into what? Blood. God took water, water, first public miracle, and turned it into blood. They didn't want to let God's people go. God says, I'm going to bring judgment on you. You don't want my people to have peace? You don't have peace with me? There's no peace. There's going to be no flowing water. I'm going to shut the water supply down. He turns it into blood. He knocks out their water supply. That plague pictured judgment. It pictured death. There's no peace with God? You don't want to give my people peace? I'm cutting off the flowing water. That was the first public miracle in the Old Testament. You know what the first public miracle in the New Testament was? John 2, what did Jesus take? Water, and He turned it into wine. You know what wine is a type of in the Bible? Blood. Wine is a type of blood. You say, Brother Jimmy, I don't believe that. Well, that's why I wrote Deuteronomy 32. Let's go there. Deuteronomy 32. This one's just for you, Roger. Deuteronomy 32. Look at this. This is in v. 14. Deuteronomy 32, v. 14, "...butter of kind," that's cow and milk of sheep, "...and fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats with fat of kidneys of wheat, and now that it's drank," here it is, "...the pure blood of the grape." The pure blood of the grape. He turns water into wine. That wine is a type of pure blood. Now, I'm going to save a lot of this because we're going to get into John 2 eventually. And I want to save it for Sunday morning because I want everybody to hear about Jesus' first miracle. So we'll save a lot of this. But just know, Deuteronomy 32, we see this pure blood of the grape. That wine that Jesus turned water into wine By the way, water don't ferment, folks. Just in case anybody thinks Jesus is a bartender in John 2, water doesn't ferment. You might get a watermelon to sit out and ferment after a while, but you ain't gonna get water. Anyway, Deuteronomy 32, pure blood of the great. Look at 1 John 5. 1 John 5. 1 John 5, verse 8, and there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one. When you see, and the blood, in 1 John 5, 8, it's referring to the pure blood that was shed on Calvary's tree. And that pure, precious blood that the Lord Jesus Christ shed, it is, it was, it is, and it always will be the precious, pure blood of the Son of God. It testified to the fact that the man Christ Jesus truly died, He truly shed His blood, You don't have to turn there. I jotted down the verse. John 19, it talks about one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith there came out blood and water. It's a testimony. It said, and he saw and bare record, and his record is true, and he knoweth that he saith true that ye might believe. That soldier that pierced Christ with a scythe, it was water and blood. 1 John 5.8. And there are three that bear record in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood. Every time we partake of the Lord's Supper, we are remembering that pure, precious blood that was shed for you, and for me, and for the sins of all. Our problem is we've got a blood problem. The solution is the great physician. He's got pure, precious blood. 100% pure. you test His blood, there's not going to be any contamination in it. Go to Acts 17. None of us can escape it. Acts 17, verse 26. Acts 17, verse 26. Verse 25, "...neither is he worshipped with man's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things, and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth." This one blood of all the nations on the face of the earth Everybody knows this verse. It's obvious that all of us are related. We all come from Adam. We are all one blood. We have the same blood. This is your verse to combat racism. One of the verses to combat racism. Well, your skin color is different. Your blood ain't. We all come from the same seed. We all come from the same blood. Adam, first Adam. One blood of all nations upon the earth. Two more verses and then we'll be done. Leviticus 17 and 1 Peter 1. And then we'll close out. Leviticus 17 and 1 Peter 1. Alright, Leviticus 17. We'll do this one first. I know this is another familiar one. But it says in v. 11 of Leviticus 17, I'll look at v. 11, "...Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood..." It was forbidden. No blood. Absolutely forgiven. All of these movies and stories and books that have to deal with It's all from the devil, folks. Vampires and the like, when they're drinking blood and doing all that stuff, all that's wicked stuff. A Christian shouldn't even entertain that at all. I'm pointing it out so that you know that it's out there, and then stay away from it. Don't start diving deep into that stuff, learning all the detail. That's not for us to learn. It's for us to stay away from. Look, that stuff's real, and it'll hurt you spiritually. Don't get involved. Don't let your children get involved in any of that stuff. None of that stuff. So we're given that warning, and then it says, I will even set my face against the soul that eateth blood. We'll cut him off from among his people. And then verse 11 is the verse we all know. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. we're going to eventually die because our blood, it doesn't work anymore. It's gone stale. It's gone bad. Life of us is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul. Because our blood is bad, We need someone who has pure and precious blood to shed it for us and die for us. Because our blood's bad. Go to 1 Peter 1 and we'll close here. 1 Peter 1, verse number 18. For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. No other blood would do. Ours is messed up. Now whether you believe or think that Adam's circulatory system was water first and then changed to blood, at this point is irrelevant. In this verse, we all can agree, and we all should recognize, you got bad blood, and you're going to need a sacrifice to atone for you. And life of the flesh is in the blood, you're only going to have life in the one who shed his pure blood, and you will have eternal life with that one.