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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO -
CAPITAL CITY OF CALIFORNIA.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU
ARE TUNING IN. WHETHER YOU'RE
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LISTENING ON THE RADIO,
WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEB SITE AT
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'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR ON THE
VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS,
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IT DOES NOT MATTER.
WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU'RE
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JOINING US AND THAT YOU'RE GOING
TO SING WITH US AND YOU'RE GOING
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TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH US
TODAY. OUR FIRST REQUEST IS #547
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AS WE START OUR
PROGRAM - 'BE THOU MY VISION'.
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM MATTHEW
AND CLAUDINE IN CHINA, KISKU IN
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INDIA, SUELYN IN IRELAND, THE
STEVENS FAMILY AND BETH IN NEW
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ZEALAND, YELENA IN THE RUSSIAN
FEDERATION, AND GODWILL IN
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SWEDEN AND THERE WERE A
WHOLE BUNCH MORE REQUESTS FROM
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AROUND THE WORLD FOR THIS SONG.
SO WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE SUCH AN
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INTERNATIONAL FAMILY
JOINING WITH US EACH WEEK.
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IT'S VERY EXCITING.
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I LOVE TO TRAVEL AND SO IT'S
LIKE I GO ON A TRIP EVERY WEEK
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WHEN I PUT THESE SONGS TOGETHER
- SEEING THE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
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AND ALL ACROSS THE
U.S. AND - VERY EXCITING.
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SO WE'RE VERY GLAD THAT
YOU ARE JOINING WITH US.
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WE'RE GOING TO SING STANZAS 1,
2 AND 4 - 'BE THOU MY VISION'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>BEAUTIFUL SONG. THANK
YOU SO MUCH FOR REQUESTING
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THAT AND IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE
THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH
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US ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, GO TO
OUR WEB SITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'
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AND CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US'
LINK AND ANY SONG THAT'S IN THE
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HYMNAL IS RIGHT THERE FOR YOU TO
CHOOSE AND WE WILL DO OUR BEST
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TO SING THAT FOR YOU
ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM.
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AT THIS TIME LET US
BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO
MUCH FOR LOVING US - FOR BEING
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OUR KIND HEAVENLY FATHER. I
PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE WITH US
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AS WE OPEN UP YOUR
WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER.
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BE WITH OUR EXTENDED SABBATH
SCHOOL FAMILY ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD
NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE.
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SOME OF THEM, WE KNOW, ARE HOURS
FROM A LOCAL CONGREGATION AND
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THIS IS THEIR SABBATH SCHOOL -
THIS IS THEIR CHURCH FAMILY AND
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I JUST PRAY THAT YOU WOULD BE
WITH EACH ONE IN A VERY SPECIAL
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WAY RIGHT NOW. BE
WITH PASTOR CHRIS AS HE
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BRINGS US OUR LESSON
STUDY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY.
HE IS OUR FAMILY LIFE AND
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EVANGELISM PASTOR
HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH.
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>>IT'S GOOD TO SEE
YOU. IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU.
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OR MAYBE YOU WERE JUST THINKING
I WASN'T ME THIS MORNING, BUT IT
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IS CERTAINLY GOOD TO SEE YOU AND
HAPPY SABBATH AND WHAT A DELIGHT
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TO STUDY TOGETHER HERE
THIS MORNING AND SHARE IN TIME -
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IN OPENING GOD'S WORD.
AND WE ALSO WANT TO EXTEND A
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WELCOME AGAIN TO THOSE THAT ARE
VIEWING US EITHER ONLINE, ON TV
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OR LISTENING BY RADIO
- GLAD YOU COULD JOIN US.
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AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE JOINING
US AND OUR EXTENDED FAMILY, WE
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WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS
MORNING YOU ARE AWARE OF OUR
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FREE OFFER. AND IT'S
OFFER #806 - IT'S CALLED THE
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'AMAZING HEALTH FACTS - 8
BIBLE SECRETS FOR A LONGER AND A
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STRONGER LIFE' AND SO YOU
WANT TO BE ABLE TO CALL IN AND
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GRAB THIS. OFFER
#806 - 50+ PAGES OF
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MEDICAL INFORMATION
DEALING WITH BETTER HEALTH.
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EIGHT BIBLICAL LESSONS DEALING
WITH THE BENEFITS OF EXERCISE,
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REST, KEEPING THE
SABBATH, ETCETERA.
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SO YOU WANT TO CALL
IN 1-866-STUDY MORE OR
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1-866-788-3966. CALL
IN FOR THE FREE OFFER.
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YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU DID.
IT'S A POWER-PACKED MAGAZINE.
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WELL, WE'RE INTO OUR LESSON
STUDY HERE THIS MORNING AND
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WE'RE GOING TO BE OVER AT THE
LESSON ENTITLED 'DISCIPLING THE
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SICK' AND SO I TRUST YOU'VE
GOT YOUR LESSON GUIDES - LESSON
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STUDIES WITH YOU HERE AND WE'RE
GOING TO BE TACKLING OR AT LEAST
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REVIEWING OUR LESSON
HERE IN OUR TIME TOGETHER.
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I WANT TO LOOK AT THE MEMORY
VERSE WITH YOU FIRST AND THAT'S
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FOUND IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
15, VERSE 30 AND 31 AND I'LL BE
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READING FROM THE
KING JAMES VERSION.
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IT SAYS, "AND GREAT MULTITUDES
CAME UNTO HIM, HAVING WITH THEM
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THOSE THAT WERE LAME, BLIND,
DUMB, MAIMED, AND MANY OTHERS,
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AND CAST THEM DOWN AT
JESUS' FEET; AND HE HEALED THEM:
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INSOMUCH THAT THE MULTITUDE
WONDERED WHEN THEY SAW THE DUMB
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TO SPEAK, THE MAIMED TO BE
WHOLE, THE LAME TO WALK, AND THE
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BLIND TO SEE: AND THEY
GLORIFIED THE GOD OF ISRAEL."
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SOMEONE SAID THAT THE WORLD
IS, IN FACT, LIKE A GREAT BIG
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HOSPITAL. AND THEY
WOULDN'T BE FAR OFF THE MARK.
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SICKNESS AND DISEASE HAS ALWAYS
BEEN WITH US - PROBABLY WILL -
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DEFINITELY - SHOULDN'T SAY
PROBABLY - BUT ALWAYS WILL BE
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WITH US UNTIL JESUS COMES. I
WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU HERE,
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AS WE GET INTO OUR LESSONS, A
FEW STATISTICS. AND I KNOW WHEN
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I MENTION STATISTICS, FOLKS JUST
JUMP UP AND DOWN AND SAY 'GOODY!
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MORE STATISTICS AND MORE FACTS
FOR ME TO DIGEST.' BUT I JUST
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WANT TO KIND OF CREATE A
SCENARIO OR AT LEAST - I DON'T
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HAVE TO CREATE THE SCENARIO, BUT
AT LEAST MENTION AND LOOK AT THE
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- THE EXTENT AT WHICH SICKNESS
AND DISEASE REALLY DOMINATES OUR
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PLANET. SOME OF
THESE STATISTICS COME
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FROM THE WORLD HEALTH
ORGANIZATION AND I'M JUST GOING
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TO SHARE A FEW
OF THESE WITH YOU.
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THEY SUGGEST THAT THE WORLD HAS
MADE SOME SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS
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OF REDUCING THE NUMBER OF
CHILDREN DEATHS - THAT'S BETWEEN
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THE AGES OF ONE THROUGH
FIVE - BY ABOUT FORTY PERCENT.
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BUT YET, AROUND IN 2011, 7
MILLION CHILDREN BETWEEN THAT
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AGE GROUP DIED.
THAT'S A LOT OF CHILDREN.
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ABOUT 75% OF THOSE DEATHS
ARE CAUSED BY SIX CONDITIONS:
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NEONATAL CAUSES LIKE PRE-TERM
BIRTH, BIRTH ASPHYXIA AND
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INFECTIONS, AND THEN OTHER
THINGS LIKE PNEUMONIA, DIARRHEA,
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MALARIA, HIV/AIDS, AND MEASLES.
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BETWEEN 1990 AND 2011,
THE PROPORTION OF OVERWEIGHT
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CHILDREN DOUBLED IN THE AFRICA
REGION AND IN THE EUROPE REGION.
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AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE EUROPE
REGION HAS THE HIGHEST - 12.5% -
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OF OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN.
IT'S QUITE A LARGE GROUP -
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NO PUN INTENDED.
OVERWEIGHT IS OFTEN ALSO LINKED
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WITH HEART DISEASE,
HYPERTENSION, AND DIABETES.
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ALMOST 10% OF THE WORLD'S
ADULT POPULATION HAS DIABETES.
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THAT'S ONE IN EVERY TEN PERSONS
ON PLANET EARTH HAS DIABETES.
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PEOPLE WITH DIABETES, OF COURSE,
HAVE INCREASED RISK OF HEART
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DISEASE, STROKE, AND ARE
TEN TIMES MORE LIKELY TO NEED A
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LOWER LIMB AMPUTATION THAN
THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE DIABETES.
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IT'S ONE OF THE LEADING
CAUSES OF RENAL FAILURE, VISUAL
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IMPAIRMENT AND,
OF COURSE, BLINDNESS.
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IN 2011, AN ESTIMATED
1.7 MILLION PEOPLE DIED FROM
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AIDS-RELATED CAUSES WORLDWIDE.
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FORTUNATELY, THAT'S 24%
LESS THAN WHAT WAS IN 2005.
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NEW INFECTIONS HAVE ALSO
DECLINED, BUT NOT ENOUGH.
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IN 2011 AN ESTIMATED 2.5 MILLION
PEOPLE WORLD WIDE WERE NEWLY
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INFECTED WITH HIV AND AROUND 34
MILLION PEOPLE LIVING WORLDWIDE
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HAVE HIV. ALSO,
CONSIDER THE TOP DEADLY
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DISEASES OF THE
DEVELOPING WORLD.
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SOME HAVE
ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED.
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THESE FIGURES COME FROM 2007.
4 MILLION PEOPLE DIE ANNUALLY -
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DIED IN THAT YEAR - FROM
LOWER RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS.
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THEN YOU HAD 1 TO 5 MILLION
PEOPLE DIE FROM MALARIA, 2.2
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MILLION FROM DIARRHEA, 2 MILLION
FROM TUBERCULOSIS, HALF A
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MILLION FROM MEASLES, 2 TO 3
HUNDRED THOUSAND FROM WHOOPING
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COUGH, A QUARTER OF A MILLION
FROM TETANUS, 174,000 FROM
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MENINGITIS AND
157,000 FROM SYPHILIS.
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THE INFECTION RATE FROM EACH
OF THESE DISEASES, OF COURSE, IS
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THAT MUCH LARGER, YOU
UNDERSTAND. YOU SHOULD TRY IT
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IF YOU HAVE IT - I DON'T KNOW
IF ANY OF YOU HAVE CHECKED OUT
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THE WEB SITE 'HEALTHMAP.ORG'
- 'HEALTHMAP.ORG'.
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A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS,
EPIDEMIOLOGISTS AND SOFTWARE
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DEVELOPERS FROM BOSTON
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, THEY ALL
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TEAMED UP TO CREATE AN ONLINE
DISEASE-MONITORING AND REAL TIME
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SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM OF EMERGING
PUBLIC THREATS ACROSS THE GLOBE.
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THE SITE BRINGS
TOGETHER DISPARATE DATA SOURCES.
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YESTERDAY, WHEN I WAS ON
THERE, I DISCOVERED SOMETHING
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INTERESTING HERE JUST
IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA -
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THAT THERE WERE 43
RESPIRATORY ALERTS.
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MOST OF THOSE WERE INFLUENZA AND
THEN ANOTHER LARGE PORTION OF
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THAT WAS SWINE FLU - H1N1 VIRUS
- IN JUST NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
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IT'S INTERESTING WHEN YOU
GO ON THAT SITE - NOT TO CREATE
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PARANOIA OR TO GET FOLK WORKED
UP, BUT JUST SO THAT WE - IT'S
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INTERESTING JUST SEEING THESE
THINGS POPPING UP AROUND THE
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GLOBE ON A DAILY,
EVEN WEEKLY, BASIS.
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AND NOT TO OVERWHELM ANYONE,
BUT ADD TO THESE FIGURES THE
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FOLLOWING CONCERNS:
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, ALSO
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KNOWN AS CHRONIC DISEASES.
THESE ARE DISEASES THAT ARE NOT
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PASSED ON FROM PERSON
- INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
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THEY KILL - NOW LISTEN TO THIS -
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THEY KILL 36
MILLION PEOPLE EVERY YEAR.
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NOW YOU TAKE ALL THE FIGURES
FROM THOSE WHO DIE FROM AIDS AND
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FROM LOWER RESPIRATORY DISEASES
AND SYPHILIS AND ALL THE OTHERS,
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AND IT DOESN'T EVEN TOUCH THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIE FROM
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CHRONIC
DISEASES. MOST OF THESE ARE
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LIFESTYLE-RELATED
DISEASES AROUND THE WORLD.
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CARDIOVASCULAR ACCOUNT FOR
MOST OF THESE CHRONIC DEATHS -
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17.3 MILLION PEOPLE DIE
ANNUALLY, FOLLOWED BY CANCER
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WHICH IS 7.6
MILLION, RESPIRATORY DISEASE
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4.2 MILLION AND DIABETES
1.3 MILLION AROUND THE WORLD.
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NOW THESE FOUR GROUPS OF
DISEASES ACCOUNT FOR 80% OF
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NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE DEATHS.
AND, OF COURSE, THEY ALL SHARE
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THE SAME FOUR RISK FACTORS:
TOBACCO USE, PHYSICAL INACTIVITY
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AND THE HARMFUL USE OF
ALCOHOL AND UNHEALTHY DIETS.
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SO OUR WORLD REALLY, IF WE
CONSIDER JUST THAT COLLAGE OF
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DATA IS TRULY RIPE FOR AUTHENTIC
BIBLICAL MINISTRY OF HEALING TO
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THE SICK - AS IT WAS, ACTUALLY,
IN THE TIME THAT JESUS CAME
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ALONG THE SCENE. THE
BIBLE SAYS JESUS CAME IN
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THE FULLNESS OF TIME.
HE CAME RIGHT ON TIME,
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PROPHETICALLY SPEAKING AND ALSO
JUST THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD
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- IT WAS RIPE FOR THE MESSIAH
TO COME. I WAS READING IN
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MY FAVORITE BOOK 'THE DESIRE OF
AGES' PAGE 36. THE AUTHOR TELLS
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US THE CONDITION OF
THE WORLD WHEN JESUS CAME.
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SHE WRITES, "THE BODIES OF HUMAN
BEINGS MADE FOR THE DWELLING
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PLACE OF GOD, HAD BECOME
THE HABITATIONS - OF DEMONS.
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THE SENSES, THE NERVES, THE
PASSIONS, THE ORGANS OF MEN,
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WERE WORKED BY SUPERNATURAL
AGENCIES IN THE INDULGENCE OF
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THE VILEST LUSTS. THE
VERY STAMP OF DEMONS WAS
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IMPRESSED UPON THE
COUNTENANCES OF MEN."
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THAT WAS THE CONDITION OF
THE WORLD WHEN JESUS CAME.
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FOLK WERE ENGROSSED IN VILE
LUSTS AND THE DEVIL HAD CONTROL
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OF FOLK BECAUSE THEY HAD
GIVEN HIM PERMISSION TO DO SO,
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WHETHER INTELLIGENTLY
OR NON-INTELLIGENTLY -
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NON-CONSCIOUSLY. AND HE HAD
WREAKED HAVOC IN THE HUMAN MIND
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AND IN THE HUMAN BODY. TODAY,
CERTAINLY, LOOKING AT THE DATA
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AND LOOKING AROUND US -
AND WE'VE ALL BEEN TOUCHED OR
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AFFECTED BY SOMETHING, WHETHER
PERSONALLY OURSELVES OR WHETHER
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A CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER - BY SOME
OF EVEN THESE DISEASES THAT HAVE
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BEEN MENTIONED HERE THIS
MORNING. THIS AFFECTS ALL OF US
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IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND WE
CERTAINLY LIVE IN A VERY SICK -
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PHYSICALLY SICK AND
MENTALLY SICK WORLD AS WELL.
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SO WHEN JESUS CAME, THE TIME WAS
RIPE FOR HIM TO COME AND THAT'S
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WHY YOU READ - AND IT'S QUOTED
HERE ON PAGE - THE FIRST - ON
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SABBATH MORNING'S LESSON - OR
SABBATH'S LESSON IN OUR LESSON
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GUIDES - FROM 'MINISTRY OF
HEALING' PAGES 19 AND 20 WHERE
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THE AUTHOR SAYS, "DURING HIS
MINISTRY JESUS DEVOTED MORE TIME
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TO HEALING THE
SICK THAN TO PREACHING.
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HIS MIRACLES TESTIFIED TO THE
TRUTH OF HIS WORDS THAT HE CAME
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NOT TO DESTROY BUT TO SAVE.
WHEREVER HE WENT, THE TIDINGS OF
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HIS MERCY PRECEDED HIM.
WHERE HE HAD PASSED, THE OBJECTS
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OF HIS COMPASSION WERE REJOICING
IN HEALTH AND MAKING TRIAL OF
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THEIR NEWFOUND POWERS. AS
HE PASSED THROUGH THE TOWNS
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AND CITIES HE WAS LIKE A VITAL
CURRENT DIFFUSING LIFE AND JOY."
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SO EVERYWHERE JESUS WENT, FOLK
WERE JUST HAPPY AND REJOICING
00:15:44.56\00:15:50.60
AND ECSTATIC THAT THEY
HAD FOUND NEWFOUND HEALTH.
00:15:50.60\00:15:53.63
JESUS SPENT MORE TIME
HEALING THAN HE DID PREACHING.
00:15:53.63\00:15:57.03
NOT TO SUGGEST THAT PREACHING'S
NOT IMPORTANT - AND - BUT YOU
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UNDERSTAND THAT - AND WE'LL TALK
A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WE MOVE
00:16:00.16\00:16:03.46
THROUGH THE LESSON.
BUT YOU UNDERSTAND, JESUS -
00:16:03.46\00:16:05.06
JESUS USED HEALING - JESUS
HEALED FOLK AS AN ENTRYWAY FOR
00:16:05.06\00:16:11.93
THE GOSPEL - FOR FOLK TO
RECEIVE HIM AS THEIR SAVIOR.
00:16:11.93\00:16:16.13
SO LET'S GO OVER TO
SUNDAY'S LESSON AND LET'S DIG IN
00:16:16.13\00:16:20.03
JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE.
00:16:20.03\00:16:21.33
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE HEALING
MESSIAH FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT.
00:16:21.33\00:16:24.16
I WANT TO JUST BRIEFLY REVIEW
WITH YOU SOME OF THE MAGNIFICENT
00:16:24.16\00:16:28.03
HEALINGS THAT TOOK PLACE
DURING THE MINISTRY OF JESUS.
00:16:28.03\00:16:31.10
NOW, IF YOU SCAN MATTHEW, MARK,
LUKE, AND JOHN, YOU'RE GOING TO
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FIND TWENTY-TWO
MIRACLES THAT JESUS PERFORMED.
00:16:34.13\00:16:38.50
NOW, NOT EVERYTHING THAT JESUS
SAID OR DID IS RECORDED IN THE
00:16:38.50\00:16:42.30
GOSPELS, BUT WHEN YOU
READ THE GOSPELS, YOU'LL NOTICE
00:16:42.30\00:16:45.46
22 ACTS OF HEALING THAT
JESUS PERFORMED TO HELP PEOPLE
00:16:45.46\00:16:50.80
RECOVER FROM A CERTAIN SICKNESS.
00:16:50.80\00:16:53.00
THERE WERE OTHER THINGS THAT
HE DID AND THERE WERE MARVELOUS
00:16:53.00\00:16:55.73
MIRACLES AS WELL AND WE'LL TALK
ABOUT THOSE IN JUST A BIT, BUT
00:16:55.73\00:16:58.10
22 OF THEM WERE
RECORDED IN THE GOSPELS.
00:16:58.10\00:17:00.80
JUST REAL BRIEFLY I'M GOING TO
GO THROUGH THESE AND I'LL JUST
00:17:00.80\00:17:03.33
TELL YOU WHERE THE REFERENCES
ARE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO JOT IT
00:17:03.33\00:17:06.06
DOWN, BUT A LOT OF THEM ARE
FOUND IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW.
00:17:06.06\00:17:08.53
AND EVEN THOUGH MATTHEW IS NOT
WRITTEN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
00:17:08.53\00:17:11.26
MATTHEW IS VERY INTERESTED,
AS IS LUKE, IN THE HEALINGS OF
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JESUS. AND SO IN
MATTHEW 8 YOU'VE GOT
00:17:15.63\00:17:19.50
THE HEALING OF THE LEPER -
YOU REMEMBER THE LEPER COMES TO
00:17:19.50\00:17:21.60
JESUS AND SAYS - AND HE KNOWS
JESUS CAN HEAL HIM BUT HE'S NOT
00:17:21.60\00:17:24.73
SURE HE WILL HEAL
HIM BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS.
00:17:24.73\00:17:28.33
AND HE SAYS TO JESUS, 'IF
YOU WILL CAN YOU MAKE ME CLEAN?'
00:17:28.33\00:17:32.13
AND JESUS SAID, 'I WILL. BE
THOU CLEAN.' AND SO THE LEPER
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WAS HEALED. A FEW
VERSES LATER YOU HAD THE
00:17:35.23\00:17:38.36
HEALING OF THE
ROMAN CENTURION'S SERVANT.
00:17:38.36\00:17:40.96
YOU REMEMBER THE ROMAN CENTURION
CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, 'LOOK,
00:17:40.96\00:17:43.63
MY SERVANT'S SICK EVEN
TO DEATH' AND JESUS SAID,
00:17:43.63\00:17:46.66
'WELL WHERE IS THIS INDIVIDUAL?
00:17:46.66\00:17:48.56
I'LL COME.' AND THE
CENTURION SAID, 'NO, NO, NO, NO.
00:17:48.56\00:17:50.63
YOU JUST SPEAK THE
WORD AND HE'LL BE HEALED.
00:17:50.63\00:17:53.43
BECAUSE I'M A MAN OF AUTHORITY
AND I TELL MY FOLK WHAT TO DO
00:17:53.43\00:17:56.70
AND THEY COME AND THEY GO AND
YOU CAN DO THE SAME THING.' HE
00:17:56.70\00:17:59.43
EXHIBITED TREMENDOUS FAITH
IN CHRIST'S HEALING POWER AND SO
00:17:59.43\00:18:04.20
THERE'S THE HEALING
OF THE ROMAN CENTURION.
00:18:04.20\00:18:06.50
A FEW VERSES LATER PETER GOES TO
- PETER - JESUS GOES TO PETER'S
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MOTHER-IN-LAW'S
PLACE AND HEALS HER.
00:18:10.73\00:18:13.76
AND PETER'S GLAD FOR THAT
BECAUSE SHE GETS UP AND FIXES
00:18:13.76\00:18:16.73
THEM SOME FOOD AND SOME DRINK
AND SHE'S BACK TO DOING WHAT SHE
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DOES. AND THEN
IN MATTHEW 8, TOWARD
00:18:19.53\00:18:23.20
THE CLOSE OF THE CHAPTER, YOU
HAVE THE HEALING OF THE WILD MEN
00:18:23.20\00:18:27.30
AT GADARA. NOW IN
MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 YOU'VE
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GOT THE HEALING OF THE
PALSIED OR THE PARALYTIC MAN.
00:18:30.56\00:18:34.36
IN MATTHEW 9:20 THE HEALING OF
THE WOMAN WITH THE HEMORRHAGE.
00:18:34.36\00:18:38.70
YOU REMEMBER, SHE COMES TO JESUS
AND SEEKS TO TOUCH THE HEM OF
00:18:38.70\00:18:41.43
HIS GARMENT SO THAT
SHE MIGHT BE HEALED.
00:18:41.43\00:18:43.83
SHE'S SOUGHT ALL THE DOCTORS
- NONE OF THEM CAN HELP HER BUT
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SHE HEARS OF JESUS AND PRESSES
THROUGH THE CROWD AND JESUS
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FEELS THAT TOUCH OF FAITH EVEN
THOUGH HE'S BEEN JOSTLED AND
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PRESSED ON EVERY SIDE.
00:18:54.26\00:18:55.80
EVEN IN THAT SAME CHAPTER YOU'VE
GOT THE HEALING OF TWO BLIND
00:18:55.80\00:18:58.53
MEN, THE HEALING OF THE
DEMON-POSSESSED MAN, THEN OVER
00:18:58.53\00:19:02.10
IN MATTHEW 12 YOU'VE GOT
THE HEALING OF A MAN WHO HAD A
00:19:02.10\00:19:05.00
WITHERED HAND. IN
MATTHEW 15 YOU HAVE THE
00:19:05.00\00:19:07.93
HEALING OF THE
SYROPHOENICIAN'S DAUGHTER.
00:19:07.93\00:19:10.60
THEN IN MATTHEW 17 THE HEALING
OF A BOY WHO HAD EPILEPSY.
00:19:10.60\00:19:14.56
THEN OVER IN MATTHEW 20
THE HEALING OF TWO BLIND MEN AT
00:19:14.56\00:19:17.33
JERICHO AND ONE OF
THOSE MEN IS BARTIMEUS.
00:19:17.33\00:19:20.30
YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY?
00:19:20.30\00:19:21.80
THEN IN MARK AND LUKE YOU
HAVE THE FOLLOWING HEALINGS: THE
00:19:21.80\00:19:25.60
HEALING OF A MAN
WITH THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT.
00:19:25.60\00:19:27.73
THE HEALING OF A MAN WHO
IS NOT ONLY DEAF BUT HE'S ALSO
00:19:27.73\00:19:30.53
SPEECHLESS. THE
HEALING OF A BLIND MAN AT
00:19:30.53\00:19:33.43
BETHESDA AND THE HEALING OF
A WOMAN THAT HAD AN INFIRMITY.
00:19:33.43\00:19:37.06
THE HEALING OF A MAN WHO HAD
DROPSY AND THAT WOULD PROBABLY
00:19:37.06\00:19:41.40
BE EDEMA TODAY - A BUILD UP OF
WATER IN THE TISSUE THERE IN THE
00:19:41.40\00:19:47.00
BODY - SO EDEMA. AND
THEN ANOTHER - THEN -
00:19:47.00\00:19:49.46
REMEMBER JESUS
HEALED TEN LEPERS.
00:19:49.46\00:19:51.50
HOW MANY CAME BACK TO THANK HIM?
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY, RIGHT?
00:19:51.50\00:19:54.26
JUST ONE CAME BACK TO THANK
HIM AND THAT WAS RECORDED IN
00:19:54.26\00:19:57.40
LUKE 17. IN LUKE 22
JESUS HEALS MALCHUS.
00:19:57.40\00:20:02.66
YOU REMEMBER PETER WITHDREW HIS
SWORD - TOOK OFF THE EAR OF THE
00:20:02.66\00:20:07.26
HIGH PRIEST'S SERVANT MALCHUS
AND JESUS SOMEHOW FREES HIMSELF
00:20:07.26\00:20:11.56
FROM THE TIGHT GRIP OF THE -
THOSE WHO HAVE COME TO ARREST
00:20:11.56\00:20:15.16
HIM AND HE HEALS MALCHUS' EAR.
00:20:15.16\00:20:18.90
AND THEN IN JOHN YOU HAVE THE
HEALING OF THE NOBLEMAN'S SON,
00:20:18.90\00:20:21.40
THE HEALING OF THE LAME MAN AT
BETHESDA - AND THEN IN JOHN 9,
00:20:21.40\00:20:24.83
VERSE 1, YOU'VE GOT THE
HEALING OF THE BLIND MAN.
00:20:24.83\00:20:27.96
THAT'S THE STORY WHERE THE
DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS AND
00:20:27.96\00:20:30.20
SAID, 'WHAT CAUSED THIS MAN TO
BE BLIND, WAS IT HIS SIN OR WAS
00:20:30.20\00:20:34.03
IT HIS PARENTS' SIN?'
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE
00:20:34.03\00:20:36.16
ABOUT THAT. SO WHEN
YOU REVIEW ALL OF THESE
00:20:36.16\00:20:39.10
MIRACLES THAT JESUS PERFORMED
- THERE'S TWENTY-TWO OF THEM -
00:20:39.10\00:20:42.20
WHEN YOU REVIEW ALL OF THESE,
ONE THING STANDS OUT TO ME:
00:20:42.20\00:20:45.56
JESUS' HEALING WAS
INDISCRIMINATE - INDISCRIMINATE.
00:20:45.56\00:20:49.73
HE DIDN'T DECIDE THAT SOME
PEOPLE WERE BETTER OFF OR SOME
00:20:49.73\00:20:53.43
PEOPLE WERE MORE WORTHY OF
RECEIVING HEALING THAN OTHERS.
00:20:53.43\00:20:57.80
NO HE DIDN'T. IT DIDN'T
MATTER WHAT DISEASE THEY HAD.
00:20:57.80\00:21:00.86
IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT GENDER
THEY WERE. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT
00:21:00.86\00:21:03.36
NATIONALITY THEY WERE - WHETHER
PEOPLE BROUGHT THE DISEASE UPON
00:21:03.36\00:21:07.20
THEMSELVES OR WHETHER IT
WAS HEREDITARY OR WHETHER IT WAS
00:21:07.20\00:21:10.96
PURE MISFORTUNE
- IT DIDN'T MATTER.
00:21:10.96\00:21:13.73
THEY ALL CAME TO JESUS FOR
HEALING AND JESUS HEALED THEM.
00:21:13.73\00:21:18.00
NOW IT'S AN INTERESTING -
INTERESTING EPISODE IN MARK
00:21:18.00\00:21:22.66
CHAPTER 1 WHERE WE'RE TOLD A LOT
OF PEOPLE CAME WITH DISEASES AND
00:21:22.66\00:21:25.73
THE BIBLE SAYS
JESUS HEALED MANY OF THEM.
00:21:25.73\00:21:28.50
THERE ARE TIMES WHERE YOU READ
THESE LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE
00:21:28.50\00:21:31.73
CAME AND EVERYONE WAS HEALED,
BUT IN MARK 1 IT LEADS US TO
00:21:31.73\00:21:35.33
BELIEVE THAT - IN THIS
PARTICULAR EPISODE, JESUS DIDN'T
00:21:35.33\00:21:38.03
HEAL EVERYBODY. WE'LL
TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE
00:21:38.03\00:21:40.93
ABOUT THAT HERE IN
JUST A BIT AS WELL.
00:21:40.93\00:21:43.93
ALSO, KEEP IN MIND THAT
IN JESUS' DAY, FOLK GENERALLY
00:21:43.93\00:21:48.20
BELIEVED THAT EVERY SICKNESS
THAT A PERSON HAD WAS A PENALTY
00:21:48.20\00:21:52.23
FOR SOME SIN OF THE SUFFERER
OR OF HIS OR HER PARENTS.
00:21:52.23\00:21:56.83
SO, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE,
THE STORY OF THE HEALING OF THE
00:21:56.83\00:21:59.40
BLIND MAN IN JOHN 9
REVEALS THIS TYPE OF STRANGE AND
00:21:59.40\00:22:02.90
SUPERSTITIOUS THINKING -
WHEN THE DISCIPLES ASKED JESUS,
00:22:02.90\00:22:06.33
'MASTER, WHO CAUSED
THIS MAN TO BE BLIND?
00:22:06.33\00:22:09.10
WAS IT HIS SIN OR HIS PARENTS'?'
AND IN JOHN CHAPTER 9 AND VERSE
00:22:09.10\00:22:12.53
3 JESUS SAID,
'NEITHER' - NEITHER.
00:22:12.53\00:22:17.16
AND SO JESUS REFUTED THE COMMON
FALSE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS DAY.
00:22:17.16\00:22:21.46
IN THAT BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES'
- AND I WANT TO SHARE THIS WITH
00:22:21.46\00:22:24.23
YOU HERE, PAGE 471 - IT'S
VERY INTERESTING. I WANT YOU TO
00:22:24.23\00:22:28.03
NOTICE HERE WHAT THE
AUTHOR SAYS, "IT WAS GENERALLY
00:22:28.03\00:22:30.40
BELIEVED BY THE JEWS THAT
SIN IS PUNISHED IN THIS LIFE.
00:22:30.40\00:22:33.13
EVERY AFFLICTION WAS REGARDED
AS PENALTY OF SOME WRONGDOING
00:22:33.13\00:22:37.00
EITHER OF THE SUFFERER
HIMSELF OR OF HIS PARENTS."
00:22:37.00\00:22:40.13
AND SO IT IS TRUE - SHE GOES
ON TO SAY THAT ALL SUFFERING
00:22:40.13\00:22:43.70
RESULTS FROM THE
TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW.
00:22:43.70\00:22:46.36
THAT'S AN INTERESTING
DISTINCTION - SICKNESS, DISEASE
00:22:46.36\00:22:49.96
COMES ABOUT BECAUSE OF BREAKING
GOD'S LAW - NOT JUST MORAL LAW
00:22:49.96\00:22:53.90
BUT ALSO THE
HEALTH LAWS. "SATAN,
00:22:53.90\00:22:57.40
THE AUTHOR OF SIN AND ALL
ITS RESULTS HAS LED MEN TO LOOK
00:22:57.40\00:23:01.96
UPON DISEASE AND DEATH
AS PROCEEDING FROM GOD AS
00:23:01.96\00:23:05.43
PUNISHMENT ARBITRARILY INFLICTED
AS ACCOUNT OF SIN HENCE ONE UPON
00:23:05.43\00:23:11.56
WHOM SOME GREAT AFFLICTIONAL
CALAMITY HAD FALLEN HAD THE
00:23:11.56\00:23:14.23
ADDITIONAL BURDEN", SHE SAYS,
"OF BEING REGARDED AS A GREAT
00:23:14.23\00:23:17.20
SINNER." SO YOU CAN
IMAGINE THE CONDITION
00:23:17.20\00:23:19.96
OF FOLK WHO WERE
SICK IN JESUS' DAY.
00:23:19.96\00:23:22.60
BURDENED DOWN WITH SOME
DEBILITATING DISEASE OR SICKNESS
00:23:22.60\00:23:26.73
AND ON TOP OF THAT THEY HAD TO
ACCEPT THE FACT AND THEY HAD TO
00:23:26.73\00:23:30.73
JUST LIVE WITH THE FACT THAT
FOLK SAW THEM AS GREAT SINNERS -
00:23:30.73\00:23:34.60
THAT WHAT THEY WERE DEALING WITH
AND WHAT THEY WERE SUFFERING
00:23:34.60\00:23:37.03
WITH WAS A DIRECT PUNISHMENT
OF GOD - THAT HE WAS JUST,
00:23:37.03\00:23:42.56
YOU KNOW, ARBITRARILY BRINGING
THIS PUNISHMENT UPON THEM
00:23:42.56\00:23:45.63
BECAUSE OF SOMETHING
THEY'D DONE IN THEIR LIVES.
00:23:45.63\00:23:48.40
AND SO FOLK, JUST BEING SICK
WOULD BE - JUST BE EMBARASSED TO
00:23:48.40\00:23:53.03
BE SICK - HEADS DOWN - MAYBE NOT
EVEN GOING OUT INTO SOCIETY A
00:23:53.03\00:23:57.46
WHOLE LOT - HAVE
PEOPLE RUN THEIR ERRANDS.
00:23:57.46\00:23:59.63
QUITE A BURDEN FOR PEOPLE TO
CARRY AND CERTAINLY NOT A BURDEN
00:23:59.63\00:24:03.66
THAT FOLK OUGHT TO CARRY. BUT
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MINISTRY OF
00:24:03.66\00:24:07.63
JESUS, YOU REALIZE THAT JESUS'
MINISTRY REVEALED GOD'S LOVE.
00:24:07.63\00:24:11.96
IT WAS CONTRARY TO WHAT
PEOPLE WERE THINKING ABOUT GOD.
00:24:11.96\00:24:15.13
THROUGH HIS MINISTRY OF HEALING,
JESUS EXEMPLIFIED THE GENEROUS
00:24:15.13\00:24:19.23
AND COMPASSIONATE ATTRIBUTES OF
GOD AND REVEALED THAT GOD DOES
00:24:19.23\00:24:22.70
NOT TAKE DELIGHT IN SUFFERING
BUT RATHER SEEKS TO RELIEVE IT.
00:24:22.70\00:24:28.56
THAT'S THE MINISTRY OF HEALING
THAT JESUS BROUGHT TO THE WORLD.
00:24:28.56\00:24:32.93
IF ANYONE THOUGHT, AT THAT
TIME, THAT GOD WAS ARBITRARY AND
00:24:32.93\00:24:36.30
UNKIND, THEY HAD TO RETHINK
THEIR ENTIRE PREMISE, HAVING
00:24:36.30\00:24:40.46
WITNESSED THE DEMONSTRATION OF
DIVINE LOVE AND EMPATHY THROUGH
00:24:40.46\00:24:43.73
CHRIST'S DIVINE ACTS OF HEALING.
00:24:43.73\00:24:46.93
AND IT'S IMPORTANT TOO - I
THINK YOU'D AGREE WITH ME - IT'S
00:24:46.93\00:24:49.60
IMPORTANT FOR FOLK TO ACCEPT
AND UNDERSTAND AND SETTLE THAT
00:24:49.60\00:24:54.20
QUESTION TODAY -
WITH REGARD TO GOD'S LOVE.
00:24:54.20\00:24:58.36
FOLK WHO TAKE TIME TO READ THESE
STORIES OF JESUS GETTING CLOSE
00:24:58.36\00:25:02.66
TO FOLK WHO WERE SICK - EVEN
WITH DISEASES THAT WERE KNOWN,
00:25:02.66\00:25:05.66
LIKE LEPROSY, AS BEING SOMETHING
THAT WOULD BE PASSED ON -
00:25:05.66\00:25:10.23
INFECTIOUS - WHICH IN MANY CASES
IT'S NOT, AS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED
00:25:10.23\00:25:15.86
IN RECENT SCIENTIFIC
STUDIES. BUT JESUS CAME CLOSE.
00:25:15.86\00:25:20.06
HE TOUCHED THESE FOLK. HE
BROKE WITH TRADITION AND WITH
00:25:20.06\00:25:23.53
CULTURAL NORMS AND HE
BROUGHT HEALING TO FOLK.
00:25:23.53\00:25:27.30
SO WHEN FOLK LOOK - AND IF
THEY SPEND TIME LOOKING AT THE
00:25:27.30\00:25:29.50
STORIES OF JESUS AND HIS
MINISTRY OF HEALING - YOU'VE GOT
00:25:29.50\00:25:33.43
TO RETHINK YOUR - THE THOUGHTS
YOU MIGHT HAVE IN YOUR HEAD WITH
00:25:33.43\00:25:38.06
REGARD TO WHETHER GOD
IS ARBITRARILY INFLICTING
00:25:38.06\00:25:40.73
PUNISHMENT ON A PERSON BECAUSE
OF SOME SIN THEY'VE DONE.
00:25:40.73\00:25:43.10
THAT THINKING
SOMEHOW STILL PREVAILS.
00:25:43.10\00:25:46.83
NOT A WHOLE LOT IN THIS CULTURE,
BUT IT STILL IS THERE TO SOME
00:25:46.83\00:25:51.30
EXTENT. SOME FOLK
COME DOWN HARD ON FOLK
00:25:51.30\00:25:55.33
WHO'VE GOT A SICKNESS -
AND WONDER AND ASK THEM,
00:25:55.33\00:25:58.63
'WELL, WHAT HAVE YOU
DONE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
00:25:58.63\00:26:01.13
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THAT
HAS VIOLATED GOD'S LAW?'
00:26:01.13\00:26:04.23
OR, YOU KNOW, JOB'S FRIENDS -
YOU REMEMBER JOB'S FRIENDS CAME
00:26:04.23\00:26:08.30
TO HIM AND IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO
CONSOLE HIM BASICALLY SAID, 'IF
00:26:08.30\00:26:12.16
YOU JUST, YOU KNOW, TELL GOD
YOU'RE SORRY FOR THE SINS YOU'VE
00:26:12.16\00:26:16.26
COMMITTED, ALL THIS" -
THEY BELIEVED THAT WHAT JOB WAS
00:26:16.26\00:26:19.50
SUFFERING WAS THE RESULT OF SOME
SIN HE HAD NOT ACKNOWLEDGED AND
00:26:19.50\00:26:22.10
CONFESSED AND FORSAKEN,
WHICH WAS PURELY BOGUS.
00:26:22.10\00:26:25.80
IT WASN'T THE CASE AT ALL.
THE STORY OF JOB'S A FASCINATING
00:26:25.80\00:26:30.73
STORY. I WANT TO READ A
FEW BIBLE TEXTS HERE, AS WE
00:26:30.73\00:26:35.13
CONTINUE. NOW I DIDN'T - I WANT
TO - WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING
00:26:35.13\00:26:37.73
A LITTLE DIFFERENT HERE.
00:26:37.73\00:26:38.96
I'M GOING TO ASK SOMEBODY -
AND I'M GOING TO START HERE.
00:26:38.96\00:26:40.70
MICHAEL, WOULD YOU READ
MATTHEW 8:16 AND 17 FOR US?
00:26:40.70\00:26:44.50
MATTHEW 8:16 AND 17. I'VE
GOT A FEW OTHER VERSES I'M
00:26:44.50\00:26:47.53
GOING TO READ AS
WE'RE GETTING READY.
00:26:47.53\00:26:49.73
SO HERE - JUST JOT THESE DOWN -
ISAIAH - OR THAT WOULD BE ISAIAH
00:26:49.73\00:26:55.80
- ISAIAH 42, VERSES 2 AND 3 -
BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE TALKING ABOUT
00:26:55.80\00:27:01.93
JESUS' MINISTRY. HE SAID -
IT SAYS HERE, "HE SHALL NOT CRY,
00:27:01.93\00:27:06.13
NOR LIFT UP, NOR CAUSE HIS VOICE
TO BE HEARD IN THE STREET."
00:27:06.13\00:27:11.00
- IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN
JESUS CAME UPON THE SCENE, JESUS
00:27:11.00\00:27:13.43
DIDN'T COME ARROGANTLY, SEEKING
TO PUSH HIMSELF UPON PEOPLE.
00:27:13.43\00:27:17.20
KIND OF LIKE THE SUN RISING
IN THE MORNING DID JESUS ARISE -
00:27:17.20\00:27:22.50
HIS MINISTRY AROSE AND BROKE
UPON - HIS GRACE BROKE UPON
00:27:22.50\00:27:26.66
PEOPLE. HE
DIDN'T CRY - LIFT UP HIS
00:27:26.66\00:27:28.80
VOICE - HE DIDN'T PRESS
HIMSELF UPON THE PEOPLE.
00:27:28.80\00:27:30.80
LISTEN TO WHAT IT GOES ON TO
SAY, "A BRUISED REED SHALL HE
00:27:30.80\00:27:33.53
NOT BREAK, AND THE SMOKING FLAX"
- THAT'S THE FLICKERING CANDLE
00:27:33.53\00:27:40.60
WICK THAT'S ABOUT TO GO OUT -
"THE SMOKING FLAX SHALL HE NOT
00:27:40.60\00:27:43.73
QUENCH: HE SHALL BRING
FORTH JUDGMENT UNTO TRUTH."
00:27:43.73\00:27:48.00
JESUS ISN'T ABOUT TO DEAL
HARSHLY WITH SOMEONE WHO'S A
00:27:48.00\00:27:51.26
BROKEN REED OR A SMOKING FLAX.
00:27:51.26\00:27:55.66
JESUS DIDN'T COME TO PUSH
HIMSELF UPON PEOPLE, BUT HE
00:27:55.66\00:27:57.96
WOULD CAREFULLY HANDLE FOLK WHO
WERE SICK, WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR
00:27:57.96\00:28:03.06
MENTALLY OR SPIRITUALLY - KIND
OF LIKE A BOX THAT HAS 'FRAGILE'
00:28:03.06\00:28:06.80
WRITTEN ON IT - YOU HANDLE IT
CAREFULLY - JESUS CAME TO DEAL
00:28:06.80\00:28:10.23
CAREFULLY WITH THE
HUMAN BODY AND THE HUMAN MIND.
00:28:10.23\00:28:14.66
ISAIAH 61 - ISAIAH 61, VERSES
1 AND 2 SAYS - AND YOU PROBABLY
00:28:14.66\00:28:18.36
KNOW THIS ONE WELL - IT SAYS,
"THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD GOD IS
00:28:18.36\00:28:20.93
UPON ME;" - THIS IS A PROPHECY
OF THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH -
00:28:20.93\00:28:23.96
THE FIRST TIME - "THE SPIRIT OF
THE LORD GOD IS UPON ME; BECAUSE
00:28:23.96\00:28:26.50
THE LORD HATH ANOINTED ME
TO PREACH GOOD TIDINGS UNTO THE
00:28:26.50\00:28:29.43
MEEK; HE HATH SENT ME TO BIND UP
THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM
00:28:29.43\00:28:33.30
LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES, AND THE
OPENING OF THE PRISON TO THEM
00:28:33.30\00:28:36.70
THAT ARE BOUND; TO PROCLAIM THE
ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD, AND
00:28:36.70\00:28:39.76
THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD;
TO COMFORT ALL THAT MOURN;" THIS
00:28:39.76\00:28:43.76
IS THE MINISTRY OF JESUS: TO SET
AT LIBERTY THOSE THAT ARE BOUND
00:28:43.76\00:28:46.96
BY MAYBE SOME PHYSICAL ADDICTION
OR SOMEONE WHO'S BOUND UP WITH
00:28:46.96\00:28:53.50
THEIR BROKENHEARTEDNESS
AND CAN'T BEAT DEPRESSION.
00:28:53.50\00:28:57.06
JESUS CAME TO SET
THE CAPTIVES FREE.
00:28:57.06\00:28:59.16
AND THEN MALACHI 4, VERSE 2, IT
SAYS, "BUT UNTO YOU THAT FEAR MY
00:28:59.16\00:29:02.83
NAME SHALL THE SUN OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS" - TALKING OF
00:29:02.83\00:29:05.70
JESUS - HE WILL "ARISE" - DO
YOU KNOW WITH WHAT IN HIS WINGS?
00:29:05.70\00:29:10.00
- "WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS;"
- JESUS' LIFE AND MINISTRY OOZED
00:29:10.00\00:29:14.33
WITH HEALING VIRTUE AND HE CAME
AND HE AROSE WITH HEALING IN HIS
00:29:14.33\00:29:19.23
WINGS. MICHAEL -
MATTHEW 8:16 AND 17.
00:29:19.23\00:29:22.70
>>MATTHEW 8:16 AND 17, "WHEN
EVENING HAD COME, THEY BROUGHT
00:29:22.70\00:29:27.13
TO HIM MANY WHO
WERE DEMON-POSSESSED.
00:29:27.13\00:29:29.83
AND HE CAST OUT THE SPIRITS WITH
A WORD, AND HEALED ALL WHO WERE
00:29:29.83\00:29:33.76
SICK, THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED
WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY ISAIAH THE
00:29:33.76\00:29:38.53
PROPHET, SAYING: 'HE HIMSELF
TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND BORE
00:29:38.53\00:29:42.40
OUR SICKNESSES.'"
>>ALRIGHT, SO UNDER INSPIRATION,
00:29:42.40\00:29:47.73
THE WRITER MATTHEW TAKES A
PASSAGE FROM ISAIAH - ISAIAH -
00:29:47.73\00:29:51.26
THAT IS TALKING ABOUT
CHRIST VICARIOUSLY TAKING OUR
00:29:51.26\00:29:55.16
INFIRMITIES OF SIN - OUR SIN -
UPON HIMSELF. IF YOU LOOK AT THE
00:29:55.16\00:29:59.26
CONTEXT, THAT'S WHAT
ISAIAH IS REFERRING TO.
00:29:59.26\00:30:02.50
BUT MATTHEW TAKES AND MAKES
A LITERAL APPLICATION TO THE
00:30:02.50\00:30:05.40
HEALING MINISTRY OF CHRIST.
00:30:05.40\00:30:07.16
IN OTHER WORDS, IN HIS HUMANITY
THE SON OF GOD IS FULLY ABLE TO
00:30:07.16\00:30:11.86
FEEL AND EXPRESS HUMAN SYMPATHY.
THAT'S WHAT MATTHEW IS SAYING.
00:30:11.86\00:30:17.23
JESUS CAME AND HE FELT
WITH US AND HE FEELS FOR US.
00:30:17.23\00:30:21.96
WE HAVE A GREAT SYMPATHETIC
HIGH PRIEST WHOSE NAME IS JESUS.
00:30:21.96\00:30:27.46
CHRIST, AS WELL, HAS NOW
COMMITTED TO US, THE CHURCH, A
00:30:27.46\00:30:32.33
MINISTRY OF HEALING - A
COMPASSIONATE AND SYMPATHETIC
00:30:32.33\00:30:35.30
MINISTRY THAT DOESN'T KNOW
COLOR, THAT DOESN'T KNOW CREED
00:30:35.30\00:30:38.20
AND THIS MINISTRY OF HEALING
IS NOT THE END IN AND OF ITSELF,
00:30:38.20\00:30:41.83
BUT THE MEANS TO AN END AND
THAT IS DRAWING PEOPLE TO JESUS
00:30:41.83\00:30:46.10
CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOR.
00:30:46.10\00:30:48.83
LET'S GO OVER TO MONDAY'S
LESSON 'HEALING THE BODY'.
00:30:48.83\00:30:51.60
LET'S TALK A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS.
00:30:51.60\00:30:53.06
NOW, WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS
MINISTRY OF HEALING THAT OPENS
00:30:53.06\00:30:55.63
THE DOOR AND HEARTS FOR THE
GOSPEL OF GOD'S GRACE - BECAUSE,
00:30:55.63\00:31:01.10
AFTER ALL, CHRIST'S MINISTRY OF
HEALING FOUND A WAY TO PEOPLE'S
00:31:01.10\00:31:04.73
HEARTS AND IT WILL FOR US TOO.
00:31:04.73\00:31:06.90
WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS MINISTRY
I WONDER WHETHER I'M DOING ALL
00:31:06.90\00:31:09.50
THAT I CAN TO HELP
AND TO BLESS OTHERS.
00:31:09.50\00:31:12.86
NOT THAT I, AND ANY OF US, CAN
HELP EVERYONE, YOU UNDERSTAND,
00:31:12.86\00:31:16.70
BUT AM I EQUIPPED ENOUGH - DO I
KNOW ENOUGH SIMPLE BASIC THINGS
00:31:16.70\00:31:21.53
ABOUT HOW THE BODY WORKS -
A LITTLE BIT OF ANATOMY AND
00:31:21.53\00:31:24.50
PHYSIOLOGY, SO TO SPEAK. DO
I KNOW ENOUGH - A LITTLE BIT
00:31:24.50\00:31:27.00
ABOUT HOW THE BODY WORKS -
MAYBE EVEN SOME SIMPLE NATURAL
00:31:27.00\00:31:31.10
REMEDIES - TO MAKE A
DIFFERENCE IN SOMEONE'S LIFE?
00:31:31.10\00:31:35.20
WHAT CAN I DO - WHAT CAN WE, AS
A CHURCH, DO - WHAT MORE CAN WE
00:31:35.20\00:31:40.53
DO TO BRING WHOLE HEALTH AND
HEALING TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN
00:31:40.53\00:31:44.80
ENTRUSTED TO OUR
CARE? WHAT MORE CAN WE DO?
00:31:44.80\00:31:47.83
YOU KNOW, I WANT TO JUST GIVE
A PLUG FOR TWO BOOKS HERE THIS
00:31:47.83\00:31:52.46
MORNING, THAT PERHAPS MANY
OF YOU HAVE READ - MAYBE SOME OF
00:31:52.46\00:31:55.53
YOU HAVE READ ONE, MAYBE HAVEN'T
READ THE OTHER - BUT THE TWO
00:31:55.53\00:31:58.16
BOOKS I'M REFERRING TO - ONE
IS 'THE MINISTRY OF HEALING' AND
00:31:58.16\00:32:01.90
THE OTHER ONE IS 'COUNSELS ON
DIETS AND FOODS' PENNED, NOT BY
00:32:01.90\00:32:06.76
SOME LEADING PHYSICIAN OR
NUTRITIONIST, BUT BY A LITTLE
00:32:06.76\00:32:09.66
LADY WHO RECEIVED VERY LITTLE
FORMAL EDUCATION; HOWEVER, WAS
00:32:09.66\00:32:13.20
LED BY GOD TO HELP PEOPLE
UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE OF
00:32:13.20\00:32:16.60
HEALTHFUL LIVING AND TO AVOID
THE MISINFORMATION CIRCULATING
00:32:16.60\00:32:21.23
NOT ONLY IN HER DAY,
BUT ALSO IN OUR DAY AND AGE.
00:32:21.23\00:32:24.93
WHAT ELLEN WHITE WROTE WAS A
HUNDRED YEARS AHEAD OF HER TIME,
00:32:24.93\00:32:29.43
MAKING THESE BOOKS
EXTREMELY RELEVANT TODAY.
00:32:29.43\00:32:33.30
IF YOU DON'T KNOW ELLEN WHITE
- LIKE PAUL HARVEY USED TO SAY -
00:32:33.30\00:32:36.16
GET TO KNOW HER. GET TO
KNOW HER - POWERFUL BOOKS.
00:32:36.16\00:32:40.40
NOW, IF YOU'VE PICKED UP
MINISTRY OF HEALING, YOU'D BE
00:32:40.40\00:32:42.46
DELIGHTED AND IT'D JUST BE
A WONDERFUL READ AND YOU'RE
00:32:42.46\00:32:44.80
IMPACTED BY THE MINISTRY OF
HEALING OF JESUS AND HIS LOVE
00:32:44.80\00:32:47.86
FOR HUMANITY AND IT'S
JUST A TREMENDOUS BOOK.
00:32:47.86\00:32:50.30
AND THEN, AS YOU GET HALFWAY
THROUGH, YOU START STANDING ON
00:32:50.30\00:32:52.56
YOUR TOES A LITTLE BIT WITH
REGARD TO THE LIFESTYLE THAT
00:32:52.56\00:32:55.66
MANKIND TYPICALLY LIVES AND
- BUT IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR
00:32:55.66\00:33:01.16
TOES REALLY STOOD ON,
YOU'RE GOING TO PICK UP THE BOOK
00:33:01.16\00:33:03.03
'COUNSELS ON DIETS AND FOODS'.
00:33:03.03\00:33:05.20
AND WHEN I FIRST PICKED UP THAT
BOOK I THOUGHT IT'D BE A BOOK
00:33:05.20\00:33:07.60
THAT YOU SHOULD READ FROM COVER
TO COVER AND I GOT INTO IT A
00:33:07.60\00:33:11.66
LITTLE BIT AND IT WAS A BOOK
THAT - I'LL JUST BE HONEST WITH
00:33:11.66\00:33:14.16
YOU - I REALLY FELT LIKE I
WANTED TO THROW ACROSS THE ROOM.
00:33:14.16\00:33:16.83
I MEAN, IT WAS DEALING WITH A
WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THINGS
00:33:16.83\00:33:19.63
THAT WHEN I LOOKED AT MY
LIFE I SAID, 'OOH, OW, EEE'.
00:33:19.63\00:33:23.53
I MEAN, IT WAS STANDING ON JUST
NOT THE BIG TOE BUT THE OTHER
00:33:23.53\00:33:26.00
TOES AS WELL. IT
WAS A CHALLENGING BOOK.
00:33:26.00\00:33:29.43
SO I REALIZE IT'S NOT A BOOK YOU
WANT TO READ FROM COVER TO COVER
00:33:29.43\00:33:31.53
BUT USE IT AS A RESOURCE
BOOK AND SO THAT'S WHAT I DID
00:33:31.53\00:33:34.46
AND I TELL YOU WHAT - A
POWER-PACK - POWER-PACKED BOOK
00:33:34.46\00:33:37.73
FULL OF POWERFUL INFORMATION.
00:33:37.73\00:33:39.60
JUST KNOWING WHAT IS WRITTEN IN
THOSE TWO BOOKS ALONE WILL HELP
00:33:39.60\00:33:43.60
AN INDIVIDUAL KNOW HOW TO
PROPERLY CARE FOR THEIR OWN
00:33:43.60\00:33:46.46
PERSONAL HEALTH, BUT ALSO
PROVIDE A BIBLICAL - BIBLICALLY-
00:33:46.46\00:33:51.96
BASED FRAMEWORK TO KNOW HOW TO
ASSIST OTHERS IN NEED OF CARE.
00:33:51.96\00:33:55.83
NOW, NOT SUGGESTING HERE FOR
A MOMENT THAT THE CHURCH SHOULD
00:33:55.83\00:33:58.56
TAKE THE PLACE OF DOCTORS
AND HOSPITALS AND THAT TYPE OF
00:33:58.56\00:34:01.03
THING, THIS CHURCH HAS
BEEN BLESSED WITH A MINISTRY OF
00:34:01.03\00:34:03.66
HEALING THROUGH HOSPITALS
AND LIFESTYLE CENTERS AND THOSE
00:34:03.66\00:34:09.70
TYPES OF THINGS. BUT WHAT
I'M SAYING HERE IS THAT WHEN A
00:34:09.70\00:34:13.43
PERSON GETS AHOLD OF
THIS INFORMATION, IT CAN BE
00:34:13.43\00:34:16.00
REVOLUTIONARY. IT CAN BE LIFE
CHANGING. IT CAN HELP A PERSON.
00:34:16.00\00:34:19.73
WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE, IN OUR
PREVIOUS CHURCH DISTRICT, TO BE
00:34:19.73\00:34:23.36
INVOLVED IN HEALING
MINISTRIES - HEALTH MINISTRIES.
00:34:23.36\00:34:28.43
MY WIFE WOULD DO COOKING CLASSES
AND WE'D DO SOME HEALTH LECTURES
00:34:28.43\00:34:32.10
AND WE'D ALSO TEAM UP WITH SOME
PHYSICIANS AND DOCTORS AS WELL
00:34:32.10\00:34:36.13
AND IT WAS JUST EXCELLENT.
00:34:36.13\00:34:37.43
THIS CHURCH HAS A WONDERFUL
HEALTH MINISTRY, AS WELL, THAT
00:34:37.43\00:34:40.73
TAKES PLACE HERE AND HAS BLESSED
A LOT OF PEOPLE AND HOPEFULLY
00:34:40.73\00:34:44.20
WILL CONTINUE TO BLESS A LOT OF
PEOPLE. AND HOW IMPRESSIVE IT IS
00:34:44.20\00:34:48.66
TO SEE FOLK MAKE JUST SOME SMALL
CHANGES - SOMEONE WHO CAME TO US
00:34:48.66\00:34:53.70
AND SAID, YOU KNOW, 'I'VE JUST
INCREASED MY WATER INTAKE AND
00:34:53.70\00:34:56.40
I'VE ALREADY LOST
X-NUMBER OF POUNDS'.
00:34:56.40\00:34:59.10
'I'VE STOPPED CHEWING GUM
BETWEEN MEALS AND I'VE LOST
00:34:59.10\00:35:03.30
WEIGHT.' BECAUSE, YOU
KNOW, CHEWING GUM CONTINUES TO
00:35:03.30\00:35:06.66
ACTIVATE THE DIGESTIVE JUICES,
WHICH SLOWS DOWN WHAT YOU'VE
00:35:06.66\00:35:09.20
PREVIOUSLY EATEN, YOU
UNDERSTAND. THAT GOES INTO
00:35:09.20\00:35:12.13
SNACKING AND ALL OF THOSE
AND YOU UNDERSTAND THE MORE THE
00:35:12.13\00:35:14.56
SNACKS THE BIGGER THE SLACKS,
RIGHT? YOU'VE HEARD THAT BEFORE.
00:35:14.56\00:35:17.66
SO ANYWAY - JUST POWERFUL - BUT
MORE THAN THAT - MORE THAN THAT
00:35:17.66\00:35:21.36
WE'VE SEEN FOLK NOT ONLY JUST
MAKE SOME SLIGHT, SMALL CHANGES
00:35:21.36\00:35:26.23
IN THEIR LIFESTYLE,
WHICH HAS IMPROVED THEIR HEALTH
00:35:26.23\00:35:28.73
TREMENDOUSLY, BUT WE'VE ALSO
SEEN FOLK BEGIN TO TRUST US AS A
00:35:28.73\00:35:32.13
CHURCH - AS PEOPLE - AND INQUIRE
MORE ABOUT THE GOSPEL AND THE
00:35:32.13\00:35:36.66
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND WE'VE HAD
THE PRIVILEGE TO SEE FOLK GIVE
00:35:36.66\00:35:40.76
THEIR LIVES TO CHRIST AND BE
BAPTIZED BECAUSE, AS A CHURCH,
00:35:40.76\00:35:44.33
WE REACHED OUT AND
SHOWED, TRULY, THAT WE CARED.
00:35:44.33\00:35:46.70
WE DIDN'T USE HEALTH MINISTRY
AS THE END - SOME FOLK LIKE TO
00:35:46.70\00:35:50.23
THINK HEALTH MINISTRY
IS THE END OF ALL THINGS.
00:35:50.23\00:35:52.56
WE SOMEHOW PRAISE GOD WHEN
EVERYONE BECOMES A VEGETARIAN.
00:35:52.56\00:35:55.76
I MEAN, THAT'S NOT THE END.
00:35:55.76\00:35:57.40
WHILE THAT'S A GOOD THING, AND
WHILE IT'S A GOOD THING TO MOVE
00:35:57.40\00:36:00.20
IN THAT DIRECTION AND MUST
MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION - I WOULD
00:36:00.20\00:36:02.73
THINK, ESPECIALLY WITH DISEASE
AS RAMPANT AS IT IS TODAY IN
00:36:02.73\00:36:06.03
ANIMAL LIVESTOCK AND SO ON,
IT'S A GOOD DIRECTION TO MOVE.
00:36:06.03\00:36:09.06
IT'S NOT THE END.
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN BE A
00:36:09.06\00:36:11.53
VEGETARIAN, BUT
ON YOUR WAY TO HELL.
00:36:11.53\00:36:15.36
YOU WANT TO BE A VEGETARIAN
ON THE WAY TO HEAVEN, AMEN.
00:36:15.36\00:36:17.80
HEALTH MINISTRY IS NOT THE END,
BUT IT'S A MEANS TO AN END AND
00:36:17.80\00:36:21.36
THE END IS BRINGING FOLK
TO CHRIST AND HELPING THEM
00:36:21.36\00:36:23.60
UNDERSTAND HIS LAST-DAY TRUTH
AS FOUND IN THE SCRIPTURES, YOU
00:36:23.60\00:36:27.33
UNDERSTAND. AND SO, ANYWAY, THE
MINISTRY OF HEALING - I GOT OFF
00:36:27.33\00:36:30.36
ON A SIDETRACK HERE, BUT A FEW
OTHER BIBLE VERSES - LET'S TALK
00:36:30.36\00:36:34.16
HERE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
THE HEALING OF THE BODY.
00:36:34.16\00:36:35.96
I'VE GOT SEVERAL VERSES HERE AND
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT SOMEONE
00:36:35.96\00:36:40.56
HAS THIS PARTICULAR - IS SOMEONE
GOING TO READ - YEAH, SOMEONE'LL
00:36:40.56\00:36:44.43
READ FOR ME HERE. I'M
GOING TO ASK SOMEBODY TO
00:36:44.43\00:36:46.36
READ 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23.
WHO'S USED TO READING AROUND
00:36:46.36\00:36:51.20
HERE AND WOULD READ FOR
ME 1 THESSALONIANS 5 AND 23?
00:36:51.20\00:36:55.90
THANK YOU
JOLYNE. I APPRECIATE IT.
00:36:55.90\00:36:58.36
JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK VERSES
BEFORE JOLYNE READS HERS: PSALM
00:36:58.36\00:37:01.30
139:14 - YOU REMEMBER DAVID
SAID, "I WILL PRAISE THEE; FOR I
00:37:01.30\00:37:04.96
AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY
MADE: MARVELOUS ARE THY WORKS;
00:37:04.96\00:37:10.10
AND THAT MY SOUL KNOWETH
RIGHT WELL." DAVID VALUED AND
00:37:10.10\00:37:13.76
UNDERSTOOD THAT HIS BODY - WHO
HE WAS - WAS MARVELOUSLY MADE.
00:37:13.76\00:37:20.86
3 JOHN 2 - JOHN SAYS, "BELOVED,
I WISH ABOVE ALL THINGS THAT
00:37:20.86\00:37:25.23
THOU MAYEST PROSPER AND BE
IN HEALTH, EVEN AS THY SOUL
00:37:25.23\00:37:27.96
PROSPERETH." AND SO
GOD, AS HE VALUES OUR
00:37:27.96\00:37:30.76
SOUL PROSPERITY, HE WANTS
OUR HEALTH TO PROSPER AS WELL.
00:37:30.76\00:37:34.20
ROMANS 12:1 AND 2, "I BESEECH
YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE
00:37:34.20\00:37:38.90
MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YE PRESENT
YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE,
00:37:38.90\00:37:42.16
HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, WHICH
IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE.
00:37:42.16\00:37:46.96
AND BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS
WORLD: BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED BY
00:37:46.96\00:37:50.23
THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, THAT
YE MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD,
00:37:50.23\00:37:53.83
AND ACCEPTABLE, AND
PERFECT, WILL OF GOD."
00:37:53.83\00:37:55.53
SO HERE PAUL CALLS FOR
CHRISTIANS TO DEDICATE THEIR
00:37:55.53\00:37:58.46
BODIES TO GOD.
LIVING A HEALTHFUL LIFE IS
00:37:58.46\00:38:01.80
ACTUALLY AN ACT
OF SPIRITUAL WORSHIP.
00:38:01.80\00:38:03.40
DID YOU KNOW THAT? BECAUSE
WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE TRULY ARE
00:38:03.40\00:38:06.26
FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE.
TRULY WE HAVE BEEN BOUGHT WITH A
00:38:06.26\00:38:08.70
PRICE. WE ARE NOT OUR OWN.
TRULY THESE ARE BODIES THAT GOD
00:38:08.70\00:38:12.20
HAS MADE AND WE HAVE BEEN
TRUSTED TO TAKE CARE OF THEM.
00:38:12.20\00:38:16.03
AND SO PAUL CALLS FOR FOLK
TO DEDICATE - CHRISTIANS TO
00:38:16.03\00:38:19.70
DEDICATE THEIR BODIES TO
GOD AND THEN HE CALLS ON THEM TO
00:38:19.70\00:38:21.60
DEDICATE THEIR INTELLECT
AND THEIR SPIRITUAL FACULTIES
00:38:21.60\00:38:25.23
BECAUSE WE'RE NOT - WHAT WE'RE
COMPRISED OF IS NOT ALL SEPARATE
00:38:25.23\00:38:28.93
AND RANDOM. THESE THINGS
ARE NOT INDEPENDENT ENTITIES.
00:38:28.93\00:38:34.00
WE ARE A WHOLE PERSON.
EACH ASPECT OF OUR MAKE-UP
00:38:34.00\00:38:38.20
AFFECTING ONE - EACH OTHER.
THERE'S A SYMPATHY BETWEEN THE
00:38:38.20\00:38:42.83
HEALTH OF THE BODY, THE
HEALTH OF THE MIND, AND OUR
00:38:42.83\00:38:46.16
SPIRITUALITY. 1
THESSALONIANS 5:23.
00:38:46.16\00:38:51.16
>>"NOW MAY THE GOD OF PEACE
HIMSELF SANCTIFY YOU COMPLETELY;
00:38:51.16\00:38:55.60
AND MAY YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT, SOUL,
AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS
00:38:55.60\00:38:59.80
AT THE COMING OF
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST."
00:38:59.80\00:39:02.66
>>OKAY. SO I WANT YOU TO
NOTICE WHAT PAUL WRITES THERE.
00:39:02.66\00:39:05.70
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WHOLE
PERSON BEING WHAT? SANCTIFIED.
00:39:05.70\00:39:09.26
NOW WE DON'T BELIEVE IN THE
PLATONIC THEORY THAT ASSERTS
00:39:09.26\00:39:13.93
THAT THERE IS AN IMMORTAL
SOUL RESIDING WITHIN US THAT
00:39:13.93\00:39:16.43
PRE-EXISTED US AND WILL
LIVE ON AFTER THE BODY DIES.
00:39:16.43\00:39:19.23
THAT BELIEF LED THE GREEKS TO,
BASICALLY, NOT HAVE ANY RESPECT
00:39:19.23\00:39:23.46
FOR THEIR OWN BODIES AND
NOT TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR BODIES
00:39:23.46\00:39:25.66
BECAUSE THE BODY WOULD END
UP DYING AND THE SOUL WOULD
00:39:25.66\00:39:27.96
CONTINUE LIVING FOREVER.
THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT.
00:39:27.96\00:39:30.76
THE BIBLE TEACHES
THAT WE'RE ONE ENTITY.
00:39:30.76\00:39:33.00
WE'RE A WHOLE PERSON AND WHAT
AFFECTS THE BODY AFFECTS THE
00:39:33.00\00:39:39.03
MIND AND THE SPIRITUALITY.
00:39:39.03\00:39:40.36
I'VE NEVER MET SOMEONE WHO'S
A HARD - NOT A HARD WORKER, BUT
00:39:40.36\00:39:43.90
SOMEONE WHO OVERWORKS
AND IS ALWAYS VERY TIRED,
00:39:43.90\00:39:46.66
BEING VERY PATIENT.
HAVE YOU EVER MET SOMEONE WHO
00:39:46.66\00:39:49.46
CONTINUES TO EXERT THEMSELVES -
CONTINUALLY TIRED - AND IS ULTRA
00:39:49.46\00:39:53.73
PATIENT? I DON'T KNOW OF ONE.
00:39:53.73\00:39:56.90
OVERWORKED, STRESS ON THE BODY,
STRESS ON THE MIND AND IT MAKES
00:39:56.90\00:40:00.70
THEM IMPATIENT. AND
PATIENCE AND LONGSUFFERING
00:40:00.70\00:40:04.40
IS A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT. YEAH.
00:40:04.40\00:40:07.40
THOUGH THESE THINGS ARE
INTIMATELY RELATED - WHEN I DO
00:40:07.40\00:40:11.46
HOSPITAL VISITS, ONE OF THE
THINGS I'VE GOT TO FOCUS ON AND
00:40:11.46\00:40:16.53
KEEP IN MIND AND MAKE SURE I
DO IS TO LIFT THE INDIVIDUAL'S
00:40:16.53\00:40:20.06
SPIRIT AND MAKE SURE THAT
THEY'RE - THEY'RE CONNECTED TO
00:40:20.06\00:40:26.00
THE LORD, THEY
HAVE FAITH IN HIM.
00:40:26.00\00:40:27.83
BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE SITTING ON
THAT HOSPITAL BED - YOU JUST HAD
00:40:27.83\00:40:30.03
AN OPERATION OR WHATEVER'S
HAPPENED TO THE PERSON - YOU'RE
00:40:30.03\00:40:34.10
SITTING THERE AND IT'S - IT
JUST CAN GET AT YOU AND IT CAN
00:40:34.10\00:40:37.73
DEPRESS YOU AND THAT DEPRESSION
AFFECTS YOUR SPIRITUALITY AND
00:40:37.73\00:40:42.30
I'VE HAD NUMEROUS CONVERSATIONS
WITH FOLK IN THEIR HOSPITAL BED,
00:40:42.30\00:40:45.90
WHETHER THEY'VE BEEN THERE
ONE DAY OR WHETHER THEY'VE BEEN
00:40:45.90\00:40:47.60
THERE SEVERAL, WHO ARE NOT WELL
AND THAT AFFECTS, INTIMATELY,
00:40:47.60\00:40:51.73
THEIR SPIRITUALITY.
00:40:51.73\00:40:53.66
AND SO, OF COURSE, THE GOAL
IS TO LET PEOPLE KNOW GOD CARES,
00:40:53.66\00:40:57.13
HE'S THERE WITH THEM, HE'S
BLESSING THEM, HE'S GOING TO
00:40:57.13\00:40:58.93
HELP THEM - AND IN LIFTING THEIR
SPIRITS, THAT'LL BLESS THEM AND
00:40:58.93\00:41:02.56
HELP THEM FEEL BETTER,
AS WELL, AS THEY MOVE ALONG.
00:41:02.56\00:41:06.56
YOU'VE OVER - IF YOU'VE EVER
OVER-EATEN - I KNOW YOU NEVER
00:41:06.56\00:41:10.90
DID - I KNOW YOU NEVER DID -
BUT IF YOU EVER OVER-ATE AND YOU
00:41:10.90\00:41:15.86
REALIZE YOU - AND YOU HAVE TO
TAKE THOSE DEEP BREATHS - THAT'S
00:41:15.86\00:41:19.93
A GOOD SIGN THAT
YOU'VE EATEN TOO MUCH, RIGHT?
00:41:19.93\00:41:21.93
NOW DON'T BE GOING TO POTLUCK
TODAY LISTENING TO FOLK NEXT TO
00:41:21.93\00:41:24.83
YOU, 'OH, THEY'VE OVEREATEN'.
00:41:24.83\00:41:27.06
DON'T BE DOING THAT BUT,
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE TAKING THESE
00:41:27.06\00:41:29.16
DEEP BREATHS, YOU KNOW
YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH DONE.
00:41:29.16\00:41:30.96
BUT SOMETIMES WE KEEP ON GOING
BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO GOOD AND IT
00:41:30.96\00:41:33.13
SMELLS SO GOOD AND IT TASTES
SO GOOD AND WE WANT TO KEEP ON
00:41:33.13\00:41:35.73
GOING AND - BUT IF YOU'VE EVER
OVEREATEN, THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO
00:41:35.73\00:41:39.33
YOU WHEN THAT HAPPENS?
YOU JUST DON'T FEEL GOOD AND
00:41:39.33\00:41:42.80
THEN YOU'RE SITTING THROUGH A
SEMINAR THAT THE PRESENTER HAS
00:41:42.80\00:41:45.56
SPENT HOURS TRYING TO PREPARE
FOR YOU AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU
00:41:45.56\00:41:49.36
LEARN SOMETHING
AND WHAT HAPPENS?
00:41:49.36\00:41:53.33
YEAH, YOU START NODDING OFF
A LITTLE BIT AND GET A LITTLE
00:41:53.33\00:41:56.23
DROWSY AND WOOZY AND THINGS ARE
JUST KIND OF MAYBE EVEN CIRCLING
00:41:56.23\00:42:00.63
A LITTLE BIT IN THE ROOM AND ALL
OF THIS - WHAT AFFECTS THE BODY
00:42:00.63\00:42:05.63
AFFECTS THE MIND AND WHAT
AFFECTS THE MIND, WHICH IS, BY
00:42:05.63\00:42:08.93
THE WAY, AND AS YOU KNOW, THE
ONLY WAY GOD COMMUNICATES TO US.
00:42:08.93\00:42:12.53
IT'S THE ONLY WAY GOD CAN
COMMUNICATE TO US: THROUGH OUR
00:42:12.53\00:42:14.36
MINDS. IF OUR BODY'S AFFECTED IT
AFFECTS OUR MINDS. IF OUR MIND'S
00:42:14.36\00:42:17.10
AFFECTED, GUESS WHO WE CAN'T
HEAR TOO CLEARLY? GOD. YEAH.
00:42:17.10\00:42:21.70
SO LOOK, WHILE - AND I PRAISE
GOD FOR THE HEALTH MESSAGE THAT
00:42:21.70\00:42:25.30
THIS CHURCH HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED
WITH - WE HAVE WONDERFUL BOOKS
00:42:25.30\00:42:27.80
AND WE'VE BEEN GUIDED IN THIS
DIRECTION AS A CHURCH AND WE'VE
00:42:27.80\00:42:31.30
BLESSED SO MANY PEOPLE, GOOD
HEALTH IS NOT NECESSARILY THE
00:42:31.30\00:42:34.30
END OF THE PROGRAM. GOOD
HEALTH IS A MEANS TO ENABLE
00:42:34.30\00:42:38.53
US TO HAVE CLEARER MINDS SO THAT
WE CAN HEAR, MORE DISTINCTLY,
00:42:38.53\00:42:41.73
THE VOICE OF WHO? GOD.
00:42:41.73\00:42:44.10
YEAH, FOLK HAVE VERY LITTLE
APPRECIATION FOR LAST-DAY EVENTS
00:42:44.10\00:42:47.10
AND BIBLE PROPHECY BECAUSE THEIR
MINDS ARE SO BEFOGGED - BOTH SO
00:42:47.10\00:42:50.10
FOGGED BECAUSE OF THE DIET AND
THE LIFESTYLE THEY'RE LIVING.
00:42:50.10\00:42:55.33
AND SO OUR JOB IS TO ENCOURAGE
FOLK TO MAKE THE BEST LIFESTYLE
00:42:55.33\00:42:59.26
CHOICES - NOT POUND THEM
- NOT GET ON THEIR CASE, BUT
00:42:59.26\00:43:02.86
PROGRESSIVELY LEAD A PERSON TO
MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS THEY CAN
00:43:02.86\00:43:06.70
SO THEIR MINDS WILL BE CLEARER
TO APPRECIATE AND ACCEPT THE
00:43:06.70\00:43:10.20
WONDERFUL TRUTHS -
LAST-DAY TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD.
00:43:10.20\00:43:12.86
THAT'S THE REASON WE'VE
BEEN GIVEN THIS MESSAGE.
00:43:12.86\00:43:15.56
SURE YOU'LL HAVE TEN, ELEVEN
YEARS LONGER LIFE EXPECTANCY -
00:43:15.56\00:43:19.90
THAT'S THE NORM IF YOU PUT SOME
OF THESE THINGS INTO PRACTICE -
00:43:19.90\00:43:23.43
BUT THAT'S NOT THE
END. THAT'S NOT THE END.
00:43:23.43\00:43:26.53
THE END OF THIS MESSAGE IS
TO ENABLE A PERSON TO HAVE A
00:43:26.53\00:43:31.10
CLEARER MIND SO THEY CAN FOLLOW
THE WORD OF GOD MORE CLOSELY,
00:43:31.10\00:43:35.46
YOU SEE. ALRIGHT. SO
I'M GETTING OFF TRACK HERE.
00:43:35.46\00:43:38.80
BY THE WAY, A FRIEND OF MINE,
HE'S A MEDICAL MISSIONARY -
00:43:38.80\00:43:42.46
WORKS WITH FOLK, GOES TO THEIR
HOMES EVEN - WORKS WITH THEM
00:43:42.46\00:43:45.13
VERY CLOSELY IN HELPING THEM
MAKE SOME LIFESTYLE CHOICES SO
00:43:45.13\00:43:47.83
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO
GET INTO THE HOSPITAL.
00:43:47.83\00:43:50.46
AND HE WAS WORKING WITH A COUPLE
ONE PARTICULAR TIME AND HE WAS
00:43:50.46\00:43:53.96
HELPING THEM MAKE SOME LIFESTYLE
CHANGES - EXERCISE, WORKING ON A
00:43:53.96\00:43:57.20
MORE VEGETARIAN - TOTAL
VEGETARIAN DIET, ESTABLISHING A
00:43:57.20\00:44:01.10
GOOD ROUTINE, NOT MEALS HERE,
THERE, AND EVERYWHERE AND SLEEP
00:44:01.10\00:44:04.13
PATTERNS EVERYWHERE,
BUT JUST A GOOD ROUTINE.
00:44:04.13\00:44:06.13
ONE WAS IMPROVING - THAT WAS
THE HUSBAND - HE WAS IMPROVING.
00:44:06.13\00:44:09.56
HIS VITAL SIGNS
WERE LOOKING GOOD.
00:44:09.56\00:44:11.90
HIS, YOU KNOW, BLOOD
PRESSURE WAS COMING DOWN.
00:44:11.90\00:44:13.83
HE WAS TAKING LESS INSULIN FOR
HIS DIABETES AND ALL OF THESE
00:44:13.83\00:44:17.53
THINGS. BUT HIS
WIFE WAS NOT IMPROVING.
00:44:17.53\00:44:20.03
AND SO MY FRIEND WAS WONDERING,
'I'M DOING ALL THESE THINGS AND
00:44:20.03\00:44:22.63
WORKING REALLY - AND
MAKING THESE CHANGES AND THEY'RE
00:44:22.63\00:44:25.36
SUPPOSED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
AND NOTHING'S CHANGING WITH
00:44:25.36\00:44:28.06
HER.' SO HE DUG UP - HE DECIDED
TO DIG A LITTLE BIT DEEPER AND
00:44:28.06\00:44:31.70
WHAT HE DISCOVERED - HE
DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS
00:44:31.70\00:44:34.23
RESENTMENT IN HER LIFE.
00:44:34.23\00:44:36.20
THERE WAS RESENTMENT IN HER
LIFE AND IT WAS UNRESOLVED HARD
00:44:36.20\00:44:40.60
FEELINGS WITH REGARD TO A
PARTICULAR FAMILY MEMBER AND IT
00:44:40.60\00:44:44.00
WAS JUST EATING AWAY AT
HER AND IT HAD BEEN FOR YEARS.
00:44:44.00\00:44:47.03
AND SO AFTER TAKING HER THROUGH
SOME STEPS TO ACCEPT AND RECEIVE
00:44:47.03\00:44:52.60
GOD'S FORGIVENESS, AND TO
BE ABLE TO RELEASE AND FREE AND
00:44:52.60\00:44:56.43
FORGIVE HER FAMILY MEMBER, GUESS
WHAT HAPPENED TO HER HEALTH?
00:44:56.43\00:45:02.60
DRASTICALLY
IMPROVED. AND JESUS KNEW THIS.
00:45:02.60\00:45:06.60
THAT'S WHY WHEN HE TALKED TO THE
PARALYTIC AND THE PARALYTIC CAME
00:45:06.60\00:45:09.53
TO HIM AND HE HAD A DISEASE
- AND THE PARALYTIC RECOGNIZED
00:45:09.53\00:45:11.90
THAT HE WAS IN THAT BED BECAUSE
OF THINGS THAT HE HAD DONE IN
00:45:11.90\00:45:15.23
HIS LIFE THAT HAD
LED HIM TO THIS POINT.
00:45:15.23\00:45:17.10
AND HE WAS
REMORSEFUL - HE WAS SORRY.
00:45:17.10\00:45:18.90
THAT'S WHY JESUS DIDN'T SAY TO
HIM, 'GET UP, TAKE UP YOUR BED
00:45:18.90\00:45:21.73
AND WALK.' HE SAID, 'SON,
YOUR SINS BE FORGIVEN THEE.' HE
00:45:21.73\00:45:26.23
NEEDED TO KNOW HIS
SINS WERE FORGIVEN.
00:45:26.23\00:45:27.83
HE NEEDED TO BE FREE AND TO KNOW
THAT HIS - THE SLATE HAD BEEN
00:45:27.83\00:45:31.83
WIPED CLEAN AND HE WAS ABLE
TO TAKE UP HIS BED AND WALK.
00:45:31.83\00:45:36.66
THESE THINGS - OUR SPIRITUALITY
- OUR MENTAL HEALTH - OUR
00:45:36.66\00:45:39.93
PHYSICAL BODIES - OUR BODIES
ARE ALL INTIMATELY - THEY WORK
00:45:39.93\00:45:46.23
TOGETHER AND ARE
INTIMATELY - AFFECT EACH OTHER.
00:45:46.23\00:45:49.70
TALKING OF THE MIND - THAT'S
TUESDAY'S LESSON - YOU - IN THE
00:45:49.70\00:45:55.86
BOOK 'COUNSELS ON HEALTH' PAGE
349, THE AUTHOR SAYS, "A GREAT
00:45:55.86\00:45:59.73
DEAL OF THE SICKNESS WHICH
AFFLICTS HUMANITY HAS ITS ORIGIN
00:45:59.73\00:46:02.40
IN THE MIND AND CAN ONLY BE
CURED BY RESTORING THE MIND TO
00:46:02.40\00:46:06.56
HEALTH." - INTERESTING-LY -
INTERESTINGLY PUT, THAT A LOT OF
00:46:06.56\00:46:10.43
THE SICKNESS FOLKS
SUFFER WITH STARTS IN THE MIND.
00:46:10.43\00:46:15.63
I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND THIS
TO ANYONE BUT I DON'T KNOW IF
00:46:15.63\00:46:17.33
ANYONE'S TRIED THINKING
THEMSELVES TO SICKNESS -
00:46:17.33\00:46:22.03
ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE GOT THAT
PROJECT COMING UP AT WORK OR
00:46:22.03\00:46:24.53
YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THE BOSS
OR SOMETHING. SOME PEOPLE JUST
00:46:24.53\00:46:27.00
GET THEMSELVES ALL WORKED
UP AND MAKE THEMSELVES SICK.
00:46:27.00\00:46:31.33
MMM HMM, YEAH - YEAH, YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
00:46:31.33\00:46:35.40
SOMETIMES IT'S
HAPPENED TO SOME OF YOU HERE.
00:46:35.40\00:46:38.73
"BOTH THROUGH PHYSICAL AS
WELL AS MENTAL RESTORATION,
00:46:38.73\00:46:43.03
JESUS MADE DISCIPLES."
00:46:43.03\00:46:45.23
REMEMBER, RESTORING PHYSICAL
AND MENTAL HEALTH WAS NOT JESUS'
00:46:45.23\00:46:48.20
FINAL OBJECTIVE,
HIS WAS DISCIPLESHIP.
00:46:48.20\00:46:51.50
YOU REMEMBER THE STORY THERE IN
LUKE CHAPTER 8, VERSE 26 - THE
00:46:51.50\00:46:55.20
DEMON-POSSESSED MEN - LUKE WROTE
- LUKE FOCUSES ON THE ONE MAN -
00:46:55.20\00:46:59.56
THE DEMON-POSSESSED MAN OF
GADARA - AND HE CAME TO JESUS.
00:46:59.56\00:47:04.50
JESUS FREED HIM FROM THE DEMONS.
00:47:04.50\00:47:07.00
AND THIS TESTIMONY WAS SAID OF
THE MAN, HE, WHEN HE WAS FREED
00:47:07.00\00:47:10.43
AND JESUS HEALED HIM, HE WAS
SITTING AT THE FEET OF JESUS,
00:47:10.43\00:47:13.70
CLOTHED AND IN HIS
RIGHT MIND. POWERFUL STUFF.
00:47:13.70\00:47:22.06
IF WE'VE TRULY ENCOUNTERED
JESUS' HEALING AND SAVING GRACE,
00:47:22.06\00:47:26.43
IT'S GOING TO HAVE A BIG IMPACT
ON THE WAY - ON WHAT WE WEAR -
00:47:26.43\00:47:30.60
WE'LL BE CLOTHED, AMEN? AMEN?
JUST CHECKING IN ON YOU THERE.
00:47:30.60\00:47:35.70
WE'LL BE CLOTHED - WE'LL BE
FULLY CLOTHED - I GUESS THAT'S
00:47:35.70\00:47:38.80
WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY,
AND WE'LL BE IN OUR WHAT?
00:47:38.80\00:47:41.33
OUR RIGHT MINDS
- OUR RIGHT MINDS.
00:47:41.33\00:47:44.93
YOU KNOW, WE CAME FROM
PENNSYLVANIA AND THERE'S NOT A
00:47:44.93\00:47:46.70
LOT OF SUN OVER IN PENNSYLVANIA
SO DEPRESSION IS BIG IN
00:47:46.70\00:47:50.33
PENNSYLVANIA AND IN SOME OF
THOSE OTHER EASTERN STATES AND
00:47:50.33\00:47:53.93
MIDWEST STATES, RIGHT NOW, THAT
DON'T GET A LOT OF SUNSHINE.
00:47:53.93\00:47:57.06
DEPRESSION IS RAMPANT AND FOLK
ARE - THINK FUNNY THINGS ABOUT
00:47:57.06\00:48:01.83
LIFE AND THE FUTURE OF THEIR
LIFE WHEN THEY'RE DEPRESSED AND
00:48:01.83\00:48:06.20
SO A GREAT DEAL OF MINISTRY,
BEING AFFECTED THERE, HAS TO DO
00:48:06.20\00:48:11.06
WITH DEPRESSION RECOVERY. THINGS
COME TO EACH OF US AND IT STARTS
00:48:11.06\00:48:16.10
A CYCLE AND, UNFORTUNATELY,
FOLK BECOME DEPRESSED.
00:48:16.10\00:48:19.56
IT AFFECTS THE PSYCHE - AFFECTS
THE MIND - AND JESUS CAME TO
00:48:19.56\00:48:23.13
HEAL AND DELIVER US
AND TO FREE OUR MINDS.
00:48:23.13\00:48:26.13
HOW MIGHT THE PRINCIPLES TAUGHT
IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES RELIEVE
00:48:26.13\00:48:29.60
ANXIETY, GUILT, AND SHAME
THAT UNDERLIE ALL OR MANY MENTAL
00:48:29.60\00:48:34.13
ILLNESSES? AFTER ALL, THE
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MIND
00:48:34.13\00:48:38.06
AND BODY IS WELL
ESTABLISHED BY MEDICAL SCIENCE.
00:48:38.06\00:48:40.23
ANXIETY PREDISPOSES
SOME TO STOMACH PROBLEMS.
00:48:40.23\00:48:44.13
WORRY CAUSES SLEEP DISORDERS
- BY THE WAY, SO DOES EXCESSIVE
00:48:44.13\00:48:47.06
COFFEE USE - AND UNFETTERED
ANGER FACTORS INTO HEART
00:48:47.06\00:48:50.96
DISEASE. SO
HERE ARE SOME VERSES.
00:48:50.96\00:48:53.73
I'M GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE READ
1 JOHN 3, VERSES 20 THROUGH 22.
00:48:53.73\00:48:58.46
WHO COULD DO THAT
FOR US HERE THIS MORNING?
00:48:58.46\00:49:01.30
WOULD SOMEONE VOLUNTEER?
THANK YOU SO MUCH MANJEET.
00:49:01.30\00:49:04.43
1 JOHN CHAPTER
3, VERSES 20 TO 22.
00:49:04.43\00:49:09.30
I'M GOING TO READ A COUPLE
OF QUICK VERSES FOR YOU, MATTHEW
00:49:09.30\00:49:11.50
6:33, YOU
REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID?
00:49:11.50\00:49:13.16
"SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD
AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL
00:49:13.16\00:49:15.60
THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED UNTO
YOU." WHAT ARE ALL THOSE THINGS?
00:49:15.60\00:49:20.16
WELL, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT
HE MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY - A ROOF
00:49:20.16\00:49:22.86
OVER YOUR HEAD, CLOTHES ON YOUR
BACK, AND FOOD IN YOUR STOMACH.
00:49:22.86\00:49:25.96
ANYTHING EXTRA IS A BONUS. THOSE
ARE THE THINGS HE GUARANTEED.
00:49:25.96\00:49:29.56
THOSE ARE THINGS HE SAID
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT.
00:49:29.56\00:49:31.90
HE'LL TAKE CARE OF
THOSE THINGS FOR YOU.
00:49:31.90\00:49:33.70
YES, YOU'VE GOT TO GO TO WORK,
YOU'VE GOT TO DO YOUR THING, BUT
00:49:33.70\00:49:35.90
DON'T STRESS. DON'T STRESS ABOUT
IT. THAT'S WHY HE SAID TAKE -
00:49:35.90\00:49:38.80
IN THE FOLLOWING VERSE - "TAKE
THEREFORE NO THOUGHT FOR THE
00:49:38.80\00:49:41.26
MORROW, FOR THE MORROW
SHALL TAKE THOUGHT FOR ITSELF.
00:49:41.26\00:49:44.40
SUFFICIENT UNTO THE
DAY IS THE EVIL THEREOF."
00:49:44.40\00:49:46.70
A LOT OF FOLK ARE
BORROWING - ARE BORROWING WORRY.
00:49:46.70\00:49:50.13
THEY'RE LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE
WORRIED ABOUT WHAT TOMORROW
00:49:50.13\00:49:52.43
BRINGS WHEN THEY CAN'T
EVEN GET THROUGH TODAY.
00:49:52.43\00:49:54.66
AND SO JESUS SAID STOP
THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW.
00:49:54.66\00:49:56.56
HE'S NOT SAYING DON'T PLAN -
YOU'VE GOT TO PLAN - BUT HE'S
00:49:56.56\00:49:59.73
SAYING DON'T WORRY ABOUT
TOMORROW, JUST DEAL WITH TODAY.
00:49:59.73\00:50:03.66
BY MY GRACE
WE'LL GET YOU THROUGH.
00:50:03.66\00:50:05.56
DON'T WORRY ABOUT
TOMORROW, SEEK FIRST MY KINGDOM.
00:50:05.56\00:50:08.03
TRUST ME TO PROVIDE FOR YOU.
00:50:08.03\00:50:10.10
THEN 1 PETER 5:7 - PETER
ENCOURAGES THE BELIEVER TO CAST
00:50:10.10\00:50:13.56
ALL OUR CARES - HOW
MANY OF OUR CARES? ALL.
00:50:13.56\00:50:17.30
BUT INSTEAD WE RUN TO SO AND SO,
WE RUN TO THIS ONE OR WE RUN TO
00:50:17.30\00:50:20.30
THAT ONE AND WE
DON'T BRING THEM TO JESUS.
00:50:20.30\00:50:22.43
HOW MUCH WE LOSE WHEN WE
DON'T BRING EVERYTHING TO GOD IN
00:50:22.43\00:50:24.23
PRAYER. CAST ALL
OUR CARES UPON HIM.
00:50:24.23\00:50:26.16
YOU KNOW WHAT
WE'RE GOOD AT DOING?
00:50:26.16\00:50:28.06
YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE REALLY GOOD
AT DOING? WE'RE GOOD AT GIVING
00:50:28.06\00:50:29.96
IT TO GOD FOR A MOMENT
AND THEN TAKING IT RIGHT BACK.
00:50:29.96\00:50:32.96
'HERE IT IS GOD. AND,
BY THE WAY, ON MY WAY OUT
00:50:32.96\00:50:36.00
I'LL JUST PICK THAT STUFF RIGHT
BACK UP AGAIN AND MOVE ON.'
00:50:36.00\00:50:38.73
WE'RE NOT GOOD AT LEAVING
IT WITH HIM. WE CAN TRUST HIM,
00:50:38.73\00:50:42.76
YOU KNOW. WE JUST CAST ALL OUR
CARE. FOLK ARE CARRYING AROUND
00:50:42.76\00:50:45.73
A LOT OF BAGGAGE - A LOT OF
LUGGAGE THEY DON'T NEED TO BE
00:50:45.73\00:50:48.23
CARRYING AROUND. JESUS
SAID, 'I'LL TAKE IT ALL.
00:50:48.23\00:50:50.56
CAST ALL YOUR CARES UPON ME
BECAUSE I CARE FOR YOU' HE SAYS.
00:50:50.56\00:50:53.66
AND THEN IN 2 CORINTHIANS 4:7
THROUGH 10 IT SAYS, "BUT WE HAVE
00:50:53.66\00:50:57.33
THIS TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS
THAT THE EXCELLENCY OF THE POWER
00:50:57.33\00:51:00.83
MAY BE OF GOD AND NOT OF US.
00:51:00.83\00:51:02.23
WE ARE TROUBLED ON EVERY
SIDE YET NOT DISTRESSED; WE ARE
00:51:02.23\00:51:05.73
PERPLEXED BUT NOT IN DESPAIR;
PERSECUTED BUT NOT FORSAKEN;
00:51:05.73\00:51:10.30
CAST DOWN BUT NOT DESTROYED;
ALWAYS BEARING ABOUT IN THE BODY
00:51:10.30\00:51:13.93
THE DYING OF THE LORD JESUS,
THAT THE LIFE ALSO OF JESUS
00:51:13.93\00:51:17.13
MIGHT BE MADE
MANIFEST IN OUR BODIES."
00:51:17.13\00:51:19.80
AND THEN IN PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER
4 IT SAYS, "REJOICE IN THE LORD
00:51:19.80\00:51:22.46
ALWAYS AND AGAIN I
SAY REJOICE." YEAH.
00:51:22.46\00:51:26.46
AND THEN HE GOES ON TO
TALK ABOUT THINGS - THINKING ON
00:51:26.46\00:51:28.53
THINGS THAT ARE WHOLESOME AND
PURE AND LOVELY AND - BOY, WE
00:51:28.53\00:51:31.50
COULD JUST SPEND A LOT OF TIME
TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE FEED OUR
00:51:31.50\00:51:33.83
MINDS WITH THAT AGITATE OUR
PEACE - THAT DESTROY OUR PEACE.
00:51:33.83\00:51:37.76
WE COULD TALK ABOUT THE TYPE
OF MUSIC THAT WILL DESTROY OUR
00:51:37.76\00:51:41.70
PEACE IN AN INSTANT - THE TYPE
OF MUSIC THAT WILL STIMULATE
00:51:41.70\00:51:46.26
MENTAL ACTIVITY AND
CAUSE OUR MINDS TO -
00:51:46.26\00:51:48.76
TO FUNCTION IN FULL
CAPACITY. 1 JOHN 3:20 TO 22 -
00:51:48.76\00:51:54.66
WHERE WERE WE -
RIGHT HERE, MANJEET.
00:51:54.66\00:51:56.53
>>1 JOHN 3:22, "AND WHATEVER WE
ASK WE RECEIVE FROM HIM BECAUSE
00:51:56.53\00:52:03.33
WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND DO
THOSE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING
00:52:03.33\00:52:07.90
IN HIS SIGHT. AND
THIS IS HIS COMMANDMENT:
00:52:07.90\00:52:12.66
THAT WE SHOULD BELIEVE ON THE
NAME OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST AND
00:52:12.66\00:52:17.63
LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS HE
GAVE US THE COMMANDMENT."
00:52:17.63\00:52:21.93
>>OKAY. AND SO,
WHEN WE ARE WALKING IN
00:52:21.93\00:52:25.26
THE WILL OF THE LORD AND WE'RE
DOING HIS WILL, BY HIS GRACE, IT
00:52:25.26\00:52:29.40
BRINGS GREAT PEACE TO THE LIFE
AND, THEREFORE, HELPS CORRECT
00:52:29.40\00:52:33.63
AND STRAIGHTEN
OUR THINKING HERE.
00:52:33.63\00:52:35.46
JESUS WANTS TO
HEAL US COMPLETELY.
00:52:35.46\00:52:36.96
NOW OVER ON WEDNESDAY'S LESSON
IT TALKS ABOUT THE RESURRECTION
00:52:36.96\00:52:40.53
AND THE LIFE AND THERE
WERE THREE STORIES THAT I DIDN'T
00:52:40.53\00:52:44.50
HIGHLIGHT WITH REGARDS
TO JESUS' MIRACLE WORKING.
00:52:44.50\00:52:47.13
WE TALKED ABOUT 22 OF THOSE - 22
MIRACLE-WORKING STORIES - THERE
00:52:47.13\00:52:51.80
WERE THREE OTHERS - BECAUSE
THERE ARE TWO THINGS YOU CAN
00:52:51.80\00:52:54.26
COUNT ON IN LIFE - YOU
KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, DON'T YOU?
00:52:54.26\00:52:58.83
DEATH AND TAXES AND IF YOU LIVE
IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
00:52:58.83\00:53:02.80
IT'S ALSO
ROADWORKS IN THE SUMMER.
00:53:02.80\00:53:05.23
AND SO YOU WOULD KNOW THOSE ARE
THREE THINGS YOU CAN COUNT ON.
00:53:05.23\00:53:09.16
WE REVIEWED JESUS' WONDERFUL
MIRACLES OF HEALING, BUT THERE
00:53:09.16\00:53:12.86
WERE THREE STORIES.
HE RAISED THE DAUGHTER OF
00:53:12.86\00:53:15.86
JAIRUS, HE RAISED THE WIDOW'S
SON, AND THEN HE RAISED HIS OWN
00:53:15.86\00:53:21.43
FRIEND, LAZARUS,
BACK TO LIFE AGAIN.
00:53:21.43\00:53:25.16
ALTHOUGH CHRIST BROUGHT HEALING
TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, EVENTUALLY
00:53:25.16\00:53:28.26
THOUGH, THOSE SAME
PEOPLE WOULD END UP DYING.
00:53:28.26\00:53:30.90
BUT IN THE ACT OF RAISING THE
DEAD, CHRIST OFFERS A WHOLE LOT
00:53:30.90\00:53:34.20
MORE THAN GOOD HEALTH HERE AND
NOW, BUT ETERNAL LIFE THERE AND
00:53:34.20\00:53:38.66
THEN. DISEASE
AND ACCIDENTS MIGHT
00:53:38.66\00:53:41.20
INITIALLY PREVAIL, BUT ETERNAL
LIFE WILL ULTIMATELY CONQUER.
00:53:41.20\00:53:45.10
HEALING MIGHT NOT HAPPEN EVERY
TIME WHEN IT'S REQUESTED - AND
00:53:45.10\00:53:48.93
WE'RE NOT ALWAYS SURE WHY - BUT
EVERLASTING LIFE IS GUARANTEED
00:53:48.93\00:53:52.66
TO ALL WHO MAKE JESUS
THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR.
00:53:52.66\00:53:54.96
LATER, JESUS WOULD RISE FROM THE
DEAD, AND IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20
00:53:54.96\00:53:58.93
AND 21 PAUL WOULD SAY, "BUT NOW
IS CHRIST RISEN FROM THE DEAD
00:53:58.93\00:54:02.70
AND BECOME THE FIRSTFRUITS"
- OR THE PLEDGE - "OF THEM THAT
00:54:02.70\00:54:06.06
SLEPT. FOR SINCE
BY MAN CAME DEATH, BY
00:54:06.06\00:54:08.93
MAN CAME ALSO THE
RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD."
00:54:08.93\00:54:14.50
EVEN IF WE DON'T EXPERIENCE TRUE
AND FULL HEALING HERE AND NOW,
00:54:14.50\00:54:18.10
WE CAN KNOW THAT ONE DAY JESUS
IS GOING TO COME BACK AND WE'RE
00:54:18.10\00:54:21.93
GOING TO GET BRAND-NEW BODIES.
SOME OF US MAY PASS ON TO OUR -
00:54:21.93\00:54:24.90
ON TO OUR SLEEP - BUT JESUS
WILL RISE US BACK TO LIFE AGAIN.
00:54:24.90\00:54:29.73
WELL, ON THURSDAY WE HAVE
CHRIST'S HEALING MINISTRY -
00:54:29.73\00:54:33.20
LEGACY OF HEALING - THE EARLY
CHURCH CONTINUED WHAT JESUS
00:54:33.20\00:54:36.36
STARTED AND THAT MINISTRY OF
HEALING IS TO CONTINUE TODAY IN
00:54:36.36\00:54:41.50
GOD'S CHURCH. I WANT
TO JUST READ A STATEMENT
00:54:41.50\00:54:44.66
AS WE CLOSE TODAY'S LESSON -
AND THIS IS FOUND IN MINISTRY OF
00:54:44.66\00:54:49.13
HEALING PAGE 143. IT
SAYS, "CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE
00:54:49.13\00:54:53.00
WILL GIVE TRUE SUCCESS
IN REACHING THE PEOPLE.
00:54:53.00\00:54:55.63
THE SAVIOR MINGLED WITH MEN
AS ONE WHO DESIRES THEIR GOOD.
00:54:55.63\00:54:59.26
HE SHOWED HIS SYMPATHY FOR THEM,
MINISTERED TO THEIR NEEDS, WON
00:54:59.26\00:55:02.96
THEIR CONFIDENCE, AND
THEN HE BADE THEM, 'FOLLOW ME'.
00:55:02.96\00:55:07.63
THERE IS NEED OF COMING CLOSE TO
THE PEOPLE BY PERSONAL EFFORT.
00:55:07.63\00:55:11.06
IF LESS TIME WERE GIVEN TO
SERMONIZING AND MORE TIME WAS
00:55:11.06\00:55:13.73
SPENT IN PERSONAL MINISTRY,
GREATER RESULTS WOULD BE SEEN.
00:55:13.73\00:55:17.76
THE POOR ARE TO BE RELIEVED, THE
SICK CARED FOR, THE SORROWING
00:55:17.76\00:55:20.93
AND THE BEREAVED COMFORTED,
THE IGNORANT INSTRUCTED, THE
00:55:20.93\00:55:24.06
INEXPERIENCED COUNSELED.
WE ARE TO WEEP WITH THOSE THAT
00:55:24.06\00:55:26.53
WEEP AND REJOICE
WITH THOSE THAT REJOICE.
00:55:26.53\00:55:28.80
ACCOMPANIED BY THE POWER OF
PERSUASION, THE POWER OF PRAYER
00:55:28.80\00:55:32.93
AND THE POWER OF THE LOVE OF
GOD, THIS WORK WILL NOT, CANNOT
00:55:32.93\00:55:37.26
BE, WITHOUT FRUIT."
ISN'T THAT POWERFUL?
00:55:37.26\00:55:40.06
'MINISTRY OF HEALING' PAGE 143.
FRIENDS, WE'VE GOT A WORK TO DO.
00:55:40.06\00:55:44.00
GOD HAS CALLED US EACH
TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALING.
00:55:44.00\00:55:46.00
WE CAN, BY GOD'S GRACE, BE
EQUIPPED TO HELP OTHERS AND TO,
00:55:46.00\00:55:48.83
ULTIMATELY, LEAD THEM TO
ACCEPTING JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR
00:55:48.83\00:55:53.00
PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR
BECAUSE, ULTIMATELY, THAT'S WHAT
00:55:53.00\00:55:55.70
IT'S ALL ABOUT. AMEN? AMEN.
00:55:55.70\00:55:57.83
AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING
US, WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU JOINED
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US TODAY AND WE WANT TO
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GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD
BLESS YOU TODAY AS WELL.
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>>PAUL AND JESUS BOTH
PREDICT THAT THE CHURCH OF GOD
00:56:55.56\00:56:59.20
BECOMES A FORCE AGAINST GOD.
00:56:59.20\00:57:03.53
>>THE RADICAL FAITH THAT JESUS
TAUGHT HAD BECOME THE OFFICIAL
00:57:03.53\00:57:06.33
RELIGION OF THE
EMPIRE THAT MURDERED HIM.
00:57:06.33\00:57:12.46
>>THE SPEED WITH WHICH THE EARLY
CHURCH TOBOGGANED INTO APOSTASY
00:57:12.46\00:57:16.56
WILL TAKE YOUR
BREATH AWAY. (MUSIC)
00:57:16.56\00:57:17.56