Biblical Health

THE PARABLE OF THE BREAD
“And a man took wheat from the field and made he bread but men came and took away two parts of the wheat and the bread bred worms and it stank.” RBS
In the book of John, chapter six, a great multitude had gathered to hear Jesus teach in Tiberias, Galilee.
By the end of the day the group of 5,000 men plus women and children were very hungry. Jesus performed a great miracle. He took a boy’s five loaves and two fish and fed this great multitude.
Jesus saw that the crowd wanted to take Him by force and make Him their king so he departed alone to a private place. The disciples boarded their boat and sailed across the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum.
That night a storm arose on the sea and thrust fear in the hearts of the disciples. As they were battling for shore they looked and saw an amazing sight. Jesus was walking on the water. They cried out to Him for help and they found themselves safely on the other shore.
The next morning when the crowds in Tiberias could not find Jesus, they headed to Capernaum to find Him. When they did they ask Him a question. Read John 6:28…
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
The American Heritage Dictionary says it means to have firm faith.
The America Version translation translated the word believe as believe, commit, commit to, commit unto, to commit one’s trust to.
The entomology of belive means to hold dear to, to desire.
Dr. Kenneth Wuest, a well known Greek scholar, also holds to the word “believe” as a word of commitment.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
*35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.
Why would the Lord say this? These folks traveled over the sea of Tiberias just to see Jesus. Yes! But their motives were impure. They came to get. Their motive was selfish. They were looking at the very Bread of Life and did not know it.
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
The Jews got to murmuring and then Jesus responds in verse 47:
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

We are to reproduce the life Christ lived in His flesh into our lives. We are to propagate His very life. And we can as we feast on Him.

To understand the powerful meaning of this phrase that Jesus said, “I am the Bread of Life” you must understand what true “bread” is.
1 – The manna that came down from heaven for the nation of Israel in the wilderness was supernatural bread that contained all the protein, vitamins, minerals and amino acids your body needs to live for on every day.
2 – That bread was to be gathered, cooked and eaten daily. If it was left over till the next day it bred worms. The reason for this was so the Israelites would daily depend on God.
Numbers 11: 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
3 – If they did not daily gather and eat the bread, they would first grow weak, the sickly, then they would die.
4 – The process took time but it was absolutely necessarily for ones health and survival among all the diseases of life.
-The process of making bread was true at one time in nearly every household in America.
*Whenever governments or organizations took over bread making, the value and vitality of bread diminished greatly.
The minerals, vitamins, proteins and nutrition needed for the essential growth of the human body were depleted. (Analogy – In churches across the world, people sit in the pew and believe everything the preacher says without studying God’s word on their own. Is it dangerous? The biggest congregation in America with a nation-wide TV ministry has a preacher that publicly admits he will not preach on sin or hell or fornication or hypocrisy or anything that might make people feel bad. He will never mention repentance. He preaches less than ½ the Bible and the people evidently love it.
How is Bread made?
A – Gather the ingredients: whole wheat flour, water, oil, honey and salt, yeast. Whole wheat berries contain 25 minerals and vitamins.
God’s word is all of this to the Christian.
-Jesus is the true bread. He contains all the spiritual fruits we need.
-The water of God’s word is for cleansing.
-The oil pictures the Holy Spirit.
-The honey pictures God’s sweetness.
-The salt pictures God are preservation power against corruption.
B - Mix the ingredients together. It is absolutely a must that we teach and preach and believe the whole council of God. To separate the Bible and to choose not to believe one thing and decided to believe another is to conclude a false idea of Jesus Christ.
C – Form dough into loaves: Christians that love Jesus act like Christians that love Jesus. They talk alike and walk alike, and act alike, just like all loaves of bread though they may be a little different in size, all looks the same. They look like loaves of bread.
(Today with the philosophy of the days of the Judges in the Church, yea the leaven, “every man is doing what he believes is right in his own eyes.” People say, “I am a Christian but I am going to dress like a rock star to reach young people or I am going to use the language and modern punk talk to reach people for Jesus or I am going to live like them to reach them.” Those poor deluded folk have believed one of Satan’s deceptive lies. How sad and how foolish.
D. Let the dough rise. This process takes putting the bread in the oven at 150 degrees for a period of time. The yeast makes the bread rise. Though yeast is often spoken of as evil in the bible. Yeast has hidden nutritious properties especially the B-vitamins that are very nutritious.
You must understanding that as you mix the ingredients of God’s word in your life, you will be placed in the fires and trials of life. That is what makes you rise above the fake bread in the world.
E. Bake the bread. Now that you have proven yourself true God turns the heat up to 350 degrees. The real “Bread of Life” must go through the trials of life if you are to come out as gold.
Now, - you can enjoy the fruit of your labor. That bread is the most nutritious food on the planet.

When Jesus said, “I am the bread of life” it referred to the whole wheat bread that was produced for so many years.
-Whole wheat berry is a trinity. It is made up of, the fiber, the starch or endosperm and the germ.
Man has never been content. Though the whole wheat berry is the very best man has for thousands of years attempted to make bread lighter and whiter.
-3,000 years ago the Egyptians attempted to do so. It is written on the walls within pyramids.
-330 B.C. the Greeks sifted the flour to get rid of the bran so their bread could be lighter.
-Rome did the same, extracting the bran. Rome began giving bread away to keep the masses from rioting, yea free distribution. It is called social services.

Isaiah (28:27-29) tells how the whole wheat is to be milled and produced. Isaiah reveals if it is milled wrongly the wheat will be bruised, thus destroying the healthy vitamins in the bread.

The people still sought for whiter bread. The Romans began adding a chalk to color the bread white. This chalk proved to very harmful to the digestion of the Romans.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century alum was used to make flour whiter. Doctors protested warning of side affects of alum. Finally they quit adding alum. By the nineteenth century things changed.
In 1874 the steel rolling mills were introduced in America. The grain was crushed rather than ground. The germ and bran were flattened and sifted out leaving on the starch. The dream of bread becoming whiter was at our fingertips.
The millers began to use variety of bleaching gents which oxidized the pigment of bread. For years millers in the United States used a chemical called nitrogen tri-chloride.
When this agent was tested on dog food, within two weeks, the animals began to suffer from “running fits” of which some died a violet death. That has been banned now in the United States.
Nitrogen trichloride was no longer allowed to bleach flour. The Food and Drug administration allow the millers to use chlorine dioxide, which is a more powerful bleaching agent that nitrogen tri-chloride.
• If your children seem uncontrollable, try taking them off of white bread, white flour, white sugar and sodas. Fifty per-cent of your children’s behavior may be related to their diet. The other fifty percent is related to how you raise them.
• If they are hungry give them an apple, a piece of fruit, a piece of whole wheat bread with real butter and honey.
I personally believe that kids are not hyperactive or have ADHD actually need proper foods and a reality check with proper discipline.
Note: 95% of chlorine dioxide is used on bleaching wood pulp into white paper.
It is so potent that you can not transport it in containers on the roadways of America. It is used in city water plants to make your water pure and it is used to bleach your bread white today.
When the wheat berry is put through the steel rolling mills 98% of manganese, 80% of iron, 75% of magnesium, 70 % of phosphorus, and 50 - 65% of copper, calcium and the potassium minerals are removed. (This depletes your immune system)
80% of thiamine, 75% of niacin, 65% of riboflavin of vitamins are removed.
When you buy bread that says, “enriched with vitamins” it means that they have removed the 25 vitamins and minerals and the protein that is in the germ and fiber and they have sprayed 4 or 8 minerals into the starch.
Let me stop here a minute and say. As the millers have done to whole wheat bread, what so many ministers have done to the preaching of Jesus today. They have taken away repentance, true commitment and conviction and they preach a tip-toe through the tulips salvation and sin is filing our hearts and homes and churches more and more.
Jesus is everything you need for spiritual health. He will heal your heart and He will heal your home. If your heart and home is in disarray, you aren’t eating right spiritually.
“The bread of life” may not be the bread you are partaking of. You take Jesus at face value or Whole Wheat value into your life.
But, if you are serving the modern day “Jesus” that the world as crushed and reformed; and thrown out the principles and power of His ability to change your life, you will carry your spiritually diseased heart and home to the grave.
Ps 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
Ps 119: 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Ps 119: 69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
I Thess 5: 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

What if we don’t eat whole wheat bread?”
What if we don’t wholly surrender to Jesus?
Dr. Denis Burkitt, a former missionary doctor to Africa, now in London, England won world acclaim for two feats of medical detection:
A – He played a major role in uncovering the causes and pioneering the cure for a form of cancer in children.
B – He became a key figure in confirming the link between man and the “killer diseases” in America today.
1 – He discovered that a high fiber diet with whole wheat bread with the 25 minerals, vitamins, amino acids and protein is absolutely essential for the prevention of western diseases.
Jesus said pray, Matt 6:11 “Give us this day our daily bread.”

2 – He discovered when bread is neglected disease occur.
John 6:50, “This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not die.”
Neglecting bread is not an immediate death. It is a slow, expensive, agnonizing death that takes twenty to forty years. Whereas 30% of cancer is caused by tobacco, 35% is caused by an improper diet. (NCI, National Cancer Institute)
Before the twentieth century with sulfanilamide’s and antibiotics we reduced our risk of common diseases in this country two ways.
A – Building up a resistance to disease by nutrition
B – Immunization (this is man-made and can be dangerous)
Contrary to common belief, whole wheat bread and potatoes (carbohydrates) do not add fat to people, it is the sugars and fats people eat that do so.
3 – He discovered high fiber diets reduce constipation. “Well preacher this is a first. I never thought we would be talking about constipation in Church.” Lack of proper regularity (or releasing waste from your body) breeds many physical diseases. Spiritually speaking we hae a lot of constipated Christians that won’t get rid of their sin and grudges and anger and envy and strife. They are as miserable spiritually as someone who has not done his job in a week or a month.
Listen to some of the diseases physically and make spiritual applications:
A - Dr. Burkitt said, “Fifty years ago in Africa in a 600 bed hospital, two patience a year would have appendicitis. In the United States there would be two a day in that same size hospital. When Africans began eating like Americans the disease grew more common.
B – Dr. Burkitt said, “In the twenty years I was in Africa I never saw a patient with a diverticular disease because of their high fiber diet.”
In America do you know what doctors do when a person has a diverticular disease? He gives them a low fiber diet. Just the opposite is needed. (A diverticular disease deals with protrusions and pouches of the lining wall of the intestines. Bleeding first occurs from one stool and cancer can form as well.
C – A third disease that comes from lack of whole wheat bread is a hiatal hernia. This is when the stomach is pushed upward out of the abdomen and into the thoracic cavity. In North America 1 in 4 adults are affected with this. In Africa 1 in a 1,000 is affected.
A sign of this is heartburn. To reduce all three of these disease in your body eat whole wheat bread. (Not the type in the grocery store but from a bakery that properly grinds the whole wheat berry. (Store bought whole wheat is either easy old or only has 10% of the whole wheat berry. (True whole wheat bread will lose it potency in 72 hours).
4 – Dr. Burkitt says, “Hemorrhoids are due to the lack of fiber in one’s diet.” They are not uncontrollable or hereditary. They are caused from lack of fiber. Medical stats say that half of the populations of U.S. will suffer from hemorrhoids.
5 – Dr. Burkitt says, “Daily bread reduces the risk of varicose veins.” A survey among America ladies in different community settings showed one in two with varicose veins. In New Guinea a survey of 800 women found one with varicose veins.
Varicose veins have nothing to do with pregnancies. In India they have more children per family than American women and yet more men in India have varicose veins then the women. It has to do with one’s diet.
6 – Dr. Burkitt says, “Daily bread reduces diabetes.” There are no cases of diabetes among the African bushmen because of a high fiber diet.
There is a genetic factor with diabetes but there is a stronger dietetic factor.
7 – “Daily bread decreases obesity.” A traditional diet consist of mainly starch and fiber (potatoes and bread, beans, oats, barley, and a little fat, sugar and salt.
But the western diet is mostly fats, sugars, salts and less starch and fiber. Dr. Burkitt said he never found a community who developed obesity problems until after they reduced carbohydrates. It isn’t breads and potatoes that increase our weight but the fats in meats and chips and deserts and processed foods along with so much sugar that causes obesity.
*This past week in the Greensboro paper (Feb, 2008) an article by a medical association said that obesity will be the major cause of cancer over the next few years, more than diet or tobacco.
Olaf Mickelsen, a professor of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State university took a group of overweight young men and they were to consume twelve slices of whole weed bread a day in additional to whatever else they ate. They were advised to minimize their consumption of high-calorie foods like doughnuts and to avoid alcohol. In eight weeks the men lost an average of 19.4 pounds.
8 – Dr. Burkitt says, “Daily bread eliminates large bowel cancer and gallstones.”
Proverbs 23:1,3 “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler… be not desirious of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.”
Doctors did not understand the importance of the tonsils forty years ago, now they know they are important immunological organs.
In the case of whole wheat bread with its fiber and vitamins, if you want to be healthy eat healthy.
Spiritually: It takes time and discipline to eat right physically.
It also takes time and discipline to eat right spiritually.
Are you concerned about your physical well being?
Are you concerned about your spiritual well being?
Jesus said, “I am the bread of life.”
John 6: 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
BIBLE FOODS FOR LIFE
For your spiritual well being I beg of you to eat of God’s word daily. Eat as much as you can and take time to let it rise in your soul.
In this same way for your physical well being eat healthy: Below is a list of Bible foods that will bring you healing.
Keep in mind if you are to be healthy you must eliminate those foods the world has compromised and eat God’s way.
Apples Song of Solomon 2:5 “Stay me with flagons (raisins) , comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.”
Barley (wheat, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olive oil, honey, bread)
Deuteronomy 8:7-9
7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness,
Beans Ezekiel 4:9 “Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. “
2 Samuel 17:28-29 “Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,
29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.”
Bread Ezekiel 4:9 “Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.”
Dairy (yogurt, milk, honey) Isaiah 7:15, 22 “He will eat curds (Yogurt) and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. 22) And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.”
Figs (raisins, bread, water) 1 Samuel 30:11-12 “And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.”
Fish Leviticus 11:9-12 “These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. Deuteronomy 14:9 / Luke 24:42-43
Fruit Ezekiel 47:12 “And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.”
Garlic Numbers 11:5 “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:”
Grains Ezekiel 4:9 “Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.”
Grapes Numbers 13:23 “And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.”
Herbs Genesis 1:11-12 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
Honey Genesis 43:11 “And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:”
Meat Genesis 9:3 “Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Melon Numbers 11:5 “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:”
Milk Exodus 3:8 “And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”
Isaiah 7:22 “And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.”
Nuts Genesis 43:11 “And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:”
Olives 2 Kings 18:32 “Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.” James 5:14
Onions Numbers 11:5 “We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:”
Pomegranates Deuteronomy 8:8 “A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;”
Spices Exodus 30:23 “Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,” Genesis 43:11
Vegetables Daniel 1:12-17 Numbers 11:5 Ezekiel 4:9 Genesis 1:11 Genesis 1:29
Wheat Jeremiah 41:8 Ezekiel 4:9
Yogurt (curds) 2 Samuel 17:28-29