Alright we're in Genesis chapter number one and the title of my sermon this evening is
vegetarianism in light of the Bible vegetarianism in light of the Bible now
what is a vegetarian according to the dictionary a vegetarian is a person who
does not eat or does not believe in eating meat fish fowl or in some cases
any food derived from animals as eggs or cheese but subsists on vegetables
fruits nuts grains etc now the point of this sermon tonight is I submit to you
that eating meat is a good thing and that eating meat is actually something
that God wants us to do that it's something that's a blessing in our lives
and I don't think that God wants us to be vegetarians and I'm gonna show you
from the Bible why that is but the reason I'm starting in Genesis chapter
number one tonight is because for those that would subscribe to vegetarianism
and for those who would say that even the Bible supports this lifestyle this is
the chapter that they're gonna go to and this is their strongest point basically
of why they believe this so we're gonna go ahead and start with that so let's
start reading Genesis chapter number one verse 29 the Bible says and God said
behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of
all the earth and every tree in the witch is the fruit of a tree yielding
seed to you it shall be for me and if a vegetarian was going to take you
anywhere in the Bible to show you why they believe that their lifestyle is the
best this is where they're gonna turn look at verse 30 it says and to every
beast of the earth and to every foul of the air and to everything that creepeth
upon the earth wherein there is life I have given every herb for meat and it
was so so what are these two verses saying basically God is saying hey for
you man I've given you these herbs I've given you these trees these greens if
you will and it's gonna be food for you not only is it gonna be food for you but
also for all the animals for the beasts for the things that creep on the earth
that stuff is also going to be food for them now I will grant that that is what
the Bible says I mean we just read those verses that's what the Bible clearly
says but here's the thing I have strong doubts that Adam and Eve were strict
vegetarians now I also concede that it is possible that before the fall that
they ate a vegetarian diet I'm gonna explain why that does not prove that we
should be doing this today or why that this is a good lifestyle I'm just simply
trying to explain their argument we're not gonna have any strawman arguments
tonight this is where they would go this is what they would tell you now here's
why I have some doubts as to why Adam and Eve were vegetarians well look at
Genesis chapter 3 verse number 21 Genesis chapter 3 verse 21 notice what
it says it says unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of
skins and clothed them so here God you know Adam and Eve were naked they sinned
they realized that they were naked they sewed themselves fig leaves but that
wasn't enough for God so he made them coats of skins skins is telling us that
this is from an animal right so God himself peeled an animal for what
purpose for human use so Genesis 3 verse 21 proves beyond any shadow of a doubt
that it is okay to kill an animal for human activities for human use and in
fact it was God himself that did that God's the one that made those coats of
skins for Adam and Eve look at Genesis 4 verse 2 Genesis 4 verse 2 and she that's
Eve again bare his brother Abel and Abel was a keeper of sheep but Cain was a
tiller of the ground so notice Adam and Eve's son Abel he was a keeper of sheep
well why do human beings eat sheep isn't it usually to eat them now here's the
thing I'll grant the Bible does not specifically say that they were doing
that but just by power of deduction here it makes sense that they were eating
these sheep all right look at verse number three through five it says and in
process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground
and offering unto the Lord and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his
flock notice and of the fat thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to
his offering so here's the thing Abel Adam's son brings an offering to the
Lord and what is that offering it's a firstling of his flock so it's one of
these sheep right and it says that he brought the fat too so Abel had the
knowledge of butchering an animal and rendering the fat from that animal where
did he learn that well it would make sense to me that he would learn that
from his father why would his father have known how to butcher animals well
because if you're eating animals that's one reason why or sacrificing to the
Lord that's another reason why but I'm just saying it is a little bit of a gray
area in the book of Genesis to say for sure Adam and Eve for sure were
vegetarians and it's a little bit of a gray area to say that they were eating
meat I leaned more towards the side on I have doubts that they were vegetarians
and think it's possible that they were eating meat but the reason I start here
is because I just want to give you their strongest point but the rest of the
sermon is gonna be very very clear as to my position that we should eat meat now
here's here's another thing so that's one reason I have some doubts I think
these verses could lead to a little bit of doubt as to saying that they were
vegetarians but here's another reason why I don't think that this story proves
their point is because what if I told you that the situation with Adam and
Eve in a pre-sin idyllic world is not exactly applicable to us today let me
give you an example of that look at Genesis 2 verse 21 Genesis 2 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 in 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 therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one
flesh now there's one aspect of this story that for sure does apply to us
today from the pre fall world and that is that a man should leave his father and
mother and cleave unto his wife that absolutely applies today but look at the
next verse and they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed
now here's the thing Adam and Eve are just walking around the garden
completely naked why because there was no sin in the world at this time so even
if we just grant to the vegetarians we say okay you can have Genesis chapter 1
let's just say for sake of argument that Adam and Eve were vegetarians you know
what they also were they were nudists too and are you saying that in 2024 Oh
Adam and Eve were vegetarians so that we should be vegetarians today okay Adam
and Eve they were walking around naked in the garden should we all be walking
around naked today no okay and man if I had to choose between meat and that it'd
be a little bit of a tough choice no I'm just kidding obviously all right just
joking but do you see what I'm saying though even if you grant them Genesis
1 that is not a just absolute proof that we should be doing this today now so
that's that's the Garden of Eden God made a change there but here's the rest
here go to Genesis chapter number nine Genesis chapter number nine that's the
situation with the Garden of Eden but number one this evening the Bible speaks
positively about eating meat the Bible speaks positively about eating meat you
know you should expect that if that if my position is true that God wants us to
eat meat that there would be a lot in the Bible of God saying positive things
about eating meat look at Genesis chapter number nine verse one in God
blessed Noah and his sons and said unto them be fruitful and multiply and
replenish the earth and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every
beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the air upon all that moveth upon
the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hand are they delivered
every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you even as the green herb have
I given you all things so now there's no gray area here he's saying hey I gave
you the herb to be meat for you in times past but he's saying but now you're
gonna have dominion over all the animals of the earth the creeping things the
beasts the fowl the fish and God even struck into the heart of animals a
natural fear of human beings you ever been hunting if you ever been around
what animals you know usually they're very afraid of you you know when you are
going hiking and also you come a bunch upon a bunch of deer usually what do
they do they get up and they just sprint away why because God put man at
the top of the food chain on this earth we are the apex predator in this world
and God made animals afraid of us and what does he say in verse 3 every
moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you so this was before the law this
was before any dietary restrictions and we see that God was giving Noah just a
complete open menu here he could eat the shellfish he could eat the bacon he
could eat anything he wanted and it was God Almighty God that told him that so
you know you could take the Genesis one story you could say okay maybe they're
vegetarians but what about Genesis 9 where God is specifically telling them
that every animal is on the table literally on the table sounds to me like
God is speaking positively here about eating meat now go to Leviticus chapter
number 11 Leviticus chapter 11 once the law was given yes there were dietary
restrictions and those things were given for a reason but when the dietary
restrictions came what you're gonna find when we look into this chapter a little
bit is God didn't say hey you guys are all vegetarians now hey you guys are all
vegans now no there was certain animals that were on the table certain that
were not there was restrictions but let's look through this chapter and see
there's still a lot of meat on the table here Leviticus chapter number 11 verse
4 nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that oh I'm sorry verse verse 1 I'm
sorry and the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron saying unto them speak unto the
children of Israel saying these are the beasts which ye shall eat okay so God
saying you will eat these animals among all the beasts that are on the earth
whatsoever part at the hoof and is cloven footed and cheweth the cud among
the beasts that shall ye eat and you know what great wonderful creature fits
into this category howls thank God for that today and in the Old Testament you
could eat steak and in fact God said ye shall eat these animals and man that is
an easy commandment to follow I mean someone could command me to eat steak
any of the day of the week and I will obey I don't care who you are I will
obey that command anytime how's fit thank God verse 4 though says
nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud or of them that
divide the hoof as the camel because he chew at the cud but didn't divide if not
the hoof he is unclean unto you so the Middle East is not where you want to be
don't be eating camels okay God didn't want them at this time to be eating
camels verse 5 and the Coney because he chew at the cud but divided not the hoof
he is unclean unto you and the hare because he chew at the cud but divided
not the hoof he is unclean unto you and the swine though he divide the hoof and
be cloven footed yet he chose chew it's not the cud he is unclean to you of
their flesh shall ye not eat and their carcass shall you not touch they are
unclean to you so notice God's giving these stipulations they've got to be
cloven footed they've got to part the hoof they have to chew the cud and it
has to be a whole package they can't just have one of those qualities they
have to have all of those qualities so beef was on the table but unfortunately
for the people living at this time bacon was not on the table pork chops were not
on the table you know that is sad for them but great for us this does not apply
today and I'll get to that in a minute but we didn't see here God say hey I'm
implementing some laws just so you know it's kale only it's seaweed only it's lettuce only it's
grass only no it's like here's a bunch of animals that you can eat here's a few that are off the
table look at verse 9 these shall ye eat of all that are in the waters so we're going to talk
about aquatic life now whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters in the seas and in the rivers
them shall ye eat and of 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 they shall be even an abomination unto you ye shall not eat of their
flesh but ye shall have their carcasses in abomination whatsoever hath no fins nor scales
in the waters that shall be an abomination unto you so if it had fins if it had scales and it
lived in the water you're good to go and hey praise god we can eat fish and even at this time you can
eat fish don't be a fish hater okay fish is good fish is okay fish is on the table i've done a lot
of fishing in my life and up north in idaho you got beautiful fish clean water sources and when
you pull a trout out of the river you throw some butter on that sucker you throw some salt and
garlic and it's really good and thank god for providing for us some fish some salmon this is
good now at this time unfortunately for them shellfish was off the table okay octopus was off the
table that stuff now we can eat but back then that was something that was to be held in abomination
but notice not vegetarians and not saying go eat grass saying eat fish you just can't eat shellfish
now what about birds look at verse 13 birds there seems to be way more restrictions in the old
testament on birds verse 13 says and these are they which he shall have an abomination among the
fouls they shall not be eaten they are an abomination the eagle and the ossofridge and
the osprey and the vulture and the kite after his kind every raven after his kind and the owl
and the night hawk and the cacao hawk after his kind and the little owl and the pormorant and the
great owl and the swan and the pelican and the geier eagle and the stork the heron after her kind
and the lapwing and the bat all fouls that creep going upon all four shall be an abomination unto
you so birds it just seems like way more birds were off limits but you know what you didn't see
here restricted were things like chickens or things like turkey and those are some good birds that we
enjoy today um i've eaten dove before dove is really good and today even if you were you know
in a pinch you needed to eat one of these today you can do that because this has been done away
with in the new testament look at verse 21 this one's a little bit sad to my flesh but i acknowledge
that his ways are higher than mine and god's right about everything verse 21 says yet these may ye eat
of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four which have legs above their feet to leap with
all upon the earth even these of them ye may eat the locust after his kind and the bald locust after
his kind and the beetle after his kind and the grasshopper after his kind that's what the bible
says folks i mean this is hard preaching for me but you can eat beetles you can eat grasshoppers
you can eat locusts and i thank god i live in america and this is not something that i even have
to think about doing but if i was starving and if i was in the wilderness and i saw that cicada
i would figure out a way to cook it and i would eat it i would survive okay but i mean john the
baptist he ate locusts and wild honey right so you know be thankful for what you have because it could
be it could be a lot worse right but you can you can eat this stuff now the next one the whole
continent of asia is going to be really disappointed okay this one's going to break the asian's hearts
in the room here says leviticus 11 verse 27 and whatsoever goeth upon his paws among all manner
of beasts that go on all four those are unclean unto you whoso toucheth their carcass shall be
unclean until the even sorry no dogs no cats you know at this time that was unclean that's off the
table all right now today if you if you wanted to i don't recommend it all right probably is gross
you could do it but at this time saying no dogs and why is that well because dogs are filthy animals
which is why sodomites are represented by the dogs because they're filthy they're gross they
eat their own vomit okay it's just a disgusting creature and it's not something that i want to
eat now go to colossians chapter number two colossians chapter number two so we saw in
leviticus 11 we saw genesis 9 okay god said whatever you want to eat noah you're in charge
of this world you get to eat whatever you want leviticus 11 there's a little bit of a change
there's some restrictions but meat is still on the table god still wants us to eat meat look at
verse 13 now what i want you to understand is that these dietary laws are not in effect today how do
we know that colossians chapter 2 verse 13 and you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of
your flesh hath he quickened together with him having forgiven you all trespasses blotting out
the handwriting of ordinances that was against us which was contrary to us and took it out of the way
nailing it to his cross and having spoiled principalities and powers he made a show of them
openly triumphing over them in it let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in
respect of and holy day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths which are a shadow of things to come
but the body is of christ so notice today no one is allowed to judge you about what kind of
meat you eat you get to eat whatever meat you want you want to eat bacon that is on the table
today thank god for that you want to eat shellfish that's on the table and no one's allowed to look
at you and judge you or think less of you because you want to eat a certain type of meat that's the
case now in the new testament why because the meat the drinks the sabbaths the holy days they
were a shadow of things to come they were shadow of christ what is a shadow a shadow is a physical
representation a picture of something but it's not the thing itself and the jews today they got just
obsessed with the shadow rather than getting obsessed with the thing itself you know they
should have looked to the lord jesus christ and realized hey that old testament's done it's
perishing it's ready to vanish away and now in 2024 it is gone it's vanished away it's perished
what do we have now now we have jesus christ the thing that all of these other things were
picturing and so thank god today that we live in the the better testament the bible literally says
that the new testament is the better testament that has a better covenant better promises better
meat laws thank god for that right because i had bacon for lunch i had a big old blt for lunch
and i enjoy that i'm glad that i get to have that for lunch now go to second corinthians chapter
number six second corinthians chapter number six now why is it why is it that god in leviticus
established these dietary laws some people harp on the fact that they think it was for health
reasons and here's the big problem that i have with people that claim it was for health reasons
is because if it was unhealthy then then that means it's unhealthy now so if that's true
then you should be able to judge someone for what they eat and their meat but god's saying that
that's not the case saying you're not allowed to judge anymore for this stuff why i don't think
that there was a health benefit to that and some people they have that personal opinion oh you know
pork is unhealthy for you i don't believe that okay you think that whatever do whatever you want
to do but this is why i think god established those dietary laws second corinthians chapter
number six verse 17 says this wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate say it the lord
and touch not the unclean thing and i will receive you here's the thing god's telling you hey this
beast is unclean this beast is unclean this beast is unclean and god often uses physical truth to
illustrate spiritual truth so when you're living your day-to-day life and you're constantly thinking
i can't eat that i can't eat that i can't eat that i can't eat that what it's reminding you of
is that god wants you to be spiritually separated and realize that there's things in life that god
wants us to avoid god wants us to be separated from spiritually what things like sin right touch not
the unclean thing you know there's things that are off limits to us alcohol fornication idolatry
covetousness witchcraft hatred sedition variants emulations right there's things that god says
those are unclean things be separate from those things don't touch those things and he was using
a physical thing to help remind those people hey we're a special people we're separated onto the
lord we need to be separated but i know for sure that it's not that those beasts were unclean in
and of themselves because in the new testament the bible is going to talk about how you're not
supposed to call anything common or unclean referring to animals we'll get there in a minute
but go to deuteronomy chapter number 12 deuteronomy chapter number 12 what are we talking about we're
talking about how the bible speaks positively of eating meat here's another example deuteronomy 12
verse 19 take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the levite as long as thou livest upon the
earth when the lord thy god shall enlarge thy border as he hath promised thee and thou shalt say
i will eat flesh so what are they saying they're saying i want to eat some meat because thy soul
longeth to eat flesh thou mayest eat flesh whatsoever thy soul lusteth after it sounds to
me like god is endorsing eating meat here he's saying hey you're gonna get to this place i'm
gonna enlarge your border you're gonna say i want to eat meat why because your soul wants to eat meat
and i'm gonna say to you whatever you want to eat go for it i mean is that what your bible just said
hello look at verse 21 if the place which lord thy god hath chosen to put his name there be too far
from thee then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock which the lord have given thee as i have
commanded thee and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lesteth after even as the
roebuck and the heart is eaten so shalt thou eat them the unclean and the clean shall eat of them
alike he's not saying eating unclean or clean animals he's saying whether you're ritually clean
or unclean according to the laws of the old testament hey you're still going to be able to
partake in this and you're going to be able to eat whatever you want for the sacrifice now go to
axe chap number five axe chap number five you say well i'm confused because in leviticus it did say
that some animals were clean and some were unclean it did say that some were an abomination and some
that you can't eat well the new testament is going to clear it up for us in axe chapter number five
this is the famous vision that the apostle peter had starting in verse 10 and he became very hungry
and would have eaten but while they made ready he fell into a trance and saw heaven open in a
certain vessel descending upon him as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let
down to the earth wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth and wild beasts
and creeping things and fowls of the air so get the picture here peter's in a trance
and all of a sudden he's seeing this vision where he's just seeing every animal you could
think of under the sun not just animals that we would think are common to eat for us we're
thinking of cows we're thinking of chickens we're thinking of turkey i mean he's seeing everything
he's seeing giraffes he's seeing elephants he's seeing you know gazelles and he's seeing elk and
deer and bears and mountain lions even he's just seeing everything here and look what verse 13 says
and there came a voice to him rise peter kill and eat now notice god's showing him a vision of all
these animals many of which would have been considered unclean in the old testament but
here we are in the new testament peter's getting this vision and god tells him rise kill and eat
now look at verse number 14 but peter said not so lord for i have never eaten anything that is
common or unclean and the voice spake unto him again the second time what god hath cleansed
that call not thou common this was done thrice and the vessel was received up again into heaven
so notice peter sees all these animals that in the old testament would have been considered
off limits and unclean but here we are in the new testament and god's telling him rise kill and eat
he's confused because he's saying wait a second this was unclean stuff but he's saying hold on
what i have cleansed don't call common and of course another picture of having all these
unclean beasts was to show to the apostle peter and to people like him that gentiles while in
times past would have been considered by god's people unclean or common or something that you
should not touch something that should be an abomination unto you but now you know what don't
call them unclean because god has cleansed those people now god wants to make sure that peter goes
and does what preaches the gospel to cornelius a gentile and that he doesn't just stop at cornelius
but that he's going to go preach to every creature like the great commission commanded him to do and
so that's why god gave him this vision it's a spiritual vision but there's a carnal aspect here
where god said rise kill and eat so you know there's nothing wrong with going out into the woods
and getting a gun or getting a bow and arrow and killing an animal ending its life for you to eat
it there's nothing wrong with that and you know what only a complete idiot would say that that's
murder and you have leftists today that love to protest and they say meat is murder no it's good
to kill animals to eat them i've done it i love it i will eat animals till the day i die and you
know i don't recommend this but it's a funny story i had this russian friend and we worked at a rebar
fabrication shop that was right by a slaughterhouse and this slaughterhouse always had all these
liberals out with their little you know signs meat is murder and my russian friend being a russian
if you've ever been around russians this is going to make sense to you he just goes and buys all
these burgers and he just walks up to all these little liberals and he just starts just just
pounding the burgers in front of them and they're losing their mind and they're crying but yeah i'm
not saying you should do that but you know what it is kind of funny because those people are a bunch
of idiots let's just be honest thinking that that kind of stuff is murder i mean you are a fool if
you think that no god created animals for our pleasure and our enjoyment and i'll chop a
chicken's head off any day of the week and fry it up on the grill i'll shoot a cow and eat that
sucker i love steak and you know what thank god for farmers and ranchers and people that raise food
and kill food and bring it to my table you know thank god we're in the new testament i'm you know
i'm not really sad for these vegetarians why because god speaks positively about eating meat
number one the bible speaks positively about eating meat number two jesus condoned of eating
and did eat meat himself and to me that's really all i need to know my lord and savior ate meat
sounds like this is not a bad thing because jesus never sinned go to john chapter number six john
chapter number six i don't know how you can be a christian look at something that jesus christ did
and be like oh i'm too good for that i'm so much better i'm on a moral high ground because i don't
eat meat really because jesus ate meat are you telling me you're more moral than jesus christ
no that's fake spirituality i don't buy that john six verse five when jesus then lifted up his eyes
and saw a great company come unto him he saith unto philip whence shall we buy bread that these
may eat and this he said to prove him for himself knew what he would do philip answered him 200
penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little one of
his disciples andrew simon peter's brother saith unto him there is a lad here which hath five
barley loaves and notice two small fishes what is that that's meat but what are they among so many
and jesus said make the men sit down now there was much grass in the place so the men sat down in
number about five thousand and jesus took the loaves and when he had given thanks he distributed
to the disciples and the disciples to them that were set down and likewise of the fishes as much
as they would so our lord and savior saw that there was some bread and saw that there was some
fish and he's about to work a miracle here where he's going to multiply that stuff to feed five
thousand people but notice what he doesn't do he doesn't say all right we got bread we got fish
the bread's okay but let me go ahead and change this fish into kale let me go ahead and do a
miracle here and change this fish into lettuce or broccoli i mean could jesus have done that if he
wanted to yes he could have but yet what did he do he said hey this is actually good this is fine
this is a good balanced meal here you got your grains you got your carbohydrates on one hand with
the bread and what do you got on the other side you got protein you got all sorts of vitamins and
fish oils it's really good for you he says hey this is a really good balanced meal here sit down
and i'm going to feed it to you if eating meat was wrong why would jesus have served 5 000 people
fish you can't claim you can't make that claim you might be able to you know argue a little bit
about adam and eve and whether they were or they weren't vegetarians but you know who wasn't a
vegetarian jesus christ the god man our lord and savior he saw some fish and he said hey i'm going
to feed people some fish why because meat's good meat's good for you god wants us to eat meat in
fact he fed people meat go to luke chapter number 24 luke chapter chapter number 24 so this is after
jesus rose again he says in verse 39 behold my hands and my feet that it is i myself handle me and see
for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have and when he had thus spoken he showed them
his hands and his feet and while they yet believed not for joy and wondered he said unto them have ye
hear any meat and they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and of an honeycomb and he took it and did eat
before them so here we have the risen savior the lord jesus christ he's showing unto his disciples
hey it's really me i really rose again check out the holes in my hands and in my feet touch me handle
me i'm not just a vision here and he says man i'm hungry give me some meat they give him some
broiled fish some honey and he eats it gladly you know i guarantee you that if the lord and savior
jesus christ showed up to one of our fellowship events you know what he'd get him a big old plate
of meat how do i know that because he ate meat the first time he was here and he's not going to go
to your vegetarian club he's not going to you know be some prissy soy boy asking for the vegetarian
menu no he's going to go ahead and just eat the protein he's going to go ahead and eat the fish
and you know what you have a warped mentality when you think there's something wrong with eating meat
when god ate meat you know what that is that's blasphemous right there you know there's you could
have a difference of opinion you could say oh i'm just doing this for health reasons but look if you
think it's wrong to eat meat you know what you're saying you're saying that jesus did something wrong
or you're saying that the bible is not true and that he didn't eat meat which one is it
you know i have no tolerance for someone that wants to make it seem like it's bad to eat meat
you have your own opinion but don't you dare sit here and say that it's wrong or bad or sinful
to eat meat first peter chapter number two i'll read for you you could go ahead and turn to roman
romans 14 romans 14 now i'll read for you first peter 221 says this for even here unto were ye
called because christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow in his steps
now i recognize that the context of this passage is talking about the suffering of jesus christ
and the suffering that he endured as an example to us that we should follow but let's expound
that a little bit because i think that anything jesus did is a good example for us to follow
and the steps that he took in this world and in his life are steps that you and i are always safe
following it's not like there's just some special rule for jesus well well jesus can eat meat because
he's jesus but we can't know any step that he took you're safe and following that step so if
jesus ate me hey i'm gonna eat me point number three vegetarians are weak vegetarians are weak
you know i i had someone tell me that i'm not allowed to say this but what i'm about to show
you is that the bible literally says this and just so you know don't ever tell me what i can and cannot
preach unless you want that to be the very next sermon it's a really bad idea okay number three
vegetarians are weak you say is that your opinion look at romans 14 verse 1 him that is weak in the
faith receive ye but not to doubtful disputations for one believe it that he may eat all things
another who is weak eateth herbs now did i make this up or is this what the bible says in front
of you now let's talk about different ways that a person can be weak from being a vegetarian
okay because one way is talking about is in the faith but let's just talk about being physically
weak for a second because you know when i lived in the vancouver washington portland oregon area
there's a lot of vegetarian men in that that town and you know what you see in that town is a bunch
of weak men a bunch of effeminate men and there there are exceptions of course where vegetarians
can be very strong because they're supplementing a lot of protein because they're supplementing a lot
of other things there's exceptions but the rule is when you're vegetarian you're weak and you know i
had a family member who tragically died in her 20s from cancer and she was one of these vegans
that lived her entire life never eating meat living a vegan lifestyle and you know left her kids dying
in her 20s of cancer and i think a huge part of that was that she ate a really terrible diet
because god didn't intend for us to be vegetarians now how are vegetarians weak well i found this
article it's from healthline.com and it says this seven nutrients that you cannot get from plants
so if you want to be real strict and say i'm only going to eat plants not going to supplement i'm
just going to be a strict vegetarian there are some nutrients that your body cannot get number
one is vitamin b12 vitamin b12 is an essential nutrient that's almost exclusively found in animal
sourced foods such as fish meat dairy products and eggs so god created all these animals to sustain
us and to give us nutrients and one of the things that all these animals have inside of them is
vitamin b12 when you don't eat animals you're not getting the vitamin b12 that you need also known
as cobalamin it's a water-soluble nutrient involved in developing red blood cells and maintaining nerves
in normal brain function studies have shown that without supplements or enriched foods vegetarians
are at a high risk of vitamin b12 deficiency lacto ovo vegetarians can get adequate amounts of this
nutrient from dairy products and eggs so some vegetarians they'll eat dairy products and eggs
because they're hypocrites so vegans who don't take supplements are at a higher risk of vitamin
b12 deficiency symptoms of vitamin b12 deficiency include ready for the first thing weakness how
funny that the bible says that he that eat of herbs is weak here's this scientific article saying if
you don't eat meat you're going to have vitamin vitamin b12 deficiency and the very first symptom
of being deficient of this is weakness it's almost like god created animals for us to eat fatigue
impaired brain function neurological disorders that's why they're voting for kamala psychiatric
disorders neurological disorders in babies of breastfeeding mothers mega megaloblastic anemia
i don't even know what that is but it doesn't sound fun all right possible links to alzheimer's
possible links to heart disease i mean those are some serious side effects this is just one
nutrient that you're deficient in if you're not eating meat and you're not eating animal products
here's another one creatine creatine is a molecule found in animal foods most of it is stored in your
muscles but significant amounts are also concentrated in your brain it functions as an
easily accessible energy reserve for muscle cells giving them greater strength and endurance so if
you're if you're deficient in vitamin b12 what's the first thing that you're deficient in strength
okay creatine what does that help with strength it's almost like the bible's true here that he
that edith herbs is weak cardinocene is another thing that you're deficient in if you don't eat
meat vitamin d3 vitamin d is an essential nutrient with many important functions also called the
sunshine vitamin it doesn't have to come from your diet your skin can produce vitamin d exposed to
sunlight however if your sunlight exposure is limited or you live far from the equator you must
get it from food or supplements so you know you might be able to get your vitamin d intakes when
you live in the south or in the equator but if you're living in you know iceland norway russia
you're not going to get the vitamin d that you need from the sun where do you get it from you
get it from animals or supplements which is just hilarious to me how they want to claim vegetarians
want to claim that their life is so much healthier but yet they have to take so many supplements
just to get their body functioning like god intended doesn't really sound like it's that healthy
dha is an acid it's an essential omega-3 fatty acid that's important for normal brain development
and function that people that don't eat meat are often deficient in it could have a deficiency can
have an adverse effects on mental health and brain function especially in children in addition
inadequate dha intake and pregnant women may adversely affect fetal brain development it's
mainly found in fish fish oil and certain types of microalgae so again it's just talking about all
the mental problems that you're going to have when you're deficient in this it's just it's
starting to make sense now why certain parts of the country seem like they have more mental illness
and mental disease iron iron is only found in meat especially red meat it's much better absorbed
than non-hemi iron which is commonly found in plant foods hemi iron also improves your absorption
of non-hemi iron from plant foods this phenomenon is not entirely understood but is called the meat
factor so even even the iron that you do get from plants and stuff like that when you're getting the
iron that comes from meat it's helping your body absorb the iron that comes from plants and here's
the thing god never said thou shalt eat only meat i'm not against vegetables i'm not against fruit
i'm not against greens i love those things i think we should eat both and even this scientific
article saying hey all the positive iron that you can get from greens your body can only really
absorb that if you're also getting the iron from meat taurine is another chemical is another
compound that you can be deficient in if you don't eat meat it's found in various body tissues
including your brain heart kidneys while its bodily function is not entirely clear it appears
to play a role in muscle function how funny you know i'm not just making fun of vegetarians for
making fun of them here i'm saying like they're literally weak because they're deficient in all
these nutrients that god intended you to be eating through meat and so what you're going to see if
you see someone that's a strict vegetarian and they're not taking all these supplements
i promise you you'll see a weak person physically and the only people that are the exceptions to
this are the people that are spending tons of time tons of money tons of effort and energy and
research and to figure out all the other things that they need to add to their diet just so that
they can be normal and you know what i don't really think that god wants us to spend that
much time on what we eat look at uh verse where where were we here first timothy chapter number
four first timothy chapter number four first timothy four verse four for every creature of
god is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving you know i think god
wants us to be healthy i think god wants us to put some level of care and thought into what we're
putting into our bodies i'm for that i'm for eating healthy you know i don't think god just
wants us obsessed with every micronutrient that's entering our body and every single you know
supplemental pill that we could possibly get god's saying look every creature is good nothing's to be
refused if you just receive that sucker with some thanksgiving pray for your food and you know what
just down the hatch it goes you'll be good to go but vegetarians they're like oh i gotta be a
vegetarian i don't want to murder meat so i'm gonna make sure i get all these other supplements
i'm just gonna put all this thought energy money effort into this it's like dude nothing is to be
refused it's all good god said just thank god for your food and eat it now go back to roman chapter
14 now another way that vegetarians are weak and i think this is the primary application of what
roman's 14 is actually saying is that they're spiritually weak okay look at roman's 14 verse
one him that is weak in the faith receive you but not to doubtful disputations for one believeth
that he may eat all things another who is weak eateth herbs now why is someone who is a vegetarian
who eats herbs why are they spiritually weak well have you seen all the bible that we've looked at
this evening where the bible is speaking positively of meat where jesus christ is feeding other people
meat where jesus christ is eating meat himself i mean not trying to be offensive to you but if
you don't understand that you are spiritually weak you are spiritually a baby go to hebrews
chapter number five and in fact the bible likens someone who is spiritually mature to someone that
eats strong meat why because god uses carnal truths to illustrate spiritual truths look at hebrews
chapter five verse 12 for when for the time you ought to be teachers you have need that one teach
you again which be the first principles of the oracles of god and are become such as have need
of milk and not of strong meat he's saying look you guys your spiritual growth has been retarded
and i mean that in the scientific term there it has been retarded you guys should be eating
strong meat right now but you know what your babies your immature you're weak so you need
to drink milk and right aren't our babies in this room they're weak and what are they eating right
now milk and when they grow up and when they get strong they'll eat meat look at verse 13 for
everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness for he is a babe but strong meat
belongeth to them that are of full age even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised
to discern both good and evil so here's the thing the verses we've been looking at it's not really
strong meat guys it's verses about meat but spiritually this is some milk stuff right here
the verses we're looking at we're just saying like hey god saying every creature is good
hey here's the dietary laws of god saying what we can eat hey here's jesus eating meat here's
jesus feeding people meat this is not hard stuff to understand so if you're having a hard time grasping
this you might just be a babe in christ you might just be spiritually weak and you know you need to
keep getting the milk here and keep feeding yourself some milk so that you can grow and get
some meat spiritually maybe you might start eating some meat physically too if you do that now here's
the thing just because someone is a vegetarian and just because i am strongly against that lifestyle
and i'm against it because i think that the bible is very positive about eating meat that does not
mean that a vegetarian cannot come to our church that does not mean that a vegetarian would not be
welcome to be a member of our church to hang out with us to be in good fellowship and standing with
the church why we'll look at romans 14 verse one again let's focus on a different aspect of this
verse says him that is weak in the faith receive you but not to doubtful disputations so look hey
you're a vegetarian you're the weaker brother we will receive you but not to doubtful disputations
we're not going to agree with your stupid beliefs because it's wrong it's just dead wrong the bible's
against it i'm not going to listen to you try to convince me or try to convince other people that
they should be a vegetarian because the bible is against that mentality but if you want to come here
and learn and grow you're welcome that's absolutely fine now roman chapter 14 well before i read verse
three here's the thing i'm not i'm not for us being mean to them if a vegetarian comes into our
church you will see me being very gracious and kind to them unless they start teaching other
people to be vegetarian and stuff like that but here's the thing in our country right now in our
in our culture right now and in the way things are going we don't need a ton of preaching to
balance people out from being mean to vegetarians like we need a ton of preaching saying like hey
that idea is stupid that idea is wrong it'd be one thing if our country was just full of a bunch of
carnivores that were like beating up vegetarians and being mean to them but you know what our
country is full of a bunch of soy boys a bunch of effeminate men a bunch of liars telling you eggs
are bad red meat is bad and to those people i say shut up that's what i say to them you want to come
and be a church member that's great we'll be nice to you but we're not going to have your doubtful
disputations okay you're welcome we're not going to be mean to you but quite honestly this type
of preaching is needed a lot more than the be nice and hold hands with the vegetarian type
of preaching all right if it gets there you know maybe you'll hear that someday but i highly doubt
it look at verse number three let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not so look i'm not
going to just hate someone i'm not going to just despise someone just because they're vegetarian
but that being said they can cross the line to where it's just going from this is my personal
opinion this is my own choice for my life to them saying like it's a sin to eat meat or it was wrong
for jesus to eat meat no that stuff you better believe that's going to be a different conversation
but notice this let not him which eateth not so this is the vegetarian let not him judge him that
eateth for god hath received him and again in our culture what we don't need a ton of preaching
right now saying like hey don't despise the vegetarians we need the opposite because constantly
everywhere you go the vegan messaging is being pumped that oh yeah it's so good to be a vegetarian
it's so good to be a vegan it's like no we don't need that culture right now we don't need the
culture of being nice and coddling to them we need the culture of telling them hey you're not
allowed to judge us us for eating meat yeah we won't judge you yeah we won't despise you but
remember this goes both ways and usually it's the vegetarians usually it's the vegans that are so
judgmental about their lifestyle and it's like how do you know you meet a vegetarian because
they'll tell you they'll tell you hey did you know i'm a vegetarian hey do you want to me over to
your house i'm a vegetarian though it's like no i don't want to invite you over i mean you're
welcome to come to church i love you as a brother in christ let's go soul winning but if like you
think that me and my family are going to bend over backwards for your weird lifestyle that's not
biblical the answer is no and our society is way too coddling of these people way too coddling
we're too coddling of feminists from this morning sermon we're too coddling of vegans and the vegans
and the vegetarians the ones that they want to go judge everyone about their food just shut up and
pray for your food look at verse 15 but if thy brother be grieved with thy meat now walkest thou
not charitably destroy not him with thy meat for whom christ died let not then your good be evil
spoken of for the kingdom of god is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the
holy ghost for he that in these things serveth christ is acceptable to god and approved of men
let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edify
another for meat destroy not the work of god all things indeed are pure but it is evil for that
man who eateth with offense it is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor anything whereby
thy brother stumbleeth or is offended or is made weak hast thou faith have it to thyself before god
happy is he that condemneth not himself and that thing which he alloweth and he that doubteth is
damned if he eat because he eateth not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin so here's
the thing if someone is weak in this area first of all let's just acknowledge what the bible says
that they're weak in this area say step one this person is weak in this area that doesn't mean i'm
going to despise him that doesn't mean that i'm going to treat him poorly that doesn't mean that
i'm going to try to force him to eat meat or trick him and try to serve him meat or something like
that to wound the weaker brother's conscience right if you see me interact with a vegetarian
i will be kind i will be polite i don't care what people's personal opinions are but behind the
pulpit i'm going to preach what the bible says i'm going to preach what god's perfect will is i'm
going to preach that god speaks very positively about meat but don't hear a sermon like this
and think like oh man i'm going to call my vegetarian sister tonight and just tell her
what an idiot she is and that you know she's voting for kamala because she has brain disorders
because she has a lack of all these essential you know things in your body and you know it may be
true but i'm just not saying that may not be the wisest thing to do we're not trying to destroy
the work of god for meat or anything like that but like i keep saying we are living in a culture
that doesn't need more hand holding to the vegetarians we need them to feel a little bit
uncomfortable about their weird lifestyle not like oh man here's a church of 100 people and one
vegetarian walks in let's just change everything about us let's just bend over backward for their
weird lifestyle no you could be a vegetarian you could have that to yourself but just keep it to
yourself don't try to convince people to be a vegetarian and dead sure don't try to say that
the bible teaches that you should be a vegetarian why well that leads me to point number four go to
first timothy chapter number four those people point number four people who teach vegetarianism
as a commandment are demonic demonic devil filled wicked people there's a difference for someone
that's just has stupid health beliefs and that's their personal ideology whatever that's one thing
it's a whole different ball game when you say the bible says you shouldn't eat meat or god's against
you eating meat or eating meat is murder no actually you are demonic let me prove that to you
first Timothy four verse one says this now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times
some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and notice doctrines of devils
so what we're about to explain is a doctrine or a teaching or an understanding an ideology of what
devils verse two speaking lies and hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a hot iron
forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which god hath created to be received with
thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth for every creature of god is good and nothing
to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the word of god and prayer
you know the what the bible's saying is very serious saying that in the latter times there's
going to be people that do what they depart from the faith so they depart from this right here
and they give heed to they give credence to they pay attention to doctrines of devils what are those
doctrines of devils one of them is forbidding to marry and let me tell you something if some
person tells you god doesn't want you to get married it's wrong for you to get married you
need to be a man going your own way you need to be like andrew tate you need to be like tristan
tate and be like those guys you know what that person's a devil and if someone commands you to
abstain from meat that's a doctrine of devils that's something that's not going to be tolerated yeah
we'll tolerate your opinion we'll tolerate you don't like meat you don't want to eat it that's
your personal thing cool you start saying that someone has to do that you start saying that's
what the bible teaches that will never be tolerated that will never be allowed we're not going to bend
over backwards backwards for that at all you know isn't it funny how you have false religions
the religion of satan called catholicism and isn't it funny how they they both give credence
to both of these doctrines right catholics teach all of these doctrines of devils the abstaining
of marriage right because if you're going to be a priest a bishop a cardinal a pope what do you have
to do in order to get that high in the catholic church you have to not get married and it's just
so obvious for us that are saved that have the word of god i mean it's just there they have a giant
red blinking sign on their church saying like we are of the devil we are satanic we are demonic
why because they're teaching to abstain from marriage not only that you know what else the
demonic wicked satanic catholic church teaches to abstain from eating meat during certain times
you think that's a coincidence why would i want to get yoked up with some ideology some health
ideology that has more in common with catholicism one of the worst satanic religions that have ever
existed than to eat meat like the bible says to and like jesus did here's some things that they
teach you know they teach that during lent that you're to abstain from eating all meats on fridays
during the season of lent which is the 40 day period leading up to easter ash wednesday ash
wednesday is the first day of lent where they teach abstain from eating meat good friday which
it's good thursday okay but good friday according to catholics you're not allowed to eat meat
traditionally more staunch catholics abstain from eating meats every friday of the year what a sad
life but let me just remind you of where you're sitting this evening this is a baptist church
this is not a catholic church we don't want anything to do with the catholic doctrines
the doctrines of devils of saying no marriage no meat i mean marriage and meat is like two of the
greatest things on earth i mean would we even want to live without marriage and meat that's a sad life
i mean wow god punishes you for worshiping the devil i mean he really does he takes away like the
two greatest things in the world marriage and meat man it must suck to be a catholic stupid
catholicism verse six here's the thing i may seem a little mean tonight but it's okay i've been nice
the last couple sundays all right you've gotten the practical sermons sometimes we just need to be a
little bit mean i may seem like i'm being a little bit mean to the vegetarians but here's what i want
you to understand i'm not just being mean for the sake of being mean here not just trying to be
bombastic for the sake of being bombastic look at verse number six remember what we just read look
what it says if thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things what things the fact that these are
doctrines of devils if you preach these things if you put the brethren in remembrance of these things
look what it says thou shalt be a good minister of jesus christ nourished up in the words of faith
and of good doctrine whereunto thou hast attained and here's the thing not just trying to be mean to
the vegetarians for the sake of being vegetarians you know what i'm trying to do i'm trying to be a
good minister of jesus christ and sometimes a minister of jesus christ has to say something
that's a little bit offensive but you know what it's not my fault that the world is so screwed up
it's not my fault that the liberals have taught this lie for so long look the by why do i say this
stuff why am i putting the brethren in remembrance of this stuff well number one because the bible
speaks positively of eating meat why am i talking about this stuff because jesus christ himself ate
meat and because jesus condoned of eating meat and because jesus offered meat unto others why am i
talking about this stuff because the bible literally says that vegetarians are weak and i don't want
anyone to be weak physically or spiritually why am i talking about this stuff because the bible says
that commanding people to abstain from meats is literally a doctrine of devils you know what we
are a baptist church we care about what the bible says more than hurting anyone's feelings and you
know what there might be some vegetarian that listens to this and they're upset and look if
you're my brother in christ i love you even though i strongly disagree with you on this but you know
what teaching that it's a commandment of god is a doctrine of devils and i'm never gonna back off
from that it's what the bible says so let us be a church that no matter what the topic no matter
how offensive it may be no matter how culturally unacceptable a certain view is that we're just
gonna stick with what the bible says regardless of whose feelings it hurts with that let's pray lord
thank you for this day thank you for the blessing of meat thank you that you've just given animals
to us to be used in so many different ways from clothing to soap making to food to transportation
just you've blessed us with animals and thank you so much for it i pray that we would never get this
fake liberal attitude that meat is murder and i dead sure pray lord that no one in here would
ever think that it's a commandment of god to abstain from meat i pray that people's hearts
would be open to this message and that we would eat meat to be spiritually and physically strong
love you in Jesus name we pray amen