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THE BODY GOSPEL (Health is Better Than Healing)
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."-1 Corinthians 6:19-20
"Ye shall serve the Lord, and He shall bless your bread and water and I will take sickness from you."-Ex. 23:25
This is a Word God gave me a couple years ago, and 50lbs heavier ago! I felt so bad physically! 

I had no strength when preaching. I would run out of breath. I could not drink without drinking a bottle and a half of water as I preached. I would have to stop preaching and down water. I would then joke (how many over weight) preacher's do, after preaching. "Well I can tell the anointing has lifted off me, cause I am sure wore out." WRONG!
I was was wore out because I was fat!!!
That's the truth!
My belly had become my God (Philippians 3:19).
When your stomach sticks out further than your chest, your are very unhealthy!
Even medical science has proved this!
We call health in our society...Fat!
We think that if someone is not thick, their not healthy.
The truth is just the opposite. Now we know that one can be unhealthy under-weight.
But let's face it, we don't have an underweight problem in our society and modern Church  world! Many run after fads in the Church (dieting), only to regain their weight back and more. We dont need a diet, we need to Change our diet! It's call DISCIPLINE!
Are we not disciples? We are supposed to be "PRESENTING OUR BODIES UNTO GOD AS LIVING SACRIFICES."-Romans 12:2
Some can't be healed, because there unwilling to change their unhealthy diet.
Their PRAYING to God too heal there body, without PRESENTING there body 1st to God!
Many sickness are connected to an unhealthy diet.
If your praying for God to heal you, but you keep overeating (which is gluttony). If your praying for God to heal you and you keep eating the fast food trash.
Then your deceived and have become the biggest hindrance to your healing. The modern Church wants the Super without the Natural! But God operates in the SUPER-NATURAL! Meaning: If you want to see God's Super Healing Power, then you must do your part in the Natural! If your confessing healing faith with the same mouth your stuffing daily with unhealthy food, your hindering your healing and have a faith without works, which is a dead faith (James 2:20). We treat our vehicles better than our bodies! We wouldn't dare put bad fuel in our rides.
Yet many CHRISTIANS are stuffing their bodies daily with bad food. Missing their healing because they abuse their health. See we must glorify God in our BODIES, not just our spirits! (1 Cor. 6:18). I call it the body Gospel! Paul was Appalled here! He shouted at the Church with a loud WHAT? KNOW YOU NOT! The Church then had become so focused on the spiritual (which is important).
But they had begin to neglect the physical!
This is is why they were becoming involved in fornication (sex without marriage). They had begin to believe they could still be Spiritual and do what ever they wanted to in and with their body. That's why Paul begin to preach the BODY GOSPEL! HE mentions their body before he did their spirit, when teaching about glorifying God. He showed them that their body was the temple of the Holy Ghost!
That the Holy Ghost fills our bodies!
That He has come to posses our bodies!
Many today in the (Pentecost Church) want to claim their healing in the spiritual , but are neglecting the health of their body. God never heals so you can return back to the unhealthy. That's how many Christians lose their healing! Praying over greasy fried food ever day and sugar filled foods and drinks daily, asking God to bless it before you eat it or drank it is like asking God to bless the reading of a playboy magazine. It's not happening! Notice what we eat is mentioned in our selected passage above, when it comes to God taking sickness from us. But serving the Lord is mentioned 1st. Meaning in our Spiritual Service of the Lord , our Flesh must also become submitted to His Lordship concerning what we eat.
He blesses what we eat and drank, as we serve Him. Using what we eat and drank to take sickness away! Meaning our spiritual soundness, should eventually affect our flesh living!
Serving the Lord in Spirit and in Body!
Many today in the modern Church are living in obesity.
They preach against sins of the body, such as fornication, adultery, homosexuality, drunkenness, drug abuse, smoking, etc.
Which are all sins worthy of preaching against! But what about the sin of gluttony?
Many saints and preachers today are addicts of sugar!
They will be the 1st to say, "We don't need God's Word sugar coated!" Yet, everything thing they put in their body is loaded with processed sugar's! Saints quote scriptures about "blessings and fatness", and make jokes concerning there fat flesh.
"A fool makes a mock at sin."-Proverbs 14:9
Like Paul I SHOUT out..."WHAT, KNOW YOU NOT?"
In closing, I have had many ask me, when they notice the weight I have lost...."What diet are you on?"
I tell them..."THE FEAR OF THE LORD!"
Because it is the "Beginning of Knowledge and Wisdom" (Proverbs 1:7; Psalms 111:10).
See, a year ago when I was feeling so bad, the Holy Ghost spake to me after checking my high blood-pressure and high blood-sugar levels. He said; "You can change your ways, or you can have diabetes?" "It's your choice".
When I stood up, I begin to weep and repent of my unhealthy ways. Then, in the fear of God, I begin to Change! 1st Spiritually,  then Physically! It was not hard at all then! I did not need "Jenny Craig", "Weight Watchers", "Slim Fast" or "The Keto Nutrition", etc.
The Fear of God made a disciple out of me again! It changed me through discipline!
Many keep asking me; "What are you doing to lose weight?" I tell them, "I'm not trying to lose weight!"
I'm just "Fearing God and Obeying Him!"
Losing weight is not the focus!
Obeying God is the Focus!
I stay away from fast food and processed sugar!
I'm not on a diet plan! I have changed my diet!
I stay mobile. I walk fast everyday! I do sit ups and push ups! I look for the furthest parking spots, so I can walk more! I take the stairs more now, than I do the elevator! I have always drank water, but now I have stop drinking sugar filled beverages. I use no sugar...NO SUGAR!
I use "Stevia" now instead. I hear Christians say; "I cant do that." The truth is; "They want do this!" This is That!
Their rebellion, a lack of God's Fear is keeping them bound to a lifestyle of bad eating habits! Their addicts of junk-food! There rebellion keeps them from admitting it!
I know, because that was me a yr ago, until I encountered the fear of God!
See, (Hosea 4:6) teaches:
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children."

The lack of knowledge that is destroying God's people, is because they have rejected the knowledge God sent them! This rejection makes them and their children, after them rejects! Which means "disqualified".
Because they would not discipline themselves, they became disqualified! What's so sad, it effects the next generation!
We have kids now on "drugs", to control their behavior and so-call help them focus.
When the real problem is their diet! Every thing they eat is JUNK! Their parents eat that way, so the kids grow up eating that way.
Sweet tea and coke in sippy cups around the clock. Candy eating, fast food stops all the time. That's the problem! We have no discipline, that's why we can't discipline our kids!
Their out of control weight wise and behaviorally because their addicts of processed sugar like their parents and grandparents, who keep giving it to them.
Even the Church nurseries and youth rooms today are loaded with sugar filled treats!
Were DECEIVED in the Church today about this! We have lost the BODY GOSPEL!
Some would ask; "Why is it called deception?"
Because listen what the Book of The Fear of Lord and Wisdom teaches!
"Be not desirous (lust for or crave for) of his dainties (sweet cakes) : for they are deceitful meat (food)."-Proverbs 23:3
God calls all this sugar filled food, DECEITFUL FOOD!
This scripture is showing how wicked Kings would lure their enemies into traps, using sweet dainties. Their enemies would think it was a time of treaty and compromise. But the wicked dictator would poison their sweets to kill them! How DECEIVED!
We do the same today!
Every time we in the Church Celebrate we load up on the sugary sweets! The enemy of our soul laughs! He has deceived us! He can't destroy the anointing on our lives! But if he can contaminate the bodies that the anointing is flowing through, he can stop the anointing!
(2 Kings 6:1-6) teaches this.
The oil /anointing will keep flowing as long as it has a empty vessel to pour into. But as soon as there are no more empty vessels, the oil stops! The devil knows the only way to stop the oil, is to stop the vessels!
What good is an anointing, without a healthy body?
When were protecting our bodies, we are protecting our anointing! When were not protecting our bodies, were in actually neglecting the anointing or the gift within in us!
Saints, it's time too repent and get healthy!
That's the BODY GOSPEL TRUTH!
If we repent of our unhealthy ways, the change will come!
It's time to repent and lay aside every weight (Heb. 12:1).
Eat to live, not live to eat!
You are what you eat. -Pastor Marvin Booth
#healthisbetterthanhealing

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This is both my “Religious Conviction” and  “Protected Right” concerning
THE COVID 19 VACCINATION(S) along with other members at “Acts 29 Church unto God Inc.”
We  here at "ACTS 29 CHURCH UNTO GOD", as active members believe it is  against the practice of our religion "Christianity" when it comes to  receiving any of the "COVID 19 Vaccines". Because of scientific proof  that shows it is “genetic manipulation”. It helps confirm our belief  that this may be both un-safe for the body physically. Also it is our  conviction more importantly to be spiritually unacceptable in the  practice of our religion. We believe according to (1 Corinthians  6:19-20) and (Roman's 12:1-2) that our body belongs to God our Creator.  That we are commanded by our faith to glorify God in our Body and our  Spirit which are our Lord's. We are to present our body unto Him as a  living Proving what's acceptable according to His perfect will.
Therefore, the present COVID Vaccine we believe is a violation of our faith in this respect.
We  consider this vaccine to be a tampering with and of our human DNA as it  compromises the "human gene." Therefore our faith rejects with respect  to receive it for any reason. God is our Creator. The God of all flesh  (Jeremiah 32:27). Therefore our flesh belongs to Him.                                                                                

Also in  addition to this, we here at “Acts 29 Church unto God Inc.” have also  concerns with the association between COVID shots and aborted fetal cell  lines. Which our God’s Word is clearly against when it concerns the  subject of “abortion” or any services that are linked with this  murderous act.
Therefore,  we confidently affirm as the Holy Spirit bears witness in our  conscience (Roman's 9:1) that this is not acceptable, nor the perfect  Will of God for our bodies which again belong to Him. Therefore, it's  our responsibility to resist taking this vaccine as a conviction/belief  of both our relationship with Christ and the practicing of our religion  "Christianity."
This we  affirm upon our faith in Christ, “as Christians” and upon our “1st  Amendment Rights” as outlined in the “Constitution” for all American  Citizens. We hold these beliefs in good conscience.
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