Participants: Bill Santos
Series Code: IIWC
Program Code: IIWC200906
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00:02 >>BILL: ALMOST EVERY AGE HAS HAD ITS SOCIAL
00:03 OUTCASTS, PEOPLE BARRED FROM NORMAL SOCIETY 00:05 WHETHER THROUGH PHYSICAL ILLNESS OR NATIONAL 00:08 ORIGIN. ONE PERSON WHO STEPPED ACROSS THESE 00:09 BARRIERS IN INDIA WAS PIONEER MISSIONARY MARY 00:15 REED. ALREADY WORKING IN INDIA, MARY VISITED A 00:19 LEPER COLONY AND WAS DEEPLY MOVED BY THE 00:20 PEOPLE'S PLIGHT. LATER MARY CONTRACTED LEPROSY 00:25 HERSELF AND WENT TO WORK WITH THE LEPERS, EAGER TO 00:29 TELL THEM THAT SHE KNEW FIRSTHAND THEIR PAIN AND 00:30 TRAUMA. SHE BECAME HEAD OF THE LEPER COLONY AND IN 00:35 THE YEARS FOLLOWING MANY WERE SAVED AND A CHURCH 00:40 BUILT. 00:44 (MUSIC) 00:52 >>ANNOUNCER: IT HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME.. 00:56 GOD'S BOOK, THE BIBLE. 00:59 STILL RELEVANT IN TODAY'S COMPLEX WORLD. 01:03 IT IS WRITTEN. 01:06 SPREADING MESSAGES OF HOPE AROUND THE WORLD. 01:30 WHILE IN THE MIDST OF A TIRING AND TRYING 01:31 PREACHING CAMPAIGN, JESUS IS INTERRUPTED BY A 01:34 SINGLE MAN, A LEPER. THE ENCOUNTER IS RECORDED IN 01:40 MARK 1:40 - 45 02:48 OF ALL THE DISEASES AND AFFLICTIONS THAT 02:49 DEVASTATED THE ANCIENT WORLD, NONE WAS MORE 02:52 FEARED THAN LEPROSY. THE DISEASE USUALLY STARTED 02:55 WITH PERSON BEGINNING TO FEEL A LITTLE TIRED AND 02:56 THEN THE JOINTS WOULD BEGIN TO GET SORE. AND 03:01 THEN ONE DAY LITTLE WHITE SPOTS WOULD APPEAR ALL 03:05 OVER THE SKIN. THOSE WHITE SPOTS WOULD BEGIN 03:06 TO HARDEN INTO NODULES AND THEN TURN FROM WHITE TO 03:11 PINK TO BROWN AND WOULD BECOME VERY SCALY. THOSE 03:18 NODULES WOULD SPREAD ALL OVER THE BODY; THEY WOULD 03:19 AFFLICT THE FACE FIRST AND THE APPEARANCE OF THE FACE 03:24 WOULD CHANGE, AND THERE WOULD BE WRINKLES AND 03:28 NODULES COVERING THE FACE. 03:29 THOSE NODULES WOULD BEGIN TO ULCERATE AND THEY WOULD 03:33 FILL WITH PUSS AND THEY WOULD BEGIN TO RUN ALL 03:34 OVER THE BODY AND THERE WAS A FOUL ODOR THAT WOULD 03:38 BE DISCHARGED, IT WAS A TERRIBLE STENCH. THERE WAS 03:43 A TASTE IN THE MOUTH OF THE LEPER. THE NODULES 03:44 WOULD COVER THE VOCAL CHORDS SO THAT WHEN THEY 03:48 BREATHED THERE WOULD BE A WHEEZING SOUND, AND WHEN 03:54 THEY TALKED THERE WOULD BE A RASPINESS IN THE VOICE. 03:55 THE LEPROSY WOULD TOTALLY CONSUME A PERSON UNTIL THE 04:00 BODY BECAME LITTLE MORE THAN A POOL OF SLIME. THE 04:07 EYEBROWS WOULD BEGIN TO FALL OUT, THE HAIR WOULD 04:08 TURN WHITE. AS THEY WALKED THEY WOULD LEAVE WET SPOTS 04:13 WHERE THE PUSS WOULD POUR OUT OF THE FEET. FINGERS 04:17 WOULD FALL OFF AND THE TOES WOULD BEGIN TO FALL 04:19 OFF. LEPROSY LASTED AN AVERAGE OF 9 YEARS. IT 04:22 WAS A TERRIBLE PHYSICALLY DEBILITATING DISEASE. 04:32 AS IF THIS WEREN'T ENOUGH, THERE WAS A TERRIBLE 04:33 SOCIAL ISOLATION THAT WENT HAND IN HAND WITH 04:37 THIS DISEASE. WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED THAT A MAN HAD 04:41 LEPROSY THEY WOULD BANISH HIM FROM THE VILLAGE, HE 04:42 WAS NO LONGER ALLOWED TO HAVE COMMUNION WITH OTHER 04:46 PEOPLE. HE HAD TO LEAVE HIS FAMILY, HE HAD TO 04:50 LEAVE HIS FRIENDS. IT WAS UNLAWFUL FOR A LEPER TO 04:51 APPROACH WITHIN 15 M OF A CLEAN PERSON. IF IT 04:57 WAS A WINDY DAY, THE RULE CHANGED TO 60 M. HE COULD 05:02 NOT TOUCH HIS FAMILY, HE COULD ONLY SEE THEM FROM 05:03 A DISTANCE. MANY FAMILIES BROUGHT FOOD AND CLOTHING 05:08 FOR A WHILE, BUT AFTER A TIME, MOST FAMILIES HAD A 05:13 FUNERAL SERVICE AND REGARDED THE AFFLICTED 05:14 PERSON AS A DEAD MAN. HE HAD TO TEAR HIS GARMENTS 05:21 SO PEOPLE WOULD RECOGNIZE THAT HE WAS A LEPER. HE 05:23 WAS TO DRESS AS A MOURNER GOING TO A FUNERAL 05:24 SERVICE: HIS OWN FUNERAL SERVICE! OVER HIS UPPER 05:29 LIP HE HAD TO WEAR A CLOTH SO HE WOULDN'T SPREAD THE 05:35 CONTAMINATION AND EVERY TIME HE SAW PEOPLE COMING 05:36 THE LEPER WAS REQUIRED, FROM A DISTANCE, TO 05:41 CRY, "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! 05:42 UNCLEAN!" AND IT WOULD WARN THE PEOPLE THAT A 05:46 LEPER WAS ON THE PREMISES AND THEY WOULD PICK UP 05:51 STONES AND THEY WOULD BEGIN TO THROW THE ROCKS 05:52 AT HIM SO HE WOULD GET NOWHERE AROUND HIM. 05:55 SO HERE IS THE CONDITION OF THIS MAN, HERE IS THE 06:01 PICTURE OF THIS MAN THE BIBLE SAYS WAS 06:02 FILLED WITH LEPROSY. 06:12 SO, HERE IS THIS MAN. HIS LIFE HAS BEEN DEVASTATED 06:13 BY THE SCOURGE OF LEPROSY. 06:17 PERHAPS HE AWOKE THAT MORNING IN THE LEPER 06:18 COLONY AND HEARD THAT A MAN NAMED JESUS WAS IN 06:22 TOWN. MAYBE HE HEARD HOW THIS JESUS HAD HEALED ALL 06:27 SORTS OF DISEASES AND HAD EVEN CAST OUT DEMONS. 06:28 MAYBE, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME, 06:34 HOPE AWAKENED IN A HEART CONDITIONED TO FEEL ONLY 06:40 HOPELESSNESS. YOU SEE, MOST PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT 06:41 LEPROSY WAS THE "STROKE OF GOD". THAT IT WAS THE 06:49 DIRECT JUDGMENT OF GOD FOR SIN IN THE LEPERS LIFE. 06:56 LEPROSY WAS A CRUEL BLOW TO A PERSON'S SELF-ESTEEM. 06:57 IT MADE THEM FEEL UNLOVED, UNWANTED AND UNCARED FOR. 07:02 BUT, THAT MORNING, FAITH AWAKENED IN THE HEART OF 07:09 THIS LEPER AND KNEW HE HAD TO GET TO JESUS. WHATEVER 07:10 MOTIVATED HIM, THIS POOR, WRETCHED MAN BEGAN TO 07:19 HOBBLE HIS WAY TO JESUS. 07:20 CAN YOU SEE THE MULTITUDES AS THEY CROWD AROUND THE 07:28 SAVIOR? CAN YOU HEAR THE COMMOTION AT THE BACK OF 07:33 THE CROWD AS THE PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THERE IS A 07:34 LEPER IN THE MIDST? CAN YOU SEE THE CROWD BEGIN 07:40 TO PART WITH CRIES OF FEAR AND DISGUST AS THIS MAN 07:46 PASSES THROUGH THEIR MIDST? HE MAKES HIS WAY 07:47 THROUGH THE FRIGHTENED CROWD AND STOPS WITHIN 07:52 ARM'S LENGTH OF JESUS. HE KNEELS BEFORE THE LORD AND 07:59 DECLARED TO THE LORD HIS DESIRE. WHAT HE SAID TO 08:00 JESUS IS VERY TELLING OF HIS CONDITION. 1. HIS 08:08 WORDS INDICATE A DESIRE TO BE FREE FROM HIS DISEASE. 08:16 2. HIS WORDS DECLARE HIS FAITH IN CHRIST'S ABILITY. 08:22 3. HIS WORDS REVEAL HIS OWN SENSE OF UNWORTHINESS 08:23 BEFORE THE LORD. 08:41 THESE THREE THINGS ARE A PICTURE OF WHAT SHOULD BE 08:42 IN THE HEART OF A SINNER WHO WANTS TO COME TO JESUS 08:43 TO BE SAVED FROM THEIR SINS. THERE MUST BE A 08:45 DESIRE TO BE FREE FROM THE SIN THAT BINDS US. 08:46 CONVICTION PRODUCES THIS DESIRE IN THE HEART OF 08:48 THE SINNER. THERE MUST BE FAITH IN THE ABILITY OF 08:51 JESUS TO SAVE THE SOUL. 08:52 THIS FAITH IS GOD'S GIFT AND IT IS PRODUCED IN THE 08:59 HEART OF THE SINNER BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. THEN, THERE 09:00 WILL ALWAYS BE A SENSE OF UNWORTHINESS TO COME 09:06 BEFORE THE LORD. THIS IS TRUE, BECAUSE NONE OF US 09:12 DESERVE TO BE SAVED. WHEN WE COME, THE DEVIL WILL 09:13 TELL US "YOU'RE NOT WORTHY TO COME TO JESUS!" HE 09:19 IS RIGHT! YOUR OWN HEART MAY TELL YOU, "YOU'RE NOT 09:25 WORTHY TO COME TO JESUS!" 09:26 YOUR HEART IS RIGHT! BUT, DON'T LET THAT STOP YOU 09:32 FROM COMING! YOU MIGHT NOT BE WORTHY TO COME, BUT HE 09:33 WILL NEVER TURN YOU AWAY WHEN YOU DO, JOHN 6:37: 09:55 THIS OLD LEPER HAS REACHED THE PLACE WHERE HE KNOWS 09:56 HE NEEDS A MIRACLE OF GOD TO DELIVER HIM FROM HIS 10:01 DISEASE. APPARENTLY, HE IS IN THE LAST STAGES, FOR 10:06 LUKE TELLS US HE WAS "FULL OF LEPROSY", (LUKE 5:12). 10:07 HE WAS NEARLY GONE AND HE NEEDED DIVINE 10:10 INTERVENTION. SO, HE CAME TO JESUS. 10:20 IF YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN WRECKED AND RUINED BY SIN, 10:21 LET ME TELL YOU THAT YOU TOO NEED DIVINE 10:25 INTERVENTION. YOU NEED WHAT ONLY JESUS CAN GIVE 10:31 YOU. YOU NEED A MIRACLE! 10:32 YOU NEED TO DO LIKE THIS LEPER AND GET TO THE FEET 10:37 OF JESUS! 10:40 AS THE CROWD WATCHES, THIS LEPER FALLS DOWN BEFORE 10:41 THE LORD AND ASKS FOR A MIRACLE. WHAT WILL JESUS 10:43 DO? WILL HE ALSO TURN AWAY IN DISGUST? WILL HE CALL 10:50 FOR THE MAN TO BE STONED, AS MANY PEOPLE WOULD HAVE 10:51 DONE? NO! JESUS DOES THE UNTHINKABLE: HE SHOWS THIS 10:59 MAN COMPASSION! IT HAS BEEN YEARS SINCE ANYONE 11:06 HAS TOUCHED THIS MAN. IT HAD BEEN YEARS SINCE THIS 11:07 MAN HAD HELD HIS WIFE OR CHILDREN. IT HAD BEEN 11:11 YEARS SINCE HE FELT THE TOUCH OF A HUMAN HAND UPON 11:16 HIS. IT HAD BEEN YEARS SINCE HE HAD BEEN ABLE TO 11:17 KISS HIS WIFE. HE HAD BEEN ISOLATED AND ALONE! TO 11:22 TOUCH A LEPER MADE ONE UNCLEAN AND WAS STRICTLY 11:29 FORBIDDEN BY THE LAW. 11:31 TOUCHING A LEPER COULD POSSIBLY CAUSE THE ONE 11:35 TOUCHING TO BECOME INFECTED AS WELL. BUT, 11:36 WHAT DID JESUS DO? HE TOUCHED HIM! I DON'T KNOW 11:43 WHAT THAT LEPER EXPECTED. 11:44 PROBABLY TO BE RUN OFF AT BEST AND STONED TO DEATH 11:50 AT WORST. BUT, IMAGINE HIS SURPRISE WHEN JESUS 11:56 REACHED OUT HIS HAND AND TOUCHED HIM! HE NEVER 11:57 EXPECTED THAT! CAN YOU HEAR THE CROWD GASP IN 12:04 SURPRISE AND SHOCK AS THEY SEE JESUS REACHING OUT TO 12:09 TOUCH THIS UNCLEAN MAN? 12:10 BUT, OH HOW GLORIOUS THAT ONE TOUCH MUST HAVE FELT 12:17 TO THIS MAN! IF THERE WAS ANY FEELING LEFT IN HIS 12:18 SKIN IT MUST HAVE FELT LIKE NOTHING HE HAD EVER 12:22 FELT BEFORE! BUT, OTHERS WOULD NEVER HAVE TOUCHED A 12:28 LEPER OUT OF FEAR OF CONTRACTING THE DISEASE 12:30 THEMSELVES. HOWEVER, JESUS, THE CLEANEST MAN IN 12:36 THE ENTIRE CROWD, TOUCHED HIM WITHOUT FEAR. WHAT WAS 12:42 DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS TOUCH? THE LEPER DID NOT 12:43 TRANSMIT TO JESUS THE CORRUPTION OF HIS DISEASE. 12:49 RATHER, JESUS TRANSMITTED TO THE LEPER THE CLEANSING 12:54 OF HIS DIVINITY! 13:01 DID YOU KNOW THAT JESUS IS STILL TOUCHING LIVES 13:03 TODAY? IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHO YOU ARE OR 13:08 WHAT YOU MAY HAVE DONE, YOU ARE NOT SO BAD AS TO 13:14 BE BEYOND HIS GLORIOUS TOUCH. HAVE YOU 13:15 EXPERIENCED HIS TOUCH? DO YOU REMEMBER HOW IT 13:19 FELT TO BE LOCKED IN SIN'S DARK DUNGEON, HELPLESS AND 13:24 HOPELESSLY LOST IN YOUR SINS? DO YOU REMEMBER HOW 13:25 GOOD IT FELT WHEN THE LORD REACHED INTO THE HELL OF 13:30 YOUR LIFE AND TOUCHED YOU? 13:31 IF YOU DO, THEN YOU KNOW THE GLORY OF HIS TOUCH. 13:37 IF YOU DON'T, YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT HE WILL STILL 13:43 TOUCH YOU REGARDLESS OF WHO YOU ARE, WHERE YOU 13:44 HAVE BEEN OR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE! AS SOON AS JESUS 13:50 TOUCHED HIM HE IS MADE CLEAN. HIS LEPROSY 13:57 INSTANTLY DEPARTS AND HIS SKIN IS MADE A NEW AND AS 13:58 FRESH AS A BABIES. HE IS LITERALLY GIVEN A 14:06 NEW LEASE ON LIFE! HE CAN RETURN TO HIS LOVED ONES. 14:10 HE CAN REJOIN SOCIETY. 14:11 EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN HE FELT THE TRANSFORMING 14:17 TOUCH OF JESUS ON HIS SKIN. THIS LEPER WAS TO 14:18 GO AND TO PRESENT HIMSELF TO THE PRIEST AND HE WAS 14:23 TO GET A CERTIFICATE OF CLEANSING ON THE BASIS OF 14:29 A CEREMONY IN LEVITICUS 14. NOW IN LEVITICUS 14:30 CHAPTER 14 IT SAYS THAT THE LEPER WAS TO COME TO 14:34 THE PRIEST AND THE PRIEST WAS TO GO OUTSIDE THE CAMP 14:39 WHERE THE LEPER WAS. YOU SEE, THE LEPER COULDN'T GO 14:40 IN THERE WHERE THE PRIEST WAS, THE PRIEST HAD TO 14:46 COME OUT WHERE THE LEPER WAS. AND, YOU SEE, THAT'S 14:49 EXACTLY WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR US. YOU SEE, WHEN 14:50 WE COULDN'T GO TO HEAVEN WHERE JESUS WAS JESUS CAME 14:54 DOWN HERE WHERE WE ARE. 14:55 JESUS HAS COME DOWN HERE WHERE WE ARE, AND ON A 15:02 HILL OUTSIDE THE CITY OF JERUSALEM JESUS SUFFERED. 15:09 AND THEN THAT PRIEST WAS TO TAKE AN EARTHEN VESSEL 15:10 FILLED WITH WATER, HE WAS TO TAKE TWO BIRDS. NOW ONE 15:15 OF THOSE BIRDS HE KILLED AND LET THE BLOOD OF THAT 15:20 BIRD POUR INTO THE WATER, AND THEN THE PRIEST WAS TO 15:21 TAKE THAT BLOOD AND APPLY IT TO THE WINGS OF THE 15:27 LIVING BIRD AND THEN HE TOOK THAT LIVING BIRD, 15:31 WITH THE BLOOD SPRINKLING FROM ITS WINGS, OUT INTO 15:32 AN OPEN FIELD AND HE LET THAT BIRD LOOSE AND THAT 15:36 BIRD WOULD GO FLYING UP INTO THE AIR. AND THE 15:41 LEPER WOULD SEE THAT BLOOD DROPPING DOWN FROM 15:42 THE BIRD AND HE WOULD UNDERSTAND THE PRICE 15:46 OF HIS CLEANSING AND THE MESSAGE WOULD COME TO THAT 15:51 LEPER, "I AM CLEAN BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD." 15:59 YOU SEE, FRIENDS, THERE'S ONLY ONE ELEMENT THAT CAN 16:00 CLEANSE YOU FROM YOUR SINS TODAY AND THAT IS THE 16:05 BLOOD OF JESUS. YOU SAY, "WELL, MY SINS ARE SO 16:10 DEEP", BUT THE LORD SAYS, "MY BLOOD GOES SO MUCH 16:11 DEEPER." OH, BUT, "LORD, MY SINS HAVE GONE TOO 16:18 FAR", BUT HE SAYS, "MY BLOOD HAS GONE MUCH 16:22 FARTHER." OH, BUT, "LORD, MY SINS ARE STRONG"; JESUS 16:24 SAYS, "MY BLOOD IS SO MUCH STRONGER." JUST AS THAT 16:29 LEPER HAD HIS CLEANSING COMPLETED BY THE 16:34 APPLICATION OF BLOOD, SO THE SINNER TODAY IS MADE 16:35 CLEAN THROUGH THE SHED BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS 16:41 CHRIST 1 PETER 1:18 - 19: 17:11 NOTICE WHAT JESUS SAYS THAT THIS WILL BE: "FOR 17:12 A TESTIMONY UNTO THEM". I WOULD SAY THAT HIGH PRIEST 17:18 HAD NEVER SEEN A LEPER CLEANSED. I WOULD VENTURE 17:24 TO SAY THAT HE HAD NEVER UTILIZED THE COMMANDMENTS 17:26 GIVEN IN LEVITICUS 14. 17:30 BUT, THAT DAY, HE WAS PUT ON NOTICE THAT THERE WAS 17:32 A MAN IN TOWN WHO HAD THE POWER TO TAKE AWAY 17:39 LEPROSY! WHAT A TESTIMONY IT WAS WHEN THAT POOR OLD 17:45 LEPER WAS GLORIOUSLY CLEANSED AND APPLIED AT 17:46 THE TEMPLE FOR CLEANSING! 17:55 WHAT A TESTIMONY IT IS WHEN JESUS CHANGES A LIFE! 17:56 EVERYONE WHO HAD BEEN SET FREE FROM THE BONDAGE OF 18:03 SIN OUGHT TO BE OUT THERE "PUBLISHING THE MATTER" 18:07 AND TELLING A WATCHING WORLD THAT JESUS SETS 18:08 SINNERS FREE AND CHANGES LIFE FOREVER! WHAT 18:13 A BLESSING THE TESTIMONIES OF THE SAINTS ARE. ARE YOU 18:17 LIKE THAT POOR OLD LEPER? ARE YOU DISEASED 18:18 SPIRITUALLY AND NEED HELP GETTING FREE? JESUS 18:25 CHRIST IS STILL IN THE LIFE-CHANGING, SOUL-SAVING 18:29 BUSINESS. IF HE IS DEALING WITH YOUR HEART, YOU NEED 18:30 TO KNOW THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN YOUR SINS 18:36 FOR ONE MORE MINUTE! IF YOU WILL COME TO HIM RIGHT 18:41 NOW, LIKE THAT LEPER DID, BELIEVING HIM FOR 18:42 YOUR SOUL'S SALVATION, EVERYTHING WILL FOREVER 18:47 CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE. IF GOD IS CALLING YOU AND YOU 18:52 ARE READY FOR A NEW LIFE, COME TO HIM RIGHT NOW! 18:53 WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS MAY BE TODAY, YOU COME TO HIM AND 19:00 HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU! 19:07 'TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS, 19:11 JUST TO TAKE HIM AT HIS WORD; 19:15 JUST TO REST UPON HIS PROMISE, 19:19 AND TO KNOW, "THUS SAYS THE LORD!" 19:23 JESUS, JESUS, HOW I TRUST HIM! 19:27 HOW I'VE PROVED HIM O'ER AND O'ER 19:31 JESUS, JESUS, PRECIOUS JESUS! 19:36 O FOR GRACE TO TRUST HIM MORE! 19:42 O HOW SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS, 19:45 JUST TO TRUST HIS CLEANSING BLOOD; 19:50 AND IN SIMPLE FAITH TO PLUNGE ME 19:54 'NEATH THE HEALING, CLEANSING FLOOD! 19:58 JESUS, JESUS, HOW I TRUST HIM! 20:02 HOW I'VE PROVED HIM O'ER AND O'ER 20:06 JESUS, JESUS, PRECIOUS JESUS! 20:11 O FOR GRACE TO TRUST HIM MORE! 20:16 I'M SO GLAD I LEARNED TO TRUST THEE, 20:20 PRECIOUS JESUS, SAVIOR, FRIEND; 20:24 AND I KNOW THAT THOU ART WITH ME, 20:29 WILT BE WITH ME TO THE END. 20:33 JESUS, JESUS, HOW I TRUST HIM! 20:37 HOW I'VE PROVED HIM O'ER AND O'ER 20:42 JESUS, JESUS, PRECIOUS JESUS! 20:46 O FOR GRACE TO TRUST HIM MORE! 20:56 LET US PRAY. FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE THANK YOU FOR 20:57 THE TESTIMONY OF YOUR WORD. I THANK YOU FOR 21:02 JESUS AND I PRAY FOR THOSE WHO MIGHT BE LISTENING TO 21:06 ME RIGHT NOW THAT THEY MAY DO AS THIS OLD LEPER 21:07 - COME BEFORE THE SAVIOR, PLEAD FOR HIS CLEANSING 21:13 AND HAVE THEIR LIVES TRANSFORMED FOREVER. BE 21:18 WITH EACH AND EVERY VIEWER, I PRAY IN 21:19 JESUS NAME, AMEN. 21:24 (MUSIC) 21:40 (MUSIC) 21:58 HI, EVERYONE! ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH VEGETABLES 21:59 IN YOUR EVERYDAY EATING? 22:02 IF YOU'RE LIKE MOST PEOPLE, YOU MIGHT BE 22:03 EATING SOME FRUITS BUT NOT ENOUGH VEGETABLES AND, 22:05 ESPECIALLY, NOT ENOUGH OF THE GREEN STUFF. I'M 22:10 TALKING DARK, LEAFY GREENS, LIKE SPINACH, 22:11 KALE, COLLARD GREENS. 22:14 THESE TYPES OF PLANT FOODS ARE POWERHOUSES OF GOOD 22:15 NUTRITION. IN FACT, IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU TO 22:20 KNOW THAT GREENS CONTAIN PROTEIN! IN HIS BOOK "EAT 22:25 TO LIVE" DR. JOEL FURHMAN WRITES, "EVEN PHYSICIANS 22:26 AND DIETITIANS. ARE SURPRISED TO LEARN 22:31 THAT. WHEN YOU EAT LARGE QUANTITIES OF GREEN 22:34 VEGETABLES, YOU RECEIVE A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF 22:35 PROTEIN." AND, IN THE BOOK "THE CHINA STUDY" DR. 22:39 COLIN CAMPBELL REPORTS THAT "THERE IS A MOUNTAIN 22:43 OF COMPELLING EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT SO CALLED 22:44 'LOW-QUALITY' PLANT PROTEIN, WHICH ALLOWS FOR 22:48 SLOW BUT STEADY SYNTHESIS OF NEW PROTEINS, IS THE 22:53 HEALTHIEST TYPE OF PROTEIN." FINALLY, IN 22:54 HER BOOK "GREEN FOR LIFE" AUTHOR VICTORIA BOUTENKO 22:58 REMINDS US THAT "GREENS HAVE SUFFICIENT PROTEIN TO 23:02 BUILD MUSCLE IN GRAZING ANIMALS." THINK OF THE 23:03 ELEPHANT AND THE GIRAFFE - THESE ARE PLANT-EATING 23:06 ANIMALS. NOW, ISN'T IT INTERESTING THAT SO MANY 23:11 PEOPLE RELY ON PLANT-EATING ANIMALS SUCH 23:12 AS COWS AND GOATS FOR THEIR PROTEIN? INSTEAD 23:16 OF GETTING YOUR PROTEIN SECOND-HAND, WHY NOT TAKE 23:21 A LESSON FROM THESE ANIMALS AND GO DIRECTLY 23:22 TO THE SOURCE? WITH GREENS YOU GET A WONDERFUL 23:25 DIVERSITY OF NUTRIENTS CONSIDER THIS FROM THE 23:30 BOOK "GREEN FOR LIFE": IF YOU TAKE 100G EACH OF 23:31 BEETS AND BEET GREENS, DID YOU KNOW THAT THE BEET 23:36 GREENS HAVE AROUND 32% MORE FIBRE, 7 TIMES MORE 23:42 CALCIUM, ñ3 TIMES MORE IRON, ñ6 TIMES MORE 23:43 VITAMIN C, AND - ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? - A 23:48 WHOPPING 200 TIMES MORE VITAMIN A THAN THE BEETS 23:52 THEMSELVES! AND, THERE'S 40% MORE PROTEIN. MOST 23:53 PEOPLE THROW AWAY THE BEET GREENS, RIGHT?! MY GUESS 24:00 IS YOU WON'T DO THAT ANYMORE! SIMPLY USE THE 24:05 BEET GREENS THE SAME WAY YOU WOULD USE ANY DARK, 24:06 LEAFY GREEN. YOU CAN STEAM THEM, CHOP THEM UP FINELY 24:10 AND USE THEM IN SALAD, OR ADD THEM TO A GREEN 24:13 SMOOTHIE! A GREEN SMOOTHIE YOU ASK? HERE'S 24:15 A SMOOTHIE RECIPE FROM THE BOOK "GREEN FOR LIFE" THAT 24:20 IS SO GOOD FOR YOU! TAKE 8 LARGE LEAVES OF ASSORTED 24:25 DARK, LEAFY GREENS (USE 4 LEAVES OF ROMAINE LETTUCE 24:26 AS A BASE, THEN ADD OTHER GREENS SUCH AS KALE, 24:30 CHARD, COLLARD GREENS, OR SPINACH). ADD A BANANA FOR 24:36 A NICE CONSISTENCY AND ANOTHER FRUIT SUCH AS 24:37 A PEAR, A MANGO, OR A QUARTER OF A CANTALOUPE 24:40 AS A SWEETENER. TOP IT ALL OFF WITH ABOUT 1&1/2 CUPS 24:45 OF WATER. BLEND IN YOUR BLENDER UNTIL VERY SMOOTH 24:46 THIS SMOOTHIE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH A WHOLE 24:51 HOST OF ANTIOXIDANTS AND PHYTONUTRIENTS. IF YOU'RE 24:56 NOT GETTING ENOUGH GREENS ON A DAILY BASIS, THIS 24:57 IS A GOOD WAY TO DO IT. 25:00 IDEALLY, YOU SHOULD BE GETTING AROUND 4 SERVINGS 25:01 OF VEGETABLES DAILY. 25:05 SERVING SIZES ARE SMALL, THOUGH. FOR EXAMPLE 1 CUP 25:06 OF RAW VEGETABLES, OR ½ CUP COOKED VEGETABLES. 25:10 AND, YOU'RE COOKING VEGETABLES, IT'S USUALLY 25:15 BEST TO STEAM THEM TO AVOID LOSING VALUABLE 25:16 NUTRIENTS IN THE WATER. IN THIS NEW ERA OF GOING 25:20 GREEN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, BE SURE TO "GO GREEN" - 25:24 VEGETABLE GREEN - FOR YOUR BODY AS WELL. 25:25 SEE YOU NEXT TIME! 25:34 >>OMAR: THE LE >>OMAR: THE LEPER 26:05 IN TODAY'S STORY WAS LITERALLY GIVEN A NEW 26:09 LEASE ON LIFE. I WONDER IF WHEN HE GOT UP THAT 26:10 MORNING HE HAD ANY IDEA THAT HE WOULD BE ABLE TO 26:14 SLEEP IN HIS OWN BED THAT NIGHT HAVING BEEN CURED OF 26:19 HIS DEADLY CONTAGION. 26:21 JESUS IS STILL IN THE LIFE CHANGING BUSINESS - HE 26:25 WOULD LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE 26:26 ALSO. WE WOULD LIKE TO SEND YOU A SMALL BOOK 26:30 TO HELP YOU IN YOUR WALK WITH JESUS - IT IS CALLED 26:33 HAPPINESS DIGEST AND IT HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN 26:34 HELPING THOUSANDS GET TO KNOW THAT TRANSFORMING 26:38 JESUS IN THEIR LIVES. IT IS OUR GIFT TO YOU - THERE 26:44 IS NO OBLIGATION ON YOUR PART WHATSOEVER. HERE IS 26:45 THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO GET YOUR COPY. 27:56 >>BILL: WELL, WE HAVE COME TO THE END OF ANOTHER 27:57 PROGRAM, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING 28:01 US. LET ME REMIND YOU OF OUR WEB-SITE 28:02 WWW.ITISWRITTENCANADA.CA. 28:03 YOU CAN VISIT THAT AND SEE OUR PROGRAMS, YOU CAN EVEN 28:07 SEND US A PRAYER REQUEST, WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR 28:08 FROM YOU. WELL, WE PLAN ON BEING BACK NEXT WEEK BE 28:10 THE GOOD LORD WILLING, I HOPE YOU WILL BE WITH US 28:15 ALSO. IN THE MEANTIME REMEMBER, IT IS WRITTEN, 28:16 MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY 28:20 EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD. 28:27 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ |
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