Hello and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime.
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I'm Don Maclntosh, and we
hope that as a result of today's
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program you will have
health for a lifetime.
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Today I'm joined with a
guest from Weimar whose name is
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Jack Maclntosh and he
teaches anatomy and physiology
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he's raising a family, he's
really helping people that are
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attempting to overcome cancer.
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They have an immune enhancement
program there that's getting
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national acclaim and a
weight loss program there that's
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number 2 in the
nation at this time.
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Welcome, Jack and today
we're going to talk about a very
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interesting subject - one
that you've dealt with a lot -
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that's changing our habits.
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Is it possible to
change our habits?
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- Yes, people do it all the time
but they have varying degrees
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of success.
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What we're going to talk about
today, however; is how to have
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unusual success.
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I believe that God
wants us to have victory
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and unusual success.
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I believe that He wants us
to be the head and not the tail.
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He wants us to show
others how to achieve victory.
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Jesus said seven times in
the book of Revelation, "He that
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overcomes," and He
makes a promise each time.
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The last time He says, "He who
overcomes I will grant to sit
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with Me in My throne even as
I overcame and sat down with My
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Father in His throne. "
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So because that is something
that God is very interested in -
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that is the whole business
of overcoming - and He said that
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to the last church, the 7th
church, this is the generation
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that He's talking to.
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Then it becomes very important
for us to understand what He
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meant by "just as I overcame
and have sat down with My Father
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on His throne. "
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So we're going to look at what
it means to be successful in
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actually changing
our health habits.
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- Before we get to
the actual how-to of that,
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we've made several assumptions
already in this discussion
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and that is: going beyond
science and research and all
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the different numbers and
everything else, there is a
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source of power, there's a
higher power of God and Jesus
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who we need to turn to.
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Is that getting increasing
acceptance among those who deal
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with cancer and
these types of things?
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- I think it is.
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I can remember probably a year
ago or more, I was talking to a
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medical director for an HMO and
I was telling them about some of
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the programs that we have
at Weimar Institute like the
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New Start Program and some of
the wonderful clinical results
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that we are achieving and the
fact that we're a program that
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looks at man in a 3 dimensional
sense - body, mind, and spirit.
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Just in passing she said to
me, "You know I really like your
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program, I like the way
that your program operates. "
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I didn't think much of it,
but a couple minutes later,
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the Lord said, "Ask her
about that, what do you mean,
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what is it that you like?"
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She said, "Well, I like
the spiritual dimension. "
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She said, "You know the
research is showing very clearly
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that people who are prayed for,
people who don't discount the
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spiritual side of their
nature but actually take it into
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account and embrace it and
actually seek the wisdom of the
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Creator and His help in
the whole healing process -
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they do better - the research
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shows definitely
they do better. "
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It's come into its own.
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- So we don't need to say we're
sorry for the fact that this is
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actually a resource.
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How do we go about
changing our habits?
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- I think it's
important to take inventory.
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The apostle Paul
says, "Examine yourselves to
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see if you're in the truth. "
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We need to take
inventory of where we are.
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What kinds of habits and what
kinds of practices do we indulge
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in that we really feel
convicted that we should change?
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We need to ask God to
show us is there something
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that we need to change.
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I think that question is a
very, very important question
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to spiritual people.
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- Actually, just asking
the question, "What's wrong
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between me and you
or me and someone else,
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or something I'm doing," or just
writing down those impressions?
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Maybe identifying it in that
way - is that what you mean?
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- Yes, that's correct.
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For instance, most of
us, especially at this time
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of the year, have some inkling
that it's important to make
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some changes physically,
to have some exercise,
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to study the Bible
more, things like that.
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We have these aspirations, but
how to do it really eludes a lot
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of people.
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They want to change their diets,
for instance, they want to make
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a dietary changes, that's a
particularly tough one because
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we know that temptation was
first brought to human beings
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on this point of appetite.
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And so it's a fairly
difficult one to overcome.
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But I believe that as we look
at the resources that we have
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and the things that we want to
change, I believe that God can
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help us to make sense out
of it all and to overcome.
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One of things that we have
to do is we have to say to God,
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"All right, I have this
habit. What do You want me
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to substitute in its place?"
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- So it's not enough to
just say, "What's wrong?"
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You have to go to the next
step and say, "What's right?"
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- Yes, that's the great
principle of substitution.
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But even before we get to
the principle of substitution
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it's important to look
at some of the resources
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that God has given us.
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For instance,
notice in II Peter 1:3
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It says the following:
"His divine power has given us
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everything we need for life and
godliness through our knowledge
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of Him who called us by
His own glory and goodness. "
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Now when you look at that text
you recognize that there are
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two things that
are happening there.
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First of all, He's given us
everything we need for life.
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That means the practical side
of things - our physical life.
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Then He's given us everything
we need for godliness.
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So that covers our dual and
I dare say our triple nature,
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if you will -
body, mind and spirit.
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We have everything we
need for life and godliness
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through our knowledge of God.
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- So it's not
something we have to look for?
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II Peter 1:3 seems to
indicate that everything we have
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to make these changes
or need to make changes
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is already there somewhere.
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It's been provided by God,
it's just a matter of having Him
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access that for us.
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- Access the resources,
not the least of which,
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in terms of these resources,
are 10 billion brain cells
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located between your ears.
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Now, people take this 3
pound mass between our ears
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for granted and we tend
to glorify computers, and
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we tend to glorify some of the
science but we need to keep in
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mind that all of this science,
all of this knowledge that we
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have amassed came from
the people who were using the
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resources between their ears.
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And it's a phenomenal resource.
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I just want to touch on a couple
of things here that I think
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you will find impressive.
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First of all, a brain
cell - brain cells in general -
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the paths we use for
solving and analyzing problems,
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they can perform more math
calculations than the world's
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largest computers.
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In fact we know that a
single brain cell - just one-
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can analyze positive and
negative information impulses
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that it has received
from a thousand other cells!
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And it makes a decision based on
input from those thousand other
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cells in a split second -
in a thousandth of a second -
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it makes a decision to fire.
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- So each one of our 10
billion cells does that?
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- Has the ability to
make decisions and to suppress
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behavior or to embrace behavior.
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So we are talking
about resources that are
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absolutely phenomenal.
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I'm not just talking about
spiritual resources, I'm talking
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about physical resources
that God has given to us.
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- We know some habits in our
lives actually damage or kill
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our brain cells, is it right
to say, "We have 10 billion
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of them, we've only messed
up maybe 5 million of them
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so there's hope
because there's so many more?"
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- Yes, and you know in
1984, that was sort of a
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watershed year for brain
research, because in that year
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researchers actually showed
that brain cells can regenerate.
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Prior to that the assumption was
that once you loose them they're
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gone and they
can never regenerate.
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But that year they discovered
that brain cells can in fact
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regenerate and
do that very well.
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I read fascinating book recently
by Dr. Eldon Chalmers who
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has been here on
3ABN in the past.
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He has a book out
called, Healing the Broken Mind.
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He points out some of
the phenomenal turn around
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that people have been able
to achieve just by understanding
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the resources that they
have between their ears.
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It's quite phenomenal.
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- And even if those are messed
up or broken they can - what?
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Be reworked?
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- We can be regenerated.
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And the interesting thing,
Don, is that this principle has
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been in the Bible all along.
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Somehow the research scientists
or all the people that are
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involved in that kind
of thing didn't see it.
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Spiritual people have
understood it, however.
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Romans 12:2 says it very
well, "Do not conform any longer
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to the pattern of this world. "
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Think of what
we're surrounded by, Don.
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Every corner practically has
a McDonald's and a Burger King.
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You can go into one of those
"alters" and make a "sacrifice"
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to the "god of appetite"
at one of those "alters. "
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We're surrounded by these
influences and yet the Bible
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through the apostle Paul,
long ago to the Romans his
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letter, called on us, notice
it says, "Be transformed by the
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renewing of your mind. "
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"Then you will be able to test
and approve what God's will is.
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His good,
pleasing, and perfect will. "
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That's the principle of renewal.
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One of my favorite
authors says it this way,
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"When we talk to God
about changing our habits
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we must ask Him for new desires,
new purposes, and new motives. "
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- This is part of
the renewal process.
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- Exactly.
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- Desiring something, actually
wanting, say broccoli instead of
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whatever else.
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- Yes, and now
you're talking about
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the great
principle of substitution.
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Because in that same chapter of
Romans 12 the apostle Paul says
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something very important.
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He says do not
be overcome by evil
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but overcome evil with good.
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That's the great principle
of substitution that if you want
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to knock something bad out
of your life, don't just get in
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there struggle with it and fight
with it and end up a loser.
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You have to put
something positive in its place.
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This is probably the most
important thing I will say
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on this program about
changing health habits.
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You must
substitute something positive
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in the place of
something negative.
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- So a mother shouldn't
just say, "No, no, no. "
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The mother should
say, "Not this, but that. "
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- "Let's try this," - Exactly.
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That principle of substitution
is so important that I believe
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that it really
holds the key to victory.
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Going a little further on,
II Peter 1:4 says the following,
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"Through these He
has given us His very
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great and precious promise. "
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Now we're talking about second
line of resources, His promises.
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Notice - "that through them
you might participate in the
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divine nature" -
the King James says,
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"PARTAKE of the divine
nature and escape the corruption
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in the world
caused by evil desires. "
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- So we can actually have
a transplant this sounds like
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of not our desires, attitudes,
or wants, but the divine desire.
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- The divine nature we
can actually have a... yes,
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that's a great
word - a transplant.
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There's a transfer of
the nature of God to man.
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Notice that it comes as
a result of the promises.
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Well, the question is
what promises has God made?
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God said, "A new heart
also will I give you. "
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Remember when we talked about
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new desires, new
purposes, new motives?
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That promise takes in that whole
business of having new desires
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new thoughts and new motives.
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"A new heart also will I give
you, a new spirit will I put
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within you. "
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These are things that we can
actually substitute for thoughts
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that are moving in
a certain direction.
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What we have discovered,
even among alcoholics
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we see this phenomenon.
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They have a little expression
among alcoholics called
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"stinking thinking. "
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The way that it works is, they
find that they're dwelling on
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the thoughts of taking a
drink - "stinking thinking. "
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That really is a bad
thought, it basically stinks
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and it leads them
in a direction of evil.
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- Of the
behavior they don't want.
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- The principle of substitution
at that point when those
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thoughts come is - to
substitute the scriptures.
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I've used Romans
6:14 a great deal when I
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want to get rid of thoughts.
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I'm driving down the freeway,
and you know as I've said,
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we're surrounded
by these influences.
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There's a billboard and
all of a sudden thoughts are
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going through your mind.
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I don't want that to be there.
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- And what does Romans 6:14 say?
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- It says, "For sin shall
not have dominion over you
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for you are not under
law but under grace. "
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In other words you're not under
condemnation of the law but
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grace will free you from this
dominion, this power of sin.
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- So you've just memorized
that and you come back to that.
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- I just start repeating that,
and I want to tell you this is
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the most effective thing
that I have done, I have found
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the principle of substitution to
substitute scriptural thoughts
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for the evil thought that I
want to banish from the mind.
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- I want to come back to that
when we get back from the break.
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We've been talking
with Jack Maclntosh.
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He's a health educator from
Weimar Institute in California.
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We've been talking about habits.
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What to do to
identify good ones or bad ones.
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How to replace bad
ones with good ones.
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When we come back we're going
to talk more practically about
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the nuts and bolts of
having God change our habits.
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I hope you join us.
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Welcome back.
We've been talking with
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Jack Maclntosh from
Weimar Institute about a very
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important subject, that is the
subject of changing our habits.
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What are the
things we are doing right?
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What are the
things we're doing wrong?
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How do we discover how to change
bad habits into good habits.
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We've talked about some
real spiritual resources
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in this last few moments.
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Now we're back and we're
going to look a little further
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Is it enough just to know
the promises and resources we
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have, is that where it ends?
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- Well, actually the Bible is
very plain about God's ability
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to, not only give us resources,
but to keep us from falling into
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the pit we were in before.
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That very specific promise is
found in the book of Jude 1:24.
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It says, "Now unto Him who
is able to keep you from falling
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and to present you
before His glorious presence" -
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notice - "without fault and with
great joy to Him be glory. "
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These promises
of God are designed
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to keep us out of trouble.
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One of the ways that I believe
God keeps us out of trouble is
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this whole business
of presence of mind.
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You know, we use the term "New
Testament" and "Old Testament"
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very, very freely, but in
reality what we're talking about
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is a "new covenant"
and an "old covenant. "
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In the new covenant
we find the first mention
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of the new covenant in the book
of Jeremiah the 31st chapter.
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We also find that
covenant exactly reproduced
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in Hebrews 8 and 10
of the New Testament.
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So it's not something that was
confined to the Old Testament
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and stayed there.
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It has been transferred
to the New Testament.
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In fact when Jesus raised
the cup He said, "This cup
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is the new
covenant in My blood. "
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He made a connection between
His blood and the new covenant
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which means that His
blood actually put that covenant
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into effect.
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That covenant is the most
important promise that God
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ever made to human beings.
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Because that is the
promise of redemption.
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Here's what He said, "I
will put My laws in your mind
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and write them on your heart. "
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- So He does it?
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- Yes, exactly.
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God takes responsibility
for that, you see.
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Before if you read in the old
covenant, man was supposed to
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hide the word
of God in his heart
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and all those kinds of things.
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Man had a responsibility.
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In the new covenant God
takes responsibility for
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putting the law in our minds
and writing it in our hearts.
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Now I spent a lot of time
thinking about what it means
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to have God's law in your mind.
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If you say to someone,
"You know, I have that in mind,"
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what does that mean?
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- You were thinking about it.
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- Yes, it's on the
front burner, right?
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It's not somewhere back
there that you're unaware of it.
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It's on the front
burner, you're aware of it.
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It's what I like to call, God's
promise for presence of mind.
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In other words, when you run
into trouble and you need help
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you will have the presence of
mind to fight the battle the way
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Jesus fought.
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And of course we know
that Jesus used the scriptures.
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It's very plain.
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The first victory that Jesus won
in behalf of man in Matthew 4
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we find the record.
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It says, "Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word
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that proceeds out
of the mouth of God. "
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And prior to saying that
He said, "It is written. "
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So what He was doing in essence
was using God's word to vanish
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the temptation to do evil.
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That's a very,
very powerful thing.
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- So His rapid access
memory, to use a computer term,
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that short-term memory, it was
just there at His finger tips
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and when He was in need
of it, it was right there.
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- The Spirit brought to His mind
the scriptures that He needed.
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Jesus promised that we're not to
rehearse what we're going to say
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The Spirit would bring
to us what we should say.
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- Or keep us, like
you say, from falling.
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- But keeping us
from falling is dependant
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on the presence of mind that
comes through the new covenant
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promise - that's the
point I'm trying to make.
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And it's not just presence
of mind, it's that the heart is
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changed and renewed.
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The law of God, the law of
love, Jesus said all the law and
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prophets hangs on these two
commandments - love for God and
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love for man.
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That law, the Ten Commandments
are of course an expression
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of that law.
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That law is written in the
heart and placed in the mind.
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So that we have
presence of mind.
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- It will be like
walking around physical embodied
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ten commandments, if you will?
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- Yes, and again there is
a transfer of righteousness.
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There's a transfer of
divine nature into man's
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heart and mind.
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And of course as we progress
and we look at, for instance,
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the whole business of grace, you
know churches today talk about
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grace and grace, grace, grace.
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Do you realize that most of the
grace, so called grace that we
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see out there today, is really
a grace that isn't practical.
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It's a kind of forensic grace.
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It's a grace that says
that Jesus has done something
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for me - He's
substituted His life for me.
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But it really doesn't take hold
of the victories that Jesus has
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won in my behalf.
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- So it just makes us feel good
but it doesn't help us be good.
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- Exactly.
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There isn't a
practical side to this grace.
00:24:12.61\00:24:16.21
But you see God never intended
that His grace should be only
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forensic - a legal declaration
of your righteousness.
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He intended that it
should be practical.
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And no where else in the
Bible is this whole business of
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practical righteousness,
through grace, more evident
00:24:29.08\00:24:32.68
than in the book of Titus.
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And I want to share with
you something that has become
00:24:34.00\00:24:37.32
very, very precious to me
as I have tried to help people
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to find these
resources to overcome.
00:24:40.68\00:24:43.85
In Titus 2:11-12, notice
- "For the grace of God that
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brings salvation has
appeared to all men. "
00:24:52.41\00:24:56.13
You know when you think about
that, everything that people do
00:24:56.17\00:25:00.84
in this world that is right,
and righteous, it comes from
00:25:00.88\00:25:05.52
the grace of God.
00:25:05.55\00:25:06.52
Do you see that? It
has appeared to all men.
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Now it goes on to say,
"It teaches us to say no
00:25:09.87\00:25:13.30
to ungodliness and
worldly passion and to live
00:25:13.34\00:25:16.70
self-controlled, upright, and
godly lives when Jesus comes. "
00:25:16.74\00:25:22.49
Now it says in THIS PRESENT AGE.
00:25:22.53\00:25:26.11
That's the whole
point of practical grace.
00:25:26.14\00:25:29.21
It's supposed to give you
power to overcome right now.
00:25:29.25\00:25:32.39
- So Nancy Reagan wasn't
the first one to say this.
00:25:32.42\00:25:34.89
She was not the first one to
think of this whole business of
00:25:34.92\00:25:37.63
"Just say no. "
00:25:37.66\00:25:38.87
The Bible said this is
a 2,000 year old concept.
00:25:38.90\00:25:43.54
It says, "The grace of
God teaches us to say no to
00:25:43.57\00:25:47.30
ungodliness," notice
"worldly passion, and to live
00:25:47.33\00:25:51.28
self-controlled,
upright, and godly lives
00:25:51.31\00:25:55.01
in this present age. "
00:25:55.05\00:25:57.58
Right now.
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- That's quite a
promise isn't it?
00:25:58.62\00:25:59.87
- It is.
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It is what I like to
call practical grace.
00:26:00.88\00:26:04.06
Because all this forensic
hullabaloo that's going on in
00:26:04.09\00:26:07.99
Christian circles
about grace, grace, grace.
00:26:08.02\00:26:10.00
Grace is not only a declaration
of righteousness, you know
00:26:10.03\00:26:16.06
Abraham believed God and
it was credited unto him for
00:26:16.09\00:26:19.69
righteousness, that's true!
00:26:19.72\00:26:21.38
And without that
you can't be righteous.
00:26:21.41\00:26:23.81
But I want to tell you
that God's grace is practical
00:26:23.84\00:26:27.79
and it gives us victory, and
it gives us power to overcome.
00:26:27.82\00:26:31.39
- It helps you say no in all the
areas you've been saying, yes.
00:26:31.42\00:26:34.51
- Exactly.
00:26:34.55\00:26:36.38
- In our last few moments
here, have there been any texts
00:26:36.42\00:26:40.10
that have been especially
meaningful to you in your
00:26:40.13\00:26:42.89
struggle?
00:26:42.92\00:26:43.94
If you could say one
text you need to memorize.
00:26:43.97\00:26:45.79
What would that be?
00:26:45.82\00:26:46.91
- Well, it's probably the
cease and learn principle.
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And we find it in the
book of Isaiah 1:16-17
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It says, "Cease to do
evil and learn to do good. "
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- It's a process, isn't it?
00:27:00.91\00:27:01.93
- It's a process.
00:27:01.96\00:27:02.93
We've been talking
with Jack Maclntosh
00:27:02.94\00:27:05.91
from Weimar Institute.
00:27:05.94\00:27:07.32
We've talked about habits.
00:27:07.35\00:27:09.01
We have good
habits, we have bad habits,
00:27:09.04\00:27:12.06
and how do we
have those good ones?
00:27:12.09\00:27:14.10
We've learned today that
God can help us and we hope that
00:27:14.13\00:27:17.72
today has been helpful to you.
00:27:17.75\00:27:19.63
And we pray that you as a result
of today's program will have
00:27:19.66\00:27:24.21
health that
lasts for a lifetime.
00:27:24.24\00:27:27.35