>> And this medical event
was in that motivates trains and
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equips health professionals
to share price with their
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patients. In his presence, we
and our patients find rest home
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and powerful healing take
hold of God's promised a Biden,
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his presence and
experience the surrender
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to faithfully
minister as he did.
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>> Good evening, everyone.
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I feel like saying Happy Sabha
even though it's not happy 7th
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rain but it's coming.
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Welcome to the 19th annual a
man conference. Can I hear an
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amen?
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How many of you are
happy to be here today?
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Wonderful. And I want to extend
a warm welcome to our online
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live audience as well. We're
glad that you're tuning in to
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join in with us. And so
I always look for a 40 man
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conferences because I always
see a lot of old friends and
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make many new ones as well.
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And I'm excited about this
weekend because of our theme in
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his presence. I think
that phrase says it all.
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So I'd like to open up
this conference with the word of
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prayer. If you would bow
your heads with me, please.
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Heavenly father.
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We're here at this conference
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because we want to enter
into your presence and remained
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there.
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Lourdes is the key
to everything in life.
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If we would simply
stay a tune to your voice
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and in your presence, all
of life's complexities with
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disappear.
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And so that is our presence.
And that is our prayer that you
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will fill this place. But your
holy spirit, that you'll bless
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the proceedings, that you would
put your words in amounts of
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all the speakers
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and that everything we do in
the next few days, clarify and
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point to 2.
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So heavenly father,
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May your will be done
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and maybe feel your presence
in Jesus name. We pray, Amen.
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>> When I first started coming
to a man, I would offer to pray
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with selected patients
based upon their expressions and
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based upon the verbalize knees.
But after going to when the
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conference is, why attended
a prayer session and talk about
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praying with patients in Sparta
need to stop offering to pray
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with all my patients after
praying with all my patients
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that led me to since specific
encounters with patients which
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has really been encouraging.
I had to encounter with one
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individual patient. The patient
came into the clinic and we
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would get a routine visit.
She said she didn't have any
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problems. But as we had our
discussion, I came to the end
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of the visit.
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>> Yeah. Offered
to pray with her.
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When I offered to pray
with the patient, the patient's
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expression chair in, they
became sad, tearful and just
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started looking down. Ask
or was there something else you
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need to tell me.
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The patients said
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when you offered to pray with
me, it reminded me of my past.
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I used to in turn church.
I used to study God's word,
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but I stopped doing all those
things. Will this encourage me
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to start staying God's word?
Again, as I talked with the
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patient,
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she came back. I saw that she
and reconnecting with Christ as
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a result of this simple prayer.
That's what a man's go ways to
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help people be reconnected
and newly strengthened their
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relationship to Christ.
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>> Good evening, everyone.
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Welcome to a man conference.
We're excited to see you here
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and so thrilled that you joined
us for the first opening night.
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A few announcements to get our
weekend started. First off is
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something called a devotional
project. Many of you may have
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seen an email in your inbox
saying we are calling for its
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you guys to give or offer a
devotional to be recorded to be
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put into Arp
Project for Amen Ministries.
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Doctor Khanna Simmons is going
to give us more details on this
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later. But I invite you if you
haven't seen that e-mail ready,
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please look in your inbox
because we don't we not only
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want you, but we need you
for this devotional project.
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Our next announcement is
regarding our exhibits. How
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many of you are able to see
those this evening or visit a
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few of them?
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A good number of hands.
Wonderful. I want to encourage
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you to go and check them
out again next time they're open
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and please don't forget to
go all the way down the hallway
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and around the corner
because we have many ministries
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represented this year and
you will not want to miss out on
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the stories that they can share
as well as opportunities for
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you to get involved
in these ministries.
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For those of you who signed
up for CME or C D E credit.
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Please keep this in mind as
you're going to the sessions
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tomorrow for medical continuing
education. There is a QR code
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for you to scan. This is
located in your program on Page
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27. You can ask and that with
your phone, it will take you to
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a website where you will create
an account to sign up for your
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CME for dental, continuing
education. Please keep an eye
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out for the sign in sheet that
will be present at the sessions
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tomorrow. And so get your pens
ready because you're going to
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need those when you
walk into those sessions
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last but definitely not least
is our meal location. Have any
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of you enjoy dinner tonight
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is delicious. Wasn't it
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tomorrow and moving forward?
Our meals are going all the
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outside and that location is
going to be to your left as you
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exit this building and across
the parking lot on a plot of
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lawn. So we invite you to
join us there for our next meal,
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which breakfast tomorrow
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moving forward. We're
going to have another video
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presentations. I invite
you to sit back and enjoy that.
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And welcome again to the
2023, a man conference in his
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presence.
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>> Amen Conference and what
it stands for gain, you know,
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bringing Jesus into your
practice of medicine. It's it's
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something that inspired me
in the first place to study
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medicine. And I believe as
health professionals, we have
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such a great influence over the
lives of others and what better
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way to connect people through
Christ that's through, you
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know, our health, many street
at first last year. I didn't
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know what to expect. He was
my first conference and it was
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just an amazing experience to
connect with like-minded health
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professionals. I think the
greatest highlights for me last
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year and this year where
those conversations I had at the
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dinner table at the breakfast
table, Jessica, 19, then
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sharing ideas. I was really
encouraged and inspired by the
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people I met here at the
Amen Conference hearing, the
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testimonies of other health
professionals and how they have
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received the bonus, I guess,
to share Christ, you know, in
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their practice, whether it
is through prayer or in the
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future, that has helped me
to become more confident in
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praying with patients because
I realize the impact that it can
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have.
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>> On someone's life to
hear your physician, you know,
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expressing faith in God.
And so I've been able to do
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that more in my interaction
with patients and it's been
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well received. And I'm very
grateful to be able to do that.
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What I like most about Amen is
the opportunity, at least for a
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young physician to receive
mentorship to fund those who
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are more experience than who
have knowledge in their fields.
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I really appreciate and
talking to the their physicians,
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people who are experts in
their field just this morning.
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I'm in one of my networking
groups I was talking with and
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act anew was
given the advice on.
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>> You know how to move
forward. And so the networking
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aspect, the connection aspect
is my favorite pipes that has
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been, you know, most impactful.
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>> Good evening again.
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I have some wonderful people
with me up here and we're going
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to introduce to you guys
want to come around the front.
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We're going to introduce to you
guys, network woks. How many of
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you attended a network
walk last year in Myrtle Beach?
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I see a few hands. Wonderful.
We hope you join us again this
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conference and for the most
of you, many of you that did not
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raise your hands. This is an
exciting opportunity for you to
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get to know those around
you better as well as to process
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and implement the theme and the
topics of our groups together.
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I am going to go ahead.
I'm going to come sooner here.
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I'm going to go ahead
and let each individual
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give their name there too.
Title as well as the topic of
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their network walk
will start with Doctor Hot.
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>> Hi, I'm Harvey Honda.
My cardiologist Kettering Ohio
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and my topics going to be
called teaching the teachers.
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It's really going to focus on
some practical ways that we can
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kind of influence the people
that are training to integrate
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Street rally in their care.
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But when the big things
are going to wrestle with is,
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are we really doing everything
we can to raise an army of
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medical evangelists to help
for the mission? And if not,
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why are we doing that?
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>> I'm David de Rosa and
internal medicine specialist
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and the and the pastor of
the Fort Wayne, First 7th Day
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Adventist Church in Indiana.
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We're going to be looking
at the book of Psalms that I'm
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going to suggest to you that as
powerful it as that book is for
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personal devotions. It can not
be read can texts, Ali, without
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doing it in community. We'll
look at how the book of Psalms
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is Healing, how you can use
it in your practice and your
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church as part of your outrage.
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>> Creighton talk 3 orthopedic
surgeon and we're going to talk
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about the topping. My mind is
I will go. So sometimes we don't
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want to go. But there are
plenty of opportunities popping
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up all over the world locally
regionally around the world
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that we can go and participate
in medical evangelism. So we'll
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talk about that share
some ideas and stories.
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>> And John Turcotte family
practice. And we're going to
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talk about the unique mission
in Adventist Medicine as it is
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merging both medicine in
ministry to spread the gospel.
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There is transformative power
that can be found in the Pastor
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Physician Alliance. We're going
to discuss that on our network
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walk.
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Hello. Hello. My name is
Pete Lingus and I'm a physical
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therapist.
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>> And I'm Michael and the
PTA and our network and walk is
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titled.
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>> How merging spiritual and
emotional well-being can lead
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to healthier and more
meaningful relationships.
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>> That's right. Join
us tomorrow as we share and
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discuss what we call
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tools to mesh, spiritual and
emotional well-being into your
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personal life and work life.
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>> Robert Benson died from
Michigan Conference in this
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pastor, their also physical
therapist. But tomorrow,
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you know,
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6,000 years ago, there
was a painful divorce that was
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experienced by the universe.
And there was weeping and
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crying and having by hundreds
of millions of angels and there
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seem to be no remedy to bring
this divorce back together.
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But there was a firm that was
found a way. We'll talk about
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the way to get back into the
presence of God had a presence
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got in our lives and restore
the divorce and the marriage.
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>> My name is Gloria
Kim. I'm an OBGYN in Illinois.
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So by theme will be white
prayer batters in your practice
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in in your life.
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I'm going to be focusing
on 3 things. I'm praying with
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purpose, praying with power
and prayed with persistence.
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I'll be sharing some of
the stories and some of the
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miracles that have happened
in answer to prayer, including 2
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miracles that have been
going on for almost 4 years. So
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everybody is welcome. It's not
just for medical people because
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prayer is for everyone.
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>> Good evening. My name is old
and never heard. My wife and I
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were missionary physicians
in Chad Africa for 12 years.
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We've now been back to America
and our network walk is going
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to focus on folks that
were either involved in
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international medical mission
work or who may be interested
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in being involved in long-term
international medical mission
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work.
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And how being in that sort of
a scenario may affect your need
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to continually
be in his presence.
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>> Good evening. I'm Kiyana
Simmons. I'm a dentist, no
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medicine specialist.
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>> And my topic is
actually going to be a managing
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professionalism ministry and
our children. I'll be joined by
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my husband, Sammy Graph and my
son team in. And we're going to
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talk to you of all how you
can as professional women. Have
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your family be an active part
of not just the ministry but
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your business as well.
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>> Thank you, everyone. So
we encourage you to join one of
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these network woks every
morning. 07:00AM they will be
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meeting right after devotional
finishes its finishes in this
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room. So as soon as Jim Castor
finishes the prayer devotional
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portion of the morning, these
individuals will be at the back
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of the room with a sign
and you'll be able to identify
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which group you want to attend
Friday morning Saturday morning
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as well as Sunday morning.
You can find more details in
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your program to look more over
network locks as well as the
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topics of these different
groups. We hope to see you
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there.
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Well, hello again.
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>> I'm here to talk to
you about a really exciting
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initiative here at a man.
How many of you here for the
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very first time and
can I see a show of hands?
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Well, that's a pretty good fit.
How many if you've been here
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more than once or
even for the last?
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>> Yes, 90, as raise your hands.
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>> OK, Walker about even this
year. Well, for those of you
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who are new this year, it
doesn't matter. Everything is
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new to you. But for those of
you who have attended 18 years
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before now, this year,
we're doing an exciting new
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initiatives with a man and it's
going to showcase what a man is
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all about. So what exactly
is a man you might say? Well,
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a man and is you what does
a man need a man needs you?
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What does a Mendy Zaire?
Well, the desire UT and so
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where does that leave us?
What is a man inviting you to
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t? Well, this year we want to
invite each of you to see stay
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connected and be inspired as
we work our way up to our 20th
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anniversary celebration
next year, but has last this
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organization. But usually we
only get together like this for
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one conference annually.
And our desire is to keep us
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connected in 2024 yon this
conference and all throughout
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the year into our new
conference. So what does that
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mean? That means we have a
new and exciting opportunity for
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each and every one of
you, whether this is your first
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conference, it's your 19th
conference or any number in
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between. We want to invite
you to come out and give us your
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testimonies. You are not here
by chance. God has placed you
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here and you have a story, a
story that be want you to share
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your test. Dummy
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is the second fast scene that
is going to help with each and
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every one to make it into the
Kingdom of Heaven. We're saved
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by the blood of Jesus Christ
and our testimonies. So we're
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inviting you to please
turning your booklet to page 36.
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There's one their full
information in there for you.
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It talks of all what we're
going to be doing. I encourage
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you to prey ax. Got to give you
your message because he's done
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something special for each and
every one of you. It could be
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your personal testimony.
How a man has inspired you.
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It could be hauled God has used
in clinic where the patient it
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could be hall. You have been
impacted by one of your staff
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members.
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Anything that is associated
with God working with you and 3
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U in medical leave engine is
is what we want you to share.
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And we have a wonderful team
that is going to compile that.
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And throughout 2024,
you receive in your inbox, a
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devotional with all our
testimonies in court in each
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and every one of us and helping
us to stay connected. So I
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encourage you to stand.
This could schedule your time.
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And I'm looking forward to
seeing each and every one of
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your testimonies in 2024, I
know a lot, but you hear this
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year and 2023, he has the
testimony that he wants you to
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share and we're looking forward
to hearing it. Thank you.
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[MUSIC]
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>> We all know what it's
like to get angry. Don't wait.
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Have you ever gotten mad at
someone for cutting you off in
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traffic or
stealing your parking spot
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the most of the time? It
is more complicated than that.
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Isn't it?
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Perhaps someone deeply wronged
you or maybe you're mad at
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yourself for
hurting someone? You love
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what? Anger is a natural
emotion. But did you know that
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holding onto it? Letting it
fester into on forgiveness has
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terrible consequences for
your health and well-being.
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Studies show an forgiveness
increases our risk for all
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sorts of health problems,
anxiety and depression,
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difficulty sleeping, high blood
pressure, high cholesterol,
00:19:50.19\00:19:54.02
increased stress. And even
the number one cause of death in
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the U.S. heart disease.
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But there is hope today
we explore the transformative
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power of forgiveness.
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>> This interplay between
our emotions and physical health
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starts in the brain. When we're
angry, our brain responds as if
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we're in danger. Activating
our fight or flight response.
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If you're just as ever gotten
tighter, your hands get sweaty
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when your surprise or scare.
And that's because of this
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response that's designed to
prepare and protect you at a
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moment's notice.
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What's going on beneath your
skin? Is that your the Gullah
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ad? Part of your brain triggers
the hypothalamus to say to
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build a tiny little pituitary
gland to release adrenal
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cortical trophy warm-up.
Were they see to uh, to tell
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your adrenal glands which are
just located above your kidneys
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for what your body, with
what we call stress hormones,
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hormones like adrenaline
for Laura, up enough for the
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quarters off
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those chemicals are harmful
because they have the ability
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to dramatically and quickly
pivot. The body's functions.
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The grain even prioritizes
OneBlood is that the burning
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blood away from you? Got to
your muscles. Just in case you
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need to fight or flee
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on forgiveness, then keeps
this fight or flight mechanism.
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Cherney we harbor resentment
and anger is like slamming on
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the body's breaks and at
the same time pushing on the gas
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pedal and not letting up
that wear. And tear of chronic
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stress puts a
tremendous burden on the body.
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Chronic exposure to these
and other chemicals weakens our
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immune system. The ruins how
we sleep and increases our risk
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for depression, anxiety, weight
gain and heart disease. Over
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time, the high levels of
cortisol, it's a process.
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Serotonin, one of the happiness
and feel-good hormones high
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quarters. All also affects
our prefrontal cortex, the front
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part of our brain where we make
decisions and it affects our
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short-term memory. They
can even begin to kill off the
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neurons in our brain, not
forgiving someone because of
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her disappointment is like
drinking poison and expecting
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that it will hurt the
other person. But in reality is
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destroying ourselves to put it
plainly on forgiveness affects
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us more than anyone else.
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>> It's remarkable how our
bodies are designed to keep us
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safe in a moment of danger.
But as Doctor Schwartz has
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pointed out on forgiveness
is just as dangerous for bodies
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has any external threat.
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But take heart. There is
a solution and a path toward
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improved health research
shows that in the same way and
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forgiveness negatively
affects our health practicing
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forgiveness has incredible
health benefits and can lead to
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fuller more enjoyable lives.
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>> Think of on forgiveness,
the state of Haiti. Onto
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disappointment, frustration
and fear as tightening your fist
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for some amount of time.
Your muscle state. Hey, can you
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get fatigued? You lose
energy. All your attention stays
00:22:53.40\00:22:57.04
focused on your clenched
fist. It's difficult to focus on
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anything else when you unclench
your fist your muscles, soft,
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more flow improves in your
arm. Even your shoulder begin to
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relax. That's what forgiveness
does. It puts your brain in
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your entire body back
into focus. It improves this
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serotonin levels in your brain
and normalizes that hormone in
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your brain. When we forgive
someone letting go of those
00:23:21.83\00:23:25.47
angry feelings tells our brain
in our body took on collection
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to soften our bodies as
she returned to a state of the
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analysis that we call
homeostasis, that provides
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balance across
all of its functions.
00:23:37.25\00:23:40.82
Because when we forget that
fight or flight response gets
00:23:40.82\00:23:44.62
told off when that happens,
brains, relax, that reduces
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anxiety, improves depression
and we regain our focus that
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are meant to Marjah to start in
navigating other things in our
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lives.
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And that reduction of anxiety
and stress leads to better
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sleep. Improves our mood
and even helps or a new system.
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We may even help you restore
the relationship with the
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person that you did not want to
forget, but even if it doesn't,
00:24:09.81\00:24:14.25
there are still hope benefits
for you. What's exciting is
00:24:14.25\00:24:17.42
that those benefits to our
cardiovascular system. It can
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reduce the risk of
stress. Laura blood pressure,
00:24:20.46\00:24:24.63
improve our heart rate and
forgiveness actually reduces
00:24:24.63\00:24:28.26
your risk of
heart disease or stroke.
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There is no shortage of health
benefits that come with the act
00:24:31.63\00:24:35.80
of forgiveness.
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>> I love the imagery of
forgiveness as the active an
00:24:36.84\00:24:39.81
clenching a fist because that's
what forgiveness is a choice to
00:24:39.81\00:24:43.48
let go.
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It reminds me of one Holocaust
Survivor Corps intend to said
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forgiveness is not an emotion.
That is an act of the well.
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Corey, a Dutch Christian worked
with her father and her sister
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to help 800 Jews escape
not to persecution during the
00:24:55.49\00:24:59.03
Holocaust and World War.
2 Corey and her family were
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arrested and thrown into prison
where Corey's father and sister
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Betsy died
00:25:05.10\00:25:06.50
recklessly. Corey
survived, bravery, sacrifice and
00:25:06.50\00:25:10.34
unshakable faith in God March
Corey's life. But perhaps her
00:25:10.34\00:25:13.94
most astonishing
attribute was her ability to get
00:25:13.94\00:25:17.78
after the war. As Corey was
traveling to Germany, sharing a
00:25:17.78\00:25:21.02
message of God's forgiveness,
she came face-to-face with one
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of her former captors. In fact,
he was one of the guards from
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the prison where his
sister Betsy had died.
00:25:27.86\00:25:30.73
The transform man pleaded
for Coors forgiveness with an
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outstretched hand engulfed
in shock and traumatic memories.
00:25:34.36\00:25:37.93
Corey recalls. I stood there.
I whose sons had every day to
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be forgiven. I could not.
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Let's see had died in that
place. Could he erased the slow
00:25:44.94\00:25:48.64
terrible death? Simply
by asking for forgiveness
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and her pain?
Corey turned to prayer.
00:25:52.75\00:25:55.22
Here is how she
describes the encounter.
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Jesus help me. I prayed
silently I can with my hand,
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I can do that much. You supply
the field and so would mean the
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kind of plea forest land to
the once stretched out to me.
00:26:05.76\00:26:09.26
And as I did an incredible
thing to place, the current
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started in my shoulder raised
on my arm, sprang into life,
00:26:12.87\00:26:15.94
joined hands. And then this
healing. Warren seemed to flood
00:26:15.94\00:26:20.91
my whole team bringing
tears to my eyes. I forgive you,
00:26:20.91\00:26:25.41
brother. I cried
with all my heart
00:26:25.41\00:26:28.98
for a long moment week. Rast
each other's hands. The former
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guard and the former president.
I have never known God's love
00:26:33.02\00:26:37.16
so intensely as I did that.
00:26:37.16\00:26:40.80
Corey credits God for her
ability to forget her story
00:26:40.80\00:26:44.33
reminds us that the act of
forgiveness is often incredibly
00:26:44.33\00:26:47.87
difficult. When we choose to
forgive, it leads to freedom.
00:26:47.87\00:26:52.77
I love how she states it.
Forgiveness is releasing the
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prisoners just to discover
that I was the one in prison.
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>> There really is true
that when we forgive someone,
00:27:00.95\00:27:03.52
we set a prisoner free.
00:27:03.52\00:27:05.92
But it's not the person that we
expect that we're setting free.
00:27:05.92\00:27:08.86
It's actually ourselves just
as when we refuse to forgive
00:27:08.86\00:27:12.66
someone. Body responds with
par for hormones. The act of
00:27:12.66\00:27:16.77
forgiveness causes slow
response in your body. Not only
00:27:16.77\00:27:19.73
by quiet in the the bad horror
movies, the stress hormones,
00:27:19.73\00:27:22.97
but also but activating
hormones that help us feel
00:27:22.97\00:27:26.04
uplifted. What inspired
studies show that love what
00:27:26.04\00:27:30.25
psychologists suggest is the
strongest emotion. What leads
00:27:30.25\00:27:33.78
to a dope immune response in
the brain to open? It is one of
00:27:33.78\00:27:37.65
the feel-good chemicals are
buddies create in the emotion
00:27:37.65\00:27:41.09
of love. Creates a lot of that
as well as increases serotonin.
00:27:41.09\00:27:44.79
That does the same
thing. It's as if our bodies are
00:27:44.79\00:27:47.73
designed to positively respond
to the act of forgiveness and
00:27:47.73\00:27:52.03
love.
00:27:52.03\00:27:53.50
>> We've seen how detrimental
holding on to anger and
00:27:53.50\00:27:55.70
resentment is for health and
how powerful forgiveness can be
00:27:55.70\00:28:00.41
for our bodies.
00:28:00.41\00:28:02.08
But how do I do it?
How do I actually forget?
00:28:02.08\00:28:05.38
Here are 5 steps to help you
on your journey to become more
00:28:05.38\00:28:08.72
forgiving. Step. One is to
admit forgiveness isn't an easy
00:28:08.72\00:28:12.62
task. As a journey that takes
time and effort. Step 2 is to
00:28:12.62\00:28:16.59
remember that forgiveness
is a choice I make. It is
00:28:16.59\00:28:19.59
acknowledging that something
hurtful happened facing it and
00:28:19.59\00:28:22.63
saying this happened. It hurts
a lot. But I'm now choosing
00:28:22.63\00:28:27.24
love over anger, compassion
over bitterness, empathy over
00:28:27.24\00:28:30.74
age for my own well-being.
00:28:30.74\00:28:33.48
Step 3 is understanding
that forgiving someone isn't
00:28:33.48\00:28:36.85
excusing nor condoning a wrong.
00:28:36.85\00:28:40.28
It is important for our
health to forgive regardless of
00:28:40.28\00:28:43.12
whether or not the
other person is deserving.
00:28:43.12\00:28:45.89
Step 4 is recognizing
forgiveness involves empathy.
00:28:45.89\00:28:49.86
Many people think forgiveness
is simply moving on. But
00:28:49.86\00:28:53.16
complete forgiveness goes
a step further. It is putting
00:28:53.16\00:28:56.26
yourself in the other person's
shoes and offering empathy and
00:28:56.26\00:28:59.60
compassion to the person who
wronged us. Often understanding
00:28:59.60\00:29:03.41
another struggles makes it
easier to emphasize and moved
00:29:03.41\00:29:07.11
towards forgiveness.
00:29:07.11\00:29:08.81
The final step number 5 is one.
They can be a powerful tool to
00:29:08.81\00:29:13.15
help you achieve
the first 4 steps.
00:29:13.15\00:29:16.15
Research shows that individuals
with strong religious
00:29:16.15\00:29:18.92
commitment and are more
likely to engage in forgiving
00:29:18.92\00:29:21.69
behaviors. The power of prayer
and the power forgiveness go
00:29:21.69\00:29:25.79
hand in hand.
00:29:25.79\00:29:26.96
If you don't have a spiritual
connection, consider reaching
00:29:26.96\00:29:29.86
out to someone you trust
and asked them to pray for. And
00:29:29.86\00:29:33.37
with you,
00:29:33.37\00:29:34.67
there is 5 practical
steps to embrace the power of
00:29:34.67\00:29:37.94
forgiveness in your life
and experience optimal health.
00:29:37.94\00:29:41.91
Remember the power to
forgive lies within your crest
00:29:41.91\00:29:45.78
forgiveness is not a sign
of weakness, rather. It is a
00:29:45.78\00:29:48.98
testament to your
resilience and courage.
00:29:48.98\00:29:52.29
Choose forgiveness and
you choose a life of true
00:29:52.29\00:29:54.92
liberation, joy
and optimal health.
00:29:54.92\00:29:58.06
[MUSIC]
00:29:58.06\00:30:03.03
[MUSIC]
00:30:03.03\00:30:08.04
[MUSIC]
00:30:08.04\00:30:13.11
>> Amen.
00:30:13.11\00:30:14.78
Tonight. Our message is going
to be shared by Doctor John
00:30:14.78\00:30:18.65
Shannon. He met
earlier this evening.
00:30:18.65\00:30:21.38
Doctor John Shun wears
many hats, including and being a
00:30:21.38\00:30:25.39
husband, a father, a physician,
a mentor and much more.
00:30:25.39\00:30:30.93
He graduated from residency in
internal medicine and completed
00:30:30.93\00:30:35.46
a fellowship in Hematology
Oncology. Today. His career is
00:30:35.46\00:30:40.60
not only to treat the disease
in a patient but to minister to
00:30:40.60\00:30:45.91
the soul of individual in front
of him. I can personally attest
00:30:45.91\00:30:50.18
is someone that recently
graduated from residency,
00:30:50.18\00:30:52.68
that his example and the way
that he works with his patients
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is impactful as well as makes
those observing him want to
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carry that forward in their own
careers. So I know you're going
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to be blessed by his message
tonight. He currently serves as
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the man president.
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And we're excited to hear the
message to learn his she put on
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his heart to share with us
tonight. Before we hear from
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him, though, we're going to
be blessed by a special music
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presented by Rolando, who is
a medical student, as well as
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Esteban who currently
is a cardiology fellow.
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>> You know, this long to
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once worlds.
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>> Ends us to I see in the
last this year, though, on the
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as to when to to
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>> Since.
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>> When Ohio law.
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>> And so has
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and seems mice
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the same slice.
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>> When I
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>> we saw seas and heavy.
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>> We see it.
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We saw 2
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and then sings on so.
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>> Amen.
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Thank you so much
for that music. Rolando,
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there's nothing like the
perfect song to bring us in the
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presence of Christ. The men.
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I feel like
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the message is also
necessary after that.
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What I want to share
with you tonight is something
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I felt I needed in
my life for a long time.
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And as I was studying this
passage of scripture, which
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I'll share with you shortly,
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I felt like it really spoke
to my soul on this exact same
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theme
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that we have with this weekend.
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So I would pray. But as I
speak, that you would pray for
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me that God's message
will come through clear
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and that ultimately his message
is what you take away. And so
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please bow your heads, the team,
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heavenly father,
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we just dedicate
this time to you.
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We thank you so much, Lord,
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for the privilege of
being able to work for you
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in our respective spheres
of influence. And Laura does a
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speech tonight. I just
pray that you will envelop us in
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your presence that you
will help us to share a message
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directly from you. I pray for
forgiveness on my part, Lord,
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because you know how
inadequate I and so many ways an
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unqualified to
share this message.
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I pray, lord, that people will
continue as a result of what
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we're sure tonight.
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So we dedicate this time to you
and all these things. We pray
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in Jesus name. Amen.
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So I recently met with former
medical school classmate of
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mine who I haven't
seen since we graduated.
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I had a chance to catch up
with him. It was wonderful.
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And I asked him what he
was doing. And he's currently
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working as a hospital list.
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And I knew him
because when I was a student.
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>> He.
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>> He's one of these people
who you instantly like very
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outgoing, very gregarious.
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And he had a passion for his
faith. And so he was involved
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in some of the events that
we organize. You know, the men
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student chapter on
campus, which I was a part of.
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So that's how I interact
with him primarily when I was a
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student. So that's catching
up with him. I asked him how he
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liked his work.
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It soon became clear
that all was not. Well.
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He said that in his
private practice and his crew,
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the atmosphere
was that the toxics,
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he said that the doctors
there were more concerned about
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revenue in our views and things
like that and not so much about
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patient care or the
quality of patient care.
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So he felt a lot of decisions
that were made were made to the
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detriment of his patients.
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So in the beginning, he tried
to change the culture. He tried
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to be
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the one who's difference. And
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and he told me in the end, it's
exhausting being alone, salmon
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swimming upstream.
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Ultimately, he said, you know
what, John, I just learned to
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pick and choose my doubts.
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And so there's some things I
just like. And I realize it's
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just not worth the time the
energy in the effort to rock
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the boat and a
lot of these things.
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He also mention that
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none of the other
physicians he works with
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appear to be Christians.
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And so when he initially tried
to incorporate spiritual care
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into this practice, although
they didn't outright come out
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and tell him to stop doing
this, he could tell by their
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attitudes that they
thought this was ridiculous
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and they let him
know just how dumb
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non-professional.
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What I detected from talking
to him was someone who felt the
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solution.
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He's he's he's been working
at this practice for a number of
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years. And I changed
some details to protect us
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anonymity.
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But I can tell in his eyes that
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that he was pretty
disillusioned with medicine
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and then he got excited.
And he said, well, I'll tell
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you what, I'm working on John
Doe. I am actually learning how
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to do commercial real estate.
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And and that is
where the future is.
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And that was a hard left.
And I said, well, I'm glad
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you're learning about that. But
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if you hate this job, where if
you're not feeling like this is
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where your call to serve, why
not change shots? And he said,
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well, John, there's no other
position that can match the
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benefits package, the
compensation that they're
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giving me.
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They're just paying me way
too much. So my goal is to work
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there long enough to generate
the Capitol. I need to get into
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commercial real estate
investing and then I can walk
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away from the hospital is
forever. I this is my this is
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my exit.
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And so as he was talking about
this, I couldn't help but feel
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sad.
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Not because there's anything
wrong with real estate that
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because I felt that my friend
have lost his original vision
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and calling for why God
had brought him into medicine
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and I felt an emptiness there.
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Maybe some of you can
relate to my friend's story.
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I think that's the
story that repeats itself
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in many ways in many different
lives in different contexts.
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But as you go through the
humdrum daily living as life
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takes its toll in
our work is for specials,
00:41:10.03\00:41:13.80
you can just become a job.
00:41:13.80\00:41:16.57
And when your job as a health
care professional becomes just
00:41:16.57\00:41:19.74
a job,
00:41:19.74\00:41:20.78
it can really do a
number on your faith.
00:41:20.78\00:41:23.38
It can really make you
disillusioned and cynical in
00:41:23.38\00:41:26.21
ways that other jobs can't.
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So I want to talk
about that tonight
00:41:29.92\00:41:33.05
because it's telling that
burnout in health care has
00:41:33.05\00:41:35.72
reached epic proportions
00:41:35.72\00:41:37.96
and it's become a buzzword
in the academic literature.
00:41:37.96\00:41:40.80
Everyone talks about burnout.
Everyone talks about why is it
00:41:40.80\00:41:44.20
that people are leaving
medicine and ropes? And the
00:41:44.20\00:41:46.94
question is, what can we as
Christian physicians do about
00:41:46.94\00:41:50.87
it?
00:41:50.87\00:41:51.97
Does Christ offer an antidote
for this condition in our
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lives?
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And so to answer that question,
I want to turn to the chapter 5
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and I'm going to use this story
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of Peter James and John
says calling his disciples to
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illustrate all
the points tonight.
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So Luke, Chapter 5,
starting at first one.
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So was as a multitude pressed
about him to hear the word of
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God that he stood by the lake
of Knesset, right? And he saw 2
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boats standing by the lake.
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But the fishermen had gone
from them and were washing their
00:42:24.77\00:42:27.38
nets that he got into one of
the boats, which was Simons and
00:42:27.38\00:42:31.01
asked him to put out a little
from the land. And he sat down
00:42:31.01\00:42:34.28
and talked the
multitudes from the boat
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when he gets off speaking.
He said to Simon launch out
00:42:36.89\00:42:40.02
into the deep and let
down your nets for catch.
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But Simon answered and said to
him master, we have toiled all
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night and cut nothing.
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Nevertheless at your
word, I will let down the net.
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And when they had done this,
they caught a great number of
00:42:54.44\00:42:57.81
fish
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and then that was breaking.
So the signal to their partners
00:42:58.97\00:43:01.91
in the other boat
to come and help them.
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They came and filled both votes
so that they began to sink.
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When Simon Peter sign, he fell
down at Jesus, Disney's same
00:43:08.32\00:43:12.85
depart from me for I
am a sinful man, a Lord
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for he and all were with him
were astonished at the catch of
00:43:16.46\00:43:19.49
Fish which had taken and
so also were chains and John
00:43:19.49\00:43:23.16
descended 70 who
are partners with Simon
00:43:23.16\00:43:26.03
and Jesus said to Simon,
do not be afraid from now on.
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You will catchment.
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So when they had brought their
boats to land the force of call
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and followed him.
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The first point I want
the trial from the story
00:43:40.12\00:43:44.32
is that the disciples
efforts were fruitless
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when they play bird apart
00:43:48.52\00:43:51.19
from Christ.
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The disciples
efforts were fruitless
00:43:53.43\00:43:56.97
when they labored apart
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from crisis. This is what the
desired just says on Page 2.49.
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During that sat night on the
lake when they were separated
00:44:03.41\00:44:06.94
from Christ, the disciples were
pressed hard but unbelief and
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we re with fruit must. Well,
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this is interesting because
Peter James and John were
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expert fishermen.
00:44:18.19\00:44:20.49
They were very knowledgeable
because this is their life
00:44:20.49\00:44:23.12
trade. They were
experts in their field
00:44:23.12\00:44:26.29
and they knew that along
with all the other fishermen,
00:44:26.29\00:44:28.60
the ideal fishing conditions
at night. So they were there out
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fishing all night
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and it caught nothing.
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And this is
despite ideal conditions.
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You can say
that by that morning,
00:44:39.04\00:44:41.54
maybe they're
feeling a little burned out
00:44:41.54\00:44:43.98
if you're a little
disillusioned about the trade.
00:44:43.98\00:44:46.72
If I'm an expert fisherman
and I spent all night fishing
00:44:46.72\00:44:50.42
come morning if I caught not
even a single fish, I wondered,
00:44:50.42\00:44:54.69
is it time to get
out of this people?
00:44:54.69\00:44:56.96
You know, is this really what
I should be doing with my life
00:44:56.96\00:45:02.00
and as a health care provider,
I want to ask, have you ever
00:45:02.00\00:45:05.27
felt like you work
has been truth must? Well,
00:45:05.27\00:45:09.34
despite the fact that you're an
expert in your field, have you
00:45:09.34\00:45:12.31
ever have to experience coming
back with your nets empty?
00:45:12.31\00:45:17.05
Because I know I have
00:45:17.05\00:45:20.18
you see friends.
This is what happens
00:45:20.18\00:45:22.45
when the Labor Party from Jesus
00:45:22.45\00:45:26.22
becomes just a job
00:45:26.22\00:45:28.66
and we go through the motions
00:45:28.66\00:45:30.26
without
experiencing true fulfillment.
00:45:30.26\00:45:35.03
And despite our best efforts,
we return with our nets empty
00:45:35.03\00:45:40.00
and just like the disciples
were well trained fisherman and
00:45:40.00\00:45:43.54
yet caught no fish. We can be
well trained in whatever field
00:45:43.54\00:45:47.14
we're in.
00:45:47.14\00:45:49.58
When we from labor,
apart from Christ's, we fail.
00:45:49.58\00:45:55.05
When we lean on our own
with some of our own strength,
00:45:55.05\00:45:58.19
we fall short of what we
could do and who we could be
00:45:58.19\00:46:02.62
through Christ.
00:46:02.62\00:46:06.63
So too often, I think the issue
is that we turn to Jesus as a
00:46:06.63\00:46:10.07
last resort, not a first resort.
00:46:10.07\00:46:12.27
Our default posture is to get
things done in our own strength
00:46:12.27\00:46:15.57
in our own way.
00:46:15.57\00:46:17.67
But no matter what kind of
success or lack thereof for met
00:46:17.67\00:46:20.61
with when we do this, we
fall short of God's plans for us
00:46:20.61\00:46:25.18
here in John, 15
00:46:25.18\00:46:27.22
versus 4, 5, prices abide in
me. And I in you as a branch,
00:46:27.22\00:46:32.52
cannot bear fruit of itself on
the set of bites me up and said
00:46:32.52\00:46:36.36
bye to the vine. Neither
can you unless you abide in me.
00:46:36.36\00:46:41.20
I am the vine. You are the
branches. He who abides in me
00:46:41.20\00:46:45.27
and I in him bears much
fruit for without me. You can do
00:46:45.27\00:46:52.71
notice that Jesus does not
say if we do not abide in him,
00:46:52.71\00:46:57.28
we will bear less fruit.
00:46:57.28\00:47:01.05
He doesn't say that will
bear diminished or smaller fit.
00:47:01.05\00:47:05.59
What does he say?
00:47:05.59\00:47:07.36
You will bear?
00:47:07.36\00:47:11.49
But conversely,
00:47:11.49\00:47:13.16
notice of Jesus does not
say that if we abide in him,
00:47:13.16\00:47:16.33
that we will have a
higher chance of bearing fruit.
00:47:16.33\00:47:19.70
He does not say that you
will be a little more fruit than
00:47:19.70\00:47:21.94
what you normally do.
00:47:21.94\00:47:23.54
He says you will bear
00:47:23.54\00:47:25.74
much fruits.
00:47:25.74\00:47:29.64
So we're either connect to
Christ and very much fruit or
00:47:29.64\00:47:34.42
we're disconnected from
him and bearing no fruit.
00:47:34.42\00:47:38.99
These are the
only 2 options we have.
00:47:38.99\00:47:42.62
There are no intermediate
stages fruitfulness. We're
00:47:42.62\00:47:46.23
either a fruitful
bow or with their branch.
00:47:46.23\00:47:53.17
The fruit that Jesus speaks of
is a true work that he calls us
00:47:53.17\00:47:57.17
to do.
00:47:57.17\00:47:58.37
And the work that Jesus calls
us to do is impossible to do on
00:47:58.37\00:48:02.38
our street alone.
00:48:02.38\00:48:04.18
The people he calls us to
be is impossible for us to be
00:48:04.18\00:48:08.25
by her own merits and our
own efforts. And this is life
00:48:08.25\00:48:11.65
without him. We can do nothing.
00:48:11.65\00:48:15.42
So this is what I would
call our higher calling and
00:48:15.42\00:48:18.79
represents our true potential
because no matter how natively
00:48:18.79\00:48:22.76
talents abr no matter how
successful we are by the world
00:48:22.76\00:48:25.77
standards, apart from him, we
fall short of his plans for our
00:48:25.77\00:48:30.04
lives.
00:48:30.04\00:48:32.31
There was a
00:48:32.31\00:48:33.78
an African village
00:48:33.78\00:48:36.01
which ran to a crisis where
00:48:36.01\00:48:39.08
there was no clean water
00:48:39.08\00:48:40.78
available to the village.
And so people are dying of
00:48:40.78\00:48:43.89
thirst was a
humanitarian debacle
00:48:43.89\00:48:46.35
and people were in there trying
to solve this issue for this
00:48:46.35\00:48:49.79
village a short order.
00:48:49.79\00:48:51.46
And there was a missionary who
decided to come and try to help
00:48:51.46\00:48:53.76
with the effort said as he
was there working on this issue,
00:48:53.76\00:48:56.33
he befriended a
family in that village.
00:48:56.33\00:48:59.10
And one day
00:48:59.10\00:49:01.30
the family invited him to come
have lunch with them. And so he
00:49:01.30\00:49:04.67
went to your humble abode.
It was something that looked
00:49:04.67\00:49:07.64
like this with where they had
a dirt floor for the ground and
00:49:07.64\00:49:12.48
rudimentary roof
00:49:12.48\00:49:14.12
and he goes inside and he sees
just what you would expect to
00:49:14.12\00:49:17.22
see in a hunt like this except
at their table, which is like
00:49:17.22\00:49:22.52
a cross section of wood,
00:49:22.52\00:49:24.26
a tree stuff, if you will.
00:49:24.26\00:49:25.96
There was a medal canister
and look so out of place in this
00:49:25.96\00:49:30.90
primitive hut.
00:49:30.90\00:49:32.40
And so this missionary couldn't
help but to ask the people,
00:49:32.40\00:49:35.40
what is that?
00:49:35.40\00:49:37.04
And they said, we don't know.
But there's a camp nearby that
00:49:37.04\00:49:41.01
was used by an NGO. And then
when they left the band and a
00:49:41.01\00:49:44.41
lot of things and this is one
of the things they left behind.
00:49:44.41\00:49:46.95
We're not sure what this
is, but it makes a darned good
00:49:46.95\00:49:49.55
chance.
00:49:49.55\00:49:50.85
So they be using as a chair.
00:49:50.85\00:49:52.79
And so the missionary was
intrigued. So he was inspecting
00:49:52.79\00:49:54.96
this canister. And then to his
surprise, he found out that it
00:49:54.96\00:49:58.69
was actually
00:49:58.69\00:50:00.00
an Ulta
00:50:00.00\00:50:02.16
Ultra efficient
00:50:02.16\00:50:04.10
water filtration system
00:50:04.10\00:50:06.57
that could have solved the
film which is water, pollution
00:50:06.57\00:50:09.87
problems.
00:50:09.87\00:50:11.91
And the answer to their
woes was sitting right here but
00:50:11.91\00:50:15.74
being used as a chance
00:50:15.74\00:50:18.68
because people do not know
for what purpose it was created.
00:50:18.68\00:50:24.72
You could not argue that this
canister made a very effective
00:50:24.72\00:50:28.29
chair,
00:50:28.29\00:50:30.36
but compared to what
it was designed to do,
00:50:30.36\00:50:33.16
you cannot deny that it
was falling far short of its
00:50:33.16\00:50:36.73
potential
00:50:36.73\00:50:38.30
friends. If we are not
laboring under Christ direction,
00:50:38.30\00:50:42.74
no matter how successful
you are by the world standards I
00:50:42.74\00:50:46.71
submit to you. Thank you are
using your life to be checked
00:50:46.71\00:50:50.95
when God intended
for you to use your life
00:50:50.95\00:50:53.78
to bring souls and his kingdom.
00:50:53.78\00:50:56.08
Imagine this.
00:51:01.89\00:51:03.32
What if Peter,
James and John that night
00:51:03.32\00:51:05.66
caught some fish?
00:51:05.66\00:51:08.30
Maybe it wasn't a
record-breaking haul. But the
00:51:08.30\00:51:10.17
caught something,
00:51:10.17\00:51:12.23
maybe it would have been enough
00:51:12.23\00:51:15.10
prevent them
00:51:15.10\00:51:16.84
from being Christ when he
00:51:16.84\00:51:19.14
ordered them
00:51:19.14\00:51:20.71
to cast out again,
00:51:20.71\00:51:23.88
maybe even if it's a
record-breaking haul. If they
00:51:23.88\00:51:26.75
had met with some success,
maybe they would assess,
00:51:26.75\00:51:29.68
you know, what we had in the
fish last night. So actually,
00:51:29.68\00:51:33.15
we're good.
00:51:33.15\00:51:35.06
I suspect it was no coincidence
that on the night before this
00:51:35.06\00:51:38.43
encounter with Christ,
the disciples caught 0 fish.
00:51:38.43\00:51:43.16
This is not a common occurrence.
00:51:43.16\00:51:46.07
4 fishermen to fish all
night and the catching of fish.
00:51:46.07\00:51:50.54
I don't think it was a
coincidence. Could it be that
00:51:50.54\00:51:53.41
caught sometimes allows us to
go through a desert experience
00:51:53.41\00:51:57.41
in our work in our lives
00:51:57.41\00:52:00.18
so that we will
feel a need for Christ's.
00:52:00.18\00:52:04.09
That's not to say that
00:52:04.09\00:52:05.92
got brings back things that
your lives, perhaps he allows
00:52:05.92\00:52:09.26
us because he knows that
00:52:09.26\00:52:11.39
in our joys, his voice becomes
a whisper. But in our pain,
00:52:11.39\00:52:16.00
it becomes a megaphone.
00:52:16.00\00:52:20.80
The second point I want to
bring out is that the disciples
00:52:20.80\00:52:23.87
experienced increased faith and
success when they labored under
00:52:23.87\00:52:29.54
Jesus destruction.
00:52:29.54\00:52:31.68
So imagine the scenario
that the disciples were in.
00:52:31.68\00:52:35.45
You spent the whole night
fishing and caught nothing.
00:52:35.45\00:52:39.82
And now this gallery in Rabbi
00:52:39.82\00:52:42.62
is sitting standing
in your boat preaching
00:52:42.62\00:52:45.93
and this rabbi, who was
definitely not a fisherman.
00:52:45.93\00:52:48.66
If anything, he's a carpenter,
00:52:48.66\00:52:50.80
turns around and tells
you the expert fisherman
00:52:50.80\00:52:55.84
cast out
00:52:55.84\00:52:57.24
and put your yet
again into the water.
00:52:57.24\00:53:00.34
You had just finished
cleaning all your debts
00:53:00.34\00:53:03.98
and you fish all night under
ideal circumstances and caught
00:53:03.98\00:53:06.98
nothing.
00:53:06.98\00:53:08.05
And this man who knows
presumably nothing about
00:53:08.05\00:53:10.42
fishing is telling you to go
fishing in broad daylight 100
00:53:10.42\00:53:14.02
the worst possible conditions
and to throw unit on the other
00:53:14.02\00:53:17.39
side
00:53:17.39\00:53:18.86
as if that would
make a difference. Right
00:53:18.86\00:53:22.66
now. Imagine what Peter James
and John says response could
00:53:22.66\00:53:25.87
have been
00:53:25.87\00:53:27.40
when it comes to preaching.
00:53:27.40\00:53:29.94
That's all you, rabbi. When
it comes to fishing, that's our
00:53:29.94\00:53:32.77
territory. And we're here to
tell you that makes no sense.
00:53:32.77\00:53:36.24
We're not going to catch any
fish by simply cast our net on
00:53:36.24\00:53:39.21
the other side. Okay, or
by lowering their nets again,
00:53:39.21\00:53:43.12
we've done this all night.
00:53:43.12\00:53:45.19
So let me tell you exactly
why this makes no sense as a
00:53:45.19\00:53:49.12
command
00:53:49.12\00:53:52.79
and because and that's where
the clean and stowed away what
00:53:52.79\00:53:55.66
a great inconvenience to do
this again. And then the secy,
00:53:55.66\00:53:59.57
no fish. Now I got a
clean and that's again
00:53:59.57\00:54:02.57
when an inconvenience
00:54:02.57\00:54:05.84
when Jesus
commands us to do something,
00:54:05.84\00:54:09.34
do we come up with
reasons not holding?
00:54:09.34\00:54:13.21
Do we sometimes say
Lord, when it comes to my field
00:54:13.21\00:54:16.89
that doesn't work.
00:54:16.89\00:54:18.89
People don't
respond to things like that.
00:54:18.89\00:54:23.12
Let me tell you, Lord,
00:54:23.12\00:54:25.29
this is going to work in
the context of my specialty.
00:54:25.29\00:54:28.83
Let me tell you, based on
my experience and my training,
00:54:28.83\00:54:32.17
what is realistic
and what's not realistic?
00:54:32.17\00:54:34.57
Have we ever done that to
Lord when he calls us to do
00:54:34.57\00:54:36.77
something that seems
to go against the green
00:54:36.77\00:54:39.51
of our intuition.
00:54:39.51\00:54:43.04
So when we feel impressed to do
something that seems irrational
00:54:43.04\00:54:46.18
counter
intuitive, we has a team,
00:54:46.18\00:54:51.39
perhaps we hesitate
because it would cause us great
00:54:51.39\00:54:54.22
inconvenience.
00:54:54.22\00:54:56.83
I remember
distinctly this happen to me
00:54:56.83\00:54:59.13
when I was in fellowship.
00:54:59.13\00:55:00.90
I remember was a coal
mine and I was taking care of
00:55:00.90\00:55:05.47
award of very sick patients.
00:55:05.47\00:55:07.80
But there was one patient in
particular who I had developed
00:55:07.80\00:55:10.94
a friendship with,
00:55:10.94\00:55:12.67
you know, just call him Joe
00:55:12.67\00:55:14.54
and Joe had end
stage. Pancreatic cancer has
00:55:14.54\00:55:17.25
metastasized to his lungs
and he was there because he was
00:55:17.25\00:55:20.75
short of breath. They have
to put bilateral chest to 10
00:55:20.75\00:55:23.99
and we knew that we are going
to discharge into hospice care.
00:55:23.99\00:55:26.86
This is and station
nothing anyone can do.
00:55:26.86\00:55:29.72
But over the course of his
hospital stay, I had befriended
00:55:29.72\00:55:32.76
him. And one of the things that
stood out to me was that this
00:55:32.76\00:55:35.53
was like the most
cheerful man I've ever met.
00:55:35.53\00:55:39.40
He would encourage us when we
come in and say, how's your day
00:55:39.40\00:55:42.94
today?
00:55:42.94\00:55:44.07
And it would just be finally
to say, how can this man with
00:55:44.07\00:55:46.74
end-stage cancer be so cheerful
00:55:46.74\00:55:49.34
in my heart? I was like this
man must know God pace, just no
00:55:49.34\00:55:53.05
way.
00:55:53.05\00:55:54.32
And I remember one day I'm
asking him, hey, I'm assuming
00:55:54.32\00:56:00.09
you're a man of faith because
you really cheer me up. Every
00:56:00.09\00:56:04.19
time you come talk to you
Intel's wondering, you know
00:56:04.19\00:56:06.43
what, faith background you
come from and he looked at me.
00:56:06.43\00:56:09.30
He gave me the
biggest smiley says
00:56:09.30\00:56:12.03
Doctor Shin, I believe in
family and I believe in love.
00:56:12.03\00:56:15.74
But I don't believe in God.
00:56:15.74\00:56:18.77
And that took me back
because I had never seen
00:56:18.77\00:56:22.98
happy atheists
going to his grave.
00:56:22.98\00:56:27.95
I love today. I am so thankful
for life and I love you.
00:56:27.95\00:56:31.85
And I'm so happy about my life.
And I count my blessings and
00:56:31.85\00:56:35.16
I'm an atheist. And I was like,
wow, I have never seen this.
00:56:35.16\00:56:38.59
So
00:56:38.59\00:56:40.66
I put my foot in my mouth and
said, okay, well, I guess from
00:56:40.66\00:56:44.47
the scene.
00:56:44.47\00:56:46.10
But he was a mystery to me
because I was thinking, well,
00:56:46.10\00:56:48.24
what would you get that from?
Because playing I could not
00:56:48.24\00:56:51.67
tonight I feel lifted up in his
presence. Every time I talked
00:56:51.67\00:56:54.64
to him, I said, well,
whether you know it or not,
00:56:54.64\00:56:57.31
you exude the joy of the
Lord in you, you must not be far
00:56:57.31\00:57:00.45
from heaven.
00:57:00.45\00:57:02.45
Well, this night was a
call night. I knew that the next
00:57:02.45\00:57:05.05
morning we're discharging
him home with hospice care.
00:57:05.05\00:57:09.26
And I was thinking to myself,
00:57:09.26\00:57:11.36
you know, I hope he does well.
00:57:11.36\00:57:14.40
And I hope that show hears
the gospel message at some point
00:57:14.40\00:57:18.33
before he passes because I know
he doesn't have much time left.
00:57:18.33\00:57:21.70
Turn the lights off. When
you're on call. As many of you
00:57:21.70\00:57:24.87
know, you want to sleep
when you can cause that page.
00:57:24.87\00:57:27.94
You can go off any seconds.
I put it next to me. Turn the
00:57:27.94\00:57:30.68
light off.
00:57:30.68\00:57:31.81
Let's go to sleep
00:57:31.81\00:57:33.11
and then it got hits me.
00:57:33.11\00:57:37.15
Maybe you should go
talk to Joe right now
00:57:37.15\00:57:39.79
about the Gospel message
00:57:39.79\00:57:43.16
past midnight
00:57:43.16\00:57:45.03
and like the faithful
Christian, I am. My first
00:57:48.23\00:57:50.57
response was
no. Didn't hear that
00:57:50.57\00:57:54.77
going to bed.
00:57:54.77\00:57:57.27
But the thought persistence.
And you know, when you're
00:57:57.27\00:58:00.51
trying to ignore that,
you're under conviction
00:58:00.51\00:58:03.51
that the conviction somehow
grows and multiplies and it
00:58:03.51\00:58:07.08
becomes this burning sensation.
You can't help shake the
00:58:07.08\00:58:09.55
feeling that God is staring
down from heaven, smiling and
00:58:09.55\00:58:12.92
shaking his head and
you're trying to play it off and
00:58:12.92\00:58:15.52
saying I didn't see that.
I didn't receive the message.
00:58:15.52\00:58:18.49
I'm not under
conviction. I'm going to sleep
00:58:18.49\00:58:21.16
its iPhone myself, not able to
sleep. And the more I couldn't
00:58:21.16\00:58:25.10
sleep, the more frustrating
icon because I realize precious
00:58:25.10\00:58:27.70
minutes are ticking away and
I need to sleep when I can't.
00:58:27.70\00:58:30.74
Lord, it's the middle of
the night. When am I going to do
00:58:30.74\00:58:33.68
walk into Joe's room and say
00:58:33.68\00:58:35.91
I'm here to preach
the gospel message to you,
00:58:35.91\00:58:39.15
Lord. He's probably sleeping
and I couldn't wake him up and
00:58:39.15\00:58:41.88
preach a sermon to him like
this is not going to let I'm
00:58:41.88\00:58:44.92
going to starting tomorrow.
So tomorrow morning, if you
00:58:44.92\00:58:48.29
want me to say something
to him and if you present the
00:58:48.29\00:58:50.46
opportunity, I will be your
mouthpiece to him. That's more
00:58:50.46\00:58:53.70
appropriate because he expects
to see an morning rounds and
00:58:53.70\00:58:56.40
this is a cancer patient.
If you have a doctor randomly
00:58:56.40\00:58:59.20
pop into a room in the
middle of the night, your cancer
00:58:59.20\00:59:01.27
patient, you can get heart
attack because you're going to
00:59:01.27\00:59:03.84
think what would happen.
What's wrong? Why are you here
00:59:03.84\00:59:06.57
announced what am I going to
say board? And you know what?
00:59:06.57\00:59:09.68
I heard back
00:59:09.68\00:59:10.98
a deafening silence.
00:59:10.98\00:59:13.98
And as I'm sitting here saying
giving him all the reasons why
00:59:13.98\00:59:17.79
it made no
sense to lower my net,
00:59:17.79\00:59:20.82
all I could hear is deafening,
00:59:20.82\00:59:23.46
eloquent convicting silence.
00:59:23.46\00:59:27.50
Where's the faith?
00:59:27.50\00:59:29.10
I asked you to lower your net
00:59:29.10\00:59:31.77
and you're given the all
the reasons why that makes no
00:59:31.77\00:59:33.94
sense.
00:59:33.94\00:59:35.77
And honestly, my convenience
had a lot to do with it.
00:59:35.77\00:59:39.14
Rough day. I want to catch a
few hours of sleep. This makes
00:59:39.14\00:59:42.61
no sense, Lord.
00:59:42.61\00:59:44.61
So finally, I couldn't
take it anymore because I wasn't
00:59:44.61\00:59:47.75
sleeping anyway, OK, lord,
00:59:47.75\00:59:51.22
I might be reading too much
into this. But if it's truly
00:59:51.22\00:59:53.72
you want to get out of bed
right now and March to Joe's
00:59:53.72\00:59:57.16
room, then
00:59:57.16\00:59:59.26
you are responsible for
whatever happens next. So I get
00:59:59.26\01:00:03.67
out of bed. I turn on the
lights. I put my picture on my
01:00:03.67\01:00:06.40
scrubs and I can't
believe I'm doing this.
01:00:06.40\01:00:09.40
And like Lord, I'm going to
go to toward peak under Joe's
01:00:09.40\01:00:12.91
store in lights are
off. I'm not going in
01:00:12.91\01:00:16.14
because I mean, she's asleep
not going to risk waking him
01:00:16.14\01:00:18.78
up.
01:00:18.78\01:00:20.28
I so I walking toward the
nurses, look a thing, doctor.
01:00:20.28\01:00:23.99
She is something wrong.
No, no, no. Just doing my
01:00:23.99\01:00:27.76
nightly rounds.
01:00:27.76\01:00:31.73
I said no fellow ever
01:00:31.73\01:00:35.73
like Wow. Doctor Shin is
really dedicated to his patients
01:00:35.73\01:00:39.10
coming in at one in the morning
to check up on his patients.
01:00:39.10\01:00:42.64
And I walk around and I
walked to Joe's store. I'm like,
01:00:42.64\01:00:45.31
I don't see a
light and I picked under
01:00:45.31\01:00:48.41
and I see like that.
01:00:48.41\01:00:50.71
The lights on well, many
patients sleep with their
01:00:50.71\01:00:53.25
lights on. It doesn't
mean that they're awake,
01:00:53.25\01:00:56.38
but I need a deal. But
OK, lord, with the lights on,
01:00:56.38\01:00:59.05
I'm going to peek inside.
But if he's asleep, this is
01:00:59.05\01:01:01.36
going nowhere.
01:01:01.36\01:01:02.99
So walk up to the door. And I
don't even knock. I just opened
01:01:02.99\01:01:05.93
it a crack. And I look in
01:01:05.93\01:01:08.53
and to my dismay, Joe's awake
and he's talking with his wife
01:01:08.53\01:01:11.63
was sitting next to him.
And there's carrying on like
01:01:11.63\01:01:13.90
it's 12 news.
01:01:13.90\01:01:16.30
And so at that moment I met
a crossroads and God is just
01:01:16.30\01:01:19.61
saying,
01:01:19.61\01:01:21.44
what am I going to see?
01:01:24.75\01:01:26.65
I'm going to Walton therein.
01:01:26.65\01:01:28.72
What do you want me to do
01:01:28.72\01:01:31.25
if there's a really a flash of
insight, if you ever wanted to
01:01:31.25\01:01:34.19
put words in my mouth,
now's the time to do it.
01:01:34.19\01:01:36.99
So can you please tell me what
you want me to do when you when
01:01:36.99\01:01:39.96
I go in there before I go
in there. And at that moment,
01:01:39.96\01:01:42.86
a nurse comes up from behind
me to support action. Are you
01:01:42.86\01:01:45.20
going in
01:01:45.20\01:01:46.13
and at the moment they see me.
01:01:46.13\01:01:50.07
The doctor. Shin. I was
like, oh, yeah, yes, Ken, with a
01:01:50.07\01:01:54.31
nurse. Like what brings
you here off only I knew.
01:01:54.31\01:01:59.71
Well, I'm making my evening
rounds. I'm just wondering how
01:01:59.71\01:02:02.32
you're doing. And also we're
doing great. We're doing great
01:02:02.32\01:02:05.45
and shows us is
happy chipper self
01:02:05.45\01:02:07.72
and I go inspect the IV bags
and act like I know what I'm
01:02:07.72\01:02:11.06
doing on the board. Buy you
time if you're going to be a
01:02:11.06\01:02:13.76
brilliant flash of insight like
and now's the time because I
01:02:13.76\01:02:16.56
have no idea
what I'm going to say.
01:02:16.56\01:02:20.30
And I want to tell you that the
flash of insight came, but it
01:02:20.30\01:02:22.90
did not.
01:02:22.90\01:02:25.04
And so they came a point
where he was just blink, blink.
01:02:25.04\01:02:28.28
So doctor, she is there
something you want to talk
01:02:28.28\01:02:30.98
about, sex?
01:02:30.98\01:02:33.45
I think so.
01:02:33.45\01:02:35.15
How are you feeling, Joe?
01:02:35.15\01:02:37.49
You should ask that question
to someone who is going on
01:02:37.49\01:02:41.32
and he's like, well, you know,
a little short of breath today.
01:02:41.32\01:02:43.49
But overall, I'm feeling good.
01:02:43.49\01:02:46.36
And so I just sat down
next to him on his bed.
01:02:46.36\01:02:49.50
And I said, you know,
and I started with Joe,
01:02:49.50\01:02:52.70
I know you're leaving tomorrow
and do all your discharge
01:02:52.70\01:02:55.44
papers are in order transports
going to comment such-and-such
01:02:55.44\01:02:57.97
a time.
01:02:57.97\01:02:59.27
But I just want to thank
you. I want to thank you because
01:02:59.27\01:03:02.38
you've been a bright spot
in my day every morning during
01:03:02.38\01:03:05.15
rounds,
01:03:05.15\01:03:06.78
as much as it's my job to bring
joy to my patients and some
01:03:06.78\01:03:10.19
hope to them. I want to tell
you, thank you brought joy to
01:03:10.19\01:03:13.42
me
01:03:13.42\01:03:14.59
and it's find your incredible
attitude. And I I want to let
01:03:14.59\01:03:17.53
you know how
inspiring you are to each other.
01:03:17.53\01:03:19.86
And when I said this, he
just hugged his wife. He said,
01:03:19.86\01:03:22.00
well, that's what happens when
you're married to this lady,
01:03:22.00\01:03:24.53
you know, the best woman
and that a man can ask for
01:03:24.53\01:03:28.44
and she just laughing on the
shoulders saying all stop and
01:03:28.44\01:03:30.71
honey, I just like,
wow, that's amazing.
01:03:30.71\01:03:34.98
And I don't know why.
01:03:34.98\01:03:36.58
But I want to ask him what
makes you so happy and good
01:03:36.58\01:03:40.08
natured like this. You
are going to own funeral.
01:03:40.08\01:03:43.45
You have to get your affairs
in order. You might have weeks
01:03:43.45\01:03:45.72
left maybe days. How can
you be this happy and content?
01:03:45.72\01:03:49.99
And I asked him to Joan,
can do you mind if I ask you a
01:03:49.99\01:03:53.66
personal question? He's a
doctor, Jen, we're friends now.
01:03:53.66\01:03:57.07
You can ask me anything to
do with a lot of patients were
01:03:57.07\01:04:00.77
dying.
01:04:00.77\01:04:02.04
And honestly, the
only ones I've seen
01:04:02.04\01:04:04.81
come close to holding your kind
of attitude are the ones who
01:04:04.81\01:04:08.98
have hope for
life in the hereafter
01:04:08.98\01:04:12.31
for the people
who believe in God.
01:04:12.31\01:04:14.62
But you told me that
you don't believe in gun.
01:04:14.62\01:04:17.92
And so I want to know what
you find out from where we find
01:04:17.92\01:04:21.46
your hope front.
01:04:21.46\01:04:23.59
And when I asked him, this
was quite for second. He said,
01:04:23.59\01:04:25.76
you know, action. I
grew up in a very tough out
01:04:25.76\01:04:29.03
Christian l.
01:04:29.03\01:04:30.73
But there are things that
happened to me in life that
01:04:30.73\01:04:32.53
convinced me that God can exist
and allow all of them stuff.
01:04:32.53\01:04:36.40
We could this happen in
the world. It's better that I
01:04:36.40\01:04:38.87
choose to believe that he
doesn't exist and to believe
01:04:38.87\01:04:41.21
that he exists and
allows these things to happen.
01:04:41.21\01:04:44.35
But I can tell you what
01:04:44.35\01:04:45.78
the things that are most
important in my life and my
01:04:45.78\01:04:47.68
family
01:04:47.68\01:04:49.12
and my friends and
those who got me knows I left.
01:04:49.12\01:04:52.79
And even though I'm only in
my 40's, I'm dying young. I'm
01:04:52.79\01:04:56.39
dying. Rich,
01:04:56.39\01:04:58.73
honestly, do I want to live
longer? Of course I do. But I
01:04:58.73\01:05:01.60
cannot deny and I'm blessed man
01:05:01.60\01:05:04.47
and I have no regrets in my
life. I've the best family I
01:05:04.47\01:05:07.54
could ask for. And as
the saying this, his wife is
01:05:07.54\01:05:10.41
smiling but
she's shedding tears.
01:05:10.41\01:05:15.04
I said, Joan,
01:05:15.04\01:05:16.54
I find it so inspiring.
01:05:16.54\01:05:19.35
And at that moment, I don't
know why. But I felt compelled
01:05:19.35\01:05:22.88
to ask him,
01:05:22.88\01:05:24.45
you know what, Cho,
01:05:24.45\01:05:28.12
you agree.
01:05:28.12\01:05:29.66
But the key to finding
meaning in life is found up in
01:05:29.66\01:05:33.53
relationships
01:05:33.53\01:05:35.20
because all you mentioned to
me were the people who mean the
01:05:35.20\01:05:37.37
most to your life.
That's right, Doctor Jen,
01:05:37.37\01:05:41.77
you know, Joe, I believe
01:05:41.77\01:05:45.27
the ultimate meaning that we
can have in life is centered on
01:05:45.27\01:05:48.91
relationships as well.
01:05:48.91\01:05:50.48
But I believe that it's that
we because we have a condom.
01:05:50.48\01:05:53.35
We also want to have a
relationship with us, too.
01:05:53.35\01:05:57.25
And the question I want to ask
you to do is to have you ever
01:05:57.25\01:05:59.75
wondered
01:05:59.75\01:06:01.39
what happens after you die?
01:06:01.39\01:06:04.83
And I don't know where
that question came from. And it
01:06:04.83\01:06:07.03
sounds like to me felt like
was coming out of left field.
01:06:07.03\01:06:09.96
But I just said it
before. I even knew what I was
01:06:09.96\01:06:11.73
thinking.
01:06:11.73\01:06:12.90
And Joe became very quiet
01:06:12.90\01:06:15.70
and his wife was
looking at him intensely.
01:06:15.70\01:06:18.11
He said, you know what,
Doctor, Jen? I have wondered,
01:06:18.11\01:06:21.64
I don't know. Obviously
01:06:21.64\01:06:23.81
I said, Joe, if
there is a possibility
01:06:23.81\01:06:27.55
that you can continue these
nothing to Asian ships beyond
01:06:27.55\01:06:30.52
the grave,
01:06:30.52\01:06:31.72
but there's a hope
for life after this one.
01:06:31.72\01:06:34.36
Wouldn't you want
to know about that?
01:06:34.36\01:06:37.73
He said, you know what, Doctor,
Jen, if they're absolutely was
01:06:37.73\01:06:40.50
a chance that that could be
possible. Yes, I would like to
01:06:40.50\01:06:43.73
know
01:06:43.73\01:06:45.23
the children. What do you have
to lose by saying God, if you
01:06:45.23\01:06:49.07
exists,
01:06:49.07\01:06:50.97
reveal yourself to me
01:06:50.97\01:06:53.17
because I don't have much time
01:06:53.17\01:06:57.81
and there's a pin drop silence
and show was quiet for a very
01:06:57.81\01:07:01.38
long time.
01:07:01.38\01:07:02.88
And he said
01:07:02.88\01:07:04.35
I have nothing
to lose your right.
01:07:04.35\01:07:07.69
I think that right.
01:07:07.69\01:07:10.59
I felt like at that
moment. What did I just say?
01:07:10.59\01:07:14.46
Seems very for me,
01:07:14.46\01:07:16.93
but I Joe and his wife has
said, hey, I'll see you guys in
01:07:16.93\01:07:20.00
the morning before you leave.
But I just wanted to thank you
01:07:20.00\01:07:22.54
again.
01:07:22.54\01:07:23.51
And he said, Doctor
Jen, I really appreciate our
01:07:23.51\01:07:26.11
conversation tonight. You
give me a lot to think about.
01:07:26.11\01:07:28.68
Thank you.
01:07:28.68\01:07:30.15
I walked out of
his room wondering,
01:07:30.15\01:07:33.25
Lord that I take
it halfway there.
01:07:33.25\01:07:35.68
Is that what you
want to be to say?
01:07:35.68\01:07:37.82
That plant seed?
01:07:37.82\01:07:41.09
I think it will be done.
01:07:41.09\01:07:43.39
I went back to my car room
01:07:43.39\01:07:45.13
and this time I fell asleep.
01:07:45.13\01:07:47.46
The next morning I woke up
01:07:47.46\01:07:49.13
and I go to Joe's room to meet
with him one last time before
01:07:49.13\01:07:52.37
his discharge under says
the nurse looked at me says all
01:07:52.37\01:07:55.34
Doctor Shin Transport came
early this morning. So he's
01:07:55.34\01:07:57.91
already gone.
01:07:57.91\01:07:59.27
And at that moment,
01:07:59.27\01:08:00.94
the hairs on my neck stood up.
01:08:00.94\01:08:03.58
I think, wow,
01:08:03.58\01:08:05.18
if I had waited as
the floor I do tomorrow,
01:08:05.18\01:08:09.68
it would be too late
01:08:09.68\01:08:10.99
to talk to.
01:08:10.99\01:08:12.32
And that's when I was convinced
01:08:12.32\01:08:14.39
that was the word
01:08:14.39\01:08:16.76
that nagging that still small
voice. I heard it was so easy
01:08:16.76\01:08:20.50
to justify away that was caught
01:08:20.50\01:08:23.80
and after what would happen if
I had just authority, I'm going
01:08:23.80\01:08:26.50
to sleep. And when I
wake up, I talk to Joe,
01:08:26.50\01:08:29.17
I will miss my chance to board.
That was a divine appointment.
01:08:29.17\01:08:33.27
I pray that you will water.
Whatever seed was planted last
01:08:33.27\01:08:35.78
night. I pray to sign
up or for Joe and went on
01:08:35.78\01:08:41.32
weeks went by. I
finished rotation.
01:08:41.32\01:08:44.29
One them collecting the
mail and my office there.
01:08:44.29\01:08:48.32
I received this in the mail.
01:08:48.32\01:08:50.56
It's a newspaper
clipping of Joseph to chewing
01:08:50.56\01:08:54.00
and it's from his wife. And she
really just nice card. And she
01:08:54.00\01:08:57.20
said, you know, Doctor
Jen, I want to thank you for the
01:08:57.20\01:08:59.60
beautiful gift you
give to both Joe and myself
01:08:59.60\01:09:02.30
while he was in the hospital
01:09:02.30\01:09:04.54
and you do that last talking
had taken that night before he
01:09:04.54\01:09:07.44
left
01:09:07.44\01:09:09.54
really took your advice to heart
01:09:09.54\01:09:12.75
and at the end of life,
01:09:12.75\01:09:14.25
he found peace. And I
want to thank you for that.
01:09:14.25\01:09:18.72
When I read those words,
it brought tears to my eyes.
01:09:18.72\01:09:23.76
No friends,
01:09:23.76\01:09:28.06
the key to experiencing
the joy of laboring with Christ
01:09:28.06\01:09:34.44
submission to his well
01:09:34.44\01:09:36.17
when he says lower your debt
when he says passed out again
01:09:36.17\01:09:40.28
rather than saying that
makes no sense, Lord, that's not
01:09:40.28\01:09:43.11
going to work. Let me tell you
why that's not going to work.
01:09:43.11\01:09:45.18
What you need to do is do they
01:09:45.18\01:09:49.05
and to say because you
commanded me to do it, even
01:09:49.05\01:09:51.89
though that would make no sense
to anyone else told me to do
01:09:51.89\01:09:54.52
it. I will be
because you sent us.
01:09:54.52\01:09:59.19
You see Isaiah 55 versus 8
or $0.9 for my thoughts are not
01:09:59.19\01:10:02.50
your thoughts or your
waist. My way system worked.
01:10:02.50\01:10:05.77
President heavens are higher
than the earth. So I was hired
01:10:05.77\01:10:09.20
in your ways and my
thoughts and your thoughts
01:10:09.20\01:10:14.74
and the question I have
01:10:14.74\01:10:16.31
for you is what caused
the disciples said to Jesus is
01:10:16.31\01:10:20.22
irrational command to
lower their nets again,
01:10:20.22\01:10:23.92
to tell them to do something
that made 0 sense. What caused
01:10:23.92\01:10:27.22
them to obey and
say I'll do that.
01:10:27.22\01:10:30.16
It was this
01:10:30.16\01:10:32.86
the survey just pitch to 49
but his presence kindled their
01:10:32.86\01:10:37.40
faith and brought them joy and
success. So it is with us apart
01:10:37.40\01:10:42.77
from Christ. Our work is
fruitless and it is easy to
01:10:42.77\01:10:46.04
distrust and member
01:10:46.04\01:10:48.18
when he is near and we
labor under his direction,
01:10:48.18\01:10:52.28
we reach ace in the
evidence of his power
01:10:52.28\01:10:56.48
Kiefer sentence, but his
presence kindled their faith.
01:10:56.48\01:11:02.36
And that's why he
says if you say I love
01:11:02.36\01:11:05.83
friends
01:11:05.83\01:11:07.00
and in the presence of
Jesus candles, our feet
01:11:07.00\01:11:10.60
and this is where it begins.
And this is why this is our
01:11:10.60\01:11:13.57
theme for this conference.
Do you want the ability to
01:11:13.57\01:11:17.17
obey? Do you want your
life to be transformed?
01:11:17.17\01:11:20.88
You will not have the capacity
to unless you for spend time in
01:11:20.88\01:11:24.58
his presence and allow
him to kill your faith,
01:11:24.58\01:11:28.75
allow him
01:11:28.75\01:11:30.19
to spark that faith in you.
That must approve that. Peter
01:11:30.19\01:11:34.49
has Peters sat there listening
to Jesus preach his heart was
01:11:34.49\01:11:38.53
strangely warm.
01:11:38.53\01:11:40.46
And when Jesus turned his gaze
on Peter instead cast out again
01:11:40.46\01:11:43.26
and lower your net,
01:11:43.26\01:11:44.60
Peter said I will be
01:11:44.60\01:11:47.97
much time. Are you
spending in the presence of God?
01:11:47.97\01:11:52.94
And the question is if the
answer is not much, what is
01:11:52.94\01:11:56.41
keeping you away?
Previous presidents,
01:11:56.41\01:11:59.91
I could spend the rest of
the evening talking about the
01:11:59.91\01:12:02.12
things that promise of the
presence of Christ. I want to
01:12:02.12\01:12:04.85
talk about 2
things in particular
01:12:04.85\01:12:07.02
that I think play a huge role
in our inability spend time in
01:12:07.02\01:12:11.93
Christ's presence. The first one
01:12:11.93\01:12:15.43
is this.
01:12:15.43\01:12:17.57
It's different from dizziness
because hurry, people are all
01:12:22.14\01:12:26.47
busy but not all
busy. People are hurt.
01:12:26.47\01:12:30.68
Does it make sense Jesus
was busier than anyone who ever
01:12:30.68\01:12:33.95
lived
01:12:33.95\01:12:34.98
but he was not hurt.
01:12:34.98\01:12:37.12
He was able to slow down
and connect with his heavenly
01:12:37.12\01:12:39.62
father and those around him.
01:12:39.62\01:12:42.49
And it's been said and in
our modern world today, Curry is
01:12:42.49\01:12:45.73
the greatest enemy
of our special lives.
01:12:45.73\01:12:49.06
I learned its lesson in raise
my children. I have 3 children,
01:12:49.06\01:12:52.57
a 9 year-old 7
year-old and 5 year-old
01:12:52.57\01:12:56.27
because
oftentimes I'm busy at work.
01:12:56.27\01:12:58.81
I come home and only have just
a few hours with him before you
01:12:58.81\01:13:02.58
have to go to sleep. May be
just one hour and to maximize
01:13:02.58\01:13:05.18
my time. We've instituted
something called special time.
01:13:05.18\01:13:08.88
What a special time. It's
10 minutes with mommy or daddy.
01:13:08.88\01:13:13.49
Where during those 10
minutes the child gets to choose
01:13:13.49\01:13:16.12
whatever they want to do
01:13:16.12\01:13:17.76
and I will give them my
undivided attention can do
01:13:17.76\01:13:20.13
that.
01:13:20.13\01:13:20.96
Do they want to draw
01:13:20.96\01:13:22.36
sure not wrong with him.
01:13:22.36\01:13:24.10
Do you want to play with cars
and sit on the floor and play
01:13:24.10\01:13:26.94
cards? I'll do that
01:13:26.94\01:13:28.57
today. One in it. They want me
to read a book. They get picked
01:13:28.57\01:13:32.04
activity and for 10 minutes,
01:13:32.04\01:13:34.91
I don't answer the phone.
I don't let anything distract
01:13:34.91\01:13:37.48
me.
01:13:37.48\01:13:38.58
I am there's and even though
you think the amount of time
01:13:38.58\01:13:41.95
the small, all I
love special time
01:13:41.95\01:13:45.62
and now when I come
home, my kids are like
01:13:45.62\01:13:50.39
give me a special time tonight
01:13:50.39\01:13:52.19
and they just look forward to it
01:13:52.19\01:13:54.13
and he's 10
minutes are impactful?
01:13:54.13\01:13:56.87
Not because I'm any less busy
because I've crush of things to
01:13:56.87\01:13:59.67
do after those 10 minutes over.
But because those 10 minutes
01:13:59.67\01:14:02.64
I'm not hurt.
01:14:02.64\01:14:04.14
I slow down
01:14:04.14\01:14:05.97
and I acknowledge them for
who they are in their presence.
01:14:05.97\01:14:10.05
And I think this is
what God wants us to do
01:14:10.05\01:14:12.78
in the time that we spend with
him were not just clocking in
01:14:12.78\01:14:15.28
and clocking out. Are you
presence within its presence?
01:14:15.28\01:14:18.95
Are you hurry?
01:14:18.95\01:14:22.32
Education page to 60's
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paragraph 3, many even in their
seasons of devotion failing
01:14:24.73\01:14:28.40
receiving the blessing of feel
communion with God. They are in
01:14:28.40\01:14:31.80
to greet haste
with hurried steps.
01:14:31.80\01:14:36.64
If they have pressed
through the circle Christ loving
01:14:36.64\01:14:39.07
presence, pausing perhaps
a moment within the sacred
01:14:39.07\01:14:41.88
precincts but not waiting for
counsel. They have no time to
01:14:41.88\01:14:45.71
remain with the divine teacher
with their burden say return to
01:14:45.71\01:14:49.52
their work, not a pause for
a moment in his presence but
01:14:49.52\01:14:52.95
personal contact the Christ to
sit down and companionship with
01:14:52.95\01:14:57.23
him. This is our need.
This is why God gave us at it.
01:14:57.23\01:15:02.63
He said Unplug from
the craziness of life.
01:15:02.63\01:15:06.03
Unplug from the hurry. Step
props up ability to be in my
01:15:06.03\01:15:09.34
presence and come once more
into my presence because that
01:15:09.34\01:15:13.61
is where joy for
evermore is truly experienced.
01:15:13.61\01:15:17.75
Everything begins with being
in his presence. He knew that.
01:15:17.75\01:15:21.35
So he dedicated a whole day out
of every week to say enter into
01:15:21.35\01:15:24.99
my presence again.
01:15:24.99\01:15:28.42
So you can good things. Keep us
away from his presence. I have
01:15:28.42\01:15:31.79
even preparing to scream
message. I lost track of the
01:15:31.79\01:15:34.83
number of times in the morning
from working on this message
01:15:34.83\01:15:37.87
and suddenly an email, an
urgent text message. Something
01:15:37.87\01:15:41.44
comes in rob me of my attention
and suddenly to hurry, comes
01:15:41.44\01:15:45.04
back into my life
01:15:45.04\01:15:46.47
and it brought some of the
village to be in his presence.
01:15:46.47\01:15:49.04
Friends
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ruthlessly, eliminate
that. Hurry from your life.
01:15:50.88\01:15:55.42
Take your time with your Lord
01:15:55.42\01:15:57.62
and revel in his presence.
01:15:57.62\01:16:01.62
The second thing I want
to mention that keeps us from
01:16:01.62\01:16:05.13
entering into Christ's presence.
01:16:05.13\01:16:08.03
He's living with no sense.
01:16:08.03\01:16:10.87
I'm not saying that you have
to be a perfect person to be in
01:16:10.87\01:16:13.30
his presence. But there's a
world of difference between the
01:16:13.30\01:16:17.37
son of a moment and leaving
an act of rebellion. I think you
01:16:17.37\01:16:20.68
know what I mean,
01:16:20.68\01:16:22.18
if God has been convicting you
of something in your life that
01:16:22.18\01:16:25.31
you need to change
01:16:25.31\01:16:27.65
until you change it until you
obey him. Your cannot find joy
01:16:27.65\01:16:31.99
in his presence,
01:16:31.99\01:16:36.09
you know, might
01:16:36.09\01:16:37.66
my youngest my son 5
year-old his name is Kyle.
01:16:37.66\01:16:41.23
When I come home, he likes
to run up to me and goes up 5 to
01:16:41.23\01:16:44.93
up on the stat in Korean grabs
my leg and he sits on my foot.
01:16:44.93\01:16:49.54
He's like boots.
01:16:49.54\01:16:51.44
So he wants to be my boots.
And so I'm the one around the
01:16:51.44\01:16:54.28
house for a few minutes now
tracking him with me and just
01:16:54.28\01:16:57.78
just loves us. So
we do this quite often.
01:16:57.78\01:17:02.15
And one day I remember coming
home and I come in at night,
01:17:02.15\01:17:07.62
look around. No Kyle.
01:17:07.62\01:17:10.19
It's interesting.
01:17:10.19\01:17:11.69
And so I say hello to
my wife and I ask her,
01:17:11.69\01:17:14.93
where is Kyle? He's usually the
first ones to greet me at the
01:17:14.93\01:17:17.20
door and I want to do. But
since it's not doing that today
01:17:17.20\01:17:21.10
and she gives me a
knowing smile. And she says
01:17:21.10\01:17:23.71
I wasn't really naughty boy
today. And I told him that when
01:17:23.71\01:17:27.38
I get home, I'm going to
tell. So he ran to his room
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shut. His door is
hiding under the bed.
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But even at that tender
young age, isn't it interesting
01:17:39.35\01:17:44.06
that when he knew he
disobeyed his father,
01:17:44.06\01:17:48.16
his first reaction,
01:17:48.16\01:17:49.76
this is the
presence of his father.
01:17:49.76\01:17:54.27
Isn't that what had
been needed in the garden
01:17:54.27\01:17:56.94
when they disobeyed their first
reaction to God's presence in
01:17:56.94\01:18:00.74
the garden was tied.
01:18:00.74\01:18:04.65
See, I see a 59 to test your
iniquities have separated you
01:18:04.65\01:18:08.58
from your gun
01:18:08.58\01:18:11.99
sets. The price
paid 17 0st paragraph 2
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in his son. The states man held
joyful communing with him in a
01:18:15.96\01:18:20.20
coup market. All the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge.
01:18:20.20\01:18:23.50
But after his sentence, he can
no longer find joy in holiness
01:18:23.50\01:18:27.84
and he sought to hide from the
presence of God. Such is still
01:18:27.84\01:18:31.47
the condition of the UN renewed
heart. It is not in harmony
01:18:31.47\01:18:35.21
with got and finds no
choice in communion with him.
01:18:35.21\01:18:40.68
Fullness of joy
01:18:40.68\01:18:43.35
fullness of joy that comes from
being in the presence of Christ
01:18:43.35\01:18:46.52
can only come
01:18:46.52\01:18:48.86
when our hearts
are lined with him.
01:18:48.86\01:18:51.39
Is the holy spirit convicting
you of something that you
01:18:51.39\01:18:55.03
change your life.
01:18:55.03\01:18:58.13
It's just something
01:18:58.13\01:18:59.57
that seems so small that
the world says that's nothing.
01:18:59.57\01:19:03.04
That's OK.
01:19:03.04\01:19:05.37
You can have that in your life,
01:19:05.37\01:19:07.38
but you cannot deny that
you are under convictions.
01:19:07.38\01:19:12.25
It doesn't matter what it
means for anyone else, but you
01:19:12.25\01:19:14.38
personally can not deny that
constant convicting. You get
01:19:14.38\01:19:17.85
this out to me.
01:19:17.85\01:19:20.92
Start right there.
01:19:20.92\01:19:22.59
And I pray that you will
make that decision tonight to
01:19:22.59\01:19:26.09
surrender to him
01:19:26.09\01:19:27.83
so that you can enter into
his presence and experience that
01:19:27.83\01:19:31.60
joy
01:19:31.60\01:19:34.14
chalk close to him
01:19:34.14\01:19:36.67
spend time in his presence.
01:19:36.67\01:19:39.04
He will change that.
01:19:39.04\01:19:41.24
And your love for your board
outgrow your life for sense.
01:19:41.24\01:19:48.82
The 3rd point I want
to make from the story
01:19:48.82\01:19:51.52
is this.
01:19:51.52\01:19:52.99
As a result of laboring with
Jesus disciples became fishers,
01:19:52.99\01:20:00.56
you see people was transformed
by his experience, working with
01:20:00.56\01:20:04.60
Jesus
01:20:04.60\01:20:06.77
after Peter surrendered and
submitted to Jesus is calling
01:20:06.77\01:20:11.94
he casts its net out again
and witnesses miracle a fish.
01:20:11.94\01:20:15.28
What was his reaction?
01:20:15.28\01:20:16.68
He fell at Jesus feet and
said the part for me for I am a
01:20:16.68\01:20:20.45
sinful man. Laurent
01:20:20.45\01:20:24.69
sets the price paid 64.
01:20:24.69\01:20:26.72
And 65 says the closer you come
to Jesus, the more fall tu will
01:20:26.72\01:20:31.16
appear in your own eyes for
your vision will be clear and
01:20:31.16\01:20:34.30
your imperfections will be seen
in brought in distinct contrast
01:20:34.30\01:20:37.80
to his perfect nature. This
is evidence the safest allusions
01:20:37.80\01:20:41.47
have lost their power to define
influence of the spirit of God
01:20:41.47\01:20:45.21
is arousing. You know,
deep-seated love for Christ can
01:20:45.21\01:20:48.81
do well in the heart at
this not be allies, its own
01:20:48.81\01:20:51.71
sinfulness, the soul that
has transformed by the grace of
01:20:51.71\01:20:55.05
Christ. Let Meyer
he's defined character.
01:20:55.05\01:20:58.75
If we do not see our own
moral deformity is unmistakable
01:20:58.75\01:21:02.82
evidence that we have not
had a view up to beauty and the
01:21:02.82\01:21:06.83
excellence of Christ. The less
we see to steam in ourselves
01:21:06.83\01:21:11.63
more. We shall see steam in the
infinite purity and loveliness
01:21:11.63\01:21:15.27
our savior of the U of R U.S.
influence drives us to him in
01:21:15.27\01:21:19.81
part.
01:21:19.81\01:21:21.01
And when the soul realizing its
helplessness beaches out after
01:21:21.01\01:21:24.81
Christ, he will reveal himself
in power is not what happened
01:21:24.81\01:21:29.38
in Peter's life.
01:21:29.38\01:21:31.25
The more our sense of art, the
more our sense of need drives
01:21:31.25\01:21:35.49
us to him and to the word
of God, the more excel to use.
01:21:35.49\01:21:39.19
We sell half of his character
and the more fully we should
01:21:39.19\01:21:42.56
reflect his image.
01:21:42.56\01:21:44.87
He sees
01:21:44.87\01:21:46.37
Peter experience spiritual
healing and conversion as he
01:21:46.37\01:21:49.60
labored under Christ wrecked.
So in the same way, friends,
01:21:49.60\01:21:53.58
submission and surrendered
at least a spiritual healing and
01:21:53.58\01:21:56.44
conversion in our lives.
As we experience got it from
01:21:56.44\01:22:00.15
us. I can tell
you on that morning
01:22:00.15\01:22:02.92
after when I saw that Cho was
gone and I realize that God had
01:22:02.92\01:22:06.45
been leading the the night
before to reach out to him.
01:22:06.45\01:22:08.96
I experienced
conversion in my art
01:22:08.96\01:22:12.06
and my faith in him
leveled up as a result of that.
01:22:12.06\01:22:15.80
You see France. We think that
we're doing got a fever when we
01:22:15.80\01:22:18.30
incorporate our faith into
our practice, no friends. It's
01:22:18.30\01:22:22.04
God's way of saving us.
01:22:22.04\01:22:25.54
You think you're doing a favor
for God? He doesn't need us,
01:22:25.54\01:22:29.91
but he chooses to use us for
our own. See sets a price page
01:22:29.91\01:22:34.38
80,
01:22:34.38\01:22:35.82
if you will go to work
01:22:35.82\01:22:37.62
as Christ designs that his
second shelf and win souls for
01:22:37.62\01:22:40.39
him, you will feel the need
of a deeper experience and a
01:22:40.39\01:22:43.96
greater knowledge and divine
things and with hunger and
01:22:43.96\01:22:47.23
thirst after righteousness,
those who test people
01:22:47.23\01:22:50.20
themselves to unselfish effort
for the good of others are most
01:22:50.20\01:22:53.87
surely working out
their own salvation.
01:22:53.87\01:22:58.74
What a privilege that God gives
us to be cold leavers with him
01:22:58.74\01:23:02.18
in this work
01:23:02.18\01:23:03.91
we so often think
01:23:03.91\01:23:05.35
while got,
01:23:05.35\01:23:06.65
aren't you lucky to
have me on your team
01:23:06.65\01:23:09.78
magnified by my training and my
expertise. What a gift I am for
01:23:09.78\01:23:14.02
the kingdom. You caught a good
one. When when I dedicated my
01:23:14.02\01:23:18.19
life to Lord and so write the
word I got this, I will serve
01:23:18.19\01:23:22.33
you
01:23:22.33\01:23:24.40
friends. He would not call
you to ministry on the scene.
01:23:24.40\01:23:27.34
You think you're
very salvation depended on
01:23:27.34\01:23:30.21
white privilege. We have
01:23:30.21\01:23:32.51
to work with him in this works
01:23:32.51\01:23:37.38
when the disciples
Nets were full of fish.
01:23:37.38\01:23:39.68
I want to point out
01:23:39.68\01:23:41.18
that the experience of working
with Christ caused him to walk
01:23:41.18\01:23:44.82
away from it.
01:23:44.82\01:23:47.09
They had a record-breaking haul
that represented a fortune if
01:23:47.09\01:23:51.09
they so that it was a single
most biggest record-breaking
01:23:51.09\01:23:54.20
fish and in the
history of Israel.
01:23:54.20\01:23:58.17
And for some reason
01:23:58.17\01:24:00.30
when they labored
under Christ direction,
01:24:00.30\01:24:03.30
all of this to
matter to them anymore.
01:24:03.30\01:24:06.81
You see friends,
01:24:06.81\01:24:08.21
we will no longer be
attracted to the fish
01:24:08.21\01:24:12.28
because our highs will
be sent on a higher price.
01:24:12.28\01:24:16.32
When we have experienced
the joy of working and living in
01:24:16.32\01:24:18.72
his presence to things of
earth across screens to them
01:24:18.72\01:24:24.53
with the hymn
writer. We will say
01:24:24.53\01:24:27.60
you may have all this.
01:24:27.60\01:24:30.10
Give me Jesus.
01:24:30.10\01:24:32.60
Give me Jesus.
01:24:32.60\01:24:34.44
Prior to working with Jesus.
Disciples. Mean goal was to
01:24:34.44\01:24:37.84
catch fish
01:24:37.84\01:24:39.84
after working with
Jesus disciples mingle
01:24:39.84\01:24:43.45
the catchment.
01:24:43.45\01:24:45.71
They were no longer fisherman.
01:24:45.71\01:24:48.22
They were fishers of men.
01:24:48.22\01:24:52.82
Jesus gave them a
higher calling than just being
01:24:52.82\01:24:55.69
fisherman.
01:24:55.69\01:24:57.89
And guess what?
01:24:57.89\01:24:59.56
She's calling us to do the same
01:24:59.56\01:25:01.96
in our lines. This is his
higher calling for all of us.
01:25:01.96\01:25:06.33
He cannot treat you to
become just a fisherman
01:25:06.33\01:25:10.01
to exchange for hours for
dollars. Just take care of life
01:25:10.01\01:25:13.84
and health in this world.
01:25:13.84\01:25:15.71
He created you
01:25:15.71\01:25:17.38
to be a Fisher man
01:25:17.38\01:25:19.05
to axles to his kingdom.
01:25:19.05\01:25:21.48
How good you are at your shot.
01:25:21.48\01:25:23.42
If you're leaving a park in
Christ and you're not getting
01:25:23.42\01:25:26.65
his presence, you are not
achieving their full potential.
01:25:26.65\01:25:30.16
Your justice official me
01:25:30.16\01:25:33.80
God has called us
01:25:33.80\01:25:35.70
too much higher work and the
greatest work that we can do.
01:25:35.70\01:25:39.27
The greatest legacy
that we can leave behind
01:25:39.27\01:25:42.30
is to axles to his kingdom.
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[MUSIC]
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