Participants: Neil Nedley
Series Code: 10AYC
Program Code: 10AYC000003
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00:16 Well, today we are talking about how to
00:19 enhance your intelligence and this has a lot do 00:25 with your success in life. Psychologists tell 00:27 us that the job that you get out of college 00:29 is directly related to your IQ. 00:34 And there is a lot of other things directly 00:36 related to your IQ, including how long you 00:39 live, in fact in the new scientific studies they 00:41 are now having to put that in there, in fact 00:44 just last week, a study was done and published 00:47 in the journal circulation showing that 00:51 IQ was the second most important factor to 00:56 how long you're going to live over another 00:59 lifestyle factor that we'll talk about here in 01:02 little bit. So, intelligence is 01:04 related also to longevity and how long your 01:07 success will be. What is the definition of IQ, 01:09 it's your capacity to learn, retain and apply 01:14 knowledge. All three of those things and its 01:18 not just your capacity to learn, you have to 01:20 Retain it, that means you have to have a 01:22 memory, the temporal lobe of the brain has to 01:25 be working and you also have to be able to 01:27 apply that knowledge in your daily life and 01:30 its often measured by an IQ test. 01:32 How many of you have had an IQ test in this 01:35 row? Wow! I would say the majority of 01:38 Australians have not had their IQ measured 01:43 and I am wondering why? But I won't go into 01:48 the possibilities as to why you haven't had 01:50 yours measured. It's related somewhat to 01:53 academic performance, not completely there is 01:58 something called EQ emotional intelligence, 02:00 it's also very much related to academic 02:02 performance and that has to do with 02:04 motivation. Motivation is separate from IQ, 02:08 but if you have motivation and you have 02:10 IQ it's very directly related to your GPA or 02:14 your academic performance. 02:17 Now, there are some myths about IQ that 02:19 need to be cleared up here today in this 02:22 subject about intelligence, one of 02:24 the myths is genetics is all that matters. 02:29 Now we do know genetics is important and it is 02:32 clear that if your mother and father had high 02:35 IQ there is greater chance that you will have 02:37 it. But its not at all this sole determinant of IQ. 02:44 Another myth says there is nothing you can 02:46 do about it after age 18, and one of those, 02:50 one of the reasons why that myth is 02:52 perpetuated is many 18 year olds in America 02:56 have had their IQ measured, normally you 02:57 have it measured your junior or senior year of 03:01 high school and then they will out of 03:04 curiosity try to measure it after age 30 because 03:08 they have learned so much they would just 03:10 share that their IQ has improved. 03:13 And then when they take the IQ test they 03:15 find out it's the same in most instances, 03:19 it's the same not because we are not measuring 03:21 knowledge. Yes, that 30-year-old has 03:23 accumulated a lot of knowledge but its not 03:25 just accumulated knowledge, we're 03:27 measuring the capacity to learn, retain and 03:29 apply new knowledge. And 30-year-olds often 03:34 don't have that much greater than what they 03:36 did at age 18. However they are significant 03:39 exceptions. I remember a young man who actually 03:45 came in to understanding the four message of 03:48 Bible as a result of health in our town of 03:53 Ardmore, Oklahoma. He came in with a 03:57 vegetarian restaurant there and inquired more 03:59 about the truths of God. He was interested in 04:01 his personal health and he adopted that 04:05 lifestyle, the vegetarian lifestyle and then he 04:09 ended up becoming a fully baptized member 04:12 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but he 04:15 had an issue and part of his issue was IQ. 04:19 Nice looking man, tall, handsome, 04:23 great personality but he did not do well in 04:27 school. He had learned enough to learn the 04:30 Gospel and accept that, but he had a desire to 04:34 really excel and I remember talking to him 04:39 he was coming to me wondering how he could 04:43 excel more in school. And I told him you 04:46 know, maybe first you ought to go to place 04:49 like Mission College where you can learn 04:52 more of the deep truths of word of the God 04:55 and he did that. He went there for six months 04:57 and he enjoyed his time there, but I remember 05:01 calling the director of that school Louie 05:02 Torres, about half way through the course and 05:05 I said tell us, tell me how Les is going, 05:09 he said, you know I am not sure he is gonna 05:11 make it. He is struggling and he is getting some 05:16 of the lowest grades in our classes but he is 05:19 barely, barely surviving. And he says I am 05:23 hoping that he is gonna pull through. 05:27 And at the end he did pull through, he actually 05:28 raised his grades enough, he wasn't by any 05:31 means in the top half of his class. He was in 05:33 the bottom half of his class at Mission 05:35 College, but he learned enough to become a 05:38 Bible worker and he went right into Bible 05:41 work in Colorado. And he was a successful 05:44 Bible worker he had that winning personality 05:47 and that nice appearance that went long with it 05:49 and that helped to make up maybe for some of 05:51 the deficits that he had as far as his IQ was 05:55 concerned. But I remember about a year after 05:58 being in Bible work he came back to me in 06:01 Ardmore, Oklahoma and he says you know 06:04 what I really like to do is to incorporate the 06:08 health message of the Gospel full time. 06:11 I would really like to become a doctor and I 06:14 am thinking Les, there is no way. There is no 06:19 way, I mean in America, I don't know how it 06:22 Is in Australia but on those who try to become 06:25 doctors less than two percent will actually 06:29 make it into medical school and so, you have 06:34 to have a certain IQ to even be able to 06:39 withstand that because of all the information 06:42 that is thrown at you in a four year time period 06:45 that you have to learn. But he says you know I 06:48 really have that desire, so I told them well 06:51 listen to this I gave him as presentation that 06:53 I'm about ready to give you and I said 06:56 incorporate it and really work on it for about a 06:59 year. And I wasn't sure if it was going to be 07:01 successful or not, but he had that desire and I 07:04 didn't want to say no to that desire and so he 07:07 incorporated it. He followed every aspect of 07:10 the message and then he went into the 07:15 pre-med part of things, where he took 07:17 Chemistry and Biology and Physics, and at 07:20 first it was a little rough but then he started 07:22 to excel more and more, and then he took 07:26 his MCAT and now he is in medical school. 07:32 He made it, the top two percent and he is 07:36 having a good time in medical school. 07:38 So, it's a myth that there is nothing that you 07:40 can do after age 18, 'cause he was over 20 by 07:44 the time he first came into the message. 07:46 Another myth, people that are highly 07:48 intelligent are generally irritating to be around. 07:54 That has actually been studied and the study 07:56 show that although some of them are irritating 07:59 to be around, there are no more likely to be 08:02 irritable than people of low IQ or average IQ. 08:06 So irritableness has a lot more to do with EQ 08:09 than IQ and they are not necessarily related. 08:13 Another myth, people that are highly 08:14 intelligent lack common sense and this of 08:18 course it's true in some. Albert Einstein I think 08:20 was a good example and that's maybe how the 08:22 myth was perpetuated. Albert Einstein would 08:25 frequently get lost on his way home. 08:30 And he would just forget about where he was 08:33 at, he was deep in thought and then he would 08:35 have say wait a minute where am I, 08:37 I just passed my house sometime ago. 08:40 And he would have to find it again. 08:44 And then another myth you can't improve it so 08:46 why try, I think we've already dispelled that 08:48 myth because it can be improved upon. 08:50 So, let's talk about how to improve 08:52 intelligence in children and in adults. 08:55 Now what I am going to be presenting to you 08:58 are things that you can do now to improve 09:01 your intelligence and you know I really, 09:04 you know we have limited time, one of 09:06 things I would like to talk about is how you 09:09 can raise you kids to be high IQ. 09:12 There is an environment that's actually started 09:15 in the prenatal and the natal influences and 09:18 then the first five years of life that are 09:20 critically important to how high an IQ your 09:24 own children will have. But that's a whole 09:27 different topic somewhat related, but it is a 09:29 different topic but that will be for another 09:31 time. One is to avoid toxins, toxins to the 09:35 brain will adversely effect IQ and alcohol 09:40 actually effects a certain portion of the 09:42 brain before it effects any other portion of the 09:44 brain. It's called the frontal lobe of the 09:47 brain. This is the area of spirituality, morality 09:52 and the will, it's the area where we make our 09:54 decisions, it's the judgment area of the 09:56 brain, the analytical portion of the brain. 10:00 And when alcohol is on board in fact in 10:02 Australia the legal limit of alcohol 10:04 intoxication is 0.05 percent. 10:09 And I know you have a major problem with 10:11 this in this country, because I was leaving the 10:14 airport I came into Sydney the first time on 10:19 Sunday night and I, the taxi driver picked me 10:23 up and the police had made a line out of the 10:27 airport measuring everyone that came out 10:29 and having them blow into a machine to make 10:31 sure alcohol wasn't on board. Everyone had to 10:34 blow before they could go and this taxi driver 10:38 fortunately passed the test, I was glad to 10:40 see that but studies show that you're at 0.05 10:46 ercent and the police man pulls you over and 10:48 your right at that legal limit, you will you able 10:51 to walk a straight line, you actually will. 10:55 You can walk a straight line, in fact if you're 10:57 skilled at doing so, you can hit a curve ball out 11:01 of a baseball park at that limit. So why is it 11:07 then that your ten times as likely to get into an 11:09 automobile accident. 11:12 It's not your coordination, 11:14 your cerebellum is working fine. 11:16 The problem is your judgment and that's what 11:19 happened to Princess Di's driver. 11:21 No one recognized that he was drunk he was 11:23 walking straight lines, he was conversing 11:25 normally, but he attempted to negotiate a 11:29 turn in a tunnel at a speed that was impossible 11:32 to negotiate. That wreck has been analyzed 11:38 and its been found that the best race car driver 11:41 in the world would not have been able to 11:42 successfully negotiate that turn at that speed 11:47 and thus he lost his life and others lost their 11:49 life as well. Now, once alcohol is out of the 11:51 system the next day you are able to drive 11:55 again. Does driving involve critical abstract 11:59 difficult decision making? 12:03 No. if it did sixteen year olds would not be 12:06 allowed to drive in the world. The reason why 12:10 sixteen and eighteen and twenty year olds can 12:12 drive is because it's a fairly simplistic thing, 12:15 it doesn't require a lot of complex thinking and 12:19 analysis. But studies show once alcohol is 12:22 onboard it takes two weeks for critical 12:28 abstract thinking to comeback, one of the 12:31 reasons why it's best to totally abstain from 12:35 alcohol so the frontal lobe can be in tip top 12:39 shape. Another substance that affects the frontal 12:44 lobe of the brain in a more subtle area is 12:46 Nicotine, but its clear Nicotine has a 12:48 suppression effect on the frontal lobe of the 12:50 brain. Lead also is a toxin that effects IQ, 12:54 one of the reasons why you don't want to have 12:56 your kids play with toys that are laced with 12:58 lead. And the most commonly consumed drug 13:02 in Australia also has a role to play, 13:07 anyone want to guess what it is? 13:09 Caffeine. Caffeine actually affects the 13:12 adenosine receptors in the frontal lobe of the 13:15 brain. Blocks the adenosine receptors, 13:18 it also has too much of another chemical 13:20 acetylcholine available. Acetylcholine, actually 13:27 what it does is it destroys the enzyme 13:29 called acetylcholinesterase 13:31 which makes too much acetylcholine available 13:33 and this why people under the influence of 13:35 caffeine feel stimulated. 13:38 Pavlath studied this out. Typists actually can 13:41 type a little bit faster under the influence of 13:43 caffeine, but they make ten times as many 13:46 errors. And recently there was a study done on 13:50 caffeine and gossip. 13:56 Now the definition of gossip that was used in 13:58 this study was sharing private information 14:01 with someone who is not part of the problem 14:03 or part of the solution to the problem. 14:06 And studies show when you have caffeine 14:08 onboard you're significantly more likely 14:10 to do that when you don't, than when you 14:12 don't have caffeine onboard. And that simply 14:17 due to that loss of break in the frontal lobe of 14:20 the brain that comes from blocking those 14:23 adenosine receptors. Now this is even izn, 14:29 this information is caught up with the 14:31 National football league in America, 14:34 we just had the biggest, most watched sporting 14:36 event of the year, the Superbowl occured. 14:40 And interestingly those linemen and those 14:44 blockers, the one trying to protect the 14:47 the ones that are trying 14:49 to get to the quarterback are told to consume 14:53 caffeine. But there is one individual on that 14:57 field that is told to consume no caffeine 15:02 and guess who that is? It's actually the 15:06 quarterback. And the quarterback is the one 15:08 that has to get away from those people that 15:10 are juiced up with caffeine. So, why 15:12 shouldn't he have caffeine onboard? 15:20 There is a lot of information coming into 15:22 that quarterback in about three seconds and 15:24 he has to make a wise decision. 15:26 It requires an active frontal lobe of the brain 15:30 to make that wise decision. And studies 15:32 show when caffeine is onboard is more likely 15:34 to make the wrong decision. And so if it's 15:37 true in regards to NFL quarterbacks with the 15:40 decisions that were having to make moment 15:42 by moment, analyzing information and 15:45 making wise decisions, it would make sense 15:47 for us also to go caffeine free. Another 15:51 thing that has to do with IQ is breathing, 15:55 the study was done at Harvard University for 15:57 children, healthy lungs may mean healthier 15:59 scores on tests of memory learning and 16:01 intelligence. Researchers at Harvard 16:03 University examined data of 165 Boston 16:06 children who have been followed since birth. 16:08 At the age of six, the children had their lung 16:10 function tested. At age nine, they completed 16:12 standard tests of memory learning ability and 16:15 intelligence. And the researchers found that 16:17 for each increase in the children's 16:19 lung-function performance, there was a 16:21 corresponding increase in their cognitive-test 16:24 score. This previously was shown in adults to 16:29 be the case, young adults and now it's shown 16:32 to be case also in children and part of 16:35 this, that is emphasized is deep breathing. 16:40 In fact it was interesting when this 16:41 study came out I actually plugged in the 16:43 phrase deep breathing into Ellen White's 16:48 CD-ROM and I was going to show that to 16:52 you, I think it's actually a hidden slide, 16:54 I don't know if anyone up there might be able 16:56 to unhide the slide, but interestingly what she 17:00 stated was those that participate in exercises 17:06 for deep breathing will have an advantage and 17:09 she recommended that every educational 17:12 institution, actually institute in children the 17:17 exercise of deep breathing. Here it is, 17:19 the one who sits and stands erect is more 17:21 likely than others to breathe properly. 17:23 But the teacher should impress upon his pupils 17:25 the importance of deep breathing. Show how 17:27 the healthy action of the respiratory organs, 17:29 assisting the circulation of the blood 17:31 invigorates the whole system, excites the 17:33 appetite, promotes digestion, and induces 17:36 sound, sweet sleep, thus not only refreshing 17:38 the body but soothing and tranquilizing the 17:40 mind. And while the importance of deep 17:42 breathing is shown, the practice should be 17:44 what? Insisted upon. Let exercises be given 17:49 which will promote this, and see that the habit 17:51 becomes established. And so, this is why 17:53 even posture and even sitting in an 17:55 environment where you're in classes all day 17:58 or you are at AYC, it's important to take those 18:01 slow deep breathes, actually it will 18:04 oxygenate the brain better and you will have 18:07 better frontal lobe as well as better retention, 18:10 better temporal lobe function. 18:13 Now, there is one lifestyle habit that's 18:15 been shown to be the most critically 18:18 associated, at least at Brigham Young 18:19 University. Forty thousand student body in 18:23 regards to their GPA. This lifestyle factor is 18:29 very much related to melatonin. 18:32 And melatonin comes about as a result of 18:34 darkness and being in a dark environment as 18:38 you can see on the screen once darkness 18:40 hits, melatonin starts to spike. In peak it will 18:43 peak around 2 o'clock in the morning and 18:45 when the light comes in the room in the 18:47 morning it shuts down again. Melatonin is 18:50 very much related to your ability to retain 18:54 the information that you learned that day. 18:59 Now, if you go to bed two hours later than 9 19:03 o'clock of if you go to bed at midnight you 19:06 will decrease the area under that curve by 19:08 about 50 percent, so you will have less 19:11 melatonin output as a result of being a 19:14 late-nighter. And what Brigham Young 19:17 University found out is a lifestyle factor most 19:20 connected to GPA was early to bed, early to 19:24 rise. Interestingly Ellen White was also ahead 19:28 of her time on this, she said sleep is worth far 19:32 more before then after midnight. 19:35 Two hours good sleep before 12 o'clock is 19:37 worth more than four hours after 12 o'clock. 19:41 I've actually seen that statement after my 19:43 freshman year of college. I was in pre-med at 19:48 Andrew's University and I had taken just, 19:51 while I had taken General Chemistry and 19:53 Calculus, those were the two hard classes for 19:55 my freshman year. And my sophomore year, 19:59 I had lined up to take organic chemistry, 20:02 foundations of biology, physics for scientists 20:06 and engineers, which is a calculus based 20:08 physics and then quantitative analysis, 20:12 another advanced chemistry course. 20:14 So, I had classes all morning and then every 20:17 afternoon I had a lab associated with one of 20:19 those classes. So Monday was Physics lab, 20:21 Tuesday biology, etcetera. And my adviser 20:25 Dr. Wilkins said, Neil if you want to go 20:29 medical school I would recommend you not 20:31 do this. You need to get good grades and one 20:35 or two of these subjects is hard enough, 20:36 but all four of them. Well I said the problem 20:39 is Dr. Wilkins I have been looking at all the 20:41 subjects I want to take and I can't get them all 20:44 in unless I do this year like that. I said you 20:49 know, can I try it and then if I am not doing so 20:52 well maybe I can drop a class or two, so that I 20:55 am not adversely effected in regards to getting 20:58 into medical school. He says well you can try 21:01 it but I wouldn't recommend it. 21:02 Well, I was used to going to bed at 11:30 and I 21:05 changed my bed time, I actually after class I 21:10 remember I am having class all day long, 21:12 I work in the evening, I actually worked as a 21:14 tutor for the freshmen class and my class, 21:18 my work got out at 9 pm and so the only study 21:23 time I had was in the morning before class, 21:25 so I was used to going to bed at 11:30, 21:27 now I want to bed at 9 o'clock. I got up at 4 21:30 am. The first thing I did was to read spiritual 21:34 material and spend some time with the Lord 21:37 and then I would spend just a few minutes, 21:42 it was never more than 60 or 90 minutes 21:44 studying all of those subjects and then I would 21:47 go out for a three mile run around the track, 21:51 I would make it to breakfast and then I 21:54 would make it to my 07:30 class as the bell 21:56 was ringing. And that was my study 21:59 time and at the end of that semester my GPA 22:03 was 4.0, far higher then it was my freshman 22:07 year with easier classes. And so indeed 22:10 melatonin is critically important I can tell you 22:12 from personal experience early to bed, early to 22:15 rise makes a person, you have this saying in 22:19 Australia. Healthy, wealthy and wise. 22:25 And actually there is study showing that in our 22:27 business community where the top business 22:29 leaders come and meet or when they meet is 22:32 always early in the morning, they're early to 22:34 bed, early to risers, they'll love to meet at 22:37 6 O'clock in the morning to plan how the town 22:40 is going to run. There is no one else there, 22:44 its quiet, they can have that thinking time 22:46 there and virtually the only one that have the 22:50 money who are not doing that is the 22:52 entertainment industry. The entertainment 22:54 industry is linked with major depression and 22:57 the more depressed you are, the more you feel 23:00 better as you are sleep deprived. That's one of 23:03 the reason why the late-nighters tend to be 23:06 associated there with the entertainment 23:09 industry. And fortunately they can also get out 23:11 of program, they come to us and within seven 23:13 days they're early to bed, early risers. 23:15 We can face shift them with light therapy and 23:18 with proper sleep. Diet also has a role 23:20 to play in regards to IQ, high carb low fat diet 23:25 will improve weight loss, enhance moods, 23:27 speed, thinking and while both the high and 23:29 low carb diet seem to boost the speed of 23:31 cognitive processing, the interesting result 23:33 that compared to the high carb diet, 23:35 subjects consuming the low-carb diet had a 23:37 smaller improvement. So just being on a more 23:40 lean portion of food can be helpful but its 23:44 much better to be on the high carb, 23:46 low-fat diet and that's what the frontal lobe 23:49 desires for optimal function is a diet higher 23:52 in carbohydrates. What foods have 23:54 carbohydrates in them? 24:01 Carbohydrates are used almost exclusively by 24:03 the brain for optimal function, 24:05 but carbohydrates are present in fruits, 24:08 vegetables, nuts and grains. Interestingly the 24:11 original diet in Genesis chapter 1, Ellen White 24:15 quotes those four fruit groups and says 24:17 "They impart a strength, the power of endurance, 24:19 and a vigor of intellect that are not afforded by 24:21 a more complex and stimulating diet." 24:25 And so there is an advantage to a diet that 24:29 is plant based. In fact in another place she 24:36 talks about the adverse effect of food high in 24:39 protein and high in fat virtually no 24:40 carbohydrate, which is primarily your meat 24:42 food. Meat is a carbohydrate deficient 24:45 food, one of the reasons why it doesn't come 24:47 out on top as far as the best for brain function. 24:51 Sugar is a carbohydrate, I remember in the 3rd 24:54 grade after the researchers found out 24:56 that carbs are good for the frontal lobe, 24:58 I was handed a candy bar and I said, 25:00 the person who handed it to me said here have 25:02 some brain food and I said really? 25:04 And he said yeah, carbs are good for the brain. 25:06 This candy bar is loaded with it. Should be 25:08 great for your brain. Well, I wondered about 25:11 that, but I didn't just a few years later it was 25:15 studied in Iowa and then in other places, 25:17 actually high sugar diet impairs frontal lobe 25:20 function in school age children significantly. 25:23 In fact it makes over a great later difference 25:25 performance in studies particularly if they 25:29 involve having to think. Now if it's just 25:31 memory you can do alright in most cases but 25:35 if you're having to think about the problem 25:37 and come up with a solution to it, it makes 25:39 powerful difference, one of the reasons why is 25:42 when we eat a candy bar our pancreas thinks 25:44 we have had a large amount of fruits, 25:46 grains, nuts and vegetables, 'cause our 25:48 blood sugar spikes. Then it cranks out a high 25:50 amount of insulin within 20 minutes we're in 25:53 the mildly hyperglycemic phase and it takes 25:56 four hours for the frontal lobe to fully 25:59 recuperate from that. And so at first the 26:02 person feels a little bit hungry, they snack 26:04 again but they're still under that four hour 26:06 recovery time and they're taking their test 26:09 during that time it does make a difference in 26:12 adverse of performance. Arachidonic acid also 26:16 decreases the synthesis and storage of 26:18 acetylcholine, an important neuro 26:20 transmitter in the frontal lobe of the brain 26:22 and its primarily present in flesh foods and 26:25 one of the reasons why Pavlath showed that 26:28 meat and intelligence are not related. 26:32 Ellen White says this, eating much flesh will 26:33 diminish intellectual activity. Students would 26:36 accomplish much more in their studies if they 26:38 did what, never tasted meat. When the animal 26:41 part of the human nature is strengthened by 26:43 meat-eating, the intellectual power 26:45 diminishes proportionately. 26:47 Now interestingly there was a study done in 26:49 Great Britain not long ago. On the opposite 26:52 effect, in other words IQ and its relationship 26:57 to vegetarianism. What this study showed in 27:02 Great Britain was that children with high IQs 27:05 are more likely to become vegetarians when 27:08 they grow up. Study of more than 8,000 men 27:11 and women aged 30, whose IQs had been 27:13 measured when they were 10, showed that the 27:15 higher the IQ, the greater the odds of 27:18 becoming a vegetarian. For each 15-point 27:21 increase in IQ in the study, the likelihood of 27:23 being a vegetarian rose by 38 percent. 27:27 Even after adjustment to factors such as social 27:30 class and education the link was still 27:32 consistent. And so if you don't have much 27:34 time when someone ask you why your a 27:36 vegetarian you can give them the simple two 27:38 word answer. High IQ. 27:44 Now, it's not just a plant-based diet that can 27:46 be helpful or just a vegetarian diet, 27:49 some vegetarian diets can be unhealthy. 27:51 You know, even eating or drinking soft drinks 27:54 is part of a vegetarian diet, but it's not the 27:57 healthiest and also it depends on what else 28:01 we are getting with that vegetarian diet. 28:04 This was a study done by Bruce Taylor in 28:07 New York. Bruce Taylor was a Pathologist. 28:10 There were medical students in his medical 28:12 school that wanted to publish some research, 28:14 so they could graduate from medical school 28:17 and so they decided to feed rabbits and 28:18 monkeys 100 percent cholesterol and see what 28:24 would happen to their arteries, but they 28:27 needed the cholesterol. So, they came to him 28:30 together and he says well its been over there 28:32 in the corner, its been there for a while, 28:33 but its nothing but pure cholesterol, 28:35 if you want to feed pure cholesterol to them 28:37 go ahead. So, they did and within a few short 28:42 weeks all of them had a decrease in activity of 28:46 their brain and they began to actually have 28:49 strokes. Small strokes and some of them major 28:52 strokes and major heart attacks. And they 28:56 came back to Dr. Taylor and said is there 28:59 anything else in there besides cholesterol? 29:01 He said no, pure cholesterol. 29:05 They mentioned the results. He said 29:06 cholesterol is bad, but it shouldn't have been 29:08 that bad, in that quick a time and then he 29:11 began to think and he recognized the 29:13 cholesterol he had given them had been in a 29:15 bucket that has been exposed to the air it had 29:18 become discolored and then he decided to do 29:22 something else. Let's feed pure cholesterol to 29:25 rabbits and monkeys that have never been 29:27 exposed to the air. 29:30 And so instead of being discolored it was a 29:32 clearer substance, clear white and he found 29:36 out none of them developed any 29:38 atherosclerosis with that. Then he decided to 29:41 do something else. He fed food to the 29:44 monkeys and within 24 hours he would count 29:47 the dead cells in there in order from the 29:49 oxidized cholesterol, the oxidized cholesterol 29:52 that's the most damaging. Anyone want to guess 29:55 what the most harmful food was to monkey 30:00 blood vessels in Dr. Taylor's study? 30:07 Number one, custards, now what are custards? 30:13 What are custards made out of? 30:16 Milk, sugar and eggs. When you mix up 30:19 cholesterol in a sugar environment and eggs 30:23 are particularly loaded, you're going to oxidize 30:27 that cholesterol and cause significant damage, 30:30 doesn't take long within 24 hours. What's the 30:32 most commonly consumed custard in 30:34 America? Or in Australia, I think it's the most 30:38 commonly consumed one here as well. 30:41 It's actually good old fashioned ice cream and 30:44 it's one of the reasons why it's good that they 30:47 are ice creams cropping up that have no 30:49 cholesterol. You know there is the banana ice 30:51 cream that you can put through the frozen 30:53 bananas in champion juicer, there is Tofutti 30:57 and last year I came across a food 31:01 manufacturer, actually he read our book, 31:03 Prove Positive, totally changed his life, 31:05 he was having a lot of health problems. 31:08 He was a multi millionaire rancher up in 31:09 Montana and I was speaking in his area, 31:12 didn't even know he existed but he found out 31:14 I was there he came there and wanted me to 31:16 take him, take me to his house. 31:19 I ended up spending the night with him, 31:21 with him and his family, a great guy, 31:23 but his ice cream was the best that I had ever 31:28 had. And he has 32 flavors, one more than 31:32 Baskin Robins and its not Soy based, its 31:36 oatmeal based. And his problem after I ate it 31:39 and my boys were there too and they were 31:43 raving about it, everyone raves about his 31:45 cream. He told me about his problem of 31:48 naming the ice cream. You can't call it ice 31:52 cream that doesn't have dairy in it in America. 31:56 And of course this was better than ice, 31:58 then any ice cream that any of us have eaten, 32:01 including the dairy ice cream and but a week 32:05 later he called me up and he said I found out 32:07 the name, I woke up with it in the middle of 32:09 the night. He is going to call it; we can't say 32:12 its ice cream. 32:15 And he's also come out with something to 32:18 compete against number 2, and 3 as well. 32:20 Number 2, the most damaging was pancake 32:24 mix, pancake mix is primarily powdered egg, 32:27 its cholesterol or oxidized cholesterol from 32:30 the powdered eggs and it was tied with three, 32:32 Parmesan cheese, the powdered cheese and 32:35 that's not a misprint. Lard was number three 32:37 as well. They're both tied for number 3 as 32:40 being the worst as far as harmful within 24 32:45 hours to the aorta and what they can do to the 32:49 brain blood cells. Now I am going to ask our 32:51 team also to go ahead and unhide the next 32:54 slide that I had in this presentation. 32:57 Because its interesting again far ahead of our 33:01 time was Ellen White on this subject before 33:05 Bruce Taylor came up with it there were some 33:07 questions in regard to that, but she said 33:11 especially harmful are the, what? 33:17 Especially harmful are the custards and 33:21 puddings in which milk, eggs, and sugar are 33:24 the chief ingredients. The free use of milk and 33:26 sugar together should be what? 33:29 Avoided. Far ahead of our time. 33:32 Physical exercise, also critically important in 33:35 regards to IQ and it's their aerobic physical 33:39 exercise that seems to be the most beneficial 33:42 but there is another type of exercise that's 33:44 helpful as well. This study showed working 33:46 with one's own hands in a real world 3D 33:50 environment is imperative for full cognitive 33:53 and intellectual development, Dr. Eric 33:56 Sigmund says, with woodwork, metal work, 33:59 craft, music or car mechanic classes dropped 34:01 by many schools and children wanting to play 34:03 computer games at home, the western world is 34:06 becoming a software instead of a screwdriver 34:09 society. And there are problems with that he 34:13 mentions. Research is showing that increasing 34:15 time spent in the virtual world of computers is 34:17 displacing hands-on play and hands-on 34:20 learning. 3D learning allows young people to 34:23 experience how the world works in practice, 34:25 to gain an understanding of materials and 34:27 processes and to make informed judgments 34:30 about abstract concepts. 34:33 And so working with your hands in a 3D 34:36 world environment actually improves 34:39 cognitive function improves IQ. He did 34:41 studies in regards to even engineering 34:43 students. Engineering students are starting out 34:45 at an all time low, because they have 34:48 difficulty in conceptualizing these 34:51 things coming from that, their software society 34:54 instead of yesteryear's screwdriver society. 34:59 Ellen White also talks about the importance of 35:01 work and particularly fast work in regards to 35:07 mental activity. She says there is no excuse for 35:10 slow bungling at work of any character. 35:12 When one is always at work and the work is 35:14 never done it is because mind and heart are not 35:16 put into the labor. The one who is slow and 35:19 who works at a disadvantage should 35:21 realize that these are faults to be corrected. 35:23 He needs to exercise his mind in planning how 35:26 to use the time as to secure the best results. 35:30 By tact and method, some will accomplish as 35:32 much in five hours as others do in ten. 35:36 And so part of this work is the aerobic part of 35:39 it as well. Getting some of it maybe mindless 35:42 per say, we have to plan and we have to do by 35:45 tact and method, but this mindless fast work 35:48 of the hands actually helps to develop the 35:50 brain and keep that brain smart. 35:53 And that's why at Weimar Center of Health 35:55 and Education, where we are leading out in an 35:59 academy, in college and a lifestyle health 36:01 center. Physical labor is a critical ingredient 36:05 for every faculty member and for every 36:08 student that's there. Whether it's garden work 36:11 or other type of physical labor work and you 36:14 know who we have the hardest time with in 36:16 regards to getting that labor done, 36:20 not within the students, it's actually within the 36:23 faculty, lot of our faculty are not used to 36:27 sort of thing and they tell me you know there 36:29 is intense classes I am having to teach, 36:31 I'm having to prepare, don't have the time for 36:33 it but then when we tell them this is a must 36:36 as far as Weimar they go out and do it and 36:38 they come back with smiles on their faces and 36:40 they feel refreshed and they talk about how 36:42 much more efficient they are in preparing for 36:45 their classes, something critical about regular 36:49 physical labor. While hypnosis will also 36:52 counteract IQ. In fact this comes from a 36:55 hypnosis text book, hypnosis attempts to 36:58 cancel out frontal lobe functions and bring 37:00 people into a trance in which they're highly 37:02 suggestible. This is most easily accomplished 37:05 by training the eyes to focus in on one object, 37:07 the best object being a little flickering light. 37:12 The person will record information and duties 37:14 without interpretation, or without frontal lobe 37:16 activity. Now, lot of people may not realize it 37:20 but they could have a hypnotic instrument in 37:22 their own home, what trains the eyes to focus 37:25 in one object and flicker. 37:30 Yes, and what produces that flicker is the 37:33 rapid scene of reference change. 37:35 Now you maybe watching this on 37:36 television on Three Angels Broadcasting 37:39 Network and if you are rest assured it's not 37:42 going to suppress your frontal lobe, you know 37:44 why it won't? The average scene is not 37:47 changing every three seconds like it does in 37:49 movies and entertainment television. 37:51 We sit people down in front of their favorite 37:53 TV program and within 90 seconds to utmost 37:56 three minutes they're no longer in beta wave 37:58 activity, they are in alpha wave rhythm, 38:00 which is a hypnotic rhythm. Their memory is 38:03 still working, their emotions are working, 38:04 they can laugh and cry with the scene, 38:06 but there are no longer putting it in the 38:08 appropriate sub sense. And this is why they 38:11 can laugh at hideous things that if they 38:12 occurred in real life they would be uphauling, 38:15 because of the hypnotic stage that they are in. 38:18 There are 17 detrimental effects on the frontal 38:21 lobe of the brain that entertainment television 38:25 has been proven to do, over 3000 studies have 38:26 been done on it; over 300 books have been 38:28 written on the subject and they all show a 38:30 decline in frontal lobe function. It decreases 38:34 interest in learning. It decreases interest in 38:37 reading. Decrease in IQ scores. Decrease in 38:40 academic performance. Decrease in 38:42 discernment. Increase in day dreaming and a 38:45 decrease in creative ingenuity. 38:47 In fact one of our professors at one of our 38:49 colleges, Columbia Union College, 38:54 who taught communications for years, 38:55 people would come because they wanted to be 38:57 experts in the media and sometimes they 39:00 would fail his communications class and 39:02 they would say this is what I want to do for 39:04 my life. I am failing and he would tell them 39:07 one piece of information that would help them. 39:10 He would tell them to go home and stop 39:12 watching television and movies, and in one 39:15 year come back and take his class, students 39:18 would do that and they would come back and 39:20 get an A. Interestingly the top Hollywood 39:24 producers, who design the sets in the movies 39:30 and everything about it, themselves don't 39:33 watch entertainment television because they 39:36 know it's gonna suppress their creativity. 39:38 And they'll tell you about this. They will 39:42 tell you about it in interviews etcetera. 39:44 They might watch what someone else has 39:45 done for 90 seconds to utmost three minutes 39:47 but they're not going to watch a full length 39:49 movie because of what it's going to do in 39:52 suppressing the frontal lobe of their brain in 39:54 regards to creativity. 39:57 This study done not long ago and published at 40:00 Columbia University and published in the 40:02 Journal pediatrics, the more TV adolescents 40:05 watch the more likely they are to develop 40:06 attention and learning problems, and do poorly 40:08 in school in the long-run. The amount 40:10 of TV kids watch when they were 14 was 40:12 positively linked with having attention 40:14 problems later, not doing homework, 40:16 being bored at school, not finishing 40:18 high school and hating school the researchers 40:20 found. 14 year olds who added 1 more daily 40:23 hour of TV doubled their risk of academic 40:26 failure at age 16. And unfortunately it's not 40:29 just a problem of teenagers, that can be 40:31 problem of college students as well. 40:33 And what we are finding out, entertainment 40:36 television does suppress the frontal lobe of the 40:38 brain you can see on pet scans etcetera, 40:41 and this is the area where spirituality, 40:44 morality and the Will are centered, this is the 40:46 area where the Lord can communicate with us 40:48 through the Holy Spirit. But interestingly what 40:50 we're also finding out is what suppresses the 40:53 frontal lobe seems to also effect physical 40:56 health and longevity. For instance when the 40:59 frontal lobe is suppressed far greater 41:01 you're gonna have an anxiety disorder or 41:03 depression come about as a result. This study 41:06 was done in Australia and published just one 41:08 month ago from a study in Victoria, 41:11 compared with adults who watch less then two 41:14 hours of TV that day, those who watch more 41:17 then four hours had a 46 percent higher risk of 41:19 death from all causes and an 80 percent higher 41:23 risk of cardiovascular death during the six 41:25 year study period. Each hour is spend in the 41:27 front of the TV per day raised a person's risk 41:30 of death from cardiovascular disease by 41:32 18 percent and the risk of cancer by nine 41:35 percent. In fact the study's authors were 41:38 stymied, at first they thought it was the 41:40 sitting but then they realized it wasn't just 41:42 the sitting, the pattern held even after the 41:44 researchers took into account the education 41:46 level, the overall health of the participants, 41:48 their age, whether they smoked, 41:50 their cholesterol and blood pressure. 41:52 What's more, exercise doesn't necessary make 41:54 up for the long seasons in front of the tube. 41:57 Dunstan and his colleagues figured into 42:00 their analysis how much study participants 42:02 exercise when they compared groups of adults 42:05 who exercise the same amount but watch 42:07 varying amounts of TV, those who watch 42:09 more TV were still at a higher risk of dying, 42:12 during the six year study. Reading or doing 42:15 homework doesn't seem to be associated with 42:17 risk factors in regards to death. So, it's not 42:20 just sitting 'cause reading homework and 42:23 sitting in a class is not associated with it and 42:28 thus, notice that last quote, we are not sure if 42:31 it's the sedentary behavior itself or 42:34 something inherent about or associated with 42:38 TV viewing. And I think that it's clear by 42:40 other studies is that association is what 42:43 suppresses frontal lobe function is bad for the 42:45 health, it can even increase the risk of 42:48 and heart disease. Music also has a role to 42:51 play in regards to IQ. I can go through a 42:55 number of studies showing that even this 11 42:58 year old burning to play the cello at an 43:00 age increased his IQ as a result of that. 43:05 And having your children learn an 43:08 instrument is important. Music enters the brain 43:11 through its emotional regions, which include 43:12 the temporal lobe and limbic system. 43:14 From there, some kind of music tend to 43:16 produce a frontal lobe response that influences 43:18 the Will, moral worth, and reasoning power. 43:21 The type of music that shown to be most 43:23 beneficial is the traditional classical 43:26 music, this was a picture that I took 43:28 myself at the Dallas symphony during the 43:31 Christmas concert not long ago. Beautiful 43:34 music, it sold out 12 nights in a row, 43:37 they don't have to advertise it and there is 43:41 upsurge of classical music occurring around 43:45 the globe simply because, part of the reason is 43:48 the study showing the benefit as far as 43:50 organizing the brain is concerned and in 43:53 regards to IQ. In fact an interesting, 43:56 interestingly other kinds of music will evoke 44:00 very little if any frontal lobe response but will 44:02 produce a large emotional response with very 44:04 little logical or moral interpretation and that's 44:07 characterized by the syncopated rock and roll 44:10 rhythms they are prevalent in our day. 44:12 Showing that upbeat music is not necessarily 44:15 uplifting music. In fact last week I was 44:18 speaking in Melbourne and the person who 44:20 took me to the, picked me up from the airport 44:23 is getting his PhD in sports psychology at the 44:27 university down there. He is into sports 44:29 himself but he is every interested in what can 44:32 enhance the sports performance and so he has 44:35 gone along with his professors some study on 44:38 music and sports performance and the first 44:41 study he did was on accuracy of shooting a 44:45 pistol and music associated with it, 44:48 the first music they used was the type of 44:50 music that you would normally see on TV 44:52 when people are shooting pistol. 44:56 For sport what type of music that would be? 44:59 It's the syncopated rock and roll rhythms that 45:02 are there and they would play that to them 45:04 and they found out it decreased their accuracy 45:06 significantly. They were tended to be all over 45:09 the place when that music was played during 45:11 or before, then they played them more 45:15 peaceful, classical music or even more 45:18 energetic classical music and they find out 45:20 it increased their accuracy significantly, 45:26 multiple fold as a result of music. 45:28 And so music can organize the brain, 45:30 the baroque music by Boch, Handel seems to 45:33 be very beneficial, there are other 45:35 composers like Giuseppe and even more 45:37 modern composers that write in the 45:39 classical realm that are helpful. 45:42 Fortunately most of our hymns are actually 45:44 classical music. They were written by classical 45:47 composers, the hymns can be a very beneficial 45:49 thing as far as the brain is concerned. 45:52 This study, 24 university students performed 45:55 two tasks of attention. Positive moods were 45:58 induced by playing Bach's Brandenburg 45:59 Concerto No. 3 and negative moods by 46:02 Prokofiev piece played at half speed. 46:05 Now that tells you something else, not all 46:07 classical is helpful. Prokofievs doesn't have 46:10 that melodious classical and particularly when 46:15 its played it will induce problems to the brain 46:18 but when its played at half speed its even more 46:20 problematic and it will induce depression in 46:23 anybody who listens to it. Interestingly the up, 46:26 the opposite would be in fact in Bach's 46:28 Brandenburg Concerto. Even if you don't have 46:30 a relish for classical music, if you listen to 46:33 Bach's Brandenburg Concerto you'll actually 46:35 improve your frontal lobe and your happiness 46:39 scale. To produce a neutral mood participants 46:41 read a series of facts and figures about 46:44 Canada. Hopefully there aren't any Canadians 46:46 here but if there are that's how they induce 46:49 the neutral mood. The study showed when 46:53 they were in a positive mood participants 46:55 scored higher on remote associates task - a 46:58 measure of creative thinking. 47:00 When feeling happy, Anderson explained, 47:02 "your attentional window is actually bigger 47:05 - it's like looking through a big widow versus 47:07 a small window." And so creativity along with 47:10 frontal lobe function significantly improves. 47:14 Alvin Toffler comes from the very secular 47:16 perspective as many of these scientists do, 47:18 but he states this constant stimulation of 47:21 the senses shuts down the analytical processes. 47:25 And this I think underscores one of the 47:28 reasons why we are seeing an all time high 47:32 rates of depression in the western world to a 47:35 large degree. We have more fun things to do 47:38 than ever before in human history and if 47:40 these fun things prevented or treated 47:42 depression what should we see? We should 47:45 see the lowest rates of depression ever 47:47 recorded in human history, but yet we have 47:49 higher rates and part of those higher rates is a 47:51 lot of the entertainment and fun things 47:53 including the music, videos games, other 47:57 forms of entertainment actually suppress the 47:59 analytical processes. As Alvin Toffler says 48:02 constant stimulation of the senses shuts down 48:05 the analytical processes and ultimately shuts 48:08 down the ability to face life rationally. 48:10 What will happen? He says, this leads to 48:12 escape techniques that involve withdrawal, 48:14 apathy and rejection of disciplined thinking 48:17 when faced with difficult duties and decisions, 48:20 and what sets it all off? It's that constant 48:23 stimulation. You not only have the syncopated 48:25 rock and roll music, you have the essential 48:27 images on the screen, moving in rapid 48:30 succession we call it MTV, showing a very 48:33 profound effect in regards to reducing 48:36 frontal lobe function in a profound adverse 48:39 effect in regards to IQ as well. 48:44 Well the brain is a lot like a muscle, if we 48:48 don't use it what's going to happen? 48:51 We are going to lose it. And so we actually 48:53 need to use our analytical portions of 48:56 our brain to preserve as well as to expand our 49:00 intelligence. There is a book written called 49:03 education by the pen of Ellen White. 49:06 Secretary of Education California recently 49:08 said it's far ahead of its time and if the state 49:11 of California would apply these principles in 49:14 their educational system they would lead the 49:16 world in education. No doubt a lot of the 49:19 statements that she has made have been now 49:22 shown to be true in educational studies, 49:25 but in the middle of this book she says, 49:26 as a means of intellectual training 49:29 the Bible is more effective than any other 49:32 book, or all other books combined. 49:35 This is why the complete AYC experience can 49:38 actually enhance your IQ, because we are 49:41 studying the Bible. She says, the greatness of 49:44 its themes, the dignified simplicity of 49:46 its utterances, the beauty of its imagery, 49:49 quicken and uplift the thoughts as nothing else 49:51 can. No other study can impart such mental 49:54 power as does the effort to grasp the 49:56 stupendous truths of Revelation. 49:59 The mind thus brought in contact with the 50:01 thoughts of the infinite cannot but expand and 50:03 strengthen. And so I ask you they actually 50:10 I had, this is not a comprehensive lecture on 50:12 improving your IQ, I'm reaching the 50:14 highlights, but if you want to get more 50:16 comprehensive presentation I would 50:18 encourage you to do what T. Colin Campbell 50:20 recommends. He is the author of The China 50:23 Study, professor at Cornell University in 50:27 nutritional biochemistry and one of the most well 50:30 thought researcher in America. And recently 50:33 well about a few years ago he was interviewed 50:36 on February 24, 2005. He is not really a 50:39 Christian per se but a member of our faith and 50:42 someone showed him actually picked up 50:45 himself I believe or someone showed him 50:47 some of the multiple books written by Ellen 50:51 White. And he says I am not aware of anyone 50:55 who was more on point than Ellen White. 50:58 Given her background she is truly an amazing 51:01 woman. I am convinced that almost 100 51:04 percent of her statements are now 51:05 substantially supported by the scientific 51:08 evidence that has been developed during the 51:09 past 2-3 decades. And then he went on, 51:12 what I have come to realize to even deeply 51:16 worry about is why it is that this message of 51:19 Ellen White and others has been so mislaid on 51:21 shelves out of sight. It is abundantly clear to 51:26 me that now is the time to bring this forward 51:28 in whatever way that each of us are able to 51:32 do. So, I ask you here this afternoon do you 51:36 want to be more intelligent. Do you want 51:39 to be more analytical? You want to make 51:42 better decisions? You want to have a greater 51:45 capacity to empathize with others, that's also 51:48 very much connected with the frontal lobe of 51:50 the brain. You want to have a better 51:52 discernment? You want to have a greater 51:54 ability to see into the future, to reason from 51:57 cause to effect? You want to have a greater 51:59 ability to overcome an addiction? 52:01 That also requires an intact frontal lobe. 52:04 You want to have a greater power to follow 52:05 your conscience and finally do you want to be 52:08 more open to understanding and doing 52:10 the will of God. If you answer yes to any of 52:13 these questions, I would encourage you to 52:17 review your life habits and what you do on a 52:20 daily basis and see what you can do to change 52:23 your lifestyle to optimize your brain 52:27 function, particularly the frontal lobe of your 52:30 brain, your life is in front of you and your 52:33 success and happiness in this life is directly 52:36 dependent upon your ability to make those 52:40 positive changes that can also help the Holy 52:44 Spirit influence you to a greater degree. 52:46 Daniel chapter 1, Daniel had a tremendous 52:50 disappointment in his life and verse 8 says 52:53 Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not 52:56 defile himself with the King's meat nor with 53:00 the wine which he drink. Therefore he 53:03 requested the prince of the eunuchs that he 53:05 might not defile himself. Daniel purposed in 53:10 his heart and other way of saying that is 53:12 Daniel stepped out in faith and followed the 53:14 Lord's plan. Now some people might say well 53:17 wait a minute we don't have the King's meat. 53:19 I saw right here in Sydney, Australia Burger 53:22 King. I found, I even saw a Dairy Queen, 53:28 there is lot of royal food around here still, 53:32 and so you have the choice between the royal 53:35 food or what the culture is saying that 53:37 you should eat or you have a choice of 53:40 purposing in your heart and like Daniel 53:43 stepping out in faith. Verse 9 says, 53:48 the Lord poured favor and tender love into the 53:51 prince of the eunuchs for Daniel. And so who 53:57 was it that poured that favor and tender love. 54:00 It was the Lord who poured at him in response 54:03 to Daniel's faith. Now another word for favor 54:06 and tender love is great, so Daniel stepped out 54:09 in faith and the Lord poured grace into his 54:12 life and the Lord is wanting to pour more 54:16 grace into your life and he is just waiting for 54:20 your to step out in faith and follow his 54:23 plan. In ten days the first and in fact the 54:27 American medical association recently said 54:29 it's the first perspective epidemiological study 54:32 ever recorded in human history, in Daniel 54:34 chapter 1, in ten days they were healthier, 54:37 they looked better and in one year and half 54:40 their mental acuity was far above what had 54:43 ever being recorded there in Babylon. 54:46 Far better than the highest IQ people, 54:48 not just Daniel but anyone who participated 54:50 in Daniel's program. In fact Ellen White says 54:54 this, "dear youth, God calls upon you to do a 54:58 work which through his grace you can do." 55:02 Who is she writing this to? The youth, 55:05 I thought the health message was just for 55:07 people that were old and starting to get 55:08 disease. Now, the health message was much 55:11 more for the young people than it was the 55:13 older people but here is what else she says 55:16 show a purity of tastes, appetite and habits that 55:20 bears comparison with who? Daniel's. 55:23 God will reward you she says with four things, 55:26 calm nerves, a clear brain, unimpaired 55:30 judgment, keen perceptions. The youth of 55:34 today whose principles are firm and 55:36 unwavering will be blessed with health of 55:40 body, mind, and soul. And I am seeing many 55:44 young people take hold of this message more 55:46 than just less fortunately, then I told 55:48 you in the story of, to begin with, who is now 55:52 in medical school following the Lord's will 55:55 and will be powerfully used of God. 55:57 The wisest man who ever lived said, wisdom 56:00 is better than rubies, and he had lots of 56:03 rubies, lots of riches in fact he is estimated to 56:06 be the richest ever that walked the planet, 56:09 as far as the amount of money in the total 56:11 monetary supply. That's how you measure 56:13 wealth. And he says if you have a choice 56:17 between rubies and wisdom what should you 56:19 choose? Wisdom, and then he says all the 56:23 things that may be desired are not to be 56:25 compared to it. Whatever it is that your heart 56:28 desires, there is something equally 56:31 important or more important and that is 56:34 wisdom. I will close with a couple of 56:38 statements by the pen of Ellen White. 56:40 Be determined to become as useful and 56:43 efficient as God calls you to be. Be thorough 56:47 and faithful in whatever you undertake. 56:50 Procure every advantage within your reach for 56:54 the strengthening of the intellect. And then a 56:59 wonderful promise that she tells us. 57:01 The Lord has given man capacity for what 57:04 type of improvement? Continual 57:06 improvement, he has created us for the 57:09 potential for continual improvement, 57:11 in fact I have to remind people sometime the 57:14 biggest room in the world is the room for 57:16 improvement. And so don't get discouraged, 57:19 there is room for improvement for you as 57:22 well and the Lord has given you the capacity 57:24 for continual improvement, has granted 57:26 all possible aid in the work. And then this very 57:29 interesting statement through the provision of 57:30 divine grace we may attain almost to the 57:35 excellence of what? Angels. Almost to the 57:39 excellence of unfallen, very intelligent beings. 57:46 If we step out in faith and follow the Lord's 57:49 plan for continual improvement. |
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