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What Does the Bible Say About Physical Health? | Ken McIntyre

• Ken McIntyre • Season 2025 • Episode 4

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Your body is a gift from God—how are you stewarding it? In this message, Pastor Ken explores a biblical perspective on physical health, debunking misconceptions and revealing how caring for our bodies is an act of worship. Learn practical ways to honour God with your body through sleep, nutrition, rest, and more.

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- Hey, this is Phil Kniesel, lead pastor at Hope City Church. Thanks for tuning into our podcast. My prayer is that this helps and encourages you, gives you some practical ways to live out your faith, and ultimately fills you with hope. Enjoy the message.- In the series, we've just been covering issues that we care about, that God cares about, and that the Bible gives us both commands and counsel in order how to move forward in greater health in these areas. And so we have covered spiritual health, financial health, professional health, mental health, and today physical health. And I know what you're saying. I can't believe I came to church to hear about this. And all the gym rats are excited, but everybody else is thinking, how do I get outta here without being noticed? I will see you- .- I wanna be upfront about how I wanna approach this topic today. I'm not gonna be referencing the latest health journals or blogs in order to build an argument for physical health from there. I mean, you could do that, but I think we intuitively know why physical health is important. I'm also not gonna send anyone out here, at least my intention, is to not send anyone out here with any sort of guilt, uh, or with, you know, latest copy of Ken's, you know, body bootcamp, the DVD or something like that, . Uh, instead, I hope that you leave here with gratitude for the gift of your body and encourage you, uh, in one way to move forward towards greater health. I'm also going to, um, uh, I want to show the difference between, uh, a Christian theology of the body against opposing worldviews, because this is the one big idea. Christianity does have the highest view of the body up against any other alternative option, including, and maybe especially against hedonism, atheism. And postmodernism. Hedonism is this idea that the highest good is the attainment of physical pleasure and the avoidance of physical pain. Atheism states that all there is matter. And so all that matters is matter. And postmodernism, uh, is the disbelief in any sort of objective truth and in relationship to the body can simply be stated as my body. So it's my choice. And maybe against all of these seemingly body positive options, I'm going to argue that still Christianity holds the human body in a higher regard than all of these opposing worldviews. To begin, I wanna ask you this one question. How do you feel about your body? When you think about your body, what's your relationship with it? It's a tough question. It's a complicated question. For a lot of us, we generally fall into one of three camps. Number one, we don't like our bodies very much, and we don't like 'em very much. We're sore all the time, right? We never really could figure out how to get rid of these love handles and comparatively to the photoshopped or airbrushed or AI enhanced images that feel, uh, that, that fill our screens comparatively. We don't really like our body all that much. Or maybe on the other side, you might be obsessed with your body. You don't just like it. You admire your body and you want other people to admire it as well. And so you see your body as a tool for self-glorification. And then somewhere in this wide middle, uh, there'd be a third group of people who maybe don't think about their bodies all that much unless it hurts, right? Then you're forced to think about it. But generally it's not really that important to you. According to scripture, what does God want us to think about our bodies? And so I'm well aware that as we talk about the human body in this sort of context that I'm holding, like two sticks of live dynamite. On the one hand, it's just so personal. It is so personal. We have, again, complicated relationships with our body. And when you think about your body, maybe there's insecurity or there's frustration or there's disappointment. Maybe there's some sort of shame because of how you've used it in the past or how you're using it. And so that just bubbles up. And so you don't really want to talk about it. So in one hand it's, it's just explosive. But on the other hand, you know, the public conversation around our body is equally as explosive. The sharpest social and moral conflicts that are in our time, in our culture have to do with the human body. If we're talking about abortion or euthanasia or marriage or genetic engineering or gender ideology, all of these things stem from what we think the human body is. And in relation then what does that, what does that mean? So there's no shortage of contention or confusion when it comes to our bodies. Now, when a Christian thinks about their body, generally, we think that they are religiously meaningless. There's really no, uh, religious value in our bodies. Instead, what matters is our soul. This perspective, uh, that the soul is an impor, the important part of who we are, and that our body is the unimportant, uh, part of who we are. This is called dualism, and it's not new. It's been with us for a real long time. The ancient Greeks had a version of it, and it would've dominated the mindset of many of the New Testament's original audience. And it was simply this, a human being is composed of two parts. Their physical body and their soul. And their soul is made up of three parts. Their, their mind, their will, and their emotion and their soul is the important part, because that's gonna endure into eternity. But your body, it was only temporary and had no value in the life to come. So one of the ways that this played out was in their sexuality, because your body would perish. So would the sins committed in the body, therefore, do what you want because it doesn't really matter. It's all going to perish anyway. Some of the first and most pervasive Christian heresies pitted the soul against the body grouped under this term called narcissism. It was this pseudo Christian movement that held to this dualistic view of the world, the material world, right? What you can taste and touch and see about that was corrupt, that was evil. But the immaterial or the spiritual world, that wa that was good. And so it led to a disdain for the physical body. And it led to a rejection of the incarnation of Jesus Christ, which is the theological idea that the second person of the trinity came down and took on human flesh in a very real way. And so Gnostics would say, well, no, God would never stoop to that level and corrupt themselves by taking on flesh. And so Jesus only appeared to be human, but he wasn't really human. Now, this ancient dualism has dressed itself up in new clothes for our modern times, under the guise of personhood theory. Personhood theory divides similarly, the human being into two different realms. There's the bottom realm and there's the top realm. The bottom realm is our physical body. The top realm is our person. Our person is what makes you you, right? Your values, your personality traits, your ability to reason, the lower round the body, it's just raw material. It's just a biological organism and thereby has no real intrinsic value. But the person, the upper realm of who you are, that's what really matters. So all ideas have consequences. So let's tease out some of the consequences of personhood theory. In personhood theory, being a living, breathing human is not enough to have ethical significance or, um, value or legal standing. Instead, you have to earn the right, earn the status of personhood by meeting an arbitrary set of criteria. That would be moral agency, that would be self-awareness. You'd have to exhibit some sort of cognitive capacity that passes a test. And if you don't exhibit these things, then you're demoted to what bioethicists have deemed a human non-person, a human non person. So this is an idea that underpins one of the main, not all arguments, but one of the main arguments that supports abortion and maid, which has assisted dying. Here in Canada, people don't qualify as having legal, standing or value because they never had or they've lost agency. Being a living, breathing human isn't enough because the lower realm, right? The body, it's just raw material. It has no significance. Personhood theory drives our culture around sex. Since we're fragmented people, right? Our lower half our body and our upper half, our person, what you do with your body doesn't really have a connection to who you are as a person. And so again, do whatever you want with who you want, because sex has nothing to do with you because you are not your body. Personhood theory is behind the discussions around, uh, gender. If your lower realm, your body tells you one thing, but your psychological state, your upper realm tells you something else, well then you are what you think you are because your body is irrelevant to that conversation. So like I said, I am well aware that I'm holding two sticks of dynamite as I talk about the body, but I'm excited to talk about what the Bible has to say about the body.'cause it's so much better than what anything or anyone has to offer us. So what does the Bible have to say about our body? Go back to creation account. We have to start there. Genesis one, details. God's creative start to our world in which he speaks and things are made. So Genesis 1 27 says this, so God created mankind in his own image. There's something special, there's something unique about humans. In the image of God, he created them, male and female, he created them down to verse 31. God saw everything that he had made. He saw all the matter that he had made and it mattered to him. He declared that it was good matter matters to God. Same God who made the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, or Victoria Falls and Zambia or the galaxy. He made your kneecaps and your armpits and your ear lows. And he said, I like it. It's good. Uh, if God wanted to make you like an angel, he would've made you like an angel. If all that mattered to God was your soul, you'd be ghosting it up right Now, there'd be no reason for chairs. Parking wouldn't be a problem, right? Maybe that would be okay. But anyway, but God didn't do any of that. He made you body and soul. And he didn't just make you, he became like you again. This theological concept of the incarnation is Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, the son of God, God from God, light from light, he took on human flesh and became a real living, breathing human while never denying his true divinity. This is called the Hypostatic Union. It's the idea of two distinct natures, both human and divine inseparable. In one person, Jesus Christ, he became you in the incarnation, John one says it this way, the word referring to Jesus, we could just say Jesus. There, Jesus became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only son who came from the Father full of grace and truth. Now, God becoming man is what set Christianity apart in the ancient world. If the spiritual world was good and the material world was bad, it was evil. God becoming man in the incarnation was a protest against that idea. The incarnation of Jesus was a declaration that matter matters. Then it gets even crazier. Jesus in the flesh, he has put up on a cross and he dies. Like he's really, he really dies and he's put into a tomb. And just when you think it's over, guess what happens next? He comes back. But he doesn't come back as a disembodied spirit. He doesn't come back and just float through the, the, the stone that was rolled through the tomb and be like, guys, this is great. Right? It's flowing rope. That's not what happened. That's not what happened. He comes back and guess what? He still has still his body. Luke 24, captures this fascinating interaction between this freshly resurrected Jesus and his disciples says this, uh, they were startled and frightened as they saw this resurrected Jesus thinking they had seen a ghost. He said to them, why are you troubled? And why do you, uh, why do doubts rise in your mind? Look at my hands. Look at my feet. It is, I myself touch me and see, a ghost does not have flesh and bones as I, as you see, I have when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, do you have a snack? , do you have anything to eat? Jesus resurrects. And one of the first things he asks his disciples is for a snack. If, if you, if this happened to Jesus, what do you think your destiny will be? If this is what happened to Jesus, what do you think is going to happen to you? Well, I'll tell you, Romans six says this, we were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life for if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. Essentially what happened to Jesus is what will happen to us because Christians have united themselves to Christ through faith. God has adopted them into his family, which means Jesus is now our elder brother and the inheritance that he gets, we also get namely a resurrected body. We will share with him in his resurrection. One Corinthians 15 says this, but Christ has indeed raised from the dead. The first fruits meaning there's second fruits, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep for since death came through a man. The resurrection of the dead also comes through a man. For as in Adam all die. So in Christ, all will be made alive. But each in turn, Christ the first fruits, then when he comes, those who belong to him, us, us, the doctrine of the resurrection screams this, your body matters. That's what it says, your body matters. CS Lewis says this, there's no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. He likes matter. He invented it. Every human body, no matter how plain it is, no matter how disabled it might be, is destined for an embodied eternal glory. And I know that there are a lot of people living with chronic pain. I know there are people who are physically suffering, walking through disease, walking through an illness of some sort. I know that there are people listening online or here in the, in the room who feel alienated from their own body and I that for many of you, this desire of full physical healing in this life is something that you want more than anything else. And I need you to understand That one day you will get it because there's nothing that the resurrection won't cure. There's nothing that the resurrection won't cure. And so you will be healed one day. And I have faith, and I believe,'cause I've seen it in my own body and I've seen it in my own ministry, and I've seen it in your stories that God still heals today. And the reason he still heals today is because he cares about your body today. And so he can still heal you. And I believe that, and I have faith for that. But even if he doesn't in this life, I know with certainty that you will be healed because the Christian hope is not redemption from our bodies. It's the redemption of our bodies. So the question is, who cares? So what, right? So what, okay, yes, yes. Clearly Christianity has this astronomically high value on the body, but it's like, so what? How does that, why does that matter in, in your regular life? I wanna read you a passage from one Corinthians chapter six. This is the Apostle Paul writing to a church urging them towards sexual purity. This church was a mess on many fronts, but in this section, Paul's trying to tell 'em, listen, your bodies matter, guys, but it matters for a very specific reason. Your bodies mattered to God for a very specific reason. And it's not because your body is the only vehicle that God has given you in order to live this life of faith and impact the world around you. I think that's a persuasive argument. But that's actually not the argument that the Apostle Paul uses. And he doesn't argue that your bodies matter to God because he created them and he sustains them with his breath of life. Although that's also a persuasive argument you could use. That's what the Bible tells us. Job 33 says this, the spirit of God has made me the breath of the almighty gives me life. The next chapter verse, uh, chapter 34 says, if it were his intention, God's intention, and he withdrew his spirit and breath, all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to dust. Again, that would be a persuasive place, an argument to help us understand that our bodies matter. But but again, that's, Paul has something better in mind. And so I read one Corinthians six, starting in verse 12, chapter six, verse 12 says this, I have the right to do anything you say, but not everything is beneficial. I have the right to do anything, but I'll not be mastered by anything you say. And this is important. You say food for the stomach and stomach for the food, and God will destroy them both. Uh, Paul is exposing this very Greek idea that is made its way, it's gonna be familiar to us because it's made its way into our time. And it's this, that sex is just an appetite of our body. That's all. It's when we're hungry, we eat food. When we want sex, we just have sex. That's what Paul's saying. And then he says, and God will destroy them both. He's summarizing the Greek philosophy, the Greek worldview on things done in the body that it doesn't matter. It's not important because all of these things are just temporary. Both food and the stomach, both sex, it doesn't really matter because it's all really temporary. So Paul's gonna tear down this argument starting in verse 19, and he tears it down for the Christian, he says this, do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit? Who is in you, whom, whom you have received from God? You are not your own. You are bought at a price, therefore honor God with your bodies. This fall, I, um, began to tell you a story about how my car was stolen right off my driveway this past summer. It happened. Now, did I leave my car unlocked? Yes. Okay. Did I leave my keys on the front seat in the car? Yes. Also, yes, . But wasn't it my fault? Yes. Also, yes, . But I never actually finished that story. And, and I got sidetracked and I went somewhere else. But I want to finish that story for you today. Uh, five days after my car was stolen, I got a call from the police and they had found my, my car, uh, abandoned in downtown Edmonton, and I can come pick it up. And I had mixed feelings about it. I was excited.'cause I really did like that car man. It was a 2012 Camry. I mean, it doesn't get any more solid than that man. It had low kilometers and it was paid for. I loved this car. Um, but I was also apprehensive because, well, I don't know what they did with it when it wasn't in my possession. And so when I arrived on the scene, it was sort of my worst fears. Imagined my heart saying the back bumper had fallen off. The whole passenger side was just scraped up. They clearly had a good time. They went joy riding. No doubt. The interior was disgusting. I don't know how they did this in, in five days, but there was like this yellow, thick film on all of the windows. There was cigarette bets, every garbage, every pizza boxes, stolen merchandise from all these other cars. It was, it was like, it was gross. And the insurance company just deemed it a write off. And I know it's just a car. I know it's just a physical possession, but I, it really bugged me. I was really, I don't know if this is, if this is the right emotion, but it was just natural. It just felt violated over that because that was my car, right? Like I, that was my, i I bought it. Then someone takes what is not theirs and does whatever they want with it and just, just trashes it. This is the image and the argument that Paul is giving the Corinthians about our, our body. He's saying, you are not your own. And the argument isn't, you're not your own because your body was given to you. Although that again, is a good argument, at least your parents gave you your body. But from a Christian perspective, we said, well, God ultimately gifted it to us. But again, that's not the argument. The argument why you're not your own is this, you were bought with a price. That's the argument. You were not your own because Christ had purchased you. Now, what was that price? In ancient times, um, a slave could be redeemed or could be bought back if someone paid the correct price. And so Paul is drawing on this imagery and he's saying that you were bought with the price. Okay, so what was the price one Peter tells us this for, you know, that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were deemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ on the cross, Jesus' shed blood, his death functioned as a payment for you and me. He bought us back, we're deemed back from a life of slavery to sin of a life without God. And he bought us back as his own. Now, we understand this concept that all sin requires payment. This is so obvious. This is so natural to us. If someone commits a crime, well, we want that criminal to receive their, their due, even on maybe a much more smaller scale. If a child misbehaves in some way, we, you know, we have corrective measurements in a proportion to what they've done. We understand this, that, that that sin requires payment. Now what's the payment for sinning against an all holy God, an eternal God? Romans six 30, uh, 23 says this, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord. The wages of sin, the the result, the product of sin results in death. And how is that? Well, sin is, its maybe very essence, a rebellion against God. It's like we're cutting him out of the picture. It's like we want nothing to do with you. We're doing our own thing. So it's cutting off God. And so we cut off the source of both our physical and our spiritual life for in Him. We live and we move and we have our being. So being cut off from the Author of Life results in, of course it results in death. But Jesus paid the price for you with his own blood so that you didn't have to. This is, this is what Paul's saying, Jesus saved you from you're not your own because Jesus saved you from the grip of death with his own death. And furthermore, the mark of ownership that Jesus puts on your life is his very Holy Spirit. He gives you his Holy Spirit as a way of saying, he's with me, she's with me. This is what Ephesians one says. And you are also included in Christ. When you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, when you believed you were marked in him with a seal, with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, that new living translation says it like this. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own. He's mine. She's mine. By giving you the Holy Spirit whom he promised long ago. The Holy Spirit is God's mark of ownership over your life. And Paul describes this here as being a temple of the Holy Spirit. Now, in the Old Testament, the temple was this physical structure where God's presence uniquely dwelt. Now Christian theology, we, we know that God is infinite. He is all, all places, all times. But in a very special and unique way, he chose to dwell in this physical structure called the temple. Now Paul, again, barring this imagery, he's saying in a New Testament, the focus shifts from a physical temple to, and that structure to, to your body, to a physical body as a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. It's like, well, why is that important that you, that you are a temple of the Holy Spirit? Why is that important? Well, what's the Holy Spirit's role? Jesus tells us, he says, but when he, the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He'll not speak on his own. He'll speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is to come. He'll glorify me, okay? Jesus, he'll glorify Jesus because it is from Jesus that he will receive what he will make known to you. The Holy Spirit's role is to glorify Jesus. It's to shine a spotlight on, on Christ. Now, here it is. If it's the Holy Spirit's role to glorify Jesus and your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, then your body's role is to glorify Jesus. That's the reason you have flesh and bones and elbows and feet. It's the whole thing. The purpose is to glorify Jesus. And, and the reason that we care about our body is'cause God has given us to us as a tool to worship him. And we really have to get our thinking right on this because the goal of physical health, remember, we're still talking about physical health. The goal of physical health is not to love your body. That's not the goal. Okay? That cuts short what the Bible is saying, just like the goal of financial health isn't to love your money, right? That makes sense to us. The goal of physical health is not to love your body. Loving your body is the assumed starting place. The foundation in Christian theology, not the end goal, but the love for our bodies is not an inordinate love. It's not a misplaced love like narcissists. And you know, Greek mythology, it's a properly arranged love for our body because we recognize it as a gift from a good God who loves us. And so we love our body. Even the parts we don't like that much like the widow's peak, right? Like the dry skin, even the parts we don't like very much we still love because it was given to us from a loving father. Now, the goal of physical health is not to love your body, but it's to love God with your body. Why You're not your own, your body with a price. So how, how do we honor God with our bodies? There's of course so many ways to do this because our physical lives are part of everything we do. You've never been anywhere without your body, right? So everywhere you go, there you are. So there's a million different ways that we can love God with our body. So I'm gonna get really practical here. So practical that you might write it off as unspiritual. I I please don't do that. If the goal of physical health is to love God with your body, then consider all of these acts of worship, acts of gratitude to the gift giver to God. So I'm gonna list a lot of things and as I do, here's what I want. I want you to choose one thing, okay? Either choose or allow God to put impress upon your heart one thing that you can do in order to move towards greater health as an act of worship unto God. And you are going to be tempted to feel overwhelmed with this list. Resist that temptation, okay? What's the one thing you are gonna be tempted to guilt? Again, resist that temptation. The heart of this is to see our bodies as something God has created. He has declared as good. And we're gonna come into agreement with that by adopting one new habit in order to bring glory to him with our bodies. So here we go. Here's some really practical things we could do with our bodies, uh, in order to bring him. Honor, first thing, you gotta start here. You gotta start here. Sleep. It's the foundation of our physical health. You cannot out nutrition, you can not out exercise. Poor sleep. So listen man, get the right amount. Get that pillow right, get those blue glasses. I don't know what it takes, right? Do whatever it takes to get the right amount and quality of sleep as a way to honor the Lord. Nutrition. Do you overeat? Do not be mastered by anything. Do you undereat? Listen, your body is a physical organism that functions better when you put the right amount of food in and the right type of food in and the right quantities. I am not saying don't eat the chocolate cake. I'm not saying that , we talked about the bodily resurrection. The Bible talks about on that, on that day, there will be a feast in heaven. There's gonna be chocolate cake. I I promise you , if the feast, if the feast in heaven is radishes and lettuce, I don't think that's, I don't think that's what we're gonna see. So eat the chocolate cake. But what I'm saying is get honest about your, your food intake. How can you just better glorify God with, with your nutrition? How can you do that? 'cause that's how we take care of this gift of a body. On that same note, substance use, again, what we put into our bodies matter because our bodies matter. So if you're reliant or overusing alcohol or some other substance, maybe God, I'm just present upon your heart today, you know what? There's, there's something better for you. Maybe. That's it. Exercise. Listen, the body is teleologically designed, meaning God has built into us a design for our bodies. We got joints, we got muscles. Potatoes don't have joints and muscles. They're not supposed to move. Human beings are supposed to move. Now, this isn't guilting you until like you can only honor the Lord if you win an Ironman race. No, no, no. Just find a way. Come into agreement with God's design for your body and move. Find something that you love or like, or at least something you don't hate. And then do that sex. God has designed this wonderful gift of sex to be en enjoyed within. Its, uh, enjoyed within its perfect design. The perfect design of God is whole body commitment, sex within whole life, commitment, marriage, whole body commitment within whole life commitment. Okay? We're not divided into the bottom half and the top half realm, right? Where we can just say who we are has nothing to do with our sexual activity. No, it's connected, it's integrated. This is a biblical vision of our bodies. So how can you honor God with your body and pursue sexual purity in a new way? Hygiene. Let's talk about that. Okay? This is gonna sound strange, but listen, if your body is a temple of Holy Spirit, then be a good priest and put it in order. Brush them teeth for the Lord. No. Okay, no word of a lie. Last night I was so tired. I was so tired. And the last thing I wanna do is brush my teeth. But I knew I was preaching this this morning. So I went into my bathroom and I was like, Lord, this is for you. I got extra like way at the back. I I was doing it. Here's the thing as I was doing that, I'm like, Lord, this is an act of gratitude for my body. That's what it is. Hygiene is an act of gratitude for your body. I know that sounds silly, but, but can you put it in order as an act of worship on the Lord Work If you're prone to laziness, again, that's a, that's a dishonorable use of the gift of our bodies that we're made to enjoy the blessings of productive work. Rest, if you're prone to overworking and you're not honoring the God-given limits of our body, again, come into agreement with God's design for you. And maybe the Lord would reveal to you that rest is how you can best glorify the Lord to move towards greater physical health. Again, we could talk about a hundred more things, but what is one thing that God would just impress upon your heart in order to move forward as an act of worship unto him? I really do hope that that God's word in my heart have come through clear today, that you're created in Christ's Jesus and he loves what he's made. All of you can you accept in a new way with gratitude, God's design and gift of your body. And the best way to show gratitude to God for your body is not to take it joy riding. The best way to do it is to care for it and honor it because you are not your own. You are the lord's. Let's pray. God, we thank you for your word and we thank you for the gift of our bodies. It's just this common grace that sometimes we take for granted, but we can enjoy food and we can enjoy sex and we can enjoy a relationship and we enjoy moving. We enjoy all these things that we sometimes take for granted and we count as unspiritual. But God, you not only created us, you're not only incarnated in the flesh and you're not only resurrected, but the promise is you will one day resurrect us as well. And so, God, we come into agreement with our body, uh, with your design for it. And we wanna honor you Lord. So Holy Spirit, I pray that you would just speak to each person here and give them idea, give them a God thought on how they can move forward in physical health. Not for vanity, not for self-glorification, not because of guilt, but as a way of showing gratitude and worship to you for our body. God, I pray for my brothers and sisters who are suffering in their body. Lord, there's illness, there's disease, there's injury, there's chronic pain. God, I pray according to faith in Jesus Christ, who is our healer, that you would heal God. We believe it. I've seen it. And so in faith, I pray that you would do that once again. We love you God. And we pray that this would just be a new way that we can show our, our, our, our love for you as we worship you with this gift of the human body. We pray this in your name. Amen. If you do not know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, um, and some of the things that I said today just kind of hit you like what does that mean? I think I want to do this. We'd love to be able to help you walk you through that and what that means. We're gonna have some pastors here at the front left who'd love to pray with you. If you don't have time for that, you're joining us online. We have a QR code you can scan that can kind of help you take some of those next steps. But we really would love to meet you. Thanks for braving the weather. Thanks for not leaving. When you found out we were talking about physical health, right? God bless you, and you'll see you next week.