I wanted to share with you a hypothetical situation. Let's take a young man in his 20s who is healthy and strong,

and he basically eats junk food all the time. And the only exercise he knows is the remote control,

but exercise his fingers. And he says, look, all this nutrition and health

and exercise are just overrated. Look at me. I can even eat lard and nothing happens to me.

I'm strong. And look at the condition of my body. I'm strong. Well, a few years go by,

10 or 15 years, and he's still strong, and he's still eating junk food and never exercises.

And he begins by that time, of course, convince himself that nothing is going to happen to him, that he is fine.

And he continues in that destructive lifestyle, physically speaking.

And by that time, of course, not only he convinced himself that he is right, he thinks that he is indestructible,

that he is invincible. Nothing is going to happen to him. And of course, that goes on for a few more years,

while internally unseen by the human eye is an internal destruction of the body that is taking place.

But as far as he's concerned, he can't see a problem.

He's doing fine.

No problem at all.

Until one day, his arteries begin to clog and then he faces possible death.

And some of you are probably saying, well, Michael, where are you going with this?

If I really want to get a lecture on nutrition and exercise, certainly I would go and

see a professional and not you.

And I agree with you, that's all right,

but I just want you to humor me for a minute, because what I want to submit to you this morning,

that this is what can happen to every one of us individually as believers from a spiritual point of

view.

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