Participants: Chris Buttery
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021405
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:49 RIGHT HERE IN SACRAMENTO - CAPITAL CITY OF CALIFORNIA. 00:53 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN. WHETHER YOU'RE 00:55 LISTENING ON THE RADIO, WATCHING LIVE ON OUR WEB SITE AT 00:59 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS, 01:02 IT DOES NOT MATTER. WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU'RE 01:04 JOINING US AND THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SING WITH US AND YOU'RE GOING 01:07 TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH US TODAY. OUR FIRST REQUEST IS #547 01:13 AS WE START OUR PROGRAM - 'BE THOU MY VISION'. 01:17 THIS IS A REQUEST FROM MATTHEW AND CLAUDINE IN CHINA, KISKU IN 01:21 INDIA, SUELYN IN IRELAND, THE STEVENS FAMILY AND BETH IN NEW 01:25 ZEALAND, YELENA IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, AND GODWILL IN 01:29 SWEDEN AND THERE WERE A WHOLE BUNCH MORE REQUESTS FROM 01:33 AROUND THE WORLD FOR THIS SONG. SO WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE SUCH AN 01:36 INTERNATIONAL FAMILY JOINING WITH US EACH WEEK. 01:39 IT'S VERY EXCITING. 01:40 I LOVE TO TRAVEL AND SO IT'S LIKE I GO ON A TRIP EVERY WEEK 01:45 WHEN I PUT THESE SONGS TOGETHER - SEEING THE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES 01:48 AND ALL ACROSS THE U.S. AND - VERY EXCITING. 01:52 SO WE'RE VERY GLAD THAT YOU ARE JOINING WITH US. 01:55 WE'RE GOING TO SING STANZAS 1, 2 AND 4 - 'BE THOU MY VISION'. 01:59 (MUSIC) 03:40 >>BEAUTIFUL SONG. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REQUESTING 03:43 THAT AND IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH 03:47 US ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM, GO TO OUR WEB SITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' 03:52 AND CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND ANY SONG THAT'S IN THE 03:55 HYMNAL IS RIGHT THERE FOR YOU TO CHOOSE AND WE WILL DO OUR BEST 03:59 TO SING THAT FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. 04:02 AT THIS TIME LET US BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 04:06 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LOVING US - FOR BEING 04:11 OUR KIND HEAVENLY FATHER. I PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE WITH US 04:17 AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 04:20 BE WITH OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL FAMILY ACROSS THE COUNTRY 04:23 AND AROUND THE WORLD NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE. 04:27 SOME OF THEM, WE KNOW, ARE HOURS FROM A LOCAL CONGREGATION AND 04:31 THIS IS THEIR SABBATH SCHOOL - THIS IS THEIR CHURCH FAMILY AND 04:34 I JUST PRAY THAT YOU WOULD BE WITH EACH ONE IN A VERY SPECIAL 04:37 WAY RIGHT NOW. BE WITH PASTOR CHRIS AS HE 04:40 BRINGS US OUR LESSON STUDY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 04:45 AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY 04:48 PASTOR CHRIS BUTTERY. HE IS OUR FAMILY LIFE AND 04:51 EVANGELISM PASTOR HERE AT CENTRAL CHURCH. 05:00 >>IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. 05:05 OR MAYBE YOU WERE JUST THINKING I WASN'T ME THIS MORNING, BUT IT 05:11 IS CERTAINLY GOOD TO SEE YOU AND HAPPY SABBATH AND WHAT A DELIGHT 05:15 TO STUDY TOGETHER HERE THIS MORNING AND SHARE IN TIME - 05:21 IN OPENING GOD'S WORD. AND WE ALSO WANT TO EXTEND A 05:25 WELCOME AGAIN TO THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING US EITHER ONLINE, ON TV 05:29 OR LISTENING BY RADIO - GLAD YOU COULD JOIN US. 05:32 AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE JOINING US AND OUR EXTENDED FAMILY, WE 05:36 WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS MORNING YOU ARE AWARE OF OUR 05:40 FREE OFFER. AND IT'S OFFER #806 - IT'S CALLED THE 05:44 'AMAZING HEALTH FACTS - 8 BIBLE SECRETS FOR A LONGER AND A 05:48 STRONGER LIFE' AND SO YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO CALL IN AND 05:51 GRAB THIS. OFFER #806 - 50+ PAGES OF 05:56 MEDICAL INFORMATION DEALING WITH BETTER HEALTH. 05:58 EIGHT BIBLICAL LESSONS DEALING WITH THE BENEFITS OF EXERCISE, 06:04 REST, KEEPING THE SABBATH, ETCETERA. 06:07 SO YOU WANT TO CALL IN 1-866-STUDY MORE OR 06:11 1-866-788-3966. CALL IN FOR THE FREE OFFER. 06:16 YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU DID. IT'S A POWER-PACKED MAGAZINE. 06:20 WELL, WE'RE INTO OUR LESSON STUDY HERE THIS MORNING AND 06:25 WE'RE GOING TO BE OVER AT THE LESSON ENTITLED 'DISCIPLING THE 06:28 SICK' AND SO I TRUST YOU'VE GOT YOUR LESSON GUIDES - LESSON 06:32 STUDIES WITH YOU HERE AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TACKLING OR AT LEAST 06:37 REVIEWING OUR LESSON HERE IN OUR TIME TOGETHER. 06:43 I WANT TO LOOK AT THE MEMORY VERSE WITH YOU FIRST AND THAT'S 06:47 FOUND IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 15, VERSE 30 AND 31 AND I'LL BE 06:50 READING FROM THE KING JAMES VERSION. 06:52 IT SAYS, "AND GREAT MULTITUDES CAME UNTO HIM, HAVING WITH THEM 06:55 THOSE THAT WERE LAME, BLIND, DUMB, MAIMED, AND MANY OTHERS, 07:00 AND CAST THEM DOWN AT JESUS' FEET; AND HE HEALED THEM: 07:05 INSOMUCH THAT THE MULTITUDE WONDERED WHEN THEY SAW THE DUMB 07:09 TO SPEAK, THE MAIMED TO BE WHOLE, THE LAME TO WALK, AND THE 07:12 BLIND TO SEE: AND THEY GLORIFIED THE GOD OF ISRAEL." 07:19 SOMEONE SAID THAT THE WORLD IS, IN FACT, LIKE A GREAT BIG 07:25 HOSPITAL. AND THEY WOULDN'T BE FAR OFF THE MARK. 07:30 SICKNESS AND DISEASE HAS ALWAYS BEEN WITH US - PROBABLY WILL - 07:34 DEFINITELY - SHOULDN'T SAY PROBABLY - BUT ALWAYS WILL BE 07:37 WITH US UNTIL JESUS COMES. I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU HERE, 07:41 AS WE GET INTO OUR LESSONS, A FEW STATISTICS. AND I KNOW WHEN 07:44 I MENTION STATISTICS, FOLKS JUST JUMP UP AND DOWN AND SAY 'GOODY! 07:47 MORE STATISTICS AND MORE FACTS FOR ME TO DIGEST.' BUT I JUST 07:50 WANT TO KIND OF CREATE A SCENARIO OR AT LEAST - I DON'T 07:54 HAVE TO CREATE THE SCENARIO, BUT AT LEAST MENTION AND LOOK AT THE 07:58 - THE EXTENT AT WHICH SICKNESS AND DISEASE REALLY DOMINATES OUR 08:05 PLANET. SOME OF THESE STATISTICS COME 08:07 FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND I'M JUST GOING 08:09 TO SHARE A FEW OF THESE WITH YOU. 08:11 THEY SUGGEST THAT THE WORLD HAS MADE SOME SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS 08:14 OF REDUCING THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN DEATHS - THAT'S BETWEEN 08:17 THE AGES OF ONE THROUGH FIVE - BY ABOUT FORTY PERCENT. 08:21 BUT YET, AROUND IN 2011, 7 MILLION CHILDREN BETWEEN THAT 08:25 AGE GROUP DIED. THAT'S A LOT OF CHILDREN. 08:28 ABOUT 75% OF THOSE DEATHS ARE CAUSED BY SIX CONDITIONS: 08:32 NEONATAL CAUSES LIKE PRE-TERM BIRTH, BIRTH ASPHYXIA AND 08:35 INFECTIONS, AND THEN OTHER THINGS LIKE PNEUMONIA, DIARRHEA, 08:39 MALARIA, HIV/AIDS, AND MEASLES. 08:43 BETWEEN 1990 AND 2011, THE PROPORTION OF OVERWEIGHT 08:48 CHILDREN DOUBLED IN THE AFRICA REGION AND IN THE EUROPE REGION. 08:53 AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE EUROPE REGION HAS THE HIGHEST - 12.5% - 08:58 OF OVERWEIGHT CHILDREN. IT'S QUITE A LARGE GROUP - 09:02 NO PUN INTENDED. OVERWEIGHT IS OFTEN ALSO LINKED 09:06 WITH HEART DISEASE, HYPERTENSION, AND DIABETES. 09:09 ALMOST 10% OF THE WORLD'S ADULT POPULATION HAS DIABETES. 09:15 THAT'S ONE IN EVERY TEN PERSONS ON PLANET EARTH HAS DIABETES. 09:20 PEOPLE WITH DIABETES, OF COURSE, HAVE INCREASED RISK OF HEART 09:22 DISEASE, STROKE, AND ARE TEN TIMES MORE LIKELY TO NEED A 09:26 LOWER LIMB AMPUTATION THAN THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE DIABETES. 09:30 IT'S ONE OF THE LEADING CAUSES OF RENAL FAILURE, VISUAL 09:33 IMPAIRMENT AND, OF COURSE, BLINDNESS. 09:36 IN 2011, AN ESTIMATED 1.7 MILLION PEOPLE DIED FROM 09:41 AIDS-RELATED CAUSES WORLDWIDE. 09:44 FORTUNATELY, THAT'S 24% LESS THAN WHAT WAS IN 2005. 09:49 NEW INFECTIONS HAVE ALSO DECLINED, BUT NOT ENOUGH. 09:52 IN 2011 AN ESTIMATED 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE WORLD WIDE WERE NEWLY 09:57 INFECTED WITH HIV AND AROUND 34 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING WORLDWIDE 10:03 HAVE HIV. ALSO, CONSIDER THE TOP DEADLY 10:08 DISEASES OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD. 10:10 SOME HAVE ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED. 10:12 THESE FIGURES COME FROM 2007. 4 MILLION PEOPLE DIE ANNUALLY - 10:17 DIED IN THAT YEAR - FROM LOWER RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS. 10:20 THEN YOU HAD 1 TO 5 MILLION PEOPLE DIE FROM MALARIA, 2.2 10:25 MILLION FROM DIARRHEA, 2 MILLION FROM TUBERCULOSIS, HALF A 10:29 MILLION FROM MEASLES, 2 TO 3 HUNDRED THOUSAND FROM WHOOPING 10:32 COUGH, A QUARTER OF A MILLION FROM TETANUS, 174,000 FROM 10:36 MENINGITIS AND 157,000 FROM SYPHILIS. 10:40 THE INFECTION RATE FROM EACH OF THESE DISEASES, OF COURSE, IS 10:43 THAT MUCH LARGER, YOU UNDERSTAND. YOU SHOULD TRY IT 10:47 IF YOU HAVE IT - I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE CHECKED OUT 10:49 THE WEB SITE 'HEALTHMAP.ORG' - 'HEALTHMAP.ORG'. 10:54 A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS, EPIDEMIOLOGISTS AND SOFTWARE 10:59 DEVELOPERS FROM BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, THEY ALL 11:02 TEAMED UP TO CREATE AN ONLINE DISEASE-MONITORING AND REAL TIME 11:07 SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM OF EMERGING PUBLIC THREATS ACROSS THE GLOBE. 11:12 THE SITE BRINGS TOGETHER DISPARATE DATA SOURCES. 11:16 YESTERDAY, WHEN I WAS ON THERE, I DISCOVERED SOMETHING 11:19 INTERESTING HERE JUST IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - 11:22 THAT THERE WERE 43 RESPIRATORY ALERTS. 11:26 MOST OF THOSE WERE INFLUENZA AND THEN ANOTHER LARGE PORTION OF 11:30 THAT WAS SWINE FLU - H1N1 VIRUS - IN JUST NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 11:34 IT'S INTERESTING WHEN YOU GO ON THAT SITE - NOT TO CREATE 11:37 PARANOIA OR TO GET FOLK WORKED UP, BUT JUST SO THAT WE - IT'S 11:42 INTERESTING JUST SEEING THESE THINGS POPPING UP AROUND THE 11:46 GLOBE ON A DAILY, EVEN WEEKLY, BASIS. 11:49 AND NOT TO OVERWHELM ANYONE, BUT ADD TO THESE FIGURES THE 11:52 FOLLOWING CONCERNS: NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, ALSO 11:56 KNOWN AS CHRONIC DISEASES. THESE ARE DISEASES THAT ARE NOT 11:59 PASSED ON FROM PERSON - INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 12:02 THEY KILL - NOW LISTEN TO THIS - 12:04 THEY KILL 36 MILLION PEOPLE EVERY YEAR. 12:08 NOW YOU TAKE ALL THE FIGURES FROM THOSE WHO DIE FROM AIDS AND 12:11 FROM LOWER RESPIRATORY DISEASES AND SYPHILIS AND ALL THE OTHERS, 12:15 AND IT DOESN'T EVEN TOUCH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIE FROM 12:18 CHRONIC DISEASES. MOST OF THESE ARE 12:20 LIFESTYLE-RELATED DISEASES AROUND THE WORLD. 12:24 CARDIOVASCULAR ACCOUNT FOR MOST OF THESE CHRONIC DEATHS - 12:30 17.3 MILLION PEOPLE DIE ANNUALLY, FOLLOWED BY CANCER 12:35 WHICH IS 7.6 MILLION, RESPIRATORY DISEASE 12:38 4.2 MILLION AND DIABETES 1.3 MILLION AROUND THE WORLD. 12:42 NOW THESE FOUR GROUPS OF DISEASES ACCOUNT FOR 80% OF 12:46 NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE DEATHS. AND, OF COURSE, THEY ALL SHARE 12:50 THE SAME FOUR RISK FACTORS: TOBACCO USE, PHYSICAL INACTIVITY 12:55 AND THE HARMFUL USE OF ALCOHOL AND UNHEALTHY DIETS. 12:59 SO OUR WORLD REALLY, IF WE CONSIDER JUST THAT COLLAGE OF 13:05 DATA IS TRULY RIPE FOR AUTHENTIC BIBLICAL MINISTRY OF HEALING TO 13:11 THE SICK - AS IT WAS, ACTUALLY, IN THE TIME THAT JESUS CAME 13:16 ALONG THE SCENE. THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS CAME IN 13:18 THE FULLNESS OF TIME. HE CAME RIGHT ON TIME, 13:22 PROPHETICALLY SPEAKING AND ALSO JUST THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD 13:28 - IT WAS RIPE FOR THE MESSIAH TO COME. I WAS READING IN 13:32 MY FAVORITE BOOK 'THE DESIRE OF AGES' PAGE 36. THE AUTHOR TELLS 13:38 US THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD WHEN JESUS CAME. 13:42 SHE WRITES, "THE BODIES OF HUMAN BEINGS MADE FOR THE DWELLING 13:46 PLACE OF GOD, HAD BECOME THE HABITATIONS - OF DEMONS. 13:50 THE SENSES, THE NERVES, THE PASSIONS, THE ORGANS OF MEN, 13:57 WERE WORKED BY SUPERNATURAL AGENCIES IN THE INDULGENCE OF 14:01 THE VILEST LUSTS. THE VERY STAMP OF DEMONS WAS 14:07 IMPRESSED UPON THE COUNTENANCES OF MEN." 14:11 THAT WAS THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD WHEN JESUS CAME. 14:13 FOLK WERE ENGROSSED IN VILE LUSTS AND THE DEVIL HAD CONTROL 14:18 OF FOLK BECAUSE THEY HAD GIVEN HIM PERMISSION TO DO SO, 14:21 WHETHER INTELLIGENTLY OR NON-INTELLIGENTLY - 14:25 NON-CONSCIOUSLY. AND HE HAD WREAKED HAVOC IN THE HUMAN MIND 14:29 AND IN THE HUMAN BODY. TODAY, CERTAINLY, LOOKING AT THE DATA 14:35 AND LOOKING AROUND US - AND WE'VE ALL BEEN TOUCHED OR 14:39 AFFECTED BY SOMETHING, WHETHER PERSONALLY OURSELVES OR WHETHER 14:42 A CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER - BY SOME OF EVEN THESE DISEASES THAT HAVE 14:45 BEEN MENTIONED HERE THIS MORNING. THIS AFFECTS ALL OF US 14:50 IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND WE CERTAINLY LIVE IN A VERY SICK - 14:54 PHYSICALLY SICK AND MENTALLY SICK WORLD AS WELL. 14:59 SO WHEN JESUS CAME, THE TIME WAS RIPE FOR HIM TO COME AND THAT'S 15:03 WHY YOU READ - AND IT'S QUOTED HERE ON PAGE - THE FIRST - ON 15:07 SABBATH MORNING'S LESSON - OR SABBATH'S LESSON IN OUR LESSON 15:11 GUIDES - FROM 'MINISTRY OF HEALING' PAGES 19 AND 20 WHERE 15:14 THE AUTHOR SAYS, "DURING HIS MINISTRY JESUS DEVOTED MORE TIME 15:18 TO HEALING THE SICK THAN TO PREACHING. 15:21 HIS MIRACLES TESTIFIED TO THE TRUTH OF HIS WORDS THAT HE CAME 15:25 NOT TO DESTROY BUT TO SAVE. WHEREVER HE WENT, THE TIDINGS OF 15:28 HIS MERCY PRECEDED HIM. WHERE HE HAD PASSED, THE OBJECTS 15:31 OF HIS COMPASSION WERE REJOICING IN HEALTH AND MAKING TRIAL OF 15:35 THEIR NEWFOUND POWERS. AS HE PASSED THROUGH THE TOWNS 15:38 AND CITIES HE WAS LIKE A VITAL CURRENT DIFFUSING LIFE AND JOY." 15:44 SO EVERYWHERE JESUS WENT, FOLK WERE JUST HAPPY AND REJOICING 15:50 AND ECSTATIC THAT THEY HAD FOUND NEWFOUND HEALTH. 15:53 JESUS SPENT MORE TIME HEALING THAN HE DID PREACHING. 15:57 NOT TO SUGGEST THAT PREACHING'S NOT IMPORTANT - AND - BUT YOU 16:00 UNDERSTAND THAT - AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WE MOVE 16:03 THROUGH THE LESSON. BUT YOU UNDERSTAND, JESUS - 16:05 JESUS USED HEALING - JESUS HEALED FOLK AS AN ENTRYWAY FOR 16:11 THE GOSPEL - FOR FOLK TO RECEIVE HIM AS THEIR SAVIOR. 16:16 SO LET'S GO OVER TO SUNDAY'S LESSON AND LET'S DIG IN 16:20 JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE. 16:21 LET'S TALK ABOUT THE HEALING MESSIAH FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT. 16:24 I WANT TO JUST BRIEFLY REVIEW WITH YOU SOME OF THE MAGNIFICENT 16:28 HEALINGS THAT TOOK PLACE DURING THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. 16:31 NOW, IF YOU SCAN MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, AND JOHN, YOU'RE GOING TO 16:34 FIND TWENTY-TWO MIRACLES THAT JESUS PERFORMED. 16:38 NOW, NOT EVERYTHING THAT JESUS SAID OR DID IS RECORDED IN THE 16:42 GOSPELS, BUT WHEN YOU READ THE GOSPELS, YOU'LL NOTICE 16:45 22 ACTS OF HEALING THAT JESUS PERFORMED TO HELP PEOPLE 16:50 RECOVER FROM A CERTAIN SICKNESS. 16:53 THERE WERE OTHER THINGS THAT HE DID AND THERE WERE MARVELOUS 16:55 MIRACLES AS WELL AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THOSE IN JUST A BIT, BUT 16:58 22 OF THEM WERE RECORDED IN THE GOSPELS. 17:00 JUST REAL BRIEFLY I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THESE AND I'LL JUST 17:03 TELL YOU WHERE THE REFERENCES ARE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO JOT IT 17:06 DOWN, BUT A LOT OF THEM ARE FOUND IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. 17:08 AND EVEN THOUGH MATTHEW IS NOT WRITTEN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER 17:11 MATTHEW IS VERY INTERESTED, AS IS LUKE, IN THE HEALINGS OF 17:15 JESUS. AND SO IN MATTHEW 8 YOU'VE GOT 17:19 THE HEALING OF THE LEPER - YOU REMEMBER THE LEPER COMES TO 17:21 JESUS AND SAYS - AND HE KNOWS JESUS CAN HEAL HIM BUT HE'S NOT 17:24 SURE HE WILL HEAL HIM BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS. 17:28 AND HE SAYS TO JESUS, 'IF YOU WILL CAN YOU MAKE ME CLEAN?' 17:32 AND JESUS SAID, 'I WILL. BE THOU CLEAN.' AND SO THE LEPER 17:35 WAS HEALED. A FEW VERSES LATER YOU HAD THE 17:38 HEALING OF THE ROMAN CENTURION'S SERVANT. 17:40 YOU REMEMBER THE ROMAN CENTURION CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, 'LOOK, 17:43 MY SERVANT'S SICK EVEN TO DEATH' AND JESUS SAID, 17:46 'WELL WHERE IS THIS INDIVIDUAL? 17:48 I'LL COME.' AND THE CENTURION SAID, 'NO, NO, NO, NO. 17:50 YOU JUST SPEAK THE WORD AND HE'LL BE HEALED. 17:53 BECAUSE I'M A MAN OF AUTHORITY AND I TELL MY FOLK WHAT TO DO 17:56 AND THEY COME AND THEY GO AND YOU CAN DO THE SAME THING.' HE 17:59 EXHIBITED TREMENDOUS FAITH IN CHRIST'S HEALING POWER AND SO 18:04 THERE'S THE HEALING OF THE ROMAN CENTURION. 18:06 A FEW VERSES LATER PETER GOES TO - PETER - JESUS GOES TO PETER'S 18:10 MOTHER-IN-LAW'S PLACE AND HEALS HER. 18:13 AND PETER'S GLAD FOR THAT BECAUSE SHE GETS UP AND FIXES 18:16 THEM SOME FOOD AND SOME DRINK AND SHE'S BACK TO DOING WHAT SHE 18:19 DOES. AND THEN IN MATTHEW 8, TOWARD 18:23 THE CLOSE OF THE CHAPTER, YOU HAVE THE HEALING OF THE WILD MEN 18:27 AT GADARA. NOW IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 9 YOU'VE 18:30 GOT THE HEALING OF THE PALSIED OR THE PARALYTIC MAN. 18:34 IN MATTHEW 9:20 THE HEALING OF THE WOMAN WITH THE HEMORRHAGE. 18:38 YOU REMEMBER, SHE COMES TO JESUS AND SEEKS TO TOUCH THE HEM OF 18:41 HIS GARMENT SO THAT SHE MIGHT BE HEALED. 18:43 SHE'S SOUGHT ALL THE DOCTORS - NONE OF THEM CAN HELP HER BUT 18:47 SHE HEARS OF JESUS AND PRESSES THROUGH THE CROWD AND JESUS 18:51 FEELS THAT TOUCH OF FAITH EVEN THOUGH HE'S BEEN JOSTLED AND 18:54 PRESSED ON EVERY SIDE. 18:55 EVEN IN THAT SAME CHAPTER YOU'VE GOT THE HEALING OF TWO BLIND 18:58 MEN, THE HEALING OF THE DEMON-POSSESSED MAN, THEN OVER 19:02 IN MATTHEW 12 YOU'VE GOT THE HEALING OF A MAN WHO HAD A 19:05 WITHERED HAND. IN MATTHEW 15 YOU HAVE THE 19:07 HEALING OF THE SYROPHOENICIAN'S DAUGHTER. 19:10 THEN IN MATTHEW 17 THE HEALING OF A BOY WHO HAD EPILEPSY. 19:14 THEN OVER IN MATTHEW 20 THE HEALING OF TWO BLIND MEN AT 19:17 JERICHO AND ONE OF THOSE MEN IS BARTIMEUS. 19:20 YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY? 19:21 THEN IN MARK AND LUKE YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING HEALINGS: THE 19:25 HEALING OF A MAN WITH THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT. 19:27 THE HEALING OF A MAN WHO IS NOT ONLY DEAF BUT HE'S ALSO 19:30 SPEECHLESS. THE HEALING OF A BLIND MAN AT 19:33 BETHESDA AND THE HEALING OF A WOMAN THAT HAD AN INFIRMITY. 19:37 THE HEALING OF A MAN WHO HAD DROPSY AND THAT WOULD PROBABLY 19:41 BE EDEMA TODAY - A BUILD UP OF WATER IN THE TISSUE THERE IN THE 19:47 BODY - SO EDEMA. AND THEN ANOTHER - THEN - 19:49 REMEMBER JESUS HEALED TEN LEPERS. 19:51 HOW MANY CAME BACK TO THANK HIM? YOU REMEMBER THE STORY, RIGHT? 19:54 JUST ONE CAME BACK TO THANK HIM AND THAT WAS RECORDED IN 19:57 LUKE 17. IN LUKE 22 JESUS HEALS MALCHUS. 20:02 YOU REMEMBER PETER WITHDREW HIS SWORD - TOOK OFF THE EAR OF THE 20:07 HIGH PRIEST'S SERVANT MALCHUS AND JESUS SOMEHOW FREES HIMSELF 20:11 FROM THE TIGHT GRIP OF THE - THOSE WHO HAVE COME TO ARREST 20:15 HIM AND HE HEALS MALCHUS' EAR. 20:18 AND THEN IN JOHN YOU HAVE THE HEALING OF THE NOBLEMAN'S SON, 20:21 THE HEALING OF THE LAME MAN AT BETHESDA - AND THEN IN JOHN 9, 20:24 VERSE 1, YOU'VE GOT THE HEALING OF THE BLIND MAN. 20:27 THAT'S THE STORY WHERE THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS AND 20:30 SAID, 'WHAT CAUSED THIS MAN TO BE BLIND, WAS IT HIS SIN OR WAS 20:34 IT HIS PARENTS' SIN?' WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE 20:36 ABOUT THAT. SO WHEN YOU REVIEW ALL OF THESE 20:39 MIRACLES THAT JESUS PERFORMED - THERE'S TWENTY-TWO OF THEM - 20:42 WHEN YOU REVIEW ALL OF THESE, ONE THING STANDS OUT TO ME: 20:45 JESUS' HEALING WAS INDISCRIMINATE - INDISCRIMINATE. 20:49 HE DIDN'T DECIDE THAT SOME PEOPLE WERE BETTER OFF OR SOME 20:53 PEOPLE WERE MORE WORTHY OF RECEIVING HEALING THAN OTHERS. 20:57 NO HE DIDN'T. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT DISEASE THEY HAD. 21:00 IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT GENDER THEY WERE. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT 21:03 NATIONALITY THEY WERE - WHETHER PEOPLE BROUGHT THE DISEASE UPON 21:07 THEMSELVES OR WHETHER IT WAS HEREDITARY OR WHETHER IT WAS 21:10 PURE MISFORTUNE - IT DIDN'T MATTER. 21:13 THEY ALL CAME TO JESUS FOR HEALING AND JESUS HEALED THEM. 21:18 NOW IT'S AN INTERESTING - INTERESTING EPISODE IN MARK 21:22 CHAPTER 1 WHERE WE'RE TOLD A LOT OF PEOPLE CAME WITH DISEASES AND 21:25 THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS HEALED MANY OF THEM. 21:28 THERE ARE TIMES WHERE YOU READ THESE LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE 21:31 CAME AND EVERYONE WAS HEALED, BUT IN MARK 1 IT LEADS US TO 21:35 BELIEVE THAT - IN THIS PARTICULAR EPISODE, JESUS DIDN'T 21:38 HEAL EVERYBODY. WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE 21:40 ABOUT THAT HERE IN JUST A BIT AS WELL. 21:43 ALSO, KEEP IN MIND THAT IN JESUS' DAY, FOLK GENERALLY 21:48 BELIEVED THAT EVERY SICKNESS THAT A PERSON HAD WAS A PENALTY 21:52 FOR SOME SIN OF THE SUFFERER OR OF HIS OR HER PARENTS. 21:56 SO, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THE STORY OF THE HEALING OF THE 21:59 BLIND MAN IN JOHN 9 REVEALS THIS TYPE OF STRANGE AND 22:02 SUPERSTITIOUS THINKING - WHEN THE DISCIPLES ASKED JESUS, 22:06 'MASTER, WHO CAUSED THIS MAN TO BE BLIND? 22:09 WAS IT HIS SIN OR HIS PARENTS'?' AND IN JOHN CHAPTER 9 AND VERSE 22:12 3 JESUS SAID, 'NEITHER' - NEITHER. 22:17 AND SO JESUS REFUTED THE COMMON FALSE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS DAY. 22:21 IN THAT BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES' - AND I WANT TO SHARE THIS WITH 22:24 YOU HERE, PAGE 471 - IT'S VERY INTERESTING. I WANT YOU TO 22:28 NOTICE HERE WHAT THE AUTHOR SAYS, "IT WAS GENERALLY 22:30 BELIEVED BY THE JEWS THAT SIN IS PUNISHED IN THIS LIFE. 22:33 EVERY AFFLICTION WAS REGARDED AS PENALTY OF SOME WRONGDOING 22:37 EITHER OF THE SUFFERER HIMSELF OR OF HIS PARENTS." 22:40 AND SO IT IS TRUE - SHE GOES ON TO SAY THAT ALL SUFFERING 22:43 RESULTS FROM THE TRANSGRESSION OF GOD'S LAW. 22:46 THAT'S AN INTERESTING DISTINCTION - SICKNESS, DISEASE 22:49 COMES ABOUT BECAUSE OF BREAKING GOD'S LAW - NOT JUST MORAL LAW 22:53 BUT ALSO THE HEALTH LAWS. "SATAN, 22:57 THE AUTHOR OF SIN AND ALL ITS RESULTS HAS LED MEN TO LOOK 23:01 UPON DISEASE AND DEATH AS PROCEEDING FROM GOD AS 23:05 PUNISHMENT ARBITRARILY INFLICTED AS ACCOUNT OF SIN HENCE ONE UPON 23:11 WHOM SOME GREAT AFFLICTIONAL CALAMITY HAD FALLEN HAD THE 23:14 ADDITIONAL BURDEN", SHE SAYS, "OF BEING REGARDED AS A GREAT 23:17 SINNER." SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THE CONDITION 23:19 OF FOLK WHO WERE SICK IN JESUS' DAY. 23:22 BURDENED DOWN WITH SOME DEBILITATING DISEASE OR SICKNESS 23:26 AND ON TOP OF THAT THEY HAD TO ACCEPT THE FACT AND THEY HAD TO 23:30 JUST LIVE WITH THE FACT THAT FOLK SAW THEM AS GREAT SINNERS - 23:34 THAT WHAT THEY WERE DEALING WITH AND WHAT THEY WERE SUFFERING 23:37 WITH WAS A DIRECT PUNISHMENT OF GOD - THAT HE WAS JUST, 23:42 YOU KNOW, ARBITRARILY BRINGING THIS PUNISHMENT UPON THEM 23:45 BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THEY'D DONE IN THEIR LIVES. 23:48 AND SO FOLK, JUST BEING SICK WOULD BE - JUST BE EMBARASSED TO 23:53 BE SICK - HEADS DOWN - MAYBE NOT EVEN GOING OUT INTO SOCIETY A 23:57 WHOLE LOT - HAVE PEOPLE RUN THEIR ERRANDS. 23:59 QUITE A BURDEN FOR PEOPLE TO CARRY AND CERTAINLY NOT A BURDEN 24:03 THAT FOLK OUGHT TO CARRY. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MINISTRY OF 24:07 JESUS, YOU REALIZE THAT JESUS' MINISTRY REVEALED GOD'S LOVE. 24:11 IT WAS CONTRARY TO WHAT PEOPLE WERE THINKING ABOUT GOD. 24:15 THROUGH HIS MINISTRY OF HEALING, JESUS EXEMPLIFIED THE GENEROUS 24:19 AND COMPASSIONATE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD AND REVEALED THAT GOD DOES 24:22 NOT TAKE DELIGHT IN SUFFERING BUT RATHER SEEKS TO RELIEVE IT. 24:28 THAT'S THE MINISTRY OF HEALING THAT JESUS BROUGHT TO THE WORLD. 24:32 IF ANYONE THOUGHT, AT THAT TIME, THAT GOD WAS ARBITRARY AND 24:36 UNKIND, THEY HAD TO RETHINK THEIR ENTIRE PREMISE, HAVING 24:40 WITNESSED THE DEMONSTRATION OF DIVINE LOVE AND EMPATHY THROUGH 24:43 CHRIST'S DIVINE ACTS OF HEALING. 24:46 AND IT'S IMPORTANT TOO - I THINK YOU'D AGREE WITH ME - IT'S 24:49 IMPORTANT FOR FOLK TO ACCEPT AND UNDERSTAND AND SETTLE THAT 24:54 QUESTION TODAY - WITH REGARD TO GOD'S LOVE. 24:58 FOLK WHO TAKE TIME TO READ THESE STORIES OF JESUS GETTING CLOSE 25:02 TO FOLK WHO WERE SICK - EVEN WITH DISEASES THAT WERE KNOWN, 25:05 LIKE LEPROSY, AS BEING SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE PASSED ON - 25:10 INFECTIOUS - WHICH IN MANY CASES IT'S NOT, AS HAS BEEN DISCOVERED 25:15 IN RECENT SCIENTIFIC STUDIES. BUT JESUS CAME CLOSE. 25:20 HE TOUCHED THESE FOLK. HE BROKE WITH TRADITION AND WITH 25:23 CULTURAL NORMS AND HE BROUGHT HEALING TO FOLK. 25:27 SO WHEN FOLK LOOK - AND IF THEY SPEND TIME LOOKING AT THE 25:29 STORIES OF JESUS AND HIS MINISTRY OF HEALING - YOU'VE GOT 25:33 TO RETHINK YOUR - THE THOUGHTS YOU MIGHT HAVE IN YOUR HEAD WITH 25:38 REGARD TO WHETHER GOD IS ARBITRARILY INFLICTING 25:40 PUNISHMENT ON A PERSON BECAUSE OF SOME SIN THEY'VE DONE. 25:43 THAT THINKING SOMEHOW STILL PREVAILS. 25:46 NOT A WHOLE LOT IN THIS CULTURE, BUT IT STILL IS THERE TO SOME 25:51 EXTENT. SOME FOLK COME DOWN HARD ON FOLK 25:55 WHO'VE GOT A SICKNESS - AND WONDER AND ASK THEM, 25:58 'WELL, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? 26:01 WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THAT HAS VIOLATED GOD'S LAW?' 26:04 OR, YOU KNOW, JOB'S FRIENDS - YOU REMEMBER JOB'S FRIENDS CAME 26:08 TO HIM AND IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE HIM BASICALLY SAID, 'IF 26:12 YOU JUST, YOU KNOW, TELL GOD YOU'RE SORRY FOR THE SINS YOU'VE 26:16 COMMITTED, ALL THIS" - THEY BELIEVED THAT WHAT JOB WAS 26:19 SUFFERING WAS THE RESULT OF SOME SIN HE HAD NOT ACKNOWLEDGED AND 26:22 CONFESSED AND FORSAKEN, WHICH WAS PURELY BOGUS. 26:25 IT WASN'T THE CASE AT ALL. THE STORY OF JOB'S A FASCINATING 26:30 STORY. I WANT TO READ A FEW BIBLE TEXTS HERE, AS WE 26:35 CONTINUE. NOW I DIDN'T - I WANT TO - WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING 26:37 A LITTLE DIFFERENT HERE. 26:38 I'M GOING TO ASK SOMEBODY - AND I'M GOING TO START HERE. 26:40 MICHAEL, WOULD YOU READ MATTHEW 8:16 AND 17 FOR US? 26:44 MATTHEW 8:16 AND 17. I'VE GOT A FEW OTHER VERSES I'M 26:47 GOING TO READ AS WE'RE GETTING READY. 26:49 SO HERE - JUST JOT THESE DOWN - ISAIAH - OR THAT WOULD BE ISAIAH 26:55 - ISAIAH 42, VERSES 2 AND 3 - BEAUTIFUL PASSAGE TALKING ABOUT 27:01 JESUS' MINISTRY. HE SAID - IT SAYS HERE, "HE SHALL NOT CRY, 27:06 NOR LIFT UP, NOR CAUSE HIS VOICE TO BE HEARD IN THE STREET." 27:11 - IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN JESUS CAME UPON THE SCENE, JESUS 27:13 DIDN'T COME ARROGANTLY, SEEKING TO PUSH HIMSELF UPON PEOPLE. 27:17 KIND OF LIKE THE SUN RISING IN THE MORNING DID JESUS ARISE - 27:22 HIS MINISTRY AROSE AND BROKE UPON - HIS GRACE BROKE UPON 27:26 PEOPLE. HE DIDN'T CRY - LIFT UP HIS 27:28 VOICE - HE DIDN'T PRESS HIMSELF UPON THE PEOPLE. 27:30 LISTEN TO WHAT IT GOES ON TO SAY, "A BRUISED REED SHALL HE 27:33 NOT BREAK, AND THE SMOKING FLAX" - THAT'S THE FLICKERING CANDLE 27:40 WICK THAT'S ABOUT TO GO OUT - "THE SMOKING FLAX SHALL HE NOT 27:43 QUENCH: HE SHALL BRING FORTH JUDGMENT UNTO TRUTH." 27:48 JESUS ISN'T ABOUT TO DEAL HARSHLY WITH SOMEONE WHO'S A 27:51 BROKEN REED OR A SMOKING FLAX. 27:55 JESUS DIDN'T COME TO PUSH HIMSELF UPON PEOPLE, BUT HE 27:57 WOULD CAREFULLY HANDLE FOLK WHO WERE SICK, WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR 28:03 MENTALLY OR SPIRITUALLY - KIND OF LIKE A BOX THAT HAS 'FRAGILE' 28:06 WRITTEN ON IT - YOU HANDLE IT CAREFULLY - JESUS CAME TO DEAL 28:10 CAREFULLY WITH THE HUMAN BODY AND THE HUMAN MIND. 28:14 ISAIAH 61 - ISAIAH 61, VERSES 1 AND 2 SAYS - AND YOU PROBABLY 28:18 KNOW THIS ONE WELL - IT SAYS, "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD GOD IS 28:20 UPON ME;" - THIS IS A PROPHECY OF THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH - 28:23 THE FIRST TIME - "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD GOD IS UPON ME; BECAUSE 28:26 THE LORD HATH ANOINTED ME TO PREACH GOOD TIDINGS UNTO THE 28:29 MEEK; HE HATH SENT ME TO BIND UP THE BROKENHEARTED, TO PROCLAIM 28:33 LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES, AND THE OPENING OF THE PRISON TO THEM 28:36 THAT ARE BOUND; TO PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD, AND 28:39 THE DAY OF VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD; TO COMFORT ALL THAT MOURN;" THIS 28:43 IS THE MINISTRY OF JESUS: TO SET AT LIBERTY THOSE THAT ARE BOUND 28:46 BY MAYBE SOME PHYSICAL ADDICTION OR SOMEONE WHO'S BOUND UP WITH 28:53 THEIR BROKENHEARTEDNESS AND CAN'T BEAT DEPRESSION. 28:57 JESUS CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE. 28:59 AND THEN MALACHI 4, VERSE 2, IT SAYS, "BUT UNTO YOU THAT FEAR MY 29:02 NAME SHALL THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS" - TALKING OF 29:05 JESUS - HE WILL "ARISE" - DO YOU KNOW WITH WHAT IN HIS WINGS? 29:10 - "WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS;" - JESUS' LIFE AND MINISTRY OOZED 29:14 WITH HEALING VIRTUE AND HE CAME AND HE AROSE WITH HEALING IN HIS 29:19 WINGS. MICHAEL - MATTHEW 8:16 AND 17. 29:22 >>MATTHEW 8:16 AND 17, "WHEN EVENING HAD COME, THEY BROUGHT 29:27 TO HIM MANY WHO WERE DEMON-POSSESSED. 29:29 AND HE CAST OUT THE SPIRITS WITH A WORD, AND HEALED ALL WHO WERE 29:33 SICK, THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY ISAIAH THE 29:38 PROPHET, SAYING: 'HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND BORE 29:42 OUR SICKNESSES.'" >>ALRIGHT, SO UNDER INSPIRATION, 29:47 THE WRITER MATTHEW TAKES A PASSAGE FROM ISAIAH - ISAIAH - 29:51 THAT IS TALKING ABOUT CHRIST VICARIOUSLY TAKING OUR 29:55 INFIRMITIES OF SIN - OUR SIN - UPON HIMSELF. IF YOU LOOK AT THE 29:59 CONTEXT, THAT'S WHAT ISAIAH IS REFERRING TO. 30:02 BUT MATTHEW TAKES AND MAKES A LITERAL APPLICATION TO THE 30:05 HEALING MINISTRY OF CHRIST. 30:07 IN OTHER WORDS, IN HIS HUMANITY THE SON OF GOD IS FULLY ABLE TO 30:11 FEEL AND EXPRESS HUMAN SYMPATHY. THAT'S WHAT MATTHEW IS SAYING. 30:17 JESUS CAME AND HE FELT WITH US AND HE FEELS FOR US. 30:21 WE HAVE A GREAT SYMPATHETIC HIGH PRIEST WHOSE NAME IS JESUS. 30:27 CHRIST, AS WELL, HAS NOW COMMITTED TO US, THE CHURCH, A 30:32 MINISTRY OF HEALING - A COMPASSIONATE AND SYMPATHETIC 30:35 MINISTRY THAT DOESN'T KNOW COLOR, THAT DOESN'T KNOW CREED 30:38 AND THIS MINISTRY OF HEALING IS NOT THE END IN AND OF ITSELF, 30:41 BUT THE MEANS TO AN END AND THAT IS DRAWING PEOPLE TO JESUS 30:46 CHRIST AS LORD AND SAVIOR. 30:48 LET'S GO OVER TO MONDAY'S LESSON 'HEALING THE BODY'. 30:51 LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS. 30:53 NOW, WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS MINISTRY OF HEALING THAT OPENS 30:55 THE DOOR AND HEARTS FOR THE GOSPEL OF GOD'S GRACE - BECAUSE, 31:01 AFTER ALL, CHRIST'S MINISTRY OF HEALING FOUND A WAY TO PEOPLE'S 31:04 HEARTS AND IT WILL FOR US TOO. 31:06 WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS MINISTRY I WONDER WHETHER I'M DOING ALL 31:09 THAT I CAN TO HELP AND TO BLESS OTHERS. 31:12 NOT THAT I, AND ANY OF US, CAN HELP EVERYONE, YOU UNDERSTAND, 31:16 BUT AM I EQUIPPED ENOUGH - DO I KNOW ENOUGH SIMPLE BASIC THINGS 31:21 ABOUT HOW THE BODY WORKS - A LITTLE BIT OF ANATOMY AND 31:24 PHYSIOLOGY, SO TO SPEAK. DO I KNOW ENOUGH - A LITTLE BIT 31:27 ABOUT HOW THE BODY WORKS - MAYBE EVEN SOME SIMPLE NATURAL 31:31 REMEDIES - TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN SOMEONE'S LIFE? 31:35 WHAT CAN I DO - WHAT CAN WE, AS A CHURCH, DO - WHAT MORE CAN WE 31:40 DO TO BRING WHOLE HEALTH AND HEALING TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN 31:44 ENTRUSTED TO OUR CARE? WHAT MORE CAN WE DO? 31:47 YOU KNOW, I WANT TO JUST GIVE A PLUG FOR TWO BOOKS HERE THIS 31:52 MORNING, THAT PERHAPS MANY OF YOU HAVE READ - MAYBE SOME OF 31:55 YOU HAVE READ ONE, MAYBE HAVEN'T READ THE OTHER - BUT THE TWO 31:58 BOOKS I'M REFERRING TO - ONE IS 'THE MINISTRY OF HEALING' AND 32:01 THE OTHER ONE IS 'COUNSELS ON DIETS AND FOODS' PENNED, NOT BY 32:06 SOME LEADING PHYSICIAN OR NUTRITIONIST, BUT BY A LITTLE 32:09 LADY WHO RECEIVED VERY LITTLE FORMAL EDUCATION; HOWEVER, WAS 32:13 LED BY GOD TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE TRUE NATURE OF 32:16 HEALTHFUL LIVING AND TO AVOID THE MISINFORMATION CIRCULATING 32:21 NOT ONLY IN HER DAY, BUT ALSO IN OUR DAY AND AGE. 32:24 WHAT ELLEN WHITE WROTE WAS A HUNDRED YEARS AHEAD OF HER TIME, 32:29 MAKING THESE BOOKS EXTREMELY RELEVANT TODAY. 32:33 IF YOU DON'T KNOW ELLEN WHITE - LIKE PAUL HARVEY USED TO SAY - 32:36 GET TO KNOW HER. GET TO KNOW HER - POWERFUL BOOKS. 32:40 NOW, IF YOU'VE PICKED UP MINISTRY OF HEALING, YOU'D BE 32:42 DELIGHTED AND IT'D JUST BE A WONDERFUL READ AND YOU'RE 32:44 IMPACTED BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALING OF JESUS AND HIS LOVE 32:47 FOR HUMANITY AND IT'S JUST A TREMENDOUS BOOK. 32:50 AND THEN, AS YOU GET HALFWAY THROUGH, YOU START STANDING ON 32:52 YOUR TOES A LITTLE BIT WITH REGARD TO THE LIFESTYLE THAT 32:55 MANKIND TYPICALLY LIVES AND - BUT IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR 33:01 TOES REALLY STOOD ON, YOU'RE GOING TO PICK UP THE BOOK 33:03 'COUNSELS ON DIETS AND FOODS'. 33:05 AND WHEN I FIRST PICKED UP THAT BOOK I THOUGHT IT'D BE A BOOK 33:07 THAT YOU SHOULD READ FROM COVER TO COVER AND I GOT INTO IT A 33:11 LITTLE BIT AND IT WAS A BOOK THAT - I'LL JUST BE HONEST WITH 33:14 YOU - I REALLY FELT LIKE I WANTED TO THROW ACROSS THE ROOM. 33:16 I MEAN, IT WAS DEALING WITH A WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THINGS 33:19 THAT WHEN I LOOKED AT MY LIFE I SAID, 'OOH, OW, EEE'. 33:23 I MEAN, IT WAS STANDING ON JUST NOT THE BIG TOE BUT THE OTHER 33:26 TOES AS WELL. IT WAS A CHALLENGING BOOK. 33:29 SO I REALIZE IT'S NOT A BOOK YOU WANT TO READ FROM COVER TO COVER 33:31 BUT USE IT AS A RESOURCE BOOK AND SO THAT'S WHAT I DID 33:34 AND I TELL YOU WHAT - A POWER-PACK - POWER-PACKED BOOK 33:37 FULL OF POWERFUL INFORMATION. 33:39 JUST KNOWING WHAT IS WRITTEN IN THOSE TWO BOOKS ALONE WILL HELP 33:43 AN INDIVIDUAL KNOW HOW TO PROPERLY CARE FOR THEIR OWN 33:46 PERSONAL HEALTH, BUT ALSO PROVIDE A BIBLICAL - BIBLICALLY- 33:51 BASED FRAMEWORK TO KNOW HOW TO ASSIST OTHERS IN NEED OF CARE. 33:55 NOW, NOT SUGGESTING HERE FOR A MOMENT THAT THE CHURCH SHOULD 33:58 TAKE THE PLACE OF DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS AND THAT TYPE OF 34:01 THING, THIS CHURCH HAS BEEN BLESSED WITH A MINISTRY OF 34:03 HEALING THROUGH HOSPITALS AND LIFESTYLE CENTERS AND THOSE 34:09 TYPES OF THINGS. BUT WHAT I'M SAYING HERE IS THAT WHEN A 34:13 PERSON GETS AHOLD OF THIS INFORMATION, IT CAN BE 34:16 REVOLUTIONARY. IT CAN BE LIFE CHANGING. IT CAN HELP A PERSON. 34:19 WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE, IN OUR PREVIOUS CHURCH DISTRICT, TO BE 34:23 INVOLVED IN HEALING MINISTRIES - HEALTH MINISTRIES. 34:28 MY WIFE WOULD DO COOKING CLASSES AND WE'D DO SOME HEALTH LECTURES 34:32 AND WE'D ALSO TEAM UP WITH SOME PHYSICIANS AND DOCTORS AS WELL 34:36 AND IT WAS JUST EXCELLENT. 34:37 THIS CHURCH HAS A WONDERFUL HEALTH MINISTRY, AS WELL, THAT 34:40 TAKES PLACE HERE AND HAS BLESSED A LOT OF PEOPLE AND HOPEFULLY 34:44 WILL CONTINUE TO BLESS A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND HOW IMPRESSIVE IT IS 34:48 TO SEE FOLK MAKE JUST SOME SMALL CHANGES - SOMEONE WHO CAME TO US 34:53 AND SAID, YOU KNOW, 'I'VE JUST INCREASED MY WATER INTAKE AND 34:56 I'VE ALREADY LOST X-NUMBER OF POUNDS'. 34:59 'I'VE STOPPED CHEWING GUM BETWEEN MEALS AND I'VE LOST 35:03 WEIGHT.' BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, CHEWING GUM CONTINUES TO 35:06 ACTIVATE THE DIGESTIVE JUICES, WHICH SLOWS DOWN WHAT YOU'VE 35:09 PREVIOUSLY EATEN, YOU UNDERSTAND. THAT GOES INTO 35:12 SNACKING AND ALL OF THOSE AND YOU UNDERSTAND THE MORE THE 35:14 SNACKS THE BIGGER THE SLACKS, RIGHT? YOU'VE HEARD THAT BEFORE. 35:17 SO ANYWAY - JUST POWERFUL - BUT MORE THAN THAT - MORE THAN THAT 35:21 WE'VE SEEN FOLK NOT ONLY JUST MAKE SOME SLIGHT, SMALL CHANGES 35:26 IN THEIR LIFESTYLE, WHICH HAS IMPROVED THEIR HEALTH 35:28 TREMENDOUSLY, BUT WE'VE ALSO SEEN FOLK BEGIN TO TRUST US AS A 35:32 CHURCH - AS PEOPLE - AND INQUIRE MORE ABOUT THE GOSPEL AND THE 35:36 EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND WE'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO SEE FOLK GIVE 35:40 THEIR LIVES TO CHRIST AND BE BAPTIZED BECAUSE, AS A CHURCH, 35:44 WE REACHED OUT AND SHOWED, TRULY, THAT WE CARED. 35:46 WE DIDN'T USE HEALTH MINISTRY AS THE END - SOME FOLK LIKE TO 35:50 THINK HEALTH MINISTRY IS THE END OF ALL THINGS. 35:52 WE SOMEHOW PRAISE GOD WHEN EVERYONE BECOMES A VEGETARIAN. 35:55 I MEAN, THAT'S NOT THE END. 35:57 WHILE THAT'S A GOOD THING, AND WHILE IT'S A GOOD THING TO MOVE 36:00 IN THAT DIRECTION AND MUST MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION - I WOULD 36:02 THINK, ESPECIALLY WITH DISEASE AS RAMPANT AS IT IS TODAY IN 36:06 ANIMAL LIVESTOCK AND SO ON, IT'S A GOOD DIRECTION TO MOVE. 36:09 IT'S NOT THE END. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN BE A 36:11 VEGETARIAN, BUT ON YOUR WAY TO HELL. 36:15 YOU WANT TO BE A VEGETARIAN ON THE WAY TO HEAVEN, AMEN. 36:17 HEALTH MINISTRY IS NOT THE END, BUT IT'S A MEANS TO AN END AND 36:21 THE END IS BRINGING FOLK TO CHRIST AND HELPING THEM 36:23 UNDERSTAND HIS LAST-DAY TRUTH AS FOUND IN THE SCRIPTURES, YOU 36:27 UNDERSTAND. AND SO, ANYWAY, THE MINISTRY OF HEALING - I GOT OFF 36:30 ON A SIDETRACK HERE, BUT A FEW OTHER BIBLE VERSES - LET'S TALK 36:34 HERE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE HEALING OF THE BODY. 36:35 I'VE GOT SEVERAL VERSES HERE AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT SOMEONE 36:40 HAS THIS PARTICULAR - IS SOMEONE GOING TO READ - YEAH, SOMEONE'LL 36:44 READ FOR ME HERE. I'M GOING TO ASK SOMEBODY TO 36:46 READ 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23. WHO'S USED TO READING AROUND 36:51 HERE AND WOULD READ FOR ME 1 THESSALONIANS 5 AND 23? 36:55 THANK YOU JOLYNE. I APPRECIATE IT. 36:58 JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK VERSES BEFORE JOLYNE READS HERS: PSALM 37:01 139:14 - YOU REMEMBER DAVID SAID, "I WILL PRAISE THEE; FOR I 37:04 AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE: MARVELOUS ARE THY WORKS; 37:10 AND THAT MY SOUL KNOWETH RIGHT WELL." DAVID VALUED AND 37:13 UNDERSTOOD THAT HIS BODY - WHO HE WAS - WAS MARVELOUSLY MADE. 37:20 3 JOHN 2 - JOHN SAYS, "BELOVED, I WISH ABOVE ALL THINGS THAT 37:25 THOU MAYEST PROSPER AND BE IN HEALTH, EVEN AS THY SOUL 37:27 PROSPERETH." AND SO GOD, AS HE VALUES OUR 37:30 SOUL PROSPERITY, HE WANTS OUR HEALTH TO PROSPER AS WELL. 37:34 ROMANS 12:1 AND 2, "I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BY THE 37:38 MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YE PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING SACRIFICE, 37:42 HOLY, ACCEPTABLE UNTO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE. 37:46 AND BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD: BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED BY 37:50 THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, THAT YE MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD, 37:53 AND ACCEPTABLE, AND PERFECT, WILL OF GOD." 37:55 SO HERE PAUL CALLS FOR CHRISTIANS TO DEDICATE THEIR 37:58 BODIES TO GOD. LIVING A HEALTHFUL LIFE IS 38:01 ACTUALLY AN ACT OF SPIRITUAL WORSHIP. 38:03 DID YOU KNOW THAT? BECAUSE WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE TRULY ARE 38:06 FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE. TRULY WE HAVE BEEN BOUGHT WITH A 38:08 PRICE. WE ARE NOT OUR OWN. TRULY THESE ARE BODIES THAT GOD 38:12 HAS MADE AND WE HAVE BEEN TRUSTED TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. 38:16 AND SO PAUL CALLS FOR FOLK TO DEDICATE - CHRISTIANS TO 38:19 DEDICATE THEIR BODIES TO GOD AND THEN HE CALLS ON THEM TO 38:21 DEDICATE THEIR INTELLECT AND THEIR SPIRITUAL FACULTIES 38:25 BECAUSE WE'RE NOT - WHAT WE'RE COMPRISED OF IS NOT ALL SEPARATE 38:28 AND RANDOM. THESE THINGS ARE NOT INDEPENDENT ENTITIES. 38:34 WE ARE A WHOLE PERSON. EACH ASPECT OF OUR MAKE-UP 38:38 AFFECTING ONE - EACH OTHER. THERE'S A SYMPATHY BETWEEN THE 38:42 HEALTH OF THE BODY, THE HEALTH OF THE MIND, AND OUR 38:46 SPIRITUALITY. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:23. 38:51 >>"NOW MAY THE GOD OF PEACE HIMSELF SANCTIFY YOU COMPLETELY; 38:55 AND MAY YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT, SOUL, AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS 38:59 AT THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." 39:02 >>OKAY. SO I WANT YOU TO NOTICE WHAT PAUL WRITES THERE. 39:05 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE WHOLE PERSON BEING WHAT? SANCTIFIED. 39:09 NOW WE DON'T BELIEVE IN THE PLATONIC THEORY THAT ASSERTS 39:13 THAT THERE IS AN IMMORTAL SOUL RESIDING WITHIN US THAT 39:16 PRE-EXISTED US AND WILL LIVE ON AFTER THE BODY DIES. 39:19 THAT BELIEF LED THE GREEKS TO, BASICALLY, NOT HAVE ANY RESPECT 39:23 FOR THEIR OWN BODIES AND NOT TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR BODIES 39:25 BECAUSE THE BODY WOULD END UP DYING AND THE SOUL WOULD 39:27 CONTINUE LIVING FOREVER. THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT. 39:30 THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT WE'RE ONE ENTITY. 39:33 WE'RE A WHOLE PERSON AND WHAT AFFECTS THE BODY AFFECTS THE 39:39 MIND AND THE SPIRITUALITY. 39:40 I'VE NEVER MET SOMEONE WHO'S A HARD - NOT A HARD WORKER, BUT 39:43 SOMEONE WHO OVERWORKS AND IS ALWAYS VERY TIRED, 39:46 BEING VERY PATIENT. HAVE YOU EVER MET SOMEONE WHO 39:49 CONTINUES TO EXERT THEMSELVES - CONTINUALLY TIRED - AND IS ULTRA 39:53 PATIENT? I DON'T KNOW OF ONE. 39:56 OVERWORKED, STRESS ON THE BODY, STRESS ON THE MIND AND IT MAKES 40:00 THEM IMPATIENT. AND PATIENCE AND LONGSUFFERING 40:04 IS A GIFT OF THE SPIRIT. YEAH. 40:07 THOUGH THESE THINGS ARE INTIMATELY RELATED - WHEN I DO 40:11 HOSPITAL VISITS, ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE GOT TO FOCUS ON AND 40:16 KEEP IN MIND AND MAKE SURE I DO IS TO LIFT THE INDIVIDUAL'S 40:20 SPIRIT AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE - THEY'RE CONNECTED TO 40:26 THE LORD, THEY HAVE FAITH IN HIM. 40:27 BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE SITTING ON THAT HOSPITAL BED - YOU JUST HAD 40:30 AN OPERATION OR WHATEVER'S HAPPENED TO THE PERSON - YOU'RE 40:34 SITTING THERE AND IT'S - IT JUST CAN GET AT YOU AND IT CAN 40:37 DEPRESS YOU AND THAT DEPRESSION AFFECTS YOUR SPIRITUALITY AND 40:42 I'VE HAD NUMEROUS CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLK IN THEIR HOSPITAL BED, 40:45 WHETHER THEY'VE BEEN THERE ONE DAY OR WHETHER THEY'VE BEEN 40:47 THERE SEVERAL, WHO ARE NOT WELL AND THAT AFFECTS, INTIMATELY, 40:51 THEIR SPIRITUALITY. 40:53 AND SO, OF COURSE, THE GOAL IS TO LET PEOPLE KNOW GOD CARES, 40:57 HE'S THERE WITH THEM, HE'S BLESSING THEM, HE'S GOING TO 40:58 HELP THEM - AND IN LIFTING THEIR SPIRITS, THAT'LL BLESS THEM AND 41:02 HELP THEM FEEL BETTER, AS WELL, AS THEY MOVE ALONG. 41:06 YOU'VE OVER - IF YOU'VE EVER OVER-EATEN - I KNOW YOU NEVER 41:10 DID - I KNOW YOU NEVER DID - BUT IF YOU EVER OVER-ATE AND YOU 41:15 REALIZE YOU - AND YOU HAVE TO TAKE THOSE DEEP BREATHS - THAT'S 41:19 A GOOD SIGN THAT YOU'VE EATEN TOO MUCH, RIGHT? 41:21 NOW DON'T BE GOING TO POTLUCK TODAY LISTENING TO FOLK NEXT TO 41:24 YOU, 'OH, THEY'VE OVEREATEN'. 41:27 DON'T BE DOING THAT BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE TAKING THESE 41:29 DEEP BREATHS, YOU KNOW YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH DONE. 41:30 BUT SOMETIMES WE KEEP ON GOING BECAUSE IT LOOKS SO GOOD AND IT 41:33 SMELLS SO GOOD AND IT TASTES SO GOOD AND WE WANT TO KEEP ON 41:35 GOING AND - BUT IF YOU'VE EVER OVEREATEN, THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO 41:39 YOU WHEN THAT HAPPENS? YOU JUST DON'T FEEL GOOD AND 41:42 THEN YOU'RE SITTING THROUGH A SEMINAR THAT THE PRESENTER HAS 41:45 SPENT HOURS TRYING TO PREPARE FOR YOU AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU 41:49 LEARN SOMETHING AND WHAT HAPPENS? 41:53 YEAH, YOU START NODDING OFF A LITTLE BIT AND GET A LITTLE 41:56 DROWSY AND WOOZY AND THINGS ARE JUST KIND OF MAYBE EVEN CIRCLING 42:00 A LITTLE BIT IN THE ROOM AND ALL OF THIS - WHAT AFFECTS THE BODY 42:05 AFFECTS THE MIND AND WHAT AFFECTS THE MIND, WHICH IS, BY 42:08 THE WAY, AND AS YOU KNOW, THE ONLY WAY GOD COMMUNICATES TO US. 42:12 IT'S THE ONLY WAY GOD CAN COMMUNICATE TO US: THROUGH OUR 42:14 MINDS. IF OUR BODY'S AFFECTED IT AFFECTS OUR MINDS. IF OUR MIND'S 42:17 AFFECTED, GUESS WHO WE CAN'T HEAR TOO CLEARLY? GOD. YEAH. 42:21 SO LOOK, WHILE - AND I PRAISE GOD FOR THE HEALTH MESSAGE THAT 42:25 THIS CHURCH HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH - WE HAVE WONDERFUL BOOKS 42:27 AND WE'VE BEEN GUIDED IN THIS DIRECTION AS A CHURCH AND WE'VE 42:31 BLESSED SO MANY PEOPLE, GOOD HEALTH IS NOT NECESSARILY THE 42:34 END OF THE PROGRAM. GOOD HEALTH IS A MEANS TO ENABLE 42:38 US TO HAVE CLEARER MINDS SO THAT WE CAN HEAR, MORE DISTINCTLY, 42:41 THE VOICE OF WHO? GOD. 42:44 YEAH, FOLK HAVE VERY LITTLE APPRECIATION FOR LAST-DAY EVENTS 42:47 AND BIBLE PROPHECY BECAUSE THEIR MINDS ARE SO BEFOGGED - BOTH SO 42:50 FOGGED BECAUSE OF THE DIET AND THE LIFESTYLE THEY'RE LIVING. 42:55 AND SO OUR JOB IS TO ENCOURAGE FOLK TO MAKE THE BEST LIFESTYLE 42:59 CHOICES - NOT POUND THEM - NOT GET ON THEIR CASE, BUT 43:02 PROGRESSIVELY LEAD A PERSON TO MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS THEY CAN 43:06 SO THEIR MINDS WILL BE CLEARER TO APPRECIATE AND ACCEPT THE 43:10 WONDERFUL TRUTHS - LAST-DAY TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD. 43:12 THAT'S THE REASON WE'VE BEEN GIVEN THIS MESSAGE. 43:15 SURE YOU'LL HAVE TEN, ELEVEN YEARS LONGER LIFE EXPECTANCY - 43:19 THAT'S THE NORM IF YOU PUT SOME OF THESE THINGS INTO PRACTICE - 43:23 BUT THAT'S NOT THE END. THAT'S NOT THE END. 43:26 THE END OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO ENABLE A PERSON TO HAVE A 43:31 CLEARER MIND SO THEY CAN FOLLOW THE WORD OF GOD MORE CLOSELY, 43:35 YOU SEE. ALRIGHT. SO I'M GETTING OFF TRACK HERE. 43:38 BY THE WAY, A FRIEND OF MINE, HE'S A MEDICAL MISSIONARY - 43:42 WORKS WITH FOLK, GOES TO THEIR HOMES EVEN - WORKS WITH THEM 43:45 VERY CLOSELY IN HELPING THEM MAKE SOME LIFESTYLE CHOICES SO 43:47 THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE HOSPITAL. 43:50 AND HE WAS WORKING WITH A COUPLE ONE PARTICULAR TIME AND HE WAS 43:53 HELPING THEM MAKE SOME LIFESTYLE CHANGES - EXERCISE, WORKING ON A 43:57 MORE VEGETARIAN - TOTAL VEGETARIAN DIET, ESTABLISHING A 44:01 GOOD ROUTINE, NOT MEALS HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE AND SLEEP 44:04 PATTERNS EVERYWHERE, BUT JUST A GOOD ROUTINE. 44:06 ONE WAS IMPROVING - THAT WAS THE HUSBAND - HE WAS IMPROVING. 44:09 HIS VITAL SIGNS WERE LOOKING GOOD. 44:11 HIS, YOU KNOW, BLOOD PRESSURE WAS COMING DOWN. 44:13 HE WAS TAKING LESS INSULIN FOR HIS DIABETES AND ALL OF THESE 44:17 THINGS. BUT HIS WIFE WAS NOT IMPROVING. 44:20 AND SO MY FRIEND WAS WONDERING, 'I'M DOING ALL THESE THINGS AND 44:22 WORKING REALLY - AND MAKING THESE CHANGES AND THEY'RE 44:25 SUPPOSED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND NOTHING'S CHANGING WITH 44:28 HER.' SO HE DUG UP - HE DECIDED TO DIG A LITTLE BIT DEEPER AND 44:31 WHAT HE DISCOVERED - HE DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS 44:34 RESENTMENT IN HER LIFE. 44:36 THERE WAS RESENTMENT IN HER LIFE AND IT WAS UNRESOLVED HARD 44:40 FEELINGS WITH REGARD TO A PARTICULAR FAMILY MEMBER AND IT 44:44 WAS JUST EATING AWAY AT HER AND IT HAD BEEN FOR YEARS. 44:47 AND SO AFTER TAKING HER THROUGH SOME STEPS TO ACCEPT AND RECEIVE 44:52 GOD'S FORGIVENESS, AND TO BE ABLE TO RELEASE AND FREE AND 44:56 FORGIVE HER FAMILY MEMBER, GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO HER HEALTH? 45:02 DRASTICALLY IMPROVED. AND JESUS KNEW THIS. 45:06 THAT'S WHY WHEN HE TALKED TO THE PARALYTIC AND THE PARALYTIC CAME 45:09 TO HIM AND HE HAD A DISEASE - AND THE PARALYTIC RECOGNIZED 45:11 THAT HE WAS IN THAT BED BECAUSE OF THINGS THAT HE HAD DONE IN 45:15 HIS LIFE THAT HAD LED HIM TO THIS POINT. 45:17 AND HE WAS REMORSEFUL - HE WAS SORRY. 45:18 THAT'S WHY JESUS DIDN'T SAY TO HIM, 'GET UP, TAKE UP YOUR BED 45:21 AND WALK.' HE SAID, 'SON, YOUR SINS BE FORGIVEN THEE.' HE 45:26 NEEDED TO KNOW HIS SINS WERE FORGIVEN. 45:27 HE NEEDED TO BE FREE AND TO KNOW THAT HIS - THE SLATE HAD BEEN 45:31 WIPED CLEAN AND HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE UP HIS BED AND WALK. 45:36 THESE THINGS - OUR SPIRITUALITY - OUR MENTAL HEALTH - OUR 45:39 PHYSICAL BODIES - OUR BODIES ARE ALL INTIMATELY - THEY WORK 45:46 TOGETHER AND ARE INTIMATELY - AFFECT EACH OTHER. 45:49 TALKING OF THE MIND - THAT'S TUESDAY'S LESSON - YOU - IN THE 45:55 BOOK 'COUNSELS ON HEALTH' PAGE 349, THE AUTHOR SAYS, "A GREAT 45:59 DEAL OF THE SICKNESS WHICH AFFLICTS HUMANITY HAS ITS ORIGIN 46:02 IN THE MIND AND CAN ONLY BE CURED BY RESTORING THE MIND TO 46:06 HEALTH." - INTERESTING-LY - INTERESTINGLY PUT, THAT A LOT OF 46:10 THE SICKNESS FOLKS SUFFER WITH STARTS IN THE MIND. 46:15 I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND THIS TO ANYONE BUT I DON'T KNOW IF 46:17 ANYONE'S TRIED THINKING THEMSELVES TO SICKNESS - 46:22 ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE GOT THAT PROJECT COMING UP AT WORK OR 46:24 YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THE BOSS OR SOMETHING. SOME PEOPLE JUST 46:27 GET THEMSELVES ALL WORKED UP AND MAKE THEMSELVES SICK. 46:31 MMM HMM, YEAH - YEAH, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 46:35 SOMETIMES IT'S HAPPENED TO SOME OF YOU HERE. 46:38 "BOTH THROUGH PHYSICAL AS WELL AS MENTAL RESTORATION, 46:43 JESUS MADE DISCIPLES." 46:45 REMEMBER, RESTORING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH WAS NOT JESUS' 46:48 FINAL OBJECTIVE, HIS WAS DISCIPLESHIP. 46:51 YOU REMEMBER THE STORY THERE IN LUKE CHAPTER 8, VERSE 26 - THE 46:55 DEMON-POSSESSED MEN - LUKE WROTE - LUKE FOCUSES ON THE ONE MAN - 46:59 THE DEMON-POSSESSED MAN OF GADARA - AND HE CAME TO JESUS. 47:04 JESUS FREED HIM FROM THE DEMONS. 47:07 AND THIS TESTIMONY WAS SAID OF THE MAN, HE, WHEN HE WAS FREED 47:10 AND JESUS HEALED HIM, HE WAS SITTING AT THE FEET OF JESUS, 47:13 CLOTHED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND. POWERFUL STUFF. 47:22 IF WE'VE TRULY ENCOUNTERED JESUS' HEALING AND SAVING GRACE, 47:26 IT'S GOING TO HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON THE WAY - ON WHAT WE WEAR - 47:30 WE'LL BE CLOTHED, AMEN? AMEN? JUST CHECKING IN ON YOU THERE. 47:35 WE'LL BE CLOTHED - WE'LL BE FULLY CLOTHED - I GUESS THAT'S 47:38 WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY, AND WE'LL BE IN OUR WHAT? 47:41 OUR RIGHT MINDS - OUR RIGHT MINDS. 47:44 YOU KNOW, WE CAME FROM PENNSYLVANIA AND THERE'S NOT A 47:46 LOT OF SUN OVER IN PENNSYLVANIA SO DEPRESSION IS BIG IN 47:50 PENNSYLVANIA AND IN SOME OF THOSE OTHER EASTERN STATES AND 47:53 MIDWEST STATES, RIGHT NOW, THAT DON'T GET A LOT OF SUNSHINE. 47:57 DEPRESSION IS RAMPANT AND FOLK ARE - THINK FUNNY THINGS ABOUT 48:01 LIFE AND THE FUTURE OF THEIR LIFE WHEN THEY'RE DEPRESSED AND 48:06 SO A GREAT DEAL OF MINISTRY, BEING AFFECTED THERE, HAS TO DO 48:11 WITH DEPRESSION RECOVERY. THINGS COME TO EACH OF US AND IT STARTS 48:16 A CYCLE AND, UNFORTUNATELY, FOLK BECOME DEPRESSED. 48:19 IT AFFECTS THE PSYCHE - AFFECTS THE MIND - AND JESUS CAME TO 48:23 HEAL AND DELIVER US AND TO FREE OUR MINDS. 48:26 HOW MIGHT THE PRINCIPLES TAUGHT IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES RELIEVE 48:29 ANXIETY, GUILT, AND SHAME THAT UNDERLIE ALL OR MANY MENTAL 48:34 ILLNESSES? AFTER ALL, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MIND 48:38 AND BODY IS WELL ESTABLISHED BY MEDICAL SCIENCE. 48:40 ANXIETY PREDISPOSES SOME TO STOMACH PROBLEMS. 48:44 WORRY CAUSES SLEEP DISORDERS - BY THE WAY, SO DOES EXCESSIVE 48:47 COFFEE USE - AND UNFETTERED ANGER FACTORS INTO HEART 48:50 DISEASE. SO HERE ARE SOME VERSES. 48:53 I'M GOING TO HAVE SOMEONE READ 1 JOHN 3, VERSES 20 THROUGH 22. 48:58 WHO COULD DO THAT FOR US HERE THIS MORNING? 49:01 WOULD SOMEONE VOLUNTEER? THANK YOU SO MUCH MANJEET. 49:04 1 JOHN CHAPTER 3, VERSES 20 TO 22. 49:09 I'M GOING TO READ A COUPLE OF QUICK VERSES FOR YOU, MATTHEW 49:11 6:33, YOU REMEMBER WHAT JESUS SAID? 49:13 "SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL 49:15 THESE THINGS WILL BE ADDED UNTO YOU." WHAT ARE ALL THOSE THINGS? 49:20 WELL, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT HE MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY - A ROOF 49:22 OVER YOUR HEAD, CLOTHES ON YOUR BACK, AND FOOD IN YOUR STOMACH. 49:25 ANYTHING EXTRA IS A BONUS. THOSE ARE THE THINGS HE GUARANTEED. 49:29 THOSE ARE THINGS HE SAID YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT. 49:31 HE'LL TAKE CARE OF THOSE THINGS FOR YOU. 49:33 YES, YOU'VE GOT TO GO TO WORK, YOU'VE GOT TO DO YOUR THING, BUT 49:35 DON'T STRESS. DON'T STRESS ABOUT IT. THAT'S WHY HE SAID TAKE - 49:38 IN THE FOLLOWING VERSE - "TAKE THEREFORE NO THOUGHT FOR THE 49:41 MORROW, FOR THE MORROW SHALL TAKE THOUGHT FOR ITSELF. 49:44 SUFFICIENT UNTO THE DAY IS THE EVIL THEREOF." 49:46 A LOT OF FOLK ARE BORROWING - ARE BORROWING WORRY. 49:50 THEY'RE LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT TOMORROW 49:52 BRINGS WHEN THEY CAN'T EVEN GET THROUGH TODAY. 49:54 AND SO JESUS SAID STOP THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW. 49:56 HE'S NOT SAYING DON'T PLAN - YOU'VE GOT TO PLAN - BUT HE'S 49:59 SAYING DON'T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW, JUST DEAL WITH TODAY. 50:03 BY MY GRACE WE'LL GET YOU THROUGH. 50:05 DON'T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW, SEEK FIRST MY KINGDOM. 50:08 TRUST ME TO PROVIDE FOR YOU. 50:10 THEN 1 PETER 5:7 - PETER ENCOURAGES THE BELIEVER TO CAST 50:13 ALL OUR CARES - HOW MANY OF OUR CARES? ALL. 50:17 BUT INSTEAD WE RUN TO SO AND SO, WE RUN TO THIS ONE OR WE RUN TO 50:20 THAT ONE AND WE DON'T BRING THEM TO JESUS. 50:22 HOW MUCH WE LOSE WHEN WE DON'T BRING EVERYTHING TO GOD IN 50:24 PRAYER. CAST ALL OUR CARES UPON HIM. 50:26 YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOOD AT DOING? 50:28 YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE REALLY GOOD AT DOING? WE'RE GOOD AT GIVING 50:29 IT TO GOD FOR A MOMENT AND THEN TAKING IT RIGHT BACK. 50:32 'HERE IT IS GOD. AND, BY THE WAY, ON MY WAY OUT 50:36 I'LL JUST PICK THAT STUFF RIGHT BACK UP AGAIN AND MOVE ON.' 50:38 WE'RE NOT GOOD AT LEAVING IT WITH HIM. WE CAN TRUST HIM, 50:42 YOU KNOW. WE JUST CAST ALL OUR CARE. FOLK ARE CARRYING AROUND 50:45 A LOT OF BAGGAGE - A LOT OF LUGGAGE THEY DON'T NEED TO BE 50:48 CARRYING AROUND. JESUS SAID, 'I'LL TAKE IT ALL. 50:50 CAST ALL YOUR CARES UPON ME BECAUSE I CARE FOR YOU' HE SAYS. 50:53 AND THEN IN 2 CORINTHIANS 4:7 THROUGH 10 IT SAYS, "BUT WE HAVE 50:57 THIS TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS THAT THE EXCELLENCY OF THE POWER 51:00 MAY BE OF GOD AND NOT OF US. 51:02 WE ARE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE YET NOT DISTRESSED; WE ARE 51:05 PERPLEXED BUT NOT IN DESPAIR; PERSECUTED BUT NOT FORSAKEN; 51:10 CAST DOWN BUT NOT DESTROYED; ALWAYS BEARING ABOUT IN THE BODY 51:13 THE DYING OF THE LORD JESUS, THAT THE LIFE ALSO OF JESUS 51:17 MIGHT BE MADE MANIFEST IN OUR BODIES." 51:19 AND THEN IN PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 4 IT SAYS, "REJOICE IN THE LORD 51:22 ALWAYS AND AGAIN I SAY REJOICE." YEAH. 51:26 AND THEN HE GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT THINGS - THINKING ON 51:28 THINGS THAT ARE WHOLESOME AND PURE AND LOVELY AND - BOY, WE 51:31 COULD JUST SPEND A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE FEED OUR 51:33 MINDS WITH THAT AGITATE OUR PEACE - THAT DESTROY OUR PEACE. 51:37 WE COULD TALK ABOUT THE TYPE OF MUSIC THAT WILL DESTROY OUR 51:41 PEACE IN AN INSTANT - THE TYPE OF MUSIC THAT WILL STIMULATE 51:46 MENTAL ACTIVITY AND CAUSE OUR MINDS TO - 51:48 TO FUNCTION IN FULL CAPACITY. 1 JOHN 3:20 TO 22 - 51:54 WHERE WERE WE - RIGHT HERE, MANJEET. 51:56 >>1 JOHN 3:22, "AND WHATEVER WE ASK WE RECEIVE FROM HIM BECAUSE 52:03 WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND DO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING 52:07 IN HIS SIGHT. AND THIS IS HIS COMMANDMENT: 52:12 THAT WE SHOULD BELIEVE ON THE NAME OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST AND 52:17 LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS HE GAVE US THE COMMANDMENT." 52:21 >>OKAY. AND SO, WHEN WE ARE WALKING IN 52:25 THE WILL OF THE LORD AND WE'RE DOING HIS WILL, BY HIS GRACE, IT 52:29 BRINGS GREAT PEACE TO THE LIFE AND, THEREFORE, HELPS CORRECT 52:33 AND STRAIGHTEN OUR THINKING HERE. 52:35 JESUS WANTS TO HEAL US COMPLETELY. 52:36 NOW OVER ON WEDNESDAY'S LESSON IT TALKS ABOUT THE RESURRECTION 52:40 AND THE LIFE AND THERE WERE THREE STORIES THAT I DIDN'T 52:44 HIGHLIGHT WITH REGARDS TO JESUS' MIRACLE WORKING. 52:47 WE TALKED ABOUT 22 OF THOSE - 22 MIRACLE-WORKING STORIES - THERE 52:51 WERE THREE OTHERS - BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO THINGS YOU CAN 52:54 COUNT ON IN LIFE - YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, DON'T YOU? 52:58 DEATH AND TAXES AND IF YOU LIVE IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA 53:02 IT'S ALSO ROADWORKS IN THE SUMMER. 53:05 AND SO YOU WOULD KNOW THOSE ARE THREE THINGS YOU CAN COUNT ON. 53:09 WE REVIEWED JESUS' WONDERFUL MIRACLES OF HEALING, BUT THERE 53:12 WERE THREE STORIES. HE RAISED THE DAUGHTER OF 53:15 JAIRUS, HE RAISED THE WIDOW'S SON, AND THEN HE RAISED HIS OWN 53:21 FRIEND, LAZARUS, BACK TO LIFE AGAIN. 53:25 ALTHOUGH CHRIST BROUGHT HEALING TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, EVENTUALLY 53:28 THOUGH, THOSE SAME PEOPLE WOULD END UP DYING. 53:30 BUT IN THE ACT OF RAISING THE DEAD, CHRIST OFFERS A WHOLE LOT 53:34 MORE THAN GOOD HEALTH HERE AND NOW, BUT ETERNAL LIFE THERE AND 53:38 THEN. DISEASE AND ACCIDENTS MIGHT 53:41 INITIALLY PREVAIL, BUT ETERNAL LIFE WILL ULTIMATELY CONQUER. 53:45 HEALING MIGHT NOT HAPPEN EVERY TIME WHEN IT'S REQUESTED - AND 53:48 WE'RE NOT ALWAYS SURE WHY - BUT EVERLASTING LIFE IS GUARANTEED 53:52 TO ALL WHO MAKE JESUS THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR. 53:54 LATER, JESUS WOULD RISE FROM THE DEAD, AND IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15:20 53:58 AND 21 PAUL WOULD SAY, "BUT NOW IS CHRIST RISEN FROM THE DEAD 54:02 AND BECOME THE FIRSTFRUITS" - OR THE PLEDGE - "OF THEM THAT 54:06 SLEPT. FOR SINCE BY MAN CAME DEATH, BY 54:08 MAN CAME ALSO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD." 54:14 EVEN IF WE DON'T EXPERIENCE TRUE AND FULL HEALING HERE AND NOW, 54:18 WE CAN KNOW THAT ONE DAY JESUS IS GOING TO COME BACK AND WE'RE 54:21 GOING TO GET BRAND-NEW BODIES. SOME OF US MAY PASS ON TO OUR - 54:24 ON TO OUR SLEEP - BUT JESUS WILL RISE US BACK TO LIFE AGAIN. 54:29 WELL, ON THURSDAY WE HAVE CHRIST'S HEALING MINISTRY - 54:33 LEGACY OF HEALING - THE EARLY CHURCH CONTINUED WHAT JESUS 54:36 STARTED AND THAT MINISTRY OF HEALING IS TO CONTINUE TODAY IN 54:41 GOD'S CHURCH. I WANT TO JUST READ A STATEMENT 54:44 AS WE CLOSE TODAY'S LESSON - AND THIS IS FOUND IN MINISTRY OF 54:49 HEALING PAGE 143. IT SAYS, "CHRIST'S METHOD ALONE 54:53 WILL GIVE TRUE SUCCESS IN REACHING THE PEOPLE. 54:55 THE SAVIOR MINGLED WITH MEN AS ONE WHO DESIRES THEIR GOOD. 54:59 HE SHOWED HIS SYMPATHY FOR THEM, MINISTERED TO THEIR NEEDS, WON 55:02 THEIR CONFIDENCE, AND THEN HE BADE THEM, 'FOLLOW ME'. 55:07 THERE IS NEED OF COMING CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE BY PERSONAL EFFORT. 55:11 IF LESS TIME WERE GIVEN TO SERMONIZING AND MORE TIME WAS 55:13 SPENT IN PERSONAL MINISTRY, GREATER RESULTS WOULD BE SEEN. 55:17 THE POOR ARE TO BE RELIEVED, THE SICK CARED FOR, THE SORROWING 55:20 AND THE BEREAVED COMFORTED, THE IGNORANT INSTRUCTED, THE 55:24 INEXPERIENCED COUNSELED. WE ARE TO WEEP WITH THOSE THAT 55:26 WEEP AND REJOICE WITH THOSE THAT REJOICE. 55:28 ACCOMPANIED BY THE POWER OF PERSUASION, THE POWER OF PRAYER 55:32 AND THE POWER OF THE LOVE OF GOD, THIS WORK WILL NOT, CANNOT 55:37 BE, WITHOUT FRUIT." ISN'T THAT POWERFUL? 55:40 'MINISTRY OF HEALING' PAGE 143. FRIENDS, WE'VE GOT A WORK TO DO. 55:44 GOD HAS CALLED US EACH TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALING. 55:46 WE CAN, BY GOD'S GRACE, BE EQUIPPED TO HELP OTHERS AND TO, 55:48 ULTIMATELY, LEAD THEM TO ACCEPTING JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR 55:53 PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR BECAUSE, ULTIMATELY, THAT'S WHAT 55:55 IT'S ALL ABOUT. AMEN? AMEN. 55:57 AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE VIEWING US, WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU JOINED 55:59 US TODAY AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU CALL IN AND 56:01 RECEIVE YOUR FREE OFFER. IT'S OFFER #806. 56:05 YOU WANT TO CALL IN TO 1-866-STUDY-MORE OR 56:08 1-866-788-3966. SO GLAD YOU JOINED US TODAY. 56:13 GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU TODAY AS WELL. 56:20 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 56:22 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE 56:25 TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING. WATCH AMAZING FACTS TELEVISION 56:29 BY VISITING 'AFTV.ORG'. 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